MITM Ch. 3
Story Begin
The Librarian stood in front of the combined Board of Governors for Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang.
"... This man is clearly a danger to our children if he would so callously call up the residents of Hell."
"Oblivion."
The large Frenchman who had been yelling blinked. "What?"
"I didn't call up the denizens of Hell." The Librarian explained as he put one leg over the arm of his chair. "I called on the Daedric Princes of Oblivion. Big difference."
"What exactly are the differences?" Lucius Malfoy drawled.
"Well, for one, I obviously still have my soul, so that's one." Kevin gestured down his body as though to show his soul. "Two, I'm short three cases of my best brandy, so there's another. And lastly, no one was harmed in my little display. As opposed to the denizens of Hell who would have probably tortured and raped your students, the
Daedric Prince I called on just likes chaos."
"Still, the fact remains that you need to exercise more cau-"
"Blah, blah, blah. As if you could do anything to me." Andellmere waved his hand. "You all are children trying to punish an old man."
He stood. "Bye." He said and left.
Dumbledore looked around at the gathered group.
Most seemed insulted that anyone would brush them off so casually.
"I told you."
Albus turned to Duke. "Oh?"
"So long as you don't try to censor what he does with his knowledge, he will listen to you blather on for days. But," Duke rose as he spoke. "When you speak of restricting his knowledge and teachings, his temper grows short and fierce."
Duke followed the Librarian out of the room.
Dumbledore sighed. "That could have gone better."
Harry snickered as he walked out of the Great Hall.
The display by the guy in white was awesome. Seeing most of Slytherin nearly crap their pants was the perfect icing on the cake.
He walked out onto the lawns and started towards the greenhouses for Herbology.
Looking out at Hagrid's cabin, Harry wondered what the large man was doing.
And froze. He couldn't see the Forbidden Forest. There was a two-hundred foot high grey wall where the forest should be.
Harry pinched the bridge of his nose. It was gonna be a long day.
Fleur Delacour stared at the strange wall that blocked off the view of the forest.
"Impressive, isn't it?"
She jerked and turned around to see a man in a green robe crouched down with his hands in the soil.
"Oui, it is." Fleur replied.
"That, my dear girl, is the Odyssey. Our flagship. Mainly, because it's our only completed ship. "
The man stood and brushed his hands off on his trousers, then held one out.
"Blake Lanham, the Gardener."
"'ogwarts 'as only one gardener?"
The Gardener chuckled.
"No, no. You misunderstand. I am the Gardener to the Gardens of Infinite Life."
"I 'ave never 'eard of such a place."
Blake grinned wider. "Sure you have. You just know them as the Garden of Eden."
Fleur thought. 'Clearly, this man is insane. I should repo-'
"Aw, you broke the poor girl. She probably thinks you're a nutter."
Fleur jumped and turned around again.
'There's nothing there.'
She felt something poke her in the back of the head.
"You're dead."
She shrieked and flipped around.
A man wearing a blue robe had appeared next to the Gardener.
"But 'ow- why-"
Blake laughed. "He does that to all of us."
The man in blue put his hands together as though praying and bowed.
"I am the Armorer, Sam War. Pleasure to meet you."
Fleur felt her eye twitch. She could already tell that her expectations of pleasantness for this trip were dead.
Draco Malfoy stared up the Hospital Wing ceiling. He didn't want to. He wanted to be out cursing Potter.
Unfortunately, he couldn't move. At all.
He was completely covered in a cast.
His eye twitched.
'Damn you, Potter!'
The Librarian sat in his Library, pouring over an old sci-fi book he'd found, slowly filling the notebook next to him with text and ideas.
"Yes, yes! That'd if I- No- I'd have to-"
"Talking to yourself again?" A feminine voice asked.
Kevin jerked, leaving a messy line across the page he was working on.
"Oh!" He blinked at the girl in front of him. "Hello, Mari. Good to see you too." He waved a distracted hand at her as he turned back to the notebook. "Just working on a few ideas to keep the bloodlust at bay..." He trailed off, a hint of anger lingering in his voice.
Corporal Mari Salazar, Assistant Librarian, sighed and sat across from him.
"What now, Kevin?"
He looked up at her and his eye twitched.
"They tried to tell me what I can and cannot do with the knowledge contained within these walls and in my own mind."
Mari winced. That had always been a sore point with the man across from her.
"Tell me about it." She said.
As Harry walked back from Herbology, he sighed.
The two hundred foot grey wall was MITM's transportation.
It was, in fact, not a wall; rather it was a spaceship that could hold one thousand people fairly comfortably.
It was a scary thought, Harry realized, that while they were learning to cast the levitation charm on a feather, the students of MITM were learning with practical objects.
Mainly assembly of more behemoths like the one behind Hagrid's hut.
Harry shivered. If they ever decided to they could probably rule the world with that kind of power.
He thought about the world ruled by the Librarian... He stopped in the middle of the path, causing Hermione and Ron to stop and look back at him as he stood and shook, his face pale.
That was a truly terrifying thought.
Fleur walked away from the two strange men.
'What odd people they are!'
She shook her head as she walked. 'At least the madman in white was not there! That would have been a nightmare!'
Fleur thought about meeting all three of them at once. It was something that did not bare thinking about.
Cedric Diggory walked down the corridor of Hogwarts with his girlfriend Cho Chang.
They were discussing the newest arrivals to their school.
"Did you see how that man endangered us for his own amusement!" Cho exclaimed.
Cedric nodded. "I hear that all four Headmasters and the Boards of Governors for Hogwarts are deciding what to do."
Cho smiled vindictively. "I hope he gets what's coming to him!"
"I doubt it."
Both students jumped and turned around.
A man wearing a blue robe similar in style to the one they were just talking about stood there.
"Knowing the Librarian, he'll get tired of this farce and storm out any moment."
Cho put her hands on her hips. "And who are you?"
The man bowed. "The Armorer, Sam War." He said as he straightened. "And you are Cho Chang and Cedric Diggory." He nodded to each in turn.
"How do you know that?" Cedric said as he stepped in front of Cho.
The Armorer chuckled. "Admirable." He faded from view.
"But not going to stop me." He spoke from directly behind Cho.
Cho screamed, Cho drew his wand and started to cast.
"I wouldn't..." The heavy hand on Cedric's shoulder reinforced the words.
Cedric spun again, facing the new voice.
"The Gardener, Blake Lanham, at your service."
The man was dressed in a dark green version of the Armorer's robes.
Cho drew her own wand and pointed it at Sam. "What do you want with us?" She asked with an edge of hysteria in her voice.
Blake spoke in an easy relaxed tone. "We don't want anything from you." He shrugged. "Why would we?"
Cho turned and faced the Gardener. "I don't know! Why would you!" The hysterical edge becoming more noticeable.
Blake sighed. "And there he goes..."
Both students whipped around to face the Armorer.
He was gone.
"Does he do tha-" Cedric stopped speaking as he saw the Gardener was gone too.
"Where did they go?" Cho started looking around wildly, glaring into the shadows. "They're still here! Watching us!"
Cedric stared at his girlfriend. "You okay?"
"NO! THEY'RE WAITING FOR US TO LET OUR GUARD DOWN!"
The Gardener looked into the scrying mirror and twitched as the Armorer continued laughing.
"Friend making spell my ass..."
That was the last time he took advice from the Librarian on 'spells to cast on new friends'.
A/N:
Kazuma Yamashite: well we finally got it finished, please review to help us
Cutwithoutmercy: And there it is! Sorry it took so long! I'm a lazy bastard! See you next Chapter!