CHAPTER 24 –

Hermione entered the gate room they had created at the former Ancient Anartica base that she and Harry now operated. Bill and Ellen had been working diligently to get the base functioning and had even made a jump or two to look the new world base over.

Based on what Jacs had revealed about the database they were able to manufacture some sensors that they had placed around the gate, around the trail that led to the base, and finally around the perimeter of the base itself.

Upon dialing the address, the new sensors would report any activity that had occurred since the last visit. Bill had dialed out yesterday and the sensors had alerted him that the gate had been dialed, someone had entered the base and accessed the manufacturing facility and produced something from it."

Bill had reviewed a remote sensor that had audio and visual by the gate. He could plainly read the gate address that they dialed to return where they came from. Bill was surprised to find that they were human from another world. He had been told that their were thousands of worlds with human's seeded on many of them but to finally see it was something else.

He called Harry and Hermione to report it and this brought Hermione to investigate. Harry was busy with the Wizengmont and couldn't make this trip. After much discussion with Bill and Ellen, Hermione called Harry and gave him the address for the new planet and determined that they would make an exploratory visit to make first contact.

Hermione and her parents packed their gear and headed out to the Ancient planet before heading to the new planet. Bill working the floating sensor allowed it to go first. What he saw around the gate was a room that seemed like a well kept Ancient facility.

Two occupants ran into the room and then looked at the activated gate in surprise. They had weapons of some sort but did not have them out. Hermione looked at her parents "Let me go through and monitor until I signal you to follow."

Bill seemed shocked "Hermione is that wise?"

Hermione replied back "Well we have to make contact sometime and I do have my shield so I don't think they can hurt me." Hermione without hesitation stepped through with her arms raised to hopefully show them that she meant no harm.

Hermione entered the chamber and one of the people hit a button to raise an alarm. Hermione stood there for a moment with her arms raised looking a little worried. She spoke quickly in English "Hello, I mean you no harm."

The people looked confused but did not pull out there weapon she tried in Ancient "Hello, I mean you no harm." This seemed to register with them but it was still unclear if they understood.

A woman stepped forward and motioned her to step forward "Are you trying to speak our tongue? If so your pronunciation is strange to us."

Hermione smiled at her and tried to adjust the dialect to match "On our world we had to learn it from the Ancient writings."

The woman smiled "Ah, so you are learning to speak it like us from our interactions."

Hermione responded "Yes. May I lower my arms."

A man spoke to her "Oh, yes we scanned you already and other than your crude weapons, we do not find you threatening."

Hermione pointed back at the gate "My parents are waiting for a signal from me to come through, may I signal them."

The woman smiled "Yes, of course we have many questions for you as you use our technology but are not fully of us."

Hermione turned to look at her as she stood there looking calmly. "You are Ancients?"

The man smiled "I am not ancient, I am rather young but you catch on quickly."

The woman smiled "We mean you no harm and are curious as you are the first of our children that know of our language, our ways, and of our technology."

Hermione turned to the Sphere sensor and waved to her parents to come through. Within thirty seconds out stepped Bill and Ellen. They seemed hesitant at first but then stepped to stand behind Hermione. Bill took a good look around and kept assessing the people in the room for threats.

The man who had talked to Hermione stepped up to Bill "You seek to ensure the safety of your party and seemed worried, here take my weapon if it makes you feel safer."

Hermione spoke to her father "He says to take his weapon if it will make you feel safer. He says you look worried?

Bill shook his head no "Tell him thanks but we are cautious."

The man spoke back to Bill "If I understood correctly you are tense until you know those you deal with."

Hermione looked at him "That is correct and you are learning my language?"

The man responded back "Yes, just like you did with ours."

Hermione smiled at him "My name is Hermione and these are my parents Bill and Ellen."

The woman bowed "It is an honor to meet you. I am Therisson and this is Mavelk. We welcome you to Alterran base 39." She looked at Hermione and then to both Bill and Ellen as she pointed at Hermione "You are different from those you claim as parents. Were you engineered to be so?"

Hermione seemed confused by the question "On my planet I am called a magical being. I have internal energy, a core that can manipulate matter and energy. May I demonstrate this?" she asked them.

Therisson smiled "Please do. This should be very interesting for us."

Hermione pulled out her wand and then took her hat and transfigured it into a chair, then a vase, before turning it back to her hat.

Therisson and Mavelk clapped as Mavelk responded "You have learned to use Ztatheron Particle energy or ZPE as we call it. Why do you use the stick to do this?" He held out his hand to touch the wand. Hermione quickly handed it to him.

He smiled when he felt the hum of energy in his hand "You use this as a focus for ZPE. This is amazing! Our people never learn to use the ZPE energy like this. What circuitry is in this?" he asked.

Hermione laughed at his rapid questions "There is no circuitry at all. She took her wand and projected a unicorn against the wall. "This is a magical animal from my world and a hair from him and a potion made from special ingredients is at the center of the wood and helps me to focus the energy."

Therisson looked very interesting "In all our discoveries and exploration across the galaxies we have never seen a creature like this. How did this develop?"

Hermione smiled "Well that is not the only magical creature we have." Hermione showed them about twenty or so other beings and animals considered magical.

Therisson seemed very excited "That is amazing I must…I mean could I come and visit your world and meet these creatures?"

Ellen rolled her eyes "Bill we should beam out now because we have come to a planet of Hermione's, at age four. Do you remember the million questions she had for us?"

Hermione turned and glowered at them as she crossed her arms "I was not that bad." She stated defensively.

Mavelk began to turn and try to hold in his laughter. Hermione took her hand and lightly smacked his shoulder "Do not encourage them!"

This caused Mavelk and Therisson to both laugh as Hermione looked upset. Bill looked apologetic "I am just saying is all. You were a right terror until we taught you to read."

Ellen began to laugh "You were so disappointed that we didn't know everything there was to know." Therisson and Mavelk began renewed laughter. It took a few minutes for them to calm down.

Therisson looked at Hermione with compassion and understanding "You are truly a child of ours as this is what we are like as children." Therisson smirked as she grabbed Hermione's arm "I too was disappointed in the elders as they did not know everything."

They spent the day with them being shown around the base and then Hermione had to report back to Harry and the elves. When Hermione dialed the gate address Therisson became very concerned and yelled for her to stop. "This is your world? It is quarantined from us because of the plague."

Hermione looked at her and aborted the dial out sequence "What Plague?"

Therisson looked very upset "Please come with me you must be tested. This plague if you carry it could wipe out everyone on this base. It is the reason my people left this galaxy."

Hermione looked about ready to cry "I didn't know. I am sorry." She stated.

Therisson seemed very apologetic "It is not your fault you would not know about it. You just wanted to explore and learn and that is not a bad thing."

Hermione sniffled "It is if you kill your new friends."

Therisson came back in to the room "The good news is that you have no trace of the plague and you are not a carrier. This also means the plague is no longer on your planet and we can remove it from quarantine."

Hermione seemed much happier "That is good to hear because Harry is dying to meet you. So we can return back to my home?"

Therisson smiled "Oh yes and may I come with you too?" Hermione hooked her arm into hers and smiled "You bet because I have so many things to show you."

They walked into the gate room to find Bill and Ellen waiting on them. Bill asked "Is everything all right?"

Hermione smiled "Perfect and Therisson has decided to become our guest." Hermione dialed in the gate and before the field was formed added a sub address.

Therisson looked at the DHD "What did you just do? It looks like you put in a sub address for a second gate."

Hermione smiled "I did. We have two star gates on our planet."

Therisson looked at her "You know theoretically that should be impossible to do."

Hermione smiled smugly "Well normally that is true but we added a ping to the signal to guide the wormhole to the second gate. Without the ping signal the wormhole defaults to the other gate."

The four walked through the gate and ended up at the antartic gate. Therisson looked around "This architecture is Alterran."

Hermione nodded her agreement "It is and it has been dated back to about ten thousand years ago."

Bill and Ellen both said "Activate" and disappeared from view. Hermione held on to Therisson and said "activate" and left.

They arrived in the foyer to find Gabby talking to Bill and Ellen. Gabby saw Hermione and decided to become a blond missile to welcome her home. Gabby smile as she laid on Hermione and gave her a kiss on the lips. "I want you to know that our mate has missed you terribly. I was instructed to kidnap you and strap you to the bed until he returned."

Hermione laughed from the floor and placed her arms around Gabby "So, are you going to torment me or get on with it?"

Gabby smiled "Tormenting can be so much fun."

Hermione smirked at her "You are such a tease."

Gabby retorted back as she stood up and then helped Hermione up "Tart!"

Ellen "Now girls act nicely we have a guest."

Gabby turned to see a beautiful woman with very beautiful features smiling back at her. Gabby walked up to her and put her fingers through her hair "You are very beautiful. I am Gabby, Harry and Hermione's Pet."

Hermione turned red and yelled "Gabrielle Potter you are not a pet!" Gabby winked at Therisson as she began to laugh.

"I do not think your spirit can ever be caged enough to be anyone's pet." Therisson said "I am Therisson from Alterran base 39."

Gabby smirked "A beautiful girl with mystery and intrigue. I think our Harry is going to be very interested in you."

Hermione shook her head "Gabby dear please quit pimping Harry out."

Gabby grabbed Therisson's arm "Let me show you to a guest room because I do hope you are staying with us for a while."

Hermione watched both of them head up stairs and shook her head with a smile "God that girl is so much fun. I hope Therisson survives it."

Bill laughed "I think we will go up and change. It looks like Harry could be home soon and it would be nice to sit down and talk with him for a few minutes."

Hermione added "I think I will join you as I want to look fresh when Harry gets home."

Dinner at Potter Mansion –

Harry had arrived home an hour ago and was snagged by Bill as soon as he walked in. Hermione and Gabby were introducing Therisson to Earth clothing which Therisson found intriguing. They finally decided on matching dinner dresses and high heeled shoes. Hermione and Gabby knew that short dresses and long legs were a turn on for Harry and they dressed to kill him.

Harry was standing in the foyer waiting for them to attend dinner when the three girls walked down the stairs. Harry could do nothing but stare at all three of them. Gabby wore a silver dress that did nothing but show off her figure. Hermione looked very good as she was wearing a dark blue dress that highlighted every good feature that he loved about her.

The third girl Harry did not know but assumed it was their expected guest Therisson. He watched her come down the stairs exactly as he watched Gabby and Hermione. He noticed her cheeks tinge slight red as he watched her looking at him while watching her.

"Ladies!" he said in English "I have to be the luckiest man on earth to see such beauty and grace in my home." Gabby and Hermione smiled loving at him. Harry when he finished looked directly at Therisson "Are all Alterran women as beautiful as you are" he said in Ancient to her.

The surprise she had on her face was plainly written on it as she answered "Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder."

Harry smiled and responded in Ancient "Then heaven has come to my home as I have three angels in my presence."

Therisson responded as she bowed "Your words are kind Harry Potter and I thank you."

Dinner was wonderful as they talked and discussed many things over it. Bill and Ellen talked about the many difference between the magical and muggle worlds and Therisson listened to it all.

That evening after Gabby, Hermione, and Harry finished a bath together, Hermione was looking forward to an evening with her mates. She had missed them. She exited the bathroom and her senses were assaulted on both sides as Gabby had released her veela allure and Harry had released his animal inside. Both approached her from different sides and she was starting to moan before they even touched her.

They got her to bed and undressed and the assault began in earnest. Suddenly their door burst open and a feral looking Therisson stood in the doorway with a look none of them had seen before. She closed the door and promptly removed her clothes before jumping in the bed. She looked at them "You are advertising as Alterran do to join you." The night saw none of them getting much sleep.

Hermione woke up in the morning and looked around Gabby was spooning Therisson, Harry was spooning Gabby, and she was spooning Harry. She looked over his shoulder and noticed the sight and smiled. She lay back and remembered, with fondness, their night together. They hadn't expected Therisson to join them but all things considered it was fun.

Hermione slowly extricated herself from the pile of bodies and made her way to the bathroom. After relieving herself she decided to take a shower. She was daydreaming about the night's event when she felt hands on her back. Then she felt the soap in their hands and they began to soap her. As she was hugged from behind a whispered voice spoke "I hope that I did not over step my bounds as a guest. The three of you are special people and I enjoyed spending time with you."

Hermione turned to look at her "I was very shocked when you turned up in our door but after experiencing last night I have no objections."

Another feminine voice broke in "Oh I am so glad this is a group shower thing this morning because I didn't want to have to do this alone."

Hermione sniped back "Gabby since you have been here, you haven't done anything alone."

Gabby gave her a coitish look "Oui but you almost never complain about it Mione."

Hermione smiled as she was wrapped in a hug "Gabby you are such a tease."

The little scene was broken by a male voice "I hope you three don't expect to leave the bedroom today because as hot and wet as you are I may keep you here all day."

Therisson looked down "Harry does that thing ever get tired?"

Harry smiled and then moved forward to press Therisson against the wall "You didn't complain the numerous times you used it last night. Why complain now?"

Therisson smiled at him "I have a confession to make. It is not normal for an Alterran to barge in on someone like I did."

Hermione asked "What made you?"

Therisson's chin indicated Harry "His aura, all through dinner, was driving me crazy and after two hours I lost control. Then when I got in this room, my control went out the window. I couldn't help myself."

Hermione and Gabby both started laughing as Gabby stated "This is nothing new to us because Harry does the same thing to us."

Harry pulled her hands above her head "So you were a naughty girl last night. I think we should punish her."

They all came to breakfast with smiles on their faces and looks that let everyone else know what had happened. Bill sipped his coffee and smiled "Jesus Harry I know you can barely keep up with Gabby and Hermione but Therisson too." All four began to blush as Bill and Ellen laughed at their guilty reactions.