Chapter five: Forging Alliances
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There will be from now on an interval of three to four days between chapters because I want to make longer chapters.
Harry POV
The last two days were really confusing, first I come to find that an entire year has passed since I was transported to Alagaësia although "Mody" had already found why that happened. The problem stood in the extra power gained by the tens and elevens and the 0.1 (it had finished its research and had decided to ad it in the equation although its power was even greater than that of the number seven) plus the time manipulating part of the spell had somehow transported me back to my world but do to its immense extra power it had transported me ten months into the future, fortunately that had been fixed however the war was a different matter altogether.
It had started barely a month after my disappearance, the official cause was an attack by the vampires to reclaim the vampire king crown, which they claimed Voldemort had stolen from them and was the crown of the great Dracula (not the one we all know but that guys dad) and that was their by the right of making, which resulted in one hundred forty eight dead wizards and witches. The MEF had been forced due to public pressure to declare war but we had been caught unprepared and the first few battles had been a slaughter, the vampires had brought their full force against us and it wasn't just them.
The Alps, German vampire like nightmare demons whom draw power from negative emotions (which you can find easily in a battle and if that wasn't enough they make you see nightmares in middle of the battle, which can prove to be really deadly) although they had a weakness, if you could take their hat away their physical form would become powerless and quite easy to kill. Scorpion men, weird right but this guys had a grudge against wizard kind for stopping them from conquering the entire magical world a thousand years ago (Merlin Era) and they were deadly because they were fast and they could throw deadly balls of magical venom which were night impossible to stop but Impedimenta jinxes did slow them enough to cut their tails with a well aimed Diffindo and once their tail was cut they died probably because their venom accumulated and they died, I don't know.
Then there were the Antero Vipunen giants who unlike normal giants looked like a human been only eight meters tall, they had the ability to travel to a dimension which was connected to our universe through the underground at will and that was a problem because it gave them a way of travel who was almost as fast as apparition and couldn't be tracked by wizards and they were insanely strong, this guys could lift thousands of tons without a problem and manipulated gravity to a certain extent.
The guys I just mentioned were not so bad once compared to the Bakhtaks, Night demons or so muggles had depicted them, in reality they came to our world three thousand (and change) years ago from a dimension in which there was perpetual night and they hated sunlight although it wasn't deadly to them even if it weakened considerably. This guys were almost immune to magic unless in sunlight, almost as strong as the Antero Vipunen, as fast as vampires (who could run at an estimated twelve thousand kilometers for hour) and their claws were as sharp as adamantium and could make shadows substancial and control them, good news steel killed them even if it was just a scratch, a case of severe allergy I recon.
Our only allies until now were manticores who had a feud with the bakhtaks and Antero Vipunen, don't confuse them with the younger manticores who were feral, at least for the first century of their life, and couldn't tap into their magic except for making an infinite supply of their poisoned thorns and to make their poison almost incurable well except for house elf (and possibly other magical races like unicorns and phoenixes) magic but the old manticores who could use their magic easily and had turned entire battlefields upside down but that hadn't been enough we were beaten back.
The vampire coalition army was calculated to be a hundred thousand strong and their numbers were continuously increasing while we had only twelve thousand Aurors and two thousand manticores (which had saved our ass and still were for that matter). I had ordered "Moody" to add to "his" projects the creation of ward systems which could be applied to houses and fortresses and would stop the Antero Vipunen from just popping in our houses and an arsenal of spells and wards ( which could be anchored to a living person) which would be used kill and protect from the vampires and their allies and just today it had finished creating an anti-vampire spell.
I heard the door creek and I stood to greet Alexandru Damian the most powerful wizard in Europe (for now) and the newest MEF prime minister.
- "So Alexander to what do I owe this pleasure "- I said while I already had a suspicion but for etiquettes sake I asked.
- "Let's cut the crap and get to the point"- he said and that's what I liked in him he was very direct-"you were our best spell creator before you disappeared and we seriously need some new spells if we want to win this war"
- "And…."- I said knowing there was something more but that he didn't want to impose on me.
- "Well I want you to know that this is not obligatory and I ask this only as a favor to a friend and not as the prime minister to his subject"- he said while looking embarrassed.
- "Oh ask already "-I told him while smiling because now I knew exactly what he was about to ask-"you are making it seem like you are about to ask my hand in marriage"
- "You'd wish"-he said laughing at my joke-"but what I am about to ask you is far more important, I want you and Hermione Granger to be our official ambassadors to different races to ask for their alliance"
- "You want to use my fame as the defeater of Voldemort and the liking the other races have to because of my friendly attitude to them, to gain their help in this war don't you meant that"- I said while making my voice look as if I was angry.
- "This is only opt….."-he said before realizing I was only joking-"you little rascal, you still have not lost the habit of playing jokes on me haven't you"
- "No its always fun to play jokes on you and watch your reaction and as for your first questions the answer is yes"- I said while smiling at the old man, I really liked him but the marauder side of me always liked to play jokes on him especially as he didn't get mad at all although make no mistake he was hell powerful and even more dangerous opponent in a battlefield.
- "Good then I suppose I should be on my way"- he said wile getting up-"tomorrow you will be relocated to your laboratory"
- "Before you leave I have a gift for you"- I said while raising my wand and saying-"Repellum Nox" and an Omni directional wave of sunlight spread around the room penetrating the walls of my house and spreading for at least hundred meters.
- "That is a hell of a present Harry"-he said while looking shocked at my display of my newest spell.
- "Well that was a small side project of mine that I modified to work with sunlight and that I thought might be useful"-I said smirking.
- "If you continue at this rhythm I think we might stand a chance in this war"- he said.
"Not without allies"-I told him, Brom having drilled into my mind the importance of allies-"and also I'm working on a warding system for houses and other structures but this I will sell to every wizard using my inherited companies while this other wards which can be anchored to a human being I will give them to the MEF"- and then I took my wand out and said- "memoriae transfero" giving him the knowledge needed to use the spell and teach others how to use it.
- "You know the MEF will repay generously for every spell and ward that you create"-he said while recovering from the memory transfer spell.
- "I know but I need to give my companies a "wake-up call" and this ward system would be the best way to do so"-I said shrugging.
- "If you say so"-he said shrugging before apparatting away.
Apri 18,l 2002
Harry "slipped" (the replacement of the aparittion that " Moody" had perfected a week ago and held almost no limitation but could still be stopped by wards and couldn't transport in no other planet except the moon who was relatively near, at the version normal wizards had been taught because the one I used had no such limitations except for wards) near a mansion in the outskirts of Paris and soon he saw Hermione "slip" nearby him together with two Aurors who were wearing full battle armor (supplied of course from the Potter inc.). Before them stood the mansion of the ruling body of the vela's.
- "Ready, Hermione"-I said to her knowing very well she was nervous because I was nervous to, from this encounter depended the future of the war and possibly the world.
- "No, I think I might get sick"-she said and at a closer inspection she looked actually green.
- "Now its not the time for it"-I said while using a calming charm on her-"Let's go now, okay"
And with that we headed toward the front door of the mansion, if you looked from the outside you would never guess that that manor was home to the ruling body of the vela simply because it looked identical to every other mansion that were located in that hillside and held no exotic decorations like most wizards manors did but he could tell due to the great magical energy coming from the house and its wards who rivaled the wards of Hogwarts itself.
As soon as we entered the house I could feel the pull of hundreds of veelas allure trying to affect me but a simple oclumency shield stopped that from happening but then I felt male vela allure directed albeit unintentionally towards Hermione so I had to extend my own shields to Hermione. I heard a mental thanks and we entered the council room, in the room there were twelve veela, six males and six females and what was the strangest thing all of them had their allures turned off which demonstrated their immense willpower and influence they must have.
- "Mister Potter, its nice to meet you"- the leader of the veela council said while shaking my hand-"please sit down"
- "Thank you Miss Baudin but as you know we are not here for pleasantries but for matters of state"-is said while sitting down in the offered chair Hermione following my lead-"we are at war with the vampires and we are here to request your alliance"
- "Why should that be a matter of our concern"-she said while looking totally unconcerned although I knew that was a lie.
- "Because of the great number of veelas just dropping dead this days"-I said and that earned me a round of murmur across the entire council room.
- "Silence"-Miss Baudin said and than she turned her stare towards me-"and might you explain were you got this impression Mister Potter.
- "From this "-I said while showing them the resurrection stone.
- "l'œil de la mort" –I heard her gasp-"were have you gotten such a powerful relic Mister Potter"
- "I inherited it from my mentor"-I told her plainly refusing to name Dumbledore.
- "So what do you have to offer"-she said eyeing the stone hungrily, she had just lost her younger son to a pair of bloodlust crazed bakhtaks.
- "The offer is written in this scroll but apart that revenge, revenge on the ones who killed your sons and daughters, revenge on the ones who defiled you sacred sites and a way to say goodbye to the ones you have lost in this war, that's my personal offer to you"-I said raising my voice and I saw nods among the council members.
- " If you can do that then prove, come three days from now in the woods of Versaille and if you can keep your promise the veela army will support yours in this war"-she said and got up and left the room and so did the other council members.
1 April 21, 2002
I saw as nearly nine hundred veela of different ages neared me. Annette Baudin spoke first.
- "Its time Mister Potter for you to keep you part of the bargain so that I may do the same"-she said emotion evident in her voice so different from the attitude she had showed in the council room.
- "Of course it is"-I said turning the stone three times and focusing on the veela that had been killed by vampires and their allies
Then I saw a veil appear out of nowhere in the middle of the forest and judging from the others faces they didn't see it, a perk of being the master of death I suppose, from the veil spirits came in their hundreds to meet their loved ones and I felt their emotions coming down on me and I was hard pressed to still stand on my feet and not to lay there and scream from the pain such a connection was giving me.
I now knew what drove the second Peverell brother to kill himself, all of their regrets being slammed into your head, that guy had only one, I had to handle the emotions of hundreds.
- " You can talk to them for an hour maximum before really bad things start to happen"-I told them and then I sat breathing with difficulty. "Moody" had warned me that I could keep the connection for a maximum of sixty one minutes before things got out of hands but that could mean just that the stone would shatter or it could mean death would come and rip our souls from this world but that "Moody" couldn't calculate so it was better to be on the safe side.
They used their sixty minutes to the last second and after that they left but not before Annette Baudin had promised that all the veela army would be at our disposition until this war endured.
August 16, 2002
This time I was alone as I faced the entrance to the Manes underground dwelling. Manes were ghost like in appearance and nobody knew their origins but muggles thought they were neutral spirits of the deceased (I seriously don't get why everything had to orbit around them and their afterlife), they could be great allies and I would have contacted them earlier but it took some while for me to recover from my ordeal with the veelas and some other time to locate them because they were the best at hiding only surpassed by the theastrals.
The reason we needed them were simple, they could travel through the same dimension as the Antero Vipunen and had incredibly powerful magic. As I entered I sensed their wards scanning me and my intentions, I figured since I wasn't a pile of ash I might continue forward and when I entered the cental part of the gallery I saw a breathtaking sight, large piles of crystals of every color in existence sprouted from the walls and stood there shining with a light which came from inside them and they were hell charged with magical energy which would make the most expensive commodity in the wizarding world.
Judging from their magical signature this crystals were not native to this universe but came from the same dimension as the Antero Vipunen which was further proof of how much we needed their skills to navigate the dimension which the Antero Vipune inhabited. When I reached what was the biggest intersection between the galleries I saw them, Manes, they looked like humans only transparent and with an ethereal beauty which in legends were described as being possessed only by high elves. From the ground seven Manes rose and said in unison
- "Welcome Merlin spawn in which way might we help you"-they said with a voice which gave me Goosebumps.
- "My name is Harry Potter and as for the help you can help by wiping out the vampires and their allies"-I said a voice in my head telling me this was the right way to speak to them as they seemingly didn't like bootlicker-"and what do you men by Merlin spawn"
- " As for your first request its not within our power to do so but we will gladly help even if you didn't offer us that which that scroll contains, for we sworn to help any Merlin spawn in honor of the great wizard Merlin and the help he gave us "- they said with their ethereal voice-"and as for your second request a Merlin spawn is someone who has followed Merlin footsteps in travelling outside of this world"
- "Well that was easy"-I said to them and thinking to myself-"a bit to easy"
- "We have however two condition in order to offer you our assistance in this war"- they said their tone getting a shade which was supposed to be ominous but to me sounded like the most beautiful music ever.
- "And there is that"-I said.
- "Do no think we want to trick you or your race Merlin spawn because we owe you much for your hospitality in this dimension but the following conditions are this, one we deal with the judging of the Antero Vipunen as you know them for we originate from the same dimension so it only fair we decide their fate"-they explained-"second condition is that you stay with us for one month for there is some knowledge that we must teach you about Merlin and our races history.
- "I'm sure we can work something out but first I must contact my superiors because I'm here only as an ambassador not as a leader"-I explained to them
- "Don't worry we understand and you will became a leader sooner or latter for the Hero's curse is upon you"-they said as they left without giving me a chance to ask them about the Hero's curse.
The MEF accepted their conditions especially as they agreed to allow me continuous communication with the MEF so that I could send them my latest spells ("moody's" creations but they didn't know but the Manes did) and in my first week I send to Potter inc. my newest warding system which made a great success and a lot of money to me since there was not a warding house or structure without one in the entire world. Except for sending new spells, discovering new runes(which I kept to myself due to their immense power being created using ten, eleven and 0.1 in their creations) and discovering the magical properties of the numbers twelve, thirteen, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 (which were all more powerful than the number seven)
I learned how the Manes and the Antero Vipunen originated from the same dimension and the Antero began the war because they didn't like their peaceful neighbors and the Manes were defeated because they were to pacific and by the time they learned how to wage war there were to little of them to make a difference and had tried to escape and had found our dimension but the Antero's followed them. Their rescue came in the for of Merlin and a group of druids who found them one day while being attacked by the Antero's and decided it was enough and defended the and in the process beating the Antero back into their home dimension which also gained wizard kind their eternal hate. They also told me about a structure which was called "Storm keep" and he gave them a spell which would reveal the location of it only to a true Merlin spawn and within a year of the spell being cast depending on the power of the Merlin spawn. I cast it a week after I visited the Manes.
December 22, 2014
The volcano looked imposing from right here, at least for a wizard who could see past the wards placed to make this look just like a normal mountain in the Italian Alps. I entered the cave that we were told to go in and we waited, it would be rude to start inspecting the cave although the runes used on the walls were very interesting but I wasn't about to throw away two months of research and preliminary talks for a bunch of runes whom I would probably be invited to study later after a formal alliance was made with the Dactyls.
The Dactyls were humanoid although they were as tall as a leprechaun and what we were interested in was their ability to design and build weapons or objects of immense magical might although they themselves had no magical capacities except for creating this devices despite they themselves not knowing how they worked but they worked, it was natural for them as it is natural for us to breathe, their second magical ability was to create expanded spaces much like wizards could only they didn't need any spells only their will and focus and they could be much bigger than the normal expanded space that we could create.
After an hour in which I suppose they were measuring our patience because patience was one of the greatest abilities one could posses, according to them at least, a Dactyl came through a portal, a ring like structure twenty meters high and thirty meters wide, wearing a full armor which I could sense was immensely powerful and could take at least thirty Avada Kedavra before their protection failed and who knows what other kind of protections and/or powers it granted the wearer.
- "If you would follow Miss and Mister ambassador"-he said with a slight bow which was a great honor in their culture.
- "Lead the way master …., what was your name again"-I asked respectfully hoping not to offend them because they were even easier to offend than goblins who had strangely joined us shortly after the Manes had, their reasons, simple, they hated vampires for not allowing them to spread their banking business in eastern Europe for at least three thousand years.
- "Names especially true names are powerful things mister Potter however you might call me Aurgin for the rest of your remainder here"-he answered with a rude tone although if he really disliked us he wouldn't be here so I didn't take it personally and I shared this information with Hermione who had negotiated the terms of our alliance with the goblins and yet seemed offended by the way Aurgin responded to my question.
He led us toward the portal who once again was filled with light that seemed like a pool of water, really shiny water, and we entered first, seemingly entering before your guest was a sign of disrespect, and when we emerged we saw a gigantic city with buildings hundreds of meters tall, and the muggles who prided themselves that their buildings were the tallest in the world, and that was separated by rivers of flowing magma.
- "Miss and Mister ambassador you will have time later to admire the beauty of this buildings but now the king and his advisors are waiting"-he said while gesturing with his hand towards the biggest building I have ever seen, that thing was the size of a mountain and that was saying something.
- "I thought that patience is one of the greatest virtues one could posses"-I told him a little confused, how could this beings who thought that patience was one of the greatest virtues be so impatient.
- "It is Mister Potter, but so is punctuality"- he said quickened his steps.
It took us fifteen minutes to get there by walking because Aurgin said that getting there by "Slipping" would be considered rude. When we entered inside the palace we were amazed, Hallways who were gigantic even for a person of our size let alone a leprechaun sized individual.
The walls covered with a metallic substance that looked like gold but was something else who was super resistant to bear all the heat of the lava rivers and the sheer weight of the palace, in the walls there were jewels of every kind and they were the biggest I had ever seen, diamonds the size of my fist, rubies the size of giants eyes, there were a lot of their inventions lying around mostly for protection but they made the view even more spectacular.
When we entered the throne room we saw a male Dactyl who was simply, well beautiful, who wore a crown but he seemed to young to be a thousand years old as we were told
- "Greeting my friends, I hope you had a wonderful journey here"-he said with a voice who was the exact contrary of the tone of voice of our guide.
- "Thank you for your welcome King Sebastian"-Hermione said while bowing her head and I were pulled out of my thoughts and did the same.
- "I hope Aurgin here hasn't bothered you much he is always so rigid"- the king said while patting the shoulder of the younger dactyl.
- "No at all but I was hoping we could get to the point as quickly as we can because we are at war and we are needed home, I hope you understand"-I said.
- "Of course I read the proposal of your government and it was certainly very enticing but tell me why should I involve myself and my people in this war and risk the wrath of the vampires should you lose"-he said sitting down in his throne and his voice getting serious.
- "Because we won't"-said Hermione
- "You sound so sure youngling"-one of the king's advisors said.
- "I am because we have the best trained Aurors, we have the Veelas, Goblins, Manes and the Manticores in our side"-she said.
- "The vampires do to have an impressive array of allies don't you agree"-the king said.
- "True but we have something that they don't"-said Hermione.
- "And what may that be?"-he said sounding interested.
- "We have him"-she said while pointing at me-"his spells have already stopped the vampires advancement and with your help we shall defeat them once and for all"
- "Interesting"- the king said while looking at me-"but war is such a messy and tiring thing so all the help you will get from us will be our weapons"
- "Thank you my lord"- I said before Hermione could say something that would ruin it all.
As soon as we were out of the cave I informed the MEF of the development and I thought to myself "Its time to kick some vampire's ass"