AN: So here is the next chapter of Limitless, I apologize it took so long I was just distracted by my other stories. In fact it was only when I was drafting a chapter for a new story I had planned, a Marvel's Ghost Rider/Harry Potter story that I remembered shit I have another comic book story. One that I have not updated or really looked at since October.

Which is why I spent today digging out what I had written for it and going through my notes. Luckily I managed to put to gather a chapter I am happy with, even if I did have to edit what I had originally written. As I decided I didn't like the pace of what I had written nor the content.

Either way here is the next chapter and I hope you all like it, hopefully the next update will be a lot quicker than this one.

Just as a note for people the main source material I am using for this chapter is Young Justice, the Teen Titans and Justice League. Three cartoons I watched when I was younger. All of which I enjoyed and all of which influenced this story. I of course will also use the DC wikia to add a bit more depth to my story and characters.

With that said I hope you enjoy the story and leave some reviews or comments at the end.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or DC Comics. As otherwise I would be really rich and this wouldn't be fanfiction.

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(Last Time)

"So did you find anything interesting on that?" Raven asked as she looked over at Harry, avoiding looking at his bare lower half as she instead met his twinkling emerald eyes.

"Yeah tons actually. The paranoid bastard has details on nearly every superhero and supervillain he has ever met on this, including their abilities and their weaknesses, this thing is a goldmine." Harry said with a grin. "I mean there is even detail on this… Justice League he has begun to create with a number of other heroes. Have to say the name is shit… I would have called it the Avengers or something catchy like that…"

Starfire looked interested as she heard that, shifting over so she was leaning against Harry as she looked over his shoulder. Raven also looked curious as she moved over so she could take a look, making sure to keep enough distance between them though so she wasn't touching him. She liked Harry but she wasn't sure she liked him like that yet.

"Also Starfire." Harry said a she looked over at Starfire, their faces a few inches apart. "I think I know what we will be doing over the next few days?"

"What?" Starfire asked with an excited grin, looking forward to whatever he was planning next.

"Do I really want to know?" Raven asked with a resigned sigh, not moving away though as she really did want to know what he was up to.

Harry smiled as he saw their reactions. "Well tell me, have any of you ever heard of the Helmet of Fate?"

Both Raven and Starfire shook their heads at that.

"Well get ready to, as we are going to steal it!"

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Chapter 3

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(With Harry, Starfire and Raven)

Salem, Massachusetts an area that had become somewhat famous for the number of witch trials that took place in the area around 1692, a time in which a number of locals were executed for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Of course none of those who were killed had actually been guilty of the crime of witchcraft.

No mostly they were innocent old women or unknown visitors to the area, just average muggles who the overly superstitious and suspicious denizens of Salem targeted and persecuted. No, the people who were really capable of magic were almost complete unscathed by the witch trials that swept both the Old World and the New world.

This wasn't really surprising though as real witches and wizards had access to magic, a versatile and deadly force that gave them many advantages over the magicless humans. It wasn't just their access to and ability to wield magic though, it was also the fact that the magicals had an entire society. One that was hidden from the rest of the world by multiple layers of wards and charms and the tireless work of the different magical governments who in the centuries since the wizards had gone fully into hiding had been maintaining the Statue of Secrecy.

Yes these weren't just small groups of wizards and witches, these were fully functioning societies some of which were millennia old, and all of which looked after their own and ensured that in one of the rare few cases where an actually magical was captured, that they were freed posthaste and their existence was erased from the memories of the none magicals, or muggles as they liked to call them.

In all fairness to the ignorant peasants the anti-witch hysteria that took place in Salem, despite being directed at the wrong people was not without merit. After all Salem was a hub of magical activity, a nexus point of magical energy where a magical society was created, the largest one in the New World and where it hidden from the none magicals. This was society that was built up of magicals of all kinds of magical races and creatures.

One that had existed long before the Europeans had first set foot in the New World, and one that would no doubt remain long after the none magical's own greed and avarice killed them off.

It was here in Salem where Harry Potter and his two companions currently were. The trio having left Gotham a a day before, appropriating a rather nice car from some rather unpleasant mobsters as they crossed the country and came to northern coast Massachusetts.

The trio were all heading for a location that Harry had taken from a data pad, one that had once belonged to the Batman, the cowled and cloaked protector of Gotham City, but which now belonged to the casually dressed and moral ambiguous Harry, the protector of his own self-interests.

"So friend Harry… are we lost?" Koriand'r, a Tamaranean Princess and one of Harry's companions asked. A curious expression on her face as she looked over at the empty field they were standing in front of, before looking over at the scowling Harry.

The Tamaranean was a bit more conservatively dressed than before having gotten herself a purple shirt, a pair of tight blue jeans and a pair of leather boots. The girl having decided to try and blend in a bit better, even if her orange skin, height and perfect statuesque figure did give her away somewhat. Still she was happy, and that was all that really mattered.

Glancing over at Koriand'r or Starfire if he used the English version of her name Harry gave her a slightly strained smile. Before he once again went back flicking through Batman's data pad, his brow furrowed in frustration as he looked up again, surveying the nearby landmarks before looking back at the data pad. Which currently displayed a map, revealing the location of the Tower of Fate, a hidden base used by an increidibly powerful but surprisingly unknown mage of sorts called Doctor Fate.

"No," Harry finally replied a bit of his frustration bleeding in his voice as he pushed out his senses. Using his heightened senses to try and find the tower, only to find nothing. "According to the map on Batman's data pad this is the location of the Tower of Fate, it is supposed to be right here in front of us."

"Are you sure you are reading it right, maybe we should ask for some directions?" Kori said trying to be helpful as she floated a foot or two of the ground, her waist length red hair swishing around behind her as she looked around hoping to see someone who could help.

She did in all honesty make a magnificent sight, and in any other circumstances Harry would have stopped and stared. Unfortunately though he was a bit to frustrated to give the glorious sight of the flawless Tamaranean Princess more than a cursory glance as he went back to looking at the data pad.

"I don't need to ask directions, I have a map." Harry replied not liking the idea of having to ask for directions, partly because he doubted any of the locals would be able to help, but also because his manly pride couldn't take the hit.

Looked up from his data pad and stared at the field in front of him, idly clicking his tongue as he sent out a wave of telekinetic power. Hoping to use it like a sonar to try and find the hidden tower, only to come back empty handed as the wave swept over the entire field and came into contact with nothing but air.

"It has to be somewhere, I mean how can you hide a big, magic tower…" Harry paused after saying that, his eyes widening before he let out a sigh. Wanting to kick himself for not having realised instantly. Closing his eyes Harry began to push out with his senses again, this time trying to sense any magic in the air. Now Harry might not be able to use magic like a normal wizard could, but he did still retain a number of magical abilities, abilities that were much more heightened than a normal wizards. Such as the ability to sense magic.

Frowning as he felt a disturbance in the air in front of him, he was able to identify that there was a lot of ambient magic around him but couldn't quite lock in on it. If only he had a second opinion…

Eye widening slightly Harry turned around, suddenly looking over at his other companion as he did so, Raven. The beautiful yet mysterious, black cloaked, grey skinned girl who hand been travelling with Harry for the last few weeks. Someone who had been strangely silent since they had arrived at the field half an hour ago.

"Raven…?" Harry said a large smile on his face as he saw he had gained the girls attention. Noticing the slight smirk on her face and the gleam of amusement in her eyes as she met his gaze.

"You've just remembered that I can use magic haven't you, and that I have a better chance of being able to find a magically hidden building than you?" Raven said in amusement, the girl in question having come to that conclusion before they had even arrived in Salem. After all Harry had mentioned that this Doctor Fate was a mage, it only stood to reason that he would use magic to protect his base, and as the only magic user in the group well the answer seemed obvious to her. Not that she chose to share the thought with Harry, instead enjoying watching him get frustrated. It was especially amusing for Raven considering usual Harry was usually so carefree and composed.

"Yep." Harry replied a smile now on his face his previous frustration completely forgotten as he gave his cloaked companion a charming smile. "I can sense there is a lot of magic in the air, but I can't' narrow it down. Could you…?"

"Use my abilities to try and find the Tower for you?" Raven finished for him a very slight smile spreading across her face, pushing aside Harry's sudden revelation that he could sense magic for now. She had only known him for a couple of weeks after all, it wasn't as if she expected to know everything about him yet. After all she hadn't told him much about her past, and wouldn't until she was sure she could trust him. In fact of the three of them Starfire had been the most open, the girl happily telling them all about her planet ad her life before meeting them.

"What a fantastic idea!" Harry enthused with a grin as she swung his arm around Raven.

Rolling her eyes at this Raven slipped out from under his arm, not noticing the very faint frown that flashed across Starfire's face for a moment. "It's no use, I have already checked. I know the tower is there, I can sense its presence and know exactly where it is. Unfortunately though I don't think we will be able to get in without a key, or at least something that can break through the powerful wards that are surrounding it."

If Raven expected Harry to be disappointed then she would be wrong. Instead a thoughtful expression crossed Harry face as he thought about the issue at hand. It was unlikely that he would be able to find a key to the place, but breaking down the wards that was possible. After all he knew of several different tools that could drain or disperse wards, the only problem was getting them. After all they were not that common and were expensive.

If only he was near a large magical settlement, say the largest magical community in the New World. Turning around Harry looked over at the nearby city of Salem, the home to the largest magical community in both North and South America, a place he had visited before, enough to know the shadier spots.

"Well that shouldn't be too much of a problem." Harry said a grin on his face as he turned and began to for the road. Approaching the rather splendid Mercedes he had purloined when in Gotham, slipping into the driver's seat as he waited for the other two to follow.

As the other two got in, Starfire quickly taking the passenger seat whilst Raven to the back seat, a curious expression on her face as Harry absentmindedly used his Telekinesis to start the car. Grinning slightly as he put the car in gear and gunned the accelerator, the car pulling away from the pavement with a screech of its wheels and a roar of its engines.

"Where are we off to now?" Starfire asked loudly, raising her voice so it could be heard over the sound of the engine as the car raced down the highway heading for the city centre.

"Yeah I would like to know that to, I mean I never thought you would be the type of person to give up so easily." Raven added as she looked out of the window, watching as buildings shot past them.

Hearing her question Harry slowed the car down as he left the highway and joined the busy city traffic as he began to drive deeper into the centre, keeping his eye out for familiar landmarks as he attempted to navigate from memory. Slowing to a crawl and complaining faintly under his breath about people 'driving on the wrong side of the road'. Harry eventually slowed to a crawl answering Raven and Starfire's questions as he did so. "And you would be right Raven, I never give up. Luckily though I have a way to get us into that tower. Which is where we are heading to now."

"That's most good." Starfire said enthusiastically as she looked out of the window, curiously eyeing the human city as she did so. Still not sure just what she thought about normal humans as she saw a couple of them giving her strange looks when they noticed her orange skin.

Harry sent Starfire a grin at that, getting a wide smile back from the girl as she took her eyes off the city and instead looked happily over at her friend, Harry.

"And that this place would be." Raven prompted her lips twitching upwards slightly as she heard Starfire's enthusiasm, it truly could be infectious sometimes.

"The magical side of Salem of course." Harry said with a nonchalant shrug as he looked over at Raven expecting her to have already figured it out, only to frown as he saw the confusion on her face. "You do know about the magical society within Salem don't you?"

"No," Raven replied her brow furrowed. "I wasn't even aware there were any extensive magical societies…?"

"Oh," Harry replied more intrigued than ever about Raven's past, after all how could a girl clearly very talented in magic, even if it wasn't mainstream wand magic, have not at least heard of the wizarding world. Harry had always assumed that least everyone body capable of using magic had at least heard of it, even if they had never entered. That Raven had not even heard of it that was surprising to say the least. "Well yeah there is an entire world of magic made up of multiple different races and a working and thriving society. Of course it's completely hidden from the vast majority of the world with ancient and extensive wards, some of them dating back millennia. Hell even Batman only knew of at least their existence, apparently he had a couple of magic using friends like Doctor Fate who told him of our existence, nothing more than that though. Or at last that's what I have got from his data pad."

Raven frowned as she heard that having not realised that she was in the dark about something that was so important, on top of that though she also noticed that Harry said 'our'. "If it is so well hidden how do you know about it then?"

It was a good question, and one that got the attention of both Koriand'r and Raven as they both looked expectantly at Harry.

Shrugging as he saw their inquisitive looks Harry saw no point in lying. After all he liked the pair of them, more so than most people he met and he was hopeful that they would continue to travel with him for the foreseeable future. As such he was willing to give them a little bit about himself, it wasn't like he was particularly precious about people knowing about him. He didn't even have a secret identity after all.

"Well that's simple. I was born a wizard, both my parents were magical. My father was apparently the head of an ancient and noble magical family whilst my mother was a gifted witch in her own right. Not that I ever really met them." Harry said with a shrug.

Raven frowned as she heard that, pausing as she looked over at Harry. A hint of concern and sympathy passing over her face. Usually she wouldn't particularly care about people's sob stories, but she liked Harry. Despite his morally bankrupt and overconfidence she found herself enjoying his company, more so than she ever thought she would, hence why she felt a sudden well of empathy rise up in her.

On Harry's other side Starfire also looked slightly sad, putting her arm around Harry to try and comfort him.

Cocking his eyebrow curiously as he saw the way they were looking at him, a look of dawning realization crossed his face as he worked out why they were reacting like they were. The look of realization morphing into amusement as she shook his head. "Oh no, there not dead. The arseholes simply abandoned me when I was a baby, not sure why, nor am I really that bothered about it. I mean look at me, I'm awesome!" Harry finished gesturing to himself as he did so.

He was a rich and powerful young man, who did what he wanted, when he wanted. He was living the high life, a carefree life of no responsibilities or expectations. He was happy. Why on earth would he want parents, people who would dictate to him what he can and can't do? The very idea of it repulsed him.

Raven blinked in surprise as she heard Harry's nonchalant response, not because of what he actually said but because of how genuine his comment had been. Raven was capable of a lot of things, this included having the ability to sense people's emotion, and from Harry she could not sense any kind of a negative emotion, something that would point to him not being truthful. Instead it appeared that he meant what he said, he really wasn't bothered by his parent abandonment of him.

Shaking those thoughts out of her head and putting Harry's oddity aside for now she instead focused on what he had actually said. After all he said he was born a wizard, and yet he had shown no ability to cast magic only his telekinesis and most recently his ability to sense magic. Unless their definition for what a magic user was, was different, Raven thought she might be missing something. "Ok, so I am confused. If you were born a wizard why aren't you able to use magic?"

Harry cocked an eyebrow at that an amused expression on his face.

"Luck and happenstance." Harry commented before he noticed the intensely interested look on Raven's face and decided to expand a little. "When I was a kid I found an irradiated piece of kryptonite. Being a curious tyke like I was I decide to pick it up and take it home with me. Suffice to say exposure to the rock caused me to mutate, making me into a Metahuman of sorts."

"Kryptonite?" Starfire spoke up her brow furrowed in confusion.

Turning to look at her Harry remembered that she had only recently come to this world so of course wouldn't know about recent earth history.

Giving her a smile Harry decided to explain, turning his car out of traffic Harry began to drive through some of the backstreets. Idly tugging the necklace from around his neck with a free hand and showing Starfire the faintly glowing shard of green rock on the end of the necklace to Starfire as he did so. This rock was the very same stone Harry had found all those years ago, the one that had changed his life forever. "Yeah this is Kryptonite. Apparently a couple of years back a planet called Kyrpton was destroyed and one of the fragments from the planet travelled through space and struck earth, breaking up in the atmosphere and showering the planet in Kryptonite as it did so."

Reaching out Starfire leaned closer to Harry as she looked at the shard of Kryptonite her green eyes gleaming with fascination. "So there are a lot of people who have powers like you then?" Starfire asked, assuming that if multiple pieces of Kryptonite rained down on earth that it was likely others were affected like Harry.

"No," Harry replied with a slight smile as she stepped back and slipped the green shard back beneath his shirt. "Most people who are exposed to Kryptonite are not really affected, not unless they are either really young or ingest it or something like that. Even then the majority of people affected die, only a lucky few gain 'superpowers' from the exposure."

Starfire nodded at that, sort of understanding what Harry meant.

Raven to, already aware of Kryptonite and its potential effects also nodded. "So that's why you are no longer magical?"

Harry cocked an eyebrow as he heard that. "Who said I was no longer magical? I may not be able to cast spells like the rest of my kind but that doesn't make me any less magical if anything it makes me more magical than I was before. The Kryptonite mutated my magic making it many times stronger and giving me psychokinetic powers, powers that are magical in nature. Now I am beyond any normal member of my species, after all Telekinesis is an incredibly powerful and versatile ability more than a match for magic, and I am a master of Telekinesis."

"You're also very humble as well..." Raven commented dryly getting a smirk from Harry in response. As she did so though her mind raced, she understood what Harry was getting at he was no longer entirely a wizard, but nor was he just an average Metahuman, instead he was a hybrid of the two, he was a magical Metahuman. That being said she wasn't sure if Harry could call himself an actual wizard, after all a wizard was capable of casting spells, and Harry apparently couldn't do that. Not that she was going to mention it, as from what she could sense this was a bit of a sore subject for Harry.

Deciding to get back on the topic of her main question, Raven shifted forward in her seat. "So this magical society you mention, what's it like?"

Harry paused as he heard that before he shrugged and started to explain. After all Raven might not be a wand wielding magical like Harry's kind but she was still magical, and although much fewer in number other types of mages were welcomed within the wizarding world. As far as Harry was concerned Raven had a right to know more about the wizarding world.

"Well to start with it isn't particularly big. In fact from what I remember a magical census was taken a couple of years ago and found that there are only around sixty thousand of my kind in the world, barely enough to populate a large town, with there being substantially fewer other types of magical humans less than a thousand tops. The majority of the magical population is based in the Old World, with around ten thousand in Britain and twenty five thousand in the rest of Europe. With the remaining twenty five thousand or so spread around the rest of the world."

"So many." Raven muttered, having never imagined just how many people capable of wielding magic there were in the world. "And they all live together in settlements?"

Harry cocked and eyebrow at that, after all considering there were over sixty million people in Britain alone the world's magical population was minute. "Some of them do, I mean there are a couple of very small, purely wizarding settlements around the world, mostly in Europe. Most magicals though just live alongside the muggles, that's what they call none magicals or at least they do in Britain. I think in America the wizards call them 'Nomag' or something ridiculous like that."

Raven cocked an eyebrow at that, after all muggle was not the most sensible of names.

"I am confused." Starfire spoke up interrupting Raven and Harry's discussion. "If they live alongside ordinary humans like you said, how have they not been discovered."

Harry smiled at that, it was a good question. "Through experience. Magical societies have been around for more than five thousand years, dating back to Ancient Egypt and beyond. My kind have gotten used to covering their tracks and messing with muggles when necessary. Nowadays as technology advances and the muggle population expands there are entire teams of wizards dedicatedly working to keep the existence of magicals secret, through any means necessary."

"And who controls these groups? And why have I never seen them before?" Raven spoke up with a frown. After all she regularly used magic and had seen no sign of these people.

"They're control by wizarding ministries, magical governments based in the countries that host a large amount of magicals and run by wizards and witches. Quite similar to how the muggles governments work. As for why you haven't seen them, well that is likely because they have not got you registered as a magical and instead think you are some kind of Metahuman. That or they just don't know about you yet. The wizarding governments might have magic but it doesn't make them any less incompetent than their muggle counterparts."

Raven rolled her eyes at that, of course Harry would be antigovernment. That being said she was very interest about this hidden world Harry was describing to her. At the same time though she was wary, as Harry had said the magical world was likely just as prone to corruptions as the none magical world.

Deciding she could find out more about Harry's kind later, she wasn't planning on ditching him anytime soon after all. With that decided Raven instead decided to focus on the matter at hand, noticing as she did that the car was driving deeper into the back streets of Salem. Harry easily navigating through the narrow streets, obviously knowing where he was going as he had now stopped looking around trying to find landmarks.

"So where exactly is the Salem wizarding community based?" Raven asked as she looked around, scrunching her nose up as she noticed that they seemed to be in a particularly dodgy part of town, one that was filled with dilapidated buildings, cracked pavements and rundown little shops.

"Oh that's just a hidden high street somewhere over there." Harry said gesturing vaguely in a different direction to where they were heading. "Not hard to find, ironically enough the entrance is just next to a place called the 'Witch House', apparently some tourist destination."

"I thought we were supposed to be meeting up with some magicals?" Raven asked in confusion, noting to herself to make Harry take her to the wizarding high street here in Salem after he had stolen the Helmet of Fate or whatever else he was plotting to steal. "You know so you can find a way to break into the Tower of Fate."

"And we are." Harry replied with a shrug, idly slowing the car down as he looked out of the window keeping an eye on the names of the streets as he did so. "The place we are heading to though, it isn't exactly the most… reputable of places. No it's I suppose you might say a hive of villainy and scum, but it is also the place where I can find the magical item I need. After all what I am after is a little too… illegal and Dark to be sold in just any shop."

"Dark? As in Dark Magic?" Raven questioned curiously not adverse to the fact after all if one were to look at her magic they would see that it is distinctly dark orientated. No she was more curious about what Harry's kind referred to as Dark Magic, and what the difference between that and other magic might be.

"Yep." Harry replied cheerfully as he drove them down one more side street pulling the car to the side of there road in front of what at first looked like just another dilapidated building.

But as they got out of the car, Starfire and Raven following Harry as he strolled up to the building, they saw that view of the building in front of them changed, the bordered up windows and graffiti fading away to reveal a small, very old looking, ramshackled building. One which was wedged between two much taller buildings more modern looking buildings.

Glancing over at his companions as he approached the building, Harry noted that they two both seemed to see the building from what it really was. Not just some abandoned old building but an old fashioned tavern, one which was still in use as the glow of lantern light could be seen coming from behind the thick glass windows. Seeing this Harry noted that the protections around the building, the ones that were meant to keep out muggles obviously didn't work on Raven who was magical nor on Starfire who was an alien. The fact muggle repelling wards didn't work on aliens was certainly interesting and something Harry would have to look into at a later date.

Walking towards the building Harry turned around an amused look on his face as he saw that both Raven and Starfire were looking up at the sign above the door.

"The Lusty Leprechaun?" Raven said in bemusement as she looked over at Harry.

Harry merely shrugged in response, a look of amusement on his face as he saw Starfire's cheeks darken. "I promise you it's not some magical whorehouse."

Raven cocked an eyebrow at that. "Knowing you I am not sure whether to believe you or not?"

"Ouch, that's cold." Harry replied good-naturedly before he opened the door and strode in.

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AN: So what did you all think I hope you enjoyed it? This chapter was more about world building and adding to character development, which I am sure some people may like and other may not. There will be more action coming soon, but unfortunately we can't have action packed battles every chapter.

Originally this chapter was going to be a lot longer, but in the end I decided to cut the chapter in half as this was a logical ending and it meant I could publish this now and work on the rest of what I have got written later. Which is in my own opinion some pretty interesting stuff, then again I think most writers enjoy their own ideas so that likely does not mean much.

Either way this is the chapter and hopefully there will not be such a gap between updates. Especially since I already have the next chapter planned out and partially written. So other than that I hope you all had a good new year and leave a comment or a review at the end.

See you all later.

Seagate.