The First Storm
Episode XXIX
Fight the Good Fight!
Severus Snape knew he was going to have a bad trip when he first met his travel companions. First he had a 'Dark' Slayer with an attitude problem, and some newly awoken Slayer practically handing off her while accidently breaking stuff.
Then he has to deal with some young man who thinks he's funny, but the only good Severus sees is the pendant that grants him power. Then to top things off are the three other newly awoken Slayers, but at least they're trying to be careful.
He sighed as he followed them off the train as they moved along to another platform for the train running to Heatherfield. The only reasonable company he can see is the Watcher, a learned man. The only reason he can think for all the Slayers tagging along is for the numbers encase they are attacked by large numbers of vampires and or demons.
"You'll get used to it eventually," Giles commented with a small smile as he stood by cleaning his glasses.
Severus just looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "So what do you smoke for that to have happened?"
Giles shook his head. "Unfortunately nothing," he replied shrugging. "I have to keep a level head and help Faith with their training."
"So you trust the other Slayer with the other's training?" he asked, curious about this sort of thing as the Magical World keeps themselves segregated from matters like demons, Slayers and the supernatural in general considering themselves mystical rather than a part of that.
He shrugged. "She has Nanoha to help train them too, and she knows so much more about the combat arts than me. She's been teaching Faith some too and all the Slayers before they were awoken so that will help."
Severus just yawned with a nod as the train cam in to a stop. He was pleased as they all boarded that it was here on time. He supposed this is his punishment for being such a dick to Harry when they were at Hogwarts.
0oo00oo0
Luna… or Loony Lovegood as her previous classmates would call her woke up to the sea breeze air with a stretch and a yawn. Her eyes opened nicely as she sat up in the large room all by herself. Her balcony doors were open to let in the warm breeze and blowing about her white under-curtains as they weren't fully open like the sky blue curtains.
Her room was nicely decorated in cool colours, and her giant-sized bed was the most exquisite and comfortable she had ever known. She sunk into the soft and fluffy mattress and the white cotton sheets with sky blue silk covers over her.
She smiled as she looked down to see a cute pair of blue cotton PJ's with little crazy cartoon crimson birds with cute little dragons chasing them.
Luna slid out of her covers and sat on the edge of her bed with its soft white and blue hanging around the four posts. It looked brand new. She let her feet touch the soft and fluffy cream coloured carpet as she stretched her arms and yawned.
She took another look around her room, but couldn't see her stuff until she noticed the large double doors with 'closet' written plaques did she realise that her stuff would be in there, other than her wand and watch, which is with a blue wand holster for either waist or arm.
Smiling to herself she went over to the closet and opened both doors and walking it. It was very large, and she could easily turn it into a spare bedroom with room for another four-post bed if she wanted. Though, with her giant sized room she could just fit several extra four-post beds in there if she wanted.
The closet contained all of her stuff from shelves with her books neatly arranged to the broom her father bought her for her birthday last year hanging on a broom hook. Then her clothes were neatly laundered and things like tee shirts, shorts, etc. had been folded on a shelf while other things like school uniforms, robes, trousers, skirts and dresses were hung on hangers nice and neat.
She found a large set of draws to, and opening the top one she easily found all of her panties, socks, and bras all neatly put away so figured the other draws would contain her vests and other things. Though, she did take serious note of all the new clothes she found too, they're really nice. Her trunk was set out of the way on a high shelf, but she suspected it would be empty.
She shrugged as she wondered where some of her other things like magazines might before she grabbed off a rack by the door a huge fluffy cream towel that she could get lost in, and a smaller one before exiting the closet and closing the door.
Looking around her room she smiled as she saw the desk under the slid-open window and walked over gently stroking the light blue leather four person sofa facing the balcony with a crystal glass coffee table in front of it.
She reached the oak wooden desk to find a magazine rack almost hidden by it up against the wall with all of her magazines neatly placed in it, and looking through the desk she found all of the unopened letters she had wanted to send while at Hogwarts, but it seems a mute point now.
Sighing she let a smile alight her lips as she walked over to a door that read 'bathroom', and entered with a wider smile as she found a place to put her towel and PJ's.
Stripping naked she looked around. It was like a huge wet room but it had a proper shower 'cubicle' big enough for five at least, as well as what could only be described as a hot tub with water jets. She would have tried that but she's feeling hungry so maybe later this evening would be a fine time. There was also a separate door with the sign 'toilet' to one side.
Therefore, she opened the showers glass door and stepped in, making sure she doesn't have it too hot she adjusted the temperature just right and started it up. She waited a moment before stepping under the powerful jets for them to heat up and then she was in bliss.
The water was just right she thought as she soaked her soft pale skin for a few minutes before she grabbed the muggle body wash from the little rack on the wall and began scrubbing all of the sweat and stink from her body making her self smell nice and feel clean and happy.
She then rinsed her body before using the shampoo and conditioner. So after finishing with her hair and making sure she rinsed away all of the soap and tuned off the water before stepping out of the shower.
Luna felt happy and clean as she looked at her naked body in the huge body length mirror by the sinks. She felt her breasts were a bit too small, but they made up for that with perkiness, and she had been wondering whether she should start trimming her blonde pubic hairs or not, she had heard other girls talk about doing it. Overall, she really did like her body and appearance; after all if she looked just like other pretty girls then everyone will look boring.
Shaking away silly thoughts she moved over to her towel and pat dried herself as best she can before dumping her PJ's in the wash basket in the corner, wrapping her towel around her body, wrapping the smaller towel around her hair and leaving the bathroom.
She made it to her closet easily and found a nice pair of blue panties, a blue bra and white socks, a blue tee shirt and a cream pair of hipster shorts before putting them on a long with some white running trainers she found in the full shoe rack on floor level under the bottom shelf.
Luna then made her way to her wand and watch; she put her watch on before looking in the little bedside draw in hope. Yep, she found a few combs and hair brushes. So strapping her holster to her back on her waist she kept her wand out as she sat on the sofa with a brush.
Humming a soft tune to herself she began using a warm air charm to dry her hair while running a brush through it. However, looking around after she sighed in relief as she almost missed the vanity desk in the corner with mirror and makeup.
She doesn't really wear much, mostly just a touch of lip gloss will do her fine, but the little bit of blue eye glitter looked cute too so that's what she went for.
Smiling at a job well done she put her wand away and finished off by carefully tying her hair back with a red tie with little silver skulls on it that Ginny gave her saying she liked the bat one she got and Luna could have that one as they came as a pair.
Getting up she looked out of the balcony doors overlooking a huge beach and the ocean with gulls flying around making some lovely noises that bring on thoughts of holiday's.
Breathing in the sea air made her happy before she remembered she needs to find breakfast. Therefore, moved to her bedroom door and frowned as she now took notice of the commotion coming from outside her door ruining her nice morning mood a little.
She opened the door only to be startled by the load of girls in the long red carpeted wooden walled corridor, which led around the corner and had from what she could see two sets of stairs, one up, and one down. The other girls seemed to be distressed and hadn't changed out of their bird and dragon PJ's yet, or even showered.
"Lovegood, what's going on?" Daphne Greengrass demanded, which caused the other girls to quieten.
Luna looked baffled as she was watched. "I-I was going to find breakfast," she replied as if that was the only thing she could have said. The other girls just stared at her as if she were crazy, which maybe she is a little.
"T-that isn't what I meant!" Daphne said in annoyance and frustration. "I mean why the heck are you wearing day clothes and… is your freaking hair damp… did you have a shower?"
"Umm… well yes," she agreed to their disbelief. "I was dirty, and sweaty. It's quite hot here so I didn't have the temperature too high. And I needed something to wear after my shower because my PJ's were dirty so I put them in the hamper for the House Elves."
Daphne could only blinked several times for that moment before retorting. "Didn't it ever cross your mind that you had been kidnapped in the middle of the night and someone redressed you in those PJ's?" she hissed out angrily.
Luna looked surprised. "Well… I don't think kidnappers would give us our own luxury rooms with en-suit bathrooms and leave the windows open and not even lock the door."
They all looked at her in surprise when they were startled by giggling, they watched as May and April came sprinting around a corner racing each other fresh for the day wearing little yellow summer dresses and sandals with a harassed little butler suit wearing House Elf chasing after them calling.
"Little Misses! Little Misses! Dobby cannot keep up, please slow down, Little Misses!" he cried out in his squeaky voice. "Master asks Dobby to take his Little Misses to breakfast! It's not this way!"
Then they charged passed as the other girls quickly made room with Dobby shouting back his apology for being so rude. "OK, that was odd," said Cho as they watched the girls charge down the stairs as Dobby had shouted that breakfast was downstairs.
"Odd, we've been kidnapped by a House Elf," Daphne said pout glaring as she knew how stupid that sounded.
"No," Hermione replied relaxing as she walked back to the stairs. "When I get my hands on Harry… I'm so going too," she paused at the bottom of the steps leading back up to her room.
"Thank him?" asked Tracey quickly. "I have a freaking sea view girl and tons of new clothes, and my own bathroom. There's a beach down there!"
Hermione sighed and shook her head. "I guess now we know we haven't been kidnapped it isn't so bad… but… what about school?"
"What about school?" several girls asked together as if mentioning it is nearly as bad as cursing them.
She just groaned and walked back upstairs muttering about failing all her exams because Harry wanted to take everyone on a secret vacation.
"Well, I think I'll take a shower now myself," Cho said stretching. "If we all meet up here in one hour we can go find breakfast together," she said with a smile as the other girls nodded and she rushed upstairs to tell Hermione.
Tonks frowned as she exited the room across from Luna's looking sleepy, still wearing her PJ's with her hair in a mess. "Did we get kidnapped?" she asked looking at the others.
"Harry took us," said Vanille as she was washed and fully dressed and strolling from around a corner without a care in the world. "You girls should hurry up and stop dawdling or it will be time for lunch and you won't get breakfast," she said as she climbed down the stairs to find Luna.
Luna looked back at her and smile. "Hello Vanille," she said pleased to see someone else other than the kids ready for the day. "I followed May and April down here as they were supposed to be heading for breakfast but I lost them. Do you know where breakfast is?"
Vanille just froze in thought giving her a sheepish grin. "Not a clue. I was hoping to just wander around and smell my way there," she said sheepishly.
"Oh… well can I come with you then?" she asked hopefully. "It's better to get lost together than alone."
"Of course," Vanille agreed linking their arms, Luna smiled as they looked at five large turns from the stairs as well as the hall way they're in and grimaced, plus all of the wooden doors and that weird empty archway at the end of the left of the hall they're in their chances of success looked slim. "This is going to be tricky," she commented to which Luna could only nod.
"Dobby said it was downstairs somewhere," Luna said after a moment's silence.
"So we take which ever one has more stairs leading down," she said as they looked down the hall they're in to the right as they can't go left. They were so entranced in their search they didn't notice the House Elf regally approaching them before. "There… stairs!" she chimed and before the House Elf could utter a word of help they were charging down a hall way.
"Kids these days," the creature said in an ancient language shaking his head.
0oo00oo0
It had been three weeks, three long and tiring weeks for Sakura and her guardians. They had been attacked three times during this time and the only good thing Sakura can see is she had transformed at least a quarter of her cards.
However, it was hard going and restless so touching down on the roof of a building in Tokyo somewhere she was relieved, her wings busting away back into a card in her card holster.
She was a mess wearing a blue water-proof battle dress with her key on its collar as it was raining most of the day, but thankfully not anymore. She had cuts on her face and her hair wasn't kept, but it was her eyes that were different. They were cold yet screaming for a help, a help neither Yue nor Kero could give her no matter how much they might want too.
"Here, Sakura," said Julian as Yue switched form holding some food her guardian had been so willing to steal: to survive. He always changed back when they didn't need to fight or fly as it conserves his magic while Kero kept in his fake form since he can fly without his true form.
Sakura sighed as she had no choice and took the bag as they sat down and she dished out the cakes and sandwiches and drinks to her only companions. She was passed crying, and trying to take her anger out on vampires was useless as they died too quick with Fiery, and most of the demons she has come across were just too stupid to understand. Anyway, wasting needless energy is something she can not afford right now.
"W-we can't carry on like this," Sakura muttered tiredly but she still wolfed down her sandwich and cake in quick time. "I'm exhausted. I need some proper sleep but… I can't… I just can't get myself… I don't feel safe even with both of you. I'm sorry," she said looking down at her lap before draining the rest of her water.
"We know," Julian agreed with a tired sigh. "I'm tired too, but I know we can not stay in one place for that long as they're still hunting us. I miss my home and Touya."
Sakura just looked away feeling worse. She had never really looked before… never really noticed how close her brother and Julian really are. She had never expected her brother to be anything like that, but thinking back to her brother she can totally see it.
Heck, if it wasn't for her somewhat 'like' like of a certain boy she would be calling herself out for loving Tomoyo too much. She held back a smile as she thought of all the amusing reactions her friends would have if she confessed to loving Tomoyo as more than friends rather than Li?
She wonders whether Li has started hunting for her like the some times maniac trying to track her down because she's 'useless' on her own. Maybe she was useless, but she's gotten stronger. The three major attacks weren't the only attacks she's had to deal with or she could sleep for more than a couple hours.
She smiled just a little shaking her head clear. Its strange thinking about the things you don't normally think about when you're in a desperate situation and you're trying to think of anything else.
If she was still at home she would still be semi-crushing on Julian without a clue that he likes her brother. It wouldn't have even crossed her mind unless they just outright and told her they're dating. She might have been shocked at first but she would have in the end been very happy for them.
"An extra cookie for your thoughts…?" Julian piped into her thoughts with a smile as he quickly grabbed the last cookie before Kero causing the plushy to pout but he made no complaint.
Sakura smiled a little wider. "I… I was just thinking of Tomoyo and Li… and… well…" she smirked here slyly and decided that a little fun wouldn't hurt. "How much you must be missing Touya," she said with a teasing eyebrow raise to add the implication her voice couldn't quite manage.
This had two effects: one, Julian's cheeks streaked scarlet: two, Kero burst out into giggles. "Sakura!" the plushy couldn't stop giggling. "When did you get a naughty sense of humour!" he giggled even more not noticing the other two look at him, ashamed of him.
"Kero, it wasn't that funny," she said rolling her eyes and snatching her cookie before breaking it in half and stuffing one half down his throat to shut him up while eating the other half herself. "I am thirteen, I do know these things even if I don't go around talking about them like some of the High School kids I've seen."
Kero managed to swallow laughing and chocking. "OK, OK, sorry," he said wiping tears of joy from his eyes.
0oo00oo0
"Its getting dark," Buffy said as she led her team out of the Tokyo airport thankful for all the translator jewellery she and her friends have got. "We should find a place to set up shop."
"Ok girls, keep together," said Willow looking around outside as a young man pulled up a minivan they hired and handed the keys to Buffy.
Buffy grimaced and offered them to Willow. "Please don't make me drive. I'm bad enough back in the States."
Willow sighed and took the keys before hopping into the driver's seat while Buffy took one of the front seats and another new Slayer was only too happy to take the one next to her while the other three climbed in the back with Evee. They were only carrying small essentials as they can buy what they need.
Nanoha was staring around in awe having to be dragged on and off the plane as she loved everything about the airports and aircraft. Therefore, Cassy grabbed Nanoha and pulled her into the car and into her seat before buckling her up and taking her own seat. Though, she wondered whether crashing that that belt would hold her friend but shook off that thought quickly as she closed the door and Willow pulled out driving them away to look for a hotel to stay. If they're here for too long they might even rent a place short term.
"Hmm… I think I sense… well demons," Willow said after a few moments of thought. "But I also sense something really odd in the air that has nothing to do with demons, but still feels otherworldly."
Buffy and Nanoha both closed their eyes to find it and Nanoha's opened in moments before she spoke. "It's odd alright. It feels… not quite human, but not a demon. Something that… maybe a human that's lived… no Connor lived in a hell dimension and he didn't feel any different."
"I… I can just about pick up a tingly feeling from it," Buffy said sadly. "I guess I have to practice that more, but I can sense the demons."
"I guess this isn't going to be easy pickings," Cassy sadly sighed.
0oo00oo0
"So we've been kidnapped by an incompetent moron?" asked Colin Creevey looking at Sirius and trying not to laugh.
Sirius' eyes narrowed as he glared at the other boys and Remus. "Why… why are you all wearing Pyjamas that say Sirius is seriously a dick?"
"Same reason yours agrees," chuckled Remus' unable to help himself. "We don't know, but it's still funny."
"So you're a dick?" asked Vanille giggling with Luna as they came up some stairs beside them as they stood in the hall outside of their rooms. "Ah… Harry knows how to joke around."
"I'm framing mine," Trey said as he exited his room ready for the day. "Though, it was quite terrifying to wake up in a strange place, seeing my pyjama's was hilarious."
"Not for me it wasn't," Sirius said glaring at the boy as Damon stepped out of his room a little further down fully clean and dressed looking mildly bored.
"It was OK for a last minute thing," he butted into the conversation. "But taking us from Salem and bringing us here without us noticing or waking or being hurt is a thing of beauty and genius."
"Yea… whatever, where's breakfast?" asked Trey almost drooling and looking at Vanille and Luna in hope. "You came to get us right?"
"We're lost," Luna said nonchalant. "We've been looking for it for half an hour already."
"Oh," he said nodding his head. "So you just came by us by chance?" he asked and they nodded before he screamed. "Oh know…! I'm starving! I want my breakfast!"
Vanille just crushed him with a giant paper-fan straight into the floor confusing the others as to where she hid it. "Shut up being a moron!" she hissed rolling her eyes as he cried because she kept stomping on his head while speaking. "Let's just go this way!" she chimed as she grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and dragged him with her while Luna and Damon shrugged and followed after them.
"T-that's just odd," Sirius commented as they turned a corner out of sight. "But I'm going to get Harry back for this I swear. I'll have him green for weeks."
"You know you're not going to win don't you?" asked Remus laughingly as Sirius sighed, pouted and nodded his agreement.
However, he didn't get a chance to reply as the huge friendly giant of a man, Rubeus Hagrid strolled from around another corner when a large still painting of a dragon moved, sliding into the wall looking cleaner than they ever saw him wearing a large black tee shirt, combat trousers and boots without even wearing a coat, which is unusual, but then Hogwarts is cold and the weather is perfect here.
"Hey there fellas!" he boomed out cheerfully laughing. "This place is great, look what I found!" he said with a giant grin holding up a large wooden staff, though it was more of a bow staff it had runes all over it. "I found this place full of wands, staffs, swords, and all kinds of weapons. It must have been two, no three times bigger than Hogwarts Great Hall. I stumbled and touched this and it reacted so the little House Elves that worked there said I can have it. Isn't it a beauty? I can tell its far superior quality than that Olivander makes."
"Wow, that is pretty cool," Sirius had to admit. "But where were you headed because it looks like you're lost."
"Oh… yeah, the House Elves gave me directions but…" he shrugged sheepishly. "I think I made a mistake somewhere along the way!" he laughed here while the other two men rolled their eyes and the boys just shook their heads and went back to their rooms to clean up and get changed so they can be prepared for getting lost too.
0oo00oo0
"Come on Sword we can do this," Sakura yelled as she dodged the winged horse man thing with its sharp claws, rock solid black skin, and black pin needle hair, its long spiky tail and sharp fangy teeth. Something made for hurting people.
They had just dived in from out of nowhere. At least the three ate first. Kero and Yue had managed to take two each and the fifth was left to her, so she finally transformed the Sword Card as using or transforming the higher ranked cards is draining and she felt she might pass out.
She didn't even draw her next card as she summoned it. "Jump!" she yelled out and little wings materialised on each side of her blue half-boots allowing her to jump thirty feet or so, dodging, her opponent hit painfully into the roof cracking it.
Sakura was quick to take advantage as she shot down and landing as it was getting up she took its head with simple ease, as the Sword Card can cut through anything, black blood gushed out over the roof almost making her sick, but she quickly looked away to Yue and Kero as they struggled to hold them off.
Gritting her teeth in panic she called out. "Dash," and then in a flash she was shooting off the building and slicing through one of Yue's demons breathing heavily with exertion. "Float!" she called out to get her bearings and breathe back as she seemed to stand to top of a translucent pink bubble disc.
She readied Sword as one demon broke off from Kero to attack her. Her eyes drifted but she managed to force them back open. "NO!" she cried out as Sword glowed a bright white before fading. It had change from a simple looking duelling sword to a wider blade of grey, more like a katana but wider and a little longer with a red leather-bound handgrip. The sort of weapon used for brutality and elegance.
Sakura jumped up with a flash of gold under her feet yelling out. "TWIN!" and in another flash off gold two Sakura's reached the monster with twin newly-redesigned-Sword Cards… one sliced off his wings and the other took his head before landing back on the roof together collapsing to one knee each before becoming one again in a flash of light.
"I-I can't lose. I… I have to… I want to see my family again!" she hissed through her teeth spitting up blood. "I… I want to see, Tomoyo, and Li, and my… big brother," she whispered with tears in her eyes, teeth grinding an effort to fight her body into action, as it shook and protested.
Yue glared at the monster as its shattered body finally fell to a rooftop panting for breath. He then turned to see Kero having dispatched his and returning to Sakura. Yue had to have more and more respect for that girl with every passing day she shows she is too strong and stubborn to give up, and she gets better with every passing second.
0oo00oo0
Hermione and Cho had somehow lost the other girls as they went looking for breakfast but what they found made their mouths drop open in awe, love and lust and forget all about breakfast. This wasn't simply the library. This was the super awesome make up words to describe it library! It was simply amazing beyond amazing.
They looked down from the tier they were on, which was extraordinarily wide with masses of books and scrolls in what even with translators they can tell are in thousands of different langues if not more.
Looking down over the banisters between bookshelves they can see other layers but they couldn't see a bottom. There are stairs all over the place leading up and down but they could see the top with a tinted crystal roof four floors up.
However, that wasn't all as they wandered forth and found themselves in a giant maze of books and scrolls, and other writings the likes they could never have dreamed possibly exist, for what might have been hours. They had even changed levels since entering when Hermione picked up what looked like some kind of pad: a dull silver yellow colour.
She found some kind of button on the side and it instantly lit up with green writing on a black background in strange squiggles that she could read because of her bracelet.
"The dictionary of the Masters of the Universe?" she asked with wide eyes as she looked through it. "It seems to be a record storing device for soldiers, but one man seemed to be the most powerful and greatest on Eternia…"
"What's Eternia?" Cho asked looking over Hermione's shoulder, her eyes widening. "Is this talking about Earth?" she asked looking baffled.
"I… err, think its talking about another planet," she said in awe. "It's not that…"
"Wow, this is so cool," Cho couldn't help her self as she found a white pad where the other one was far lower tech than this and coloured silver. She just touched the screen to activate it to see a white screen with blue writing that looked much more human. "Wow, what the heck is The Force. This is some kind of self training manual, like a magic book."
Hermione looked at it too when she was startled by a soft voice. "Excuse me ladies," the old House Elf said. He was wearing soft purple robes with reading glasses perched on his nose. "I couldn't help but notice you wandering through the Castle archives and wondered whether you needed any help finding something particular, or perhaps I could suggest some good reading material if you haven't found an interest in those books," he said with a polite bow and a smile.
"W-well, we were on our way to breakfast and kind of wandered in here, but this place is incredible," Hermione said in delight. "This must be the biggest library on the planet."
"Oh, it is my lady," he said smiling with pride. "Second only to only the Eternal Library…"
"But you just said it's the biggest," Cho interrupted, confused.
The Elf just chuckled. "Second biggest in the known universe…" he told them chuckling as they gasped as they looked at the pads they held. "Allow me to call a couple of library elves to escort you young ladies to the Supreme Hall. I believe breakfast has finished and lunch around here starts at about two PM local time, dinner isn't until eight, but if you would prefer breakfast it can be arranged?"
"No-no… we're fine with lunch, it was our fault," Hermione quickly said while Cho nodded in agreement.
He chuckled again. "Well next time you get lost please call a House Elf for assistance. And if you ever need help finding some writing, please call for someone who works in this library. I my self would be happy to have something other than sorting or cataloguing to do," he said smiling as he clapped his hand two female elves appeared before he was gone. They were wearing robes like his though they're much younger and smiled in eagerness.
"This way misses!" they both giggled in silliness as they took the pads and put them back before taking both girls by the hand each and pulled them along. It took Hermione five minutes to realise. These House Elves are free and yet they work within this… castle, like here, and she can tell they're happy so smiled a little.
"Here you are misses!" one said pointing to one of the few wired yet beautiful gothic archways they've seen around the castle. "Supreme Hall!" she called and then in a ripple water burst over the archway creating a semi mirror window effect looking out into a hall with doors looking outside into a huge courtyard.
"That's the nearest Gate to the Hall. It's in the Entrance Hall. The Supreme Hall is just a right, straight up the main stairs and straight through the huge double doors."
"Bye Misses!" they giggled out together before apparating away.
Hermione and Cho look at each other and shrug as they step through and out into the Entrance Hall with relieved sighs before they're ploughed over by Vanille and her group before the rest of the girls and Sirius' group toppled out too squishing everyone, followed by more boys and girls that got separated during the morning.
Harry and Ginny were in stitches of laughter as they had been walking by with May and April (they were giggling too) to get lunch when multiple gateways opened over that one arch.
"Dobby just told me the repair elves said the Entrance Hall Gates aren't working right," Harry said through his laughter. "Damn, all fifty odd at once, that's just hilarious!" he laughed some more. "It should be fixed by the evening, but feel free to exit, that one only."
"Where have you been all day?" Ginny asked as they were all helping themselves and each other up. "Fred, George, have you been up to no good?" she reprimanded.
"No, this wasn't us," Fred replied shaking his head. "We were up late and then freaked about being kidnapped, then laughed at our PJ's," they snickered as Sirius glared. "Then got ready for the day as we realised quickly that Harry took us… then got lost for the passed few hours before we found a huge ass swimming pool, gym, and indoors stadium that could be set up for quiddich, and there were these Goblins that laughed at us for awhile after we begged for help before showing us through a Gate!"
"Harry," Hermione soon interrupted with teary eyes. "I found heaven…" she said confusing them all.
Harry sighed rolling his eyes. "No Hermione, you found the library," he said to which everyone who really knew her laughed.
"Don't laugh," Cho interrupted shutting them up. "It is on a scale that is in league with Gringotts for size, maybe bigger!"
"No way!" the twins whistled. "A library that big has a pranking section!" they said with out any doubt.
"Yea, yea… you guys coming in for lunch or what?" Harry asked rolling his eyes and laughing as several of them burst up the stairs like they might die of hunger soon.
Hermione grinned too in embarrassment as her stomach growled and followed everyone up only to be surprised by the multitude of round wooden tables and chairs spread out through the hall of varying sizes with several different doors of different sizes and some in the walls at higher levels.
However, they all paused in shock as quite a few places were full with creatures from Goblins to House-Elves, Garden-Elves, different species of Pixies, and Fairies, and other creature they hadn't seen before along with what are obviously Veela, but near them were other young women looking just as attractive just with out the odd pull and they have different coloured hair, not just the standard silver blonde like Veela.
They were all eating lunch as it started a few minutes ago, and there were more creatures entering to find friends and eat their fill. To the end of the hall is a long table its width with a phoenix/dragon coat of arms backed black with the dragon gold and phoenix crimson.
Harry found the shock amusing but Luna Lovegood just shoved some people out of her way with Vanille hot on her heals and they just sat at a table with a couple smaller tables on it with several fairies, and a Garden-Elf (about the same size as a Hose-Elf only near human looking with greed hair and eyes, long pointed ears and a child like appearance even when they are older than Dumbledore), and two House-Elves sitting around the normal table, grabbed a menu each and ordered up.
"I'm starving!" Vanille cried out in delight as she bit into the pie she ordered with relish causing her table mates to laugh. "Luna and I missed breakfast because we got lost. Then we found some huge gardens with maze hedges and all because we thought we could walk around to find breakfast but this place is huge, and I don't know how to fly and neither does Luna and we met these nice Garden-Elves that showed us how to work the Gates!"
One of the cute giggling fairies looked up, her little voice tinkling away like bell chimes with Vanille nodding in agreement laughing. "Yea…" Vanille agreed. "Harry could have left us notes," she readily agreed.
Harry sighed as May and April went over to a kids section of the hall to join the little friends they made while he and Ginny snuck off and slid onto a seat at the table with the beautiful non-Veela… Ocean Mermaids, where the legend of Sirens originated before the Veela high jacked it, (by no fault or want of their own, its just humans can be idiots).
"Oh, good afternoon Harry, Ginny," the brunette of the group purred suggestively. "What a pleasure it is to have you both join us."
"Thank you," they both replied scanning their menus before ordering, Ginny pie and chips while Harry got a nice stake and chips. "So, umm… how are you doing," Harry said trying to start a conversation.
"We're excellent now you're both here," the brown haired beauty answered liking her lips.
"Harry!" Hermione interrupted in annoyance as she took the spare seat next to him. He took note that the others had started mulling around and mixing while others looked too nervous, and sat apart from everyone else while some boys were being toyed with by the Veela. "Why did you kidnap us and bring us all here?" she asked in exasperation.
"Blah," he said with a grin while the Merbabes giggled as they continued eating their meals watching the show. He then just shoved a menu into her hands. "Great food and even greater company," he said saluting his glass to the girls including Ginny and Hermione."
"You're impossible Harry, do you know that?" she asked as she looked through the menu.
"You often do Hermione," he agreed as he was surprised that Astoria, Daphne, Tracey, and Abby had taken up the remaining seats with them. He turned back to Hermione as Abby was the only one not being sulky and was getting hit on by the brunette and was enjoying the attention. "The end of the world is coming and we are going to stand in its way!"
The hall went quiet in seconds as he made sure his voice travelled to everyone in the room. Hermione looked around at the paled human faces as they looked around to see all of the magical creatures knew, and that they… they have to save the world.
"S-save the world from what…?" Sirius asked looking at his werewolf friend at his table with the Veela in suspicion.
"The demonic invasion of another planet!" it was spoken by a smartly dressed library elf from across the room.
"Another planet…?" Cho asked from another table over. "As in we're being invaded by aliens?"
"Not as such," Harry disagreed as he stood up and clicked his fingers. The hall went dark for a second with a few squeaks, one being Abby, but when there was light Harry saw her blushing with the brunette cuddling her on her lap but she relaxed into it so shrugged.
Above all the tables was a glowing blue and green planet with wisps of white clouds in the sky. "This is Earth… this is our homeworld… well, not perfectly true as this isn't in fact accurate but I might get to that later if you haven't figured it out or whatever…" he smiled as he looked at the beautiful planet.
"The Earth is orbited by its moon!" he said as the moon popped up circling the Earth. "Then the planet and moon circle the Sun…"
"No they don't!" Daphne interrupted and even Hermione looked at her weirdly. She blushed but went on anyway. "Everything revolves around the Earth."
Harry sighed while a few people snickered when the Library Elf huffed over mumbling about badly educated mage and slammed a large and very modern book about the solar system on the table written by the nemagus. He then opened it up to a diagram of the solar system before returning to his seat.
"I suggest you and anyone else believing this nonsense take a good read of that book girl before you try to understand the anything more than what you see," he said as if he had been offended by her lack of useful knowledge causing her to sink in her seat embarrassed, but Harry did see her close the book and keep it in her lap.
"Well anyway," Harry continued and the image changed to one of the planet and moon circling the giant ball of red and yellow burning gasses. "However, what you don't see is Gaia!" he said and a giant planet that was more green than Earth but was at least five, maybe six times bigger and the humans took note that Earth was orbiting it and not the other way around as they might have thought.
"Gaia is an ally planet," he spoke fondly. "However," he made a gesture when a purple and blue planet appeared not too much smaller than Earth. However, unlike the Earth, the moon, or Gaia and its three moons from their count. This planet has an erratic orbit around Earth, but what most noticed is it doesn't seem to pass between both worlds, and then after a short while it did, and it was paused.
"Terra," he spoke its name shaking his head. "Every one thousand years it passes between Gaia and Earth and the Veil between these two worlds it's torn. It releases the First Evil in existence, predating all civilisations throughout the universe.
"And that's bad," he continued. "If we don't stop it here while its on Earth… both Gaia and Earth, and two sub worlds within Earth will be obliterated killing hundreds of trillions before it starts tearing down the Veils to these worlds and killing thousands of trillions more," he added as he gestured and nine other worlds appeared not quite in orbit with Earth or Gaia and a lot further away but smaller, the biggest maybe matching Mars's size if that.
"Though, honestly these worlds will probably die before then without our planets anchoring theirs they'll drift out into space and freeze," he said shrugging. "Then these planets will follow with trillions more," he said gesturing and the images zoomed out light years to another galaxy and solar system where they saw the main planet before others materialized.
"Y-you're not talking about saving the Earth," Remus spoke shakily. "You're talking about saving the universe!"
To Be Continued…
A/N: Wow, 3 chapters in 3 days... I've been on a roll here lol! I hope you've been enjoying it, so please tell me what you think. Try to make guesses for the future, (I won't say if you're right to not spoil it), but that's always fun anyway. Thanks for reading and I hope your having fun.