An: Ummm yeah I didn't notice that I left out the last bit of the meeting between River and the goblins I had written it in but when it got deleted my brain said it was there I'll try and fix it here.
also if there is a ~ I'm sorry I'm using them to mark paragraph separation for when the app bunches up what I wrote I tried to get them all but found one after the last chapter was already out.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character or place mentioned in this story other than my original characters.
Chapter Seven.
Thirty minutes ago Gringots account management and contacts office.
After feeling Harry disappear from her scenes she had looked to the ceiling and spread her scenes out more but was still unable to find him. A cough from the goblin across from her brought her back to the here and now.
" Sorry about that something just caught my attention but I'm sure it will be fine." she said as she returned to reading the contacts to re open the accounts she had used a Summer and to use the goblins to auction off item's made by the pawns.
"It's not a problem miss Song but you did state that you had a meeting to get to once finished here." the goblin said without the customary aggression goblins had for all but their own people, this is mainly due to this customer has been both respectful and brought so much business that even the poorest clans had work to do be it construction work or craft work on the inventions that come out of the school in Japan, so many of the poorest clans are now able to get work in one way or another, these children and the school have been such a great boon to the goblin nation.
Reading over the parchment work River smiles and nods, signing them she stands as the goblin looks over the parchments and nods as he places them into his outbox. " We will always welcome the business that you and your friends bring to the nation." he says and stands as well.
"We aim to keep it up for a while now and if we can't do the work why pay those who are in need of the gold for their families such as the clan's that do not work on the bank itself, also by contracting the nation we keep the ministry from trying to skim our profits." she grin's at that as dose the goblin.
Nodding the goblin gestures and a pixie flies out of a nicely decorated cubby in his bookshelf. "These little ones are also a boon and that even we goblin can use the crystal is one thing we appreciate when Mr Potter designed them it has made our communication from teller's to managers much faster and saves us time and as you know to us time is money." the pixie lands on the desk and sits on the rim of an ink pot.
"He did that not only for the nation but also the races, he didn't see the point limiting them to one race I would almost bet that even the centaurs will be able to use the crystals." River says while thinking about Harry's habit of not really discriminating.
The goblin nods and smiles toward the pixie. "Also by using crystals we see them as living earth, we have also found that the more precious the crystal the more intelligence the pixie has, this little one came from a diamond mined from a sacred place to the nation, many of the bank workers use a gem from one of our many hidden mines and are satisfied by the aid they bring to them."
River smiles hearing this she pulls a flawless blue diamond the size and shape of a robins egg, she places it on the desk. " If Manager Ragknock has not already created a pixie this should make one that he will be happy with."
The goblin sucked in a deep breath as he saw the gem and the pixie jumped from the ink pot and ran a hand over it. " Manager Ragknock has been looking for a gem that he felt would fit his position and I believe this one will be the one he shall chose." he said as he fought to take his eyes off of it.
River smiles and nods as she pulls a small clear packet from another pocket, inside the packet was what looks like blue sand.
" This is the dust left from shaping the gem, giving it to the pixies it will allow them to create a network where they can talk amongst themselves and get messages around faster." she says as she holds it toward the goblin who takes it in shaking hands.
After a minute of silence River looks to her watch. " It's been a pleasure but I have to go, may gold flow to your vaults as blood flow from your blades."
"May your vaults overflow and your enemies fall at your feet." he replied as he gently lay the packet on his desk, then he takes up a quill and scribbles out a message and hands it to the pixie. " please take this to manager Ragknock."
River is chuckling as she leaves the office and then the bank , making her way to the Leaky Cauldron to wait for Petunia and the others. As she enters the tavern Tom the barman noticed that she came in alone waves her over to see if she needed help finding her parents or guardians.
"Do you need me to send a message to your parents or guardian to let them know that you are here?" he asks as she climbs up on to a stool.
"No thanks sir I appreciate it but I am waiting for friends here to do some last minute purchases before we have to go to Hogwarts." she says while giving him a small smile.
After a few minutes of waiting Petunia, Vernon and Dudley enter the tavern from the muggle side. As they come in River jumps from the stool and makes way to them and returns Tom's wave.
When Vernon gives her the paper she is confused until she reads what is written. When they get to Fortescues they seethe Greengrass and Davis families also making way to the ice cream parlor. Daphne and her younger sister while trying to give off an aloof appearance they had small smiles on their faces, while Tracy was a bubbly ball of energy who was chattering away at Daphne.
River had to hold in a laugh as she saw a twitch in Daphne's eyes as Tracey was talking, it seems that all the adults had seen as well and they were smiling especially Mr and Mrs Greengrass who while did try teaching their daughters decorum the girls took it a bit far lately but that may have something to do with Daphne going to Hogwarts and her most likely going into Slytherin wjen school starts.
As everyone greets the other groups they took seats on the outside tables and began talking about how the Greengrass store has seen a large amount of students buying the pixie crystal's and or trunks, amongst other subjects such as the Davis family also seeing a growth in their customers buying their furniture and clothing for the pixie sized house's that can be placed in the trunk, or dorm rooms at the school.
" We are thinking about opening a joint store in Ireland and Scotland's main shopping area." Mr Greengrass said while nodding to Mr Davis who nods.
Everyone agrees that they have a good chance to make it work especially with the pixies and trunks. The watches were not big sellers with the children and only a few bought them but the adults like the mirror calling function.
After that they all fell into talking about other subjects from business to school and possible nee things that could be sold in the store especially Vernon's floo bowl that right now is not on the market in Britain but he did mention how the minister was interested in it.
Unknown location~
Harry appeared in a swirl of light inside an office building that was a mess, as he looks out the window in front of him he could see many different things, building burning or fallen down and the streets were filled with abandoned vehicles.
'Mia bring up that window again.' he thinks about the reason he came here and didn't really think befor accepting the request.
~ Alice in horror land.
A new gamer was given a system by a veteran gamer as compensation for accidentally killing him this is his first world. Although he is a good person he os practical and did not see the point on going to the home of Shizuka Marikawa and Rika Minami as Shizuka and the students were grouped with him, he decided that going to the home of Saya Takagi was the better option over going for one little girl. Although she didn't have a major role in this world that dose not mean she is not important , She was an anchor for the original group her innocence kept their feet on the ground by being the little sister/daughter she gave them hope for a future.
Objective: Save Alice Maresato from the zombies, you have two days before the other gamer reaches his objective.
Reward : ??
Bonus objective: kill as many zombies as you can before time runs out.
Bonus reward : ?? ~*
Reading the window slowly Harry remembers this story, the gamer did think of getting Alice but couldn't think of a way to get her with his destination in the opposite direction from her and could not think of a way to explain going so far one way then turning around.
Once again Harry looks to the window and shakes his head, this was going to be a little bit of a headache, getting Alice was no trouble but killing a lot of zombies would draw the attention of people he really didn't want to happen because he didn't know how pr if it would influence the world.
After some thinking over his options he turns away from the window to make his way outside. It took him a few minutes to make it to the street moving silently to not draw attention to himself.
Once on the street he looked around to see if he could recognize from the anime but nothing around him seemed to be from the show. He decides to start with his plan here.
Walking to the middle of the street he waves his hands out following the direction of the road , for a thousand feet in both directions the air seems to shimmer, when the shimmering stops nothing look out of place. Harry then kneels and places his hands on the pavement, when he hands touch it ripples flow silently out for the thousand feet and stops as well. Once done with that he stands and holds up a hand to the sky, a glowing orb shoots from his palm until ot is twenty feet above him.
Harry walks away from there and repeated these actions in over a dozen places, he then looks to a building that os burning and looks like it will fall soon, je steps to the building and places a hand to it causing it to glow for a split second, again he does this for several buildings.
After a few hours he has finished his set up and smiles. 'Mia can you turn the map back on and track the quest I need to be able to get to her in a hurry if need be.' he ask .
'It will be up in a minute, it's tracking something odd though, from what I can see this world is not just the anime. I'm seeing some odd named things out there like crawlers and lickers.' Mia says as the map appears in the corner of his vision.
'I know Mia but most of them now are just the standard zombie, slow stupid and attracted to sound so as long as i keep quiet this should be enough for now.' he says as he walks through the city looking around and avoiding the zombies for now.
It had started getting dark when a timer flashes onto the map counting down from fifteen minutes, looking to the map the marker for Alice is flashing yellow instead of green like it had been when he had the map turned on. "Ah shit the things are faster than I thought they would be." he says.
He starts running and drawing his blue katana from somewhere while his robe's shimmer for a second before turning into a set of black pants and shirt with a metal chest plate, his shoes are replaced by combat boots.
When the timer is down to two minutes he rounds a corner to find a mob of zombies crowding a small gated garden, from the other side of the gate he can hear crying and a dog barking.
Looking up he finds the top of the fence clear he jumped to run along the fence swinging his sword to do some damage to the zombies several fall to the blade cutting onto their brains.
He looked into the yard and see's a little girl crying and holding onto a small dog as the zombies slowly get closer to her.
Seeing that there is barely enough room for it he jumps down to stand between the girl and zombies. " Hold on I'll get you out of here in a minute." he says as he lunges into the group and began cutting off their legs and then kicking it in the head as he turns to drop another.
It took him a good five minutes of fighting to get to the gate while keeping part of his attention on the little girl to keep the zombies away from her, once he got to the gate he had to kick the body's into the crowd that was moving in n to take the place of the fallen so that he could close the gate.
Once he had it closed he turns to see the girl looking at him with wide eyes, he then looks around to see if there were any more zombies but he couldn't see any. " Are you hurt anywhere?" he ask as he walks to her.
She shakes her head while pulling the dog in her arms closer to herself as she looks from his face to his sword. Seeing where she was looking he gives her a gentle smile as he sheaths the sword onto his hip and crouches in front of her. "I'm not going to hurt you." he said in a soft voice.
Alice watches this boy not much older than herself fighting these things with a sword and kicks. He fought them fast and it was amazing, his movements were like what she had seen on some of the shows on the television.
When he finished fighting and stood in front of her she just locked up, she could only shake her head when he asked her about being hurt, and when he said he was not going to hurt her she was shocked even more.
While she was looking her over he smiles as she looks shocked and then she starts squirming and let's go of the dog while rubbing her legs together in a way Harry knew that let him know she needed a private moment but there were no places he could see for her.
Looking to the door of the house that the garden is attached to he see's that it is shut and probably locked, as Harry was looking around the dog Alice had gave a small bark bringing his attention to them. Sighing Harry stood up and walked to the door and kicked it down forcing the people inside to cower in a corner, after seeing what this child had done they were rightfully scared. "You people a so stupid, those things are strong and you hide in a place even a child can enter." He then looks out the door and waves to Alice. "Go ahead and do what you need to and come back." he said pointing to a door where he could see the bathroom.
Alice ran to the bathroom and slammed the door shut, after a few minutes the toilet was flushed and the sink could be heard running, after another minute the sink was turned off and she came out of the bathroom. "Ok here's what's going to happen we will leave but I will warn you now that staying here is a bad idea, take as much water and food as you can hold try to keep quiet, these things react to sound." Harry told them as he gestures for Alice to join him.
Alice ran to his side as did the dog. " Good boy Zeke." she said as Zeke sat at her feet. Harry only cocked a brow but said nothing.
Looking around again he turned to leave with Alice and Zeke following him. "We will find a place to stay. I'm not sure how much longer this town will be liveable with these things around, I'm going to be honest with you and say I don't think that this planet is safe anymore and almost nothing can be done about it. I know of a group of people that are fighting these things I saw them in passing when hiding from a big group." He says as she tries to keep up with his fast pace.
When they get close to one of the places he had passed through, he looked around then turns to a building and smiles when he sees a military Hummer behind a heavy gate, he walks up to the gate and finds it is only held shit by a bar, reaching through the gate and lifts the bar to open the gate.
He went through the gate with Alice was right on his heel's, when she and Zeke were through the gate he closed it and headed for the door of the house and opens it and goes inside to look around for possible trouble.
"I think we can stay here until morning and see what we can do about getting out of town and go from there, go through the kitchen and see if you can find something to eat I'll keep watch." he said while looking around the room.
After Alice went into the kitchen Harry went through the house and gathered up the weapons the woman who lived there and put them somewhere then went to the kitchen himself to find Alice eating cookies while Zeke was just finishing up what looked like a bowl of cereal flakes of some kind.
Shaking his head he went to the fridge to see what was in it only to find a few bottles of alcohol. ' I forgot that they were not good with cooking and would only eat takeout.' he said to Mia as he was looking at the bottles. Her only response was laughing at that.
"Well that's not good." he said out loud, Alice giggles as she takes a bite of a cookie while Zeke just kept eating the cereal.
A few hours later Harry is sitting in a chair near a window that looks out over the streets, zombies were roaming around here and there bumping into things or othe zombie as they moved. He could only shake his head when he thought about how this all came about with a company building bioweapons that was released by the top people who want to cleanse the world and start everything over but they lost control of the outbreak and now it has spread to every corner of the planet, there were only a few groups had survived the spread and fought to survive.
As he sat there wondering what to do with Alice and Zeke, on one hand he could take her with him when he went home , on the other hand he could take them to be where the other gamer was and leave them in their hands. 'You know if you leave her here that could end with her as a brood mare once the virus is finally taken care of on a few years, that is of she survives that long.'
'Yeah I know but it's not that simple, what am I supposed to do with them if I take them with me and I kinda want to get those weapons and ammo to the other guy, I'm not going to need it and I'm also not sure if they will be able to world jump like some can.' he said as he watches a zombie stumble over a body and fall face first onto the handle of a bike.
'Well your aunt can take them in she's not much older than Ivy so I don't think it will be a problem and I'm sure Ivy and Kuno will be able to help her with adjusting to living there.' Mia says while Harry was still watching the street.
After sitting in silence for another half hour he lifts his hand and snap's his fingers, off in the distance came a whistling sound, the zombies Harry had been watching all turned twords the sound and started running in the direction the sound came from. This happened several times over the next hour, as it did a counter was flashing across his vision.
It was nearing sun rise when the numbers slowed to a crawl, Harry was shocked as he saw the tally. He was pulled from his museing as Alice came into the room holding Zeke like a teddy bear. " I'm hungry." she said as she walked to stand near him.
" Yeah a dinner of cookies doesn't last long." Harry said standing from the chair he was sitting in. "I think I saw a store down the road, we can look for some food." He walked to the door to the kitchen to get a drink of water with Alice following her stomach making growling sounds as she walked.
After getting a drink and taking care of personal business they left the house passing the Hummer he shakes his head, the other guy should have come and got the stuff inside the house and then taken the Hummer it would have been useful unless he got some nifty toys from his system. When they get to the gate Harry slowly opens it and looks around but he doesn't see any zombies.
After walking for a few minutes they find the store he had seen. "Stay close in here there can be some of them in there or even people who have gone mad after what's happened." he says as he pushes the broken door to get them inside.
The store is in a mess but they find something that is edible as well as bottled water. Alice and Zeke go for the food as Harry keeps an eye out for trouble, when they finished eating Harry got something to eat himself then gathered up some of the food and water into bags before they left.
' I'm still trying to figure out what to do with her, if I can't get her to the other one I guess I will have to take her home with me.' he said to Mia as they had been walking for a few hours with break's here and there. They didn't see any zombies or people in the streets.
It was around noon that a bright light flashes high in the sky, looking up Harry groans as he remembers this event and knew that they only had a few hours if not a day before the end of what he knew. He was about to say something his vision was crowded with a new screen.
~ Quest update .
Alice in horror land.
A new gamer was given a system by a veteran gamer as compensation for accidentally killing him this is his first world. Although he is a good person he os practical and did not see the point on going to the home of Shizuka Marikawa and Rika Minami as Shizuka and the students were grouped with him, he decided that going to the home of Saya Takagi was the better option over going for one little girl. Although she didn't have a major role in this world that dose not mean she is not important , She was an anchor for the original group her innocence kept their feet on the ground by being the little sister/daughter she gave them hope for a future.
Objective: Save Alice Maresato from the zombies, you have two days before the other gamer reaches his objective.
Reward : Perfect control skill added to skills list.
Skill gifting and manipulation added to Perks and skills.
Bonus objective: kill as many zombies as you can before time runs out.
500,000 zombies killed (although you did use a loophole I don't think anyone thought of using)
Bonus reward : Azeroth dungeons and raids doors will be added to Aincrad's system each door will be placed on levels that match their level requirements.~*
As he reads the screen he begins to glow as did Alice and Zeke, after a few seconds they disappear in mote's of light that shoot off into the air.
London empty alley
In a flash of light Harry, Alice and Zeke appear standing in the alley. Alice looks around in fear as they appear. The noises in the area scare her, after having to hide and be quiet it seems loud to her.
Harry is pacing the alley and cursing under his breath as he is still going over what just happened to him and the other two, he now needs to find a place for them to live. 'Well there you go no need to look for a solution about them now. Also the weapons and things you gathered on the house are no longer in the inventory.' Mia says as he is pacing around.
After a few minutes of pacing he stops and looks to Alice and holds out a hand. "Come on I'll take you to my aunt for now, I wanted to get you to the group I spoke about but something went wrong and we were sent here to my home world." he says while Alice keeps Zeke with one hand and takes his outstretched hand.
As they left the alley Harry looks around to get his bearings, once he gets them he turns toward the Cauldron and pulls Alice along. To the people around it looked like a brother leading his sister causing them to smile or just shook their head thinking the sister to have wondered off from family.
Turning a corner Harry finds the Cauldron, as they near the tavern Alice tried to pull away but Harry's grip only tightened as he pulls her trough the door, once inside Alice stop's trying to go somewhere else and follows Harry out the back where trash cans are found, he walks past them to a wall where he reaches up and taps a few brick when he touches the last brick the wall seems to fold into an arch causing Alice to gasp as she watches this happen.
When the arch is finished Harry steps out into Diagon ally with Alice looking around at everything she could see, if Harry did not have a a tight grip on her hand she would have gotten lost in the crowd. He lead the way to Fortescues ice cream parlor where he finds everyone else sitting and waiting for their orders.
When Harry and Alice approach River looks to him her head tilted to the side, he just shrugs and shakes his head. " Shifty sent me on a errand and after I got done he sent her with me." he said as they near the table.
He guided Alice to sit then sat down beside River and looks over a menu on the table then pointing a finger to what he wants he looks to Alice only now realizing that she would most likely be unable to read the menu he leans over and reads it to her and when she hears something that she wants to try he again points at the order.
As they wait for the orders Harry explained what happened to River in whispers, when the ice cream or other foods came everyone began talking about the day's ahead of them and any plans that may need making. When they finish eating they all broke up and went their way to finish up shopping. Harry pulled Petunia to the side and explained Alice and Zeke and that they would have to do something for Alice to get her in school and a home.
"We can get it all taken care of after you and the others leave for Hogwarts, just next time a little warning ahead of time would be best."she told him as they walked to Olivanders wand shop.
"I really don't want to go in there , that old man is creepy and a follower of Dumbledore so more than likely after we leave here he will send word of me getting a wand and it's composition." Harry said just before they enter the store.
They enter the dimly lit store Harry looks around with disgust, the place was filled with shelves cramped with boxes of wands, everything was covered in a thin layer of dust. " Ah mister Potter I was wondering if I would be seeing you come into my store." came a voice from behind the group, startling all but Harry and River.
Harry just looks at the man with barely any interest, which causes him to step back in shock because all other children who comes in are filled with wonder and excitement. "Let's get this over with we have other things to do after we get done here." Harry said in a flat voice.
Olivander looks from Harry to Dudley, River then Alice. When he looks back to Harry he begins speaking again. " I remember when your mother coming to get her first wand Beach and unicorn tail hair nine and a half inches, good for charm's . And then your father Ash and dragon heartstring ten and a quarter, good for transfigurations. They both have done many great things with those wands and now I think it is time to see you join them with a new wand." Olivander said not knowing that he was speaking of things none of the group cares about or understand.
"You are thinking I care for those people or what their stick's are made of or that it matters in any meaning, to me they are strangers that I'll most likely not want to meet, all we share is a name that is my mother." Harry said pointing to Petunia.
Taken aback by the boys flat voice Olivander could say nothing as he started to look through the boxes of wands, when he had an armload that he lay them down on the desk, he then looks between the children who were to receive their wands. "Miss Song please come forward to try the wands ." he said as her straightened the boxes.
River just stepped forward and held her hand over the boxes and shook her head then just took up a box that held a greyish brown wand, waving the wand it sent out a spray of sparkling lights. " Wonderful a first picking is rare and, this wand is ash with unicorn main hair main, good for charm's and healing." the old man said as she steps back placing the wand back into it's box and handing it to Vernon who stood near the door.
"Mister Dursley you next please." Olivander said said as he gestures over the boxes. Dudley looks over the boxes and dose the same as River had done picking up a wand that was a reddish brown, the red arch of light that flew over the room ." Brilliant another first chosing and cherry with a core of dragon heartstring good for transfiguration and dueling." he said as again the box was given to Vernon. Harry didn't wait for the old man to tell him to try a wand, knowing that he was supposed to have the holly and Phoenix feather wand he took it up where there was a shimmering light that surrounded him. Olivander gave his speech about the brother wand's, which everyone ignores know it all already because of Summer.
After paying for the wands they left the store leaving a very bemused wand maker behind, a wand maker who almost immediately sent of a owl with a note stating that the wand was with whom Dumbledore wanted to have it.
After leaving the store they went to the Owl shop where they each got an owl Dudley got a short owl that had a deep brown coloring which he named Gnome for it's color and size, River chose a black owl which stood a little taller than Gnome which she named Midnight again for it's color and of course Harry got the snowy white owl whom he named Hedwig. Once they all finished with the names they made to leave the Ally and return home for the night.
An: ok so I'm not sure what happened there in the end every time I tried to come up with something I would end up writing something I've read in other fics. As for Alice I couldn't think of anything else to do with her, eventually I may do something with her but that's for later. well that's it for me I'm out for now