Harry Potter and the Aliens:
Part 2
September 1st, early morning: Yuki responded to a frantic banging on the front door, and found one of Emiko's friends, Natalie, outside, gasping for breath. "Natalie, what happened?" Yuki asked, worried.
"Emiko and I were playing at the park after the sleepover, and she told me to hide, but while I was hiding, this weird old guy came and disappeared with her!" Natalie wailed. "I don't know what he did, but one minute they were there and the next they vanished into thin air!"
"What did he look like?" Yuki asked urgently.
"He had a long white beard and long white hair, and blue eyes with glasses," Natalie said. "He was wearing what looked like some kind of dress, and a pointy hat. I don't think he noticed me, so I came to get you."
"Was there anything else unusual about him, like pointy ears?" Yuki asked.
"No, he had normal ears," Natalie said. "I would have called the police, but I didn't think they would believe me."
"You did the right thing, Natalie," Kisshu said from behind Yuki. "We can handle things from here; do you want me to walk you home?"
"Yes please; I don't want to see that guy again," Natalie said.
"Aunt Yuki, get the others together while I take Natalie home," Kisshu told Yuki.
"Alright, but come straight back," Yuki said.
"I will," Kisshu said. He took Natalie's hand, and walked her home. After dropping her off with a brief explanation to her mother, Kisshu went back home.
He found Yuki, Pai, Taruto, and his uncle Hayako in the living room, and sat down with them. "How's Natalie?" Hayako asked.
"She's still a little shaken up, but I told her that I would get Emiko back no matter what, and that seemed to calm her down a bit," Kisshu said. "Have you guys figured out Emiko's location?"
"She's in a remote part of Scotland," Pai replied. "I assume that's where the school is, but it's not going to be easy to get in; they've got pretty heavy protections on the place. It's not on any of the maps, either, which most likely means it's hidden by human magic."
"Is it teleport-proof?" Kisshu asked.
"Yes; we'd have to go to a nearby location and then walk," Pai said. "There appears to be a village of some sort nearby; we may have to start there."
"They dress differently than we do," Yuki commented. "Natalie mentioned the man who took Emiko was wearing a dress-like garment and a pointy hat."
"And Minerva was wearing a similar outfit, with a cloak," Kisshu added. "I suppose we'd better find cloaks- the kind with hoods."
"Why hoods?" Pai asked.
"So we won't get recognized," Kisshu said. "Minerva knows what I look like, and what Aunt Yuki looks like. Even if she has nothing to do with this, there's a good chance she'll point us out if she finds us."
"Good point," Hayako said. "Some of us should remain here, just in case."
Kisshu thought, then said, "You and Taruto stay here; Aunt Yuki, Pai and I will go find Emiko. We all know that despite the maternal exterior, you don't want to mess with Aunt Yuki."
"And it'll be good to have you two here in case someone gets injured," Yuki added.
Hayako sighed. "Fine, but I don't want anything too serious, got it?" he said sternly.
"Got it," Kisshu said. "Now, when are we going?"
Pai thought, then said, "They'll expect us to come right away, so tomorrow instead of tonight. We can spend today planning, and leave early tomorrow; the area in Scotland isn't anywhere near here. Teleporting is going to waste energy."
Kisshu didn't look too thrilled with waiting, but nodded.
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With Emiko: Emiko had been startled when the old man had grabbed her, and was grateful she had told Natalie to hide; she knew Natalie would take the information to her family. She hadn't reacted in time to get away, though, and soon after found herself in an office, with a red and gold bird on a perch and a lot of weird instruments that made noise. She looked at the bird for a minute, and it looked back. Emiko got a sense of sympathy from it before the old man caught her attention again by saying, "Welcome to Hogwarts, Miss Ikisatashi."
Hoping to catch him off guard, Emiko snarled, "Anata wa atashi o yuukai! Atashi wa hijou ni kangei o mitsukeru koto wa arimasen." ("You kidnapped me! I don't find that very welcoming.")
"I would appreciate it if you would speak English," Dumbledore said, seemingly unfazed by this.
Emiko mentally groaned and said, "You're going to regret kidnapping me, you stupid old geezer. Didn't Cat Lady tell you that my family and I agreed that I didn't have to come here?"
"I assume you mean Professor McGonagall? Yes, she did tell me, but unfortunately circumstances have changed since then," Dumbledore said.
"Then why wasn't my family informed?" Emiko asked. "You do realize kidnapping is illegal, right?"
"The Muggle police won't be able to get around the wards here," Dumbledore said.
He was surprised when Emiko smirked and said, "Who said anything about the police? I look forward to watching the expression on your face when my family finds me."
"They won't find you; I made sure of that," Dumbledore said. He took his wand out, and Transfigured Emiko's clothes into the school uniform. "What is with the weird clothes?" Emiko asked disgruntledly.
"That's your school uniform," Dumbledore told her.
Emiko looked down at herself, shuddered, and snapped her fingers. She was suddenly wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a V-neck, and a pair of loose black jeans tucked into black boots. "If I have to wear all black, I'll do it MY way," she said. "Any other weird things you want to do to me?"
"Since I already put a tracking charm on you, no," Dumbledore said, realizing that he wasn't going to win the 'school uniform' battle if she could change that fast.
"What's a tracking charm?" Emiko asked warily.
"It's a charm that will tell me where you are at all times, and it won't let you leave school grounds," Dumbledore said.
The red and gold bird trilled, and Emiko looked at it. "That's a phoenix," Dumbledore told her. "His name is Fawkes."
Emiko went over to Fawkes, and reached out a hand. Fawkes looked at her hand, then back into her eyes, and then rubbed against her hand. She heard an unfamiliar voice say telepathically, I have removed the tracking charm, but I think you should remain here; get Dumbledore's guard down until your family can get you out. I promise no harm will come to you if you remain until your family arrives.
I can do that, Emiko said. Is there something going on?
Yes, but I'll contact you later, Dumbledore is watching us, Fawkes said.
Okay, Emiko said. Fawkes trilled and stopped rubbing her hand, and she put her hand down.
"Fawkes seems to like you," Dumbledore commented. Emiko noticed a hint of suspicion in his tone, and replied, "All animals seem to like me. I've never met an animal that didn't like me."
"I see," Dumbledore said.
Emiko was almost relieved when there was a knock on the door, and Dumbledore called, "Enter."
Emiko turned as a man with black hair, black eyes, and all black clothing came in. "Severus, good afternoon," Dumbledore said. "What can I do for you?"
"Minerva brought it to my attention that one of the students on her list was not supposed to be attending this school," Snape said. "As she had to go greet the new first years, I offered to come see what was going on."
"There's been a change of plans, and Minerva has been so busy I did not have a chance to tell her that Miss Ikisatashi will be attending this year," Dumbledore said. Emiko resisted the urge to kick him, and remained calm.
Snape, unfortunately for Dumbledore, immediately saw through this, but noticing Emiko wasn't protesting, he settled for not calling Dumbledore on his lie. "In that case, I will take her down to the Great Hall; the Sorting is due to start in fifteen minutes," he said.
"Very well," Dumbledore said.
"Is there a reason she is not wearing the standard uniform?" Snape asked.
"I didn't like it," Emiko said. "Kaseki-san apparently knows when to choose his battles, though."
"Kaseki-san?" Snape asked.
"Means Mr. Fossil, in Japanese," Emiko said. "How old is that guy, anyways?" She pointed to Dumbledore.
"That is none of your concern, Miss Ikisatashi," Dumbledore said stiffly.
Snape nearly snickered when Emiko concentrated and asked, "215? Wow, I didn't know humans lived that long!"
"Magical humans live longer than Muggles, Miss Ikisatashi," Snape replied. "Now let's get going."
"Oh, fine," Emiko said sulkily, and followed him out.
Once they were a good ways away from Dumbledore's office, Snape commented, "So your brother is not the only one who can go through someone's mind?"
"Nope, it's an ability all Cyniclons have," Emiko said cheerfully. "Did Cat Lady tell you about Oniichan?"
"Yes," Snape said, after taking a moment to make sure he wouldn't snicker at Minerva's new nickname.
He nearly cringed when Emiko then said, "So what should I call you?"
"Professor Snape," Snape said.
"That's boring, I'll call you Koumori-san," Emiko said. "You look like a bat to me."
"You will regret it if you call me that in class, are we clear?" Snape asked.
"Oh, fine," Emiko said, and started sulking.
Snape breathed a purely mental sigh of relief when they reached the Great Hall, and saw that it was mostly full of students. Aside from himself, Dumbldore, and Minerva, all the teachers were at the Head Table, and Minerva came in with a line of first years. Snape caught her eye, and brought Emiko over. "Severus, what happened?" Minerva asked quietly as Emiko sighed and joined the other first years.
"I don't know, but I intend to find out," Snape said. "Dumbledore's up to something, and it looks like Miss Ikisatashi is too. A word of warning; she thinks your name is Cat Lady."
"Oh dear," Minerva said. "We should continue this later; Dumbledore just arrived."
Snape nodded, and went to his seat at the Head Table as the Sorting Hat began to sing. (A/N: I can't remember the song for Fourth Year, please forgive me.)
Minerva started calling out the names of the students, and finally she reached Emiko's name. Saying a silent apology to Emiko's family, she called out, "Ikisatashi, Emiko!"
Emiko came up to her and said, "Hi Cat Lady!"
Minerva sighed and said, "Please have a seat." She noticed out of the corner of her eye that the Weasley twins were laughing their heads off at Gryffindor Table, and sighed mentally, then put the Sorting Hat on Emiko's head.
Her worst nightmares were confirmed as not even two minutes later, the hat shouted out, "GRYFFINDOR!"
Great…. the twins will have a field day with this one, Minerva thought as Emiko said, "Bye Cat Lady!" and ran off to the Gryffindor Table.
Emiko decided to sit with the twin boys who had been laughing throughout her Sorting, and they eagerly welcomed her over, letting her sit in between them as a bushy-haired girl nearby said, "Fred, George, at least TRY not to corrupt her."
"My oniichan is the world's best prankster; I'm already corrupted," Emiko said cheekily.
One of the twins had managed to calm down, and said, "I get the sense this year will be out of this world…. NO ONE'S ever called McGonagall that to her face."
"Out of this world is one way to put it," Emiko said serenely. "But I'm not going to be focusing too much on the teachers."
"Who will you be focusing on?" another redhead asked with some curiosity.
"Ron!" the bushy-haired girl said.
"Kaseki-san," Emiko said. "AKA, the headmaster."
"That's not his name, you realize," Ron said.
"Yeah, but he's 215 years old, so why wouldn't I call him Mr. Fossil?" Emiko asked. "Besides, at least if I say Kaseki-san, no one will know what I mean- except him and Professor Snape."
The twins and Ron, as well as the black-haired boy next to him were staring at her in awe- and the bushy-haired girl was looking horrified. "You really call the Headmaster 'Mr. Fossil'?" she asked, sounding scandalized.
"Yup," Emiko said cheerfully. "What's your name?"
"Her name's Hermione, and she's obsessed with books," Ron said. He snickered, and said, "And I think she's in shock."
"Oops," Emiko said sheepishly. She looked at Hermione, then reached over and tapped her forehead. Hermione snapped out of shock, and Ron and the black haired boy next to him looked at her. "What did you do?" the black-haired boy asked.
"My oldest brother taught me that; if you concentrate on waking someone up while tapping their forehead, they'll wake up," Emiko said. "What's your name?"
"Harry," the boy said.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Emiko," Emiko said. "Hermione-oneechan, why are you staring at me?"
"You've never seen Harry before?" Hermione asked.
"No, but I just got here today," Emiko said. "I think the word Cat Lady used when she came to tell my family about this place was that I was 'Muggleborn'."
"That would explain a lot," Ron said. "Everyone in this world practically worships Harry and Dumbledore. I don't think you'll find too many people who will agree with your description of Dumbledore."
"Rats," Emiko said sulkily. "There go my plans."
"Plans?" the twins on either side of her asked hopefully.
"To put it bluntly, I'm going to take Kaseki-san down for kidnapping me," Emiko said bluntly. "My family said they'd take care of my training, and since my powers are almost trained already, Cat Lady said I didn't need to come here."
"But if you're Muggleborn, then how would your parents know how to teach you?" Hermione asked.
"I'm not a witch," Emiko said. "I'm not even human. Kaseki-san wants me for something, but I don't exactly know what. I kind of want to find out before my family comes to get me."
"You're not human?" Ron asked warily.
"Nope," Emiko said. "I figured I should tell you guys; I can't keep up the illusion I have on for more than twelve hours- and that's pushing it. My powers don't come from a stick; they come from inside me, so I can't really benefit from coming here. At least Kaseki-san decided not to force me to wear the school uniform."
"What are you if you're not human?" Harry asked.
"I'm a Cyniclon," Emiko said. She let the illusion drop, and the others looked startled. "It doesn't take much energy to keep the illusion up, but as time goes on, it gets harder," Emiko explained. "And it interferes with my concentration if I keep it up for more than ten hours. I'm hungry, is there going to be food soon?"
"Yeah, McGonagall just took the Sorting Hat away, so there should be food soon," Ron said. (A/N: In response to the inevitable questions about Hermione's house-elf problem, I'm going to skip it for this story, as it really irks me that she can't see that the house-elves are happy the way they are. I'm sorry if skipping that part of Fourth Year irks anyone.)
Sure enough, the food popped up on the plates, and everyone started eating.
Once all the food was gone, Dumbledore stood up, and waited for the room to quiet down. There was apparently a thunderstorm going on outside, but Emiko didn't mind; she watched Dumbledore to see what he was going to say.
"So, now that we are all fed and watered, I must once more ask for your attention as I have a few notices to give out," Dumbledore said.
Emiko tuned him out until she heard Harry gasp, "What!?" She looked at Fred and George, who looked too appalled to speak as Dumbledore continued, "This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up a great deal of the teachers' time and energy. It is my great pleasure to announce that this year at Hogwarts-"
He was cut off by the doors to the Great Hall banging open, and revealing a man in a traveling cloak. The man lowered his hood, and lightning cracked across the sky, revealing a face that was so heavily scarred that it looked like it had been carved out of wood. What was truly creepy about him, though, was that one of his eyes was electric blue, and spinning independently of his normal eye. Emiko shivered a bit; she could feel, even from this distance, that something about this man was off, and it wasn't just his eye.
The man walked up to the Head Table, and shook hands with Dumbledore. They appeared to be talking, but Emiko couldn't hear what they were saying. Dumbledore then waved the man to the chair on his right-hand side, and as he sat down, Dumbledore said into the deafening silence, "May I present our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" No one said a word, and Dumbledore said, "This is Professor Moody."
Emiko vaguely heard Ron and Harry saying something about 'Mad-Eye' Moody, but wasn't really paying attention. She was curious about the man, and why he felt off to her. Normally when she got this feeling, all hell was about to break loose. She shoved it to the back of her mind as Dumbledore said, "As I was saying, we are to host a very exciting event over the coming months, one that hasn't been held in over a century. It is my very great pleasure to announce that the Triwizard Tournament will be taking place at Hogwarts this year." (A/N: I know some of the dialogue is wrong, but I didn't want to copy it word for word. I don't want to get sued.)
"You're JOKING!" Fred said loudly. Emiko flinched at how loud he was, and everyone in the room laughed at his statement.
"I am not joking, Mr. Weasley," Dumbldore said with amusement. "But now that you mention it…"
Emiko tuned him out again. If they're having a tournament, maybe they need extra security or something, she thought. Is that why Kaseki-san wants me and Kisshu-oniichan here? To protect them? It's far more likely that Oniichan will become a bigger security threat than anything else they may be dealing with. I could feel how angry he was earlier; Kaseki-san will be lucky to get out of this alive.
She vaguely listened to Dumbledore outlining the Triwizard Tournament, and noticed that Fred and George were pretty furious about the age limit. They were sent off to bed soon after that, and Emiko tugged on George's sleeve. "Do I have to share a room with people?" she asked him.
"Yeah, there's usually four or five people in a room," George said, calming down. "I'll have my little sister show you how things work; the dorms are separated by gender." He looked around, and seemingly spotted someone, because he yelled, "Oi! Ginny!"
A redheaded girl looked around, and came over to them as they reached the top of the stairs. "Fred, George, who's your friend?" she asked.
"This is Emiko, our trainee," Fred said. "Can you make sure she's okay?"
"Sure thing," Ginny said. "Emiko, why don't you come with me? Fred and George are going to spend the night devising plans to get into the Triwizard Tournament- most of which will probably fail."
Emiko giggled and started to follow Ginny when Ginny asked, "I just noticed you ears look like elf ears…. Please don't tell me my brothers did that."
"No, my ears normally look like this because I'm a Cyniclon," Emiko said. "I can put the illusion I had on back on if it bugs you."
"No, it's fine," Ginny said, smiling. "I just wanted to make sure Fred and George aren't experimenting on you. They like to make prank toys and then test them on first years who worship the ground they walk on. Sad, really."
"I like pranks," Emiko said. "My older brother is the world's best prankster. I haven't seen the differences between him and these two, though."
"Mum will be horrified," Ginny sighed. "I can already hear her- "You two roped a poor innocent girl into your horrid prank wars?" She'll probably have a fit when she hears about this."
"Why does she need to know?" Emiko asked innocently. "What she doesn't know won't hurt her, right?"
"Great, you even SOUND like them," Ginny moaned. "Here's where the new first year girls sleep; I think there's you and two others."
Emiko followed her in, and Ginny asked, "Where are your belongings?"
"Don't have any; Dumbledore kidnapped me for some reason," Emiko said grouchily. "I'm not a witch. I'm just here until my family finds me."
"Oh dear," Ginny said. "We'd better let McGonagall know….."
"She already knows," Emiko said. "She and Professor Snape were talking about it before the Sorting. I think Dumbledore kidnapped me to lure my brother here, but I don't know why; Oniichan isn't going to help him after what he did. Dumbledore's going to be lucky to get out of this alive."
Ginny looked stunned, and finally said, "We should work on this tomorrow, but right now you need a toothbrush and toothpaste, and pajamas, too. Oh, and a hairbrush."
"Already taken care of," Minerva said from the doorway. "Miss Weasley, you may go to bed; I need to talk with Emiko."
"Thanks, Professor McGonagall," Ginny said. She squeezed Emiko's hand and left.
"Minerva-san, what's going on around here?" Emiko asked when Ginny was gone.
"Professor Snape told me that Dumbledore wants Kisshu for something, my guess is the Triwizard Tournament," Minerva said. "It's possible he wants you as well, but our best guess right now is that he wants Kisshu. I don't know why, and I have a feeling I don't WANT to know why, but I wanted to know your thoughts on this too- and why you haven't tried to escape yet."
"I have two reasons," Emiko said. "One is that I can't teleport as far as the others in my family can, so I'd end up stranded in the middle of nowhere, but Fawkes asked me to stay until my family comes for me; he said Dumbledore is up to something and that he would contact me later."
"You mean the phoenix?" Minerva asked, startled. "You can talk to him?"
"He can use telepathy," Emiko said. "When Dumbledore took me to his office, Fawkes let me pet him, and said that I should stay until my family gets here, so Dumbledore 'wouldn't get suspicious.'"
"Odd," Minerva said. "I wonder what he's up to."
"I don't know, but there's another thing," Emiko said. "You know that new guy, Professor Moody?"
"Yes, he's a friend of Dumbledore's," Minerva said. "He's a retired Auror- which is the wizarding equivalent of a police officer."
"Something's not right about him," Emiko said. "I couldn't place what it was, but usually when I get that feeling around someone, it's because things are about to go to hell in a hand basket."
"I'll look into that, although it might be nothing; from what I've heard, the man is extremely paranoid about basically everything," Minerva said. "I brought you some things you'll need while you're here, and I wanted to take you to get a wand tomorrow; I know you can use your powers without one, but if we can make things a little more normal for you while you're here, I'd like that. Wandless magic isn't at all common, and you'll have people looking at you funny."
"Okay," Emiko said. "What time are we leaving tomorrow?"
"After breakfast, so you should get some rest," Minerva said. "There's only one other first year in your room this year, so I'll get her; I asked her to wait downstairs while I talked to you. If she's still awake, I'll let her know that she should be quiet when she's coming up."
"Thanks," Emiko replied. "My ears are more sensitive than human ears."
"I can see why," Minerva commented. "I'll leave you to get ready for bed, okay?"
"Thanks," Emiko said. Minerva gave her a small smile and left, and Emiko went to change.
Two chapters already! I'll start the next one soon, but maybe not right now; it's almost 4 AM. Review plz!