Chapter 3
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AN: Don't expect so many updates so fast. It's just that I've been working on this for about a week so I have a lot of chapters backed up. Plus, for now I'm only doing minor changes to Gilgamesh The King of Heroes's version which is called "God's Successor". So updates will be faster until around chapter 7 or so.
Hermione Granger was not having a good day. Just yesterday, she'd figured out that her best friend, one Harry Potter, had gained some sort of power from the Deathly Hallows. Now he'd vanished and no owls could find him for some reason. She had looked through all sorts of books, many of which were still opened on her desk, and found nothing as to what it could be. The Deathly Hallows were shrouded in mystery though she did find one reference to reincarnation for some reason.
Either way, she needed to get a hold of him fast. Everyone had heard how the rain the day before yesterday had suddenly stopped and become sunny around London, Diagon Alley to be specific. The problem was that everyone agreed to seeing Harry there at the time.
Last night, the clouds in Scotland had cleared up allowing the starry sky to be seen unobscured. The problem was that it was had happened only in Scotland and no strong winds were reported at the time.
Again reports were that Harry was present visiting Hogwarts at the time.
Then, Andromeda had told her that Teddy's cold had simply vanished as if the boy had never had it in the first place. It had happened while Harry was visiting and she swore she saw Harry look at him before Teddy lost his cold.
After that Harry visited the minister and when he left all of Kingsley's paperwork was done. Kingsley hadn't even used magic or any special quills either and Kingsley despite being a great minster hardly ever got his paperwork done.
And of course, who could forget Neville's parents suddenly regaining their sanity? Despite the fact that experts had tried and failed to do the same thing, they had gotten up as if nothing had happened, all sign of Cruciatus damage gone. People were saying it was a miracle and the same experts remained baffled. Once again her distant friend had been present.
And how could she forget his visit to her, where he tapped the laptop she was working on on his way out and suddenly her problem was fixed. The laptop now ran perfectly and to top it all off Hermione knew how to avoid the problem in the future. It had taken a while for Hermione to connect the dots but she eventually came to the conclusion that Harry clearly had a power of some sort.
She had to warn him to leave for his own good before people decided to try and capture him to study his powers. Hermione could only stall for so long before someone else with a few brain cells put two and two together and figured t out. But she was frustrated. Nothing she did could find her wayward best friend and the less said about Ron the better.
"Oh god," screamed Hermione in frustration.
Harry suddenly appeared next to her. "Yes?"
Hermione then let out the world's loudest scream of surprise and Harry was on the receiving end the physical aspect of Hermione's shock.
*SLAP*
Harry rubbed his right cheek which now sported a red handprint on it. Hermione was holding her chest in an attempt to slow down her now racing heart.
"You know," began Harry slowly. "I don't think I deserved that."
"You surprised me," shrieked Hermione before slapping him on the arm again. "What the hell were you thinking you idiot? You're lucky I didn't curse you."
"Well you're the one who called me remember?" replied Harry in complaint.
"No, I didn't. I said 'Oh God'," said Hermione slowly, afraid her friend was drunk or finally gone round the bend.
"Yes hello," Harry waved mockingly. "Here I am."
"Harry I am not in the mood for jokes," growled Hermione. "Do you know how long I've been trying to get a hold of you?"
"It's no joke and I've kind of been pretty far away." It wasn't technically a lie first he was in Heaven for a bit then he was in Japan.
"Harry I will say this once more ok?" said Hermione in her lecture voice. "You Are Not God"
"No I am," insisted Harry. "It's a long and complicated story involving the Hallows which are actually weaker than they were when they were created after use by humans, and me being the reincarnation of God but I'm God, like from the Bible. Ten Commandments, parted the Red Sea, Ten Plagues God."
"Did George slip you something?" asked Hermione really not in the mood games.
"No I can prove it watch this," Harry waved his hand and a bronze statue of Hermione reading a book appeared.
Hermione simply gave him a look of annoyance. "I can do that too genius, it's called magic," Hermione took her wand waved it and a statue of Harry holding a sword appeared next to Harry's statue of her.
"Alright how about this then," With a wave of his hand a small glass of a clear goldish liquid appeared on the desk.
Hermione dipped her finger in it and put it into her mouth tasting it. Her face still had annoyance on it. "Champagne, again I can do that too." Hermione waved her wand and again a glass of champagne appeared and Hermione remained unimpressed.
Harry scratched his head struggled to think of something before a word in one of Hermione books caught his eye. 'Gamp's Law of elemental Transfiguration'" Harry widened his eyes and smacked himself on the forehead.
"That's it!" exclaimed Harry excitedly
"What's it?" asked Hermione, beginning to get bored. "You've decided to give up?"
"Nope try doing this with magic," challenged Harry and suddenly a large slice of a chocolate cake appeared on the desk.
Hermione's eyes instantly locked onto the cake, a glint entered her eyes and she licked her lips. Quick as a viper she grabbed the cake and bit into it chewing a large chunk while glaring at Harry.
"Harry James Potter," She growled after swallowing the piece of cake in her mouth. "You know I have a sugar weakness."
"Do you believe me now?" asked Harry smugly.
"You could have performed some sort of alternate summoning method to get this or maybe it was disillusioned the whole time," said Hermione, attempting to rationalize the blatant disregard for the laws of elemental transfiguration.
Harry sighed to himself it was time to bring out the big guns. "Alright try to explain this." Harry snapped his fingers and all of a sudden, Hermione found herself sitting on something metal and hard.
She opened her eyes without knowing she'd even closed them and saw the Earth below her. She was sitting on a satellite, orbiting the Earth. She did the only thing a rational person would do in her position.
"WHAT HELL HAVE YOU DONE?" She screamed despite there being a lack of air in space for the sound to travel. "HOW ARE WE UP HERE!?"
"Do you believe me now?" replied Harry with mirth in his eyes.
"YES YES NOW PUT ME BACK, PUT ME BACK RIGHT NOW!" Hermione demanded thumping Harry's chest.
Harry complied and snapped his fingers and both of them were back in Hermione's office/workshop.
"Alright," said Hermione after catching her breath. "So let's say for moment that I believe your God. Don't you realize what this means?"
"I can throw a party at the Vatican and no one can stop me?" joked Harry.
Hermione gave Harry a flat look before grabbing hold of a book that was about forty centimetre's thick. She promptly slammed it on to his head before he could defend himself.
Harry rubbed his head. Despite being God that had hurt a lot. He saw the unamused look on Hermione's face and decided to get serious…for now.
"No, do you know how much good you can do with this power?" asked Hermione rhetorically. "But never mind that you have to leave the country."
"Why?" asked Harry in confusion.
"Listen Harry despite the popular belief of some, the Wizarding World is in fact not comprised of morons," explained Hermione calmly, ignoring her friend's look of disbelief. "All these strange things that you've been doing are getting attention and eventually someone will start putting two and two together and when they do, they won't get fish, understand?"
"Right up until fish and then you lost me completely," replied Harry seriously.
"Honestly, listen people will figure out that you have powers and if they find out that you're God, they'll start demanding things from you. Even if you give them what they want, word will spread and society will spiral into chaos and you'll never get a moments peace," explained Hermione with aggravation clear in her voice.
"Oh, well that is bad," realized Harry.
"Gee you think?" responded Hermione sarcastically.
"Oh alright I'll get going, I have something ready in Japan anyways," stated Harry sadly. "But one last thing, what are the laws like on summoning Devils?"
"In the wizarding world it's highly illegal and can earn you the death sentence," replied Hermione easily. "It's been that way for centuries because muggles started saying we got our powers from deals with devils, so it was made illegal everywhere to put a stop those misconceptions. Every ICW country complies with that law even the ones that aren't in ICW have that law and there's only very few countries that aren't ICW. In fact you can count them on one hand."
"Got it Hermione and thanks," said Harry in sad tone while handing Hermione a note. "Goodbye, and this is the town I'm staying in just in case you want to visit. Just go to the church and ask for Father Kotomine."
Hermione took the piece of paper that Harry had given her and thrust it into her pocket.
"Father…" Hermione paused before glaring "Have you been watching Fate/Stay Night again?"
"….no?" said Harry unconvincingly. It probably would have been more convincing if he'd changed out of his Kotomine outfit before coming.
"Harry Potter," growled Hermione in exasperation. "Why are you impersonating a fake priest from an anime slash Visual Novel and why are you dressed like said fake priest?"
"It's a great cover. No one will suspect a thing," defended Harry. "And besides its awesome as was the Visual Novel you said so yourself."
"Yes but that does not mean you should use such a blatant fake name," shrieked Hermione. She loved him but she swore she lost a year of her life every time they spoke.
"It'll be fine. Besides its not like I'm calling myself Gilgamesh, who is awesome by the way," explained Harry with a grin.
"How dare you," said Hermione with an enraged look on her face. "Everyone with half a brain knows that Saber is the best."
"Heretic," accused Harry, pointing a finger at her.
"JUST GET OUT OF HERE!" Hermione chucked the book she still had in her hand at him.
Harry vanished, causing the book to slam onto the ground with a heavy thud. Hermione sighed before noticing the figurine of Saber in her battle skirt holding Excalibur in a ready stance sitting on her desk.
"Idiot," She sighed with a smile on her lips.
With her greatest concern out of the way she began clearing her books and notes about Harry away. Soon, she was ready to resume her work, but she left the figurine where it was. A silent memento of her friend turned deity.
Harry re-appeared in the church and saw that the people from the holy church had arrived. They were being directed by the angels to begin fixing up the place and it looked like it wouldn't be long till it was all fixed up. Harry was sure to maintain his Father Kotomine disguise as one of them approached him.
"Ah you are Kirei Kotomine correct?" asked one of the men nearby who separated from the group.
"Yes that is the name that I choose to go by," replied Harry cheerfully.
"So may I ask what your mission is here that warrants re-opening and renovating an abandoned church?" asked the man curiously.
"I am going to attend the local academy as a student in order to assess the situation and keep an eye on the devil heiresses and their peerages that attend the academy," replied Harry with a smile.
"And you don't need backup?" inquired the man in confusion. "What if you get into trouble?"
"If I get into trouble then our Lord God is all the backup I need," replied Harry with a smirk.
The man was lost for words. He tried to say something but eventually sighed and walked away. When he was out of sight, Harry went into a back room and changed into the Kuoh Academy male's uniform which consisted of a black blazer with white accents over a white, short-sleeved button-down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, matching black pants, and brown dress shoes.
"Well time to meet my new classmates," stated Harry cheerfully. "I'd better walk, I don't want to expose myself on the first day."
With that Harry left the back room and began making his way to the front door but paused just as he was about to open the large double doors.
"Oh that reminds me be sure to prepare a room for two females both close to each other," ordered Harry seriously. "Asia Argento and Yuma Amano will be staying with me and attending Kuoh with me in a couple of days. Just as soon as I make sure it's safe."
"Asia Argento?" One of the men asked in confusion. "You mean the wi-"
The man was cut off by long rapier-like sword embedding itself into the wall next to his head. He had not even seen the young man move. Everyone had stopped working to look at the scene in shock. They were all stunned except for the angels who were unsurprised.
"If you ever call her that word again," said Harry with venom dripping in voice. "It will be the last thing you ever say as an employee of our lord, am I clear?"
"Y-y-yes sir," stuttered the man fearfully.
"Good, now back to work everyone," said Harry cheerfully as the smile returned to his face. He began whistling a cheerful tune as he left the church.
The man in question dropped to floor still in shock. The long rapier remained embedded in the wall. A warning and testament to the young man's strength.
As Harry arrived, he saw the large school building. It was impressive but Hogwarts was better in his opinion. He had made sure to create fake records and to arrange everything for his 'transfer' to the academy as a new student in the same class as Issei and Kiba's homeroom. He had made sure that when he changed his clothes that he kept his golden cross out for all to see. It was sure to bother the devils and grab their attention.
Harry wanted the devils to know he was there and if they didn't approach him then he had a plan to get their identities during lunch time. He had only stepped onto the campus and had already begun attracting attention from the students as he approached the main gate.
"Who's that guy?"
"Is he foreigner?"
"I didn't know we had a foreign exchange program."
"He's sort of handsome in an exotic way."
"I know way better than the perverted trio."
"Yeah but anyone's better than those three."
"True that's a given."
The mutterings continued even as Harry walked into the building.
(AN: From now on whenever Harry is on school grounds or talking to someone from Kuoh until Rias and her peerage are told his real name I will refer to Harry as Kotomine or Kirei, just a heads up but this will stop when he leaves the grounds)
Kotomine walked up to the principal's secretary and spoke in perfect Japanese.
"Excuse me I am Kirei Kotomine," said Harry, introducing himself politely. "I am new and transferring in as a student in my second year. Do you happen to know where my class is?"
"Yes you are in this class," pointed out the secretary with a slight blush. "Class 2-F."
"Class 2-F, thank you ma'am" Kotomine then proceeded to make his way up the stairs nearby and went up to the next floor passing several students. Including one Kiba Yuuto who glared at him hatefully.
Kotomine simply gave him a smirk in reply. It looked like Kiba was doing his best to restrain himself as Kotomine entered the room and stood by the blackboard as told by the teacher.
The bell finally rang as everyone went to their seats, some students looked at him with curiosity, some mostly boys including Issei and Kiba glared at him. Kirei simply smiled at them which caused some of the female students to blush.
"Now class we have a new student here with us and I want you to make him feel welcome," the Teacher ordered. "He's just transferred from England so he could easily help those of you struggling in Egnlish. Now please introduce yourself to the class."
"Hello, my name is Kirei Kotomine," Kirei said introducing himself to the class "It is a pleasure to meet you all. Please take care of me."
"What the hell are you doing here you bastard priest?!" demanded Issei, standing up and slamming his hands on his desk, a bald boy standing up beside him.
"I resent that. I'll have you know that my parents where happily married when I was born," retorted Kirei playfully. "Perhaps you should get your facts straight before making such accusations, Mr Pervert."
Kiba face-palmed at Issei's foolishness. More than a few members of the class laughed at Issei's stupid remark while Issei himself seemed to realize his mistake and blushed.
"Yeah well, we don't need any more pretty boys stealing all the women so go die asshole," demanded the baldly. He was a regular human and not even a threat so Kirei ignored him.
"Matsuda, Issei shut up," roared The Teacher angrily.
She had decided enough was enough and tossed her eraser which smacked both perverts on the head, bouncing on one after the other and causing them to fall back into their seats before it somehow flew back to her hand.
Kirei was impressed; he had nothing to do with that. Apparently the teacher was very skilled with that eraser which was impressive for a normal human.
"Now Mr Kotomine please by Mr. Yuuto," the teacher pointing toward said boy. Kirei nodded his understanding and walked down the aisle toward his assigned seat.
Kotomine took his seat and smiled at Kiba, who simply glared at him more darkly. Having had enough of aggravating Kiba, Kirei focused on the lesson which had now begun.
It wasn't long before lunch time rolled around and Kirei found himself sitting in the cafeteria. He was currently sitting in a place where he had a decent view of everyone else. So far he had only seen Issei, Kiba and Koneko. Some inquiries had informed him that they were all part of the Occult Research Club, which seemed to be very exclusive in who it let be members regardless of the rule which said that no club may deny people from joining without very good reason.
So a plan formed Kotomine's head to identify the other devils in the academy. He smirked and clasped his hands together, invoked his powers and prayed.
"Oh lord bless this food that you gifted all of us. Amen," prayed Kotomine with a smirk.
The reaction was instantaneous. He had just blessed all the food in the cafeteria and he watched as several people reacted badly, like they were eating spicy food that had just burned their mouths.
Kirei laughed internally. So the devils were the entire student council, Rias Gremory, then again that was fairly obvious considering she was a devil heiress, and Akeno Himejima, the vice president of the Occult Research Club. Kirei made note of all of the devils who seemed to try to sneak glares in his direction.
Kotomine simply replied with a smile which seemed to irritate them more. With his task accomplished Kirei finished his food and put his tray away. But not before he was confronted by Kiba Yuuto who was still sporting a dark glare.
"Ah Mr. Yuuto have you come to confess some sins?" asked Kotomine, receiving an even darker glare in return.
"Rias Gremory would like to meet with you. Now if you please," Kiba growled attempting to keep his anger in but couldn't help putting a hand on Kotomine's shoulder to enforce the order.
Now that ruined his mood. Kirei had been ordered around a lot in his life as Harry Potter and now that he had become God, a mere devil dared to give him orders? He didn't like that, not one bit.
"I do not take orders from you or your President," growled Kirei in return as Kiba quickly withdrew his hand which had been burnt as if it has been dipped in holy water. "So you may inform her that I will meet with her when school has ended and not a second sooner, understand?"
Kiba gulped. Normally he would be more confrontational, because as far his senses told him, Kirei Kotomine was a normal human. Therefore he was not much of a threat. Yet his instincts were screaming at him to leave, to be anywhere but here. It made no sense to him and it was confusing him.
So he decided that now would be a good time to inform Rias about Kotomine. So he decided to run, fast.
Kirei Kotomine had gone into a bathroom and changed his clothing after school had ended and everyone was going home. Now he was wearing a red long overcoat with a charcoal suit and black riding boots.
With this in place, Kotomine proceeded to leave the bathroom and found his way out of the main building. A student was kind enough to direct him to the old school building, which was where the Occult Research club was based.
He opened the main door and walked into a luxurious room. All of the Occult Research Club members were present. Akeno was standing by Rias who was sitting in an armchair, Issei was sitting next to Kiba on the couch and both were glaring at him. Meanwhile, Koneko gave him a look that was clearly trying to assess him.
"Thank you for accepting my invitation," said Rias politely though there was undertone of irritation of being forced to wait so long. "Now can I ask what the Church is doing in my territory?"
"You may," replied Kirei with a smirk as he sat in the empty armchair and leaned back, completely unconcerned. He could tell his seeming unconcern despite being surrounded unnerved them and he smirked wider.
There was a beat of silence before Rias sighed. "What is the Church doing in my territory?"
"None of your business," responded Kirei easily.
"Oh and why not?" asked Rias with a raised eyebrow.
"Because it's simply not the business of devils what we in the service of the lord, do on a world that is ours to begin with," retorted Kirei easily.
"It takes some nerve to speak like that to me," replied Rias with an annoyed tone. "Don't you know what family I am from?"
"I do," countered Kirei in a bored tone. "I simply don't care, because neither you nor your peerage is any threat to me whatsoever."
"That's a very bold statement to make." Rias narrowed her eyes as she took in his relaxed demeanor. "Perhaps you don't know who you're dealing with."
"Again I could care less about devils or how you rank yourselves," said Kirei sharply. "To be perfectly honest with you, I suggest you simply stay out my business. I am here to assess the situation. After all, do you honestly think that our side would let the Red Dragon Emperor go to your side without keeping an eye on him?"
"I see, so you're here because your side is worried," said Rias smugly.
"Worried? You're funny, Rias Gremory," Kirei chuckled condescendingly. "Not one of you in this room even rates a major threat right now, if ever. If we wanted we could simply assassinate your pawn and track down the Boosted Gears next host and take them to our side. It's that simple."
The atmosphere in the room became far more tense at the threat. Kiba looked ready to leap into action.
"Is that a threat against a member of my peerage?"
"No, it's a simple fact," replied Kirei in boredom. "Our side is in a much stronger position now, and frankly you would be wise to not underestimate us. We've already found a way to begin bolstering our numbers. I take it you've heard about Gods instruments the so called Deathly Hallows correct?"
"Of course every devil worth their salt has," replied Rias warily. "The wand that God used enabled him to cast his miracles effortlessly, was said to bolster ones power by an order huge magnitude. Legend has it that a low class devil could become as powerful as a high class devil with it. We've sought after it for centuries but it along with the cloak and stone that was said to be able to call back the souls of the deceased no matter where they were, were all said to be lost in the human world and had their power weakened by human use."
"That is correct," said Kotomine calmly. "Except all three are now in our possession and they are back to their original strength."
"Why are you telling me all this?" asked Rias with a glare as she tried not to show how shook up the news made her. "What does your side possibly gain by showing your hand to us?"
"Who can say?" Kotomine shrugged. "Maybe it's simply the will of God. Well this has been fascinating, let's talk again shall we."
With that Kotomine stood up to leave.
"By the way you sort of look like Archer from Fate/Stay Night with that coat," said Rias with a calmer tone. "He is the best character from that series so I can't fault your taste."
Kotomine froze up at this and turned around shooting Rias a dark glare.
"How dare you?" growled Kotomine, surprising them. "Any mongrel with half a brain knows that Gilgamesh is clearly superior to that white haired emo bitch."
"What?!" shrieked Rias, standing up and slamming her hands on her desk. "Archer is clearly superior to that pompous windbag. Unlimited Blade Works defeats the Gate of Babylon every time."
"Maybe but Ea defeats all and nothing can stand against it," Kotomine argued back.
"Heretic"
"Mongrel"
"Moron"
"Dumbass"
"King wannabe"
"Rabid fan-girl"
Rias' peerage didn't know how to react to their president quickly loosing her composure. Well most of them didn't. Akeno found it to be quite amusing. Sparks could be seen flying from Rias and Kirei's eyes.
"We'll finish this another day Gremory," stated Kotomine. "I will prove that Gilgamesh is superior to your pathetic Archer."
"Not if I prove that Archer is far greater than that pompous king you worship," Rias snapped back. "And Kirei Kotomine real original alias genius."
Kotomine left through the door but not before muttering.
"It is on Gremory. It's on like Chinatown."
Kotomine (Harry) had snuck into the Occult Research Clubs club room. It was much later on in the day (more like very early the next day but same difference) after his meeting with Rias and her Peerage and said Peerage were currently out. However, Rias was currently asleep in the second floor. A minor hitch but not one he couldn't overcome with well-placed Silencing Charms. With the coast clear, he put his plan into action. He found his target and began to sing.
"I've got a lovely bunch of Evil Pieces, dododododo,"
Kotomine proceeded to open the window
"Here they are, all sitting in a row, doo doo doo,
Bishop, Knight, All as big as my Thumb!"
Kotomine began tossing all of Rias remaining Evil pieces extremely far across into the distance, while being sure to replace them with a 'special present' for the Gremory heiress.
"I give them a toss,
A town across,
That's how Kotomine wins, bye-bye!"
Kotomine proceeded to fly extremely fast out of the window and into the distance.
Rias woke up the next morning with a yawn and quickly took a shower. She had spent all night angrily playing Fate/StayNight, being extra vicious in all her battles against Gilgamesh. Once she got dressed, she wandered into the living room where her Evil Pieces resided. Her and her Peerage always met up there every morning before going to school in case she needed to give order. She looked around and froze at what she saw but not before letting out a squawk of surprise. Her peerage suddenly came in, startled by the loud noise.
"What's wrong Rias?" asked Akeno, before seeing what Rias had and began trying to suppress giggles.
"What's so funny?" asked Kiba before seeing the sight and not sure what to make of it.
Issei and Koneko had no comments either.
There, where Rias evil pieces should be, were instead miniature statues of Gilgamesh. In the Bishop's place was Gilgamesh reading a book. In the Rook's place was Gilgamesh standing atop a castle looking outwards. In the Knight's place was Gilgamesh with a sword in a ready stance.
"This means war Kotomine," declared Rias angrily.
Akeno lost all control and fell onto the floor laughing.
AN: And there's chapter 3!
Yes, Harry was being childish but hey, he's God. He can do whatever the F*** he wants and he'll take advantage of that for all it's worth. What happens when an abused kid is given ultimate power? Yeah, Creator be with us all. Lol.
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