I'm taking the next week off. I need to reread this fanfic and write all the important facts down. That way if I forget something, I won't have to go on a mad search for the chapter that has the facts I need, when I could just look at my notes. I should be able to get that done next week. I will also fix any mistakes that I've made and replace them with the older chapters. Just thought I'd give you all a heads up. Enjoy this chapter! :)
15
It's been a week since the Lullaby incident, and Fawkes is now fully grown again. Harry waited for this to happen, so he and Fawkes could go on the job that they planned on going before Lullaby and Eisenwald decided to ruin it for them. Harry really didn't have a problem with it, but he really wants to get that spell book. This thought made Harry pause. 'Since when have I become a bookworm?' he thought to himself.
Harry shook his head to clear his thoughts, and got ready for his job. He just got done washing up when he remembered to ask Fawkes something. He entered his bedroom and turned to the phoenix, who is sitting on a perch that is next to the window.
"You said that I had the best and worst luck ever. What did you mean by that? How is that even possible?" he asked.
Fawkes turned to face him; he was preening his feathers when Harry asked the questions. {It means exactly what it sounds like. You will find out what I mean in the future.} Fawkes went back to cleaning his red and gold feather after he finished speaking.
Harry guessed that he will find out at some point in time, but he's curious and wanted to know now. He sighed in disappointment and finished getting ready for the day. Once done changing into his clothes, he said, "Come on, Fawkes, it's time to go." Fawkes flew out the window, and Harry took the front door.
The two made it to the guild hall, and Harry went straight for the bar. He sat down and waited for Mira. He didn't have to wait for long.
"Hey, Harry! I see that Fawkes grew up," said Mira.
Harry smiled and replied, "Yeah, he did, which means I can finally go on that job I had you hold on for me."
Mira smile happily. "I get right on that," she said. "Do you want anything to eat?" Harry nodded to say that he did. "What will it be?" He told her his order, and she went to go cook it up for him.
When she finished making Harry his breakfast, she gave it to him, and then went to call the client that the job was accepted. Harry ate while Fawkes left again to find some food for himself. Harry knows that he'll meet up with his feathery friend at the train station.
Harry finished eating, took the job post, and left for the station. It didn't take him long to get there. He waited for a few minutes, and just when he was about to have to get on the train, Fawkes lands on his shoulder. Harry smiled at the phoenix, and boarded the train.
The train stopped at their destination, allowing Harry and Fawkes to get off and onto the platform. Harry stands there and looks around, wondering where he needs to go to get to the mayor. He looks at the flayer to see if there are any directions, but doesn't see any. So, Harry goes over to a guard to ask how to get to his client's house. He got his directions, and left the station.
It didn't take long, only a few minutes, to get to the mayor's house. Harry walks up to the door and knocks, waiting for it to be answered. A minute later, a butler opens the door and asks who he is.
"I'm Harry Potter. I'm a Fairy Tail wizard." He shows his guild mark to prove that he belongs to a guild. "I'm here for the haunted building job."
The butler nodded in understanding. "Follow me; I'll lead you to the mayor." Harry walks into the house and follows the man. They walked into a sitting room, and the butler requests that he take a seat while he goes and gets the man of the house.
Once Harry was seated, with Fawkes still on his shoulder, the butler left the room. Harry and Fawkes took this time to look round a bit. The room is nice, but to him not very homey. He can tell by looking at all the fancy furniture and display items that a rich guy lives here. Harry really didn't see the purpose in showing that you're rich, when you could hide it and keep most of that money, or even help the town's people that need it more than him.
Harry couldn't muse anymore, because the door that the butler left out of opened again. The mayor's clothes even tell him the guy is rich. Heck, the name 'Mayor' alone tells everyone the guy is rich. All this money thinking reminded Harry of a bank called Gringotts. 'Don't I have a vault there?' he asked himself, but he'll have to get back on that some other time, because the mayor sat down and began talking.
"Hello, I'm glad someone finally answered my plea. They say you're from Fairy Tail?" Harry nodded his head to confirm. "That's good, they like to destroy stuff, so this job should be perfect for you," the man said with a sneer.
Harry didn't like the guy's tone. It would seem that the money has gone to the man's head at least a little. "I read that the building is haunted?" asked Harry.
The mayor nodded his head. "Yes. Every time we try to take it down, something happens. I'm sure you read that on the flayer too."
"I did… but what makes you think it's a ghost?"
"No one has seen it, and they don't remember what happened afterwards." That there told Harry that the reason no one saw who it was that did it was because they didn't remember it.
"I'll go and destroy it for you, but it may take a little while. I want to see it I can find your ghost," Harry said, but then added with a raised eyebrow, "Can you tell me where the building is?"
Harry and Fawkes stood in front of the building that they were sent to destroy. He turned to Fawkes. "Do you sense anything?" he asked.
{I do… a kid I think. But I'm not fully sure,} Fawkes answered.
Harry nodded. "Let's go on in then." He walked into the building, now knowing that there might be a kid in it, but not knowing if they're a ghost or still alive.
The building is old and parts of the walls were peeling off. Fawkes pecked Harry's head gently, getting his attention. {Do you have your cloak?} The raven-haired wizard nodded. {You should hide yourself then. I get the feeling that we'll be attack if the kid sees us before we see them.}
Harry agreed and pulled out his invisibility cloak from his pocket. He remembers Natsu - when he first pulled it out of his pocket - ask how he was able to fit something like that in it. Harry just said magic as a reply, not really knowing how he can fit it. But when Natsu found out what the cloak could do, Harry couldn't help but laugh; Natsu wanted to use it to prank people, especially Gray. It reminded him of his godfather and what he did with his friends.
'This cloak just makes you think mischievously,' Harry thought. He put the cloak on, hiding both he and Fawkes, and started looking for the living or dead kid.
Fawkes would point in the direction that he senses the kid, and Harry would follow. This method helped them save time, and allow them to find the kid faster. They walked into a room and found the kid with two animals. A cat and an owl.
{That's why I couldn't tell, he was surrounded by those little guys. Humans and animals have different life energies,} Fawkes explained.
The boy, who couldn't be older then Romeo, snapped his head up to face the opening door. "Who's there?!" the boy demanded.
Harry took off his cloak. "I'm Harry, a Fairy Tail wizard," he answered.
The boy glared. "Are you here to destroy this place?" he hissed.
"It is my job, but I'm willing to hear why you don't want that." Harry waited for the boy to answer.
"This building is the animals', you see before you, home. This building use to be a house surrounded by trees, but ever since that mayor came here, he destroyed all the trees and the homes that belonged to these animals," the boy explained.
Harry nodded in understanding. "Okay, but why are you here? Where are your parents?"
"They're dead. This house use to belong to them. The Mayor came shortly after their deaths," the boy said. "Please, we have nowhere else to go! You can't destroy this place!"
Harry felt like his heart was going to break. This kid was homeless and so where the animals. "What's your name? And how where you able to do those thing to the people that were sent to destroy this house before me?" he asked.
The boy hesitated. "My name is Castor Malfoy, and my magic allows me to become invisible, and throw things just by thinking about it," Castor explained.
When Castor said that he was a Malfoy, Harry had a sharp pain go through his head. He saw a kid about his age that looked like the child in front of him now. He remembered that his name was Draco Malfoy, and that they never really got along. After the flash backs, Harry was able to process the rest of what Castor said. 'He has invisibility and telekinesis magic. Not bad.'
"Okay, Castor, here is what we're going to do. I can't leave a kid here, and I myself am an animal lover, and I have a job to do. Since you have magic, you can come with me to Fairy Tail and bring the animals with you, and they can stay with us, or they can find a new home in the forest that Natsu lives in," Harry voiced his plan to Castor.
"You…you would take us with you?" the boy asked.
Harry nodded. "Yeah, if you like, I can take you in. And if your little friends want to stay with you they can."
The boy looked happy, but then his expression turned sad. "What about this place?"
Harry thought for a moment. "You can grab anything you want to take with you from here. The house isn't what makes a home, it's the people that do," Harry enlightened.
The boy smiled happily again, and nodded his head. "Okay, I'll go pack!" He turns to the animals. "Come on, Edge, Dash!" Castor, Edge the owl, and Dash the cat went to go pack while Harry and Fawkes waited for them at the front door.
Once the five of them were all outside, Harry turned to face Castor. "You sure you have everything?" Castor nodded. "If you don't want to see this then close your eyes," Harry suggested.
Castor shook his head. "I'll be fine. After all, it's just a house." Harry watch him for a moment, and then nodded. He pointed his wand at the building. He was going to use the spell that he learned before Lullaby, but decided that the charm he remembered would be better. "Bombarda!" The explosion destroyed the house, and even shook the ground. Harry also had to put a Protego to shield himself and the others. Once that was done, Harry, Castor, Fawkes, Dash, and Edge went to go back to the mayor.
When they got back to the house, Harry left Fawkes with Castor and his little friend outside, not wanting to let the mayor know about him. He got his 50,000Js, and the spell book that he really came here for. He thanked the man and left to go to the train station with his new charge. Once on the train, he looked at the new book he got. The book cover said Book of Spells by Miranda Goshawk.
Harry, Fawkes, Castor, and his two pets made it back to the guild. Everyone stopped when they saw Harry leave the guild hall alone, only to come back with a kid. Harry gently pushed Castor over to the bar where Makarov is.
"Hi, Gramps," Harry greeted. Makarov opened his eyes and saw what made everyone quiet.
"Welcome back, Harry," Makarov greeted in return. "May I ask who this is?" he asked, looking down to see the child.
Harry picked up his new charge and placed him on a chair. "This is Castor Malfoy. While on my job I find him, and he was alone with just these two for company," he explained while also pointing at the cat and owl.
"What about his parents?"
"They're dead, sir. They've been dead for a few years now," Castor was the one to answer.
Everyone in the guild hall heard that and were outraged that it took so long for someone to notice the child and take him home to care for him. "Thank god for Harry," someone in the guild said.
"Where did you find him?" Mira asked.
Harry turned to face her. "In the building I was to destroy. It was his family home, but it was old and looked to be already falling into despair. I couldn't leave him there, and there was no way I would have been able to stop the mayor from destroying it," he replied. "So, I told Castor to grab everything he wanted to take with him, and come live with me." Everyone smiled at this.
"You have a good heart, Harry," Mira said, smiling warmly. "So what are you going to do now? And does little Castor want something to eat?"
Harry answered, "I was thinking of cooking today to relax myself. We just came here to say we're back."
"You take care of yourself and Castor now," Makarov said.
"Because if you don't, I'll be the one to punish you," Erza finished. Harry knows that she just trying to get him to fear her.
"Don't worry, I will." Harry picks up Castor. "Let's go home, shall we?" Castor nodded his head, and the five of them left.
Harry and his new family made it to his apartment. When inside, he looks around and thinks, 'I'm going to need a bigger place now that it's not just Fawkes and I. There's Castor, Edge, and Dash too. Well, I wanted to get a house anyway.'
Harry turned to Castor. "You'll have to sleep in my room, since there isn't another bedroom. Just until I can find I bigger place for us to live," he told him.
"That's fine. Can you tell me where it is?" Castor asked.
Harry gave a fatherly smile. "I'll show you. Follow me." Harry brought Castor to his room and realized something else. "I'll sleep on the floor till we get another bed in here," he said. "That way you can have the bed that's already here."
Castor smiled. "Thanks!" He went into his trunk pulled a few things out; most of them being pictures. A few clothes, and some other items, such as books, and a toy dragon – Harry was sure that one of them was a wand, but wasn't sure.
"I have a lot of shopping to do," Harry muttered to himself. He helped Castor put everything into place, and while doing so he noticed that the trunk has a lot more space in it than it looked. Heck, Castor just dropped right on into the thing!
After they were done, Harry said, "Why don't you take one of the books and wait out in the living room while I cook dinner?" Castor nodded and grabbed Tail of the Three Brothers. Harry raised an eyebrow in wonder; he was sure he heard that title before.
Harry got up, placed Book of Spells down onto the desk in his room, thinking that he'll relearn the spells in it, and was about to follow after his adopted son, but froze in place when he heard, "Harry Potter?"
Voldemort was sitting on his throne that he transfigured from a normal chair. He took over one of the dark guild hideouts, and killed all the weaklings. He destroyed a lot of Dark Guilds to the point where it was in sorcerer weekly. He only went after the ones that were said to know a lot about Zeref and his demons – that was about ten of them. Every one of the guild had 50 people in it, and only a few from each lived to follow him.
The first one: only 2 lived – they were twins.
The second: 5 lived.
The third: 7 lived.
The fourth: 8 lived.
The fifth: 10 lived, that was a bit of a surprise to Voldemort, since a lot of members are weaklings.
The sixth: another 7 lived.
The seventh: 3 lived.
The eighth: 9 lived.
The ninth: 6 lived.
And the tenth: 20 lived! This nearly made Voldemort fall over in shock. They all had some type of power he could use, which is why some many of the last guild lived. But that is not why he is sitting on his throne lost in thought; it was because he felt someone say his name quite a while ago. He only just now had the time to think about it.
The only person that he could think of that would know his name was Harry Potter. When he introduced himself to the dark mages that he met, not one of them knew who he was, which angered him and made him crucio all of his new 77 followers! He also needs to make a new inner circle, but that could wait till later.
'Should I go after Potter now, or still wait…?' He looked at his new followers, who are now very much afraid of him, with thought. 'I'll wait. Potter is in a guild that is claimed to be the strongest one. I need more powerful members than this. That is way I want the demons in the first place. But I'll need more powerful followers so I can take over one of the three most powerful dark guilds. After that, I can fight and hopefully kill Potter, and find the demons and take over the rest of the world. Sounds like a solid plane. Now let's just hope these guys are more competent than my old followers.'
Zeref was laying on his back, watching the clouds when his familiar runs up to him. He gets up from him comfortable position and turns to face him. "What is it, Obra?"
"I find someone that I don't think you're going to like." Zeref raised an eyebrow in question. "His name is Voldemort, he reminds me of a snake," Zeref already knows who he's talking about, because he seen him, "and he's going around killing dark mages when they are of no use to him, because they couldn't tell him where to find your demons, so he can try to control them," Obra finished his report.
Zeref's eyes darken in sadness. A dark wizard that he thought was dead 400 years ago is still killing, because he's trying to find his demons. His work. The work that he regrets ever doing. He looks back up to the sky. 'I should have killed my creation a long time ago, but I just couldn't. They're like my children. What father could kill their child?' He sighed in defeat. 'But if I killed them, they wouldn't be able to cause so much damage.' Zeref started to have tears go down his cheeks. "Natsu, please grow strong. Strong enough to defeat anyone in your path. Strong enough to kill me. That way, when I die, all of my demons, both metaphorically and literally, will die with me."
TBC
Well, that ended sadly. :(
I wasn't planning on having a lot of – if any – OCs, and what do I go and do? Make an OC. It just popped in my head. I don't know why the plot bunnies wanted it, but they did. I didn't know how I felt about it at first. But then I saw a door open up in front of me. You'll find out next chapter.
{~CONTEST~
Can anyone tell me who it was at the end with Harry? Whoever can guess it right first, gets the power of choice of what do with Castor Malfoy. You'll get 3 choices. One: Castor is like Romeo, where he is just there in the beginning, but after the 7 year time skip is more in there; two: like Asuka, how is just there for no real reason; or three: like Team Natsu, where Castor will be a major character. But you'll only get this power if you can guess correctly who it was that said Harry's name at the end before cutting over to Voldy. You only have until March 5th.
~CONTEST~}
PS. If you forgot, Harry's job was mentioned in the same chapter that Erza showed up for the first time. Also, now Harry knows 2 (3?) explosion spells. The spell I made is a lot smaller than Bombarda, but Causa Satani is good for fights with mages, because this way Harry doesn't kill them. All of this info is in chapter 7. Oh, and look! I managed to get Voldy and Zeref in this chapter. It's so good to see how they are doing.
Body count: Zeref: 10) Voldemort: 493
Harry: Holy shoot, that's a lot of people dead! D=
Enj/Dark: Yeah, I know. -_-
Voldy: I still don't see how Zeref is more terrifying than me.
Natsu: Why are we doing body counts again?
Enj/Dark: I don't remember what I said, but I do know it has something to do with, "I would rather fight Voldemort then Zeref, because I would have a better chance at living."
Harry: But…it says that Zeref only killed 10.
Zeref: This is not counting for the past deaths.
Enj/Dark: If it were, Zeref would still be in the lead then. Harry?
Harry: Please review! :)
