Harry and Mare were walking together. They were walking down a corridor, and at the end of which corridor was a metal fence that overlooked a huge coliseum. Harry was wearing black pants and a vest without a jacket, a white shirt under the vest and a green tie. A small pin with the emblem of Ainz Ooal Gown was in the collar of his shirt.
"Health Potion?", asked Mare, who was with his typical clothing of a white skirt and a white vest with a blue dragon scaled bodysuit under the vest and the small green cape. In his hands wears white gloves. Normally you will see him carrying a wood staff.
"Check", said Harry, walking next to the Dark Elf.
"Magic Potion?"
"Check"
"Herbicide?"
"I don't know. Why should we be needed? You are coming with us, but yeah. I have it", said Harry.
"Well… you know… Momonga-sama sent us to do this mission", said the Dark elf and then he turned to Harry and with seriousness, he could muster, he said, "We should not fail".
To anyone, the face of Mare would look like a small child trying to be serious. But to Harry, the face gave him reassurance. He knew that he was the weakest out of the three participating in the mission.
"We won't. Just be more at ease, would you?" said Harry while smiling. Mare only nodded to him and continued walking.
In their walk to the fence, they started to hear two voices talking to each other. Then they realized that they were not talking to each other but discussing… fighting?
When the fence opened automatically when they approached it, they could see that in the centre of the coliseum were Aura and Shalltear in their typical fight. Harry only faced palmed, and Mare giggled nervously.
"I should be going there. I should be able to tame the three-headed dog", screamed Aura, which was heard by Harry, who was walking with Mare in their direction.
"Well, it seems that your services are not required. With me, Mare and the chibisuke are enough", said Shalltear. "Ara, ara. It seems that you overestimate yourself".
Aura was red for the anger, "you won't be able to bring the dog without a scratch. I bet that it will be coming with a head or two".
"Oh really? And what is what you want to lose so desperately?" said Shalltear in a mocking tone.
"Ok, stop, stop!" screamed Harry so he could be heard by both of them.
"You stay out of this!" both females screamed at the same time.
"So, you don't mind me going with Momonga-sama and telling him about this? I wonder how will be reacting about the bet", said Harry while walking back to the corridor from where he came.
"Wait!" both girls said. Harry only smiled when and turn back to them. Mare was giggling for the whole scenario. Harry may be the weakest of all of them, but he was the only one who could stop the fights between Aura and Shalltear, besides Demiurge, Albedo and Cocytus.
"Now. It is almost time. Aura-sama, please stay alert, the three-headed dog should be dealt with first, and it will be sent here. And I assure you that Mare and I are going to assist Shalltear, so the dog will keep all of its heads", said Harry while bowing to her.
Aura laughed, and Shalltear got angry at Harry's comment. But Harry did not take the importance of it.
"We are moving now!" screamed Shalltear. Mare took an invisibility cape. Mare's cape was made inside Nazarick, after making some investigations about Harry's cape.
Shalltear cast [Gate] and created a portal big enough for the three to pass through it.
When they crossed the portal, they were in the corridor where the Troll was taken care of. Harry took a black cape and started to run. Shalltear cast [Invisibility] and followed him. Mare also ran behind him.
Harry saw a couple of students in his path, but he could avoid them with no problem, and after a minute, they arrived at the third-floor corridor. Once they were sure that no one was close or following them, Shalltear and Mare removed their invisibility.
They opened the door wide, and behind it was the three-headed dog. Shalltear smirked and ran to the door and closed it. Harry and Mare looked at each other and got worried.
Harry and Mare started to push the door, but the door did not move. It looked locked from the inside, so Harry took some distance, pointed his wand at the door and said, "Alohamora".
When they entered, they saw Shalltear with a smirk, and the dog was with its heads down. She was petting one of the dog's heads.
"You already deal with it!" said Mare with a smile. Shalltear used [Gate] and created a big portal and said to the dog, "cross that portal!".
The dog looked at her with a worried expression. "It's ok. Nothing bad will happen, don't you trust me?" said the true vampire, and her eyes glowed a little when she said that. The dog started to walk slowly and passed to the other side.
"What did you do to it?" asked Harry. "She used [Charm Species] on it, right?" said Mare, and Shalltear only smirk at Mare.
"You know. You could have told us you were going to do that, so we wouldn't worry. Also, can you teach me that spell? It seems very useful", said the Slytherin.
"Not my problem", said Shalltear.
Harry only sighed. He walked and opened the trap door. Mare looked at the inside, took his staff with his two hands hit the ground with it. From inside the trap door, vines came up, took the three with care, and helped them go down.
The next room was with a bright light. Inside was only a door, and on one side were some brooms. Harry immediately looked at the ceiling, and some keys were flying. Harry looked at the door and attempted to use the unlocking charm again, but it did not work.
"Shou-should we break the door?" asked Mare, and Harry shrugged.
"It seems that the idea was to fly with the brooms and find the right key", said Harry, "But I guess that we can only break the door. Worst can happen is that there is an alarm for it."
"Grab the key from those?" asked Shalltear, pointing at the keys flying. "That seems too stupid. Why would someone who wants to protect something give the pass so easily?
"Well, the headmaster made all these 'tasks' easy to overcome for a certain student", said Harry while pointing at himself. Then continued, "could pass it. The plant was Devil's Snare, something I saw in my classes already. Using a broom, was something we learned at the second week".
Shalltear looked at him confused, "Again, why would they want that?"
"Because they want to recruit me", sighed Harry. "They still don't understand the power of Ainz Ooal Gown", completed Harry with an angered face.
Mare smiled awkwardly and put a hand on Harry's shoulder. He calmed himself and continued with the task.
Shalltear sighed and used [Fly] and saw the keys, and then she spotted the oldest of all. She grabbed it, but suddenly all the keys charged against her, and she cast [Force Explosion]. All the kyes turned to ashes, and she flew down.
Harry was with a deadpan expression, "What if one of the other keys were the correct one?"
"If that's the case, we need to only destroy the door", answered Shalltear nonchalantly.
Fortunately, the key was correct, and they entered the next room. In this new room, there were giant statues that looked like chess pieces, and the floor was with the pattern of the game.
They walked to the other end of the room, and the statues of the peons blocked the way. Shalltear, annoyed, was going to destroy them, but Harry stopped her.
"Mare, can you help here too?" asked Harry to the Dark Elf. Mare nodded and cast [Earthquake] with her staff. When Mare's staff hit the ground, a crack in the floor opened up and devoured the chess pieces. The spell was significantly helpful, as the magically-induced earthquake could not affect things outside the spell's range, so people inside the castle did not notice it.
After Mare cast the spell and made the ground move again to its normal state, the three continued walking and entered the next room. Inside that room was a mounting troll. Shalltear smirked and turned to look at Harry.
"Mare and I already helped in these little games. I guess it's your turn, chibisuke", said mockingly Shalltear. Harry sighed, somehow sad at the sight of the Troll. He remembered that the Troll he gave to Momonga-sama was a mountain Troll. It was detected to be even weaker than the Trolls already known in YGGDRASIL. Although Demiurge and Momonga-sama assured him that the information helped them, Harry still feels bad for the defective gift.
Mare knew about Harry's feelings but only limited himself to give him reassurance, "you can do it". Harry looked at the Troll with anger, while the creature started to growl. The bad smell was far too gross, and Mare and Shalltear stood out in the room because of it.
Harry looked at the Troll and felt a little bad for the monster. Unfortunately for the Troll, Nazarick does not need more of them. Harry thought about giving the Troll a quick death to at least give him some mercy.
Harry rose his hand to the front, and some blue circles with different runes in the edges appeared in front of him. Aiming for the neck of the Troll he cast [Crystal Dagger].
A blue dagger appeared in front of Harry and went through the neck of the Troll, beheading him.
The head of the mountain troll fell, and its body followed suit. The odour of the Troll was stronger, so Shalltear and Mare walked quickly to pass the creature. Harry before leaving the room looked back. His first failure was that other Troll. Hopefully, with the death of this one, he amended his mistake.
Passing to the next room, they were welcomed by a table with seven bottles over it.
Before shooting down the door, Shalltear cast [Detect Magic]. Suddenly, she was able to see glowing energy around the walls of the two doors.
"Ha! It seems that this room is the only can be considered a trap. But not a good one. What do you say Chibisuke? Should we fall on it?" asked the true vampire with a mocking smile.
Harry realized that in case he said no, the image in front of him would go down, and it would be worse in case she couldn't solve the trap. Harry wanted to complete the mission, but he also wanted to be in the good eyes of the rest of all the floor guardians. Specially Shalltear, because in the case that he can become a floor guardian, he would take one of the three floors she is taking care of.
The young Slytherin sighed, "They took their time for arranging this for us. It would be rude not to fall into their trap". Shalltear smiled and nodded to him, "well said. In that case, what we need to do is to step inside the room and close the door".
Shalltear was already inside the room. Mare and Harry entered and was Harry the one who closed the door, and as soon he did it, a purple flame appeared. Looking to the front, Harry was able to see that there was a black fire in front of the door for the next room.
Mare looked at the flames with fascination, and Harry walked to the table. Seven bottles were there, all of different shapes and different colours. And a roll of paper was in front of the bottles. Harry took a look at it and started to laugh.
He was pretty loud, and Shalltear and Mare looked at him, confused for the sudden burst of laughter.
"Is this their master plan to protect an Item?" said Harry while putting his hands around his stomach because it was starting to hurt from laughing.
Mare was curious about what says in the paper, and took it and read it. After reading entirely, Mare snorted uncharacteristically and started to laugh, but he did try to content his volume.
Shalltear knew that the paper was not enchanted, so their laugh was not part of the trap, so she decided to take a look, and then she read the roll of paper.
Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.
"This is just pathetic", said the true vampire.
After calming down, Harry stood up and asked, "Do you want to drink it Shalltear-sama?"
Shalltear has a penalty with fire attacks, as it dealt double to her because she is a vampire. Still, the amount of damage that the black fire may give her is too low. Harry knew about it, and he also knew that Mare could also just pass over the fire with close to no damage. For that reason, he asked if they wanted to use the potion.
Mare accepted the potion, but Shalltear declined. Harry took the bottle and drank the rest of the potion.
In the other room, the three of them only found a mirror in the centre. Shalltear cast again [Detect Magic]. And saw that the mirror has magic, but she detected no sign of any other magic around, not a hidden door, or anything.
"This should be where they hid the Item", said Harry. He and Shalltear started to look around the room, to find the item. "It would be easier if we knew what we should be searching for", thought Harry.
Shalltear looked at the centre of the room. She doubted that the item was the mirror.
Mare walked in front of the mirror and saw himself. Then his reflection put a hand in one of the pockets of his vest, and from it, a red stone showed up, and then it was put back inside the same pocket. The Dark elf put his hand inside the pocket, and the stone was there.
"I, I, I think I find it", announced Mare. Harry and Shalltear walked to him and saw the weird stone.
"From where did you get it?" asked Harry. "The, the mirror put it inside my pocket", said Mare.
Harry turned to see the mirror. On the other side, he did not see himself alone. He saw Momonga-sama sitting on his throne, and standing at his right was him. Behind him was Demiurge and Albedo clapping. Harry could only smile at the image.
Shalltear looked at him and said, "gross. What are you watching?". She pushed Harry out of the way and looked at the mirror. Suddenly her cheeks turned red, and muttered, "Oh, Momonga-sama".
Harry looked that the reaction in Shalltear and he saw it at the top of the mirror. He read aloud, "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi".
"What?" asked the dark elf. Harry pointed at the head of the mirror, "It's what the inscription of the mirror said".
Mare looked at it and then said, "Ishow no tyourfac ebu tyo urhe arts desire". The dark elf thought for a moment and said again, "Oh, I get it. It says 'I show not your face but your hearts desire".
Harry turned to see Shalltear been even redder, and asked Mare, "should we be worried?".
Mare made an apologetic smile. Harry took Mare's staff for a moment, and with it, he smashed the mirror. Shalltear came back to her senses after it.
"We should be going, Shalltear-sama", said Harry. The true vampire huffed and cast [Gate]. The three of them passed through it and went back to Nazarick.
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Harry, Mare and Shalltear were standing in front of a desk. Momonga-sama was sat behind that desk.
"How was your mission?" asked the Supreme one.
"We faced no problem. The chibisuke gathered the correct information", said Shalltear.
"Ah, ahem, yes. Harry information was accurate. It-It was pretty easy", said Mare.
Momonga nodded while Harry was with his head lowered, bowing to the leader of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. His face got red when the other two spoke well about him.
"What about the item?" asked the supreme one.
Mare took the stone from his pocket and put it at his desk. Momonga looked at it and cast [All Appraisal Magic Item].
Name: The sorcerer stone
Magic: Produces the Elixir of Life and transforms any metal into pure gold.
Creator: Nicolas Flamel.
For Momonga, the item was… disappointed, to say the least. He does not have used to it. He already has enough money, and many of his items made of metal are more valuable than gold. Still, he wanted to lie to them. He saw how the two of them were helping young Harry, and he knew that Harry was disappointed that his gift, the Troll, was a total letdown.
"A very well-done work. I received a beautiful gift for the new year from the three of you", said Momonga while nodding.
Harry smile could not be hidden. Mare's eyes glowed and Shalltear drew a smirk on her face.
The three bowed to the supreme one and left the room. Momonga took the stone and then touched the pen in front of him. The pen did not turn into a golden pen, but it turned into 10 gold coins.
Momonga exanimated the coins and recognized that the coins were the galleons. "So, it worked like the 'exchange box', huh?", thought to himself, "Maybe it does have a restriction to only exchange things made of metal".
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Harry arrived at King's Cross Station, only with LopusRegina. At the station, he was able to find Hermione, and later on, he met Crabbe and Goyle. The four of them entered the train, but they did not find Draco, Pansy, or Dean.
Without thinking too much of it, they started to talk about their small vacation. Crabbe and Goyle conversed about the party in the Malfoy house and said that they were bored to death there.
Hermione said she could read all the books she received for Christmas and talked a little about Harry's Christmas party.
Goyle commented on Hermione's new hairstyle.
"Why you didn't use it like that since the beginning?" asked Goyle.
"Because it's a nightmare to do it. My mom made me go to a beauty salon because of Harry's party", said the Gryffindor girl. She turned to Harry and said, "I am not blaming you, of course."
Harry only shrugged. Then Hermione continued, "I swear, that woman was going to make me bald. She pulled my hair for hours."
"Wait. Does it mean that in the party, was more controlled than the version you have now?" asked Crabbe.
Hermione rolled her eyes while making a punting face and crossing her arms. Harry only giggled a little, trying to hide his smile. Crabbe and Goyle looked at each other, shrugged and took some candies.
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When the four of them arrived at the castle, they met with Pansy and Draco. Upon arrival, everyone greeted each other, except for Hermione and Pansy, who only gaze at each other eyes.
Almost at the entrance were people talking to the director and some professors. Malfoy went close to Harry when he was looking at the people talking.
"They are Aurors. If they are here, it means that something happened when we were gone", whispered Draco to Harry. The Suzuki kid nodded, and then he looked that his head of the house was looking at him
