Chapter 72: Business Deals
Christmas time was here! Hurray! It was bitterly cold and there was a bit too much snow for my liking, but the gifts and the holiday cheer made up for that.
‘I’ve got lots of ideas for my friends,’ I thought to myself. ‘This time, I can finally give Sam the best present ever! And the ones I’ve got planned for Harry and Delilah won’t loose out, either!’
“Ed, you’re cackling evilly to yourself again,” Delilah drawled, pinch...
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Chapter 39: Holiday Melancholy
(Sunday, December 19th, 2123)
“Phew, what a week,” Playa groaned as he sunk into a bar stool, all but slumping over as he let out a sigh of relief to be off of his feet.
“Evening, Mr. Playa,” an older man in his fifties with salt and pepper hair and an eyepatch said in greeting while idly washing some mugs. “It’s good to see you again. What can I get you?”
“Whiskey sour,” Playa requested, putting some money down o...
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Chapter 34: Interlude 4
“How stunning,” Freya murmured softly to herself, staring into a mirror. In the surface, the image of Bell fighting and laying out Hyakinthos was repeating itself over and over, the moment captured forever with a magic tool.
The War Game hadn’t even lasted an hour, and it resulted in an upset victory for the Hestia Familia. It was incredible. INCREDIBLE! Bell had contributed quite a lot to achieve it, and his greatness had been revealed to the whole c...
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Chapter 71: Parents and Teachers
“…and lastly, I’d like to thank Edward Rose for providing the refreshments,” Mrs. Granger said, giving me a nod. I nodded back as I popped a bit of cheese and cracker into my mouth. The others in the living room gave their thanks as well in the form of nods and scattered applause.
The Parents of Hogwarts was an organization that the Grangers had decided to create to get together with parents (and guardians) of Muggleborn and Half-blood witc...
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Chapter 38: Interlude 5
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Chapter 33: Let the Games Begin!
“This is a nice castle,” Taylor said, admiring the masonry. “If the Apollo Familia’s fort is anything like this one, I almost feel sorry for what I’m about to do to it.”
She, and the rest of the Hestia Familia, were waiting in the courtyard of the refurbished fortress for the game of capture the flag to begin. They had been escorted to the castle that lay to the southeast of Orario by Guild employees earlier in the morning, and were jus...
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Chapter 70: Deviation
The weeks since Harry had left for Hogwarts had passed by without much fanfare or any incidents. Aside from purchasing the apartment complex, reshuffling my businesses, and hiring a bunch of new people, very little had actually happened.
I was enjoying the peace and quiet, which was of course how I knew everything was about to start falling apart. But until things actually started to go wrong, I had things to do, and that was why I was standing in my new pent...
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Chapter 37: Ride or Die 2: Samedi Boogaloo
(Tuesday, December 14th, 2123)
“Well done, everyone!” Playa said, congratulating everyone in the gang. “We took down the General’s right-hand man, and now, the bastard is vulnerable!”
Cheers rang out as the Saints celebrated. They’d kicked the asses of the Sons, and emerged mostly unscathed. Sure, Johnny was nursing a black eye courtesy of Spincycle, Mink had a broken wrist, and a dozen out minor injuries were scattered ...
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Chapter 32: Calm before the Storm
“That’s… the last… one,” Silva panted as she dropped a barrel onto the ground next to Taylor.
“Good work,” the parahuman praised. “Add it to the others.”
The cat-girl sighed a little but complied, rolling the barrel over to the others that were being piled up around Debbie. It joined boxes, crates, and burlap sacks, all filled just like it.
Tomorrow was the day of the War Game against the Apollo Familia, and the adven...
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Chapter 69: Hiring A Witch
“I like it,” I said as I looked around.
Something I had been searching for ever since returning from the U.S. had been a new place to live. I genuinely loved my apartment. It was small but cozy, and I had a lot of pleasant memories there.
But I needed someplace bigger. Safer. More fitting for a man who owned several successful and growing businesses. My old home was good enough for a student, but not anymore.
Scouring the market had led m...
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Chapter 36: The Power of Belief
(Monday, December 13th, 2123)
“Where the hell is he?” Playa couldn’t help but grumble, glaring at a map of Stilwater. Mr. Sunshine, the second-in-command of the Sons of Samedi, had gone to ground, hiding from the kill teams the Saints had been searching the city with.
The Saints weren’t the only ones trying to find the man. The heroes were hunting him down too. Stampede’s death had galvanized them into try to locate his murderer, but...
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Chapter 31: T-Minus 7 Days
“Welcome back, guys!” Welf said, greeting everyone in the Hestia Familia with a wide grin.
“Welf, it’s been a while,” Taylor said, offering him a hand to shake. He did so, before ruffling Bell’s hair, much to the shorter Level 2’s pouty displeasure.
The Hestia Familia had returned to Orario the day after their beach party, and all of them had immediately made a beeline to Welf’s forge, ready to carry out the final step of their trai...
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Chapter 68: The Fallen Crown
Remus POV
“Twirl! Twirl, I say, damn you!” a man with a rather falsetto voice called out. A grunt was his only response, followed by a loud fart.
Remus did his best to ignore the noises being made by a madman and his ballet troupe of trolls as he followed the instructions Edward Rose had given him before boarding the train to Hogwarts, and quietly thought about how his life had led him to this moment.
The werewolf who’d been hired as ...
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Chapter 35: Green Storm
(Thursday, November 25th, 2123)
“Sooo… apparently your Quirk lets you replicate Loa Dust, huh?” Shaundi said slowly. She, along with Playa and the rest of the Inner Circle, were gathered in a breakroom within the Mission. It was the day after the coordinate attack from the Sons of Samedi, and Playa had finally sobered up enough to have a proper meeting.
“Yeah, who knew I could produce smoke that gets people high,” Playa muttered as he transm...
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Chapter 30: Beach Episode
“It’s only been a week, yet it feels like forever,” Hestia said with a faint sigh as she looked up at the gates to Orario. Taylor nodded at her side, taking a moment to admire the sight.
Since she’d entered the city in an unconventional way, this was her first time actually getting a look at the entrance to the place. Sure, the parahuman had seen it while leaving, but this was different.
Mounted on Chris’s back, Hestia and Taylor had retun...
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Chapter 67: Unfortunate Events
“And there we go,” I muttered to myself as I finished drawing the alchemical sigils onto the floor. Made from Delilah’s blood mixed with potent magical reagents, the ritual transmutation circle was finally ready to turn my girlfriend from a Squib into a proper witch.
“Is it ready yet?” Delilah asked me, and I glanced over at her.
“You know, you don’t have to be naked right now,” I told her, even as I admired the view. She was co...
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Chapter 34: Ride or Die
(Wednesday, November 24th, 2123)
“Cheers to another successful mission, everyone!” Playa said, hoisting a beer bottle into the air.
“CHEERS!” his Saints cried back, lifting their own bottles in a faux-salute.
The operation yesterday had gone off without a hitch. As far as the public knew, the villains had suffered a resounding defeat. Two gangs had their income crippled, and the heroes milked the attention for all it was worth.
The...
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Chapter 29: Training Montage
“This is Melen, huh?” Taylor muttered, gazing out at the port town that was known as the Gateway to Orario.
She wasn’t sure what she’d expected. Perhaps a part of her had thought she’d see Brockton Bay, Fantasy-edition. But was she got was a peaceful, resort-like fishing town with a remarkably Mediterranean feel to it.
Getting to Melen had been easy. A cart to carry their things and some monsters to ride, and they reached the town in ju...
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Chapter 66: To Make a Mage
“Okay… and how about now, Sam?” Delilah asked as she held up a piece of wood with a carving of a Mooncalf on it.
“Maybe some sort of squiggly lines?” Sam muttered, squinting at it.
“I see. What about… this one?” Delilah inquired as she put down the wooden carving and replaced it with a thin bronze tablet that had several charms attached to it via runes.”
“I can’t see anything or tell what you’re holding,” he admitted...
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Chapter 33: Interlude 4
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Omake: Underside of Orario – Aisha/Imp
Omake: Underside of Orario – Aisha/Imp
“Has anyone seen Aisha?” Asfi asked as she entered the living room of the Traveler’s Inn, and the Familia members near her looked at the blue-haired woman in confusion.
“Seen who, captain?” Lulune asked, looking over her shoulder at the highest Leveled member of the Familia.
“Never mind,” Asfi sighed. “What about Lord Hermes?”
“Uh, I think he’s out,” Keaks s...
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Chapter 28: Challenge Accepted
Hestia drummed her fingers against the marble table. There was a lot of marble in the conference room. It made the place look nice, Hestia supposed, but it was rather dull seeing nothing else.
At the table with her was Ganesha. He was silent and still, arms folded across his chest. He was not happy if the scowl he wore was any indicator. Across from Ganesha was the head of the Guild, Royman Mardeel. The elderly elf was busy looking through documents,...
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Chapter 65: Birthdays and War Gear
“Nice place,” I whistled, looking around at the mansion the Portkey had dropped Harry, Remus, Sirius and I off at.
Longbottom Manor – known as Grand Hill because it was built on top of and inside of several large hills – was an impressive sight. It was hard to tell where the front lawn began or ended because of how large it was. Not to mention that the mansion reminded me of the hobbit homes in the Lord of the Rings with grass and plants ...
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Chapter 32: Say No to Drugs!
(Thursday, November 18th, 2123)
“The Sons are not letting up at all,” Playa said, frustration bleeding out into his voice.
Nearly a week after Shaundi had been kidnapped, and the situation in Stilwater hadn’t settled down. If anything, the death of Veteran Child at the club had caused an explosion of violence to tear through the city.
The Sons of Samedi were brutal and utterly vicious in their reprisals, targeting the Saints’ street...
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Chapter 27: Bug Hunt
“I now understand why you were able to get to Level 2 so quickly,” Shakti said to Taylor, a note of awe and respect in her tone.
The two of them were watching as several members of the Ganesha Familia, mostly Level 1s but with a couple Level 2s with the Tamer Development Ability.
It’d been three days since the confrontation with Apollo at his banquet, and two since Lili had been freed from Soma’s clutches. The Hestia Familia, led by Vice-C...
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Chapter 64: Tales of the Future
Despite the fun I’d had overseas being in the U.S., my time there had come to an end, and I’d left with both a better understanding of what the Flamels had willed to me, and what my plans for expanding in the Americas would look like going forward in the next few years.
But I was back in England again, and had spent the last forty-eight hours after getting off the plane ensuring everything I’d missed while on vacation was in order.
<...
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Chapter 31: Party Crashers
(Saturday, November 13th, 2123)
A cold wind tore through the streets of Stilwater, and people hid away from the chilly weather. The roads were empty, and the stores were closed early for the day.
There was a tension in the air, and everybody knew why. Several hours ago, Veteran Child had informed the world via the internet that Shaundi, one of the Third Street Saints, was going to be executed, and her torture was going to be streamed live.
No...
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Chapter 26: Drink to Forget
When Taylor and Hestia returned early from the party that evening, they didn’t expect for there to be anybody waiting for them at the rundown church. And they certainly weren’t expecting a crying pallum to throw herself at the goddess the moment they appeared, or for a furious Bell to be sitting in the living room with the rest of the Familia and Welf also wearing angry expressions.
“What happened?” Taylor inquired, though she had an inkl...
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Chapter 63: Medallions and Alliances
Harry POV:
Harry tugged nervously at his collar, the robe feeling tight around his throat. The dress robes he was wearing felt heavy, and if not for the spells woven into the silk, it would be rather hot from all the bright lights shining down on his head.
The dress robes Sirius had insisted he wear for the medal bestowing ceremony were made of silk from some sort of magical silkworm called a Spice Flutterling that was found in Ind...
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Chapter 30: Shaundi got stolen!
(Friday, November 12th, 2123)
It was late in the evening, and the weekend loomed. The Sons of Samedi had tried to get revenge by attacking Saint affiliated dealers, but with Laura now as the head of the Third Street Saints’ drug operations, all of the Sons’ assailants were either stopped in the act, or tracked down and made an example of.
It had not yet escalated further, and the cops and heroes were keeping a close eye on everything after...
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