Chapter 2
Harry let Bernie Kosar out to do his business and then grabbed a shower. When he came out he found Bernie back inside and Henri sitting at the table with his laptop and four newspapers open.
"Good morning," Harry greeted.
"Good morning," Henri replied.
"I was hoping we could begin my lessons in Loric science and engineering today," Harry said.
"That sounds like a good idea. The Loric repository given to each Garde by the Elders has tutorials for all of this. Basically you sit and learn from hard-light holograms put together by some of the most brilliant scientists and engineers in Loric history."
"That sounds like a great way to learn," Harry said.
"It is. It won't be easy. Our people learned a lot," Henri explained. "It will be worth it," Harry said.
Henri drove Harry to school with Bernie Kosar tagging along. When Harry makes it to the locker he notices the handle is dirty and the locker smells like manure. He didn't even bother opening it. That's when Sam showed up looking dejected.
"You too?" Sam asked.
"Apparently," Harry said, figuring Sam had gotten the same treatment. "I'll report it to the secretary and see that it gets cleaned," Harry said. "Good morning Mr. Smith," Ms. Simms, the office secretary said.
"Good morning Ms. Simms," Harry replied. "I'm afraid my locker has been filled with manure. Sam Good's is the same. I managed to realize it before opening mine."
"Oh dear. I'll contact the janitor, so it can be cleaned and let Mr. Harris know so he can have it investigated. I'm afraid Mr. Harris is a little busy right now preparing for the Gazette interview of Mark James," Ms. Simms explained.
"Thank you, Ms. Simms," Harry said. "You're welcome," Ms. Simms replied.
Harry left the office thinking of some of the more inventive curses he could use to pay Mark James back. There was an explosive diarrhea curse that would be brilliant right now if Harry had his wand. English class went normally. Then astronomy came. Harry was there first. Sam sat on Harry's left. Sam had taken out a pamphlet titled "They Walk Among Us." Sarah sat next to him on his other side. She smiled at him.
Sarah Hart found herself in an unusual predicament. The past couple of nights ever since she had met Harry Smith she had been experiencing very erotic dreams. The night before she had dreamt they had pleasured one another with their mouths for hours on end. She had awoken to an orgasm and absolutely soaked. Now that she was sitting near him she found herself growing wet.
Mr. Harris came in a few minutes later and drew Mark out of class for the Gazette interview. Harry thought it would have been the perfect time to cast the diarrhea curse if he had been capable. Sarah smiled at Harry a couple of times throughout the class. She was stunningly beautiful, and her smiles only emphasized this fact. The erotic dreams he had been having about Sarah, Six, and Hermione only drew his attention to her beauty today.
The next period was gym. Harry had it with Sam. They were outside on the track jogging a mile.
"So, I saw you reading that Walk Among Us pamphlet. What was it saying about an entire Montana town being abducted?" Harry asked.
"The theory is the government is allowing it in exchange for technology," Sam explained.
"I could see the government doing that," Harry admitted and it was true. "Does it say why they think the humans are wanted?"
"So that they know our weaknesses for when they attack," Sam answered.
"That is entirely possible. But with the superior technology it would take them to get to Earth I would think that would be enough of an advantage," Harry pointed out.
"It may be. It's always good to know thy enemy," Sam said.
They finished the lab in decent time. Harry didn't want to push it.
In home economics Sarah was a little late to class.
"Did I miss anything interesting?" Sarah asked.
"Nothing much, just spending a little time with me," Harry said with a wink.
Sarah smiled and said, "I'm sorry about your locker. I know they are targeting you because of me."
"It isn't anything I can't handle," Harry said.
"You do look like you can handle yourself quite well," Sarah said appreciatively as she laid her hand on his bicep. "Very well," She added after feeling his arm.
Harry and Sarah made blueberry muffins. As they worked she filled him in on her history with Mark. During the two years they dated she drifted from her family while adopting some of Mark's attitudes towards other people. She drank and let her grades slip. Her parents responded by sending her to live with her aunt in Colorado for a summer. The summer spent taking pictures on long hikes made her fall in love with photography. After returning she dumped Mark and vowed to be good and kind to people. Mark was having a hard time getting over it.
"He still thinks I'm coming back to him. That isn't happening. The only thing I miss about him is his dogs. I hung out with those dogs whenever we were at his house," Sarah admitted.
"I'm sorry he is behaving this way. You deserve better than that Sarah," Harry said. "I definitely can say I like the new kinder Sarah," He added with a warm smile. "I just recently got a dog myself. His name is Bernie Kosar."
"I'd like to meet him sometime," Sarah said. "I'd like that too," Harry said.
"There is a Halloween festival coming up here and I was wondering if you'd like to hang out together," Sarah said.
"I would love to," Harry agreed. "What's your number?" Sarah gave it to him. Harry sent a text from his phone. "I just texted you so you have my number."
"Got it," Sarah said with a smile.
When Harry got home he took a picture of himself with Bernie Kosar and used it as a point to start texting back and forth with Sarah.
That day after school Harry started training with the Loric repository. The repository contained a limited AI, Artificial Intelligence, which first assessed Harry's current level of knowledge. It then proceeded to build from there. Harry found the science it taught him fascinating. He absorbed as much as he could in two hours before Henri had him switch to training his lumen. When Henri was using the Loric crystal to increase the protection of his lumen, Harry would experience more visions of Lorien. One of these visions included playing with an animal that had the body of a dog, the coat of a tiger, a round head, a barrel-chested body, and short legs. Harry also remembered seeing his father when he came to visit. In the vision the animal being played with was identified as Hadley. Hadley changed shape in the vision. Harry knew from lessons with Henri that Hadley was a Chimera, a shape-changing animal.
"Your grandfather had the legacy which allowed him to make himself or whatever he touched invisible. It is one of the rarest legacies gifted to less than one percent of our people," Henri explained. "I remember how your grandfather loved to use it for pranking. When I first came to work for your family a year and a half before the end of Lorien, I didn't know your grandfather had that legacy. He hid the house from me. I could see the family transport, the driveway, and other signs a house should be there. Yet there was no house. He was a funny man."
Henri talked more about Harry's grandfather as the vision changed to show the last fight of Harry's father. The vision also showed the small beasts targeting the defenseless children. The Mogs used that to their advantage, targeting small children forcing the adults to defend them. Trying to defend children was costing many lives. But the Garde had no choice. Henri went on to talk about Harry's grandmother as well.
"My wife Julianne had the greenest eyes I had ever seen," Henri said wistfully as the vision showed Harry their ship escaping the planet's gravity even while another ship took off shortly after. The second ship was propelled by fossil fuels while all the modern Loric spacecraft used a crystal propulsion technology. Henri had never mentioned this second ship. "Her heart was so big. She was always helping animals and bringing them home as pets." Henri continued to talk about his pet as Harry watched his father and quite a few other Guarde kill a truly massive horned beast with red eyes. "There were nineteen of us on that ship including the pilot that brought us here."
The vision ended after Harry saw the battle's aftermath. His father was on top of a mound of corpses without a mark on him.
"Where you aware of the second ship that took off after ours? It was burning fossil fuels," Harry said.
"I was not aware. We traveled in the only ship I thought had survived their offensive. The Mogs took out our space ports first," Henri explained. "But if it traveled on fossil fuel it might have been from a museum they missed. I'm honestly not very familiar with older style ships. The designs might be in your archive. I do not know if it would have been capable of interstellar
travel. It may be that the propulsion to achieve orbit was fossil fuel while it had a star drive advanced enough to get it to Earth."
"I will have to look for the specifications later in my archive," Harry said. "This could mean more Loric made it off."
"It very well could. I also suppose there could be more we don't know about," Henri mused. "Is it possible others would have gone to a different planet?" Harry asked.
"The other life-sustaining planets are much further. Very large ships with substantial supplies were needed for such long journeys. So, while it is possible I find it unlikely," Henri said.
Harry sat that night practicing turning the Lumen in his hands on and off. He focused on making the light wider and narrower alternating between the two. He had much better control over it by this point.
"You are making very good progress Harry," Henri said. "Your next legacy should develop within a month. All of your legacies may come within months or it could take up to a year. It is different from Garde to Garde. Your major legacy, that which is most powerful, will develop last."
"Thank you," Harry said. "Why were we at the air field that day we fled Lorien?"
"We were attending an air show and taking a tour of some ships," Henri lied.
"I can sometimes tell when someone is lying to me," Harry said. "Why are you lying?"
"We were told to tell you that story until you got older. The real reason needs you to reach a certain level," Henri said.
"I can understand that. But please at least right this information down in a journal and put it in the chest. As much as I hope you are always around we can't take the chance you may not," Harry said.
"I will do so. You have very good ideas," Henri said.
"I try," Harry said.
There was obviously a lot not being said. Harry figured there was a reason he and the other nine children had been chosen amongst all the children on Lorien. He wouldn't be surprised if it was another prophecy or something. If that was the case, Harry couldn't seem to escape the damn things. The Loric charm cast upon them itself was something that fascinated him. The nine of them could only be killed in the order of their numbers. If someone attacked them out of order then whatever harm was visited upon that Garde member would be redirected to that attacker. A Mog could shoot number six in the head right now and the shot would simply go through the
Mog's head. That wasn't the case with Harry any longer since Number 3 was no longer there to act as the focal point of the charm. Some parts of the Loric energy the Garde used behaved an awful lot like magic. Harry had queried the AI in his database about the charm protecting him. He had gotten basic details on it. He had even learned how to build a scanner to detect the charm. Harry had started on that hoping he could find some way to hold the charm together if he was reunited with the others. The charm broke down if he was in close proximity to any of the other Garde under the charm for a prolonged period of time.
He also thought about what the database had told him of the Elders. There had been a lot of myth about the Elders who didn't reveal a lot about themselves. It had been the Elder Loridas who had cast the charm on the nine of them. Harry suspected the charm was cast regularly if it was still there when the invasion had happened. But that didn't explain how it had stayed active when they were all crammed together on the ship on the way to Earth. Perhaps the charm only went into effect after they had separated after its initial casting. The lack of knowledge in the specifics of how the charm worked was glaring. It was said the Elders were old enough that they had been amongst the first who had lived on Lorien and made it what it was before the fall. It was said the Elders had all the legacies. It was said there were ten elders in the beginning. The closeness of ten to the nine Garde who came to Earth wasn't lost on Harry. He thought there was some significance to that.
It was almost two weeks from coming to Paradise that Harry and Henri went to the Halloween parade in town. The day was chilly. Children were dressed in costume. Even Bernie Kosar wore a super-man cape and had an S on his chest. The parade starts with several floats including football players like Mark James.
"So, that's him," Henri says, knowing the story about Mark. "That's him," Harry confirmed.
"He looks like a tool as the humans say," Henri said.
"That he is," Harry agreed.
The cheerleaders followed the floats. Sarah is following the cheerleaders taking pictures. In jeans and a button down shirt she looks gorgeous.
"I can see why you like her," Henri said as Sarah smiles at Harry and waves.
Sam came over at a bit and said, "Hi Harry."
"Hi Sam," Harry replied. "This is my father Henri Smith. Dad, this is Sam Goode." "Harry has told me quite a bit about you," Henri said as they shook hands.
"Really," Sam said speculatively.
"Oh yes. Did you know that aliens are the reason we have thunderstorms," Henri said. "They create them to mask their ships entering the atmosphere."
"You don't say," Sam said. "I heard the dinosaurs didn't really go extinct. Aliens were so fascinated by them that they took all the dinosaurs to their own planet."
"The Loch Ness monster was really an animal from the planet Trafalgra brought here to see if he could survive. He did. But the aliens took him back after he was discovered," Henri said.
"The pyramids were built by aliens," Sam suggested.
The pyramids weren't actually built by aliens. But they were built using Lorien knowledge and with the help of Loriens.
"I had not heard that," Henri mused.
"Did you know that the Mogadorians are on a quest for universal domination. They have already wiped out one planet and are planning on wiping out Earth's population next. They are currently searching for our weaknesses," Sam said.
Henri stares at Sam dumbfounded while Harry tried to school his features.
"Man Sam, some of these sound so convincing. Where did you hear that last one? It sounds legit," Harry said smoothly.
"That one was in They Walk Among Us," Sam said.
"Sam, I have been looking for you," Patricia Goode said.
"Hi Mom," Sam said. "Harry, Henri, this is my mother Patricia Goode."
"It's a pleasure to meet you both," Patricia said as she offered her hand which they each shook. "Likewise," Henri said.
Patricia perked up at hearing his accent and launched into a discussion in French with Henri. Henri had actually made an effort to learn the language after arriving on Earth and discovering he had a French accent. Sam and Patricia soon left.
"It sounds like a Mog trap to lure us to them," Harry said after Sam and his mother were well away.
"It very well could be," Henri agreed. "You played that very smoothly. Thank you for that. I think we still need to look into that publication Sam is getting his information from."
Harry nodded and said, "I will see about getting a copy." Harry caught a glimpse of Sarah down the street from behind.
"Bloody hell that girl looks good in a pair of jeans," Harry thought. Her butt was framed nicely by the snug jeans. "Teenage hormones."
Harry had thought he had finally been leaving his teenage hormones behind along with his teens. But then being thrown into this universe they had come back with a vengeance. He actually thought they were worse in this Loric body. He had been regularly getting sex in his old universe. Going from sex at least twice a week and often more to nothing was hard. If it wasn't for the nightly dreams he had been having and the increasing affection Sarah had been showing him during their talks at school while in home ec, he would be going out of his mind right now.
Harry, Henri, and Bernie Kosar walked to the park on the southern side of town. On the far side of the park from the town are situated two lakes side by side. There is a narrow strip of land between the two lakes which leads into a forest beyond. The park consists of three baseball fields, a playground, and a pavilion. The pavilion has volunteers inside serving cider and pumpkin pie slices. There are three hay wagons near the gravel drive. Harry reads the sign near the hay wagons.
Be Scared Out of Your Wits Haunted Halloween Hay Rides Starts @ Sundown
$5 Per Person
"That looks fun," Harry said.
"Especially if you take a certain someone," Henri said with a wink.
They made their way over to the pavilion where Sarah came up and greeted him.
"Hi Harry. Did you like the parade?" Sarah asked.
"I did," Harry said. "Sarah, this is Henri."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Henri said.
"You as well," Sarah replied as they shook hands. "Bernie Kosar is like cuteness overload," Sarah said as she noticed his costume and bent down to pet him.
"I'm going to go say hello to Sarah's mother," Henri said. "Excuse me."
"So what are the raffle tickets for?" Harry asked as he noticed she and the other cheerleaders were selling the tickets.
"To rebuild my Aunt's not-for-profit animal shelter. It was destroyed last month in a fire in Colorado. I convinced the other girls to help me sell them. We're going to travel there and help rebuild for a week," Sarah explained.
"In that case I'll take however many tickets this gets me," Harry said as he produced a $100 bill. "Thank you," Sarah said with a wide smile as she exchanged the bill for tickets.
"Would you like to go on the haunted hay ride with me tonight?" Harry asked.
"I would love to," Sarah agrees.
Just then Mark James shows up.
"How'd you like the parade, Harry?" Mark asked with a sneer.
Sarah turned around and glares at Mark. Harry simply stared at Mark with an icy stare that promised pain. Mark was waiting for a response. He didn't get one. Sarah glanced between Harry and Mark. Mark had begun to feel very uneasy having that stare directed at him.
"Just go Mark," Sarah says.
Mark turns and leaves.
"Let's go for a walk," Harry suggests.
"I'd like that," Sarah said as she took his arm and they began walking away from the pavilion. They end up near a swing set. Harry gestures for Sarah to sit. He gives her a push. "Mark wears me down emotionally. He feels the need to act tough and is cruel when he is around his friends."
"That would be very frustrating," Harry said. "It is," Sarah agreed.
Bernie Kosar trotted up and sat in front of the swing where Sarah was swinging. She leapt off and stuck the landing. She knelt to pet him.
"He's always good to make you feel better," Harry said. "Cats can be like that too."
Harry's thoughts flashed back to Crookshanks. The fuzz ball had grown on him over the years.
"That they can," Sarah agreed. "Talking to you helps too," She said while flashing him a smile. "I had better go sell some more raffle tickets. The raffle is soon. I'll meet you back here for the hay ride."
"Sounds good," Harry said.
Sarah reached out and took his hand, holding on for several seconds. She gave his hand a squeeze and left. Harry couldn't help but admire her bum as she left. He eventually returned to the pavilion and sat with Henri while they enjoyed some pie and cider. Before sundown Harry watched as twenty-five football players sat in the bleachers near one of the baseball fields. The cheerleaders put makeup on the players to complete their costumes of mummies, ghouls, vampires, and more. These were to be the people in the woods scaring those on the hayride.
"Well shit," Harry said as he saw this.
"I didn't realize they would be the ones in the woods either," Henri said. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"
"Probably not the best idea. But I'm committed now," Harry said.
Henri just nodded that he understood. Mark dressed as a zombie is approached by Sarah. She has heated words with him that are obviously an argument. Eventually she leaves. Mark with a scowl walks up to his buddies, a few of which glance at Harry with smirks. Then the entire group heads into the forest.
"Well that isn't ominous," Henri notes.
"Be ready to back up the story that I am very skilled at Martial Arts," Harry said.
Henri just nods. The two of them ate dinner at a local diner called the Hungry Bear before returning to the park. Sarah returned at dusk with one of her friends Emily.
"Hey you," Sarah greeted with a brief hug.
"Hello," Harry returned with a matching smile as he returned the quick hug.
"Henri," Sarah said. "This is my friend Emily."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Henri said. "Have fun in the unknown terror."
"Oh we will as long as this one doesn't get too scared on me," Sarah said with a wink at Harry and a teasing tone as she pointed towards him.
"You had better stay close just in case," Henri suggested.
"Sure. I'll keep him safe. We had better get on the trailer," Sarah said.
It was the third trailer of the night and was already filling up. Sarah grabbed Harry's hand and pulled him along towards the line. The girls started chatting and Harry kept up. He noticed Sam nearby trying to decide if he should approach them or not.
"Hey Sam," Harry called over. "Do you want to ride with us?"
"Sure," Sam said before standing next to Emily who causes him to blush by smiling at him.
A football player holding a walkie talkie comes towards them.
"Hello Tommy," Sarah greeted.
"Hey. There are four spots left on this wagon if you want them," Tommy offered.
"Sure," Sarah agreed, skipping part of the line with larger groups.
Tommy didn't even ask for tickets and was giving them a smirk.
"Wow, these guys aren't subtle at all," Harry said.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
Harry glanced at Sarah waiting for her to say something.
"I warned Mark against trying anything while we are in the woods," Sarah said.
"Let me guess, he didn't respond well," Sam said.
"You could say that," Sarah agreed.
Tommy also hadn't filled the trailer up. The trailer started in the woods where no light from the pavilion penetrates. Spooky noises played from the speakers. Sarah took hold of Harry's hand.
"I'm a little scared," Sarah whispers as she leans close to Harry.
Harry slipped his arm around her while taking her hand in his other hand. She snuggled into him. Ghostly figures hang from the trees while zombies lean against the trees in the forest. The tractor stops and turns off its lights followed by flashing strobe lights at random intervals. The purpose of the strobe lights was to blind everyone because it took a while for their eyes to adjust. A scream is heard through the night as figures dart about.
Emily has moved closer to Sam. Glancing towards Harry who nods, Sam gets the courage to put his arm around Emily's waist. She seems to appreciate the gesture. Figures dart around grazing their hands against the backs of the people from the trailer. Several people in the group scream. The tractor starts back up and moves forward for another three or four minutes. When it reached a circular clearing the tractor stops.
"Everybody off," The driver yelled.
There are eleven people in the group. Once they are off and the tractor has pulled away lights in the ground briefly turn on to show them the path.
"Why do I do this to myself every year," Emily said as she glanced around nervously.
"At least now you have Sam to keep you safe," Sarah teased her friend.
Emily glanced at Sam and flashed him a smile. Sam's arm was still around her waist. The others of the group have moved further ahead than Harry, Sarah, Sam, and Emily. Several screams are heard from the group ahead. It's very dark out. A large object falls on all of them. Harry quickly realizes it is a net. Sam and the girls scream. Harry freezes so he doesn't get tangled up further. He crouches down to make himself harder to identify from the others. It doesn't really help. He would learn later that his attackers had night vision goggles on. Harry is quickly freed from the net by his attackers.
He senses it just as someone comes running at him to tackle him. Harry side-stepped the rush and felt a body go flying past him. He closed his eyes and activated another trick of his. When training in his old universe he had trained for conditions where he couldn't see. This was something he could do without a wand. His magic flared out of him unseen by the muggles around him. He could suddenly see in his minds eye the location of everyone around him.
"Let go of me," Emily screamed as one of the guys manhandled her.
"Harry," Sarah called out.
There were nine guys in the attacking group. Three were over handling Sam, Sarah, and Emily. Six were standing around Harry. After the failed tackle Mark drew back a fist to punch Harry in the face. That punch was heading straight for Harry's face when he activated his night sight. Harry moved his head just enough that the punch skidded by. He then drove his knee forward into Mark's gut with just enough force to drop the quarterback. Harry could breaks these guys like twigs. He did not want to do that. The others started to attack him. He used the karate and self-defense he had learned in his previous universe to take the guys apart often using one of them as a shield against the others. Harry began breaking the night vision goggles in the process. Wherever they got the goggles it was likely they weren't supposed to have them. The more Harry got these assholes in trouble the better.
All it took was a pinch or squeeze of the goggles and they broke before his strength. The guys kept on getting back up. More of them joined in when it became apparent that their friends were going down. The number of guys attacking the group stopped at seventeen. It made sense that it wouldn't be the whole football team nearby. And maybe some of them were more reluctant to join in, especially after seeing Harry in action. Not all of them had night vision goggles. These guys Harry simply disabled. He rendered quite a few of them unconscious with his precision strikes. Yet quite a few kept getting back up and trying to reenter the fight. Harry made sure to
stay at the maximum of human speed. They could see him moving with the night vision goggles. But a real fight is often hard to follow it happens so fast. Harry had much greater strength than his previous human body. It was exhilarating to apply his skills using this body. He took particular pleasure in delivering a few light taps to Mark's groin whenever the asshole attacked. Personally, Harry didn't think Mark should be reproducing. Harry could see that Sarah, Sam, and Emily were struggling. There were two guys each trying to subdue Sarah and Sam.
Eventually the guys Harry was fighting stopped getting up. They were on the ground groaning or unconscious. Harry wasn't sure if he broke any bones. Harry took on the two guys holding Sam first. The ones holding Emily and Sarah weren't harming them. Sam immediately took the action Harry had been hoping. He attacked the guy holding Emily. Sam was not a strong guy. But in the dark he was determined and crazed. He managed to get a good shot in at the guy and drove him back. Sam didn't let up. The dazed football player that had been holding Emily fell back and was repeatedly hit by Sam.
Harry made short work of the remaining guys until they were all on the ground. "Harry," Sarah said in relief as she hugged him tightly.
Then Sarah drew back and planted a firm kiss on his lips. He momentarily kissed her back. When they drew back both were grinning.
"Come on," Harry said. "Let's get out of here."
As they walked Emily asked, "How the hell did you do that?"
"Yeah...do you know kung fu or something?" Sarah asked.
"I actually do know karate and other forms of martial arts," Harry said. "I know it very well." "I'll say," Sam said. "Every single one of those guys got the shit beat out of them."
"It's no less than they deserve," Sarah said. "I bet they were planning on doing the same to Harry. You were amazing. I can't believe they did that. I won't let them get away with it. I'll go to the police."
Harry thought a modicum of the truth was in order here. He stopped moving forward and pulled the three closer to him.
"Can the three of you keep a secret?" Harry asked. "It isn't anything illegal." "Sure," Sam said.
"Yes," Sarah agreed. Emily didn't say anything right away until Sarah said, "Em."
"I can keep a secret," Emily finally said. "For Sarah."
"There are some very bad people with a lot of power after my father and I. Telling you any details would put you and your families in incredible danger. I can't in good conscience do that. If you go to the police about this we will have to leave town and you'll never see us again. These people won't hesitate to kill and are above the law," Harry said.
The other three appeared stunned and didn't know how to react. "Are you messing around with us?" Sam finally asked.
"No. He's serious," Sarah said as she looked at what little she could see of Harry's face in the moonlight.
"I am," Harry said.
"We won't say anything," Emily assured.
"Agreed," Sarah said.
"Thank you so much. I really like Paradise," Harry said as he squeezed Sarah's hand.
"I don't think the football players will say anything either. They got their asses beat by one guy," Sam said as the group resumed walking again.
"Is Henri your real father?" Sarah asked insightfully.
"No. My real parents were murdered by the people after us when I was really little," Harry explained causing Emily and Sarah to gasp. "Henri was a friend of my parents who has looked after me."
"That's horrible," Sarah said.
"I've had to learn to live with it," Harry said. "We can't talk about this in front of anyone else," He added as they reached the end of the woods.
The group fell silent as they walked out of the woods. Harry took note that Sam and Emily were holding hands just as Sarah was holding his hand.
"I hate to be the buzz kill. But I'm going to be needing to get home soon. I can walk you home Emily," Sam offered.
"Sure," Emily agreed. "I would like that." Both Sam and Emily lived fairly close by.
"Night Em," Sarah said. "Night Sam."
"Goodnight," Sam replied.
"Night you two," Emily replied while glancing at Sarah and Harry.
"Well that was unexpected," Sarah said as she watched her friend walk off with Sam. "Yeah. I think I see some chemistry there," Harry said with a grin.
"I see some chemistry here," Sarah said before turning him to face her and crushing her lips to his. Harry returned the kiss. His hands settled on her hips. "Wow," Sarah whispered when the kiss had ended.
"Yeah," Harry agreed. "Definite chemistry." "Yeah," Sarah said dreamily.
Sarah had the brief urge to go further. Her mind flashed to the lusty dreams she had been having lately about this very guy. Her mind also flashed to the blonde and brunette girls that often watched her times with Harry. Sarah also sometimes found herself watching Harry with those same two girls in her dreams. Strangely the thought didn't bother her. It all had a certain unreal quality to it.
"We had better go find Henri. We'll take you home," Harry said. Sarah nodded and walked out of the woods with him hand in hand.
Two Weeks Later
Just after Halloween, the Loric crystal had finished spreading the Lumen throughout Harry's body so that now he was completely invulnerable to fire.
"Be ready," Henri says.
Harry focused and tried using his telekinesis that the Loric Garde all developed. Harry instead caught the tennis ball with a careful balance of banishing and summoning charms. The banishing charm was being channeled from Harry's right hand and the summoning from his left hand. Harry could only hold this level of focus for ten seconds before he was exhausted. He considered that progress. When he had first tried the task, he had only been able to manage the effort for one second before passing out. He had gradually been working it harder. Now he no longer passed out. It took him at least five minutes to fully recover from the exhaustive effort of maintaining the tennis ball at a level position for ten seconds. On the tenth second Harry felt something different. It was like he suddenly had access to a different pool of power from his
magical core. He was excited. This must be the Loric telekinesis kicking in. Suddenly he was no longer fighting to keep two opposing forces in check. Instead it was just fighting against gravity which was simple. After five seconds the ball dropped and access to the Loric energy cut off.
"Fifteen seconds," Henri declared with an excited grin. "That's a new personal best." "Yeah. That's exciting," Harry said as he took exhausted breaths but was grinning.
Harry was drenched in sweat. This reminded him of his training back in his old universe. Harry had realized soon after arriving here that he would likely need to retrain with his new powers.
He had gone through a lot of effort to train with a wand in his old universe. At first he had asked himself if he had just wasted all of that effort learning with a wand. The answer was that he hadn't. He had quickly realized that he still knew the spells. It was just a matter of learning them without a wand. What he had just done had shown that the Loric energy and his wizarding magic were two different power sources. He looked at his hands while opening and closing his fingers. If he had possessed this body in addition to his wizarding magic back in his old universe he wouldn't have needed to tackle Voldemort through the veil. Voldemort wouldn't have stood a chance. It might have still been a difficult fight. But the outcome would have been almost assured as long as Harry was smart about it. He could see the potential in his new body combined with his magic.
"Do you need a break?" Henri asked.
Henri was very excited about the progress so far. He had no idea that up until now his charge's telekinesis had been a power from another universe and not Loric legacies at all.
"No. Let's keep going. I just need to stop in time to shower before Sarah gets here at six," Harry said.
"Alright," Henri said.
Henri was very impressed with Harry. At first he had thought Sarah would simply be a distraction. Instead, Harry had shown a newfound maturity and focused on the task at hand. He worked his butt off until Sarah showed up. That was his time for well earned relaxation. Despite the progress made, Henri still couldn't help but feel something was coming with the Mogadorians. It made him worry. He did his best to keep it from Harry.
Six O'Clock
Sarah arrived right on time.
"Hey you," Sarah greeted with a smile as she stepped onto the porch.
"Hi," Harry returned before pulling her into a hug and a kiss, his hands automatically going to her hips.
The two enjoyed the kiss for some time. Then they went inside and started cooking dinner to prepare for their home economics midterm the following week. Henri took Bernie Kosar for a walk. Harry was very free with the kisses and touches as they worked. After dinner, he and Sarah watched a movie on his laptop in his room. After the movie they made out in his bed, his hands exploring.
Sarah bit her lip and gasped as his mouth found her neck and his hands explored her hips and ass. "That feels so good," Sarah said with a moan.
"Your butt does feel good," Harry agreed.
Sarah was very tempted to push things. She really liked Harry. Her nightly dreams of him had gotten her so worked up. Just the scent of him drove her wild. Then his gaze met hers. It took her breathe away and made her wetter than she had ever been before. Lust smoldered in his eyes. She could feel just how much he desired her. The furthest she had gone had been with Mark. But even that had only been mutual oral.
"Is it too soon?" Sarah asked herself.
As if reading her mind Harry said, "Hey...we don't have to do anything you aren't ready for."
Sarah could tell that had cost him something. She could feel his hardness pressing against her thigh. He wanted her badly. The feeling was mutual.
"We aren't ready for everything. But let me take care of this for you," Sarah whispered huskily as she cupped his hardness through his pants.
Warning A Little Smuttiness Will Follow
Sarah gasped as she suddenly found herself rolled onto her back. Before she knew it his mouth was down upon her exposed midsection. With deft fingers he undid her button, unzipped her jeans, and was pulling them down her hips along with her panties. Apparently her boyfriend had far more experience than she thought.
"Ladies first," Harry said as he slid her pants completely off her legs leaving her socks on.
Sarah had an absolutely beautiful pussy. It was shaved completely bald and leaking plenty of her juices. Everything about her was gorgeous. He dove upon her snatch and began feasting upon her tender flesh. The taste of her drove him wild with need. He would have liked nothing better than to sink his prick in her soft folds. Yet as he licked and fingered her to two back-to-back orgasms he could tell she was still a virgin down there. He could be patient. Especially when
she proved she was not inexperienced using her mouth. She slowly sucked him to an orgasm of his own and greedily drank down the seed he pumped into her mouth.
End Smuttiness
Harry laid with a half-naked Sarah cuddled up against him a few minutes later.
"That was wonderful," Sarah said with a pleased smile on her relaxed features. "The things you can do with your tongue and fingers...oh my."
"Your lips and tongue felt pretty awesome on me as well," Harry returned. "I may doze off." "Go ahead," Sarah said.
Sarah felt as his breathing evened out. She turned her gaze up at her mysterious boyfriend. She was having trouble believing what they had just done. It was so soon into their relationship. Yet it had felt amazing. She had never climaxed as hard in her life as that second orgasm. They didn't as much as she had known about Mark before she took that step with him. But she felt like she knew enough, like he was a good person. She enjoyed just watching him sleep. She began to explore his naked form with her gaze and light touches.
Sarah smirked when this elicited a reaction out of his tool. She leaned towards his groin to begin to wake him up in the best way possible when she felt like she was being watched. She turned around and found the blonde and brunette watching her. She rose without disturbing Harry. She padded over to them with their eyes tracking her. She ran her hand through them. Her hand passed right through them without any resistance. She went back over to the bed with their gazes following her the whole time.
"Am I going crazy?" Sarah asked herself. "I'm not going to let this ruin my fun."
Sarah returned to what she had been about to start. Soon Harry awoke and they had a repeat
performance.
Six woke up from an incredibly erotic dream. She had watched the blonde with Four sucking Four's dick and then having Four return the favor. At first it had been just watching. The blonde had seemed to see Six and another brunette girl that had been present. But then as the sex acts began it felt to Six like she had been the one going down on Four. She had felt as the blonde had swallowed his creamy load. And then when Four had returned the favor, it felt as if it was her pussy being licked two several orgasms. Six checked her nethers and found herself soaked.
"Shit that boy knows how to use his mouth," Six thought. "I can't wait until I find him and try him out in person."
Her own session with him had been even more intense. He had held her for a while afterwards. The intimacy of the moment with a man she didn't really know anything about had been something else. It had felt good to lay there in his arms, her naked backside pressed against his front. He felt so powerful with lean defined muscle. Six did not consider herself a girly girl. Nobody would ever call her weak. But in this universe of cold hard reality it had felt damn good to be held like that. Six shivered when remembering that sensation. She wouldn't mind experiencing that in real life.
Hermione Granger woke up from another intense dream. This time she had watched Harry with an unknown blonde girl while another equally attractive blonde stood beside her. Harry looked different. But she could still tell it was him. Despite his sexual activities with this unknown girl she wasn't angry or sad. She had experienced everything as if she had been the blonde with him including the orgasms. After that it had been Harry with the other blonde while the other two women watched. Then it had been Hermione's turn. The things he had done to her with his mouth were positively sinful. Harry had always been a very carnal man. Yet now something had seemed to kick his libido into overdrive. He had cuddled with her in his dreams afterwards. The other two ladies had faded out at that point. He had held her in his arms and she could feel the love flowing off of him. She had felt so safe in his arms.
"It felt so real," Hermione thought to herself. "How am I supposed to grieve his loss if it's like I never really lost him?" She asked herself.
Hermione Granger, most brilliant witch of her generation, didn't have an answer.
Harry borrowed Henri's truck that night and drove Sarah home. It had been simple enough for Henri to include a driver's license amongst all the forged documents. He walked her to her front door. He initiated a kiss.
"I had a great time tonight," Sarah said.
"So did I," Harry agreed. "I'll see you at school tomorrow." Sarah nodded. "Sweet dreams," He added as he released her hands.
"Sleep well," Sarah replied as she turned and went inside with a last lingering look at him.
Harry decided he needed to practice the portkey charm windlessly. It had suddenly become very important to have some strategically placed portkeys. When he arrived back at the house Henri had the chest out.
"There is something I have wanted to show you for years," Henri said. "Show away," Harry said as he helped Henri open the chest.
Henri retrieved a velvet bag from which he removes seven glass orbs. He blows on them causing tiny flickers of light to form inside of them. He tosses them in the air to float before them. The largest orb is a replica of Lorien's star. The rest are replicas of planets orbiting this star. The fourth planet in the orbit is Lorien.
"The ball is taking on an exact replica of Lorien at this very moment. At its very core an old magic exists which is where your Legacies come from," Henri explained. "It is what powers the objects in the chest." The surface of the planet stirred with no signs of life. Then it became slightly transparent so that they could see a faint light that ebbed and flowed like a heartbeat. "The planet still lives. It is withdrawn deep into itself hibernating. I am hopeful it will wake one day." Henri went over and blew on Lorien. "Shine your Lumen on Lorien."
Harry did so and said, "Is this how it looked before the attack?"
"Yes. The day before," Henri confirmed. "It is so green and lush. I sometimes forget." He pointed to a particular spot and said, "This is where we took off from. And this spot nearby is where the Loric Museum of Exploration used to be. I've thought about it a little more. The ships in there were thousands of years old. Some of them ran on a fuel found only on Lorien. I'm amazed one of them even still worked. I would find it even hard to believe they would get very far. But anything is possible I suppose."