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"Island of Monsters" Normal Speaking

"Island of Monsters" Thought Speaking

"Island of Monsters" Demonic/Emotional Speaking

{Island of Monsters} Monster Island Language Speaking

"'Island of Monsters'" Parseltongue Speaking

Starting Chapter

Harry and Koi had left the cave, unabated by the traps that could possibly lay within. It was quiet, though mostly because of the pain in the Arachne's arm. Harry was in contemplation, as he tried to figure out how both species could come to an agreement.

Harry wasn't stupid, he knew how serious the crime of taking a Lamia's mate is, and even more so when the mate dies. A crime like that, could last an eternity of conflict, and the fighting might double or even triple in its brutality if they learned of the true history of this war.

Harry was however, a believer in peace, and at times a true optimist. He wanted to see the best in people and he believed in his heart that the two races could find common ground.

"Koi, do you think I can do it?" Harry asked, gripping his staff tightly.

The Arachne stayed quiet for what seemed like an eternity, staring off into space. "I, I believe you can do it, you seem like you may be the only one who could do it."

Harry smiled at the spider-girl, before picking up speed slightly and moving through the forest. Soon, a small race began between the two.

Koi had the obvious advantage, her maneuverability making it hard to catch a lead, though Harry's small size gave him the better chance to get through the tighter spots.

As the two got closer to the Arachne nest, metal clashing began to fill their ears. The two looked to one another, before sprinting up to the nest's clearing.

What they saw would leave nightmares with Harry for years.

Lamia and Arachne were once again in open combat, battling each other viciously. Bodies upon bodies of snake-women and spider-women lay on the ground. There was almost no end to the lines of hardened warriors tearing at each other with fang and blade.

Both Koi and Harry were shocked, neither having been in such a thing as the full blown battle in front of them.

"NOoooo! Stop it!" Harry yelled, "please… stop…"

Drowned out by the war cries and screams of metal on metal, Harry was unanswered by the two sides, far too lost in a primeval battlelust.

Both could only watch helpless as the two sides continued to hack and slash at one another, pools of blood dropping like rain.

Harry felt like his mind was breaking, seeing the people he had called friends dying in front of him.

Harry closed his eyes, a wave of nausea swept over him. Opening them once again, he saw a sight that made his blood run cold.

Seras, his first friend ever, was cornered by a full adult Arachne. The size difference showed itself, his friend's small almost childlike form shaking slightly, her weapons thrown to the sides.

"NOOOOOoooooooo!" Harry yelled, a wave of bright green magic coming from his chest. His eyes glowed slightly, power welling up before releasing. As Harry lost consciousness, he saw the battle stop, eerily silent.

Hours later, Harry sprung up from his bed, his chest heaving in fear. Looking around suddenly, Harry saw that there were white walls. A tent.

"Well, my idiot apprentice, it seems that you have awoken." An old voice came from behind the young hero.

Turning swiftly, a question already on his lips, Harry felt a lump form from the top of his head, the fist of The Sage resting on it.

"Why did you have to do such a stupid thing? Stupid boy…" The Sage said, before a small self-deprecating smile came onto his face.

"Huh… you should not have had to do that. I should have brought that feud to an end when I first brought those foolish children to this island. This is my own fault." The oldest living being muttered, his hands swept across his face.

Harry was silent, mostly because he had to agree with his own master, he should have put an end to this conflict. It only brought misery to those in it. Finally, Harry opened his mouth.

"How many survived? Are my friends okay?"

This time, the smile widened before he got up and left, the flap slipping behind him. Only two seconds later, Seras and her mother opened the door, slithering up to the young human boy.

His friend threw her arms around him, blubbering as she held him. Eventually the coils of her tail started to turn her crush blue, crushing him quite literally.

At this point, her mother stopped the young Lamia from killing him inadvertently, and the two split, the female snake girl blushing brightly.

"So warm…" She mumbled under her breathe.

After a small amount of talk about the consequences of the Battle of In-Between, Harry asked a question that had been burning him since his friends came in.

"So, Master found out how to bring peace to you guys?" Harry asked, before snapping his jaws at the apprehensive looks on his mother figures face.

"It is not that simple. You see, the peace negotiations are still happening, and the spiders' demands are rather…" Selene said, trailing off as the boy's face hardened.

Swinging his legs up from the simple cot, Harry got to his feet, albeit unsteadily. He moved towards his things, pulling his pants and shirt on, before hooking his staff holster across his back. Grabbing his staff, Harry started towards the door, only looking back once to nod towards the two Lamia.

Outside the tension was palpable, the two species almost remaining on separate sides of the camp, looking as if the island itself was not enough space to keep them safe from one another.

At the end of the small road that split the two camps, there was a massive wooden house. Seriously, a completely wooden house, two stories high and rather fancy looking.

Walking inside, Harry heard some cries of anger, and aggravated yells. Coming into what could be a kitchen, Harry saw that there were five people currently trying to either rip one another's throats out, or stop someone from doing so.

The Sage was in the middle, trying to keep the respective queens of their species and high-warrior-generals from killing each other. Looking to Harry, a pleading appearance came onto the old man's face. Not for help, but to leave, to not bother them. It was succinctly ignored.

"Please!" Harry yelled, getting their attention, "I wish to help you all find peace! I would do anything in order to help you two species coexist!"

A single sigh broke the silence caused by the boy's promise, and a chuckle followed it.

The queen of the Arachne held his gaze for a singular minute, before smiling evilly. She chuckled, and called out to the purple tailed queen of snakes.

"Well, you heard the boy, he would be willing to do anything." She said, seemingly winning a battle that the young mage missed.

The blond sage got up, stretching his back and causing three caustic cracks to make the group flinch. He moved with a swiftness unheard of by humans today, grabbing his apprentice by the soldiers.

"Stupid boy! Why did you have to so much like I once was?" The Sage said, remembering his old promises, specifically one to a blond seer. So long ago.

Leading the boy upstairs, they came upon a rather large bedroom, only missing a mattress to be complete. The older man sat on the wooden table, grown right from the house. Harry didn't miss a beat, sitting across from him on the wooden bench. Strangely enough, it felt as soft and comfortable as a couch.

"Do you know what you just did, Harry?" The Sage whispered, just allowing the young boy to catch his words. Not waiting for any answer, the old blond began a tirade/lesson on how you never make promises to Arachne, as even the kindest are genetically predisposed to using it to its fullest benefit. To learn he might become a slave to the Arachne was frightening, but even through that, Harry felt that he must do what needs be done.

The Sage was silent for a few moments, picking his next words carefully.

"You will be training under Adam for the next year and a half or so…" The Sage said, putting a hand up to stop the outraged yells of his own apprentice.

"It is not anything you have done, kid, but what I must do," The Sage started, "You see kid, every hundred years or so, I leave this island in search of the persecuted and needing. Those creatures that need a home or they will die out, or those who cannot survive where they are right now."

Absorbing this, Harry nodded, once more allowing the man to speak as he soaked in this tradition started before his ancestors came out their caves.

"I'm not that old kid!" The Sage said, grinning as he placed a softer punch on the top of his head than he did before.

"Now, my foolish apprentice, you will be learning from Adam for about the first half of the year, hopefully gaining a better understanding of magic in that case. Most likely, it will be a lot of reading. After that, I have spoken to the Yuki-Onna of the Whisper Mountain. They have agreed to teach you their ice magics to bolster your abilities. Hopefully you and Frankenstein can find a good core for you stick, otherwise, it will be just that when you leave for the ice-women, a stick." The Sage carried on.

"If you complete that before I get back, I would like you to spend some more time in the forests, perhaps find one of the Elven cites that hide amongst the leaves. Their archery and healing magics would be quite the boon to you, and they are much kinder than most things on this island."

Harry nodded, a small smile and trembling hand the only signs of excitement he let through.

"Now, let's see how much damage you caused downstairs."

In the pseudo-kitchen, the four representatives were in a quiet silence, occasionally glaring at one another, though the queen of Arachne seemed to smirk victoriously each time she caught a Lamia's eye.

"So, what has been decided?" The Sage asked, breaking the silence while he rummaged through the shelves, obviously void of anything except cup ramen.

"We have decided that in order to make peace between our two races, that one of our daughters shall each marry young Harry. I am putting forth Koi, my youngest daughter, while my dear Vasílissa shall put forth… whom was it again?" The Arachne queen asked, though the look on her face was anything but confusion.

"Seras, daughter of Selene."

"Ah yes, the market girl, turned soldier, a very powerful choice if I might say." The haughtiness in her voice was apparent to Harry, having heard it from his aunt when she would talk with her 'friends' over tea.

Harry, however, only just registered it. Marrying was not something he had ever thought would happen to him. With his youngest years being degraded by the pigs in his aunt's family, and learning from a childless, wifeless hermit, Harry thought that he would never to get a chance to be married.

It was shocking, and truthfully very frightening to the young boy. He was only thirteen, he wasn't ready for any of those adult things. Albeit, Seras and Koi were two of his best friends, even if he didn't even know Koi's true name. It wouldn't be truly awful, and if he was any older, he might have seen the blessing in having two hot girls as his wives.

"Of course, this marriage will only happen once all three have matured, right?" The Sage said, his voice cold enough to turn the two advisors into jelly and make the queens quiver in fear. This was the voice of the deadly Shinobi who killed millions to save billions. Taking out the four hardened warriors in the room would be child's play.

The quick ascent to giving them time to get used to the idea was almost funny, if the situation had been any different.

After that the four warriors parted, each looking for Harry's new wives, to give them the happy news.

Harry finally released a breathe that had welled up in his chest when he had heard the word marriage, sitting down as The Sage placed a cup of ramen in front of him.

The two ate in relative peace, as no words need be spoken. Harry was happy that he had gotten off lightly from his promise, marriage was definitely kinder than some things the spider queen could have chosen.

As Harry went to place the empty cup in the wooden sink, twin cries of 'WHAT' came out from across the camp, and Harry once again fell into a dead faint.

Ending Chapter

There we go, the end of an age old conflict, and the beginning of a new journey. So, how did everyone like this chapter, any haters, any parts you guys absolutely loved?

On The Sage's journey, this has been planned since the beginning and it will be how Harry is reintroduced to the Wizarding World. If any of you would like to guess what will happen, review it!

I have always hated it when the protagonist says 'well I am in need of multiple wives, so you got to accept that to be with me'. It sounds piggish truthfully, but I hope my version of a harem starting is better than that.

Now, one thing I am wondering is if you guys will want me to do part of next chapter on Adam's style of teaching. It will be very much about studying and while there will be a little practical, there won't be much action. The other option is that I go straight to the journey to Whisper Mountain and start on the Yuki-Onna arc, showing only flashbacks or having them talk about what he learned under the giant zombie.

I would also like to know if any of you guys know any giant monsters that could provide a ride for Harry and co. when they leave for Hogwarts. It has to be as amazing, if not more so than Beauxbaton's and Durmstrang's rides. Review or PM if you got any ideas.

So for now…

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