Harry Potter, Hero of Legends, Stories and Elves Part 8

Sirius glanced between Harry, Luna and Fianna. "Before I conjure a pair of earmuffs and get back to work on the brooms so I can't hear the drunken debauchery, do the boots have any magical properties?"

"Hey," Fianna complained, trying not to laugh as she waved her finger back and forth at Sirius. "I'll have you know there will be no drunken dauchery, just regular dauchery, they're teenagers and alcohol and pregnancy doesn't mix."

"Pregnancy no, impregnation yes!" Sirius countered.

Luna giggled, glad that her mother wasn't as uptight about that sort of thing as her father.

'Not touching that,' Harry decided as he turned his attention to the collection of boots on the table. "Most of the boots increase your running speed and or reduce the amount of stamina you burn while running."

"And the hot pink boots that are covered in glowing green slime?" Hermione asked, curious about the strange knee high boots with six inch heels.

"They boost your running speed by fifty percent and drastically increase your acrobatics skill acquisition while wearing them which covers running and jumping as well as landing safely."

"That sounds useful, why not move the qualities to something that isn't covered in slime?" Hermione asked.

Harry shook his head. "The slime fixes any damage to legs from your knees to your toes, basically anything covered by your boots. It also permanently increases your resistance to those particular injuries, which stacks making your legs harder to damage. Unfortunately or fortunately, the property is specific to your legs so we don't have to worry about making a full body suit and torturing ourselves."

"Probably for the best," Fianna offered.

"Quite," Hermione agreed, knowing Harry would probably take things too far.

Neville pointed at the pair of shoes that were covered in wisps of brown fog. "What about the floppy shoes that are covered in fog?"

Harry wrinkled his nose as the stench from the fog changed from a faint sulfur odor to smelling like dog shit. He picked the shoes up and tossed them into his inventory, causing the illusionary scent to vanish. "Sorry about that, the scent changes randomly."

"And you didn't leave them in your inventory?" Tonks asked.

"It's random and it doesn't linger," Harry replied with a shrug. "They double your jumping distance, reduce the stamina cost of running by half and increase your stamina regeneration. Unfortunately they make a rather loud and annoying wet shoe sound every time you set your foot down despite the fact that the quality causes you to float an inch off the ground with no loss of traction. I'll swap things around when I get some better qualities."

"You should probably keep the squishy quality for when we get back to Hogwarts, it would drive Filch up the wall," Sirius suggested.

Tonks shook her head, trying not to laugh as she pictured Harry annoying the hell out of the cantankerous caretaker with the boots and his stealth ability. "You're a horrible influence, you know that right?"

"I'm aware," Sirius replied proudly.

Luna gestured toward a pair of books that shimmered in the light. "What about the sparkly purple ones?"

"They let you walk on walls or ceilings and they're always clean and the perfect temperature," Harry explained as Kara and Xander walked up the path carrying a couple of wooden boxes.

"That would make cleaning the ceiling easier," Fianna mused.

"They're up for grabs," Harry offered.

"Yoink," Luna said as she quickly grabbed the sparkly boots.

"Dibs on the pink boots," Tonks said, causing the rest of the group to look at her.

"Except those, we need them for training," Harry pointed out.

"I'm not planning on keeping them," Tonks replied with a grin. "I just figured I could do a bit of running while you and Luna have some fun, unless you want me to watch?" she asked as she wiggled her eyebrows.

Sirius snickered.

Harry opened his mouth then closed it when Luna piped up, "I don't mind," as Xander and Kara walked over. 'Just as well Ginny and Ron didn't come, I'd never hear the end of it,' he thought as he handed Tonks the pink boots. "Have fun."

"What are we watching?" Kara asked as set the box of crystals on the table.

"Harry knocking me up," Luna replied with a grin as Xander put the box of crystals on the bench since the boots took up the rest of the room.

Kara smiled as she glanced between her friend and Harry. "I'll clear my schedule."

'Screw it, maybe I'm a freak but I'm a freak with magic that looks like an action hero,' Harry thought as he used his equipment page to equip the loincloth he'd modified so that he wouldn't lose his pubic hair, swapping it for his underwear. 'I don't need the stress and some of the demons probably have lust auras.'

"Before I leave, can I get a copy of the loincloth?" Tonks asked, doing her best to ignore the fact that her ears were getting red. "If I'm going to be knocking people up, I should probably do something about my issues with public nudity."

"Same," Neville added, not taking his eyes off the collection of boots on the table.

"Not a problem," Harry replied as he conjured two blue loinclothes and handed them to Tonks and Neville, happy that he'd picked up the spell. "Does anyone else need one?" he asked, causing Hermione to sigh and stick her hand out.

"I wouldn't mind working on my mental defenses," Xander said, not sure how much modesty he had left after working at the strip club but figuring the mental defenses could save his life.

Fianna glanced between her daughter and Kara then focused on Harry. "You might as well give everyone a copy since they boost mental defenses."

Harry pulled Hermione's loincloth out of his inventory and handed it to her then conjured more for everyone else, figuring the mental defenses could save their lives. "I fixed the armor."

"Thank you," Hermione replied, trying to ignore the mental images her mind was conjuring of showing Harry how she looked wearing it.

"Have fun," Tonks said as she stood up and headed toward the side of the shop so she could get changed and go for a run while Harry knocked up Luna.

"Can I use the restroom in the shop to change?" Neville asked hopefully as Luna started stripping, proving that she didn't have a lot of modesty to start with.

"Be my guest," Fianna replied as she went back to examining the boots.

"Don't have too much fun," Sirius teased as he followed Neville toward the shop, figuring he'd have enough time to get a couple of brooms done before it was Fianna's turn.

Hermione cast her bed conjuring spell then climbed on the bed and closed the curtains so she could get changed. 'Just as well that Ron isn't here or Ginny,' she thought as she worked on taking her pants off so that she could swap her underwear for the loincloth.

'Screw it, what happens in elf land, stays in elf land,' Harry told himself as he glanced at the ivy-covered wall that hid the backyard from the road and the rest of the town. 'I'd rather have sex in her room without a bunch of people watching but it's her dream.' He conjured a four poster bed and used his equipment page to toss everything he was wearing other than the loincloth into his inventory.

Luna giggled as she finished stripping and jumped on the bed, happy that the hero had turned out to be Harry and not some random square jawed idiot.

Harry put the magic rings on then tossed Luna the magic bracers.

"I feel like we should have popcorn," Xander mused.

"What's popcorn?" Kara asked.

"Basically a light fluffy snack that is covered in melted butter and salt, you usually eat it at the theater or while watching shows," Xander explained, figuring it was just about time to head to the pub or check on Sirius.

"That sounds good," Kara admitted as she watched Harry start running his fingers over Luna's body. She glanced at the curtained bed that Hermione had conjured. 'Okay, now I just need the right visual for when she opens the curtains,' she mused as she pulled her skirt down and let it drop to the floor, revealing the fact that she wasn't wearing any underwear. 'If that doesn't get her attention, I'll eat my hat.'

"Nice," Xander offered.

"Thanks," Kara replied with a grin as she put the loincloth on, enjoying the attention. She turned back to look at Harry and Luna. "A bit lower, she's ticklish!"

"Kara!" Luna complained in between giggles when Harry moved his fingers to her sides, causing her to burst out into a fit of giggling.

"What? I'm just trying to help," Kara teased.

"Have fun," Xander said as he headed to the shop, not interested in getting in the way.

Hermione finished putting her loincloth on and peeked out between the curtains, curious where he was tickling her. She froze when she saw Harry's muscles, not expecting him to look like a professional swimmer. 'Damn, Harry's a lot more fit than I thought,' she admitted as she glanced at the blue silk loincloth that was doing a poor job of concealing his equipment. 'Not too large, certainly not too small. Bad Hermione,' she told herself and pulled her attention away from Harry's equipment. She spent a few seconds studying Luna before she found her gaze sliding over to Kara's pale and bare behind.

Kara pulled her attention off her friend and Harry and glanced over at Hermione's bed, more than a bit amused when she realized that the bushy haired witch had been looking at her. "Hermione."

"Yes?" Hermione asked, feeling strangely guilty and trying to ignore the fact that her ears were burning because of the show that Harry and Luna were putting on.

"I think I pulled something moving the boxes, can I talk you into giving me a back massage while we wait for them to finish?" Kara asked hopefully, giving Hermione her best puppy dog eye look.

"Sure, just give me a minute…" Hermione trailed off as Kara pulled her shirt off, dropped it on the table and walked over to the bed, reminding her once again that the elves were a bit off when it came to nudity. She moved back a bit so that Kara could get on the bed and adjusted how she was kneeling so that she wouldn't flash anyone.

Kara climbed onto the bed, flopped down and sprawled out so that Hermione could work on her back.

Hermione glanced over at where Harry was thrusting into Luna, finding herself wondering what it would be like to have Harry to herself. 'We'll have plenty of time later, I don't need to be his first.'

Kara turned her head so that she could watch Harry fuck Luna while Hermione worked on her shoulders.

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Sirius looked up from the broom that he'd just finished charming when Harry walked into the shop dressed in his street clothes. "Did you have fun?"

"Yeah, thanks for not making it weird," Harry replied as he walked over to the workbench where Sirius, Xander and Neville were working, surprisingly okay with how everything had played out.

"We've got your back," Neville assured him. "Besides, Luna looked ecstatic, I'm not ruining things for her."

"It's weird, she's generally pretty subdued at Hogwarts," Harry replied as he took the magic rings off and handed them to Neville.

"It's always the quiet ones," Sirius said, thinking about some of the girls he'd known in school.

"Different situations and expectations," Xander suggested.

"I guess," Neville agreed as he put the rings on, a bit nervous about walking into a room filled with horney priestesses. "If I'm not back by breakfast, come save me."

"Early breakfast or late breakfast?" Harry asked.

Neville considered the question for a couple of seconds then shrugged. "Late."

"Do you want me to make a portkey?" Sirius asked, only sort of joking. "You could use it to escape if you need to."

"Yes," Neville replied, deciding to err on the side of caution.

Harry pulled a silver bracelet out of his inventory and tossed it to Sirius. "It doesn't have any enchantments on it."

Sirius tapped the bracelet with his wand. "Portus, Elephant."

"Elephant?" Xander asked.

"I needed something that he wouldn't say in casual conversation that wasn't hard to remember. Don't say the word while you're touching it unless you want to end up in the backyard," Sirius warned Neville and handed it to him.

"Thank you," Neville replied as he slipped the bracelet on, feeling a bit better about walking into the temple now that he had a way to escape. "I'm hoping I don't need it but it's always nice to be prepared."

"There's nothing wrong with being prepared," Xander assured him.

Neville glanced at the door. "Is it safe to leave?"

"It's safe," Harry assured him. "Hermione is just giving Kara a leg massage and Luna and Fianna went to grab showers."

"Great," Neville replied as he headed for the door, relieved that he wouldn't have to have an awkward conversation with Luna or her mother since he'd seen them naked when he'd peeked outside to see if the coast was clear.

Sirius waited for Neville to leave. "How are you doing?"

"I'm good," Harry assured him, feeling strangely fine with his part in knocking the girls up. "Fianna's happy and Luna's ecstatic."

"And Hermione?" Sirius asked.

"She's fine," Harry assured them as he opened his Soul Arts interface and looked at the spells he could create.

"Fine as in she's glaring or fine as in she's actually okay?" Sirius asked.

"She's not Ginny, if she says she's fine and she's not glaring at me, she's fine," Harry replied as he double checked the descriptions of the spells he was planning on creating.

'Not sure it works that way,' Xander thought, thinking about Buffy's emotional issues. "What are you working on?" he asked, having noticed that Harry looked like he was reading something.

"I was trying to figure out the best use for some of the spell tokens I can create. I have a couple of spells that involve transforming into snakes that I'm not sure about."

"It never helps," Xander said as Hermione walked into the shop wearing her shirt and a 'new' blue knee length skirt that matched the exact shade of the pillows of the bed she'd conjured.

"Evil overlord list?" Hermione asked as she walked over.

"And practical experience," Xander replied, thinking about the Mayor and the rest of the giant snake demons that Buffy had killed over the years.

"Practical experience?" Sirius asked, wondering what type of monsters existed in his world.

"My high school was interesting," Xander replied with a shrug.

Harry glanced between Hermione and Xander. "Evil overlord list?"

"The evil overlord list is basically a list of things that evil overlords shouldn't do," Hermione explained. "It's mostly just a joke but there are some pretty good points."

"One of them being that turning into a giant snake never helps," Xander said.

"What about snake girls?" Harry asked.

"That one is probably situational, why?" Xander asked.

"Because one of the spells lets you change into a snake girl and the other lets you turn things into flying snakes that aren't under your control, I figured if I combined them I might get a spell that lets you turn into a flying snake lady."

"Or a snake lady with snakes that can fly," Xander suggested.

"It's probably worth a try unless you want the ability to change things into flying snakes?" Hermione asked.

"Not really, I don't think the world needs flying poisonous snakes," he complained as he turned the two demons into spell tokens.

"In that case, you might as well see if you can get something better," Xander suggested.

Harry used his ability to fuse the tokens, creating a new token. "Huh, the spell lets you turn into a woman with snakes for hair that can fly about twenty miles an hour which sounds extremely painful because you'd be hanging from your snakes."

"That's not ideal," Hermione admitted.

"Not really," Harry agreed as he turned one of the demons into a spell that would let him conjure belts with an inventory space. He tossed the two tokens into the box and hit the button before he could change his mind, creating another token. "Okay, that's an improvement. It creates a belt of snakes that let you fly and has an inventory space."

"Does that mean we're not going to need the brooms?" Sirius asked.

Harry used the token, picking up the new spell. "Considering the belt only lets us fly about five miles an hour per head, we're still going to need the brooms." He cast his new spell, conjuring a belt with seven mutated snakes attached to the belt at odd angles.

Xander took a step away from the belt of hissing snakes. "That looks like something a cultist would wear."

"Yep," Harry agreed as he listened to the hissing, a bit annoyed that none of it made sense.

"What are they saying?" Hermione asked.

"Nothing," Harry replied as he checked the description of the belt. "Okay, each of the heads add to the flight quality and the inventory quality is separate. I probably can't understand them because they're not actually alive or even snakes, they just look like it."

"It's probably still more useful than turning yourself into a snake," Xander argued.

"Probably," Harry agreed as he turned one of the demons he'd killed into a token that would let him permanently conjure small garden snakes. He grabbed the spell token that would let him turn into a giant python and used his Synthesis ability to combine them. "And that should give us an endless source of leather for the leatherworkers."

"What did you get?" Hermione asked.

"A spell to permanently conjure rather stupid and lazy giant pythons," Harry replied, rather happy that the spell conjured stupid snakes as that meant he'd have less issues killing them for leather. "That should give us an endless source of agate with the spell that permanently turns snakes into agate."

"You could probably make a mint selling them as statues," Xander mused.

"It crossed my mind," Harry replied as he grabbed the spell tokens for creating belts with pocket dimensions and the snake to agate transformation token. He tossed two of the belt tokens into his Synthesis window and hit the button, getting a better token. "That gave me a better belt token that comes with two inventory spaces and a random property. Should I keep trying to improve it or should I just hand some of them out?"

"As much as I'd love the ability to conjure belts, you should probably use most of them to make something more powerful since you can make better belts by combining things," Xander suggested.

Hermione glanced down at her stomach when it rumbled, reminding her that they should probably grab some food. "Let's grab some food, Kara said the Starlight Delight was a good place for sandwiches."

"Let me make sure that my slime hasn't wandered off," Harry said as he headed outside, figuring it would be easier to open a portal outside so that he could take the wagon through it.

"I'll see if Kara feels up to coming with us," Hermione said as she followed Harry outside.

"Do you think it has beer?" Xander asked hopefully.

"If not, we'll find somewhere else," Sirius replied as he headed out of the workshop.

"Good," Xander agreed, wanting a chance to take a break and unwind.

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