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Wand and a stupid trip to Diagon Alley

"Thea when is your birthday?" asked Timoteo, they were sitting with Xanxus under the pergola of the Vongola mansion having tea after Xanxus monthly report on the latest activities of the Varia, after having had tea, the visit to the Varia Timoteo had insisted on getting to know the little one and that she should call him whatever she wanted ("so can i call you grandpa?" what a face he made and Xanxus had kept himself from laughing as much as possible).

Now they were waiting for Talbot, the craftsman who had forged the Vongola rings and who was also an excellent wandmaker,with a new wand for Althea (the holly and phoenix wand had shattered as soon as Althea touched it after the ritual) the materials for the new wands core had been provided by hedwig, a feather bathed in her tears, and surprisingly a piece of ice created by Timoteo with the zero point breakthrough and containing a spark of Xanxus' flames of wrath. Furthermore at Timoteos request he had created a ring for Althea to better tap into her flames, three lessons with Xanxus were enough for her to master the Hyper Dying Will Mode.

"July 31st" Althea replied

"There are only two days left then what would you like as a gift?"

"I don't know apart from those so called friends, i've never received gifts" she said blushing.

"Xanxus have you thought of something?" He tried to move the conversation.

"Yes, but i'm not going to ruin the surprise" not that Xanxus had any intention of telling him, there was a risk that he would stop taking the little one with him for lessons.

A chat and dinner, and Timoteo had been won over, his help would be decisive for the plan next february. Considering what Xanxus had told him about the little one's life, Timoteo felt it was too early to introduce her to the mafia, as Xanxus wanted to keep her away from the other families as much as possible.

Since next summer it would be better for her not to be in europe until the quidditch world cup perhaps he could arrange for her to spend her holidays in japan she had already ascertained that in addition to english and italian she also spoke japanese quite well and was improving a lot.

"Since you won't be able to spend your summer holidays in Europe next year, would you like to meet my successor? You are the same age and until recently he was also a civilian. Maybe you could become friends."

"Are you talking about the boy ni-san tested a couple months ago?"

"That's him he's quite shy like you were when you were little, maybe meeting another sky who was a civilian could do him some good." what a surprise Xanxus had actually told her everything about his life before their meeting.

"I would really like to visit japan, what do you say ni-san, would it cause problems with your plan?"

Xanxus sighed "it's no problem, we hadn't yet decided where to spend the next holidays. But this better not be a plan to find her a boyfriend' He finished whispering to Timoteo.

"Sir Mr.Talbot has arrived."

"Let him in"

"Good morning Timoteo, we haven't seen each other for a long time," said the gentleman who had just entered, an elderly man with only a tuft of hair and a blindfold covering his eyes.

"And i couldn't wait to meet you too baby girl, thank you for sending me back my stone last year."

At this Althea was surprised, unless "are you Mister Flamel, the alchemist?"

Talbot chuckled "yes although i prefer to be called Talbot here i'm sorry for what you had to go through because of the stone, i never expected Dumbledore to hide it at hogwarts to lure Voldemort out into the open."

"It seems Dumbledore is a great manipulator, it wasn't your fault Mr.Talbot."

Talbot chuckled, "now let's change the subject, i brought the finished work" he then took out two boxes, one small and square the other narrow and long.

"Here's the ring," he said, opening the square box to show her a simple white gold ring with an orange gem, "normally rings are more elaborate, but upon contact with your flame that was sent to me the ring refused to change too much, it seems to know that you like simple things."

Althea put on the ring, she didn't even feel like she was wearing it. It was simply perfect.

"In addition to the wand i have also prepared a holster, if the wand is lost it will always return to the holster and if you expose it to your flames no one else other than you will be able to remove it from your arm, here it is cherry wood with a core composed of the feather of a part owl phoenix, bathed in it's tears and wrapped around a frozen flame of wrath."

Even before touching it Althea felt her magic singing, as soon as she held it the reaction was a thousand times more wonderful than the one she had with her old wand. "Thank you Mr.Talbot, it's perfect" She said smiling.

Xanxus caressed the ebony jewelry box that held his gifts for Althea, the first was a set of white owl feathers similar to Hedwig's, they had been enchanted with a myriad of protective enchantments and woven with mist flames, the mist division and Mammon had worked hard to enchant them, the second was a pendant with the Varia coat of arms that had absorbed his flames and those of his guardians, for any mafioso it would have been a sign that she was a member of the Varia, but not just any member, someone under his direct protection and that of the Vongola.

The guardians on the other hand had prepared a gift each together with their divisions.

Shark, rain and clouds had compiled manuals for the training Althea would do at hogwarts.

Luss and the sun a tiny bag on the outside and huge on the inside that was actually a damn well-stocked medical kit.

Levi and the lightning a bracelet that had absorbed the lightning flames and could create electrical barriers.

Bel and the storms a set of throwing knives tempered with storm flames to destroy anything.

Finally Mammon and the mists had prepared a cell phone that worked with a person's flames and which could also act as an anchor for teleportation, which worked very well even in areas with a high density of magic.

Timoteo had also prepared a gift he had the estate in namimori rearranged for the following year and if she then decided to spend another holiday in japan.

It was the second week of august and Althea had returned to privet drive with Xanxus and his guardians.

Because of the escaped Sirius Black an owl had tracked down Althea and delivered a letter telling her that professor McGonagall would accompany her to diagon alley that day to buy school supplies.

So not at all happy they had put the dursleys to sleep, intensified by the illusions surrounding the house and imposed a partial illusion on Althea so that the changes she had undergone during the summer were perceived as gradual by the wizards.

Luss had rejected the idea of having Althea wear the clothes that had been left abandoned in the house instead he had prepared simple clothes that would not have looked ill-suited.

The one thing that Althea would never remove however were the feathers that were woven into her hair, she had fallen in love with them and the protection charms attached to them were absolutely fantastic.

As she sat under the tree in the garden with a betrayed dog that would've been killed by the magic backlash someone set him up.

The trip to diagon alley had been uneventful, but in the meantime she had resolved a matter with McGonagall, the list also included divination books but Althea never chose it as a subject she had selected ancient runes and care of magical creatures, rechecking her list McGonagall had agreed that there had been a small mistake.

The only interesting thing was the brief encounter she had in the park near privet drive was a large bedraggled dog her intuition told her that she should remember that dog and the fact that he was not a danger to her apparently she would be revised.

She was happy to return to the Varia mansion to return home.

Something told her that next year would be interesting and the following summer even more so.