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Harry Potter was ten-years-old. He was tired of being abused by his Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin. He'd been told that his parents had died when he was a baby and that's why he lived with them and that he'd better be grateful. He wasn't. They never did anything for him except beat him and make him do all the chores and cook. He hated them! He wanted to get away from them.
He went to bed one night shortly after his tenth birthday and when he woke up he was somewhere different. He had no idea where he was but it was very large and open.
He didn't know why but he wasn't at all shocked when a blue screen appeared in front of him.
You are now in the Lotus Hotel and Casino. This is a Casino is in America and you own it through your family.
You will now live here.
It went on to tell him what the Hotel and Casino was and what it did while he took a shower and actually got clean for the first time in his life. He got into the clean clothes out of the closet. He brushed his hair and fixed his glasses on his nose. He looked around the Master Suite.
He looked at the room service menu and then ordered some food. He was starving he hadn't eaten in days. He'd lost count of how many days. He was looking over the hotel on his screen when his food came.
"This is for you." The bellhop said, giving Harry a card. "It's nice to meet you, sir, we've long awaited your arrival. If you need anything just let us know and of course here is your food."
"Thank you." Harry said more than a little confused.
He took his food to the table and began eating. He decided to improve the main floor first.
He frowned at the food. He would need to improve that as well. But he thought it was good because he hadn't eaten in so long. He rubbed his eyes under his glasses. Maybe he should go down and look at the first floor? Yeah, so he could see what he wanted to do.
Lotus has been reset to have just a single game, a dining hall and two rooms. You must improve it to bring back the people trapped inside.
Harry frowned hard at his screen that was fair he guessed. He decided that he didn't need to do anything right now then. Besides for some reason he was really tired. He went back to his room and back to sleep.
When Harry woke up again he was hungry again. He called room service and they brought him food. Harry decided to go downstairs now. He went down to see only three people in the Hotel. Two boys and a girl. One boy looked his age the other boy and the girl was older.
The boy that was his age had shaggy black hair and dark brown eyes. He wore a black aviator jacket and blue jeans. He had olive skin and like Harry was short for his age.
The girl had to be his sister they looked so much alike. She had brown silky hair and black eyes She was lean and about a little shorter than average height. She had olive skin and she wore a floppy green hat that hid her face.
The other boy had blond hair down to his waist and was dressed in tye-dye clothes that hurt Harry's eyes. He walked over to the boy that was his age.
"H-hi." Harry said softly.
Harry was somehow drawn to this boy.
"Hi." Nico said back. "Are you new here?" Harry nodded staring at the boy who though short was still taller than him. "My name is Nico di Angelo what's your name?"
"Harry Potter."
They shook hands.
"Is this place fun?" Harry asked, holding Nico's hand. There was just something about this boy that made him feel safe and loved. He was was drawn to this boy. Nico didn't seem to mind that Harry was holding his hand. "I just got here."
"Yeah, I have fun here." Nico said, "When it's my turn on the game."
They walked over to the game machine. The girl was playing it. A buzzer sounded and she finished her game to move for the hippie boy.
"Hey, Nico whose your friend?" she asked.
"Bianca, this is Harry Potter, Harry this is my sister Bianca di Angelo." Nico said. "We just met."
Bianca cocked her eyebrow at them holding hands after just meeting but didn't say anything about it.
Harry found out that he liked talking with Nico and Bianca. They ate dinner together in the restaurant/cafe area. Harry was so pleased to have Nico and Bianca. He decided that they would be his friends forever. Bianca wanted to make sure that Harry didn't get lost on the way to his room so they rode up the elevator with him. They were amazed by his room.
"Do you guys share a room?" Harry asked.
"Yes, there's plenty of space." Nico told him. "In our room, Bianca's room is over there." Nico pointed to the far wall opposite of Harry's bedroom. "Mine is there." he pointed to where Harry's room is. "We have a sitting room just like this and a balcony too but ours isn't this big."
"Oh." Harry said, nodding. "I'm glad that you're not in a room with just two beds. Most Hotels do that."
Bianca thought they should just go back down to their room now but Harry wanted to watch t.v. with Nico. They ended up watching Hephaestus T.V. they were soon laughing at some cartoon that was on. Bianca apparently didn't approve of the violence on the cartoon because she turned the channel to National Geographic. The boys pouted but watched the program. Bianca then took Nico and left.
Harry decided that he didn't like that Bianca was keeping him from Nico.
You can now upgrade your Game Machine.
Upgrading your game machine will make it better and take longer for it to break.
Infusing the game with Magic will make it more durable and infusing it with Lotus magic will make it more addicting.
Game Machine #1- 1
Infused with Magic.
Infused with Lotus magic.
The game will be ready at 5 a.m.
With that Harry took a bath because he could and went to bed.
When Harry got up he bathed, brushed his teeth, dressed, and then ran to find Nico. He found him and Bianca eating breakfast. He joined them wishing them a good morning. They said the same back to him. Nico was beaming brightly at Harry. They ate then went to explore and have fun though Harry quickly found out that there wasn't much fun. Why had the stupid Hotel Reset? Now he couldn't have any real fun with his Nico! There weren't even any books around for them to read and talk about. He finally took a stab at the game only to find out that it was Pac-Man. He played until the buzzer sounded then went and found his Nico so that they could eat lunch together. Did he mention how much he loved hanging out with Nico?
Harry had taken to keeping a calendar to keep track of how long he'd been here. Each time he went to bed at night he marked a day off. According to his calendar, he'd been here a week.
You can buy a second Game Machine.
Harry gladly did so and upgraded the Pac-Man Machine again.
Pac-Man Machine-5
It had leveled up so quickly because they all kept playing on it. Harry had infused it with his magic and Lotus magic every step of the way. The Hippie kid could hardly stay away from it now and had started bullying Nico when he was on it. Harry had put a stop to that and had confined the Hippie to his room for the day and made it so he couldn't watch tv or play games in there or anything.
Harry rushed down to breakfast so that he could be with his Nico. As soon as he got down to the restaurant and plopped down next to his Nico and stared at him with star-filled eyes as he said good morning.
"Morning, Harry." Nico beamed. "Bianca has a headache so we're on our own today."
"Really?" Harry perked up, "Did you hear there's a new game! It's called Pong or something like that."
"I wonder what kind of game Pong is." Nico said.
"Better yet I hope the hippie doesn't hog the machine."
"Why do you call him that?" Nico wondered. "I've noticed that you call him that a lot."
"Oh," Harry said. "Nico, how long have you been in this Hotel? I mean what year do you think it is?"
"1934." Nico said frowning, "and about a month?"
"No, Nico it's been a lot longer than that." Harry tried to explain. "It's 1990 right now."
"How is that possible?" Nico asked.
So Harry ordered someone to take food up to Bianca and then explained to Nico what he'd discovered during his week here. Nico was shocked.
"Oh, wow." Nico said, running fingers through his hair. Harry found the action cute. "We've been here for almost sixty years?"
"Yeah, " Harry said, then realized his mistake and grabbed Nico's hand. "Don't! Don't leave! I'm here now and this Casino and Hotel will be better than ever! You can help me build it to be the best!"
"Help you build it?" Nico asked holding Harry's hand. "What do you mean?"
"Well, I've been here a week. I've kept track." Harry told him. "A week ago I learned that I own this place. When I came here everything just sort or reset. THat's why there is only two games now. I'm hoping we'll start getting more soon. When you use the cards to play the games it makes the Hotel money that I can spend to upgrade and buy things for the Hotel and Casino."
Nico tried his best to wrap his head around that then stared into Harry's green eyes that were filled with tears.
"Don't leave me." Harry whispered.
"I'm not going to." Nico said shaking his head. "I'll stay here with you, Harry, and I'll help you. Bianca isn't going to believe this."
"Does she have to know?" Harry wondered. "Can't this be our secret? Just for now? We'll tell her later. She might freak out and force you to leave."
Nico frowned in thought then agreed. Harry was right the moment Bianca found out about how many years that they'd lost locked up here in this hotel she'd take them out of the hotel and he doubted that she would allow Harry to come with them.