Naturally I started to contact everyone to share this news. Guts and Auron didn't really care much but the others showed interest in it. The bazaar space itself was honestly not very interesting. A solid white expanse with a gray stone floor that seemed to stretch on forever. Ruby was the first to enter the place and she was not alone. I paid attention to the method she entered and was a little jealous as it appeared to be a simple doorway with glowing golden edges. There was none of the fading and reappearance unpleasantness that I dealt with traveling to a different world.-
"Welcome to the multiversal bazaar! Please forgive the lack of, well anything actually. I have only just gotten it set up after all." I say with a chuckle as they enter.
"See! I told you he was real!" Ruby exclaimed in vindication to the blonde haired man next to her I recognized as her father, Taiyang Xiao Long.
He was not terribly tall, nor very intimidating looking. Frankly he looked like a surfer. He had pale blonde hair and a soul patch with a bit of stubble on his face. His outfit was basically just brown cargo shorts, a tan dress shirt with a brown leather vest over it and a red bandana.-
His blue eyes locked onto me the moment I spoke "So you are the wizard I have been hearing about from my daughter. You look barely thirteen at most." he said with a deep frown.
"I'm twelve actually. A recent change but the point still stands. And I cannot take the title of wizard quite yet. I'm still in training technically, underaged. In my world I am not given full wizarding status until I graduate at the age of seventeen to eighteen. Though the distinction is probably not the thing you are focusing on. That would be the magic I believe." I said calmly.
"Right and I'm just supposed to believe there is another magic user on Remnant that Oz doesn't know about?" he said crossing his arms.
"Mister Xiao Long. You aren't on Remnant anymore. This place is a void between different realities, different worlds. Ozpin might be an ancient immortal soul that keeps body hopping at the whim of two cruel and uncaring gods but his influence does not extend past his world and even there he is not omniscient." I explained calmly.
"I find that hard to believe." he said shaking his head.
"You are standing in the middle of the proof. If this is not enough nothing will be." I say calmly.
At this exact moment another doorway opens that is much larger than the other and brings with it the scent of the sea. Whitebeard steps through in all of his towering majesty along with at least a dozen of his crew members.
"Gurarara! Brat, this place doesn't seem as lively as I expected." he said even as he grinned.
I shrug "What can you expect? I just got it set up. It'll take some time to really get it kicking." I said helplessly.
His grin widened as he imagined it "I bet it'll be a wonder to see. A market of a bunch of different people and places mixing. Linlin would be jealous." he said with a chuckle before spotting Ruby and her father who were both staring at him and his crew with wide disbelieving eyes.
"Hmmm, which one of you is the contact?" he asked curiously.
"Um, that's me. You're like REALLY big! And your mustache looks funny." Ruby said awkwardly.
"Gurarara! What about you then?" he asked Taiyang with a laugh.
"Her father. I.... is it true? The entire thing with the multiverse and all that?" Taiyang asked with a lost expression.
"Aye, it's true. I thought it was trick too at first. Thanks to that brat over there though I've kept my sons and daughters safe and strong." Whitebeard said seriously as he thumbed at me.
"Don't act like it wasn't a fair deal. You've helped me out plenty too." I say pointedly.
"Gurarara! Just take the compliment brat." the old man said laughing.
A couple more doors opened up as Rockwell and David with Jackie walked into the bazaar space.
"Puta Madre! Do they even make them that big!? Chooms like three times the size of Smasher!" Jackie hissed when he saw Whitebeard.
"A fascinating place." Rockwell meanwhile said with a scientists curiosity as he looked around.
Poor Taiyang looked at the new arrivals with a look that said he was seriously questioning reality right now. Ruby on the other hand was a nervous but bursting with curiosity wreck. She looked torn between rushing all over the place to look at everyone and ask questions and hiding behind her dad in socially uncharted territory.-
"Did Grindelwald not want to come?" I asked David curiously.
"Nah, old fella's been real focused on that farm of his. Crazy stuff choom. Didn't even notice it there until he showed it to us." Jackie said with a look that said he still found that amazing.
"That'd be the muggle repelling spell at work. Makes the attention of anyone nonmagical slip right over it. Like a suggestion that you didn't see anything but with real effects." I said not surprised.
Grindelwald definitely wasn't going to go and risk his cash cow and best hope of continued trade by not hiding it thoroughly. I also wouldn't be surprised if the place was rigged with all manner of traps as well for any accidental entries by the locals. Muggle repelling spells weren't absolute after all. It was totally possible for some idiot who was drugged or drunk out of their minds to wander through them.
