Phoenix Flame
Child of the new Dawn
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this and will not make any money
A/N this is the Sequel to Rebirth of the Phoenix and the last part of the Phoenix series. Thanks to all my reviewers who stuck with my fics and I hope you like that last part which will be very long. Enjoy!
Summery: A tree of darkness grows somewhere in the world, letting all the evils of the world exist. The dark Lord Voldemort wishes to break the seal on the Breaden Tree and release untold horrors onto the world. Harry, after spending the summer with werewolves and vampires, must stop him from breaking the seal to save the world and destroy him for good.
Tiernan's castle
Two creatures made their way down a long warm corridor careful not to make a sound. They stopped as they reached a wooden door, and carefully pulled it open. The two shared a delighted glance, yellow eyes glinting in the dying torch light, as the door opened silently, bidding them entrance.
They entered a large room, walking on the soft, slightly worn, rugs that covered most of the stone floor. A full length mirror was tucked into one corner. Deep red drapes covered a large window, above a stone seat where many books were scattered haphazardly. The bed had a matching coverlet and was made out of a dark wood with a large trunk at the end. Their target was fast asleep on the bed, blankets tangled and thrown about him.
They snuck up quietly, never noticing the emerald eyes had snapped open when they had first opened the door, and approached the bed. They both prepared to jump, when-.
"Gotcha!" Harry yelled as he caught the young werewolf cubs: Kassidy and Keane. Both shrieked and laughed as Harry grabbed them and began to tickle the seven-year-olds mercilessly.
Finally relenting, Harry released then and flopped back onto his bed mock glaring at them, "So, care to tell me why you two were sneaking into my room at," He glanced at his clock, "seven thirty in the morning?"
Kassidy grinned and began to jump up and down on the bed, "Uncle told us to get your lazy behind outta bed!"
'Tiernan has such a way with words,' Harry thought dryly, before saying, "Well run down and tell that old wolf, he should know better than to wake a teenager early on a weekend, but I guess he must have forgotten what its like to be one."
Kassidy giggled hysterically and hopped off the bed running down the hall, her dark brown hair escaping from her pigtails.
Harry looked back over to Keane, who was sitting on the edge of Harry's bed with his head down and hadn't said a word yet, which was strange for him. "Keane, is something wrong? You'd usually be racing your sister down to breakfast by now."
"Uncle and Lady Kali were talking about a hunter. When they saw me they yelled a told me to go play." He looked up at Harry with an unfamiliar worried look on his face, "I'm scared of hunters."
Harry reached forward and gently ruffled his hair, before saying kindly, "Your uncle would never let anything come into the castle that would hurt you, I promise, you'll be safe. Now go on and save me some breakfast!"
Keane grinned, "Only if you get there before I eat it all!" and took off down the hall following his twin sister.
Harry stood and stretched. He riffled through his trunk and threw on the new muggle clothes Remus had gotten him, that actually fit, and wrapped a cloak over his shoulders.
He glanced up at the calendar he had pinned on the wall and grinned, tonight was the full moon. Tiernan had pestered him the whole two weeks he had been at his castle about what he would do during full moons. Harry had just answered with a vague 'don't worry about it' or 'I'll be fine'. He loved surprising the werewolves and vampires with his new powers.
For the two weeks he had been at Tiernan's castle, he had met with Lady Kali six times. It hadn't taken long, under her tutelage, for Harry to pull his magic away from his broken ring and quit depending on it to control the flow of his magic. He was now at the level he had been when he was at Hogwarts, but Kali had frowned and told him he was far from his potential and needed further training.
The first week had been rather awkward, neither the inhabitants of Tiernan's castle nor Harry himself knew how to act around each other.
Harry laughed to himself softly when he recalled how he had finally broken the ice.
Harry had walked in on Vanora drinking from a goblet with a deep red liquid inside it, Harry knew was blood. She had looked up at him and grinned offering the cup, "Want some?"
All eyes had immediately turned to Harry to see his reaction and were stunned to find him smiling as he said, "No thanks, trying to cut down. You over grown-mosquitoes can have it."
He now often called Vanora and Melantha 'over-grown mosquitoes' fondly.
Not long after that, did Harry get a letter from Moony. He bombarded Harry with questions of his well being and then, as if to make up for it, sent Sirius motorcycle, under a spell that left it as large as a muggle toy.
He had taken Kassidy and Keane on a few rides, to their delight, and to their mother's distress. The twins were some of the only children in Tiernan's castle. Tiernan and his brother, Marrok, had become werewolves at the same time, being out at night searching (ironically) for the family's pet Crup (basically a Jack Russell Terrier with a forked tail) when the werewolf Zev had bitten them. Zev also bit Marrok's wife Larentia when she was pregnant with the twins.
Ashon had later told Harry that Zev had been part of his pack, Remus' pack, and that was another reason Tiernan took to Remus so quickly. Harry saw Ashon off and on, he seemed to come and go from the castle on his own, while the others tended to stay permanently or for long periods of time.
Harry walked down the, now familiar, halls leading toward the dinning chamber. There were long wooden tables, as with Hogwarts, but there were more of them and they were placed in more-or-less random orders.
There was a sense of tension in the air, even as Harry responded to the friendly greetings called out from a few werewolves he knew well. There were two breakfasts served in Tiernan's castle; an early one, for those who had regular time schedules, and a later one, more of a brunch, for those, like Harry, spent most of the night conferring with the vampires. Harry was secretly glad he would go home for a week or two before Hogwarts so he could get back into a regular sleeping schedule.
Harry sat between Keane and Nadia, and grabbed an apple from the untouched fruit bowl, trying not to snicker as all the werewolves had the same meats on each of their plates, but no fruit. He looked up as he caught sight of a white blur out of the corner of his eye. Hedwig landed beside him with three letters and a newspaper tied to her leg. After he untied his mail, she gently nipped his finger turned and stole a piece of bacon from Nadia's plate before taking off.
He felt a tug at his sleeve and turned to a pale faced Keane, who pointed to the door where Tiernan stood talking to a tall man with long dark brown hair and dressed in a black traveling cloak. On his belt hung a long dagger that curved, with deadly elegance, to a lethal point. The man turned suddenly and looked at him and Harry stared into his eyes, as dark and fathomless as any vampire he had seen. Most of the man's face was hidden by a black cloth wrapped around his neck and shoulders, but Harry could see part of a scar on his cheek, sweeping downwards in an arc to the cloth. As soon as the gaze fell on him it was gone and the man walked away, Tiernan following a few feet behind watching him.
Marrok walked over to them, "That is the hunter Jaegar." He told the twins, "He has not chosen a side yet, so stay away from him and give him no reason to harm you." He looked up at Harry, "That goes for you as well, Harry Potter, Jaegar is a hunter of all magical beings, wizards too....."
Harry nodded and took his letters up to his room. With a vague swish of his wand, Harry made his bed and plopped on it. A letter from Ron and Hermione, from Remus, and from Dumbledore, he opened Ron and Hermione's first.
'Dear Harry,
How are things at Tiernan's castle? We found a new place for our 'club'. Thankfully it isn't half as bad as Padfoot's place had been, but we've still been forced to do manual labor. Hermione's bugging me about it isn't that bad, but she didn't half to clean out the attic with all the spiders just so the order members can apperate without all this junk falling on top of them. Why do they have to apperate up there anyway?!'
The writing suddenly became much neater as Hermione took over;
'Don't mind Ron, Harry. With how lazy he is any work is manual labor. Mrs. Weasley is very worried about you living with werewolves and vampires! I bet you're learning loads about their culture! You'll have to tell me all about it!'
Harry inwardly groaned.
'Have you heard from Remus? He's been in and out quite a bit, but he did say he was getting the information he needed. Do be careful with that motor bike!
Love from,
Hermione
Oh and Ron too.'
Harry chuckled and set the letter aside picking up Remus'
'Dear Harry,
How are you holding up? You're not having any problems are you? Not getting into any trouble? I know you're muttering mollycoddling under you breath now, but as your guardian I reserve the right to worry and mollycoddle all I like.
I've gotten quite a bit on the Braeden Tree, and it looks like we're in a bit of trouble. I'll tell you what I know when I return to the country, obviously not until a few days after the full moon.
I know you're tired of hearing this but please be careful.
love, Moony'
'I don't think I'll tell Moony about the hunter just yet.' Harry mused as he picked up Dumbledore's letter.
'Harry,
I pleased to hear you are doing well in your training. I have been told the hunter Jaegar has recently come to Tiernan's castle. I ask you to please be weary around him, his kind have no scruples about hunting wizards, werewolves, or vampires.
On a lighter note, I hope Kenani enjoys his time with an entire pack of wolves to run with. No doubt Remus has already said this but to make sure it doesn't go in one ear and out the other, which I find to be the case with many people your age, please be careful.
As your birthday is coming up at the end of the month, would you like to have a meeting with Miss. Granger and Mr. Weasley? There is a new headquarters for the order now, and you are always welcome, should you need a place to stay.
Until September first,
Albus Dumbledore'
As Harry set the letter down a bag of Lemon Drops appeared next to the letter. Harry burst out laughing and popped one into his mouth.
After putting his mail away, to be answered later, Harry got his Firebolt out of his trunk and went out for a quick ride.
Tiernan's castle was very large, with many towers and open landings. Harry dove down, barely two or three inches from the thick grey stone of the tower. He pulled up sharply and spun around the spires of the smallest towers, than went back up where he stopped and hovered, overlooking the rugged land surrounding the castle.
Harry squinted and tried to concentrate on seeing the wards around the castle. Part of his training with Kali had been to see magic spells and wards. He saw a glimmer of light ahead of him, then.... nothing. Sighing in annoyance, Harry glanced down and saw the twins. They were backing away from the dark-haired man, Jaegar.
With a flash of panic, Harry dove sharply, pushing the firebolt to its limit. He pulled up and jumped off a few feet from the ground, landing in between the twins and the hunter.
The hunter stopped and looked Harry up and down closely before saying in a deep slightly annoyed voice, "What are you doing young wizard? You aren't a werewolf, why are you protecting these creatures?"
The twins whimpered in fear and hid behind Harry's legs, Harry clenched his fists, "These 'creatures' are only seven years old! Is there anything you won't-"
"Jeagar!"
Harry jumped slightly as he recognized Tiernan's voice.
Tiernan grabbed the hunter's left arm, the one closest to the knife, and spoke angrily but quietly into his ear. Now that Tiernan had pulled his arm back, Harry could now fully see the long unsheathed dagger. There was a long line of notches on one end and Harry had a sudden feeling of foreboding of what those notches probably meant.
Suddenly Tiernan released the hunter's arm and, after giving Harry a hard look up and down again, Jeagar turned and left.
Tiernan, up-close, looked tired and very tense, but that didn't lessen the effect of his hard glare at the twins, who scampered and bolted to their parents.
Tiernan sighed and turned to Harry, "Thank you Harry."
Harry nodded looking at him concerned, "Are you alright?"
Tiernan sighed again and ran a hand through his hair, "I'll be better when that hunter finally takes his leave. I shudder at the thought of having him here tonight." He looked up at Harry with a ghost of a grin, "So, going to reveal how you're going to make it through the night without becoming dog chow?"
Harry grinned, "You truly do have a way with word Tiernan.... and no I'm not."
Tiernan shook his head and clapped Harry on the shoulder once before walking back toward the castle.
A few hours later
Harry paced in his room waiting for the moon to fully rise. Finally the last of the human yells died out, being replaced by yips, barks, and howls.
Harry transformed and walked over to the mirror and looked at himself. A bronze wolf looked back at him, with a black blaze, mimicking his lightning bolt scar, which ran from the tip of his nose to the top of his head.
He headed toward the door and opened it with a turn of a paw. He soon joined the others outside, making them all jump slightly as they recognized his scent. The twins found him easily; they had dark brown coats with a white patch over opposite eyes. He had been mock fighting with them for a while when he was suddenly he was hit from the side knocked over.
Harry was up in an instant, intent on finding out who did that. He yelped when he recognized who it was, Tiernan.
Tiernan lowered himself to attack again, but this time Harry was ready. They fought for most of the night, never wounding to harm, but to see who the stronger wolf was. A group of wolves lazily watched their fight, forming a half circle around them. The twins and the other cubs yipped and barked adding to the din.
Harry suddenly got an idea and ducked under Tiernan, flipping him by jumping up when he was under Tiernan's stomach and then he pinned Tiernan to the ground. His victory was short lived, however, as Tiernan rolled them both over continuing the fight.
Only when the sun creped up over the mountains and its beams hit the wolves did the fight stop. They all gave a howl, Harry joining in for the heck of it, then began their transformation back to human. Harry lopped off, remembering Moony telling him once that it made the wolf very nervous to transform in front of others; that made him feel very helpless and vulnerable. He flopped down on the ground behind a boulder and started to clean his wounds. He shook himself and transformed back into human, then into his phoenix form.
His wounds instantly healed, he flew over to the werewolves and allowed his tears to fall onto Tiernan, who due to the fight was the only one injured.
As he started to wake, Harry flew up a few feet above the ground before transforming back into human. Tiernan watched with interest as the phoenix changed into his black-haired charge.
Tiernan gave a big yawn and sat up addressing Harry, "So, you're an animagus. Well giving credit where it's due, you're not a bad wolf."
"Hey!" Harry said indignantly, "Not bad? I nearly beat your old wolf hide thank you!"
"You're welcome." Tiernan said giving a very wolfish grin and throwing a cloak over his bear shoulders.
Harry looked around at the others who were doing the same and frowned slightly, "Tiernan, why is it that the others aren't hurt at all?"
"Well," Tiernan said grinning at him, "They were more interested in our fight than starting ones themselves," He laughed, "Lazy mutts!"
Harry rolled his eyes, "I meant from the transformation."
"Oh," Tiernan shrugged, "Only those loner wolves get hurt like that. They tear themselves up, I think because their separated from anything else."
Harry nodded and stretched his arms, smiling when he saw Marrok and Larentia pick up the twins, each one fast asleep in their parent's arms.
Tiernan nudged him suddenly and said when Harry looked at him, "Rematch next moon?"
Harry laughed, "Sure but you're going to lose."
Tiernan grinned federally, "We'll see about that, cub."
Harry smirked then asked suddenly, "What do the vampires do during full moons?"
Tiernan shrugged again, "I dunno, vampire stuff."
Harry rolled his eyes again, "You just know everything Tiernan."
"Of course I do." He replied smugly.
Harry yawned, "I'm going to bed." he said before transforming into his phoenix form again and taking off to his room.
Flying through the window half blinded by tiredness, Harry felt a vague sense of gratefulness that he had thought to leave it open from when he went flying.
A chuckle from the shadows woke Harry up completely and he looked up to see Vanora leaning against the wall watching him.
Harry sighed, "Beat it you over grown mosquito. I need to get some sleep."
Vanora laughed, making the hairs on the back of Harry's neck stand on end even though he knew she wouldn't harm him.
"Such manners little Kenani. The Lady Kali wishes you to meet her tonight for training."
Harry nodded wearily, "Please tell the Lady I'll be there."
Vanora nodded grinning at him showing off her fangs, making Harry promptly grin back showing off his normal teeth. She laughed again and walked out of the room careful not to step near the beams of sunlight coming from the open window.
Harry sighed and fell back on to the bed and into a, at first anyway, dreamless sleep.
A/N lol you haven't heard the last of the mosquito comments! Thanks for all the past reviews! I hope everyone likes my last part of the Phoenix series. Please review and I will continue it!!!
Child of the new Dawn
Disclaimer: I don't own any of this and will not make any money
A/N this is the Sequel to Rebirth of the Phoenix and the last part of the Phoenix series. Thanks to all my reviewers who stuck with my fics and I hope you like that last part which will be very long. Enjoy!
Summery: A tree of darkness grows somewhere in the world, letting all the evils of the world exist. The dark Lord Voldemort wishes to break the seal on the Breaden Tree and release untold horrors onto the world. Harry, after spending the summer with werewolves and vampires, must stop him from breaking the seal to save the world and destroy him for good.
Tiernan's castle
Two creatures made their way down a long warm corridor careful not to make a sound. They stopped as they reached a wooden door, and carefully pulled it open. The two shared a delighted glance, yellow eyes glinting in the dying torch light, as the door opened silently, bidding them entrance.
They entered a large room, walking on the soft, slightly worn, rugs that covered most of the stone floor. A full length mirror was tucked into one corner. Deep red drapes covered a large window, above a stone seat where many books were scattered haphazardly. The bed had a matching coverlet and was made out of a dark wood with a large trunk at the end. Their target was fast asleep on the bed, blankets tangled and thrown about him.
They snuck up quietly, never noticing the emerald eyes had snapped open when they had first opened the door, and approached the bed. They both prepared to jump, when-.
"Gotcha!" Harry yelled as he caught the young werewolf cubs: Kassidy and Keane. Both shrieked and laughed as Harry grabbed them and began to tickle the seven-year-olds mercilessly.
Finally relenting, Harry released then and flopped back onto his bed mock glaring at them, "So, care to tell me why you two were sneaking into my room at," He glanced at his clock, "seven thirty in the morning?"
Kassidy grinned and began to jump up and down on the bed, "Uncle told us to get your lazy behind outta bed!"
'Tiernan has such a way with words,' Harry thought dryly, before saying, "Well run down and tell that old wolf, he should know better than to wake a teenager early on a weekend, but I guess he must have forgotten what its like to be one."
Kassidy giggled hysterically and hopped off the bed running down the hall, her dark brown hair escaping from her pigtails.
Harry looked back over to Keane, who was sitting on the edge of Harry's bed with his head down and hadn't said a word yet, which was strange for him. "Keane, is something wrong? You'd usually be racing your sister down to breakfast by now."
"Uncle and Lady Kali were talking about a hunter. When they saw me they yelled a told me to go play." He looked up at Harry with an unfamiliar worried look on his face, "I'm scared of hunters."
Harry reached forward and gently ruffled his hair, before saying kindly, "Your uncle would never let anything come into the castle that would hurt you, I promise, you'll be safe. Now go on and save me some breakfast!"
Keane grinned, "Only if you get there before I eat it all!" and took off down the hall following his twin sister.
Harry stood and stretched. He riffled through his trunk and threw on the new muggle clothes Remus had gotten him, that actually fit, and wrapped a cloak over his shoulders.
He glanced up at the calendar he had pinned on the wall and grinned, tonight was the full moon. Tiernan had pestered him the whole two weeks he had been at his castle about what he would do during full moons. Harry had just answered with a vague 'don't worry about it' or 'I'll be fine'. He loved surprising the werewolves and vampires with his new powers.
For the two weeks he had been at Tiernan's castle, he had met with Lady Kali six times. It hadn't taken long, under her tutelage, for Harry to pull his magic away from his broken ring and quit depending on it to control the flow of his magic. He was now at the level he had been when he was at Hogwarts, but Kali had frowned and told him he was far from his potential and needed further training.
The first week had been rather awkward, neither the inhabitants of Tiernan's castle nor Harry himself knew how to act around each other.
Harry laughed to himself softly when he recalled how he had finally broken the ice.
Harry had walked in on Vanora drinking from a goblet with a deep red liquid inside it, Harry knew was blood. She had looked up at him and grinned offering the cup, "Want some?"
All eyes had immediately turned to Harry to see his reaction and were stunned to find him smiling as he said, "No thanks, trying to cut down. You over grown-mosquitoes can have it."
He now often called Vanora and Melantha 'over-grown mosquitoes' fondly.
Not long after that, did Harry get a letter from Moony. He bombarded Harry with questions of his well being and then, as if to make up for it, sent Sirius motorcycle, under a spell that left it as large as a muggle toy.
He had taken Kassidy and Keane on a few rides, to their delight, and to their mother's distress. The twins were some of the only children in Tiernan's castle. Tiernan and his brother, Marrok, had become werewolves at the same time, being out at night searching (ironically) for the family's pet Crup (basically a Jack Russell Terrier with a forked tail) when the werewolf Zev had bitten them. Zev also bit Marrok's wife Larentia when she was pregnant with the twins.
Ashon had later told Harry that Zev had been part of his pack, Remus' pack, and that was another reason Tiernan took to Remus so quickly. Harry saw Ashon off and on, he seemed to come and go from the castle on his own, while the others tended to stay permanently or for long periods of time.
Harry walked down the, now familiar, halls leading toward the dinning chamber. There were long wooden tables, as with Hogwarts, but there were more of them and they were placed in more-or-less random orders.
There was a sense of tension in the air, even as Harry responded to the friendly greetings called out from a few werewolves he knew well. There were two breakfasts served in Tiernan's castle; an early one, for those who had regular time schedules, and a later one, more of a brunch, for those, like Harry, spent most of the night conferring with the vampires. Harry was secretly glad he would go home for a week or two before Hogwarts so he could get back into a regular sleeping schedule.
Harry sat between Keane and Nadia, and grabbed an apple from the untouched fruit bowl, trying not to snicker as all the werewolves had the same meats on each of their plates, but no fruit. He looked up as he caught sight of a white blur out of the corner of his eye. Hedwig landed beside him with three letters and a newspaper tied to her leg. After he untied his mail, she gently nipped his finger turned and stole a piece of bacon from Nadia's plate before taking off.
He felt a tug at his sleeve and turned to a pale faced Keane, who pointed to the door where Tiernan stood talking to a tall man with long dark brown hair and dressed in a black traveling cloak. On his belt hung a long dagger that curved, with deadly elegance, to a lethal point. The man turned suddenly and looked at him and Harry stared into his eyes, as dark and fathomless as any vampire he had seen. Most of the man's face was hidden by a black cloth wrapped around his neck and shoulders, but Harry could see part of a scar on his cheek, sweeping downwards in an arc to the cloth. As soon as the gaze fell on him it was gone and the man walked away, Tiernan following a few feet behind watching him.
Marrok walked over to them, "That is the hunter Jaegar." He told the twins, "He has not chosen a side yet, so stay away from him and give him no reason to harm you." He looked up at Harry, "That goes for you as well, Harry Potter, Jaegar is a hunter of all magical beings, wizards too....."
Harry nodded and took his letters up to his room. With a vague swish of his wand, Harry made his bed and plopped on it. A letter from Ron and Hermione, from Remus, and from Dumbledore, he opened Ron and Hermione's first.
'Dear Harry,
How are things at Tiernan's castle? We found a new place for our 'club'. Thankfully it isn't half as bad as Padfoot's place had been, but we've still been forced to do manual labor. Hermione's bugging me about it isn't that bad, but she didn't half to clean out the attic with all the spiders just so the order members can apperate without all this junk falling on top of them. Why do they have to apperate up there anyway?!'
The writing suddenly became much neater as Hermione took over;
'Don't mind Ron, Harry. With how lazy he is any work is manual labor. Mrs. Weasley is very worried about you living with werewolves and vampires! I bet you're learning loads about their culture! You'll have to tell me all about it!'
Harry inwardly groaned.
'Have you heard from Remus? He's been in and out quite a bit, but he did say he was getting the information he needed. Do be careful with that motor bike!
Love from,
Hermione
Oh and Ron too.'
Harry chuckled and set the letter aside picking up Remus'
'Dear Harry,
How are you holding up? You're not having any problems are you? Not getting into any trouble? I know you're muttering mollycoddling under you breath now, but as your guardian I reserve the right to worry and mollycoddle all I like.
I've gotten quite a bit on the Braeden Tree, and it looks like we're in a bit of trouble. I'll tell you what I know when I return to the country, obviously not until a few days after the full moon.
I know you're tired of hearing this but please be careful.
love, Moony'
'I don't think I'll tell Moony about the hunter just yet.' Harry mused as he picked up Dumbledore's letter.
'Harry,
I pleased to hear you are doing well in your training. I have been told the hunter Jaegar has recently come to Tiernan's castle. I ask you to please be weary around him, his kind have no scruples about hunting wizards, werewolves, or vampires.
On a lighter note, I hope Kenani enjoys his time with an entire pack of wolves to run with. No doubt Remus has already said this but to make sure it doesn't go in one ear and out the other, which I find to be the case with many people your age, please be careful.
As your birthday is coming up at the end of the month, would you like to have a meeting with Miss. Granger and Mr. Weasley? There is a new headquarters for the order now, and you are always welcome, should you need a place to stay.
Until September first,
Albus Dumbledore'
As Harry set the letter down a bag of Lemon Drops appeared next to the letter. Harry burst out laughing and popped one into his mouth.
After putting his mail away, to be answered later, Harry got his Firebolt out of his trunk and went out for a quick ride.
Tiernan's castle was very large, with many towers and open landings. Harry dove down, barely two or three inches from the thick grey stone of the tower. He pulled up sharply and spun around the spires of the smallest towers, than went back up where he stopped and hovered, overlooking the rugged land surrounding the castle.
Harry squinted and tried to concentrate on seeing the wards around the castle. Part of his training with Kali had been to see magic spells and wards. He saw a glimmer of light ahead of him, then.... nothing. Sighing in annoyance, Harry glanced down and saw the twins. They were backing away from the dark-haired man, Jaegar.
With a flash of panic, Harry dove sharply, pushing the firebolt to its limit. He pulled up and jumped off a few feet from the ground, landing in between the twins and the hunter.
The hunter stopped and looked Harry up and down closely before saying in a deep slightly annoyed voice, "What are you doing young wizard? You aren't a werewolf, why are you protecting these creatures?"
The twins whimpered in fear and hid behind Harry's legs, Harry clenched his fists, "These 'creatures' are only seven years old! Is there anything you won't-"
"Jeagar!"
Harry jumped slightly as he recognized Tiernan's voice.
Tiernan grabbed the hunter's left arm, the one closest to the knife, and spoke angrily but quietly into his ear. Now that Tiernan had pulled his arm back, Harry could now fully see the long unsheathed dagger. There was a long line of notches on one end and Harry had a sudden feeling of foreboding of what those notches probably meant.
Suddenly Tiernan released the hunter's arm and, after giving Harry a hard look up and down again, Jeagar turned and left.
Tiernan, up-close, looked tired and very tense, but that didn't lessen the effect of his hard glare at the twins, who scampered and bolted to their parents.
Tiernan sighed and turned to Harry, "Thank you Harry."
Harry nodded looking at him concerned, "Are you alright?"
Tiernan sighed again and ran a hand through his hair, "I'll be better when that hunter finally takes his leave. I shudder at the thought of having him here tonight." He looked up at Harry with a ghost of a grin, "So, going to reveal how you're going to make it through the night without becoming dog chow?"
Harry grinned, "You truly do have a way with word Tiernan.... and no I'm not."
Tiernan shook his head and clapped Harry on the shoulder once before walking back toward the castle.
A few hours later
Harry paced in his room waiting for the moon to fully rise. Finally the last of the human yells died out, being replaced by yips, barks, and howls.
Harry transformed and walked over to the mirror and looked at himself. A bronze wolf looked back at him, with a black blaze, mimicking his lightning bolt scar, which ran from the tip of his nose to the top of his head.
He headed toward the door and opened it with a turn of a paw. He soon joined the others outside, making them all jump slightly as they recognized his scent. The twins found him easily; they had dark brown coats with a white patch over opposite eyes. He had been mock fighting with them for a while when he was suddenly he was hit from the side knocked over.
Harry was up in an instant, intent on finding out who did that. He yelped when he recognized who it was, Tiernan.
Tiernan lowered himself to attack again, but this time Harry was ready. They fought for most of the night, never wounding to harm, but to see who the stronger wolf was. A group of wolves lazily watched their fight, forming a half circle around them. The twins and the other cubs yipped and barked adding to the din.
Harry suddenly got an idea and ducked under Tiernan, flipping him by jumping up when he was under Tiernan's stomach and then he pinned Tiernan to the ground. His victory was short lived, however, as Tiernan rolled them both over continuing the fight.
Only when the sun creped up over the mountains and its beams hit the wolves did the fight stop. They all gave a howl, Harry joining in for the heck of it, then began their transformation back to human. Harry lopped off, remembering Moony telling him once that it made the wolf very nervous to transform in front of others; that made him feel very helpless and vulnerable. He flopped down on the ground behind a boulder and started to clean his wounds. He shook himself and transformed back into human, then into his phoenix form.
His wounds instantly healed, he flew over to the werewolves and allowed his tears to fall onto Tiernan, who due to the fight was the only one injured.
As he started to wake, Harry flew up a few feet above the ground before transforming back into human. Tiernan watched with interest as the phoenix changed into his black-haired charge.
Tiernan gave a big yawn and sat up addressing Harry, "So, you're an animagus. Well giving credit where it's due, you're not a bad wolf."
"Hey!" Harry said indignantly, "Not bad? I nearly beat your old wolf hide thank you!"
"You're welcome." Tiernan said giving a very wolfish grin and throwing a cloak over his bear shoulders.
Harry looked around at the others who were doing the same and frowned slightly, "Tiernan, why is it that the others aren't hurt at all?"
"Well," Tiernan said grinning at him, "They were more interested in our fight than starting ones themselves," He laughed, "Lazy mutts!"
Harry rolled his eyes, "I meant from the transformation."
"Oh," Tiernan shrugged, "Only those loner wolves get hurt like that. They tear themselves up, I think because their separated from anything else."
Harry nodded and stretched his arms, smiling when he saw Marrok and Larentia pick up the twins, each one fast asleep in their parent's arms.
Tiernan nudged him suddenly and said when Harry looked at him, "Rematch next moon?"
Harry laughed, "Sure but you're going to lose."
Tiernan grinned federally, "We'll see about that, cub."
Harry smirked then asked suddenly, "What do the vampires do during full moons?"
Tiernan shrugged again, "I dunno, vampire stuff."
Harry rolled his eyes again, "You just know everything Tiernan."
"Of course I do." He replied smugly.
Harry yawned, "I'm going to bed." he said before transforming into his phoenix form again and taking off to his room.
Flying through the window half blinded by tiredness, Harry felt a vague sense of gratefulness that he had thought to leave it open from when he went flying.
A chuckle from the shadows woke Harry up completely and he looked up to see Vanora leaning against the wall watching him.
Harry sighed, "Beat it you over grown mosquito. I need to get some sleep."
Vanora laughed, making the hairs on the back of Harry's neck stand on end even though he knew she wouldn't harm him.
"Such manners little Kenani. The Lady Kali wishes you to meet her tonight for training."
Harry nodded wearily, "Please tell the Lady I'll be there."
Vanora nodded grinning at him showing off her fangs, making Harry promptly grin back showing off his normal teeth. She laughed again and walked out of the room careful not to step near the beams of sunlight coming from the open window.
Harry sighed and fell back on to the bed and into a, at first anyway, dreamless sleep.
A/N lol you haven't heard the last of the mosquito comments! Thanks for all the past reviews! I hope everyone likes my last part of the Phoenix series. Please review and I will continue it!!!