October 31st, "All Hallows Eve" or better known as Halloween to the current residents of Hogwarts was a highly celebrated holiday worldwide, however in the magical world it had another meaning. The end of Voldemort's reign of terror by the hand of The-Boy-Who-Lived. Ironically the responsible of such feat was the only one brooding in the ancient castle. After all not many realized the meaning of this day for the young hero, the sacrifice of his mother, such a high price for his life.
Harry Potter couldn't stop the feeling of wrongness in his gut seeing all the decorations and anxious faces awaiting the final verdict of the Thriwizard Cup. His mind going over all the catastrophic events that Halloween brought. All the teen wanted was a quiet year, one, which would not put him in the spotlight for once, and the inevitable danger that it generated. Attention meant prying eyes, which made almost impossible to keep secrets and Harry Potter had a great secret, one no one even suspected, one that would not remain in the dark much longer.
"VICTOR KRUM" The young man was brought to attention when loud clapping received the Durmstrang champion and famous Bulgarian seeker.
With all of Durmstrang clapping, their Headmaster with an especially creepy smile, and most of his adoring fans, one Ron Weasley standing out.
"FLEUR DELACOUR" A pretty blond girl stood up greeted by another round of applause, mainly from the male audience, contrasting clearly with the sobbing from her fellow classmates.
"CEDRIC DIGGORY" called lastly the voice of the Dumbledore while sporting a benign encouraging smile for his student. The last champion received the most raucous cheering from all Hogwarts students, Hufflepuff being the most enthusiastic of all.
Just as the headmaster was congratulating the champions, the goblet turned a violent red expelling one more unexpected name leaving the Great Hall in silence.
"Harry Potter" barely passed Dumbledore's lips when suddenly the windows behind him exploded and as the tiny crystals were falling to the Great Halls' floor an enormous beast pounded over the professors' table fortunately not harming the professor apart from almost giving poor Professor Sprout a heart attack.
"Protego maxima!" Said with a confident and surprisingly calm posture the old man over the terrified screams only had his eyes wide open as the demon dog passed the blue shield as if it was merely mist.
"Reducto, petrificus totalus, bombarda!" Cast Mad Eye Moody beside him without any effect.
"Out of the way!" Another figure told the old man forcefully and as the creature's claws were millimetres from Dumbledore a blade pierced the beast's unprotected belly effectively turning it to dust.
There stood Harry Potter, still as a statue, a golden sword in his left hand and his wand on his right one. Muscles clenched and stance ready for fighting.
"Harry, my boy what-
Dozens of monstrous creatures leaped through the broken window and into the room where pandemonium reigned, the other champions had gotten out to check what was going on.
"Everyone stand to the wall! NOW!" Said the black haired boy with the most authoritative voice they ever heard from him, prompting both staff and student to do as he said.
Meanwhile he vanished his Hogwarts robes with a wave of his wand, leaving him in fitting jeans (for once) and a tight purple shirt showing off his surprisingly toned body. Who knew the boy-who-lived was not the scrawny little bot everyone thought?
As everyone begun to get out of the shock, Harry moved gracefully trusting his sword with fatal blows left and right, jumping over whole tables and predicting his enemies' movements in seconds. In just a few minutes the army of monsters was gone, leaving him with some light cuts all over his arms and light bruises forming in his skin. He had nothing serious except for the searing gash across his stomach, which was bleeding heavily tinting his shirt red.
"Harrison!" Came a feminine voice from the broken window. "Are you alright?"
In came a girl dressed for battle. Under her light armour you could see a purple t-shirt oddly similar to Harry's. She had braided dark brown hair and sharp features, along with high cheekbones. Her skin was tanned and overall she was extremely fit, although appeared worse for wear with some cuts and bags under her eyes matching her worries expression.
"I am Reyna, however what is the meaning of this? I thought monsters were not supposed to enter wizarding settlements?" Replied the boy in a heated whisper gratefully taking the ambrosia offered as the students watched in shock as his gash healed.
Meanwhile more and more children entered through the window dressed in heavy armour and standing perfectly straight after nodding respectfully at Harry. He immediately began giving orders like a general positioning the archers in high places while the rest of the soldiers faced the broken windows expecting more monsters. Draco Malfoy surprised everyone by joining in, a bow already in his hand.
"Hey Malfoy, what are you doing?" screamed Ron Weasley angry with the blonde for looking braver than the Griffindors.
"Following orders" was his only response.
"Things have changed since you left for school" continued Reyna overlooking the interruption "Trivia is still mad at Olympus and decided to take a higher risk. He allowed contact between your Dark Lord and Gaea."
"SHE DID WHAT!" He exclaimed making many in the Great Hall jump and loosing their stupor began murmuring. "Of all the possible ways of taking vengeance she chose the one that could potentially eradicate the whole wizarding community."
He closed his eyes and took some calming breaths letting a stone mask slide over his features.
"And the soldiers? It seems as if you brought the whole legion?" He asked now in a calm manner.
"Orders from Olympus" she said with a frown. "Plus I only brought you your precious 5th, gods know they need their leader."
"What, Gracie not doing his job?" Harry quipped amusedly.
"He would if dear Juno had not kidnaped him a month a go" she replied hotly.
"Well that sucks" shrugging not really caring for the son of Jupiter.
"So congratulations praetor" he groaned, "oh and did I mention your brother is coming?"
"Bloody Hell"
