I in no way own Harry potter, High school DXD or any of the affiliated products. Cool now that is out of the way, this story was inspired by ideas from a whole bunch of other stories that I have read over my time. So if something is similar to another story then that is most likely as I have liked the idea, if I have read the story. I do give a shout out too, "The Autistic Anime-Gamer Guy" for the idea of armour that absorbs things.
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Chapter 2
Harry was sitting in charms class, watching intently as professor Flitwick went over the summoning spell. Harry looked at the feather in front of them, then looked out of the window. "Harry, I know you are worried, but that does not mean that you shouldn't pay attention. Harry, Harry." Hermione shook her head.
"Ouch, why did you poke me?" "To get your attention."
"Sorry, I was just thinking." Harry's head tilted to the side slightly and a half smile appeared on his face.
"Harry, you should really pay attention, all the spells that we learn could be useful. For example, the levitation charm from our first year. The charm its self does not actually levitate the thing what it does is create a force underneath the object to move it around. In that case accio is very similar to it, what it does is make a set of forces that make the object follow a path. What defines that path is unknown, but it has the basic same concept as the levitation spell."
"Does that mean that it can even affect an object that is magic resistant?"
"Yes it does, though the common problem and the reason why they are not used as much is that the further away the object the more magic it takes to move them. That is why spells such as 'moto imbuere' which is the spell that Ms Weasley uses to move all of the objects around her house at once… Harry are you even listening?"
"Sorry Hermione, I just had an idea on how to finish the first task. I still think that I should practice the seventh year spells, but they will only be the fall back.
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Hermione sat in front of the Gryffindor fire place, a battered leather book, tilted into it warm light. The book was battered though it seemed new, she flipped to the new page and a chapter title came up, 'Sacred Gears, What are they and how to find them." Hermione started to read, it would be a good many hours till she stopped for the night.
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The next morning Harry walked down to see Hermione perched on the back of the lounge. "Harry, I need to tell you something amazing, so…"
""And a good morning to you too Hermione." Harry said with a chuckle,
"Sorry, good morning, but I was reading The book last night. "
"The book Hermione, THE BOOK, which one of the books were you reading?" Harry turned to her and smiled as they left the common room. Hermione punched him in the arm,
"Prat, the book on demons, and I came across a thing in it. They are called sacred gears, and it says that any human can have one. It goes on to say that they are the system that god enacts miracles on earth. It says that there are more than one type, and there are many different powers. One type is the Longinus gears, it is the most powerful, and even have the power to kill a god. There are 4 known in the book, the holy spear; Divine Dividing, the Library of Alexandria and The boosted gear. Though from what he learn there are 13 of them, though he says that he has a suspicion that due the ability of sacred gears to evolve and grow, there might be more in the future… Sorry I am getting side tracked. There are also others that are more common, such as the twice critical, which doubles your strength for a little while. Now the writer of the book developed a spell that tell you if someone has a sacred gear. I want to you to cast it on me and see if I test positive, and I will cast it on you and see if you test positive." Harry raised a finger and opened his mouth. Hermione's cheeks started to go red, "Get you mind out of the gutter." Harry closed his mouth, but left his hand up. "Yes" Hermione stated exasperatedly,
"Would you be able to show me the spell?" Hermione brightened
"Of course harry, the spell is really simple the words are, ostende meam." She cast the spell on harry with a little down flick of her wand, as the spell finished harry started to glow a muddy brown colour. "Well that was not a colour that was stated, the spell was supposed to range in colour from yellow to red, with yellow being no gear. So do you think that you can you can do it?" Hermione looked at him,
"Well I can try can't I, ostende meam" Harry copied her movements perfectly and not even a moment later Hermione started to glow a deep rich red. Hermione's jaw dropped,
"I am red, I have a sacred gear!" She grabbed Harry into a hug,
"And I have poop, in both forms of that statement."
"Harry that is disgusting!" Hermione shouted,
"Well you were the one trying to squeeze me to death."
Hermione sighed and shook her head, "I will meet you in the great hall."
" OK Hermione see you in a sec"
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The day was finally here, the sky was blue the clouds had left, and the dragons could be heard roaring from the tent in which harry stood. The four champions stood around the tent, it was a warm day out, but the inside of the tent could not have been colder. The spell was soon broken by the arrival of more people, Dumbledore stepped up, everybody gather around please" his voice rang out across the tent, as all the campions walked towards him. Harry looked at the other champions, they all looked like they were about to do something really stupid, well they were, harry thought to himself.
"Barty if you please." Dumbledore stepped back letting Mr Crouch step into the gap.
"Now what you shall be facing is in this bag." Fleur looked at and snorted, crossing her arms under her breasts. "Now ladies first." Mr Crouch held out the bag towards Fleur who put her hand in to draw out the object.
"Ouch" Fleur squeaked her teeth gritting for a second.
"Are you ok Ms Delacour?" Mr Crouch asked.
"I am fine sir." fleur said breathlessly. He opened her hand to show a tiny little dragon that had blood dripping down it, fleur waved her wand over her hand and the cut was gone.
"Ahh, the Welsh Green."
In her hand was a tiny little dragon, no larger than a mouse. So it went with the other two, with Krum getting the Chinese Fireball and Cedric getting the Swedish short snout. The bag was the held out to Harry who looked at the bag with distain. He reached in to find a small copy of a Hungarian Horntail, It seemed to be sitting there trying to open its mouth to no success.
"We had to spell that one's mouth shut as it was biting the person making it as they were working" Came a voice from right behind Mr Crouch. Ludo Bagman stepped forward "Now that you know what you will be facing, I am going to tell you what you have to do. It is quite simple really, all you have to do it to retrieve an egg from beneath the dragon that you just got. Well not really that one, but a real dragon. You can do this" Bagman was almost jumping up and down as he said this,
"There are also safety precautions set up, the dragons should not be able to affect the crowd in any way, and we have both medical crews and dragon handlers on standby to pull you out if anything serious happens." Mr Couch said, in a tone that said he really did not want to have to deal with it.
Ludo jumped right back in "First up is Mr Diggory, When the cannon…" 'BOOM' A cannon blast echoed around the ten from nearby, "Well that is the signal, good luck." And in a heartbeat the tent was back down to the four tri-wizard competitors.
"You can do it Cedric, I know you can." Harry had spoken without even meaning too as the young boy stood up strait and walked towards the flap in the tent.
"Thank you Harry, I hope with both come out of this alive." As he finished his remark he left the tent. The tent was silent not even the cheers from the crowed getting to them. Harry looked around the room, Krum had gone and taken a seat in a low chair near the door, his fingers steepled in front of his face, eye's closed in concentration. Fleur was pacing, biting her thumb on here non-wand hand. Harry had never really looked at her well. Of course he had looked at her, what male in the school had not. She was in one word, stunning, but just saying that would have been like saying that water was wet. No, she was not unreasonably tall, standing at 5ft 10 inches if harry were to guess, she had curves that no Human could ever hope to replicate; with a perfect hourglass figure; and breasts that were the prefect size for her frame, to make them look big but not out of proportion. She had a perfect heart shaped but, with long legs that seemed to go on for ever… Harry shook himself, he was not as immune as he thought. Harry looked over to the flap as another cannon blast was heard. Fleur looked down at the little number around her dragon's neck, frowned and walked towards the tent flap.
The tent was empty apart from Harry, Krum had just left leaving harry alone. Harry got up from his seat, ok. "So list, Hermione told me that making a list of what to try was the best idea. OK, First parseltongue, it is unlikely to work, but if it does it could be the easiest way to finish it if the dragon dose not mind just giving me the egg. Next is simply lifting the egg with the levitation charm, nice and easy. Next is accio, if I can summon the egg then all's well that ends well. Lastly is stealth method, I really don't want to have to use this, I still can't perform all of the spells, so the dragon will probably be able to find me with smell or listening. I could also summon my broom."
Harry stood there scratching his chin as he muttered to himself. "No, using accio to get my broom is silly, that thing can shoot a spray of fire that would get me in a second on a broom."
Harry was jolted out of his thoughts as a large cannon blast was heard. Harry walked to the door of the tent, trying to calm himself, I have fought a millennium old basilisk, and this should not be that bad. The moment harry stepped out of the tent a wall of sound hit him. There were cheers, and roars and a spray of fire above the top of the arena, Harry proceeded to walked down the passage that was in front of him.
Ludo Bagman's voice could be heard above the din, "and our last contender is HARRY POTTER, BOY WHO LIVED and youngest seeker in a century. After the spectacular performance last round from Viktor Krum, how will Harry Approach the task?"
Harry walked out to the defining sound of cheers only to be looking into the face of a giant dragon.
"Well here goes nothing." Harry walked into the arena though a hole in the wards that was made for him.
"Great Dragon, please listen to me!" Harry hissed at the dragon. Only for the return to be a large gout of fire being directed towards him. Harry jumped to the side behind a giant bolder.
"Well, dragons aren't snakes, who knew." Harry peaked out from his hiding place looking at the location of the eggs.
"Darn" He whispered, the egg was not in sight, there were a whole bunch of other eggs, but not one that was distinctly unique, well there goes the summoning idea, can't take any old egg, Harry looked around the stands spotting Fred and George walking around with what appeared to be brief cases. Harry smiled, "Now that is an idea." Harry lifted up his wand a spun it around himself,
"face viderea" and he was gone. Well to the crowed he had seem to disappear he knew where he was, and when he looked down at his hands he could not see them at all. He waved his hands only to see a blur appear when they moved.
"Needs some more work." As he finished muttering to himself the dragon decided that enough was enough with the hiding, and started to shoot a stream of fire at the rock behind him. Harry ducked and rolled out of the way, and started running alone the outside edge of the circular arena. Harry got to the point where the Weasley twins were directly across from him and he acted.
"Accio dung bombs" Harry said in a clear voice only for the wards around the arena to glow for a moment before nothing. As he yelled out the dragon turned towards him and sent another gout of fire towards where he was standing. Harry jumped to the left rolling as he hit the ground, one more time, I will put a bit more power into it and see if I can get through the wards.
"ACCIO DUNG BOMBS!" Harry's bellowed as he pushed as much magic into the spell as he could, his wand started to heat up in his grip. And a second later a dozen small green spheres flew out of the twins robes and punched cleanly through the wards of the stadium. The dung bombs quickly came towards him at a huge speed, and in that same moment the dragon went to bite him. A green smoke billowed out from around the head of the dragon where that had hit. Harry ran, he continued to run the outside rink of the arena, until he spotted a hint of what appeared to be gold sitting in the middle of the eggs. Harry pointed his wand at the egg, and with a quick swish and flick motion the golden egg was off of the ground. The dragon who had been swishing it head to and fro, chose this moment to try and burn whatever it was that destroying its vision and smell.
The next thing to happen was something the crowed would never forget, the dragon blew a small tongue of fire out of its maw, and the was a massive explosion. The gas from the dung bombs had exploded with enough force to nearly knock the dragon over. Harry watched as the dragon fell sideways onto the ground.
"Well, does knocking a dragon out make me loose points?" Harry walked over to the golden egg and picked it up. Looking around the crowed was silent, Ludo was sitting there doing an impression of a goldfish. Harry walked out of the arena over through the hole in the wards that he came in through.
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Hermione ran up to harry just after he had walked out of the medical tent. Harry that was amazing. "You not only finished the task you got the highest of the scores. You also pulled off not one but two feats of magic that no one else has been able to do!" Harry looked at Hermione
"Well Hello there Hermione, Nice to see that you are happy I am not dead."
"Prat, I knew that you were not going to die, I have faith in you. Also the fact you have already faced a 1000 year old basilisk helps me trust that you won't die. Now do you realise what you have done? "Hermione looked at him with a glare that said it is obvious to everybody.
"I am going to go with, no."
"Well you successfully knocked out a dragon, which I have to say, is the lesser of the two things that you did. The other is that you punched through the wards, the wards that were designed to stand up to a dragon Harry."
"I am going to regret asking this, but why is me punching through the wards so impressive?" Hermione whole face lit up.
"Ok, so you know a balloon? Well wards are kind of like that, what you did was to punch a hole in that balloon."
"Hermione, it is really easy to pop a balloon?"
"It is when they are inflated, and as you inflate them more then get easier to break. The wards on the arena where like a really thick balloon, that had almost no area inside them. That makes them nearly as hard to break at they can be, you see?" Harry looked at her and started to walk slowly towards the castle.
" So what I did was to pop a balloon that should not be have been able to be popped? I still don't see how this is so impressive to you. Knocking out the dragon makes perfect sense, those things are scary tough, but the wards?" Hermione quickly caught up,
"You see Harry, when you try and break the wards the wards bend around the thing, and this is why it is easier to have a team when breaking them. When the wards bend around the point the wards get thicker and stronger, making them harder to break. What you did was punch through them. That means that you applied so much magical pressure that they were not even able to slow them down. Even Dumbledore would have hard an extremely hard time trying to do that, and he is considered the most powerful Wizard Alive."
They reached the front steps of the castle, "Well, I guess that explain why I was a bit tired after casting it." Harry turned at walked into the castle, Hermione shook her head.
"Only Harry." Before following him.
