A/N:I based this chapter partly on the twenty second chapter of the book: 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ', but I changed it a bit for this chapter.
For this chapter is it:
Crossover Power Rangers ((Super) Samurai & Dino (Super) Charge) and Harry Potter. Power Rangers Samurai make their appearance.
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters of the books, series, Manga/Anime and movies at all. They belong to their creators. I just own my O.C's.
Warning: No violence, Lemons or Character deaths detected in this chapter. Only some Dumbledore Bashing is detected.
Please enjoy the story.
Chapter 2: The Split
~30th of June~
The next morning, during breakfast, all the students were each sitting at their respective House table.
The Potter siblings, sister and brother, were having breakfast together with their friends from their House, Gryffindor.
Yoni Potter, a young woman of fifteen-years-old, was sitting with her best friends; Fred and George Weasley, and Lee Jordan.
Fred and George were both telling jokes while having breakfast, which made everyone laugh all around them.
Yoni's emerald green eyes sparkled as she laughed. Her long dark brown, almost black, hair was pulled into a ponytail, which fell over her shoulder.
A first year Hufflepuff came to her and gently tapped on her shoulder.
Yoni turned to the first year and smiled gently, to reassure the girl and not to frighten her.
"A letter for you and your brother. It's from the Headmaster, Professor Dumbledore." The girl said softly and gave both scrolls of parchment to Yoni.
Yoni thanked her and the girl quickly walked back to her own table. She passed the second scroll to Harry and opened her scroll. She read what Dumbledore had written on it in his neat curly handwriting.
Please come to my study after breakfast. I've something very important to tell you and your brother, before you both take the train back home for the holidays. It's about the both of you.
See you both soon
Professor Albus Dumbledore
Yoni looked a little puzzled at the sheet of parchment.
'What does Dumbledore want to tell us that can be so important, before we take the train back home for the summer?' She thought puzzled. She was actually quite curious what Dumbledore had to tell them.
"So, what does our dear old Headmaster want this time from you and your brother?" Fred asked curiously.
Yoni looked up and saw that her three best friends from in Gryffindor were looking curiously at her.
"Well, he wants to talk to me and Harry. I don't really know about what, but it seems to be urgent." She replied frowning.
"When do you've to go to him?" George asked just as curious as his twin brother.
"He wants to speak to us right after breakfast." She replied as she quickly reread the sheet of parchment.
"That's soon. You'll then find out what Dumbledore has to tell you." Lee said helpful, while he continued to eat his breakfast.
Yoni also continued to eat her breakfast.
"Tell us then later on the train what Dumbledore has said. I'm very curious what he has to tell you both." Fred said and Yoni nodded.
"That's what I was going to do, Fred. I was certainly not going to keep it secret from my best friends." She assured her three best friends.
"That's good to know." Fred and George said in unison.
Yoni and Lee chuckled for a moment and then they continued to eat.
When they were finished, they got up from the Gryffindor table and left the Great Hall together.
Also Harry and his friends, Ron and Hermione, had finished their breakfast and followed them closely. Then the group went up the marble staircase leading to the staircase with the moving stairs and false steps. A few floors up the group split up. Fred, George, Lee, Ron and Hermione continued to go up to the common room, which was guarded by the Fat Lady. Yoni and Harry went the other way, to Dumbledore's study.
"What would Dumbledore like to tell us so urgently?" Harry asked softly.
"I've no idea. We'll soon find out." Yoni said seriously and they were standing in front of the stone gargoyle, which led to the Headmaster's study.
"Euh… lemon drops?" Harry said hesitantly and the gargoyle hopped aside as the wall behind it split in two. They went up the spiral staircase and came to a gleaming oak door ahead with a brass knocker, in the shape of a griffon.
Yoni knocked on the door and they heard Dumbledore say on the other side of it: "Come in!"
Yoni opened the door and they entered a large circular room.
The room was covered with portraits of the previous Headmasters and Headmistresses. There were also funny little noises in the room, which came from the different silver instruments. These stood on spindle-legged tables.
Further into the room stood an enormous claw footed desk with behind it a chair with a high back. The chair almost looked like a throne and Professor Dumbledore was sitting on it.
Dumbledore looked up from some sheets of parchment that were laying on his desk.
"Ah Yoni, Harry. Please come further." He said jovially, and Yoni and Harry came closer. "Please sit down, sit down."
Dumbledore gestured with his hand at the two chairs that stood in front of his deks.
Yoni and Harry took a seat in these chairs and saw the Sorting Had was sitting on the shelf behind the desk. They saw the silver sword with red ruby possessed hilt of Godric Gryffindor gleaming in the display cabinet.
"You wanted to talk to us, Professor." Yoni said in a serious tone.
"Yes, I would like to talk to you both, before you get onto the Hogwarts Express. It's about where you both will be staying at during the holidays." Dumbledore said calmly and with twinkling eyes.
"What's with it, Professor?" Harry asked puzzled.
Yoni frowned. She, too, didn't understand much of it and had no idea where Dumbledore wanted to go with it.
"Well, I've come to the conclusion that you might be more in danger together. I think that you would attract far less danger, if you were both living somewhere else separately. So last night I decided that you'll be spending this holiday separated. This is for your own safety." Their Headmaster told them calmly.
Yon and Harry looked at him with open mouth and said then in unison: "WHAT!"
"I'm sorry, but to me this seems to be the only solution for your safety." Dumbledore said with a sad grandfatherly smile.
"But where are we each going to stay for this holiday?" Harry asked startled. He slowly began to have a panic attack.
"Well Harry, you're just going back to the Dursleys as usual, but Yoni on the other hand will be going to somewhere else. She's going to the Shiba House in Panorama City. Last night a good friend of mine came to see me. He lives with the Shiba Heir in the house and trains him to prepare him to protect the world from monsters. My friend, Ji, also thinks that it's a good idea that Yoni moves in with them. He'll be waiting for her the behind the barrier in the Muggle World with your Uncle." The old man explained calmly, while he carefully studied their reactions. "I've already informed your Uncle and Aunt of this."
Harry turned pale and stood on the verge of a panic attack.
Yoni got a bad feeling in her stomach. Her feeling made it clear to her that this was going to be a very bad idea.
"But Professor, we've never really been separated for a long time." She tried to explain to Dumbledore. She knew very well what the Dursleys would do to Harry, if she wasn't there with them to protect him.
Harry nodded and pleaded then: "Please Professor, can I go with my sister to the Shiba House too? I wouldn't get in anyone's way and I'll behave myself well while I'm there."
"I'm sorry, Harry, but I can't do that." Dumbledore apologized.
Harry looked sadly down at his hands, which were laying onto his lap. Both Potter siblings didn't like this at all.
Yoni knew that their friends were going to be furious, when they heard about this and would protest against it. She knew that they would jump off the moving train and would go back to Hogwarts to demand Dumbledore that they both have to go to the same location.
"It's time for you to return to the Gryffindor common room. The carriages will be arriving soon to take you all to the Hogwarts Express." Dumbledore said calmly and the Potter siblings nodded.
They got up and left the study of the Headmaster. They walked back to the staircase and went up to the seventh floor where the portrait of the Fat Lady was.
"I don't want to go to the Dursleys on my own. I want to go to the Shiba House with you." Harry whispered keeping his eyes on the floor.
Yoni placed a hand on his shoulder and squeezed in it.
"I know, little brother. I would also have preferred that you came with me, then leave you all alone with the Dursleys. I don't trust it." She said softly.
"What will we tell our friends?" He asked somewhat uncertain.
"The truth, of course. I'm actually curious about their opinions, but I've an idea about their reaction when they hear about this." She replied immediately and they were standing in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady, who guarded the entrance to their common room.
The portrait asked for the password, which they gave and it swung open. Through which an opening appeared and they crawled through it.
In the common room they saw that there were still a few students present in the large room, who were busy packing their trunks at the last minute.
Yoni saw that their trunks with Hedwig's cage, Prudentia's cage and Harena's travel basket on top of them stood by the noticeboard.
"I think that Fred, George, Lee and Ron have done this for us, so that after the conversation with Dumbledore we can go to meet them at the stone steps for the carriages." Yoni said with a smile and pointed to their belongings.
Harry smiled and said: "That's nice of them and it's also very convenient."
"Shall we go to them?" She asked her brother and he nodded.
They took their belongings with them and left the common room by crawling back through the entrance. They walked down the stairs, including the marble staircase and saw their friends standing in the entrance hall. Their friends waved to them and the siblings walked straight towards them.
"I see that you've found your things in the common room." Lee said with a broad smile.
"Yes, thanks everyone. That was very helpful." Yoni said gratefully with a broad smile to their friends.
"And it was also very convenient." Harry added with a smile.
Lee, Fred, George and Ron grinned, and Hermione giggled at Harry's reaction and behaviour.
"So, what did Professor Dumbledore wanted to tell you?" Hermione asked curiously.
Because of that question Yoni's and Harry's smile fell away.
"Can we discuss that later on the train please?" Yoni asked uncomfortably.
"But…" Ron began, but Harry shook his head.
"Not here. Let's talk about this on the train, where we can sit quietly together in a compartment." Harry said urgently.
Their friends looked at each other in uncertainly, before they looked back at Yoni and Harry again.
"Please, we will tell you everything. I promise." Yoni promised pleading.
Harry nodded in agreement and looked at them pleadingly.
"Okay, we'll do that." Fred said with a deep sigh.
"Yes, that's what friends are for." George added lightly.
"I'm going to look for Tim and tell him to come to our compartment for a very important discussion." Lee said hastily and disappeared into the sea of students, looking for their friend, while he left his things with them.
They waited for him, while they were also on the lookout for the carriages.
Not much later, Lee came back and stopped next to them.
"Tim will come and sit with us in the compartment, before the train leaves the Hogsmeade station." He reported to his friends.
Yoni nodded and looked then to Harry and his friends.
"Are you going to look for an own compartment or are you going to sit with us in the same compartment, when the train leaves?" She asked them.
Harry looked at Hermione and Ron, who nodded.
"We'll come and sit with you in the same compartment." Harry said and his sister nodded in understanding.
"Okay, that's good. Then we might be sitting a bit cramped in a compartment, but we'll make sure that we've enough space to put our belongins and sit down." Yoni said with a smile and Harry giggled when he thought about how they all would be sitting in one compartment. He fantasized that everyone were sitting just like sardines next to each other with very little legroom, because the trunks couldn't all fit in the racks above their heads.
"I hope we can arrange the trunks well so that we still have enough room for our legs and to sit down." He said with a broad grin.
Yoni chuckled and said: "We'll see about that, when we're in the compartment."
"Hey! There are the carriages!" Fred and George chorused out.
They saw how the carriages without horses rode over the driveway. Once these stopped, the students stepped into a carriage by four or five.
Yoni joined Fred, George and Lee with their trunks in a carriages. The others stepped into another carriage together with someone else.
When the students were all in a carriage, these carriages started to move again and rode to Hogsmeade station.
When the carriages arrived at the station, everyone got out and the platform of the small station colored black from the students' black school robes and became a little overcrowded.
It was shoving and dragging to get through the crowded platform with their trunks and all. They arrived at a train car.
Fred and George went through the door of the car first. Fred took all the trunks and George put it in an empty compartment.
Yoni entered the compartment and began to give their trunks a place.
Fred, George and Lee helped by lifting some trunks onto the racks and slide them under the benches.
Tim Slytherin, a fourteen-year-old boy with short blond hair and blue eyes, arrived at their compartment and shoved his trunk neatly under a bench.
The cages of the owls were placed in the racks with the trunks. The travel baskets of Harena and Crookshanks were first opened by Yoni and Hermione. Then they all took a seat in their compartment.
Yoni and Harry sat down next to each other on a bench.
Yoni sat next to the window with Harena on her lap. Harry sat on her right with Hermione and Ron sitting on his other side. Tim, Fred, George and Lee were sitting in front of them. As soon as they were seated and all the students were on board, the train began to pull out of the station.
When the train was pulling out of the station, the six friends looked at the Potter siblings curiously.
"Well, what did the old goat of a Headmaster wanted to tell to you this time?" Tim asked casually.
"Tim! Have some respect for Professor Dumbledore!" Hermione said sternly to the young Slytherin, but he just rolled his eyes.
"He'll only get my respect if he doesn't use my two best friends as weapons, no longer holds them under his thumb, tells no more lies about people and no longer manipulates people to do his dirty work. But that will not happen very soon." He brought angrily against it and crossed his arms.
"Actually Tim's right, Hermione." Ron admitted. "He has no respect for other people's opinions and feelings."
Hermione sighed and said: "I'm sorry. I've learned to always have respect for authorizing figures."
"I don't care." Tim said casually and irritated. "So, tell me what the old goat wanted this time from the both of you."
"Yes, tell us." Fred said excited.
"Don't keep us any longer in suspense! Tell us!" George continued.
Yoni and Harry just looked at each other for a short moment.
"Well, he wanted to tell us that he made a very 'important' decision last night." Yoni began and made a gesture with both her index and middle fingers to quoted the word 'important'.
"What kind of 'important' decision did the old Headmaster make this time?" Lee asked puzzled with frowning eyebrows.
"He made this decision for our safety. He thought that together we're no longer safe and that we would attract more danger than we are separated from each other." Yoni continued.
"That's not true!" Ron growled angrily.
"To be honest, I agree with Ron." Hermione said wisely. "Together Yoni and Harry are much safer. If Harry or Yoni are alone, than it's actually very dangerous.
"Hey!" Yoni exclaimed with a pout.
Hermione smiled nervously and said: "Well, Harry draws more danger to himself than Yoni does."
"Go on. What else did Dumbledore say about his decision?" Fred asked curiously.
"He intends to send us each to another place to stay for the summer." Harry said quietly, almost inaudible to the others.
"But where will you both each go?" George asked with a raised eyebrow and sat on the edge of the bench.
The others also sat on the edge of the bench.
"He sends Harry as usual back to the Dursleys and me to a bunch of strangers in a strange place." Yoni declared quickly.
Their friends looked at them with open mouth, while the information got through to them.
"WHAT!?" They all six shouted in fury and surprised.
"You don't mean that, do you?" Fred and George asked in disbelief.
"Unfortunately yes." Harry said sadly.
"Has Dumbledore completely gone mad?!" Ron asked furiously.
"Ron!" Hermione said sternly and disapprovingly.
"What, Hermione! It's true! That old man really has gone mad!" He said hotly.
"He was that already for a very long time." Fred said with a broad smile.
George laughed, but Hermione didn't laugh at all and looked angrily at the three Weasley brothers.
"Okay, Professor Dumbledore has gone made, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have respect for a Professor." Hermione said frustrated.
"Well, I think Professor Dumbledore totally doesn't deserve respect at all. Not from anyone. He doesn't care at all about other people, but only about himself and his carefully planned plans." Tim said fiercely.
"And if Dumbledore really cared about other people, then he would have sent Yoni and Harry together to someone who knows them well and not the other way around." Fred added.
"Shouldn't seperate them apart or send Yoni to the Dursleys or to strangers." George continued.
Hermione sighed in frustration and knew that they all were right about Dumbledore. The man often wore a mask of a wise and caring grandfather, but underneath it was his real face. The face of a dark manipulative monster, who shows itself very little and that was very well hidden behind that grandfather's mask.
There were only a few people, who Hermione knew, that could see straight through that mask, but she knew that there were more people out there who could. Even she herself was able to take a peek under that mask, when it just had dropped a little bit.
"Okay, you're right. Dumbledore isn't as good as he holds himself to the rest of the Wizarding World." She admitted.
Fred, George, Ron, Tim and Lee sighed in relief.
"Finally, you see it now." Ron said with a smile.
Hermione smiled nervously and said: "I had known that Dumbledore wasn't very good, but I didn't dare to believe it. I was, let's say, in the denial phase."
"It's good that you're now out of that phase and that you've accepted that Dumbledore is one of the bad guys." Tim said with satisfaction.
For the rest of the journey back to King's Cross they didn't speak about Dumbledore's decision and Hermione gave Harry and Ron some surprising news.
"I went to see Professor McGonagall this morning just before breakfast. I've decided to drop Muggle Studies." She announced.
"But you passed your exam! You had three hundred and twenty per cent!" Ron said surprised.
"I know," Hermione sighed. "but I can't stand another year like this one. That Time-Turner, it was driving me mad. I've handed it in. Without Muggle Studies and Divination, I'll be able to have a normal timetable again."
"I still can't believe you didn't tell us about it." Ron said grumpily. "We're supposed to be your friends!"
"I promised I wouldn't tell anyone." Hermione said severely. She look passed Ron at Harry, who was looking absently out of the window and petted Harena's head. She saw that Yoni also was looking absently out of the window. Fred, George and Lee were talking quietly about their jokes and future plans. Tim was deeply absorbed in a book.
"Oh, cheer up, Harry, Yoni!" Hermione said sadly.
"I'm okay." Harry said quickly. "I was just thinking about the holidays."
"Everything will be alright." She said encouragingly. "Hopefully." The latter came out a little uncertain.
"Yeah, I've been thinking about them too. Yoni, Harry, you've got to come and stay with us. Fred, George and I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you both. I know how to use a fellytone now…" Ron said with a smile.
"A telephone, Ron." Hermione said. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year…"
"Yeah, Ron." Fred agreed.
"Then you can explain everything you've learned about Muggles that year to Dad." George continued.
Ron ignored them.
"It's the Quidditch World Cup this summer! How about it, Harry? Come and stay, and we'll go and see it! Dad can usually get tickets from work." Ron said full of enthusiasm.
This proposal had the effect of cheering Harry up a great deal.
"Yeah… I bet the Dursleys'd be pleased to let me come… especially after what I did to Aunt Marge…" Harry said cheerful.
Feeling considerably more cheerful, Harry joined Ron, Hermione, Fred, George and Lee in several games of Exploding Snap, and when the witch with the tea trolley arrived, brother and sister bought themselves a very large lunch, though Harry didn't take anything with chocolate in it. While Yoni did.
But it was late in the afternoon before the thing that made Harry truly happy turned up.
"Harry." Hermione said suddenly, peering past him and Ron. "What's that thing outside the window?"
Yoni and Harry turned to look outside.
Ron, Fred, George, Lee and Tim also looked outside.
Something very small and grey was bobbing in and out of sight beyond the glass.
Harry stood up for a better look and saw that it was a tiny owl carrying a letter, which was much too big for it. The owl was so small, in fact, that it kept tumbling over in the air, buffeted this way and that in the train's slipstream.
Harry quickly pulled down the window, stretched out his arm and caught it. He brought it carefully inside.
Yoni stared attentively at the little owl and thought it looked like a very fluffy Snitch.
The owl also drew the attention of Fred, George, Lee and Tim. The owl dropped its letter onto Harry's seat and began zooming around their compartment, apparently very pleased with itself for accomplishing its task. Hedwig clicked her beak with a sort of dignified disapproval. Prudentia followed the owl with her amber eyes and screeched softly. Harena followed the owl with her eyes and watched it closely. Crookshanks sat up in his seat, following the owl with his great yellow eyes.
Noticing this, Ron snatched the owl safely out of harm's way.
"Be careful, Harry. I think that Ron is out to get your spot on the Gryffindor team as Seeker." Fred said laughing.
"Ah, shut up, Fred." Ron said softly.
Harry picked up the letter, which was addressed to him and Yoni, and ripped it open.
"It's also for you, sister." He said softly.
Yoni looked curiously at her brother and he shouted : "It's from Sirius!"
"Wait a minute, that's your godfather, right Harry?" Tim wondered, and Fred, George and Lee looked at Harry with wide eyes.
Harry nodded and then said: "And he's Yoni honorary Uncle and was wrongfully accused by the Ministry for treason and murder."
Fred, George, Lee and Tim nodded in understanding and believed his explanation of Sirius Black.
"Well, read your letter aloud. I'm curious what he has to say." Tim said interested and leaned back.
Dear Yoni and Harry
I hope this letter finds you both before you reach your Aunt and Uncle, because I don't know whether they're used to owl post.
Buckbeak and I are in hiding. I won't tell you where, in case this letter falls into the wrong hands. I've some doubt about the owl's reliability, but he's the best I could find and he did seem eager for the job.
I believe the Dementors are still searching for me, but they haven't a hope of finding me here. I'm planning to allow some Muggles to glimpse me soon, a long way from Hogwarts, so that the security on the castle will be lifted.
There is something I never got round to telling you both during our brief meeting, but it was I who sent you the Firebolt and the titanium bracelet.
"Ha!" Hermione said triumphantly. "See! I told you that those were from him!"
"Yes, but he hadn't jinxed those, had he?" Ron said. "Ouch!"
The tiny owl, now hooting happily in his hand, had nibbled one of his fingers in what it seemed to think was an affectionate way.
Fred and George both roared in laughter and Tim rolled his eyes at their behaviour.
"Bracelet? Is it that bracelet in which lilies, dragons and wolves are engraved on?" Lee asked thoughtfully.
Yoni nodded and pulled up the sleeve of her blouse so everyone could see the titanium bracelet.
"Did you give it to the Professors to investigate it for Dark curses or spells?" Hermione asked curiously.
Yoni shook her head and said: "No, I did that myself. I only found protective spells on it. No curses, nothing."
Hermione looked at her with big brown eyes and wanted to ask her some questions about it, but Harry continued to read his letter.
Crookshanks took the orders to the Owl Office for me. I used your names, but told them to take the gold from Gringotts vault number seven hundred and eleven, my own. Please consider it as twelve birthdays worth of presents from your godfather and Uncle.Harry up a great deal.
I would also like to apologise for the fright I think I gave you both, that night last year when you both left your Uncle's house. I had only hoped to get a glimpse of you two before starting my journey north, but I think the sight of me alarmed the both of you.
I'm enclosing something else for you two, which I think will make your next year at Hogwarts more enjoyable.
If ever you two need me, send word. Your owls will find me.
I'll write again soon.
Sirius
Harry looked eagerly inside the envelope. There were two other pieces of parchment in there. He pulled them both out and handed a sheet of parchment to Yoni.
Yoni looked over Harry's shoulder to see what was written on his piece of parchment.
I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmeade at weekends.
"That'll be good enough for Dumbledore!" Harry said happily.
Yoni looked then at the parchment in her hands. She unfolded it.
I, Sirius Black, Yoni Potter's honorary Uncle, hereby give her permission to visit Hogsmeade at weekends.
Yoni got a smile on her lips. She saw that Harry looked back at Sirius' letter.
"Hang on, there's a PS…" He said.
I thought your friend Ron might like to keep this owl, as it's my fault he no longer has a rat.
Ron's eyes widened. The minute owl was still hooting excitedly.
"Keep him?" He said uncertainly. He looked closely at the owl for a moment and then to everyone's great surprise, he held him out for Crookshanks to sniff.
"What d'you reckon?" Ron asked the cat. "Definitely an owl?"
Crookshanks purred.
"That's good enough for me." Ron said happily. "He's mine."
"Crookshanks would be a very good Animagi Detective for the Auror Office of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry." Lee said with a broad smile.
"Yes, that's possible. Dad can ensure that he's accepted by the Head of the Auror Office." Fred said smiling.
"Auror Crookshanks." George said thoughtfully. "That doesn't sound so bad."
Everyone therefore had to laugh and could clearly picture Crookshanks, who had his own desk at the Auror Office, an Auror medal on his collar around his neck and sniffing everyone, animals and humans alike.
Harry reread the letter from Sirius all the way back to London.
This gave Yoni an idea, so Harry would still be safe from the Dursleys. Certainly and especially from Uncle Vernon.
"Harry, I've an idea, but for that you'll need Sirius' letter." Yoni said with a broad grin.
"Okay. What's your plan, sister?" He asked curiously and the others in the compartment looked at her curiously.
"My plan is that when you get off the train with this letter in your hand and go to Uncle Vernon with it. You tell him that Sirius is your godfather and my Uncle. That he also is a fugitive mass murderer." She explained her plan.
"You know that Sirius is innocent for that." Harry said softly.
"Of course I know that, but the Dursleys don't know that. So let them shiver in fear." She said with a cunning grin.
Harry thought about it for a moment and found that it was a good idea.
"You're right, sister. Uncle Vernon doesn't know that." Harry said with a smile.
"For as long as Dumbledore doesn't say anything about it." Ron said darkly.
"I hope not." Yoni sighed.
"We all hope so." Hermione said with a deep sigh.
For the rest of the journey they didn't talk about it anymore and only talked about other topics, that were much more nicer.
The train slowly began to decrease in speed. They knew that they were almost in London and put away their things.
Yoni and Hermione put Crookshanks and Harena each in their own travel basket.
Tim put his book away again as soon as the train slowly pulled into the station.
First they removed the trunks from under the benches.
The ones, who had their trunks underneath it were the first ones to leave the compartment and walked onto the crowded corridor.
Fred and George removed the trunks from Yoni and Harry from the rack, when they removed the cage from Hedwig and Prudentia off it themselves.
Harry left the compartment with all his belongings and held Sirius' letter clutched into the other hand.
Yoni followed him closely with her belongings in both hands, as Fred and George took their trunks from the other rack and followed her hastily.
Together with their friends, Yoni and Harry stepped back through the magical barrier of platform nine and three-quarters. They spotted Uncle Vernon at once. He was standing a good distance from Mr and Mrs Weasley and was eyeing them suspiciously. His worst suspicions about them seemed confirmed, when Mrs Weasley hugged Harry in greeting. Then she let him go and hugged Yoni too in greeting.
Over Mrs Weasley's shoulder Yoni saw that there stood another man next to Uncle Vernon. He wore a traditional Japanese kimono that was in orange and black. The top of the kimono was orange with some golden and black designs on the edges. The lower part of it was completely in black.
'That must be mentor Ji.' Yoni thought gloomily, but smiled at Mrs Weasley as she let her go.
"I'll call about the World Cup!" She heard Ron say cheerful to Harry, as she bid Fred, George, Lee and Tim goodbye.
"Write to us Yoni. Let us know how you're doing." Tim said with a serious look in his eyes and Yoni nodded.
Together Yoni and Harry wheeled each their own trolley bearing their trunks, Hedwig's and Prudentia's cages, and for Yoni Harena's travel basket towards Uncle Vernon and mentor Ji. Uncle Vernon greeted them in his usual fashion.
"What's that?" He snarled to Harry and stared at the envelope Harry was still clutching in his hand. "If it's another form for me to sign, you've got another…"
"It's not." Harry said cheerfully, which was well acted. "It's a letter from my godfather."
"Godfather?" Uncle Vernon spluttered. "You haven't got a godfather!"
Yoni got a small sly smile on her lips. She knew that Uncle Vernon would deny that Harry had a godfather.
"Yes, I've." Harry said acting brightly. "He was our mum and dad's best friend. He's Yoni's honorary Uncle. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with us, though… keep up with our news… check we're happy…"
Yoni carefully observed her Uncle. She was very pleased to see the horror on his face.
"Say goodbye to your sister. You'll not see her again for the entire holiday." He said harshly and heartless. "That will be until the first of September." And walked then away to the exit.
Yoni and Harry hugged each other firmly. Harry held onto his sister firmly and desperately.
Yoni held her brother firmly pressed against her. She wished that she could take him with her and protect him from anyone who wanted to harm him.
"Keep me informed of what's happening at the Privet Drive, okay?" Yoni said softly in Harry's short untidy jet-black hair.
Harry nodded and reluctantly let her go. He sobbed softly.
"And remember. Mirror, mirror in my hand, show me the person that I'm looking for?" She whispered with a smile and in a mysterious tone.
Harry nodded and smiled again.
"You'll come when I need you?" He asked softly.
"Always. I'll know when I've to come and get you." She said reassuring in his ear.
Harry walked then towards the station exit, while Hedwig's cage was rattling along in front of him on the trolley.
Yoni looked after him and hoped that Harry would have a better summer than last year at the Dursleys. Yet she still had a bad feeling in her stomach that that wouldn't happen.
Then Yoni looked at mentor Ji.
"Shall we go, Yoni?" Ji asked with a friendly smile.
Yoni nodded in silence and followed him closely as he walked towards the exit.
At the entrance she left the trolley behind with the others trolleys.
Ji took her heavy trunk and Yoni carried both Prudentia's cage and Harena's travel basket. He led her to a remote area of the station.
Yoni looked nervously around and looked at Ji in somewhat suspiciously. She wasn't sure if she could trust him. She watched as he pulled a golden brown phone from his robe. He opened it and looked at her with a smile.
"I've an easy way to get out of here." He said with a smile and made a some smooth movements with his hand and phone.
Because of these movements a Japanese symbol appeared onto the wall in a golden brown color. The symbol '門' opened a portal.
Yoni looked with big eyes at the portal and Ji.
Ji looked at her with a smile and said: "Go through it. This portal will take you to your new home. I'll go through it after you."
Yoni went hesitantly and shyly through the portal. She came out on the other side and turned back to it. She saw that Ji came through with her trunk and it closed again behind him.
"This is your new home, Yoni." Ji said softly and smiled to Yoni.
Yoni turned around again. This time she turned her attention to the house.
The house was large and modern. It consisted of white stone and light brown wood. It also had a Japanese style in the decorations.
Yoni thought it was a nice house. She followed Ji to the double black front door. She stepped on a wooden platform, as Ji opened one of the double doors. She went inside and stood in a small hallway with another double black door before her.
Yoni noticed that the hallway was decorated in the somewhat old Japanese style, more of the warriors in Japan. The Samurai.
Ji closed the first black door behind him and opened then another door of the next double black door. Now they came into the living area of the house.
Yoni followed him further into the house, as he led her to her room.
Ji opened one of the few black doors of a and let Yoni enter the room first.
"This is your room. You're allowed to organise and decorate it as you wish." He said as he entered the room with the trunk and placed it on the bed.
"Okay, thanks mentor Ji." Yoni said smiling.
"Please, call me Ji." He said with a smile, before he added to it. "Shall I give you a tour around the house? Then afterwards you can unpack your things and decorate your room to your liking."
"Okay, that's a good idea." Yoni agreed as she put the travel basket on the bed and the cage on the desk.
They both left the room ad Ji started with his tour of the Shiba House. He showed her the two training areas outside of the house. One training area was just in front of the house and the other was somewhere secluded in the garden. Around the house there was a high wall with a wooden gate in the Japanese style. Outside there was a terrace with a modern barbeque underneath a wooden roof, close to the training area in front of the house. Inside the house there was an indoor training area and directly opposite to it was the family room.
"Here will the Rangers discuss their strategies. This is also where they first receive the first response of where possible monsters had emerged and how they've entered into our world." Ji told her and Yoni listened carefully.
He showed her where the kitchen was, next to the family room and the infirmary, to the right side of the main entrance in the hallway. Once he finished the tour, he escorted her back to her room and left her there to get settle.
Yoni looked around her new room for the first time. The room was painted into a light color. There was a bed in the corner by the window with a bedside table next to it and a night lamp on it. The mattress seemed very fluffy and the pillows also seemed to be very soft and well shaken up, so that they were bulged. Ready to be slept on. The sheets were white or almost light gray in color.
There was a desk that stood halfway across the room and it was made of dark wood.
When she turned back to the door, she saw a closet in the right corner, right next to a white wall, which looked a lot like a Japanese sliding wall and windows. There was a door in the wall, which she opened curiously. Behind that door there was a private bathroom. There was a white sink in front of the door with a mirror above it. On the right was there a toilet and on the left a bathtub with a shower curtain. Between the bathtub and sink was a large wicker open cupboard, of which the shelves were filled with fluffy white towels in three sizes; small, large and average, and rolls of toilet paper.
Yoni left the bathroom and walked to the bed, which was where her trunk was laying on. But first she freed Harena out of her travel basket and Prudentia out of her cage.
Prudentia spread her huge black gray wings and flew towards the closet, where she settled down on top of it. Harena lay down on the bed and looked curiously around the room.
Yoni pulled all her clothes out of her trunk and placed all her school robes and Muggle clothes, which just had been washed by the school's house elves, in the closet. She pulled out all the other things from her trunks, such as; her toilet bag, cauldron, school textbooks, sheets of parchment, jars of ink, quills, candy,… which she had purchased in large quantity on the train… sketchbooks, several boxes full of sketch pencils, crayons, paint and paint brushes, books, broomstick, telescope, brass scales, a box full of crystal vials with ingredients for potions, shoulder bag, her Crystal of Neahtid, her magical hand mirror and Harena's sleeping basket.
When her trunk was completely empty, she closed the lid, pulled it from the bed and placed it in the corner to the left of the door, a little further from the foot end of the bed. She placed her cauldron and box with potion ingredients in the closet. She placed the hand mirror and the Crystal into the top drawer of the bedside table. Harena's sleeping basket was placed in front of the bedside table, so that Harena could sleep on the bed or in her basket during the night. She placed the scales on the box with ingredients in the closet. She placed her telescope in the corner with her trunk. Her school textbooks, sheets of parchment, jars of ink, quills, sketchbooks, boxes full of drawing, coloring and painting tools, and reading books she placed orderly on her desk, but she found that there was very little storage room for these items. She threw her shoulder bag into the cauldron and the broomstick hid in a gap, that was between the wall and the closet. She put her toilet bag on the sink in her bathroom.
Yoni didn't know exactly where she could store her large amount of candy. At the Dursleys she hid her candy in a secret and secure compartment of her trunk. Because of this Dudley could never reach to her candy, because he wouldn't be able to find this compartment. He only would find joke candy which she had bought in Zonko's Joke Shop during her last visit to Hogsmeade.
Now she didn't know whether her new housemates were also sweet tooths, but she would find out sooner or later. So she put her stock of candy in the bottom drawer of the bedside table. She glanced around her new room for a moment and saw what was still lacking to dress and decorate it with color. Maybe she could ask Ji for the necessary material to decorate and dress her room. She also had some questions for him about the Rangers, monsters and other things. So she walked to the door and opened it. She stepped out of her room and wanted to close it just as Harena slid through the doorway.
Yoi chuckled softly and went to the family room, while Harena followed her closely. They came into the family room and Yoni saw that Ji was sitting on one of the five sand-colored hocker couches. He looked up when he heard her coming closer.
"Have you been able to unpack everything and give it a place?" He asked curiously and smiled.
"Yes, but there isn't enough place for some of my things." She admitted honestly, as she took a seat on a hocker couch opposite of Ji with a wooden rectangular coffee table between them.
"Really? Maybe you've some ideas to make your room more yours?" Ji asked interested and she nodded. "Maybe you could write these ideas down and then I'll see what I can do with it."
Yoni nodded again and said: "Ji, I actually have some questions for you."
"Just ask them and I'll answer them as well and honest as possible." He said relaxed.
"How many Samurai Rangers are there?" She asked curiously.
"For every generation there are five Rangers. Each Ranger has his or her own color and FoldingZord-animal." Ji replied.
"What colors do they have? What is a FoldingZord?" She asked and her curiosity only increased.
"The colors are red, blue, green, pink and yellow. These colors also symbolize the power an element. A FoldingZord is an animal, some kind of machine, like origami. The Rangers each have a Zord in their own color. They use these Zords to fight evil monsters." He explained and Yoni eagerly processed the information.
"You said that the colors each represent an element as its power. So red has the power of the element fire. Blue has the power over the element of water. Yellow holds the power of the element of earth. What element do the colors pink and green actually have?" She said frowning.
"Pink possesses the powers of the element of air and green has that of nature. However more of the forest." Ji continued for her and she nodded.
"Against what kind of monsters do Rangers fight?" She asked somewhat puzzled.
"They fight the monsters, who we call the Nighloks. They also have a very large army of monsters, called the Moogers. These monsters live in another dimension, a dark world. This world is called the Netherworld. The Nighloks want to conquer our world and engulf it with their toxic water from the Sanzu River. The Samurai Rangers have to stop this, so that our world would be safe." He told her and she nodded in understanding.
"Do they know anything about magic or its existence?" She asked a little uncomfortably.
"They know about the exitance of magic, but rather those of their symbols." Ji said. "Only they don't know about the existence of your kind of magic. So I advise you not to say anything about it or use it."
"Okay, but what if they find out that I've magic? What should I do?" She said, as she thought of the moment when the Rangers would find out that she has magic.
"Then you'll just come and tell me, and then we'll explain it together to them." He reassured her.
Yoni sighed in relief and relaxed again.
Harena suddenly jumped onto a hocker couch next to her mistress.
Ji looked surprised and asked smiling: "Who is this?"
"This is Harena. She's a Lynx, but she's still a cub." Yoni said as she stroked over Harena's sand-colored fur.
The Lynx purred in satisfaction.
"Does she like human company?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, she likes human company very much, but it depends on how this company behaves towards her and myself. She can be very protective and could possibly attack someone if they ignore her warnings." She said as she watched the young Lynx lazily observed Ji, whether or not he was deceiving them and Prudentia.
"Good that you warn me about this. And your owl?" Ji said gratefully and curious.
"Prudentia is a very intelligent owl, like Harry's owl, Hedwig. She can attack if she feels threatened or if she feels that I'm being threatened." Yoni quickly made it clear.
"Those are very loyal and faithful familiars that you've there." He complimented her and her familiars.
"Thank you. They sure are." Yoni said smiling.
Ji glanced through the window behind him and stood up.
"I think that your new housemates are there" He said with a smile. "Shall we go them."
Yoni nodded and slowly stood up. She followed Ji to the double black door. She felt very nervous and got a strange feeling in her stomach. She was a little uncertain.
'What if they don't like me?' She thought gloomily. 'Will they treat me as a house-elf or as disease? Just like the Dursleys did. I hope they'll give me a chance to show who I really am.'
Now Ji opened the second double black door that lead outside.
'Okay, Yoni. This is it. Gather all of your Gryffindor courage together. You can do this, because you're a Gryffindor.' Yoni thought to encourage herself a little.
Yoni saw a group of five adolescents coming through the gate, which closed again on its own. The group consisted of three young men and two young women. They were all very cheerful and had broad smiles on their lips.
Ji strode towards them with large passes. While Yoni stayed by the door.
"Bravo." He said proudly and the group turned to look at him. "Such energy, such grace."
"Who is that?" The young man with a light-colored skin and short black hair asked. He wore a white t-shirt, a black jeans, white with green sneakers and a dark green leather jacket. He had an earring in the lobe of one ear. He radiated the attitude of a cool matcho guy.
At least, that was what Yoni thought.
"This is Ji, our mentor." Another young man with a slightly lighter skin color than the matcho guy and had dark brown hair, that almost reached his shoulders, said. He was wearing a gray t-shirt, black trousers, dark brown shoes and an open dark red with black checkered button-down shirt. He radiated the attitude of a true leader. He was quite handsome, according to Yoni.
'Oh great. I already think that he's handsome and I don't even know him yet.' Yoni thought slightly irritated at herself.
"Welcome to your new home." Ji said jovially. "You've all come from different places and families, but share one noble goal."
The two young women and the matcho guy came closer to the leader and another guy.
"I'm very proud of how you've come together." He continued with his speech.
"We just followed some good advise and worked as a team." The leader said with self-satisfaction and proud.
"Yes, but you're not just any team." Ji said as he approached them a little closer. "You are the Samurai Rangers!"
The group smiled confidently at each other, as they turned to each other in a circle. They all five took something out.
"Rangers Together!" They all called enthusiastically out and each brought their Zord in emblem modus, what just looked like a box to Yoni, to the centre of the circle so that it touched each other. "Samurai Forever!"
Then they put it away again and turned their attention back to Ji. This time they noticed Yoni standing by the double front door.
"Who is that?" The young woman with blond hair and pale skin color asked. She had long wavy blond hair, that came to her shoulders. She wore a white t-shirt, blue jeans, white sneakers and a yellow cardigan. She had a sweet face, which was shining like the sun.
According to Yoni, she would look at the things more on the positive side and was more open minded to everything, that others would refuse to understand.
Ji turned to Yoni and beckoned her.
Yoni slowly walked over them and stood next to Ji.
Ji put a hand on her shoulder and said then to the others: "This is Yoni. She'll be living here with us in the house for the summer. She isn't a Ranger, so she'll not participate with the training. Welcome her with a warm heart and open arms. Let her feel at home here with us in the Shiba House."
It became very quiet for a moment. The five Samurai Rangers observed Yoni to see if she poses no threat to them.
The silence was broken when the leader stepped forward, so that he stood in front of Yoni and held his hand out to her. She hesitantly took it and his fingers closed tightly around her hand. Not in a painful way.
Yoni didn't pull her hand back, but thought that his hand felt good. She felt safe by how firmly he held her hand.
"Let me be the first to welcome you into my ancestral house, the Shiba House." The leader said solemnly and smiled welcomingly to Yoni. "I'm Jayden Shiba, the Red Samurai Ranger."
Yoni smiled as they shook hands and said: "Thank you Jayden and it's nice to meet you."
Jayden let go of her hand and took a step back, so that the others could welcome her and introduce themselves.
The young man with a brown skin color and very short black hair came forward. He wore a light blue sports cardigan, black sweatpants and white training shoes. He had a straight back and radiated discipline, formality and strictness. He held out his hand, which Yoni immediately took.
"I welcome you to the headquarters of the Power Rangers Samurai." He said solemnly and formally, too formally according to Yoni. "I'm Kevin, the Blue Samurai Ranger. Pleased to meet you."
"Pleased to meet you too, Kevin." She said smiling, as she immediately switched to the formal greeting.
Kevin released her hand again and stepped aside.
Now the matcho guy walked towards Yoni and had a broad smile on his lips. He didn't give her a hand, like Jayden and Kevin did, but rather did what an old friend would do. He put an arm around her shoulders and said enthusiastically: "Hey Yoni, everything alright? I'm Mike, by the way. I'm the mighty Green Samurai Ranger."
Mike let her go and the blond young woman walked towards Yoni. She also did something completely different from the handshakes of Jayden and Kevin, and what Mike had done. She hugged Yoni and when she let her go, she said smiling: "Nice to meet you, Yoni. I'm Emily, the Yellow Samurai Ranger. I hope that we'll become very good friends."
"I hope so too, Emily." Yoni said smiling.
When Emily stepped back, the last team member of the Rangers stepped forward. She had long black hair, which was in a ponytail, and a light tinted skin color. Apparently she had Azian features. She was wearing a white and gray striped t-shirt, a gray cardigan, black jeans and white sneakers. She smiled and said: "I'm Mia, the Pink Samurai Ranger. Nice to meet you, Yoni."
"Nice to meet you too, Mia." Yoni said with a small smile.
Then she looked at all of her new housemates and smiled.
'That went pretty well. Now hope that it stays like this.' She thought.
Now it really was going to happen. Spending an entire holiday at the headquarters of the Power Rangers Samurai together with the said Rangers and without her brother, Harry.
Yoni knew that it wasn't going to be easy to suppress her magic, so that it wouldn't accidentally enchant something. Because she thought that her magic sometimes had a will of its own and of course hoped that it wouldn't be stubborn for this summer.
Yoni also hoped that these Rangers wouldn't react anxious and too hostile if they found out that she has magic. She would only find out in one way and that was to wait and see how this holiday would go. She was also worried about Harry and hoped that the Dursleys wouldn't hurt him or even planning it to do. She still had a bad feeling in her stomach and hoped that it just as a false alarm.
I hope you enjoyed it.
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Next: It will be the day that Jayden calls the other Samurai Rangers to battle against the Nighloks and Moogers, right before they meet Yoni.
A/N: The meaning of some Latin word(s):
* Prudentia means wisedom, knowledge, foresight, caution, prudence,... in Latin.
* Harena means sand, arena, desert,... in Latin.