Harry woke slowly the next morning, revelling in the feeling of being in a comfortable bed, with no reason to get up. He could hear birds out his open window and the sound of the wind as it went passed.

His wonderful morning was rudely shattered when something landed by his head and pinched his ear. Hard.

"Ahhh!" He yelled looking to see what had attacked him.

"Whazzat? Who? Wha?" Kero spluttered as he too was brought out of sleep, falling of the dresser he had been sprawled on.

Hedwig was sitting on his pillow, shooting him death glares. She fluttered up to the headboard and, shooting him one last glare, pointedly turned her back on him chirping what was, no doubt, very uncomplimentary things under her breath.

"Hedwig, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave you behind. Sirius came in the middle of the night and kidnapped me. We're going to stay here for the rest of the summer. You'll like that won't you? No more Dursleys?"

Hedwig turned around and after examining the room and finding it meet with her approval, she nibbled his fingers in apology.

Kero laughed. "That's one fussy owl you got there, Kid." Hedwig whipped her head around to glare at the guardian.

"I wouldn't go insulting her Kero." Harry said as he got up and left for the bathroom. "She is bigger than you."

"You wouldn't do anything to me." He scoffed. "I'm Harry's Guardian." Hedwig glared and Kero began getting increasingly nervous by the owls unblinking stare. "I'm going to protect him from that Moldiewort character." Her eyes narrowed and Kero started backing toward the door. "Heh, heh, nice owl." Hedwig fluttered her wings and he turned tail and flew. "Harry!"

Harry carried a jumpy Kero, who was shooting looks all over the place as if he expected something to jump out at him, down to breakfast. "What's his problem?" Sirius asked, already seated at the table.

"Hedwig showed up this morning and she was not happy about being left behind. Then Kero here goes and insults her, failing to realize she is a bit bigger than he is. With sharp talons." He grinned.

"Ooh is the big bad guardian afraid of the little white owl?"

"You shut up!" Kero yelled, waving his fist at Sirius. "I wasn't afraid. I just didn't want to hurt her." He folded his arms and sulked. "I could so take her."

Not wanting for the argument to escalate, Harry interrupted. "When is Remus going to arrive?"

"I spoke to him last night, he's going to try and get away sometime this morning."

"You spoke to him?" Harry wasn't aware Sirius had left the Castle after he had gone to bed.

"Yeah we have these two way communication mirrors. All you have to do is say the name of the person holding the other one and you can talk face to face. We came up with them in school. Anyway I thought after breakfast, we could grab our brooms and go flying while we wait."

Harry grinned in pleasure. He was about to race upstairs and grab his broom when Kero interrupted. "You know this would be a good opportunity to use the Fly card you have. You should practice using the cards while you can, to get a feel for them. That way you know you can trust them when you really need to. Besides," Kero grinned. "You ain't never flown 'til you've flown by Fly card."

So Harry waited while Sirius went to grab his broom, listening to Kero tell him all about what a good flyer he was and the flying competitions they used to have and how he would always win, except for the times when he would let someone else win, on account of he didn't want to show off. R-R-Right. Harry rolled his eyes.

Once outside, he pulled the key out from where he had it hanging on a cord around his neck. "Hold on a second Harry," Sirius stopped him. "Maybe you should wait until I'm in the air before you use the card, alright? And don't worry about a thing, Moony and I made sure we had a stocked cupboard full of healing potions for the summer and Dobby is standing by to get Madam Pomfrey if anything happens."

Kero scoffed at the precautions. "No Card under Harry's command would ever let anything happen to him."

Sirius glared at him. "No godson under my care is going to have anything happen to him."

Harry ignored them both, and activated the wand. "Power of Darkness, power of Light, surrender the wand, the force ignite. Release." Just like yesterday the key expanded in his hand to become the sealing wand.

Harry pulled out the Fly card. Even in this form he could feel it's eagerness. "Alright Fly, lets see what you can do. Fly Card!"

This time as the Clow circle appeared beneath his feet, the power exploding from the card, instead of releasing an avatar, wrapped around the wand and combined with it. The power pushed the wings from small decorative extensions of the wand to large, sturdy wings, several meters long.

Harry swung the wand around and leaped on. Surprisingly it was as comfortable as his regular broom, which he knew had numerous cushioning charms. He did a few loops on the ground to get the feel for it, ignoring Kero's helpful pointers, before heading higher and picking up speed.

Though it's physical form had taken the shape of the wand, he could feel the power of the magnificent bird beneath his hands. The was nothing like being on a broom. Thought he had always had a close connection to his broom, allowing him to pull the aerodynamic stunts that he usually did, this went so far beyond that.

The wand seemed to feel his thoughts and followed them without prompt. His senses were heightened beyond anything he had ever felt. He could feel the air moving around him, knew when to dive and when to climb, how to use the air currents but despite the speeds he was moving at, he didn't feel the slightest bit cold.

This was not directing a floating piece of wood through the air. This was FLYING!

Through the wand he felt an answering joy. The Fly felt his enthusiasm and shared it. He leaned in close and whispered, "Lets go higher, faster."

As if freed from some reins holding it back the Fly shot forward, before making a sharp turn and flew straight up.

The only thing that marred the whole thing was Kero, who was clinging to him for dear life, and screaming his lungs out.

When Harry finally returned to the ground it was at a steep dive, pulling out of it only a the last moment.

Kero fell to the ground with a grateful wail. "Land! Beautiful, wonderful, solid, not moving land!"

"Come on Kero," Harry said as he dispelled the card and knelt down beside him. "I thought you were a champion flyer."

"Champion, I am." He yelled. "I am not, however, insane! Look at me, I think you scared off all my baby fat."

"Nope," Sirius drawled, coming over on his own broom. "I don't think so."

"Look at me I'm shaking." Kero moaned, ignoring Sirius. "I need pudding. It's the only thing that will calm my nerves." He drifted off to the house, leaving Harry to snigger at his back.

Sirius was amazed over the power and capability of the Fly card. "Harry that was amazing. You were going so fast, there isn't a broom in the world that can match those speeds. And that dive! Unbelievable! You are never ever doing that again!"

"What?!"

"Nope."

"Sirius!"

"Na uh."

They were arguing over allowing Harry to get back in the air when Remus arrived with a crack. "Moony, tell Harry he's not allowed to fly anymore." Sirius said by way of greeting.

"Er…"

"It was fine! I was in no danger. Sirius is being ridiculous."

"Sirius, Harry is an excellent flyer. I'm sure he was in control."

"I was."

"I don't care. It's not flying that is the problem. It's the falling and crashing that are the dangerous parts."

"I didn't crash!"

Remus laughed at the two. They were standing in what looked to him to be a clearing in a dense forest Sirius had his arms folded and was glaring in a way that reminded Remus vividly of Lily whenever she caught James or Sirius doing something immature. Harry's posture on the other hand, streamed James right after some daredevil stunt, his eye's shining with exhilaration and stubbornness. At the sound of his laughter they both turned to look at him.

"Remus!"

"Sorry guys but you're doing such a wonderful impersonation of Lily and James. And here I was thinking that Harry was the responsible one, but Sirius is the one acting like a mother."

Harry and Sirius frowned at each other, not quite sure if they had been insulted or not. Shrugging it off Harry gave Remus a hug. "It's good to see you again Remus."

"It's good to see you too Harry." His eyes narrowed as he looked Harry over. "It that a piercing?"

"Moony!" Sirius interrupted, not wanting to continue that line of questioning. "Why don't we have Harry invite you inside where we can talk?"

Remus shook his head. "Actually I can't stay long." They blinked.

"But that wasn't in the plan." Sirius complained.

"I know but Dumbledore was furious when it was discovered you had taken Harry and Molly was calling you all sorts of names. He summoned the whole Order and had them stop whatever they were doing to join in the search for you. We've been placed into pairs and have to give regular updates. He wanted me to work with Snape," both Sirius and Harry drew back in horror. Remus rolled his eyes. "Fortunately Snape was having none of it and I got Tonks instead."

Sirius sniggered. "I bet she wasn't complaining." He turned to Harry. "Nymphadora Tonks is one of my cousins. She's an auror and offers dire sufferings to anyone who calls her by her first name. And it seems she's has a little crush on our Moony here."

Remus blushed. "Anyway," he glared at Sirius. "I told her I would meet her after lunch. I thought I would sound her out on the prospect of inviting her here."

"I don't know, Remus are you sure that's a good idea? Dumbledore can't get anything out of you but her?"

"Well she is a auror. She does have the mandatory Occulumency training."

"Yeah, but not enough to stand against someone like Dumbledore."

Harry was confused. "Occulumency?"

Remus took a breath and went into professor mode. "Occulumency is the art of organising and protecting your mind against outside intrusion, such as Legilimency. For a normal wizard occulumency involves building walls, or shields around your mind that can keep someone out. I, on the other hand, am a werewolf and while I have no shield as such my inner wolf does not take kindly to invaders. Dumbledore is a master at both Occulumency and Legilimency which is the art of knowing another's mind. Not quite mind reading but close. They are able to call up memory at will, just as if you were doing it."

"That's how he always knows what's going on. And why we were never able to prank him in school." Sirius said mournfully.

Harry frowned. "I'm not sure if I like the idea that he can get into my mind."

Remus smiled at his cub. "That was one of the things we were going to do this summer. You will need to learn Occulumency because Voldemort is a master at it, and he will use any advantage he can get." Harry nodded solemnly. "Now why don't you invite me inside so we can have some lunch, and you can tell me what you did to get Sirius's knickers in a bunch."

Harry grinned over Sirius's protests and said the words Sirius had told him last night. "Remus Lupin, you are always welcome at the home of the Most Ancient House of Potter."

Remus had a nostalgic smile on his face as he watched the castle appear in front of him. Then his expression turned odd. "You know," he said. "I know it's been a long time since I've been here and all, but something tells me that's new."

Harry turned to see what Moony was talking about. There, dead centre in the middle of his front lawn was a dark rain cloud, currently watering several large leafy trees. Trees that was growing at a rather alarming rate.

"It's a Clow Card!" Kero yelled, racing toward them from the house. "Or two actually. Looks like the Rain and the Wood."

"What the hell?" Remus spluttered, staring at Kero.

"Not now!" Kero told him. "Harry you need to get Rain first. The only way to capture the Wood is to get to the centre root and you can't do that while Rain is feeding it power."

Harry nodded and pulled out the Clow key again. "Power of Darkness, power of Light, surrender the wand, the force ignite. Release!" Remus watched in fascination, his sharp eyes taking in every detail of the circle that appeared and the wand in Harry's hand.

The Rain, like Storm, was a small elf-like being dressed in a jesters outfit with a blue tear drop on it's forehead. It was currently lying on its cloud, kicking it's feet as it watched the tree grow to enormous proportions.

"Harry!" Sirius yelled. "Try to get it the same way you caught the Storm!"

"Right!" Harry pulled out the Thunder card and channelled his magic. "Thunder, unleash your power on the Rain Card."

The Thunder streaked toward the Rain's avatar, leaving a booming sound in it's wake, picking up power and speed as it went. Rain didn't even seem to notice it coming. Thunder crashed into Rain but seemed have no visible effect at all as it travelled directly through both the avatar and the cloud, leaving a confused wolf to come to a stop on the other side.

"Harry! Thunder has no effect on water Cards! All you've done is draw it's attention, and it doesn't like people messing with it's fun."

Indeed, it seemed the Rain had noticed Harry and was scowling at him.

"Damn it! Thunder, return!" Harry pocketed the returned card. "Then what do I do, Kero? I don't have a card that can beat it."

Kero's reply was drowned out at the Rain directed it's cloud to leave the tree and hover over Harry and unleased a torrential downpour. Harry struggled under the relentless pounding on his shoulders. Even the Impervious charm on his glasses couldn't stand up to the onslaught.

Sirius and Remus pulled out their wands and were about to help when Kero stopped them. "No, don't interfere. Harry can do this and he must. He has to earn the respect of the cards."

"So we're just supposed to leave him there?!" Sirius yelled.

"He can do this." Kero insisted. "Trust him."

'Damn it.' Harry thought. 'If I cant use a card to beat this then I'll just have to use my own magic. Am I a wizard or not?' "Incendo!" He yelled directing the Clow wand at the Rain. There was no circle this time as fire lashed out of his wand, and evaporated the water, causing Rain to wail at it's loss. Harry wasted no time and swung the wand around yelling, "Return to your power confined. Rain Card!" The Rain sulked at Harry before sighing and let the magic of the circle draw it back to its card form.

"You did it Harry!" Sirius congratulated him.

"Lets not celebrate too soon." Kero warned. "We still have the Wood card capture."

Harry looked at the ring of tree's. They had stopped growing now that Rain had been captured but they were still very large.

"So all I have to do it get to the root?" He asked.

"You have to get to the centre root. The other trees are just extensions of that one root in the middle. If you can get there you can seal it."

"Right." Harry moved toward the tree.

He only barely had time to jump out of the way at Sirius, Remus's and Kero's warning, before a branch crashed into the ground where he had been standing.

"Shit, it's like the Whomping Willow!" Remus yelled.

Harry had to jump again as another branch swung in his direction.

"Harry run!" Sirius shouted. So he ran, narrowly missing two more branches before making it out of their reach.

Getting an idea he pulled out a card. "Windy! Use your winds to tie up Woods branches so it can't move!" The lovely yellow-coloured woman from the front of the card, shot out and flew towards the Wood. It twined itself around the branches using it's long hair as chains before clinching tight to prevent any movement.

Not wanting to tempt his luck, with it's movement halted, Harry raced toward it and was able to jump through the trunks and get to the centre of the trees. But it seem the Wood was fighting the Windy and was shaking it's branched trying to knock Windy off.

He was almost at the centre when a branch swing out of the ground and knocked him away. It was only due to quick spell from Sirius and Remus that he managed to avoid broken bones.

"We need ideas!" Kero shouted.

"I have an idea," Harry said, watching the tree in determination as he cancelled the Windy.

"If it involves shoving the plushie down the toilet, I'm all for it." Sirius offered.

"I meant constructive ideas," Kero clarified, shooting Sirius a filthy look. "And I am not a plushie!"

Harry pulled out another card.

Harry summoned Fly. With it's speed and agility he was able to dodge the branches as they swing at him. The Fly's wings tightened about the wand making him small enough to shoot through the trunks. When he got to the centre of the trees he leapt off the wand and before he even hit the ground, he cancelled Fly and summoned the Clow circle.

"Return to your power confined. Wood Card!"

He hung in the air as the circle drew the power of the Wood card toward it. Harry saw the Woods avatar, a green leafy-haired nymph, smile at him before being sucked back into card form. With the Woods power confined again Harry landed on his front lawn, once again back to it's previous pristine condition, with no evidence of the battle that had taken place.

"Harry!" Sirius was beside himself. "Are you nuts? I told you NO MORE FLYING!"

"Harry," Remus said pleasantly. "Do you think you could tell me why a rain cloud and a tree just tried to attack you and why you have a floating talking teddy?"

"Enough with the teddy cracks," Kero growled. "I get enough of that from him. I am a powerful and respected guardian."

Sirius snorted. "Respected by House Elves maybe."

Harry hastened to explain. "It started yesterday. I found a book in a junk shop while we were shopping and the magic seemed to call me, so I asked Sirius to buy it for me. When I got it home I found it was full of these cards." He showed him the cards he had. Thunder, Storm, Wood, Rain, Windy and Fly. "Only I accidentally let them out and now Kero says I have to capture them again or there'll be mass chaos and destruction."

Remus nodded solemnly, following the explanation. Harry was pleased he seemed to be taking this so well, when Remus's hand shot out, grabbed Sirius's shirt and dragged him close. "One day." He growled his voice low, deep and far more scary then Harry would have imagined coming from his mild mannered professor. From the look on his face, it seemed Sirius was intimidated too. "All you had to do was look after him for one measly day. How could you screw this up?"

Kero floated over Remus's shoulder, crossed his arms and tutted sadly. "So hard to find good help these days."

Remus's head shot around, and he bared his teeth and snarled.

Kero froze. "Um… I'm gonna go see what Dobby has for lunch." He shot toward the house.

Sirius spluttered. "Me? What…? It wasn't… I didn't…"

"It wasn't his fault Remus. I was meant to find the cards. It would have happened anyway. This way at least I don't have Dumbledore looking over my shoulder."

"Harry…" Remus said.

"I can feel it Remus. I've always been meant for this. Just like I'm meant to fight Voldemort. It's got nothing to do with what everyone else thinks I should do. The cards were meant to be mine."

Remus looked at his cub staring so earnestly at him. He just didn't want to admit how much the boy had grown. To be so sure of his destiny at such a young age.

"Alright Harry." He said reluctantly. "But for once in his life Sirius is right. If you pull any more stunts like that one with the tree you are grounded, young man."

Harry smiled, pleased to have people who actually cared about him.

"Come on," he said. "We'd better get inside before Kero eats everything."

"He's a little teddy how much can he eat?"

"A lot." Harry and Sirius answered in unison.

So what does everyone think?

We're still undecided about what to do with Ron and Hermione, not that it will be written for a while yet so please tell us what you think.

For those who noticed I know the incantation for Harry's Sealling wand is wrong but I like this one better, so thats how it's going to be.

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