Untried Guardians
By Sqweakie the Wonder Mouse

Crossover with Harry Potter and Inuyasha
HP: AU after book four (HP and company are in their 5th year)
IY: AU set at least after the Shichinin-tai Story Arc

Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Inuyasha. They are owned by people with a lot more talent (and money) than me. Sigh

AN: OMG. WOW, I didn't expect such a response so soon . Oh gosh. Did a happy dance when I checked my email :D

Stinky-chan, AnimeDutchess, Tears-of-the-moon-goddess, What a scene, sesshoumaru-sama: Thank you so much for your support :)

Key17- Harry and the Gang are in their 5th year. I hated the last book so I started over. No Umbridge and Sirius still lives! And about Kag and Inu, I can't tell. . . yet ;)

Nox-Thanx again!

AN2: Bad news is that this is a short chapter, it probably should have been included with chappy 2. Oh well, hindsight is twenty-twenty. Good news is that it's good and the next one I'm working on is going to be really good (in my humble and unasked for opinion). I have more work for the next chapter but in the mean time I present Chapter 3 (and it isn't a conspiracy, I don't mean to pick words that start with "I", it just happens).

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Chapter 3- Illuminate

Illuminate- 1. To provide or brighten with light.
2. To decorate or hang with lights.
3. To make understandable; clarify
4. To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand.

Myrtle's bathroom was not your average bathroom, not that anything was 'average' at Hogwarts. The first half of the room was set lower than the hallway outside. A person walking thru the doorway stood on a half-circle platform that dropped off about six feet from the doorway. The lower floor stretched away from the door and it was dominated by the circle of sinks. The sinks were ordinary by themselves but behind their numbers they hid the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets. On the far side of the sinks, opposite the door, two low steps led to a higher platform where the toilet stalls were. Five toilets stood to the left and five stood to the right, leaving an open space over twelve feet across. The far wall contained two huge stain glass windows that let colored light illuminate the far parts of the bathroom during the day.

Dean and Hermione's failed potion damaged little of the permanent fixtures of the room but for the spell Hermione added a lot of things. The pool filling the lowest floor completely covered the low steps to the toilets and almost covered the platform by the door. White chalk decorated almost every stone surface available, including the occasional wall. A long table had been set up beneath the stain glass windows and three large basins had been placed upon it. The two end bowls were filled with charcoal and a slow fire burned in each bowl. The middle bowl was oval-shaped and larger than the other two. It was empty right now but a small table off to the side was full of ingredients that were just right for gray wiccan spell.

Gray spells was an old term that was still used in wiccan culture. It referred to a spell that was neither good, nor evil. The effects of the spell had the ability to help either side of a conflict. Simple spells ere often mistakenly referred to as gray spells but what made a gray spell special was the ability to affect entire battles, entire wars with one casting.

Without a doubt, Hermione's spell fell into this gray area. The spell was cast to call a pair of Guardians to the circle delineated by the chalk lined on the bathroom floor. The spell brought the Guardians with little warning to the circle and left them unable to fight the castors. The official gray area came in once the spell was finished being cast. The Guardians were helpless, leaving them vulnerable to slaughter or they had to be protected until the time of their weakness had passed, or so Hermione said.

Ron was standing in the 'west' position. Harry was directly across from him, standing with Gryffindor's Sword balanced on the upturned palms of his hands. To Ron's right stood his sister, Ginny. While Harry looked clam, Ginny was looking nervous and a little dirty. Brown dirt had been smudged across her cheeks making the chalk-white runes stand out on her forehead. Similar chalk had been used to write the runes for 'innocent' across his own forehead. It itched and sweat stun his eyes but he didn't dare wipe his face, fearing the wrath of Hermione.

Hermione looked at her fellow wizards one more time before she turned around and started the spell. To Ron, it was a lot of chanting in Latin, more than what was usually required for the spells they learned in school. With painful slowness Hermione added the flowers from the basket that Harry brought them in. Then the other ingredients were carefully added, ingredients which ranged from simple herbs to unicorn hair and rare dragon's tears that steamed when added to everything else in the basin.

Ron wasn't sure when it started. The atmosphere in the bathroom changed, actually it was more like the air was being charged. Electricity built up in the air and the hairs on his arms stood on end. Harry and Ginny started to look around, alerted to the changes.

A light flickered outside the darkened stain glass windows, sending a small ray of green light into the dim bathroom. The bathroom was only illuminated by the two small bowls of fire on the table and the larger fire on top of the Chamber's Pediment. The low light made the outside lights more visible.

A second light joined the first, adding on an amber hue to the first green. More lights appeared outside until the stain glass windows glowed, showing the medieval forest depicted in the most perfection that it had been seen in since its creation. The light grew brighter still, raising to a new intensity as the interior of the bathroom shone like midday with light.

Ron shielded his eyes with his left arm but every one else bore the full intensity of the light. Harry and Ginny couldn't protect themselves because their hands were full and they were unable to drop their burdens and Hermione stubbornly refused to look away from the windows. With his arm raised, Ron missed the first gem of light to pass thru the lead glass. In fact, he missed the first dozen or so but finally he noticed the fain glow overtaking the colored light from the outside.

He turned his head to the right, the source of the new light, and gasped. Little witch lights spun around the fire on top of the Chamber of Secrets. More joined those first pioneers that braved the glass and the dark inside. The colored light dimmed and lights continued to join the inside fire that was the beacon of their spell. Shadows shifted direction as the dominant light shifted inside and abandoned the outdoor freedom. Finally, the last lights joined their brothers and circled around the fire.

The lights around the fire high above their heads spun so fast that they looked like long-tailed comets or clear ribbons of light. The air gave a resounding CRACK that Ron felt through the stones under his bare feet. The lights stopped and hung in the air, pausing as if taking a breath and then they dove like a waterfall sculpted out of light. The light-water fell over the broken sink and swirled around Ginny until they took up their dance rushing around the inside of their magic circle outlined by the four students and an army of chalk incantations.

Hermione's voice broke over the sounds of falling water and of the light (if it was the light that was making that wind-like noise that undercut the water sounds) but her voice carried over the noise, chanting grew louder and the chanting turned into shouting in Archaic Latin. The lights spun faster forming a wall of light that shone in the middle of the bathroom. The shouting and chanting stopped. The charged atmosphere crackled and the water and light noise rose to a deafening crescendo. Hermione turned around and heaved the contents of her basin at the light. The light exploded and when Ron opened his eyes the floor was charred and soot was falling to the floor like back snow. Ron dropped his arm away from his face. Harry looked over at Ron, a shocked look in the scarred boy's eyes, not comprehending the sight before him. Ron missed the look. He wasn't looking at Harry. He was looking at the two people in the space between him and the other wizard.

Two girls were crouched between them, a smaller girl with black hair flowing halfway down her back and a taller woman with black hair reaching clear past her ass. The two strangers looked up and peered cautiously at their new surroundings. The taller one stood up and while keeping one arm around the shorter girl she dropped her hand down to the sword hanging from her belt.

The other girl's face grew pale and she looked to her taller companion and said "Mukatsuka!" Ron's eyes widened when he realized what she meant. He kicked open the bathroom stall door behind him and literally pushed the couple inside. The girl gave him a grateful look before she dropped to her knees and started to throw up.

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