Disclaimer- I Don't Own Harry Potter

From now on the founders telepathy is:

Italic is Slytherin and Ravenclaw and Bold is Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.

Sorry if anyone has similar abilities in their stories plus their will now be more from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. I know they had barely any dialogue in earlier chapters but it was from Harry's POV and he doesn't normally hear Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw.

'' indicates telepathy or what somebody's thinking. Doesn't include how the founders communicate.

Chapter 4 Five Years On

"Harry I think you've finally mastered it," Salazar said proudly.

"Same for you Ginny you've come a long way in the past three years in some area's you progressed even faster than Harry." Rowena said with a hint of a challenge in her voice.

"What area's." demanded Godric who failed to hear the chuckle that came from Helga. "What area's do you think Ginny has progressed more in than Harry."

"I'll tell him Rowena I know he's not very bright and your vocabulary might be to much for him." Helga sounded very amused by the shrill squeaks that were coming from Godric. "What Rowena means Godric is that she feels Ginny can beat Harry in a one on one fight with anything allowed."

Salazar who had been listening answered the challenge on Harry's behalf and both Harry and Ginny walked over to the duelling room with anticipation written all over their faces.

'I'm finally going to be able to have a decent challenge' thought Harry.

'I'm going to enjoy wiping that superior look off his face' was what Ginny's thoughts were focused on.

When the two of them were ready Salazar went over the rules, the match would be over when one of them gave up, was knocked out or was deemed unfit to continue. The founders would be silent all the way through and could not speak or help in any way. Both Harry and Ginny agreed to this and the match started.

Harry started off by throwing a hard left punch straight at Ginny's face but she ducked and tried to sweep his legs but found nothing their but air. Harry had jumped over her leg and was now hurtling down at her with one foot outstretched. She shadow walked 5 metres away and used telepathy to hurl tables and rocks at him. Harry grinned and used manipulation to reduce the rocks and tables to tiny peaces and then sent them flying back at Ginny. Ginny grimaced and created a vortex of wind in the middle of the room, it sucked in everything around it and moved towards Harry. Harry smirked all to easy, he pulled in the fire from all the torches around them and mixed it into the cyclone, it was now a burning cyclone of pure flame that was so hot that it made their skin tighten up and blister.

"Pulso," Harry yelled and immediately the cyclone of fire was propelled away from him and span towards Ginny.

"Splixm Asagrat," Ginny replied calmly and the fireball blew apart. They both started circling each other searching for an opening in the other's defence, Ginny suddenly heard a low sinister hiss from below her and quickly flashed a look at the floor and then froze. A large snake was coiled between her feet hissing furiously, she recognised it from her studies, it was a magical black lancer capable of killing with a single bite and able to move at impossible speeds that made it's strike almost impossible to dodge. It had other attributes but they were of no concern to her at the present time, she heard another hissing noise and looked away quickly in time to see a huge bolt of lightning flash down upon her. She had only milliseconds to act no time to create shield, if she tried to move the snake would get her and shadow walking wouldn't work because the light from the incoming lightning meant the only shadow was her own and the snake was guarding. Damn it Harry was certainly not as easy as she had thought, his carefree attitude obviously didn't mean he couldn't fight. Only one option remained, she had hoped to keep this a secret as a surprise attack but she had no choice, with no warning her image flickered and then vanished. Harry's eyes widened then narrowed as he quickly melted into the shadows on the floor as Ginny flashed back into sight with her fist right where Harry's head was a split second before. Ginny saw him reappear at the other side of the room and inwardly cursed, he was fast his skill with shadow walking was almost unbelievable, the speed and effortless way he used it was clear testimony that he had mastered it. Even with her new ability of LightningFlash that allows the user to move at great speeds for short lengths of time she still couldn't catch him.

After the hour mark was passed a brief timeout was called for, both Harry and Ginny were looking worse for wear. Ginny had a split lip and blood dripping from her arm she was panting heavily, Harry looked worse but was actually in better shape his clothes were torn and ripped but physically he looked a lot better off also he wasn't breathing as hard as Ginny.

"Erepisicul" Harry grated out summoning a crystal sphere that closed around Ginny shutting off her air and magic supply. He stood up swaying slightly on his feet, that had been difficult he had known that Ginny had learnt a lot of things he hadn't but that was only normal as everybody had their own strengths. Even with that fact he knew he could win because he had powers that could block hers. Her LightningFlash could be stopped with his Shadow Walk. It was over now though she wasn't strong enough to break out of the crystal cage he had conjured. He didn't think she had learnt Spirit Magic yet or at least not learnt it well enough to use effectively, Soul Magic and Mind Magic were the only other types that can be used in the cage and they couldn't help her.

"Give Up" Harry said to Ginny "I don't want you to get hurt and if you stay in there much longer your air will run out."

Ginny flashed a grin at him that clearly said 'Bring It On' he shook his head exasperated she was too bloody stubborn for her own good. A shaking cracking noise made him look up and stare as a powerful magic surge shattered his cage.

"What the hell, how did you- ah of course I completely forgot about the Founders State good thinking." Harry was impressed with Ginny's ability to think under pressure and look for loopholes, she had realised that while the Founders weren't allowed to interfere the Founders State was technically their own power and no relation to the Founders. He mentally cursed himself for not thinking of that himself but then again he hadn't needed to transform and now he could really let loose, if he couldn't win against her Founders State then he would simply transform and finish it.

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Ginny's POV

Damn this felt good she'd been longing for so long to be able to totally let loose and this was the very opportunity that she had been waiting for. Things had been very stressful lately with Ron's continued jealousy and eventual betrayal, he had tried to inform Dumbledore about Harry insisting that he was a dark wizard. He tried to place this accusation on Harry's ability to speak parseltongue and being Slytherin's heir but that was crap and she knew it. He had always been bitter and now it showed on the outside he had been forced to give a wizards oath to not speak about her or Harry until school started then he could do what he wanted. Also when her family had found out the type of magic she was learning they insisted it was dark and that she was being manipulated. Only Fred and George stuck up for her but the time spent there was too stressful so in the end she refused to go. Then-

"Wake up Gin Gin no time for day dreaming" Ginny's attention snapped back to the duel and was quick enough to dodge the powerful magical blast that Harry had sent her way. She immediately started firing back but nothing seemed to be able to touch Harry it was like he was able to see everything coming. For a second she was puzzled then she felt the light brush on her mind and was suddenly pissed.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER HOW DARE YOU READ MY MIND!" she shouted and calling upon a huge amount of energy she set about throwing incredible amounts of raw energy around the room in various shapes and sizes.

Harry's POV

Harry was starting to feel worried true he could dodge the wild magic Ginny was letting loose but it was starting to get tiring and Ginny might wear herself put and do herself damage he had to do something. Close combat would be a good idea because it wouldn't drain her life force so much and plus it would help release the built up tension that was building in Ginny with the problems with her family (Ron being only one of them).

Harry opened his hand and a gleaming sword appeared there.

"Fancy a little sword fighting Gin" he called. It had the desired effect the magic drew back and into Ginny and a feral grin grew across her face a innocently small sword appeared in her hand.

"Fine with me Harry let's get started." she said then blurred out of sight.

Harry immediately felt for the magic vibrations that appeared when someone used LightiningFlash but was shocked to find none then froze as a voice came from behind him.

"This isn't LightiningFlash Harry this is pure speed." he spun in time to see Ginny's small sword slash 3 times at his face. He threw himself to his right feeling a burning pain on his face. He reached up and touched the slash Ginny's sword had made, it was full of elemental magic, fire to be exact.

"You have been busy haven't you Gin Gin creating a sword that can move that quickly and that creates a magic that leaves any wounds it creates open and leaves magical fire burning in the wound. A ferocious weapon indeed but not unbeatable." and with those words Harry healed the wound on his face and created twin swords one red the other green. "Now we start."

The fight that followed was intense in every way Ginny's sword moved so fast it seemed to cut holes in thin air and was like 10 swords while Harry's twin blades slashed blocked and cut gracefully like a dance. Harry's swords also carried the elements he could control fire and air each slash from the red sword created a streak of fire and each block from the green one created a shield of frozen air. Finally Harry resorted to entering the founders state to end the fight, otherwise it would go on forever, they were too evenly matched and the stamina Ginny gained from the founders state was to much to handle in his normal state.

He released the founders state and was overwhelmed with feelings of power and control. He was amazed `was this how Ginny felt` he thought, it was true that he hadn't released the founders state in some time because he hadn't wanted to became reliant on it but still, if it had increased in power this much from the training he had been doing up till this point.

He raised both swords and brought them clashing together effectively fusing them together and creating a thin long sword that was equally red and green, it looked sharper then anything ever seen before and the power pulsing from it was unbelievable. He charged at Ginny sweeping his sword over his head in a perfect circle, a tornado of firey flames flew at Ginny who quickly slashed it to pieces and stared around unable to see properly from the blindness the white hot fire had caused in her vision. Harry flashed behind her and punched her hard in the jaw, she flew backwards over 50 metres and landed with a loud crack on her side. Harry rushed over and saw she was knocked out.

"I win." he said softly then set about healing her injuries.

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"Wow Harry that was incredible what did you do your punch sent me flying 50 metres and I was in the founders state. Plus I didn't even feel you coming you were that fast come on tell me what you did please." Ginny had been bugging him non-stop for 3 hours trying to tell him what he had done but so far he had refused to tell merely for the sake of seeing her cross.

"Fine fine you've beaten it out of me" Harry said in a tone of mock-suffering. "I used spirit magic to concentrate my energy into my right arm the results are quite impressive aren't they."

Ginny was gaping "You can actually do spirit magic that well, the most I can do is increase my bodies overall performance but not for very long."

"It's not that hard I'll teach you how to do it while we're irritating everyone else in Hogwarts."

Ginny's face lit up like a Christmas tree "Really oh thank you thank you thank you that's so awesome."

"Hey what am I an old toy to be thrown away I am your teacher you know not him." Rowena sounded like she was pouting.

Ginny smirked cheekily "Well Harry seems to be able to control sprit magic very well and as you haven't been able to teach me I can only assume that Harry or perhaps Salazar would be able to teach me better."

"He can not teach it better than me."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Can too."

"Can not."

"Okay the both of you SHUT UP YOU'RE GIVING ME A MIGRAINE."

"Sorry Harry."

"So the mighty lord of fighting can still get migraine's guess you're not completely indestructible then."

"Rowena."

"What?"

"Shut Up."

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Tomorrow was the day that he and Ginny had been dreading for so long, it was the day that they would have to go to Hogwarts and face the outside world for the first time in years. They still weren't sure what they were going to do, Ginny was still too young officially and Harry didn't want to be sorted because it gave Dumbledore and the teachers too much power over him.

Also the founders had told him to keep an eye out for fresh talent and people who would like to join them over Dumbledore, that was going to be hard considering that Dumbledore was the hero of the wizarding world and people were unlikely to go against him. He had had the idea of just refusing to be sorted and using his influence as Hogwart's founders heirs to be able to come and go as he pleased. One day he could be a Gryffindor the next Slytherin, the best part would be that he could what he pleased and be as free as a ghost.

The problem with this would be it would be hard for people to become close to himself and Ginny, he could deal with that but he didn't think that Ginny could. It had been only two short years since her families mistrust had pushed her away and she still wasn't over it. He had had to use an ancient spell that was like the obliviate but safer to erase any memories of their presence at that house since they had disappeared. Ginny had been feeling like an outcast lately and it would only get worse a school unless he had a plan.

Then he was struck by inspiration he had an idea, a wonderful idea but it would be dangerous risky and possibly land everyone involved in trouble. Nothing unusual there.

He felt Ginny move closer to him and snuggle up to his chest, he held her close.

"It'll be fine Ginny I promise," he whispered before he fell asleep.

"I know," came the quiet reply.