So...It's been a long time since I last updated. I lost motivation, I had few reviews and not even my best friend reads this story(though she says she'll get around to it). It will be a while however, before I get back into the swing of things with this story because I have so many others flowing around in my head.

I don't own Harry Potter, never will.

Chapter Six: Kek

In the week that Harry had spent with Azra, Sith and Clyptos, he'd been brutally introduced to a world he didn't fully understand and like. He knew a bit about the Animal Kingdom, having learned some things in Elementary School when he was young, but muggle schools, and at times wizarding schools taught only the glamourous things about the outside world.

Most of the time the four would spend the day walking around the forest and talking, or for Clyptos, eating as much as he could. Azra pointed out landmarks to him to aid him in finding his way around the area of the forest they lived in and tried to help him as best as she could. Harry ate mostly berries or any sort of edible plants he knew wouldn't kill him, while the three reptiles ate small rodents and sometimes larger animals if they ganged up.

He was never without danger. Large predators prowled around the forest, looking for their own meals and Harry had to be especially careful at all times so as not to be caught off guard and eaten.

He hadn't desperately tried to find a human village, he like his new friends a lot, but the knowledge that people were trying to find him was always in the back of his mind. He knew Ron and Hermione were probably worried sick about him, and that Mrs. Weasley was most likely crying her eyes out, but for now he felt safe, and finally free.

For the first time ever, Harry felt the freedom to do what ever he wanted. No homework, no chores, no teachers telling him what to do, and no Dumbledore trying to make him save the world. He also had no damned Voldemort induced dreams or dreams of Sirius falling through the Veil, and his scar never hurt.

He learned to move silently and with ease through the forest, and to climb the trees if he needed to. His clothes, already a dismal oversized mess had become torn and frayed in his self teaching, and he came to the conclusion that he looked like some sort of a cave man. He didn't mind that much, but he was sure people would come to the wrong conclusion about him if they saw him.

His birthday had come and gone, and he didn't bother to tell his new friends. He doubted they even knew what his birthday meant, or if they did, he feared what kind of a present they would give him. He was unsure how well they understood humans and their cultures.

At the north end of the forest, there started another forest which called to Harry magically. It was an eerie forest, with silver trunks with leaves as green as his eyes. The snakes feared it, calling it evil, purposefully avoiding any conversation about it, or even walking to it. They called it Kek, because in Egyptian mythology one of the deities of darkness was named Kek. Harry also learned that all of the animals feared it, giving it their own names of darkness. Harry would soon learn that it was dark in it's own ways, but for now, he was curious.

"For the last time Harry, we don't like talking about the damn place!" Azra said exasperated.

"But why? What's in there that makes you fear it so much?" he asked desperately. The first time he'd walked to it's edge he'd been practically dragged away.

"We saw an acquaintance of ours go in there. She came out like the wind and died soon after. He body was so scared that I was surprised she was even able to move," Sith explained.

Clyptos let out a hiss of glee and slithered off at top speed. Harry froze, assuming his friend had found some prey so he wouldn't scare it away. Sith hissed in annoyance and muttered something about bottomless pits for stomachs. Azra shook her head as they waited a few minutes before Clyptos returned, mumbling about how nicely the rodent was digested. Harry shivered, a bit disgusted by his companion's words.

"Has anyone else ever entered it?" he asked.

The three snakes hissed in annoyance. "Stop talking about it!" Azra hissed evilly.

Harry did, realizing that Azra or Sith would probably bite him if he didn't and continued walking around the forest with them following. He wasn't even sure what kind of snakes the siblings were and whether or not their venom was poisonous. He couldn't however, get Kek out of his mind. It was a strange part of the forest, that much he'd obviously seen due to it's colours and magical feel.

It was beginning to dawn on Harry that if the Order wasn't able to find him, then neither could Voldemort, and that they were at heads trying to find him. What surprised him thought was that he really didn't care. Let them battle it out, for now he was going to live in peace and explore Kek. But only if he worked up the courage.

"Why is it that you always lead us here when walking?" Sith asked angered.

Harry was brought out of his musings and his eyes focused, only to see the edge of Kek. He shrugged helplessly in answer. He figured it had something to do with the magical pull he felt coming off it, but it was weird because magic didn't attract him. He wished Hermione or someone else was around to explain things to him.

"Lets go Harry!" Clyptos demanded, a scared tone in his voice.

Harry turned to go when he felt a magical blanket envelope him, calling him into the forest with a soft feminine melodious voice. She sang a whispered song into his ear, a song about the beauty of her forest. It was a beautiful song, one Harry found attracting, and mind filling.

He turned back to look at Kek, hesitating a moment before walking in at a fast pace. He didn't even hear his friends hiss in protest and follow him, trying to stop him. Harry didn't hear anything, except her voice.

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Azra tried hard not to think about what would happen to them, following Harry into such a spooky place. She knew half the things said by all the snakes were probably a lie but that didn't make this place any more inviting.

For her, sometimes being the oldest of the family had it's perks, but when she had to make a decision between saving her own skin and helping Harry it had been the worst few seconds of her life. Kek scared her to no ends, ever though she wasn't that open about it. She said it freaked her out, but that was only half the truth. Had it been any other person walking into Kek, she would have left him or her on their own, but she'd grown a liking for the dark haired, green eyed boy so the only thing she could do was go in after him.

Upon entering Kek she immediately felt strange. Something tickled down the whole length of her back, something she didn't recognize, followed by something she did: fear. Thoughts about turning back entered her mind, but how could she let the boy go deeper into his doom?

Azra, along with her brothers who'd also decided to follow called Harry's name many times but he appeared no to hear them.

She looked at her brothers for a moment wondering if she really had the power to make their choices, or if they'd decided to follow Harry on their own accord. They both, on several previous occasions had told her she need to think about all of them before making decisions. This time she hadn't even thought about them, so was this their choice? Clyptos, while loyal to them, was a chicken shit in the face of danger. Sith was someone who thought over things throughly before talking action, weighing the pros and cons and it's over all effect.

Were they following Harry for the same reasons she was? Did the boy create a foundation of liking and loyalty in them like he had in her? How could he not have, he was a kind hearted boy who had a knowledge in him a boy his age shouldn't. He was not carefree like other boys his age, and he was certainly polite and considerate. Like a snake he was.

They were quite deep in the forest when Harry finally stopped walking. He stood stock still, staring ahead with absent mesmerized eyes.

"Let's go back Harry!" Sith demanded, slithering around to face him.

The leaves on the ground around where Harry stood started to rustle as a wind picked them up and carried them like a cyclone around the boy. The trees rustled and moved, making an eerie noise.

"Harry, let's go," Clyptos said desperately, looking around wildly, as if something was going to pop up from nowhere.

Azra couldn't help but feel the same. The wind surrounding Harry was unnatural, and concentrated solely on him. The moving trees didn't help ease her fears at all, and she realized that Kek was a magical forest. If this was magic, then she did not like it at all.

The trees made another eerie sound and their branches bend down, creating a leafy barrier. Azra and her brothers might have been able to get out, but Harry didn't stand a chance in doing such a thing.

After a few moments, the trees to the front of Harry moved their branches slightly to allow passage to a brown skinned woman with long wavy hair as green as the leaves. She wore a green sleeveless shirt that matched her hair and a long, flowing silver skirt. From what Azra knew of humans, she assumed this woman would be considered very beautiful among her own, but she was also frightening. Her eyes were inhuman, red and yellow mixed together in an evil sort of way and as she walked, vines, plants and other rooted things sprung up and wound themselves around her, but she forced them back with a wave of her hand. The opening in the trees closed, blocking the only passage out.

She walked up to Harry, Sith slithering away terrified, curling beside Azra and watched as the woman spoke softly into Harry's ear. Azra bristled in anger, this woman was the reason Harry had walked into Kek! She had used her magic to draw him to her, but for what purpose she didn't know. She was to find that out soon.

Vines serged forth from their place near the woman at the flick of her hand and constricted themselves around Harry, who was unable to fight back.

"Harry, fight back!" Azra yelled and shot to him, travelling up a vine to his ear. She desperately hissed in his ear telling him to snap out of whatever he was under. Sith and Clyptos circled Harry's legs, aiding Azra in her failing attempts.

The vines tightened once they had fully wound themselves around Harry. They closed in on Harry's neck and Azra thought for sure he would die, when the trees moaned and shifted open to reveal a tall man dressed in black, holding a strange object.

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