AN: I don't own Harry Potter or any other story mentioned.

Written: 7/8/12

The Ultimate Crossover

by Kassien

Chapter 7

Harry stood calmly across from a flying or floating Ororo, and was very interested in what the weather mutant was truly capable of and hoped it gave him a chance to test his own growing elemental and weather magic he had really taken an interest in as of late. Harry cast an impervious and sticking charm on his glasses so he wouldn't lose them or his visibility during what he hoped would be his toughest challenge so far and waited for her to begin. He tried to clear his unhelpful thoughts at the moment of how incredibly sexy she looked in a skin tight leather outfit with her beautiful silvery white hair blowing around her head in the breeze and wind she was no doubt controlling to keep herself in the air.

Harry almost missed it when she raised her arms and her eyes went a similar cloudy silvery white to match her hair, that the fight had just begun as the wind around them increased and a thunder and lightning storm quickly rolled in above them. He quickly regained his purpose and sent a powerful wind gust at her hoping to throw her off but it had very little effect as she returned it with an even stronger one of her own that almost knocked him off his feet. He created an almost invisible shield around him and sent a freezing rain spell followed by a minor hurricane wind charm that she ignored completely and countered with a strike of lightning that would have definitely hit it's mark if he hadn't apparated at the last moment to a spot twenty feet to the left.

He then sent a spell called Zeus' lightning which mimicked her last lightning bolt, but was caught by her own follow up lightning bolt and sent to the ground in front of him exploding dirt and grass and shaking the very ground he stood on. Another of her lightning strikes crashed loudly against his shield shattering it but leaving him safe as he returned with a tidal wave spell she simply floated over and let drench the grounds as she called for gale force winds and rain that made it hard to stand and see well. Now soaking wet he conjured his strongest silver shield as another of her lightning strikes raced towards him which would have been amplified by the water had it connected, but the shield held and reflected the lightning strike right back towards her that she actually had to avoid.

While she avoided the lightning, Harry conjured a tall metal pole coming out of the ground to attract any more lightning she could throw at him and started launching hail stones at her constantly moving position trying to keep her on the defensive. Her next two lightning strikes hit his conjured lightning rod grounding their power and leaving him to continue sending Zeus' lightning attacks at her interspersed with rain, hail, and winds. To avoid them all, she flew directly at Harry who was unprepared to be crashed into and sent crashing to the ground away from his lightning rod protection which she now used to her own benefit.

Her next lightning strike hit him in the chest just as he returned to his feet as his body tingled uncomfortably while his dragonhide outfit took most of the sting of the attack away and grounded it. He ignored the students' cheers as he was hit thinking he had been defeated, and couldn't suppress the smirk at their groans when the lightning didn't seem to affect him much visibly even though his whole body was now twitchy. He raised another lightning rod as more bolts came towards him and just managed to apparate back to his original lightning rod when Ororo flew at him again trying to knock him away from his lightning rods' protection.

Harry then transfigured several nearby large stones from the destroyed ground into three meter tall stone golems and animated them to keep her busy before sending petrification spells at her until one finally connected and she was frozen in place and fell into a golem's waiting arms. Despite being petrified and held by the stone golem who wasn't at all affected by her lightning strikes, she continued sending them at Harry and the golems' feet trying to take him out and knock the stone creatures to the ground. He decided to end it while he could, and sent a stunning spell that hit her dead on knocking her out and waited a few seconds for the sky to clear from the intense storm she had created in her desperation to get free and defeat him.

He apparated to her and cancelled the golems' transfiguration, catching her stunned and petrified body himself before removing the petrification and ennervating her wandlessly while she was still in his arms. Her eyes instantly flew open looking around her with a bit of apprehension until they met the approving and concerned bright green eyes of Harry causing her to instantly settle and blush slightly as she realized the position she was in his arms. Harry smiled widely at her slight blush and stared eagerly at her once again normal and very attractive dark brown eyes as he slowly tilted her and set her back down on her own feet before reluctantly letting go.

"You really fought well, I didn't think I would make it there for a while," spoke Harry kindly and with a slight blush of his own at her intense gaze and closeness to him.

"Thanks, you did a lot better than I thought was even possible ...and those lightning rods were really effective," she responded somewhat sheepishly after having lost, but also felt she had done rather well against the formidable wizard that easily handled most of her fellow mutants.

"I've recently been studying elemental and weather magic ...but your control over it is just incredible," praised a complimenting Harry, having been greatly impressed by Ororo in many ways.

"Now, we'll see how you do hand to hand and metal to metal," spoke the approaching Logan, the last of the day's challengers.

"Sure ...just let me fix the grounds quick," responded Harry who began waving his wand and repairing all the damage done during his battle with Ororo within a few seconds and getting several appreciative looks from the others for fixing them so easily.

Harry then cast a spell to increase his strength and speed to better keep up with Logan who he knew from his stories was far above human levels in both and wanted to give him a challenge. They started without weapons strictly hand to hand, and Harry was blown away with the other man's skill in fighting and despite keeping up with him it was quickly very clear that Logan far surpassed him when he was going all out. After twenty straight minutes Harry needed a small break and even downed a pepper up potion before recasting his speed and strength enhancing spells and drawing his sword.

For the next ten minutes Harry struggled with the absolute hardest fight of his short life with a sword as Logan's claws were relentless in their attack pushing him beyond even his enhanced limits to try and defend himself. He had been hit and cut several times and was quickly getting over powered by the feral mutant without landing a single hit but still giving it his all. For another five or so minutes he struggled even more against Logan despite wandlessly casting healing spells as he fought until he couldn't stand anymore and was about to call it quits when he missed a frontal attack completely and was stabbed through his chest by Logan and collapsed in a heap to the ground.

Harry awoke with a gasp back in the medical bay with Jean, Charles, Ororo, and Logan standing around his bed watching him closely and all gasped at him still being alive. He smiled at everyone and promised Logan that there were no hard feelings when he tried to apologize for stabbing and killing him as had happened a few times while training with Duncan. He was getting used to the somewhat disoriented feelings of gasping awake hours after dying with no real set backs except for maybe a new scar to show for it.

"It's almost embarrassing how easily you won both of our fights," spoke Harry to Logan hoping to make the feral mutant feel better which seemed to work judging by his amused smirk.

"Now you know how everyone else you fought so easily this morning feels," replied Jean still a bit sore and put out for losing so easily to the new guy.

"Ah ...don't make me blush," teased Harry getting a snort from Logan, a huff from Jean, and small smiles from Charles and Ororo.

Charles then complimented Harry on really fighting everybody very well, and the diversity of styles and spells he used that countered and complimented each of his opponents' own mutant powers. He found the exercise to be very beneficial in learning about Harry's capabilities and also testing the limits of his mutant students, and offered Harry a chance to become one of the trainers while he was here in exchange for attending classes to catch up his lacking education which Harry readily agrees to. Ororo also asked if he could work with her to further develop her mutant powers as she had never had someone so effectively fight against her with her own tricks and offered to help tutor him so he could catch up on his education faster which he also agreed to with a very happy smile on his face.

For the next few weeks, Harry quickly fell into a strenuous and for him very rewarding routine of training others and himself as well as learning a lot about the education he had missed by going to Hogwarts. His early mornings he ran and worked out with Logan who began teaching him even more in hand to hand fighting before he then attended classes with the other mutant students until mid-afternoon where he would then train others in using their powers more effectively. After dinner he would work with Ororo helping her strengthen her weather control before they would return to the mansion and she would help him with his homework and tutoring usually pretty late into the night.

Harry was completely fascinated with the dark skinned weather mutant, and greatly enjoyed the time they spent together regardless of what they were working on. The pair was quickly becoming very close as they shared even more about themselves to the other, the more time they spent together. Harry had even gone through most of his possessions taken from his Gringotts vaults and found a nice pair of earrings that he put tracking charms on and had gifted her with them with a promise from her to wear them if she went on a mission so he could always find her in an emergency.

He had no idea that he would be using those earrings to track down the X-Men team a few weeks later when he was gone back in New York City for a weekend to visit Duncan as all hell broke loose at the Mansion. Harry had learned quite a bit about Magneto and the Brotherhood in his time with the mutants, but never expected them to mislead Rogue into running away so they could capture and use her for their own ends. His dinner with Duncan and Methos was interrupted when he felt a scared and distressed Jean calling him for help since Charles had been hurt by someone sabotaging Cerebro, and the rest of the team had headed to Liberty Island to get Rogue and stop the magnetic powered mutant.

By tracking Ororo's earrings, Harry knew that they had not yet arrived, so he quickly said his goodbyes to Duncan and Methos and apparated to his room at the Xavier Institute to put on his dragonhide gear. He also got out some mind clarity and wit sharpening potion to Charles hoping it would be enough to help based on what Jean had said happened to the older telepath. Giving Charles the potions and leaving him in the watchful hands of Hank, Harry focused on Ororo's location and apparated himself to the inside of the famous Statue of Liberty where he sensed her. He arrived just after Magneto floated to the Statue's torch to find the X-Men wrapped up in pieces of metal and trapped with Sabertooth guarding them who he quickly hit with a stunning spell before vanishing their metal bindings which had them all falling to the ground.

Harry caught Ororo, as Jean guided her and Scott to the ground and Logan landed in a crouch before a quickly waking back up Sabertooth, that he instantly engaged in an intense physical fight with. Harry then repaired Scott's visor so he could see again and use his laser beam to knock out Sabertooth causing Logan to growl in disappointment of having his fight interrupted. A sudden loud scream from Rogue who was being held in some unusual contraption at the Statue's torch drew their attention to her and Magneto who seemed to be lending her his magnetic powers so she could take the strain of getting the large metal contraption working.

The X-Men quickly put together a plan that had Ororo use the winds to raise Logan up to Magneto and Rogue while Jean stabilized him and Scott looked for a clean shot, all the while Harry was conjuring unbreakable ropes around Sabertooth and Toad who he found knocked out a small bit away from him. Luckily, their plan worked and they were able to stop whatever it was that Magneto had planned while rescuing Rogue who seemed alright except for a new streak of white hair near the front of her hairline. Harry was moments away from removing Magneto's head from his body, knowing the only way to truly stop an evil tyrant that wanted world domination was death, but Scott and Jean forced him to stop and tie him up to leave for the authorities.

Harry couldn't believe that they would take such a chance with such a powerful mutant who deserved death in his eyes and had to wonder if the X-Men could ever truly win their little war without ever actually eliminating their enemies. It brought too many bad memories of the Wizarding world, aurors and Order members fighting in the war against Voldemort only to capture, so the enemy lived to be broken out of jail and continue their killing ways. For him, as long as those who wanted to subjugate others were alive they were a threat to the way of life for the rest of the population be they wizards, mutants, or humans and realized that Xavier and his X-Men would be constantly fighting an uphill battle as long as those like Magneto were alive and still out there.

The others could tell that Harry was pissed when they boarded the x-jet to return to the Institute, leaving the captured mutants to the government and military to deal with instead of ending their threat by taking out their leader. When they arrived back at Xavier's Institute they were all very happy to see Charles up and about and seemingly fully recovered, but Harry did not stay long to tell their mentor and headed towards the danger room to blow off some much needed anger. He set up an imaginary scenario of Death Eaters and Immortals and spent the following hour tearing through them all with both his wand and sword until he was too exhausted to care any more.

Logan met up with him when he finally finished blowing off steam, having watched his young friend fondly from the observation deck and asked him to come have some drinks with him to further relax. Harry wanted to do some serious drinking, and after a quick glamour apparated to a liquor warehouse buying a case of Logan's favorite Canadian Whiskey before returning minutes later in his room where Logan was waiting on a sofa by his transfigured fireplace. The pair talked a bit about several different topics as Harry especially did some heavy drinking trying to suppress his own demons that returned when finding out they were only capturing their enemies. It was something that heavily plagued Harry towards the end of the war when he found himself fighting the same people again and again after they had been captured instead of killed when caught.

Logan was quite sympathetic to Harry's plight and complaints, and also felt the X-Men were too soft and forgiving towards their enemies but had struggled so much to fit in anywhere he didn't want to ruin the first good thing he could remember in his life. For the first time, Harry drank himself into a total stupor and talked more than he ever had about his personal life and the demons he struggled with until he passed out. Logan had almost instantly liked the young wizard and felt a sense of kinship with him from the beginning, but that night really solidified in his mind why the two got along so well and understood one another in the demons and difficult lives they shared.

The next few days were a little tense around the mansion, as Harry stayed to himself mostly and the other mutants pretty much left him alone, especially after they all watched a recording of his danger room session after the Liberty Island incident. Scott the most saw him as even more of a loose canon than Logan, and didn't think he belonged among them but some like Logan and Charles especially knew how valuable of an ally he could be. Ororo was possibly the most conflicted since she had really grown close to him and had become intensely attracted to him despite also wanting to see the best in others and give them second chances to prove themselves and contribute positively to society.

Soon things went back to normal, and Harry got back into the routine of training with the others and learning the basics of the education he had missed out on by going to Hogwarts. Before he knew it another month had passed since his night of drinking, and he had finally admitted to Ororo that he had feelings for her which she reciprocated. From that point on it wasn't uncommon to see the pair together even more than before, or for her to practically move into his room at the Institute as their relationship heated up.

During that time, Harry had also started Logan on a weekly regiment of mind clarity potions and had even begun teaching him the basics of Occlumency to try and help him recover his lost memories. It seemed to be working as well since every day he would remember more and more of his past although the memories seemed to be returning in reverse order from the most recent backwards. By the beginning of spring he remembered the Three Mile Island incident with Stryker and the mutant known as Gambit, as well as his girlfriend's supposed death and the bonding of adamantium to his bones, and was just approaching the time on Stryker's mutant task force with his half brother Victor Creed also known as Sabertooth.

For Logan, the memories where both a welcome relief and a total nightmare of horror stories, but he was determined to remember everything to make better sense of his life and where and when he truly came from. He and Harry grew even closer over that time as the young wizard along with Charles were the only people he fully confided in about his past and what he learned and felt about it. It was late one night in April that the two friends were casually sharing a few drinks in front of Harry's fireplace when they noticed the sounds and presence of several unwanted visitors at the school.

They turned out to be a Black Ops team sent by the government to capture the mutants of the school from a tip given to them by their prisoner Magneto. Harry had used Legilimancy on the pair that came to his room to subdue them and had flipped out that the man they stopped him from killing had come back to bite them all in the ass, and with Logan's help began systematically eliminating the threat. By the end of the night, they had viciously tore through the ranks of the Black Ops team, both shrugging off several bullets through their healing factor or dragonhide and completely eliminated any threat the Black Ops team presented without any mutant casualties.

AN: Foreshadowing the beginning of the end of Harry's time with the mutants.