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"English"

"Slavic"

That night, Harry potter was having a nightmare. Nott was there to wake him up.

"Hey, you okay?" Asked Nott

"I don't know" said Harry who was sweating.

"Why don't we go to the forbidden wood for some running" suggested Nott

"Running? Do you have clothe for it? I mean, it's going to be hard running with that uniform" said Harry, he had muggle clothes, but he didn't know if Nott had some clothes for running.

"Well, I can just transfigure this" he said turning his pajama into clothe fitting for a running.

Both went outside, it was chilly outside. But not enough to keep snow from melting. Hagrid was tending to some weird looking horses in the woods. Both didn't interrupt them.

"Crazy guy, isn't?" said nott.

"What do you mean?" said Harry.

"Well brushing over imaginary stuff, didn't you see him doing that hand movement? There was nothing there" said Nott.

Harry didn't respond, because he did see something. Dark skinned horses looking like skeleton. He couldn't be crazy isn't?

Northern Russia – Archangelsk –Catacombs

"Ha! Yasha* Romanov, my friend. It's good to see you" said a man wearing a military uniform greeting his friend

"Good to see you too, Dmitriev" said James Potter

Dimitri was a good friend of James Potter, he used to be part of a commando and it was demobilize a few month ago. Veteran of some wars, went into Afghanistan as an adviser. Wizard who wanted to fight for their country went mostly into the muggle part of the Soviet Army. Only the best were selected to be part of the wizards brigades of the soviet forces. And things were getting uglier every day. Muggle news were talking about some Coup d'état being in preparation. Might be just some random rumors like always since the beginning of the year. Dimitri went into hiding from the KGB, he was suspected to be a spy for the American government. Well, he couldn't just go outside and claim his innocence, he had to protect the secrecy of the wizarding world. He used that opportunity to reopen this sealed vault from the Russian empire era. It was deserted, vast cavern just below the city. They needed a hideout, they found one of them.

"I will contact the others and call them here. There a rumours of a dark creatures roaming in Bulgaria. They used the same spell as the one used in that village in Great Britain." Said Dimitri

"Ha yes, I'll would like you to send Yakovitch on Romania to ask the help of our vampire friend" said James

"You mean the royal family of Transylvania? I guess we will need 10 thousand gold for that. Vampire don't like being visited by mortals, unless they pay a fee" said Dimitri

"Don't worry, I will send friend" said James before taking out a dagger a reciting a formula. He portkeyed back to Potter Manor.

Dimitri listened to the silence of the vast caverns for a while before being interrupted by a strange man…

Potter Manor – England

Lily was doing a dinner with Daisy, she was sad, because she missed her big brother. James went inside the house. Daisy stopped helping his mom to crash on his dad stomach. The force of the tackle almost made James trip.

"Hey, I just went out for a few days" said James

"I still miss you, I feel like…"said Daisy before sobbing

"Hey, hey. Nothing going to happen to daddy." Said James to comfort his daughter.

The elves helped James to get up and went to the kitchen to help their mistress who was preparing a special dish. Soon after, an owl was knocking on the window in the living room. Daisy went to great it. The owl was made of pure black and had wound on his left eye, he gave the letter to daisy before going flying back to wherever he came from.

"A letter from the Greengrass" said Daisy

"Give it to your father" said Lily who was preparing the table.

"Give it to me" said Yuri the elf "I'm going to see the master"

Daisy reluctantly gave the letter to Yuri before, but it was an important matter. And she knew there was thing that she was better not knowing. Thing were going to messy, she felt it. Call it a feminine intuition. Lily had the same feeling, he told James about it. But, he didn't have the time to look into it. There was a meeting later today with the Malfoy Patriarch. Lucius would be here at 6PM. Yuri was tasked to look at the house and be prepared to extract the family in a safe place if thing were to get ugly. James didn't want to take any chance.

Lucius Malfoy came earlier, followed by his elf named Dobby. He knocked at door two time, Yuri opened the door and invited them to the living room where James was reading the letter to pass the time. Daisy was on her room getting ready if something were to happen. Lucius was smiling, admiring finally the potter Manor.

"Beautiful house" said Lucius. James felt offended, this was hardly a house but a very big manor with multiple rooms. But he didn't say anything about the misplaced comment of his host.

"Mister Malfoy, how may I help you, today?" said the Potter Patriarch.

"Ho, I'm just here for a proposition. Lord Potter. Call it an alliance between the rich house of Malfoy and the noble house of Potter" said Lucius.

"You have all of my attention, Lord Malfoy" said James who stopped reading his letter.

Lucius hand went into his side pocket and came a parchment and cigar. He put down the parchment in the desk and lit his cigar. He enjoyed the cigar, it had a delicious vanilla smell to it.

"So what is this about?" asked James who ordered Yuri to bring some scotch.

"Simply a treaty of non-aggression between our houses. You see, there is a war coming, and I rather not have the potter house labeled as my enemy." Said Lucius, he couldn't go directly to an alliance, his son had a power feud with the potter heir. He had to play it safe, he could always get the alliance later.

"A war you say?" said James "How much do you know about this war?"

"I know that you know who is getting his army back. I also know that my half-sister Bellatrix is the one who killed Lord Weasley and has a member of my family, even though we hated each other. I have to amend of avenging him, the Weasley don't even know that we are very close cousin." said Lucius Malfoy.

"That is interesting" said James, Malfoy and Weasley, two name, one family. He wanted to know more. "But, I still find it hard to believe you"

"My… Our family come from a very ancient wizard house dating back to the founding of the Roman Empire. We were known as the Patricians, I'm from the wizard branch. The Weasley were the first to come to England. While the Malfoy stayed a time in Normandy, until you know the Normands went for British islands. "Explained Lucius

"So you are saying that you are from an imperial bloodline?" said James

"Yes and no. It was a republic, we were more of a bourgeois class back in the time. Well before the first emperor" said Lucius. "Or that's what my grandfather taught me when he was still alive"

Daisy Potter Room

Daisy was playing with his music box, it was a small magic box. Yuri the elf was in his assassin black garment. He was next to the window, watching the wood and the garden for any movement. Daisy was playing with her toys and was about to write a letter to Harry.

Living room – Potter Manor

"I see, this is merely a peace agreement until one of the party break it" said James

"Well, I don't plan of breaking it. I can't afford two front in the political struggle in the Wizengamot or…" but Lucius didn't finish his sentence.

"Deal" said James shaking the hand with the Malfoy.

No one knew, but that day an alliance between powerful families was signed between the ancient and noble Potter and the mighty and wealthy Malfoy. Soon after, Lucius went home using his elf to apparat away. James was in front of the window drinking the remaining scotch in his glass. Yuri was watching from a shadow.

"You can lower your guard Yuri, a storm is coming. I can feel it" said James

"I feel it too master… Shouldn't we warn Harry about the peace treaty and what is coming?" said Yuri.

"I will tell him when the holydays will come. I think, he is going to like his gift" said James

Hogwarts – Great Hall – few days later

Harry Potter was doing his homework with his group. Herbology was a pain for him, but he had the help of one of the brightest witch of the school. Just a few weeks and it was the holydays. He couldn't wait, his sister told him about 'a surprise'. When his parents make him a surprise, it's always something big. Going to see the Broom race? The International wizarding dual tournament? A trip to Japan maybe? The last one would be nice, he always wanted to find a shadow magic master. They were called ninja by the muggles, they used mind altering magic to be nearly undetectable. That skill would be very useful for him, or that what he was going to do anyway after school, this summer. But not today, today was a special day between his rival Draco and him. A truce between both houses, these kind of event were always specials, one was the dual in front of everyone. He had a group, Draco had one and 2 leaders can't co-exist in the same group. So one had to lose the fight in order to make the truce came in effect. Well, in ancient times these duals were to death but Deathmatch are banned from England since 1600s.

Everyone were on the great hall, there would be no dinner and Teacher Flitwick was the judge of the dual. There was a large and round table on the center of the great Hall. Draco was on left side, while Harry was on the right side. Both were wearing their respective gear of duals. Usually this kind of event doesn't attract a lot of people only the people concerned, but everyone from the school were watching this event. The Gryffindor were expecting some blood in the dual, Ronald and his minions strangely were silent, Ron had a defeated look on his face. The twins were not better and only prefect from Gryffindor, Percy Weasley was not fazed.

"For this dual, we have two wizard from important wizarding house to clear their… difficulties. For this dual, there will be 5 round, the one who will win 3 round will be the winner of this dual" said Flitwick. "So there will be no curse, jinx, charms that could do harm one of the duelist. Duelist on your post!"

Harry was wearing a dragonskin breastplate with an Acromentula silk Scarf, Draco was wearing an Acromentula Silk armor with goblin made gloves and they were good at deflecting most of the curse and jinx. No harm yes, but there was no law about weapons like daggers and swords. Harry had 10 throwing knife under his robes and dagger under his sleeve. He was curious what Draco secret weapon was. The tension was high, no one was breathing for 3 second and you could hear the wind passing through the doors of the great hall.

"On my mark, after I activated the runes of protection, you will begin the session" said Flitwick

The runes were all around the table, a measure of protection by the headmaster, he knew how powerful Harry Potter was. Pillars of light emerged from the ground and surrounded the round table under small half sphere before their vanished.

"Begin!" yelled Flitwick

Draco was the first to use a curse on Harry, the curse hit the rune shield. Harry side stepped on the right and launched a basic jinx in rapid succession. 2 paralysis jinx hit Draco on the leg and arm. His glove glowed of a yellow light, his arm and legs were functional again.

"Interesting" said Harry.

"Everte Statum" yelled Draco. This time again harry side stepped and spell missed his target.

Harry side stepped again giving Draco a hard time to aim and shoot his spell. Well, this is not going to be easy, he had to use some of the Slavic magic to win this. And having Dumbledore was not good, this could lead him to believe he was a dark wizard and he would be at his back for the following years.

"Expulso!" yelled harry, the spell hit Draco on left side, Draco crashed on the shield. The first win was on Harry.

Draco got up and was now having an amused face, his unbuttoned one his glove. Did this meant that Draco was now serious? Both went to their original post waiting for the signal to begin the second round.

"Begin!" yelled Flitwick

Draco used the reducto curse on the ground, the wood of the round table shattered, hundred tiny sharp piece of wood were levitating. Draco was using his unbuttoned glove to control them, he used them as a shield.

Harry couldn't approach him and the spell would be intercepted, so he had to play the same tactics. He levitated his throwing knives with his wand.

"Transform" said harry, the 10 knives morphed into metallic wolves, all of them had feral look.

4 wolves attacked the wood shield of Draco, while 6 were watching Harry back. The wolves were about to touch the wood shield when Draco disappeared.

"Everte statum!" yelled Draco from… behind him?

Harry was projected to the rune shield. Thus giving the victory to Draco Malfoy. This was very similar to the shadow step used by ninja. He made a copy of it, the light step.

"You like that potter?" said Draco.

Everyone were excited by this dual event, there is no way a first year would know all of these spell. But with the shadow of war, it made the wizard society to be prepared to any kind of event thus teaching high advanced spells to their children. Draco used the specter apparition, it was silent and very useful. The rune shield protected the student from the spell of the duelist inside the shield, but it worked both ways. The anti-apparition jinx of the school had no effect inside the rune shield. Both were going to assist to a deadly exchange.

"On my mar…" but before Flitwick could finish, the two duelist just disappeared from everyone vision, but they could hear violent metal clash, scratch and explosion.

This time Draco was knocked out, harry had a dagger on his left arm while the right was bloodied. The gloves were harder than normal steel. Flitwick wanted to interrupt the shield when Draco got up.

"How did you manage that?" said Draco

"Potter Secret" said Harry bowing to Draco showing respect. Draco couldn't let go of this, he wanted to play it usual, but it was not the time for it. He bowed back.

"I didn't know you could show Respect! Malfoy!" yelled Finnigan.

"Shut up, monkey-face" said Parkinson

But before they could continue arguing, the duel was on the fourth round. And both were exhausted from the third round. The scenario was repeating, but in a slower pace, everybody were in awe, Draco was using melee attacks with his goblin gloves and used spell on the others to distract harry from the gloves. Harry blocked all the sharp edge goblin glove with his daggers while using the protego charm with his wand. When Draco used the specter apparition, Harry used the light step to apparate next to Draco trying to give him a knocking punch with his left hand.

The blond boy didn't expect this from the Russian boy, he was clearly not a show off, unlike what he thought of him. It was clear to him that he would not be victorious of this dual, his opponent was not only more powerful, but used tactics to counter him almost instantly. What was this boy been doing in Russia?

"Surrender, Malfoy. My next move might be too close to your death" said Harry

"A Malfoy never surrender without a fight" Said Malfoy

The next move was just as Harry said, when Malfoy used his specter move again, the next thing was a dagger nearly chopping him. Harry stopped the blade just a few millimeter from Draco neck. He was in a tight spot, he could use it again but he would get the dagger on his neck again. He couldn't think about another spell, move or feint to get away from that dagger.

"I surrender" said Draco.

The auditory was not breathing at all, they were surprised, shocked by all the move, both of them were using the dual. Flitwick had his mouth open, the other teacher were shocked, only the headmaster was not fazed.

"I declare Harry Potter-Romanov the winner of this Dual!" claimed Flitwick.

The Slytherin were about to cheer for harry, but the dual was not exactly over. Harry lend a hand to Draco, if Draco lend his, he would step from the power struggle and be the side-arm of Harry Potter. This would mean, his group of friends would be implemented into Harry circle as minions.

Draco friends were all expecting for him to turn his offer down. But they were shocked to see him actually accept to shake hand with him. The power struggle on the Slytherin house was now over. A new era would began, but that would wait after holidays.

Arkhangelsk – Northern Russia

James was back to the house of his friend. The guy had some wounds on his face.

"What happened?" said James to Dimitri

"Just an old friend greeting him" said an black hooded figure that was levitating next to him

James got his wand out, aiming at the black figure.

"Ho, come on Yasha, you don't greet old friends that way?" said the hooded figure.

"We certainly don't bloody their face like that" said James getting ready to use the killing curse.

The hooded figure took out his hood and revealed his face. It was a woman, but the voice…

"Not what you expected right?" said the woman with the masculine voice. She tapped her neck with the wand and her voice changed. "Is it better now?"

"…. Yes… Now, who are you?" said James still not convinced.

"Dasha Simonov, I'm a vampire. I saved your friend from death a few days ago" said the lady.

"You can lower your wand Yasha, without her, I would be dead" said Dimitri

"Tell me what happened" said James

"The vampires… they joined the forces of a dark lord, we have other reports in Egypt, china, Brazil and the united states" said Dimitri. "I'm not sure, but the tombs were opened and the undead are not found anywhere. We need to go see Salim to get more info. I was about to do that after our meeting but I was attacked."

"And that is where I entered. I killed the assassin and saved your friend ass. My clan leader was assassinated by his eldest son. The bastard was used like a slave by that crazy English bitch. If only I could get my hand on her neck, I would be able to turn the clan against him, but alone I can't do it" said the lady with an angry face showing his vampire traits, white skin with black veins, black eyes and very sharp looking teeth.

"If we have lost the vampires, we will need the werewolves then" said James.

"They already are on that English dark Lord side" said Dasha still angry.

James was now thinking, if he couldn't rally any of these, he would have to go to others areas to get other allies. He could always try with the desert people called djinns. Or maybe the Anubis priest order, they are a strong assassin group of wizard from the time of ancient Egypt. At least one of them could wipe out the dark lord associates in Egypt soil.

"Okay, pack your stuff Dimitri, we are going to Egypt" said James

"Say what?" said Dimitri

"And you think, you can get help there?" said Dasha laughing regaining more humans traits.

"You would be surprised" said James

A/N : Yasha is the Russian equivalent for James. Thank you of your attention.