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Parcletoung

Glaive skills

((Animagus form speaking))

(regular mental speak)

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LAST TIME:

"HARRY POTTER YOU IDIOT I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DIDN'T TELL ME ABOUT THE RAMPAGING DRAGON, I WANT TO HAVE FUN TO!" Harry looked up to see a high heeled shoe come flying down and strike him in the forehead, effectively knocking our hero out and leaving him in an undignified pile on the grounds.

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NOW:

Everyone was shocked at what they just saw. First the subject of their care of magical creatures class goes on a homicidal rampage, then Harry Potter comes and reduces it to a pile of mush on the ground, and finally he gets knocked out by a flying high heeled shoe thrown by a crazy woman that qualifies fighting an enraged dragon as fun. Nothing ever is normal at Hogwarts, but it is certain that every one that witnessed the event will take extra precaution to not piss off either Harry or that crazy lady. With that strangely unified thought, the class dispersed back to the castle leaving our hero still knocked out on the ground.

Two hours later

Arioch finally comes down to check on the condition of her student and boyfriend only to find him still knocked out on the ground. She sighs before walking up to him and nudging him not so gently in the ribs with her foot "Hey wake up, the shoe didn't hit you that hard!" With a few more nudges Harry was back on his feet.

"What happened? The last thing I remember is flying shoes then a lot of pain and darkness."

"You found a rampaging dragon and instead of considering that maybe I would want to fight it too you jump in and finish it off before I have a chance to come out and take a turn." She stops and takes a calming breath "Now we need to go over what needs to be worked on. First you need to restrain yourself from showing off like that. You had the time to make a weak neurotoxin on the blade so you definitely had enough time to make less of complex venom that would have been strong enough to kill it quickly and not made any of our techniques accessible to the enemy."

"They are a bunch of third years. What possible threat could they become after seeing a few skills?"

"You of all people should know that a person's mind isn't safe when magic is involved. The most immediate threat is that Dumbledore will probably pick their brains to get an idea of your skills and how to better control you. But you should also consider this; what would happen if one of those harmless students as you called them were the son of a death eater or had their brain picked by one? What would happen would be that the enemy now has an idea of your abilities and will have an easier time either disabling or killing you. From now on we train in seclusion where no one can find us and in a fight we are both going to be minimalists, the fewer movements the better and the less that we show of our true skills the better." Then the serious look on her face evaporates and is replace by a very flirtatious expression "Don't be a wimp by any means, can't have people thinking I go for weaklings now can we. If tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum try to start fights, beat them to the ground and walk away, no salt in the wounds, just embarrassment. Now I believe you have some practice to do." Harry adopted a confused look.

"Practice what? I killed that dragon perfectly."

"Yes you did. We don't need to work on those skills they are fine, but you have yet to master the moon illusion correct?"

"Yeah I guess so."

'You guess so? The illusion attack is famed for making one thousand bleeding cuts, you on the other hand have maxed out at making eight hundred and fifty three. Now I have made this nifty exercise for both you and Palla. She will make a golem out of stone to use as a human shaped dummy in the forbidden forest that you can use for practice. And guess what? We are not going to be stopping the practice of this technique until you can make a total of one thousand cuts five times in a row. Now lets collect your hound so we can continue, she will be 'healing' your golem while controlling two more and creating a sparring match between the other two. This will help you master yet another skill in the killing moon style and it will help her with fine tuning her ability to split her powers into multiple individual targets. Using golems will make fighting large scale battles better. You and I can act more reckless and have less worry when using high risk skills like the full moon phase. Now onto the forest." and with that the conversation was over and they left to go train in the forest to perfect their skills.

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They found a clearing about four miles deep into the forest. The clearing was relatively large but the majority of the space was taken up by a shallow pond. The pond was filled with perfectly clear water and only about three feet deep. It was inhabited by surprisingly normal creatures such as frogs and wild goldfish. The pond was in the center of the clearing surrounded by about thirteen feet of land. The edge of the forest was marked by a group of weeping willows whose roots grew toward the pond.

Harry is standing in front of what appeared to be a human made out of stone with his veined glaive drawn. The stone person is a golem created by Palla there are gouges made in the stone all over the arms, legs, and the torso that were slowly sealing up. Once the cuts in the stone finished sealing Harry got into a basic stance holding his glaive in a way so as to make it seem like he is about to do a particularly weak downward slash. He suddenly shouts "Moon Illusion" makes five quick phantom slashes, one over each arm, leg, and finally a vertical cut along the torso. There was a second of complete stillness before all at once a grand total of one thousand cuts appeared on the golem "Finally the fifth time." After he said this Arioch's voice came from under one of the tree's where she was read the defense book that was provided to him since Dumbledore had no clue if Remus would even take the job by the time letters needed to be sent out. It was title obscure magic of the past.

"About time I was thinking you wouldn't be able to accomplish it before night fall. Hey did you know the spirits are in this book?"

"No, lets keep that bit of information away from Hachimata. If he knew he would do one of two things. One he would start bragging and make an ass of himself like usual, or two he will start ranting about how he demands royalties for being in the book despite the fact that he couldn't spend it."

"Yeah you're probably right."

"Let's go tell Palla that training is over for the day." They both got up and made their way over to where Palla was doing battle training with her golems. She has decided to shape the golems in a strange way. There were two golems and each had been designed for a different purpose. They both posses a humanoid shape but that was where the similarities stopped. The larger of the golems was about seven feet tall and had the head and hands of a grizzly bear. The teeth and claws had been fashioned from a different harder mineral than the rest of the body, this golem had bee designed for raw power and to deliver crushing fatal blows. The second golem was smaller and lither and created to strike with a series of quick but somewhat weak blows to wear down the enemy. It stood at about five foot nine with the head of a wolf and claws on each finger. Currently the wolf golem was winning over the bear, but that was no surprise since they were being controlled by a dog.

"Palla come on we need to go back to the school." Palla turned her attention to Harry and Arioch for a second before nodding and trotting towards them. As she walked away from the scene the golems froze before crumbling and turning into a regular pile of dirt showing nothing of the training that had just ensued.

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The next day had progressed without any form of stress or issue, at least until Defense against the Dark arts. Remus had situated the room back to like it was when he taught before.

Usually Harry would take a seat near the front of the class with Hermione and Ron, but seeing as they weren't exactly on the best terms at the moment he decided to sit in the back corner of the room. Once every one was seated Remus started the class.

"Hello everyone, I'm sure you're curious as to why you have only recently received your course books. Well that is because we are trying something different due to the impending war. As the title obscure magic of the past alludes to, we are going to be looking into some of the more obscure branches of magic that have long ago disappeared from the face of the earth."

"If they are no longer around then why are we wasting our time learning about them?"

Remus answered the question so quickly that it seemed as if he had prepared for this question ahead of time.

"Just because these forms of magic are no longer practiced doesn't mean that there is no possibility that they can't be used any more, and because of that possibility we need to know how they work and how to defend against them. That is why we are going to study them. Now if you all will turn to the third chapter we will start by looking at spirits."

Hearing this Harry went noticeably rigid 'spirits? Does he mean the greater spirits? God I hope he doesn't go into how they are summoned.'

"Now there are two kinds of spirits. There are leftover spirits, or ghosts, and there are elemental spirits. Elemental spirits are spirits that possess complete domination of a certain element. The elements are fire, air, earth, lightning, and water. Now elemental spirits fit into one of two categories. They are merely lesser or greater spirits. Lesser spirits are quite common and no where near as powerful as the greater spirits. There are nine greater spirits that possess the shapes of animals. They have taken the shapes of a raccoon, a cat, a shark, a lizard, a dog, a weasel, a badger, a snake, and a fox. These are the most powerful spirits to ever be called to this plane of existence." Remus was interrupted by Hermione raising her hand to ask a question.

"Professor, you said there were nine spirits but you only mentioned five elements. Why is that?"

"Good question; the answer to it is that those five are the only elements that human see as true elements. The raccoon, shark, weasel, badger, and fox represent, in the same order, wind, water, lightning, earth, and fire. But the cat, lizard, dog, and snake represent different elements. The lizard is the representation of poisons, the dog of illusions, the snake of evil, and the cat of death."

Ron, being as closed minded as he is, made an announcement on his perception of what had just been announced "Obviously the cat and the snake are dark spirits."

"Ron I can't believe how stupid you are. Did that kick to the head I gave you leave you with more permanent brain damage?"

"What are you talking about Potter? How can the very representations of death and evil not be dark spirits? If you don't think so you're off your rocker." At this Hermione nodded her head in support of this obvious light magic propaganda.

"Okay then, tell me if you were suffering of a horrible disease and in constant pain with no hope of a cure being found ever wouldn't death be better than life?"

"Yeah, so what's you point?"

"If death is ever at any point good then how is it that the spirit of death can be evil? As for the snake; just because it is the representation of evil doesn't mean it is. Gryffindors are the representation of bravery in this school and I believe I saw all of the Gryffindors cowering in fear earlier just like the rest of the student body about to pass out form fear of that prank."

"Shut-up Potter your only defending those things because they are just as dark and evil as you are."

"That is enough Mr. Weasley, ten points from Gryffindor for making unfounded accusations about another student. I will not tolerate those types of accusations in my class room. Am I understood?" thundered Remus after hearing what Ron said "Now shall we continue?" He started again with out waiting for an answer "Like Mr. Potter said those spirits that I had just mentioned are not the evil ones, though in the past some of the weaker spirits have become corrupted and become demons. These demons are actually the true reason that we are learning about spirits. They always seek a way onto the human plane where they are near unbeatable; the only thing that could defeat them was a spirit of greater power. Long ago dark lords summoned them to fight with them. By offering one of their servants to act as a body for the demon they had a near unbeatable soldier to fight for them."

"Then why did they stop doing it? It seems like they would win wars if they created an army of demon soldiers."

"Yes but that is only if it I in the demons best interest if you win. There were too many ways for things to go wrong. Now I believe that is all the time we are allowed for class today so your homework is to write a short paper about the origins of one of the greater spirits of your choice, and also tell me the difference between a spirit and a demon. This will be due in two days so I suggest you get started. Now go and enjoy the rest of your day." With that good-bye to his students done they all filed out into the hallway.

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As Harry walked out of class room he saw Ron and Hermione standing in front of him with twin scowls on their faces. Ron stepped forward while fingering his wand as if thinking Harry was going to start a fight with him for no reason "You think your so smart don't you Potter, purposely going against me when its obvious that I'm right? No, I can't have a single moment in the spot light as anything other than the stupid follower with the great Harry Potter around can I?"

"He's right Harry that was really rude. How can you defend the representation of evil? You're really starting to make me think you have crossed over into the dark side."

"Oh come off it Hermione don't pretend to still like him. We get to keep what we were given and he knows what we really think about him so why keep the act up?"

This was starting to get real old real fast for Harry so he decided to speak up "if you two are done having your little moment can you please step aside because I have some work to do." And he pushed both of them out of the way and starts to walk down the hall when he hears Ron say something that made him see red.

"Yeah, he probably has to go screw that whore he brought to the school."

Harry freezes right there and tries to get control of him self but it isn't working with Trotter and Coros in the fury that they were in. ((He will not get away with that! Hang him from the ssealing by hisssss entrailssss))

((No let me use my hooves to grind him into a puddle of the slime that he is))

(No I have a better idea Coros we are going use you form for a while but there will be no hanging by entrails today)

((Yessss Harry whatever you sssay))

(Now what is the most horrifying hallucinogen that we have in our arsenal, remember we want non fatal)

((I have just the one, you humans call it Hell Vapors. It makes the victim be placed in a comatose like state for twenty four hours and living in a world of their worst fears for that whole time with no lasting physical after effects.))

(Perfect)

Harry turned around to face them and saw Hermione and Ron had yet to notice the look of murder on his face. With a small flash Harry was replaced by a eighteen foot long amethyst colored snake with deep black wings and acid green crests underneath its eyes. With a horrifying amount of speed, silence, and precision it wrapped around both of Harry's former friends and covered them with its wings so only their heads were visible. It lowered its head to be level with their ears while hissing threateningly to them. They watched in horror as a sky blue mist spelled out a message. It read:

Be careful about what you say about my loved ones.
Now enjoy your dreams for the next day.

They were confused about what the message meant until the mist started to move up their nose and into their mouths. They instantly blacked out but did not get the comfort of the usual blackness. Instead Ron found himself back in the giant spider den of the forbidden forest, and Hermione found herself in a classroom taking a test which had questions that were impossible to answer. It was not long before they were both in tears of fear.

Harry was satisfied when he saw the tears begin to fall from their closed eyes. He uncoiled from them and set off for his dorm room to try and work on his paper. He left them there and they weren't discovered for another hour until Professor Sprout found them and immediately sent for Madam Pomfrey.

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There we go, the chapter is finished and I'm actually really happy with how this one turned out. If you enjoyed it or have any criticisms about it please leave a review. A question was asked at one point and I will answer it by saying that the killing moon style of glaive fighting is one hundred percent my own creation. Be on the look out for the next chapter soon.