This is a Harry Potter & Familiar of Zero Cross Over Fanfiction Only.
Well I was happy that Morgana was still with me, let's face it, after I was declared Champion every student within Hogwarts had the obvious reaction, one group called me a glory hog, another called me a disgrace and was doing Hogwarts a dishonor by being named, and that group was the House that was supposed to represent Loyalty, I am sure Godric Gryffindor is not happy about this.
The people I thought would be the least vocal with their negative remarks was my own house, but then again they are children, children who never seen the horrors of combat or ever faced a situation that was dangerous, if not at worst life-threatening. I also both of my friends, Neville was not speaking with me since his failure to actually gain any sort of romantic attention from Fleur, and hearing that we were effectively engaged pretty much sent my friendship with Hermione down in flames.
Everyone was envious that I got a get out of class privilege, I honestly would rather be in those boring classes that have to be in this damnable tournament truth be told. Anyone who I told this said something to the same, that I was lying through my teeth.
The first challenge we faced was actually having our wands examined, nothing makes a person feel better than to have their privacy so thoroughly violated, every spell that they ever cast laid bare and reported on the newspaper the next day, I did say they had to deal with, but not me, I didn't use a wand, didn't need one, and was more of a hindrance than help. This was also a plus since Olivander had no idea how to make my rifle react the same way a wand would.
This gave me a very big advantage when it came to combat, nobody knew exactly what I could do, or how dangerous my magic really was. Morgana still complained that there was no guarantee they were actually having their main wands examined. I had to agree with my friend that could indeed be the case, the only reason I attended the entire thing was to find if one of them had placed the Confundus Charm on the goblet.
Make no mistake once I find who it was I will kill that person, and in the most painful manner possible. Father often told me showing mercy to an enemy is a costly mistake that often caused more harm to yourself than good.
The first challenge was a duel, and let's face it, most of the other Champions had no real experience in the ways of war or combat, or at least not to the extent I did. I took my rifle to the dueling platform only to be told that I could not use a muggle made contraption. I placed it in the seal by on my right wrist, too bad for them, my rifle had been fitted with rubber bullets, this would keep the damage down, but since the referee told me I could not use it, the damage my opponent suffer could blame it on him.
I opened my hands and lightning arcs began to fly out of my fingers, and after I was sure everything was ready I saw the shocked look of Cedric as he tried to cast his spells at me, I say try to be kind, he was failing miserably at it, I could send the spells anywhere I wished with a simple motion of my hand, I had complete control of the air, anything that flies was pretty much telling me, here take my spell and use it however you want.
After a few minutes I slammed my hands together and when parted a large ball of lightning was seen hovering between my hands, I didn't wait a second before I sent that large shock ball against Cedric and the area around him, there was nowhere he could evade, no matter where he moved the spell would hit him. He was unconscious within seconds, and I stepped closer to him with my hands glowing with energy, that was when the referee decided to wake up and declare me the winner, had he not done so, I was ready to kill my opponent. Like I said, mercy towards an enemy was a mistake I would not do.
Fleur and Viktor fought and I had the pompous pretty boy as my last opponent, he decided to begin by insulting my nation, my school, then he proceeded to insult, me, but it was when he insulted my friends and called Fleur a high priced whore that the kid gloves came off, as soon as the duel began I began to turn the entire dueling platform into a burning inferno.
I was sending fire spells, columns of flames, molten pieces of the platform against Viktor, nothing could contain my rage, nothing he said could make me stop, no matter how he tried to evade my attacks, and when my attacks finally hit close to home, no matter how much he begged, and I made him beg for his life. All these pleas went unanswered and unheard, I didn't want victory, I wanted him dead.
It took the combined might of all three headmasters to make my attacks end, and Viktor was rushed towards the school nurse. I was declared the winner of the challenge but lost quite a few points due to the judges, the headmasters, taking points off for unnecessary cruelty. This is combat, if you can't handle the flames or the risk of getting burned, stay the hell out of the kitchen.
The second Challenge was a rather nice one, we had to face a dragon, we had a week between challenges this gave me some time to talk with Fleur, for some reason me almost roasting the man that called her a high priced whore actually made her feel like it was endearing, she almost said that the only thing that I needed was a partial bird transformation and people would swear I was a Veela.
We discussed the contract and she explained that her change in demeanor was because at first, she thought I was a weak suitor, after seeing me deal with my two opponents however that notion was pretty much as destroyed as the dueling platform had been during my duel with Viktor.
My friendship with Neville and Hermione turned for the worst when they saw me and Fleur do something the call snogging, I swear the kisses we were enjoying were modest, let's face it, I have kissed women before in my life, it's not like they never seen a couple french kiss before.
The second challenge they had each of us take out a figurine from a pouch, each had a miniature figurine of the dragon that we would face, the fact that the figurines were enchanted to move on their own was a nice gesture, I honestly only heard something about getting a golden egg from the dragon. I was too busy rubbing and touching the figurine to pay much attention, from the looks on the figurine the Horntail actually found the way I was touching it to be pleasant.
As I came to face the actual dragon, I could swear that the dragon was looking at me with rather a big smile, little did I know until she told me, the figurine was actually connected to her, and she felt everything I did to the figurine on herself, she told me she had a hard time not rolling around in the cage, I guess some of the places I touched were places where she was ticklish.
I told her that I merely was trying to be friendly, and told her I wanted a golden egg that had been placed among her eggs. She just walked over to the egg I was pointing at, picked it up, walked back and placed it in my hand, wished me good luck and gave me a small peck on the right side of my face. Fleur was furious as she saw that, or so I think I saw as I walked back to the tent.
Cedric turned a huge rock into a dog, and tried to distract the dragon, Fleur just sang a lullaby that caused most of the people watching to fall asleep and took the egg from the sleeping dragon, the fact that her robes were almost set on fire by the dragon snoring was not helpful, Viktor did exactly what I expected of him, he summoned giant boulders and beat the dragon till that poor dragon was knocked out, all the eggs crushed and he simply walked over to get the only egg that remained almost intact.
The way my relationship with Fleur was progressing was rather quickly, then again we were in a situation where either of us could die, so that was not something that was beyond the realm of possibility.
The third Challenge was for us to rescue someone from the bottom of a lake, a person that was taken and held hostage by the merpeople. With the way things were going, I will never understand why they thought that Hermione was the proper person to kidnap and I had to rescue, I guess they considered the fact I still believed she was my good friend, rather than what she thought of me.
A partial transfiguration of my neck and I could breathe just fine, for anyone that wants to take a swim the lovely sirens of the sea I got two things to say, yes they are rather nice looking, and those scales are rather colorful, but they hunt in packs, they are smart, and they will use any means to get what they want, in short, if you swim with them without any means to defend yourself, it will be your funeral. They do prefer human males, apparently, it is an acquired taste.
After the even, I was told to meet with Alastor Moody, something about needed to talk to me about the brutality of my attacks against Krum and against a few of the sirens who wanted to take a bite out of me. He must not have known that I know two branches of magic that would be exposed him I was a master at Legimency and Occlumency.
With him so close I used both and I knew in an instant that he was the one that placed me in the tournament, I knew he was not actually Alastor Moody, that he was, in fact, a follower of my enemy, he also was shocked when I called him by his real name, Barty Crouch Junior. We both fought against each other and he thought that since I was younger I would be an easy kill, too bad for him, I killed him as Snape came into the classroom.
I didn't even explain what was going on, I went to the trunk and using the right keys I opened the trunk. I went inside and found the very malnourished Alastor Moody missing his eye, and his prosthetic leg. I summoned both of them to us and gave them both to the man, who looked at me with a smile as he said his thanks for my timely rescue.
To say that Dumbledore was not pleased with my method of dealing with Barty Crouch Junior should be pretty much expected, the man would forgive Voldermort if he honestly apologized. I honestly can't stomach that sort of people, everyone is capable of cruel and evil deeds, no one is exempt of this, and no one can be completely innocent, we are born in sin and must battle each day to control our decision and live with the consequences of our actions.
The final challenge was if anything a joke to me, go through a maze chuck full of traps and dangers and make it to the Goblet, the one who made it was declared the winner. My relationship with Hermione was beyond salvage, she simply was that upset that I and Fleur were getting as she called it more lovey-dovey by the moment, I guess the fact Fleur was my date for the Ball was the final straw for her.
Neville actually found a rather nice Hufflepuff girl to be in a relationship with, I have to say I am rather happy to have seen him be so happy with that young woman, Hufflepuff may be humble but she sure can put her foot down when she wants something, after all, she was the one that asked him to the dance.
The Sphinx was quite a beauty, I will not lie, she had golden fur, so silky made me wish I could run my fingers through it, her voice was so calming it was hard to feel threatened by her, her face was angelic, well she didn't have a halo, but as close you can get without one. Had I not been involved with Fleur I would seriously flirt with her with no shame whatsoever.
Her riddle was funny as hell, and I got to say she made me laugh as I figured it out. As I walked off she told me to turn around, as I did she was right in front of me, gave me a french kiss that would make anyone blush three shades of red, and felt like that kiss changed something in me, I don't know what, something felt different. She told me she wished for my happiness, that in another life, another universe, she would find a way for us to be together.
Honestly I was taken back as she disappeared right before my eyes, she gave me a kiss, and pretty much declared her love of me, boy I hope Fleur didn't see that that would take some serious explaining on my part, and many years of living through her teasing about that moment in my life.
As I reached the Goblet so did she, and she told me Viktor was under the Imperious Curse, she saw Cedric fight him to the death trying to keep me safe, Cedric sacrificed himself so that I could live. I never expected that from him, we barely knew each other, and we only met thanks to the school Quidditch matches. I am going to miss flying against him.
As we both touched the cup we were both transported to what looked to be a graveyard, the entire ritual they were performing was horrible, bone of the father, flesh of the follower, blood of the enemy, as I watched Voldemort finally was among the living once again, and the final Horcrux, the one that I could not find was near him, his familiar, a rather surly Basilisk that was named Nagini.
The first thing he did was look at Fleur and without even a warning he blasted her with the killing curse, that moment time seemed to slow down for me, nobody was going to tell Dumbledore that he was alive again, nobody would stop him from achieving immortality thanks to the three deadly hallows. He told me as he gloated over this fact and I knew one thing, if I was not going to make it back alive, I wanted at least one thing, I wanted this bastard dead.
I took hold of my rifle and loaded all of my anger, all of my hate, all of my sadness, and I aimed for his familiar, blasted that Basilisk to pieces which made him scream in agony, guess me destroying those pieces of his soul actually affected him now that he had a body again, he sent against me one spell after another.
The spells didn't harm me and much as they made me feel stronger, made my pain and fatigue vanish with each spell he launched at me, as he screamed why couldn't he kill me, he screamed that I should just die, I aimed true and shot him three times one in the chest, one in the family jewels, and last right on his head.
The man fell down and burst into flames and the flames reacted with the spell he sent last and killed all the death eaters around us. I fell down and I was ready to accept that my end had come, when a circle of energy appeared underneath me, the green energy circle just sucked me in and I had no idea what was happening.