Disclaimer: I own only the obvious, the rest belongs to J. K. Rowling. The
fighting scenes in this chapter is taken from the movie Dragon Heart.
Author Notes: Thanks for all the lovely reviews. There's only two more chapters to post after this one, but don't worry, there's going to be a Saga 3. Hope you enjoy this and please review.
-Chapter Eleven-
Kain's reply to the challenge came two days later. The leaders in the Order were having another meeting when twelve Eagle owls came flying in with a huge package, dropped it in front of Harry then flew off again. Everyone looked at the package until Harry decided to open it. He took out his wand, muttered a spell and the box opened. Inside was the head of what looked like an eagle. But when they looked closer he saw that it once belonged to a griffin. Suddenly Shadow, who had joined every meeting to protect Harry, gave a shrill cry, then started to trash around, attacking everyone and everything. People quickly got out except Harry who tried to calm the griffin.
//What is it Shadow?// He asked telepathically. //You know the griffin?//
//Can't you see who that is?// The griffin asked. //That's Grion, Lightning. They killed Grion!//
In the end Harry managed to calm the griffin, who put his huge head in Harry's lap. Tears rolled down Shadow's cheeks, but before they could fall to the floor Harry used Air and directed them into some buckets he had conjured. Griffin tears were extremely rare and were used in the strongest Veritaserum potion ever known. The potion would last for a whole year after you drank it.
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"Isn't there anything we can do?" Eminor asked. He and the others were standing outside the room watching as the griffin fell asleep in Harry's lap. "The griffin must have known the one that head belonged to."
"Let Harry handle this Eminor." Draco said. "He's the only one that has managed to calm a griffin without using magic, so I think he knows what he's doing."
"Weird thing that is." Raven said.
"What is?" Hermione asked, she still didn't feel safe with all the Vampires around.
"From what I have heard from other Vampires that have spied on our enemies, the Black Snakes and Death Eaters call Harry 'Raptor'-" he was cut off by Ron.
"Oh, that, well, they also call him 'Shadowkiller', 'Hunter' and 'Deathdancer'."
"Deathdancer?"
"Yeah, when he duels he doesn't flip or jump out of the way, he makes it look like a dance. Oh yeah, Draco has his own names that he calls Harry." Ron said after Draco elbowed him.
"And those are?" King Minour asked.
"Well, lets see, 'Wonder Boy', 'Lucky Luke', 'Goody two-shoes', 'Golden Boy'," Draco kept on ticking off names.
"Draco, you want me to start on yours?" Harry, who had managed to get out of the room after Shadow had fallen asleep, asked. "I didn't think so. Now gentlemen, the answer we got from Kain is clear. We're attacking in two days time."
Ginny, who had appeared while Draco ticked off names, took one look into the room then came back out not looking to good.
"I think I just lost my appetite." She said. "Anyway, Harry I want to learn to handle an axe."
"Sure, go with Draco, he'll teach you." Harry replied.
"What?!" Draco and Ginny asked at the same time. "We hate each other!" they said pointing to the other.
"Potter, are you sure you're not sick or something?" Draco asked. "You know that the two of us hate each other more than the Thundelarra Thunderers hate the Woollongong Warriors, right?"
"If we had been from Slytherin and Gryffindor, we two would have killed each other."
"Ginny, you two are from Slytherin and Gryffindor." Harry said calmly.
"Oh, well, anyway, can't you teach me or something?!" Ginny asked. "If I have him as teacher, he'll be able to join the Headless Hunt before we're finished."
"Nope, and that's my final word in the case." Harry said.
Draco and Ginny turned down the corridor muttering something about idiots, spoilsports, bosses, nutheads and axes. Raven came over to him.
"You sure that was a good idea human?" he asked.
"Trust me, it's one of my better ones."
"If it is, I don't want to know the bad ones."
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While Ginny practised with the axe, Draco was checking the arrows they had made. They were perfect. He looked over to where Ginny was practising with a small log hanging from the roof, and sighed. He walked over and stopped her.
"Here, widen your step." He stood behind her and put his hand round hers on the axe. "Up, down, up, down. Now you try." He said while leading her through the movements.
"This could cleave a mans skull." Ginny said, she hadn't been much in the field.
Draco took the axe and threw it hard towards a wooden practice doll. The axe was stuck in the head of the doll up to the handle.
"Like a pudding." He said to her, smiling.
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Two days later Harry, Draco, King Minour, Eminor and Raven were looking at the newly rebuild Urquhart Castle. The castle was looking somewhat like Hogwarts, but a bit smaller. The banner that was waiving in the wind from the highest tower was black with a white tiger-head in the middle.
"A difficult place to attack." King Minour said.
"If we can't attack him, we'll get him to attack us." Harry said. "We can chose the battlefield instead of going right into the lions den."
"I take it you have a plan then?" Draco asked. "And what about Agent Chang? What will she be doing?"
"She's going to lead us through the tunnels when the time comes." Harry replied. "And yes, I do have a plan. It's crazy enough that it might work."
"I hate it when he says that." Draoc told the others.
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Wolfgang Kain was watching as the attacking army positioned themselves a few arrow-shots from the walls of the castle, barley holding his anger in check. The people around him, mostly Black Snakes, looked worriedly at him and the gathering attackers. When the threat had been sent they hadn't thought of how powerful it could be. Now they had second thoughts about the whole thing. Five people rode to and fro in front of the line of the army, the shields shining in the sun, two of the people were wearing shining armour.
"Look at them! Look at them!" Kain said angrily. "They dare to challenge me at my own gates!" he would have run straight to the stables and taken a horse if one of his generals hadn't stopped him.
"My Lord, calm down. They can nothing to us as long as we're inside the walls. When the night falls they'll be hungry and tired, and probably just... just go off home."
Suddenly a dragon came flying towards them, blew fire and some of the wall blew up. The Dragonslayers were working fast to get their equipment ready. One shoot a spear at the dragon with a strong rope tied to it. The dragon caught it, pulled the rope and the Dragonslayer ended up falling 20 feet straight down. That did it. Kain and his men got to the horses as fast as they could, and rode out.
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Harry was the first to spot the castle-gate opening.
"To the woods!" he ordered. He and the Elves had worker together all night to get trees to grow in a hillside. Without those his plan would fail. "To the woods!"
The order was repeated several times and the whole army quickly turned around and was off, with the Black Snakes at their heels. When they reached the meeting place they lined up again.
"Second line!" King Minour yelled. "First line, get ready!"
A second line of soldiers got off the ground behind the first and everyone got ready. When Kain and his little army was fifty feet away from the Red Dragons, people Harry had placed in the trees swung down with torches and dropped it to the forest floor. The Black Snakes where surrounded and the fight broke out.
"Scatter or die! Scatter or die!" Kain yelled to his men.
Draco and Ginny met up again under the fight. She grinned to him while defending herself with two axes.
"Like a pudding." She had time to say before she had to get out of the way of a horse.
Ron was up in a tree with a bow. He pointed an arrow at a Black Snake but then lowered the bow. It didn't feel right not to use his wand. Suddenly he spotted one of their own being chased by a Black Snake on a horse. His arrow hit the mans behind.
"Turn the other cheek, Ron." He chuckled to himself.
Kain looked around at the battlefield. Everywhere he could see Black Snakes falling.
"Retreat!" he yelled. "Retreat!"
"Hey, Flameboy!" Draco, who had heard the order, yelled. "There's Kain! Shoot him!"
Ron took aim along the arrow and released it. The arrow hit Kain in the heart. Over the castle one of Drake's front-claws went to his heart and he fell down in the castle yard. The remaining Dragonslayers quickly had him bound securely. Kain pulled the arrow out and looked at it then looked up in shock.
"The Dragonslayers!" he said to himself and was off towards the castle. He got there in time to stop the Dragonslayers from killing Drake. "No! Stop! I want it alive! Alive and safe. Safe for all eternity." He patted Drake like a dog.
"Oh no."
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All the Black Snakes had been killed or captured. Wounded were being seen to and dead were gathered in a pile.
"I'm going to save the dragon!" Harry said. "Who's going with me?"
Draco, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Eminor came to his side. The rest was just looking at him as thought he had grown another head. Harry shook his head, turned sharply ad began to walk towards the castle with the other five following.
They met Cho Chang by the secret tunnel and she led them through the network of tunnels. Almost at their goal they heard footsteps coming closer and closer. A second later Raven appeared with his Vampires.
"We've got to open the gates." He said. "The rest is waiting outside."
Harry nodded. Cho pointed out some good ways to Raven and the Vampires scattered, then she led Harry, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Hermione and Eminor to the secret passage. She pressed a place at the wall and it opened. Inside where a short staircase to a stone-block that was opening.
"Up there's Kain's room." Cho said and then walked off to open the gates, to let the rest of them in.
Harry ordered them to put their hoods on so that if there was someone in the room they wouldn't be able to see who they were, then went up the stairs. He came out just beside the fireplace, to his left was a wooden, high-backed chair and a table, right in front of him was a bed. Kain was sitting on it, smiling evilly.
"Welcome Red Dragon," he said. "Welcome to you and your friends. Look closely at me, you dogs. I'll be the last thing you'll ever see." Whit that he jumped up, sword in hand.
Harry met him, and the other went to help Cho open the gates.
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Well, what do you think? Please review.
I want to thank Pampered Tigeress, bill weasly, Tvillinger, Miranda Flairgold, Kristina, selena and Sara Hillen of Gryffindor for reviewing.
Author Notes: Thanks for all the lovely reviews. There's only two more chapters to post after this one, but don't worry, there's going to be a Saga 3. Hope you enjoy this and please review.
-Chapter Eleven-
Kain's reply to the challenge came two days later. The leaders in the Order were having another meeting when twelve Eagle owls came flying in with a huge package, dropped it in front of Harry then flew off again. Everyone looked at the package until Harry decided to open it. He took out his wand, muttered a spell and the box opened. Inside was the head of what looked like an eagle. But when they looked closer he saw that it once belonged to a griffin. Suddenly Shadow, who had joined every meeting to protect Harry, gave a shrill cry, then started to trash around, attacking everyone and everything. People quickly got out except Harry who tried to calm the griffin.
//What is it Shadow?// He asked telepathically. //You know the griffin?//
//Can't you see who that is?// The griffin asked. //That's Grion, Lightning. They killed Grion!//
In the end Harry managed to calm the griffin, who put his huge head in Harry's lap. Tears rolled down Shadow's cheeks, but before they could fall to the floor Harry used Air and directed them into some buckets he had conjured. Griffin tears were extremely rare and were used in the strongest Veritaserum potion ever known. The potion would last for a whole year after you drank it.
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"Isn't there anything we can do?" Eminor asked. He and the others were standing outside the room watching as the griffin fell asleep in Harry's lap. "The griffin must have known the one that head belonged to."
"Let Harry handle this Eminor." Draco said. "He's the only one that has managed to calm a griffin without using magic, so I think he knows what he's doing."
"Weird thing that is." Raven said.
"What is?" Hermione asked, she still didn't feel safe with all the Vampires around.
"From what I have heard from other Vampires that have spied on our enemies, the Black Snakes and Death Eaters call Harry 'Raptor'-" he was cut off by Ron.
"Oh, that, well, they also call him 'Shadowkiller', 'Hunter' and 'Deathdancer'."
"Deathdancer?"
"Yeah, when he duels he doesn't flip or jump out of the way, he makes it look like a dance. Oh yeah, Draco has his own names that he calls Harry." Ron said after Draco elbowed him.
"And those are?" King Minour asked.
"Well, lets see, 'Wonder Boy', 'Lucky Luke', 'Goody two-shoes', 'Golden Boy'," Draco kept on ticking off names.
"Draco, you want me to start on yours?" Harry, who had managed to get out of the room after Shadow had fallen asleep, asked. "I didn't think so. Now gentlemen, the answer we got from Kain is clear. We're attacking in two days time."
Ginny, who had appeared while Draco ticked off names, took one look into the room then came back out not looking to good.
"I think I just lost my appetite." She said. "Anyway, Harry I want to learn to handle an axe."
"Sure, go with Draco, he'll teach you." Harry replied.
"What?!" Draco and Ginny asked at the same time. "We hate each other!" they said pointing to the other.
"Potter, are you sure you're not sick or something?" Draco asked. "You know that the two of us hate each other more than the Thundelarra Thunderers hate the Woollongong Warriors, right?"
"If we had been from Slytherin and Gryffindor, we two would have killed each other."
"Ginny, you two are from Slytherin and Gryffindor." Harry said calmly.
"Oh, well, anyway, can't you teach me or something?!" Ginny asked. "If I have him as teacher, he'll be able to join the Headless Hunt before we're finished."
"Nope, and that's my final word in the case." Harry said.
Draco and Ginny turned down the corridor muttering something about idiots, spoilsports, bosses, nutheads and axes. Raven came over to him.
"You sure that was a good idea human?" he asked.
"Trust me, it's one of my better ones."
"If it is, I don't want to know the bad ones."
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While Ginny practised with the axe, Draco was checking the arrows they had made. They were perfect. He looked over to where Ginny was practising with a small log hanging from the roof, and sighed. He walked over and stopped her.
"Here, widen your step." He stood behind her and put his hand round hers on the axe. "Up, down, up, down. Now you try." He said while leading her through the movements.
"This could cleave a mans skull." Ginny said, she hadn't been much in the field.
Draco took the axe and threw it hard towards a wooden practice doll. The axe was stuck in the head of the doll up to the handle.
"Like a pudding." He said to her, smiling.
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Two days later Harry, Draco, King Minour, Eminor and Raven were looking at the newly rebuild Urquhart Castle. The castle was looking somewhat like Hogwarts, but a bit smaller. The banner that was waiving in the wind from the highest tower was black with a white tiger-head in the middle.
"A difficult place to attack." King Minour said.
"If we can't attack him, we'll get him to attack us." Harry said. "We can chose the battlefield instead of going right into the lions den."
"I take it you have a plan then?" Draco asked. "And what about Agent Chang? What will she be doing?"
"She's going to lead us through the tunnels when the time comes." Harry replied. "And yes, I do have a plan. It's crazy enough that it might work."
"I hate it when he says that." Draoc told the others.
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Wolfgang Kain was watching as the attacking army positioned themselves a few arrow-shots from the walls of the castle, barley holding his anger in check. The people around him, mostly Black Snakes, looked worriedly at him and the gathering attackers. When the threat had been sent they hadn't thought of how powerful it could be. Now they had second thoughts about the whole thing. Five people rode to and fro in front of the line of the army, the shields shining in the sun, two of the people were wearing shining armour.
"Look at them! Look at them!" Kain said angrily. "They dare to challenge me at my own gates!" he would have run straight to the stables and taken a horse if one of his generals hadn't stopped him.
"My Lord, calm down. They can nothing to us as long as we're inside the walls. When the night falls they'll be hungry and tired, and probably just... just go off home."
Suddenly a dragon came flying towards them, blew fire and some of the wall blew up. The Dragonslayers were working fast to get their equipment ready. One shoot a spear at the dragon with a strong rope tied to it. The dragon caught it, pulled the rope and the Dragonslayer ended up falling 20 feet straight down. That did it. Kain and his men got to the horses as fast as they could, and rode out.
-------------------------
Harry was the first to spot the castle-gate opening.
"To the woods!" he ordered. He and the Elves had worker together all night to get trees to grow in a hillside. Without those his plan would fail. "To the woods!"
The order was repeated several times and the whole army quickly turned around and was off, with the Black Snakes at their heels. When they reached the meeting place they lined up again.
"Second line!" King Minour yelled. "First line, get ready!"
A second line of soldiers got off the ground behind the first and everyone got ready. When Kain and his little army was fifty feet away from the Red Dragons, people Harry had placed in the trees swung down with torches and dropped it to the forest floor. The Black Snakes where surrounded and the fight broke out.
"Scatter or die! Scatter or die!" Kain yelled to his men.
Draco and Ginny met up again under the fight. She grinned to him while defending herself with two axes.
"Like a pudding." She had time to say before she had to get out of the way of a horse.
Ron was up in a tree with a bow. He pointed an arrow at a Black Snake but then lowered the bow. It didn't feel right not to use his wand. Suddenly he spotted one of their own being chased by a Black Snake on a horse. His arrow hit the mans behind.
"Turn the other cheek, Ron." He chuckled to himself.
Kain looked around at the battlefield. Everywhere he could see Black Snakes falling.
"Retreat!" he yelled. "Retreat!"
"Hey, Flameboy!" Draco, who had heard the order, yelled. "There's Kain! Shoot him!"
Ron took aim along the arrow and released it. The arrow hit Kain in the heart. Over the castle one of Drake's front-claws went to his heart and he fell down in the castle yard. The remaining Dragonslayers quickly had him bound securely. Kain pulled the arrow out and looked at it then looked up in shock.
"The Dragonslayers!" he said to himself and was off towards the castle. He got there in time to stop the Dragonslayers from killing Drake. "No! Stop! I want it alive! Alive and safe. Safe for all eternity." He patted Drake like a dog.
"Oh no."
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All the Black Snakes had been killed or captured. Wounded were being seen to and dead were gathered in a pile.
"I'm going to save the dragon!" Harry said. "Who's going with me?"
Draco, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Eminor came to his side. The rest was just looking at him as thought he had grown another head. Harry shook his head, turned sharply ad began to walk towards the castle with the other five following.
They met Cho Chang by the secret tunnel and she led them through the network of tunnels. Almost at their goal they heard footsteps coming closer and closer. A second later Raven appeared with his Vampires.
"We've got to open the gates." He said. "The rest is waiting outside."
Harry nodded. Cho pointed out some good ways to Raven and the Vampires scattered, then she led Harry, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Hermione and Eminor to the secret passage. She pressed a place at the wall and it opened. Inside where a short staircase to a stone-block that was opening.
"Up there's Kain's room." Cho said and then walked off to open the gates, to let the rest of them in.
Harry ordered them to put their hoods on so that if there was someone in the room they wouldn't be able to see who they were, then went up the stairs. He came out just beside the fireplace, to his left was a wooden, high-backed chair and a table, right in front of him was a bed. Kain was sitting on it, smiling evilly.
"Welcome Red Dragon," he said. "Welcome to you and your friends. Look closely at me, you dogs. I'll be the last thing you'll ever see." Whit that he jumped up, sword in hand.
Harry met him, and the other went to help Cho open the gates.
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Well, what do you think? Please review.
I want to thank Pampered Tigeress, bill weasly, Tvillinger, Miranda Flairgold, Kristina, selena and Sara Hillen of Gryffindor for reviewing.