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"Speech"

'Thoughts'

Spells and Letters

Parseltongue

Parselmagic

Chapter 9:

It was Monday morning of the second week of September of Harry's First Year at Hogwarts. Harry woke up at 5:00 am and was wondering where to go for exercise. Harry was still debating whether to go to the lake or not when the castle suddenly contacted him showing the location of the Room of Requirements. Interested, Harry went to the seventh floor searching the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy teaching the Trolls how to dance Ballet.

When Harry found the said tapestry, he started pacing up and down in front of the tapestry thinking of a place that was ideal for his exercise and training. When he passed the tapestry the third time, a door appeared opposite to the tapestry. When Harry opened the door, he suppressed the urge to gasp. The room that appeared was just perfect. There was no other word for it. There was a track at one side of the room for jogging; on the other side was a huge bookshelf with thousands of books. There was a waterfall on the other corner with a pond and at the centre of the pond was a stone platform with meditation map on it. There was also a weapon rack available, which contained all sorts of weapons imaginable. There were Swords, Scythes, Nanchakus, Sais, Bo's, Staffs, Spears, Axes, Daggers, Knives, Bows and Arrows, Paralyzing Gas Cans, Smoke bombs, Throwing stars, all sorts of guns, etc. Next to the weapon rack, was an armor rack, which contained arm guards, shin guards, Torso guard, Head Guard with an attached air-filtering mask. Next to the armor rack, was yet another rack, which was labeled as training tools. It contained weighted clothes, arm and leg bands with slots to attach different weight bars.

Harry was flabbergasted. He did not know how to use more than half of what the room provided. He was wondering how to put the room to the best use when suddenly a rolled up parchment appeared in front of him with a flash, hovering in mid-air in front of him. Harry plucked out the parchment and unrolled it to read. He saw that it was yet another letter to him from the founders.

Dear heir,

Now that you have found this room, it is time to start your physical training. Remember, being magically strong is not enough if you do not have a strong enough body to wield that magic. Now, let us tell you about this room. This room was specifically designed keeping you in mind. This room was created in a very different Dimension where time does not exist. You will not age in this room and no matter how many years you spend training in this room, time will not pass outside. You, our heir, are the meeting point of many different magical species (yes we know about it) and as such, you will need to train your body so that you can bring out the most from your body. As such, you will be training in different types of martial arts that you will then combine to make your own style. In a similar manner, you will be learning different types of sword wielding arts that you will combine to make your own dance of death.

You may or may not know, heir, that dance of death is a kata, which is achieved when a swordsman fully masters his respective art. He/she, while doing the kata reaches a meditative state where he/she does not have to think about what he/she is doing with the sword. The body moves of its own accord. Apart from martial arts and weapon training, you will wear weights all the time, until you are used to the weights and do not feel anything while moving around. You will start with 10 pounds on each arm and leg, which you will gradually increase to 1000 pounds on each limb. When you reach the 1000-pound limit, your gravity training will start. It will start at 1.5 times the earth gravity. Moreover, each time you will get used to it, it will double. Meaning, next time it will be 3 times, then 6 times, then 12 times, then 24 times, then 48 times and so on.

You will continue in this regard and soon, (we do not know when), you will reach a state while fighting with the training dummies which we label as AP1. Also known as ascended-power state. In this state, your body will be surrounded with an aura, which will be white in color. In this state, all your strength and powers will increase by 1.5 times. When you come down to normal from this state you will feel tired and weary. You will have to try to remain in this state as long as you can until you can subconsciously remain in this state indefinitely. After you achieve this goal, you will have to increase your gravity further until you breakthrough and reach the AP2 state. In this state, your aura will turn golden in color, your hair will also turn golden, and they will be waving slightly as if caught in a light wind even in a perfectly calm wind. This will be because your body will be emitting power in waves.

We, the founders, were able to reach till AP5. From what we know, there are ten ascended-power states. We were able to breakthrough when we were in high emotional state. Therefore, you will have to workout how to do it yourself. Merlin himself was only able to reach AP8. Remember heir, you will have to train very hard to achieve this. It took us many years to be able to master our forms. In addition, be careful of whom you bring into this particular room. This room will only open for you and only you can grant anyone entry in this room. Now, you know that everything comes at a price. Even though we were able to create a separate dimension where time does not exist, it takes a huge toll on the body. Anyone spending a year in this room will loose a year out of their normal life. Nevertheless, because you are for all means and purpose, immortal, it will not have any effect on you. However, anyone else will face dire consequences. As you can see, there are trees around with golden fruits on them. These are special fruits, which you will find only in this dimension. Once you eat one of the fruits, you will not have to eat for another ten days.

Do not forget to continue practicing your magic, or else it will become rusty. Take care heir, you training begins now.

The Founders.

When Harry finished reading the letter, he did the only thing he could at that time, he fainted.

49 years later in the Room of Requirements…

A young 11-year-old boy could be seen meditating on the platform in the pond near the waterfall in the Room of Requirements. What was peculiar about this sight was, for one thing, the boy was hovering above the platform in lotus position. The boy had spiky black hair with gold and silver highlights. He was lean and muscular. Not the hulk type muscular but muscular which looked good on an 11-year-old boy. Another thing peculiar about this boy was that white bolts of lightning was running all over his body and he had wolf ears on top of his head instead of normal human ears as well as a tail which was also black in color with gold and silver highlights. One could see tip of fangs protruding over his lower lip and reptilian looking scales could be seen around his neck, forearms, and chest. He was wearing a simple Gi along with armbands and leg bands.

This boy was none other than Harry Potter. He floated down back to the platform and opened his eyes, which were now indigo in color. He leapt from the platform and gracefully walked to the chair and table, which was near the bookshelf. He sat down and reflected upon the time he spent here in the room. The first few months in the room were very difficult for him. First, he had to learn to transform into each of the forms he got from the creatures. Later he had to learn to combine all of his forms into one single form. He had decided to use only his vampire, lycan and draconian forms to combine, as they were most powerful among the others. He had done nothing but train eat and sleep in these past 49 years and was looking forward to returning to the real world again. He had discovered that he could reach his ascended state in his transformed form as well. Initially it was very difficult for him to reach the ascended state and at one point, he was worried that he might not be able to ascend at all. Nevertheless, he had persevered and ascended. He had surpassed the founders but not Merlin. He was disappointed that he was not able to ascend to level 8 but decided that he should be happy and should not look at the gift horse in the mouth.

He got up from the chair and started powering down. Slowly but steadily, his appearance turned back to his normal messy haired green-eyed look. He then requested the room to gradually decrease the gravity level while he got used to feeling light. When the gravity was back to level one, he was feeling as light as a feather and hovering 10 feet above the ground. And that was with the 4000 pounds weights he had on him. He took off the weights and slowly concentrated to hover back down to the ground. When he reached the ground, he started moving around lifting different things, throwing and catching them, running and walking so that he would not surprise anyone with his speed or strength. He found that he had to be extra careful while handling glass items. Too light and they slipped and too firm and they were crushed. Slowly, but surely, he got the hang of things and decided it was time to leave the room.

He went to the armor rack and put on an armor made of titanium covered with basilisk hide. Now for a normal person, they would be crushed under the weight, but for him it was extremely light. He strapped on the torso guard, and then attached the shin guard and forearm guard. He then strapped on fingerless gloves and over it, he put on knuckle guard from which razor sharp blades could pop out when a little bit of magic is pushed through the runic symbol, which was at the backside of the guard. He then strapped on twin swords on his back, various knives over his torso, two 0.90mm guns that had runic symbols on them to be unbreakable and infinite number of bullets. The bullets were all silver with draught of living death coated on them. He then strapped a whip on his waist whose length he could adjust by sending a small bit of magic through the handle. All of his weapons had runic symbols on them to make them unbreakable, to stay ever sharp in case of blades and ever fresh in case of potions. They also had anti-summoning and anti-disarming runes engraved on them along with the rune of invisibility, which made them invisible to everyone unless the wielder was wielding it. The weapons were all blood-bonded to him, which made it impossible for anyone apart from him to use them or even touch them. It also gave him the ability to call the weapons to his side if he ever dropped them or in case of knives, threw them at the enemy.

He then strapped on his mask and gave himself a once look over on the pond surface. Call him paranoid, but he had learnt in his training that it was better to be safe than to be sorry. Satisfied, he waved his wand over himself in a complicated pattern and his entire armor mask and weapons disappeared. It was a complicated charm that Rowena Ravenclaw had created which made his armor and weapons such that they could not be felt and thus it was possible to wear school uniform and robes over them. The charm once casted could be activated and deactivated with a mental command. He then donned his school robes and uniform and left the Room of Requirements.

Entering his dormitory, Harry revised for his classes as it was potions first thing that morning and he did not want to be caught unprepared after the way Snape had questioned him on the first day of the class. When it was time for breakfast, Harry left his dormitory eagerly looking forward for some real food. Eating the same fruit for 49 years had taught him to appreciate even simple food such as eggs, bacon and pumpkin juice.

Harry sat down at his table and started loading his plate with a bit of everything available. Suddenly he felt a presence coming towards him, turned around, and saw Neville Longbottom coming towards him with an apprehensive look on his face.

"Err... Hi Harry… I just wanted to know if I can sit and have breakfast with you." Neville asked timidly.

Harry smiled gratefully and said, "Sure Nev, you are welcome at this table anytime." Even though for Neville, it was yesterday since he last saw Harry, but for Harry it had been many years and he was craving for some good company.

Few minutes later Harry felt few more presences coming towards him, three from the Slytherin side, three from Hufflepuff side and one from Ravenclaw side. Harry looked and saw Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis, Blaise Zabini, Hannah Abbot, Susan Bones, Ernie Macmillan and Padma Patil coming towards him. Harry had made friends with all these first years in his first week at the school and was happy to see that they wanted his company. Soon everyone was talking and having their breakfast. Padma and Daphne were discussing Potions while Neville and Hannah were discussing herbelogy. Blaise and Ernie were talking about the upcoming flying lessons at the end of the week whereas Susan was talking to Harry telling him about her Aunt.

Looking around, Harry saw the beginning of great friendship and smiled inwardly feeling the bond that was forming with them. Harry knew that because he was immortal, it was unavoidable to feel the pain of seeing loved ones die. But during his time in the room, he had come to an understanding and had accepted that part of him. Harry had decided that he would not deny himself the happiness of love and friendship just to avoid the pain of loss and loneliness.

While talking to Susan, Harry thought to himself, 'You all are my friends, I will protect you all as much as I can from everything I can. This I promise.'