rise of darkness Chapter 14: 14 wands and animagi, a harry potter fanfic

Disclaimer: As everyone knows, most of the characters in this fic are not mine, and harry potter world belongs to J.K.R.

A/N: another big chapter. Hope you like it. And pleeeeease review! As otherwise I wouldn't know if you like it or not, or if there are any plot holes. Also I had edited Harry's inheritance a bit in chapter 12, please read.

Chapter 14: Wands and animagi

Bella knocked on the door and stepped aside to give Voldemort space to come on the stairs. They may have blasted the door open but they didn't really want any unnecessary attention on themselves. After a while as Voldemort was starting to get annoyed for having to wait so long, the door opened to revel a sleepy Lord Gregorvich.

Gregorvich was about to say something to the fools who woke him in the middle of the night. But whatever he was going to say died down on his lips when he registered just who was on his doorsteps. He immediately got out of his sleepy state and gave a small bow "Lord Voldemort, at this time, how may I help you?" he said.

Voldemort gave a short nod and said "We need your expertise Lord Gregorvich."

Gregorvich nodded and motioned them to enter his shop. Both Harry and Voldemort could sense a lot of magic coming out of every inch of the store. It was far bigger than Oleander's and also heavily warded. It would have easily taken Voldemort at least 10 minutes and good bit of his magic. There were stronger presence coming from the back side of the room they were in.

Once they were settled on comfortable seats, Harry who had pulled his hood up already before coming here still under the hood looked at the wand maker in interest. It was a fascinating subject to him. wand, an instrument that was most important in a witch or wizards life was not easy to craft. He wanted to learn as much as he could.

Gregorvich looked at Voldemort and asked "who would need a wand among you, Lord Voldemort?"

"I and my companion" Voldemort replied while he pointed at Harry when he mentioned his companion.

"I see." He said.

"Please follow me" he said while he rose from his seat. They entered the back side of the store. It was even bigger than the first and lined with shelves upon shelves on all sides of the walls. There were many trunks and vials containing different things. They neared the desk and then Gregorvich turned to them and asked "who would like to go first?"

Voldemort looked at Harry and raised an eyebrow, questioningly.

"You may go first Lord Voldemort; I would like to observe it as I am completely unaware of the process." Harry said.

Gregorvich then did some majoring's with Voldemort and confirmed which was his wand hand.

Voldemort gave a short nod and looked at Gregorvich. Gregorvich walked behind the desk and took out a long box he un-shrunk it. It was now completely occupying the desk. He asked Voldemort to slowly move his hand over each and every wood and pick whichever he felt to be calling him; he would know when one called him. Harry was standing behind a good distance so he couldn't see just how many samples were there. To woods called to him he picked them and gave to Gregorvich. Voldemort already knew what these woods were. Gregorvich looked at Voldemort and Voldemort sensing it said "elder and yew". Gregorvich nodded and said "yes very powerful, elder though is also very unstable, there has not been a single wand ever crafted with it that hadn't blown before even being used, it will be a challenge." After that he motioned for Voldemort to follow him, the two neared a shelf and it opened to reveal a number of core materials. He then said "now I would need to cast a spell on you to see what your power levels are" it was more like asking for permission than telling him. Voldemort gave a stiff nod with narrowed eyes. Gregorvich performed the spell with his cherry wood wand. After that he asked Voldemort to put 3 drops of his blood on a glass orb that he had produced from within his pocket. Voldemort did so. Nothing happened at first but then the color of the mist in the glass started to turn green then gold then finally settled on black. The orb itself was humming with magic, vibrating in Gregorvich's hand. Gregorvich nodded to himself and let the orb free. It zoomed up and down near the shelf and two things came out of the shelf and circled the orb.

Gregorvich took them and put the orb in a box which promptly exploded in it. They came back to the desk Gregorvich put the materials near the woods they had found before. Gregorvich looked at them and said "the liquid vial is of basilisk venom with pieces of its fang. The other is heartstring of a Hungarian horntail. Was very vicious took 23 to subdue it. Wand would be ready in a week at most."

Then Voldemort was taken towards another shelf. Out of which Voldemort came back with a vial of silver liquid.

"It is live silver, an alchemical product." Voldemort said as he was already aware of it.

Gregorvich nodded and then looked at harry and called him forwards. Harry did so.

He was then subjugated to the annoying procedure of majoring. He told that he was ambidextrous.

He was told to do the same procedure with the woods. He did so but after going through all the items he couldn't feel a strong pull, he frowned and looked at Gregorvich and nodded negatively. Gregorvich frowned.

"There has not been a single person who had not found a wood matching in this collection. But not to worry I have a collection of ingredients collected throughout history by my ancestors and me till date. There must be something that will work for you."

He opened a shelf behind him and took out three leather satchels. He placed them in front of Harry and motioned him to go through the same procedure.

Harry could already feel strong pulses from these. He went through the same procedure and found out that he had 4 different woods that called him. He put them aside on the desk and stepped a bit back. Gregorvich's eyes were comically wide when he saw Harry's collection of woods.

He picked the first one "A branch of tree of origin. It's the tree that grew at the center where branches of both tree of life and tree of death meet. It has been in our family from the times forgotten. The only reason why I even know of it is because it has been documented well." He said and put the rough wood that had all the colors in it on the desk.

He then picked the second wood and said "this is a branch of Mithrandir, a tree that grew in the dwelling of high elves. It was known as the tree of knowledge. It was said that one could even speak with it. It held memories of those who passed on those sacred lands, their souls leaving an imprint behind. They say that it was tainted during the great battle that took place. After that both high elves and fey people vanished from these lands, leaving behind the house elves – the cursed human kind of that time that has deteriorated by time while fey left fairies behind. The red taints are of the blood shed of the war." Gregorvich put the white wood with red taints back on the desk.

He picked the third dark red – almost black wood and said "This is from a hawthorn tree. It was grown in Greek administration. It was fed with blood of the enemies of the Greek instead of water." He put the wood down back on the desk and picked the last one.

It was purple in color. "Unfortunately I cannot attest to its origins. Any knowledge concerning it had vanished if it was present at all. Its length also keeps varying ever so often that I cannot measure its length with any precision at all. It will be a definite challenge to work with these." Gregorvich said in a very sad tone.

Both Voldemort and Bella were very surprised with the rare selection of woods. Then Harry was motioned towards the shelf towards the farthest corner of the room. The cabinet opened revealing a number of exotic and no doubt rare core materials. Gregorvich again brought an orb out of his pocket. He inclined his head slightly, asking for permission to perform the spell necessary. Harry gave a stiff nod and Gregorvich did his work. Then he made a small cut on Harry's finger and let 3 drops of blood drop on the orb. Like with Voldemort, nothing happened initially but then the orb started to hum with magic as pure darkness started to become visible in the center of the orb. It wasn't big a small dot but the orb was already starting to vibrate uncontrollably. Wand maker's hand was trembling with the efforts to not let it lose from his grip. But it was getting too violent as the small smudge in the orb was slowly getting bigger. The orb was starting to feel like it was folding in on itself. Like it was being pulled inside the small dot. Small cracks were starting to form over it. Sensing that it probably won't hold longer, Gregorvich threw it towards the box but midway in the air a small crack sounded and the orb broke and was sucked in the small dot inside. Which then disintegrated in a shower of black dust that promptly vanished out of sight. Everyone was surprised by this. Though Voldemort, Bella and Harry had cast shields to protect themselves from whatever may happen. All had different shields. Bella's was a bunker shield, it could take the explosions of most muggle explosives. Voldemort's was a solid shield with a silver snake on the left-side upper corner. Harrys was a shadow shield. All the shields were covering all the four. Harry's being the farthest from them and closest to the orb. Followed by Bella's followed by Voldemort's.

Whatever had happened had left all of them in a state of shock however short-lived it was. Luckily nothing disastrous had happened. The small crack/explosion was not bigger in range. It luckily didn't hurt any of the nearby shelves or cabinets.

"I have never in my life, for that matter not even any of my ancestors had faced someone with such tremendous amount of power. It will be a real deal to make this wand. But let's now do the core selection the unsafe way. We use this method to safely pick the cores. But as now we cannot and using another orb would result in same way, we'd have to do it manually. Please carefully go through every ingredient. If possible try to connect with them without getting close to them as they tend to jump to you." Said a still awed wand maker.

Harry let his magic that he could call from as deep from within him as possible. It was shocking and enthralling. How the magic flowed, it's turbulence. While harry did this the atmosphere in the room got heavier and darker. Harry was starting to release a visible grey aura it was slowly increasing in size but darkening in color. But then it started to just darken instead of increasing in size. That was a good thing as well. Because if it had increased then it would have collided with the shelf or anything that it should not touch. And no results could have been predicted. A slight ripple went through the air. Harry had already lost his control over the shadows that concealed his face. His face was now visible to the wand maker who chose not to comment. Harry's face was twitching ever so often that it made clear that he was suppressing his aura from increasing in size while also letting the deeper magic within him come out. That was when five different things came zooming from the shelf in front of him, hovering in midair. Seeing this harry started to let the magic go back inside him. And he lowered the items on a silver platter that Voldemort had conjured with a casual flick of his wand. It floated in front of them as they made their way back to the desk.

"It will be impossible to fit such powerful materials in a structure of a wand. Thus I would need to make a staff. Your measures gave me two different conclusions one a length of 11 inches and the other 5'7"." Gregorvich said.

Harry merely nodded. Not bothering to conceal his face anymore. He knew he had been foolish thinking that he wouldn't need to worry of anyone finding his identity that he didn't want to know. He should have used a concealment charm as well. But his arrogance had beaten him and he knew it. He decided to take every precaution that he could from this time onwards. But be that as it may, he had other matters at hand right now.

Gregorvich started to identify the materials. There were two vials and others looked like animal parts. He indicated to the first vial and said "this one the blood red liquid is actually indeed blood, of a royal vampire to be precise. From who, it is debatable as it had been under strong preservations for a very long time and there aren't any records to be found." Then he indicated towards the second vial that had dark red almost black liquid that looked very thick and said "It's blood of an ancient Dragon, it was known as Emproxion. It is rumored that dragon of his description had been sited sometime in the past." He then indicated to the first solid object as it was some kind of horn. "It's a horn of a unicorn not just any but that of the most powerful one in a clan that existed some 5 hundred years ago. In one clan there is always one unicorn that is black in color. It is always the oldest and the wisest as well as powerful. It was given to our family by our allies of that time, as a payment of a debt." Harry listened to this as he didn't have had any knowledge of this prior to now. Then he pointed at the next item, it was a fang of some kind. "This is a fang of bassiliskos. They are known as predecessors of basilisks. They were supposed to have grown from the hairs of the dead medusa as they took her ability to kill with look. It was around two millennia ago. Basilisks were the product of mating of these powerful magical beasts and other less powerful snakes. This fang is still coated with the venom of the majestic beast that once belonged to lady Morgana la fey, her familiar. Although I have no idea just how it got in our family." He then looked at the last piece that looked like an arrow head and was dark reddish in color. Harry already knew what it was as he was very familiar with the animal, "tail end of a nundu" Harry said. Gregorvich looked surprised but nodded.

Gregorvich frowned. He felt like something was missing. And it was most crucial ingredient of all. That was when all felt the wards shudder a bit and a small ball of shadows started to form in the middle of the room. Everyone started to look at it. Voldemort glanced at harry, but saw that even harry was surprised.

The shadows started to form a shape, it was all too familiar to harry but still very different. It looked like a phoenix but larger in size, far more majestic and powerful looking. Harry was mesmerized by its beauty as the shape completed. It gave a trill that elated him, made him feel powerful. Everyone else was just as much in awe as he was. Not many had ever heard of this creature. But luckily Voldemort had some idea of just who was in front of them. The majestic bird shrunk in size. It dropped a single feather off from his tail on the desk near other ingredients. It then looked at harry in eyes, its eyes showing intelligence beyond ages, beyond life and death. It also gave him a sense of familiarity. Although harry had no previous knowledge of this majestic creature, just looking it in eyes gave him a sense of calm, a feeling of power. It hopped on his left shoulder. Its weight was almost nothing to feel. Behind Harry, all the occupants of the room were on their knees, heads bowed. Harry had no idea of it as he was enthralled by the presence of the mighty creature.

Voldemort had read of this creature in Salazar's journals. Salazar was first Lord of house of Slytherin. He had once mentioned about a majestic bird that resembled a phoenix but was dark as impenetrable night. He had mentioned some old legends. They summarized that this great creature once known as Braiden was a companion of Lord Death. He fought the old battles of ages. Destroyed a large number of those so called light phoenixes. The number of phoenixes in those times was numerous. They usually were in groups. Their leader used to be a white royal phoenix. These battles were fought in the outer space destroying space and dimensions during their great battles. The old scrolls that he had gathered regarding the mythical and beyond powerful beings mentioned that, Braiden had destroyed over 17 of these royal phoenixes when they had tried to battle with it together to take it down instead of being with their normal groups. That was the first time that he had been struck and had bled. It is said that his blood that collected in the space got fused while earth was in early stages of formation. It stayed as such in Earth's core for some eons and then a dark force rose, Lord Dracula. He spread the reign of darkness through the world, this and beyond. But then he vanished. Without any trace or at least to human world. But reign of darkness was never spread fully and broke by the light Lord that rose many years later. Mere presence of such a being was oppressive to anyone with light in their minds and spirit lifting to those with dark in theirs. It had departed from its master, Lord Death some time but that was just a speculation. But it was enough knowledge for him to show respect to this being. And thus why he kneeled. And watching him kneel while they stood was not an option for others. So they kneeled as well. It was a reason enough to respect someone if Lord Voldemort was kneeling in front of them.

And an instant later it was all over Braiden vanished from Harry's shoulder. He looked in bewilderment. Then he saw others kneeling. Voldemort was first to look up as he sensed the presence fade. He saw Harry looking at all of them confused. Everyone rose after him. Voldemort sighed and asked Harry "You do not know anything about just was with you a while ago, do you?"

Harry said "no unfortunately it seems I am unaware of it."

Voldemort told everyone about what little knowledge he had. After everyone gathered themselves back, Gregorvich said "we would need strong stabilizers for this wand please follow me."

Harry did. They neared a new shelf. It had a number of stones and metal plates. Harry extended his hand a little near the shelf. Two stones zoomed at him that he snatched out of the air, and handed back to Gregorvich.

They went back to the desk. He brought the first in front of them and said "this dark red is a blood stone. A stone that was formed by fusion of a lot of magical blood in the pit of Earth. And the other one "- he said as he brought the second stone upfront – "is an elemental stone. It is made by putting essence of an element and compressing it into a stone. It usually shows the color of the particular element that it was made from. This one is multicolored and also has an invisible edge" he said while he traced the invisible edge with his finger. Red color is fire, yellow is lightning, blue is water and the transparent edge means air." He then put them back on the desk.

He turned towards them and said "this wand – this will take me a better time of the month. It will be the most powerful wand ever crafted."

Voldemort nodded and said "Your efforts will be suitably rewarded Lord Gregorvich, but I would need an oath of silence regarding all this matter."

Gregorvich nodded and gave his oath. Then he said "you may come by august seventh to take the wands. Both would be ready by then. I will start the runic preparations as soon as I could."

They said their parting greetings to the old wand maker and departed. They arrived back at Voldemort's place via a portkey. A swish of Voldemort's wand showed that it was half past midnight. It was already very late, Harry decided to take his leave. He sincerely thanked Voldemort for what he had done for him today. Harry also thanked Bella as she was the reason why he was even here today. They decided to meet later on. Harry was keyed into the manor entrance. He could now directly come there via shadow travel.

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Harry appeared back at potter manor. He checked on everyone to find them asleep. He sat on a chair beside Caly's bed. He kissed her lightly on her forehead. She unconsciously caught his finger in her tiny hand and took it beneath her head. He smiled he untangled his hand from her and stood just looking at her. That was when he heard "you should go to sleep as well. Today was very tiring for you."

He smiled, a tired smile. He said "Yes, I think so. But do you know anything about Braiden other than what Voldemort said."

Mysti shook her head behind him and said "no no, unfortunately the great Braiden is just as much of a legend to us as he is to this world."

Harry nodded his head in understanding. He then looked at her and said "thank you for being their today" and hugged her. She smiled returning his hug, "What are big sisters for" she said.

Harry then got back to his room and put the animagi potion inside a drawer. Although he was tired he wasn't going to just discard his things everywhere. He arranged his purchases in his wardrobe. And finally he changed in his night dress and fell on his bed. He was out before his head even hit the pillow.

Harry was looking in a mirror when he heard "You look happy."

He turned already a bright smile on his face. "I am happy." He said.

His mother gave him a gentle smile while getting near him and ruffled his hair making him pout childishly. He always felt like being a child when he was with his mother. She was always so nice, and knew how to lift his spirits up. She kissed the top of his head making him smile.

"You want to meet someone?" she asked.

"Who?" He asked, confused.

"Someone I wanted you to meet for a while, but you didn't came." She said while she flicked his nose a little with her finger smiling all the while. He knew she liked to do that a lot.

"Can we play?" he asked.

"May be." she said. Her purple eyes sparkling with amusement. Yes apparently her eyes changed color as she wanted or depending on her mood. Or so she had told him.

"O.K" he said. While bobbing his head up and down.

She smiled. "Good. They will be here soon."

"Who are they?" he asked.

"You will know, soon. Have some patience." She said with a mischievous smile on his face. Oh he really liked her surprises, she had ones surprised him by telling him that he had sisters. But never told anything more. And ones by gifting him a giant bulldog with dragon wings and griffin head. Yes he really liked those surprises, he thought with sarcasm dripping in his thoughts. That pet was still here living somewhere in the grounds of the castle. He had been warned to not go snooping around. He had tried ones and had his head eaten by a giant snake like plant with big razor like teeth. Only his sign of the triangle had saved him when it had touched the plant. That thing had stopped attacking and did something that sounded like blowing ones nose and the force had thrown out of the room. The room had promptly shut itself on his face. He had not ventured on his own after that.

His musing were interrupted when she said "Just remember one thing; don't give your name, one that I gave you to anyone, ever. No matter what or who. O.K?"

Harry nodded. He was already told the importance of the given name. But right now he was eager to meet these two guests.

"Come" she said taking his hand in hers and stood with a grace that he knew not even Mysti could perform. He stood beside her and they started to fade. They appeared in another room in the castle. It was again made of ice but also had several elements of fire in the decoration. Everything that required fabric material was actual flames. He knew that cold didn't hurt him, but he wasn't sure of the flames. He looked at his mother in confusion.

"No, the fire doesn't hurt, at least to some. You included." He sighed relieved. This room was more like for an informal gathering of a small group of people.

The doors to the room opened while two figures stepped inside from each of them, both woman. One was wearing Indian traditional sari. It was a beautiful piece of work. But looking closely made him feel like the fabric was flowing all over. The patterns and designs on it changing. He was very sure that it was water. But it was very thick, and luckily not transparent. But even then the woman was just breathtaking. She was beautiful like his mother, maybe a little less he thought admittedly. Her eyes were a cold shade of blue, deep like the oceans but they radiated comfort and perhaps excitement. He had found that predicting these eternal beings was almost impossible. Even after living with his mother for so long and that was saying something. Her skin was a very light shade of sea blue. A small smile tugging at her beautiful dark blue lips that complemented her eyes perfectly. He wondered if she had some kind of makeup. Her hair smooth and flowing like water itself and

Other woman on the other hand was wearing a gown of blood red color with long sleeves. It was long and loose, hugging her lightly, showing her perfect curves. Her skin a medium shade of orange and radiating an aura of warmth. Her skin was glowing, almost like on fire. A small smile tugging at her lips just like the other women. Her lips were a dark shade of orange. And long flowing bright hair like actual fire was running through them.

But when he looked at them in succession he found that they were identical if not for the color differences.

"You are twins!" he exclaimed.

When both the women were near them, they started to say

"Hmm – "

"Maybe we are – "

"Twin – "

"Or may be not – "

"But we assure you – "

"We are sisters." Amusement shining in their eyes.

It seemed obvious to him that they already knew each other well. They definitely acted like twins though. He huffed.

They laughed their laughter like a tinkling bell. Identical to each other. They both turned to his mother and said "mother" with a small nod.

His eyes widened he was meeting with his sisters for the first time and he didn't have any idea! "Why did mother not tell me!' he thought as he saw the exchange between them. His mother smiled a smile of contentment. He understood that it must have been long since all of them had come together. His mother's next word confirmed it. "It has been a long time you last came…. Summer" while she looked at the orange one and then she slightly tilted her head in the blue one's direction and said "….you too Winter."

"Indeed mother – "

"It has been – "

"Some time – "

"Over a few millennia – "

"Hasn't it."

"Indeed it has been, I'd hoped you would come to meet your lonely mother every once in a while." His mother said with an amused smile.

"This is your brother, Harry" she said.

"Ah! But we thought – "

"He would be older – "

"Not so little – " and they together started to ruffle his hair. Making him pout again.

His mother laughed and said "do stay here children. I'll have something for you to eat and drink."

Harry wondered why his mother was making anything when she could just bring it into existence with but a thought. She vanished leaving him with these almost strangers.

They answered his unspoken question,

"Mother always made something – "

"By her own – "

"When we all were – "

"Together – "

"She likes to do – "

"Such things as – "

"Most of the time – "

"She has nothing – "

"To do but – "

"Sleep as she doesn't – "

"Actively take part in – "

"Anything happening – "

"On the mortal world."

Harry was able to keep up with their twin talk but couldn't contain his laughter and finally burst out laughing. Finally he controlled his laughter and looked at the other two who were smiling from ear to ear. He again chuckled for a while.

Then he asked "What dose mother really make? And is she a good cook?" excited and curious.

"Oh she can cook anything. You name it. But her specialty is in food non mortal. We really tried to make her tell us her recipe. But she doesn't. her iceberg cookies, blood shake with emeralds, detonator candies are the best." said Summer.

"Don't forget about the lava candy and willow noodles." added Winter.

"Uh – uh" harry said dumbly as he had never heard of these and had no idea if they were just pulling his leg.

"So what do you do usually?" he asked the next best sensible thing he thought.

"Ah well, usually we try to take over each other through some or the other means. It's real fun you know, weakening each other's forces, destroying someone in every once in a while. Especially since we cannot know what the other is thinking." Summer said with a mischievous smile on her face.

"Yes it's really interesting to think and play the game, nothing remains predictable or doesn't become until it's too late." They were smiling and saying this like they were just discussing about tea and not about the wars they did create or attempted to kill each other. Really he was sure to lose his moral sanity with these two than any other way, he was sure of it. He cleared his head to see their still smiling faces. They were really beautiful, no other women he had seen , met or heard did even match them of–course his mother was an exception for she was easily beautiful than anyone else alive or dead, mortal or not, at least in his eyes.

"And mother is fine with that?" he asked dumbly.

"Oh, she doesn't care as long as we don't kill each other."

"And visit her every once in a while."

"And don't fight here."

But then they became serious and winter said "The only thing you don't do is angering her."

"Then again she doesn't get angry easily." Sid summer cheerily.

They discussed over almost everything and nothing. Harry for the first time in his life tasted what lava candy was like. To say he liked it would be like calling his mother an amateur child. He devoured everything that his mother had prepared. His mother and sister watched with amused smiles as he ate. Harry took a look at them and said "What?" to which they just shook their head still smiling but a bit wider.

He said "I am eating this stuff for the first time, what do you expect? Mother never made it before and you said she doesn't make it unless all are together."

His mother smiled and said "Hmm… I'd have made if you had asked me to. I will make it if you really like it."

"But not every day." She added with a fake sternness in her vice but that didn't reach her eyes as they were brighter than ever.

After another round of his mother's amazing cookies, they decided that he should go back to sleep. Which he did with some feeble protest as he started to feel his eyelids get heavier.

Harry woke up in his bedroom. He remembered what all had gone in the dreamland today. He chuckled to himself thinking about the twins. They were so different not like the Weasley twins and definitely not like him and Nat. it made him hate the light just that much more. They looked so close in the house, but outside their home, they were always planning to beat each other. Then again they were not normal mortals. Not even normal immortals. The only way to kill them was tremendous imagination and powers that no mortal could hope to have. They were entity, soulless. And that was what made them dangerous than demons even. Especially his mother. She after all, was the first. The way his sisters described her made him feel like she was on the level of angels and demons.

He shook his self out of his thoughts. He had to take his animagus potion today. But he decided to spend some time with Caly first. So he did. They played for a while then when she seemed to be falling asleep, he tucked her in. then he got back to his room and took out the potion from the drawer. He sat on his bed and removed the cork from the vial. He drank it in a single gulp and lay on the bed putting the vial on the nearby table. He could feel his vision going hazy. He shut his eyes. When he opened them he was in the fields surrounding potter manor. He started to move in the woods. He took a few steps here and there when he started to hear rumbling noise of something. When suddenly a large figure stepped in front of him. He instantly knew what it was but didn't know what he was supposed to do. The nundu gave an ear splitting shriek and lunged at him he tried to dodge but found that he wouldn't succeed as his super strength and speed were not available. He tried to bring a shield of darkness but that failed as well. For the first time he felt completely vulnerable but he desperately thought of surviving even though he was on the doorsteps of death. The claw hit him on face that sent an agony not greater than his inheritance's one but almost as sever. He lost consciousness. What felt like hours or even may have been days, he felt himself gain conscious. He was still in the woods. But he seemed to have been thrown far away from where he had been hit. He could see the woods getting thinner. He managed to lift his sore body and started to drag it out. He soon reached near a clearing; a cliff wasn't far away from there. He washed his face in the clearing and took a look at his reflection. He was completely unharmed. "Strange" he thought. After that attack from the Nundu, he did expect at the very least a scar.

He started to climb the cliff almost falling over several times. When he reached the top of the cliff he had to stifle a gasp. A dragon of double the size of a Hungarian horntail was there. Its head snapped in his direction. Before Harry could even take a step back the dragon had started to throw bouts of black flames. Harry started to dodge them but the third one was very large in size and he was unable to dodge. It struck him and he felt like being blown away. He was falling from the cliff but the only thing he could think of was pain as he felt like being skinned alive. He lost consciousness, again. He was them woken by a soft melody. A trilling that filled his weekend heart and gave him the power he had lost. He awoke to see the same intense black eyes that he had seen in the wand makers shop. It was a Braiden. It neared its beak near his forehead. Harry blanched thinking that he would again have to go through a bit of pain. But it never came. A feeling of warmth and completion came over him. And he found himself falling asleep.

When he woke up he found a small weight snuggled beside him. He felt very sore. He easily recognized it as Caly. Mysti was sitting on a chair just beside his bed. He whispered "Mysti?" trying to find out if she was even awake or not. Her eyes immediately opened and landed on him. She relaxed. "How long was I out for?" He asked.

"Nearly 3 days." She replied.

'That long huh.' Harry thought to himself.

He gently lowered Caly's head from over his shoulder and got out of the bed and into the shower. He let the hot water run over his sore body as it worked wonders on him. His body had already started to lose its soreness and getting back to normal. His shadow healing was indeed very fast. He came out dressed and almost at his peak of health to have a small hand tug at his pants. He saw the smiling face of Caly, wanting to be picked up. Harry picked her up and played with her for a while. He also had found from Mysti that Caly had refused to eat unless he fed her and she had to use a minor illusion since last two days to feed her by pretending to be him. He smiled to himself. This small innocent gesture of his little princes was actually touching. He looked at her smiling and fed her. A little after he was done Lily came in, searching for Caly. Apparently she had forgotten to feed her yesterday. He told her off saying that he had just fed her. He already knew from Mysti that Caly had made a ruckus about eating as he wasn't available. He put her in his bed and tucked her in with a story from beetle and the bard. But the fact remained; his family was forgetting Caly just like they had forgotten him, his mother should have tried to feed her a while later but noooo! She had to arrange for a small party for Nat getting his first wand holly wood and a phoenix feather as a core from Dumbledore's pet phoenix. Once Lily had left he called Mysti and asked her about the Dragon that he had seen in his vision. She made him conjure a replica of the dragon that he had seen. She confirmed it as one of the ancient Dragons that had left this space at the time when Higher elves and Fey left. She vanished and came back a while later and gave him an overview and a scroll that described the species with much detail. They were written in elven. He frowned as he was unable to read them. But she assured him that she would teach him if he wanted to learn. She also told him that those dragons were actually very common in her dimension.

In evening Harry decided to give a visit to Galvan. So he did. He also told Galvan everything about his meeting with Bella and Lucius, then with Voldemort, then about the wands and Braiden. Galvan had laughed and said "I have simply stopped to keep any predictable expectations from you as you always seem to do something out of the loop. I did expect multi animagi or even magical but not with such power."

Harry decided that he had been having a lot of busy and painful time for a while now so he would take some rest. So he decided to spend his time with Caly rather than studying. But he still didn't stop his morning exercises. He was now waiting for his next meeting with Voldemort. He was going to resume his self-training and studying after that.