Chapter 28: Cos 3: The Hogwarts Express

When Yoshiro, Yue and Tai returned they where curious as to why tensions where a little off in the Palace. After Harry told them about the misadventures involving him while they where gone, they found out why.

"So we think there's gonna be one last mishap before I go back to school." Harry explained to his wolfy bodyguards.

But while Tai Lung understood what happened, the two wolves did not. "Please explain again my Prince. You split yourself into two selves?"

Harry sighed again and told them a second time about the Mystical Mirror of Yin and Yang and its magical properties.

"If we hadn't had that replica I'd still be one overly sensitive good Harry and a sociopathic Bad Harry." Harry finished.

"Never let him out of our sights again." Yoshiro instructed his son. "Except for the bathroom and bathing."

"Right father." Yue agreed. Emperor Xing would skin them alive if anything happened to his heir.

And so they followed him for the next week. In the shadows of course. Par Xing's orders. Harry was curious about what they'd do when he went back to school.

"Not even heirs to Pureblood family's have personal bodyguards." He told the two wolves. "And grandfather's there to keep an eye on me. What will you do?"

"We're going to go back to Xingu and continue to be guards for the Xing clan." Yue explained to the younger male. "And father will be taking the Emperor's place as Headmaster of the academy But before we go back we will send a message telling him about this little Mirror incident.."

"No!" Harry snapped at the older wolf.

"Excuse me?" Yoshiro raised an eyebrow at Harry. "I may be your bodyguard my Prince, but I am also a father and have no qualms about taking you across my knee.

Harry shuddered. He had only been disciplined like that from his father twice in his life. When he snuck out, and when he got lost in the forest with a bunch of younger was a teaching excersize some of the higher ranked students had to do. Even though they got out all right, he still was mad that he was so irresponsible as to get lost. Though he smiled at the memory of walking into the village the next morning with the children singing the "Following the Leader" song to pass the time.

"We may bring back a million, or maybe one or two. Tee Dum, Tee Dee. " The children sang as Harry lead them back into the village with their parents waiting on them impaitently and thought "Uh oh" at the sight of the Furious Five and Po and his father looking angry at him.

"I'll tell grandfather about the two mishaps." Harry promised his wolves. "It'll probably be a story I tell friends and family anyway." He realized that many adults told friends funny stories about their youthful misadventures and figured the Mystical Mirror incident was the perfect one for him.

The wulven father and son seemed satisfied with this answer and let it go.

On September the 1st, at Midnight in China time, Harry carried his trunk to the fireplace in his father's chambers as he had the previous year. The Five and Po had said their goodbyes to him when

"I'll see you much sooner than you think." Shifu chuckled as he took the Floo Network back to his Chambers for a short time before having it hooked to his new office...

Harry found Ron and Hermione in a compartment not far from the door. And happily slid inside.

"How was your summer?" Hermione asked the Kung Fu boy.

"Cut short a bit wasn't it?" Ron asked remembering what Hermione taught him last year about time zones.

"Just a few hours." Harry said. as he got comfortable. "Cue Malfoy in five, four, three, two..." And suddenly the door opened

After a few insults flung back and forth through Harry and Malfoy, Malfoy finally pushed Harry's buttons too far.

"Do you want me to transfigure you into a ferret Malfoy?" Harry snapped.

"Human Transfiguration isn't taught until Seventh Year Potter." Malfoy snapped back.

"Try me." Harry said raising his wand and performing a movement he made up. Malfoy got scared and shut the door quickly.

"When did you learn Human Transfiguration?" Hermione asked incredulously.

"I didn't. I just made it up." Harry chuckled. Ron snorted in amusement. He'd seen his mother Transfigure Fred and George into twin rats and lock them in a cage as punishment once so he knew that wasn't the right movements.

"How'd you know he was coming mate?" The red head male asked curiously as they got some food from the trolley lady.

"Oh idiots like him are so predictable. We'll be dealing with that on the train ride to Hogwarts for the next five years probably." Harry said as he tore open a chocolate frog. His friends watched the part tiger boy tear off the frog's head as it squealed.

"Sorry. I think that's the predator in me." Harry said sheepishly.

They passed the time talking about their summer. Turns out Ron's twin brother's Fred and George got in serious trouble for taking out their dad's flying Ford Anglia and taking it out for a spin one night. The only good thing about that endeavor was that they weren't seen by any muggles.

"What about your summer?" Hermione asked.

"A couple of misadventures, no big whoop." Harry lied. "Split myself into good and evil selves but got back to normal after about a day."

"Good and evil selves?" Ron asked in confusion.

Harry proceeded to tell his friends about his little encounter with the Mystical Mirror of Yin and Yang.

"And I remember my Good self holding up the REAL mirror to my bad self's face and one uping him Evil Harry was sucked back into the mirror, then back into me and I became whole again

Ron and Hermione blinked. Too enthralled in Harry's story to even speak.

They had an eventless train ride onwards as they made their way to Hogwarts.

To Be Continued...

Shifu was rather sneaky...wonder what's up with him...*grins*

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