A/N: The Harry Potter franchise belongs solely to J. K. Rowling at this time she has seen fit to allow the world of fan fiction to use her characters and world. I would just like to thank her for that and hope it will continue.

Just to recap Harry was in Mexico and his contact was captured by the Federal Aurors in a raid. He is no longer wanted by the Federal authorities at least for the time being but Harry was never sure when that would change. He needed to finish this and do it quickly as he had his fiancee, Ginny waiting home to plan and execute their way into wedded bliss.

Harry was sitting in his hotel room and going through the copy of the folder that he had received from Frank. There were almost a dozen places that the Dark Lord of the Cavern could be hiding and there may have been more. If Harry just went and looked into each one he would alert the DLC and the man would just run, he would have to go and stake them out and ward them in such a way that he could detect the dark wizard if he were there. With Ol Voldy Moldy it had been easy if his head hurt he was near, now he had to plan a ward scheme and hope it worked. Harry spent the next couple of days creating runestones out of blocks of wood he wanted them to break down after a while so that they would not draw attention years from now to the hide outs as that would possibly bring in people to be hurt by booby traps. Harry then bought a car and headed south to the first location on the map it was in the desert about 50 miles south. He placed the stones and watched this cave for three days and there was no activity except snakes and other desert creatures. Harry left the wooden runes and headed on to south to the next location.

On the second day of this a man walked up, Harry was ready to draw his wand when the old man spoke, "Mr. Potter you need more knowledge of Aztec and Mayan runes to get past the Dark Lord's wards when you find him. I can teach you, as I designed his defences and can probably tell you the most likely places he will be, of course I could be wrong on that count".

"Why would you do that, you don't even know me?"

" I know your kind, you are a white wizard you may be tempted to the dark and may even try and cast an occasional dark spell, but you are incorruptible. My wife and son were killed by this man and my sons wife taken. I was beaten by him for days before I would work for him and then he closed me in the cell, sealed it and left me to die. I was near death when I had a vision of you, and you showed me the way out. I am not a bad man but he has my daughter and I know I will never see her again but if you kill him it will stop others from being hurt".

Harry had probed the man's mind while he was talking and could tell he was telling the truth. "I can also help you discover your last two forms, you are an elemental wizard I can see it in your aura, I also see you are drained from missing the one you love. You need to reach balance, or at least as close as possible to take on the Dark Lord, his men and servants. He has demons at his beckon call".

The man took him to his house and Harry found he was a very nice man, he had owned his own warding business, he was the best in the Americas till the DLC needed him, he stood against him but finally broke after being beat, when his son and wife were killed in front of him he gave in to save his daughter. They ate supper and the man put Harry in a small room with it's own bathroom. Harry placed his own wards, though he figured that the old man with his experience would get through them quickly if he wanted.

The next morning the man brought out the plans for the DLC's defences. "Harry, do you understand these wards?"

"Some of it but quite a few runes are new to me".

"We will work on those first, then this afternoon we will work on your forms".

Harry finished a third of the new runes that morning, and in the afternoon Harry worked on getting his balance, he was missing Ginny so bad but after a few hours of meditation he felt much more centered. Harry called Ginny and felt much better. He dreamed that night that he was the dragon that had chased him during the Triwizard tournament. He was flying all over it was dark but he could see well with his dragon eyes. He landed outside the old man's house tired and in the morning when he woke, he found himself sleeping on the lawn.

"Harry did you know that demons are vulnerable to dragon fire. Until five minutes ago you were in dragon form".

Harry was shocked at this revelation. "Go ahead and try and change", Harry pictured himself as a dragon and the world changed. Not only was he seeing from a higher level, but a dragons vision precieved things differently.

Harry changed back to human form and sat down, it was a shock to be a dragon, the massive shift in size made him feel light headed.

Harry was given something to eat, then after he was feeling better, they started on the runes again. It took two weeks for Harry to learn how to disarm all the wards of the DLC's hideouts. Harry planned to still stake them out till he found the most likely one. Harry had not figured out how to get his last form but he had had dreams of catching fire, then raising from a pile of ashes. Harry knew his final form was a phoenix . He just couldn't figure out how to get into that form, it was like grabbing at smoke.

Harry changed to a dragon a several times and flew around, he liked flying in all its forms. Harry had decided to move south the next day. He was setting on the porch, when he heard a strange sound, it was musical, soon he saw what looked like a flaming bird headed his way, Faulks landed on his shoulder. He was singing a joyous song, Harry felt it in his very bones, down to is soul and he started humming it too, then he opened his mouth and the tune came out of his mouth as it did from Faulks but an octave deeper. Soon Faulks took flight, and Harry followed, Faulks and Harry continued to fly through the trees.

Harry landed back on the porch and that is when it hit him he was a phoenix. Harry transformed back and forth a couple of times then. He had discovered and been able to change into all his forms.

In the morning Harry packed his gear and was ready to leave. After breakfast he strapped on his back pack and grabbed a broom the old man had brought him. "Good luck Harry Potter and I wish you all the luck in the world. The end to The Dark Lord of the Cavern will be great, I just wish my family would have seen it. Treasure your family Harry as they are the greatest gift that a human can have from another human".

Harry traveled by broom to the most likely hide out. It was close to a dragon colony, Harry would try and fit in there. Harry flew for several hours and landed on the coast, then turning to dragon form he flew into the mountains. He was much larger than the local dragons but he hovered and bellowed what he knew was a request to join them. They all bellowed back and flew at him, Harry dove gaining speed and flew down the middle of the formation. They scattered. Harry quickly out climbed them, Harry noticed though he was larger he was had much more power for his weight. Harry hovered again as the smaller dragons circled him then the leader bellowed a welcome and they all landed and gorged on several deer that the waran had collected. Harry found a place to sun that was also a good view of DLC's hide out. Later that day Harry saw the man himself enter the cavern that was the entrance to the complex.

An hour later Harry smelled humans coming, the waran scattered but the young and brooding females could not. The waran formed into formation and attacked the men, they were dragon hunters and ready for the attack but they were not ready for what they found as they rounded the curve to the nursery. Harry stood there in his dragon form. These dragon hunters were used to dragons flying and attacking from the air. They used potions to protect from the fire. Harry fired a large fire ball first then followed with a stream of fire into the rocks next to the water fall by the path the heat on the rocks expanded exploded killing a couple of the men and the rest retreated and took the dead and wounded with him. Harry would have felt bad but these men were poachers as this was a protected area.

Harry watched the cave and saw the DLC leave and thought of attacking but waited and soon the DLC came back. Tomorrow would be the day he would make his move.

A/N: So I must say my plan for the later sections of this fic is not exactly what I wanted it to be but I will try and fill it in. I think this one will be done by this time next week. I have decided to do a Neville and Luna fic next time. It will still have a lot of action but very little of Harry or any of the major characters from the books, but it will be a fun book.