Foresworn

Harry Potter/Velvet Scarlatina

Chapter XIII: Sorry, mercy, ain't happening

Ron and Hermione hit the floor as four wedges of flame slammed into a Beowulf Alpha, scorching it and etching a look of utter rage on its face. Harry stared it down, right hand on Absolution and held in a reverse grip. It charged, Harry brought Absolution forwards and a thunderous boom reverberated through Hogsmeade and the Grimm dissolved to dust. "You two can run back to the school, or be useful." With that he strode off into the melee.

Across Hogsmeade, those who had been in the DA were taking the Death Eaters to task. Yes their arsenal of spells were effortlessly batted away by the Death Eaters; however the Grimm were being a nuisance. Out of the corner of Harry's eye, Harry noticed a fabulous-five-star-feverish-green firework ignite as a distraction; get swallowed by a Beowulf; only for the Beowulf to…explode? Harry was puzzling over the terminology. "That's…a new one."

Neville meanwhile was man-handling two Death Eaters; their noses broken and holding their stomachs. They were defenceless against Neville's armoured fists and with two thumps sent the pair unconscious. Behind him were two other Death Eaters, whom unfortunately were now becoming Grimm chow. Harry swiftly decapitated the Grimms "Please…mercy."

Harry looked down to see a woman underneath the Death Eater robes "Sorry, mercy, ain't happening." With that he strode off, thankfully there weren't that many Grimm remaining, they still had to deal with the Death Eaters.

The next two people he found were the Creevey brothers "Colin, Dennis…find the Death Eaters, strip them, mugshot them, bind them. If they breath wrong give them a kicking; if they do anything you dislike…"

"a kicking?" Colin asked.

Harry nodded "Also, if and when the Aurors show up feel free to tell them to 'take a hike off a cliff'."

Neville; was in earshot began rattling off orders as Dean, Seamus, Susan and Hannah arrived. All four of them looking beaten, bloody and in Susan's case extremely annoyed "Neville…either you or Harry start explaining."

"I need to explain what precisely?"

"Grimm. Specifically the types of Grimm; Ursa, Beowolves, Boarbatusks and Sabyrs and I want more than 'Externally magically resilient to varying degrees. That one must have been rather young considering I've seen one shrug off Dumbledore's blasting hexes. They still die like any creature if you can get a spell into its mouth. They're weak to physical strikes and the elements, according to Harry; they have the capacity and capability to learn and adapt.'" Susan growled.

Neville smirked at her "That's about the summation of Grimm in general. As for specific types of Grimm, there are loads, I've not seen all of them as of yet."

"And Harry?"

"He's seen more than I, but less than most. Contrary to what you may believe, Susan…We don't know everything about Grimm, but we know enough to teach you what we know."

"It's not enough…The Ursa took my blasting spells like nothing until I managed to get one inside its mouth."

"It's better than Harry. He got swallowed by one, then bit his way out. His lovely lady was not pleased in the slightest with his action."

Susan and Hannah cocked their heads, gossipers they might not be intentionally; but this juicy gossip, was just too good not to let slip through their fingers. "What can you tell us?"

Neville grinned, he rarely got to throw Harry under the Creeper "Well…together they're just adorable. I mean really adorable, Harry comes across all unhinged and practically feral. She's shy and timid. On their own you'd have to wonder, how the fuck did they get together."

"How?"

"I put eight of my twenty-four classmates in the hospital. Fucking racist, fascist pigs the lot of them. Staff weren't interfering, I picked up their pathetic challenge and required my team-mates pulling me off them. As for Velvet…she's beautiful, wonderful and quite frankly the best." Harry chimed in. "Nice to see you four, mind helping me maintain order and then enthusiastically question our surviving Death Eaters?"

"When you say enthusiastically question…" Hannah asked. Susan blanched.

"You can't…Potter, you can't just make us accept…"

Harry stared Susan down "I can. I've been contracted to do a job, you can either assist me or join them."

"When did you get the authority…"

"Scrimgeour, he gave me a licence to deal with the Death Eater menace." Harry deadpanned.

(CFVY)

Shade academy was tough. It didn't help that Shade Academy students eyed all the refugees from Beacon with utter disdain. "Is this what you get all the time?" Coco whispered, in the sanctuary of their Dorm Room.

Velvet nodded and set to sharpening her sword "I, personally, would love for Harry to faceplant into the sand outside the Academy and then watch him casually insult his way into trouble."

Fox grinned "Here they respect your own strength…They don't see Team Unity as big of a thing. If you wanted Team, we should have gone to Haven or Mantle."

Velvet's eyes flickered at that "No. No way am I going to Mantle willingly."

"But you'd go if Harry was there." Yatsuhashi chimed in.

Velvet blushed "Is that wrong?"

They didn't hear the door open as Headmaster Theodore enter "Good afternoon."

"Headmaster Theodore…if this…"

Theodore chuckled, his close-cropped hair and checked vest shrouded in his ankle length, blue-grey cape with matching boots as he sat on a chair near the kitchen. "Relax, Team CFVY this isn't about any fight that you may have been in. This is just a drop-in too see how you're adjusting to Shade's…academic ways."

Velvet smiled thinly "Aside from feeling like worthless shit as opposed to just shit; then everything is just fine."

Theodore nodded "I can't apologise for it; because its not my place to. Remember, everything I'm doing is to protect my students, which all of you…regardless of race and previous schooling you all are. I've seen your profiles and I welcome you here."

With that Theodore left "Velvet, we can always leave and transfer. Trust me, we'll get through this. We'll re-join Harry and everything will be okay."

"But wherever we are…not so much." Fox chimed in, smiling at the thought.

"Fox…" Velvet began, a grin on her face "…please stop ruining the moment."

"Velvet, you need to relax." Yatsuhashi whispered, wrapping the petit Rabbit-Faunus in a hug.

"Besides, how much trouble do you think…" Coco asked.

"He's possibly pissed off Law Enforcement; possibly the Head of State…Might have made a deal or two. Nothing major." Velvet murmured.

"Ruby's gotten into."

CFVY groaned. Harry was the predictable one, his antics whilst catastrophic in consequence were able to be tracked. Ruby's…Vale and Atlas weren't happy.

(RNJR)

"Ren, STOP!" Came Nora's voice, the normal bubbly girl. Ren and Nora had stumbled upon a cave; that was subsequently the home to the Grimm who had destroyed his home.

The only reason he knew was because he recognised his fathers, Li Ren's, arrows scattered about the cave. Any indecision and regret at leaving Ruby, Jaune and Qrow to face this Grimm alone was replaced by fury. "I'll not let it happen again."