Harry Potter and the summer to Remember
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"What…What hit me?" Rasped Harry, he rolled onto his back and Fay cuddled up next to him, and placed her head on his chest.
"A ritual fire, I'll tell you one thing. You impressed my grandfather, he's a hard man to impress. Everyone kind of expected you to pass out almost immediately…Now stay still, I'm comfy."
Harry chuckled "Fay, are seeing animals in dreams normal?" Fay's honey brown eyes connected with Harry's piercing green ones.
"Harry, this is important did you have a dream of an animal?" Asked Fay.
Harry nodded and he explained what he saw "I was flying Fay. I was flying. I was a bird and I was floating on the air currents carrying me all over the America. The power, Fay it was incredible. I could distinctively feel the power of the barely restrained wind; pelting rain; massive claps of thunder and the flashes and crackles of concentrated lightning. The best thing Fay it was mine to command and I felt oh so alive. The sky was mine and mine alone."
Fay paled, she had a feeling Harry was going to be powerful but being one of the Top 10 Most Powerful Magical Creatures in the World! That was terrifying. Unsurprising but also pretty terrifying "We need to go and see my Grandfather…Because if you are what I think you are then you need to begin training."
Harry looked at her "Training for what?"
"Animagus numpty." Fay got up, Harry lay back and he unashamedly ogled her backside. He was going to be turning fourteen, what would one thought a young man at that age would do.
"I know you're ogling me. Now get dressed this important. I am not about to have you explode and kill everyone here."
Harry swiftly got dressed. His temper was fraying and he knew something was going to happen. He left his room "Potter, when am I going to get paid?"
Harry turned around "My apologies. I need to…."
"I understand. My clan chief needs to see you. We shall discuss this at a later time."
Harry nodded "Thank you for understanding."
Fay's Grandfather, Lunar Rising was standing at the edge of the firepit, also sitting around the firepit were three other teens, two boys both older than him and Fay.
"So the outsider finally graces us with his presence." Mocked one of the boys.
"Your point?" Harry growled, he could feel his animagus form riling at the casual insults.
"You should not be here. You should not be learning our sacred methods. You should also be nowhere near the Chieftains Granddaughter." Various other members of the other tribes had meandered over. This looked rather interesting.
Harry smirked and licked his lips "What are you going to do about it?"
The boys composure cracked and the earth began to tremble and shake. Apparently the boy had some skill with earth magic. Harry cocked his head "Was that meant to do something? If so, stop right now. Because I'm not responsible for what will happen next."
The boy snarled and went for his wand. The Stormbird, screamed. Harry's scar bled and tendrils of wind shout out of Harry's fingers colliding into a thrashing, spiralling uncontrolled orb of condensed wind. "Fay…RUN!"
Fay and the other teen dived clear as Harry's eyes turned red and yellow and the wind orb launched forwards. If Harry had any control of his animagus form, that wind attack should have and would have killed the insignificant little boy, but instead the wind orb flung him violently backwards and the firepit erupted into life.
Fay moved, she had not seen any Sigils for an animagus form. She however moved directly into Harry's line of fire as the teen was about to disperse a swathe of crackling lightning. Harry wrestled back control from the Stormbird as Fay put her hands on his face.
"What happened?" He asked as the Stormbird recognised and acknowledged Fay as his human counterparts equal. The yellow/red eyes receded.
"A classic example of what happens when we forgot to ward off other potential rituals Stormborn." Fay's Grandfather said.
"My name translates into Great White Bear." With that the old gentleman who looked to be in eighties shifted seamlessly into massive white bear that seemed to be an off shoot of the Brown Bear.
The man shifted back "I was when I was younger a Brown Bear Originally…Now, what do you know of becoming an Animagu?"
"Not that much. Only that it can take a while to learn."
The man chuckled "Yes and No. Yes and No. Yes it can take a while to learn but that could be because of how you are taught. Also No, because as much of it is to be taught, you must also put in effort."
Strangely enough that made sense "Let me guess, there are multiple ways of becoming one?"
"You catch on quick…I love it when my grandchildren find partners who are rather intelligent. There are lots of ways to learn the skill. The wanded way which makes you study the animal and lots of partial transformations. The Asian and Shamanistic Way the only difference is the Asian Way is not responsible for where you may end up. They both require a ritual to push the human spirit out of the body to allow the animal within to take control. Then there is the life or death way, where you find your animal and are then chucked into life or death situations with them."
Harry paled "I'll take the shamanistic way, it seems more fun."
Fay giggled "It's also really trippy."
Harry looked at the pair "I do a ritual, get high and transform?" White Bear and Fay nodded.
"A blunt way to phrase it Potter, but not inaccurate." Harry's grin caught Fay off Guard.
"As long as I have evidence. I want to show my Godfather my animagus form and the routine I underwent."
"You will need to register."
"I'll do that here. Same as my apparation…"
"You can apparate!" Exclaimed Fay.
"Yup. Why?"
Fay turned to her grandfather "You are in charge of the shifting ceremony tonight correct?" Her grandfather nodded "After I have, got comfortable with my animagus form. I'm going with Harry."
"I'll get some practise side-long apparation in." That day, Harry spent it apparating around the enclosure and to the outskirts of town and back. With a human looking dummy.
That night, eight teens entered a Wiccan Ritual Hut. "We have a ritual to do, and then I'll leave."
The ritual began, it was an exhausting one. When the boys hit the ground with their palms, the girls leapt and vice versa as White Bear kept the rhythm.
The more magically sensitive you were, meant you were going to feel the effects of the ritual first. Generally the ritual was completed before the effects happened. However, Harry possessed tremendous magical power, he could feel himself beginning to be detached from his body as the ritual entered its final repetition.
White Bear saw it "If you are feeling the effects of the ritual, drop out now." Harry rolled out of the ritual dance with a fluid grace. He watched as the rest of the teens collapsed giggling from exhaustion. The kid who had started the confrontation earlier turned around.
"Too weak to carry on? You're weak. A pathetic…" Harry didn't hear anymore as he succumbed to the fumes he had emitted and passed out. Loud Wolf, went to poke the white boy who had dared strike him with that wind attack earlier.
Even though Loud Wolf did not hold traditions in high regard which made him a borderline outcast amongst the clans, he knew when not to meddle with someone making contact with their animagus form. He did not have time for they all dropped like flies.
Fay was the third to drop, that was because she was making her way over to Harry. Ever since the night she and Harry spent the night sleeping off the hallucinogenic ritual, she had found her magic harmonising with his.
Magical harmonising was nothing of importance. It just meant that in future, people who had harmonising magic were more likely to have a life together.
Harry's Dream
He was the Stormbird. This time he felt as if he was the Stormbird, strong and noble. Cantankerous and Violent. Beautiful and Deadly. He felt like he was all of these things and none of them. The Stormbird and Harry both felt within their breasts that the Thunderbirds ferocity and prowess paled insignificantly compared to him. As for his phoenix cousin not even their finest and most majestic could match him for looks and grace.
If the Falcon was the Lord of the Skies and the Golden Eagle was the finest Hunter. Then the Stormbird was their king and handler. The sky was his and as were the elements that dwelled there. The water, the wind, the thunder and the lightning. All of it on his command.
The Stormbird knew of his partners fight with the Great Other. The 'Serpent King'. The Bird snorted and the Thunder boomed, emerald lightning crackled and the winds blew as in a hurricane drenched in rain showers.
He'd show that pretentious upstart 'King'.
Fay's Dream
She felt the ground strong and steady under her feet. She moved with grace of a jungle cat. At least that's what she thought she was. Then she caught herself by a peaceful looking pool.
She was a shadow Puma. Fay looked up at the tree that covered the pool in shade. A branch creaked and she saw a massive avian predator land. She knew instinctively that is Harry.
End dreams.
White Bear stuck his head in the next morning and sniffed. The majority of the hallucinogenic fumes and subsided. Anyone who went in now who was already an animagus ran the risk of transforming, and anyone else incredibly stoned.
Harry woke up, he sniffed. As did the rest. As one they bent double, their animal spirits thrashing to be released "All of you, get out and let your partner out. Stormborn, I'd recommend getting away from here as the storm you're going to bring…It's going to be big."
Harry was the first one out, he had pulled off his shirt and shorts and he took off past the firepit, which blazed into life as he ran past. Fay, Wolf, and the other seven made it out to see Harry, vanish in silence and being sucked through a drain pipe.
"He can apparate!" Gaped one of Fay's cousins, a rather boisterous young man that went by the name Gerold. His family had tended to sprout Bull animagis. Gerold possessed albinism and thankfully all minor cases of the side effects. As he transformed, he became a very beautiful resplendent White Bull. Later in life he would find himself becoming a very successful actor in film and television with his starring role in an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones as one Ser Gerold Hightower.
(Harry)
Harry shed his human form, like one walks through a door. As he did so, his primal scream…one of joy and exultation rent the sky asunder and thunder boomed, rain gushed, the winds howled and around him in a semi-perfect circle, bright purple lightning rippled across the sky. This was the power of the Stormbird. The 4th out of 20 of the Wizarding World's most beautiful creatures.
The Stormbird was 4th out of 10 when it came to immense magical power. And 3rd out of 25 rarest creatures to ever be seen.
Some of the other creatures ranking on that list were the Norwegian Night Fury, the Thunderbird and the Nundu. Out of the most beautiful creatures above the Stormbird it was: Night Fury, Nundu, Thunderbird and Stormbird.
Magical Power: Nundu, Thunderbird and Night Fury joint second with Stormbird being third arguable.
And finally too be seen: Nundu, Night Fury, Stormbird. All though most people would prefer seeing the Night Fury over the Nundu, due to the magical resistant three headed acidic breath spitting leopard on steroids tends to put a dampener on viewing.
Harry was amazed, the eyesight of the Stormbird was amazing. He could pick out the running animals that he would dine on. Speaking of which, he was hungry! He bombed down at breakneck speeds, broomstick riders would rip their hearts out to go this fast. Harry let out a screech of delight, if he was brilliant on a broomstick, this was something else. Before the three wild carp realised what was happening, Harry had swiped four of them and nestled in a tree.
Fay looked up and true to her vision, Harry was sitting in the tree, three carp trapped on the tree with another being eaten. Harry smirked and dropped two fish which were hastily devoured by the shadow cat.
The pair meandered back to the camp. When they arrived they found a menagerie of animals and reptiles: Two wolves, a Boar, a Fruit bat, an Anaconda, a bear which turned out to be a Californian Grizzly, a Shadow Puma (Fay) and a Stormbird (Harry).
The rest of the day revolved around Harry, learning how to shift in and out of human form without summoning a full on storm every time. Suffice to say, Harry learnt quickly and the Stormbird acquiesced, the bird was extremely intelligent its bargain was 'use five large storm spells a week or transform once every two week and allow me to unleash a full storm or…'
Harry nodded but since he had no full on elemental spells, Harry had to compromise with a couple of storms.
Fay had also developed as well, her Puma form had gifted her with some skill of the shadows. Fay had packed her bag, wrapped her arms around him and with a bang they vanished.
They reappeared on the boundary of the Apache Tribe's grounds and were met by a girl about eighteen who quickly introduced herself as Caitlyn and that she was a medi-witch in training. She had seen them appear out of thin air. "Welcome, Fay. Welcome, Harry. Once you are settled in we can begin. I have to say we had not expected you for another week at least."
Harry's eyes widened, he had been in the America for only a week or so and he had already got his apparation licence, filled in the paperwork for his animagus which he would do when he got to town and had learnt and more or less mastered elemental channelling.
"Let's get started."