Summer to Remember Chapter 6, a harry potter fanfic

Harry Potter and the summer to Remember
I own nothing aside from this idea

"WHERE THE FUCK IS IT!" Harry yelled as he blasted some foliage off there path. His backpack bouncing up and down, cutting into his chest as he charged down the path in a hurry. Fay just in front of him, casting a revealing charm.

"ITS MOVING TOO DAMN FAST. DAMN MAGICALLY RESISTANT FOREST!" She screamed back.

Harry snarled, then he heard it. It sounded like a scream mixed with a screech and it dived from the trees right onto Fay "Sonum Shrapnel! Pressura Stilla!" Thundered Harry.

(48 Hours earlier)

The Pinewood Forest of Pennsylvania, is old. Older than most would know and some would argue that it was older than the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts and they would be right.

The Pinewood Forest was home to some of the purest and the vilest magic and creatures around. All in all, a perfect place to complete Hagrid's Creature Journal.

The pair had been filling it in as they travelled over America. They messaged Sirius, who got in contact with Hagrid who had told him that they needed either a 'Collage of 15 Creatures and two pages of information on each' or 'an in-depth Profile of 5 Creatures'. The pair were going for a mixture of both.

They had done an in-depth profile on the Stormbird and Shadow Cats. When they had seen the Storm Bird they had been on the very edge of trespassing upon a Magical Bird sanctuary. They had been stopped by a squad of very polite but extremely firm wardens.

However, the interaction stopped when a large Stormbird appeared on the branch above Harry, and with a piqued interest, dropped down onto Harry and began looking him over.

"That my friend is a female Stormbird, the initial size is a give-away and the gold, red and blue plumage is significantly brighter than that of its male counterpart. They are furthermore extremely temperamental especially after giving birth."

Harry grinned and he slowly raised his hand. He stopped, the Stormbird looked at the appendage, before turned to Harry's hair and began nibbling on it.

"Why is it doing that to you kid? Its treating you like a fledgling?" Asked an amazed Bird Watcher.

"Because I'm a newly transformed Stormbird Animagus, apparently it can smell the storm that I can create and my inner Stormbird…In my pack, I have some food…"

"The Stormbird will eat ANYTHING but chocolate. It's extremely toxic to them, not fatally but it's definitely not good for them."

Fay opened Harry's bag and pulled out a fresh pretzel covered in nuts and honey and a camera. Fay passed Harry the pretzel as soon as it touched Harry's hand, a crack of thunder and flicker of lightning boomed around the hand that carried the pretzel and a male Stormbird appeared.

Harry slackened his grip on the pretzel so it was only being held by his pinkie finger and thumb. The Stormbird fluttered over to it and with great dexterity pulled a large segment of the pretzel free and subsequently vanished.

The female Stormbird followed shortly after. Harry pulled out his notebook, clicked a pen and began scribbling notes down as the bird watchers gave them, an impromptu lecture on the Stormbird.

Suffice to say the information was not far from the mythos that surrounded them. However, Harry's Stormbird Animagus form and given the Bird Watchers some food for thought, generally the Stormbird would have remained at a distance.

It turned out that Harry and Fay were walking in the midst of a natural magical reserve and they had entered amongst the bird section. It was free to roam but there were Wardens around when people got too close to some of the reserves.

They had then found themselves just beneath the Pine Forest near a pack of Shadow Cats, which similarly swarmed over Fay, acting like overgrown feral cats. Feral cats that could manipulate shadows and easily kill a human if provoked. They were considered a borderline pest, as their numbers could easily grow uncontrolled if not monitored but thankfully, they dispersed from their mother and went exploring. As they were on a nature reserve they had a high chance of being eaten by something else i.e. Stormbirds.

Stormbirds it turned out were unique in the food chain, they were preyed on by most cat creatures but anything the size of a Lynx and below was fair game. However, the Semolinian Bobcat a magically resistant Bobcat was more likely to attack and kill Stormbirds.

Lynx would generally try and get young Stormbirds and if it survived the experience it would carry on or not. Lynx that had not fared well against Stormbirds tended to have rather dark fur across the ass and tail.

They had decided to stay in the cabin nearby. They had decided it would be the best option to crash there and then go into the woods tomorrow.

(24 Hours until present)

Fay woke up next to Harry, she stretched and her back popped and she settled back down again. She could get used to this "I could get used to this." Fay said as she settled back down again.

"All you have to do is say 'yes' to my next question Fay." Harry said, grinning at her. He had woken when he felt her move.

"That question is?"

"Will you be my girlfriend? Moot point…" He didn't get to finish as Fay kissed him.

The pair got dressed and Fay found two tins of beans, tomatoes, a loaf of bread and some eggs "Harry, can you do something with this?"

Harry grinned "Yup…Trust me, if my Godfather and Uncle have got their own place…I guarantee, I'll be surrounded by takeout boxes…Between you and me, I don't mind takeout or a messy kitchen but not one where life could inhabit."

(Sirius and Remus)

"Here we are Remus, where I grew up…What is in those bags?" Sirius asked curiously.

Lupin gave a sheepish grin "I'll show you when we get inside."

Soon enough the pair got inside and Remus opened the bags. Packages of powders, bags of pills and various metallic and plastic contraptions poured onto the table.

"Sirius, you have a serious case of Magpie Syndrome…DO NOT! I REPEAT DO NOT TOUCH THIS STUFF. This stuff is extremely illegal and dangerous."

Sirius's eyes widened "What did you do?"

Remus grinned slightly "Retail business of the less than legal nature…I had to pay the bills and it is kinda fun."

(Harry and Fay)

The duo filled eight of their sixteen canteens. They were going to be filling with the use the rest to fill up the water from the Blue Lagoon. As Harry filled up his canteens, Fay was busy making a note of the creatures that they may come across in the Forest.

Harry's eyes rose "That's an impressive list…Are you sure its safe to camp up there?"

Fay nodded "With your raw power and if we find a glade of American Beech consisting of eight trees around two centuries apiece, we should be safe."

Harry nodded and with that they left. Harry felt the natural magic of the forest. Its natural power was already going to make it next to impossible to apparate out of or anywhere within the forest. There was a whine and then a bang "That was my emergency portkey…Maybe this isn't the best idea."

Fay grinned impishly at him "Scared?"

"Slightly, wouldn't be if we were in a warded house where I could quite likely apparate out and take the wards down with me…However, entering a place where the natural magic is screwing with the magic of our portkeys and apparation…"

Fay nodded "Then let's do this. Get to the Lagoon, take some pics, get some samples and then get out." Harry nodded.

So they went into Forest.

(~10 Hours to go)

They made it to the Lagoon in quite decent time. Considering they left at 10am, and got to the borders of the forest by 11:45, through a mixture of apparation and plain muggle hiking.

It was getting on for 4 in the afternoon. They had been distracted by a unique type of Runespoor and after following it for a while and getting some pictures, they found it was the Pennsylvanian Lesser Runespoor, a type of snake that literally could not exist outside of their current habitat and that was due to the type of magic the Forest possessed. It appeared that Runespoors were symbols of balance, at least in Pennsylvania whereas its cousins in Burkina Faso were just used for potions ingredients.

The Lagoon was impressive. The two found their way down a couple of goat paths and came across a few areas that were just above the water and perfectly flat. A brilliant place for a picnic and just out of view for Fay to get of her clothes and reveal the swimming costume she wore underneath before she jumped into the Lagoon to fill up the canteens. Harry quickly joined her in the pool, after a few minutes of struggling, he had the rudimentary basics of how to front crawl and breaststroke.

They climbed out of the Lagoon, dried up and set up camp before they practised some of the spells they found in the books. Harry seemed to gravitate towards the art of 'evocation' and Fay began to look at 'Thaumaturgy'. Evocation is quick and dirty and resulted in explosions and Thaumaturgy is about creating links with people indirectly.

(~2hours)

The pair settled down for the night, both of them were pooped. However they slept in their hiking gear because they both knew there was nasties in the forest that they hadn't come across yet.

Harry had laid several sets of alarms and traps over the camp. The first one was a set of Klaxon alarms and the rest got proceeding more and more violent and destructive.

(Just before opening of the chapter)

Harry and Fay were awake and moving as the Klaxons went off. Harry cast a shredding curse as he dived out the back of the tent. "Pack!" He shouted and his kit all jumped together, he pulled his knives and his wand to him as Fay chucked him his bag and she scrambled out.

"Lumos! Harry ABOVE YOU!" Harry pointed his wand up and released a flashbang of light.

With that they ran.

(Here and now)

"ITS MOVING TOO DAMN FAST. DAMN MAGICALLY RESISTANT FOREST!" She screamed back.

Harry snarled, then he heard it. It sounded like a scream mixed with a screech and it dived from the trees right onto Fay "Sonum Shrapnel! Pressura Stilla!" Thundered Harry.

Harry pulled out a flashlight which was in his side pocket, holding it out and his knife in a reverse grip. He illuminated the target. It was about two metres tall, goats head, bat wings, kangaroo body and possessed a forked tail. Its eyes glittered like black coals and its arms although were like a kangaroos possessed five finger like claws.

It recoiled like a bat out of hell as the shrapnel bomb slammed into its face, unfortunately doing not much damage and it tried to fly away. Suddenly it and Fay were slammed into the ground, although the latter was forced onto one knee as Harry's 'pressure spell' connected with it.

"It's magically immune…It took my shrapnel curse to the face…"

The thing scrambled to its knees and it began to speak "Please don't hurt me…I didn't mean to." It sounded distinctively like Harry's long deceased mother. Harry paused.

"Harry, snap out of it."

Harry growled He rounded on the Devil "You fucker…You dare disrespect the dead EXPECTO PATRONUM!"

The Jersey Devil shrieked in agony s the Patronus hit it full on "The knives will injure this piece of shit." Spat Fay and the teens went forth. They were messy but they were efficient, they didn't know what properties this thing had so Harry, applied a pressure curse to its body and they stabbed it in the throat and opened length ways.

Black blood spurted all over the pair of them, utterly drenching them. Harry concentrated and with great effort managed to transfigure the creature they had killed into a goblet "Let's go…before more of these things show."