Disclaimer: One Piece and Harry Potter does not belong to me, each belongs to their respective author. At the moment, only Mecha is mine, who is adorable; and the armors

Challenge by TheBlackSeaReaper.

Beta: TheBlackSeaReaper

-.-The Music of the Night

One of the disadvantages of his strange illness was not only falling asleep in the most unusual places and strange situations, but he could also go for long periods of time in complete insomnia.

Ace wanted to think it was for sleeping too much on the train journey, but without a doubt it was because of his curious disorder.

Since its first appearance, back in Mount Colubo at the age of 13. It had never caused any problems to Ace, Luffy found it funny, and Dadan's and other bandits' reactions were always amusing. With the insomnia, regarding Luffy he did not care, he was hyperactive enough to keep him company all night. Once at sea, with the Whitebeard Pirates, there had not been problems, there was always someone to take care of removing him from the way, and in case of insomnia he could always go to keep company who was on duty, or to bother Marco, for a change.

But here... here he had no idea of what to do and definitely staring at the ceiling did not sound interesting at all. Before he could analyze what his possibilities, a noise at the window caught his attention. Mecha was on the other side of the glass.

Ace rushed to the window, to let the hawk in, which came in quickly and placed himself on the nightstand next to the bed of Ace.

"Hello to you too" said Ace while Mecha all he did was turn it over to see the boy, then shake his head in an attempt to readjust the feathers that had been tousled by the wind. "Where were you?" In response the bird went to the window and focused his gaze on a tower of the castle, Ace looked out to see the tower, multiple birds where entering and leaving. "Ah, I see, so that's where you sleep" Mecha just got off the window annoyed "What? You don't like your roommates?" Mecha looked at him and just shook his head. "I know, they are too delicate" Mecha just roll his eyes in signal "You have no idea how much"

Ace looked back at the cold night that unfolded outside, and almost all the castle lights were off, and the remaining ones were few, and appeared to be of small offices, teachers probably finishing up preparations for the next day.

"Hey, Mecha" The bird lifted his head quickly, he certainly did not expect the child to talk and he was falling asleep. "How about if we go to have some fun?"

It seemed like the bird would not sleep that night.

-.-

The common room was empty. And as Ace descended the stairs, Mecha in his shoulder, the bird kept his eyes fixed on a sofa in front of the fire, probably the bird coming to the conclusion that for now on that chair would be his.

However, Mecha would not taste the common room that night. Ace was heading very sure of himself, compass in hand, at the output of the common room where the portrait was left opened and Ace wrap himself in the darkness and silence of the castle.

The plan was simple, go to the corridor of the third flour or the Forbidden Forest, the first thing he find. It was easy to reach the forest he only had to jump through a window and the rest was a breeze, but where was the fun in that.

Ace walk through the corridors with his upper hand completely covered in flames to light the darkness of the castle and in the other hand the compass.

Mecha, meanwhile, began to let his head toss back and forward, but he made a hard effort not to fall asleep, and that because that child was unexpected, out of the blue the boy burst into flames.

Whispers.

Mecha raised his head, turning it from side to side. Voices. Who might be up at this hour? The voices increases they come closer, but curious, Mecha did not hear footsteps...

Could it be?

They could not be ... ghosts?

Mecha take at his peak one of Ace tufts of hair, and began to pull. "Hey what's wrong?" Mecha keep pulling as he was flying will he pull the child in the direction of a door.

"Stop pulling me, you doomed old bird"

And with that the young pirate followed the hawk to one of the rooms, which seemed to be an empty classroom. Mecha was placed at the head of Ace while the child maintained the door half open to see what it was that had put the ugly bird in that state.

After some time when the imagination of Ace travel to a giant monster or better yet, a truly giant.

A silvery figure crossed in front of the door.

"Coward" whispered the child, which the bird responded with a sound that could be interpreted much like a "I do not care"

Ace continued to explore, completely ignoring the ghosts, there had no importance, it was more important to find the corridor of the third floor. He went under stairs, crossed walkway, jumped steps when they disappeared and when Mecha had already fall sleep, Ace came to a door where he believed was the third floor.

"Please, let it be" muttered the pirate as he forced the lock.

CLICK

"At last!"

Ace opened the door and quickly closed it back on itself. He looked up, finding a scene he did not expect. Mecha that had awakened when the door closed had his eyes wide open, not sure if moving was a good idea.

Ace was going to say something, but his instincts alerted him, jumping to hit with all his force something to his right, he didn't saw what it was, he only knew his fist made contact with something metallic and this came out flying.

"What is the meaning of this?" bellowed a voice from the balcony; Ace looked back up to see the balcony full of ghosts and a fat ghost standing with a ridiculous hat.

He did not pay attention to him or any of the other ghosts, or the people in the pictures who watched the long corridor. The light was dim, and Ace could see that he was in a long hallway with a railing, above several balconies were full of ghosts and in the walls portraits of people that gave an aspect rather saturated. He led his sight where his attacker had fallen, now victim, and saw an armor on the floor, other armor were there trying to help.

"Hurry to get him on his horse."

Ace looked at the horse, if you could call it a horse, but rather was the armor of a horse, completely empty.

"Sorry, but he is unconscious" the voice of the armor sounded full of disappointment.

"Well that's not surprise, he is a weakling, this means that the champion is Ser..."

"No, he has not won the last battle" exclaimed a woman in a box.

Multiple murmurs of approval were heard

"My dear lady," said the fat ghost "You heard it yourself, he is unconscious"

"But Ser Jozan has not defeated him"

"Then find someone who will supply o wait a moment, all the others were defeated in previous fights, unless you have some other knight to fight this just is over"

Bored, thought Ace, this was definitely not the third floor corridor, probably he turning in the opposite direction in the last stairs. With that, he turned to go.

"Wait boy" said a hoarse voice, prompting Ace to turn back.

An armor was moving from the left, looking completely different from the rest of the armor, possibly was the shield that was different, or helmet. "I want to fight you"

"Don't be ridiculous," said one of the armor "it's just a kid."

The armor Ser Jozan ignored him, "you defeated a knight with one hit, which immediately makes you the replacement of SerLooras"

In a normal situation Ace would had said he was not interested, but something in... Ser Jozan prevented Ace to say no.

"Very well," said the pirate while thundering his knuckles and Ser Jozan simply he turned around.

Before Ace could say anything else one of the armor, pulled aside Ace, where he tried putting on an armor, which Ace flatly refused, so he could only put a helmet. They put him on the horse armor and gave him a weapon and a shield.

This was ridiculous, how could they expect he could fight in this. Ace was on one end, and the armor on the other side. But Ace was not going to deny any kind of battle, he was going to fight with this knight and he was going to win.

The armor prepared his spear and shield, Ace imitates him and at the voice of the fat ghost, both horse-armor began to trot. The spear of Ser Jozan fell full with the coat of Ace, while the spear of Ace fail, however Ace with a deft move of his shield he throw away the lance of Ser Jozan.

Both horses arrived at the other end and Ace took the time to rearrange his shield.

Both knights (if you can call Ace that) were prepared and soon the horses-armor trotted to met again. This time Ser Jozan focused on to make a more precise prompting Ace off balance and even tried to overthrow Ser Jozan, Ace could not throw him, and without further fell.

The ghosts and portraits burst into applause as Ser Jozan came down from his horse to approach Ace.

"And now comes the duel with sword" and with those words two armors handed a sword to Ser Jozan and to Ace.

Ace held his weapon, it was not his favorite but he preferred the sword to the spear that he had used moments ago.

Ser Jozan prepared himself, sword and shield in hand, meanwhile Ace had thrown the shield as far as possible and only held the sword.

"I suggest you keep your shield" said Ser Jozan.

"I do not need it" and moved quickly to leaping and release hit on the armor, which quickly caught the blow with his sword at the same time he pushed Ace.

Ace skillfully fell with his feet on the ground, sword still in hand and the other hand on the ground, he didn't wait a second to re-jump against the armor and hitting hard continuously while Ser Jozan answered the blows over and over again.

Finally both blades were again locked in each other, by the force exerted on each other.

"... Damn lots of tin, you are wreaking havoc again!" Exclaim a hard voice from down the hall.

"There is he again, I thought it would take longer this year." Ser Jozan murmured, even with the sword stuck in Ace's.

"Every year is the same, you do your chaos and who is it that has to clean everything? Me! If it was up to me you would all be removed of the hallways."

Suddenly Ser Jozan left to exert force and taking a turn prompted Ace give two steps to maintain balance.

"It's over boy," said Armor.

"Are you kidding, I will kick your ass"

"Filch is here"

"It's just an old man, he can do nothing."

"I want to fight with you later, but if you are found by Filch, he will arrange to get you expelled, so go, and then we will continue with this"

"I will not turn away from the enemy"

"Do not be silly, boy. You are not turning away, go now."

Ace felt a shift inside, something that say: "Do not be stubborn, listen to him"

"Stop calling me boy," said the young pirate "my name is Portgas D. Ace"

"Well, Portgas D. Ace, we will continue our fight another night"

Ace smiled "You can be sure of that"

And although he did not like the idea very much, Ace left the hall, followed by Mecha. He took his own steps, up to Gryffindor's Tower.

Perhaps he had not found the corridor of the third floor, or got out of the castle to the forest but it was entertaining. Now he was sure what had called his attention of Ser Jozan, he could tell it was a strong man ... strong armor, so strong that no one in the castle could beat him, he knew by the reaction of the other armor and ghosts and pictures (except the fat ghost). Ace wanted to see how strong he was, he wanted to see how strong he could be in a real battle, one without rules and...

A warm feeling filled his body and knowing what came he dropped into the familiar feeling of sleep.

Mecha only saw the child fell asleep, at this point he was used, after a whole summer, and now he could test the sofa before the fire. After all, could sleep that night, even it were three hours.

-.-

Author's Notes.

Ha, surely everyone thought that Ace would meet Fluffy! Well ... I'm afraid not, it's too soon and I will not use intermediate stories so fast. Ace has a long year to cause damage to the castle.

Ace meeting Fluffy will come later, not now, later.

And as we're on this. Notice: I will take a month off of Firefly to continue another project that I have (finally regained my inspiration to write my masterpiece) so Ace classes at Hogwarts begin within two months.

Greetings and a kiss to everyone! And see you in July; do not forget to leave review.