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Chapter 34 Battered yet Unbroken:
Reds and oranges were glowing like flames on the horizon, to the east a huge black cloud hung, the trees of the forest swayed and rustled in a soft gentle breeze, a promise of true spring to come shortly. The lake glisten softly, showing no sign of the dead elemental that lay in its depths. The grass was covered in dark red blood, silver/gray blood, and sparkling red/gold blood of the Aaron. The Aaron that stood in front of a rock tunnel that led into an igloo-like rock. Its head was cocked slightly to the side, brilliantly green eyes blazing in defiance, pupil's in slits like a cat's against the sun. Dried blood coated it everywhere, dulling the messed gold fur. The black ridge along its back was torn in places and the top of one of spikes on its head where the ridge became pointed was missing, blood ran down its face. Its claws were coated with silver and dark red blood. The tail of sharp poisonous hairs was straight and proud, despite its slightly mangled state, like bird dogs at point. Ears alert despite their mangled state, nose quivering, its eyes narrowed further. It radiated power, loyalty, and defiance; none would pass to harm those within the rock until they had first climbed over its cold dead body. It was bleeding and it was gashed, it was burned and torn, it was battered yet it was unbroken and stood strong.
Inside Sirius Black, the Lord Commander of the Order of the Phoenix stood looking out over the battlefield, dressed in long black pants and sleeveless shirt, watching as a handful of healers worked on the Aaron who was his Godson. He stood in a room that had been modified for the purpose of watching this battle. There were no widows; on two sides the room was open to the air wit a long pillar at the corner. The rock wall just outside was invisible here so they could see through. The suns golden rays fell into the room, ridding it of shadows and turning everything gold and oranges. The tiny breeze swirled about him, shifting his cloak and bringing in the scent of blood, death, air fried by lightning, and power. Only when the elementals were not around could Harry truly control and not attack any living thing. It was hurt, badly, yet it didn't waver in its scanning of the horizons, in search of any danger. Arms slipped around his neck and Miranda laid her cheek against his.
"Beautiful sight isn't he? Battered yet unbroken power. He's still going strong, three more to go. His parents would be proud." She said, Miranda was his second in command and his wife, she had once been one of the most powerful witches or wizards ever, and had lost over half of that power and five years of her life to a desperate struggle against an asteroid called by Voldemort to hit earth yet not harm his chosen lands and people.
"Yes. They would. Will Voldemort attack with his?" He asked, voicing the question that was on the mind of every agent.
"Yes. He's not one to miss such an opportunity."
"You are so sure? Then he must not be allowed to get at Harry."
"Our agents can scarcely do much to help. Harry would attack us as well."
"We have to try."
"Of course, we owe him that much at least. The broom brigade is here, they would be best. Uh oh." She added as the Aaron abruptly shook its golden lion's mane and growled, the healers hurried inside.
The Aaron began to pace back and forth in front of the school in an agitated manner. It pacing brought it near to where they were watching from, the great head turned a little and one emerald eye fastened on the order agents and staff in the room watching it. Slowly green fire began to swirl in the eyes and recognition faded away as the fighting blood of the Royal Aaron rose, with a snort and a growl it turned and resumed pacing. Abruptly it sat down, tilted its nose up and let out a full battle cry, followed by the thundering song that Royal Aarons sang when in flight to do battle with the elementals.
(AN: my 9 year old brother who sometimes is my beta reader asked exactly what this song I keep referring to sounds like. I'm not going to describe it too much so you can just put in some song that you think is appropriate.) On the horizon the blackening clouds seemed to stir in answer and the breeze grew, whipping at the Aaron's mane and tail.
"Look!" They al turned to where Severus was pointing, on the horizon was another elemental, it appeared to be blue.
"Water," Albus murmured, the Aaron seemed to sense its foe's presence for it turned to it and rose to its feet. Slowly the song grew in volume until Sirius was truly afraid it would shake the castle apart, then the gigantic wing shot up and unfolded, the song became a deafening battle roar that made everyone flinch away and cover their ears, then the Aaron took flight, racing to meet the water elemental.
The water elemental opened its mouth and let loose a huge gush of water with such force that it nearly knocked the Aaron over. The Aaron recovered and countered by breathing huge bursts of flame at the elemental who screamed in pain. Soaked the two collided with each other amidst huge spouts of water and fire which turned to steam. The elemental wasted no time in grinding it teeth into the joint where wing met shoulder, the Aaron roared and twisted it neck and raked its teeth along the other's wing and back. Claws flashed silver and pale blue; red/gold blood ran, mixing with the pale blue blood of the elemental. The two separated, lightning flashed down, the elemental dodged and charged. The Aaron folded its wings into a streamlined position, the two speeded towards each other, at the last second water began to turn aside so it could tear its enemies back as it passed, the Aaron threw back its head and the sharp spikes traced long gaping wounds along the other's belly. It flicked it tail, the tail hairs injecting poison into the elemental's wing.
They rolled away from each other and landed. The Aaron resumed its stance before the school, the elemental charged. They lamed together and claws raked at each other, the elemental got a grip on the Aaron's neck and shoulder and threw it down and attempted to rip it apart, the Aaron breathed fire straight into the elemental's face. Amid screaming roars they tangled again, locking jaws, claws scrabbling for purchase in the muddy ground. The Aaron used great sweeps of its wing to lend it extra force and pushed the elemental back a few steps. Here the elemental abruptly dropped lower, as the Aaron's claws sank into its shoulders it came up from below and almost succeeded in ripping the Aaron's throat, but for the thick mane and the touch mane hairs around the neck it would have managed the trick. As it was it hadn't counted on the Aaron's back legs, which slashed at it as the other rolled away. The elemental used its head like a battering ram to knock the Aaron off its feet, but the Aaron preformed an amazing twist as it fell and landed, feet down towards the earth.
They took to the sky again, fiercely using everything they had to tear each other apart. The elemental let loose another bought of water, but the Aaron began to scream an odd sort of chant, lightning lashed down and froze the water to the elemental's jaws, effectively closing them. But the water elemental had a strong tail with sharp barbs on the end and it brought this into play now to slash at the other's back legs.
Harry felt himself beginning to lose control, waves of power slammed down on him, one after another. He fought with his animagus form…and won. Placing the fire in the back of his mind he drove long teeth into the elemental's flesh, ignoring the sharp scaled that cut the inside of his mouth. He dealt it a powerful blow with one wing, only to feel long claws trace their way down the wing, leaving gashes. They landed and he ducked in, coming in from below he closed his jaws around the other leg and bit with all his might, jaws muscles straining.
Crack! The sound of shattering bone broke through the elementals screams of pain, Harry zapped out again as quick as greased lightning, but felt long teeth rake his back; the elemental had used warm water to unfreeze its mouth. Now the elemental faced him on three legs, Harry took to the air, dive bombing the elemental, never quiet getting close enough for it to get him, finally he saw the opening and dove. The air whipped at his folded wings, at the last second he opened his right wing and swerved, his claws from all four feet settled onto the elemental's right side, he kicked. The elemental was thrown nearly thirty feet before it hit land again; great wounds gaped in its side. It roared as Harry landed and attacked, cutting up his shoulder and side as his front claws lashed at its chest. Suddenly it unbalanced from its broken leg, Harry took the opportunity to rip the elemental open along its stomach.
The elemental got to its feet, screaming in pain, Harry breathed fire again and again onto it, it tried to counter with water, lightning hit its wing and tail and eyes, blinding it. Blind, badly burned, with one broken leg and with its guts hanging out the elemental gave one last try even as its started to die. It leaped, Harry, unprepared, fell heavily, instantly he let the Aaron's rage surface, the fighting power leaped forth and before he even knew what he was doing he'd torn the elemental to shreds.
Now two elementals lay dead on the ground, and one in the lake. The suns rays in the afternoon were starting to turn deep orange. In a half hour they would be red. The Royal Aaron swayed for a moment, then it shook its mane and threw back its head, roaring defiantly to the sky, its great wings unfurled and it leaped skywards, flying around the castle hidden in its rock casing once before landing in front of it again. Slowly it leaned over and began to lick and the gaping wounds along its blood soaked back. The golden glow returned as its healing power kicked in. Three phoenixes soared out of the tunnel and alighted on it shoulder for a moment before beginning t help heal its wounds. But all elementals had poison; while not deadly this poison interfered with the healing process, so even the phoenixes tears couldn't do much to aid the Aaron. The door opened and Order healers came out, the Aaron looked up, blazing emerald eyes watched them, recognition returned, it raised its head and gave one last thundering battle cry before beginning to clean the gashes on its shoulder. It had been ripped and battered; yet it was unbroken and would fight whatever came next to harm those whom the Royal Aaron's species life's task it was to defend.
The sun dipped lower and the orange began to slowly turn to red, near the horizon two huge forms rose and slowly began to wing their way towards the castle. Upon the back of one of them stood a human, a human who strove for immortality and world domination, and now that the world's defender was tired and exhausted he would attack with all his followers to crush, kill and enslave all those who stood against him in one horrible blow.
2 elementals left to face off against one poor tired Aaron. Poor Harry! He tries so hard! Am I evil? Of course I am!
Did you like it? Please review I love reviews! Guess what the next two elemental's are? (Chuckles madly) bet you can't!
Chapter 34 Battered yet Unbroken:
Reds and oranges were glowing like flames on the horizon, to the east a huge black cloud hung, the trees of the forest swayed and rustled in a soft gentle breeze, a promise of true spring to come shortly. The lake glisten softly, showing no sign of the dead elemental that lay in its depths. The grass was covered in dark red blood, silver/gray blood, and sparkling red/gold blood of the Aaron. The Aaron that stood in front of a rock tunnel that led into an igloo-like rock. Its head was cocked slightly to the side, brilliantly green eyes blazing in defiance, pupil's in slits like a cat's against the sun. Dried blood coated it everywhere, dulling the messed gold fur. The black ridge along its back was torn in places and the top of one of spikes on its head where the ridge became pointed was missing, blood ran down its face. Its claws were coated with silver and dark red blood. The tail of sharp poisonous hairs was straight and proud, despite its slightly mangled state, like bird dogs at point. Ears alert despite their mangled state, nose quivering, its eyes narrowed further. It radiated power, loyalty, and defiance; none would pass to harm those within the rock until they had first climbed over its cold dead body. It was bleeding and it was gashed, it was burned and torn, it was battered yet it was unbroken and stood strong.
Inside Sirius Black, the Lord Commander of the Order of the Phoenix stood looking out over the battlefield, dressed in long black pants and sleeveless shirt, watching as a handful of healers worked on the Aaron who was his Godson. He stood in a room that had been modified for the purpose of watching this battle. There were no widows; on two sides the room was open to the air wit a long pillar at the corner. The rock wall just outside was invisible here so they could see through. The suns golden rays fell into the room, ridding it of shadows and turning everything gold and oranges. The tiny breeze swirled about him, shifting his cloak and bringing in the scent of blood, death, air fried by lightning, and power. Only when the elementals were not around could Harry truly control and not attack any living thing. It was hurt, badly, yet it didn't waver in its scanning of the horizons, in search of any danger. Arms slipped around his neck and Miranda laid her cheek against his.
"Beautiful sight isn't he? Battered yet unbroken power. He's still going strong, three more to go. His parents would be proud." She said, Miranda was his second in command and his wife, she had once been one of the most powerful witches or wizards ever, and had lost over half of that power and five years of her life to a desperate struggle against an asteroid called by Voldemort to hit earth yet not harm his chosen lands and people.
"Yes. They would. Will Voldemort attack with his?" He asked, voicing the question that was on the mind of every agent.
"Yes. He's not one to miss such an opportunity."
"You are so sure? Then he must not be allowed to get at Harry."
"Our agents can scarcely do much to help. Harry would attack us as well."
"We have to try."
"Of course, we owe him that much at least. The broom brigade is here, they would be best. Uh oh." She added as the Aaron abruptly shook its golden lion's mane and growled, the healers hurried inside.
The Aaron began to pace back and forth in front of the school in an agitated manner. It pacing brought it near to where they were watching from, the great head turned a little and one emerald eye fastened on the order agents and staff in the room watching it. Slowly green fire began to swirl in the eyes and recognition faded away as the fighting blood of the Royal Aaron rose, with a snort and a growl it turned and resumed pacing. Abruptly it sat down, tilted its nose up and let out a full battle cry, followed by the thundering song that Royal Aarons sang when in flight to do battle with the elementals.
(AN: my 9 year old brother who sometimes is my beta reader asked exactly what this song I keep referring to sounds like. I'm not going to describe it too much so you can just put in some song that you think is appropriate.) On the horizon the blackening clouds seemed to stir in answer and the breeze grew, whipping at the Aaron's mane and tail.
"Look!" They al turned to where Severus was pointing, on the horizon was another elemental, it appeared to be blue.
"Water," Albus murmured, the Aaron seemed to sense its foe's presence for it turned to it and rose to its feet. Slowly the song grew in volume until Sirius was truly afraid it would shake the castle apart, then the gigantic wing shot up and unfolded, the song became a deafening battle roar that made everyone flinch away and cover their ears, then the Aaron took flight, racing to meet the water elemental.
The water elemental opened its mouth and let loose a huge gush of water with such force that it nearly knocked the Aaron over. The Aaron recovered and countered by breathing huge bursts of flame at the elemental who screamed in pain. Soaked the two collided with each other amidst huge spouts of water and fire which turned to steam. The elemental wasted no time in grinding it teeth into the joint where wing met shoulder, the Aaron roared and twisted it neck and raked its teeth along the other's wing and back. Claws flashed silver and pale blue; red/gold blood ran, mixing with the pale blue blood of the elemental. The two separated, lightning flashed down, the elemental dodged and charged. The Aaron folded its wings into a streamlined position, the two speeded towards each other, at the last second water began to turn aside so it could tear its enemies back as it passed, the Aaron threw back its head and the sharp spikes traced long gaping wounds along the other's belly. It flicked it tail, the tail hairs injecting poison into the elemental's wing.
They rolled away from each other and landed. The Aaron resumed its stance before the school, the elemental charged. They lamed together and claws raked at each other, the elemental got a grip on the Aaron's neck and shoulder and threw it down and attempted to rip it apart, the Aaron breathed fire straight into the elemental's face. Amid screaming roars they tangled again, locking jaws, claws scrabbling for purchase in the muddy ground. The Aaron used great sweeps of its wing to lend it extra force and pushed the elemental back a few steps. Here the elemental abruptly dropped lower, as the Aaron's claws sank into its shoulders it came up from below and almost succeeded in ripping the Aaron's throat, but for the thick mane and the touch mane hairs around the neck it would have managed the trick. As it was it hadn't counted on the Aaron's back legs, which slashed at it as the other rolled away. The elemental used its head like a battering ram to knock the Aaron off its feet, but the Aaron preformed an amazing twist as it fell and landed, feet down towards the earth.
They took to the sky again, fiercely using everything they had to tear each other apart. The elemental let loose another bought of water, but the Aaron began to scream an odd sort of chant, lightning lashed down and froze the water to the elemental's jaws, effectively closing them. But the water elemental had a strong tail with sharp barbs on the end and it brought this into play now to slash at the other's back legs.
Harry felt himself beginning to lose control, waves of power slammed down on him, one after another. He fought with his animagus form…and won. Placing the fire in the back of his mind he drove long teeth into the elemental's flesh, ignoring the sharp scaled that cut the inside of his mouth. He dealt it a powerful blow with one wing, only to feel long claws trace their way down the wing, leaving gashes. They landed and he ducked in, coming in from below he closed his jaws around the other leg and bit with all his might, jaws muscles straining.
Crack! The sound of shattering bone broke through the elementals screams of pain, Harry zapped out again as quick as greased lightning, but felt long teeth rake his back; the elemental had used warm water to unfreeze its mouth. Now the elemental faced him on three legs, Harry took to the air, dive bombing the elemental, never quiet getting close enough for it to get him, finally he saw the opening and dove. The air whipped at his folded wings, at the last second he opened his right wing and swerved, his claws from all four feet settled onto the elemental's right side, he kicked. The elemental was thrown nearly thirty feet before it hit land again; great wounds gaped in its side. It roared as Harry landed and attacked, cutting up his shoulder and side as his front claws lashed at its chest. Suddenly it unbalanced from its broken leg, Harry took the opportunity to rip the elemental open along its stomach.
The elemental got to its feet, screaming in pain, Harry breathed fire again and again onto it, it tried to counter with water, lightning hit its wing and tail and eyes, blinding it. Blind, badly burned, with one broken leg and with its guts hanging out the elemental gave one last try even as its started to die. It leaped, Harry, unprepared, fell heavily, instantly he let the Aaron's rage surface, the fighting power leaped forth and before he even knew what he was doing he'd torn the elemental to shreds.
Now two elementals lay dead on the ground, and one in the lake. The suns rays in the afternoon were starting to turn deep orange. In a half hour they would be red. The Royal Aaron swayed for a moment, then it shook its mane and threw back its head, roaring defiantly to the sky, its great wings unfurled and it leaped skywards, flying around the castle hidden in its rock casing once before landing in front of it again. Slowly it leaned over and began to lick and the gaping wounds along its blood soaked back. The golden glow returned as its healing power kicked in. Three phoenixes soared out of the tunnel and alighted on it shoulder for a moment before beginning t help heal its wounds. But all elementals had poison; while not deadly this poison interfered with the healing process, so even the phoenixes tears couldn't do much to aid the Aaron. The door opened and Order healers came out, the Aaron looked up, blazing emerald eyes watched them, recognition returned, it raised its head and gave one last thundering battle cry before beginning to clean the gashes on its shoulder. It had been ripped and battered; yet it was unbroken and would fight whatever came next to harm those whom the Royal Aaron's species life's task it was to defend.
The sun dipped lower and the orange began to slowly turn to red, near the horizon two huge forms rose and slowly began to wing their way towards the castle. Upon the back of one of them stood a human, a human who strove for immortality and world domination, and now that the world's defender was tired and exhausted he would attack with all his followers to crush, kill and enslave all those who stood against him in one horrible blow.
2 elementals left to face off against one poor tired Aaron. Poor Harry! He tries so hard! Am I evil? Of course I am!
Did you like it? Please review I love reviews! Guess what the next two elemental's are? (Chuckles madly) bet you can't!