Chapter 4
As Harry and the Order were preparing to leave for America, Dumbledore stopped Harry. "You know, the Lord Phoenix never goes into battle without a phoenix by his side. Therefore, I present you with your new partner, Renekal." he said this, gesturing to a golden flaming egg. That seemed to be cracking.
With an almighty crack, the egg split in two revealing a small Phoenix, solid gold with red flames burning all around it. It turned to Harry, eyes blazing, and shot two fireballs into Harry's eyes. Harry dimly remembered that Phoenixes bonded to their owner/partner this way. He had time for one gasp of pain before he slammed into the wall.
Wake up. Harry felt a pounding in his skull, along with a voice that sounded like he felt. Wake UP!! Harry sat up so fast, he knocked the small Phoenix off of his chest and into the air. OH! NO! shouted the Phoenix who did not yet know how to fly. "You don't know how to fly?!" Harry said the first thing that came to his mind. Well you wouldn't either if you spent three days trying to wake you up NON STOP! Harry's mind swam, Three days? What about the attack? He was wondering how the bird was talking when he found the only logical conclusion. Telepathy. Renekal nodded. Oh boy.
"Hmmm, it seems Harry Potter has been informed of my activities." Voldemort said with a sinister grin splitting his pale face. "I wonder who the spy was? Any ideas? Severus?" Snape stood in the back of the room, sweating profusely. "I... I don't h-have any idea who it could be my l-lord." Voldemort stood at his full height, brandishing his wand. "Really Severus, do you actually expect me to believe that?" Severus braced himself for the Cruciatius Curse. "Oh no Severus, I don't want to waste any more energy on torture, I'll just get rid of you! Snape stared at the wand cursing his luck at trying to stay a spy against Voldemort. "Enkominabara!!" What? Snape thought, just before he dematerialized
Harry and Renekal arrived at the Salem Wizards Academy around 4:00 am. Remind me why we had to get here so early? the still groggy Phoenix asked. Because, Voldemort won't attack until lunch and we need to begin evacuating the school. Just as he spoke a flash lit the morning sky. "What?" All the Order agents stood wondering what was going on. "Voldemort knows." Harry whispered. "EVERYBODY MOVE! GET THE STUDENTS OUT OF THERE! Sirius, take half and try to stave off the Death Eaters long enough for us to get the students to the portkeyes." Sirius ran to gather troops and attack Voldemort as Harry and his band ran through the smoking gates to the students.
"Shielehilah!" Several of the prefects were projecting shields as the professors fired curses and hexes at the Death Eaters. Harry used an invisibility spell as he ran across the entry hall, with his knife slashing the Death Eaters as he ran to the students. As he appeared in front of the teachers, he began firing full body binds and jelly legs curses.
"Where's the Headmaster?" Harry yelled over the fighting.
"Dying from a flechette curse," A professor shouted back grimly while hitting a Dementor with a dragon Patronus. "Who are you?"
"The man in charge of getting you to Hogwarts . Everyone, get into a circle so I can teleport you out of here!" Harry muttered a stream of Latin, sending the students and injured professors to Hogwarts. "Every one, stunning spells on three! One... TWO... THREE!!!!"
Thirteen voices roared, "STUPEFY!!!" a huge red blast flew at the Death Eaters, kncking most of them unconscious. Harry finished the remaining five and sent the professors to Hog warts, when a cold high laugh shattered what peace was left after the battle. "Avada Kevadra!!" Harry was dimly aware of the green light rushing towards him. Realizing that he knew know one was going to save him this time, he resigned himself to his inevitable death. The blast hit him surprisingly lightly. Harry was only dimly aware of a bright light and his strange hovering.
Harry looked down at a shocked Voldemort, who stood, petrified, mouth hanging open in an expression quite unbecoming of the Dark Lord. "I really need a camera." Harry thought as he soared in the middle of the ruined great hall. Harry heard a strange chanting in the hall, seeming to come from every angle.
"As the flames of evil,
Try to enslave the Earth,
It ended only one year,
After the Chosen One's birth,
Yet, despite the world's belief,
The evil merely lay in wait,
As it healed, and grew,
The entire earth, never knew,
Until the Chose one competed,
In a test of courage and skill,
A Hogwarts student,
The evil did kill,
It had returned,
After thirteen years,
To bring with it,
A host of fears,
Now they battle,
the dark and light,
One for evil,
One for right
The future uncertain,
Though it may be,
The path is clear,
only if you want to see...."
Harry felt a pain in his scar as the globe of white light around him expanded a hundredfold its original three meter diameter.
Sirius was rounding up the last of the Death Eaters as a giant ball of light grew out of what was once Salem Wizards Academy. The Death Eaters vanished while leaving the Order untouched. "Harry." Sirius whispered. Running towards the smoking ruin, he saw a figure stagger away, clutching a glowing shape on its forehead, even from this distance, Sirius could see it was a lightning bolt. He increased his speed as Harry fell to ground silently.
I love cliff hangers. By the way, if you like this story, read Miranda Flairgold's Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix and the sequels, World of War, and End of an Era. Also read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix II.
I will be accepting any ideas for any relationships that develop in the story from reviews, NO SLASH!!!!! If you want to see Sirius with Trelawny, (You have a sick mind if this applies to you) I can't put it in there without feedback.
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