~Reconnaissance and Revised Plans~
Harry felt the now familiar rush of wind go by his ears and the also familiar feeling of being pulled apart into millions of pieces and then being put back together.
The five boys landed side by side and suddenly felt coldness over take them, they over looked their surroundings and could tell it was mid-winter, thinking fast they all put warming charms on their trench cloaks and boots and then they felt fine again. 'Well, we're here, we should get moving if we are going to make it to the interception point in time' Harry told the others, when Harry surveyed his best friends he could see a steely, determined look on their faces, he knew it was important to them and he was going to help avenge them, but Harry thought, this is for Sirius, and with that determined thought they transformed and took off at a surprising pace.
They were running, and flying for about a half hour when they came upon a town. *Wait, lets transform back* came the voice of Dean through their minds, they all stopped abruptly and transformed back into humans, 'what is it Dean?' questioned Ron, they all looked upon him and waited for an answer. Well if this is a muggle town we can stop by and get something to refresh us, I mean we have been running for just a bit over a half hour non-stop,' 'and' he began again 'if this is a wizarding town we can stalk up on equipment and things like that.' They all thought about and said it was a good idea but they'd have to be quick, and if it was a muggle town they better hide the crests on the back of their trench cloaks. So they walked into the town and found it to be wizarding, the thing that told them it was magical was a zonko's, they all stopped inside because they thought, some of the most useful things for battle could be found in a joke shop. They walked over to the wall that had a sign on it saying, magical creature effects, they were looking through some shelves and Neville was the one who found the first most useful thing, "Ghostly Gags", Seamus read out load when he saw them, 'Will turn you into a literal ghost for 5 minutes, lets you walk through walls, useful in fooling friends, spells go right through you'. 'Okay boys stalk up on these 5 each that's all we should need,' Harry said and they went and paid a total of fifteen silver sickles for the lot.
They were back on their way and had been running for another half hour when Harry's wolf ears pricked up, he could hear a loud rumbling sound, he didn't like it, it sound like they were coming up on the deatheater party and it sounded like there was more then they thought there would be. They kept running all the same and they finally came upon what was making the noise, it was a giant village, a large wizarding village, it would seem that there was a large celebration of some sort, they transformed back and started asking questions, 'Where is the big deatheater parade that we are supposed to fight?' Seamus asked looking confused, they all shrugged and decided that they would go down there and change into someone else so as not to be recognized. Just before they entered the village they changed into someone else, Harry had short brown hair, no scar, deep gray eyes and was very muscular, Ron had a sandy straw colored hair, no freckles, black eyes and was shorter, Neville and Seamus decided to look like twins by making themselves have medium length black hair, crystal blue eyes, were tall and were semi muscular, and Dean just made himself taller, more muscular, and ocean green eyes, and had dreadlocks. They walked around for a bit and found out that the celebration was due to the fact the just elected a new mayor, they boys walked into a bar, as they looked much, much older they wouldn't be thrown out as minors. They looked around and saw a group of dark looking guys in the corner of the building hunched over and were talking in whispers. Ron said that they should listen to these guys having their conversation and see if they knew anything about the deatheaters. They went to order drinks when a thought occurred to Harry, he stopped everyone quickly and said, 'if we order butterbeer they may get suspicious of us being too young, what do you reckon we should order?' Seamus instantly said Firewhiskey, he told them that he's had a lot of it before and he knew a glass of it each wouldn't get them drunk, they five boys all ordered a firewhiskey and went and took they booth that was next to the dark looking guys booth, Harry having wolf hearing got the others to strike up a conversation so the guys wouldn't get suspicious, and Harry would listen to the dark looking guys.
'So they're about a day away from here now huh?' asked one of them in a croaky voice
'Yeah, they sent a letter this mornin' about being about a day from here'
'So, once this place is over-run with deatheaters this is going to be a base for the dark lords?' asked the croaky voiced guy
'Yeah seems that way, well we should be getting on with our work, we told them we would get rid of the perimeters guards, after that we join them in marching here,' 'Now lets get movin',' and with that they got up and left. Harry retold the conversation to the others and Seamus let out a long low whistle, 'so we made a mistake in our apparition?' he asked,
'Yeah it seems that way' Ron answered in response.
'Well it sounds like there is way more then we planned, we got to find the person in charge and offer our services, lets go.' Harry finished saying, and they left the bar.
They were walking for a bit and then they found the mayors house, they quickly went into an ally way and changed back into their normal selves, put on the trench cloaks and then re changed their voice boxes to sound older and mysterious, they looked at each other and made sure that their faces couldn't be distinguished at all, they all passed the check and they went and knocked on the door, a old man in a tuxedo answered the door and asked what their business was, he looked a little taken aback by their appearances and they told him they need to talk to the mayor about something very important, the butler reluctantly lead them to the mayor showed them into a luxurious looking dinning room, he left after he announced their presence,, the mayor told them o take a seat and to tell him their business, they all choose to stand and Harry started telling him about the conversation he heard in the bar, and that they wanted to offer their services to him, the mayor looked astonished at the news of a deatheater attack and quickly told him that he would have every able bodied man help them in any way. Harry thanked him and then he asked if there was any good hotels, he recommended the one called the Magical Hat, it was the best hotel in the over large village, they again thanked him and portaled over to the place, it was very nice indeed, the outside of it had a certain something to it that made you want to stay there, the inside was even nicer, it looked like as Dean put it "A very expensive ski lodge", and as Dean was the only one who knew what one looked like the others just shrugged.
They went and paid, for two adjoining rooms, and went upstairs to start their battle plans, Ron who was and excellent chess player gave all his expertise when he saw a flaw in Harry's plan, they decided that since there were two openings where the deatheaters would come in they divided into two groups Harry and Ron would take the one opening on the northeast side and Dean Seamus and Neville would take the opening on the northwest side, they all then agreed that all the fighters that the mayor promised would take any stray deatheaters that got through them and that should they be over run, they all meet up in the middle and just start fighting. They also made plans to have fire pits placed all over the place so that Seamus could use his element power, Harry could feel a the start of a for the morning, 'a side effect of being a lightning elemental as Harry put it, that's where I can get the lightning for my element, he told them' Dean would be able to use his earth element power just from the ground and the wind for Ron and Neville would come from the storm.
Seamus then started portaling all over the village and laid out fire pits. He got back and they all decided to relax a bit before the big battle, the found that the hotel had a hot spring in a room so they went and sat in that awhile letting their muscles relax and soothe. It was late in the day when they headed back to their rooms, they ordered a bunch of food and stuffed themselves, they went to bed early all of them relaying the plan in their minds as they thought of what was going to happen the next day.
The all woke up early, got dressed in their Brotherhood attire and changed their voice boxes. Then they went outside to survey their troops, they did look like they could take care of themselves so they gave out the orders, Harry's ears pricked up, he heard their marking, the evil they were about to face was at least a half hour off, everyone looked nervous, all accept for Harry, Ron, Neville, Seamus and Dean. Then someone yelled here they come, Harry could see the front lines of the deatheaters coming over a hill. The storm Harry predicted started and he formed a ball of electricity with his wand and as he brought it back behind him and threw the ball of lightning at the deatheaters, he said to himself
'This is for you Sirius.'
So with that the battle began.
There it is chapter 8 hope you like it thanks for the reviews
Theres more to come,Chapters will be longer, Later!
