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A.N. I'm sorry I took so long. Between fencing practice, and the tons of homework I am getting now, I had little time to write this. As an apology, I made this one longer than the other chapters.
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Since you're going to be introduced to some of the other power forms soon enough, in a couple of chapters or so, you'll find out, and Harry and Draco, for the time being will be alone. Also, you can't really consider them heroes sine heroes fight for all the good things in this world.
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Draco was still dizzy from the probing, and as he blinked a couple of time, trying to clear his head, he saw the strangest thing in front of him.
It a small moving picture of a horntail, suspended right above Harry's hand. It was slowly turning, moving.
Draco rubbed his eyes, making sure what he saw wasn't just a figment of his imagination.
Harry noticed his movements, and smirked.
"Finally regained consciousness?"
Draco nodded, unsure exactly what Harry meant by that, and suddenly noticed that the large trunk Harry had brought with them was open at Harry's feet, and it was full of strange books and jars. Also there was a rather strange jar with holes poked into the lid.
"Um, Harry? What's that for?"
Harry looked up for a moment.
"Oh that? Starting kit."
"Oh."
Then Draco did a double take.
"What?"
Harry sighed, and then dropped the dragon illusion.
"Since you need to harness your power before you start training with it, we need you to become an animagus dragon. It'll take about a week, so your father would never find out."
"How could my father find out?"
"Because he was trained in the power at one point."
Draco's eyes grew to the size of watermelons.
"What?"
Harry looked up.
"You really didn't know?"
Draco's chin was still on the ground.
Harry sighed.
"Has your father ever disappeared for a week, unexplained?"
Draco looked rather confused.
"Well, I think remember hearing my mother saying something about this trip he had to take a couple of weeks after I was born."
Harry thought for a moment.
"Bingo. The time period is on the dot."
Draco was still confused.
"The entire training period takes a week?"
Harry shook his head as he rummaged through the contents of the trunk.
"He trained at the Illuminati Halls, the halls of a thousand shadows. Each mortal day passes like a year there."
Harry finally pulled out a book, and a rather strange looking jar.
Draco was still a little puzzled as Harry opened the jar and took a sniff.
Finally, Draco opened his mouth again.
"And why was he in training?"
Harry looked up.
"Because the teachers thought he had potential. Turns out, it was barely there. They had to let him go."
Draco nodded as he accepted the book Harry was holding out for him.
"So. What was his form?"
"A Vipertooth."
Harry quickly pulled out another jar, shaking it checking for something.
Draco couldn't help but snigger.
"A Vipertooth? The smallest species of dragon around?"
"Yep. They tried to train him despite that, but it didn't work."
Draco nodded, as he was offered another jar.
"What is all this stuff for?'
"For the transfiguration potion."
Draco looked a bit confused.
"Isn't it done with a wand?"
Harry looked up.
"Well, we aren't going for a normal transformation. This potion enhances the transformation in some ways."
Harry finally shut the lid of the trunk, holding 3 jars precariously in his hands.
Using his free hand to get his wand, he suddenly conjured a large cauldron in front of them.
"All right. This potion is made really quickly, but if you don't do what I fell you right when I tell you to, it could bubble over, and kill everything with a 10 mile radius."
Draco looked rather frightened, but nodded.
"Here. Give me some of the bottles. Now, the names are written on top, so it'll be easier to tell them apart. Ready?"
Draco nodded, both hands twitching, eyes scanning the names of the potions.
The potion started simply enough, and was calmly bubbling, when Harry signed for Draco to be ready.
"All right. Dump in the dragon's blood… NOW!"
Right as Harry said, "now" the potion started to hiss fiercely and froth dangerously. As Draco dumped the contents of the jar into the potion, Harry was putting something else in, quickly shaking the bottle to get all the little bits.
"Ok. We need some dragon's liver in about 30 seconds. Then, right after comes the scales."
Draco nodded, both jars in his hands, open and ready.
"Are you sure we're using the correct amount of the ingredients?"
Harry nodded as he stirred quickly, shaking a package of something into the mixture.
"Most of this stuff evaporates rather quickly."
As Draco dumped in the liver, and then the scales, he saw the level of the potion in the cauldron quickly sinking.
Suddenly, Harry motioned to the last bottle Draco had in his hands. It was a glowing green substance that looked slightly radioactive.
"Quickly, before this stuff disappears."
Draco shook the blob into the remains of the mixture, and with a sudden cloud of grey smoke, a very small amount of a greenish grey liquid was left at the bottom of the cauldron.
Using a ladle, Harry scoped the stuff into a small cup and handed it to Draco, who took it gingerly.
"It won't kill you. I promise."
Harry pulled his wand out again, and held it up.
"You ready? We have to do this when the potion is still warm."
Draco thought things were moving a bit fast, and was still trying to keep up, but he nodded.
"All right, I need you to knock back the potion as soon as the spell is cast."
Draco nodded, and closed his hands a bit more tightly around the glass. He heard Harry mumble something, and a sudden feeling washed over him. Ignoring the strange sensation on his skin, he gulped back the tasteless potion, hoping that Harry was right about the potion now being able to kill him.
Suddenly, he felt himself falling backwards, unable to keep his balance.
However, instead of landing on his butt, he felt something stop his fall, and as he felt himself shooting up, he realized that his had a tail.
The complete transformation was over soon enough, and as he realized he had stopped growing, he hared a whistle from way down on the ground.
"That is the biggest horntail I have ever seen."
As Draco looked down at his new self, he realized that it was true. He stood at least 8 feet higher than any dragon he had ever heard about, and the raw power he felt was amazing.
Suddenly, he felt something hit his knee, and as he looked down, Harry had his hands cupped over his mouth.
"Now, you need to transform back into a human being."
Just as Draco was thinking how, Harry shouted the answer back up to him.
"Just will it. Picture the human you in your mind."
Draco concentrated for a moment, and suddenly, with a pop, he was back to being just Draco, standing in the middle for a clearing, his ears popping because of the sudden altitude change.
Harry grinned.
"So, how was it?"
Draco still felt a bit dazed, but he knew that it had been an amazing experience.
"Now. You're going to find that all that raw power you felt as a dragon, you can use a a human. Also, you can transform part of your body into its dragon counterpart, except for your tail, which can just naturally grow.
"How?"
"Will it. Most of the powers you are going to discover are accessed by the mind. Try it."
Draco thought for a moment, and held up his right hand. Suddenly, the skin rippled, and turned into a dragon's claw.
"Cool."
Draco was wide-eyed as his hand reverted back into human hands. He experimented with his other hand, and finally tried to change just his head.
Suddenly, he noticed Harry getting hid wand back out.
"All right, we're going to have to mask that power. People with strong enough magic will be able to sense that power, and that won't be good."
Draco nodded, reverting completely back to human.
Suddenly, he noticed Harry pulling out a strange bottle out of his bag, filled with a clear liquid.
"Right before we mask that power, I need you to rip this band off my neck."
Draco knew that Harry was referring to the ward on his neck, but he didn't know if it was entirely sake to just rip the thing off.
"This negates most of my physical power, as well as dampens a lot of my magic, so I won't be able to get it off by myself. However, if negate some of the magic in the band, you'd be able to pull it apart."
Harry was carefully pouring some of the liquid into the band, and Draco could see that the words were slowly becoming dull.
"Now!"
Draco had ceased to question Harry anymore, and without thinking, grabbed the band, and pulled.
He was amazed at how the metal crumbled easily under his hands, and as he let the two pieces of broken and twisted metal onto the ground, parts of it were completely flattened.
Harry was slowly stretching as the power came back into his limbs and as the magic slowly flowed again, Draco could feel Harry's sudden power flare up inside the weak seeming body.
"Ah. This feels good."
Harry sighed as al his trapped energy slowly came back to him, and he could feel that he needed to exercise his other form.
"Harry, what's your form? I can tell that you're not animalistic in any way, it seems far darker."
Harry grinned.
"You want to see my other form? All right."
One moment, Harry was standing in front of, the next was a daemon.
Draco gaped and almost fell backwards as a fabled Ker Erebus stood in front of him. Ker Erebus, so named after the Greek gods of the underworld and doom, was aptly named, for it seemed it lived to kill. Since most demons lived in a dark void, and usually only contacted with powerful dark spells, normal wizards and witches almost never set eyes on one.
Usually, drawings of demons were rare, and people seldom knew what they looked like. However, because of the sheer magnitude of this demon's power and magic, there had been some descriptions of Ker Erebus recorded.
It stood 10 feet tall, tallest of all humanoid demons. Long thick black hair cascaded from the top of the demon's head, and protruding from the skull, were a set of horns that circled the head, almost like a crown. The horns seemed to be a form of twisted and molded mettles, and the points gleamed in the shadows of the trees. Also, from the center of the forehead of the demon, a long black unicorn like horn jutted out, 3 feet long.
The demon's face looked no better than the top of its face. Its large eyes were so dark that light disappeared into them. Its long nose seemed almost human, but could take in the scent of a human from miles away. Its mouth was open, revealing its teeth. Two upper and two lower fang-like teeth extended to above and below the lips, keeping them slightly, revealing the rest of its teeth.
As you got down to the shoulders, you could notice the first set of wings the demon possessed. The top set was leathery, and pitch black, and ended in hook like claws. Wingspan was 8 feet.
Harry/Ker Erebus was wearing something that looked so sold that it probably dated back to the beginning of time, and it was mostly shredded, but one shoulder remained, and as it went down, it was in a worse state. It ended above the knees, ripped jaggedly, and frayed, but the darkness of that seemed to accent the utter evilness of the demon.
Anyway, in the middle of the back was the second set of wings. These could be retractable, and wingspan was 12 feet. This set was feathery, and also pitch black, though it didn't end with any sort or sharp protrusion.
The arms of Ker were long, and scaly, a contrast to the rest if the skin, which was a leathery brown. At the elbows of the demon, long sharp bones jutted out, sharp at the tip, very deadly when elbowing. At the lower arms, fur had started to appear, and the claws, which were gigantic, were rather hairy, and the fingers ended in what seemed like 2 inch long nails, each sharpened and deadly.
At the lower back was the last set of wing, similar to the first. Its was slightly longer than the first set, wingspan was 10 feet, and it was also a leathery pair, pitch black in color, and ending in sharp claws.
Its torso seemed lithe and thin, not showing any hint of the deadly muscles it had. The legs were lightly thicker than human hands, and ended like than hands did, first scaly, then hairy, the actual feet seeming like tiger's feet. It was balanced on the front part of the foot, and the 3 inch long nails dung into the surface it stood on.
Harry flexed its wings, then retracted it's middle set.
"So, Draco. Satisfied?"
It's voice was rather like 2 voiced combined. Harry's deep one, overlapped by an older and darker one.
Draco nodded quickly, terrified by him.
Harry, noticing Draco's fear, grinned, showing off more of it's teeth, then shrank back into the familiar figure of Harry Potter.
"Come Draco. We must cloak our power."
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A.N. Whew. That's the longest chapter I've done. What do you think of Ker Erebus? Dangerous enough?"
Easter Eggs.
Demons in voids would be drawn from the general view that demons, if they existed, would do so in anther dimension.
The two dragons mentioned this chapter was pulled from Fantastic Beast and Where to Find them.
Ker Erebus, like stated above, is a combination of Ker (Doom) and Erebus (Darkness, underworld)