Harry Potter & the Price of Mercy

by: NecessaryEvil

Chapter Two: The Boy Who's Gone Missing

Disclaimer: Cummon, you've all read the books, you know they aint mine.

A/N:Thanks to my one reviewer.

Elodie: Thanks, its an ok ending if I do say so m'self. Yes its gonna be a C/H fic, how'd you guess, was it perhaps the fact that the are corresponding?

When Harry's vision came back to him, he looked around and took in where he was. It looked like some sort of arena, small though it was an arena no less. There were metal bars similar to what muggle gymnasts used and a track and a field and what was unmistakably a fighting ring.

Harry felt a pull at the waist of his shirt and looked down to see what had caused the sensation and found that he was looking at an incredibly short(cummon if she's even shorter than Harry, she has got to be short) incredibly old lady pulling at his shirt to get his attention. Harry looked at her for a moment and when she didn't say anything he raised his eyebrow in expectance. Finally she spoke in a raspy, but still incredibly condescending voice, "Mr. Potter I assume," Harry nodded, "Your godfather informed me of your imminent arrival. I'll show you to your room for now, you'll begin training in the morning,"

"What kind of training,"

"Honestly, the most gifted always have to be the densest don't they? You'll find out in the morning Young Potter,"

"You know about my situation?" the woman nodded, "Then why do you expect me to trust you without an explanation,"

The woman sighed, "Very well, I am called Genkai. I am a trainer of sorts...well, that's obvious isn't it. I train young morons such as you how to use their internal powers to their favor. Now will you go to bed? It is quite late, even here,"

"Here?"

"We are in between the countries of China and Japan on a small island, invisible to what you would call Muggles,"

"Oh,"

"Close your mouth Mr. Potter, its undignified to let your mouth hang open like that,"

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Harry was woken the next morning when a splash of cold water met his face, getting into his nostrils and his open mouth.

"A shake would have done,"

An unfamiliar male voice responded, "Tried it. Didn't work. You snore like a toad ya know,"

"Oh really? I'll have to bloody remember that when it's my turn to splash your face,"

"Get up already, Genkai doesn't like stragglers,"

"How many students does she have?"

"Not so many, before you got here there were half as many students and when our other expected student arrives in a couple days from now there will be three times as many as yesterday,"

"So you're it besides me?"

"For now,"

"Bugger,"

"Such language. Are you sure you're a hero?"

"Are you sure you want an answer to that, mate?"

The guy laughed, "I'm Yusekei by the way. Nice to have someone to take away some of the abuse,"

Harry laughed nervously, "That was a joke…right?"

****

Harry had been right the night before, he was in an arena, but it was obviously set up for training rather than competition. Harry walked out onto the field with a sense of apprehension that rivaled the one he had felt in his first year when he was to be sorted.

Genkai stood in the middle of the field waiting patiently for her students. When Harry and Yusekei reached the center of the field she looked at Harry and said, "This is the last day you get to sleep in for awhile Mr. Potter," Harry looked down at his watch and grimaced it was 4 in the morning and his new teacher was obviously serious about considering this sleeping in.

"Now, Mr. Potter we begin your training as your Godfather has instructed us to,"

"Are you sure I'm up for this?"

"Let's go Mr. Potter,"

****

Harry trained with Genkai from well before true dawn(Genkai had enchanted the arena to simulate sunlight when she needed it) to well past nightfall on his first day there and his second day there Genkai said he was already far better than Yusekei at the techniques she taught. In the middle of said second day Harry heard a curious sound from he had begun referring to as "the entrance" because it was the only thing that looked like it lead to the outside world.

Careful not to make any noise so as not to draw attention to himself, Harry snuck over and as he drew closer he recognized some of the noise as voices, two of them, both female, one significantly younger than the other. He moved closer so that he could hear what they were saying. The younger one was yelling at the older one and the older one was calmly answering back. He finally was close enough to catch the conversation,

"Mom, he might be in trouble kidnapped by some dark wizard wannabe or being beaten by those rotten relatives of his in a basement and you're dragging me off to the middle of nowhere,"

"You'll have a better chance of rescuing him if you've got a better chance of saving yourself,"

"But Mom, he's disappeared off the face of the earth for a day and a half, when I owled the Headmaster he said that even they didn't know where he was, every good guy is supposed to know where he is,"

"I'm sure he'll show up,"

The voices were quickly drawing closer and Harry could tell that they would be rounding the corner any second.

"But what if....," the younger girl rounded the corner and both Harry and the girl's mouths fell open at once and then she scowled, "..he's right here, perfectly safe and was just letting us worry ourselves sick about him,"

"I'm sure he wouldn't....," at this point the older woman rounded the corner and stopped, "I guess he would,"

"Mr. Potter get back to work," Harry flinched at the voice of Genkai from behind him then he reluctantly turned away from Cho and walked back to where he had been training, "Oh and Mr. Potter, you'll be teaching Ms. Chang here the basics,"

"Yes, Genkai,"

Cho walked over to where Harry stood, "You couldn't have owled,"

Herry stopped flipping through a book he had pulled out and said , "As a matter of fact...," He handed over the open book and Cho read:

Things that can neither enter or leave the arena:

Wands

Owls

Water

Cho mouthed 'O' and Harry got to work teaching her what he had learned over the last day and a half.

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A.N:I'm gonna hold back on what exactly the techniques that they are learning are until Chapter Four or Five. Well the rest of the Wizarding world is gonna be in a panic when they reappear in two months aren't they.