- Here you go, the next chappy just as I promised. Hope you like.
Chapter 8 – Explanations Part 1
The pain was gone in seconds. He was panting, lying on his side in a bed. He felt something curled against his back and something lightly curled over his legs. But he felt no danger; so he slowly opened his eyes to see he was back in his room. He was facing the wall, so he couldn't see anything. He turned slightly and the lightweight of the thing on his legs moved. He turned over so he was facing his room.
The thing he had felt on his back was a black and red blob. He looked down to his legs, there was another black blob, sitting up, next to his knees. He finally realized that he didn't have his glasses on and reached for them on his bedside table. He looked back at the blobs once they were firmly in place and saw that Serpent was starring at him by his back and Luna was 'grinning', if cats could grin.
He heard a soft hooting and looked at his desk, Hedwig was back from hunting, she was asleep in her cage. Skye was sitting on top of her cage also sleeping. But what had caught his eye, was one auburn fox with brown and gold streaks shining from the sun slowly rising in the window behind it. The fox was sitting on his desk chair backwards with its paws on the back of the chair, looking directly at him with golden brown pools. Recognition crossed his face. 'That's the fox from my dream,' Harry thought.
Harry sat up slowly, feeling stiff muscles. The fox turned around on his chair so it was facing Skye. With out saying a word or touching her, Skye woke up with a start, as though someone had yelled at her.
::Wha... What's happening?:: she asked in a sleepy stupor. She looked at Harry, saw that he was awake and said ::Oh.::
((Ssso, now that everyone isss awake.)) Serpent said glancing around the room. ((We can anssswer your quessstionsss.))
Can we show him now? Please? Luna said almost whinally.
"Show me what?" Harry asked, hoping it wasn't more about him.
((Well, before we do that Luna. Thisss, Harry, is Phoenixxx)) Serpent said, pointing with her tail towards the fox whom was now curled up on the end of the bed.
((Hello Phoenixxx.)) Harry said, ((How wasss your journey?))
('It was preferable.') a calm, strong, female voice flitted across his mind.
Harry jumped, "H...How did you do that?" ('Well, do you think a fox can actually talk?') the amused fox thought. Skye chuckled, she had flown across the room and was now sitting between Serpent and Luna. Serpent and Luna were smirking, which he found quite disturbing to see a snake and a cat smirk at you.
::All right lets get this show on the road.:: Skye trilled once everyone was quiet, and had stopped smirking.-grins-
((Well, Harry asss you know we aren't normal animalsss.)) Serpent said, as Phoenix stood and jumped to the floor.
('Well actually, we aren't animals either.') at that Phoenix transformed into a human. Harry's mouth dropped to the floor.
A woman at 5'6" with long wavy lengths of golden brown/auburn hair stood before him. She was wearing black cotton pants, a tight burgundy three- quarter-sleeve shirt, and black ankle boots. He was so transfixed, he didn't notice the other three move to the floor and change. To their respective forms also. –see chapter 4 for their forms I'm not rewriting them-
"Harry, Harry, HARRY," Serpent snapped her fingers infront of Harry's eyes, her voice getting louder.
"I think he's gone into shock," Skye chuckled to Luna in a strong, alto voice that screamed knowledge and power.
Luna grinned slightly, saying back, "I think he's more shocked at Phoenix than us." In a strong, soprano voice –sorry to all those that are music illiterate. Sopranos are the women that sing really high in a choir and altos are the ones that sing really low, and 2nd sopranos are the ones that sing in the middle.- Phoenix blushed at this and Harry's continued stare.
Harry finally snapped out of it when a book came into contact with his head –Hey Val WackWackWack. Sorry private joke, grin (ow my ears, fire alarm just went off in my second period)- "What?" Serpent said, an 'innocent' look plastered to her face. Phoenix struggled to keep from laughing, Skye and Luna laughed lightly but stopped when Harry looked at them, finally realizing that there was four animagi in the room.
"This is too much," Harry mumbled with a defeated look to him. "First Voldemort at Azkaban, then my parents tell me my heritage, now four animagi are standing in my room, three of which I had a dream about the other night, and one of them told me Voldemort was coming for me. Now I have no clue what is happening," Harry let out in a small fit of rage. But still kept his voice down.
"I didn't tell you that Voldemort was coming for you," Serpent said matter of factly. "I said 'He'sss coming for you Harry, get prepared'," Serpent restated exactly the way he had heard it in his dream.
"Then who is 'He'?" Harry asked.
"Well we were hoping you would have opened your last gift before your dream about your parents," Phoenix said in her strong, 2nd soprano voice that demanded respect. "Well, here you go," she handed him Sirius' gift.
The four women stood back a few paces. Harry raised an eyebrow but cautiously went on. It was a box -very observant Harry-, small but not too small. He shook it lightly. Something rattled inside. There was a giggle from the four women. He didn't look up.
He slowly lifted the lid expecting something to jump out at him. When nothing happened he looked inside. There was a piece of parchment and a pen. He picked up the pen. It looked like a cheap ball point pen someone gets for free from a muggle business. On the side it said 'Clytic Tattoo Parlor: Magical and Muggle'. Harry placed the pen down, 'Why would Sirius give me a muggle pen?' Harry thought as he took the parchment out. It read:
Harry, Be ready to go by 10AM. Don't tell the muggles. Snuffles
Harry turned the parchment over expecting more. But then realized what it had said.
"YEEEESSSSS!" he yelled punching the air as he jumped up onto his bed.
"OK Harry," four voices said in unison.
"You'd better get ready to go because it's nearly 8 AM," Luna said.
"What about your story?" Harry asked as he jumped off the bed with too much energy.
"We'll tell you when you are ready," Skye said as she and Phoenix pulled Harry's trunk out.
"Go have a shower. But DO NOT under any circumstances pull your wings out until we say so," Phoenix stated firmly staring strong into his eyes. Harry squirmed under the stare and nodded before quickly grabbing some clothes. He closed the door behind him and hoped that no one would come looking for him.
As he was walking across the landing he heard the TV on at a high decibel. 'Hope they didn't hear that, though if they had they would have been up to torture me immediately,' Harry thought as he closed and locked the door.
-All right I'm finishing the chapter here, but I'll have the next one up either tonight or tomorrow. Talk to you then.
The pain was gone in seconds. He was panting, lying on his side in a bed. He felt something curled against his back and something lightly curled over his legs. But he felt no danger; so he slowly opened his eyes to see he was back in his room. He was facing the wall, so he couldn't see anything. He turned slightly and the lightweight of the thing on his legs moved. He turned over so he was facing his room.
The thing he had felt on his back was a black and red blob. He looked down to his legs, there was another black blob, sitting up, next to his knees. He finally realized that he didn't have his glasses on and reached for them on his bedside table. He looked back at the blobs once they were firmly in place and saw that Serpent was starring at him by his back and Luna was 'grinning', if cats could grin.
He heard a soft hooting and looked at his desk, Hedwig was back from hunting, she was asleep in her cage. Skye was sitting on top of her cage also sleeping. But what had caught his eye, was one auburn fox with brown and gold streaks shining from the sun slowly rising in the window behind it. The fox was sitting on his desk chair backwards with its paws on the back of the chair, looking directly at him with golden brown pools. Recognition crossed his face. 'That's the fox from my dream,' Harry thought.
Harry sat up slowly, feeling stiff muscles. The fox turned around on his chair so it was facing Skye. With out saying a word or touching her, Skye woke up with a start, as though someone had yelled at her.
::Wha... What's happening?:: she asked in a sleepy stupor. She looked at Harry, saw that he was awake and said ::Oh.::
((Ssso, now that everyone isss awake.)) Serpent said glancing around the room. ((We can anssswer your quessstionsss.))
Can we show him now? Please? Luna said almost whinally.
"Show me what?" Harry asked, hoping it wasn't more about him.
((Well, before we do that Luna. Thisss, Harry, is Phoenixxx)) Serpent said, pointing with her tail towards the fox whom was now curled up on the end of the bed.
((Hello Phoenixxx.)) Harry said, ((How wasss your journey?))
('It was preferable.') a calm, strong, female voice flitted across his mind.
Harry jumped, "H...How did you do that?" ('Well, do you think a fox can actually talk?') the amused fox thought. Skye chuckled, she had flown across the room and was now sitting between Serpent and Luna. Serpent and Luna were smirking, which he found quite disturbing to see a snake and a cat smirk at you.
::All right lets get this show on the road.:: Skye trilled once everyone was quiet, and had stopped smirking.-grins-
((Well, Harry asss you know we aren't normal animalsss.)) Serpent said, as Phoenix stood and jumped to the floor.
('Well actually, we aren't animals either.') at that Phoenix transformed into a human. Harry's mouth dropped to the floor.
A woman at 5'6" with long wavy lengths of golden brown/auburn hair stood before him. She was wearing black cotton pants, a tight burgundy three- quarter-sleeve shirt, and black ankle boots. He was so transfixed, he didn't notice the other three move to the floor and change. To their respective forms also. –see chapter 4 for their forms I'm not rewriting them-
"Harry, Harry, HARRY," Serpent snapped her fingers infront of Harry's eyes, her voice getting louder.
"I think he's gone into shock," Skye chuckled to Luna in a strong, alto voice that screamed knowledge and power.
Luna grinned slightly, saying back, "I think he's more shocked at Phoenix than us." In a strong, soprano voice –sorry to all those that are music illiterate. Sopranos are the women that sing really high in a choir and altos are the ones that sing really low, and 2nd sopranos are the ones that sing in the middle.- Phoenix blushed at this and Harry's continued stare.
Harry finally snapped out of it when a book came into contact with his head –Hey Val WackWackWack. Sorry private joke, grin (ow my ears, fire alarm just went off in my second period)- "What?" Serpent said, an 'innocent' look plastered to her face. Phoenix struggled to keep from laughing, Skye and Luna laughed lightly but stopped when Harry looked at them, finally realizing that there was four animagi in the room.
"This is too much," Harry mumbled with a defeated look to him. "First Voldemort at Azkaban, then my parents tell me my heritage, now four animagi are standing in my room, three of which I had a dream about the other night, and one of them told me Voldemort was coming for me. Now I have no clue what is happening," Harry let out in a small fit of rage. But still kept his voice down.
"I didn't tell you that Voldemort was coming for you," Serpent said matter of factly. "I said 'He'sss coming for you Harry, get prepared'," Serpent restated exactly the way he had heard it in his dream.
"Then who is 'He'?" Harry asked.
"Well we were hoping you would have opened your last gift before your dream about your parents," Phoenix said in her strong, 2nd soprano voice that demanded respect. "Well, here you go," she handed him Sirius' gift.
The four women stood back a few paces. Harry raised an eyebrow but cautiously went on. It was a box -very observant Harry-, small but not too small. He shook it lightly. Something rattled inside. There was a giggle from the four women. He didn't look up.
He slowly lifted the lid expecting something to jump out at him. When nothing happened he looked inside. There was a piece of parchment and a pen. He picked up the pen. It looked like a cheap ball point pen someone gets for free from a muggle business. On the side it said 'Clytic Tattoo Parlor: Magical and Muggle'. Harry placed the pen down, 'Why would Sirius give me a muggle pen?' Harry thought as he took the parchment out. It read:
Harry, Be ready to go by 10AM. Don't tell the muggles. Snuffles
Harry turned the parchment over expecting more. But then realized what it had said.
"YEEEESSSSS!" he yelled punching the air as he jumped up onto his bed.
"OK Harry," four voices said in unison.
"You'd better get ready to go because it's nearly 8 AM," Luna said.
"What about your story?" Harry asked as he jumped off the bed with too much energy.
"We'll tell you when you are ready," Skye said as she and Phoenix pulled Harry's trunk out.
"Go have a shower. But DO NOT under any circumstances pull your wings out until we say so," Phoenix stated firmly staring strong into his eyes. Harry squirmed under the stare and nodded before quickly grabbing some clothes. He closed the door behind him and hoped that no one would come looking for him.
As he was walking across the landing he heard the TV on at a high decibel. 'Hope they didn't hear that, though if they had they would have been up to torture me immediately,' Harry thought as he closed and locked the door.
-All right I'm finishing the chapter here, but I'll have the next one up either tonight or tomorrow. Talk to you then.