-dodges objects I'M SORRY I'M SORRY!!!!!!! forms force-field SPLAT...
OK who threw the tomatoes??? Well I've been trying desperately to get this
up since before 20 December.... I'm so so sorry, I was distracted on the
first Saturday when my friend asked me out and we've been kind of busy
since then. grin but I'm finally available now, well slightly, I have
finals next week so don't expect much from me. Alright enjoy. smile
Silverhowl- I know, I know I've been slack. grin
The Serpent Guardian – OK on the ages thing. YAYAY you reviewed me GRIN and yes you do! But sometimes you are laughing at Mare...
Mare na Var – lol rubs hands together menacingly ahh but then I would spoil the surprise. grin
The Mystical Elf – you'll find out grin
TuxedoMac – techbargains.com? Well they have interesting bargains but anyway. hmmm green tea ice cream. Nope I'll stick with my cookie dough and chocolate chips any day. No Harry is going with them, you'll see why. Yeah I had to have the Aussy school system explained to me so I could figure out the schedules for this story rubs neck sheepishly I've become un- australianized someone help! snaps fingers drat. Oh well I'm in southern Cali (you get snow LUCKY!!!!) we barely have any snow on the mountains around us, but Mammoth is sooooo good. Well talk to ya later.
Athenakitty – cool well thanks. It just gets annoying sometimes, when someone is repeating everything that I said in the chapter, and not telling me if they liked it or not. Thanks for the explanation to why smile. Well they don't but they could.
I just realized how much I grin and smile... well anyway enjoy grin smile
Chapter 12 – Pheonix Coven
Diana was still in a heated discussion with Fawkes, though no one else could hear it, when they reached the quiddich pitch. No one was there. They looked at Diana and Fawkes, finally Diana realized were they were. "Fawkes says for us to stand in our normal positions and for Harry to be in the middle."
The four took their places about arm length apart. Maria facing North, Isabella facing East, Juliana facing West, and Diana facing South. Harry stood in the middle facing Diana and Fawkes. Fawkes trilled a note of joy followed by a serious one. "We have to call the elements, Harry just face the way we do, but DON'T say anything," Fawkes trilled once more and Diana blushed lightly, only Anna noticed.
"And take your shirt off to let your wings out," Diana said after a moments hesitation. Anna smirked at this, but Harry complied and removed his shirt.
"Do I need to release them right now?" he asked Diana.
"Yes," was all she said.
'OK remember what Dad told me,' Harry thought.
'Relax,' the word flinted across his mind. He followed and felt the twinge below his shoulder blades.
'It was a little less painful this time,' Harry thought as he rebalanced himself.
"Wow that's really cool," Diana and Izzy said in awe. The other two nodded and smiled at Harry standing in the middle with his wings relaxed around himself.
('Alright Fawkes, why are we doing this?') Diana asked in her head.
(You are doing this to release your minds and join them in a bond. This is the last major occurrence to happen, then you may relax as you will and work on his mission.) Fawkes said in his sweet, song voice.
"As much as I love following Fawkes blindly, why are we doing this?" Harry asked as he stretched his wings a bit.
"This will join our minds in a bond," Diana said as she repeated the information to the group.
"Not another one," Anna complained. The three girls smiled at her.
"Well let's get this going. As much as I love standing her looking at Harry's backside; I would personally like to explore the castle," Maria said with a smile. Harry blushed a Weasley red.
"OK let's begin, shall we?" Diana said.
"Er... what are you going to do?" Harry asked a sudden bout of nervousness washing over him.
"I'm just going to do some magick from my reality. I promise it wont hurt," Diana said as she turned, raised her right pointer and began walking around the group in a circle. "I conjure thee, O great circle of power, so that you will be for me a boundary between the world of men and realms of the mighty spirits, a meeting place of perfect love, trust, peace, and joy, containing the power I will raise within thee. I call upon the angels of the East, South, West, and North to aid me in the consecration. In the name of the Lord and Lady thus do I conjure thee, O great circle of power!" – OK I'm interrupting... there are a few more steps to magick than what I'm going to say and while I know a little I do not know everything. But if you are interested, I suggest reading about it. Nothing will happen from reading about a different religion and yes Wicca is a religion. While I have not yet decided to join it, I may, but I'm reading about it first. Anyway, back to the story –
She had circled the group three times when she had finished. Finally back in her place she dropped to the ground and pounded the ground with her fist and yelled, "This circle is sealed!" A bubble of energy encircled the group.
"I...I've never been able to see it like this!" Diana said in shock. "Well on we go, Harry you don't have to say anything for now," Diana repeated. She turned around again and the others followed her. Her head was bowed and hands at her side. "Hail spirits of the North, Powers of earth. Be with us here today," she slowly began raising her head and arms so they were facing towards the sky. "Bring strength, prosperity, and stability into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" the other three repeated the last sentence.
Then all four turned towards Anna, who was facing outwards. She looked just like Diana had. "Hail spirits of the East powers of the Air. Bring intellect, wisdom, and positive thought into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" again the other three repeated and Anna ended in a similar position to Diana.
They all faced Maria who was facing out in the same position. "Hail spirits of the South powers of Fire. Bring courage, passion, and creativity into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" They repeated and turned toward Izzy.
"Hail spirits of the West powers of Water. Bring transformation, love, and joy into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" the final note of the repeated 'be' rang out. They all sat there for a moment their hands all in the air palms up towards the sky.
Harry had the oddest thought and stretched his wings straight up with his hands also pointing to the sky. "Bind these souls, unbalanced are we, combine these souls, and balanced we'll be, combine our powers to show the world, that light will always triumph on the Earth. Bind us Spirit, the center you are, together we will be one true power, guardians of the four watchtowers lend us your power. Coalesce our souls to become one power. A tower of hope in hopeless times. This is our fate, together as one. So mote it be!" The four repeated the last sentence once again.
There was a moment of silence followed by the rushing of air. A turquoise light shot down at Isabella's chest. She closed her eyes and the light engulfed her. A green light shot for Maria, a dark blue one for Juliana and a red one for Diana. All four were engulfed in the light.
Harry didn't know what to do, and then white light shot from each of them at Harry. He gasped in surprise as he felt the warmth overcome him. He felt like he was floating. All too soon for him the light slowly dissipated. He looked at the four girls, they were all glowing different colours. Finally he looked at his hands and saw that he was glowing white.
Diana nodded at Izzy. "Guardian of the West Element of Water. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
Maria went on to say, "Guardian of the South Element of Fire. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
Anna next said, "Guardian of the East Element of Air. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
"Guardian of the North Element of the Earth. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell." After saying that Diana began walking in a counter clockwise direction, with her left pointer out saying, "This circle is open, but never broken. We are the people, we are the power, we are the change! So mote it be!" as she was walking the 'bubble' started to disappear almost into her finger. Once she was back into her place she looked up at Harry; he had his wings relaxed again. He was looking at his hands as though they weren't his.
('What afraid they'll fall off?') she sent to him, laughter evident in her voice.
He looked up, surprised. "Where did that come from? I said it as though I had known all along. Like words to a favorite song or something," Harry said in a dull tone, not showing any emotion.
"Excited?" Anna asked with a grin on her face.
Harry grinned, "Extremely." The group started laughing. They all began their trip back up to the castle.
"So what exactly did we just do anyway? And couldn't it have waited till after we had finished talking to Dumbledore?" Harry asked moving his wings around a bit as he was walking to stay properly balanced.
"Well, Fawkes came in and said we had to do it immediately before our powers went haywire," Diana said repeating what he had told her.
"Why would our powers go haywire?"
"Well, you just had a major power increase, and we are powerful in ourselves. If you combine power in one spot you get power disturbances," Anna said.
"But during the year there aren't any disturbances, so why would there be now?" Harry asked thinking about how many students there are at school.
"That is true. But first they have smaller amounts of power in one body. Second their power has slowly increased over time while ours has been bestowed to us suddenly. So our bodies are not use to it," Anna said.
"But also people don't have a sudden increase in power, there power is integrated into their system over time. If we had left your body to integrate it naturally you would be blacking out, and sleeping for a couple of months. While we wouldn't be doing that our powers would be causing havoc in Hogwarts," Diana explained further.
"Why wouldn't you be blacking out, but I would be?"
"Well we were already bonded together before we arrived here. So we balanced ourselves, slightly," Maria said.
"But we were never a complete group. We were supposed to meet the last sometime at the beginning of this year and we did," Isabella said looking at Harry.
They had reached the Entrance Hall and were heading towards the Great Hall. When they arrived they found Dumbledore and McGonagall sitting at the head table with a few other teachers. They were Professor Flitwick, Professor Wolfe –I'm adding some professor's names, cause I don't know what they really are. If anyone does please do tell me-, Professor Vector, Professor Shea, and scarily enough Professor Trelawney.
When the Professors looked up at the group there was a collective gasp. The four looked at each other and then they looked at Harry who slapped himself on the head. He had forgotten to put his wings away.
-That sounds so funny. Oops I forgot to put my wings away. Actually I would love to say that... anyway. Professor Wolfe is the Runes teacher, and Professor Shea is the Astronomy teacher. Hope you enjoyed this and I'll talk to you next update. It'll probably be in about 2 weeks. HOPEFULLY. But I have finals next weeks so wish me luck. Good luck to all those of you who also have to take the dreaded things. Bye, don't forget to review. I may update sooner if I feel the need to please my reviewers... anyway talk to you then.
Silverhowl- I know, I know I've been slack. grin
The Serpent Guardian – OK on the ages thing. YAYAY you reviewed me GRIN and yes you do! But sometimes you are laughing at Mare...
Mare na Var – lol rubs hands together menacingly ahh but then I would spoil the surprise. grin
The Mystical Elf – you'll find out grin
TuxedoMac – techbargains.com? Well they have interesting bargains but anyway. hmmm green tea ice cream. Nope I'll stick with my cookie dough and chocolate chips any day. No Harry is going with them, you'll see why. Yeah I had to have the Aussy school system explained to me so I could figure out the schedules for this story rubs neck sheepishly I've become un- australianized someone help! snaps fingers drat. Oh well I'm in southern Cali (you get snow LUCKY!!!!) we barely have any snow on the mountains around us, but Mammoth is sooooo good. Well talk to ya later.
Athenakitty – cool well thanks. It just gets annoying sometimes, when someone is repeating everything that I said in the chapter, and not telling me if they liked it or not. Thanks for the explanation to why smile. Well they don't but they could.
I just realized how much I grin and smile... well anyway enjoy grin smile
Chapter 12 – Pheonix Coven
Diana was still in a heated discussion with Fawkes, though no one else could hear it, when they reached the quiddich pitch. No one was there. They looked at Diana and Fawkes, finally Diana realized were they were. "Fawkes says for us to stand in our normal positions and for Harry to be in the middle."
The four took their places about arm length apart. Maria facing North, Isabella facing East, Juliana facing West, and Diana facing South. Harry stood in the middle facing Diana and Fawkes. Fawkes trilled a note of joy followed by a serious one. "We have to call the elements, Harry just face the way we do, but DON'T say anything," Fawkes trilled once more and Diana blushed lightly, only Anna noticed.
"And take your shirt off to let your wings out," Diana said after a moments hesitation. Anna smirked at this, but Harry complied and removed his shirt.
"Do I need to release them right now?" he asked Diana.
"Yes," was all she said.
'OK remember what Dad told me,' Harry thought.
'Relax,' the word flinted across his mind. He followed and felt the twinge below his shoulder blades.
'It was a little less painful this time,' Harry thought as he rebalanced himself.
"Wow that's really cool," Diana and Izzy said in awe. The other two nodded and smiled at Harry standing in the middle with his wings relaxed around himself.
('Alright Fawkes, why are we doing this?') Diana asked in her head.
(You are doing this to release your minds and join them in a bond. This is the last major occurrence to happen, then you may relax as you will and work on his mission.) Fawkes said in his sweet, song voice.
"As much as I love following Fawkes blindly, why are we doing this?" Harry asked as he stretched his wings a bit.
"This will join our minds in a bond," Diana said as she repeated the information to the group.
"Not another one," Anna complained. The three girls smiled at her.
"Well let's get this going. As much as I love standing her looking at Harry's backside; I would personally like to explore the castle," Maria said with a smile. Harry blushed a Weasley red.
"OK let's begin, shall we?" Diana said.
"Er... what are you going to do?" Harry asked a sudden bout of nervousness washing over him.
"I'm just going to do some magick from my reality. I promise it wont hurt," Diana said as she turned, raised her right pointer and began walking around the group in a circle. "I conjure thee, O great circle of power, so that you will be for me a boundary between the world of men and realms of the mighty spirits, a meeting place of perfect love, trust, peace, and joy, containing the power I will raise within thee. I call upon the angels of the East, South, West, and North to aid me in the consecration. In the name of the Lord and Lady thus do I conjure thee, O great circle of power!" – OK I'm interrupting... there are a few more steps to magick than what I'm going to say and while I know a little I do not know everything. But if you are interested, I suggest reading about it. Nothing will happen from reading about a different religion and yes Wicca is a religion. While I have not yet decided to join it, I may, but I'm reading about it first. Anyway, back to the story –
She had circled the group three times when she had finished. Finally back in her place she dropped to the ground and pounded the ground with her fist and yelled, "This circle is sealed!" A bubble of energy encircled the group.
"I...I've never been able to see it like this!" Diana said in shock. "Well on we go, Harry you don't have to say anything for now," Diana repeated. She turned around again and the others followed her. Her head was bowed and hands at her side. "Hail spirits of the North, Powers of earth. Be with us here today," she slowly began raising her head and arms so they were facing towards the sky. "Bring strength, prosperity, and stability into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" the other three repeated the last sentence.
Then all four turned towards Anna, who was facing outwards. She looked just like Diana had. "Hail spirits of the East powers of the Air. Bring intellect, wisdom, and positive thought into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" again the other three repeated and Anna ended in a similar position to Diana.
They all faced Maria who was facing out in the same position. "Hail spirits of the South powers of Fire. Bring courage, passion, and creativity into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" They repeated and turned toward Izzy.
"Hail spirits of the West powers of Water. Bring transformation, love, and joy into our circle. Please witness this rite and guard our sacred space. So mote it be!" the final note of the repeated 'be' rang out. They all sat there for a moment their hands all in the air palms up towards the sky.
Harry had the oddest thought and stretched his wings straight up with his hands also pointing to the sky. "Bind these souls, unbalanced are we, combine these souls, and balanced we'll be, combine our powers to show the world, that light will always triumph on the Earth. Bind us Spirit, the center you are, together we will be one true power, guardians of the four watchtowers lend us your power. Coalesce our souls to become one power. A tower of hope in hopeless times. This is our fate, together as one. So mote it be!" The four repeated the last sentence once again.
There was a moment of silence followed by the rushing of air. A turquoise light shot down at Isabella's chest. She closed her eyes and the light engulfed her. A green light shot for Maria, a dark blue one for Juliana and a red one for Diana. All four were engulfed in the light.
Harry didn't know what to do, and then white light shot from each of them at Harry. He gasped in surprise as he felt the warmth overcome him. He felt like he was floating. All too soon for him the light slowly dissipated. He looked at the four girls, they were all glowing different colours. Finally he looked at his hands and saw that he was glowing white.
Diana nodded at Izzy. "Guardian of the West Element of Water. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
Maria went on to say, "Guardian of the South Element of Fire. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
Anna next said, "Guardian of the East Element of Air. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell."
"Guardian of the North Element of the Earth. Thank you for your participation in this ritual. Go if you must, stay if you like; Hail and farewell." After saying that Diana began walking in a counter clockwise direction, with her left pointer out saying, "This circle is open, but never broken. We are the people, we are the power, we are the change! So mote it be!" as she was walking the 'bubble' started to disappear almost into her finger. Once she was back into her place she looked up at Harry; he had his wings relaxed again. He was looking at his hands as though they weren't his.
('What afraid they'll fall off?') she sent to him, laughter evident in her voice.
He looked up, surprised. "Where did that come from? I said it as though I had known all along. Like words to a favorite song or something," Harry said in a dull tone, not showing any emotion.
"Excited?" Anna asked with a grin on her face.
Harry grinned, "Extremely." The group started laughing. They all began their trip back up to the castle.
"So what exactly did we just do anyway? And couldn't it have waited till after we had finished talking to Dumbledore?" Harry asked moving his wings around a bit as he was walking to stay properly balanced.
"Well, Fawkes came in and said we had to do it immediately before our powers went haywire," Diana said repeating what he had told her.
"Why would our powers go haywire?"
"Well, you just had a major power increase, and we are powerful in ourselves. If you combine power in one spot you get power disturbances," Anna said.
"But during the year there aren't any disturbances, so why would there be now?" Harry asked thinking about how many students there are at school.
"That is true. But first they have smaller amounts of power in one body. Second their power has slowly increased over time while ours has been bestowed to us suddenly. So our bodies are not use to it," Anna said.
"But also people don't have a sudden increase in power, there power is integrated into their system over time. If we had left your body to integrate it naturally you would be blacking out, and sleeping for a couple of months. While we wouldn't be doing that our powers would be causing havoc in Hogwarts," Diana explained further.
"Why wouldn't you be blacking out, but I would be?"
"Well we were already bonded together before we arrived here. So we balanced ourselves, slightly," Maria said.
"But we were never a complete group. We were supposed to meet the last sometime at the beginning of this year and we did," Isabella said looking at Harry.
They had reached the Entrance Hall and were heading towards the Great Hall. When they arrived they found Dumbledore and McGonagall sitting at the head table with a few other teachers. They were Professor Flitwick, Professor Wolfe –I'm adding some professor's names, cause I don't know what they really are. If anyone does please do tell me-, Professor Vector, Professor Shea, and scarily enough Professor Trelawney.
When the Professors looked up at the group there was a collective gasp. The four looked at each other and then they looked at Harry who slapped himself on the head. He had forgotten to put his wings away.
-That sounds so funny. Oops I forgot to put my wings away. Actually I would love to say that... anyway. Professor Wolfe is the Runes teacher, and Professor Shea is the Astronomy teacher. Hope you enjoyed this and I'll talk to you next update. It'll probably be in about 2 weeks. HOPEFULLY. But I have finals next weeks so wish me luck. Good luck to all those of you who also have to take the dreaded things. Bye, don't forget to review. I may update sooner if I feel the need to please my reviewers... anyway talk to you then.