Harry relaxed in the Room of Requirement, usually he would be in Transfiguration but he had already shown Professor McGonagall all the assignments for the week. He laid back in the hot tub and smiled, in the first three weeks he had taken his average grades to near perfect top marks. He didn't really need classes anymore but he had to keep up appearances. Harry started to doze slightly and he let his thoughts drift to Mariko. He had offered to help her study and practice, but he had to find a way to get her to unlock her power for him and for her. He shook out the cobwebs and told the room to dry and clothe him and it did.
He looked at his watch and it was a quarter 'til seven. Mariko would be here soon so he told the room to change and around him appeared a traditional Japanese armory with a paper door, which opened to a room with padded floor and walls. He changed his clothes again and he was in a black kimono with a grey hakama. Harry walked into the other room and sat down to wait. He only had to sit there for a moment when the door swung open and in walked both Mariko and Beatrix.
"Right on time Mariko, but Beatrix, why have you graced us with your presence?" Harry said standing up and bowing. Both Mariko and Beatrix returned it. Mariko sat down in front of Harry and Beatrix followed after placing her sheathed sword beside her.
"I decided to come see why Mariko is always so excited to leave what she has said was her favorite class. So this time when she left, I asked her to bring me along. So this is why you keep postponing the DA meetings, to help out Mariko." Beatrix giggled and shook her head, Marry blushed and Harry laughed.
"You really are a perverted person you know that Beatrix. But no, Mariko is here for a different type of training then what we are going to give the DA members. I've been teaching her to harness her raw demonic powers. She has yet to manifest her true powers but it is coming nicely. Beatrix would you like to watch?" She simply nodded so Harry stood up pulling Mariko with him as he walked into the armory with Beatrix quickly tailing. He gave Marry a battle fan and pushed her forward towards the weak enemies he made the room bring him.
"Harry is this really safe, could she get hurt doing this?" Beatrix asked and Harry nodded as he watched the eleven year old girl in front of him shoot spells from her fan like it was a wand. She kept fighting but she slowly started to tire out, she slid back from a hit and started panting. She was slouched slightly and she was hit twice, sending her into the wall. She stumbled forward and opened her fan again, she was panting even heavier now. She looked up and Harry could see her aura strengthen as a small vortex surrounded her, but it was very weak.
"NOW!" Harry flew forward with his hand drawn back and the aura of the lion was already forming. He punched his fist out farther and Mariko looked up her eyes glazed slightly.
"NO! DANCE OF BLADES!" She swung her fan at him sending huge crescent moon shaped blades of wind at him. Harry crossed his arms and let the attack hit him; the force was enough to make him stop. Beatrix looked on openmouthed and Mariko simply smiled as she fell forward into the arms of Harry as she fainted. He kissed her on the top of her head and looked down at the key hanging from around her neck. The key had a strange Goblin rune on it. Harry summoned a bed and laid Marry on it and changed his clothes back to normal.
"Harry what was..." But Harry interrupted her by holding up his hand.
"I have to go get something and someone. I'll be back later tonight, possibly even tomorrow morning. Keep Mariko here and make sure she eats when she gets up." Harry disappeared in a small puff of smoke only to appear if front of a goblin's desk.
Harry handed his new key over to the goblin. He looked at it with a little fear and then looked up to Harry. The goblin turned and started to talk to other goblins while showing of the key, they too were frightened. Harry on the other hand was getting a little bored.
"Look, I got the key now let me go to the vault, I got it from a friend, the daughter, so you'll let me go to the vault or she might get mad." Harry smirked as the goblins nodded and motioned for Harry to follow.
"I can't wait to get to the items back to their owner." The goblin in front of him turned and held up a glowing finger. It shook its head and fired a strange orange beam at Harry, who simply let it bounce off his shield.
"Come now you knew that would not work on me." The goblin stepped back and vanished, then reappeared with several more, meaner looking goblins. Four of them had slightly humped backs with crystal-like quills sticking out, much like a porcupine. The other two were about 5' 3" and very muscular with tusks jutting out of their mouths and dressed as barbarians. Another goblin appeared. He was shorter than the others, who had all started to bow to him. This one was three feet tall and had on a shiny red robe with green trim.
"You are playing a very dangerous game, you realize that, don't you Mister Potter? We mountain goblins don't have the same kindness as those of our cousins at Gringotts. What you want to access is strictly forbidden! Even with the key, that is unless..." Squee smiled and held out an open palm. Harry laughed and reached into his pocket and pulled out a strange set of rings. He knelt down and pulled up his sleeve.
"OH my!" Squee looked at the armlets as Harry slid one on the top of his arm right under his shoulder, one on his forearm and one on his wrist. Squee looked at the golden bands and smiled at the diamonds inlayed in them and then gasped as he saw that they were lava diamonds.
"Twelve lava diamonds of the highest quality, straight from Asmodeus's mines. You can access a great store of mana with those." Squee giggled with glee and turned around and started to walk deeper into the mountain vault, his minions walked around Harry as an unneeded escort. They reached a vault covered in chains and guarded by two of the larger barbarian-like goblins. Harry seemed to remember them being known as Reckless Ones and on there backs were small vicious looking goblins called Pile Drivers.
"Alright goblins, stand down and unlock the chains!" The Reckless ones grabbed the chains and ripped them off the door then knelt beside it. Squee took the key from Harry and opened the door. Harry walked in and picked up a small package of clothing, a headband with a white and black feather in it and finally on top of everything was a battle fan. He picked it up and felt its power.
"Ahh yes... oh and Squee I was never here⦠and you might want to open this in a big open area." He handed the goblin king a package with a strange silver sword on it. Squee nodded and Harry vanished in a cloud of black smoke.
Kagura was sitting in the corner with a pile of dust in her hand slowly making it spin like a tornado. Her powers had slowly started to build over time without her fan. She still needed it for large feats but small ones were easy for her now. She dispelled it and slumped back against the wall. She sighed and slowly went off to sleep having dreams of her daughter again, until she heard a voice in her mind.
"Wake up Kagura, wake up and you'll have it all back and more." Kagura sat up awake and saw Harry standing in front of her. She stood up and looked at his hip and saw her fan, and in his hands her kimono and her head band. She reached out to take her fan but she found her hand knocked away lightly by his aura.
"Hold on Kagura, if you want to be free you have to pay for it. Give me your loyalty and trust. You will now be under my command, and we will slowly bring about the death of Voldemort. And after that you can leave my services if you wish, but your daughter will join. She already has.
"What...she wishes to fight?" Kagura rubbed her hand and Harry stepped back and smiled.
"Yes and no. If I ask her she will, and I plan to ask her. But the thing is she has huge hidden potential and I know you're the one to unlock it all. She has already learned the Dance of Blades but it took most of her strength, and it's taken three week to get that." He sat the kimono down on the ground and put the hair band and fan on top of it.
"It's your choice Kagura, but you should know by now what the only answer is." Harry turned around and allowed Kagura to dress and then he turned her rags into a copy of her body, and made her huddle in the corner.
"Come now kagura, should we leave peacefully or are you feeling rusty?" Harry smiled and Kagura nodded pulling out her fan and cutting a whole in the wall. She threw a feather out and it grew into a large boat sized one. She and Harry got on and she turned to the prison and her eyes flashed red.
"DANCE OF THE DRAGONS!" She waved her fan up and then brought it down hard and out of it came eight huge dragons made of wind. The dragons began to fly together and they formed a huge tornado around the prison, every now and then you could see their claws and heads and tails attacking the prison.
AN: Now I really am stuck with what to do. I know I need the chapter of the DA meeting to do after chapter 5, which is going to be the reunion of Kagura and Mariko. I hope if anyone has any ideas they email me. Well, happy reading.
