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Blackrose: Thanks for the review. There will be more Sirius; in fact, he will be in this chapter. As to who you believe is Ron's other half, you got it right on the bullseye.
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Last time on Phoenix Fire:
Harry started to sing, making up the lyrics as he went...
"Hermione, wake up!" Ginny hissed out in a whisper, "I need to tell you something about Harry!"
"If you cannot control your powers, then they can surge through your body and cause a premature Burning Day."
"Does it normally take a whole day for one to revert to their normal selves after a Burning?" Hermione asked out, repeating herself.
"DRACO!" An angry Ron yelled out as Draco just rolled around on the ground laughing his head off and holding his sides.
'What a day!' she thought to herself as she headed back into the Burrow, 'And it has barely even begun!'
Quote of the Week: "The more women there are about, the softer a wise man treads"-Book 5 of the 'Wheel of Time' series.
Chapter 16
Harry walked beside of Hermione, not looking at anything but the ground. He listened to her talk of what she thought the upcoming school year would be like or who she thought was the last Phoenix. He could sense an underlaying trace of concern in her normal tone of voice and that she noticed that something was wrong with him. Harry knew Hermione was his soul mate and he loved her dearly, but she wouldn't understand his pain as much as Sirius, Remus or Alexia would.
"Why so quiet Harry?" Hermione asked him softly, "Did I say something to upset you?"
Harry immediately snapped out of his thoughts and turned to look at Hermione, who had both concern and hurt across her face.
"No, it's not something you said," Harry replied quietly, "Rather, it's something I did that caused it."
"What did you do?" she asked softly.
"Allowed you to wander around in my head blindly."
"WHAT!" she shrieked out angrily, "I did not wander around in your head for fun, Harry James Potter! I was in there to save your life!"
"It's not that," Harry began coolly, "It's just..."
Harry trailed off, looked up suddenly, and shot off into the bush, like hunted prey, without so much as a warning...
Sirius stared at the young woman before him as if she had just told him Harry had become a Death Eater.
"And he just ran into the forest like someone was after him?" Sirius replied, sounding confused, "Did you see anything out of place, Hermione?"
"Yeah," Hermione replied, softly, "There was a black crow following us."
"Great!" Sirius moaned out.
Suddenly his mood changed and he looked over at Hermione.
"Get Jordan!" he barked at her.
Hermione immediately ran and got Jordan, who had no idea why they wanted him so urgently.
"Harry has taken off into the forest, Jordan," Sirius announced softly, "And Hermione says she saw a Black Crow following them."
"No, no, no!" Jordan growled out, emphasising each no, "It's way too early!"
"What's too early?" Hermione asked, confused.
"Nothing!" Jordan replied suddenly.
He turned to Sirius and began to converse with him in a language that Hermione didn't recognize. Suddenly a scream pierced the air, making Jordan stop in mid-sentence.
"NOOOOO!"
Hermione's eyes widened as she recognized the source of the scream-there was no mistaking the voice behind it.
"Harry," she breathed out and before either man could stop her, she was gone into the forest...
Meanwhile...in a clearing somewhere in the forest...
A figure stood there, silver energy raidiating off of him. Next to him laid the familiar form of Alexia...and other people lay around her. Facing off against the man was a black form, grinning at the sight of the injured people.
"No more, Riddle!" the silver figure roared out, "No more!"
"No more, what?" Riddle, a.k.a Lord Voldemort, replied with the grin still on his face.
"No more killing!"
Voldemort didn't reply verbally, but he attacked the silver figure instead. The two clashed, without using their wands, for a while with neither one gaining an upper hand. The sounds of battle filled the air as the two battled on and on. Finally, a distraction provided the silver form with a slight upper hand in the fight.
Voldemort whirled around to fire a curse at where a branch had snapped and Silver attacked him without mercy. Before Silver could fully execute the attack, Voldemort disapparated with a loud crack. The distraction turned out to be a young, female, human; she was very beuatiful and Silver thought he saw someone he knew in her aura. The silver form studied the human for a moment, smiled, and then simply vanished into thin air...
Hermione stared at the spot where the silver form had just been standing for a minute before she remembered why she was there in the first place. She rushed over to the fallen forms and checked them over.
"Mione..." one of the worst off groaned out.
"Harry!" Hermione cried out and rushed over to him.
Hermione gently rolled him over and gasped when she saw his face.
"Oh Harry!" she cried out when she saw the gash going down the left side of his face.
Suddenly two forms burst through the underbrush, both of whom Hermione immediately recognized; it was Jordan and Sirius and both were in their human forms. Jordan immediately flew to Alexia's side and checked her over; except for being knocked unconscious Alexia-and the baby-was fine.
Harry suddenly groaned and opened his right eye; he couldn't open both since his left eye was covered in blood.
"What a birthday," he groaned out and attempted to sit up.
"Don't, Harry," Hermione softly commanded, trying to hold him down gently.
Hermione had her hands on his chest in an attempt to keep him down, but something warm covered her hand. Hermione's eyes shot downward to her hand and she gave a startled cry at the sight of her blood covered hand.
"You're hurt."
"Just a scratch," Harry choked out.
"It's not just a scratch!" Hermione countered, very concerned.
Hermione was so concentrated on Harry that she didn't notice her blood-coated hand glowing yellow for a moment or that the gash on his chest was slowly healing up; however, Sirius and Jordan noticed both of these things and shared a knowing look.
"Hermione," Jordan called out, "You're the Healer of the pair."
"Huh?" both Hermione and Harry replied, confused.
"In each pair of phoenixes, one of them is a Healer," Jordan explained as he walked toward them, carrying Alexia, "Usually-like in this case-it's the female of the two, but there is a chance that the others may be the males are the Healers."
"Who's the Healer of you and Alexia?" Harry asked out, actually interested.
"Alexia."
"Ginny has to be the Healer for Draco and I bet our missing Phoenix is the Healer for Ron," Hermione stated logically.
"What are we going to do with all these people?" Sirius asked out.
Jordan eyed the people-there was only five of them not counting Alexia.
"This is one of our Strike Teams," he thought out loud, "I don't know why they are here or why Alexia is already back."
Alexia groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. She felt like she'd been hit by nine or ten Knight Buses.
"What the-" she began as she sat up.
"You're back at the Burrow," Harry explained as he slowly sat up.
Alexia saw the bandage across the left side of his face and wondered what had happened. The last thing she remembered, she was bringing a Strike Team with her to head off an attack.
"What happened!" Alexia fired off, panic slowing rising, "Where is everybody! Did we win! Is everyone alright!"
"To answer your questions...You were attacked," Jordan explained softly as he appeared next to her, "Everyone is either asleep or eating in the kitchen. We won thanks to Silva. And you and Harry were the worst off, but Hermione healed Harry unconsciously and you healed yourself."
John got up, as if sensing that the two siblings needed some time alone, and left the room, closing the door behind him softly, which let silence cover the room. After a few minutes of silence, Alexia took a breath and spoke.
"Sorry about ruining your birthday, Harry," Alexia stated softly.
"You didn't ruin it," Harry replied softly, "Voldemort did."
"It's your 'sweet sixteenth' isn't it?"
"Yes," Harry replied with a sigh.
Alexia's eyes lit up. "Good. Now I won't feel bad about giving you your gift and neither will Sirius."
"What?"
"Sirius and I got you a motorcycle...but don't tell 'em I told you...it's supposed to be a surprise."
"A motorcycle?" Harry repeated, his eyes wide in excitement, "Like the one Sirius has?"
"Yep," Alexia replied with a grin, "Hermione's gonna have a fit."
"Why do you say that?" Harry asked, confused about his sister's comment about his girlfriend.
"Because she fears motorcycles as much as Ron fears spiders," Alexia's tone was soft and the grin was gone from her face, "Ask her about it sometime."
"Oh, ok..."
Harry turned his attention away from his sister and wondered what could have instilled such a fear of motorcycles in Hermione...
