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The Strangers
"Hello."
"Mr. Potter."
Harry's head started to spin. He tried to piece together what happened, he tried to think of what to do, but one thought weighed heavier than the rest. ' I'm going to die!' He thought for what seemed like hours but was actually a few seconds. ' Ok, I could try to curse them...no, they just apparated into my room and there's two of them and one of me...I could try and run, except the only way out would be through my window...maybe I should ask them what they're doing in my room, nothing bad can come from that..." Harry still wasn't sure about this but gathered enough courage to speak.
"Who are you guys? What do you want with me?" He tried to sound calm, but it came out more as a squeak. They must have noticed because they both snorted and Harry noticed the corners of their mouths turning up.
" May we sit Mr. Potter?" The first one spoke.
" Uh.." Harry said, still worried about who they were and what they would do.
" We mean you no harm, we are on your side," the first one spoke.
Harry was still nervous, but he sat down on his bed as the other two grabbed the two chairs from his desk. They sat in silence for sometime, the two strangers talking to each other in low whispers that Harry strained to hear, but couldn't make out the language they were speaking in. They would stop every now and then and look at Harry before nodding and continuing their conversation. Harry still had a firm grip on his wand, not trusting the strangers yet. After an hour or so they quit talking and looked to Harry, who squirmed under the gaze. They both reached up and took their hoods down giving Harry a look at their faces for the first time.
The first one was about Harry's height, maybe a little taller. His hair was a little weird to Harry, as it was cut short in the back, but was long in the front, covering one of his eyes. It was a dark brown in color that looked a lot dark than it really was. His face was pronounced, giving him the look of a 16 or 17 year old, and his eyes were a deep green that sparkled mischievously, much like Dumbledore's.
The second man was only a couple of inches shorter than the other. His hair was a lot like the other man's in color, but was long and wavy all around. He looked the same age as the other, if not a little older. His face was more stern and serious, and his eyes were a deep blue that shone with wisdom. The second man leaned forward and began to talk.
" Let me first introduce ourselves, Mr. Potter. I am Domus and this is my brother, Sarian. We both come from the elvish city of Laudosain. I am not an elf, but Sarian is," Domus spoke. Harry was now confused.
" Wait, you both are elves?"
" Well Sarian is, as I just said, but I am not. I was not born to his mother. His father, Tarius, found me in the woods just outside their village. Laudosain is the last remaining elvish city. We both come from the high family of Karvelin."
Harry's mind was now spinning. Two of the last remaining elves, which Harry had never heard of, were now sitting in his room talking to him. And on top of that, they were both royal. One was not actually an elf, but the other was? He shook his head, trying to clear his head.
" How come I've never learned about you in school? Why isn't there anything in the texts about you?" Harry asked, trying to get the questions out as they came.
Domus sighed and a look of pain crossed his face. " Back when the Dark Lord that now plagues your world again had first come to power, we elves fought with the humans to rid the world of his evil. It was when he became too powerful that we suffered. He burnt and destroyed everyone of our cities, torturing our people, making sure he killed every last elf that he could find. There was a forest which he did not know of though, Elandeal. It is located off the coast of Southern Ireland. The reason he didn't know is because that's where the capitol, Laudosain, was built. There are many protective spells over the forest, allowing only those who know where it is to be able to find it. That's why we aren't in your books, we erased the knowledge of our race from your world for our protection. Those of us who had survived the killings of Voldermort retreated to the forest. We were greatly weakened. We spent the rest of the years rebuilding towns inside of Elandeal. When word of you defeating the Dark Lord reached us, we all rejoiced and started building cities outside of the forest again. But a few years after Voldermort's death, one of our elvish seers predicted something horrible. The prophecy went like this.
The one who plagued the world and brought darkness to the lands
Will once again grasp the world with his wicked hands
Hope will seem like a fragment in the past
Into true darkness the world will be cast
But the child of light will rise up again
With the help of the two chosen
Together they will overcome the evil
Restoring the light once lost to the people
Harry sat in silence, repeating the words over and over in his head. This prophecy was a lot more comforting than the one he heard from Dumbledore only two months ago. It actually predicted him defeating Voldermort!
"So I will defeat him? I mean that's what it says right?" Harry asked them, a little to enthusiastically .
" Sadly no...it wasn't a prophecy, more like a warning. You must train and become stronger with the help of the two chosen. That is the only way to defeat him. If you refuse, the world will be plunged into everlasting darkness," Domus spoke, sounding sadder as he spoke the last words.
Harry's face fell and he felt the same burden he felt those two months ago. " Who are the chosen people you speak of? " he asked.
Sarian smiled and looked at Harry, eyes sparkling bright with mischief. " They are the two sexiest and coolest elves ever. Well the younger one is, the older one is quite uff," Sarian started but earned a punch in the stomach from Domus.
" You must excuse my friend, he is very immature and likes to joke a lot,"Domus spoke, while glaring at a smirking Sarian, " we are the two chosen people from the prophecy thing."
"So I'm supposed to train with you? Where? When?" Harry asked.
" You will come with us tonight and train for a year. We will go to Laudosain, our village, there you will be trained in martial arts, wandless magic as you call it, elemental magic, and ancient magics," Domus said.
" Hold on, I can't go away for a year, everyone will worry too much. Plus, I've got school and my friends..." Harry started but was interrupted by Domus holding up his hand.
" I'm sorry, it is my fault I didn't explain this earlier. Laudosain is put in a different time zone than you, in fact all of Elandeal is. A month in your world is a year in ours, so you will only be spending a month away. As for your friends, you can still communicate to them by owls, we have already informed your Headmaster, Dumbledore, of this and he agrees that you will need this training," Domus said calmly.
At the mention of Dumbledore, Harry visibly stiffened. The man he had once thought of as a friend had lost his trust last year. He forced himself to push these thoughts out of his head and turned back to something that Sarian was saying.
"...So we will need to be leaving soon so you can meet the king and queen, otherwise known as my dad and mum."
" Wait, I'm meeting the king and queen? Uh, your dad and mum?" Harry asked.
"Yes, in fact you will be staying in our Manor while you are in Laudosain," Sarain said, sounding really bored at the mention of his house.
" Right, we should be leaving soon," Domus said, clearing his throat rather loudly.
Harry quickly gathered all his possessions that he would need and shoved them in his trunk. He did a shrinking charm on the trunk and placed it in his pocket. He turned to Domus and Sarian and saw that they had produced a portkey from one of their cloaks.
" Grab on," Domus said. Harry immediately felt the lurch in his navel region as the portkey activated and he was swept from his room on Privet drive. He landed seconds later in a large room. It looked like a ball room with the stage at one end and a large open floor for dancing. It was decorated with different designs that looked like leaves, and the floor looked like it was carved straight from a tree. He followed the two elves out of the room and down a long hall way, passing a court yard. It was when he passed the court yard that he realized the floor in the ball room was in fact carved out of a tree, seeing as the whole building was carved into a rather large tree.
They entered another room that was decorated with different tapestries of kings and knights, and at the far end sat two people on thrones. Sarain and Domus walked up to the woman on the left and hugged her briefly.
" Mum, this is Harry, he's chosen to be trained by us. Harry this is my mum, Celestra, and this is my dad, Tarius. Mum, Dad, this is Harry, the child of light," Sarian said.
Celestra smiled and came down off the throne and enveloped Harry in a motherly hug. Harry, feeling awkward yet comforting, hug her back. " If you need anything, just ask us dear," she said, flashing Harry another smile. Harry smiled and thanked her.
" Well, I'll take Harry up to his room, he's going to need his sleep for tomorrow," Sarain said. He said goodnight to Tarius and Celestra and headed down another corridor. He came to a set of doors and opened them. Harry gasped when he saw what lay before him. It was a large common room, much like the one in Griffindor tower. It branched off into two different rooms, one was a library, and the other was a master bedroom that had a master bath branching off of it.
" This is where you will be staying for the year. I suggest you get a lot of sleep, you have to be up at 6'o'clock tomorrow morning for training," Sarain said, and with that he left Harry alone in his " Suite." Harry explored his rooms some more before changing into some pajamas left at the end of his bed. He crawled into his large bed and put his glasses on a side table. He sat with his eyes open, looking at the ceiling for a while. He thought about all that happened to him that night, his birthday, and thought about his training tomorrow and all he was going to have to learn. ' Hermione would love to be here, she's going to die when she hears what I've learned' Harry said, smiling to himself. And with that thought, Harry closed his eyes and fell asleep, having the first nightmare-free night in a long time.
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