Harry Potter and The Power Within

Chapter 3 - The Awakening

AN: I've had my first 2 reviewers, yeyness gives them a hug now jus for more of you to leave a message shakes fists Anyways on with the story!

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All Harry could see was a consuming blackness. Everywhere he looked it seemed to be a complete void except in front of him where he could see a powerful golden light.

"What the hell is that……OH MY GOD, IM DEAD!" were the first thoughts going through the panic stricken Harry. 'Well I spose I'm ment to go towards it' Harry thought then started moving towards the light.

The closer Harry came to the light the warmer and safer he started to feel until the light started moving towards him! The warmth and comfort seemed to flood Harry's senses forcing him to stop and fall to the floor.

Harry sat there in silent awe waiting for what ever it was that was closing in on him when he started to hear the song of a phoenix. To be exact it was the song of The Phoenix, the guardian of life and death, what would be the Christians version of the keeper of keys to the gates of heaven.

Everyone knows that phoenixes will only trust those pure of heart and can sense there very core to know, meaning that putting a phoenix as the guardian of the afterlife is very fitting because if the phoenix has any reason not to trust you then you wont be permitted to enter the afterlife.

As the light drew closer and Harry could actually see where the song was coming from he gasped in complete shock and awe. The magnificent bird was easily the same size as Harry and its feathers were pure white but tipped with black, making the bird shimmer and look like an allusion, if it were not for the song it was playing Harry would of thought it really had all been an illusion but there was no way someone could replicate such a perfect song in every way.

Harry just sat there admiring the bird in all its glory when the singing stopped and left Harry feeling oddly cold, but just as Harry was about to ask why the phoenix started talking to him.

"Young one, you should not be here it is not your time" said the phoenix in a strangely deep voice.

"I didn't choose to be here all though if I knew it was like this compared to my life I probley would have…" Harry trailed off slowly thinking of Sirius's death once again.

"It is not your time to die, you must go back and kill Voldemort for if he reaches his dream of immortality, even in death you shall not be safe, he will have the power to rip through time and space and destroy more than just your world, do you wish to live with the deaths of billions of people hanging over your head. If u challenge him and lose at least you knew that you tried your best and failed." the Great Phoenix said to him slowly as if he was nothing but a small child.

Harry could only nod dumbly at what the Great One had said, 'Am I really the last hope of our world and the universe, this cant be happening, I'm just dreaming, that's it, its all a dream' he thought to himself in despair.

The Phoenix was looking at him sensing what was going through Harry's mind, 'Such a small boy to be burdened with the safety of so many, he has no chance at living a normal and happy life' were but a few thoughts running through the Great One's mind.

"This is not happening! I can't be the saviour of the world I just cant be!"

"Ah Harry but as much as you like to deny it, you have already saved the Wizarding World once have you not?"

"But that was because my mother died for me, the love she had for me was what saved me! Not because I'm anything special, I'm just a freak…"

"Ah, but Harry hasn't Voldemort killed a lot of babies and haven't nearly all there mothers died for them out of love, and yet they also died?"

"NOOO! That can't be true, Dumbledore told me that it was my mother, YOUR LIEING!"

"No Harry, it was Dumbledore that lied because he wanted you to be happy and have a normal childhood, but it seems that cannot be so, I am indeed sorry Harry, but the night your parents died it was you that saved yourself and killed Voldemort, you tapped into the powers that you should get on your 16th birthday, that has never happened before which leads me to believe that you are indeed powerful, easily the most powerful human I have even seen, and I have seen a lot of beings and a lot of power through the ages of eternity."

"So your telling me, I'm more powerful than the four founders and Merlin himself!?"

"Harry, you are more powerful than all of them put together" the bird answered slowly.

"That's impossible, Merlin was the most powerful wizard to ever live"

"Indeed he was, he was very much like your Albus Dumbledore and looked very similar too. But Harry listen, just because Merlin was the powerfullest wizard to ever live does not mean that he was the powerfullest wizard ever TO live now does it?"

"I spose your right, but I cant be that strong, it just cant be true"

"Harry, we have spent longer here than I planned on spending, now listen and listen carefully. I'm going to send you back to world of the living and once there you will be taken to the House of Forge.

Forge is a trainer of all the greatest wizards, both good and evil, you will have ever herd of, including Merlin and the four founders, he is the Forger of Warrior and Heroes. He will take you in and look after you, he will train you as a War Mage and be the strongest that you can be.

Goodbye Harry and I do not want to see you before I see Voldemort" the Great Phoenix said with a wink before vanishing and leaving Harry in the dark before he felt a lurch and a feeling of being pulled down over came him and the last thing he remembered was falling back into his body again.

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Vernon Dursley was standing over the body of his nephew and watched him faint then die with a look of sheer joy on his face.

"That was way to easy, I don't know why I didn't do that sooner, filth freak tainting my house no longer"

He couldn't help but smile broadly as he punched and kicked the now lifeless body of Harry Potter.

He was just unchaining Harry so he could discard him somehow when the boys skin started getting hotter and hotter until it burnt to touch his skin. Suddenly a powerfully bright light surrounded the boy lifting him up.

His uncle stood there mesmerized by the very miracle he was seeing of someone coming back from the dead. Suddenly two deep violet eyes stared out of the flames above the boy and stared at his Uncle and into his very core making him shudder and look away, unluckily for Vernon, the Great Phoenix had just cursed him to damnation and no matter where Vernon looked he saw those violet eyes looking at him and judging him from that day foreword.

The last thing Petunia and Dudley remembered of Vernon Dursley was him laughing like a maniac shouting "Those damned eyes are not going to get me!" right before he through himself down the stairs and breaking his own neck.

Meanwhile in Harry room the light was getting brighter and brighter until with one almighty flash that could be seen for miles around Harry was teleported to the House Of Forge.

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Harry came round slowly and turned over to find himself on a soft, cosy, king sized four-poster bed. He sighed, 'It was all a dream and I'm back at Hogwarts' he reached out and grabbed his glasses off the side cabinet. Slowly everything came into focus and Harry screamed. Loudly.

He was in a white marble room, but the room seemed to be very basic. There was a door which obviously went to other parts of where ever it was he was at. There was a window to his left and a balcony to his right, and that seemed to be all Harry could seem to tell was there, there was his bedside cabinet and of course the bed itself and Harry noticed with a shock, his trunk and the base of his bed.

Suddenly the door burst open and in walked a beast of a man with a worried look on his face.

The man broke into a grin when he spotted Harry awake and suddenly said in a low booming voice.

"Welcome to my house, now your temporary home, this is The House Of Forge, and of course I am Forge!"

That was all Harry could handle before he fainted again and vanished back into the blissful darkness of un-consciousness.

AN: Mite get the next chapter up today, will be about Forge and of course his house . Would also like to thank flute9217 and Revolutionisedblader for being my first reviewers and super powers will be coming chapter after next flute

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