Harry Potter and The Power Within

Chapter 4 - At Home With Forge

AN: Wow two chapters in one day, I be on a roll, me thinks ill just sit and write this story tonight, and to letcha know, I'm still in need of a beta reader e-mail me at IdimmuIdpa Hotmail . Com. Without further ado I present chapter 4 and I may even get chapter 5 up tonite if Im feeling friskey! Which will also be at Forge's house and he will remain a main character throughout the story hopefully and this is where you find out about him

Harry awoke a second time that night, only this time it was only one minuet to his 16th birthday and the man named Forge was sitting next to him on the bed.

Forge was the perfect human male specimen. He looked to be about 6'9" and covered in strong toned muscles. His hair was jet black and hung in a loose pony tail that reached halfway down his back. He was wearing two swords strapped across his back, one hilt coming over each shoulder. Harry couldn't see what the blades of the swords were like because they were in sheaths but if the hilt was anything to judge by, they would be mighty looking things and he didn't want to be stuck at the other end of one.

He had an elegant yet weather beaten face, it had the ability to melt the heart of even the coldest woman yet scare the bravest of men. Everything was there to make everything else look better. But his eyes, those eyes, they were the most daunting part of him. His eyes were amber, the same colour of a hunting wolf, piercing and analysing anything they say, making you shudder if when he stared into you.

Harry was ripped away from staring into his eyes when Forge's booming voice disturbed him.

"You need to get ready, in 20 seconds you will be 16 and your full powers will activate within you and I'm sorry to say it wont be painless, 10 seconds"

"You mean all that stuff with the phoenix wasn't just a dream after all" he sighed.

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Suddenly Harry's eyes flew open as the power flooded through his body. A powerful silver glow was starting to form around him and he could see Forge stepping back out of its way. He was forced to look away and another massive jolt of power ripped through him again causing him to scream out. The pain was like nothing he had felt before, it was more intense than even when his Uncle was having his 'fun' with him or even when Voldemort cast the Cruciatus curse on him, this was three fold that. Another power burst fired into his body causing Harry to scream out in agony and making Forge cringe as he herd it.

Forge was shocked at what he was seeing, this boy was growing into his power like had had seen hundreds of times before, but all of them had a gold power aura and Harry's was a pure white, this meant that he was a damn sight stronger than anything Forge had taught before and it scared him, it scared him a lot. Another thing that was different with Harry was that it had already been twenty minuets and was still screaming in agony from the power coming into him, yet even with Merlin it was over in five minuets and Merlin passed out within two minuets of it, yet here was Harry, spending twenty minuets in the most pain he will probley ever feel in his life and it was still happening.

At the thirty minuet mark, Harry couldn't take any more and he passed out with the power still flowing into him, the moment he fainted the powering going into him doubled in pace and strength.

To say that Forge was shocked was an understatement, he hadn't been shocked for millennia, yet here was a sixteen year old boy, making him stand open mouthed and eyes bulging. At the rate the kid was gathering strength he was going to rival him. Forge knew he was going to be powerful, a lot more powerful than most of the people he took in for training, and just for that you had to have power levels that beat any other wizard of the era, but if he knew he was THIS powerful he would of taken it into serious consideration if he was strong enough to ground his power till he had the control needed not to destroy himself, and Forge's home.

After one hour Harry's body stopped sucking up all the magic it could and the his aura started to die down and lay him on the bed. Forge was still standing there in complete shock as to what he had seen, never in all his time of being a Forger of Heroes had he seen something like that, he felt honoured just being in the same room as Harry.

Forge moved over to where Harry lay and checked to see if he was alright, apart from passing out though he seemed fine so he pulled the blanket over the now sleeping Harry and left him to his dreams.

Harry awoke yet again in the white room, yet it was all blurry so he reached for his glasses to find them not there anymore. As he sat up to look for it, but the room suddenly gave a lurch and Harry started feeling the nights before after shock, all his muscles hurt and it felt like something was digging into his nose.

He lifted his hand to find that his glasses were already on, which he thought was weird because his vision was all obscure, so he did what any logical person would do, he took them off, only to find that the room came into razor sharp vision, loads better than when his glasses used to work.

"That's weird" said Harry, "I wonder why I can see without them?"

"Ah, that's an easy one, not usually the first question I get, but is still an easy question to answer all the same" came the cheery response from Forge.

Harry jumped and spun round to see Forge sitting there grinning at him, but the smile never reaching those predator eyes, Harry quickly wished he hadn't moved that fast coz his head started throbbing painfully making his eyes water. Forge just laughed and started explaining about Harry's vision.

"You don't need glasses anymore because to put it blunt, your magic has healed anything that is wrong with you except the scar, as that is meant to be there by destiny, once all the throbbing and after shock dies down, which shouldn't be too long, you will feel like one thousand Gallons.

"You mean all that pain and power wasn't just a really bad dream Voldemort sent me?"

Forge just chuckled and shook his head.

"Now I thinks its time from breakfast, I dunno bout you but I'm starving after just watching you take in all that power, so you coming or am I going to have to carry you there?" he said with a strange twinkle in his eye, not unlike Dumbledore's.

Harry never got a chance to answer because just as he was about to his stomach gave an almighty roar, Harry just gave a sheepish grin,

"I guess I am, but I need some clothes" he said with a slight tinge appearing on his cheeks.

"Ohhhhh, how stupid of me" and with a swish of his hand lose fitting trousers and a cotton shirt appeared on his bed, "sorry bout that, I kinda get carried away with the moment if you get me" Forge said with his grin planted firmly on his face. "cya out there in a lil bit then"

He stood up and left the room in three graceful and powerful strides, leaving Harry to himself. He crawled out of his old blood soaked rags and into the new comfortable clothes curtsey of Forge. As soon as he put the clothes on the shrunk down to fit him perfectly, and he noticed that his body was a lot more developed now, he had toned muscles that he could of sworn he didn't have the day before.

Harry just assumed it was a perk of gaining more power, so he ignored it and followed out the door Forge just left out of. The room outside the sleeping chamber was reminded Harry strongly of the Ministry because it was just a circular room made out of the same white marble and the walls were just covered with doors and in the middle of the room sat Forge, eating at a small circular table at a speed even Ron would have to be impressed by.

Forge turned up to see Harry standing there gawping at the room and watching him eat so he chucked and called over,

"Oi, you gunna stand there watching me eat or are you gunna grab a seat and stuff your face too?"

Harry blushed deeply and scuttled over to the chair and started eating slowly but suddenly he felt a sudden hunger come over him and he started eating at a speed to match Forge, which he noticed stopped eating and just sat there shocked at the speed Harry was going. 'I've never met anyone that can match me eating like that, it just never happens.'

Harry was too hungry to wonder why Forge had stopped and just kept on ploughing through it like he was never going to get fed.

It was a good hour later when both the men stopped eating and sat back in the chairs satisfied. It seemed that the plates were similar to the ones in the Great Hall at Hogwarts because they never seemed to run out but once they were finished they were spotless.

Harry was startled out of his thinking when Forge let out an enormous belch that even Dudley would have to admit was one long belch. Harry merely smirked and let rip one of his own, which was a few seconds long and a touch louder.

"You trying to compete with me or something kido?" Forge said amused.

"Nope, its just coming naturally, and please don't call me kido, someone I used to know who I was real close to used to call me that and he passed away not long ago" said Harry guilt starting to wash over him.

"Ah, don't worry about it, and stop being guilt, I'm sure it wasn't your fault, ok, mite as well start your training here, lesson one, learn to control your emotions, if your enemy can control you through your emotions, it could cause you to make a mistake or give the enemy something over on you, ok?"

"And how exactly am I meant to do that, you could of at least given me some instruction on how to do it, and for your information I did kill him, I was there i know what happened and you weren't so butt out!"

"OK, OK, anyways to control your emotions, just empty your mind, visualise a steel box in your minds eye, and pull all your thoughts, worries, and emotions into the box, then close and lock the box, the shove it off your mental screen, tis as easy as that!"

Harry did as he was told, but he couldn't quite get the hang on it, he could get all his thoughts in the box and his mind would become silent but then waves of emotion would flow over him breaking his concentration.

"I can't do it, my emotions just keep on swamping me" Harry said feeling like he had let forge down somehow.

"Hey don't worry kid, you wont get it first time and we've got plenty of time, but today we get you used to doing wandless magic, because one reason is you don't have your wand and second reason is if you get caught without your wand your fucked to do magic, this way you will always be able to do magic and never been completely defenceless."

"KOOL! When do I start?"

"Right now" and Forge pulled out a candle "I want you to light that up"

"Uh, how am I meant to do that?"

"Feel the magic inside you, tap into its reserves and pull it to your finger tips then push it towards the candle and tell it what you want to do to the candle"

So Harry closed his eyes and focused on the power within him, and when he found it he nearly shouted out in shock, he didn't just have a little magic, but he had oceans on it, all for him to use, but he had a task at hand and he wasn't going to fail this one. Harry focused on his magic and drew it into his hand where he felt a tingle which meant he had succeeded so far, and he opened his eyes and pushed the magic out to the candle.

He nearly fell off his chair when he saw the candle AND the table vaporize into ash. Forge just chuckled and said,

"I think you over did it a bit there kid, next time not so much" but as he had just finished talking he saw Harry faint "this is going to take sometime to get him used to me thinks" and with that he picked Harry up and took him back to the bed and laid him down to sleep.

Tomorrow was going to be a big day.

AN: And yet another chapter up and in the same day, I'm in a roll, woooo go moi