Harry Potter and The Power Within
Chapter Five - The Weapons and Fight
AN: Here's the next instalment hopefully this will be the longest chapter so far and I want you opinion, chapter as short as 1-4 or one as long as this one? Well here it is Chapter Four!
Harry slowly woke up feeling like he had run a marathon and been knocked over by a train all in one go. He slowly raised his head to see the whole world spin around him. He quickly shut his eyes and took several deep breaths.
"What happened yesterday" he said thinking aloud.
Chuckling in the corner made him whip round and see was there and he saw those emotionless amber eyes looking back at him even though the face was chuckling.
"It wasn't yesterday, it was one week ago, you give yourself quite a drain, I've never seen anyone do wandless magic to that extent on the first try before, I was only expecting a small spark. Are you always this surprising? Because if you are this could be quite an interesting time" said Forge chuckling again, but the mirth never reaching his predatory eyes.
"Yeah I spose i am, I've never been able to follow rules, or rules have just never been able to follow me" he said with a shrug.
"Fair enough, young one……..OH! Where are my manners, would you like a tour of where you shall be staying? You shall be the first to get a tour of The House Of Forge in quite a long time."
"Um, ok…" said Harry getting a little nervous of why Forge was so chipper but his eyes always looking at him as if analysing how good he was, making Harry feel really un-nerved.
So with that Forge leaped up and grabbed Harry and pulled him up too. Harry swayed slightly on his feet as his entire body throbbed with pain, so he closed his eyes and tried to keep his balance. After a few moments he found his centre of balance and felt a cold piece of metal being pushed into his hands and opened his eyes to find a goblet full of a dark blue potion.
"Here, drink this, it will make you as good as new"
So with that Harry downed the potion in one go expecting it to taste foul but was surprised to find that it tasted strangely of peppermint which soothed his throat as it went down and he felt all of his body relax and un-tense and all the pain flood out of him.
"Wow, you've got to tell me how to make this!"
"Don't worry potions is in the training, so you will learn how to make it and many other potions" said Forge eyes glinting showing a spark of emotion. Harry wasn't sure what was worse, his eyes emotionless, or them sparking suddenly like that. "Anyway, this is of course you're room, or at least the room you will be staying in till you've finished training then you will go back to your Aunt and Uncle's home.
"WHAT! No, you cant send me back there, they will kill me! You don't know what its like!"
"Don't worry so much kid, when you go back there, people will think more than twice before trying to mess with you, even Voldemort is going to get a run for his money."
"You keep going on about my training, what training? Why am I getting training? Why does everything have to happen to me!?" Harry screeched at the top of his lungs. Forge just stood there totally unfazed and answered,
"First off, you are being trained because you have immense power, and if you are not trained, you're going to go off like a Muggle Atom Bomb. I believe I also answered you second question, and for your last question, you have no choice what happens in life. You are what you are, and you can become nothing but that. I am a trainer, forever to stay here and train those that need to be trained. You are going to be a very powerful warrior, and that is what you must do. It is not my place to say if you will be a light or dark warrior, that is your choice alone, but if you strike any of descendants of any of my past students, you will have me to fight, and that is not something you want to happen" said Forge, his eyes starting to slowly glow more and more till they were blinding to look at, then as fast as it started his eyes snapped back to there usual, yet un-usual, amber colour.
Harry just stood there in shock, he had just been told that if he was to strike anyone that had one of his students in there blood Forge would come and try and kill him.
"What about if some of Voldemort's Death Eaters have the blood of one of your students in them? What can I do then?
"Kill them!" Forge said with his eyes glowing again, "any of my students that turn to the dark light lose there right of protection from me, and I curse all there children through the generations to never have my strength protecting them"
Harry stood there gob smacked, power seemed to roll of him in a physical form as he could noticeably see Forge getting pissed off at what he was saying. Trying to change the subject Harry asked,
"So what about this tour of your great house then?"
"OH YEAH! I nearly forgot bout that, anyways, as I said before, this will be your room, feel free to decorate it as you wish, but I spose you wont be doing that till you get the knack of wandless magic, ey?
"You mean this is my very own room?"
"Yup, so feel free to do what you want in here" Forge said beaming down at him, when Harry suddenly noticed a familiar emotion leaking through his eyes, 'Was that respect', Harry just mentally shook himself and looked around the room again.
"What about furniture?"
"It's a motive to work hard on your wandless magic, you have to conjure anything you want in your room" he said chuckling slightly, "Merlin wasn't impressed by that though, he ranted on at me for weeks till I eventually gave in and used a silencing charm on him" he said chuckling again.
Harry was once again, shocked into silence, 'Merlin gout taught here, why do I feel I already knew that', Harry just shrugged again and tried to reform his face from gawking.
Forge just smirked and though 'This is going to be interesting, I've never taught anyone with more power than me, wonder if he can do the lessons I was meant to give to the One' He snapped back to reality and noticed Harry was ready to look round more of his house to he left the room closely followed by Potter.
They came out back into the room with loads of doors, but the table had vanished now and it was filled with sofas and large comfortable armchairs.
"Before you even think about it, this stuff cant be dragged into your room, as soon as it passes the door it will vanish, Godric learned this the hard way" said Forge smirking again.
"You mean Godric Gryffindor? One of the Four founders of Hogwarts?"
Yup and yup, so he made a school ey? That would have been interesting to see, always thought he was a nice bloke, even if he was full of pranks and annoying me nearly all the time, he was fun to be round"
Harry was, yet once again shocked, that Gryffindor could have been so normal, he was one of the powerfullest of the four founders and he acted like the Weasley Twins. He was still lost in thought as Forge moved around him and boomed at the top of his voice,
"BOO!"
"ARGH!" Harry leapt a foot in the air and felt like his heart had stopped, "Don't DO that! Are you trying to kill me?"
"Nope, but you shouldn't space out like that, you don't know what could have happened, and by the time your training starts fully you will wish I did kill you" Forge said with once again, that scary glint in his eye, making Harry gulp nervously.
"Well anyways, this is the Hall of Doors, from here you can access anywhere in the building, although no door leads outside, some doors do lead to fields and forests that are kept within my home for certain training reasons, and each door is marked with a number so before long you will know wish door goes where, and you should remember your room is door number nine as the furniture likes to move around sometime just to confuse you."
Harry looked around and suddenly noticed that near the top, dead centre of the door there were roman numerals, so Harry figured it couldn't be too hard to work out his way around, there only seemed to be about twenty doors.
Forge moved over to door one,
"Might as well do things in order, we have got plenty of time"
"How long exactly am I going to be here for?"
"Until you finish your training, obviously"
"But how long will that take?"
"About two years if you work on it constantly"
"WHAT! BUT WHAT ABOUT MY FRIENDS, HOGWARTS!?"
"Hey, chill, time works differently here. For you it will seem like you spent to years here, then I will send you back and only two weeks will have passed, so relax a bit, I even sent a note so they know your safe, but I don't think they will believe it"
"So I will spent two years here and only two weeks will pass at home?"
"Yup, time runs either very fast here, or time outside of here runs very slow, depends how you think about it, anyways, as I was saying this is Door #1, it goes to the kitchen, where you will be able to make yourself something to eat, as time has pretty much know meaning as it never gets dark or light, unless you are tired then your room will go dark so you can sleep. But that's going off topic, this is the kitchen, it will always be fully stocked so feel free to eat as much as you want because, trust me, your going to need it" again with the glint in his eye.
He left the room quickly followed by Harry and moved over to Door #2,
"This is the bathroom, as you can see it has a bath and shower, toilet and sink, just your average bathroom I think"
To Harry the place seemed magnificent, he head never seen a bath that big before. It made the bath in the prefects bathroom look like a foot spa. The shower could easily hold 3 people in, and has holes all over the wall, which he assumed shot water at you from all angles. The worst thing was, Forge said it was an average bathroom! The Dursleys would be so jealous when he told them about this, then he was suddenly hit with a question,
"When I go back, am I allowed to tell anyone I've been here?"
"Sure, no one will ever be able to get here and if they somehow manage it, I'm not one to refuse guests. But I advise you don't go spreading it around to much, because people have herd of me and what I do, and it mite not be strategic if your enemies knows how much you have learnt, as you will be learning an awful lot in a very tight amount of space, but I spose it wont be to hard, as all you will be doing is, eating, sleeping and learning for the next two years!"
Forge saw Harry gulp but then a determined look came across his face and shone through his eyes making him radiate his power. Forge nearly gasped out in shock if he hadn't caught himself in time. The power Harry was throwing out with so much ease was enough to seriously challenge Forge. Unlike Harry though, Forge had more than a couple Millennia of experience and knowledge over Harry so if it came to a fight, sure he would get injuries, but Forge would inevitably win.
"HARRY! Control yourself! That power goes un-checked your going to do something an injury"
"Sorry" Harry muffled out looking a bit sheepish then fully embarrassed.
"Hey no sweat, that's what you're here for, to learn how to control yourself"
Forge moved out of the bathroom and Harry reluctantly followed, dragging his eyes away from the perfect looking carvings in the walls and ceiling.
Forge then moved over to Door #3 which he opened to reveal a library that could easily hold 10 of Hogwarts library in it.
"This library will contain every book from your world, and all the books I wrote, which mainly contain spells and potions that have been forgotten or no one was left that was powerful enough to do them, that's why I went and found them all out again and compiled them into a LOT of books. Feel free to have a browse around in your free time"
"Wow, you mean I'm allowed to read anything that's in here?"
"You, but if you plan on doing any of the powerful spells, gimme a shout first, I don't want you hurting yourself. I will never say no unless I have a good reason and I will then forbid you to do it. And if you do it behind my back, you will be expelled from this place in a heartbeat and if you die from magic overuse or a spell backfiring because you put to much power into it, will not be my fault, but your own." Forge said standing tall as if he was stating an ancient law that must be conducted a tall times. It was then that Harry realised it probably was an ancient law that he had made up when something had obviously gone wrong.
"Anyways, enough time in the library, it gets boring in here fast, when you've read every book about 1000 times"
"Uh, ok…what's next?"
"Well if you would follow me I shall show you to Door #5 I shall show you the duelling and armour rooms"
And with that they left the magnificent library, Harry a little reluctant, into the duelling room. This room was massive, roughly the same size as the Great Hall in Hogwarts but along the walls weapons of every kind hung. Anywhere from small throwing daggers to huge Great Axes. Harry spotted an overly long Broad Sword and felt drawn to it. He walked across the room and pulled it down. It seemed to grow warm in his hand and made his whole arm tingle. It felt like it was made to be his and would always be his.
Forge was once again chocked by the young hero in training. When he started walking over to the sword on the wall he was going to call out and not tell him to touch them, but before he had a chance he pulled off the last sword he was expecting to be taken down, yet was expecting it all along.
"Well kid, you've done it again"
"What's that?"
"You've done something I haven't seen done in a very, very long time"
"And what's that?
"You know that sword you just picked off my wall?"
"Yes…" Harry said slowly, becoming very defensive of His sword.
"Well do you want to know its name?"
"Um, ok…" Harry said a little unsure of what to do.
"That would be Excalibur in your hands, the sword of King Arthur himself"
"W-W-W-W What, no way, shouldn't it be in a stone or something?"
"Well actually, it was Arthur that pulled it out of the stone I believe, and he gave the sword to Merlin before he died, and in turn, Merlin gave it to me, so that the next Great One could wield it"
"What do you mean 'Great One'?" said Harry getting more and more nervous about where this was going.
"Don't worry, it wont make you the king of England, well not quite…"
"What do you mean?"
"Well you will be a King of England, but only over the Wizards, and that's only if you claim to it, and your also immune to any laws even if you don't claim your rightful place by merely showing your sword"
"WHAT! that's so unreal, you mean, I could kick Fudge off from Minister of Magic?"
"Harry, you would be a king with absolute power, what every you said, would have to be done, even if it broke a law. The only thing you can't do it give your kingship to someone else unless they can hold Excalibur"
"So you mean, wizards won't have a king, unless the king holds Excalibur?"
"Yup, your highness" said Forge, slowly going down onto one knee and bowing.
"Oh, you can stop that now, I don't want to be a king and if your going to do that, you can send me back now!"
Forge just started chuckling and was about to say something when Harry spaced off again, and started walking to his axes. 'Oh Christ, here we go again…'
Harry suddenly felt a pull from another weapon, so with his sword in one hand he walked towards the wall covered in axes with one hand raised feeling for which one give him the pull. He walked up to a reasonably big one that looked like an enlarged version of a Tomah Hawk. He pulled it down and felt the same warmth spread threw his arm and looked at Forge expecting to hear some dramatic story. But then his body went ice cold, Forge had completely paled and his face matched Snape's for a moment before the colour slowly started to refill his cheeks.
Forge looked at Harry as he pulled down Slayer, one of the three weapons that were created before even Forge was alive, he had never been able to touch it before, because every time he tried to grasp it every bone in his arm would vanish making him have to slowly re-grow them again through a night.
Forge just looked at Harry in wonder then slowly did the formal bow, this time meaning every movement and did a fluent and graceful bend in his spine and brought his first two fingers of his left hand and tapped on his throat three times, the bow to a Drake Lord.
If Harry wasn't scared before he was now, Forge had just lowered down onto one knee and did the most weird thing Harry had seen in his life. He tapped his throat three times, but that wasn't the worst of it.
"I am humbled by your presence Drake Lord, I honour meeting you"
Harry was now fully confused before Forge rose up slowly and then looked deep into his eyes, analysing him again before cracking a grin, only this time, it reached his eyes, and he actually looked human, instead of tome kind of killing machine!
"Why did your call me a Drake Lord?"
"Well you see that axe there? It is one of the oldest thing I have in my possession, even I have never been able to break through the magic that protects it, as I can with Excalibur, but only for about an hour. Every time I touch it, it makes every bone on my arm vanish", Harry winced at this remembering in his second year when Lockhart had done the same thing to his arm and he had to re-grow them all, "that axe is older than I am, and has never been wielded since the start of the Universe to the best of my knowledge. It has now bonded with you as has Excalibur which means, if you are every separated from either of them, you can summon them to you and they will appear. But that's going off topic, that axe…is not made from stone as it looks, it is made out of raw magic, the same stuff that was used in the creation of the universe, it will never break, or go blunt, and will cut through anything except they other two relics of the ancients. Excalibur will cut through anything too, but not as smoothly, but it is a lot easier to handle, and that axe only has a once sided blade and you are restricted in how you are restricted to swinging it."
"So your telling me, I've got a sword that is pretty much indestructible and makes me the king of the English wizards, and an axe that is made out of the magic that God himself uses?"
"That seems about right, yup"
That was all Harry could take in before he ever so smoothly blanked out and both his weapons fell out his hands. Forge banished them back to the wall where they glowed for a minuet before flying smoother to lie back on Harry. 'Looks like he's stuck with them then'. Forge picked Harry up and slowly carried him out of the room and to his bed where he put Harry down and banished his weapons to the floor, either side of Harry's bed so he couldn't hurt himself if he landed on either of them. Forge then walked to the library where he went in search of as much knowledge as he possible could on Drake Lords.
AN: I could leave it here and it would already be the longest chapter yet, but…. As the chapter states, this is Harry's day of a fight, not just getting weapons, so on with the show! (thank me later, hehehe)
Harry slowly woke up thinking he had the weirdest dreams where he had gotten some extremely rare weapons. Harry slowly climbed out of bed when his foot hit something hard and sharp, he let out a yelp of surprise as there at his feet was Excalibur. Harry wondered how well this bond worked what Forge had said and he help his hand out and Excalibur flew up and into his grip, where it fit perfectly.
Harry wondered where his axe was, as he knew Forge couldn't touch it or he would be armless for a while, so he help out his other arm and his axe came flying over it and made a slapping noise as it hit the palm of his hand.
Harry was suddenly knocked out of his testing when he herd clapping coming from the corner and out walked Forge, with a huge grin pasted across his face clapping.
"Very well done, you've only had them a few hours and you've already worked out how to summon them, lets see if there knowledge has been passed down to you, meet me in Door #5 once your reading and we will really push you to your limits" and forge started walking towards the door and left quietly.
Harry sat on his bed examining his weapons. Excalibur was an overly long gold broadsword, with gems imbedded into the blade as well as intricate carvings making the blade sparkle with a life of its own, the hilt was a deep set silver with a carving of to hands clasping the blade and moving down into the hilt itself with an extremely large diamond at the bottom.
"Wow" was all Harry could struggle out. This was easily the most beautiful sword he had ever seen, even though he had not seen a lot, he knew that there couldn't be anything else out there that even came close to how Excalibur was.
He put his sword down and pulled his axe onto his lap. It was a bit heavier than Excalibur and the blade was a dull grey with strange ruin symbols carved into it. On one side there were snakes that looked to be crawling over it and Harry was sure if he looked at them and started talking it would come out in Parselmouth making Harry shudder slightly. He flipped it over and on the other side were more ruins and stars that seemed to be glowing brightly and moving around. Harry wasn't sure if there were moving around or just because they were extremely well done, but he also didn't care.
Harry ripped his gaze away from it and realised he was meant to meet Forge in the duelling room. So Harry grabbed his weapons and sprinted out of his room and into the Hall of Doors. After quickly finding Door #5 he ran into it gasping and was about to apologize when a sharp blade went whizzing about his head. Harry ducked and rolled just in time because where his neck had previously been, a sword had just flown through.
Harry looked at Forge and Forge just looked back with a look in his eye telling him to fight well or be hurt. While Harry was still in though Forge lunged at him, forcing Harry to jump back and drop his axe. As soon as the axe left his hand, Harry felt an itching at the back of his mind that he had just lost something extremely important which was quickly covered up by anger that Forge would make him drop it.
Harry grasped Excalibur in both hands and raised it just in time as Forge swung at his head again. The two blades locked together three inches from Harry's neck. Forge looked at Harry and saw the flame of anger in them and a strange glow of power, 'this should be interesting' he thought to himself as he stepped back, then jumped to the side in amazement as a gold flash grazed across his shoulder.
"That's more like it, attack me, I want to see what you can do!" Forge shouted and his whole mind switched to battle mode; no feelings, no regrets, just do that task at hand.
They both pounced at each other, trading blow for blow, doing the dance of death. There blades clanged and sparked together every millisecond leaving an almost constant ring of metal in the room. But it was obvious Forge was going to win, he had a lot more experience and was a lot stronger, although Harry's muscle mass had increased one hell of a lot after his birthday, but it was still nothing compared to Forge.
Harry was caught off guard as Forge lunged at him again and did a complicated corkscrew with his sword forcing Harry to step back and as he did he felt Excalibur fly from his grip and into the wall opposite him.
"Enough!" Forge boomed.
"Very good Harry, that was the best I have EVER seen someone fight for there first time, if you are as good as studying as you are naturally with a sword this will be over in no time. Now call your swords back and ill show u how to strap them to you"
Harry did as he was told and opened his hands up to feel both of them slap into his hands audibly.
"Now first off where do you want them, this wont really matter as your bond get stronger because they will just appear in your hand, but you still need somewhere to keep them, so where will it be?"
"On my back like yours"
"Fair enough, the back it is" and Forge suddenly had a ball of energy that he stuck to his back and did it again with a bigger ball of energy.
"Now place the sword on yr back somewhere its comfortable and easy to reach"
Harry did as he was told and when he let go he was surprised to find that the sword stayed where it was.
"This is a magic sheath, only you can draw your weapons out of them and they can turn the weapons invisible if you don't want anyone seeing them, which I advise you do round school unless you want to draw attention to yourself, now put your axe on your back"
Harry again put the axe to his back but so the handle pointed over the other shoulder and felt a small tingle which meant it had set and let go.
"Thanks"
"Hey no sweat, you will be able to do it yourself soon and style it instead of being a dull brown, and judging from your power, invent your own to do what you want" he said with a slight chuckle "now go get something to eat then off to bed, you have had quite a busy day"
Harry turned and walked from the room and just as he reached the door Forge shouted,
"Oh and Harry?"
"Yes?"
"Don't go to sleep with them on, I cant see you waking up very comfortable" he said with a smirk. "G'night"
"Night Forge"
AN: and yet another cracking chapter from yours truly If you people want them this long I will do my best but updates wont be always be daily because that took quite a while to do, and I don't think I want to do it every day so it mite be every other day at this size or bigger lemme know what you think in a review
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