Harry Potter and The Power Within

Chapter Seven - The Dragon and the Phoenix

AN: I'm writing this as I've just finished the last chapter, I haven't got any chapter header for it yet as I'm not sure what the key thing will be that's going on but it should have one before it goes up (Fingers crossed). I'm also getting swamped down in English with way to many essays to write but I prefer this so ill just do this as they aren't important just practice questions blah blah.

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It had been four months since Harry had arrived at Forge's house and anyone that used to know him, wouldn't now. No longer was he the small skinny and underfed boy-who-lived but now he was a tall, muscle bound and his body could put a Greek God to shame. When Forge had said that being a War Mage made him a lot more stronger he failed to mention that his muscles could also develop a lot faster because of that special little gift, it made it easier to build up strength but didn't help him learn magic, he learnt it all the hard way and it was only his sheer determination that made him always cast the spell within the second or third attempt.

Forge was an incredibly good teacher and now Harry could cast wandless spells without even thinking about it and they were always accurate. Harry was also an Occlumency and Legimency master although Legimency was useless because of telepathy so he could get passed anyone whether they knew Occlumency or not.

Harry could now wield both his weapons at the same time and could now fight Forge for more than 3 hours before Forge beat him. He was also training in martial arts and he found this the easiest to do next to using his axe.

Lord Drake Harry James Potter could now easily defeat any death eater that stood in his path and could give Voldemort and Dumbledore a run for there money but he didn't have the battle experience or spell knowledge to defeat Voldemort head on yet.

Today though Harry was exceptionally happy because at last Forge was going to teach him how to change into his dragon form and his Animagus form. Harry had been excited about this since he had been told he could do it and Forge refused to tell him what kind of Dragon he would be, if he even knew, and it was driving Harry nuts.

As Harry looked around his room he smirked to himself, his room was no longer bare but it had a sitting area, a Muggle TV that would only play movies and nothing else, a full wardrobe and a small kitchen area. It had taken him nearly a month just to make his room big enough to fit everything in and now he was trying to work on how to add a gym but he needed to work on how to make his room even bigger because the charm he had used to do it in the first place was only meant to be used on trunk and Harry had to put a lot of power behind it in order for him to make his entire room grow bigger.

He quickly left his room with a towel in his arm and went to take a long shower to ease his muscles, Forge had been partially rough on him the day before and Harry was still feeling the effects of what had happened.

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Forge had decided that Harry was good enough with his weapons for Forge to stop holding back on him so he took both his swords and attacked Harry. It was over in less than ten minuets with Harry panting heavily on the floor and both his weapons embedded in the wall. Forge had completely thrashed Harry, but inside Harry knew it was only time till it would be the other way around, and he swore to himself that he would train with his weapons in all the spare time he had in between making improvements on his room or doing research for Forge.

Forge feeling pity on him decided to tell him the next day he would teach him how to use his animagus form so that he wouldn't feel to bad.

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Harry had just finished in the shower feeling much better now that the hot water had now relaxed him and allowed him to walk around with the elegance he had developed through his martial arts and swordsman ship.

He was munching on a bit of toast when he sensed Forge enter the room and he leapt from his chair just in time to see it fall apart in two halves and Forge standing there with one of his swords out grinning.

"Your learning quickly, I see"

"I learn from the best" said Harry with a wink.

"Are you saying that I'm a good teacher!" said Forge with a face of mock horror.

"No I'm saying that I'm a good teacher as I taught myself to avoid you when you enter a room"

"Hmph"

And Forge started doing his marathon meal, seeing how much he could force down his neck in as little time as possible. After about half an hour of Forge stuffing his neck he stood up and told Harry.

"Come meet me in the field room, we are going to need room for this"

"I'm already there"

And he wasn't lying, he used his powers to jump and was in the room before Forge even blinked.

"I'm going to kill that kid!"

Forge walked into the room five minuets later with a scowl on his face.

The room itself looked like it was outside, it had a blue sky, and a vast open plane, where you could imagine wild horses running around all day. Harry had to keep reminding himself that it was still inside but couldn't help but look around and have a sense of being out doors.

"What the hell do you think you are doing!"

"What?" said Harry looking startled at Forge's reaction.

"Don't jump around my house like that or you could get stuck in mid jump and you are going to need your power today to reach your animagus abilities because we aren't stopping till you manage it!"

Harry groaned, he remembered hearing that it took his dad ages to reach his form and he had to do it in one day in order for Forge to let up on him.

"Ok, ok chill out Forge, don't worry about it, there hasn't been anything I cant learn in less than a day"

"Except how to stop acting like an idiot you mean or controlling your mood swings?"

"HEY! I'm a teenager I'm allowed to. What's your excuse?"

"YOU!"

"Fair enough, so how do I do this shape shifting stuff then?"

"To start off with you need to empty your mind and sit there with your head empty, once you've reached this stage to find your animagus form you need to allow your animal within to come to you and you need to tame it"

"You mean there is an animal inside my head?"

"Its just an animal image of yourself, ok now do it and tell me when you've found it!"

Harry did as he was told and sat on the grassy floor. He closed all his senses and pushed all thoughts from his mind and sat there with complete peace of mind wondering how he could find his animal within. He scoured over all the animals he had ever herd of when he felt and tingling in the back of his head. He shut off all his mind and then he felt the tingle again but stronger this time. Slowly he started to see a black shape enter his minds eye, it was a phoenix! And it was jet black with the tips of all of its feathers tipped in gold and a lightning bolt graze across its beak. Harry just sat there looking in awe as it sang inside his head when it turned back into the black shapeless thing again and this time started to randomly flick through every non-magical animal there was on the planet, alive or extinct.

Forge sat opposite Harry reading his thoughts as they slowly emptied and he watched as Harry went through every animal he had herd of till he sensed Harry's animagus coming foreword in Harry's mind. Then the impossible happened. Forge was thrown from Harry's mind and he laid there on the floor gasping for breath. No one had EVER managed to do that to him before.

He sat up and looked at Harry. Respect shinning in his eyes fro the boy he had sword to train and help until he was not needed anymore. He was still thinking when there was suddenly a flash and Harry's aura was active again full force. Forge gasped as he felt Harry's entire power as his pulsated around him and he could see Harry's face scrunched up in concentration as he slowly got bigger and bigger and darker.

When all the animals had stopped passing before Harry's mental eye he felt a warm inviting feeling and he could see another shadow, but this one wasn't shapeless, it was a Dragon. Harry had never seen or herd of a Dragon that looked anything like this before. It made the dragon Harry had fought with in his fourth year look like a baby. It was the size of a small tower in height and had a heavy built body. Its skin was jet black except for on its underside there was a giant lightning bolt shape in a fire red colour. The dragon had spines going up its back and round its head.

The Dragon let off an earth shattering roar and fire flew from its mouth and consumed Harry. Harry's entire body started to tingle and he could feel his every fibre changing with the power the dragon had breathed upon him and he could feel himself change. His skin and bones suddenly felt like they were being ripped apart and being put together again in the wrong order. Once it was over Harry opened his eyes to see that the floor was along way down and Forge was looking up at him extremely pale. Harry let out a startled yell when he realised that he was so much bigger but it come out in a ground rolling roar. He saw Forge cover his ears and look up into Harry's eyes.

He herd Forge's voice clearing in his head

'Think of your own body, think of what it felt like to be in your own body and what it looked like in every detail and you will change back'

Harry did as he was told and he felt his body changing again but it didn't hurt as much this time but it still hurt all the same. When his eyes opened this time he was back to being level with Forge again.

"Whoa, that was so cool"

"Harry, I've never seen a dragon like that before, its wing span is easily 500 meters long. There isn't a Dragon in existence with that size, that can't be your animagus form, is it?"

"Well, no, I saw a phoenix first then it changed it to every non-magical creature that's ever existed, but once it faded I felt like there was something else, and I saw it, and it breathed its fire on me and next thing I know I'm the Dragon!"

"Ah, it makes sense now, you found your Drake Form, this is the true form you have, it is the sign of the Drake Lord. I am honoured to be the first person to ever see it." Forge then bowed in front of Harry for the third time since he had been making Harry feel really nervous.

"Don't start doing that again, PLEASE!"

"Hehe, sorry couldn't resist, literally"

They spent most of the day going through every animal Harry or Forge could think of that wasn't magical and by the end of the day Harry had transformed into 10 different dinosaurs as well, which made Forge break out laughing when Harry turned into a pterodactyl and took Forge for a flight round the room.

By the end of the day Harry still couldn't turn into the phoenix though and Forge wouldn't let him leave till he did.

"But I don't know how, every time I ask it to give me some of its power it vanishes on me!"

"You need to get its trust, remember its still only part of you, so it can be done"

"ok, ok ill try gimme a sec"

Harry sat and focused his mind when he felt something click inside his head, and the phoenix appeared in his mind again but Harry didn't move or say anything, he sat there in front of the phoenix staring it in the eye and waiting for it to make the first move.

Slowly but surely the Phoenix hopped a step closer, then another step, till it was within arms length of Harry, but still Harry didn't move and waited for the Phoenix to do something. Suddenly it burst out in song and jumped onto his shoulder singing. It wasn't just singing inside his head anymore either but Forge could also hear it from his position in front of Harry. He felt his spirit lifting with the song and remembered things he had forgotten for longer than the age of man.

Harry felt like he was on fire and opened his eyes to see flames covering himself but then as the flames died down he noticed he was a lot smaller than usual and Forge seemed to be silently crying in front of him. He tried to ask him what was wrong but it just came out as an elegant whistle. He flew onto Forge's shoulder and began to sing. He didn't know what he was singing but it seemed to just be instinct and he could feel Forge start to pull himself back together again, so Harry jumped off his shoulder and with a slight crunching noise Harry was sitting before Forge again.

"Are you ok Forge?"

"Yeah, sorry kid, was just remembering things I didn't want to"

"Um, ok, are we done today then?"

"Yeah sure, ill see you tomorrow and we will continue where we left off yesterday, k?"

"Yeah sure, see you then Forge"

Harry stood and quickly left Forge to be by himself, he knew what it was like to remember things he didn't want to like when Sirius had fallen through the veil, although it was along time ago, it still hurt to think about.

Forge sat there thinking of his old home, before he had to be the Forger of Heroes. 'It does no good to dwell on the past' and with that he pulled himself up and jumped to his secret room Harry still hadn't managed to find yet.

AN: Sorry its short but I couldn't really do much in this chapter and I don't want to go too in depth on Forge's past because its just going to side track the story and be a pain in the backside, happy reading, two chapters in one day, I' doing good