This might make some of you really mad at me but the next week or so there may be no work on any of my stories. The reason being Call of Duty 2 is coming out and I am a CoD junkie. But I will make sure they are worked on. I don't really want to not work on this because it's still the beginning but CoD calls to me.

Previously

But, alas, all good things must come to an end. The Weasleys left not long after, leaving the Potters to clean up after the party. James told Harry to just have fun with his new things, it was Harry's birthday after all.

Chapter 2 – Powers Bestowed

Later that night, after the remains of the party were cleaned up, we find Lily and James sitting quietly in their living room. James was reading The Prophet and Lily was checking her e-mail. Yes, the Potter's do have a computer because Lily said she thought they were very handy. (Fanfic proves that, but for this we'll pretend Fanfic doesn't exist.) They were suddenly disturbed from their peace from a blood curdling scream from the upstairs of their house.

James whipped out his wand and ran up the steps, Lily just behind him. The saw Jess come out of her room looking frightened.

"What's going on daddy?" She asked James in a scared voice. "Is that evil man here?"

"No, go back to your room, we'll be in to make sure your okay once we see what's wrong with Harry." Lily said as James rushed past Jess. James threw Harry's bedroom door open to see the boy writhing on the floor, scratching at his face.

"Harry! Harry, are you all right?" James shouted over his sons screaming. Harry just continued screaming, not noticing his mother and father lift him onto his bed. James cast the Immobulus charm to keep the boy from hurting himself. They both watched Harry, hopeless on what to do for a few minutes.

"He should go to St. Mungo's." Lily said quietly. A tear rolled down her cheek and a moment later, a grandfather clock in the hall chimed midnight. As soon as the clock quieted, Harry stopped quivering and his screaming abruptly stopped. James still took Harry and vanished to St. Mungo's

"Mommy, will Harry be alright?" Jess asked quietly from the door.

"I don't know." Lily said, just as quietly. She scooped her daughter up and walked back to the living room where she sat to wait for her husband to return home with news.

The next morning James walked into his house on Godric's Hollow to see his wife and daughter asleep on the couch. James stumbled over to them and plopped down beside the two. He was tired but happy.

When James sat down Lily woke with a start and looked at James for a second before remembering what happened. "What wrong to Harry?" She asked worriedly.

"He's fine. The healers said that he was just sleeping." James informed.

"But what about all the screaming? He looked like he was in excruciating pain." Lily said, still sounding worried.

"Now that the Healers couldn't explain. Their best guess is Harry was having a really bad nightmare." James said, looking perplexed. "But I don't believe it. No one could suffer that much from a dream."

"Well, I'm going to visit him. Why don't you take a rest? I'll bring Jess along so you don't have to worry about her." James nodded, still looking in deep thought. Lily just shrugged it off and nudged Jess awake.

"What time is it?" Jess groaned. "Oh! How's Harry?" She suddenly asked.

"The Healers say he's fine. We're going to visit him now while your father sleeps. He's had a long night." Lily glanced over her shoulder to see James's eyes already closing. "Let's go quietly." Lily whispered. Jess nodded and crept up the stairs.

Harry's eyes snapped open to see a lush green forest. He looked around and took in everything he could. 'Where am I?' He asked himself. A voice from up in a tree startled him.

"Well, I see you have made it Harry." The figure said. Harry could tell he was male by the large muscled arms that were exposed from the brown cloak he wore, but that's all he could find out about the man. The cloak covered every part of his body and his hood was pulled over his face, completely covering it.

"Who are you?" Harry asked the man.

"I am no one. My only purpose is to inform your Animal Sorcerer duties." The man said as he jumped from the tree, landing gracefully. "I see you do not know what an Animal Sorcerer is. Well, he is a magical being with a link to animals. They will strengthen you physically, magically and mentally. You will have two of you own and they will be family to you. You will help them and they will help you. What your duty is to protect the world, muggle and magical. There are four other Animal Sorcerer's around the world, but you should not have to meet them. I believe they are all quite well hidden. Anyways, your animals should be here in a moment." Harry nodded, stunned with this information.

'Animal Sorcerer? I've never heard of them. I wonder what else I'll be able to do." Harry thought. He was quickly pulled from his contemplation when two light weights hit him. One on the shoulder and one, slightly painful, on his chest. Harry looked down to see a small lion cub clinging to his chest with its claws poking into his skin. He looked at his shoulder and saw a beautiful phoenix with gold and light green plumage.

Harry suddenly knew what to do and looked at the cub still hanging on his chest. Harry noticed the claws had dug into his skin slightly and a drop of blood was forming at each spot. Harry smiled and both the cub and phoenix seemed to know what to do as well. The cub jumped off Harry and after landing, gave itself a small cut on one of its legs. Harry saw the light tan colored fur darken. He ran his finger over a few of the cuts and moved his lightly bloodied finger to the cut on the cub. When they touched they both felt a rush in their head before their minds merged. Harry quickly repeated the process with the phoenix and felt a similar rush.

The man watched silently before disappearing into the trees. 'My job is done. Good luck young Harry' And with that, the entire forest disappeared.

Harry jumped awake to two light weights suddenly appearing on his torso, quickly followed by a scream beside him. Harry turned up to see Lily staring at the cub. Harry quickly remembered her name. "It's alright mom. Apparently I'm an Animal Sorcerer and these are my animals. The cubs name is Duscha and the phoenix is Atherol. I guess they are... related to me now." Harry trailed off at the end as the thought hit him. Jess was marveling at Atherol who now stood proudly next to Harry.

'Are these people safe to trust?' Harry heard a young male voice ask in his head.

Alright! Chapter 2 done! Still not as long as I would like it to be, but I'm getting way to slow on my updates. Not much to say, so hope you liked it! Please review!