Title: Harry Potter and the Kryptonian Destiny
By: Touch of the Wind
Published: 06-22-05
Completed: 02-05-06
Edited: 07-05-06
Chapter 8
Sirius Black wandered the streets of Smallville trying to understand why his Godson was here and find a map of the town and surrounding area for the location spell to work properly. He took out a picture of Harry; it was a muggle photo since he didn't want to raise any suspicion. So caught up in his thoughts he didn't notice a young women walk out a building and walked directly into her.
The twins, Hermione, Ron, Remus and Mrs Weasley were with him and helped him and the young women up. During the accident Sirius had dropped the picture the young women picked it up for him.
"I'm very sorry, I wasn't watching were I was going clearly enough." Sirius apologised profusely. The young women smiled her face lighting up with beauty. In the background Ron and the twins drooled which elected slaps from Hermione.
"It's okay." She glanced at the picture whilst handing it back.
"How do you know Harry?" She asked curiosity written on her face.
"Wait you know Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Yes." She answered.
"I'm Hermione Granger and this is Ronald Weasley, we're Harry's best friends. The man who bumped into you is Sirius Black Harry's Godfather and the man standing next to him is Sirius's best friend Remus Lupin. The twins are Fred and George Weasley. The red headed woman behind them is Molly Weasley, Fred, George and Ron's Mother." Hermione did the introductions.
"Lana Lang, owner of this Coffee Shop." Lana said whilst motioning behind her.
"Anyway Miss Lang can you tell us how you know Harry?" Remus asked kindly.
"Well Clark Kent is his cousin and Clark's my friend." Lana stated.
"Could you give us the address where Harry is staying?" Remus asked.
"Sure." Lana pulled a pen and pad out of her handbag.
"Harry's staying at the Kent farm." She said whilst scribbling something down on the paper.
"Thank you." Remus said as she handed over the paper.
"Anytime." She smiled and walked away to her car.
"Guys, back to the motel." Remus ordered.
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Once back at the motel they crowded into Sirius's and Remus's room.
"We've got some information on Harry." Sirius said, Hermione then quickly filled everyone in.
"Guys, remember what that girl Lana said, Harry is Clark's cousin, Dudley. So why is Harry lying and who is Clark?" Remus clarified.
"I don't know but we should check out the Kent's." Bill suggested.
"Me and Bill are going to head back home, we can't afford to spend any more time from work or we'll risk our jobs." Charlie said, Mrs Weasley reluctantly agreed.
"Probably only Hermione, Ron and Sirius should go, we don't want to overwhelm the Kent's." Remus said.
"No! I'm going too! Who knows why Harry is staying with these people! They could be starving him for all I know!" Molly Weasley's maternal instincts kicked in.
"Fine! Fred, George you stay here with me, Remus and Ginny to help Charlie and Bill get off safely. Everyone else will go to the Kent's." Arthur Weasley said. They all agreed.
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Late the previous night Harry and Clark arrived back at the Kent's, Scarlet had returned home and offered Bart a place to stay. Bart got quite a few threats from Harry about this. As usual Scarlet arrived for Breakfast with Bart in tow.
After breakfast Scarlet decided to help Martha with the dishes, Harry and Clark went out to do Clark's chores which were also a time for Harry to practice with his powers. Bart on the other hand decided to go with Jonathon Kent to the store to pick up some things and deliver some produce to clients of the Kent's.
"So Harry, are you dating Scarlet?" Clark asked Harry. Harry looked shell-shocked but the light in his eyes told Clark otherwise.
"Yes." He answered after a pause.
"Treat her right or I will kick your arse personally. Got it?" Clark threatened.
Silence.
Harry and Clark both burst out laughing.
"Yeah right. Scarlet would kick my arse personally if I hurt her." Harry chocked out between laughs.
"So true!" Clark said once he regained his breath.
Once there laughter had subsided Clark set out boxing some produce whilst Harry ran up to a field to bring down some supplies. Harry tied the supplies up and with ease he placed them on his back. As he was about some superspeed back to the barn when a painful ringing entered his ears.
Gasping Harry dropped the supplies and staggered to his knees. Closing his eyes he concentrated deeply as he tried to focus on where it was coming from. Yet Harry couldn't pin point any type of location.
Suddenly flashes ripped through his mind and Harry muffled a scream as the images ran through his mind. Then as fast as the flashes first appeared they vanished leaving him breathing heavily on the ground.
The Cave. Harry thought.
He rose steadily into the sky. Harry closed his eyes and let the breeze hit his face. He turned westward and with a burst of speed he set off his body becoming a blur. The people below looked into the sky curious as a loud boom echoed through the sky. Harry had broken the sound barrier. The air displacing and collapsing on it self created a sonic boom.
Harry knew that if the others heard and saw what he did that they would head to the cave.
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Harry quickly mad it towards the cave, he groaned as he saw some workers and Lex there. He flew around the back entrance and quickly entered the cave. After checking that the coast was clear he quickly entered the chamber and the stone door closed behind him as if sensing his need for security.
"Jor-El! You there?" Harry asked feeling a little foolish talking to an empty room.
There was no answer except his area of the table lighting up, Harry quickly walked over to it.
"Zal-El, you heard the summons?" Jor-El's voice filled the cave.
"Summons?" Harry questioned.
"Summons of a stone of knowledge. You have heard the one meant for you Zal-El." Was the cryptic answer Harry received.
"So?"
"So, collect the stone and return here with it and place it in the correct place on the able." Was the clearly frustrated reply that Harry was not getting what he needed to do faster.
"Clark and Scarlet?" Harry asked.
"Cannot accompany you. This was meant for you alone Zal-El."
"Fine. Are you all knowing or something?" Harry asked jokingly.
"Yes." Was his short response, Harry got a sense that wherever Jor-El was he was laughing at Harry.
Harry scowled and headed towards the 'door', turning he asked.
"Jor-El, is it safe to leave without Luthor seeing me?"
"It is safe to leave Zal-El, remember to follow the ringing." Harry scowled and muttered under his breath as he left. Once outside he groaned as a light ringing entered his ears. Sighing he crouched and gathered the air beneath his feet and leapt to the sky creating a sonic boom.
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Scarlet had just finished putting the dishes onto the shelves when the window smashed as a brick came through the window hitting Martha soundly on the head. Martha fell to the floor and Scarlet rushed to her side.
"Mrs Kent?" Scarlet said whilst rolling Martha onto her front.
Scarlet stood up and quickly crossed over to the window and peered out. A face appeared at the window, it was white and gaunt, lifeless eyes stared back at her. It leapt forward grabbing her roughly and immediately she began to feel the draining effects of the meteor rocks coursing through her body.
"Clark! Help!" She screamed whilst struggling but rapidly getting weaker. Scarlet drifted into unconsciousness as the figure dragged her out of the window.
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Clark had just finished his chores as and was going to go and check on Harry since he was taking a long time when he heard a scream that shattered the peaceful silence.
"Scarlet, I'm coming." He yelled and took off towards the house. Clark was at his Mom's side in seconds.
"Mom! Mom!" After getting no response he used his x-ray vision to check for injuries and after finding no serious injuries he carried his Mom to the sofa and laid her comfortably on it. Clark wandered back into the kitchen and found the brick on the floor. He reached out only to pull back when he felt the tiring effect of the meteor rocks.
"Harry. Gotta get Harry." Clark muttered whilst he ran out of the door and shot up to the field, Harry would be in.
All Clark found was a pile of supplies.
"Dammit." Clark looked around.
"The woods." Clark sped off after remembering the barn explosion.
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Harry landed on sand, frowning he looked around. Desert was all he could see and the sun shone down with a harsh intensity on his back. Yet he couldn't see anywhere that could be housing the stone. Abruptly the ground seemed to open up and with the waterfall of sand he fell into an ancient hall. Above him a stone slab moved across the opening and left him in darkness.
Growling at his lick he adjusted his sight to see in the dark. The hall would of being magnificent in its day but now it was crumbling and full of sand. Seeing a corridor he made his way towards it wading through the sand. Harry coughed as he breathed in the musty air combined with the sand. Harry entered the corridor and groaned when he heard another stone slab cover the way into the hall.
"Guess it's too late to turn back." He muttered.
The corridor was blank of anything but dust and cobwebs and of course sand. Sighing Harry continued down the corridor his body alert and tense. Unexpectedly a doorway opened and the corridor in front of him started closing up. Left with no choice Harry dived into the doorway and landed on the floor with a crash. He looked back and saw that he blocked going back the way he came.
"Damn it." Harry crawled down the passage that was only big enough for him whilst crawling. He came to a turn and followed it yet was confused when he came to two turns. Stopping Harry bit his lip and tried concentrated to see if the ringing would come back and guide him.
Looking up when it didn't work he noticed a tunnel going up. Standing up in the tunnel he slowly started floating up it inwardly wincing when he got spiders in his hair from breaking through their cobwebs. Harry came to a turn off and looked down it when a flash of blue light caught his attention near the end. Shrugging he hauled himself into the tunnel and crawled down it. The light became closer.
Harry stopped when he was directly in front of him and gasped seeing it was an orb of blue light floating in front of him. Reaching forward Harry touched the orb and screamed when the orb suddenly turned green and the familiar effects of the meteor rock flowed into his body. Harry snatched his hand away and watched as the now green orb raced down the tunnel. A daunting laugh could be heard as Harry collapsed in the tunnel. Harry shivered as everything went black.
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Sirius and company quickly went over to the Kent's. They parked down the road and walked up the drive. The farm was picturesque, a yellow house and beautiful which radiated a welcoming vibe. Even Mrs Weasley was comforted by the friendly atmosphere. They walked up onto the porch and knocked on the screen door.
"Let's hope there in." Hermione said when no-one answered.
Sirius knocked again but this time a bit more loudly. They saw a figure approaching the door and the door opened to reveal a red haired woman. She seemed a bit out of sorts but she was smiling at them.
"Hi, can I help you?" She asked, her voice was full of warmth.
"Erm, are you Mrs Kent?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, how can I help?" She asked again.
"Well, we are friends of Harry's and we found out he was staying here, could we please see him?" Hermione said.
"Come in then." She led them into a cosy room and into a kitchen. They noticed that one of the windows was smashed.
"Erm, Mrs Kent, you window is smashed." Ron said. Mrs Kent turned and started at the window a look of dawning came over her face then suddenly she raced into the hall way and grabbed the phone. Punching a number quickly she listened to ringing and almost cried out when someone answered.
"Jonathon, you and Bart need to come back home now." She said into the phone ignoring the curious looks she was getting off her guests.
"Hurry." She said as they agreed and hung up.
"Mrs Kent are you okay?" Sirius asked the nearly distraught woman.
"Oh, I'm fine, would you like anything?" She asked. They shook there heads. Mrs Weasley was worried for the woman that reminded her of herself when she worried about Ron.
"Maybe we should go." She said ignoring the looks that she got from the others. She herded them to the door, and returned to drag Sirius who was being stubborn.
"Mrs Kent, it seems that you are going through something at the moment so we'll come back later." Mrs Wealsey left the shocked woman. Once down the drive Sirius confronted her.
"Molly what the hell was that?" He yelled.
"I don't think that there was anything wrong there with those people. We will come back tomorrow instead." She said making it clear that there would be no room for arguments.
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Clark sighed as he stopped in the woods. He was surrounded by emerald green leaves. The small amount of light the trees let through only served to make it spookier than it was. Switching his vision to X-ray he glanced around slowly for some movement. When he saw it he switched his vision back and switched on his super hearing instead.
"She will do nicely." One voice said.
"Make sure she is tied up firmly, and then draw the target on her chest." A low demonic voice said.
Clark stopped listening as he recognised the second voice, the voice that came before Jor-El's when the barn exploded. Clark floated up a few feet and floated across the floor. He didn't want any noise to alert whoever had Scarlet he was coming.
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Harry regained consciousness and looked around. The last he remembered was that he was in a tunnel with an orb of light, then blackness. Glancing around Harry figured out in the dim light that he was defiantly not in a tunnel. He was laid on a table. Sitting up her noticed that he was back in a hall, but it defiantly wasn't the hall he started out in. This hall was free of sand, cobwebs and dust. It was filled with gold ornaments and stone statues. In the middle a table made out of gold stood, in the middle a stone laid there. It was black and shaped in a diamond shape. In the middle was engraved the sign for war. Harry's sign and role.
Slipping off the table he walked over to the table. Reaching out his hand he took the stone off the table. Harry paused holding the stone in his hand expecting something to happen. Nothing happened. Cautiously Harry stepped away from the table and almost immediately the ground started shaking and the roof started to cave in. Harry dashed towards a door and leapt inside it narrowly missing a pile of rubble that would have fallen on him.
Getting up and securing the stone in his pocket he started running down the corridor that lay ahead of him. Behind him her heard a rumble and moved into superspeed to get out as quickly as he could. Coming to a dead end he sighed and punched his fist through the rock and smirked when the slab fell down opening up another passageway for him. Taking off again at a superspeed run he punched his way through all his dead ends until he came to the hall where he started. Floating he moved towards the ceiling he pushed the stone slab up and climbed out on the sandy ground. Bending his knees as he gathered the air beneath his feet and leapt to the sky creating a sonic boom.
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Clark landed in a thicket of bushes and looked out onto a clearing. Scarlet was tied down onto a large stone table her feet and hands tightly bound; he could also see a circle with a cross over it drawn onto the left hand side of her chest, where her heart was. A blindfold covered her eyes. Hearing a crack of a twig behind him he swirled around to meet two burning green eyes.
"Harry, where the hell have you being?" Clark hissed at Harry. Glaring Harry answered.
"Finding my stone." Recognition lit up in Clark's eyes. Motioning into the clearing Harry peered in and suppressed a growl as he saw Scarlet.
"Zal-El, what are your ideas?" Clark said unknowingly calling Harry by his kryptonian name.
"Best manoeuvre I can apply to this situation Kal-El is distracting them whilst the other gets Nara." Harry answered also slipping into using their kryptonian names.
"Very well, you distract them whilst I go round the other side of the clearing behind them to get Nara." Clark said. Nodding Harry waited until Clark moved away.
Now Zal-El
Clark's voice rang out in his mind and Harry stepped out into the clearing.
"Oy! You!" He yelled across the clearing effectively getting there attention.
"Well well well what do we have here? The second in command?" A low demonic voice asked. The mouth it came from was filled with sharp teeth. The man was dressed in smart clothes and looked human apart from his teeth. His had black hair and brown eyes which held malice in them. He had pale skin and a small skinny form. The man stood behind him was even smaller so small in fact he would only come up to Harry's waist.
"Yes, me." Harry said smugly.
"I'm guessing that you have come to rescue your little girlfriend." He said laughing.
"No need, she's already gone." Harry laughed and ran out of the clearing hearing them screaming about her. He met Clark around the other side of the clearing where he was untying Scarlet. She opened her eyes ands pulled Clark into a hug before leaping to Harry and hugging him.
Letting go of her he started pulling her away from the clearing they didn't notice some balls of light rushing towards them from behind in there haste to get away. Each ball of light slammed into each of them. They gasped as they felt their energy leaving them and stumbled to the ground.
By the time they had regained there senses it was dark. They stood up and figured out what happened. Breaking out into a run they groaned as they realised that they had no superspeed, strength or flight. They ran down an embankment and splashed through an icy cold stream. Struggling up the other side of the embankment they noticed all the mud they got on their clothes.
They ran through a few bushes and groaned as thorns on the bushes which cut there arms. The moon shone down making the woods seem even more foreboding than before. Fog seeped in making it difficult to see without their enhanced vision.
Scarlet tripped up and tumbled to the floor in a heap. A white bony hand shot out of the ground and wrapped its knarled fingers around her ankle. Scarlet screamed. Harry and Clark made a mad grab for Scarlet. Clinging to her they pulled her away from the hand watching the brittle hand snap from her ankle and crumble to dust. For a moment they just laid their panting.
"Guys, I have an idea." Harry said as he pulled out the stone from his pocket. He stood up and motioned for them to do the same. Standing facing Harry they watched as he stood with his eyes closed with a look of deep concentration on his face. Small sparks came from his body and slowly they got larger until they were bouncing from Harry to them. A large spark came off Harry and all three faded from view.
They appeared at the cave.
"Zal-El, you have done well." Jor-El's voice rang throughout the chamber.
"You have found the stone meant for you. Now your part of this particular adventure is over. Place the stone in the centre of the table." Harry stepped forward and did as asked.
It shot into the table and glowed a brilliant blue. Harry, Clark and Scarlet were transfixed by it. Suddenly the blue light shone around the room so brightly it was blinding. The three shielded their eyes.
When the light died down Clark, Harry and Scarlet were gone.
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