Chapter 11: Training Day pt 1.

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It had been a few days since the 'incident' and nobody dared mention it. Hermione had shut herself away from everybody, only ever coming out of her room for meals, and even then she was in the kitchen for five minutes. Molly was getting really worried about her, if what Dumbledore said was right then she need people around her, to support her. She needs as much food she could get to build up her energy. Molly wasn't the only one worrying about her either. Harry had tried several times to get her out of her room but the response was always the same.

FLASHBACK

'Come on mate, we've tried already today, you know what Hermione's like, she aint coming out. Can we just go play quidditch with Fred, George and Ginny?'

'You go Ron, I want to make sure she's ok.'

'Suit yourself.'

Ron turned back and descended down the stairs. Harry carried on, walking along the corridor to Hermione's room, he approached the door and knocked.'Go away!'

'Mi, It's me Harry.'

'Go away Harry.'

'Come on Mi, it's been 3 days, let me in!'

'No! You might get hurt.'

'I'm willing to take that risk! You can't stay in there forever you know. You've got to come out tomorrow for your training.'

'Then I'll come out tomorrow, now go away.'

Harry shook his head and left her door. It had been the same everyday. She would never let him in, and she would never come out.

END FLASHBACK

Hermione sat in her room, preparing for her first combat training with Sirius, Remus and Moody. She was nervous to say the least. What if she lost control of her power? What if I hurt one of them? Come on girl, where is your Gryffindor bravery! Suck it up! She took a deep breath and opened her door. She made her way down stairs in her black yoga trousers and red running top. She was told to dress appropriately - whatever that was supposed to mean. She approached the study door, which was to be her training room, and before she had a chance to knock she heard a voice from within.

'Come in Miss Granger.'

She opened the door and walked into a totally different room then what she was expecting.

The room had been divided into different sections. In one part there were punch bags and other such Muggle self defence equipment; the room its self was covered in landing mats and on the opposite side of it was a row of different sized objects on different sized levels.

She looked around but her eyes fell upon her three teachers. Sirius was dressed similarly to her in red jogging bottoms and a tight tank top. Lupin was the same but in blue and moody was just in his cloak.

Her nervous expression must have been obvious to them as Sirius questioned her.

'You ok Hermione?'

'Er, yeah just a little uneasy.'

'Well don't worry we will take it slow. We thought we'd start with some Muggle self defense first. A little kick-boxing?'

'Sure, why not?'

Hermione followed the three over to the punching bags and positioned her self in front of them. Sirius stood behind it holding it still for her.

'Remus and Moody are going to shout instructions out at you ok? Just try and keep up.'

She nodded in response and took a deep breath.'Punch, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right'

Hermione did what she was told and kept up with Remus' instructions.

She never knew she could do this, but it was like something else was taking over her, somebody who was skilled in this type of combat. She was just doing as she was told.

'Kick left, punch left, right, left, kick right.'

This carried on for about half-hour and Hermione was loving it, she was hardly tired and she could feel the force running through her. Sirius, Remus and Moody had never seen anyone pick this up so fast, she was doing it perfectly as if she had been doing it for years.

'Ok, Hermione, we're going to move on to some magic. Moody is going to teach you some blocking spells, while myself and Remus watch. Are you sure you've never done that before?'

'Yeah positive, it just came to me.'

She wasn't feeling nervous at all now, she just loved doing this, the power that she had, and she felt like she could do anything. She made her way over to Moody and stood in front of him.

'Ok Miss Granger- '

'-Hermione.'

'Hermione, this is a very powerful blocking spell. It creates a cage around you so curses are easily deflected, but you can stills send spells out of it. It's a very new spell so Voldermort probably won't have heard of it.'

'Ok.'

'The incantation is 'Crintise Cefefida' and you just simply point the wand at yourself. The charm should last for about 40 seconds depending on how powerful the witch or wizard is behind it. Why don't you give it a try.'

Hermione took a stand and faced Moody. She pointed her wand at herself and shouted

'Crintise Cefefida'

Bang. Anyone within a 3 foot radius of Hermione was sent flying back and a bright white orb encircled her.Moody, Remus and Sirius looked at her in awe. They had never seen anyone perform it that powerfully before. Hermione looked pleased with herself until she saw the faces of her three teachers. Her face dropped and she asked then what was wrong.

'It's nothing Hermione. Come on we will try some other spells. We want you to take this book on blocking spells and keep practising for next week. We are going to try some dark spells now. They're very powerful- but that shouldn't be a problem for you.'

'Sure Sirius no problem.'

'Ok, I learnt this when I was in Azkaban. It's a spell that slows time down but you stay regular. You swish you wand in a circle and shout 'Timus Portis.' Want to give it a try?'

'Yep defiantly.'

The three teachers stood well back as Hermione took a place in the middle of the room.

'TIMUS PORTIS.'

Waves emitted from her wand and like a blanket it covered the entire room. She wasn't sure if it worked or not.

'Did it work?'

'Yyyyeeeesssss Hhhheeerrrmmmiioonnnee iittt dddiiiiddd.'

Hermione burst out laughing. It was really funny to see the three of them 'moon walking' and talking so slowly. A few minutes later the spell wore off and the three who had been trying to walk over to her collapsed on the floor which made her laugh even harder. The three got up grumbling. It wasn't that funny. They gave her sour looks.

'Ok I think that's enough for today, go over the books we gave you and we'll see you here same time next week.'

'Ok come on Remus! Please I want to do some more! What about a battle.'

'O that wouldn't be fair. 3 fully-grown adults against a child? No, not going to happen.'

'O moody please! I've got this power drive and I'm full of energy! Please, it gives you a chance to test me! It could be the three of you Vs me! Come on please?'

'No. Dumbledore would never forgive us -'

'- Dumbledore wouldn't have to know!'

'He knows everything, that man!'

'Well he didn't know about me did he? And my family?'

The three of them shifted uncomfortably. That was true, he didn't know about that, maybe he wouldn't find out.

'Ok fine, but only basic spells.'

She ran up to Moody and hugged him.

'Thank you Proffessor!'

Sirius rolled his eyes and changed the room into an obstacle course. It was filled with places to hide and jump behind. It was perfect.

'Ok, If we all find a starting position and then if I shout go, we start?'

Hermione ran and hid behind a rather large box. She watched as Sirius hid opposite her, and Remus and Moody to her right. This is going to be easy. She didn't have to wait long for the signal as Sirius jumped up and cast a spell to her hiding place, It came alive and ran away. She jumped up in full view of all three of them and ran, as fast as she could dodging the spells being thrown at her and jumped behind a stack of crates.

Silence. She was sitting with her back to them trying to catch her breath. Then to her left she heard some floor boards creak, she got on her hands and knees and peered around the corner, she could see Moody creeping from one place to another with his back away from her, this was ideal for an attack, she pointed her wand and shouted

'Wingardium Leviosa!'

She levitated him up 4 feet and them dropped him on some mats 6 feet away, he went down with an 'oomph', his magical eye rolling across the room towards her. She giggled and turned away. 1 down 2 to go. Nobody moved, nobody dared. But Hermione, she wanted to move, just to make them attack her so she could find out where they were. She peered around the right and saw a wall. If she could just get over there. She got onto her knees and counted one...two...THREE, and bolted across. Just as she predicted, two sparks came from a little away from where Moody lay. They checked on him. How sweet. She rolled across the floor and shot a disarming spell towards them. It caught Remus and he was sent over some crates, he hit his head on a box and was out cold. She heard Sirius mutter shit and laughed.

'Come on Sirius! Come find me!'

Sirius didn't have time to responded, Hermione sent a fire spell to where Sirius hid and set it on fire, he jumped out from behind it and ran to another place, Hermione sent another spell towards him, but it missed him and hit the wall, Sirius ducked, shielding his head from the falling concrete, and hid where Hermione was before. Watching where he was, Hermione said the first thing that came to her head.

'Militois!'

The boxes disappeared leaving a crouching Sirius in full view.

'Expelliarmus!'

His wand came flying towards her and she caught it with ease, then got up from her hiding place and approached Sirius. He looked at her in amazement.

'Ok, stop. I don't know how you did it. But you beat us.'

Hermione grinned and gave him back his wand.

'That was fun don't you think? Can't wait to do it again!'

'Well we'll see. Why don't you go and meet Snape now and I'll bring these two around?'

'Ok sure. See you later Sirius!'

'Bye Mi,'

Pleased with herself, she skipped out of the room. She loved every minute of that. It tested her limits and the adrenaline rush she got from it was phenomenal.

Sirius watched her leave and sighed.

She's got some power on her.

He walked over to Remus and woke him up.

'What the hell happened?'

'Ill explain in a minute, we need to wake Mad-eye up first.'

The two of the walked over and said

'Enervate.'

Mad-eye opened his one eye and was grateful when Remus gave him his glass eye, Nobody said anything about what just happened, Until the silence got to much for Sirius.

'How could she advance that much in an hour?'

'Sirius my boy, she is going to be one very powerful witch. I've never seen anything like it before. She's 16 and is better than most fully-grown aurors. I've only seen power like that twice before. Once with Dumbledore and the other - Voldermort.'

'Moody, I'm worried that this is all going to go to her head. You heard her, she said she had a hunger for power, she needs to learn how to control it and fast.'

'You're right.'

'You don't see it do you?'

Sirius and Moody looked over at Remus who was surveying the damage.

'What do you mean?'

'I mean with power like that, she's going to be a vital asset to the light side, but with this mission, she might be swayed to the dark side, especially if Voldermort can offer her more power.'

'You don't honestly think that do you Moony?'

'Padfoot, it all fits, I'm just hoping that never happens.'

They were interrupted by a knock at the door and Dumbledore coming in.

'So how's she do-ing?'

He looked around the room and saw the damage. There were boxes and creates everywhere, a hole in the wall and a small fire in the corner.

'What in Merlin's name happened here?'

The three looked at each other.

'Where is my star pupil? I do hope you didn't hurt her too much, Molly won't be pleased.'

The three of them looked at Dumbledore with bitterness in their eyes. Moody got up and approached him.

'Albus, it's not her that got hurt, she beat us.'

'Really? Has she advanced that much that she can beat three fully-grown men?

There was humour in his voice as he said it, which caused disgusted looks from the trio.

'So what happened?'

'What do you think? We started off easy enough, just some kickboxing, which she's a pro at by the way, and she's never had a lesson. Then I went on and taught her a blocking spell. When she cast it, it was the most powerful doing of it I've ever seen. It sent the three of us flying. Then Sirius taught her the slowing time spell, it kept us in slow motion for about 3 minutes. Albus, this girl's power is growing - fast.'

'I see, But how do you explain the damage in here?'

They all looked at each other again and Remus spoke up.

'She said she was full of energy and wanted a challenge so challenged us to a duel. The three of us Vs her. We of course refused but she insisted. We came up with a small obstacle course and we'll you can probably come to your own conclusion.'

Chuckle.

'Well she is a very powerful witch, and by the looks of it is only going to get more powerful.'

'The thing is Dumbledore, We are worried about her. Don't you think that she won't be able to control this power? That it would be too much for her?'

'And just before you came in I said to these two, that she might be swayed to the dark side if Voldermort can offer her more power. She's a vital asset to either side.'

'Yes I see what you mean. Well I really do need to see for myself the advance in strength, so after dinner, I'll battle her and see.'

well there you have it. personally i hate it. let me no what u think.

raven

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