Here's another chapter for your enjoyment. Have fun reading it!
"They should be arriving any minute; I accidentally left my homework assignment, about The Mystic Knights, on the kitchen table before they went downstairs to talk in the kitchen. I watched them read it and everything. Now I know that Hermione has read every book in the wizarding world, so I rewrote the paper so it included stuff that wasn't in the text books. Knowing Hermione, she'll figure it out in no time. Are you ready?" Harry asked Jessica, as he stretched in preparation for the fight.
"Check that, I gave them the note telling them to meet you here in this clearing at midnight." Jessica confirmed, stifling a yawn.
"And the monster? Did you manage to bring one with you?" when Jessica nodded he asked, "And what exactly am I going to fight?"
"You'll see, you have to wait as well, just so you look genuinely surprised."
Harry didn't like the sound of that, he thought he should know before hand to prepare himself, and was about to comment on it when Jessica transformed into her wolf form and darted into the forest.
"Harry?" He heard his best friend Ron call from the opposite end of the clearing.
"Over here Ron, Hermione!" he yelled waving them over.
"What did you want to see me about?" Harry asked.
At the exact same time Ron and Hermione said, "What did you want to see us about?"
Harry looked at his best friends confused, "What are you talking about? I got a note from you two telling me to meet you here at midnight."
Hermione shook her head vigorously, "No you left us a note, and we thought you were finally going to tell us what is going on with you lately."
Harry frowned, "First of all I never left you a note, and I already told you I can't tell you where I was this summer."
"Yeah, well we saw your paper on the Mystic Knights." Hermione said crossing her arms over her chest.
"So?"
"Harry, I have read all the books that mentioned the Mystic Knights and most of the stuff you wrote for your assignment isn't in the books. That can only mean one thing; you were training to be a Mystic Knight."
Harry laughed nervously, "That's crazy, the last known Mystic Knight died before Voldemort's time, if I was training to be a Mystic Knight as you say, who would teach me?"
Hermione frowned a little, "I haven't figured that out yet, but I know the Mystic Knights have something to do with the changes you've underwent."
"Maybe we should worry about that later," Ron said glancing around nervously, "Right now we should try and figure out who would want us in this clearing in the middle of the night. Because if none of us sent the notes, who did?"
'That's your cue Jessica, bring on my opponent.'
THUMP, THUMP, THUMP! THUMP, THUMP, THUMP!
"What's that?" Hermione cried, spinning on spot to look in every direction. She screamed when she saw what was making the tremendous noise. It was a huge mountain troll and it was heading straight for them.
"What the...?" Harry gasped, 'that's not so bad, and I don't have to unleash my true power to deal with this guy. Sure he's 50ft tall and probably weighs a couple tons, but I can take him easily.'
Hermione and Ron were backing up now straight into Harry, then all three were backing up. They stopped when they heard the familiar; THUMP, THUMP, THUMP! THUMP, THUMP, THUMP! Coming from behind them.
The trio spun around and saw, what must have been the other trolls twin brother coming towards them from behind. More loud THUMPS informed the friends that more trolls had entered the clearing. In seconds Harry, Ron, and Hermione were surrounded, one troll was blocking each of the four exits from the large clearing.
'O boy, I am definitely going to have to use my full power for this job. When Jessica does something, she does it well. Well if I can't do it myself, Jessica will jump in and help.'
"H-Harry, what do w-we do?" Ron stuttered his pale face clashing horribly with his red hair. He was shaking with fright and clutching to Harry and Hermione's arms with crushing force.
"Just stay behind me, I'll handle this." Harry ordered, prying his friends off his arms he stepped forward. When Hermione made a noise of protest he turned to look at her with pleading eyes, "You said before that I'm trained to be a Mystic Knight, you were right. Not only was I trained to be one, I am one, officially. So let me handle this, obviously, whoever sent us here was planning a trap, and right now, I'm the only defense. Let me do this, you have to trust me!"
Hermione hesitated before nodding in agreement followed almost immediately by Ron's nod of support.
Harry gave them a reassuring smile and stepped forward toward the troll in front of him. "Leave now, while you still can." He said giving the trolls a sporting chance.
"They don't understand you Harry. Mountain trolls are really dumb." Hermione pointed out.
Harry nodded, "Fine then, here we go." Closing his eyes, he concentrated on one thing, unleashing the power of the Mystic Knight within him. An explosion of light surrounded Harry, when the light cleared Hermione and Ron got a look at their first Mystic Knight.
Harry was now wearing a long gold robe, over a white turtleneck and white pants (his usual clothing is black turtle neck and dark blue jeans) that seemed to sparkle and glow. Across his back was his sword, nestled comfortably in its scabbard, and his head was now hidden beneath some sort of protective metal helmet that covered his face and stretched all the way down to his collar bone.
Hermione told Ron that the helmet was to protect a Mystic Knights head and identity. She had read that fact in a history book several months ago.
All four mountain trolls looked taken aback, but only for a second or two. With a ferocious roar, the first mountain troll swung his big club at Harry.
Harry dove away from the club as it hit the ground with a tremendous THUMP. Rolling out of the way of another club swing, he waited lying on his back sword in hand. The huge troll stood over him raised his club and brought it down hard; Harry rolled away at the last second and threw himself onto the retreating weapon.
"Why doesn't he use magic, Mystic Knights are supposed to be powerful." Ron questioned watching his best friend scrabble up the club.
Hermione nodded glancing at the three trolls watching and waiting for their chance, "That's true a Mystic Knight is very powerful, both magic wise and muscle wise. But a Mystic Knight only uses magic when he has too. They believe a victory obtained by magic isn't an honorable one. They try to avoid using magic in fights."
Harry, who had been holding on to the trolls club as he swung it around, finally managed to crawl up the trolls arm and onto his shoulders. Raising the sword above his head Harry swung with all his might, the blade connected with the troll's neck and swept through to the other side with ease.
Hermione and Ron grimaced as they watched the severed head fall to the ground and roll into a bush.
"That was gross," Hermione stated going a little green in the face. Ron only nodded in agreement.
Harry jumped to the ground, and dove out of the way of the headless body that nearly fell on top of him.
The loss of, what Harry thought to be their leader, enraged the three remaining trolls. With a great roar, all three charged.
"Jessica!" Harry yelled his head snapping to where she had been, "A little help here!"
Hermione and Ron looked at each other confused, glancing toward where Harry was looking they saw a flash of light and then they were flying?
"What the..?" Hermione questioned, looking down she saw another Mystic Knight. This one was female and she had grabbed both Ron and Hermione and jumped into a tree on the other side of the clearing.
The girl dropped them on the tree branch saying, "You'll be safe here, just try not to call attention to yourselves."
Neither Hermione nor Ron could tell what she looked like, because she too wore a protective metal helmet that covered her face, but they both guessed this was the girl they had saw with Harry at the Leaky Cauldron.
Jessica jumped down from the tree and ran over to Harry, who was surrounded by three very angry trolls, pulling her sword from her scabbard she asked "Need some help?"
"Yeah, god Jess. Couldn't you have just sent one, why did you have to give me four to fight against?"
Jessica turned to him, "Sorry to disappoint you Harry. But these aren't what I was going to pit you up against. My monster never showed up. This isn't my doing."
"What? Ahhh," startled he barely managed to dive out of the path of the trolls club. "Well then who the hell sent these?"
Jessica shrugged and formed a fire sphere in her hand; the sphere grew until it was the size of a dishwasher, and then threw it at a trolls head.
The troll roared in agony and dropped to the ground, he rolled on the grass trying to put the fire on his head out. When he finally managed to Jessica was already standing on his chest, she cocked her head to the side and then, quick as lightening, she plunged her sword deep into his chest
The troll groaned loudly as the blade pierced his heart. Jessica watched him die then turned back to help Harry with the other two.
"Harry, break the ice!" Jessica called to her acquaintance.
Harry seemed confused for a moment then he understood, he nodded at Jessica and watched while she drew the other troll away from him.
"Alright, you next." Harry announced pointing at the troll in front of him. Harry moved to the side when the troll tried again to crush him with its club. Before the troll could withdraw its club, Harry raised his weapon and sliced off its hand.
The troll growled in pain and stumbled back, Harry took this opportunity to form an ice sphere in his hand. When it grew to the size of a small car, he threw it at the troll.
Almost instantly the troll froze over, he looked like an ice sculpture that sparkled in the moon light.
Sighing Harry placed his sword back in its casing and picked up the trolls club. He reared back and hit the frozen monster as hard as he could. A sharp cracking sound filled the air and the ice covered opponent started to crumble. It was quite a sight to see, the troll was breaking off piece by piece, and each chunk of ice sparkled in the moonlight. To Harry it looked like a fireworks show.
Then, remembering Jessica, Harry turned back to the other troll. Jessica was already standing triumphantly over it, watching Harry's troll and looking fascinated.
"Cool that looked incredible. You alright Harry?" Jessica asked snapping back to the present.
"Yeah, you?" Harry replied. Jessica merely nodded. "Where are Ron and Hermione?"
"I put them in that tree over there." She pointed to the two frightened Hogwarts students; they had already climbed down from the tree and were heading over to the Mystic Knights.
"Harry, mate that was brilliant!" Ron exclaimed shaking his best friends hand vigorously.
"Thanks Ron. Are you two alright?" The Gryffindor asked of his friends.
Both Hermione and Ron nodded. Harry smiled under the metal mask; he was relieved that his friends weren't hurt.
"Ahem," Jessica cleared her throat.
"Oh right, sorry." Harry apologized, "Ron, Hermione, this is my friend and fellow Mystic Knight, Jessica."
A glow surrounded Jessica and she was back in her usual clothing (black Capri's and a pink tank top) opposed to her Mystic Knight attire (which is the same as Harry's) There was no arguing that Jessica was beautiful, well Ron certainly seemed to think so. He stared at her with a dopey look on his face.
"Nice to meet you." Hermione said kindly, when Ron said nothing she elbowed him in the ribs.
"Ow, I mean, yeah it's nice to meet you. So you and Harry are like partners?" Ron asked rubbing his sore side.
"Yeah, that's right. I've heard a lot about you two." Jessica replied, "I suppose Harry hasn't even mentioned me."
Harry chuckled awkwardly and powered down returning to his normal attire, "Yeah well, I just..."
Jessica laughed, "Don't worry about it Harry. I understand. Besides I think we should focus our attention on who sent those trolls to kill you Harry."
Hermione nodded, "I agree, all we have to work with are those notes." she trailed off seeing the guilty look Harry was sending their way. "What?"
Harry rubbed the back of his neck and looked every where but into his friend's eyes, "Actually, Jessica and I sent those notes. You see it happened this way, Greg Talon, our trainer forbade us to tell anyone that we are Mystic Knights. So Jessica and I set up this plan, I left the assignment on the table purposefully and Jessica sent you the note. The plan was to get you to the clearing, Hermione would have figured it out of course, I would deny it, and Jessica would pit me against a monster. One so powerful I would have to 'unleash' my true powers to stop it."
"The trolls were your doing?" Hermione snapped at Jessica.
Jessica shook her head, "No, I only got a tree troll. They are smaller and less powerful but a good enough excuse to go 'Mystic Knight'. But he never showed, instead someone sent these trolls. Whoever it was wanted him dead. If Harry hadn't of been a Mystic Knight, he would have been powerless and you would all be dead."
"I can think of a couple people who would want me dead," Harry thought aloud, "Voldemort for one, the Malfoy's also swore revenge on me, Peter Pettigrew comes to mind but he's too much of a pansy to try anything."
"I bet it's you-know-who," Ron said.
"We won't know for sure until this guy makes his move again. I suggest you all go back to the Weasleys and get some sleep. I'll take a look around here; see if I can find some clues." Jessica announced in a tone that left no room for argument.
Harry nodded, "Fine; keep me posted on what you find."
With a curt nod, Jessica spun around and jogged into the woods leading away from the Burrow.
Well, I hope you liked it, and the Ron having a crush on Jessica doesn't last long. After a while, he goes back to drooling over Hermione. Please review I always love to know what you guys and girls think. Any suggestions for later chapters?