The Way of the Warrior

By: Cubster

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the Movie King Arthur. That credit goes elsewhere

AN I have decided that I am going to be switching POV from Tristan to Harry for the rest of this fic. And TristanTonks and HarryKatie are going to be the main Ships. Thank you for the reviews they helped me with my final decision.

Harry lied in his bed in the hospital wing waiting for news about the battle at Katie Bell's house. He was worried about all the order members, but he even more worried about Katie herself and her family. He hoped that he taught her well enough last year in the DA so that she could defend herself. If he lost another friend, he did not know what he would do.

He was also worried about Tristan, Harry knew that he was a very powerful warrior, but how well could he fend himself against so many Death Eaters who had magic on their side. Harry looked up to Tristan immensely since their lives were very similar and Tristan understood Harry. Both were forced to do something they wanted nothing to be apart of. He could not wait to train under Tristan and finally learn how to defend himself more effectively; he would train hard to make sure that no other close friend of his would die because of his weaknesses.

Harry heard the door open and he quickly stood up to greet whoever it was Dumbledore walked in with his arm around Katie's shoulder hugging her to him doing his best to comfort her. When Harry saw them, he rushed towards them "What happened Professor Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore looked down sadly at Katie then back to Harry "I am sad to say that Katie has lost both of her parents tonight. She will be staying here for the remainder of the summer, Harry I must go to you know where. I will leave Katie with you until Madam Pomfrey comes back from St. Mungos."

Dumbledore left the infirmary, which left Katie and Harry alone, Katie just stood there crying with her head down. Harry walked over her and took her hand; he led her to the bed beside his own and set her down in it. Harry was about to take a step away from her but Katie pulled him down beside her. "Don't leave me," she pleaded as she gripped his hand tightly in her own.

"Why my parents Harry, why did they have to die?" She sobbed out suddenly as she buried her head into the crook of his neck and shoulder.

Harry closed his eyes and let a tear fall down his cheek, his heart went out to Katie, he knew the pain very well of losing someone close to you. "They were good people Katie, and Voldemort hates anyone with any purity and goodness in their heart. They loved you and still do. You can mourn them, but be proud of them for their courage." Harry whispered into her ear as he rubbed his hand softly up and down her back.

"How do you take it? How are you so strong after all you've ever been through Harry?" Katie asked as she sat up straight and looked him in the eye.

Harry saw that here face was blotchy from her tears and her eyes were red and swollen from crying. She sniffled then ran her sleeve across her nose; Harry could not help but think that even in her current state she was beautiful. "I need to be strong for others, I know that many people look to me for direction and I have to do what is right."

Katie wrapped her arms around Harry's neck and hugged him tightly. "Thank you for being here for me Harry."

"No thanks are needed Katie, I am more than happy to be here for you anytime." Harry softly said as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "Do you want to tell me what happened at your home? It helps, trust me; Dumbledore has had me do it since first year after every single one of my misfit adventures."

"We were eating dinner when my father felt the wards go down, we tried to floo out of the house but it was blocked and apparation wards had been set up so we could not get out. We all rushed up stairs to buy some time, dad had sent a distress signal with my owl out when we got to my room, I guess my owl was not intercepted." We then heard a battle going on outside shortly after the owl was sent, I do not know how anyone got there so fast but they did. But my parents stayed inside the house to protect me from any Death Eaters that came in the house.

We were all in one corner of my bedroom our wands raised out in front of us. But when the Death Eaters came into the room, we could not hold them off for long. The house was already on fire, I could smell the smoke and there was nowhere for us to go. We stood our ground for a good several minutes, but if we managed to stun one another one would just enervate him. Eventually they killed my mum and dad, they all retreated for some reason before they got to me. I was in shock when I finally got a good look at my parent's bodies; I quickly went to the other side of the room. I tried to deny that the bodies on the ground were my parents." Katie sobbed out and hugged Harry tighter trying to get as much contact as possible from him.

She then continued, "Soon the flames were getting closer to my room, it was so hot I thought I was going to die for sure. Then a beautiful light illuminated the room, but it wasn't just light, it was water but it didn't get me wet or anything. When the light faded I heard footsteps in the house, I thought it was another Death Eater coming to finish the job, it wasn't. A strange man wearing armor came into my room but had already shot a stunner at him. He ducked under it and walked towards me, I've never seen anyone like him. He had tattoos of two triangles on each side of his face, had a beard, and had braids in his hair."

"His name is Tristan, he is a great guy, you'll get to know him soon since you'll be staying here with me for the summer."

"The rest of it is a blur; I remember Tristan carrying me outside then a med witch looking over me before Dumbledore took me here. I will have to thank Tristan when he gets here."

Harry nodded; however, before he could say anything else Madam Pomfrey charged into the room and went straight towards the pair. "Up you go Mr. Potter I need to look over Miss. Bell here go on and get some rest, you still have substantial injuries."

Katie looked alarmingly at Harry when she heard about his injuries "I will tell you about it tomorrow." Harry assured her and she nodded and quickly succumbed to Madam Pomfrey's care.

Harry went to his own bed and got underneath the covers, his last thoughts before sleep overtook him were all of Katie.

Tristan sat at the middle of the table listening to Dumbledore go through the debriefing of the battle. "Most of all however, I would like to thank you Tristan, you skills are unheard of in this time and it gave the Death Eaters quite a scare. You also saved Katherine Bell for that I also thank you."

Tristan nodded his welcome but said nothing, many of the order members looked at Tristan with respect now and many asked him if he was going to become a permanent addition to the Order of the Phoenix. Tristan looked to Dumbledore when everyone asked this and Dumbledore smiled "We would be honored if you joined our ranks for the light side Tristan."

Tristan looked around the room, he saw many of the members waiting eagerly for his answer and he inwardly smiled. He then looked to Tonks who seemed to be the most eager to hear his answer. "I will" was all he said but shouts of approval rang out through the room. Tonks looked extremely happy but tried not to show it too much.

"Well I think we will conclude this meeting on a good note." Dumbledore said, "Which we have so go on and do what you young people do." Dumbledore said jokingly before walking over to Professor McGonagall. Everyone in the room dispersed and went to do their own thing, some left to go to their own homes, and others went to another room in the house to get a private moment.

Tristan felt a finger tap his shoulder and turned around to come face to face with a man who looked to be a little older than he was. He had shabby clothes on and had dark hair that was graying on the sides. He looked worn out but had a very kind face. In his hand was Tristan's bow, "I found this on the hill in front of Bell Manor, I saw you using it at the beginning of the battle. That was amazing the way you killed all those Death Eaters and they did not know where you were."

Tristan held out his hand to grab his bow and the man handed it to him. "My name is Remus Lupin; I want to thank you for training Harry." Lupin looked crestfallen for a moment before adding, "He is all that I have Tristan, train him well please, he must survive this war."

"He is strong, he will learn to fight well, it is not up to me whether he survives or not." Remus looked down tears forming in his eyes. "I will protect him."

Remus looked up shock evident on his face followed by a large smile. "Thank you Tristan, that's all I ask."

Tristan nodded then signaled to the seat beside him, "Sit with me," Tristan said. Remus took a seat on the left side of Tristan where Tonks was on his right.

She was not saying a word, she was observing Tristan and how he interacted with other people and how he treated them. Tristan looked to Remus and asked, "You need to finish mourning your friend Remus, Harry needs you and you can't look after him properly in the state you are in. Sirius is dead, from what Harry told me, he was in prison for the last twelve years and on the run for another two before being imprisoned in his own home for safety reasons. He is better off dead; he died a glorious death in battle. The kind of death I wish for myself to have one day."

Lupin looked glass eyed for several moments after Tristan had said this, Tristan could tell he was thinking through what he had told him. Remus closed his eyes, one tear fell down his eye before Remus reopened his eyes and he looked completely different from before. He still had shabby clothes, graying hair and a worn out face and body; it was something inside of him that was different which changed all of him.

Remus looked much stronger than he was before, not in the physical sense but in emotionally and spiritually. "You are ready to do your duty to Harry Remus, just don't die yourself. Sirius may have been better off dead but you're not." Tristan said, he nodded to Remus who sat their deep in thought not moving or talking, his eyebrows creased in concentrations.

Tristan stood up from the table and began to leave the room, Tonks soon joined him though who had a large toothy smile on her face accompanied by bright yellow hair. "How did you do that? Remus has been like that since the day Sirius died and after a minute of talking to him you turn him into that." She stressed her point by waving her hand over in Remus' direction.

"I told him what he needed to hear, don't try to make him feel better by saying it's not his fault, or there is nothing you could have done. You're insulting someone when you tell them that, it does not soothe them." Tristan said as the pair walked up the stairwell and into the main hallway. They saw that three kids were staring at the painting of what was once Mrs. Black.

Two of them were obviously siblings and part of the other six members of the Order of the Phoenix. One was tall and lanky with fiery red hair, the other was shorter about a head and a half shorter than Tristan, and she had long fiery red hair. The last one had bushy brown hair and brown eyes; she was pretty in her own right. She had her hand over her mouth, her other hand was clenched tightly around a book.

When Tristan and Tonks walked up closer the three turned to them and they took a step back when they saw Tristan. Tristan looked to his left and saw why, his armor and face was covered in blood, and his tattoos did not help him look like a friendly person either.

Tonks saw what was happening immediately and stepped in to talk to the three. "Ron, Ginny, and Hermione, this is Tristan. He's going to be here for a while to help out in the order." Tonks inwardly flinched at what she was about to tell them, especially Ron. "He is also here to train Harry to fight."

When Bill had said Ron would be jealous he was exactly right. Ron went red in the face and clenched his fists. "Why does Harry need to be trained? We should be the ones getting trained; Harry almost got us killed last month because he was too stupid to listen." Ron hissed to Hermione and Ginny.

Ginny nodded in agreement but Hermione gasped and slapped Ron in the face hard. Here was a deep red print on Ron's already red cheek. "How could you say such a thing Ron, just because Harry is going to learn to defend himself you get all jealous? You very well know that Harry told us not to come with him but we would not listen. It is our fault we got hurt and our fault alone, Harry saved us that night you owe him your life." She then turned to Ginny, "And you, you owe Harry two life debts so don't you dare go against him." Hermione then turned to Tristan and smiled, "I am Hermione Granger."

She completely turned her back to the two Weasley children and held her hand out to Tristan to shake. Tristan did his trademark nod to her and took her hand, but turned his head back to the very angry Weasley boy.

Before he could say anything to him, Ron ran up the stairs with Ginny following, both very embarrassed. "He would never be able to kill a man." Then Tristan added, "He has no warrior spirit, he is very brave, and he is loyal but his jealousy shrouds his judgment. He will grow to be a fine man but he does not have what it takes to be a knight."

Hermione looked up to Tristan "Are you going to train to kill?" She wavered in the sentence; she did not want her best friend she had to become a cold blooded killer.

"He will kill only to save lives." To Hermione that sounded like it contradicted itself but she did not argue with his logic.

"Please look after him for me, and tell him I said I am here for him."

Tristan nodded his head "I will do that." He walked past the silent teenager and continued down the hallway until he made it to the front door. "How do I get back to Hogwarts?" Tristan asked Tonks when they made it outside into the night air.

She held out her pendant once more, "This portkey takes us to where we wish to go. Grab on and I will take you."

Tristan put his hand over the pendant and they were pulled away in a blur of colors to Hogwarts. They landed in front of the gates of Hogwarts where Tristan landed on her feet, but somehow Tonks managed to fall on her face. Tristan helped her to her feet and shook his head "Little clumsy?" He asked mockingly, she scowled at him and punched him in the chest.

That was not a very good idea since Tristan was wearing armor and the only thing Tonks succeeded in doing was breaking her hand. She howled in pain before hugging her hand to her chest and hunching over. "Not the best idea, guess I will be accompanying you to the Castle. Here we will go straight to the Hospital wing." She held out the pendant with her good hand and Tristan once again took it.

They landed in the middle of the hospital wing; Tonks was about to fall but Tristan grabbed the shoulder of her robes to keep her up. She turned and smiled in thanks and blushed a bit in embarrassment of almost falling down again in front of the enigma with a sword.

Tristan walked up to the bed that Katie Bell was sleeping in, it was the bed right beside Harry's. She looked peaceful, "I am surprised she is having no nightmares." Tristan said as he looked over Katie closely.

"I gave her a potion to help her sleep. She will not wake up until the morning. My goodness what did you do to your hand Nymphadora Tonks." Madam Pomfrey said as she walked into the Hospital wing to check on her two patients. She saw Tonks' hand and she quickly took care of it with a wave of her wand.

"Thanks Madam Pomfrey." Tonks said while flexing her hand and moving it around to make sure it was back to normal.

"How do you change your appearance?"

Tonks looked up from her hand and smiled, "I was born with the ability, it is called a Metamorphamagus. I can change my appearance in any way if I want to." She changed her small button nose to a long crooked one similar to Dumbledore's to show him. She then changed her hair pink and her nose went back to the button nose again.

"Would come in handy in battle."

"I use it mostly for inside information, well Mr. Knight, I am going to go to bed you stay out of trouble. " Tristan smiled and nodded his head in good-bye.

Tonks winked before grabbing her pendant and disappearing before Tristan's eyes. Tristan left the Hospital Wing soon after Tonks left; he trekked down the castle corridors until he reached the Gargoyle that hid Dumbledore's office. "Lemon drop" He told the statue and he walked up the stairs when the Gargoyle moved out of the way.

Dumbledore was not in the office when Tristan entered; Tristan went straight to the room Dumbledore said was his to use as long as he stayed at Hogwarts. Tristan took off all of his armor and weapons and laid them all on the table. He then took a cloth from the table and began cleaning his sword, Tristan had this sword since he first became a knight, his father had given it to him and it had served him well for the last fifteen years.

All the knights were taught to clean their things after battle; Tristan followed this rule religiously and made sure to keep his sword sharpened, his bowstring tight and his armor clean and free of dirt in the joints. When he was finished cleaning his weapons and armor, he undressed himself and threw his dirty clothes on the floor. He knew that the house elves would have them clean by tomorrow morning. Tristan got into bed, and fatigue finally took him as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

The next week was slow for Harry; Katie was still grieving her parents and Harry was there to comfort her whenever she asked for it. As Harry had promised, he had told her what his Uncle had done to him in the past month and she looked ready to murder.

He clearly remembered the word "castrate" when she was in the middle of her ranting. He shuddered when he thought about that word, he knew what Tristan had done to his uncle and could not help but smile at what Tristan had done.

Recovery from his injuries was steady, but it took a full week until he was finally able to go back to full activity. He spent most of his time with either Katie or Tristan, sometimes both. Tristan had told him that he would give Harry a couple more days before their training would begin and Harry was going to use it to get to know Katie better.

Harry and Katie were currently on the Quidditch pitch, Harry on his Firebolt and Katie on her Nimbus two thousand one. It was a present from her parents for her seventeenth birthday. Harry and Katie were racing on their brooms and doing tricks in the air trying to out due each other. They then had a contest to see who could dive closest to the ground.

Harry noticed that Tristan was sitting in the stands watching closely, Harry decided to give him a little surprise. Harry circled the pitch once before speeding as fast as he could towards Tristan, he was going to pull up just before he go to him to see if he could give Tristan a scare.

It was Tristan who gave Harry the scare, when Harry flew close enough; Tristan jumped forward and met Harry in the air. Tristan grabbed hold of the broom and swung himself up so that he was seated behind Harry. "Nice try Harry," Tristan muttered.

Harry quickly steered his broom down to the ground, jumped off, and backed away. "How in Merlin's name did you do that?"

Tristan shrugged "I jumped," that confused Harry more than anything but I guess he was right.

"You're crazier than I am." Harry muttered as he walked over to Katie who looked even more shocked than Harry was.

"Harry, how in the world did he do that?"

Harry looked at here for a couple seconds before wrapping his arm around her shoulders "He jumped."

AN: The HarryKatie ship will be progressing than the TristanTonks ship will. Ron bashing will be found in this fic but not too harsh. I've always hated Ginny so if you don't like Ginny bashing sorry. I read a lot of fics and I don't read nearly enough where Ginny is bashed.

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