Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Most of the characters are owned by JK Rowling. Then the other characters are probably are owned by CLAMP. I doubt I will actually make any original characters so the only thing that I really own is the original story I am writing. The events in the past for the characters from Tsubasa and the characters are owned by their respective authors.
Warning: I am writing this a seventh year story so there will be spoilers for all Harry Potter books. Also if you have not read Tsubasa you will be seeing spoilers for it. I am going to assume almost none of you have read Tsubasa so I will provide more of the canon back story for it than I will the Harry Potter books. I think you get the picture. After this I will just say refer back.
A Tarnished Memory
Chapter 6: Proving
Loyalties
The next morning Harry was awoken by Alastor Moody, who had evidently had been there a while since he had resorted to firing curse at him and Ron trying to wake them up. "Come on, boys! Whatever happened to CONSTANT VIGILENCE! That counts during sleep too. NOW GET UP!" Moody was yelling as he let out another barrage of curses. Harry managed to throw up a shield this time
Ron wasn't so lucky. "Well it seems Potter is up. That only leaves Weasley over here. Would you like to join me, Mr. Potter? It seems your friend doesn't wake easily."
Harry grinned and grabbed his wand. Levicorpus!
"HARRY! What did you do that for?" Ron said now awake.
"Good one, Potter. Not even a word from your mouth either." Moody said in the best praise Harry had ever heard from the ex-Auror.
"What are you waking me up for? There aren't any classes today." Ron grumbled as he got out of bed.
"You along with Granger will be accompanying Potter to Diagon Ally as our new guest get their required items. As I assume Potter told you that he will be catching them up in their studies, I also assume you two will also be helping him. That means you will need to help to select which books you will be using. Now get dressed you two. Don't make me come back up here or you won't like what happens!" Moody said walking out of the dormitory.
Harry and Ron got up and started removing all the hexes and curses Moody had cast on them. Then they got dressed and ran down the staircases storing their wands, and Harry was also securing his father's Auror belt.
"Good finally those two are here. Let's get going. The Headmistress wants us to make this as quick as possible. We will be heading down to the gates and from there we will apparate to the Leaky Cauldron. I believe that we will be able to take everyone as long as Potter is willing to take one along. We don't want to get the Ministry involved as they will have many questions we don't want to be answering. Now lets get a move on." Remus said, now hurrying them out of the common room.
They made their way through the castle. Hermione was explaining to Fye what apparition was, while Syaoran and Sakura followed them silent, as they seemed to be most of the time.
McGonagall was already in the Entrance Hall with Kurogane when they arrived there.
"Ok. Here is the final member of your group. I expect you to return by dinner. These are dark times and I don't want any of you straying from the group. Remus, Tonks, and Alastor will keep you safe if trouble was to arise. Now have a good day." McGonagall said.
Moody ushered them out the doors. They made their way to the gates.
"Ok I will take Syaoran, Moody will take Kurogane, Tonks will take Sakura, and Harry you can take Fye. Since Fye already has some experience with magic it should make it easier on you. Alright let's go." Remus said once they had crossed the gate's threshold.
Harry grabbed Fye's arm as the others took the arm of their charges. "Remember the Leaky Cauldron. Now on three. One…Two…Three." Remus said and then there was a collection of pops.
"Wow simply amazing. What you call apparition is a lot like what we called teleporting. I wonder if I will be able to still do it. I guess I will see later." Fye said once they arrived.
"Ok, we are heading to Gringotts first. From there we will make our way to Madam Malkins. We need to get some clothes for our guests. They just stick out too much. Then we can get the rest of their supplies. Now let's go." Moody said.
They all made their way down the nearly deserted alley to the giant white building in the distance. Fye, Sakura, and Syaoran looked in every direction they could taking in the sites. Kurogane just glared around at the empty street suspiously.
They reached Gringotts and entered the bank. Harry walked up to the counter.
"Hi…" Harry started but was interrupted.
"Ahh, Mr. Potter, it is good to see you. What can I do for you today?" The goblin said.
"Hi. I wanted to make a withdraw from my account." Harry told the goblin.
"Would like to go down to your vault, since your account was promoted to Platinum Investor level we are authorized to give you a bottomless money bag keyed to your account and a muggle credit card. All funds will be taken directly from your vault. That is if you accept." The goblin said.
Harry thought about it for a bit. "Yes, I think that will work. I don't how much I will be able to make it here too often so it could be a help in the future." Harry told him.
The goblin reached under the counter and pulled out a purple silk money sack with the Gringotts crest on the front. "Ok, Mr. Potter. All you need to do is touch the crest on the bag and the bag will become keyed to your account. You will also find the credit card inside after it has been successful keyed to your account." The goblin said handing him the bag.
Harry took the bag and placed a hand over the Gringotts seal. The entire bag glowed gold and then faded. Harry took his hand off and now in place was a crest that looked remarkably like the Gryffindor crest except there was a large ornate "P" imposed over it.
"What is that?" Harry asked the goblin.
"That is the Potter crest. I symbolizes that your bag has been keyed to your account." The goblin told him.
"But, why does it look like the Gryffindor house crest then?" Harry asked.
"Did you not know, sir. The Potter line is a direct line from Godric Gryffindor himself. His daughter married Jonas Potter shortly after the founding of Hogwarts. That is how the line started, so for its crest it borrowed heavily from Gryffindor's crest." The goblin informed.
Harry nodded and walked back over to the group. "Ok I got the money. Let's get their stuff now." Harry said.
Once they had exited Gringotts, they made their way down to Madam Malkin's shop.
They entered the shop and a bell sounded. "Ahh. Welcome to my shop. How may I help you, today?" Madam Malkin said coming into the front part of the store.
"We need three sets of Hogwarts student robes for these three." Remus said pointing to Fye, Sakura, and Syaoran. "And, then we need a set of robes suitable for a Hogwarts Staff member for this guy." Remus finished up motioning to Kurogane.
After an hour of Madam Malkin taking measurements from all four of them, she went back into the rear of the store and returned shortly with a bunch of boxes. "Here you go dears. These are your robes. If you would like to change into them now there are changing rooms right down there." She said pointing down a side hallway. The four headed there with a box each to change. "Ok if that is all I will retire to the back. All you need to do is call me if there is need."
Madam Malkin headed to the back as the rest of the group went to talking or arguing if it was Hermione and Ron. Harry just rolled his eyes and headed back after Madam Malkin.
"Madam, I was wondering if you could make a special set of robes for me and my friends." Harry said when they were in the back.
"Ahh, Mr. Potter, you startled me. What kind of robes are you interested in?" She asked.
"I was wondering if you made battle robes." Harry said.
Madam Malkin raised an eyebrow. "Battle robes, Mr. Potter. Are you expecting a fight?" She asked.
"Yes, unfourtanately I do. So can you make them?" Harry asked.
"I can. What material would you like to be used? I can make them out of several different materials it is just a matter of cost." She said.
"Well I was reading and I think the best material would be Nundu skin. That is if it is possible." Harry said.
"Mr. Potter that will be expensive. Nundu skin is incredibly rare. Are you sure? Dragon hide is a lot easier to get and much less expensive." She said.
"No I think I can afford it. How much will it cost?" Harry said not phased by her disbelief.
"I would say about 1000 galleons each would be appropriate. Of course that might need to be raised. Nundu skin is a very rare material and enough for robes let alone three will be hard to obtain and could take some time. But if that is what you wish, I will start looking into it. I have the measurements for you and your friends. I will notify you when they are ready." She told him.
"Ok. In the mean time here is a bit to get you started." Harry reached in and grabbed a piece of paper that had appeared in his hand. He pulled it out and handed it to Madam Malkin.
"Let's see this is a note redeemable at Gringotts for….three thousand galleons. You weren't kidding. I will get to work right away. I will notify you if there is anything else I might need. I will tell you though, due to the fact that Nundu skin is highly resielent to spells, these will not be self-sizing or many other charms that are put on most battle robes. So I think we will need to take measurements just to make sure. We wouldn't want to waste your money. Is there any thing else I can help you with, and what color would you like them to be?" She asked.
"If you could also make gloves and boots I would appreciate it. As for the color make them black. Let's get the measurements now." Harry said walking back out.
"Where have you been Harry? They came back and we were about to leave when we noticed you were missing." Hermione said.
"I was discussing something with Madam Malkin." Harry replied.
"Yes he was and I need to take the measurements of Mr. Potter and you two." Madam Malkin said pointing to Hermione and Ron.
Hermione and Ron looked at Harry with a strange look, but still took on a stand to get measured. Harry also did the same.
"Well I'm going to assure absolute accuracy here so…" She waved her wand and three tape measures sprang to life and started measuring each of them. This time with the self measuring tape measures it only took ten minutes and they were done.
When they left the shop Hermione started, "What was that about, Harry?"
"It is nothing of importance, 'Mione. You will find out when the surprise is finished, and that is all I am going to say on that." Harry finished with a smile and finality in his tone.
Next they made their way to Flourish and Blott's. Hermione was combing the shelf for books picking out books for the visitors and also picking out some books for the trio to study on their own.
Once Hermione was done picking out what Ron and Harry thought to be a personal library more than a bit of light reading as she claimed, they headed back out. They went and bought a cauldron, basic potion ingredients, and the other supplies for potion making.
After getting all of their potion supplies Harry thought of something, "How are they going to get wands? Mr. Ollivander disappeared last year. He was the only wand maker I have ever seen in Diagon Ally."
"Don't worry, Potter. A new wand maker took over the business when Ollivander left. Him and his sister have been doing the best they can, but they just aren't as good though." Moody replied gruffly.
When they reached where Ollivander's shop had been, Harry saw a sign with a sword and wand crossed with a shield behind the two crossed items.
They entered the shop and a cheerful man and woman greeted them.
"Welcome to our shop." The man greeted. "I am Caduceus Peto and this is my sister, Acies Peto." He said pointing to the woman.
"We have any kind of weapon you may need, whether it may be sword or wand. Are you looking for anything in particular or are you just browsing?" Acies Peto said to the group.
"We are here to get wands for this young lady and these two gentlemen." Remus said pointing at Sakura, Syaoran, and Fye.
"Well let's see. You three step over here and we will see what we can do." Caduceus said.
They stepped to where he had indicated, and three magical tape measures sprang to life. After the tape measures had taken a few measurements, Caduceus started picking out boxes from behind a counter making three piles. Once he was satisfied, he snapped his fingers and the tape measures coiled themselves up and dropped back in place. He then started handing boxes to each of them. He instructed them to take the wand out of the box and wave them.
Fye found his wand almost immediately. Pink and white sparks started to fly out of the wand the minute he touched it. "Congratulations. You must have some prior experience. Only a trained wizard could make a wand do that. Well let's see that is a Rosewood wand with unicorn tail hairs. That will be eleven galleons." Caduceus
"I will be taking care of all three of their wands, Mr. Peto." Harry said.
"Very well, I will keep it on tab till the other two find a wand." Mr. Peto replied.
Next they thought that Sakura had found a wand, but there was something wrong. A large amount of bright silver sparks started shooting out of the wand she had waved, but they disappeared almost immediately.
"That is interesting. You look old enough. Hmm…. Let's see." He mumbled as he waved his wand and a golden glow surrounded Sakura and Caduceus mumbled some more. "Just as I thought. You, young lady, will be powerful one day, but your magic is underdeveloped so much that you will not be able to use it significantly. You can still get the wand, but I doubt you will be able to use it for another year or two. It seems you two are the same age, so let's see about you then." He said pointing his wand at Syaoran and a golden glow surrounded Syaoran this time. "I see that is not the case. Your magic is fully developed it just lacks in proper training, and if I dare say it, I think there is a fair amount of power behind it. Well let's see if we can find a wand to suit it."
Mr. Peto then started grabbing more boxes having Syaoran try even more. "A very tricky person you are. Let's see try this one." He said handing Syaoran another box.
Syaoran tried this wand and there wasn't a reaction.
"Maybe, just maybe." Caduceus Peto said as he went into the back of the shop.
He returned carrying two boxes. One was a normal wand box, but the other was much larger. He took the wand box and handed it to Syaoran.
Syaoran took the wand out of the box and his eyes shot up in surprise when he grabbed the handle. He raised the wand and gave it a wave. A blinding bright of white flash issued from the tip of the wand. Caduceus, Acies, and the entire Hogwarts group covered their eyes.
"I guess we have found your wand, young sir. This is a special wand. Only those with an uncontrollable desire to protect someone or something. It is made of Holly and Gryphon feather. It also fits into the hilt of this sword." He said pulling a sword out of the larger box. "This was a special project my sister and I worked on. This sword when joined with the wand will allow you to cast with the sword just as if it was a wand. And certain spells will act differently when the two are use in conjecture with each other. The price for both of these will be twenty galleons. And before anyone objects, we will not sell one without the other. They are a set and will remain that way."
When the escorts had nodded in consent Harry went up to the counter to pay. "Wait, where is Kuro-pipi. He seems to have disappeared." Fye said looking around.
"Your tall, dark-haired friend, went in that direction. He was looking at the swords. He seemed to be quite interested." Acies Peto said speaking up.
Fye went off into the shelves and shortly returned with Kurogane. Kurogane had in his hand a large sheath that had several silver dragons flying all over the sheath.
"Where did you get this sword?" Kurogane immediately asked Acies.
Acies looked at the sword. "Ahh, that was a recent accquasition. A lady sold it to us. That is unusually because I usually make all the weapons we sell, but the lady insisted that someone would come that could use it more than she could, so we took it. The sheath though is of our own creation. We thought it was appropriate considering the hilt of the sword." Acies told him serenely.
"What does it cost?" Kurogane asked.
"Well we determine there were someone unknown enchantments, but we are not sure if they are safe. So we would have to place the price at twenty galleons, five sickles, and three knuts." She said.
"Do you think we could get this sword too, Harry? I believe that Kuro-pipi has seen this weapon before. I think it could prove quite useful." Fye said.
Harry could tell he wasn't telling the entire story, but decided to leave it for latter. Harry nodded his head and paid for the bill.
After a quick goodbye, the group left.
"Well let's get you back to the school. McGonagall will be worried if we are any later than we already are. We will need to get to the Leaky Cauldron. The Ministry has placed strong anti-apparition wards on the ally." Tonks said.
They headed up the alley when it happened. From behind them there was a deafening roar as the pavement shook nearly tossing them all back on their bums.
"All of you get down and stay out of the way. You are to get the Leaky Cauldron and back to the school." Moody yelled as he whipped out his wand while his magical eye was sweviling in every direction taking everything in it could.
Moody, Tonks, and Remus now had all their wands out and were starting to head towards the explosion.
"What was that explosion?" Syaoran asked.
"It was probably deatheaters. Deatheaters are servants of Voldemort, and if they think we are going to just run away, they don't know me very well." Harry said as he brought his wand. "Come on Hermione and Ron. Let's go see if we can do to help. The rest of you find a place safe out of the way. You can't protect yourselves yet against spells." Harry said taking command.
Fye, Syaoran and Kurogane however didn't budge. "We can defend our selves well enough. Me and the kid here have swords and we know how to use them, and the idiot over there can take care of himself." Kurogane said gruffly
"What about the girl, then? She is defenseless. What is she to do if you come help?" Harry asked.
"I'll take care of Sakura-hime. I won't let anyone harm the princess." Syaoran said protectively.
"Fine. We have wasted enough time as it is. We need to get down there and help." Harry said now anxious. "Be ready. We could get jumped at any moment."
The group started down the street. The trio took the front. Syaoran and Kurgane had their swords out and were standing on either side of Sakura, and were following the trio. Fye stayed behind Sakura and had his new wand out at the ready.
The group made their way steadily down the street. Then there was a voice. "Looks like we got lucky today guys. The Potter brat and his friends are here. And what's this?" The Deatheater now visible said looking disdainfully at Syaoran and Kurogane holding their swords at the ready. Nobody said a thing. "No matter you will still die."
Spells started flying. While the lead Deatheater had been talking they had been surrounded by eleven other Deatheaters.
Harry conjured a bubble of solid material that barely blocked the incoming spells.
"We need to come up with a plan." Ron said shifting into stratigical mode.
"You three take one apiece and we will deal with the rest. We have experience with battles like this." Fye told them.
"But you can't block against the spells." Hermione said.
"We will worry about that. You three just take care of what you can. We will call for your help if we need it.
"Come on out, Potter. You can't hide in that bubble forever." One of the Deatheaters called from outside Harry's bubble.
"Fine we will try it your way, but say we didn't warn you." Harry said as he released the bubble.
The Deatheaters had closed in. As soon as the bubble was released the Deatheaters started firing spells again. Syaoran and Kurogane darted out with their swords striking down two Deatheaters, various body parts falling off of the struck Deatheaters.
Hermione and Ron each managed to single out a single Deatheater a piece and had just started dueling.
Fye was taking on two Deatheaters by dodging and surprisingly tossing weird looking spells back at them.
Harry had picked out the leader to duel with, but as he quickly took in what was happening around him he had become surrounded by three more robed figures.
"Come on, Potter. Are you just going to sit there and watch your friends fight or are you going to join them. Difendo!" The Deatheater said sending the curse at him.
"Pro…" tego! Harry started to scream but had to finish non-verbally cause he had to duck the a spell that went stray from Ron's duel. The cutting curse bounced back hitting a building window shattering it.
"Quicker than you look, Potter." Another Deatheater taunted.
REDUCTO! Harry screamed mentally not wanting to give the Deatheater warning. The Deatheater got blasted against a store wall by the spell. When the flash disappeared, Harry could see a hole blown through the man's chest and the store wall the man had slammed into.
"You'll pay for that, Potter! Avada Kedavra!" Harry dodged behind a barrel in front of the blasted store. The barrel exploded when the green flash smashed into it.
"Stupefy" Harry sent at the Deatheater.
"Protego" The spell deflected into another shop. "Incarcerous!" A set of ropes encircled Harry and constricted.
"What are you going to do now, Potter? You can't ge…" The Deatheater was stopped and Harry heard a thump as if something heavy had hit the pavement.
"What the hell are you doing?" Another said. There was a swoosh and another thump.
"What's going on over here?" Harry heard Fye say.
"Harry was surrounded. There's another behind you cowering." Kurogane said.
"Incendic et Glacius veni mortus!" There was swoosh and Harry could hear cracking noise. Then there was a hissing and the Deatheater shrieked in pain. Then he was silent.
"Let's release Harry. He doesn't seem very comfortable." Syaoran said.
There were footsteps and Harry could feel the ropes loosen and finally fell free. Harry saw Kurogane standing above him cleaning his bloody sword with the robes of the Deatheater Harry had felled.
"Is everyone ok? What happened?" Harry asked looking up seeing the group surrounding him.
"Everyone is fine, Harry. Ron and I were able to disable our Deatheaters. The two with swords killed four of the Deatheaters quickly, and Fye was able to take out two Deatheaters on his own. While we were securing our opponents, we saw that you had been tied up. That is when the two with swords came over and killed the leader and his one lackey. That is when Fye finished who came over and killed the last one." Hermione informed him.
"What's this?" Moody said hobbling up to the group.
Hermione recounted to Moody what had happened.
"Good work, all of you. Just try to capture more next time." Moody praised them.
"Come on let's get all of you back to the school before the Ministry shows up and starts asking questions." Remus says.
They hurried to the Leaky Cauldron. "Take floo back to the McGonagall's office." He told them. "All you have to do is throw this powder in the fire and say, Headmistress' Office, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Remus said heading back out to the ally.
They all hurried through the fireplace, Harry going last making sure everyone made it through. Harry tumbled out of the fireplace and stood up as quickly as possible.
"What happened, Mr. Potter? I instructed your guards to only have you use the floo in an emergency." McGonagall said visibilly strained.
"A group of Deatheaters attack Diagon Ally. When we first heard the attack, Moody and Tonks went to get help from the Ministry, and Moody went to scout the area where we had heard the explosion from. They sent us the short way back up the street and that was when we were attacked." Harry went on to describe their own personal battle letting the others fill in their parts that Harry had missed.
"Very good. You all did very well today. I believe you have all earned a rest. Go back to Gryffindor Tower and get all your packages put up and take the rest of the night easy. If the Ministry needs to question any of you I will have someone ask you to report here." McGonagall said dismissing them.
Once they left Hermione spoke up, "I wonder if she knows something we don't. She seemed stressed for some reason, and she obviously didn't know about the attack till we told her."
"I think you're overreacting, 'Mione. She did say that we were only susspose to use the floo if there was problem. She probably was just worried because we used the floo." Ron said.
"Maybe…., but I think she wasn't telling us something." Hermione conceded with not much of a fight.
They returned to Gryffindor Tower without any more discussion.
When they reached the tower they filled Ginny in on everything that had happened. At first she was worried, but when they told her about what Syaoran, Kurogane, and Fye did she gleamed with pride at them.
They played games for the rest of the day. When bed time was approaching they had all settled down. Hermione was talking on a couch with Fye. Ron was asleep snoring, leaning against Hermione who wasn't complaining too much. Syaoran was sitting in a chair staring at the fire while Sakura was talking with a group of first years.
Harry and Ginny were in a love seat in front of the fire cuddled together. They were having a quiet conversation with each other.
"So what do you think of them now, after today?" Ginny asked.
"They are definitely not harmless like I thought. Fye saved me with a spell that I have never even heard of before, and the other two…., well damn. They are great with swords even against a group of Deatheaters. And, I don't think after today they will have any doubt that Deatheaters are the enemy." Harry said reflecting on the days events.
"I agree. They have definitely proven not only to us, but Voldemort where their loyalties lie. I doubt Voldemort will underestimate them either." Ginny said wholeheartedly. The conversation continued on into lighter topics as the two started to tire.
It ended with them staring into the fire in each others' embrace. Ginny fell asleep first here head resting on Harry's chest. Harry succumbed a few minutes later and they sleep the night peacefully in front of the fire.
A/N: I'm so sorry that took so long to get. I honestly had had most of it finished the week after I posted the last chapter, but I got distracted with work, school and I admit video games (I am trying to beat Kingdom Hearts before the sequel comes out). As for the spell that Fye used that was in Latin. It is suspose to mean Firey Frozen Death Comes. My Latin is rusty so I didn't get it quite right. The effect is basically a ball of ice with fire dancing inside of that, but not melting the ice. When the ball hits a living being they instantly freeze and then the fire melts them turning them into nothing more than a puddle as if their body had been ice. Well I am almost done with Kingdom Hearts so I should be able to update things a little more quickly.