It had been eight and a half months since Harry had seen Ron, Hermione and Ginny at the Quidditch pitch and the time since then had not been peachy. He had gotten in trouble from Keane about running of and possible endangering the pack. Razor had started training him three times harder and this had made Harry put him self through his paces much more with all of his magic.
It came up to the eighth month since Harry had seen his friends and that was the day the Razor went missing. To say that the pack was in panic and protect mode would have been an understatement, a whole lot of the fittest and best trackers including Keane left to try and find the missing wolf but found almost no trace.
Harry was one of the few males that had been left to protect the females if anything happened, but nothing did. One thing that Harry did notice when Keane got back way that he was being a bit edgy around him and he told him that he was not allowed to leave the camp at all. Of course this got Harry interested and he was determined that he was going to find out what was going on. So every night Harry would stay up and plan away of finding out what was going on and what had happened to his mentor.
It came to a week and Harry had found out nothing and all of his frustrations came to a peak and that was what brought him all undone. He walked calmly up to Keane and started a conversation in wolfish.
"Look, I really want some answers as to what happened to Razor,"
With even that first line Harry knew that this wasn't going to go the way he had thought it would. In his mind he would ask what happened to his mentor and them Keane would spill all of the answers while apologizing for keeping it from him.
"You can want them but that doesn't mean your going to get them cub," Growled Keane.
Shaking his head Harry let his anger start to over take him and when that happens it is never good.
"I've been patient with you and now Im asking for answers," menaced Harry, as an unseen breeze moved his hair in an eyrie way.
"How about we make this interesting cub?" with a curious glance from Harry he continued, "a fight. If you win I'll tell you all you want to know, but if you lose," he paused, thinking, "if you lose, you have to leave and never come back."
"Deal" and as he said that he transformed into his black wolf form.
With that they slowly started circling and growling lowly. As they circled they didn't notice the pack forming a group around them to watch the action.
After circling each other for a while Keane ran forward and jumped at Harry. It only took Harry a moment to taking in what was going to happen and in that moment he let his body take over.
Just as Keane was about to reach him he dove to his right and rolled away from the attack and jumped at Keane ready to bite him. It seemed that Keane was ready for this to and just as Harry was about to reach him he extended his claws and scratched Harry across the side of his head. Harry snarled as he was hit and was sent back a bit by the power of the blow. As he snarled again he shook his head to clear it and went on the offensive again. Jumping forwards Harry managed to jump clean over his opponent who gave a smirk at the stupidity of Harry. But that smirk was wiped off his face as Harry landed, turned and jumped again to land on Keane's back where he sank his teeth in to his opponents back and held on tight.
Keane was thrashing around trying to get Harry off his back and he was getting desperate, he couldn't get Harry off and he was feeling himself weaken. It was at that moment that he saw his son Blade in the pack and he gave him a small nod.
Just as Harry thought that he could win he was knocked of Keane's back by a heavy force. As Harry let go he saw a brown-ish colour fur and immediately knew that Keane was cheating but that only made him more furious. Harry was allowed to his feet (or paws rather) by his now two attackers and their waiting was possibly their biggest mistake. The thought of Keane being so cowardly and acting as if he had no honour made his blood boil. Without being aware of it Harry's aura flared to a golden colour and once again an unseen wind blew his shaggy fur, in the end he looked quite threatening.
With a low growl Harry launched himself at his opponents and before they knew what was happening it seemed like they were being attacked by more than one wolf. Harry bit, scratched and kick in all directions and only stopped when Blade was unconscious and he was standing over Keane with his front paws pressing on his throat.
"Now tell me, what happened to Razor," growled Harry so low that only he and Keane could hear it.
"We don't know much but we found his scent along with another one. It was not a wolf. It smelt a lot like a human but it was different to that as well. We followed it and it lead us to the edge of the forest about half a days walk west of here." He said it all very fast and his voice was shaking.
With a bit of extra pressure to his beaten opponent's throat Harry got off him and walked off in the direction that Keane had told him.
Harry had been walking through the forest for about 2 hours and he knew that he was getting close to Hogwarts and he wondered what Hogwarts would want with a wolf.
Deciding that he could afford to have a short break Harry transformed back to his human form with a small pop and after taking a quick look around he sat under a large tree and rested his head against the trunk.
As Harry let his thoughts wonder it soon came to information that he had pushed to the back of his mind: His friends and Hogwarts. Slowly Harry was letting small smiles grace his lips as he remembered all of the great times that he had had with his friends. As the thought of his friends came into his mind Harry wondered what they had been up to for the past while. He was sure that they would of changed and as he sat there he tried to think of what they would look like now.
He pictured Ron to have grown again, maybe about 6' and hopefully filling out, he would still have his red hair and freckles. As he let his mind draw a quick picture of Ron it turned and drew a picture of what Hermione would look like.
She looked to stand at about 5'8 and had her womanly curves and her once bushy hair was straighter, not dead straight probably just neatly wavy.
It was as he lay there that Harry thought about how much he had changed in the past months. He now stood at a proud 6'2 and his body had nicely filled out. He now had a well defined six pack and chest muscles, his hair was so long that it covered his eyes which were still there emerald green, his skin had now also taken on a nice bronze colour. Though the one other thing that hadn't changed was the scar on his forehead in the shape of a lightening bolt.
Another change of the boy-who-lived was his magic; he had found his control over the elements fire, wind, earth, water, lightening and other sub-elements (AN they will be explained later).
Once again Harry's mind turned to his friends and soon he found himself starting to drift off into a sleep. Just as sleep was about to claim him Harry heard a twig snap and he felt something hit him over the head, the next thing he knew was darkness.
Harry was woken by something prodding him gently on his shoulder. Slowly he opened his eyes and took in his surroundings. He was in a cage of some sort, there were bars surrounding him and a lid above him that he guessed to be made of metal, the ground was still below him (it was worn grass). As he took all of this in he also noticed that there was some sort of cloth covering the cage. When he finished looking around his eyes came to land on a wolf in the corner, one that seemed very familiar.
"Hello Harry,"
"Razor?"
As the wolf opposite him cracked a sort of odd smile he tackled him to the ground and together they playfully wrestled.
"So, what are you doing here Harry?" asked Razor, turning serious.
"I was looking for you and I let my guard down. The next thing I knew I was here." Harry paused for a moment. "Where is here?"
"Here, is at Hogwarts waiting to be used is a Care Of Magical Creatures class," replies Razor.
"Oh… wait a minute, what are you doing in this class? You're a wolf!"
"I am a wolf Harry but I also have healing abilities."
"Oh" replied Harry.
It was silent between them for a moment before Harry asked another question.
"When is the next class?"
Razor was silent for a moment. "Right, about," there was a sound of a bell ringing in the distance, "Now."
The two waited in silence for a few minutes before the sound of people talking reached their sensitive ears.
"It's been so long since I've heard human talk" said Harry quietly.
Razor glanced at him for a moment with a look of pity in his eyes before he turned his head abruptly as they heard a loud voice.
"Now then every one, I have a surprise for you all today."
Harry recognised that voice almost instantly, it was Hagrid. Harry let a small smile out as his sensitive ears picked up a small groan from the class.
The next thing that Harry was aware of was the cover of the cage being pulled off and hearing Hagrid start talking again.
"Now, I'm sure that you all have heard about the Wolf-demon that has been running around in the Forbidden Forest. This would be him and another wolf that I caught a couple of weeks ago. The wolf is special because of its traits. It has similar traits to a phoenix, its tears have healing powers and it can detect evil or bad intentions."
As Hagrid continued talking about Razor Harry took this as a chance to see if there was any one familiar in the class. The first thing that he noticed was a lot of red hair, as he looked closer he noticed Ginny Weasley (AN/ and you thought it would be Ron) and beside her was Ron and Hermione (AN/ yep Ron is there). This caused Harry to become puzzled because last time he checked he was fairly sure that Ginny had been in the year below but he pushed that thought aside for the moment and continued his scan of familiar faces. His eyes came to a dead stop as he saw a familiar smirking face and platinum blond hair that yelled out Malfoy and immediately his eyes narrowed and a growl came from his throat.
It was the growl that he made that turned every ones attention to him and made Hagrid turn around.
"Now, don't worry about that. He just hasn't eaten yet." Hagrid paused here as if he was thinking. "Ah! Who would like to feed him?"
This question caused all eyes to turn to Hagrid and look at him like he was crazy.
Suddenly a hand was in the air.
"Yes Hermione."
"Um, is that wise Hagrid?" she asked meekly.
"Of course. Here, I'll show ya."
Hagrid moved to the side and pulled out a bucket that appeared to have raw meat in it. He grabbed a piece of it and stuck it in the bars, as he did so Razor got to his feet and walked over to get it.
"See, its harmless. Now, who wants a go?" Hagrid asked cheerfully.
There was silence as Hagrid stood with the bucket.
"What about you mudblood," said Malfoy with a snicker.
Now, there were a few things that made Harry Potter's blood boil and Malfoy had just done three of them, one degraded some one, two, insulted a friend and three made his friend cry. Now there was nothing that could be done to stop him ripping Malfoy limb from limb.
Letting out a loud growl Harry stood up and the cage blew apart and that was what stopped all action that was taking place. As the dust cleared a sight that scared all there was in front of them. Harry stood there with a look to kill and the golden aura surrounding his body again and the mysterious wind as well.
"What was that Malfoy?" Harry all but growled.
All that he got in response was a small whine. Slowly and forcefully Harry walked over to the scared-shitless-Slytherin.
As Harry walked towards Malfoy the students parted to let him through.
"I said, what was that Malfoy." Harry's voice was getting louder.
As Malfoy backed up and bumped into some of the other Slytherin's they gave him a look that said 'what, have you gone all chicken' and this seemed to give him some confidence.
"It's none of your business what I said to her." He said with a confident smirk.
"Well, it is my business when you degrade some one I know."
This statement caused a gasp to channel through the students and leave many of them looking at Hermione and Harry as if they had grown three heads.
It was this moment that Hagrid seemed to regain his voice.
"Ok, that's enough."
But that did nothing to stop the whispering voices that seemed to get louder and louder.
Harry made a quick glance at Hermione before he noticed the Headmaster walking up behind the class with Professor McGonagall in tow.
It was this that made Harry let out a little groan and this drew a snicker from Razor that came out as a sneeze.
"Hagrid, what seems to be going on here?" asked the headmaster with a hint of a smile.
"Well, this man here. Well, I don't know if his is a man. See, he is the wolf-demon."
With a pointed look from the headmaster he continued.
"Yeah anyway, Malfoy called Hermione and M-M, a bad name and then he pops up and threatens Malfoy and then he says that he shouldn't degrade some one he knows," Finished Hagrid.
There was silence as Dumbledore surveyed the situation.
"Well, it seems as though you have returned." He paused here as more whispers broke out. "And before we are questioned I suggest that you come with me." And with that he turned and Harry followed him with Razor at his heals.
(AN/ I thought about leaving it here but shme)
Hermione, Ron and Ginny sat in the common room in the corner with the big lounge chairs. It seemed that when ever the new trio came in anyone in those chairs would get up and leave them to it. Today wasn't the usual tops of 'How to get Malfoy expelled', 'quidtich' or anything usual at that matter. They were talking about today in Care of Magical Creatures and who the stranger was and how he knew Hermione.
"Did he look familiar to you at all Hermione?" asked Ginny from her right.
"Um, I don't know." She paused for a moment, obviously thinking hard "Not really, his eye's looked a bit familiar but nothing other than that."
There was a pause as they all thought.
"Do you have any idea how he might know you?"
This time it was Ron who asked.
"No, if I did we wouldn't be wondering would we?" she snapped.
While this interrogation was going on in the common room another one was taking place in Dumbledore's office.
Harry and Razor followed Dumbledore and McGonagall through the corridors that he knew so well and so many familiar faces and got so many odd looks that it was almost like he had never left. Almost.
"Lemon Drop's" said Dumbledore and the stone Gargoyle moved to one side to allow them up.
As the door closed behind him Harry looked around and saw that nothing has changed in the time that he had been away, except that there was now a picture of the four Marauders'. At seeing the picture Harry couldn't help but let a smile take over his face.
He was startled from his thoughts by Dumbledore addressing him.
"So, where have you been Harry?" asked the headmaster with a small smile.
Harry was faintly aware of McGonagall giving a small gasp.
"How did you know it was me?" Harry asked bluntly trying to hide his surprise.
"You never should answer a question with a question Harry,." said Dumbledore with an amused look.
"I was right where you lost me." Harry replied, with an amused look of his own.
When he got no reply from the aging head master he elaborated.
"I was in the forest."
"I see…..who is your friend?"
"Oh, this is Razor. He helped me our a lot while I was away."
"Really?" he asked sounding interested. "How did you communicate?"
"Um, I have animal talking abilities apparently." Harry said starting to sound a bit embarrassed.
"So Harry." Dumbledore said after a while, "are you planing on staying in the wizarding world?"
Harry was quiet and appeared to be thinking but then he turned and started talking to Razor in wolfish.
"What do you think?" Harry asked him.
"I think that you should Harry. When you left them the first time you wanted to go back and now they know where you will be."
"I suppose. Will you stay here too?"
"I don't know." Razor paused, thinking it over "I might as well, as long as I'm allowed to do so of course" he said giving a quick look at Dumbledore who was watching the exchange with interest.
"Would Razor be able to stay?" asked Harry dropping back into normal talk.
"I don't see why not, as long as you make sure that he behaves himself."
Harry nodded and looked at Razor who in turn nodded in the affirmative.
"Can Razor stay with Hagrid for a little while? I've got something's I have to do?"
"I'm sure that that will be fine."
With that Harry disappeared with a small pop and left behind an amused headmaster and a shocked McGonagall.
"Albus? Did he just disappreate in Hogwarts."
"It would seem that he has become very powerful."
AN/
Hey guys. I think that this was a record update, my longest and quickest. I hope its ok it did it in an arvo. Let me know how it is and if you have any ideas please let me know. I know that the chapters are short but im hoping to make them longer and eventually I'll fix up the first few chapters.
Thanks to every one who reviewed.
