Catcher

Chapter 17; Return to Atlantis.

"Hey!" Harry cried out in indignation.

"You deserved that for disappearing on us!" Alandria retorted.

"It's not like I had much choice in the matter!" Harry deadpanned, "shut up Matt!"

This was directed at the figure to his side who was laughing almost silently at the treatment of his new best friend. It was the first time that the group really took him in.

"The name's Matt Solem, I believe I am the one that you were searching for before we vanished. Harry found me on the ship just before we disappeared."

Valice was the first to find his voice again, "Were they your Dragon's then?"

"That's right," he replied to the older man, "speaking of which…" he turned and unseen to Alandria and Valice his eyes glowed briefly, flashing green, red and blue at almost the same time. The three Dragons pushed off of the railings on the Burning Wind and flew straight up through the clouds. To anyone who watched carefully could see brief flashes of colour in the clouds. Matching the colour of the Dragons.

"What are they, how can you control them like that?" Valice asked.

"This is not the place to discuss such things." Harry interrupted before Matt could answer them, "It is a shame we had to resort to using them to catch up with you. The Burning Wind," he motioned behind him to the larger ship, "is immune to Elemental Magic."

They spent a few minutes talking about anything, Matt went into the Captain's cabin below the Quarter deck to have a look at the local maps and talk to Valice about the legends of the Prism Dragon's. Harry chatted to Alandria and the Captain about the Elves and the Burning Wind's capabilities. But just a Tom was asking about how long she could stay out at sea without putting into a harbour, Harry's eyes glazed over slightly, he motioned for Tom to stay quiet for a sec.

It was about twenty seconds before he recovered, he spun around to look over the back of the ship. There not two miles distant was what he was looking for. A Demon Dancer, recognisable because of their six wings, splayed like a cockroach. But they were easy to defeat, it was the rider that worried Harry, Voldermort didn't have the knowledge to summon creatures like this, or control them for that matter. But he knew who did, or what did to be more precise.

He turned to the Captain. "Call your ship to Quarters Tom, and set your sails for full speed." The chaser was invisible but Harry could see through the cloaking because he could see the Magic woven into it.

'Matt! We're leaving!"

'I know, I'm coming, I saw it too!"

Harry turned and leapt to his own ship, even through all the shouting and alarms on the Sea Dragon. Matt landed beside him seconds later while Harry was giving out the order for General Quarters to their own Captain.

Half a minute later the two ships were picking up speed, the Sea Dragon not using elemental powers so they could keep together.

Harry paused only long enough in his preparations to send the images of their chaser to Alandria, he own mental telepathy strong enough to sort the high speed images he sent.

"It's him Matt!" Harry said, not minding that the Elves could here, they had all been briefed on the creature.

"What are we going to do, we don't want to fight that thing this soon. We need better timing, if that thing is as powerful as you then we could lose the ships. We'd be stranded, the Elves cant apparate like we can." Matt said.

Harry turned to the Captain, "Can The Burning Wind's porting abilities be spread to port the Sea Dragon as well?"

"No, My Lord, but if we port it would attract too much attention without the Hogwart's wards to cover us."

"Don't worry about that, the Darkest creature on the world is only two miles behind us, we wouldn't be attracting too much more trouble. I will have to go with the Sea Dragon and apparate it myself and you port to Atlanta as soon as I know where it is." He turned to Matt, "you stay here, Port as soon as I send you the coordinates."

Matt only had time to nod before Harry leapt up and using Magic to aid his jump across the widening gap between the two ships.

"What do you plan to do Harry?"

"I need the coordinates for Atlanta, so that the Burning Wind can port directly there. I will apparate the Sea Dragon there myself."

After the coordinates were sent to Matt it wasn't long before the ghostly image sailing beside the Sea Dragon faded out soundlessly. The Sea Dragons slipped sideways slightly as the water rushed in to fill the space left by the disappearance of the large ship.

"Tell everyone to open up their Magical reserves, I will need to tap into them in order to gather the power needed for this. It would drain me too much otherwise." Harry told Alandria and the Captain who could carry out this message. Soon Harry was reaching out and slowly pulling a bit of Magic from everyone on board and storing in the air around him. The magic became visible to everyone as it built up till Harry was no longer visible through the blindingly white light around him. Then Harry pulled on the ship itself, placing a slight bit of Magic into everything. It was impossible to apparate a non-magical item. Even clothes became Magical in the end.

The ship flashed briefly white as the magic was put into it and then with an almighty crack the ship disappeared to its destination.

It reappeared with an identical crack just between the Burning Wind and the Domes of Atlanta. Almost all the crew and order members fell to their knees with disorientation of forced apparition. Valice managed to keep enough wits about him to catch Harry as he fell to the floor in a dead faint at the exertion of pulling so much Magic through his body in such a short time. The last words heard were the calls of Matt through the link as Matt felt his control over Harry's Magic disappear.

'Harry!'

A/N: I am sorry for the short chapter, I was going to make it longer but figured that the next part would be better left for another chapter. Please review, even if you read every chapter as it comes out, so that I know how many people are actually reading this. Also I am sorry for the delay but I have been helping out with a plot for another story for a friend. It's first chapter is being posted on my site until we get around to setting up one for her. Please give it a look and review! It should become a very good story.