A/N: I am updating a lot, I know, but that's a good thing! anyway, onward!

Chapter 5

The others were gathered in the kitchen, drinking steadily through several a bottle of Hell's Fury, an extremely strong alcohol, one sip would leave you pleasantly buzzed. When Harry appeared in the door, four obviously wasted people fixed their eyes on him. Three of the people immediately latched themselves on the teen's body, while one started a drunken rant about how long he was gone and if he realised what time it was.

Harry patiently waited until the rant was finished before pulling the drunk men out of the kitchen and into the master bedroom, where he dumped the potions master into the bed, pulling the remaining three to the room across the hall from the room he shared with Seamus.

He carefully laid the blonde on the bed by the door, as he was the one restricting the movement of his legs. He dragged the now unconscious Blaise to the bed by the window and unceremoniously threw him onto it. One left. He thought as he headed to his room. Harry put Seamus on his bed and went to change before hopping into his own bed.

The next morning, Harry woke and went out to the kitchen. Severus was already sitting there, sipping a cup of coffee. "Morning Severus.' Harry said sleepily. Severus covered his ears and whispered "Not so loud. My head hurts."

Harry got and evil look on his face and skipped out of bed and into the Slytherins' bedroom. Blaise and Draco were out like lights. Harry smirked and yelled "Wake up Draco and Blaise! It's morning!".

Draco whimpered and clutched his head. Blaise moaned and ran for the bathroom.

Harry cackled and went to wake up his roomie. "Wake up Seamus!". Seamus raised his head and said sleepily, with no trace of a hangover, saying "Ok, Ok, I'm up. Happy?" Harry pouted. "No, You don't have a hangover like the other guys."

Seamus just laughed and said "Those guys can't handle a little alcohol? Man, even I can, and I am one of the most intolerable drinkers back home. Me dad can drink everyone under the table, and even me mam can drink more than me." He walked out of the room. On his way to the kitchen, he pulled Harry to a cupboard and took out three small vials of a hideous shade of violet coloured potion.

"Hangover potion." Was all he said by way of explanation. Once in the kitchen, he handed out the vials, Helping Draco down his. "Thanks Seamus." He held the vial to Blaise's lips and once more got a word of thanks. Severus, however, could drink his unaided and also thanked both boys for thinking of it.

Then he turned to Harry. "What were you doing last night? Why were you gone so long? Did something happen?" Harry sighed and answered the questions being rapidly fired at him "I was at the Order headquarters, I was gone for a while because Remus wanted to have a little chat with me. Yes,. Something happened, but nothing bad. I got to talk to Cedric. Then I come home and find you all so drunk you can't even see straight. I had to drag you all to bed, while having one of those men wrapped around my legs, and one around my waist, and one around my neck. You know, if you could remember, you would blush so hard your head would explode."

The four men looked sheepishly at him. "Well, only three were wrapped around you? who were they? Draco asked, giving all the other men a look the clearly said that it was not him hanging on Harry.

"You around my legs, Blaise around my neck, and Seamus around my waist. All of you were wasted beyond belief." "Hmph," Severus snorted. "I could control myself at least." "I don't think so. You were ranting on about how long it took me to get back, if I knew what time it was, blah, blah, blah, how much I worried you. In all truth, you were acting like a drunk father after his daughter's first date."

Severus flushed. He quickly dropped the subject. Soon, Draco asked him "What about the other two packages and that letter?" Harry started and grabbed them off the sofa in the sitting room. He returned with them clasped in his hands and set them on the table. He pulled open the package that contained the snitch and put it in his room, in his trunk. He pulled off the letter on the smaller of the two packages left. He opened the envelope and read :

Dearest Son,

This is your mother again. The thing in this present should be self explanatory, I hope. It was one of the last to be found anywhere. I used it whenever there was great need of it, never before. I want you to learn how to use it, but be wary, one wrong move, and it will be fatal.

Your loving mother,

Lily

He handed it to Severus, who took one look at it and urged him to open it. Harry pulled off the twine, ripping off the paper carefully. Inside was a small egg that had an apparent stasis spell on it. Severus took the spell off and the egg started to crack. Out came a small, furry animal. Harry looked at it and wondered what it was. The thing was so cute. he decided to talk to it. "Hello there. Do you have a name?"

The furry thing looked inquiringly at Harry and then spoke. "No. My master names me normally. But you may call me Elsia." Harry jumped and looked at the other men, who were staring incredulously at Harry. " What? So Elsia can talk." "No." Said Draco. "You can Beast-speak! Only one other person ever in the history of history could do that! Merlin himself. That gift is so uncommon, some people believe it to be just a myth! But here you are, doing it and not even knowing it!"

"Beast speak? What's that?" Harry was very puzzled. "Beast speak is what it is called when you can speak to every last animal, big or small, anything but snakes. You could probably speak to all the animals in a magical creature shop."

Harry looked at Draco for a moment before grabbing the last package. He pulled off the letter. It read:

Harry,

This last present will help you against enemies, I hope. It is a sword called a katana. It is a Japanese sword that is very deadly when in the hands of someone who knows how to wield it. Use it well, my son.

Loving always,

Your mum

He pulled off the paper to reveal a long, slightly curved sword in a sheath. He put the sword aside and opened the letter that they had found in the Slythrin Vault. He pulled it open to find a single sheet of parchment. He pulled it out and read it.

Heir of them all,

I suppose you are wondering why this was still here. I will answer that. It is because it was charmed to only be read by the heir to Merlin, Rowena, Helga, Godric and myself. This would be you. It also is charmed so that it can only be seen by those who the heir trusts with his or her life. Now, another charm was placed on this so that only the heir that has at least one ability from each of the five previously mentioned. Now, it's of vital importance to follow instructions exactly as written in this letter.

Sincerely, Salazarr Slythrin

S. Tap the parchment once and say trasporto. Not too difficult, I hope.

He handed the letter around, and when it came back to him, he tapped it and said the incantation. The world spun and he fell to the earth in a grassy field.

There was a huge mansion in front of him. He walked towards it cautiously and knocked teneativly on the door. A woman in mossy green robes opened the door. Harry took a deep breath and stared explaining. "You see, I went into this vault and I found this letter that I tapped and said trasporto just like it told me to do and here I am." The lady nodded and turned around. She took a deep breath and shouted "Salazarr, someone got your letter!"

There was a sound like footsteps coming upstairs, and a man with long blue robes ran into view. "Really? He's here? Finally?" the woman nodded and the man she called Salazarr bellowed "Godric, Rowena. He's here! Its truly him. He got the letter!"

The sound of more footsteps came and a tall woman in dark purple robes came in from the left, while a tall man in crimson robes came in from the right and down a little.

Salazarr turned back to Harry and said: "I am Salazarr Slythrin, founder of Hogwarts. This woman," He gestured to the woman in the green robes. "is Helga Hufflepuff. The other woman is Rowena Ravenclaw, and the dorkish man over there is Godric Griffindor."

As they were introduced, they gave him a wave or nod. Rowena continued talking. "You are in a separate universe. Here, a year is a minute in your time, as long as there is a person from your universe here. When you go home, it will be the same as in your time. We hope to train you for at least five years. We will send you back until you get your inheritance, but the day after, just repeat what you did to get here. Now, good luck. And behave."

She pushed the letter into his hands and he was spinning again. He fell to the floor in the sitting room. Harry got up and went to the kitchen. He looked at the enchanted calendar, and gasped. "Tomorrow is my birthday. I get my inheritance!"

The other teenagers looked horrified that they had forgotten Harry's birthday. Severus looked miffed. They went to the living room, where Harry decided that he wanted to go to the backyard and practice with his new katana. As soon as the door closed, the others started planning a party for their friend.

Midnight was ticking closer. Harry couldn't sleep. He was reading an old journal when the pains started. They started as a slight twinge, gradually worsening as time went on. They were sharp and felt like someone was stabbing him with poisoned daggers. When a particular spike of pain was bad, he cried out. As the pains got even worse than a crucio or anything that had ever happened to him, he could not hold back a loud scream.

The others ran into the room to see their friend curled up on the floor. He screamed again, and writhed and convulsed on the floor. Seamus asked frantically what was going on, and Severus said "He is getting his inheritance. The more power gets inherited, the more it hurts. Worst of all, potions and spells have no effect on the pain. He has to deal with it. He is inheriting the power of the founders and Merlin. He is probably so used to pain he could wait until it felt like knives were being twisted in his stomach."

Harry screamed again, and Draco dropped to the floor by his twitching friend. He ran his fingers through Harry's thick black hair, all the while talking softly to him.

Half an hour later, Harry's body stopped twitching and relaxed. He leaned over and coughed. Seamus, Draco and Blaise looked in horror at their friend. On the floor by his head was a small pool of blood, and more was dripping from the corner of Harry's mouth. Severus said "Draco, get Poppy. This is really bad."

Draco ran from the room and returned a moment later with the mediwitch in the lead. The woman bent over Harry. She pulled out a shrunken basin and enlarged it. She helped Harry to sit up and had him cough into the basin. A few minutes later Poppy handed him a potion, and helped him swallow.

Poppy led the other men into the kitchen and told them "He was coughing up blood because he scratched his throat raw from screaming and also from the convulsions. Severus, you know how the people hit with the Cruciatus curse sometimes cough up blood? Well, it was like Harry had been hit with at least ten high power Crucios at one time and like they were held the entire time he was getting his inheritance."

The men gasped. That was what it felt like? Poppy gave them some potions to give Harry and left. They went back to Harry, who was sitting up on the floor. Severus gave him the potions and soon Harry was sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee with the others.

"It was worse than Crucio. Was that a great birthday present or what?" Harry said. He looked at his blood soaked chest with distaste. "Hey, I am gonna take a bath. I will be out soon." "Ok." Severus agreed. Harry put the letter in his pocket when he got to his room. He filled the tub with the hottest water possible and after filling it and turning off the water, tapped the letter and said trasporto. He was back at the mansion, and knocked on the door. Rowena opened it and hugged him. "He's here!" she shouted. The others made their way into the room and greeted Harry.

A/N: Harry's life is never normal. Shouldn't he be used to this sort of thing by now? Anyway, drop a review, they make me happy!