"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."
-- James Arthur Baldwin (1924-87), American writer, critic

A/N: HAHA! I am evil and I am meant to live to make you guys pull out your hair in frustration over my overly complicated names! Lol j/k okay way sorry about dumping all those names on you, here's a quick guide on the names, maybe it'll make it easier.

Alfirin Yussen Arddun- al-fy-rin Y-oo-sen Ar- Doon, quiet girl elf.

Daer Duath- Dah-ear Doo- Ath, Stern, No-joking kind of elf.

Lalien Lokia- Lay-Lee-En Low-kee-uh, Bright cheery elf.

Pyrrhus Zephyr- Pie-rus Ze-fear, Mean, Red pain in the , lol

Diodorus Rama Ayla- Dee-oh-door-Us Rah-Ma Ay-Lah, overly polite dryad, with very little patience

Hera Theophilia Ayla- Hair-ah Thee-oh-fee-lee-ah Ay-lah. Absent-minded, joker.

Ariadne Tisphone Anemos- Air- Ree-odd-nay Tis-fone An- Nee- mos, Nice, introvert. Lol

There ya go…;)

I woke up as always, 4:30, got ready and was downstairs a five a.m. Hermione was up; I wasn't surprised she seemed like the type of person who was up at this time. I didn't see Ron anywhere, I wasn't surprised either, the way he grows his body must force him to sleep. Remus came down a few minutes later, Happy and awake, I'll never understand that.

"Good morning, where's Ron?" he asked, I frowned and acted as If I didn't know. I didn't feel like getting up and waking up Ron, sitting in this chair seems so much better. I looked at Hermione expectantly. She rolled her eyes.

"Sure fine, have me wake him up. Lazy prat." She muttered going back upstairs. Remus looked confused, for being so observant I thought he'd catch what she was talking about. Well maybe he doesn't understand teenagers that much, on the account he was such a mature teenager.

About a minute later I heard a yelp and some quiet arguing. Then I heard the sound of rushing feet. Hermione came down with a slight smirk and Ron came down with his sweats askew and his hair ruffled. He had a strange look on his face, it look like a disgruntled but tired face.

"What did you do, Hermione?" I asked, trying not to laugh.

"Well I tried to shake him awake but that didn't work so I just said that I was going to snog him and he woke up quick. Strange, I didn't think the idea that revolting." She said, a look passed through her eyes but she still had an uncharacteristic like smirk on her face. Ron was grumbling still, talking about girls who couldn't control their hormones.

"Well, we're running a bit late, you guys better hurry on out or you'll have more laps to do." He said, an amused look on his face. We ran out quickly. Remus had us do laps, they only had to do about five and I had to do ten as usual, but I ended up finishing before them. When I got to the end I just waited for them, with a smug smile on my face. Hermione was the second to arrive, funny I would've thought Ron would have been second but I guess quidditch doesn't help that much. "Do you need me to get you some water; you look a bit tired to do it yourself?" I asked innocently, kind of…."Oh! Do wipe that smile off your face, show off, and I am perfectly fine getting my own water thank you very much." Said Hermione as she stalked off to the kitchen. Ron arrived and I was about to say something but he cut me off. "Don't say anything; I'm sure you were no better than the both of us when you started." Said Ron grumpily. I shrugged, Remus was giving me a pointed a look, I looked at him with mock confusion, he just rolled his eyes. We spent the next hour, learning defense, he went over the usual, it was good I wasn't too far in or it would be difficult to teach us all, I noticed moves a lot quicker and could hear the smallest thing with these enhanced senses. It made me feel awkward, I wondered if Remus felt the same way, werewolf senses and all. He was probably used to it. Hermione seemed to catch on quick and Ron's determination alone got him far; he seemed stronger when he was frustrated. I guess that's what we'll have to expect if he's a rage warrior. We went to breakfast, just like our schedules said. Everyone except Pyrrhus and Ariadne, I didn't know why Pyrrhus wasn't here, or where Ariadne was. Ron looked relieved that Pyrrhus wasn't here.

After Breakfast we went outside, we found Ms. Alfirin there in battle robes she handed us some battle robes. They were lightweight but seemed charmed to protect. It was easier to move in them. My robe was a grey color with a blue wind design and then some type of black cloud on the back; it looked like a medal or something.

"These are your battle robes; the signs on you back tell people who you are. You gain more signs on your back as you progress. Right now you Mr. Potter have a wind sign, for that is what you control, you are not a master yet, a master would hold a tornado on their back. You also hold a black shadow on your back, it indicates that you are a shadow warrior; A shadow master wears black robes with silver Latin words on the trim. Not much different from the words on your arms.

You Miss Granger have green robes with a leaf on your back, when you become an earth master you will have a tree, if you master the art of empaths, legilimens, and occlumens, then you with have the sign of the Mind warrior, that is your destiny.

Last but not least Mr. Weasley, you have a red battle robe, with a small flame, but you'll have a full fire when you master the element fire. Yes and when you are a rage warrior you will be given a special silver robe that will contain the fire of your rage.

I have not named all the things that will decorate your robes, but take care of them; it would not be wise to ruin them. Now let us begin with you lessons."

She threw up five daggers in the air, She kicked each dagger's handle and they sailed threw the air landing right in the middle of the targets she had set up. She took out a bow and carefully lined up five arrows against the string, she shot them out of her bow and each arrow went through each handle of the knives. Ron gasped, "That was bloody brilliant" he said in awe, Hermione was too shocked to scold him about his language.

"Well I have been doing this for 30 years, since I was seven in fact, so it might take a while for you to get up to that point. But enough chattering let's get to work.' She said amused. We spent the rest of the time learning the stances of throwing a dagger and how to use a bow. She had a large target in front; it was quite a ways off so you had to put a lot of power behind the dagger to get it far, to aim while doing that was difficult, I was the only one remotely close to the target because I could see very far.

Ron was moved up closer to help him but he got angry and threw the dagger. With his rage warrior showing the dagger didn't hit the middle but still hit the target, or should I say went right through the target and about 2 miles further from the target. We all laughed, Ron was a little embarrassed, but more pleased than embarrassed. He got scolded for not controlling his anger by Ms. Alfirin.

Next we had long sword training with Lalien Lokia. We were a little tired from the bow and arrow and he dagger throwing, but were pleased with our progress.

"Hullo you three, we're going to be learning the art of the long sword, Now I'm sure you guys know you have to be quick and speedy with this, when you learn your other powers you will be able to incorporate this with your sword fighting, for right now we are going to make the swords, we are making magical swords so it may be a bit different. When making a sword, it is similar to a wand, the sword chooses you, and will create itself to fit you. Now don't expect your sword to be perfect, natural sword makers are rare so it might take a while for you all to have you sword done, so lets get started." Lalien said smiling.

She handed us some metal and she made a fire with a weird incantation, we gave her confused looks. She handed us some hammers.

"Okay, well this fire will add the magical properties needed, it will help you create the Blade. Just take these hammers here and bring it on top of this metal platform over the fire and straighten out your blade, you'll each have a separate fire, after you are done with the blade part, put out your fire and the magical fire will create a handle for your blade, so come on now, let's get this started!" she said making a shooing movement with her hands.

It had been thirty minutes, my arms were aching from hitting the piece of metal with this stupid mallet, in some ways I think this is torture for me being me. I had a feeling there were some deities up there trying to ruin my life, actually there are, one going by the name of DESTINY! Next time she brings me up there, she and I are going to have a chat, I was startled out of my thinking when my fire blazed and grew larger by who knows what.

The first thought that came to my head was, "shouldn't I be screaming?" It wasn't because the fire was growing larger it was because I was inside the fire and I wasn't burning! I looked at My friends there fire were ablaze also but they were not get encircled by there fire, they looked panic stricken, there fire was just there, I looked at Lalien she had a smile of pure pleasure on her face, okay not good, why would the sword master have pure pleasure on her face when I could die in this fire.

Ah, I have been waiting for you. A voice said that I didn't at all recognize. Where did it come from, not making me any calmer, if destiny is behind this I'll send a big gust of wind her way….. Once I learn it that is.

How long has it been, I am guessing you are wondering who I am…

"Err, maybe just a tiny bit." I was a little frightened by her, she seemed I don't know dangerous, like the fact that she can control this fire was kind of erm, iffy.

Well in that case you probably won't get my name but I can tell you what I do, I am the spirit of the swords and every once in a while I get to come out and give a special sword to a certain all powerful guy, You wonder how Godric got his sword, it's a great piece of work if I do say so myself, oh but not as good as Albus' he's got a real shiny one there, but he doesn't flaunt it around that often, deep down it hurts me, ah just kidding. Any ways I have been appointed to give you a special sword, well everyone gets special sword, well powerful people that is, but you get and extra-special one. So okay I'm going to take a little bit out of you and morph it into the sword, it may hurt a bit. Why does EVERYTHING have to hurt, why can't stuff just be given to me, well enough of the whys, I nodded.

I had this weird, but stinging sensation of blood forming in one spot and it seethe out of me, not a lot but enough to make me want to throw up, then I saw a little bit of glowing stuff come out, I assumed my magic. My blood and magic intertwined together and wove itself into the metal, after that I couldn't see anything; my whole world was spinning like a tornado. I was thrown out of the fire and the fire died down.

There lay my blade in all its glory. They put out the fire and there was the handle.

The sword was white, no other way to say it, I thought it would be silver but no, it was a very shiny white, on the sword there were designs in red, my blood I think, and then there were designs in black, I have no idea where that came form. The design in red was on one side of the blade and the black on the other, the red was a picture of a griffin and on the other side a snake, what was weird about the snake is it seemed to be bowing while the griffin looked in mid-flight, the handle was a shaped like a black phoenix with emeralds set n its eyes and a snake in its mouth with rubies set in its eyes. The sword had a white aura around it. I look amazed at it, Lalien looked impressed.

"It is certainly rare to have a white sword or a sword in a different color other than silver, But I guess we can expect no less from you Mr. potter." She said amused. I gave a hesitant smile and picked up the sword, it felt like it was one of me, it gave me a comforting sensation and it shook for a second but then stopped, it stilled glowed white.

Hermione's was silver, with a design of green vines running through it, she had a strange handle that held an engraving of two eyes set with blue sapphire stones. It gave off a green aura and Ron's was impressive, it was silver also but it had red flames all over it, it was a bit bigger than Hermione's and mines but it gave off a red aura, His handle was a shiny red with diamonds encrusted on the top. We were very proud and satisfied with our swords; we had a few minute before lunch so Lalien gave us belts to hold our swords under our battle robes. After lunch I had a class to myself, as did everyone else, mine was with Mr. Daer, I went to the place we were supposed to be, it gave me the creeps, no one was there, but the phoenix on my back was prickling so I turned around only to find, Mr. Daer right up in my face.

"AAH!" I screamed startled, he nodded to me.

"Yes, that is the art of stealth; right now I am going to teach you how to be stealthy and the first power of a shadow warrior." He said firmly, looking me over, I felt a bit nervous.

"Err, what is the first power?" I asked hesitantly,

"Good question, it is shadow traveling, you are able to travel throw shadows, after you master this I will teach you how to manipulate darkness, but let' not dawdle with this nonsense let's get to work." Said Mr. Daer.

He was quick very quick, practically a blur, but when he was shadow traveling it was almost like apparating but with no noise. He could shadow travel right behind me. It was difficult, I tried to do it but I was out of breath after the first shadow, he told me it would be difficult because it took a lot out of you, but it's one of the only things that exercise your magic. I was certainly surprised.

Stealth came easier, I was a natural, and I was very quick but not a blur just yet. I could be sneaky and barely made a noise, Daer didn't make a noise at all. Mr. Daer was a good teacher, he didn't smile much but he was straight to the point and he made me feel sort of normal.

"Okay you got your stealth good, let's add some of the martial arts you've learned with it." Said Daer, smiling the first smile I had seen on him all day, well t was more of a smirk.

I got in my stance he did also, I was about to hit him but suddenly he ducked with a blur and his fist move like lightening and hit me down in a millisecond. My eyes were wide.

"Remember Mr. Potter use the skills I have taught you, your ears and eyes are there for a reason, they are certainly enhanced." He said a strange gleam in his eyes.

I concentrated on my stealth, I used my ears I could hear a faint rustle of leaves a mile away, I focused on my eyes and I could see every hair moving on Daer's head. I got ready in my stance.

I could hear the direction of the fists, we were both going extremely fast I was amazed how quick we were going, form spinning kicks to sweep kicks, jumping and ducking, our fists going hand in hand. For a moment a feigned something and quickly got me on the ground.

"Bravo Mr. Potter you have quite the potential! That was three minutes of fighting, you looked drained, lets work on your acrobatics." He said clapping his hands. I wiped the sweat form my forehead., I was amazed it was only three minutes, it seemed much longer, we probably fit one-hundred moves in that span of time.

Acrobatics was definitely difficult, after I could flip like I've done all my life, he smirked and put a tightrope up in the air, he had me fight him with acrobatics, I lost my balance every time, but I stayed up longer from time to time. After a while our time was up and I was instructed to work on my balance. I nodded and got ready for my next lesson.

Ariadne was next she was quiet and she taught well, she came in floating on air not using her wings, my eyes widen in surprise.

"Come now Mr. Potter, you can't say you're surprised, I mean we don't use our wings all the time" she said softly, coming down from the air as if there were invisible stairs. That was my first lesson, floating, hey if I could master this, balance would be a breeze. Ha-ha get it, a breeze, okay not funny, shutting up now. She was able to maneuver her self incredibly, I was only able to float, I was extremely tired after just that, she smiled knowingly and told me to clear my mind and summon the air. I did and then she said walk on the summoned air I did and I felt myself floating. Then she told me to tell it to move I did and felt myself moving, I looked around and then fell with a Thump, forgot about the concentration.

She told me I would get the hang of it in a little while, I nodded and left for occlumency, with our beloved Professor Snape, I wondered why Professor Dumbledore wouldn't do it, I'm guess he had his reasons, I just wished those reasons would blow up in a poof of smoke. I went to the end of the house in the darkest room, why did he always pick the gloomiest rooms possible.

"Hello Potter, what an unpleasant surprise, you are here on time, for once.' Said a silky voice, obviously professor Snape, Merlin, if he wasn't teaching me this I'd take out this sword and, and, well I probably wouldn't do anything, aw, forget it.

"Hello professor." I said coldly. He looked at with disdain.

"If you're even half-way competent Potter, maybe you'll be able to keep Voldemort out of you mind, or maybe you like him in your mind, you certainly are difficult to teach." he said with a smirk, I kept my anger in check, wouldn't want to damage the furniture.

"I assure you professor, I want him out of my head as much as I want this done and over with." I said through gritted teeth.

"Well in that case, Legilimens! " Snape yelled, oh crap should have seen that coming, he started prying through my memories, he saw me catching the snitch, see the grim, watching Cedric get killed. I tried with every ounce of power to stop Snape's mind. I dug deeper it was like fingernails piercing through my brain. He dug deeper and saw my uncle coming closer, my uncle had a crazed look in his eyes with a smelting stick in his hand. I screamed, No NO! I felt wind started to encircle me and a dark shield started to veil the images. Vernon was lifting the stick while screaming. NO!

I held the dark shield and willed it to blanket my mind. Vernon brought the stick up. Suddenly it went dark; I threw Snape out of my mind. My eyes were dark, I was sweating but I felt the dark shield all over my mind. It veiled anyone from getting through. Snape regained his composure and glared at me.

"Interesting shield you have there potter, Pray tell me how exactly you did it." Said Snape, narrowing his eyes. I was shaky, I didn't know how I did it, and I'm guessing this was one of my shadow powers, maybe.

"I'm not sure sir." My voice cracked, why does it have to crack in front of him. He nodded roughly.

"Leave." He said, I blinked owlishly, "NOW!" he yelled, I ran as quickly as I could, I had an extra thirty minutes to myself. I got a book on shadow powers and started reading. I found some on shields it read.

Under certain circumstances, a very powerful shadow warrior will be able to make a shield around his or her mind. They must be willing and want to hide something desperately and will unconsciously build a permanent shield around their minds. It is stronger than occlumency for you do not have to concentrate to do it, but if the wizard or witch has pure intentions and is skilled in empathy or legilimens they will be able to read some things to an extent. This power is very abnormal and rarely heard of; it is dangerous to try it without the adequate power.

"Great! something to label me more of a freak." I muttered to myself and headed down to dinner, Ron and Hermione looked rested, of course I had an extra hour, they look a bit weary but not as tired as I look. Sirius looked up and smiled.

"Harry! I heard about your sword. Let me see!" said Sirius, I showed it to him and he smiled. Then he looked at me.

"You look pale, this doesn't have to do anything with Snape, does it?" he said menacingly. I shook my head and sat down.

"No just a bit tired I suppose." I said while the house elves put the food on the table, I started to eat but my stomach didn't feel so good when Snape approached Sirius. Whatever he said made Sirius pale but then flare with anger. Snape just smirked and flooed. I rolled my eyes and watched Sirius look at me worriedly. I cringed, obviously he told him everything about it, I think he might've mentioned the memories; personally I didn't want to go there.

I directed my thoughts to Sirius.

"Sirius, seriously I'm fine, no harm done." I mind spoke.

"Why do I find that hard to believe, Harry what was that shield you erected." He asked.

"Oh erm. I looked it up and it's a shadow warrior technique, I guess I don't need to do occlumency anymore." I said happily.

"Well less of snivelus (I'm too lazy to check this spelling) is great, but if you ever need to talk I'm here." He said, I nodded. Afterwards Ron, Hermione and I went to the library, Hermione was reading while Ron was complaining.

"He's evil, he must be a death eater, he told me I'm lazy, what gives him the right." Said Ron angrily.

"Ron just because he insulted you doesn't mean he's a death eater." Said Hermione irritably, she was getting annoyed by Ron's constant complaining.

"Easy for you to say, you don't have a death eater to teach you." Said Ron. Hermione rolled her eyes.

"Honestly Ronald!" she said rolling here eyes, though I don't know if Ron could see that because her face was hidden by a pile of books.

"Don't' call me Ronald!" said Ron while banging his fist against the table, the table cracked in half causing Hermione's books to almost fall on the floor, but my senses picked it up and I quickly in a blur caught all of them. She looked at Ron angrily, her empathy skills sending angry emotions. She picked up her book mentally from my hands; obviously her powers have improved also.

"I'm going read in peace, where my books won't fall straight through the table!" she said glaring at Ron then leaving. Ron looked surprised. I was laughing so hard, paper wasswirling around, Ron caused the papers to catch fire and turn into soot, i stopped laughing, i was sort of surprised at the extent of our powers. We both left the room, Ron muttering angrily.

What we didn't see was Sirius and Remus in the back of the library watching us, with amused faces.

"Those kids got way too much power for there own good." Said Remus.

"Right you are, Moony, right you are." Said Sirius in between laughs.

A/N: So sorry about the lateness, I been a bit off color the past few days but not a problem, I'll try to get the next one up as soon as possible, I going to put something pretty surprising in the next chapter, hope you guys liked the training, there will be more to come! Thanks for reading and please review, I'm thinking about starting up a new fic, writing both simultaneously, I've got a few good ideas, so look forward to that! Thanks.

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