Author's Notes: Cheeky... Brat? Hidoi! (Mean!) Ehehehehe! Kidding! Hmm... You (yoYO) have a point, but Harry will be suspicious for a while because of what the Elder said. You can be sure that if the Elder hadn't said that he would be quite trusting, but I don't see Harry as trusting in others as Dumbledore at least. Thanks for that review! On another note to readers, Bijon came from a play with the word 'vision' so 'bi' is pronounced like 'bee'. You get the idea, I hope... Well, I did manage another quick update! I'm on a roll! Nah! I think I'll stop it here until next week unless my muse drives me mad.

Song: 'Ave MarĂ­a' by David Bisbal (Wait a sec! This one is not in Japanese! I still love it. Ha!)


Ch. 5: Dianeia

Bright green eyes opened in a very dark space. What was that place? Why was he naked? Where were his glasses/goggles? Why was he so cold? It was too cold. He started to breathe rapidly and could see mist coming from his mouth, a feeling of dread all over him. Dementors? He looked around, but couldn't see anything except cold mist and darkness. He stood up and started to walk feeling like he was walking on the same spot. His chest hurt quite badly and he clutched at it, but made an effort to keep on walking suddenly hugging himself because of the coldness. He shivered all over thinking that he would freeze to death, but something caught his eye. There was a floating figure approaching him and his breathing became uneven and difficult. He trembled all over as he saw that the figure was that of a skeleton. Even when the skeleton was wearing a long gray gown and had long gray hair it was still a skeleton. He could see the skeletal and bony hands and feet in the floating female skeleton. It spoke to him: "I will now bond with you."

Harry shook his head in fear: "I don't want to bond with you."

"You need me. You will have to bond with me whether you want to or not. My name is Lamorte and I will dwell inside you until the day comes when I will join with the others."

Realization struck the teen all of a sudden. "Are you a summon?"

Harry could see the skull's teeth seem to smile eerily and the phantom transformed into a gray diamond shaped fragment that flew into him. He gasped as the coldness enveloped his whole body and fell backwards closing his eyes. Perhaps he was going to die, but no. He opened his eyes again, dressed in school robes this time. He was on a flower bed and quickly got up to find himself in front of a mirror, but the image looking back at him was not his. It was Al. "Who are you?", asked the boy in the mirror.

"My name is Harry James Potter. Who are you?"

"Name's Al, just Al. Are you from the future?"

"Yes, I am."

"Maybe you've met me if I'm alive. You wear a Hogwarts uniform."

"Maybe... There's something about you that is terribly familiar, but I cannot picture..." Harry's eyes opened in surprise: "Is your name Albus?"

The boy in the mirror smiled, but the smile faded all of a sudden and everything changed. Harry found himself looking into the past. He could see Al fighting fiends along with several teammates, but the scenery changed again. He saw Al kneeling on the floor with tears running down his face as he looked at someone, a brown haired man dressed with what seemed like a red trenchcoat. "I TRUSTED YOU YORAK! I TRUSTED YOU! WHY?"

The man gave Al a cold glare. "You will die now. Marina will never be rescued." The man pointed at Al's heart with a crossbow, but just then two figures defended Al. The two figures went against the man named Yorak, but some fiends and other men joined the one in red. Yorak killed one of the figures, but the other managed to wound the traitor before being crushed by the fiends.

Al got up summoning his whip while yelling: "KARA! THIAGUS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Harry figured that Al must have been calling the names of the two that had just died, but the scene disappeared and he was again finding it difficult to breathe. He suddenly took a deep breath trying to recover from the difficulty and heard a soft female voice speaking: "Wake up... You have to come back now... Wake up, boy..."

His eyes fluttered open and he coughed trying to incorporate himself by getting into a sitting position, but soft hands held him. "Not so fast. You are still weak. Lie down." He kept coughing and tried to focus, but couldn't see well.

"Where are my glasses? Who are you?" Right then he noticed he was covered in blankets and as some dropped from his body he was able to notice that something else was missing, making him feel extremely vulnerable. "Where are my clothes and my sword? My cuffs?"

"Calm down. I got them clean for you. Your sword and cuffs are safe. Here are your glasses." He put the goggles on and rearranged them to see well and focused on the girl. She spoke again: "For a minute I thought you would leave this world. I had to help you breathe because you had stopped breathing all of a sudden." Harry touched his lips in understanding and turned beet red.

"You... You helped me breathe?"

She gave him a half smile. "Yes, and it worked. I'm glad you're awake."

Harry could see the girl clearly and was shocked when he identified the long purple dress and the extremely long bright white hair that was shiny like a diamond, except that the hair now had a long purple cloth covering the forehead and front part of the young woman's head. That cloth wasn't there the first time he saw her behind the gorgons. "Are you a gorgon?" His voice trembled to his horror and he tried to compose himself.

The girl blinked before giving a nervous laugh. "Goodness, no! Not a gorgon!" She laughed a little and covered her mouth.

"Are you human?" The laugh became very nervous at that question and the girl answered differently than what he would have expected: "I am a mage. That's all you need to know for now. I know that you are not from this world."

"How did you figure that out?"

"I saw you arrive at this world. I've been following you since Samiria took you."

Harry was confused. "But you haven't been the person saving us, right?"

The young woman shook her head. "I only saved you from the gorgons. I don't know who the other one is. I've seen him. He is... Never mind."

Harry noticed a fire burning plus the fact that it was dark, but he suddenly realized that he was alone with the girl. "Where are my friends?"

"They're fine. They're in a village close by hidden in an Inn. I payed for their stay, but I wanted to speak with you alone so kept you away. You seem like the most powerful one and their leader."

"I am no leader," he said lowering his head. "I am not very powerful either. You just saw how long we lasted against those gorgons."

"You are just inexperienced. That's all. Plus the fact that there were indeed too many of them..."

"How did you save us anyway?", asked Harry bewildered all of a sudden.

The girl's gaze dropped as she knelt and fumbled with her skirt. "I cannot tell you that, not yet. I am a mage."

Harry was starting to think that the girl was very strange, but she was also very beautiful. He could see that she had pink eyes and her skin was too white for a human. There was also something strange about her gaze and her extremely long hair. How could she manage with such long hair? What was she hiding under the scarf around her head? "What is under your headband? I can sense something underneath it."

The girl laughed nervously again. "It's a gem. Do you want to see it?" Harry nodded and she removed the scarf. She had a star shaped shiny pink gem just before her forehead. "It's my power source, that's why I hide it." She wrapped the scarf again, but Harry definitely had no idea of what the girl could be. He was wondering if she was a vampire too due to her pale skin, but he remembered that Janryu's skin wasn't really pale. "My name is Dianeia. What's your name?"

"Harry. I'm seventeen years old."

The girl looked surprised. "Seventeen? I thought you were a bit younger, although..." She laughed nervously again before stating. "Your body is fully developed..." Harry blushed furiously, but she quickly changed the topic: "I'm twenty-two years old." She stood up and looked for his clothes and brought them. "They're dry now."

Harry quickly took his clothes and was slapped with their fruity smell. He raised an eyebrow at this, but shook his head and started to get dressed. Dianeia turned around. "I'm done," he said suddenly and she turned to look at him and smiled, causing him to smile back. For some reason Dianeia made him nervous. He found himself gazing at her, studying her. She was truly beautiful although it did seem like she was hiding something. That little nervous laugh of hers worried him, but he was still feeling terribly attracted to her. It was an attraction far stronger than what he had felt towards Cho Chang. He didn't even want to remember that one... There was also the fact about Dianeia helping him breathe. He felt himself embarrassed and blushing as he thought about her lips on his. What was wrong with him? She was older than him! He decided to come back to reality. "Are we going to the Inn?"

"Sure! Come!" With a hand movement she made the fire disappear. He took his cuffs and put them on, then he took his scabbard along with his sword. The girl grabbed a rod with a diamond that was the same brilliant pink as the gem star on her head and they both started their walk. They had only walked for a few minutes when they encountered two creatures. They were snakes that reminded Harry of Nagini. With her rod Dianeia created a white light that made the two snakes vanish as if absorbed into something.

"What did you just do?"

"I... I simply used a vacuum of holy magic."

"Holy magic?" With that Harry had a clue. The girl couldn't be a dark creature, but a light one if she wasn't completely human as he suspected. "Was that vacuum the same magic you used against the gorgons?" The girl laughed nervously and didn't answer. That little laugh of hers was getting on his nerves.

Harry and Dianeia had two more encounters before encountering a high level fiend. It looked like a tyrannosaurus rex to Harry's horror and he could notice that Dianeia didn't look as sure as she had been with the other monsters. In fact, she seemed almost frightened when she started to chant. The monster sent some strange waves from its opened mouth and Dianeia extended her arms with her rod forming a shield similar to the one Luna had created against the gorgons, but this one repelled magic. Harry quickly understood that the one Luna had created only repelled physical objects or attacks like the arrows, but didn't stand a chance against magic. This new shield in front of him was the opposite. The monster produced spines on its body that went against them, but Harry on instinct created a physical shield by waving his sword in the form of a pentagon. All of the spines bounced on the transparent pentagon shield in front of them. After this Harry went againt the monster with his sword, but its body was too strong and the sword wouldn't even scratch it. He leapt back and Dianeia tried some lightning magic rising her rod, but it didn't even tickle the monster. "It is too strong against both physical and magical attacks!" the girl exclaimed before removing her magical barrier.

Harry started to chant and called: "Lamorte, please aid us!" At that same moment the monster sent some strange waves from its mouth against Dianeia and she screamed as the waves lifted her into the air. Her eyes were glowing in an odd manner and for a second Harry feared she would transform into something, but his summon rose into the air from inside him. Everything went cold with the angel of death. The skeleton woman with flowing gray hair opened her mouth as she sang a song that made Harry get goose bumps and fall on his knees. He saw the monster's eyes go completely white and it fell to the ground dead, making everything tremble and trees fall. After a few seconds the monster turned into nothingness, the summon got back into Harry's body, and he quickly checked on Dianeia. She was convulsing and moaning in a strange language. He could also feel something trying to sprout from her back. "Dianeia! What's wrong?" He searched in his sack for some potions and started to check the ones he had until he found one with a label that read 'Remedy'. "Well, I do hope you are a remedy for everything..." after saying this as if speaking to the bottle he poured the potion into the girl's mouth and she swallowed it. After half a minute the convulsions stopped and she only looked unconscious, but opened her eyes. The pink eyes were not glowing anymore and he let out a breath of relief.

"Thank you", she stated timidly. "I almost... Never mind." She laughed nervously and Harry rolled his eyes. "Let's go to the village, alright?"

"Why don't you just trust me and tell me what you really are?"

The girl was taken aback and looked scared. "I'm human! I... I can't..."

Harry decided that he didn't want to push her either. "Alright. Let's just go to the Inn."

She smiled in a childlike way and they proceeded toward the village and entered it, heading quickly for the Inn. Harry entered the Inn and was surprised to quickly see his friends. Janryu got up from a chair and exclaimed: "About time! Where the hell were you?"

Neville approached Harry with Luna by his side. "We were extremely worried. We woke up in this place and the owner told us to simply wait. It was awful while we waited. Those creatures came here and the owner hid us in a secret basement. I even thought that perhaps they had captured you, Harry."

"It would have been bad if you had gotten yourself captured as you are our leader..." added Luna with dreamy eyes.

Harry shook his head: "I am not your leader! I am just... Harry. If something happens to me you are to continue the journey until the end. Is that clear?" Neville nodded, Janryu didn't seem to care, and Luna simply blinked and started her scanner and pointed it at Dianeia. It was unreadable.

Neville did the same with his and it only beeped an alert showing the words: 'light creature.' Janryu, who hadn't even glanced at the girl, read the result in Neville's scanner and jumped back with his fangs out. His hair looked electrified and rose like a cat's as he growled. His dark violet eyes were glowing. "What's wrong with you?", asked Neville.

Dianeia laughed. "He's a vampire! I had a feeling he wasn't human, but didn't have time to confirm. Don't worry, I won't eat you or anything like that."

Harry was confused: "Why does he act like that?"

Dianeia sighed before sitting on a chair. "Because dark and light creatures usually repel each other, but if one of the creatures accepts the other nothing happens. I already carried him here and it didn't kill him so no harm done."

Janryu got back to normal and approached the girl. He started to sniff her and raised an eyebrow. "How the hell did you carry all of us?" Harry already knew how that question would be answered and flinched as he heard the nervous little laugh yet again.

"Stop that laugh! It's getting on my nerves!"

"Sorry..." The girl lowered her eyes, but then locked them with Janryu's. "It's a secret." She smiled at the vampire and he kept sniffing her again, but shook his head unable to figure what she was. Maybe if he had been a werewolf...

They dined at the Inn and that night before going to sleep Harry explained to Neville and Luna how a summon had come to him while he was unconscious. They were very surprised by that, which was something Harry had expected. He decided to hide his discovery about Al and the visions of the past he had though. He thought that maybe he could tell them later on.

In the morning they had a quick breakfast and left the Inn. Harry noticed that Dianeia stayed with them, but he wasn't complaining or telling her to leave. In fact he liked the idea of her being with them. He felt too attracted to her, although at the same time thinking that if he really fell for her she would never accept him because of his age. Rejection was something he always felt from the Dursleys and he didn't think he would be able to handle rejection from someone like Dianeia.

Harry used his scanner, but noticed that the next fragment was very far away and it seemed that they had to cross a sea. They finally arrived at a dock that connected to the village. There was a huge ship there. "We'll have to board this ship. The other fragment is in another land..."

The others nodded and they paid for their trip before boarding, but as soon as they were on the ship Harry could feel the stares. Many people were staring at them, some with surprised gazes, some with frowns, and others wore smirks. The last seemed to bother Harry the most and he thought that for a next time they should seriously consider wearing hooded cloaks. He was especially wary about a man that kept smirking at him. The man looked like a merchant, but Harry suspected that maybe that man traded other goods that might include children.

Janryu suddenly left them saying that he was going to be in the kitchens getting blood from whatever animals the cook had there to be cooked. Neville went to a corner with Luna apparently trying to involve her in something that he was describing. Harry smiled as he saw the other boy gesticulating with his hands while he spoke to Luna. It was obvious that Neville fancied Luna and the girl actually made a nice audience. Dianeia kept looking at the sea with a sad expression and Harry joined her. "Sad memory?"

She nodded and kept looking at the ripples that formed on the water and the fish that jumped. "Something that happened some time ago. The dark lord has hunted my kind. That's why I cannot change to my other form, ever. I have to avoid it at all costs. You see, I do have two forms, but I don't want anyone to know."

"Are you the last of your kind?"

She shook her head. "He doesn't kill us. He wants our magic. Something similar to what happens to the children, but he enslaves my kind with spells that make us serve him, like hypnosis. He has my little brother, Nhuriel. He is only twelve years old, but I hope that he hasn't been discovered. When he was captured he was taken as just another child. I hope it has remained that way. My parents are in hiding like the rest, but I couldn't remain hidden not doing nothing. That's why I decided to venture to get my brother back. That same day I saw you arrive and hid. When I learned that you were going against the dark lord I started to follow you. Now you know the real reason behind it all."

"Do you have any idea of who the guy that is also following us might be by any chance? Is he of your kind?"

Dianeia was in deep thought for some minutes before finally answering: "I have no idea who he is, but he is not of my kind. To tell you the truth..." She shook her head.

"Please, tell me."

"Well, he fits the description of someone that died in the battle of one hundred and forty years ago. I don't know if he is a ghost or someone revived. He seemed to appear ever since you got to this world. I found him right after the woman named Samiria took you to her house. He was in deep sleep and I tried to wake him, but he wasn't even breathing. Suddenly he opened his eyes and stared at me before jumping to his feet and telling me: 'The time has come.' He left after that and has kept following you, I think."

"Did the person that died so long ago had a name?"

"Yes! The name registered in history books is Tenshi."

Harry frowned as the name wasn't one of those he had heard in his vision of the past. "Did he die protecting Al?"

"Yes, but I do not know how it happened. No one knows. The only thing I remember reading is that Al had eight companions. He was left with half of them when he won over the emperor. One betrayed him and died in the end along with three more that include the man we speak of." She started to laugh all of a sudden. "Of course, I still think it's impossible for that guy to be Tenshi! It wouldn't make sense, would it?"

The ship started to tremble all of a sudden and Janryu came running from a staircase and stared at Harry. "A fiend! Powerful one!"

In less than a minute the group joined together in the front part of the ship and from the water emerged a monster that looked like a giant eel. To Harry's relief it wasn't of the electric kind, but it seemed to be made out of water, which wasn't good either. He quickly tossed a fire ball at it that was easily extinguished by the monster. It retaliated by throwing a water splash that Harry dodged. The water melted part of the woodened floor and Harry realized that it was like acid. Neville knew that shooting at a monster made out of water was no good so he used a lightning bolt on it. It seemed to infuriate the monster and a tentacle came out of its body and hit Neville squarely on the chest making the boy fly backwards and crash against a pole. He wasn't unconscious, but couldn't get up when he tried. The hit had a paralyzing effect. In seconds the monster also attacked Janryu, but the vampire boy dodged not knowing how to attack the water creature. Dianeia summoned a lightning bolt stronger than Neville's from her rod that hit the monster, but again it went berserk and hit her too making her fall paralyzed like Neville. Harry could see that Luna was chanting and she called: "Bijon!" From inside her came a giant eagle that reminded him of Ravenclaw's symbol. The eagle was dark blue and radiated with lightning. The girl raised her right hand in a signal and the summoned bird flew over the monster, who tried to attack it in vain. Bijon created an electric net that fell over the water eel and the eel was electrocuted until it fell to the sea as just plain water. Bijon then entered Luna's chest and she looked at Harry and smiled. The people on the ship stared at them in shock and Harry could notice the merchant smirking yet again. Oh, how he wanted to erase that smirk from that man's face.


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