Summary and Disclaimer are in chapter 1.
Chapter 4. Ministry mess up, and training begins.
Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, was just finishing up his lunch and was about to return to his office, when a siren started blaring. Not completely forgetting his days as head of the Aurors, Scrimgeour looked at the map that adorned one side of the Ministry mess hall, as he liked to refer to it and paled, Hogwarts was under attack! Magically magnifying his voice he barked orders for several aurors to go and investigate and help out if necessary. Auror's Nymphadora Tonks, and Kingsly Shacklebolt, along with newly appointed head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Mad-eye Moody, each took with them a team of new recruits as they thought this was little more than a few Death Eater wannabes, wishing they were one of the big boys raising a little hell. Unfortunately for them, they couldn't be further from the truth. Grabbing a long piece of rope each, the three teams took hold and each leader activated the portkey, only to find nobody had left the mess hall.
"Right lads," Moody barked,
"We ain't dealin' with little toerags thinkin' they can make 'emselves rise through the ranks of his nibs. floo to McGonagall's office and we'll make our way to the great hall from there." The others all nodded, knowing that this was
now, a hostile situation. They all made their way over to the mess hall
fireplace, and Moody, not caring a wit about the cost of Floo pouder, up ended the whole pot into the grate.
"Hogwarts! Head Mistress's office!" Moody bellowed, and the whole team vanished in a burst of green flame.
In the Head Mistress's office, a portrait awoke. He looked around and saw McGonagall sitting at her desk, her head in her hands, weeping silently.
"Come now, Minerva, is there any real need for those tears?" An old familiar voice questioned gently. Composing herself, Minerva McGonagall replied shakily,
"Unfortunately, there is."
"What happened? Is Harry ok?" McGonagall raised her hand, silencing the portrait for now.
"Albus, there was an attack on the school, Harry and his friends vanished and we lost several people." She choked out.
"First, who did we lose? who lead the attack? And, what happened with harry?" Dumbledore asked, a note of panic in his voice.
"W-w-we l-lost N-Neville Longbottom, and, R-Rubius H-H-Hag-Hagrid, as well as some f-f-first years." McGonagall sobbed out.
"Albus, it was Severus who lead the attack. He brought a number of werewolves, trolls, dementors and Death Eaters with him." Just then, the fireplace roared to life and a number of people stepped out, Moody in the lead.
"What's happened here? Where's them thrice damned Death Eaters?" Moody's gruff voice asked.
"They left, half an hour ago." McGonagall snapped.
"aw Christ! I told Scrimgeour them wards he had placed here were shite! Them things don't go off until it's all over but the cryin'!" Moody growled, his eye spinning every which way.
"Now perhaps the stupid prick'll listen!" Moody grumbled, cussing up a storm.
"gee Mad-eye, I didn't think that was even possible, not with both hands or in that position at any rate." Tonks commented on one of Moody's more innovative suggestions, her hair changing colour to match her increasing anger at yet another incompetent minister.
"I'll make it possible allright." Moody threatened.
"Now Now, children." Dumbledore's portrait chuckled, eyes twinkling madly.
"damnable old coot. Ya finally went and woke up did ya? Aw well, that don't matter now." Moody retorted.
"Now, Minerva, what happened with Harry?" Dumbledore questioned, a note of urgency in his voice.
"He, and his friends, Ms. Granger, Mr. and Ms. Weezly, simply vanished into thin air." McGonagall answered, a look of confusion on her face.
"Alastor, could you use that remarkable eye of yours to see if you can find anything unusual?" Dumbledore asked, a look of knowing on his face.
"Allright Albus, but ye better be doin' some explainin' or Minnie's liable to break any second." Moody said, his eye already in motion.
"Break my hat!" McGonagall snapped at the now openly laughing portrait.
"ah hah! Found something!" Moody crowed, his eye fixed on a point near the quartet's favourite spot by the lake.
"whazat?" Tonks mumbled.
"Time turner activity. But, it ain't yer usual kind o' activity." Moody produced his wand and cast a spell in the direction his eye was pointing.
"ah. I wondered when someone would check for magical residue." Dumbledore said calmly.
"Magical residue, Albus? What's that got to do with," Minerva broke off as ghostly images of her four favourite students appeared in the middle of the office. They watched as the four figures sat and talked for a bit, before a fifth figure approached. They all recognized Snape immediately but could only watch as he and Potter had words, and then proceeded to take out his want and flick it twice, causing Hermione's time turner to spin back and to the right, accompanied by a brilient flash of light. The images faded, indicating that nothing further could be learned of the whereabouts of the teens.
"Well I'll be." Moody chuckled.
"The damn fool's gone and done us a favour. Idiot probably had no idea where he was sending them or what he was doing. Them kids are lucky he didn't destroy the time turner or they wouldn't be gettin' back any time soon." Moody outright laughed now.
"What, Where," McGonagall sputtered, her nostrils flaring.
"Hold yer hippogriffs Minnie." Moody rumbled.
"Potter and his friends been transported back in time and, to another galaxy. It's a little known fact about them time turners but they can be used for interdimentional travel too. Right genius bit o' magic if ya ask me." Moody chuckled some more.
"that damned fool Snape sent 'em to a place I been only once, but them kids'll get help there. Not only that, they'll come back with some neat toys and abilities to help us get rid of Riddle once and for all!" Moody exclaimed, smirking triumphantly.
"So, where exactly have they been transported Mad-eye?" Shacklebolt's deep voice rumbled. Moody only smirked and said one word. That one word however, was enough to paste looks of shock on every face save Moody and Dumbledore's. That one word was.
"Coruscant."
On Coruscant, the four teens and Yoda had just finished their breakfast, and were making their way to the sparring chamber, when they met up with Mace Windu,Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker making their own way to the same place.
"ah. Master Yoda. I see you've brought our new friends along to witness some sparring." Mace Windu said, a friendly smile gracing his usually stoic face.
"Witness they will not. Spar they will." Yoda said sharply.
"Ah. Excellent! I do believe my skills with a blade are a little rusty. A thousand years is a long time between drinks, wouldn't you say little brother?" Ron grinned his blue eyes twinkling madly, not unlike his former Head Master's.
"Ohoh! Do you believe you can defeat me brother? I'm not counting that thrice damned final battle of ours, it was a necessary evil and you know it. It had to end that way." Harry said softly, a brief look of sadness passing over his face, before he got an evil glint in his eyes, not unlike his best friend's twin brothers.
"But, dear brother, where shall we find suitable blades in a place such as this?" Ron asked, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
"Worry you will not young Weezly, like our weapons you will." Yoda chuckled, evaluating his four companions with no more than a glance.
"uh, Master Yoda?" Anakin asked,
"Who are your friends?""Your friends they soon will be, padawan." Yoda chided gently. He introduced the four to Mace Windu, Obi-Wan and Anakin. He then lead everyone to the sparring chamber, and upon seeing it was emty, beckoned them all in.
"Oh my!" Hermione and Ginny exclaimed together.
"We've nothing like this on Earth, and those small metal tubes? What are they exactly?" Hermione babbled on in excitement. Yoda chuckled and gently shushed Hermione with a finger to her lips.
"Eagour to learn you are. Learn to crall before you can walk you must. Answer your questions I shalll." Yoda chuckled merrily at his charges.
"This," he said, pulling a light saber off the wall.
"a Light saber it is. A Jedi's weapon it is." Yoda said passing one to each of them. Harry However, gently handed his back to Yoda and stood up as if in a trance.
"seen this once before I have." Yoda said quietly. Harry's friends were about to pull him back when Mace Windu put out an arm to stop them.
"No, he must do this on his own. He is being called by a weapon, Much like, if I'm not mistaken, in a similar fashion as to how you were all bonded with your," Mace windu struggled to find the words.
"You mean like us bonding with our wands?" Ginny asked hesitantly.
"Wands? Oh! Those little sticks you carry about? Yes. Exactly like that." The Three friends stepped back and watched as Harry approached what looked like a double bladed light saber.
"Revan's Light Staff!" Mace Windu gasped.
"Seen for many thousands of years this has not been. Guided to it young potter was. In mysterious ways the force works." Yoda said quietly.
"Duel me, young Potter will. Pull out all the stops you will. Hold nothing back you will." Yoda commanded, calling his own Light saber to his hand. The others all backed away to a safe distance, Not sure what was about to happen. The two duelists faced each other and bowed.
"On my signal." Obi-Wan said.
"3, 2, 1, Fight!"
It was intense right from the word go. The moment Harry and Yoda ignited their weapons, they were little more than a blur to the rest of the broup watching. They both tested each other's defences, before settling into a comfortable pace of strike and counter strike, blow and counter blow, slashes, blocks, dodges, and parries. It seemed that neither would find a weakness in the other's defence. That was until Yoda started using the force to enhance his reflexes. Harry, not sure of what to do, jumped back to avoid a near fatal strike from Yoda and decided to attempt to immerse himself in the Force. Yoda sensing this, stopped and watched to see if the young man in front of him had the ability. To his surprise and to the shock of everyone else in the room, Harry managed to do so thus increasing his own speed and reflexes.
"A natural he is. Trained such a person before I have not. Take him as my padawan I will." Yoda told Mace Windu before getting back into the mock fight. He didn't see harry draw his wand, and was not prepared for what happened next. With a flick and a muttered, 'expelliarmus', Yoda's Light saber was removed from his hand and caught by Harry. Yoda decided to show the boy why he was one of, if not, the greatest Jedi master that lived, by manipulating the force and sending shockwave after shockwave at Harry. Harry, just grinned and flicked his wand again, causing the statues around the chamber to become animated and gather around him, shielding him from the diminutive Jedi Master.
"Unexpected this is." Yoda chuckled, deactivating his Light saber. Harry did likewise, sending the statues back to their exact places with another flick of his wand.
"Powerful you are with the force. Do away with your wand you could." Yoda stated.
"That might not be such a bad idea. However, I'd still like to keep it. It was my first one after all." Harry said as he went to put the Light Staff back. "
keep it you will, your weapon it is now. Earned it you have." Yoda said staying Harry's hand. After watching the others duel against Yoda and the other Jedi, they all decided to go and look for some lunch. As they were heading back to the Mess, Hermione asked,
Harry, what was your vision from Voldemort about?" Harry looked at her for a moment and beckoned his other two friends and Yoda over.
"Might as well tell you all, Voldemort was, oh for christ's sake Ron, it's just a name! Anyway, Voldemort was somehow in my mind. I know it wasn't his doing this time because I somehow seemed to pull him into my mind, and he saw everything I did at that time. I wasn't quite asleep nore was I awake, but I've been practicing occlumency over the Summer since my seventeenth birthday." Harry explained.
"This Voldemort, your evil one he is. Destroy him you will." Yoda said with conviction in his voice.
"Indeed I will, but I first need to destroy the five remaining pieces of his soul he has stashed around the place." Harry said with a thoughtful frown. Yoda paled at this.
"Split his soul did you say? Into five pieces?" Yoda looked fearful, and that alone scared everyone who was with him. Mace Windu went pail, Anakin wasn't sure what all the fuss was about, but knew it was very bad for Yoda to get this upset, and Obi-Wan Nearly fainted.
"Ancient Sith lore that is. Split the soul, never to die. All but immortal your Dark Lord is. Destroy the soul fragments you must, mortal he will be once more, destroy him you must!" Yoda shook his head, clearing it of images only he could see. That bit of drama out of the way, the group, minus Yoda and Mace Windu went off to lunch, while the two council members went to the council chamber, to discuss the idea of taking on the four teens, and training them in the ways of the Jedi.
Back on Earth, in the Hogwarts Head Mistress's office, silence reined. It was Tonks who broke the silence.
"Coruscant? But isn't that""Yes, Nymphadora, it is the home of the Jedi order." Dumbledore's portrait confirmed.
"But but but, I thought that was science fiction?" tonks managed to choke out after a while.
"No, my dear, it is in fact, true. All of it!" Tonks couldn't believe her ears, the four kids she considered younger siblings, were going to be trained to be Jedi!
"But, that ain't all is it albus?" Moody smirked, knowing full well the next bombshell was a doozy.
"No, old friend, that isn't all of it." Dumbledore confirmed, his twinkle lighting up the office.
"Well, are you going to tell us or are you just going to sit there talking in riddles?" McGonagall barked.
"It would seem, the Founders have been reincarnated, and, I think our missing teens are they." All the Blood drained from McGonagall's face and she fainted. This however, caused Moody to laugh uproariously.
"Told ya didn' I Albus? Told ya she'd break, poor old gal ain't got the heart for surprises anymore." Moody kept on laughing, thumping his peg-leg on the ground.
"Alas, you're right. Kingsly if you would please?" Dumbledore twinkled. Kingsly muttered 'Enervate.' And the Head Mistress woke up.
"Wha?" McGonagall managed to gasp out, before it all came rushing back, and she sat bolt upright.
"The founders, albus? I don't, I-I-I-I-I-I don't believe it! Are they here to do what I think they are"
"Indeed Minerva, they are. They're here to destroy Voldemort, and reunite the magical world, and start the Jedi order in this galaxy.
"well, if that don't beat all. Anyways, enough chin waggin', Minnie, I'm off to give the minister a bollocking he won't forget, for them shitty wards he's put up here. You two! Shacklebolt and Tonks, keep these teams with you and patrol the school. Scrimgeour might be the minister but so far as the DMLE is concerned, I tell him where to go shit! Do I make myself clear?" Moody growled.
"Yes sir." Both aurors said in unison. With that, Moody stumped his way over to the fireplace, grabbed a pinch of floo pouder and vanished in a burst of green flame.
A/N:Wow! That was a long one! Please I'd like a beta reader. If anyone would like to
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