I don't own Harry Potter or His Dark Materials. I only own the characters Zephyr and Loki Raziya. And Teraphim. Oh and by the way, I've made up a creature, 'tis called 'Volcanus Iumentum' 'tis Latin for fire beast, I think.
I gained it so
By climbing slow
By catching at the twigs that grow between the bliss
And me.
Chapter 7
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Before Will had left to go to the Wand Weighing, he had asked Loki if he could teach himself and Lyra to become animagi and use wandless magic.
"Welcome to Animagi and Wandless magic 101" Joked Loki "I am Professor Raziya, but you can call me Loki. We shall be learning how to be come Animagi and how to use wandless magic. I hope you enjoy your lessons, because we shall be doing this on Wednesday's, Friday's, Saturday's and Sunday's! Right lets get started."
An hour past as they were trying to find out what their animagus form was, by standing in front of a wall, Loki blasting them with a strange blue wave of magic and focusing on nothing. Their shadow would change into the animal their animagus form would be.
Will's was a Hungarian Horntail dragon, while Lyra's was a Volcanus Iumentum. (A/N a Volcanus Iumentum is Latin for Fire beast and is for me a Winged fire horse, it can spit fireballs and looks a bit like Pegasus but its mane is fire that is only touchable to its true love!) Loki wanted them to have a first hand view of an Animagi, so he had owled his parent's friend, Loki and Zephyrs bene elim, Teraphim who was a unregistered shape-shifter.
"I am a bene elim. A watcher. I am a shape-shifter, and I'm here to teach you how to become animagi." Stated Teraphim, not showing any emotion in his voice.
For the rest of the day, Teraphim showed them their animagus forms for Will and Lyra to capture in their minds.
"Tomorrow is Sunday. I would like you to remember your forms and focus only on them when you go to bed. I shall see you tomorrow at 9:00 sharp." Said Teraphim.
"I'll be outside here at 8:55 to let you in. fill up on breakfast, you will need it." Said Loki, not making a joke for once.
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Will and Lyra held hands as they went back to the griffindor common room, not noticing what they were doing. The day had been very eventful with the tournament and learning how to become animagi.
They stepped into the griffindor common room and saw Harry, Ron and Hermione sitting chatting in the chairs in front of the fire, and went to join them.
Lyra lied down onto the really cushy rug right before the fire, her eyes mesmerised by the flickering sparks and flames.
"Where have you two been?" cluckled Ron as Will flumped into the chair next to him.
"Oh Ronald, stop being so childish!" said Hermione as Harry started laughing as well. She playfully slapped the two chuckling boys on the arms.
"No, we were with Loki." Said Lyra; her eyes still completely fixed to the flames in front of her.
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Lyra's PoV.
Lyra woke up early. She wanted to get some breakfast and work on picturing her animagus form in her mind. I'm going to be an animagus! Screamed Lyra to herself. She was really exited about becoming an animagus was really great. Just the idea of becoming an animal at will was great. And griffins are great creatures. Maybe my animagi form is a griffin because I'm in the griffindor house?
Lyra got out of bed and hurridly got dressed. She ran downstairs, out of the portrait hole and straight into Harry.
"Sorry," she muttered as she started to go down to the great hall for breakfast.
"It's fine. It was my fault." Replied Harry, realising who he had bumped into. Harry blushed a little. "So, what's with you and Will. Are you seeing each other or what?"
Lyra didn't answer straight away. "I don't rally know" she answered, not noticing the second question in what he had just asked. "I have to go now. Bye Harry."
Lyra hurried down to the great hall, she was running a bit late. She sat down at the griffindor table and grabbed herself some toast. Will came and sat down next to her and gave her a good morning kiss. He grabbed some toast and whispered in Lyra's ear,
"I've got something to tell you. Please meet me in the room of requirement five minutes before we meet Loki." And he left.
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Will's PoV.
8:45
Five minutes before we meet Loki, he had said. Will had been going through this for a while now, he was going to talk to Lyra about them. He was shaking madly. He had never been so nervous before.
8:48
Two minutes left before she came. Two minutes until he told her.
8:49
Right, he thought what should I say? I really should have thought this through a bit. Why can't I think of anything?
8:50
She's here.
"Hi" said Will, trying to keep his voice under control as it was shaking like the rest of him. "Let's go in."
Lyra nodded. I need a place to tell Lyra, that I love her. Thought Will, still shaking as he paced the stop three times.
He held the door open for here and they entered.
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Lyra's PoV
Lyra stepped into the room of requirement, and looked around at what she had entered. It wasn't as big as it was when she last entered, but it was very romantic.
The brilliant red and gold walls shone with the reflected light of the beautiful orange sun outside. There was a golden throne in the middle of the room, with heart shaped rugs on the floor (A/N I'm not that good at setting romantic scenes but I'm trying!) and music in the background that would make anyone's heart skip a beat.
Will took Lyra's hand and lead her over to the golden throne in the centre of the room and sat her upon it.
"Will, what's going on? What do you want to tell me?" asked Lyra, wondering why all the things in the room where about love. Will knelt down on one knee.
"Lyra," said Will very quietly. "I don't know how to say this… But, I… I love you Lyra." Her eyes light up with sparkles.
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Will's PoV
"Will, I love you as well" she answered. It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders.
His eye's shone with tears of joy as he held Lyra in his arms and kissed her softly. They linked arms and walked out of the room. will looked at his watch.
8:55
Well were on time. Thought Will. They stepped out of the door and into the corridor, and bumped into Loki. The grin on his face was so big that you wouldn't have thought it could fit on it.
"What's so funny?" asked Will holding on to Lyra's arm.
"You two." Said Loki, the smile not coming off his face. "Elves have better hearing than humans. Shall we enter?" the two nodded and followed Loki into the room of requirement.
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"Lets get started." Said Teraphim shape-shifting into the Hungarian Horntail. "Will, focus all your power on this beast." He roared, flames shooting out of the Horntail's nostrils.
Will felt a tingle run all the way around his body and tiny gold sparks shot out the end of his fingers. Tiny horns started growing out of his forehead which grew bigger and bigger. He sprouted a tail, which kept growing in length. His feet became bigger and his skin became scaled. Claws found their way out of his toes and fingers. His back became arched and his was on all fours as wings sprouted from the deadly black scales with huge spikes on.
Will's mouth extended and became muzzle shaped and his eyes changed into big yellow eyes with black slits for pupils.
"Come on Will, you can do this!" cheered Lyra as Will began to grow in size. He went from three foot on all fours, to nine foot, on all fours. The entirety of his body had made the transformation.
Will reared back on his hind legs and blew a flame into the air. He roared in triumph as he spread his wings and took off into a high flight, flames shooting everywhere.
Loki motioned for him to come back down. Will nodded, lowered his head and went into a tailspin, pulling up just before touching the floor.
"Well, you've got transforming in just two days! Now you need to transform back. Focus your energy on your human form and use your power to make your body return to it's original state. If you can't do it, there's a spell we can use. So don't worry!" said Loki in a very calming and helpful voice.
Will had his mind set on his human form. And again his body felt the tingle of the transformation. He started shrinking to his original size and he came up off all fours and his wing retracted into his back. The jet-black scales disappeared and were replaced by the clothes he was wearing before. The claws retracted into nails, his tail shortened and became once more just a tailbone that was once a monkeys.
"Am I done? I cant manage anymore." Said Will, panting rapidly. Loki, Lyra and even Teraphim all laughed. Will looked around nervously and saw a mirror. He rushed over to it and examined himself.
He laughed at the sight of himself. He still had his horns!
"Don't worry, we can sort it out." Chuckled Loki, while Will played with his horns.
"No, I kinda like them! I'm going to try and shrink them a bit so they're not as noticeable!"
"Ok, but don't come to me when people think you're the spawn of Satan!" they all burst into laughter. "You next Lyra."
Teraphim morphed into a Volcanus Iumentum. "Remember, focus your power on the image your Volcanus Iumentum." Said Teraphim.
"Oh, I've remembered something. Happy thoughts help the transformation!" said Loki, another smile creeping back onto his face.
Lyra remembered when Will had told her he loved her. That's certainly happy. She focused on the Volcanus Iumentum. After about 30 seconds, her hair started flying about the place like there was a heavy wind in the room.
Her body lifted up into the air and started twirling, mist surrounded her so no one could tell what was happening. One minute had passed with the swirling and the mist around started to clear and the twirling stopped.
There was nothing there. It was if Lyra had disappeared. Lyra's Volcanus Iumentum form started growing from the floor. It was if she had just shrunk and was now growing in size. The mane of fire flickered as it waved around on the shaking form of the beautiful silver horse that stood before them. Wings spread out and she started galloping around the room fireballs ricocheting off the walls and exploding everywhere.
Lyra ran around the room as happy as she could be. She slowed down into a posh trot over to Will, Loki and Teraphim. Will stroked her fiery main, not caring if he burnt himself, just wanting to hold Lyra again. He put his hand in the flame and to his surprise the flame felt cool to the touch.
"Aww, that's sweet!" said Loki, the smile not leaving his face.
"What's sweet?" asked Will
"Well the Volcanus Iumentum can only be touched by its true love!" he started chuckling. "Now Lyra, you have to change back, focus on your human form. And use power!" ordered Loki.
The tornado started up again and Lyra was swept up into the middle of it. Will stepped back so she could have her room to transform.
Lyra touched back down after transforming. Her hair still aflame, which was quickly put out as she shook her hair.
"That was awesome! Well, we've done animagi sooner than I thought we would, so, umm, tomorrow we shall do the shield charm. Then after that we will do wandless blasting. So ill see you for Wednesday's lesson!"
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Both Lyra and Will could successfully morph into their anigmagi form's whenever they want. They were also able to transform bits of their human form with their anigmagi form, which could only be done with very powerful animagi; professor McGonagall couldn't even do it!
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Wednesday came very fast for Will and Lyra. They were having so much fun changing into their forms at every break they had.
"Will, if you want to use your animagi form in the Triwizard tournament, you should register. You don't have to, it's just that if you change in the tournament you will probably get a lot of hassle from the Ministry of Magic. Mr Bagman and Mr Crouch are both ministry officials so be aware." Said Loki, handing both Will and Lyra a form.
"I'm not signing it," stated Will handing back the bit of parchment. "It would feel like I was signing away my freedom." Loki grinned again.
Lyra agreed with Will and handed Loki back the form. Loki grinned even more.
"Great, now on with the wandless magic. Its like just using a wand, you can use the same movements and words at first. But then when you get really good like moi, you can just imagine it and sorta push your hand forward." Loki threw his hands forward and the dummy in front of his flew back and crashed into the wall. "Like that! I'll let you take over now Teraphim."
"Like with animagi transformations, you focus your power on the spell you want to use. Before you were doing this to your whole body, now it is just your hands." Said the bene elim. "And seeing as you both have a animagi form that can manipulate fire, you will be able to use fire at will. So we shall try fire, conjure it in your hand"
Lyra was the first to get it, since she was a Volcanus Iumentum and could through fireballs. She had the fireball sitting in the palm of her hand and was touching it and manipulating it.
"That's great Lyra, all you need to do now is push if out of your hand by using your magic." Said Teraphim.
Lyra focused her magic to the palm of her hand were the fireball sat, flickering and spitting. She push her hand forward and the flame shot out and exploded on the wall.
By this point, a jet of fire was sawing out of the end of Will's index finger.
"Well, I can see that your both more advanced at this than Loki had said!" chuckled Teraphim, as Loki was turning a bit red in the face.
"Well," Yawned Loki, "I think that's enough for tonight." See you for Friday's lesson." And they left.
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Will sat in his favourite chair in front of the fire and Lyra joined him, sitting on his lap and cuddling up to him. And they fell asleep huddled up to each other.
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The morning came to fast for the liking of Will and Lyra. The first years were still overly excited about having two triwizard champions in their dorm, and were even more excited about seeing one of the champions fast asleep with a girl holding him tightly.
One first year shock him slightly and ran back when a small roar erupted from the boy's mouth. The roar was followed by the sound of Lyra awaking and they kissed and looked around for what had woke them.
The first years were looking very scared. Will and Lyra laughed and they got down. Will walked over to the first years.
"Never wake the beast." He said in the darkest evil voice he could do. He then turned around and started walking back to Lyra. Will could see the first years sliding to the portrait hole. He stopped, and turned around to the cowering first years. He extracted his horns. "Boo!"
The kids ran off screaming as Will watched them and laughed.
"Shall we go to breakfast?" chuckled Will, retracting his horns.
"Sure" laughed Lyra. They stepped out into the corridor and went to the changing stairs.
They entered the great hall; their hands entwine and sat down at the griffindor table. The day was going to be very boring.
Harry, Hermione and Ron came over and sat next to them. They all greeted each other and sat down for another slow day.
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The group left breakfast and headed for double transfiguration with McGonagal. Lyra and Will's hands still entwine.
"Oy, Potter!" shouted a blonde haired boy. "Like the badge?" and he flashed the badge on his chest saying 'Potter stinks!' and then the writing on the badge swirled around and the words 'Support Will Parry – The REAL Hogwarts Champion'.
"Shut it Malfoy, before I hex it shut." Stormed Harry, obviously this Malfoy person and Harry had a rivalry.
"Ohhh, what are you going to do? Get your Mudblood friend here to research a spell to do it?" laughed Malfoy.
Will looked at Harry who was taking his wand out of his pocket. Will stepped up to Harry.
"Leave it. I'll handle this." Stated Will, the dark voice he had used on the first years returning.
"You'll handle this? You've only been here so long. Its not like your going to win!" he laughed.
Will was getting angry. He snapped his fingers and it set alight. Malfoy's eyes widened at the sight of the flame that had just lighted on the tip of Will's finger.
Will pointed his finger towards Malfoy and a jet of fire shot out of it and engulfed him.
"Will, stop it. Hes not worth it." Shouted Hermione and Lyra in sync. Will just laughed.
"It wont hurt him. It will just make him come out in boils." He laughed. Then Will let go of the flame and Malfoy returned to view. The boils had all ready started to take effect.
Malfoy ran to the hospital wing screaming bloody murder. Will turned and headed towards transfiguration.
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End of Chapter 7
