Disclaimer: Same as the first chapter.
~Parseltongue~ when in flashback ~Parseltongue~
*Flashback*
Phoenix talking
Note: The stances are complete made up though the fighting styles are real. You'll understand when you read the chapter.
Chapter 5: The Challenge
Harry picked up his snakes and let his phoenix rest on his shoulder before making his way to the platform. Harry remembered the day they hatched like it was yesterday.
*Flashback*
Harry had just come back from an intense training session with Dex and Kevin. He had been in the trunk for six months and Kevin was teaching him all about the pressure points that could paralyze, disable, slow reaction time, or even kill an opponent, if necessary. Dex was teaching him how to be patient and how to use an opponents body weight against them. Harry walked into his room and like he did everyday he looked to see if his eggs had hatched yet. Harry was shocked to see that both of the eggs were shaking, he stood in front of them excited that the eggs were about to hatch. ~What are you looking at Master Harry.~ ~The eggs are about to hatch, Silvan.~ ~I want to see!~ Harry felt Silvan slide up his leg to rest on his shoulder. The black and silver egg was the one that hatched first, out came a black with a few silver feathered phoenix. Harry stared at it for a long time and it stared right back. He was about to pick it up when he felt a mental link in his mind and blue color flashed in his mind. It felt like the phoenix was content. Harry knew just by the feel of its presence in his mind that it was a boy and decided to name it Devon. Harry had just finished his thought when the other egg broke open and out came a three headed black with orange strips snake. ~Hello young one, are you comfortable~ The snake looked at him before replying, ~I'm fine master. If I may ask what is your name?~ in a very feminine voice. ~My name is Harry and your name is Jáquín and my friends here are Silvan and Devon.~
*End Flashback*
When he got there he left his familiars on the side to watch before facing two of his teachers for the past two years. Kevin was the first one to speak. "Here are the rules to the challenge. You have a hour and a half to defeat us both. For one half you will use just your hands, for another you shall use weapons, and for the last one you will use your magic got. There is one exception to this rule, I know you have been learning medi-magic, so if you are bleeding heavily you can use your magic to stop the blood flow. If you wish to quit then just say so. the only reason for this test is to see if you have retained everything we have taught to you. Also, do your best!" Harry nodded before getting into his fighting stance for his Moving Shadows style. He had another fighting styles but this was the less deadly of the two. He remembered when he was just learning them both with Kevin.
*Flashback*
Harry stood in front of Kevin and listened attentively to what he was saying. "Now I'm going to teach you to fighting styles; one is called 'Moving Shadows', cliche I know but it's very useful. The other is called 'Pak Mei' and is the deadlier of the two. I would only use this technique if you wanted to quickly get rid of or temporarily dispose of someone. Now these techniques are difficult and will take awhile to learn but patience is a virtue. First will start with Moving Shadow. Harry was told to stand with his feet slightly spread and to not move an inch until his opponent moved. They worked on this style for forty-five minutes before he switched to Pak Mei. This one was different then the other because instead of learning the stance and then some basics Harry was told that he was to start memorizing pressure points. Harry didn't know why but he had a bad feeling about this.
*End Flashback*
Harry stood stalk still until Dex made a move toward him. He saw Dex raise his fist to hit him in the stomach. this is where he mixed Moving Shadow with Dex's hand to hand combat. He turned to the side at the last minute, so that the punch barely missed him, and quickly delivered the same punch that Dex was trying to deliver to him. The force pushed Dex back to where he started when the battle began.Harry made no facial expression and just waited for the next attack. This time they both attacked at the same time. One was going low while the other was going high. Harry again shifted to the side so that the attacks barely missed him before hitting Kevin in the face and dropping low to swipe at Dex's legs to make him lose balance. when Harry got back up he quickly dodged a punch in his face from Kevin by doing a back flip. Twenty-five minutes later, Harry had a bruise on his cheek, leg and arm. He was a little scratched up but Kevin and Dex looked worse than he did.
"You passed the hand to hand combat kid. Now let's see if you can pass the weapons test." Dex said. Harry watched as he summoned his sword Mythical to his hands while Kevin conjured his steel boa. Harry gave an unnoticeable wince at the site of the boa, he had some memorable encounters with that boa and the floor. Harry snapped himself out of his thoughts and summoned his swords Angelus and Diabolus to his hands. He remembered when he was taught how to fight with these swords, sai's and dagger.
*Flashback*
"Okay, today I'm going to start training you on how to utilize your chosen weapons. We'll start with the dagger, the dagger has no set stance. It is mostly used for defense that quickly turns to defense before going back on defense. That's not what we're going to focus on though, you'll learn how hit an opponent from a long distance in a vital spot. That's not to say that you won't learn how to use it in a hand to hand fight. First things first I'm going to teach you the proper grip and vital areas to hit." said Dex. They spent thirty minutes on this before he switched to the sai's. "Now for this weapon, it is used especially for close range and offense. This has a set stance and allows you to move freely without worry of dropping your weapon unless you make a stupid mistake." Dex said before teaching him how to hold a slowly work through the basics using Kata exercises. They spent another thirty minutes on this before switching to the double swords. "Now I'm not going to let you handle the real things because you can seriously hurt yourself without knowing how to properly handle Angelus and Diabolus.", Dex said. Harry snapped his head up and looked at Dex before saying, "What's Angelus and Diabolus?" "They are the name of your swords, if swords didn't have names then you could never unlock their true magical potential." Dex said in answer before handing him to wooden swords and making him do another set of Kata's while also learning the stance.
*End Flashback*
Harry looked at them before deciding to attack first. He ran towards them with his swords held out on each side. Right when he was about to hit them he turned and had one sword going up while the other one was going down. The clash of metal was the only sound that was heard for the next ten minutes. Harry slid across the floor and placed his hand against his side to slow the blood flow down. He quickly brought out his wand and non-verbally cast a spell to stop the bleeding. Harry could have cast it wandlessly but he didn't want his opponents to know that he had this ability. Harry put his swords away and grabbed his sai's and ran towards his Kevin and began stepping through different Kata's to fool him. Ten minutes later Harry put away his sai's and grabbed his dagger from his boot. He threw it at Kevin who deflected it with his boa. Harry didn't panic at the loss of his weapon but instead called it back to his hand with just enough time to block Dex's attack. Ten minutes later Harry breathed heavily while subtly checking himself for injuries. When he saw that none of it was life threatening he put his full attention on Dex and Kevin.
"Alright you passed that test; now lets see how you do on your magical skills." Kevin announced. Harry didn't bother to say anything, he just flicked his wrist and his wand slid out of his wand holster right into his hand. Harry thought about all the things he learned and how magic and how he was able to gain knowledge that hadn't been heard about in thousands of years. He hadn't blown so far past the founders' dreams that they started to teach him how to create his own spells.
*Flashback*
Harry had been in this trunk for about a year and two months now and he had read almost all of the books that he brought from his vault. "Your advancing far more quickly than I thought you would. We're going to have to teach you how to create your own spells.", said Slytherin. Harry was so far ahead that he was learning things from the founders that they hadn't really planned on teaching him. Godric began speaking so Harry paid close attention. The first thing you need to know about creating your spells is that unless your a master at it, it takes you at least a month. If your a master it takes you at least two weeks to organize and create a new spell. We'll start simple, your homework for tonight is to came up with a spell that allows you to get the toughest stains out. You need to come up with an incantation, how it works, how long it takes, what its limits are, and how much power is needed to use it. If you can do this then we'll let you create more useful spells." Harry nodded his head, he hadn't been training all this time to lose to something like this. He immediately sat on his bed with pen and parchment and began to think.
*End Flashback*
Harry looked at Kevin and Dex trying to determine if they would make a move, they didn't.Harry knew that this was really just a game of patience and he was determined to win, so he stood there for five minutes looking at each other. When it became apparent to Dex and Kevin that he wasn't going first they both threw a hex at him at the same time. "Confringo" "Conjunctivitus" Harry didn't bother trying to dodge and just threw up a shield wordlessly. Harry then rolled to the side and sent a wordless Diffindo followed by a wandless Impedimenta behind it. Harry flipped up into a standing position in time to see Kevin go down at the impedimenta curse. Harry didn't have time to celebrate the small victory and began to battle Dex like there was no tomorrow.
Twenty-five minutes later Dex was tied up and Harry was hunched over trying to regain his breath. Harry slowly stood and released both of them from their bindings and sat down next to them. "Well kid looks like your ready to go now. When we leave here you won't see us again until the main battle." Kevin said. "Yeah, I was wondering about that. You've been saying that for awhile now, but how am I supposed to find you when the time comes?", Harry asked them. Dex looked at Kevin who nodded his head in permission, "We had a talk with those portraits in your room one time when you are having your potions lesson and they told us that you were creating a mark similar to Voldermorts but without all the pain that comes with it unless you want it to. So we decided to be your first victims." Harry looked at them and said, "Are you sure?" They nodded their heads and Harry gestured for them to raise the sleeve of there left arm and he took out his wand and held it over Kevin's arm. ~Oriens Fenix~ Harry watched as slowly a black phoenix appeared on his arm. It was surrounded by black flames and it had its wings spread open like it was flying away from the flames. It's beak was open like it was singing a song and it moved for about five seconds before settling down. Harry repeated this process for Dex and said, "I won't call you to any meetings if I get more loyal friends, I'll only send for you on the day of the battle." They all nodded their head in agreement before harry got up to take a shower and going to bed,tomorrow was going to be a trying day.
----------------------- Next Day: King Cross Station ----------------------
Harry stood between platforms nine and ten thinking about if he was sure that he really wanted to do this. Harry gave a deep sigh before walking through the barrier. On the other side there were a bunch of students talking to their parents and friends. Harry walked towards the train very aware of the whispers that followed when people saw him. He ignored them for the most part and just moved to get onto the train. He walked into the last compartment and put a silence and locking charm on the door. It wouldn't keep someone out if they really wanted to get in but it would give him some forewarning. Harry took his trunk out from his pocket and cast the spell to enlarge it. He then proceed to take the invisible spells of of his familiars. Harry opened his trunk and took out a book before putting the trunk the rack above. He sat down and opened his book and began to read.
It was twenty minutes later when someone tried to open the door. Harry quickly cast an disillusionment charm on his familiars, he wasn't quite ready for people to know about them just yet. The door opened and Draco Malfoy stepped inside. Harry naturally tensed at his appearance before forcing himself to relax and raise an eyebrow. "Do you mind if I sit here, everywhere else is full?" Harry shook his head no and sat back just as the train began to move. Harry thought about what he was going to do when he got to Hogwarts. Harry made a short to do list in his head, first he had to get resorted, then he needed to find the founders quarters. Harry had decided that he wanted to stay somewhere that wasn't within Dumbledore's reach while still allowing him to go to school. He talked with the founders since they built the school and asked them for help. They told him about their living quarters and how to find them. Gryffindor then told him that if he wanted to get resorted that he had to formally ask for a resort.
Harry was brought out of his thoughts by the door slamming open. Ron stepped in followed by Ginny and Hermione, Ginny had on a smirk while Hermione stood to the side ringing her hands. Harry ignored them both because Ginny was a bitch and Hermione could never stand up to the authoritative figures. He saw Ginny look at him with a lustful glance and tried to give him what she probably thought was a sexy smile but really just made her look very ugly. Ron sneered at Malfoy before saying in an 'I'm-better-then-you' voice, "Have either of you gits seen Potter?" Harry just stood up and faced Ron. Harry topped Ron by a good five inches and it didn't help that he had bulging muscles. "Don't worry about where I am Weasley, you go tell Dumbledore that I'm not his problem and that he needs to keep his nose in his own shit." Harry said. He pushed them out into the hall and shut the door in their face. Harry sat down in his seat and saw Malfoy staring at him. "What!?" he said. "Potter!?" Malfoy asked. Harry glared at him for a good minute before saying, "Yeah, got a problem with it?" Malfoy didn't say anything just sat back and crossed his arms. Harry had a feeling that this was going to be an interesting and exciting year.
A/N: Sorry it took so long I have two SOL's this week and teachers have been going crazy giving out assignments. Now back to the story, this is a slash story and the couple is Harry/Draco. Draco will be slightly OC but not so much that they have a relationship before they become friends. This will be a story where it takes a while plus some flirting and pushing in the right direction for them together.
Note: I would like to thank my beta Dracofreak3 and anyone who reads and reviews my stories.