Hey everyone and welcome back to Wizarding Wraith. Here ends the first task with some surprises for y'all and a lot of action.

This will be up on AO3 towards the end of the month since I was suspended for bullshit reasons and as such I can't post or edit anything there.

Nothing else to go over that I'm aware of, so let's get the show on the road.

Disclaimer: see previous chapters

"Speech"

"Speech not in English"

(Thoughts)

Spell Name

"Nazgul, Wraith, Dragon, Harry's Wraith Side, non-humanoid voice"

CHAPTER 9: SECRET'S OUT

CHAMPION TENT

Harry entered the tent only idly noticing the other champions there and none looked worse for the wear. He calmly walked over to a bed and sat down, "I see the sword practice wasn't just for show." Cedric stated making Harry raise an eyebrow before he noticed a large mirror displaying the arena while he pet the Anubite figure.

"Ah, they show you how the others do after you've gone." Harry stated seeing the logic in it since it didn't matter how the others did really so long as you could do well too.

Harry then blinked as Madam Pomfrey immediately came over and began running diagnostic spells over him, "Honestly, Harry, can't you go one year without some sort of threat to your life?" Pomfrey asked and Harry didn't mind her using his name, the two had become somewhat friendly with him spending weeks in the infirmary after Hermione was petrified in second year.

Oh, and of course his three weeks there when Lockhart banished the bones in his arm and then when Harry gladly stuck around for a week following the Chamber of Secrets incident. Harry didn't doubt Fawkes' healing powers, but he still wanted to make sure.

Regardless, he had spent a lot of time in the infirmary and that left reading, practicing easy magic, or talking with Pomfrey. Naturally, Harry did all three.

"Not like I intended this to happen, just seems to be my luck." Harry stated with a light smile as Pomfrey scoffed and finished

"You're perfectly fine, hopefully you'll continue to be so." Pomfrey stated and Harry smirked.

"Oh? You think I'm fine? Well, I'll take that compliment from a beautiful woman." Harry stated as Pomfrey just blinked owlishly at him before he smirked and winked at her making her snort in amusement before she checked in the others again.

Percy Weasley came into the tent a few minutes later holding a new bag. "Champions, the next round is ready to begin." Percy stated as the four came over and reached into the bag.

Fleur got a Yeti.

Cedric pulled a Minotaur, which Harry assumed would be two of since there were five of the Anubites.

Krum retrieved a Fenris Wolf, a large type of wolf said to be descended from the Norse God Loki's son Fenrir.

And finally, Harry pulled a Sphinx out and raised an eyebrow, "Interesting. Is there going to be a problem if I just solve its riddles to get the key?" Harry asked and Percy shook his head. "All right then." Harry stated as he took his seat and set the Sphinx down by the Anubite, both of whom snorted at the other but didn't do much else.

Feline and canine creatures they may be, but their type had been coexisting for centuries, so they had no problems.

Percy merely left after stating the whistle would sound shortly for Cedric to begin leaving the four champions and Pomfrey there.

"Any advice?" Cedric asked since each of them had followed Harry's words of wisdom on each of the creatures and had gotten through unscathed. It stung his pride a bit that he was asking a boy that was his junior for advice, but he would rather have a stung pride than be crippled or a dead body.

Harry looked to Fleur, "Fire magic, doesn't even have to be strong magic. Just fire of any kind is enough to make a Yeti panic, especially if you get fire on it since its hair is very flammable." Harry stated making her nod before he turned to Cedric, "We can assume there's going to be two since the Anubites had five, so you've got a couple options. First is use the color change spell or paint spell to mark them both red and let them go into a fury to kill each other. Second, get them to hit each other and they'll attack each other in continued retaliation. Third, use a notice-me-not charm and a scent cleansing or hiding spell and then if you want to set them up to start getting annoyed with the other such as throwing a rock at one and making it look like it was the other. While Minotaurs have some sentience and intelligence, they are still at their core driven by their more primal nature of a bull." Harry stated making Cedric nod before Harry turned to Krum, "Fire for you as well, ice will do nothing. The wolf is vicious and won't hesitate to attack and eat you. Another option is transfigure a dog whistle and blow on it repeatedly. There's also simply transfiguring a large piece of meat for it so it gets the free meal and leaves you alone." Harry stated making Krum nod as he looked thoughtful for a minute.

Madam Pomfrey merely raised an eyebrow before smirking and nodding in approval at Harry. Harry merely nodded back as he waited for the next round to begin.

A minute later, the whistle blew and Cedric headed out with Harry watching the large mirror showing Cedric entering the arena and two large Minotaurs there both holding an axe and hammer in their hands.

Cedric had his wand in hand and was stealing his nerves as the two Minotaurs snorted out a small blast of air. "Colovaria!" Cedric shouted making people look on in confusion before it was cleared up as the two Minotaurs were suddenly a glaring red.

The minute the two saw each other, they roared in outrage and began attacking the other while continuing to roar loudly. Cedric quickly moved along the outside, dodging rocks and other debris as he did, trying not to get caught in the crossfire of the two raging bulls. He quickly got the key and then got out of there as the two were now just beating and throwing each other around.

"And Mr. Diggory has escaped with the key, now what option will he be choosing?" Ludo Bagman stated as Cedric looked at the locks and frowned, debating with himself since so far it had been Harry's help that got him through.

He knew he was already at a difficulty of at least three and at most seven, but what would the spike be if he took the harder difficulty again? Would it jump straight to 10 or would it be slightly easier?

Deciding to just trust his gut, he made his selection. "And Mr. Diggory has chosen to increase the difficulty of the trial! He certainly is showing that Gryffindor isn't only house with brave contestants in it." Ludo exclaimed as many cheered for Cedric, though his girlfriend Cho Chang was nervous about him getting hurt if this continued.

Cedric returned to the tent and nodded to the others, who gave nods in return as he sat down and let Pomfrey examine him. As she was, the whistle blew signaling it was Krum's turn. He stood and nodded to the others before leaving the tent and Harry turned his attention to the viewing mirror.

Krum entered the stadium ignoring the crowd and applause as he kept his eyes on the large black and white wolf that was before him. The wolf snarled and growled at him as he approached before Krum twirled his wand and sent a stream of fire out making the wolf jump back and snarl more. Krum then picked a rock up and waved his wand creating a small whistle before he began blowing on it, making the wolf, and subsequently Bronx as he was in the audience, howl in pain and irritation.

Krum then did another burst of fire making the wolf back up before he twirled his wand and a large steak appeared before he tossed it away from the key and the exit. The wolf sniffed before wisely going to the steak and began devouring it while Krum went for the key.

"Good boy." Krum stated as he made a couple more steaks and tossed them to the wolf before leaving and putting the key in the harder difficulty slot.

"And Victor Krum has advanced to the next round and with increased difficulty! He's certainly showing his capabilities beyond quidditch today." Bagman declared as the crowd roared in applause.

Fleur went in next and the yeti was just looking at her, but it's frown made it clear it wasn't pleasant in its intentions. Fleur didn't waste any time in throwing a fireball from her hand at the yeti's feet making it back away in fear. "I am sorry for scaring you, and I do not wish to hurt you, just let me grab the key and I will leave and put out the fire." Fleur stated as she didn't want to hurt the creature, it wasn't like it chose to be here.

Plus compared to the other two, yetis were more peaceful, preferring to be left alone more than anything.

The yeti groaned slightly, but wisely kept back as Fleur went for the key, with Fleur ensuring she kept her hand alight with fire just in case, and when she got the key, she extinguished the fire near the yeti but kept the fire in her hand until she was out of the arena and put her key into the increased difficulty slot.

"And Miss Delacour shows her prowess and ancestry with her control over fire. I'm sure those like Newt Scamander would be proud that she did her best to not harm the yeti and only used just enough force to accomplish her goal before leaving it alone. Well done." Bagman stated as the crowd, mostly the males that couldn't resist her allure, cheered.

A few minutes later, Harry entered and left his wand in the holster before he walked forward to the Sphinx and he gave a respectable bow to the creature, who returned the bow with her head. "Hello young lord, if you wish to retrieve the key without facing me in combat, then you must solve my ten riddles. Are you ready?" The Sphinx asked, thankfully laying on her belly so her breasts weren't out for everyone to see, and Harry took a deep breath before nodding and took a more relaxed stance while still looking respectable. "Very well then, your first riddle is this: To cross the water, I'm the way. For water I'm above. I touch it not, and truth to say, I neither swim nor move. What am I?" The Sphinx asked as Harry just blinked at her.

"A bridge." Harry stated calmly making the Sphinx nod.

"Correct. Now your next riddle: I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?"The Sphinx asked as Harry just stood there with his hands behind his back.

"A map." Harry stated and the Sphinx had a small smile on her face.

"Correct. You're certainly cleverer than most I've asked questions of, but let's continue to see if you impress. Now, tell me what word in existence does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a woman, the first four letters signify a great male, while the word itself signifies a great woman. What is the word?" The Sphinx asked as Harry stood there.

"Heroine, that is the word. He, her, hero, heroine." Harry stated calmly making the Sphinx nod.

"Correct. Now, what are the next three letters of this sequence: OTTFFSS?" She asked as Harry looked at her.

"ENT. Your order is the first letter of numbers one through ten." Harry stated as the Sphinx nodded.

"You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I'm quick when I'm thin and slow when I'm fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?" The Sphinx stated and Harry blinked.

"A candle." Harry answered making the Sphinx nod.

"What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?" The Sphinx asked as Harry looked at it.

"The letter M." Harry stated as the Sphinx nodded.

"What belongs to you, but everyone else uses it?" The Sphinx asked and Harry felt bad for anyone looking for more physical excitement in this match, but Harry knew there was some who would appreciate the brain exercise.

"My name." Harry answered as the Sphinx seemed to be gaining a look the more and more Harry got her questions right.

"What can you hold in your left hand, but never your right hand?"

"My right hand."

"When you do not know what I am, then I am something, but when you know what I am, then I am nothing. What am I?"

"You are a riddle." Harry answered matter of factly and the Sphinx was smiling now.

"Finally, you must listen carefully to what I say: First, think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, the middle of middle, and the end of end. And finally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard to find word. Now string them together and answer me this: which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?"

"A spider."

"Congratulations, my lord, you may take the key and leave, but I have one last riddle for you that has stumped many a genius, wiseman, and scholar. If you can give me a correct answer, I shall reward you. Do you wish to take the question?"

"Sure, always up for a challenge."

"Very well. Tell me, my lord, what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object?" The Sphinx asked as Harry blinked at her.

Up in the stands, many were watching with increased interest at the back and forth between the two. The Ravenclaws especially were watching with rapt attention since Harry's intelligence was impressive for them. The first and second years were stumped on most, but there was a few that even high years were stumped on and didn't have any idea.

The same could be said for the visitors, especially since it showed that Harry had both skill and brains to go with that skill when it came down to it. A warrior with nothing but skill was something to be feared, but a warrior that had both skill and brains was something to be feared and respected at the same time.

However, at the last question, everyone was murmuring wondering what kind of answer could be given for that. The main problem was that it was a paradox: If something was an unstoppable force, then there couldn't be an immovable object and vice versa. So, who was to say what would happen if those two things happened?

Tyrion kept looking at Sirius through the whole thing and saw that he was still completely calm.

"They'll give up." Harry stated drawing attention back to him as everyone blinked at his answer.

"That answer… is acceptable." The Sphinx stated before it's eyes glowed and an egg appeared in front of Harry making him blink before he caught it. "You will need to feed the egg magic. Depending on your magic, your spirit, and your soul, the egg can be a variety of things. It will be entirely up to you, Bright Lord of the Wraiths." The Sphinx stated in a VERY ancient form of Elvish, so ancient you'd have to be from Celebrimbor's time to even have an idea of it.

Harry raised an eyebrow before he replied in kind, "I thank you for the gift, is this by chance a means of showing that your kind will at least not side with THEM in the coming times?" Harry replied making a few people blink in surprise if not shock.

"I can not speak for the other types of my species, but I know that at least my Egyptian brethren have no intention of siding with those… things." She replied and had a large look of disgust on her face that wouldn't be out of place if someone gave her a large bowl of shit and told her that was her lunch.

"That's some good news at least. I already have wraiths, Uruk, Ologs, Goblins, and any other darker entities that will gladly swear fealty for protection, don't really want to add your species to that list if I can help it." Harry stated making the Sphinx nod.

"I will inform you that we intend to stay neutral for the time being, it is not that we do not wish to fight, but our elders have ordered that we aren't to engage for now." Harry was about to reply when the Sphinx continued, "We do not question our elders, they have amassed more knowledge than any other creature or person in existence and as such we trust their wisdom and what their plans are as they know far more than we do." The Sphinx stated making Harry nod his head since he wasn't about to try and step foot into the political world of Sphinxes, he could barely tolerate the human one.

"I understand, and I wish you the best of luck, should we find ourselves as enemies in the future." Harry stated knowing that them having no intention to side with the Nazgûl right now didn't mean that in the future they wouldn't, especially if their elders decided it was a good idea.

The Sphinx merely nodded and Harry returned it with a light bow before leaving with the egg.

Entering the tent, Harry quickly conjured a nest for the egg and set it inside before he placed a hand on it and felt some magic being taken from him before he pulled back as he didn't want to feed it too much as he may need his power for the next few fights.

"Uh… can I just ask: what the bloody hell?!" Cedric asked summing up the thoughts of the other three people in the tent.

"Were you not paying attention to the mirror?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow as he pet the two smaller creatures, who appreciated the attention.

"Yes, I was, and I still stand by my question of what the bloody hell!" Cedric stated as Harry shrugged.

"You'd have to be more exact on which part is the unbelievable, outrageous, or whatever it is causing the exclamation on your part." Harry stated casually since there was quite a few options.

Cedric opened his mouth, closed it, and then repeated the action another three times before deciding it wasn't worth it and just sat down while Harry had a small smile on his face.

Percy came in once again and they drew creatures, only this time, they all drew the same type of species.

Fleur drew a Chinese Fireball dragon.

Cedric drew a Welsh Green dragon.

Krum drew a Swedish Short-Snout dragon.

And Harry drew the dragon he felt his magic going towards when he spoke to Charlie. The thing was, he had no idea what type of dragon it was.

The other noticeable thing was that the model wasn't alive either. It was just a figurine model.

Harry frowned in confusion before he shook his head and sat in his spot as Percy left.

Harry then looked to see the other three looking at him and snorted before he pulled his wand, "Wands out and hold still." Harry stated as he stood up and the three held their wands out before Harry's gave a white glow and he waved it over the wands a few times before waving it over them.

The trio blinked as they felt like the air around them dropped 30 degrees and their wands felt near ice cold to the touch as well but at the same time it wasn't uncomfortable to hold. "Those are frosting charms, they should protect you from the flames, but don't overdo it. Dragon fire can punch through them if you're hit enough, but your wands will be safe since they can take on cold and magic easier than you can. As for offensive and defensive, water magic, ice magic, anything you can conjure to distract it such as food or an opponent, or summoning a broom. Of course, you could try the peaceful approach by indicating that you want the key and have no intention of approaching it or the eggs it's guarding." Harry stated as he holstered his wand again.

"A broom? Isn't that against the rules?" Krum asked in interest and Harry shook his head.

"Only to enter with one, there's no rule against summoning one or having someone in the audience hold one for you. Of course, you could just enlarge the models you have to possibly fight the dragons for you while you get the key and get the hell out of there." Harry stated as he kept looking at the model.

"Is that your plan?" Cedric asked and Harry shrugged.

"Not sure yet, I'm not even sure what type of dragon this is." Harry stated and the whistle sounded before any of them could comment.

Harry watched as Cedric entered the arena cautiously, arguably he had the easiest dragon as it was the least aggressive and relatively smallest of the dragons shown but it was still a full grown dragon.

The dragon was there protecting eggs that Harry knew were fakes since Charlie had already assured him the eggs would not leave the nests and he even had some capable watchers on them to ensure things were kept safe. The dragon likely knew they weren't it's own, but was protecting them nonetheless, no doubt out of a sense of preservation for the unborn children it believed were held within them.

Harry watched Cedric decided to try the peaceful approach to start walking in with his hands up in a peaceful manner as the dragon looked at him. Cedric merely motioned to the key to indicate what he wanted, thankful someone didn't put the key in the nest with the eggs or it could be much harder, as the dragon watched him a long moment making people tense.

The dragon then snorted, causing a small dust and smoke cloud to come out, before it motioned to the key and Cedric went towards it, making sure he stayed to outside of the arena to avoid making the dragon angry. The dragon kept its eyes in him the whole way before he grabbed the key, nodded respectfully to the dragon and began making his way back out ensuring to follow the same pathway back.

He managed to get out and promptly put the key in the slot to keep the difficulty as it was. He got lucky with the Welsh Green being tamer, but he wasn't going to risk the one next time being worse.

While he considered himself pretty brave, he wasn't suicidal and eventually advice from Harry wasn't going to cut it anymore, meaning he'd be down to his own skill and capabilities, and if a full grown dragon was only round three of advanced difficulty then he did not want to put his luck to the test any further.

"And Mr. Diggory has decided to keep the difficulty as it is, can't say anyone can blame him, but he's done a great showing thus far." Bagman announced as many of the more sneering members were even keeping quiet, the man had entered the ring with a full grown dragon, they weren't really interested in facing something that was classified as a higher level of threat than that either.

When he arrived back to the tent, the other three nodded to him showing they understood his decision to not push things even further.

Krum nodded to them and left once the whistle blew and he rolled his shoulders as he entered seeing the dragon before him. The Chinese Fireball wasn't among the top ten aggressive dragons in the world, but it was in the top 20, while the Welsh Green was only in the top 30.

Same for Fleur as the Swedish Short-Snout was in the top 20 as well, meaning Cedric drew lucky and Harry was the unknown so he may have gotten lucky, par for the course, or shit all for luck as far as they knew.

Anyway, the point was that Krum wasn't as likely to get the polite way done especially if the dragon's desire for treasure outweighed it's desire to protect the eggs. He'd still try though.

Alas, he wasn't that lucky as the dragon had the key among its eggs, meaning it wanted the key and thus was not going to let Krum just take it.

He wasn't that skilled in water or ice magic, and Transfiguration wasn't as good as he'd like, so he decided to go with the next option. Pulling the model out, "Engorgio." Krum called making the model expand and grow until it was at the size of the live version in front of him. Neither the model nor the actual dragon liked the appearance of a perceived rival and began roaring and hissing at the other before engaging in a fight. Krum helped it with a Conjunctivitis curse to the dragon's eyes making it howl as it couldn't see very well.

Krum quickly moved and got the key while the two beasts fought for supremacy. He then transfigured some chains, though they wouldn't last long, before attaching them to the original and then aimed his wand at the model, "Reducio." He called making the model shrink back to its original size.

The model merely hissed before flying off as the original was thrashing both from the fact its fight was interrupted and from the chains and the pain in its eyes still. As it howled, Krum quickly shot a few calming charms at its mouth knowing that dragons weren't as magically resistant on the inside as they were on the outside.

A few hit, evidenced by the fact that it seemed to calm down and take its place on the nest again. Krum then turned and looked at the options before him before he nodded to himself and slammed the key into the slot to keep the difficulty as it was. There would be more challenges, no reason to overdo it on challenge one.

"And Mr. Krum has decided to follow Mr. Diggory's example and not increase the difficulty! Can't say I blame them, only two increases and they're facing full grown dragons, who knows what's in store for them on a harder difficulty." Bagman announced while the judges were discussing the round.

When the whistle sounded again, Fleur nodded to the trio before heading out to face her dragon, though she was less nervous than the others since she had a somewhat imperviousness to fire thanks to her Veela blood, but her clothes were a different matter and there were far too many males incapable of controlling themselves for her liking.

Entering, she found her situation was nearly identical to Krum's. Unlike Krum though, she was fairly skilled with transfiguration and the like. Hence why she quickly turned several boulders into sheep before hitting them with Engorgiodrawing the dragon's attention at the same time as her casting a disillusionment charm on herself. However, she doubled up on it by casting delayed calming charms on the sheep, so once the dragon consumed the sheep, the charms would affect the dragon making her life easier.

Normally, she wouldn't have considered a delayed charm on the sheep, but she was talking with Harry about a few things while they waited, counting the differences between normal creatures/items and those transfigured or conjured and the main thing is they could hold a charm or curse better than the natural items could. Thus, a delayed calming charm would affect the dragon upon consuming the transfigured sheep.

The dragon, seeing the free meal and not sensing anything potentially hostile to it or the eggs, went forward and began roasting and eating the sheep while Fleur quickly moved and grabbed the key from the nest before heading for the exit.

Like the two before her, Fleur also put the key into the slot for keeping the difficulty as it was. She had already learned quite a bit from her talks with Harry and his advice to her, Cedric, and Krum and she had gotten to show some of her talent already, so there was no reason to further endanger herself.

Harry nodded to them as he got up and left with him also carrying the egg and the two models from before as he entered the arena. He saw the dragon there gazing at him intently before Harry called his wand to his hand and levitated the egg and the two models up to Luna, who happily took them as she cradled the egg in her lap and pet the Anubite and Sphinx, who both enjoyed the attention.

Turning his attention to the dragon, he blinked as he saw it was leaning in towards him with an intense gaze. "You are not normal." The dragon stated in what seemed like a combination of Parseltongue and what was considered common tongue in ancient times, but Harry also noted it was a female voice too.

"Neither are you." Harry replied though he had to process what he was saying since he was using Talion's knowledge to speak in the old common tongue.

"You speak the old ways?! Impressive for one so young. But then, your magic is strange compared to others of your species." She continued and Harry hummed.

"Not many of my kind are both Human and Wraith, a Gravewalker, a shadowed remnant, a being banished from death. Now I am becoming the Bright Lord." Harry stated as his eyes began glowing along with his scar as the dragon's eyes widened in surprise. "I see you recognize the title, that makes the situation of my magic being drawn to you and vice versa much easier. Although I never expected a dragon of all things to react this way." Harry continued as the dragon leaned down and had its eye equal to Harry's height making a few tense while Rhaegar and Daenerys were watching with great interest.

"Hmm, there's something I must do to verify your story, though doing so will likely kill you if you are either lying or incorrect on what you are." She stated as Harry just looked at her. "Very well." She relented as she saw Harry wasn't backing off and rose to her full height and stared down at Harry.

Before anyone could try and question what was going on, she blasted Harry with her fire consuming Harry and a surrounding area.

Hermione gasped in horror while many winced since that was not a nice way to go. However, a few people narrowed their eyes since they saw that Harry didn't even try to dodge or react and instead just stood there.

99% of those watching showed shock as the flames turned a whitish-blue and seemed to be alive as a white outline of a person formed within the flames. Seconds later, the outline grew bigger and bigger before Harry stepped out of the fire looking calm as ever. However, there were three main things to notice: 1) There wasn't any sign the fire had even marked him. 2) His magic was surging and snuffing out the fire. And 3) Both his eyes and scar were glowing the same whiteish-blue as the fire was.

Harry merely dusted his shoulder off and looked at the dragon, "That good enough?" Harry asked while controlling his breathing since doing that particular bit of magic was NOT easy especially since he'd not done it before, but he had to push his limits if he wanted to have a chance in the war.

"Yes… Yes, it is." She stated as she bowed her head towards him, "I am yours, my lord. Let magic solidify it." She continued as Harry's magic flared and swirled around the two shocking many who recognized what this was.

Harry took his wand out and spun it a few times weaving his magic around them fueling it better than if his magic just wildly did this. He could also make out that she was whispering things in a language Harry did not know and felt it adding to the magic that was swirling between the two.

A flash of light made many have to cover their eyes from the intensity. When it died down, many widened their eyes at the sight before them. Harry was still there like normal, but the dragon was VERY different from when the light shined moments ago.

Where once a dragon stood, now there stood a female elf with whitish pink skin, amber eyes, red hair that reached just past her shoulders, and black horns with gold rings. She wasn't naked, thankfully as there were some very underage children watching, but was barely covered with a tube top style chest plate that was a dark red and gold, a black choker style necklace with a large purple stone on the front of it, two black iron bands on her upper arms, two gauntlets that were the same color and material as her chest piece, a bikini bottom style armor piece over her groin, and a pair of greaves that went to her hips.

All in all, she was beautiful and armored to fight.

She then bowed low to Harry, "I am Alexstrasza, master, and I shall serve and protect you with my life." The now named Alexstrasza stated as Harry nodded.

"Welcome to the fold, Alexstrasza." Harry stated as he summoned the key to his hand. Harry motioned her to follow him, and she nodded and did so while Harry slammed the key into the increased difficulty slot.

Bagman opened and closed his mouth multiple times trying to articulate what had just happened. He wasn't the only one as no one, not even Sirius and the others, had any idea what had just happened even Dumbledore was stuck. Many had never even heard of a magic or spell doing that, yet they had seen it and now were trying to comprehend it.

Entering the tent, Harry sat at his area with Alexstrasza following him before he conjured a chair for her to sit in. "Comfortable?" Harry asked as Alexstrasza nodded.

"Yes, I can see why you humans fuss so much about these things. Definitely more comfortable than moss, grass, and rocks." She replied practically sinking into the chair.

"Forgive the interruption, but I feel the need to ask… The Fuck?!" Cedric nearly shouted as he stared at the two.

"Alexstrasza over here just cemented a familiar bond with me. I can only assume her change of appearance has to do with her own magic or perhaps some commingling of our magic." Harry supplied not the least bit shook by Cedric's exclamation.

"You gained a dragon as a familiar?!" Krum asked incredulously while also having shock on his face.

"Apparently. Now I've got a dragon and a gargoyle hound as familiars." Harry stated ignoring the gaping faces of the champions and Pomfrey.

Before any other comments could be made, Percy entered again and only spared Alexstrasza a minute glance before focusing on his job. "Champions, if you please." He stated breaking the others from their stupor as he had two bags with him this time.

Krum merely shook his head and reached into the bag before pulling out a black serpent that had four horns with one large one hurting forward coming from its head and several smaller ones from its tail. It had electric blue eyes and a blue jewel lodged into its head. They all recognized it as a Horned Serpent. Not the most life threatening creature, but still dangerous and lethal if you weren't cautious.

Cedric looked at Fleur and shrugged asking if she wanted to go first or not. Fleur frowned a moment before motioning Cedric to go on, which he did and pulled out another foreign creature. This one had a scorpion's body for its lower half complete with tail and six crab-like legs but they were sized to an Acromantula. The upper body was mostly that of a man except the arms were two matching pincers that were proportionate to the lower half.

"A Scorpion Man, Egypt's version of a centaur, only a lot more vicious." Harry supplied upon seeing Cedric's awed and fearful look.

"Correct, Lord Potter." Percy stated as Fleur went next.

Only when she did, her eyes widened at the creature, "Shit." Harry stated summing to the thoughts of everyone. Said creature was a ball of red hair with five muscular legs coming out of it. On top was a face that was snarling showing rows of sharp teeth and at the end of each leg was a clubbed foot.

The creature was known as a Quintaped and it was an extremely dangerous creature. They lived mainly on an island just off the coast of Scotland and it was believed that they were so numerous and dangerous that they were why the island was never fully explored or settled on.

Fleur would definitely have a fight on her hands as they loved Human flesh above anything else to eat. It was no dragon, but as was proven there were methods around them, a Quintaped wasn't so easily distracted.

Sighing, Harry took his turn and drew from the second bag only to freeze a moment as he could make out what it was by touch alone. Harry slowly withdrew his hand and stared at it a long moment.

"Harry? You all right?" Cedric asked seeing Harry just staring at his hand.

"Debatable." Harry stated as he kept looking at his hand.

"What is it? I don't think they could do much worse than a dragon." Krum asked and Harry sighed.

"You'd be surprised." Harry stated opening his hand as they were about to continue questioning him.

However, everyone froze as Harry revealed what he held in his hand. The creature had the head of a human man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion, but the tail was proportionate to the body it was attached to. "Well, this is gonna be fun." Harry commented dryly as he looked at his opponent, which was a Manticore.

The reason for the fear and trouble was that a Manticore's body repelled most magic, it was intelligent enough to strategize and plan, and the venom of a Manticore was second only to a Basilisk's and that was partly only due to the fact you could slow and remove the Manticore venom before it was lethal, but couldn't for a Basilisk's. Most of the time it took a team of well-trained witches and wizards to even subdue a Manticore, let alone kill one.

"You're not seriously going out to face that are you?" Fleur asked as Harry looked at the Manticore, which seemed to be looking intently at Harry trying to decide if he was worth behaving for or not.

"Yup. It will get a warning, then I'm going to fight to kill." Harry stated as he stared at the model in his hand which decided it wasn't going to try anything.

"I can't tell if you're insane or just naively brave." Cedric stated and Harry shrugged.

"Gryffindor." Harry stated as he set the model down and he took a seat to focus as Percy left.

Harry cracked an eye and saw the three champions looking at him. "Fire is going to be your friend for all three of you. Krum, the serpent isn't venomous, but it is strong and fast. Do not take your eyes off of it unless you're sure it's either dead or incapacitated. The Avisspell will be helpful if you don't know many fire spells, especially if you can summon raptors with it." Harry stated and Krum nodded. "Cedric, you'll want lethality spells and aim at the human parts unless you think you can conjure enough chains and ropes to bind all of its limbs at once." He instructed them elaborated when Cedric raised an eyebrow. "Binding one at a time won't work as the legs are just as strong as the pincers and tail, so it'll break the chains before you can do much if you can't cast fast enough. The main thing is the venom in its tail is also in its blood, so try to avoid being splattered if you got for a piercing or cutting curse. While not as potent as Manticore venom, it can still be lethal depending on the dose and your constitution." Harry informed making Cedric nod before Harry turned to Fleur, "Don't waste time with stunners and only use banishers if you go full force with them. If you down it, don't hesitate and quickly begin restraining it as much as possible and maybe a few cutting curses to its legs for good measure. They'll play dead only to ambush their prey first chance they get. All three of you could also benefit from transfiguring rocks and boulders into animals or animating them to attack. Conjuring and summoning animals will help, but it takes quite a bit of power to do large predator types." Harry instructed making them nod.

The whistle sounded and Cedric stood and nodded to the others as he left.

Upon entering the arena, he bit back a gulp that nearly escaped at the sight of the Scorpion Man. The real thing looked a lot more vicious than the model, which may have had to do with the size. Why did he want to enter this tournament again?

Swallowing his fear and keeping his wand ready, he quickly began waving his wand and muttering incantations rather than shouting them. He wished he could do silent casting, but the transfiguration work he was doing was a bit advanced for him to do silently, so he settled for muttering to not draw a great deal of attention and if the Scorpion Man knew incantations from dealing with wizards then he couldn't get prepared as fast.

Once Cedric finished casting, various rocks turned into dogs, cats, small dragons, and a few other animals and he immediately sent them at the Scorpion-Man. He also changed some pebbles into knives and sent them at his opponent through the levitation spell all the while he was moving towards the key.

The animals, besides the dragons, were swept away like a bunch of flies, though they did get some scratches and bites in that would at least slow the Scorpion-Man down. The dragons were a bit harder to deal with since they could spew fire even if it was essentially a very low powered flame blast. The fire still bothered the opponent and the bites and scratches only further did damage while the daggers really only hurt the parts that were human.

Cedric grabbed the key and quickly cast a fire blast at his opponent making it roar and thrash. Unfortunately for Cedric, the thrashing caused it to smash a boulder at him and a large chunk flew and smashed into his shoulder making him shout in pain as he definitely felt something break and pop.

Gritting his teeth, and glad that it was his left shoulder and not his right, he quickly fired at the Scorpion Man, "Bombarda." He shouted and sent a blast at the Scorpion-Man sending it back as it smashed against the head and torso, coincidentally driving the knives that hit even further into it making it roar in pain.

Cedric didn't stick around though; he quickly used a numbing charm on his shoulder and ribs, ran, and got out of the arena before he put the key into the slot to increase the difficulty from what it was. He knew he'd likely be out of the challenge, but at least he still got some points for trying to continue.

Cedric got back to the tent and immediately sat down and hissed as he apparently didn't numb the whole area. "Here." Harry stated as he handed him a small red potion vial. "It will help heal some of the damage, Madam Pomfrey will have to set your bones and fix those though." Harry stated as Cedric nodded and downed it without a second thought.

"Little bitter, but nice minty flavor at the end." Cedric commented making Harry chuckle.

"That's peacebloom and silverleaf for you." Harry stated with a smirk as Pomfrey came over and began running spells over Cedric.

"I'm afraid you're going to be out of this round, Mr. Diggory. It will take me too long to heal this injury for you to compete again." Pomfrey stated and Cedric nodded.

"I guessed that already, just figured I'd try to get some extra points before I was taken out." He stated making her nod and before long, the whistle blew again and Krum nodded to them before heading out to enter the arena.

Entering, Krum frowned and kept his guard up as he couldn't see his opponent. He knew the gem in the serpent's head was said to provide invisibility, but he hadn't seen anything to confirm it until now. A black serpent would stand out against the rocks and ground after all.

It was his years of quidditch honed reflexes that let him dive out of the way as he heard a subtle hiss right behind him. He quickly cast a wide range fire spell making the serpent reveal itself with an angry hiss as the fire hit it partly, but the drawback of a wide range spell meant that the power wasn't what it was when directed at an opponent.

Krum didn't waste time and quickly conjured several small animals and birds, "Avis." He shouted as dozens of birds shot out of his wand and flew at the serpent, who hissed in irritation as it quickly began dispatching them. Krum kept casting spells and conjuring animals to help him as he tried to keep Harry's advice in mind.

He blasted several rocks and changed them to chains before launching them at the serpent binding it as much as possible while the birds kept plucking and scratching at it. Krum quickly turned and grabbed the key only to shout in surprise and pain as the serpent bit into his shoulder before it pulled and threw him into a boulder making him grit his teeth. He threw another flame blast, but the serpent evaded it and came at him, but an exploding hex to the ground made it move it's head and slam its horn into Krum's torso, luckily missing his heart and lungs. Krum grit his teeth and began firing piercing and cutting hexes to the neck of the serpent making it screech in pain.

The serpent howled and thrashed throwing Krum away as the horn dislodged from his body. Krum grit his teeth as he spat some blood and did a simple mending, numbing, and cold spell on himself to stem the blood flow. The serpent hissed angrily and lunged at Krum, who sent a full fire blast at it as he moved out of the way.

The serpent went headfirst into the fire blast making it roar and howl in pain as it thrashed around while the fire began spreading across it. Krum relaxed a bit, and he really shouldn't have as serpent thrashed and hit him sending him crashing away but also setting his clothes on fire.

Krum shouted as he put the flames out, though he did get some burns, and got to his feet as the serpent collapsed to the ground. Grunting, he hobbled over to the exit and put the key into the lock for increasing the difficulty.

Entering the tent, he grunted as he stumbled only for Harry to catch him and help ease him over to bed. Krum nodded to him and laid back slowly to get comfortable but not aggravate his wounds. Harry gave him a slightly larger vial of healing potion, which Krum took immediately and felt some of the pain diminish.

Pomfrey quickly came over and began casting diagnostic and basic healing spells to get an idea of the damage. Krum didn't care though, he knew he was out.

Fleur then stood and left at the whistle sound and she went to the arena with her wand out and ready. After seeing what her fellow champions had to contend with, she was taking no chances or risks beyond what she had to.

She had barely stepped fully into the arena before a growl came and her opponent rushed her. Fleur didn't hesitate and sent a blasting curse in front of it, knowing that firing right at it would do little since it was smart enough to dodge.

The spell worked as it detonated right as it leapt at her, throwing it off to the side and Fleur immediately followed up with several cutting and piercing hexes at it, but the creature wasn't so dangerous and fearsome for nothing. It quickly rebounded itself up and leapt away, though a hex did hit one of its legs making it roar in pain as it began moving in an erratic pattern making it hard for Fleur to get another hit.

Fleur cursed before she quickly made a fire whip and swiped at it, hitting it once or twice, but not wrapping around it, before it began making it harder on her. Fleur abandoned the whip and tried to do another blasting hex, but it was too late.

Fleur screamed in pain as the teeth of the Quintaped sunk into her leg. She grit her teeth and pointed her wand at the creature, but a Quintaped wasn't stupid or slow like many of the other creatures, likely due to the myths that Quintapeds were once witches and wizards that an enemy clan cursed, it knew what that stick could do and it knew that she needed to speak to use it. So, it twisted, causing more pain to Fleur, before swinging two of its clubbed feet one smashing into her face and the other hitting her arm.

Fleur forcefully turned her head as the foot impacted her and she knew she likely lost a tooth or two, and the pain radiating from her arm wasn't pleasant either. However, she was not some helpless maiden, she was a proud witch and she wasn't going to just give in.

Especially since she knew Harry was watching.

With that in mind, she clenched her wand in her hand and summoned fire into her left. She grabbed the Quintaped by one of it's legs with her left hand making it roar in pain, thus releasing her leg, before Fleur jabbed the wand to it's mouth and screamed, "BOMBARDA MAXIMA!"Putting as much magical power into the spell as she could.

It worked too as the Quintaped was blasted into goop while the leg remained in Fleur's hand as she panted. "Acciokey." She muttered her jaw aching as the adrenaline was now wearing down. She caught the key and before pointing her wand up, "Acciomybroom." She called wincing again and cast a numbing charm on her jaw.

A minute later, a sleek broom with flower designs engraved on it flew to her and she quickly sat on it side-saddle style and floated to the exit before she slammed the key into the increased difficulty slot before she floated to the medical tent.

When she entered, Harry immediately scooped her up and handed her a bigger and slightly darker red potion and she drank it without question feeling some of the pain lessen as Harry carried her to her bed and set her down gently while placing numbing charms on her arm and leg. "Just rest, Fleur, you were brilliant." Harry stated with a smile as Fleur gave a lopsided smile since her face was still numb.

Harry then moved for Pomfrey to get to work as he waited for his whistle call, which came a few minutes later.

Stepping to the entrance, Harry steeled himself and reinforced his mind to not get distracted. Entering, the crowd was roaring for him before his opponent was seen making people gasp in shock and fear as the Manticore entered.

"Oh, what's this? A snack? Well hopefully you'll be more entertaining than the last fool who got too close." The Manticore stated as Harry just stared at it.

"I don't want to fight you." Harry stated calmly as the Manticore snorted.

"I'm sure you don't." The Manticore stated and Harry shook his head.

"You misunderstand, I don't want to fight you because it's a waste of time. So, you have one warning, let me take the key and go, or you die." Harry stated in a completely serious voice that even caught the Manticore off guard as he stared at the young human before him and felt a small shiver of fear in his spine before he shook it off.

"You'll try." The Manticore snarled and Harry just stared at it.

"Just remember this moment: It's the moment you chose to die for your foolish pride." He stated with conviction in his tone as the Manticore snarled before charging at him. Harry merely stared at it and rolled his neck as he stepped forward.

The Manticore leapt at him its jaws open and its claws out to strike him before Harry turned sideways and placed both hands against the Manticore's belly before he threw it, using the momentum of its jump to help, right into a boulder face first.

Harry merely stood straight as he called his wand to his hand while the audience just watched in shock at his action. Harry then summoned several swarms of bats to launch at the Manticore before he also blasted several boulders near it causing shrapnel to pelt and hit it making it flinch in irritation as the bats began swarming it. Harry then further cast a disillusionment charm on himself as well as a scent cleansing charm.

The Manticore growled and swatted away and bit the bats even if a few managed to scratch his face and part of his body. Once he got them out of his way, he started looking around, "Come out two-legs! It will be less painful for you if you just-AHH!" The Manticore started before feeling fangs sinking into his legs and swiped at a black mamba that was there before he roared as another set of fangs sank into another leg before more fangs found their position on him. Before he could try to swipe them off, a large viper suddenly appeared as it launched at his face and dug its fangs into his face making him roar as he quickly killed them.

"You talk too much." Harry's voice echoed out before seven simultaneous flame blast spells came and hit it causing a large firry explosion as the Manticore was thrown and stood on shaking legs as his body was smoking.

While the snake venom wasn't as dangerous to it as say a human, nine lethal doses of venom coursing through it was nothing to sneeze at and it was affecting it even now.

The Manticore growled in rage as it looked around for any trace of his opponent, but that was stopped as an arrow suddenly came form nowhere and pierced his right eye making it roar. "I'll find you two legs! And I will not make your death painless or quick!" He roared as he broke the arrow shaft but was unable to remove it from his eye.

"Well, come on then." Harry stated as he appeared a short distance away as the Manticore snarled and looked around for any other threats. "What's the matter? Is the big bad pussy afraid of me?" Harry asked as the Manticore snarled and rushed him with his tail poised to impale him.

However, he fell right into the trap that a moment ago he was weary of.

Four lightning whips suddenly lashed out catching three of the Manticore's legs and the tail making it roar as the air shimmered showing four other Harrys standing there holding the whips with them also being anchored to the ground and arena wall. The original walked towards the Manticore before he caught the Manticore by the throat and his front right leg as it tried to bite and swipe at him.

Harry just stared into the eye of the Manticore with a blank expression, "Remember that moment?" Harry asked as the Manticore widened his eye before the whips suddenly bound together and pulled yanking his legs out from under him and pushing the tail right at his torso with the other Harrys pulling hard as well.

"No!" The Manticore roared in denial as it struggled before Harry moved behind it and placed his boot against the tail.

"I gave you a fair warning." Harry stated before he pointed his wand at the tail, "Reducto."He called sending a blast to the tail and forcing it so stab right into the Manticore making it scream in anger and pain before it slumped over dead as the venom worked its way and killed it.

Harry rolled his neck before doing a few cutting curses to remove the head of the Manticore, he wasn't about to take any chances. Once the head was removed, he summoned the key, and dispersed his clones, not caring about the crowd being shocked into silence. He did pause to look at his arm seeing five small cuts from where the Manticore's claws managed to make contact during it's struggle. Ignoring them, he moved and slammed the key into increased difficulty slot and walked out.

Up in the stands, everyone could only sit there in shock. A fourteen-year-old just killed a Manticore and he made it look so easy!

Sirius just smiled in pride at his godson at seeing how far he had come. He was also impressed at the spells he learned from their summer travel working as well as they did. Then again, he knew Harry was throwing himself into training in every form he could, so it shouldn't have been that surprising.

Two people not stunned into silence were Selene and an older man who had a large broadsword under his cloak as he watched from a spot in the stands with more Death Dealers being there for his security. "So, that's the boy." He stated and Selene nodded.

"Yes, you can't say he's not interesting if nothing else." Selene stated and he nodded.

"Yes, though a Manticore was likely not as dangerous for him as many believed. If the rumors of him being infected with Basilisk venom are true, then Manticore venom would have likely not done much to him beyond make him ill for a day or two at most. Still, your reports were correct, there is something odd about him, but it can be explained if his claim to some of those titles you mentioned are true." He spoke and Selene looked at him.

"You know some of those titles, Victor?" Selene asked the now named Victor and he nodded.

"Yes, it took some digging, I had to go to books that we've held since before even I was turned. Books that Marcus had from his father that he added to the library. If the boy is truly owner to those titles, then we may have a very serious problem on our hands." Victor stated and Selene frowned not knowing if Victor meant the boy would be a problem or something else.

"What do you want me to do?" Selene asked and Victor hummed a moment as he stood there.

"For now, watch the boy. We need to see if there are any signs that confirm he is not falsely claiming. I know you said the Goblet gave him those titles, but still, the Goblet was fooled into admitting him, it could be fooled into what his titles are." Victor stated and Selene nodded.

"And if he does in fact have claim to those titles?" Selene couldn't help but ask and Victor frowned slightly.

"Then we may have to consider expanding our allies soon or we risk something far, far worse than anything we've faced till now. If he is indeed what he claims, then an enemy long thought dead may be returning and I'd rather have William running about again unchecked then face them as we are." He stated shocking Selene to her core as she knew the damage and chaos William Corvinus had caused when he was left to run amuck.

If Victor was saying he'd rather face that than whatever was possibly on the Horizon… She was honestly a little afraid of what that could truly mean.

Back with Harry, he entered the medical tent and ignored the looks from the champions as he sat on the bed and held his arm out as Pomfrey came over. "I… I must say, Harry, that was most impressive." Pomfrey stated as she waved her wand healing the cuts easily since that wasn't hard to do at all.

"Thanks, it was nice using some of the things I learned over the summer." Harry stated before he lowered his arm and rolled his shoulders a bit.

Harry didn't say anything else and there wasn't a real need to say anything else since the others were still processing that he had killed a Manticore and received only minor damage.

When Percy entered again, Pomfrey was there to see him, "Mr. Diggory is out of commission, his shoulder was dislocated, both sections were fractured, his clavicle is broken, and he broke three ribs. Mr. Krum has several bite marks on his body and a large impalement wound in his chest as well as burns on his arms and legs. Miss Delacour has a severe bite wound on her right leg and her right arm his broken while her jaw was nearly dislocated and has fractures as well." Pomfrey stated as Percy stood before her and nodded before he turned to Harry.

"I'm still ready." Harry stated as Percy nodded and Harry stepped up while the other champions were watching in interest to what Harry would draw.

"Very well, Lord Potter." Percy stated with a somewhat proud smile on his face, both pride in Harry's showing as he was like a little brother and the fact that a Gryffindor was doing so well.

Harry reached into the bag and twitched as something bit his finger before he grabbed it and pulled it out making everyone widen their eyes. It was a dragon, but this dragon had black scales, and was lizard-like in appearance. It also had yellow eyes, with vertical pupils like a cat's, bronze horns along with bronze spikes that stuck out from its long tail which it would gladly deploy in combat when it wasn't unleashing torrents of flames.

"A Hungarian Horntail… perfect." Harry stated as he crushed the model when it tried to jump at Fleur. Harry then banished the model and took his seat to wait for the whistle as Alexstrasza sat there knowing not to disturb her master.

"Best of luck." Percy stated knowing that Harry would need it against this. Even if a Manticore was lethal at close range, a dragon was lethal at all ranges.

Harry waited the few minutes before the whistle blew and he got up and went to the arena. He ignored the crowd as he focused solely on the dragon.

Said beast was thrashing and roaring against the chain that was securing it to the ground of the arena to ensure it didn't escape. Harry wasn't going to put much faith in that though, if they truly wanted to keep it chained then they could have used more than one and even used some runes to fortify the chains.

Harry already had his wand out as he slowly approached with the other champions noting that he wasn't trying to distract it like he'd advised them to do. No, he was calm, calculating, and had the same look he had for the Manticore.

The dragon didn't bother to roar as Harry comes into view, instinct told it to kill what it saw before it can become a viable threat, and so it unleashed a large torrent of flames. Harry merely pointed his wand at the flames, not wanting to drain himself too much by simply embracing and corrupting the flames, "Aeroja." Harry stated as a massive wind blast erupted from his wand and slammed into the flames absorbing and forcing the flames back while they were now even hotter than before.

The dragon roared in pain as the flames slammed into it feeling both its own power mixed with Harry's magic hitting it hard. The main bit of damage was to its wings and the chain holding it which began melting apart.

Harry was expecting that though hence his next maneuver. "AccioFirebolt!" He called as he conjured several spears and began launching them at the dragon's face.

Most bounced off, but one hit in the gums and the other impaled near its eye making the dragon roar louder. The attack didn't do much, but it wasn't supposed to, it only needed to distract the beast long enough for Harry's broom to arrive.

Hopping on it, Harry shot into the sky and looked down at the arena, "Come on, you son of a bitch! We're not done yet!" Harry shouted in Parseltongue making the dragon roar as it flapped its wings and took off in pursuit of Harry.

Harry took off higher to the skies and spun his wand creating a large mist as four copies came into existence and began their part as they weaved their wands around in the growing mist. The dragon rushed into the mist and began looking around since it couldn't smell its prey.

It then roared as a blast of magic hit its wing before another blast hit the other side. It flung its head and breathed fire out, but nothing was hit evidenced by more blasts hitting it from all directions. It was worsened by a Conjunctivitis hex hitting it in the left eye making it roar as it struggled to keep the eye open to see.

More strikes came from all directions and the dragon couldn't find the source, but the whole time it hadn't noticed the air growing colder within the mist.

Even if it had, it was too late as Harry exited the top of the mist and fired a lightning blast into it that his copies followed suit and did as well. The moment the lightning touched the mist, the entire cloud became illuminated in light as the lightning bounced all over thanks to the water vapor and ice crystals acting as focal points. The center of it all was the dragon roaring in pain as the lightning struck it from all directions damaging it even more.

However, that still wasn't enough to bring it down and it looked up to see Harry there and roared at him before it began building its fire to unleash.

Harry didn't react beyond pointing his wand at it and just as he saw flames appearing, he blasted a high powered explosive curse into its gaping maw igniting the flames ahead of time and causing an explosion with the dragon at the same time multiple high powered cutting curses flew out and struck its wings tearing them up.

The dragon roared again and began falling as its wings could no longer support it.

But Harry wasn't done, no he was making sure the overgrown lizard died today.

Hence, to the shock of everyone, cast a Reducio on his broom and pocketed it as he fell. He then pointed his wand behind him, "Ascendio!" He shouted knowing that it launched a person in the direction the wand was pointing unless the user was wanting something else to move.

As such he was rocketing towards the flailing dragon as it tried to right itself. Harry was stone faced as he called Urfael to his hand shocking the watchers further before he hit it with a powerful lightning charm and roared before he spun in midair and threw his blade at the dragon before point his wand at it. "Bombarda Maxima!" Harry shouted as the spell rocketed down and struck Urfael with a loud BOOM causing the blade to launch forward at blinding speed and impale the dragon in the chest up to the pommel causing a monstrous roar to echo out from the dragon as it fell and hit the ground with a large crash with the lightning having coursed through its body.

Harry then aimed his wand at himself and cast Arresto Momentum once he was closer to the ground before pointing to his tunic after grabbing on tight, "Engorgio." He intoned causing his tunic to balloon out even as he weaved his wand to ensure it stayed attached to him and simply glided down to the ground.

Upon landing, he returned his tunic to normal and saw the dragon was still alive, if barely, and pointed his wand at it, "May you find peace in the next life." Harry stated before he fired another full powered lightning blast right at Urfael and held it there for a few minutes even as the dragon died, too weak to even roar in pain as its life was ended.

Harry took a minute to catch his breath before summoning the key as he walked forward. He grasped Urfael's pommel and pulled freeing the blade and showing it was unharmed, both from the crash and the lightning showing the more knowledgeable that the blade was magical or at least magically crafted, before he sent it away and walked for the exit.

Harry didn't even look as he slammed the key into the increased difficulty slot and kept walking without breaking stride.

No one in the arena stands made a sound, still trying to comprehend what they had witnessed. Killing a manticore and a dragon back to back with only a brief rest in between, and by a fourth year no less.

Sirius just smiled in pride along with Petunia. The only reason Harry had used Urfael was because he needed a blade that could stand up to his lightning and not melt before he was sure the dragon had died.

If Harry planned to kill something, he made sure it was dead.

Back with Harry, he paused outside the tent as he felt an oppressive aura in the air as pitch black clouds started rolling in, and entered the tent having Pomfrey work on his hand since it got slightly burnt from his lightning charm. Harry blocked out any comments, including Alexstrasza showing concern, he didn't even look at Percy as he entered, he just reached into the bag and grabbed the first thing he could, knowing it didn't really matter what he drew. Pulling his hand back, he saw he actually grabbed three: Horned Serpent, Mountain Troll, and Fenris Wolf. He didn't even bat and eye and just waved Percy off.

"I know the drill." Harry stated his tone making it clear that he wasn't in the mood to talk or carry on any further discussion.

Percy merely nodded and walked off while Pomfrey tried to get Harry to sit down so she could continue to work on him. He caught her wrist when she was trying to use her wand, "I'm fine. Save your magic for after the chaos that's about to happen." Harry stated as he pushed her arm away and took a seat on his bed to meditate.

The four just looked at each other in worry since Harry didn't seem this serious going against a Manticore or Dragon, so why the hell was he so serious over this?

Alexstrasza said nothing as she felt the shift in the air and felt a cold chill down her spine.

When the whistle blew, Harry stood, "You five need to get in the stands, it won't be safe for you to stay here." Harry stated in a tone that brokered no arguments from the others.

Alexstrasza quickly stood and left heading for the arena stands knowing where her master's confidants were due to the connection she could feel with a couple of them.

"You four as well, if you don't want to risk your lives then you will get in the stands." Harry ordered as he left the tent and headed for the arena.

Entering it, he ignored the crowd and focused on the threats. Instead of one at a time like people would assume, the opponents were unleashed all at once. Harry merely glanced at the Serpent, "If you do not wish to die, do not interfere." Harry stated as the serpent faced him.

"A speaker?! Intriguing. Unfortunately, I will be fighting. I have not had a good fight in a long time and I do not wish to return to a cage." The serpent replied making Harry sigh slightly.

He idly saw that the three champions and Pomfrey had taken spots in a secluded area with Pomfrey still working on them. Of course, people were wondering what they were doing there, but assumed the champions wanted to watch in person. He also saw Alexstrasza with Luna and the others, though many a male were looking at her and blushing or staring in lust.

Harry then flicked his wand to his hand and aimed it at the troll, "Reducto." Harry stated blasting a spell at the troll, who had enough intelligence to try and block it from hitting him, but chose the wrong shield as it raised its wooden club. The club was hit by the spell and, as anyone with two brain cells expected, the club exploded sending shrapnel and shards everywhere, especially into the face and throat of the troll killing it.

Harry then twisted to the side to dodge a lunge by the serpent, "Diffindo." Harry stated sending an overpowered cutting curse that quickly sliced through the serpent's body removing the head from the rest of it. Harry then sent a piercing curse through the head for good measure since he knew some snakes/serpents could still control their head for several minutes after they were decapitated and thus could still bite you.

Harry then ducked and caught the wolf under its belly and immediately stood throwing his weight and strength into the wolf and tossed it away where it slammed into a boulder before a Bombarda killed it.

Harry ignored the crowd cheering as he felt the cold in the air and soon the crowd did too as many were shivering and freezing with Bronx growling. Harry didn't waste time as he flicked his wand skyward, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"He shouted as a large shield suddenly shot out of his wand and created a dome over the arena making everyone look on in shock at a fourth-year using a NEWT level spell and on such a scale as that.

However, Harry wasn't done as he began weaving his wand through the air using pure magic to inscribe runes into the air as four clones stepped out from his body and held their wands to the air pulling the dome with them as Harry stood in the center. The dome then parted in the center and formed a ring over the audience with the arena floor being open.

"C'mon then! Let's go." Harry shouted before more than a dozen Dementors appeared making people gasp as they floated down to the arena before they shifted to cloaked, hooded, and armored figures each holding broadswords that many could feel a dark aura coming from.

Harry rolled his neck before he holstered his wand and summoned Urfael to him again.

Harry merely stood there a moment before the wraith in front of him shifted his foot and Harry was gone and in front of him cutting into his side before he smashed his head with Celebrimbor's hammer. Harry then turned and fired into four of the wraiths with Azkâr before he summoned Aegis Fang and threw it into another wraith.

Harry then ducked a swipe and parried another from the first wraith and sliced into the hooded area taking it and the wraith's head off with it. Harry didn't slow down though, he quickly shadow struck another wraith, though this one was faster than the first as it was able to block some of the strike, but not all of it as Urfael sliced into its leg before Harry began beating him with the hammer.

Harry then snarled and backflipped over another wraith before he came down with Urfael stabbing straight down through the head of his attacker. However, as he did that, another wraith and came up to attack worrying people before the blade was blocked. From Harry came a ghostly version of himself with baleful glowing green eyes as it blocked the rear attacker and backhanded them away shocking the onlookers.

Harry then tore his blade free before he swiped his hand sending out an arc of frost that slammed into a few of his enemies. A quick twist to dodge a thrust had Harry raise his hammer high and slam it into the ground creating a shockwave that stunned and knocked back several enemies.

A quick glance over his shoulder gave Harry all he needed to know before he flipped Urfael in his hand and threw it into another wraith that was trying to get above him. At the same time, Aegis Fang and Acharn both appeared in his hands as he parried a sword slash with his axe and brought Acharn up into the throat of the attacker and twisted it for good measure.

He then fired a wandless blasting hex at another opponent sending them crashing into the Patronus wall causing it to scream in agony until a spectral axe imbedded itself in the head killing it. He was glad he learned to do some spells with his wraith powers since that would give him another edge, but he kept it simple for now to keep his enemies from knowing all he could do.

Harry took a breath before he did multiple and consecutive shadow strikes on his remaining enemies. Decapitations, impalements, guttings, dismemberments, and more all occurred as Harry flashed all over the arena before there was one left and he imbedded the axe into its leg while driving his dagger into the shoulder.

Harry then grasped its head as his ring, eyes, and scar glowed ghostly blue as he snarled, "You will suffer me now!" He roared as he pulled apart the wraith's mind for anything useful.

He took all the information before grasping the wraith's throat and clenched his hand making the head explode.

He didn't have a chance to rest though as the gate that the smaller creatures would normally come through suddenly opened and the Fenris wolves, Horned serpents, Quintapeds, Scorpion-men, Minotaurs, Anubites, Acromantulas, Kerberosai, and Trolls all flooded out along with several Orcs and Caragors as Harry stood there unmoving knowing there was someone missing from the stage.

Out from the doors, walked another wraith, but this one had a presence to it. It was far stronger than the welps he had just fought and was definitely stronger than the one he killed at the World Cup. "Finally decided I was worth some attention eh?" Harry asked looking at the wraith as the creatures surrounded him.

"You've done well boy, you've done well. Now, play with me." The wraith stated in a whispery voice that was filled with cruelty.

He then pointed his sword forward ordering the creatures to attack, but what happened next shocked everyone while surprising Harry a bit.

The Anubites, Fenris Wolves, Kerberosai, and Minotaurs all roared before the wolves, dogs, and Minotaurs began attacking the other creatures while the Anubites jumped and formed a protective circle around Harry while snarling at the wraith and creatures.

"Don't bother with him, you'll die before you even have a chance to attack. Handle the rest of them." Harry instructed as the Anubites snorted and nodded before he flicked his wand to his hand and fired Reductos at the trolls removing them from the fight.

A quick cast of several piercing curses either killed or wounded several Quintapeds and Acromantulas. However, Harry ensured he didn't take his eyes off the wraith, knowing that it would cost him if he did so.

However, he did send a few flame blasts out towards the bodies of the trolls igniting them and making a few of creatures hiss away in disdain.

Harry then only had time to blink and quickly flick his wand back before raising his axe and dagger to block an overhead strike from the wraith. Harry grunted from the blow, but it lacked the force of the trolls he fought at the World Cup, so he managed before he twisted and broke deadlock while delivering a cut to the wraith's arm.

The wraith didn't even react to the cut and resumed engaging Harry as both fought amongst the brawl of creatures around them. Harry was glad he had practiced with his other weapons, if he had attempted this when he was still a transitioning wraith, he would have been dead before three strikes were given. Now though, now he could keep up and he chipping away at his opponent by delivering a series of cuts that would have brought down normal enemies, but the wraith was fueled by magic as well as flesh and blood and thus those cuts weren't as debilitating as they normally would be.

Harry then broke off the engagement to jump back and dodge a Quintaped that had leapt at him. Quickly Harry called Azkâr to his hand before firing an arrow into both of the wraith's feet pinning him to that spot for a few moments. However, those few moments were enough for Harry to quickly shoot several of the Quintapeds in the head killing them along with detonating the fires on the trolls causing fiery explosions to consume several enemies while at the same time he cast the Flame Freezing Charm on any of his allies near the explosions.

Harry then did a hasty block with his axe and dagger as the wraith had freed itself and resumed its attack. Harry pushed back and began his own attack with the wraith keeping up.

The two continued to fight before a slip of footing threw Harry off balance and the wraith capitalized on it be knocking his axe away while cutting into his leg. Harry quickly righted himself and did his best to deflect a blow, but his arm still received a cut before he quickly caught the wraith's arm and tried to drive his dagger into its heart.

The wraith countered by catching his wrist and the two were held in a deadlock as they tried to bring their blade closer to their target. Harry then noted a Scorpion-Man giving a few Anubites some trouble and twitched as he knew what to do.

He quickly brought his foot up and kicked the wraith back before throwing Acharn into the Scorpion-Man's head killing it. Harry barely had time to blink before he dodged a slash from the wraith before ducking another. However, as he came up from his duck, Urfael returned to his hand and he drove it through the chest of the wraith.

"They should have sent more." Harry stated before he ripped his sword free and spun before beheading the wraith.

Looking around, he saw that his allies had faired well enough, they took a few losses, but it would have been worse without the magic and spells he used. He nodded to them as they ensured their enemies were fully dead while Aegis Fang and Acharn vanished.

Harry didn't let Urfael go and flicked his wand back to his hand. He still had enemies present after all.

"Is that the best you can do?!" Harry shouted to the sky making a few people frown in confusion since it was clear he wasn't talking to the tournament officials. "I thought I was supposed to be afraid of you and your army. I've yet to see anything that should make me quake in terror." Harry stated as people started murmuring to each other while Sirius had his wand out and was watching the sky as well. "What? Too afraid to face a 14-year-old after running away from my ancestor for centuries? Huh?! Answer me!" Harry shouted as he stood there.

Before anyone could try and understand what was going on, a piercing shriek filled the air as tendrils of darkness came from the overhead clouds. Specifically, nine tendrils came from them and they began twisting and flying around the stadium making many of the younger attendees group together in fear but the tendrils bounced off the Patronus shield that Harry created. "Move back." Harry ordered the creatures, who promptly fell back towards the wall into the Patronus' protection. The tendrils then shot towards Harry, who stood there with his sword and wand out before they began spinning around him making people tense. "Are you through with the dramatics yet?" Harry asked in a bored tone as he stared straight ahead as the tendrils all shot into the air before slamming into the ground and dispersed revealing nine black clothed and armored figures holding dangerous and cruel looking weapons as they stood in a circle around Harry.

No one in the stands dared make any noise or sudden movements while Neville, Luna, Petunia, Remus, Alice, Frank, and Sirius all had their wands out and the few observant people also drew their magical foci while the armed members of the audience had hands on their swords, knives, axes, or whatever armament they had handy.

"Oh no." Victor stated in fear as he gripped the handle of his sword tightly while Selene put her hands on her guns seeing her leader's reaction.

"Well, so nice to see you all in person." Harry idly commented to the nine armored figures surrounding him before he turned to the one just to his left. "The Dark Marshal." Harry stated nodding to one with a mace before turning to the next one to the left, "Khamûl The Easterling." Harry stated and he could feel the tension building in the crowd of those that were the more knowledgeable. "The Betrayer, The Shadow Lord, The Undying, The Dwimmerlaik, The Tainted, The Knight of Umbar." Harry listed as he looked to each one before settling on the one that stood in front of him before he started turning, the one that had a large metal helmet/crown on. "And, finally, The Witch King of Angmar." Harry stated making many of his year that had heard of the DADA class gasp while Moody was clutching his wand tightly in his hand while his eye kept spinning between the nine and Harry. "All collectively known, as the Nazgûl." Harry stated making the Elves, Dwarves, and the people with more knowledge of ancient history gasp and immediately take more defensive positions.

"It has been some time, boy. Not since your parents were killed like the weaklings they were." Angmar stated as Harry looked at him, though he did notice one of them, the Undying, twitch ever so slightly at the comment.

"I figured you were there that night, no doubt hoping Talion would be there and you could finally end his interference in your plans." Harry stated as he kept a grip on his sword.

"Don't play naïve, boy. You know what we seek just as your ancestor knew what we desired." Angmar stated with his presence beginning to fill the area before Harry released some of his control on his presence to push him back a bit while glaring at Angmar even as the other Nazgûl began unleashing their own presence.

"Of course, you want the ring. The last true Ring of Power ever made, and the last creation of Celebrimbor. A ring, that Celebrimbor forged to be on par with Sauron's ring." Harry stated making a few people widen their eyes. "The only thing that could truly cause problems for you and your plans… Well, aside from me that is." Harry stated as he stood there.

"Join us, brother." Angmar stated making many widen their eyes or gasp. "What point is there in protecting these feeble creatures? They are inferior to us: We, who have obtained power over death and life itself, are more deserving of this world than they are." Angmar stated and Harry just looked at him. "You would be wise to take our offer, while it is still available." Angmar stated as Harry snorted.

"You really expect me to just say "okay" and help you? You, who helped orchestrate the death of my people, my clan, my house, my FAMILY for millennia. You, who tried to suck my godfather's and my soul out of us less than a year ago. You, who would gladly plunge the world into darkness and flame. You expect me to look at your forms and tremble, but all I see are nine men too weak to not fall to the trappings of power and greed." Harry stated and resisted the urge to flinch as Angmar's power lashed out violently.

"You will regret this decision boy, just as your ancestor did those millennia ago." Angmar stated as Harry shifted his feet into a ready stance as his eyes and scar glowed brightly and his presence pushed their aura back with a snarl as the rocks around them began clattering and shifting.

"Why wait? Let's just finish it now." Harry stated as he stared at Angmar with all ten of them ignoring the creatures being forced to their knees, the various people struggling to breathe, and the impressed look being sent by many people as Harry's light stood out against the cruel, hate filled, darkness.

"Please, you pose no challenge or threat as you are. The only reason you survived with your godfather was because we did not anticipate your human magical power. Your pathetic charm can only protect you for so long, but as a wraith? You are not worth considering. You think those paltry few you've slain were important? They were fledglings, much like you are, they served no purpose beyond adding to our number." Angmar stated as Harry narrowed his eyes keeping his body and mind in control since keeping their presence away from the audience and off himself was very taxing.

"If you're so sure, then why not finish it? I'm right here, and clearly no threat, so why do you hesitate? If you want me, come and claim me." Harry stated trying to goad a reaction and maybe get an insight into their plans.

"You still have a usefulness, boy, and when that usefulness is expired then we will come for you. Then once you've truly suffered enough… then you will have my permission to die." Angmar stated before he and the eight took off to the skies and vanished along with the dark clouds.

Harry was silent a long moment as he sent Urfael away and holstered his wand. Harry sighed and rubbed his face feeling a tremor in his hand, and this one wasn't from excitement. He then turned his gaze to the people all watching and stared intently at them all. "My name… is Hadrian Charlus Potter. Lord of the houses of White, Potter, Elessar, Alistair, and Evans, heir to house Black, the throne of Gondor and Arnor, King Celebrimbor, and my ancestor Talion Alistair: The Last Ranger of the Black Gate, The Bright Lord, and Gravewalker of Mordor." Harry stated as a few of the more knowledgeable people's eyes began to widen, "I am… a hybrid, I am both human and a wraith. I am banished from death like my ancestor was, I walk both the living and the wraith world. And now… now you know what this world faces. The Nazgûl did not die with Sauron. No, they merely bided their time and grew their forces until they later changed their name, to Dementors." Harry stated making people gasp and look at him in shock. "Hopefully, you'll all prepare as war is on the Horizon. They don't care what race you are, they don't care about your blood purity, they don't care about what side of magic you want. All they want… is to bathe the world in shadow and flame until nothing remains that they do not enslave, command, and bring to ruin. I have chosen to stand and fight, I pray that many of you will stand beside me, but if not, then so be it." Harry stated as he grabbed the key and walked towards the exit before pausing, "Dobby." Harry called making said elf pop in next to him.

"Yes master?" Dobby asked not even bothered by the location or what was happening.

"Transport these fellows to somewhere on the grounds they can live. Also place warming spells around the area since a few are used to desert temperatures." Harry ordered motioning to the Anubites, Kerberosai, Minotaurs, and Fenris Wolves making Dobby nod before he snapped his fingers and the creatures and himself were gone. Harry then continued out of the arena and slammed the key into the points lock.

"Thank you for your consideration." Harry stated casually as he walked away from the arena back to the medical tent.

His enemies had shown themselves and he had fully revealed himself though he knew this was just a… preview of things to come. If they truly wanted to show themselves there would be invasions underway.

Now it was just time to sit back and watch the idiots try to feel in control and those that would stand beside him to distinguish themselves from those that would stand behind him or against him

Then… Then it was time for him to train.

The gap between him and Angmar was too far and if they all attacked him at once, he'd be slaughtered before he could truly begin to fight.

He needed more.

More training.

More time.

More experience.

More power.

Just more.

He'd have to do what Sybil had suggested quickly to grow his power and strength. Hopefully he could make some alliances before things started heating up.

Somehow, he had a feeling in the back of his mind that it wouldn't be enough as it was right now.

He just prayed that feeling was wrong.

DONE!

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