Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling while Lord of the Ring is owned by Tolkien. The characters you don't recognize from their books are mine. And I can assure you, that many of the characters here are my creations. Sometimes because there are too many of them, I kinda forget about them at all. Maybe I need to make a list.

Author's Note: I don't think that this chapter is good, but I'm not in a good mood when I write this. Because of that I decided to make the chapter quick and be done with it, so I can sleep earlier. So if you think that the chapter is bad, I'm sorry.

Scene Six

The Orcs Hunting

Sirius and Remus was still talking when the entrance to the door was opened by Doran. They turned to him.

"Mr. Lupin, we have to go now!" he said shortly.

"But it's almost evening."

"Which is why we should do it quicker! The orcs will be faster and stronger at night. If we delay the hunt till tomorrow, they can escape from us."

"Allright. See you later than, Padfoot. Take care of him for me," he checked his wand to make sure it was still in its holster.

"You don't have to say it." Sirius slapped his shoulder lightly. "Be careful!"

Remus nodded and went with Doran who gave him a quick nod.

"If you're hungry or if there's something you need, just ask the others. They will gladly help you," said Doran.

"Thank you!" Sirius came out of the tent and saw the rangers went to the forest, some rode horses. Remus joined the infantry while Doran with the cavalry. He chuckled softly when he remembered that he needed Harry to learn how to ride too. Not him who taught it of course, maybe Doran or other rangers. And of course he and Remus needed the lesson too.

The hunting crew

The forest was dark that the rangers needed to light the torch. Remus was walking with a guy with a shoulder blond hair man. His name was Caracas, he was 24 years old but still curious as ever.

"Lumos," a glow lit up from the werewolf's wand and lit up the dark forest.

Caracas' blue eyes watched closely the light fascinated and then at Remus. "I thought that Istari spoke very long words to use their magic," he stated as the group in front of them led their way as they observed the orcs' traces.

"I don't know about Istari, so I can't say, but in my place or rather in my world we don't need long speech just to use spell. If I'm not wrong, long speech was used in ancient magic, for ritual, and advanced magic," he explained.

"But that kid only spoke 2 words and you say that was advanced magic," he pointed out.

"It was advanced magic, but… uhm… " Remus tried to find the right words. "Let's just say that long speech was only needed for mage's level spell which was very powerful. We used magic on daily basis, so it will be hard to use magic when you have to make long speech every time we use it."

"Really? I had met Gandalf before when I was a child. He said that he only use magic when someone really needs it."

"Then maybe our magic is different or maybe his magic is on mage's level," he concluded then added after an afterthought. "I don't know for sure while I myself haven't seen the magic Ishtari used."

After that they were talking for a moment before concentrating to the searching task. "Look! The traces were separated!" Dain, a big man with long black hair which was tied, touched the trace. "It's still warm. They're maybe 2-3 hours ahead of us. What should we do, Esallar?"

The said person thought about it for a moment then spoke, "Doran with his cavalry are riding through the west direction, so we'll leave the west part for them. We'll split up! Most of the traces are pointed to the south and few to the east. So the south group should have more people. Dain, you and your usual comrades go to the east while I and the others to the south."

Dain nodded and he brought 7 persons with him. Remus, and Caracas joined Esallar's group. They walked in silence as their leader directed them right to the south. Then suddenly in some point they loose the orcs' tracks. Esallar and the other rangers tried to find the said trace to no avail. "How did the traces just die out here?" a ranger voiced the others' thought.

Remus suddenly felt endangered by many presences near them. "Point me the orcs!" His wand directed him to the above. Remus glanced above him. "Shit! The orcs are in the trees!"

In the same time he shouted, all the rangers glanced surprised to the above. 19 ugly creatures let out a battle cry and jumped down from the trees. They landed everywhere scattering all the rangers. In their surprise, the rangers could still unsheathe their swords at the charging orcs. In front of Remus and Caracas was a big orcs with its full armour and axe. Remus decided to act quickly. From what he heard from Caracas, orcs hate the light. They're almost like vampire in this thing.

"Shield your eyes!" Remus shouted. "LUMOS SOLARUM!" the glow suddenly brightened itself, blinding all the orcs (and the rangers who was too late in shielding their eyes) made them immobile and even cried in pain at the intensity (AN: the orcs launched their attack to the camp in the dawn, when there was still no sunlight) of the light. "Quick! While they're frozen!" this brought the others to the world.

The orcs were killed easily by the rangers. When the slaughter was done, Esallar and others looked at Remus in amazement and awe. "Thank you, Mr. Lupin." He said.

"It's nothing. Is there any other orc?"

"From their traces, no! I think they waited us here and plan to disarray our group. And they will succeed if you aren't with us." They heard a distant sound of battle in the east. "It must be Dain's group! We have to help them!"

All were quickly running to the battle's voice. When they arrived they saw some of their friends were injured and was supported by the others, swords in their hands. No one died but many are injured, it seemed that they got surprise attack too. "CHARGE!" Esallar yelled, Dain and the others appeared to be happy as their aid came. The battle was finished under ten minutes. The 13 orcs was slaughtered quickly.

When they're done, they took care of the injury. No one got serious injury much to their relief. They burned the orcs after that keeping the fire not to go wild and burned down the forest. The Old Forest wouldn't like it and would try to kill them for sure if that happened. Dain approached Esallar.

"Shouldn't you chase the orcs in the south?" he inquired.

"We have killed them," informed him.

"What? You have? But you seemed not out of breath and didn't look that you have just fight!" he exclaimed.

"That's because Mr. Lupin," he tilted his head to Remus who cast a simple healing spell to an injured ranger named Hallad.

"What did he do?" he asked curiously.

Esallar replied, "The orcs were in the trees waiting for us and attacked. We were surprised and were scattered from each other. He created a very bright light with his magic blinding the orcs—and us actually. And you know that orcs can't endure bright light, so we could kill them without any difficulty."

"You're fortunate then?"

"We are."

After casted the healing spells to the last person, Remus stood up and saw Dain and Esallar were talking. The uninjured ones supported their friends to go back to the camp to be treated. And then he heard the sound of horse's strides.

"Everyone's allright?" one of the riders who infact was Doran, asked. Remus could see his bloody sword, probably the orcs' blood from the west side.

"No one died, and no serious injury," reported Dain. He nodded accepting the news gladly.

"Let's go back to the camp, we'll discuss it later."

In the camp

When Remus arrived at the tent where Sirius and Harry were, he was faced with the ecstatic face of his long time friend in front of the tent.

"Remus, Harry! Harry! He…he was…," he couldn't find the right words.

"He was awake?" his eyes lit up. But Sirius shook his head. "Then what?" he was puzzled with his action.

"I just remember of it. When he casted the patronus charm in the battle yesterday, he didn't use his wand!" he shouted in glee.

"What?" asked the disbelief Remus. "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure of it. He even casted it with his uninjured hand, which mean his left. And Harry's wand hand was his right hand!"

"So that's why I found his wand was sprawled rather away from him when he was unconscious. Does it mean that Harry's powerful?"

"He maybe even more powerful than Dumbledore! He always use wandless magic whenever and wherever he was to show off, I think—except in serious situation that is—, but it was only for smaller scale than advanced charm like patronus like Harry did!"

"Sirius, calm down!" Remus almost smiled at his friend's act.

"I can't, Remmy, my friend. With this he will have more chance to survive and retaliate. Lily and James would be very proud of him."

"Yes, Padfoot. Now, do you want to hear my exploration in the forest?"

"Of course I do! So, what happened?" he looked like he was back in his young age.

Remus chuckled and with Sirius entered the tent.

TBC…….

Bwa ha ha I almost forget about the wandless magic Harry performed before. Thankfully I remember of it and could slip this in the chapter.

I know you want to know when will Harry wake up. So for the next chap, the time will be move forward.