Disclaimer: I don't think any of you believe me if I say I own Harry Potter and Lord of the Ring, so I won't bother to claim them as my own. Hiks, I wish I own them…
Author's Note: I actually want to make smart comedy conversation, but it is hard to make it. So I give up with that. Yeah, yeah I know that I shouldn't give up, but… oh well! I don't know much about American or British culture, so there.
Once more I want to warn you (did I ever warn you before? ) that my vocabulary is limited, and so is my grammar. So please forgive me if you don't really understand what I mean in the fic. Bear with me, okay?
If anyone wants to become this fic's beta email me. I also have other fics like shipped off, vengeance (hasn't been released yet, it's Naruto fanfiction), shinobi guards, interdimensional trip (a new one), emperor of Kou, Harry Potter and The Lunarian Girl, Dimension Mishap, Technomagic, and Merciless Hunter, that haven't been edited yet. Damn, that's a lot! I already have betas for Copycat bloodline, Ashura, and The New DADA Teacher.
Scene SevenThe Journey to Ulras City
It was the 5th day since their arrivals to Middle Earth. Remus and Sirius got riding lesson from Doran himself. The first time they heard that they would be taught to ride the horse, they were ecstatic, but their happiness didn't last long. Dropped from the horse or being ignored by the horse they supposed to ride did that to everyone.
Right now Sirius was in awkward position. He clutched the mane of a brown horse named Edella for all his worth. Padfoot screamed for help from the laughing spectators except Remus who dreaded it, not because he sympathized with his friend, but because it would be his turn next to ride another horse. Doran tried to help him, all the way laughing—mind you, but Sirius' position didn't help his rescue at all. The only thing that connected him and Edella was his clutching hands on her mane and his right foot which somehow was trapped in the saddle while his body which was in the right side of her body almost thrown as Edella dashed quicker.
Doran shouted something to her making her calm down and started to slow down. When she stopped completely, Sirius breathed a sigh of relief. He then turned to his riding teacher glaring menacingly.
"Care to help me down from the damn horse?" Unlucky for him, Edella didn't appreciate what he said. So she graciously lifted her front legs, brought it back to the earth with a power that made Sirius felt like he was in the middle of earthquake, and this time lifted her back leg, something which sent her rider flying 2 meters above and landed hard behind her.
"Ooooffff!" Sirius felt like he was blown into pieces the time he kissed the ground. He wasn't young anymore for Merlin's sake. So why did he was being thrown here and there? He heard a neigh from his horse which suspiciously was heard like a horse's laugh. This enraged Sirius even further.
"Emh…Are you allright, Sirius?" Remus asked with a neutralize tone; he poked Sirius' body with a branch. Well, he couldn't laugh to him when next would be his turn and who knows that he might be more unlucky than his friend.
"Aarrrgggghhhhhh! That's it! Let's see who laugh the last!" he quickly stood up and whipped his wand from the holster in his forearm. "Animaturno Dog!" he shouted. A blue light hit the surprised horse and it was turned into a dog under 5 seconds. "Who laugh now, girl? It's me! HA HA!"
Remus shook his head when he saw what happened. Edella looked very confused with her new body. The rangers who saw what happened were awed at their magic.
"Wow, that's very amazing," said Caracas from beside him.
Remus smirked at his statement. He turned back to Sirius who still laughing gleefully and replied, "We often do that in our younger days when we were still students."
"Really? That must be great! I can imagine the faces of the children in the north city of our race when you told them your stories."
2 days ago Doran told him that they would go back to where they lived. They only went to the old forest when they heard about the orcs insight. They have stationed some rangers in Bree the moment they went back to their city of Ulras in the north. He asked them whether they wanted to go with them or not. They accepted it and yesterday they started the journey. All the while Doran or sometimes another ranger named Burhan taught them how to ride in the time when they were resting from the journey since they asked for it. And they were happy at first…
Remus raised his eyebrow when he saw that the so called dog seemed to know that the one who caused her change was Sirius from her growl which was directed to him. She quickly dashed to her target with a bark.
Sirius gasped in surprise then quickly ran to save his life. All were laughing now except Remus who slapped his forehead feeling rather embarrassed to know the ridiculous person who now was running like he was chased by a ferocious beast. Well, actually she was a ferocious beast right now…
"Wait a second! I'm a dog animagus myself, and I'm bigger than her!" with that Sirius stopped running and changed his body into the grim-like dog. This time it was Edella who was chased by Sirius.
"Padfoot, you fool!" Remus shouted, but he didn't hear it.
"Woah! You can change into an animal?" Caracas' jaw dropped.
"That's animagus ability," he explained. Oh well, it wasn't a secret anymore anyway, he might as well told them. "Very rare among wizards. I myself don't have that ability. Sirius is a dog animagus."
"That's… what is your saying for this?" he tried to remember the word.
"Cool?" he provided.
"Yes, that one. That's so cool! It has music at the word… hm, cool…" Remus sweatdropped at the guy beside him. He was really weird.
Feeling that the chasing show was enough Remus flicked his wand. "Animareversio" and the dog reverted back to its previous state.
Doran approached him with a smirk plastered in his face. "Remus, it's your turn!" He, under the request from both of them, called them with their first name.
Ugghh! Remus could feel that something was wrong in his stomach as he gulped at the exclamation. Why me?
Sirius huffed as he passed them. "Your turn, Moony. I'm out of the field." He said. Remus could hear him muttered something like, "I'm too old for this," before went to where Harry was laid.
Sirius threw himself to the ground before the coma wizard boy. "Next time, I'm gonna hex that horse!" he thanked the God that he haven't eaten or he will hurl all of his already digested food the time he was thrown by the female horse.
He sensed someone approached. It was Delan, the patch eyed guy. "That was hilarious," Sirius wanted to hex him and made his mischievous smirk vanished. The man definitely had mischievous demeanor despite his frightening appearance.
"You're not the one who was thrown each time you ride a horse!" he snapped irritably.
Delan chuckled at his reply. "It has been so long that everyone laughed like that. It was darkness time…" he sighed. His mood changed so quickly.
Sirius stared at the moving clouds and then to his godson. "When do you think he will wake up?" he asked sadly.
"I don't know, Sirius. I have several friends who woke up from their coma after a month and some after weeks. It is depended at his strength. Those are people who lucky enough only get a cut and some healers nearby."
"I bet when he wake up, he will be very hungry!" he tried to lighten the mood.
He smiled softly. He sat down across him and gave him his lunch. "Eat! You need power to do journey and I see that there's no way we let you ride any horse this time."
He grumbled at being reminded of his misfortune. "I swear that I'll defeat that stupid horse!"
"Edella is a beautiful horse, not stupid, you know."
"Beautiful, yes, I admit it. Stupid, maybe not. Annoying, most definitely." He chewed his food rather hard imagining that the one he bit was the horse.
Delan just shook his head at his action. He stood up. "Your arrivals were certainly brightening our moods," with that he was gone. Sirius just shrugged.
The Next day
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Sirius and Remus cried out in the same time waking up the entire rangers in the morning who quickly readied their weapons expecting orcs' assault. What they found shocking them. Two men in their twenties who suspiciously looked like younger Remus and Sirius were sprawled in the ground gaping like a fish and stared at each other.
"What happened to you?" chorused both of them to each other loudly.
The birds in the trees were chirping feeling rather annoyed at the shouts.
"Remus?" a younger Remus turned. "Sirius?" the younger Sirius turned to face Doran too. "What happened?" he voiced his thought. He was gaping at them and so did the others. Since their arrivals, they made many surprise to him and the others.
"I-I don't know! We just wake up, and… and… When I turned to the awaken Sirius, his face has changed to his younger face," he spluttered.
"My face changed too? Yours too!"
"What? Someone has any mirror?" Nobody had.
"There's a stream there," Caracas pointed to the small river.
The wizards completely forgot that they could just conjure a mirror, hastened to the river and saw their reflections. They gawked at their own reflections, instead of their older appearance, their faces just reverted themselves to their twenties. Sirius lifted his robes and saw a healthy body instead of the malnutrition one for being 12 years in Azkaban. Remus has done the same. He didn't have any gray hair anymore and to top it off, his body felt stronger like it has reached its peak moment. They stared at each other in confusion.
"Merlin's beard! What just happened to us?"
"I don't know, Sirius. This is just plain weird." They came back to the group with more confusions than before. They sat on their place, left and right side of Harry, with a bewildered face.
"From your face I can tell that you don't know what happened," Delan scratched his temple. They nodded stupidly.
The boy between them stirred up and quickly sat up and freaked them out with his sudden action. Sirius and Remus were shocked to say the least. Afterall he was in coma for 6 days and suddenly without warning just set half awake. The group was silent.
Harry slowly cracked his eyes open. He turned to his left and right at his father's friend and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't dreaming when he was face to face with the younger faces of them. He looked again at them, and after a moment of silence, "Back to your younger days, ha? Guess that I wasn't dreaming about Helos when he said that he reverted you two back to your peak ages," with that he went back to sleep.
Sirius gawked at the boy who once again went back to his sleep. After a moment he turned to Remus still feeling light-headed.
"Did you see what I see?" he tried to convince himself that he was just hallucinating.
"If what you meant was that Harry just wake up said about someone who reverted ourselves back to our twenties, then back to sleep again, then yes, I did," the moon-allergic-wizard replied.
"Uh… I saw that too," Caracas blinked. The others nodded unsurely.
Sirius and Remus looked at each other. Their minds were processing the facts. And then together as if they were twins, they acted. They tried to wake the young boy in every way they remembered, such as tapping, shouting, and tickling (Harry reacted with elbowing Sirius' stomach, then back to his sleep again, which drew laughs from their hosts), but none worked.
"Aggh! If the conventional way didn't work, then don't blame me if I use my creativeness, kid!" Sirius screamed, annoyed at being ignored and elbowed. He whipped his wand and a bucket full of cold water was floating about the young hero. He flicked it again, and with a cruel grin, the bucket's content was dumped into the unsuspecting boy.
"Huwaaaaaaaaaa!" Harry rose from his sleep completely drenched. He shivered from the coldness. "Th-that's… cold, god dammit!" he snapped. The rangers and Remus were grinning, while Sirus had a smug look on his face.
"So, Harry… How's you feel being coma for 6 days?" Remus flicked his wand and the water dried out.
Harry yawned before replied, "I slept for 6 days? That's a record for me." He massaged his sore temple. "Snuffles, if you do it again I swear that I'm gonna hex you." He warned his godfather who was hugging him now.
"I'm happy you're okay, pup. I was worried about you," he tightened his hold.
Harry coughed to get his hysterical godfather's attention. "Air is becoming an issue for me… Anyway I can't count dumping cold water to me was a loving action from godfather to his godson! Especially when said godson just woke up from coma," he grumbled.
"Oh, sorry," he released his hold. "Not for the water dumping, I mean. And you have very long way before you can surpassed me in pranking others," he grinned mischievously.
"Helloo, I'm seriously feeling unloved here," Remus trailed off. He put a fake annoyed face, but then smiled when he hugged the boy who he taught as his nephew.
"You're too old to pout like a child—oh, I forgot, Helos reverted you back."
This perked the curiousity from all. "Who?"
"The man that I met when I was—in coma you said?"
"A man of your dream?" his father's friends gaped, but he remained unfazed.
"Yep. Where's my wand?" Remus handed it to him which he accepted with a smile before putting it in his back pocket. "Oh, hi Doran!" when he saw the said man.
Doran nodded. "They are my friends. He's Delan—don't afraid with his appearance, he's the fool of our group ("Hey! I resent that!" Delan retorted), the man beside Remus is Caracas," then he neared the young man and whispered into his ear, "he has a weird taste and too curious for his own good" Harry grinned while Caracas narrowed his eyes suspiciously. "And he's Esallar, he's okay but never got in his bad side," he warned mockingly.
"And what's that mean," threatened Esallar, his hand was put on his hip and he was glaring at the leader of the group.
"Well… you know what I mean. Anyway, lad, we can save the introduction part for later, the other rangers will gladly help you if you need something. Right, boys?" a cough from behind him revealing Faran and 4 other women. "And girls," a louder cough and a warning glare was sent. "I mean, ladies." He said with a fake innocent smile. Faran and the other four smiled feeling satisfied with the correction. His guests and others snickered rather loudly. "So, lad, do you need something?"
Harry saw his condition. He crunched his nose when he realized that he smell bad after 6 days not taking a bath. "Well, I think I need a quick—"
"Wait a second, he hasn't said about the Helos guy," Sirius reminded them. Harry kicked his left leg innocently. Sirius opened his mouth to yell painfully from the hit but nothing came out. His eyes widened. Oh… that kid… using the silent charm… he grumbled under his breath. The other's arched their eyebrows questioningly. Remus saw that to and countered the spell, much to his delight.
"I tell you all later. But for now I need a quick bath. Badly."
"There's a stream there if you want to. Be careful the water is cold."
"You don't need a bath, you—"
"Excuse me for not wanting to become the next Snape!" Harry retorted. Remus gave an, 'ah!' while their hosts gave blank looks, clearly didn't understand the joke.
"He's a potion master in Hogwarts. His hair became very greasy because of working with his 'dear bubbled cauldron'," The dog animagus quickly explained for them.
"I go with you, Harry" Harry nodded at Remus.
"Others?" he scanned them all.
"Why, thank you for the invitation, young man, we would like to," Faran said with a singsong voice. A smile plastered on the women's face.
Harry flushed, red was colouring his cheek which made him adorable and cute. The men were snickering. Faran was acting way out of her character. "Sorry, but it's for men only."
"Yes, wouldn't want the innocent lad's eyes to be tainted with 'adult' problem, would we?" Doran mocked. All were laughing their heads off except Harry who was pouting and crossed his arm on his chest.
"Hey! That's not fair!"
TBC…………..
Well I think that's enough for this chapter. I'm gonna sleep. Night!
Snore
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Thanks to: Allyanna, BabeBunny, Drusilla, Keira, Siriusly Sirius Lily Black, hermione21, Toras, Warlord Harrsk, Shadow, HarrySlytherinson, Tmctflyboy
Reply:
Shadow: Aiye… I'm sorry, I kind of make a mistake there. Harry did patronus wandless. I have corrected the fic on my computer and when it is edited by beta I'll repost it.
Toras: hell yeah, they will be involved with the War of The Ring, I make it 5 years before that time so they have time to prepare and train, and for Remus' lycanthropy you have to see it yourself in chapter 11. That was as far as I got with this fic for now. For beta, I'm currently searching.
Warlord Harrsk: your first time? There are many HPLotR fanfictions in just search them in HP, LotR, or Crossover section.
