Disclaimer: I wish I owned Harry! Not to make money but so I could… never mind! On with the story!
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Ibzan stared around Grimuald place nonchalantly but Pyralis looked uncomfortable. Harry could understand why. They were all staring at the wild mages intently because they had never met any. Also Pyralis was the same age as Harry, which hadn't been what they expected.
Harry could sympathise. He was used to being stared at. Ibzan stared back but Pyralis found a spot on the floor to watch while McGongall retold the story of their excursion.
She was up to the part where Harry had laid a hand on Pyralis and Mrs Weasley gasped and glared at Pyralis for hurting her Harry. Fred and George looked fascinated with Ibzan and all his tall presence while Ginny was trying to catch Pyralis' eyes and smile.
Moody was clearly suspicious of the pair and Shaklebolt was tense as if preparing for attack.
McGongall finished the story with Ibzan's defiance of his queen. This changed everyone's expression as they started to look at him with awe. Ibzan turned very deliberately towards Pyralis. A second later she burst out laughing.
"Could we have a demonstration of powers?" Moody asked.
"You want us to show off?" Ibzan replied coldly. Pyralis was starting to smile now, itching to teach the wizards a few things.
"No. I just want to see how useful you are so I can position you," Moody explained, gruffly.
"Aren't we Harry's body guards?" Pyralis demanded.
"Among other things," Moody answered, "The other things I will direct you in."
"I don't think so!" Pyralis snapped.
"Pyralis!" Ibzan said soothingly.
"We should just talk about this," Tonks intervened. Pyralis looked at the young woman to Moody. Her black eyes were fiery and she kept rubbing her hooked nose. Harry recognised this as something she did when she was agitated.
"We are not under your jurisdiction," Ibzan coolly interpreted.
"Idiote Mwanga!" Pyralis muttered darkly.
"We will make ourselves useful," Ibzan turned himself to McGongall, "Is that clear?"
Moody opened his mouth to protest but Ibzan jerked a finger and said, "silence!" Moody's mouth slammed shut. He pulled his wand out of his pocket and waved it at Ibzan.
Furious Pyralis glared at him and commanded, "Sit!" Moody did so automatically.
"How did you do that?" Lupin breathed.
"Ibzan froze the saliva in his mouth so he couldn't move it and I simply directed the warmth in his body," Pyralis elucidated.
Ibzan crouched near Moody so he could look in his eyes, "Call that a demonstration of our powers. We do not need commands to control us!"
Ibzan seemed to fill the room and his power was felt by all but what made him scary was the lack of emotion on his face. Pyralis had a temper evidently but she was a teenage girl still. Both would be beyond valuable on a battlefield but Ibzan was a threat to the inner workings of the Phoenix.
There was silence but it was broken by the second oldest Weasley boy, Charlie, who asked, "Do you have affinities with creatures from cold or hot regions?"
"What do you mean?" McGongall inquired.
"Well I'm just thinking it may be useful to have a dragon on our side or a Phoenix," Charlie exclaimed.
"I can control anything warm blooded," Pyralis said, "But if they are big or have developed intellect it will only last for a while. I could aim a dragon's fire if that would be any use."
"Probably!" Charlie smiled at the woman.
"What we need is an entire meeting with all the Phoenix members," McGongall said. Everybody nodded in agreement.
"I still want to get an idea of their powers," Moody's mouth had thawed, "Not for control but we need to work together and advise each other."
Pyralis shrugged. She would relish the chance to show the older wizards what she could do. It was an adolescent pride!
"Tomorrow," Ibzan suggested. Ginny yawned from her space on the floor and Mrs. Weasley spotted it.
"I think it's time they all got to bed, including you," She stared pointedly at the wild mages.
"We're short of space so Pyralis will be sharing a room with Ginny and Hermione and Ibzan with Charlie," Lupin explained.
"I'm not tired," Pyralis protested. Harry shook his head, trying to tell Pyralis to just do what she was told.
"If you are under 20 out of the room and to bed," Mrs. Weasley decreed.
"Is she always this scary?" Pyralis asked quietly as they made their way to the stairs.
"Worse," Fred joked.
"Oh bon," Pyralis responded dryly.
"Hey maybe she could talk French with Fleur," George suggested.
"Or set her on fire," Ginny offered.
"Who? Pour qoi?" Pyralis asked.
"My brother Bill's fiancée. She's alright," Ron defended her. Hermione rolled her eyes.
They didn't go to bed like they were instructed but walked into the girl's room and made themselves comfortable.
"How come Ibzan got to stay up?" Pyralis wanted to know.
"My mothers mission in life is to mother everybody," Ginny said.
"Besides they're all too scared to tell Ibzan what to do," Hermione observed.
Harry nodded his head in agreement, "What you guys did to Moody was insane."
"Yeah," George enthused, "Ibzan was all 'silence' and then you said 'sit' and he did it."
"It was very wicked," Fred approved.
"We don't like being told what to do," Pyralis blushed, beginning to look sheepish.
"Don't worry about it. I think Moody was impressed even if he is still suspicious," Hermione assured her.
"Mwanga ils sont toujours si arrogants!"
"You have to stop talking in French," Ron protested, "Only Hermione can understand what you're saying!"
"I was just saying that if wizards are untested they become arrogant," Pyralis translated.
"Well you'll have a chance to show off tomorrow. We're all going to watch the fight," Ginny beamed.
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Pyralis was stretching on the side of the room next to Ibzan.
"Who knew that he had a huge arena in his basement for practice," Pyralis said looking around the huge room. Ibzan stayed silent but observed the large space. All the auroras were lining up and being told the aim was to incapacitate the wild mages.
"It's quite nice. You know, bright but kind of sterile," Pyralis continued.
"Will you be quiet? You're babbling!" Ibzan said coolly.
"Vous êtes un bâtard!"
"It never mattered to you that I was a bastard!" Ibzan countered nonchalantly.
"That is because I never spent this much time with you," She said glaring angrily.
"И также полностью временем, котор мы потратили совместно включило нас имея секс настолько там не было много время для говорить!" Ibzan replied with a smirk.
Pyralis blushed, tried to send him a withering look but ended up turning away.
"Are we destroying them?" She asked in a haltering voice.
"I think some showing off might be good!"
"Yeah!" Pyralis breathed nodding frantically.
"You are nervous! Why?" Ibzan demanded abruptly.
"We're facing off against a group of auroras!" Pyralis pointed out.
"Are you that insecure in your own abilities?"
"No but just think about it! When we prove ourselves we could be taken in and accepted into the wizarding community!" Pyralis' eyes glowed.
"Acceptance means that much to you?"
"You know what it could mean for me," Pyralis responded quietly.
"Your parents!" Ibzan mused.
Heat mages blood reacted when it recognised the same blood in others and Pyralis knew her parents had been English but that was all the information she had. Cold mages never had the hope of finding their family and so it was a benefit that their isolationist nature solved that problem!
Pyralis nodded slowly her black eyes glazing over, "Lets beat the hell out of the mwanga!"
"Should we kill one?"
Pyralis stared at Ibzan. "I worry about you sometimes!"
"То не будет моя забота!" He said walking away.
"That is not my concern," Pyralis imitated him in English!
"We are ready to start," Moody proclaimed hoarsely. Everyone but the auroras moved to the magically shielded stands to watch the test. Harry glanced at the two Wild Mages. Pyralis was hoping from foot to foot anxiously staring at the wands. In clothes she had borrowed from Hermione she looked almost normal. Ibzan appeared completely unconcerned about the approaching wizards and Harry understood how completely confident the older man was.
They both had incredible power but Ibzan was almost indestructible. This amount of magic should not belong to anyone. Maybe if Voldemort had less it would never had come to this but he did and they needed to call on people's aid who could destroy him.
"McGongall will signal the start of the match," Shacklebolt told the young man and woman. The pair nodded and turned expectantly to McGongall.
"Start with Defence," Ibzan instructed out of the corner of his mouth. Pyralis consented with a tiny inclination of the head. Adrenalin was flooding their bodies.
"Begin," McGongall cried. She was uncertain about the whole event and worried that both sides might hurt each other.
Pyralis sent up a huge wall off fire separating them from the attacking group of wizards. The heat and blinding flash of light made them turn away and shield their eyes. By the time they turned away to face the Wild Mages Ibzan had raised a fortified wall of ice.
The first few spells rebounded off the ice and Tonks had to duck out of the way of as her own spell as it ricocheted back towards her.
"Melt it!" Moody boomed getting frustrated as he caught sight of the wild mages, distorted because of the ice, with their arms crossed looking bored.
The observers cheered when a huge hole appeared in the ice but that died of when a person completely on fire stepped forward. It was Pyralis but she was completely unrecognisable as flames danced over her entire body.
"Qui veut aller d'abord?"
The wizards stared at each other for a heartbeat before turning on Pyralis wands raised. Ibzan was still behind what was left of the wall of ice.
"Pyralis, Shacklebolt is using a confundus charm," Ibzan warned his voice loud. He only injected emotion into when he was fighting. The moment carried him away. He felt an urge to jump out and join the fray but he knew it wasn't logical.
"No he's not," Pyralis said with a smirk. She used her magic to drive his blood up into Shacklebolt's head making his vision go dark and stars to appear in front of him.
"Now who's confused?" Pyralis said as Shacklebolt fell over disorientated. The twins whooped and Mrs. Weasley tutted worried. While Pyralis was distracted another Aurora hit her with an extinguishing charm. The older woman who cast the spell had no real idea what would happen when she cats the spell on the heat mage but as Pyralis staggered to her knees she decided it was effective and raised her wand to cast it again.
Suddenly there was a sweet voice in her head telling her she didn't want to follow through with the spell and she raised her wand. Ibzan withdrew from her mind and stepped towards Pyralis fling icicles the size of and arm at the wizards. Moody used the banishing charm to make them disappear.
He threw up an ice shield while he touched Pyralis' head. She was cold but conscious. With his power he sucked the coldness out from her body. She sat up immediately.
"What did he do?" Hermione asked interested.
"Probably a variation of the Ennervate charm," Lupin answered.
Mrs. Weasley had her hands up by her mouth; terrified that someone would get seriously hurt. Shacklebolt was still lying on the ground and the image of Pyralis helpless had reminded her the girl was only a teenager.
"Stop holding back," Pyralis commanded to Ibzan pushing him gently on the shoulder.
"Are you alright?" He tried to keep his face blank but his voice betrayed him.
"Fine! Lets stop defending and beat them," Pyralis demanded. The other wild mage grinned broadly and the pair faced them and started hurling fireballs and sharp shards of ice.
The wizards barely had time to mutter Protego as they were hit.
Then unexpectedly it started to snow. Moody swore as he realised that the visibility of all the other wizards would be seriously compromised. With his magical eye he could see the wild mages circling.
Moody raised his wand to do the Relashio charm but there was a voice in his ear. It told him to surrender. He knew it was the cold mage and he fought the temptation but soon it wasn't just an instruction but his own idea and will.
He dropped his wand.
"Finish it Pyralis," Ibzan whispered inside her mind.
With a flick of her hand all the wizards were lying on the ground unable to move any of their body parts. The snow cleared and the audience stared in shock as they saw what had happened before bursting out cheering.
"That was bloody amazing," Ron cried as the other wizards and witches hurried down to check on the injured auroras.
"You held back. You let me do most of the work," Pyralis accused Ibzan quietly. He shrugged and moved away from the group. Harry heard and saw the exchanged and narrowed his eyes but he followed the twins, Hermione, Ginny and Ron up to Pyralis.
"So what do you think?" Pyralis asked nobody in particular.
Nobody answered they just felt their smiles widen!
AN: Just wanted give a demonstration of what Ibzan and Pyralis can do. Ibzan is much better than Pyralis as she gets distracted easily. You may have noticed. Lol and I wonder if any of you can guess what Ibzan said in Russian to Pyralis! Please review!
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