Hey guys, new chapter, and once again, I don't own harry potter, wish I did though,
The Power of the Shadow
"Really Mr. Potter, whilst I do enjoy your company I do wish it were under better circumstances," sighs the matron, waving her wand over harry a few times, harry watches with detachment as he tries to figure out Siruis Cryptic message, a strange green light is shone from Madam Pomfrey's wand and she looks at it with a start, "that's odd, I could have sworn that it was grey the last time I checked, almost black,"
"Whats that Madam Pomfrey?" questions a now worried harry, 'this could be bad,'
"Nothing Mr. Potter, just my age catching up with me I guess" sighs the matron, right before Mad-Eye Moody clumps in,
"Potter, what did I tell you about where to place you wand?"he growls out,
"well you said not to put in in our back pocket, to save our bums from being blown off, still paraniod Proffessor?" says harry with a huge grin,
"you better believe it boy, now ask me a puestion, remember, 'CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!'" barks the Ex-Master Auror,
"what did my uncle say to you at the end of last term after you had warned him about how he treated me?"
"he asked if he looked like he could be threatened," laughed Moody, "bloody lump nearly shite his pants"
"Moody!!" exclaims Madam Promfrey, "watch your language"
"now now Poppy, i'm sure that you heard worse than that at St. Mungos," smiles Moody, an almost scary sight,
"what? You worked at St. Mungos?" asks a now curious harry,
"yes, in the phiscial and spell damage ward, as it was back then,"
Harry now has a deep look of though upon his face, 'the nurse and the paraniod one suspect...' he looks upon them as Moody asks the question harry has been dreading,
"So Potter, what happened to you, and why does your auror feel as though it didn't change, 'cause i'll be damned if it wasn't different last night"
Harry, figuring that it was best to take Sirius' advice, decided to tell them outright what had happened, "can you ward this room against anyone listening in please?"
Moody chucks up a few anti-eves dropping wards around the room, even aiming one at the bottom of the door, "damn Weasly twin brats, to smart for there own good..." he mutters,
Harry breaths out and launches into his tale about meeting Sirius, his strange companion and his phiscal and magical transformation, taking only 15 minutes to relay the whole ordeal,
"wait a minute Potter, what was this womans name, did she tell you?" asks Moody, woried about Death Eater Tricky
"yeah, she did, it was Incendiaria Prius, why?"
" don't they teach you the basics of latin at school any more, Incendiaria Prius, roughly, means Firebird First, and the only Firebird in the world is the Phoenix," explains the grizzled man,
"so your delling me that I meet the First Phoenix? Wow, that explains how her voice seem almost familiar"
Madam Promfrey looks at Harry, "so if your Sirius' son, that would mean that Harry James Potter never existed, and your name should have been given to you by him," she looks at him, questioning,
"i'm sorry madam, but until I can be sure, I am going to act like Harry Potter, and no-one is going to know who I truly am" states Harry,
"good thinking Potter, always best to have a few cards held to your chest, now get ready, Dumbledores here,"
And aas if he was summoned on an actors cue, in comes the Headmaster of Hogwarts, "Harry my boy, so good to see that your awake and well" smiles Dumbledore, his eye twinkle in full balst mode, harry keeping his eye's focused on his bizare robes instead of his eyes, to avoid a Legimicy attack,
"thank you sir, do you know what happened to me??" harry atempts to ask in what he hope sounded like a timid voice,
'Wonderful,' Dumbledore thinks to himself, 'his spirit is almost broken enough for me to mould him the way I see fit' he offers harry a sombre expression "alas dear boy I do not, do you remember anything that happened?"
"no sir, I was reading you letter one moment and just as I got to the second line, I blacked out then woke up here," 'wow, that was so easy to do, maybe it's my Slytherin side coming out,
"never mind harry, your safe now, though I must stress that you should go back to Privit Drive by no later than tomorrow, I feel that your friends will want to see you when the good Madam Pomfrey has finished with you. We will talk more later, but for now I must speak to Severus," and with that the headmaster gets up and leaves the room, leaving harry to his thoughts,
"do Ron and Hermoine know that i'm here?" he asks as some of the pieces of Sirius message start making sense,
"no Harry, there outside talking, would you like to go see them," says madam Pomfrey,
"no not yet, I want to hear what there saying, something Sirius said to me has come together to make total sense, he said ' be cautious of you so called friends, you have lees than you think but you will gain more, i can only speak in code here but beware the temper and the book, they are your enemy, the healer and the paranoid one suspect that something has changed, tell them noe lies, the pink and furry one are in your coner, and watch for the man of the earth and the woman who see's more than others, they are your greatest friends, the bat will try and harm you while the beard will try and control you' " harry looks at the two people in front of him, "the Nurse and the Paraniod one" he says pointing to Madam Promfrey and Mad-Eye Moody respectivly, "the temper and the book must be Ron and Hermonie, those are there strongest personality traits, the pink and the furry one I haven't a clue, same with the man of the earth, or the woman whoe see's more, but i'm damn sure that the beard is Dumbledore and the bat is Snivillus,"
"well Potter, i've got a spare invisiblity cloak here, how about you go and see what your friends are up to?" smiles Moody, pleased that he has been counted amongst harry's allie's, 'and a dame good thing to, that boy need's everything he can get,' thinks the auror.
"thanks Moody, Madam Promfrey, can I do this? I really need you to keep my confidence here," looking worried at being found out,
"Mr. Potter, listen to your godfather, you can trust me, no go, before the headmaster tips them off"
And with that Harry scampers off under the cloak insearch of the 'temper and the book' hoping that Sirius is wrong. Miniutes later he finds them talking outside, and he cannot believe what he hears,
"I see that Potter has gone and got himself into trouble again, bloody idiot" says Ron, holding Hermonie's hand and stroking it, 'when the hell did that happen??' harry wonders,
"Yes, but Dumbledore has already told us that he will soon bind harry's will to his, making it safe to show how much we truly hate him, all the while still taking money from his vaults as payment" laughs Hermonie, "and when he doesn't show for Black's will reading, the headmaster will claim the whole lot and give us even more,"
"true, and then we'll be able to rub it in his face that we've been keeping our relationship a secret for 2 years now, it will destroy him, but it won't matter cause he'll end up dead anyways"
At this Harry's magic changed, becoming once more Umbrae's, as the cloak fly's off of him, he screams at the to "HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THAT, YOU USED ME FOR MY MONEY, AND ARE HOPING FOR MY DEATH, YOUR NO BETTER THAN THAT FILTHY RAT WHO BETRAYED MY PARENTS" and after seeing the shocked look on the two traitors faces, he begins to march down the street away from grimuld place,
"Harry wait!!" they both call only to be knocked unconsious due to an outburst in accidential magic from Umbrae, (A/N pretty much from this point on, Harry Potter is no more and will be refered to as Umbrae) he gets 2 blocks down the road before he is stopped by the last person in the wolrd he had wanted to see,
"and where do you think your going Potter?" sneered the greasy potions master,
"away from all of this, i've had enough, and I wish to never see any of you ever again," states Umbrae, walking around Snape,
"i think not you brat your going back to the headmaster, the wolrd does not revolve around you" he says, reaching out and grabbing Umbrae around the collar, Umbrae's reaction is instant, spinning around and facing him, he throws a puch in his face, "Back off Snivillus" he says after Snaps nose is broken, effectivly breaking his hold on the boy, Umbrae walks away, getting nearly ten paces away he is stopped when he hears, "Tangears" followed by a very familiar "HOOT!!" he spins around to see the dark bindings connect with his beloved owl, binding her in sickly looking wires and cutting into her flesh, Hedwig cry's out and struggles against the painful bonds but this only ensures her death, giving one last hoot and looking at her master, Umbrae rushes towards her as he see's her eye's gloss over and die,
"nononono, no HEDWIG!!, please, no" Umbrae cry's, already knowing its too late, he looks up to see Snivillus smiling evily at him,
"perhaps that will teach you a lesson" Umbrae glares at the man he now hates most when he jumps at hearing a Phoenix song, looking around till he spots hedwigs mody smoking he takes a step back just as it bursts into a dark flash of balck fire, and there sits a creature not seen since a thousand years before the time of merlin, a Dark Phoenix, the bird looks around and stares at the now even paler potions master, causing him to faint with panic, moments later Diaria appears before him.
"and now you must let Harry Potter die here, I will leave an exact replica of you and hedwig, making it look as if you commited suicide. N ow your Phoneix here will take you to that safe haven I mentioned, before,"
"m..my Phoenix?" Umbrae chokes out, looking as he did within his dream,
"yes dear one, your phoenix, now grasp her tail feather, and she will take you there, I will be along in a moment, after wiping the memory of her from this dispicial man,"
Umbrae only nods before holding onto the beautiful tail of what was apparently his phoenix, feeling the same lightness that fawkes usually gave off, but at the same time feeling a connection form between them, then the strange feeling of fire-travel before finding himself standing in an entrance all to what must be a huge castle,
"welcome Umbrae, to Tel'Maricus," smiles Diaria, before Umbrae passes out on the floor,
Waking up in what seemed to be a hospital ward, Umbrae first sight is of a pair of tennisball sized eyes, followed by a "Master! Master is being awake" the now identifiable house elf, "Master, how's is you feeling?"
"fine thank you," the now smiling Umbrae states, happy that his voice has returned to the stronger, deeper and much more powerful voice he remembered from his dream, "but I am forgetting my manners, my name is Umbrae, not master Umbrae, just Umbrae, whats yours little one?"
"Me Master Umbrae? I is being Cloddy, I is the main house elf of Tel'Maricus, and I is now getting your lunch," and with a sharp crack, cloddy disappears, and Diaria walks in through the main doors,
"hello umbrae, nice to see your up, are you feeling ok?" she asks in a concerned but gentle voice,
"i think i'm fin diaria, just felt drained and dizzy"
"yes, well, the magic that cause you and your Phoenix to bond and the fire-travel moments later were the cause of that,"
"i still can't believe that I have a Phoenix, what happened to hedwig?" harry asks, before turning to look at the head of his bed where the Dark Phoenix had perched, after singing a small note to umbrae, she launches herself into the air and flys around the room once, before landing on his outstreched arm,
"tell me umbrae, what do you feel?"
Umbrae looked from Diaria to the phoenix before concentrating, "i...i think she's trying to communicate with me, I keep hearing name being mentioned softly," he closes his eyes listening hard before smiling and looking at his companion, "Atamathea, thats her name," after saying that a small but brilliant flash of magic between the two seals the familiar bond.
"Well done umbrae, she is now you companion, she was, is hedwig, this is her in her true form, she was born an owl, but had the spirit of a phoenix held within her, had she died normally, she would have been just like any other phoenix, but she was killed saving her master, and died a painful and violent death, converting her spirit into that of a dark phoenix, much more stronger than any other,"
"wow, I always knew you were special girl, just didn't know it was that special," he strokes her chest feathers softly and looks at Diaria, "so where am I?"
"Tel'Maricus, it is the home of the Shadow Lords, this is where they lived and trained, prior to the traitor Kalusre'a, a minor lord, who desired the title of Shadow Master, a title long held by your family, at the time of it's inception, the Shadow Lords were the most powerful and the most feared amongst all, due to their unique gifts, they made the perfect assasin's, being able to strike at the very heart of they prey." she paused breifly, "your family has long been known to have 2 familiars, one for stealth and travel, one for protection and attack, the first being your bonded Phoenix, the second will come to you later, I cannont say much more,"
"ok, so I can train here, and live here, great, but there's only one problem,"
"whats that?" she asks,
"Sirius' will, the sole heir is harry potter, not me,"
"no, Sirius changed his will just before going to the Department of Mysteries, it reflects you as the sole heir to the black fourtune," she smiles, but for now, lets have lunch, and discuss your course of action for the day,
After a most filling lunch, Diaria turns to umbrae, "my time is limited here, and it's almost up umbrae, my job I guess you could call it is to act as a guiding spirit to your family. And now, after many years, I have seen that the Guild of Shadows time to return, has come, my final words to you umbrae, listen well, for I shall not visit ever again, such is the nature of my burden"
"it's ok Diaria, I understand, this is my path to walk," umbrae says with a determined look uon his face,
"very well, then I ncendiaria Prius, the First Phoenix and guide of the most noble and acient house of Black, charge you, Umbrae Orion Black, Family Nomen 'The Black Shadow of Orion' to rebuild the Guild of Shadows, to make a new motto for you house and the guild, and to cleanse the wizarding world of all evils that haunt it, so it is spoken, so mote it be" a dark and powerful beam shot out of Diaria and connected with Umbrae, who then speaks,
"i accept this charge and swear not to rest until it has been completed, so it is spoken, so mote it be" with this the dark power enters umbrae as he accepts his oath,
"not umbrae, a few final things before I leave, there is still enough time today to finish a few tasks, firstly you require a new wand, as your magic has changed your old wand will no longer be as useful to you, after going to Gringotts, come back to this alley, and seek out the store of the Crafter, when you enter you are to answer 'to be at one with my magic' and the Craftsman will help you with your new wand, after which you are to go to simple texts, walk up to the clerk in there and state queitly that you 'wish to read simple texts' and he will sell you tombes from the back of his store, you will know what you need, and finally, seek out the Blacksmith, ask her about the 'metals from the mother' and she will take it from there" she finishes with a smile, "whoops, nearly forgot, at Gringotts, walk up to a goblin and state 'the Shadow has been Cast, the Guild will return' and they will take you straight into the inheritance room,"
"ok, thank you for all your help, i'll never forget it" states Umbrae
"your welcome my friend, good luck with all thats to come, and don't worry, you won't be alone for very much longer" she says, smiling as she bursts into flame and dissapears,
"well, time to get to work" Umbrae gets up, and leaves, already being dressed, steps out onto Nockturn alley, "first, Gringotts, then...well no big plans as of yet..."
well, thats the new chapter, hopefully as good as the last, if not better, not everything has been explained from the first chapter yet, but that will come soon, and the mysteries from this chapter, and more, will be explained later, should keep you all on your feet,
Inumbratus
Caster of the Shadow