Harry blinked his eyes open and looked up. Instead of the black night sky, he awoke to a brilliant blue sky, with no clouds in sight. He got up and stretched his limbs, then noticed he wasn't wearing his dress robes. Instead, Harry was in a strange black robe with sandals on his feet. "Where am I?"

"I-I dunno." Harry turned and saw Dudley wearing a matching robe and sandals. All around; Ron, Joe, Draco, Kari, and Takuya were waking up.

~Why are we in kimonos?~ Takuya asked.

~What's a kimono?~ Harry wondered.

~A-and why are we talking in Japanese?~ Dudley asked, barely able to keep up with the others.

"Oh sorry."

Finally, all seven were awake and looking at their surroundings. Nearby was, according to Ron, a temple.

"How do you know that?" Takuya asked.

"Henry."

"What?"

"Oh, Ron's developed some strange powers. And I don't know how to say this but… well Tai died taking down Kaskana." Harry explained.

Everyone walked over to the temple and were greeted by an old man. Though Ron couldn't hear what was being said, he was able to listen to the thoughts of everyone.

~Greetings travelers, welcome to my humble dojo. Have you come to learn the ways of Bushido?~

~Yes teacher.~

With that, the group was led in to a large room with a few students doing exercises with weapons and hands. The teacher quickly realized Ron had no knowledge of the language and Dudley had very little so he handed both off to another student who promptly led them away to learn. Harry's appearance had been ignored and he was simply sent to learn fighting stances along with Takuya. The rest of the group was sent to learn breathing exercises. (A.N. Due to the location, the dominant language has shifted to Japanese. As such, English will now be written as a foreign language in the S shaped brackets and Japanese will be written in quotations.)

Harry stood proudly in the center of the main hall of the Dojo. He wore a white gi (A.N. Gi is a training uniform) with a green belt with a white stripe and had his goggles dematerialized. Across from him was Takuya, again in a gi and white striped green belt. It had been many weeks and the natural fighting abilities of the Valkyrie had given them an edge. At an unforeseen signal, both leapt at each other.

"Kee-yah!" Harry yelled, kicking Takuya. The other boy dodged and countered with a hand, using it to grab Harry's arm and throw him off balance. Harry rolled out and then leapt back in, making his left hand into a sort of mouth which he used to rake Takuya's shoulder.

Ron was sparring with another student, practicing some moves he had learned over the weeks while Dudley was coming off another sparring session. Kari and Joe were over in another room learning first aid and Draco was working with a training dummy. While Dudley had gone into the training a poor fighter, he had quickly gained and his size had given him a slight edge. Occasionally, the dojo had been attacked but everyone was able to defend it with ease.

"Halt!"

"Yes master!" Harry and Takuya bowed at each other and then sat down on their knees, facing their Sensei.

"You have done well and I have decided that you deserve katana. It is my honor to present these to you." With that, their sensei gave them blades that curved slightly. However, the boys had no time to celebrate as the dojo faded and in its place was the Great Hall of Hogwarts.

"What is going on?"

"I don't know."

~Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Dursley, Mr. Kido, Mr. Kanbara, Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Kamiya! You're alive!~

The group looked at each other and noticed they were back in their dress robes, even the katana vanishing.

"Wha, are we back?"

With that, everyone switched back to English. "Professor, what's going on?" Harry asked.

Professor McGonagall could finally understand them. "You vanished into thin air three days ago."

"Three days? But we were-"

~Don't say it Harry.~

"We were just running out to deal with something when suddenly we found ourselves here." Harry corrected.

Without a word, the group retreated to the outside. Each person knew that it had been weeks but for some reason it had only been days. They wandered by the lake and took in the castle. ~We should have classes tomorrow if we were only gone for three days.~ Harry mused.

~It was strange, all of a sudden we were in Japan and then we were back here? ~ Dudley questioned.

~I don't know. Was it Aodhan's doing?~ Takuya wondered.

~If that's so, how could we have come back?~ Kari asked.

Harry's head shot up. ~I have that strange feeling again.~

Sure enough, the lake melted away only to be replaced by the dojo.