The Fellowship of the Fox

by Ryuuohjin

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Disclaimer - I do not in any way own Harry Potter or any of its world or characters.

They all fully belong to J.K. Rowling and her affiliates.

Update 2015-06-01: Fixed several errors & mistakes I seemed have missed, and changed some minor things.

Update 2018-03-23: Significantly rewritten.

Update 2018-03-24: Changed Rhy's weapons, along with corrected some mistakes I had missed before.

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Chapter 4 - Battle Preparations

As Harry was coming to grip with his new abilities and limitations, and all papers concerning the life and birth Rhy Majorette Raps, where given their final check. He now a new fully viable identity in both the magical and the muggle world. With everything completely legal looking birth certificate, medical records, and passports. Along with a deep believable family history, that could fool anyone, as long as they didn't look too deep into it.

He was once again laying in bed lost in within his thoughts, not noticing the door to the room open, nor did he notice Ginny and Luna entering the room. Seeing that Harry seemed wide awake, but lost far way in his thoughts. They stopped and watched him for awhile, but when he showed no signs of being aware their presence, Luna leaned forward and gently blew into one of his furry ears.

The effect was immediate, as Harry snapped his head around a surprised, but quite a cute expression adorning his face. When he saw it was just Luna and Ginny behind her, he relaxed almost immediately. His expression then switched by to a thoughtful one.

"How long have you been here?" he then asked after a moment.

"Just a little while," Ginny answered while starting to pick out some clothes for their friend turned into a little girl. "We came to wake you up, only to find you lost in your own little world."

"So what were you thinking so deeply about then, Harry," Luna said as she started to undress him. "Was it something in particular or was it just some of your usual brooding."

"HEY!" Harry protested indignantly. "I change clothes by myself, you know."

"Of course we know that," Luna replied but didn't stop her undressing. "We just want to speed up the process, as you know we still have much to do."

"I know," Rhy sighed as he resigned to his fate from now. "And I wasn't brooding."

"So there, now that you're dressed, let's get you some breakfast, then we can start with today's meeting," Ginny stated after they finished helped to dress him.

During the meeting, after some long and sometimes hard discussions, several decisions had been made. The first being, that since the identity of Rhy Rasp now of officially existed in full capacity, Harry, from now on, would go under that name and that they would start to refer to him as a girl he now was. Despite a few protests from Harry, as they all thought he really needs to get used to being referred too by them. No point only doing that when he was in the past.

The second being, something they had long pondered and hard on. It was how they would distribute out the many things they crafted throughout the years. Like the specially designed wands and holsters for all who had joined the DA. They had decided to make the wands and holsters because, the first part in their plan was to arm their generation better, and that started with their wands, with some exceptions for Marietta Edgecombe and Zacharias Smith. Marietta Edgecombe had betrayed the group the whole group in their fifth year, showing she really couldn't be fully trusted. Zacharias Smith was another story, as he had run away to save himself when push came to shove, meaning he couldn't be really be relied on.

The DA's wands and holsters were blood bound and had been personalized as much as they possibly could for each person. They only used magical wood that had been obtained from various dryads, with an additional core of small braid of their own hair that had been soaked in their blood, along with their birthstones for amplification and foci. Making it so no one but the person they had made it for would able fully use it. The next was the holsters, they would be made with many intricate sets of runes engraved on them. Making the holsters more comfortable, auto-fitting, and completely unnoticeable to anyone else, along with anything inside them. They would also make it so that no one, besides the owner, could summon the holster or anything in it. There were also runes sets that that granted the wearer protection against any hexes, charms, jinxes or curses that either controlled or manipulated a person mind, will or emotions. It would also help to ward against most forms of passive legilimency.

They had also decided to go with the idea of creating a shop, as a front for the base they had planned in Diagon Alley. Since the Potters owned several buildings in the Alley, they would use one of the empty ones, which they would ward to the teeth. The only problem with their idea was that the shop wanted to have it guarded by a pair of homunculi. The problem lied in that only an alchemist really knew how to create one. And the only alchemists they knew about was the Flamel's, they knew the Flamel's were alive, but they didn't know much more than that.

The shop would serve two purposes, one was having a to give out the things they had created. The other would give them a safe hideout, and passage in and out the Alley. They had planned to connect the shop with a room in Potter Manor, which would be their base of operations in the past. While a golem may also serve that purpose as well, a homunculus would the job much better. The difference between them was like using a robot or a human for it, as that was basically what they were.

A golem was something, often a statue or similar, that had been reanimated using a lot of magic. They only followed whatever orders that had been inscribed during their creation. It was like a computer program, the more complex things you wanted the golem to do, the more complex the orders had to be. A homunculus, on the other hand, was an artificially made being, of then humanoid in form. These were very rare as so few know how to create one, the only thing know about their creation was that deep knowledge in alchemy was needed. Which was something that they had found quite surprisingly few texts about.

The last thing that they had been decided was the need to split up their work task from now on. The first group, consisting of Ron, Neville, and Hermione, would look for any information regarding the Flamel's and the creation of homunculus. The second group, consisting of Ginny, Luna, and Harry, they would create and design any weapons and armour Harry would use in the past, along with making new wands for all six of them.

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Ronald Weasley was currently in a quite the bad mood, as he had been on this search for weeks, and he still had no clues on where to find the Flamel's. While all the records at both Gringotts and the Ministry showed that they were alive, but neither had any valid address registered. They had even sent one of the Longbottom house elves and a postal owl, each with a letter explaining what they needed and why they needed it to the Flamel's. But that been a few days ago, and so far neither had been heard from since.

He was currently going through some of the personal journals that Albus Dumbledore had left behind at Hogwarts, in hope that they may contain any hints, leads, or clues that could help track the Flamel's down. It seems that Dumbledore had found the Flamel's by following their paper trail they left when they last had changed their identity. Neville was currently out trying to do the same. Hermione, on the other hand, was still out searching for any text about the creation of homunculus. They had agreed to rendezvous at Longbottom manor in two weeks time, to show what present whatever findings they had.

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The first problem that Rhy's group had encountered creating all the equipment Rhy may need in the past was how she would carry it around. As constantly wearing weapons and armour all the time, it wasn't really practical, not to mention it would draw a lot of attention to the girl. Which were something they wanted to avoid. But they still wanted her to somehow always have access to it, so just leaving it behind while she didn't need it wasn't the like either.

They had decided she would need something that was inconspicuous and discreet, while also easy to carry around. Something no would suspect it. Something would be easy to deny and would be hard to prove. It should be hard to be forgotten, misplaced, dropped or lost like a jewelry or some other trinkets; and preferably take up as little space as possible. They pondered on this problem long and hard. Many ideas had been tossed back and forth, till finally when they decided to use a magical tattoo.

Which was why a tattoo was now sported on Rhy's back. It was a true marvel magical craftsmanship and ingenuity. The tattoo covered her entire lower back and was quite masterfully made. It portrayed the Rasp crest, with the family motto on a banderole under. The tattoo was scarlet in colour and glittered like rubies when the light hit it, a pretty bit of magic had been poured into it.

Unlike a normal which was just a picture imprinted on the skin. This tattoo was made up of lots and lots very small runes, that had been etched into the skin. Which together formed the desired image. The runes that were etched into Rhy's skin created a personal sub-space pocket, which only she could access. They also allowed her to summon and banish things, from and to the pocket at any time she wanted. It also incorporated a switching spell, which switched what she currently was wearing with that of her armour and later switched back to what she had been wearing before.

But what they considered their greatest achievement as of yet, was making the tattoo completely operated by solely through thought commands. All it took was for Rhy was to concentrate on what she wanted and she would get it. The backside was, they had no way to check the pocket for any sort of inventory. Which meaning if Rhy put something in the pocket and then forgot about it, then that would be as good as lost. The tattoo was fuelled by Rhy's own magic, so whenever she either summoned, banished or switched her something, a small amount of her magic would be used. It currently only contained her armour and her weapons.

The inspiration for Rhy's armour had been taken from the stories of the samurai of the far east. It consisted of a white and purple kimono that transitioned into a tutu skirt. The kimono was protected with a black breastplate and ornate shoulder guards. With that, she would wear blue dark blue guards on her arms. While her skirt held up by a purple decorated with a pink flower. She would also wear thigh-high greaves protected with black knee guards, with white socks underneath that. A large dark purple ribbon would keep her hair in a long ponytail, and keep it out of her way.

The last in her assembly would be a quite distinctive and fearsome full-face mask. It covered her entire face and the top of her head, making it look more like a helmet. It was white with four eye slits, further enhancing their inhuman appearance. The slits were black and red inside, with Rhy's eyes visible through the lower slits. Its overall shape is rounded and tapers to a sharp point, vaguely resembling a vulpine skull. It also had a bump on top and covers up most of top part of her head leaving her hair to come out the back of her head. It also covers some her cheek, making it look somewhat bulkier and a bit more intimidating. The mask served three different proposes:

The first was to simply to act as a face guard, protecting her face from any spells, weapons, or stray debris.

The second was to help hide her identity and to do that they also added charms that would distort her voice. Making it deeper, rougher, darker, and raspier than before. It would be a bit more animalistic, along with gain a growling timbre to it, that it didn't have before.

The final function of the mask was to help in battle, as had same charms Moody's eye had, along with filtering any air that passed through it.

Rhy's weapons consisted mainly of a pair of wands and their own version of a katana. It had a slightly curved, slender, single-edged silver blade that 24", and grip long enough to accommodate two hands, but could also be used one handed. Curling oak leaves form the guard, and the pommel has two oak leaves curled together.

For her wands, two had been created, one for her normal day to day use, while the other was for she would be disguised. The first wand would her old holly wand as a base, in that they had incorporated some yew wood they obtained from an ent, along with the heartstring from the basilisk in the chamber of secrets as a core. It was quite a powerful wand, especially compared to the other wand that and been created, which why this would be her secondary wand.

The other wand made from the heartwood of a Banyan tree, which had been freely given to them from a dryad they had befriended in India some years ago. It had two cores in this wand that was kind of unique, but she had been quite unsure if they would work as wand cores. The first braid, was some hair from herself as a human and a kitsune, only taken from before the ritual. They had been soaked in blood also taken from herself as a human and kitsune before the ritual. The second braid was the same, only taken after the ritual. While it had worked the wand itself was somewhat lacking in terms of power, but compatibility had gone up quite a bit.

After they done with all the stuff for Rhy may need, they the wands for the rest of their group. Starting with Hermione's wand, made out of walnut and beech with sphinx tail hair as a core. While Ron's wand was made from larch and blackthorn and had a Jobberknoll feather as a core.

And Neville got a wand made of cherry wood and cedar, that had a Diricawl feather as a core,

Ginny had made her wand out of hornbeam and red oak, choosing veela hair as a core. While Luna's wand, on the other hand, was as unique as the person who had crafted it.

Unlike the others, she had used three types of wood to craft her wand. It was made of mistletoe, holly, fir, with intricate inlays of reindeer horn from a reindeer in the handle. While the shaft had delicate inlays of myrrh and frankincense along it, which ended in a small golden star at the top. She too had two cores in her wand. The first was hair freely given to her by an elf, the second was a hair from a portly old fae with a great white beard. At least that was what Luna had said. Neither Rhy nor Ginny hadn't dared to argue with her, as they felt like they would lose something if they did. They didn't know what exactly, but they thought it was better not risk it, just in case it was something important.

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As Neville was wandering through halls of the ancient ancestral of home of the Longbottom family, when a house elf popped up to inform him that Hermione and Ron had arrived, and was currently waiting for him in the main lounge. The meeting had, as expected, showed no results, and whilst they were in discussing what do next, another house-elf appeared carrying an owl and a package. They quickly recognized them both, as they were the ones they had sent after the Flamel's.

While everyone was being surprised at their arrival, the owl took off from the elf and landed in front Neville. When the owl had landed and then proceeded to stretch out its leg, it was then Neville saw the letter that was attached there and reached for it. When he saw it was addressed to them, he quickly ripped it open started to read it.

It seems to be from the Flamel's. They said while they were sorry they couldn't meet in person, but they had given the elf copies of all the notes and research they had done on homunculi and their creation. After reading the letter through once again, Neville then handed it over to the others, while he went to check over the package the house elf was carrying.

He was soon joined by Ron and Hermione as they finished reading the letter for themselves, and after having confirmed the contents of the package, they quickly the owl with a short note that summarized what had just learned.

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TBC

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