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 2015-03-10: Fixed several errors & mistakes I seemed have missed.

Update 2018-03-24: Now rewritten.

Update 2018-03-27: Slightly changed the ending.

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Chapter 5 - Homunculus

Rhy couldn't help but smile to herself as she inspected the contents of the two large cultivation chamber in of her, with the constant and rhythmic beeping from a heart monitor nearby as background music. Through the glass one could see two deeply slumbering girls, clad only in their birthday suit and floating in some kind of an amber-colored, translucent liquid, with their long hair floating around them like a halo. From what Rhy could see so far they seemed to be identical in every detail, bar their coloring. They appeared to be around thirteen or sixteen years old. They seemed to be the sort whom you can somewhat tell what age they were, but also still retained that 'cute smallness' that makes them look much younger as well.

Although what caught Rhy's attention the most was the area along their necks, spines, and lower back, which were covered in tough scales with a horny, translucent texture. The scales were pentagonal, and shaped like a teardrop, with two long sides and two shorter ones, and a very short fifth side attached to the skin. Each of the scales was overlapping each other very neatly and they fit into each other in a way that seemed to allow perfect freedom of movement. A long slender dragon tail could also be seen protruding from the bottom of their spine.

It had taken them over three months to reach this point, after carefully studying the Flamel's notes. They had made them using a pair of young house elf twins (volunteers belonging to House Potter) as bases. Hermione had violently rejected the idea at first but been reluctantly brought around by the elves insistence, willingness, and eagerness.

Along with the elves, they each had added an ingredient each to the mix. Rhy had added whatever was left of the thousand-year-old basilisk that she had slain in their second year. While Ginny had added the carcass of a Chinese fireball who died of old age, which she had managed to obtain through their brother Charlie. And Ron had added a pair salamander, and Neville had added a few ashwinder eggs. While Luna, keeping the reptile theme going, had added some creature she called a fairy dragon, it had been roughly the size of a butterfly or a dragonfly. Looking somewhat like a really small lizard that was slender and light, with four reptile-like limbs and two pairs of insect-styled wings, similar to that of a dragonfly.

According to Luna, they were the smallest of all dragon species, associated with insects and the fae. They apparently shared many traits with fairies, such as a trickster nature and a fondness for sweet foods. She also told them that the reason that most didn't know about them, was because finding a fairy dragon was hard. But was easiest find at flower beds, as they were fond of fine-smelling flowers. Although unfortunately, due to their tiny size, they were often mistaken for common insects.

Rhy's also added a pint of her own blood to the mixture. A single tear a phoenix, which had been freely given, had also been added to the mix. Well, it had been more like Fawkes just suddenly appeared one day, many years of absence. The Phoenix had disappeared shortly after Dumbledore's death, and no one had really seen him since then until then that is. While everyone had still to surprised by his sudden appearance, Fawkes had flown to the tanks contain their still-in-progress homunculi. He then cried a single tear into each tank, only to then disappear as suddenly as he appeared, leaving Rhy & Co shocked, stunned, and not mention more than a little confused.

Rhy was drawn from her musings when a loud high-pitched pinging sound erupted from the tanks in front of her, signifying that the cultivation chambers were now done. With a growing excitement, she began tapping on a few buttons on a nearby console, making it so the liquid in started to drain. It would be quite interesting to see what the results of this would be.

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The next had been dedicated to run every test could they could think of on the newly created homunculi. It seemed that they were still biological twins and that thanks to the blood that Rhy had added, they were also something like sisters to her too, but not as close as they were to each other. And, like Rhy, they were immune most too toxins, venoms, poisons, drugs, and potions in the same degree she was. Although their blood didn't seem to affect anyone the way Rhy's blood did. They also seemed almost impervious to fire and heat, along with that seemed have been blessed with an amazing recovery rate, through their mixed blood.

While did not have much in terms of magical strength, they were surprisingly sturdy, for someone being so delicate looking. They had also discovered their scales were somewhat magic resistant and hard really hard to scratch, along with having high resistant to kinetic any kind of kinetic damage. Although this seemed to only apply to their scales. The twins also have gained some kind of natural defenses against of mind magic. The best they could be described as, was like their mind was both was and wasn't there, whenever anyone was trying to read it. And if anyone tried to break into their mind through sheer force alone, the thing Rhy could liken it to was like sticking a paper clip in an electric outlet.

Their bodies were lithe and petite bodies, with beautiful skin and just enough bumps to extenuate their figure. They had slim, powerful legs, that was surprisingly long for some of their stature. Their chests, while far more significant than Rhy's own, was also not all that large in their own right. Although, while they were on the smaller side of things, they seemed to be well-formed and well suited for their more petite build.

They also had quite the impressive lung capacity, along with an ridiculous physical strength, for someone that small. Not to mention, a lot of stamina. And now that they were awake, and Rhy had been able to confirm, that they were certainly beautiful by any regular definitions. With hair let down, flowing freely behind their backs with bangs hovering in front of a heart shaped and youthful face that clearly did not belong to someone from Britain. Their ear was more pointed and leaf-shaped than any human ones. While their eyes were keen and bright, angular in shape with vertical slits as pupils and long inviting lashes.

The first of the twins, was a girl with bright silver hair and beautiful porcelain skin, along with glistening ruby eyes. Her scales were pale golden in color, only a shade or two darker than white, and seemed to have a soft tint of pale red, that was very subtle, giving it a slight pinkish hue, depending on how the light fell on them. They gave her the name Ena, it was an Irish name meaning bright and shining.

In terms of appearances alone, the other girl was a perfect mirror image of Ena, except she had tanned skin and silvery pink hair. She also had stunning golden eyes with a light reddish tint to them. While her scales were several shades darker and had much more red in them. She was named Kerry, which was Gaelic name meaning the dark one.

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After all the check-ups on the twins were done, they were each given a tattoo and amulet similar to the one Rhy had. Then after a shopping trip to give them a wardrobe of their own, it was time to give thee girls some armor and weapons like Rhy had. First, the twins were led into a huge storage room. A large bookshelf covered the far end of the wall, with dusty old tomes and scrolls filling it too the brim. Barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders filled the shelf; woods, horns, scales, furs, and skins lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, snarled claws, gnarled roots, and great lengths of hair hanging down from the rafters.

They were then given a bag each and told too put anything they could feel call out too them in it. These would then later be used to construct their wands. After an hour of searching and exploring, they were all done and handed their bags to Hermione. The plan was while Hermione and the guys were making the twins wands, the rest of the girls would design and create the twins weapons and armor. The first of which had been a mask similar to the one Rhy had.

Their overall shape was a bit rounder and more tapered to a sharp point, somewhat resembling bird skulls instead. Their masks had also bump on top, but it covered up the entire top part of their head, though they still left their hair to come out the back of their head. It covered their cheeks and their ears. With the cheeks designed too make the masks look bulkier and more intimidating then Rhy's.

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Kerry's armor consisted of a short black top that could best be described as a glorified sports bra, and what looked like a pair black biker shorts, showing a lot of skin on her midriff and legs. Along with that, she wore a what at the first glance looked like a crimson overcoat with a rather simple design. The top half of it extended to her wrists and looked like a jacket, but the lower half billowed around her legs like a cape or a skirt. On her feet, she wore a pair black thigh high steel-capped army boots, with studs underneath their rugged soles for a better grip. All her armor carried the same kind charms that Rhy's armor did. Most of her hair had folded into a loose knot at the back of her head, which was secured by a pair of long simple black hairpins.

Like Rhy, Kerry had been given a pair of wands, one for regular day to day use and one spare, to use whenever disguised. Her primary wand was made out of heartwood an ebony tree, an augury feather as a core. While her other wand was made out of laurel and ash wood, with unicorn hair and basilisk horn as its cores. Kerry had also been given a pair of small gun blades. The gun blades, were essentially a pair of convertible revolver-sickles, with the ability to quickly transform between three different modes. It was an ingenious integration of sword, sickle, and firearm into a single weapon, which was equally capable of dispatching enemies at any range.

The whole construction and the design of the blades were unique, which was loosely based on a falx. They had an ornately etched base with dark red grips; a thin, somewhat long, curved silver blades, with a thick black line running up their center. By default, they are a pair of revolvers that fire incredibly fast, enough to clear out enemies before any of them could move. She could also deploy them as blades to fight in melee combat, or extend them using chains attached to their respective handles like kusarigamas to fight from mid-range

They could be loaded with two types of bullets. One was armor piercing shrapnel rounds, made from blessed silver. The other was simple paintball bullets, that hurt like a bitch when they hit. The paint bullets were filled with bright fluorescent paint, that glowed in the dark and had quite a strong and distinct smell, that was long lasting and really hard to wash away or cover up.

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Ena's armor was very loosely based on the Arthurian legends and consisted of a long white skirt with a pink corset top with a silver chest plate, gauntlets and boots along with armor plating on her thighs and her hair would be held up in a high ponytail with a black ribbon.

Like her sister, Ena had been given two wands. One was made the heartwood of a aspen, with the tail hair from a kirin as its core. While the other one was made out of pine and hawthorn, having horned serpent horn and thunderbird tail feather as its cores. The former was the one was the one she had chosen as her primary one.

Also just like both of her sisters, she also got a sword. Its basic structure was that of a western longsword with a length of 35" and a width of 5", and it has golden runes inscribed on the silver blade. The blade itself is straight and double-edged, without any fuller or riser. It had a cruciform shaped hilt and minimalist pommel design. The guard and grip was obtuse concave in shape, with blue enameling on the guard, stylized cross on the langet.

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More months passed, and as the autumn frost slain July, the countryside was ablaze in color. They gathered at Stone Henge to make use of the natural magical focal point that this place was. As everything was being prepared, Rhy and the twins checking and rechecking all their equipment and belongings one last time. When everything was said and done, and everyone was in their places, the ritual started. Time passed, as more and more power was gathered and focused in and around the circle. But wasn't until when the ritual was nearly complete, that something disastrous happened, something that never should happen in the first place, especially in a situation like this. Someone stuttered and mispronounced, time seemed to have stopped for a moment and even the world seemed to hold its breath.

A thunderous boom then echoed throughout the air and put them all on edge.

Then a massive explosion occurred, along with a most amazing light show anyone of them had ever seen, as all hell broke loose. The wind roared and raged, as the earth shook and trembled, all while time and space became twisted and distorted all around them.

When everything had calmed down, all they found was a smoking crater and scorched ground where they once stood and nothing more. They found that several had been severely wounded, along with several seemed have been ripped apart, whilst others had been knocked unconscious. A few seemed to even have mysteriously vanished into thin air. They did not know how many had died during this great upheaval.

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TBC

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