Hope you liked the first two chapters. They were just set ups, now the real fun starts. Many odd and interesting people will come to train this group. There will be some harsh and disturbing imagery and the group will not be all good when they return. I'm just warning you.
As the group exited their final plane flight in Las Vegas, Hermione went to the car rental desk and rented a car and driver. Ron, meanwhile, was trying to figure out how to get a soda out of the drink machine. Everyone else started cracking up when he tried talking to it. Harry finally stopped him when he was about to blow it up.
By then the car had arrived and the group departed for the house. They drove for about twenty minutes and pulled into a large mansion set up on a cliff side. The driver pulled into the drive and let them off on the steps. He deposited their luggage by the steps and drove off.
The group walked up the steps and cautiously entered the front door .Inside they found a huge ten bedroom mansion that had every luxury they could think off. Harry immediately started levitating things they wouldn't need into one room. After finishing that lengthy task, he sat down on the couch in the main room.
As everyone else sat down, Harry sighed and said, "Okay guys, we need to start training immediately. The first thing we need to become proficient at is martial arts and Muggle weapons. Voldemort used vampires last war and they aren't affected by magic. We need to be prepared to fight them and any other threats that we don't know about. Griphook has arranged for our first trainer to be here early tomorrow morning."
Hermione meanwhile was reading the information on the house that Griphook had given them. As Harry had been talking, Hermione had come across an interesting tidbit in the file. She stood up and walked over to the large glass window overlooking the cliff side. She waved her wand over the main glass panel and a door way opened into a hall.
Harry and the others quickly jumped up and moved to the doorway. Nevill pulled his wand out and cast Lumos. Everyone followed suit and proceeded into the hallway slowly waving their wands around to check for anything threatening.
Hermione was moving along the wall and found a switch. She tapped it and the lights came on in the room. Everyone blinked and Ron started to see first. They found themselves in a large room, easily the size of the Quidditch pitch as Hogwarts. Lining the walls of the room were Muggle weapons and dummies. Harry walked over to the weapons rack and picked up a sword .hefting it in his hand. Meanwhile, Hermione moved to the gun rack and lifted off a P90, expertly sliding in a clip and racking back the slide. She aimed it at the nearest dummy and fired three burst into it. Ron ducked down, looking at Hermione in shock. Neville, Harry, and Luna were just as dumbfounded.
Hermione just laughed and shrugged, "My parents sent me to military camp after fourth year. I picked up a few things. Jeez, guess a girl can't fire a gun anymore."
Everyone just laughed and they left the room. Ron asked, "Hermione got any more surprises for us? Is my bed going to port key me to Portugal or something?"
Hermione checked the folder again and didn't see anything. Hermione replied, "Let's see Ron. The fridge is a portkey to Hogwarts, the toilet takes you to Durmstrang, and the garden is actually a breeding ground for Devil's Snare."
Ron almost fainted where he was standing, but caught the joke as everyone else burst out laughing. Harry laughed so hard he fell to the floor. Ron proceeded to flick everyone off and walk up the stairs to his room. Everyone else composed themselves and quickly followed suit. Five minutes later, everyone was comatose in their own beds.
Harry was the first awake in the morning and decided to make breakfast for everyone. He found that since he wasn't at the Dursley's and had to cook, he quite enjoyed it. Luna entered the kitchen about twenty minutes later and took a seat across the island from where Harry was cooking.
Harry finished and set a plate in front of Luna, who still just sat there. When Harry sat down across the island from her, she asked, "Harry, are you sure you want to do this? This training may lead us too deep into the dark arts. I will follow you, as will the others, on whatever you decide. I'm just afraid that this will destroy our humanity."
Harry sat there for a minute before replying, "I'm afraid this might destroy my humanity too, but I know it has to be done. Having you four here with me will be the only thing that does keep me human. If I did this by myself, at the end I would be worse than Voldemort. Everyone deserves love and that's what the having us together will allow each other. I hope that we can all just know that what we are doing is for the best."
Luna nodded thoughtfully and hugged Harry. She said, "That is what I wanted to hear Harry. I know you will never be able to become the next Voldemort."
As Luna finished, everyone else entered and sat down to breakfast. Hermione looked quizzically and Harry and Luna, but sat there and ate her breakfast quietly. Ron, as usual, wolfed down as much as he could. Neville just sat there and picked at his food. As Harry was starting to do the dishes, the doorbell clanged and Hermione went to answer it. She came back with a man, who looked in his late twenties. He looked them over quickly, and introduced himself as Chris Wright.
He then said, "Well, Griphook contacted me yesterday and said you needed a trainer in martial arts. I graduated from the Salem Institute of Witchcraft in New Orleans. I've worked with Albus Dumbledore a couple times. He actually was actually going to have me come train you this year, but as he has passed on… this will have to do. Now shall we get started?"
Harry replied, "Sure, follow me. We have a room that is perfect to train in."
Chris followed them out and into the training room. He looked over everything in the room carefully, and nodded in approval over the weapons and supplies they had. He tossed each a practice sword and said, "Okay, now we are going to see if you have any skills. All of you attack me."
Harry twisted the sword between his hands, imitating the Star Wars movies he had recently fallen in to love with. Hermione also held back as Ron, Neville, and Luna rushed into attack him.
Chris dodged Ron's slice, tapping his sword out of his hand and hitting him with the flat edge of his sword. Neville tried to knock the sword out of Chris's hand as he went to hit Ron, but Chris kicked the sword out of Neville's hand and used wand less magic to pin Neville to the wall. Luna grabbed Neville's sword as it flew by and swung both down at Chris as he blocked the downswing and then took Neville's sword back from her. Luna was surprised at this; Chris took the small opportunity to disarm her and pin her next to Neville.
He then faced Harry and Hermione, waiting for their attack. Harry moved to one side as Hermione moved to the other. They both moved to attack Chris at once and Chris apparated away. They ended up attacking each other, with Harry getting the worst. He got smacked in the head with the practice sword while Hermione only got hit in the leg by Harry's sword, making her fall to the ground.
Chris laughed from one of the corners and summoned all the swords to him. Everyone stood up and Chris said, "Now do you see why you need training? I just disarmed five of the best wizards in their year. I will be training you to fight as well as I do. Now each of you grab a sword and we will get started.
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