Harry Potter and the Prophecy of Shi.

A Harry Potter Crossover Fan-fiction by Sheya.

Chapter 05

Fledglings and Avatars
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When they heard the front door open Ron, Ginny, and Hermione ran downstairs, quietly, Ranma and Remus followed. When they reached the Hall everyone was saying 'Hi' being very quiet until, that is, Tonks saw Ranma and realized that he was too solid looking to be a ghost; she jumped, screamed, and crashed in to the umbrella rack, Dear Mrs. Black woke up, then the real screaming began. Ranma walked calmly into the hall.

"Sorry for startling you. I seem to do that a lot lately." Ranma apologized. Mrs. Weasley and Remus were trying to cover the portrait.

"...MUDBLOODS AND MONSTERS IN THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS..."

Tonks smiled sheepishly, all the other members of the Order stared at Ranma. "I'm Ranma."

"...STUPID SON COULDN'T EVEN STAY ALIVE..."

Ranma looked at the portrait as it went on getting nasty about Sirius, Harry was getting red faced with anger at what the portrait was saying. Ranma walked over to the portrait and gave it a glare... of course everyone noticed that his eyes were glowing in the semidarkness of the corridor even the painting. "SHUT UP!!!! Che- if you don't have anything nice to say get a life and find something nice to say. But then again you are a painting and they should be seen and NOT HEARD!"

By the end of his speech Mrs. Black had shut up and started cowering in the corner of her frame. And Ranma...? Ranma was glowing bright blue all over. "Thank you... gomen but you were giving me a headache."

Mrs. Black poked her head out of the corner as Ranma stopped glowing. "Who are you?"

"Ranma pleased to meet you." He then bowed to the painting.

Remus walked over from where he had been cowering. "He is your grandson."

"Such power..." The curtains closed and no more noise was heard from the painting.

As everyone started slowly getting up from various positions of hiding, well everyone except Harry and Ryoga, Tonks walked over to Ranma and Remus. "Never thought I'd see the day..." She stared at the portrait. "How'd you do it?"

"Ummm- well... What do you know about Ki?"

"Nothing."

"Ok, in that case. Ki means energy. There are three kinds of Ki that are used... as weapons or enhancers. KenKi is your fighting spirit; you use your emotions for it, it is also reffered to as Chi. ReiKi is your Spirit's power, Miko and monks usually use it, it should come naturally to people who have lots of it. YouKi is the Ki of Youkai, I suppose you would say non-humans or magical creatures; a Kappa for instance uses YouKi. I know that in this part of the world though Kappa and other Asian Youkai have lost a good portion of power and they have changed from what their Asian cousins are, unless they have kept to their roots and most humans, especially wizards never see them. I use KenKi I use the emotion of confidence so my Ki is blue."

"Mine used to be green for depression, but since I'm no longer depressed I can't use it anymore." Ryoga supplied. "I have to find a new emotion."

"Hey! P-chan when did you get to England?" Ranma waved at his friendly rival.

"About a week and a half ago." Ryoga hit Ranma on the head with his umbrella. "Don't call me P-chan." He then leaned his umbrella against the wall.

"Sure. Ok to get back as I said KenKi and YouKi are specific to certain groups. ReiKi is universal. So what I did was use my Ki to enhance and focus my magic thus intimidating the magic of the portrait in to backing down... I think I also scared you guys. It is however easier for wizards to learn Ki because magic essentially comes from your life force, but it is rarely used because of the Magic." Ranma then wandered into the kitchen "That's the basics... kinda."

"Very kinda, but a good explanation for something that's hard to explain." Ryoga sat down; Harry sat next to him and pulled Ranma to sit on Harry's other side. Molly served lunch as everyone else sat down.

"So, Remus what did you need to tell us that you did not want to write down?" Albus sat down at the end of the table helping himself to some lunch.

Remus looked at Albus startled then looked uncomfortable. "Well... I..."

"Let's start where Okasan started. What do you all know about the 'Gate of Judgement'?"

Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny all looked at each other and shrugged. The rest had varying degrees of surprise and sadness in their expressions.

"It kills. You can talk to spirits through it..." Moody trailed off.

"Ok- what do you know about the 'Gates of the Judged'?" Ranma looked thoughtfully at all the adults in the room.

"They were destroyed over three hundred years ago..." Tonks answered this time.

"So- no one knows the true story?"

"That is all there is to it." Moody snarled.

"Not exactly. There is more... much, much more."

"So, what is it?" Harry blurted out.

"When I first went to China to live, I was living with the People of Phoenix Mountain. That is where I first heard this story. When I left them, two months later, I went to live with the Musk."

"Then why were you living with the Amazons?" Albus asked.

"I have been adopted in to all the tribes of Jusendo."

"Then why did the Amazons allow you to go to the Musk first?"

"They flipped a coin the Amazons lost. However, I spent five months with the Musk and five more with the Amazons to learn. After those months I could live wherever I wanted, I have apartments in the Mountain and the Citadel, and Okasan has a house in the Amazon Village. I heard the rest of the story with the Amazons and Musk.

"The story is long so get comfortable, about seven thousand years ago a man decided that Wizards needed a justice system, but he did not want to use fallible humans he wanted a fair and impartial judge that was immune to lies and deceit. He searched and studied and tested and tried until he came upon the perfect, to him, system. He created five gates- one entered a parallel realm the others exited it. Anyone could enter the 'Gate Realm', as it was called, but only the 'Good' people could leave."

Harry and his friends looked confused but the rest had looks of concentration on their faces.

"This is an interesting story but what does it have to do with us?" Moody barked.

"I'm getting to that, try not to interrupt please. The entrance was called 'The Gate of Judgement' the exits were called 'The Gates of the Judged'. He found the perfect places to put them. The Gates were all put in different areas of the globe. The 'Gate of Judgement' was placed in what is today England. If there were no people living near the Gates then civilization sprung up around it; if there was already people there then they were asked to guard the Gates. One of 'The Gates of the Judged' was in what is now South America, another was in Egypt, a third was in Europe between what is now France and Germany, The last was in China... in Jusendo Valley. The Phoenix People of Phoenix Mountain Guarded it.

"His government was the early Ministry of Magic. The Gates were used as a trial system for law-breakers and supposed law-breakers. They were sent into the Gate. If they were Judged innocent they came out the other side... originally they were fine when they exited. However eventually they started coming out in variously stages of injury. The guilty did not exit, at first no one cared what happened to them but eventually they realized that something was going very wrong inside the Gate Realm. Therefore, they watched everyone who went into the Gate Realm. They realized that the guilty were being transformed into monsters that reflected what was in their hearts. They also found that those monsters were attacking anyone who had a chance of leaving the Gate Realm. Some of those attacked died from the attacks either in the Gate Realm or after they got out.

"The ones who were killed had their names cleared, the ones that were transformed were considered guilty as charged. They certainly had monsters in their hearts even if they never did anything evil. The ones who made it out were considered Heroes for they not only got out of the gate they got out through a gauntlet of death."

Ranma looked around the room again; he smirked when he noticed how everyone was hanging on his every word.

Albus saw that Ranma was taking a breather so he spoke, "I've never found this story, all the references to it have been destroyed. The Ministry did not want people to know what started them."

"Amazons and Phoenix People have a tendency to hang on to history and Kill all who would destroy it." Ryoga stated.

"But why does this have anything to do with us?" Harry asked.

"If you were a sixth year you would understand or you would at the end of sixth year." Remus replied.

"He will understand when I'm finished. About three hundred fifty years ago a Dark Lord wanted to get rid of the Gates. He could not reach the entrance, so he went to destroy the exits."

"And he destroyed them all!! So what's the point of this story?" Tonks interrupted.

"He destroyed all but the one in China, over the millennia, first the Amazons then the Musk started guarding the gate with the Phoenix People, that was the one thing they could agree on, guard the gate. The guards of the Gate, one from each tribe, wiped him out before he could get within ten miles of it."

"But then people who went in would come out again, right?" Tonks questioned.

"If they survive- yes. But, only if they survive. Moreover, in the later years of the judgement system most did not. Now since the closest gates have been destroyed you have to go half way around the world to get out. Only the strongest could survive that. That is why when the Dark Lord destroyed the Gates no one went to see what happened to him, they stopped using the gates and rejoiced that he never returned. In the past three hundred fifty years only one has survived the Gate Realm; the guards keep meticulous records descriptions, not names."

"What do you mean!?" Tonks stood up she also looked faint.

Harry looked around at the faces around him most of them had hope mingled with disbelief except for Remus and Ranma. Remus looked worried, Ranma was calm.

"What is the 'Gate of Judgement' called now?" Ranma simply asked.

"The 'Veil of Death'... because you can hear what the Ministry insists are the voices of the dead from within." Dumbledore answered.

"The voices you hear are the voices of the trapped ones the 'Gate Creatures' the ones who were transformed. How many people have gone through in the last three hundred fifty years?"

"About twenty all with varying power levels but none were extremely strong except one. Most of them went through because they were entranced by the voices in the Veil."

Harry sat staring at Ranma thinking about the implications of what had just been said.

"The person that has come through came through not even a week ago. And went through the Veil about a month and a half ago."

"That person is still alive?" Harry asked tentatively.

"Yes... Alive." Ranma smiled at Harry. Harry let out a whoop of joy.

"Remus? Who were you talking about earlier when I asked you why you looked happier?" Molly asked.

"I'm not sure... part of me was thinking about Sirius, but another part was thinking of Angela and the third part said that together they are a unit so it didn't matter."

"And in the end it still doesn't matter since they are both still alive." Ranma supplied.

"Ranma." Albus looked at the young martial artist with a larger then normal twinkle in his eyes. "What is the Phoenix Avatar?"

"The chosen champion of Saffron: God-King of Phoenix Mountain And God of Rebirth. Why?"

"Only another Avatar would know that."

"But, you knew that I knew because of Hiko my Phoenix."

"Albus, you have mentioned the Phoenix Avatar before..." Remus started.

"Yes. Saffron is a god, but his sanity is tied to a human. If the human dies so does Saffron's sanity. If Saffron dies before his Avatar his sanity dies too, then another potential Avatar comes along and brings him back to sanity."

"How?" Hermione asked speaking up for the first time.

"The potential Avatar is usually a powerful wizard or warrior. When he or she becomes the Avatar that person induces Saffron to use that which he is God of." Albus answered.

"Meaning the potential Avatar kills him to get him to be reborn. With a link to that person." Ranma elaborated.

"I defeated Saffron about fifty years ago... Shortly after I defeated Grindwald."

"About three years ago Saffron was killed by treachery, the traitors died in his rebirth but Saffron was still insane. About a year and a half ago I was asked by the Jusenko Guide and the Amazons to defeat Saffron. I did not know about the Avatar business at the time. I found out about that when I was asked to come back to China a little over a year ago... That is why I was living at Mt. Phoenix to learn about the Avatar Abilities." Ranma explained.

"The Order of the Phoenix was originally created, many centuries ago, by a Phoenix Avatar who was a wizard, however when he died, a warrior took his place and the wizards, not wanting to show themselves to a muggle disbanded. I found out about it while at Mt. Phoenix and reinstated it. Most Phoenix Avatars die of old age, but some die in battle, some live longer then the Saffron incarnation that they are Avatars for. Like I did. I was going to introduce this incarnation of the order to Saffron and his people before I died, however, now I'll introduce you to the next Avatar. Ranma meet the Order of the Phoenix, Order of the Phoenix meet Ranma. I can train Ranma to take my place. I never dreamed that I would be able to retire from this."

"You can't retire!! We need you!!" All the Phoenix members yelled.

"But, the leader of the Order of the Phoenix is the current Phoenix Avatar. I'm only in charge because I wanted to find and train the new Avatar." Albus explained.

Everyone sat in silence for a few moments when they were startled by giggling. They all looked around. However, it was Ranma who found the source.

"Botan! What are you doing here?"

"I missed you... You've been living in China for the past year and more. So I got leave to find you, but when I got to China they said that you went to England, so I came here to find you." The blue haired girl was wearing a pink Kimono and sitting on an Oar right inside the kitchen door.

"And how did you find us?!!? It should be impossible!!!!" Moody exclaimed standing up.

"But, Death can find even people under the Fidelus Charm. Nothing stops Death." Albus explained quietly.

"You're here for someone?" Tonks asked startled.

"Yeah! My boyfriend, Ranma!" The girl's oar disappeared and she landed on the ground in a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt that was when everyone noticed that up until that moment she had been transparent. Then she crossed the room and glomped Ranma.

"I'm not here because it's someone's time to die. Actually I haven't been on that assignment for a while... lately I've been helping Reikai Tantei." Botan explained. "That's how I met Ranma; he dropped literally in on one of our battles one day. Directly from the sky, he said he was kicked all the way from Nerima, and after meeting everyone, I can believe it."

"Yeah, Nerima is crazy Martial Artists, Tomobiki is crazy Aliens, And Juuban is sane but weird Magical Girls. You never know what you'll get in Tokyo."

"I think that Nerima is more like 'Insanely Super Powerful, Crazy Martial Artists, With Sometimes Really Insanely Stupid styles'."

"Glad I got away before I completely lost my sanity."
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Here is also the next cameo... or is that the first cameo? And some honorable mentions.

Another Revision
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