(A/N All Harry Potter characters belong to JKR I'm just having fun with them)

Chapter 7

Harry watched as Owen cleared the brush, transfiguring the dense scrub into sand. Camp was roughly a square, that was 100 feet across, and a pad of smooth ground. The tents sprang up quick, a large one in the middle that Harry helped set up, for the kitchen and medical area, Ian's fancy tent was just behind it and the rest in a circle around those. Bill had his tent setup in a flash, and Harry ducked in to place his and Bills trunk inside. Dobby was traveling inside the tent, apparently it stayed the same packed or setup and, he took them into the bunk room, which was a door located on the back wall, of the main room, and to the left side. It had three sets of bunk beds, lined up in a row, and nothing else making it very utilitarian. The main room held a grey couch and chair, in a sitting section, and table with four chairs in a small kitchenette off to the side. Another door led to a small bath which was on the back wall and to the right. All in all, it was basic but serviceable.

"Is we there Harry Potter sir? Can Dobby start cooking now?"

"Yes and yes, come on I'll show you to the kitchen." The little elf followed behind Harry as he turned right around and went to the Big Tent.

"Something quick and easy but enough for nine, I'll be in to help soon as I can. Ian wants a meeting soon as everyone is set up."

"OK Harry sir, chicken soup, coming up," Dobby had already jumped into motion. As Harry approached Bill, Ian was lining him out on the perimeter wards.

"I'm on it, Ian. Hey Harry, come on lets get to work," Bill said as Ian walked off.

"What do we do?"

"Here take these runes and place one each on the north east and west corners. Dig down a little and kick some dirt over them. They will connect with these two in a straight line so make sure you are past the tents." Harry ran off to do this as Bill shook his head yelling for him to come to the other end afterwards. They met back up on Bill's side.

"Ok those were what we call function runes, they cause the effect. They will be always active so there is no trigger, this is the control rune, it sends power to the function runes and, must be charged by a wizard or a charging rune. When breaking a ward, this is the main target. They are usually concealed and protected. Destroy this and the wards cascade causing some kind of back lash or outright explosion." Bill was in teacher mode.

"Isn't that bad?" interrupted Harry.

"Oh Yeah, damages the site, hurts or kills people, what you have to do is disconnect its power, and drain it. For us it doesn't matter, this ward just keeps out pests. You know bugs, snakes and other creatures."

"Will it keep out Wyvern?" Harry asked slightly worried.

"Maybe, a young one, most have too much magic and could get through if it really wanted to. This would discourage it though. So let's put this control rune in that tree, between Barns tent and Owens." Bill directed Harry, he did not know whose tent was whose.

"Shouldn't we put in the middle by the big tent?"

"No it would go boom if broken remember."

"Right, defiantly not there."

"No here is good enough, we use a sticking charm on the back, and I carve a quick charging rune in this tree, link them up and, up go the wards. There a lesson in Warding 101 for newbie's." Bill carefully moved his wand on the tree and shavings fell as he created the rune. Muttering an incantation Harry saw a brown glow flash from the charging rune to the control.

"Wow, lot of power here." Bill said as he quickly changed the charging rune slightly.

"There all done, lets go report back in for the meeting. This is the way it always is, before an expedition, Harry, none of the crew knows where or what we're going after. Keeps things safer, with less chance of being jumped or being beaten to the site by another team." Bill supplied this information while they made their way back to the Big Tent as Harry called it.

"Welcome again, for those who I have never met I'm Ian McDougal, this is a specific mission, we are looking for an artifact. It's a gold ring carved with runes a triangle will be suspended inside. The commission on this artifact is 10,000 galleons paid by Gringotts. Some records and writings say it was taken as plunder from the islands to the north and gifted to a High Priest of the Toltec people."

Harry looked around at the room's layout, as Ian spoke, two rows of tables with benches and a plain floor made up the most of it a canvas roof and a partition separating the kitchen. He noticed Belle leaning up against a table. She was pretty, he noted, blond hair delicate features, slim and petite. Just like her sister, Annalisa. Xo sitting near her was a short stocky man of 50 or so maybe Chinese. He had a lot of scar's visible. Owen McGonagall was similar to his aunt but far more cheerful. He had large shoulders and a sandy mop of hair. Alessandra was a dark haired witch with olive skin. Harry couldn't help but notice her shirt was stretched tight over her chest. It happened then quickly just in a flash her shirt became transparent showing a purple lacy bra and oddly squished breasts from the shirt he couldn't see before reappearing. Harry fell over sideways, in shock, banging the table. He quickly straightened up blushing beet red, even before noticing everyone looking at him. He turned to face Ian who barely paused in his speech.

"A recent discovery in an old journal remarked upon it as being taken by the Spanish and offered as a bribe to an Incan King. This king had a Wizard advisor trusted above all others. The site we are at is rumored to be his last known whereabouts. Records of Spanish Wizards serving under Francisco Pizarro during the conquering of the Incan peoples said a heavily warded temple was located here. They were never able to break the wards. That is the reason we are here."

"What's this triangle thing do," Barns asked.

"It is what it is; our job is to find it. All items of value found, be they plant, animal or artifact get pooled. A share will be paid out per your contract of the total value. If we find our mark early we have authorization to hit an island off the Azores that was a rumored pirate hoard. Meet here at 7 o'clock for assignments. It seems we have a dinner on the stove, thank you Belle."

"Oh um, it is not my doing sir."

"That's Dobby sir," Harry said "He's my elf."

"You convinced an elf to travel? Amazing, mine won't leave the manor except by direct order." Ian looked at Harry in surprise.

"Dobby's always been a little different, he does what he wants. Anyway he fixed chicken soup; I'll just tell him we're ready. Harry walked to the Kitchen.

After everyone had eaten and thanked a beaming Chef Dobby. Bill and Harry headed back to the tent.

"So what is your take on or job?" Bill asked.

"I really don't know, I don't even know where we are."

"Northern Ecuador, a nine hour broom trip covers a lot of ground."

"Oh wow, what about the muggles? Why didn't they see us?"

"The Cargo Carpets have a disillusionment enchantment woven into them. That creates a field around them hiding us from view. It wasn't until you and Ian took off that anyone left them."

"Right, what do we do tomorrow?"

"Get your rest Harry, because tomorrow is when the fun begins."

Mid-morning found a sweaty Harry casting a new hex he learned called a Ribbon Cutter. It was a four foot long band of grey light that cut through all brush and trees in its path. Bill followed casting detection spells left and right.

"We're doing this to beat the unplotable ward. Once we have a rough idea of the where the corners are we can find the function runes and a counter can be created." Bill explained all the while casting back and forth as Harry steadily cut a path and swatted bugs. The jungle reluctantly gave way as Bill directed Harry on a path only he could see.

A clicking noise drew Harry's attention. He looked off into the jungle curiously. Not hearing it again he continued to clear a trail. Bill was focused on his Reviling Charm and tracing the ward line of the perimeter did not even notice the pause. Finding what had to be a corner Bill stopped.

"Hold up Harry, this is a corner. I'll mark it then we continue." He then started to transfigure a pole with a small flag as a marker. Harry watched absently as he dug threw his backpack for a water bottle. Grabbing two and tossing one to Bill he dropped his pack and sat against a tree. Bill copying him on the other side of the trail cast a quick cooling charm on his bottle. Harry looked up annoyed at not knowing the charm.

"Frigus, is the incantation then tap your bottle with your wand." Bill watched as Harry did as told. The spell worked perfectly.

"You really pick up spells fast Harry."

"Lately it seems as if I can focus and remember things, a lot easier or just more naturally."

"I've noticed your growth spurt you've gotten taller and more broad already. I expect the…" Bill looked around… "elixir is causing that effect."

"I'm not gonna complain—"

A sudden loud clicking came again. This time a Harry remembered where he'd heard a similar noise. He quickly stood and drew his wand.

"Bill are there Aromantulas around here?"

"Worse, the ones in South America can jump" Bill said in a grim tone, a frown on his face. "Let's head back down the trail to that clearing we passed. Harry nodded bent down scooped up his pack and started back up the trail. Bill following behind wand at the ready. Harry was just at the opening when Bill cast a spell. Harry saw a red burst of sparks soar into the sky and create a loud pop! Then he saw why. Coming up the trail were three large spiders. Bands of yellow wrapped their black bodies; they were large maybe six feet. They were far more fearsome looking than Aragog's family, as they charged toward Bill. Orange light sped toward them blasting the lead spider back but not stopping it. Harry spun around in the middle of the clearing, wand held high, ready to help Bill. A loud crash to the side caused Harry to turn, it looked like Bill was on his own as two more spiders came out of the jungle.

"Petrificus Totalus!" the spell had no effect on the large spider approaching. It clicked its pinchers menacingly, its many beady eyes looking right at the large prey. Harry stood firm, he had no where to go, Bill was backed up to him.

"Tarantallegra" Harry cast, recalling Draco hexing him and causing him to dance. It worked on the spider as well, all eight legs were moving in a lively Italian folk dance. Carrying it away from, Harry and to the other side of the clearing, Harry couldn't help but watch as it progressed. The other spider rushed forward causing Harry to startle and cast quickly, the now familiar Ribbon Cutter launched out of Harry's wand severing the front two legs off the spider. It still kept coming so Harry cast as fast as he could, his next cutter reflecting off its armored back. Aiming lower his next spells hacked away at its legs slowing its advance.

A blue transparent light slammed into the spider in front of Harry, causing its remaining legs to fold up, as it rolled over dead. Barns landed from broomstick his wand still trained on the now dead spider, shifting he sent a series of spells past Harry. Bill grunted as splatter hit his face. Blasting hexes flashing from his wand holding the spider's back. Two were down and smoking when a volley of spells shredded the remaining spider. Behind Bill a crow landed and turned into Lone Feather. The old Indian was chuckling. Bill turned at the sound and saw the dancing spider, Harry standing at his back coated in gooey brown spider bits, a hacked up dead spider not three feet away and Barns lying on the ground howling with laughter.

Lone Feather turned to the dancing spider and raised his wand.

"Calax Viscus!" The same transparent blue light flew from his wand and struck the spider. It curled up and lay still.

"Yuck!" Harry was wiping off the spider bits.

"Let me help," Bill says with a grin. He then pointed his wand at Harry.

Harry was expecting a vanishing spell, or some cleaning charm. What he was not expecting was a cold jet of water, much less two other's as Barns and Lone Feather joined in. A red sputtering Harry was left to trudge after Bill, back down the trail to continue where they left off. Apparently, this was all part of a days work. Looking back Harry saw, Lone Feather was harvesting spider venom and Barns stood by looking for more spiders, not that he didn't give Harry a jaunty wave in salute.

Harry walked into the Big Tent after a hot and very soapy shower. He was not as tired as expected after all day of spell casting, and hiking in the jungle. The giant spiders were the only creatures they encountered so after the adrenalin wore off it was business as usual. Dobby had a plate heaped with food in front of him almost before he sat.

"Thanks Dobby," Harry said digging in. Sandwiches and water were lunch and that close to six hours ago. On the other side of the room Barns was regaling Ian, Owen and Annalisa with the tale of the dancing spider.

"Here drink this," said a quiet voice in his ear. Looking back Harry saw Alessandra holding a purple potion. "It's a pepper up potion."

Harry blushed beet red as he saw her remembering the see thru shirt trick from yesterday.

"I…I'm ok I don't need a potion." Harry stammered.

"You sure, you cast spells all day, Belle was almost completely exhausted."

"I feel fine," Harry said regaining some of his composure.

"Let me check, I can't have the crew sick or not able to perform."

She then waved her wand in a complicated pattern around Harry. She looked surprised then smirked. "Oddly enough you still have quite a bit of magical energy left, I guess it takes more than giant man eating spiders to slow you down." Her tone was playful and slightly sultry. This set off Harry's blush off again. "But still it won't hurt to take the potion and you'll feel better in the morning."

"Alright" Harry muttered as he downed the potion.

"Good boy," She laughed and ruffled his hair, walking over to sit with Belle, an extra sway in her hips just to tease him. Belle smirked at Alessandra as she sat, looking over at Harry coughing, having swallowed his milk wrong.

"Stop being such a tease," Belle mock scolded, "poor boy is so shy you'll cause him to injure himself." It was said it a whispered tone.

"It's just a joke, I've noticed he blushes every time I'm around. It is good for him, with those looks, and that much power and fame not too many girls will be able to resist him."

"Agreed, so long as he is not a pig." Her voice was quiet, the French accent only slightly noticeable.

"OY! I was not dancing with the bloody thing, don't even know how. I just didn't know any other spells. Petrificus Totalus just bounced off." Harry's spoke loudly trying to justify his actions.

"Alright alright, but you should have seen it from my angle. You put up a good fight for the spells you know." Barns said between chuckles. They continued on for laughing and bantering a while longer before heading off to bed.

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