Ascension

"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Telepathy and Blood view"

Overview and Selene Narration

Chapter IV: Coming to terms

Harry woke up, sweat pouring down his face. He sat bolt upright made a fist with middle and forth fingers pointing upwards and wrapped his other hand around the two uncurled fingers.

Harry pulsed his magic through his body trying to break whatever sort of mind influences that were possibly in his body. "This cannot be real. My parents are dead. The goblins must be wrong. Unless I can get them to go back to Diagon Alley or have someone brew a legacy potion."

Enhanced senses kicking into override Harry sniffed the air. He smelt the two that claimed to be his parents in the kitchen, which coincidently happened to have the door he was going to sneak out of.

"Going to do a runner Harry? Or do you prefer Arszlan? I'd go out your window it'd give you a few extra minutes head start." A soft voice said, Arszlan spun around hand on vilagitas to find Remus Lupin standing in the doorway.

"Professor Lupin? What are you doing here? Can you trust these people?" Stammered Arszlan, hands shaking as the chest of drawers began rattling in response to his restrained immense magical power.

"Arszlan calm down. I know this is a shock for you. Believe me it is for me to. Do I believe it? Yes, ones smell is immensely difficult to mask when one is in close proximity to their actual patients. If it makes you feel better I'll brew a lineage potion and have the four of you tested." Lupin said with a grin.

Arszlan nodded and headed down to breakfast carrying his sword. "Arszlan please no blades in the kitchen." Selene called out, sensing her eldest, who understandably was still in shock and was still in denial about his parentage.

"Selene, Michael, I managed to get Arszlan to stay until I can brew the legacy potion. That'll take a few hours so if I get cracking, I can get that done." Remus said before turning on his heel and vanished with a crack.

Remus landed in Grimmauld Place, everyone looked up including Snape who gave him a curt nod. Despite their uneasy truce due to Remus not stopping James and Sirius from bullying sooner but since then the two got on relatively well. "Severus, I need a heritage potion."

The potions master raised his eyebrows "Why do you need it?" He asked, not really caring what the new Lycan used it for.

"I could be on the trail of something important which could lead to a very important reward." Remus replied masking any potential signs that he knew that the Order were tense about Harry's disappearing act.

Snape fished into his robes and pulled out a well-worn potion travel bag and handed the three milky white potions to the Lycan. "Drop of blood of all the people taking part and drink it. They turn red if related as cousins and blue for blood family. Darker blue the better, you had better be correct about this Lupin."

"I usually am Snape. Tell Dumbledore, some contacts of mine have some information for me." With that Lupin vanished as Dumbledore apparated in shortly followed by Professor McGonagall and Ron and Hermione.

"Congratulations Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger the pair of you have seemed to have gotten apparation down easily. Soon we are going to be working on sidelong apparation or the apparation of a child and an adult." McGonagall instructed.

Remus arrived back in Manchester to find Arszlan learning how to properly clean and maintain a gun in the backyard under the watchful eye of Selene who was cleaning her own machine pistols. "I don't see why I need to learn how to do this since I can do it already." Arszlan muttered to be clipped over the ear by the Lycan.

"The only reason you were able to use the machine pistols so effectively the first time round was sheer dumb luck. Yes you're a powerful wizard and hybrid and because of that your mental telepathy is stronger than most. You were only able to tap into your mothers memories were because she was close by. What would to you if you relied on her memories and say she was separated from you and you're both on opposite sides of the country or lord forbid it the fucking planet?" Snarled Remus.

Ever since he had made peace with the wolf within and had become a Lycan, Lupin had noticed he had a lot more respect for adults with children and teachers. "Arszlan apologise to your mother." Remus ordered his eyes turning sky blue.

Arszlan nodded "Sorry."

"Anyway, I got the potion."

"Brewed it?" Questioned David, sharpening his silver whips, Katie was sitting next to him and Eve as she was sharpened a pair of silver knives she had found in the basement. This house was one of the many safe houses that Selene and Michael had in Europe.

"I owe Snape a few favours for these."

Harry's eyes flashed black with white irises "SNAPE! HE HATES…" He didn't finish as Remus let out a guttural snarl.

"ARSZLAN CORVUS CORVIN! YOU ARE NOT HARRY JAMES POTTER!" Remus thundered.

Selene and Michael stared at the Lycan who had managed to quell an uppity teenaged Corvinus Vampire Lycan Hybrid with ease. "How do you do that Remus?"

Remus reeled in his anger "Pack mentality…Any lycan or hybrid needs to know the pecking order and at this moment in time, your son needs to know that he has a long time to wait until he can make his own decisions on who to hate justly or unjustly."

Arszlan sank to his knees "Professor, everything's happening to fast. I think I'm cracking up."

Remus nodded "I understand, your very identity has just been ripped away from you and I completely understand but that does not justify petty hatreds. Voldemort is after you and I'm pretty sure your mother and father have their own share of enemies thus you need to curb these impulses as fast as you can because your life has become much more complicated. Now drop three drops of blood into these potions and drink them."

Michael, Selene and Arszlan nodded, they cut their hands and poured the drops in and simultaneously drank. The result was immediate as Selene, Michael and Arszlan started emitting a dark blue glow. "The darker the blue the closer the relation, Arszlan this is solid proof that Michael and Selene are your parents."

Arszlan's eyes rolled into his head and he fainted. Katie grinned and with a little help from Remus they shifted Harry back into his room. "Poor kid, everything he knows has been turned upside down. Now it was time to find out if his transformation had altered his magical skills. They'd do that when he woke up.

Arszlan woke up again and jumped out of bed and headed down stairs to find Katie, Selene and Eve waiting for him and on the table sat his wand. "We need to find out just how much your magic has been altered with your transformation."

"What about the trace?"

"Applies to a name, since Harry Potter doesn't exist your magical signature has changed." Explained Katie getting a nod in understanding from the Hybrids.

Arszlan grabbed the wand and they headed outside. "Start with charms Arszlan."

Arszlan nodded and let his magic flow through his body. As he began his spell casting nothing was happening.

"Nothing's working! I've just cast every spell from my first two years at Hogwarts and nothing is working. How the hell can I have lost all of my magical abilities?"

"I've heard rumours about this. According to dad, some inheritances cancel out general spell use but give the person unparalleled control over other areas. Try casting elemental an anatomical spells, considering your accidental prone history your magic may have picked something up from that."

Arszlan snorted but complied "INCENDIO!" He shouted and something happened the fireball erupted from his wand with such force the wand incinerated. "Do another." Remus encouraged.

Arszlan cast another incendio and the fireball erupted into his palm, grinning he began to pass it idly between his hands. "Natural wandless magic and elemental magic as well." Selene noticed, she had observed these so called hidden magical communities.

They weren't that well hidden. Selene had ransacked several books on elemental spells. As far as she was concerned her son no longer had his duties to the wizarding world save to kill Voldemort.

"Arszlan, time for the three of us to have some quality time together, possibly see a film and get some more clothes for you. David informed me you came here with very few changes of clothes." Selene said grinning slightly.

"That's meaning just one shirt, pair of jeans, jumper and coat. You took the opportunity to stock up on guns than anything else." Michael said grinning at his newly found son.

Arszlan could only hang his head sheepishly and shrug. "They seemed important at the time. Katie wrapped her arms around him and rested her head on his back.

"You are an idiot my raven for not packing sufficient clothes. You are an even bigger idiot if you think you're going to walk away from me. I don't need to a mental conversation to tell me that you're planning to leave me to protect me. I read upon anchors and face it Arszlan Corvinus Corvin you and I are stuck together. Sooner or later you're going to have to turn me."

Arszlan grunted as he pulled Katie to face him. One eye turned black and other blue "Not until Riddle is six feet underground OR that's the only way to save your life."

Katie couldn't help but not take her eyes off Arszlan. "I'll be careful." Before she shoved him towards the door.

"GO! Have some fun. Enjoy hanging out with your parents. Remus can help me with my skills."

The two Hybrids and Corvinus-Hybrid piled into the Galaxy and drove to the nearest mall. The three of them entered and found the first clothes store.

"Aside from Katie, how many girlfriends have you had? Favourite lesson? Favourite teacher?" Asked Michael as he handed his eldest two black muscle shirts.

Arszlan paused in browsing for jeans "Not exactly. The reason is that I was seen as the 'Boy-Who-Lived' that meant people were only really trying to be with me to gain fame or my money. My favourite lesson would be Defence Against the Dark Arts. The down side to that class were the rapid changing of teachers in each year and my favourite teacher happened to be Professor Lupin...The Lycan that has joined us."

They left the store Arszlan laden down with more sets of clothes and a Leather Jacket. As they left, Arszlan almost directly ploughed into someone, a bushy haired someone who was walking with her parents. "Terribly sorry about that, Hermione should have looked where she was going." The man said.

"It's all mine, don't worry. I should have seen you coming. I was lost in thought." Arszlan replied focusing on his Hungarian ancestry.

"You look like someone my daughter knew from school."

"I'm terribly sorry that I am not him. The name is Arszlan Corvin."

Mr. Granger stared at after him. "Dad who was that?"

"Someone who should be long dead...I'll need to check the family tree."

"Know them?" Selene asked in Hungarian.

"Yes, I know them. The girl I went to school with, her power levels have skyrocketed suddenly over the summer. Dumb girl, did she really think that she'd be able to conceal her training from me? Where to next mum?"

"A bite to eat?" Michael suggested.

Things quickly turned pear shaped when a series of cracks and pops were heard followed by the sound of people screaming.

Arszlan's eyes narrowed as he pulled his parents to the floor as three killing curses zoomed over their heads impacting with the wall behind and gouging chunks out of it.

"Death Eaters, magical terrorists" He explained, Michael stuck his head up to the glass to see several people convulsing and arms starting to deform.

"Lycans as well?"

"Skinny arms are muscled?"

"Skinny."

"Werewolves...not immortal but they're still tough as anything."

"Are we going to gossip or are we going to kill something?" Asked Selene curiously.

Black eyes and fangs greeted her question.