I know what you're thinking, you're thinking OMFG she's finally updated. And you'd be right. I have updated and am hoping to do so quicker now that I'm not working at the moment so I will be able to do a lot more on this story and my others. So please do enjoy the read and let me know what you think.
Harry lent into Legolas as they landed so that he wouldn't fall on his ass from the ill feeling that he had. He had to learn how to apparate before they had to next use a portkey. Even then he would do his damnedest to find another mode of transportation, even if it had to be a Thestral.
"Are you alright?" Legolas' soft breath caressed his ear, arm tightening around the teen's waist.
"Yeah just gimme a second." Harry responded breathing deeply to starve off the nausea he was feeling.
Harry brought his face out from where he had buried it in Legolas' stomach. They were in a large circular room make of stone with what he was guessing was Egyptian Hieroglyphs carved into the walls and large statues of half humans dominating over where they stood.
"Where are we?" Harry asked turning his attention to Severus.
"We are in the portkey receiving office in the Egyptian Ministry." Severus explained.
"So what do we do now?" Merry asked.
"Cause we're getting hungry." Pippin finished.
"We just need to check in and then we can be on our way to William's campsite." Severus told him as he started out of the room, everyone filed out after him.
"Will Bill be here to pick us up?" Harry asked.
"I don't know Harry. I'd assume it would determine whether or not William is too busy to come and pick us up. He may send one of the people that he works with."
Harry nodded, "I can't wait to get into one of the pyramids. Do you think Bill will take me down into one of them? Maybe teach me basic curse breaking spells?" He asked excitedly.
Severus put a hand on the teens head to still his bouncing, "Please desist with the bouncing Harry or I will tie you up and have you floating behind us."
Harry stilled and took a deep breath, "Okay. I'm sorry; it's just that I'm so excited. It was different with the dragons and a lot more complicated than it should have been though never the less exciting and I enjoy the company of the dragons."
"It's alright Harry. You can be as excited as you want, just stop with the bouncing." Godric spoke up.
"How is yer Griffin laddie?" Gimli asked.
Harry unfolded the holder wrapped around his chest that was housing a sleeping Spot, not at all jostled by the journey or Harry's bouncing about with his excitement. Harry turned on Godric, "Do Griffin's always sleep this long?" He asked.
Godric nodded, "Since he is quite young he will sleep a lot more often until he comes into his own griffin magic which will be around about another two months. Just make sure to wake him up a couple of times a day for feeding and playtime." He explained.
"So around about lunch time and before you head to bed would be a good time for feeding and play. Though wake him up for a small meal when we have breakfast." Salazar added just as they left the cooled housing of the Ministry and into the desert heat of Egypt.
"We should have changed before leaving the Ministry." Aragorn muttered, though the lightweight material of the elves gave some relief to the glaring sun.
With a few elegant swishes of his wand, Salazar changed all of their outfits into shirts and shorts with sun hats to protect their faces from the harshness of the rays, "Is that better everyone?" He asked looking at each person.
Everyone nodded and Severus followed through with a spell that put a light film of sunscreen over their skin. A spell that Godric nor Salazar would know, not having known about what the harshness of the rays could do to ones skin in this day and age.
"Hello there. Are you the Harry Potter convoy?" A rich voice asked coming to a stop in front of them, the glaring of the sun blocking any sight of his face.
"We are. And who might you be?" Severus questioned moving in front of Harry a little, his wand slipping in to his hand.
The young man moved up the stairs and in to the shadows so that they could see him, chocolate brown hair and unusual amber eyes and richly tanned skin, "I am Carmel, Bill sent me to come and bring you to the camp." He explained.
"If William had sent you then you would know that we need confirmation." Severus responded.
Carmel scratched at the back of his head thinking about what it was exactly he was supposed to say, "Billy said something about his twin brothers, Fred and George, giving Harry a map of the school as well as the password for it. I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He responded, "Uh, well I think that's what Billy told me to say. Or something along those lines anyway." He said sheepishly as he rubbed at the back of his head.
"Honestly, the kind of friends a Weasley makes." Severus groaned.
Voldemort let out a cry of rage as the book in his hands turned to vapour as the spell work on the connecting book was destroyed. That part of the plan was now destroyed and there was nothing that he could do to get it back but that wouldn't halt his plans, he just needed to re-think some things in his plan.
"You called for me master?" Peter stuttered as he scuttled into the room.
"Yes Wormtail I did."
Carmel led the group to the campsite that they were inhabiting at that particular moment of the year, stationed under the little bit of shade from the pyramid that was being explored. Carmel came to a stop as did everyone else behind him, "This is our site at the moment, every few months we move around to another site. It just depends on how long it takes us to crack a tomb before we move on." He explained as they over looked the large site.
"Wow." Harry said gaping in awe, "It's huge."
"The camp or the pyramid?" Carmel questioned with a bright white smile.
"Both." Harry responded and started to run down the dune for the campsite, leaving the others to hurry after him.
Once they caught up to Harry, Carmel led them to the main tent that was housing Bill, "Billy might be down in the tomb at the moment so I can get you guys some refreshments if you like." He offered showing them into Bill's tent.
"That would be welcome, thank you." Salazar spoke up, "But I am wondering if you would actually like to know who the rest of us are."
Carmel blushed, "Hehe, yeah that would be good to know, sorry. I was just excited that I get to meet Billy's non-redheaded brother."
"That is fine young Carmel." Salazar told him, "I am Salazar Slytherin, yes I am the real one if the look on your face is any indication, Harry threw me up during his dinner one night, a side effect of an immortality spell I produced." He explained.
Carmel's face crinkled, "That's kinda gross."
"Try being the one that had to go through it." Harry said with an exaggerated shudder and was cuffed over the head by Salazar in response.
"I am Godric Gryffindor, I came back in a different way to Sal, I was hatched out of a Griffin egg with Harry's new pet." Godric explained with a shrug.
"I am Aragorn, this is Gimli, Pippin, Merry and Legolas. We are friends to Albus Dumbledore's brother Gandalf and are here to help train Harry once we have finished with our little vacation." Aragorn explained.
"Well it's nice to meet you all." Carmel said with a smile and shook their hands, "Well make your selves comfortable while I get you some drinks and let Billy know that you're here." He said and disappeared from the tent.
"How long do cooling charms last?" Harry questioned, he was starting to feel a little faint from the suddenness of the heat, something that he has never known much of and he definitely wasn't used to.
Salazar quickly pulled his wand and cast a cooling charm on the teen and saw his shoulders collapse in relief, "It is an old spell and will last for a while." He explained, "Do you feel better?"
"Yes thank you Sal. I guess I'm not one for immense heat." Harry responded giving the founder a smile.
"That's also because you don't have the proper immunity Harry." Severus spoke up taking a seat next to the teen, "The malnutrition from living at the Dursley's and then the perpetually cold weather of England and Scotland wouldn't help you either."
Harry nodded, "Yeah, I guess so."
"I personally think it's because there is no fat on your bones cub." A rough voice spoke up from the entrance of the tent.
The whole group looked over to see Remus standing in the entrance with a tray of drinks floating next to him, "Remus." Harry cried out and raced over to the werewolf and wrapped himself around the older man in a tight hug, "What are you doing here?"
"Well I figured that since I missed out on your birthday I could make it up to you by meeting up with you all in Egypt." Remus explained hugging the teen tightly, "Happy belated birthday cub."
"Thank you Remus. How are you doing?"
"I am fine cub. How about yourself?"
"I'm doing a lot better than I was. Sev has been helping me out a lot with it all funnily enough. Albus and his meddling." Harry explained with a roll of his eyes and pulled the werewolf to sit with him.
"Hello Severus." Remus greeted.
"Lupin." Severus responded, "Albus sent me a missive that you didn't have any wolfsbane this month. Why didn't you owl me?" He questioned.
"By the time I realised it was too late to owl yourself or Poppy." Remus explained, "Usually I am more prompt at getting some more but with how things have been lately it hasn't been the fore most thought on my mind."
"Of course, I understand." Severus responded with a little bit of sympathy toward the werewolf for the loss of Sirius.
"You're okay now though?" Harry asked, his emerald orbs looking up into worn amber.
Remus ran a hand through Harry's hair, "I'm okay now cub. I had Poppy look me over a few days ago when I went to Hogwarts in search of you." He explained.
Harry scratched the back of his head, "Sorry about that, it was kinda just thrown at me the day after my party and we went straight away. I didn't even know what was happening and Sev packed my bag so yeah had no idea what was going on until the portkey was all but thrown at me." He explained, "Then we ran into some trouble at the dragon reserve in Romania. Apparently Parseltongue works on dragons as well so Sal and I did some work for the Guild to make things better for the dragons."
"Sal?" Remus questioned in confusion.
"I am Sal." Sal said coming forward, "Salazar Slytherin at your service." He said with a bow and smirked at Remus's stunned face, "This dolt to the left of me is Godric Gryffindor."
"Hello." Godric greeted with a bow.
"And these guys over here are Merry, Pippin, Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas. They came over with Albus's brother Gandalf." Harry introduced, pointing out each person to Remus, "And this is Remus Lupin, my uncle."
Hearing Harry call him his uncle made his chest swell with pride and beam at everyone in the tent, "It's nice to meet you all. I hope that Harry hasn't been too much to handle as Severus and I both know that he is quite a handful." He laughed ruffling Harry's hair.
Neville walked into his parents hospital room, it had taken the better part of a month to get his gran to let him go on his own to see his parents. She didn't like him going anywhere near his parents, even though they weren't always really there, only sometimes when they were coherent could he see something of what his parents used to be.
Neville patted the pocket of his robes, making sure that the vials was still secure, his gran still not knowing about the potion that Harry had given him, Snape had slipped him the instructions before he disappeared with his gran from Hogwarts.
Neville pushed opened the door to his parents room and walked in, shutting it firmly behind him and hoped that no one would walk in while he was giving his parents the potion since he couldn't put any spells on the room due to the wards around all hospital rooms in Mungo's. Taking a deep breath, Neville went over to his mother and pulled one of the small vials from his robes and tipped it into her mouth and massaged her throat so that she would swallow. Neville crossed his fingers that it wouldn't mix to badly with the other potions in her system, no matter that the note Snape gave him said that it wouldn't counteract with the potions. He then moved on to his father and did the same thing and just stood back to wait and see what was going to happen.
