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HP/FFVIII -Siefer/Squall pairing

He wouldn't be used again, he swore and the other smiled Combining...combining...spirit's to be sent forward...combining structure into metal substance...combining...protect and teach...combining ...protectors of the people...combining ...guardian forces heed your call...combining.

The two looked at each other as they disolved into a spirit state and were absorbed into the knecklace, it was silver in colour with a metal linked chain and a oblong plate which read 'SeeD's protect - bow to no-one' from the plate dangled another chain with a roaring lions head on it. The knecklace was passed down, first from headmaster to headmaster of balamb guardian, then from the last headmaster it was passed down his line until it was stolen from hand to hand it passed and milleniums wandered by, it was buiried for a while before life started again, no more monsters as the two inside the pendant knew them soon humans were born again and the necklace was found a pretty trinket as they though of it and it started to be passed around. The two inside the pendant slept on secure in the knowledge they would wake when they were needed. And so that brings us to presant day to a 16 year old boy sitting in a bank listening to his godfathers will.

"I Sirius Orion Black being of sound mind do here by make my last will and testament i hope i've gone down doing what i wanted to do, protect and that i went down fighting it really wouldn't do to have the greatest marauder hit by the knight bus, or fallen off his broom. So i should get to doleing out the goodies, i feel like santa clause! To Remus Lupin, Moony i bequeth to you the black Cottage and 80 thousand galleons, To my dear cousin Andromeda Tonks i leave to you 70,thousand galleons and the house in edinbourough, to Nymphadora Tonks i leave 50 thousand Galleons, and a flat in London, To Rubeus Hagrid, i leave 5 stocks in the Egyption dragon preserve, 5 stocks in Endangered Magical creatures breeding sancuary and 5 stocks in Dangerous Creaturereserve.
To Molly and Arthur weasley i leave 20 thousand galleons and my thanks for looking after Harry, to Ronald Weasley and Hemione Granger i leave each 5 thousand Galleons, To Fred and George Weasley i leave 40 thousand Galleons to be invested into their Shop. To my Godson Harry Potter i leave everything that i have left, and the knowledge that i love him with my whole being.
Harry your parents would be very proud of you and if i know you as well as i think i do then your blaming youself for my death, if i died in defence of you or any child then thats a good death for me and i'll be sad to leave you but it's alright becasue we'll see each other again some time in the future. For my lawer i leave the request that Lily and James Potters will be read infront of all the people congregated for the reading of my will" The human lawer read
"There are also letters for each of you, i also have Lily and James' Will and as per request of my cliant i have been given permission by the Potters Lawyer to read it infront of those assembled here." after passing out the letters the woman lifted anther piece of paper "We, James blakney, and Lily rose Potter being of sound mind make this our last will and testamony. Before we start telling people who got what we would like the clarify who the secret keeper was for Godric's hollow, this will will be read shortly after our death and this will also save an innocent man from prison our secret keeper was Peter Pettigrew, if our secret keeper betrayed us then any of his bequethments may be split between Remus Lupin and Sirius Black.
To Alice and Frank Longbottom we leave 10 thousand galleons for your long friendship and support, to Remus Lupin we leave 10 thousand galleons, and 5 stocks in Florish and blotts to Sirius Black we leave 10 thousand Galleons, and James' corvette. the rest we leave to our Son Heron James Potter, known as Harry, in regard to Harry who is stilla a baby we leave custody to his Godfather Sirius black, if Sirius is not availible to take him than he shall be put in the custody of his Godmother Alice Longbottom, if Alice cannot take him the Remus Lupin Will be given control over where Harry lives, we understand that the Ministry Laws will not let a werewolf be the caretaker of a child so although he cannot take Harry himself he is to chose the place where Harry can grow up loved, under no circumstances is he to be Placed with Petunia Evans at the age of 16 he is to be given the records of the records and bank details of the full Potter vault and a letter which was to be put with the Will" the lawer put down the will signifying it's end and Harry looked blankly at the people around him
"I wasn't supposed to be living with the dursleys" was all hecould get out "And my parents will could have freed Sirius, why wasn't it read when they died?"
"i don't know Harry" Remus said hugging the teenager the lawyer put another letter infront of Harry
"The letter your parents wrote for you" she said and left the room Harry opened the letter with shaking Hands

Dear Heron, our little Harry, if your reading this then your 16 years old and what your mother feared has come to pass, it was a very well kept secret that your mother was a dream seer in some of these dreams we saw you only glimpses but enough to know that we are very proud of you, there are more letters written to you in the potter vault and a knecklace which your mother dreamed of you owning, the necklace hold great power and will be able to help you.
Harry this is your mum lily, i love you my little greeneyed Panther, your father wanted me to call you a lion but i think a panther will suit better. live you life your way my son but trust the necklace to help you and keep the existance of the pendant secret, it is very old, and no one knows the truth of what it is but it belongs to you maybe you will be the one to unlcok it's secrets.
we love you, you are our cat, be it Amazon (you mother) or serengeti (your father) and we love you. goodbye Harry we're watching over you.

"can i go down to my family vault"
"sure harry we'll take you down" Molly said hugging him
"No i want to go on my own" Harry said and left the room to talk with a goblin who shuffled him into another office to sign the papers to take over his vaults although the accounts would be looked after by a goblin trusted by his parents until he is 25 when he can take them over himself and will have had enough time to learn how to deal with them..
With the paperwork signed Harry was given a shrunken box with all his account details and given the Key to his vault which he was then taken down to see. A few hours later he was put back at the Dursleys on Dumbledores orders and left there with the items he had collected from his parents vaults on of these was a box which had been left on a pedastol with a large note saying 'this is the SeeD necklace wear it well heron'
Now back at the Dursleys safe in his bedroom he opened the box and took his first look at the necklace placing it around his neck the metal place sat snuggly over his clavicle and the lion fell a little further to rest on his chest.
Inside the pendant the two spirits slowly awoke knowing they were needed it was time for the SeeD's to be reborn into a new generation that needed them.

The sleeping duo were curled into each other and slowly woke They were Lovers, Rivals, Friends, Partners all that and more, together for years in life, and then eternity in death the pendant was a link into the afterlife as well as to the realworld, although they slept most of the time they did have visits from their old friends the inside of the pendant was a representation of balamb Garden with the computers having updated records of every major event since the pendant was created plus the location of a hidden garden which was made as a working replica of Balamb and sleeping Guardian forces just waiting for someone worthy to junction them and only the two drowzy men could teach someone how to do it.

When Harry went to sleep that night he found himself stood infront of two men one was a tall blond with short hair and green eyes with black boots under dark trousers, a blue vest with a white cross on it and a grey coat with red crosses on the upper arm, black gloves and around his neck was a plate, the other was slightly smaller and had chin length brown hair with blue eyes, wearing tight leather trousers with 3 belts, a white tee-shirt and a black bomberjacket with fur lining, black boots, and around his neck was a roaring lion with a cross shape coming down from the lions throat the same lion that was on his pendant Harry looked worriedly at them
"Where am i?" he demanded "and who are you"
"Your technically inside the necklace kid" the blond siad "and i am the great seifer Almasy-leonhart and that is my husband Squall Leonhart-Almasy"
"The pendant? the one that was in my parents vault"
"Yes" squall nodded "we could only be shown to you if you needed us and that hasn't happened in a long time"
"needed you? why would i need you?"
"We were part of a mercenary organisation, Squall was the headmaster and i was his second in command and one of the instructors" Seifer explained
"Headmaster? instructor?" Harry questioned confused
"Balamb Garden was both a base and a training groud, we trained mercenarys, soldiers for hire" Squall told him "when we were alive there were alot of monsters attacking villages and SeeDs were paid to fight the monsters and kill them, Towns and citys also called us in if there were problems in towns that the didn't want the military involved in or if the military was doing something the public didn't like, resitances called us in to do jobs for them"
"If they had the money" Seifer added "Balamb Garden was our home, still is" the blond said gesturing around himself at the office they were stood in
"ok i get that part but why are you in a necklace and why are you appearing to me"
"well for one thing you have the potential to use our fighting style, for another you needed us if you didn't you wouldn't be standing there" Seifer said sarcastically "as for why were in the neckace lets just say Squall was the best and i have some sins to make up for and neither of us would leave the other"
"sins?"
"Yeah sins and no i'm not telling you what i did, it's good here though we sleep most of the time so we don't feel the passage of years until a wielder comes along now you are our wielder so we won't be going into a deep sleep again for a while what we will be doing is teaching you!"
"Teaching me what exactly"
"How to fight, to survive, see if any of the guardian forces will accept you, how to wield a weapon, when to fight and when to run" Squall listed "there won't be enough time i have to go back to hogwarts in a few weeks"
"you'll have to make a choice, there's a hidden training centre that was built as a replica of Balamb guarden that was built by another of our wielders, he was meant to start the SeeDs again but it never happened he just had time to hide the Garden and then died" seifer complained "the Garden is in the carribean hidden under spells and technical forcefields no one but someone with the necklace could get close to the entrance" Squall explained "you would spend at least a year training to use a weapon and unarmed combat, plus trying to gain the Guardian forces, some will like you immediatly or you will have to go through challenges or beat them in combat"
"and what are these guardian forces"
"There ae 16 Guardian forces, shiva, quezacotl, Ifrit, Siren, Diablo, the brothers, carbuncle, leviathon, pandemona, Cerberus, Alexander, Doomtrain, Bahamut, cactuar, tonberry and Eden" Seifer explained "each one has differant abilities and strengths"
"if i choose to train with you i won't be going back to hogwarts will i"
"no, the wizard who put up the conceling spells also placed a magical library, it is fully uptodate, there is a small colony of free house-elves living in the garden they train themselves there, they are the warriors of their people but they also keep the garden Clean and collect books to update the library every so often the Garden library is the biggest in the world and not just magically" Squall told him and Harry nodded frowning he had a lot to think about, on one hand going would mean training, getting away from the wizarding world, freedom on the other he would have no contact with his friends, or see hogwarts for a while.
"I want the training" Harry said making his decision.
"Alright, go to diagon Alley tomorrow, get some money exchanged to pounds and ask them for a passport, once you have that get some more galleons and go shopping, you'll want mainly muggle clothes, thick boots and trainers, jeans, combat trousers, t-shirts and other stuff, the necklace has a storage facility so you don't need to use magic to shrink anything, you'll be getting a plane to the carribean islands so make sure you have a backpack with food and things to do in it, maybe a few mundane books, you'll need cooler clothes for the carribean, specifically the Bahamas. The island you need to get to is called Griever Island" Seifer lectured and Harry nodded
"Wait won't dumbledore and the ministry be able to track me through magic"
"no" squall said shaking his head "as soon as you put the griever necklace on you became untrackable, you wand can still be traced until the 1st of september though, the spell on the wand is activated as soon as you buy it and will automatically send a signal each time you use it during the time it's active which is the summer holidays"
"there's also the problem of Voldemort getting into my head"
"Nope not anymore, by wearing the griever you have 2 spirits protecting your mind" Seifer smirked "old voldie won't get past us! Once you have a GF you won't need us the GF will protect your mind the only problem with GF is the memory loss, sometime the GF take it apon themselves to supress you memories"

Harry, Squall and Seifer spent the rest of the night talking and when Harry woke up the next morning he was heading straight for diagon alley using his invisibility cloak Harry snook past the guards and used the bus to get into London and then walked through the pub into diagon Alley his frst stop was at gringotts to talk to his account manager about getting a passport and sorting out a way for him to access his money while out of the country, once that was done he was heading to 'Trunks and Stuff' to buy a new backpack, the bag he bought was plain black leather which was personalized with a piture of greiver who had lightning surrounding him, from there it was off to madam malkings for robes "Hello how can i help you?" the woman said with a smile
"I need a full wardrobe" Harry answered
"Well jump up so we can get your measuments You'll be needing hogwarts robes?" she asked
"No i'll be on he other side of the world" Harry answered "I just wanted to get my clothes here before i left."
"Vacation?" Madam malkin asked looking up from her mesuring and catching sight of the scar "Oh Mr Potter i didn't realise it was you" she said suprised "your going on vacation?"
"Yeah" Harry nodded "i met some people who have offered to take me on as an apprentice only catch is i have to train with them exclusivley for the next 2 years, i'll still be in contact with England but i won't be any where close to here for a while not for any stretch of time anyway"
"Alright so what sort of clothes are you looking for? formal"
"no, relaxed clothes, of all types like i said i'm going to be traveling so i'll need clothes for both warmer and colder climates, with a large freedom of movements" Harry sighed "i have a feeling my new instructors are going to run me ragged"
"you said you weren't going back to Hogwarts why? why leave the wizarding world now we need you" madam malking said quietly
"No you don't, the wizarding world put all it's faith and hope on a child, thats what i am maybe not mentally not now, maybe i never was but i'm not full grown i don't have my true strength but you put me on a pedastool for something i don't remember doing or know how i did it, you sit back and expect me to just get rid of voldiwarts for you, you see me as adult enough to take on Voldemrot again and again, you lable me insane, a dark lord, have me on a pedastool then hate me when i don't live up to your expectations i can't live like that i won't, for my parents, and all the innocents he's killed i'll train and fight but you also see me as being to young to fight in the war, you pull at oposite courners and don't let me breathe, im being stretched to far and if i don't leave i'll break. Hogwarts can't teach me what i need to learn"
"what do you need to learn?"
"To stand on my own, to find the truth of this mystical power i'm supposed to have, learn to be me, learn who i am before i have to become a saviour of the whole world, i refuse to be a pawn in this war and if i stay that's what i'll become, an emotionless wreck, broken and bleeding on the ground" the seamstress stifled a sob "i'm sorry i didn't mean to make you cry" Harry said kneeling to hug malkin
"it's alright Harry, i just never thought of it that way, maybe your right to leave maybe this will make the wizarding world sit up and start fighting for themselves"
"maybe, i don't know if i can fight for a world that won't fight for itself and won't change"
"Now lets get your clothes sorted with an order this size i would normally send it to your home but if your leaving soon"
"Today i'll be out of the country by tonight" Harry said "do you have any long distance owls that can make it to the carribean with that order"
"The carribean? yes i suppose so" the Madam nodded
"Ok there's a drop point in andros, if you send the things there lable them Griever they'll know where to send it"
"That will work" the madam nodded "i can shrink the packages down and put them into a small box and send it with a long distance owl"
"Great thanks" Harry smiled

An hour later he left and the next stop was a dragon hide store where he bought a wand holster, a set of dragon hide boots and gloves, 4 pairs of trousers, a long jacket and 2 sets of dragonhide battle robes all went into his pendant, from the Hide shop he headed into London to get muggle clothes after 4 hours of shopping for all sorts of clothes and a few books Harry was on his way in a Taxi to Heathrow, he was vey lucky ther was a flight going to nassau that would leave in four hours. The price of the Plane ticket set him back £512.20 and Harry thought himself lucky to have Gringotts make him a credit card so he would be seen carrying that much money.
For the next Four hours Harry hung around the Airport getting something to eat and reading one of his books, the book he was reading was a book of legends and myths. at 8 o'clock he was sat on the plane in his assigned seat and by 8:30 they were in the air and settling down for a long flight it took 20 hours to get to the Airport in nassau he was lucky that he spent most of the flight sleeping so when he got to nassau he was awake and refreshed, from the airport he headed straight for the docks to see about getting a boat to the Berry islands, luck was on his side as he found a family who had rented a boat and didn't mind taking him along
"So whats your name son?" the american asked
"Heron Potter"
"I'm george and this is my wife beth and our kids, ben and adam, so what brings you to the islands Heron"
"heading to my family's island it was a spur of the moment decision"
"Family Island?" Adam asked intrested, the two boys were 12 (ben) and 17 (adam)
"griever island" Harry answered "it's been in my family for generations but i don't think any of us have been to it even for a holiday and my guardian died a few weeks ago so i'm coming out here to take a look at the island and grieve"
"You don't want to be going to griever" the boat captain said
"Whats wrong with griever island" Adam asked curious
"Bad accidents happen on that island, they say it won't accept anyone but it's master, people have visited that island and either come back hurt or not come back at all those that have come back tell tales of monsters on the island"
"monsters?" Ben asked scared and beth put her arms around the small boy also worried
"Yes, they say there ar many creature on that island and none of them natural"
"Will you be alright about taking me there?" Harry asked
"i'm sorry but i'll take you to the berry Islands but i won't go near Griever island and you'll have a difficult time finding someone who will"
"it's alright i can probably manage to find a boat to rent to go out there"
"I can pilot a boat" Adam said "this island sound instresting, we can go over tomorrow"
"That would be great" Harry said Ywaning "i need to get to griever as soon as possible and set up the protections" Harry then winced at the slip
"Protections?" Beth and Adam asked
"Griever isn't just an island, it's also a safe haven for my family and any who we deign to take there i know the protections back to front, at the minute only the low level defences are up but in two days of me being there i'll have the rest up and running"
"So why do you need these protections"
"My parents were murdered when i was a year old and so i became head of the family and the sole Heir to the Potter fortune and lets just say i have alot of money and alot of people wanting to kill me for it, Griever Island isn't known to belong to my family so i'm as safe as i can be out here"
"you mentioned your godfather was he?
"He was killed by his cousin who was trying to get to me, unfortunatly when Sirius died he made me his heir in his will so i got most of the black fortune"
"Don't you have any other family to protect you"
"No, my Dad's family were all killed, my mom has a Sister but she blames me for taking my mum away from her thinks it's my fault they're dead, and i can't face sirius' boyfriend"

5 days later Adam and Harry stood on the pier of Griever Island
"So are we going or what?" Adam asked as Harry started at his new home, it was beautiful, the whole island as covered by a forrest. Harry turned and nodded at his companion before walking down the pier and headed striaght for the forrest line "You sure you know where you're going"
"Yes, i've studied maps about this place you don't have to come with me i'll be perfectly safe from here on"
"Mom would have my head if i left you"
"i asked you to bring me to the island the rest is my choice" Harry smiled and continued walkinginto the forrest, the Island wasn't that large really it would take about 10 hours to walk around the edge so it took the two teenagers 4 hours to get to the centre at every noise Adam jumped and Harry grinned thinking about how Adam would react in the forbidden forrest at hogwarts once at the centre of the island was a large metal plate with a fence sticking up from it and in the floor was an indentation that would be a perfect fit for his pendant. Kneeling Harry sweeped the dirt and leaves away from the indentation to leave it free of any bits "What is that"
"A door" Harry answered with a laugh and took of his necklace "Wow cool necklace what do the symbols mean"
"Don't know the letter from my parents said it was written in an ancient language and they had no idea what it meant, but the lion is called Griever"
"So thats why this island is called griever"
"Yep" Harry nodded carefully placing the pendant face down in he indentation and pushing downwards on it til he heard the click of the lock being released he picked the necklace back up to reveal 3 finger holes which harry placed his fingers in and pulled the metal door upwards revealng steps downwards.
"Home sweet home for the next two years" Harry said dropping his bag down the shaft before looking at Adam "your choice you can either go back to the boat and to your resort or come down with me and have to forever keep your silence about what this place is"
"Like i'd leave now this is an adventure your not leaving me out"
Harry shook his head and gestured to Adam to proceed him down the ladder once Adam was part way down Harry climbed down pulling the door shut on his way down when he got to the bottom the lights immediatly came down
"What is this place?" Adam asked awed looking at the high tech equipment
"Griever Garden" Harry answered "it's a miliatry base or rather it was built to be a military training base it was never actually used, this is the headmasters office" the Dark haired wizard explained booting up the headmasters computer, a pannel rose from the desk which had another imprint of the necklace on it and Harry placed the pendant in the indentation "There are 5 levels, this is level level three, there are just offices up here and the headmasters apartment, level two has dorms, level one has classrooms, ground floor has the infermiry, cafeteria, library, Sub one has the training rooms"
"Ground floor? wouldn't this be ground floor"
"no this place was originally was supposed to be on ground level but instead was placed here"
"Oh your brought someone with you"a voice said from behind the two who were watching the computer log on to the Garden network and they spun to see two men who Harry recognised as Squall and Seifer
"Headmaster, commander" Harry said respectfully
"Oh come on Harry your our only student you can call us by our names so who's that"
"This is Adam Maxwell, Adam these are my trainers Commander Seifer Almasy-Leonhart and Headmaster Squall Leonhart-Almasy"
"your getting head of yourself aren't you?" Seifer laughed "already bringing another for training, then this place will finally be used as it was supposed to be"
"I didn't come for training i just wanted to make sure Heron get here alright"
"Whatever" Squall commented before leaning over Harry and accessing various programs to get the whole Garden up and running rather than just the parts the House Elves were using.
"well kid it's your choice then, you can leave with just a signed contract that you won't tell anyone about this place, or you choose to stay also sign a contraxt that you won't say anything about this place to anyone but also get training and become a SeeD"
"SeeD"
"Mercenaries" Seifer explained sitting in a spare seat "soldiers for hire, if you decide to join us we'll teach you all about it"
"Heron said this was a military training base" Adam said confused
"The Garden will work as a military just not one affiliated with any country" Seifer shrugged
"And we're the only people here how will we be trained"
"The are 5 other instructors which will visit to expand you knowledge but for the most part it will just be me and Squall"

It took all of ten minutes for Adam to decide to stay on griever island though he was going to have go back to the resort to collect his things and take the boat back to the place he rented it from. In the end they decided that Adam would spend the next 3 weeks with his family and Harry would meet him at a beach near his home in miami, after Adam signed the contract which was spelled so if he was questions under truth spell/serum then he wouldn't be able to tell he left to rejoin his parents and Harry sat looking at Squall and Seifer.
"Your really the one" Squall smiled ad Harry frowned confused
"Before we were put into the pendant we were told a prophecy, which said that SeeD would grow in the Garden again" Seifer told him and Harry looked horrified at the thought of another prophecy
"calm down" Squall commanded

"When fire and ice are trapped once more time will pass, time will slow they will be the core
Adults hold the pendant but only learn a little child hold the pendant learn all they can teach
listen lightning Child you will be the first marked by lightning and by fire.
Ice will choose you Water will bow to you wind will carry you earth will yield to you
Gravity knows his place sound will love you shield will guard you
Hell and Heaven will kneel to you Poison will never harm you
Dragons will answer your call
Listen well sorceror the guardians will listen to you in time Gain their trust and love and they will never abandon you
Lightning child will be the first a sorceror is he begin the protections of Earth he will Teach again the skills of old
face the Dark Snake he must but not alone SeeD's stand with him, an army at his command" Seifer recited
"How do you now that's me"
"your the first child to ever call us forth" Squall said simply "all the others have been adults"
"you've already taken the first step to restarting the SeeDs" Seifer added
"How are you here?" Harry asked suddenly "your dead right so your spirits are inside the pendant so how are you standing infront of me"
"The Graden was designed to resonate with the pendant so we could exist here in corporal form" Squall told him "now the Headmasters apartment is yours so why don't you go and unpack, Then we'll take you down to meet the Elves and let you explore, we'll start your training tomorrow"

Harry stood and went through to the door seifer had gestured to. The Apartment had 4 rooms, the bedroom done is blue and purple, the kitchen painted terracotta red, the living room which was light blue and the bathroom was down in shades of purple. After taking a shower and getting dressed in to something a little warmer now he was underground and out of the carribean heat Harry joined the two SeeDs in the headmasers office where he was given a quick run through of all the major commands and shown how to access a map. They then used the Elevator to go down to the Ground floor and to the cafeteria which was full of House Elves talking they stopped as they saw the three humans "relax" Seifer said with a laugh "We're not gonna do anything to ya"
"who are you?" on of the Elves said clearly holding a whip
"I am Headmasted Squall Leonhart-Almasy" the Elves relaxed at that.
"Commander Seifer almasy-leonhart and a new student to the Garden Heron Potter"
"A wizard" one house elf growled
"No a sourceror" Squall snapped and the elves looked at harry in awe, they and many of the magical creatures had evolved from the monsters that existed when squall and seifer were actually alive and although they didn't remember sourcerors/resses themselves there was alot of information about them in the library.
"we'll need to call a meeting of the instructors to see what we have and who will be willing to teach what espceially if plans go well and we have more human cadets" Siefer said and the elves nodded some leaving to spread the word about the meeting They were left alone until about half an hour later
"Excuse me" A female elf said coming to sit with them "My name is Oria i'm the acting headmistress of the Griever Garden"
"Ah i read the files" Squall nodded while Seifer looked slightly clueless though he was hiding it well "how has the Garden been doing while seifer and i've been asleep i only looked at the command personel"
"It is well, we have contracts with all major governments, though they don't know we aren't human, all except the wizarding governmets and to be honest we want nothing to do with them"
"I dont blame you" Harry muttered and got a smile from Oria.
"What sort of contract do you have?" Seifer asked
"first serve on things they can't do themselves or need done very quietly, mostly it's Magical stuff, but over the past fifty years there have been a number of contracts to take out mutagenic labs and people who have been messing in biochemisty"
"mutagenics" Squall sighed "Having more cadets is sounding like a very very good idea but how to go about it"
"we could offer a year long course, for humans between the ages of 10 and 18, just like the old Gardens, we could open like a boarding school" oria said obviously having thought about this for a while "if we send flyers to govenments and let them choose where to send them, we'd probably get alot of military brats and wizz kids but it could work and they could spread how great this place is from word of mouth, if they sent the reply's back to their Government and then they send it onto us we review each person find out their background and if sutible go and meet them in person if that checks out and they really want to go then send them details of where they can meet the boats, have them sign the contract before they get on the boat though"
"That would probably work although it would have to be Harry doing the meeting though"
"only some of them, about 5 of my SeeD's are strong enough to cast a proper human glamour and all of them can cast Elven glamours so we look like small human children"
Siefer let out a snort of laughter "so there are people who think SeeD is made up of small children"
"Unfortunatly yes but there has been nothing we could do about it as we had no true Human representative now however"
"Thats changed, i'll need the training first, i don't have the first clue how to be the head of a place like this"
"You'll learn and we will be here to help"
"May i ask how the House Elves came to be here"
"we were unhappy being under Human bondage, the builder of this Garden knew about us and helped us to be free on the condition we learn here and make this our home, we did so gladly"
"There are two Houseleves i know would they be welcome here"
"Of course young one all elves are welcome what are their name and where are they and we'll go talk to them"
"Dobby and Winky at Hogwarts if dobby find out i'm missing he'll be worried" Harry said and Oria nodded with a large smile

Harry spend the next three weeks starting his studies at the Garden and helping to write the letters to goverments about getting new Cadets, meeting his new insturctors and learning how to pilot the boats and submarines.
After the three weeks were up Harry Directed the sub to the Coast of miami and to a port the military had designated for SeeD use and then took a smaller boat to the beach where he promised to meet Adam, seeing as he was early Harry then spent the next hours sunbathing while reading one of his assigned books on the history of Garden and SeeDs.
"HARRY" Adam shouted running down the beach with 3 other people with him Harry sat up and waved but waited for them to come to him "it's great to see you Harry"
"It's good to see you to"
"I was half expecting you not to be here"
"Why wouldn't i be? you signed the contract that said i would be" Harry asked confused
"Yeah but it was weeks ago and it was just a piece of paper"
"Adam get one thing straight to a SeeD a contract could mean your life, we play a game of life and death and if you can't accept the challenge then you shouldn't be concidering being a SeeD cadet"
"you've changed"
"I've been through three weeks of hell, up at 4 for stamina, speed and distance training, 6 for beakfast, 7 to 11 beurcracy training and paperwork, 11 - 12 history, 12-12:30 lunch 12:30 - 2 sciences, 2-3 maths 3-7 weapons training, 7-11 computers and technical stuff, 11-midnight strategy then i get a few hours sleep, i get sundays free though"Harry said brightly and Adam winced "Ouch that sounds like a tough schedual"
"Has to be, in 2 years i have to be ready to take over Garden and step in as commander in chief aka the headmaster, your training won't be so harsh breakfast at 6 book lessons in the morning weapons and fitness training in the afternoons, you'll probably have weekends free to" Harry shrugged "so who are your friends and why are they carring baggage"
"thats tai, jack and mags" Adam said gesturing to the three standing behind him carryingLarge dufflebags, "and as for the bags well you did say you wanted new cadets and they were wanting to go into military training but all of us were turned down and you made that offer and i didn't think you would mind"
"they'd have to sign contracts before they step foot on the island" Harry said firmly and turned to wade to the boat he turned back as he started up the engine "Well come on i don't have all day" once they and there baggage was on the small boat Harry sailed back to the harbour and to the sub he recieved looks of awe as the sub opened up to allow the boat access "Choose your berth wisely you'll be using them for the next 5 days"
"5 surely it won't take that long to get back to Griever Island"
"It doesn't however there are other Cadets to pick up, most of them are military brats who want to stay in one place for more than a month, i also have meetings with various people, one of which is tonight So don't get into trouble on this sub, when i leave most places will be locked off including the hanger doors there will also be a military guard on this vessel so don't try to run off, if you change you mind and want to leave come and tell me" Harry said then turned and matched off as he left hearing Range he head mags mutter
"I don't think he's happy about Having us here"
While they found beds and settled into the boat before going to sit up on top of the Sub basking in the sunlight and talking they were still up there when Harry came out of the Hatch in his SeeD uniform.

5 Days later Harry steered the Sub into the boat hanger and opened up the main ramp leading down to the concrete ledge and spoke on the tanoy, "leave you bages were they are they will be collected later and taken to your rooms, once you have disenbarked please follow the Red line whic will lead you to a lecture room for orientation" Once that was down Harry locked the Captains rooms and the bridge and disembarked himself following the red line he found himself in a large room full of tables and chairs at each place was a thick folder and a few pieces of paper on top, when the last person was in Squall, Seifer and a human Oria stepped in and closed the door behind them.
"Welcome to Griever Garden" Oria Greeted "I am deputy Headmisstress Oria, and thes are Headmaster Squall Leohart-Almasy and Commander Seifer Almasy-Leonhart and of course you've already met Heron Potter"
"there are 4 papers infront of you that is your SeeD contracts The first one is the Contract which says you will never reveal the loaction nor any informations about SeeD to anybody" Seifer took over "Please sign them before we go any further and pass them to the End of your row so we can collect them straight away" 10 minutes later they had all the sheets and Harry logged onto the computer to enter all the information on the sheet which includes their Room numbers.
"The next Contract is a 12 month contract to train here in Griever Garden, plus an agreemnet that you get at least 2 weekends a month on the nearby isands, and 3 months a year free, though probably ot all at once" Squall told them, after that was handed in and passed to Harry to look through the three turned serious "Now all the paperwork is out of the way" Harry snorted at that looking at his pile of paperwork "For you anyway if not for our resident headmaster in training, the folder you now have infront of you in your orientation pack, it briefly outlines the history of Griever and what you will be doing here, also it has a map of the Garden and basic instructions of how to access the main computer systems, This island is shrouded in Secrecy and Has been for a long time, SeeD's as most of you will have been told is a mercenary organisation we work for all goverments and we and you get paid for each mission you complete, there will be no missions for the first year you are with us and no missions for anyone under 16"
"SeeD is shrouded in mystery and that is how it will always stay, we deal in things that would and has made the armies of the world turn tail and run" Squall told them "you may not believe us yet, not until we give you proof at least but the supernatural exists, vampires demons your worst nightmares, SeeD was created to find and destroy those creatures, or in some cases relocate them"
"There are also four types of human" Oria said taking over "Mudanes which are you, Sourcerors knights which are those two" She gestured to Squall and Seifer, "Wizards which use magic through a focus tool usually a wand with a core from a magical animal, and sorcerors which don't need a focus they just need to know how to use their power"
"Whats the differance between a mundane and a knight?" a young girl asked
"Not much" Oria answered "the main differance is that the knights have a higher tolerance for magical damage, plus it takes a bit more to hurt them physically they alse heal a little faster this is bacause the knights are supposed to protect the sorceror when he cannot protect himself"
"Shouldnt you be training knights and wizards to be SeeDs then instead of us mundanes"
"Mundanes have the potential to use certain abilities we at Garden keep very secret expecially from the wizards who would love to take advantage of it, there is an ability we teach here called 'Draw' for lack of a better term, all around the world are Draw points, only someone with the Draw ability can see there points but if you stand above them and use the ability you gain the spells, however you can only used the spells you have stocked and all of them are battle spells"
"Such as"
"Seifer go stand over there" Squall ordered
"Why me, Heron has to get used to taking hits" Seifer complained and Squall shrugged
"Heron move"
"yes Commander" Harry signed and moved to an empty space and stood ready
"Ah ah Heron no jumping away i can see you preparing to move, the new cadets have to see that this isn't an illusion" Seifer taunted and Harry glared at him
"Thundera" Squall cast and Harry was plasted by lightning
"I don't get it you cast thunder and i get hit by lightning, thunder is sound" Harry complained sitting on the floor his clothes smoking
"Cure" Seifer cast healing the damage squall had caused
"Can that spell heal anything"
"Up to a point yes" Harry answred "however if your healing in a battle situation you must clean the would first or risk getting something sealed inside your skin" he looked at Seifer at that "Seifer once healed himself with cure and then two days later complained of a plain in his leg it was soon found he had sealed a piece of metal inside the skin"
"Do you have to bring that up" Seifer complained "as you saw the spells are real, there are many of these draw points around the world you just have to look for them and be careful who you cast them on, Heron is a Sourceror so he can take alot more spells"
"The lowest spells he can bounce back the spell onto the casted which is why it's dangerous to attack a sorceror"
"Also in the orientation pack is descriptions of all the creatures living in this base and you will respect all of them" Oria said firmly "the one you must respect the most are the Elves" she glowed and let the glamour drop leaving a small smartly dressed Houseelf standing there
"What the hell"
"I am a House elf, as will be your instructors until we get you humans trained for the last 4000 years all SeeDs have been Elves we have been wary of humans for good reason, mos of our kind is used as slaves to the wizarding population and so we were afraid that the mundanes would try to do the same to us and we would have to kill those who don't know any better, but now we have a sorceror who has swore to protect us and we need human representative and SeeD's and of course the choice of knights for our newly found sorceror" Harry blushed "Normally Sorcerors either never know they have the ability to become sorcorors or they find it before they are ready to train and accept it and go insane and powerhungry"
"my mistress Sorceress Ultimeticia was one of the insane ones i was very luck Squall managed to destroy her, though he did end up having an accidental love spell cast on him by his Sorceress, Rinoa"
"She was young and loved the princess and knights tales, she thought because i was her knight we should get married and live happily ever after she believed in that dream so much she accidently influenced me" Squall explained "though it was soon sorted out when my friends pointed out some things and the spell was released"
"back to the rules of Garden, the main one is no descriminations of any kind be it race, gender, colour or sexuality"

Over the next year Harry trained, and trained sending only letters to England, and presants from various places around the world to keep everyone guessing That first years travelling was spent making jump points for SeeD use, Each point would be near a Draw point, The jump points were designed by an elf who had realised that it would be difficult for the Humans to move fast and so they sytems was made, each point away from Garden was shielded with wards which Harry had cast, the Jump point in Garden was much larger and could cope with mass jumps both in and out. It worked much like the floo network except without the powder, each pointwas spelled to recognise a spell on the SeeD's dogtags which would resonate with the SeeD if the spell and SeeD didn't resonate then they would be shunted into a Cell on a derserted Island that was designed and built for just that purpose. "You've done well this past year" Squall said smiling slightly at Harry "for the next year you'll be finding and junctioning GF's quezacotl and ifrit first"
"Why those two?" the young sorceror asked "Because those two were noted first in the prophecy, marked by thunder and fire"
"i wonder where the fire come from i understand the thunder, because of my scar and there was a thunderstorm when my parents were murdered but i don't remember anything about fire"
"your house exploded" Dobby said coming into the room, over the past year he and winky had changed alot they spoke properly and Dobby was learning weapons while Winky chose healing and to help in the kitchens.
"Exploded?"
"Yes sir, When moldiewarts cast the killing curse onto baby Harry potter the house went up in flames in a big explosion and voldemort was cast out of his body"
"so there was a thunderstorm and a explosion, thunder and fire"
"So where do i find quezacotl"
"somwehere in a large storm" Squall said "you'll have to find the rest yourself"
"Ifrit will be somewhere hot most likely an active volcano" Harry nodded and went to his computer and stated to look for the largest storms Harry groaned as he realised the Largest storm happening right that moment was in scotland right over Hogwarts castle with a sigh he looked up at squall
"The biggest storm is above hogwarts, and it's the First feast, if i go now they'll think i'm there to stay, on the other hand Quazacotl is very likely to be there they place is extremly magical, the nearest i could get by jump points is 15 miles away from the castle but if i took my bike it would be a 5 minute journey"
"you could set up a jump point in Hogwarts" Seifer pointed out "spend evening and weekends here sorting out who gets which missions"
"Take one of the laptops so you can be in contact and you don't need to be here to assign anything" Squall commented
"We all know how much you've missed hogwarts" Seifer took over "It's ok to go back now you'll have to come weekends at least for your training with Rinoa and us, but you can weild a gunblade well"
"You cheated with that" Harry laughed "it should have taken me alot longer to learn how to use that blade"
"Memory transfer was a great idea" Seifer laughed "and speaded up your training you are now able to act as headmaster of this place and you just need the GF's to full complete your training, the GF's are your last test"
"my last test?"
"Yes" Squall nodded
"Then i'd better pack, i'll be back this weekend to start learning how to use my new GF don't forget to keep me updated" Harry ordered moving out of the office and into his private rooms still talking an giving orders "Oria needs to be notified that i'm leaving of course, and the SeeD's need to be ready to battle with wizards"
When Harry came back out he was dressed like Squall but with seifers coat, with potions and daggers hidden away in his clothes, on his back under the long coat hung a Gunblade which he called Neko no kiba meaning fang of the cat for his animagus form, as a wizard his mother had been right he was a black leopard/panther however because he had a boost from his sorceror powers he could change into any animal in the Feline family, anything from a house cat to a lion, over his shoulder was a large pack, inside of which included a few changed of clothes, some spare weapons and his laptop which was covered in his own power so it would work on magical ground not even an EMP bomb would be able to get through his protection.
Harry's next stop was to collect a small box and a longer box containing his wand and a holster from the safe hidden in his office he slipped the wand and holster on his right forearm and placed the other box which contained a shrunken motor bike Harry said goodbye to his two mentors knowing he would see them again soon and went out the door heading for the Jump room once he was there he made a quick check to make sure he as wearing his SeeD Dogtags, even though he never actually took them off and took a step into the jump room and everything vanished in a flash of green light.

Harry scowled as he came out of the jump, it was pouring with rain, but then what did he expect from the edges of a storm and he was not frivilous enough to use a barrier spell and waste power just for the sake of staying dry, scanning the sky for any sign of Quezacotl Harry steered his bike towards Hogwarts, seeing a flask of green wing The SeeD changed his direction and chased after it ending up on the other side of howgwarts to when he started with the large bird like Guardian floating infront of him Harry smiled slightly and got off his bike shrinking it with a tap of his wand which he then put back up his sleeve and the bike went into his pack which was placed out of harms way
"Well young sorceror, it is about time you try to find me" the thunderbird said with a hint of a smile "You need not fight me young one however i have one task for you to prove yourself worthy of me, as a sorcoror you hold alot of power i want you to use that power and control the storm"

Harry nodded but frowned that wasn't going to be easy, kneeling he closed his eyes and went into a mediative trance and sent out his mind to try to latch onto the differant elements over the next hour Harry slowly gained control and brought the storm unde his power slowly a ring of storm clouds opened above the kneeling sorceror and bathed him in light
"Let it go" Quezacotl demanded senseing Harry weakening the lightning child did as the guardian commanded and dropped to lay on the ground exausted "You passed" The thunderbird said as he vanished leaving Harry laid where he was leavering himself up Harry reached inside his coat and drew out a vial of restoration potion which restored all his energy he sat in the rain a while longer before looking at his watch he cursed slightly when he saw it was nearly time for the Express to get in and he slowly gained a smirk he was going to love seeing their faces, for the past 6 months he had been incomunicardo with the wizarding world who now believed him dead, although Ron, Hermione, Remus, Tonks, and the Twins should know better seeing as he sent them presants every so often. unshrinking his bike Harry headed back in the direction of hogwarts and getting there just as the the last of the carriges pulled up, the purebloods back away in fright at the noise of the motorbike, the muggle born/raised looked on in confusion as a piece of muggle equipment wasn't supposed to be able to work on Hogwarts grounds The bike skidded to a halt infront of the students and snape and mcgonogal who had come to see what the noise was. the Greeneyed sorceror stopped the bikes engine and looked up at the crowd, He had changed in the year he was away, scars had been added on his body from training, muscles were defined and noticable, his eyes were not hidden by glasses anymore with Harry prefering contacts with the active job he had.
"Harry?" Hermione asked quietly coming up to him and Harry nodded, once she got the affirmation the young witch jumped on her friend "Why didn't you tell us you were coming back"
"It was spur of the moment" Harry answered "i have some spare time and mos of my training is complete so i was given permission to come back here for the seventh year"
"What have you been training and where?" Ron asked "you never told us in you letters and they stopped 6 moths ago"
"It was very irrespossible of you to not send letters even if you were sending presants to let us know you were alive" hermione scolded
"Yes Mr Potter where did you run off to"
"all over the world" Harry answered "i was in france 2 days ago, Rome last month, berlin 3 months ago"
"What on Earth were you doing there?" Mcgonogal asked
"Paperwork" Harry groaned
"Harry be serious"
"I am, i have a mountain of paperwork waiting for me at each location not to mention my physical lessons and barely enough sleep to keep me moving" Harry said seriously.
"Inside eveyone and Mr Potter after the feast you will report to the headmaster about your missing year"
"Of course" Harry nodded and went with the griffindors surrounding him into the Castle and through to the great hall
"What sort of training did you get?" Neville asked
"Weapons and magic, i learnt how to wield and blade and daggers, plus defensive and offensive magic"
"that about the Paperwork" semus asked
"It take 34 signitures in a row for my hand to start acheing" the griffindors laughed at the throught of Harry counting how many times he signed somthing before it stared to hurt.
after more questions the first years were brought in and the hat began it's song "hear ye a new year has begun and new students to be sorted Ravenclaw for the smart and studios Hufflepuff for the loyal and hardworking Slyterin for the cunning and sly Griffindor for the brave and couragous but do not think that each person fits only one for there is more to look at surface thought, memories do i need to make a closer judge some belong in two of the house but i must choose one so come along and put me on I'll tell you where you have to be Let the Sorting begin"

After the Feast Harry sat in Dumbledores office with Ron, Hermione, the four heads of houses and Dumbldore, the headmaster was about to speak when the sorting hat got there first.
"How are the Children of fire and ice"
"Squall and Seifer are fine, how do you know" Harry asked getting up from his seat to talk to the hat "oh i remember those two spirits, they taught Salazar and Godric for a while though Salazar was the better of the two and the barer of the necklace that is in your posession"
"Slytherin possesed the pendant?" Harry asked shocked
"Oh yes, Salazar asked me to pass on some books when the prophesised Lightning child came of age tell me young one do you have any guardians"
"I got quezacotl about 3 hours ago"
"hmm and have you attempted to control him yet, i guess he's your first"
"Yes the prophecy says marked by thunder and fire so Squall decided it meant Quezacotl and Ifrit first, i'll go back to the island this weekend and Squall will teach me how to use him in battle"
"yes you do seem to be the centre of quiet a few prophecys" The hat mused
"Only two that i know of one involving me and moldie and the other referes to me as the child of lightning"
"Yes the one who will bring back the SeeDs if i remember correctly
"yeah that's already underway there are 45 cadets currently training"
"45 you work fast,and how many fully trained SeeD's do you have"
"Enough to make me absolutly detest paperwork"
"oh"
"As acting commander i have to go through all their reports andmake sure everything fits from each person in the group"
"Yes that would make sense, ah i think our audience is getting restless if you need help come to me"
"You said something about books"
"oh right just pick me up and i'll leave them in a stack" Harry reached up and found a very large pile of books plus 4 sets of dogtags "my god the DogTags for all four of them"
"Yes they'll open the founder rooms in your Garden"
"I never realised that the keys were in Hogwarts which i should have but i didn't make the connection, so my Garden is as old as Hogwarts"
"Older didn't you look at the records the founders based Hogwarts on Garden" The hat snapped as Harry placed the hat on the table while putting the books in his bag "Merlin was the last one full trained by Squall and Seifer, Salazar chose to only have a few months learning with them but Merlin trained for 4 years his guardian was Leviathon i believe though you would have to ask your commanders about that"
"Did Salazar have a guardian"
"No he cut off his training before he was far enough along to learn how to control one"
"Right"
"Mr potter if your quiet finished" Snape said breaking into the conversation
"We can talk another time" the hat said and went to sleep as harry went back to his seat
"Where have you been Harry?" Dumbledore asked
"Here and there" the young sorceror answered
"WE don't have time for your game Potter just answer the question" Snape snapped
"An island in the carribean mostly, but i've also visited other countrys for various reasons"
"and who are Squall and Seifer"
"My mentors, the two are spirits trapped inside a necklace the necklace is never spoken of but is passed from generation to generation and somehow always ends up in the hands of someone who needs it, some only get part of the training while others get the full, i'm the youngest that's been trainined since the two were placed in the metal"
"Wouldn't they go insane?" Hermione asked "if they've been trapped inside the necklace for so long?"
"No they go to sleep between apprentices and they keep each other occupied and definatly not bored" Harry laughed
"What exactly were they teaching you?" Dumbledore asked
"that is none of your buisness sir, i learned what squall and siefer could teach me though i still have alot more to learn"
"Harry i'm afraid we must insist" Dumbledore said sternly Harry frowned as he felt an itch in his mind and glared at Dumbledore
"And i must insist that you do not try to enter my mind"
"You've learnt occulomency" the headmaster Commented and Harry rolled his eyes
"Of course, occolumency was the root of losing sirius, and i really don't want voldie to see what my training consisted off the best defenses are those kept secret"
Harry refused to give up anymore information no matter who asked and they were soon sent back to griffindor tower
"Why won't you tell the headmaster where you've been?" Hermione shouted as they entered the common room whcih gained them the attention of the griffindors "He's only trying to help"
"I told you it was none of his buisness"
"Harry he's worried we all have been, when you stopped sending letters six months ago we thought you were dead and the presants you were sending could have been sent automatically or something"
"i'm sorry" Harry sighed "i just got so busy if i wasn't in one city i was traveling to another i didn't stay in one place more than a few weeks"

The next morning Harry was sat at 6 in the morning in the Great Hall with his laptop and a cup of coffee going through differant reports and sorting missions into catagorys so he could pass them on to the commanders who would then choose the people best for them.
"Mr Potter why are you so early?" Mcgonogal asked as she approached him
"Work" Harry answered sipping his coffee "Just because i'm not there doesn't mean i don't still have files to sort through, i'm just lucky they can't send me paperwork for me to sign"
"and how long have you been working on whatever that is"
"It's a laptop computer it links me to Garden so i can access files and messages really easily"
"you didn't answer how long"
"about 2 hours" Harry answered "if i was still at garden i would be training now and then doing this later in the morning and afternoon or on a mission myself"
"Mission"
Harry was saved from answering by a first year griffindor stumbling into the door and headed to a seat by Harry the young boy took a double take at the laptop "but thats not supposed to work here" he complained and Harry chuckled
"it's been charmed to let it work here"
"Your Heron aren't you?" the kid asked and Harry looked shocked
"What makes you ask that"
"My brothers a SeeD cadet, he sent me a picture on the commanders of garden and said you were the commader in cheif and that if i wanted to join SeeD was i finished school or spend the summers training then i had to learn who my supiriors were and that common knowledge in SeeD families so Dan thought there be no harm in him sending me a picture"
"It's alright yes i'm commander Heron" arry smiled "I'm actually going over SeeD aplications at the minutes whats your brothers name"
"Daniel kingsby he's a muggle and i'm kennedy"
"Only muggles are accepted at Garden at the minute, the only magicals there are headmaster Squall, deputy head Oria, commander Seifer and the 23 instructors" Harry told him while going through his files to find Kingsby "Ah here we are, Daniel Kingsby 13 years old, first year cadet, chosen to study barehanded techniques and infromation gathering"
"He always wanted to be a spy" kenedy smiled as Harry brought up a picture of his brother in the SeeD cadet uniform. "Wow he looks all smart, does he have to wear the uniform all the time"
"No only when he's in a formal meeting with the commanders, or for ceremonies, sometimes he'll have to wear them while traveling to his missions but most of the time cadets choose their own clothers to wear"
"When will he go on his first mission"
"Not until he's 16, then he'll be assigned under a commander who will decide his missions at 17 he can take the SeeD exam, passing the exam means harder missions and the trust that he doesn't need supervision"
"Dan said you were spending the year collecting something whats there to collect at Hogwarts"
"The Guardians are scattered around the world i have to collect them, they'll help boost my power, i am not yet strong enough to face voldemort myself, but the SeeDs and i are capable of taking on deatheaters so it won't be long before we join the fight as our own faction"
"Will wizards be able to join SeeD brother said we wouldn't and only you were magical"
"It will only be muggle born or raised wizards wizard raised would not be able to cope with our work unless they grew up with us, and they rely on their wands take that away and theres defenceless, keep fit while your in Hogwarts kenny and you may pass the physical requirment of the entry exam and don't forget to keep up with Muggle work, we operate mainly in the Muggle world"
"But brother said you weren't a wizard when i asked"
"i can be classed as a wizard" Harry old him still goingthrough page after page of reports.

That weekend Hogwarts was in uproar as Harry had dissapeared while the students and teachers scowered the halls looking from him Harry was stood learning to summon Quezacotl and studing Geometric graphs to determin where Ifrit was. "Thunder Strike" Harry shouted pushing his left hand out infront of him like he was pushing open a door, Squall nodded in saisfaction as Harry dissapeared and Quezacotl took his place letting loose his thunder.
On Sunday night three children of a very rich and powerful American family were kidnapped and SeeD had been called in as the people who had taken them were Vampires Harry less the team himself knowing he wouldn't get many missions in the next year.
The mansion the children were being kept at was in the middle of italy and Harry had with him 2 SeeD teams each consisting of 5 members.
"Team one will search for the children plus any other prisoners and secure that area make sure there kept alive and safe, team two and three will be the diversion to let team on go in as fast as they can, we're to kill as many vampires as we can find try not to miss any" Harry commanded "team two will go in through the back while team three will be at the front" "Yes Commander" the team leaders for each group said "keep in radio contact, and check in every 10 minutes, stick fire and thunder spells, also try and keep the library or any books and papers you find intact"
An hour later the 3 teams stormed the place with HArry leading Team two.

Harry watched as the inteligence teams converged on the mansion and the sorceror left the vampire lair in the hands on the 3 retrieval team leaders while Harry himself jumped back to a jump point that he had set up in Hogwarts he got there just as they were having breakfast.
"Harry" Hermione shouted ooking horrified infact most of the students looked frightened Harry looked down as himself and shrugged
"I'm not hurt Hermione the blood isn't mine"
"Then whose is it Mr Potter?"
"A Job" Harry said waving his wand over his clothes while casting scorgrify
"A Job?" Snape repeated standing
"Commander" A voice shouted coming skidding into the hall and sapping a salute "We've found some things you'll want to take a look at"
"Brother" a voice shouted comming from the Ravenclaw table
"Your sister cadet?"
"Yes sir, my parents kept where i was going from her, they didn't want her to worry"
"it's alright cadet it's understandable now what has been found"
"Books sir with refrences to the Guardian forces, and draw points the vampires were in the process of trying to find away to harness both luckily it hasn't worked"
"Take the books mentioning the guardians straight to Headmaster Squall, how far did the vampires get in accessing the points"
"They located one point, he records state they lost 12 vampires trying to draw and 22 human victims that they forced to try to draw, another 78 are injured and are being transferred to garden"
"keep me updated on the casuality list, can the doctors handle the influx"
"Yes sir, in their words we were trained by the best to be the best"
"SeeD motto" Harry smirked
"Yes sir" the cadet smiled "Commander almasy-leonhart also told me to relay the message that you would be getting hard copys of the reports for you to sign, it'll be the youngest cadets running the back and forth"
Harry groaned "Nooooo no more signing, i swear siefer and squall are only doing this to make me regret agreeing to take over garden"
"You are our commander sir all of us are waiting for you to step in full time"


Harry Potter/FVII - Sephiroth/Cloud Vincent/Cid

Long ago on a planet called Gaia five beings lived. The first was a tall man with long silver hair, bright emerald green eyes which had slit pupils, he stood about six foot in height. His normal mode of dress is knee-high boots looseish black trousers, covered by a black leather coat which is secured at his waist and hangs down to mid-calf, his shoulders are covered by metal armour and his hands with black gloves. his weapon of choice is the Masamune an odachi type sword which is over 5 foot in length his name is Serphiroth Valentine-Strife.
The next was his other half, Cloud Strife-Valentine a blue eyed man who stood at the height of Five foot eight. His hair is blond and usually sticks up in a mass of spikes. His usual uniform consists of brown boots, baggy blue trousers, a black zip up sleevless wollen vest and black gloves. His main weapons were two swords the first was the powerful Ultima sword which was usually kept inside a special case for there was not much use for a sword that powerful when his other sword would work well. His second sword was called the Tsurugi which was actaully six blades combinded to make one, though all six blades could be used seperately.
The next of the five were two vampires, the eldest of the two was a red eyed 6 foot tall man by the name of Vincent Valentine-Highwind, with long black hair his left arm is usually covered by a metal claw type guantlet, and his usual apperel is black clothing covered by a red raggedy cloak which when buckled closed coveres the lower half of his face he also wears a red bandanna tied around his forehead. His main weapon is a tri-barreled gun called Cerberus.
His partner and fellow vampire is Cid Highwind-Valentine, a pilot and engineer. He has short blond hair, blue eyes and usually has a cigerette stuck in his mouth, his weapon of choice is a spear called venus gospel. His clothing usually includes sturdy black workman boots, an oil stained t-shirt, dark trousers and goggles perched on the top of his head.
The last was not at all human he was a red lion-like beast with intelligence to rival a humans and was quiet capable of speech, and he went by the name Nanaki or Red XIII.
Our story begins with them. Thousands of years ago on the planet of Gaia a great tradgedy happened and hundreds were killed in the wake of that tradgedy the planet cried out for true guardians that she could rely on, and three beings stepped forward, Cloud Strife, Vincent Valentine and Nanaki the Planet agreed and used their original tampering which was done by a doctor called Hojo to modify their bodies further to make them receptive to her own power and the power of the lifestream, it would also let her comunicate with them mentally as she used to do with the centra.
Time past and Vincent and Cid fell in love and with Gaia's blessing Vincent turned Cid.
However with this going on they noticed Cloud being more depressed than usual and eventually got the story out of him. He told them that although he had never made soldier he was training for it, and while training he had caught the attention of Zack who thought he had potential and through zack he had met Sephiroth all three of them were great friend but the relationship between sephiroth and cloud was differant, they were lovers. the other three upon hearing the story went to Gaia to plead for Sephiroths return but she denied them, however the did not stop and after three years she finally agreed and Sephiroth was brought back to life after that the group lived happily together for many years before Gaea's next surpirse was found and it was strangly nanaki who found it first.
On his 75th summer after meteor nanaki started to feel nausious and began to put on weight worried they asked Gaea who laughed and told them that Nanaki was pregnant, suffice to say that news shocked them she went on to explain that nanaki's race deserved to be reborn and that Nanaki could asexually reproduce himself she then told them that is was also possible for them to also get pregnant but it would need both partners wanting a child.
Over the centuries that followed all them them had children. however although the children had extended lifetimes they unlike their parents were not immortal. The five had to watch as the world changed around them, space flight's happened though Cid made sure he was involved in that, and soon colonys were built the gaeans soon left gaea behind and concquered the stars.
They became the most technologically advanced beings in the universe and created many things one of the most inavitive things they created however was a transport system which would come to be called the Stargate. The 'gate worked by acessing the lifestream and travelling through it and incredible speeds using this they were able to get anywhere where there was a gate in seconds, and as the Gaeans spread across the universe they took the lifestream with them. After finding out they were truely alone in the universe the gaeans dabbled in biological creation and many races were created some where just modified monsters from Gaea others were completly new most were left to evolve on their own after the first few steps were taken and from this four races appeared in the universe, the humans which most resembled the gaeans themselves, the knox who were healers, the asguard who were protectors, and the furling were mediators and explorers, in actaullity they were Nanaki's race and he watched other them protectivly until the plauge hit them.
While this happened Gaea and the Lifestream itself was kept hidden and there was no knowledge of their existance only the gaeans knew of them and of the five protectors and they respected them. There was another race however that would not appear for centuries and that was the Goa'uld, these snakes were created as guardians for children, were meant to be silent protectors but they mutated into symbiote creatures that didn't care about their hosts.
However the gaeans ran across a problem they split into two differant groups, one group stayed where they were but the second left, by this time both had forgotton the legends of the lifestream and the five guardians who watched from the shadows. They settled on what would come to be called Earth after millions of years a plague struck and most of the gaeans who had settled on Earth and were calling themselves Alterans were killed those that survived took their capital city, a city ship named atlantis and fled, with Cid and Vincent going with them while Cloud and Sephiroth were with the Ori, the group that had stayed in the first galaxy and Nanaki was guarding Gaea and raising his latest batch of cubs.
The Alterans continued with their work and seeded the pegasus galaxy with human's but also began dabbling in the races that had already been placed there one such race being the iratus bug whose shell could be used in creating natural armour. The iratus bug unfortunatly mutated into the race know as the wraith and they attacked the Alterans and overwellmed them with numbers and so the Alterans escaped back through the stargate to Earth. Eventually the Alterans or at least some of them ascended and Cid and Vincent returened to Gaea. nThe Ori also ascended but unlike the Alterans who decided to not interefere with the mortal, the Ori wanted to be worshipped like gods, but both of the races upon ascension discovered Gaea's prescance and the lifestream and the prescance of the five guardians all of whom had to ability to destroy the ascended if they stepped out of line, but as long as they didn't harm the lifestream itself Gaea and the guardians would let them be. That does not mean that Gaea and the guardians do not watch the closely for they did and they were growing more concerened with the Ori.
However although they watched they decided it was not yet time for them to act against the ori and the five spent time jumping from planet to planet learning about the differant cultures sometimes they stayed for only a few days other for years.
And so brings us to the begining of out story for Five thousand years ago it truly begins with a Goa'uld for this goa'uld managed to capture Cid and Cloud and after discoving they were not part of any of the races that she knew of she started to experiment all the while keeping them sedated and keeping her ship moving she eventually ended up on Earth with Ra and with his permission they began experimenting on humans blending the DNA it took three months for Vincent nanaki and sephiroth to track them down, to kill the Goa'uld and to destroy all the research notes that the Goa'uld had unfortunatly they did no know of Ra's involvment and so he was left alone, the subjects of the Goa'ulds experiments were taken from Egypt and were placed on a smallish island. According to the research notes which Cloud, Nanaki and Vincent were able to desifer the subjects had had their very DNA changed and merged with the DNA of Cloud or Cid which made the new humans subsects of Gaeans, the five guardians didn't know what to do with them and so they asked the ascended Altherans to keep an eye on them and the five left them to their own devices, not even a decade later Cloud and Vincent returned.
It had turned out that the DNA splicing had turned the subjects into spellcasters and without the knowledge of anything to keep their new magic under control they were sending off accidental magic and hurting themselves and the others around them. And so Cloud and Vincent helped them learn and taught them control Vincent soon left and Sephiroth took his place.
Unfortunatly during this time there had been an uprising on Earth and Ra had left taking with him all reminants of Goa'uld technology which mean no ship and the Stargate had been buiried under a few ton of sand. leaving Cloud and Sephiroth stuck as they only travelled the lifestream without a gate if the need was truely great. The two settled into life on Earth travelling and teaching magic, one thousand years ago they were aproached by two young women and were asked to help create a school on the original island after discussing it between themselves the two agreed and Hogwarts was founded, Cloud was Godric Griffindor at that time and Sephiroth was Salazaar Slytherin. During that time Cloud gave birth to twins, one took the Griffindor name the other Slytherin, once the twins were old enough to take their places at the school the two Gaeans vanished leaving only Portraits behind, portraits that over time people forgot who they were and the images people thought of as Godric Griffindor was actually the older twin and salazar was the younger twin, and so Cloud and Sephiroth were able to watch over the school in peace, and some dissapointment when Salazar the fifth decided he was going to kill all muggleborns.
At that time however the real Cloud and Sephiroth were in the pegasus galaxy hunting Wraith who had gotten to numerous and were good at keeping the guardians fighting skills sharp.
Along with Cid and Vincent the pair returned to Earth only three hundred years ago by ship and became part of the wizarding world, the ship itself was hidden deep beneath the forbidden forrest in a hanger Sephiroth and Cloud had created when they built the school.
Vincent and Cid created a family called the Potters and settled down into family life, Sephiroth and Cloud on the other hand wandered for many years until they settled down in non-magical Scotland and took the name valentine using there own spellcasting power to seem as if they were ageing and looking differant from their true apperance for silver hair was not common, espcially not hair as long as Sephiroths was. And Cloud's glamour made him appear as a women as the two were planning to have children and having a male pregnant would not have been a good idea. The names they used were Claudia and Stephen Valentine and they had three children in all the strangest thing was that the youngest child was unable to access her spellcasting power, although she could use materia where the other two couldn't, and was very pleased when that meant her two brothers had to go to Hogwarts while she was able to stay at home learning directly from her parents. At age twenty three the two boys wanted to see the places there parents had told them about and left with Sephiroth and Cloud to explore the galaxy and eventually they were also taken to Gaea. The youngest stayed in Earth and was eventually married to a man named Connor Evans she had two children the oldest Petunia was, like her not able to use magic but could weild materia, unfortunatly Rosa could not teach her eldest daughter for when her parents had left they took everything except two shield materia which were hidden inside two necklaces that Rosa had no knowledge of, her second and youngest daughter Lily however was a spellcaster and was sent to Hogwarts where she met James Potter, Vincent and Cids great-grandson. On her graduation Rosa gifted Lily with one of the necklaces while the other had gone to Petunia on her Eighteenth birthday. Once that was done Rosa decided that since her husband had died there was nothing keeping her on Earth for Lily and Petunia were grown up and didn't need her. So she travelled to Scotland and to the hanger beneath the forrest and called for her parents who came to collect her. Her daughters were of course distressed at their mother dissappearance but there was nothing for them to do about it, all locating charms failed and no private investigator could find a trace of her and soon she was pronounced dead.
Lily went on to Marry James Potter and they had a beautiful baby boy. that they called Harry James Potter. At the exact time that the Evil being called Voldemort sent the killing curse at baby Harry billions of light years away Sephiroth and Cloud were notified by Gaea that one of the shield materia's that they had given to Rosa had been activated and they two travelled by Lifestream to get to Earth to find out what had happened upon reaching the sight they found a burned out shell of a house which looked like a large explosion had taken place inside of it and on the second floor they found the materia blakened and cracked taking the materia the two quireied Gaea about what had happened and they were directed to Privet drive where a year old baby was wailing on a doorstep. Exchanging look the two picked up the basket and the letter which was tucked into the basket next to the child, Cloud held the child while Sephiroth read the note. Which explained about what had happened and who the child was, in a moment of unity the two left privet drive carring little Harry and left Via the lifestream back to Gaea where the other three guardians were waiting.
It did not take long for the five to agree to raise the child themselves along with the three cubs nanaki had just given birth to. It was a shame that Rosa could not be contacted to see the child as she had decided to stay in the pegasus galaxy permantly using materia to help the victims of wraith cullings.
Two days after they had brought Harry to the planet Gaea herself called them to the lifestream to talk to them, in the lifestream they were greeted by James, Lily and Gaea herself who appeared looking like a twenty year old woman wearing a long green dress and bare feet, her eyes were a warm brown and she radiated motherly affection.
"Grandpa" Lily cried running to Sephiroth amd the ex-general smiled as he hugged the girl while Cloud who was holding Harry pouted slightly.
"I don't get a greeting?" He asked and Lily let go of Sephiroth to hug Cloud and little Harry. "It's good to see you Lily"
"Grampa, Nan i'd like you to meet my husband James, James this is Cloud and Sephiroth my grandparents"
"It's nice to meet the both of you" James grinned as Cid and Vincent appoached him.
"Lily how did you know about our names? we've always been claudia and stephen to you." Cloud asked.
"We're part of the Lifestream now" Lily smiled saddly "Once we died we were given knowledge on who exactly our ancestor were, it was a bit of a shock to find out we were related and that my grandparents once used the names Griffindor and Slytherin"
"The relationship between the both of you is very distant even the relationship between Vincent and Sephiroth is much more distant than father and son should be"
"As much as i would like to leave you to talk" Gaea interrupted "We must explain about Harry."
"Of Course Gaea" the four men bowed to the entity
"On Earth just before Harry was born a prophecy was made speaking of a chosen one who would defeat the dark lord it does not matter if this prophecy is true or not what does matter is that other believe it is true one of those who believe it is true is the Dark Lord Tom Riddle also known as Voldemort it is for this reason that Voldemort killed Lily and James, and turned his magic on Harry resulting in the backlash of the curse due to the Shield materia because of this Harry has been lauded a hero for killing the dark lord even though he is not yet truely dead, if he returns to Earth he will be hunted by the dark lords followers and they will try to kill him, the others in thw wizarding world will praise his name."
"But neverthe less we wish him to study at Hogwarts" James said then directed his next comment at Sephiroth "It makes that even more of a heritage thing since you and Cloud built it"
"The wizarding world is built on predjudice" Lily said sadly "And according to the Lifestream another prophecy was spoken right at the time you took Harry from my sisters doorstep"
"The new prophecy does not superceed the first but instead adds to it.
Child of the stag and flower
Raised by the Guadians five
Power to defeat the evil shrouded in light and dark
Teach him guardians, to protect and fight
Bestow upon him your might
Challenges come to the castle nigh
silver and gold must align
if any have the hope of victory
Alliance in all forms
will turn the tide of war
For beware the evilness comes
And the dark lord will not be the end
Civilisations built of predjudice
will crumble in darkness
Child of the stag and flower
Teach the children of the ancients
The ways of unity
Guardians Teach him strength and wisdom
for he will need your lessons"
"please teach him and raise him well" Lily said with a deep bow.
And so they did. for the first five years of his life Harry with the Guardians was raised on Gaea alongside Nanaki's cubs who became his best friends and companions. As he grew the five taught him many lessons disguiesed as play, he learnt how to track from Hide and Seek, how to read a runners movements and how to keep an even pace in tag, how to think stratigically in keepaway. In his sixth year of life Cloud and Cid started to take him out of short trips to peacefull worlds letting him learn about co-existance. He also began hand to hand combat training, at seven he began his magical training and Sephiroth and Vincent began taking him to worlds involded in minor Civil wars so Harry could see how they were resolved and in time help resolve them, while Cloud and Cid continued to take him to the peacefull planets they also took him with them when they were going to help people, whether that be by taking supplies or healing. At eight he began to train in using a sword and dagger, at nine he was taught to use a gun. By ten he was proficient at most of his lessons though he still had a long way to go, at aged eleven he returned to Earth and to England.

Sephiroth and cloud were the ones to take him back to Earth along with the three cubs who had refused to leave him. Upon reaching London the two took Harry to Gringotts and the three were ushered into a accountants office.
"Good Morning" the Goblin greeted "i was told you had issues about an account here at Gringotts"
"Not just one account" Sephiroth corrected "four accounts"
"The Griffindors, the Slytherins, the Strifes, and the Potters." Coud listed
"All very high security Vaults we will need proof of your identity and proof of your claim"
"That is easily done with a blood stone" Sephiroth said smoothly
"Yes but bloodstones were outlawed seventy years ago, however for a price i'm sure we can come to some arrangement about it's use"
"How much?" Cloud asked bluntly and the goblin named his price which Sephiroth disagreed with and Harry watched in amusment as the three bargained soon it was sorted. The Bloodstone was summoned and placed infront of them.
"I claim the Griffindor and Strife accounts" Cloud stated after slicing his finger to let blood drip onto the stone. When the blood hit the stone it glowed and the nameas Griffindor and Strife appeared above it. Sephiroth went next and claimed the Slytherin and Strife accounts and the stone agreed, they then turned to Harry.
"I clim, the slytherin, Griffindor and Potter accounts" the stone glowed and above it appeared the three family names.
The goblin satisfied and slightly amazed about the families being claimed sent for the account books and vault keys. It took several hours before everything was sorted and Cloud and Sephiroth were now the overseers of the Potter finances until Harry would turn eighteen and at that point he was also inherit the Griffindor and Slytherin Vaults though he could already call himself the heir to the two families.
Leaving gringotts with a pouch full of money the three stopped first at Madame malkins for robes and then the trunk shop, where they bought a ceder and pine trunk they then went to the apothocary and bought the first year supply set, their next stop was to the stationary shop where they bought quills, parchment, and ink. the last stop was to the book shop where they bought the books Harry would need as well as any others that stuck the family's fancy to go back to the homeworld and their private library.
The only place the three didn't not go unlike all the other first years was to olivander for Harry already had a wand, one that had been made escecially for him, the wood came from the ancient forrest and the core was pure mako.
The three returned to the hanger where the cubs were waiting and stayed there for the next few days going over the lies Harry would have to tell about his past and making sure he knew everything he would need to about growing up hidden in the muggle world with no mention of space, the stargate or the guardians.
On September the first Harry said goodbye to Sephiroth and Cloud and with the cubs snuck into Hogwarts. He stood in the shadows as the first years came in and the tall witch in green robes started calling out names, she visibly hesitated when she said his name.
"Potter, Harry" She called and the young Gaean seperated himself from the shadows and walked forward his black robes swaying behind him and the three half grown furlings at his side.

The students and teachers alike started as the green eyed youth stepped from the shadows with his cats, his midnight black open robes were the only consession to the uniform, instead of shoes he wore knee high boots and black looseish trousers in the style of his grandfather Sephiroth, his top was a sleevless wollen zip up like his grand'mother' cloud, and his hands were covered in black gloves. He walked with fluid grace that spoke of his training, all eyes were on him as he walked towards the stool and settled the hat upon his head.
"Ahh intresting, very intresting i haven't seen someone who knows as much about the origin of the wizarding world as you, and to be raised by"
"Yes i know" Harry said softly.
"You're difficult to sort, smart enough to be in Ravenclaw but you do not enjoy studying just for the love of books, you are loyal enough for Hufflepuff and yet like your ancestors you can cut loyalty like a knife when it is required and kill a man you once called friend"
"I do whats necessary" the youth refuted "I was raised as a guardian."
"But loyalty to your family is paramount"
"And will never change my family is my heart, they keep me grounded we keep each other living and moving, granma Rosa would have lost her way without us there to help her when she called to us"
"But your family is the only ones to have your true loyalty"
"No, Gaea also has my loyalty i will never betray her"
"Yes i see. still Hufflepuff is not the right place for you young guardian, that leaves us with Griffindor and Slytherin."
"Yes"
"Griffindor the house of the brave and you are certainly that, Slytherin the house of the cunning you are that also, you are used to weaving lies and living in secret your life is centered around hiding and protecting."
"True, plus i was raised by Them"
"yes that does make it a little more difficult. Your family raised you well"
"thank you"
"But that does not make it easier to sort you, you are brave, fighting to help people remain free, healing in a war zone, escorting refugees, helping negotiations, believing in justice and unity. Yet you are Slytherin, cunning, sneaky, with the ability to turn off your emotions and do a job that needs doing, you are prepared to take a life if it is needed and not care about the killing though it has never happened your family has taken that care, you have the ability to cut to the heart of the issues and use your cunning to get your side what the need or want in negotiations, you are stealthy enough to sneak into the places you need to be, and have no one question your prescance. You are Slytherin and yet you are Griffindor i am not sure which house you should be in, and so i give it you to choose. Choose well and wisely young Guardian for once the choice is made you cannot take it back."
"I will be the wolf in sheeps clothing"
"Griffindor then"
"Yes"
"So be it be well young lord and come and see me sometime, GRIFFINDOR" The hat shouted and Harry pulled the hat off his head while rising smoothly to his feet when the Griffindor table roared out in cheers, Harry Blushed slightly at all the cheers as he walked to the red and gold table.
"We got Harry we got Harry" two redheaded twins cheered.
"Welcome to Hogwarts Mr potter" Another red head greeted and Harry smiled brightly, it was nice to feel welcome in a new place. one of the cubs nudged Harry who nodded to them and the three vanished back into the shadows leaving Harry at the house table. Once the sorting was done Dumbledore rose to his feet.
"Before we begin the feast i'd like to say a few words and they are, Nitwit! Blubber! oddment! Tweak!" and with those words the feast appeared on the table with a grin Harry loaded up his plate.
"Welcome to Hogwarts Harry, he's fred and i'm george"
"no dear brother i'm george and your fred, or was that the other way around?" the other twin argued.
"Your Harry Potter i read about you in"
"i know" Harry nodded "my family and i had fun looking over the books and laughing at the speculations, none of it's true or at least it isn't as far as i know, the books say i was with my aunt when i wasn't, i've been with my grandmother."
"But everyone knows that the rest of you family is dead" a red head about the same age as harry butted in and Harry's eyes narrowed at him.
"Just because my family preferes to keep itself out of the waizarding world does no mean we are dead, my grandmother on my mother side was a squib of the Valentine family my grandmother Rosa decided when my mother was old enough to return to the family manor and to take her place as a Lady of the family."
"The Valentine family?" Another young man queried "Wow that family is really old and secretive, the dissappear for years at a time"
"Nah not dissappear we just take other names when we need to" Harry laughed a few minutes later Dumbledore again stood and called the hall to attention
"Welcome students to a new year at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, as usual the forbidden forrest is as always forbidden, and you can get a list of any and all forbidden items from mr Flich our caretaker. For the rest of the year the third floor corridor is out of bounds unless you wish to die a horrible death. Any other rules can be found in your commons rooms. Quidditch trials will be held on the second week of the term. And now before we go to bed let us sing the school song."
Harry blinked several times when he saw the school song then his lips twitched in amusment, as the students began to sing the Griffindor tables interest was brought to harry who was singing the school song, in latin. As Harry finished he opened his eyes which had closed during his singing it was to see everyone staring at him, the young wizard flushed bright red.
"Ah music a magic beyond what we do here. have a good nights sleep all of you"
The Griffindor prefects led the first years through the castle and up into a tower when they came to a large portrait with a very large woman in a pink dress.
"Caput draconis" Spoke the red headed prefect and the portrait swung open to reveal a red and gold room beyond it. there were two staircases leading up and the first years were warned that no male could enter the female dorms.The boys were shown up to their own dorm.
"how did you do that at dinner with the song you had everyone in the palm of your hand" One of the boy said and Harry blushed again
"It was somthing i was taught when i was little, my main guardians are negotiators they travel to places to sort out dissputes one of the places we had to stay with were singers, all of them sung even if they were really bad, their history was passed down through song, it was really funny because my uncle Cid has a really bad singing voice and uncle seph hates singing, but Cloud loves to sing so he was doing most of the negotiations"
"sounds like a really strange place, I'm Dean Thomas by the way" Dean said flopping on a bed.
"I'm seamus finnigan"
"Neville Longbottom" Another said shyly
"And i'm Ron weasley"
"Well you already know i'm Harry Potter. My cats are Rena, Fillia and Sera" As he said their names the three walked out from the shadows of the room suprising the other boys.
"What kind of cat are they? i've never seen their type before"
"there called Furlings" Harry answered "they're a magical type of cat that are very intelligent and protective of their friends. The Valentine family has been protecting them for centuries. A long time ago they were hunted and so only a few remain, these three being the youngest technically they should still be with their mother because there so young but they refused to leave me and since my parents wanted me to come here they came to"
"How old are they?"
"10 years old, but in furling terms that like a two year old because the race lives so long" Harry explained "there still babies"
The three cubs all snuggled upto the youth who was sat on his own bed.

The next morning the first years followed the other years down to the great hall half way there Neville nearly ran into his back when Harry suddenly stopped and staired at a a portrait.
"That portrait has been a mystery for the last eight hundred years no one knows who they are" Dumbledore said making everyone jump.
"How can no one know? don't portraits nomally talk?" Dean asked
"yes they do normally, however this portrait was cursed it's said that the only thing that will break the curse is for someone to call them by their true names but seeing as no one knows who they are"
"No one?" Harry asked quietly a small smile twitching at his lips.
"No Harry people have tried to find out but we don't even know who cursed them"
"We have a copy of this portrait at my home. Portrait i speak the names Salazar Slytherin and Godric griffindor though i know they are not the names of your birth they were the names you used when building this school your true names were Sephiroth Valentine and Cloud Strife-Valentine"
"The names speak true" a female voice said and the sound of shattering crystal followed as the curse broke and the two men smiled down at Harry.
"Thank you young one, but tell us how did you know? even when we built this school we kept our true names hidden?"
"My great grandparents on my motherside were Claudia and Stephan Valentine and my great grandfather on my fathers side was vincent highwind"
"I see, then it's good to meet you descendant" Sephiroth said "Have you been to the vaults yet?"
"Yes they took me a few days ago, i'm officialy the Heir now"
"Good" Cloud grinned "We had been worried that the riddle boy would be the heir but not many know that if your the heir of Slytherin you also the heir to Griffindor and Valentine"
"From the records from Gringotts he triad to gain acess to the vaults but vault wouldn't open for him so although he may call himself the heir to Slytherin he isn't"
"Harry are you saying both lord Griffindor and lord Slytherin were from the Valentine family?" Dumbledore said incredulously
"They were" Harry confirmed


Harry Potter/FVII - Cloud/Sephiroth - hints of Vincent/Harry

It was peaceful here, the boy throught looking up at the stars no one would bother him here. He was laid on his back on top of an unused tower of Hogwarts castle slowly his arm came up and he started to trace the constallations. the big dipper, orions belt, canis major, he let his hand drop with a sigh Canis major, the dog of the stars. Padfoot. Sirius. Gone. Gone and it was his fault. Not totally but still his fault.
Habit, ingrained reaction, that's what his problem was, he had an ingrained reaction to try to rescue someone when they're in trouble, chances are if he heard a scream he would go running towards it, no matter who was screaming he would try to help them. However he definatly needed to find a way to restrain himself from rushing into situations blindly, running in left people dead he had seen that lesson twice, now he had to ingrain it inside himself to stop him running towards danger, he had to do it to keep himself and others alive.
He wouldn't fail them, or himself, anymore. he would only truely trust and rely on himself, but to that he had to learn about this world of his, both sides of the same coin, light and dark, magical and muggle, life and death, kill or be killed. The world of the hunter and the prey, was he the hunter? or the prey? to survive he had to become the hunter and forget the mentality of the prey, the prey that runs into danger, the prey that becomes trapped, the prey that is controllable.
Unpredictable, indepentant, self-reliant, self-sufficiant, yes that is what he needed to become, needed to be. he could not afford to rely on others couldn't put them in harms way. Now was the time to break away, now was the time to learn what he must, now was the time to learn how to truely survive. How to start? how to get away from Private drive? how to learn? how to hide until he was ready.
We will help you the Boy bolted to his feet and spun around looking for the mysterious voice
"who's there?" He demended
We are here the voice said and resolved itself into five people, Three of them the boy recognised as his parents and Sirius the other two where unknown one had long knee length siver hair and bright glowing green eyes with slit pupils, the other was about half a foot smaller with short spikey blond hair and bright blue eyes both were wearing what seemed to be armour and a sword the blond had his on his back while the other had a sword strapped to his waist.
"Mum? Dad? Sirius? How? what? why?"
"It's alright Harry we're realy here, your not hallucinating" Lily told him softly the boy looked at them in shock.
"Why are you here? HOW are you here?"
"The how is easier than the why" James told him "And the answer is standing beside me, Our companions were the ones to bring us here, this is Sephiroth and Cloud Strife" Sephiroth mearly nodded to him while cloud smiled slightly. "they are protectors and soldiers, they cannot speak like we do, there not totally here the voice you heard before was Cloud speaking directly into your mind."
"we're not here to blame you for our deaths if that's what your worried about Harry" Sirius said "It wasn't your fault, you are still very young and you do not have the necessary knowledge or ability to walk into a situation like the department of ministries and know exactly how to win, all you knew were that you're visions had come true before and i was in trouble, voldemort knew you would believe the vision. As insane as he acts voldemort is extremly smart and devious, and he knows a hell of a lot bout the dark arts and manipulation" Harry nodded slowly
"You're really here" Harry whispered
"We're really here little one and we're allowed to stay for 24 hours, and from now on well be able to come to you for 24 hours a month" Lily told him smiling softly
"Seriously?"
"Yep" Sirius chirped nodding and Harry grinned the grin slowly faded
"You still haven't explained why and i doubt your here just to see me"
You are correct child a voice came into his head sounding commanding and powerful Every planet in this universe is connected through the lifestream
"lifestream?"
We will explain the lifestream later for now please listen to sephiroth the voice Harry recognised as Cloud said and Harry nodded and turned to Sephiroth.
The Monster known as Voldemort is a blight on this planet and if he is not stopped he will not only harm your people but the planet and lifestream as well, Cloud and I are protectors of the lifestream however we alone cannot protect everything
the lifestream told us of you Cloud said taking over as Sephiroth paused You have the potential to join us as protectors but to do so you wuld become like us, un-ageing, immortal always watching for threats to the lifestream
We will train you, train you to fight like us, with us. It will take a long time if you agree to it
"but i would be able to defeat voldemort?"
"Yes" James answered "But think carefully on you answer, you would be immortal Harry with only cloud and sephiroth with you, watching your friend and people age and die"
Harry looked at the five of them
"How long have you been protectors?"
Only five years Cloud answered We have seen friend die in battle but we have yet to see age take them
"But it will take them and they and you will see your friend die" Sirius said seriously "could you do it Harry? Be a protecter of the universe for all time, never dieing?"
"Yes" Harry whispered his answer
Is that your final answer? Sephiroth asked
"Yes, if it will help me learn, help me to stand on my feet, help me to defeat voldemort then my answer is Yes"
So be It Sephiroth nodded harshly
"So what happens now?"
"Now you go to bed and tomorrow we'll meet you at kings cross station and we'll go to diagon Alley to talk to gringotts about the Potter accounts" James told him "After that's done you will travel to gaia where you will begin your training with cloud and sephiroth and you will not tell anyone that your going, no one must know about your training"
"Ok" Harry nodded "i'll see you at kings cross then" the five nodded and faded away

KINGS CROSS STATION, LONDON
As Harry stepped off the train the five 'ghosts' appeared before him right in the path of another student who walked straight through sephiroth who raised an eyebrow
The cannot see us, feel us, or hear us Cloud explained
"Don't speak Harry and keep walking, we don't need people to get the idea your talking to yourself" Lily ordered.
"Get the dursleys to drop you off somewhere in london, you've got muggle money haven't you? i'm almost positive you said you carry some just in case" Sirius said frowning Making his way through to the muggle side of kingscross he soon found the dursleys and after them being berated by Moody and company they left and got into the car once they were driving Harry spoke up
"Uncle vernon, i know we haven't always gotten along but if you drop me off here then you'll never have to see me again"
"What are you on about Boy, your freaky friends said we had to take you in" Vernon said pulling into a car park
"Just tell them you have no idea where i went and i told you that'd i'd meet you at private drive"
"And we'll never have to see you again?"
"Never" Harry promised.
"Fine but those freaks better not come asking"
"Just act as you normally do uncle i'm sure they'll go away quickly" harry said getting out of the car his trunk was placed beside him atfer watching the Dursleys drive off Harry scanned the deserted carpark
"no-ones here son you can speak" James said
"so whats happening now?
"now we got to diagon, But first your trunk, get your money pouch and a hodded cloak oh and your bag might help" Sirius ordered and Harry did as he was told once he had the items in hand he looked up for instructions and Sephiroth stepped forward and placed a hand on the trunk which shimmered briefly and vanished
"What the?"
It's at our home Cloud answered
"Hey were not to far from the cauldron so you don't need to catch one of those cubs"
"cabs sirius" Lily corrected "Not cubs"
"Cubs cabs all the same to me" Sirus shrugged a smirk playing on the edges of his lips.
"We should hurry" James prompted and Harry nodded and after tucking his money pouch and cloak into his bag he started running following lily and james' directions to the pub and ignoring Sirius entirely as he tried to give him direction. Outside the cauldron he put his cloak on and pulled up the hood so his face was shadowed and went into the pub and hurried through towards diagon while waving a greeting to Tom as he passed, he moved quickly through the crowd dodge people as he moved not letting any touch him or his cloak until he got to Gringotts and James directed him to the help desk "Tell him you need to speak with Account manger grimy he should still be in charge of the potter accounts" Harry hmm'd in acknowledgement and spoke his request to the Goblin who looked at him as if he was a piece of rubbish he desperatly wanted to get rid of.
"Do you have an appointment?"
"No, but seeing as according to the rules of my familys heritage and inheritance i should have been summoned to see manager Grimly, as he was the account manager of my families fortune before my parents died, on my fifteenth birthday, seeing as no one of gringotts bank contacted me as the family contract with Gringotts state i decided to come here my self after finding out about the contract"
"I see, You name please"
"Harry James Potter" Harry said pushing the hood of his cloak back so his face was revealed
"I see, Mr potter Manager grimly was transfered to another branch of Gringotts seven years ago, i am not permitted to look up the Potter finances you will need to talk to manager minten he will be able to deal with your needs" The goblin told him and he called another Goblin and ordered him to take Harry to manager Minten.
The other Goblin led Harry and 'ghosts' to a door, knocked then ushered the wizad in while speaking in rapid gobbldegook Minten nodded and gesutured to Harry to take a seat
"Come sit, the books for youraccount have already been summoned we just need to do a quick test to make sure you are who you say you are, the potter accounts are quiet large in addition to that because of the will of Sirius Black the Black account have been merged with the Potter account making it even larger."
"Ok that sounds fine whats the test?"
"It's quiet simple really all you have to do is touch this" Minten pulled out a large stone "And state your name, if the name you speak really is your own it will glow white however if you lie then the stone will glow red and put you in a coma"
"Good deterant" Harry said softly placing his hand on the stone he repeated his name and the stone shone white
"Ah good, and right on time" The Goblin said as a large folder appeared infront of him After opening the folder the Goblin read through it nodding at certain places "you were indeed right about the contract, it was agreed between your ancestors and the newly formed Gringotts that the Potter family would help renew the wards of England Bank of Gringotts ever three hundred years, your family mister Potter have been ward masters for hundreds of Years it is said even Rowena Ravenclaw bowed to their wisdom and knowledge concerning Wards and they helped design the Hogwarts Wards"
"It's true" James Nodded "Potters just has an instinctive knowledge of wards, oh you get a few who are terrible at it but most are brilliant"
"Now, as it is Gringotts breach of contract not yours Mr Potter your side of the contract has still been kept there will be no problems in getting you fully instated as Lord of the Potter family. However we may run into problems it is noted here that when your parents died there was no will and so the guardianship of the account instead of staying with Gringotts, as should have happened, the Ministry got their claws involved and unfortunatly due to a treaty we goblins signed at the last war the ministry took control of the account fortunatly we Goblins took matters into our own hands and hid the majority of your fortune" Minten explained
"So because the ministry was involved you could not contact me?"
"No according to ministry law a wizard heir cannot claim their fortune until they are an adult which is eighteen, this condradicts Goblin law. However there is an old family law where an orphan can claim his full inheritance at fifteen that has never been refuted only hidden. The only way around that is if the wizard comes to Gringotts and asks about his inheritance as you have just done, Now to inherit you just need to sigh on the dotted line and then underline that in blood" Minten slid a sheet of parchment over to him followed by two quills "One is a normal quill the other will take your blood as the ink but it will not harm you in any way" Harry nodded and picked up the normal quill and signed his name then underlined it with the blood quill.
"Congratulations Mr Potter you are now Lord Potter, Wardmaster. Now thats done i can access the rest of your file" the Goblin tapped his desk in an intricate beat and a large book appeared. "ah here we go, this book has all the information on the Potter accounts dating back to when they were first created, it has everything in it including your monetary worth, any items in your vaults, investments, and property. The Potters have always looked after their own accounts, we Goblins just guard the money and keep it a secret that we don't actually have anything to do with the actual account, all of the accounting can be done with that book, it also relay's information back to us so we can carry out your orders such as the investments" Minten explained "The book will actually explain it all, at the back of the book in a goblins summoning page that is linked to your blood and to your vault, each item in the book has a number if you write the number in blood it will appear on the page another drop of blood in the circle will summon the item, it doesn't matter how far away you are from Gringotts or in a shielded place the summoning page will always work, however it doesn't work with putting things in, to place something in your vault you would have to come to Gringotts"
"I see, the summoning page is very intresting do all your accounts get one?"
"Lord Potter, the Wards are very important to us and we combine wizard and Goblin magic together to create them and keep them up, the down side is they have to be renewed by both a Goblin and a Wizard, The Potter Family have respected us and helped us for generations and they and now you have been and will be the ones to provide the human magic, in light of that the Goblins do a little bit more for your family including giving you the book and the summoning page"
"Thank you, do you mind me asking when the wards have to be renewed?"
"they have to renewed every two hundred years and it's been 150 so fifty years time"
"Plenty of time to learn how to ward then" Harry smiled slightly then stood and bowed "Thank you for your time"
"It was a pleasure, make sure you read that book throughly"
"I will"
Ask him if he minds you leaving from here it will be safer Harry heard cloud say
"manager Minten would you mind if i left magically from here? i have a feeling there will be a great many people looking for me"
"I'm afraid the wards will not let any magical travel except floo in the building"
"But if they could would you mind?"
"Of course not"
"Thank you" Harry said and Bowed again at Sirius and james' command infront of Harry blue-green liquid bubbled out of the cracks and sephiroth spoke
if you are truely sure about this then step into the mako however once you take the step there is no going back Harry took a breath and walked into the Mako.
"Goodbye Minten" Harry said as he sunk the Goblin watched astounded as Harry dissapeared and once he was gone the mako resided.
"That boy will be very intresting in the future" he muttered before sending off the inheritance forms to be filed.

The world around Harry melted as he was transported through the Mako he landed in a large field covered with flowers and around him stood the five now solid ghosts.
"Welcome to the promised lands" Lily said hugging Harry tightly "This is where people go when they die, they are welcomed here and then go on to join the life stream"
"It's also a transition place for the us" Sephiroth told him "any traveling by Mako and the lifestream then you have to make a stop here"
"This is the only place we can be solid to you" James informed him sadly
"It's alright now is enough" Harry said softly hugging his parents "and you said that you can appear again so it'll be alright"
"The time we have will be spent teaching you Harry" Sirius said saddly "We're going to drill as much magic knowledge into you as possible, when you become part of the Lifestream part of your concious is joined to the collective through that we know everything there is to know about how to use magic and we will teach you"
"So what will i be learning?" Harry asked looking at sephiroth and cloud.
"Weapons, tactics" Cloud recited "differant magics, which seph and i will be learning as well, to be honest only our kind of magic and your wand magic is really important enough to learn seeing as were going to be on a really tight schedule"
"We're got a lot of work to do" Sephiroth said "and not that much time"
"We'll come see you in a few days once your settled in" James said and Cloud reached out and took Harry's hand before the three of them vanished and reappeared inside the living room of a house.
Harry looked around the room taking in the wooden floor, the light coloured walls, the room had things dotted around that spoke of habitation, there was two couches and an armchair.
"Welcome to Gaea" Sephiroth said "And your new home for the foreseeable future"
"Gaea?" Harry asked looking up at the ex-general
"Gaea is the planets name" Cloud answered "The house is just outside Rocket town We'll sit down with maps later and explain about our own history but let's get you settled in first. the house has two floors, the ground floor which is this room, the kitchen, an office, and a small library, upstairs is three bedrooms, and a bathroom"
The three men spent the rest of the day talking, both about the history of Gaea and the future of Harry. the first three months of Harry's time in Gaea was spend in conditioning training, he spent most of the day running, swimming, skipping, and lifting weights the evening's were book, theory and magic lessons. After the first three months the conditioning training was cut down to a run in the morning wearing weights, and they started on weapons training and Harry met the rest of the Avalanche group, and they had taken over parts of his training. Due to a comment made by Sirius Harry had decided to specialize in a scythe as his main weapon and so Cid had been teaching him to use a staff he had even spent some time in Wutai learning to wield his chosen weapons, Vincent had taken over teaching him how to shoot, and the other two Immortals had found it amusing when Harry developed a crush on his new teacher. Harry spent a full year on Gaea before he was deemed ready to go back to Earth.

"It's time to go" Sephiroth said and the other stood with him all carrying bags over their shoulders "Harry do the port you know where were going"
"It depends do we want to cause a scene?"
"No" Cloud said "We need to keep ourselves a secret for now until we get a better idea of what is going on, even your return must be secret Harry"
"I'll take us straight to the house then" Harry mummered and pool of mako appeared beneath the foursome and the sunk down into it dissappearing from the house.
On Earth the four appeared infront of a small manor and headed inside after a few minutes exploring they found the kitchen which had a large table around which they sat and discussed what they were going to do next. The four spent the next three months ghosting around the wizarding world, specifically the darker area's collecting information. finding out what had happened since Harry had gone to Gaea.
"What do we have?" Sephiroth asked slipping back into his role as general.
"Azkaban has been raided, and the dementors have joined voldemort." Harry reported
"There have been three attacks on Diagon Alley, two on hogsmeade"
"Voldemort has made alliances with the vampires and the werewolves" Vincent spoke up "recruitment is going up for the deatheaters and auror enrollment is going down"
"The ministry is digging themselves in a deeper hole they're not combatting Tom's forces well, nor are they teaching the public, the wizarding world themselves seem to be trying to ignore Voldemort, they are under the impression that they can't do anything and if they just give in Tom won't hurt them." Harry explained "those who will fight follow the orders of Dumbledore or the ministry, and niether of the two forces are doing a good job, and there working against each other"
"There is no true leader of any of the forces against voldemort. Nor does anyone know how to mount a defensive OR offensive movement" Cloud said "Voldemort uses a hit and run strategy, but when he hits he hits hard and he doesn't mind sacrificing any of his troops to do it, Once the strike is over he vanishes and his people lose the masks and become upstanding citizens again if evidence is found that those upstanding citizens are involved in dark dealings then it's either ignored or they pay to have it buried. The ministry is rife with curruption not just with the bribes and the justice system concerning rich members of England but also with the law system itself, there literally driving a part of the populace straight into Voldemorts hands" Sephiroth listened to Cloud report nodding in various places and writing notes when the blonde finished speaking he looked at Vincent and asked
"vincent did you manage to find and get inside Voldemorts HQ?"
"I did" the Ex-turk nodded "It was surprisingly easy to find it, easier than i thought it would be. The survalience was also very easy to set up once i was there, i've been monitering the meetings and have gotton a good idea about the set up of Voldemorts forces" Vincent pushed a few pieces of paper to the middle of the table so that all four of them could see it. On the top most page was a flow chart with voldemort sat at the top. "As you already know Voldemort is the leader, he acts as the over lord but doesn't deal with paperwork the only time he really knows what going on in his army is when he either orders it or he's personally leading it, everything else is left to his nine inner circle members, The inner circle is his eyes and ears and he dominates them through pain and his mark. Each of the inners have control over a specific part of the army, Lucius malfoy controls anything to do with the higher ups in the ministry, Bellatrix Lestrange, who is the only female in the inner circle, controls and does most of the torture of prisoners, Rabastan Lestrange is the main link to the Vampires everything to do with them goes through him, his brother Rudolfus Lestrange is in charge of the Locating dark artifacts, Severus snape heads up the potions, Antonin Dolohov is in charge of finding targets, Anthony Nott is the connection to the werewolves, Walden mcnair controls everything to do with magical creatures, Augustus Rockwood is the head of the spy network. The differant sections report directly to their own heads except for a select few who report straight to voldemort" Vincent explained.
"Without the inner circle Voldemort would lose the connection to his deatheaters" Harry said nodding.
"So our best solution so far is to remove the inner circle first" Sephiroth questioned
"Seems like it" Harry agreed "Cut Voldmort off from his forces and stop any of the inner circle from taking his place at the same time"
"So who are we going after first?" Cloud asked leaning forward
"The weakest and work our way up" Vincent put in "Nott and mcnair will be the easiest to get at"
"What about Rabastan as well we could make it look like the Vampires turned on rabasten, the werewolves on nott and mcnair got mauled by his own animals" Harry said
"The would only work once, to do it for all three would putting a big sign saying you're being set up. It would work with the vampires i think and Hopefully it would make Voldemort alianate them but that's a long shot" Cloud told them "we would have to stage a very large vampire attack to make voldemort break the alliance"
"What about attacking Rabasten, Rockwood, Nott and mcnair with the vampire type assasination?" Vincent said "that would get four of them out of the way" Sephiroth nodded and noted it down "Next issue, Harry and revealing ourselves to the wizarding world"
"We should be cautious about revealing ourselves" Vincent said "for Harry to return will cause a stir but it will not rock to many boats."
"Me returning at all will cause waves and rock the boat" Harry disagreed.
"But less waves will be caused if only you and one other return" the Ex-Turk argued "Also they are more likely to underestimate you if there is only one person with you, you will undoubtly be forced to remain at Hogwarts school which leave the other two to work on the outside"
"With no ones knowledge that they are there" cloud nodded
"Our phones will work through the static of magic so contact would not be an issue, So who's going to Hogwarts? and When?"
"it should either be Vincent or i that goes with Harry" Cloud said "you would terrify the kids"
"I will go with Harry" Vincent told them "Your sword may frighten people while my weapons are easily concealed."
"And vin has been a bodyguard before, no offense cloud but you don't come across as a bodyguard as well as vincent does" Cloud's lips twitched as Harry spoke knowing the teen just wanted his crush nearby looking at Sephiroth he saw the other man was also looking slightly amused.
"Then you'll leave for Hogwarts Tomorrow" Sephiroth ordered "Be carefull how much you reveal about where you've been"
"I know" Harry nodded.
"Your connection to the lifestream will protect your mind from any mind attackes be they from voldemort or any other" Sirius said appearing "And don't forget what we've taught you, You know enough that you could easily pass your NEWTS possibly even pass the master exams" The wizard then paused before continuing in a more serious tone "We've finally found what Voldemort did that allowed him to stay as a spirit when his body was destroyed"
"How?" Sephiroth asked
"Horcruxes" Sirius answered taking a seat at the table "an extremly dark ritual. Basically what Voldemort has done is spilt his soul into seven pieces, as long as one piece remains Voldemort will be able to come back"
"So we would need the seven pieces first?" Harry asked
"Yeah, though there's only five left, you've already destroyed one and dumbledore destroyed one."
"I've destroyed one?"
"The diary in your second year and Dumbledore destroyed a ring that belonged to Tom's mother's family."
"Do you know what the other five items are?"
"Yes, a tea Cup which is a heirloom of Helga Hufflepuff, a silver locket which comes from the slytherin family, a diadem that belonged to Rowena Ravenclaw, Nagini Voldemorts familiar and Voldemort himself"
"So we have to locate the locket, the cup and the diadem?" Cloud asked
"Yes" Sirius nodded "i can give you the general loctions but nothing specific, Whatever wards Voldemort put on them they're blocking even us from finding them"
"Any location will be helpful" Sephiroth replied and Sirius told him the list of places which the ex-general copied down. "Cloud and i will search for the items while Harry and Vincent are at Hogwarts"

Standing at the gates of Hogwarts the next day Harry looked at the castle in slight trepidation.
"Are you gong to be alright?"
"I'll be fine vin, it's just being back here brings up alot of memories good and bad. I'm afraid to see them and have them turn on me accuse me of running like a coward"
"You left to learn and that is what you have done do not feel guilty for something which will help them in the long run"
"I've been so happy while they've been sufering"
"Happy?"
"Yeah Happy, I have a new family who love me and will help me, i speak to my parents and sirius on a regular basis"
"I see you're not taking into account the long hours you had to work with Cloud and sephiroth"
"And you, cid and yuffie. All the hours have been for a purpose and i've enjoyed it it was hard, yeah but it was still fun"
"You have a very strange idea of fun" Vincent commented as the two reach the doors heading into the castle.
Inside the castle in the great hall the evening feast was being eaten and so the Hall was extremly loud however it quietened extremly quickly when the doors opened and two figures came into the room, one was wearing black clothes beneath a ragged red cloak which had a high colour that covered half his face, on his feet were boots which were just under knee length, had a cone shaped toes and gleamed gold, his black hair was long and unkept, around his forehead was tied a red bandanna, his left arm below the elbow was covered with a golden gauntlet and his left hand was covered by a golden claw and his right hand was covered by a black glove. On his right thigh was a gun Holster in which his main gun, Cerberus, was placed. The other figure was shorter and wore a hooded cloak which hid his face totally, His blue trousers were loose and he wore a tight dark blue T-shirt, on his feet were brown boots, and his hand were covered by black gloves, on his back was a large grim reaper style scythe, on the back of his belt beneath the cloak were two smaller hand scythes, on his right forearm was a wand holster and attatched to his left leg was a gun holster. Seeing the two men Dumbledore rose to his feet.
"Gentlemen i was not expecting visitors today, may i inquire who you are why you have come here?"
"We have been told that Hogwarts is a main Target for Voldemort we have come to offer our services to protect this castle" Vincent said knowing Harry wouldn't speak unless he had to.
"You have yet to give you names? or why you think i would accept you here at Hogwarts"
"I appolgise i am Vincent Valentine, my companion and i were sent here to help protect this castle that is all"
"Sent here by whom?" Mcgonogal asked
"I am not at liberty to say"
"You could be deatheaters for all we know" The Defense professor snapped
"I assure you we are not in any alliance with Voldemort or his deatheaters"
"If as you say you are not deatheaters then why hide your faces? why has you companion not spoken or given his name" dumbledore asked and Vincent glanced at Harry who nodded and lifted his hands to his hood and pulled it back revealing himself
"We figured it was better for me to hide my face when i first came in to not shock everyone to badly"
"Harry?" Dumbledore asked haltingly
"In the flesh, i'm sorry i had to leave for so long but there was no other choice i was given an offer and i chose to take it"
"It's good to see you my dear boy" Dumbledore hurried around the head table and came upto the teen "Why didn't you contact us we've been so worried about you. The only reason we knew you weren't dead was because Voldemort was still looking for you and gringotts said you were accessing your bank account"
"I've been here and there mostly there, training, learning as much as could be stuffed into my head" Harry explained smiling at the old wizard who hugged him tightly
"And your companion Mr. Valentine is it?"
"Vin has been one of my teachers" Harry told them.
"He could be an imposter" Snape spoke standing "You can't trust his face"
"I'm afraid he's right Harry there have been a few who have tried to appear as you"
"What do i have to do?" Harry asked
"We know you best so we'll ask the questions" Hermione said standing with the rest of the griffindor seventh years.
"Ok Ask away"
"I'll start" Ron said "who was with me when i came to pick you up from your aunt and uncles just before our third year and what did we do?"
"Fred and george were with you in your dads car, you flew the car to my uncles home and rescued me" Harry answered and Ron nodded knowing that Harry wouldn't mention the bars on the windows.
"Harry when Ron accidently ripped deans' arsonal poster what did dean do?" Dean asked
"He tried to curse Ron who ran, Dean managed to chase Ron right into Angelina and her friends who gave him a lecture about running in the common room"
"Our questioning might be better done in my office" Dumbledore cut in "and i think only one question will be enough"
"One sir?"
"Yes there is something i told Harry just before he dissappeared and i think that will allow me to know whether it is truely he, or not" Dumbledore said
"We should get this over with and you must decide whether we are to stay" Vincent cut in.
"If Harry is who he says he is then he is welcome to come back to school, after all he needs to finish his education"
"Proffessor I came here to help guard to school not come back to learn, Voldemort has over the past year been gaining follower and strength, but he's also gaining arrogance it will not be long before he attacks Hogsmeade again or even trys to attack Hogwarts."
Vincent looked steadily at Harry who shifted slightly "What are you planning?" He eventually asked and Harry just smilled and walked with Dumbledore out of the hall with vincent silently folowing wondering what the young wizard had up his sleeve.
Once they reached the office Dumbledore gestured to the chairs while he took his seat behind his desk before Harry took his seat he removed the Scythe from his back and lent it against the wall.
"We'll lets get this part over with, Harry happened when we last talked here in my office?"
"You told me the prophecy sir, the one that was being kept in the department of mysteries, in a fit of anger and grief i trashed your office"
"Welcome back to Hogwarts Harry" Dumbledore said "Welcome home"
"Thank you headmaster"
"I must ask Harry where have you been this last year and why didn't you contact anyone?"
"I wasn't in any place where we could contact anyone, it's just been me and my trainers in the middle of nowhere and it was decided that the less distractions i had the better for my training"
"You've mentioned your training what did it consist of?" the old wizard asked leaning forward
"Magic up to auror level, and in some cases master level, I was also taught how to use my scythe"
"A Weapon Harry?" Dumbeldore said curious and Harry nodded but it was Vincent who answered
"Wizards on the whole reject physical activitys, Wielding a weapon such as a scythe is seen as barbaric and looked down apon, it is not something a pure blood would know how to combat. In a close combat situation having a bladed weapon is an asset, especially if your opponant doesn't know how to defend against it"
"A weapon can be taken away"
"So can a wand" Harry replied "My Weapons however are spelled to return to me if summoned and they're resistant to the expelliarmus spell"
"I see, How long are you staying? i cannot imagine that your training is done in just one year?"
"No there still so much i need to learn but i know enough to survive" Harry spoke as the door opened at the heads of house followed by Remus came in.
"Albus is? is he really?" Remus asked hesitantly
"Yes Remus this is Harry Potter" Albus Dumbledore nodded and Remus ran to Harry and pulled him out of the chair and into a hug
"I've been so worried about you" the werewolf muttered into his hair
"I'm sorry Remus but i needed to take the oppertunity that was offered" Harry explained hugging the older man back.
"You would be proud of the progress he has made" Vincent said softly
"Vin is that a compliment i hear?" Harry teased pulling away from Remus to look at ex-turk
"I am known to give them once in a while and you have made good progress in the year, though some of that is Sephiroth pushing you so hard"
"Sephiroth?" Remus asked
"Sephiroth was one of my main instructors" Harry answered "he was extremly tough on me"
"What was your training like?"
"Well the first three months was getting me into shape running, swimming, that sort of stuff, by the end of the three months i was running 10 miles in the morning, half a mile swim, and then doing magic work, and then doing another ten mile run before i went to bed. then the next few months was starting of weapons, i'd still run 10 miles a day, 5 in the morning then 5 at night, i'd get up at 5 do my run then eat breakfast and do some studing, at 7 i'd do two hours with sephiroth and cloud running through sword Kata's, at nine i'd work have two hours magic work, then two hours with Vincent having shooting practice, then lunch at one, and at two i'd get back to work with two hours with cid learning to use a staff, then three hours with yuffie learning to use my mini scythes"
"Mini scythes?" Dumbledore asked and Harry pulled one of the scythes from his belt to show them
"Ah i see"
"After training with yuffie we'd have dinner and then spend another three hours doing book work like maths and sciences, then i'd do my last run and go to bed at midnight"
"Wow soulds like a really full schedule cub"
"Sephiroth made it" Harry answered "If i didn't need to be here i'd be on that schedule for another year at least"