The folowing stories are all pure HP which isa very rare thing to find in my writing.
Dead Dursleys
They were dead. Gone. Released from the mortal coil. Those were the thought running through the 15 year old messy haired greeneyed boy. And if he'd been with them he would be dead too.
"Mr Potter, are you ok to do the identification now?" A police man asked crouching infront of the boys chair The boy nodded and got up shakily "you don't have to do this now it can wait a bit""no i'm alright, i just want to get it over with" The greeneyed boy said running his had through his hair showing a scar on his forehead. He followed the officer into the mortuary and saw the 4 covered bodies the officer made to leave and harry grabbed his sleave in desperation "please, i can't be alone with them"
"it's alright Harry i'll stay if you want me to" Harry apporached the bedslowly
"we didn't get on, they always used to say i was a burden if it had been their choice i would never have been placed with them, but aunt petunia was my only reletive left, that probably the only reason i'm alive if we had gotten on i'd have been with them" Harry said quietly looking down at his uncle "always wanted to please them make them proud of me, nothing ever worked but i tried time after time" Harry moved to the next body that of dudley "dudley was always so spoiled, i was so jealous sometimes, he got everything i wanted i didn't care about the toys but i wanted the attention he got from them the hugs and kind words, i wouldn't have even minded the pet names, they used to call him duddy-diddy-kins, and always over looked what he was eating and his weight, always said he was big boned and could never say no to him, he wasn't the nicest person around, loved to pick on kids smaller and weaker than him" the Next body was aunt petunia "she was my aunt, i always thought if i tried a bit harder she'd love me, did my chores as well as i could, cooked good meals, petunia never could cook, so when i learnt i was put in charge of that, petunia always used to watch me like a hawk i always thought she was afaid i'd posion the food, not that i ever would, they're family." The last body was that of marge dursley "Marge, i didn't see her often thankfully she always had a nasty word to say about me and my parents, she didn't care how i felt about them, she loved to say poisened words and hurt me most of the time it was alright i could just ignore it she ddn't know my parents had never met then when they were alive, so i had my mental image of them and to hell with what anyone else said but when someone says it over and over it gets in your head and you can't help but wonder what they were really like, petunia was never any help, she'd join in with marge and vernon about my parents" Harry ran his hand through his hair and turned away walking back towards the officer "it's them" he said and walked out the door leaving the officer in thought, The man followed and closed the door behind them "what happens now"
"well i'll take you to meet a social worker to decided whats going to happen to you, and we've already contacted the dursleys lawer, lukily they used the same ones and had orders about how they wanted their funerals so you wont need to sort that out, onces the will are read then we'll take it from there"
"How soon can they be read i just want all this over with"
"i don't blame you, the will can be read as soon as tomorrow" Harry nodded and the two made their way through the hospital and from the hospital to a buildingnot far from the police station what was an office for the social services Inside harry met with Julie Adams who would be his contact "Hello Harry" the woman had long brown hair pulled back into a braid and was wearing a tan skirt suit "hey" Harry said "How are you feeling"
"I'm alright"
"ok, well were here to start sorting out where your going to stay and whats going to happen alright"
"Yes, i understand"
"alright well there are a few options, however there is one i think would be best suited to this occasion and that is emancipation, your almost 16 we would have to check on you and make sure your living alright and see what the wills say tomorrow but i think that would be best"
"what exactly would that mean?" "it would basicaly mean your in charge of yourself, you be an adult in the eyes of the law, for anything needing you guardians signiture you would be able to sign it your self you'd be responisble for yourself"
"That sounds alright" Harry nodded "you'll be staying here tonight and tomorrow we'll go to the will reading togeht alright"
"thanks" Harry said gratefully "i don't have another other clothes though"
"It's alright you can borrow a set of pajama's and we'll wash the clothes you wearing so you have something for tomorrow" Julie said, as the time was now around eleven Harry was shown to the room he could use and given some pajama's he got changed and handed the clothes he had been wearing to julie and said goodnight lying on his bed harry let his thought drift. He had only been back at the dursleys a few days and this had happened, Marge was already there when Harry had gotten back from kingscross and earlier that day the three of them had decided to go to a resturant and had left Harry behind to find his own food, on the way there they had been hit by another car, the Dursleys car had spun, flipped and ended up rolling down a steep dyke, all three of them had very bad injurys. marge had died on impact from Dudleys wieght landing on her, Vernon had gotton his lowerhalf trapped by the steering colomn and both his legs had been mangled and twisted, the only way they could get him out was by amputating both his legs at the scene, even if he had survived Vernon would never had walked again and would have been confined to a wheelchair, petunia and dudley had been showered with glass and petunia had been skewered by a piece of metal that was in the dyke she died of blood loss very quickly, dudley hadn't been wearing a seatbelt and had been bashed around the car he had various broken bones, and had ruptured pierced and ripped is internal organs he survived the longest, all 4 dursleys were rushed to the nearest hospital and the nurses and doctors worked frantically to save them, it didn't work, by the time harry had been contacted and had gotton to the hospital all he was needed for was identification of the bodies. 5 people dead in 2 weeks. Sirius and the dursleys.
The next day after a bad night of sleep Harry sat inside a nice office with julie beside him
"you here for the will readings of Margorie, Vernon, Petunia and Dudley Dursley, Reading through them last night i'll start with Marge
I, margourie Dursley being of sound mind leave this will.
To my Brother Vernon Dursley i leave my monitary posessions, to my sister in law, petunia dursley i leave my home in the carribean, to My nephew Dudley Dursley i leave my home in the yorkshire dales with the request that you make sure my dogs are well looked after, anything else can be divided between the three aformentioned people"
"so Marge gave everything to the dursleys makes sense" Harry nodded
"mr. and Mrs. Dursley had a joint will.
We, petuna and vernon Dursley being of sound mind make this will,
To Margeurie Dursley, we leave nine thousand pounds To our Son dudley we leave everything we own"
"So what happens now?" Julie asked
"well seeing as all parties referred to n the will are dead then everything would go to their closets Living Reletive which is Harry Potter, and everything includes 3 life insurance polices, each equaling thirty thousand pounds, we'll need your bank details so transfer everything" the soliciter said and Harry nodded then frowned
"I don't have a bank account"
"it's ok we can open one when we leave here" Julie said and Harry nodded
"i just need you to sign here to say you've witnessed the will reading" Both harry and julie signed the wills and Harry was given a folder "the folder contains a list of everything the four dursleys owned so you can decide what to do with it"
"thanks" Harry said softly and he and julie left the office "so what now?"
"well i give you these" she handed him another folder "thats your emancipations papers, i had them drawn up last night, so now we just need to open you a bank account and start putting in the orders to movethe money from your family's accounts into yours"
5 hours later harry was back at 4 privit drive the only differance was that he now owned the place, lock, stock. After setting up the bank account Julie had taken him back to the soliciter and they spent hours going over the transfers and making Harry sign forms in triplicate so there could be no arguments that Harry owned everything. Harry sighed the house was so quiet and there were so many bad memorys here. setting his resole he looked through the folder and sat looking at the informations about Marge Dursleys house, i was a large out of the way house with the nearest villiage being 4 miles away, The house had 4 Bedrooms, a kitchen, livingroom, dining room, full bathroom upstairs and a small toilet downstairs, a basment and an attic room, behind the house was a large kennel for her dogs, of which there were 20, He decided tomorrow he would go to back to the soliciters and put the privit drive house up for sale there was no way he wanted to stay there, after that he would go to diagon alley and nockturn alley and get books, and see if there was a way to get around the underage laws, it would probably be safer to go to Grimauld place but like privit drive the memorys were too fresh and raw. he needed a new place and a new start, and this time no one would control him nor manipulate him!
So harry spent the rest of the day going through The dursleys thinks bagging up clothes and things he wouldn't keep, things hehad decided to keep were placed in the living room by 1o'clock the next morning Harry had everything noted down and had sorted everything, after a few hours nap, snuck out of the house, and away from the guards he knew were there, he then caught a bus into London and went straght to his soliciters to put up the dursley house for sale.
"Are you sure about this?" the man asked and Harry nodded
"There nothing assosiated with that house but bad memorys"
"What about the house in yorkshire"
"I'm going to go visit it and look around then decide, i've never been to the house so itll be a fresh start there and someone needs to look after the dogs" Harry said with a shrug.
After more talking the soliciter had convinced Harry not to sell the house but rent it out
"If we do it this way if you ever decide to live in the house again you can and you'll have a little money coming in"
"alright" an hour later the house was up for rent and Harry was heading for Diagon alley once inside he went to Gringotts to collect money and have some money transferred to his Muggle account, 4 thousand galleons heavier Harry was looking for a trunk shop to hold his goods, when he came out of the shop he was carrying a shrunken trunk which was hanging around his neck and over his shoulder was a rucksack, made for traveling and carrying large and heavy loads, inside the rucksack was a smaller backpack his next stop was knockturn alley where he found books and potions which went straight into his trunk, he also bought an item which would allow him to do Magic without the ministry knowing, back in daigon Alley Harry went to madam malkins for robes and then to the leatherworking shop for gloves, a wand holster, boots, a long jacket and he even bought himself a pair of hebridean black dragonhide trousers. his last stop before leaving was Florish and blotts for more books, from there he went into the muggle world to buy himself somenew clothes, duvets, sheets and towels in preperation of his move.
He arrived back at Privit drive at half four that evening, luckily Mundugus was on duty and Harry smiled knowing he wasn't in danger of being caught, making himself a sandwich Harry opened his trunk and used a spell to start packing the kitchen into it, once he had finished the kitchen was bare except from the cupboards on the wall the cooker, the surfaces and the table. the bedrooms were left he didn't feel like using his family's beds, the bathroom was emptied of toliterries, and Dudleys computer was placed in the trunk along with all his game machines, games, steroes system, CDs, TV, DVD player, DVD's. Once it was all packed up Harry was ready to leave, he had given a spare key to the soliciter who would pass it on to the agency who would be renting the house out for Harry. Before leaving Harry put the anti-tracking necklace he had bought from nockturn alley around his neck, the pendant would stop any tracking spells from finding him and would hide him for any location spells, it would also hide him from magical detecction including the underage magic scans. Hidden under his invisibility cloak Harry hurried away from privit drive and then summoned the knightbus to take him to london from there he got a room in a small muggle hotel he left early the next morning and was on the 10 o'clock train to Skipton railway station, from there it was an hours Taxi journey to the old Farm house.
As soon as Harry saw the place he fell in love with it, the house was on the top of a hill and you could see for miles around the house itself was very large and looked spacious even from the outside the whole thing was surrounded by a fence so the dogs could be let free, taking a deep breath of the clear yorkshire air Harry smiled and walked to the door putting the rucksack beside the door Harry cringed at the smell of old perfume, dust and dogs, so as he wandered around he opened all the windows to let the air circulate, the first thing he decided was that the furniture and decorations had to change as everything was in dull colours.
The front door opened into a open hallway which had a place for shoes, from there the hall led to the stairs and on either side of the hall there was a door, going through the left door he found a livingroom which was painted in muddy brown colours which made Harry wrinkle his nose, the floor was done in richbrown hardwood floor pannels, through another door was the kitchen which was very spacious from the kitchen there was anothe door going outside a small toilet and the door into the dining room, from the dining room was the door back into the Hallway, going upstairs he found 4 equally sized bedrooms, and a large bathroom - which had a bath and a shower- He quickly found Marge's bedroom and backed out horrified, it was bright pink!, the other rooms weren't much better all done is horrifyingly bright colours (neons orange, blue, and yellow) The ceiling hatch to the attic was in the blue bedroom so he claimed that one as his own and reminded himself to go look at the book he's bought at diagon alley he was sure one of them could get rid of that blinding colour, going up into the loft he found it very airy and lots of natural light was pouring in from the large window, with a smile he decided that was going to be his study/library heading back down he went out the backdoor from the kitchen and found a small patio with a bench looking around he also saw a hammock hanging between two tree's with a laugh Harry went down to see the dogs closing the door behind him. When he got the the kennels he found all the dogs in seperate runs with their names on the doors, as he opened each kennel he bent down to stroke and greet them once all the dogs were out they were off playing or sniffing around Harry, Luckily all the dogs were friendly and happy to play with the greeneyed wizard.
Meawhile in London the order of the Pheonix had called an emergancy meeting.
"order" Dumbledore cried silencing the crowd "we are here to discuss, Harry potter, Late yesterday evening he was discovered missing since then we have found that 2 days ago his family was involved in an accident and were killed, that on top of Sirius's death have cause him to run, we must find him, and soon, so far the protections on Harry seem to be holding"
"What protections?" Kingsleys asked
"Anti-tracking spells and other wards to hide him. until those wear off we won't be able to find him unless he uses magic"
"How long do we have before you-know-who can find him"
"a month, i want you all to be on the look out, ecpessially around daigon alley he'd run there before and he'll need money"
"We have to find him he won't be able to survive on his own he's only a child" Molly shouted
"Molly Harry has been looking after himself since he was little i've never met a more independent and mature teenager, he'll be fine" Remus cut in sharply before she could start a rant "we have to trust him, after all everyones pinning theri hopes on him defeating voldemort to do that he has to learn to stand on his feet and he can't do that while being caged"
"Here here" The twins cheered "Harry needs space to be himself isn't that what you said at the begining to summer whne you wouldn't let us write of visit him professor, well now that doubly true if he wants contact he'll get in touch with some one"
"He's probably holed up in a hotel in london"
At seven Harry went inside to start redecorating at least his bedroom, digging through his book his found a thick book on decorations tips including paiting the walls brandishing his wand harry marched upstairs ready to takle the evil colours of doom.
"commutatus coloratus" while saying the words he pictured what he wanted the room to be coloured as, opening his eyes he saw a deep green tinted black carpet, the walls were dark green, the king size bed had an iron frame which was now polished silver, the edgeing on the top of the wall was also silver as was the skirting board and radiator, the curtains were now a deep red, and the chest of draws, wardrobe, and bedside table were also coloured a deep red, with gold handles, the under sheets and the cases he had gotton for the pillows and duvet were also red, gold, silver and green, a mix of slytherin and griffindor Once that room was done he poked his wand in his aunts room and just made everythign dark blue, he could change it later but he really needed to get rid to the eye blinding pink! After Making his dinner Harry went to sit on the picnic table so he could watch the dogs and he brought with him a pad of paper Marge had lying around and started to draw the layout of the house as it was then noted down the changes.
- the living room would be moved around and the colours would be brightend, maybe put some pictures on the walls, light blue/purple with purple/blue accents black leather couch, light colours for cupboards to hide electronics.
-the kitchen would be left, except a table will be put in the middle of it so theres somewhere to eat, morrocan colours, terracotta red/orange, warmth.
- dining room changed to office/muggle study, muggle books, computer, black, yellow, brown, darkwood for desk. - find out about potter family - invetments WWW!
- bedrooms mine done - 1 chocolate, 1 berry. and the last citrus, the bathroom blues.
-attic magic study/library/office - where magical books/items are kept - hide trapdoor - bookshelves, desk, perch for hedgewig, colours - light wooden flooring light colours roomy airy feel, sky blue, white/cream, tan.
-other - perch for hedgwig,
"good evening!" a voice shouted from the back gate Harry looked up to see a young girl come in the back gate she looked about 12, wearing a green t-shirt,blue jeans and traners
"hello" Harry greeted as she apporached.
"I'm bob" the girl said cheerfully
"bob?" Harry asked incedulously
"Everyone reacts like that, mom called me roberta so everyone else around here calls me bob, i'm supposed to be checking of ms Dursleys dogs but you've already done that"
"I'm harry by the way, the dogs haven't been fed yet though if you want to do it"
"Thanks ms Dursley would have my hide if i didn't, so why are you here? you know this place belongs to ms Dursley right"
"Marge is my uncles sister, she died two days ago in a car accident with my uncle, aunt and cousin, she'd left everything to Vernon and vernon left everything to me, so i wanted to come down and check on te dogs and take a look at this place"
"SO what do you think of the yorkshire dales?" bob asked and Harry laughed
"i took one look at the house and fell in love" Harry explained "i'll be staying here when i'm not at school"
"So where'd you go to school?" bob questioned sitting beside Harry at the table
"A boarding school in scotland, my parents payed for my scolarshipe through a trust fund and my names been down on the list since i was born, not to mention that i love the school"
"So how long you going to be here"
"till september, and i'll be back for christmas break" Harry sighed "my biggest problem is the dogs, one of the conditions i take tis place was that the dogs would be looked after, and i love dogs, i'm just concerened it won't be fair of me to only be here only part of the year"
"i will be happy to volenteer to check on the dogs and play with them during the weekends"
"Won't you be with your friends"
"nope they live miles away"
"So how'd you go to school"
"i get a bus early in the morning into Skipton and get a bus back here when school finishes"
"AH"
"Back to the dogs you'll have to decide soon"
"Well i have 2 options, get the dogs new homes, or get someone to house sit while i'm away" Harry mused "remus hasn't had a stable home in a long time and i like him, fred and george want to leave their parents they'd jump at a place of their own even if it's just for two years"
"so you've got three people who could housesit"
"Yeah i guess i do, i'll contact those three tomorrow or next week, and see what they say about it"
"Next weeks"
"I want to get the house changed to my liking first, most of the room are ok, just need a new coat of paint but the bedrooms were horrid" Harry complained "i've alreadu repainted two of the rooms, one was originally bright pink, it's now blue the other was electric blue and is now green"
The two then mixed the dogs food up and put it in bowls before putting the dogs in their kennels again for the night and bob headed home refusing to let Harry walk her back but promising to ring when she got home to prove she was safe.
After seeing Bob off Harry went back inside and started his washing up, once that was done he went back to the front door and collected his rucksack, once he had it in his hands he went back into the dining room and placed it on the long table and started to empty it, the first thing to come out was his two trunks, the first was just slid underneath the table the other was opened on the table Harry pulled out several boxes and with a wave started to pack the plates that were on the 'shelves' around the room ones they were all pack Harry waved his wand again and modifed the shelves into bookcases for his muggle books the ones that it wouldn't matter who found them. At that moment the phone rang and harry picked it up and spent a few minutes talking to Bob who invited him for tea with her parents the next day Harry agreed and smiled slightly he'd only been there a day and he had already been invited to meet the closest neighbours still smiling Harry made his way upstairs leaving the box full of plates behind, going to his bedroom the greeneyed wizard empties his bags of clothing on the bed and took the rest of the rucksack upstairs into the attic, there he conjoured some more bookcases and started to put away all the books he had bought. with another wave of his wand a desk appeared and another wave and a window seat was created with more waves and cushions appeared, his firebolt was placed on the wall in full view.
Harry snickered quietly as he thougt about marge dursleys reaction to find a 'freak' living in her home making a shrine to a broomstick. with a yawn the messy haired youth went back down into his bedroom and physically packed away his new clothes in the draws and wardrobe, after going downstairs to lock everything up harry went to bed exausted.
When he woke the next morning Hedgwig was sat on the end of his bed
"Hey hedwig welcome back girl" Harry smiled sitting up and stretching "how was your trip to grimauld place I'm glad you found your way here alright"
"hoothoot" Hedgwig made an affirmative sound Harry crawled to the the end of the bed where hedgwig was perched and releaved her of her letters. Leaving the letters on the bedside table Harry collected some clothes and his toothbrush he headed for the bathroom and a shower 20 minutes later he was back in his beroom collecting the letters and making sure Hedgwig was alright sleeping there and went downstairs and into the kitchen where he put the kettle on before unlocking the backdoor and walking down to the kennels to let the dogs out.
By the time he got back to the kitchen the kettle was boiling and Harry had to search through the cabinets before he found some tea and he went out to watch the dogs run around while drinking his tea and waking up before reading his letters. The first two were from Ron and Hermione telling him not to blame himself for sirius' death nor for the dursleys and to get in contact with dumbledore and tell him where Harry is, Harry shook his head and put the letters back in their envelopes.
Going back into the hosue Harry left the backdoor open and was soon joined in the dining room by two of the dogs looking around Harry shrunk the table and moved it into the middle of the kitchen before resizing it looking at it he realised that it was to big and so made it narrower, and he moved the small table that was in the kitchen into the Dining room and transfigured it into a desk, a wooden chair became a leather office chair looking around Harry saw the trapdoor which would lead into the basement, it had been hidden under the table. deciding to look at that later Harry twirled his wand and changed the colour of the office/study the walls became a milk chocolate brown, the skirting board and edging around the ceiling was yellow, the floor became dark chocolate. Realising he had the wrong trunk Harry sighed and went upstairs creating a gate for the bottom of the stairs first so the dogs couldn't get up there he came back down carrying two trunks and put them both in the living room within a few minutes the walls were changed to a very light purpley-red, the floor was done in dark red wood, Harry also created 3 rugs, one pure red, one pure silver and the last had alternating rings of red and silver, He also modified the furniture, the old brown couch was changed into a luxurious black leather sofa, the matching chair was transformed into a black sweade chair and a matching one was created from the other chair, in the corner nearest the door into the kitchen a cabinate was created inside the cabinate Harry placed his Stereo system he plugged it all in and set up the speakers and put in one of Dudleys CD's and nodded when he realised he actually liked the music that was playingand so got back to work, Marge's TV was replaced by the Dursleys Widescreen TV, and the DVD player and various game consoles were tucked away into a large red tinted wooden cabinate. the DVD's went into a rack which was placed inside the study, as were the music CD's. with the down stairs done it was time to tackle the upstairs the bedroom were easy just a change of colour, altough he went back to his own room and added a golden rug, the bathroom was next, the ceiling was turned a dark purply-blue, the walls were in an aqua blue, the floor was a very light wood which had been dyed blue slightly and there were 2 rugs both dark blue
when that was done harry took some parchment and a muggle pen and started to write a letter to fred and george and another to Remus.
2 days later Harry sat in the skipton railway station with a rucksack full of food waiting for the three elder wizards, a bandanna covered his scar, he wore contacts instead of glasses and his clothes were looking alot better, it may have only been superficial changes but it was enough to fool most people.
the three arrived together and it didn't take them long to spot him by using Remus's nose and Harry was already making his way to them after making sure theyw ere on their own
"HARRY!" Fred shouted jumping at him his brother a second behind "where have you beene very ones been so worried about you" the twins scolded
"I've been at my new home" Harry laughed
"OOh ae you going to show us it"
"Of course, it's about 4 hours walk though so we'll get a taxi out there"
an hour later Harry had paid the taxi and the three were stood looking at the house
"Wow harry this place looks great" Remus said
"i know i fell in love with it as son as i pulled up here in the taxi, lets go in through the back i want to et the dogs out and put away all this stuff"
"so how'd you get this nice place?" Remus asked
"Marge left it to dudley, and when the dursleys all died it came to the closest living reletive and that me. I decided i needed a change of scenery and so moved and then decided to stay, originally i only thought about this summer but i thing i'll be spending more time here"
"you said something about dogs?" fred said
"and remus mentioned smelling dogs on the letter you sent him" George finished
"Yeah aunt marge has 20 dogs in the will one of the conditions to keep it is that the dogs stay here and are cared for, and i like the dogs anyway so i don't mind the only problem is when i got back to hogwarts" Harry said while unlocking the backdoor while one of the twins ran down to the kennel to let the dogs back out.
working together the food was all put away and Harry took them on a tour until they were back in the kitchen and sitting at the table with cups of tea.
"So how did you do it pup? i can smell used magic all over this place"
"couldn't fool you huh?" HArry laughed "i got a pendant that keeps me hidden, it blocks tracking spells, including the underage magic tracker so i'm free to use as much magic as i want and no one can track me with magic they'd have to search by person and most people would think i'd have gone to ground in a town not out here"
"What plans do you have for this place?" Fred asked
"I've been looking through books on wards and what i want is a wizard repelling ward combined with a recognition ward, anti-appirition, anti- incoming portkey, unplottable, dead magic zone except for those keyed into the wards"
"Sounds like you have it all planned out cub"
"Not really, the apperition ward is already up, but i need help putting the others up i don't have the knowledge to do it or the practical experiance"
"Bill could help he's got the warding knowledge" George told him "and i think he would keep your location secret"
Assasin Harry
It had been thirteen years since The Boy who Lived, Harry James Potter saviour of the wizarding world had dissappeared from his aunts home at age two and in that time there had been no sightings of him in the united kingdom.
However if they had looked in america it would have been a differant story In a high rise apartment in New York city a teenage of about 15 stood leaning on the balustrade looking out at the city.
His black hair was short and spiked upwards with blue tips, his eyes were covered with dark sunglasses, his chest was bare and around his neck he wore a black choker with a silver tiger head dangling off it, his lower half was covered by blue jeans which had the cuffs rolled up to just below his knees and from his hand dangled a bottle of beer.
"Ryo are you here?" a voice called from inside the apartment and the teenager straightened up with a sigh and walked to the doorway before speaking
"I'm here Mark" As he spoke a man came into the room he was about twenty three with short blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a black suit on his ear was a diamond earing in the shape of a tiger.
"Good, good, have you eaten yet? and made sure you ate all your vegtables? you know you need the vitamins to help you heal"
"Stop worrying i'm fine" Ryo moved his arm around "see all healed"
"Ryo, you broke you arm and hand in five places, i have a right to be worried you never get distracted enough to get hurt"
"it was an accident mark im fine, you don't need to hover i've been looking after myself for years"
"The bosses would have my head if i didn't" Mark sighed "I'm serious have you eaten yet?"
"Yes i've eaten"
"damn i wanted some of your cooking, Is that beer in you hand?" Mark exclaimed rushing over to snatch "Your not old enough to drink yet"
Ryo rolled his eyes at the older male "Whatever, please don't tell me you only came here to complain about my eating and drinking habits?"
"No actually" Mark said seriously "I have the details of a job for you, However i'm cautious about excepting it so soon after your arm has healed"
"Mark i know my limits my arm is fine"
"Alright i'll take your word for it"
"Whats the job?" Ryo asked as he moved further into the room and took a seat at the table Mark followed him, sat opposite the teen and pulled a large envolope from the inside of his jacket. The contents of the envolope were laid on the table between them.
"Micheal Halling, he's the second in command of the Black scorpians"
"black scorpians wasn't that the gang that the puma team were supposed to take down?"
"Yes, it seems that whisker wasn't ready and messed up"
"So the tiger team has mop up duty?" Ryo asked incedeously
"Not just us Ryo, tiger, cheeter, leopard and panther teams have one of the top guys each and lynx, ocelot and bombay are after some of the lower members"
"That many? the commander must want these guys out of the way fast for all of us to have been called in to help, why the hell did they give the mission to a rookie in the first place if it was so important?"
"Whiskers scores have been amongst the highest in the simulations the trainers thought she would do well" Mark then smirked at the teen "I think they were comparing her to you" Ryo glared at Mark "there's been talk of placing her with an experianced team so she can get some working knowldege"
"I hope you made sure our name won't go on that list"
"Of course i am well aware of your dislike for rookies"
"Most of em don't know what the hell they're really getting into"
"We prepare them as much as we can"
"Whatever" Ryo said and looked down at the photo of his target "Do we have any other details about this guy?"
"Of course, Whisker managed to take out the head scorpian so micheal is trying to step into his place, he's got a meeting tomorrow night with louis Carmont son of the head of the carmont family to discus the alliance agreement between the gang and family and whether it still holds, you'll have an oppotunity then, if you can take them both out do it, if not then your target is micheal"
"It would be better to take them both then there would be confusion on who i was actaully targetting and which was the bonus" Ryo said calmly "Where's the meeting taking place?"
"La insanguinato gatta in Rome"
"The bloody cat?" Ryo asked
"Exactly"
"Got it, so am i going solo or are you coming along?"
"We go together partner" Mark laughed
"Can't i get a new partner you're annoying?" Ryo complained the edge of his lips twitching in an effort not to smirk.
"Oh like i need to have a smartmouthed genius as my partner"
"Can't help being what i am" Ryo shot back "hey do you know when my results will be in?"
"Results?" Mark asked fiegning ignorance
"My masters for Wards, Curses and Charms?"
"Ah you magical exam results"
"don't play with me mark"
"They should be on my desk on Monday morning"
"Great" Ryo smiled.
"I don't get it though"
"Get what?"
"You, i don't get why you came to work for Katz when you could have your pick of jobs in the magical world and it wouldn't take you much to get a high paid job in the mundane world either i know you have mundane qualifications"
"we've been the handler of Tiger for over a year and you still haven't figured that out?"
"nope, so enligten me"
"Katz does good work, i get to travel, lots of money, freedom to not take a job if i choose, not being stuck in either world but the ability to work in both, did i mention lots of money?"
"So you haven't really got a reason?"
"I was raised by the previous Tora" Ryo shrugged "he was dieing when he found me, he saw potential and took me in to begin my training, he died when i was seven and the Katz trainers took over from then on i was aiming for the Tora name to be his legacy" ryo said softly
"So you joined Katz for family?"
"He was the closest thing i had to a father he even gave me my name, Besides i liked training with Katz and working for them" Ryo then shook his head and asked "So how are we getting to rome and when are we leaving"
"Plane and tonight" Mark answered
"Well Kiba of tiger team we should get packed
"pack light Tora of tiger team" Mark answered and stood to leave "i'll pick you up at six and our flight is at nine"
"I'll see you later then"
"Remember six o'clock"
"Hai hai now go away"
Twenty four hours later Ryo was knelt on a rooftop across the street from the bloody cat looking down into the private club with a gun in each hand both of which were targeting a differant man the guns fired simaltaniously and Ryo spent a second watching to make sure both had been hit before he turned away and transformed into his animagus shape of a small black cat and silently padded off knowing there was no way anyone would find him.
"I hearby call this meeting of the Order of the pheonix into session" Dumbledore said standing at the head of the table around the table were member of the order the youngest was fourteen and the eldest, was Dumbledore himself. "Does anyone have any news?"
"Last week three of the dark lords contacts were killed" one of the members said "He's furious about it"
"Severus do have anything to add to Draco's report"
"Nothing except that voldemort wants whoever did it dead, the three were taken out simaltaniously so he doesn't think it was the same person, it was also done very neatly and by muggle means"
"So it's possible that they weren't killed by wizards at all?" Tonks asked leanng forward intrested
"No, the wounds had magic residue" Draco cut in "it took hours for the coroners to find it and even then it was only by chance that they did"
"so the wounds were caused by spells?" Tonk asked confused
"No they were caused by wire which had been charmed when the wire struk it left a small piece of magic residue" Snape snapped.
"Can the caster be tracked through the residue?" Mcgonogal asked
"No, there isn't enough there to get a proper reading of it, However He does have a suspect he thinks it was done by the organisation known as Katz"
"Katz?" Hermione asked
"Katz is an organisation that takes down criminals and murderers any way possible usually by killing them, they use assasins, spies, hackers and thieves to get the job done and they employ and train the best those that don't make the grade are either trained as handlers for the field workers, used as messangers, used as worker for katz's public buisnesses, data sorters and profilers or killed" Mundagus explained "Katz doesn't take faliure well, each person has three chances, after each failure a more experinced member take the younger on as a student if the teacher dosn't think they can improve then their either tranfered to another field or job or killed"
"How do you know that gus?" Kingsley asked
"I had a friend who was a member of Katz never knew his real name but he was Griffe of team calico"
"Griffe of team calico?"
"griffe always refused to tell me what team calico was or how many were in a team, i got the impression that there were quiet a few people in the team" Mundagus explained "Any way if one assasin fails they send a better one to do the job until it's done"
"Why don't we hire Katz to kill you-know-who" One of the members of the order asked "if as Gus said and they don't fail"
"Or if they would even take the job" Arthur weasley said frowning
"They might" Mudagus said slowly "It would cost quiet a bit to get an assasin that high in skill"
"But it could be done, we don't have much choice here and if Katz can do it" tonks trailed off
"So who's going to contact them?" Mundagus asked and everyone turned to him "Wha?"
"Your the one with the contacts" Kingsley said
"Fine fine i'll contact them and request an assasin, who's paying for it?" He asked
"The Malfoy family will if the assasin succeeds" Draco told them
"On to other buisness" Dumbledore said bringing the matter to a close "Bill you said you had news from Gringotts"
"Yes, I over heard two Goblins speaking about the Potter accounts"
"The Potter accounts are you sure?" Moody asked leaning forward
"I'm sure, The Potter account is active and has been for the last three years, they were talking about the investments that Mr. Potter had made and the money he's been putting into the account. The Goblins are very impressed with his investments"
"So thats definate proof that Harry Potter is alive?" Tonks said
"Yeah, not that it helps us much but he's definatly alive." Bill said
"We have a mission" Mark said coming into the kitchen of ryo's apartment where Ryo was frying vegtables in a wok.
"So soon?" Ryo asked "It hasn't been that long since my last one"
"Yeah well they wanted to send on of the best, It's a large one so four members of Tiger are gathering"
"Four now you've defiantly caught my attention" Ryo said "Just give me a minute to finish cooking these and if you want to be helpful you can get another plate out and set the table"
"Sure Ryo"
"Which members of tiger are being called in to work?"
"You obviously and me, so assasin, handler, spy and thief"
"Tora, kiba, metsuki and yubi"
"Yes" Mark nodded as he set the table and Ryo put the rice, fried vegrables and grilled strips of pork on the plate before setting the plates on the table and taking his seat
"Thank you" Mark nodded and Ryo muttered "itadakimasu" before he started eating
"So whats the target?" Ryo asked
"Voldemort" Mark was treated to a piece of half chewed pork hitting him in the face
"What?" ryo cried
"Voldemort" Mark repeated wiping his face "Do you need to get your ears checked ryo it wouldn't be good for my assasin to have hearing trouble"
"there nothing wrong with my ears and you know it" Ryo growled "Are you serious about the target?"
"I wouldn't joke about that name" Mark said seriously
"so someone had the balls to actually put out a hit on him"
"The contract came by the way of mundagus fletcher, who was friendly with griffe the thief of calico, before griffe was killed of course, he's small time thief that works in magical London"
"So Who's he working for?" Ryo asked
"He won't say" the handler answered darkly
"Taking out Voldemort that will be a challenge"
"the question is is it to much of a challenge for Tora?"
"i'll need more information"
"Metsuki should have the information for you soon"
"Good, hopefully she can also get information on who is buying the assasination" The teen commented leaning back in his chair. "Which other teams are looking into it?"
"Jaguar, cheetah, lion, leopard and panther"
"Top teams"
"Yes and there may be more than one assasin going to England"
"True" Ryo nodded "if they do go i'll be happy to have the help, it won't be easy at all, but it might be easier with help"
"Never thought i'd here the great Tora Ryo say that"
"Hey i can admit i need help" Ryo said faking offence
"really i thought your moto was that if Ryo couldn't do it then obviously no one could, you are the most well rounded assasin the Katz have, your a hacker, a thief a spy"
"I wouldn't be a good assasin if i wasn't" Ryo said dryly standing and he took the plates to the sink "an assasin is not just a killer he must be as silent as a thief to sneak upto his target, as technically canny as a hacker to keep himself hidden and to find his target, as subtle and cunning as a spy to infultrate his target's guard and to find out the best approach to the target and best way to kill"
"That sounds like it has been drilled into you"
"yeah it's what were told to memorise in Katz training as an assasin"
"good thing i didn't train as an assasin then isn't it"
"What did you train as? i don't think i've ever asked"
"Spy, i wasn't good enough to go to one of the teams so i decided to become a handler instead tell ya something though i didn't expect it to be so hard keeping track of four people"
"We all do diferant things at differant times and you worry to much, you really should trust us more" Ryo said softly his lips quirking up in a small smile "Where are we meeting the others?"
"Tomorrow morning at nine in the Katzchen club, i just came over to give you a head up"
"You could have phoned, but then you wouldn't have gotton any of my cooking"
"well i have to make sure your eating well"
"you just like my food" Ryo smirked
"Your a good cook" Mark shruged "you could easily become a chef"
"Maybe i wil someday" Ryo said quietly "I have enough money to open a restaurant maybe i'll cut back on the missions and run a restaurant"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah" Ryo turned to Mark and smirked "But not for a while yet, i'm fifteen i got the rest of my life to think about it and running a restaurant sounds fun or maybe massage palor it can't be that hard to learn how to massage or a hairdresser. hey how do you think i'd be as a hairdresser"
"You insane, and you'd be a terrible hairdresser, unless of course your chopping at the neck"
"hmm beheading style hair cut, i can do those" Ryo nodded "How much should i charge?"
"Well it is a death sentance so why don't you get them to write you into their will with their fortune going to you"
"I'd have to only accept the ones who had lots of money and make them sign a contract saying that i had absolutly nothing to do with their deaths"
"Except for chopping their head off"
"Yeah except for that"
"Katz would end up terminating you if you did that"
"True" Ryo nodded "i'd be watched if i worked in a restaurant to, to much chance of me poisoning the guests"
"Thats assuming people would come to your resurant" Mark laughed and stood "well i'd better get going i have to check in with the others and i promised some friend i's go out with them tonight"
"Oh such a hard job you have" Ryo said sarcastically
"And don't you forget it after all i have to deal with you on a regular basis" Ryo rolled his eyes at that and turned back to his washing up
"See ya tomorrow morning mark"
"get a good nights sleep Ryo" Mark said as he left
"Always has to get the last word in" Ryo muttered shaking his head.
At Ten to nine the next morning Ryo entered the Katzchen club, a club where all the staff were members of Katz and where team members could relax knowing there completly safe the offices in the building were perfect for holding meetings in such as the one Ryo was on his way to entering the room he saw Mark, and two women. One of the women had long brown hair which was tied in a high pony tail and brown eyes infront of her sat a laptop, and she was wearing purple jeans and a blue gypsy style top around her neck she wore a knecklace with a tigers head pendant hanging from it, the otherwoman had chin length blond hair wich had pink streaks running through it, she was wearing a short black skirt and a pink off the shoulder top, from each of her ears hung a short metal chain with a tigers head on the end of it.
"Ohayo tigers" He said going further into the room
"Good morning Tora" the blond said with a smile
"Yeah yeah come and sit tora we don't have all day" Mark commanded and Ryo raised an eyebrow as he took a seat. "It's been decided that there will be three teams working on the voldemort mission, Tiger, panther, and lion"
"The top three" The brunette commented
"Exactly metsuki"
"We already knew it would be difficult, but to realise it was difficult enough to send the top three" Metsuki commented
"Well i for one will be glad of the help" This caused the two women to stare at him "What?"
"Are you feeling alright Tora?" Yubi asked concerned
"I'm not sick" Ryo complained "I can ask for help sometimes you know" He growled
"Yeah but not straight away by the time you ask for help your neck deep in trouble" Yubi said lightly
"Che" Ryo huffed leanig his chair back on two legs as his feet rested on the table
"Back to buisness" Mark said "metsuki what have you got for us?"
"Quiet a bit kiba" Metsuki answered "Voldemort has a large group of followers however they are not well trained our assasins could cause alot of chaos with just a few prank type traps. The problem is we don't know much about the defences of Voldemort himself"
"No one does" Yubi cut in "there are rumours that his defences include something called horcruxes but" Every one looked at Ryo when he managed to make his chair fall backwards as he jerked when she said Horcrux.
"Are you sure about that name?" Ryo asked one he was upright again
"Yes i think so"
"You know anything about it Tora?"
"Yeah, it's dark very dark, a horcrux is made by spliting your soul and placing the split part into an object, the soul gets split when you use the avada to kill an innocent, and an innocent means a child under ten years old or a pregnant woman" Ryo told them quietly
"So old voldie might have done that"
"It is possible" Metsuki said "it also might be the answer to how he managed to survive when his body was destroyed"
"But we have no way in knowing how many he's created" Ryo sighed slumping back in his seat.
"Should be to hard to find out" Yubi said "You just need a locator map set to voldemorts magical signiture"
"Is there a locator which can do that?" Mark asked leaning forward onto the table
"Of course" yubi answered "How do you think i find stuff like this, admittedly i've never found anything on this kind of scale but we'll have the lion and panther to help cast it, and if we have to scan the whole world i'm sure all the katz thieves would be glad to be part of it i doubt a spell like this has ever been done on a scale were talking about."
"Which one of us will be going with Fletcher?" a tall blond haired man asked in a light german accent.
"Tora and kiba" Another man answered "Those two can get out of any sticky situation that arises"
"Ya that sounds about right"
"Sounds fine to me" Ryo said making theother two jump as they hadn't heard him come up to them "Where are we meeting fletcher?"
"Hangmans inn in knockturn alley at one this afternoon" The german answered and Ryo nodded and walked back to where Mark was standing with the spys for panther and lion, The assasins for lion and panther were both seperated from everyone and all three assasins were carefully watching their surroundings mentally noting down everything they would need if things went sour. once they had their luggage the three teams seperated going in differant directions once in London itself the team seperated into individals and all headed for seperate hotels. all of them planning to meet the next day at the Katz owned club in central london. Ryo checked into his hotel and got a few hours sleep before he showered and dressed in leather trousers around the waist it had a silver chain link belt which on a mental command from Ryo would undo itself and lengthen to become a whip, over that he wore a tight black muscle shirt, on his forearms were bracers which had senbon and throwing knives tucked in them with a black button down shirt with loose sleeves over the top of that, around his neck was a black choker with a tiger head hanging from it, on his right ring finger was a silver ring with an open mouthed tigers head on it, the head could be opened to show a small cavety which was filled with concentrated poison which could kill in the right quantity and would put you to sleep on the smallest quantity possible. Ryo's feet were covered by black combat boots which had knives tucked into special sheiths inside the boot and a knife in the sole, the last piece of jewllery he put on was a watch which had wire inside it. Ryo moved his arms and wrists experimentally to make sure he could move freely and get to his weapons, the last thing Ryo put on before leaving was his coat which was a long black trench coat. In the back of the coat was a sheeth for a sword which would hang down the wearers spine, also attatched to the coat was six gun harnesses each holding a gun, three more knife sheeths the pockets of the coat were cut and instead of the pocket was a hole on the right hand side was a wand holder with Ryo's wand in it and on the left hand side was a card holder made for holding ofuda, on the inside of the coat was a pocket that held his wallet and potions vials pulling his coat on Ryo again made sure he could reach all his weapons and slipped a pair of sunglasses on his nose before he left his hotel room and headed for Diagon Alley to meet with Mark.
Inside Diagon Alley Ryo headed for floretcue's ice cream parlor where his handler was waiting for him he ordered an icecream and then joined his friend.
"Kiba" Ryo said as he sat
"Good afternoon tora, are you ready for the meeting?"
"Of course"
"i suppose you'll want to go shopping after the meeting?"
"i might, there are always books floating around that need to be added to my collection"
"Or new magical weapons?" Mark said slyly
"Exactly, i want to make a visit to my vault while i'm here as well"
"You have a vault here?"
"I do" ryo nodded "to be honest i have vaults dotted around the world but the vault here has been in my family for generations"
"Your family or Tora's?"
"mine, Though i do have access to the Tora vaults i have no real need to use them, though i do place money in there every so often theres no telling if the next Tora might have need of it"
"What gets put in the Tora vaults anyway?"
"All sorts of things" Ryo shrugged "Anything the previous Tora's thought would be useful, didn't you get a vault from the previous Kiba?"
"I did" Mark nodded The two talked as Ryo ate his icecream and then got up and headed for Knockturn alley and the hangman inn. Once at the inn they spotted the man who's photograph they had been shown and went over to the man and Mark took the seat infront of him while ryo stayed standing keeping a weary eye on the surrounding and other patrons of the inn.
"Mundagus fletcher? i'm Kiba of the tiger" Mark said "i'm here to sort out the details of the contract"
"I've been told to bring you to the meeting place by portkey" Mundagus said
"So be it however if this is a trick my associate and i will kill you"
"y-Yes i understand, please put our hand on this" Mundagus held out a news paper and Ryo moved slightly so he could also put a hand on it and all three of them felt a yank on their navels as they portkeyed away from the inn.
They landed in a dark house and Ryo's senses imediatly came alert as he sensed so much dark magic. Keeping a weary eye out he followed Mark and Fletcher into another room where a long table was sat and ten people were sat around it Ryo's eyebrow quirked upwards when he saw Albus Dumbledore sat at the table.
"Welcome gentlemen"
"Albus Dumbledore" Mark greeted
"Ah i see you already know who i am my assosiates, Alastor Moody, Severus snape, Draco Malfoy, Arthur Weasley, Minerva mcgonogal, Remus lupin, nymphadora tonks and kingsley shaklebolt and you two are?"
"I am Kiba of the tiger and my partner is Tora of the tiger, like i told Mr. Fletcher were here to Find out who's paying for the hit and to find out if you know anything about the protections the target has"
Ryo soon tuned out the negotiations and concentrated on his surroundings until a quiestion from tonks brought his mind back to the presant.
"Will we meet the assasin that will take out you-know-who"
"You already have" Mark answered
"Your the assasin?" She asked suprised
"Not me but my quiet friend over there" Mark gesured at Ryo with his hand
"Isn't he a bit young to be as assasin?" Arthur asked
"Tora has been a working assasin since he was twelve and been trained since he was six he's one of the best" Mark said scathingly "Which is why he was sent on this hit"
"Katz trains children as assasins?" Arthur asked horrified
"Not normally Tora was a special case, Now back to the mission, do you know where his base is?"
seeing as they weren't talking about him anymore tora's eyes strayed around the room when he came across a head pocking out from under the table and after making sure no one was watching Ryo knelt on the floor and offered a piece of jerky to the dog who slowly came closer unti he took the jerky from Ryo hand and the assasin petted the large dog, his face fell into a frown when he felt the dogs ribs and silently he led the dog out of the room and soon found the kitchen.
"You should not be so thin" He growled out looking through the cupboards as the dog looked on in amusment as Ryo turned on the stove and started to cook the meat he had found he also found a bowl and as soon as the meat was cooked he put it in the bowl and reached into the inside pocket of his coat and brought out a small vial of potion and poured it over the meat, turning he saw the dog staring at the potions vial.
"The potion will help your body digest the food properly and help it to translate the food into meat to put on your bones your to thin, admittedly the potios works better on humans but it'll still do it's job on you. All Katz members have to carry that just in case something happens and we have to get the best out of our meals it'll last three weeks so eat as much as you can in that time and it should bring you up to a healthy weight"
"Who the hell are you?" A Voice shouted from the doorway and Ryo turned to see a red haired girl Ryo ignored the girl and instead checked the heat of the bowl and food and then placed it on the floor for the dog and silently walked past the girl and slipped back into the meeting and retook his place in the shadows.
it was aother three hours before Mark and Ryo left via another port key and apperated to another location before they began walking
"Did you find out where we were?"
"Of course" Ryo smirked "i also bugged the meeting room, kitchen and the hall way in between"
"Good Metsuki should already be monitering it"
"Did you get anything from them about the protections or even where the target is?" Ryo asked
"not much about the protections they didn't even mention anything about the horcrux's, and they have no idea where voldemort is basically the meeting was a waste of time"
"Great" Ryo sighed "I'll see you tomorrow morning Kiba" Ryo said and turned down a side street heading for the darker parts of London.
"Do you think they can do it?" Tonks asked after the tiger duo had left
"We'll see" Dumbledore said "They don't have much information to work with so that will make their job harder, What do you think of them?"
"Kiba seems friendly and smart, Tora scared me he was so silent and shadow like"
"He is an assasin" Moody reminded her
"Yeah but he looks around Hermione and Ron's age, and he was wearing those glases the whole time but it's not that light in here"
"Do you think he actually speaks at all?" Remus asked
"Not to humans" Sirius piped up from his seat "He was talking to me while i was padfoot, and he cooked me some food said i was to thin, but he shut right up when ginny came into the kitchen"
"How strange" Kingsley muttered
"Maybe he just doesn't know how to deal with people" Arthur said "mr. Kiba did say that Tora had trained as an assasin from age six"
"he should be in school not going around killing people"
"Did you find anything instresting from listening to the survalence?" Ryo asked as the tiger team settled down around a table.
"Not much, except they thing you should be in school" Metsuki told him
"our Tora would be bored in a school" Yubi laughed and Tora rolled his eyes
"So nothing on voldemort?" Mark asked
"nothing, sorry Kiba, it looks like were going to have to do this ourselves" metsuki told him
"Fine, Yubi get with doigt and dito and start to prepare for that locating spell, we also need to knowhow we're going to tune it in to look for voldies magic" Ryo ordered
"We could use the dark mark as a basis, the problem with that is that we would then be finding all the deatheaters as well as voldemort and the horcruxes" Yubi said "But i'll get right on it"
"Thanks, Metsuki i need you to keep monitering the order and get Yeux and Occio to place bugs in the ministers office and the head of the magical law enforcments office as well as the main MLE places if they can, If you need us i'm sure Thera, Lyon and i will be ok with helping you place bugs"
"We'll get a list drawn up of the possible sites and people for the bugs Tora"
"Good, you can reach my on my mobile, i'm going to mee Lyon and thera"
"Going shopping?" Mark asked with a raised
"It's not often i'm in London" Ryo replied
"By the way what do you need Dente, epineaux and i to do?"
"We need background checks on all the names our eyes are going to be giving us so your on that" And with that Ryo left the room and made his way to the appiriton point and transported himself to the apperition point in daigon alley where he made his way to the ice cream shop. Coming up tothe shop he spotted four people he recognised the first two were the other two assasins, one was a tall brunette male with striking purple eyes who was wearing jeans and a blue t-shirt, around his waist ryo could just make out a silver belt exacly like the one he was wearing and on his feet were combat boots, around his neck was a red choker with a gold lion hanging of it, over the back of his chair was a coat that was exactly like Ryo's own, the other assasin was female and had chin length blond hair and dark green eyes she was wearing a short leather skirt with a white tank top with a white shirt open over the top of it, like the two guys she wore a choker however hers was white and a panthers head hung from it and around her waist was a silver chain, on her feet were 2 inch high heeled boots which he knew, although Ryo couldn't see them, had knives sheethed inside them, a coat was slung over the back of her seat and a bag was sat by her feet Ryo's eyes swept over them a second time mentaly catalogues which weapons his fellow assasins were wearing, The other two people Ryo recognised were two red head both of which had been at the house that had hosted the meeting about the contract. After collecting a bowl mint and chocolate ice-cream Ryo joined his fellow katz at their table
"Ah Tora right on time" the woman said standing as she reached over to hug the younger assasin
"Thera" Ryo nodded to her then returned the hug and nodded to the man "Lyon"
"Tora, you promised to take me shopping today, i've never been in London before so you two will have to show me the sights" Thera said rapidly almost briming with excitment at the thought of going shopping.
"calm your self thera, tora and i have mostly been here on working vacations but we an show you the sights" Lyon laughed
"Ah Mr. Tora i didn't expect to see you in Daigon alley" Mr weasley said as he stopped at the table on his way out Ryo just nodded to them
"Don't mind Tora he doesn't talk much" Thera told them with a chuckle "Though if he does talk it's to give you a lecture on something Usually about food, cooking or neutrution, we're all just waiting for him to open a restaurant somewhere"
"I'm Arthur weasley by the way"
"nice to meet you, i'm thera and this is lyon, when did you meet tora?"
"We met yesterday are you in the same line of work?"
"we are" Lyon nodded
"I see" Arthur said "i was under the impression that only tora and kiba would be working with us"
"Not with you, for the guy who's paying us, normally there would only be Tora here but the project is a large one he'll need help to find the goal and complete it" Thera said "Surprised alot of us when he admitted it would take him longer on his own"
"Indeed Tora is not one to admit he needs help, the problem is he usually doesn't"
"So what are you doing in diagon?" Ginny aksed
"Shopping, or we will be once tora finishes his icecream, i swear he's addicted to the stuff" Thera said and Tora glared at her lyon shook his head in exasperation as the female assasin stuck her tongue out at Tora.
"you need a guide?" Ginny asked
"Nah we're heading out into London this is just the meeting place, plus Tora had to choose to meet somewhere he knew there would be icecream nearby"
"Stop harping about the icecream" Tora growled "I like the stuff so what you like shopping and you don't hear me going on about it, hell i even agreed to go shopping with you" Tora ground out.
"Ah the silent one speaks" thera cheered
"Sometimes i thing you the one thats fifteen thera" Lyon sighed
"Your fifteen?" Ginny asked "then why were you at that private meeting?"
"Buisness" Tora snapped "We have shopping to do please excuse us" The young assasin stood and put his coat on a move followed by the other two.
"Hey you said your going out into muggle Londen do you mind company?"
"Sorry little one but Tora only has so much patience, and he has to deal with thera." Lyon said soothingly
"I won't cause any trouble i promise but i've never been out into muggle london before"
"And you won't be today" Tora growled "Stay with your father, the places we're going aren't places for children"
"Hippocrite your only a year older than i am"
"Ginny" Arthur said warningly.
"Maybe we should take her" Thera mused "That might teach her to not stick her nose into buisness not her own"
"No" Tora said coldly "if only for the reason that we will not be returning to Diagon alley today and heading the muggle world which if i remember correctly most wizards and witches do not know a thing about, you would stick out like a sore thumb, and we do not have time to babysit."
"But you've already said you're just going shopping" Ginny argued unknowingly angering the stoic teen who's hand twitched as if wanting to go for his knife, Lyon seeing the signs stepped to Tora's side and placed a hand on Ryo's shoulder reminding him where he was and he really couldn't pull a knife on the girl, no matter how annoying. Ginny on the other hand couldn't figure out what she'd done wrong Mr. Tora was a member of the Order, wasn't he?
"Ginny they are most likely to be going into some dangerous places, none of which are places where a young girl such as you should go"
"I can defend myself" She snapped
"Without magic?" Tora asked coldly "If i remember correctly England does not allow children to use their magic during the summer break" And with that Tora turned and walked away from Thera and Lyon following. The young redhead narrowed her eyes and pulled away from her father to follow the three but Arthur's hand flashed out and gripped her arm not letting her follow.
"All of us have said no" Arthur said harshly "And we still have some shopping to do here in the alley."
King Harry of Death
He'd been haviing the same dream for years ever since he was old enough to remember his dreams that one dream has been repeated and always he wakes with the words 'accept your destiny' ringing in his ears. Each dream is slightly differant more information gets revealed at first there was just a flash of green light and all he could remember was the green light and the words. Years past and the dream changed the green light still appeared but after it faded a cloaked man stood watching him and the words repeated.
When he arrived at Hogwarts the dream changed again and instead of just standing watching the cloaked man beakoned the boy to follow him and he was led to the edge of a cliff where they were overlooking a city and he woke with the words ringing through his mind.
On his first night back at Hogwarts for his second year the dream changed again and the cloaked man led him down to the city until they stood outside heavy wooden doors
"Accept your destiny and open the door"
The cloaked man wispered as he awoke. Over the year the dream repeated and each time the door became more and more defined until images appeared on the large doors on the left hand door was images of dark creatures and demons, on the right hand door was light creatures and spirits and in the middle was the image of a man with a scythe in one hand and a staff in the other.
At the begining of his third year the doors were opened and the boy and cloaked man stepped through the boys eyes roamed and smiled at the chaos going on around him people rushed here and there calling out greetings as the moved the cloaked man led the boy through the market place and throught the streets of the city until they came to a large plaza which was obviously used for public speaking as a blue crystal podium was built.
"Accept your destiny and this will be yours" The dream again repeated but never the same the two always walked a differant route to the plaza and differant people met them on the way.
In the fourth year the dream again changed and a man in purple clothing stood at the podium.
"Many centuries have we waited" He said "For our king to arise but now the time is coming to when he will come to us, time when he will stand with us. The prophecy we have been waiting for had been started" Over the nights the speech got longer until the boy realised the king they were speaking of. Was him.
"Accept us and we will be yours" The cloaked figure whispered once again and the fourteen year old awoke.
On his fifteenth birthday the dream changed and he stood in a throne room facing the cloaked man.
"i have shown you all i can" The man said in his whispery voice "the choice must be made"
"What choice?" The boy asked
"Will you come with me and ascend to the throne, bring your people peace of mind"
"My People? I don't understand"
"Have you forgotten so quickly? I had thought Jeran explained it quiet well. So be it i will explain once again. Nine thousand years ago the king of the city faded away just before he faded he spoke of his sucessor a child who would be dead and yet living with eyes like emeralds marked by the sign of the lightning his dreams would be open to the spirit keepers and he will understand their speech. His power would radiate from him and though his power would be hidden until his 16th years his 15th will be the time for him to come to the city. If the sucessor declines then the city will forevermore remain as it is. If he accept then the city will change back to how it was when the previous king ruled."
"But i'm not dead or powerful"
"You are dead yet living" the man corrected "When the killing curse strunk you it killed you however your magic and soul were to strong to be severed completly by the spell and so you in a sense ressurected yourself. your magic is the only thing that keeps you alive and breathing. However that won't keep you alive for more then another year if you do not become king your magic will not be able to support your body and your new powers but if you ascend to the throne the thrones magic will support your body in the living world."
"living world?"
"The city is in the realm of the dead every citizen is a spirit and all of them are warriors the old king could call these spirits into the living world as an army of the light. Howver we could only be called at certain occasions when the balance was tipped to far into the evil direction." He explained.
"But i saw children"
"No you saw warriors who chose to look like children in the city, warriors who may not have had a childhood the first time around. time is growing short you must chose"
"If i decline i will die" The boy said simply "There is no choice, i will ascend."
The Cloaked figure knelt and said "Long live the king"
"Don't please i'm not king yet"
"Pack everything you wish to take with you then step into the shadows and say Take me Home and they will bring you to the throne room of the palace" The man said and the dream faded.
At the same time in Little whinging Surrey a boy jolted upright suddenly and blinked a few times before reaching for his glasses after a few seconds of mental deiberation about whether or not to trust the dreams he'd been having since he was a child he got up and started packing.
Once he was all packed he pulled his trunk into the deepest shadows in the room and ordered them to take him home. In that instant the world shifted and the colour bled out of his vision before everything turned pitch black in the next instant the black faded to grey and colour came back. He was now in the throne room where twelve cloaked figures waited. As he stepped out of the shadows they all fell to one knee and said.
"Hail to the king."
"please don't" The boy said he wasn't worthy of this.
"You are our king Harry" One of the cloaked figures said standing and Harry recognised his voice as the man who had spoken to him in his dreams for years.
"Who are you? You've spoken to me for years but i still don't know who you are"
"I appologise your highness i am Phasma leader of the Spirit Keepers, my companions are the other eleven Spirit Keepers our job is to keep the barriers between the living world and the dead world up." The man said pushing back the hood of his cloak revealing short green hair and bright purple pupil-less eyes His skin was deeply tanned and he had red markings on his neck going down under his clothing. "My fellow Spirit keepers are, Seirei"
One of the figures rose and pushed back it's hood to reveal a women with chin length blue hair and yellow pupil-less eyes she also had marking on her neck but they were blue.
"Geest" The next figure rose and pushed back his hood to show a man with orange hair which was long enough to brush the lobes of his ears, his eyes were dark green and his markings were blue.
"Henki" Was male and had long dark red hair and amber eyes his markings were also blue.
"Mente" was female with long purple hair tied in a braid, her eyes were an icy blue colour and her markings were red.
"Espirito" was female and had short pink hair and dark red eyes her markings were yellow.
"Genio" was male and had very short white hair, chocolate eyes and green markings.
"Ande" was women with shoulder length gold hair and pink eyes with red markings.
"Shinzui" was a man with inky black hair and molten silver eyes his markings were silver.
"His twin Seishou" looked the same but reversed he had black eyes and silver hair his markings were yellow.
"Custos" had Green markings, his eyes were neon blue and his hair was dark purple.
"And Abeo" Who had long light green hair and pale red eyes and her marking were silver.
"It's nice to meet you all" Harry said "So what happens now?"
"Now you have to go sit on the throne to truely accept your kingship and to invoke the power of the throne." Phasma told him and Harry nodded and hesitantly approached the dais and stepped up on to it, stopping just before the throne where he hesitated and look back at the Phasma who nodded to him. Harry took a fortifying breath and settled himself on the throne only a second went by before the throne lit up like a christmas tree. Each rune engraved on the throne glowed a differant colour and Harry oversized clothes changed into Royal apperal, his legs were covered by purple trousers done in the softest and finest silk clinched at the waist with a dark purple leather belt, the buckle of which was silver and in the shape of a dogs head. The legs of the trousers were very wide and would seem to sway and move with him when he moved, on his feet were soft black ankle boots, covering his upper body was a black silk shirt and over the shirt was a long purple cloak pinned over his chest with a silver pin bearing an engraving of a cloaked man who was holding a scythe in one hand and a staff in the other, the same image Harry had seen on the door. On his wrists were silver cuffs each about two inches in width which had flowing scripture on them in a language Harry instinctivly recognised but couldn't read, on his right hand, middle finger appeared a silver ring which had a seal of a scythe crossed with a staff.
After a few minutes the glow subsided and Harry felt invigorated and much stronger.
"How do you feel my King?" Ande asked softly
"Stronger and more alive i think" Harry replied smiling slightly "What's next?"
"Next we show you to your rooms here at the palace and you get some rest"
"Wait Phasma" Henki interrupted "Your majesty at the moment this City and the Living realm are sincronised in time a minute here is a minute there, however that can be changed."
"Changed?" Harry questioned
"Yes, you could make time here run faster or slower than your home realm, it is my advice that you speed up time in this city my king, so you have longer to train before you are truely needed back in your birth realm"
"How can it be changed?"
"On the right arm of your throne should be an indent which will fit your ring, that indent control everything about the city including the wards and the time, you'll need to press your ring into the indent while concentratin on changing the speed of time" Henki explained Harry nodded and twisted the ring so the image was facing his palm he place his hand over the indent and pressed down thinking clearly about the speed of time and the differance between his own realm and this one. His eyes closed of their own accord and infront of him appeared two dials and above each dial was a number which on both was 000001, which was year, month, day, hour, minute, second. The two dials were engraved with a letter on each on the Left dial there was an L and on the right a D which Harry instinctivly knew that the L meant the living realm and the D was the dead realm, he reach up with his left hand and turned the Right dial until the number was 100000 and the left number stayed the same. Slowly Harry opened his eyes and lifted his hand from the arm of the throne.
"There it's done for every year here is a second in the living realm. Now a bed sounds like a very good idea." Harry said yawning. Phasma bowed and waited for Harry to join him before leading him out of the throne room and geest followed silently hefting it onto his shoulder. As they passed down the hall all the people they passed dropped to one knee and said "Long live the king" the halls that the three passed down all had tapastries with stories written on them hanging.
"What are the tapastries here for?"
"They tell the stories of every person living here before they died, the tapastries change everyday so all the stories can be seen and read."
"Thats nice" Harry said softly it wasn't long before they reached the Royal apartment and went in the first room was painted in a very dark purple and had a portrait of a teenager sitting with his feet up on a desk leaning back in his chair and sipping wines placed above the fireplace. The teen glanced at him then looked back down at his glass before suddenly bolting to his feet as if he had only just realised what he had seen the teen came around the desk to lean on the front of it and smiled at the new king.
"It's nice to finally see you young one" The portrait said sounding alot older than he looked.
"Who are you?"
"I am king Aliiance you're predessessor" The teen said and Harry looked at him in shock which made the old king laugh "We'll talk in the morning little one until then just get some sleep you look like you need it"
Harry nodded and turned to look at Phasma who spoke "There are three rooms excluding this one, bedroom, library and study, the bedroom is through that door" He pointed to a door Harry hadn't noticed on he wall and walked to it "The doors are protected by wards so if you don't know they are they you can't see them, the doors also have recognition wards on them alligned to the magic of the throne only you can pass through the doorways anyone else would be stopped by a barrier that would send a large electric shock through them. We will leave you here my king if you need anything"
"I will help" Aliiance cut in and Phasma bowed to the portrait and then to Harry before leaving followed by Geest. "There should be cloathes in the bedroom and a bathroom" Harry nodded and walked through the door.
The bedroom was painted in dark green with a large wardrobe set into one wall, along another wall was a large window looking out over the city, the third wall had the bed up against it and another door which was obviously the bathroom. The wall with the door through which he had just come through had two chest of drawers and a large mirror. After a quick glance at the room Harry went to the drawers and searched through them and found a pair of loose pants he could sleep in and carried the clothes into the bathroom where a bath was awaiting him.
The next morning he awoke snuggled under a dark blue quilt, rising from the bed he got ready for the day and dressed in black trousers of the same wide style as the night before and over that went a purple poet shirt, once dressed he went out into the main living area where a table full of breakfast foods were waiting along with Phasma, Espirito, Jeran and three people he didn't recognise.
"Good morning highness" Phasma said as they all stood and bowed
"Please there is no need to stand" Harry said as he walked over and took a place at the table and picked up a bowl of fruit to eat. "What happens today?"
"we'll be drawing up a training schedule for you, and giving you more information about the dead realm"
"Right" Harry nodded "What sort of training?"
"Magical, physical and mental" Aliiance said "You can not be a strong king is one of the three are less that the others"
"We here will be your trainers, Espirito, who you already know, will be teaching you hand to hand combat and meditation, i will be teaching you to weild the sword, staff and knives. Jeran will be coaching you in politics and the history of the city,
Fox Guild
Long ago there was a guild, in a time when guilds were common this guild ruled over the others, while most guilds only had a set skill they goverend over, such as the blacksmith guilds or the trader guilds this guild welcomed all they were the fox guild, if some needed a job done that the fox guild would get it done.
The Fox guild was famous but secretive, they worked in both the muggle world and magical world and saw no differance between their jobs. HTe guild was first began when a group of twelve friends all part of differant guilds were getting the bad end of the deal while in their various guilds and so they got together over a large barrel of mead and decided to create their own guild, they would train their own people and be a better guild that any of the others.
The twelve each had their own abilities and had their own titles in the guild the first was the Black Fox, he was an assasin with the ability to use shadows to hide himself and travel through, the next was Red Fox, he was a master blacksmith with the ability to use fire to help him smelt metal he made the finest blades, blue fox was a sailor and captain of a fleet of ships his ability was that of water and could use the flow of the water to move the boat faster, white fox was next and she was a master healer, green fox was a master herbologist with the ability to talk to plants and know exactly what she needed to do to help them grow, yellow fox was a potions mistress, gold fox was a weaponsmaster, silver fox was a posions expert, bronze fox was a brilliant artist and map maker, Emerald fox was a master warder, diamond fox was a war mage, and ruby fox was a master charmer.
These were the first twelve the founders of the Fox guild there is no record of if they had families or how the guild was passed dowm the generations.
What we do know if that all the members of the guild had special abilities whether they be a certain skill in which they truely excell or a magical gift such as a language or element. the guild were trained in a large training grounds from the vague etails we've been able to find over the years it is suspected that the traing grounds would be as big as Hogsmead vilage perhaps even bigger, it is not known for sure nor does anyone know where the guild training ground was we are not even sure in which part of the country it was in but we are sure that the training ground was somewhere in England.
"What's got you so intrested?" A voice spoke up beside him causing the reader to jump in suprise
"ROn, i didn't hear you, you made me jump" sai the boy putting his book down
"Not my fault you were off in you're own little world harry what was so intresing anyway?"
"I was reaidng about the Fox guild it's very intresting even if there really isn't very much information on them" HArry said leaning back in his chair.
"The Fox guil is just a myth there no way it actually existed if they were as good as the legends say why aren't they still around"
"Dunno, but it'd be intresting to find out."
"Sounds boring to me, how about a game of chess" and with that Ron distracted Harry quite throughly and he forgot about his facination about the Fox guild until after he had stormed out of the headmasters office and gone to the room of requirments to calm down.
Inside the room of requirments it was like standing in the middle of a storm the clouds came down to bearly a metre over harry head as he paced and raged against Dumbledore, Snape, Umbridge, Voldemort, fudge and even himself it took at least an hour for Harry to calm down and a large leather covered bench appeared on which Harry lied down on his back and the storm rose of he could see if properly.
"I wish the Fox guild was still around and could help me learn" The green eyed wizard said and amazingly the ROR responded, the storm faded and was replaced by a large study on the north wall was a large map of Hogwarts and the surrounding area which Hogwarts, hogsmead, the dark forrest, and one other place were marked. On the east wall a portrait of four people whom Harry recognised as the four founders, on the opposite was a portrait of twelve people all wearing fox masks of differant colours, the twelve figures glowed as they began to move and stepped out of the portrait one by one. Harry gaped at the group as they came to stand before him, and he felt like they were examining him.
"Welcome Heir" The twelve said
"Heir? i don't understand"
"Then we will explain" The one of the two females said "Do you know who we are?"
"Yes, i think you're the founding memebers of the Fox guild but i don't know anything beyond that"
"Then well will introduce outselves first" Gold fox said and removed his mask revealing a cheery blue eyed man with dirty blond hair "I am callian Griffindor, weaponsmaster of the guld of the fox."
"Griffindor?"
"Yes, my great great great grandson was Godric griffindor one of the four founders of this school"
the white fox was the next to take off her mask and as she did so her hair came tumbling down from her topknot revealing bright red hair, she had pale skin and luminous silver eyes "I am Sariana Slytherin, master healer and great great grandmother of Salazar slytherin"
"Marius slytherin" The silver fox introduced himself taking off his mask revealing that he had black hair and brown eyes "Sariana's husband and great grandfather of salazar, i was a poisons master and parselmouth"
"I am corin Black" said the bronze fox pulling off his mask revealing grey eyes and black hair
"Now that the introductions are out of the way let up explain what we meant by heir" Sariana said as she settled her self on the seat the room of requirments had made. "As you know we twelve created the Fox guild and our children were raised from an early age learning fighting skills and magic that we guildmembers specialised in, all of us had the basic understanding of the others jobs, while i was a healer all of us could do basic field medicine. we all knew how to weild a weapon and how to ward or unward. Our children trained at our feet from the day they could walk and talk"
"The children were our sucessors" Corin told him "They took our places as the leaders, however as bloodlines to some started to die out and the property and items that the guild owned belonged to the twelve so as the bloodlines died the items were signed over to other others still living, there was also an iron clad rule that was never to be broken which we promised by magic and sealed to our bloodlines, if one of our bloodline should attack with the intent to kill another they will be striken off the records of the guild and any items belonging to that bloodline will be forfited that blood oath was made to ALL guildmembers"
"Living today there are still seven bloodlines that were guild, but only two of them were from us"
"On of which is Tom RIddle the Slytherin descendent" Marius confirmed "The other is now you"
"You're Godfather Sirius Black was another decended of ours but with his death my family is all but gone, only Andromeda and Nymphadora are left to carry on the line however because they were disowned by lady Black they cannot claim the black name, for causing the death of Sirius Bellatrix is cast from the family, and Narcissa married into the Malfoy family who left out ranks centurys ago, when they attacked and killed another member of the guild"
"As such as the last remaining descended of the twelve the guild is you, you are realted to us by three bloodlines, the Potters which were once the Griffindors, the Evans who were once Slytherins and the Blacks, from you're paternal grandmother"
"You have already taken the first steps to claim it, here in this room"
"I don't understand what does Hogwarts have to do with the Fox Guild"
"Hogwarts was the guild"
"WHat?" he asked stunned
"Godric, salazar, helga and rowena were all guild members they decided that they would start teach about the guild early to get as many young people with us as soon as possible, the land that Hogwarts rest upon belongs to the guild, and to the north of Hogwarts is the main guild training centre, the castle was so large so that this could be the public face of the guild when the guild was shut down parts of Hogwarts were blocked off, and are still blocked to this day, places like the slytherin's chamber were changed and forgotten"
"The chamber?" Harry asked
"THe chamber of secrets was once the entrance to the guild training facility."
"But only a parcelmouth could open it"
"No, the password was changed later to need a parcelpassword originally it set as a normal password but somewhere down the line it was changed."
