Disclaimer: Harry Potter and The Tribe do not belong to me. I make no money from this. :(

AN: I know I have been gone a long time but I have revamped the first 2 chapters and written another 3 so have fun and don't forget to review!

Chapter 3: A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend

They all fully walked into the small courtyard there were many toys and to Harry he thought it looked so bright, a stark difference to the rest of the run down city. The oldest girl around fifteen years old had brightly died red hair and was sitting on a swing next to a boy maybe ten years old he had brown hair. As they were taking in there surroundings the oldest girl looked up and spotted them she stood up slightly in front of the little boy.

Amber came forward then and raised her hands to show they meant no harm. "Hi, my name is Amber this is Dal and over there is Greg and Harry, we were hiding from the locos when we saw Cloe in the street Greg got to her in time to keep the Locos from seeing her but we asked if she had somewhere to go and she brought us here."

"I'm sorry about her I can't keep her anywhere she is always running off. My name is Salene. In fact we were going to turn ourselves over to one of the tribes today but I saw this place and well I decided to give them one more play you know." She then wave to the brown haired boy and girl. "There names are Patsy and Paul and the dog is Bob."

Harry was looking at everyone around him. To him they all reminded him of the friends he and Greg made on the ship, really browbeaten and in need of safety. He also new that they must be muggles because all of them had seen his lightning shaped scar on his forehead and had not yelled his name. He moved closer to the children of the group Patsy and Paul who were playing with the dog Bob. To him they looked like brother and sister maybe twins they both had brown hair and eyes.

As he watched the the children Patsy and Paul he noticed the sign language going between themselves and wondered which was actually deaf or if both were. A few minutes later Amber announced that she had food and was willing to share it with the rest of them. Unfortunately the were interrupted by another person whom they hadn't met yet.

"Yeah, you better friend, you just better." Said a guy with black hair to his shoulders, he wasn't to tall about 5'7" and had black eyeliner that trailed down his cheeks. Amber stood up to try and stare him down. Then he started to talk about how he owned this town when Greg made himself known. He stuttered for a second then glared kind of like Ron would before he became a fire-starter, jealous and knowing he couldn't back it up but would try anyway. There were two others with him a pretty girl with pink and blue hair and a boy that reminded him of Greg, very big and with the same face paint as the rude guy.

About that time part of the Locos Tribe showed up yelling about getting them, thankfully they were after the the three who tried to rob them of their food. I grabbed Greg's hand and he picked up Cloe again and we all ran the opposite of the way everyone else went.

We all ended up in a parking garage with no cars but lots of trash in it. To Harry this was total culture shock he had gone from the Dursley's pristine house to Hogwarts to the ship then to this city with nothing to his name but thankfully with his brother. He was in shock he knew this but couldn't shake himself out of it.

Amber and Dal seemed to be leading us and Greg was keeping up with him and the little ones still carrying Cloe and the cat whom seemed happy to have an owner now. Following along behind everyone else we were lead into a surprisingly clean hallway that looked like no one had been in in a while. The red headed girl, Salene wondering where they were going was safe, and Amber saying lets check it out, Harry wanted to laugh, this whole city was crazy, nowhere was safe.

We all walked into a small clean mall. I was still in shock it was feeling like years instead of minutes that everything was happening things just were not making sense. Greg finally put the girl down then glanced at me I new I had to look a fright.

Greg glanced down at his little healer and took in the wild eye appearance of the boy. He was obviously not taking the last twenty-four hours very well. Ever since being attacked by the red headed weasel he had not been himself. He'd been more shy, more indrawn, just not the Griffindor that could stand up to psychos and dark creatures. He loved him like a brother but he was not the same anymore, he really needed a keeper.

This place looked nice and maybe they could make a place to live instead of just survive like they had been. Just as Dal went to go by himself to look at things to make sure it was safe Greg drug Harry to the front.

"Take care of him, I'll go with Dal to make sure the place is safe nobody should be alone until we know." He handed Harry over to the tall blonde and looked her in the eye and glanced at Harry again. She looked down to and saw what he saw she grabbed his hand and nodded to Greg and he went with the other boy.

They searched the bottom floor not wanting to be gone long, in silence. Each looking for food or other main supplies they would need. They found that most areas were already picked dry of anything useful so decided to head back to the others. Greg didn't want to be separated long from Harry. As we got back Greg noticed Amber reintroducing and familiarizing herself with everyone.

"Any luck guys?" she asked when we got to them. Greg shook his head and Dal told her no. "Well," She began then started to go through the bag she had Dal started to talk for her.

"We don't have much, so we have to share." Amber then started to pass out cans of food, one for every two people.

"This is Patsy and Paul," She said after handing out the cans, "Patsy does all the talking I think Paul is a bit shy."

"He's not shy." Patsy disagrees and Paul pops in.

"I'm deaf."

"He doesn't seem to have a problem talking?" Dal questions the two.

"When he feels like it" Patsy chimes in.

"Oh! I see." Amber smiles at the two of them. "Do you lip read Paul?"

Paul smiles and signs something and Patsy translates. "He says he prefers to sign." At that moment Paul looked over his shoulder and saw the three from earlier that tried to steal from them had followed them into the mall. He quickly got every ones attention.

"Now where was I before I was so rudely interrupted?" said the leader of the trio from before.

Greg realized that some thing had to be done quickly. So he snatched Harry, Cloe, Patsy and Paul by the arms to tell them to run upstairs. Before he could issue the warning the security gates went down around the three. He stopped manhandling the younger ones and looked around again not seeing anyone that could have done it so kept the kids with him.

"How the hell did you do that!?" The leader said while the other two looked afraid. "We'll find another way in, you're not getting away that easily." He went to turn around and the gate leading out went down. He came back to the inside gate slammed his hands and glared at them.

Amber now looked smug she crossed her arms and said, "It looks like your the ones not getting away now."

"What do you want with us? We don't have no argument with the locusts." Dal piped up confused.

"These aren't Locust if they were they would have done the job right." Amber butted in.

"Open this up! Open it right this instant!" The leader said like he was our parent at our closed bedroom door. "Or you will regret it. I will count to ten. ONE! TWO! THREE!"

Some one else started counting from there getting every ones attention. It was another boy this one with red dyed hair and weird looking glasses making him look like some sort of scientist and a lisp when he talked. Greg picked Harry up and he clung to him like a monkey. When the kid got to ten he made a cocky statement about what happens after that, and they should have thought the threat over a little.

He started to make his way down from the second story of the build. "Hi, I'm Jack and I think you have something to day to me?"

Amber looked confused Greg new what it felt like this whole place was insane. "Like what?"

"Well in my day it was thanks," he shrugged now standing in front of Amber, "but times are changing." he then kind of rolled his eyes.

Amber grudgingly said thanks to him.

He shrugged it off after wards and started to explain how the gates could be opened. He then look at his new captives and told them he would lift the far one once they were cooled off.

He then smiled at us. "Cum'mon I'll show you guys around." Everyone just started to follow him like puppies. Greg shook his head and rubbed his cling-on on the back. He ignored the yelling from there new inmates, then followed the rest hoping for food now.

Amber was questioning there new friend about why he was doing this for them and Jack replying about running out of food and how they could help.

"Guys I hate to interrupt, but Harry here needs at least a little to eat then sleep. I think there is something wrong with him." Greg said holding Harry and motioning to his wide eyed appearance. "also if it not to much trouble we need to get out of these clothes they're covered in salt, dirt and soot."

Everyone turned around to look at the two of them as if just realizing how bad off they were. Harry's long beautiful hair was matted with junk all in it. Their clothes were torn and the skin that was showing on both of them was irritated.

"God what happened to the two of you?" Jack questioned.

"We have been at sea for weeks but when we got into the bay there was a fight on the ship and well it blew up. We made it to shore and we haven't even sat down till now we keep being chased all over the place by the psychos outside." Greg explained. Harry was finally coming around just from not having a scare every thirty seconds.

Harry lifted his head and looked at Jack. "Thank you for allowing us to stay." He said in a small voice.

"Here, here I have some water you could both wash down with. Mind you be easy on it I don't have a lot but you could each get one tonight and there is a store over there," He pointed off to the left, "that has clothes that you could have." He said it all in a rush. He then ran to his cupboard and grabbed two big bottles of water and one can of spaghetti Os. Greg put Harry down and they accepted the offerings. Harry gave the boy a shy smile which earned one in return.

"Thanks Jack, come along Little Healer lets get you cleaned up and in bed." Greg walked along gentle pulling on Harry's hand to get him to move.

Harry glanced back at the other boy one last time before they were out of sight. He realized he was still a little shocky but his inherent niceness was making itself shown to there savior of the hour.

Once they got to the store Greg looked at the clothes confused at what to wear. Harry looked around also going towards the underwear section not nearly as confused as the pure-blood used to be wizard. He looked through the sizes and grabbed some socks a boxers for his brother then for himself. They each stripped down to nothing not shy after living with each other for a couple of months.

Greg grabbed a small t-shirt and wet it down with the bottled water they were given to use and and tossed another to Harry.

"Use that to give yourself a sponge bath little one get all of the salt off of you when your done I will wash your hair okay?" he said gently to the little green eyed boy.

"Kay, hey Greg do you think we will stay here or try and leave the city?" Harry questioned while they were cleaning up.

"I don't know, little healer, but with the way this place is fortified I think we should stay for a while at least." Greg replied. They finished their tasks Greg rinsing off his hair. They used about a half a bottle between them and Greg new they would use a whole bottle just on his little brothers hair.

"Don't get all the way dressed Harry we don't want you clothes wet when I do your hair," Greg told him as he was finding clothes for him self. He found a black wife beater and a neon green mesh shirt to go on top of it with some loose fitting dark blue jeans to wear. He turned to Harry for his approval. "Well what so you think?" He asked the other boy.

"Like a bad ass." he said with a smile. "All you need is your eye liner that Luna put on you."

Greg rolled his eyes at the smart ass remark glad that his little brother was acting more normal. "Well I am gonna go ask if there is any shampoo stores in this what is they call it? Mall? So find you something to wear and sit still okay?" He requested giving a smile over his shoulder at the short but beautiful boy.

Harry just nodded and smiled then went in search for clothes to fit his rather morbid mood. He didn't even realize when he walked into the girl's section. He looked at the pants and found his size, they looked odd but he liked them they had these patches all over them in different colors and sayings they were a light colored jeans and was low on his hips. He took them off when he felt his boxers were not fitting and went back to the under wear section to get something to hug his skin.

He then put on the socks, underwear and jeans he picked out and went looking for a shirt. Looking around he finally realized he was in the girls section and blushed. When he looked back up to leave the section he caught sight of a Japanese kimono looking shirt. It was really nice looking and he wanted to wear it, it was black with purple flames all over it and that moment he realized that there was no one to tell him no. So he grabbed it tried it on and it fit! He looked in a mirror and saw that he didn't match so went looking for different pants he found some black stretchy ones that were big at the bottom but were like the jeans he had on at the waist. So he switched them out then looked in the mirror. He stared and stared.

"Wow, little healer you look nice in that are you going to wear it?" Greg had walked into the section that he left Harry at and panicked he ran around until he saw the girl section and his little healer standing in front of a mirror with a shocked look on his face.

Harry spun around to look at him to make sure he wasn't lying all he saw when he looked at his big brother was a smile and acceptance. He smiled back touching the shirt and smiled. "yeah, I think I will."

Greg nodded and told him to take off his shirt so they could wash his hair they moved to the bath rooms this place had and to a sink. They realized the water was running in sink on accident so they did a proper job of it but didn't waste any of the water if they could help it. Once clean Greg went and searched for a brush coming back a few minutes later.

"Do you think I should put it up in a high pony tail so it doesn't get knotted up?" Greg asked him once they were done brushing it out, it took them almost a half an hour to work the knots out, so he didn't want it getting bad again any time soon.

"Yeah and could you braid it for me too?" he asked with a pout looking over his shoulder at Greg. They went though this routine about twice a week when they didn't want to hang around the girls and let them play dress up with them. They finished up quickly after that.

"Harry you need to eat before we go to sleep okay? You can't loose any weight, don't give me that look you know I'm stating a fact." Harry had briefly flashed a look at the older boy before looking down.

"I know, so what did Jack give us to eat?" Harry asked looking up at the fifteen year old six foot tall boy.

Greg looked at the can in his hands, "Some spaghetti O's we had some on the ship remember?" He reminded the other.

Harry was feeling like another person, he was clean about to be fed and in relative safety. Harry nodded as they walked into the kitchen they found two bowls and two spoons. Greg then popped up the easy open top poured half in each bowl then they both sat down to eat as they did Jack wondered back in and sat across from them. Harry smiled at him before taking a bite and moaned, it wasn't that the food was good he just hadn't realized how hungry he really was.

"So you two look a lot better," Jack stated when they had finished about half of their food.

"We feel a lot better, thank you for the water, food and a place to be," Harry thanked the other boy. "So where is every one?" He asked looking now at the dark mall.

"They all went to bed some time ago ya know. I found a place for y'all to sleep too they had taken all the beds in the furniture store so I looked around for another it has one bed but it's big and there's a blanket a pillows there. So you have to share that's okay right?" Jack stuttered and streamed the words out sounding like a mix of Hermione and Professor Quirrel.

"Yeah it will be fine we are used to sharing sleeping areas for safety. You know." Greg replied to the other. Once finished with there food they cleaned up like they did on the ship. Jack then lead the two now sleepy boys to there new room hidden in the back it was the size of a small store about the size of a master bedroom and there were shelves of weird nicknacks all over most of them mythological creatures. Harry guessed this used to be a new age shop.

"I found the mattress in the back and cleared the stuff from the floor of the room you know so here this is your room." Harry hugged the boy around the neck for doing something so nice for them. Jack was about three inches taller then him and wider in the shoulders. Harry then kissed his cheek and thanked him. Jack stood there for a moment blushed then walked out leaving them to go to sleep.

Look into the future

what do you see

I really need to know now

Is there a place for me

tell me where do we go from here

take me as you find me

For what I am

When I make mistakes please understand

For as long as I know your near

There is nothing for me to fear

Out of the darkness the light shines

burning through the coldest night

We can find our way

Together we'll make it

with every step we take

we're closer together

if were going to survive

the dream must stay alive...

"The Dream Must Stay Alive"

Sung by

Rosalind J.

Written By

Simon May, Simon Lockyer,

Ben Robbins