While Keenan and Takuya slept, they underwent many changes. While Takuya became Flamemon, Keenan was slowly changing into an Elecmon. In the human world, November passed into December. Unable to go to Hogsmeade; Harry spent an early December afternoon walking from Professor Lupin's office to the Library. Though he knew his friend was alive, Harry missed Takuya. Lost in thought, Harry almost missed a pair of voices.

"Psst, Harry!"

"Over here!"

Harry walked over and saw the Weasley twins, Fred and George. "Arrrrrrrrrrrrr, what do you want?"

The twins jerked back, seeing Harry's true form for the first time. A wolfman with fire for eyes and hair stood in front of them, lips drawn back into a snarl. On his head was a pair of goggles that did not melt in the heat. The boys began to sweat from the heat, each drop falling to the ground. "W-we wanted t-to give you th-th-this m-m-map."

"Oh? I see a simple sheet of parchment."

"N-no it just say 'I solemnly swear I am up to no good and then y-you'll see the map. Th-there are."

"Four passages right?" Harry said, hearing the boys thoughts

"Y-yes this one. "

"Is just a cave, that one was closed off, that one was barricaded and that one leads to Honeydukes?"

As soon as they handed Harry the map, the boys collapsed on the ground, unable to move. Harry ran to a statue of a witch and, using Fred and George's memories, materialized his wand and tapped it against the witch's humpback. "Dissendium!" He said, then turned into flame as he entered the tunnel.

Harry exited the tunnel and found himself in a basement. He quickly appeared in a candy store and listened in on a conversation, "What about blood pops?"

"Definitely not!" Hermione told Ron.

"Oh, I don't know, they're great for vampires and werewolves."

"Harry is not-" Hermione froze, feeling hot. Quickly, the feeling passed and she continued, "Harry is not a vampire or a werewolf."

"No, but he is hairy."

"No he isn't."

"Are you that blind?"

"Are you?"

"No, I know him. Probably a bit better than you do."

"Well." Hermione paused, "Why don't we come back later? I think we should go see the Shrieking Shack."

"I thought you hated the Shack."

"I think you are a little crazy."

"Hermione, are you alright?" Ron noticed that Hermione's form was wavering. When he looked closer, he saw she had a sheet of flames all around her. When she turned back to him, Ron blinked. It looked like she was both Harry and Hermione.

"I see you have figured it out, Raptor." Hermione was confused, who was Raptor and why was she calling Ron that?

"Harry, you aren't supposed to be here, why don't you hide on me instead of her, I'm more used to you." Ron said.

"As you wish." Hermione collapsed as Harry fell away from her, coming at Ron. Ron concentrated on his friend, using the Valkyrie connection to keep himself in charge. The fire that is Harry turned into a red cloak and Harry found himself in the back of Ron's mind, watching through his eyes.

Hermione looked up into Ron's eyes. He was wearing this wonderful red cloak but what she noticed was his hand. There seemed to be the beginnings of talons on his nails. "Hermione, are you OK?" Ron asked.

"Yes, who's Raptor?"

"Oh, it's an inside joke. I'm always acting like he's something I have to chase after so sometimes you know? Why don't we get a butterbeer though?"

"O-OK."

When the duo sat down and had their butterbeers in front of them, Ron seemed to relax, tension Hermione had no idea about falling off of him. He filled the space by chatting about school, class, and other things.

"I wish Harry was here though." Hermione said.

"Oh, Harry's alright. He just couldn't get his form signed with that disaster with Takuya."

"Yeah, I wonder what happened to those missing students, Davis."

At this, Ron stiffened. "We should forget about Davis. He was a good guy and made me feel welcome but he can't rest in peace if we keep thinking about him."

"Are you saying he's dead?"

"Yes. I'm just glad everyone else is alright. I mean Harry was touch and go for a bit but he got a second chance." For an instant, Ron's eyes seemed to turn into flames. Before Hermione was able to look at the boy, his eyes were normal and he was continuing, "But enough about that, let's just have a good time."

When the two passed by the shop that held the gate, something shoved Harry outside of Ron. Hermione spun around and saw Harry standing there, staring at Ron. The boy was on the ground, writhing and screaming. "Something's got Ron. Get back to the school and make sure everyone else is safe too." Harry growled at Hermione. The girl didn't move so Harry let out a growl that shocked her so bad she collapsed. Meanwhile, the twitching Ron was being dragged over the threshold. Quick as a flash; Henry, Cody, Tai, Kristy, Tommy, Suzie, Ken, Draco, Kari, Joe, Izzy, Koichi, and Marcus were there. With Harry, the group jumped through the gate.

The gravesite of Davis Motomiya

As the group watched, Ron was sucked into the snow. Each turned their heightened senses to the ground and saw that something was stitching itself to Ron. Fiber by fiber, each part of Ron seemed to be encased in this other entity until finally, Ron crawled out of the snow. "I see you've been taking care of things, Ken."

Ken jerked back as if stunned. Though it looked and smelled like Ron Weasley, the voice that came out belonged to the dead boy, Davis Motomiya.

A.N. No, Davis is not alive. His soul has just taken over Ron's. Of course, Ron's in there too, fighting for his life. Unlike with Harry and Takuya, I promise you a full out war between the minds. Who will win? The dead gogglehead? Or the living wizard? After many weeks of wanting to do something like this, the fight of a lifetime begins. But while Ron and Davis clash, Takuya and Keenan lay in waiting. But will they stay buried? And what of Kaskana? A stunning climax is coming and you'll just have to be there for it.