Summary: Harry's parents didn't die; he has a brother, Hayden, who is the boy who lived. He is neglected and finally runs away at the age of seven. He leaves his parents and meets Draco, Hermione, Neville, Luna and Ron where he finally finds home and the reason to fight. Meanwhile, at Hogwarts, trouble is brewing. Harry gets the call for help and now, he has to face his past and the truth.
Lightning- Harry Potter
Athena- Hermione Granger
Drake- Draco Malfoy
Fire- Ron Weasley
Sunshine- Luna Lovegood
Nex- Neville Longbottom
Disclaimer: All rights belong to J.K. Rowling. I don't own anything.
"Order of Phoenix, I have an announcement I would like to make." The voice of the white-bearded wizard rang out clearly through the dining room of the Potter Manor, and all the pre-meeting hustle-bustle stopped, all attention turning to the ancient Headmaster.
"I have informed you previously about Harry Potter and his agreement to come to Hogwarts, like we have requested. He has shown interest in meeting with all of you before the term begins, and he will soon be arriving with five of his friends. They have promised to help in this war immensely, and it is my hope that all of you will be gracious to our guests, while they are here."
Lily Potter's heart almost stopped. She immediately straightened from her seat, five chairs down from the head of the table, where Dumbledore was seated. She spoke, hardly allowing to believe it.
"Professor Dumbledore," she asked, "Ha- Harry is actually coming? Right now?" Lily's voice trembled, but she barely realized it.
Dumbledore chuckled. "Miss Potter, how many times have I told you to call me Albus? You are hardly a student of Hogwarts anymore, my dear." Lily just waved it away impatiently. "But, yes. He has sent me a reply- or rather sent Sirius a reply- that he is due to arrive in a few minutes."
A tentative smile broke out on the red-haired witch's face, her hope shooting up at the thoughts of seeing her boy again. James looked incredibly nervous next to her, clutching her left hand so hard, that there was barely any feeling left. Lily, however, wasn't going to complain, not after hearing this news.
Hayden was sitting across the table from his parents, between Sirius, and Ginny Weasley, his girlfriend since Yule Ball. Sirius was looking extremely giddy at the thoughts of the Guardians in this crowd, trying not to break out laughing imagining the possible scenarios of what might happen. Far away from them at the extremely long table, Severus Snape also had a smirk on his face, imagining the same thing. Of course, Severus didn't know that he was thinking the same thing as his long-time rival, seeing that if he came to find out this knowledge, he would Avada Kedavra himself without a second thought.
Next to Ginny, another red-haired witch, Molly Weasley, were protesting (write protesting, read screeching), after hearing that the six will help in the war, and that Dumbledore offered to ally with them, that the teenagers were too young for this.
"The poor dears shouldn't deal with this messy business!" Molly was screeching to anyone who'd listen. "They should just remain safe in school, not worry about wars, and Albus, I can't believe that you are allowing this to happen!" Next to her, Arthur Weasley was massaging his temples, trying to keep his headache away, and the loud noises around him weren't helping.
"Molly, dear-" The Weasley Patriarch tried to say, before he got cut off by two very loud knocks.
"KNOCK KNOCK" Suddenly, all the noises in the room dropped to complete silence, and everyone's attention was called to the direction of the front door.
Lightning was currently standing outside the front door of the Potter Manor, Drake and Athena flanking him on both sides, Sunshine and Nex standing behind them, and Fire covering their back, their usual formation. He tried to tell himself that he was not nervous, but standing in this hauntingly familiar place, in front of the house that he had run away from eight years ago, it threatened to reawaken his almost-forgotten memories of his lonely childhood. Lightning kept his expression blank, facing the door and not looking around, but even just coming back to this place made him remember things that he thought he had managed to bury deep enough not to resurface. Apparently, he hadn't forgotten them as well as he thought he did.
Drake hadn't let go of the reassuring grip he had on Lightning's shoulder, or Athena's light squeeze of Lightning's hand, offering comfort. Drake and Athena were concerned about their best friend, more than others. While it was no secret between the six who Lightning used to be, and that he hated his former family, Drake and Athena still remembered how lonely and neglected Lightning had first been, when they met.
When Drake had first met Lightning, and even until Athena had joined the two, Lightning had seemed like he wasn't used to having someone who cared for him at all. While Drake and Athena's home life had been pretty bad, Athena still had memories of her parents before she started showing signs of magic, and Drake still had his mother to shield him from Lucius Malfoy to a certain extent, as well as Severus.
The two, even if it was only in small amounts, had memories of his mother giving him a good-night kiss, or her father singing her to sleep. However, Lightning, when they first met, had looked like no one would ever do that for him. As time went on, and the trio got to know each other much better, and became close friends, or family, Lightning began to drop layers of loneliness he had originally had. Lightning told them later, that his parents had never cared for him, that his father only paid attention to his famous brother, and his mother seemed to only worry about Hayden, always pushing Lightning out of the way.
Athena had to hold herself back from busting into Potter Manor and running her knife (her first at the time), when she heard of how one year, his parents had completely forgotten about Lightning's birthday, despite the fact that he had the same birthday as his twin brother. Even though Sirius had genuinely cared about Lightning, he still had never been a parent for him, still not having had completely matured then.
Drake and Athena worried that being back here might be bad for their best friend, that it might bring up memories of his past again and change him back to the person Lightning had been, who had loneliness wrapped like armour around him, and never opened up to anyone, in fear of being hurt again.
Lightning was getting more and more anxious, wondering if he'd made a mistake by coming here. As he began to get tempted by the thoughts of just leaving, the door opened to reveal a familiar dark-haired wizard. Lightning squeezed his hand holding Athena's slightly, surprised by the abrupt open. For a split second, the two wizards stood, taking each other in.
James Potter looked almost like Lightning's mirror image, sharing the same facial characteristics, only older. The only differences between them were the differences Lightning had created, in his effort to try and distance himself even more from his former parent, and life. It was also the reason Lightning changed his name from Harry Potter to Lightning of the Guardians.
Lightning hated the comment he used to receive, 'Looks exactly like James, with Lily's eyes,' and aimed to change his looks as much as he could to avoid the comment, with his potion-tamed hair, with blue streaks running through it; a result of muggle hair salon and his attire; which were a mix of muggle and magical (muggle jeans and a black Beatles t-shirt, with runes stitched inside by Athena to magically shield itself from most hexes and jinxes, fire, water, weather, etc..., black dragon-hide boots, and a dragon hide jacket charmed to adjust temperature accordingly to the weather and be impervious to precipitation). Lightning usually hid the colours of his eyes with muggle coloured contacts, but chose today to wear clear ones instead. Lightning had figured that all of these people probably knew what colour his eyes were, so there was no sense in hiding it.
Lightning ignored the stab of hurt he felt again, after all these years, when he laid his eyes on his formal father.
"James Potter," Lightning greeted with a nod formally, "We thank you and the order for agreeing to meet with us today. May we have permission to step inside?" Lightning met the gaze of James Potter, and saw a look of pain flash across his face, but put it off to imagination. After all, why would James Potter of all people, be hurt by seeing him again?
"Of course. Har- Lightning, we welcome you and your friends here." James replied, then turned around and led them to the dining room, causing the six to follow quietly.
Lightning already knew the way to the dining room, of course, seeing that he had lived here for about seven years of his life, but just hurried after James Potter, trying hard not to glance at the familiar house. When they reached the dining room, the Guardians piled in after James, and surveyed the room. James was introducing to them, the various members of the order, who were taking them in.
Lightning recognized most of the faces, though he didn't know them personally. Sirius was grinning at him, from the side of a boy that looked almost exactly like him or James Potter, with hazel eyes and a more traditional attire of a Hogwarts student. Lightning's eyes landed flittingly on the dark red-haired girl, looking around ten years old, sitting next to the shabby-looking werewolf, who was staring at him curiously like she was trying to memorize every detail on his face. Lightning frowned slightly, and moved on, forcing his emotions down again. Severus nodded to him slightly, and Lightning nodded back, then met the eyes of Alastor Moody, and smiled to him.
Behind Lightning, Fire stiffened slightly, when James introduced the big mob of red heads, and hoped that none of them would recognize him, with his attire of dragon-hide jacket, a black stud in his right cartilage, and black streaks in his hair. Hopefully, the fact that seven or so years have passed since he saw them last would help them not remember him, though he doubted it. Athena, next to Lightning, was gazing around the room critically. She was expertly twirling one of her knives in her hand, sizing each occupants up and basically intimidating them with her stare, also mentally marking all exit points, and weaknesses in the room, in case they had a need to fight. Athena gave Dumbledore an extra sharp look.
Sunshine had the usual dreamy look in her eyes, the result of seeing into two different planes at once; the world of mortals, and the world of faeries. It was in the plane of faeries, that she could see werewolves and vampires as they were, and she could spot people even if they were wearing invisibility cloaks or disillusionment charms, since they only hid them from mortal sight, not erase them from existence.
Nex was tense, standing next to Sunshine in a defensive stance, and holding her hand tightly, fingers intertwined. Drake's hard stare landed on both James and Lily, and Remus, who was holding hands with Tonks, the little ten-year old Alice on his other side. Remus flinched slightly from Drake's hard stare, but Drake remained expressionless, staring down at the man who had helped make Lightning's childhood hell, just because he had been too afraid to stand up to his best friend and stick up for an innocent child.
"Guardians, we welcome you here, to the headquarters of Order of the Phoenix," said Dumbledore.
"Thank you, though I'm afraid we can't say the same." Lightning replied formally and tensely.
"Young man," Molly Weasley protested loudly. "Mind your manners!" All six of them ignored her.
"Well Lightning, as you know, this is the Order of the Phoenix, and your father just introduced us, so if you would do the courtesy of introducing yourselves?" Dumbledore asked. Lightning sighed. This was going to be a long day.
"Okay, my name is Lightning. As you all know, I used to be known as Harry Potter, and I'll cut your heads off if you ever call me by that name." Lightning introduced himself. He noticed his brother and sister look at him curiously.
"These are my friends, Drake, Athena, Fire, Sunshine and Nex. We call ourselves the Guardians."
Introductions over, the six sat down at the other end of table facing Dumbledore, the door to their back.
"Before the meeting begins, first things first, I'd like to make something clear," Lightning announced. "I don't care what you think, we are not under the command of the Order. We are merely allies in this war, and we would appreciate being treated as so. We have many allies, who will help us in this war against Voldemort," here most of the Order flinched, and Drake rolled his eyes next to him, on the right side. "but they do not serve Dumbledore, or the Order. They are equals, and friends, and must be treated as such. We agree to go to Hogwarts and assume the positions of students. We agree to being sorted, attend classes, and we will try not to murder any infuriating students. In return, you will all respect our privacy, and not demand for information."
Dumbledore was silent for a moment. "We agree to those terms, as they seem reasonable." Dumbledore agreed.
With this, the Order and the Guardians continue the meeting, and Drake and Athena take lead of the Guardians' side. Ever since they were younger, Drake and Athena had been born negotiators, though Lightning never had the patience or the ability to keep his temper for it. They were experts at fighting with words; fast talking, double meaning sentences, codes and logic, especially as a team. Once, they had talked their way out of an acromantula colony, and had actually managed to successfully negotiate with the goblins without losing any of their money or their limbs, but that was another story.
Athena had to admit that this meeting was tough and frustrating. Half of the time, the Order couldn't even agree on some of the things they were saying, and Athena felt the not-so-subtle condescending behaviour towards them. Athena gritted her teeth, trying not to lose her patience, and finally understanding why Lightning looked so pissed whenever they would fight at the meetings, when Molly Weasley made her fifth comment on their age.
"You lot are just children!" Molly screeched again. "You should leave these matters to the mature adults, and not worry about them!"
This was it. Athena had tried to ignore her the first four times, but she finally lost patience, and her hand reached to her belt, where she kept one of her knives.
"THUD!" One of Athena's knives, deadly sharp point with dragon hide grip embedded itself one fourth of an inch away from Molly Weasley's neck, driving deeply into the back of her chair. The Order was in complete silence, stunned, and they were all staring at her in shock. Sirius was grinning very big, and Severus's lips twitched, showing his amusement.
"Young lady," Dumbledore chastised, "That behaviour was very rash, and completely rude. It was very lucky that you missed. If you hadn't, that would have been very fatal."
Athena scoffed. "I didn't miss. If I wanted to hit her, you would have definitely been down one order member by now." She reached over and pulled the dagger out of the chair, leaving a deep gash. That brought Molly out of her shock.
"NASTY GIRL!" Molly screeched. Drake and Lightning's eyes both flashed, and they reached for their weapons, only to get stopped by a completely calm Athena. Besides Athena, Fire didn't look happy at the slight made to his pseudo-sister, nor did Sunshine and Nex from the other side of Drake.
"RUDE, INSOLENT, HOT-HEADED GIRL! NO RESPECT AT ALL FOR YOUR ELDERS! WHY, IF YOU WERE MY CHILD, I WOULD HAVE DISOWNED YOU BY NOW! THIS IS WHY CHILDREN SHOULDN'T FIGHT IN WARS, DUMBLEDORE! YOU LITTLE..."
Unlike the rest of the Guardians, who were completely outraged by the insults their family member was receiving, Athena had a completely calm, and bored composure, playing almost absently with her dagger. When Molly finished her ranting, heaving deep breaths, the rest of the Order was holding their breaths, with the exception of Hayden, who was blocking Alice's ears.
"Are you finished with your incessant incoherent babbling?" Athena asked Molly, with the air of calm. While Molly was stammering for response in outrage, Drake simply hit her with a silencing spell, and Athena moved on.
"Does anyone else have anything to say about me, or any of my friends? Because if you do, I will make sure the next time I throw one of these, I will not miss."
There was a complete silence, that was broken by Nex and Fire clapping, and a gruff laugh.
"You've got spunk, lassie," commented Moody, before he took a long swig from his hip flask.
"Thanks, Moody." Athena replied, smirking. The Guardians had previously met Alastor Moody, when, about three years ago, Drake and Lightning had accidentally saved Moody's life from the Nightwalkers. Alastor Moody had been impressed by the level of skills from the young fighters, and had taught them for a month.
"So, moving on..." Athena said, smirk adorning her face.
The meeting the night before had gone pretty well after the little incident, and they had established their situation for the year. The Order members, had seemed pretty intimidated during the rest of the meeting, and as soon as it was over, most of them had rushed to run out the door, not even saying good-bye to anyone, making lame excuses that they had plans after the meeting.
After the meeting, the six had drawn straws to decide who would go to which house. They had decided to spread out for more sources of information, and reach out to others and make new allies.
Currently, the Guardians were all stretched out around the compartment. By the window on one side of the train, Athena and Drake were playing exploding snap, laughing at each other when one got their eyebrows scorched. Next to them, Fire was watching the game while eating his way through the mountain of candy they had bought pre-departure, and Sunshine and Nex were sitting in the corner, "talking".
Lightning was looking out the window, his hand petting Lakota, whose head was in his lap. He (Lightning, not the wolf) was gazing out at the Potters on the platform, saying their good-byes before the train left. Lily had Hayden wrapped in a hug, and Alice was clinging onto Hayden's legs, telling him to take her with him. James was clasping his shoulder, despite the fact that he would see his son once they arrived at the school anyway. For a moment, Lightning felt the irrational pang of jealousy.
When he had been younger, before Harry Potter decided to run and become Lightning of the Guardians, his biggest dreams had been that his family would acknowledge him and love him like James, Lily and Lupin did for Hayden. When Alice was born, it had been such a big deal, a first Potter girl since a century, and the Boy Who Lived, in the same family. All his life with the Potters, Lightning had continually been pushed aside by his parents for his famous brother, and his precious little sister. For a long time, even after he'd disappeared, he had held on to the irrational hope that someday, his parents might come looking for him, that they might find him and apologize, tell him that they loved him.
Now, Lightning realized how stupid it had been, but for an eight year old boy, there had been a part of him that desperately wanted the Potters to love him like a parent should. When the hope never came true and Lightning realized that his parents didn't care for him, it had hurt so much, more than he would ever admit. He tried to convince himself that he didn't need his parents, that he hated the Potters, and had almost managed to succeed. Lightning took extra precautions to make sure that no one from his old life could contact him other than Sirius, make sure that no one disturbed the life and family that he had built for himself and grown to care a lot about.
For eight years, Lightning told himself that he was over his past now, that seeing the Potters again wouldn't affect him anymore, and he almost convinced himself. And for now, that was enough.
"So, what's our plan once we get there?" Fire asked in between bites of food. Athena wrinkled her nose at seeing him open his mouth during chewing.
"Fire, chew your food, swallow, then talk." Fire just grinned impishly in response, causing Drake to chuckle, and Athena to smack the red-head on the back of his head.
"Well," said Drake, successfully stopping a brewing famous Athena-Fire explosions.
"Our plans were simple; we go and get sorted, we meet with our friends, regroup once in a while."
"And improvise," added Lightning. "Improvise... a lot."
Athena sighed as she rolled her eyes at them. Athena didn't like to improvise, she preferred having books of plans, and working accordingly. However, she had learned during the eight years she lived with her best friends that, with them, especially Lightning, plans had a way of... backfiring on them. Sometimes literally. And usually, it really was best to just improvise on the spot, rather than having ten different backup plans. It didn't mean that she had to like it though.
"Relax, Sis." Fire told her. "We'll be awesome, and even if we aren't, we can't worry about that now. In the meantime, relax. Eat some sugar, play games, read, take a nap maybe."
Lightning nodded, tag-teaming her. "Listen to Fire, Theena. He's right, we can't worry about the future now, what with plans tending to backfire on us every time, and it will do you some good to relax now." Athena scowled, but nodded resignedly.
"Fine." Athena sighed.
The train made it's way up the hills, past the green carpets of meadow and yellow fields of grain. It passed through the marshes, and ran through the woods, slowly approaching the magical castle full of witches, wizards, talking portraits and ghosts. The six had decided not to wear the uniforms, feeling more comfortable in their usual attire of muggle style, wizardly material clothes.
They stepped off the train, carrying their magically expanded and lightened knapsacks containing all of their things, except for the animal cages, which they left on the train. Lightning released Hedwig into the air, and told her to meet him at Hogwarts after he gets settled in his dormitory, and Lakota refuses to leave Lightning.
"First years line up over here, please! All first years to me!" shouted a brisk, female voice. The Guardians glanced over to see a witch with a prominent chin and a severe haircut gesturing. Lightning remembered that Dumbledore had told them to follow the first years to the castle, and sighing, led the six to the boats.
They split up into two groups of threes to board the boats, Lightning with Drake and Athena, and Fire with Sunshine and Nex. Lakota took the boat with his master, and Sunshine offered to take Crookshanks with her, so none of them would accidentally fall off the boat. When they arrived, McGonagall led them to the back room behind the Great Hall, and made a short speech about the Sorting.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," said Professor McGonagall. "The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room."
"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours."
"The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting."
"Also," she added, "to our transfer students, I would like you to remain in this room until all the first years get sorted and Headmaster Dumbledore invites you in, so please, remain respectful and quiet."
Hayden was sitting at the Gryffindor table with his best friend, Seamus Finnigan, and Lavender Brown. The three were known throughout the school as the 'Golden Trio'; the famous (former) Boy-Who-Lived, the Irish Pyromaniac, and the Prettiest Girl of the School.
"Are you okay, Hayden? You keep on fidgeting a lot," said Ginny in concern, holding his hand from his side. Hayden jerked in surprise, before answering absentmindedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine Gin. Thanks for the concern though."
It was true that Hayden had been distracted all day, anticipating who was about to come. Hayden hadn't seen his brother since Harry ran away when they were seven, but he had always wondered about what life might have been like if Harry had still been here. When Harry had run away, it had left so much impact on his entire family, especially Hayden.
Hayden glanced at the staff table, and saw that his father, sitting next to Dumbledore, was the same way- fidgeting and pale. His dad met Hayden's gaze briefly, before Hayden broke off, and glanced around the Hall, in an attempt to distract himself. He saw his best mate and Lavender snogging across the table, and he quickly glanced away, not wanting that image in his head. He saw that Hagrid was missing from the staff table, but wasn't too worried, since his father told him that their friend was away on Order business, though he wouldn't tell Hayden what.
Just then, the doors opened, and the first years walked into the hall in a single file, small and nervous, following McGonagall, who was carrying a stool with the sorting hat perched on top. The first years lined up in front of the staff table, facing the students, and McGonagall placed the stool down carefully. The sorting hat opened his brim, and began to sing this year's sorting song.
In times of old when I was new
And Hogwarts barely started,
The founders of our noble school
Thought never to be parted.
United by a common goal,
Had the selfsame yearning.
To make the world's best magic school
And pass along their learning.
"Together we will build and teach!"
The four good friends decided,
And never did they dream
That someday they may be divided,
For were there such friends anywhere,
As Slytherin and Gryffindor?
Unless it was the second pair,
Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?
So how could it have gone so wrong?
How could such friendships fail?
Why, I was there and so can tell,
The whole sad, sorry tale.
Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose
Ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose
Intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those
With brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot,
And treat them all the same."
These differences caused little strife,
When they first came to light,
For each of the four founders had,
A house in which they might
Take only those they wanted.
So, for instance, Slytherin,
Took only pure-blood wizards
Of great cunning, just like him,
And only those of sharpest mind,
Were taught by Ravenclaw,
While the bravest and the boldest,
Went to daring Gryffindor,
Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest,
And taught them all she knew.
Thus the houses and their founders
Retained friendships firm and true.
So Hogwarts worked in harmony
For several happy years,
But then discord crept among us,
Feeding on our faults and fears.
The houses that, like pillars four,
Had once held up our school,
Now turned upon each other and,
Divided, sought to rule.
And for a while, it seemed the school,
Must meet an early end,
What with duelling and with fighting,
And the clash of friend and friend
And at last there came a morning
When old Slytherin departed
And though the fighting then died out
He left us quite downhearted.
And never since the founders four
Were whittled down to three
Have the houses been united
As they were once meant to be.
And now the Sorting Hat is here,
And you all know the score:
I sort you into houses,
Because that is what I'm for,
But this year I'll go further,
Listen closely to my song:
Though condemned I am to split you,
Still I worry that it's wrong,
Though I must fulfil my duty
And must quarter every year
Still I wonder whether Sorting
May not bring the end I fear.
Oh, know the perils, read the signs,
The warning history shows,
For our Hogwarts is in danger,
From external, deadly foes
And we must unite from inside her
Or we'll crumble from within.
Past will meet the future,
And the Chosen One must struggle
To meet and vanquish his enemy,
And other things within.
I have told you, I have warned you...
Let the Sorting now begin.
"The song's a bit different this year, huh?" Ginny whispered to Hayden.
Hayden nodded. "Yeah, my dad told me that while he went to Hogwarts, during the first rise of Voldemort, the hat did the same thing." Ginny was about to respond, before she got cut off by the sorting starting.
"Abercrombie, Euan!"
"Gryffindor!" Hayden quickly clapped with the rest of the Gryffindor table, while he looked at the long line of first years. There was no sign of his brother- Lightning, now- and his friends.
'They must still be in the back room,' Hayden thought. Hayden began to grow nervous, though for what reasons, he didn't know.
The former Boy-Who-Lived only paid half of his attention to the ongoing sorting, wrapped in memories of his brother before he ran away, snapping back into the present world when "Zeller, Rose" was sorted into Hufflepuff, and Dumbledore stood up for speech.
"To our newcomers, welcome! To our old hands, welcome back! I know that all of you are waiting to dig in to our opening feast, but first, I have an announcement to make." The students groaned, but paid attention to the ancient Headmaster.
"All of you are aware that this year, Lord Voldemort has returned." Cue the flinches from the name. "This year, the castle will be hosting six guests, who has graciously offered to help us in this time of turmoil. The guests will be attending classes together with you, and I must request that all of you treat them with respect, or there will be consequences. And if Professor McGonagall would go escort the guests-"
Just then, all the lights in the Great Hall extinguished, cutting off Dumbledore. There was a stunned silence, before the students started screaming with panic-filled voices. Across the table from Hayden, Lavender let out a scream, and next to Hayden, Ginny spoke in a firm voice.
"What's happening?" asked Ginny, her voice not betraying any fear.
"I don't know." Hayden replied. At that moment, several flashes of lightning struck across the ceiling of the Great Hall, and Hayden felt a sense of déjà-vu, remembering similar thing happening at the opening feast last year.
"You know, people are going to stare at us when we walk in," said Drake. The first years had just been led into the Great Hall, and the Guardians were waiting in the back room, waiting for the sorting to finish.
"Yeah, we figured that." Lightning replied. Next to him, Athena, completely bored, had managed to charm the walls between them and the Great Hall to show them what was happening in the Great Hall, with full sound effects. Currently, the Hat was still singing the very long song.
"Then we should give them something to stare at, then. I don't know about you, but I hate being stared at for no reason." Drake said. Lightning decided against telling him that transferring to a school in their fifth year, when Hogwarts had never had transfer students before was not no reason.
"You mean, put on a show, or something like that?" asked Fire.
"Yeah," replied Drake. "It doesn't exactly have to be a show, but at least a dramatic entrance."
"And why can't we just walk in there like a normal person, again?" asked Athena.
"Normal's overrated." Drake shrugged. Athena rolled her eyes, but after hearing what kind of effect he and Fire wanted, picked up her wand and proceeded to start hacking through the programming spells on the Great Hall. "Besides, it will be fun."
"I swear, boys are so much more dramatic then girls." Athena muttered, trying not to smile at their childish excitement.
Drake chuckled. "Love you too, T."
The sorting was almost over in the Great Hall, and it was almost time for their entrance. Drake was checking his reflection with a mirror spell, trying to perfect his already-perfect spiky hair.
"You're worse than a girl when it comes to your hair, Drake." Fire teased. Drake turned and glared at him.
"I am not!" Drake retorted, his wand in his hand, about to retaliate.
"Shut up, both of you, and behave." Nex stopped the brewing retaliation war. "Athena's finished."
That distracted them both. Fire and Drake turned to Athena in time to see her cast a final spell, which caused the lightning to strike several times.
"You are bloody brilliant." Fire complimented his 'older sister', completely blown away by her spell-casting abilities.
"Aw, thanks, little bro." Athena replied, ruffling his hair playfully.
Fire swatted her hand away, and Drake smirked at the redhead. Fire stuck his tongue out at his friend. Lightning smiled at the light-hearted banter, before speaking.
"Alright, everybody! It's time to get this show going."
The smoke started billowing around the door that led to the backroom, before it completely concealed it. With a final strike of lightning, the door suddenly got kicked open from the other side, and the doorframes splintered. With a sudden shiver, Dumbledore remembered a flashback of the day Athena broke into the office of the head of DMLE to rescue the Chosen One.
With a sudden sound of explosion, the ceiling of the Great Hall seemed to explode in a burst of light, before the smoke concealing the now-open doorway began to billow inside the Great Hall, and suddenly, all Hayden could see was the white fog enveloping him, not even allowing him to see his hand in front of him. The smoke began to twirl around everyone like a hurricane, turning darker and darker into the shade of inky black in process, until with a final sound of thunder, all the smoke disappeared, revealing the Great Hall again, with all the lights back on, and the six Guardians standing in their usual formation in front of the staff table.
Everyone was silent, until Nex suddenly snorted.
"Awesome facial expressions, everyone. You all looked incredibly terrified."
"It was just smoke," added Athena. "It wasn't going to kill anyone, or anything." The six of them started laughing at the dumbstruck expression all occupants of the Great Hall still had, with a few exceptions.
"Well, we're here now, old man," smirked Lightning. "Did everyone like our entrances?"
The Unwanted One, the Feared One, the Rebel, the Disappointment, the Over-Shadowed One, and the Reminder- the Guardians were now at Hogwarts, and the world had better watch out.
Nothing will ever be the same.
Author's Note:
And here's the next chapter! The chapters seem to be getting more and more intense, so I threw in a few funnier scenes, but I don't know if you laughed or not. I apologize if they hadn't been very funny. So Lightning and the others finally gets to Hogwarts in this chapter, and the Order gets to experience first-hand why you should never, ever, piss Athena off. There's a bit more of Hayden, Harry's brother in this chapter, and Alice Potter, his ten-year old sister finally appears also. There's a bit more insight provided into what Lightning's life was like with the Potters, and the last two sentences of the chapter is a hint to what all of the Guardians' previous lives were like, so have fun guessing! *Mwahaha* Nex/Sunshine pairing finally got established in this chapter, as well as Ginny/OC pairing. I apologize for not updating sooner, but this chapter's pretty long, so I hope that it makes up for it, and hope you guys enjoyed it! Please leave a review!
Still taking pairing suggestions, right now the choice is pretty much down to Harry/Hermione and Draco/Undecided, or Harry/Daphne and Draco/Hermione. Both pairings sound wonderful, but eventually, I'll have to choose between them, so I'd appreciate all your help!
Thanks again for taking the time to read this, and I'd really, really appreciate it if you left a review! Reviews give me energy to write the next chapter and help me update faster! (Yes, it did actually take me two whole weeks to write this chapter as fast as I could)
Review replies:
Amethyst Raindrops 16- Oh my gosh, thank you so much for your compliment, it had brightened my entire day! *Virtual Blushing* I'm so glad that you like this chapter, and thank you so much for enjoying my story! I try to develop the characters as much as I can, and I'm so happy to know that I succeeded. *smiley face* I'm so sorry I couldn't update sooner, but I will try my best next time. I made the chapter extra long to make up for it, I really hope you enjoyed this chapter too, and thank you so much for the review!
meadow-music- I hope you enjoyed the sparring scene, I will add more in future chapters, so please look forward to it! Oh, now I think I understand what you meant by combat magic. It does sound amazing, I will try to add it into the story line, please keep watching for it, and if you could let me know if you like it or not, that would be great! *Spoiler Alert* Maybe I could get one of Athena's dagger to explode when thrown, or let Nex or Fire be able to control an element... was that what you meant? No offense taken, maybe green is a bit odd of a colour, but hey, Drake is a rebel. Also, I guess you could call that a bit of foreshadowing... a bit anticlimactic foreshadowing, but you'll find out what I mean next chapter! No worries, Drake will change his hairstyle often, seeing that he can be a bit... vain about his hair, and at times, he won't leave it coloured. I'm so glad you like this story, and I'll try to develop the characters as much as I possibly can as the story goes on. Thank you so much for the compliment, and all your feedbacks in the review, and I really hope you enjoy this chapter too!
the butterflyangel- Thank you for your review and your suggestion. I will definitely take that under account for the pairings!
Sparkle15 (guest)- Yes I did! *grins* One more for team Dramione! *laughs* Thank you, it does seem strange, but let's admit it, Ron can be a bit... lacking in the tact department, and wouldn't be my first choice to have a heart to heart with. *smiles* I'm so glad you like it! Yes, and in this chapter, they have finally arrived! *Dun Dun DUNNN!* Weasley family will show up more later in the story, but Molly, Arthur and Ginny has now made their appearance in this chapter. What did you think of them? Thank you for your review, and hope you enjoyed this chapter!
another guest- Thank you for the compliment and the review. I thought about your suggestion, but in the end, I decided to have them sorted... I'm sorry about that, but I hope you don't mind. It was a very good idea, and the fact that I could save my brain power had me very tempted, *Hahaha...* but in the sorting hat song, he says that the four houses should unite, and I thought if the six were sorted into different houses, they could help a lot in achieving that goal. In the Canon, we didn't see much of that happening, other than the DA. I will take your suggestion of Harmony pairing into account, but I will have to write a few more chapters before I'll be able to make a decision. I'm glad that you like my ANs, I'm trying to find a happy medium so that everyone will be happy, but it's a little difficult... Background information will come up continuously as the story goes on. The next chapter is now here, I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks again for reviewing!
Phoenix Warehouse Productions- I had no idea about Sally, thank you for letting me know! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'm glad you found my story. Thank you so much for reviewing!
kary uchiha asakura 22- (I'm sorry, I don't speak Spanish. This is from Google translate, so I apologize if it doesn't make sense) Estoy tan contenta de que te gustaba la historia, aquί está el siguiente capίtulo! Gracias por el comentario!
GoldenKeeper2567- Thank you so much! I worked hard on the letter, and the Drake and Lightning bromance scene, so I'm so glad that you like it! Here's a sneak peek of Athena's future relationship with the Order of the Phoenix, hope you enjoyed it. The Order learns the very first rule towards Athena, which is 'Never, ever, piss her off.' There will be more scenes of Athena's... interaction, I could say, with the Order, and especially the Potter family. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and thank you again for the review!
Yours truly,
Leila
DarkAngel90111- The decided pairings so far is Luna/Neville and Ron/Susan, and I am still in the process of deciding the pairings for Draco, Harry and Hermione. I admit that I have thought about Draco/Harry pairing, since the two does care about each other a lot... I will consider your suggestion. Thank you so much for the suggestion. Harry will definitely not be paired with Ginny, don't worry. I will let you know when the rest of the pairings are decided, but I have not made up my mind yet. Thanks for the review!
Guest- Thank you for your suggestion, I will take it into account.
x Ace x Girl x Called x Ace x- Thanks *smiley face* Here's the next chapter, I'm glad you enjoyed the last chapter, and I really hope you like this one too! Thanks for the review!
Samuel Wheeler- Thank you so much, here's the next chapter!
RRW- They won't be in the same house, they will be spread out, but I promise that at least one of them will be going to Hufflepuff! Thanks for the review!
BluBird414- Thank you so much! Here's the next chapter, and I will take your suggestions into account! Thanks for reviewing!
Penny is wise- Thank you.
coolrujuta98- Thanks! I will take your suggestions into account! Thanks for the review.
Thanks again to everyone that reviewed, favourited and followed this story! Hope you all enjoy this chapter, and please let me know what you think of it. I will answer any concerns, questions, or suggestions that you have. Constructive criticisms help make me a better writer and improve this story.
Love,
ThatClichedWriter xo.