August 31st1994. Pacific Academy, Bermuda Triangle.

Harry, Ginny, Luna and Hermione watched as the new students took their seats. Over the past two weeks, the rhythm of the school was uneasy, and the cause was Hermione. She had taken studying to a new height, and had planned to camp out in the library, if her parents didn't force her out.
That brought an argument between Hermione and her parents about the importance of studying. Hermione was of the opinion that she needed to learn everything that she ever had learned and even then it wasn't enough. Her parents finally forced her to see Evelyn and she prescribed a small dose of calming draught for all parties. The truth came finally to light. Hermione was afraid to fail. With help from Harry, Ginny, Luna, Professor Summers and Rowena, Hermione finally admitted that she felt that she needed to preform above the expected norm of the students, just to prove that she was 'just as good as a pureblood'. Just because she was a muggleborn girl, didn't mean that she was less worth to the wizarding community.
"Hermione, how can you say that?" Asked Harry. "You know as well as we do, that blood purity doesn't matter here.

"Mister Potter is right" said professor Summers. "We all know that you'll do brilliantly when the OWL's come, so you don't need to worry about it. Please, Hermione. Take some time off." the advice from Professor Summers did help, and Hermione finally relaxed after three days. The rest of the days that they spent together, Harry and his girls worked on their tan, getting a nice tan before the school year would start.
"I'm looking forward to see the end of math" said Harry to Ginny, who was looking at the new students. "I know, You might be good at Arithmancy, but math is not your strong suit." said Ginny. Harry nodded and looked at the new students that were taking their seats at the tables.
"Would you be quiet" hissed Hermione as she was listening to the headmistress speech of the new year.

"Oh, so sorry for disrupting the great Hermione Granger." said Harry mockingly. "Let me be very quiet from now on" Hermione glared at Harry, but Harry had taken a meditational position. Hermione shook her head and listened as the headmistress announced that her father would work at Pacific Academy as assistant professor in muggle studies and her mother would work with Doctor Alan Richards and Evelyn as a helping hand at the hospital wing. She and the others clapped as she saw her mother and father standing up.
After that the headmistress moved her hands and the feast appeared on the tables. Between talking about the OWL's and her parents, Hermione forgot to be angry at Harry, who had returned from his meditation.

Harry's thoughts were not with the coming OWL's but with the death eaters that he, his girls and Alex Summers had caught back in Britain at the world cup.
What did happen with them? Were he and his girls to soft for them, letting them get away with their lives intact? Harry decided to ask these questions later to professor Summers and returned to the talk about OWL's and the latest gadgets that were found at the Magical Mall in Miami.
"I'm telling you" Said Damian as Luna and Ginny were shaking their head. "They are planning to put movies on these little flat disks and then we need some device to play the movies. Think about it. Having the Star Wars trilogy always on hand, never to rewind again" Damian was nearly drooling at the idea of having his Star Wars trilogy on these disks.
"Hey Damian," called Harry as he handed a napkin to Damian. "For you, so you don't drool over your robes." The group around Harry started to laugh loud, as Damian took the napkin, wiped his mouth clean and tossed it back at Harry who vanished it with a wave of his wand.

As the feast ended, and Harry with his girls entered his room, Harry saw some additions. Four saddles were hanging on the walls, with each their own colour. Gold, Red, Green and Blue. A note was attached to them.

Dear Harry and friends.

For you these Saddles to use when we train your new rides here at Pacific.
You will be attending these special classes, starting tomorrow at 7AM.
See you soon.

Rowena Greenleaf.

"Is there a reason why we get these saddles?" Asked Hermione as looked at the saddles in question.
"I don't know, but we'll find out tomorrow" Said Harry as he started to strip to his boxer shorts and Luna and Ginny were following his example, undressing until they were in their underwear before they pulled on their night clothes. Hermione took her night clothes and changed in the bathroom, before she and the others brushed their teeth and crawled in bed. All the girls were hugging Harry in some way. Ginny was on top, again. She somehow loved the feeling of sleeping above everybody.
Luna took her usual place at Harry's left side, while Hermione took his right side. Harry smiled and while he was only wearing his boxers, he was getting quite warm. "Goodnight, sweet Luna" Said Harry as he kissed Luna's cheek. Luna kissed him back on his lips. "Goodnight, my dear" Said Luna softly as she pulled herself close to Harry. Harry smiled and turned his face at Hermione. "Goodnight, my dear Hermione" Harry said and kissed her cheek. Hermione smiled and looked back at Harry. "Goodnight, my prince" She said softly, while she kissed his cheek back.
Harry then turned at Ginny. "Goodnight, my love" and kissed her on the lips. " Goodnight, my love" said Ginny back as she kissed his lips.
Together, the quartet fell asleep, all hugging each other.

September 1st. 1994. 07.10AM

Harry and his girls were up early in the morning, and were standing with Rowena at the new stable that was constructed last summer. "You must be wondering why you are here" said Rowena as she looked at the half awake students. "Yeah, you could say that" said Harry as he yawned loudly. "Well, I'll let you see for yourself" Said Rowena as she waved her hand and with some magic opened the door to the new stables. Running outside were three Pegasi, all sparkling white, except for their manes that had some hairs that were a different colour. One of the Pegasi mares had some short red hairs, almost the same as Ginny's own hair. A second Pegasus mare had some short blue hairs, matching Hermione's favourite colour of dress that she loved to wear. The last mare had some short green hairs, looking like grass, where Luna love to walk on without her shoes.

"These mares are now strong enough that they are ready to be trained for you to ride them" said Rowena as Ginny, Hermione and Luna reconnected with their winged horse that they had met a year back. "You will learn how to take care of these Pegasi in special lessons at Pacific. You will be told how to care for them, what they eat, and all the other things you need to learn." said Rowena as she smiled as the girls were hugging the three Pegasi mares.
"And what am I to do?" Asked Harry, hoping to return to bed. "Oh Harry. Of course I haven't forgotten you" said Rowena as she whistled hard to the direction of the stable. Harry looked and saw from the back something coming towards him. The moment that the sunlight hit it's coat, Harry jumped away as Victor appeared. The winged unicorn looked around and spotted Harry before it showed his wings. The last time that Victor has shown his wings to Harry, the wings had a beautiful white colour. Now they were white, but from the base to the end slowly turned to gold.
"Yes Harry, both the headmistress and Professor Logan agreed that you would be responsible for the care of Victor."

Harry looked at Rowena, hoping that she was only joking. Seeing no sign of a joke, Harry nodded once before he looked at Victor. Swallowing hard, Harry stept forward to Victor and held out his hand, where he had placed a piece of an apple. If Harry was about to gain Victor's trust, Victor would accept the piece of apple and allow Harry to handle him. If Victor rejected the apple, Harry had to run as Victor would try to hurt him, even going as far as killing him.
Victor eyed the piece of apple for a long time, and stepped a few steps forward. Sniffing again, Victor could sence Harry's fear as Harry didn't want to die, or get hurt.
Victor nodded his great head once and accepted the apple before he gave Harry a lick with his tongue, smearing apple juice and unicorn slime over his face. "Ach.., Victor" said Harry as he used the sleeve of his robe to clean his face before he started to laugh and hugged the great winged unicorn.

Seeing the three girls with their Pegasi and Harry with his winged unicorn, brought a smile on Rowena's face and gathering her students in the stables, she started the first lesson. How to groom a Pegasus or a unicorn. As Harry had a winged unicorn, he was told to attend the class of the Pegasus grooming, before Rowena would tell him about Unicorn grooming.
Harry groaned again, as he was given a journal to record everything Victor did. "Not again?" Asked Harry as he held out the journal. "Yes, Harry. I know that this is your tenth journal, but Victor is the first Unicorn with wings that has survived the first twenty one hours. All the others before him have died. Now that you are accepted by Victor ho handle him, you'll need to document everything." Seeing Harry's look at her, Rowena smiled. "Just see it as a OWL Project. If you succeed you can be sure of one O on your OWL report list."
Harry looked at her. "I'm not falling for that one" He said and threw his journal away.

Half a minute later, Harry felt someone touching his shoulder and looking around, Harry could see Victor with the diary in his mouth. Victor looked at Harry with those eyes, that just begged him 'to do it for him'.
Harry sighed, and took the journal from Victor's mouth. Holding his hand against the great Winged Unicorn's head, Harry nodded. "Only for you, Victor" Said Harry. A spark flew between Harry and Victor and both walked away, leading the others to the beach, where Harry and Victor both sat down. Harry leaned against Victor's flank, careful not to hurt or damage his wings. Harry barely noticed it as Ginny, Luna and Hermione all sat down with their own Pegasus mare. Taking a moment to collect her thoughts, Rowena grabbed a photo camera and shot a few pictures, all without the students noticing.
Harry took a deep breath and started to write in his journal.

'This is the journal of Harry Potter, Care of Magical Creatures students concerning the training of the winged Unicorn Victor, of Pacific Academy.
Victor is the third Unicorn that has survived the transformation that gave him his wings. According to reports, that I have to read to confirm, the stallion called Victor is the first stallion to survive the transformation, and the twenty one hours after the transformation. It seems that the first twenty one hours are the most crucial in a new winged Unicorn's life. Because of the odd number and the multiplication of the number seven, those twenty one hours are vital for the magic and the body of the unicorn to accept it. If the unicorn does not accept this transformation, I can assume that it will die.'

Harry took a deep breath and looked around. His girls were writing in their journals to, and in the distance, Harry could hear the bells ringing, signaling that breakfast was ready. "Come on" said Harry as he stood up. "Let's go and get some breakfast." The girls and Rowena nodded, and together with their new horses, Harry, Ginny, Luna and Hermione walked towards the castle, and towards their future.

And that folks, is the first part of the trilogy. I'll be taking a break for a few weeks, while I try to restart my creative brain
So watch out for the second story: The Terrible tournament.
Here's a preview of something that I wrote.

"Is that the way you treat the students, Snape?" Asked Alex as he stood behind Harry and the girls. "Bullying them into making mistakes, while you deliberately make snide comments about parents, who have died or forgotten your greasy face?" Said Harry. "Yeah. It sounds like that"
"Harry, please don't do that." Said Dumbledore as he wiped his tired face. "We are here to investigate the accusation of Professor Snape that Harry Potter has tried to kill him."

Hope you liked this story and hope to see you al soon at the start of the new Story: The Terrible tournament.

SimplyRV