(A/N) So. for all of those who voted in the poll: Do Faunus fall in heat?
12 of you voted for Yes, while 4 voted for No.
So, Faunus do fall in heat. Nice to know.
It will somewhat affect my story...
And now, Enjoy chapter 5: Conflicts
Harry slowly woke up from his sleep, and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. If he was right, then it would be half past six. Harry always trained between seven and eight o'clock in physical workouts. Harry slowly got up and grabbed some toiletries before he made his way to the showers. Entering the shower compartment, Harry saw four cubicles besides each other, all with panels to protect their personal parts, yet low enough so you could see each others face. Shaking his head to the strange Hufflepuff traditions and the Hogwarts weirdness that he noticed last night, Harry stepped in a cubicle and activated the shower in his cube. After making sure that the water was the right temperature, Harry stepped in and started to clean himself up. The shower felt surprisingly nice on his naked body, and as Harry continued his shower, Ginny entered as well. Nodding sleepily to Harry, Ginny took the cubicle next to Harry and activated the shower, spraying cold water over her face and body. A slight shock passed through Ginny to wake her up, before she mixed the warm and cold water for her own favorite temperature.
"Morning Ginny" Harry said as he looked at his best friend and partner. "Morning Harry." Ginny replied, her voice sounding a bit tired. Ginny was never a morning person, but sooner or later she would adapt to it. "Sleep well?" Ginny asked as she stretched her arms to loosen the joints. Harry could hear them snap slightly and smiled. "Well enough after unlocking two aura's yesterday." Harry said as he ended his shower and started to dry himself with the fluffy towel that he had found. Stepping from his cubicle, Harry dressed quickly, telling Ginny where he went, Harry left the dorm and walked to the common room while he placed Hammer and Grabber in their holsters. As a huntsmen, even one in training, Harry never left his dorm or room without one of the two. Entering the common room, Harry looked around. While tired yesterday, Harry was awake now and evaluated the room for any possible attacks. Seeing the second floor, Harry imagined a few students throwing Dust crystals at their enemies like grenades. That could be a good position for him to try and snipe any enemies that might come through the password protected drum-barrels. Looking further, Harry spotted an empty corner with a painting of a youthful woman with a badger at her feet.
Perhaps it was the flickering of the candles that illuminated the common room, but Harry thought for a moment that he could see the painting's eyes blinking. Looking again, Harry dismissed that as something that his mind must have created. The furniture also could be used to hide behind. Harry exited the common room and made his way back to the great hall, where he could see the four tables, and the staff table. The animals that were projected were not here, so they probably were turned off-line. Harry looked through the glass outside and smiled as he saw a door connecting with the outside opening up. There was Hagrid, the large man who had showed Harry and the other first years to the boats and Hogwarts for the first time. "Morning Hagrid" Harry called as he waved his arm. Hagrid smiled and waved back. "So Harry, what makes you an early riser?" Hagrid asked as he shook Harry's hand. Harry had to check if his bones in his hand weren't broken by Hagrid powerful grip.
"Well, I'm going to train a bit. Few push-ups, few sit-ups and bit of running. Nothing much." Harry said as if he was discussing the weather. "Good luck then, Harry" Hagrid said as he walked towards the great hall. Harry nodded and walked out the door, feeling the chill of the Scottish weather in the air. Seeing a stadium of some kind with three golden hoops at each end, Harry started to jog towards the stadium. Looking around, Harry nodded before he began to run at a slow warming up pace. All to soon, Ginny joined him in the run.
Never ever stopping, Harry ended his run on the tenth time that he had ran around the stadium. Feeling warm enough, Harry started to do the Push-ups. "Forty-Seven, Forty-Eight, Forty-Nine, Fifty" Harry said as he took a break, then turned on his back and started to to the sit-ups. Again Harry counted to Fifty before he took a break. His father had told him that a strong and healthy body was able to sustain more damage and give more of yourself.
Seeing Ginny resting, Harry smiled and slowly got up, before he took out Grabber and Hammer and charged Ginny. Ginny's reaction was predictable. She rolled out of the way while she grabbed Piercing Jack and Hammer and came to her feet in a fighting position. "Ready Harry?" Ginny asked, a smile on her face. "Bring it on" Harry responded as he pointed his weapons at Ginny and fired his gun. Ginny fired as well, and the Dust bullets collided in mid-air creating several small blasts.
Their battle lasted for thirty minutes, until both Harry and Ginny placed their ax at each other's throat. "I win, Harry" Ginny said as she was breathing a bit heavy. Harry nodded, he had pointed his gun at something else, but Ginny had pointed hers at Harry's midsection. "Yeah, You win. I give." Said Harry as he holstered his gun, while Ginny did so with hers. She then placed Piercing Jack back in his holster, and Harry placed Grabber back in his.
Harry held out his hand, and Ginny took it, to pull herself up from the ground. Nodding to each other, they shared a hug and took hands to return to the common room. They never thought that they would have trained before an audience made out of several students and teachers, all looking at them with shock in their eyes.
"Ah. Guess they've seen us training." Said Ginny as Harry nodded and walked around the audience, leading Ginny back to the common room.
"What the heck were you doing?" Shouted their fifth year prefect, Romeo Vale, as they passed the great hall, where they could see an even bigger audience still looking through the glass. "Training" Harry said as he and Ginny made their way to the Hufflepuff common room. "I don't care what you two think you were doing out there, but it looked like you were trying to kill each other. I will not allow such behavior to continue" Romeo said as he made to grab his wand. He stopped his movements, as he found two guns pointed at him. One that was held by Harry, was pointing at his head, while Ginny's gun was pointing at his midsection. "Where we come from, this type of training has saved more lives than you can imagine. So if we wish to train, we train." Said Harry as he looked right in Romeo's eyes. "Potter, let him go" A new voice shouted through the great hall and Harry saw that the black robed, black haired professor from yesterday was back. Even while being in school not for twenty-four hours, Harry had a good grasp of who he was. Rumors seemed to spread quite fast, and concerning this individual there were a lot of complaints. Complaints that seemed to vanish into thin air.
Harry removed his gun and holstered it, before he took Ginny with him. "Why?" Ginny asked as she holstered her gun. "It's best if we don't antagonize him to much. After all, we both read about him about in my birth parents diary."
Ginny nodded and made their way to the common room. When wanting to enter their dormitory, Harry was grabbed by a pair of hands and shoved against the wall. Two boys, his age stood there holding his back to the wall. Ginny looked at them both, as she had lost Harry's hand in hers.
"Can I help you?" Ginny asked, as she turned slightly to hide the fact she was pulling Hammer. "Get lost, stupid bitch. This boy will come with us" One of the two boys said as he tried to shove Ginny away. Anticipating the movement, Ginny turned and grabbed the boy's hand before she placed Hammer on his nose. "Release Harry, or your friend loses his nose"
All to quickly, Harry was standing on his own feet, next to Ginny with his weapon pointed at the two boys. Ginny had released her 'prisoner' and he was now nursing his arm.
"So, before we all go trigger happy, why don't you tell us your name?" Harry asked as he made a pointing motion to the left one. "I'm Zacharias Smith, and this is Ernie MacMillan. We wanted Harry Potter to join our dorm. That is all." Said Zacharias as he began to pale under threat of the two guns. "BOO" Shouted Harry, and smiled as the two boys turned tail and ran away.
"I should be sorry for them." Ginny said as she entered their dormitory. "Yeah, you should, but you not." said Harry. Ginny smiled back at him. "You're damn right about that" Ginny said as she took her robes and a fresh towel and headed out to the showers. Harry nodded to Ginny and picked up his own uniform and a towel before he followed Ginny into the showers. Nodding to Hermione and Tonks, Harry stepped in a cubicle and stripped before he let the showers wash all the sweat away. "So Hermione, Tonks. How did you sleep?" Harry asked as he enjoyed the warm water falling on his body.
"I've slept okay, I guess." Hermione said as she tried not to look at Harry. He might not look like it, but Harry was almost one block of muscle and Ginny didn't look to bad either. "That's fine." Harry said, ignoring Hermione's not so sneaky peaks at his body. "Tonks, you okay?" Harry called. Tonks nodded, feeling the warm water on her skin. "I've slept like a baby, Harry. What is it that you two did with me?"
Harry noticed a change in Tonks behavior. Yesterday she was this shy girl who barely said two sentences to them, and now she seemed to be a complete different person. "Tonks, I've been meaning to ask you. What is your first name?" Ginny asked as she was drying her body from the short shower. Because she was bend down to dry her legs, Ginny couldn't see the reaction Tonks got, but Harry and Hermione could see it to well. Her brown hair, with a single streak of pink slowly turned to a embarrassing red. "I don't want to talk about it" Tonks said softly, but all could hear her. "Why don't you …." Ginny began to ask, but stopped talking as she looked at Tonks hair. "WOW" Ginny said, quite loud. "Is there a problem here?" A voice asked as Professor Sprout entered the showers. "No, but it could be" Said Harry as he pointed at the head of house. "What if you entered and we were all naked?" Ginny asked as she leaned against her cubicle. "Don't worry about that." Said Professor Sprout. "The charms here prevents me from seeing anything inappropriate."
"Well, that's nice and all, but we were talking about her hair, and the fact that it can change color" Said Harry as he pointed to Tonks who dived under the boards of the cubicle. "Please Miss Tonks. I've seen a lot more strange things around here. After all, we are in a school of magic. Stranger things are sure to happen" Professor Sprout said in a gentle tone. It seemed that Tonks was still a bit shy but she showed her head above the cubicle. "There's a good girl. How about we meet after the first lessons of the day? That way we'll be able to talk more." Tonks nodded and seemed to take a deep breath. "My name is Nymphadora Tonks, but I hate my given name. Please call me Tonks" Tonks pleaded. "Well, I don't know about that, but I'm not calling you Tonks. How about Dora?"" Asked Ginny. Tonks seemed to think about it for a while, before she carefully gave it a try. "Dora Tonks. Dora Tonks. I like it"
"Good, now put on your robes and meet me in the common room. I have a few things to say before we go to the great hall."
The students nodded and started to dry themselves, while Professor Sprout was waiting in the hallway between the dormitories and the common room.
When they came out of the dormitory, they followed Professor Sprout to the Common room where she told everyone about the standard Hogwarts rules, what time they were supposed to be indoors and that in the first month here, they would have a chat with her about anything that she needed to know. "Finally, we have two students here, who have permission from the headmaster to carry their weapons. They are students from a long forgotten region of land where monsters dwell. They will also train outside, or in to cold weather inside, to keep their physical condition in peak condition. Now, follow me to the great hall where we will be served breakfast. Lunch and Dinner will be served later."
Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Dora followed the group of first years through the hallways of Hogwarts. It wasn't that far from the great hall, with only three hallways to go. Before they reached the great hall, Professor Sprout looked at each of them. "Now, I want you all to show that Hufflepuff house is a house of unity and friendship. In there you'll find many different beliefs and ideas from other houses, but always remember to be true to yourself."
They all nodded and were led in the great hall that was half-full with students from different houses. Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws, Gryffindors and Slytherins. As Harry took a seat at the Hufflepuff table, he saw that a young blond boy, who was being flanked by two fairly large, dumb looking boys made his way to the Hufflepuff table. Harry, who had Dora sitting opposite of him, seemed to shrink back into herself. Harry glared slightly as Dora, shaking his head and leaned forward to pat her hand. "It will be okay" he said.
"Are you Harry Potter?" The blond boy asked. Harry looked up. Blondie and his friends were looking at him, with curiosity and if Harry saw it correctly, a bit of hatred. "No,. I'm not Harry Potter. I'm Harry Ozpin." Harry said as he stood from the table, getting the attention of his house. Ginny, who had sat besides him looked up, and saw Harry's eyes. They burned with a small flame that promised a lot of pain for the Blond boy and his helpers.
"I know you are Harry Potter. I can help you to make friends that will last a lifetime, all you have to do, is follow me to Slytherin table." the blond boy said.
Harry looked at the blond boy. First at the hand that was stretched out, hoping to guide him in. Then to the two bullies. Harry's keen observation spotted that they had some scrapes on their hands, showing that they had been in a fist fight already. They at the blond boy himself. A lot of Gel was applied to keep his blond hair in a old style gangsters look. His eyes, cold and grey stared down Harry's own emerald green eyes, almost forcing him to accept.
"Fine. I was born Harry Potter and am now known as Harry Ozpin. And who are you?" Harry asked as he crossed his hands in front of him. The boy glared slightly. "I am Draco Malfoy. You might have heard that name before. My father is very well known with the minister of magic."
Harry rolled his eyes . Yes, he had heard of the Malfoy name, from his birth parents diaries. Stealing, cheating, murdering bastards who gladly would go over corpses if it got them what they wanted.
"Yes, I've heard about the Malfoy family" Said Harry, as he could see a small spark in Draco's eyes. "They are a Family of murdering, lying, cheating thieves who gladly would kill anybody who would stand in their way." Harry's words were soft spoken, yet the reached every ear in the great hall. Draco's face became slightly paler. "My birth parents both threw your father before the law four separate times, and each and every time your father would pay a fine and be released. My birth-father made a vow that day when your daddy became a free man again after bribing another official. He said that he would see the line of Malfoy ended, and if he failed ,then his legal and rightful son would take up the vow and succeed where he failed."
Draco now looked paler than before. He never knew about this vow but if Harry was right, then he was standing in front of his families worst enemy. One that would hunt him down until death. "You're lying" Draco said as he feet slowly started to move backwards. "Am I?" Harry asked as he slowly held up his left ring-finger. Draco fell on his back and pointed at the finger. There in all glory for each and everyone to see, was the ring for the heir of the Potter family.
"Get him" Draco called as he tried to run away, while his henchmen went on the attack. Harry jumped into action, his martial arts training with Fox flowing through him as he jumped and delivered two kicks to Draco's henchmen. Both his feet connected with their faces and with a little push of his aura Harry kicked them ten meters away, before they collided with the wall of the great hall. Harry landed as a cat on his feet, smiling slightly as he looked around.
The entire great hall was silent, then one person started to clap. Ginny had seen the whole situation and applauded Harry for his quick and clever strategy. Then Hermione and Dora started to clap and before Harry knew what was going on, The entire Hufflepuff table started to clap for him. Ravenclaw and Gryffindor tables started to join the clapping. Even several professors, including Sprout, McGonagall and Hagrid clapped for him. Looking over at Dumbledore, Harry saw that he raised his goblet slightly and toasted Harry before he placed his goblet back down.
Walking over to Draco, Harry removed Child's-play from his back and extended it to the Guan Dao form. Holding Draco to the floor, Harry spoke with a quiet voice, that gave everyone a chill over his back. "Don't think that you are immortal, Draco. Don't think you can't be touched. It wasn't your father's fault that he paid corrupt officers of the law. It was the entire system that allowed for the corruption. It was the system that gave rise to Voldemort." Everyone flinched when they heard the name of the most dark wizard of the last century. "Don't follow in your father's footsteps Draco, or else this here," Here Harry pointed with his blade at Draco's manhood. "Then this will be gone and there will be nothing you can do to stop the line of Malfoy dying out." Harry then reformed his Guan Dao back to a rifle and placed it on his back, before he turned away and say with his friends at the table of Hufflepuff house.
Nobody paid attention to Draco, as he was lifted up by Madam Pomfrey to the hospital wing for check-up.
After that, Harry received his timetable from Professor Sprout. On his timetable stood that he was to meet with his head of house on Friday afternoon. Harry smiled and nodded before he resumed eating. All to soon, Harry had to stop eating, as he and his fellow first years had to go to class, with Professor Sprout for Herbology.
Harry smiled. His first day as a wizarding student had begun.