"ENOUGH" Harry shouted at the teachers of Hogwarts. It was the second day after the breach in Vale and Harry was already hating it that Beacon Academy housed several professor from Hogwarts.
"If you want to talk to me, then do so in a normal way, and not like I'm at fault. His students attacked us, and I never have seen such behavior before. Not even from Hufflepuff" Said Harry as he left the room where he was, leaving behind Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape and Sprout. Of the heads of houses of Hogwarts, only Filius Flitwick stayed behind to 'guide the students' in their week long holiday at school.
"Arrogant, stupid and disrespectful." Said Snape as he started to move towards the door where Harry had gone through. "I think not" Said Sprout as she closed the door with a flick of her wand, before Severus could move through it.
"These accusations are most severe, and we will find out about this. We have the stories from your students Severus, and we now have the story from Harry. A boy who defeated your entire fifth year, while they had to study for their O.W.L's." Pomona Sprout stated. Snape glared at Sprout, and Sprout glared right back.
"While I agree that Hogwarts has become more alive since Harry has come to Hogwarts, I cannot, and will not this behavior to continue. Harry will serve detention with Hagrid, while your Slytherins will find themselves removed from Hogsmeade outings and confined to quarters. They will also be docked points from their houses, for behavior that is not allowed at Hogwarts." Said McGonagall as she looked around. Sprout nodded, while Snape glared at the deputy.
"Headmaster, I demand that Potter is expelled from Hogwarts" Snape shouted.
"Then I must demand the entire removal of Slytherin house fifth years." Shouted McGonagall back.
"WHAT" Snape shouted.
"ENOUGH" They all heard through the door, as it was blasted open by a purple explosion. The door blasted of it's hinges, and fell in several pieces to the ground.
Looking from the broken door to the person who broke the door, the Hogwarts staff all stepped a few steps back, as the reason that the door was blasted away walked in the classroom.
"I got a message from Harry, saying that you all were shouting in the classroom, while I was told that you wanted a 'word' with him. Is it something that the wizarding world does, making things looking smaller and less significant that they are?" Asked Glynda Goodwitch as she looked at the teachers. "Well, IS IT?"
Harry sat at one of the docks of Beacon Academy, watching students coming and going to the city of Vale. Remembering everything that happened two days before, Harry shook his head in despair. Harry had seen the teachers of Hogwarts arriving with Team CFVY and professor Port, but they didn't help with fighting the Grimm. Even when several Beowolves made their way to them, they didn't do a damn thing, causing Velvet and Fox to take them out, before the Beowolves could kill them.
'Shame that they didn't kill Snape' Harry thought, before he banished the thought away. 'I'm not allowed to think that way' Harry though as he looked over the water that separated Beacon Academy from the city of Vale. Harry took a deep breath and looked over the sky line of Vale. Now everything was quiet, and peaceful.
"Harry?" A voice behind him called, and as Harry looked behind him, he spotted Coco Adel looking at him, her brown hair with that single colored lock of hair slightly blowing in the wind.
"Hey Coco" Harry said as Coco sat down next to him. "You always had a great eye for nice views" Coco said, as she looked out over the city.
"Yeah. I really miss this at Hogwarts. Don't get me wrong. Hogwarts is a nice school, but it's just not 'home' you know?"
"Yeah. I get what you're talking about. I had the same feeling with Beacon when I came here" Coco told him as another Bullhead slowly lifted off, bringing students to Vale. "Do you know where Hermione and Dora are?" Coco asked as she looked around, hoping to see one of Harry's close friends nearby.
"Hermione is connecting with her parents in town, while Dora is touring with her parents through Vale. And before you ask, Ginny is at Patch, where she's visiting her brother Ron at Signal with her birth mother." Harry explained.
"I See" Coco said softly, as she looked at Harry. The boy wasn't looking happy at all.
"Harry, care to tell me what's wrong?" Coco asked in a gentle and soft voice. "Not really, but I guess it can't hurt." Harry said as he started to tell about his escape from Hogwarts, the fight where the Hogwarts staff didn't even helped, and how they held him responsible for the state that the Slytherin fifth year students were, after he had blocked the hallway up with ice.
"Seems to me that they are just a big group of sissies." Coco said as she stood up and picked Harry up to.
"I wouldn't worry about it so much, Harry. You've got bigger problems than some nagging sissies. You need to focus on that." Coco said as she pointed towards the horizon, where Harry could see a small shape appearing. "It's here" Harry whispered as he watched the shape getting bigger and bigger with each passing minute.
Grabbing his scroll, Harry quickly sent a few text messages to his teammates, to tell them to watch the sky. Harry moved to a viewpoint where he could see the shape getting larger and larger. Smiling, Harry watched in awe as the Amity Colosseum was floating around, it's crystals at the base holding it afloat. Shaking his head, Harry thanked Coco for the distraction and went back inside Beacon Academy, while Coco started to move towards the outside training area's, hoping to find her team training.
Walking inside, Harry found out that almost every student at Beacon had seen Amity Colosseum. It was hard not to see it, as it cast a shadow over the dining hall, blocking out the sunlight that normally shined trough the glass. Now, the only thing you could see outside was Amity.
"What is that?" He heard a voice asking, and as he turned around, he came face to face with professor McGonagall. "Oh. It's you" Harry said as he turned around again, watching Amity flying around Beacon. "That is Amity Colosseum, the stadium that we use for the Vytal festival." Harry said as he moved away, with Professors McGonagall following him.
"Amity Colosseum was and still is, a joint project between the four Kingdoms of Remnant" Said Harry as he guided McGonagall to his room, where he had several items to show his head of house, to make her understand how important Remnant was for him and Ginny.
"In the aftermath of the war that ended almost eighty years ago, the four Kingdoms of Remnant decided to bury their weapons and promote peace between the Kingdoms. Atlas, Vacuo, Mistral and Vale all agreed that we stood stronger when we are together. There were countless reasons why 'the war' was fought. One was the removal of any sort of art and individualism from Remnant, and there were many who could not stand that. To form a protest, these man and woman stared to name their children to one of the core aspects of art. Color. It is a trend that has held for all those years, and even today is used to show that Human and Faunus resisted against that idea.
To celibate the peace a festival was organized on the island of Vytal, where cultures from the four Kingdoms would come together. Here they could experience the culture of the other Kingdoms, and meet new people to form lifelong friendships with. It was created as a celebration of peace between the Kingdoms, and when the Huntsmen Academies became very successful in repelling Grimm attacks, they became a part in the Festival, creating the Vytal Festival Tournament. Here the warriors of the Huntsmen Academies were fighting in a friendly and competitive environment. This allowed for Huntsmen and Huntresses to fight against each other, learning about each other and pushing them harder and faster, to settle not for mediocrity, but to strive to be the best that they could absolute be."
Now Harry and McGonagall had entered the dorm that was assigned for Harry, Ginny and their friends. As a joke Harry has written on a piece of paper 'Team GOTH' and placed it on the door. Offering McGonagall a chair to sit on and a cup of water to drink, Harry continued.
"The better the Huntsmen became, the larger the tournament, and it was decided that the best way to hold the games was to construct a stadium, to show the greatness of the Huntsmen and Huntresses. To build such a stage, the four Kingdoms pooled their recourses together, and created the monstrosity of a stadium that you see hanging above us. Vale, the Kingdom that was the most diverse in it's culture, was tasked with creating a way to keep the stadium afloat, so it could travel to the other Kingdoms. And so, we started to fuse together seventeen thousand Wind Dust crystals, creating the largest Wind Crystal in the world. On the top of that came the core of the stadium. While poor in resources, Vacuo's inhabitants are very resistant and created a very sturdy and strong foundation, that houses several important machines, that help the Crystals of Vale to keep the stadium afloat. On top of that, Mistral, the kingdom to the east, created the docking ports and entrance ways for the visitors. It also created, in cooperation with Atlas, the different Biomes. Those are area's in which the Huntresses and Huntsmen fight each other in. And finally, the Kingdom of Atlas to the north created the stadium itself. A place where one hundred and fifty thousand people can watch the fights from."
" 'It is true, that all of this began with war. But it is peace, that has served to shepherd humanity on it's ascension to greatness. May we never stray from that path.' " Quoted Harry as he pulled up images of the different parts of Amity Colosseum, showing to McGonagall how Amity Colosseum became to be. Harry watched his head of house as she perused though all the images, before she stopped looking at the last one. It was a birds-eye view of Amity Colosseum, that showed how large it was. "This is larger than the Quidditch world cup stadium that was in two-thousand and two" McGonagall mumbled as she kept looking at the image.
"Well, it's a thing that I've seen with wizards and witches." Said Harry as he took a drink from his own glass. McGonagall looked at him, hoping to explain his words.
"You see, at Hogwarts we learn certain ways of using magic. These ways have been passed down from generation to generation, teaching every student the exact same way. With magic, you think that there is no room for improvement, no room for experimentations. With you, there is no room for bettering yourself. The entire wizarding world keeps themselves in the dark, while around them the time moves forward. What I'm trying to say is, Professor, is that there is no competitive edge in the wizarding world. I've asked Hermione to tell me when there was a new spell created, and she told me that that was in nineteen-ninety-one."
"Amity Colosseum, a place where friendships are born and maintained" Harry said as he looked at the screen in McGonagall's hands.
"Would you like to see it in more detail?" Harry asked suddenly, as he looked at his head of house. "Can you get me in?" McGonagall asked, her eyes sparkling with hope. "Well, tomorrow we're going to test the battlefields, to see if they are in working order. Having you with us would be nothing more than a adult looking after us." Said Harry as he gave her the time that they had to be at the Colosseum.
"I'll be there tomorrow." McGonagall said.
"Professor. If I may be so bold?" Harry asked. "McGonagall nodded, looking at one of her favorite students. Harry and Ginny, with Dora and Hermione were her favorite first year students, but she would never admit that. As deputy of Hogwarts, she had to maintain a certain amount of professional appearance. Still, seeing this stadium first hand, while Harry and his friends would test the battlefields, It was almost being gifted a seat in the ministry box at the Quidditch world cup finals.
"What is it, Harry?" McGonagall asked, curious what Harry wanted to ask.
"Professor. Why is it that Professor Snape takes points for breathing, coughing and sighing from all of the other houses, and never from his own?"
Of all the questions that Harry could ask, she never thought he would ask about Severus and his unfair point deductions.
"I'm sorry, Harry, but I can't answer that question, because I have no answer to give. Can you give me an example?" she said, hoping that he didn't have one.
"Of course, Professor. I've got several. One moment please." Harry said a she walked to his trunk and pulled a small stack of papers out of it, before he walked back to McGonagall and gave the stack of papers to her.
"Each and every point from Gryffindor, since I became a Gryffindor." Harry said. Looking at the papers quickly, Minerva's heart started to beat faster. 'Fifteen points from Gryffindor for cutting ingredients wrong? Ten points from Gryffindor for sneezing? What is Severus doing in that class?' McGonagall asked herself as she looked down the list.
"And that's the list from the first, second and third years, after I became a Gryffindor. I haven't seen the point deductions from Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw yet, but I'm willing to bet that they look like that, if a bit less in the deduction department. So Professor. Can you explain that to me?" Harry asked, while he looked at her.
"I'm sorry, Harry, but I cannot. I can only hope that Severus has a good explanation for his behavior" McGonagall said as she looked at the clock on the dormitory wall. "Harry, I propose that we shelf this subject, and talk about it another time. I'll be looking through his stack of papers and will try to find a better answer. Until then, I think that you need your energy if you are going to test out the Colosseum tomorrow." With those words, McGonagall stood up and walked out of the dorm, not even sparing Harry a glance. Harry shook his head and retrieved his invisibility cloak from his trunk, threw it over him and followed McGonagall through the halls of Beacon. It seemed that she was going to her own room, but then Harry saw her taking a turn, a turn that directed her, and him, to Severus Snape's room. Feeling that it didn't smell right, Harry took out his scroll. McGonagall knocked once on the door and placed the papers on the floor, before going back to her room, the papers forgotten. Harry quickly took several photo's of the encounter with his scroll, including McGonagall's face, before the door opened and Snape grabbed the papers on the floor. Waving his wand, Snape vanished the papers before he closed the door again.
Having evidence of this behavior, Harry slipped own to his room, changed in his PJ's and fell asleep, thinking about how he would crush Snape with his evidence.
Harry watched as the airship that brought them to Amity Colosseum came closer and closer with the stadium. Seeing Professor Peach standing there with his father, Harry nodded respectfully. Smiling at the grandness of Amity, Harry followed his father to one of the many locker-rooms, where he changed in his combat gear. His team was already in the locker room, where they all were waiting for the signal to gather and fight.
"Okay, if the report are correct, we just have to move around. Maybe shooting some bullets at each other" said Harry as he winked at Ginny. Ginny smiled and placed her Hammer in her hip-holster. Harry nodded to Hermione and Dora who stood ready with their own weapons. Having spent a day with Coco and Velvet, both girls had created their own 'Hammer' gun. Although, Hermione didn't call her gun Hammer, but Nova. Dora didn't call her gun Hammer either, but Silent Night, as it was equipped with a silencer. Nodding to the girls, Harry left the locker-rooms and took the lead to the arena portion of the stadium.
"Hey dad" Harry called as he saw his father standing in the middle of the arena.
"Hello Harry. Today you will be testing the Biomes arena. Through the lottery, two Biomes halves will be lifted up, with a small group of old Atlesian knight 100's, with their weapons locked on sparring mode. Your job is to destroy the knights. Good luck"
With those words, Ozpin turned around and walked away, leaving the four children standing in the middle of the arena. Looking around, Harry felt a little bit small, as he looked at the thousands of seats that could be filled with spectators, watching him and his team fighting their way through the competition. Then the 'lottery' as his father called it, activated and Harry waited until the left side of the lottery fell on Ice and the second half on a ruined city. Seeing the old knights becoming active, Harry nodded and told his team to scatter. Dora and Ginny made their way to the ruined city, while Harry and Hermione moved to the Ice. Nodding to Harry, Hermione started to fly, using her wings to gain speed and altitude, before she used one of her wings as a gun and fired several colored Dust rounds at the old knights. While Hermione was flying around, Harry got Child's play and switched to it's Guan Dao form, before he cut of a Knights head and used said head to play a round of ice hockey, with Child's Play being the Hockey-stick and the head the Puck. Seeing a knight firing at Hermione, Harry smashed the loose head with Child's Play, causing the head to collide with the knight that was firing at Hermione. Both the head and the knight broke apart, with only the torso of the knight waking around on it's legs. Smiling, Harry folded Child's Play back into his rifle mode before he started to fire rapidly, destroying all knights before they could even counterattack.
"Hermione. Let's help them" Harry shouted to Hermione, while he pointed to the ruined part of the arena.
Ginny and Tonks were watching as more and more knights moved to their position.
"Dora, we need to move" Said Ginny softly, and as Dora nodded, they began to slowly move away from the cover they had been using. Spotting some stairs, Ginny motioned to Dora to keep moving, while she would move upwards and try to take some of the knights out. Dora nodded, as she unfolded her machine gun. Ginny saw two pods hanging on the side and looked at them.
"Rocket launchers. Very effective against large numbers." Dora said with a big smile. Ginny nodded and moved upward. She soon reached the top and saw Hermione floating above her.
"Care to give a girl a lift?" Ginny asked playfully, as Hermine lifted her up and placed her on a building that was as far away as possible from the one she was in a few minutes ago.
"Hermione, get Dora here" Ginny commanded and Hermione flew off, trying to get Dora before she was surrounded by the Knights.
Dora was sneaking around, hoping that she wouldn't be detected. Seeing a knight standing there, with it's back towards her, Dora got Silent Night and switched it to a electric baton. Smashing the knight in the torso, Dora fried it's systems before she started to run. Folding back Silent Night, Dora fired swiftly as one knight while the other was blasted to pieces by Harry who had shot it with Child's Play's Sniper mode from over the Ice part of the arena. Dora suddenly felt Hermione's arms around her, as she lifted off.
"Dora. Aim your rockets at them" Ginny shouted as she pointed at the group of Knights, eleven strong.
Dora nodded and all to soon, a crater the size of three large cars was all that remained of the group of Knights. Making their way back to the middle of the arena, Harry nodded to Professor McGonagall, who had been watching the show. She was speechless. Then nodding to his father, Harry saw the lottery spinning again.
"Okay girls. Let's do a new round." Harry said as he held Child's Play close to him, ready to fire.