Harry failed to see why he had to ride the Hogwarts Express back from Hogwarts to King Cross station in London, England. He could have just as easily used his parents knives and gotten home through a portal early, instead of sitting on the train, moving to London. With him in the compartment were Ginny, Hermione and Dora from his team that he and Ginny were leading together.
There were also three faces that didn't belonged to his team, but had become great friends, and if Harry had to admit, he felt somewhat protective of them. Percy, George and Fred Weasley had chosen to sit with them, the collectors of the massive amount of points that they got from Dumbledore for saving the Sorcerers stone from a Voldemort possessed Quirrell, what led them to win the House cup. Harry thought back at the time, that was only a week ago, where he, Professor Sprout and his team jumped down through a hole in the ground, right in a room where a massive three headed dog was sleeping.
'Flashback'
Harry followed Sprout down the stairs from a room where a large patch of Devil's Snare was growing, her own wand lid and held high to illuminate the path in front of them. Behind him, Ginny, Hermione and Dora had already removed their hand weapons from their holsters. Ginny was the last in the single file line and looked periodically behind them, her gun raised to anticipate any incoming targets, friends of foes. Dora and Hermione also looked around, their training might not be advanced enough to handle a really dangerous situation, but Harry knew that with Ginny and him around and with Professor Sprout, that they would be fine. Harry saw a light on the end of the tunnel and grabbed Child's-play from his back, before he removed the safety of the rifle. Holding it close to him, Harry Stepped slightly out of line, and pointed his rifle forward, his view clear.
"Professor?" Harry said as Sprout stopped in front of him. "I hear movement up ahead" Sprout said as she moved forward slowly. Holding tight to Child's-play, Harry followed the Professor, while telling to the others to stay where they are. Ginny nodded and placed Hammer back in her holster, while she grabbed Hell's Date from behind. Hermione and Dora were watching Harry and Sprout moving forward, both holding on to their guns.
Harry carefully looked around in the next room, before he called the rest. They all looked up to the ceiling to see literally hundreds of keys flying around.
"Who do we know which one to get?" Hermione asked as she started to look for a key that might fit the keyhole that was in the door.
"I don't think we need to use a key." Said Harry as he looked at Dora. Dora started to smile impossibly wide, and as she held her Shoulder-bag close, a barrel appeared out of it, turning Dora's innocent looking bag into a weapon of destruction. "Open fire" Harry said as he guided Sprout away from the door. Dora smiled, before she squealed and pulled the trigger of her machine gun, causing it to shoot out thousands of Dust filled round to collide with the door. While charmed to withstand a lot, the door that was kept locked, was no match for the thousands of rounds that Dora fired from her machine gun.
"Damn, I wanted it to last longer" Said Dora as she looked through the hole where the door had been sitting, until Dora had fired her 'Sweetheart' at it.
"Is she insane?" Sprout asked quietly to Hermione, who rose a gentle eyebrow at the question. "We're all a bit insane. It's part of our charm" Ginny happily said, as she heard Sprout talking to Hermione, before she walked through the opening, where a door had been standing, leaving Hermione and Professor Sprout alone in the room, filled with winged keys.
"We'll talk about that later" Said Professor Sprout, as she made her way to the next room. Hermione followed and looked at the room where they were now standing. A large room, filled with broken chess pieces on the sides, while there were several chess-pieces on a chessboard, where they were standing on right now. Moving to one of the knights, Harry smiled softly, as he now saw, not himself, but his father being a knight on the white side of the board. Looking at the side if the knight, Harry spotted his mother's form taking the rook place. "Mum" Harry said softly, as he absorbed her beauty. Even made from stone, Harry mother smiled at him, causing him to lose a few tears that leaked out of his eyes.
"I miss you so much" Harry whispered to the two chess pieces. Wiping his eyes clear of tears, Harry focused on the mission ahead.
"Ready your weapons" Harry ordered and all aimed their weapons at the black chess pieces.
"You have one chance to let us pass." Harry said to the black chess pieces, that looked like hooded men, wearing a silvery mask to keep their identity hidden. The only two who looked different, were the King and Queen. The King looked like a pale man with a snake like nose, no hair and a constant hate in his eyes. The Queen looked like a female with long curly hair and a mad expression on her face. The pawns, before the King and Queen all drew their swords and started to charge.
"Open Fire" Harry shouted as he fired Child's-play at the pawns. Ginny did the same with Hell's Date and Dora fired her machine-gun, whooping the entire time. Hermione showed her wings for the first time to Professor Sprout and as she looked at them, she couldn't believe what she saw. The wings from Hermione opened up to shoot some sort of laser out of them, causing massive destruction to the black chess pieces.
All to soon, all the pawns were broken by the assault of Team GOTH. Harry pointed his rifle at the King and shot it's crown from it's head.
"Now let us pass" Harry said. The king shook his head and motioned his remaining black pieces to attack again. They to fell under the assault of Harry, Ginny, Dora and Hermione, while Professor Sprout watched with amazement how fast the black chess pieces fell.
"Let's go" Harry said as he moved up to the face of the king, that was laying on the floor, it's eyes looking at him. Harry pulled Hammer from his holster and fired three times, each round breaking a large piece of the King's head. The third and final round, went straight through the king's head, cracking it up into hundreds of little pieces. Harry just holstered Hammer and moved forward, ready to face the next challenge. Waiting at the end of the board, Harry met up with his team and Professor Sprout and moved through the door that was there. As they opened the door, they all started to cough with the smell that hang in the room. A large troll, larger than the one Harry and Ginny had faced at Halloween was on it's back, with his head bruised black and blue.
"Move" Harry said as he looked at the troll. He didn't want to fight that thing, and thankfully the didn't have to as the Troll was knocked out. Moving through the door on the other side of the room, They all slammed through the door, and closed it.
"Ah Man, that sure was terrible." Ginny said as she looked around. Before her, a table with several potions were stalled, neatly in a row with a piece of parchment neatly rolled up. Beyond that table, a door opening lead on to a new room, probably where Dumbledore had stored the final challenge. Looking around, Ginny stepped forward, causing the door behind them catch fire. As they looked at the door where they had come from, the door that they had to go through also caught flame. This red flame was a different color than the black flames behind them.
"Think this is Snape's idea of having a good time?" Harry asked as he looked around.
'Harry, Harry' Harry heard echoing through the room. "Who's there?" Harry asked, Child's-play ready to fire.
'Harry, wake up' And then Harry's surroundings became black.
'Flashback Ends'
Harry opened his eyes, and saw Ginny looking at him.
"Hey Harry. We're about to arrive at King's Cross station. Get dressed so we can go home" Ginny said, as she let go of Harry's shoulder. Shaking his head to remove the sleep, Harry quickly changed from his Hogwarts robes to his outfit that he wore during the testing of Amity Colosseum. Black shirt and black trousers, red sleeve-less vest and a belt that held several pouches filled with crystallized Dust. Harry walked out of the small toilet that was on the express that he had used for changing, and walked back to the compartment, where he found that they were already entering London.
"Do you think that there will be someone waiting for us?" Ginny asked as she removed her trunk from the luggage rack.
"I hope so, or else we'll just use the knives" Harry said as he lowered his own trunk from the rack.
"Don't worry. Our mother will be there to pick us up. She's been writing to me that they have been moving to Vale to be closer to Ron." Percy said as he looked at them. "Mother wrote to me that she had found a place at Signal Academy where she can keep an eye on Ron, and where she'll be able to work. They put her in charge of the food there"
"Really, and you couldn't tell us earlier, when we were still at Hogwarts?" Harry asked, his eyes lighting up, looking at Percy, who suddenly got the feeling that he had done something wrong. "I just wanted to make it a surprise." Percy said, as he slightly moved away from Harry and his eyes.
"Right" Harry said, not believing it one moment. While he had warmed up to Percy a bit, Harry still didn't like the Gryffindor fifth year Prefect, who seemed to follow all the rules. 'What's life without breaking a few rules?' Harry thought as he pulled his trunk with him to wait near the doors that would allow the students to meet up with their parents of guardians.
The train finally stopped and the doors opened. That seemed to be the start for every student to wanting to exit the train at the same time. Knowing what was going to happen, Harry had jumped out of the train, before any other student could.
Standing near the window that held the compartment where he had sat with his friends, Harry knocked on the glass, and smiled as a small window was opened, allowing for Ginny, Hermione and Dora to hand over their trunks to Harry. "That's smart" Percy said as he held on to his own trunk that he had shrunken down in size, allowing him to carry it in his jacket. Moving, Fred and George followed their brother as Percy moved out the compartment and into the long row of students wanting to go home. It took a few minutes, but they all made it with Molly Weasley, who told them that they needed to wait for Arthur and another person. Suddenly a spectral weasel flew around the platform, landed in front of Molly Weasley and spoke in Arthur Weasley's voice.
"Vale is under attack, bring everyone to Beacon" The spectral weasel then vanished into thin air. Harry looked at Molly, his eagerness to help in Vale was clearly visible. Looking at the other three of Harry's team, Molly saw the same determination.
"Hold on to this" She said as she reluctantly handed over a brown sock.
"It's a port-key. It will bring you directly to Beacon." She said as she motioned to all her children, Hermione, Dora and Harry to touch it. "What is a Port-key?" Harry asked, but he got the answer as he suddenly felt like a fishhook had grabbed him by the navel. Harry's vision was a blur, as he spun around with incredible speed, before he landed on the floor, right beside a Bullhead that was ready to take off.
"Come on, get in" Harry heard someone yell at him, and looking up, Harry spotted Team CRDL standing ready to deploy.
"What's going on?" Harry asked as he helped the others up. "We're receiving reports of massive White Fang movement in the city, Grimm are attacking our borders and Amity Colosseum is losing height. It's going to crash with Beacon Academy" Shouted Professor Peach as she withdrew her own weapon, a morning star with a dust cartilage attached to it.
"Harry, you and your team move into the city, Team CRDL will move towards the borders to kill the Grimm." Peach said as she jumped in the Bullhead and took controls. "You." Harry pointed to the other Weasley's. "Get as many wizards as you can here, and hold that Colosseum in the air"
Before the Weasley's could say anything, Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Dora jumped in the Bullhead, just as it was lifting off.
"Mum?" Fred asked, waving his hand before his mothers eyes.
"I don't thinks she's with us at the moment" Fred said to his brothers, while he reached down and unlocked his trunk before he found his third years Runes book and started to read.
"Fred? What are you doing?" Percy asked, never having seen this behavior of his brother.
"We need to make several large slaps of stone, where Fred can edge the rune for Levitation in." Said George as he looked around and found some stones that he could transfigure.
On board the Bullhead, Harry was watching the news from the Vale News Network. To say that things looked bad, was an understatement. The Colosseum was missing several pieces, and some parts had caught fire. Ironwoods Air-fleet that hovered around the stadium tried to load up as many people as they could, but it looked like a losing battle.
"How did Ironwood fail to keep Vale safe?" Harry asked over the whining sound of the Bullhead's engines that were pushed to their limits.
"Ironwood only focused on the tournament and the Stadium, he never considered that an external force could storm Vale" Dove Bronzewing said as he looked at the younger kids. Seeing them armed and ready, Dove got a bit more respect for them, but still didn't forget the trashing they had been given when Harry and his friends came home during the holidays.
"Harry, you and your team must drop off here, Team CRDL and I will take the borders. Be Safe" Peach called as the doors of the Bullhead opened.
Harry looked at Hermione, who nodded and threw of her outer robes, showing her wings to the world, before she flew out of the Bullhead. Harry, Ginny and Dora jumped out of the Bullhead, and fell several meters before they landed, and blasted off in different directions. Ginny's first opponent was a simple White fang grunt, and Ginny shot him with Hell's Date, before she engaged the other White Fang members. All to soon, Ginny had to switch to her melee weapons, as the White Fang started to attack her with their own weapons. Blades, axes, knives. Ginny dodged and deflected it all, while she kept on attacking.
Dora was holding position with her machine-gun near a Dust shop. Having seen how the White Fang drove the defenseless people of Vale to their death, Dora had decided to make a stand here. She was able to hold her position, while some other citizens of Vale rallied behind her.
Firing at every White Fang member that Dora could find, she soon found that she had a whole wall of citizens firing all sorts of Dust weapons. Shotgun shells, arrows, throwing knives, bullets. Everything that they could use to remove the White Fang from their home town, they used.
Hermione flew above them all, using her wings to fire concentrated Dust at the White Fang, while she rallied several lost children to her and made them follow her to Dora's position.
Harry meanwhile was facing of a group of ten White Fang soldiers, lead by a Lieutenant with a familiar weapon. A shotgun he had seen before.
Aiming at the grunts, Harry opened fire, while he stayed in cover to prevent any rounds hitting him. While outnumbered, Harry was able to hit three White fang grunts before he had to abandon his cover, as one of the Grunts fired a charge of explosive Dust rounds at Harry's shelter, causing it to crumble.
"Hello there" The Lieutenant said as he aimed his shotgun at Harry.
"Hello yourself" A feminine voice said.
As both Harry and the Lieutenant looked up, a fist was placed in the Lieutenant's face, causing him to fly away a dozen meters before he fell in his team of White fang Grunts. Harry looked up and saw a girl standing there with dark skin, platinum blond hair and dark green eyes. She wore a yellow robe with only one lose and wide sleeve with a black tube top and black pants. Around her middle she wore a red sash with a white symbol. Holding out her arm to Harry, he could see that she wore bandages around her arms and legs and wore a red necklace. "Thanks" Harry said as he stood up. "No problem. The name's Arslan Altan, Huntress student at Mistral."
"Nice to meet you. I'm Harry Ozpin. Aspiring Huntsmen and adopted son of headmaster Ozpin of Beacon Academy"
"Well Harry, what shall we do with these?" Arslan asked as she pointed to the White fang, who took defensive positions. Harry cocked his gun.
"Do you need to ask?" Harry asked as he looked at the White Fang's Lieutenant. "Very well then, let's go" Arslan said as she dived out of the way, as the White Fang started to fire their guns.
"I need a distraction" Arslan said as gun fire flew past them.
"Okay, watch this" Harry said as he moved slowly to an open spot and aimed Child's-play. Several shots fired from Harry forced the White fang in hiding, which was just what Arslan needed. She charged forwards, crashing through the hasty barricade that the White Fang had created and was smashing White Fang grunts left and right. Using her rope dart, she got hold of one man and threw him towards Harry, who saw his and readied Child's-play in Guan Dao form. Arslan had unknowingly threw the White Fang Lieutenant towards Harry. The same Lieutenant who had attacked the Hogwarts Express when Harry and his friends returned to Hogwarts for the winter term.
"So, ready to continue where we left off?" The Lieutenant asked, as he split his shotgun in two swords.
"Sure" Harry said as he lowered himself in a defensive position. "I think it's only fair that you will see the face of the man who will kill you, boy" The Lieutenant said as he slowly removed his mask. Harry looked at the Faunus before him, his mask now on the floor between them. Brown eyes looked at Harry, hatred filled within them. A slightly pointed nose, with a visible scar on the right side that lowered down to a mouth filled with sharp teeth. His hair was short, and as Harry looked better, he saw two small cat ears coming out of his head.
"What the fuck are you looking at Kid?" the Lieutenant shouted. "You have small cat like ears. Why haven't I seen that before?" Harry asked himself.
"So you see my ears. I was born with them."' The Lieutenant said as he moved forward, trying to stab through Harry. Harry dodged and deflected the blows from the Lieutenant, while Arslan was fighting the White fang Grunts.
"Ah, Fuck." Harry shouted as one of the blades cut almost through his aura, barely missing his left arm. Swinging Child's-play around, Harry deflected another blow from the blades, and attacked when he spotted the chance. Harry sliced in the left arm of the Lieutenant, causing him to scream and shout, while dropping his left blade. Harry was able to deflect the first blow, but left himself open for the second blow, and exhaled as he felt the Shotgun blade piercing his abdomen, missing his intestines with but a few inches to spare.
"Your Aura is low, boy" the Lieutenant spoke, while he still held on to the blade. Picking Harry up at his throat with difficulty, the White Fang Lieutenant looked at Harry's eyes.
"You want to now the name of the man who killed you?" he asked. Harry nodded, as he felt his strength failing. "My name is Brian Rock."
"Nice name, for a dead guy" Harry whispered as he pulled out Grabber and used the ax to slice through Brian's neck, killing him.
Falling on the ground, Harry's vision became blurry as he felt his blood leaving him. Looking around, Harry found that there were more huntsmen and huntresses fighting that only his team and Arslan.
Feeling the shotgun still in his abdomen, Harry slowly fell to the ground. His last vision was of a red haired girl with a shield and a elderly woman with a green robe and witches hat to approach him, before darkness took him and Harry fell into unconsciousness.