"And thus, we award Harry Ozpin, Champion of Beacon Academy fifty points." said Dumbledore, as he looked over to Harry who was being treated by madam Pomfrey for the injuries that he sustained during the killing of the Reaper Grimm. While he did survived to live another day, the flames that caused the Grimm's death had licked his face and arm slightly, only covering them in some minor second degree burns.
They were in the great hall of Hogwarts, a few hours after Harry had killed the Reaper and fallen unconscious after he had climbed his way up in a drop-ship that Jaune Arc flew, with both Pyrrha Nikos and Angel Star on board, for if there were extra hands needed. Luckily, all they needed to do was helping Harry on board and stable while Jaune piloted the drop-ship back to Hogwarts. When landed, Angel Star carried Harry inside Hogwarts and to the great hall, where everyone was waiting, hoping that the monster was dead. Seeing Harry in Angel's hands, madam Pomfrey ordered him on the table, while she preformed magical first air. While Pomfrey and Angel were working on Harry, the head-teachers and deputy head-teacher came together, discussing the Tournament and the days events.
All agreed that Beacon Students had done more for all the students of the schools, but there were some discussions regarding an award. The Prince of Vale, his royal blue suit burnt with little scorch marks called them to order, as both Madame Maxime and Igor Karkaroff were discussing something that didn't seem so rewarding.
"If I may interject" The prince said as he stepped between Karkaroff and Maxime, who were talking about something called an 'Order of Merlin' or something. Karkaroff looked like he was going to object, but fell silent as he felt a very small prick from a woman in white, with her hair in a bun and a strand loose.
"While I'm sure an Order of Merlin is wonderful for your culture, and must be a symbol for the wizarding world, our culture values something more than a title, even one as grand as the 'order' may be." The Prince said, as he weaved through potential allies and enemies on a daily basis.
"We of Vale, and Remnant value something much more, than a title that has no meaning with us. May I propose that we each give the huntsmen and huntresses, both those in training and out of the school, something to remember such an event. Something that will tell both the Wizarding world and the people of Remnant what a brave warriors they were, defending the students of the three magical schools of Europe?"
Madam Maxime looked at the prince. "And what do you have in mind?" She asked as she fell slowly under the prince's influence
The Prince laughed. "Nothing more than some books about the wizarding world, perhaps a book, talking about the actions of them today. I'm sure that the headmasters of the three largest Magical schools in Europe wouldn't mind it the slightest that their students were saved, by a group of foreign students."
The Prince of Vale smiled, as he subtle used his semblance to influence the three heads of the magical schools. While he was gifted with words, the Prince had a unique semblance that could persuade people with small suggestions. His ultimate goal was to, with force if necessary, find a way to lift the veil from around Remnant. With the technological advancements of Remnant, they knew that they could become a super power in clean energy. In the past, several teams had been sent to scout out the rest of the world, since it became clear that a veil hung over Remnant. Small teams, of mostly three persons were send out over sea, and would periodically sent in reports, concerning the development of the world they lived in.
"But of course, if you don't want to do that, we can come to a different compromise" The Prince said as he saw Harry Ozpin slowly waking up, after killing a Grimm that would need at least eighty huntresses and huntsmen. How the boy did such a thing, with only a quarter of the needed Hunters, the Prince would love to know. Maybe it would be best if Harry spent a few years as his personal guard.
"Ahem" Dumbledore's voice rang out to every student in the hall. "While he didn't succeeded in retrieving the egg, Harry Ozpin did save us all from a terrible faith. It is therefor, that we, the judges of the Tournament will give Harry the egg, as soon as it is recovered. Harry, being one of strong conviction, believed that the lives of the students was more important than competing in the Tournament. And thus, we award Harry Ozpin, Champion of Beacon Academy fifty points."
Harry smiled slightly, his face still hurting from the fire that blasted the Grimm's head and neck off.
"Ozpin. Where do you think you're going?" Madam Pomfrey said as she watched Harry slowly getting of the table. "Hospital wing." Harry said as his feet touched the floor of the great hall, before collapsing. Harry would have fallen if it wasn't for the quick help from both Ron Weasley and the Weasley twins. They held him up, as Harry watched his feet refusing to carry him.
"Guys, I'm fine." Harry said as he was carried by the Twins to the Hospital wing.
"Mate, you look like shit" said Ron as he followed the Twins, and Harry, to the Hospital wing, giving him a chance to look around Hogwarts.
Ron had wanted to be on the delegation that supported Harry Ozpin through the Triwizard Tournament. While Professor Ozpin of Beacon Academy called the headmistress of Signal Academy, Ron was undergoing one of the sessions he had to follow. The curse that had affected him all those years, had slowly drained his ability to do magic. While his core was slowly being repaired and his mind was working better, Ron still felt confused somehow. He knew that the curse was gone, but his mind had been in a dormant state for so long, that it sometimes just wanted to return to that state. The therapy that Ron followed trained his mind to stay in the active state, instead of falling back in the dormant state that he had been for all that time. Still, the news that Ron could possibly go with the older students of Beacon Academy to represent Vale and Beacon Academy in the Triwizard tournament, filled him with hope. But the headmistress of Signal had called his mother, and Molly Weasley was very much against it. She believed that Ron should stay at Signal, where he was treated properly. So Ron wasn't allowed to go to Hogwarts, until the news came that the Prince of Vale wanted to attend. The Prince selected his personal escorts, and one of them was Qrow Branwen. Knowing how much Ron wanted to see the school where his brothers and sister learned about magic, Qrow pulled a few strings and Ron was chosen to represent Signal Academy on the trip. Molly Weasley eventually agreed to let Ron go to Hogwarts, under promise that he would learn everything he could. Ron promised this, and went with the Prince of Vale, Qrow Branwen and Winter Schnee. Both Winter and Qrow would function as the Prince bodyguards, as it was not only expected, but almost a rule that the Prince would be under some form of attack.
Ron followed his brothers as they carried Harry to the Hospital wing and placed him one one of the beds. Looking around, Ron could see a lot of other students looking at him. Some faces were filled with rage, others were filled with regret, and some were just blank. Ron moved to one of the blank faces in the hall, a young girl, probably his own age. Her blond hair fell like curtains around her face. As Ron came closer, he could see that her breathing was shallow, her face pale, eyes closed and she seemed to have some sweat on her face. Ron made his way back to his brothers and Madam Pomfrey who was treating Harry's burns with a salve.
"Excuse me, but I think that something might be wrong with her" Ron said as he pointed to the girl he had spotted in bed. Pomfrey nodded and handed Fred the salve, with the message to rub it on Harry's wounds gently, before the started to check on the girl that Ron had pointed out.
Within minutes Harry's condition improved and was excused from the Hospital wing, while madam Pomfrey continued to work on the young blond haired girl.
"Harry, I'd like nothing more than to stick around, but I just got a message from professor Branwen that I need to return to the airship, We're leaving, now that you are on the first place." said Ron as he shook hands with Harry and waved at him as he ran towards a bullhead that was waiting to bring him back to an airship that had brought the Prince of Vale, Qrow Branwen and Winter Schnee.
Harry waved his hands as the airship vanished in the horizon, returning to Remnant and Vale "I'll miss it" Said Harry as he walked back to the entrance hall of Hogwarts. With him were Ginny, Fred, George and Dora, while Hermione was talking to Professor Goodwitch.
"What will you miss?" Ginny asked as he looked at her best friend.
"Everything" Harry said as he sat down on a bench inside the entrance hall. "The feeling that we'll be safe, with both Qrow and Winter around. The gentle feelings of a Dust ship flying through the air. Fighting simple Beowolves and Ursa. Nothing like this shit though."
"I see what you mean." Said Ginny as she sat down next to him. "It's the simple things in life that get attached to you. You don't want to be trapped here in this castle, but out there, where you can be free"
"Yeah. That's what I want." Said Harry as he placed his head against the wall. "Instead of learning how to make a pincushion of a hedgehog, I'd rather learn about Dust and it's properties."
"I know, and while it's somewhat interesting, I'd rather be fighting Grimm than listening to Snape telling us what to do with our potions." Said Ginny, as she spotted some students passing by.
"There you are" A voice rang through the entrance hall and as Harry, Ginny and Dora looked up, they saw Team RAVN walking towards them.
"Hey Guys, what's up?" Dora asked as she looked at the team in front of her. "Nothing much, just wanted you to know that a dance will be held around Christmas. We're going to see if we can get some stuff from that village down the road." Said Angel as she leaned on Vixen. "What? You're going to Hogsmeade?' Harry asked as he sat straight. "That's so unfair."
Harry pouted, as he thought about the different stores in the small village of Hogsmeade. Last year, his father had filled in his acceptance form, and while he had given it to professor McGonagall, she found it wiser to let Harry stay behind at Hogwarts. Of course, Harry was angry about it and told McGonagall that he would be going anyway. McGonagall then forced Remus Lupin, then defense teacher to watch over Harry while the other students enjoyed a day away from Hogwarts. Remus told Harry about the real reason that Harry was denied access to Hogsmeade. Sirius Black.
"Hey Harry. Are you coming?" Angel asked, as she waved her hand in front of Harry's eyes. "Coming, to where?" Harry asked as he was pulled from his thoughts. "Well, since the rest of the day is a free day, we've decided to go to that village. And since we asked earlier if it was okay, we thought to take you and your friends with us." Vixen said, as she jumped in between Harry and Angel.
"You're going to get in trouble." Hermione said as she came aroudn the corner. "Nope, we're perfectly fine." Said Nova as she looked at the brown bushy haired girl. "Hey, what's the hold up?" Ray called as he already stood outside.
"They are afraid. They think they are not allowed to go." Nova answered as she saw her team-leader standing there. "Hey kids, let's go. If we make it within ten minutes, the first drink is on me."
It took them nine and a half minutes to get from the entrance hall to the door of Madam Rosmerta's in Hogsmeade. While they were with team RAVN, Harry and his team still felt a bit out of place. Ray walked to the bar and started to order some drinks, and while they sought a quiet place to sit down, Harry caught what Ray paid with. Ray had actual Galleons, that he used to pay the drinks. Ray waited for a small time and returned with a tray filled with Butter-beer. Harry looked at the larger blond haired student of Beacon Academy.
There was nothing that indicated that he was a wizard. As Harry knew so far, only Wizards, Witches and Goblins used Galleons to pay, along with Sickles and Knuts. Having a butter-beer in front of him, Harry soon decided that he didn't care. The butter-beer was good, very good even.
"Hey Ray. Where are the stronger drinks?" Asked Vixen as she looked around. "Sorry Vix, no drinking with the squirts here." Said Ray as he pointed to Harry, Ginny, Dora and Hermione.
Vixen frowned slightly, but stopped doing so, as she saw Team RWBY and JNPR walking inside. "Hey guys. Over here" Vixen called as she waved her arms.
Teams RWBY and JNPR soon found themselves sitting at the same table as Teams GOTH and RAVN. Pyrrha had decided to sit on Jaune's lap, and that caused Nora to do the same on Ren's lap. "So, how is married life?" Harry asked the team-leader of JNPR. Jaune, who had his arms around his wife couldn't help but smile.
"It's amazing. If I had known that being married to Pyrrha could have been this good, I would have proposed to her in our second year."
"Yeah. While you waited all that time, you were shagging her, right in front of our rented beach house" Said Ray, as he looked at Jaune and Pyrrha, who had the decency to blush. "Honestly. We were there for not even three days and you two were rolling in the sand ." Said Angel.
"What? What happened?" Harry asked as he looked around.
"Well, you see," Vixen began, but stopped as both Jaune and Pyrrha glared at her. "Never mind."
"Wise choice. Besides, we are with juniors. We should stay very clear of topics that involves getting naked." Said Weiss as she sipped some of her own butter-beer.
"What, like taking a shower?" Dora asked, her eyes turning to puppy size, looking innocent enough to even fool Ruby, if she hadn't matured in these couple of years.
"No, Not like taking a shower." Said Yang as she looked around. "Oh No."Ray whispered. Ray knew that look. Yang was about to drop one of her terrible puns. "They were not only banging, but Yanging as well. Right?"
Nobody responded at Yang's terrible puns, but before Yang could make another one, she was tapped on the shoulder. She looked around and saw a older man looking at her, a grin on her face. He wasn't even nice or cute or handsome.
"Excuse me, lady. I would like to have my seat back." He said his voice raspy and low. "Sorry, but I'm sitting on it." Said Yang, as she turned herself around again. Before she could even say some more, she was pulled by her hair from the chair and thrown on the floor.
Harry had watched the whole event. Yang being disturbed, Yang giving an answer and Yang being pulled by HER HAIR on the floor.
Yang looked at the man who had pulled her on the floor by her hair. Her eyes had shifted from lilac to red, her hair beginning to glow softly, and as Yang moved to stand up again, she activated her shotgun gauntlets. Yang looked at the man who had pulled on HER HAIR. He wasn't pretty, that's for sure.
"Listen bitch. I want my chair." The man said. Before he could say anything else, Yang blasted him in the stomach, causing him to fly straight through the window of the pub. Several patrons looked at the gaping hole in the wall, before they looked at Yang, whose eyes were still red and her hair was still glowing softly. Her gauntlets, still active, trailed a little line of smoke from the exit hole.
"You bitch" they all heard from outside, and as the whole group of huntresses and huntsmen in training looked through the window, Yang charged forward, through the hole in the wall and shot another slug at the bastard who called her that disgusting word.
'Please, there are children here' Weiss thought as she saw Yang punching the man to her hearts content.
"Oh Shit." Mumbled Ray as he stood up and walked to the bar. He paid with several Galleons, and nodded to the teams to meet with Yang outside.
"Yang." Ruby called as they came closer to Yang, who was hitting the man in the stomach, right in the middle of the town.
"WHAT" Yang called out, her eyes now a blood red. "Calm down. I think he got the message." Ruby said as she pointed to the man in front of Yang, his body severely broken with blood flowing from several wounds.
"Whatever." Yang said as she looked at her younger sister and team-leader.
"Let's go finish what we came here for, and get back to Hogwarts. I don't want any trouble with the aurors here." Said Ray.
Ray took the injured man in his arms and carried him to Madam Rosmerta's bar, where she asked the owner to call a few healers, before met with the rest at one of the stores, Gladrags. Shaking his head, Ray led the group inside, where they looked their eyes out at the strange robes and dresses.
"Unbelievable, don't these people have any sense of fashion?" Asked Weiss a little to loudly. Within seconds, the owner and two assistants stood around them, waving their wands in a threatening way. "Never have I heard such blasphemy in my shop. All of you, get out" The owner said as she waved her wand under Weiss nose.
"Excuse me?" Weiss asked, never believing that she had been ordered to get out of a store.
"Come Weiss, we'll find something else for us." Said Ruby calmly as she took the hand of her team-mate and walked outside, followed by all their friends. Ray closed the door, and turned around, just as several aurors came out of the three broomsticks. "Oh, Great" Ray mumbled, as he saw the aurors walking towards them.
"All of you, throw down your wands and put your hands up." Shouted the lead auror, as he pointed his wand at the teams. "I forgot how stupid these aurors were." Ray mumbled, as he shook his head. Stepping forward, Ray addressed the lead auror.
"Listen here. What ever happened, happened because of miscommunication. There is no need for violence. Just let this pass as a bar brawl, and we'll be on our way."
"Silent kid. You are all under arrest." Yelled a second auror. "Throw down your wands and put your hands in the air."
Hearing behind him the teams getting their weapons ready, Ray turned around. "Are you sure about this? We'll probably be ordered to remain at Hogwarts for the rest of the Tournament"
The Teams shook their heads. "We can take them" said Yang as she looked at the strange garbed men who waved their wands at them.
"Okay. Then I'll leave you to it." Said Ray as he took the four fourth years and held them close. "It's better if you didn't looked. Some things are not to be seen by your young eyes."
Both Hermione and Dora closed their eyes, but Ginny and Harry held them open. Harry smiled a bit.
"Why do I get the feeling that the aurors will bet their buts kicked?"
Ray was about to answer that, but the sound of Nora's grenade launcher filled the air, followed by several explosions. Ray sighed as he heard the aurors crying out loud, indicating that several had been injured in the fight. Seeing the smoke clearing, Ray moved Harry, Ginny, Dora and Hermione to team JNPR.
"Get them to the castle, team RAVN will be joining you shortly." Ray ordered as he looked at Pyrrha. She nodded and motioned to the rest to follow her.
Harry looked around, as he walked next to Lie Ren. Team RAVN was still standing in front of the aurors. ´How did Ray knew that they are called aurors?' Harry asked himself, as he reached the gate to Hogwarts. As he looked one more time before entering the castle grounds, Harry could see that several flashed of light came from Hogsmeade village. Feeling a hand on his shoulder, Harry looked up in Ren's face.
"Don't worry about it. We'll all go home in one piece." Ren said as he gently pushed Harry towards Hogwarts. The doors of the castle blew open, banging against the stone that held the door in place. Standing there, with her riding crop and a golden egg, stood Glynda Goodwitch.
"I hope we're not in trouble." Ruby said as the came in front of their deputy headmistress.