(A/N): Hey Guys! So, here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy. I still have the flu, and I'm either going to school tomorrow, or going to the doctor. -_-

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Leo

A few weeks later, I was at yet another training session with Greygorry, when Elaine, Remus, Sirius and James turned up out of the blue.

I paused, half out of surprise, and Greygorry clocked me on the cheek hard.

"Ouch." Sirius said, standing above me.

"It's not that bad." I reassured him, pushing myself to my feet.

"You're still getting your butt kicked." James pointed out, and Greygorry took a step forward.

"Leo is making brilliant progress." I blinked in surprise at the compliment. "But, as you said, he is still getting his butt kicked." Well, good feeling gone.

"You're like, three hundred years older than me." Greygorry shrugged.

"Closer to four hundred, actually." Sirius gaped at him.

"You're almost four hundred?!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"My dad's over two hundred, it's not that amazing." Even Elaine and Remus seemed surprised by this fact.

"Vampire's get stronger as they age, so, on paper, I could take your dad on." I glared at him.

"Let's not forget the fact that I'm thirteen, and I can hold my ground against you for a bit, when I'm not distracted." I arched an eyebrow at my friend's, and Remus rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Yeah, sorry about that." Greygorrys' eyebrows furrowed.

"How did you find us anyway?" James rolled his eyes.

"Where else would you be? The dark forest is pretty much the only place people don't wander freely, but Leo can still get to on non-Hogsmeade visit days." I tilted my head, shrugging.

"Astute deduction." Was all Greygorry said, before pouncing at me, sending me spiraling to crash through a small tree.

"Wow, vampire pro wrestling!" Sirius remarked, but I felt Remus and Elaine wince.

"This is what you class as, 'training'?" Greygorry darted forward again, striking out at me, his razor sharp nails grazing me as I dodged out of the way, almost too slow.

Instead of fighting back, I launched myself upwards into the trees, but he was already waiting for me. I wound my way around the trunk and branches of the tree, always to have a part of it between, even as he broke one after another off.

I took a tiny step forward from my perch on a branch, just enough so that when I fell backwards, my knees caught along the branch, serving to flip me over, leaving me able to grab another branch, vaulting myself through the trees.

I caught glimpses of my friends through the trees, attempting to keep a lock on Greygorry, even though I couldn't hear his heartbeat, nor the blood pumping through his veins, and his movements were whisper quiet.

Patience.

I took a deep breath, letting myself relax a little, waiting for him, to come to me.

I felt it before I saw it.

His fist, flying towards my face.

I ducked, straight down, his forearm whipping through the air above my head, and I kicked my leg out and upwards, sending him soaring, and to crash through a tree.

As I landed feet first on the ground, the other were only just now turning towards the sound, and they seemed surprised to see Greygorry crawling out of the debris, not me.

"I see you listened to me about patience." He grunted, and I shrugged, only to have him pounce on me, pinning me firmly to the ground.

I knew struggling was practically futile, I could barely move his hand as they gripped my wrists, but it was a consolation that I was getting stronger. When we had first started training together, I hadn't even been able to do that.

"On the upside, you kicked him through a tree." Sirius pointed out, and I turned my head to grin at him.

"No, the upside is that I don't have any broken bones yet." Elaine raised an eyebrow.

"'Yet'?" She questioned, and I shrugged, smiling weakly.

"Hazard of the job, no biggie." Greygorry clapped me on the shoulder, ultimately making me wince, but he half-smiled at me, which is about as good as he got with me.

"Go spend time with your friends. If they're willing to drop in on your training, they're obviously going to be persistent." I nodded, moving to join them, knowing that Greygorry was already long gone by the time I reached them.

"Where'd he go?" I shrugged, yet again.

"I'm not entirely sure, but that doesn't matter now. How'd you get away from Lily and Peter?" James grinned at me, a grin I wasn't entirely happy about.

"We gave them the slip."

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This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 30/12/22