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"Find him and capture him!" some guard said, but Harry knows that they are not going to find him that easy.

Harry has been sneaking around, only pausing when Fawkes feels a life force moving toward them. He can never tell if they are friend or foe sometimes, but they mostly expect an enemy.

Harry turns a corner and walks down it. There seems to be no guards around this hallway; that's good news for him. He kept going straight until Fawkes stopped him. {What is it?} Harry asked.

{Someone is coming,} Fawkes replied.

Harry looks around for a place to hide in the narrow corridor, but there is nothing; no doors, no nook in the walls, nor statue to get behind. He decided to go back the way he came, but there was a form coming from that way too.

{Great, and there are no other hallways to go down either,} Harry complained, looking back and forth every few heartbeats. Harry has no choice but to press himself up on the wall again and wait for them to pass; he couldn't just have Fawkes teleport him because then they would notice that he's still close by. He also didn't want Fawkes to drain himself too much.

He laid his back on the wall as flat as he could and waited. He saw the two forms of the guards coming closer. They were just about to pass them, but they stopped, making Harry want to groan in annoyance.

"Did you find him?" The guard that Fawkes noticed first asked.

"No, he's a slippery one, I'll give him that," the other guard said.

"We need to find him. Since he got rid of all our slaves we could use him as a replacement."

"Yeah, you're right! The tower may be done, but we could make him serve us!" Guard no.2 said. "But what if Master Jellal wants him?"

"Hmm, I guess we would have no choice but to hand him over to him then; however, that doesn't mean we can't break him in first!"

The two laughed before walking away. Once they were out of sight, Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

{That was close…} he said, but relief wasn't the only emotion he was feeling right now. {If they think that I would work for them like some slave, they have another thing coming!} he growled like an angry dog. {Break me in? I'll break them in two if they even try…} Now he sounded like he was hissing like an angry cat.

{Calm down Harry. Even if they find you, I would teleport us to the other side or to a higher point of the tower,} Fawkes said.

Harry made eye contact before nodding his understanding. He continued moving the way he has been before those annoying guards showed up.

He almost got caught again. The reason is the same as the last with nowhere to go in a small, narrow corridor. He was able to stay quiet, but it was easier this time because these guards weren't talking about turning him into their slave. Once they were gone, he continued moving forward.

After a few minutes, Harry saw something moving closer up ahead. There were like ten guards closing in. Not wanting to deal with them he began looking around. He saw a door a few steps to his left. He walked briskly toward it and quickly got in.

Harry waited till the men passed by the room. When they did he relaxed, but that didn't last long because in the room with him were the cat-girl and blocky guy. Natsu is there too; at least Harry is sure it's Natsu. The thing in front of him is wearing the dragon slayer's clothes, but it had a big, green cat head.

"Who's there?" The cat-girl, Millianna if Harry remembers correctly, demanded.

{Well, since they know someone is here, may as well show ourselves,} Fawkes said with a shrug of his wings.

Harry took his cloak off, reveling his person to the people in the room.

"Harry! Thank god you're here!" Natsu's muffled voice came from the cat's head. Now that Harry was actually looking at Natsu, he noticed that he was a bit tied up.

"You okay, Natsu?" Harry asked.

Natsu nodded. "Yeah, but I got this thing stuck to me," he replied, tilting his head to tell him that the cat head is the thing stuck to him.

"You need my help?"

"Na, I got this. Watch, it's my new attack!" Natsu said, making Harry wonder what he's doing. His claim of a new attack got the others' attentions. "Sad kitty face…" Harry wanted to face-palm; did Natsu really think that would work? It would seem he's not the only one thinking this, if the look of shock on Wally's face was any indication.

{You might want to think again, because Millianna is looking like she's about to cry,} Fawkes' voice broke through Harry's thoughts, making him look up to see what he was talking about. The next moment, the ropes came loose on Natsu, releasing him.

"You mean to tell me you fell for that?!" Both Harry and Wally said in shock; Harry couldn't resist it.

"Yeah, I'm free!" Natsu cheered, causing Harry to shake his head while pinching the bridge of his nose. He lifted his wand at the two mages, who seemed to have forgotten about him, and cast two Stupefy silently. Millianna and Wally's faces had an important meeting with the floor it would seem, because they fell fast.

Harry strolls over to Natsu and starts to pull at the head. "Ow... You're going to take my head off!" Natsu cried out somewhat angrily and in slight pain, making Harry stop for a moment.

"Yeah, that's stuck on pretty good, let me think…" Harry tried to think of a way to get the cat head off without hurting Natsu.

{I have an idea,} Fawkes said. {Why don't I use my talons to cut through the mask?}

"You know, that's not a bad idea," Harry said aloud.

"What's not a bad idea?" Natsu asked.

Harry pointed to Fawkes' claws. "He's going to use his talons to cut the mask off. So you might want to hold still."

If Harry was able to see Natsu's face he would have noticed his eyes grow half the size of his face. Natsu's body tensed up, waiting for Fawkes to hurry up and get it over with, and praying that the bird doesn't get his face.

Fawkes flaps his wings and within seconds tears through the cat head like his claws were hot knives to butter. The mask fell onto the floor in pieces; it was hard to tell that it use to be a cat mask.

"Thanks man! I owe you one!" Natsu said with a huge, grateful grin.

"No problem," Harry said with a smile. "So, did you find Erza yet?"

"Yeah, we did. We were just now looking for you." Natsu looked like he wanted to say more.

Harry tilted his head. "But…" he said the silent word that Natsu didn't say.

"But it would seem that I lost Happy somewhere." Harry was confused. Natsu and Happy were always together like how he and Fawkes are. He looked around and saw that the dragon slayer was right; Happy wasn't here.

"Where did he go?" Harry asked.

"He started playing with a cat robot and it left the room." Natsu shrugged his shoulders. "He followed it, wanting to play with it more."

Harry sighed. Of course something like this would happen. "Okay, let's split up and find him and the others, and get off this island."

Natsu held up a finger. "That's another problem."

"What is it now?"

"Erza doesn't want to leave until she beats the heck out of this Jellal guy."

Harry started to rubbing at his lightning bolt shaped scar. "Right… well tell everyone to get on a boat when you find them. I sent the slaves to Crocus so they could tell the guards what is going on here, and through them, the Magic Council. They might blow this place up with us still on it," he explained the bigger problem.

"That's not good! Let's hope they don't. I'll go this way, you go that way," Natsu said while pointing left for him to go in, and right for Harry.

Harry nodded his head. "Right, see you later!" He and Fawkes took off down the corridor.

It took Harry quite a while to find one, or rather two, of his friends. Well, he doesn't know if Juvia is really a friend of theirs, but he is pretty sure that this is not how she is normally. She was dressed weird, like the dark, long haired guy with a guitar that is fighting Lucy, and kind of acting like him, too. Harry didn't know what to make of this, but this didn't last long for him think about because Lucy somehow got Juvia to go back to normal, but not her outfit.

Lucy had Aquarius use her powers, and Juvia used hers to flood the place, it would seem that the guy they were fighting had hair that can absorb water. "What kind of power is that?" Harry asked softly, so softly that he didn't even know he said it out loud.

{I have no idea,} Fawkes said with a shake of his head. {But I do know that his main powers come from that thing with strings and its loud, ear piercing sounds.}

{That's a guitar, Fawkes.}

{How would you know that?}

{I saw one in a catalog I was reading one day.} Fawkes trilled in understanding after that. Harry cast a spell to add more water to the two women's. Now the long-haired man absorbed too much water to the point his hair fell off. This somehow defeats him. Harry and Fawkes were trying to wrap their minds around what they just saw. They couldn't believe that worked. By the time Harry snapped out of his musing, and remembered he needed to warn Lucy and Juvia about a potential blast, the two young ladies have already left.

With a sigh, Harry sent a spell that he learned from his very first spell book: Spells for Wand Magic. (AN: Finally thought of a name for that book!) He's starting to run out of spells in it, so he's going to need to buy a new one soon. "Vinctum,"* he cast. The spell summoned chains made out of magical energy that shot out of the tip on his wand and wrapped around the man Lucy and Juvia defeated.

Once the man was tied up, Harry turned to Fawkes. "Send him to the authorities. I'll wait here for you," he said.

Fawkes hovered down and grabbed the man with his claws, and flamed out of there. It took about 10 seconds for him to come back.

{That didn't take too long,} Fawkes said. {I had to wait for them, but it would seem that that guy was a known killer with a bounty on his head. So they gave me this to give to you.} He held up a bag full of money.

Harry raised an eyebrow. "How much is in there?"

{10,000Js is in here.} Harry nodded his head and grabbed the bag. He placed it in his pocket for safe keeping before pulling his invisibility cloak over himself again, but not completely covering.

"Let's go; we need to find Lucy and Juvia again as well as the others," said Harry calmly, but with a hint of urgency.

Fawkes bobbed his head, and hopped onto his shoulder. Harry covered them both up in his cloak and started walking down the way the two girls went.

Jellal smirked at the viewing globe in front of him. "So, that's how you're going to play, is it?" He chuckled. "Like the reaper that you are, or like a snake that slithers in the shadows." He moved the reaper piece closer to his position. "Who will be you next target, I wonder? Will it be one of the other assassins, or will you come to me? Well, either way, I hope you don't keep me waiting. I would love to have a chat with you, Harry Potter."

TBC

*Vinctum: means bound

I hope I'm making this interesting for all of you. I'm trying to write this arc without following the manga too much. Although, I will be copying Natsu and Jellal's fight, because I would not be able to make it better, it might turn out worse, and I like that fight. I don't want to mess it up. :(

Natsu: Yeah that is an awesome fight! :D

Harry: Can't wait to see it. But why do I get the feeling that I'm about to be kidnapped again? :(

Enj/Dark: I don't know. Maybe you're just being paranoid.

Zeref&Voldy: Yeah right, like anyone would believe that. *Looks at me like they don't trust me.*

Enj/Dark: Oh come on. I only had him kidnapped that one time, and it could have happened to anyone. What makes you think I would do it again?

Voldy: Because you're evil, and you like watching Harry get kidnapped.

Harry: Why are you defending me?

Natsu: He's right, why are you?

Voldy: Because the only time I would accept her having you kidnapped, Harry Potter, is if I'm the one doing the kidnapping.

Harry: Of course that is your reason. -_-

Enj/Dark: Natsu, it's your turn.

Natsu: Please review! XD