Assassins in the Wizarding World.
Chapter six: The First Task.
(In the Great Hall)
Today was it, today was the First Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Harry was not eating anything, even though Hermione was trying to get him to eat. But Harry couldn't eat. In a few minutes, he will be walking to where the Dragons were. He was trying very hard not to panic that he didn't noticed Leone and Akame sit next to him.
When Harry told Ron, Hermione and Sirius about what he saw, he was earned with terrified looks and they tried to think of a plan. Luckily for him, Ron stated that Harry was good on a broomstick, and wondered if he was allowed to bring it. Hermione gotten the idea of it and told them about the Summoning Charm.
After that, Ron and Hermione helped Harry to mastered the Summoning Charm, though it took a week to do it, since Harry wasn't good with it. But after a few more tries, he mastered the Summoning Charm.
Harry told Cedric and Tatsumi about the Dragons, which the former was thankful for. Tatsumi, however, was excited to face Dragons, much to Harry's shock. He asked Harry what kind of Dragons they're facing and he told him the Common Welsh Green, Swedish Short-Snout, Chinese Fireball, Hungarian Horntail and the Hebridean Black.
'Why is Tatsumi excited to face Dragons?' Harry thought, as he tried not to think of the plan going wrong. It was then he realized that Tatsumi faced Danger Beasts in their world. He mentally slapped himself, he should've remembered that.
"You ready for this, Harry?" Akame asked quietly, even though she knows what the First Task is, she is worried about Harry. She saw how small and skinny he was, and that was why Esdeath decided to take Harry as her student when he was in her class.
The students, who had been taking the class, were shocked to hear that Harry was Esdeath's favorite student. When they asked why Harry was her favorite student, she just said, "Because he's not a weakling." After that, people gave him looks, some were worried about him, while some (the male population) were angry that he was close to Esdeath.
"Yeah." Harry said, not sure of himself. Akame looked at him worriedly, wanting to hug him and comfort him. For some reason, she cares about Harry like a little brother. She hopes that Harry can survived the First Task. "Don't worry, Harry. You'll survive this, just think of your plan and make sure it works." Akame encouraged, making a small smile appeared on Harry's face.
Leone was looking at Harry with sympathy and pity in her golden eyes. To be honest, this tournament was dumb. Whoever put Harry's name in that goblet, she will beat him/her up. She sees Harry as a little brother, and she will do anything to protect him.
"Where's Tatsumi?" Hermione said, after a few minutes of silence.
"He's in our quarters, polishing his sword." Akame replied, earning weird looks from the Golden Trio. "From what Esdeath told us, Dumbledore and the judges had allowed Tatsumi to use his Imperial Arms for the Tasks."
Soon, Tatsumi came down to the Great Hall, and everyone saw how calm he was. Not nervous or scared, just calmness. He was wearing the same outfit when the Empire Group came from the Goblet of Fire. Harry, on the other hand, was wearing robes, but different ones. He was wearing Quidditch robes, except these robes were black and red. The name 'Potter' was on the black, colored in red.
"Hey, guys." Tatsumi said, as he sat down between Akame and Leone and began eating breakfast, still calm. The Golden Trio were looking at him in disbelief, was this their new friend or an imposter? And why the hell is he calm when he's going to face a Dragon?!
Tatsumi seemed amused by this but didn't say anything. He silently chuckled to himself at a certain memory, earning curious looks from his friends. He shook his head and continued eating breakfast.
It was silent for a few minutes before Esdeath entered the Great Hall and a sudden hushed filled the hall. Not a single person spoke as Esdeath looked around and spotted both Harry and Tatsumi. She strolled over to them and said, "Potter and Tatsumi, you two need to follow me. The First Task starts in a few minutes."
Harry and Tatsumi nodded and both stand up. Their friends wished them good luck as Tatsumi and Harry followed Esdeath. It was silent when they walked, though Harry noticed that she is not worried about the whole thing. In fact, she seem…bored. Why is Esdeath bored?
After walking for three minutes, they had arrived at a tent for the champions to go in. They can also hear roaring from behind the tent. "Alright, go inside the tent and wait for your instructions. Good luck, Harry, Tatsumi" Esdeath said to the two and she walk away.
Tatsumi and Harry walked in and spotted Fleur, Cedric and Krum. All of them looked different when their names came out of the Goblet of Fire. Cedric was pacing back and forth, mumbling to himself. Fleur looked pale and nervous, though she was trying to hide it. Krum looked sour than ever.
Bagman entered the tent and smiled at them. "Great!" Bagman exclaimed, looking happy. "Now that all the champions are here, we'll tell you what you need to do for the First Task."
All the champions looked at Bagman, not wanting to embarrassed themselves during the Task. He then explained, "When the audience is assembled, I'm going to offer you this bag, filled with the things that you're about to face. There are…different varieties…and your task is to collect the golden egg!"
The champions nodded, and Cedric resumed pacing, though he looked a bit nervous. Fleur began muttering to herself, her face was now showed how nervous and pale she was. Krum scowled at the ground, as if it was mocking him to be scared. Tatsumi was meditating and Harry was sitting next to him.
After a few minutes, the audience was assembled, and Bagman pulled out the bag. He offered the bag to Fleur and she got the Common Welsh Green, with a number two around the neck. She showed no sign of surprise, other than a determine face, and that confirms Harry's theory.
Same to Krum as he pulled out the Chinese Fireball, with a number three around its neck. He didn't blink as he stare at the ground. Cedric pulled out the Swedish Short-Snout, with a number one around its neck. Cedric sighed in relief that he got a normal Dragon, though he sent a sympathy look to Harry and Tatsumi.
Know what the final two are, Harry got to go next, and he pulled out the Hungarian Horntail, with a number four around its neck. Harry grimaced when he got the Horntail. Hagrid did say that he didn't envy him if he got the Horntail.
Tatsumi pulled out the final Dragon – the Hebridean Black, with a number five around its neck. The Dragon snapped its teeth at Tatsumi, who sat down and began studying it. The Dragon had black, rough scales and sharp ridges on its black. It has purple slitted eyes, an arrow-shape spike tail and bat-like wings.
"Alright!" Bagman exclaimed, like he was ready to face a Dragon. "Now that you know what you are facing, we'll have to wait until your Dragon is ready. It will go in order, from Mr. Diggory, Miss Delacour, Mr. Krum, Mr. Potter to Mr. Tatsumi. Good luck, champions." And he left the tent.
Harry was concentrating on the Summoning Charm, he knew that he need a strong mind to get his Firebolt to come. He just hope it works. He looked to his right and saw Tatsumi studying his Dragon. Getting the idea, Harry studied his Dragon. The Horntail was deadly, it had black scales and lizard-like in appearance. It possessed yellow eyes, and a deadly spike tail. This is not a friendly Dragon.
Soon, it was time for the champions to face their Dragons. Cedric was called first and he left the tent, pale and scared. It was worse to hear it, Harry and Tatsumi were grimacing what the crowd was doing, and hearing Bagman's commentary didn't help. Then after fifteen minutes, the crowd cheered, indicating that Cedric had passed his Dragon and gotten the golden egg.
After three minutes, Fleur went next, and she left the tent with a determine face, though it was pale. Tatsumi can feel the power of the Veela from her, but he shook it. The crowd was quiet a bit before gasping from whatever Fleur did. Soon, there were cheers, meaning that Fleur successfully gotten her egg.
Krum went next, and he looked like he was going to kill the Dragon. That gave a chance for Tatsumi to talk to Harry. "Harry, I wish you the best of luck against that Dragon." Tatsumi said, smiling at Harry before grimacing at the Dragon. Harry smiled at him, It was nice for someone to be supported of him.
"And now, it is time for our forth champion, Mr. Potter!" Bagman's Magical voice said, and the crowd cheered. Harry stood up, took a deep breath, and exit the tent, ready to face the Horntail.
He was standing in a stadium that was rocky, with one hundred pair of eyes watching him. He can see Ron and Leone cheering for him and Akame and Hermione looking at him worriedly. He then looked at the middle to see the Horntail, glaring at him with her yellow eyes.
It was now time for him to begin his plan. To summon the thing he need, Harry raised his wand and shouted, "Accio Firebolt!" And he dived behind a rock as the Horntail shot fire at him, wanting to burn him.
There were screams of shock as Harry barely managed to dodge the flames. Esdeath looked surprised when she saw how Harry dodged the flames at the last second. She smiled, glad that her lessons was working on him. Maybe there's more to him than meets the eye.
'Please work, please work, please work.' Harry thought, as he hid behind the rock. After a moment, he heard it. He heard his Firebolt rushing to him. He can hear Bagman saying something, but he didn't care. When it got close to the stadium, he moved slightly to his right, before rushing to a boulder and he jump from it into the air, landing on his Firebolt.
"Would you look at that?! Potter has summoned a broomstick with a simple Summoning Charm!" Bagman exclaimed, making the crowd cheer harder than ever.
As soon as Harry got on his Firebolt, Harry flew in the air, studying the area, trying to figure out how to get the golden egg. He spotted an opening and dived down to it, but the Horntail saw what he was doing and breath fire at him. He moved to his right to dodged it, but couldn't dodged the tail, it struck him on the head, right above his left eye.
There were screams and gasps as Harry spun around on his Firebolt. There was blood running down his face, but he didn't care. He didn't even scream in pain when the tail hit him. He remembered the words that Esdeath said to him when his name came out of the Goblet of Fire.
"You were chosen to compete in this tournament, and all you want to do is leave? Weaklings like you need to be taken out and die."
"A weakling like you should die."
"Weakling."
He was going to prove her wrong about him being a weakling. Pulling out his wand, he closed his eyes and poured magic into his wand. He powered so much Magical power that his eyes were glowing brightly, letting the world to see. The crowd was stunned to see this much Magical power. Never before had they seen someone this much Magical power.
Keeping a grip on his wand and Firebolt, he dived down and roared, making the crowd wince of his volume, "REDUCTO!" An orange streak of light blasted from Harry's wand and was making its way to the Horntail's head. The Dragon didn't have time to move, and the spell hit it's target.
"ROARRRRRRRRR!"
The Horntail roared in pain as the Reductor Curse blasted half its face away, but Harry wasn't done. Doing a back-blip and spinning around, he raised his wand again, and began shooting a lot of the Reducto Curses, making the Dragon roared in pain as it felt it's body being destroyed. Blood was flowing downwards from it's scales, and the crowd was completely silent as they watched the Horntail getting beaten by a four-teen year old boy.
Harry then channeled one more Reducto Curse and fired at the Horntail, who was unaware that one more spell is coming towards her.
BOOM!
The spell hit it's mark as the spell hit the Horntail in the right eye, making blood splurting onto the ground and on the crowd, who let out a scream as the blood stained their robes.
The Horntail let out one last roar before it slumped to the ground.
Harry quickly flew to the Dragon's nest and picked up the Golden Egg. Once it was in his hands, he flew off the stadium and landed in the tent's entrance. By the time he got on the ground, the crowd began cheering very loudly, much to Leone's dismay.
Harry's friends and Professor McGonagall rushed towards him, wanting to make sure he was okay. Harry himself was cheering inwardly. He had done it; he had survived the First Task.
"You did it, Harry! You did it! You beaten the Dragon!" Leone exclaimed, as she shoved his face into her chest. Harry's words were muffled as he tried to point the wound on his head. Leone gotten the message and let go of him, making him breath heavily.
"Great Merlin! Are you alright, Mr. Potter?!" Professor McGonagall exclaimed, as she looked at the wound above his left eye, blood was still running down. She guessed that it would leave a scar.
"I'm fine, just tired from all the spells I used." Harry replied before starting to fall forward, only for someone to catch him. He looked to his right and spotted Akame's worried face. He smiled at her and she smiled back, glad to see that he was not hurt that much.
As they head to the medical tent, they heard Ron muttered, "Bloody hell, that Magical power was big. I should start training like him."
After a few minutes of Harry getting healed by a Healer name Madam Pomfrey, ("Dragons of all things." She said angrily) they gotten Harry's scores. He was in First place, Krum in Second place, Fleur in Third and Cedric and Fourth. Now it was Tatsumi's turn.
(With Tatsumi)
Tatsumi entered the stadium and had to hide the smile that threaten on his face. He can remember the time where he entered a tournament in the Capital and won so much money, only to meet Esdeath, claiming that he was her lover and dragged him to the palace.
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the Hebridean Black roaring at him. He turned to face the Dragon, only to see fire coming at him. With great speed, he ran to the right and the Hebridean shot spikes at him with her tail.
Tatsumi widened his eyes a bit before grabbing his sword. In a blink of an eye, all the spikes were destroyed, much to the crowds and judges shock, except Esdeath, who look at him with a smirk. The crowds and judges shock increased when Tatsumi was engulfed in a light and was standing in what appeared to be armor.
"What amazing speed Mr. Tatsumi has! Not only he cut all the Hebridean Black spikes, but he is also wearing armor!" Bagman exclaimed, and the crowd cheered, though some were shocked of the speed he did.
And then, he did something that made the Gryffindors put to shame, he rushed at the Dragon and punched it in the face. The Hebridean Black stumble back, and Tatsumi jumped in the air and did a round-house kick so powerful that the Dragon's neck did a 380 degree angle. The Dragon got angry, and shot spikes at him, only sharper than ever.
Tatsumi jumped back and summoned his spear. Grabing it with both hands, Tatsumi spinned it around like a propeller, making the spikes shattered. Tatsumi then jumped into the air, and with a grunt of effort, he chucked the spear into the Dragon's chest, making it roar in pain, but it went silent when Tatsumi did a powerful kick to the head, making it crashed into a sharp rock that pierced it's head, killing it instantly.
The crowd was silent and stunned from what Tatsumi did. He had killed a Dragon, a fire-breathing Dragon! Not many Wizards can take down a Dragon, and this guy did it all by himself! Tatsumi dispelled his armor, grabbed the golden egg and walked out of the arena.
(An Hour Later)
A happy Golden Trio and Empire Group made their way to the castle to party. So far, Tatsumi and Harry are tied in First place, Krum in Second place, Fleur in Third place and Cedric in Forth place.
Bagman told the champions they had February twenty-fourth to solve the golden egg as it contains a clue to the Second Task. The champions nodded and they left the tent, hoping to avoid Rita, though she wasn't there at all during the Task, and it made Tatsumi wondered if her threat has reached it's perk.
After all, it is good to be alive from surviving the First Task.
The Champions had gotten past the Dragons and survived the First Task. Will the champions solved the golden egg or will they go unprepared? Let's found out in the next chapter.
I decided that Harry will be paired up with two people: Susan Bones and Daphne Greengrass.
Write a review if you like the story and enjoy the story.
Next Chapter: Solving the Egg.