Unofficial Portkey Archive

by Nathan Crossland

Disclaimer - All characters are copyright of J.K.R. excluding Linden Xiloscient and Reon Hujito who are original characters by Nathan Crossland. I take no responsibility for my overactive imagination and it's actions because of what it is under the influence of. HeH

Somewhere in the dark chamber a green sickly light pulses spreading it's malicious glow across the starkly furnished exterior of the room. The sound of sharp, hissing intakes of breath and the green light reflecting off of a pair of blank, evil eyes are the only signs that someone actually resides in the room. The heavy air of the room dulls the senses and gives off a forboding feeling of something waiting in the corner to swallow anyone whole on a moments notice. Suddenly the almost evil silence of the room is broken by a quick, frightened knock at the door.

"Enter" hisses a cold, dark voice after a few seconds of heavy silence. Then slowly and cautiously the door opens, spreading a dim rectangle of light upon the blank opposite wall.

"Lord, there has been no report from the Death Eater sent to exterminate Linden Xiloscient. We presume the worst." the cloaked figure at the door stuttered, the scent of his fear almost like a sledgehammer to the face in the usually heavy air.

"So the Dragon Lord has defeated them, I expected as much." Voldemort said slowly, increasing the maliciousness in his words so the scent of the Death Eater's fear becomes even stronger.

"We will send more of your army to defeat him." the Death Eater said, trying to fake confidence.

"It will do no good to send the expendable troops. I have underestimated Linden one too many times. We must send in one of the "special" troops I have recently... aquired." hissed Voldemort, pausing for a moment near the end to add even more weight to the air but passing it off as just trying to find the correct word to say.

"Yes, sir. I shall do that straight away." stuttered the Death Eater and then with that he was gone, closing the door behind him. Then slowly the feeling in the room returned to dull and senseless but somewhere in there a feeling of anger and vengeance pulses slowly.

**

The sun dawned bright and cold through the window of the dormitory, illuminating the red and gold around the room with a light that isn't too unfamiliar in the cold mornings of Winter Britain. The figures laying in the beds slowly roused one after the other and then slowly made ready to go through the morning rituals that come natural to them after so many years at Hogwarts.

"Morning Ron" Harry said through yawns as he saw the bright red hair of his best friend poke through the curtains of his bed.

"Mornin'" replied Ron, yawning too. "Sleep well?"

"Like a log." lied Harry, not wanting to tell his friend about the "ringing phone" that drills at the back of his brain even at this moment.

"Same here. Well more like a baby log" laughed Ron, twisting 2 well known phrases into one.

The rest of the boys in the room grunted their morning greetings to each other before getting wrapped up in their personal schedule of getting ready for classes. Then without warning a low throb began to come from Harry's scar, by now he knew better than the reach up and touch it because he didn't want any more attention because of it. Something deep inside him told him that Voldemort was seething with anger somewhere. Why Voldemort was angry Harry couldn't guess but he knew that if the Dark Lord was angry nothing good could come of it. Slowly he put his things in his bag and put aside the throbbing of his scar so he could think of the morning ahead of him.

"Great.. Potions.. As if I haven't got enough distractions without Snape breathing down my neck incase I step out of line" he thought, dreading to even enter the dungeon classroom he was about to make his way to with Ron.

At the bottom of the steps they met Hermione, even she seemed dulled in enthusiasm because of the first class of the day. In her hand she clutched a book which she would class as "light reading" but usually falls under the catagory of "a few months work" for most people. Quite suprisingly she thrust the book out to Harry as he approached her.

"Here's a book that might help you." she said smiling. Slowly Harry looked the book over in his hands then when he noticed the title, which was "Telepathy: A breif guide to your telepathic powers", he figured out why she was giving it to him and put it quickly in his bag.

"Telepathy?... why would that help Harry?" Ron asked Hermione, not knowing what was going on at all.

"I'll tell you later, Ron." Harry answered, for Hermione, and Ron grunted but didn't put any opposition to letting the subject die since he was used to this sort of thing by now. Then the 3 of them left the common room, talking amongst themselves about the random things that they usually talk about when there's nothing important to discuss, which seems to only be when there's people within earshot.

**

The cold wind rustled in the tree tops of the forest, solitary birds here and there croaked or sang their morning songs. Sounds came from place dotted across the heavily cushioned floor of the magically still green forest as the nocturnal animals returned to their homes and the daytime creatures slowly roused and started the day. The heavy thud of fast footfalls echoed through the silent sea of trees and then quickly the vision of Linden Xiloscient came into view. He was moving at inhuman speeds, a deep blue glow about him.

"I must reach him" he thought "Otherwise all will be lost"

Linden sped up and he was so destracted by his thoughts that he didn't notice the red blur come from the trees above him and straight towards his right side until it was too late. Quickly he span but not fast enough, still taking the hit dead in the chest. He flew backwards and hit a tree then slid to the ground. The red blur slowly came into focus showing that the blur was actually a person clothed in a deep red martial arts gi. Confidently the red clothed man strode over to Linden, a sickly red glint in his eyes.

"You need to take more notice of your surroundings, you're too slow." he laughed, maliciousness heavy in his voice.

"Or maybe I just need to attack anyone who tries to catch me unaware." snarled Linden as he rose to his feet. "Infact I'll start doing that right now, Reon Hujito."

"You are too weak to defeat me, Linden." hissed Reon, his eyes glowing a dark red.

Then both at once Linden and Reon launched at each other, their red and blue energy entwining as they exchanged blows. Neither seemed to be winning the fight until suddenly Linden managed to land a hard blow to Reon's face, sending him sprawling. Almost instantly Reon rose to his feet and then suddenly an aura of dark flames burst up around him and like a ball of fire he shot into the air. Linden, aware of what he was about to do muttered an incantation of his own and suddenly a pair of large blue scaled wings tore out of his back, his whole body glowing with a blue light. After a few seconds he too shot into the air after his opponent. Mid air the 2 powerful beings clashed, their blasts of red and blue energy flying off in random directions and sending birds into the air. If it wasn't for the magic of the forest all of the surrounding area would have seen the fiery dual but fortunately it was safeguarded. Then suddenly a blast of blue energy knocked Reon from the air and like a missile he hit the ground, leaving a trench in the ground. Slowly Linden descended, breathing heavily.

"I thought you might be slipping in your old age." laughed Reon, now on his feet and nursing his injured side.

"You know I always keep on my toes." said Linden, grinning. "It's good to see you again."

"Hey, I knew you'd need my help so I thought I might aswell just lend a hand." Reon said and then reached out hugged Linden in an almost brotherly manner.

Then without another word they both looked at each other and launched off deeper into the forest at inceadible speed, the ground behind them ruined by the heated battle that happened only minutes ago.

A/N - I managed to write a chapter in one that I actually think is possibly long enough if not a little flawed. I know that maybe 2 original characters might be 1 too many but the main reason for Reon being there is sub plot (yes, there is such a thing in this story heh) and for a better flow in the action scenes. But since I only got good reviews really for my previous chapter I decided that I may actually be good at writing hehe.. but anyway please read and review.. any questions or ideas you've got for me i'd be happy to reply to them in my next update