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Chapter 57 - The Avatar Awakes
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: Romania - Carpathian Mountains
Location: The Veela Colony
Time: Afternoon
CLAWS
WHISKERS!!
What the....What's going on....
He tried to stand but toppled forward as soon as his hands were no longer supporting his now heavy front half.
Panicked Harry tired to back up using all his limbs but ended up tripping over his enormous tail, sending him into the nearest building, collapsing the entire near side wall.
"Remain calm Harry." Called Adam as both he and The Matriarch approached him as he thrashed around on the ground trying to regain his feet, causing more damage to the building.
"It's alright My Lord;" called The Matriarch "Everything is fine."
"Fine!" he shouted, the voice emerging from his long toothed mouth deeper and rougher than it should have "I've got claws!! I've got whiskers!! I've got a bloody tail!!!"
"It's alright Harry," said Adam, kneeling down next to the panicking Boy-Who-Lived "Remaining calm and we will explain, just remain calm."
Fawkes added his call to Adam and The Matriarch's calming talk.
Harry managed to get himself under control and stopped thrashing around though he was still rather panicked.
"Good Harry." Said Adam "Ok slowly, roll onto your stomach."
Harry did, hearing several bits of wood splinter as his tail once again damaged the building behind him.
"Don't worry Harry, stay focused on me, it's not serious damage, nothing a simple repairing charm wont fix. Now stand up slowly and remember you need to use all four legs."
Harry slowly pulled himself to his feet the same way he would if he was a stag, the movement was very awkward as what ever he had transformed into was not designed the same way as a stag.
"Well done Harry, now slowly turn your head to look back along your body."
Harry turned his head and long neck to the left until it was facing back along his body, something no human neck should be able to do.
For the first time he could actually see what he looked like, he was like no creature he had ever seen, he had a long slim body and a massively long tail, he was covered in blue fur on top with a lighter blue on his underside, at least thirty feet long including his head and neck, though at least half of that length was tail.
His front feet were like large clawed and fur covered hands with what looked like a series of hardened plates on his arm and the back of his hand, presumably some form of natural armour, his back feet were made up of four toes which looked very cat like.
Along his long back bone was a ridge of darker blue fur like the mane of a horse that lead all the way up his neck to his head and right to the end of his spine were it met the massive fluffy tip of his tail which had to be even bigger than his head.
He turned back to Adam who was standing in front of him yet Adam's head was at least a foot below his, what ever he was could extend its neck above the height of a man, he briefly experimented by lowering his neck so that his head was almost against the ground and then extending it to twice the height of a man before returning to the comfortable position seven foot above the ground.
"Ok Harry, now come over here." Said Adam, gesturing him towards a small pond in the centre of the colony.
Harry carefully walked over to the pond, the Matriarch and the rest of the Veela walking along beside him, looks of fascination and awe on their faces.
Looking down into the pond Harry saw his face; long and pointed, a large mouthful of sharp teeth, two meter long whiskers and two bright sapphire eyes.
The only way he could think of to describe his appearance would be that of a Chinese or Asian Dragon, the sort you would see in anime cartoons, his appearance reminded him of a dragon he had seen in the film 'Spirited Away'.
"Why do I look like this?" he asked "How do I change back?"
"You change back the same way you reverse an Animagus transformation." Explained The Matriarch.
Harry nodded, closing his eyes he began to concentrate on his true form, he felt his bones begin to shrink, his muscles begin to shift and his tail begin to disappear.
As he resumed his usual form his clothes returned and he slumped to the floor.
"Well done Harry." Smiled Adam as he pulled him to him feet.
"Let us go into my hall and talk." Said The Matriarch, leading the way through the crowd towards said building.
As they walked inside The Matriarch indicated for Harry to sit in the throne.
"Please My Lord, take my seat."
"What."
"My throne My Lord, please, use it."
"I err....I think I will just use a normal seat thanks." He said uncertainly as Harry conjured them up some chairs.
Much to Harry's surprise The Matriarch seated herself in one of the conjured seats rather than her throne, Harry uncertainly seated himself in the last seated before looking to Adam.
"What on earth just happened?" demanded Harry "What on Earth did I turn into?"
"You assumed the original form of the Avatar." Explained The Matriarch.
"And what is The Avatar?"
"Do you remember what I told you about Elementals shortly after we left the Delacour's?" asked Adam.
FLASH BACK
"As you know Harry there are four elements; air, water, earth and fire and beings who can control one or more elements are called Elementals. The power to control each element is given to a being by the planet."
"But the planets not alive?"
"Not in the way that you perceive life, any world that has magic is what is known as a living world, meaning that the planet has a life of sorts. It's a bit like Hogwarts in a way; the castle is alive, the stairs change, the armour moves, rooms shift but it can't actually think, the best way to think of it is as a survival instinct, the castle shifts to show people that it can defend itself and to remind everyone that it is alive, at least to a certain extent. The world does the same thing except it uses volcanoes, tornados, storms, tsunami etcetera; elementals are a living extension of that."
"How do you mean?" asked Harry.
"The planet effectively creates itself a guard, it selects beings, sometimes an entire species like Veela, at other times it can be the children of previous Elementals, sometimes they can be special and sometimes completely ordinary, anyone the world believes could potentially, and potentially is the key word here, anyone that could potentially help defend the planet."
"Why is the word potentially so important?"
"Well for example....Hitler could 'potentially' have been a very good Elemental."
"What, why him?"
"He was powerful, he had influence and he was in a position to 'potentially' do a great deal of good."
"Oh, I see." Nodded Harry.
END FLASH BACK
"Of course."
"Well the Avatar is the ultimate guardian Elemental; he commands the Elementals and all Elemental Beings and Beasts, his or her job is to protect the planet to the best of his or her ability."
Harry groaned.
"If you are about to say that I am the worlds Messiah I will curse you into next week."
"Ok," Nodded Adam "I won't tell you."
Harry groaned again and lowered hi s head.
"Go on."
"The Avatar is able to control all four elements and is declared as the Avatar by an Elemental species," explained The Matriarch "Once he or she has passed a test and has shown one of the two skills that only the Avatar can perform he or she is declared as The Avatar and assumed the form you did."
Harry turned his gaze on Adam and glared at him.
"You....You planned this, you trained me to be this."
"I did not," replied Adam calmly "I told you I would train you to become all it is within you to become and I have done that, I did not train you to become the Avatar as I can not do that."
"One of the skills of the Avatar is the ability to pull water out of the air which not even water Elementals can do but which you did earlier," explained The Matriarch "Thusly I declared you the Avatar."
"I did not train you to do that Harry," added Adam "You learnt that yourself."
Harry reluctantly agreed, he had never been taught that, it just occurred to him to pull the moisture out of the air.
"Ok, now what exactly was that creature I became?"
"It is what is known as a Spirit Dragon."
"And what is a Spirit Dragon?" asked Harry.
"It's an extinct ancestor of modern dragons and was the first intelligent species to evolve on this planet which is the reason that the first Avatar was a dragon."
"I thought humans were?"
The Matriarch coughed back a laugh.
"My apologies My Lord, please follow me and I will give you proof that humans were not." she smiled standing up and gesturing them out of the tent "Humans were the first Non-Magical intelligent life on this planet but in the Magical world they came late to intelligence,"
The Matriarch led them into a cave in the wall of the valley "Veela and Goblins for instance were intelligent long before humans were." they headed down through around one hundred meters of torch lit passages until the walls opened up into a vast cavern.
Harry's chin almost hit the floor in shock, the cavern was vast, at least five hundred meters in diameter and at least half that in height, the floor of the cavern slopped down at least twenty meters before it met the vast ruins of a city, remains of buildings that seemed to have been carved straight into the natural stone, towards the centre of the cavern the structures grew taller until the central building which must have been over one hundred in height was capped with what looked like a bell tower.
"Welcomed to the Old City of the Veela." Greeted The Matriarch "Long ago all Veela lived in hidden cities like this, but as humans, or more accurately wizards became more numerous our kind were slowly hunted down out of fear of our Elemental powers, as our numbers diminished we were forced to move to the surface as we could no longer maintain our great cities and so they fell into decay."
They stood there for several minutes admiring the once great city before slowly returning to the surface, as they again seated themselves in the hall Adam continued his explanation.
"Spirit Dragons, as you saw were about thirty feet long, almost half of which is tail and they look, as you probably noticed like eastern dragon. They were wingless and appeared defenceless but despite appearances they were very dangerous because of their intelligence level. They could fly without wings, just by shear power of magic and can summon up the elements."
"So the Avatar's first form was a dragon because...."
"Because Spirit Dragons were the first species that did not gain control over an element by genetics evolution like Veela, they were the first species that were chosen to be given the power of elements, you should now be able to assume that form as easily as you can that of your normal Animagus form."
Harry nodded, trying to take everything in.
"Unfortunately as another branch of dragons evolved into the dragons that are around today, people started to fear them, as they did later with the Veela they hunted them down and exterminated them, unfortunately the Spirit Dragons were always limited in numbers because of the size of their territories and that along with competition from their modern cousins wiped them out. Thus ended the days of the Spirit Dragons, from then on other species took over the roll of the Avatar."
"What was the other skill that only the Avatar can use?"
"The ability to control lightning." Replied Adam.
"Lightning?" asked Harry, shocked.
"Yes," confirmed The Matriarch "It is the combination of all four elements, lightning passes between air and earth, it's conducted by and accompanied by water, and has the same destructive effect as fire, but it is very difficult to achieve, I am sure Adam can give you some instruction regarding the technique at a later date."
"Is there anything else I need to know?"
"A few of things," replied Adam "Firstly there can only be one Avatar at a time, if there is another Elemental who can control all four elements he will not be an Avatar, just a very powerful Elemental. Secondly it has been over seven hundred years since the last Avatar was around in the world and many Elementals and Elemental species may be resistant to your leadership and the Wizarding world is likely to be even less fond of you. Thirdly the Avatar is like the Slayer in the respect that it is a planetary guardian and you may therefore receive some prophetic dreams."
"What about you?"
"'The Guardian' is a protector of all, not just one world, but I also receive prophetic messages but not in the same form as you." explained Adam "We are both protectors though and therefore have the same mission. Lastly I have a suggestion that you are not likely to want to follow;"
"What?" asked Harry slowly.
"I recommend that you keep your identity as the Avatar a secret. I would suggest using the guise of the Avatar in combination with that of the 'Masked Saviour of the Grangers', that way you can stay hidden but also gain support and help fight Voldemort on two fronts."
"Why would I not like that?"
"I believe our ancient friend means keep your identity a secret from everyone." Elaborated The Matriarch "Only let the people who already know that you are trying to recruit an army know that you are both the Avatar and Harry Potter."
"You mean keep it secret from Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Neville and Buffy?" sighed Harry.
"Yes, I would suggest keeping it secret from them as well," nodded Adam "I can help you hide your dual identity by assuming your appearance while you are the Avatar and its safer for them if they don't know, I would further suggest that as you are bound to have to use your Elemental powers at least once while at Hogwarts, I recommend we tell people that you can control only three, that way when someone looks up who the Avatar is and discovers that he or she can control all four elements you will not be included in the list of suspects."
"I agreed," nodded Harry reluctantly "Though I am not happy about not telling Hermione, Ron, Buffy and the others."
"Understood, but for now we need to get back to Hogwarts?"
"Ok," nodded Harry, before turning to The Matriarch "Can you meet us at Chateau Delacour tonight."
"I can My Lord; shall I contact our Goblin allies as well?"
"Please." he smiled before turning to Fawkes, he wasn't even going to ask how she knew that they were allied with the Goblin's "Shall we?"
"Actually Harry, why don't we see how well a Spirit Dragon can fly."
AUTHORS NOTE: An image of the creature that Harry becomes can be seen on my yahoo group, I do not own the picture.
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: Romania - Carpathian Mountains
Location: The Veela Colony
Time: Afternoon
CLAWS
WHISKERS!!
What the....What's going on....
He tried to stand but toppled forward as soon as his hands were no longer supporting his now heavy front half.
Panicked Harry tired to back up using all his limbs but ended up tripping over his enormous tail, sending him into the nearest building, collapsing the entire near side wall.
"Remain calm Harry." Called Adam as both he and The Matriarch approached him as he thrashed around on the ground trying to regain his feet, causing more damage to the building.
"It's alright My Lord;" called The Matriarch "Everything is fine."
"Fine!" he shouted, the voice emerging from his long toothed mouth deeper and rougher than it should have "I've got claws!! I've got whiskers!! I've got a bloody tail!!!"
"It's alright Harry," said Adam, kneeling down next to the panicking Boy-Who-Lived "Remaining calm and we will explain, just remain calm."
Fawkes added his call to Adam and The Matriarch's calming talk.
Harry managed to get himself under control and stopped thrashing around though he was still rather panicked.
"Good Harry." Said Adam "Ok slowly, roll onto your stomach."
Harry did, hearing several bits of wood splinter as his tail once again damaged the building behind him.
"Don't worry Harry, stay focused on me, it's not serious damage, nothing a simple repairing charm wont fix. Now stand up slowly and remember you need to use all four legs."
Harry slowly pulled himself to his feet the same way he would if he was a stag, the movement was very awkward as what ever he had transformed into was not designed the same way as a stag.
"Well done Harry, now slowly turn your head to look back along your body."
Harry turned his head and long neck to the left until it was facing back along his body, something no human neck should be able to do.
For the first time he could actually see what he looked like, he was like no creature he had ever seen, he had a long slim body and a massively long tail, he was covered in blue fur on top with a lighter blue on his underside, at least thirty feet long including his head and neck, though at least half of that length was tail.
His front feet were like large clawed and fur covered hands with what looked like a series of hardened plates on his arm and the back of his hand, presumably some form of natural armour, his back feet were made up of four toes which looked very cat like.
Along his long back bone was a ridge of darker blue fur like the mane of a horse that lead all the way up his neck to his head and right to the end of his spine were it met the massive fluffy tip of his tail which had to be even bigger than his head.
He turned back to Adam who was standing in front of him yet Adam's head was at least a foot below his, what ever he was could extend its neck above the height of a man, he briefly experimented by lowering his neck so that his head was almost against the ground and then extending it to twice the height of a man before returning to the comfortable position seven foot above the ground.
"Ok Harry, now come over here." Said Adam, gesturing him towards a small pond in the centre of the colony.
Harry carefully walked over to the pond, the Matriarch and the rest of the Veela walking along beside him, looks of fascination and awe on their faces.
Looking down into the pond Harry saw his face; long and pointed, a large mouthful of sharp teeth, two meter long whiskers and two bright sapphire eyes.
The only way he could think of to describe his appearance would be that of a Chinese or Asian Dragon, the sort you would see in anime cartoons, his appearance reminded him of a dragon he had seen in the film 'Spirited Away'.
"Why do I look like this?" he asked "How do I change back?"
"You change back the same way you reverse an Animagus transformation." Explained The Matriarch.
Harry nodded, closing his eyes he began to concentrate on his true form, he felt his bones begin to shrink, his muscles begin to shift and his tail begin to disappear.
As he resumed his usual form his clothes returned and he slumped to the floor.
"Well done Harry." Smiled Adam as he pulled him to him feet.
"Let us go into my hall and talk." Said The Matriarch, leading the way through the crowd towards said building.
As they walked inside The Matriarch indicated for Harry to sit in the throne.
"Please My Lord, take my seat."
"What."
"My throne My Lord, please, use it."
"I err....I think I will just use a normal seat thanks." He said uncertainly as Harry conjured them up some chairs.
Much to Harry's surprise The Matriarch seated herself in one of the conjured seats rather than her throne, Harry uncertainly seated himself in the last seated before looking to Adam.
"What on earth just happened?" demanded Harry "What on Earth did I turn into?"
"You assumed the original form of the Avatar." Explained The Matriarch.
"And what is The Avatar?"
"Do you remember what I told you about Elementals shortly after we left the Delacour's?" asked Adam.
FLASH BACK
"As you know Harry there are four elements; air, water, earth and fire and beings who can control one or more elements are called Elementals. The power to control each element is given to a being by the planet."
"But the planets not alive?"
"Not in the way that you perceive life, any world that has magic is what is known as a living world, meaning that the planet has a life of sorts. It's a bit like Hogwarts in a way; the castle is alive, the stairs change, the armour moves, rooms shift but it can't actually think, the best way to think of it is as a survival instinct, the castle shifts to show people that it can defend itself and to remind everyone that it is alive, at least to a certain extent. The world does the same thing except it uses volcanoes, tornados, storms, tsunami etcetera; elementals are a living extension of that."
"How do you mean?" asked Harry.
"The planet effectively creates itself a guard, it selects beings, sometimes an entire species like Veela, at other times it can be the children of previous Elementals, sometimes they can be special and sometimes completely ordinary, anyone the world believes could potentially, and potentially is the key word here, anyone that could potentially help defend the planet."
"Why is the word potentially so important?"
"Well for example....Hitler could 'potentially' have been a very good Elemental."
"What, why him?"
"He was powerful, he had influence and he was in a position to 'potentially' do a great deal of good."
"Oh, I see." Nodded Harry.
END FLASH BACK
"Of course."
"Well the Avatar is the ultimate guardian Elemental; he commands the Elementals and all Elemental Beings and Beasts, his or her job is to protect the planet to the best of his or her ability."
Harry groaned.
"If you are about to say that I am the worlds Messiah I will curse you into next week."
"Ok," Nodded Adam "I won't tell you."
Harry groaned again and lowered hi s head.
"Go on."
"The Avatar is able to control all four elements and is declared as the Avatar by an Elemental species," explained The Matriarch "Once he or she has passed a test and has shown one of the two skills that only the Avatar can perform he or she is declared as The Avatar and assumed the form you did."
Harry turned his gaze on Adam and glared at him.
"You....You planned this, you trained me to be this."
"I did not," replied Adam calmly "I told you I would train you to become all it is within you to become and I have done that, I did not train you to become the Avatar as I can not do that."
"One of the skills of the Avatar is the ability to pull water out of the air which not even water Elementals can do but which you did earlier," explained The Matriarch "Thusly I declared you the Avatar."
"I did not train you to do that Harry," added Adam "You learnt that yourself."
Harry reluctantly agreed, he had never been taught that, it just occurred to him to pull the moisture out of the air.
"Ok, now what exactly was that creature I became?"
"It is what is known as a Spirit Dragon."
"And what is a Spirit Dragon?" asked Harry.
"It's an extinct ancestor of modern dragons and was the first intelligent species to evolve on this planet which is the reason that the first Avatar was a dragon."
"I thought humans were?"
The Matriarch coughed back a laugh.
"My apologies My Lord, please follow me and I will give you proof that humans were not." she smiled standing up and gesturing them out of the tent "Humans were the first Non-Magical intelligent life on this planet but in the Magical world they came late to intelligence,"
The Matriarch led them into a cave in the wall of the valley "Veela and Goblins for instance were intelligent long before humans were." they headed down through around one hundred meters of torch lit passages until the walls opened up into a vast cavern.
Harry's chin almost hit the floor in shock, the cavern was vast, at least five hundred meters in diameter and at least half that in height, the floor of the cavern slopped down at least twenty meters before it met the vast ruins of a city, remains of buildings that seemed to have been carved straight into the natural stone, towards the centre of the cavern the structures grew taller until the central building which must have been over one hundred in height was capped with what looked like a bell tower.
"Welcomed to the Old City of the Veela." Greeted The Matriarch "Long ago all Veela lived in hidden cities like this, but as humans, or more accurately wizards became more numerous our kind were slowly hunted down out of fear of our Elemental powers, as our numbers diminished we were forced to move to the surface as we could no longer maintain our great cities and so they fell into decay."
They stood there for several minutes admiring the once great city before slowly returning to the surface, as they again seated themselves in the hall Adam continued his explanation.
"Spirit Dragons, as you saw were about thirty feet long, almost half of which is tail and they look, as you probably noticed like eastern dragon. They were wingless and appeared defenceless but despite appearances they were very dangerous because of their intelligence level. They could fly without wings, just by shear power of magic and can summon up the elements."
"So the Avatar's first form was a dragon because...."
"Because Spirit Dragons were the first species that did not gain control over an element by genetics evolution like Veela, they were the first species that were chosen to be given the power of elements, you should now be able to assume that form as easily as you can that of your normal Animagus form."
Harry nodded, trying to take everything in.
"Unfortunately as another branch of dragons evolved into the dragons that are around today, people started to fear them, as they did later with the Veela they hunted them down and exterminated them, unfortunately the Spirit Dragons were always limited in numbers because of the size of their territories and that along with competition from their modern cousins wiped them out. Thus ended the days of the Spirit Dragons, from then on other species took over the roll of the Avatar."
"What was the other skill that only the Avatar can use?"
"The ability to control lightning." Replied Adam.
"Lightning?" asked Harry, shocked.
"Yes," confirmed The Matriarch "It is the combination of all four elements, lightning passes between air and earth, it's conducted by and accompanied by water, and has the same destructive effect as fire, but it is very difficult to achieve, I am sure Adam can give you some instruction regarding the technique at a later date."
"Is there anything else I need to know?"
"A few of things," replied Adam "Firstly there can only be one Avatar at a time, if there is another Elemental who can control all four elements he will not be an Avatar, just a very powerful Elemental. Secondly it has been over seven hundred years since the last Avatar was around in the world and many Elementals and Elemental species may be resistant to your leadership and the Wizarding world is likely to be even less fond of you. Thirdly the Avatar is like the Slayer in the respect that it is a planetary guardian and you may therefore receive some prophetic dreams."
"What about you?"
"'The Guardian' is a protector of all, not just one world, but I also receive prophetic messages but not in the same form as you." explained Adam "We are both protectors though and therefore have the same mission. Lastly I have a suggestion that you are not likely to want to follow;"
"What?" asked Harry slowly.
"I recommend that you keep your identity as the Avatar a secret. I would suggest using the guise of the Avatar in combination with that of the 'Masked Saviour of the Grangers', that way you can stay hidden but also gain support and help fight Voldemort on two fronts."
"Why would I not like that?"
"I believe our ancient friend means keep your identity a secret from everyone." Elaborated The Matriarch "Only let the people who already know that you are trying to recruit an army know that you are both the Avatar and Harry Potter."
"You mean keep it secret from Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Neville and Buffy?" sighed Harry.
"Yes, I would suggest keeping it secret from them as well," nodded Adam "I can help you hide your dual identity by assuming your appearance while you are the Avatar and its safer for them if they don't know, I would further suggest that as you are bound to have to use your Elemental powers at least once while at Hogwarts, I recommend we tell people that you can control only three, that way when someone looks up who the Avatar is and discovers that he or she can control all four elements you will not be included in the list of suspects."
"I agreed," nodded Harry reluctantly "Though I am not happy about not telling Hermione, Ron, Buffy and the others."
"Understood, but for now we need to get back to Hogwarts?"
"Ok," nodded Harry, before turning to The Matriarch "Can you meet us at Chateau Delacour tonight."
"I can My Lord; shall I contact our Goblin allies as well?"
"Please." he smiled before turning to Fawkes, he wasn't even going to ask how she knew that they were allied with the Goblin's "Shall we?"
"Actually Harry, why don't we see how well a Spirit Dragon can fly."
AUTHORS NOTE: An image of the creature that Harry becomes can be seen on my yahoo group, I do not own the picture.
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