Harry Potter and the Prophecy of Shi.
A Harry Potter Crossover Fan-fiction by Sheya.
Chapter 03
Dudley and Dumbledore
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A few days after Harry found out that Remus was rescued he came downstairs for breakfast. As he got his food his Aunt and Uncle just stared at him, while he ate they stared at him, until he left they stared at him.
'Well they can't push me around, they can't threaten me, they can't call me names, so now they stare at me. Very uncomfortable but I can live with it. After all they do it all the time at school and almost anywhere in the Wizarding World.' Harry thought as he walked down the street and went to the park.
As he was idly swinging on one of the repaired swings, Dudley and his friends came by.
"Well if it isn't Potter... Mum and Dad might be afraid of those people, but I'm not. Let's get him!!!!" Dudley's gang attacked Harry who fell backward off the swing, got up and sprinted off towards Magnolia Crescent.
He intended to go to Mrs. Figg's house- he never made it- he did get to the well-known alley when he tripped and fell. Dudley and his gang were upon him like a pack of jackals. Punching and kicking him. He curled up and protected his face and head.
Harry didn't know how long the beating lasted but when it stopped he stayed curled up, the noises of people getting beat up had not stopped. Then the noise of running was heard- that was when he moved his arms. When he was finally able to look up again he stared into eyes almost as green as his own. The boy had dark brown hair and a yellow bandana holding it out of his face. He wore worn traveling clothes in yellow and dark green.
"Hi." He said smiling, also showing what seemed to be small fangs.
"H... Hi." Harry replied shakily. He then tried to sit up... but found it almost impossible to do so.
"Let me help... is there someplace I can bring you?" He asked easily lifting Harry into his arms.
"Yeah, a lady who used to take care of me lives that way." Harry pointed towards Mrs. Figgs house.
"Ok... glad Nodoka-san helped me get rid of my directional problems." The boy walked towards Mrs. Figgs house, he walked up to the door of the house Harry indicated. The door opened when Harry used the knocker.
"Oh!! Harry! What happened?" Mrs. Figg exclaimed.
"Dudley and his gang decided that they were going to disregard some warnings. They attacked me. Wasn't someone supposed to be watching?"
"Ha... Harry." A panting Mundungus Fletcher ran up to the door. "I saw them start to chase you but lost sight of you before I could catch up."
"Oh... well it's better that you were here and not somewhere else."
"Who is he." Mrs. Figg pointed at the boy who helped Harry.
"Hehehe I'm Ryoga Hibiki, sorry about this." Ryoga introduced himself.
"Nothing to apologize dearie... we should be thanking you."
"Well I hate bullies... after all I'm a reformed bully... well I tried to bully people who I thought were bullies but really weren't. But I've opened my eyes since then."
"Well come inside we need to get Harry cleaned up."
Ryoga went inside and put Harry down on a couch. Mrs. Figg brought a first aid kit, as she was getting it, Ryoga checked Harry over for broken bones.
"Heh you're lucky nothings broken just bruises and cuts." the fanged boy took the kit and started dressing Harry's injuries.
"Where did you learn that?" Mundungus asked.
"Hmmm? Oh here and there I've lived on the road most of my life, I'm also a Martial Artist, I got injured a lot." Ryoga finished with Harry's injuries.
"So what do we do about Dudley?" Harry asked.
"Why?" asked a confused newcomer to Harry's life.
"I have to live with him. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia will be mad if he is hurt."
"Heh well I did hold back but I also made sure the they were in pain."
"Great now I'm gonna get it.... They might try to kick me out again."
"They won't, I'll call Moody and Tonks we'll talk to them and Dudley." Mundungus left the room. When he came back he was smiling. "They're coming."
"But what will help me next time?"
"Next time Harry? He shouldn't attack you again." Mundungus looked at Harry questioningly.
"He disregarded the threat this time... what will he do next time?"
"Hmmm what do you know about a place called Jusenkyo?" asked the formerly lost boy.
"Supposed to be a place that was the site of a failed Magical experiment a few thousand years ago."
"Yes well now it is a training ground for stupid Martial Artists." supplied Ryoga.
"What is?" asked a girl with hair weirder then an Amazons. She and an older man had just walked inside.
"Jusenkyo... a friend of mine was dragged there by his sensei a few years ago, I followed... we all fell in...."
"Doesn't it bestow Animagus abilities on people?"
"If you can control it- yes... most people can't so they are just cursed to turn into an animal or something."
"What do you turn into? Can you control it?" Harry looked curiously at Ryoga.
"I can control it only because a friend of mine taught me how... after he figured it out. I turn into a pig." Ryoga explained, then vanished, cloths and all and a cute black piglet was in his place. He wore Ryoga's bandana, then Ryoga reappeared. "With control come less embarrassment, now I take my cloths with me when I transform."
"And you will stay with Harry when we can't?" Moody got right into Ryoga's face. "How do we know you can protect Harry. How do we know we can trust YOU?!!?" Moody then landed in a heap on the other side of the room.
"Only one person has ever beaten me with out having to activate my curse first, and that person is my friend Ranma. As for how you can trust me I'm a Martial Artist. Ranma said it best when he rephrased his sensei's words- 'It's a Martial Artists DUTY to protect anyone who, for whatever reason, can not protect themselves." Ranma told me that the day he left Nerima. That was the day he gave me the key to control the curse also the day his Mother gave me the key to get control of my directional problem."
"Ranma? Is he in China?" Harry asked.
"Yeah why?"
"I sometimes have dreams of other people and places. Ranma, in one of my dreams, saved a friend of mine. A girl named Shan Pu was with him."
"Yup that's Ranma alright... Wonder if Shan Pu is still trying to marry him?"
"I'll ask Remus."
"We have to go talk to the Dursleys." Moody walked toward the door, grumbling about how he would keep a very close watch on Ryoga, the others followed. Ryoga turned into his pig form and jumped into Harry's arms.
When they got to the house Vernon Dursley tired to punish Harry for letting Dudley get hurt. Moody threatened him saying that Dudley would get more then hurt if he ever hurt Harry again, Moody also brandished his wand. That shut Vernon right up. Then he introduced Ryoga, the highly trained attack pig- saying that anyone who tried to hurt Harry would get attacked by the pig.
About three days later Harry and Ryoga found themselves back in Mrs. Figgs house. Albus Dumbledore wanted to speak to Harry and meet Ryoga, they sat themselves down on the couch while waiting for him to finish speaking to Mrs. Figg. When he entered and took a seat on a chair Harry looked eagerly at the headmaster.
"Yes, Remus has contacted us."
"So, what did he say?" Harry nearly bounced off his seat, he had recovered very well.
"He said that he was rescued by people named Ranma Kuro and Shan Pu."
"So, Ranma really did ditch Genma's name...." Ryoga mused.
"You know Ranma?" Dumbledore looked sharply at Ryoga.
"He mentioned it when he rescued me."
"What do you know about him?"
"Ranma... heh well he never gives up... even when it's in his best interest to do so. Well that isn't entirely true he does give up when he knows something is a lost cause... like Akane." Ryoga looked thoughtful.
"How so?"
"He always said that we were friends, he always helped me even when I was trying to seriously maim him. I was blinded by loneliness and depression. He never gave up trying to help me see what was in front of my eyes. But then there was Kuno, he always hated Ranma, still does but even when Kuno was trying to kill him he still tried to help Kuno when he needed it."
"So he never gives up on people, tries to see the bright side of them?"
"Bright side? No, he knows full well that Kuno hates him and always will.... He just does what he feels is right. Although Akane has tried to kill him on numerous occasions he will help her if she needs it, she is actually the reason he left Nerima. They were 'Dating'- well her father and his sensei wanted them to get married to join the Martial Arts Schools but they had too many problems and after a wedding attempt failed they got along better, for a bit, but then it all fell apart that is when he left."
"Hmmm what about his mother?"
"I know she is a witch she helped me get rid of a family curse... she taught me much of magic. But for her story you need to ask her."
"What I found out about her is almost ancient history, I have spent the past few days trying to find out information about Ranma and his family. Harry when you described Ranma I had an inspiration and I went with it- I used a spell to find someone who everyone thinks is dead and I found her. I also used another spell to find out if she had any children and found that she did- a son named Ranma. When she was nineteen she married, at the time she had just finished Auror training, one of the youngest to graduate, her husband also went into the training, he had just graduated from Hogwarts, when they married. Then Voldemort started hunting purebloods that did not agree with his point of view. Her brother and husband wanted her to take less risks, she was one of the best. She told them she would not stop, Voldemort needed to be stopped more. About a year and three months before Harry was born, she did finally give in, no one knew why... she left with Voldemort on her tail, we all thought he killed her when she did not return. Apparently she left because she was protecting her unborn child, and she found a place where even Voldemort could not find her."
"Chaos Magic is powerful, that is why she moved to Nerima, so she says."
"Yes, most wizards avoid it at all costs. If I had known where she was we would not be here now."
"What do you mean, Professor?" Harry had been listening to the story raptly.
"Her name when she left was Angela Nodoka Potter-Black."
Harry stared at his headmaster in complete and total shock. "Wh... what?"
"Like I said before we all thought she was dead... I tried to find her even after I brought you to the Dursleys... I wanted you to live with people with the capacity to care but I could not find them."
"Them?" Harry looked at his headmaster inquiringly.
"Your father has more than one sister, but, one I know is dead and the other two hid themselves so well even I could not find them... I had lost hope that they were alive but now Angela is back."
"She uses Nodoka and she had an agreement about using another family name... the name she used was Saotome. But she probably uses Kuro now."
"What does Kuro mean?" asked Harry.
"Hmmm? It means Black." answered Ryoga.
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Another revision.
Revised 1/25/04.
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Revised 03/04/07