MF: A Hogwarts Connection

[Kali_WolfChilde]

here's my newest fic. am still typing on it, but will definitely finish it. expect updates whenever i have the time (final two weeks of college means a lot of studying for the exams i can't exempt).
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PROLOGUE

Magical Forest; nearly 40 years ago

A man was running through the forest, his feet crunching loudly upon the leaves on the ground. He glanced behind him several times, his gaze taking in the creatures following him. As he went to turn back around, he suddenly tripped on an upraised tree root which sent him sprawling face first in the dirt. Spitting out a mouthful of partially damp leaves, the young man flipped over, getting to his feet as quickly as he could as the six creatures quickly surrounded him.

“ You think you’ve got me cornered, don’t you?” the young man bravely asked the creatures.

“ The Master could use a wizard of your power. Come with us, and we will not harm you. Any more than necessary,” one of the creatures told the young man.

“ I would never fight for the Master. You’ll have to kill me first,” the young man snapped. Just as the creatures raised their weapons to fire at the young man, a powerful blast of energy shot out from the forest, striking each of the creatures and reducing them to ash. The young man whirled in the direction of the location of the shot.

“ You should know better than to outrightly challenge the Styxoids,” an older man’s voice chided the younger man as a man stepped into view.

“ I was testing their reactions, Uncle,” the young man said, though the words were said with reverence.

“ I know that, young Lienbow. Next time, if you must, destroy them quicker. I would not want one of the greatest future wizards to be too greatly harmed by creatures such as the Styxoids,” the older man said.

The younger man bowed politely to him. “ As you wish, Uncle Dumbledore,” the young man replied, moving to his uncle’s side as the two began to leisurely walk through the forest.

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[Kali_WolfChilde]

Town of Briarwood; Present day; November 16, 2006

A breeze blew through the open door, stirring the wind chimes hanging from the ceiling. Music blared from speakers along the walls, and teens sang, laughed, and talked as they danced to the upbeat music. A huge party was being thrown at Rock Porium, a popular music store in the town of Briarwood, and the owner-slash-manager was cheering as the assigned party DJ - Vida Rocca - played her tables.

“ Turn it up!” one partygoer shouted happily.

“ You go V!” another person called out, causing Vida to laugh.

After a few more minutes of loud music, Vida stopped playing, allowing the owner/manager, Toby, to move up to the microphone. “ Rock on Rock Porium!” he shouted, causing the crowd to erupt into cheers, whistles, and applause.

“ I’d like to take this moment to thank my employees for decorating and preparing this party so well,” he started saying, giving his employees a quick meaningful look before adding, “ and I’d also like to thank the Power Rangers. They defeated that bat creature and fish creature last week, and once again, our town is safe. Let’s kick this party back off with some old music, a song called ‘1985,’” Toby announced, pressing a button on Vida’s tables.

The song came pumping through the speakers, and people got back to dancing, as the employees of the store went with Toby to his office. “ So, Toby, why’d you want us to meet you in here?” Xander asked him. Xander Bly was a young Australian-American man, with an accent that some found charming, while others found it to be weird.

“ I wanted to personally thank the five of you for being such loyal, dedicated Power Rangers. And to thank all of you for being such great workers. Although, I must admit, I wondered where you were always disappearing off to,” he added, causing five of the six people to laugh.

“ We did try to tell you,” Chip Thorne, a rather goofy-acting young man spoke up.

“ Hey, LeeLee, where’s Phineas?” Madison Rocca, Vida’s somewhat shyer sister, asked the blonde-headed girl in the room.

“ He, Lienbow, and Daggeron were out picking stickleberries for Udonna and Clare. Lienbow wanted to help them make a new potion to keep the mosquitoes away from them when they go on picnics,” LeeLee spoke up, just as a strange breeze blew through the room.

It was strange, because there were no windows on the outside wall, and the door to the room was closed. Nick Russell automatically reached for his Mystic Morpher, flipping it open. After the last battle with the Master’s forces, he and his friends had elected to keep their Phones, just in case an emergency came around.

As soon as Nick’s phone opened, a familiar face appeared on the screen. “ Bowen,” the woman said, and Nick smiled.

“ Hey, Mom. What’s up?” Nick asked the woman.

“ Nothing much, Bowen. I just received a rather strange transmission from a relative of mine - of your father’s really. He is less than an hour from arriving in the Magical Forest, and I wanted the others to go and meet him. I’ll need you to go out and get your father, and Daggeron,” the woman told Nick.

“ Well, we were partying here at Rock Porium, but I guess we’ll be on the way shortly,” Nick replied, closing the Morpher and placing it back in its holder on his belt.

“ So much for the party,” LeeLee mumbled.

“ Ah, cheer up, Leel, at least you’ll get to see Phineas again,” Vida said. When Chip and Xander started making kissing noises, the two Rocca sisters shot them glares that immediately made them clam up.

“ Well, guess we’ll be back later to clean up,” Nick told Toby as the five former Rangers left Toby’s office, LeeLee in-step behind them.

* * * * *

Nick walked beside his dad as they and their friends - Daggeron and Phineas - walked back along a path in the woods. “ Did Udonna say who was coming?” Lienbow, Nick’s dad, asked him.

“ No, she just said he was less than an hour from arriving in the Magical Forest,” Nick replied, stepping over an upraised tree root.

Everyone fell silent as, just when they were about to come within sight of Rootcore, something came rushing from the forest to their left. “ Move!” Lienbow shouted at his son, shoving him ahead of his own self on the path.

“ Go, I’ll hold off whatever that thing was,” Daggeron told Lienbow as he suddenly changed forms, becoming something that didn’t look anything like a human.

“ Guys, I think we might be a little too late for that,” Nick spoke up, his eyes on a spot just behind the group. They all turned to find themselves staring at a rather nasty sight; a deformed - thing was standing there, its sharp teeth glistening in the light that filtered down through the trees.

Before any of them could move, a loud screeching sound could be heard, and a great winged beast flew onto the scene. It flew directly at the creature, raking its claws and kicking its hooves at the thing.

It growled menacingly and tried to score a mark on the creature, but failed, even as the winged beast scored a set of three long furrows down the creature’s chest. As the menacing creature fell to the ground, dead, the winged beast landed quickly in front of the small group. The man on the beasts’ back lithely jumped off, the beasts’s reins in his hand as he faced the group.

“ Forgive me for not stopping the foul thing back by the Dark Forest. It managed to evade me, and followed me here,” the strange man said. When the three guys and Phineas still stared at him, he laughed.

“ Come now, don’t tell me that at least one of doesn’t recognize me. Daggeron, have you forgotten your own baby brother?” the man asked Daggeron.

“ Sirius?” Daggeron, obviously shocked at what, and who, he was seeing.

“ In the flesh, big brother. And can that be Lienbow? Looks like you and I have bothe aged with the years,” Sirius casually said.

“ Why are you here? And Where’ve you been? I haven’t seen you in twenty years,” Daggeron spoke up.

“ I was over in England with Dumbledore. Got myself into a bit of trouble, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and whatnot. Came here to warn Dumbeldore of something,” Sirius replied.

“ Dad, what is that thing?” Nick wanted to know, pointing at the winged beast Sirius had been riding.

“ It’s a hyppogryph, Bowen,” Lienbow informed him.

“ Well, let’s go to Rootcore. I’m sure Udonna is ready for her stickleberries,” Daggeron absently said, and the group once again resumed their walk, though with Sirius and the hyppogryph in tow.

When they finally reached Rootcore, Sirius whistled. Udonna must’ve made this place, he thought to himself as they entered the dragon’s mouth. The hyppogryph didn’t even hesitate to follow the group, though it did squawk rather loudly when the hallway led into a room. The people in the room turned as one to face the newcomers, and Lienbow stopped when he saw the old man in the long robes.

“ Uncle?” he asked in shock.

“ It has been a long time, Lienbow,” the old man said as Lienbow slowly came forward to hug the old man.

“ Dad, who’s that?” Nick cautiously asked as he came to stand beside his father.

“ Likely the greatest wizard you’ll ever meet. Uncle Dumbledore, this is my and Udonna’s son, Nick, the Red Mystic Force Power Ranger, aka the Light. Nick, this is your great uncle Dumbledore,” Lienbow said by way of introduction.

“ Hello there. I’m Rubius Hagrid,” a rather tall, large man said, holding out his hand to Nick.

“ Why have you come back to the Magical Forest, Uncle?” Lienbow asked.

“ To talk to you and Udonna about a prophecy concerning both our magical worlds, and the muggle world,” Dumbledore simply said, his gaze shifting to the man standing beside Daggeron.

“ I cam to warn you, Headmaster. A werewolf was sent after you, but Buckbeak was able to handle him. If I may say hello to Udonna and the others, I’ll be on my way,” Sirius spoke up.

Dumbledore merely gave a slight shake of his head. “ It is in the past, Sirius. You may stay. I will not turn you in to the Ministry of Magic. Come and sit with us. What I have to say concerns you as much as the others.,” Dumbledore said as he took a seat next to his nephew.

Somewhat cautiously, Sirius came forward, taking a seat at Dumbledore’s feet, leaning back against Buckbeak’s side as he did so. “ What is so grave that you would come all the way here? Surely your duties at Hogwarts keep you busy,” Lienbow said.

“ Indeed they do, nephew, but what I have to say must be said in person, regardless that I am Headmaster. I’m afraid a rather old prophecy is on its way to coming true, and when it does, we all will be in grave danger,” Dumbledore said.

“ What prophecy?” Udonna wanted to know. Apparently, Dumbledore had not told even her.

“ The prophecy about the heir,” Dumbledore said.

“ The heir? But I thought Riddle, or you-know-who was the heir,” Hagrid immediately piped up. Also apparently, Dumbledore hadn’t told Hagrid why they were coming to Rootcore.

Dumbledore nodded. “ He was an heir of Slytherin, but he was not the only one. The Headmasters of every school in our world are on alert, for the new heir of Slytherin is soon to be revealed,” he gravely said.

Everyone in the room became silent. Most of the people in Rootcore, Dumbledore and his friends especially, knew what Slytherin, Hogwarts, and the heir were - well, the adults did anyway - and they were shocked at his words.

“ How does that affect us?” Udonna softly asked.

“ It is said that the heir of Slytherin will come to Hogwarts, and that Voldemort will attack us, and we may need your Rangers’ help in defending it,” Dumbledore said in a matter-of-fact voice. “ Also,” he began to add, “ I would like to have the Rangers become familiar with some of the students at our school, should the students ever personally need them.”

Madison, surprisingly, was the first to stand up and come to stand beside Dumbledore. “ I’m in. No evil freak is gonna hurt innocent people,” she boldly declared.

One by one, her teammates stood up and came to stand beside her. “ Count us in too,” Xander said.

“ Yeah, I’ve always wanted to see a school where they actually practice magic all day,” Chip said with his characteristic grin.

“ I go where my sister goes,” Vida said.

“ I’m the leader, and I say we take this guy down,” Nick finally said.

Lienbow, Udonna, and Daggeron proudly smiled at the Rangers. “ Then it’s settled. Rangers, you must get your affairs in order. You will be leaving tomorrow to go to Hogwarts with Uncle Dumbledore. Sirius, I’d be honored if you’d accompany the Rangers, make sure they stay safe on the journey to the school,” Lienbow spoke up.

Sirius smiled as he got to his feet, reaching out and shaking Lienbow’s hand.

“ The honor will be mine, old friend,” Sirius replied.

“ Uncle, I would be honored if you would stay here at Rootcore with us for the night,” Lienbow told Dumbledore.

“ Thank you, nephew. I would like that very much,” Dumbledore agreed, clasping his nephew’s shoulder in a friendly embrace.

* * * * *

The Rangers gathered around Dumbledore as he stood in front of an open portal. They hugged Lienbow, Udonna, Daggeron, Clare, LeeLee, and even Phineas goodbye.

“ Take care of each other,” Clare spoke up, shyly glancing at Xander. For the past few months, the former Gatekeeper had been keeping a shy eye on the handsome green Mystic Ranger.

“ No problem, mate,” Xander told her.

“ Respect your great uncle and the other teachers and students. You will learn much while you are there,” Lienbow advised his son.

“ I will, dad,” Nick replied, hugging his parents.

“ It’s time,” Dumbledore said. Everyone gave their final goodbyes as the Rangers and Dumbledore and his friends stepped through the portal. The portal vanished the instant Buckbeak - with Sirius on his back - stepped inside.

“ I hope they’ll be okay,” Udonna whispered to her husband.

“ They will be,” Lienbow assured her as he led her back inside Rootcore.

* * * * *

The Rangers rapidly blinked their eyes as they exited the portal. Madison felt a bit woozy, so she held on to Nick for support. “ Where are we?” Chip asked as he looked around the room, his eyes immediately noticing the strange bird on a stand several feet away. “ And what’s that?”

“ You are in my office at Hogwarts, in England. That is a Phoenix. Fox is his name,” Dumbledore said by way of explanation. Just as it seemed Madison and the others were all getting over their experience of going through the portal, a slight whooshing sound was heard, and a door opened, revealing a rather stern-looking man.

“ Headmaster, I felt it urgent that I come and speak with you,” he said.
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“ Who’s that guy?” Xander asked Dumbledore.

“ Professor Severus Snape. What is it, Professor Snape?” Dumbledore asked the man. Ignoring the Rangers, for he didn’t know who they really were, he kept his gaze on Dumbledore.

“ The night train to Hogwarts has been stopped and boarded by three werewolves and a troll, plus several other dark creatures. The students and teachers on the train need assistance,” Snape told him. This evidently troubled Dumbledore greatly, for all of the teachers currently at the school would be needed there in case something decided to attack the school itself.

That was when Nick cleared his throat. “ We’ll go. Rangers, let’s suit up. Ready?” he asked his teammates as they took out their morphers.

“ Ready!” his teammates replied.

“ Magical Source, Mystic Force!” the five shouted. Brief flashes of light surrounded them, reverting them to their Ranger forms: Nick was Red, Xander was Green, Chip was Yellow, Madison was Blue, and Vida was Pink.

Nick went to the nearest window and opened it. The others crowded behind him, each Ranger summoning his or her Mystic Racer. “ You will know how to get there,” Dumbledore told them.

“ Right. Be back in a few,” Nick told Dumbledore as, one by one, he and his teammates jumped out the window and onto their vehicles.

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[izout]

I was wondering when someone would try to do a Mystic Force/Harry Potter Crossover.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

does that mean u like it?

[izout]

The thing about HP/PR crossovers is that they raise questions like:
-Why didn't Rita and/or Zedd try to recruit Lord V since they do that sometimes?
-Why didn't Zordon do anything when Voldemort arose?
-Shouldn't Dumbledore have notice something when Master Vile turned back time?
-Why didn't Zordon's wave take out Voldemort's spirit?

[trekkie]

I love it. Don't let my review stop you! Hey that rhymes.

[Kali_WolfChilde]

The thing about HP/PR crossovers is that they raise questions like:
-Why didn't Rita and/or Zedd try to recruit Lord V since they do that sometimes?
-Why didn't Zordon do anything when Voldemort arose?
-Shouldn't Dumbledore have notice something when Master Vile turned back time?
-Why didn't Zordon's wave take out Voldemort's spirit?


- Tom Riddle (Voldemort) preserved his body in that journal. And at first he needed a host to survive.

- Voldemort was Hogwarts' problem. at least that's my reasoning.

- Vile was the Rangers' problem. same reason.

- the wave didn't take out Voldemort's spirit because Voldemort wasn't in on the attack against the Rangers.

[RedAvatarianRanger]

thats great cant wait to hear more. i think madison and hermionie will get along great and xander will probably hit on her. but wait when does this take place in the HP world? i mean dumbledor is dead and snape is evil.

[izout]

Yeah, I'm enjoying this. RAR does raise a good question since HP takes place in the 90's. Will Snape be either:
(a The scum of the wizarding world
(b A noble hero
(c Be revealed as Harry Potter's father

[Kali_WolfChilde]

i'm going by the movies, not the books. hope that clears up n e confusion.

[Underground Blue]

Wow, wonderful story. Keep it up. The crazy thing is that your fanfic is like a special episode of Power Rangers Mystic Force that was filmed on now airing in my brain with all the characters from both worlds lol. Can't wait.

[RedAvatarianRanger]

i'm going by the movies, not the books. hope that clears up n e confusion.

gotcha that helps. so this should mix with the DA right? im looking foreward to see who would run that one nick or harry?

[Angelfox]

Wicked, bring it on....

[Kali_WolfChilde]

Hogwarts Express

Kids screamed in fright as a young troll advanced down the aisles of the train. Only two teachers were on the train, and they were currently trying to keep the three werewolves away from the students. Some students had elected to stay inside their cubicles when the commotion had started. In one such cubicle, a trio of frightened young adults stood .

“ What do you think they’re after?” the red-headed boy asked his friends in a voice filled with fright.

“ I think they’re after Harry,” the girl told the red-haired boy.

A frightened shriek sounded almost right outside their cubicle, and all three screamed when a fellow student was sent flying up against - and through - the door to the cubicle. The boy with glasses managed to dodge the flying student, but the other two teens were knocked down.

“ I’m going out there to see what’s really going on,” Harry said, just as a large explosion rocked the train.

“ Bloody hell, what was that?” the red-headed boy asked as he managed to get up from under the unconscious student’s body, where he then helped his friend up as well.

“ I don’t have a clue,” Harry honestly replied.

* * * * *

“ All right Maddie!” Nick exclaimed, congratulating his fellow Ranger. Using a combination of her Racer’s lasers and a powerful blast from her Magi Staff, the Blue Mystic Ranger had blasted a hole clean through the side of the train, which had sent the troll crashing through the other side of the train, sending it plummeting to the ground far below.

“ Let’s show these British baddies how Americans do it, Power Ranger style,” Vida said, flying her Racer towards the train, flipping of the vehicle and into the train as soon as the Racer got close to the hole Maddie had made.

As she landed inside, she was just in time to block a creature that had been barreling at a wounded teacher. Instead, the creature smacked head-first into Vida, sending her staggering up against the wall as her teammates entered the train behind her.

When she got a good look at the creature, she grimaced beneath her helmet. “ Whoa, that’s one butt-ugly baddie,” she commented.

“ Maddie, Vida, you two help get the passengers to the other end of the train. Chip, you and Xander help eradicate any signs of evil you can find,” Nick ordered his team as the creature that’d knocked into Vida got to its feet.

“ Right,” Nick’s teammates said as they began to spread out. The Rocca sisters immediately moved to a cubicle several feet away. The door had been knocked off its hinges, so Maddie went to peek in the doorway as Vida moved to the cubicle behind and across the hall from Maddie.

As Maddie finally looked into the cubicle, she saw three conscious students standing up, and one unconscious student sitting propped up on one of the seats. “ Wh - who are you?” the red-headed boy in the group asked Maddie.

“ I’m the Blue Mystic Ranger, a new friend of some guy named Dumbledore. Me and my friends are here to help. Come on,” she told the guy.

“ Can we trust her, Harry?” the girl asked the guy with glasses.

“ We haven’t got much of a choice, Hermione,” the guy replied. The two guys then grabbed the unconscious teen, carrying him out into the hallway as they and the girl followed the other people flooding the hallway.

As all the kids and the two teachers entered the cubicles that were deemed safe by Maddie and Vida, a terrified cry echoed throughout the train. The two Rangers whirled around, directing their gazes towards one of the partially smashed cubicles. They could see a green pair of boots sticking out, and as one they rushed forward, stopping when they saw who the boots belonged to.

“ Xander!” Maddie cried out, kneeling to help her friend.

“ Don’t move! A snake bit him!” a student who was trapped in the cubicle warned Maddie, just as a large hissing snake slithered out from under the seat.

“ N - nice snake,” Maddie stuttered, not wanting to make a move that might provoke the venomous creature.

“ The heiiiirrrrrr,” the snake hissed, and within her chest Maddie felt her heart skip a beat.

“ What?” she managed to rasp.

“ The heiiirrrr hasssssss been found. Hogwartsssss be warned,” the snake hissed, before it vanished in a flash of greenish-black-and-silver energy. As soon as it was gone, Vida moved in to free the trapped kid, while Maddie moved up towards Xander’s head.

“ Demorph, damnit. Demorph!” she shouted at her friend. Xander’s suit shimmered before disappearing all together, leaving him in his regular clothes. “ Thank God. We’ve got to get you off the train where we can treat that bite,” Maddie said, getting up and helping Xander to his feet, though he was favoring his left ankle, where the snake had bitten him.

“ We tossed the werewolves and the shape-shifting bear guy out the hole Maddie made,” Nick said as he and Chip caught up with the girls. Their eyes took in the look on Xander’s face, then went to his swollen ankle.

“ We’ve got to get him to that school for those people to help treat him,” Vida spoke up after finally freeing the girl.

“ Chip and Vida, I want you two stay with the train. Make sure nothing else goes wrong before it gets to the school. Madison, you’re with me in taking Xander back to Dumbledore’s office,” Nick told his teammates. They nodded, and he grabbed Xander’s other arm as the trio made its way to where Nick and Madison’s Racers were waiting.

Madison hopped out onto hers, then helped Nick put Xander on the back of his Racer. They saluted their friends before flying off as fast as their Mystic Racers would carry them.

This left the Yellow and Pink Mystic Force Rangers to help start making repairs to the train. The first thing they did was to find the teachers, then they brought them up to the two holes. “ Look, we don’t know you or anyone else on this train, and vice versa, but we need you to help fix the holes in this train so we can get to your school to check on our friend,” Vida matter-of-factly told the female teacher.

“ Right,” the teacher said, reaching into her wand and withdrawing a wand of sorts. “ And thank you,” the teacher added as she and her fellow female teacher raised their wands and chanted a simple incantation.

Shields of light began to spread out from the wands, and although the train seemed to be mending itself, the spell the teachers had uttered didn’t seem to be fully working. Vida and Chip raised their Magi Staff, pointing them at opposite sides of the train as they each released three quick bursts of their signature Ranger colors.

The mending of the train seemed to speed up by three times what the mending rate had been, and soon the train whistle sounded as the train started moving again.

Weary, the two teachers fell against the walls, sliding down onto seats near them. “ Thank you,” the same teacher repeated as she glanced up at the suit-covered Vida.

“ You can thank me when we get to your school,” Vida said as she took Chip aside to confer with him.

* * * * *

Maddie was pacing. Xander had been taken to the infirmary by Hagrid, and she’d followed him, staying in morph even though the fight was for now over. “ You’re going to wear a hole in the carpet,” Chip playfully chided her as he came to stand by the doors Maddie was pacing in front of.

“ That snake just vanished. Just - poof! - without a trace. I know we’ve seen some weird things in our time as Rangers, but a vanishing snake is as weird as it is creepy,” she idly told him, turning around and pacing in the other direction. She jumped back when the door suddenly opened, revealing Dumbledore.

“ Your friend will have to stay in the infirmary over night, but he should be better in the morning,” Dumbledore informed them.

Madison breathed an audible sigh of relief.

“ However, I would request that you room with some of our students for the duration of your stay. Gryffyndor house has agreed to house you. Hagrid will show you the way,” Dumbledore said as he left and Hagrid came out of the room, closing the door behind him.

“ I think I’ll stay and check in on Xander,” Madison said. She waited until hagrid and Xander were out of sight to demorph to her Mystic uniform. Just as she was about to go and do as she’d said she wanted to, voices from down the corridor got closer, and as she watched, three guys came into view.

They stopped when they saw her, and the guy with the bleach-blonde white hair stepped closer to her. “ So, word around the school is, you’re the so-called Blue Power Ranger,” he told her.

“ Yeah, I am,” Madison cautiously said, and the guys with the bleach-blonde guy snickered.

“ What a lot of rubbish you Rangers are. You’re a disgracement to the name of magic, and to the wizarding world. Why don’t pack up your little girly bags and go back to where you came from,” the boy suggested.

Madison was glaring at the boy by the time he finished his first few words, and by his last words, she was silently fuming. She took out her Mystic Morpher, pointing it at the boy. Three streams of water shot out, striking the boys in the chest and sending them sliding down the corridor and out of sight.

“ That’ll teach them to mess with a Ranger. I think I’ll ask Dumbledore who those guys were. After a good night’s sleep,” she said to herself as she took the route she knew Hagrid and Chip to have taken.

* * * * *

“ Calm down, Ron,” Harry was telling his friend.

“ No. The snake, the snake crawled right over me. It talked,” Ron protested, jumping a bit when Dumbledore entered the room.

At that moment, a rather large snake appeared, slithering its way up onto the bed Ron was currently sitting on. Everyone in the room froze, all eyes on the snake as it turned its beady eyes towards Dumbledore.

“ Be careful, Headmassssster. The heiiirrrr hasssssss been found. Hogwartsssss be warned,” the snake hissed before vanishing in a flash of greenish-black-and-silver energy.

Dumbledore was obviously shaken as he turned to face his students and the two teachers who’d accompanied him into the room. “ Teachers, students, to the Great Hall immediately,” he said, rushing out of the room as whispers began circulating among the students in the room.

One by one, the students began leaving the bedroom, following Dumbledore’s orders to go to the Great Hall. Ron and Harry, along with Hermione, were the last ones in line for their house.

“ What does all this mean?” Ron asked Hermione. It was well-known throughout the castle that Hermione was one of the smartest, most well-gifted students at Hogwarts.

“ Even I don’t have an answer to that,” Hermione admitted as the trio and the rest of their house descended another flight of stairs.

* * * * *

As the last of the Hogwarts students filed solemnly into the Great Hall, the large doors to the hall slowly slid shut, the magical locking mechanism immediately kicking in. The faces of the teachers at the head table - heck, even the faces of the castle ghosts, who were also in attendance - were as solemn and grave as those of most of the students.

“ Students, I have called this meeting to tell you that a terrible thing has happened. A second heir of Slytherin has been found. Hogwarts is no longer safe. You must return to your homes tomorrow morning,” Dumbledore told the crowd.

Shocked gasps, murmurs, and whispers ran throughout the Hall. A pair of students at the Gryffyndor table stood up. “ But Headmaster, we can help you and the other teachers. This is our school, too,” one of the boys protested.

“ Yeah, we can help defend some of the younger students, those that can’t defend themselves,” the other boy protested.

“ Silence. The situation is too grave. With the constant danger of Voldemort hanging over our heads, we must take all precautions possible,” Dumbledore announced, just as an icy wind blew through the Hall, causing more than person to shiver as some of the floating candles sputtered.

“ Did someone call me?” a sinister voice hissed, and several kids cried out in fright as a man with a deformed nose appeared out of thin air, right in front of the closed doors. Two or three kids fainted, falling off their benches as their fellow students looked on in horror at the creature.

“ Voldemort,” Harry whispered.

“ Voldemort,” Dumbledore said.

The evil-looking man mockingly bowed. “ Dumbledore. I wanted to see once more what my ancestor’s school was coming to. I see that none of the classes remain wholly pure,” the man hissed in a voice that sounded a bit like what a snake might sound like if it could talk.

“ Slytherin is the purest house here!” a person from the Slytherin house protested. A glare from the evil man was enough to make the student clam up and shrink back in fear.

“ I should’ve destroyed this place when I had the chance all those years ago. Imagine my surprise last year when that brat Harry Potter was able to outsmart me yet again,” Voldemort hissed, his gaze briefly turning towards Harry.

Harry boldly stood up, despite the urging from Hermione and Ron not to do so. “ I can do it again, too. You’re nothing when compared to my parents, or Dumbledore, or the other good wizards and witches in this school,” he snapped back, causing Voldemort to hiss in anger.

Before anyone could react, Voldemort pointed his wand at Harry, sending forth a bolt of such energy that it sent Harry to his knees on the floor. Dumbledore stood up, as did the other teachers at the head table.

[izout]

This is getting interesting.

[Zili]

This story looks great! I can't wait to see what happens next.

[Angelfox]

Voldermort is so gonna get his ass whipped but good

[Kali_WolfChilde]

lol, thanks 4 the comments, everybody.

[Underground Blue]

Wow, KEEP IT COMING.

[RedAvatarianRanger]

that is very ggood. i cant wait for the rangers to come in and send him flying against the wall. im also looking foreward to the students ranger relationships to form. and based on your fic you are a Madison fan? and you really enjoy the madison/Xander thing. im more a madison Nick person myself but the fic is so good i dont even care. KEEP IT UP!!!!!!

[Kali_WolfChilde]

there's not a Madison/Xander thing going on. but i can see where u got that assumption. i will try and post another ep on Sunday, if i'm able (finals week for colelge exams is here at last). Hope u will continue to keep reading.

[RedAvatarianRanger]

Cant wait. I re read it and it still gets me how madison absolutly kicked malfoys ass. i love it. i wonder how Voldemort got into the castle. and ifg malfoy and gang are going to try to seek revenge on the rangers, wow this story could be neverending. will ther be an underworld voldemort teamup?

[Kali_WolfChilde]

“ Voldemort, leave the students alone. Let them go, and deal with me,” Dumbledore authoritatively told the evil man.

“ I will do as I please, Dumbledore. But I did not come for your pathetic students. I came to get the second heir of Slytherin,” Voldemort informed him.

“ If you think we know where he is, much less that we’d tell you if we did, you’re out of yer mind!” Hagrid shouted at Voldemort.

This angered the sinister-looking man so much that he pointed his wand at the head table, whispering a few words. A bolt of energy struck the table, solidifying into a large mostly brown snake.

“ You will tell me what I want to know, Dumbledore, or your pathetic gamekeeper will be the first to die,” Voldemort warned, just as he shot another bolt of energy at the table. This bolt solidified into an exact replica of the first snake, and this snake was directly in front of Professor Minerva McGonagall.

“ We do not know where the heir is,” Dumbledore honestly said.

“ That’s too bad, for you,” Voldemort said. He opened his mouth to say something else, when a second, stronger, icy wind swept through the room. The snakes were even affected, hissing and rattling their tails in anger.

Lightning flashed outside, frightening quite a few students. A dark zap of silvery-black and green energy flashed just beside Voldemort, causing him to whirl in anger.

“ What trickery is this?” he demanded to know as two more zaps of energy struck the first.

* * * * *

ten minutes earlier; a small, American Southern town

I sighed and kicked at a clump of dirt in my path. I’d been in this section of a god-awful hunting-for-pure-sport-based town for a mere five days, and already I was sick of the place. Even as I looked up, I saw twenty-five year old Johnny Rider and his two-year-younger cousin, Terry James, hauling yet another deer carcass from the back of their flat-bed pickup truck.

Those two were notorious in the town for catching some of the biggest deer on record; of course that was due partially to the fact that they got special hunting privileges every few years, whenever Terry’s rich dad donated funds for one of the town’s various projects.

“ Hey, Kari, why don’t you come over this afternoon. Me and Terry’ll challenge you and your new friend to a poker game. Losers cook dinner,” Johnny called out to me. I turned and glared at him.

“ Not on your life. Buzz off, I’ve got things to do, things that don’t involve killing innocent animals for the pure pleasure of it,” I snapped back at them, pulling my jacket tighter around my chest.

“ Figures. Little miss high-and-mighty is too busy to hang with us. What a loser bitch,” I heard Terry grumble. My hands clenched into fists in my pockets. I withdrew my fisted hands as I marched over to where Terry and Johnny were.

“ What did you just say about me?” I demanded to know of Terry, my eyes shooting darts of anger at him and his cousin.

“ I called you a loser, bitch. What’re you gonna make of it?” he daringly asked me. Anger smoldered deep within me, and with a curse word that caused Johnny’s eyebrows to arch sky-high, I pulled my fist back, sending it crashing into Terry’s stomach. This, in turn, sent him crashing to the ground.

I knelt down, smashing my fist into his stomach again, and then into his shoulder. “ I know you killed my pet deer, you rotten, snobbish twit,” I growled angrily. Johnny quickly grabbed my shoulders, pulling me off of his cousin as Terry struggled to regain his breath.

“ Calm down, Kari,” Johnny admonished me, but I growled at him as I jerked out of his grasp, moving several feet from him and the downed Terry.

“ I’m sick of you two, and I’m sick of this town. I wish a bolt of lightning would just strike me now and get me out of here,” I growled at him.

No sooner had I said these words than lightning bolts began flashing through the suddenly cloud-filled sky overheard. “ What the hell - ” I started to say, just as lightning began to flash down all around me and the guys.

“ Ayiiiii!” I screamed when a lightning bolt suddenly struck me. I screamed again as a second and third bolt struck me, sending me to my knees as everything dimmed around me.

* * * * *

The pain in my body hit its peak just as I felt my knees come into contact with a hard floor. Feeling - painless feeling - came back to me, and when I opened my eyes, I was downright dumbfounded to find myself in a room full of strangers. When I glanced up, I saw a guy with a deformed nose staring at me.

This galvanized me into action, and I quickly got to my feet, backing away from the guy. “ What the h - Who the hell are you? Where am I, and how’d I get here?” I demanded to know, taking another half-step back when the man gave me an evil smile.

“ Who’s that girl?” a guy called out as the evil-looking man continued to stare at me.

“ The other heir of Slytherin, I presume. How nice of you to join me,” he hissed.

“ The who of what now? Look, I don’t know who you all think you are, but I think it’d be best if you returned my back to my house,” I said, gulping when the evil man gave me a smile that was even more evil than the first.

“ I will destroy you and drain you of your powers,” he told me. He said something in a freaky-sounding foreign language, and it was then that I noticed the huge snakes on the table at the other side of the room. One of the snakes started slithering towards me, its tongue darting in and out of its mouth.

I shrieked in terror, unable to move as the snake slithered closer and closer, finally getting close enough that its scales brushed against my skirt. “ N-nice snake. Y-you don’t r-really want to hurt me. Please don’t hurt me,” I stammered, gulping down a knot of fear as the snake opened its mouth and reared up.

It acted like it was about to bite me, but instead it began to curl around my body. I was trembling as its head came to rest atop my own. “ That is not what I said to do!” the evil man hissed at the snake, repeating the same words from earlier, in the same language.

The snake actually hissed at the man, causing his eyes to spark with anger as the second snake came and took up what I strangely recognized as a defense posture - and it was sitting right in front of me!

“ I order you to obey me!” the evil man snapped, causing the snake on the floor to hiss again. The man said something else, pointing what looked like a small stick at the snake. It instantly turned into a pile of golden-brown ashes.

The snake curled around me went the same way the first one had, but not before its fangs somehow broke off and slid into my pocket, unseen by the evil man. “ Voldemort, leave the girl alone,” some weird bearded guy at the table the snakes had been on said.

“ She’s mine,” the guy named Voldemort hissed.

Five blasts of energy struck him, seemingly coming from out of nowhere. He merely smiled, drawing the energy from himself into his wand. “ Her death is thanks to you,” he said to no one in particular, seconds before he fired a blast of energy at me. The energy struck me just below my heart, and I went flying through the air, landing on a table at which over a dozen students were sitting.

I landed with a painful thud as the energy coursed through me before quickly fizzling out, leaving me feeling - strange. “ You killed an innocent girl!” I heard a boy shout angrily, and I heard several people get to their feet.

“ Her power is now mine! Even you, Dumbledore, cannot hope to defeat me. Nor can those pesky Rangers you brought back here,” Voldemort confidently told the bearded guy I’d noticed.

Something sparked under me, and I swore as I slowly shoved myself to my feet. “ I don’t know who the hell you think you are, but buddy, trust me, you’ve royally pissed me off,” I snarled at the guy as I felt something beating with energy against my torso.

I took out the snake fangs, shocked to see that they were glowing with energy. “ No! She should’ve died!” Voldemort all but screamed.

“ But I didn’t, ya snake-nosed freak,” I snidely retorted.

“ I will remove you from this earth for that comment!” he shouted at me, readying his wand.

“ You can just kiss my natural, white, southern American born-and-bred ass,” I growled, instinctively raising the fangs when he fired his wand at me. The blast hit the fangs, sending me skidding along the table. My anger rose up in me, and as my anger rose, the energy in the fangs began to coalesce around my hand.

“ Take this, ya nasty jerk-freak,” I hissed, thrusting my fang-filled hand forward. A blast of energy shot forward, striking the evil man and sending him crashing up against - and through - one of the huge doors he’d been standing in front of.

I stared in shock from the man to my hand and back again as Voldemort regained his footing.

“ I’ll be back, Dumbledore. You can be certain of that,” Voldemort hissed. Energy seemed to coalesce around his entire body, and just like that, he was gone.

There was total silence for about two seconds before murmurs and stunned whispers began to reverberate throughout the entire room, most eyes coming to rest on me before they slid away just as quickly.

“ Here, let us help you down,” a red-haired boy said as he and his twin took both of my hands, helping me step down from the table.

“ That was a bloody good show you put on,” the second twin told me.

“ Guys, she’s an heir of Slytherin!” another read-headed guy at the table protested.

“ Again, I ask the who of what now? I don’t know who you people are, or what you’re talking about, or much less where I even am,” I snapped at him, turning my gaze to the bearded guy when he called for silence.

“ Mr. Filch, Madame Pumphrey, Rangers - you will please watch over the students. All other teachers, please come with me to my office. You, come with us,” the bearded guy said, nodding at me.

“ Uh, I don’t think so,” I said.

“ Go with Dumbledore,” red-headed twin one said.

“ You can trust him,” number two added.

Gulping for the umpteenth time since arriving in this weirdo place, I nervously walked over to the bearded guy, allowing him to guide me out of the room. I tried to pay attention to my surroundings as we moved along, but it was impossible - partly because some of the things I was seeing were impossible, and partly because one of the teachers kept staring at me.

“ Look, I don’t know what happened back there, but I don’t want no part of this feud you’ve got going on with the snake-nosed dude named Voldemort. All I wanna do is get back home,” I informed the adults as we entered a new room, an office by the look of it.

“ Headmaster, might I suggest a truth potion? She is, after all, a true heir of my house,” the stern-looking guy said as he gave me a not-so-cool head-to-toe appraisal.

“ You know it is forbidden to use them on students,” Severus,” the Dumbledore guy told the stern-looking guy.

When the tall, bearded guy made a move towards me, I instinctively took a few steps away from him. “ Hagrid will not harm you,” Dumbledore told me.

“ I’m not sure than any one of you wouldn’t hurt me. The dude with the stern expression seems to want to do just that, and I’m not sure about the rest of you. All I want is to go back to me home. I’d like for you all to help me, but if you want, I’ll find my own way,” I told them.

“ We should keep her here until we know if she’s really on our side, Headmaster,” stern-faced guy said.

“ Albus, do you think he’s right?” a woman wearing a witch-styled hat spoke up.

Dumbledore nodded. “ In this case, I agree with him, Minerva,” Dumbledore said.

I gaped at him. “ You can’t keep me here against my will!” I protested.

“ Severus, please show our guest to her room. She will be under your watch,” Dumbledore told the man.

“ Right. Come along,” the man said, moving to grab my arm. I threw the fangs at his feet - I don’t know why - and instantly the snake from earlier reappeared, its tongue flicking in and out as its beady gaze fixed on the guy who’d been about to grab my arm.

“ How did she do that? I can sense no magical aura around her,” the lady with the witch hat spoke up.

“ How’d I do that?” I wanted to know, echoing her words.

When the snake turned around, I went stock-still, as did the teachers. The snake stared me right in the eye, then opened its mouth, and - to everyone’s disbelief - the thing actually spoke!

“ I am your ssssservant, Mistresssss Matthiasssss,” the thing hissed, bowing to me.

“ Albus,” witch-hat lady murmured.

The stern-faced guy started to reach for something in his jacket, but Dumbledore stopped him. “ Do not harm her, Severus, or the snake. Would you care to tell us your name?” Dumbledore asked me.

“ I’m Karilina Matthias,” I tentatively spoke as the snake curled up at my feet.

“ I am Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster here at this school. That is Severus Snape, the tall man is Rubius Hagrid, our gamekeeper, and the woman is Professor Minerva McGonagall. Welcome to Hogwarts, Ms. Matthias,” Dumbeldore said, introducing me to the three most prominent people in the room.

“ What’s Hogwarts? And where is it?” I wanted to know.

“ Hogwarts is a school for young witches and wizards. It is located near London,” Snape told me, and I gaped at him.

“ London? As in London, England? How’d I wind up here?” I asked in a high, squeaky voice.

[RedAvatarianRanger]

Very nice!!!! I dont know why but Kari reminds me of Kira. With the way she acted in Mesagogs lab. Not much of the rangers or Harry and Company yet. Are you steering away from there story and onto Karis or is it all going to blend soon?

[[]V[]etal []_ion]

Nice one Kali, just found this; going good and strong, keep it up!

[Acatl]

I thought I had already posted... Where do I have my head?

Anyway, A good beginning and a VERY interesting second chapter, and nice change of narrator in the third one... but I think it's weird no one carde that Voldy hit Harry with a spell. The poor guy must be still in his knees xD