𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦

Chapter 26 - Awakening

Chapter 26

3rd POV

Awakening

"The veela were created by a curse?" Fleur gaped at Merlin who nodded, his gaze not leaving the forest floor.

"A curse you helped to create?" She continued, her voice low and Harry watched Merlin only gave another nod in response.

Harry felt the air around Fleur warm up as she released his hand and took a step toward Merlin.

"Fleur..." Harry said, reaching toward her, but stopping as he couldn't think of anything else to say.

Harry felt hands on his shoulders, and he turned to see Godric on his left and Arthur on his right.

They both wore smiles as they looked down at him before shaking their heads, Harry cocked his head before turning to watch Fleur and Merlin.

Fleur strode to Merlin, stopping in front of him and Harry could feel the heat radiating from her even from meters away.

"Thank you." She said, as she gave the ancient wizard a hug.

Merlin froze, looking at her in horror.

"What?"

Fleur pulled away, tears in her eyes.

"I never knew how the veela were created, there were legends yes, but nothing ever concrete. But now I know, and I can share with my people. Our origins." She whispered and Merlin's eyes widened.

"You? You're a veela? Wait, we must discuss.but most importantly." He paused, looking at both Fleur and Harry.

"How are you with us in Harry's mindscape? Harry? What did the two of you do today? You did something, otherwise the lovely young lady wouldn't be here." Merlin asked, Harry could see his mind acing.

Harry and Fleur glanced at each other, shrugging. Harry could think of lots of things they did, but nothing that would explain something like this...except.

"We performed a veela bond? Fleur bonded her magic to mine. Would that do it." Harry asked, and Fleur smiled at him.

The fleur noticed the two men with hands on Harry's shoulders and her eyes went wide. Harry groaned; he was horrible with introductions.

"Sorry Fleur, this is Godric Gryffindor, a founder of Hogwarts and one of my distant ancestors." He gestured to his left, then to his right.

"And this is King Arthur Pendragon, to my knowledge I have no relation to him." He grinned at the man who shook his head at Harry with a scowl on his face.

"And congratulations to the two of you. Bonded, very impressive." Godric said with a smile, squeezing Harry's shoulder.

"I am unsure of the significance of this bond,but in any case congratulations are in order I believe. I am glad to meet you young Fleur. Glad that we can talk to someone else of your ear without having to go through Harry when doing so." Arthur added with a smile.

Harry watched as Fleur worked her way to get over her shock at seeing the legendary figures all at once and moved toward her only for Merlin to interrupt.

"A veela bond? Interesting. Very interesting. No Fleur, can you please come with me? We need to have a chat." Merlin motioned with an impatient gesture to follow him before he turned and moved away from the group.

Fleur frowned as she met Harry's gaze. He gave her a soft smile and nod. She smiled and gave him a wink before running to catch up to the ancient wizard.

"Watch yourself old man." Harry called and Merlin froze for a moment before shaking his head and continuing.

Harry turned to see Godric and Arthur hiding chuckles before holding their hands.