Harry Potter And The Pure Hearted One

Chapter 12

When they reached Old Smokey, Harry immediately peeled off his jacket and Oliver rolled up his sleeves, Hermione fanning herself. Esther was used to the heat seeing as she lived in the desert.

"Alright." Oliver told them, standing before them. "We'll have to climb to the top of the volcano if we want to find out what to Drippy and Aaliyah and put the rock back on the top so that the volcano doesn't erupt." Harry looked at him with wide eyes.

"We have to reach... the top of a volcano!?" He asked, panting already. Oliver nodded, wiping sweat from his forehead, when they heard a loud scream coming from the top, and a roar.

"Aaliyah!" Esther shouted, before heading up the volcano as fast as she could. Oliver followed, then Hermione. Harry sighed, but then he followed last.

Along the way, they had slow down, for they were all getting so tired, if they didn't, they would  collapse. When they did, Oliver heard Hermione give a yell behind him, and turned to see that a Boggly-Boo was going after her!

"Hermione, watch out!" He shouted, aiming Mornstar at the familiar. "Frostbite!" And the spell froze the Boggly-Boo, taking him straight down. Hermione put her hand on her heart, panting hard.

"What was that? Was that a creature like Drippy?" Oliver shook his head.

"No, that wasn't a fairy. that was a Boggly-Boo, a type of familiar. You'll see a lot of different types running around here. Esther and I have a few ourselves." Harry looked up.

"You just carry those little creatures around?" Esther nodded, sending out Gogo, her Messy Plessie, and her newest addition, a Sea Naiad. 

"These are my familiars." Hermione caught up with her and timidly reached down to pet Gogo, who squawked happily, nuzzling her hand, making the curly haired girl smile.

"She's lovely! Where did you find her?" Esther smiled.

"It's a spell, called Form Familiar. it brings out the fighting spirit in your heart."

"Would we be able to try it?" Oliver nodded excitedly. He always loved to watch people's reactions when they got their familiars.

"Yeah! Here, create this symbol." Oliver drew the symbol in the dust on the ground, and both Harry and Hermione waved their wands. As soon as the symbol had been created, their chests began to glow, and they both gasped.

"What's happening!?" Harry exclaimed, dropping his wand, and Oliver laughed as a bubble of light shown from his chest, and a Draggle appeared!

"Neato! I didn't know people could have a Draggle from their soul!" Harry stared at the little red dragon as it fell gently to the ground, as a Toko fell in front of Hermione.

"Wow! A Toko!" Esther ran over to Hermione's familiar, Hermione staring at it, exuberantly. "They're really powerful! I've never been able to tame one, but it's so hard to beat them!" 

"Hermione's a really powerful witch." Harry told them, rather defiantly, as if he expected them to argue with him. 

"A Draggle's pretty tough, too." Oliver commented. "Toko's are strong magically, while a Draggle is strong physically." That was when a Ruffian, two Boggly-Boos, and a Hullabaloo appeared! "Here we go!" Oliver exclaimed, sending out Mitey, Esther pulling in the Messy Plessie and Sea Naiad.

"Why don't you two use this battle to learn a little bit about your familiars?" Esther suggested. "Just think what you want them to do, and they'll do it." Hermione looked to the Toko, then aimed her wand at him.

"Toko! Attack!" The Toko jumped up, then ran at the Ruffian, whacking with its little staff, but not doing much damage, while Harry's Draggle destroyed the Hullabaloo and Oliver's Mighty Mite took down one of the Boggly-Boos.

Esther controlled Gogo in defeating the other Boggly-Boo, but she noticed Hermione, the brightest witch her age, struggling a bit with controlling her Toko and was being attacked badly.

"Hermione!" She called, running over. "Try Rolling Stone and Parp! They're both magic attacks!" Hermione nodded to her.

"Alright, Toko! Use Parp!" The Toko jumped up again, and did its little spell, and the Ruffian took some real damage, before Howling loudly, all of them covering their ears.

"Toko! Use Rolling Stone!" Hermione shouted over the Howl, and the Toko used its staff to drop a rock on the Ruffian's head, sending it down.

"We did it!" Oliver cheered, and he and Harry ran over to the girls, Hermione looking proud of herself.  

"Hermione, that was brilliant!" Harry told her, and she shrugged.

"It was a bit difficult at first, but I got used to it once I learned what spells that Toko could use." 

"It always is." Esther told kindly as they began walking again. "But once you get used to it, you can do anything with your familiars." 

"Yeah, Esther's actually a familiar keeper!" Oliver told them. "She knows more about familiars than anyone I know!" Esther blushed.

Soon, they reached the Waystone near the top. "Harry, Hermione, touch that." Oliver told them, touching it himself. "It'll refill your magic, and fix up any cuts and bruises you have. Something tells me that we'll be heading into a big battle." Harry and Hermione exchanged nervous looks, then wearily touched the Waystone as they went further up the mountain, just a the ground rumbled, a roar erupted from ahead, and a yell.

"Come on, Miss Aaliyah!" Came a small Welsh voice. "You can do it!" 

"I'm trying!" Came a rather strained, tired voice. "Do something other than yell at me!" 

"That must be Aaliyah!" Oliver told the others, hurrying up the rest of the way up the volcano, where they found Aaliyah, her clothes charred and her hair having a small flame in it, as a huge, charred black rock beast with a firey mane and tail stood over her, red claws held out as if to claw her.

"Aguamenti!"  Harry called without quite thinking, but it hit the beast on the tail, making it roar with pain. 

"Aaliyah!" Esther hurried over to her and pulled her away. "What is this thing?" Aaliyah coughed as Oliver patted out the flame in her hair.

"Vulcaan! He's got the rock for the volcano! I just got to push him back in, but I can't get him close enough for a good, hard, Pulse!" 

"Look out!" Harry jumped in front of her. "Aguamenti!" he shouted again, and the stream of water hit Vulcaan's face, making the beast scream out loudly in pain.

"Aaliyah, where's Mr. Drippy?" Oliver asked. She pointed over towards the edge of the pit of lava, where Drippy was trying to avoid falling in and being pushed in by Vulcaan's tail. "Mr. Drippy!" Oliver ran over to him, shooting Frostbites and Pulse spells at Vulcaan. He couldn't lose Drippy now! "Hang on!"

"Ollie-boy!?" Drippy called, surprised. "Why en't you at school, mun!?"

"Forget, school! You're going to fall into a volcano!" Oliver shouted, still running. Harry looked to the girls.

"Come on, you lot! We have to help Oliver!" Hermione and Esther nodded.

"Right! Let's go!"