On the day of the second task Harry stood among the other champions waiting for their cue to enter into the area where they would be informed of the task at hand. Though it was obvious they had all figured it out he was the ood one out in terms of how he was dressed. While the others were dressed in suitable clothes for water he himself was not. Dressed in traditional shinto exprcist robes his visage was grim faced. With a motion he offered his hand out to his schools headmaster and accepted the staff with hushed words. The golden rings clanged together with an ominous ring as a half face vulpine designed mask was placed on him.

"You know what to do" Takashi said with an equally grim look. Both he and Harry had felt the presence from the beginning of the week and it seemed to progressively get worse til the mornings dawn light made it almost palpable. The conversation turned Harrys plan on its head changing his lazy approach to making the task all about the exorcism than the actual task at hand.

{If I have to hurt or kill the others for getting in the way may Kami and Ryujin forgive me for doing what is necessary to secure the safety of everyone here} Harry said, his eyes glaring apathetically out from the eye slots. His pupils narrowed to micro thin slits as he saw Takashis grim look deepen. {Without Master Tashiri here to exorcise the presence I am the only one qualified and no one will get in my way. This tournament is a nuisance at worst with the quality of competition and a relief to tedium at very best. Master Tashiri and I may disagree on a great many thing but there is one principle we both believe to be key as does every exorcist, do no more harm than needed and I follow that tenant religiously.}

"Keep the collateral damage to a minimum Sasuke or you're the one paying for it personally" Takashi said ignoring the pointed looks of curiosity. Sometimes it was a blessing there was no translation spells for foreign languages in the British Isles. Considering their many former colonies they should have a multitude of them but times like this it was a blessing they didn't.

"None more than absolutely is in front of me" Harry said out loud.

"Champions to the dock!" came the bellowing voice of Barty Crouch Sr. He and the other judges watched the champions enter with a furrowed brow. While the other three appeared ready for the task the japanese champion did not. If Barty was honest he thought the boy looked more dressed up to perform a ceremony with the way his robe was inscibe witb hundreds upon hudreds of runes, sigils and unknown designs. The fact he carried a staff branded with runes of similar design and wore an ominous looking mask made him shiver. "At the bottom of the lake is your objective. Something you all dearly care about has been taken and is being held hostage by the merpeople. You have one hour to get it back. Your score will be based on how long it takes you to retrieve that thing you dearly miss and the complexity of the magic yous use. On my mark. Three two"

Harry didn't move from his spot on the dock when the canon like sound erupted and the others dove into the lake. Wallking with quick strides to the shore he began his chanting while his left hand began forming handseals. While Master Tashiri taught him traditional exorcism magics it hadn't one hundred percent agreed with his magic. Traditional exorcism required a calm sort of magic and being born of Bahamuts bloodline Harrys magic was everytbing BUT calm. Hence was the creation of his specific style of exorcism. With an agressive handful of Taoism mantras and talismans intertwined with traditional shinto exorcism seals Harrys personal style of exorcism was brought to light. Sigils and runes leapt off his robe suspending themselves in midair around him.

The audience and judges watched in awe as the masked youth rapidly began inscribing what quickly became similiar in looks to a ritual circle with lightning fast digging pulls of his staff through the soft earth.

Harrys chanting stopped as a careless motion of his staff had a flying body come out of the water and land on the medica tent, the body that an uncoscious redhaired freckled girl he didn't know. He didn't pay any attention to the judges awed reactions as his chanting resumed and the runes quickly began to glow a golden-black color. His eyes rapidly searched the arena for the source of the presence before his eyes, glowing a pure molten gold with the amount of magic radiating out from him, spotting the source. Three slams of the butt of his staff had the writhing body of the redheaded boy who threatened his life for murdering the dragon slaver diring the first task before him. "Where is it?" he asked with a soul freezing glare.

"Go to hell murderer" Ron snarled at the boy trying to break free of the magic holding him hostage in a crucified like position.

"Tell me where the demonic possessed item is. NOW!" Harry said barking the order at the boy.

Ron smirked darkly and spit on the japanese boy. "My Lord will award my-"

Not playing any games or having any patience Harry pulled out a rune inscribed knife from the sleeve of his exorcist robe and pressed it directly to the boys throat. "Possession of a possessed artifact and bringing such item to a packed place where it can cause caualties is internationally punishable by death as decreed by the ICW. Are you prepared to die for a 'lord' who cares little about you and is using you as a pawn?" he asked with a sneer. "Do you want to die like your trash brother? Or perhaps are you that stupid?"

The stadium went pin drop silent for a moment before whispers began.

"I won't ask you again, make me do so and I will slit your throat here and now in accordance with international law to preserve the lives of everyone here. Tell me where the possessed artifact is and I will spare your life to let you see trial" Harry said with an evil glare.

"My Lord shall make you suffe-"

Harry stabbed the knife through the redheads throat practically beheading the boy. While many cried out and lost their stomach contents Harry was focused on the body gushing blood like a grotesque geyser. Unlike most robes his absorbed the blood instead of being stained annd the runes on his knife lit up in a purple like toxic miasma making him grimace. "Taking the possession into your own blood, no better than a muggle suicide bomber" he said with disgust. Letting the body drop into the center of the runic circle his chanting began again as the runes that had been glowing golden-black became the same toxic purple.

Takashis eyes were nearly paper thin slits as he looked at the woman who was the new Headmistress of Hogwarts since Dumbledores punishment for his crimes had not only snapped his wand but seen him sentenced to the darkest deepest hole the ICW had after sealing his magic. "You let your students walk around possessed by demonic artifacts and endager others?!" he demanded accusingly. "You should be killed as well for allowing such acts!" he barked at the scottish witch with rage in his voice.

Minerva was green in the gills barely hearing what was going on. One of her students was possessed by a dark artifact? They were that much of a threat to everyone and she didn't even know it? She was having flashbacks to the incident with the basilisk and her stomach was turning viciously. "I...I didn't know. I've barely been able to make heads or tails out of Albus' system of keeping eyes on the students" she said trying to keep from losing her stomach like so many others were.

A pure white light encompassed the area around Harry and when it died away the body was gone, the only remainder was a pile of ashes and bloodstained black robes. "The presence is exorcised Headmaster. The only collateral damage was the hostile host entities mortal life" he said, his voice enhanced by a sonorous charm.

Takashis glare was still focused on the Hogwarts Headmistress. "The ICW shall be hearing about the carelessness of this schools staff to allow such dangerous things to happen. You'll be lucky if the only thing they do is just revoke your mastery status and teaching credentials!" he said with a dark snarl. Apparating next to Harry he reached over removing the mask and taking the staff from the boy. Most exorcists would rather drop dead than allow another to touch their staff or exorcism mask but Master Tashiri, the schools Mystic Arts sensei, had made two things certain about the artifacts. Number one, the use of them was only under dire need or emergency. Number two, it took Harry being in possession of both for either artifact to work since the artifacts were forged of dragon bone taken from the Bahamut family shrines to work. Even if he wanted to use them, the artifacts would not recognize his magic since they were intended for Bahamut blood mebers only.

Harrys eyes returned to normal as his shoulders slumped showing the strain. Even with four years of near drop dead blackout intensive training using the mask and staff in conjuction was far more taxing than it should be. "Permission... To rest sir?" he asked between panting breaths as he wiped sweat from his brow.

Instead of answering Takashi caught Harry before he collapsed and lowered him to a sitting position. "Permission granted exorcist, rest and I shall wake you when the scores are to be announced." Before Harry could even nod he saw the youths eyes already closed and his breathing slow. Dark eyes glared at the homely matron Hogwarts called a Healer rush over. "You will not touch my student you sow of a woman. If your defecient teaching staff is a disaster it cannot tell that one of the students is possessed by a dark artifact that could have killed everyone here had my student and I not sensed the presence of the miasma, do you really think I'm going to let you lay a finger on my protege?" he asked with his wand pointed squarely at the womans chest.

"He needs-"

"Rest. The magical artifacts of his family demand a lot of focus and magic to use properly hence he has me safeguard them in case he needs them and be thankful he has that mindset. If he didn't we would all be dead because of that boy he killed had toxic blood tainted with dark magic that was potent enough it would kill everyone here" Takashi said with his wand glowing a crimson red with a held back curse. "Back up and leave my student to rest or so help me Kami I release this curse and you go flying into the ground with enough force to knock you unconscious."

Knowing when to pick her battles the homely matron backed away slowly toward the medical tent to check on the redheaded girl tosed carelessly on top of it.

Takashi let the curse die as the mask and staff disappeared in a dark shadow. Though no one but he and Harry would know it sent the artifacts to the shrine hidden beneath the academy where all the Bahamut articacts in Japan were hidden. Only two people had access to the shrine, Harry and himself though only Harry could use them at all. Bending down he lifted his sleeping student into his arms and carried him into the medical tent reserved just for him. After laying him down with their school Healer, he left express instructions to NOT disturb Harrys rest until it was time for scores to be announced, and securing the tent flap with ID spells to keep out other school personel or otherwise he returned to the judges booth.

The first to surface was Viktor Krum with his hostage, a girl with ashy blonde hair, half self-tramsfigured to be shark like. As the pair, coughing and sputtering, floundered onto the shore there was some applause but not much. Viktor, after returning to normal, noted many pale faces wiping what looked like vomit from their mouths. He was confused why and more so when he saw what looked like the remains of a decimated ritual circle, the runes gone and unreadable but the outer unbroken line that went around it clear as day, with the remains of smokey white ashes & bloody robes inside it on the shore not too far from him.

Next came Cedric minutes later and he was too out of breath to care about the lack of apparent enthusiasm as he dragged his hostage, the asian girl he brought as his date to the Yule Ball, to the shore. He let them be brought to the Hogwarts medical tent to be fretted over by Madame Pomfrey. He was sore, he was tired, he was injured and bleeding in addition to feeling magically drained.

Last came Neville near the hours end and he barely got himself and his hostage on the shore before Madame Pomfrey was upon them. He was more beat up than Cedric and looked half dead as the woman let him use her to steady himself as she levitated his hostage into the medical tent.

Nearly twenty minutes after Neville was brought into the tents the four champions were told to assemble to receive their of the boys assembled though the japanese Healer approached with the champions. "As the the medical representative of my schools staff it is my sound medical opinion Mr. Bahamut has magically overexerted himself in completing the task AND exorcising the dark magic from the Hogwarts student. He will be kept unconscious to recover and I will receive his scores for be relayed as soon as his core has refilled itself" the woman said confidently and with an attitude of 'I dare you to defy me' glaring out of her eyes.

The school heads looked between each other though Takashi didn't look worried in the least. Hd had seen Harry overexert himself in the past where his core nearly ran dry and having to exorcise dark magic that potent out of blood, he would be surprised if Harry was conscious. "As the schools Headmaster I concur with our Healer. She is intimately familiar with how seriously my protege takes his training and has overseen his care in cases like this where he has had to sleep off magical exhaustion of this degree. We shall proceed with the giving of scores" he said giving a sharp glare at the british ministry representative and the other school heads.

For three days and nights the Healer kept a vigil over Harrys unconscious form. Nutrient potions she brewed herself were carefully fed to him intravenously. Around noon on the fourth day after the task he began to stir. "Kami above... Tell me someone got the breed of the dragon that chewed me up and spit me out" he said with a groan. His muscles were stiff, he was sore and for the moment he was seeing double.

"You had me worried Mr. Bahamut. You've been unconscious three days. Three days too long to be precise" the Healer said looking up from his Harrys medical chart. Her dark ocean blue eyes showed frustration but much more relief. "Whats the last thing you remember?" she asked pulling up a seat after summoning a glass of water for him to drink.

Harrh took it thankfully and downed half of it at once. "The task. A careless motion of my staff got my hostage out of the lake. I carved out the cleansing ritual circle before summoning the source of the presence. The boy resisted. I killed him discovering he'd taken the possession into his blood making it poisonous and tainted with dark magics. His body was cleansed and reduced to ash. The headmaster took back my mask and staff then nothing" he said slowly pushing himself into a sitting position.

"Then I don't have anything to explain to you beyond your score. You're in last place obviously but I know you don't care about that. The headmaster and Highmaster Karkaroff awarded you the maximum points while the british ministry wanted to have you arrested for murder" the healer said grimacing.

"And I'm guessing this is where you tell me the headmaster piped in saying that making a case for murder requires an innocent victim? Because that...thing was no longer human with that volatile miasma in its veins" Harry said with a dark disdainful tone.

"Indeed. It was also said by the headmaster that the ICW would be informed for England allowing terroristic agents to infiltrate Hogwarts with intents of mass homocide of foreign nationals. You can imagine how quickly that shut them up" the healer said with a sadistic smirk.

Harrh shared the smirk for a moment before he leaned over and kissed the healers cheek softly for a moment. "Thanks for keeping a vigil over my health Casey. I know its part of your oath as a Healer but you're a real good friend" he said pulling back as the smirk melted to something smaller and nicer for a moment.

The witch blushed a little and shook her head. "Think nothing of it, its what friends are for Sasuke" she said forcing herself to keep from stuttering.

"True but I truly appreciate it. I know if Li was here she'd be right here beside you like a mother hen" Harry said letting his head hang a little to relieve the slight throbbing migraine. "Whens the next task?"

"June 24th at dusk. Odd if you ask me but I don't get paid to understand inbred retarded medieval English-"

Harry coughed once with a pointed look.

"Oh don't even give me that look. Your blood makes you more a mix of eastern european and asian than English so come off it. You know I'm right most of then are inbred" Casey said folding her arms under her bust.

"Doesn't change the fact my father was British. Its still a slight to me considering how long I lived in this Kami forsaken nation" Harry said shooting back his own reply.

"Seems you're feeling better already Sasuke if you're bickering with Ms. Mayuri." From the doorway Takashi looked in at the pair minutely amused as evidenced by the slightest raise of his eyebrow. "I burned your exorcist robe while you were unconscious. Too much of the tainted blood was absorbed and began to corrupt the runes & sigils."

"Thanks, I was going to ask Casey to retrieve you to ask that very question. How long do I have to stay in bed? There aren't enough hours in the day to begin researching-"

Casey smacked Harry over the with a folded up fan silencing the boy. "Until I say so. There is time between now and the third task. I am going to make sure your health is PRISTINE in all regards before I give you the ok to leave this bed. Got it?" she asked with a scary sweet smile that promised pain if Harry didn't agree.

Harry grunted and hissed in irritation. He hated sitting around doing nothing when there was so much to do and so little time to do it. "What do you expect to do til such time then?" he asked with a semi-dark look shot between the pair.

Takashi quirked his lip and tossed a scroll. "Li and the others sent that with regards" he said with an amused tone.

Harry opened the scroll suspiciously and his looked darkened more. "This is bloody homework!" he said with irritation. "Something I am exempt from as a competing champion!"

"And yet young master" Luna entered the room clad in a black & gold kimono decorated with a snarling dragons head on her back "you do not want to lose your standing as top of your year in terms of academic standing now do you?" she asked.

Harry did a double take before looking at Takashi.

"She found her own way back here. Don't look at me" the elder wizard holding his hands up.

"Its not that bad Sasuke, I'll help if it makes you feel better or too hard for you" Luna said with a teasing edge. A chuckle escaped her lips as it took the tease to get Harry to comply and dive in. "I told you it would work" she said holding a hand up to Takashi, palm skyward. Ignoring the mans grumbling she took the small bag of galleons before taking the empty seat the Healer had occupied before.

Takashi motioned Casey to follow him out. Leaving Harry and Luna be for now seemed to be the best idea at the moment.

-MEANWHILE IN MINERVAS OFFICE-

Minerva was midway through reading a damage report when the door into her office was shoved open. Not being in the best of moods she looked up with fury ready to tear i to the person who dared intrude only for her eyes to widen in shock and all color drain from her face. Before dressed in dark grey borderline black suits bearing crests of the ICW were the last people she wanted to see.

"Headmistress Minerva McGonagall?" one of the men asked. The silence gave him the go ahead he needed. "I am Flavian Del Rey and this is my partner Jose Vega. We are part special investogators of the ICWs education mismanagement department. We have had troubling report after troubling report submitted to our department regarding this school beginning with the complicity of former headmaster Albus Dumbledore in interational theft & endangerment of a protected borderline extinct species of dragon protected by the emperor of japan. Imagine our surprise when we get not only a report of your school housing a student possessed by a black magic artifact that he was little more than a ticking time bomb that could have killed a stadium full of people."

"Not only that but your 'ignorance' of the matter forced the hand of a champion to kill the boy in question to exorcise the black magic and your ministry has the audacity to call for the young man to be arrested for murder? You should bowing at his feet thanking him for saving your sorry ass" Jose said with a glare.

"I-"

"Silence, you do not get to speak. As of right now you are stripped of your duties as Headmistress and we as representatives of the ICW are taking control of management of this school since you amd your staff have proven your defeciencies in being able to do so yourself. Pending a full investigation I would begin to look for a new job if I were you. This pattern of neglect beginning with Dumbledore has rippled outward and has been a black stain on this once respected institution of learning. All staff members are going to be evaluated and if they are found lacking we have been authorized to revoke teaching licenses & credentials. Now begone from this office" Flavian ordered pointing to the door.

Minerva, too in shock, complied wordlessly and left without putting up an ounce of fight