Outsider Chronicles: Half-blood Earth

With the Second Year over and the summer beginning, new revelations are coming. With an old bond restored, Holly and Leo answer the call of their lost family and the next of the Lost Knights.

And here we are with book three of the Knights of Heaven series! This one will be set primarily in the Percy Jackson world and so will be placed in the crossover section. For those just joining us, I suggest that you go read Black Zodiac and Dark Eclipse first, but other than that, enjoy!

Chapter 1

The first morning back home from school, I woke to an extremely strange feeling that was simultaneously unfamiliar and extremely familiar. Being used as a teddy bear by Holly. While we had shared a bed for most of the previous summer, we had mostly kept to our sides of the bed, other than the times that Holly had had a nightmare. This morning though, I woke to find Holly using my chest as a pillow and hugging me tightly.

I smiled at her peaceful face, gently tucking a strand of hair behind her ear and kissing her on the forehead where the faded line of her old scar could only just be seen. Holly smiled in her sleep and snuggled closer, making me smile as well. I lay back, absently stroking Hollys hair as my mind went over everything that had happened to me.

It was extremely hard to believe that me, a person from the 'real' world, would find himself here, in a world of fantasy and magic, on top of the newest revelations that I hadn't just been reborn once, but twice. My memories of my third life were still hazy at best, other than my memories of Leonus' time with Harlequin and a few others that could come in helpful, like the Knights skill with a sword and spear. Then their was the more recent revelation about me and Holly being a little more than we previously thought.

Before I could continue down that line of thought however, the door to my room was nudged open and my Familiar, Lucy the Nemean Lioness, hopped up on the bed. Now, normally doing such a thing would crush me, Holly, the bed and likely the floor as well, but over the past year, Lucy had fully matured along with our Bond, granting her certain powers. Normally, a Familiar Bond simply increased an animal's intelligence, strength and, occasionally, the ability to share their senses with their Master, but magical Familiars often gained something special. Kneezels gained the ability to share their observations of people with their master for example. Lucy's new ability was to change her size from the size of a dump truck to that of a kitten or anything in between. Right now she was the size of a house cat and nosed her way under my arm to rest her head on the other side of my chest to Holly.

"Hey girl," I said, scratching the Lioness behind the ear, making her purr happily.

Taking a truck sized cat to school hadn't really been possible, so Lucy had spent the last school year at Malfoy Manor which, it turned out, had been placed in Mums name so Lucius didn't have to pay as much in taxes. As a result, the Malfoys were now down a house and their Vaults had taken a massive hit from the loss of connection to the Black Vaults and income. It was a very good thing that Sirius hadn't been able to demand the Dowry back or the Malfoys would have been completely gutted.

A quiet giggle drew me out of my musings and I looked down to see Lucy licking Hollys nose, making her twitched and giggle, before she opened her eyes and gave a sleepy glare at the cat.

"Stupid moggy, waking me up," she grumbled.

Lucy, and I swear that this is true, stuck her tongue out at Holly, before wriggling out from under my arm and trotting over to the door, shooting a look at us that clearly said 'get a move on', before vanishing through the slightly open door.

"That cat is far to smart for her own good," grumbled Holly, before smiling up at me, "Good morning Leo."

I returned the smile.

"Good morning to you to," I said, before glancing at the clock on my bed side table, "As much as I don't want to, we should get up. Sirius said he had something to show us today."

Holly grumbled, but clambered out of bed anyway and headed into my ensuite to wash up, leaving me alone.

15 minutes later, we were both washed and dressed and heading downstairs for breakfast. We entered the kitchen to see a furious looking Sirius shouting at someone through the Floo under a silencing ward so we couldn't hear what he was saying. Holly and I sat at the table and waited for the Black Lord to finish as Dobby popped breakfast in front of us. Five minutes later, Sirius was done and took down the ward, before flopping down in the closest chair looking highly annoyed.

"Something wrong Uncle?" I asked.

"Fudge is being a coward," he growled, before sighing and accepting a cup of tea from Dobby, "But Ami and I will have it sorted in no time. You kids don't need to worry."

Holly and I glanced at one another, but decided to leave it. It was probably something related to the Wizengamot that would bore us to tears.

"So what was it you wanted to show us?" asked Holly.

Sirius perked up at that and smiled knowingly.

"Oh, I think your going to like it," he said, "What do you know about Animagi?"

My eyes widened at that.

"Wait, you're gonna teach us?" I asked excitedly, sounding like the 12, nearly 13, year old my body was rather than the warrior I was.

Holly blinked in confusion and looked between us.

"Sorry, but whats an Animagi?" she asked.

"An Animagus is a Witch or Wizard who can turn into an Animal at will," said Sirius, before turning into Padfoot and back.

Hollys face lit up at the idea, looking every bit as eager as I was to get started.

"When do we start?" she asked, leaping to her feet.

"As soon as we get to the park," said Sirius, before catching our expressions, "What, you didn't think I'd be stupid enough to do something like this inside did you? Its impossible to tell what kind of animal someone is before they take the potion, so its a good idea to do it somewhere open so if their something large, like say, a Dragon, they don't cause too much damage. Now go grab your coats."

We moved so fast to obey we practically left vapor trails and nearly ran over Mum as she entered the kitchen.

Half an hour later, Sirius, Holly and I were in the nearby park under heavy Anti-muggle Wards, ready to get started. Mum sat on a bench near by working through some paperwork for something or other.

"Right, the first thing you need to do is take this," said Sirius, holding up to vials of black potion, "And I suggest you knock it back quickly. It tastes vile."

"And thats different how?" I asked, taking the vial Sirius handed me, "Well, bottoms up."

I knocked back the vial and felt the thick, oily potion slide down my throat as I swallowed, coating my tongue with the taste of rancid milk.

"Urgh, you weren't kidding," I groaned as I tried to keep my breakfast down, "So what nyew."

I blinked as everything suddenly seemed to get a lot bigger and I found myself staring up at Sirius and Holly, both of whom were staring down at me in surprise, before Sirius burst out laughing and Holly let out a squeal.

"SO CUTE!"

I turned to the mirror Sirius had set up and took in my reflection, only to nearly facepalm as I saw my form. I'm sure everyone is expecting me to be something big and impressive, like a lion or wolf, but the truth was rather underwhelming. Oh, and I needed a new nickname for Draco cus now I'm a ferret. A small, black and white ferret with tufts of hair around my ears that resembled my hair's natural spikes in human form and a white feet and tail tip.

At that moment, the potion wore off and I turned back into my Human form, Keeping a straight face, I grabbed my wand and activated Zodiac Lance, before swinging it like a bat to hit Sirius over the back of the head.

"Isn't it rude to laugh at another's form?" I grumbled as the Black Lord rubbed the back of his head ruefully.

"Well, yes, but I can't help but laugh at the irony of you calling Draco a Ferret when you're apparently more ferret than he is," said Sirius.

I growled and glared at the unrepentant Grimm Animagus, before turning to Holly, who looked eager.

"Your turn Holly," I said.

Holly knocked back her dose, grimacing at the flavor, before she transformed with a pop into...a black rabbit with green eyes.

"Huh, thats interesting," I said, crouching down for a closer look, studiously ignoring Sirius' snort.

Holly looked at herself in the little mirror, before she transformed back with a pop, a big, happy smile on her face.

"YAY, I love rabbits!" she chirped.

"Huh, I'd forgotten about that," I muttered, remembering back to our time as the Knights and the pet Moon Rabbit Harlequin had had.

"So what now?" asked Holly, clearly eager to learn how to change at will.

"The next bit is the hard part," said Sirius, "And its not one that can be rushed. You need to meditate on your Animal and try to slowly achieve a full transformation by running your magic through your body. The Potion is just meant to cut out the effort of actually finding your Animal. I suggest that you spend an hour every night meditating. Since your forms are so small, it should take less time than if they were something like a horse or even a dog."

Holly looked a bit disappointed and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't. While not exactly impressive, the idea of being able to turn into a small, unassuming Ferret, or any animal for that matter, was an incredibly attractive concept.

Still, it was a beautiful day and we decided to take advantage of it now that the Animagus form discoveries were done with. Sirius pulled down the Wards he'd put up and joined Mum on the bench as Holly and I started messing around.

"Look out!"

"Huh?"

CLANG!

"Owee," I groaned, holding my now smarting head with one hand as I glared at the offending object, an empty coke can, "What the hell?"

"Are you OK Leo?" asked Holly, pulling my hand away from my head so she could check the impact area.

"Yeah, but who kicked that?" I grumbled.

"A-ah, sorry, that was my fault!" called a voice as a little girl came running up to us, "It was an accident, I swear!"

She looked about eight and had light green eyes and dark purple hair that was held up by a white hat with two points and an anchor symbol on the front. She wore a light yellow tanktop with a ruffled bottom, a pair of blue jeans with a pink star on the cuffs and had a brown satchel around her shoulders. I sighed.

"Its fine, just be more careful, OK?" I said.

"OK!" chirped the girl, taking the can as I handed it to her.

She turned and ran back in the direction she came from, only to trip over a perfectly flat field. Holly and I sweatdropped.

"Ohh, Minato fell down," she said, pushing herself up.

"Are you OK?" asked Holly.

"Oh yes, Minatos fine!" said the girl, evidently named Minato.

"A-ah, there you are!"

A scruffy looking man with a goatee, a rasta hat and baggy jeans came running up, looking harried and scared.

"Oh hey Gary, where did you go?" asked Minato.

"Never mind that, we need to go!" said Gary, "We need to go before they find us!"

"Oh I'm afraid its much too late for that little Satyr," said a sultry, feminine voice.

The source of said voice was a truly gorgeous woman with a killer figure, long, black hair, rust red eyes and snow white skin. She was the sort of woman that men would trip over themselves to be with, but was also probably the type to bite said mens heads off afterwards.

"Oh no," moaned Gary, "We're dead!"

"Oh, whats this?" purred the woman, "Three Half-bloods for the price of one? How positively...delicious."

Yep, thats what I thought. I stepped forwards and took my pen out of my pocket.

"Let me guess," I said, "You're an Empousa, correct?"

The woman raised an eyebrow, before letting out a tinkling laugh.

"Oh my but you are an astute one," she said, before she transformed into her monster self.

As expected, she had flaming hair, white skin, red eyes, fangs, and one prosthetic bronze leg and one donkey leg. I didn't react at the transformation, but Minato and Holly both took a step back in surprise and horror. Gary, who I guessed was Minatos protector, looked ready to faint and had already pissed himself if the wet patch on the front of his trousers was anything to go by.

"This is going to be fun," purred the Empousa, before she pounced at me, fangs bared.

"We'll see," I said with a smirk, "Regulus Lancer."

A bolt of golden light shot out of my finger and passed straight through the Empousa's shoulder in a shower of black blood. As a part of the package of memories that came with Leonus was a number of spells from the magical style utilized by the Moon Kingdom that I could use, even without my staff, which I only needed for the really big spells, or those that were built directly into the AI. The magic sort of reminded me of something, but for the life of me I couldnt quite remember what it was. However, that wasn't important right now, not when I had an angry Greek Monster ready to tear me limb from limb.

"I'm going to enjoy draining you dry!" she snarled as she threw herself at me, only to meet the blade of my sword that neatly bisected her.

"Oh."

With that final word, the Monster vanished into a puff of sulfuric yellow dust. I turned to the others, resting my sword on my shoulder. Gary was staring at me in shock, Holly looked exasperated and Minato was staring at me with stars in her eyes.

"Whoaa, that was so cool!" she squealed.

"Always the Knight in shining armour," muttered Holly, shaking her head, "And where exactly did you get that sword?"

"A gift from my Father," I said, "My real one that is."

I had told Holly that Lucius wasn't my real Father, although I had neglected to mention that he was an Immortal. I turned to Minato and Gary.

"By the way, I'm Leo Black and this is Holly Potter," I said, "What are your names?"

"I'm Minato Kisaragi," said Minato, "And this is Gary Oak, hes a Satyr."

"And your protector, am I right?" I asked with a grin.

"Y-yes, but how did you know that?" asked Gary.

"I have my ways," I said with a smirk.

"Whats going on over here?" asked Sirius and he and Mum came running up, "And where did you get that sword?"

I suppressed a sigh. This was going to be a looooong conversation.

DONE! Thats the first chapter sorted and I dare say that the next one will be along soon.

So what did you think of the Animagi thing? I know that most people usually use big, powerful animals for their main characters, but I prefer small and unassuming. I intended to have Leo as a Ferret right from the start after I decided not to go the cliche route and have him a lion or something because Ferrets are adorable, as are bunnys.

I hope my explanation as to the abilities that Familiers get made sense because thats the only way I can think of to get Lucy back into the story when shes the size of a dump truck.

Minatos appearance and personality are based on the minor character from Dream Eater Merry, minus the overly clingy Dream Demon of course. She's basically my method of getting them into the PJ world and I invented her solely for one scene that will come up later.

And with that, I'm signing out. Please leave me a review