An Anima's Justice

A/N Hey everyone. Thank-you for reviewing and letting me know what cat to make Harry. You had alot of really good ideas which then gave me an idea for Harry's mates. Thank-you very much. This is the new chapter. Let me know of any spelling mistakes etc.
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Chapter 2: Birth of an Anima

Large amber eye’s watched the lithe figure lying on the bed. Hedwig could sense her masters’ anxiety and wished to soothe him.
Harry was startled out of his thoughts when something stroked through his hair. He turned with a giggle to see Hedwig trying to preen her “chick”.

“What would I do without you girl?” Harry softly whispered into the dark.

A hoot and a puffing of chest feathers was his reply. While stoking Hedwig’s soft plumage Harry once again returned to his thoughts.
‘Everything I thought I knew was a lie. Well not entirely. There have been two constants since I came into this world and two more that came with time. Maybe I can scope those four out, see if they’ll be willing to join my new order. But whether or not they do, I will change this world. I will recreate it in my own image and smite all those who oppose me.’

Harry laughed at his thoughts, admitting to himself that he had read Dudley’s old bible one to many times out of boredom.

Suddenly, Harry felt a tingling all over his body. With a quick glance at the old clock at his bedside showed it to be 11:59.
With a deep calming breath Harry lay back and tried to relax in preparation for the change. The sudden white-hot agony was almost too much for Harry to keep in his screams. A tiny whimper managed to escape when the flood of fire once again flowed through his veins in a long pulse. Tingly started at the tips of his fingers, and slowly traveled through the rest of him. Soon the tingly grew into an almost unbearable itch, and then blinding pain. Biting his lumpy pillow, Harry tried to muffle his screams. Then with one last pulse of agony, darkness claimed him.

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A buzzing reached Harry’s ears, and he blindly swatted at the clock, unfortunately the buzzing persisted. Groggily Harry sat up and looked out the window. It was still dark but he could see the sky was lightening rapidly. With a gasp Harry’s memories of last night came back to him.

Jumping out of bed, Harry began to run but tripped over something. Looking at his feet Harry saw a long, black… thing. Harry looked at it in annoyance and it twitched. Starting to panic, Harry followed the long black appendage to where it began, only to discover it was attached to him.

Taking large deep breaths Harry calmed himself down, and started to catalogue any differences. First Harry noticed that the buzzing that woke him up didn’t come from his room, and it sounded like it was two doors down the hall, in his Aunt and Uncles room. Clarity hit Harry over the head as he realized it was his uncle snoring. Harry twitched his ear, then froze. Slowly reaching towards the side of his head, all Harry felt was hair. Continuing his journey upwards Harry felt two twitching appendages atop his head. Feeling himself starting to hyperventilate, Harry calmed himself down, repeating to himself how this was normal for an Anima. Or at least he hoped it was. Then he noticed even though it was still dark he could see as if it was high noon. In fact things were in extremely sharp focus, to the point where he noticed the grains in the wood floor. He distantly noticed he wasn’t wearing his glasses either.
Restarting his exploration Harry noticed his ebony hair had grown down to his hips and was very soft. Accidentally scratching himself, Harry noticed his hands. Long slim fingers were tipped with dainty claws that when he concentrated on would retract. His shoulders had widened slightly and so had his hips, but not to the point that he was curvy. Looking to his feet he noticed they had also become long, slim and also decorated with sharp claws.
His tail twitched again, and this time Harry stopped and studied it. It sprouted from the base of his spine and reached down to half way between his knees and ankles.

All of a sudden Harry wished the door was unlocked so he could see himself in the mirror in the bathroom. Several clicks and grinds pulled Harry’s attention to the door, the door that had previously been locked tight but was now wide open.
Not questioning what just happened, Harry carefully stood, ever mindful of his tail, and stalked across the hall and into the bathroom.

Finally able to see himself, Harry noticed that his pupils had become slitted and when he gasped in surprise twin fangs poked out of his mouth. He was slightly disappointed to find out he was still 5’8 and hadn’t grown a bit from his transformation.

Pulling himself together Harry tried to recall all that he had read so far. He knew that he could do magic now without the ministry noticing since his magic signature had changed. In the book it also said that an Anima could hide in plain site without anyone noticing so there had to be a way for him to hide his special features.
Concentrating hard, Harry imagined his ears as normal human ears, imagines his tail gone and his claws and teeth retracted. Slowly before his eyes his ears shrunk and regrew as normal ears on the side of his head. His tail slowly shrunk into his spine with a small twinge of pain and his teeth and claws slowly looked normal again.

Highly shocked that he had managed to do it and on his first try to, Harry noticed that his hair had not gone to normal length and his pupils were still slitted.

Without all the feline features distracting him Harry realized he looked… hot and sexy. His hair was still untamable but with its length it took on a more just shagged look than I was just to lazy to brush it look.

Sneaking out of the bathroom and back into his room Harry pulled off his slightly blood stained clothes from his transformation, and pulled on the one outfit he had that actually fit him and wasn’t thread bare. He had bought this out fit for just this occasion; it consisted of a pair of blue faded jeans that were not, due to his changes, skin tight. An emerald green t-shirt and a black leather jacket accompanied his jeans. Tying back his hair with a black strip of leather, Harry then went to shrink his trunk but as soon as he thought about it, his trunk shrunk itself. Stunned at the realization that he had done by just thought, Harry pocketed his previously packed trunk and stealthily moved to the window. Looking around Harry was surprised to see Mad-Eye Moody, but then he noticed he had a shimmering sheen all around him. With a stunned realization, he realized he could see through the invisibility cloak that Mad-Eye was wearing.

Pushing his shock aside to deal with later Harry closely watched Moody.

In ten minutes with the sun just peeking over the horizon, Mundungus apparated in with a loud CRACK. Sighing in relief as he saw Moody ream ‘Dung out, most likely for being late, then dissapperating, Harry grabbed his father’s invisibility cloak from where he’d left it out of his packing and wrapped it tightly around himself before jumping onto the window ledge. From what he’d seen of ordinary cats and from what he had read, he should have no problem jumping out of the window safely. Or at least that was what he told his stomache as he looked down from the second floor window.

Steadying his nerves Harry jumped… and safely landed on all fours with out any pain what so ever. For a good minute Harry just crouched there in shock of what he’d just done. The loud CRACK of someone dissapperating drew Harry out of his shock. With a quick look he saw that Mundungus had abandoned his post, most likely to take care of some shady deal he had planned.

With slightly unsteady footsteps Harry walked six blocks from Number 4 Private Drive before removing his cloak. He then proceeded to the local muggle train station. The Order might try and track all magical ways of leaving but he doubted they’d think to check muggle transportation, at least not right away.

Buying his ticket with some previously stolen cash from his Uncle, Harry boarded the 5:45 train headed for London.

A sense of relief and purpose filled Harry as he watched the land fly by his window. He had something again that he thought he had lost with Sirius. Hope.

TBC