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Chapter Thirty Eight: Unleashed

Voldemort sprung around, setting razor wire in the air, attempting to wrap it around Harry, but Harry dodged out of the way, before he leapt up onto the desk, and aimed a kick right into the face of Voldemort. The Dark Lord caught Harry’s leg and flung him off to the side, but Harry bounced off and knocked Voldemort backwards. A match shaped object slid out of Voldemort’s pocket and Harry quickly pocketed it himself, but Voldemort was up. A flesh rotting curse was deflected by Harry and Harry moved around, before he tapped his wand towards Voldemort’s bookcase. It blasted right towards Voldemort but the Dark Lord slashed his wand. The books were ripped and the shelf was reduced to dust, but right there, Harry had swerved around Voldemort and threw a pair of daggers towards Voldemort. Voldemort magically deflected them magically and sprung up. His hands were extended towards Harry’s throat but Harry managed to fling Voldemort right into the wall. Harry dove forward and blasted the Dark Lord right through the office door and busting the gargoyle up as well. Harry moved forward into the attack.

“I don’t know how you survived Potter, but you won’t survive again,” said Voldemort angrily, as their attempted spells met in mid air, ricocheting off of each other. One struck a painting off to the side, setting it on fire and forcing the occupants to flee. Another one impacted a suit of armor, shattering it into pieces. Voldemort and Harry continued their battle, before Harry levitated the detached iron mace in the air, before he magically spun it in the air, before he swung it, smashing Voldemort right in the chest. A second smash was blocked, as Voldemort shattered the mace into dust, before he blasted Harry right in the chest, in an attempt to send him down the stairs. Harry hung on and swung around, before he managed to catch Voldemort off guard with a double kick to the face. A second attack was blocked but Harry used Voldemort’s attempt to block to swerve around and summon the rug that Voldemort was standing on out from underneath him. Voldemort gave an angry hiss, as he nearly lost his balance, but firmly landed right on his feet.

Large green flames erupted from Voldemort’s wand and moved towards Harry. Instantly, Harry put them out with splashes of water from his wand. Voldemort looked shocked, no wizard could conjure that amount of water, unless he had strong mystical abilities but there had been none like that since Salazar Slytherin, not even Merlin. Harry took advantage of Voldemort’s momentary distraction, blasting a Kusari-Gama right. Voldemort gave an anguished hiss, as the sickle hooked his arm. Harry gave the chain a pull, ripping the flesh on Voldemort’s arm, before he caused the chain to wrap around Voldemort. Voldemort contorted himself into a black ooze and came from behind Harry, aiming a bone snapping hex at the jaw, which Harry blocked.

The Death Eaters in Hogsmeade had moved forward, the Dark Lord had sounded the alarm, to summon them to Hogwarts, but a series of spells whizzed through the air. Some of the Death Eaters were struck in the back, knocked down to the ground, either immobilized and having their legs broken. Other Death Eaters moved forward, before they saw a group of American Aurors, firing spells right at them. Most of these Death Eaters were not trained that well. A few attacks were easily blocked and other than the odd small cut, the American Aurors quickly immobilized the long rung Death Eaters in Hogsmeade.

“Take them to the transmat and take them to the holding cell in Alaska!” ordered Alexandra. “We don’t need them to recover and cause problems, come on, quickly.”

The American Aurors transferred the group of downed Death Eaters onto one pile, as Ginny and Lily stepped forward, leading the members of Harry’s resistance group, along with the Turtles and Master Splinter, forward through the gates of Hogwarts, the lone guard at the gate dropping easily thanks to a stunning spell. The group looked up at the rumbling, as they saw a trio of giants. The three giants gave a roar, raising the clubs in their hands, before they rushed forward.

“Giants, we need to distract them, until those Death Eaters are transported away,” remarked Lily and the Turtles nodded, before Mikey picked up a rock and flung it right at the face of one of the giants. The giant moved towards Mikey, giving a rumbling roar, as the ground smashed. Mikey gave a scream, as he dodged out of the way, as the other three Turtles and Master Splinter ran around, drawing the attention of the giants away, which allowed Harry’s resistance group to slip beside, to get to the school to engage the higher ranking Death Eaters in battle.

“Come on, follow me!” taunted Raph and the giant, not being very intelligent, took the bait, swinging the large tree sized club down to the ground, but Raph was quicker, the giant smashed the club it into the ground, causing a miniature crater in the ground. Quickly Don sprung up using his Bo Staff, catching the giant in the back of the leg as Leo swiped his sword against the leg of another giant. Leo dodged fist the size of a house and it ripped through several trees in the Forbidden Forest, completely obliterating them. The giant smashed its beefy arm towards the ground once again, as Mikey continued to move around.

“Where are the American Aurors when we need them, I don’t think we can keep this up for much longer,” questioned Mikey, as Master Splinter moved forward, jabbing his walking stick into the toe of one of the giants. The giant gave a bellow and moved towards Splinter, swiping its large hand towards the rat, but Splinter quickly moved out of the way, as he motioned for Leo to assist him. Two giants charged their prey but quickly, the two warriors jumped out of the way. The clubs cracked into their heads, knocking them loopy, but the two giants continued to go around the attacks.

Inside the school, Lily, Ginny, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, and Hermione moved in, they were one of the teams that had split up into the school. They had agreed that certain Death Eaters were to be taken out on this mission, but it would take many wands to take these out, once they had found these Death Eaters. A tapestry was pulled off, as they pointed their wands forward, but relaxed slightly when they had saw it was a small group of fourth and fifth year students.

“They don’t belong here,” said one of the students in a dreamy voice. “Destroy them for the Dark Lord.”

Ginny put up a shield, as a slicing charm was aimed right at her throat. Lily blocked an attempted curse, blocking the attack, as the students proceeded to move forward, firing spell after spell in a rapid fire motion, in an attempt to take them out.

“They’re under the Imperius Curse!” yelled Ginny in sudden realization, as she blocked the attack, which earned several shocked gasps, as Voldemort had used innocent students as canon fodder for his army, even if they were not all that willing to join him. “Be careful not to hurt them, just immobilize them, they don’t know what they’re doing!”

Ginny quickly deflected a stunning spell back into the wall, before responding with one of her own. Tonks dodged a pair of concussion curses, before she blasted the students with stunning spells. They were dropped to the ground, but considering the other students were only programmed to fight to the death, they did not help their fellow students. Sirius was almost tied up with thick cables by three of the students, but he managed to send the attack back at them, immobilizing the students, allowing Lily to fire a stunning spell from behind on the other end. Hermione was pushed against the wall and one of the students raised his wand, but a loud crack caught the student from behind. The student spun around, as Ginny magically broke his wand arm, before tying him up to a suit of armor.

“Move them outside in the Great Hall!” yelled Lily frantically, looking over her shoulder cautiously, as she helped Sirius and Tonks stun the other students, before they magically pulled them up into the air with invisible ropes. “The rest of you keep an eye out for more, I wouldn’t put it past Voldemort to have every student in the school put under the Imperius Curse.”

They nodded, as all they could do right at the moment was to slowly move through the school, as Voldemort had more than a few tricks up his sleeve. Seconds later, Lily, Sirius, and Tonks reappeared, with Lily sealing the exit to the Great Hall, using a charm that she could only deactivate, before they moved forward down the corridors, ready to fight at a second’s notice. The fact that the corridors were silent actually was more troubling, which means the Death Eaters were waiting for an ambush.

The giants rumbled around, circling around Leo, Don, Mikey, Raph, and Master Splinter. They rose their clubs, but several thick cords shot out, wrapping around the clubs of the giants. The giants spun around, angrily growling as they began to struggle. The American Aurors came down from below, blasting several spells right towards the eyes of the giants. The large imposing figures stumbled around, towards the Hogwarts lake, before they toppled over, falling into the lake with a splash. The three giants were isolated in an area of the lake, as the Aurors froze the lake. This process took a couple of minutes, but the giants could not recover long enough until they were done. After the Aurors had completed the process, the giants were trapped in an ice coffin. Alexandra looked around, in case there were more. The Ministry of Magic was stalled, but they would be able to break in a matter of moments. In fact, the loud bang outside of Hogsmeade indicated that the Ministry Aurors were on their way.

“Everyone prepare to fight, we can’t be for certain who is with Voldemort and who is being coerced to fight,” ordered Alexandra, as she saw Thicknesse walk forward in the distance, with several Aurors standing behind them, holding their wands.

“This is the Ministry of Magic, surrender your wands or…” started Thicknesse, but he was cut off by a silencing charm, before the American Aurors swooped forward. The Ministry Aurors were a bit better trained in magic under the new Voldemort regime. However, they lacked the teamwork that many of the American Aurors had been delving into for years. A poorly attempted Killing Curse was avoided, before vines shot out of the ground, pulling one of the Ministry Aurors into the tree. A pair of Ministry Aurors lost their wands, thus they looked around in confusion, before their arms and legs were shackled together, dropping to the ground. An Arrow pierced a young American Auror right in the arm, as blood dripped down to the ground, but the fight raged on, it did not stop for any man at all. A barrage of Killing Curses was just barely contained with an overlapping shield charm. The shield caused some to drop in exhaustion depending on their positioning.

“Keep fighting, don’t stop!” called Alexandra, as she wrapped up the arms and legs of one of the Ministry Aurors in razor wire. One move, and he would slice his arms and legs up. Another Auror moved forward to free his partner, but a loud crack echoed and his sternum was cracked. This slowed down the Ministry Auror, as several of them had attempted to sneak off towards Hogwarts, no doubt retreating, but they found their legs being snapped together. They fell right on the ground on their faces, and they were dragged out of sight, to join their captured associates. Alexandra quickly turned herself towards the head of the Auror office. “Take half of them make sure none have snuck back into Hogwarts, I’m going to take the rest into Hogwarts, they won’t get far.”

The lead Auror nodded, before they divided, half of them entering the village, with the other half following Alexandra into Hogwarts. No doubt the Ministry Aurors would join Voldemort and his legions of Death Eaters inside the school.

Harry found himself knocked backwards into the wall. The last second was all Harry had to put a cushioning charm up against the wall, to keep his back from cracking. Voldemort swooped forward, and a piercing curse shot right towards Harry’s heart. The shield Harry put up stopped it but Harry sprung up and grabbed Voldemort around the arm. Harry’s hand began to burn, as Voldemort turned around, grabbing Harry by the throat with his pale hand. A loud crack and Harry had difficulty breathing because of the broken rib that Voldemort had caused him. Harry looked above, as Voldemort stood at the edge of the stairs. Orange light went right towards Harry’s wand arm. Harry deflected it upwards and completely blew a hole right through the ceiling. Harry’s eyes drifted up, he saw that Voldemort was on the edge of the stairs. He had one chance.

“CATCH RIDDLE!” shouted Harry suddenly, as he threw a pair of shuriken at Voldemort. Voldemort just blasted them to the side with his wand, and they stuck on the edge of the stair that Voldemort stood on. Seconds later, they exploded, causing Voldemort to lose his balance and Harry rushed forward, knocking Voldemort right in the face with a magically enhanced punch. Moving around, Harry slid down the railing of the stairs, before he swung his feet, right at Voldemort’s face. Voldemort crashed down on the next level and Harry quickly whipped his wrist around. A loud crash echoed throughout the school as Voldemort flew right into the banisters. Harry stepped down, as Voldemort laid immobile for one minute, but only for a moment, as Voldemort pulled himself to a standing position, before he shot ropes out of his wand. The ropes wrapped around Harry’s throat, as Voldemort caused them to contract. Harry gasped for air, struggling to remain alive, as Voldemort contained his grip.

“This time Potter, you die,” said Voldemort dangerously, as Harry felt the air out of him and instinctively, a large blast of water connected with the ropes, loosening them slightly and allowing Harry to get out. Fire connected right towards Voldemort, burning the flesh off of his face. Harry took advantage of Voldemort’s momentary discomfort by stunning him with two more blows. A flesh rotting curse was deflected by an exact duplicate of Harry, as he moved around, a sword in hand. Harry rushed forward and swung the sword at Voldemort but Voldemort blocked it with a conjured effort of his own. The swords clashed together, as Voldemort sent a spell. Harry was not caught off guard by this attack, as he returned in kind, before he attempted to stab Voldemort. Voldemort deflected the attack before both of the wizards swerved around each other, continuing their sword fight, with curses thrown in when necessary. Thank to his stolen abilities, Voldemort managed to keep up with Harry, but Harry was slowly but surely wearing down the Dark Lord’s defenses. It was important for Harry to severely wound Voldemort so he could not fight back, so he could reunite the Horcruxes with the shredded soul within Voldemort’s body.

Hailey, Neville, Luna, and Ron had lead another small group down the corridor, when a group of students with blank, vapid expressions in their eyes burst out from behind a secret corridor and began shooting spells at them suddenly. They just dodged and ducked the attacks. A couple of the members of the Resistance group dropped down to the ground, but the possessed students met stunning spells.

“They’re under the Imperius, so only use stunners, full body binds, and disarming spells,” said Luna calmly, as she disarmed a rough and worn looking sixth year. Ron had just barely avoided a slicing charm right to his ear and the student that sent it at him was dropped with a stunning spell to the back. A group of them had ganged up on Hailey, but Neville managed to take out one of them with the stunner. Hailey put up a shield charm, which blocked an organ explosion curse. The student paused, some of the effects of the Imperius that were wearing off, but this allowed Hailey to slip through, stunning him and dropping him to the ground. Another student sent a flesh rotting spell at her, but she managed to avoid it by dodging out of the way. Hailey quickly immobilized her opponent, taking her out of the picture quickly.

“Lots of them are coming aren’t they, did Voldemort put the whole school under?” asked Neville, as he managed to secure another one of the students, as a couple more had dropped down from stunners, while Ron had moved in for the other side, managing to catch a skilled seventh year who was dueling two members of Harry’s resistance group off guard. A stunner dropped the seventh year.

“Wouldn’t really surprise me,” said Hailey quickly, as she dodged around, ripping a tapestry off the wall. A flick of her wand caused it to wrap around the body of one of her attackers, which allowed Hailey to stun him. Another couple of students dropped down to the ground, as the group looked around, with a sigh of relief, as several stunned and otherwise immobilized students laid on the ground. “I hope that’s all of them.”

“Guess again, little girl!” cooed an insane voice, as Bellatrix Lestrange moved forward. Her mere presence caused Neville to clench his fist against his wand, looking up at the Death Eater who had tortured his parents into insanity and she was not along, as she was followed by at least twenty other Death Eaters, all looking rather nasty and intending to do some serious damage to their enemies.

Lily, Ginny, Sirius, Remus, Tonks, and Hermione all made their way down the hallway, wands at the ready, looking around every corner as they moved. They had met two other groups of students under the Imperius Curse. It would be very impossible for them to account for all of the students in the school and indeed, impossible to tell if anyone was either under Voldemort’s control or working for him under their own accord. Ginny pulled out the Marauder’s map, consulting it. Her eyes widened, she had saw that Harry and Voldemort were battling a couple of floors above them and a group of Death Eaters lead by Bellatrix Lestrange had cornered the other group on the floor above.

“We need to get up to the next floor, now!” shouted Ginny in an urgent voice and the others turned to her, but she did not give them the opportunity to ask question. “She’s on the next floor, she’s going to attack them. They’re going to need all the help they can get with her.”

The group hastened their steps, as there could be only one her that could inspire this kind of urgency. They made their way to the stairs, the quickest route to the next floor, but unfortunately, a group of Death Eaters were at the top of the stairs.

“AVADA KEDAVRA!” yelled one of the Death Eaters, aiming the curse right at Ginny, who rolled out of the way of the curse, causing it to harmlessly hit the ground, before she threw a dagger upwards, connecting with the wand hand, before she attempted to blast the stairs out from underneath them as the Death Eaters raced down them, firing spells in every which direction. The others joined Ginny, but the Death Eaters managed to slow their descent before going down, to properly battle the ground. The air was filled with curses, as Ginny dodged a piercing hex before a bone breaking curse hit the offending Death Eater right in the face. The Death Eater slumped to the ground, bleeding from his nose.

“Do not allow them to pass, kill if necessary,” ordered Lucius Malfoy swiftly and the Death Eaters fought, not limited slightly like the students that were placed on the Imperius Curse. It was just as well, as their opponents were not holding back, as one of the Death Eater’s had both of his arms rotted off at the shoulders, as he fell to the ground, slowly bleeding to a death. Lucius and Sirius dueled in the distance, as Ginny fought two Death Eaters at the same time, Lily fighting a particular skilled masked Death Eater, and the others had dueled in the distance, as the air was filled with recently cast magic, more spells being fired off at every passing second.

Wormtail watched the chaos from afar, in his form as a rat. The crystals had been all moved to the area that Voldemort had indicated, so they could best siphon the power from Hogwarts, once he began his latest conquest. For some reason, this pleased the voice in Wormtail’s ear greatly. As Wormtail scurried, seeing Lily, Sirius, and Remus in the distance, he needed to remain out of sight, as they would surely recognized his Animagus form and ruin everything.

“The Dark Lord may require your help soon, get to him, suggest he uses the Eye of Darkness to call the Dementors, to allow them to finish off Potter,” hissed the voice in Wormtail’s ear. “Then, we will be moments away from getting what we need, Wormtail.”

Wormtail mentally agreed, he would finally get the power he deserved, what he desired above all else.

The Turtles had now slipped into the school, along with Master Splinter. The American Wizarding Government Aurors were right behind them, but Splinter motioned for his sons to enter the shadows, as some masked figures walked up the stairs, carrying large crystals in their hands as they moved up the stairs.

“This is the last of them, the Dark Lord will be pleased, with them in position,” muttered one of the Death Eaters.

“We can take them out easily,” said Raph in a confident voice, but a jet of red light flew off from the side, as a small group of students walked forward, blank expressions in their eyes, as they began to attack the Turtles and Master Splinter.

“Do not harm them, they are under a spell,” responded Master Splinter, as he leapt up, before he swung his walking stick, knocking the wand out of one of the student’s hands, before disarming him. Leo sprung forward and dodged a stinging hex, before he grabbed the student by the arm, pulling the wand out of his hand, and then flung him on top of another student. A third year girl aimed her wand at Raph but Raph expertly threw his Sai right at the hand of the witch. The wand was knocked out of the hand of the girl, and the arms and legs snapped together, before the Aurors moved up the stairs.

“We’ve got all the Ministry Aurors wrapped up, we’ll question them later, figure out who was being coerced into joining up with Voldemort and who wasn’t, you five go on ahead and see if there is any more students,” said Alexandra and the Turtles and Master Splinter nodded, as the American Aurors made rather quick work of the students, before a group of Death Eaters lead by Dolohov moved down the hallway, before facing off against the American Aurors, sending deadly curses at them. One of the American Aurors was unfortunately cut, screaming in agony as the skin was shredded off of his bones. Quickly, the Aurors adjusted their positioning, shooting spells at the Death Eaters. The wand was blasted right out of the hand of one of the Death Eaters, as a spear was impaled right through his body, killing him instantly. A heart stopping curse delivered by Dolohov was blocked by another Auror and the dark wizard catcher fought back, but Dolohov dodged out of the way. Spells flew in each directly, as the battles raged on through the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Voldemort moved around, blood dripping from his arm. Potter had managed to wound him slightly, but Potter had his own troubles, fighting a pair of animated statues. Voldemort used his wand, repairing the stab wounds, as Potter ducked under the decapitating attacks of the animated statues. A blasting spell obliterated the stone statue to dust and then the other one moved forward, but the Boy-Who-Lived sprung off the walls and landed on his feet, right behind the statue. A blast of fire crashed against the statue from behind, which caused it to burst into flames.

Harry sighed in relief, the statue had been defeated but he spun around just in time to block a curse from Voldemort. Voldemort slashed his wand, but Harry did the same. Both magic spells clashed in mid air and Voldemort rushed forward, sword raised, but Harry blocked it. The swords pushed against each other, metal clashing against each other. Another clang of metal echoed, as Harry leapt up, but Voldemort matched his movement. Harry quickly swung the sword and Voldemort’ gave a hiss as his sword broke. Before Voldemort could conjure another one, several steel spikes blasted towards Voldemort. Voldemort flew backwards, spikes stuck into his arms. Harry sprung in the air, sword raised as Voldemort was pinned to the wall by spikes stuck in his arms. The sword slashed against the side of Voldemort’s face, drawing blood. Voldemort slumped down, but his body contorted into a black shadow, causing the spikes to drop to the ground. Voldemort shot down the hallway. Harry shot an attempted freezing spell, but the shadow continued to travel down the hallway. He was unaware that Voldemort could do that and was rather annoyed, as this could complicate the matters to defeat Voldemort. Only one more heavy impact and Voldemort would have been softened up enough for the Horcruxes to be reunited to his soul.

Bellatrix cackled madly, as she motioned for the Death Eaters to attack. Green lights flew through the air, but Hailey flicked her wand into the air. A sonic vibration echoed towards the Death Eaters causing them to drop to the ground. Bellatrix shrieked angrily.

“Little trick Harry taught me, hit them with everything before they recover!” shouted Hailey, taking control of the situation. A blast of yellow light hit the Death Eater in the chest, causing him to laugh hysterically, before he ran off towards an open window and dove right out. A few stunning spells caught the Death Eaters off guard, and Luna blocked a coma curse by one of the Death Eaters that just recovered, before a white light blasted the Death Eater right in the face. He fell to the ground, motionlessly. Ron managed to banish one of the Death Eaters back. It wasn’t pretty, but it was rather effective, before Bellatrix rushed over, magically hoisting Ron off the ground, before she flung the young Weasley male across the hallway. Ron landed with a thud, as Bellatrix stalked her prey.

“CRUCIO!” shouted Bellatrix and Ron screamed in absolute agony, but it was only a few seconds of torture, as Bellatrix spun around and blasted an organ explosion curse at someone who had attempted to curse her from behind. The spell hit his lung and he dropped to the ground, as Bellatrix watched several other Death Eaters drop to the ground. She would at least outnumbered twelve to one at this rate, so she slipped through a secret passageway.

Neville saw Bellatrix get away and ran after her.

“Neville, wait!” shouted Hailey causing Neville to stop.

“I have to fight her, Hailey. You know what she did to my parents and...what she did to you,” said Neville firmly. “And who knows what she’s done to countless others, someone has to stop her.”

Without another word, Neville ran off after Bellatrix, an action that prompted Hailey to throw her hands up in the air in frustration.

“Gryffindors!” sighed Hailey in irritation, as she rushed after her friend, to make sure he did not get himself killed against Bellatrix. Neville was good, but Bellatrix had matched both Harry and Lily in duels in the past, was the Dark Lord’s second in command. Bless him, but Neville really was not at that level.

Lily dodged a head splitting curse from her opponent on the floor below. Moving around, the Death Eater screamed in pain. The charm that Lily had sent at him had amplified the pain sensors of his nerves by several times. Even the air hitting him, caused him immense pain. When another one brushed against him, the Death Eater dropped to the ground, shrieking his head off madly, the pain racking through his body. Lily moved forward, taking two more out, as Hermione and Lucius faced off. Lucius threw an inflammatory intestines curse right at Hermione but Hermione put the shield up. The shield was partially drilled through but the brunt of the spell was blocked, with Hermione only getting knocked to her back. Lucius prepared to take advantage of Hermione as Ginny blasted Lucius right in the side. Lucius dropped to a knee, the wind taken out of him, as Ginny swooped in on him, aiming a spell right towards Lucius’s eyes. Had it connected, Lucius’s eyes would have been burned out, but thankfully for him, he blocked it. Ginny continued to fight, as Tonks had wrapped up a tough Death Eater on the other side, with Sirius and Remus continuing to work in, but some more Death Eaters had joined the fight, no doubt having been summoned from beyond Hogwarts.

Lily welcomed a new arrival by hitting him with a spell right to the throat. The attacker fell backwards, he could still breath, but each breath he took inflamed his throat. Each moment of his existence was a painful moment. A loud snap echoed and Sirius stood behind a Death Eater with his wand, the Death Eater incapacitated. Lucius moved forward, spinning his wand and attempting to blast Ginny, but she blocked the curse. Ginny fired a dagger at Lucius’s throat, but Lucius reduced it to dust just a nano second before it would have hit.

“You think you can fight me,” said Lucius in a calm, amused voice, as Ginny winced, as Lucius had shattered her wrist with a spell. She managed to fight through the pain long enough to block a flesh rotting curse, before she aimed another spell at Lucius, who blocked it. “A Weasley beating a Malfoy, you are way out of your league, you loathsome little blood traitor.”

Ginny, through a burst of magic, broke through Lucius’s shield. This caught him off guard, as a loud crack echoed. Lucius was slumped over, he felt several of his ribs broken and Ginny moved forward, before another crack. The wand in his hand had snapped, along with every bone in his right hand. Lucius tried a slight disorientation curse wandlessly but his wandless magic was quite subpar and Ginny blocked that too, before Lucius was blasted back into a suit of armor. Lucius was severely injured, as Ginny stepped forward before she raised her wand into the air, pointed towards the neck of Lucius. Ginny pulled her arm back and Lucius dropped to the ground, his neck magically snapped. Lucius Malfoy did not manage to complete taking a final breath, as his lifeless body dropped to the ground. Ginny nodded, in a poetic amount of justice, the man that had slipped her the Horcrux diary that nearly gotten her and Harry both killed had been finished off by her hand.

Ginny had little time to savior her victory over Lucius, as another Death Eater had attempted to blast her in the spine with a bone breaking curse. Her reflexes only saved her ability to walk and two spells ricocheted off of each other, before she wrapped ropes around the arms and legs of her opponent. An electrical shock pulsed through the ropes and dropped the Death Eater to the ground. Tonks had managed to defeat her latest opponent and Lily was having a bit of trouble. A few more Death Eaters had joined the fight, but they were slowly down, Voldemort was running out of bodies to throw at them. There were at least about fifteen or twenty they could see in the hallway, and perhaps a few more at strategic locations to attack, but Voldemort’s forces were beginning to slightly wind down, with several dead and many more knocked out of the battle.

Neville rushed down the hallway, wand drawn. Bellatrix could not have gotten too far. He looked around, intense look in his eyes, thinking of his parents, that Bellatrix had attacked. His entire life, he attempted to live up to the reputations of the parents and when Harry had created a Defense Against the Dark Arts study group during Umbridge’s reign of terror, he worked hard to apply himself. Neville knew he was not the best, but he was not the worst either.

A flicker of movement down the hallway had drew Neville out of his sights and he saw the face of Bellatrix down at the hallway. Neville raised his wand and sent a flesh tearing curse at Bellatrix, but Bellatrix calmly deflected it, as she laughed like a madwoman.

“Longbottom, I give you credit you have guts, it’s a shame that I’m going to have to splatter them all over the walls!” cackled Bellatrix as Neville threw another spell at the insane Death Eater, who deflected it, as her scarred face faced Neville, as she blasted him backwards. Neville landed on his feet, before Bellatrix slashed her wand. A cut opened on Neville’s cheek as blood splashed to the floor. “I’m trained by the Dark Lord himself, you are nothing Longbottom. You have no one to help you…”

“He has me, Lestrange,” said Hailey as she moved forward, as several arrows shot through the air. Bellatrix casually deflected them all off, causing them to pierce the wall, before she turned to Hailey, before Bellatrix whipped her wand. The ground shook beneath Hailey and Neville, causing them to lose their balance. Neville was wrapped up in thick black ropes as he fell to the ground, before a spell hit Hailey right in the side of the head. It caused her to become dizzy, her entire equilibrium screwed up as she continued to collapse them to the ground.

“Longbottom, the more you move, the more those ropes contract, until you’re crushed to death!” shrieked Bellatrix triumphantly, before she turned to a dazed Hailey. “No Mummy to bail you out this time, little girl. CRUCIO!”

Hailey screamed which was music to the ears of Bellatrix. The girl squirmed, as Bellatrix continued to pour the pain on. Neville watched desperately, as Hailey was slowly tortured right before his very eyes, wishing that she never would have followed him. The ropes were slowly, painfully crushing Neville’s body. It was hard to take a breath without drawing the spell effect.

Hailey was about to claw her own eyes out but she looked up at Bellatrix, drawing in a breath, seeing her wand arm. The original had been ripped off by her mother in the fight last year. Voldemort had apparently replaced it with a metal prosthetic. Hailey managed to twitch her fingers around her wand, before grabbing it, as Bellatrix was too distracted by her fun to care. Quickly, Hailey tried to concentrate through the haze of pain, as she aimed her wand right towards the arm of Bellatrix. Bellatrix’s cackles stopped, when she realized she could no longer move her wand, as it began to rust completely and slowly, she was being poisoned as the spell seeped through her body.

“WHAT DID YOU DO?” shouted Bellatrix angrily, but she could hardly move and Hailey quickly moved over, before she put a cooling charm on the ropes wrapped around Neville. This allowed Hailey to cut him free. Neville pulled himself up, a little woozy but at least still alive as Bellatrix could not move anything but her lips and her eyes. “YOU FOOLS! I’LL KILL YOU! ALL OF YOU! YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY WILL DIE AT THE HANDS OF THE DARK LORD YOU FILTHY LITTLE HALF BLOOD!”

“I’ve had enough of you,” said Neville through narrowed eyes, as he pointed his wand at Bellatrix, a swirl of grey light circling towards her. Bellatrix’s eyes widened in fear, she would have never thought Longbottom would be capable of such a spell. According to Lucius’s brat, her disgraced nephew, he was little more than a squib. Bellatrix was impacted right in the chest as the spell drilled right through her body, ripping her apart. Neville staggered forward, but Hailey managed to catch him. He appeared to be exhausted from that spell. Neville readjusted himself, looking at Bellatrix or rather what was left at her, a bit of him shocked at what he was capable of.

“It had to be done Neville,” said Hailey quietly, as she looked in his eyes. “I’m just sorry you were the one who had to do it...”

“No, it had to be me,” responded Neville, as he managed to regain his bearings, as he looked at Hailey. “Thanks for saving me.”

“You would have done the same for me if it had been reversed,” said Hailey.

“I would have but I don’t know if I could have,” said Neville, but Hailey leaned forward, before kissing Neville on the cheek.

“I know you could have, now let’s go, someone might need our help,” responded Hailey, as Neville followed, stunned at what had happened. Hailey would not have done something like that, unless she liked him like that too. Neville tried to push these thoughts out of his mind, there was a battle with Voldemort and his minions going on, there would be plenty of time to worry about such matters like that later.

Voldemort’s shadow form contorted into his body, as he staggered around. Most of his wounds had healed himself, but Potter had really gave him a fight.

“Out of my way Wormtail, unless you have a way to finish Potter off once and for all,” stated Voldemort coldly as he met the traitorous rat in the hallway.

“My Lord, the Dementors, you can call them, Potter was rather weak against them when they guarded the school during his third year,” suggested Wormtail and Voldemort just turned his back, before he summoned the Eye of Darkness. His legions of Dementors would come and with Potter’s soul sucked right out of his body, it would be not difficult at all to kill him.

Harry arrived, he had found Voldemort and his eyes widened. Voldemort had the Eye of Darkness. He should have known and Voldemort did not know the danger he could command, especially if it was destroyed. At that moment, Harry felt his bones chill, as fog kicked in the hallway, as several Dementors glided down the hallway. Harry aimed his mirror counterpart’s wand that he had on him just in case Voldemort had summoned the Dementors. He attempted to concentrate on an entire section of happy memories, to give the Patronus strength to fight off what looked to be hundreds of Dementors.

“EXPECTO PATRONUM!” shouted Harry and a large shining raven burst from the wall, soaring right towards the Dementors. It began to falter almost immediately, but Harry turned towards Voldemort, who had the Eye of Darkness between his fingers. “Surrender it right now, Riddle, you don’t know what that thing can do?”

“I know exactly what it can do Potter, bring about your destruction,” responded Voldemort softly. “Your little patronus is already failing and more are on the way, soon every Dementor in the world will come to his location. But, don’t worry Harry, it’s nothing to lose your soul over!”

Voldemort gave Harry a high cold round of laughter, as the Dementors had pushed through the raven patronus like it was nothing.

“That’s exactly what I’m afraid of,” muttered Harry as he spun around, and held the wand right at it. “EXPECTO PATRONUM!”

A second raven had joined the rapidly fading one as Harry spun around, attempting to grab onto the Eye of Darkness, but Voldemort threw Harry right to the ground. Harry moved forward, going for a kick, careful not to break the Eye and unleash something even more damning than the original Shredder onto the world, but Voldemort deflect it. Concentrating, as the first patronus had failed and the second one was well on its way to fading out of existence as well. He aimed the wand at Voldemort and managed to blast him backwards with a raw blast of magic, while wandlessly summoning the Eye of Darkness.

Voldemort angrily saw the Eye of Darkness slip out of his hands, he would not let Potter win this easily. He prepared to summon it back and the two wizards both attempting to summon the artifact that controlled the Dementors had caused the magical equivalent of a tug of war.

“LET GO RIDDLE!” shouted Harry as he saw magic begin to leak out of the Eye of Darkness

“Never Potter,” responded Voldemort as the struggle for the Eye had continued, both wizards not letting up on the summoning charm, until a loud crack echoed as the Eye of Darkness shattered in mid air right below them, the dust that was once the Eye of Darkness flickered to the ground. Harry turned to the Dementors, as their robes began to tear, their primitive forms fading away. Hundreds of figures with blood red eyes, brown skin, razor sharp claws, and spiked backs turned to face Voldemort. “What are you waiting for, destroy Potter!”

“We are waiting for our master,” growled one of the demons.

“And your wait shall not be long,” voiced an imposing figure, with shoulder length silver hair and ice cold blue eyes looking at Voldemort with contempt, before he turned to his followers, all that had bowed down to the ground. “Rise my children, this world will be ours this time.”

Draxxor had been freed from his prison.