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The Heritage - Chapter 59
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A/N: Editor for this chapter is Dave
A/N: Scene from the last chapter.

"I'm having a stroll, Major," he said easily.

"Back before eleven, private Wellow," the Major answered easily, and he smiled at Neilson.

Neilson nodded and smiled faintly back, and continued to walk. When he reached the entrance hall, he turned right instead of left. He walked into a large hall, where those wizard and his bitches had married each other according the stories, and he shrugged his shoulders. Who's giving a shit what those people were doing with each other, as long as they would not fuck with him, he was already happy. His motto was live and let live, and he smirked. That as something he could help with, except the opposite.

Private Neilson Wellow started to climb the many steps to go upstairs and he knew that he needed to go to the foyer in front of the bedroom of that Lord-Baron, and then he could do his duty ... whatever his duty was. He still did not know what is mission actually contained, but what could he do else? He knew that his mission was crucial for god and the country, and he knew that his mission was the most important mission all times, and he smiled proudly. That would make his people proud of him, he if managed to accomplish the impossible.

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"I think that you are joking," said Harry uneasily. Luna was only laughing, and Hermione only smirked. "I'm not sure, Harry. Luna is going to talk with Zara and we will see what she says. If Zara wants to marry in that way, then she will talk with her grandmother and maybe she is flexible enough to give permission for such wedding," said Hermione and looked at the blushing Harry, who was walking next to her.

"But naked and having sex in front of guests is ... is ... uhm not decent," finished Harry and blushed some more. "And especially in front of the Queen and the Princes," he said horrified.

Su was laughing. "I'm happy I am finished with it, and having a Drude wedding is something I would only want to witness," she grinned. "Poor Harry."

They were walking into the hallway, which led to the foyer. The hallway was very long ... at least a three hundred meters long. At the other side of the hallway a door opened and Harry saw a soldier marching towards them. The soldier stopped in front of the doors of the foyer, opened it and disappeared. That was strange ... why should a soldier go into the foyer?

Nothing wrong with going into the foyer, who ever he was, but there was nothing for the soldier to do and to find. Suddenly he felt uneasy. His girls were there as well, and that soldier was a man and he started to walk faster. He didn't know why, but he felt very uneasy, and he took his wand from his robes. Something was going on here, he thought. Something ...

Harry looked over his shoulder and frowned. "There is something wrong here," he said. "I feel it, that soldier in the foyer does not seem right. Let's go!" he yelled the last two words and started to run.

"Don't burst into the foyer," yelled Su at Harry's back, and Harry was nodding his head while running. He was not sure if Su would understand, but he would stop in front of the door, which led to the foyer. Then he would see what could be done.

When the small group reached the door of the foyer, they came to a halt and were looking wearily.

"Gidi," said Harry.

Gidi plopped into existence in front of Harry looking bewildered around.

"Master?" she asked.

"I want security elves in this foyer here, and secure everyone immediately. There is a Muggle soldier in the foyer and I don't trust him," he said.

Gidi nodded, and concentrated briefly.

The sound of a loud explosion was noticeable and the explosion came from the foyer. Harry reacted instantly and he burst into the foyer, with the door still in his hand. Without knowing he tore the door from his hinges.

He saw three elves lying on the floor in their blood, and the soldier was pointing his weapon at his girls in the corner. Because of the noise Harry had made with the door, the soldier looked up and pointed his weapon at Harry and fired. The sound was very strange ... instead of the loud bang; Harry heard only a loud whooshing sound and saw something flying towards him. That was not a normal thing ... he could see the object flying towards his person and the first reaction was erecting a shield! Su, Luna and Hermione were behind him and he could not avoid the approaching bullet!

And that strange sound of the bullet, it was not normal. If it would be a normal bullet, it would already hit his shield and suddenly he blanched. Those bullets the Special Forces were using were specially designed to explode his shield, but it was already too late, because the strange bullet almost reached him.

Su saw that the soldier turned towards them and pointed his strange stick or pistol or whatever it was to them and pulled the trigger. A strange whooshing sound came from the rifle and Su could not thing about anything else than to protect her husband. But the fool did not avoid that thing out of the weapon, but erected a shield, the idiot. Didn't he know that the soldiers had weapons, which made their shields explode? The only thing what Su could do was conjuring something in front of the approaching bullet. She conjured a marble plate in front of Harry.

Hermione knew that they would be in serious trouble when she saw the soldier shoot his weapon at them. She knew of the phosphor coated bullets, and what it would do against magical shields, and that stupid Harry did right that; erecting a magical shield ... the same shield as they had learned during the training with Su. Hermione did the only thing she could think about ... she conjured something in front of the bullet, and she chose a crystal platter straight in front of Harry.

The approaching exploding rocket was smashed against the crystal platter, and exploded with full force. The crystal platter was immediately destroyed and the power of the explosion hit the marble plate, which was crushed against the magical shield of Harry.

Harry was thrown backwards against the girls behind him, and they were all thrown back into the corridor ... they fell in a heap on the floor. Harry's shield had collapsed but he was still alive. Harry and the girls were bleeding everywhere, and he did not understand what exactly had happened. The soldier pointed his weapon towards them again, and the only thing what Harry could do was firing a curse towards the soldier.

But he was not the only one who reacted. The elves in the foyer had their fingers pointed at the soldier and Harry could see at least five beams of magic traveling at the soldier, who dropped himself on the floor and rolled away. The beams of magical energy impacted the spot where the soldier was before, and the whooshing sound was clearly audible again.

Two elves exploded by the impact of one of the projectiles of the weapon of the soldier, and suddenly Harry saw his girls hiding behind the large aquarium. Harry started to get worried that the soldier would try to kill his girls, and he scrambled up and fired several fire curses towards the soldier. A wall of fire exploded in front of the rolling soldier, because the man avoided the fire as fast as he could, and Harry could hear the whooshing sound of an incoming bullet.

The only thing he could do was conjuring a steel plate in front of the door opening and dive for cover. The steel plate was blown apart and shreds of the plate impacted against the wall and destroying at least two paintings.

Harry pushed the girls behind him towards the corridor. "Don't stand behind me," he growled, because I can't avoid his rockets otherwise and you hamper my attempts to get that bastard, "he growled. "Stay here!"

Su slipped past him, smirked and dove into the foyer with her wand at ready, and Harry groaned in frustration.

"Damn stubborn woman," he murmured under his breath, when he followed Su into the foyer.

Another explosion was audible and he saw that the aquarium had exploded ... his girls were laying flat on the floor; he hoped that they were alright.

In the corner of his eyes he saw Su sprinting in full speed at the corner of the foyer, but the soldier saw her too. He pointed his weapon at Su and this was Harry's chance. He fired a fire curse at the soldier, who was not fast enough, and was hit in his shoulder. The man yelled in pain and dropped on the floor. Harry did not trust this moment and he dove as fast as he could into the other corner, and yes, the soldier fired another of that weird bullet. The whooshing sound became louder and Harry was horrified to notice that the bullet was bending towards him. Harry pointed his wand to the floor and levitated himself up, when the bullet impacted against the wall.

Harry flew through the foyer because of the air pressure and power of the explosion and he felt sharp pain in his legs, and he prepared for the impact.

The soldier almost grinned when he saw Harry flying through the air and pointed his weapon again, but he was hit by several curses from Su and some of the girls, and he went down immediately.

Harry suspected that those curses were not enough for such large man, and right before he slammed against the opposite wall, he fired his most powerful fire curse at the soldier. Even when he would not hit him directly, it would gain several seconds and Harry hoped that was enough for the girls to hit the soldier again.

The floor around the soldier exploded into a sea of flames and heat; the soldier screamed in pain, and was blasted against the wall, right before Harry collapsed against the same wall. Su saw her chance and she fired a stunner at the soldier, who dropped immediately unconscious.

Harry became aware of the sound of faint explosions, and he frowned. What the hell was going on? Harry opened his eyes slowly, and what he saw shocked him. All kind of bodies were lying around him, and the first human body he saw was that of a soldier, and all memories came back to him that instant. They were under attack, and the first thing Harry did was grabbing for his wand, which was not in its place in his robes and the second thing he became aware of was that everything hurt. He looked down at his robes and saw that it was torn and burned and looked up to see what was going on. He saw the bodies of several elves lying on the floor in their blood ... greenish blood and scanned the floor for more proof of dead people, but the only one was the still body of the soldier. He was wrapped heavily in chains and he assumed those were magical applied.

Harry tried to stand and he managed. His legs hurt like hell, but he was shaken out of his stupor by the sound of several explosions, which seemed to come from outside the castle ... at least that was what he hoped. Harry stumbled towards the windows, and he passed the remainders of the exploded aquarium ... fish lay everywhere, obviously boiled or burned, and he saw the girls standing in front of the windows looking anxiously outside.

Again another series of explosions and Harry could faintly see something flashing outside the windows. Was the castle under attack?

The castle shuddered suddenly and the sound of a huge explosion sounded everywhere. Oh shit, the castle was hit with something! A bright flash of light of an explosion was very visible, because the whole foyer lightened up in hellish light.

And suddenly Harry heard the sound of roaring ... something huge was roaring like it was hurt or something like that. But the sound of the roaring was so loud, that Harry had no idea what could created such a loud sound ... he still hoped whatever it was that it was outside the castle and not something which had penetrated the outer walls of the Gryffindor castle.

Harry staggered quickly towards the window, pushed Luna gently aside and looked outside. The view he got was something, which almost froze his blood. A huge dragon was attacking the castle, the dragon in front of his eyes was the largest creature he ever had seen ... that monster was at least sixty meters long, and the wings of the monster had a span width of at least eighty meters each or maybe even wider. He knew that dragons were large, but never as large as this one.

He saw tracers flying from the castle towards the dragon and impacting it on its head, where it exploded in small white flashes around its eyes ... or what suppose to be its eyes. Harry looked again and more closely, and noticed something very wrong ... that dragon was not alive! The places where eyes were supposed to be were empty and ... black. Huge black orbs were in its place and Harry could see something shimmering in the deep holes its orbs.

The dragon roared again, and jumped flashing fast forwards to the source of the tracers and the castle shook again, but the tracers were stopped abruptly. Suddenly Harry noticed several red beams of light flying at the huge dragon, and Harry knew that some of his girls were actually trying to fight that monster. Harry knew that he needed to react immediately.

"Gidi" he roared.

"Master?" said a distressed voice next to him and Harry looked up. A distressed looking elf with tears in her eyes was looking at him and waiting for what Harry had to say.

Harry grimaced. There was no time for talking now, that was only for later.

"Who is outside?" asked Harry.

"Mistress Su and Ms. Hermione Granger, Master," answered Gidi immediately.

"Call them back immediately," yelled Harry.

"Yes, Master," said Gidi and wanted to plop away.

"Close down the castle and seal everything," he said more quiet now. "This castle can't be hurt by the dragon and we need to stay inside," he said.

The elf nodded and plopped away.

Harry forgot about his hurting legs and started to sprint towards the door, until he remembered the internal floo system. He changed his course and walked towards the fire place, grabbed floo powder and threw it in the fire.

"Entrance hall," he screamed and he disappeared with a roar.

He burst out of the fireplace in the entrance hall with great force and fell flat on the floor. He stood up quickly and looked around him. There were many soldiers in the foyer who were all looking outside, and several elves were standing near the door.

"Why is the castle not sealed?" yelled Harry loudly.

Mistress Su is still outside, Master," answered one of the elves nervously, and she looked again outside. Harry walked towards the entrance door and looked, and he held his breath for a moment. He saw Su sprinting with everything she got towards the castle, while the huge dragon seemed to hover above her, preparing to breath its fire. Right that moment the dragon was hit by two explosions are the same time and Harry thought he saw two additional flames approaching the dragon and two more explosions hit the dragon in its huge chest, and the Dragon roared in pain or excitement?

Harry saw two helicopters hovering in the air hundred meters away from the dragon. Those helicopters were being used by the American Special Forces, Harry remembered, and suddenly he became aware of a third helicopter hovering above the dragon.

But the dragon retaliated immediately and threw itself into the air towards the first helicopter, its huge jaws crushed the helicopter in midair and it exploded in a ball of fire, which covered the head of the dragon. The dragon roared again, and that moment the second helicopter fired two rockets towards the head of the dragon ... two explosions impacted the place where its eyes suppose to be, but it did little or nothing to hurt the dragon. The dragon wiped its enormous tail and hit the helicopter, which was destroyed in an fireball instantly.

That moment the third helicopter started to fire at the dragon with everything it had. Rocket after rocket impacted on the dragon, light tracers of its guns impacted on the dragon, and it made the dragon only fiercer in its rage. The dragon shot with blinding speed into the air and turned towards the last remaining helicopter.

Su had reached the gate of the Gryffindor castle and still had fifty meters to run, and she ran with everything she got.

The helicopter started to fly away from its position, closely followed by the enraged dragon, and came towards the castle. The dragon was upon the helicopter and before anything else could happen, the helicopter exploded in the huge jaws of the dragon.

Harry saw with rising despair that Su would never be able to reach the castle on time. He could not lose Su now, honestly, he could not. And then Harry did something so crazy, so maddening, that everyone only could look in pure horror and shock. Harry started to run towards Su, where an enraged dragon hovering above everything. Harry was running as fast as he could, and Su was running with the same effort towards him and the castle, all the way waving with her arms and screaming something.

Harry knew what she was screaming about, and he could imagine that she was cursing him into hell, but he could say the same about her, because she was so stupid as to ran outside when such lump of a dragon was running amok.

The dragon roared again and Harry looked up. The dragon had seen him and it jumped from the sky straight towards Su and him. Oh shit, Harry thought. We will be dragon meat in several seconds, and Harry tried to increase his speed, until he reached Su. He collapsed against her and both of them fell down the ground in a heap. The dragon landed already on the ground with a lot of noise and Harry felt the ground shaking, and then everything went quiet.

Harry looked up from the ground at the dragon. The dragon was indeed huge, and now he was so close to the dragon, he could study her much more in detail. Harry suspected that this was the last thing what he could see in his life, so he took advantage of it. Strangely he was not afraid or nervous, he only studied the dragon.

He never saw such specimen before, and he could also not remember any picture in any book about magical creatures he had learned at Hogwarts in all the years he was roaming the magical world. The dragon was much bigger then any dragon he had ever seen or heard about, and the eyes were not normal.

Harry suspected that the eyes were magically altered, because they did not look natural in a way. They were not eyes, but black pools of nothingness. The evil was reeking and stinking everywhere, and Harry thought he saw something moving in those black pools, but he was not sure. The head of the dragon was huge too, it had a very long snout with huge jaws with a lot of large, sharp looking teeth, and the nostrils of the dragons were at least ten meters wide and smoking heavily.

The color of the head was mystifying as well, blue-green on the stop of the head till yellow at the top of the snout, there were red rings around the black pools, which he supposed to be its eyes and Harry could recognize the holes, which he supposed to be the ears at the side of the dragon head.

The long neck was covered with strange holes ... or maybe the holes were dots? Yes, he saw them more clear, those were dots and they were dark blue in color, the long neck was bright green in color and it led to a large cylinder formed body, with huge back legs on the back and much smaller arms at the front, both of them armed with huge and dangerous looking silver colored claws.

The tale was something also strange ... it was long and seemed to be very flexible and the end of the tale was a big mass of horns or something which looked like horns, and Harry was looking at the waving tale warily.

The dragon seemed to study him, and it was quiet at the moment. Harry became very worried suddenly, because that animal was not behaving itself like an animal, and the strange impression he had before became even stronger. He suspected ... no ... he felt that the monster was not alive, but at the other side he saw the monster eyeing him ... no ... studying him, exactly like he studied the dragon.

"There are a bunch of soldiers in that shed over there," told Su and pointed in the direction of an old shed, north of the entrance hall, about two hundred meters from their position. But the dragon was between them and the shed; it was impossible to reach them. Harry hoped that those soldiers were hiding and keeping quiet instead of playing the hero. There were already too many people killed today and that was much too much for such dragon. First the mad soldier, then a mad dragon, Harry wondered what would be the next.

He thought that he was safe in the castle, but how wrong he was, and now death had followed him here to the castle as well, and Harry sighed.

"I have tried everything I know," Su breathed softly," but nothing helps against this dragon. It is simply too big and much too dead to be hurt by anything ... not even the killing curse is working on it ... and of course it will not work, because it is already dead.

The muggles fired their most destructive missiles at the monster, and as you see, it is not even wounded, it doesn't even smoke; of everything else that we hurled at that monster ... nothing seemed to be able to hurt it, unless ..."

Harry looked at Su puzzled. "What are you trying to say, Su?" asked Harry.

The Dragon moved its head closer from its long neck ... was it trying to listening on their conversation?

"Well, we tried every damaging spell we know, and the Muggles are also done, the only thing what is left over is using Dark or Black Magic," said Su.
"What do you mean with Black Magic," said Harry, looking wearily at the Dragon.

"I mean the dragon has been revived from the dead by Black Magic, and it is logical that it can be killed by Black Magic as well," whispered Su.

"What are you waiting for," said Harry. "How much longer we are waiting, how much bigger is the risk that somebody else is going to be killed, not to mention ourselves," grumbled Harry.

Su laughed. "I know the spell, but I don't have the magical power to cast it with success," said Su. "And it is risky, because if the spell goes wrong, it is fatal for the caster and everyone around him."

Su conjured parchment and a Muggle pencil and started to write.

The dragon seemed to be very curious and its huge head came closer and closer. Harry froze, because he suspected that the head would open its mighty jaws and they would be burned crispy immediately. Su was finished with writing and gave the parchment to Harry. Study it, and repeat the instructions accurately, otherwise everything is lost," she said and stood up. She grabbed her wand tightly in her fingers and looked at the dragon, which pulled its head back like it was surprised that such small and tiny creature could do something like that.

"Aestus Estus Vulcanus," yelled Su while she had her wand pointed to the dragon, which shirked in surprise. Hundreds of red balls appeared around the head of the dragon, which all flew straight to the dragon's head, which exploded into spheres of intense heat and magma, burning the almost impenetrable skin of the dragon, and it roared again, shaking its head from the burning sensation.

"Accipio suffragium castrum," screamed Su the dark spell that would surround the dragon in a permanent dark area. Su hoped that the dragon would not be able to detect anyone or she hoped that the dragon would be blinded by it, and the noise of the roaring increased. The dragon was covered in darkness.

She knew that at least the dragon was confused, and she repeated the magma spell to create the burning spheres around the dragon.

"Aestus Estus Vulcanus," yelled Su with all her power. This time more then double the number of red balls appeared in front of the darkness surrounding the dragon and disappeared into the darkness.

"Sol Flamma," yelled Su and she started to run towards the dragon. This spell was also known as the Vampire Slayer and the spell creates light, which has the same intensity as the sun. She hoped that any undead would be banished with this spell, but according the roaring of the dragon in front of her, it did not kill the dragon, but infuriated it only more.

Harry was studying the parchment what Su had giving him. The spell she wrote down was called the Soul drain or the 'Anima Epotus', and it was an extreme dangerous spell, because it would drain mental and physical health from the victim or target, causing it to weaken and falter while he would grow stronger. This spell was ages old, and was forbidden through out the world, because it would make a person extreme powerful and dangerous. There were drawbacks ... one of the drawbacks was that if the target is more powerful than the caster, the caster will be killed or worse.

The other spell was 'Plaga Excessum', which was translated into English as 'Stroke of Death'. The spell would call Death itself. Upon coming into contact with a living creature, it will cause immediate death, leaving behind no symptoms or evidence as to what happened.

Harry looked up because of the intense roaring of the dragon. The dragon was covered in blackness, and nothing seemed to penetrate the darkness, probably the result of Su's Black Magic, well ... it was very clearly Black Magic, and he grimaced. Hermione would not agree with this, but what could they do else? Nothing else could stop this monster, whatever everyone was trying.

Suddenly a huge paw stepped out of the dark mist surrounding the monster, and the monster started to move ... or better ... the blackness started to move towards Su, who was jumping and screaming at the monster. Harry needed to make a choice and cast one of the spells towards the monster.

The first spell was the Soul Drain, and that was really dangerous, so Harry chose the Stroke of Death. Harry tried to clear his head and to concentrate on the spell. He grabbed his wand firmly in his hand and pointed it to the blackness.

"Plaga Excessum," yelled Harry with everything he had.

For several moments nothing seem to happen, and suddenly it was there ... absolute blackness seemed to burst out of his wand, followed by the terrible feeling of sin, pure evil in all its glory. The blackness reshaped itself quickly into a basketball-shaped ball of greenish purple light, and traveled slowly to the approaching dragon.

Su saw the ball of greenish purple light approaching and she immediately changed her direction of running. The ball passed her slowly and continued its path towards the enraged dragon, which seemed to be in a kind of trouble, because it roared non-stop.

Hundred meters away from Harry, Su and the dragon, people in the shed chose that very moment to leave the shed. Harry saw several beams of red light traveling towards the blackness and Harry could recognize the short bursts of fire from machine pistols or rifles. Harry was worried that his Stroke of Death ball would change its destination and target and choose the approaching people.

In the mean time the greenish purple ball of death was approaching the dragon and disappeared into the blackness. Harry and Su stood still and watched for that what had to come. Harry was nervous, because these spells were strange and evil, the Stroke of Death spell was truly scary and the Soul drain was even worse.

Suddenly the blackness was ripped apart by a green explosion of light within the blackness; nobody could hear anything because of the roaring of the dragon, but the explosion of sickening greenish light was very noticeable.

The roaring stopped suddenly, and there was silence. The green light disappeared and everyone was now waiting for the things to come. Suddenly a huge crash and the ground shook. And Harry discovered the huge head of the dragon sticking out of the cloud of blackness and laying flat on the ground.

Oh Merlin, the dragon is defeated at last.

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A/N: Editor for this chapter is Dave