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From Light to Darkness	By : Christina_Potter_09 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Harry/Hermione Views: 15622 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 12

The Battle to end it all

The rivers ran red with blood. Darkness fell upon the earth. No one thought this could happen again. Until now.

‘I love you,’ Harry whispered as he kissed the pale skin of Hermione’s forehead while his body remained bowed above her. Hermione smiled faintly, causing the scar that started from her forehead and moved down to her chest to stretch. She was sat on the rocking chair in the nursery, where she felt safe for the past three days, close to the cribs of her Heirs, her only two heirs… and close to the magical powder that would help her set Plan B, in case…

‘I love you too,’ Hermione whispered and Harry’s heart ached at the sound of her voice, weak and painful yet seemingly normal and true. He kissed her forehead again and knelt before her legs as his hands didn’t abandon her round stomach. He planted two kisses on his children, hoping to see them being born and raised, he smiled up at her and kissed her hand as she was ready to cry again, tears were something accustomed for her in the past, after the days of her torture, sinister smiles and unusual laughs painted her face, but now, a step before the closure, the old, normal Hermione seemed to emerge and Harry wasn’t sure if he was satisfied with this turn, he wished she could understand and realize less, he wished she could escape in her own world more easily…

‘Take care of them, until I’m back, if something goes wrong, I’ll send you the snake, if you see it follow plan b… the same stands for you, if something goes wrong here with you or the children… send me the vulture.’ Harry said and Hermione nodded, accepting to use their Patronus for alert, their Patronus forms had changed right when they started forming their armies, years ago, now the Stag and the Otter had been replaced by a Snake and a Vulture respectively…

‘You’re still weak so try to focus on Dolohov’s torture for a happy memory and send me the Patronus, OK?’ Harry asked and his wife nodded again as she moved closer, wincing in pain all the way and hugged him tightly.

‘Come back to me,’ Hermione whispered and Harry nodded his head and kissed her cheek.

‘Take care of our son and daughter,’ He replied and this time she nodded her head. The couple parted and Harry kissed her pale lips before he could exit the room and moved down the stairs, where most of the troops waited.

Harry stopped before the end of the stairs and looked at his armies, the hallway had been enlarged so they could all fit in. He smiled to himself as he saw all his alliances and friends from around the globe being there. Basilisk masters from Greece, Dragon fire makers from China, mummy and infery controllers from Egypt, black wizards from Mexico, Brazil and Peru, Zombie controllers from Africa and these were only human beings, sphinxes, vampires, werewolves, trolls and goblins, half giants and giants, minotaurs and harpies were all there, along Harry and Hermione’s Subjects. Harry finally opened the map that he had in his black robes.

‘I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,’ Harry whispered as he tapped the map and it unfolded its secret, he then levitated it in the air and everyone looked at it.

‘There are seven hidden passages to the castle from outside, people think that most of them are blocked but I have made sure for them to be open and not noticed by anyone inside the castle, so all the half-human creatures will slip in the castle the moment I command you to. First, we’ll ask for the people in the castle to be taken and the main fighters to be surrendered, if this doesn’t work, we’ll invade the grounds and at my command you’ll get inside the castle and start killing. I don’t care about the age of the enemies; I care about them staying in there after the two days warning. They know you’re going to kill them and they will try to stop you by killing too.

‘To the human eating creatures, save as much as you want but do not get distracted by the blood and flesh, you will have plenty of time to devour your meals after we are victorious, for now, bite, slaughter, kill…’ Harry started as he looked around and pointed with his wand the seven paths that had taken him months to reopen in secret.

‘Most of the Subjects and humans, we’ll get through the gates, apparate outside the main gate and we’ll take it down, set on fire the old shack and set the lake on liquid fire, I don’t want any surprises from in there. Keep up but do not touch the Forbidden Forest, we don’t want the centaurs in our way and this has nothing to do with them and our war. We’ll invade the castle, kill as many as possible and take them all to the Great Hall, we’re trapping them all in there and then we have them all slaughtered.’ Harry went on and looked around him as everyone nodded their heads.

‘The first team, leave now for Hongsmeade, get inside the Shrieking Shack and follow the path up to the end of it in the grounds, remain there until my signal.’ Harry ordered and a big bunch of creatures nodded and disappeared in thin air. ‘The second team, through the Honk’s Head, none lives there anymore, kill anyone who might be in your way and move through the secret passage in the wall of the second floor.’ Harry said, pointing at other creatures who nodded too and left. One by one, the teams of creatures were sent in the passages around Hongsmeade. Now before him, there were only the human Subjects along with some of his human alliances. He took a deep breath and checked out the wrist watch Arthur Weasley had given him once, it was close to midnight, they were ready, the three days were expiring in less than two minutes.

He nodded to everyone, and one by one, they left the place in black smoke, lastly was Lord Brandon, who stared at Harry’s eyes for a long moment and then left too, Harry took a breath and closed his eyes, the image of a happy Hermione with their two kids in her arms, in a world that wouldn’t scare her anymore appeared before his eyes and that gave him strength. He made sure both his wands were in his wand holders and then, with a loud crack he was gone two in black smoke.

Harry reappeared in the dark perimeter of the grounds of Hogwarts, the castle was illuminated from the inside, every window could show light from within, everyone was waiting for this. Harry didn’t waste time, he pointed his wand at the ground between him and the gates and then pressed the tip of his wand on his throat, the moment he spoke, his voice was heard from the castle itself.

‘Surrender yourselves and none has to die tonight,’ Harry started and he knew everyone in the castle could listen to his enlarged voice, along with his alliances at the secret passages. ‘We all have been in this place and we know how it feels… we know who won at the end… surrender your selves and everyone will see the upcoming dawn.’ Harry said again and his followers seemed impatient behind as there was no movement. He took an impatient breath himself and spoke again.

‘I will count to 5, you have time to come out to the grounds and be saved, you have the chance to survive,’ Harry added and again, none moved outside, the door was still sealed. ‘One…’ Harry started and mostly sensed rather than saw his followers getting ready with their wands in their hands. ‘Two…’ He could imagine his alliances in the passages, waiting to burst inside the castle and kill and feed on the students that remained to fight. ‘Three…’ he could imagine the terror, the tension, the fear of all of them in there, they were fooled children that now spoilt their chance for survival, the order and the ministry had done a fine job at trapping them.

‘Four…’ He had been trapped too, back then, like Hermione and Ron and all the rest had, they had fought a war that had nothing to do with them, with children, when adults were supposed to take care of them, they had been in the front line of the Horcrux Hunt, of pain and darkness when they were supposed to be protected by them… now he was done protecting strangers. It was his time to protect his wife and children, their world, their reality, a reality that‘d be friendly for them, for people like him. ‘Five…’ he added and held his breath in anticipation, none opened the door and the anticipation turned into scalding furry. He looked around him, almost sensing the fear radiated by the castle and the impatience from his followers. He finally nodded his head.

‘NOW!!’ he bellowed and finally removed the wand from the spell on his voice as to take down the gate. The army started moving forward, speeding up their steps until they all broke into a run and Harry took down the front gate as all of them stepped on it as to keep up.

Soon, they were running straight for the castle, in their wake, they set the shack of Hagrid’s on fire, others casted the liquid fire on the lake and soon the ablaze lake illuminated everything. Screams started from the bottom of it and soon the huge squid started making noises of pain as its tentacles were set on fire, mermaid people and other sea creatures tried to emerge as the water became hotter and hotter, preventing them the oxygen but as they rose up to the surface they were burnt by the liquid fire that floated like oil on their bodies.

Harry didn’t even give a second glance as soon, more screams were heard but these were from the inside of the castle, his alliances had gotten inside from the secret passages and the slaughtering had begun. He kept running with his followers and they took down the front door of the castle.

Harry didn’t expect to see so many enemies inside, the ministry, the Hogwarts staff and the order had indeed made a great job on recruiting youngsters for martyrs in this, however, he didn’t care, he was going to take down all of them. The first spell addressed for him was blocked by a simple wave of his hand but drawn his attention on the young boy that had fired it. A Gryffindor student was looking at him with wild eyes.

‘You have put my mother under the imperious, you bastard!’ the boy screamed at Harry and tried to fire another spell, as Harry blocked the charm, he looked at the boy and recognized the eyes that had looked at him with fear, he was probably the son of that healer he killed when Hermione lost Benjamin.

‘I also killed her,’ Harry said and with a wave of his wand, the boy fell lifeless on the ground with his skin melting rapidly and exposing the flesh and organs that were still functioning in reflex. ‘So take this as a favor and go and meet her,’ Harry added in a murmur as he passed by the melting corpse and moved further inside.

The slaughtering went on and on, it seemed endless in Harry’s eyes as his army did the best to end the enemies but they were many, maybe even more than Harry’s people. He kept killing, young and old, humans and house elves, creatures like fairies and vellas who accepted to fight for the “good side”. He kept on and on and after a point he was only wiping the blood from his eyes and kept on, killing everyone that needed to go to Hell.

He spotted Malfoy and he smiled as he killed two Hufflepuff students that tried to hit Lord Brandon from behind. Harry looked around him and tried to spot McGonagall, for a moment, he saw her but then three Aurors Harry could recognize by face, tried to attack him. He shielded himself with a fire shield and then turned it into a wall of fire with the Fiendfyre curse, the wall turned the Aurors into a melting mass of skin and fleshas Harry looked for McGonagall again but he couldn’t see her. He cursed loudly as he tried harder by looking around, killing anyone in his path and giving orders of strategy.

Vampires were biting deep into their victim’s necks, taking of the heads, werewolves were taking down dozens, the giants had been murdered but Harry kept looking as the harpies trapped the students with their claws and avoided spells before they could throw their victims into already existing fires from other spells, the floors were covered in blood that splattered itself at each step of the fighters.

The walls had been damaged, the portraits too and soon Harry’s army was moving slowly the enemies into the great hall as planned. There was blood everyone, limps and pieces of wands, flesh and clothes.

Harry kept on, cursing, killing, exploding and taking to pieces students, Aurors and order members. Their numbers finally seemed to decrease and Harry could only get more and more vicious as he could almost feel the sweet taste of victory and revenge.

McGonagall finally entered his view and he ran for her, he wasn’t going to miss this chance. She was trying to prevent the students from being taken inside the Great Hall but soon Harry’s spell busied her as she answered with a shield of her own.

‘Serpensortia!’ Draco’s voice was heard by Harry’s left side and he turned to see his alliance sending the snake to McGonagall who looked at him in terror, probably only now spotting the chance of fields from him.

‘Again in the wrong side, Draco…’ she shouted above the battle noises and this time both Harry and Draco pointed their wands at the elder woman who prepared herself as she set the snake on fire.

‘NOT IN THE HALL!!! NOT IN THERE!!’ someone screamed from somewhere behind and Harry would swear this was a familiar voice to him, even louder and deeper because of the shouting and the gasping but he didn’t look behind him to see who was the one to betray him by distracting everyone. Harry also didn’t fire the spell like Draco did as the huge vulture slipped through one of the windows the moment McGonagall was falling dead by Draco’s wand and the patronus of Hermione’s moved close to the Master of Death, causing many people to pause and look at it and Harry’s heart to froze. Hermione was in trouble.

Harry followed the patronus with his eyes as it cycled him but his eyes stopped on Lord Brandon who was pointing his wand at him. Harry’s wand was slightly lowered and he could only try to get to the older man, he was the traitor, the shock for Harry was enormous, he had trusted this man like no other Subject.

‘You took it too far, young man; you took it way too far, in the wedding, and Dolohov’s execution, and now this…’ Brandon said as he kept his wand pointing at the young man. Harry could feel his heart beating fast for Hermione, but the images of Brandon frizzing before the wedding ritual, Dolohov’s death, staring at him right before they could arrive at Hogwarts, a few hours ago… he also remembered how he felt the presence of someone else when he had visited the rocks above the black cave.

It all clicked to him now, Brandon had taken care of the rituals for the wedding and Hermione’s fertility, maybe the fact of Hermione being in trouble with the children right that moment of Harry being away was all programmed by Brandon.

‘Why?’ Harry asked slowly, he wanted the truth, as everyone around him was spilling their blood for a war declared in his name, but this time as the villain when he only wanted to change this world, to have no more blood spilt, as Hermione was away from him, for the first time in such fight, probably in labor of his fragile Heirs, as Draco tried to block every spell and curse in their way and as Harry kept himself unprotected, a few feet away from McGonagall’s corpse, he just wanted the truth of yet another betrayal.

The answer was murmured in Harry’s ears, ‘Because it’s not right,’ the older man before him only raised his wand and cast the spell.

The beam of green light launched from the tip of the wand with a small dull voice and after a moment of panic… everything went dark.
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