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Iron Dragons and Firelegs COMPLETE	By : FemmeBono Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > Het - Male/Female Views: 2353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Cht. 13, Through Darkness, Light

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

They lingered in bed as long as they dared, trying to drag their last moments out as much as possible. By eleven, however, the whole delegation met in the great hall for an early lunch to suss out the final details for their attack. Members of the British magical ministry came as well. Aurors, a sort of wizarding FBI group, made up the majority of that contingency, in addition to one �hit wizard,� a leader in their equivalent of a police force, and the minister of magic himself, Rufus Scrimgeour, who as it turned out had been in law enforcement as well.
They were also joined by a type of vigilante group headed up by Dumbledore himself, and a few teens, including part of the Weasley family, and a boy, Longbottom, whose parents had been aurors.
They ate minimally, not wanting to fill up and try to fight on heavy stomachs, but rather satiated themselves and spent the remaining time making last minute adjustments and plans. Finally, the wizards cast Disillusionment spells on themselves while the soldiers geared up with grease paint and camouflage. Their already loaded packs were swung on their shoulders and they moved out as a group, down the steep hill through the gates and into the forest. From here they split up, Lacey, Hancock and Thorpe, plus five of the other airmen gathered around a portkey that lit up promptly at one to take them to the platform where they would board the train for the lengthy ride back up to Scotland. Although it was later than the children would have boarded, they still felt as though it was an eternal wait to get back to their rendezvous point.
Having already evacuated the village, the remnants of the entourage circled around it before moving down to the depot and into the woods beyond. Dodds, Brynn, Thom and the remaining airmen staked out their prearranged positions in the forest surrounding the depot. They layered leaves and brush over camouflage nets and hunkered down behind trees and shrubs to settle in and wait for the evening to approach, their night vision goggles stowed away in the side pocket of their pants until the sun began to set.
The wizards, meanwhile, took up their own posts. Malfoy naturally stationed himself near Brynn, on the pretense that he distrusted the abilities of her compatriots. He was joined by Gawain Robards, who turned out to be an old friend of the family. Snape, likewise, positioned himself in the depot with the aurors Tonks and Shacklebolt, right where Lacey would be arriving. The rest of the wizards stationed themselves throughout the forest from the tree line to deep within, Dumbledore himself circled the area with Scrimgeour casting a spell to negate anyone�s ability to disapparate from the grounds.
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Hours later, when the sun had fully set and the new moon rose in the darkened sky, the train chugged slowly into the station as the soldiers inside advanced to the doors of the cars. Silently, Lacey and Hancock signaled to the others to go out low and watched as her team all crouched down, weapons raised. The engine ground to a halt, brakes hissing as the doors popped open and all hell broke loose. The station platform erupted in a cacophony of machine gun fire, bullets dropping everywhere as the airmen advanced out of the train. The Death Eaters closest to the doors littered the ground, and the ones on the ground had already tried to bolt and run at the sound of shots reporting in the night air.
Lacey could feel the surge of panic and rage as soon as the Death Eaters realized they had been ambushed when the opposing side switched from attack mode to defense, but she knew it would do them no good. No sooner had they headed for the cover of the woods, then the second wave of fighters surrounded them between the depot and the forest, and hexes began firing through the air as swiftly as bullets. She leapt off the platform as jets of light whizzed by her and bullets whistled over her head. The greenish glow of her goggles showed shapes everywhere in front of her and she was secretly thankful for the glowing star on the right cheek of everyone who sided with the magical ministry and the order of the Phoenix. By this point, some of the so-called Death Eaters had lost their masks and might have been indistinguishable from the wizards she did not know that well. Thankfully, they had all agreed upon and taken the magical brand to be able to tell each other apart.
Lacey ducked down early on and pulled her Glock from the ankle holster on her right leg. The forest was far too densely populated to risk hitting one of her own with the machine gun, so she ran firing shots from the service weapon as she reached into her pants leg pocket for the taser that was now on its highest setting. She ran through underbrush and picked off two dark wizards still wearing masks, then tased one who had his back to her while he battled with Snape. Severus barely spared her a glance before firing off a hex at a Death Eater that charged to her right.
Hundreds of feet away, Brynn popped off a few shots herself before tucking and rolling to avoid a killing curse sent by a humongous blond Death Eater. Lacey came crashing through a cluster of large ferns and riddled the pockmarked man with bullets before buffeting him to the ground and quickly reloading her weapon. Brynn rasped out a thanks before turning and engaging another. As big as the prior Death Eater had been, the one that suddenly loomed before Lacey was even bigger and she knew why. From the straggly gray hair and rancid breath she would have known him, but the photos that Severus had provided surfaced in her mind as Lacey dropped her taser and unsheathed the sword at her hip. Greyback smiled lethally as they circled each other.
�You�ll do no harm to me with that, missy,� he taunted.
�I�ll take you a piece at a time if I have to,� she said, wishing fervently that there was some trace of silver in the sword. He lunged, just as her gut told her to parry and they began a macabre dance where she thrust and he turned, he swiped and she spun away. Their singularly pitched battle was rent by a flash of blue light connecting with her sword as she heard a cry from behind, �argentum!� and turned to see Malfoy give her a nod before swiftly engaging another Death Eater who tried to catch him off guard. In that split second she sliced through the air with the sword and caught the werewolf in the belly. Even as his blood spilled out on the ground, his eyes focused in on the gleaming sword, now turned to solid silver.
Not bothering to pick up the taser, Lacey continued to fight, gun in one hand and sword in the other. She cut a swath back towards Severus, who was fighting two at once, a grimace of concentration on his visage and beads of sweat dotting his forehead. She had seen him in action in practice, but now realized that he had in fact held back. He whirled like a dervish, slashing, parrying and thrusting, never slowing. Then she stepped forward and took out the one on his right with a single shot.
It was just in time that she did, as no sooner did the Death Eater drop to the ground, then she spied a blood chilling sight behind him. The largest snake she had ever seen took advantage of his distraction to slither up behind Severus. Knowing its strike was imminent, Lacey spun and sliced her sword in an arc through the air, lopping off the head of the great serpent and sending it spinning and writhing into the undergrowth.
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Nearby on a rise overlooking the scene, Harry was battling it out with Rodolphus Lestrange, husband of the she-demon of the Death Eaters. He ducked to avoid a stinging hex and caught the man under the arm with a knockout curse.
As he straightened, his gaze flicked up to catch a dark robed figure moving away as he shouted orders to the Death Eaters close by. Seeing his chance, and not wanting Voldemort to slither away yet again, Harry took aim. �Petrificus totalus!� he shouted. The spell caught Voldemort in the back as Harry began running towards him, determined to get a better shot. Just as he neared the next rise, where Voldemort stood transfixed, the dark wizard abruptly spun, having broken the curse. In the split second before his wand slashed down, ripping a curse through the boy�s body, a second body slammed him to the ground. Instead of Harry, the curse flashed green point blank between Voldemort and Ron, who had rushed onto the scene. Everyone froze for a moment before a scream rent the air. Hermione stood at the edge of the slope, clawing against Malfoy who held her, trying to get to the top of the hill. �No, Ron!� she cried, tears leaving grimy tracks down her dirty cheeks. �No, please, no!�
Malfoy held the still struggling girl, trying to reason with her, even as he shot curses and deflected others. �Be still, Granger!� he shouted, shaking her once. �There�s nothing you can do for him now.�
As he said this, Voldemort shoved Ron�s body off of him and stood to face Harry who wand leveled at him. No sooner had the dark wizard pulled himself upright and begun to laugh, then Harry jabbed the wand squarely in his chest.
�Avada Kedavra!� the boy shouted, his eyes wild. As the smile faded from Voldemort�s face, his knees buckling, Harry looked down at his adversary and lowered the wand. �You�re right. You do have to mean it.�
Hermione by that point had stopped struggling, Malfoy still hanging onto her. He looked aghast at Harry for only a moment before tapping his throat once with his wand. �Sonorus,� he said, then spoke up, his voice echoing through the forest. �The Dark Lord is dead. Any Death Eater or sympathizer still alive, is advised to lower his wand and surrender or face the consequences. You are now under arrest for insurrection, attempted murder, and conspiracy.�
�NO! Traitor!� screamed Bella lunging at Malfoy from behind. As she slashed her wand at him, she gave a tortured wail before falling to the ground twitching. When she dropped, Malfoy spun around to face Brynn, standing over the prone witch. Brynn still held her taser out, surveying the woman at her feet. With a quick spell, Lucius bound and gagged Bella before taking her wand. Brynn finally lowered the taser and stepped over Bella, even while the barely conscious woman�s muscles still quivered in the aftermath of such a strong shock.
�Most everyone�s surrendered already. They realized when old Voldy didn�t speak up that he really was gone.� She surveyed the scene as she spoke. Hermione and Harry were both hobbling away from Voldemort�s corpse. Harry bent down and rolled Ron over, closing his eyes as Hermione watched, weeping silently. Brynn swayed silently, suddenly dizzy.
�You fight like a demon,� Lucius said admiringly, then caught her arm as she swayed again. �Now there, don�t let�s fall apart yet, pet.� He led her to a large oak and let her lean against it.
�I told you I haven�t felt at all well these past few days.�
�Well then,� he replied, �plenty of time to sort it all out now.� He looked around once again to see most of the aurors still alive and ushering bound Death Eaters back to the depot to be port keyed to a holding cell in Azkaban to await trial. Lupin was crouched down over Greyback�s body shaking his head, but looking as though a huge weight had come off his shoulders. And there, across the clearing near a copse of pine trees, was his oldest and truest friend. Smiling. Severus showed no signs of caring that he was being watched as he wrapped his arms around the tiny woman before him and lifted her off the ground in a bone crunching hug. Finally, despite everything he had witnessed already, this one sign breached his battle weary mind. Everything was going to change now, and it was okay.
Lucius Malfoy, who had been raised his entire life to hate the people who had helped to down perhaps the darkest wizard of all time, smiled as he watched his friend bask in the love of one of them. Turning his head back to Brynn, he knew that he shared those feelings, and that there were much worse fates.
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A/N: I�m basing the timing for this thing on both the movie (POA) and books. The Hogwarts Express chugs out at eleven; in the movie Hermione mentions that Dufftown is not far from the castle; from King�s Cross to Dufftown would be about ten hours, give or take. Yes, I�m that anal, and no wonder the kids are starving by the time they get there...even with that stupid lunch trolley.

And yes, ladies and gents, only one more chapter to go!
- 12
- 13
- 14
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