Harry Potter: Deathly Avenger Book 3
By Stargatesg1fan1
Disclaimer: I own nothing of any recognized character or universe within.
Author's Note:
Natasha Romanov/Black Widow is played by Scarlett Johansson
Lady Sif is played by Jaimie Alexander
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Chapter 1
October 2013, Asgard…
Harry and Natasha appeared in the chamber where the Bifrost was housed and were greeted by the sight of their friend Thor along with a stunningly beautiful brunette woman.
"Harry, Natasha," Thor greeted with a large smile on his handsome features.
Harry clasped forearms with Thor and Natasha exchanged a hug with the blonde Asgardian. Thor and the brunette looked a bit worse for the wear.
"Thor, it is good to see you," Harry greeted. "And who might this beautiful woman be?"
"This is my friend Lady Sif," Thor introduced. "Sif, this is Harry Potter and Natasha Romanov."
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Lady Sif," Harry greeted as he took one of Sif's hands and kissed the back of it.
Natasha nodded in silent agreement with Harry's sentiment.
"I am pleased to meet you as well, Harry Potter and Natasha Romanov. Please just call me Sif," Sif answered.
Sif felt a magical tingle go through her hand as the handsome wizard kissed the back of her hand.
"I must apologize for our appearance. We are recently returned from a battle in one of the other realms. We just got back a few moments ago," Thor explained.
"Not at all," Natasha assured. "Please call us Natasha and Harry, Sif," she added.
Harry waved his hand and cleaned the two Asgardians up, earning an appreciative nod from both.
"That is Heimdall," Thor said while indicating an armored black man standing guard with a sword in his hands. "If you will follow me we can get you settled in the palace and show you Asgard."
Thor led the way out onto the rainbow bridge. The sight was truly fantastic. The immensity of the magical city that lay before them awed the two newly arrived Avengers. Even Harry who had seen some pretty amazing sights on other worlds was impressed by the sight.
"Sif is fucking hot," Natasha observed sending her thoughts so that her lover could pick them up.
"Gee, I didn't notice," Harry mused sarcastically.
"I'll be you didn't," Natasha said amusedly while admiring the rears of both Asgardians walking before her. Aloud she asked, "So what was the fighting about?"
"When the Bifrost was destroyed the other realms that enjoy the protection of Asgard no longer had that protection. Warlords sought to take over," Sif explained.
"Here comes our ride now," Thor said as an open aircraft that was propelled by a mixture of advanced technology and magic came to a hover next to the rainbow bridge.
Sif and Thor stepped inside and the couple from Earth joined the Asgardians. An Asgardian in armor was piloting the craft and guided it to a higher altitude. Harry and Natasha were treated to an aerial tour of the city of Asgard as they were flown to the palace. It was approaching evening on Asgard when the aircraft touched down at an entrance to an immense palace made of many golden spires. Sif and Thor guided their guests to quarters located right next to Sif's apartment.
"This is where you will be staying," Sif said. "It is right next door to me," she added while pointing to a door down the hall. "If you need anything there is an attendant down there around the corner or you can ask me. We need to prepare for the party that will take place later this evening."
"It is good to have you both here," Thor stated with a wide grin.
"We are glad to be here, my friend," Harry assured.
Harry and Natasha entered their apartment to get settled in. The couple both had shrunken trunks which contained their belongings so neither had to bother with unpacking. They went over to their balcony overlooking the city and admired the gorgeous view.
"We should build a vacation home here," Natasha decided as she took in the sights of the city.
"It would be pretty wicked," Harry agreed.
"Do you think there is anything going on between Thor and Sif?" Natasha queried.
"I think she has feelings for him but he doesn't reciprocate them," Harry answered. "Frankly I am thinking he must be a bit crazy."
"Or his thoughts are preoccupied with another. Phil told me about that Jane Foster woman that Thor was close to during the New Mexico incident," Natasha mused. "In any case if Thor isn't interested in Sif you should make a move on her."
Harry turned to his girlfriend with surprise clearly showing on her face. The couple had long since discussed Natasha's bisexual past but Harry got the impression her interest in women wasn't that intense.
"You are actually encouraging me to go after another woman?" Harry asked.
"Yes," Natasha confirmed.
"Why would you do that?" Harry queried.
"Harry," Natasha began before pausing to gather her thoughts. "I have been with you for some time now. I love you and I love being with you…but I know your stamina is much greater than mine." It pained Natasha to admit the next part out loud but she felt it needed to be said. "I can't fully satisfy you."
"Natasha, yes you can. I am not someone who needs sex every minute of the day," Harry asserted.
Natasha and Harry were facing each other as they talked. She and Harry sat in chairs he conjured there on the balcony. He erected privacy charms to make sure their conversation was not overheard.
"Harry…you may not press me for more than you think I can handle but I can feel your desire. We have connected so many times I can feel when you want me. I can feel emotions like that," Natasha explained. "You can't hide it from me."
Harry grimaced and said, "I was afraid of that. Sometimes our deeper bond can be wonderful…but other times it can be a bit of a bother."
"It's ok," Natasha assured. "I would rather know than not know. I am not saying I want to sleep with Sif myself. But I am not opposed to you being with her. If it makes you feel better I can be there with you when you do. I am a big girl. I can share."
"You shouldn't have to," Harry pointed out.
"Harry, you have given me so many wonderful things since we have been together. There are some fantastic perks to being your lover. The orgasms alone warrant me giving you some leeway. You have made me immortal. We have eternity together. At the very least this should keep our sex lives from getting stale. You can't be perfect even though you damn well seem like it sometimes," Natasha explained. "I have thought long and hard about this. Just give it some thought. Frankly I thought you would be more enthusiastic about it."
"In my younger days I might have been. I just don't want you to feel like I find you lacking in any way," Harry answered.
"I know you don't," Natasha assured. "I can discern your true feelings for me, remember. I am a lover of a man who has the stamina of a god. It seems only fitting that such a man might need a goddess to keep up."
Despite the fact that Natasha had gone through many physiological upgrades in recent times she simply didn't have Harry's magical core and the resulting strength. Harry's stamina was incredibly augmented by his magic as was his virility.
"I really love you," Harry whispered.
Natasha leaned forward and kissed him.
"I know you do. Now let's break in this bed they have leant us," Natasha sent as her lips were occupied.
Harry didn't respond mentally or verbally but the spike in his emotions conveyed his desires to Natasha.
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"Do you want to go for a tour of the city?" Harry asked Natasha after they had finally gotten out of bed from their love making session.
"Guided or unguided?" Natasha asked.
"Unguided," Harry answered with a mischievous grin.
"I'm game," Natasha agreed.
Harry spelled himself and his mate so that they were invisible. He wasn't completely sure the magicals in Asgard wouldn't be able to see through his invisibility spells but the two visiting Avengers would soon find out. The couple left their quarters and followed the hall past the attendant Sif had pointed out to them. They traced their path back to the entrance of the palace. At the entrance Harry sent out a spell he had long ago learned to use to map out a structure. Within thirty seconds of casting the spell a three-dimensional projection of the palace was displayed in front of the lovers visible only to them because Harry desired it to be that way. The spell was tailored to the caster and any he desired to see the effects.
"It's huge," Natasha observed as Asgardians came and went from the nearby entrance.
"Yes, and the wards on the regions with high concentrations of magic are truly staggering, especially from this region," Harry replied back mentally while indicating a particular chamber near the center of the castle.
Harry and Natasha could see each other as well.
"Maybe it is an artifact repository of some kind," Natasha mused.
"I am not sure. Let's go find out," Harry proposed.
The two lovers set off towards the desired chamber being careful to avoid detection by running into someone. The palace was quite lively with Asgardians coming and going. They saw many sorts of beings including a regal looking Asgardian of immense power with an eye-patch covering one eye. Harry recognized that the Asgardian was Odin from Thor's description. Odin stopped as he walked through the corridor Harry and Natasha were in and paused to look around. Odin's gaze swept over where Harry and Natasha were concealed but it was obvious Odin at least sensed something. Odin shook his head and moved on after a moment.
"That was close," Natasha sent two corridors later. "Who was he I wonder?"
"That was Odin, the All-Father," Harry sent with confidence.
"Harry, I knew you were damn powerful but I didn't know you could conceal us from Odin," Natasha sent with some surprise and a bit of awe in her mental tone.
"I almost couldn't. But yeah it is pretty impressive I was able to do that," Harry said as they came to a doorway that was closed. "I can sense powerful wards beyond this doorway."
"Can we get through?" Natasha queried.
"Hmm…getting through them conventionally might be time consuming and tricky if it is possible. I'm not sensing anything preventing apparation," Harry tried sending an invisible object turned into a portkey beyond the door in a location he could sense was open air.
It worked so Harry apparated himself and his lover through the door. Inside the next room were several guards standing at ready to defend the doors. There were also more doors with some type of scanner to identify people wanting to enter.
"Which door should we go through?" Natasha wondered.
"Let's just pick the door on the right," Harry decided before extending his senses through the door he intended to explore through. He located a free space and then he and Natasha apparated into that room. "Well now we know what this room is for."
Room was an understatement that didn't adequately describe the size of the massive chamber the couple was now in. The massive chamber was filled floor to ceiling with neat stacks of gold bars, piles of precious gems, coins, and other precious objects. There were some ingots that appeared to be comprised of exotic matter and were glowing.
"This is a pretty spectacular sight," Natasha thought with her mental thoughts filled with awe. "The Asgardians are damn lucky we don't steal from non-enemies."
"Yes, they are," Harry agreed. "Though I admit it is rather tempting."
"I know you. You want to take samples of those glowing ingots to study them," Natasha said to her boyfriend knowingly. "I think you should. Small samples shouldn't be missed nor should they cause any harm."
Harry smiled warmly at his girlfriend and approached the differently glowing stacks of ingots. Harry drew exotic matter sample containers out of his trunk. Harry had dealt with exotic forms of matter in his last universe and had designed sample containers with a wide array of protective enchantments on them. After coming to this universe among other things he had recreated much of what he had used in his old reality. Harry used the appropriate enchantments to collect small samples of the ingots and then sent the collected matter back into his trunk.
"Let's go back into the room we just came through and explore the next door," Harry suggested.
Natasha nodded agreement and the couple was swiftly off. The next room they found themselves in contained some truly unusual sights. There was some kind of containment field generator encasing a region of spacetime several meters in diameter which pulsed and undulated with an otherworldly light. Harry was able to sense power coming off of the sphere of contained spacetime passing through several dimensions. On another pedestal there was what looked like a massive gem which Harry could sense was putting out a great deal of power. The room was filled with strange objects. The only identifier for each item was a 12 digit number on the pedestal or containment device.
"The room seems to go on forever," Natasha observed.
"I think this room stores dangerous objects or objects of unknown origin. I think those numbers identify the object but the key that gives further detail doesn't seem to be stored here with the objects," Harry suggested.
"That is smart," Natasha said. "This seems a lot like SHIELD's Vault facility. We could spend a long time searching this place. What do you want to do in here?"
Harry summoned twenty tiny spheres out of his trunk each the size of a marble. Natasha recognized the devices as advanced sensor probes. Each probe had a region of expanded spacetime inside which contained an advanced computer, a communications array that could send and receive information over vast distances in the universe, a cloaking field generator, an antigravity drive, and quite a few magical and technology based scanning sensor systems.
"I will deploy these probes to start cataloguing and studying these items. Let's move onto the next chamber," Harry suggested.
After the marble-sized probes had begun floating through the reliquary Natasha and Harry transited to the next vault chamber via the main entrance and apparition. When they arrived in this chamber it was even larger than the first chamber they had visited and the couple immediately knew why.
"Now this just got interesting. And that is saying something because it was already interesting," Natasha sent with an appreciative tone while admiring the hundreds of spaceships in sight.
The chamber extended deep beneath Odin's palace and extended out of sight. Harry sensed something similar to his space expansion charms at work in the chamber. The arcane energies he sensed weren't identical to his space expansion charms but they were probably in the same class of spells to manipulate spacetime. Harry immediately drew out more sensor probes and released them into the chamber.
"Asgard has existed for eons. It makes sense they would have encountered many interstellar species in that time," Harry said as he and Natasha began walking and examining some of the ships. "I wonder if they have a database with the studies they have likely done of these ships. I would suspect they do. I wonder if we might be able to access it."
"That would be pretty sweet," Natasha agreed. "I know you have told me you have access to some quite advanced technology due to the time you came from in your old universe but wouldn't such a database be much more advanced?"
"Yes," Harry confirmed. "We met alien cultures in my old universe and gained access to ship designs but the Earth of my time didn't have the shear amount of time Asgard has had to collect and compile ship designs from other species. Asgard's technology database would be a big advantage."
Harry and Natasha spent more time in this chamber than the others just admiring the diversity of the alien spacecraft. Harry's scans would reveal a lot about the spacecraft but the Asgardian scholars would have been able to merge their studies of the alien ships into a coherent science. It would save Harry literally eons of time. After departing the chamber they nicknamed the ship room the couple found a library chamber and a weapons chamber. The library chamber held ancient tomes and scrolls magically preserved. There was some non-magical knowledge but most of the knowledge within the library chamber was magical knowledge. Harry could sense the arcane energy flowing from several of the ancient tomes. The magic seemed almost sentient from those tomes. Some of the tomes described black magics and some described light magics. Thor had mentioned during their communications between Earth and Asgard that Asgard held a massive central library in the capitol city. If any of these books were also contained within that central library it was likely those books were duplicates of the ones Natasha and Harry were examining in the library chamber. The weapons chamber contained weapons from many different alien cultures. Sensor probes were released into both of these chambers as well.
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The party that night was lively and filled with drink and laughter. Harry and Natasha sat at a table listening to some tales from the Warriors Three they had been introduced to. The couple noticed as Thor stood and walked out. Harry cast a spell that made it look like he and his mate were attentively listening and reacting appropriately to the story while in fact the real versions were no longer visible to anyone but each other. They both watched Thor go.
"I wonder where he is off to," Natasha mused.
"Sif just stopped him in the hall," Harry answered, able to peer through solid matter using magic if he wished to. "Let's listen to what they are discussing."
Harry directed his magical sensory enhancement magic towards Sif and Thor while sharing what he was hearing with Natasha telepathically.
"There was a time when you would celebrate for weeks after a battle," Sif pointed out.
"I remember you celebrating the Battle of Karokin so hard that you nearly instigated the second," Thor replied.
"The first was so much fun I almost didn't want to let it be the only one," Sif said with a grin.
Thor smiled fondly at Sif.
"Take a drink with me," Sif invited. "Surely, you could not have any more royal duties this night."
"This task is of my own choosing," Thor answered.
"Your absence each night leaving the feast early does not go unnoticed," Sif observed. "The future king of Asgard must focus on more than just one of the nine realms."
"I appreciate your sword and your counsel good Lady," Thor said. "I must bid you a good night."
Thor turned and left. Harry and Natasha appeared next to Sif several moments later silently.
"Unrequited feelings are never fun," Harry said quietly.
"Have you ever actually experienced unrequited feelings, lover?" Natasha asked. "I'm truly curious because you are bloody gorgeous. I should think people having unrequited feelings for you would be the case instead of you having such feelings for others."
"Well you are correct of course. But those feelings can make awkward situations for the person whom the feelings are focused upon," Harry answered.
Sif had managed to avoid drawing her blade at the sudden appearance of Thor's two guests but only barely. The magical powers of Harry Potter were truly impressive. She found the conversation of the two a welcome distraction from her recent encounter with Thor even if they were somewhat talking about it.
"Do you think Harry is bloody gorgeous?" Natasha asked Sif.
Sif looked confused for several moments and then said, "I don't know how a bloody person can be gorgeous. In any event he is not bloody. But I will agree he is gorgeous."
Harry grinned and explained, "Bloody is a saying used in my country to add emphasis to something. And thank you. My admiration for your beauty is equally intense. Would you care to join Natasha and I for a drink?"
Sif was thoughtful for several moments before letting a grin play on her lips.
"I would like that," Sif declared.
The trio moved off to find a drink.
Later…
Sif sat flirting with the handsome Harry. At first she had thought that maybe it was just her imagination that Harry had been flirting with her given how inhibited she had heard Midgardians were sexually. But then the signals had come through clearly. Harry's beautiful girlfriend Natasha didn't seem to mind in the least. In fact the redhead also seemed to be enjoying herself immensely as she relaxed while partaking of an Asgardian brew. Three-way relationships were not uncommon in Asgard. Living thousands of years tended to make men and women more willing to explore all manners of sexuality. Sif had explored the same sex a century or so ago. At only five hundred and sixty-eight years old Sif was a younger member of her race. She had found partaking of women to be enjoyable but she wasn't really too attracted to them sexually. She could admire their beauty but that was really all the attraction she felt towards them. She much preferred men. Sif wasn't sure of Natasha's inclination in that department. She decided to ask with the courage provided by her drink.
"Have you ever been with women, Natasha?" Sif queried.
Natasha sensed the question was out curiosity rather than interest.
"Many times," Natasha admitted. "I was trained to enjoy it by the government that raised me. They trained me to infiltrate and pleasure both sexes. I enjoy it but I'm not really attracted to women as much as men. I feel a small amount of attraction. Why do you ask?"
"I was curious. Let us speak plainly. I am interested in Harry and I think he is interested in me. But I would not want any pursuing to lessen your relationship," Sif suggested.
"I am not worried. We love each other very much and are both immortal. I do not mind if he brings another woman into our bed. But if he partakes in that privilege then I am allowed to bring another man into our bed. Not that I'm inclined to anytime soon," Natasha admitted.
Natasha didn't actually foresee ever needing to bring another man into their bed. The sex with Harry was just so fantastic she didn't want to ever risk that for the fleeting pleasure of another man. Besides that, Harry had revealed he was a master of shifting his form to that of any man he wanted and he could use telepathy to adopt the mannerisms of other men. So Natasha could have any man she wanted while still being with Harry. She could have her cake and eat it too. Harry wasn't perfect. He had his quirks that somewhat aggravated her sometimes. But he was by far the best man she had ever been with and she didn't think she would ever find any better. She truly did love him.
"Fair enough," Sif answered. "What do you think, Harry? Would you like to share your bed, or my bed seeing as we are in Asgard?"
Harry didn't even have to glance at Natasha due to the emotional link and minor telepathic link they shared along with the conversation they had engaged in earlier on that topic fresh in his mind. He squeezed Natasha's hand before answering.
"Yes," Harry assured. "I would find that a most enjoyable experience."
Sif stood with a slow smile and gestured for the two visitors to follow her.
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Smut Scene Redacted (See Hpfanficarchive for Erotic Version)
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The next morning when Harry awoke it was to the sound of Sif washing her face in the water basin in his room. He happened to be facing her as she did this but she was facing away from him and butt naked. His eyes roamed appreciatively.
"You have a gloriously delicious looking arse, Sif," Harry said.
Sif glanced back over her shoulder and flashed her lover a grin. Natasha lifted her head from where she had been spooned behind Harry and examined the scene.
"After last night and early this morning I suspect you will be seeing a lot more of my arse," Sif mused.
"You just opened a huge can of worms, Sif," Natasha said amusedly as Sif approached the bed again and sat down on the side.
"Can of worms…why would worms be canned?" Sif said with confusion.
"It is another saying of Midgard which means you have invited trouble," Harry explained.
"Why has my statement invited trouble?" Sif asked Natasha.
"Harry here is what we call on Midgard a butt man. His favorite part of a woman's body is our butts," Natasha answered.
Sif smiled and said, "Is that so? That is good information to know. You two are welcome to join me on the practice field this morning. I would enjoy seeing your skill in combat. Thor has spoken often of your battle for New York."
"We would like that," Natasha agreed, knowing Harry's response immediately due to her telepathic link with him.
As the trio got out of bed and got dressed Harry used cleaning charms on them. There was no reason to bathe if they were just going to get sweaty with a workout.
Sif amusedly asked, "On Midgard do women often speak for their men? I must say I approve."
"I am not sure how it is among other couples but due to the special abilities my kind has we are able to form a connection that is primarily telepathic but also extends to the empathic range and beyond the longer and more intimate I am with someone. Natasha could sense my feelings and thoughts on the matter when she wanted to know what I thought. It was more subconscious for her to know than conscious though we can communicate mind to mind when we wish it," Harry explained.
Sif turned from dressing and stared at her new friends with surprise.
"Something so…intimate is possible on a permanent or long term basis? I know of telepathic and empathic species but I have never heard the specifics of their intimate and relationship practices," Sif said.
"Yes. It makes a relationship so much easier," Natasha responded while following Sif from the Asgardian's quarters.
"Would you ladies like some fruit?" Harry offered as he caused a bowl of many different kinds of fruit to materialize floating in the air before Sif and Natasha.
Harry began eating an apple himself. Natasha grabbed several bananas as did Sif and an apple also. Harry sent the floating fruit bowl back to his trunk where it went back into stasis so that it would be perfectly preserved.
"This is delicious," Sif declared after eating one banana.
"Stasis charms keep it perfectly preserved at the ripest state," Natasha explained.
After finishing the small energy boosting food, Harry hit them all with a mouth cleaning and breathe freshening charm.
"I think you will be very useful to have around, Harry Potter," Sif declared.
"You have no idea how true that is," Natasha said with a knowing grin.
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Harry, Natasha, and Sif had just finished eating a fuller breakfast after their shower. Their sparring match had gone quite well. Without using his magical powers too much beyond enhancing his physiology to the level of the standard Asgardian, Harry and Sif had been stalemated in skill. Thor was quite a bit stronger than the standard Asgardian. Sif was very quick and skilled in hand to hand. In sword play Harry felt somewhat taxed to keep up with Sif. After the sparring match the trio had enjoyed a shower together and then their breakfast. It was as the threesome was finishing up their meal that Harry looked off towards the rainbow bridge and towards where Earth was.
"What is it, Harry?" Natasha asked.
"Something powerful and unusual just occurred near Thor," Harry said. "He is back on Earth."
"Do you have the sight of Heimdal?" Sif asked her companion. "How else could you know this?"
"Has Thor told you about the communication wrist-band I gave him?" Harry asked as he summoned another communication wrist-band and passed it to Sif. "You can keep that by the way."
"Yes, he has," Sif said as she slipped the band around her wrist and felt it resize to fit her perfectly. "Quite an ingenious enchantment," she added.
"I put enchantments on those to tell me if my friends are in trouble and to help me locate them if they are in trouble. While the energy discharge Thor was just in the vicinity of couldn't harm him personally…the energy had the potential to be dangerous," Harry explained. "He is returning. We should go and see what is going on."
The trio rose and followed Harry's suggestion.
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Harry tracked Thor to a wing of the Palace which Sif informed the wizard and Natasha was the medical section. They found Thor worriedly watching as several Asgardian healers (all females) manipulated glowing energy controls on a medical bed of some sort. The surface of the bed was glowing. On the bed was an attractive mortal woman named Jane Foster. Harry's passive telepathy confirmed the woman's identity and passed this information along his link to Natasha. Harry activated his mage sight and began analyzing the energy pathways of the healing bed. He was starting to determine the function of the bed was much like his medical bed he had first demonstrated in this universe for Tony Stark when Jane spoke.
"What is that?" Jane asked while pointing at a glowing figure of energy floating above her body.
"Please be still," Healer Eir requested.
Out of the figure a humanoid energy replica of Jane emerged with different regions glowing with different colors of energy. Harry's magical senses discerned new dimensions to the energy representation just like the trained Asgardian healers could discern. Jane could not discern the extra dimensions nor could Natasha without the telepathic connection she shared with her lover. Healer Eir continued to manipulate the diagnostic controls of the bed.
"This energy within her is not of Earth," Thor said as even his untrained senses discerned the energy within Jane. "Do you know what it is?"
Thor was standing next to one of Asgardian equivalents to a nurse, a female named Talulah. The question was addressed to her.
"We do not yet know, my prince," Talulah said. "But the amount of energy within her will kill her."
"This is a quantum field generator isn't it," Jane said.
"This is a soul forge," Eir replied.
"Does a soul forge transfer molecular energy from one place to another?" Jane clarified.
"Yes," Eir confirmed, surprised the mortal had discerned that aspect of the machine.
As far as the news from Midgard had revealed the mortals had not advanced far enough to be able to identify that particular property of a soul forge. But perhaps the news was wrong. It certainly wouldn't be the first time Eir thought to herself. Jane mouthed quantum field generator to Thor who smiled at the woman.
"Were my words just sounds without meaning to you that you would ignore them, my son?" Odin said as he entered the room.
"Jane is ill," Thor stated.
"Jane is mortal. Illness is a defining aspect of their being," Odin replied.
"Her illness is not of Midgard," Thor rebutted. "I thought we may be able to help her."
Harry cleared his throat and stepped forward, saying, "Hello. We haven't met yet but my name is Harry Potter."
Odin and Jane both turned their attention to the wizard. Both had heard of the sorcerer even if from different sources. Jane had watched plenty of footage of the mage fighting in the Battle of New York and knew his power. Odin too had been apprised of Harry's power by Thor's tales. Odin thought that maybe some of those tales were embellishment but perhaps not all.
"Yes," Odin greeted. "Welcome to Asgard. I understand we have you to thank for reigning in Loki as much as possible during his temper tantrum on Midgard. For that you have our thanks. I would discuss more of your travels with you. But first I need to see what has my son so upset other than foolish love of youth. Describe what is in her," he said to his son.
"When Jane was touched in a way she didn't like by mortal law enforcement officers a discharge of reddish energy blasted them back," Thor explained.
"If I may I can extract a copy of the memory from your mind Thor and we can view the incident in question. Simply focus your mind on the event you were just describing," Harry offered.
Thor did so with a nod and the group was quickly viewing the events in question projected from a pensieve the size of a quarter in Harry's hand. Odin stepped forth immediately and ran his hand above the surface of Jane's arm. Reddish veins of energy flowed beneath his palm.
"Is the infection defending her?" Eir asked in surprise.
"This shouldn't be possible. It was destroyed or so we were led to believe," Odin whispered. Everyone in the room heard him. "Come with me."
Harry, Sif, Natasha, Jane, and Thor followed Odin to a room next to the vault the couple had explored earlier.
"The reliquary," Sif stated for the benefit of her two companions as they entered the chamber Odin was leading them to.
"There exist relics that pre-date the creation of this universe itself," Odin explained. "If I am right then the energy within Jane Foster is one of those relics." In the center of the entryway to the chamber was a giant magical tree thrumming with power to Harry's senses and on nine of the branches were glowing miniature universes or so it would seem. These were the sub-realms or sub dimensions within this universe. "The nine realms are not eternal. They had a dawn and they will have a dusk." Odin went over to a pedestal where a book lay. He opened the tome to reveal obviously magical script on the pages. The text and figures glowed with energy and shifted on the page. "Before the dawn the dark forces primarily made up of the Dark Elves reigned absolute and unchallenged."
"Born of eternal night the Dark Elves come to steal away the light," Thor recited. "Mother told these stories to us as children."
"The leader of the Dark Elves, a being named Malekith, used that darkness to make a weapon which he called the Aether," Odin explained while showing the group a page in the book he was looking at. "The other relics often appear in the form of stones. The Aether however is fluid and always changing. The Aether changes matter into dark matter. It also seeks out host bodies and draws strength from their life-force. Malekith wanted to use the Aether to return the universe to darkness. After much bloodshed my father Bor finally defeated Malekith and the Dark Elf army. The peace that has occurred since has lasted thousands of years. Bor killed all of the Dark Elves."
"That book says the Aether was destroyed. Obviously that is not the case," Thor pointed out.
"Does that book say how to get this Aether out of me?" Jane asked Odin.
"No, the book does not give details of that nature," Odin answered. "Jane Foster must remain on Asgard."
"Can you remove this Aether with your powers, Harry Potter?" Thor asked his wizard friend.
"I don't know," Harry answered. "Perhaps I can. I don't want to get your hopes up. I have never encountered anything like this Aether," Harry explained as he sent several more scanning spells into Jane. "I will have to study it first."
"Will the studying hurt?" Jane asked.
"No, not the studying I plan to do. The removal process if I can devise one might be quite painful but the studying won't hurt," Harry answered.
"Then study away," Jane requested.
"Our scholars will join you in studying the Aether, Harry Potter," Odin declared.
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Harry had taken some deep scans of Jane and was now working in the mobile lab he had set up inside his enchanted trunk. He had constructed a simulation of Jane's physical form and her essence, her soul, to test extraction methods against and see how the Aether would respond. He had managed to capture and contain a small sample of the Aether and had extrapolated a simulation of that as well. Natasha was spending time getting to know Sif better.
"Harry, alarms are sounding in the palace. Sif says there is a massive breakout in the dungeons. The royal guards are mobilizing to respond," Natasha sent to her lover.
"Come to me," Harry requested.
Harry apparated into the bedroom his trunk was in and moments later Natasha appeared at his side holding Sif's hand.
"Let us go join the battle if you are willing," Sif suggested.
"Let's," Natasha agreed.
"I will apparate us above the palace and then fly us to the prison section where you direct us, Sif. I'm not quite sure where that section of the palace is," Harry said.
Sif nodded her agreement and the trio disappeared with both women holding tightly to Harry. They reappeared not far above the top spire of the palace and Sif indicated a particular point where Thor could be observed flying towards. Harry shot down after the thunder god and caught up just as Thor touched down in the center of the battle for the dungeons. All fighting stopped as Thor landed.
"Return to your cells and you will not be harmed further. You have my word on this," Thor called. One of the prisoners responded by punching Thor. "So be it."
Fighting broke out anew. Working together the three Avengers and Sif quickly began cutting through the escaped prisoners. They took no quarter. Harry sensed something in the middle of the fight and turned to look towards the Bifrost generator. His eyes widened with surprise at what he saw as he peered through solid matter.
"What is it?" Natasha asked as she made sure nobody assaulted her boyfriend while he was distracted.
"One massive alien ship is at the Bifrost generator," Harry called. "Several smaller fighter sized craft are splitting off from the main ship."
"Harry, Thor, we have this. You two can best match those ships," Sif called as she sliced through a horned creature's neck and cut down through the heart.
Thor nodded and took off as did Harry. They flew out of the dungeons and towards the oncoming craft. The city defense weapons shot high velocity plasma rounds at the enemy aircraft but the enemy craft were agile and shot past the cannons. Asgardian airships took flight and one airship managed to shoot down one of the enemy fighters but was taken out by another enemy craft in the process.
"Heimdal has activated the palace shields," Thor said with a grin as a giant golden shield formed around the palace. "There goes another enemy craft."
"But they are dispatching three more," Harry pointed out as three more enemy ships split off from the larger ship.
"That just makes it more interesting," Thor said while calling down lightning to deal with the single ship closest to the palace. The ship seemed as if it would survive the moderately powerful lightning attack while shuddering and shaking but then it went sailing towards the city below in an obviously uncontrolled descent. Harry began flying towards the other three oncoming enemy aircraft when suddenly the palace shield began to drop. "Something is badly wrong," Thor called.
Harry glanced to the side just then and saw through the cloak of the enemy ship that had been trying to fly past him. He sent a piercing curse out towards the craft and managed to hit the back of it. The cloak dropped and the ship crashed into the palace. He turned his focus back on the other three visible craft while beginning to extend his senses out to search for other cloaked vessels.
"There could be more cloaked ships like that," Harry warned Thor.
"You focus on those and catch any that get past me. I will handle these others," Thor urged.
Harry nodded and closed his eyes to quest out magically for the other ships. He began intensely scanning the surrounding region of spacetime in an ever growing sphere spanning multiple dimensions. The cloaks may have prevented many forms of light from being perceived but the spacecraft seemed to be propelled by gravitic engines. It had been the gravitic wake in spacetime that had allowed the wizard to sense the last cloaked ship. With each passing moment his senses scanned further and further from where he floated. Harry tried ignoring the battle going on between Thor and the three spacecraft that were dodging and twisting around the thunder god attempting to nail the Asgardian with weapons fire.
Thor finished dispatching the enemy ships and flew back to his friend. Just as Thor reached Harry the wizard's eyes snapped open with alarm.
"One ship went far around our battle while we were engaged. It is already at the palace…your mother and Jane are in the room the ship is parked at," Harry warned.
"No," Thor shouted and shot off towards the palace with Harry right beside him.
They arrived in time to see a horned creature and a dark elf Harry knew was Malekith shove a sword into Frigga's back. Thor let out a strangled cry and unleashed a potent lightning attack from Mjolnir which struck Malekith right in the face tossing the dark elf aside. The horned creature moved swiftly to grab Malekith and leap towards the balcony but Harry's piercing curse drilled into the horned creature's side taking a huge chunk out of the being's hide. Mjolnir shot after the pair and managed to break Malekith's left leg. Thor caught Mjolnir and tossed it after the fleeing ship even as the smaller enemy aircraft neared the giant dark elf ship at the edge of the Asgardian ocean. But both ships cloaked. Harry couldn't immediately sense the larger cloaked ship and sent his senses outwards looking.
Natasha and Sif appeared beside Harry distracting him. Odin arrived as well. Frigga lay dead on the floor of the chamber. Tears immediately sprung to Sif's eyes when she saw this. Jane came out of hiding. Odin went to his knees and held his wife's head gently.
"Can you help her?" Natasha thought to her boyfriend questioningly.
"I don't know. But I am damn sure going to try," Harry assured as he knelt on Frigga's other side.
"What are you doing?" Odin asked, not even thinking of the stories his son had told him about the wizard's ability to revive mortals from the dead so great was the All-Father's grief.
"Let him, father," Thor said hopefully as Harry's hands took on a familiar glow for the other two Avengers in the room.
Harry's forehead distorted to show his concentration and the strain he was undergoing. Frigga's entire body took up the same glow as Harry's hands while the minutes passed. Harry grunted with effort and everyone in the room could feel the arcane power he was putting out. Even Jane could feel the energy though not to the level the others could sense what was going on. After what seemed an endless time to Thor he watched as the glow faded and his mother sat up running her hands over the spot where the sword had run her through.
"What happened?" Frigga asked. "I thought I was dying when Malekith and that cursed dark elf stabbed me."
"You did die, my love," Odin replied.
"But Harry Potter brought you back," Thor declared with a wide grin. "He is a good and powerful friend to have."
"I think I should sit down now," Harry said as his head swam with sudden fatigue.
"You are sitting down, Harry," Sif pointed out.
"Oh…well I will just stay here then. I have healed you before Thor and that was actually easier than mortals. But bringing you Asgardians back from the dead seems to be a great deal harder than with mortals," Harry mused.
Odin was hugging his wife tightly but still managed to say, "I owe you a great debt, Harry Potter. If there is anything I can do for you and it is within my power then I will gladly do so."
"Let me think on that. Meanwhile I am sure there are other Asgardians who were slain in the battle. If someone can guide me to them I will see what I can do about healing them," Harry suggested.
"Surely you will not have the energy to do so if it takes as much as it seems to out of you," Sif pointed out.
Harry's form flickered for a moment and then he appeared completely refreshed.
"Harry can manipulate time so that he can speed it up or slow it down in a localized region of spacetime," Natasha explained.
Thor raised one eyebrow at the red haired Avenger inquiringly and said, "I did not think you would be able to explain that so well."
"Harry has explained it to me enough in detail that I should hope I can at least explain that much," Natasha replied.
"Then I will guide you," Sif volunteered.
Sif, Natasha, and Harry left Jane with the small family who were rejoicing in the survival of Frigga.
In the end Harry was able to revive quite a few of the guards of Asgard. But he was only able to revive those whose physical bodies hadn't been destroyed. The dark elves seemed to possess a grenade which created a brief but intense region of intensely warped space so that the being caught inside was crushed as if they were in the heart of a black hole. There was nothing left of those caught within to revive. The victims of the cursed dark elf seemed to have suffered an attack which literally burned up the essence and soul of the Asgardian victims. It was a horrible way to die. Harry wasn't even sure they would be in the afterlife. He could not revive these victims. Harry had read papers on magical attacks such as the one generated by the cursed elf. Several of the theories suggested the essence would eventually repair itself but none of those theories were able to be substantiated by the time Harry left his old universe.
That night Harry and Natasha were witness to an Asgardian mass funeral. The remains were laid in individual boats, set on fire, and then sent off the edge of the Asgardian ocean. Only instead of the boats immediately plummeting into the abyss they remained afloat for a short time in open space and the remains dispersed into tiny lights which dispersed into the heavens. The people of Asgard meanwhile released glowing white orbs into the sky in tribute to the fallen. The sight was truly beautiful. Harry was not unaware of the whispers spoken about him and the awe filled glances directed at him. Word of what he had done to revive some of the deceased Asgardian guards and Queen Frigga had reached the general populace. Even among Asgardians it wasn't possible to revive the dead in such a way as Harry had done.
Asgardian technology and magic was capable of repairing a lot of damage to bodies when the damage was done through non-magical means. But the body needed to be repaired swiftly after death. The healed guards in this case had been killed by non-magical weaponry but the guards hadn't been taken to Asgardian healing beds within the necessary fifteen minute window before brain death occurred. The person killed still might have been able to be brought back but the memories that individual had possessed would be fragmented at best or gone completely at worst. Harry Potter had not only brought those guards back but had done so using a method that allowed the revived to retain all of their memories. Queen Frigga's death had been an entirely different feat. Frigga had been run through by her own blade which had been enchanted. That was a magical trauma which shouldn't have been repairable by Asgardian technological standards. But the wizard had managed to revive Frigga and had done it with no visible technology."
"They are in awe of you, my lover," Sif whispered as she walked slowly away from the remembrance ritual beside Harry and Natasha. "And with good reason," she added. "Thor told us of your ability to revive mortals from the dead. We thought you were just using some technology similar to what we use to heal trauma. Now we know that isn't the case. You healed magical trauma and used only your native abilities. You seem to the people of Asgard as more of a god than the mortals believe us to be."
"I am no god, Sif," Harry asserted.
"Except maybe in bed," Natasha mused earning a grin out of Sif.
"We initially tried insisting as much to the peoples of Midgard. It was easier just to go along with their beliefs for they believed us gods no matter what we insisted. After a while their worship is a major reason we withdrew from Midgard. Heimdal has given us reports of the happenings on Midgard over the centuries," Sif explained.
"Just think of it like learning to accept your fame," Natasha told her boyfriend.
"Fame is completely different from godhood," Harry pointed out.
"It is," Sif admitted. "Just wait until you have your first cult following."
"That was a rather gleeful tone you just used, Sif," Harry accused. "You are enjoying this."
"Maybe just a little," Sif said with a grin.
"This is different than when you were worshipped. You were worshipped by mortals. We are talking about me being worshipped by immortal Asgardians," Harry replied.
"I am not certain they will actually worship you. A few may but most probably will not," Sif clarified.
"You shouldn't have told him that so quickly," Natasha said with a pout. "You could have kept him believing you for a while."
"So you want to worry me, woman," Harry said with mock anger.
"I like seeing you riled up," Natasha mused as the trio reached Sif's apartment.
"I will show you riled up, woman," Harry said as he picked Natasha up over his shoulder and carried her in towards the bed with Sif closing the door behind her lovers before joining them.
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