Serving the Balance

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Ok, I've been looking for a good Necromancer Harry story for a while but haven't found any, and I've been on a Diablo 3 binge, playing a Necromancer and this just popped into my head. So here we are.

Two figures ran down a corridor, their hair streaming behind them one black and one white. The white-haired figure had bright blue eyes and the other a luminescent green. They both had black and grey armour decorated with small skulls and bones. In the distance the sound of battle could be heard with the odd explosion and unearthly scream. The blue-eyed figure stopped suddenly at a door and the other figure skidded to a stop besides him.

'Master, the battle is ahead, Maltheal must be stopped,' Blue eyes looked at him seemingly expressionless but with years of experience the younger man could see the sadness hidden within.

'That battle will be won elsewhere.' His master looked away and pushed open the door. 'I don't believe that you recognise this place do you, Harikesh?'

Harikesh followed his master inside, he was right Harikesh didn't recognise the room itself but there was something in the that was drawing him in. In the centre of the room there was an arch, which contained a, Harikesh wasn't sure what it was. The best description that he could thing was a curtain caught in the wind and it was the darkest grey without being black that it could be. He could hear voices just on the edge of his hearing. It was like something was calling to his very soul.

Harikesh jumped as a hand landed on his shoulder, and he suddenly realised that he was now standing directly in front of the arch, he hadn't been aware of moving, and the curtain seemed to be billowing out further as it was reaching for him.

'What is it?' he winced internally at the touch of awe that coloured his voice.

'No one knows.' Harikesh glanced at the Master Necromancer besides him, it made him a little nervous to hear that, as Master Nibaru always seemed to know everything. 'It's only appeared once before, ten years ago.' Harikesh glanced at him in surprise it was ten years ago that he'd came to Necropolis as an abused and staved child of five summers. Harkesh glance back at the arch, and the voices seemed to get louder but just as indistinguishable. He then looked at Master Nibaru, he can't possibly mean that…

'Yes, Harikesh you came from within. It has been speculated that it is a portal to somewhere far from Sanctuary, but nothing has been proven.' Harikesh blinked in surprise at this. Surely there was no other place than Sanctuary, The High Heavens and Hell. Brief flashes crossed his mind. A fat man with heavy fists coming at him, the shrill shrieking of a women's voice and a green flash with someone screaming into death. He shook his head at the memories of life long forgotten. 'The arch became active again this morning.' Master Nibaru continued seemingly not noticing Harikesh's remembering. 'and when the attack came, I knew that it was time for you to return.' Harikesh looked at him in shock it seemed that this day was just full of them, it was as if his whole understanding of the world was being destroyed in front of his eyes.

'No, Master I can't leave now. There is so much to do to restore the balance.'

'That is not your path to tread, Karnah will be the one to set thing right.' Hariesh sighed Master Nibaru's power of foresight was well known within the Priesthood. And in made sense that Ordan's apprentice would be the one to stop Maltheal, he had killed the Prime Evil after all. As Harikesh was thinking this Master Nibaru pulled two books from his pack and held them out. Harikesh recognised the books, one was the history of the Priests of Rathma and his teachings. The other was the book of learning, a book that would gradually teach the reader the spells of Necromancy as they were experienced enough to use them safely. 'You will need these, I think.' Master Nibaru said with a ghost of smile, as he forced Hairkesh to take the books by pressing them onto his chest. Harikesh absently placed them in his pack.

'But Master, I don't think…' He was interrupted by a loud explosion that was much closer to them than the previous sounds of the battle.

'We have run out of time. You need to go now.' Master Nibaru said as he faced the door and pulled his scythe off his back and five skeletons appeared in the room with them.

'It has been an honour to be your apprentice, Master Nibaru.' Harikesh said with a short bow. Master Nibaru glanced back at him.

'And to be your teacher…' If he was going to say anymore it was not to be, as there was another explosion just outside of the room that sent Harikesh stumbling backward. There was an icy feeling that washed over him before the world of Sanctuary faded away.

Please let me know if this is worth continuing. I have an idea for the next chapter and an end game. The idea of Voldimort going up agaist someone that knows how to deal with death is just fun. Plus the reaction of Dementors to a Sanctuary Necromancer would be funny.

Oh and yes Karnah is the name of my Necromancer character on Diablo 3.

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