Sitting on the prow of the Flying Dutchman, Harry watched as the ship moved closer to it's first target.
"Harry?" he heard a voice asking and turning around he saw his wife Ginny Potter looking at him. "Yes Ginny?" Harry asked, as he took in his wife of two years.
There had been a lot that had happened in the last several years. Ever since Harry got the message from the future, the training at Pacific Academy had been changed. Now there was more attention for De-fence, Charms, Dueling, Transfiguration and Battle magic than before. In some ways, Harry felt responsible for the change that the proud school had undergone. Harry's time at Pacific was now totally focused on fighting and hurting people, and so he had become a killing machine. Looking at Ginny, Harry felt the hope and fear in her, and he could feel the same. They were on their way to attack one of Dumbledore´s primary power supplies, one of the four key points that held the old man in power.
"I just don´t want anything to go wrong, Ginny"Said Harry as he looked at her again. "I´ve come to rely on you and Hermione and Luna so much that I fear that if I lose one of you, I know I would not be able to live anymore." Reaching for her, Harry placed his arms around Ginny who gave him a loving kiss. "If anything goes wrong, please abort the mission" Pleaded Harry while he looked into Ginny's eyes. "Promise me that, Ginny" he whispered softly. Looking back, Ginny nodded. Her own fear of losing Harry or Luna or Hermione sometimes gave her nightmares. "Be safe, be strong" Whispered Harry as the captain of the Dutchman signaled that they were at Harry's drop-off point.
Checking one more time for his weapons, Harry grabbed his broom and mounted it before he shot of into the fog. Taking a deep breath, Ginny nodded to the captain as he made a new course. Around the more sailed routes and straight to the southern point of England, where Ginny would fly off, and hopefully return with her father, who was kept captive at the Burrow, for speaking his mind against Dumbledore.
Hermione Granger watched as Luna opened a portal and nodded that it was safe. Stepping through with the portal making witch, Hermione found herself in an old storage room. Muttering a spell and waving her hand, she got the location of her target. As she made to open the door, the door opened on it's own, forcing Hermione and Luna to cast Disillusionment charms on themselves so they wouldn't be seen. As the two disillusioned witches saw their target moving with his wand, they reacted instinctively. Sending a silenced cutting curse at the wand of the wizard, Hermione dove out of the way as Luna cast a silencing charm over the surprised Zacharias Smith. The next moment was Smith on the floor, his knees being pulled out from under him by an invisible Hermione. Stunning the wizard, Hermione dragged him into the storage room, while Luna conjured a chair and together they tied him up there. Casting a silencing charm on the room, Luna retrieved his personal belongings. His wand, papers and rank for Dumbeldore's army showed that he was a freshling, a wizard ho had done nothing more that basic training at Hogwarts under Snape's rule.
Forcing his mouth open, Hermione poured three drops of a clear liquid in Smits mouth before she made him swallow. "Ennervate" Luna said softly, and Zacharias Smith woke up from his spell induced sleep. "What the fuck is going on here?" shouted Smith as he became aware that he was tied to a chair in a storage room. "We like to know some things" Said Luna, in the same tone she used to talk about the weather. "I won't tell anything" Snarled Smith. "Oh, I believe you will" Said Hermione as she took a pen and paper out of her pocket and tapped it with her finger. The pen became animated and it seemed ready to write.
"What is your name" Hermione asked. "Zacharias Theodore Bubbo Smith" Said Smith in a monotone voice. "Hey, what the hell" said Smith as he saw the pen moving to write down his answer. "What is your position" Asked Luna this time. "I'm a freshling in Dumbledore's army." Said Zacharias as he now was very worried that he had to answer any questions that these two girls asked him. "Where does Albus Dumbledore live?" Asked Hermione. "Cobra lane 17, Godric's Hollow" Intoned Smith, now realizing he had no way out of this mess.
Harry flew in southern direction on his moonlightXV. The newest broom that was available on the market. While the firebolt and Spitfire, not to mention the other brooms that Harry owned were still good and worked great, The moonlightXV had been bought by Harry as he started to do these solo missions. The moonlightXV was a broom that had an active cloaking charm build in. Anything within two feel would become enveloped by the broom, thus making it perfect for Harry to fly with it and drop in on unsuspected people. The Dutchman had dropped him several miles before Inverness, and so Harry was now flying over the quiet town. His target lay several more miles in the direction he was now flying, south southwest.
Calming down, Harry sensed that Luna and Hermione were also on the ground, while Ginny was still on-board the Dutchman. Sending out a low level magical pulse, Harry got several 'pins' back, telling him that there were some wizards in the town below him. Smiling as they couldn't see him, Harry flew to his destination. The Lock Ness lake.
Trying to calm her nerves, Ginny removed a small family momentum from her neck and looked at it. It was a necklace with a very detailed photo of Ginny's wedding with Harry. Ginny, in a white dress and Harry in a black muggle tuxedo were looking very happy together. Touching the amulet that it was pictured on, Ginny swiped her finger over it and the picture changed from Harry and Ginny to Luna and Hermione. Both girls were looking wonderful in their red and yellow (Hermione and Luna) dresses. Swiping again, she saw her brothers waving at her, all in black grey muggle tuxedo's. Each of the boys waved as she smiled at them. For the first time in a long time, Ginny had seen her brothers in respectable clothing, and they looked good in it. "Ginny?" The captain of the Dutchman called. "It's soon time for you to begin. Good-luck"
"Thanks" called Ginny back as she placed the amulet back under her black robes and grabbed her broom. Just like Harry's broom, this was a MoonlightXV. Designed for stealth and infiltration while still maintaining a top speed of 160 mph. Making sure that her attachments to the broom were still there, Ginny set of to begin her mission as the Dutchman passed the southern coast of Britain.
Hermione looked at the paper where her magically enchanted pen had written everything that Zacharias Smith had said under the influence of Veritaserum. "Okay, one more question, dear Zach." Said Hermione as she smiled at Luna who had undid his shoes and socks, letting his feet and toes out in the cold air. Touching the floor underneath Zacharias feet, Hermione poured in a small dose of her ice powers and smiled as several sharp icicle's began to come up and penetrate his feet. "AHHH" Shouted Zacharias as the first icicle hit his feet. Holding the icicle at the point, Hermione looked at the terrified boy. "What is Dumbledore's master plan?" Hermione asked as she looked in Zacharias eyes. She could feel his fear, and strangely it felt good to feel the fear of other people.
"I don't know" Said Zacharias, and he started to scream again as the icicle pierced through his feet. "I won't ask again, Smith. What is Dumbeldore's plan" Said Hermione as she created a icicle dagger with a very sharp point and held it to his throat. Zacharias could actually feel the dagger cutting into his flesh. "Conquest, world conquest" Shouted Smith. Hermione halted the dagger's progress. "How?" "Hogwarts, the Queen." Gasped Zacharias as he figured he would be more likely to be allowed to live if he gave information. The Veritaserum might have wore off, but Zacharias knew that if he even told a very small lie, he would be dead by either the icicle that pierced his foot or the icy dagger that Hermione wielded.
Flying slowly to avoid missing any sights of the creature, Harry flew his third lap around Loch Ness. Knowing that Dumbledore had trapped a sea dragon here in the thirties and used it to bring power from the creature to the power of Hogwarts, Harry started a fourth loop around the lake when he saw something breaking the surface of the water. Moving fast, Harry could see the scaly face of an Leviathan as it's eye met his. Hovering six feet above the water, Harry dropped the charm that was on the broom as the ancient sea dragon was showing Harry it's razor sharp teeth. Knowing a little bit about the creature and it's behavior, Harry nodded his head slowly to make sure that he wasn't a threat. The leviathan turned it's head and Harry could see that the right side of it's face was scarred, with it's right eye missing. "Oh no" Whispered Harry as he hovered lower to inspect the wound. The scars that the Leviathan had ran from it's side to the lower part of it's jaw. Making sure that the Leviathan has no ill wishes, Harry came next to the large beast's mouth and saw it's teeth. Various teeth were broken, and some were even pulled, making it impossible for the beast to hunt and survive without help. "Where is it?" Asked Harry as he lay his hand on the Leviathan's nose. Closing his eyes, Harry received several disturbed images that told him the Leviathan was fed once a week. It would happen today again. "Where do they come from" Harry asked very softly, still his eyes closed. Suddenly, opening his eyes, Harry had the location of the feeding station for the Leviathan. "I'll be back" Whispered Harry softly as he opened his eyes and gently flew of in the direction of the feeding station.
Taking a dagger from her belt, Ginny slowly made her way to the edges of the Burrow's wards. Placing the dagger firmly in the ground, Ginny started to chant several ancient languages and slowly but surely created a hole in the dome ward that surrounded the Burrow. The fine magical threads that connected the wards together, were magically detached from each other and were reconnected to the dagger that Ginny had planted before. Now a hole, large enough for Ginny to get through was formed in the wards surrounding the Burrow, and Ginny slipped though them. Masking them with a illusion ward, Ginny set of as a slow pace, never knowing if somebody was watching the surrounding area's. Diving quickly in some bushes, Ginny saw a wand light coming towards her. It was her brother Percy, who might be out on a stroll. Watching Percy for a few minutes, she summoned a small rock and with perfect accuracy banished the small rock to Percy's head, who fell down and out. Smiling, Ginny cast a detection spell and was happily informed that only three figures were in the Burrow and nobody was outside. Coming out of her hiding place, Ginny levitated Percy's body in the bushes after she had stunned him and looted him clean. A Gringotts key, some papers and a document containing the will of Arthur Weasley. "Daddy?" Ginny whispered as she read that her brothers and she would be cursed for all eternity. Shaking her head, Ginny set the document on fire, smiling slightly as the plan to file this will was foiled. "Ron, keep watch, I though I saw something" Ginny heard saying. Using her flame teleportation, Ginny flashed to the roof of the burrow, where she could see her mother coming to where she had been standing, not five feet from Percy's sleeping place. Taking aim, Ginny fired of several stunners that all hit her former mother. Molly Weasley fell down, her face touching her sleeping son's shoes. "Alright Ron" Said Ginny softly. "It's time to play."
"So you were supposed to be sent to protect the queen, but you were sent by the old man to persuade her to talk with him. Then he would use the imperious curse at her and she'd transfer her power to him?" Asked Hermione her now terrified prisoner. Zacharias nodded, as a third icicle was about to pierce his foot. "Fine, that's all we need" said Hermione as she vanished her ice dagger. Zacharias Smith sighed in relief, now he might be able to escape and get word to Dumbledore. "So sorry, but that's not going to happen" said Luna who had been looking in his eyes for the whole time. "What?" Asked Zacharias as he tried to get away from the two witches. "You were thinking about telling Dumbledore about our little chat and maybe even telling about his grand plan that you told us" Said Luna as she started to create a portal. Vanishing her icicle's Hermione used the levitation charm to place Zacharias Smith to the wall and with a sticking charm held him there. "You can be a very helpful person for us, Zach" said Luna as she threw all of the evidence, including Hermione's paper and pen, through the portal. Stepping in front of him, Hermione grabbed his feet and started to use her ice powers to encase Zacharias in an block of ice. "You can be our message to tell Dumbledore what will happen if he goes against us" said Hermione as the ice grew from Smith's feet up through his legs and towards his head. Only seconds later, Hermione removed her hands from the frozen feet and looked at Zacharias Smith, in-cased in a large block of ice. His death would send a message to Dumbledore. Nodding to Luna, Hermione and Luna portal-ed away as they left Smith's ice body in a storage room in the depths of Hogwarts. He wouldn't be discovered until it was to late.
Ronald Billius Weasley, fourth in command of Dumbledore's army sat at the table at the Burrow, stuffing his face full with his mother's cooking, and from time to time looked at his father. Sighing, he stood up and started to give him a new vial of the drought of peace to keep him under control. "Come on dad, are you truly so blind to the fact that Dumbledore will be the first magical emperor, that you had to go against him in public?" Asked Ron as he watched his father looking past him. "Are you so blind to the truth out there?" Asked Ron before he sat down in the chair that his mother had vacated. "Is it not more preferable to work with Dumbledore and ruling above all muggles and magical people than to hide and keep secret for ever?"
His father just looked at him. He had been doing that ever since the drought of peace had been given to him two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, Dumbledore had dismissed him from his service, stating that he was better at a different position. That position was at his own home, because Arthur had found out that Cornelius Fudge had been taking bribes of thousands of galleons to promote the belief that Dumbledore was the best thing that ever happened to the world.
For that, Dumbledore had manipulated Fudge so that he fired Arthur Weasley from his position in the misuse of muggle artifacts office. That place had been filled by a freshmen that was loyal to Dumbledore. Arthur had been taken home and ever since that happened, was under constant guard from at least him wife, and one of his sons.
Waving his wand around, Ronald summoned several snacks from the kitchen, including a very strange package that zoomed with the other food. Looking surprised, Ron did a quick charm and found nothing out of the ordinary. Opening it, Ron smiled as he saw a very delicate chocolate cake with chocolate icing covering the cake. Taking a few bites from the cake, Ron started to eat the other bowls of food that he had summoned from the kitchen table.
Reaching for a new piece of cake, Ron got the shock of his life as his hand wouldn't grab the cake. It felt paralysed. Taking his wand in his other hand, Ron tried several charms, but the fourth time that he tried the charm, that hand began to ignore his command, as if it was paralysed to.
"What's happening?" Asked Ron as he looked at his paralysed hands, and he felt his arms, feet and legs to paralyze to.
"Nothing more that a little of doxy venom, mixed with the powder of a foxglove" said a voice as Ron's chair was turned around. "Hello Ron" Said Ginny as she held her wand to Ron's neck. While he could still move his eyes and mouth, Ron's voice was gone as his younger former sister was standing in front of him. "Ginny?" Ron asked, finding out that his voice was soft spoken
"Ron, as much as I love to chat with you, I'm on a time-schedule. Said Ginny as she placed sound dampening earmuffs over Ron's ears and used a muggle sunglass that was charmed to let Ron see nothing but total darkness. Stepping from her former brother, Ginny made her way to her father, who was just looking at her with the same vacant smile that he had since he had been forced to take the drought of peace. Making sure that she could lift her father up from the chair, Ginny carried her father out of the Burrow and through the opening in the wards before she sat him down on the floor and gave him a piece of paper. Touching the paper with her wand, she stepped back as the paper glowed blue and her father was port-keyed away, to the safety of the Dutchman. Smiling, Ginny removed the wards from her dagger and picked it up before she grabbed her broom and shot of in the south direction. If she could time it right, she would be able to land upon the Dutchman's deck as it passed by one more time.
Harry Potter dodged the stunners that the two auror's were firing at him and shot his own spells back. Finding and entering the building where the feeding stations was for the Leviathan was easy, however, fighting these two guards was a bit harder. One of them was always shooting stunners and the other was always defending with blocks of concrete. The only advantage that Harry had was that they didn't know about his speed. So taking cover behind a large crate, Harry focused and shot away, just as the crate was blasted apart by the reducto curses that the two auror's had shot. The contents, seventy bags of baking soda ruptured, leaving the entire cabin covered in a fine layer of soda. Hiding behind a stronger crate, Harry spied the two wizards and made his move. Moving at high speed, Harry summoned his sword and pushed the blade though the wizard on the right. The wizard on the left was hit with a second smaller, but no less deadlier, knife in the back. Pulling back both his sword, and knife, Harry watched the two auror's fall on their knees, with both bleeding from their back. Smiling slightly at his first two kills, Harry placed the sword back in it's scabbard and looked at the dagger that was attached to a bracer that also held his second wand. Harry sighed in relief as his first real test for his 'hidden blade' was successful. Having several memories form his great-granddaughter, Ariana Potter, Harry had been researching these designs, and even made several designs himself. The hidden blade was one of Ariana herself, and with it she was able to kill Colonel Williams, who had taken the life of her baby boy, who displayed a massive magical potential.
Looking around, Harry saw the ward-stones that kept the Leviathan locked up in Loch Ness. Knowing that he didn't have much time, Harry took his wand and shot several blasting curses at the black stones. At the impact of the first stone, Harry already knew that the stones were broken as he saw a lot of small black stones falling on the ground from the table that they were one. Hearing the Leviathan roaring, Harry knew it was free and grabbing some buckets filled with fish he ran outside, where he could see the massive beast using it's massive tail to create several waves of water. Whistling hard, Harry watched as the Leviathan undid the last of it's restraints and came towards Harry's position.
Opening it's massive jaw, Harry threw the fish and several healing potions in the leviathan's mouth before he nodded and seeming the leviathan swallowing the fish and potions whole. Knowing that he still needed to get the Leviathan out of the lake, Harry placed the port-key for this trip on the Leviathan's head and climbed upon it. Feeling the Port-key activating, held on as the Port-key transported him and the beast to the current location of the Dutchman.
Whistling again, Harry attracted the attention of the crew of the Dutchman, including Ginny who was getting a report from the ship's Doctor about her father. "Harry" Ginny shouted as she saw him on the head of the Leviathan. Waving at Ginny, Harry smiled as he felt Luna and Hermione portal-ling back to Pacific Academy. Placing his hand on the great beast's head, Harry closed his eyes. "Follow that ship, It will bring you to safety and protection." right before Harry removed his hand, he could have sworn that he heard a small voice saying "Thank you."