I just re-watched the sixth Harry Potter movie, inspiration explosion! I literally cannot type as fast as I am thinking at the moment. So I thought I'd do an update and warn you, the next one will definitely be at least three weeks away. It's annoying that I can't update more, but there you go. Definitely more regular once I get back to uni.

I'm trying a different writing method with this story. Hopefully it's still okay, it's a bit more work, but I think I'm more satisfied with the resulting action scenes.

Chapter 2: Fight or Flight

Yami could feel the icy threat of agony before the Death Eaters even got close. He readied himself and called up the earth magic. Nearby Harry was doing the same.

Suddenly there was a flare of tainting from within the Death Eaters numbers and they scattered. Yami snarled a familiar sense of fury rising in his mind. That tainting was all too familiar. Voldemort was here.

Death Eaters veered off and flew after the other groups of Order members and pseudo-Harry's, Voldemort among them. Yami fought with a deep-seated urge to go after the non-human and destroy that part of his soul here and now. However protecting Harry and Yugi was his main concern so he forced himself to focus on the ridiculous contraption they were riding and the Death Eaters who were heading in their direction.

Yami ignored the Death Eaters once they were far enough away that the Veil Cloaks they wore didn't hurt him. They were not his problem, Harry and Yugi were.

Yami moved closer. It didn't matter if the Death Eaters realised which was the real Harry if Yami was close enough to blast them with earth magic.

Harry was throwing powered up stunning spells at the approaching hoard so Yami swirled around behind him. The darking which was now wrapped around Harry's neck was repeatedly informing Yami, via the darkings currently riding in his shadows that Harry was calling for help. Yami didn't bother to correct or stop them. Instead he warned both Harry and Yugi's darkings to hide as close to the elf as they could, the Veil magic would hurt them. His own darkings would be partially protected within his essence.

Yami watched the Death Eaters approach and waited. Earth magic was draining for him to use. It would be better to attack when they were close enough for every assault to count.

When the Death Eaters arrived he noticed that the pain wasn't as bad. It wasn't burning his shadows to the degree that it had been at Hogwarts. Yami's shadows still screamed if he tried to touch any of the Death Eaters, but he could get closer to them than he could before.

This was both a good and bad thing, it was good because he was of more use. It was bad because it meant that Voldemort was learning more control over the magic.

All of this went through Yami's mind in moments. Then the two forces crashed together. Yami was forced to turn mid-air and whip around to hurl the earth magic blasts at the Death Eaters. He got off two shots. The first hit a Death Eater sending him plummeting to his death and the second narrowly missed. He was then prevented from further attacking as they gathered around the flying machine where Harry was perched; any further attack on Yami's behalf would hit Harry or Hagrid if he missed.

There was a loud crack and the machine Harry was riding sent out a great spurt of human magic, followed by a searing flash of dragon fire. Yami got out of the way of the tail of that blast, though two Death Eaters weren't quite so lucky. The last two Death Eaters were still around Harry and Yugi, and several more were arriving. Yami's presence had alerted them to the position of the real Harry.

/Yami help!/ Yugi cried to him. The elf was in tears. Terrified and unable to do anything with the Invisibility cloak blocking his magic, Yugi screamed into Yami's mind. That sweet tiny voice stabbed Yami to his core in a way that the Veil magic couldn't.

Yami snarled his fury; he was as close as he could get to the Veil magic cloaks without causing himself considerable pain. But Yugi was in that melee somewhere, in a great deal of danger.

Yami rolled around. Voldemort was nowhere to be seen or sensed so Yami braced himself and hurled himself through the crowd of Death Eaters. Each point that his shadows contacted the cloaks sent a bolt of excruciating agony through him, draining his strength and eliciting screams of anguish from him. He persevered, the machine was still moving forward at a decent rate, but Yami could be very fast when he needed to be.

He slammed into the back of the motorbike with all the force his insubstantial shadows could muster. The contact and pushing on the solid object rather than flowing around it, something which came as instinct, sucked further on his strength. None-the-less with Yugi yelling in his mind to be careful he sent them surging forwards and out of the reach of the Death Eaters.

However his attention was so focused on the impending danger to his elf and human that Yami didn't notice the anti-Shade spells. Not until it was too late. He hit with them with enough force to make the spells flare. There must have been other spells in them as well because the Death Eaters peeled off shouting in irritation.

The difference between the spells being that the only thing which could stop Shades was painful. The spells dragged on the rest of Yami's strength. Yami dropped out of the sky; it took effort to stay this high, and settled into an uncomfortable position as near to the boundary as he could. /Yugi are you alright?/ He sent desperately.

It took a moment for Yugi to reply. /We are all fine, Harry is a bit shaken, but he will be alright, are you okay?/ His mental voice was trembling.

/Woozy, I need to find some other humans. The Death Eaters cannot cross the other spells so you should be safe here until I return./ Yami sent back, not able to keep the relief from tainting the message.

/I think we will be leaving here soon, go to the Burrow instead. I will get Harry to take down the anti-Shade spells so you can get in./ There was a moment's pause as the two of them simply revelled in their survival. Yugi continued. /Can you find out if everyone else is okay?/

/I will look, but I cannot promise anything. Be safe./ Yami turned and headed for the nearest human house to regain a little strength.

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Harry was quiet as he sat on the Tonk's couch in their lounge room. He was turning his apparently stressed darking over in his fingers. The little shadow was cooing quietly now, though it had been shrilling before. Harry had never heard the darkings made a noise before, it was interesting.

Yugi was next to him, curled up with his eyes scrunched closed. Harry knew the signs well enough to know he was talking to Yami. The Shade had almost thrown them across the boundary to the safe-house, now they were just waiting for the Portkey.

Harry was trying to be patient, but it wasn't easy. After all his friends had been out there as well and not all of the Death Eaters had attacked him and Hagrid.

Harry shifted slightly as Yugi uncurled and sat up, his bright eyes were shimmering with worry. "Is Yami okay?" Harry asked him immediately.

Yugi nodded and replied quietly, "He is going to refill his reserves and meet us at the Burrow. He will look around and see if he can find out what happened to everyone else as well." There was a noise from outside and Yugi fell silent. Moments later Tonks' father stuck his head into the room.

"Harry quickly the Portkey is about to leave." He turned to leave again. Harry re-attached his darking to the band on his wrist, grabbed Yugi and his bag and followed fast on his heels. God forbid Yami get to the Burrow before they did.

Outside in the miniscule backyard Hagrid waited clutching a worn looking hairbrush. "Quick now." Mr Tonks said and pushed Harry forward. Harry stumbled over and smiled weakly up at Hagrid.

The half-giant looked a little worse for wear, they had come down hard into the backyard and Hagrid had several cuts and developing bruises on his face. Harry had managed to come to a soft landing, damaging nothing more than his glasses which were quickly fixed by their temporary host. Harry suspected his soft landing was mainly due to Yugi's timely action with a little magic.

Harry reached out and placed one finger on the hairbrush. Yugi twisted around and touched it as well. "Good luck Harry, three, two, one..." The tug under his navel jerked Harry off his feet and he was sailing through the air, dragged along with his finger glued to the hairbrush.

Then with a thud he and Hagrid landed at the Burrow. Harry nearly dropped Yugi in an effort to remain upright. When he had caught his breath, and released the death grip he had on his elf, Harry looked around. Mrs Weasley and Ginny were running across the lawn, with Lupin and Hermione in tow.

Hermione was back to herself and as soon as her eyes alighted on the two of them she gave a relieved gasp and hugged him fiercely.

Harry hugged her back the two of them crushing Yugi between them. The elf didn't seem to mind.

Lupin was watching carefully, his wand in one hand. Harry turned and could see that it was taking a great deal of effort for him not to raise his wand and point it at Harry. Harry looked his old Professor in the eye. "It's me, or do you doubt Yugi?" Harry challenged.

Lupin shook his head. "I don't Harry, but that all those Death Eaters and even You-Know-Who himself arrived on the very night, almost to the minute that we were going to move you. It isn't good." There was a tense moment of silence where Mrs Weasley pushed through their little group and hugged Harry and Yugi ferociously.

Harry winced and hugged her awkwardly back. Mrs Weasley backed off and fussed with his shirt front, "Now come inside, it will be another few minutes before the next Portkey arrives." Harry followed her inside.

He was forestalled by Yugi tugging viciously on his hair. Harry came to a stop and lowered his head so the elf could whisper in his ear. Everyone else paused, the tension in the air rose again. Yugi breathed onto Harry's cheek as he spoke. "You need to remove the anti-Shade spells."

Harry nodded to him. "Right." He said softly before raising his voice and addressing Mrs Weasley. "Sorry Mrs Weasley, but can you remove the anti-Shade spells. Yami will be arriving soon and he'll want to get across." Harry looked around at the people facing him.

Conflict flashed in the adults faces. They had grown up believing that the only thing which could protect them from Shades were the anti-Shade spells. As such removing them was going against everything they had been taught.

Harry didn't tell them that if Mrs Weasley didn't remove the spells then Harry or Hermione could do it just as easily. It was more out of common courtesy than anything else which made Harry ask before doing anything.

Mrs Weasley smiled tightly. "Of course dear, but perhaps we should wait until he is here, you know, just in case."

Harry smiled and nodded. When the adults had turned their backs he exchanged a look with Hermione. His friend smiled and pulled out her wand. As everyone went inside she waved her wand quickly and Harry felt the gentle brush of her spell.

Harry joined Hermione and they stepped into the kitchen. A soft hoot came from above his head and Harry looked up to see Hedwig sitting in the rafters with Ron's owl. He smiled up at her, glad she was safe. She had delivered Harry's reply to the letter about him moving and had obviously decided to stay and wait for him.

Harry seated himself at the kitchen table, nervously waiting for everyone else's arrival.

Yup, that's it for this chapter. If I keep going it will get too long.