Marigold wasn't very happy with him, even though she agreed he had done the correct thing in that situation, death wasn't the best for business, after all. The tree fae ended up being alright, though if Harry hadn't intervened, it would've been a different story.
Over the next few days, things went rather smoothly. There were a few fights, but unlike the time with the vampire, the Reptilian bouncer, whose name he learned was Gexsh, intervened and did his job.
A soft rhythmic dinging roused him from his meditative state, which nowadays he was able to slip into almost instantly. He sat up and tapped the top of an alarm clock on his bedside table. Magical alarm clocks were able to ping someone's magic, and doing so resulted in the person waking up, quite useful.
He slipped into his work attire and headed downstairs. The wood of the tavern staircase creaked loudly as he traversed down them, and a few early risers looked up as he entered the main room.
Bry was leaning over the windowsill, smoking another cigarette. It seemed like he never quite stopped smoking, and Harry bet his lungs were in quite a poor condition.
He'd settled into a pretty simple routine, wake up, work the bar, go to sleep. Marigold had commented the other day that he must've lost his sense of time when he lost his flesh.
Well, maybe he had. Though he was quite skeptical of everything he had encountered so far, it wasn't like he could refuse the more diverse world of Magical Creatures, he couldn't damn well go back to how everything used to be, he was a damned Skeleton of all things, after all.
He sighed, and accepted a rag from Bry, and started cleaning the bar, and polishing the glasses.
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It was nearing midnight now, and the ambience of the Shadow was relaxing. Though midnight was usually the time where people were the drunkest, and most rowdy, it was Sunday night, and thus things were quiet except for a few whispered conversations, and the clinking of mugs and silverware.
A loud banging hammered on the door, and Gexsh turned to look through the slit. He fell over grasping his heart as blood poured through his mouth. A few startled occupants began to disparate instantly, and the ones who didn't began to watch the door cautiously.
Harry grasped the Elder Wand from where it lay in his sleeve and levelled it at the door. Bry slammed the doors of the windowsill closed, and magical light softly flashed, wards springing up.
The lights of the bar dimmed, and the banging on the door increased until it was blown off its hinges, and tossed a metre onto the ground. A swarm of red robes burst through the opening, casting indiscriminately towards the occupants.
He sprang to action, his wand sailing through the air. Flicking his wand, several runes swam into view in front of him. The Geriez-Opabal runic alphabet was a curious one and had always interested Harry.
Sweeping his wand over the runes fading into the air, he jabbed his wand forward. A sickly purple shield shimmered into view and blocked many of the spells speeding towards the occupants.
He aimed to paralyze, shooting off a spell, not aiming to kill.
"Compesce, Statue Glacies!" He barked, a beam shot towards a head of long brunette hair, and she flashed snow white, before falling on the ground, completely stiff.
His shield spell crumbled into thin air. A fairy exploded in a shower of gore as several Reducto's slammed into her. Marigold finally jumped into the fray, ripping an arm off one of what had to be Aurors.
Holding back no longer, he swung his wand in a sharp downwards spiral and twisting his arm harshly. The wood walls of the bar grew lumbering roots, which grabbed an Auror, and ruthlessly tore him in half.
A red-haired form was weaving through the Aurors and ravaging the occupants of the bar, a fiery dragon weaved around him, blasting through the chests of a tree fae, and Ireleith.
It was Ron. Ron of all people was killing innocents, the Aurors were killing innocents. The fire dragon burst through a pillar, and the fire quickly spread onto the parts of the bar.
Harry slammed the pommel of the Elder Wand onto the wood of the bar, barking out, "Ut Lapis, Lignum ad Stone! Amino te Pugnate!"
The wood of the bar congealed into a mass of stone and morphed into a growling boar, which launched itself into the crowd of Aurors. Several of them screamed as it mashed through their arms with stone teeth.
Ron's attention was turned to him, and Harry's frame trembled with anger. A mass of brown hair appeared by Ron's side. It was a showdown, with his damned friends.
"Back down, you dark creature, I may spare you, if you do!" Ron growled, Hermione remained silent. He, Ron and Hermione had joined the Aurors a few years prior and had been one of the most powerful teams out there.
He waved the wand of Elder wood and began conducting a symphony of magic. Hermione's eyes widened at the sight of his wand and then narrowed in fury.
"He has the Elder Wand, Ron, he must know what happened to Harry!" She snarled. Harry paused in his spell work, they were looking for him? He sighed, he couldn't ever return to normal.
He wound his wand over his head, and an unearthly blue shone from his wand tip.
"Lucius Annaeus Seneca Tecum!" He roared.
The forms of Ron and Hermione vanished, as well as the Auror's. He was left alone with the roaring of the flaming tavern. He transfigured his clothes into a thick cloak and disappeared in a swirl of apparition.
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He fell backwards into a large tree and slid to the ground, which was covered with a thick layer of snow. He had apparated to a forest in Canada that he'd been to on a mission.
He sagged tiredly in the snow and stowed his wand away. He missed Ron and Hermione, but for them to come in and kill dozens of innocent people, it struck Harry down to the core. Why had they done it?
He needed time to think about this. Not affected by the cold at all, he lay in a large pile of it and sank deep into a meditative trance. Maybe it'd be best to just sleep.
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AN: Was able to write a quick chapter today. I'll mostly be posting on weekends, though.
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