Chapter 8: New Ships and Old Enemies

After Kain and Kozak had finished with the shouting, the Klingons and the humans stared awkwardly at each other for a time.

"So…tell me how you and Zom know each other." asked a still slightly bewildered Harry.

"Just as I was about to ask you human trespasser." growled Kozak, a white-knuckle grip on his dagger, still sheathed at his hip.

"Enough Kozak, at the time being these are our gusts and you dishonor me with your manor."

"My apologies brother, I meant no dishonor on you." said Kozak releasing his grip on the dagger and mumbled some apologies toward Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

"You must forgive my young brother for he never gives himself a good night's sleep. Preferring instead to drink the night away and forget his pains for a time. At times I think if I didn't cut the power to the replicater in his cabin he would just drink bloodwine as fast as it could be synthesized." Kain continued giving his now embarrassed brother a look of disdain.

"Why must you always try and shame me Kain, you are so much like father sometimes."

"It is for your own good Kozak and you know it. If you could see how far you have let yourself fallen than you just maybe will grow from it."

"Could you not speak so loud? My head feels as though there is an animal beast inside it."

"Well if my chiding does not get through to you than maybe your hangover will." replied Kain turning back to his gusts, as unwelcome as they were.

"Now that's out of the way please tell me your story of how you came to purchase a ship from a Ferengi that never owned it." He asked giving them a puzzled frown.

"How were we supposed to know? It was kind of sitting on a used spaceship lot, Zom, owned the lot, we gave him money and he gave us the ship, it was logical." Said Ron

Hermione scoffed "Ron the thought of you speaking of logic is like Malfoy speaking humbly of others."

"To answer your question Mr.…?"

"Weasley"

"Weasley, Zom happened to be the only one who would allow two exiles set up camp to regroup and allow us to make our preparations for revenge, though it wasn't exactly out of the kindness of his heart. He charged us arm and leg just to sit hear not to mention the cost of get us our supplies."

"And now that pukha has sold our ship out from under us!" said Kozak shaking his fist in anger.

"I thought you said the ship was yours?" asked Hermione

"Alas, we have not the money that Zom requests so we have been working here as laborers to pay off the debt, until that time Zom was holding the deed to the ship as collateral. Unfortunately in all legal rights Zom is at liberty to sell this ship. So in the legal sense you own the ship and all parts of it." Kain explained.

"Which includes us Kain might I add, when I get my hands that Ferengi…" Kozak trailed off ominously.

"Let's not do anything rash brother." Kain warned

"Yes lets all go talk to Zom, I'm sure we could work things out, even if he deserves a few sharp words." Hermione said adding the second part under her breath.

All were in agreement so the group left in search of the creature. After a time of searching they found Zom's office. Inside he sat counting the latinum and singing in his native tongue. Kozak, upon seeing the Ferengi ran over to him and hoisted him out of his chair by the ears and started shouting at him in Klingon.

Voldemort instructed the woman to fly to the coordinates he was given by K'rillen. Frankly he just wanted to use Legilimency to gain the knowledge of this muggle contraption. Strangely his hostage possessed an unusually strong will power. In retrospect the dark lord felt that if he had not surprised the woman as he had. Putting her under the Imperius cruse would have proven more difficult than it had, even now he felt her straining at the mental bonds that seamed in constant need of attention. He didn't know how much longer he could keep her imprisoned like this.

It was dawn when they arrived at their destination in what would be northern Alaska. Sure enough, there in a clearing stood K'rillen with about 20 of his guards all armed with disrupters.

The shuttle came in low over the treetops and settled in the clearing. The side hatch opened and Voldemort stepped out.

K'rillen brushed dust off his uniform and strutted to meet Voldemort.

Voldemort was struck with the image of a roster bobbing across a hen yard. The way his head bobbed as he rolled the only way a fat man could didn't help his impression much.

"Mr. Voldemort how splendid you could join us." K'rillen called over the sound of the engine on stand by "You make such a good task boy."

Voldemort thumbed the spare wand he always kept up his sleeve. The arrogant fool did not scare him, but he was prepared.

"Cut the niceties K'rillen, their hollowness tiers me."

K'rillen's smile slide off his face only to be replaced by another even more fastidious smile.

"Where is the rest of the information that was agreed upon at our meeting? The little summary was a nice read on the long flight, but I expect the full version to be given to me. After that you can go on your, merry way. I have plans I want to set into motion before morning and I have been more patient with you than I expected, I am most surprised."

"Actually I happen to have the data pad right here." he pulled the pad from his pouch and threw it to his second standing off to the side and in the same moment pulled out his disrupter and leveled it at Voldemort. "And now my good fellow is the part where I double cross you and leave with my prize."

"You double cross me, shame on you. Maybe your muggle weapons will aid you in what I did to cross you." Voldemort let out a cold laugh that made blood freeze and some of the younger solders started shifting nervously.

If this unnerved K'rillen he did not let it show. "Oh, and just what might the great and Mr. Voldemort be planning against such lowly muggle aliens with disrupters aimed at you, might do?"

"It should happen just about…" Voldemort Disapparated in a puff of smoke just as a brilliant flash of light lit up the Forrest with a bang. The light of amber phaser beams lanced out from all sides quickly broke the following silence. Romulans caught off guard were cut down in that first volley. The Federation rapid defense battalion believing Voldemort to be there took an offensive approach and was using heavy phasers on high stun some of the Romulans had recovered from the airborne flash bang grenade and began returning fire with their disrupters. The battle grew intense as green disrupter fire was exchanged with phaser orange. K'rillen crawled over to take cover behind a boulder and meet up with his second in command who was tending to one of the wounded. A Phaser blast struck the boulder sending molten rock shrapnel everywhere. K'rillen peeked around and picked off two Star Fleet commandos. When he turned back he saw that his second was dead, a piece of rock left a deep green gouge above his brow. On the ground near his out stretched hand laid the data pad with the information known of the wizards. K'rillen reached out and picked up the pad, something pressed against his neck, K'rillen spun around raising his disrupter.

"Expelliarmas!" the disrupter went flying.

K'rillen shuffled backward as far as he could go. There was Voldemort standing over him his red eyes glowing as his horrible face was lit up by the weapons fire.

The pad was ripped from his paralyzed grasp and flew to Voldemort.

"M...M…Mr.…Vol." stammered K'rillen

"Worm! You shale refer to me as Lord Voldemort."

"Y…Yes my Lord Voldemort." K'rillen whimpered.

"You will bow before me! Crucico!" K'rillen shirked in agony doubled up at Voldemort feet.

"Thank you, I wanted to see that before I left."

With a pop Voldemort left and the rest of the Federation managed to close in around the few fighting Romulans. With a roar the runabout lifted off and quickly gained altitude phasers and disrupters firing vainly. Voldemort sat in the copilot seat and used the panel to activate one of the few weapons he had learned to work, the rear firing photon torpedoes.

The bird of prey flew out over downtown London before rising gracefully and slipped into the threshold of space. Harry was at the helm with Kozak standing by him giving him a crash course in space ship flight. The panels had been modified to read in English and to Harry's great enjoyment flying, was flying. Be that broomstick or space ship it felt so, natural. Kain was at center seat. And Ron at the COM and, a content Hermione was sitting at science.

Hermione sat looking through the workings of the ship; warp flight intrigued her to no end, but at this time she was enjoying reliving that meeting in the office. It was amazing the change of character a person could undergo. Of course having two vary pissed off Klingons standing over you with knives would change anybody's tune, thought Hermione with a rueful smile. She knew that Zom could be civilized given the right, encouragement, why he even gave back all the latinum and the deed to the ship. After further discussion the five agreed that it would be in both their interests to stick together. So there they were off on yet another adventure into the unknown.

There was a chain of beeps coming from Ron's station. Frantically looking around he finally found the button to tune in to the massage. It was a general Star Fleet security warning

"Attention all vessels in the Sol system sector, there is a criminal on the loose. Be advised he is armed and extremely dangerous. Do not, repeat do not attempt to engage him on you own. Set path for shortest rout out of the system." The message continued to repeat itself.

"Voldemort." Whispered Harry

"Who?" Asked Kain

"A murderer of many people, including my parents." said Harry in a flat voice.

"So you seek revenge on this Voldemort?" asked Kain in an understanding voice.

Kozak threw himself into the console next to Harry "Firing up disrupters now."

On the view screen Harry could see a ship smaller than theirs coming around the curve of the earth. The Bird of Pray banked steeply over the side and began charging the Runabout.

"Firing disrupters." said Kozak as he sat at the weapons counsel.

Green bolts struck the ship and were absorbed by the shields. The runabout turned in toward them and fired phasers. Suddenly a bright orange blur came towards them and struck the front shields hard. Harry glanced down at the display to see that the front shields were down to 20.

"Watch for those photon torpedoes Harry." cautioned Kain.

"Where did he go!" asked Ron

The ship began to shake as they took hits

He's behind us shouted Hermione watching as the red dot fallowing them on her sensors.

"Harry quick skim the atmosphere, it may throw off the lock he has on us." Commanded Kain, Harry quickly obeyed trusting in the older Klingons experience. As the bird dropped into the upper atmosphere heat began to turn the haul red, eddies and turbulence shook the ship about. It was working because the phasers became less and less accurate.

"Warning haul temperature is now 1300 K, heat shield collapses in 50 seconds.

"Were not going to last much longer." said Hermione As a near by torpedo detonated

Suddenly phaser beam flew next to them and attacked Voldemort's ship.

"Attention Klingon vessels break off you attack on the criminal respond please."

Voldemort's ship veered off toward a higher orbit.

Ron's console suddenly began to beep. "What the bloody hell does it want now?" He pressed a button and the screen, which was at one moment showing the starry expanse of space, was replaced with the bridge of the Enterprise. Picard rose from his seat.

"Klingon vessel you are ordered to… Harry?"

"Captain?" said Harry looking up.

"Your alive… but how? A Phaser overloaded, there's a giant hole in the side of my ship how could you have possibly survived?"

Harry sighed, "Would you believe me if I said a centaur, in his spare time, built a transporter and knew the exact time that we would need to be beamed down?"

"Before these past few days, I would have said no. But under the circumstances," At this he looked at Worf, who had threatened Dr. Crusher to allow him to return to his duties. "I would have to say yes. We will beam you over immediately."

"Sorry Captain," interrupted Harry, "maybe some other time, but right now. I have a half-blooded bastard that I have to kill, you know. Destiny and all that." Harry turned to Ron and made a slashing motion with his hand. Ron looked at him weirdly.

"What?"

"TURN OFF THE COM.!"

"Oh, sorry." Picards image winked out. The Bird of Prey veered off to the side flying past the Enterprise giving Harry, Ron, and Hermione a good look at the gaping hole in her side.

"There it is!" said Hermione pointing out the Runabout who was making a beeline for the Moon.

"This will be a day long remembered." Said Kozak wistfully. "The hounds of War have broken free of their chains at the gates of Kathor! LET OUR ENEMIES QUAKE IN FEAR, FOR WE ARE KLINGONS! AND WE WILL NOT SHY FROM BATTLE!" the last word rang out with a bloodcurdling cry.

"Ok," said Ron, "Jolly good show then, what he said." By this time the Bird of Prey had caught up with the Runabout, which had begun to skim the surface of the moon. To its left was Lunar City huge domes of Transparent Aluminum covering vast green expanses. To the right lay large gray craggy mountains. Voldemorts ship began to head towards the mountains trying to lose the much larger and older vessel. Harry raised the nose causing the vessel to gain altitude-skimming low over the tops of the mountain range, occasionally veering to avoid a random phaser blast. Kozak meanwhile was focusing all of his attention on hitting the annoying little ship that was trying desperately to avoid his efforts, as well as the terrain. Suddenly Voldemort veered off towards two mountains that had come together at the top causing a long tunnel. Voldemort easily slipped through. Harry judged the distance and began flying towards the tunnel.

"What are you doing!" Shouted Kain realizing what Harry intended to do.

"Trust me on this Kain," said Harry calmly, "this is nothing compared to flying at top speed through the halls of Parliament with Death Eaters after you." The Bird of Prey barely managed to fit through becoming engulfed in darkness, except for what was illuminated with the ships running lights. Harry had a little trouble keeping the ship from hitting the sides of the tunnel with the almost unresponsive controls in his opinion. Suddenly they burst from the tunnel for a moment they couldn't see anything. Then the screen was lit up with a flash of bluish purple light and everything started spinning.

Picard had wasted no time chasing after Harry and Voldemort. Seeing both ships turn right continuing the chase Picard hatched a plan. "Mr. Crusher set a course 4 degrees port." Wesley Crusher turned in his seat.

"But sir that will take us around the other side of the moon!"

"I am well aware of that, make it so."

The Enterprise just reached the other side of the moon as the Runabout burst from the tunnel. "Mr. Worf tractor beam."

"With Pleasure sir." Few people would be able to see the hint of a smile on the Klingons face as he entered the command. The Runabout stopped trapped in the blue light of the tractor beam.

"Captain, we're being hailed." Said Data calmly.

"On screen." Said Picard. Voldemort sat in a chair with the appearance of being in complete control.

"Well done Captain! I must say, for being a muggle you should feel proud of yourself. After all, you managed to capture Lord Voldemort! Now for a question."

"I am not here to play games Voldemort! You are under arrest for possession of Starfleet property, not to mention several counts of murder in the first degree. You will lower your shields and prepare to be transported directly to the brig, where you will await trial in a Federation court of law." Picard's speech was interrupted by Voldemorts laughter.

"Come now Captain do you really think that I am going to give myself up willingly? Now for my Question. Do the words Quantum Torpedo mean anything to you?" The screen winked back to the Runabout in time to see a bluish sphere shoot out of the back and race towards the tunnel the Runabout had come from. The Bird of Prey emerged from the tunnel. The Torpedo detonated near the vessel causing it to spin out of control towards the surface of the Moon.

"Mr. Worf, release lock on the Runabout redirect to the Bird of Prey. Mr. Crusher move us in range!" As soon as the Tractor Beam was released, the Runabout shot off engaging its warp drive. The Enterprise moved forward catching the Bird of Prey.

An hour later the Bird of Prey was back in full working order. Thanks to some brilliant spell work from Hermione and the assistance of the Enterprises damage control team. With the Bird of Prey's advanced sensors Hermione managed to find the trail left by Voldemorts ship. Harry sat at the helm plotting the course into the ships navigational computer.

"I really wish you would reconsider leaving Voldemort to the Federation Harry." Said Picard from the Enterprise.

"No offense sir," said Harry, "But the time for talk is over. Voldemort is my destiny. I have no choice." Harry cut the transmission. "Hermione are they all back aboard?"

"Yes Harry" said Hermione over the interior communications. Harry sighed glancing around the, for now empty bridge.

"Engage" Harry muttered to himself. The Bird of Prey pulled off from alongside the Enterprise before vanishing with a whine and a flash as it entered into Warp 1.

(A/N: Crazy Vulcan) you must forgive me, the only excuse I could offer is writers block. I think any satisfactory chapter should be at least six pages long. Btw we have a good plot worked out with many twists. The rest of the book is a series of adventures hopefully growing more fun to read as we go along.

(A/N: Demented Dementor) we will try to get them out as fast as possible but from the pattern all would say that it will not be once a week. We are not going to abandon this however so please be patient and put us on your author alert list in order to be able to read the chapter ASAP.