TheTrueBard here! Part 2 of the rewrite!
CHAPTER 4 WILL REMAIN POSTER UNTIL I COMPLETE THE REWRITE
When Harry finally caught up to the other Death Eaters his heart felt like it had leapt into his throat.
A large group of Death Eaters where surrounding a building three Aurors' had taken cover in. They were holding off the Death Eaters attacking them but were unable to do anything more than defend themselves against there attackers deadly spells with hastily prepared barricades. The Death Eaters had them cornered.
Harry studied the battle for a minute, trying to come up with a plan of attack that wouldn't kill both him and the Aurors. He didn't know how they would react to his presence. He was unknown to them and considering the way he was dressed they where likely going to assume he was a dark wizard. He hoped that they would continue to concentrate on the Death Eaters once they noticed that he was on their side.
Once again his luck had seemingly held out, he couldn't spot any white masks among this group of Death Eaters either, however this group weren't like the rookies he had taken out earlier, no these Death Eaters were good.
They had spread out in an almost military fashion, forming a half circle around the Aurors position with most of the group concentrating on the Aurors and four of the Death Eaters acting as lookouts, one in each direction; North, South, East and West.
And the way that the smoke from the nearby fires was moving around the Death Eaters position and not through it Harry guessed that the lookouts had also formed a wide area shield with the lookouts acting as both the casters and the keystone anchors for the spell.
This was going to be a difficult battle. The second he attacked the quartets shield they were going to know he was there so there was no way he was going to be able to assassinate this group the way he had the last. Luckily the quartets shield like all wide area shields did have a weakness, if even one of them stop powering the shield for more then a couple of seconds the shield would drop so instead of overpowering there shield all Harry had to do was make at least one of the quartet falter, easier said then done.
Thinking back to how deception had helped take out the other group of Death Eaters Harry was suddenly struck with inspiration in how to take down the quartets shield.
I can't believe I'm doing this. Harry thought with disgust as he waved his wand over his head and with a clear mental picture of what he wanted Harry muttered, "Homo Inflecto!"
Harry couldn't stop himself from shivering in horror as he felt his body shift and change.
His hair long raven hair wither and disappeared, his muscled body shifter and changed until it was skeletally thin while his skin became an unhealthy chalk-white.
"I'm so going to hell for this." Harry thought as he pushed the hood of his cloak back and conjured a small mirror.
"Well that's disturbing." Harry said his voice sounding nothing like is own.
Staring back at him from the reflection in the mirror was Voldemort and thanks to Occlumency Harry had a perfect picture of Voldemort to draw from when he transfigured himself making the transformation as near to perfect as possible down to the skull-like face, snake-like slits for nostrils, red eyes and cat-like slits for pupils.
After that it was child's play to alter the illusion on his wand to make it match Voldemorts yew wand.
"Better get this over with." Harry thought as he pulled as much magic as he could into his body, saturating the air around him to make himself feel more like the genuine article.
"Well isn't this a surprise, Aurors cowering from my Death Eaters like little mudblood scum." Harry drawled loudly as he walked confidently towards the group of Death Eaters never breaking his stride.
"M-my Lord! We weren't told that you would be participating in the raid." The Death Eater closest to 'Voldemort' cried.
"Since when do I have to tell you anything?" 'Voldemort' asked his voice a dangerously calm.
The Death Eater must have known he had said the wrong thing because he instantly dropped to his knees and cried, "I-I'm s-sorry my Lord! Forgive me!"
Harry knew then that he had almost blown it, Voldemort would never let this slid with out punishing the fool in front of him for his actions usually with the liberal use of Crucio, which was bad news for Harry due to the fact that he had problems with using the Unforgivables and other powerful Dark/Black magic. It wasn't that Harry couldn't use them; no, the Valeyard had made sure that he could but he had sworn that he would never use them against another human being ever again, especially after what had happened last time Harry had disregarded Old Harry's warning about the corrupting nature of dark magic. The Valeyard had called him a fool for his decision but Harry had stood by his convictions.
"I will deal with you later." 'Voldemort' hissed his eyes barley more than slits and his voice full of rage. "Drop the barrier, I wish to talk to these Aurors."
"O-of course, m-my Lord. A-at once." The Death Eater simpered.
As soon as Harry was inside the barrier all of the Death Eaters had quickly formed an honour guard around Harry.
"Come out little Aurors we have much to discuss." 'Voldemort' said his voice magnified by a silent Sonorus.
"Bugger, it's Him." Harry heard one of the Aurors yell; there voice sounded very familiar to him even if it was rather strained and tired sounding.
"Tonks! Of all the bloody people in the world it had to be her. Well at least my lucks holding out." Harry thought his mind quickly supplying a name to go with the voice.
Thing just got more complicated, Harry couldn't guarantee that if fighting broke out that the Aurors would be safe, hell he could even guarantee that they would survive. He needed to get her and her partners out no matter what, he couldn't have there deaths on his hands, no matter what. Thinking quickly Harry placed his hand in his pocket and grabbed three galleons.
"Auror Nymphadora Tonks, I'll give you a choice if you surrender yourself to me now I will let your partners go." 'Voldemort' said is voice loud and confident.
This time Harry couldn't make out what was being said inside the battered building in front of him but by the sounds of the muffled argument he could hear the choice he had offered wasn't to popular.
"Shut up Miller, it's my choice!" Harry heard Tonks snap followed by the sound of flesh hitting flesh and a grunt of pain.
"I want your word, sworn on your magic!" Tonks called out her voice calm, trying to sound more confident then she really was.
Harry couldn't help but smile, due to the fact he wasn't the real Voldemort any and all oaths he sword as 'Lord Voldemort' would be non-binding so there was no danger if he made the oath anyway.
"I Lord Voldemort swear that if Nymphadora Tonks surrenders herself to me now, I will allow her partners to leave. So mote it be." A simple flash of coloured magic was all it took to make the oath appear 'real' and binding.
A minute later the scorched and damaged door of the building opened and the battered and bloodied form of Tonks appeared; Harry noticed with no small amount of happiness that Tonks didn't appear to be seriously injured, her cloak was singed and torn, a few cuts here and there and a nasty bruise on her face but other then that and a bad case of exhaustion she seemed fine, even if the tearstains on her face where hard for Harry to look at.
"She probably thinks she's going to her death." Harry thought sadly, "Not if I can do anything about it." Harry though angrily.
"Here I am, so let them go." Tonks demanded bravely her hair shifting to a brilliant vibrant red.
"I did swear that they would go, but I never said what state I'd leave them in now did I?" 'Voldemort' replied with a sneer.
Around them the assembled Death Eaters laughed, some even clapped and praised there Lord for his cunning.
"You Bastard! You li-" Tonks rant was cut short by a near by Death Eaters Petrificus Totalus spell, normally it would have been a Crucio but the Death Eater didn't want to anger his Lord for injuring his property so instead only immobilised her.
Tonks could only watch her heart clenched tightly in her chest as Death Eaters hauled her partners from the building and tossed them at the Dark Lords feet.
"Hold your hands out now." 'Voldemort hissed after removing the spell from Tonks with a swish of his wand.
Tonks watched as her partners hesitantly held there hands out to the Dark Lord like a pair of beggars but defiantly refused to raise her own.
"Now Tonks!" 'Voldemort hissed.
"T-Tonks?" Tonks wondered she could have sworn that he had said her name with… warmth? "No, that can't be right can it?"
Tonk's looked up at 'Voldemort' and notice something; his eyes seemed to be pleading with her to listen to him. "Something's not right here." Tonks thought as she slowly raised her cupped hands towards the Dark Lord.
Voldemort made a show of placing a single galleon in each of there out stretched hands, "For the ferryman" Voldemort had said as he placed the coin in her partner's hands much to the amusement of his Death Eaters.
When he bent down to place the coin in her hands Tonks had planed to throw it back in his face, what stoped her from doing just that however was when he placed the coin in her hand he had winked at her and smiled, the Dark Lord Voldemort had just smiled and WINKED at her. "Something really not right here, there's no way this is the real Dark Lord." Tonks thought to her self hope welled up inside her when this man had smiled at her she felt, safe and protected. Maybe there was still a chance for her and her team to be out of here alive after all.
"Now my loyal Death Eaters there is only one thing for me to say." Voldemort said darkly as he pointed his wand at Tonks kneeling form. "Avada Ke-ACTIVATE!"
Harry watch with relief as his galleons turned portkeys did there work and transported Tonks and her partners away to safety, he had been worried that even with the extra power he had poured into them that the portkeys would not be able to get through the Death Eaters Anti-Portkey wards.
So what did you think? Remember that this may not be the end product and is subject to change! Part 3 coming soon… Read and BLOODY Review! :) lol! So whats do you think about a Harry/Tonks pairing? I'm curious… might not happen but you never know!
Spells
Homo Inflecto: Human Change this spell is used for human transfiguration! Normally there is no way for a wizard or witch to perfectly replicate another using this spell however due to Harry's Occlumency he is able to make a near perfect change, his transformation won't stand up to scrutiny however due to the fact that the DE's were low in the scheme of things the where fooled! :)
NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE! NOTICE!
Hello faithful readers and curious newcomers alike!
Just posting this little note to say that ROK is NOT abandoned, however it along with my other projects will most likely not be updated until next year...
The reason for this is that I have a few real life problems that I need to handle.
Sorry once again, please no flames unless I've somehow really angered you.
TheTrueBard Out!
(P.S. my other story Last Scion of the House of Mortis will be rewitten sometime in the future. Honestly the way it stands now just makes me cringe.)
