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Sorry for the loooong wait but a virus had infected bot my files and their backup, leading me to reconstruct all my unpublished chapters. Though I have not fully rewritten all the chapters, by the looks of it, I will be able to publish them once a week.
Without any further wait, I present to you the 11th chapter of The Powers of The Abyss,
The Fight Ends while Another Starts
A huge flock of sparrows was created and rushed at Harry. Four birds were destroyed but the remaining hundred or so took an inverted 'Vee' formation and quickly surrounded her opponent. Then on the mental command of Daphne, they all descended upon Harry…
The grin that had formed on Daphne's face was quickly erased as four fire tentacles erupted into the flock, incinerating half of them on the spot. The tentacles then spun, creating a fiery whirlwind that reduced the other birds to dust, in turn creating a dark mist which obscured Daphne's field of vision.
Daphne could not believe it, one of her best combo attacks had been negated seconds before she would have had finished it. However, the true problem lay in the fact that she had never, ever seen such a curse. It made her remember the fire tentacles spell but that spell had been lost since the time of the founders, the last known user being Gryffindor himself.
"Aeris Adnoto!" she casted, clearing her field of vision.
Daphne gasped as she saw Harry. Four tentacles of fire were sprouting from the tip of his right wand while his left wand was pointed at her.
"You like my version of the fire whip?" asked Harry as he merged the tentacles into a single huge Fire Whip.
"What the? How did you?" spluttered Daphne
"I derived it from the fire whip but it doesn't have any name." replied Harry
From his position, Seth looked on with awe. While he knew that Harry's magic and intelligence had increased when the magic restraint was removed, he never thought that the boy would have been brillaint enough to recreate a lost spell. And what was more surprising was that he derived it from the fire whip, a Mage-class spell.
Taking advantage of his opponent's moment of inattention, Harry fired off a set of spells at his opponent
"Petrificus Totalus! Stupefy!" he casted before following with a swipe of his fire whip aimed at the ground between him and Daphne.
Daphne barely had the time to dodge the two spells which were sent at her before she summoned her shield to block the pieces of concrete sent towards her.
The sheer force of propulsion of the projectiles was enough to force her to conjure a wall just before her shield. As soon as the onslaught was finished, Daphne cancelled her spells and looked at her opponent. She saw Harry moving his wands in a pattern she recognized: Fractum Amplere! Daphne conjured a wooden table which she banished at her opponent. Hers was the perfect counter to such as a spell.
The Fractum Amplere created a fast expanding arc of magic which allowed a wizard to wipe out large numbers of opponents at a time. It had only one weakness which was the fact that it could not pierce defences and was thus useless if the opponent shielded himself.
Harry smiled as he saw his opponent conjure the table. She had fallen for his trap!
To the surprise of both Daphne and Seth, Harry suddenly conjured a fire whip from his right wand while continuing his spell using his left one. The fire whip rammed into the conjured table. Then, Harry kept his fire whip pointing at his opponent while slowly ending the spell in a series of infinity symbols instead of the normal quick horizontal slash.
"Avis!" shouted Daphne, sending a flock of birds to protect her. Fortunately, she had learnt her lesson and kept them away from the fire whip's reach.
Under Daphne's mental commands, the birds switched to three line formations. As Daphne saw Harry execute the final motion of 'Fractum Amplere' which was a thrust at the target, she finished her ultimate defensive combo.
"Fera Verto!" she yelled, transfiguring the birds into stone slabs. The bone-breaking curse shot forward, but instead of an arc which would have been easily blocked by the slabs. It went as a white thread of magic which destroyed the stone slabs by sacrificing about four fifths of its length. At the same time, Harry conjured two walls at Daphne's sides, preventing her from dodging.
"Perfect counter" muttered Seth. Harry had deliberately used the fire whip to destroy the shield to make Daphne think she would win. And that version of the Bone-Breaker was simply stupefying! Though it sacrificed time, it turned around the curse's weakness allowing it to be used against prepared enemies.
Mere seconds before the spell would have hit, Daphne summoned her silver Protego dome-shield to block the incoming curse. However, when the curse hit the shield, instead of being deflected or absorbed, it simply pushed against the magical shield. Daphne instantly ducked. Two seconds later, the shield fell and the spell flew through where Daphne would have been. Daphne looked at the white curse as it impacted on the wall and slowly decreased to nought. She suddenly realized that the spell had never been intended for her. It was only a decoy!
However, it was too late for her. As she turned to look at her opponent, she was faced with the red beam of an auror-class stunner.
"Looks Like you win, Harry." said Seth from the Observatory before being interrupted by a 'thump'.
He looked at the boy to find him laying unconscious on the floor
"Well I think I should have expected that. He used spells beyond Mage-Class after all."
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A few hours later. Greengrass Infirmary
Daphne was sitting at the side of his bed, reading a book when Harry groggily opened his eyes.
"Uhh, What happened?" he asked, after trying and failing to get up from his bed.
"You're awake?" said Daphne, looking at him from behind her book.
She had remained by his side as soon as she had been revived by her father. The latter had unsuccessfully tried a enervate before finding that Harry was suffering from Magical Exhaustion. For wizards, it was the equivalent of going comatose as their body was mostly sustained by their magic, being one of the reasons for their increased healing rates and extremely long life spans. Daphne had blamed herself for having attacked so brutally though her father had insisted that Harry had overexerted himself the previous day and that she was not at fault. Even so, she had a reason to stand by him for she had wronged him in a more profound way though she was the only one to know that fact.
"Yeah" he managed to say in a faint voice
"Don't worry, it is normal for you to be like this. Take this pepper up potion. The monitoring wards father had attached to you have already alerted him that you are awake. She said, before levitating him into a seated position, using a spell to force his mouth open and using another to banish the contents of a vial into his throat.
"You feel better?" she asked after a few minutes
"Yes, but there was no need for you to banish the potion in my throat!" replied Harry after wandlessly cancelling the levitation charm and falling onto his bed.
Daphne was about to retort when Seth slammed the door open.
"Your stamina surprises me, Harry" said Seth as he looked as his 'patient'
"I had to train for today. I guess that I trained a bit too much" replied Harry
"A bit too much? You trained for four hours against the DE simulator! You were at only half power for the test and still you used a draining spell such as the fire whip for half of the duel!"
"Ah but it worked as a diversion, didn't it?" answered Harry sheepishly
"Harry, don't ever use a damned Mage-Class as diversion. It's like Fudge pitting Dumbledore against Voldemort only to sneak behind Voldie during to battle to Avada him" Said Daphne, eliciting a laugh from Harry and Seth.
"Daphne, as always you are so ..." said Seth before suddenly closing his eyes.
"Shit!" he exclaimed as he opened his eyes, baffling Harry and horrifying Daphne.
-0oOo00-
Five Minutes earlier, Bones Manor
As she was reading the reports on several cases of wizarding murder done by Death Eaters, Mrs Bones, Head Auror suddenly felt a tinge at the back of her head. She quickly grabbed her wand and amplified her voice before calling out to her niece, Susan.
"Suzy! Take Hannah and come here as fast as possible." she said before heading towards the fireplace. She was bout to grab some floo powder when she felt several more tingles in her head. So it was him spearheading the attack!
Not worrying an instant about her safety, she accioed the two girls who were running don the stairs while at the same time grabbing some floo powder. When the screaming girls had reached her, she had already thrown the powder and said Auror Team A.
"Susan. Tell Shaklebot that He is here" she said before banishing the two girls into the green flames.
As soon as the green flames turned red she heard a slam. The anti-floo wards had been put in place.
"Oh well, I guess that I will have to use that"
The head auror retreated into her study. She touched a rune on the door with her wand, activating countless trap wards and limitation wards. Now no one could get to her without first disabling the majority of the wards. Even someone as Voldemort would be slowed down. Amelia bones then touched her wand to the pendant that she had always worn with her since her enlistment into the Auror Corps.
"He has come here."
A few minutes later, Amelia heard a crash and then a few curse words. She readied herself for she knew that her last trap could only prevent those less magically powerful than her to enter. However, she did not expect a Fiendfyre curse to destroy her door and rush towards her.
"DIVINUS Aqua Gurgite" she incanted in time, summoning a holy whirlpool to protect her.
As the whirlpool intercepted the demonic fire, she used her spare wand to conjure two lions which attacked her opponent. However, two green lights hurtled towards her, forcing her to duck. When she looked up, she was surprised. Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange were standing before her. She had not expected Voldemort to bring his lieutenant with him. Duelling was much more difficult against two powerful opponents.
Jumping out of the way of a nasty curse from Bellatrix, Amelia sent back a dozen of curses, some which were taught at Hogwarts, and others which were powerful enough to kill a giant in one hit. However, Voldemort countered by a single blast of Fiendfyre with enough power to cancel each and every curse sent towards him.
"Bellatrix, Leave her to Me." he said
"But Mas.."
"I said leave her to me. I will kill her personally" replied Voldemort before sending a curse at Amelia
Amelia negated the spell with a shield before sending another volley of curses. However, Voldemort true to his reputation of being one of the most powerful dark lords to ever exist, cancelled the spells with ease and followed with his own volley of curses. He did not want to use the Killing Curse quickly as he wanted to show pain to the damned Head of the Aurors.
In mere minutes, Amelia had her hands tied by two green snakes and her two wands lying useless on the floor.
"Now you shall feel pain, Amelia! Crucio!" yelled Voldemort.
However, the Head Auror wandlessly summoned her wands and then banished the snakes into the incoming curse. The snakes writhed in pain, momentarily surprising Voldemort, enabling the Head Auror to execute the wand movements of her strongest spell.
"I guess that if I cannot beat you, I will have to take you to hell" said Amelia, before sending a ball of fire towards Voldemort.
"Pitiful! I had expected more of the Head auror" laughed Voldemort while sending a stream of water to extinguish the fire. However, as soon as the water made contact, the fire ball turned into a whip which joined itself to the tip of Amelia's wand. This produced an effect similar to Priori Incantatem, with the exception that fire and water bound the two wands instead of magic.
"What?" exclaimed Voldemort in shock.
"You shall perish with me!
Invocato magicam elementa
Nos sunt hostes coniunctus ignis et aqua
Ligare nos simul in inferno!" yelled Amelia
The fire from Amelia's wand transformed into a large hand of fire which headed towards Voldemort who could not use his wand while the water transformed into a noose which headed towards the Head Auror. Amelia knew that the curse would end her life but killing Voldemort was her priority. She offered her neck to the approaching noose. This is finally it; I hope you will be proud of me, Edgar
However, the water and fire suddenly dissipated at the moment the latter touched Voldemort. She looked in surprise at Voldemort whose robes were burnt on the front.
"How did you!" she said, horror apparent on her face
Voldemort sneered.
"This curse, the Fire and Water bond of hell, It binds the User's and Target's soul's together before sending them to hell. It is in a sense, a spell darker than the Killing curse itself. However, there is a single flaw with it."
"What?" said Amelia in a low voice. It was the most powerful spell she knew and even that had not worked.
"It works only between two souls!" laughed Voldemort.
"Only between two souls?" said Amelia, looking at Voldemort in confusion.
"You are dead, Head Auror! Avada Kedavra" yelled Voldemort.
As she saw the spell rush towards her, Amelia realised why her curse had not worked. She had not thought that he would stoop so low! Forgive me, Edgar, for in the end, I was not prepared for everything.
A/N
NFlamel: Writing about the days of training would have been rather boring as well, I would have been able to only describe the training. However, There will be some flashbacks into the training days in the following chapters.