Harry Potter and the Demonic Fate

by Slayer6

AUXover Harry's 7th year. Harry, Hermione, and Ron take on their final year of Hogwarts under the cloud of the Second War. A new DADA teacher, a final act by Dumbledore to help Harry, is more then what she seems. A new threat arrives, taking out Death Eat

21. Chapter 20

It Waits for the day, I will let it out
To Give it a reason, to give it its might

I fear who I am becoming,
I feel that I am losing the struggle within
I can no longer restrain it,
My strength, it is fading
I have to give in

It's the fear,
The fear of the dark
Its growing inside of me
They won, they will come to life
Have to save,
Save my beloved,
There is no escape
Because my fate is horror and doom

Hold down your head now,
Just let me pass by
Don't feed my fear,
If you don't want it out

I fear who I am becoming,
I feel that I'm losing all beauty within
I can no longer restrain it,
My strength, it is fading
I have to give in

It's the fear,
The fear of the dark
Its growing inside of me
They won, they will come to life
Have to save,
Save my beloved,
There is no escape
Because my fate is horror and doom

Long ago, it came to me
and ever since that day,
Infected with it's rage
But it ends today

It's the fear,
The fear of the dark
Its growing inside of me
They won, they will come to life
Have to save,
Save my beloved,
There is no escape
Because my fate is horror and doom It's The Fear – Within Temptation

Chapter 20

Mana Kirishima appeared outside Hogwarts in a blaze of fire. She looked back at the castle, finding the Great Hall easily due to the hole that Azazeal had made. Of the Demon himself, she saw nothing.

Slowly, she began to walk along the grounds. Faint explosion could be heard coming from the school itself.

Suddenly the ground below her exploded, sending her hurtling through the air.

Instead of landing, she flipped herself around and hovered some thirty feet above the ground. Azazeal appeared in the sky nearby.

"I don't understand you." The Demon said, "Why do you fight against me? We should fight together!"

"Things have changed in the last thousand or so years since you walked the earth." Kirishima replied, "Things are different now."

"How so?" Azazeal asked, holding his hands out. "We fight until one of us is exhausted, then the loser submits to the winner."

"Not anymore." Kirishima growled, "The Queen never forgets."

"Ah Hild, how is my dear old Aunt?"

"She wants you dead."

"Sadly an impossible thing." Azazeal replied with a shake of his head, "The Doublet system……."

"…is no more." Kirishima replied before raising her hand skyward and calling down a lightning bolt..

The air sizzled as the lightning ripped through it and into Azazeal. The Demon let out a bellow before tumbling towards the ground. He hit with a loud thud. Kirishima landed on the ground beside the fallen Demon and lifted him to his feet.

"Upsy-daisy." Kirishima said with a grin before blasting Azazeal across the school grounds.

Azazeal tumbled through the air and slammed hard again to the ground, this time creating a small crater. He sat up and found himself in some kind of stadium. Three large hoops were at either end.

"Now you did it." Came Kirishima's voice, "You've gone and wrecked the Quidditch pitch."

Azazeal snarled and sent out an energy ball that shattered the bottom of the Gryffindor stand. The stands toppled to the ground in a shower of splinters.

"Missed me." Kirishima whispered in Azazeal's ear before she sent him tumbling across the pitch.

Azazeal slowly rose to his feet to find Kirishima waiting patiently for him, her eye glowing bright red.

"What has the Queen done?" Azazeal hissed, his hand holding his side. "No Demon that walks the earth has such power."

"End of the world powers." Kirishima replied, "Of course you weren't there when the upgrades went though." She then smirked. "Course I've got something that the other Demons don't, but I don't need to tell you."

The ground before Azazeal exploded, sending him flying through one of the Quidditch hoops.

"Score!" Kirishima shouted. She then licked her gloved finger before writing a fifteen in the air.

"Fifteen love. My serve!"

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Cayla watched sternly as the now very submissive Werewolves were led away by the Goblins. Several Ministry officials and Aurors had tried to intercede, but Cayla had held up a newspaper, bringing an end to those arguments. It also helped that Serenity was hovering just to the side of her mistress.

Tentatively, the Order members moved towards her.

"Umm…miss…uhh…." Tonks called out.

Cayla turned, as did Serenity

"I am Cayla." She said, "That is Serenity."

"Yes …uh…we knew that." Tonks looked to Remus for help.

"I don't suppose you could tell us exactly what you're doing with them?" Remus indicated the Werewolves.

"Until the Queen's representative can pass judgment on them," Cayla replied, "They will remain in the custody of the Goblins." She said the last word with a slight shudder.

"The Queen's representative?" Remus repeated, "Does that mean….you're a….uh…. Demon?"

"No." Cayla replied, "I happen to work for the 'other' side." Serenity gave a toothy grin.

Every Order member present just stared.

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Lucious had been afraid before, usually in the presence of an angry Dark Lord.

He'd seen other men afraid, usually before they died at his hand or the Dark Lords.

Right now he was scared shitless.

Just minutes before he'd sent the dozen or so suits of armor charging down the corridor at the blond woman that had blocked his path. The woman, Dawn, was somehow related to the DADA Professor and they had been warned she was dangerous.

That report hadn't gone far enough.

Now the corridor was littered with shattered armor as Dawn had basically shredded them with her sword. The same sword she held by her side as she slowly approached them.

One of the two Death Eaters with him started to raise his wand. Dawn snapped her other hand and the Death Eater gurgled as a knife appeared in his throat.

Dawn lifted her sword and held it's point right at Lucious' throat.

"Your move." She hissed.

Lucious and the remaining Death Eater dropped their wands.

"Very wise." Dawn growled.

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Kirishima walked along the pitch and came to the trench that ran along the outer edge. She looked down to see Azazeal laying motionless at the bottom. She hopped down and nudged him in the side with her foot. Getting no reaction, she nudged him again, harder. She then bent over to roll him onto his back.

Azazeal suddenly lunged as he was rolled, plunging a dagger he had kept hidden deep into Kirishima's side.

"Ahhhhh!" Kirishima screamed, falling backwards.

Azazeal rose to his feet.

"Pitiful." He growled, "I should thank you though. Without knowing about the Doublet system being gone, I probably would have submitted to you. Now I can take your head."

"You…..forget…..one….thing…….." Kirishima gasped.

"And that is?"

"………….."

He could barely make out what she mumbled. He leaned over her.

"Say that again?"

Kirishima brought her bloodied right hand into his chest.

"Times have changed Uncle." She snapped.

Kirishima's hand began to glow, and Azazeal began to scream.

Soon, all that remained was a crumbling pile of dust.

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Things were finally winding down in the Great Hall. The Death Eaters all sat bound together on the floor with at least three hundred or so wands pointed at them. The Slytherins that had supported them were bound as well. There were a few Death Eaters that had escaped, but they would be found eventually.

Dawn and Yoko both turned their heads slightly at the faint scream. Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny, and Pansy all looked at each other curiously.

"What was that?" Ron asked.

"Azazeal is gone." Dawn said softly, "But don't ask how."

"Why not?"

"It bothers her." Yoko finished.

"Bother who….?"

"Ron." Pansy said, "Shut up."

Before Ron could respond, Kirishima reappeared in a burst of flame, her right arm wrapped tightly around her stomach.

"Mom!" Yoko and Dawn both shouted, starting towards Kirishima.

She waved them off with her left hand.

"I'm fine." She said, "Just another scar to add to the collection." She glanced around. "I see things here are normal." Her eye then found the students, especially those five before her. Most were looking at her with a mixture of awe and fear.

Only two had looks of concern for her. Those were Ginny and Pansy.

"I'm fine." She said, looking as much as she could at them, "Really."

Ginny and Pansy looked doubtfully at her.

Kirishima sighed, then looked to Dawn.

"Cayla?"

"Diagon Alley is under her control." Dawn stated, "Along with a few hundred Goblins."

"Bet she just loves that." Kirishima murmured. She then looked towards the ceiling. "Enjoy the show George?"

George appeared in another white flash.

"I hate watching." George grumbled, "I always get to watch."

"It's what you do." Kirishima stated. "Ready to go watch some more?"

"Do you even know where he is?" George snapped back.

"Of course!" Kirishima growled.

"Where then?"

"……..England?"

"That narrows it doesn't it?"

"Umm." Hermione tentatively raised her hand. "I assume you are trying to find Harry?"

"Duh." George murmured. Kirishima elbowed her.

"Get serious." Kirishima snapped, "His life is at stake."

"Look who's talking……."

"Bulstrude might know." Ginny stated, "She was the one that knocked me out."

"And you know this because…?" Pansy asked.

"The smell."

"Ahh."

Kirishima walked over to where Bulstrude was sitting with the Slytherins. The other students all looked away and tried to move as far from her as they could. Bulstrude glared back at Kirishima.

"Where does Voldemort have Harry?" she asked.

"Go to hell." Bulstrude growled.

"Been there, did that, used to run the place, got the t-shirt to prove it." Kirishima replied tiredly. "So it's the hard way."

Kirishima stared at Bulstrude a moment, then walked back to the others.

"Mana," Pansy said softly, "You're still bleeding."

Kirishima looked down to see that the left side of her robes appeared to be saturated in blood, and she had been leaving behind a bloody footprint.

"There are more important things right now." Kirishima replied, "Like Harry."

"Does she know?" Ginny asked hopefully.

Kirishima shook her head. "No. But she gave me an idea." She turned to Hermione. "Where would Voldemort go to duel if he wanted to prove himself to be Harry's superior?"

"Diagon Alley." Hermione stated without hesitation.

"But Diagon Alley was over run by Werewolves." Kirishima pointed out. "And we have no sighting of either of them from Cayla. What other places would be significant?"

Hermione frowned a moment in thought.

"Hogwarts." She murmured, "But he left here to go to where Harry was sent. Ministry would be full of Aurors, he wouldn't risk the Duel being stopped." Suddenly Hermione's eyes went wide. "He'd go to where it all began: Godric's Hollow!"

Kirishima nodded, then looked to George.

"Remember?"

"Oh yeah." George replied.

"Dawn, stay here for the clean up." Kirishima said, "Yoko, help her."

"We're coming." Ginny and Pansy said together.

"So are we." Hermione, Ron, and Neville added.

"George and I can only teleport with one each." Kirishima stated, "And even that isn't comfortable." She placed an arm on Pansy. "Grab Ginny George."

"Hey!" Ron shouted, "Wait a …" But the four had already vanished.

"We've known Harry since first year." Ron grumbled to Hermione, "We should be there. We promised Harry we'd be there."

Hermione stared at the spot the others had stood at moments before.

"I should have expected this." She said, "After all, since they were the ones the Witch in Black helped."

"About that." Neville spoke up. "Does this mean that Professor Kirishima was the Witch in Black? Or was it Ginny?"

Hermione sat down abruptly on the floor.

"That still doesn't make sense!" she cried out, "Ginny couldn't save herself and Kirishima was in the stands for one attack and in the Hospital wing during the other!"

"We can think about that later." Ron said, "Can you side apparate us to Godric's Hollow?"

"Don't bother."

The three looked up to see Dawn and Yoko looking at them.

"If you go there on your own, there's a good chance you might get killed." Dawn stated.

"But Ginny!" Ron said.

"And Harry and Pansy." Hermione added.

"….will be under the watch of George and Mana." Dawn finished. "They won't let anything happen to them."

Ron frowned and gave Dawn a very surly look. Hermione's face held a very thoughtful expression.

Dawn looked to Yoko. "Watch them. Both of you." She then walked away.

"'Both of you'?" Hermione asked, looking confused.

Yoko smiled. Suddenly grayish white wings burst from her back, followed by the rest of her Angel. The Angel hovered off to one side. Unlike the Angel's Hermione had read of from a young age, this one didn't seem as pure. It had a dark and sinister feeling to it. Like it's mistress, it's eyes glowed.

"Morning Bell is gonna help me make sure you don't leave." Yoko said with a smile.

Morning Bell smirked.

"And I thought Harry only had days like these." Hermione muttered idly.

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Harry ducked the curse heading towards him. He and Voldemort had been dueling for sometime now. Several Death Eaters now lay on the ground, either dead, injured, or immobilized by stray curses.

Voldemort continued to move about, casting very Dark curses at Harry, intermingled with the Killing Curse.

Though he had a powerful wand, Harry had fewer spells available to him that might actually stop the Dark Lord. Not kill him though, because Harry knew that with the Horcruxes still out there, Voldemort would just come back.

Both duelers and Death Eaters were then distracted by a flash of flames. Harry was shocked to see Professor Kirishima standing there. The red markings were on her face, the ones Hermione had said were of the Shadows. Next to her stood a sandy haired blond girl, as well as…..Ginny and Pansy?

"Who dares to disturb my duel?!" Voldemort snarled.

"Your Demon met a rather unfortunate end." Kirishima called out.

Voldemort's eyes widened.

"Who are you?"

Kirishima bowed slightly, "Mana Kirishima, Professor of DADA as well as a Demoness."

"Demon…." Harry murmured.

"Then you are my Ally." Voldemort said, a smile returning to his face. "And you bring gifts……"

"No." Kirishima interrupted, "I am no ally to you in fact…." She motioned to the sandy blond. "Show him George."

George pulled out from her robes the remains of a golden cup. She tossed it at Voldemort's feet.

Harry watched as Voldemort looked down at the remains of the cup, and lost color in his face.

"They're gone." George said, "All of them. You are all that remains."

Voldemort took a step back. Now Harry knew what the cup was. Most likely it had been the Hufflepuff cup, the cup that had held a piece of Voldemort's soul, a Horcrux.

And it had been destroyed, along with the others.

Now Harry had a chance.

Voldemort seemed to know it too. He tried to apparate out, but reappeared a second later.

"Ah ah ah naughty naughty." Kirishima said, waggling a finger in the air. "You are not leaving until this……duel is done." She said the last part haltingly, causing George, Ginny, and Pansy to look at her curiously.

"Kick his ass Harry." She whispered, as the duelers began to fight again.

Back and forth they sent curses. Several times Harry just missed being hit by one of Voldemort's nastier ones. The Death Eaters cheered at the Dark Lord's attempts, just as Kirishima, George, Ginny, and Pansy cheered for Harry. To Harry's ear though, it seemed Ginny was by far the loudest of them all.

Then it happened.

Harry turned to avoid a curse and tripped on a rock. He stumbled and fell to the ground. Voldemort didn't waste a second.

"Avada Kadavera!" The Dark Lord called out.

The green spell ripped through the air straight and true towards Harry. Harry's eyes went wide as the spell grew closer. Then something blocked his vision just a second before the spell hit.

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Pansy watched as the killing curse flew towards Harry. In that instant, she thought all was lost.

Then one of the people beside her moved.

Pansy turned and watched in horror as Kirishima ran in front of Harry. She caught a flutter of something she took to be Kirishima's robes just as the curse hit. Kirishima crashed into Harry and the two tumbled across the ground.

Pansy, and even Ginny both tried to run to their side, but George held them back.

The Death Eaters began to cheer.

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Harry lay there a moment. He had felt something hit him, but it didn't feel like a curse. He knew he was still breathing, but it was rather difficult to do so. His knew he was blinking his eyes, yet something still blocked his vision. He reached up with his hands and realized there was a body on top of him. He pushed it off, then sat up.

Kirishima lay next to him, a look of calm on her face as her only eye stared blankly towards the now star filled skies.

"No…" Harry murmured. The words she'd spoken to him before when she was fighting the trolls came back to him.

"I'm sorry Harry." She had said, "But you're more important to this world then me."

Harry rose to his feet and turned to face Voldemort. His body shook with a rage that he had never quite felt before. Even Voldemort seemed taken aback by it.

Harry raised his wand and said only two words.

"Avada Kadavera."

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Ginny knew a lot about Harry's emotions. She'd been there to see his highs and lows, and had been along for the ride that was Harry's emotional roller coaster.

Never had she seen the look that was on his face now.

When he cast the killing curse, she had been in complete shock. Never had she expected him to use it.

Apparently neither had Voldemort.

The Dark Lord tried to throw up a shield, but with Harry's anger feeding the powerful wand, the curse ripped through the shield and slammed into the Dark Lord. Green energy crackled around the Dark Lord as he let out a horrific scream, something no one who had been hit by the Killing curse had ever done.

Ginny then heard George swear before knocking her and Pansy to the ground.

The Dark Lord's body exploded, sending waves of Dark energy rippling outward. The waves roared over where Ginny, George, and Pansy were laying, and sent them tumbling through the air. She was still tumbling about when Ginny finally lost consciousness.

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A flash had caused everyone in the Great Hall to look out the windows towards the east. There, a mass of dark energy could be seen rising high into the sky. Then from the same direction, the dark energy rolled over the hills and hurtled towards the school.

"Oh shit!" Dawn swore, "Get down!"

Everyone hit the floor just as the wave hit the school, shattering every single window. Hermione stared wide eyed as glass rained down on the students. Then her eyes found Yoko's. The girl was crying. Intermingled with the falling glass were Yoko's falling tears.

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The wave thundered through Diagon Alley, tossing people hard to the ground. It even smashed the wall that led from the alley into the Leaky Cauldron.

In the Twins joke shop, everyone was rising from the floor, shaking the glass from their clothes.

"What was that?" Arthur asked as he rose to his feet.

"The end."

He turned, as did everyone, to where Cayla now sat on the floor. Tears ran down her cheeks as she looked off in the direction the wave had come from.

"What end?" Molly asked.

"The End of the Dark Lord." Cayla replied as she rose to her feet. She then turned and faded out of sight. Tonks eyes widened and she quickly moved to where the woman had stood and felt around.

"She's not here!" Tonks said.

"She's not invisible." Moody said, "She just vanished."

"Is it true?" Molly asked, "Is the Dark Lord gone?"

"I don't know Molly." Arthur said, "But I know where we can go to find out."

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The next day some normalcy returned to the Wizarding world. Shopkeepers were out cleaning up after the previous days fighting. Aurors still stood watch, but they were joined now by heavily armed Goblins. The Aurors and the Goblins eyed each other wearily, but there were no problems.

At Hogwarts, Filch bemoaned the destruction of so many windows, as he went about with a broom and dustpan. Surprisingly, many students helped him in the chore, though they used magic to restore the windows.

Up in the Headmistress' office, the Order of the Phoenix met, minus Tonks and Remus. They had been held up at the Ministry.

"It has been confirmed." Shacklebolt said, "The Dark Lord is dead. We've been finding pieces of him and several Death Eaters all over the countryside."

"You mean that was him that caused the explosion?" Ron asked.

Shacklebolt nodded. "The Unspeakables believe that the wave was caused by the Dark Lord's energy suddenly being released. The wave moved out as far as Drumstang and it was visible to everyone. As it is, the Muggle Prime Minister is asking a lot of questions because he is being asked them from many governments across Europe.

"What about Harry?" Hermione asked softly, "And Ginny, Pansy, and Kirishima?"

Shacklebolt looked at the table a moment.

"Come on Kingsley," Arthur said, "We need to know! It's MY daughter!"

"There has been no sign of either the students……" He then glanced at McGonagall. "Or the Demoness."

Everyone turned to the Headmistress. By now everyone knew that Kirishima was a Demon. They also now knew that Cayla, Dawn, and Sayoko were something other then muggle or wizard as well. But McGonagall had said nothing of them.

"Minerva." Molly said, "What do you know?"

McGonagall finally raised her head.

"I suppose I am able to now." she began, "After Albus died, I found a letter, a letter with instructions on what to do in case he died. They were to contact Kirishima, and inform her of his death."

"But why….?"

"I don't know why Albus wanted me to contact a Demon!" McGonagall replied, "I do know that when it came to Harry, Kirishima was very much interested in his safety."

"Probably wanted to steal his soul or something." Ron mumbled. He got a hard elbow in his stomach from Hermione.

"Professor," Hermione said, "How did you contact Kirishima originally? Perhaps we can use that now."

"I already thought of that." McGonagall replied, "When the wave hit the school, it blasted through this office. The device is destroyed beyond repair."

"What about the kids?" Moody asked, "Kirishima's kids."

"Gone." McGonagall replied, "They vanished much like Cayla did."

Everyone was quiet. Then the sounds of cursing could be heard just outside the office door. A knock soon followed.

"Enter!" McGonagall called out.

Remus entered, followed by a limping Tonks.

"Stupid stairs…" Tonks muttered under her breath.

"She slipped." Remus stated, causing many smiles to appear.

"What news do you bring?" Shacklebolt asked.

"The Minister received a visitor." Remus stated, "A Demoness."

"Kirishima?' Hermione asked hopefully.

"No." Remus replied, "I caught only a glimpse of her as she left and she was a blond. She delivered a message to the Minister. Essentially, it states that a representative of the Queen of Hell will arrive in the near future to review how things stand. The representative will also pass judgment on the captured Death Eaters."

"What about the muggles?"

"The message doesn't say." Remus replied, "But it seemed only to cover the Ministry."

"How do we find out about Harry and the others?" Hermione asked.

Remus shrugged. "Unfortunately it was a kind of, 'don't call us, we'll call you' type of thing. They'll let us know the time and place of the meeting when they are ready."

"So until then we're left to worry about the fate of our Ginny? Of Harry?" Molly asked.

"and Pansy." Hermione added.

"Yes." Remus replied.

"That's inhumane." Molly cried out, "What kind of people do that?"

"Demons." Remus replied.

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"Why did you bring them here Reaper? This is no place for them!"

"They were injured! I knew of no place else to take them!"

Harry could hear the words as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Yet while they weren't English, he could understand what they said.

"No mortal has ever……"

"Would you like me to bring Lady Belldandy in here?"

"…….no……"

"Do what you can for them."

He didn't recognize the voices. When he did try to open his eyes, all he saw was a great white blur.

Then he heard another voice, that of Dawn.

"Get better Harry. The girls miss you."

Harry tried to respond, but failed.

Suddenly, he found himself under a spotlight in some kind of room. Darkness was all that he could see beyond the circle of light that he stood within.

"Where am I?" he called out.

"Your mind." Came Kirishima's voice.

"Professor?"

Suddenly Kirishima appeared beside him. Harry jumped and stared. Kirishima looked nothing like how he had last seen her. First off, she had both of her eyes, as well as very short hair that didn't even reach her shoulders. The outfit she wore was simple black jeans and a black t-shirt.

"What…" Harry said.

"This is the memory of me as I was at the age of eighteen." Kirishima replied, "The turning point of my life."

"The memory?"

"I am not here Harry." Kirishima replied, indicating around her, "But I am in here." She pointed at his head. "You gained my memories, my experiences, all that I am is in your head. Thus….." She indicated herself, "Here I am, a Shadow of what is."

"I have a headache." Harry muttered.

"It isn't an unheard of thing."

"Right…" Harry looked around. "This is my head?"

"Unsurprisingly, Snape was wrong." Kirishima stated, looking down at the circle of light. "You don't have a swelled head. It's actually quite tiny."

"Thanks….I think." Harry looked at the Professor. "So what happens now?"

Kirishima sighed. "Your magic was nearly exhausted from your Duel with Voldemort. The dark wave hit you, injuring you physically, as well as sending dark magic through you. Then there's the complications of Voldemort dying while still connected to your head…….."

"I get it, I'm messed up."

"The thing is, if you're at St Mungo's, it may be some time before you wake up." Kirishima replied, "Of course, that time may be flying by as we talk. Months might have already past, or even years."

"That's a scary thought." Harry murmured. He then frowned. "Wait……if you're a Demon, why did you help me? Why didn't you help Azazeal?"

A hint of anger appeared briefly on Kirishima's face, but it quickly passed.

"We're alike, you and I."

"What do you mean?"

"Harry," she said softly, "When you are around Dementors, what happens?"

"I hear my parents." Harry replied, his voice slightly distant, "The night they died. It's……the only memory I have of them."

"I'm a bit luckier." Kirishima said, "I have four years of memories of my mother. But around the Dementors, the memory that returns is the one where my father (she spat out his name) killed my mother. We are both haunted by the loss of our parents, though you are fortunate to have had two loving parents." She looked at the floor a moment. "We are also weapons Harry."

"Weapons?" Harry murmured.

"Dumbledore knew the prophecy." Kirishima replied, "Thus he knew that you were the one with the power to defeat the Dark Lord. That is why you got away with…...certain adventures." She held her hand up, cutting off a comment from Harry. "But he was human, and in time, he saw you not as a weapon, but as more, perhaps even a grandson. But the Prophecy couldn't be changed. That is why he went out and began to hunt down the Horcruxes. He wanted you to have a chance at a happy life once you had defeated Voldemort."

Harry nodded at her explanation.

"Mana," he asked, "How were you a weapon?"

"I'm unique in the immortal world." Kirishima replied, "I am the product of Demon and mortal, thus I walk in both worlds. Much like the Pureblooded Wizards, Demons saw others like me as weak, and killed such offspring." She then smiled slightly. "My mother was to have died, yet she lived to give birth to me." Kirishima looked to Harry. "The Queen discovered that those of both worlds had more power then either pure Demon or God. There has been a few cases of such immortals in the Heavens, but as they were killed, there were none in Hell. Then, Father found out that Mother lived. He sought her out in order to finish what he had begun with my creation. In turn, the Queen discovered me. I was to be trained to be the best, the most powerful Demon Hell could offer!"

"What happened?" Harry asked.

"A Goddess."

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A young six year old Mana walked through ornate doors and found herself within a glowing circle. Darkness surrounded the circle. She slowly walked around the room. She no longer knew where the door was, nor could she find the door to the gods.

Then she was no longer alone.

Within the circle with her now was a girl, apparently the same age as herself. This girl had long dark brown hair and blue markings on her face. She also wore a bright blue and white outfit, making her stand out from the darkness, where Mana's outfit allowed her to blend in.

"Hello." The girl said, "I'm Sayoko."

Mana blinked. The girl was very cheery.

"I'm Mana." She replied, "You're a Goddess?"

Sayoko nodded. "Yep."

"So what's it like in Heaven?" Mana asked.

Now it was Sayoko's turn to blink. This girl was nothing like what her Auntie had said Demons were like.

"I….don't know." Sayoko said.

"Why not?" Mana asked, "You're a Goddess. Goddesses live in Heaven."

"I don't. I live on Earth with my Auntie. She's a Goddess too."

"Why do you live on Earth?" Mana asked slowly.

"Mother wanted me too." Sayoko said, "My Mother was a Goddess to, and Daddy was a mortal."

"I used to live on Earth with my mother." Mana softly, "But….. I lost her……..I lost my mother."

"I lost my mother too." Sayoko said softly.

"I watched her die." Mana said, "My father, a Demon, killed her."

"My mother died in a plane crash," Sayoko said, "along with my father."

"You have my sympathies." Mana said.

"As you have mine." Sayoko replied.

They were quiet for several moments.

"I suppose we should start." Mana finally said.

Sayoko nodded. Both stood across from each other, just barely holding hands.

"We, closest strangers. We, most distant twins." They said together.

"Thou who art with me always, Guardian of Shadow." Sayoko chanted.

"Thou who art with me always, Guardian of Light." Mana chanted.

"When fails the light," they chanted together, "when fades the shadow. Let shadow guard light,. Let light guard shadow. One existence, entangled souls, life shared as one."

"For all gods, "Sayoko chanted, "I, Sayoko, do swear!"

"For all Demons," Mana chanted, "I, Mana, do swear!"

Lightning flashed overhead, then all was quiet.

"It is done." Sayoko said.

"When we leave here," Mana said, "We will forget each other."

"I know." Sayoko replied, "It's there to protect us."

"I wish we could meet again." Mana said, "There aren't any half demon, half mortals in Hell."

Sayoko smiled, "There aren't any half Goddess, half mortals were I am."

Mana gave the goddess a smile. "Maybe we'll meet again someday."

Sayoko nodded, "Maybe we can be friends."

"Maybe." Mana replied.

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"She was your doublet!" Harry exclaimed.

Kirishima nodded.

"But weren't you supposed to forget?"

"Miss Granger is very good at researching." Kirishima noted, "Yes, we were, and we did, for a time. We met again, in High School. I was holding her friends captive. She defeated me, and then forgave me." Kirishima closed her eyes. "And then she became my first true friend." She reopened her eyes. "After that, the Queen realized I would never be a weapon against the Heavens. Fortunately," she said softly, "Fate gave us a new enemy for me to be pointed at."

Harry could tell she wasn't really interested in telling about that.

"Just for the sake of asking," he said, "how old are you?"

"Harry!" Kirishima replied, teasingly, "Don't you know it's wrong to ask a girl her age?"

"Figured you owed me for not telling me you were a Demon." Harry replied, "Besides there's the fact that there's at least several lifetimes of memories stuck in my head."

"Very well." Kirishima said softly, "I'm five hundred and seventy-eight."

Harry stared.

"That old?"

"I prefer to say 'experienced'."

"And Dawn?"

"Three hundred and forty six."

"Sayoko?"

"Which one?"

"Well……your daughter."

"Eleven."

"Baby of the group is she?"

"You have no idea……."

Suddenly the light began to dim.

"Ah…" Kirishima looked up. "It's begun."

"What has?" Harry looked around in confusion. Before him, Kirishima was fading out of sight.

"Good bye Harry." Her voice sounded very hollow.

"Wait!" Harry called out. Then the darkness swallowed him.

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Harry blinked and opened his eyes.

He then blinked again.

He was in a bed, a very comfortable bed. But any thoughts of him being in the hospital wing at Hogwarts, or even St Mungo's vanished when he discovered that blinking his eyes hadn't changed anything.

Above him, all he saw was pink.

Bright pink.

And, as a male, he decided that was the most god awful color he'd ever seen.

Sitting up in the bed and looking around didn't help either.

Everything in the room was pink.

Well, other then Pansy and Ginny.

Pansy and Ginny?

Harry suddenly found himself engulfed by the two girls, both of which were sobbing. Not knowing what else to do, Harry patted them both on the back.

"It's ok." He said, "I'm here."

"They wouldn't tell us anything." Ginny sniffed, "We didn't know if you were alive or dead……"

"We just woke up in the room." Pansy said, her voice muffled by Harry's robes. "Dawn visited us a few times, but she didn't know anything either."

"Then we woke up this morning and found you here." Ginny added.

"Ok." Harry looked around. "Where is here? And why is it so……"

"Pink?" both girls asked at the same time.

"Yes."

Pansy and Ginny sat down on the bed beside him.

"We aren't entirely sure," Ginny began, "But we think we're in Hell."

Harry's eyes went wide.

"We're dead?!"

Pansy pinched Harry's leg.

"OW!!! What the hell was that for?!"

"To see if you were awake." Pansy replied.

"Ok! So we're alive! Why are we in Hell?" Harry asked, "And why is it…...pink?"

"I think if you look at that picture on the night table, you'll figure it out."

Harry frowned, then turned and looked at the table. There was a photograph, a muggle one. In it was a picture he'd seen before of an auburn haired mother and child.

"Mana's room." Harry said. It wasn't a question.

Ginny and Pansy nodded.

"We think this is her childhood room." Pansy said.

"And if it is, I understand why she hates 'pink'." Ginny added.

"What else?"

"We can't leave the room." Pansy said, "There's a Demon standing guard."

"He stops you?" Harry asked.

"No, it's more like some kind of barrier I can't cross."

"And you won't either."

The three turned to see a blond haired Demon entering the room. Like Kirishima, this demon wore black, mostly leather. She also had red slash marks upon her forehead and under her eyes. Unlike Kirishima, she showed off quite a bit of skin. This demon would have fit Moody's phrase 'Trollop in black leather' far better then Kirishima ever did.

From Pansy and Ginny's point of view, it was way too much skin.

"I am Mara." The blond said, "Demoness Class Zero. I am your….guide." She stopped beside the bed, her arms held across her chest. "The reason you can't leave this room is for your own protection."

Harry let out a low moan and fell back against the bed. This was sounding too familiar. After all, Kirishima had thrown herself in front of a killing curse for him.

"If you say something about blood protection……" Harry said, "Demon or not, I swear……"

"There are things that inhabit Hell the likes of which you've never seen. They don't like Mortals." Mara stated, "This room was modified to keep them out."

"But it was Mana's?" Pansy asked.

Mara's face softened. "Yes."

"So…." Ginny said, looking around the room. "Demons hate pink?"

Mara smirked and laughed.

"Mana said you had a sense of humor." Mara replied, "Actually, no. There are a few Demons that love pink, the Queen being one of them."

"Then what keeps the…..other things out. And why do you need to?"

"Mana is…..different." Mara said. She frowned and started back towards the door. "Someone will be coming by in a bit. She'll be the one to take you back to your school."

"You miss her don't you?" Harry called out.

Mara stopped short of the door.

"I helped raise her." She said, facing the door. "I helped to train her, to make her into the best Demon I could." She looked back at Harry. "In that respect, I failed. In the end, I see her as the daughter I've never had." She turned and left the room.

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Mara walked steadily down the corridor, pausing only briefly beside a black haired woman dressed in white and looking very out of place as she looked out the window.

"She was right." Mara said, "They're all yours."

The woman nodded, and returned to gaze at the world she had left behind so many years before.

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Harry, Ginny, and Pansy spent the next hour or so exploring the room. Pansy had discovered a bookshelf filled various muggle books, Ginny was fascinated by her find, something Harry had called 'CDs'. Harry himself was gazing out the window at Hell.

It didn't look all that bad, other then the flames, rock ceiling, and the giant black pit in the center.

The three turned as the door opened, allowing a black haired woman in a white dress to enter. She too had markings on her face, but they were ones of blue, like Cayla had had.

"My name is Ceres." She stated, "I'm to take you back to Hogwarts."

"Ceres?" Pansy repeated, "Wasn't that the name of one of the Demons that sealed away Azazeal?"

Ginny and Harry looked at Pansy, then to Ceres.

Ceres bowed her head.

"That was me many years ago." She then looked up. "I have since changed occupations."

"What?" Harry asked.

"I'm no longer a Demon." Ceres explained, "Roughly five hundred or so years ago, I became a Goddess."

"Ok!" Ginny said, holding her hands up. "Goddesses now?"

"There are Demons." Harry said, "Why not Goddesses?"

"Point." Ginny looked to Ceres. "So how does a Demon become a Goddess?"

"By doing something no sane Demon would ever do." Ceres replied softly, "Asking for forgiveness." She perked up slightly. "Now then, I believe we have somewhere to be."

"Hogwarts" Pansy said, "How long have we been here?"

"About five days." Ceres replied, "Lady Cayla says that the party was rather entertaining."

"Lady Cayla?" Pansy, Ginny, and Harry all asked together.

"She earned it, even if we are the same rank." Ceres said.

"Cayla's a Goddess?" Pansy asked, "What about Dawn and Sayoko?"

"Dawn is a Valkyrie. Sayoko is a Guardian."

"So Mana is the only Demon in that group?" Ginny asked.

"Yep."

"But how could Mana be there?" Pansy asked, "Didn't it violate the treaty you made with Merlin?"

"That part will get explained in time." Ceres said, "Now we really must…."

"What about that George person." Ginny asked.

"George?" Ceres frowned a moment. "Oh, her. She's a Reaper."

The door to the room opened again, this time admitting a woman the students knew all too well.

"Ceres? What's keeping you?" the woman asked, "We have to go!"

Pansy fainted.

"In Merlin's name….…." Ginny said in shock.

"Oh my god." Harry stated.

Mana Kirishima raised a finger.

"That's Demon and you know it."