A/N: Here is the next chapter of this tale, and I am sorry to those waiting for the next chapter of Two Lives to Live because that chapter wont be up since I am still trying to write it.

Chapter Twenty-One: Dark Half

Unfortunately for the group the Black Roses were ready for just an assault. As Lord Ragnarok came through the front door six daggers headed right at him, with only a slight margin for error.

Lord Ragnarok managed to catch a glimmer from of the bladed daggers and froze time just as one of them was about to lodge itself in his chest. He sighed a breath of relief as he looked at the chaos which would have befallen him. "Damn that was close" Lord Ragnarok said as he looked at the daggers that were frozen in the air.

He reached out and knocked the dagger to the ground, and then did so with the rest of them. He was now sure that the Black Roses were prepared for him, but he figured they didn't count on him freezing time.

As he looked around the building he was in he couldn't find where the blasted elves were hiding, one thing for sure about a shadow elf was that they were good at hiding. He really didn't want to exert too much of his magical energy since he didn't know how many of them there really was. What he did know was that he needed to avoid being their prime target, so he could take them out with as little risk to himself as possible.

He figured his best course of action would be to turn into his shadow form that way he could conserve his energy and still be hidden from their sight. So that was what he did, he turned into a shadow and then unfroze time as he drifted into a dark recess of the dimly lit building.

With time unfrozen he could hear the muffled grunts of disbelief from the elves that tried to ambush him. He would have grinned had he been in human form, but as a shadow he just grinned in his mind. What he hadn't counted on was the fact that the elves weren't only guarding the front of the building.

As Lily and Bellatrix entered through the back of the building a group of well hidden elves waited and watched them sneak into the building. Unlike the prearranged ambush on Harry, the group in the back had another plan. They carefully watched as Lilly and Bella made their way in and tried to conceal themselves in the shadows of the building.

"Move slowly" Bella whispered to Lily as they made their way along one of the walls until they came to a small cut out section in the wall where they could hide for a moment. "We need to think of a way to get to where Harry is." Bella again whispered to Lily as they stood in their hiding place.

However before Lily could reply they were both nailed by unseen attackers with a sort of stunning curse unlike the one they use. Both women fell to the floor, as two elves stepped out of the shadows dressed totally in black.

Remus had found a window on the side that he had examined, and decided that he would enter through there. He looked through the window and couldn't see anyone around, though his heightened sense of smell told him otherwise. He could smell the pungent stench of the elves, and he would also smell the foul smelling poison that they had on their daggers. No doubt they were waiting for him on the rafters just inside the open window that he was at, waiting for someone, anyone, to try and get in while they were on guard. 'Too bad they underestimated the power of a determined werewolf.' Lupin thought as he sniffed again to make sure his would-be attackers weren't moving any closer to him.

Sirius was located on the other side of the building and managed to find an open window as well, which surprised him since he didn't think that anyone would be dumb enough to leave it open as it was, especially people holding a hostage. Sirius might have been a trouble making playboy in school, but he wasn't dumb and knew that the window was only left open to ambush any who tried to venture in through it. From his vantage point he couldn't see much as the window he found was near ground level. Though he was sure that someone had to be waiting for him to enter, and he knew he had to find an alternate way into the building.

Lamia and Draco took up positions outside the house in the hopes that they would be able to watch for anyone escaping the building. Lamia guarded the front where Harry had blown open the door, while Draco was in the back where Lily and his aunt Bellatrix had entered.

Meanwhile back at Hogwarts
Things back at Hogwarts were proceeding as they should right up till the point when all students were released from classes early to get ready for the Halloween party. Severus Snape had done all he could to cover for Harry, Draco, and Lamia, but it was clear that something was wrong.

When he arrived in the Great Hall he saw that it was already decorated for the party. He wasn't too happy about being up in the Great Hall, but he had to make sure where Dumbledore was. However when he saw that he wasn't there he became more concerned since the headmaster should have been in the Great Hall awaiting the students. Professor McGonagall was there, Flitwick was there, and Hagrid was there, but there was no sign of Dumbledore or that stuttering fool Quirrell wasn't anywhere to be found.

Abandoned Building

"Come out Potter I know that you're hiding somewhere in here" a tiny voice said from the shadows of the building.

Harry remained in his shadow form floating close to the ceiling trying to sense where the bloody elves were located, but he couldn't seem to figure out where the voice had come from. He would have to use his magical sense to see if he could find them, but he knew that would lower his magical reserves greatly.

Sirius heard the small squeaky voice shouting at Harry and knew it wouldn't be long before all hell broke loose, but he didn't like the idea of going through the window any more now than he had before hand. /'Harry what's the plan?'/

/'Stay put for now let them make the first move…'/ Harry stopped as he reached his mind out to his people, he could feel Sirius, Remus, and even Hermione, which meant she was still alive, but he couldn't seem to get Lily or Bellatrix. He knew something was wrong, and it wasn't a feeling he liked.

Harry drifted down into a section where he did see any elves and took his human form. He would need to stay in this form to be able to use his magical sense, so he would be able to find where the elves were.

"What's wrong Ragnarok, afraid to come out and face us?" The small squeaky voice said as it had before. "Maybe you'll come out once you realize that we have two of the females that came with you!"

"NO!" Harry shouted, but then forced his emotion back down as he tried to gain more control over himself. /'Hermione you hear me?'/

/'H…Harry stay away they will kill you.'/

/'Calm down Hermione, do they have Lily and Bella?'/

/'I…don't know'/ Hermione said in her mind, and Harry could tell that she was about ready to break down crying /'I am blindfolded and can't see anything.'/

/'It will be okay Hermione stay as low as you can'/ Harry said trying to calm her down, but he wasn't even sure himself if things were going to be okay.

Headmaster's Office Hogwarts

"How goes your plan Albus?" Salazar hissed as Dumbledore passed back and forth in front of his picture.

"That boy is driving me crazy, but I did get a close friend of his to keep an eye on him."

"You don't mean that mudblood Granger do you?"

"Yes I do, and before you say it, I know I am putting a lot in faith in a mudblood, but she is his closest friend. I will have my weapon one way or another!"

"You can't trust a MUDBLOOD Albus!"

"Do you think I am stupid? I know I can't trust them, hell they all should be killed, but right now I have no choice, and I believe this witch most of all will do the job correctly."

"What about your secret weapon? I hope this mudblood isn't it." Salazar sneered in a snake like hiss.

"No my weapon isn't the mudblood you old fool, she is merely my spy. No the true weapon will be known when the time is right, but for now I have to go back and act like I give a shit about these pathetic kids."

"Have fun" Salazar hissed in what seemed like a laugh.

"Piss off" Dumbledore grunted back as he closed the long red curtain that hung from the ceiling and concealed the picture of Salazar Slytherin.

Dumbledore walked back into his main office grunting to himself "I shall have my weapon." He said as he made his way towards his desk, and then he peered down at a book that laid on it, which was titled Powers of Death and Beyond "I shall have control of him or find a more powerful weapon to use against him!" His normal blue twinkling eyes glazed over and turned a fiery red, then he laughed an insane laugh as he reached inside his robes and pulled out an amulet that he wore around his neck, which was the symbol of Osiris. Then in a voice a lot colder than the usual tone he said "I shall hold all the power once more!"

Abandoned Building

With each passing second Harry grew more anxious, but he tried to remain calm enough to be able to push his magic sense out a little at a time trying to hone in on where the elves were located.

"This is your last chance," came the same small squeaky voice "surrender or we will begin to kill those with you."

Remus knew that his position was guard and Sirius was sure his was, and they had standing orders not to move until the elves started the fight, but really how could they remain calm when they were sure that Lily and Bellatrix were in Elven hands.

Harry didn't reply or try to contact any of his group, as he continued to focus his energy and had just located one of the hidden elves when he heard a scream. There was no doubt that the scream came from Lily, after all he had heard her screams in his nightmares of old.

"Come on out boy or else I will continue to torture the bitch!"

Flashback

Harry's mind barely registered what the elf had said at the end as his mind was forced back to his old life, his old past, back to when things were really bad for him.

"You think that was funny? Answer me, did you think that was funny Boy!" Vernon said with a snarl in his voice as spit flew from his mouth hitting Harry in the face. "Did you really think those freaks would scare me? Did you think it was funny the way they talked to me? I bet you found the whole thing bloody hilarious, but guess what boy, it is pay back time! You hear me BOY it is time you pay for what those freaks said to me!" Vernon didn't wait for a reply as he went straight to the payback part of the exchange and nailed Harry firmly in the chest with his balled up fist. Harry fell to the floor and felt the stings of the sheer pain that was caused.

Before the pain even managed to subside any Harry was thrust from that memory into the one from when he was a boy at Hogwarts, when the Dementors came in his third year. All he could hear in his mind was the sound of Lily screaming, it was pure agony for him to hear her scream like that. A scream that he had worked so hard to prevent, so he wouldn't have to hear it again.

Abandoned Building

"NO! NOT AGAIN!" Harry shouted as the fragile grip he had on his other half finally broke like that of shattering glass. When he merged with his younger-self a thin wall was placed around his other side, this was even to contain most of it, though at times small amounts managed to seep through. Now though that thin wall was shattered and there was nothing there to contain Harry's Dark Half!

Harry didn't know what was the actual cause of his rage, whether it was the real scream he heard from Lily or the flashbacks that plagued his mind. All that mattered was that he was enraged, and with his dark half fully in control there was nothing to save the elves from his wrath. The young caring Harry of old was nowhere to be found, in his stead was a very pissed off man who wanted nothing more than to kill every last elf in the building and there was no sign of remorse anywhere to be found inside Harry.

That was because he was no longer Harry Potter, now he was fully Lord Ragnarok and all he cared about was killing those that dared to hurt one of his. He was going to make them all pay for the actions of the one, and he didn't care one bit about it.

Lord Ragnarok froze time once more in the building disregarding any thoughts to his magical reserves. He was now on auto-kill mode and nothing was going to stop him. One by one Lord Ragnarok found the frozen hidden elves and with each that he found, he found a different way to kill them. When Lord Ragnarok found the one that was standing over Lily's body with a dagger in his hand he knew that he was the elf that made Lily scream. It was this elf that had brought on the flashbacks, and it was this elf that would suffer the most.

Lord Ragnarok put four different body binding spells on the elf and then encase him in a dome where he was able to unfreeze time around that singular elf. The others wouldn't know they were destined to die until he unfroze time, and left his deadly spells hit them. This one however would die first and it would be done without magic.

Lord Ragnarok stared down at the helpless elf that lay on the floor below him. "You enjoy attacking defenseless women? How does it feel to be the helpless one now you son of a bitch?"

"What…how…."

"Enough! You have messed with the wrong person this time! You have pissed me off for the last time elf, and I swear when I am done all shall fear Lord Ragnarok!" Harry said as he glared down at the elf below him.

"I do not fear death" the elf said in a tone that said he was prepared to die for his cause.

"Good to hear" Lord Ragnarok snarled as he pulled back and started to unleash punch after rage filled punch into the small elf. It didn't take long for the elf to start screaming out in pain as each hard punch connected with his small body. Finally Lord Ragnarok focused on punching the elf in the head, and it didn't take long for his fist to smash through the front of the elf's skull spraying blood and brain matter all over his fist.

When the elf was finally dead Lord Ragnarok moved on to locate and eliminate any other elves he found. Finally he came to the last elf in the building, this elf he wouldn't kill, oh no Lord Ragnarok had something else in mind for the last elf. Lord Ragnarok unfroze time after he made sure to bind the last elf with every binding spell he knew and some he invented.

When time unfroze all the spells that Lord Ragnarok had set to kill their targets went into action nailing the elves all at once. The lone elf that was to live was by Lord Ragnarok as he heard all his fellow assassins crying out in shock right before they met their untimely demises. All the elves died at once that were set to die, and when their lifeless corpses hit the floor Lord Ragnarok sent out a message to his followers /'all clear!'/

He then turned his attention to the last of the, would be, assassins. "You alone have survived the slaughter here today. You only live because I have allowed you to live, so do not think your special! You shall serve as a message to all of your brethren, because any further attempt to harm my friends, family, or me personally will be met with the same unrelenting thrashing that has occurred here."

Lord Ragnarok then lifted his hand and aimed his finger at the elf's forehead. Lord Ragnarok then used his magic to engrave his symbol into the elf's forehead, not like that he had done on his followers however this marking was to show that Lord Ragnarok owned the elf! He then placed a slow acting binding charm on the elf, so once the elf went to his realm his powers would slowly bind until he was unable to use them at all. It was then that they would realize Lord Ragnarok's full power since no mortal is suppose to be able to bind a powerful free elf, unlike house elves which are bound to their masters.

Remus and Sirius made their way into the building and were horrified by the carnage that they seen. However they knew that all that had been done was necessary to ensure the girls safety. They went to Lily, Bellatrix, and Hermione as Harry continued with his Elven slave.

Hogwarts Great Hall

The party was just starting and Snape wasn't sure how long he could hide the fact from Dumbledore that three students were missing. Snape was some what thankful however when Professor Quirrell came into the Great Hall and looked as anxious as a rabbit facing down a hunting dog.

Snape knew that this meant no good, but he was relieved all the same since the sniveling fool would work as a distraction for Dumbledore to buy him more time.

"T…t..rrrooll, troll in du..dun..dungeons!" Quirrell stuttered as he stood before Dumbledore "just ttttthought yoooou wooould like to knooooooooow." He said as he fell to the floor…..