Chapter 25 Into the Fire
The ride was unlike anything Jack had ever experienced as the Thestral flew though the air at what had to be supersonic speeds as they left Hogwarts and returned to London just as the sun was going down. They landed right beside a large English red phone booth in Whitehall.
"I have been here before." said Jack as he looked around the area at the government buildings.
"When?" asked Hermione as Jack paused how could he explain that he went here in 1976 while he made a short trip to England from his base in West Germany.
"We don't have time." said Harry as the seven of them stepped into the phone booth went down into the ground.
"This is going to be bad." said Jack as he pulled out his P-90 before loading the gun as the Phone booth came to a stop in a large hallway full of different fireplaces.
"The Ministry of Magic welcomes you and hopes you have a good evening." Said an automated voice as Jack stepped out of the phone booth as he turned on the flashlight on his gun. The room was darkened but still everyone was able to be seen as the sound of water from the large fountain filled the air.
"Clear." said Jack as he lowered his gun a bit. "It's too quite."
"I agree with Jack something is wrong." Said Ron as he looked around the entrees hall it was abandon with no guards or welcoming staff.
"Move." ordered Harry as the seven of them moved toward the large golden lifts that covered an entire wall. A huge portrait of Fudge hung overhead.
"I don't think we should all go on the same elevator." stated Jack as he scanned the area watching every corner of the room for a sign of a threat.
"Why?" asked Ron
"Because if we go down in the same elevator and a Death Eater is waiting for us, we would all be trapped." said Jack
"Alright Ron, Ginny, Luna and myself will go down in the first lift the others will go down in the second." ordered Harry as he pressed two call buttons as two lifts came down as they both got in. The moment they got into the lift Jack opened his bag one more time to pull out his pistol which snapped onto his belt and his ZAT which he put into a holster on his leg.
"You used that thing to let us get away." said Neville as he looked at the strange devise. "What is it?"
"It's called a ZAT." Said Jack as he put his baseball hat on as he tossed his jacket into the bag, the last thing he put on was his Bullet proof vest with combat pouches full of bullets. "One shot stuns, two shots kills."
"Two stun spells don't kill." Said Hermione
"This is a special kind of weapon." Said Jack as he stood up as the lift came to a stop and the doors opened to find an empty hallway, it was very darkened. However with its black stone floors and ceilings every single source of light bounced off the walls giving it spooky look. At the end of the hall stood a large single door. Harry stormed out of the elevator making a straight line for the door at the end of the hall.
"Wait up Harry!" yelled Ginny as light glowed from each of their wands as the rest caught up to Harry as he opened the door to find a circle room filled with multiple doors.
"Here we go." said Jack as he walked in first his flashlight flooding the room with light. Everyone followed suit.
"Which door?" asked Neville as he closed the door behind the group. However the moment the door closed the entire room started spinning at an unheard of speed as the doors became a blur and everyone was forced into the center. Finally it stopped as everyone regained their footings.
"A little warning would be nice!" yelled Jack to no one as he offered a hand to Hermione who took it as she got back onto her feet.
"Which way Harry?" asked Ginny as Harry walked forward and opened the door right in front of him. They walked in to find a long line of desks nothing more, at the end of the hall was another large door.
"Well that is anticlimax." Said Jack as Neville went to closer the door. "Stop!"
"What?" asked Neville as Jack pulled out a small stick from his vest. Slowly pressed the stick against the wooden door before making a single yellow glowing mark on the door. He repeated the same thing on the other side of the door.
"So we can find our way out." explained Jack as they pushed past the empty desks toward the far door when they opened it they found another room filled with doors that looked like a perfect match to the one they had just came from.
"Not again." said Ron as Hermione made some marks on the door only to see the same mark Jack had made on the other door.
"They are the same Door." Said Hermione
"How is that possible I can see it over there." said Ginny as she pointed to the far end of the hallway.
"Magic." answered Jack as they closed the door as the room spun around again. Harry picked the next door to find a large room filled row after row of stone pillars with seven symbols on them.
"What are these things?" asked Ron as he touched the items as Jack's eyes widened as he looked at the items.
"Stargate Addresses." thought Jack as he looked at the row after row of weapons that went straight up to the ceiling. "How linked is the magical world with the Stargate?"
"Take a look at this." said Ginny as Jack's head snapped toward the sound to see a large table in the center of the room. Jack felt like was going to pass out when he saw what was sitting out in the center of the table. There coming out of small holes in the table where not one, not two, or even three but five ZPMs.
"My God." thought Jack as he moved toward the ZPMs.
"What do you think it they are?" asked Ron as he looked at glowing crystals.
"ZPMs." said Jack
"ZPM?" asked Hermione as she looked at Jack "No, they are called Merlin's gift."
"How do you get that?" asked Ron
"Someone left their notes out." said Hermione as she pointed toward the parchment lying out on the table. "They have no idea what they do."
"Oh." Said Ron
"This doesn't matter we need to find Sirius." snapped Harry as he stormed off. Jack had little time to before he would be missed so he grabbed beam out markers from his bag and placed them on the five ZPMs.
"JACK WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!" yelled Harry's voice
"This is Colonel O'Neill I need a beam out on the markers." Said Jack into his radio
"What are you doing in London?" asked Sam's voice over the radio
"No time carter just do it and stay by the beam control I may need a beam out." said Jack as he walked out to rejoin the group as the five ZPM's disappeared in a flash of light.
"What where you doing?" asked Hermione
"Nothing important." lied Jack as they kept walking. The next room had a tank full with brains which swam like fish. The next room was a huge circle room with a ancient arch in the center of the room.
"This is creepy." said Jack as he moved toward the arch to see a misty like curtain that covered the arch.
"Why it is just an arch?" asked Ron
"Can't you hear the voices?" asked Harry
"What voices?" asked Hermione
"I hear them." answered Jack as he tried not to listen to the whisperer like voices he heard coming from the other side of the curtain.
"Me to." said Neville
"I hear them also." said Luna
"We need to get going." said Harry as they pushed through to the next room. Which was a large room filled with row after rows of glowing crystal balls.
"This is the room." Yelled harry "Sirius is in row 96."
"This smells of a trap." said Jack as the group moved though the rows.
"92….93….94…95…96." said Harry as he ran to the spot only to find nothing.
"Harry there is nothing here." said Ginny
"But I saw it, he has to be here." stated Harry again as he looked around.
"There is no one here." said Ron
"Harry these two have your names on them." said Neville as he pointed toward two glowing Crystal balls.
"What." asked Harry as he looked at them.
"The Dark Lord and ?...Harry Potter." Read Harry beside it was another glowing ball "The Chosen one Harry Potter and the Eagle."
"Why do they have your name?" asked Ron
"I don't know." said Harry as he reached for the first one only to have Hermione grab his hand.
"Harry it may be a trap, or have some spells on it." said Hermione
"It has my name." stated Harry as he grabbed the one with had the dark lord's name on it. However the moment he took it off the shelf a sound of rushing wind filled the air.
"We will take the Prophecy now Harry Potter." said a voice as Jack spun around toward the source as his light fell on a man wearing a silver mask.
"Death Eaters." said Ron as over a dozen men and one appeared wand raised.
"I know who you are Mr. Malfoy." stated Harry as the lead one slowly took off his silver mask to show a man who looked like an older version of Draco Malfoy.
"You know me Potter and now give me the Prophecy and I will let all of you leave with your lives." said Malfoy
"Come on let me kill them." Cried the woman
"Bellatrix Lestrange." said Neville as he pointed his wand at the woman.
"You are a Longbottom…" said Bellatrix with a smile "I wonder how well you will do compare to your parents."
"Where is Sirius?" ordered Harry
"Foolish Potter you really need to learn the difference between the real world and a dream." said Malfoy "Now give me the Prophecy."
"Why would Voldemort want a glass ball?" asked Jack
"You dare use his name?" snapped Bellatrix
"He is an American Bellatrix they don't know how to respect those who are better than them." said Malfoy
"Lord Moldybut is a freaking coward if he had to trick us to get this thing for him instead of coming for it himself." Said Jack
"You mock him too?" growled Bellatrix
"I do." said Jack as he put his hand behind his back and showed what he was holding to his friends behind him.
"Accio Proph…"cried one of the other Death Eaters.
"Protego." snapped Harry as the Death Eater flew backwards causing a few glowing crystal balls to fall of the shelf and breaking.
"No we need the prophecy in one piece." ordered Malfoy
"How about we torture the Longbottom or little red haired girl." said Bellatrix
"Harm any of my friends and I will smash this." warned Harry "I don't think your Bose will be happy if you tell him you failed."
"Why is this thing so Important?" asked Jack
"Should you tell them Harry Potter or I?" asked Malfoy
"I don't know why either." Said Harry
"You must be joking." said Bellatrix
"No." said Harry
"That explains why you did not come running like the dark lord believed you would. Dumbledore doesn't trust you with everything." Said Malfoy "That Prophecy explains why you have that scar."
"My scar?" asked Harry
"You never wondered why the Dark Lord would go after you as a baby?" asked Malfoy "Come with me Potter and I will explain everything."
"I don't think he will." Said Jack
"And what are you going to do, you don't even have a wand out." said Belltriz "You have some kind of strange box."
"I have something you don't." said Jack as the sound of a springing sound filled the air. "I have a Flashbang ."
"A what?" asked Malfoy as the flashbag flew though the air blowing up in front of two death Eater.
"Run." ordered Jack as they ran down the corridor away from the Death Eaters.
"Stupefy!" yelled a few Death Eaters
"Expelliarmus!" yelled Harry as the wand of a Death Eater flew away from him.
"Take this." said Jack as he opened up on the unarmed Death Eater. The Death Eater shook as his body was rattled with bullets before falling down in a pool of his own blood.
"Come one." yelled Hermione as they ran though one of the doors. Into the darkened door filled room. Jack ran into the room filled with desk to find only Hermione, Harry, Hermione and Neville where there. Ron, Ginny and Luna where nowhere to be found.
"Where is everyone else?" asked Jack
"They must have gone though another door." said Hermione
"This is great." said Harry
"We have to find them." said Jack as he loaded another clip of P-90 bullets into his gun. "We can't leave them behind."
Before they could say anything the door started to buckle a bit from blast coming from the other side.
"Get behind some cover." ordered Jack as the four of them ducked behind some desks just as the door came crashing down as five Death Eaters came storming into the room.
"They must have run though this room." Said a death eater
"Still check everywhere." ordered Malfoy as the death Eater started using their wands to overturn desks and chairs. When his desks was overturned Jack opened up with a ZAT gun.
"Protego!" yelled a death eater as a shield charm stopped the Zat blast was blocked by the magical spell.
"Well that doesn't work." said Jack
"Stupfy." yelled Hermione as a her stunning spell hit the Death Eater
"Get out of here." yelled Neville
"Impedimenta!" yelled Malfoy as all four of them flew backwards though another door.
"This is no time to rest." Said Jack as the four of them got up and started running as the Death Eaters gave chase. As they ran they crashed into Ginny, Ron and Luna.
"Harry." Yelled Ginny "You will not believe what we saw."
"No time." Yelled Jack as the seven of them took off together down yet another hallway until finally they reached the giant room with the ancient arch in the center. They tried to run to the nearest door only to have Bellatrix Lestrange appeared before the door.
"Going somewhere?" asked Bellatrix with a sick smile on her face as sudden black cloud like things came swooping though the group.
The next moment Jack knew he had an arm around his neck and a wand at his throat. He looked around the room to see everyone apart from Harry where being held by different Death Eaters.
"I really want to kill you American." said a voice in his ear as Jack scanned the room. To his right Hermione was being forced to her knees, to his left Ron was in the same position has him with a Death Eater holding his neck.
"Now Potter." said Malfoy as he walked toward the arch and Harry "Give me the prophecy or watch your friends die one by one."
"Don't do it Harry!" yelled Neville only to have Bellatrix push her wand deeper into Neville's throat.
"Shut up boy." snapped Malfoy before turning back to Harry with an open hand "Give it to me."
Slowly Harry extended his arm to give Malfoy what he wanted, as he did the death Eater holding Jack loosened for just a moment.
"You lost American." whispered the Death Eater in Jack's ears.
"I have not yet begun to fight." Said Jack as his hand dove for his side arm. He didn't even pull it out of the holster, instead he fired the gun straight down hitting the Death Eater's foot causing him to jump away in pain. Instantly everyone's eyes snapped toward the sound of gun, jack used this stun moment to raise the gun toward the Death Eater holding Hermione. The bullet that flew out of the chamber toward the death eater was one created by the magical government of America. The Death Eater who responded with a shield charm had no idea that the shield would be useless against the bullet as it flew though the shield before entering the skull killing him. Blood and brains covered the wall as Jack turned the gun on his next target.
While Jack moved to engaged the next target the Death Eaters moved out of their amazement.
"JACK WATCH OUT!" yelled Hermione as the Death Eater behind him flicked his wand sending a purple spell toward Jack's back. A split second before the spell hit Jack's finger pulled the trigger. Malfoy's and Harry's eyes widened as the crystal ball exploded as the bullet flew through it.
"NO!" yelled Malfoy as the curse hit Jack's back causing his entire back to become covered in purple flames. Hermione's and the others eyes widened as Jack fell forward hitting the ground with a slight thud.
"JACK!" yelled Hermione as she turned her wand on the Death Eater who had cursed Jack "Avada…."
"Stufty." yelled another Death Eater as Hermione was stopped mid way though her own curse.
"I will kill you all for this." yelled Malfoy as he raised his wand and pointed it at Harry.
"Get away from my Godson." Said a voice as Malfoy turned around to see Sirius Black standing behind him. He had no time to react before being punched in the face. The Death Eaters turned their attention to him just as four other members of the order of the Phoenix arrived. Instantly the Death Eaters turned their attention away from the children and on the order members.
"Kids run." Ordered Lupin as he stunned he tried to stunned a death eater.
"Jack and Hermione are down." yelled Ginny
"I will take care of them." yelled Tonks grabbed Hermione and pulled her behind some cover, with a flick of her hand she freed her from the stunning spell.
"Jack." Said Hermione
"I am going to get him." said Tonks as she spotted Jack lying in the dirt his hat lying beside him. "Accio Jack O'Neill."
Instantly Jack's body came flying across the ground and joined Tonks and the other kids in the cover.
"Jack!" yelled Hermione as eye eyes widened at the blackened chard which used to be his cloths on his back.
"Hermione." said Jack weakly as Tonks and the other eyes widened as Jack rolled over rubbing the bridge of his nose. "You got aspirin."
"How? You where cursed." Said Ginny as Jack sat up, before Jack could answer Belltix appeared on a rock less then five feet away from them.
"Avada Kedavra!" yelled Bellatrix as Tonks and ever else eyes widened as the spell flew toward the center Arch hitting Sirius black in the chest.
"SIRIUS!" yelled Tonks as he fell back though the archway. For a moment everyone just stood there watching in a stun glazed as Sirius body disappeared as it fell though the archway. Harry was the first one to react as he screamed.
"I killed Sirius Black." cried Bellatrix in glee as she ran though the door almost instantly Harry was giving chase.
"Harry!" yelled Jack as he tried to stand only to feel a burning sensation in his back.
"It is time to get out of here." yelled Mr. Malfoy as he stood up from where Sirius had knocked him down. One by one the Death Eaters vanished until only Malfoy remained.
"Stupefy!" yelled Ron as the elder Malfoy fell backwards stunned.
"We have to go after harry." yelled Ginny as everyone stood up apart from Hermione and Jack.
"I am not leaving Jack." said Hermione "He needs to get to a healer."
"I will stay with him until someone arrives." said Mad eye Moody as he stood over Jack O'Neill.
"No I can move." Said Jack as he got to his feet and began walking along with the rest of his friends and the order until they arrived at the entrees hall of the Ministry of Magic. There they found Dumbledore kneeing beside Harry.
"Harry…it is not how you are the same it is how you are different that matters." said Dumbledore as Harry turned and looked at his friends. Neville, Ron, Ginny, Hermione and Jack all standing there looking at him.
"I feel sorry for you…because you will never know what it feels like to be loved…or friendship." said Harry as suddenly Voldemort himself appeared out of thin air.
"You are a fool Harry Potter and you will lose." said Voldemort as the lines of fireplaces began to glow with green flames as Ministry officials appeared.
"He is back?" said Fudge as Voldemort disappeared.
"Jack you need to get going, I will clean everything up." said Dumbledore as Jack nodded before separating from the group.
"Jack needs a healer." stated Hermione as Jack pulled away.
"Don't worry Hermione." said Jack as he reached for her radio hoping they could hear him.
"Need beam out." said Jack into his radio.
"Roger that." said a voice over the radio as before ever members of the orders eyes Jack disappeared in a flash of light.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the little thing I had Jack discovered in the Ministry. Now next chapter Jack will start explaining everything. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75