Chapter Twenty Five: The Invasion From the Dark Dimension Part Two.
Selene paced back and forth. This was the calm before the storm. She half expected something dangerous to happen although she didn't know how dangerous it was. The woman leaned in towards Harry.
"What is it?" Harry asked. He was quick and to the point where he turned up.
The Black Queen of the Hellfire Club frowned. "I'm not sure my lord, but I can see something trying to break through, do you want me to…"
"Stay calm and don't do anything," Harry replied to her, holding up his hand to stall her movements.
Clea and Umar returned back from behind him. Umar frowned and spoke calmly. "If you know my brother, you know that he has an inability to let anything go when he should."
Harry figured that much. The huge thumping put the Incubus King on alert. There was a strange aura that was going about in this Dark Dimension. The young man placed both hands on his hips and he continued to hear it.
Crack, crack, crack, that was the sound that it made. Harry Potter made sure his women stood behind him. Then he lifted his hand.
"I think he expects to get the jump on us," Harry muttered underneath his breath.
The problem was that Harry Potter wasn't going to get jumped on by any Dreaded Demon. If Dormmanu wanted to bring the fight, then he was going to get the fight brought to him. Harry closed his eyes and he could sense the powerful creatures on the other side of the gate. The ritual also powered up and that would give Harry a powerful bunch.
The blood runes began to glow and there was a chain reaction. Each and every one of them spiked with immense degrees of magical energy! There was a huge chain reaction when all of them went off. The bangs grew louder and louder when they kept spiking each other.
Clea could see the gate blow open. Her master looked over his shoulder towards her and locked eyes with her. She knew now was the moment.
The Incubus King led his way through the gate. A hideous demonic entity was injured because of the magical backlash. Harry put it out of his misery when he conjured a blade and stabbed it through his throat. Demonic blood splashed against the ground. A series of stabbing motions caused the demon to go down.
"He keeps trying to fight, I'll give him that," Selene said. With a wave of her hand, she turned the creatures to stone. Her next attack caused the stone creatures to shatter down to the ground.
"That's the problem, isn't it?" Umar asked. The woman looked around in noxious. She could smell something noxious in the air.
One stolen look at her king and it was obvious that he smelled it as well. The young man walked forward and swiped the lock of the door until it clicked open for him.
He stormed the gates of the castle with a renewed fury and vigor.
"Okay Dormannu this is it, face me!" Harry yelled. He was going to bait him.
He intended to strike while the iron was hot. It was unfortunate that his dreaded enemy didn't want to fight him face to face.
"He's not run out of tricks, apparently," Clea said, with widened eyes. The winged demons above them circled them and proved that he didn't run out of tricks.
They had stone hard skin, razor sharp teeth, and claws, and glowing red eyes. They also spit acid so they were a nasty little combination of everything that was wrong in the world.
Umar watched this spectacular sight. Her brother really had some interesting tastes for some of the nastiest looking creatures in the world. It was horrifying to see these things bare down upon them.
The display of power that their Incubus King delivered was far more terrifying. The way that he moved, what he did, and more importantly how he did it, it was done swiftly and more importantly brutally. Umar's mouth hung open when she watched the progress of her king. He hacked and slashed at the enemies that hovered above the top of his head.
"Damn,' Umar whispered when she watched these creatures. She could feel these creatures circle around them.
"Indeed," Selene said, not wanting to have something in common with Umar. There was one thing that couldn't be denied.
Harry threw himself in a zone. His attacks hacked at the creatures with a brutality that was unmatched. These magical assaults obliterated the stone skin of the creatures and caused them unbearable pain.
If one was watching from the outside, they might have thought that he took great offense to the fact that he had to fight minions and not the real deal. One would assume that and they would be right.
Harry saw the blood soak his hands. Calmly and casually he cleaned it up. His teeth gritted and his jaw set. He made his way forward and casually rapped on the door.
When his casual movements didn't prompt the door to be opened, here was the point where Harry snapped. He raised his hand and sent a single bolt of black light.
Faora and Karen turned up just in time to see Harry blow the gates open. They were about to say that the gates had sealed themselves and no one had escaped onto Earth or in Limbo. The words never reached the tip of the tongue and out of their mouth.
Harry destroyed a sealed magical door.
"No one has opened the doors to his inner quarters ever, it is sealed by a spell….." Umar said, stopping abruptly when her daughter pinched her backside.
"He can," Clea said firmly.
Harry Potter walked forward and saw the empty throne room. He smiled. There were several personal affects that he was going to loot.
"Oh, that's pretty careless, leaving your stuff lying around like that," Harry commented, picking up a glowing black amulet and analyzing it with a smile. "I'd hate for anything to happen to it, wouldn't you? I mean anyone can walk into here and just swipe anything."
Harry waved his hands and the artifacts disappeared right before everyone's very eyes.
Umar watched this turn of events in abject shock. She was almost surprised that her brother didn't turn up to strike down Harry Potter just took his things. Just like that, without any thought of it. Any thought of pissing him off, well actually there was a thought of pissing him off. It was a thought that this was an obvious attempt to piss him off.
"He just did that, didn't he?" Umar asked.
"Yes," Faora said, she knew that her king had a big set of balls, that much was obvious. She watched him, with hunger flowing through her eyes.
If this wasn't the time nor the place, she would jump him right here. The dark haired girl smiled when Harry continued to walk forward.
"I think what we really seek are behind these doors, but stand back in case I'm wrong," Harry told them.
They were about to protest his orders because he was never wrong. His strength of personality over them compelled them to take a couple of steps back. Their knees were completely shaky where they stood.
"I think that it might be a good idea for me to knock on the front door, wouldn't you agree?" Harry asked.
He thumped on the door and it cracked open. The flaming one was standing right before him.
"You have willingly entered my domain, you have…"
Harry slammed his hand right into Dormmanu's face, essentially bitch slapping him down to the ground.
"You always have to monologue," Harry said, and he conjured a flaming battle axe, which his enemy narrowly ducked. "I don't like that!"
Harry prepared himself for an immense fight scene against his most dreaded enemy ever. The Dreaded Dormmanu was not pleased of being slapped down like a bitch and he attacked Harry instantly.
Doctor Doom paced around like a caged animal. To say that the events of recent days were not going his way was going to be a mouthful. He was banished after his battle with Le Fay. The woman got the better of him. It proved, as much as Doom loathed to admit it, that the teacher had a few things that the student needed to be learn.
He traveled through countless dimensions before he landed at the feet of the Ruler of the Dark Dimension. Doom had heard of the man. He may have ran into him once or twice in pacing.
The Ruler of the Dark Dimension had a problem; he had lost control of the Limbo Dimension. The young man who took it from him was a young man that was a thorn in Doom's side.
"We had a deal!" Doom raged, even though he paced back and forth. His new partner said that he would return soon and assist Doom. "I assisted you, because I expected Le Fay's head on a plate. No one dares turn their back on Doom. DOOM SHALL BE ACKNOWLEDGED, DO YOU HEAR ME!"
Doom hit up an invisible wall. The wall rippled slightly around him but it seemed like no matter what he couldn't push through.
"YOU DARE STOP DOOM!" Doom yelled.
The new power that he got through this deal was useless. He was beginning to see that fact. Dormmanu had fooled him and if there was one thing that Doom loathed immensely that was being fooled to any degree.
"You can't stop me forever, I will break free!" Doom howled. He pounded on the wall as hard as he could manage.
The wall slowly rippled around him and he could hear the sounds of combat on the other side of the wall. Doom curiously stepped towards the other side of the vault and almost pushed himself through. There was a rippling sound again.
He could see that there was more give in the wall.
"If you think that you can deceive me, you are completely insane," Doom whispered, and his voice rose in pitch. "DOOM WILL NOT BE EASILY DECEIVED! You will honor your end of the deal, Dormmanu, one way or the other."
Doom slammed his fists through the gateway and the energy barrier rippled. The Ruler of Latveria tried to push his way through the barrier. There was plenty of give to it. He slammed his fists through it.
He would have burned had his armor not protected him. That being said, Doom could feel the heat when he was in there.
"YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD ME BACK, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD BACK, DOOM!"
Doom howled when he slammed himself through the gate. The barrier ripped away finally and he was greeted by the sounds of what proved to be an immense battle.
No pain, no gain, and Harry Potter were going to make sure that all of his enemies gained a lot of pain.
"I can't believe the coward fled again," Karen said, curling her fingers up into fists.
"Well that's what he does, he never sticks around for too long," Umar said, shaking her head.
Dormmanu was pretty close, she could sense it. Exactly how close he was, she couldn't really tell for sure. If there was one thing that Umar could tell was that her brother was always one to lure an enemy into a false sense of security.
"Come out and play….."
Harry could hear the crashing of a barrier on the other side. A loud rant, with a lot of Doom rant sprinkled into it.
Karen and Faora picked up the sounds with their immense hearing. There were smiles on their faces.
"I guess we found where Doom went off to now," Karen commented.
Harry raised his eyebrow and waited for Doom to crash on through. He didn't want to distract himself from the main enemy.
Dormmanu nearly got lucky taking Harry's head off with one punch. The shield raised up caused the Dreaded One's attack to bounce on back.
"You've been given ample warnings to cease your hostilities against me," Harry said, sending several throwing knives into Dormmanu's tendons. The impact of the attacks utterly destroyed his tendons, slicing them.
The Ruler of the Dark Dimension never thought that he would feel pain from such a mundane object or really any pain at all. That was a galling sensation for anyone to feel, much less an entity that caused such destruction and terror. His name was spoke in such whispers.
"I think you've discovered one important thing, haven't you?" Harry asked. "Stephen Strange may not have dealt with you permanently, but he's long gone. There's a new set of rules and as I say goes. But they're the rules you like to fancy yourself to play by, isn't it?"
The Dreaded Ruler of the Dark Dimension channeled some kind of magical energy in an attempt to heal himself. He was blasted in the back by another.
"You took Doom's knowledge and tried to storm his kingdom!" Doom yelled, taking the shot while Dormmanu was down.
This was not going the way that the ruler of the Dark Dimension anticipated. He struggled back to his feet.
"You can fight me all you wish, but I will be around still, and I will crush all that oppose me!" he yelled and Doom got launched into the wall. "And now…"
"Another monologue, you'd think that you would learn that's not a good idea to do around me," Harry said, causing the man's head to stop flaming. That was a trick amongst itself and many thought it would be impossible to extinguish that flame.
"No, no, this world, it's mine for taking…"
"That's where we have a conflict," Harry said, and he ripped him to pieces. He could have destroyed him now, but he wanted to leave a few pieces of him intact long enough for the true measure of his defeat to settle in. "There's a certain pecking order in the universe. I sent you an explosive warning to stay out of my way. Apparently I should have sent something a bit more lethal, because that would have done the job better."
Dormmanu wondered in the back of his mind where it all went wrong. He tried to fight one more time, but he was whipped down. He was all out of tricks, all out of minions, and most importantly all out of steam.
"You take what is mine, we have a problem," Harry said. "And now I've taken everything from you."
Dormmanu could feel several razor sharp daggers slice into his spine. It was pain beyond all measure. His arms and legs twitched and he felt torment beyond anything that he knew in his life.
"We have a huge problem," Harry whispered intensely. His tongue almost curled into a hiss when he looked down at his enemy. "Do you understand what kind of problem we have?"
"No….." he whispered and he felt something curl in the back of his mouth.
"Yes, I want this Dimension and I'm taking it, and I don't care who likes it," Harry said. "And you have collected a few slaves over the years that I'm sure can be fun just like the rest."
The Dreaded One screamed when Harry ripped into him. There was a stony and grim expression on his face when he drawn out the pain and suffering.
Clea, Umar, Selene, Faora, and Karen viewed the show before them. Karen spoke for all of them. "Damn."
That was right, Harry's power caused these five extremely powerful women to be spell bound and blown completely away. His green eyes glowed with energy and he ripped his enemy apart like he was nothing. To Harry Potter, such an enemy was nothing; he was beyond nothing in fact. His hands dripped with the taint of blood and Harry raised them up in the air.
"It's done, it's over," Harry whispered to him.
Doom walked towards Harry Potter. He weighed the consequences and the possibilities in his mind.
On one hand, he was going to go up against the young man who had taken down the Dreaded One, Dormmanu just like that. It was in a snap of his fingers. That was something that caused Doom pause.
On the other hand and Doom reminded himself of this fact constantly, he would never get another chance like this for as long as he lived. It was time to make the most of these efforts.
The only problem was that someone nailed Doom with a bolt of energy from behind and he vanished into some alternate realm.
"I hope I didn't miss the party, did I?"
"You got here just in time for the cleanup, Valeria," Harry said, turning towards her where she stood behind where her father once was. There was nothing but a pair of footprints. "What did you….."
"Just standard protocol to ascend to the throne of Latveria," Valeria said with a smile and she sauntered over. She wrapped her arms around her master and kissed him heatedly. After a deep kiss, she pulled away from him. "Of course the throne is yours, my liege. But we should not leave anything to chance, just to make sure."
Harry knew that she was in for a special reward because she did the vast majority of his work for him. The smoldering footprints of what was once a living, breathing Doctor Doom was proof enough of that.
"We have a lot to do," Harry told them.
'The Dreaded Dipshit didn't even step one foot into Limbo,' Ananym reported to them. 'We waited around for a while….the Succubus slaves and their pets kept us company. But there was no attack.'
'He'll spend the next eternity pulling himself back together,' Harry thought with a smile on his face.
'Where you will be there to rip him apart all over again,' Wanda thought.
The gift of bonding with the Incubus King had many advantages. One of them was eternal youth and everlasting life, even though a lot of these girls had longevity. That was just one of the many benefits of bonding him.
'I'm almost looking forward to doing it again, and I wish I would have caused him just a bit more pain,' Harry thought. He placed his thumb and forefinger together to show how much pain he intended. He shook his head. 'Oh well….I think that he'll suffer well enough and the spoils of war are prominent enough.'
Harry stopped. He was on his way to the facility where they kept the ship to meet with Karen and Faora.
It happened again and it flashed through his mind again. It never happened when he was awake and it was far stronger this time.
The redhead girl stood at the edge of a field. She dressed in a form fitting red robe with a golden Phoenix Emblem on it. Energy surrounded them and Harry approached her. He could feel this power, it was closer to him. He kept walking towards her.
It was almost within his grasp. She was almost within his grasp. He could reach out and touch her just like that.
Suddenly he was shaken back to life. It was like no time had passed in the real world. That was the closest that he had ever come to reaching out and touching this mythical and powerful figure of his dreams. His mouth grew suddenly dry because of the thought of her.
'The time approaches, my king,' Emma thought to him.
'I understand that it has, and the blocks on her are coming undone, but has she removed them herself?' Harry asked.
'I believe over time once she hits her maturity, they would break away, the dreams that you've had of her were the first signs of that,' Emma thought. 'But now she reaches the power. Amara is in position and monitoring for anything peculiar regarding her. She has complained about a headache and left her training session to go and lie down.'
'So it is happening,' Harry thought. 'Does Xavier know?'
'He suspected that this could happen one day, years later, but by then the blocks had already been on and it would be even more dangerous to remove them,' Emma commented, folding her hands over her lap. 'Xavier wanted to spare the girl the torment of what her powers would give her. She couldn't handle the torment of them, no one could. It's a force as old as time itself. You know that the Hellfire Club awaited the moment where they would manifest in another. It has been over a century and the last occupant was driven mad.'
'But if I help temper the power…'
'Then you will have a very powerful asset underneath your thumb, among the others that you have obtained.'
Harry knew that his dreams were more vivid. It was almost like his Incubus Aura demanded the most powerful females possible. He saw a flicker of his mother's conscience also within the edge of this Phoenix Force. The ritual she did had severe consequences. She sacrificed her soul and her existence to give Harry these gifts.
Only Harry wondered sometimes if she sacrificed herself completely, with these strange flashes that he felt.
'Are you okay, master?' Illyana asked nervously.
'I would have to ask as well, that seemed to be the most vivid episode yet,' Zatanna thought.
'I'm fine, just worry about what you need to worry about,' Harry thought.
He figured that he would get a few more flashes when he got closer to the moment where her blocks ended up breaking. With her full power unleashed that quickly, Harry prepared to do damage control and gain an extremely valuable asset in the process.
Claire and Diana walked together towards the address that they had been given. They approached Faora and Karen who were waiting as well.
"We're just waiting for Harry to get here," Karen said. "He had some last minute conquests to take care of."
She actually didn't know what her master was doing. She got a weird spike of energy not too long ago that caused her to be unsettled and very concerned. The blonde shook her head, she had to deal with it.
"You found it, you found the ship," Claire said. The dark haired Kryptonian was giddy with excitement, she could hardly wait. That was another survivor of Krypton and she nearly bubbled with excitement.
She tried not to look too anxious because of several reasons. The first reason was that she didn't know if it was her cousin in the ship. And she might not be anything like Karen, despite being like Karen.
It didn't make any sense and Claire took a moment to look at Karen. Her eyes lingered on her chest for a matter of minutes and she pulled away, looking kind of flushed for obvious reasons. The blonde didn't look too upset or even looked like she noticed.
If she noticed, then she was playing it cool.
Diana smiled when she saw Harry show up.
"Sorry, I'm late, there was a couple of pressing matters that I had to take care of," Harry commented.
"No, you're on time, we're just early," Diana said and Claire nodded her head in agreement.
Faora smiled, they already had these two trained pretty good and they hadn't been officially claimed. She could sense by the look that Har gave him that they were at the top of his list of potential conquests.
"Nothing much, I talked to Emma about something, and it's happening soon, you might have gotten a flash that rang your head," Harry told Karen.
Karen's mouth hung open and she nodded in surprise. Whistling she thought that she should be surprised. She should be far from surprised however. "So that's it…"
"Yeah, that's it," Harry said in agreement with her. There was a second where Karen's lips curled into a surprised smile and she just let her arms down.
Claire and Diana had a good idea what they were talking about even the fact that they found out was kind of an accident.
"We should be able to safely bring her out of the ship and we have protocols in case she's hostile," Harry said.
"What, are you going to pin her down and fuck her brains out?" Faora asked without in tact and that caused Claire to grow red and Diana to pat her on the back.
"Now there's an idea," Diana muttered, that would be a good way to calm someone down. And they would submit to Harry.
She submitted to Harry just as well, what little they were able to do at least. And it left Diana with a taste for more and one that could not be quenched by any means other than Harry.
"Just hold that thought for one moment," Harry said, clearing his throat.
All of the girls stood up straight and held that thought quite nicely. He turned towards Karen and smiled at her.
"Would you like to do the honors? Harry asked her. "Technically speaking, it is you."
"Yes, technically speaking it is me," Karen agreed with him. With not a further word, she took a half of a tentative step towards the ship.
She knew how this worked. She didn't know how two identical ships failed like that. It may have had something to do with the Kryptonite flying at the ship when the planet exploded and it triggered some kind of sensitive stasis lock.
The young woman brushed her finger and carefully activated the trigger. She took in the readings on the ship and slowly turned around to report her findings to the rest of the group.
"She might be a little weaker, but not as weak as if the radiation shielding around the ship cracked open and let the Kryptonite inside."
Harry felt another flash suddenly. This was not the time or the place to feel them. His strength of will could have pulled him away, but he didn't want to pull away. He was on the field again, and this time there was a door between the two of them.
Locks were on the door and she stood on the other side. Her eyes grew wide when she blasted at the door. Some of the locks loosened, and then she collapsed on the field.
"Closer," Harry whispered, feeling Faora's hand wrap around his to firmly bring him back out of reality. "How is the ship?"
"Almost there master," Karen said, biting down on her lip when she kept working through the final lock of the ship.
She had to dismantle these ships tightly.
'Amara said that she felt that one on her end, and Xavier has ushered them all into the subbasement, and has taken Ororo, Wolverine, and Summers up there to see if they can mitigate the damage,' Emma reported back to them. 'I think that Ororo might have the best chance to get through. Wolverine doesn't have the tact, and Summers….well let's just say that he tries hard. And the Phoenix is upset at Xavier.'
'I see,' Harry thought, hoping to keep his mind on one problem at a time.
The immediate thing was to get the ship done and open. The occupant was inside. He watched Karen unseal the final lock of the ship. The glow of energy that came from the ship was very familiar.
Karen thought that her younger counterpart would at least come out in a place that was far less depressing than Limbo. That was an awful dimension to wake up to even if things worked out for the better eventually.
She watched her younger counterpart's eyes flash open.
"And that is my cousin, Kara from Krypton," Claire said with a smile. The girl was dressed in tattered white rags. These rags were once elegant robes. It appeared that the material of the clothes deteriorated over the years, even if the ship stayed mostly intact.
Kara stumbled from the ship and she fell into the arms of Karen. It was obvious that she was alive but in a very disoriented state.
"Get her to the medical bay, you know what to do," Harry told Karen.
"Right," Karen said, scooping her younger self up into her arms.
Harry waited for another flash but nothing came. He thought that he reached the calm before the storm.
'My lord, everything has settled in the Dark Dimension, there is no further threat of invasion,' Clea reported back to him.
'Excellent,' Harry said, with a smile.
He had other further problems to deal with, so the last thing he wanted was an invasion from the Dark Dimension again.
"See if there's anything we can salvage on the ship, and see if it can be useful," Harry told Faora and she nodded.
It was time to play the waiting game.
To Be Continued on 11/19/2014.
