An: I am so much slower with these updates than I planned so I can't in good conscience give another "I'm finishing this story fast!" Author's Note, so I don't really have anything to write here to waste time so that I can think this chapter out a little better. Also, The Intelligent Potter readers (it's called tip in all my files so don't be too surprised if I start calling it tip here too), I will update that when this story is done.
*** The duel between Harry and Voldemort.
The duel began in Voldemort's favour however Harry still marvelled at how weak Voldemort seemed to be. While Voldemort had a fair amount of skill, and probably more than enough to outclass Harry in straight magical combat, especially with the added advantage of his plethora of dark spells, add in Harry's mundane fighting skills and Voldemort was on the defensive from the start.
Harry closed in on Voldemort hard, casting spells with gestures from his right hand, while flipping over those from his opponent, and gaining ground on Voldemort, who resorted to depulsos to try and push Harry away, which worked to an extent, with Harry forced to stop and have to counter the area affect spells, while Voldemort rained more and more of them down upon his defence.
"Debitilo! Mutilo! Trunco! Illido! Seco! Turbo Adflicto!" Voldemort roared out, the power of his words vastly increasing the power inside the short dark curses that he fired at great speeds, hoping to get a shot on his opponent.
Suddenly the fight seemed to change gears as Voldemort began to look slightly impressed. There was a lull of a few seconds, where he stared down Harry, as the boy-who-lived sprinted at him, spells at his lips.
Harry suddenly found himself being thrown back by the air itself.
Elemental magic.
Voldemort stopped sending merely spells at his opponent, instead raining down fire on his opponent, literally.
Streaks of fire flew down from the sky, all targeting Harry, as the Potter was forced to defend himself using his own elemental magic, which really wasn't his forte.
Short bursts of water rose from Harry's hand to counter the water, while he fought off Voldemort's renewed spell attacks with his blade, which he drew just to counter the spells, bouncing them back at their caster.
Voldemort batted his own spells aside like they weren't even a mild nuisance.
Harry grit his teeth and returned fire with batarangs followed immediately by spells, hoping that the dual-attack would be able to get the better of his opponent, but Voldemort just sent a jet of fire that ran straight through his batarangs and his spells were simply flicked away, as Voldemort sent a flurry of killing curses at his adversary.
Harry conjured marble which shattered under the force of the multiple killing curses. Harry sent the debris flying at Voldemort, following it up with a spell-chain and a gust of wind for good measure.
Voldemort effectively incinerated the rubble with a fire storm that Harry had to counter but just barely managed to flick all of Harry's spells out of the way, and was unable to move out of the path of the gust of wind, getting blown back a bit, landing heavily on his feet, and putting up a shield against the next couple attacks from the vicious Potter.
Harry noted in his attacks that he seemed to have more stamina than his opponent who seemed to be peaking in his battle at the moment, going all over the place with his attacks and expending bucket loads of magic on every swipe of his wand, sending streams of fire, water and air flying willy nilly.
Unfortunately, he was succeeding in overwhelming Harry, and not letting the protégé of the Bat get close enough to him to engage in hand-to-hand combat, instead relying only on ranged weapons as well as his magic.
"Uggh, this would be over so much quicker if Zatanna were here…" Harry muttered, wishing in that moment that his teacher of magic were here.
Despite having taught Harry most of what he knew, Zatanna was far the stronger of the two, being able to beat Harry in the course of about a minute in a serious battle, though she had admitted to Harry on his 11th birthday that he was doing miles better than she had been when she was the same age.
Harry soldiered on, wishing there was someone to cover him so that he could approach his opponent to fight in close-range-combat.
Voldemort did not slow down, as Harry had expected, instead pushing out his swirling magic even thicker, wrapping himself in magic and letting out magic in short but powerful bursts in Harry's general direction.
It was at this point Harry noticed Voldemort's red eyes begin to intensify and his brow to furrow harder.
Harry was a bit confused for a tenth of a second before Voldemort seemed to become far more powerful and Harry recognized the effects of multiple power-enhancing dark rituals which Voldemort seemed to have performed to gain himself the extra strength required to beat Harry.
With this added boost, Voldemort pushed Harry back onto the defensive, leaving the Wizarding Bat to have to deflect spells, with both his sword and wand at the same time, while also taking heavy steps back as Voldemort closed in on him, his spells becoming more and more rapid, mixed in with burst of elemental magic that swirled around him in streams of fire and water, that circled him then sprung at Harry in the form of various different snakes.
That was when both Harry and Voldemort stopped when they heard a loud grating sound.
Harry immediately noticed that Dumbledore had prevailed over both of his opponents and immediately gestured to the aged Headmaster to come help him with his duel but the older wizard seemed to be focussing on something completely different.
Dumbledore was looking directly at a giant capsule.
With a repeat of the grating sound, the capsule tore open and a hideous creature stepped out.
Doomsday.
*** End of Chapter
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