Chapter 29: Attack and Counterattack

A/n: 1) Even though I had planned out the content of this chapter a long ago, this has been one of the most difficult chapter that I have written.

2) Warning as the name suggests this chapter contains violence and multiple character deaths.

3) This chapter may contain grammatical errors as my beta reader hasn't edited it yet.

Umbridge had no difficulty in finding her master. She was amazed at her new powers and abilities. With the new powers, she could crush the Mudbloods and muggle filth with ease just like she had always wanted to. She wanted to thanks her new master for giving her this wonderful gift.

"You are an ugly looking thing, aren't you?" Scourge said taking a look at his new minion. "I guess the transformation can do only so much."

"Master, how may I serve you?" she asked.

"Tell me a place where I can find suitable candidates to become my minions without much opposition." He ordered.

"Am I not enough for you master?" she asked with a hint of disappointment in her inhuman voice. "What are the qualities you are looking for in the candidates, my master?"

"They should be evil or people who have committed evil acts." He said and added, "Hopefully, they should be better looking than you. At least one of them should be a female."

'Even I have standards. I would never sleep with someone as ugly looking as you. That is really saying something as I have slept with nearly every female demon in the hell dimension. Some of them were hideous and gross but you are really something else.' He thought.

"Azkaban prison would be the best place master. A lot of inmates meet your requirement and some of them are females." She answered.

"Hmm, won't that attract attention of the authorities? I am not read to reveal my presence on this plane just yet." he said.

"Don't worry master. I will stage the prison break. All I need would be a few wands for the inmates. They would willingly fight off against any resistance offered by the government." Umbridge said hoping for a chance to go up against Potter and crushing him.

Scourge thought about it for a moment and used his powers to produce rudimentary focuses and gave them to her, "Attack the prison at noon tomorrow. Rest for now and get use to your new powers."

"Master, I don't need rest. I can breakout the inmates right now." Umbridge said trying to please her master.

"No. For one more week we won't make a move during the night when my enemy is at her strongest." Scourge forcefully said to her. "Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes master." A terrified Umbridge replied.

"One more thing minion, if you fail or make me reveal myself to the world then…" he left the threat hanging.

"I won't fail master."

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'My daughter seems to have grown up into an interesting woman.' Lilith thought. 'Her family is quite peculiar though. She hasn't altered her human husband yet or converted any of her sons. For a youngling she must have an extraordinary control over herself. Her eldest sons are also exceptionally powerful. One of them was even able to sense me when I was masking my presence.'

"I guess I'll have to meet her soon" she said to herself.

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Leon was happy to be sorted in Gryffindor. That night, he along with his twin elder sisters and the black twins planned the first prank of the neo Marauders. They chose two targets, Neville Longbottom and Draco Malfoy. To get to Draco they decided to enlist Ginny's help. She decided to help them on the condition that she is allowed to join their group. After a small group discussion they agreed. Yuna was against her enlistment but she was over ruled.

Next day, both Neville and Draco were late to get up due to the mild sleeping portion slowly force feed to them in middle of the night. They didn't realise that they drunk the portion as drop after drop entered their mouth. They quickly dressed themselves mirroring the actions of the other even though they were far apart. They headed to the great hall from their respective dormitories.

Harry had seen his younger siblings planning the prank and had decided watch it being played out. He also decided to give them some pointers based on the outcome of the prank.

The great hall was relatively full when Neville and Draco entered. Just as they sat down on their respective house table, both of them were transformed into clowns complete with makeup.

'That's were rudimentary but its acceptable work for their first prank. I had expected a grand spectacle signally the return of the marauders.' Harry thought. 'May be next time.'

Nearly everybody, including some teachers laughed at the plight of the two boys. McGonagall easily transfigured their clothing back to normal to the disappointment of the neo marauders. The five second year students and one first year student silently vowed to make their work more resistant to change and Harry planned on teaching them how to make it more resistant.

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James' day began with a bang, just like any other day since he found out his wife's true heritage. At breakfast, he felt the dining table to be empty as most of his children were at Hogwarts. They were all growing up too fast for his liking. 'At least it would be few years till my youngest daughters go to Hogwarts.' He thought.

Looking back, he couldn't believe how much his life had changed in the past few years. His life was simple a few years back. Now, there was a prophecy hanging over his eldest son's head which could spell his death. His eldest sons were experimenting with some deadly branch of magic he couldn't even imagine. He became the youngest head auror ever in the British ministry. His lovely wife's secret heritage had been revealed. It didn't bother him that his wife was a succubus but for her sake, he had decided to keep it a secret. The purebloods wizards in the society had a very narrow minded view on her kind.

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The first few hours of office were more boring than normal for James. He had a meeting with Madam Bones and all his auror captains discussing the progress on Umbridge's case. As they and made zero progress, the meeting really was a giant waste of time.

After the meeting, he deployed his aurors at strategic locations throughout Britain. Even though he knew Umbridge won't be anywhere near it, just for kicks he sent Alice's team which included Frank to patrol Azkaban. He also kept a massive auror force on standby, ready to be deployed on a moment's notice.

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James was very surprised to get a distress call from Alice just after noon stating Azkaban was under attack. He had known Alice for a long time so he knew that she wouldn't joke about such a thing. If the message would have been from Frank, he would have dismissed it an elaborate prank. He immediately informed Madam Bones about it and decided to personally lead the reserve auror force to Azkaban in its defence. He also sent message to the auror captains already stationed at various sites in the morning, to take their teams and head to Azkaban.

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After arriving at Azkaban, the first thing that James saw was Frank's severed head. Few meters away from the head, was a torn up human body. Near the main entrance of the prison, lay two more shredded bodies with blood covering the entire area.

"Put up anti-apparation and anti-portkey wards. I don't want anything to escape the island. Spread out and set up a perimeter to block all exits." He barked drawing his wand. Even though he and Frank weren't friends any more he didn't want him dead especially not like this.

As James started moving towards the entrance, he saw a large boulder move and a heavily wounded Alice crawled out from under it. She had lost both her legs and was heavily bleeding. He moved towards her and started to heal her to the best of his abilities.

"Who did this?" he asked.

"Thank you James, you were the last person I expected to help me." She blurted before passing out.

"John, take her to Mungo's immediately." He ordered looking at John.

Just as John left, he heard a loud explosions coming from the upper level of the prison. Looking up, he noticed large pieces of the Azkaban wall heading towards him. He quickly stopped the debris mid air and directed them towards the escaped inmates that had appeared near the main entrance. The debris crushed a couple of them without giving a chance to defend themselves against the oncoming assaults.

"Use deadly force if necessary." James ordered.

Just as he barked the orders, he heard an inhuman voice saying, "Potter, I am going to rip you apart and bathe in your blood."

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Umbridge's rage intensified seeing Potter lead the aurors against her. She forgot the original plan and decided to confront the fool known as James 'the mudblood loving' Potter.

After announcing her presence she jumped down from the topmost level of Azkaban and landed on her feet in front of James.

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James saw an ugly creature covered in blood and resembling Umbridge land in front of him. He reacted on instincts and blasted the creature causing it to fly backwards and hit the debris blocking the gate. This opened the blocked entrance.

He noticed incoming spells from the top of the tower putting his forces at a disadvantage. He had no time to dwell on this as he saw the creature come out followed by a few imprisoned death eaters.

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The aurors were surprised by the appearance of the creature that had landed in front of their boss. Before they could even move the saw their boss, blast the hideous creature in to the wall.

Moody and Scrimgeour moved to assist their boss when they noticed the barrage of oncoming spells towards them. The instantly cast powerful shield charms and ducked for cover.

Scrimgeour returned fire after finding a perfect cover behind a large boulder. Moody on the other hand stood tall and started firing deadly curses at his assailants. Following their lead the others joined in. Most of the aurors tried to incapacitate their opponents rather than killing them outright.

Moody noticed the creature emerge from the entrance followed by death eaters. He directed the attention of the nearby aurors towards the oncoming party. To his horror, his spells along with the spells of the other aurors had no effect on the creature not even the killing curse. To his great surprise he saw a curse from James causing a deep gash to appear on the creature. To his great amazement, his saw the gash heal on its own before the creature could reach James. As the creature was about to sink its claws into James, it was repelled by a red shield James had apparently erected just in time.

"I will deal with the creature while you concentrate on the escaping inmates." He heard James ordered as he cursed a pair of death eaters in front of him.

Following the boss' orders Moody along with a team of 12 aurors charged at the escaping inmates in front of them while Scrimgeour continued to fight off their assailants who were attacking them form the top of the tower.

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James thanked his lucky stars when the red shield repelled the creature. He hadn't seen anything like this before. 'Is this the creature that spooked my sons?' he wondered. 'If so do I have a chance against it? I must let something like this harm my family. I must destroy it here and now.' He thought determinately.

He transfigured nearby rocks into giant spikes and hurled them at the creature as soon as it got up. He was surprised when the spikes didn't kill the creatures even after all three of them pierced its body.

"You think something like this can kill me you ignorant fool." He heard the creature say as it began to remove the spikes embedded in its body. As soon as the spikes were out he saw the wounds healing at a rapid rate. The creatures reddish black blood moved back into its body before healing completely.

While he was distracted by the creature he noticed his ring blocked a couple of killing curses heading towards him. He decided to use the fire whip on the creature in front of him and hoped that fire might destroy the nightmarish creature.

As the flaming whip wrapped around its body the creature gave an unholy shriek. For a few moments he thought it was the end of the battle.

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The skies suddenly darkened by the appearance of storm clouds. The dark clouds began to move in a circular pattern. Some of them moved in clockwise while the others moved in counter clockwise direction. The moving clouds formed a couple of concentric rings and something black shot out from the centre of the rings and hit the ground in front of Umbridge breaking the fire whip wrapped around her.

Scourge was covered in fearsome black armour. The sight of his armour caused most of his enemies, in this case the aurors, to tremble. Barring James, most of the aurors, including Moody, backed away from him.

"Master you came for me." A delighted Umbridge said.

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"I will deal with your failure later." Scourge snarled. "Because of your incompetence, I had to reveal myself to the world before I was ready."

Scourge turned his attention towards James and said, "You are more powerful than the other weaklings around you. Too bad you have a pure heart. Somebody of your calibre would have made an excellent minion. But don't worry, I have something special in stored for you. You definitely would me more competent servant than this ugly hag."

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"I am not going to be your servant or whatever you want me to be. I am going to destroy you." James snarled at him as he launched a spell chain of his strongest spells at the entity covered in black armour. To his dismay, none of his spells left a single mark on being's armour.

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Scourge caused a black mist to incase James while he gathered his energy in his hand and formed a black ball of pure evil energy and launched it at James.

The black mist was being countered be the ring of power causing a rapid drain in its energy reserve. As the black ball reached James' chest it collided with a red shield which impeded its progress for a few moments. The black ball and the shield battled each other for dominance.

Scourge was astonished by the power of the shield put up by the human in front of him. He didn't believe that the pathetic humans had enough power or ability to block him. He increased the power of his attack causing the black ball to slowly break the red shield.

The black ball touched James' chest and caused him to silently howl in pain. Scourge wasn't aware that his mist attack had failed and his minion seed was entering with a pure hearted human. The purity of James battle with the evil of the seed on even footing till the seed began its secondary attack. It began to eat James' soul. Since the soul wasn't tainted with evil the creature inside the seed couldn't digest the soul. Undeterred by its initial failure the seed tried to root itself and germinate consuming more of James soul.

The other, aurors and the Azkaban inmates could only watch as the black ball was disappearing into James' chest unaware of the battle taking place inside of him.

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It was lunch break at Hogwarts and most of the students were in the great hall eating their lunch.

Suddenly, Bill stood up and looked around causing everyone to look at him. His eyes were pulsing with reddish glow. 'Harry, dad's in trouble. Quickly grab onto me.' He said telepathically. Just as Harry touched him, the pair vanished to the amazement of most of the observers.

Dumbledore immediately scanned the hall for the rest of the Potter family members and hoped that anyone of his student wasn't pulling a stupid move like last year. He was relieved to note that all the Potters were accounted for. This caused him to wonder about the pair's disappearance.

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Harry and Bill appeared in front of their father. Both immediately noticed Scourge's presence and their father's condition.

'Deal with him while I help dad.' Bill telepathically told Harry as he moved towards their father.

Bill didn't know exactly what was happening to his father but he was pretty sure that the black ball entering his chest was to root of all the problems. As he was about to touch the black ball entering into his father's chest he heard scourge say, "You can't help him now."

Ignoring the words he touched the ball and began to pull it out. Little did he know that he was making the biggest mistake of his human life.

"You will find our definition of what we can or can't do, a little different from normal." Harry said as he launched a powerful shadow mage spell known as the 'Shadowra Flara' at Scourge. Black flames mixed with blue lighting shout out from his wand and nailed Scourge in the chest.

The spell damaged Scourge's armour and caused him to back step. He immediately repaired the armour and took his original position.

Bill during this time had removed the black ball completely from his father's chest and crushed it, destroying the energy and a large part of James' soul already consumed by the seed. Destroying the ball caused a big shock way seeding everyone barring him, Harry and Scourge to the ground. James by this time had become unconscious.

Seeing his energy ball being destroyed angered Scourge. In his rage, he blasted Bill with a yellow coloured beam from his eyes. The beam caused him to fly backwards.

As Bill was about to collided with the auror behind him, he disappeared and reappeared behind Scourge and collided into him with great momentum. At the same time, Harry had launched another powerful spell at Scourge.

The twin attack from both the brothers caused some distress to Scourge and made him lose his balance.

Bill hurled a couple of spells at Scourge only to see them harmlessly dissipate over his armour. 'Harry, we will need to fight him with our full power to stand a chance against this monstrosity.' Bill said telepathically.

'Don't do that. I have an idea.' Harry telepathically replied. 'Scourge is here because he is interested in the prisoners.'

Harry silently ordered the Dementors to attack the prisoners and remove their souls.

He hadn't noticed Umbridge running towards him until she was within striking distance. Reacting purely on instincts, Harry summoned the sword of Gryffindor and cleaved her into two, instantly killing her. After the swords cut through Umbridge it began to glow metallic silver for a few seconds.

Seeing his minion killed and the soul suckers attacking the prison inmates, Scourge took the remaining inmates and vanish. Before they could completely vanish, Harry cast undetectable tracking spells on few of the inmates.

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"Is dad going to be okay?" Harry asked Bill as both of them stood near their father.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" Moody questioned the duo at wand point as he approached them.

"Lower you wand or you lose it." Bill snapped at him.

"Moody, they are James' children." Sirius said as he got between Moody and Bill. He had seen Bill's handing work and didn't want any more bloodshed.

"We need to take him to St Mungo's along with the rest of the wounded." Scrimgeour said.

"They can't help him." Bill said sadly while adding 'Only you can help him Harry' telepathically.

"We'll let the healers decided that." Moody said. "By the way, how did both of you get here?"

"The same way as we are leaving." Harry replied not wanting to deal with an irritated Moody right now.

"Sirius, take dad to the hospital while I will tell mom and get her there." Harry said as he and Bill teleported to their home.

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"Mom." Harry shouted as he appeared inside their home.

Lily was busy teaching little Lily and Sylvia when she heard Harry's voice coming from the hall. She could identify the hint of distress in his voice.

"What is wrong?" she asked as she got there. She was closely followed by her daughters.

"Mom there was a massive attack on Azkaban and dad got injured while trying to defend it. Sirius has taken him to St Mungo's but Bill is sure they can't help him. We need you to go there and bring him here." Harry said with urgency.

'There is no need to hurry per se. His physical condition is currently stable. I wouldn't have let him out of my sight otherwise. The only problem with him is that 88% of his soul was destroyed by the attack.' Bill telepathically said.

"What's wrong with him?" she asked Bill.

"A high grade soul magic based attacked destroyed 88% of his soul. I want him moved out of St. Mungo's as the hospital isn't a safe place and they don't have any one capable of helping him. In their attempt to help him they might worsen his condition." Bill replied.

Lily paled after hearing his reply.

"Don't worry mom. The soul has the ability to regenerate over time. Dad should recover from his injuries." Harry said as he moved to comfort her and his sisters who were on the verge of crying.

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Dumbledore was getting worried because the Potter brothers sudden disappearance. They had missed all their classes after lunch. He had caught the worried look on Harry's face for a brief second before he disappeared. He had a sense of foreboding.

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The scene at St Mungo's was quite chaotic. The healers were running around trying to help the wounded aurors.

Sirius stood by James' side as the team of healers failed to diagnose him. The senior healers were quite baffled. All their diagnostic charms failed to work on their patient. It seemed as if the patient's magic was fight off their charms. They had never seen anything like this.

Lily entered the room where they were keeping James followed by Harry and Bill. "We would like to take my husband home." She quickly said as she saw the healer make another failed attempt to cast a diagnostic charm.

"Ma'am, we are not sure what is wrong with him and his magic seems to be fighting off our diagnostic spells. It is not advisable to move him in such a condition." The aged healer said.

"It's obvious that you can't help him, so I see no point in keeping him here. Not to mention the security risk in keeping him here. James has a lot of enemies." Lily bluntly stated.

Madam Bones entered the room and saw that Lily was standing along with her sons. She had been given a brief report about the situation by Scrimgeour. He had told her that the Potter's sons were responsible of driving back one of the unknown creature that they were fighting while killing the other.

"How is he?" she asked the healer.

"We don't know his condition and his wife wants to take him home sighting a security risk." The healer replied.

"I can post aurors to guard the room if you are worried Lily." Madam Bones said.

"Security isn't the only issue Amelia. I see no point in keeping him here as the doctors can't help him." Lily responded.

"You know what is wrong with him." Sirius stated.

Amelia and the team of healers looked surprised at the proclamation.

"Bill knew that St Mungo's couldn't help James but Moody was very insistent about getting him here." Sirius said.

"If you know what is wrong with him you should tell us." One of the junior healer said in tone as if he was speaking to a little children. He added, "We can help…"

He was cut off by Bill saying, "Lose the tone. I am not interested in dealing with a fool like you right now."

"There is nothing you or anyone else here can do to help him." Harry added. Even he was in no mood to deal with idiots. He himself was having a hard time to control his emotions.

"Are you say that James…" Sirius didn't complete the sentence.

"No Sirius, I am not saying that. We'll talk about this later as this isn't the right place for the conversation." Harry told him. He then turned to Madam Bones and said, "Madam Bones, I need a small favour."

After getting a nod from her Harry said, "I need you to put a bounty on the heads of the Azkaban escapees. A bounty of one knut should also suffice."

"You are going after them?" a very surprised Madam Bones asked.

"You can say that in a way, we are going after them." Harry said indicating to his brother. "We are actually going after the one responsible for our father's current predicament. Most of the escapees would be there. I don't want any ministerial idiot trying to come after us because a pureblood or whatever is left of them dies in the crossfire."

"What do you mean by that?" She asked. It seemed that the Potter twins knew more about the whole situation.

"We will continue this conversation in your office madam Bones." Harry respectful said. He then turned to Bill and said, "Take mom, Sirius and Madam Bones to her office. I will join you there in a few minutes."

Harry then went over to his father and wrapped both of them in shadows to make it look like they disappeared before moving out of their via shadow travel.

"How did he do that?" asked the confused healer. "Wards around the hospital prevent apparation."

"Harry can as teleport like you can?" Lily asked.

"His form of teleportation is a bit different from mine. But the end result is the same. There are very few wards in the world that can stop us." Bill replied.

"Hold onto my hand or each other." Bill said as he extended his hands. Sirius took one while Lily took the other, Amelia held onto Lily as the quartet teleported out.

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In an instant the four of them appeared in Amelia's office.

"Well that completely different from apparation." Sirius commented as appeared in Amelia's cozy office.

Amelia silently agreed with Sirius but didn't voice her opinion. She was more worried about the security risk posed by the Potter brothers. Even her silent alarm wasn't triggered by this unauthorised entry. 'I need to ask which wards blocked their form of travel.' She thought when she remembered Bill's words at St Mungo's.

Madam Bones sat on her chair an indicated them to do the same. As they sat down, she asked, "What did Harry mean by 'whatever is left of them.' when he referred to the escapees?"

"We should wait for him. He will be joining us in a moment." Bill said. As soon as he finished the sentence Harry joined them.

"Madam Bones, thank you for agreeing to move the conversation here. I already said more than I should have at St Mungo's." Harry said as he silently conjured a comfortable chair for himself.

Both Sirius and Madam Bones were impressed by the ease at which Harry conjured the chair.

"Both of us." He began, "That is Bill and I, had encounter Umbridge once before, when she came to illegally arrest us at Hogwarts, so we knew she wasn't an animagus. Proving assumption you and dad had about her turning into one and killing off those people to be wrong. So we conducted an investigation of our own…"

Harry was interrupted by Madam Bones when she asked, "How could you tell that she wasn't an animagus just by looking at her?"

"The same way Bill scared her to submission in the great hall. Magic" Harry replied.

Lily role her eyes when she heard her son's response. Even thought she knew that James was in critical condition she hadn't lost hope. She was confident in the abilities of sons to save their father. She had seen them successfully pull off some unheard magic before and there wasn't a reason to start doubting their ability now.

Madam Bones said, "I have never heard of such magic. Can you elaborate?"

"That isn't pertinent to the topic at hand and since we are pressed for time, it would be better if we stick to only the relevant matter for now. As I was saying, we investigated the matter of Umbridge's transformation and found the truth behind them. Our findings are not for the light hearted." Harry paused for a moment before continuing, "Suffice to say that someone, most likely the person in black, forced Umbridge to undergo an unnatural dark ritual and today's attack on Azkaban was probably a recruitment drive for him."

"What are you leaving out? What sort of ritual would make people immune to the killing curse? Why would the wizard in black go through all the trouble of attacking Azkaban just for getting followers?" Sirius questioned.

"Sirius, believe me when I say that the world isn't ready to know the complete truth. The say 'ignorance is bliss' is very true in this situation. If we arrived on Azkaban a few seconds later than dad would have suffered a fate 1000 times worse than death. The killing curse isn't going to be effective against the creature Umbridge transformed into. Elemental spells would be far more effective against the like of them or hack them into pieces with a sword just like I did." Harry answered.

"They won't be able to kill the minion with a normal sword. A goblin blade infused with basilisk venom would suffice. They don't have enough power to do what you did." Bill interjected.

"What could be so bad?" Amelia asked wondering what the two kids in front of her thought that she couldn't digest. They were just kids and if they could digest the information then surely she also could.

"You have no clue what's wrong with our father do you? I'll tell you if both of you swear on you magic not to tell anyone outside this room." Bill said after he read Amelia's surface thoughts. Bill said it in a manner which forced them to comply.

After both Sirius and Amelia swore on their magic, Bill said, "The attack, the Black ball of energy, destroyed 88% of dad soul. Destroyed is not the proper word for what actually happened but it enough to explain his condition."

"So there is no hope for James' recovery?" A dejected Sirius asked.

"Dad would recover in time. Though how much time it would take for dad's soul to heal on its own can't be specified." Harry responded. "Too bad we don't have a practitioner of soul magic at hand. He could have healed dad without any problem." He added as he had taken vow to learn soul magic.

"Practitioner of soul magic don't exists anymore." Amelia said, "You have the sight, don't you?" she asked Bill. Without waiting for a reply she continued, "because of it you could tell Umbridge wasn't an animagus and find out what was wrong with your father."

"He does have an ability which similar to 'the sight' which allows him to see." Harry responded.

Lily had a feeling that her sons, especially Harry, weren't telling the complete truth.

"How did you know that your father was in trouble? Or where he was?" Amelia asked wanting to get an insight about their powers. The health detections can't function over that range and there was no spell to monitor the soul of a person.

"We have our ways madam Bones. Consider it as family magic." Harry responded with a smile.

"Well that covers most of the important stuff. Please post the bounty on the escapees before tonight. Before I forget, you can have the bounty placed on Umbridge as donation to your department." Harry said. "I would also like you to turn of the ministry's magic detection grid for a few hours tonight." He added as an afterthought.

"Why do you want the grid to be turned off?" Amelia asked.

"If the grid sensors aren't turned off then there is a good chance that they would blow up causing the grid to fall anyway. Not to mention the time and effort it would take to set up the grid again." He answered.

"What are you going to do that going to cause a power surge of large magnitude?" she asked getting worried.

"When three of our powers clash, the energy output would be enormous. When we fought the wizard in black armour at Azkaban, we weren't fight to our full strength." Harry replied after thinking about it. He felt that the secret of their power level is going to out, to Madam Bones and Sirius, in a few hours anyway so there wasn't a problem to give them a heads up.

"That was you holding back!" Sirius exclaimed. "Some of those unknown spells looked and felt pretty powerful to me and quite a few senior aurors."

"Those spells were powerful but they were nowhere near my full power or my deadliest spells. We couldn't fight at our full power because of two reasons. Firstly, it would have put the lives of every aurors present, including our father, in danger. Secondly, we didn't want to show our full powers to general public just yet." Harry told him.

"I do consider Sirius practically as a family member so other than you, Madam Bones, no one else is going to know about the counter attack." Harry answered Amelia's unasked question. He knew that Dumbledore would make an educated guess but won't know for certain.

"The healers at St Mungo's would also know as they were there when you declared your intentions about the attack." Madam Bones said.

Harry just smiled at her and said, "I have already said enough. It's time for me to go and get the rest of my family from Hogwarts" before fading out from view.

After Harry faded from view Bill said, "Bye for now" and grabbed his mothers arm before he teleported out.

"You are not going to stop your godson?" Amelia asked Sirius.

"Amelia, both of them are very powerful. Harry managed to walkout of Gringotts after killing the bank manager without a scratch on him. At the same time, he managed to get them to sign an agreement that the goblins would never harm a Potter and their allies in any form. So it's pointless in trying to stop them." Sirius replied.

Amelia was taken aback by the new information. She decided to put a sizable bounty on the escapees and take the grid down for tonight.

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Harry appeared inside the McGonagall's class room to the surprise of everyone including McGonagall. He turned to McGonagall and said, "Good afternoon Professor, I will be taking my younger siblings home for tonight due to a family emergency", moving closers to his sisters.

Before McGonagall could say anything he grabbed his sisters and disappeared. McGonagall dismissed the class and led the Gryffindor students the common room while tasking the grey lady to do the same to the Ravenclaw students. After escorting the students to their common rooms she headed towards Dumbledore's office.

Harry along with his sisters appeared near Leon who was in potions class. Snape was startled by the sudden appearance of the Potters and yelped in surprise. "Professor, I am here to take my brother home." He said before grabbing Leon and disappearing. It took Snape a moment to process everything that happened and yell out in rage.

"The instructions are on the board, follow them to the letter." Snape said before leaving the class of first years unattended.

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McGonagall and Snape reached Dumbledore's office at the same time. McGonagall said the password causing the gargoyle to move. Snape rushed ahead of her and McGonagall followed him at a brisk pace.

"Dumbledore, you must do something about the Potter brat. He appeared in the middle of my classroom with his sisters at left with his brother. I won't tolerate anymore of his rule breaking." Snape yelled venting his anger.

McGonagall noticed the sombre expression on Dumbledore's face and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I just got word from the ministry. Earlier today, Azkaban was attacked by an unknown wizard freeing the inmates. Though many were killed or incapacitated by the aurors before they could flee the island, some of the most dangerous prisoners have escaped. The auror force of suffered a few deaths. Many of them were injured and some may not survive their injuries." He said gravely.

"Has something happened to James?" A stunned McGonagall asked.

"I don't know. The ministry is in chaos. They haven't made a list of the dead or the wounded yet. Judging by the reaction of the Potter twins it would be safe to assume that something has happened to James." He said worriedly.

Snape didn't know what to say. He lost his anger after hearing the news. He could understand the reason for the irrational reaction of the Potters.

"What are we going to do about the escapees?" McGonagall asked.

"I am more worried about the Potter twins rather than the escapees, Minerva. If something has happened to James during the prison break then their thirst for revenge may lead them to the dark side. Both of them have killed before and for lesser reasons too." Dumbledore answered. He was caught in two minds, whether to stop them from going after the criminals or not. Most of the escapees were dangerous and cold blooded killers. At the same time he couldn't afford for them to go over to the dark side with the change in the prophecy.

"It is pretty obvious that the Potter twins would go after the escaped prisoners and the wizards responsible for their escape. Do you think the dark lord is behind this? Though my mark hasn't darkened since the time he was vanquished by Neville." Snape said.

"I don't believe Voldemort to be behind this attack. He won't attack during the day time nor would he risk such a direct confrontation with the auror forces in his weakened state, especially when they are on high alert." Dumbledore replied.

"Then who could be responsible for the attack?" McGonagall asked.

"We will have to wait and see." Dumbledore responded.

"Minerva, it will be for the best that I go to the ministry sort things out. The ministry is going to be in utter chaos and I might as well get more information about the current situation. Afterwards, I'll also be visiting the Potters." Dumbledore informed her before leaving his office.

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Harry along with his younger siblings appeared in the hall of their home. "What's wrong?" Sakura asked as soon as they reached home.

"Dad got injured during work today." He said sombrely. "Don't worry, in time he would get back to normal. We just don't know how long it would take." He led them to the master bedroom. In there he found the rest of his family waiting for them around James.

He saw Bill had removed their dad's robes and shirt. Harry moved towards his brother as his younger siblings began to move towards their mother.

"What are you planning to do?" he asked his brother as he saw him with a dagger.

"I am doing the only thing that I can do for him." Bill said as he cut his hand over his father's chest allowing his blood to fall on it. The cut healed in a few seconds but it fulfilled its purpose. Using the blood fallen on their father's chest Bill began to draw runes. He drew five runes on James' body, from his head to lower abdomen in a straight line. As soon as the fifth rune was completed, all of the runes disappeared into James body.

"What did you do?" Lily asked.

"I put dad in a healing stasis. Physical his body is completely healthy and this would keep it that way. His nourishment and other needs would be taken care off. His muscles won't atrophy over time." Bill answered.

Harry conjured a music box and set it to play an imitation of the Phoenix's song. "This would have to do till I can find a real Phoenix." He said answering his mom's unasked question.

"Dumbledore is correct when he says music is magic beyond what is taught at Hogwarts. If a real Phoenix was hear singing the song, it would increase the healing process tremendously." He added.

"We could use Dumbledore's Phoenix." Lily suggested.

"We can try but the Phoenix needs to be willing to sing we can force it." Bill said.

"What is exactly happened to James? I know what said in Amelia's office wasn't the complete truth. I want to know the complete truth." Lily said looking at Harry.

"Do you want to have the conversation here mom." After getting a nod from her he asked again, "Are you sure mom you want to have the conversation in front of them."

"Yes Harry they too need to know." Lily said firmly.

"What happened to dad shouldn't have occurred to the best of our knowledge. I didn't lie when I said 88% of his soul is gone. If Bill hadn't stop the attack in time then dad would have suffered a fate worse than death." Harry said looking at his family's reactions. The children gasped hearing the news.

"As Bill said before the attack was a high grade soul magic of the darker nature allowing it to breach the blood shield around dad. The purpose of the attack was to implant dad's body with a soul seed. The seed would have germinated in dad's body consuming his soul and causing whatever was left of Dad to become the puppet of attacker." Harry paused for a moment.

"Can anything be done to speed up his recovery?" Lily asked.

"Harry needs to learn to wield soul magic. That is the only way to speed up the healing process." Bill replied.

"You have mentioned this many times before that Harry has potential to wield soul magic but you can't. Why can't you wield it?" She asked.

"That is a very loaded question mom." Harry said, "Even though we are twins, we are different from each other. His strength is Blood based magic while mine is… let's say something else."

"How long will it take to learn the necessary magic to help James?" she asked.

"It's going to take some time mom. First I would have to learn the basics before I learn any of the advance stuff. Plus I would also need to build up my strength to wield such magic." Harry replied dejectedly. "The power necessary to wield soul magic of such magnitude is astronomical."

"Exactly how much power are we talking about?" Lily asked getting worried.

"In simple terms we are talking about mage level power. Not a soul mage level but more than that of a blood mage. The blood mage is superior to a shadow mage." Bill said. Seeing the look of confusion on his mother's face he added, "There is a difference between power and combat ability. The last known wizard king was a shadow mage. In terms of sheer power a blood mage would dwarf his powers by a large magnitude. But in head to head combat a skilled shadow mage would win the battle against a blood mage. A soul mage completely dwarfs the power of a blood mage by an extremely large factor. For the purpose of understanding, think of a soul mage's power as the size of the sun then the size of earth would be the power of the blood mage. Only a time mage can match the power of a soul mage." Bill said.

"So you're saying there is no chance of Harry to learn the soul magic needed to heal James." Lily questioned.

"I never said that mom. In simple terms tonight you are going to find out our true powers, Harry will need to increase his powers be a factor of 10 to have any chance of wielding soul magic, a power increase by a factor of 50 would be ideal. If he manages to increase his powers by a factor of 1000 then he would become a soul mage. This power increase is completely feasible as he has the potential to do it."Bill answered.

"What's going to happen tonight?" Rosa questioned after finding her voice for the first time.

"We are going to go after the people who attacked dad." Harry answered her.

"Mom, there are still a couple of people I know who are might be able to help dad. Don't lose hope." Harry said trying to console her.

"Mom, before I forget, you will need to inform Dad's father and mother about his condition and get then here for tonight." Harry told her. He need to ensure his family was safe.

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"Are you crazy?" Harry asked Bill as they entered their room.

"No. I am not. What I said was the truth. You have the potential to become a soul mage. The only question is do you have the will to become one?" Bill responded.

"I am not planning to become a soul mage. I am not going to kill tens of thousands people for their souls." Harry said angrily.

"You don't have to kill people. The path you describe is the easiest way to become a soul mage but not the only way. We will have this discussion later." Bill told him. "We should rest for now. We are going to need all our strength tonight."

"What did you mean when you said a shadow mage can defeat a blood mage in combat?" Harry asked. "Blood mage are far more powerful."

"True but in direct combat, blood mage have only one ranged attack based on blood magic. If the shadow mage can survive the attack and keep the blood mage away from his body then he can win the fight. If the blood mage can get close to the shadow mage then the shadow mage is a goner. In combat the shadow mage can use a wide array of his shadow bases attack while the blood mage doesn't have luxury of using his brand of magic. He may be able to lure the shadow mage into a preset trap of his own design." Bill answered before going into a meditative trans.

Harry also decided to get ready for the upcoming battle. It had been a really long time since he fought using his full power.

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The ministry of magic was in utter chaos after the Azkaban prison break. The situation worsened when the news about James Potter incapacitation got out. Amelia's action of putting a general bounty of 5 thousand galleon on the escaped prisoners didn't sit too well with some of the pureblood crowd.

Sirius was tasked with making the list of the prisoners who were successful in escaping the island prison.

Moody was busy with regrouping the remaining auror forces and reading them for a massive manhunt while Scrimgeour had been given the task of informing the family members of the deceased and the wounded aurors.

Fudge being his stupid self ordered the Dementors to join the manhunt. That order was retracted when Dumbledore managed to talk some sense into the idiotic minister of magic.

Dumbledore failed to convince Amelia to change the 5 thousand galleon dead or alive bounty she had placed on the escapees but he managed to bring it down to a 1 thousand galleons citing budge issues.

The bounty went back to 5 thousand galleons when Augusta Longbottom heard about the fate of her son and daughter in law.

Some purebloods whose relatives were incarcerated complained about the excessive force used by the aurors in trying to subdue the inmates but their complaints fell on deaf ears.

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Lily, Floo called the Potter manor and asked her in laws to come over to her house urgently.

Her mother in law Lisa grumbled about being summoned in this manner by her daughter in Law but complied with her request as she sensed the urgency in her tone.

"Why did you feel the need to call us over to your house on such a short notice?" Lisa asked as she along with her husband flooed to Godric's Hollow.

Lily silently cursed her in law for being oblivious to current events. "Azkaban was attacked today by an unknown dark wizard." She said, "During the attack James was seriously injured when he led the auror forces' defence of the prison."

"If my son is injured then why are we here and not at St Mungo's?" Lisa asked.

"We are here because James hasn't been hospitalised. The healers at St Mungo's couldn't help him so I brought him here." Lily answered.

"Why would you do that?" Charles asked.

"Because this place his far safer than the hospital and I didn't want the foolish healers to aggravate his condition." Lily answered.

"So you think you know more than the healers?" Lisa asked in a condescending manner.

"I don't but my sons do." Lily responded. "The foolish healers couldn't even identify the problem with James let alone treat it."

"So what is wrong with James?" Charles asked. "Can we see him?"

"He has suffered something similar to the Dementors kiss. He hasn't lost his soul completely but he has lost most of it." Lily answered as she led them to the bed room. "Physically he is perfectly healthy. The only problem with him is that he has lost about 88% of his soul."

Lisa was surprised to see all her grand children barring Harry and Bill surrounding James' bed.

"How do you children know something like that?" Charles asked. "Where are Harry and Bill?"

"They are quite knowledgeable for their age. Currently both of them are preparing themselves for tonight." She responded.

"Preparing for what? They should be here by his bedside." Lisa said.

"There are going to go after the people responsible for putting James in this condition." Lily answered proudly.

"You can't be serious?" Lisa said, "They are just kids."

"They were the ones prevented James from suffering a fate worse than death. Both of them are more than capable of handling those dark wizards. Harry even killed one of the members who led the assault on Azkaban. He got Amelia to place a bounty on the heads of the escapees so that they would get into trouble later." Lily said hotly.

"According to them, will James recover?" Charles asked.

"Yes, they say in time he would recover but they are going to find a way to speed up the process." Lily replied.

Lisa walked over to her son and gently placed a hand on his forehead and observed him silently for a few minutes.

"Harry has requested that both of you should stay here tonight." Lily said breaking the silence.

"Why?" Lisa asked softly.

"For your protection in case the unknown enemy decides to retaliate against the family members. The wards around the house have been ungraded by Bill, making this one of the safest places in Britain." Lily responded.

"What sort of wards has he erected?" Charles asked getting intrigued as he specialised in wards.

"Blood wards." Lily answered flooring her in laws.

"Blood wards! You allowed your 13 year old son to erect blood wards around the house? Do you know how dangerous they are?" Lisa screeched.

Sakura cut of her grandmother by saying, "The wards he erected are perfectly safe. He did it to protect us. Both Harry and Bill, know what they are doing."

"James and I allowed him to erect the blood wards because we have complete confidence in his abilities." Lily replied. "You have no idea of what my sons are capable off. Bill even managed to invent a magic shield that works against the killing curse."

"She is right honey." Charles said, "I have never seen wards like this." as he inspected the wards.

Suddenly the wards gave off a gentle pulse. "Someone who isn't keyed into the ward is trying to enter the property." Lily said answering the unanswered question.

"Bill found a way to key people into the blood ward!" Charles exclaimed. "Who are the non family members that he keyed into the ward?" he asked forgetting about the visitor.

"He keyed Sirius' family and Lupin." Lily replied. She refrained from saying that they two had been keyed into the wards.

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Dumbledore was on the edge of the Potter property on Godric's hollow and trying to enter. He had gone to St Mungo's only to find Lily had taken James home against the healers' advice. The healers weren't even able to diagnose what was wrong with him. He found Lily's behaviour to be rather odd.

The wards around the Potter property were denying him entry for some unknown reason. In all his travels, he had never encounter wards like these ones. He was pretty sure these wards weren't there when he had last visited the Potters. He tried to apparate on the property again to be blocked by the unknown wards. His short distance portkey also failed. He was going to call Fawkes for assistance when his saw Lily exist the house, followed by Charles and Lisa.

"Ah! Lily the wards around the property for some unknown reason are stopping me from entering." Dumbledore said in his normal grandfatherly voice.

"Sorry professor but as you are not keyed into the wards they won't allow you to enter. Unfortunately I can't key you in." Lily said to him in a false sincere voice. She knew why the old man was here and didn't have the patience to deal with him. Her inner succubus wanted revenge against the people who harmed her chosen mate. She had half a mind to join her sons when they retaliated tonight. The other half wanted to stay with her children and protect them.

"I understand." Dumbledore said thinking that James was the only one able to key people into the wards. "How is James?" he asked.

"He is unconscious and we are not sure when he would regain consciousness." Charles answered.

"Why not keep him at St Mungo's? They have people who can take good care him." he asked.

"We have our reasons Dumbledore. We may be good friends but I would like it if you don't interfere with the matters of my family." Lisa said sharply. "We are more than capable of taking care of my son."

Lily had discussed with Charles and Lisa about keeping the powers of her twin sons a secret for now and they agreed that it would be for the better as a blood magic user would raise a lot of questions.

"I didn't not imply in any way that you are incapable of taking care of your son Lisa. I just suggest that the healers would be better suited for the job as they are experienced." He said apologetically.

"May I speak with Harry or Bill?" he asked.

"Both of them aren't here. They left soon after Harry brought rest of his siblings from Hogwarts." Lily answered.

Dumbledore paled after hearing this, he asked, "Do you have any idea where they went?"

"My guess is that they have gone after the people responsible for the attack on Azkaban." Lily nonchalantly replied.

"Why didn't you try and stop them?" Dumbledore questioned. "Killing for revenge my lead them to the dark side and with the threat of Voldemort we can't afford your sons turning to dark side." He added worriedly.

Lily just turned her back and head back to the house without responding. She was having a hard time in controlling her temper and didn't want to lash out at Dumbledore.

"Dumbledore have you lost your tact. That is no way to talk to a woman under heavy stress. Even if my grandsons kill the people behind the attack I can assure you they won't be going dark. Anyone who cares for the family so much can't go dark." Charles said. He added, "I better go check on her," before heading back to the house.

"Good day to you Dumbledore." Lisa said before she too headed back to the house leaving a perplexed Dumbledore standing at the gate.

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Scourge was busy changing the prisoner of Azkaban in to loyal minions. So far he had changed ten people and taken a break from transforming the humans. Since he wasn't at his fully power making minions was extra taxing. Especially, after the special attack he had used on the leader of the resistance failed. He used his powers to keep the weak minded humans in the group from escaping by giving them a metal suggestion to do so. He knocked out a few strong willed humans which included Bellatrix.

He hadn't expected the human resistance to be so high. The two human brats that had appeared and challenged him seemed to be far more powerful then they let on during their encounter.

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In the evening, both Harry and Bill came out of their room wearing battle robes. "Those aren't ceremonial battle robes?" Charles asked when he saw the pair.

"No they are 100% authentic fully functional battle robes." Harry answered.

"I heard both of you plan to avenging your father. Are you capable of pulling such a thing off?" Lisa asked. "The aurors were defeated by them. What makes you think you would have a better chance?"

"Grandmother we are far more powerful than the entire auror force put together. Unlike the auror force we know what we are up against. Lastly we have very powerful back up on its way if need it." Harry answered.

Harry was hugged by the rest of his family members barring Bill. His mother and sisters placed a kiss on his forehead and cheeks respectively for luck.

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When Harry sensed the grid being turned off he removed his suppressor orb in front of his family. Even after the orb was removed he kept his powers in check and didn't allow it to spike like last time he removed the orb.

His grandfather recognised the orb in an instant. "Even after using the orb you can perform magic!" he exclaimed. "How much power do you have?" he asked.

Harry decided to have a little fun with his grandfather and said, "I am as strong as a shadow mage while Bill as strong as a blood mage."

"You may be powerful but you want us to believe you have mage level of power." Lisa asked a bit skeptically. She didn't know about the orb or its powers.

"No Lisa, he is telling the truth. If anyone is capable of wielding magic after using the red magic suppressor orb they need to be really powerful otherwise the orb would render them equivalent to a squib." Charles said.

"But a mages power develops after his 16th birthday. How can you wield it at your age?" Charles asked.

"I never said we were mages grandfather. I said we have powers equivalent to them. Though we can use some of the techniques which don't require us to get our inheritance." Harry answered with as smile.

"It time." Bill said interrupting the conversation. With that both the brother looked at each other and teleported out after becoming invisible.

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Amelia disabled the ministry's magic detecting grid sensors. It was relatively easy for her to do so in all the chaos prevalent at the ministry.

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Harry and Bill appeared inside Scourge's hideout and saw most of the escapees standing there like zombies. Just like they had planned, both the brothers wandless created a yellow colour grid of energy blades launched it at the escapees.

The grid passed through the bodies of the escapees, hacking them into small pieces and creating a bloody mess when the falling body parts hit the ground. This commotion alerted Scourge to the presence of the two intruders.

He appeared in front of them in an instant. "How did you find me here?" he asked without caring for the death of his future minions. He had personally made this cave undetectable and inaccessible for anyone other than himself or his minions.

"We have are ways." Harry responded. "How did you manage to almost convert our father? He has a pure heart. You shouldn't be able to make a minion out of him." he asked.

"So you know about me and still have come to challenge me?" he asked laughing at them with an inhuman laughter. "Since both of you are going to be my minions soon, I will answer your question. I have the power to corrupt the purest of hearts. There are only a handful of people in the world who can withstand my corrupting influence." he said before launch an attack at the duo.

Harry and Bill dodged the incoming attack and began to power up. Harry was engulfed in black flames while deep reddish flames surrounded Bill as they released their full power sending shock wave throughout the world. Every being on the planet be it magical or non magical sensed the power, though the non magical people didn't really understand what was going on. The entire earth started to vibrate under the power emanating from the two brothers leaving huge craters below them.

Harry charged towards Scourge through the air at super speed while Bill disappeared from sight. As Harry neared him he wandlessly launched a blot of powerful black lighting at Scourge send him directly towards Bill who had appeared behind the demon.

Scourge had no time to defend himself from the attack took the full brunt of it and flew backwards. Bill kicked Scourge in the neck sending him flying in another direction. Harry appeared in the path of Scourge's flight and launched black flames at him, igniting his armour.

As Scourge's armour burned off, he released all his powers dousing the flames surrounding him. His powers caused even stronger energy pulse to be sent throughout the world. All living things, be it plants or animals, felt uneasy as the wave of power washed over them.

"You two are stronger than I thought but both of you are still no match for me." He said launching a powerful wide area attack.

Both the brothers got out of the range of the attack only to be charged at by the minions. "I will deal with them." Harry said as he summoned the sword of Gryffindor. He effortlessly cut three minions with a single swipe of his sword.

Bill teleported in front of Scourge and punched him in the stomach with enough power to cause a small earthquake. His punch didn't have much effect on Scourge other than making him move back a couple of paces. The shockwave from the attack destroyed the ground below them and caused the formation of a small crater.

Scourge retaliated by breathing out black mist from his mouth covering Bill's face. He followed the attack by sending a black ball of evil energy at Bill. Bill was naturally immune to the effect of the mist but when the ball struck him in the chest it caused him to fly backwards. He stopped himself midair before he could crash into Harry. The black ball on energy dissipated over his chest releasing large amount of power.

"Haven't you realised that we are immune to that attack." Bill taunted. He didn't want Scourge to launch one of those at Harry as he hadn't developed immunity towards a soul attack of such magnitude. His own immunity towards such attack was due to from his real father blocking out his ability to wield that power. The block was absolute, he couldn't wield the power nor could such power affect him.

The minions weren't a challenge for Harry as he dispatched all of them with ease in less than a minute. He wanted to charge Scourge with the sword of Gryffindor but his instincts told him not to. He let go of the sword and attack Scourge with purple lighting from his fingertips.

Soon both the brothers moved in a synchronised manner to attack Scourge as well as dodge his attacks. Harry preferred elemental and shadow magic based spell while Bill preferred physical attacks with some use of raw power at close range. Both the brothers made liberal use of teleportation and super speed to attack Scourge.

Scourge took some damage but managed to hold his own against the onslaught of the twins. He had wounded them but the pair seemed to have inhuman healing ability. He was getting frustrated by the deadlock in the battle. If he had his full powers he would have crushed these two by now.

One of the combine attacks of the twins blew up the roof of the cave of Scourge's underground hideout allowing the moon light to enter it. Scourge launched the brothers into the nearby walls using his brute strength.

As the duo collided with the walls, a being with silver light emanating from her entered the cave. Luna was in a form of an adult. She was white from head to toe with her silver eyes. She raised her hands and launched a raw energy attack.

Both Harry and Bill saw this and teleported near Scourge and launched pure raw energy at Scourge. They put everything they had into the attack. When the three, the silver, the black and the red, attacks of pure raw energy simultaneously touched Scourge, his body disintegrated.

After observing the spot where Scourge was standing for a couple of minutes Luna said, "He is not dead yet, just gone" in a melodious voice.

Harry and Bill collapsed to the ground after hearing that the immediate threat was over. Both of them were exhausted. Even in the weakened state, Scourge was for more powerful than the dynamic duo.

"Could you help us back to our home and also take a look at our father?" Harry asked while he was lying on the floor.

"Sure." Luna replied.

A/n: 1) Scourge was so easily defeated because he wasn't at his full power and was already weakened when he created the ten minions.

2) Minions are no match for Harry, Bill or Luna but would be very difficult to handle for an ordinary wizard.

3) Bill's mistake would be revealed in the next chapter. Bill is not a blood mage he just someone with enough power to wield blood based magic. It is easier to explain his power if the family thought he was a budding blood mage rather than a punished celestial being.

4) Plz review.