Chapter 28

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

June 24, 9:43 P.M.

"Explain," growled Batman's voice over the comm. device.

"I heard Fleur scream and went to investigate," Kid Flash explained. "When I found her she'd been stunned, and there was nothing in the area to do it. When I looked around I found Moody's footprints a few feet away behind a corner. It has to be him, no one else has a leg like his."

"Find him," ordered Batman to the entire Team and present Leaguers. "That includes you Kid Flash. This competition is no longer a priority."

"Yeah, kinda figured," said Kid Flash as he raced through the maze with his goggles on inferred vision trying to track down Moody's heat signature.

Through the goggles he was able to detect and avoid several unpleasant nonhuman entities, but he had yet to see any human ones as he traveled through the maze.

Eventually he spotted a tower red sparks a few meters to his left. Working his way in that direction he found Krum lying unconscious on the ground. He didn't see any sign of Moody, but he did see two sets of footprints, neither of which was a peg leg.

As he was about to leave, Krum stirred. Kid Flash crouched down next to him. "You okay? A teacher will be here soon."

Krum sent a weak glare up at Kid Flash. "I haf had just about enough of the teachers here. The one with the strange eye, he used a forbidden curse on me. Sent me after Diggory, but Potter stopped me."

Kid Flash's eyes widened. "Be sure to tell who ever shows up to help you that. Me, and my Team are already on to Moody. He got Fleur earlier and I was looking for him when I found you."

Krum gave a weak nod. "Give him a goot hit for me. But he vill be after the other champions. Your best bet to find him is to follow them."

Kid Flash nodded. He heard the sound of someone not peg legged approaching and shot off following the footprints he'd seen near Krum, figuring they belonged to Harry and Cedric. He followed the smaller pair, figuring they belonged to Harry and he was the most likely target for all of this.

Eventually peg legged footprints began mingling with Harry's, and Kid Flash knew he was on the right track.

Picking up speed he soon spotted Moody up ahead. From the distance and in the darkness, Kid Flash recognized Moody's figure as the one he saw outside the Forbidden Forest the night Crouch disappeared, but he wasn't alone. He was standing in front of something that looked like a large lion. Since it didn't seem like it was going to attack Moody, Kid Flash focused on the bigger threat and shot towards the crooked teacher.

Thanks to that eye of his, Moody saw Kid Flash coming. He whirled around and fired a spell at Kid Flash.

Kid Flash wasn't letting him get the better of him a second time. He dodged the spell and all the other ones Moody sent after it. He began running in a circle around Moody looking for an opening. When he had one he shot forward and tackled the teacher to the ground.

He took a second to spare a glance at the lion shaped creature. It was a sphinx, he realized. But it didn't look like it was planning on attacking them, but rather it watched their fight with the interest of a spectator at a sporting event.

Kid Flash turned his attention back to Moody just in time to dodge another spell sent his way. It was back to dodging and looking for an opening after that.

Fortunately for Kid Flash a voice shouted through the night. "Eit Ydoom Pu Htiw Epor!"

Ropes appeared out of nowhere and bound the teacher tightly, making him drop his wand and fall over.

Zatanna ran up to them. "Batman told everyone what's happening," she said as she tried to catch her breath. "The others should be here soon. It's over."

On the ground Moody began laughing madly. "It is over!" he yelled. "You may have me, but my master has Potter! As we speak he should be reaching the Cup!"

The two looked at him in alarm. "The Cup's a trap?" asked Zatanna.

The only answer Moody gave was another mad laugh.

"I can still catch up to him," said Kid Flash on determination.

"The fastest way to him is past me," said a deep female voice. They all turned to look at the sphinx who stared down at them with a knowing look. "He answered my riddle not long ago and continued onward."

"Great, thanks," said Kid Flash as made to move past her, but the sphinx moved to block him.

"To pass me you must first answer my riddle," said the sphinx.

"Seriously?" asked Kid Flash in an urgent tone. "We're in a hurry here, and in case you didn't hear, I don't want the Cup anymore, it's a trap."

"I am sorry," said the sphinx sagely. "But that is the rule of my kind."

Kid Flash groaned. "Fine, what's the riddle?"

The sphinx gave him a smirk. "My riddle is this. Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Kid Flash and Zatanna stared at her incredulously. "Seriously?" asked Kid Flash again.

"Is that your answer?" asked the sphinx. When the heroes quickly denied it she gave them another smirk. "I said you must answer a riddle, I did not say it had to be hard. I bear no ill will against the boy you seek, and he was quiet polite when answering my riddle, unlike that pathetic man," she finished her statement with a glare at Moody, who was yelling in outrage at the sphinx's easy riddle.

"The answer is 'to get to the other side,'" said Kid Flash hurriedly. The second the sphinx moved away he shot forward through the maze, following Harry's footprints in the dirt, hoping he wasn't to late to catch up to him.

He soon found a clear indication that he had to be near, when he saw a giant spider lying sprawled over a large hedge ahead of him. Turning the corner around the spider he spotted both Harry and Cedric simultaneously reach out their hands to grab the Triwizard Cup.

Instantly Kid Flash raced towards them shouting, "DON'T TOUCH IT, IT'S A TRAP!"

Both boys looked over at him startled, but only Cedric stopped his hand. The second Harry's fingers touched the cup there was a loud crack and he vanished.

Kid Flash stared in horror at the spot where Harry had been. "Too late…"

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Kid Flash quickly ran Cedric back out of the maze. The whole way Cedric tried to ask questions about what was happening and where was Harry.

They met up with the Team outside the entrance of the maze. Rocket had picked up Zatanna, so she was already there with a tied up Moody at her feet. Batman was trying to interrogate the madman, but he was doing a good job of keeping his mouth shut… for now.

The other Leaguers were already gone. When Kid Flash asked where they were, Robin replied that they were going to get Harry using the tracking device Batman had planted on him earlier. The only reason Batman hadn't gone with them yet was because he was trying to get some information about what they were up against out of Moody first. When Cedric asked when and why Batman had planted a tracking device, Robin just smirked.

Jinx was also there in uniform, with her hair back to it's pink color to help hide her identity, as well as one of Zatanna's Glamour Bands to completely conceal it. Zatanna had also created another doppelganger of her to take her place while she was on the job.

Dumbledore and Fudge were standing next to Batman listening to what was said. Dumbledore had a very grim expression on his face, and Fudge was looking horrified. At one point Dumbledore interrupted Batman's interrogation with his own question, "Who are you and what have you done to the real Mad-Eye Moody?"

That only caused Moody to once again burst into his insane laughter. Fudge on the other hand looked at Dumbledore in confusion. "Dumbledore, wh-what do you mean?"

Dumbledore lifted up the flask Moody always carried because he was too paranoid to drink from anything else. Dumping it out he revealed the contents to be a disgusting slop.

"Polyjuice Potion," said Snape, who was observing the preceding from a ways away. "It lets a person take the appearance of someone else for a time."

"It doesn't matter anyways!" yelled Moody insanely. "The Dark Lord will rise again, and there is nothing you can do to stop it!"

"We'll see about that," said Batman darkly. He threw Moody onto the ground, and ordered Miss Martian to summon the bioship.

While they waited for it to arrive, the Minister of Magic was watching the whole thing with an expression of horror. "He's not serious, is he?" he asked desperately. "He can't really be coming back…"

"One way to find out," said Robin as the bioship flew overhead. Batman gave Fudge and Dumbledore the coordinates so they could send someone after Harry too if they could do it in time, and the Team all shot off in the direction where Harry was.

As they sped towards their destination, Superman called them over the comm. "Superman to Team. We've come close to the location where the tracker is, but there's some kind of barrier blocking us. We can't break through it."

"It's probably some kind of anti-muggle shield," said Kid Flash, as he pulled out his wand that he'd left in the bioship just in case. "Who ever is doing this probably doesn't want to be interrupted."

Batman nodded, and began radioing League members with magic to head to the coordinates.

When they arrived where Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Superman were they landed the bioship. The four Leaguers were on the outskirts of a cemetery, and were pounding away at the field that was blocking them from going any further.

Once Kid Flash got off the bioship he walked over to where the shield began and reached out. Feeling nothing he stepped forward and was met with no resistance. Zatanna, Jinx, and Aqualad did the same and were met with the same result, but the rest of the Team had no luck.

"The four of you scout ahead," ordered Batman. "Captain Marvel and Doctor Fate will be here soon to back you up. Get the boy and get out if you can."

"Understood," said Aqualad, and the four of them started forward. They switched to stealth mode and quietly slipped through the cemetery, keeping an eye out for any sign of Harry, or anyone else.

Suddenly they heard Harry's scream sound from a far corner of the cemetery. Kid Flash and Jinx started to run ahead, but Aqualad ordered them to hold back, stating that they would go together.

They hurried towards the source of the sound. Ahead of them they heard Harry yell, "I WON'T!" Quickening their pace they saw a circle of the masked freaks Kid Flash had seen at the World Cup ahead of them. Within the circle stood Harry, and a man who looked like a less buff version of the leader of Kobra. Voldemort no doubt.

The four were just about to race forward to help, when both Harry and Voldemort shot spells at each other simultaneously. The spells met in midair and a bright light seemed to connect the two. The four heroes stopped in surprise, and ducked behind gravestones to keep from being seen, but they needn't have bothered. Everyone was so focused on the light show, especially when it began to lift Harry and Voldemort off the ground and made a cage of light form around the two.

"Merlin's Beard!" whispered Jinx at the sight.

It was hard to see inside the light cage. Kid Flash pulled his goggles down and tried to focus them to get a better look. After some adjusting he was able to barely able to see the two wizards, but there seemed to be some other things floating around inside the cage along with them that he couldn't make out.

Suddenly the light cage vanished and Harry and Voldemort fell. The floating things Kid Flash had seen in the cage rushed at Voldemort and Harry bolted over towards the four hidden heroes as if he knew they were there. He ducked behind a gravestone next to them.

"Stun him!" yelled Voldemort in rage.

Spell began firing at them, but the four heroes and Harry returned fire. When he got an opening, Kid Flash shot out from behind his headstone, and began weaving through the spells. Once he reached the Death Eaters he began darting through them, grabbing any wand he could and snapping it.

Aqualad also moved from his hiding spot and attacked the Death Eaters with his waterbearers. The Death Eaters were unaccustomed to people fighting his way, and were quickly being taken out, but there were still a lot of them.

Suddenly one of the Death Eaters got in a luck shot, and Kid Flash was hit with a leg-locker curse. He fell to the ground, and one of the Death Eaters began to advance on him.

"Eb Tih Yb Senots!" yelled Zatanna, causing several gravestones to raise up and beat back the Death Eater. Aqualad ran over and grabbed Kid Flash and dragged him back to where Harry, Jinx, and Zatanna were hidden.

As Jinx muttered the countercurse for the leg-locker curse, Zatanna said, "We can't keep this up for much longer." She turned her attention back to the Death Eaters and shouted another spell, "Erif Nrub, Dna Nordluac Elbbub!"

Fire exploded in the area in front of the five teens, blocking the Death Eaters from getting any closer. That didn't stop them from firing spells at them, and the gravestones they were hiding behind could only take so much more.

Thankfully at that moment the cavalry arrived. A great glowing ankh lit up above their heads and out of it few Doctor Fate, and Captain Marvel. The sound of loud cracks filled the air, as Aurors also arrived in the cemetery and began fighting back against the Death Eaters.

In a panic many of the Death Eaters began to disapparate, much to Voldemort's displeasure as he screamed at them to come back. Eventually he and the remaining followers became outnumbered and he had to flee to avoid capture. However a few remained, the ones whose wands had been broken by Kid Flash and Aqualad in the fight. They were quickly captured as they tried to run.

Kid Flash quickly ran Harry out of the cemetery to the waiting to where everyone was waiting outside the cemetery. Once all the bad guys had been taken care of the other heroes and Aurors came to join them.

"I don't believe it," one Auror muttered as he exited the cemetery. "You-Know-Who, he's back!" The other Aurors were saying things along the same lines.

Superman stepped forward. "I know you are all confused by this, but we have to remain calm. Lets all go somewhere we can talk so we can figure this out."

The Aurors agreed, and Batman gave the order for the Team to use their portkeys to take Harry back to Hogwarts.

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A/N Almost done, yay. And This time Fudge can't write it all off.

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