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Chapter 37 – 3… 2… 1… Fight!
The Hogwarts team stepped out of the castle and locked it with every possible spell they knew, just in case they go through the barrier. Harry set his throwing knives to magically float around him so that at a moments notice he could take down an enemy. They ran into the woods and the grand battle started
Bellatrix and Krum found Harry and Tom through the battle; Bellatrix relied heavily on killing curses and a modified version of a cutting curse. Harry kept his magic use to a minimum to ensure longevity in his fighting, Tom always started with spells first and moved over to the sword later. A killing curse came flying towards Harry and he used one of his knives to deflect it into the crowd to their left taking down a dark wizard.
Krum fired off a barrage of cutting hexes and bone breakers mixed with a rotting curse at Tom who was transfiguring rocks as he went along to take the damage. He fashioned himself a stone shield and pulled his sword, seeing this Harry switched to magic and started firing of bolts of lightning at Bellatrix, she would dodge and the bolt would hit one of her companions. She started deflecting them but Harry was too quick for her always casting at angles which would guarantee a hit; whether it was her or deflected against her comrades.
Pulling his knives once more he charged his blades and moved closer, Bellatrix pulled her own knives and soon the two were engaged in a knife fight. Harry made sure that he didn't get cut because she no doubt poisoned her dagger just as his was.
Tom was advancing on an already limping Krum who couldn't stand the physical fight or the up close and personal fight as well as Bellatrix could. He fell backwards and Tom went for the killing blow when he was blasted backward causing a pause in the fight between all combatants.
Grindelwald stepped forward and started casting, first a killing curse aimed at Krum and then he started attacking Tom. Dumbledore intervened and soon the greatest two wizards to live were fighting and it was a spectacle to observe. The field gained momentum once more with everyone attacking, no time to watch Dumbledore go at Grindelwald.
Tom ran towards Harry but was impeded by a two hooded figures, they weren't as good as Krum so Tom took them both on with relative ease. Harry meanwhile was still fighting Bellatrix; if she wasn't trying to kill him he might have admired her skill with the blade. She was agile and their fight was more like a dangerous dance which would only end once someone's life ended. She came down hard with the blade and he deflected it and stuck one of his in her arms and then had three knives fly into her leg.
She ripped them out and let out a feral scream and attacked more randomly and with greater intensity, she slashed upwards and broke his concentration on the throwing knives and they fell to the floor. Their fight was broken up when a group of giants passed through being chased by a three headed dog, Harry took down one of the figures fighting Tom and then Tom took down the other
"Bellatrix?" Tom asked
"Disappeared into the crowd" Harry answered sheathing his knives
"What now?" Tom asked seeing the calculating look in his brother's eyes
"I'm going to try something" Harry said and muttered an incantation and started vanishing
"What are you doing?" Tom asked
"Invisibility spell" Harry grinned and then disappeared
Tom started fighting again disrupting battles as he went along, he found himself surrounded again by six wizards. He unsheathed the sword but then one by one the wizard fell down electricity rolling over their bodies
"Harry?" he asked
"Yup, now don't get surrounded again" Harry commanded
Tom threw his sword at a figure advancing on Neville who was on the ground and it caught the figure in the chest. Neville got up and shoulder to shoulder the two boys went in search of Terry, every now and then a figure would collapse and Tom just whispered to Neville 'Harry' the first time.
Tom and Neville found Terry being toyed with by what sounded like Russian wizards. Two went down and Tom and Neville took down the remaining three. The three boys were surrounded by various creatures; Tom hoped Harry had a plan when he heard "Duck" and there was an electric waved which cleared the creatures, killing some and knocking others out. Harry stood in the middle of them his clothes smoking and he was visible again
"What don't you three understand about don't be surrounded" he joked but before the others said anything he turned with lightning quick reflexes and caught a knife by its hilt and was face with Bellatrix across a clearing
"Go help everyone else" he told his comrades and threw her knife back at her drawing his own "I've got this" he grinned
"You've got nothing" she spat
"You chose the wrong person to have a knife fight with" he said and ran electricity down his arms and flicked off the tip of the blade. They went at it again and now Harry fought without distraction, he gave Bellatrix his full attention for the first time. She was a beautiful woman with defined features and her chest which was fuller than most girls he knew was heaving, her wild hair was black like her maiden name. He felt a pang of guilt before he struck his final blow, she was after all still Family to Sirius. He faked left and brought his right knife upwards; Bellatrix dodged the blade but the lightning trailing behind slit her throat and she fell backward.
"Not bad" were her last words before her eyes rolled over. Harry left the scene in search for his friends and found them watching Dumbledore and Grindelwald fight.
Dumbledore was bleeding heavily but still holding Grindelwald back; He transfigured the sand around them into softer sand making it difficult to traverse the ground. Grindelwald seemed to anticipate this and used a powerful wind to blind Dumbledore and then he moved so quick a slower eye would have missed it but he shoved his hand into Dumbledore's chest and ripped his heart out; Dumbledore slumped to the ground, everyone ran forward and surrounded Grindelwald.
He was surrounded by fifty wizards and no allies, he raised shields around himself and searched the crowd for the Potter's and dropped the heart of Albus Dumbledore's heart at Harry and Tom's feet.
"I, Gellert Grindelwald, invoke the ancient laws of magic and declare a blood feud with the Potter's. I specifically challenge Harry James Potter and Thomas Mark Potter to a duel to the death. This will take place seven days from today" he announced and then dropped his shields and many people fired off curses at him but the vanished before they hit him
"Ancient magic is a powerful thing, the three of us are protected until your seventeenth birthday" he said and picked up the body of Albus Dumbledore and walked out of sight
AN – Gone is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, may he rest in peace