Alex Creevey was an early riser, so as he sat drinking his first cup of coffee before heading out to do his daily rounds of Wilmet. Some think being a simple milkman meant you were not much of a person, those who thought it never served in the military, never raised two boys after their wife died, never had said boys turn out to be wizards.
he finished his cup and as he stood up he heard the faint sound of glass breaking outside...then a scream. Quickly grabbing his coat and boots he raced out the back door and stopped as he saw a creature leap into his yard, a human arm in its mouth. Quickly as he could Alex ran back into the house closing and locking the door before running to a closet ripping open its door.
The creature came crashing through the back door, it looked like a lizard with no tail and a narrow triangle-shaped head and smelt like dead rotting flesh, Alex spun around pulled the hand lever back and fired the shotgun. The creature's head exploded and it's body collapsed.
Colin and Dennis came running down the stairs and into the Hall stopping as their father rechambered around as she watched the dead creature and the broken back door, Colin was about to ask when a gasping shriek came from the outside and Alex fired again, the body of a second think came flying in the door and landed dead on top of the first.
"Boys?" Alex asked as it looked like his sons were about to have panic attacks. "BOYS!"
Both boys looked at him, "I think this has something to do with that bad wizard you told me about."
It was true, his sons did not hide the truth about the magical world from him, told him all they knew. He even got a hold of goblins he had met during their first time at the bank and looked into all the stories and reports his sons had told him about.
Alex Creevey was not a fool or stupid. he knew a lot of what was happening in the world, he just did not know what was going on right this moment.
"What is this thing boys?" their father asked in a calm voice and his sons looked at it not sure,
"I left my books on the table," Colin shouted as he ran to the kitchen, Dennis right with him.
First, they looked through the 'Monster Book of Monsters,
"It stinks of dead flesh, look for something dead, undead, zombies, and things like that," Alex shouted
"Got it," Dennis shouted, "Grasping ghouls, highly dangerous, sharp teeth and claws, prefer to eat while victims are still alive...agile but not strong, prefers to ambush and surprise...where there is one expect to find a hundred."
"get your wands boys, I think this counts as life-threatening situations,"
The two boys quickly got dressed and their wands in hand joined their father as he went out of the house into their small village. Running from house to house looking for neighbors, finding some had also armed with rifles and shotguns like Alex, but some houses they found only half eaten bodies and two or three ghouls each.
The village was a small one, maybe forty homes a store, a church and a park. As they went door to door looking for people or ghouls Dennis had the idea to get everyone that couldn't fight into the large church in the center of town. As they did Colin and his brother went around to cast spells to make the windows and doors unbreakable.
"Colin, use the coin call that Harry Potter," Alex remembered.
Alex remembered the letter Harry had sent telling them if something happened to 'use the coin' to tell him.
"Oh yeah," Colin shouted as he reached and pulled out a gold coin and started doing something with the wand.
"Alex, the houses are clear, these things got Marcus and his wife." A man shouted and looked somber with the news.
"What about the newborn?"Alex replied. the newborn was only two weeks old.
"Strangest thing, I watched as one of these things leaped at it and then just bounced off like the baby had one of those force fields. We killed the thing and got the baby to my wife at the church.
"Good," Alex replied "Too bad Marcus bought it.
"Yeah looks like he killed five of them but he and his wife got overwhelmed,"
"Where did these 'things' come from?" Another man shouted as he ran up.
"Let's worry about the right now and deal with the rest later," Alex shouted and the two men, also ex-military, nodded and went to gather up the rest of those who would or could fight.
The number of ghouls quickly diminished and after twenty minutes the group of fifteen men stood in front of the church when they heard a voice being cleared. There standing to the side was an old man and a very short ugly creature in a long black trench coat and wearing round sunglasses.
"Stand and be recognized?" Alex spoke as he turned his gun on the two newcomers.
No one spoke before Colin and Dennis both shouted, "JAX?!" and ran up to the short creature.
"Did Harry send you?" Colin added as the two boys went to greet 'Jax'
"Correct first let me introduce..." Jax started.
"Colonel Cunningham?" Alex interrupted as he finally got a good look at the old man and snapped to attention and saluted, the rest of the group joined him.
Cunningham returned the salute, "Did we serve together?"
"No sir, we all were in the same unit and you retired about two weeks after we finish boot, but we know who you were and are," Alex spoke.
"And you are?" Cunningham asked.
"Lance Corporal Alexander Creevey, these are Privates Smythe, York and Daniels."
"Any Sergeants or officers in your group?" The colonel asked only to have everyone shake their heads.
Looking over the group he could tell only Alex and the two boys were in the know of the magical world, the others were just dealing with the situation as it came.
"Ok, what you are about to learn is above top secret, and everything that has happened is part of it. I serve in a covert unit tasked by the Queen outside the normal chain of command in dealing with domestic terrorists. report?"
He finished and looked at Alex.
"So far forty-five Grasping Ghouls have been found and killed inside the village, thirty-two..."
"Thirty-four," a man shouted as he quickly ran up and joined the group. "Found Tom and Harry dead on the east side."
"Thanks, Richard, thirty-four people dead so far." Alex finished.
A shot went off to the east and a flare went into the sky,
"Problem, let's go," Alex shouted and the group with Cunningham and Jax ran to the far side of town.
"Alex...who is that?" a woman shouted as she saw the old man and new creature,
"Colonel Cunningham, long story what is it Silia?" Alex asked and she just pointed out over the hay fields, the sun was just going up.
"More of those zombie things," She replied.
Looking out over the field they could see them, a lot of them. Colin called them inferni, but to the non-magical, it was just easier to call them 'zombies' like in the movies, and there had to be about a thousand. All marching in rows after rows. ranks after ranks all heading right for them.
"Alex I don't think we can hold them off or get the people out of here," a man said as Alex looked at the old man.
"He is right Colonel, please tell me there is help we can call?"
"GHOULS!" Colin shouted and pointed,
Sure enough, another hundred of the ghouls were charging out of the ranks of zombies at full speed.
"Retreat back to the church," Alex shouted.
"Help is on the way they will be here in fifteen minutes we just have to hold," Jax replied as he opened his long coat and pulled two revolvers out and was running backward shooting the first ghouls to reach the group.
"what is that thing?" One of the men, Daniels, asked.
"That as far as you need to know is Sergeant Major Jax," the Colonel replied.
"Good enough for this Marine."
they made it to the church and to where they had parked a couple cars and trucks, also a large bus, into a half circle. using them as a wall it was actually easy, the ghouls were very dumb and just attacked head on and were easy targets when they tried to jump over the vehicles.
After about ten minutes the ghouls were dead,
"Silia how long before those zombies get here?"
"Rate they were moving...forty minutes." She replied checking her watch.
"What do you know about them?" Colonel asked.
"Well unlike the movies shooting them in the head only slows them down and makes them walk in circles," Alex replied, "we dealt with a few about the time we sent that message."
"But if a fire gets on them they go up like a bonfire." one of the other men added.
"ok...so we need fire," Colonel replied more to himself.
"Richard?" Alex shouted "take a group and go make us some cocktails,"
The one called Richard nodded and grabbed most of the group and went looking for houses. Silia was one of the few to stay and as soon as most were gone,
"Why is there a house elf here?" She asked pointing at Jax.
"Witch?" Colonel and Alex asked at the same time.
"Yes how did?" then she looked down at Colin and Dennis as they held up their wands.
"Who do you work for?" she asked the Colonel. she did not notice Jax slipping up behind her.
"Lord Harry Potter," the colonel replied.
Silia actually sighed in relief, "If you had said the ministry I would have been afraid." She replied.
"And you are?"
"Silia Smith"
Before they could continue there came a sound no one expected,
thumb thumb thumb thumb, the step of a lot of people marching as a unit, looking behind them they witnessed something that had not been seen in over a hundred years.
A column of fully armed and armored Goblins marching down the street, the column was long and as they looked down it continued for who knows how far down the next street. At the lead was a single Goblin decked out in a long cap and helmet shaped like an eagle.
"And what does," Silia started to ask in an offensive voice before Alex just put his hand on her mouth to silence her.
"Greeting," Alex started "How may we assist the Goblin nation this day?"
The lead goblin looked at the Colonel,
"It is his village and he is the leader of the group that has defended it so far, Lieutenant Creevey.
Alex glared at the old Colonel, but quickly returned to looking at the Goblin,
"I am Kneebreaker, commander of first division of the First Goblin Legion, we have been ordered by Ragnok the fifth King of the Goblin Nation to defend this village and end the advance of the Inferni assault"
"Commander," Alex stood at attention still holding his hand on Silia's mouth, "My men and I will welcome any and all aid in defending our home."
"Where do they approach?" the Goblin asked.
"To the east, my men are gathering items for firebombs as I am told fire is the only thing to kill them, also commander, many of my men are non magical and are just dealing with the situation at hand, they call the inferni 'zombies' as we non magical would view them as," Alex spoke giving the Goblin the information.
"I am well aware of non-magical cinema, we will adapt," he then spoke in goblin and his column was quickly moving again.
As they moved past Alex finally took his hand off the witch's mouth,
"Shut up and listen," Alex replied before she could shout. "Witches and wizards have done nothing but insult Goblins for centuries, and right now we are up shite creek with neither paddle or boat and I will not let you screw up our one chance to make it through this."
She did not speak and looked to be arguing with herself.
"Think about this, Jax called the Goblins, they came, that means the goblins are working WITH Harry Potter."
The shocked eyes gave away her pure surprise at that information. Alex reached for her hand in a comforting manner and as soon as she took it...
He grabbed her arm and lifted the sleeve of her jumper.
The nasty tattoo his sons warned him about looked back at him,
"Men, women, and children, you sent these things here to kill us all?" Alex growled as the woman screeched cursing at him as she pulled her arm back, "filthy muggle trash..."
Her rant was ended as Jax jumped on her back, seconds later a blade thrust out through her chest and she fell dead.
"Damn, she had just moved here last week, I was planning to ask her to dinner," Alex said in a cold tone.
"Go get with your sons, we got maybe ten minutes before that horde makes it to the city limits," Colonel spoke.
"I think it is time," Cunningham started as Alex left. "You to tell me how you are so different to other house elves?" he looked down at a still bloody Jax.
"I was born almost fully dead, no breath no heartbeat, almost fully brain dead. Master Robert, he cut his hand and put some of his blood in me, I have the demon blood of a Beast running through me, It bound me to him and his bloodline for all time, no matter how many clothes I am given I will always be bound to them,
That was close to four hundred years ago, I am immortal until the day that blood no longer curses this world, It also gives me pure immunity to all the laws that govern House elves."
"Let us go and finish this," Colonel spoke.
"We have to find the necromancer, no way that many inferni are that organized without a necromancer controlling them close by."
The Goblins were fast, they had set up a line four rows deep at the edge of town, the humans were confused but held their ground watching Creevey working with the commander. each human held a bottle with a cloth sticking out of it. Up high in a tree where the Creevy boys as they worked as lookouts.
"GHOULS!" Colin shouted and pointed to the south.
"They are trying to flank us," Alex shouted. "Alright leave the bottles with the goblins we will go and meet the ghouls why the main force deals with the zombies. Agreed?"
Alex asked that last question to Kneebreaker,
"Rifle squad, break off join the humans Creevy is in command."
about twenty Goblins moved from the main group and had long-barreled muskets on their shoulders, Alex just shrugged and led the group back into the village and to the south.
"Colin?" The Colonel shouted up, "Can you see anyone that looks alive? looks like they are controlling these things?"
"let me look," Colin replied and he and Dennis looked around.
The lead inferni reached the throwing range of the goblins (about twice the distance of the humans) and the first bottles were tossed. Molotov cocktails were perfect fire bombs they broke and spread out the flames catching five or ten inferni at first and lighting the grass on fire, as the corpses walked through the flames they too ignited.
In a matter of minutes, the first hundred bodies were nothing but ash, the problem was there was now several thousand corpses still coming. The goblins threw the rest of the bottles making a line of fire then the first two rows of Goblins marches forward. here and there in the wall of flames, a corpse would make it through and the goblins would meet it. After twenty minutes the fire started to die out and the Goblins were met by a wall of inferni.
The command shouted an order and the first two ranks of goblins gave out a roar as they charged, their weapons began to grow red as they hacked and slashed the bodies into pieces what they attacked stayed down but more just kept coming and coming.
To the south of the village Alex had set up his riflemen on the roof of a house when he spotted the first wave of Ghouls, they were moving as a unit back and forth in a zigzag pattern, as soon as they were in range Alex fired as the signal for everyone to fire.
The Ghouls dodged.
Right side fire with me, left side wait till they dodge they pause for about two seconds after." Alex shouted
And so that's what happened the first half fired and the ghouls dodged again, only as they landed from the leap the second group fired and hit their marks killing that group of ghouls as a second group came into view.
This second group were taken down quickly using the double attack,
"Alex we are low on ammo." One of his men shourted. and a goblin got up and started to head for the humans with a small bag. Said bag was full of more ammo then it should be able to carry but finding the right ammo was actually easy, the goblins just brought a bunch of everything. (Ragnok was waiting for this kind of fight ever since it was decided that the Goblins would not take part in the battle of the ministry)
Six waves of Ghouls, after the second wave the ghouls got smarter and it was a harder fight, a few ghouls were able to reach the defenders, one human and two Goblins were killed. but after the sixth wave that seemed to be the end.
"Daniels head into town check the church and check to see if any more are trying to sneak up on us send up a flare if there is trouble."
"I don't have any more flares," daniels replied.
"Let us go human I can handle the flare." Goblin shouted and grabbing his rifle and following a running Daniels.
"red for trouble green for clear," Alex shouted as they left.
"Ok we stay here ten minutes if nothing new we return to the east side, York you will stay here then, find a partner."
The human looked around and another goblin waved his hand to signal he would stay. Ten minutes later and no sign so the group quickly got off the roof and returned to the battle to the east.
The Goblins killed many and it took a lot of time but the corpses started to get an upper hand, that was when Kneebreaker had the third and fourth ranks of goblins charged into the fight filling the gaps.
"Jesus Mary and joseph," one of Alex's men cried as he saw the full scale sword and axe battle going on.
"East side secure Colonel, how goes it here?" Alex asked
"I have now moved two thousand Goblins into the attack, we kill five for every one of my loses but, there is just to many." Kneebreaker spoke. "We need to find the head."
the Colonel looked up at the tree again as Dennis with a pair of field glasses pointed and his brother looked then shouted.
"Dad, Colonel I think I found them."
And as the men moved they watched as jax just popped up on the tree next to the boys and looked. Nodding he just popped back down
"Three thousand yards out, there looks to be five of them." Jax reported
"Ready?" the Colonel asked the elf who just smiled grabbed the Colonel's arm and popped them both away.
Landing behind the group they found six not five, for a moment the necros did not realise they had company.
"Excuse me?" Colonel asked politely smiling. "Does anyone know a Silia Smith?"
The six men turned around stunned that they had been found, looking shocked none of them moved an inch,
"So...going to pull those wands or whistle dixie?" Jax asked. the Necros looked down at the elf and one began to lift his wand when Jax just pulled his pistols, five some what human men hit the ground dead, the sixth was down with a belly wound when Colonel Charles cunningham knelt down,
"So you knew miss Smith?" he asked.
"What have you done to her you filthy muggle?"
"You wanna know what happened to her? oh it was the most horrible humiliating thing, She died...by his hand."
and the Colonel made the man look at Jax as Jax just licked some of her blood that had dried on his hand.
"Your woman was killed...by a house elf."
Colonel just pulled his own service revolver and shot the man dead.
"I believe you are learning to dig the spurs in nicely." Jax smiled
"Thank you, let us get back and check on the others.
When they returned they found a more controlled battle, the inferni were just mulling about and the Goblins were moving from one to the other killing quickly, the corpses were not fighting back anymore.
"With the death of their handlers they have become no threat," Kneebreaker told the Colonel.
"No other Ghouls or corpses anywhere else," Alex added as he looked at his watch. "Shite has it really been six hours it is just now eleven."
"You should get the civilians out of her, it will take us two days to clean this mess up." the Goblin spoke.
"Good idea, how do we explain this to them?" Alex asked.
"We can modify anyones memory so they think it really was a group of terrorists," Colonel spoke. "As for your men, if they want to remember and join up with me, send me word otherwise we modify their memories too."
"I will speak to them, some of them will want to forget this whole mess, but to many people died..." Alex replied as he just took his sons and left to find his men.
"I wonder how the rest have handled the day?" Colonel asked Jax and the Goblin.
A/N 3700 words for this chapter, and that was just one of the battles that take place this day.
I hate doing more than 2000 words a chapter cause trying to edit story chapters that are longer than that...sucks so if you see a editing miss just point it out.
I might not have another battle chapter like this, wanted to stop at so many places but i finished the battle in one chapter. I have no idea how i will do the rest but for the record i have been working on this chapter this battle since before i started on the first chapter.