Here is chapter 37 on time as always. Nothing to address here other than to not that this is shorter than the last few chapters so sit back and enjoy the latest installment of Avatar: The Tale of Harry. Book 1: Purity.
Disclaimer: As always I own nothing relating to either of these two great works of fiction.
Chapter 37
It had been three weeks since Harry, Ron and Neville had arrived in Ba Sing Se and finally they were ready to execute the first ever series of global raids that would take down Pyrites' network of spies, informants, dupes, corrupt officials and unwilling accomplices. Ginny and Luna had joined them a week ago after finalizing plans for the raids in the Southern Water Tribe. They had briefly stopped off at the Southern Air Temple to meet Milo in person and give him the info on the few Air Nomad spies and get his brief on the raids in the Air Temples. Milo had tasked Remus, the airbender of the marauders, with being the point man for the mission as he was one of the few they knew they could trust.
The 3 weeks had been as hectic as the 3 weeks prior that they had spent in the Fire Nation preparing for what they would need to do in the Earth Kingdom. Harry, Ron and Neville had daily meetings with Director Abbott and King Wu to make the final plans for the raids. From the long list of now indited by Royal Prerogative individuals about 20 had been confirmed dead or missing when Abbott had inquired about them in his records at the IBI headquarters. A further 17 were in various jails and prisons across the nation including the members of the Imperial congress who had been arrested for secession as they tried to flee Ba Sing Se after Voldemort's announcement. They were now serving life sentences in the Catacombs Prison Complex. They weren't the only members but they were the only willing members of the Imperial Congress who had spied for Voldemort, the unwilling ones would still be arrested and have to resign at the very least. The last group that had been crossed off was about 15 who were known to be in one of the 4 states who had sided with Voldemort or in Hou Tin which had been cut off due to its location between the United Republic and two of the traitorous states.
Despite this there was still almost 250 names on the list that had to be arrested, and that was just the ISEK. There was 128 across the Fire Nation, 39 in the Air Nation though 4 were on Air Temple Island and out of reach, and 87 in the Southern Water Tribe. They couldn't get to the ones in the United Republic, of which there was 92 confirmed, as well but again they weren't much use to Voldemort in a nation he controlled. The ones listed in the Northern Water Tribe had already fled the nation and the few in the Foggy Swamp ledger were inaccessible given Voldemort's unknown control over the Swamp.
Yesterday Ginny and Luna had met Fleur, Izra, Bill and Remus in Xai Bau's grove and gone over the final plans from each of the nations involved in the raids. The raids would occur tonight at midnight Ba Sing Se time as that was were the most suspects were. The leaders of each raid team who weren't involved in the planning were to be informed 10 minutes beforehand who they would be apprehending. All they had known prior to the raid was that there were several Voldemort sympathizers in their area they had been sent to and to expect names ten minutes before they were to be arrested. This was done to ensure that as many of the suspects as possible wouldn't be tipped off to their impending arrest. Now it was 5 minutes to midnight and the raids were about to begin.
Team Avatar was currently hidden in the shadows outside of the 5 story tower built in the style of those at the Air Temples and it served as the official residence of the Air Nation Ambassador to the Imperial States of the Earth Kingdom. Harry had used his seismic sense earlier to confirm that Parkinson was home. He had also been able to confirm that his daughter and 5 guards that were not part of the Air Nation were there. It was summer time and as a Purist sympathizer Pansy had likely been allowed to return home due to her loyalty while most of the students hadn't been under the guise of a new mandatory summer session for extra education but were in reality hostages. The guards were personal and recent hires by Parkinson and likely could be members of the Purist Army as the Air Nation had no standing army and never had security for their ambassadors. They were to be given the opportunity to surrender as soon as Team Avatar breached the building but if they did not then they would have to be taken out, without bloodshed if possible. However they were all authorized to use lethal force if necessary.
Harry and his friends were all wearing tight, black stealth suits. Luna's had been modified into a glider suit and she had already glided up to the roof and would jump in through an open window on the top floor when the raid began and before Harry sealed all the windows in the stone tower with earthbending. Ginny and Ron had two water skins each just in case they needed more water than usual and they had additional weapons on their backs for emergencies. Neville and Harry had both brought their swords just in case bending was not an option. Neville would use firebending to enter into the second floor and Harry either fire or earthbending to enter the third while Ron and Ginny went in the front. From his scans there was a guard on duty on each floor wile Pansy and her father were on the 4th. The goal was to take Parkinson alive as he would be a valuable source of information of they could get him to agree to a deal. The pocket watch in Harry's had ticketed over to one minute to midnight and he looked at his friends and nodded, it was time.
As soon as the clock stuck midnight they began their raid. Almost simultaneously the sounds of the other raids in Ba Sing Se came to them as well but Harry couldn't think of that now. Igniting the fire jet technique from his feet he launched himself at a third floor window. As soon as he was through Harry rolled on landing and into a crouch, raised his arms and bent the earth in the walls to seal all the windows in the building. He had deliberately chosen the third floor as it would ensure that he was the last one to enter the residence, that way his friends would already be inside when he sealed them in.
Raising from his crouch Harry found himself staring at the guard stationed on this floor. Harry looked around with his peripheral vision and noticed that he was standing in the large circular room. It appeared to be a living room of sorts that was richly decorated with fine art, furniture and antiquities that was clearly in violation of Air Nomad philosophy and possibly Air Nation law though he wasn't certain. The guard was dressed in black, segment, metal armor with the symbol for purity etched into the armor over his heart in red and a matching red band on his arm indicating a firebender.
"I am here by order of King Wu." Harry said. "I have a warrant for Ambassador Parkinson for his arrest on charges of espionage, association with a known terrorist organization, providing material support to a known terrorist organization, corruption by a public official, perjury and obstruction of justice. His diplomatic immunity has been revoke on order of Archabbot Milo of the Air Nation as well as an Air Nation warrant for his arrest for treason and espionage against the Air Nation. Stand down and let me take Parkinson into custody."
"The ambassador will not surrender to illegitimate authorities such as yourself, Wu or Milo." The man snarled at Harry taking a fighting stance. "The only authority we answer too here is the of Lord Voldemort for only his laws on purity, benders rights and balance are needed in this world. It is you, whoever the fuck you are, who is the criminal not the ambassador. Leave and I will forget your treason to your kind earthbender or stay and be executed for your heinous crimes against your own."
Harry sighed, so much for the non violence approach. This man was clearly an indoctrinated Purist grunt complete with the bullshit rhetoric and beliefs of the Purists and who was sent to guard an asset. He was way too stupid to be more than a foot soldier as he was wearing metal armor and had seen Harry earthbend and yet he was still willing to fight. Perhaps he thought that Harry couldn't metalbend but he had just firebent and earthbent so he was clearly the Avatar and this man still wanted to fight him, it was almost too easy.
Before the man could get an attack off Harry extended his arm and took hold of his armor with his bending. Tightening it so the guard could feel that Harry was in charge Harry picked him up and hurled him hard into the back wall. The man slid unconscious to the floor. Harry walked over to him and used his metalbending to strip the armor from the guard before pulling out one if the sets of platinum cuffs they had all been issued with and cuffing the guards arms behind his back and hauling his still unconscious body to the center of the room. Harry would have to figure out what to charge with him later. Probably just obstruction of justice and membership of a terrorist organization. The Purist Army had been declared a terrorist organization by Royal Proclamation a week ago and carried the same sentence as what a convicted Death Eater would get for the same crime. The man was looking at a 5-10 year stretch for all his crimes once he was convicted.
Harry waited for the others below him to deal with their opponents. He could tell that the guard in the floor above wasn't an earthbender as they hadn't tried to escape so he would wait and try to use their numbers to force the asshole to surrender peacefully. Somehow Harry doubted that Parkinson would be caught peacefully. Closing his eyes Harry used his seismic sense to 'see' how his friends were doing.
On the level below Neville had soared through the window and been forced to dodge a large rock hurled at him from an armored earthbender standing in the middle of the office like room. The guard was wearing black armor with a green band and the symbol for purity etched in green over his heart. Neville would give him the chance to step aside as he had the law on his.
"Fuck off you little cunt." The man said. "How dare you attack the house of a noble Purist and crusader for balance. By entering here illegally you will be executed for your crimes."
"I have a warrant for Ambassador's arrest signed by the Earth King and another signed by the Archabbot of the Air Nation." Neville said taking a fighting stance. He had known he would face resistance while executing his legal duty so Neville was ready for the fight.
"We do not recognize the authority of false leaders." The man grunted. "Only leaders who understand purity, balance and the natural order and who strive to restore and protect bender's rights are true leaders. Your leaders aren't so you have no authority here."
"Then you leave me no choice asshole." Neville said jabbing his two fingers forward and unleashing the lighting he had been building at the man. "I didn't want to hurt you but you clearly won't surrender."
The Purist didn't have a chance to reach. The bolt hit him in center of his chest, his metal armor conducting the lightning making it worse for him as he screamed in pain. His body was thrown back into the stone wall with enough force to crack it. Neville watched as the man's lifeless body slid to the floor and stayed there in a sitting position smoking slightly. The air was scented with ozone and charred flesh making Neville gag. Sighing at what he had to do Neville went to confirm the man was dead before hurrying to the stairs to join Harry on the next level.
On the 1st floor Ron and Ginny had run into the building, blasting the wooden door down with waterbending as they ran, just before Harry sealed the tower and just in time to leap to either side of the entrance to avoid a hailstorm of ice shards that had been sent to great them. Standing in the 1st floor room which looked like a combination entrance hall and kitchen with a table in the middle was a woman in black armor and a pale blue band. A similar disgusting light blue engraving of the symbol for purity over her heart.
"Leave or else I will execute you two with extreme pleasure, for me." She snarled at them. "You are assaulting a Purist and a defender of true balance, order and bender's right. Now leave or die."
"Well we don't need to mention the arrest warrant for the ambassador." Ron said colloquially as he and Ginny began to edge in opposite directions around the wall to present less of a target for the waterbender. "She's just admitted to being a terrorist and that gives us justifiable cause to arrest her before we head upstairs to arrest Parkinson."
"I do not recognize your authority." The woman yelled. "How dare you attack your own. You two are blood …"
She didn't get to finish her sentence as both Ginny and Ron moved their right arms in unison and sent a stiletto throwing knife into each of the woman's eyes. She stood for a second looking odd with the two thin blades for eyes before her body crumpled back. She was dead before she hit the floor.
"Let's go find Harry." Ginny said to which Ron just nodded and headed up the stairs built into the wall to the next level and then two the third one when all they found on the second level was the slightly smoking body of a Purist guard sitting against one wall.
They climbed to the third floor to see Harry and Neville standing there waiting for them.
"Any problems?" Ron asked.
"No the idiot was wearing metal armor so I knocked him out easily." Harry said pointing to cuffed and unconscious guard. "They are all Purist it seems so at least a few less soldiers for Voldemort's army."
"Yeah we left some waterbender bitch with a new set of stiletto eyes." Ginny said. "It was purely coincidental that that was where Ron and I aimed it was just the safest target given the armor and while we are both accurate we aren't precise enough to take them down without a painful and cruel injury."
"We all know that if they attack they will aim to kill so it's us or them." Harry said. "And no one is as good as the specialist knife throwers so don't worry, its fucking impressive that you both hit her eyes at all."
"Thanks" Ron said. "Neville did you fry that asshole downstairs."
"Yeah I let him rant so I could build the lightning to fry him." Neville said. "Don't worry he had already attacked me with a rock when I entered and I told him of our legit mission so it was all legal. The metal armor helped conduct the lightning added to its intensity and made it instantly fatal. Any word from Luna."
At the start of the raid Luna had flipped in to come face to face with a female airbender who was without tattoos in what look like a single bedroom. Luna thought that Parkinson might really close with his daughter, it would explain her behavior at the Academy to an extent. The woman wore metal armor and a yellow band and etching over her heart but Luna didn't have time to register the symbol as the guard had sent a jet of air at Luna as soon as she landed. Clearly the woman had never been a member of the Air Nation as her technique was brute force with no finesse. It was that finesse that made airbending so effective and it was the very first thing taught to new airbenders at the Air Temples. Clearly this Purist was either one of the few new airbenders born each year without at least one airbending parent or she was the descendant of an airbender who had left or never belonged to the Air Nation.
"Stand down I am her with a warrant for Ambassador Parkinson's arrest on charges of espionage, treason, corruption, bribery, perjury and obstruction of justice." Luna said to the other airbender. "Archabbot Milo has agreed with the warrant, well the treason charge is actually on a separate warrant issued by the Air Nation Head of State."
"We do not care." The woman spat back. "We do not recognize people who perpetuate imbalance, refuse to acknowledge purity, deny benders our rights, and let nonbenders be equal to us."
Luna sighed. These people really existed. Luna had hoped that it was just the extremist Death Eaters but the Purists seemed to be just as fanatical. At least this cunt wasn't threatening to rape her or sell her into sexual slavery. Luna would have to one day learn why this warped view appealed to them but she didn't have the time to do so today. This woman had proven that she was a terrorist and had to be arrested.
Luna ran forward ducking an air punch sent at her by the guard and slid sending an arc of air to take out the woman's legs before leaping up and doing a barrel roll in the air to send a vertical arc at the woman. Without training in Air Nomad style the guard stood no chance. Her legs were taken from under her and while she was still in the air the vertical arc hit her at a downward angle and sent her across the room. The guard slammed hard enough into the floor to crack it and bounced up and into an ornate wardrobe that an airbender should not own, breaking it.
Luna hurried over as soon as she had landed her move and checked to make sure the woman was alive but unconscious. She had a broken shoulder and some serious splinters that would have to be removed and could cause infections but she would live. Luna roughly yanked the Purist's arms behind her back, ignoring the woman's broken shoulder and cuffed her with a set of platinum cuffs she had on her before she headed to the stair to wait for Harry to go after Parkinson.
"Luna's just dealt with her opponent." Harry said his eyes closed as he used his seismic sense to see Luna. "Her opponent is alive, injured, and under arrest. Ok its show time lets arrest this fucker."
Harry raised his right hand and imploded the stone ceiling above him. He had chosen the point deliberately as it was right under where the last guard was standing. There was a yelp of surprise and a body in black armor fell from the ceiling. It landed with a sickening crunch and a grunt of pain but the guard didn't have time to attack as Harry used his metal booted foot to kick the guard in the face, breaking his nose, knocking out a few teeth and rendering him unconscious. Judging by the light blue band and etching the man was a waterbender. Harry quickly bent his armor away and Neville cuffed him. He had a broken ankle and nose but that was it. He would live to face justice.
"Ambassador Parkinson this is Avatar Harry acting with the authority of Earth King Wu and Archabbot Milo." Harry yelled up. "We have a warrant for your arrest for espionage against the Imperial States of the Earth Kingdom as well as corruption, bribery, obstruction and perjury in the Earth Kingdom and treason against the Air Nation."
"And don't think you have diplomatic immunity either." Ron yelled up. "Archabbot Milo has stripped you of it."
"Fuck off cunts." Came a defiant reply from above. "I am not the criminal here, y'all are! I respect true balance, I am pure and will make sure purity remains and I know that equality is a myth."
"Odd words for an airbender." Ron yelled, "I thought y'all believed that we are all equal."
"Many of my foolish brethren in the Air Nation subscribe to that flawed and weak philosophy." Parkinson yelled back. "I am one of the few in the Air Nation who knows the truth. Benders are the stronger race and as such we have a right to rule. The Dark Lord knows this and that is why I follow him and him alone. Only he has the authority to rule in this not you Avatar or the illegitimate leader of the Air Nation and that pathetic nonbender who pretends to be the Earth King. And Avatar how dare you defy your own fucking duty to the world to preserve balance in the world and yet by upholding the imbalance that equality between benders and non benders creates makes you are the greatest perversion of it. You are a fucking disgrace and not worthy of the title Avatar."
"I've had enough of his warped bullshit." Harry said to the others. "I'm going to interpret that statement as his intent to resist arrest and we will have to go up there and subdue him. Cover me."
Harry used a little airbending to leap through the hole he had made and was instantly hit by a powerful stream of air. Instinctively Harry sent out his cable to attach into the ground to prevent him from slamming into the far wall. Unfortunately he still slammed into the floor hard. Standing he realized he must be in the master bedroom given the gilded 4 poster bed with silk sheets. Standing opposite him was Pansy and her father. It had been Pansy who had attack him as she was still in an attack stance.
Pansy was hard faced girl with dark brown hair cut in a bob. She had yet to earn her tattoos as she had a habit of not focusing on the spiritual side of bending, according to Luna, and she was yet to be deemed a master at it though she was a decent combat airbender. Her father was equally hard faced, bald with a shot brown beard and master's tattoos. He wore the classic nomad robes except his were clearly made of a higher quality using only the finest materials.
"My father said fuck off, Avatar, so fuck off." Pansy snarled. "You have no authority over us. We are loyal to the Purists, the Death Eaters and to the Dark Lord. Only the Dark Lord has authority in this world."
"Very well I will just have to take you in too." Harry said. "Seriously y'all are fucking morons if you expect to get out of this."
"No Avatar this is where you die." Parkinson said as he began a complex hand movement that Harry knew was Zaheer's lung drain technique.
Before the traitorous air master could finish however he was slammed to the floor by a powerful air blast from behind. The force of the impact left the man stunned and winded on the floor. Pansy turned to see Luna on the stairs.
"Fuck it's the blood traitor cunt..." She yelled but before she could get out another word Harry sent the metal wire from his spool at her.
The wire wrapped around her wrist and Harry retracted it with his metalbending hauling the startled airbender off her feet as fast as the spool could retract only to be clotheslined by Harry's outstretched arm and slamming face first into the carpet covered stone floor. Kneeling over the stunned girl Harry pulled out another set of platinum cuffs and handcuffed he arms behind her back before pulling out a set of leg irons and cuffing her ankles as well, a requirement when dealing with a conscience, captured airbending criminal. Finally he pulled out a strip of cloth to gag her and prevent her from sprouting the traditional rhetoric of a Purist, another requirement.
"Pansy under the authority vested in me by the Earth King I hereby place you under arrest for espionage, assaulting a public official and offering support to a terrorist group." Harry said hauling the girl to her feet. The espionage charge was a bit much and Harry wasn't sure it would stick but it should provide leverage when trying to get a deal.
Harry looked over to see Ginny heading over to him to take charge of Pansy while Ron cuffed her father in a similar fashion. Luna had gone upstairs to fetch her prisoner while Neville guarded the two downstairs unconscious guards downstairs.
"Ambassador Parkinson." Harry said in a commanding tone as he walked around the hole he had made and approached the man. "You are hereby under arrest for treason against the Air Nation, espionage against the ISEK, attempted murder of a public official, membership of a terrorist organization, providing material support to a terrorist organization, bribery, corruption, perjury, obstruction of justice and assault. You and your, daughter along with the three surviving guards who will be charged with obstruction of justice, assault and membership of a terrorist organization will be taken from here to the Catacombs Prison Complex for interrogation pending trial."
"Fuck you traitor." Parkinson snarled at Harry as he tried to spit at Harry. Harry easily caught the man's spit with his waterbending and threw it back in the former ambassador's face though it didn't deter the man's rant. "You may have caught me but you wont stop the Dark Lord. You will see balance will be restored to the world by Lord Voldemort. It has already been restored in the United Republic and it was done by someone who wasn't the Avatar. You should be ashamed of yourself you fucking disgrace, your no different from your blood traitor predecessors."
Ron just turned Parkinson around half dragged, half carried the man out so they didn't have to listen to anymore of his sanctimonious crap. Ginny followed with gagged and irate Pansy while Luna came down from the top floor with her wounded prisoner walking slowly in front of her scowling at them. Harry noticed that the airbending guard Luna had caught had an injured arm so Luna had refrained from applying the leg irons as well. Harry could here Parkinson still screaming retribution and obscenities until he joined his daughter in being gagged, this time by Ron. Harry followed them down and out into the street leaving the two dead guards where they had fallen. They had to wait for an IBI prisoner transit van to come to their location to take their prisoners and relieve Team Avatar for the night. The vans and the Catacombs were going to be very busy tonight.
It didn't take long for the van to arrive, there had been one in the area waiting and occasionally driving by the raid locations that it had been alerted too after the start of the raids. When it arrived the IBI agents in it took charge of the prisoners with Ron and Ginny staying for extra security while Harry explained the raid to them and that there were two Purist casualties inside the building that needed to be taken to the morgue for identification. The IBI agent assured Harry that the bodies would be removed and told him that King Wu and Director Abbott requested their presence in the Imperial Palace first thing in the morning once they knew the full scope of the raids.
With the prisoners now in the custody of the IBI Harry and his friends returned to his parents house and crashed, soon joined by Ron and Ginny. It had been a long eventful night but at least they had been successful in their raid. Harry wonder how the other raids had gone as he was slowly drifting off to sleep.
"He fucking escaped." Harry yelled.
It was the next morning and instead of going up to the palace King Wu, Mako and Director Abbott had come to his parents house surprising them all at breakfast. Now they, along with Harry's parents, Sirius and Regulus were in the basement den and being debriefed.
"Somehow Peter got wind of the raids." James said the anger clear in his voice. "Or more likely it was the sound of them that made him panic. The wombat rat always had good hearing, its what made him useful to the Order and then to Voldemort. Sirius and I had taken him out for a nice dinner to celebrate us being together in the same city but as soon as he heard the sounds of the raids he flipped the table on use, blew it up with lightning that blew us back into the nearest wall and set fire to the restaurant, not caring about the people there. Sirius and I had to chose between saving them of going after Peter so we saved the patrons who were there. It was midnight so there weren't many but still there was a few. By the time we were done he had vanished."
"He's an elephant rat." Sirius snarled. "He'll go to ground and hide until this is all over but he will be found sooner or later. My best guess is that he will slowly make his way to Republic City to be near his master and thus be within Voldemort's protection for the time being, after he's no doubt tortured by Voldemort."
"Well you made the right decision." Mako said. "Saving those people. Better to save their lives then let them die while trying to catch someone like Peter."
"Other than Peter getting away how successful were the raids?" Ron asked the Director of the IBI as he changed the subject from Peter.
"Well we are still getting word in from the other nations but most of the raid reports have been delivered and processed." Abbott said. "From what we have received it looks like an 80% success rate."
"80%?" Harry asked surprised. "That's pretty good though I thought the surprise factor would make it a little higher."
"Unfortunately many of the suspects, especially those who either knew who they were spying for or were just corrupt chose to fight rather than surrender." Abbott said. "From what we have gathered about 68% of all the targets were taken into custody and 12% died resisting arrest. The remaining 20% is either escaped or their status has yet to be reported on."
"How many agents were lost?" Harry asked bluntly. He had known that deaths would occur but that still didn't mean he had to like the fact that their plan had lead to agents and other authorities dying because of his plan.
"In the IBI we have reports of 7 agents being killed and 29 injured of which 11 are serious enough to be life threatening and at least 3 of those 11 aren't expected to make it." Abbott said. "They will of course all be honored for their sacrifice. As for the other nations we are unsure of their casualties at this moment."
"We knew people would die and so did the agents in the field, they knew it could happen when they signed up for the IBI." Wu said. "It is the nature of the job but their sacrifice was not in vain for we have dealt a crippling blow to Voldemort's network."
"True it was a success." Harry said. "But what surprised me was that so many chose to fight, not all were Purists."
"It was only the known Purists and those who didn't want to go to prison because they knew they were going down for corruption or another serious crime who fought." Abbott said. "They knew they were fucked and decided that they would rather die in the hopes they could escape than lose everything by being arrested."
"Very well then we have had a success." Harry said. "I would like to be there for the interview with Ambassador Parkinson. By my estimated he is the most senior captive in the Earth Kingdom cos we failed to apprehend Peter."
"He is going to be questioned soon." Abbott confirmed. "And I would be happy to have the 5 of you along with me. You were all deputized by the King last night and as far as I am concerned this is your collar and your prisoner so it is your job to interrogate him and his daughter."
"Then lets go." Ron said getting up. "Harry got to interview Pyrites so I want a crack at this asshole. I am thinking of joining the RCPD if we defeat Voldemort, things go back to normal and I survive to graduate so I could use the practice."
"Just stay within the bounds of the law of the Earth Kingdom." Abbott said as he too rose.
"Well I have an Imperial Congress to address about the raids." Wu said. "At least what's left after a solid dozen or so members were detained last night for their various levels of involvement with Pyrites's network. James if you will accompany me as you will need be there as well."
"Of course your majesty." James said with a low bow as he rose.
"Well while y'all are off having fun Lily, Regulus and I will be getting back to dealing with the finer points of the new Northern Water Tribe constitution." Sirius said. "We've spent the last month trying to hash out how the 5 member Tribal Council will be formed and we still can't decided between hereditary, life appointments by the Chief, elected members or some hybrid of the proposed plans."
"Have fun Sirius." Harry said with a laugh not wanting to be in his godfather's shoes. Harry would rather be out there on the front lines than stuck in some room dealing with the bureaucratic bullshit it took to create a new constitution.
They all left the basement and the house together before they split up. King Wu and James to the Imperial palace with Mako, Sirius, Lily and Regulus to wherever the exiles met and Team Avatar accompanying Director Abbott to the single entrance to the Catacombs Prison Complex. While they hadn't gotten everyone on the list they had still decimated Voldemort's spy and information network and Harry hoped the Dark Lord would be pissed when he realized that the Avatar had dealt yet another decisive blow to his plans. They had Voldemort on the ropes and it was only a matter of time before he fucked up and they had the opening they needed to take him down for good.
Hopefully y'all enjoyed this slightly shorter (by 2,000 words) chapter when compared to the last few chapters. Again a nice little bit of action as Harry continues to strike back against Voldemort. Nothing else to add here so as usual any questions in reviews or PMs will be answered before the start of next week's chapter which will be released at GMT not EST (as will the chapter after it) next Sunday and anything constructive will be taken into account. Until next week.
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