Here is the twenty-ninth chapter in Book 3. I have caught up! With the release of this chapter today, the backlog is officially over and I am back on schedule. Tomorrow is supposed to be the release date for chapter 30 so I am on track again. That being said, I cannot guarantee that chapter 30 will be on time but I will try so that I can have a chapter released on the right date for the first time in months. There were no questions have been raised so no answers to give. Sit back and enjoy the 29th full chapter in the third installment of Avatar: The Tale of Harry. Book 3: Unity.

Disclaimer: As always I own nothing related to these two great works of fiction.

Chapter 29

Harry groaned in pain as consciousness returned to him. Everywhere hurt, especially his head. It took him a few moments to remember that he had been captured by Voldemort's mad daughter Delphini while his friends had been trapped by her co-conspirators. He had fought her and then she had bloodbent and pile driven face first into the dirt on the edges of the Foggy Swamp.

As it came back to him Harry realized that his arms hurt even more than his head did, he was pretty sure he had a concussion on that front, and that he couldn't move any part of his body. His arms felt like they were being ripped out at the sockets while his legs and spine felt like they were being stretched to the brink of snapping for some reason. That was when Harry realized his feet weren't touching the ground and it was getting hard to breath. Reluctantly, Harry opened his eyes to the night time light.

"Fucking hell." Harry yelled when his theory of his predicament was confirmed. "How the fuck did you get me up here?"

Harry was hanging in midair, his arms spread out and attached at the wrists to thick chains that disappeared into the canopy of the giant tree he was dangling from. The roots of the tree were a good 20 feet below him and attached to his ankles was another chain that lead to a weight hidden in the roots. He was completely immobile and slowly being stretched out.

Looking around him Harry was certain that he was in the Banyan Grove tree clearing at the center of the Swamp. That meant he was chained to the tree and as such in very heart of the Swamp itself, the spiritual center of the physical world. How poetic of his enemies to put him here.

Harry had no idea how they had managed to set up the chains in the tree but they had and now Harry had to figure out how to get out of this situation. It was not looking good for him.

"Ah our guest has woken up at last." Came a cold female voice from below him, the drawl clearly marking the speaker as Delphini. "Only took him a few hours to come to."

Harry looked down to see Delphini, still in her mercenary garb, smiling at him from a small earth platform about 10 feet away and below where he hung. Next to here was a man in simple Earth Kingdom clothes with an axe at his hip standing in a ready stance that had to be Cresswell and beside him holding a metallic bowl of water was…

"Johannes you fucking bastard I knew you would turn out to be the elusive Water Enlightened." Harry snarled down at the now confirmed terrorist. "At last you show your true self. Bout time, you will not walk away from this."

"How deductive of you Avatar Harry." Johannes said smiling back at him with a malicious grin on his face. "I see you are still as sharp as ever after that knock on the head. Yes, I have been rather slippery haven't I? One could say I was as slippery as a stream or perhaps quicksilver."

As Johannes said the last part he nodded at the bowl that he was holding. Harry looked at it and realized it didn't contain water as he had initially thought but a silvery liquid that flowed unnaturally to Harry's eye. It gleamed with a metallic sheen in the moonlight.

"That's, that's..." Harry began as he recognized the substance that Johannes was holding, fear starting to settle in the pit of his stomach.

"Yes Avatar, it's quicksilver." Cresswell said with a twisted smirk as he metalbent some of it up so the Avatar could see the liquid metal better. "Or more commonly known as mercury. Hard to obtain this but I have a few sympathetic contacts that owed me some favors. For you, it was worth it."

"You know what will happen if you poison me with that shit." Harry said as his mind began racing, desperately trying to find a way out of the situation he was in. "It may poison me but its deadly nature will force me into the Avatar State to avoid dying from it. Then not even your pathetic chains will hold me, even if they are platinum. Remember what happened to Zaheer when he tried to do the same to Korra. It didn't end too well for him and his team."

"Of course we know exactly what will happen." Cresswell said angrily and Harry realized that the Earth Enlightened was pissed that Harry had insulted his intelligence. "Where do you think we came up with the idea for how to execute you and end the inequality that the Avatar possesses and represents?"

"I dunno, I would have expected something more original from the Enlightened." Harry answered. "Maybe y'all aren't as smart as you claim to be if you have to copy the Red Lotus to try and kill me."

"Don't you dare question the intelligence of your betters." Cresswell snarled. "This had always been the Enlightened's plan for you should we ever capture you but that cunt Hermione decided it would be better to either control you as her puppet rather than end the Avatar once and for all. She always thought anyone was insane if they didn't follow her word for word so it made sense to her to want to kill you so as manipulate the next Avatar into doing her bidding. A noble plan in theory but one we couldn't allow to occur in practice and one of the many reasons why she is no longer one of us."

"And why not?" Harry taunted. He wasn't in a great position but he could at least try and keep them talking until his friends arrived. He knew that they would come for him but he would have to stall for time. "Too scared that my successor would have a brain of his or her own and realized how fucked up, insane and batshit crazy your delusional totalitarian philosophy is."

"Silence you evil piece of shit." Johannes shouted back at him. "We who are the original Enlightened knew that the first step in ending the inequalities in this world was to end the only being who would always superior to all, the Avatar. With the Avatar Cycle ended for good, we will end the one being who's power is near limitless and as such we would all be on the same footing. Therefore we could then forward to end all the other many inequalities of this world."

"What about bending in general?" Harry said as he turned his focus on their third partner. He knew this triumvirate was based on their mutual goal of killing him and not their opposed ideologies so he may as well try to turn them on each other. "Benders are inherently superior to nonbenders just based on the power we all possess, isn't that right Delphini? That is what your father preached. Course nonbenders can be trained to stand toe to toe with a bender but innately they are inferior to us according to the Purists."

"Of course we are superior, everyone knows that." Delphini snapped. "Equality is a myth told by the fearful masses to reassure themselves. In a truly balanced world, the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. We benders are the strong because of our bending and therefore we alone have the right to rule. However, you are guilty of multiple counts of murder, crimes against benders and against purity. You deserve to be execute. Without the Avatar Cycle, no one can get in my way of restoring my father's legacy to the world."

"Wow and I thought your father was an insane fucker but you seem to want to try and beat him in the insanity department." Harry said feigning amazement at the unhinged rant that Delphini had just spewed. "Well boys, what do you have to say about this cunt standing for everything you don't? Surely you can't let that go unanswered."

"Equality isn't a myth, just out of reach for all but the Enlightened." Cresswell snapped back. "With the right leader and the right laws it can be enforced. By force if necessary but it will be accomplished."

"Just like Hermione did in the Fire Nation." Harry taunted. "Because unlike you in the upper echelons of power in the capital, I saw that shit first hand while I was there. Let me tell you, if that nation had equality then I'm a 10 year old ballerina called Kiki. That was the most unequal nation I have ever seen and based on the history books, the worst tyranny the Fire Nation has ever known and they knew the likes of Sozin, Azulon and Ozai before they knew Hermione."

"Hermione was a young, corrupted, damaged girl who was not mature enough for the title we bestowed upon her." Cresswell said defensively. "We thought we could control her and ensure that our views were implemented to perfection but we were wrong. We admit that she was a failure but just because Hermione failed it doesn't mean our views are not current. True enlightenism has not been tried."

"That mudblood cunt showed exactly why benders are supreme and that equality is a myth." Delphini said. "She epitomized power through bending, through the Chosen, and how even when equality is the claimed goal it is in fact nothing but a lie. Hermione ensured that and her ilk were the ruling class and therefore superior to others. We all want power and supremacy and only those who take it have a right to rule."

"With the right ruler it can be achieved." Cresswell retorted as he let the mercury fall back into the bowl because of his distraction with the ideological debate. "We, the Enlightened, are those right rulers. Through our views, equality can be accomplished."

Harry smirked. It looked like he had achieved his goal of turning them on each other. The Enlightened and the Purists may be two sides of the same authoritarian, dictatorial, oppressive, regressive coin but they were still polar opposites. They would come to blows as soon as their common enemy was destroyed, possible sooner as it was clear that they did not enjoy their partnership. All Harry needed to do was continue this up and he could let them argue until his friends came to rescue him.

"Enough! Can't you two see that he's trying to turn us against each other rather than focus on him and his impending execution." Johannes snapped at them causing Harry to groan before the waterbender turned to look at him angrily. "So long as you are alive we are united against the greatest evil the world has ever know; Avatar Harry."

"Considering I have fought and defeated the two greatest evils of our age in your fellow Enlightened Hermione and Delphini's daddy dearest Voldemort I am a little offended that y'all could call me evil." Harry said with mock outrage. "But then again I have face both of your delusional forces and leaders and defeated them, what makes you think that you can win this time round? All I see is more evil that I will defeat once again."

"Simple, this time you can't move." Cresswell said pointing out the obvious. "The mistake that Zaheer made with Korra was not securing her legs, which allowed her to escape once she entered the Avatar State. We have corrected that. As you can see, we as Enlightened have taken an idea and perfected it."

"Oh wow what a novel idea." Harry said continuing to mock them. "I can't believe no one thought of that before. Here I was forgetting about my friends and family coming to save my ass and y'all are slightly changing an already failed plan."

"Your son, his best friend, your best friend and that pureblood elitist cunt Draco are all dead." Johannes said with a mocking laugh at Harry. "Burned to death in Cresswell's lava in a collapsed cave. You are all alone and at our mercy."

Harry just started laughing at the morons in front him. If they didn't confirm that Ron and Draco were dead then Harry knew that they weren't. This was going to be a mistake that they regretted.

"What's so funny about ya impending demise Avatar?" Delphini asked her voice dripping with anger at Harry's attitude. "Ya best allies are dead and the rest cannot defeat us. We have won."

"Just that y'all fucking morons think you killed them." Harry said as he continued to laugh. "You really think that I would just send them? I had all of them ready just in case you tried some trickery, including my daughter. I'm impressed that Cresswell turned out to be a lavabender as well as a metalbender, the second one after me, but you see Ron and I don't assume anything so as a precaution I instructed my team to bring my daughter Lily. She may be 13 but she's a better lavabender than I am. If y'all didn't check to make sure Ron and Draco were dead then you've already failed and they are on their way to fuck y'all up."

"Either way they won't be back in time to save ya ass fucker." Delphini snarled. "Any last words blood traitor before we execute you for all the crimes that you have committed?"

"Just one." Harry said. "How?"

"How what?" Delphini asked clearly confused though not enough to stop being angry.

"How'd y'all do it?" Harry asked playing on their combined narcissism for time. "How did you track down Pyrites, kill him, persuade these two morons to work with you, capture my son and plan this revenge without the world knowing y'all were working together? Seriously, until you took Albus and Scorpius and told us you had co-conspirators we didn't even have a clue you three were in cahoots."

"You wouldn't have thought that, that was the point." Johannes said. "That was the key."

"Now we theorized that you Johannes were the Water Enlightened when you suddenly appeared during Ron's campaign and was so helpful even though you have never left the Southern Water Tribe during their winter months." Harry continued looking at Johannes, he was not going to let them cut him off now. "As such we knew that you must be aiding Cresswell in some suicidal revenge against me for what I did to their terrorist organization but you Delphini, you are a mystery."

"How so?" Delphini asked. She may be angry and ready to kill him but she seemed curious about him and Harry was going to indulge that as long as possible. "I should be, few knew about me."

"Well we knew about you from Pyrites, he made sure to slip me a note before he died but this we didn't see coming." Harry admitted ."I must admit it's really convenient as we can now end all 3 of you at once. One fight and the last vestiges of my past enemies are gone forever."

"So that's why he embraced you on that patio." Delphini muttered just loud enough for Harry to hear her. "I just though y'all had found my info at his house. He knew who I was because he was a paranoid, inquisitive bastard. When my wanted poster went up that's how I thought you got the info."

"Oh we got it there as well but he also slipped me a note when he surprised me with the embrace." Harry said simply. "It was Pyrites cloak and dagger style after all, what did you expect? Still, how did y'all do all this right under my nose, I know y'all want to brag about it and well I am a captive audience here to listen to your insane ramblings."

"Of course I want to brag about it." Delphini gloated with glee at the thought of lording over the Avatar. "Unlike my father, Hermione or any other foe ya have faced I have caught ya and will end ya."

"We all did it as a team." Cresswell said clearly not happy with Delphini taking all the credit. "Alone you wouldn't have succeeded."

"Yes well had it not been for a chance of fate then none of this would have ever happened." Delphini admitted. "But that is how fate works. Ya see, I was just following Pyrites getting ready to execute him for his heinous crime of treason against the Death Eaters and my father when I overheard ya discussing ya little mission to capture the last few Enlightened in that bar. That's when I realized that I could potentially recruit some allies if I played my cards right. The only people who hate the Avatar as much as I do are the Enlightened."

"True I have pissed off the two largest threats to balance, equality, life, happiness, and world peace in the last century or so." Harry said with a smile. "Then again that's what I get for ending your evil schemes, your continued hatred for me. Now you 3 are all that's left of your two warped and evil philosophies and soon you will be no more."

"We may be all that is left but once you are out of the picture we will rebuild the noble philosophy of the Enlightened." Johannes said with pride. "You are all that is stopping us from showing the world that we have always been right about what the world needs, even if the world doesn't know it."

"I'm sure Delphini will have something to say about that." Harry said looking over to the Purist in the triumvirate of evil he was facing. "Isn't that right bitch? You will all turn on each other once I'm dead, why not start now? Not like I'm going anywhere anytime soon."

"Shut up asshole." Delphini shouted at him. "Stop trying to turn us on each other cos it won't work, not until ya and all those ya hold dear are dead at my feet. Then the Purists and Enlightened can duke it out for supremacy as soon as we have replenished our forces just as it should be. It's survival of the fittest after all."

"Then I am the fittest." Harry pointed out. "I am the Avatar after all, near all powerful, so you should worship me if that is your philosophy."

"Exactly why you should be eradicated." Cresswell snarled with pure hatred towards him. "With you gone, the greatest inequality in the world will be no more and then we can truly restore equality of outcome for all."

"Or more accurately it removes the main source of competition for the Purists and our own dominance." Delphini said so as to give her own view on the issue. "Father had some bold and noble notions of finding the next Avatar and turning him to our side once you were killed but I have no such notions. Ya proved that the Avatar cannot be trusted and is better eliminated than made into an asset."

"Seriously how the fuck did you three end up working together?" Harry asked with genuine interest this time. "Because all I'm seeing is three radically different individuals united by hatred and revenge."

"It's not hatred and revenge, it's justice." Johannes retorted.

"Call it what you will but I remember back in the day, Pyrites once told me that the Enlightened were nothing, not even on the Death Eater's radar and it turned out to be true because y'all were cowards." Harry continued, it was better to not address Johannes but to continue to insult them. "Y'all waited until the world was distracted to strike at the Fire Nation and then you had to blockade yourselves in in order to protect your own asses because you were afraid that we would come in there and kick your ass. At least Voldemort had the balls to take the fight to me when the time came. So I repeat, how the fuck did y'all end up working together."

"Well it all starts with my history." Delphini answered with a smile. "As ya know my parents are the Dark Lord Voldemort and his most loyal and pure follower Bellatrix making me a pureblood perfection. As soon as I knew my identity, I set out to achieve my destiny; getting justice for my father's false imprisonment and murder and then restoring his righteous legacy."

"Of course that would require me to roll over and accept your destiny and not prevent it." Harry said sweetly.

"When I was of age I left the Swamp and the oh so tender care of Euphemia Rowle and sought out the remnants of the Northern Water Tribe Mercenary Company and their leader Zabini as she suggested." Delphini said ignoring his jibe at her. "Though I kept my identity secret from everyone but Rowle. He was the one taught me how to fight and use my talents for the benefit of the Purist Movement. Unfortunately, because of your years long efforts into ending the noble Northern Mercenaries, I left them to maintain my freedom. This was right before you raided their compound and murdered Zabini."

"Actually Zabini was executed for his crimes last year." Harry interrupted with a smile. "He was somehow caught alive, tried for treason against the Northern Water Tribe because of his attempt to overthrow Sirius and restore the Purist regime, and convicted for his crimes. He was sentenced to death while his followers got life unless they cooperated. His appeals ran out last year and he was beheaded."

"My point exactly, he was murdered." Delphini said angrily. "After that I spent some time in Republic City working with the remnants of the Triads as a hired bloodbender while I tried to piece together information on Pyrites. Ya see, thanks to his autobiographic series of encyclopedic novels, the world knew the full extent of his crimes against not just my father, which he confessed to but against the natural order and purity."

"So why did you need the Triads' aid in dealing with him?" Harry asked to keep Delphini talking and making a mental note about her association with the Triads.

Harry hoped his team would get here soon as it was getting really painful. Still, he could handle the pain because the longer he kept Delphini gloating, the longer he had to avoid the mercury and allow his friends and family to come and rescue him.

"Cos the fucker wasn't easy to find and easier to kill if I had to then ya at the time." Delphini said as if it was obvious. "He was in the Fire Nation cos he couldn't leave but that was all I knew."

"Well you are a rube from the backwoods of the backwoods so I can see how your limited education led to that." Harry said with a smile at Delphini. "Anyone with any sense would have just gone to the Fire Nation and found him, he wasn't exactly hiding very well."

"Yes well I needed some money and to hone my bloodbending and the Triads provided the last bit of training I needed after the Mercenaries started it." Delphini snapped back. "Once they outlived their uses to me I left them and I left for Ember Island where I expected to find Pyrites. I wanted to kill him out right but I decided to tail him first, learn all I could about him and see if he could be persuaded to aid me in my cause of bringing you to justice for your crimes against benders."

"And yet despite the fact that Pyrites is a Purist, elitist, homophobic, bigoted, narcissistic piece of shit he still rejected you." Harry taunted. "Wow that must have hurt your fragile ego to fail to get an avowed Purist and unrepentant Death Eater to join your cause."

"He knew I was going to kill him anyway for his crimes regardless of whether or not he helped me." Delphini said with a shrug. "I just offered him a reprieve to clear his conscience but he refused to take when he attacked me. I must admit he gave me a damn good fight for a man of his age but he underestimated my ability to bloodbend without the full moon."

"A rarity for Pyrites but he is human like the rest of us." Harry noted. "Even he can make mistakes, that is how he got his ass caught after all."

"Yes but this time instead of his freedom, it was his life that he lost." Delphini said with glee. "Once I made sure he would die in pain I left him to find you, after having the greatest orgasm of my life from killing my first human. I had overheard ya and the blood traitor Neville speaking with Pyrites and knew where ya would go. I initially planned to take ya out then and there. That was until I saw that Cresswell had escaped and made the decision to follow him, confront the last two Enlightened and work with them to take ya out. That way I knew I would succeed."

"And my son?" Harry asked the anger now beginning to come back to him. "Why target Albus when I was the one you were after."

"He was your weakest link." Delphini said simply. "We had planned out each of our roles in this little endeavor of justice. Cresswell was to find the location and material we needed through his contacts with the savages that live here."

"Indigenous people who lack the agency to help themselves and must be helped by those of us who know what is best for them, even if it goes against their practices or culture." Cresswell interrupted. "Get it right Delphini. No one is a savage, they just haven't had their wrongs corrected by an Enlightened leader like myself."

Harry could tell there was a tension between the two of them on this issue but that Johannes was somehow holding them at bay from killing each other. That would have saved Harry a lot of problems if they had tried to kill each other.

"Yes that." Delphini said dismissing Cresswell's issues as if they were nothing. "Anyway, while Cresswell was doing his job, Johannes was going to exploit the fact that he was the only one of us who had yet to be publicly identified and hunted by the authorities and try to get close to you via Ron and his campaign for presidency."

"That was easy even if it raised suspicions given my usual habits." Johannes said. "Ron was a Southern Water Tribesman running for President and as a successful Southern businessman who was believed to hold moderate views similar to the Prince, I was expected to be there to support him. Of course it was obvious that we were in a game of Pai Sho from the start and that Ron didn't trust me but planned to keep me close to try and prove his theory. That worked because it allowed me to ty and get any info I could to keep Cresswell one step ahead of the law."

"Well it worked." Harry said reluctantly. "Though you won't get away with it."

"Oh I am certain I will and keep my reputation intact." Johannes said with a confident grin. "All those who know the truth are either wanted criminals, dead, or soon will be. I can just go back and continue my life as normal while preparing for the Enlightened takeover."

"Anyway, my job was to go to Hogsmeade as a trainee healer and scout out your sons and daughter and try to find a weakness there." Delphini said clearly irritated at the interruption to her gloating. "My picture still wasn't well known outside the Fire Nation where I was wanted so I just used an alias and pretended to care for the pathetic people there while biding my time. Low and behold, your second son showed up with his only real friend in the Three Broomsticks. They were clearly desperate for validation and to be seen as their own people so I provided that. It didn't hurt that I am a drop dead gorgeous woman either."

"My son is smarter than that." Harry growled back. "He wouldn't fall into your trap that easily."

"Ya will be surprised how blind people in need of validation can be." Delphini replied. "All it took was a little kindness and encouragement in them as people and not as the son of the blood traitor Avatar and the son of the former Crown Prince of the Water Tribe and a convicted Death Eater to win their trust."

Delphini paused to get a reaction but Harry didn't rise to it. She was right and it was his own fault that Albus had fallen into her trap."

"Once I had them, I spent time persuading them that they wanted to come here and see the Banyan Grove tree and that you would prevent it and the rest is history." Delphini continued when Harry didn't answer her. "I did have to kill some random swampbender kid as we apprehended ya son and his friend. My use of my father's greatest contribution to bending still needs a little practice if I am to ever match his skills at ripping blood from one's body but I'm close. Once ya are dead I can start to practice it more so that I can make my father proud with my skills at our family's birthright."

"There Avatar, you have heard how we caught you as you wished, now prepare to die for your countless crimes against the world and see the end of your inequality forever." Cresswell snarled as he pulled up the mercury and prepared to throw it at Harry. "Any last words cunt."

"Just this." Harry said with a smile as he noticed a flash in the Swamp behind his captors and raised his voice. "They're here."

While Harry had been buying time so that Team Avatar, Draco and their kids could arrive, Ron had led them all through the Swamp until they were at the edge of the Banyan-grove clearing. They had been as fast as possible but between the perils of the Swamp and a few traps that had been laid near the Banyan Grove tree, the journey had taken longer than Ron would have liked.

As soon as they reached the Swamp's edge, Ron pulled out a spyglass from his pack and looked through it surveying the scene. It was a clear night and while the moon was not full it was still bright enough to provide plenty of light and power for the waterbenders, a problem given Delphini's ability to bloodbend. What Ron saw made his blood go cold and his shivered.

"What Ron?" Ginny asked at his reaction. "Do you see Harry?"

"Yeah and it's not good." Ron said handing her the spyglass as he turned to whisper his observations to the other. "They have Harry chained up and hanging from the Banyan Grove tree the same way that Zaheer chained Korra when he tried to kill her but with an additional weight for Harry's legs. Given the metallic liquid that Cresswell is bending it looks like they have the same plan as Zaheer did so we are going to have to act quickly."

"What's the plan?" Neville asked.

"I need to get some quick info from y'all first." Ron replied turning to the only metalbender present. "James, can one metalbender overpower another's hold over a specific metal?"

"Yeah we try it all the time at the Academy." James said as soon as Ron had asked him. "It's similar to bloodbending and requires strength and willpower with the stronger bender prevailing in the end. As of right now I am still undefeated in it."

"Good then as soon as I give the word you are going to launch yourself out at Cresswell." Ron said as the plan came to his mind. "That is the most important thing and as the only metalbender you are going to have to be our front line of attack."

"I can do it." James said seriously. "With the element of surprise I will easily overpower Cresswell's will."

"Good." Ron said with a nod. "Take control of what I am assuming is mercury as that was what was used to poison Korra. As soon as you have control of it throw it at Johannes who will be unable to block it as he is holding the bowl, and if possible Delphini. While the moon isn't full it is still night time so the waterbenders will be the strongest and both can easily bloodbend in these conditions so hopefully the poison will affect them and give us an edge against then. Given the fact that you will be the first one there, you will likely have engage Cresswell in combat, blades and bending. Got that."

"Yes Mr. President." James said with a salute. "I will not fail you or dad."

"That's my boy." Ron said with a grim smile at James. "I will then provide a distraction as I ride in on some stagnant Swamp water. Once the attack has started I will then engage Johannes in a fight, Southern warrior to Southern warrior. We have been jousting for months so that fucker is mine."

"As it should be." Neville said. "No one will prevent you from facing him."

"I knew y'all would understand." Ron said before continuing with his plan. "As I am doing this, I want Albus and Scorpius to follow right behind using the same technique as me. You two are to send ice spikes at the bonds holding Harry, start with his feet then his wrists, to free him."

"It will be done." Albus said seriously. "I may not be great at bending but I should be able to do that."

"I know you can." Ron said reassuringly. "Then Albus will throw Harry his swords and back the two of you back off. Delphini will be the most dangerous opponent and should be dealt with by Harry alone as he is the only one who can reliably break her blood hold. Draco and Neville can support him if need be but I want you two to hold back and help James box in Cresswell. Of the 3 he's the one who will be easiest to take down alive."

"What about me dear husband?" Luna asked. "As much as I like to avoid violence and killing, I want to be there for Harry as well."

"I know my dear but I need you to project your spirit to Republic City." Ron said. "With the spiritual boost of the Swamp you should be able to reach the Spirit Wilds there. We need to let the authorities know where we are so they can send reinforcements and if necessary more medics. Try and reach my successor, Chief Naoki Beifong, at the RCPD headquarters but if not you should be able contact Victoire at Air Temple Island and she can do the rest. We'll need a full RCPD squad prepared to deal with blood, lava and metalbending as well as medics just in case. Lily, Rose, Hugo you three protect Luna while she works."

"Will do." Rose said while the other two just nodded at their orders.

"Ok I'll get to work but as soon as I am done I am coming to provide aerial support." Luna said in a tone that implied the idea was not up for debate as she assumed the lotus position. The 3 kids took up guard positions around her.

"And me, brother dear?" Ginny ask a hint of annoyance in her tone. "What am I to do? You know how accomplished I am at fighting and that is my husband up there. Also that cunt took my son, I have as much interest as anyone here in taking them down."

"I know dear but I need you to hang back and provide healing should we need it." Ron said. He knew that his sister would be useful in the fight so it was painful to hold her out but he needed to. "You are the best healer here and other than Albus the only one who can heal anything more than a simple cut. We need you unharmed just in case we get harmed."

"Very well but only because this involves my family." Ginny said reluctantly. "Otherwise I will be on the front line and slamming that bitch's head as deep into that tree trunk as possible."

"I don't doubt it." Ron said with a shudder at the memory of his sister's violence. It was rare but when it happened no one who opposed her survived. "Everyone got the plan."

They all nodded. Ron knew they would but he had to make sure.

"Alright and if shit hits the fan then improvise." Ron said helpfully. "Neville can you cause a flash of fire to signal our presence to Harry and let him know he can stop stalling these fuckers. We are ready."

Neville nodded and raised his hand to create a small flash of fire that Harry would be able to see from his vantage point. Only seconds later did they hear Harry shout that his help had arrived. At that, there was only one word Ron had to say.

"Go."

There really isn't much to say here other than that the reference to Zabini is actually Blaise's father and not Blaise. This chapter was to serve as the setting for the final confrontation which is next chapter. I had wanted them to be in the same chapter but it would have been about 14,000 words long and while there are a handful of chapters that long, this was one time I could easily break up the chapters and have done so. That way the confrontation is all one chapter and I can leave y'all waiting a little for the chapter. Only 3 more full chapters and an epilogue before Book 3 is finished. The draft for Book 4 is over halfway complete and will be finished before the first chapter is released so that is what I will be working on during the break between Books 3 and 4, as well as the Book 5 draft and maybe a few more chapters for the Regulus spinoff that has the first half released. That is all for this post chapter note, as always please like, favorite, follow, review, this story and any questions asked in reviews or PMs will be answered at the start of the next chapter. Until next time.

Stringdog