A/N well I didn't expect a lot of feedback but 1 usable review was a little less then i was expecting, as for the anon one which was deleted becuase it missed the mark completely if all you're going to do is moan then why bother reading. Don't get me wrong I like when people tell me things that I can work on, bits that they feel I'm not doing right since I have a chance to change it but to just simply moan about how much you don't like my characters, well I'm simply not going to listen.
Any way I got this finished and I know I've been stringing all you lovely people along so here it finally is I hope you all enjoy and I get a little more feedback then one review lol oh and thank you to journeyrocks13 for the review!
Harry felt Ginny beside him, her light the only thing anchoring him as he took in the man that was supposed to be his death. His snake like slit eyes glared at Harry as they took each other in, but Harry didn't let the stare unsettle him; he had worked his whole life for this moment. He could feel his power flaring at his fingertips but he didn't move, even as Ginny's hand tightened in his and he knew she could feel the power flaring over her skin. She didn't move though and he was glad of it knowing she was the only thing holding everything together.
"Well Harry haven't you made a mess of my followers," Voldemort hissed as his eyes took in the dead death eaters scattered around the courtyard.
Harry didn't move, didn't take his eyes of Voldemort as he paced in front of him a few feet away. He took in the maddened form of Bellatrix as she watched her master move and he knew she was just waiting for the command to jump forward but Voldemort didn't give it instead he watched Harry, Harry's calmness making the man uneasy.
Just then Harry caught movement out of the corner of his eye and moved slightly just as a giant snake appeared slithering between Ginny and he. Ginny felt her skin crawl as the reptile moved between them but she didn't let it force her and Harry apart, instead she simply gripped harder to his hand as it moved between their legs until it curled its way up to its master. Voldemort watched his prized pet as it came to his hand and Ginny realised this was the last one, this was the one that they had to kill before they could kill Voldemort.
She used what she knew of the Horcruxes, the little she knew, to try and think on her feet about what they could use. She knew the dark magic wrapped around the snake wouldn't be easily defeated, but she also knew there was a way since others had been destroyed before. Cursing herself for not talking more with Dean she tried hard to bring up any shred of information her mind might have soaked in without her consciously realising. Before she could formulate a plan though besides her Harry's body grew taught and she knew he had seen something she had not. She blinked and felt Harry's hand push her until she was behind him, her palms pressed to his back, just as a curse flew where she would have been.
"Very good Mr Potter so the rumours of your power haven't been exaggerated," Ginny looked at Harry as Voldemort's eyes fell on her, "neither it seems were those of your weakness."
Voldemort's voice grated against her skin but Ginny refused to show any weakness in front of him, especially with what he was implying about her.
"Now now Tom, let's not drag my mate into our fight," Harry's voice was calm but Ginny could feel the depths of his anger, no one threatened his mate and got away with it.
Voldemort hissed at the use of his name but didn't say anything more and Harry simply waited for him to act as he knew he would.
Ginny tensed a second before Harry did letting him know the moment Bellatrix moved under her masters unspoken order. Harry tensed ready for the attack and lifted his wand in time to deflect the curse she fired at them, knowing she was aiming for Ginny. To his surprise as he was busy deflecting the curse Ginny raised her own wand and screamed out the curse ripping through the air with a blinding blue arc. Harry watched as Bellatrix took the curse to the chest and the magic simply sunk into her skin. For a moment there was silence and then Bellatrix began to cackle in her maniacal way, but then the laugh died in her throat and the people gathered watched as her skin seemed to peel from her bones. Her eyes bulged as the curse worked its way through her system and Harry simply watched as his mate's magic worked. With an inhuman scream she folded in on herself and then with a blast of magic she was gone, leaving behind nothing but tatters of clothing.
For a moment everyone was stunned and then Voldemort was moving casting curse after curse in anger as he screamed out. Harry pulled Ginny against him with one hand and countered the curses that were flying with the other, moving as he did to follow Voldemort's movements perfectly. Death eaters around them paused in their fight as Voldemort stood against Harry, and even the light fighters stopped as they took in the battle that was about to begin.
Feeling her magic flare a warning to her Ginny turned in time to see Neville's familiar face, his forehead bloody and his hair matted with it, but otherwise he seemed uninjured. His eyes flashed as he caught her attention and then his hand came up showing her what he was holding. She frowned at the tattered old sorting hat wondering why he would bring such a thing into a fight, but then she caught the glint of silver within its depths and smiled. Subtly she moved behind Harry and within a heartbeat Neville threw the hat and Ginny snatched it from the air, her fingers delving into their depths.
Heat washed over her hand as she gripped the hilt of a sword of legend. This was Godric Gryffindor's blade the highest founder of the Hogwarts castle and a true warrior king in his time. She knew without a doubt that if something could kill a Horcrux then this blade was it. Pulling back feeling the power swirl around her skin she let the hat fall to the floor and held the hilt of the sword gleaming in the night.
"Impossible," Voldemort hissed and Harry moved aside in a fluid motion his eyes locked on Voldemort as Ginny swung the sword of legend straight at the snake that was diving at Harry its fangs bared.
The blade sank into its flesh like butter, so easily she barely felt the resistance she had been expecting. With a resounding snick the creature let out one last blood curdling scream that sounded altogether too human and its head dropped at their feet. Harry looked down at the head and the kicked it to the side with contempt his eyes snapping back to Voldemort with a wiry smirk.
When he looked up again Voldemort's eyes were blazing with power and hatred and Harry knew they had tipped the mad man over the edge.
"You think you've won but tell her Harry, tell her why I still can't die at your hands."
Harry felt Ginny grow still behind him and he gave in for a moment taking his eyes from Voldemort since he had a feeling in some strange way the man wouldn't attack him with his back turned. Ginny was staring at him with bright eyes and Harry could see the pain in them.
"Believe in me Breeze I promised I wouldn't leave didn't I," he whispered and she could feel the touch of his power against her skin.
She remembered the whispered promise he had made while they had laid tangled together in her bed, but she still ached at the thought of losing him. They had come so close to losing each other on to many occasions as of late and she wasn't sure if her heart could stand it again.
"Believe," he whispered out again and all she could do was nod as he turned back to face Voldemort.
"Ok Tom do your worst," he spat and this time everyone there could feel his anger as his power washed over them.
With a sneer Voldemort raised his wand and Ginny knew what curse he was going to cast before the words left his lips, she also knew that Harry wasn't going to move from it, that he would stand there and protect her as he let the curse hit his body.
"Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort screamed and all Ginny could do was watch in horror as the green cursed arched towards Harry hitting him square in the chest.
She felt the curse hit Harry as if it had hit her own body the pain exploding through her as she screamed out his name. She couldn't hold herself up, she couldn't feel anything but the pain of him dying and she knew it lasted only a mere moment to everyone else, but to her it was a lifetime. She felt his power in her mind a blazing light and then their connection flared with heat and pain and she screamed. Her body crumpled and she knew she was falling, falling with Harry as his body collapsed under the weight of the curse. All she could do was scream as she crumpled to the floor and felt the weight of Harry wrap around her. She gave into the heat of his body and the darkness tugging at the edge of her vision and let it pull her under into oblivion.
Harry watched as Voldemort lifted his wand but did nothing, this needed to happen he needed the dark lord to cast his final curse and he knew Ginny wouldn't understand. He watched as the thing masquerading as a man fired the curse that had killed his father and so very many others. The green light was almost blinding but he didn't care he watched as the curse flew at his chest ready for it. He wrapped his mind around the feel of Ginny, her heat and warmth and love, and braced himself for the curse to impact him.
As the curse hit his skin he knew it had the potential to kill him as it had killed so many others, but as he felt it move against him his power flared catching all of that death exactly how he needed it to. He could feel his power flaring and then straining, knowing that it was going to take every last drop that he had to redirect the curse and it was something that was going to leave him almost dead, but not quite.
He twisted his own power around the curse redirecting it from its course of killing him, instead he pulled it into his body straight towards the one thing he held inside him that had to die. He sent that curse cascading into his body and let it find the part of Voldemort he had been cursed to carry with him. He felt as the curse burned through the darkness, felt as the thread he had tried to smoother before was burned in totality until it was only himself and Ginny in his mind, but he also felt the damage that the action caused. Ginny was screaming and he knew she felt his pain and though he wasn't dying but he couldn't reach out to her couldn't tell her that it was only a piece he was giving up. Instead he felt as his power flared one last time and then blackness sucked him under.
Ginny could feel Harry with her, knew that wherever she was he was right there besides her. She wanted to grasp for him but she knew she couldn't, knew that wherever they were she didn't have substance and neither did he. Suddenly everything made sense to her, she knew where they were and she sighed in peace. She was home, in the one place that Harry and she would be safe, they were inside their power. They were held safe in the source of all power and it was a peaceful place.
When her awareness of it flared she felt Harry, his hands around her waist, his chest pressed to her back, and she knew that she could stay here forever wrapped in him. This was their reward for all that they had suffered for the pain and loss, this was their resting time. Voldemort was mortal now, he had no backup plan and there were other wizards powerful enough to kill him now, they weren't needed for the way. But she didn't want to stay, futures and possibilities that could have been plagued her. Half remembered dreams of a child spilled into her mind and she knew they couldn't stay, that she had to return.
Harry felt the moment Ginny decided and he smiled to himself, he knew what she would pick but he had to wait for her, had to wait for her to want it. He knew he had tapped his power well when he redirected the curse, but now they were floating in pure energy and he could feel not just his own well but hers as well, filling to the brim with power. He knew when they returned that they could destroy heaven and earth itself if they wanted.
Harry's eyes popped open and he realised that he had collapsed on top of Ginny, her bright flash or red hair the first thing he saw. He felt as hands gripped him, meaning to move him from her and he knew it had barely been seconds since they had been sucked under by the darkness. Voldemort's minions were meaning to remove his body so that they could get to Ginny and kill her, he could sense their intentions as they touched him and there was no way in hell he was letting them anywhere near his mate. Pulling on the power that he was suddenly drowning in he screamed and felt as their bodies disintegrated around him.
There were yells of fright and anger from Voldemort's followers as someone who was supposedly dead disintegrated their comrades. Instantly they drew there wands meaning to fire before he had a chance to get up onto his feet and Harry knew all of this, knew the pain and malice they held in their hearts. Turning his head his gaze locked on the closest one to him and he simply stopped holding the power back. It flared from his skin in a wave that hit the death eaters closest to him and made them scream as it ate away their flesh down to the bone but didn't kill them straight away. Instead it ate away at them until they were gone nothing but wisps of smoke on the breeze.
Harry could feel Voldemort's anger, knew the man didn't know what was happening but Harry didn't care. Instead he turned his attention back to Ginny as her eyes opened and locked onto his.
"Harry," she whispered and he smiled at her, moving his hand up to rest against her cheek.
"What is this!" Voldemort roared and Harry turned then taking in his form.
To his eyes Voldemort was nothing but a dark patch on the face of the pattern of life. He could see so much more around them, potential and life and this man was standing in the way. In one fluid move Harry was on his feet and he pulled Ginny up to his side, her body moulding against his as her hand reached out to rest against his heart.
She could feel her cat in her mind, stronger and more with her than ever before. She knew she was at peace with her cat now, that no matter what anyone else did she would be one with her always, just as Harry was with his cat. Harry smiled down at her as she looked up into his cat eyes and knew that hers reflected the same look.
"What is this!" Voldemort demanded again and Harry felt as he tried to flare his power in an attack that failed so easily against the combined power of Harry and Ginny.
Turning his head Harry locked his gaze with Voldemort, "simple Tom this is the power you know not."
Voldemort's angry scream rippled through the night air as Harry leant down letting his lips collide with Ginny's. Instantly their power was there pushing against their skin and using the last of his senses Harry directed their combined power straight at Voldemort.
He felt as the power hit the creature that posed as a man; felt as their power burned through the layers of protection he had tried to hide behind. Their power poured into the husk of a man as Harry deepened the kiss and Ginny's hand balled against his chest. All around them people touched by the darkness screamed as their bodies burned along with Voldemort, and yet they kept pouring power into him, kept pushing their love into him until it burned his presence completely from the world.
Harry sagged against Ginny as he felt the last of their combined power drain from his body. He had a moment to turn and take in the fact that every last person stood around them was a warrior for the light, that they were all innocent. Voldemort was gone, his darkness scored from the world by their light. He pulled Ginny against him feeling that she had already succumbed to magical exhaustion. Carefully he sunk to the floor pulling his mate into his lap as he felt his own body succumbing to the expenditure. Before the darkness took him he felt fingers sliding against his skin and he turned to find Blair there, with all the other cats and he knew he would be safe that they would take care of them. He happily slipped into darkness knowing that he had done his duty and he could finally rest.