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Harry Potter and the Quest for Survival

By: Amy

Harry felt like he was falling, he didn't know how long it lasted it could have been a few minutes or an hour. But when he finally landed he saw he was in an enormous room. He looked up but the ceiling was so high up that he was looking into blackness. Harry got up and looked around the room, he noticed that everything was made of black marble. The only thought that went through his mind was "Wow", which pretty much summed up the whole room.

Then a light caught his eye; he started to walk towards it when he reached the light he saw the stone. It was ice blue, and no bigger than his hand. Harry was about to grab the stone when he was slammed into the marble wall and a hand choking him at the throat. When he got over the shock of being slammed into a wall he looked into gray eyes. Straight into the eyes of the Dark Lord of the underworld.

"I have been waiting for you young heir. My name is Mechant. " He voice sounded low, raspy, and very dangerous. "Now I know why you're here, but to get the stone you have to face me."

Yeah that's great, someone up there really doesn't like me!" Harry thought dryly. The hand finally released him, and he was able to breathe properly again. When he looked up Harry got his first real good look at the dark lord, which was really not that well at all, for the sole reason that it seemed that the dark lord blended in with the darkness. But what he could see was that he was tall.

At that moment Mechant clapped his hands once and all through the room fires blazed as if they had been going for hours. Now Harry got a good look at Mechant, Harry had a hard time trying to decide what he was. He finally came to the conclusion that Mechant was half-man half-beast. His nails were more claw-like and his face was a little of both, he had a human face but noticed that he had fangs for teeth. The dark lord had shoulder length hair, it was pulled back into a low ponytail. His hair color kind of freaked Harry; it was white, with dark ruby red streaks. But Harry didn't dwell on this to long as he noticed that Mechant was talking.

"Now what you have to do is have a swordfight with me. And trust me I am much better than that Dark Lord wannabe that you fought with a while ago." He said with a smile that assured Harry that he would have to pray to whatever god there was to help him win this one. "Now I see that you have one, so let's begin. Oh and one rule no magic."

And once again Harry fought with a sword, but unlike Voldemort, Mechant was good with his sword. Every time Harry dodged, Mechant was already bringing the next move, and after 5 minutes of doing this Harry was getting tried, that's when he made his first mistake and lost his concentration for second and was hit deeply on the back of his left leg. He could feel the blood running down his leg.

"You're better than I excepted but not that good." And that's when Mechant made his mistake, he had stopped to see what he had done to Harry and he took his chance and he hit him on the right shoulder, he went all the way through and then Harry pulled his sword out forcefully. Then they started to fight again, they lashed out at each other, and Harry was force to keep stepping back until he was at the wall, He was hit on his left arm but not to deeply. Then he hit Mechant at his leg and took that the time that he wasn't looking to reverse where he was, now the dark lord was at the wall and Harry was in front of him.

He was about to strike out at Mechant, when he was thrown into the opposite wall and hit his head very hard, it took a great deal of will power but he manage to stay conscious, and somehow he stood up. Mechant was right in front of him.

"You said no magic." Harry said with some difficulty, cause his head was swimming.

"I lied." And before Harry knew what was happening he felt a great deal of pain on his right shoulder. The dark lord had taken out his knife and had stuck it in Harry's shoulder, and didn't remove it. Then Harry was kicked in the ribs and he fell to his feet.

"Did you really think that you could beat me, granted you do put up a good fight. But I'm Mechant the Dark Lord of the Underworld! You could never beat me!" He went on rambling on how great he was and turned away from Harry, he took this time to get his sword, got up inaudibly, and went behind Mechant.

"And for that reason you could never beat me." Mechant turned around and the last thing he saw was Harry sword. He cut off his head. Mechant fell with a light thud.

And that's the end of that Dark Lord. Harry thought as he made his way to the stone. He grabbed it and then Harry realized he had a problem.

"How do I destroy it?" He said to no one. But to his surprise he was answered. He heard Cleo's voice inside his head.

"Just think about destroying the stone. Use all your mind power on destroying it."

Harry did this, he thought of nothing but for the stone to destroy itself but after what seem like forever to Harry (which was only about 10 minutes.) something started to happen. Slowly, very slowly, he saw that the stone was getting smaller and smaller, and then with a pop!

The stone of Cleo was no more.

The second the stone had gone he felt the similar feeling like he was falling. And before he knew it he was in Sirius's arm. He noticed that it was late, and that the deatheaters who were tied up were gone, except for one. Wormtail was in his rat form and in a jar.

"Harry! Oh my god what happen to you?!" Sirius noticed that there was blood coming from the back of his head, left leg, and shoulder. But before Harry responded to Sirius question, he pulled out the knife in his shoulder. At this point he was fighting to stay awake.

"I did it Sirius." Was all he said.

"Sirius we have to get him to Hogwarts. Soon!" Remus said to Sirius who was just as worried for Harry. Just then a letter appeared at Harry's hand. It read:

Dear Heir,

I cannot thank you enough for what have you done for me. This letter is a portkey and once your other friends touch it, it will transport you to Hogwarts. Thank you once again for all your help. I hope you get better soon.

Cleo

"Sirius, Remus touch the letter." He told them, they looked at each oddly but touched the letter anyway. At once they felt the similar feeling tugging at the middle. And a moment later they were in front of the gates of Hogwarts.

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A/n- So what do you think. I know it's a short chapter but it's ending soon so the chapters my be a little shorter. There's probably like 2 chapters anyway. Then I'll the squeal, if you have any idea' for the story, tell me in your reviews. Well thanks and please review! Bye

Amy