Harry Potter and the dark reign

Chapter 13: Escape

They were led down a narrow passage that was lit with flaming candles. The death eaters head quarters was extremely foreboding, hanging from the ceiling were Muggles that had been slaughtered just for the fun of killing people. Harry felt like being sick, but managed to sweep this wave of nausea away. Bella was covering Beran's eyes, and she too looked very pale. Dumbledore and Talon were the only people who were holding their heads high, not showing any sign of weakness.

There wasn't any point in resisting, and finally they came to a long line of jail cells, which were very tiny, and missed even the smallest things like beds. Each person was thrown into a different cell, and the jail cells suddenly clicked. Their wands flew from their pockets, along with Talon's broadsword.

Harry paced his grimy, vermin ridden cell. He noticed several death eaters keeping watch on their cells. Even if they did manage to escape, they would just be mowed down anyway. He walked over to the next cell, where Dumbledore stood, still remaining fairly calm.

'What are we going to do?' He asked, in defeat. Dumbledore suddenly mirrored Harry's look, and his age began to show on him.

'I think the best thing to do it wait' He said. 'There is nothing else to do' Harry nodded glumly, and slumped down, sighing.

Voldemort visited them an hour later.

'Well my friends, I have decided what to do with you' He said, surprisingly nicely for a Dark Lord. 'I'll just leave you here without food until you starve, it's fairly nice considering the consequences, oh yes one more thing' His look of kindliness turned to an evil expression 'Each day a member of you will be tortured for a little while' He turned at Harry, smiling.

'Crucio' It was too late to act. Suddenly Harry was filled with an inner feeling that was too painful to describe. He writhed around on the floor for a while, but managed not to scream. Thoughts swirled around his head, thoughts about his parents, and all the Muggles and wizards had been killed, the strange anger began to fill him again, and the pain from the Crutacious curse seemed to ease. He stood up, even though the red bolts from the Crutacious curse were still wrapped around him.

The anger seemed to whirl around; He had to get back at Voldemort, to finish what the idiot of Dark Lord had started. He raised his hands, and a heavenly scream filled the air, swelling his anger up, Harry heard the cells around him collapse. He proceeded throwing every ounce of anger he had inside at Voldemort.

Lightening fell down upon the Dark Lord, and red, shining orbs flew at him. Voldemort finally fell back, surprised at the relentlessness of the attacks.

It wasn't that easy, however. The Dark Lord pulled himself up as the attack stopped, and whirled his fingers around. A doorway appeared behind him, a shimmering dark hallway that was glowing in a dark light. He then proceeded to put out one hand, and mutter a strange incantation. Harry was blasted back, crunching against the brick walls. He felt pain explode in his ribs, and the world seemed to revert to its usual state. He gasped, and tried to move, but couldn't. He managed to shoot one last curse at Voldemort, but the dark lord was gone, he stepped through the black door, and vanished.

Everyone rushed over to Harry, and Dumbledore leaned over him.

'He has several cracked ribs, but that is all' everyone breathed a sigh of relieve. Fawkes flew forward, and a single, pearly white tear fell from his eyelids, It was absorbed into Harry's body, and suddenly all the pain disappeared.

'Come on' Talon said, quickly 'We have to get back to Hogwarts!' Harry looked into the banks of his energy and found some that hadn't been used yet. Although Voldemort had gone, a tiny amount of anger and power remained.

'Hold on to me, he said' everyone complied, looking at him curiously. He willed himself to be in the Hogwarts grounds, and then felt the fluffy grass, opening his eyes, he smiled faintly. He felt incredibly weak after that ordeal. He stumbled after the others.

'We'll need to get you to the hospital wing' Dumbledore told him 'There are things Fawkes just can't heal, unfortunately' Thee was a note of regret in his voice. Everyone escorted Harry to the hospital wing, feeling that he needed a gigantic favour after he had freed them from the cells and fended off the Dark lord.

Madam Pomfrey didn't ask any questions. She showed Harry to a bed, and shooed everyone else off, saying that he needed quiet. Harry's eyelids began to droop, and he fell into a welcomed sleep.

Harry woke the next day to voices beside his bed. The speaker was Albus Dumbledore, and he was obviously speaking to Madam Pomfrey about Harry's condition.

'He's well enough' Pomfrey was saying 'The reason for his tiredness was lack of power, all of his power was drained from the fight with Voldemort' Dumbledore agreed with her, and Harry opened his eyes. He felt a lot better now he had rested. Dumbledore turned to him, smiling. He looked rather proud of what had happened last night.

'How are you, Harry?' He asked. Harry nodded.

'I'm fine, though still a little achy from last night' Dumbledore shook his head.

'Not last night, the night before last, you've been out for two days.' As Harry took this information in Dumbledore handed something to him.

'Here, Talon went back to get our wands last night' Harry studied his wand for a moment, and then thanked Dumbledore.

'Well Professor, you finally met with Gryffindor' Dumbledore nodded, and for the first time ever, Harry noticed a look of excitement upon Dumbledore's face.

'It was very exciting' the old man said, grinning. Harry nodded, also smiling.

After a few more minutes Albus left, leaving Harry quite a lone. However, as soon as he was about to get out of bed, Ron and Hermione came in, to visit him.

'I'm just about to get up' Harry explained.

'Good!' Hermione said 'Madam Pomfrey's allowed you to come out?' Harry nodded, while Ron grinned.

'Some show you put on last night, Harry' Harry shook his head.

'Nah, it put me in here for two days' they laughed for a few seconds.

If you learn to control these 'powers' you won't end up here every time Harry's father said, wisely.

Will you teach me how? Harry asked, keenly

Of course Lily's voice said we'll try

A/N: Please review to say what you thought about this chapter. It's a little short, but hopefully it was rather exciting. Thank you so very much for all the other reviews, they really do make my day, and help me ward off writers block!