Chapter 31

        Drake heard the rumors circulating through Hogwarts care of Dean and Seamus and he'd also heard the truth from Falcore, Andre, and Alexander. And as far  as he was concerned he'd rather one of the rumors were true than for the one thing he knows as the truth to be true.

[Dang, Harry? No. He can't be a… a… what they're saying. Never. Even with the snake on him… NO!] Those were the thoughts that went through Drake's mind. [Not Harry, I mean he's the epitome of good. He saved me from killing myself. He can't be evil that'll mess me up more than even romance… No… no…]

"Don't deny the truth Drake. Its part of what made you join Black Death remember?" Donna says.

"Go away Donna I'm not in the mood today." Drake says. "And what the hell are you doing reading my mind?"

"I have two unfinished pieces of business Drake, you and my killer. I have to see that you stay alive and stay good. Those are both becoming harder than I'd've guessed from you being so elated at finally being good when you left America." Donna says bitingly and then turns invisible.

"Donna! Donna?" Drake says. "Oh great now she's gone. I wonder if it has been two weeks yet."

And yes it has Ginny was searching for Drake.

"Drake?" Ginny calls out.

"Yeah? I'm in the Trophy Room." Drake calls out

"Ok. It's me Ginny." Ginny says.

"It's been two weeks? Man this week flew by." Drake says.

"Yeah. So you know the truth about Harry? Can you enlighten me?" Ginny says.

"Sorry, no. Not unless you're in OPF and you're not in OPF. But you can be soon." Drake says. "If you answer what I told you. Do you still love me Ginny? Did it torture you for these two weeks? Am I just a fling?" Drake puts on his 'stone' face waiting for the answer.

"Of course I love you Drake." Ginny says.

"So if I scream and holler at you 'I don't want this anymore' you'll see what that means first?" Drake says.

"Of course. I mean you have to understand I was expecting you waking up to be a much more happy occasion and then you yell 'YOU!' which confused me to no end. You never even looked at me. And then when I tried to hug you and…" Ginny trails off.

"Well did these two weeks torture you like the month and a half tortured me?" Drake asks.

"Y… no. You were much more tortured but trust me I was tortured some…" Ginny says.

"Am I a fling, a crush, like Harry was?" Drake says. "There's no denying that I am quite a looker *Drake winks and smirks* at least to you here and when I had hair... No one cared about that back in America people with looks could be found quite often… If you looked anyway."

"NO!" Ginny screamed getting mad. "WHY?! DO YOU WANT TO BE?!"

"Of course not, Gin. I'm just checking." Drake says.

"Oh you stupid…" Ginny starts.

"Git?" Drake supplies.

"Exactly." Ginny says and hugs Drake very hard.

"Out of my way mudblood!" Harry snaps at Justin Finch-Fletchley shoving him down when he doesn't move and then continues on down the hall.

"Was that Harry?" Justin wonders aloud.

"Unfortunately yes, Mr. Finch-Fletchley. You will be fully informed after my class." Falcore says walking up behind him and helping him. "Don't be late its in 30 minutes."

"Ok sir." Justin says.

"Today, class we shall study Armies." Falcore says and people groan.

"This isn't muggle studies."

"Thanks for that assessment Dean. Ten Points from Gryffindor." Falcore says. "Today class, we shall study Armies of the magical sort." That gets gasps and excited whispers. "See, Dean and class, you should let me finish." Hermione's hand is in the air. "Yes Hermione?"

"There are no such things as magical armies sir." Hermione says.

"I expected you to say that but there are. They are never mentioned anymore though and that department was unlinked from the Ministry and it's records. I was in that army though. The UKMAF United Kingdom Magical Armed Forces. I was honorably discharged for all of my service. The UKMAF also consists of Aurors. They are in the practice of teaching their recruits how to get in a rage of magic… They are reforming and are going to enforce a 17 and up draft. It's Fudge's way of dealing with Voldemort. You are all dismissed except for Hermione, Ron, Drake, Justin, Dean, Seamus, and Neville." Falcore says. "Essay, write a small biography about Angel Gryffindor go and start."

"Why'd you want to see us sir?" Hermione says.

"I think it's about Harry." Justin says.

"You are correct." Falcore says. "To explain Harry's behavior… I will tell you the truth but this must not leave these walls. Or your mouths."

"Yes sir." They say.

"Ok. It started on Christmas when Harry received a package." Falcore began and went on to tell the whole story and explain about the snake and then he finished. "And so two days ago, Monday, when Harry woke up in the hospital wing… He had been 'trained' and 'indoctrinated', in English that's brainwashed, into Voldemort's way of thinking. Harry Potter is now a Death Eater."

The silence and tension were so thick you could cut it with a knife. The silence was broken by a hysterical Hermione. "HARRY?!?! NO WAY! He'd never go bad… NEVER!"

"Hermione, calm down." Ron says.

"Don't you tell me what to do Ronald Weasley!" Hermione yells.

"Hush Hermione if anyone hears you…" Falcore trails off.

"Ok sorry… but Harry?!" Hermione says.

"Yeah what's with that?" Ron says as every one else just looks in shock from the news.

"The Jeweled Snake… Harry will get steadily worse. Don't give him any fuel to worsen the fire. That is all. Good day you all." Falcore says and all of them leave.

"You two! You who spread stuff… Dean, Seamus… Anything like this gets out in rumors and I will hold the two of you responsible and you can see how well you can ride a tornado…" Ron says as he stops Dean and Seamus outside of the DADA classroom.

"Ok… we won't tell a soul." Dean and Seamus say.

"You'd better not." Ron says threateningly.

Harry was finally free of the Nightmare World. He was free and he liked it. He'd even gotten a reward for getting free… he was much stronger… he knew a lot more… and he finally had someone to follow and listen to… a true leader.

He followed a simple phrase mainly. ['There is no good or evil there is only power and those too weak to seek it.' ]

However Harry didn't enjoy not being able to use his left hand and he was a lot paler ever since he'd freed himself.

[Oh here comes Drake… He betrayed the search for power… I'll show him something.] Harry apparently was showing his thoughts on his face because Drake spoke.

"Don't even try to start Potter. I'll break your jaw before you can finish one word… one word." Drake says in a hard tone breezing past Harry.

"Fine, orphan." Harry says.

"Look whose talking." Drake yells back not turning around.

[That stupid… I'll get him for that one.] Harry says thinking about revenge.

"He really needs to learn how to insult, Gin." Drake says after telling Ginny about his run-in with Harry.

"Drake don't egg him on." Ginny says.

"Why not?" Drake says innocently.

"Because if he does turn normal he'll remember all of this. He'll hate himself it's the way he is." Ginny says.

"Well… If he doesn't start it I won't finish it." Drake says. "I won't start it either. But if he does start I'll finish it. I can only promise you that Gin. Now I've got to go grab a bite to eat I'm rather hungry after my workout… Ciao!" Drake leaves to go get food.

"Has Remus reported on success or failure yet?" Artemis asks as he and Alexander are finishing the Snakesbane.

"Yes, it was a total success but remember that can be misleading with the slight memory altering this thing has been known to do… So we'll have to check ourselves next full moon." Alexander says.

"Yes we will." Artemis says. "So how's the gang doing?"

"Fine except Harry and Drake might be starting something." Alexander says.

"Oh. I though Drake was given orders to not rile up Harry." Artemis says

"He was but he's Drake… and now he's 15 again permanently... errr at least till his birthday." Alexander says.

"Oh… yeah. Back to work." Artemis says and turns to the Griffsbane.

Saturday

"Hello Harry." Drake says passing him in the hall. "I know you know how to push all a person's buttons now but Harry if you try it with me and push the 'big red button' you will have a nice long stay in the hospital wing."

"Ok orphan… want to try that theory." Harry says causing Drake to turn around a smug look on his face like turn around.

"Well the orphan thing doesn't work on me. Strike one." Drake says.

"You're nothing but a sobered drunk… you're no good for Ginny. She doesn't really like you." Harry snaps venomously.

"Maybe if you were a voice in my head…" Drake says. "And the drunk one almost works… If I was a newly, as you put it, 'sobered drunk' but I've been sober for…at least a year maybe longer… Strike two."

"Well here comes the homerun. Your mom…" Harry gets cut off by a fist to the jaw.

"You pushed The Button. Say hello to Poppy for me." Drake says pounding Harry's face and leaving him out cold. Drake turns back and kicks him in the side once and for good measure kicks him in the head and walks off fast but not before issuing a warning. "Harry the words 'Your mom…' or 'Your dad…' come out of your mouth to me again you'll be sleeping with the giant squid if you catch my drift."

Harry was in the Hospital Wing for 4 days. Two days in a coma, two days to fully heal. And yet when he got out he didn't say who hurt him the only thing he thought of was revenge.

Drake showed no remorse for what he did even when Ginny guessed it and confronted him. He just said 'he talked about my mom' and would discuss it no further. He felt slightly hypocritical with him himself having been beaten up bad. Harry's injuries were sort of bad even though the beating was short because Drake was strong before and he'd been building up his muscles. Harry had 2 broken cheekbones, a slightly fractured eye socket (the eye which that was in had turn red from blood or something), two black eyes, a broken nose, a broken jaw, he lost 3 teeth (Drake saw them on the ground), his head was busted open when it hit the ground from the hit to the jaw, and some bruised/broken ribs, but Drake didn't care… you don't talk about his parents like that and not get the crap beat out of you. He does it again… he'll wish he hadn't. Harry Potter or not… NO ONE talks about his parents… not after…

Flashback

[Why do these jerks want to talk to me? I'm not like them.] Drake thinks as a masked member of Black Death leads him along a semi-familiar path. Drake had always packed a dagger for moment like this so he got his hand on the handle ready to pluck it from its hiding spot and strike this fellow down. Apparently his thoughts were on his face or the guy saw his hand.

"If you even try that your parents will regret it boy." The masked man said.

Drake's eyes opened wide and his face fell… [Mom and Dad? What do they want with them…]

"We have them hostage. If you do not comply they will be killed… very slowly…" The masked man says as though all he'd said was hello. He was smirking sow wide Drake could tell through the mask.

They arrived at his house not even five minutes later and the Mark of Dragon was floating above his house.

"You liar! They're dead!" Drake yelled at the man while pulling his dagger and leaving the man dead before he hit the dirt.

Drake ran into the house and saw blood in the living room which trailed up the stairs and he ran following it to their bedroom which was empty except for…

"Hello Drake. That was a nice job with the dagger." The deep voice said from the shadows.

Drake just glared. "You'll be next… Where are my parents?"

"They are prisoners at my base." The man says.

"Your… your base? Then you're… Dragon?" Drake says wide eyed in terror.

"Yes." Dragon says.

"What do you want with my parents?" Drake demands.

"You." Dragon says.

"Well here I am. Free them and you can have me otherwise I'll show you my dagger skills firsthand." Drake says drawing his dagger. "GET THEM HERE OR I'LL SLAY THE DRAGON!! GOT IT?!?!"

"Get the boy his parents." Dragon says to someone behind Drake.

Drake looks miffed that he would've been killed if he'd moved one inch because he didn't realize someone was behind him. "How fast can he get them?"

"Drake!" A couple of voices yell from behind him.

"Mom? Dad?" Drake says smiling but then he turns and his face falls.

His mom and dad are laying on the floor covered with cuts and bruises. And he could slightly tell they'd been tortured with a curse much like Cruciatus but more precisely aimed instead of an all over hurt. "Did you two who are holding them back now d o this?"

They nod yes.

"Ok." Drake then plunges at them with his dagger killing the one who holds his mom with a stab through the sternum, and therefore lung and heart, but the one holding his dad finishes his dad of with an odd spell.

"Cerebro agolpamiento." The man says pointing his wand at Drake's dad's head.

"DAD!" Drake yells as his father starts to scream an unearthly scream of pain. "Stop!" Drake stares in horror as his dads eyes bulge and turn red and then blood flow out of his ears and eyes and even his nose and mouth a little which gurgles the screams. Suddenly the screams stop and Drake's dad falls over eyes staring lifelessly. "You beast! You're dead!" Drake hops the body of his dad and is about to plunge it into his chest when…

"STOP! Stop or your mother is next." Dragon says pointing his wand towards Drake's mom.

"Fine. What do you want me to do?" Drake says dispiritedly.

"Join the Black Death. Or you both will die. Join and you're safe." Dragon says.

"Ok…" Drake says resignedly.

"No son!" His mom yells.

"Shut up." Her guard says and hits her.

"Do that again whoever you are and you can have the same fate as your partner." Drake says. "What do I have to do…?"

"Don't Drake… please no!" his mom says desperately. "They'll…"

The guard hits her again.

"What did I tell you about that?!" Drake yells and stabs him non-fatally through his forearm and the  guy screams in pain.

"STOP BOTH OF YOU! And you Mrs. Dragonheart shut up." Dragon says. "Drake, you must take a mark of loyalty and go through some training and become indoctrinated to our ways."

"Fine. Just let my mom live." Drake says as he's led out by Dragon who nods at the guard.

The guard then mutters a spell which joins his mother's lips together and behind a mask not unlike Hanibal's, but is soundproof, when they're out of earshot. He then mutters the same spell he used on Drake's father to kill her. But by the time Drake knew that he'd been 'indoctrinated' which is a nice word for brainwashed pretty much…

End of Flashback

Drake found out later that 'Cerebro agolpamiento' meant 'Brain Crush'. When he became a high enough rank he did the same to the guard who had turned traitor. Drake hated those days…. Drake didn't want to relive them again so if Harry started it again he'd make sure he finished it… once and for all.

"So what did last week's lesson have to do with the lesson before it? It's part of the 'Halo Legacy' a splinter off from the Halo is practiced heavily when the UKMAF is in the rage of magic… a non-fatal way even. It's a Half-Halo not really half of a halo just half the power of a normal one unless you have at least 15 people donating to the Half-Halo. It was created like this: The brothers of Angel were in another war… Salazar had escaped his holding cell. He had created a new army even stronger than before. So when the war was flopping as the last one had the 4 brothers of Angel decided to try a Halo and so as they tried together (and Godric watched in horror at the though of losing his other boys) they created a huge Halo which finally snapped Salazar who fell dead and most of his army fell except for 4 people who were quickly attacked and killed instead of being captured. Godric rushed to his boys and to his surprise they were all very much alive… And so the second half of a legacy was born… A very good half as it has been amply utilized in several situations." Falcore says. "For your homework you must research the Halo Legacy and write a 2 foot essay about it. Include past times it has been used, how it could be used now, and what it might evolve to in the future off the normal battlefield. Go and start! Class dismissed… be quiet in the corridors you almost got me in trouble last time." The class leaves and Falcore sits at his desk to muse things.

"Hey Drake." Harry says as Drake goes right by him in the corridor Saturday.

"Not talking to you again, Potter." Drake says.

Harry whispers something.

"What was that?" Drake asks.

"I just said it must have scared you to death seeing your dad's brain run out of his ears!" Harry yells.

"You son of a…" Drake jumps at him but stops in front him. "You know what Potter? I'm not going to waste my time on you… not this time."

"Fine… kcalb htaed rotiart, u oynio jnia ga." Harry says and rushes off leaving Drake bewildered and feeling a little odd.

"Klab taed? Are you sure that's what he said Drake?" Ginny asks Drake after he tells the odd story of his encounter with Harry.

"Something like that and a few other words. And afterwards I felt so… I felt like… Well, I wanted to do what I did in America and I don't mean get drunk." Drake says waiting for the response.

"What?" Ginny says utterly shocked. "No… that can't be… you're changed… no way!"

"I know Gin, I can't believe it either. It also felt like when I knew I was under Imperious… yet instead of breaking it I could work sort of through it… I don't know what's going on, Gin. Its Harry is all I know… Grr." Drake says and then punches the wall with a loud snap. "OW!"

"Ok now we're going to the Hospital Wing." Ginny says and they do.

Alexander and Artemis finished all of the banes and went to administer them to the subjects for tests which worked out very well. So they then administered them to all of the order members as a vaccine.

Harry had enjoyed making Drake squirm like that… It was a great torture and Harry knew where it would take Drake. Harry knew what would happen. He only needed to trigger it 10 more times. 10 more times and his revenge would be complete… He would have Drake right where he wanted him… Drake wouldn't know what hit him until it was too late… Perfect.