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AN: If Voldemort seems a bit weird... I thought he was pretty freaked out in GoF as it was, when all his victims came back to haunt him, so that's what I'm basing his actions on right now. Some of you were displeased about my H/G decision, but I promise you, it won't be too bad, and I won't be making it so that they'll just jump into each other arms, or Ginny into some Mary Sue (shudder).
Chapter 8 Of Angels and Devils
. Harry watched as a giant squirrel bounded through the bows, and gave a wincing smile as a large purple tounge lashed around it, and then with a wet slurp, the furry mammal was gobbled up by a large lizard with big amber eyes. Shaking his head, he continued watching the sky, watching the sun that bathed him in its glorious light, and felt peace for a moment.
And then something within his skull seared and burned and ached and tore and he fell to the floor, clutching the fore of his head tightly, giving low, painful moans of agony.
In his forehead, Harry felt a feeling that was not his own... fear. The feeling oozed fear, a fear of impossibility, a fear of something that should not be.
And the Creator smiled through the pain. Lily had come.
"VOLDEMORT! I HAVE COME! TODAY YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR SINS, AND YOU WILL DIE!"
Remus J. Lupin had seen many seemingly impossible things happen in his lifetime. The betrayal of Wormtail, the downfall of the Lord Voldemort, the death of the Potters, the escape from Azakaban and innocence of Sirius Black, Harry saving Peter's life, and so much more. But nothing, absolutely not one of these intense and incredible and incredulous experiences topped this.
Lily Potter was alive... and an angel. Hovering just above the ground, her massive golden brown eagle wings beat lazily, steadily, ruffling her snow white robes and she held a massive ivory sword in one hand, with a fiery red halo on her head and blazing green eyes. She glanced at no one but Lord Voldemort, and had a look and a desire to kill in her eyes. It was clear that she could have struck the Dark Lord down where he stood unaware before, but this was a creature who would only fight head on, not resorting to deceit and trickery. She was far too pure for that.
Silently, one religious wizard whispered, "God has sent us an angel."
An avenging one, Remus thought as he watched Voldemort gape at the sword wielding angel that landed in front of him.
"It's not possible..." the very shaken, very perturbed Dark Lord whispered fearfully, "You're dead! I killed you!" With some satisfaction, Remus noted that the formerly gloating Lord Voldemort was now on the verge of hysterics.
"I am not Lily Potter... but I am here to avenge her, and my Master." The angel of vengeance replied tonelessly. "I will bring your head back to Him, and let the rest of your body rot for the crows." A deadly glint was in her emerald eyes, and she raised her ivory, gold trimmed blade that gleamed as if it was made of pure light.
"You're not real! Avada Kedavra!" Lord Voldemort screeched, and the green light of the Killing Curse slashed through the air, accompanied by a chorus of gasps as Lily took off into the air again, fast and furious now.
The battle of Angels and Devils was on.
Ginny Weasley heard several astonished shouts and horrified screams and shrieks mixing into one symphony of combat, and something in her gut told her that something was different. Some new power had entered the equation.
The redhead desperately hoped it was for the Light side, seeing as how just before she had heard the triumphant, if indistinct shouts of Him.
She shuddered, remembering the chills she had of hearing that devil's, the devil that was Tom Riddle, voice. The Chamber of Secrets was both another lifetime and just yesterday, a place where Ginny Weasley both died and was born again. It broke her, and forced her too make herself whole again, forge a new Ginny in the fires of the old.
It took her so long... and what helped her had been Harry.
It hurt still to think about him... to think that her old crush, that constant ache in her heart, was now unburied, and dead. They had held a massive funeral for him... everyone was there, but the sight of that empty coffin tore at Ginny in a way that she had never felt before.
Shaking her head from her thoughts, she bit her lip thoughtfully. Curiosity was now burning in her, and she desperately needed to know if her parents were all right. But on the other hand... she glanced at Tonks, who was sitting in one chair, panting slightly, a bit pale still, weak from blood loss. Remus had told her to stay here, and Ginny knew that she was already in trouble as it was.
"Go." Tonks gritted out, as if reading the redheads thoughts.
"What?" Ginny, Hermione, and Ron chorused confusedly.
"Go on you three. No sense in all of us staying here." The Auror said, motioning to the petite redhead.
"What about you?" Hermione commented worriedly, looking at the amount of blood that was still decorating the floor.
Tonks shook her head. "I'll be fine. Go."
The three of them shot the Auror grateful looks, and crept off into the battlefield, where an astonishing battle was taking place.
Tom Marvolo Riddle, more commonly known as Lord Voldemort, had never been afraid of many things. In his youth, his fear had been Albus Dumbledore. He feared Death, true, which is why he sought immorality. But the last time fear of such magnitude was two years ago, in the graveyard of his resurrection, where he faced the ghosts, the shades of his victims.
Their faces still haunted him, taunting him to join them in the eternal embrace of Death.
And now one had come to bring him into that eternal embrace.
"Avada Kedavra!" He screamed again, but the angel flew over it, sword raised to strike the Dark Lord down.
"Die!" Lily roared, and struck down with her ivory blade. Voldemort barely managed to create a shimmering silver shield to block it, which was nearly cleaved in half from the force of the blow.
Staggering backwards, the Dark Lord found himself in a place where he had never been before.
Last place. The one on the defensive, the one who was losing the battle.
It was not a comfortable place, and the irrational fears plaguing the Lord Voldemort dissipated in the face of the return of cold Slytherin calculation. "What are you?" The Heir of Slytherin asked loudly, sending a powerful black colored curse towards the avenging angel.
Lily blocked the curse with her blade and responded furiously, "Your executioner!"
Voldemort leapt aside as the ivory blade cleaved the air where he once stood, and fired off a powerful spell, the Bone Breaker curse. The sick dark red light leapt from his wand and smashed into the Guardian, sending the angel crashing into the ground. Not wanting to get close to the creature, Lord Voldemort fired off a Killing Curse, giving off a laugh of triumph.
But the timely flight of the angel cut his laughter short, and the furious Lily came at him again, slashing furiously, not slowed by the injuries she must have taken.
The Dark Lord was taken aback by the recovery and assault of the avenging angel, and stumbled backwards, his hastily created magical shield battered away easily. Giving a low growl of triumph, the angel known as Lily sent her blade crashing down towards Lord Voldemort's head.
By some stroke of unholy luck, the Dark Lord fell backwards, his left arm raised to shield himself.
In a single agonizing scream and the in the whistle of steel and the rain of blood, the crowd found themselves witnessing the most astonishing sight yet.
Remus' eyes grew wide as he stepped out of the broken debris of the walls of Honeydukes, supporting a much more stabilized, but even more shocked Albus Dumbledore.
Up the street, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Ronald Weasley stopped dead, gazing at the sight before them in utter disbelief.
On the ground, rolling in utter agony, screaming as though the fires of Hell were burning his soul, Lord Voldemort screamed, clutching the bleeding stump of his left arm. Above him, the victor of this fight, the angel Lily raised her ivory blade to end the Dark Lord.
"And now it ends." The Guardian whispered, blade raised and poised to strike.
Just then, the self-preservation instinct of the Dark Lord kicked in, and he raised his wand through the fog of pain, pointing it at the angel at point-blank range. "AVADA KEDAVRA!"
Around them, a chorus of shocked gasps was heard, as well as an agonized cry of protest from one Remus J. Lupin as the unholy green light erupted from the tip of Voldemort's wand, and slashed through the air... and missed.
Lily had cocked her head to the side, the curse just barely missing her cheek by inches, as she flew away from the Dark Lord like a startled bird, blade raised, on the defensive.
And then the tide changed, as Augustus Rookwood, with Jugson and Muliciber in tow, ran towards their fallen Lord, sending various curses towards the angel, who flew hastily to avoid being struck down.
"Kill her!" Voldemort snarled, before activating a Portkey, having set up Anti-Apparation wards at the beginning of the battle.
Lily gave a loud cry of anger and rage at her quarry's escape, which turned into screams of pain when Rookwood and the other Death Eaters began cursing her, hitting her first with Cruciatus Curses to make sure she stayed on the ground.
"Keep her down," Rookwood nodded to Jugson, and then raised his wand. "Avada-"
"EXPELLIARMUS!" Remus Lupin roared, sending Rookwood and his wand flying in opposite directions.
Lily quickly took flight as Mulicber and Jugson broke off to confront Remus, who found himself outnumbered and outgunned. "Kill the woman first fools!" Rookwood roared, grabbing his wand and pointing it at the retreating angel, which was already a good distance from the battle, but not yet out of range.
The Angel took two Cutting Curses that slashed deep in her flesh as well as another Bone Breaker Curse from Rookwood before she vanished from sight.
Remus narrowly avoided a Bone Breaker Curse directed at him, and answered it with a cry of "Relashio!" The sparks burnt Jugson's robes and quickly set them on fire, which the Death Eater put out quickly, avoiding the Stunner the werewolf sent his way.
Gritting his teeth, the Order member found himself backed against the wall, on the defensive as all three Death Eaters concentrated their fire on the werewolf, when suddenly a flash of blue light erupted next to Remus, and sent Jugson flying ten meters away.
Eyes widening in horror, Rookwood activated his Portkey and disappeared. Before Muliciber could do the same, he was disarmed, and his Portkey, a small piece of paper, rolled away from him. Desperate, the Death Eater ran from the enemy.
A rejuvenated Albus Dumbledore fired off a Stunner which nailed the retreating Mulicber in between the shoulder blades, sending him crashing into the ground.
The other members of the Order of the Phoenix arrived on the scene along with Ginny, Hermione, and Ron, all heartened by the flight of the Dark Lord and Dumbledore's recovery.
Panting slightly, Moody ran over to Dumbledore first. "The other Death Eaters retreated, bunch of stinking coward..." Mad-Eye grumbled.
Albus smiled, a small, unreadable smile. "Another day, old friend. Another day."
"Damn right," Remus commented, "What the hell was that?"
Silence on all sides answered him.
"Then I guess we had better find out." The werewolf muttered.
Thanks to Nimbirosa, Zeromaru Chaos Mode, Khadon, theM, Pleione, Quillian, Bujiana, moonlightwitch, nogoalielikeme, blah29, arekuruu-inabikari-no-She, angelkitty77, japanese-jew, Horseyfly91, Crysania Fay, mennion, FroBoy, Flight of the Wild, Cattatra, mashimaromadness, Silver Warrior, Fay-the-elven-princess, Surarrin, Illucia, and PinkyTheSnowman for reviewing!
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Khadon- Well... when I stated he had godlike powers, or was like a god, I may have worded that wrong. I toyed with just making this god!Harry, but then I could be following a path others have traveled. So I suppose an honest answer might be good to clear things up for everyone. Harry has the power of Creation. No more, no less. He can create a gigantic burrito, that doesn't mean he could eat it all in one sitting. Its beyond him to obliterate a mountain, but he could easily create a giant monster that could do so. He can make a sword, but he can't use it. It's definitely not a weak power though, since he could easily create a massive army (hint) to help him out or something like that. But he can create much more than physical objects too (another hint). I hope I cleared everything up.
theM- Oh yeah.
Pleione- Nope.
Quillian- Thanks. The above should answer the rest of your questions.
blah29- Please read above explanation to Khadon concerning Harry's powers.
arekuruu-inabikari-no-She- I'm kind of divided. I liked how epic the Invasion cycle felt (everyone's dying, crazy stuff happening everywhere), but I liked the humor and more in depth characterizations of Onslaught cycle.
japanese-jew- I don't get what's so surprising. I did say that Lily was going after Voldemort in chapter six.
Horseyfly91- Uh... same thing as above.
Crysania Fay- Going to keep H/Gness minimal, and it won't appear for a while. And please, no shooting Ginny's. As for the whole island thing, that's a question that's been on everyone's minds. All I can say is I crack a very scary smile when I think about what will happen.
Cattatra- Wow, you really love Angel!Lily. Anyways, who says Harry's going to be "coming" back to civilization? The summary should be giving you some hints...
mashimaromadness- Since its not possible for Harry to be a mother (rolls eyes at m-preg stories in disgust. Sorry, even my tolerance has a bit of a limit... and that and D/G meets it.), it should be fairly obvious who it was in the last chapter.
Silver Warrior- And I'm waiting for my muse to help me write it. It's always easy to write the boss battle, it's everything else that's the problem.
Illucia- Truly sorry you feel that way. Well, ignore it, or just bear it. It's not going to be that bad. Who knows, you may just end up liking it, or at least tolerating it. I'm glad that you're going to stick around though, despite that fact.
PinkyTheSnowman- I was tempted to leave you with another cliffhanger... but you guys have been through enough for now. I'm trying to work on Shattered Reality, but its so stubborn.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! A review would be a nice thank you (wink wink nudge nudge).