Chapter thirteen

They arrived at the ministry even more wound up than they were when they had left the house. They stormed past the secretary at the front straight through to Manton's office where he was sat discussing something that sounded fairly important with a number of other witches and wizards.

"We've had enough Manton, we end this now, where is the deatheater camp?" Harry demanded without any niceties that one would expect after interrupting a meeting.

"Harry, can you not see that I am in the middle of a meeting here?"

"Do I look like I give shit?" Harry asked, "To clear it up, I really don't, they have a good friend of mine, I plan to kill them all, now where are they?"

"I suppose Drew has already told you of the losses we have already had to endure."

"Yeah, he did, it was so nice of you to clear that up when we arrived, now I'm going to ask you nicely one last time before I get nasty, where is the deatheater camp?"

"I would hate to have to report to my brother and tell him that you have been less than what he expected you to be Harry, you will wait for me outside while I finish up here." Manton said his voice stern, Harry's temper however wasn't going to withstand that.

He withdrew his wand and pointed it at Manton, the rest of the Allure, Draco and Drew all did the same, there was an intake of breath from those who were watching the scene. They all looked scandalised; Harry however could have cared less.

"No, you will deal with me now and then we'll be out of here, possibly for good." Harry said, his voice was his 'don't mess with me' tone that made everyone and anyone tremble in their boots. "Now, one more time and if you don't answer me this time your going to find yourself hanging upside down while doing a Scottish jig." Harry warned him, "Now do you understand."

Manton now more than just a little scared nodded, "I will take you there myself, I will even help you fight them, I do not know how any one expects children to fight."

"We're not children." Clayton said, "We never have been and we never will be."

"Yeah, and it's all our ministries fault, now we don't play nicely with people like you." Nicholas said, the males being a little more prone to violence in their agitated states however the girls were not far behind.

Manton in the end cleared everyone out of his office and then organized a port key for them all to travel to the deatheater camp. It all happened so quickly that within fifteen minutes they were all ready to leave again.

Manton had even arranged for a couple of added Aurors to tag along, at which point Harry had made it perfectly clear that he was in charge of each and every one of them, no one had argued, Manton was still a little pale from Harry's threats.

Harry was practically white with rage, Draco was even feeling a little scared and it wasn't because of the battle that they were about to participate in either, when Harry was angry then the room shook, sometimes literally, he would never admit this but he was actually scared of his boyfriend.

At eight thirty they all positioned themselves around a port key that was an old boot, in the circle was Harry, Draco, Carrie, Nicholas, Clayton, Sydney, Trinity, Landon, Megan, Cassidy, Drew, Manton, Frederick, Martin and Ian. The latter three Aurors that had been instructed to tag along with them.

"On the count of three then," Manton said to the group at large before he began to count, at three they all touched the port key and felt the familiar tug behind their navels as they were pulled to another location.

They all landed with a bump somewhere in the outback, it was sandy and dusty, not to mention extremely hot. At once they all shredded as many layers as possible leaving most in t-shirts and jeans.

"Where are we going?" Harry asked looking around but seeing no trace of anything let alone deatheater camps, there wasn't a single house in sight, only never ending desert, Sydney bit back a yelp as a snake slithered past them, at that moment Harry had an idea.

"Excuse me" Harry hissed at the snake, most had forgotten that Harry spoke parceltongue, it wasn't an ability that Harry was particularly proud of as it was associated with the dark arts however he would never deny that it wasn't useful.

"Maybe you could help us" The snake had stopped and turned to face Harry, his head now off the ground as he stared at the boy who spoke to him, to show trust Harry knelt down to the snakes level. Everyone was looking a little shocked, even terrified, Draco however was awed and thought it a complete turn on.

"Never before have I spoken to a man before." The snake hissed in return, harry just smiled at it.

"As I say, my companions and I are in need of assistance, are you aware of any other men around these parts?"

"There were many men, they have been here a long time, they kill creatures such as myself, we serpents steer clear of their area."

"Could you tell us where we could find them?"

"Of course, what do you plan on doing to these men?"

"We will rid their presence from this land which is rightfully yours."

"I have many a friend, we could possibly be of assistance should you have need of us, our poison is highly effective and painful."

The others were all wondering what on earth Harry was saying to the snake, Harry looked almost pensive, they had no idea whether or not this was a good thing or not.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Trinity asked Sydney after ten minutes or so, Sydney just shrugged, they were all pretty much clueless.

When Harry got to his feet he motioned that they should follow him and he himself followed the snake, which soon turned out to be snakes after a minute or too. The many snakes and the many fighters soon came to a stop. There were at least a hundred or so snakes present.

"This is where they are, although we do not know how to access the place." The first snake told Harry who nodded and hissed his thank you.

"Can you see past the spells protecting the camp because we cannot?"

"Yes, they cannot see you either, it is poor work we can sense it young sir." A second snake hissed to Harry.

"Thank you, can you get through the shield?"

"Yes young master."

"Then go and distract them while we break it down."

"Yes young master."

Harry then turned to the group as the snakes literally vanished into thin air as they slithered into the wards protecting the deatheater camp. "Are you going to help me break down these wards or not?" Harry asked grinning and at once everyone began to work at them.

With so many powerful wizards and witches it took barely any time at all before the wards were down and the sound of screaming met their ears, the snakes had kept up their end of the bargain and had both scared and bitten a lot of people.

Harry however had been smart enough to tell them not to bite Logan, they had of course been given a description of him. "Find Logan, kill any one that gets in your way." Harry instructed and at once everyone dashed off to do the job that they had been told to do.

Draco however remained behind, "Stay close" He said.

"Of course, come on." Harry said, Draco's words had soothed him almost quelled his anger completely.

As they made their way through the camp site being careful not to step on any snakes, whose venom was apparently fast acting, bodies were littered everywhere, the deatheaters left alive were being dealt with accordingly by the Allure and others.

"Come on Draco, I think he may be in there." Harry said pointing to a tent that looked a little larger than the others and was in the centre, it was all pretty simple, white tents that looked pretty muggle like but would be magically enhanced on the inside.

The smell that was raising into their nostrils however almost made them retch, Draco did in fact throw up, his stomach a little more sensitive due to his morning sickness. It was the stench of death and it was everywhere, the others must have been aware of it as well and were just as terrified of what it meant.

Harry with Draco following close behind him went towards the tent, when a spell was fired their way Draco deflected it with ease, it was clear that the deatheaters didn't want them going in there. That meant that there was something there that they weren't supposed to see.

Intrigued Harry entered and almost had to run out again as his stomach almost emptied, he did however manage to keep his cool, Draco wasn't so lucky and chose to wait outside.

There wasn't a single body insight, however there were pieces of bodies, both from inside and out. Blood stained each and every surface and wall available to be stained, a single wooden chair in the centre where the victims were no doubt tied up while they received whatever torture the deatheaters were going to give out.

A small metal cage was stood to one side, it was empty and Harry's heart sank, he began to look around for apart of Logan that he may have recognized, it was then that he spotted it. A torso was displayed in a very grotesque fashion to one side, Harry was positive that it belonged to Logan as it had a tattoo of a dagger was clearly depicted on his left breast.

Harry left at once, tears were brimming in his eyes as he fell to his knees outside. At once Draco was kneeling in front of him and had taken him in his arms, comforting him as he cried. No one, not even the Allures had ever seen Harry cry, battle literally stopped as they turned to stare.

"Tell me what happened" Draco whispered in his ear, "Tell me what you saw."

"Logan's gone" Harry said suddenly standing and taking Draco with him. "Its over, we'll have our normal and everyone else can live their lives."

"I'm so sorry baby; I know how close you all were."

At that moment a spell was fired their way and Harry had to dive, pushing them both to the ground to avoid it, they had been in their own little world but that didn't protect them from the real world, this was a battle they didn't have time to grieve, besides this to Harry was the best comfort that he could have, killing the people who killed Logan.

"Stay hidden and stay safe, I'll be back."

Draco didn't have time to argue because Harry was off shooting spells at those Deatheaters that were still alive, it was a long and gruelling battle and no one sustained any lasting injuries apart from the deatheaters of course who were all dead.

Once the battle was over Harry knelt down to thank the snakes for all the work that they had done and then he turned to face the others. They had all seen him shed his tears so on some level they must have known what was coming.

"I want this place burnt to the ground, the deeds that were done here too ghastly to be discovered by any one." Harry said sullenly.

"And what of Logan?" Carrie asked, she had been the closest too him on many levels, she needed to hear that he was dead otherwise she would never believe it.

"He is dead" Harry said simply, he did not want to tell his companions how that it had come about, that was his own hell, he could not let others know that their friend, their brother had been chopped into little pieces and scattered about like he meant nothing.

"How did he die?" Trinity asked, tears were trickling down her rosy cheeks now as well, Harry hated to see them cry, hated these people and were glad that they were all dead, in hell where they all deserved to be.

Harry shook his head but the others did not seem to be happy with this. "Please, Harry." These words that were admitted from Sydney's mouth and they enraged Harry, suddenly he didn't care about protecting them any more.

"You want to know how he died? Why don't you go and have a look, see if you can identify all of the pieces of his body! The deatheaters chopped him up into little pieces, whether they did this before or after he died I don't know but going on the jollies that they get from torturing people I'm going to go with before, does that make you feel better Trinity, how about you Sydney? Does it make you feel better that he died screaming in pain?"

Harry didn't stop shouting until Draco took him in his arms and he broke down into noisy sobs, ministry wizards didn't really know what to do, they did not grieve for they did not know the deceased but they could feel the sorrow.

So instead they followed through on Harry's orders and burnt the place to the ground while ushering the others out of the way so that they could achieve this without any other loss.

Even if the Allures had wanted to take Logan's body they would have had a hard time locating all of it so they didn't bother trying. As soon as this task was completed they all touched the port key and were transported back to the Australian Ministry of magic. No one said a word to anyone, all too wrapped up in their own grief to do or say much.

Harry barely noticed that they were being taken back to the house that they had occupied for the past few days, no one did really. No one really cared that Manton said that he would organise for them to be taken back to England, however before he left Drew stopped him, along with Draco and the ministry wizards he had been one of the ones who hadn't needed to grieve.

"I'll be on the same flight back to England Manton, I'm going with them." Drew said, a dissatisfied look pasted across Manton's face but he said nothing, not wanting to cause a scene in front of these grieving teenagers that were potentially dangerous.

"May I have a word please Drew, outside." He asked and reluctantly he nodded and they went outside, Megan remained listening intently. Harry and Draco made their way up the stairs to the bedroom, well Draco more led Harry, either way that's where they ended up.

Draco settled Harry into bed before crawling in himself; they heard the others do the same and the house fell silent, it was only then that the couple spoke.

"Harry, honey, are you alright?" Draco asked as he tucked a stray hair behind Harry's ear and placed a soft kiss upon his soft lips.

"I don't know yet." Harry said truthfully keeping eye contact with Draco and gave him a faint sort of smile.

"I know how much you must be hurting and I'm so sorry that you had to be the one to find him like that, but it's over now, we can go home." Draco said softly.

A single tear rolled down Harry's cheek, Draco wiped it away with a swipe of his thumb and then he began to kiss him again. They were long sweet kisses that left them both breathless and desperate for more.

"I don't want to take advantage of you." Draco said as he cupped Harry's cheek with his hand as he gazed longingly into Harry's eyes.

"Your not, please Draco, I need this." Harry said his tone barely a whisper as they kissed again.

"As long as you're sure my love," Draco said.

Sorry this took a while but it's finally here and only one more chapter to go, don't forget to leave a review. xxxxxxxxx