Susan stared at Albus after he fell back asleep. His condition finally stabilized after waking for those brief few minutes. Susan tucked in the old wizard and sat at her post next to his chair thinking of what he had just said.

"There is a chance if it truly is his own anger. No one knows, but the dark side of Harry has sealed off the good. It's a rune on his chest."

Susan sat back in her chair. The feeling of restlessness set in and Susan groaned aloud. No one she had tried to contact by floo were found and owl was unreliable with this kind of information. She ignored the pulling in the pit of her stomach for several more minutes before she looked at her patient. "Sorry Albus but I need to know." She took her coat from the chair and slid it on while exiting the door. There was a loud crack before the room was silent again. Albus's breathing was regular and strong. His eyebrow furrowed in mid dream before they relaxed and he continued to sleep unaware that the fate of his pupil, friend, and surrogate grandson would be played out by the time he awoke.

Chapter 6 Restless Decisions

Another roar vibrated the walls. The black cat stretched and silver stripes laced its body giving it the semblance of the tiger it once was. Tonks saw a few Raiders cover their ears at another roar. She pulled her wand towards Harry and everyone followed.

Harry knelt before the tiger and looked as if he never had the curse. The joy he had when he saw Rain come back did not go unnoticed by the Raiders. Harry chuckled when Rain pressed against his hand.

"How?" Tonks looked at Harry still on the dais. The Raiders dared not move to give up the chance to talk with Harry. They were weary of openly fighting against him. But the thought of trying to capture him was still in their heads.

Harry did not turn from Rain. He laughed out, "How? Tonks, you should know what this place is." Harry let himself smile and three more black animals appeared at his side and all gathered around their long lost comrade.

Cho only heard of this place. It was the entrance to Hades' castle. And his wife Persephone's home. "Resurrection?" Cho asked while looking at the fading runes along the walls.

Phor nipped Rain's ear and the tiger growled at Arvalis who slithered on his back. Argent whined at the growl but moved his head over Rain's neck in greeting. Harry snorted and it reflected in the shallow signs of emotions that his summons carried. The four summons looked to Cho. "You know I can't break laws of nature. No one can, but bending them is more than enough." All of the summons except for Rain faded away. Rain stretched and yawned widely. "Rain is part of me, I am part of him. It does not matter if he is dead, if I am alive." Rain purred slightly before looking down at the wizards ahead of him. "Have you ever heard of killing the ego? It's similar to what I did to Rain." Rain purred against Harry's neck and shoulder. Harry rubbed his back and shoulder in return. "What I did to Rain was more permanent." Harry leaned his head against his tiger's. "I am sorry." Rain's eyes shined for a moment and Harry stood up to sigh. "It's good to have you back." Rain roared again shaking the walls and the ancient ceiling dropped sheets of dust.

"I am done here." Harry raised his hand to the captured prisoners and their glass cells disappeared. "They are useless to me now. Now I can begin." Harry turned away from them and Rain disappeared.

"Wait." Harry turned and looked at Ron.

Harry smiled slightly. "If it isn't my old mate."

"Where are you going to go?"

Harry laughed. "You gain my attention, I pause to answer you, and you waste the moment by asking where I am going to go?" His eyes glinted and everyone felt the cold in the room. Harry smiled. He enjoyed the alarmed looks on these people whom he remembered as friends. "You should have asked what I am going to do." The room fell another ten degrees and Ron shivered. "I am going to leave this place and head north back to Britain. Everything seems to start and end there." Harry turned away from them and began to walk.

Ron gritted his teeth. "What are you going to do?"

Harry paused again and laughed with out turning around. He lowered and shook his head in exasperation. "Ron you really are a piece of work." The group felt a sudden memory in their minds.

Harry placed down the Prophet and sighed. Resentment filled his chest and he ignored the stares and whispers from the other students. "Maybe the world isn't worth saving." There were a few depressed nods of agreement from Ron and Hermione. Harry thought darkly to himself. Maybe it would be better to wipe the world clean. Harry looked at his two friends but they were not able to read minds and Harry's thoughts were kept to himself.

Harry smiled at Ron when the memory he projected was over. "Good bye Ron." Ron stood stunned from the memory. Harry began to walk away.

Cho looked at the Raiders who were as stunned from the sudden violation of their minds. Harry had pieced through their mental shields to give them that image. Cho took a step back to tap her toe to the ground before she disappeared and reappeared in front of Harry. "I can't let you go Harry."

Harry smiled and waved his hand at Cho. Cho clearly saw the magic force on her left side and cast a shield to her left. A loud clap of energy echoed the hall when the wave and shield met. "Do you really want to be in my way Cho?" Harry raised his hand and it began to glow a bright blue.

Harry's spell was stopped short by twelve hexes. Each one reverberated his shield. He turned his head and smiled. "Rain." The black and silver tiger stood next to him. "Go." Rain sprinted towards the group of Raiders who scattered. "As for you Cho we haven't had a good match in some time."

"Seven years Harry." Cho removed the auror cloak. She threw it to the side to reveal her simple black shirt and no armor. "We are both a magnitude or so stronger than what we were last." Her eyes dulled for a moment and Harry felt her aura envelop the room. Her clothes moved slightly by the magic that surrounded her body. Harry's eyes narrowed. The world slowed for both Harry and Cho and the sounds of hexes and curses from the summon and friends no longer held any meaning for the two of them.

"Let's see how my apprentice handles herself after all of these years." Harry spread his feet apart and held his hands to either side of his hips.

Cho moved herself so her left side was facing Harry and her wand arm facing away from him. "I am sorry Harry but we need to stop you. The Auror's don't call me the 'pillar' for nothing." Harry smiled as Cho's aura enflamed and thickened. Harry could taste the energy she was giving off in waves.

The two stared at one another for a long moment. Harry gripped his hand and both of them fired a simple spell to test themselves. "Stupefy!" The two said at once. When the two spells met half way, the room shook and the ground underneath the spells cracked and fanned through the entire floor. Harry smiled and his other three summons appeared next to him. "Help out Rain, he is in a little trouble." Cho looked behind Harry and her Raiders were slowly pushing the tiger back. Fleur threw several balls of fire at the tiger and clawed back at him when the black tiger would claw at her.

Cho looked back at Harry and sighed. "Still showing off?" All four summons would take a large amount of concentration and attention off of Cho.

"Think of it as a handicap." He threw his hand in her direction and five consecutive spell flew at her. Cho slide her right foot around her body and waved her wand sharply down then up. The spells that were aimed toward her were now being brushed around her and each made a hole in the stone walls behind her. She returned several hexes in rapid succession and Harry pushed them up towards the ceiling. The room shook again and Harry looked at the effects surprised by the impact. "Not holding back are you." He said still looking at the ceiling. The holes that laid there were wide and deep.

"Never for you Harry." Cho smiled slightly and dashed towards Harry. She flicked her wand up and several stone hands emerged from the ground and grabbed Harry's ankles wrists and neck. Cho, who was still in a dead run, pointed her wand at his chest and screamed. "Pertusus!" Harry looked at the hands and moved his hands to find no slack. He glared at the stone appendages and they changed to steel and raced over Harry's body to his chest and turned into a round shield. The spell hit the shield and slowed to a halt. Cho saw that the piercing curse was still slowly moving through the metal plate. She took another step disappeared and reappeared next to Harry. She grabbed his neck and squeezed. Harry gasped in surprise. Cho squashed the ache in her heart when she said. "Bye Harry." Her wand was next to his neck "Slide." Her wand flashed a silver light before a long needle thrust through Harry's neck. Harry's shield slackened and the piercing curse moved through his chest leaving a hold the size of Cho's fist. Immediately the Summons disappeared and Harry's body fell to the floor. Cho lowered her wand and looked at Harry. The Raiders stood shocked and none could see the tears streaming down Cho's face.

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Susan walked into her house and was slowly running out of options. The Auror did not know where Tonks or Cho were, the Raider's families did not know where their family members were, and Hermione was inaccessible. She sat on the couch and placed her head in her hands. "What am I doing to do?"

What you can do...

Susan lifted her head and looked around the room. "Who's there?"

We all have things we are gifted at...

Susan walked around and cleared her head. If no one was here it was a Legilimens. What do you want?

What you want. Harry Potter to live. It is not too late. There is one person you did not look to for aid.

Susan's eyes widened. "Alice." Susan knew her daughter had been in and out as much as she had been. Susan ran to her bedroom and into the receiving chamber that held the floo fireplace. She saw the portrait over the fire place. It was an enchanted portrait of her Aunt. "Ami have you seen where Alice went?"

"Well yes I have, shame on you to not be here, she was so distraught a few days ago. She is alright now." Amelia said hastily. "She has been spending time with that nice Owen boy. There is love there I still think." Amelia smiled and went back to her book that was titled Justice.

Susan grabbed some floo powder. "The Yellows!" The green fire erupted from the fireplace and she ran in.

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Mathew sat on his chair exhausted. He had been in Cyan's cell for a few hours and already knew he pushed himself more than he should have. He looked at Cyan. "Is that enough?" Cyan nodded.

"It is more than enough. Good job Mathew." She handed him a glass of water and began to make herself and Mathew a meal. "With Susan on her way, we can only hope Harry had taught those children as his own contingency plan. Now we sit and wait."

Mathew nodded and wring his hand through his pant pockets. After a few minutes. "How can you wait like this. Without knowing?"

"And not go mind searching like you do to see what is going on now?" Mathew nodded. "For me it's better to not know and worry than it is to know and worry. Either way, you can not do a thing about it. Only watch." She sat down and handed the boy a butterbeer after he handed her his empty glass. "You are going to find, young Mathew, that not everything you do is going to help. Fore knowledge is not the end all of everything." Cyan sat next to him and took a swig of her own bottle. "Most of the time, Mathew, you are going to have to let it all go and see where fate takes us."

Mathew nodded and sighed. He vowed he would not look to see what was going on with Alice or Harry.

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Cho looked at the body of Harry and turned him over so she could see his face. His vibrant green eyes were empty and his skin was already becoming cold. Cho took him and hugged his body. Neville walked up to her alone and saw what she did to Harry. He knelt next to his wife and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. She nodded and laid Harry's body back on the dais where he had fallen. Cho stood up and leaned against Neville. The other Raiders slowly walked up the raised floor to see Harry. Tonks limped passed Ron and they both caught the wound on Harry's chest and neck. Everyone looked at Harry's body unable to look away from their friend, leader, and to a few, hero.

Tonks waved her wand and a sheet covered Harry's body. "L-lets get some people down here to recover Harry's body, we need to know if there is any remnants of the curse left in his body. Don't let anyone move it." He told Ron. Ron nodded numbly.

Tonks walked slowly off the steps and towards the hallway entrance when she heard several gasps. She turned and found several of the Raiders take a few steps back. She ran up the dais enough to see what was happening before she said, "Back away!"

Cho was dragged away from Harry's body. In her place stood all four of Harry's silver summons.

Rain looked at the covering and it disappeared. "Harry, you are stronger than this."

Phor looked at the wounds. The two holes in his body began to mend from the inside out. He saw the lungs reforming and the bone of his spine reconnecting through his neck. "This is not the time to be resting."

Argent stood and nudged Harry's face. "There is plenty of time, as long as you take it."

Arvalis saw the completed mended wounds and flicked his tail over Harry's heart. "Now LIVE!"

Harry took in a surprised breath of air and he stood. The rune on his chest was destroyed from the spell. He looked at his summons smiling before his eyes dulled and his summons writhed in pain. Cho, Luna and Erika took several steps forward before Harry looked up again. He glared at Cho. Harry's summons cried out in pain before each turned solid black. "I must say that you really didn't hold back Cho. Thank you." Harry snapped his hand to Cho and fired a spell at was as wide and tall as he was. Neville dove towards his wife and they both fell of the dais in a hard thud.

"I will not be stopped here of all places. Not while I have just become complete." Harry looked at his summon Rain.

Cho looked at Neville and almost sobbed out, "I can't do it again Neville it killed me the first time." Neville rocked his wife and kissed her before picking her up and placing her in hallway entrance. "Rest love. We all understand." Neville turned and ran back towards the Raiders.

Harry spread his summons through out the room and each one was attacking a different group. Neville skidded to a halt and shouted. "Ignore the summons concentrate on Harry!" Each Raider turned to Harry. Harry smiled and moved around the dais. Each spell missing. There were several moans as three Raiders fell to Phor and Arvalis. Neville and Ron appeared next to Harry and grabbed an arm and locked it to their body. Harry only had enough time to look at Ron before he felt a stabbing pain in his back before he realized it was Tonks' knife. Ron and Neville let go of Harry. That earned each of them a rocketing banishing curse slamming them both into a wall.

Harry reached for the knife and had his hand burned. Several hexes were aimed at the knife and into the wound that it opened. Harry was knocked to the ground and the remaining Raiders began to fire hex after hex at the knife that was heating up from the amount of magic pouring into it. Harry raised his head enough to see the Raiders walking towards him each firing a hex at the knife on his back.

Harry screamed and the room felt cold. The walls froze and the Raiders fell to the ground weakened. Harry stood and his hand began to glow with their magic. The knife in his back levitated out of his rear shoulder and clattered to the floor. The Raiders looked at him and tried to raise their wands to hex him. Harry smiled and felt the wound on his back heal.

"Good bye." Harry began to walk towards the entrance intent on sealing them all there.

"Harry!" Harry looked at the hallway and smiled.

"Hello Susan, Alice."

Susan faltered at the hole of clothes in the center of his chest. "The rune is gone. Harry I know what it is, you fought yourself for as long as is can remember, don't let this beat you."

Harry's smile faded. "What would you know about fighting, Susan." Harry spat out, "Healer."

The words stung Susan but she looked to Alice. Alice looked at her dad. "I am taking you home dad."

Harry raised his hands and the Raiders flew against the walls clearing out the room for him. Harry snapped his hand towards Alice and paused a second. A memory of not accepting her death passed through his mind.

Silver lightning flashed behind Harry and a sudden pain of impact landed across Harry's stomach and back. Harry felt himself flying towards the ceiling. In an instant he knew that the ceiling would not stop him.

He moved his magic to protect him physically from the stone he was about to make contact with and felt the layers of sandstone pass by him and out to the open air above him.

Joanne and Kelly turned to Alice. "He is outside now, lets go!" Their eyes turned silver and they along with Susan and Alice flashed silver light only to reappear outside. They arrived in time to see Harry fly high into the air.

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Bruce saw his old professor come out of the ground unwillingly and knew that the plan up to this point had gone alright. The plan was simple. To repeatedly hit Harry while he was off guard. The students of Harry's old class understood each other well enough to anticipate each other moves and cause enough damage to exhaust Harry to confine him in many layers of summon spells. He saw Peter appear over Harry and use a beam of gray light hit his shoulder to spin the man. Peter teleported to the ground and three others appeared next to a floating and spinning Harry. One of them said, "Don't let up!" The three snapped their wands at Harry and he was rocketed back to the ground flailing in a random spin.

Two more silver-eyed women appeared below Harry, "Ready? 1, 2!" The two women created a hurricane of sand that enveloped Harry. "Magnum Burst!" The Hurricane exploded and Harry's burned body flew out of the spinning sand. He raised a burned hand only to be stopped again by another body blow launching him across the desert.

Two more men appeared. "Make it count!" His silver canine howled and dashed across the sand and into Harry's chest. Harry screamed in pain from the intrusion and felt himself being drained slowly from the intruder. The summon left and Harry was dimly aware of another person casting a spell. "Sorry Harry." Angela the smart one, thought Harry. He dimly cast another shield to protect himself but the spell broke through and he was launched again into the sand where he landed with a loud and explosive thud.

He slowly stood and suddenly felt his arms and legs being attached to the ground. "Detonate!" The bones in Harry's arms and legs exploded and Harry was only aware of the pain of his shattered bones. He laid on the sand and concentrated on his legs and they slowly and painfully re-knit themselves.

"We are not going to stop yet!" Harry opened his eyes and saw a student he remembered by the name of Cecilia floating over him. She thrust a hand onto his shoulder and Harry again felt his arms and legs being torn apart. He looked at them and gasp at the sight. They were plant roots. Cecilia turned to someone on her right. "Now!" The desert turned into an oasis and Harry's roots felt solid ground and water wrap around them. Harry also felt something he did not expect to feel in the soil. Magic.

Alice stood several meters away from him with the mask on her face that was her summon. She pulled her hands together and them pointed them at her father. Harry felt his body become weak. He tried to drain several other people of their magic who were near by, but her pull for draining was greater than his. He suddenly felt stronger and looked to his side. Owen had an enflamed concentration spell on himself and was pouring magic into him. Harry managed to snarl out, "What are you trying to accomplish?" Owen looked grim. He closed his eyes and forced more magic into Harry. Harry saw the flow of magic pour into him and only now noticed that his pull of magic was getting stronger as well. He turned to his daughter and the drain of magic she was accomplishing. She nodded once and Harry felt his body go limp. Owen had cut off his supply of magic.

There was a sudden net thrown over his body and Harry immediately felt next to no magic in his body. He looked to see his wife Susan with a determined look on her face. Some point in the back of his mind he remembered her creating a blanket to help out of control children and their excess magic. It was to slowly drain away extra magic they emitted during sleep. Harry scowled at himself. These people did not understand. The world is hopeless, it's not worth the effort they are trying to put in. Have they not forgotten the vileness that covers it. The plague that is humanity that infects the other beings of the world?

Harry managed to look at his daughter who was staring through her mask. He let out a slight moan that made his wife and child flinch. Harry concentrated on the mask. "I.. can... do... that... too..." Harry's remaining magic flickered into his hand and a silver wand appeared at his side.

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A/N Haha! another chapter is out. A little shorter than what I am used to but I guess I am just going to have to accept shorter chapters for this story as it seems to be normal for this particular project. Just a head note I still haven't read the 6th year book yet, so no spoilers please, my sister is stole my copy and won't give it back until she is done. And for those of you who don't know, the Harry Potter lexicon site is already updated. I went online this morning to look something up and had to cry out doh at a spoiler. See you all next chapter!

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