Catcher
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Chapter 18; The Power of the Elves.
Atlanta
After introductions between the Maesters and senior Order Members and Harry's team of Six Elves, including the Captain of the Burning Wind and of course Matt and himself, Harry began his longwinded explanation of what had happened over the last few months. Being extremely vague about the time difference so as not to confuse them, or even himself.
It wasn't long before the time to explain to the Maesters about the Danus.
When the conversation inevitably turned to Harry's impostor it was Matt who took over the explanation being better versed in the creature of legend.
"The creature was first sighted in my own world. It is potentially the most powerful creature in all of Creation. It's known to the Elven World as the 'Danus.' It is dangerous because, as is obvious, it takes on the form of any being it wishes. In this case it took on the form of probably the most powerful being to exist since the Lord Creator.
"As it is now, no one but Harry stands a chance of defeating it, it has his powers and all of his memories from before it took Harry's form, but none of the memories since, so including all of Harry Elven training which means that although it is capable of much more then Harry was capable of before Harry disappeared, it isn't nearly capable enough to defeat Harry now."
"Do you know whether it has allied with anything as of yet?" Asked Valdice Lexter.
"We did our research and although it seems to have allied with many of the native Demon Species on Earth it doesn't seem to be allied to Voldermort. That could only be a matter of time, but having Harry's memories and emotion towards Voldermort we believe it wont be that happy to ally with him."
"If this one appeared, could there be more?" Uric Den Lipstell asked.
"We don't really know, we know that this one came from Kristoshia but don't know why it decided to port to a new world all of a sudden." Harry answered that time.
It was Patla Grela who asked the obvious question. "If there is more than one around, then could we end up in a complete state of war against maybe hundred of these things, all with Harry's powers?"
Harry and Matt both paused but Harry spoke first. "We don't know, channelling the magic that I do would kill most known creatures. No human would be able to survive it, and only the most powerful magical creatures could do it like Griffins, Unicorns, the Leprano and Phoenixes. We really don't know whether they could all take my form or whether only this one is powerful enough to do so. We don't really know for sure that there are any more."
"Well let us hope that is the case." Valdice said.
Before anything else could be said one of the portraits on the left wall of the Maester's Chambers glowed silver before showing the face of a young man.
"What can we do for you, Jamie?" Asked Uric.
"We have an attack by ID 789 plus fifty others on Paris, Earth," replied the Officer of Watch in the control room.
"Is there any resistance?" Harry took over.
Jamie looked over at the Maesters and after receiving a nod spoke again, "There was a brief response by French City Security. The new joint Muggle/Wizard force. The Muggles did substantial damage but the Wizards didn't take down a single person before falling. There is no resistance left. Intelligence says that there is a gathering of troops at England's Order of the Phoenix Headquarters."
"I assume you would prefer to keep your order from clashing with members on Earth?" Harry turned to the Maesters again.
"We would prefer it, yes." Uric responded.
"Very well, with your leave myself and my crew will port there and help the attack as soon as we can."
"As you wish." All the Maesters nodded their agreement and nothing more would said. Harry, Matt and the six Elves ported from the room in their own ways.
Atlasa Doya was the fastest to react, she waved her hand across to the far wall and brought up two images, the one on the left showed Atlanta's Harbour whilst the one of the right showed an operatives face working in the control room.
Atlasa directed her voice at the woman, "Please get an image of the attack on Paris to here." She ordered, the woman only nodded before the screen became blurred and a few seconds later resolved to show a market square in Paris.
The lights of the attacking Death Eaters covered the screen with no opposition. The image was muted or they would have heard the screams of the Muggles and the blaring of an air raid siren.
Paris, Market Square
The Elves used soul magic to move to Paris, the walls of the buildings all along the east side of the Square rippled as twenty Elves walked out of the brick wall and stood silently in the shadows taking in the scene before them. None of their faces showed any emotion as they watched the horrors before them. Murder was happening across the whole square. Dying men crawled across the floor with the lingering effects of the cruciatius curse still running through their bodies.
As they found the leader of the Death Eaters. The Death Eater that the Order of the Zalot, now their allies, had named 'ID 789.' Harry and Matt appeared through portals of black. Their arrival also went unseen by the attackers.
The Leader of the Elven Contingent that had returned with Harry, turned his head slightly to where Harry stood beside him.
"Lord Catcher," He whispered only load enough for Harry and Matt to hear in the chaos around them. "Their leader is beside the statue."
Harry found the Death Eater, stood beside the half destroyed statue without his mask on. "Lucius Malfoy seems to be out of Azkaban then." He said in reply.
He then connected with the other Elves' minds and sent to them silently. 'Leave the Leader alive, but kill all the others. Stay in the shadows and use your arrows. On my command only.'
He waited and saw the Elves move as one as they swung up the bows and strung their arrows to his left and right. He watched for a few minutes, he knew his own army wouldn't miss their targets and they would end this fight within half a minute but he wanted to wait for the Order of the Phoenix to arrive.
He wasn't disappointed too much when several pops were heard on the north side of the square. He knew he couldn't count the pops accurately but knew he needn't bother with the elves on his side.
'How many?' he spoke into the Elven Leaders mind.
"Thirty, my Lord Catcher," he whispered in return.
"It's a good thing that we are here then," He watched for another few seconds as spells began to fly in opposition.
'Take aim!' he said into the minds of his troops.
He waited another couple of seconds until he saw the first of the Order of the Phoenix members fall to a pain spell.
'Fire!' he shouted. He watched as the closest twenty Death Eaters fell to the attack, arrows embedded into their chests.
The Phoenix members and the Death Eaters all paused in their own fight to look at the shadows, in time to see another volley fly out and another twenty of the Death Eaters fell to the attack.
As the second volley flew from the darkness Harry brought up his hand and a pure black bow and arrow appeared in his hands. He took aim at Malfoy and as the last volley took down the last ten or so Death Eaters his own arrow was released and flew true and embedded itself into Lucius Malfoy's shoulder.
Malfoy's hand flew up to the arrow and tried once to pull it out but couldn't manage it. He then saw that his whole army was dead in less then thirty seconds. He tried to apparate but found he couldn't.
The Phoenix members were dumbstruck, they hadn't expected to do much, and they hadn't, but they still didn't know what had happened. They did the only thing they could think of, they turned their wands on the shadows to their left. But before they could cast a curse a voice called out and three figures emerged from the shadows.
"We have defeated the only ones here we wish to fight, lower your wands!" Matt called out.
They were still wary and only a few of the more trusting ones obliged, but only after casting a look at the fifty dead Death Eaters in the square.
"We do not wish to fight you!" Matt called again to them whilst raising his hand. He was a Dragon Summoner, he knew the advantages of showing force to get what you wanted. To his command the other nineteen Elves stepped forwards out of the shadows and took aim with their bows.
They quickly complied, out of sheer terror more then compliance. Then a knew voice was heard.
Harry had been keeping one eye on his 'prisoner' as he struggled to port key or apparate out. "Give it up Malfoy, that arrow is charmed, you can neither apparate, port key or even walk away from here!"
Malfoy seemed to collapse but didn't give up trying to dislodge the firmly placed arrow.
Then one member of the Order recognised Harry and ran forwards. All of the Elves once again took aim with their swords to protect their Lord. The woman came to a crashing halt again.
"Harry?" She sobbed unbelievingly. At this all of the Order once again raised their wands but this time only at the figure in the middle, at Harry.
One of the leaders of the Phoenix members called out. "Surrender yourself Potter, you are under arrest for murder. We will open fire if you do not comply!"
Matt had had enough, he couldn't watch as his best friend was threatened by those he had helped to save not a minute earlier.
"Fire!" he shouted. Instantly his own arrow joined the other twenty as they flew towards the first rank of the Order of the Phoenix members.
A/N: Sorry for the cliff hanger for those who don't like them but I did do that one on purpose. It was too tempting. Hope you are enjoying the story so far.