Hehe… Um… SORRY! It seems after the exams, which was when I promised the next chapter to be written, my computer was infected by a strange Trojan Virus that had downloaded lots more… that didn't go over too well, so I had to format my computer and only got it back not too long ago, so here's the story. I hope you enjoy it.

Harry Potter and Flame of Recca do not belong to me, but the OC's and some ideas of this story have. However, if J.K. Rowling feels the need to sue me, she can have fun trying to find me

Born to the Darkness

Harry flew through the doors at an imaginable speed. His hair pushed back by the air and the ground beneath him was straining because of the power he put into each step.

To an unaided, untrained eye, he seemed to be a blur, but to him, each of his precise movements, the flames licking his hand, the magic pouring into his legs, everything was perfectly controlled from years of training.

He was the first to meet a demon. It was a huge rat, about the size of a human, with deadly sharp teeth and wicked scars on its stomach.

'Just run, don't kill' Harry thought quickly to himself.

Just as the rearing oversized rat was about to bite at him, he hit the ground hard in front of the rat, creating a shock wave that cracked the glassy floor and propelled him twelve meters up to the elaborate arched ceiling up above.

He hit the ceiling with almost equal force, sending chips of glass down and creating a large crater where he landed. He powered his legs straight back down, directly behind the demon.

Just as he landed behind the creature, the beast roared in anger and started gathering its demonic magic to its core quickly.

Harry looked behind him in horror as he felt a halo of dark magic burst from the creature as it blew up in front of his face. Harry was only able to bring his arms up in defensive position over his chest before he was blown to the other side of the hall.

They weren't supposed to kill them, but if they killed themselves, so what could he do? Harry glanced quickly at Alex, who had also encountered the same problem with the suicidal demons as he had dodged a huge cat's menacing claws.

Gaining eye contact for a second, Alex gave Harry a quick sign with his fingers that said "Kill" and Harry nodded sharply.

Harry closed his eyes and concentrated for a second, sending power surging through his enormous broadsword. He sharply opened his eyes and leapt forwards at the demonic cat in front of him, slicing it cleanly in half before it had time to respond.

Suddenly, Harry felt a sharp spinning air current behind him and quickly jumped up; spinning himself to dodge whatever had come at him, which appeared to be a large cobra. He then felt multiple other objects heading towards him from behind after he landed. He quickly leapt up into a back flip just in time as ten steel throwing knives nailed the cobra.

He quickly nodded to Celine, who had thrown the deadly projectiles. In a quick motion, he signaled Celine to jump up. She jumped agilely in her black tight full body armor and fired several projectiles at the multiple demons in front of them. Harry quickly extended his blade and swung it in an arch, lighting all the deadly knives on fire. Her aim was true as ten demons fell to the rain of flaming knives.

Nodding quickly to Alex and Elizabeth, who had finished dealing with their own problems, they set off for the end of the hall, where there were glass spiraling stairs with steps made of fogged glass.

As Harry reached the bottom of the spiraling stairs, he felt a surge of overwhelming dark energy above him. Looking up quickly, he and the others leapt out of the way to dodge a sickeningly purple beam of dark energy. As the dark energy faded, Harry looked through the center of the ornate staircase to see what he thought was the most disgusting thing ever. It seemed many entities of demon had gathered at the very top of the stairs. It was like a web, strung across the open center of the crystalline staircase. It was a virus, infecting the pure, pristine background. The flat web-like gathering seemed to have twenty eyes, rolling in all different sorts of directions at once.

All of a sudden, one saw Harry's head sticking out of their hiding place under the first level of stairs. All the other eyes eerily swiveled to focus on Harry. Harry gulped as he quickly leapt out of the way, nimble enough to avoid another tower of overpowering energy beaming down at him, which seemed to melt the floor.

Harry thought rapidly, and came up with the same conclusion as the others. Due to the frame of the crystalline staircase structure, it could not fire at the stairs itself, only straight down the middle.

The group of four quickly dashed to the stairs and started running up the spiraling path. However, they only made it a few feet, as demons started to emerge from the floor. Quickly calling on his blade, Harry swung it in a wide arc, decimating the bird-possessed demon in front of him. Feeling a pulse of familiar magic behind him, he leapt up and spun to dodge multiple knives going past him, killing two more demons that had just emerged from the pearly floor.

'They're getting better…' Harry thought dreadfully to himself as a snake demon dodged his blade with utmost grace and twisted its body with expertise, giving it enough momentum to strike a deadly attack at Harry's shoulder. He quickly spun to dodge it by mere millimeters and heard the familiar whizzing of knives, which flew dangerously close to his ear and nailed the snake in its mouth.

Harry mouthed "thanks" to Celine, who nodded with a smile, before jumping up into a graceful back flip, dodging a strike from behind. Another snake had come from behind, and by instinct, Harry cleanly sliced it open with his comically large broadsword.

They continued on to see that their masters were having some trouble against the more skilled creatures. It seemed these beings weren't the dumb creatures from the first lobby. They could fight and move like skilled wizards of the Ministry. Harry gritted his teeth as a claw from a flying bird tore off a chunk of his shoulder out. Leaping off the stairs, he hit the railing and cleanly cut the bird in half before joining Celine on the other side of the spiral and swiftly killed a cat-like monstrosity that had stealthily snuck behind her.

She quickly nodded in appreciation and they both sped upwards to where their two masters were already battling the web-like guardian of the stairs.

As Harry reached the top, he leapt off the stairs and flew into action, cutting at the swiveling eyes of the horrific demon. As he started falling, he created a plane with magic, something taking years and years of training to do, and propelled himself to the side of the cylindrical wall of the spiral staircase. He landed with bent knees, powering him for another round to the other side of the cylinder wall of the spiral staircase. As he soared through the air, he clean line through the web. The problem, however, did not lay in how much damage could be dealt to it, but how fast one could deal damage to it, Harry assumed as he saw the demon quickly regenerating.

Harry and Alex glanced quickly at their assassin counterparts and gave a few brisk movements with their hands. The two corresponding partners nodded and landed on the wall, powering their legs to jump across the diameter of the cylinder. They flew with grace across the distance, flinging their limbs in a deadly dance, showering the demon with dozens upon dozens of knives. Alex and Harry then leapt up at the creature, dealing multiple flaming blows to the demon, tearing it apart before it could regenerate.

As they reached the top, they gave a sigh as they saw no more demons and sat down for a quick break. After taking a breather and looking around the room, they silently got armed again and headed for the arched doorway at the end of the staircase.

What they saw, however, shocked them more then anything more then before. There were four humans. With their senses, however, they could obviously feel that the creatures were whirling with dark energies. Each of the humans held weapons not too different from the assassins. The only difference was that it was created from swirling dark power.

"Doppelgangers…" Alex muttered with dread. Harry frowned. Doppelgangers were one of the highest class of demon. They could imitate movement, skill, weaponry, and physical characteristics of any living creature. Although difficult to defeat, it was not impossible, since they simply could not control the white magic because the demons did not have that type of power. Fortunately, Harry and the others had learned a few spells of white magic before coming. Unfortunately, Harry's repertoire of spells was limited and somewhat ineffective.

In the blink of an eye, the doppelgangers seemed to disappear, but to trained eyes, Harry saw them move in blurring movement, each moving at a speed similar to who they were heading for. Harry concentrated on his own doppelganger. It jumped and spun in mid air, slamming its black sword into the ground, sending a straight shock wave directly at Harry.

'Damn, even my opening move…' Harry thought to himself as he jumped away, only to clash swords with the copy as it jumped to meet him in mid air. Harry swiped at it sideways while standing on a magic-formed platform. It twisted its body to move just out of the way, and then strike back. Harry bent his back to dodge the sweeping darkness that passed over where his chest had been a second before.

Harry jumped to the ceiling and propelled himself towards the ground. He positioned his great blade in front of him, ready to defend wherever the dopple came out. Feeling a dark presence behind him, he leapt forwards, dodging a dark blade by millimeters as it came down on the spot he had been standing. Harry struck back, managing to catch the shoulder of the being my half an inch. The creature screeched in rage as it dashed towards Harry.

And it was like that for the next few minutes, dodging by millimeters, trading block for block, feint for feint. Harry could find no fault with the being in front of him, for it seemed even better then him. All of a sudden, it lunched, thrusting the sword at Harry before he had any time to dodge.

As Harry blocked the stabbing movement by his copy, he quickly twisted the sword so it would still be blocking the stab, and he ran beside the blade, keeping it at bay. As he reached the Doppelganger, he swung his blade upwards to throw the dark blade out of his opponent's hand and smashed the jeweled pommel of the blade into the face of the shadow being.

The blade that was thrown up jammed into the ceiling. As the unarmed doppelganger jumped to the ceiling to retrieve its blade, Harry put knelt and slammed both hands into the floor chanting a strange Elfish and Old Latin.

White glowing water seemed to leak out of Harry's hand, burning its way onto the floor, making an elegant circular runic design around his hands.

Just as the demon had propelled itself down to stab Harry's unguarded back, Harry finished the spell and leapt away, leaving a runic circle that expelled a dense beam of white magic, decimating the Doppelganger.

Harry dropped to his knees to rest a bit. The white runic circle had been developed by Alex, and was meant only to be used by magically developed people. Harry should not have been old enough to use the skill, but the years of being magically taxed expanded his magical reserves.

After resting for a minute, he looked up and saw the others had taken the precious moments of peace to rest also. After three minutes, they headed for the overmind. It was, as Harry so eloquently put it, a huge brain out of its head. Literally, it was. It was a large blob of mashed brain-like tubes the size of three mid-sized cars and had crimson red roots anchoring it to the floor.

Alex quickly called on his strongest White Flame spell and burned the mind down. Seeing as there was no more danger, Harry and Celine collapsed against each other and fell to sleep. Elizabeth and Alex smiled gently at the children, and then both took up either of the children, and walked back to the entrance.

One year after the Demon Incident

Eleven years old Harry sat at the long oaken study table of the grand Library hall. Since the somewhat extreme demon mission from Japan, the times had calmed down a bit. An extensive investigation launched by the Japanese ministry and by Alex had come with some alarming news. Apparently, the opposing guild, Helvon, had released the demon. With the new finding, many of the Assassins had been sent to spy on the opposite guild. It was a great surprise when Alex came back one day with grave news.

Apparently, instead of the old leader, Razia Myrrdin, nicknamed the Succubus, there were three. Razia, who had seduction ability, a high demon, who seemed responsible for the release and a strange person named Thomas Riddle, who, had apparently acquired the journal of Galvandar Celestial. This alone was not the most alarming thing, Alex had thought. The thing that worried him most, was the fact that they were lying low, as if gathering strength, waiting for something.

Suddenly, a beautiful somewhat short Asian girl burst into the room, breathing heavily. Harry raised his eyebrows at the figure, but went to help her.

"Harry," She said breathlessly, "We have an emergency. Come to the front entrance."

Harry nodded and both Harry and Celine dashed to the front entrance, where a worried Alex met them.

"I have just finished spying on the Helvon. It seems that a curse breaker in the ancient pyramids of Egypt had found the famed artifact, the Cane of Ra. It is a part of the keys to the underworld. The Demon has already heard of this incident, and has set off to find the curse breaker while he is still in the pyramids. We need to get to him before the Demon does." Alex summed quickly.

Harry smiled to Celine, who smiled back. He didn't think the sphinx's colonies were going to give them a warm welcome, after Celine and Harry had lots of fun chasing one of them down to steal its feathers.

They all put their hands onto a worn knife that Alex had pulled from his belt. Harry felt a disgusting nauseating feeling of a portkey.

He landed heavily on the dusty sand of the desert, 50 meters away from the nearest pyramid. Alex quickly motioned for the other two to hide behind the sand dune. From there they spied on the enemies that had positioned themselves at the entrance of the pyramid.

As they started to enter, Alex motioned for the two of them to move, and the three of them dashed towards the opening, following the Assassins as they entered the strange triangular structure, in search of a curse breaker, who held the end of the world in his hand.

As I said, look to the top for reference to the month-long absence. Sorry for that. However, I will try to write more now that my computer is alive again.

Well… sorry guys, but Alex's time is almost up… The results showed that many wanted him dead, but hey, he was gonna die soon anyhow. Moving on… this will be a Harry/Celine so far, but I'm still a bit iffy about that, since they are almost brother and sister, isn't it kinda incest? Ooki then… if you guys wanna advice anything to me on this subject, please do tell, and also, remember, the story will come out like the reviewers voted for.

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