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A/N: Hello once again everyone and welcome to another chapter of Wolf, I am hoping that you all enjoy this chapter and the take over and removal of the Minister and his people, also for those of you wanting to know about my Star War's fic know that I'm working on more chapters of it but want to finish Wolf first, Enjoy and leave lots of reviews.
Chapter 28: Rebuild.
Chaos erupted all around the main entry hall of the Ministry as Harry in one smooth motion pulled his silver talon and fired it twice at the guys on either side of Umbridge went down with a bullet entering their kneecap and exiting a moment later thanks to a few enchantments on the bullets.
Before anyone could think or act on anything to Harry's action Kingsley and a few of the other Auror's in the hall fired stunning spells into the back of some more of the Bodyguards, Umbridge looking around in shock that she was being attacked despite her high position within the Ministry, this sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen to people of her rank and political power.
Seeing the surprised look on the toad Harry gave a small smile as he jumped backwards into the now open elevator the few people inside diving to either side or out the door to avoid the young Auror, Umbridge started to look around at the chaos around her when Harry fired his gun again this time hitting the toad like woman in the shoulder.
The force of the bullet entering her shoulder as well as her mid turned step had Umbridge turning around enough to see Kingsley's large fist coming at her at high speed being the last thing she saw for this coup.
Harry couldn't help but smile and give a small laugh as Kingsley didn't even break stride as he moved passed the large woman who just hit the ground with a thud, the people in the elevator quickly getting out as the dark skinned Auror entered the lift and pushed the button for the Minister's office floor.
"Shall we go and arrest a little man with a big paranoid streak?" Harry asks Kingsley just as the doors closed, the last thing he saw being other Auror's loyal to Amelia and the Ministry's true goal of protecting magic and the Wizarding world from being wiped out start to keep people out of the main building and even arrest those who tried to enter and help Fudge and his people.
"Sounds like a plan, any idea on your wife's location?" Kingsley asks calmly back moving to stand on one side of the door while Harry does the same both of them raising their wands and in Harry's case his gun ready to attack the moment the doors open.
"More than likely with the main group in HQ, and would be moving up through the Ministry to get any of his supporters and such that would try and flank us."
A buzzing from both of their badges prevented Kingsley from being able to answer Harry as they both brought their badges up and flipped them over to show a small mirror on the underside Amelia's face looking at them both and going by the background noise and people running around she was in the main control room for all communications within the Ministry.
This also meant that the floo network was now cut to the Ministry meaning Fudge would more than likely get no more backup or any of Voldemort's spies would have a chance to leave the building to report this sort of chaos and that wasn't likely to happen as everyone leaving was being arrested.
"Would someone like to tell me which one of you two started the order to take over the Ministry and start this whole mess?" Amelia asks calmly taking up a slip of paper that just arrived, a shake of her head being all she gave to the person who delivered it.
The pair looked at each other before Harry gave a small nod and says looking Amelia in the eyes, "I gave the signal Madam but the Toad was going to arrest me and my wife and more than likely yourself and a number of other high ranking Ministry officials, then have us all thrown into Azkaban and going by the tone of the Toad we wouldn't have been getting a trial."
Amelia leaned back in her seat at Harry's statement a small sigh escaping her lips as she looked at another report handed to her a quick few words being written on it before handing it back her eyes looking back at the guys after that.
"I approve could have been better timed but we couldn't have known when he was going to do something like that… What is your current locations you two?"
"Elevator to the Ministers office Madam Bones, just the two of us as far as we know so any backup you can send would be great." Kingsley says eyes flicking to the number above the door that showed they still had a floor or so to go, "About to arrive on the floor now madam."
The doors opened before Amelia could give orders to the pair, of all things gun fire and spells came ripping into the elevator as they opened both Kingsley and Harry being glad they had pressed themselves on either side of the door and as close to the wall as they could at the barrage of spells and bullets.
"REPORT BOTH OF YOU?" Amelia screamed over the mirror com at the sound of gun fire and spells slamming into the metal back panel.
"Sense when does Fudge have automatic weapons at his disposal?" Harry called into the mirror bringing it closer to his face while holding his gun ready to fire back once the barrage died down.
"He doesn't… it's got to be some of his people and he doesn't know about them…" Amelia says back bitting her lip for a moment and cleaning her monocle while thinking, "I'm sending up four more Auror's on one of the other elevators but I need you two to find out what is on that floor if possible, level two combat is being allowed for all Auror's now, know that I'm going to over look the fact that you had used that gun of yours Harry before receiving the order to go to level two, good luck both of you."
They both gave a nod to Amelia's image before it vanished, Harry giving a small smile before holstering his wand but throwing the gun across to Kingsley when a low came in the bullet shower.
"Shadow Fang is coming to play so make use of that gun it's still got six rounds left in it." Harry says with a smile as he transforms quickly vanishing into a shadow just as someone tried to take a shoot at him given his wider frame in wolf form.
Giving a nod to the shadow Harry had vanished into Kingsley took a breath before diving out of the elevator gun coming up and firing a few rounds into the room sliding behind a desk just as more bullets and spells came flying at his location.
"Damn it all, I saw at least three AK-47s in that group down there." Kingsley says into his badge quickly reconnecting to the main office to let Amelia know what was holding him and Harry up in getting the Minister.
"Back up is on the way but you need to find out who these guys are and fast." Amelia voice commented back shouting out an order to seal off the Minister's office floor now and to make sure no one left that floor before the Minister was taken down.
Kingsley gave a nod at this before conjuring a mirror using it angled it to see what was down the hallway to the Ministers office, the sight of a middle aged woman of average height standing calmly in front of the defence line her people had set up greeted him right away, the people behind her having a mix of automatic weapons and wands.
She had short cut black hair that stood out against her pale skin with the starting of a little gray, a dark purplish eye patch over her left eye, the single clear blue eye locking with the mirror as a small smile formed on her lips that were the same shade of purple as the eye patch.
Her uniform was a jet black skin tight leather suit with a white patch over the heart and left shoulder the single bell shaped flower that was a purplish colour with green tinges sending a chill down Kingsley's spine as he knew of only one group who used that flower as their symbol.
The next thing to jump out at Kingsley was the scimitar on her right hip the hilt being a silver black colour with a amethyst set in the base of the hilt, a hand gun standard 9mm on the other and two wand holsters visible on both arms being all he needed to know that this woman was a professional at her job.
"Damn it all, Amelia we have Nightshade mercenaries up here and they are not a small group or one of their new squads." Kingsley's says into the mirror pulling his conjured one back as the woman turned and walked back to stand behind the defence line.
"Did you see who was leading this group?"
"Woman with black hair and an eye patch over her left eye her visible eye a clear blue, she was carrying a scimitar with an amethyst in the hilt from what I could see being the only other thing standing out." Kingsley reports quickly casting a few spells on the desk he was behind as gun fire and spells started coming down on him again.
"Damn it Kingsley that's Nedylene or that is what she calls herself, she one of the groups best defensive commanders and is supposed to be one of the best sword woman in the world," There was a pause on the line for a moment as Kingsley's moved to another desk to hid firing off a few spells as he goes.
"Kingsley I think I know where most of our budget money has gone and it hasn't been to other departments like Fudge said it had, it's gone into this lot… how many people does she have with her?"
Before Kingsley could answer the question however a female voice came over the mirror a slight amused tone within its words, "I have brought with me two dozen of my best people Department Head Amelia Bones, also the three Auror's you had stationed on this floor before all this mess started are out cold and in a storage room off to one side just so you know."
"And so your using one of our own badges to let us know this information, how much did Fudge pay you from our budget that should have been helping us in case of another Dark Lord?" Amelia asks calmly back signalling to some of her people out of view to do something unknown to everyone listening to or watching their badges.
"Oh not much our contract states that we are to stop any attempt to take over his current Ministry standings and keep him alive at any cost, needless to say I don't plan on throwing away the lives of my men and women for one little man to afraid to do his own dirty work." Nedylene comments back looking over at where Kingsley was hidden signalling to her people to stop firing on the man when she noticed the other elevator was nearly there.
Before the doors could even open however a wall of shadows rose up and blocked the bullets as the elevator came to a stop the doors started to open a moment later as the bullets just slammed into the shadowy wall, the four Auror's inside ran out and fired spells in return from cover behind desks and conjured walls.
"Oh a Shadow Wolf going by that wall, didn't know British Aurors kept them as pets." Nedylene comments calmly signalling to her people to take cover as the five Auror's started to rain spells down on them the odd shadow shaped like a fist coming in every now and then smashing up the odd section of the barrier they had up.
"I take offense at that pet comment." Harry says rising up behind Nedylene as more shadows lashed out at the woman the moment he fully appeared.
To everyone's surprise Nedylene didn't even move from her place with the badge in one hand her other hand went down to her sword as in one smooth motion she drew the weapon and cut the closest shadow blade to her body a flash of the blade being all most of the people could see as she blocked or cut down all the other attacks.
"Now that is impossible." One of the Auror's says from behind their own barrier having seen the whole thing as Nedylene's men had stopped firing the moment they had heard the sword leave its sheath, they quickly however went back to the fight not even flinching or stopping when one of the Auror's was hit with a slashing curse taking off his arm.
Nedylene just started to laugh as Harry quickly moved backwards to avoid her downwards slash another shadow raising up to block the follow through attack Harry putting a little more energy into the shadow to make it more solid so it wasn't cut like the others.
"Oh it's been many years sense I fought a Shadow Plane being and a Wolf at that, this should be fun." Nedylene says with a laugh moving in to attack Harry again her sword always moving at a near lightening fast speed, Harry was only just able to keep up with using the shadows around him to block and attack with.
"Glad to be a challenge then, mind telling me how you're so fast with that blade?" Harry says jumping into a shadow long enough to appear on a desk still behind the Mercenary lines said merc still battling it out with the Auror's even though a few of them now were down with spell damage or shards of their own barrier sticking out of their bodies from where one Auror had blown it up.
"Training and a weighted training blade at that, plus this sword is enchanted to be feather light and ever sharp." Nedylene says back with a smile jumping forward and slashing down just missing Harry as he dived into another shadow to avoid the attack.
Kingsley watched as Harry blocked another quick attack only to give a yelp of pain when she brought her hand gun up and fired a bullet right into his right flank, Harry quickly vanished into a shadow to get the wound looked at avoiding another bullet in the process.
However this wasn't all that Nedylene did as in one smooth motion brought her sword down slashing into Harry's right shoulder bringing another yelp of pain from the wolf as he finished vanishing into the shadows.
"Get away from him bitch!" Tonks' voice called out from the doorway to the stairs as she came into the room with another two Auror's right behind her the young wife having seen her husband being shot and then sliced into before he could get away fully.
Nedylene looked up at Tonks words giving Harry the few seconds needed to move from behind enemy lines and appear next to Kingsley slumping down as he tried to gain his breath and get ready to change back to treat his injuries.
"You got a mouth on you girl, better keep it shut if you know what's good for you, this is just a job for me nothing personal." Nedylene says her sword coming up and blocking or even deflecting the few spells that Tonks had thrown at her.
Tonks only gave a few choose words before having to duck down from the returning spell and weapons fire the two with her didn't move fast enough one going down with a bullet entering his leg and a stunning spell hitting him as he goes down the other taking a few rounds in the shoulder and a bone breaking curse in the hip.
Kingsley gave a few choice words himself when he saw this and then the condition Harry was in once he was human again the slash down his right arm bleeding slowly while the bullet wound in his left leg was going to slow him right down.
"Everyone keep your heads and concentrate fire on that barrier and the riflemen in that lot before we all get cut down." Kingsley calls out firing off a few more spells and firing the last few rounds in the pistol throwing it over to Harry once he did the young Auror trying to slow the blood flow from his shoulder not paying the weapon any mind at the moment.
"How you holding up Potter?" Kingsley asks looking over at the young man who had pointed his wand at his leg and softy says a summoning spell as the bullet came out of the wound the cry of pain going unnoticed by everyone thanks to the battle going on, a quick healing spell to stop any more blood flow being muttered as the young man slamming his head back against the desk to take his mind off the pain in his leg.
"I'll be good in a few days sir but I'm not moving from this cover until some of those guys are taken out." Harry says softly taking up his gun now and loading in a new clip trading places with Kingsley as the dark skinned Auror moved around him to think on a plan while Harry helped keep the Mercs pinned down.
"You should have just went right into that idiot's office and taken him out." Kingsley says sharply looking over the edge of the table long enough to get a look at how they were doing on witling the enemy numbers down.
"About half are still up people, keep up the good work." Kingsley called out seeing another of the Merc being hit with a bone breaking curse in the shoulder.
"It won't matter sir if Nedylene is still up by the end her sword is made from some kind of metal I haven't seen before and it appears to be able to cut or block just about anything." Harry stated firing a round at the enemy only to have to pull back before he could fire again when a spell from said woman came at him and nearly took his hand off.
"It's a mix metal from what I can tell, more than likely Adamantine and something else she might have found at some point." Kingsley says firing off a few spells at the dark haired woman who once again deflected the spells with her sword.
Deciding to try and take out the woman Kingsley rushed from cover right at her a conjured sickle sword appearing in his hand as he managed to avoid being shot and jumped over the barrier and locked blades with the woman who just smiled at him.
The two continued to dance and fight each other without paying any mind to the fight as Tonks with the other Auror's who could move without too much trouble started to move closer to the barrier and take out the Mercs, Harry using his gun to great effect as he changed into his Wolf form long enough to move his location and then attack on changing back but it was clear he was tiring from blood loss by his aim going off and the trouble he was starting to have lifting the gun alone.
Kingsley knew he was out classed with the sword against Nedylene but he had to keep her off the others long enough for them to take out the few remaining Mercenaries, ducking under a wide swing of the sword Kingsley hissed in pain when in one quick move the sword came back the tip slicing along his right arm but didn't cut deep enough to force him to drop the conjured blade.
Managing to lock his blade with hers a few moments later, the large man brought his fist up and into her ribcage the woman's eyes going wide in pain as she gave a gasp backing up quickly her sword arm however proving to be fast enough to once again deflect another stunning spell while she gained her breath after that punch.
"Now that is just low," Nedylene gasped out as she straightened her back again and readied herself for another round with Kingsley.
"No such thing in a fight Nedylene." Kingsley says vanishing his sword after seeing a number of deep nicks in the blade from clashing with the Mercenary captions own unknown blade, a quick wave of the wand conjured up metal plating along his forearms and fists, flexing his fingers a little before he brought them up in a Boxing stance his wand within his closed fist ready in case Nedylene decided to start using magic.
Giving a smile to the dark skinned Auror Nedylene gave a nod as she moved forward with the grace of a dancer her sword coming around to attack from the right, Kingsley in one smooth motion brought his left arm up and took the blow on the metal plating of that arm, his other hand shooting out trying to land another blow.
Nedylene showed her grace once again as she managed to twist her body enough to avoid the hit while pulling her weapon around for another try this time on Kingsley left side, Kingsley taking a half step back to avoid the counter attack.
"Harry you able to shadow travel into the Minister office?" Tonks says sliding along the ground to get to Harry's side her wand firing off a few stunners as she crossed open ground to get to her husband's side.
Harry gave Tonks a look for a moment at her coming to his side when it would have made more sense for her to attack the dwindling Mercenaries numbers but then again he would have rushed to her side if she was injured so he wouldn't say anything to her about this.
"I tried when we first got here but the moron has some kind of ward up that is stopping me from travelling into the office, not sure how but it is." He says leaning out of cover long enough to take down another of the three remaining Mercs with a bullet through the leg.
"Damn this would have been a lot easier if we could have taken him out quickly…" Tonks spat out kneeling by Harry's side patching up his wounds a little better then what he had done so far as all the moving around he was doing kept on opening up the wounds.
"All Auror's on the Ministers floor be warned that another group of twelve Mercenaries are on the way up to your location having broken through the locked downed entry hall, watch your backs people." Amelia's voice rang out over Tonks' and Kingsley's badges.
"Oh my night squad already on the way that's nice." Nedylene says only to give another gasp of pain as she miss timed dodging one of Kingsley's powerful punches the sound of ribs cracking echoing through the nearly silent room now as she was the only one on her side still standing, however Tonks and one other Auror save Kingsley were down and unable to really carry on the fight.
"Auror Tonks and Williams get in that office and get that moron before this lots backup gets here I'll hold her back." Kingsley's orders sharply taking a glancing blow to the head when Nedylene brought her sword around the tip of the curved blade only just cutting above his eye the man not letting this near hit slow him down as he brought his right arm forward trying to land another hit.
"Oh I can't let you get in there while I can still fight." Nedylene says moving a few steps to one side to block the door to the Ministers office her sword and wand both coming up now as she started to fire spells at the two Auror's trying to get to the office.
Tonks and Williams both quickly backed up from the office pulling office chairs and even desks up to block the incoming curses using shielding spells only when really needed, Kingsley moved in quickly not seeming to notice the blood dripping down into one eye, or the multiple cuts on his arms from where the sword had been able to cut through the metal on his forearms, he was still moving fast as his fists came in trying to knock the woman out or out of the way.
The two clashed again Kingsley however had slowed down a little from his injuries but he was still able to block her attacks because of her own injuries, Nedylene was using her wand now trying to take down Kingsley while also keeping the two standing Auror's off her but she knew it was only a matter of time before she was taken down.
Kingsley dodged another attack from Nedylene when she twisted her body enough to bring her blade into his shoulder cutting a few inches in, thinking fast and before she could pull the blade out however Kingsley brought one hand up and locked his hand around her own hand keeping the blade stuck in his shoulder.
"Got you now you pain in the ass." Kingsley says with a snarl not paying the wand coming up to point at his head any mind as his other hand shoot up and into Nedylene's jaw the sound of bones cracking sounding out as she tried to pull away from him forgetting about her wand after that one blow.
Tonks and William seeing what Kingsley's was doing quickly darted past the two locked combatants knowing that there orders took priority over helping Kingsley take down the Merc caption nether of them looking back when they heard another sound of a fist slamming into her face.
Kingsley was about to bring his fist in for one more blow that would more than likely knock the woman out when her wand came up and was now resting against his throat Kingsley stopping dead his fist raised as he locked eyes with Nedylene's single eye.
"What spell is she going to cast is what is going through your head at the moment not that it matters much as at this close range any spell I cast well more than likely crush your windpipe and kill you," Nedylene says softly keeping her eye on Kingsley while listening to the sounds of the fight that Fudge's bodyguards in his office where putting up against the other two Auror's and going by the sound the two were winning.
"Which is faster your fist or my spell?"
"Neither." Came the answer from just behind Nedylene. Kingsley, looking over her shoulder as she turned her head enough to see Harry laid out on the floor his gun pointed right at Nedylene's back as he pulled the trigger, Nedylene's eyes going wide when Harry pulled the trigger.
The gun shot sounded like a cannon to Kingsley as the bullet hit Nedylene in the back of her hip causing her to gasp out in pain and lower her wand a little this being all Kingsley needed to bring her down with a hard and fast right hook.
Nedylene let go of her sword at the same time Kingsley's fist hit home in her cheek sending her crashing into the ground the bullet wound in her hip adding to the level of pain she felt until she passed out, Kingsley giving a sigh as she fell to one knee himself looking up in time to see Tonks exiting the Minster office with the man himself being pushed along before her Lucius Mafloy only a few steps behind her with Williams leading the man out.
"Report you two?" Kingsley asks softly while falling backwards to lean against the desk just behind him giving a nod to Harry who was limping over to them.
"Mafloy here thought it would be fun to fire off the killing curse at me when he realised Fudges little boy scouts he calls bodyguards were being taken out by the two of us." Tonks stated calmly looking over her shoulder at the man she says while narrowing her eyes, "If I hear one cry of Imperious curse from you I'll force feed you a bottle of Veritaserum now let's get you into a lovely little cell."
Before anyone could move however seven more Merceries came into the room by the stairs all of them pausing at the sight of their employer cuffed as was the last of the people who could give them orders having seen Umbridge down in the main hall on their way in, looking at the four awake Auror's two of them standing and ready for combat and two on the ground both of them leaning on desks but wands at the ready the group looked at each other before holstering their weapons and started to treat their own wounded.
"Our employer has clearly been overthrown and we aren't payed enough to fight for his freedom so if you don't mind we'll just treat our wounded and wait for you lot to come to some order so we can sort out this mess." One of the Mercs says moving over to the group to pick up Nedylene.
"Understandable, just don't leave the building if you don't mind and if you help with our injured as well I'll let Madam Bones know that you were only following orders." Kingsley says pulling himself to his feet wanting to see the Ex-Minister into a holding cell before he let anyone look at his injures.
The Merc only gave a nod before returning to his people and relaying the offer, Harry pulled himself to his feet then and with the help of his wife started to hobble along behind the Minister taking up his badge as he goes the others falling into step.
"Madam Bones we have the Ex-Minister in hand now and are on our way to the holding cells, we have many injuries here and need healers as well as another squad of Aurors to watch over the left over Mercs who had surrendered to us and are helping with our injured where ever possible." Harry reported into his badge wincing slightly when Tonks pressed down on his injured shoulder while adjusting his angle he was leaning on her.
"Understood and good job you lot, report to medical when you drop them off in holding and get patched up as we still have a lot of work to do." Amelia says over the badge turning her chair to announce to the whole Ministry that the Minister was no longer in power and that a new Minster would be chosen once we are finished cleaning up the mess Fudge had left them in.
Tonks gave a small smile to Harry as the pair made it to the elevator giving him a quick kiss and whispered words for how he did and promise of a long rest once they sorted out the whole mess.
Harry just gave Tonks a kiss before closing his eyes and leaning against the elevator wall silently waiting for the thing to get to the needed floor and then for a nice bed to lay in and get healed up planning on not moving for a good hour once he was there if he got his way.
Kingsley couldn't help but give a small laugh as the thought went through his head that they had done it they had won and taken the Ministry back from the Voldemort supporters and could now really fight back against the madman who was trying to destroy their world.
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A/N: Now thanks again for all of those reviews also for those of you questioning how Harry was taken down by Nedylene, know that her sword was forged in the Shadow Plane and has a mix of Adamantine and Shadow Crystals that can be found within the Plane, because of this mix it can cut any shadow based attack and can even cut into the Shadow Plane itself if she pushes enough magic into it.
Hopefully it will answer any questions on how Nedylene was able to cut Harry while in his shadow travel stat, anyway I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.