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The Light at the End of the Tunnel.
Chapter twenty six: Avenged.
Harry led the column of Guardians and DA down towards Hogsmeade at a run. Urgency was pounding through veins and he picked up the pace slightly. He heard Ron and Hermione panting as they ran behind him. He turned around.
"Come on!" He urged. The entrance to Hogsmeade was in sight and he doubled the pace. He could imagine Voldemort and the Death Eaters sweeping up towards the village from the other side, the random killings and the destruction that would follow…
Fear lent him speed and the column was just about sprinting through the village. Fortunately there were no flames licking the sky and no dead bodies littering the streets. Instead people were standing around in small groups, talking nervously. Harry wondered why they weren't fleeing. Then it hit him, it was like this in any dangerous situation, while there was some relative calm people stayed to find out what happens. However there was a definite terror hanging in the air.
Suddenly a shout went up. Harry and the Guardians and DA had been spotted. A great cheer went up. People were screaming with happiness and punching the air and cheering them on. Harry held up his hand as they neared the exit of Hogsmeade and the column slowed to a walk. He turned to the column.
"This is it." He felt a stab of fear as he said it but turned and led the column out of the village.
His breath caught in his throat. Spread out in front of them, lining the plain next to Hogsmeade, was a line, a black robed mass. Seven hundred Death Eaters were stood there waiting for them. Harry turned the column so that it faced the Death Eaters with the village on his left. He stepped out from the head of the column.
"Form up!" He yelled. In one fluid motion the Guardians formed into three ranks as they had been taught, shields at the front and marksmen on the flanks. Ron and Hermione stepped up to him.
"Where do you want the DA?" Hermione asked. Her face was pale and her voice sounded weak.
"On the right flank. Then you two come and stand out here." He moved so he was standing several paces in front of the line. She nodded and they turned and led the DA over to the right flank. They grinned weakly at him as they passed, but he could see, beneath the fear, a burning desire to end it. To finally finish it all. Harry looked over at the Death Eaters as Ron and Hermione walked back towards him, the mass of black robed people merely stood there, watching and waiting.
Harry turned to Hermione and Ron. They looked at each other.
"Let's do this. Good luck." They nodded at him.
"We're behind you all the way, Harry." Said Ron. Harry nodded, grateful. He turned to the waiting Guardians and DA. He looked at them for a minute before speaking.
"We are the only ones here; we are the only ones here to stand up to the might of Voldemort's army. One hundred and twenty of us to stand against seven hundred! And that is just the vanguard! Yet who here will turn from the fight? Who here will run? Who here is not prepared to die for what they believe is right? WHO HERE IS NOT PREPARED TO FIGHT AND TO DIE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES? NOT ONE OF US! WE ARE THE FINAL LINE, YOU ARE ALL THAT ARE BEHIND ME AND YET I WOULD ASK FOR NO ONE ELSE!" Harry began pacing up and down the line, letting the passion fill his voice.
"This is it. The end. They will come at us again and again and again, they will throw every kind of darkness at us but we will not back down! Though we may die, we can be sure of one thing, every single man and woman here will go down fighting, taking a Death Eater with them for every step of the way."
"Let this be the battle that is remembered forever, let this be the battle that becomes legendary. Let this be the battle that people look back upon and say 'never again, never again will you see such a stand in the face of darkness. Never again will you see such bravery in the face of so dark an evil. NEVER AGAIN WILL YOU SEE SUCH HEROES!" Harry stopped and looked at them.
"For every man and woman here will look back on this day and say 'that day, on that day I stood shoulder to shoulder with heroes.' For every one of us will fight, and if need be die, as heroes." In a sudden movement Harry drew his sword and thrust it into the air,
"AS HEROES!" The Guardians and DA screamed it back, letting the fear and defiance and adrenaline flood their voice.
"AS HEROES!" Harry turned towards the Death Eaters as the Guardians and DA let out an almighty cheer, screaming their hatred and defiance at the Death Eaters. At that point the Death Eaters began to run towards them the great mass of black robes charging towards them. Harry's breath caught in his throat.
"SHIELDS!" He yelled, the shield charms sprung up along the line. The Death Eaters sprinted towards them screaming as a wild mass, the bravest amongst them almost in range.
Then it happened, time seemed to slow down. The first Death Eaters realised they were in range, they slowed down and began to look around as if waiting to see what everyone else did, a moment of inconceivable calm.
Then the spells flew.
Seven hundred spells flew towards the DA and the Guardians. Harry ducked to avoid a couple that flew over his head. Another one flew straight at him and he hastily threw up a shield charm, unfortunately it was too hasty and the spell smashed straight through it, cutting open his side.
"SHIT!" The ferocity of the Death Eaters' attack stunned him; he felt another spell thud into him, knocking him to the ground. His body was a momentary mass of pain before it subsided. He glanced behind him and was reassured to see the Guardians and the DA fighting back with equal ferocity. However he was dismayed to see a couple of people already lying on the floor, however thanks to the 'shield wall' as it had come to be called, it was only a couple. He got to his feet and had to throw up a shield charm immediately, thankfully this one was strong and the spell bounced right off it. He shot a few spells at a group of Death Eaters trying to edge round to turn the Guardians' flank. Although he saw two go down to a couple of well aimed slashing curses the group kept on coming. He sprinted over to the marksmen on the Guardians' left flank.
A spell caught him on the ankle and sent him sprawling to the floor, he was on his feet in an instant.
"Bring those bastards down!" He yelled to the Guardians.
"Yes, sir!" One of them yelled back. A second later a volley of spells shot towards the Death Eaters, bringing half of them down, one of them fell to the floor clutching his face blood pouring through his fingers. The others turned tail and fled.
Harry ran back to his place in the line, ducking the spells that flew towards him. The Death Eaters were pressing hard, their numbers alone threatening to overcome the Guardians who were fighting hard to hold them back. However their line was beginning to space out as people ducked and moved to avoid spells. Harry needed to force the Death Eaters back to give the Guardians, a few more of whom were lying on the ground, time to reform. He held up his hand.
"VOLLEY!" There was a momentary pause then a volley of spells, in perfect unison, flew towards the Death Eaters. The Death Eaters, caught by surprise, had very little time to defend themselves. Sixty of them fell to the floor screaming as the slashing curses cut into their throats. Their courage momentarily broken they turned and fled. Harry ignored the fleeing Death Eaters, knowing that they would soon return. He turned to the Guardians and began to shove them back into line. Suddenly a shout went up.
"They're coming back!" Harry spun around; sure enough the black robed figures were running towards them again, screaming their fury at the loss of so many of their men. Their fury and hatred was overwhelming and Harry could see the Guardians starting to take a step back.
"HOLD THE LINE!" He shouted, they stopped, "VOLLEY!" This time the Death Eaters were expecting it and less of them fell to the ground screaming.
The battle began to pick up pace and both sides became increasingly vicious. Harry ducked to avoid a spell that was shot at him then retaliated with a barrage of arrowhead curses that knocked the Death Eater to the ground, screaming horribly as blood poured from wounds all over his body.
He heard a cry of agony and spun around to see a Guardian drop to his knees, blood pouring out of wound all over his face, a second spell hit him and he was flung backwards, clearly dead. Harry watched two spells slip past a Death Eater's shield charm and he dropped to the ground silently, blood pouring out of his throat.
The Death Eaters were pushing increasingly closer, trying to get close enough to render the virtually impregnable shield charms of the Guardians useless. Harry grabbed a handful of men to push back one squad of Death Eaters who were beginning to do some real damage to the ranks of the Guardians. As he did so he felt a spell catch him in the side. He winced and felt blood pour out of the wound. Ignoring the pain he ran to check on the DA. A couple of them were lying on the floor, Harry couldn't see who, but largely they were fighting hard. Ron and Hermione constantly had to push them backwards as they threatened to move too far forwards and leave the flank of the Guardians open.
"How are you doing?" He asked them as he blocked a spell that flew towards him. Both of them were pale and sweating but Ron looked defiant.
"It's not as bad as I thought it would be." Harry looked at him incredulously.
"Ron, this isn't the battle. This is just the prelude, a small skirmish between the vanguards. It is going to get a hell of a lot worse." Ron turned paler.
"You're joking." His voice was feeble.
"I wish I was."
"Shit." Ron said weakly. Harry suddenly caught sight of a spell flying towards Ron. He gave his friend a hard shove out of the way and dropped to the ground. The spell continued and bounced harmlessly off Dennis Creevey's shield charm.
"Keep fighting." Harry clapped Ron on the shoulder, smiled at Hermione before turning and running back towards the Guardians. The battle was really starting to get vicious, several of the Guardians were lying bleeding on the floor and the rest were hard pressed trying to keep the shield charms constantly up and repel the pressing of the Death Eaters.
Harry reckoned only about three quarters of an hour had passed and already a dozen of his men were down, if not more. He guessed he had to hold on for another four and a half hours or so. The spells were flying all around him and the sheer weight of the Death Eaters' numbers was forcing the Guardians back, they couldn't afford to give much more ground.
He made a snap decision. Deciding that offence was the best form of defence he looked for Danny. He saw him fighting in the centre of the line.
"Danny!" Danny looked up and ran towards him, his head low to avoid all the spells.
"Sir?"
"We're in shit."
"Sir."
"We need to push them back a bit to give us a bit of breathing space, yet we need to maintain numbers or we'll be overwhelmed." Danny looked over at the line of Death Eaters. A good deal of them were lying motionless in front of the battle line, blood pouring from their bodies.
"We're not doing too badly." Harry ducked and flicked up a shield charm as a load of spells flew towards them, Danny retaliated with a barrage of burning hexes and slashing curses. Two Death Eaters fell, one screaming terribly as the skin from his face and torso was burnt off.
"They could call up reinforcements at any moment. We need to hurt these bastards. Scare them."
"What do you want us to do?"
"Break ranks. Run forward fire off as many deadly spells as you can in the space of a few seconds. Put them down hard and fast. The DA will cover you when you reform." Danny nodded and turned back to the Guardians. Harry sprinted over to the DA throwing up a shield charm up every now and then to protect himself.
Ron ran over to him.
"Harry?"
"When I say, cover the Guardians." He nodded and ran back to the DA. Harry turned and ran back to the Guardians. More of them had fallen. Harry watched one get hit in the groin by a slashing curse. He dropped to his knees. A second spell hit him in the throat and he keeled over, gurgling as blood poured down his chest. Harry felt a rush of hatred. He looked at Danny. Danny caught his eye.
"NOW!" The Guardians broke ranks and ran forward, Harry leading them. They shot off slashing curses and arrowhead curses as fast as they could, the Death Eaters were taken completely by surprise and pretty much the entire front rank fell to the ground screaming. The other ranks began to take hurried steps backwards before a group of Death Eaters, braver than the rest, made a stand in the middle and counter attacked with a barrage of curses. Several Guardians fell to the ground, one or two clearly dead.
"GUARDIANS BACK! DA!" The DA stepped forwards and unleashed a barrage of spells on the Death Eaters, many of whom were still confused by the sudden counter attack. Parvati Patil in particular was picking of Death Eaters at a rapid rate, her slashing curses cutting expertly through their throats.
The Guardians managed to form up again without too much of a loss. The Death Eaters, however, had lost close to fifty men in that attack. Harry ducked as a volley of curses came his way before sending back an arrowhead charm that hit a Death Eater in the eye, the Death Eater started screaming horribly and writhing on the ground. A volley of slashing curses from a Guardian soon silenced him.
So far the Death Eaters had suffered huge losses, close to one hundred and fifty of them were out of the fight, nearly sixty of them dead. The Guardians had lost, Harry reckoned just over twenty men, of whom only about nine or ten were definitely dead. However the Guardians had to hold on for another four hours with no hope of reinforcements. As if to mock Harry a large group of Death Eaters suddenly appeared behind their line and fell in. The intensity of the fighting increased as the fresh Death Eaters added their weight.
Harry felt another spell hit him in the shoulder and quickly healed it. He picked out a Death Eater that seemed to be organising the rest and unleashed a vicious barrage of curses on him. The Death Eater was flung to the ground and lay there motionless, taken completely by surprise. Harry turned and waved the marksmen on the Guardians left flank around a bit more in order to try and turn the Death Eaters flank. It worked for a time before the Death Eaters fought back, killing two of Harry's marksmen and wounding a couple more.
The Death Eaters, dismayed at the fierce resistance they were facing began to hesitate and took a couple of steps backwards. The Guardians began to sense their advantage and pushed forwards. Harry waved them on. The ferocity of their attack pushed the Death Eaters back further.
However several Death Eaters were shoving the retreating Death Eaters forward and boosting their courage. Harry looked at Parvati and she nodded. Grabbing as many marksmen as she could they began to fell the leaders one by one.
Suddenly things took a turn for the worse. A huge mass of Death Eaters suddenly arrived, close to two hundred Harry estimated. The Death Eaters, bolstered by the new arrivals began to counter attack and push the Guardians back. Further and further the Guardians retreated, completely overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of more Death Eaters.
"Shit." Harry swore as he struggled to block all the spells coming his way. He saw Danny and the other four lieutenants struggling to steady the line of ever-dwindling Guardians. Harry took another step back as the Death Eaters pushed ever closer. He tripped over the body of one of his Guardians and watched as a barrage of spells flew overhead. A spell thudded into his side and he leapt to his feet to avoid another that followed the first. He realised he was to far out in the open and turned and ran back towards the line. Ron, Hermione and Danny met him.
"We're in trouble, I've got just over half the DA fighting; the rest are down." Said Ron urgently, and as he spoke another mass of black robes appeared. "We're in trouble. We need to do something. Any further back and we'll be fighting in the village." Danny nodded in agreement.
"We're losing men at a rate of knots. If we don't do something fast we won't be able to hold." A barrage of spells flew towards them and they dropped to the floor. A group of Guardians ran up to protect them, firing back spells as fast as they could, Harry shot a quick glance towards the Death Eaters and saw several of them fall to the Guardians spells. Harry turned to Ron.
"Are any of the DA dead?" Ron shook his head.
"No." Harry nodded.
"Good. Right, we have to hold. We have no option. Make a stand here. Get the marksmen picking off anyone who looks like they are leading the Death Eaters. Apart from fighting back as hard as we can there isn't much we can do. We still have seventy or eighty men. I know that against eight hundred that isn't a lot," One of the Guardians protecting them gave a cry and fell backwards, blood spurting from his chest. Hermione quickly healed the wound and revived him. The Guardian was on his feet and fighting back a second later, "but we're trained. We cannot retreat any further. If we break, we lose." The other three nodded. They leapt to their feet and rejoined the ranks.
"GUARDIANS!" The Guardians stopped retreating. Harry thrust his sword into the air again, "AS HEROES!" The Guardians raised a massive cheer and, their courage and spirit restored, they began to fight back viciously. Under the cover of the rest, several Guardians were instructed to go round healing whoever they could. A short while later just over a dozen had been healed and were fighting back. The Death Eaters' rapid advance was momentarily checked.
It was just then that Harry saw it. With all the flying spells, the fighting, the screams of pain it was hard to notice much else. But somehow, amidst all the jets of red, silver, blue, green, somehow he saw it. And he instantly knew.
"Jesus." He ducked a jet of red light that sped towards him. "I don't believe it!" He looked around wildly for Ron. He saw him with a small group of Guardians who were desperately trying to fight back a group of Death Eaters running towards them. Two of the Death Eaters fell before one of them killed a Guardian standing next to Ron. Ron retaliated and killed the Death Eater responsible.
"Ron!" Ron looked up and ran towards him, jumping over the body of a fallen Guardian.
"What?"
"Look! It's that bastard!" Ron looked in the direction Harry was pointing.
"You're right." He breathed. Just then, a rush of Guardians swarmed past them to meet another group of Death Eaters. Urged on by the Guardian Lieutenants, the Guardians pushed forwards, desperately trying to hold back the growing numbers of Death Eaters.
Harry closed his mind to the battle and concentrated on the figures running towards the hills.
"It's definitely him." He said. He would recognise that squat, round figure anywhere. Sure enough, when the figure turned round, it was Wormtail. He was fleeing from the battle with a handful of Death Eaters.
"I'm going after him." Harry said. Ron looked around. They were down to a handful of Guardians and DA.
"Be quick. We'll hold for you here." They looked at each other for a moment before Harry nodded and turned away, Ron turned back to the Guardians.
"GUARDIANS, DA FORWARD!" He led the cheering handful of Guardians and DA towards the enemy. The Death Eaters gave their own cheer and rushed forward to meet them. The two sides met in a massive exchange of spells, several Death Eaters falling immediately to the marksmanship of Parvati and the Guardian and DA marksmen who were fighting with her, the Guardians largely protected by their shield wall tactic. Harry's breath caught in his throat as he saw Cho with Hermione, Ginny and Susan Bones, the four of them fighting with a small group of Guardians.
Harry closed his mind to the battle and ran in pursuit of Wormtail and the Death Eaters with him. Suddenly a cry went up and a couple of seconds later spells were thudding into the ground around him. He shot a look over his shoulder and saw a small group of Death Eaters chasing him. However, Ron and Samia led a small group of Guardians to intercept them, engaging the Death Eaters in a vicious duel. Five minutes later Harry looked over his shoulder again and saw the Death Eaters lying on the ground and Ron and Samia leading the group towards the next load of Death Eaters.
Harry looked ahead in time to see Wormtail and the Death Eaters disappear into what seemed to be a cave. Harry ran up the hill and stopped outside of it. He could hear panting and hushed voices inside. As silently as he could he cast anti-portkey and anti-apparition charms on the cave. On an afterthought he added an anti-transformation charm to prevent Wormtail transforming into a rat and escaping.
Dusk was beginning to set in and as he paused to get his breath back he looked down on the battle raging below. He could see the Death Eaters trying to surround the Guardians and DA who had formed a semi-circle and were fighting back viciously in a desperate attempt to hold the Death Eaters back. They were succeeding but barely.
Harry tore his thoughts away from the battle. He took a deep breath and ran into the cave.
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Down below Ron looked up just in time to see Harry disappear into the cave. He for watched for a moment before gathering his courage and strength and preparing to lead the Guardians and DA forward in another desperate bid to hold the Death Eaters back.
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Heads shot up as Harry ran into the cave. Two Death Eaters fell down dead as Harry's slashing curses caught them in the throat. The remaining four Death Eaters, and as Harry now saw, three assassins threw up shield charms and retaliated with a barrage of spells. Harry's shield charm deflected them all.
When Wormtail saw who it was he let out an agonised shriek.
"NO! NOT HIM! KILL HIM, YOU FOOLS, KILL HIM!" The Death Eaters ran forward to do as they were told whilst the assassins stayed back to protect Wormtail. Harry shot a slashing curse into the face of one Death Eater, the Death Eater fell to his knees, screaming and clutching his face. Harry plunged his sword into the Death Eater's stomach before withdrawing it and swinging it in a backhand that cut into another Death Eaters arm, the Death Eater fell to the ground moaning and clutching his arm and Harry kicked him in the head before stepping over him to meet the next two Death Eaters.
Fury pounded in his veins as he fought his way through the Death eaters towards the coward that had sold out his parents. A Death Eater shot a slashing curse at Harry which hit him in the shoulder. Harry blocked the next one and retaliated with a barrage of spells that forced the Death Eater to the ground. Harry stabbed his sword downwards into the chest of the Death Eater.
The final Death Eater ran at Harry firing off a multitude of slashing curses and arrowhead curses at Harry. Harry calmly sidestepped and swung his sword into the stomach of the Death Eater. The Death Eater was stopped with a surprised expression on his face, blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth and the Death Eater fell to the ground, dead. Harry was now drenched from head to foot in the blood of his enemies. He could see Wormtail cowering at the back of the cave with the three assassins standing in front of him their swords drawn. Harry looked at Wormtail scornfully.
"You coward." Harry's voice held nothing but contempt, "all you ever were was a coward. There is a battle being fought below and all you can do is hide up here. You lived a coward and now you will die a coward." Wormtail let out a terrified scream and shoved the assassins forward.
"KILL HIM, YOU IDIOTS!" The assassins advanced cautiously. Harry attacked viciously. The first assassin barely managed to parry Harry's sword swing before a barrage of slashing spells hit him in the face and throat. The assassin fell to the ground dead. The second assassin swung his sword at Harry, Harry parried it before stepping to the side and swinging his sword at the assassins chest. The assassin managed to block it but Harry stepped forward, hammered the hilt into his face and stabbed him in the gut. The assassin dropped to the ground screaming for a moment before a slashing curse hit him in the throat.
The third assassin charged at Harry trying to beat him back under a flurry of sword blows. Harry managed to parry them all but tripped over one of the bodies on the ground. The assassin screamed in triumph and prepared to plunge his sword down into Harry, but Harry was faster, he sprung upwards and stabbed the assassin in the gut. The blade went straight through and blood spurted all over Harry. Without a sound the assassin toppled over sideways, dead.
Harry heard a whimper from Wormtail and looked up just in time to throw himself sideways as a jet of green light flew towards him. It missed him by inches. He ran forwards and swung his sword into Wormtail's wand arm. Wormtail screamed and doubled over, clutching his arm. He looked up at Harry with fearful eyes.
"Harry…please…no."
"Shut up." Harry said forcefully, "I gave you your chance last time and you blew it. You chose the wrong side, Wormtail, and now you must die." Wormtail let out another whimper. Harry drew his sword back. "I just want you to know that this is for my parents." Harry thrust the sword forward into Wormtail's chest. Wormtail shuddered once, before falling to the ground, dead.
Harry looked at the body on the ground before turning and walking from the cave, his parents' betrayer finally dead.
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Ron blocked the Death Eater's spell before retaliating with one of his own, it shattered the Death Eater's shield charm and cut into his throat, the Death Eater fell to the ground dead. Ron looked around and ran to help a group of Guardians fight back a large group of Death Eaters, threatening to overpower them and flank the Guardians.
The Guardians and DA were barely holding. Every so often the Death Eaters would make a charge that would threaten to break through the Guardians and DA, but they would grit their teeth, brace themselves and fight back. However each charge came closer to breaking through.
Suddenly a great shout went up from the right flank, Ron looked over hurriedly, fearing that the Death Eaters had finally broken through, but to his immense relief he saw Harry striding over to him, cover from head to foot in blood but grinning broadly. Ron let out a shout of joy.
"He's dead?" Harry nodded.
"He's dead." It felt like a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. The feeling was wonderful.
And then it happened. Behind the Death Eaters thousands of Death Eaters were arriving. Harry felt a burst of pain in his scar. Ron looked at him.
"He's here. This is it." Ron nodded, terrified. The Death Eaters attacking them ran back to join their main army, the Guardians and the DA took the opportunity . Dumbledore had still not arrived. Harry looked at the Guardians and DA. They looked terrified but yet not one of them looked like they were going to run.
"Form up." Harry said quietly. They did so, thirty Guardians had been healed bringing the total to just over seventy still fighting, all of the DA were still fighting, most of whom had been healed. Harry moved to the centre of the line. "Until the last man." They held their wands up in readiness and waited for the Death Eaters to charge.
At that point they heard several loud 'cracks' behind them. Harry spun round. At first he couldn't believe his eyes and then, along with the rest of the Guardians and the DA let out a massive cheer. Thousands of Aurors along with the Order were running towards them.
Dumbledore had arrived and both armies were ready.
And the final battle was about to begin.
A/N VERY IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ.
First of all, I am very sorry for the late update. My laptop got confiscated which meant that I couldn't get anything written.
Secondly and most importantly half term starts tomorrow and so for two weeks I will not be able to get anything written. This means that the next update will be in three weeks time. I'm really sorry and thank you for your patience.
This chapter was only the prelude to the final battle, the skirmish between the vanguards. The next chapter will be the actual final battle and will be much bigger and more exciting. I hope you enjoyed this chapter nonetheless.
Thanks to all who reviewed and congratulations to The Phoenix King for being my 300th reviewer.
The Phoenix King – Thanks for the review. Hope you liked this chapter. The Aurors wouldn't want to arrive in trickles otherwise they would be overpowered easily, the Death Eaters had a great numbers advantage, and so the Aurors had to wait until they were at full strength before they could apparate in. Hope that clears it up.
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