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Disclaimer- I do not in any circumstances own Petshop of Horrors or Harry Potter 'cause if I did their world would be in utter chaos that is not done by anyone from the magical world, only by my friends and me. I also do not own any other name/object/toy that might be recognised in this fanfic.
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Chapter Twelve
The prank lasted for three months and kept changing from animals to insects. Weasley had become a spider after three weeks and couldn't even look at himself in the mirror because he was 'scared shitless of himself' as one hysterically laughing Li Tao said. Granger had become a fluffy Pomeranian dog with a large mane of hair surrounding her neck. Dumbledore had turned into what seemed like an Australian Water Monitor with large flaps of scaly yellow-spotted skin hanging down from his neck, clawed nails and scales on his face, arms and legs.
The lucky students that hadn't been drenched in the solution had the chance to laugh openly at their peers as they changed from a mammal to a reptile or to an insect. They also laughed when Weasley paled dramatically as Dumbledore stared at him as if he was the main course of a three course dinner.
Granger didn't help that much since she was currently sulking moodily as people giggled, chuckled or laughed openly at her now puffy mane of hair. "Granger!" chirped a voice behind her cheerfully as she turned and glared at the grinning Harry. "Nice hair. You get it done in a beauty parlour or did you do it yourself?" Granger glared at him with loathing clear in her eyes. "Do you really think I'd do this myself Potter?!" she spat out as the rest of the Hall went quiet and watched how this confrontation would turn out.
Harry cocked his head in an innocent manner as his eyes narrowed in contemplation. "Maaayyybbe," said Harry as he leaned back to dodge the hand flying towards his cheek. "Now, now, no need to get all hissy." Granger's glare upped a few notches as her lips thinned.
"Now sit girl!" chirped Harry again and was surprised when Granger actually sat down on the floor as was the rest of the Hall. "Jump," Said Harry curiously as Ganger jumped up. Then with an amused grin, Harry began to give out orders that one would give to a very well trained guard dog. Many people stared at the sight and soon turned to their friends who were canines with a sly smile as their friends began to curse Harry and slowly made their way to the doors of the Great Hall.
Harry noticed this and decided to stop what he was doing to Granger with a small smile. "While I would have been sorry for what I have done," began Harry as Granger glared at him. "I'm not. So see ya." Harry then turned and walked off with a cheerful whistle while the Great Hall began to slowly descend into another crazed chaos.
Harry whistled cheerfully as he went off towards his History of Magic class when he was confronted by a Slytherin from each year. Harry tilted his head as Kai poked his head out from Harry's collar. "What do you want?" asked Harry curiously as the Slytherins stared at Kai. Draco Malfoy looked at Harry straight in the eye and replied. "Simple," said Draco smoothly. "We want out of the war. No pressuring to join the 'Light' or the 'Dark'. And no need to worry about the repercussions of being neutral."
Harry looked at them all straight in the eye searchingly. The Slytherins wondered what he saw when he relaxed and nodded. "Meet me on the seventh floor next to the picture of Barnabas the Barmy on Saturday night," said Harry calmly as the Slytherins stared at him. Harry went into the classroom as his voice drifted back to them. "Meet me there ten minutes after dinner finishes. Don't be late."
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The rest of the week passed in a leisurely pace after Granger's humiliation at Harry's hand when the Hogsmeade weekend came up. This was the day when 'Dark' had to show himself to the world. After Harry had walked into the little village, he went straight to Madame Rosemerta's for a large tank of Butterbeer; and maybe some Firewhiskey if he could convince the landlady to sell him some.
Once he got the Butterbeer, Harry sat in the far corner of the bar and sipped at his Butterbeer slowly. Five minutes later, he was confronted by Weasley and Granger. With a mental sigh, he ignored their attempts to catch his attention and proceeded to drink his Butterbeer as they slowly simmered in their own anger.
"Do you want me to take care of them?" asked Kai as he glared at them from his position around Harry's neck. "Don't bother," replied Harry quietly from behind the rim of his tankard. "They aren't worth the effort or energy." Kai nodded as he watched then go redder and redder with each passing second.
"Are you even listening to us?" hissed Granger as Harry looked up with wide innocent eyes. "Oh," said Harry in false surprise. "Are you two well Miss Granger, Mr Weasley? Because you both look ever so like lobsters you see; all red and blotchy-like. And you seem to look as if you're part lobster or something or maybe a Blast Ended Shrewt?" They both fumed as they were laughed at by the rest of the bar before a scream of terror was heard from outside.
"Death Eaters!" cried a female voice. "Death Eaters are attacking!" the whole bar started to shout and screamed as they left the building in a rush. Harry just sat there with a frown and waited for them to leave and empty the building before he left himself. "Kai, turn into me for the period and take my wand" said Harry calmly as he took off the glamour to reveal his normal self. "I'll go and visit the Death Eaters. It's been such a long time since my last hunt after all." Kai gave Dark an amused smile before sliding off Dark and onto the floor before shifting into an exact replica of a sixteen year old Harry.
-Want me to go now deshi?- asked Kai in Japanese as he took the wand offered to him. Dark smiled at Kai as he changed his eyes to a lightning purple. -If you want sensei,- replied Dark in the same language. –I'll go and shadow walk to the alley next to the inn.- Kai nodded in reply before running out of the Three Broomsticks and into the chaos outside.
Dark waited ten minutes before 'walking' to the alley outside and watched the chaos from within the shadows. What he saw only made him blink as he watched houses burn, people running towards Hogwarts for sanctuary as some people from the DA fought against the Death Eaters. Dark noted with amusement that Weasley and Granger were being pushed back by the other members of the Defence Association with disgusted looks.
Dark then decided to get involved when he saw a spell just missing Kai by a millimetre from the head. Wrapping the shadows around him, Dark unhooked his scythe from his back and flicked the blade into place with a practised movement before appearing behind the Death Eaters silently with a flicker of a shadow. Dark watched for a moment longer before speaking up.
"You know," began Dark idly as the fighters stopped and looked around for the voice. "This is really getting irritating. I thought I had sent enough of you all into insanity so that I could get the bigots in the British Wizarding world to forget the stain made upon by foolish mortals such as dear Voldemort – Dark ignored the gasps and cries of indignation from the students and Death eaters- and people like the ones who call themselves 'Death Eaters'."
Then one of the students, Hermione Granger, screamed when she saw the lightning purple eyes of the one who had sacred her all those months ago. Dark smirked at her in amusement as the people all turned their heads to face him. "Yo," said Dark cheerfully with a little wave as he smiled with his eyes closed into crescents. "Dark at your service; assassin, information specialist, espionage specialist, master of all things sharp and pointy and all round guy you do not want to piss off."
The Death Eaters paled when they heard Dark's name and even one of the rookie recruits whimpered when they found that this person was the Dark who had sent even Bellatrix Lestrange, who was already insane, into a catatonic state of repetition. The students, however, were just staring the Dark since he looked so much like Death before they sprang into action when Kai shot a stunner at one of the Death Eaters.
That snapped the Death Eaters out of their stupor as they spilt into two groups and attacked the DA members and Dark. One single Death Eater held his wand to the sky. "Mosmorde!" he cried as a jet of sickly green light shot to the sky to create the Dark Mark. The sight of the infamous skull and snake sent the town back into chaos as Dark dodged the spells thrown at him with ease, an amused, mocking smile on his lips.
After playing with them for a little while longer, Dark stood still for a single second before charging towards them. He swung the scythe back before decapitating the nearest Death Eater to him in a quick swipe and took a step back. The head stayed on for a while as the Death Eater looked around in confusion before blood started to seep out from the wound as the friction caused the head to fall off.
Blood then spurted out from the gaping wound as the body convulsed when it fell to the floor. The head had rolled towards a burning house as the mask fell to reveal a youthful but rather ugly looking face. The girls in the DA screamed when they saw the blood and the jerky movements of the body during its death twitches. The other turned a little green as some upended their lunch near some buildings.
Dark, however, was smirking with battle lust and blood lust shining in his eyes. He spun the scythe in his hand before letting it rest on his shoulder with the blade above his head; not a single speck of blood was on the blade as it shone in the strangely bright sunny day. Dark then looked at the DA members and Kai.
"You all better run along now," said Dark cheerfully as if he hadn't just killed a man without a blink or a flinch. "It won't be a pretty sight if you stay here for long. Oh, and do tell the Aurors to hurry up before all they have left of the Death Eaters are mismatched body parts." The Death Eaters all paled at this statement as they made to leave by Apparation, only to be stop still when they heard the pain-filled scream of one of their comrade in arms.
As one, they all turned to see a mass of moving fire writhing on the ground in pain as the fire shaped itself around the…person's burning features. The DA members finally deem it time to take Dark's advice as they left for the castle with Weasley and Granger being dragged along reluctantly.
Once they were out of sight, Dark then gave the Death Eaters a grin as the shadows moved and slithered along the dirt road. "Since the little kiddies are gone now, as well as most of the villagers," began Dark as the shadows rose like snakes to tower over them from all sides. "Let's play shall we?" The Death Eaters all trembled as the grin became predatory and they were encased in a dome of black with only the sounds of their screams, pleas and begging resounding through the burning, temporary ghost town.
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"Is this all of the Death Eaters?" asked Shacklebolt as he tried to force down the lunch he had earlier from coming back up. Kai, who was still pretending to be Harry, shook his head. "There were at least sixteen Death Eaters, sir," said Kai with a fake frown as they both looked down at the whole bodies of four Death Eaters and the remains of the burnt Death Eater. Five were now like the others that had been sent to the Ministry over the summer holidays, in a permanent catatonic state of repetition. The others were missing and presumed dead from all the blood found at the site.
The only one that hadn't lost his mind yet was shaking continuously as he went with the Aurors quietly; looking over his shoulder repeatedly as he stayed as far away from the shadows as he could. "I wonder where they could have gone…" wondered Kai outwardly as he sighed in his mind; knowing exactly where Dark had gone with the remains of the four Death Eaters.
-Elsewhere-
"Hiya D!" chirped Dark cheerfully as he waltzed into the store with a grey bag over his shoulder. D looked up from his cleaning the store as T-Chan perked up immediately at the smell of blood and meat and ran to Dark. "Hand it over Dark," said T-Chan with glee as the other carnivorous animals of the shop came towards them.
"Hi to you too T-Chan," said Dark with a tinge of playful sarcasm as he let the bag fall swing to the outstretched hands of the totetsu. "Here's some food for you and the others; freshly cut meat from some…er…kind donors from the Wizarding world." T-Chan and the others either chuckled or openly laughed at Dark's little understatement before walking off with T-Chan to feed.
"Hello Yami-kun," said D with a smile when he came over with Q-Chan flying next to him. "I take it an attack took place during your visit to that little town…Hogsmeade was it?" Dark nodded with a grin, used to D's obscure way of finding out what happened when he hadn't even sent anything to tell the man about it.
"Yep," replied Dark as he followed the Chinese man into the tea room. "Sixteen of the morons; four dead by the Avada, one cooked well done, five are off to the loony bin, four are in pieces and currently being consumed by my good friends in one of the other rooms and only one is left alive to tell the Ministry what had happened before he gets killed by Tom for spilling the beans; after a lengthy amount of torture of course."
"How long will you be staying for Yami-kun?" asked D as he poured them both some jasmine tea. With a happy sigh, Darl took the proffered cup. "Maybe two, three hours," said Dark as he sipped his tea. "Kai's taking over for me until the interrogations are over and until dinner is over as well. But until then, I am free and have time to kill."
D raised an eyebrow at Dark's words before taking a bite of the banana cake. "Then maybe you'd like to help me with some deliveries?" queried D as Dark tilted his head at him. "I need a few plants and some new pets to be delivered to some disabled or elderly customers. Since the delivery shop is closed on Saturdays, you can do the job for me."
Dark blinked and shrugged. "I have nothing else to do so why not?" said Dark as he drained the cup and stood up. "So where do I have to go?" D smiled and handed him a box wrapped in a dark blue cloth with a small note on it. "To Ms Lauren Sandesh on Twenty-four Smith Street," said D to Dark as he headed for the door with the box on his shoulder. "And make sure you don't stay too long with her. She has a strange obsession with dark-haired males."
Dark looked back at D who was looking down with a grimace. "I should know," said D with a small shiver as he remembered when Ms Sandesh wouldn't leave the store unless she had a single hair from his head. How scary. Dark went silent before nodding. "Right boss," said Dark with a slight tone of trepidation. "Off I go then." D watched as Dark left the shop to see Ms Sandesh and prayed for his safe return. "Good Luck Yami-kun," muttered D as he went back to his banana cake. "You will need it."
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To be continued…
Done! And not a moment too soon as well! For some reason, I had some trouble writing this chap and had to repeatedly delete and re-type most of the beginning of the chapter. Oh well, at least I finished this chapter. Now, onto Raised by Kami!