Chapter 11: SIEGE of the GOBLINS

As Harry, the Army of Hogwarts, the guardians, and his Seneschals arrived, along with Neville and the guard unit arrived Harry looked around spotting the line of tanks and artillery guns that now faced Gringotts throughout the long alley and the men that filled the alley.

Harry stood up and watched as Gringotts, with it's doors shut waited. He quickly casted a sonorous on himself, "Goblins of Gringotts London, all who already side with the Queen need not fear our forces, however as an organization the leaders of Gringotts are being charged with Treason to the Crown. You have 15 minutes to offer an unconditional surrender of Gringotts, it's vaults, it's personal, and any other creature, asset, gold, etcetera, that is in Gringotts property in England. Should you fail to do so the Queen has ordered that I lead the Royal Regiment of Hogwarts, alongside the Army of Hogwarts into battle."

Harry waited the fifteen minutes before he ordered the warders and cursebreakers forward to take down the wards. This took a good 6 hours to disable every ward and curse on the doorway and entrance of the bank.

"Units 1 and two, return to the dominant, you have the next 6 hours to sleep. Tanks, begin to bombard the doors and entrance way. Anti-Aircraft and artillery, standby for any dragons or creatures they release. Everyone move back away from the bank, leave 100 meters between the target and nearest units." Harry said from his field base. This was ordered eight hours into the campaign. Harry had been receiving word from the Goblins inside that they were waiting until more action was taken before fighting back, and those loyal to Harry was making sure that the Goblins that weren't loyal were not interfering with the many vaults and assets under Gringott's London's control.

"Sir, a message was slipped out to our forces through the sewer tunnels. It carries the your family's seals with a BM under each seal." One of Harry's many aides came in, standing in his gold and silver armor.

Harry took the note, dismissing the aide and began to read.

9 of 12 Goblin nations chiefs are in the bank. They refuse to yield the bank and will likely challenge you to a Goblin honor duel wherein two participants may use any armor and weapons they wish and each constitute one condition for loss and one for win.

G R R

So the note was from Ragnarok, Ragnok, and Griphook, not only that but if he could gain entrance to the bank then he could likely win a duel against one of the Goblin chiefs, they would have no cause to complain at the surrender at the bank being turned over to Harry and it may may future cooperation easier.

Harry again ordered the guns to presume the bank as two welsh green dragons appeared from the bank and began to attack his men. The battle raged for many hours with many of his men receiving grievous injuries and even more being dealt the hand of death.

Harry led the battle out, "AIM FOR THE EYES! AA TAKE THOSE CREATURES DOWN!" He shouted to the ranks of men. Soon gunfire, anti-aircraft shells, and sniper fire soon overwhelmed the dragon, but not without injury or loss of life.

Harry sighed, "Medics, take the injured and dead back to the Dominant and get them healed, prepare autoposies on the dead, and get me a list of names so that I might notify their next of kin. Get everyone back here I have a feeling the doors are about to fail."

Over the next few hours Artillery continued to pound into the large doors of Gringotts as tankfire roared and the men waited. Harry was able to notify the next of Kin and make suggestions for awards as the door continued to be chipped away. As Harry had predicted within the hour the wards and door fell and out swarmed many Goblin warriors, some joined Harry's forces in combating the others while others attempted to hack and fight through the crowd. Over the next few hours more of his men succumbed to injury, portkeying away. Once Harry finally fougt the last goblin warrior, he led the charge of his men into the bank. Standing before him stood nine goblins, each surrounded by four warriors. Almost half the warrirors carried Harry's nark on their helmets and the oters looked wearily as Harry ordered his men to halt. "Chiefs." Harry murmured with a slight inclination of his head.

"Lord Potter, you have fought better than we expected and many of our goblins have sided with you. We challenge you to a Goblin Honor Duel with our main chief. If you should win, we will accept any and all terms of surrender. If you shall lose, your men will be line themselves and wait for death."

"And If I shall win, you shall cooperate with our bank once you surrender, continuing to aid you in other countries and helping our cause, whilst if I shall lose I will gladly offer all my gold and that of my house to your coffers." Harry spoke up.

The Goblins took a moment to confer with each other and then nodded as the largest goblin, about 4 feet tall and muscular drew a sword and approached Harry The goblin was wearing the standard goblin armor. Harry shrugged, grabbed his pistol, the sword of Gryffindor, and his wand and handed the rest of his weapons to Neville.

As Harry bowed, the Goblin began firing goblin magic at Harry who was busy dodging. As Harry got a clean shot, he fired a few rounds into the goblin's arms to incapicate him. "Do you yield?" Harry yelled, panting from the exertion of dodging the magic.

"NEVER human!" The goblin roared back, rushing to tackle Harry. As the goblin got close, Harry moved out of the way shouting a reducto at the running back of the Goblin. The armor could be seen buckling under the force of Harry's silent spell. The Goblin grunted before standing again and rushing at Harry. Harry aimed for the eyes and fired another redactor, blowing the Goblin's head apart as he impacted on Harry. As the Goblin went down Neville rushed to remove the carcass from on top of Harry. As Harry rose, the Goblins bowed. "Lord Potter, you have won your duel and our respect. We will continue to cooperate with Gringott's England as needed and the Goblins that aided you may remain to work for you, may this profit us both. We will not touch the vaults in this bank, but any asset seizures you make here, may not apply in other banks. Each bank shall have our own policies, but know this, the Goblins shall remain neutral in the coming conflict. While we will not seek to harm the death eaters, we will not ally ourselves with the Lord Voldemort, Lord of Slytherin. We will work with you in matters of business, but that is it. You will be responsible for the loans and savings accounts that come from this branch."

At this the leaders of the Goblin nation, and about thirty other goblins left the bank and left it in Harry's hand.

AN: I've decided to start doing shorter chapters, especially as I have started another fic that just won't go away. Therefore I felt it best on both fic's to start writing shorter chapters, this means less of a delay for you guys and less of a force on me to push out 5k-10k at a time. If you need more to read feel free to read my other fic GOBLIN CHILD.