So what the hell is going on?" Jake asked Risa in the lift.
"Jen has a cousin in Canada who's with the SRU, they're a SWAT unit. Since we were outnumbered Jen called her and was able to get her entire unit here to help us out. Before when I was talking in Japanese, that was Greg Parker, the team leader. His post is stationed in the atrium, where the security office is, where I sent Malfoy and Bellatrix without thinking."
"Wow," Jake said. Risa nodded.
"So now we need to de-arm Malfoy and Bellatrix so that they won't kill the SRU."
"Arisa can you hear me?" Greg was in Risa's headset again.
"Yeah I'm here, me and Emmerson are in the lift now, we're gonna cut off and de-arm the Deatheaters heading toward you now. We're both ok."
"That's good," Greg said. "Sam is back with Flint Emmerson and Longbottom, Spike came back with Kurosaki, and the Weaselys and Lewis just returned with Kuchiki Granger and Lovegood. All of them are safe."
Risa breathed a sigh of relief again and leaned against the wall. Jake who had heard the message was well clapped Risa on the shoulder.
"Is Bletchley there?" Risa asked.
"Negative she and Jules are staking out, but Abarai and Hisagi have not returned yet we have no reading of them or where Potter may have gone to."
"We still have no reading on Potter," Risa told Jake. "This isn't good."
The lift banged to a stop and the doors opened to the atrium where an entire group of people were waiting. It was the entire soul reaper team, plus the SRU and the wizards. Amy was also there with a few members of D-4 patching up a few of the injured. Some of them were better than others. Toshiro, Rangiku, Izuru, and Momo were back as well as members of the Order, including Byakuya, Ukitake and Kenpachi complete with Yachiru.
Out of nowhere Jack was suddenly in front of them and he threw his arms around Jake. Jake who would normally push his brother off and make some comment about incest and homosexuals, embraced his brother tightly. Leaving them to have their moment Risa stepped forward and walked right into Ichigo.
Abandoning all training and protocol, Risa dropped her wand and zanpaku-to and threw both of her arms around the orange haired Soul Reaper's neck. Before she knew it hot tears of relief were pouring out of her eyes and that there was moisture on her shoulder because Ichigo was crying as well.
"I'm sorry," Risa choked. "That I didn't spend enough time with you as I should have. I've been too involved with this mission and all of its annoying details that I ignored everyone under my nose. I dragged you all here because of my own stupidity and if anyone had paid the ultimate price I wouldn't be able to forgive myself."
"That doesn't matter now," Ichigo whispered. "We're all safe, that's what matters. We'll finish this off and go home, like always. I promise you that."
They broke away from each other to everyone else embracing each other or at least crying. Marcus was unknowingly choking Sam as he spoke to Jen in his headset. Sam's expression was an amusing cross between annoyance and understanding, annoyance because he needed his headset to confirm with Jules what Marcus was confirming with Jen.
Harry came sprinting out of the lift but his mood could not have been anymore different than everyone around him. Lupin was running behind him trying to talk some sense into the angry teen. All around the group people stopped crying and embracing to watch the scene and Risa noticed that Harry was not holding the Prophecy. The bottom dropped out of her stomach as Bellatrix ascended a staircase to their left with an insane smile playing at her lips.
The mood changed instantly. Suddenly weapons were drawn and posts were filled and Risa found herself behind the fountain next to Ichigo. She hadn't told him that that was the woman who had held her and Jake hostage along with Malfoy.
"Arisa," Greg was back in her headset. "Listen I have the situation details."
"What happened?"
"Bellatrix found Harry in the arch room where she was holding you and Jake hostage and they started fighting. Another man entered the fight and he seemed to have a connection to Harry. The man began to fight Bellatrix while yet another man entered the scene. Bellatrix pushed the first man through the archway and he did not return. That's when Harry lost it and started to come back up to the atrium bringing Bellatrix with him."
"Should we tell them that the glass ball smashed as they were coming up?" Jen's voice added. "Because that's what this whole thing was about."
Risa peered over the pool of the fountain to watch Harry and Bellatrix battle it out for a few seconds before she went back to hiding.
"If the Prophecy smashed that's gonna piss off Bellatrix a lot and who knows how the status quo will shift."
"So who are we gonna shoot?" Sam asked. "The Potter kid or the Woman?"
"Neither," Greg told Sam. "We need to wait for now."
"Jen," said Byakuya in the headset, Risa gave Ichigo a confused look. How the hell did Byakuya get a headset? On top of that there were seven different conversations going on at once
Byakuya: what's your status
Jules: No solution
Sam: Who can I shoot?
Jen: What part of no fucking solution do you not understand?
Risa: Somebody needs to pull Potter off
Greg: Did I not just tell you neither?
Risa: can I pull a man up to disarm Lestrange?
Jen: Negative
Byakuya: Uchimani is that possible?
Jen: I said I have no solution
Risa: I have a clear angle; someone's gotta pull Potter off.
Greg: can't do that
Shuhei: (from Greg's headset): Taichou, we're back
Renji: we couldn't catch Potter; the glass bally thing kinda broke
Jules: I think if we can pull Potter off I can take out the woman
Greg: we can't pull Potter off.
Renji: Let me do it
Risa and Greg: NO!
Jen and Jules: Potter's down!
Risa: oh shit, EXPELLIARMUS!
Risa had stood up the second Jules and Jen had called Potter down and shot her disarming spell at the insane Deatheater. Her wand flew out of her hand and into the air and landed on the ground. She dove to pick it up but…
"BAKUDO ICHIBAN, SAI!" eight different voices yelled. Atop various surfaces stood Jake, Jack, Rukia, Shuhei, Marcus, Toshiro, Momo and Izuru all of them with their arms raised. Bellatrix was bound tighter than normal due to the strength of spell was six fold.
"Now did you really want to do that?" a voice hissed and Harry collapsed on the ground in pain
