The Hogwarts Courtyard
"Lily!" Lupin exclaimed. Harry stared at his deceased mother. Everyone around them hurriedly took off their blindfolds
"What!? How could you come here?!" the entity screeched.
"You really should be careful where you put a time-traveling orb." Lily said with a smile. She put her thumb and pointer finger at her lips and whistled shrilly. Several people stepped to her side. Four of them were young boys her age, one looked like a younger version of Sirius, one looked like a brown-eyed version of Harry, one looked like a younger and slightly less tired Lupin, and the last one had watery eyes and looked a little like a mouse.
"Sad to see we're going to die so soon my dear Padfoot," the brown-eyed Harry said.
"Oh, I will come back to life," the young Sirius said with a grin.
"Shame I won't though," the brown-eyed Harry said with an almost identical grin. Then the young Sirius threw up his hands to the sky.
"Power to the soon-to-be-dead people!" he shouted. Hoards of people seemed to just step from the crowd around them. Some of them were from Haven and some from the wizarding world. All of them had vengeful grins on their faces.
"How did you come here?! The people who had the orb last died!" the entity screamed.
"We didn't die in the end," a voice said from behind them. Everyone turned to see Holly, Artemis, Qwan, and No1 hovered above everyone's heads. These weren't the descendants who had been taken away to the former prison of the entity these descendants had crystal-like wings that fluttered elegantly with a celestial glow and they had glowing blue/silver/green/gold eyes. For once it was perfectly obvious they were the descendants. The powerful aura that radiated from them was similar to that of the Ancients.
"'The power the descendants hold will be unlocked when they need it most.'" No1 quoted in a voice that was almost definitely not his own. This voice was wise and not as naïve as No1 really was. It seemed in the course of a few hours he had changed drastically and it seemed an identical change had affected Holly, Artemis, and Qwan as well. Artemis held up one hand and snapped his fingers. Suddenly, the night was alight with spells and Neutrino beams. The battle of the two worlds had broken loose.
Holly dodged a spell and dove to the ground to meet her friends. She touched down on the earth and waved her hand. The shackled snapped and dissolved, freeing their captives.
"Captain Short… how?" Root was too startled to elaborate. Holly just smiled sadly and disappeared into the fray. Soon, her friends followed suit.
Holly took to the air and surveyed the battle from a bird's eye view. She finally saw what she was searching for. Qwan, Artemis, and No1 were all fighting the entity. Holly dove to their side and joined their battle.
The entity screeched and sent two bolts of navy magic at Holly and Artemis. They both dove low and Qwan and No1 followed up with four bolts of magic at the entity. The entity didn't have time to react and the magic hit it head on. It screeched as fire lanced across its already rotting features. It made a violent motion with its hand and the fire disappeared, leaving its face burned and scorched. It screamed inhumanely and waved its hands.
A vine from a nearby tree shot from the tree and wrapped around Holly's throat. She made a choking sound and her wings gave out. Artemis dove low and caught her just before she hit the ground. Her face was turning blue.
"Qwan! No1! Distract him while I help Holly!" Artemis shouted over the din. Qwan and No1 positioned themselves in between the entity and their two friends. The entity sent dagger-shaped navy magic at the two demon warlocks. No1 and Qwan simultaneously waved their hands in identical motions and the daggers dissolved before they could stab anyone. The entity took advantage of their slight distraction and sent another dagger. Before either demon warlock could react, the dagger stabbed Qwan in the arm.
"Qwan!" No1 exclaimed.
"I'm alright, m'boy." Qwan said. He waved his hand and the dagger fell to the ground. Little sparks of fairy magic leapt up and sowed the skin back together. Holly and Artemis flew to their sides, Holly still rubbing a bruise around her neck from the vine.
Holly went high into the sky and dove at the entity. The entity shot two blades of navy magic at her. While it was distracted, Artemis, Qwan, and No1 shot beams of snakelike magic at it. The entity dissolved their onslaught.
"You would never be able to defeat me! You lack the experience and power!" the entity screeched. Artemis smirked.
"We can. Didn't you wonder how we survived?" Artemis flew up to meet Holly without saying anything more. Qwan and No1 quickly followed suit. The entity sent black streaks of magic after them, which they dodged and dissolved. Qwan waved his hands in a complex set of motions and a sphere of magic circled the foursome, creating a shield.
"We'd better hurry this up. I won't be able to hold this shield for long!" Qwan shouted over the sounds of battle. Holly, Artemis, Qwan, and No1 all held hands in a circle and magic started glowing all around them. Sparkles began raining down on them as they whispered something in an ancient language. They opened their eyes and to any onlooker, they had seemingly lost their humanity. Their eyes were glowing even more violently, so violently any other color disappeared from their eyes. They simultaneously looked down at the entity.
"BEGONE!" they shouted in unison. Their voices held no resemblance to their original voices. It was as if four creatures were roaring it at the same time. A ball of light erupted from each of them and joined together with the other balls of light. The combined balls of light shot at the entity. The entity screamed. It was an ear-splitting shriek that resounded all over the battlefield despite the noise. The entity dissolved, and was gone.
A blanket of silence fell on the battlefield. The entity was destroyed. The Worlds War was won and authorities would be arriving soon. Small portals opened up around the battlefield and the people from the past stepped through them. Death Eaters and goblins alike fled the scene and the Ancients slowly made their way to their descendants who had fluttered to the ground and were hovering a few feet from the earth. The descendant's friends made their way to them too.
The group was struck by how frail Holly, Artemis, No1 and Qwan looked. It seemed as though they would pass out any moment.
"You won." The sapphire-eyed Ancient said, breaking the silence. For a moment, the Ancients glowed and everyone knew their power was restored. Sparkles enveloped the Ancients and they disappeared. Holly smiled sadly for she, and all the other descendants, knew about what was to happen.
"Are you okay?" Mulch asked when he realized everyone else was at a loss for words.
"No, we aren't." No1 whispered sadly.
"Why not?" Doodah piped up.
"We have eluded death too many times, and I suppose it will finally claim us." Artemis said. The descendants began fading away.
"You can't die! Not now!" Trouble nearly shouted.
"Artemis, I have gone through too much hardship for you to die on me now!" Butler said sternly.
"You aren't going to die when I just come back to life!" Root said angrily. All four of them smile sadly; it was barely decipherable on their disappearing faces.
"We only had enough power to save ourselves once and defeat the entity. There is nothing left. We're sorry." Holly said in a hushed voice. She closed her eyes and a single tear fell from her eye. They had disappeared by the time the tear hit the ground.