Chapter 8 – Hel Hound
Harry woke up but found Rias and Akeno already getting dressed instead of being in his bed. The three of them had noticed Sirzechs worried expression last night so wanted to find out why he looked worried about the file Arthur gave him. The three quickly headed downstairs to see what was going on. There they found all the adults waiting for them as the children slowly came down.
"Now that everyone's here we can begin," Sirzechs began "Last night Arthur Pendragon gave me a file that explains why the SS-class stray devil known as Kuroka killed her master," Koneko perked up at the mention of her sister and Rias held her tight. The giant TV came to life showing everyone the details of the file. Apparently Koneko's old master was going to experiment of the two sisters to create a super devil so Kuroka killed him and then ran away.
"So she wasn't drunk with power?" Koneko asked with tears in her eyes.
"No, it appears that she had a very valid reason to kill him, but we have to bring her in to officially sort this all out." Sirzechs replied happy that the little girl could get her sister back.
"So why are you telling us Brother?" Rias asked "Do you expect us to bring her in?"
"Yes I believe you and Harry can do it with your peerages," Sirzechs answered "But all we know is that she is in Britain so it will take a while for us to find her and remember your goal is to bring her in so we can clear her name that's it"
"We understand Lord Lucifer and we won't let you down," Rias responded making everyone stand a little straighter.
"I know you won't," Sirzechs said "Now I must return to the Underworld so I will let Lady Lily co-ordinate the search, farewell"
Sirzechs quickly left and Koneko excused herself to go to her room.
"You go to her I'll inform everyone about the situation," Harry said to Rias who kissed him on the cheek and followed Koneko.
"What's with Koneko?" Issei asked
"Kuroka is Koneko's sister," Harry simply stated as he began explaining the two Nekomata's past to the rest of them and then Koneko returned with Rias.
"Sorry about that," Koneko said as Rose and Juliet hugged her.
"No problem Koneko we understand," Lily said "How about you all head off to lunch whilst I come up with a plan"
"Okay Mum," Harry said as he led the group to breakfast whilst also trying to come up with a plan of his own.
The group sat down for breakfast with Rias and Harry sitting at Koneko's side. Both of them had seen her at her lowest and had worked hard to bring her back from the brink and become like a family to her. Harry spent most of his time at breakfast thinking of how to track her down when he suddenly had an idea. His secret weapon could do it. Conveniently just then Hela appeared in the hall again.
"Hello again, I'm here to pick up Harry for a trip to Hel,"
"Hello Hela," James said "I thought he wasn't going until next week?"
"He wasn't but urgent matters have come up so Harry will have to come now," Hela responded.
"I take it my Mum contacted you with an idea then," Harry said smirking.
"Yes and based off your facial expression you have the same idea as her," Hela said "Now come along Harry I am a busy woman after all"
Harry just hugged Koneko and gave Rias and Akeno a kiss before joining Hela.
"I'll have him back to you by lunch," Hela said as the two quickly left leaving the hall speculating what Harry was doing now.
"So were finally going to meet Harry's secret knight," Rias commentated
"It's about time," Ravel said "I was getting sick of him being all mysterious about it."
"I wonder who it is?" Fluer said
"It's probably an old Viking knight if there from Hel" Juliet said
"Yes maybe but why would Hela take care of him for Harry?" Hermione asked
"Good question" Rose said "Maybe it's a grim reaper or something?"
"We'll find out soon" Akeno said "Although it appears that he might be able to help us with our stray problem."
"I hope so," Koneko commentated.
Harry and Hela arrived in the throne room of Hela's castle in Hel. It was a huge and lavish castle which was similar to Asgard though instead of gold this castle was decorated with many fallen warriors weapons and armour. The two of them headed down to the basement which took a while due to the sheer size of the castle and they talked about the current situation with Kuroka and Lily's idea until they reached the basement which Harry saw that it was sealed. Hela broke the seal and they walked in. Harry was in awe of the basement. It was a giant forest that was beautiful and luscious. Hela sharply whistled and the ground started to shake as the mystery knight got closer. Then from the trees he emerged. The legendary wolf Fenrir.
Harry and Fenrir met when Harry was younger and was being trained by Hela in Asgardian magic and the two used to often play together. Fenrir would often shrink himself down to the size of a large dog so as not to hurt Harry and the two often spent many hours together playing. Fenrir did have the capacity to talk he just didn't much and could only do it in his full size. It was wired as Fenrir is Hela's brother so he was Harry's great uncle and Fenrir had become very protective of Harry so much that he asked to join Harry's peerage when Harry became a High Ranking Devil yet Harry wasn't fully ready at the time so Fenrir stayed in Hel with his sister at his personal hunting ground.
"Long time no see Fenrir," Harry commentated as he stroked his mane. Fenrir was twice as tall as Harry and had two horns protruding from his neck "It's time for you to be unsealed and join me."
"About time Harry I look forward to meeting my fellow peers," Fenrir commentated.
Harry spent the entire morning catching Fenrir up and appraising him about the situation with Kuroka. Fenrir agreed that he could probably track her down and began planning out the most likely places to start searching until Hela returned saying that it was time for them to go. Harry told Fenrir that it would probably be best to shrink himself to dog size as Harry didn't feel like scarring people when they returned. The two stood in the magic circle and reappeared in the great hall of Hogwarts.
Harry saw his group sat at the end of the Griffindor table. The young devils quickly looked at Harry and saw who was with him.
"Your secret knight is a dog?" Issei asked.
"Not exactly," Harry said as "Everyone please meet my Knight, Fenrir."
"WHAT?!" Many of them yelled
"I did say that it was gonna make for a good surprise," Harry said laughing
"The legendary wolf is your secret knight" Hermione said stunned
"I thought he would be bigger," Akeno said
"This is his shrunken size that he has so he can blend in better," Harry explained "So what have I missed?"
Harry was told that whilst he was in Hel, his mother had come up with a list of possible locations thanks to Koneko's help as to where Kuroka could possibly be hiding. They had their initial list of locations and at night Harry, Fenrir, Rias, Akeno and Koneko would look for her. Koneko would try and sense her ki while Fenrir would try and get a scent to track her.
Meanwhile, James and Sirius had been talking to Dumbledore about messing with the government in order to put an end to the bigotry running rampant in the country. James and Sirius were on board as long as Dumbledore understood that they would return to Lily when called as is their duty as her servants. Dumbledore accepted this and invited the two to the Wizengamot meeting at the end of the month as Lord Potter and Lord Black.
As it was a Sunday the group were taking the day off as rest and they all got to know Fenrir who they all fell in love with instantly especially Juliet and Rose as he was there Great Uncle. Remus actually found it very easy to get along with due to both of them having similar instincts and desires for a pack. When Lupin was turned into a Devil it enhanced his Lycanthropy to the point were he had essentially evolved into a Lycan which gave him full control of his wolf form and enhanced so now he was stronger, faster and his senses were for more enhanced. Lupin compared it to a Dire wolf against a wolf, there was no competition between the two and the dire wolf wins every time.
The group spent the afternoon lazily lying at the lake side. Fenrir stretched to his full size and lied down to take a nap whilst Ravel, Fluer and Astoria all lied down nestling into his fur. Fenrir did have a pack mentality so enjoyed seeing his pack together very much. Hermione, Daphne, Rose and Juliet all had there NEWTS approaching so were inside the castle studying. Rias and her peerage where inside the Gremory tent cheering Koneko up and supporting her. The adults were all talking the Dumbledore about possible locations for the last Hallow. Harry decided to wander around the castle and finally explore the place that his parents and honorary Uncles had met each other and was the location for many of the story's Harry told him about.
Harry was walking along a corridor when he spotted the red head Weasley with a bunch of others his age.
"Look here guys it's the last place champion," Weasley said causing a snicker with his group.
"I presume you are talking to me," Harry said
"Yes I am talking to you demon," Ron snarled
"Why?" Harry asked
"What do you mean why?" Ron asked confused
"Why are you looking to antagonize me?" Harry asked
"Cause your evil," Ron said as his group just nodded there heads "You are a evil, soul eating demon."
"So you are blinded by your beliefs just like that pompous prick Malfoy," Harry said
"I AM NOTHING LIKE MALFOY," Ron yelled.
"You are more alike than you think Weasley, you both think that your views are superior and are so determined into believing that you are right that you just ignore other peoples opinions and start yelling," Harry explained calmly.
Ron's yelling had drawn quite the crowd now and he was red faced with anger.
"I'll show you," he snarled as he went for his wand whilst Harry just stood there
"ENOUGH," A strong voice echoed through the hall and the crowd behind Harry parted as Neville walked through.
"Neville? You see this …" Ron began.
"Save your bullshit for someone who will believe it," Neville interrupted. Ron looked pissed off at hearing this and changed tactics.
"You gonna side with this demon over your fellow lions then huh?" Ron asked hoping to gain sympathy
"Yeah Neville, you a traitor?" Seamus asked.
"Seamus shut up you mindless dip shit," Neville began "And as for what I'm doing I'm saving your stupid arses from being turned into Harry's punching bags."
Harry quickly flew up out of sight to get a better view
"That's bullshit we could take him," Ron said
"Oh really well then where is he then?" Neville asked
"The coward must've run," Ron said smirking
"Up here cum stain," Harry said. Ron's group looked up just in time to see that Harry had fired a special hex into the middle of the group called the marauder bomb hex. It was a spell that his Dad had created. James Potter was known as The Pranking Queen as he had an entire arsenal of pranks that he could cast which served the purpose of distracting the opponent in battle whist making them underestimate him, he would then get serious and quickly take you out. The Marauder Bomb hex was a combination of the banishing spell and a random prank spell of the casters choosing and it had the bonus of affect a small area. The result was that Ron's group were all knocked on there arses as all of there hair started to fall out. Harry landed next to Neville and admired his work. The crowd was laughing at the group as they all got up a little dazed and then found that they had no hair anywhere on there body's.
"If you're gonna pick a fight Weasley, make sure you can handle them," Harry said smiling.
Ron snapped and punched Harry straight in the face only Harry to not react in anyway to it. Ron removed his fist to see Harry hadn't even been scratched and still had a smile on his face.
"Idiot," Harry muttered and he backhanded Ron into the wall where he crumbled in defeat. Harry just walked up to him and looked over him like a wolf over it's pray.
"You barely used any power didn't you?" Neville asked smirking
"About 1%," Harry responded and crowd looked shocked
"Are we ever gonna see you at full power Harry?" Neville asked chuckling now
"No," Harry simply stated as he walked away.
Ron saw an opportunity and sent a curse at Harry's back. Many in the hall screamed at Harry to look out when Albion's wings appeared out of Harry's back.
"DIVIDE" Albion could be heard saying and curse quickly began halving into nothingness. The hall was shocked that Harry had what appeared to be metal wings that could talk
"I had that Albion," Harry said
"Why should you get all the fun Harry we're supposed to be partners," Albion stated.
"You mean you just wanted to show off," Harry laughed.
"Urr Harry?" Neville began.
"Right, right, Say hello to Albion, the White Dragon Emperor of Supremacy," Harry said
"It's a talking pair of dragon wings?" someone in the crowd asked.
"No," Harry said realizing that he was gonna have to tell Albion's story so he gave a quick review about the twin dragons when Hermione showed up
"There you are I've been looking all over for you," Hermione said running up with Daphne as she noticed the crowd "Why does it feel like I've missed something?"
"Your king ran into the Griffindor morons," Neville answered
"OK it's official Ron really is dumber than Crabbe and Goyle," Daphne stated.
"Those aren't names are they?" Harry asked shocked
"They're actually prominent Pureblood family's and are high up in society," Daphne said chuckling "oh and they were also death eaters"
"Blood bigoted terrorists then," Harry said "whatever, what did my mum want girls?"
"Lady Potter-Phenex would like for heir Potter-Phenex to return so we can plan for tonight before we have dinner?" Daphne answered politely with a smirk
"You know you don't have to do the whole formality thing right?" Harry said sighing
"I know, but it's fun to see you react to it?" Daphne said smirking
Harry just shook his head in annoyance, he hated the whole song and dance he was expected to do as a noble high ranking devil.
"OK let's go," Harry said as he followed the two girls back to the tent.
Harry spent the rest of the day finalizing their plans to find Kuroka and had planned to search one specific area in Britain at a time with tonight being Liverpool and the surrounding area. They figured that she would be hiding in plain sight or in an abandoned area and since Liverpool was a port city she would have plenty of warehouses to hide in. The group quickly headed off to dinner and ate. There was a little tension in the air as Kuroka was very powerful enough to worry Ultimate Class Devils so, unlike the dragon from yesterday, Harry was a little nervous despite having Fenrir there.
"Relax Harry," Daphne said trying to reassure him"You'll be fine"
"She's right worrying will only make you overthink," Ravel said
"I know," Harry said calming himself "I just want to get going."
Harry had finished his meal and was waiting for the others so they could begin the search. He always got nervous just before performing a task but once he was in action he was fine.
"Calm down Harry, we've all finished so let's get going," Rias said as she got up. And so everyone got up and headed down to the Phenex tent Where Lily had a transportation circle ready for them. Harry, Fenrir, Rias, Akeno and Koneko all stepped in and went off to search for Kuroka.
It had been an hour since when the search party left, Daphne noticed that Hermione had an expression on her face that meant that she had an idea.
"What's up Mione?" Daphne asked
"I've just realized that we spent all day planning out possible locations for them to find Kuroka that we forgot to ask why she came to Britain in the first place," Hermione stated. This made Lily face palm.
"How could I forget such an important question?" Lily asked herself in frustration "Alright we are all going to spend this time coming up with possible reasons as to why Kuroka showed up in Britain?"
The group all sat down and started thinking up ideas as to why she would come to Britain in the first place. They eliminated the idea of any reasons related to Nekomata's as there had never been any Nekomata's in Britain on a permanent basis and Japan was the more likely area for those. There was also no reason that they knew of for her to be here as a stray devil as she would know that Harry and Rias were here and would rather avoid confrontation. That's when Hermione had a brain wave.
"What if she's here for Koneko?" She asked the group
"As if to take her away?" Issei asked defensively.
"Well she killed her her previous master for planning to experiment on her sister to make a super devil so she probably doesn't think highly of devils," Hermione explained "so it would make sense that she had been keeping tabs on her sister and found that she came here."
"Which means she's probably close to Hogwarts," Lily said before giving out orders "you kids stay here, James send a messenger patronus to Harry to bring the group back, Padfoot and Mooney change to your forms to try and smell anything odd near the forbidden forest and I'll keep guard."
"You got it Lily," the marauders said as they broke off to do there tasks.
"What's a patronus?" Issei asked
"It is a defensive charm that projects pure magic of happiness in the form of either a shield or an animal that suits your personality," Hermione explained "it can also be used to send messages quickly."
"Almost right Hermione," Lily said
"Wait she's wrong?" Daphne asked stunned
"That's a first," Astoria commentated giggling
"It's based off of love not happiness," Lily said smiling as James returned from sending the patronus "That's why so few magical's can perform it as there not doing it right."
"So that's why I haven't been able to do it," Hermione said as if the world made sense now.
"Probably," Lily said "I'll get Harry to teach you it tomorrow."
"Why not you Lily," Ravel asked "I know you can do it."
"Yes I can but Harry is the master of it," Lily said proudly as did her twin daughters
"What do you mean?" Fluer asked curious
"Harry was able to cast the charm at the age of twelve which is supposed to be impossible due to the amount of magical power required to cast it and ever since he has been experimenting with the charm ever since," Lily began noticing how enthralled the witches were at the revelation "He told me that the patronus we know of is like a blank canvas which can be drawn on using other emotions on top of love so Harry has a myriad of different patronus charms."
"Like what?" Hermione asked oblivious to the world
"Well, one of them allows his patronus to manifest itself as a suit of armour to protect him which is done by focusing on the desire to protect that which you love," Lily explained.
Just then Harry's dragon patronus appeared in the room.
"IN TROUBLE, TRUE LONGINUS USER, CAN'T GET AWAY." Harry's voice said from the ethereal dragon which made all the Devils who knew what the true Longinus was pale in fear
"SHIT YOU KIDS STAY HERE WE'RE GOING AS BACK UP," Lily yelled as she and James ran out the room.
"We should help them," Issei said getting up as his sacred gear flared up.
"Issei no," Daphne said "They will already be in enough trouble without them having to worry about us."
"But we can help," Issei pleaded
"No we can't, you have no idea what the True Longinus is do you?" Daphne asked
"What's it matter?" Issei asked
"The True Longinus is the spear of destiny," Daphne said "The strongest of 13 Longinus sacred gears and can kill gods."
"It's real?" Asia asked stunned
"What's the spear of destiny?" Issei asked confused as to why there all scared.
"It's the spear that stabbed Jesus Christ and killed him, which means that it has the blood of Christ infused into it," Daphne said
"Issei, those light spears Raynare stabbed you with are nothing compared to it," Kiba said "One blast from it would vaporise even an ultimate class devil."
"It's that's strong?" Issei said stunned.
"Yes so for now we should prepare for their return," Daphne said "Asia and Ravel, you two should prepare to heal any wounded when they return and Astoria and Hermione should probably get Madam Pomfrey, we may need all the help we can get."
Astoria and Hermione raced off into the castle not noticing Fawkes above them in the sky.
Same time with Dumbledore
Dumbledore was sat at his desk going over menial paperwork when Fawkes appeared through the window.
"Hello my friend," Dumbledore said calmly when he notices that Fawkes looked troubled "What's wrong?"
'Young Harry is in trouble and will need our assistance' Fawkes replied mentally
Dumbledore instantly got up looking serious "Then I will meet you at their tent then," he said racing down to the tents with a speed he really shouldn't have at his age. He failed the Potter family once he would rarther die than allow it to happen again
As he reached the third floor near the hospital wing he noticed Hermione and Astoria running
"Professor Dumbledore?" Hermione asked confused
"Fawkes told me Harry is in trouble?" Dumbledore replied trying to save time
"Yes we were just going to get Pomfrey" Astoria replied
"Good I will head down to the tent to offer my assistance," Dumbledore said as he once again headed off for the tents.
On the grounds he noticed a strange looking women with what appeared to be cat ears walking with Sirius and Remus
"Dumbledore?" Sirius asked
"Fawkes told me Harry was in trouble and will need my help" He replied simply
"Shit we better get moving," Remus said as the four of them ran to the tent.
"By the way meet Kuroka, stupidly powerful Nekomata" Sirius said
"I'm a Nekoshou you stupid mutt," Kuroka replied angrily "And I'm only here for my sister not for your family drama,"
"Well your sister is with Harry so it's now your problem too," Sirius replied and Kuroka scowled
The four reached the tent and entered to see everyone looking distressed with a bed in the centre of the room.
"You found her?!" Daphne asked stunned.
"Yeah she was in the forbidden forest, now what's up.
"Harry's group have run into someone using the True Longinus," Daphne said scaring the group
"Where are they?" Kuroka asked looking concerned for her sister.
"Somewhere in Liverpool," Daphne replied "But it's pointless you can't get there,"
Kuroka ignored her quickly conjuring up a purple portal and stepped through closing it behind her.
"Well I didn't see that happening," Sirius remarked trying, and failing, to lighten the mood.
"Now isn't the time Uncle Sirius," Juliet scowled holding her sisters hand
"You're right," Sirius said hugging his Niece's "But I have to do something,"
"Excuse me but what is the True Longinus?" Dumbledore asked as Daphne filled her in.
"How come your here Dumbledore?" Remus asked
"Fawkes told me that Harry was in danger," Dumbledore said as Fawkes appeared on his shoulder
"A real Phoenix?" Ravel remarked. They were considered sacred in the Phenex family for obvious reasons.
Fawkes flew to Ravel's shoulder and began singing which instantly calmed the mood.
Hermione, Astoria and Madam Pomfrey arrived and were quickly given a summary of what they missed. The group waited for a few minutes before the same purple portal opened and the search party emerged with Lily, James and Kuroka looking terrible. But the worst was Harry who was being carried in Lily's arms covered in blood and missing an arm. She quickly put her son on the bed and Ravel and Astoria quickly swooped to each side of him and began healing him. The group all looked tired like they had been fighting hard but they also had a look of shock and fear on their faces.
"WHAT HAPPENED?" Sirius asked holding onto the twins. The easy go lucky jokester was gone and replaced by the strong willed warrior Black.
Rias just looked at them all and began telling the story whilst Asia and Ravel healed him
The past 10 minutes for the search party
The search party landed at the outskirts of the Liverpool docks. Since it was a Sunday it was really quiet. They walked up along the docks with Fenrir sniffing around for anything suspicious. They entered an abandoned warehouse when Fenrir growled and went full size
"What's wrong?" Harry asked concerned.
"Trouble" Fenrir replied simply
The search party quickly formed a circle as they stood in the middle of a warehouse when a voice could be heard
"That's an impressive wolf, pity he has aligned with such evil things like Devils and Dragons," The voice said.
"Show yourself," Rias demanded
All of a sudden a man dressed in what appeared to be an ancient eastern attire with a hood and a mask concealing his face. But the most distinctive feature was his spear. It was beautiful and radiated power but Harry recognized it as the spear of destiny and it made him uneasy and concerned.
"Based off your faces you know what this spear is" He said as he took guard "I suppose you can take some sick credit that it was the True Longinus that killed you Devil's"
They all knew this would be a rough fight and Harry wasn't going to take this lightly as Albions wings popped out of his back.
"VANISHING DRAGON BALENCE BREAKER" Albion yelled "SCALE MAIL"
Harry was now all suited up in his scale mail ready for battle.
"Hmm interesting," the man remarked "you must be only part devil to posses a sacred gear which means that I will have to kill your family for sleeping with devils"
Harry just snapped and went to punch him with all his might but the man blocked it with his spear though was pushed back a few feet
"Impressive, this may be fun," The man remarked when a bolt of lighting flew his way. He just jumped to the side and fire a light blast at Koneko which was blocked by Rias' destruction magic. Fenrir jumped in and went to swipe at him but he just jumped out the way when harry grabbed his leg and threw him across the warehouse only for him to slow himself buy stabbing the ground with his spear.
On and on they battled 5 against 1 yet the mystery man kept up with them and pushing them back at times. They were all starting to have cut's and injury's by now. He quickly hit Harry's side with the blunt end of his spear which slammed him into some crates and Harry realised that they needed to get out of hear. The longer the fight went on the more likely someone would die. It would only take for one opening for the man to stab them with the spear ending there existence. He knew that he couldn't apparate all of them out himself and didn't have time for a magic circle. Harry fired off his Patronus to his mum in the hopes that she could help Harry apparate the group out. HE rejoined the fight and less than a minute later he saw his parents jump into the fight at full force.
Now he knew why his mum was so revered in the magical world. She was a bloody beast in battle, there was little to no wasted movement and she commanded a battlefield with ease. With there increased numbers they began to gain advantage until the man changed tactics and all of a sudden began moving even quicker than before. The thought that he was holding back pissed Harry off to no end and he began fighting harder co-ordinating with his mum to use there Phenex fire to corner the man but the man baited them and forced them to overcommit to the plan and left him an opening
Harry turned around after he cast his patronus to see Koneko on the floor with the man about to stab her and instinct took over.
"Time to die little Devil," The man proclaimed as he went to stab Koneko when Harry jumped in the way and blocked the spear with his left arm going through it before stopping just before his heart.
"MOTHER FUCKING HELL THIS HURTS" Harry yelled as they all looked on in shock as he fell to his knees in pain
"It doesn't matter, you won't be able to fight anymore now so I'll kill you last," The man proclaimed as he went to pull the spear out only to find Harry was holding on "Let go you Devil"
Harry looked into the man's eyes before standing up and cocked his fist back as he charged his power. Suddenly a blue ball of light appeared in front of his fist
"DRAGON SHOT" Harry yelled punching ball into a point range blast but the man was able to pull his spear out hard enough to take Harry's arm clean off. and used the spear block the shot. Fortunately for the devils he was still close enough to be sent flying through the warehouse doors and a good few miles into the sea.
Harry was panting heavily as his scale mail shattered away leaving a very bloodied Harry missing an arm to collapse from both blood loss and exhaustion.
"HARRY," Rias yelled as he was caught in his mother's arms
"We have to get out of here," James said stone faced. He was clearly holding his emotions in to get his son to safety.
"YOU. AREN'T. GOING. ANYWHERE. DEVILS." The man proclaimed as he had somehow dragged himself back looking to continue the fight. His hood and mask were destroyed but he used his long hair to mask his face now. Suddenly two balls of white fire hit him sending him back into the water
"Quickly through the portal Shirone," Kuroka said. The sound of her real name shook Koneko back to reality and the Devil's all ran through the purple portal with Fenrir shrinking down to pup size.
Back to the present time
Rose just ran to Kuroka and hugged her crying.
"Thank you for saving my brother," She cried into Kuroka who hesitantly hugged her back.
"Yes, I don't even want to think of what would have happened if you hadn't have shown up," Lily remarked still looking at her son's bloodied body.
"It was the least I could do after he saved my sister's life," Kuroka said sincerely
"How is he?" Remus asked
"Harry is completely drained of magic and the holy power of the spear is causing his healing factor to go into overdrive," Ravel said with tears in her eyes "Asia is aiding his healing factor and the tears from Fawkes is helping also whilst I'm trying to remove the holy energy in the wound but it's gonna take some time as the holy power is fighting my demon powers."
"Couldn't Albion divide it away?" Hermione asked hopefully
"No, the sacred gear works off the users energy which is being used on his Phenex healing and he can't use his magic as he's drained it," Ravel said sadly
"Perhaps we can help," Dumbledore said indicating himself and Madam Pomfrey "Your Devil powers are being fought off by the holy energy but if I used my magic to try to isolate it into one place could we then remove it all at once."
"That would work, Your magic will still be fought off but not as badly so let's do it," Ravel said.
Dumbledore and Pomfrey moved close to scan the wound with his magic. Theye could see that the holy energy was acting like a virus infecting a wound and then began to cast tiny magic barriers around the fragments of holy energy before pushing them all together. Ravel then began to burn them away cleansing the wound of holy energy.
"Done," Ravel responded "All that's left is for him to heal his arm back."
"So he's gonna grow an entire arm again?" Issei asked shocked
"Yes 'Boy Who Thinks He's The Red Dragon Emperor' like all members of the house of Phenex Harry has regenerative ability's but being only Half-Phenex it's slower than mine so it will take him a few days to fully recover." Ravel answered making Issei look put out at her nickname for him. They moved Harry to his bedroom where Rias and Akeno demanded to stay with him to no objections. Dumbledore and Pomfrey left soon after and Lily gave them both a heartfelt thank you.
Kuroka just looked at the group and asked "So why where you looking for me?"
Lily then explained that they had learned why Kuroka killed her master and was going to be pardoned for it. Koneko actually approached her sister and hugged her before mumbling out a quick thank you for what she did years ago.
Kuroka turned to her sister and asked "Tell me Shirone, are you happy here?"
"Yes, I'm very happy and I have a good life." Koneko replied strongly
"Then I'm staying with you lot then," Kuroka proclaimed stunning the group "I left you all alone years ago to save you so we have some catching up to do."
This made Koneko smile as she hugged her sister "Plus that White Dragon Emperor is quite yummy looking" Kuroka said
"Bad idea kitty," Sirius said "Rias and Akeno spent years convincing him to date them."
"We'll see," Kuroka said with a smile. She loved a challenge. The mood had lightened considerably since Harry returned. Asia was worn out from healing Harry so she went to bed. Slowly they all went to bed with Sirius and Remus looking after the twins leaving Lily with James.
"Well that was …" James began
"Terrifying." Lily finished
"Yeah," James said "I don't want to be in that position again."
"Funny thing is I think Harry won't want to be in that position again either." Lily said smiling
"So we're gonna have to constantly tell him to slow down his training then for the next month," James groaned as Lily laughed.
"Is it weird to be proud of your son losing an arm?" James asked his wife who started laughing.
"It probably is but I know what you mean." Lily said making James smile.
"Maybe Kuroka can help us keep Harry from over training, he's already caught her eye?" James asked his wife
"Maybe," Lily said before laughing at Harry's situation "He may be a very intelligent and powerful Devil but he is clueless when it comes to the women in his life."
"He's gonna end up with a harem isn't he?" James asked laughing
"Based off the way Daphne and Hermione have been looking at him I'm gonna say yes," Lily remarked
"The teasing he's gonna get from Sirius," James said as he and Lily started laughing.
"Thank you," Lily said which surprised James.
"For what?" James asked confused
"For making me laugh after what I just went through." Lily said sincerely.
James just held his wife who rested her head on his chest.
"I'll always be there for you and we've been together long enough for me to know what you need," James said sincerely as he lifted Lily's chin up and kissed her lovingly
"Let's get some sleep," James said as he led his wife to bed "tomorrow's a new day with a fresh start."
The two fell into bed after undressing and fell asleep instantly as they held each other.
Authors notes
Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Fenrir is Harry's secret knight and Kuroka has arrived with her eyes set on Harry as do a few others. As proven Harry isn't unbeatable and has his weaknesses. Yes that was Cao Cao who they fought and yes he's stupid strong which was on purpose but he isn't gonna show up again until he does in canon.
Harry's peerage
Queen – Daphne Greengrass
Bishops – Astoria Greengrass and Ravel Phenex
Knights – Fluer Delacor and Fenrir
Rooks – no one so far.
Pawns – Juliet Potter(3 pieces) Rose Potter(3 pieces) Hermione Granger(2pieces)
Next chapter – healing, solving and guy problems galore