Toby summon what was left of the Phoenix tears to him as he landed. Quickly trying to mend his wrist he cringed away from the duel that was going on in the room not more then a few feet from him. The tear did very little and Toby pulled his wand to him trying to get the skin to knit closed as the counter curse explained. It was taking to long, and Toby kept lapsing in concentration as fire, winds and ice flew about the room.

The room fell eerily quiet as his wrist finally closed up. Looking up he saw Voldemorte standing over Jareth, wand in hand but a silvery orb in the other. Voldemorte was staring into it entranced. Jareth was kneeling before him, looking as if he was concentration very hard with his rapier and wand in each hand.

"Jareth?" Toby asked quietly.

"Shh… this type of thing is not as easy as I make it seem." Was all he said as Toby pulled himself to his feet. He walked over next to the Dark Lord and peered into the crystal ball. It was illusion magic, a different labyrinth of sorts built for a persons mind. It showed Voldemorte sitting at the headmasters table, a number of Death Eaters sitting along where the teachers should have been as he stood addressing the students. Away where the different house colors as only emerald and silver could be seen decorating the Great Hall.

"Should I finish him while you have him trapped? Or did you wish for that Honor?" Toby asked, it wasn't exactly they way he would have preferred, but you didn't get chances like this very often.

"Neither, this wont hold him forever, and right now we can't kill him."

"Why-"

"I didn't say wont, I said can't." Jareth continued to whisper. He slowly stood keeping his eyes on the crystal ball. "The magic he's using to bind himself here is a lot stronger then I had realized, his own will to live, he fear of death could probably get him to stand up if he was a corpse."

"His Horocrux. They all still need to be destroyed or he will not fall." He looked up at the Dark Lord, here and now in his grasp and yet unable to do anything with him. Unable to stop him. Toby was so pissed at how close they were he just want to reach out and deck him, but that would probably break the spell.

"I used the killing curse on him myself and it tried to rebound. We will have to leave this for the Potter boy. Dumbledor must have had something planned." Jareth slowly started to back up. He flicked his wand to the corner where Lucious was slowly moving towards the door. A dazed look came across his face as if everything he knew had been whipped clean. Jareth waved the wand in a wide circle and himself and Toby veiling them as Voldemorte shattered the orb in his hand.

Toby quietly moved out the door way as he heard Voldemorte begin to pace the floor of the room. Jareth followed behind him until they got a distance from the Shrieking Shack.

"We couldn't kill him." Toby said quietly from atop a leaf spun rug he crafted and enchanted to fly. Jareth sat across from him as he slowly circled over the top of the Forbidden Forest. The could still hear the battle going on some distance away.

"Doesn't matter. We will head back to the castle and when Harry Potter confronts him we will stand there with him. With the Boy Who Lived as our weapon we will not fail again." Jareth said with almost a mocking smile. "At least you were able to defeat Gringotts. You nearly tripled the size of our kingdom and now we have a Bank to run as well, I hear they have quiet the labyrinth of tunnels underneath that bank…" Jareth trailed off as they looked down upon the mountain range. It was scorched as if lava had come across the ground, burning everything in its path. The ground itself seem as if it had been melted. The dirt had been melted.

Coming down the side of the mountain was a dozen centaur like creatures, each of them looking as if fire had solidified into glass and animated. The colors ranged from a deep red, to orange and purple. One stood ahead of the herd, it was white, a pure white that had highlights of silver. It looked like it burnt away the color around it leaving a smoke cloud at the edge of its radiance to help give this creature form.

"Aren't those our Heliopaths'?" Toby asked as he shielded his eyes looking down at them. Jareth followed there path and saw they where charging a band of goblins. Several animals in plate, on top dogs as if they were steeds stood in a line. Behind them dozens of goblins held tight to spears as they watched there enemy approach.

"Yes, they were to come under my control when you won the challenge." Jareth said as he took control of the carpet and turned it into there path.

"Uriel! Your herd is in the wrong spot. I called off this attack." Jareth said as he stood before the molten white being. Toby stood a step back on the right watching. The blanket of leaves laying just under both of them incase things went awry.

"Lord of the Labyrinth, it has been many years since you called on us to tend your forges. My flames still burn brightly?" It asked. The voice sounded as if you gave smoke a voice, it made you feel dirty to hear it, and yet there was excitement, the voice itself gave off energy as if it was a shot of caffeine just to hear him talk.

"That it does, but that is not why I am here. Your contract with your previous master has passed onto me. I hold your fealty, and the attack against Hogwarts has been called off. They are our ally."

"Master of the Bank Vaults held no contract with me. He brokered the deal between I and the Dark Lord. I would serve him until he dismissed me, or he has a victory! This here will be that victory."

"Then you are bound forever to the Dark Lord, he will lose this battle and your people will cease to burn upon this world."

"I think not goblin. The castle will burn as readily as you." Uriel reared up and charged. Toby pulled the carpet in to the air, but the leaves turned to a crisp as they approached. Toby was flung upwards from the force of his own spell but no longer had anything to hold him up.

Toby caught a flash of light as he saw Jareth send the Uriel to the side as he charged. The line of knights charged forward into the onslaught of elemental beings. To halt the fall Toby trying a levitating spell but he normal cloths and cape had been burnt away against Voldemorte, and his goblin armor deflected the spell. The only thing that came to mind was to cast as spell directly on himself to numb his body for a few seconds. As long as he rag dolled the damage wouldn't be to sever.

Umpht!

_...-~-…_

The Dark Lord was attacking Hogwarts.

A few of Sarah's family members had actually gone to help, but she had been forced to stay behind. Grandma had planted herself in front of the door as if that was the only way out and refused to let her go. Sarah had fled to her room cause she didn't want to be able to see a clock and keep counting down the seconds to find out what had happened to everyone.

Sir Didymus had gone to the Battle of Hogwarts as one of the royal knights. Hoggle was still sulking in his own little castle, and Ludo was mindlessly watching her pace the room. Apparently he was sent to keep her from leaving as well.

"I don't understand how Toby can be brought into that warzone and I'm stuck here! I took on the Goblin King himself without any kind of magic. Now I have my own wand and… and, Oh it's not fair!" she screamed jumping on her bed face down in frustration. Something she hadn't said in a long time after her lesson with Jareth.

"Terribly unfair. What kind of person would keep a girl from her own family in this time of crisis?" an oily slick voice said. Sarah turned to the sound grabbing for her wand she had left on her night stand. Her hand closed on it as she took in the appearance of the goblin standing in her floor length mirror. It was taller then what she was used to, and it had an evil set in its eye. It looked like Hoggle on a bad day she though as she looked around her room to see if there was any others.

"Going to invite me in?" he said motioning around himself to the room.

"I'm sorry, please come in. Do you have word on what's going on?" she said while trying discreetly to put herself back in order. Ludo didn't seem to be in the room anymore. Had he been called to the fight as well?

"Extremely well my lady, the dark lords forces are on the run, Jareth sent me to bring you to him. He preferred a trip through a mirror to apparate. The enchantments the Dark Lord wove against him in there battle may still be in place, and we don't want anything untoward to happen to you." He said offering his hand. He had the oily voice, like a car salesman, but Sarah was to hungry for news to give credit to her worries.

"Thank you so much! Is Sir Didymus alright?" she quickly picked up a few things and nearly dragged the goblin to the mirror.

"He took on an army of Heliopath's on his own my lady." The goblin grinned as he stepped through the mirror with her.

Ludo roared as he finally pulled one of the four goblins off of him, tossing it across the room. He didn't understand why Sarah would go with Gringotts while he was fighting in her room. Standing up with the other still holding on to him he made his way to the mirror himself to warn Master Jareth.