Digital

Chapter 10

A saviour no more

Chapter edited on: 7/3/11

A/N: A huge thank you to: everybody who reviewed the last chapter and a special thank you to Vilkath for my first flame YAY!... (How else am I supposed to learn otherwise) Thanks for the help!

Previously on Digital:

"Sectumsempra!"

Harry was so focused on Shacklebolt that he had totally forgotten about the other auror. Taken completely by Surprise, he never had a chance to even dodge before the spell hit him.

'Oh no,' he thought in dismay as his power levels nearly completely vanished and he stumbled and fell to the ground. For a second he flickered as his data destabilized and he heard Hermione scream. Slowly he tried to stand up again, but he simply felt too weak to do so.

Harry only had enough time to cry out to Hermione to run, then to hear her scream out a curse, before everything went dark and he knew no more.

And now the continuation:

Hermione was in shock. There was no other name for it, completely catatonic.

Suddenly she didn't know what she was doing, she didn't know what was happening around her, in fact, for the next few minutes she didn't even know who she was as her brain tried frantically to comprehend what had happened.

The only thing which suddenly seemed important, the only thing which suddenly seemed to matter at all was: what had just happened and what she had just done.

The truth was remorseless to say the least: she, Hermione Granger, a girl who usually followed every rule to the letter, a girl who normally did anything and everything to stay out of trouble, had just used an unforgivable curse on another living being.

Granted, the person seemed to have just killed her mother and was probably about to do the same to her next, but the fact remained she had used an unforgivable. An unforgivable act. A spell named as such because anybody who used it would go straight to Askaban prison, no remorse, no parole, no exceptions, nothing, just madness and if you were lucky...death.

She couldn't believe it. She didn't want to believe it. But it was true. At that moment, at least for her, her life as she knew it had officially ended. Her best friend was leaving her, probably for ever, she was going to prison because she had tortured somebody and worst of all, her mother was dead (or so it seemed). That was that, good bye, end of the line, the end, gone!

For a second she looked at her wand in disbelief, than at the man she had just tortured, before finally looking over at her mother.

Slowly, bit by bit, her hand opened and her wand dropped to the ground as the full horror of the current situation became clear to her. Time seemed to slow down and nearly stand still as she simply stared ahead of her, blindly, hardly reacting at all as her father yelled at her to duck, nor when Harry pushed her out of the way of a spell, or when her arm hit the ground painfully during the fall.

She only barely realized what was happening when Harry took a second spell aimed at him by the second person, then watched quietly as a third came before he kicked the auror over the whole room, into a wall.

It was only then, only when Harry got hit by a forth spell and suddenly collapsed, that she suddenly realized what was happening around her and her eyes widened in dismay, then horror.

'NO…no...no….no…oh no…please not him too…NOOO!' her brain suddenly screamed at her and it was at that moment she fully snapped out of her daze.

"HARRRYYY," she screamed and at the direct moment he suddenly seemed to break up and become fuzzy as his data destabilised for a second. She didn't understand what was happening but she was VERY sure that whatever had just happened, that it was not good.

Then she screamed again a second time as Harry closed his eyes and went completely still.

"NOOOO!" she screamed then without another thought, completely enraged by what had happened, she sprang at the auror wand forgotten where it lay on the ground and punched him into straight into his face, breaking his nose, then again, and again and again and again and again, until he was nothing more but an unconscious bloody mess on the ground. Her hands bruised and bleeding from hitting the man, she stoped and collapsed to the ground.

Dan would have been one of the first to admit to have seen many things in his life. Having served in the army during the younger years of his life, having fought in a war during that time and overall having survived it, can give you certain bragging rights up to a certain degree.

But even so, even after all he had seen, all he had witnessed, seeing your daughter collapse after literally clobbering a man to death after said man had just killed your wife was not one which he had ever wanted to see and could have easily done without.

Realizing that everybody was either out of action, one of the men seemingly KIA (Killed in action), - something which he had no problems with - Dan slowly began to rub the ropes - which one of the men had made appear around him with a spell - which kept his hands tied up, across a sharp point of his chair.

Slowly step by step he meticulously cut his way through the ropes until they finally snapped and he was free.

Quickly releasing the remaining ropes from his legs Dan got up and walked over to where the second man lay crumpled on the ground.

Quickly, cautiously, careful and ready in case the man was still awake and in some way alive, he reached out and checked the mans pulse. Finding one and not willing to take any chances that the man might wake up and cause more trouble, he took a near by chair and hit the man across the head with it, breaking the chair in two.

"Just for good measure, want to make sure you stay out after all," he mumbled to himself, then happy the man would not stand up again any time soon, if at all, he checked out the second man only to find him in even worse shape than the first. Pleased with the result Dan simply nodded his head in satisfaction before moving on to the last potential treat in the room: Harry.

Unsure of what to do, having never dealt with a large red creature before, Dan hesitated before remembering that it had grabbed his daughter out of the way of a spell, taking it itself in the process, then did the same again a few seconds later when it willingly took a second spell without even flinching. It was only when the third and finally the fourth spell hit it that it fell.

Dan was no fool. He could tell when someone wanted to protect someone else, and he was fairly sure, judging from Hermione's screams of 'Harry' as it got hit that she somehow knew this creature. Hell, something told him they were really close too.

It was this feeling, this notion that he could trust the creature, whatever it was, what made Dan leave Harry alone. Anything which would protect his daughter with its life - no matter what it was - was good in his books. He would worry about any potential problems later.

Finally, only when he was happy that every treat was neutralized and wouldn't come back to hurt them for at least a very long time, if ever, (at least in Harry's case he hoped not) did Dan move over to and check out his daughter.

She was fine, other than having fainted and in severe shock, which was hardly surprising really, she would be fine, at least he hoped so, given time.

Happy that she was ok he finally turned his attention to the last person in the room. The one which he felt sure would be the most difficult of all: his wife.

Slowly, afraid of the confirmation which he was sure he was about to receive, but knowing that he didn't have a choice he walked up to her side and for a moment he stared at her.

'She looks so peaceful now,' he thought looking sadly at her face, for what he thought would be one of the last times.

Slowly tears began to fall down his face and it didn't take long until he was sobbing all over her.

Slowly he reached out to touch her, than froze.

Surprised, he quickly checked her pulse, then again, then one final time, each time becoming happier, before he finally let out a huge cry of relief and the utmost happiness.

"YESSSS! YESSSS! YESSSSS!" he screamed at the top of his voice, it was a scream of joy, waking up his daughter in the process.

"She's alive!" he said happily then reached down and kissed her.

Minutes earlier, deep inside Harry's mind.

At first all was dark and it seemed as if he was floating, then slowly Harry thought he could make out a bit of light. The light gradually became larger and larger until it surrounded him. Finally he could make out what seemed to be a small room, nothing fancy mind you, just a small room, complete with a small table and two chairs, something which you might expect to see in an interrogation chamber. The only strange part was that the room seemed to have no doors or windows. It was just six walls, making up a perfect cube like room. That there was even light was a miracle all by itself, seeing as there was no lamp, on the ceiling or anywhere else for that matter.

Finally just when he was about to get bored he felt himself get sucked into the room and a few seconds later he found himself lying on the ground.

Quickly getting up, Harry looked around and it was only then that he realized that he was back in his original human form and not in his digimon form anymore.

'Ok, now this is weird,' he thought as he quickly looked around. There wasn't really much to see, except for the table and chairs, there really wasn't anything else there.

"HELLO," he called out loudly. Nobody answered.

"Hello," he called out again but still nobody answered.

"Is anybody here?" he called out a third time, but just like the other times, nobody answered.

'Oh great,' he thought unhappily. It seemed as if it was going to become a long and overall boring day in here, maybe even more.

Not knowing what else to do, he sighed than sat down on one of the chairs.

Almost instantly a person, a direct copy of his digital digimon self in fact, appeared sitting on the chair opposite him.

Startled, Harry yelped and leapt up from his chair. The moment he did so his other self disappeared again.

Surprised, Harry stared at the chair for a second, poked it a few times, then shrugging to himself he sat down again.

Sure enough the second he sat down again his digimon self re-appeared on the seat in front of him.

This time expecting it, Harry did not jump up or cry out but examined the creature in front of him in full detail. It was the first time he was able to look at his other self other than that one time he had studied himself while in Privet drive when he had looked in the mirror.

Yes there was he red fox fur he vividly remembered and there were his phoenix feathers, just like he remembered them. Even his scar was visible on his forehead. It was definitely him alright Harry agreed as he studied the creature in front of him.

Suddenly three small cylinders appeared on the table as if from nowhere. One appeared to have a red liquid inside and was nearly empty, but was visually filling up before his eyes.

Looking at it closely Harry read the word 'Life' on it and a second later he realized with a pang, his eyes widening, that he was actually looking at his own life energy. Looking at it, he realized that it was currently only at sixteen percent health and rising rapidly.

Looking at it more closely Harry saw three black lines near the bottom of the cylinder. One read R, another F and the last read IT. Wondering what they meant a small piece of paper suddenly appeared in front of him. Looking at it Harry's eyes widened even more when he read that 'F' meant Fainting, 'IT' meant in-training and R stood for Rookie. The paper explained that when he reached 15 percent health (R) his body would automatically revert back to its Rookie stage. This only happened it he was in a higher evolution stage, meaning his champion or higher form, if he already was in his rookie stage nothing would happen.

'F' (10 percent health) was when his body would automatically faint and enter into a state of 'emergency regeneration,' just like what happened to him a few minutes ago.

Finally, 'IT,' which was at 5 percent or less stood for 'in-training' which meant that he would have reverted back to his 'in-training' stage (and fainted) had his health fallen to, or below five percent health.

Reading on, Harry saw that while in his in-training stage he regained health twice as fast as when in his Rookie stage, but was also more vulnerable to attack.

Looking back at his current health level which had risen from 16 to 20 percent while he had been looking at his health, Harry turned his attention to the next cylinder.

This one appeared to have Blue liquid inside and was nearly completely empty.

Frowning, Harry looked at its description and nearly rolled his eyes when he read 'experience'.

This evidently was his current experience level. Seeing that as he only recently became a digimon, Harry was not surprised to see that he nearly had no experience at all.

Looking more closely at the cylinder Harry could make out nine different lines on it. Four of them, Harry was happy to see he had already passed. These had words B1 B2 IT and R on them. B1 and B2 stood for 'Baby Level 1' and 'Baby Level 2' while IT stood once again for 'In-Training'. R of course stood for 'Rookie,' the stage he was currently at.

Looking more closely Harry looked at the rest of the stages and read 'C' for Champion stage. This stage, he noticed to his disappointment was still fairly far away, then there was 'U' for Ultimate, 'M' for Mega, 'MA', for Mega Armoured Stage also known at A-Mega, (for those who had it) and finally, at the very top: 'S' which Harry read to his shock, stood for Sovereign.

For the next few minutes Harry could do nothing more but stare at the S.

He couldn't believe it. After all he had heard about the Sovereigns, their rarity and their power, nobody had been able to become one for many thousands of years. EGO had even told him that most didn't even have the ability to become one at all. Over 98 percent of all digimon did not have the ability to become one. Heck most didn't even have the ability to be Armoured Mega's. Of those 98 percent able to become Mega's only about 80 percent of the 98 percent would be lucky if they even reached Mega stage. Most digimon were deleted before they actually even had the chance to even become champions.

Only royalty reached anything higher than Mega or A-Mega...to become the final stage known only as the Sovereign or Omega (last) stage. Did that mean he was actually royalty, a royal digimon?

Stunned Harry continued to look at the cylinder for a few more seconds before moving on to the last cylinder. He would think about his experience again later.

The last cylinder, unlike the other two was completely full with a green liquid.

Raising his eyebrows slightly, Harry peered down at the description and groaned, then grinned when he read 'Ability Power levels.'

Of course, this one would be nearly full, since he hadn't really used his powers at all so far, something which he realized with a pang he really should have, as it would have probably meant the difference between his current defeat and a win.

Had he used his abilities to his full potential, Harry realized he would most likely have won his duel with the two men.

"Indeed, it's good that you finally realise that," the digmon recreation of himself finally spoke.

Jumping in his fright Harry nearly stood up from his seat again but stopped himself just in time.

"Ego?" he asked somewhat nervously, recognizing the voice of his teacher and guide.

"Yes, it's me, luckily that is…had you taken any more damage neither of us would be here right now," EGO said looking at Harry with a piercing glare. A glare which made Harry squirm.

"Yes...well," he said. He tried to say more but Ego interrupted him.

"Because of your stupidity you nearly lost not only your life, but probably also the life of your friend," EGO said somewhat harshly.

Harry could only stare, mouth open at what he was hearing.

"But…" he wanted to say but was interrupted again.

"Because of the fact that you did not use your powers when you could have, which would have been little risk to yourself or your friends, you lost the battle and nearly your life and that life of said friends."

"But…"

"This foolishness, ends now, do you understand?"

"But…"

"You are a royal type kitsuni, data class, alpha level digimon, the premier of it's kind in fact, as the name should tell you, all other kitsuni type digimon were made in your image, top of the digimon power scale I might add, YOU-should-have-had-no-problem-in-that-last-battle-what-so-ever," he said angrily, putting emphasis on every word as he spoke it. "Yet what happened? You let them hit you with four spells, three of them before you even fought back…I realise that two were harmless, which was why I allowed them to hit you without complaint, but the third and fourth were not. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE, DO YOU HEAR ME?", he roared as he saw Harry start to interrupt him with another 'but'.

"Before you say you couldn't dodge because Hermione would have been hit if you had, you could have dodged and grabbed her while doing so, taking her with you. By Terns holy digital data, we are fast enough for that. Taking a hit should always and foremost be your LAST option, not first, not second, not even third...but last, preferably not at all. So, next time you will bloody well dodge,"EGO continued to say angrily.

Harry's mouth snapped closed. He was completely shocked. Never in a million years would he have ever dreamed that he would have ever been told off like this by his own conscience. But EGO did have a point he reminded himself. His foolishness could have cost him his life and that of his friend. He would have to change that in the future.

"Do you understand me?"Ego said again, his voice somewhat quieter this time.

"Yes," Harry said meekly. He was feeling quite small and insignificant at the moment, like a small child being told of by his mother for steeling candy from his baby sister.

"Good, because failure normally means death. This time we were lucky, next time we might not be so lucky. In don't mean to be so harsh…well actually I do, I really do, but seriously… Please! Use every power and ability you have, it's there for a reason, failure to do so normally always means deletion, and our kind simply can not afford that. Our kind does not normally have second chances, when a digimon is defeated it is usually always deleted and its data is absorbed by the victor to make it stronger. In the digital world, the rules of the wilderness apply…survival of the fittest and strongest, nothing else counts. It's VERY important that you understand that," said Ego looking at Harry sadly.

Harry simply nodded.

"Good, now, let's get back to the real world shall we? I see our health is back up to thirty percent, that's good enough for the start. Normally I'd let us rest for longer since the body regenerates faster when it's dormant, but I don't like leaving us vulnerable while we are in a dangerous situation. Anything could happen to us right now and we wouldn't even know about it before it where too late."

"NOW! As we don't know what happened since you fainted, I am going to take control over our body for a while, if you don't mind. At least until I'm sure we are safe. For all we know we are captured and need to escape quickly. Is that OK with you?"asked EGO, looking at Harry.

Harry, relieved that he wouldn't have to fight by himself, nodded happily, giving EGO permission to take complete control over his body.

EGO nodded once and smiled,"Good, just remember I will not always help you or indeed be around to help you in your battles. I will only help you if I'm sure you can not handle it. This time is an exception because there is a lot at stake here, other lives being the least of it. Once we are safely out of this mess I will expect you to fight your own battles, with only a little help from me. Is that understood?" EGO asked sternly.

Harry nodded again.

"Good, then let's go," said EGO and a second later the room disappeared with a flash of bright light.

Meanwhile, with the Grangers

Hermione, Dan, Emma and Harry were in the Grangers' car driving down a motorway on their way out of town.

Emma had been enervated as soon as Hermione found out what had happened to her. Both had been very happy to see that she was still alive and had only been stunned.

Dan in particular was very relieved. For a few seconds, back in the house, he really had thought that his wife of twenty seven years had died. Luckily that had not been the case. Now they were all on their way to the airport, fleeing the country, before any more magical people could appear to take them into custody.

The first thing Dan had done after getting himself back under control was demand to know what the whole drama with the two men had been about. The second was what a huge red fox like creature had been doing in the house.

Hermione, for the first time in her life told them the full truth of the magical world. Now that she was officially on the run, she had no more problems telling them all of the bad facts of her life. If was not like she would be able to return to school anyway. Not anymore.

To say that they were shocked would have been an understatement. Saying that they were horrified and nearly in a panic would have been closer to the truth.

Dan could not believe what he was hearing and cursed loudly when he heard that his daughter, and therefore them by default, where now criminals and would be hunted by every magical being and maybe even policeman in the country. The fact that Emma didn't even reprimand him for cursing showed the severity of the situation.

It didn't even matter that they had fought in self defense; the fact that Hermione had used an unforgivable curse was more than enough for the bigots in the magical ministry to lock her up for life. The fact that she was a muggleborn and they muggles only worked against them too, as most of the magicals in places of power were purebloods and looked at them like a piece of filth…probably even less.

Almost immediately after hearing that they were now hunted, Dan immediately told them to get out of the house and into the car.

He told them that they were only to take the most important things they needed with them and to leave the rest. They were now on the run and needed to be able to move at seconds notice.

Hermione, of course took her wand, her photo album, and the only bit of cash which she had left. She really hated leaving all of her books behind but knew she had no choice.

Dan and Emma took their and Hermione's passports, bank cards (they were going to take out as much money as they could at the next bank link, then throw them away before they could be traced) their priceless family photo album and all the cash they could find. All of their belongings, except for Hermione's wand which she carried on her, they put into a bag.

All of them left the house with nothing more but the clothes they wore on their backs and the items in the bag and got into the car.

Hermione had to beg her father to let her take Harry with them. At first Dan wanted to argue but as soon as he realized just how much she seemed to need the creature he relented. He really didn't have time to argue with her anyway, besides, she seemed to know who it was and it had saved Hermione from the spell the man had fired at her.

A few seconds later the Grangers and one red fox were gone.

Ten minutes after they left several pops could be heard as multiple people apperated into the house, wands drawn.

Finding nobody there, nobody except for the two bodies of the aurors, they left taking the bodies with them.

Later that evening Voldemorts fortress.

"Ah Severus, what news do you bring me?" asked Voldemort, expectantly, seeing his spy kneel a down on his knees before him. He looked happy, exited even. That was always a good sign and usually meant good news and Voldemort loved good news.

Severus Snape, bowed once more than answered: "Your Majesty, the Potter boy has been spotted at his mudblood friends house. That was a few hours ago. It seems he and the mudblood killed an auror and severely injured a second and are now hiding from the authorities.

According to ministry underage scanners an unforgivable was used in the house during that time. Reliable sources say that it came from Grangers wand. The minister has issued an arrest warrant and a country wide search for her and Potter who they both believe are responsible for the death of the auror. They have also issued a bounty of several thousand Galleons for their capture, six for Potter, two for the girl. A platoon of aurors arrived at the Grangers home a few hours ago but found it empty. The bed rooms showed signs of the residents leaving in a hurry, as items were all over the floor as if they were in a rush to find certain items. Ministry experts say that they would most likely try to flee the country and quite frankly I agree. It is what I would do in their situation if I had nowhere else to go to. Because of this all mass muggle transportation areas, known as….Ailforts and Fellyports…are being watched." Those last few words said, Snape fell silent.

For once Voldemort was happy. "Ah, excellent news Sevi…I may call you Sevi right?" Without waiting for permission (of course) he continued: I want you to tell me the moment the ministry knows where they are."

"LUCIUS! he shouted.

"Yes, your Majesty," said Malfoy, getting down on one knee while he faced his kign and master.

"Have you gained control over the certain item we discussed?"

"Yes your Majesty, Fudge was only too happy to give me user rights to his little project after I offered him my vote and a few million galleons for his re-election campaign", said Malfoy, smugly.

"Good! Tell me as soon as you have information on Potter," Voldemort said. "BELLA!" he shouted.

A second later the sound of running foot steps could be heard coming down the hall and a second later again, Bellatrix Lestrange, feared second in command of Voldemort's forces entered the room, bowed, curtsied and stepping forward kissed Voldemorts ring before saying: "What is your bidding your majesty?" before falling silent.

"Get your team ready, your going hunting?" he said.

"Bounty hunting," he added, then started to laugh evilly.

A few hours later.

"Your majesty," said a lone Death Eater rushing into the hall, barely bowing to his king as he got on one knee in front of his king."

"Yes?" asked Voldemort looking from his work, fingering his wand.

"The ministry…" he said, between gasps for air.

"Yes," said Voldemort impatiently, motioning his Death Eater to continue.

"They found them?, allegedly they are staying the night at a muggle inn" said the Death Eater handing Voldemort a letter.

"BELLA!" Voldemort read the letter than roared for the second time that day. A Second later Bellatrix ran into the room.

"Yes your Majesty!"

"Potter has been found…Kill him!, Kill them all!" he said handing Bellatrix the letter.

A quick bow and a call to arms later she and several Death Eaters were gone.