Digital

Chapter 11

Hide, Fight, Retreat, Repeat!

Chapter edited: 7/3/11

A/N: Warning A LOT of voice violence and death in this chapter!

Thanks to: everybody who reviewed the last chapter.

Previously on Digital:

Your majesty," said a lone Death Eater rushing into the hall, barely bowing to his king."

"Yes?" asked Voldemort looking from his work.

"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.

And now the continuation:

A small run down inn, somewhere in England.

Slowly, ever so slowly, Harry regained his senses and woke up. Almost immediately, as soon as he could, EGO took over control of his host's body and opened his host's eyes.

Ready for the worst case scenario, all set to jump up and attack the next person he saw at a seconds notice if necessary, he was quite surprised when he realized that Harry was lying on a bed, completely unrestrained and unharmed and that his head was currently resting snugly on Hermione's lap. Said girl was currently deep in thought, completely calm and in no danger whatsoever.

Pleasantly surprised and in no way disappointed that there was no evident danger near by, EGO allowed Harry's body to relax and enjoy the moment. Satisfied with the current situation and knowing that he wasn't needed, EGO relinquishing his control back to Harry.

'Well, well, will you look at that, I'm not needed after all. Looks like we are in the clear,'said EGO as he reclaimed his customary position at the back of Harry's mind.

'I wonder what happened though,' Harry asked himself as he automatically received full command back over his body.

Looking around, Harry noticed Hermione's parents at a nearby table. They seemed to be huddled around a large map of the country and in a fairly heated discussion, arguing about what they would be doing during the next few days and overall how they would 'flee' from the country.

Apparently, from what Harry could understand from listening to them, Dan was sure that the authorities would already have been alerted to keep a look out for them, to apprehend them on sight and that it would therefore be completely impossible for them to take a ferry or indeed a plane out of the country.

Currently they seemed to be debating whether they should attempt to hire a boat to take them to France or to simply high jack said ship and travel abroad that way instead.

Dan seemed to be for the first option. He was fairly sure that, if given enough incentive, for the right price, even the most stubborn sailor could be persuaded to look the other way and to take them across the sea. The problem was however that they were fairly low on cash. As it was, doing so could very well empty their already meagre wallets and nobody could last for long without money.

Emma thought it best that they should simply steal a boat and not waste their steadily dwindling cash if they didn't need to. It was not like their situation could get any worse as it was anyway, could it? Being hunted for killing someone was as high as you could go on the 'in trouble' scale…right? Would stealing a ship really make their current situation any worse?

Evidently it could, as Dan argued that if they stole something now then they would really become criminals. For now the most they could be charged for was for man slaughter, and perhaps for resisting arrest. True, it was pretty bad as it was already, but if they wilfully stole something, then they really were criminals in every sense of the word and Dan did not want that. He still had his morals and he wasn't going to break them any time soon, not for that at least.

Having heard enough Harry chose that moment to speak: "Em…excuse me, maybe I can help you with that," he said.

All three grangers jumped as he spoke, two in fright, one in joy.

"HARRY!" your awake…I was so worried…are you ok?" Hermione asked grabbing him and hugging him fiercely.

Harry gasped as he was suddenly squashed by his best friend. Hermione definitely wasn't holding back. Silently he hugged her back, careful to keep his sharp claws away from her body in case he could somehow inadvertently hurt her.

"Ahem," came Dan's voice from the other side of the room. He had evidently recovered enough from his sudden fright and was now observing daughter and creature in front of him. It really was beginning to look more and more like a beauty and beast scene of a Disney show and he didn't like it one bit.

"If you could please introduce yourself, preferably before you get comfortable with my daughter that would be nice," he said glaring at Harry from where he stood. He wasn't really sure what to think of the creature in his daughter's arms. As it was, he had only let Hermione take it with them for two reasons; one, because she wouldn't have left without it and at the time they had fled their house they had been in such a hurry and had had no time to argue, and two; which was the main reason why he trusted the creature was because it had – in his opinion - saved her life. It didn't matter that the magical policeman had only fired a stunner. I was for that reason alone that he was willing to give it, whatever it was a chance. Now however he wanted some answers.

Knowing it was best to answer quickly while the man was still willing to listen, Harry turned to face him. "I'm not sure what Hermione has told you about me, but I'm Harry Potter, her class mate at Hogwarts," he said looking Dan straight into his eyes. "Or at least I used to be," Harry added quietly.

Surprised by his words, Dan frowned. "What do you mean you used to be and how can you possibly be her class mate? What are you exactly?" he asked, wondering what he had stumbled into this time.

"Well, I'm human…or at least I used to be human, I don't really know anymore. To tell you the truth I'm not really sure what I am right now, people call me a digimon… but I'm still trying to find out what that means exactly. If you want I'll tell you what I do know and how I came to be what I am now," Harry said looking for permission to do just that.

"I do," said Dan, then realizing that it could take a while he sat down to listen. He wanted to know everything he could about this 'thing' in front of him before he made anymore decisions. Emma who had been listening quietly, quickly copied her husband. Hermione sat beside Harry to give him her support. She knew fairly well that whatever Harry said in the next few minutes would decide her life from then on.

"Well, it all started approximately fourteen years ago…

Later that evening

"So, let me get this straight and as short and sweet as possible, just to recap," said Dan looking at Harry from where he sat.

"You are, were, and to a certain degree still are Hermione's best friend and class mate. The same Harry she has written so much about and the same one who saved her life not one but twice, is that right?

Harry nodded.

"Thanks again for that by the way, I'm glad that she has such great friends," Dan said warmly, giving Harry a smile. During the story he had slowly but surely warmed up to the fox like creature in front of him and was now more than willing to trust him. Beside him Emma copied his smile.

"Don't mention it, I'd do it again anytime," Harry said waving it of.

"Anyway..." said Dan "Continuing... sometime a few weeks ago, you somehow, I have no idea how, tried to transform into something called an animagus; which is the animal form of a magical person and managed instead to transform into this… Digimon, otherwise known as a Digital Monster, correct?" said Dan motioning towards Harry's body.

Harry nodded again. He had left out where that part where it was actually illegal to do so but other than that it was all true. He didn't think Dan needed to know about that certain part. At least not yet.

"However, when you tried to change back, you found out you couldn't and decided to go to our house, to ask Hermione for help…right?" Dan asked again.

Harry nodded once more.

"Why didn't you go to a teacher instead?" Dan asked curiously.

Harry had been prepared for that question; "Because Hermione was the one who helped me brew the potion needed to transform, I thought she would be the best person to ask for help in this situation," Harry answered.

Dan nodded, apparently satisfied with the answer. "I see, OK, fair enough, I can accept that… So, while you were at our house, these two men, who claim to be a part of the magical police force, came to find you to bring you back to your abusive guardians, under the orders of the headmaster of a school, the very same school in fact you and Hermione were attending, right?" he asked his face scowling at the mere thought of Harry's relatives and the headmaster for making him go there.

"Yes" said Harry. He had told them about his family life and how he had had to run away from them to save his own life. Dan and Emma had been horrified when Harry had told them about the way they had always treated him and Emma even cried when Harry told them about his daily beatings and the way they starved him for the smallest transgressions, sometimes even when he had done nothing wrong at all.

"I'm so glad you are never going back there again," Dan said looking at Hermione, meaning the school. Hermione simply nodded. She had tear tracks all over her face from listening to Harry's life. Never had she believed it had been so bad. She would never trust that old manipulative man who cursed himself the headmaster, ever again.

Dan continued; "Those two men then began to interrogate us about your whereabouts and would have most likely done who knows what to us to get what they wanted, had Hermione not run in and cursed one of them with what you call an unforgivable curse, a spell so bad that once used on another person you go to jail for life, correct again?" he asked.

"Yes," said Harry

"And even though she only used it because one of them had stunned Emma and made it look like they killed her, they have the right to arrest her and throw her into prison without even a single trial?" Dan asked his voice rising dangerously.

"Yes," said Harry, nodding his head.

"Then, to top everything up, even if she were to receive a trial, even if she should be in the right, they would simply throw her into that hell hole they call a prison anyway, simply because they can, all because she is something known in their world as a mudblood…dirty blood and therefore worse than dirt?" Dan said angrily, his eyes flashing.

"Yes," said Harry.

"Why did we ever allow you to go there?" Dan asked Hermione looking right at her. Hermione however never answered; instead she was currently looking cautiously at an owl which had at that very moment entered into their room through an open window.

Noticing the owl, Dan and Emma stood up and watched the bird wearily. They knew owls brought the post in the magical world, but at that moment they were understandably very twitchy towards anything magical. Not sure whether to trust it, they stepped away from the bird instead.

Said owl hooted once then dropped a letter onto the ground before it flew away again, back out of the window and into the evening sky. Looking at it Harry swore to himself that it had seemed to have been in a hurry.

For a few seconds everybody simply stared at the letter, as if it was a bomb waiting to go off, then finally, cautiously, Harry approached the letter but didn't touch it, instead his normally green eyes turned silver as he started to scan it.

One of his abilities, Harry had learnt from his many lessons with EGO, was his ability to scan objects, or other beings with his eyes. While doing so he could get a detailed understanding about the item or being without having to actually touch it first. In this situation it was very useful as he didn't know whether the letter was just a simple letter or a portkey, sent to bring him back to the Dursleys, or worse.

His scan complete, happy that it was safe, he picked it up and noticed that it had Hermione Granger written on it. Shrugging, he held it out for Hermione to take. "It's safe, it's only a letter," he said motioning for her to take it.

Hesitantly Hermione took the letter and looked at it wearily. Slowly she opened it up, then frowned.

"I don't understand, its empty," she said frowning. "There is nothing here?" she added.

"Is it a hidden message?" Harry asked, thinking of invisible ink or similar.

Shrugging Hermione took out her wand and cast a simple revealing spell on the letter. However nothing happened. "No there is…"

She never got a chance to finish her sentence as at that very moment the door to their room smashed open and a person ran inside.

"STUPIFY."

The spell never reached its mark as a split second later Harry, moving completely in instinct, stepped into its way, absorbing it.

For a second nobody moved, everybody just stared at what had just happened then the man snapped up his wand to cast another spell. Just as the man was shouting the next spell, EGO chose to speak.

'MOVE IT WHELP OR I'LL MAKE YOU!' he roared at Harry, getting angry that Harry was once more simply standing there like a dumb idiot.

That was all it took, moving as fast as he could, Harry blurred, the next second the man's head was literally flying from one end of the room to the next, showering everybody with blood, having just been cleanly sliced off by one of Harry's sharp claws, only to land with a splat on the ground, leaving a trail of blood as it rolled across the ground, before coming to a complete stop at the other side of the room.

For a few seconds everything was quiet as everybody alternated between looking at the body and the head, before a strangled cry of fury came from the door, followed a second later again by the well known infamous green beam of an Avada Kadava curse.

In the three split seconds which followed next, Harry noticed the spell, realized what it was, noticed that Hermione was right behind him, jumped backwards until he was right beside her, grabbed her, jumped out of the way of the spell, let her go, then blurred and slashed the second persons throat as he appeared beside him, before returning back to where he had stood mere seconds before, ready for the next attack should one more come. A quick gurgle of blood later, a second body joined the other on the ground. It all happened so quickly, nobody really noticed what had happened before it was all over.

'Now THAT'S more like it,' said EGO happily from inside Harry's head. 'See easy as pie,' he added leaving behind a mental smug smile.

Once again, everybody, but Harry, stared at the second body as if trying to figure out what had just happened, then several seconds later, Hermione and Emma turned around and promptly lost their lunch. Only Harry and Dan did not. Harry didn't because he couldn't, since a digimons anatomy didn't allow him to, while Dan didn't because he was used to the sight of blood from his early days in the army, from having fought in a war.

However even he felt somewhat queasy and more than just a little afraid as he stared at what had just happened. The speed, ferocity, accuracy and effectiveness of the attacks he had just seen, scared the living daylights out of him.

Everything had happened and been over so fast that he now felt extremely afraid for the safety of his family and himself. He suddenly fully realized that the two men had been bounty hunters out to get them and that had Harry not been there, he would most likely have lost his daughter at that very moment. He never even knew the man had been there, before everything had already been too late. That could not be allowed to happen again. Shaking his head, Dan tried to concentrate. He just couldn't afford to get side tracked now.

In the end Dan was simply happy that Harry was on his side. Dan knew best that sometimes you simply had to kill to survive, so he didn't think twice of having a literal killing machine nearby, if anything he was happy that he didn't have to worry about its safety as well as that of his family. Keeping his family alive was beginning to prove to be a very difficult thing to do. He did not need another person to look out for as well. If anything Harry would be looking out for them instead.

Looking away from the two bodies and severed heads Dan walked over to his daughter and wife and tried to comfort them as well as he could, while Harry stood like a guard at the door waiting for any other attacks which might follow.

"Come on, we have to get out of here," said Dan walking over to take their 'property' bag, as soon as he knew his family was going to be OK. "If I've learnt anything in the past then that it's not to stay around in the same place for too long, especially not after killing somebody in said place…we got to go...NOW," he said, raising his voice at the 'now,' to show his urgency.

With a small nod, Emma and Hermione quickly left the room, followed closely by Dan, then Harry, who promptly phased. Walking to the reception area Dan was just about to tell the receptionist of their sudden change of plans when all of a sudden multiple pops of apperating wizards could be heard from outside the inn.

"Too late, we have company," said Harry de-phasing, startling the receptionist in the process. The receptionist promptly screamed, then in full panic, ran out of the inn.

"Why did you show yourself? Now they know you're here!" asked Hermione looking at him. She had already taken out her wand and was ready to fight, to the death if necessary. There was no way she was going to let 'them', whoever was outside, take her away now.

"It's better that she isn't in the room when the 'fun' starts," said Harry, gravely, as he took up an easily defendable position near the back of the inn. He too would be giving the next battle everything he had and would fight to the death if necessary.

Behind them, realizing that he wouldn't be able to do much good, at least not in this battle, Dan grabbed Emma and pulled her back. Frantically, looking for something to take cover behind, he quickly found a sturdy table then shoved Emma behind it before getting behind it himself.

Suddenly there was a loud bang and the whole door blew apart, showering them all with bits of shrapnel and dust, or it would have, had the debris not been stopped by a protego shield charm from Hermione instead.

"Protego maximus," she screamed and a millisecond later a large white shield appeared in front of them effectively stopping any harmful pieces of wood, stone or metal to hit them. Then came the aurors.

What happened next would probably stay in their minds forever. Harry didn't know how many aurors came through that door, nor did he really care, but at that moment, what seemed like at least 50 aurors (he didn't really have time to count them) stormed into the room, then started to fire curses, jinks and other spells at them at them at an alarming rate.

Harry didn't even have time to widen his eyes in shock, before EGO took over complete control of his body and with a blur, grabbed Hermione and threw her across the room, out of harms way and to relative temporal safety, before throwing himself after her too, to avoid the onslaught of spells.

All around them chairs, tables, walls and other objects blew to bits as the spells hit them.

Hermione screamed as she suddenly felt herself flying across the room and cried out in pain as she hit the floor heavily, coming to a complete stop at the far end of the room. Gasping at the pain, she got up quickly then threw herself behind a nearby counter. A second later she screamed again as multiple objects started to blow up all around her.

Near by Dan grabbed Emma and pushed her and himself flat, face first on to the ground. Silently he clenched his teeth and tensed up, expecting himself to get hit at any moment.

Then the screams started.

At the direct moment, EGO regained his balance after jumping out of the way of the incoming spells, He jumped again and came to a complete stop in the middle of the air. Suddenly his arms crossed over then began to glow a bright white, before….

"Firefox Storm," he yelled out, throwing his arms out away from his body in the process.

For a split second it seemed as if nothing was about to happen, but then thousands of small red hot flaming red feathers started to fly out from his body at an amazing speed, right towards the aurors mere meters away, showering them with the fiery dart like feathers.

Seeing the darts come, the aurors had only a split second to react before they were hit by the barrage of needle sharp darts. Many aurors tried to jump out of the way, others cast shield spells to block the darts from reaching them, while a select few conjured objects into the way of the flaming darts.

Those who tried to jump away, screamed out in pain as they learned a new meaning to the effects of needle torture, when they were quickly skewered by numerous needles which embedded themselves into their bodies.

Those who cast shields fared slightly better. If your shield was powerful enough, it held and you were relatively safe, however if it was not, the shield smashed, then you fared the same fate as those who had jumped, only worse as you know received the full onslaught of the attack.

Finally, the third group, those who had cast objects into the way of the needles had to dodge when said objects exploded mere seconds after being hit, showering the unfortunate aurors with shrapnel from the objects they had conjured.

All in all it was complete and utter pandemonium as aurors fell and rolled all around the place, some screaming in pain from the attack. As soon as the smoke cleared numerous aurors could be seen crawling around the floor, some screaming in pain while others cursed as they frantically looked for cover. Once cover was found the battle continued as spells started to fly once again.

Dan couldn't believe what he had just seen. He had known Harry was dangerous, his early encounter with the two men back in their room proved that, but this took his breath away. Even from his own experiences from his army days, he had never expected something like that. His respect for their red furry ally increasing to new heights, he only hoped Harry could outlast the fight.

EGO of course totally utilized the full effects of his attacks. Ignoring the cry of surprise from his host at the ferocity of the attack, he quickly capitalized out of the effects his attack had created and promptly started to attack the aurors, while they were still regaining their bearings.

"Kitsuni Flash!"

Suddenly Harry's arms began to glow white and transform his claws into two large, red hot flaming blades, then he disappeared in a flash of fire, only to re-appear a second later right in the middle of the aurors. With a massive wide arc swipe of his blades several aurors screamed in pain as they lost different parts of their anatomy.

Not wasting any more time than completely necessary, his blades transforming back into his claws Harry immediately rushed at the nearest auror and cut of his head with a swipe of his claw, before kicking the next with a round house kick, knocking her into a near by wall, then dodged a spell cast at him by another, before continuing on to attack the next. The deadly dance happened so fast he managed to incapacitate twelve aurors and injure several more, before the rest finally realized what was happening and the real battle began.

Realizing, with increasing horror, the massive mistake they had just made, the auror captain screamed at his remaining men to lay down cover fire and to concentrate their attacks on the red menace before it could kill anymore of his men.

For the next few minutes EGO was kept busy dodging spells as they came from all sides. Blurring here, then blurring there, dodging one spell, then the next, before somersaulting across the room, only to start everything all over again, his hands completely full with simply dodging incoming spells, he had no time to even consider to attack. EGO was about to get frustrated when suddenly disaster struck.

Throughout the whole battle, Hermione could only watch in fear as her best friend turned killing machine single handily took on a whole auror platoon.

At first it seemed as if Harry would have no problems and Hermione gasped when he attacked with thousands of flaming darts, then gasped again as he attacked again. However this quickly changed when the remaining aurors quickly regrouped then responded with incredible persistent force.

Soon Harry had his hands completely full simply with dodging the vast amount of spells which were flying towards him, all around him and it was a testimony to EGO's unbelievable skill and his phenomenon speed and agility that he never got hit.

Hermione had no idea how he was doing this (not that she cared how he did it just that he could) she was just very glad that he did. However, even so, she knew he wouldn't be able to keep this up forever. Growing more and more anxious with each passing second, Hermione decided to act. A big mistake.

The direct moment she moved out of cover, a near by auror spotted her and cast a curse at her. Hermione was concentrating so much on her target that she never saw it coming.

EGO only had a split second to realize that Hermione had left the safety of her cover before an auror cast a spell at her. At the direct moment this happened, Harry, who had until that moment stayed quiet and at the back of his head, panicked and in his panic he forcefully retook control over his body.

EGO could only watch in complete horror as he lost control over his hosts body, as his host suddenly forced him out, and could only curse loudly as Harry rushed towards his friend.

"NO, YOU IDIOT!" he screamed, as Harry shoved Hermione out of the way of the spell and took it himself. Then he gasped as he felt a large amount of energy leave the body and watched in dismay as Harry was blasted across the room from the force of the spell, as he smashed into a near by wall, then collapsed to the ground.

Frantically EGO mentally attacked Harry and forcefully kicked him back to the back of his mind, where he belonged.

To Harry it really felt like as if he had been physically kicked, literally. One second he was watching in horror at what had just happened, what he had just done, then he suddenly felt a sharp pain, where his mental arse would have been, as EGO mentally kicked him back to the back of his head.

"SHIT SHIT SHIT...YOU STUPID, STUPID FOOL!...FOOLS THE LOT OF YOU… " EGO raged as he retook command over the body and then ran a quick body diagnostic.

Seeing that he was still able to move, EGO sighed in relief then proceeded to order the body to get up.

The aurors cheered as they watched the red menace get hit by the spell and their captain in particular smiled as he saw it collapse.

He wasn't stupid. He knew that it had only happened, that he had only won, because the girl had all so foolishly attempted to help it, whatever 'it' was.

'Ah the sweet follies of love,' he thought to himself as he motioned a few of his remaining aurors to advance. 'Love kills you know,' he thought again, smiling smugly, relieved that he had evidently won. It was the reason why he had never married. He simply hadn't wanted to have to worry about a family. His job was difficult enough already as it was without having to worry about a family too.

With those thoughts in mind he began to walk forward. 'OK, there is Granger, now where was Potter?...and what the hell was that thing?' he wondered as he advanced.

Raising his hand he was just about to order his men to attack again and finish 'it' off for good, when he suddenly heard multiple cracks of incoming wizards and witches around him.

Surprised, he turned around to see who had come and froze. Eyes wide and getting wider at every second he only had a few seconds to scream to his men before multiple spells rained all over them.

The Death Eaters had arrived.