Chapter Ten "Last Child of Paradise."

"It's one of history's greatest mysteries," Chloe informed them as Harry, Salu, Imra, Tinya, Kara, and Karen made their way on board the ship. "Exactly what happened to them? No one in the know has really talked about this place since….well, since they all disappeared."

"I may have met one of them in passing," Harry stated with a smile on his face, which gave them the none so subtle hint that it was more than just in passing. "You know, during my travels of the world."

"Well, we both know you live an interesting life," Chloe said, there was a wide grin on her face as she got straight to work, tapping the fingers of her hand rapidly along the computers holographic interface as she brought up the information. "Over eight hundred years ago, the hidden group of Warrior Woman, known as the Amazons, vanished without a trace. Which was weird, because amongst their number was one of the greatest heroes this Earth ever seen. Some people put her on the same pedestal as Superman."

"They have called her, Superman, and Batman the Trinity," Imra chimed in, giving Chloe a chance to catch her breath and Harry looked towards her with a raised eyebrow.

"Who exactly is Batman?" Harry asked her and she smiled.

"That's a story for another day," the blonde telepath said evasively as she leaned back against her chair. She wished she was sitting next to Harry, but that wasn't possible right now as he currently had a blonde Kryptonian on each arm. "But the fact that we're actually getting a signal from this island or…."

"...Right outside it, distress signals are never really that precise," Chloe commented as she slapped a hand against the side of her face and chewed on her lip nervously. The blonde narrowed her eyes as she focused on the information in front of her. She'd always loved a good mystery, so there was no question about it, she was excited to find out what was going to happen next. "But we do need to check it out."

"So this Wonder Woman disappeared?" Karen commented, she'd heard rumors about the Amazons due to her study of Greek mythology, but Wonder Woman herself popped up after she made her way to the future.

She crossed her legs and her arms then looked off from one side to the other due to her nervousness as they headed off once more into the unknown. Noticing this, Harry reached over to place a reassuring hand on her shoulder to help calm her down. "Do you have any idea why?"

"We've been unable to dig up anything on that so far," Chloe replied after she double checked the records. The League had sent out a manhunt for her, but they had been caught off guard and overwhelmed in an attack by some of their enemies who'd taken advantage of Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman's absence.

A lot of good people were lost on that day according to the records, although there was little in the way of names. However, it seemed like most of the Justice League got destroyed in that attack.

"We might be able to get a better understanding as to what happened and why, once we step foot on Themyscira."

Harry nodded at that, he was very curious about what happened as well. Even though he had only been there for a short amount of time in the grand scheme of things, he thought that he'd connected to them like no man ever had before. Although that might just be due to the myths of them being violent man-haters, which weren't true in the slightest.

Given that some of the men who spread those rumors treated them much like how they would treat any other woman, it shouldn't be a surprise those rumors were spread.

'Sooo...are you going to tell them that our meeting with said Amazon really wasn't that brief at all, involved multiple Amazons and it was quite intimate,' Kara thought to him with a wicked looking grin on her face.

'That's on a need to know basis, plus this could just be a false alarm,' Harry thought back to her with a slight smile and Kara nodded in agreement. 'They'll know if I need to bring it up.'

'If that's what you think is best, but we were on the Island for a long time. Even though we didn't find the artifact in question, merely a clue to where it might have been hidden,' Kara commented as she leaned back in her chair.

Imra frowned, she thought that she heard some stray thoughts from Harry and Kara, except for that fact there was nothing but elevator music playing in their minds when she took a tiny peek. The blonde shrugged if off as she turned to face Chloe, who was still playing mission control from afar, on the nearby view screen.

"Now the coordinates of the island are far from precise," Chloe stated with a frown and she got the feeling that they weren't going to like this.

Salu was the next one that jumped in. "Exactly how imprecise are we talking about?"

"Well...you could land in the water if you're not careful, the island doesn't really play nicely with the rules of time and space," Chloe informed them and there was a second where Harry paused as his grin got even wider, there was one statement that popped into his head.

'Wonderful.'

"So once more we're journeying into the unknown? That would usually be a problem, but then again, that's why some of us signed up for this," Tinya commented, the dark haired girl leaned forward, her hand cupped to her chin, when she saw the mist which they were about to take said journey into.

They all braced themselves for arrival and Harry looked closely into the mist, he could see a flicker of the island, but perhaps that was because he always had that uncanny ability to see beyond what others perceived. Never the less, he was on a hair trigger as he craned his neck forwards.

"Imra you might want to turn to the left," Harry stated.

"Right," Imra agreed.

"No I'm pretty sure he said left," Kara stated as she smiled knowingly.

"Right," Imra repeated.

"No, he said left," Kara said again with a shadow of a playful smirk on her face, as Karen, Tinya, and Salu snickered quietly in the background.

"I KNOW HE SAID LEFT! I JUST SAID HE WAS BLOODY CORRECT!" Imra yelled at her, but she calmed herself down quickly as Kara tried to play innocent, whistling nonchalantly.

"Oh! Why didn't you say so?' Kara asked with a sweet little grin.

"We're getting ready to land, so brace yourselves for anything, in case there are some wild Amazons running around," Harry told them.

That wasn't an attractive possibility, if the Amazons had gone crazy and their combat abilities remained intact? Well, the ride could get pretty bumpy.

Considering the fact they were extremely nervous with what this mission could bring, the group resolved to stay on their toes.

Silence was something normally embraced by most, but this particular silence put Harry Potter on edge. He hovered a few inches above the ground taking careful note of his surroundings and saw that there was nothing there. There used to be grandly constructed monuments, but no longer, they were taken down in all of the wrong ways.

Harry looked at what remained of them for a second, then shook his head. This place was once beautiful and now it had been turned to ruins. Dust, ashes, nothing remained where it once was. The skies above were a dismal red with grey clouds, it almost seemed like the heavens themselves were angry at it's destruction.

Imra echoed the sentiments that had been going through Harry's mind since the first moment that he arrived here.

"Disturbing," Was all that she was able to manage and he would have to agree, it did disturb him and his eyes carefully tracked across his surroundings. He wanted to see if he could find any sign of life, any sign of hope, any sign of….well, any sign of something, but he found absolutely nothing, less than nothing in fact.

His emerald green eyes followed the progress of dead looking leaves and sticks rustling on the ground, and he couldn't help but wonder what in the nine hells just happened. He was pretty sure that he was dealing with something supernatural, seeing as how whatever happened here….caused the Amazons to be….well, they just weren't here any longer.

Or at the very least they weren't visible any longer. Did they get lost to the pull of time and space?

Harry and the girls took a few steps forward as they prepared to journey into the unknown and the stale air practically choked the lot of them. They made sure to keep a close eye on their surroundings as well, just in case things weren't as lifeless as they seemed.

"There's nothing here, no sign of life at all, perhaps it was a false message?" Kara whispered to Harry, he shrugged in response and then he tensed up.

"There's something in the air," He informed her, Karen tensed up as well shortly after he did and Harry could see her doing so. "You feel it too?"

"Yes," Karen agreed, after swallowing the lump in her throat. Harry grabbed her by the hand gently and squeezed it, she smiled in appreciation of the gesture as she took a half of a step forward.

"Oh, I hope that's not as foreboding of a sign as I think it is," Tinya stated as she pointed to something on the ground. There were stacks of bones present there and the woman hitched in a breath at the sight of them. Harry wrapped his arm around her shoulders, then pulled her in close to him and she relaxed ever so slightly, but she couldn't shake the feeling that she was walking into something really horrible.

"Stay sharp, there's something here," Harry stated to them, taking command of the situation, he really hoped that these weren't the bones of long deceased Amazons.

The bones started to glow an eerie gold and this didn't improve Harry's mood at all. His knuckles clenched until they were white as he watched bones begin to rattle to life. A sinister laughter laugh seemed to echo from out of nowhere as the glow enveloped them.

Karen used her heat vision on one of the skeletons, but it bounced right back at her. It was only thanks to her quick reflexes that she was able to dodge the beam.

"That didn't go well…oh boy, this might suck," Salu commented as she saw the flaming skeletons marching forwards. The term "suck" might not adequately describe the situation at hand, seeing as how it'd quickly taking a turn for the worse, at least that's what kept echoing through her mind. She narrowed her eyes, threw her head back and prepared for the worst.

The worst in this case ended up being the skeleton hurling flaming bones towards them.

Harry dodged the flaming bone hurtling towards his head by shifting it to the side at the last moment. It flew past him to land on the ground, where it promptly exploded into burning embers. Narrowed his eyes, he measured the distance between them and lined up the target. Then he fired off a handy little spell which froze them in place.

This allowed Kara and Karen to make the next play. They flew into the skeletons with a super sonic force which caused them to scatter like bowling ball pins.

"The deceased spirits of warriors long past, although they aren't the missing Amazons, because they were far more brutal than this," Harry stated as he watched Imra put up a telekinetic shield to block a flaming sword slashing towards her head. Kara disarmed the skeleton, ripping the sword and it's arm clean off, then Karen delivered a rocket buster of a punch to quite literally knock it's head clean off.

"These things might be dangerous, but they're not really that durable," Karen stated to them as she literally smashed her hand through another ones rib cage. She rocked another one with a huge headbutt and its face crumbled at the point of impact. The blonde was starting to feel much more confident and she lashed out with a snap kick that shattered another skeleton to pieces.

The skeleton herd was quickly taking out as Harry started mowing through them with blasting spells aimed towards the ground, they might have been immune to direct damage spells, but the ground wasn't.

Their bones were rather brittle, seeing as how they were here for a long time. That said, Harry didn't have clue as to who cast the spell or why, all he knew was right now they had to deal with the situation at hand and keep moving forwards.

He felt drawn towards a door, which had been sealed tightly shut.

"If someone sealed it…."

"...Then they were trying to hide something, but what, what exactly were they trying to hide?" Imra wondered out loud and Harry placed his hands on the edge of the door frame.

"Your guess is a good as mine, it's stuck tight, Kara, Karen, give me a hand."

"Of course," Kara stated, she was curious about what was on the other end of the door since her X-Ray vision couldn't even see through it. She placed both hands on the door and gave a strong push, but all that happened was some of the marble cracking and slightly giving way.

Karen quickly moved to help her and this time in tandem, they gave another strong push against the door. The marble holding it in place shattered under the force and it went crashing to the ground sending up a massive dust cloud.

With a wave of his hand, Harry used a spell to banish it and they could see inside the room clearly. There was a statue of a certain woman standing in the very center, who was really quite wondrous.

Harry paused, he could hardly believe it, there was magic in this temple the likes of which he had never seen before or he would ever see again. Okay, perhaps that was a slight exaggeration, but never the less, he was fairly impressed by what he saw and felt around him.

The statue on the other hand, well, the statue added an entirely new dimension to what he was experiencing. Feeling drawn towards it, he quickly moved forwards and holding his hand out in front of him scanned it carefully with his magic. He was pretty sure that he felt something inside the statue.

"Call me crazy, but I think that this statue was once alive," Harry informed the group of girls surrounding him.

"I'd call you crazy, if I wasn't sure that I just heard it's heart beat," Karen responded and Harry listened closely.

Sure enough, she was right and there was a pause as he thought about what he was going to do next. Throwing all caution to the wind, he placed his hand on the statue of the woman where her heart would be.

He wasn't sure what he thought was going to happen exactly, but he knew that nothing had happened so far, at least, not yet. Gingerly, he trailed his hand up the statue until he was cupping the side of the statue's cheek and after a moments pause, he retracted it.

"What happened here?" Salu asked more to herself then anyone else, but then she paused as she took note of a tattered notebook laying on the floor. Taking note of where her gaze had fallen, Harry took a step towards it, but there was a slight magic to it that caused hairs on the back of his hand to stand up.

"Something….that shouldn't have...I think," Harry whispered and once again there were some….nervousness...that ran through their minds.

Harry gently levitated the notebook off of the ground. After his experiences with the diary, he figured that if he was going to open it up, he should do it from a distance, otherwise he might cause a panic or much, much worse. His heart skipped a steady beat in his chest as he prepared to indulge himself in the contents.

An eerie whisper resounded that caused Harry to arch his eyebrow slightly.

'Turn back, turn back, all is lost, do not go further.'

Harry didn't scare easily; in fact he didn't scare at all. That being said, he was fairly confused by what was happening. He took half of a step forwards, but nothing happened as of yet. The Legion girls were also nervous and they almost expected something to happen. Harry pressed forward with a bold determination to his movements.

"I found out what happened," Harry stated after he placed his hand on a stone and it whispered into his ear, explaining facts to him that he didn't know before. "At least I will have once my brain finishes assimilating the information properly."

"Oh...that's….that's nice?" Imra questioned nervously with a frown and she chewed on her lip until she left a slight indent upon it. She couldn't help but wonder if they were barking up the wrong tree here.

"It was Circe and Hercules," Harry said and then he paused for a moment, before continuing. "At the least anyway."

"At least?" Imra asked and Harry decided to elaborate.

"Including, but not limited to and there might be other facts I'm missing, the greek goddesses, I'm not sure where they went, but their presence used to be all over this island. I should know, because we lived here for seven years of our life," Harry informed them and Kara nodded in agreement, but this caused Karen to cork her eyebrow in confusion.

"I thought you said that you only here for a little bit…."

"Given how long we were in the past, seven years isn't an extremely long time. Who do you think gave us our hand to hand training?" Kara asked them.

"Makes sense," Karen conceded, after taking a few seconds pause to consider that question.

"The ritual we used to go back in time, caused us to age slower while outside of our native time stream, not that we're going to age all that much given our gifts," Harry informed them as he broke open a stone vault.

Karen knew from the first moment she saw him, that there was far more to Harry Potter than met the eye and he was proving that time and time again. The blonde found herself even more intrigued by him, she wished to learn more as time progressed, although the brief hints that Harry gave her before today was tantalizing information already.

"Hercules struck a deal with Circe," Harry stated as his eyes glowed, now that the information had been fully transferred into his brain. "He was sick of….well, he was sick of the Amazons spurning him, because he thought that he was the pinnacle of manhood. The reality is that he was a foul god in every sense of the word, she agreed to turn the Amazons into dolls for Hercules to play with."

Harry paused for a moment as the information continued to play through his minds eyes, and he couldn't help but grin at the next part. Not because of the fate of the Amazons, but because this was a typical case of Circe, being Circe.

"She stuck quite literally to the wording of their deal, she literally turned them into dolls that little girls play with, Barbies in fact, I don't know if you…."

"We've read the archives on Earth culture, proceed," Salu stated as she waved for him to continue, quickly trying to change the subject and looking a bit flushed. She wasn't about to admit that she had a Harry Potter doll that she played with when she was a little girl and undressed as well. That was an embarrassing memory to have.

"Hercules wasn't too happy about that fact," Harry continued and he looked over his shoulder towards the girls. "So, he confronted Circe and….well...things got a bit intense."

"Exactly what do you mean by intense?" Imra asked and Harry smiled.

"She transferred his brain into a dog that was about to get neutered," Harry told them and there was a sense that they were torn halfway between grimacing in pain and halfway between being amused by what happened. Never the less, Harry kept his eyes locked on the group as he continued speaking. "I can't say it couldn't have happened to a worse deity out there, when you really think about it."

"True," Imra agreed. "But the dolls…."

"Disappeared into the world, except for this clay statue…..Diana of Themyscira, but you know her much better as Wonder Woman," Harry commented and that got an immediate reaction.

"Wait….how….why….when….what…." Karen asked, but Harry placed a hand on hers to stop her rambling and smiled mysteriously.

"I'll explain more later, but we've got to get her off the island immediately," Harry told her and Karen blinked at that for a few seconds. "Trust me, we have to go, before the island attacks us again."

This was one of those, Harry was going to explain later things and the Legion girls knew that they had to work fast, because a rumble resounded over the island and he doubted very much that it was thunder coming.

"You're kidding me right?"

"Yes, Chloe, I obviously made up this elaborate story about what happened with the Amazons, just for the express purpose of fucking with your head," Harry offered her with an extremely dry tone to his voice and the blond in question couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, well, guess I walked right into that one," Chloe commented, she couldn't believe how easily she stepped or perhaps blundered into it. She decided to turn her attention to the statue in front of her, it was hard for her to believe that one of the greatest female heroes that ever lived had been found trapped like this.

And she appeared to be alive in there, which caused Chloe to want to scream at the very thought. To be aware of the world around you, but not be able to experience it, that must be a fate worse than death. She pondered what she had to do next and there was only one thought that burned through her mind. Turning towards Harry, her mouth halfway open to ask him a question, she made a split second decision.

"We're going to have to find some way to free her, aren't we?" Chloe asked him, Harry shrugged before offering her his honest assessment on the matter.

"Yes, we are," Harry stated to the blonde and she nodded briskly. She paused for a moment, perhaps for a bit too long, but never the less, she was hesitating as she looked over the statue. She shuddered once more at the thought of what Wonder Woman might have been going through.

"Just be careful….Amazons are prideful and spirited warriors. She might wake up under the mistaken impression that you captured her." Harry warned her calmly, he was pretty sure that they could deal with whatever happened, but he was of the opinion it was better to be safe then sorry.

"I….yes, I remember what happened with you two," Chloe muttered in agreement with a grimace, but there was just one small problem, she had no idea what to do to wake her up.

Kara frowned as did Imra, Kara could hear a slow heartbeat coming from the statue, and Imra could sense a thought pattern. Of course, the thought patterns were wild and feral, so Imra couldn't even begin to comprehend what was going through her mind. The two blondes exchanged a nervous look towards each other.

"The problem, as I see it, is that I don't even know where to begin, I could do more damage because science…."

"...Never mixes well with magic, believe me, Chloe, I know this more better than anyone else," Harry explained to her and the blonde stood, mostly at ease, although there was some tension that danced through her eyes. "But….leaving her in this state isn't an option."

Harry lightly brushed his hand up against the statues cheek once more and a soft glow enveloped it. The clay was beginning to come to life, although he didn't notice it right away, seeing as how he turned his head to the side in order to look at the blond standing next to him.

"I think we should put our heads together," Harry added as he turned fully towards them, only to see Tinya with wide eyes widened as she pointed over Harry's shoulder towards the statue, which most certainly wasn't one any longer.

"...Guys," Tinya breathed outwards in a trembling voice and Harry turned around, his own eyes widening at the sight in front of him.

Harry saw her standing there over six feet tall in all of her glory and it was quite glorious indeed. They all took in her body, it was kind of hard not to, because she didn't have a stitch of clothing on it. She had sleek dark hair that flowed down past her shoulders and vibrant blue eyes that burned brightly. She had large breasts that were high and firm, the object of lust of many men and most women who gazed upon them, perhaps with a bit of envy as well. She was smooth in her most private area and she had a shapely ass along with long legs.

There was a sense where she was confused for a second, but she quickly snapped out of it and narrowed her eyes.

"What did you do?" she demanded as feral unreasonable rage flashed through her eyes and there was this instant where Harry held his breath in then slowly let it out. He knew by now that the worst thing someone could tell a person in this state would be to calm down. There was no calming down considering the state of mind that she was in.

Diana had recalled a day with her sisters like none other, but that day slowly faded into nothingness. There was a few seconds where her eyes flashed and then she narrowed them as she closely watched the people in front of her, before deciding to take action.

"You better not have captured me!" Diana yelled out as she lunged forwards a throw a punch at the closest target.

Karen, not really in the mood to deal with this, blocked Diana's punch and grabbing hold of her elbow, twisted it behind her back with a pop.

Diana was about as skilled as Karen was strong though and in fact in the strength department, they were evenly matched so she quickly broke out of the hold. The only thing that they had going for them right now, was the fact that Diana was in a blind rage and was out of practice.

"Hold her! She's obviously not…."

Tinya and Imra did a remarkable job of holding Diana back, but she was an Amazon and they were made to fight. They were knocked off to the side when she threw them off her.

Karen engaged Diana in hand to hand combat, punches were blocked, kicks were caught and Karen flipped over onto her feet then slid smoothly underneath Diana's legs. She caught her with a rising knee to the back of the head and Diana hit the ground hard.

Diana pushed herself up off the ground smoothly and as did, she jabbed Karen in the throat. It wasn't enough to hurt her, at least on a permanent basis, but it was more than enough to knock her back several feet into the closest wall.

Karen bounced hard off of the wall and moved to continue the fight, only for Kara to stand in between them with her arms raised. Diana recognized her immediately and her rage quickly faded, then she took not of Harry.

"Did they….did they capture you too?" Diana asked them with hesitation in her voice, there was a part of herself that was extremely upset that she waited for their return and they never did. Which meant what they sought of to do hadn't been successful and that was what disheartened her the most.

"Calm down for a minute, Diana, and we'll explain," Harry told her and Diana took half of a step back with a nod of her head. "So Wonder Woman?"

"It's...a long story, but….never mind that, tell me yours first," Diana commented, not caring in the slightest that she was standing there completely naked.

"Well….you live an interesting life Harry, I don't think that I have to say anything other than that," Diana offered after things had been explained to her. There were looks of utter confusion from the Legionaries present seeing as how the two of them appeared to know each other very well and had quite the interesting past together.

"Interesting might not be the term that I'd use, but if it works, it works," Harry told the Amazon as she stretched out. She was wearing a tight black t-shirt and jeans that belong to Karen, although it was still a bit too small for her. And this was even after the charm work Harry did to make her clothes be a bit more comfortable than they were. "My mission wasn't a success."

Diana nodded at that, she'd waited a long time for their return and she figured that was the reason why.

"One day it will be through," Diana told him with a supreme amount of confidence dripping from her voice.

"If you say so," Harry said in agreement, he wanted to remain optimistic that he would win. Even though the Infected in the Forbidden Zone had been put on ice for now, he still had a lot to do. He rested his hand on the bottom of his chin for a moment, before speaking once more.

"It's good to see that you survived, but…."

"...I remember what happened, although what happened after I was turned into a statue, I have no idea," Diana admitted to Harry and there was a second where his green eyes locked onto her blue ones.

"The goddesses no longer have a presence on the island, it's almost like…..I don't know like they got disconnected….actually I'm not sure if goddesses can disappear, as for the rest of the Amazons….they were…."

"Perhaps the Dolls were distributed throughout the world," Kara offered to them thoughtfully as she ran her hand through her blonde locks. "So are you….thinking what I'm thinking?"

"If you're thinking that they could still be out there, than…..I don't know, little dolls out there for hundreds upon hundreds of years, in any other corner the globe. That's a scavenger hunt…..I don't even know how to start, do you?" Chloe asked as she raised her eyebrow and directed a look towards Harry.

"It's a crapshoot," he admitted as he placed his hand on her's and the blonde closed her eyes for a moment. "But….I don't know."

Diana would hold onto the hope that some of her fellow Amazons were still out there, although whether they could be restored, that was another matter entirely. They were not on the island that much was for sure.

"Why did Circe leave me on the island in that form?" Diana asked and Harry raised an eyebrow.

"Well, are you asking me how to fathom how Circe's mind works?" Harry asked her and Diana looked at him with half of a raised eyebrow. "Actually I'm not sure if Circe had any intention of keeping you in that form, it was just what happened and the will of the island….well...it kept you there."

"You mentioned something about the island's magic?" Karen questioned him and Harry smiled at the older blonde Kryptonian. She waited for him to explain and Harry decided to let her ponder the question, at least for a moment. She narrowed her eyes at him in frustration and then, suddenly, everything sank in. "You….you mean the island is sentient?"

"That's the best guess I've got and I've seen far stranger things," Harry commented and Kara, Diana, and Chloe all nodded in agreement, they were in the camp of those people who've seen far stranger things. That was just the type of lives all of them had lived. "So, we're going to head off….after we run a few tests on you."

Much to everyone else's relief, Diana didn't protest, because Harry, Kara, and Karen might be the only ones that could match her on a hand to hand basis. The entire group stared each other down and there was a long pause.

"Yeah, I have been out for the count for the past seven hundred years, closer to eight hundred if I think about it," Diana said in agreement as she looked towards Harry and Kara.

She wanted to reconnect with the two of them, but that could wait until later. She wanted to make sure that there were no nasty surprises that could affect everyone. Circe was spiteful and she had a few tricks up her sleeve.

Where she ended up, Diana had no idea, in fact, the fact the presence of the goddesses were disconnected from the island was very unsettling.

"Don't worry, Diana, you won't feel a thing," Chloe commented to her and she looked at the princess who raised an eyebrow towards her. "A hot shower is more painful than what I am about to do to you."

Given that she could actively bathe in a volcano, that did wonders in putting her mind at ease. The fact that Kara and Harry sat on either side of her did the rest.

To Be Continued.