Chapter 8: "Stormkeep"
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Harry felt his consciousness floating toward a bright light, one would think he was dead but he knew life couldn't show such a mercy to him. He finally came to a stop in front of a human shaped light but this light didn't seem benevolent or malevolent but the most neutral thing he had felt since gaining his psionic power, than it struck him, if he could feel him psionically than he must definitively be alive.
"Where the hell am I if I am still alive"-queried Harry in his mind.
"In the Astral Realm or Plane whichever you like"-answered the human shaped light.
"So… who are you?"-asked Harry.
"Come on Merlin spawn you don't recognize me for what I am"-asked the light with a surprised tone pure light rolling of his shape and absorbed in their multi-colored surroundings.
"You are the mind of somebody who has the capacity to travel to the Astral Plane, you aren't Merlin for while you posses a great deal of knowledge you are far from his level but you still know me as the Merlin spawn so I guess you might be a Mane or Dactyl since they are the only races who know me as such"-finished Harry.
"Ha ha ha… you are not even close Merlin spawn"-said the light after he finished laughing-"I am summoned here thanks to a spell you cast about a year ago'
"So you are… what the incarnated power of Stormkeep?"-said Harry
"Nope the prison isn't old enough"-answered plainly the light-"I am its warden"
"So the spell wasn't a spell meant to reveal a location but a communication spell but there's a thing I don't get, why did it take so long?"-asked Harry baffled by the great amount of time it took for the communication spell to work.
"Full of questions aren't we… well you are just like Merlin, the spell needed to actually locate the prison and then me across the sub-dimensions through which the prison constantly shifts to make it truly impregnable"
"So will you tell me your name?-asked Harry.
"Names are a powerful thing I though you should have learned it by now especially in the world where you have been, however the name I had before i became the warden of Stormkeep is Nerthach Blaney"-he said more light, which Harry figured by now to be strong emotions, rolled of him.
"How … how did you know that?'-asked Harry surprised and for the first time notiicing a vortex of colors coming out of him and was even more surprised he wasn't angry since here was no red light coming of him.
"Merlin had foresight and a bit of prophetic powers which showed him that and then he traveled there himself to make sure nothing to bad won't happen to you and he discovered the Ancient Language and its weird properties"-he answered and no lights rolled of him.
"Why don't you release a lot of colored light and why for heaven's sake do I have a glowing orb of light in my chest"-said a frantic Harry.
"So you don't know nothing about the Astral planes nature"-asked him this time the color symbolizing curiosity rolling of him.
"Nope I didn't even know it was real until know"-answered Harry.
"This Plane is made up from the collective mental energy of all living beings in this world, every dimension has its own layer and so does our universe, as you may see through your psionic powers our planet's mental energy is but drop when compared with all other species in the universe but see all the beings who have orbs in their chests, it represents their core while the colors help create this places reality's fabric' and I don't give of so much colors because as a warden I learned to control them so they rarely escape my grasp and before you ask no I don't have magic"-he explained to a seriously surprised Harry.
"Wow… that's cool… so what's up with my mini-orb that I have because no one has it except me?"-asked Harry after observing everybody's core (which you'd be surprised how easy it is in the Astral Plane)
"I can but guess… my best guess would be that's what makes you a true world jumper and what gives you the ability to create new cores like Merlin did whenever he learned a new magic type which required a core"-he said.
"So that's what allowed me to learn the Aleagasian magic type, weird, so how does this work you come to me or me to you?"-asked Harry.
"You don't need a core to learn that particular magic type since it draws energy from your body's energy reserves and as for that question you come to me since I can't leave the prison unless to capture an escaped prisoner or bring in a new one"-he said transferring the coordinates an date directly into Harry's mind(Astral form)
"I don't think I can be there in three days my body is really damaged and I don't think it can heal that fast'-said Harry with disappointment in his voice and color vortex coming out of his Astral Form since he won't be going there.
"Don't worry that particular Phoenix kind has powerful healing abilities and you'll be up in no time your body is just getting used to your core suddenly increasing in size and by lot I must add"-he said emotionlessly.
"Well that figures I choose a fictional Phoenix type that can't be killed by anything at all (even omnipotent beings) and its powers are transferred to me, way to go life… and on top of all it gives me even more power, like I asked for it seriously"-said really pissed off Harry.
"Think it this way, you can now better protect your friends and then it isn't like your power grew much, you are barely more powerful than that guy… Alexandru, right? And don't tell me that vampire didn't just kick your ass really good last time"-he said trying to calm Harry's emotional downpour (seriously a mega-vortex of light, mostly red).
"I guess so but that guy was lucky I can't transform into a deity form or he would be dead"-Harry said finally calming down.
"That's why it's imperative that you come here, there are a few things that you must get, left here by Merlin for you"
"Ok see you in three days"-said Harry before the light disappeared.
Harry then willed himself to return to his body, as he approached the shell that now was his body he couldn't help but notice a great amount of people staying around him and radiating a great amount of concern, from pure concern fueled by love or friendship to the simply politically concerned which had some creepy colors .
As he opened his eyes and began to lift himself into an upright position he was assaulted by a bush of brown hairs and was wrapped into a bear hug.
"Bloody hell Hermione the wounds didn't kill him but you certainly will"-said a smiling Ron.
"He's… right… you're chocking me"-managed to say Harry between the pain in his chest and Hermione's hug.
"Sorry… you're okay, don't do that again, you scared us to death"-said rapidly Hermione
"Well shouldn't you be worrying about your husband"-Harry said to Hermione earning a blush.
"That's what I said to her mate but she almost hexed me into oblivion for trying to suggest that she take a break from her watching rounds"-Ron said laughing.
"Your best friend was in the brink of death and you laugh at it'-said a very angry (and scary) Hermione.
"That vamp didn't take him out you think magical exhaustion will?"-asked Ron.
"That magical exhaustion has kept him in a coma for two weeks you… moron"-said Hermione.
"It wasn't magical exhaustion, it was a sudden core expansion"-interjected Harry.
"A… what?"-said a wide eyed Hermione.
"Bloody Hell, mate"-was all that Ron could say while the rest just stared at him wide eyed.
"I guess that was a "thank you" of magic for breaking the connection that the vampire had with the nexus"-explained Harry.
"So that explains its power'-said Ron.
"No, I guess that he used the nexus energy as a source of power to travel from whatever dimension he was sealed in so that he didn't have to use his personal power."-Harry said plainly.
"Holy shit then this is more desperate than it looks"-said Ron.
"What?"-asked Harry
"Elyanus has conquered all of Europe and made vampire's presence known all over the world and along with rest of the magical world except for the Alliance's races"-explained Hermione.
"I guess he did that to hide the fact that there were beings that oppose him"-said Harry.
"Yes, how did you know?-said Ron.
"Because that's what I would do myself"-said Harry-"so how did he conquer it in two weeks?"
"All vampires in every major city in Europe took over the muggle government buildings and that guy came storming every one of our war fronts with some kick-ass strategy and then England fell soon after"-said Ron.
"What the hell kept the Americans from unleashing their nuclear arsenal on them?"-asked Harry.
"Michael spoke with the American president and explained to him that that would only kill humans as most vampires would simply hide in a bunker and then come out"-explained Ron-"but he have only a year before the Americans come in here with weapons blazing"
"No pressure there, okay I need to leave in three days for the South Pole"-said Harry while sitting upright.
"No you aren't and even if you do, what the hell are you going there for any way? To talk to Santa and ask him to take the bad guy away?"-asked Hermione while trying to keep him seated in his bed.
"Something like that"-said Harry sitting from his bed and stretching.
"That's impossible"-Jelled one the healers who saw him standing-"you shouldn't be able to that not right now"
"We two have different definitions of impossible, since I am obviously standing"-said Harry as he tested his muscles to see if the healing powers of the phoenix stretched to atrophied muscles, it apparently did, Harry knew that the phoenix had immense healing powers, beyond any real phoenixes but this was a bit to much.
"So when are we leaving?"-asked Ron.
"Not we, I, I am leaving, it's too dangerous for you to come with me"-said Harry while summoning Kreacher.
"Harry James Potter, you aren't going anywhere, you have just awakened from a two week coma and if you think I am going to let you go there just like this forget it, it won't happen"-said an angry Hermione.
"That's not your choice Hermione, Kreacher"-Harry said before Kreacher touched his arm and they were gone with a soft pop.
June 2, 2003
Harry pushed against the frozen winds of the South Pole, as any magical transportation method didn't work in this proximity to "Stormkeep". He was sorry that he had to leave like that but they wouldn't have let him go, in time at least, so summoning Kreacher was the only possible option that wouldn't reveal the super spells created by "Moody"
After a half an hour he saw it, the mightiest castle ever," Stormkeep", created by Merlin as a place to imprison the greatest evils in our world. The castle was impressive, twelve towers taller than even the tallest muggle buildings, each in an equal distance from each other, the walls over three hundred meters tall, It had only one door standing at thirty meters of height and twenty five meters of width, the wood of the door was so magically charged that it could take anything he could muster even without the help from its wards. The wards of this place were the most powerful and intricate he had ever seen, his private wards included, it was as if this prison was made to imprison gods.
As he approached the castle he felt himself being sucked in what he could describe as a wind vortex and then he saw himself standing on a bridge that connected the gate to the keep of this place, the bridge itself was as wide as the door and stretched for at least one hundred meters. What scared the shit out of Harry was what was beneath the bridge, an infinite chasm and from that chasm came pure energy that if could touch his body would destroy his body and imprison his soul (as souls can't be destroyed by anything)
As he entered the keep he felt himself being examined as he was when he entered the Manes Tunnels but this was way more detailed than that one and it bypassed his wards as if they weren't even there, after a while the examination was over and he saw a man clad in a completely white armor appear out of nowhere, the only thing that suggested a magical form of transport were wisps of white smoke, in reality magical energy so dense that it became visible to the human eye light spectrum, The man had white short hair and a face that shoed wisdom and knowledge beyond that which any mortal should posses.
"Nice to meet you Merlin spawn, if you would please follow me"-said the man in an authoritative tone as he turned to one of the many Hallways which were accessible from there.
"Nice to meet you to Narthac"-said Harry as he followed him along the hallway he had moved
The warden didn't say anything at all during their trip and Harry was let free to inspect the weapons and statues of metal which were displayed along the walls. After a while Harry and Narthac entered a gigantic room with a hole in the middle, from the hole came dark energy, almost physical in the air around them, and then he turned toward Harry
"This is why you are here today, here is where the Dark Gods and their masters are imprisoned"-said Narthac gesturing toward the hole.
"I though Merlin wasn't that old?"-asked Harry.
"He isn't but he was contacted by these beings counterparts to build a prison for them since only mortal magic can fully affect them"-explained Narthac.
"So why didn't he kill them?"-asked Harry.
"You know that gods are supposed to be immortal right?-said Narthac as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Yes but everything has a weak spot and Merlin was supposed to be God-level himself wasn't he?"-asked Harry.
"Oh but he was beyond God-level as every one with the Hero's curse but if he did destroy them for killing would imply that they must have a soul that goes somewhere and they don't and even if he did destroy the Dark gods their masters, beings than can't be described with words to whom the Dark gods are but lowly servants, would still exist-"Narthac spoke with a passion which showed his hate towards such beings-"in the case both the Dark gods and their masters could be destroyed completely they would be reborn from the Beings of Light and war of divines would rage once more upon this world."
"Okay… so what's this Hero's curse anyway? I heard the Manes call me that a few times but they didn't tell me anything about that"-queried Harry.
"Well except for Merlin, a few eldritch creatures beyond any and all worlds and the creator himself nobody actually knows for sure"-said Narthac with a shrug-"but I can tell you this, it is what makes you special enough for the inter-world energy to transform you into someone capable of learning things that you should be born with."
"So a big thing then…. Okay why am I here? Truly no history bull shit"-asked Harry.
"First of history is indeed the real reason why you are here but only part of it you are here to get the Merlin Grimoire, a useful tool mind you but to defeat enemies sometimes raw power isn't enough"-said Narthac with a voice which reminded him of Dumbledore.
"Okay you get me interested, continue"-said Harry conjuring a comfortable chair for himself and Narthac
"You know the Dark gods defeated the Atlanteans in their war, but why didn't they just annihilate us immediately but left? The reason why they left is because the Beings of Light engaged them in a full frontal war, for the third time since the Age of Creation aka a few billion years ago, now a two or three centuries later a Dark God came back hell bent on making her off springs rulers of our universe, her name was Yflena the Vampire Goddess, she created five of what you might call Demigods only this guys were vampires, full blooded ones, the Five were created to compensate for each others weaknesses as a perfect beings would be classified as a God and the Beings of Light would interfere and ruin her plan, the Five grew in power quickly and created many vampires but the vampire that were created were too weak they couldn't stay in the sunlight, wooden stake would kill them, silver instead of irritating burned them, human objects of belief weakened them and garlic could kill them instead of barely giving them sneezes like with the Original Five."
"So these Originals were pretty strong but why haven't I heard of them? Why did Elyanus claim to be their creator?"-asked a baffled Harry.
"Because he was the weakest of them but also the smartest and he hated his brothers and sisters so he one night killed them with a powerful poison derived from his blood and through his sisters and brothers blood he unleashed a curse which killed every vampire that was created by them or even born by them just to be on the safe side, I trust you know that vampires can give birth to children like human do"-asked Narthac interrupting his explanation
"Yes, I do now get on with the story"-said a very eager Harry.
"He claimed to the surviving vampires that with his death like with that of his siblings every vampire created by him would die so as to make sure nobody would try to kill him, However the Beings of Light took notice of this happening due to the vast magical energies released by that many vampires dying at once and cursed him so that he couldn't conquer all of the world, for millennia's he researched for a loophole into the curse and a thousand years ago he found one, it meant he could conquer all of the world if all the world declared war on him that would take like forever but then again he was immortal he had plenty of time, or so he thought, Merlin was informed of this and with the help of his son the one known as Vladimir "Tepees" Dracula he located him and after a long battle imprisoned him into a faraway dimension"-explained Narthac.
"Until he escaped two weeks ago"-interrupted Harry.
"Yes, and now he is putting to motion his plan and only you can stop him"-said Narthac.
"Okay a trip to the unstable worlds and I will have all the powers I need to crush him"-said Harry as he though at the great discovery he and "Moody" had made, worlds, mostly deriving from human fiction but that had to little or no balance at all and as a result its reality was to unstable and collapsed, the same process repeated every time someone read/ saw that story/movie but someone coming from a stable reality would stabilize it for a period of ten years so he could use it to gain power and then return in his world in the same moment he left.
"Well… there's a problem with that"-he said-"Merlin made sure you couldn't leave this world until Elyanus is imprisoned here as Vladimir would kill you Hero's curse or not, if you kill his dad"
"That guy must have been nuts, denying me my greatest advantage in any fight, was he mad or something?"-asked a very angry Harry.
"No he was very wise indeed, think about a moment if you get used to use raw power against your enemies what would you do if someone stronger than you found a way to incapacitate you? Then what? –asked an angry Narthac-"you need to learn how to win despite the odds and become a good leader so that many won't die when you are forced to use intelligence instead of brute force"
"Never though of it that way"-answered Harry-"I just though on how many lives I could spare if I ended the war right now"
"What about the millions that would suffer from persecution? You know that not all vampires are evil and that persecution and discrimination that would come from an easy defeat would be the cause for more wars, that's what you would like, boy?"-asked Narthac albeit with a calmer tone.
"If you would stop shouting I have a plan but would you by any case know somebody who can repair Epilogue? I tried but the remaining dark energy from Elyanus made it impossible"-asked Harry
"I myself can't do that since I myself have no magical powers and is Stormkeep that gives me my powers and I can use them only to defend the prison or capture new prisoners, but the Fey of the Silver Lake will help you, Merlin helped them a long time ago and as his descendant they will be obligated to give you help"-explained Narthac.
"Good that means I keep my ability to transverse dimensions "-said Harry-"a moment my immortality doesn't that mean my magic can't affect Elyanus?"
"No, you are still considered mortal as you effectively die but you are also reborn so that still leaves you mortal and before you leave I have to give you this"-he said as out of nowhere a book appeared.
The book was nothing special, it was pretty thin but with infinite pages spell of course it would look so, the leather in which it was bound had a brown color and had no writings or carvings upon it however on the magical side the book was a masterpiece, it had only in its protections a magical power equaling that of a ley line and the power of two on whatever other functions it had so that was pretty powerful.
"That book contains the one hundred or so numbers that the Atlantean had discovered, he figured that he must give you something to balance what you were taken also there you will find a whole lot of spells made from those numbers and a quite a few upgrades for "what did he say you would call it?"-said Narthac scratching the back of his head-"Yeah, "Moody", sorry lad my memory has started to play tricks on me"
"Thanks for the help, also get prepared for a new inmate in this prison I would like if could arrange for a place nearby his mother"-said Harry with a devious smile in his face.
"Oh I think I can do better than that, I will put him with his mother"-Narthac answered with the same devious smile dancing in his face.
Harry disappeared in a flash of silvery light, as he was transported in the space between dimensions Harry couldn't help but lose the smile that he had on his face a moment ago, the enemy he was facing was a freaking demigod and he was prohibited from using his greatest power but there was hope, the Vampire progenitor had mentioned that he had a child that had betrayed, maybe just maybe that son would agree to help them defeat his father and send him to "Stormkeep" for a reunion with his mother
He felt himself land in this new dimension, the land around him was covered in a dense fog but he could see the outlines of trees surrounding him. Harry was suddenly thrown in the ground by an invisible force and he felt spears pointed at him, whoever had ambushed him had powerful magic, almost as strong as his
"How did you get here mortal?"-asked a melodious voice.
"Through magic of course"-answered Harry raising his head to see his assailant in the eye.
"Only two mortals know of this place, so how do you a tiny little being like know of this exact location?"-asked a bit more forcefully the voice.
"I guess the two mortals were Merlin and Narthac but none of them are exactly mortal"-said Harry with a calm tone "Slipping" behind his assailants back.
"Shit… you must be the Merlin spawn, sorry for not paying you your due respect but this are dark times with Elyanus out of his prison"-said the Fey in front of Harry.-"I am Belanor ,captain of the guards of the Western Forest, welcome to the Fey home dimension"
"I am here to meet your leader to ask him or her a favor"-said Harry.
"If you can grab my arm than I can take you in front of Lady Nimueh immediately"-said Belanor while offering him his arm.
Harry grabbed Belanor's arm thinking about how he should stop meting potential allies like that (him ending in the ground and being threatened by that potential ally) and felt as if was gently pushed forward and then he saw himself before the most beautiful lake he had ever seen, he felt like he could stay there watching it for eternity and never leave but then he snapped out of it and understood that it was the Lake's magic doing that and he strengthened his mental walls.
"Few mortals have ever been capable of resisting the Calling of the Lake"-said a woman coming out of the mist, she had midnight black hair that reached down to her waist , sapphire blue eyes , her facial features were mesmerizing, she was wearing a flowing red dress and was nearing Harry flying albeit a few inches from the ground.
"Lady Nimueh I presume"-said Harry making a small bow.
"Well, you at least know proper manners"-she said waving her hand like if she was swatting a fly.
"I'm not here to socialize Lady Nimueh, I'm here to ask a favor of you"-said Harry.
"Its Nimueh to for you young one, and do pray tell what is this favor the almighty Merlin spawn asks of us, fey"-she said sarcasm dripping from her voice in the last part of her sentence
"I'm far from almighty, my Lady and the favor I am about to ask you is proof enough for that"-said Harry as he took out the broken pieces of Epilogue-"I'm here to ask you to repair my sword since it has been affected by malicious energies beyond my power to banish"
"Finally a Potter that shows some humility, I've been waiting for this moment for centuries"-she said with a smile-"As a descendant of Merlin, we can't deny you such a favor but your show of humility deserves a better reward, my best magic casters will repair and improve your sword and that particularly powerful armor that you are wearing"
"How… how did you see through my glamour?"-asked a stupefied Harry.
"I am really powerful boy not as much as Elyanus but enough to see through those pathetic glamour's, you are still far from being on par with Merlin even before he left this world"-said Nimueh in bored tone
"I'm so bored of everyone comparing me to Merlin"-said a red faced Harry.
"And who do tell should we use as a standard for you, those pathetic wizards that back in your universe, they are all so below you when it comes to magic, so we use Merlin seeing he is the only one with sufficient power and knowledge to surpass you"-said Nimueh with a very calm voice that sent shivers down Harry's spine.
"Okay but Dumbledore was powerful enough or Tom won't that do"-said a deflated Harry.
"They were both geniuses and master Wizards but unfortunately they are no match to your expertise or power"-said the Lady of the Lake before turning around-"Belanor will take your armor and sword, when you are calm again came and meet me in the island in the center of the lake, take the boat you see by the lake don't try teleporting or well… its going to get ugly"
With that she disappeared and Harry gave the armor and sword to Belanor who took them and didn't say a word to him. Harry sit down in a conjured chair and opened the Merlin Grimmoire, what he found there was mind blowing, The Grimmoire contained one hundred twelve numbers of which only twenty two were regular numbers the rest were decimal numbers, according to Merlin's note they were only what the Atlantean's knew before they were obliterated by the Dark Gods and that he had discovered more but spells made by those numbers were to powerful for his core, yet.
It took six hours to cast all the upgrading spells that he found in the book and "Moody" said that its efficiency had gone up by three hundred times and that was quite a feat and Merlin had something like the upgraded "Moody" since the beginning ,of course he was better than Harry, who wouldn't?
After the little display of magic from Harry had earned some respect from the Fey's who witnessed that, it also had the effect of tiring his body out completely, the thing bout magic was that it drained the body of its physical energy, it was still far from the energy demands of the Alaegasian magic but it was there, the reason for it was that the body wasn't a natural conduit for magic and a part of it seeped into your body when you channelized magic through your core and since the body was a something that obeyed a set of rules, unlike magic which changed them to the casters whim, magic without a clear purpose plus body bad idea, the good news was that after you used magic for a long time your body started becoming a natural conduit, the more powerful the wizard the quicker it happened, hence wizards of a certain age being capable of using wandless magic.
One of the fey's showed him to a cozy hut where he fell asleep as soon as he got there. Harry woke up to a magical message that somehow had bypassed all his Oclumency barriers that were up around the clock even when he slept. The message said to get up and meet Nimueh by the shore of the lake. It took him fifteen minutes to get ready to meet the equivalent of royalty among Fey's, yesterdays meeting being a total disaster and he suspected that the only thing that kept them from blasting him into kingdom come was the fact that he was descendant of Merlin and The Merlin spawn.
As he got to the shore he saw Nimueh looking very tired and surrounded by at least twenty other fey who looked as exhausted as her.
"Sorry for yesterdays behavior but it is really hard being compared to someone as perfect as Merlin"-said Harry figuring that he my as well getting it done with the apology.
"Don't worry I know what it feels like, I had an older sister which was perfect in everything and it drove me crazy when people compared me to her"- said Nimueh with a motherly tone-"besides Merlin even with all his power was still human his failure with Mordred was a proof enough of that"
"Well that one thing I never understood what really happened muggles and wizards have many different versions?"-asked Harry really interested in that particular story.
"Well the story goes like this, King Uther Pendragon was a crazy bastard who persecuted every one who wasn't a Christian and in that time it included a part of the magical community, an uprising was about to happen, that's where Merlin intervened, He convinced the Mad King to not persecute the magical community if they gave up the Celtic Gods and he made peace with the price being that Merlin would educate his children Arthur and Morgana and help him with any magical problem"-said Nimueh.
"That guy was nuts why didn't he just dethrone him and be done with him?"-asked Harry
"Because he had the bad habit of looking the best in every one, anyway he taught them everything that befits a prince and came to form a friendship with the prince while Morgana and him couldn't stand in the same room for longer than five minutes before an argument broke out, however Morgana proved to be a late bloomer who had her first bout of accidental magic at the age of sixteen and Merlin took her as an apprentice and she became the best prentice he had ever had and became so powerful that only Merlin could match and surpass her power. The crazy idiot saw her magic as a threat and tried to kill her and she well… couldn't kill her father so she made imprisoned him into his mind making essentially a vegetable"-continued Nimueh.
"Just one word, harsh"-interrupted Harry.
"Well Morgana wasn't the most forgiving of all people, so Arthur became Regent at the age of seventeen and was quite good at it, thwarting plots against him and being just and fair was that guy's natural talent and after three-four years Uther died and Arthur became officially king instead of Regent and there was where the trouble, started Morgause half-sister of Morgana and a priest of some Celtic God tried to seduce Arthur and in doing so bring back the Celtic religion back but failed since Arthur was in love with a noble woman named Gwen and they married and had three children Mordred, Gwenevere II and Gwaine.
"Wait wasn't Mordred Arthur's illegitimate child?"-asked Harry.
"Far from it he was Arthur's eldest child but he was also a bit power hungry so Morgause easily manipulated him into turning against his father, he used the occasion of his father allowing his sister to marry the commoner knight Lancelot and with the help of the Saxon's attempted to conquer Albion as it was called back in the day, The Battle of Camlan was the biggest and bloodiest battle of the invasion and in that battle Mordred died by the hand of Arthur but Arthur hesitated in his last blow and was wounded with a cursed blade and died, Merlin was seriously pissed off and created a curse which would imprison Morgause and torture her for eternity"-finished Nimueh
"And I guess that was the reason that he decided to leave after he built "Stormkeep"?-"-asked Harry
"True, now at the matter at hand, we repaired your blade but it took a lot from us to expel the malignant energies within also we upgrade your little armor"-she said her eyes showing great pride in her work as she took out the blade and the armor-"I present to you Winter's Fang and Midnight's fury, they are our best work yet so treat them carefully"
"Thank you for this gift, anyway I can repay such a debt, just tell me"-said a breathless Harry while admiring the intricateness of their spell work.
"There's nothing… on a second though just kick Elyanus ass very good and plunge this blade in his heart so he can feel a taste of our power"-she said her voice convening pure hatred toward Elyanus.
"With pleasure, your "majesty""-said Harry making a mock bow before disappearing in between dimensions
As Harry landed in a forest somewhere in Europe where his (Merlin Grimmoires) spell told him Vladimir Dracula, the son of Elyanus and according to legend the strongest vampire in existence, was situated. "Time for the second phase of my plan"-thought Harry as he approached a mighty castle hidden from the view of most mortals and Immortals