Chapter nine: Shocking revelations
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The castle that was in front of Harry was simply majestic, not from the outside for the outside was like any other castle's outside but the inside, the inside was filled with so much magic and power that Harry had to temporarily pause to recover from the brunt of so much magic coming at him, "Stormkeep" had way more power but that power behaved according to some rules and didn't lash out like the wards of this castle.
He saw a vampire ahead of him wearing a red body armor and carrying the insignia of the clan Dracula, a black dragon in a red background, as soon as he saw him he didn't run he simply bowed and gestured toward the castle. Harry followed him, he had no doubt this vampires didn't drink human blood, at least forcibly taken one. In five minutes Harry was standing in what appeared to be a studio, it had bookshelves filled with books and scrolls which were incredibly old and they had some mighty protection around them, mostly to protect them against a vampire's powers than from any other thing
A door opened in his right and three people entered, the first a man, he was two inches taller than Harry, he had soft brown eyes, midnight black hair (those run in the family), his face was an almost exact replica of his father's except for that cruelty which was part of Elyanus face, his body like that of every other vampire was lean, he held a power that rivaled that of Elyanus but he was his lesser, not by a great deal but enough to allow Elyanus to kill him without suffering much damage himself. What was more interesting was that his aura showed that he hated being a vampire not because of the drawback, that while not affecting him as much as other vampires still irritated him but because they were forced to drink the blood of innocents and he liked it, when he gave himself to those instincts but he also was a great leader that cared for his people and family
The girl was certainly a full vampire, two and a half centuries old judging by her aura, she was Vladimir's daughter. She had inherited the eye and hair color from her father except that her hair were curly, she was simply breathtaking to look at her, her beauty rivaling that of Lady Nimueh and that was without taking into count her alluring abilities, that were possessed by all vampires (where do you think the wizards, that later became Velas, got their idea from although the Velas allure was more powerful), she had a calculating look in her face that gave him Goosebumps. Her aura told him that while she pretended to be emotionless, she would do everything in her power to defend her family and those that she considered friends. Even more astounding was the fact that she was on par with her father and with some training could surpass him and become as powerful as her grandfather.
The big surprise of the bunch was the boy. He was at first sight, not much, his hair a soft brown, he had his emerald green eyes much like Harry's own and like all vampires he had a lean build but he was the impossible incarnate, he was half human. The boy unlike his father not just hated being a vampire but also feared it because he though that he would become a monster like many of his race which became addicted to blood. The truly shocking thing was his core, when or if he transformed, for unlike full blood ones he had a choice and even if he wasn't a half blood, with all of that power he might just suppress his transformation, he would be as powerful as his grandfather and if he truly embraced his vampire side he would be almost twice as strong as his grandfather.
"The Vampire Bane graces my humble house"-said the vampire with a neutral tone-"with what may I be of service"
"I'm not here as the Vampire Bane, I am here as Harry James Potter, heir of house Potter and of consequence Heir of house Ambrosious, Emrys and Le Fay."-Harry said trying to resist his instincts screaming danger
"The Merlin Spawn, oh well than take a seat"-he said as he sat in the chair in the center of the room-"Its been a long time since anyone came to visit, do you want anything to drink, we have human beverages too"
"You are a bit to welcoming to someone who has killed hundreds of your kind"-said Harry as he say down in a chair.
"They asked for it, its only right that you defend your lives as we protect our own, I'm not a hypocrite Mister Potter and as for the drinking offer I'll take it as a no"-he said weaving toward his daughter who disappeared in a burst of vampire speed.
"I take that she doesn't understand the importance of the task you just gave by giving her the opportunity to keep anyone from spying on us or does she?"-asked Harry
"She does but she doesn't like it either, if it was up to her she would be out there fighting"-he said with a sigh.
"Its in the nature of those who wield great power to itch for a way to use such a power"-said Harry trying to look cryptic but that only earned a smile from Vladimr.
As Harry was saying that Vladimir's daughter entered the room and with her speed she served a glass of wine and a cup of tea.
"Now that you are here we can start the introduction"-said Vladimir sitting up-"The "lovely" girl you see is Katherine Dracula my eldest child and the boy is Adam Dracula my male firstborn"
"We're grown ups dad"-complained both at the same time.
"Such befitting name for the first of his kind"-said Harry as he approached Adam-"does he know what he is?"
"Of course, dad told me when I was seventeen"-replied Adam.
"Did he tell you that you have a choice, on the eve of your twenty first birthday you can choose which path will you follow, the path of a mortal or the path of immortality, which ever yu chose its going to leave its mark upon the world"-said Harry.
"No he didn't…"-said the boy as his eyes glowed red and he unconsciously released a pat of his power.
"I swear upon my blood that I didn't know of such a thing, remember there's never been someone like you"-justified the Dracula clan head, mostly out of fear of damaging his father-son relationship than out of fear from his son's power and that had its effect immediately as Adam's eyes returned to normal
"Indeed there hasn't been anyone like you before, you have limitless potential as will your descendant, no matter which path you choose"-said Harry as he sipped his tea.
"You mean all my children, even if I choose the human path, will inherit this… this curse"-he said looking frustrated.
"Of course they will have this "curse" as you put it but as with you they will have a choice in the matter"-Harry said looking him in the eye-"and if by curse you mean not being forced to drink blood for sustenance then they will definitively have it"
"WHAT…."-was the reply of the occupants of the room.
"Didn't you know?"-asked Harry-"He is unique as will his descendants or those he transforms, he will be capable of feeding on he residual emotional energy that humans and other races release and won't have to drink blood but you will however need to eat meat and other things to replace lost matter in your body"
"That's hell of a news"-said Vladimir-"any more bombs you want to drop?"
"As a matter of fact yes, he will if he embraces his vampiric nature, almost twice as strong as Elyanus, which brings to the next question, why are you the only one in this room that doesn't have the potential to defeat Elyanus"-asked Harry.
" Because "daddy" tried to absorb my power when I was born, he didn't succeed but he absorbed enough to give him an edge and as for your second question all vampires that are born are more or at least as powerful as their strongest parent, much like you wizards"-explained Vladimir.
"Well that explains why he is that powerful despite being the weakest demigod out of the five"-mused Harry… out loud.
"You must be kidding me…"-said Katherine
"So what are we what an eight gods?"-asked Adam.
"Thanks for not keeping any secrets"-said Vladimir
"Sorry but I figured that since they knew of Adam being a hybrid than they would know that they were a eight Dark god which is in fact good, the farther you are from your Dark god blood line the more of your potential you will unlock"-said Harry with a shrug.
"Wow…"-was the only thing that Katherine and Adam could say.
"So back to what I originally came here for, you know your "daddy" is back?"-asked Harry and when he received a nod he continued-"Than you must have figured out why I am here?"
"Yes to ask help against my father, tell me why should I risk my children and my whole clan for you?"-asked Vladimir.
"Oh only small things like, he will conquer the whole planet, wipe out humanity and he wants to kill you and he will do it after he conquers the whole planet and your children will perish as well"-said Harry with a cold tone.
"Well you present a good case but there's more to it, isn't it?"-asked Adam.
"Perceptive young on, yes I am working on a variant of the wolfs bane potion which will allow werewolves to gain control of their actions and transformation during the full moon and then we will send your grandfather to pay a visit to his mother in "Stormkeep""-said Harry.
"Wicked…"-said Katherine.
"I'm not a young one, I am twenty an in tree months I will be twenty one"-pouted Adam
"And to believe that he possesses such power when he still behaves like a toddler"-said Vladimir.
"Most of the time power chooses not those who seeks but those who don't for they are the ones that will use it correctly"-said Harry-"then will you help me?"
"I will if you promise that he won't die, he may be a monster but he still is my father"-said Vladimir
"Oh he won't die but he will be in a lot of pain"-said Harry
"I can do that, in a month we will be ready for battle, where shall we meet with your forces?"-asked Vladimir.
"Make that two months and we will meet in fields of Stonehenge"-said Harry.
"Why there?"-asked a curious Vladimir
"Its all part of the plan"-said Harry as he was disappearing into one of Merlin's transportation spells-"and remember you are the one to control it not it you"
August 5, 2003
Harry stood there watching the horizon for the signs of the incoming storm, in these two months he had made great discoveries. He had discovered with the help of 'Moody" how to change the Wolf's bane potion so that it gave werewolves the ability to permanently control their transformation and their actions even during the full moon.
The potion was sent to every werewolf in the world along with a request for aid but there hadn't been any reply as of yet but with the latest development who could blame them? Elyanus apparently wasn't just insanely powerful but also intelligent, he had done what human scientist had tried for decades, he had perfected cloning technology but as of now it could only clone human blood but it would be soon enough when he discovered how to produce full human clones and then nothing would stop them from creating new vampires numbering in billions.
Luckily Elyanus had started killing his allies. The Alps had been almost wiped out in those two months, something to do with them being a failed copy of vampire kind, if he only knew about his grandson then he would be furious. The scorpion –men's had been pushed to the brink of extinction as his master plan to conquer all of the Europe had needed for quite a lot of cannon fodder and this guys had been the unlucky ones
The most shocking discovery was the change that inter-world energy had on the deathly hollows, when holding the three of them together it gave their master the ability to summon the Death, not the one of this world but the one from which all Death's are but small pieces, an Omni-verse class being with power beyond imagination and one of the fundamental forces of all creation and he was about to summon it.
As he focused his intent upon the three Deathly Hollows that he now held in his palms, he saw smoke (visible magical energy) rise from them and head toward the sky. When the smoke reached the sky it caused a ripple which then opened to show the figure of a man descending with immense speed. As soon as the man touched the ground a silence fell upon the world as all beings that were of certain level of power (god-level and above)and all the powers of nature watched the coming of a being whose power and knowledge was matched only by fellow entities and surpassed only by the Creator himself.
The man was the same height as Harry with snow white hair and eyes that were onyx black even where there should be white. His skin was deathly white and his face was and I hate to use this expression n a male, simply beautiful, his body and face both were simply perfect, to the face of guy who said that perfect was impossible.
"So we meet Hero"-said the man with a voice that was low and yet it shook all of his being.
"Hello…"was the only thing that Harry could say to such a being.
You have so many questions but once the one who has the answers arrives the only thing you can say is "Hello""-said Death as he chuckled-"but then again you have barely met Gods so that is quit a feat for a mortal, even as the said mortal is a Hero"
"I guess that "Hero" is something more than just our definition of a hero?"-asked Harry.
"Indeed, you are the Creators side project, the only beings that no beings in the whole existence has any power upon, well except for the Creator, you are beings with limitless growth potential, maybe someday you will became like me and my siblings"-said Death with a passion which could raise the dead (pun intended) and that shocked Harry to the bone.
"You have siblings?"-Asked Harry.
"Well, not siblings per se but they are like me, Beings outside of time, power and anything that you mortals can conceive since well we are the embodiments of those things, we were created from the Creator himself even before the Existence and then we were given Mantles that we take upon ourselves inside of The Existence"-explained Death.
"Mantles?"-asked Harry with one word.
"In human terms a job, each of us has many due to us being capable of "multitasking" but our "jobs "entail keeping balance upon a certain aspect of Existence"-explained Death.
"So you are not Death per se but a being that wears the Mantle of Death and keeps balance over death all over the Omni-verse?" asked Harry.
"Exactly except that I keep balance over the entire Existence which is larger than a single Omni-verse"-corrected Death-"like omnipotence is just a level of power the Omni-verses are but a layer of Existence"
"I didn't know that Omni-potency is but a level, I always though it was like the ultimate level of power achievable"-said a dumbstruck Harry.
"Maybe for a multi-verse limited being but you as a Hero are expected to achieve and surpass Omni-potency sometimes during your existence"-explained Death.
"Seriously, what are we?"-asked Harry.
"You are his favorite creations, you will in time go outside power and then out of the thing that powers you when you are outside power and so forth, with each step you will be nearer to the state of existence that we have "-said Death.
"Anyway, why what we have it's called the Hero's Curse"-asked Harry.
"That originated from myself actually, while Life calls it the Hero's Blessing and Time, Life's partner calls it the Hero's Mantle and I call that curse for the simple fact that you will never die, your life will be endless and you are going to be always alone against the entire Existence and you will never stop once always hoping from one world to another to solve everybody's problems"-said Death his voice conveying the pity he felt toward our condition.
"So no kids, no wife, that's hell of a curse, does the Creator have something against us?"-asked an upset Harry.
"You will have wives, kids and friends but none f them will last as long as you will and he Doesn't hate you but he trusts you to be capable of carrying such a burden where lesser beings would fail"-said Death.
"So any advice for today?"-asked Harry.
"Don't get transformed"-said plainly Death.
"Why I will ruin your precious plans for me?"-asked Harry.
"No, but it will hurt as hell since no power inexistence will allow you to transform, it gives you to much limitations for your job"-explained Death.
"Sounds like you have got everything covered, I really have no choice, Fate and al"-said Harry.
"You always have a choice that's why you have been gifted with free will and Fate doesn't exists Destiny does I know that guy but not Fate"-said Death.
"Where's the difference between the two, they both deprive you of your free will?"-asked Harry.
"The difference is that Destiny is a destination how you get there is your choice while Fate is when you are played into doing something against your will"-explained Death.
"So Voldemort was destined to become the greatest Dark Lord ever and I to defeat him?"-asked Harry.
"Not really he could have been the greatest Light Wizard after Dumbledore, the head of the renewed house Slytherin and countless other choices but he chose that path himself and so did you chose to oppose him and he chose to attempt to kill you and not your friend Neville Longbottom "-explained Death-"Tell me something, do you hate Dumbledore for planning your whole life?"
"Well, I don't like it but no, I don't hate him, he did what he thought was best for all of us"-answered Harry.
"Then why do you hate us for planning a job for you not your entire life but a simple job and then what you do with your life is your choice"-said Death.
"Well it's just that I will have to leave this world forever and never return always helping others, loved ones dying and I will continue to live for this job"-said Harry.
"Who said you won't return? Its your choice after all"-said Death-"and even when your friends die, for as long as they don't reincarnate the resurrection stone will always allow you to talk to them"
"So reincarnation is true?"-asked Harry.
"Of course, even the Afterlife gets boring so anyone can chose to reincarnate to a new life, toward a new experience"-explained Death.
"So those who have been evil can escape hell by just reincarnating?"-asked Harry-"That isn't fair"
"Where did you get those ideas? Afterlife isn't like that"-said an angry Death-"Hell dimensions are for demons only, the Afterlife is organized much like a sea of bubbles, inside each one of them you are Omni-potent and can shape that small world to your liking, you can also visit other loved ones who have died, however those who have been to evil are stuck in their worst nightmare until the time when they have been redeemed"
"That sounds nice and … quite fair actually"-said Harry.
"Of course it took us like… well time hadn't been created yet so there's no definition but it was quite sometime before we deigned and build each worlds Afterlife"-explained Death.
"I must leave Harry but I when you are in need of advice than you can contact me again with the Deathly Hollows"-said Death as he started to disperse in colorless smoke.
"So what you are like my patron deity?"-asked Harry.
"Of course every Hero has its own except that we aren't deities we are Eldritch Beings who have existed from before the Existence and we have limitless power and knowledge, yep that sums about it all ,and know back to work for the vampires are near now"-said Death before dissipating fully.
"Well that gave me more questions than answers but now we have work to do"-thought Harry as he turned to see the massive storm cloud summoned by Elyanus with his weather manipulating powers.
The vampire army was gigantic, one hundred thousand vampires, Bakhatks and Scorpion-men's. The bulk of the army was made of Vampires and the rest were their allies. They advanced with great speed, their vanguard searching for any traps or signs of any strategy but today the Wizards coalition would face them head on without any fancy strategies or tactics for they wouldn't be of any use against one with such experience as Elyanus, hell that guy had invented some of the strategies and tactics used even today.
Against the vampire army were aligned sixty thousand warriors of the Wizard coalition. The army was made of Wizard (ten thousand), Veelas (twenty five thousands), Goblins (ten thousand),Manticores (five thousand) and Manes (ten thousand) their weapons alight with magic responding to the presence of so many of their enemies gathered just eight hundred meters away from them and especially one creature, Elyanus Dracula.
Today there would be no speech to raise morale for everybody knew against what they were going against… minus the demigod part and they were prepared to face them. The Dracula clan army had yet to arrive so Harry had to keep him occupied until Vladimir came and together imprison him in "Stormkeep"
A group of vampires with Elyanus in the middle moved forward to the middle of the space between the two armies and soon enough a group of Wizards,Veelas and Manticores moved to meet them. As the group arrived there Elyanus moved forward and so did Harry.
We meet again Merlin spawn"-said Elyanus in a taunting tone.
"Indeed we do Demigod"-said Harry.
"Now that you know why don't you just beg for mercy"-said Elyanus-"you know you might even get it, I'll just transform you and anyone who is worthy into vampires"
"Yeah, you know what, forget it, Merlin kicked your ass last time and with this"-said Harry showing him the Merlin Grimmoire-"I'll do it again"
"You pathetic fool what makes you think I won't just take it and kill all of you here, I'm still more powerful than all of you combined"-said Elyanus as he tried to take the book from Harry's hand only to be stopped by an invisible barrier.
"Simple, Merlin's protections"-said Harry with a shrug-"Oh one thing before I imprison you I will put this sword through your heart, nothing personal just a promise to a friend"
"Such an arrogance, especially coming from a vermin"-said Elyanus his eyes red from anger-"leave now before I kill you all where you stand"
The two groups left and rejoined the main body of the army. The two armies rushed against each other, from one side were the vampire coalition that went to battle thinking themselves invincible after all they had a demigod on their side and quite a powerful one at that, on the other side were the Wizards & allies which were desperate and there's nothing more dangerous than a desperate man, now imagine what sixty thousand desperate Wizards, Veelas, Goblins (those little guys had some mean weapons), Manes and Manticores (their powerful gravity based magic was scary.
The battle was a bloody mess, both sides fighting with all their might to destroy the other side. Harry noticed an opening in the center of the battle and since the only being capable of that was Elyanus he hurried there only to find his path blocked by a dozen vampires and quite old (that meant also powerful for a vampire) by the looks, Harry smirked as he was given an opportunity to use one of the newest spells created by "Moody" portalis ut medianus de sol aperire and a small portal to the very center of the sun opened causing massive amounts of plasma to spill forward decimating everything in its way including the vampires, to give them credit they survived for fifteen seconds which is quite a feat taking in consideration the power of the spell although Elyanus could survive on sheer regenerative powers.
As he aproched a blood covered Elyanus he simply smiled and sent a powerful of red energy at Harry but instead of dodging he raised his hand and said saith haenog darian and a powerful shield appeared in front of him absorbing the power of the red bolt of energy. Elyanus face grew paler, if that was possible for somebody who doesn't have blood running in his veins, as he reckonised one of Merlin's spells. That spell was way more powerful than Harrythough and had the same effect of casting one hundred Protego's at once but it was worth it for now Harry could face him without the need to transform.
fortecs tân said Harry and a massive vortex of white flames surrounded Elyanus but unlike what he did with normal flames Elyanus couldn't put out the flames for this spell was of a whole new level. Elyanus walked out of the flame vortex with a scowl of pain and anger etched in his face, thunder roared in the sky in response to his anger and Elyanus held his hand out and a massive fireball made out of white flames and as large as Harry came into existence and headed straight for Harry.
Harry dodged transforming into theastral, beings untouchable by vampires as they were the sacred animals of Death and no god or vampire could actually kill one or touch it as a matter of fact, and flew up in the sky followe by an enraged Elyanus. Harry transformed back into an human in the middle of the clouds and as soon as he felt Elyanus approaching he said taran o Thor and the cloudslit up with the power of the electricity running throught them and a single bolt of lightening hit Elyanus and sent his charred form plummeting down to earth.
gwynt yn rhoi rhodd o hedfan i mi said Harry as he to was plummeting down to earth incapable of flying for more than a few seconds with his psionic abilities, and he felt a gust of magic charged wind hit him and the next thing he knew he was defying gravity. Unfortunately for the Hero, Elyanus recovered quickly and decided to repay Harry with his own medicine and used his weather manipulating powers to cause hundreds of bolts of lightening to hit Harry.
Harry felt immense pain as his body was disintegrated by the great amount of electricity that was now running through his body and he felt his core flaring as he became dust. Once the ashes fell to the ground along with his armor and sword a bright flash of blue flames and Harry was again full although a bit underdressed (okay he was nude but what do you expect he was disintegrated after all). With a quick spell Harry was again wearing his armor and had his sword in his hands.
porth Hermes whispered Harry as a distortion in time-space appeared in front of him and he simply plunged his sword into it and the sword went right through a distracted Elyanus heart. "That's for the lighting bolt, bitch"-though Harry as Elyanus disappeared in a burst of speed Athenas Aegis diogelu fi and Elyanus flew back from the great force of his clash against the powerful shield that Harry erected "That spell surely was strong but also had gigantic power requirements and without Vldimir's help I won't be capable of holding out much longer"-thought Harry as e saw Elyanus getting up without any scratch courtesy of his insane healing powers.
"You are powerful, but for how long will you be capable of using such spells?"-asked a gloating Elyanus
"Until he gets here"-gestured Harry toward the horizon where five hundred with Vladimir in lead came crashing down in the left flank of the Vampire army.
ffrwd golau hylif and a stream of liquid light came out of Harry's hand and almost disintegrated Elyanus but he survived it and in return he fired his most powerful bolt of red light. Harry blocked it with the saith haenog darian shield spell and it almost gave out but luckily it held, Elyanus in his rage punched the shield and it failed and he grabbed Harry's and broke his neck, once again causing him to turn to ashes. In a burst of flames Harry was back, minus the clothes. Before Elyanus could kill Harry… again, his hand was stopped by Vladimir which managed to knock back his father.
"What the hell took you so long?"-asked Harry.
"We meet some resistance along the way nothing to worry about"-said Vladimir-"what the hell happened to your clothes?"
"They seem to burn a lot this days"-answered Harry