Chapter 20

The Final Battle

Harry:

'The Reason is you!'

It was the last thing he heard before he woke up to.

Though his demonic exterior remained calm and dead like inside human Harry twisted in agony of InuYasha's death.

He could smell that he was alone, and that Voldemort was in the Great Hall with Naraku. His speech of defeating the "Weapon" and "The Boy Who Lived" was almost a gloat.

Well he wasn't completely alone.

'Harry.. Oh Harry…'

Hagrid's sobs shook the trees he was attached to.

'Hagrid.'

He was sobbing so loudly he could not hear the broken whisper through Harry's unmoving lips.

Sighing Harry opened his eyes to the forest as clouds covered the blackened sky.

He sat up and looked at Hagrid. He was on his knees face in the ground his giant eyes squeezed tightly shut sobbing his friends name over and over again.

Harry got up and stalked over to the ties and pulled out Bellatrix's knife. It would come in handy now that he knew how to use it, to get close to Voldemort, and his real target, Naraku.

Once Hagrid's arms were free Harry said with power 'Hagrid!'

Hagrid looked up and if face was a purely shocked. He jumped up, his giant body's landing created a giant THUNK echoing off the earth and pulled Harry into a bone crushing hug.

Oh. Harry thought and smirked at his own stupidity. Of course Hagrid wouldn't have been able to recognize Harry's new voice.

'Hagrid! Can't breathe!' Harry gasped through the hug.

Hagrid dropped Harry at once. 'Harry what happened I saw him kill you!'

Harry just shook his head. 'Long story. I need your help Hagrid.'

He explained his plan, being able to smell the scent of Death Eaters at every school entrance.

Hagrid nodded taking Harry into his arms, Harry was embarrassed, but he had to sneak past the Death Eaters as one of the dead, to get to their Masters.

As soon as Harry was out of sight he flipped out of Hagrid's arms and looked at the line of dead that was outside heads against a wall outside of the castle.

Lavender Brown, Lupin, Tonks, Fred, and many people he had seen more then once but never had the honour of knowing.

Bellatrix and nameless Death Eaters were in a separate line. The people he did not have the honour to murder.

How different he was now, not feeling any fright or regret for thinking these thought. But then InuYasha was the most passionate demon he'd ever met, and she had killed a whole filled when she lost control in Feudal Japan.

Harry stormed inside the Great Hall under him, he thought nothing. Time for poetic understanding was over. The mysteries were solved and Harry's path was set to kill Voldemort for the good of his world. And to kill Naraku, for his own personal revenge.

He got to the stair case to the Great Hall. It was no longer there.

Harry remembered the time at Demonica where InuYasha walked down in a gold kimono down these stairs.

This memory did not hold him, he was to angry. InuYasha had given him a gift, the ability to draw forth his anger and become a hunter.

Harry took two strides and back flipped off the star case, falling about 15 feet. The world was supposed to turn into a swirl, but it did not, Harry saw everything he was supposed to with definition.

He landed on his feet bending his legs down almost to the ground to absorb sound and shock.

He stood up quickly and stalked towards the Hall doors that had been secured so non of the resistance could escape.

Harry almost laughed at the doors.

He felt the flow of power in muscles and raised his foot towards the door and it rocketed forward with lethal strength.

You could hear the iron bars across the doors groan and snap open, but that wasn't the only thing that snapped.

The door could not hold that sort of power and flew off the hinges.

Their were screams, and cheers, and gasps as everyone saw Harry standing in the middle of the now broken frame. Harry took in the room.

Hundreds of faces stood at him, some he would save others he would murder, all looking amazed at his face.

Hermione and Ron held each other looking relieved and terrified at the same time. Steph, Mitch Shi, InuSuke, and Their parents all stared as well, though InuYasha and Kagome's look of pride returned.

Then there was the room itself. The farthest wall, where the teachers used to sit had been blasted out and the steep mountain cliff was. Fall off that and you would hit the ground at the base of the mountain where Hogwarts lay, the moon shinned mutedly through the clouds giving the devastated room a deathly glow.

Harry raised his hand as silence rose profoundly. Harry pointed his finger to Voldemort almost grudgingly. ' This ends tonight Tom Riddle!' Harry moved his finger. 'But my target is you Naraku!'

No one moved as Harry stalked forward across the room anger pounding an angry rhythm in his head.

Voldemort opened his mouth. 'Kill him!' He shrieked, human ears and eyes would not have been able to notice it but Voldemort's terror was clear to Harry, and he cringed away from his advancing challenger.

Harry did not take his eyes off of Voldemort. Power flowing into his muscles again Harry heard there bodies drop one by one to him as he advanced towards his goal.

He pulled out InuYasha's phoenix wand out of his boot as Voldemort pulled an unknown wand. In desperation to survive Voldemort pointed it at Harry, where Harry shouted still stalking towards his prey. ' You should have listened to Dumbledore in between worlds Tom. He was a better wizard… a better man. Try for some remorse Tom, so I don't have to kill you. Just let me at Naraku.'

Voldemort cackled. ' So you can avenge you great love! We destroyed her! She handed her Elder Wand to me!'

Harry smiled finally recognizing hers.. Not Dumbledore's wand. ' She went to die. She died undefeated. So the wand goes to the last piece of her soul. That wand belongs to me Tom.'

How petty Tom Riddle was, fighting for the "Ultimate wand".

His snake face reddened. He pointed the wand at Harry and screamed 'Avada Kedavra!'

'Expelliarmus!'

The spells hit each other and gold shattered with a cannon blast. Voldemort's eyes rolled in the back of his head and InuYasha's wand flew out of his hand, he landed on the floor with a thud, and Tom Riddle died by his own rebounded curse.

Naraku screamed in rage, lunging forward.

Eight spider legs ripped out of Naraku's skin and Naraku grew and grew into a giant spider.

'Bloody Hell…' Ron moaned as he collapsed into Hermione's lap, fainting.

Harry's lips twitched up.

'How can you speak of being a man, when you show no remorse for how many you've killed.' Naraku's demon voice roared out.

Harry's little smile turned into the real thing. 'I do regret them, My heart is human, so I feel for their loved ones and I feel the responsibility for their hate. But hate is what drives me now, I hate you for killing my InuYasha. And ruining her whole life before that.'

Harry turned to InuYasha Sr. , Kagome, and InuSuke. 'I saw InuYasha in between worlds. She says she's sorry and she loves you.'

They all nodded. Harry turned his head to the other side blue looking into tired green eyes. 'She says she loves you and she misses you too Kayla.'

Kayla's eyes looked into Harry's and nodded and she mouthed. "I love her too."

Harry nodded and smiled. He reached behind his back and metal rung out, not in the same way a demon blade did. But The Godric Gryffindor sword would do the job.

Naraku hissed and moved towards Harry his fangs bared, Harry ducked and was under Naraku's belly.

Driving the sword up he heard Naraku scream and rolled attempting to crush Harry.

Using his muscles in his legs Harry jumped high enough that he landed on Naraku's back.

'Get off me you weakling!' Naraku screamed bucking left and right. Finally he bucked up, kind of reminding Harry of his first game and his rouge broom stick,..

Finally Naraku bucked up again +sending Harry in the air.

Everything suddenly slowed down, like the Adrenaline in Harry's head the increasing height he got.

What did not slow down was Harry tightening his grip on the sword.

He we stopped in the air for a moment he released Naraku's fate.

'THIS IS FOR INUYASHA!'

Everything sped up again and Harry dropped fast hitting the ground with one foot and one knee, having used all his demon strength.

The spider's head rolled onto the floor.

But the body still moved.

'Oof!' Harry yelled out as one of the legs ran into him as it backed up.

'HARRY NO!' Screamed out Hermione and Harry looked back as he hung onto the spiders leg, to see the cliff suddenly and fall, with Naraku's body, off of the Great Hall.

There was a shivering silence among the crowd of onlookers.

There was a bird call. A Phoenix call to be exact.

A boy with hung red angel wing out of his shoulders flew up spreading his wings directly in front of the moon.

'Yeah!' Harry screamed out into the night.

There were cheers all around as Harry, the true Phoenix Demon, landed in the middle of the Great Hall.

Kagome and InuYasha Sr. were there first, throwing their arms around Harry's neck as the Phoenix wings sparkled and disappeared.

Then there was InuSuke, and Hermione , Ron, Shi, Steph, Mitch, Neville, Luna, Ginny, Gorge, Molly, Arthur, Mitch's sisters, Sango, Miroku, Shi's mom, Shippo, the teacher, everyone, trying to hug some part of him. The reason it was over.

Harry didn't ache for any of their hugs those. Only one women.

A blinding light quieted them all.

At first Harry thought it wa some sort of sun, but as people backed away Kagome, InuYasha Sr., InuSuke, and Harry saw what it really was.

The Shikon Jewel glowed like a white star, pulsing. Six feet off the ground supported by nothing.

'You have done well Harry Potter. You have broken the cycle.'

It was a oddly familiar voice, though he wondered how he knew the voice.

Kagome and InuSuke sank back into their original place like the rest of the crowd

'InuYasha, this is no longer your duty.'

InuYasha Sr. puffed out his chest and glared at the talking jewel. 'Harry was my daughter's mate! In all demon ways he is my son. I will stand beside my family no matter what's my duty!'

Harry looked at InuYasha Sr. feeling respect an fondness for his mates father.

'Very Well.'

The light blasted out and InuYasha sr. and Harry shielded their eyes from it's light.

When the light subsided, a beautiful black long haired women with armour, a blade, and black eyes stood there glowing.

'Hello Harry Potter.'