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Chapter 24

Danny felt numb to the head, looking from the side trying to process what just happened to Sirius. So far, it looked as though Harry was taking the death harder than Danny was. Harry yelled and screamed for the return of his godfather while Dumbledore and the Order members rounded up the Death Eaters.

The yells might as well have slugged Danny's head, as he winced every time he heard Harry's desperate voice.

It was strange for Danny to see Sirius go. It wasn't as though he went out a hero, dying dramatically. He just went into the veil of the dias, harmless as can be, but gone forever. No body to be found.

Danny watched as Dumbledore put all the Death Eaters together and seemed to use an incantation to tie them with some sort of invisible rope. Danny tried to ignore Harry, yelling at Lupin to go after Sirius.

'Why am I so...spacey? I barely knew the guy, he acted as thought I didn't exist the past few months!' Danny thought to himself.

Lupin finally got Harry to bring his voice down to slight normalcy. Neville with his legs still moving his legs rapidly without any control tried to send his condolences to Harry, even when he didn't understand why Harry was so miserable.

'Come on; try to be there for Harry. He was his godfather.' Danny demanded to himself.

But Danny stayed motionless at the side. Doubt creeping in as he looked at Harry completely crest fallen.

'I should have been able to save him! I'm here to help! And I've failed.' Danny realized grimly. 'Doesn't matter if I we weren't pals.'

Suddenly Kingsley flew backwards, Bellatrix with her wand at hand started to make break for the door.

"SHE KILLED SIRIUS!" Harry yelled as he chased after the witch.

Before any could get their bearings Bellatrix and Harry had both gone up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway.

"Phantom, you must get Harry!" Dumbledore yelled while running up the stairs, following them.

Danny with no hesitation shot off in the air, his legs turning into a ghostly tail to gain speed. Harry ran through a room now littered with brains with tentacles extending out of the bottom. The tentacles latched onto Danny trying to crawl up to his face.

He desperately threw the brains off as they jumped from all over, attaching themselves with an iron grip.

As some of them gathered up towards his face, Danny quickly concentrated on the energy from his icy core and started to force the energy free all over his body. Frost and mist came off Danny as the cold energy started to freeze the brains.

"How'd you like that brain freeze!" Danny quipped as the brains jumped off or had frozen completely solid on Danny's body.

Danny looked around the room and noticed the bodies of Hermione, Ron, Ginny and a blond girl that he recognized from 'Dumbledore's Army'

"What's going on?" Ginny asked confused.

"Where did Harry go?" Danny said urgently.

"He went through the door." She answered. "What's going on?"

"No time!" Danny said as he made his way to the door.

Danny threw the door open looking around for any sign of Harry. The circular room started to spin around so fast that the blue lights around him turned into blur blurs, the chandelier above swinging. But Danny knew how to find the right door, after his many times in the Department.

"I need to know where Harry Potter went!" Danny commanded.

Suddenly a door on the side of Danny opened. Once he stepped out he got his bearings in the Ministry.

Danny noticed that he was now outside of the Department of Mysteries. He then looked for where Harry had gone. Down the hall were sounds of a lift, shaking and creaking.

'They must have gone up the lift. Bellatrix is probably making a break for it at the Floo Powder Fireplaces.'

He quickly made it into a vacant lift and pressed the button for the lobby floor.

The lift finally reached its destination. Danny phased through the grill of the lift not wasting any time. He looked around the large entry way to the Ministry, trying to find Harry desperately. He looked over and noticed Harry and Bellatrix shooting spells at each other as well as exchange words with each other.

He quickly turned himself invisible, to try and sneak up on Bellatrix.

"Potter, I'm going to give you one chance! Give me the prophecy and I may spare your life" Bellatrix yelled out to Harry.

"Then you're going to have to kill me then! The prophecy's gone!" Harry yelled back.

"What? What do you mean?" Bellatrix yelled, not believing Harry.

Danny slowly came closer and closer to the two magical humans, trying to not make a sound.

"The prophecy smashed when I was trying to get Neville up the steps! What do you think Voldemort will say about that then?" Harry said with satisfaction.

"Liar! You've got it, Potter, and you will give it to me!" Bellatrix shrieked. "Accio prophecy! Accio prophecy!"

Bellatrix looked completely out of control as she slowly realized how the prophecy was gone. Her hands were gripped around her face, trying to steady her breathing. Her eyes looked completely distraught with fear.

Then she looked over toward Harry, who was laughing behind his hiding place. Steam could have practically come out of her ears in anger.

Danny turned visible behind the witch, his hands glowing with green power. Once Bellatrix had raised her wand to shot at Harry once more. Before she could, Danny let a shot his ectoplasm beam into the witches back.

Bellatrix barrelled forward a few feet, landing chest first into the hard marble floor. She got up dazed and confused, looking up towards Danny. But he wasn't what she was focusing on. It was something behind him.

"Master! I-I tried, I tried! Don't punish me!" Bellatrix panicked, bringing herself onto one knee, in a bow.

Danny quickly turned around and saw a man wearing a dark robe, with red scarlet eyes, with snake like slits. His face itself had features and the shape of a snake, giving Danny chills.

Voldemort raised his wand swiftly without any hesitation. "Avada Kedevra"

Danny turned himself intangible and went down into the floor below.

'Oh no! He's here!' Danny thought miserably. 'I've got to keep him busy!'

Danny stayed below in the floor, trying to think of a way to stop him.

As quietly as possible, Danny went above the floor invisible.

"So you smashed my prophecy?" The dark wizard said with no pity or remorse. "No Bella, he is not lying. I see truth looking at me from within his worthless mind. Months of preparation, months of effort... and my Death Eaters have let Harry Potter thwart me again."

"Master, I am sorry, I knew not... I was fighting the Animagus Black!" Bellatrix pleaded.

"I did not come here to listen to your snivelling apologies Bella!" Voldemort said emotionless.

Danny looked on, noticing how Voldemort has completely ignored the fact that he's in the room.

'Now's my chance!' Danny thought.

Danny still invisible went full speed towards the dark wizard trying to catch him off guard. When he neared striking distance, Voldemort disappeared in a wisp of dark smoke. Danny with his continued speed went intangible to avoid impact with the gold statue.

"Don't think I've forgotten about you Phantom." Voldemort said in an echo, around the entire room.

Danny landed on the ground, looking around the large hall for any sign of Voldemort. Without any warning a huge flame of sprung behind Danny. The flames contacted with his Danny, burning the hazmat and the skin underneath. The heat was unbearable as Danny screamed, trying to concentrate on making himself intangible. Once he got himself intangible, he turned around to the source of the flame, but found nothing.

In the corner of Danny's eye, he saw a dark mist forming into the dark wizard ready for a second strike. Danny raised his palm and let loose a large shot of ectoplasm.

With a simple flick of his wand, Voldemort deflected the ectoplasm blast and raised his wand towards Danny.

"Scruge"

A pale green shot went towards Danny. He tried to dodge the shot but the spell just grazed his shoulder. His shoulder hissed as the hazmat suit on body started to dissolve. Danny screamed as the effects of the spell were now burning into his exposed skin.

Danny looked down at his shoulder, his eyes widening, seeing green ectoplasm dripping out of the hazmat and skin, rolling down his body. But none of the ectoplasm reached the floor. It looked as though it was dissolving on his body or in mid air.

'The ectoplasm's dissolving!' Danny thought frantically. 'This spell destroys ectoplasm.'

Voldemort stepped forward towards the injured halfa, smiling at the pain on the boys face.

"Like it? It cleans up any ectoplasmic mess, including you." Voldemort mocked as he stepped in front of Danny, readying his wand for another shot.

Danny's backed burn in pain from the possible third degree burn across his back. The curse in his shoulder seemed to finally stop burning and dripping ectoplasm. The skin underneath the hazmat was bright red from the burn, some ectoplasm seemly coming through the skin in small quantities.

Danny closed his eyes in pain, readying for the next spell to hit.

"Scruge"

Danny waited for the next great deal of pain from the spell, but instead he heard a metal sound bang in front of him.

He opened his eyes, seeing the golden statue of the house elf from the fountain, alive. The statue had blocked the spell, seemingly unaffected by the spell.

"What!" Voldemort cried, staring around the room. Finally looking towards the lifts. "Dumbledore!"

Looking to the entrance of the lifts was Dumbledore with his wand raised. Voldemort shot a green spell towards Dumbledore, but with a swish of his robes Dumbledore disappeared.

He appeared beside the fountain and with a flick of his wrist the rest of the statues came to life.

The headless wizard statue came forward and grabbed Harry, carrying him away from the fight. The golden statue of the witch ran towards Bellatrix, tackling her to the ground. The centaur ran fast towards Voldemort charge his metal head toward his chest.

Voldemort quickly disappeared in a wisp of mist and reappeared beside the pool, across from Dumbledore.

Both Voldemort and Dumbledore stared at each other, both wands ready their opponent's next move.

"It was foolish of you to come here tonight, Tom. The Aurors are on their way." Dumbledore stated calmly.

"By which time I shall be gone, and you will be dead" Voldemort spat.

The dark lord raised his wand and sent another killing curse towards Dumbledore. The spell missed and hit a desk causing it to go on fire.

The fight had begun.

Seems that next chapter is going to be action packed!

Now, please tell me what you guys thought of the chapter, as well as your predictions for the end. I'll respond to all of your reviews as well (except anonymous).

For those who don't know, 'Scruge' is a real spell in the Harry Potter universe. And its purpose is too, "Destroy ectoplasm". Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I found it back in the beginning of the story.

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Over this summer, I'm going to try and make a huge effort in finishing as much as possible in the story.

Until next time,

Prophet =P