Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl: Weapons of Magic Chapter Eight.
And noooo, before you ask, with the scene with Ginny later, there won't be any raunchy sex scenes. So your innocent little minds will be safe. It's a little T rated I guess.
Disclaimer. Blah blah blah. I don't own Family guy or any of the Harry Potter/ Artemis Fowl characters. I only own my own made up ones. Blah blah blah.
Amadae, having completed her goal, flew out the window on a balverine. Aeron had instructed her to just kill one Fowl so Amadae chose the mother. She hadn't planned on getting injured, but she'd be okay.
The other balverines followed her. Amadae had left a little present in the basement for them: a tiger creature with silver claws, and an owls head.
Harry lay on the ground; half the bronze pike stuck in him, one arm lay across the floor, his hand on Angeline neck while the life bled from her. Amadae had used an enchanted dagger to slow the process slightly, to make her suffer a little bit. But there would be no way to patch it up and expect it to heal. Angeline was as good as dead.
Artemis had seen his mother fall, her throat slashed.
"MOTHER! NO!" he shouted. If only they had gotten their earlier, this wouldn't have happened. No1 wasn't around to heal her and even if they got him up here, too much time would elapse.
She was gone forever.
But the bronze was changing Harry. His hair turned bronze, his wings turned color, and his eyes, although closed, turned bronze too. Sparks healed up some of the split skin a rib cracked from falling and healed as much injury around the pike as possible. Artemis, rushing to his mother, didn't even notice the change.
Butler, followed by Snape, came running down the stairs, cursing himself for failing to protect Angeline.
Sparks traveled up Harry's arm to his hand, the back covered in Angeline's blood. The sparks went to the cut and began to heal it.
Artemis suddenly noticed the change in Harry and realized it was from the bronze embedded in him. The cut on Angeline's neck began to heal. She was alive and breathing, and wouldn't bleed to death. Snape figured it was the bronze too and thought it rather lucky that the statue was made of that, and not something else like silver, or plane steel.
Harry stirred a bit, opening his eyes. Something hurt a little in his chest and he realized he had half a pike through him. It didn't hurt as bad as he thought it would. He turned his head and seen the color of his wings. He made to sit up, moving his hand away from Angeline. The sparks went away.
"PUT IT BACK!" shouted Artemis, scrambling across his mothers legs, grabbing Harry's bloody hand. "PUT IT BACK BEFORE SHE DIES!"
He yanked Harry's hand back to Angeline's neck. Harry, confused, complied and watched as sparks go down his arm and hand to the wound, healing it completely.
"How did-I didn't know I could do that," said Harry.
"Bronze," said Artemis, only releasing Harry's hand once he was sure the slash was completely healed. There was just a scar now on the bloody neck and her shirt was ruined from it. Angeline lay unconscious on the floor.
"Bronze must allow you to heal others," said Butler, looking at Harry's colored eyes.
"Wow," said Harry. "I think it must dull pain for me a little too." He motioned to the pike sticking out him. "This should hurt a whole lot worse."
"We should probably get that out," said Butler.
A bang emanated from downstairs in the basement. Harry forgot about the pike and rushed down, dribbling a few drops of blood on the floor. Artemis and Butler followed.
Ron stood over a creature with a Tigers body and an Owls head. Hermione stood on the other side. They had obviously just killed it.
"You don't fuck with my sister," snarled Ron.
Ginny was sitting against the wall, bleeding from the chest where the thing had scratched her. Harry rushed across the floor to her and placed his hand on the injury. Sparks went to the wound and healed it.
"How the-"
"Bronze," Snape told Ron.
"Harry, your eyes," said Ginny, while the cut healed. "They glow." The cut finished healing. "Thank you, Harry."
The cut was healed and now Harry realized he had his hand between Ginny's boobs. He quickly removed, willing himself not to blush.
"Thank goodness," said Ron. "Thanks Harry."
Snape and Ron got the body of the tiger/owl creature out. Artemis ran to check on his father. He was passed out in the attic, with Myles and Beckett kneeling by him.
"He's just unconscious," said Myles. "Where's Mum?"
Artemis decided not to tell them that Mother had had her throat slit. "She fell over the railing, but she's okay, just knocked out."
"Is the lady gone?" asked Beckett.
"The witch, Amadae, did you kill her?" Myles chimed in.
"She got away with the balverines," said Artemis.
"Where is Juliet?" asked Butler urgently.
"She got knocked out and stuffed in our closet," said Beckett.
Butler raced to the twin's room. He opened up the walk in closet and found Juliet under a pile of clothes and kids toys. She was just waking up.
"Uhh, Domovoi," she mumbled. "This woman, she's in the house."
"It's okay," Butler assured her, dragging her out from the pile. Juliet's foot pressed a teddy bear that began singing a Gaelic lullaby. "Amadae's gone."
"She hit me with a spell," said Juliet, tossing the teddy bear to the back. "I don't remember anything else. I just went in my room to shower and she came from behind the door."
"Every ones fine," said Butler, getting her up. "Are you hurt?"
Juliet shook her head. "No, I'm fine. My head just hurts a bit."
Butler carried Mr. and Mrs. Fowl to their room and laid them in bed before going downstairs.
Harry was sitting in the dining room, the pike removed. Sparks were healing his chest.
"How come your eyes and stuff are still bronze?" asked Butler.
Harry lifted his arm, pointing to a small slit, with something bronze poking out a little. "Artemis got one of his mother's rings and I put that it in my arm. If I just took the pike out, I'd go back to normal and the pain would intensify from the wound. I'll stay like this until I'm better."
"Amadae needs to pay for this," said Artemis, a deadly look in his eyes. "Hermione said she's going to look up some spells and put one around the house, so Amadae can't get in again. It'll be complicated, but I'm sure she can do it."
"Aeron's trying to send a message, I think," said Ron. "I guess he's hoping we'll back off if one our family members gets hurt."
"He's wrong," said Artemis.
Aeron's lab
Amadae got back and patched herself up quickly, before going to see Aeron in his lab. She hoped he would be done by now with what she had asked him to do. Entering the room, she stared at the table, seeing he had indeed finished, and was successful.
"You're friend is back," said Aeron. "Or, I mean your half sister."
Sitting on the table was the person Amadae had wanted resurrected. She looked exactly the same: the dark, lush curls, the hooded eyes, rather tall and skinny.
"Bellatrix," said Amadae.
"Hello, my little sister," said Bellatrix Lestrange, getting off the table.
Amadae was her half sister. Bellatrix's father had cheated on his wife with another pureblood wizard, and Amadae had been born. Bellatrix and Amadae were only five years apart and when they were little children, they decided to be best friends as well as sisters for life and cut little locks of each other's hair and placed them in lockets. Amadae and her mother had moved away, but they always kept in touch.
Amadae and Bellatrix embraced. Bellatrix was always a rather cold (and slightly mad) individual, but she did love her sister.
"Voldemort is no more," said Amadae. "As I'm sure Aeron told you."
"Yes," said Bellatrix. "Because of that Potter. Aeron told me what he did to him. I would have just tortured him for months on end and then killed him."
"I wanted a weapon," said Aeron. "Pity that didn't work out."
Harry dreamt that night of Bellatrix killing his Uncle and then coming for Ginny. Harry woke, startled. Bellatrix was dead, killed by Molly Weasly. Harry looked down and noticed his claws had come out in his sleep, tearing the sheet.
Harry showered and went and got himself a cup of tea and decided to go sit in the living room.
"Couldn't sleep again?" asked Harry, seeing Ginny on the couch.
"No," said Ginny. "Dreamt about that Tiger thing attacking me. Thanks, again, for healing me."
"You don't have to thank me," said Harry, sitting on the couch. "I wasn't just going to sit there and let you bleed."
Ginny scooted closer to him on the couch. "I like that we get to be around each other. I wish we weren't fighting wizards and such, but it's nice-to be around you again."
She looked at him, wondering what he would say. She really wanted to ask him out again, but she was afraid he would say no.
Harry was looking at her eyes, wanting to ask her out. But he was afraid of rejection. His heart pounded and be felt more nervous then when he faced a silver clawed balverine.
Just do it.
What if she says no and looks at me like I'm a fool.
This isn't the right time or place anyway.
Just do it!
"Would you go out with me again?" Harry blurted out, suddenly, and instantly wished he hadn't.
"I was going to ask you the same thing," said Ginny, leaning toward him, surprising Harry.
They were kissing suddenly. Harry hadn't flinched a bit when she touched him, like he normally did when someone initially touched him. Even when Hermione or anyone else hugged or touched him, he flinched and tensed up. But not with Ginny. She put her arms around him, and Harry ran a hand through her soft hair, his heart pounding still. Why had he waited so long to ask her?
They kept kissing, passionately. Ginny put her hands under his shirt, feeling his chest muscles. Harry growled slightly and started kissing her neck, causing Ginny to let out little gasps, while he pulled her closer, feeling her breasts rub against his chest.
They heard a cough on the stairs and they broke away from each other and sat about a foot apart, wondering who was up this late. It sounded like it was either Hermione, or Juliet.
Juliet peeked in, looking groggy. "Oh, it's you guys. I thought I heard the TV."
"Couldn't sleep," said Ginny, gesturing at the adult cartoon on the TV. It was Family Guy, the episode where Meg asks Brian to her school dance. It was at the part when they start kissing. Harry made sure the blanket over him was concealing his hard on, because he didn't want Juliet to see it and think he got turned on by a dog kissing a girl.
"Okay." Juliet yawned. "I need a glass of water."
They heard go to the kitchen and then go back upstairs. Ginny looked at Harry and giggled. They were both thinking the same thing. If Juliet had walked in on them kissing, there would be no end to the ribbing and wise crack jokes all week.
Ginny and Harry went for each other again, half tangled in the blanket. Harry was extremely hard and wanted to rip her clothes off, but you didn't do that someone who you just got back with five minutes ago.
Ginny was running her hands all over his chest, feeling his muscles, not bothered by the scars.
"You got more muscle than before," Ginny breathed, while Harry kissed along her neck. Harry did have more since the transformation and since he started eating properly after his imprisonment.
They finally stopped for air and Ginny leaned against him.
"And don't start that stuff like last time," said Ginny, looking at him. "About you worried about me getting hurt because I'm close to you. There still the same danger because I'm Ron's sister."
"Okay," said Harry.
They made out a bit more and Ginny finally went back to bed, tired.
Harry told Ron that he and Ginny were dating again, since Ron was her older brother. Ron didn't care, as long as Harry treated her right.
Harry took Ginny out to eat and for a movie that night in Dublin since they weren't going anywhere soon. Harry had money because the Order paid them (it was a job after all) and Harry hadn't spent much on himself, not wanting much. He had just gotten himself some clothes, and toiletries.
So for three nights they went out for dinner and movies and ice cream or doughnuts, coming back after everyone else was asleep and making out in Harry's room. Harry enjoyed talking with her. She wasn't boring or dull. Harry had only dated one other girl since he had gotten out of school, but it hadn't lasted long. The girl wasn't exactly on the smart side and ended up breaking up with Harry anyway because she was moving to Australia.
Ginny and Harry lay on the bed the third night after making out. They were spooning on the bed, Ginny being the little spoon. Harry tried to keep his pelvis angled away a bit so he wouldn't be poking her. Some parts of his body were refusing to behave.
Ginny fell asleep first, watching the TV that was on. It was Robot Chicken. Ginny loved it, plus American Dad and Family Guy. Harry liked it too and fell asleep when it was over.
He dreamt he was being tortured by Amadae, for not doing what she wanted. Then Aeron came into the room, holding Ginny by the neck, threatening to kill her. Harry lunged for Aeron, filled with rage ready to kill him…
Ginny awoke, having felt Harry twitch up against her. He moaned and shifted slightly. The arm draped over her shifted, clenching the sheet, tightly. The Family Guy theme song was playing and then it ended. Ginny turned her head.
"Harry?" she whispered. He didn't answer.
Harry seemed to relax a little in his sleep. Ginny fell back asleep too.
Harry, in his dream, was knocked down to the floor by a spell and Aeron grew claws and began attacking him, saying if Harry didn't win, he'd kill Ginny. Aeron slashed Harry's throat and then moved toward Ginny…
"NO!" shouted Harry, jumping in his sleep. Ginny jumped and squealed. Harry was tensed up and realized where he was. Ginny was safe next to him. He turned over on his back, breathing hard.
"Harry, what's wrong?" asked Ginny.
"Nothing, just a dream," said Harry.
Ginny cuddled into his side, her head on his shoulder. "You can tell me."
Harry took a breath. "Aeron was trying to hurt you and-"He shook his head. "Sorry for waking you." He looked at the clock. "I didn't even sleep for two hours."
"Don't worry about it," said Ginny. "You can tell me if you ever want to, when one wakes you up, you know."
"Thanks Ginny." Harry closed his eyes, figuring he could get another couple of hours.
Ginny seen one of her favorite Family Guy episodes was on, so she stayed up to watch it. It was the one where Stewie and Brian go back in time to World War II. Half way through, Harry twitched and tensed up slightly. His arm was around her and his claws slid out. Ginny remained still, not wanting to startle him. Harry relaxed a bit and the claws went back in.
When Harry awoke from another bad dream, Ginny was passed out. Harry took the remote and found something to watch until morning, when Ginny finally woke up.
Hermione had figured out the spell she wanted to do and placed it around the house, so Amadae couldn't get in. It was a tough spell, but Hermione was always the brainy one. She had to go around chalking symbols on the manor walls and in the rooms of the house, plus on the roof. It took hours, as words had to be chanted while making the symbols.
Foaly contacted them and told them a chunk of Pimante would be falling in the Arizona desert, around six AM in the morning. Another chunk would be falling in Russia, near the Arctic Circle, but it was a much smaller piece. Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Juliet would go get the smaller bit. Harry, Snape, Butler, and Artemis would get the bigger piece, figuring Amadae would be going for that too. Artemis got the jet prepared and they flew to America.
They did the usual: getting near the location covered in cam foil and setting up the cam tent. Holly again couldn't go with them, being busy dealing with trolls and balverines that's were attacking New York City. So many people would see the creatures; Artemis wondered how the Mind Wipe Team would ever get finished with them all.
There was a bunch of rocks forming a small mountain and the Pimante was to fall at the top of the cliff part. There was a tall pillar of rock in front of the cliff as well. Before it was due to fall, the group got ready to climb up the cliff to grab it. This wouldn't be easy in cam foil.
However, Amadae came, with a friend, both riding broomsticks. There were flying balverines and a huge one, the size of a troll. Harry wondered how they made one so big. It had no wings, but its claws were huge and silver.
"Oh, shit," muttered Snape.
Amadae and her friend, who ever who it was, got off the broom sticks, wands ready.
Harry squinted at the second person. The sun came up a little over the horizon, illuminating the features.
Bellatrix Lestrange.
Harry's stomach clenched. He thought she was dead! Molly Weasly killed her! How could she be alive? Then it hit him. Aeron had used Pimante, like he had on Snape.
He realized the resemblance between Bellatrix and Amadae. No wonder he always though Amadae looked a bit like her. They must be related somehow.
"Hello, Harry," said Bellatrix, smiling. "How nice to see you again."
Harry shot out his claws and wings, ready to fight. He had a titanium and a bronze ring on a chain around his neck, if he decided he needed them.
"Ooo, pretty wings," mocked Bellatrix.
Bellatrix shot a spell out and the fight began. The three regular winged balverines came forth, attacking. Butler had brought an automatic machine gun (something that looked like it belonged only in the army) and fired rapidly at ones head, lodging so many bullets in it, it fell rapidly. Bellatrix cast a shield around her and Amadae, protecting them.
A balverine slashed at Harry with its silver claws, cutting his arm. Harry felt sick for a moment and did not lose his powers. If the claw had snapped off in him, it would have made him normal again, but luckily it didn't.
The third one attacked Butler from behind, knocking him over. The gun clattered on the ground. Butler took a grenade and crammed it down the mouth of the balverine. He kicked it and ran. The balverine clawed at the foreign object in its mouth. The grenade exploded, showering the area with bloody bits.
Harry looked up, after slicing the throat of the one that had attacked him and seen something falling from the sky.
Bellatrix hit Harry with the Crucio curse. Harry fell screaming on the ground, hearing Bellatrix laugh.
"How does it feel, Potter!" she asked.
Amadae told the big balverine to go get the Pimante and kill any who attempted to stop him. It complied and began to climb up the rocky mountain.
Artemis took a rifle that Butler had been teaching him to shoot and shot at Bellatrix. The bullet ricocheted off the shield and distracted her. She lifted her wand and Harry lay gasping on the ground. Bellatrix turned the curse onto Artemis.
Artemis fell on the ground, his body wracked by pain. It felt like a thousand white hot knives were stabbing every inch of his skin. He was being torn apart. He screamed and writhed in agony.
Butler lunged on Bellatrix, knocking her down. Amadae shot a spell at Butler, stunning him and Bellatrix scooted out from under him.
Harry cut a slit in his arm and placed in the titanium piece. He transformed and went for Bellatrix.
Bellatrix seen Harry coming towards her, eyes glowing silver, and thought "oh shit" before raising her wand.
Harry ducked underneath it and attacked Bellatrix, stabbing her in the side. Amadae hit Harry with a spell and it only stunned him for a moment.
"Get on the brooms!" shouted Amadae. "The big balverine will get the Pimante."
"I want to kill Potter!" snarled Bellatrix, bleeding.
"Not now! Come on!" insisted Amadae and handed her a broom.
Harry flew upwards and seen the Balverine on the cliff, heading for the Pimante. Snape and Butler began to climb up rapidly, Snape shooting spells at Amadae and Bellatrix who decided to leave it to the big balverine and fly away like cowards. He attacked it as the Balverine picked it up, sinking his claws into its head. It roared in pain and lashed out and Harry stabbed it in ones of its eyeballs, half blinding it. The monster roared again, thrashing around. It dropped the Pimante and it rolled down a bit, lodging between two rocks.
The huge balverine reached up and plucked Harry of its head and threw him into the rocks. Harry smashed into and felt a particularly sharp rock cut his the side of his face. It tried to drive its claws into his body but Harry rolled to side. The balverines, missing him, got its claws caught in the rock and made a fist with its other hand, hitting Harry, getting his left leg, and breaking it the knee. Harry took to the air again and took out its other eye. The balverine swiped, knocking Harry to the rocks again, causing him to hit his head again.
Harry seen Butler make it up and grab the huge chunk of Pimante in front of him. Harry realized a couple of his own ribs had cracked. The balverine, freeing itself, lashed out, its nail catching the edge of Harry's shirt and flinging him up into the air. Harry turned in midair and used his wings to fly forward its neck. Harry sank his claws right into the neck and the made a slicing motion with his right hand. The balverine tried to roar, but all that came out was a bubbling noise and Harry was covered in spurting blood. The balverine scrabbled for its own neck, scraping a claw down Harry's back, tearing his shirt and the skin. It fell off the edge of the cliff. It plummeted to the ground, Harry bracing himself on its chest. He used his wings and pulled his claws out and jumped off, using his wings to land on the ground.
He stumbled, his left knee broken. Artemis rushed forward to help him up and got him to a pile of rocks to sit. Harry sat himself on a flat one and leaned up against the others, breathing hard.
Artemis got the bronze ring off the chain. He pulled out the titanium ring and quickly put the bronze one in before the slit healed. Harry half closed eyes turned bronze, and so did his wings. The sparks moved faster, healing him.
He was soaked in blood, although Artemis thought it was probably mostly the balverines blood. The huge creature lay dead on the ground, its silver claws glinting in the light of the rising sun.
Butler and Snape made it down; Butler holding the huge chunk, with was twice the size of a bowling ball.
"Harry, are you going to be all right?" asked Snape seeing the copious amount of blood.
"It's mostly the balverines," mumbled Harry, his eyes closed. Sparks danced around his head, from where he'd hit it. The bronze transformation helped lessen pain but Harry had hit his head so hard, he probably had a concussion. The sparks would heal it though.
Aeron's lab.
"I send two of you out and a balverine as big as a full grown bull troll and you fail me," said Aeron, not sounding happy at all.
"Those claws hurt," said Bellatrix clutching her bandaged up side.
"Must I get it myself next time?" asked Aeron.
"We should use the gold," said Amadae.
"I just got some, a big enough quantity," said Aeron. "Let's turn him against his friends and see what happens."
Times Square
The fairies were getting their asses kicked.
They had killed the first three trolls and balverines that came in laying waste to the city. Then, more came in, way too many, including Creatures that looked to be made of different parts. Aeron must have been sending them in, since NYC was a huge Muggle city, wanting to get a head start on denting the non magic population.
Nobody had known how to react (besides screaming in fear and running around in panic) when the creatures started pulverizing the streets, flipping cars, squashing pedestrian's. The LEPrecon force had come, but there were so many balverines and other hideous monstrosities running up and down the streets, they didn't know what to do.
Trouble and Holly were crouched in a CVS store, beside some shelves with Warlock Medics who helped heal them up. There were some other soldiers including Grub.
"I want to go home to Mummy," sniveled Grub.
"Shut up and quit whining about Mummy," snapped Trouble. "You're a Recon soldier. Buck it up."
"Whatever Trubs," mumbled Grub.
Holly heard a scream from the next building and glass shattering. The screaming was cut suddenly. Holly hated this. People had died and there was no way to save them all.
"Alright, everybody ready?" asked Trouble.
The group nodded and visors slid down. They used their wings to fly out of the building, shooting. Trouble use his double barreled water cooled blaster to take out a balverine that was climbing up an office building. It fell and landed with a sickening crunch on the concrete.
Foaly could talk to any of them through the helmet.
"Holly, to your left,"
"I see it," said Holly. Her iris cam zoomed in on a maddened troll swiping its club through a line of parked cars. Holly shot it in the head.
Police and SWAT had come when the pandemonium started, but humans and their weapons were really matched for magical creatures such as balverines and trolls. Holly had seen one officer telling a balverine to put its hands up and stop moving, as if he could reason with it. The balverine had roared and lunged, sending the man screaming like a little girl into a building.
The SWAT had decided to fire first and ask questions later, until their van was overturned by a troll and they all scattered, several getting crushed by the club as it came swinging through a second time.
Holly heard a little girl screaming for help in a high rise building. This equaled an invitation to come in and Holly landed on the sill, hitting the glass with her gun, breaking it. The twelve year old girl, huddled in the office, couldn't see Holly who was shielded. She started screaming again.
Holly figured, screw it, why bother shielding when a mind block team would have to be sent in. Everybody had seen the massive creatures, who cared if they seen a few fairies.
Holly shimmered into visibility. The girl stopped screaming and wondered where she had come from. She looked like SWAT person, dressed in a full covering black suit, with a helmet, but she was too little.
"Shut it and hold on," said Holly as the door busted in.
A balverine roared and jumped into the room. Holly grabbed the girl and swooped out the window, using her moon belt to lighten the load.
Holly flew the girl out and took her to a parking garage, where many humans were hiding out in the underground parts. She dumped her off.
There were several shielded fairies guarding it, in case the trolls or balverines took a mind to level it. Several other fairies were flying about a troll, firing. One tried to dodge the club and got nailed by it. He went smashing through the half broken windows into the CVS store. At least there would be Warlock Medics.
No1 and Qwan were going to be transported up. Holly was glad. He'd wiggle his runes and hopefully destroy the lot of the monsters.
In the Lear Jet
Artemis got a call from Holly, asking if Harry could come and help. They were being overrun in NYC by the Creatures and it would be awhile before No1 could get transported up in a shuttle.
Harry was fully healed. "I'll go," he said. "The rest of you should go back home."
"Shouldn't we help?" asked Snape.
"There too many," said Harry. "I'm the best because I can fly and have different transformations."
Artemis dropped him near NYC in a field. Harry took flight and flew as fast as possible to his destination.
More Recon fairies came in via shuttle in various areas surrounding the war zone, hoping to pen in the destruction before it spread further outward. Harry flew over and found the main part of the destruction near Times Square.
A flying balverine got hit by a Neutrino blast and crashed into a monitor. Harry had the communicator Artemis had given him.
"Holly, where are you?"
Holly told him and Harry found her on top of a building, sniping off balverines. Several fairies fizzled out of view as a troll came thundering up the subway stairs, roaring in rage as the bright light assaulted its eyes.
"Pick a monster and start killing," said Holly. "Were gonna get our asses handed to us on a silver platter if No1 and Qwan don't get here in time."
Harry knew it was serious if they sending No1 and Qwan. They were powerful warlocks, generally kept in Haven in case something happened. No1 was strong and had outstripped his mentor.
Harry cut a slit in his arm and placed in the titanium bit and transformed. He swooped toward a troll as its swung its club and took out a fairy who landed and bounced on the road. He flickered in view and landed with his leg at an unnatural angle.
Harry landed on the trolls head and sank his claws into its head, right into the brain. It roared and fell backward on a car, crushing it. Harry shot up into the air.
A fairy fizzled into view and the visor slid up. "You must be Harry Potter, Holly told me about you, I'm Trouble. Come on, we gotta lot of Mud Men to save."
The visor went down and Harry went to deal with some balverines who were slashing their way into a clothing store. There were frightened screams coming from inside. People must have been hiding inside.
Harry took out a balverine, glad its claws were normal and not silver. A hideous snake looking thing with wings was whipping around the store, knocking over mannequins. A woman was hiding under a counter, screaming.
Harry went for the snake but its tail whipped around and smacked him into a display of mannequins, wearing glittering dresses and fur scarves. Harry crashed into them. Mannequin body parts rolled and bounced around and Harry avoided another whack from the snake. He sliced its head off and the girl screamed, seeing Harry's claws and wings, and glowing silver eyes.
Balverines were attacking the doors into the stock room. The people hiding back there had put something to block it, shelving probably, but the balverines were slicing their way through.
Harry fought with them, getting cut and clawed. He took them all out but one, who tackled him. They went flying through the door, past the collapsed shelving used to block it and into the main stockroom. People screamed, hiding behind boxes of merchandise and shelves. Harry and the balverine rolled on the floor, cutting and slashing at each other, blood splattering the floor. Harry ended the fight by stabbing it in the brain. He shuddered and went still. Harry crouched a moment, getting his breath, while everyone stared at him.
"There dead," said Harry, moving away from it. A woman threw an expensive looking Gucci shoe at him.
"What the fuck!?" snarled Harry. The woman blanched and covered her head, expecting him to slice her head off. Harry realized they probably thought he was a monster too, with his wings and blades, eyes glowing. Plus the sparks dancing around his injuries probably didn't help the image. "I'm trying to help you!" Harry yelled. "Throw shoes at the monsters!"
Harry left the stock room, dripping blood on the floor. The girl at the cash registers had gone quiet, shaking and crying. Harry pulled her out from under and she started screaming and thrashing as he tugged her along to the stock room.
"Go hide in there," he told her. "Don't stay out in the open if you can help it."
She ran shrieking to the back.
Harry left the store and went to the next one. As soon as came in through the window, a man jumped out from behind a shelf and tried to hit him with a bar from a rack. He brought it down on Harry's shoulder.
"LEAVE US ALONE YOU MONSTERS!" he was screaming.
Harry yanked the bar from the man's hand. "I'm helping you, you idiot."
A balverine was scratching at the door to a fitting room. Harry shot towards it and the monster roared and pushed him into an open fitting room. They crashed into the mirror, shattering it. Harry grabbed its head and rammed into the wall before stabbing the back of its neck. Harry turned just another one entered the stall and Harry sliced its jugular before it could raise a claw.
Harry ripped open the door of the stall where three women were hiding.
"Do you have stock room here?" asked Harry.
The woman quailed at the sight of Harry, spattered with blood, sparks jumping around.
"Do you have a stock room?" snarled Harry.
One of the women nodded.
"Then it's probably better to hide in that," said Harry. "Not a flimsy fitting room stall."
He left out and went to help some fairies kill a troll that was holding a bus above its head. It roared and threw the bus across the street. Harry shot upwards, the bus missing him by an inch and crashing into a bank building. Harry flew to it and went to stab it in the head, but the troll hit him with its club. The blow sent Harry into the street, cracking some ribs. Harry dodged another blow and stabbed it in the head.
A flying balverine took a blast from a neutrino and crashed into a fairy. It fizzled into view as they smashed into a building. Harry rushed over and slit its throat. The visor slid open to reveal a stunned Holly.
"Thanks," she said.
A balverine with a dogs head and claws like swords suddenly popped around the side of the building and slashed its blades through the air. Before Harry could react, his left arm was sliced off below the elbow. Blood spurted out, splattering Holly and the monster.
Harry screamed in pain and Holly shot in the head with her Neutrino. She looked at the bloody stub and screamed.
"IS THAT GOING TO GROW BACK!?"
"I DON'T KNOW!" Harry yelled.
Holly grabbed and yanked him across the street to the CVS building. Shield fairies were protecting the front. She took him to the back, near the pharmacy where the Medics awaited.
"His arm got cut off," Holly panted. Blood dribbled to the floor. Harry started to go into shock.
"Put the bronze ring in me," he managed to get out.
Everything was going hazy. Holly lowered him onto the floor and seen the chain on his neck with the bronze ring. She took it off and seen the titanium ring wedged into a slice on his arm. She took out it and quickly put the bronze ring in.
Harry's eyes, hair and wings turned to bronze color. Sparks were dancing around his cut off arm and they went faster. Holly didn't know if a new arm would grow, or if the sparks would just make skin grow around the nub.
Harry passed out on the floor, having lost so much blood. One of the medics put a hand on the bloody stump and whispered "heal". More sparks traveled to the stub Harry could seen bone and skin start to form.
"Get him healed up," said Holly leaving the building.
No1 and Qwan arrived later, and they started blasting the creatures with lightning bolts. No1 was focusing his power, his eyes glowing and his runes swirling about, while he blasted creatures. He and Qwan had a pair of wings, and with the rest of the fairies, they managed to take out the rest of the Creatures.
The Telekinetic division was called in and No1 and Qwan helped them repair the vast amounts of destructions.
Harry was taken to a fairy fort in the country. His arm had started growing back, but No1 helped it along with a blast of his special magic.
Harry awoke in a bed, feeling hazy. Holly was sitting by the cot. The room appeared to have a glass wall and looked out into the fields. To any human passing by, the place looked like a pile of rocks.
Harry shifted in the cot and grunted slightly, retracting his wings which were still out. He pulled out the bronze ring and sparks hopped up, to heal the cut.
"My arm," said Harry looking at it.
"No1 helped it along," said Holly. "It had regrown half way to the wrist, but No1 sped it up."
"Tell him thanks," said Harry, looking at it. He flexed his fingers and put his blades out then back in. "It looks and feels like nothing happened, except for the scar."
There was a scar that ringed around his arm, where the Creatures blade had sliced.
"Good thing you regenerate," said Holly, looking exhausted.
"What happened in New York?"
Holly yawned. "The Telekinetic Division, No1 and Qwan are cleaning up the destruction. The Mind Wipe team is going to be there for ages, doing mass mind wipes. A lot of people are going to take some dips in IQ."
Holly had clearance to go home or go to Fowl Manor, so they flew back, going across the ocean. Holly loved flying, but she was tired and couldn't wait to go to sleep.
As soon as they got home, Holly went and collapsed in a bed upstairs. No1 had blasted her full of magic, since she had used up quite a bit while fighting, but she was still tired.
Ginny ran to hug him, glad that he was alright. They had gotten back from their expedition in the Arctic. The chunk of Pimante was only the size of a dollar bill and no one had gone to get it. It would hardly have been worth it.
"We need a plan," said Artemis, "a good one. We've been focusing on just getting the Pimante so that Aeron doesn't get it, but I think we need to change our course of action."
"Amadae is a wizard to be reckoned with," said Butler.
"Yes, and so are we," said Artemis, smiling his vampire smile, a devious plan forming in mind. "And we can use her to our advantage."
So, some reviews would be appreciated people! I've written eight chapters so far! I'd like to know how I'm doing and what people think of the story so far!