Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl: Weapons of Magic Chapter Fourteen
Location Unknown
It will take much time, but I can draw from the power that has seeped in.
In time, I will grow powerful again.
In time…
Fowl Manor
Harry knew this was almost it. Aeron couldn't deflect all the hits and Harry managed to land some with his blades. He was enraged. This man tried to kill Ginny and all his friends.
The liquid Aeron had injected himself with started to dissipate. His wings went back in and away. His claws receded into his body and dissolved. The magic sparks healing his wounds stopped. Harry paused seeing this. Aeron look down at himself.
"No, no, not yet!" he yelled.
Amadae came in two small silver knives she had found. She rushed forward and stabbed one in Harry's back just as he rammed his blades up through Aeron's neck and into his head. A look of shock and utter pain crossed his face as he realized this was it. He looked into Harry's red eyes and found no mercy there.
Amadae rammed the small blade in and the other in Harry's eye. He screamed in pain and the silver made his claws and wings retract in. His hair and eyes went normal but the damage was done. Aeron slid down the wall, leaving a bloody smear and his head slumped, while blood poured.
He was dead.
Amadae screamed like a banshee when she was seen this.
"NO! NO! NO!" she was shrieking. She scrambled on her knees to her fallen master and put her hand over the wound, but there was nothing she could do.
"NO!" she screamed. "I'll figure out the reviving spell. I'll bring you back! I promise!"
Harry wretched the silver knife from his eye, groaning in pain. He stabbed it in Amadae's shoulder.
"YOU WILL NOT BRING BACK THAT MONSTER!" he yelled.
Amadae turned, seeing the blood dribbling down Harry's face, mixing with the already dried blood from earlier injuries. His right was a bloody pulp. The look in his other eye said he wasn't finished fighting yet.
He grabbed Amadae by the collar of her robe and smashed her up against the wall and punched her. Amadae screamed and went for wand and dropped it, her hands were shaking to bad. Harry pulled her forward and then flung her out a window. She crashed through the glass and landed on her back outside, amidst the broken glass. Harry clambered over the jagged sill, ignoring the sick, weak feeling he felt from the silver knife in his back. He stood over Amadae's stunned form, weaving a little, unable to see out his one eye. He picked up a large shard of glass and clenched it tightly, ignoring the thin lines of red blood that blossomed on his hand. He raised it above his head.
"Please," said Amadae. "He made me be this way."
"You're evil on your own," said Harry.
And he brought the glass down.
The point sunk into Amadae's chest, and into her heart. Harry put some weight into it, ignoring the jagged edges that were slicing his palm open. He drove it through her. Amadae gasped and tried to smack him away. Harry left the piece there and stepped back, blooding dribbling from his hand to the ground.
Amadae felt for the piece but then her hand fell limply to the side. Her eyes stared sightlessly at the sky as the last bit of light went away.
Location Unknown
I feel the blood. The essence of it with the magic will flow to me and I will grow strong much faster! Before it would have taken years, but with this blood, I feel stronger already! I will live once more!
I sense the blood of a woman and of, no… is it really?
Today is a good day, a light in the black void of these endless centuries…
Fowl Manor
Harry checked Ginny who was fine, just knocked out. He needed to find everyone else.
Harry scrambled back in through the window, leaving bloody handprints on the wood of the sill. He fell on the floor, next to Aeron's lifeless form. He cast a disgusted look at it before stumbling into the foyer, weak from the silver and blood loss.
He felt claws suddenly stab him in the shoulder. A balverine. How could he have been so stupid to forget?
He sank to his knees and the balverine grabbed him and flung him across the room. More balverines were coming into the room. At least six were there, circling him. He tried to get up but a balverine knocked him down and slashed his stomach open. Harry screamed in pain as another bit him on the arm.
Outside, Hermione's fingers slipped on the broom. She screamed and fell through the air but had enough room in her head to use her wand to use a self levitation spell to slow her fall. She drifted gently to the ground, near Holly's inert form.
Hermione checked Holly but she was still out, sparks healing her body. Hermione slipped her helmet off and turned her over gently. She fumbled in Holly's belt for a bottle of the liquid stuff Holly said helped with magic. It was newer formula Foaly had finally made, promising it worked better, although there was still a risk of diarrhea.
Hermione lifted Holly's head up and tipped a bit of the liquid into her mouth and rubbed her throat to make it go down. Holly choked a little and her eyelids fluttered open and then closed again. Hermione didn't have drink anymore. Anymore wouldn't work and Holly didn't need to wake up realizing she'd had the squirties in her suit while unconscious.
Hermione heard Harry yell from the foyer and she ran in. Harry was being attacked by balverines. She shot stunning spells at them and knocked them out. A few more came down the stairs and Hermione stunned them quickly. She rushed to Harry.
"Harry," she said. "You eye!"
Harry was curled up on his side, clutching his stomach. "Get the silver thing out of my back! I can't reach it!"
Hermione could see a small silver knife poking out and she yanked it out. Harry flinched and sparks began to dance around his wounds.
"I don't know where my bronze ring is," he said, sparks dancing around the grisly mess of his eye. "I think it fell out of me outside. I don't know where."
Hermione had little bronze earrings and she took one off and Harry put a little slit in his arm. Hermione put it in and the sparks went faster. Hermione gave him a sip of the liquid she'd given Holly.
"Not too much," she said.
"Foaly still hasn't made a perfect potion from that stuff?" he asked.
"He promised the diarrhea isn't as bad if you drink a lot."
"That's comforting."
"Where's that pounding coming from?"
Hermione helped Harry up and they went to where the basement would be. Two balverines were slamming themselves into the door and scratching it. They busted through just as Hermione drew her wand back. One flew into the room, and screams emanated from it. Harry and Hermione rushed forward and Ron stunned the second one. The first one flew across the room with Juliet on its back, choking it.
"GET OFF!" Hermione yelled. Juliet obeyed and Hermione stunned it. It fell a foot from Madeline and Angel, clinging to each other for dear life.
"You're alive," said Ron. "Where is Aeron and-"
"Dead," said Harry, sitting on the floor, exhausted. "I killed them."
Madeline dragged Angel to Harry and they both climbed into his lap.
"You saved me too!" said Angel hugging him.
"Are you okay," said Harry, looking at her with one eye. He still couldn't see out of the other one.
"Yes," said Angel. "You rescued my twin."
"Good, you can go home to your parents, so they can stop being worried sick," said Harry.
Madeline nibbled her nails. "I'm not normal."
"We'll figure something out," said Harry.
Harry went outside to get Ginny inside, and Hermione dragged Holly in by her legs and then went to the attic where Butler, Artemis, and Snape were awaking, disoriented.
"It's over," said Hermione. "While you guys slept through half of it."
"We were stunned," said Artemis.
"I was just kidding," said Hermione. "Harry killed Aeron and Amadae. The balverines are stunned and we can kill them in a minute, so they don't start waking up."
Everybody gathered in the foyer.
"How am I going to explain all this damage to my parents?" asked Artemis.
"I know some people that can fix it up and keep their mouths shut," said Butler pulling his phone out.
The balverines were killed so they wouldn't recover from the stunning. A good slit across the throat from Harry's claws did the trick.
One of Butlers "friends" came to get the body bags, not questioning the insides. Somebody came to repair the damage to the house. Not everything could be fully fixed by magic. It would take a miracle to get the stains out of the Tunisian rug, but they managed.
Holly took the twins to Haven. Foaly had to see if he could make Madeline normal. She had cut herself by accident in the manor on a piece of glass on the floor, the sparks seemed weaker she said.
Foaly had tried to see if he could drain her by numbing her forefinger first and then sticking a tack in, so any magic would be drawn out. A few sparks came out and nothing more.
"You're out," Foaly had told her.
They did a surgery on her to remove the blades from her hand. Harry wanted to have his bits removed as well, so he could be normal. But a tack in his finger did nothing to deplete his magic. The sparks just kept coming and coming, for hours.
"You just regenerate," said Foaly. "You're lucky."
"I'm a monster," said Harry.
"You're not a monster," said Foaly. "You're just different. I'm a centaur. If I went aboveground, people would try to catch me and experiment on me to see why, and they would probably think I'm a monster. But you don't think of me as a monster do you?"
"No." Harry shook his head. "You're a centaur."
"And you're…a human with magic and wings and claws," said Foaly.
"I wasn't born this way," said Harry removing the tack. A spark sealed up the pinprick.
"At least you can protect yourself and anybody else," said Foaly. "If you didn't have those powers, Aeron would be running rampant right now probably and on his way to killing millions."
Harry doubted if he could protect others, when one night he'd hurt Ginny by accident.
They had finished making love and were falling asleep in post coital bliss. Harry had his arm around Ginny and he started having a nightmare of when he was a prisoner of Aeron. His claws slid out in his sleep and pierced Ginny in her arm and when he jerked, they opened up massive cuts. Ginny had awoken with a scream, bleeding all over the bed.
"What? What?" Harry awoke with a start and realized the tips of his claws were covered in blood. He took a new bronze ring he'd gotten and made a slit in his arm to put it in. Once transformed, he'd healed Ginny, apologizing profusely.
"It's okay," said Ginny, while sparks zipped up the lacerations in her arm. "It was an accident! You had a nightmare. It happened once."
"What?" asked Harry.
"You were asleep and I seen your claws come out, but they didn't pierce me."
"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Harry. "Do you realize I could have killed you?! What if they went into your heart or your head?"
Harry slept on the floor that night, despite Ginny's complaints. He didn't want to hurt her again.
Harry spoke to Foaly to see if a sort of guard could be made for his hands, so he wouldn't have to sleep on the floor, which Ginny didn't like.
"I can't exactly make Ginny wear like a steel suit or something," he said. "Can you help me out with this?"
"Can do," said Foaly.
A week later, gloves arrived via Holly. He put them on and there was a special fairy metal alloy over the part where the claws came out. He put the gloves on and tried to put his claws came out. He felt them pierce the skin and meet resistance against the guarded part. They didn't go through.
"This is perfect," said Harry. "I can put these on when I go to sleep, and I don't have to worry about hurting Ginny, or ruining the comforter and bringing Angeline's wrath down on my head."
Foaly had sent out LEP agents to find the old labs that Aeron had had around the world. It took a while but they started to find them, using Foaly's tech. Some had balverines inside them, half starved. They had started eating each other and thought the fairy agents coming inside looked like tasty morsels. They had been shot and killed and the labs destroyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Fowl came back from America, never knowing what the house had looked like some time ago.
In Haven below, it was decided what to do with the twins. Madeline, now free of claws, had recovered from surgery, thanks to a bit of help from warlock medics. She was ready to go home.
"How will we explain your scars?" asked Angel.
Madeline looked at Holly. "Holly, can make me forget. She can mesmerize me."
The council had already spoken to Holly about this. Madeline and Angel couldn't go home spouting stories of fairies and evil wizards. It would comprise both the hidden worlds.
Holly would mesmerize them both to remember nothing of Aeron, wizards, or creatures. She sat them both down and put them under the mesmer and made them forget everything and that nothing bad had happened at all. There young brains would believe this wholly and they would not have nightmares of the incidents.
Holly gave instructions to follow and then made them sleep and put them in a shuttle Foaly had gotten for her to use.
She flew them to L.A. that night and laid them on the doorstep of their home. She had shrouded them in cam foil and it was dark enough to where nobody would see two little girls appear on a doormat. She ran the door bell and stepped back, invisible.
The door opened and Mr. Envio looked out and seen no one. He looked down and seen-
"HONEY! THE GIRLS!"
Mrs. Envio had come running to see the girls.
"OH MY GOSH! ARE THEY OKAY!"
The twins awoke, remembering nothing of the past months. They felt light and happy and carefree.
The parents were overjoyed to see their daughters back and began barraging them with questions. But the twins remembered nothing and didn't seem perturbed by the fact that their parents said they had been missing for ages.
Holly backed up and spoke in the helmet. "Success. They remember nothing of their kidnapping or imprisonment. The Envio's think a miracle has happened."
"I'm glad their back," said Foaly. "You're coming back now, right?"
"No, I'm going to spend time with my new boyfriend," said Holly.
"Wait-what?" asked Foaly. "I didn't know you were dating? Is it that new LEP agent? I can't remember his name, but he said he wanted to ask you out. Is it him?"
"No."
"Who?!"
"Artemis."
Holly laughed at Foaly's spluttering and asking how? When? Why? Ect ect…
Holly switched off the sound and flew the shuttle to Ireland, to her see her boyfriend.
A month later, Fowl Manor
Harry had done the necessary things. He had gone to Harrods and gotten the item he needed. He had spoken to the appropriate person about that matter and gotten their blessing. He had it planned. Now it just needed to work.
He had never been so nervous in life. What if stuttered and looked like an ass or got a bad response. But he had to do it.
He told Ginny he wanted to go walking in the garden with her and she did. It was sun down now and they walked around, enjoying the flowers. Ginny noticed something was wrong.
"Harry, you're quiet," she said.
"Am I?" he asked, his heart hammering.
"Yes," said Ginny. "Harry, what's wrong?" She felt afraid. Was he going to leave her again, saying it was too dangerous, because of the work they were in. Her heart thumped.
Harry took a deep breath and reached into his pocket. He got down on one knee and brought out the tiny black box with a white gold diamond engagement ring. He held the box open before Ginny, whose mouth dropped.
"Ginny, you are everything to me and I can't imagine spending the rest of my life without you." He took a deep breath. "Will you marry me?"
The End.
Okay, okay, I know some of you might be ready to ram my head into a brick wall for ending it like that, but I'm starting the new story now, a continuation of this one! Yay! So you'll know what happens. Does Ginny say yes? Does she say no and grind the ring into the dirt? Read the next story. The first chapter will be up tonight or tomorrow afternoon.
The next story will probably be as long. Harry and Artemis and the others will be in it, and if you like vampires, you'll like it!