Marik

For a few moments the world seemed to be still, and dark. Eventually though a light emerged into view and grew rapidly. Before Marik could react in the least bit he was thrust into a new room. He jumped to his feet with his wand raised, ready for war as his eyes tried to adjust to the light of the room. Thankfully things seem to be safe though and both of his friends were up on their feet and safe.

"So fuck that last room," he offered as he dusted himself off and looked around the room.

The first notable difference between this room and the last was that there was no large black gateway in the room. In fact there was no door at all in this room. Instead there were three blank grey walls surrounding them and one wall with one large oval mirror mounted onto the wall.

"Think this is the last room? There are no doors" Harry asked as they all started walking around the room.

"Maybe. . ." Hermione whispered as she looked into the mirror.

Marik walked up to where she was standing and looked at the mirror. The mirror just looked like any other normal mirror that he had seen before. It wasn't elegantly designed or fashioned or anything and just had a simple oaken board behind it.

"Because when you look into the mirror who do you see . . ." Hermione started to say a line of the clue as she examined the mirror more closely.

"But of course, it is I, your greatest enemy. . ." Harry finished her sentence.

"Is the mirror the only thing in the room?" Hermione, turned to ask Harry as he walked around.

"Seems like it. I checked the walls and there is nothing on them. Do you see any letters on the mirror?" Harry answered.

"I don't see any letters," he replied as he searched the edges of the mirror.

"The mirror part of the clue obviously has to apply to this room. But I don't really get what it means in this context. . ." Hermione mumbled, obviously deep in thought.

"Hmm. . . looks like just a normal mirror to me. I don't even sense any magic inside it," Harry said as he made his way over to the mirror and looked into it over there shoulders. Just as Harry did so the reflection of Harry in the mirror moved on its own accord, sending a fist towards them. As it did so the mirror cracked, shattering large shards of glass onto the floor and the room was filled with a blinding light. Marik could feel magical energy forming behind them. He turned with his wand raised, ready to defend himself against anything, but found himself blinded for a few moments.

"Duck!" Marik heard Harry shout out. Acting on instincts, Marik dove to the floor and rolled to his feet.

Come on eyes adjust already! He internally screamed.

"Stupefy!" a voice that sounded like Harry's shouted from somewhere in the light.

"Reducto!" another voice shouted out, and the room was again filled with more light. Thankfully his eyes were starting to adjust and he was able to make out the room now and what was going on. Although, he was able to now see things, he wasn't exactly sure what it was that he was seeing.

Standing only a little over three feet away from him was, well, himself. Well kind of. He was literally looking at himself standing in the room. And behind the other Marik was another Hermione, and another Harry. The three new "people" standing at the center of the room looked just like himself, Harry, and Hermione, only a little fuzzy on the edges; almost like a slightly cleaner version of the thought projections that were produced in the geminio spell. Other than that they looked just like perfect reflections of themselves.

"Stupefy!" the Marik staring at him shouted out.

"Protego!" he shouted back, a little taken aback that he was being attacked by, well, by himself. He was able to easily defend against the stunner, but was still confused. It was a little hard to comprehend all of this.

Do I really grin like that? And man I need a haircut. . . He found himself thinking as he looked over the reflection of himself standing a few feet away.

"Guys?" he started to ask, but never got an answer as all three of their copies began charging at them, each of their wands raised.

"Expulso!" the copy of him shouted out.

"Protego, incarcerous!" He countered the explosion spell by summoning a quick shield and followed it up with a powerful rope binding spell. Dozens of ropes shot out from his wand towards the copy of him.

"Suincendius, aeriacta!" The copy of him countered with two spells of its own. Both spells were ones he knew well and had used in countless number of duels. The first spell caused his copy's body to burst into flame, burning each of the ropes to nothing but ashes as they caught aflame. The second spell was a powerful wind explosion spell that sent a powerful gust right at Marik.

Marik quickly allowed himself a glance around the room. It seemed both of his friends were in the same situations, but both seemed to be handling dueling their reflections on their own right now.

"Subduco, gravitas!" he shouted out two more spells, both chosen to assist his friends. His first spell was a spell stealing spell that he used to steal his copy's aeriacta spell. He aimed his wand towards the reflection of Harry and sent the stolen spell towards the back of the copy Harry. With his gravitas spell he tried to help Hermione, aiming it on a nearby wall a few feet away from the reflection Hermione.

The reflections apparently all had the same instincts when it came to dueling as the real versions did it appeared from their stances and dueling styles. Harry's reflection dove instinctively to the right just as the wind blast spell closed in on it. Hermione's reflection was thrown into the wall due to the increase in sudden gravity from his gravitas spell, but was quickly broken free by his reflection before anyone else could react.

"Guys we need to work together! Stupefy!" Harry shouted from the other side of the room as he sent a powerful stunner towards his own reflection.

"Protego, yamipulso!" He threw up a shield to block another explosion spell that his reflection had sent at him and sent a powerful blast of black magic right back at it. It was no use though as his reflection again through up a shield and easily blocked his spell.

Man that grin is annoying. He thought to himself as the reflection grinned smugly at him.

"Let's try and focus on one at a time!" Hermione shouted in between spells of her own.

"Aim for Harry's in between defending against your reflection! Confringo!" he shouted, and sent a distracting flame spell towards his own reflection.

"Sorbeo, glacia sagittas maxima!" his reflection countered quickly.

It can even use my shadow magic. . . Marik thought as he watched his reflection use the shadow sorbeo spell that he had invented and watched as his confringo spell just pass right through and towards Hermione on the other side of the room.

"Watch out Hermione!" Marik shouted as he dove to his right and dodged the onslaught of ice arrows that had been sent at him and were now colliding into the wall. Thankfully Hermione was able to dodge his confringo spell relativley unschathed..

"They can perform our magic too! Protego! Mine just used my shadow magic! Watch out for time magic Hermione and Harry watch out for mind magic!" he barely managed to shout out as his reflection threw a powerful spell chain at him.

"Protego, rensa maho!" After throwing up another quick shield he threw out the chain magic spell, pretending like he was trying to aim at his own reflection but bending it at the last second towards Harry's.

"Umbrocaesa! Stupefy!" With another grin his reflection easily countered his spell. With his shadow magic cutting spell it sliced his roaming chain in half, leaving it rendered useless as it fell to the floor with a clank. His reflection still wasn't giving him any time to think as it also sent another stunner right at him.

Time to bring out the big guns.

"Subduco, acusio, yamipulso!" He countered his reflection with a powerful spell combo.

With his first spell he again stole his copy's stunner and aimed it at the back of Harry's reflection. With his second spell, one he had learned from the bitch Bellatrix, he sent hundreds of needles towards it. And with his final spell he sent another wave of powerful shadow magic outwards. His reflection only grinned back though as it raised both of its hands. Three towering shadowy, smoke-like figures rose from the ground, each of them taking the full brunt of Marik's spells.

It can even summon my shadow figures? Marik thought in disbelief as he watched the figures explode. He didn't watch for long as out of nowhere his head began racing and memories began flashing chaotically through his mind and all of his previous thoughts vanished from his mind.

Memories of old homes he had once lived in came to him and quickly left. Flashes of his mother's smile and his father's laugh came and went too. Like a slideshow memories and moments of his life played before him. He watched his first train ride unfold, heard the Sorting Hat sort him into Slytherin, and listened to Dumbledore tell him his parents were dead. He felt his first kiss with Alina, his last kiss with Luna, and his kiss right before the second task with Fleur on his lips as he watched the memories of them all unfold before him.

An endless stream of thoughts and emotions let loose alongside the scenes of his life played out before him. Flashes of anger flushed his cheeks and stings of pain sprouted out under his skin. He thought about yelling before changing his mind to think about his school work. After that he wondered who had the Deathly Hallows now before changing his thoughts again to think about what Alina was thinking about right then.

"Legobarodo! Get up Marik!" Harry shouted out and in instant all of the memories, thoughts, and emotions left Marik's head. With a blank stare Marik found himself staring at the ground of the dungeon room they were in. He had fallen to his knees and dropped his wand.

Tears had been streaming down his face and a small puddle had formed on the ground beneath him. The palms of his hands were bleeding where his fingernails had dug into them. What the hell had happened to him. Marik turned his attention from the floor to look upwards at the scene before him. Harry were still dueling their opponents and his reflection was still staring at him with a large grin.

"Protego totalum!" a voice shouted from beside him as a body collided into him. Hermione had summoned an area shield around the both of them, protecting them both from the incoming ropes from her reflection and a bright blue spell from the Harry's. Hermione pulled him up off the ground as she held her shield up.

"This isn't working! They know all of our moves!" Hermione shouted out as she poured more magic into her shield.

"Hermione switch! Protego totalum!" he shouted out as he slowly came back to the situation at hand and put up a shield spell of his own to give Hermione's magic a quick break.

"Rubyflamen! What do we do?" Harry shouted from across the room as he continued to duel with his reflection.

"I don't know! Fulminous! But we need to do something!" Hermione shouted back as she sent a wave of lightning at her enemy. Marik continued to pump magic into the shield around them and tried to think of anything that would help them.

Scores of doors line my halls, Each with something special within their walls, The mystery should be one of your fears, What's left unsolved could end your years, When you find the missing piece, You should worry about yourself the least, Because when you look into the mirror who do you see, But of course it is I, your greatest enemy. . . He repeated the clue they had been given over again in his head.

"Marik move!" Hermione shouted. Marik turned his head to see his reflection sending a powerful wave of shadow magic right at them and Hermione's sending a wave of fire. Marik dropped the shield and bolted. He could feel the energy of the shadow magic charging towards him as he was forced into a corner. With nowhere left to run he focused his magic and jumped into a shadow on the ground, only managing to dodge the shadow magic offensive spell by a few inches.

He guided his shadow along the floor, trying to as quickly as he could line it up behind Harry's reflection. Just as he was about to pounce up from his shadow and attack he was pulled out from the shadows and slammed viciously onto the hard ground of the dungeon floor. His ears started to ring as his head bounced off the stone floor and he could feel cool liquid running down his neck as splotches of white and purple spots clouded his vision. His reflection was staring at him, standing over him.

Because when you look into the mirror who do you see, But of course, it is I, your greatest enemy. . . You should worry about yourself the least. . .

"Lumos maxima!" he screamed out the spell, blinding his reflection and probably everyone else in the room as he rolled to his feet quickly. An idea had hit him like a wrecking ball, and he had to take the risk of possibly blinding Harry and Hermione to make it back up to his feet to tell them.

"You should worry about yourself the least! Protego!" he shouted out into the room as a ball of fire collided with his shield.

"What?" Hermione shouted from the other side of the room.

"Stupefy, flipendo! The clue! "You should worry about yourself the least!" We need to focus on the reflections that aren't ourselves," he replied as he sent two weaker spells towards his copy just to keep it busy.

"Marik you take Hermione's, protego! Hermione you take mine, stupefy, And I'll take Marik's! SWITCH NOW!" Harry screamed out. In a flash Marik bolted to the other side of the room where the copy of Hermione was still firing of spells.

"Look over here you bitch! Umbrocaesa!" He sent his shadow magic cutting spell right at the ankles of Hermione's reflection.

"Protego, expulso, aevumorbiduo!" Hermione's spell quickly reacted though and turned and countered with a deadly spell chain.

For any other duelist this would have probably been the end of the world. Defending against Hermione's parallel worlds time magic was damn near impossible. The minotaur in the first task had learned that the hard way. Thankfully, Marik was one of three people in all of Europe that had the opportunity to duel Hermione regularly and go up against the spell multiple times in practice.

"Restituo, rensa maho!" Marik countered Hermione's copy's powerful spell chain. His first spell was a nullifying magic zone spell, that he placed directly in front of himself. The ten parallel world versions of the expulso spells each vanished into nothingness as they crossed over the threshold of his nullifying zone spell. As the last spell vanished he summoned another large, black chain and sent it right at Hermione.

Come on Marik! You duel Hermione all the time! You know how to beat her! He internally screamed at himself.

"Reducto, incarcerous!" Hermione's reflection countered his chain spell with her reducto spell and blasted it into hundreds of tiny pieces. The reflection quickly followed up with a powerful rope spell of its own. He focused his shadow magic as the ropes closed in. A tall shadowy figure emerged from the ground and took the brunt of all of the ropes.

He didn't stop there though. He focused more magic into his shadows and summoned two more figures and sent them both charging at Hermione.

"Rensa maho!" The Hermione reflection summoned a chain of its own and sent it hurling at his two shadow figures. He commanded his first figure to grab the chain and stop it in its tracks. The Hermione reflection wasn't able to banish her chain in quick enough time and his second shadow figure tackled her to the ground.

You have beat me before Hermione, but never when I use my shadow magic.

"Umbrosio!" He charged at the reflection as it struggled on the ground in the grasp of his shadow figure. As he closed the gap between them to a mere two feet he sent a powerful blast of offensive shadow magic streaming into the reflection of Hermione. A loud scream filled the room and in a large burst of magical energy the reflection of Hermione vanished.

Marik looked down on the ground where the reflection had just been and saw his own reflection looking back at him. A large piece of the mirror was on the ground and a giant black f was written on the glass.

"Each reflection drops a piece of the broken mirror! We have to beat them all to put the mirror back together!" he shouted out as he turned to scan the rest of the room. Hermione seemed to be handling the copy of Harry well enough on her own, and was currently blasting it with a powerful combination of ice and fire magic.

Harry on the other side of the room did not seem to be handling his copy to well. Shadow magic spell after shadow magic spell was being sent at Harry, who at the moment was almost locked into a corner as he tried to get off spells in between his shields. Marik bolted over to Harry to try and help.

"NO! Help Hermione fist!" Harry screamed at him as Marik closed the gap between them. "Protego! Your copy is the best duelist copy so we may need all three of us on it! Help Hermione take out mine quick and I will try to hold it off! Reducto!"

Harry's argument made sense, especially since Marik was the only one out of them that could really work against his shadow magic. It took a lot of self control to not start hexing his own copy but he listened to Harry and turned to face Hermione.

"Confundus, displodo, stupefy!" Hermione shouted out the spell chain at Harry's reflection as Marik made his way over.

"Protego, expelliarmus, legilimens!" The Harry copy shouted back with a spell chain of its own.

"Gemenio!" As quickly as he could he threw the spell towards Hermione. Upon impact Hermione split into three different thought projections of herself. Marik was hopeful the reflection Harry's legilimens spell would hit a thought projection Hermione and not the real one.

"Marik combo now! Restituo!" The real Hermione shouted out towards him as she cast the nullifying magic area spell at the feet of the reflection.

"Aisuterra, impedimenta, glacia sagittas!" Marik put a lot of power behind the spell chain and internally crossed his fingers that it would work.

With his first spell he summoned ice from the ground around the reflection's feet, causing it to be stuck in place. Just as it was about to counter the spell Marik's impedimenta spell collided with the reflection, causing its movements to slow down just enough hopefully. With his third spell Marik conjured ten ice arrows, which he sent flying right at it.

"Aevumorbioduo!" Hermione screamed out her parallel worlds time magic spell and aimed it at his ice arrows. What had been ten ice arrows quickly turned into a hundred ice arrows, all of which sped like a bullet at the Harry copy. Because of the magic nullifying area the reflection was stuck in, along with his ice and slowing spell it didn't stand a chance. Every single one of the ice arrows pierced it and it exploded with a powerful release of magic, leaving another piece of the mirror in its place. This piece had a letter o written on it.

"Harry!" Hermione screamed out. Marik turned his attention from the mirror to see Harry being sent flying hard into the wall. His body landed with a loud thud as it hit the floor.

"A little help here now guys," Harry groaned out from the floor. Marik grinned a little when he saw that Harry still had a smile on his face as he lifted his head up.

"Let's go!" He shouted and charged at his own copy.

"Expelliarmus, expulso, diffindo!" Hermione charged in full force with a powerful spell chain. Marik could see that the power behind her spells was a lot weaker than normally. They needed to end things with his reflection quick.

"Speculum!" With a grin his copy summoned three mirrors around him, and reflected each one of Hermione's spells over towards Harry, who was only now getting on his feet. Marik charged and dove towards Harry.

"Protego totalum!" he screamed out the spell as he collided with Harry and grimaced as the three spells impacted with his shield.

"Thanks mate," Harry said, patting him on his back as the three spells around his shield vanished.

"Anytime love," he replied with a grin as he readied himself for an attack.

"Watch out guys. He can cast spells silently too. I'm guessing he has access to Marik's rune-tattoo magic," Harry shouted as he readied himself too.

"I will lead, you guys follow! Incendio, expulso, reducto!" He started off their offensive onslaught with three high powered flame and blast spells.

"Seismosio!" His reflection shouted at the spell and immediately jumped into the shadows before Marik's spells came close or anyone could get off another spell. The ground of the room shattered and exploded in a powerful release of dust and stones as his reflection sent the earthquake spell wreaking havoc through the room. He fell to one knee and tried to balance himself as the room continued to shake and waited for his copy to come out of the shadows.

"Rensa maho!" from somewhere in the room his reflection shouted out the spell and a large chain wrapped itself around him and started to drag him across the room through the air.

"Diffindo!" Harry shouted and cut the chain pulling him across the room in half. Marik landed on the floor with a crash as his reflection once again drifted into the shadows.

Two can play at that game.

Marik dove into the shadows himself and searched for where his copy was. He found it, behind Harry, looking ready to bounce. Focusing his magic he surged forward and pulled himself and his reflection out from the shadows and into the air of the room.

"Ruptakima!" As he flew through the air with his arms wrapped around his copy he cast the wave blast spell. Emerging from the center of his chest a powerful wave of blue magic burst outwards in a circle away from him, sending his reflection exploding outwards into the room away from him and sending Marik hard into the ground beneath him. More white and purple spots of light came into his vision as his head once again nailed the hard bricks of the dungeon floors. He could feel more blood leaking out down his neck now and taste it on his lips.

"Silencio, displodo!" someone in the room shouted. Marik couldn't see anything but blurry white lines as his eyes were slow to adjust from his head's collision.

"Sorbeo, umbrosio!"

"Protego totalum!"

"Yamipulso!"

"Reducto, Harry go!"

"Stupefy, protego, confundus!"

"Protego, acusio, umbrocaesa!" Marik heard his reflection shout out the spell combo just as his eyes started to adjust. He quickly rose to his feet and tried to find his balance. His head was killing him and he was finding it difficult to focus his eyes with all the waves and splotches in his vision.

"Protego, petrificus totalus!" He could barely make out Hermione countering his reflection.

"Incarcerous!" Marik could see Harry sending ropes at it. He had to act now while they had him kept busy. He focused as much magic as he had left in him into the shadows. Closing his eyes as he focused he tried to conjure as many hands up from his reflection's shadow as he could. As he felt the drain quickly taking all of his magic from him he opened his eyes and saw his reflections struggling in the grips of dozens of his shadowy hands.

Now is your one shot Marik.

"Diskumbrion!" He summoned a black, shadowy disk into his left hand and threw it flying at the head of his reflection. His shadow disk went straight through his reflection's neck like a knife through paper and in another release of magical energy it exploded, blinding everyone in the room with a bright white light.

Marik fell to his knees, exhausted physically, and drained of every ounce of magic he had left in him.

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