CHAPTER 21

THe end and maybe the new beginning!

The trio didn't know what to do at the sight of Hogwarts burning down. Ichigo had expected that much. Starrk couldn't hold every fly back that tried to come near Hogwarts. Hermionie broke down by the sight while Ron seemed to not comprehend it at all. It was for him impossible to believe that Hogwarts could have been attacked.

"You cannot be serious!" was all he could say while looking at Hogwarts.

Harry stayed normal. He just seemed to watch Hogwarts with a calm mind, but Ichigo know it wasn't true. In Harry the emotions were running amok and Ichigo had problems to just stay on his branch.

"Harry, Hermionie and Ron snap out of it already! It won't bring us anything if you just sit there and do nothing. We need to help. We have come so far and have collected all soul pieces. We need to finish it now with the last one! Come on, stand up and fight. This is not only for you but for everyone else." They finally started to move again. Maybe someone just needed to help them a bit with functioning. Ichigo knew that they also couldn't stay here for long. It would dangerous. He felt were Dumbledores reiatsu was and to his alarm Voldemort was there too.

"Guys we need to run into the direction of the courtyard. We also need to hurry!" Ichigo had long changed to snap them out into his chibi form and know it became handy. He could point things out and they really needed to hurry. Dumbledores reiatsu seemed to wave and that could only mean that the person was in danger.

"Harry Voldemort is in this direction too! You need to prefer yourself. I can't help you with this fight expect for my dagger so concentrate and remember my advice. It has saved me many times!" Harry nodded and Ichigo disappeared again and went into Harrys mind were the storm had gone down a bit. It was still there but it was much quieter and weaker compared to before. Harry seemed to be determined to defeat Voldemort ones and for all. He didn't want to lose more people through him then he already had. Ichigo was happy to see so much resolve and decided to strengthen the barrier. They didn't want them to expect after all.

The trio had arrived at the courtyard and saw Dumbledore and Voldemort fighting. Harry wanted to interfere and help but he remembered the last time he did that. He had taken the concentration of Sirius and through that Sirius had almost died. He didn't want to repeat it.

The battle produced almost unbearable warms and everything was smoking. It was hard to breath in this warms but they noticed there fallen friends and couldn't just run away alone. They were wounded but not dead yet. The trio moved them out of the way and to someplace saver then it was here right now. Moody awoke and looked up to Harry who was carrying him right now.

"Boy, you can't give up no matter what. You need to attack now, because Dombledore won't be able to hold out much longer. He is an old man after all and however much powerful he is. He can't take this any longer." Harrys eyes widened a bit but he nodded. It was not like he would wait for Dumbledore to die till he fought with Voldemort. He quickly run back and shot a spell at Voldemort while his friends brought Dumbledore away since Voldemorts concentration was divided too. Dumbledore had a few serious wounds but all in all he was still alright. He still needed treatment soon and it could become dangerous so longer they waited.

Harry and Voldemort stared at each other and Voldemorts smile grew when he looked at Harry. "It looks like you have collected all my soul pieces and what now? You can't destroy them if they are inside you and you still need the last one that will cause your dead if he enters your body."

"Harry, don't listen to him and attack! I have everything under control here. Trust me! I won't let you die." Ichigo said quietly but also strongly into Harrys mind. Harry nodded and attacked Voldemort without the small talk. Voldemort was surprised to be attacked without getting response. They always started to talk with him.

"This is Interesting, so you want to die sooner. I will grant you your wish." Harry noticed for the first time that the small talk had never functioned and had only made everything worse. The spoke to you and you responded breaking your concentration and devide into two parts for talking and speaking.

They attacked each other with spells that burned the ground and melted the walls. Harry was hit by a few and Ichigo tried to regenerate him with his powers. It functioned and Voldemort could only watch how the wounds he inflicted were healing and disappearing.

"What did you do to your body that your wounds are healing?" Voldemort asked in a demanding tone, but Harry didn't answer. He started to attack again. Voldemort became angry and his eyes shrunk to mere slots. He really looked like a snake now in Ichigos opinion. Then Ichigo noticed that something came from the right. He tried to warn Harry but it was too late. Harry had been caught in a binding spell one of his subordinates of Voldemort had shot. Ron and Hermionie started to battle with the subordinate to free Harry but Voldemort stood already before him with a wide grin.

"You can't escape now!" He said slowly with glee showing all over his face. Ichigo had always known that this man was insane.

"Harry, I will move your hand a bit and when he crouched down to inflict you with a spell, then uses my dagger. I will protect you from the spell so don't worry and just strike him with all your might." Harry nodded inwardly and waited for Voldemort to come nearer. He came and even crouched down and Harry and Ichigo shock their head. He really was an idiot in times like this. He was too sure that he had already won. When he lifted his wand Ichigo summoned the dagger into his hand and stabbed Voldemort with it just when he shot his spell. Harry noticed that the spell didn't even hurt and let the dagger grow so big that Voldemort was definitively cut into two halves. Ichigo was in terrible pain. He had taken the spell onto himself because he knew he could survive it and Harry couldn't. Ichigo healed himself as fast as possible. It couldn't take much longer for the last soul part to enter Harrys body and he needed to be preferred to push it out! The pain subdued and slowly disappeared into nothingness. Ichigo went in front of the barrier and waited.

Outside the two halves became smoke, seemed to mix together and then went straight into Harry. Harry had almost vomited by the feeling he had gotten this time. It was worse than all the other times together. Harry tried to stay strong but still fell to the ground and rested himself on all fours.

Ichigo saw how they merged but didn't even flinch. It looked like they were trying to eat each other and the strongest survived. Then the last that was still alive stood up and smiled with glee at Ichigo.

"You can't hold us here anymore. We are now stronger than you!" He began to laugh high pitched and Ichigo really wondered this time why he still wasn't deaf.

It was now or never. Ichigo lifted his sword and quietly said Bankai. Outside, Harry felt like he was about to explode. It was like there was so much power in him that he couldn't control it all. He let out a choked scream and everything became dark. It was a weird feeling, but somehow he felt warm and protected.

Ichigo looked at Voldemort and waited for him to move. He knew that he would be much more arrogant then before. Voldemort was much stronger now and Ichigo admitted it but he was still very weak compaired to him. Ichigo still wouldn't let his guard down even for a second. He had learned in the hard way that it can cost one's life to be careless.

Voldemort attacked with a spell and Ichigo jumped out of the way. He knew that he needed to make this battle as short as possible so Harry's inner world wouldn't get destroyed beyond repair. Ichigo attacked with his Zangetsu and started to smash it down on Voldemort. Voldemort was cut in many places and had already lost much blood when he lifted his wand and mumbled something. Seconds later Harry's soul appeared before them and he took him be the hair and held his wand at his neck, then he laughed.

"Now be good and stay quiet over there. You don't want Harry Potter to happen something do you?" Voldemort said in his shrill voice and laughed. He couldn't see the boy's expression because his hair and shadows blocked the view of it. He was sure that he had won when he heared a very quiet voice. The boy started to mumble something over and over and it almost looked like there were two boys overlapping each other. An armor that shinned like gold appeared over the boy's clothes and he then looked up. His eyes had changed to gold and black and everything around him screamed of death and punishment. Voldemort shivered. He hadn't known that he would have called such a monster with his actions, but the monster couldn't do anything to him. He still had Harry Potter as a hostage. The boy suddenly began to walk toward him and Voldemort gritted his teeth. He would never admit that he was scared.

"I am not scared of you! Don't come any nearer or the head of Potter will fly off." He screamed with gritted teeth and with sweat running down his face. He would really never admit it, not to this boy, but he was scared. That thing before him was no human or anything that he had ever seen. Even a dragon would move away when meeting him but Voldemort would never back away. He was stronger than anyone, he was immortal. He was god! And like Voldemort said the boy listened and stood still again. Voldemort let out a breath of relieve that he never noticed and blinked to get his eyes wetter. The milliseconds he had looked away the boy had disappeared. He turned around but didn't manage to do so because of a piercing pain that suddenly came from his back and spread through his body. The only thing he saw before fully loosing consequence was his attacked and how he lifted his sword that went for the neck.

Ichigo had killed Voldemort with one swift cut to the neck and back. He didn't move anymore and Ichigo brought Harry back into the outer world for him to be in control of his body again. He came back and took the head and the rest of the body with him and left Harry's mind. Voldemort would slowly heal if he stayed here.

They all noticed how smoke started to come out of Harry's body and formed. Ichigo who had appeared first was carrying something in his hand that seconds later was identified as Voldemorts body and head.

"He is dead!" Ichigo said shortly. "Harry's mind is mostly unharmed and can repair itself. He should wake up soon. How are the others?" He looked up to them and Hermionie shock her head with tears in her eyes.

"Dumbledore isn't doing so well. We don't know if he will survive." Ichigo looked at them as if searching for the truth.

"Bring me to him. I will look what I can do!" He said quietly but everyone heard it and hopefully looked at Ichigo. It seemed like everyone was put into the same room expect for Dumbledore noticed Ichigo. Maybe it was because the trio shouldn't see him dying and so Ichigo didn't ask. Ichigo turned when he heard someone mumble something incomprehensible behind him and turned around. Harry had woken up and seemed to be doing just fine. Ron pulled Harry after them, briefly explaining what happened since he had gone 'KO' how Ron it beautifully said and giving him hope that maybe Ichigo would be able to heal him.

They arrived at the room and looked around. Ichigo spotted Dumbledore and went toward him directly without caring for his surroundings. He looked down and held his hand over his chest. A blue and green light appeared coming from his palm and started to go over into Dumbledores body making him glow also. Ichigo looked very tired but still continued and stopped after one full hour had gone by.

"Call Starrk to me will you?" Ichigo asked quietly with his eyes closed after he had performed the healing kido. The trio nodded and ran out. About twenty minutes later they came back with a tired looking Starrk(when did he not look tired?).

"Starrk thanks for doing what I asked you to but it is time. Are you ready?" Ichigo asked, still not opening his eyes.

"Yes, I am ready!" Starrk said shortly and the older wizards looked at the floor.

"What do you mean with ready!" asked a still very confused looking Ron before he got a punch into his stomach and Hermionie said: "They are going back you idiot." She looked to Ichigo "Can you really not stay any longer?" Ichigo shocked his head and said: "We can't. The contract is finished and we need to go back. It is not like Sirius can stay in hell all his live!" Ichigo said the last part with a bit of a smile. He opened his eyes without waiting for a replay and opened a garganta.

"Starrk, take the corpse will you! I am too tired and I know that you still have enough energy to do so!" Ichigo said to Starrk without any sign of emotion that he was taking the corpse with him.

"What are you going to do with him?" Ask a curious Moody.

"He has committed many sins and will be paying for them now. No human can do something without awaiting a consequence if it is a good or a bad one comes from the action he has taken." They nodded and before they could say anything Ichigo and Starrk went through the garganta with the corpse. It closed behind them and the whole room became quiet. Now they could only hear theirs and Dumbledore's steady breaths.

Ichigo arrived in heal and let Starrk and the others take care of Voldemort. He went to his throne room and looked down to see a completely tired Sirius and a very happy Nel.

"Sirius, you can go home now. Nel he can't stay here any longer. He needs to go!" Ichigo said to them with a very tired look. Sirius nodded and followed Ichigo out of the room. Nel started to cry and run around in the room, running and destroying many wall parts.

"Sirius I am going to open a garganta. I can't come through it with you so I will say it now. You can only go a straight way and that is toward the light. Better don't look back and hurry. They are awaiting you with many new interesting stories." Ichigo smiled while Sirius nodded and started to run through the garganta. When Ichigo noticed that Sirius had left his garganta he closed it and went into his throne room again, that didn't look so new anymore.

"Nel, do you want to take a long nap with me? When we wake up, I promise that I will play with you!" Nel looked at him with shinny little eyes and nodded. If her Itsygo would play with her then everything was alright. She was tired herself and so they went to bed. Ichigo closed his eyes and sighed one last time. That had been an interesting adventure. He asked himself when the next one might be!

In Hogwarts many legends where created. The most famous one was probably the one that death took Voldemort with him, so that he would suffer the consequences of his own actions. Dumbledore had still lived a long live after that and many said he had been overlooked by the death because he had been busy with Voldemort.

The story is finally finished.

I now that I have said it many times already but I hoped you liked the story and enjoyed yourself.

If you have any wishes for other stories then please tell me. I will try to write them!