Last chapter guys! Thank you for reading my story!
The veil? What? How? Harry's mind was going a million miles an hour. Sirius… Harry slowly got on his feet and slowly started to reach out to the veil, was Sirius still alive?
"Intruder!" The shout brought Harry back to reality and he quickly turned to face his opponent. Harry recognized the Death Eater robes but did not recognize the person in them. He remembered his dream about Voldemort taking over the ministry.
A red beam came towards him, Harry quickly raised a ground shield before calling for several fire elementals. The Death Eater looked extremely confused as the elementals started spewing fire at him. Harry decided to take his leave and started running towards a random exit.
Before Harry had been able to leave the ministry he had ran into three Death Eathers. No one seemed to recognize, him which confused Harry. Sure him hair had grown over the past year and a half and he had learned how to see with magic to he didn't need his glasses. Harry quickly glanced down on himself.
He never took a liking to the land of Souls fashion so he had kept his elvish clothes and maybe he had become more fit… Now that he thought about it he had change quite a lot. Harry shook him head, now was not the time to consider his appearance. He needed to get to Hogwarths.
He was in an ally close to the ministry entrance so he cast a haste on himself and started running, he hoped he could find the Leaking Cauldron quickly. He needed to summon a griffin to fly him to Hogwarths and he didn't think muggle London was ready for that.
Harry cursed that he disposed his wand, else he could had called the Knight buss. After about a half an hour running he finally got to the entrance of the Cauldron. Muggles had stared him down the whole way but he hadn't cared much. He carefully entered the Cauldron and looked around.
It seemed gloomier than before and had much fewer guests. Harry quietly walked up to the bar desk.
"Excuse me Tom", Harry said softly. A tired looking Tom looked up, at first he didn't react. Then he seemed to take a closer look. His eyes went wide as he realized whom stood before him.
"Harry Potter?!" He whispered and looked around to see if anyone was listening. Tom quickly cast a privacy charm around them.
"Yes it is me and I need to get to Hogwarths as quickly as possible", Harry explained. Thankful that Tom seemed to understand the importance of not informing the other guests of his presence. Tom nodded furiously.
"Of course! But first where have you been?! Everyone thought you dead!" Tom whispered as he motioned Harry to follow him.
"I have… been training", Harry answered carefully. Tom's eyes had started shining with hope as he led Harry to the floo.
"You can floo to Hogsmeade, to the Three Bromsticks, but be careful. Rosemerta has been getting all kind of shady consumer's lately", Tom told as he handed Harry some powder. Harry nodded and stepped inside.
"Thank you Tom", he smiled before flooing.
Harry stumbled out of the floo, luckly someone grabbed him before he fell. Or not so lucky… Harry found himself staring into the smirking face of Blaise Zabini.
"Well well what have we here?" he mocked. Harry frowned and cast an aura of fear. Zabini quickly backed up, looking at Harry with fear.
"Get out of my way", Harry said and glared the boy down. Zabini just turned and ran. Harry moved quickly, to many people had seen him already. When he got out on the street he spotted Zabini talking to several people in dark hoods. Their heads snapped in Harrys directions, the saw him and started moving towards him.
"I don't have time for this", Harry growled enhancing is aura. The hooded figures halted and Harry quickly summoned a griffin. All eyes was on him now as he mounted the beast without hesitation. The griffin gave out a cry before leaping into the air.
"Finally!" Harry sighed as the griffin started flying towards Hogwarths. Harry allowed himself to relax for a second, leaning into the feathers of the griffin.
"That was the easy part", he whispered. The griffin cried in agreement as it dived to land. Harry looked at the closed gate of Hogwarths and took a deep breath before dismounting.
"Thank you for borrowing your wings", Harry petted the griffins head before it dissolved. Harry never got used to the part when his summonings returned to the earth. Reminding him that what he summoned didn't live any longer or yet.
Harry once again faced the gates and braced himself, he really didn't want to see anyone, and he toyed with the idea of just hiding until Voldemort struck and the leaving right after the battle. Before he had the chance to decide the gate opened and Hermione and Ron rushed out.
"HARRY!" They both shouted and flunged themselves at him, Harry cringed at the force of the hug.
"Hey guys", he said nervously. Hermione let him go first and raised her hand to smack him. Harry acted on instinct and grabbed her wrist before it hit him. Ron then let him go and they both stared at him, Hermiones eyes where wide.
"Um, maybe we should get inside?" Harry suggested.
"Where have you been?!" Hermiones voice was accusing and Ron frowned and nodded.
"Yeah mate! Where have you been?" Harry sighed and rolled his eyes.
"I've been training", he answered and walked past them. They kept bombarding him with questions until they got to the great hall. As they entered all eyes went to him. The first to react was Remus, he quickly went up to him and gave him a hug.
"I thought you were dead", he whispered. Harry softly returned the hug, it felt genuine.
"I'm sorry", Harry said.
"Harry my boy…!" Dumbledor started as he walked towards them.
"We need to get everyone out of here", Harry interrupted.
"What..?" Ron said.
"Voldemort is about to attack, we need to evacuate", Harry explained firmly.
"Then we will fight!" Neville said raising his fist. He got a loud "yeah" in replay.
"No I'll fight, you escape", Harry told them and crossed his arms.
"Harry you can't fight Voldemort by yourself", Remus argued.
"I won't be by myself, I have an army", Harry calmly replayed. Several eyebrows shot into the air.
"What are you talking about Harry?" Dumbledor asked, voice wary. Harry took a deep breath and reached for the magic in the earth. The magic transformed into elementals, tigers and elves. Loud gasps could be heard through the hall.
"The earth is my army", Harry calmly stated.
"Now evacuate"
Harry felt the energy tingling in the air. He could feel Voldemort closing in. He was alone outside of the castle, most people had left but some had remained and was now looking out the windows. Harry hoped that they would stay inside so he would not be distracted.
He spotted the first hoods coming out of the forbidden forest. Soon Voldemorts whole army stood before him.
"Harry Potter… I almost didn't believe it when they told me you returned", Voldemorts voice rang across the field between them.
"And alone no less, have you come to die?" The mocking tone made Harry scrowl. Then he sensed it, a smirk spread across his face.
"You brought vampires", Harry stated with glee. Voldemort smirked as well. Mistaking Harry's statement for fear.
"I thought it only fare to let all my followers witness your defeat", he replayed. Harry laughed, confusing Voldemort and his followers.
"You make my job so much easier", Harry laughed and raised his hands.
"My undead darlings", Harry's voice sang as he cast his death call.
"Kill", the simple command sent all the vampires in a frenzy. They threw themselves at the nearest Death Eater ripping them apart. Voldemort was the first one to collect himself.
"Death Eaters attack!" He commanded, he then turned to Harry and started to walk towards him.
"You learned some new tricks", he stated calmly hiding the rage he felt inside.
"What did you thing I was doing when I was gone", Harry said. Still smirking, he had saved a ton of energy thanks to the vampires.
"Then let us see what else you have learned", Voldemort hissed and cast a spell. Harry moved to the side and summoned a wasp swarm. He needed to keep Voldemort distracted to perform the ritual. First the runes, this was the hardest part. Harry cast a haste and grabbed his knife. Just as Voldemort managed to get rid of the wasps Harry moved. He grabbed Voldemorts cloaked arm and swiftly sliced the first rune. Voldmort gasped in surprise, but before he reacted Harry moved to the other hand. Then grabbing Voldemorts leg making him fall over.
"What are you doing?!" Voldemort hissed and fired a spell at Harry. Harry quickly moving out of the way, carving the runes on his feet. The knife was sharp enough to slice through Voldemorts shoes. A magic shock wave threw Harry, smacking him into the ground.
"I don't know what you are up to but it's time to die!" Voldmort shouted and fired the green beam at Harry. Harry quickly summoned a wolf in front of him, the wolf cried as the beam hit and it dissolved. That had been close, Harry panted as he got on his feet. He threw himself at Voldemort, the force made them crash into the ground. Harry held down Voldemorts wand arm as he craved the last runes in Voldemorts forehead and throat.
Voldemort cried out in outrage starting to struggle violently against Harrys grip. Harry fell of him and rolled to the side to get away before Voldemort cursed him. It was dangerous to be this close. Harry ducked the purple spell and got on his feet. Voldemort was shaking in rage and started firing spells at an impressive speed. Harry quickly slit his wrist, letting it bleed as he closed in on Voldemort again.
Just as Voldemort fired the green spell Harry grabbed his arm. Harry bought his sliced wrist to Voldemorts face. He started the chant, taking advantage of Voldemorts shock. Harry immediately felt his energy drain. The soul pieces came flying, the last one ripped out of Harrys head making him scream from the pain.
Harry fell to the ground, completely exhausted. He could barely keep his eyes from falling shut. This was bad, very bad. Voldemort on the other hand studied himself closely. Feeling more powerful than ever. He looked down on the boy by his feet.
"I don't know what you did but thank you, I feel great", Voldemort smirked and pointed his wand at Harry.
"But now you must die", Harry shut his eyes. Fuck.
Voldemort suddenly let out a surprised cry, Harrys eyes shot open only to see Voldemort flying through the air.
"Impressive, you manage the ritual", Harry could not believe it. He snapped his head and stared at Sandro.
"Wha…", was all Harry managed. Sandro seemed to sigh and lazily waved his hand. Harry felt a rush of energy flow through him. He slowly sat up.
"What are you doing here?! It hasn't been three days!" Harry started to panic. A hand was quickly covering his heart protectively as he stared at Sandro.
"No… but I couldn't just let your heart be sullied", Sandro explained and stepped past Harry. Harry just stared, he couldn't believe this. Voldemort seemed to have a hard time believing it as well but Harry guessed it was more the walking skeleton part that had him disbelieving.
Sandro studied Voldemort for a while before tilting his head.
"Lord Voldemort was it?" He asked slowly. Voldemort frowned and cast an avada kedavra at Sandro. The green beam was absorbed by Sandros magic.
"How pitiful", Sandro chuckled and threw it right back at Voldemort before he recovered from the confusion. Voldemort screamed and fell, he was dead before he hit the ground.
Harry fell back against the ground and sighed. It was over, Sandro walked over to Harry.
"Maybe you should cancel your death call", Sandro suggested. Harry nodded and let go of the spell, the remaining Death Eaters quickly made their escape from the scene.
"Harry! You did it!" Harry heard voices starting to cheer. Sandro huffed.
"How ungrateful", he muttered. Harry looked over at everyone that came running towards him.
"Well they don't know your name", Harry said and started to stand only to be tackled to the ground by Ron and Hermione.
"Oh Harry you did it!"
"Good job mate!"
"I was so worried!"
The crowed closed in and suffocated Harry with congratulations and gratitude. Harry felt himself being lifted away by Sandros magic.
"Get away from my treasure", Sandro growled. Only them seemed everyone realize the living skeleton.
"Harry what is that?" Remus asked confused.
"This is my master Sandro", Harry answered.
"Harry that is a dark creature!" Dumbledor warned and raised his wand at Sandro. Everyone immediately followed. Sandros magic whipped, he clearly was annoyed and Harry did not blame him.
"If you must know he is a lich", Harry explained.
"Get away from him Harry!" Ginny screamed, Harry noticing she was there then.
"No actually I'm going back with him" Harry answered.
"Back where?" Remus asked, looking extremely worried.
"To the other realm, I'm going to look for Sirius", everyone gasped.
"Sirius is dead Harry", Dumbledor said. He looked very agitated to have Harry near Sandro.
"Well see", Harry muttered. Sandro placed a bony hand on Harrys shoulder sending shivers down Harry's spine.
"You are going to finish you training and then we'll see what you will be doing", Sandro said. Harry shook of his hand.
"I know I know!"
"Harry you can't go we just got you back!" Hermione protested.
"No you will never have me back, I only came back to kill Voldemort nothing else", Harry stated and turned to leave.
"Harry!" Harry ignored their pleas, he had much more important things to worry about. Like Sirius, Brook and how to escape Sandro. After all, a heros work is never done.
Hope you have enjoyed the ride!
