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Chapter Nine

'Burning Day'

Afghanistan / 28.03.2010

"Batter up!" yelled Tony, flinging one of Raza's men into the air, allowing Harry to hit him with a pulse from his gauntlet.

"This is fun," grinned Ron from where he stood back to back with Hermione, both firing off spells as fast as they could.

"You and I have very different definitions of fun," replied Hermione, disarming two of the terrorists, their guns skittering away.

"Time to clean up!" stated Tony, swinging his arm, smashing the two disarmed terrorists into the cave wall, leaving only Raza standing, "And then was one."

Harry flicked his wrist, the gun in Raza's hands going flying, "He's all yours, Yinsen."

Yinsen slowly stepped forwards, pointing his gun at Raza, hands trembling.

"I can't do it," sighed Yinsen, lowing his weapon.

"Pathetic," sneered Raza, raising his hand to reveal a detonator, pressing the button.

A sudden boom rocked the cave, causing them all to stumble, Ron catching Hermione before she could fall.

"We need to get outta here!" called Tony, frowning inside his suit as a small chunk of rock pinged off his helmet.

"Oh crap," muttered Harry, going pale.

"What's wrong?" questioned Hermione.

"Malfoy, Voldemort, whatever," replied Harry, "I meant to bring him with us, but I forgot in all the excitement."

"Forget about him," urged Ron.

"No, I have to go back," stated Harry, turning and running back the way they'd come.

"Harry!" exclaimed Hermione as the cave roof of the tunnel collapsed only seconds after Harry had passed through, cutting them off.

"Like I said, we need to go," spoke Tony.

Ron began to protest, "But Harry-"

"Will be fine, but we won't be if we don't make ourselves scarce," argued Tony, "Let's go!"

Both Ron and Hermione both looked at each other, fear and uncertainty plastered across their faces, before starting to head after Tony.

"I only hope, in whatever world comes after this one," muttered Yinsen, "You suffer for what you've done."

"I am not the villain you'd like to believe," replied Raza calmly, "I fight for my faith."

"If you think your faith requires you to kill someone," spoke Yinsen, turning to follow the others, but pausing for a second, "You're doing it wrong."

With that, Yinsen slowly strode away, joining the other three as they left through the mouth of the cave, feeling sunlight on his face for the first time in months.

Harry tore down the tunnels, weaving through them with incredible pace, not even realising as his body faintly glowed red with power.

Reaching the workshop, or what remained of it, Harry came to a halt. In front of him stood Lucius, back turned to him.

"It's easier for both of us if you just surrender," warned Harry, aiming the palm of his gauntlet at Lucius, "You don't even have a wand."

"That's what you think," chuckled Lucius, turning to face Harry, a plain elm wand clutched in his hand.

"How?" breathed Harry, shocked, "I checked everywhere on you for a spare, how did you hide it?"

Lucius grimaced slightly, "You don't want to know."

"Ew," muttered Harry, screwing his face up, "Gross."

"Not there, you idiot," snapped Lucius, pulling up his sleeve to reveal a jagged cut.

Harry looked between the blood-soaked wand and the large gash, "Somehow, that's worse."

"Enough," snapped Lucius, firing a killing curse at Harry, who quickly ducked behind a work station.

Diving out of cover, Harry fired off a disarming spell from his gauntlet before hiding behind another counter.

Harry sighed, another Killing Curse flying over his head meaning his Expelliarmus hadn't worked. His face morphing into a look of curiosity, Harry watched as Lucius' curse bounced off a discarded piece of metal.

"Huh, neat," muttered Harry, before surging forward, grabbing a circular shield Tony had created to go with his suit, but decided against, proclaiming it too 'Captain America'.

Strapping the shield to his bare arm, Harry stepped out to face Lucius, ready to block any spells that came his way.

Charging forwards, Harry blocked spell after spell, finally getting close enough to sock Lucius in the face with his gauntlet.

"Nice," grinned Harry as Lucius was flung to the other side of the workshop, landing hard.

"Big mistake, Potter," hissed Lucius, his eyes flashing red, climbing to his feet and aiming his wand at Harry, "Sectumsempra!"

Raising his shield, Harry was forced back a few paces as the spell collided, gouging into the metal.

Bracing himself, Harry panicked as Lucius continued to fire off a variety of spells, ranging from Diffindo to the Blasting Curse.

Digging in, Harry felt the strange fire from earlier begin to surface within him again, his blood felt like it was starting to boil.

"Enough!" roared Harry, his eyes changing to red and yellow, swinging his shield at just the right angle to send Lucius' Reducto back at him.

Quickly shielding himself from his own spell, Lucius watched as Harry began to glow with red energy, the objects in the room beginning to rattle and shake.

"This end now!" spoke Harry, snapping his fingers, scraps of metal and prototype pieces of Tony's armour flying towards him.

Lucius could do nothing but watch in shock as the pieces of metal formed a ramshackle armour covering the front and back of Harry's chest, his shoulders, knees and feet.

"Let's do this!" grinned Harry, looking Lucius in his eyes.

Charging forward, Harry raised his shield, which crackled with red energy as it blocked a Blasting Curse. Swinging a kick at Lucius, Harry forced him back a few steps before following up with a punch to the gut.

"Annoying child," grunted Lucius, wiping blood away from the corner of his mouth.

Flicking his wand, Lucius swung a green whip of energy, wrapping it around Harry's shield arm, yanking it as he could, grinning with pure glee as both the shield and Harry's severed arm flew across the room.

Harry roared in pain, clutching the stump of his severed arm, blood flowing freely from it. Swing the whip again, Lucius wrapped it around Harry's other arm, sizzling on contact with his gauntlet.

"It's over, you've lost Potter, again," gloated Lucius smugly, dragging Harry towards him as the teen dropped to one knee, his gauntlet starting to melt.

Harry closed his eyes only inches away from Lucius. He'd lost, after all he'd been through, this was his final chapter, so soon after cheating death. A sudden burning pain in his severed arm made Harry scream, his eyes flying open.

Looking down, Harry gasped in shock to see his severed arm was on fire, the flames flowing down past the severed stump, forming the shape of his missing arm.

Harry grinned, "Game over!"

Lashing out with a fist of flames, Harry punched Lucius in the chest, sending him flying back into the wall.

Standing as Lucius' energy whip vanished, Harry glanced down to watch as the flames of his arm faded, revealing a new flesh and bone version underneath.

"It's over, Malfoy, Voldemort, whatever you're calling yourself now," called Harry, approaching Lucius' prone form.

"I'm afraid not, Potter," replied Lucius, standing, revealing his face was covered in strange cracks, reminding Harry of when he'd fought Quirrel.

"What's wrong with you?" questioned Harry, looking shocked.

"Nothing, you idiot!" snapped Lucius, "I was never here."

"Never here?" repeated Harry, "I'm looking right at you!"

"Did they teach you nothing at Hogwarts?" asked Lucius condescendingly, raising his left arm as cracked pieces fell away, revealing clay below.

"Woah," muttered Harry.

"Idiot," sighed Lucius, "This isn't the end of this Potter, I'll be coming for you and my wand!"

With that Lucius completely collapsed, leaving behind only his robes and a pile of clay.

Malfoy Manor

Lucius slowly opened his eyes, glancing around his chambers, his eyes landing on the nearby house-elf.

"You, whatever your name is!" called Lucius, "Is there any issues I should know about?"

"None, Master Malfoy," replied Mimsy, curtseying, "You were not attacked during your sleep."

"Good, now get me some food," barked Lucius, watching as the house-elf nodded and vanished with a pop, "The homunculus method is definitely easier than using a time-turner, shame about the loss in magical power though. That will have to be fixed."

Sorry about the lateness, I meant to post this on time but I was out and my phone died, I had to wait until I got home. Anyways, I know a lot of people weren't happy I left Malfoy behind, I kinda hoped you guys wouldn't notice. I basically wanted to split Harry off from the others by going back for him and giving Harry a fight scene to discover more of his new powers.