Ron vs Chrysalis, Royal Visit
The next day everything was going normally the classes were in session and both the students either were studying, relaxing or playing different games outside during recess and the teachers were either checking their papers or other things while the robots were constantly playing vigilant with their weapons at the ready (more robots were activated and were stationed inside the school) patrolled or been boss around by Mr. Flitch the caretaker with Mrs. Norris who was looking for students breaking the rules. Ever since robots were put to guard Hogwarts Mr. Fitch was now having all the time in the word to watch for students breaking the rules, whenever he saw an idle robot he put it to clean around the school or simply put it to watch the students with his cat, out of all the people in Hogwarts the caretaker was using the 'moving machines' to the fullest when it came to cleaning and other lower things and many students complained about this. However Mr. Flitch was the one who was gathering them when droids falls from the roof. "Good thing that I don't have to repair them." He usually commented.
The bell rung to call for a recess many students started to go outside the school for other activities while they some remained in the school or went to the library.
"Boy in a way I can't wait for lunch time, potions class was difficult this time." Said Ron to Harry while exiting the castle for the campus, outside Ginny was walking and talking with one of her friends from her year before noticing the Trio and Twilight coming she wanted to go to them to greet them before she noticed something in the air coming at high speed from the forest and crashed right outside of it near the lake. Ginny immediately rushed to see what was going on and pulling out her wand, she wasn't the only one who noticed it Susan Bones from Hufflepuf was also around and saw a bug like horse all green like grass but with eyes as emerald that was trying to catch his breath.
"Huh, a Shape Shifter?!" She said.
"What is it doing here?" Asked Susan before the changeling turned his tired gaze to the girls.
"H-he, 'caught' caught" He wanted to say something.
"He wants to say something." Said Susan.
"I will go get some help." Said Ginny before going to her friends.
"Guys, guys we need some help."
"Ginny what happened?" Asked her big brother seeing her in a rush.
"There is a Shape Shifter over there and needs help." Said Ginny pointing to the creature.
"But what is he doing here? Their territory is far to the north." Said Twilight.
"We are trying to find out but he needs some water. Do any of you have any?"
"I do have some." Said Hermione and everyone rushed to the creature and Hermione opened her water flask and helped the creature drink some.
"What are you doing so far from your territory?" Asked Harry.
"There...will be an attack...here at...your school." He started shocking everyone.
" A clone...of... Queen Chrysalis...has...a black c-crystal...that could control us...given to her...by a dark one...20 minutes there are...before she arrives."
"We must get to professor Dumbledore or any other teacher to tell them about this." Said Harry.
"I will go with Hermione to tell him. The rest of you stay and take care of him." Said Ron before he and the girl rushed to the school while the rest stayed behind to take care of the changeling.
"You don't need to worry help is coming." Said Susan trying to calm the changeling, in five minutes Professor Dumbledore together with McGonagall and Snape came and so did other students from different years to see what was going on as well as robots of all kinds with their weapons ready.
"There it is professor." Hermione said and the teachers went to him Snape immediately gave him a potion for fast recovery to speak clearly.
"What happened to you my dear?" Asked the headmaster kindly.
"There will be an attack. A clone of our former Queen Chrysalis made by a fanatic dark one that gave her a black crystal to put me and my friends and others into a trance and used us to attack you settlements. The dark one told her to attack this place today, but I don't know for what reason." He said and the students turned to Harry.
"This must be a Dark Crystal, one of control." Said Professor Snape to the headmaster before turning to the shape shifter.
"How did you manage to break the trance?" Asked the headmaster.
"I, I hit my head against a tree that broke the trance. I immediately went to my kingdom to tell the others what happened then looked for a map to come here to warn you" He said frightened turning to the ground. "I should have tried to come sooner."
"You did what you had to do, how much time do we have?" Asked McGonagall.
"15 minutes I believe now." He said and the great bearded man turned to the students.
"Senior students, Prefects, head boys and head girls take the underage inside and prepare to defend the school, robots to be prepared for attack." The headmaster announced and everyone put himself to work all senior students till year 5 together with teachers and Heads of Houses took the junior students inside while robots were getting mobilised in a rush: average, bulky commando and special robots were trying to prepare their weapons to defend the palisades while Mr Filch was preparing the secret tunnels for possible evacuation.
"All of you in line get inside." Said Professor McGonagall directing the ones in the junior years who are already in a panic for what was going to be, thinking of the worst scenarios while the D.A was preparing himself for a possible fight. The Shape Shifter that came to warn them was witnessing how the wizards were preparing, he was put to be in a corner for no one to bump into him, after that he will be put to go inside but he hoped for something else while he was hearing the children talking different apocalyptic things.
"I wonder when they will arrive."
"We will be massacred."
"We are all doomed."
"Go inside all you must be, for more safety inside then outside there is maybe." Said the Zebra directing the underage students inside the castle.
"AHTUNG! AHTUNG!" Said a German regular robot from the roof of the bridge.
"Attack from both sky and on the ground!" Said another one Romanian this time near the students and everyone saw the black Shape-Shifters that were like some sort of hideous bugs with some holes in their legs looking very menacing. On their first sight some robots started to shoot with their repeating laser bean weapons and assault rifles some even with sniper weapons in the sky before the others started to turn to the ones coming on the ground. While the junior year students were still guided inside, the first changelings started to go on the assault knocking some regular robots out before the teachers and the D.A started to make their move.
"FOR HOGWARTS!" Shouted Professor Dumbeldore pulling out his wand.
"LET'S GO FOR HOGWARTS!" Shouted Neville and the battle started. Constant changelings were coming to attack but the wizards alongside robots were heroically resisting the attacks they were using disarming, throwback, stunning and knock out charms while the robots were constantly shooting.
"Stupefy!" Said Hannah when a dark Shape Shifter almost got him before she was the next victim but a black robot commando hit him hard with his blaster rifle. Another two changelings appeared also before McGonagall and a group of underage students but she immediately drove them back with a spell before three regulars robots caught them and punched them with their fists in their faces when they tried to get back to fight. One shape shifter knocked Collins down and was looking with him in anger while the poor boy was thinking this was the end for him.
"Stupefy!" Shouted Harry and made the creature to back away relieving him and he immediately got up.
"Thanks." He said going back to fight.
"Good job mate." Said Ron who was fighting near him.
"The fight is not over yet. If it is a dark crystal, we must find it and destroy it." Said Harry resuming his fighting knocking out another changeling.
"Try to look towards the forest, Chrysalis is surely hiding there and directs them." Shouted the colourful shape-shifter, now he was also attacked by his own people, and was trying to fight back, Harry and Ron taking the advice started to look towards the trees, if they could see something while around them robots were shooting with weapons at stunning mode or fighting in melee and hand to hand combat hitting, punching them hard with their bare hands or their weapons and so on. One special unit robot had used his electric stuff to stun a changeling while another used his bare hands to constantly punch another one repeatedly. Just then Harry seemed to see something in the distance presuming it was what they were looking for.
"Ron there I think I see something." Said Harry pointing in the direction of the red glow.
"I think I see it as well." Said the redheaded boy.
"You will go I shall cover you." Said Harry.
"Are you sure about this?"
"I am. GO! I will cover you." Harry said and both friends went in the direction of the red glow both fending off as many changelings as possible till Harry was almost hit by one of the creatures, he tried to throw it back but it was too close and he fell on his back right when both were very close to the forest. His friend immediately turned to him wanting to help.
"I am fine Ron! GO!" He said and his friend ran towards into the red glow. Harry managed to get back on his feet just in time when he heard Twilight screaming.
"Twilight!" He said and went in the direction of the scream while Ron went in the forest
Twilight was trying her best during the battle but she couldn't manage all the changelings with the spells she had learned. When he looked into other direction to throw back the aggressors, a Changeling had run to her to knock her down. She saw in that moment eyes glowing red having nothing in them but darkness and a desire to do harm and hissing in a totally violent way that wasn't at the Changelings before. Harry then turned around and noticed her.
"TWILIGHT!" He shouted going to her immediately.
"Stupefy!" He threw back the creature and helped her up.
"Thanks Harry I never saw something like this." She said still thinking about the eyes.
"You don't need to worry." He said when he noticed some other changelings coming.
In the meantime Ron managed to enter inside the forest to follow the glow behind a tree he noticed a bigger dark female Shape Shifter that seemed to have some sort of hair in the shape of scales with long fangs giving orders to the crystal. He wasn't afraid of her but the site of that thing only made him fill disgust he immediately pulled out his wand and shouted to her.
"So you're Queen Chrysalis or more better to say a cheap replica of her! Wonder where the real one is." He said pointing his wand at her.
"Ah, a young wizard I saw when you were coming." She said with a mad smile.
"I am not afraid of a slimy insect the shape of a horse like you! That is surely anything but the original." He said.
"You will pay for this insolence." She said hissing to him directing his two guards to attack but he threw them back with a non verbal spell before turning to Chrysalis who started to throw 5 spells throw her horn to throw Ron away but to no avail he defected and avoided them.
"You are trying to look brave." She started before running to a bush "but will you fight against-" Out came the shape of the thing many wizards were still afraid to call him.
"This." Said Lord Voldemort with a large evil smile for the moment making Ron to back away "I knew." For a moment the boy couldn't knew what to do, however he knew what happened to him since he witnesses his best friend defeating him. In only two seconds he took back fighting position, for him what was before him was nothing more but a mere mask worn by a bug.
"You might have taken his shape. But this is not my main fear, even thou I was raised to be afraid of this. I know that behind that image you are nothing but silly pesky horse-bug." He said now turning the image to total rage and attacked him with two spells that Ron avoided.
"Stupefy!" He shouted throwing the fake Dark Lord down before it tried to hold the crystal.
"Expelliamus." He said throwing the crystal. "Stupefy." He knocked it back before Ron ran for the crystal to immediately grab it and go out from the forest with the clone on his trail, throwing spells at him till he managed to hit him and made him fell.
"GET IT BACK!" She roared at him but Ron hold it still while the others could now watch now using her magic to try to get it but the boy wasn't letting go of it. However the spell was very powerful and was almost to let go. Harry then went for his friend followed by Twilight and Hermione.
"Expelliamus." Said the voice of Harry who threw her back, her concentration been severed.
"Ron, destroy it!" He said helping him up while the changeling looked.
"You will not get this again." Shouted Ron clenching the crystal in his fist and then threw it to the ground.
"Reducto!" He said turning the crystal into black ash.
"NNNOOOOOOOO!" She shouted.
A changeling was prepared again to attack Lavender before it started shiver and collapsed to the ground the girl went on her feet and started to notice every creature around dropping to the ground like flies, struggling and holding their heads, their full body been in total agony. Everything was as if they were burning from the inside and their bodies were almost about to explode, this is when a strange black and green smoke was starting to get out from their noses and they were screaming.
"What is going on?" Asked the colourful Changeling worried for his friends.
"The crystal was destroyed the darkness that got in them is now coming out and it will dissipate." Said Dumbledore while watching as the smoke was gathering and it dissolved immediately before a light started to come from the chest of each changeling turning them into colourful creatures like the other first one that arrived. Their holes were no more there but they were however growling in pain after been beaten hard by the wizards and the robots. Just then the tactical robots came.
"Units arre-." Wanted the German one to order.
"They were unwillingly forced to attack us by a dark force, let them be." Said the headmaster and all the robots stopped beating them. Everyone then went to the four to cheer their heroes.
"You should all thank Ron. He was the one who did it." Said Harry.
"But Harry you also helped me." Said Ron.
"I just helped you; you are the hero for today." He said with a smile to his friend.
"Thanks Harry." He said before everyone started to go to Ron, girls kissing him, boys cheering, congratulating and caring him this must be the best day of his life.
"Harry." Called Twilight from behind him. "I saw what you did, you were very generous to Ron but he wouldn't have done it without you."
"Maybe, but he did most of the job I just covered him. He deserves the prize." He said before Twilight embraced him and giving him a kiss on his cheek.
"You are amazing." She said. After a small cheering of the heroes a part of the students went to help the wounded Changeling while the robots captured the culprit of the attack, while the Changelings were struggling in pain.
"Oh, why I am here?" Said a grey one with a cough.
"Oh my head it is as if it is almost to explode." He said a white one while holding his head.
"Ahh my body hurts I can't move." Said one emerald green when trying to get up, but couldn't because he had broken limbs everywhere, not to mention signs of beatings all over his body.
"Sorry for that but we had to defend ourselves." Said Ginny to them.
"We do apologise for everything we did but we couldn't do anything." Said a female Caribbean blue Changeling.
"We understand that and don't worry you will be all right." Said Harry before the matron of the school Madam Pomfrey immediately made spells for bandages and brought some healing potions for them to drink some combat medical droids also came to help.
"What happened here?!" Thundered a voice and everyone turned to another group of colourful Shape-Shifters however the ones that were tended turned their gaze to one that was smaller and had a furious face. It had purple eyes red neck fins and tail, blue wings, and more distinct black armor with shades of purple with red horns while the other green one much taller with beetle-like mandibles protruding from his forehead. was looking in disbelief on what happened gazing at the destroyed robots and the injured and bruised people both students and changelings.
"King Thorax, Pharynx." Said the green Shape Shifter that came before to warn of the attack while the students and teachers were turning gazes between them, not expecting to have a royal visit.
"Shape-Shift what happened here." Asked the king.
"It was a clone that represented Chrysalis made by a dark one, he gave her a black cursed crystal to have total control over us and made us attack their settlements." He said to the king and his brother. "The students and the teachers here have no blame they just defended themselves while some of us attacked under the influence of the crystal."
"We heard that you escape the trance by accident. Can you describe how the dark wizard was?" Asked Pharynx.
"No, I can't he had a black a cape with a hood over his head and wore a mask that covered his full face and his voice was distorted. But I can tell it was only one." He said before both Thorax and Pharynx went to the wizards and both received bows of the heads and upper body by the students while Twilight watched before doing the same thing.
"Please you don't need to do those formalities. Who is the Headmaster?" Said Thorax before the students went to stand up straight to both them. And Professor Dumbledore went one step ahead.
"I am the headmaster and we do apologise to Your Majesty that a Dark Wizard had corrupted the minds of some of your subjects with a cursed object." Said Professor Dumbledore.
"It is all right I hope there isn't so much damage. And from what I can tell there is still one that continues with this quest although it shouldn't be the case." He said turning his gaze back to the destroyed robots.
"Your Majesty you don't need to worry about the robots they are just machines. And no there wasn't too much damage for us except for a few bruises and hits but we do apologise however for your subjects." Said Professor McGonagall pointing to the injured changelings. "We will give them some healing potions so they would be able to fly back home."
"It is no problem; you were justified to fight back. You did what it should have been done. And in all cases old habits die hard especially for dark ones; this was also the same in our case." Said Pharynx with a smile.
"However we do want to help you at least clean the mess that had been done. And to take the victims home." Said Thorax said with a warm smile.
"We shall give them some healing potions so that they will be able to fly back into your territory." Said Professor McGonagall before everyone put themselves to work, the changelings that came had cleaned up the robots while the students helped the injured ones to recover quick in just a few minutes everything was clean the ones that were injured however some had to be carried by the ones in full health.
"Well everything is finished it looks as if nothing happened." Said Professor Flitwick smiling before turning to the injured Changelings and the smile faded. "Well almost."
"I do wish to know, who the one that destroyed that Dark Control Crystal is." Said Pharynx.
"The ones Your Highness were two of our students. Potter, Weasley come forward please." Said Professor McGonagall and the two students stepped in bowing to both the King and his brother.
"I congratulate you two for managing to stop the madness and free my people. I can assure you that you have the Changeling's full gratitude." Said the King smiling.
"You're Majesty, with all due respect but my friend Ron is the real hero today I just covered him." Said Harry with a shy face towards the monarch.
"It doesn't matter the fact that you only covered him. Both of you made a great deed together and this is no small deal. You both had courage and determination to do what was right and I thank both of you." He said to them and both smiled back.
"We thank you, Your Majesties." Said Ron before both bowed.
"Plus I hope that this event will not destroy the good relations between us and you, since I was invited by your sovereigns to a tour in you homeland and home worlds." He said with a large smile.
"They will not Your Majesty since they will be told who the one responsible for the attacks was." Said Professor Snape calmly.
"By the way where is that clone?"Asked Pharynx.
"She is in the Dark Tower Your Highness watched by the robots. A letter was already sent letter to the Aurors to come and pick her up." Explained the Headmaster.
"I guess she will be sent to the Fortress of Oblivion although she is not the real deal?" Asked Pharynx.
"Unfortunately she will and she will probably never escape from there. And I do have to apologise but this is the justice made when one attacks us or when it harms both side's territory."
"It is too bad that we don't know who the one who gave her the Dark Crystal was and who made this fake queen." Said Professor Snape.
"I guess it was inevitable. Even thou we both don't like this we have to approve, since it is now again the best place where to confine evils, probably better for both sides actually." Said the King. "I do apologise that we haven't taken more action immediately when the disappearances started."
"You didn't had any idea who the one responsible was and this is understandable. By the way I believe you should reward the one that came to warn us of the impending danger to give us time to prepare." Said Professor McGonagall turning to the one that warned them.
"I believe ennobling him will be great."
"Shape-Shift, no problem." Said the king while the teacher got out a smirk. "What is so funny?"
"Our apologise but we usually call you 'Shape-Shifters' and it is a bit strange the fact that he is named Shape-Shift." Said Professor Snape.
"Maybe you should adopt our real name, that of 'Changelings'." Thorax said with a chuckle.
"We shall do this no problem." Said McGonagall before three Aurors behind the Changelings appeared from white mists one of them the leading one was one whom Harry and his friends knew.
"We have arrived as soon as possible." Said the woman going to Professor Dumbledore before noticing the Shape-Shifters. "Oh it seems that some others came as well."
"Indeed and probably you should know that we also have two royal visitors." Said McGonagall pointing at the two changelings.
"Oh." She immediately bowed to the two Changelings and so did the other Aurors.
"I don't think I will get used to so much bowing." Said Thorax.
"We apologise but this is how one should behave in front of one of royal blood." Said one of the male Aurors before turning to Dumbledore "And where is the trouble maker."
"First cell in the dark tower." Intervened madam Pomfrey tending to both the light injured students and more severely injured changelings using her wand to cast healing spells. "Hope you will take that slime immediately, those poor students and creatures faced a horror today. Those battle robotic machines were useful with the Dark Lord but those that we recently took are too aggressive those poor Shape Shifters were beaten very bad, punched in repeated ways, good thing that they didn't lost an eye or a tooth." Complained the matron giving a healing potion to a green one.
"The cage will come immediately don't worry." Said the woman turning to the Trio. "Hey, Harry I think you and your friends had again to fight with some threat."
"I don't think there was a chance to avoid it Tonks. How are you and Remus?" Harry asked.
"Very well it seems we will work together with this problem of native incursions." She said smiling before turning to the teachers and the monarchs.
"Harry, how do you know her?" Asked Twilight.
"Her husband was a teacher at Hogwarts at Defence against the Dark Arts in our third year his name is Remus Lupin and Tonks is his wife." He explained.
"And her name is just Tonks?"
"Actually her full name is Nymphadora Tonks. However never call her Nymphadora she considers it stupid and hates it." Explained Ron.
"I believe Nymphadora sounds great for a name." She said in a sense she kind of designates their style of naming.
"She might disagree on that." Hermione said before the headmaster ordered for the clone to be brought to the cage.
"All right." The headmaster ordered for the black changeling to be brought to the cage. The thing was a dark metallic carriage with a small window with bars on the door that had the logo of the prison of Second Azkaban. Tonks was the one to magically open the door to the cage before the elite robots were dragging a struggling clone; the robots had placed a muzzle that was tightened so she wouldn't be able to speak. The students at Hogwarts were watching in silence while she was dragged away, the ones in the junior years were watching in fear while the seniors, prefects and members of the D.A have either frowning or made disgusted faces on the sight of her, while Twilight only had a worried look of what might happen to her. And the changelings that were put under her control were making menacing looks easy to remark the will to get revenge on her, despite not been the real deal.
"YOU WRETCHED TYRENT!" Shouted one of the changelings that was under her control and was severely injured he together with other 2 wanted to beat her the way the robots did. However he was stopped by two changelings that came with the king.
"I will make you pay for the things you put us to do."
"Don't struggle, you three are injured!" Said one of the changelings holding them.
"And it is just a clone not the real deal. Although I do believe she was bad that she once attacked us." Said Ginny trying to hold them alongside some other prefects, with some regular battle robots.
"They attacked in the past as well?"
"Two villages some years ago, they said after a failed invasion from what I heard." Harry said.
"It's a touchy for them, not something we want to bring out when they are around." Ron said.
"Locomotor Mortis." McGonagall casted a spell to glue all their four legs together to not advance.
"You don't need to worry, where she would be she will have a lot of thinking to make." Said Tonks while directing where the prisoner to be brought and the robots threw her into the cage while either Changelings or Students were looking, one of the students on seeing her and what she did it reminded of someone he could only hate with all his heart. The door of the cage had closed but just then she managed to remove the muzzle to be able to speak.
"I SHALL RETURN ONE DAY!"
"I don't think so." Said Tonks before turning to the king. "We shall take it from here; you will not need to worry anymore about this clone."
"Still I regret the real one didn't accepted the change."
"People don't accept new ideas fast Your Majesty, for some people to accept change takes a longer time while for others they simply never accept." Hermione said.
"She is right Thorax even I did not accepted change, immediately you know that." Said Pharynx.
"Well at least this is over, on the other hand I want from today to extend the relations with all the wizards and non-wizards of every human nation. I believe this will be a first step to better understanding since all of us were isolated from one another."
"This is a wonderful thing Your Majesty and I guess your first step will be this galactic tour." Said Professor Dumbeldore smiling.
"Indeed, I think I will have a lot to see from the next week."
"A small advice Your Majesty, try to make this tour one of learning, the non-magical people, our sovereigns and us will have a lot to show you during your embassy. Observing, learning and comparing thing from the worlds will surely have a great impact."
"I shall take that in mind." He said before Hermione came.
"Oh and You Majesty, when you are there think of this character Peter the Great." The girl said smiling.
"Where will I meet him?"
"Moscow or better the city he had founded Saint Petersburg in Russia." Said the girl.
"All right." He said smiling before turning to his subject and the ones that managed to heal thanks to the magic while others still wounded were carried by others. "Everyone let's go." He ordered and all the changelings started to fly away towards their kingdom while the students started to resume their activities.
"Hermione who is Peter the Great?" Asked Twilight.
"He was one of the most important Russian rulers that modernised his state 800 years ago when it was very backward; he made a tour through more advanced countries to learn and apply at home. I believe the changelings will need to take his example." Explained Hermione.
"And in many cases I believe he will have to make many changes not just making his people adopt a new attitude toward others." Said Ron.
"I see now."
"Boy never thought this is how I shall spend Friday afternoon."
"I believe no one expected that Ron." Said Harry.
"On the other hand I now can say that I also stopped Voldemort." Said Ron with a great sense of pride.
"What are you talking about Ron?" Asked Harry confused thinking that he was the one that stopped him.
"The Chrysalis clone changed herself into him from behind a bush, thinking that I shall not do anything due to fear, however I know what happened to him and I beat her." Said Ron.
"Glad to hear that Ron." Congratulated Harry before Neville came.
"Good job Ron at least there will be no escape for this one." Said Neville smiling.
"Neville are you all right?" Asked Twilight.
"Yeah, I am fine." He said before leaving for the Gryffindor tower and then the Trio realised what it was.
"What happened?"
"Chrysalis, I believe reminded Neville of Bellatrix Lestrange." Said Harry.
"Who was she?"
"She was a fanatically devout Death Eater. When he was one year old he went to his parents and tortured them via the Cruciatus Curse, incapacitating them forever." On hearing this she was utterly horrified and felt sorry for the poor Neville.
"Even today they are at St. Mungo' Hospital for Magical Maladies." Said Ron.
"This is horrible. But what happened to Bellatrix?"
"She was between the ones that tried to attack Hogwarts; however she was beaten as well." Said Harry.
"Strange thing thou she was weaker during the fight and no one knew why, of course we prefer not to talk about those things since they were nothing but criminals." Said Ron.
"I shall not ask more about this then." Said Twilight and everyone resumed their activity, due to the events that happened it was announced that the rest of the classes were cancelled for that day. To the disappointment of Hermione and Twilight but to the pleasure of everyone else since there wasn't anything else to be done it was decided to start choosing the costumes and preparing the school for the Halloween Ball.
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