Chapter 28
I have returned witches and wizards, alive and healthy.
But tired...
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I hope you enjoy this one here...
Forgive any grammatical mistakes, in case I haven't noticed them.
Previously on Dance of fates:
"The Dark Lord stole dangerous weapons, keys to rule the world," Sirius said, not posing a question.
"That's why we need to commit to leaving for Iraq," Harry said even though he was the youngest of them.
"If you will capture me, capture me. And if you're going to kill me, kill me now." Daphne moved one step closer to her half brother,"There is no need for such slanders."
"If you are still free, that is my generosity..." The king pointed out to his half sister.
"Give. Me. The box... please," Harry said, with a dangerous and venomous voice.
"I will give it to you but with one condition," Voldemort said. "Your Blood..."
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Argai Vasilian," Argai greeted Harry.
"Let's see who's under the mask," Argai moved to Harry, holding his blade ready to behead Harry while reaching with his hand to the boy's face.
The arrow whizzed through the air, heading straight for the intended ground between The husband and cousin. It sliced through the ground.
Harry stood stunned, staring where a foot of an arrow shaft stuck into the ground.
Argai shifted his gaze to the cliff that the arrow came from, with a serious and Dangerous expression 'Rhaenys,' he greeted her with his eyes.
'Hello, cousin,' she said, entering the scene in her usual elegant manner.
Daphne turned to face the direction of the men. Everybody was over there, She saw a wounded Kou, she smelt his blood, fresh blood… plus the marauders on their knees, and there he was. Harry standing in front of that person, facing Argai.
The tall man turned around and Daphne froze when their eyes met. This freezing, biting pressure… this killing intensity… There was no doubt this was the traitor after the days spent living hell.
There was no turning back now.
She clenched her hands into fists and willed her feet to move forward at a walk, bringing herself closer to her fated fight.
Harry saw his wife, the one who prevented her from coming, knowing where this could be taken. She was wearing a Balkan long blue wool coat, the coat combined elements of Manchu clothing and Balkan designs in a way that was flattering.
A blue that showed more into her eyes like many items of later European garb. It was tapered in at the waist before flowing out in a series of generous pleats at the back and gores at the front, giving her lots of room to walk and plenty of insulation on cold nights. With beautiful long sleeves give the coat a formal gown-like appeal, falling gracefully to just below her knees. The sleeves afford this garment a certain presence that will no doubt attract attention and make it clear that she was a person to be taken seriously.
Not to mention the way she was wearing a matching veil to hide her hair like most women of this country's wear. But the veil was wrapped in a way around her as elegant that Harry swore that she maybe looked better with it. She looked like a Sahara warrior.
However, instead of gawking over his wife, Harry shouted "Don't get near! Don't come any closer! Go back, you idiot!" Harry yelled at her, his voice hysterical, but she wasn't going to listen to him. He had no idea what she had done already, but he still looked out for her. She didn't deserve his kindness and she didn't deserve his protection, just as he didn't deserve to be entangled in her mess.
'No, Harry,' she thought. 'Let me do what I must. This has nothing to do with you, so you can't die. You must not die!'
Daphne was forced to stop before she reached him because her body was still weak from her illness. Each breath she drew was laboured and painful, but still, she kept moving forward, not taking her eyes off Harry's panic-stricken face.
She finally stopped just in front of her cousin about three meters away, still breathing heavily, a stitch in her side that she refused to pay attention to.
"Run you, idiot! Quickly!" Harry yelled.
She would not. She'd been running for too long. She wasn't going to run away from this.
He continued to shout at her. "What are you doing?! Run! Leave this place! Hurry!"
Argai struck like a viper. In one swift movement, he grabbed his wrist, turned around the wand to Harry, before he lashed his sword at Harry's neck . Daphne gasped as he succumbed to the powerful sedative, and came between them in a flash step, shielding Harry from falling limply forward with only her support of his arms keeping him upright.
Argai backed away and did not seem inclined to finish him off right at that moment though. She set Harry down on the ground and leaned him gently against the side of the fox with more gentleness.
"Rest," Daphne said quietly to Harry. He knew how angry she was just from her smile. Then her light blue eyes flicked in Argai's direction.
Daphne lifted her right hand and withdrew a blood blade. She stood up to her full height and pointed the blade directly at Argai in the centre of his chest.
"Ya Hala, Ya Hala (hello), Rhaenys," Argai said, still in some Arabic accent, with a smirk of vicious triumph on his face. "Forgive me, I did not give you a proper welcome earlier in the palace…" said the man, talking back in English.
Harry raised his eyes to him, wondering what he meant by that.
"But the king's own was enough," he chuckled before his smiled faded "You're a stupid woman," he continued. "You not only ruined this poor boy's plans but also came to get killed."
"And who would kill me...You?" She smiled, mocking him with her eyes.
Argai laughed and waved his hands. Daphne felt Dark magic within the area, not one person but dozens… not wizards and knights...but the darkest creatures of existence.
Demons.
"I have a better offer with no violence,"
Daphne withdrew her blade, to listen.
"Vanya is known to be a barren wife to her husband, she can't bring pure heirs unfortunately to our family…`` The words of her eldest sister's personal condition stiffened her, it was a cruel fate that no woman wished even for her enemies, the inability of having kids.
"—But you are not, you're alive and fertile, the whole world will kneel for you, you have a better claim then the half breed, for our loved ones who died, don't let them do the same to you...join my case, cousin," Argai's arrogance reached the nerve to ask her to join him in this treason. "let us overthrow the half breed king and name you a queen, let's bring back the golden days of our dynasty…
The crew of her husband's behind stiffened and she could feel their uncertainty and nervousness for hearing the offer, Kou backed a step.
Both Kou and Harry shared a glance trying to remain calm, they both knew the hatred Daphne had for the new king and his family.
'To think he would use the barrenness of Vanya as an excuse…' Kou gritted his teeth, his eyes pointed on the back Daphne 'What is she thinking?'
The heaviness of rain around them made the situation seem as dark as the weather.
Both sides were waiting for the reply of the fugitive princess.
Daphne stretched her neck and lifted her chin, gazing down the line of her nose, watching the people around before she started talking again
"...For what audacity would you suggest such a thing to me?" Daphne said.
"I derive my courage from the same thing as you, my strength and my blood." He smirked. "I am a leader and I do not see the competence of your brother... Our government is being destroyed." He raised both his hands lazily.
Daphne's fist clenched tightly, her face trying to remain neutral as she decided to finally release her wrath.
"The state gave you your rank. Is it your limit to criticize a government, you are under its shadow?" she raised a mocking brow at the man.
"Now... why don't you take your soldiers and go back to head your job and forget all about this." She waved him to leave.
Argai blinked then smiled "tut, tut...You don't understand, cousin…"
A man showed up and grasped Daphne from the shoulder.
"Let go of the leader," he screamed.
Daphne leaned back and looked at him with dangerous eyes.
"From a traitor like you, this is the last thing you should speak of," he sneered.
"I would never betray the state of man," she snapped.
"Well, you and Potiphar let a half breed take over the throne. Do you know how the council, how the world sees us... hideous," he spat.
She stood silent for a moment before she burst into a mocked chuckle.
Harry noticed Daphne's hand sighing to him to step back.
"Didn't you say she wasn't supposed to come?" Sirius whispered to his shoulder.
Harry nodded "Something happened then…" he whispered and looked at the interaction.
But what happened was that his use of magic threatened the knights.
"Let's go kid," Kou said to Harry as he moved away.
He did not move, thinking of her, he knew his power limits, and knew hers… maybe?
"You are who you are to be fed by the state and threaten it. Who do you think you are, choosing and criticizing?" She hissed.
"I am an important pillar. Didn't a man remain in the state until they send a woman to deal in something specific to men?"
"You forgot that women and men in our family are equal, cousin." she pinched her nose in the air.
"Don't worry, if men are going to do what I'm doing, I'll do it now." She stepped closer to him.
"And pray to tell what are you going to do, little princess?" He mocked.
"The price of rebellion is not talking..." She smirked. Tightening her fist around the blade.
Dark smoke appeared everywhere, Harry knew it and tried to get up but Kou growled at him.
Both Remus and Sirius joined next to Harry.
"True, I hate Phobos, I hate Aurelia, the low class turned into royals in one night like a fairy tale," she sighed. " But they are not as low as you, you avenge by dancing with demons," she replied.
Argai's eyes narrowed and his cruel smirk widened like that of a cat who toyed with its cornered prey.
"So that's your answer, Rhaenys. You chose Phobos...After all, I've offered you, Fortunately, I can depend on someone else's loyalty."
Daphne was wondering when that person or lapdog would show up. If only it had been a minute or two later.
"How dare you?" She hissed "How dare you break the laws of the olds," while she said it.
"It seems we've reached an impasse. So be it. I'm afraid you give me no choice but to use force."
"Not if I kill you first!" Looks like it's two on one. No matter. Argai can't use his magic and the demons overestimate their knowledge and underestimate their opponents.
"Then hear me out, by the name of king Phobos, I sentence you to death, this world has its people to protect it...you better leave this body... Azazel," she turned her eyes to the man who grasped her earlier, and sheathed her blade in a flash at his neck.
The man was beheaded in a fraction of a second.
Before his body fell to the ground, she jumped at Argai. If he wasn't quick enough to shield himself with his blade.
They both parted away, and Argai smirked.
"She hasn't lost any of her strength! It won't go well for you if she ever connects." A cloud of smoke said as it left the dead knight's body.
"I can see that…"
Harry and the others could not hold their shocked reaction at the fast execution. But understood the signal to attack.
Behind her, they all jumped to the fight.
"I will finish this!" Daphne shouted, There will be one Vasilia dead today. And it won't be her. She wrapped her left hand around the blade and ran it all over the blade, her palm was wounded by the blade.
Harry saw from the distance the iron of the blade turned to dark crimson color.
"That's the blood blade, one touch of it will shut down the human nervous system. It can feed on its owner's magic and also the opponent," Kou explained.
As Daphne went after Argai, Azazel hid in the shadows, watching and waiting for what would come.
'I can keep this up. She's too fast, however. Our kitten has grown up.' Argai smirked. Blocking every hit with his own blade, she aimed at him.
In the distance, Sirius, and Remus were paying attention to the battle of the mighties with both awe and fear. Sirius knew the Vasilian were lethal. But they weren't expecting this. That demon that Daphne called it Azazel hasn't joined in yet but the ground was completely torn up. With just Daphne's Heavenly Foot of Pain, talk about collateral damage!
Harry discovered that she may never use not even just a bit about her strength from the training but what he was seeing in front of him was a chaotic distraction.
They were not even using magic, what are those people…?
"That's what we tried to avoid…" Kou sighed, irritated.
With the right timing and a little bit of luck, Argai got a hit on Daphne.
'My arm! ' When Daphne pulled back, she felt her arm nerves shutting down.
"Yes, I've weakened the muscles of your right bicep. Just enough so that you won't be able to unleash that incredible strength of yours." Argai walked to her.
Daphne threw her blade away, there was no need for it anymore.
"Come on out Azazel! Argai can't do your dirty work anymore!"
"Ku ku ku. I suppose not." Azazel came out of the trees, lunging at Daphne, his fires already drawn and ready. With her fast reflexes, Daphne easily dodged the fireballs.
"Stay out of it! She's mine…" Argai snapped.
The battle between the two was hot and heavy. Even though Argai couldn't use his magic, Daphne couldn't get too close due to the fires of the demon lord. Each had suffered a couple of bad blows, Daphne to her shoulder, Argai to his hips and spine. But then something changed. They both attacked head-on, both knowing this attack would be the last.
She glanced from the corner at Harry, and cursed herself for letting him come, she thought it was a Deatheater mission… not this!
Potiphar was standing in the centre of an abandoned destroyed village with his arms crossed and eyes closed, slowly breathing and meditating. His clothes flapped with the wind. The sand behind him began to spin around rapidly in a circle generating a small tornado. Hearing the clash near the village.
"They started already…" Potiphar muttered.
"Commander, we dealt with the tourists and citizens," a woman saluted him.
"Move away everyone as far as possible," He nodded
They struck again.
This time Aragi managed for his blade to go straight through Daphne's chest. The blonde witch's hands were directly over the knight leader's torso. They both took a step back, the sword coming out of Daphne's chest.
Harry's eyes snapped wide open and his mouth gaped at the scene, standing up to run at her.
Kou prevented him, calmly with his tail, Harry felt his veins pop and boil at the animal then turned his attention to his wife. The Blade fell from Argai's hand as he fell to his knees,
Having a hard time breathing and coughing up blood, Daphne was quick to heal her wounds. Satisfied that she would be fine, well for the mere time.
She was absorbing a lot of magic today and it will back on her worst ten times than usual.
"Why don't we use magic to make it a fair battle, cousin?" She suggested.
"YOU IDIOT DON'T!" Kou roared as he jumped despite his injuries at high speed at Daphne to attack her but she was quick and avoided him.
Closing her eyes she called the magic of the ancient. Chanting in ancient words, naming the odds.
They all sensed magic lash all across the land.
Argai smirked as he finally could use magic, taking off his cloak, a glamorous bronze armour started appearing over his body until he was in his full battle regalia. All the lesser knights looked on in awe as Argai rarely took on his full battle form in front of anyone other than the other leaders. Trident appearing in his right hand, fish scale celestial bronze armour appearing in a formed fit over his body along with his sea-green adamantine shield.
Harry noticed Argai's look at his wife, Daphne strode over and took a fighting stance before him. Taking off her long blue coat alongside the veil she was wearing, Revealing her blonde hair.
But not that also…
'The fuck is she wearing!' Harry screamed in his mind…
Sirius laughed at the reaction of Harry's flushed face while Remus looked away and Kou only groaned.
She was wearing a fuckin leather sleeveless jumpsuit with naked back and a corset.
"What that idiot was thinking! An early grave!" Kou who appeared in front of him in a human shape
His actual human form.
But what attracted Harry's focus wasn't his look, but his remark.
Kou looked at him with a calm expression "She is not equal to him…"
"RHAENYS," bellowed Argai, "Come forward." His announcement echoed throughout the forest and seemed to shock Harry into reality.
He understood what Kou actually finally meant Kou by that note.
Argai was standing on top of a swell… ready to fight.
Daphne wrapped her hair in a ponytail, Harry knew that she did that only when she was serious.
Her eyes were venomous at her prey.
To tell the truth Daphne did not want to lead this way but when she saw Azazel...that was a different story.
She needed to kill a demon lord but before that, she needed to stop that idiot rebel.
Summoning fire around her, making sure not to harm no one but that Argai.
She jumped at him, her hands holding fire like sharp blades.
Harry on other hand started battling the audience of Argai's… here and there spell and two, hex and curse, punch and kick.
Honestly, Harry thanked Daphne's inferno Train or else he would not have been able to fight. Running every day and three days of hand fighting must be praised.
A wand in one hand and a dagger in Kou didn't understand, Harry did.
She didn't destroy the magicless ward for fair combat, she brought it back for them to be able to fight.
Sirius joined, feeling all his energy return, especially that magic was back, and Remus did the same.
Kou however decided to not join this time.
Argai attempted to gouge her with his trident. she swiped left and only got air, right and still air. He swung the trident over his head and to Daphne's shield, the shield of fire, that kept protecting her from the hits of the deadly trident.
Finding the opportunity, he struck the small part of her neck. His strike was greeted with a short grunt. He drew first blood, but this small victory was short-lived as he was pushed a mile into the Earth's core.
His back seemed on fire, his left leg was surely broken and he only was able to cut his cousin. This was only to be expected seeing how they were in this realm, but now they were on an equal playing field. The weather helped Argai to turn the game to his side, water was his element and his area. Argai summoned water from the sewers and pipes within the near city to Daphne. The water swirled around her body and broke her leg. She couldn't free herself completely thanks to the water around her.
Hissing at the trap, she heated her entire body with fire.
The water around became evaporated, freeing herself at last.
Argai urged the water to push him back to Daphne as he was in the surface forest. They met shield to shield, neither giving an inch. She struck her master flames to his left, missing but causing a skyscraper to come down. All around them knights ran away.
It was in the eyes of the fighters all, a battle of Gods.
They danced around each other with the same levelness. Fire and water collided, causing nothing but chaos and disasters.
Once again Argai shot a beam of energy and hit her ankle causing her to falter and then punched her in the side of the face. Again she simply took the punishment as red ichor oozed from her ankle and the red mark on his face coloured rapidly.
She didn't catch her breath before he took her off into the air flying to the west; she didn't want to engage with him in the sky so she continued shooting beams of fire at him. All the while she shot down more bolts of fires attempting to hit him. Finally one of her beams hit him in the shield, rocketing him down into the field. Destroying a lot of trees in return.
Harry turned at the source of the doom.
He saw Argai's body crushed down the ground, his wife did not hesitate a moment, coming down at him, striking him down with a fierce kick to his ribcage, making him sink even further.
Harry's amazement ended as he protected himself from a sudden demon that tried to attack him while Daphne was distracted fighting the so similar to God of seas Poseidon.
The demon called Azazel ordered his monsters to feed on humans below, both the traitorous knights and marauders.
When the Vasilian fugtive Princess proceeded to dig a hole with her kick of fire on Argai's body, he used his magic and transferred his body to water to stop her bore, pinning her down.
Argai proceeded to use every ounce of water around, especially with the rain around and created a watery prison, encircling Daphne.
She looked around for a way out of it.
This sphere prison swirled around making every flame she managed to use turn off. He entered the prison, in an attempt to talk with her but..
Before any word could come out,it was abruptly ended by an elbow to his jaw. His concentration was jared and Daphne escaped this watery prison. But not just escaped also, she also gave a hard kick into his abdomen causing him to fly in the air.
She ran into Harry protecting his back.
"Why did you arrive, you idiot!" Harry said as he glanced at her.
"Change of plans…" simply replied to him, finishing a demon in their way.
Harry wondered wasn't she was supposed to lose her magic when she kills.
"Demons were created by fire…" she noted, predicting his series of thoughts.
"Nevermind...The sanctities are with him…" he pointed at her cousin, pushing her aside, and fought the one behind her.
Daphne blinked at him twice " what!?"
That was weird. She looked around trying to locate them somewhere.
"Harry,listen…" the latter paused and glanced from the corner of his eye as she continued, " I did not tell you the entire plan but now, fitch the box while I distract my cousin, also–" she looked up at the flying demons that kept watching the show, "I will take care of those too,Azazel is strong,he wouldn't fight but ...his presence here is not just to play," she said before she gave him a hard stare.
He nodded and she ran back to Argai.
Sparks flew as their blades met. Rage has consumed Harry while fighting, The power was flowing off of him, the ground was shaking, the water in the springs were now hopelessly restless. He needed to find which one of those knights holds the box, the demons were blocking the sky. The battle was going well, but he was losing his will to fight on. His godfather, and Remus were the only two he could see. However Daphne disappeared along with her cousin battling, it didn't seem as much they were enjoying the fight.
In his thoughts he dodged under the powerful blow of attack and came back with an equally powerful strike across his exposed back. He then took his sword and jammed it through his knee cap causing his sword to break through the bones and pierce all the way through the enemy's legs, then quick as lightning he took his sword and through it at his throat causing the sword to pierce that as well. The man fell backwards with a loud thud.
Kou quickly teleported to him and gave the finishing blow to the demon before he at the bones of the man. He smiled at me and Harey shouted, "Where is Daphne?!"
Kou cursed, "Do I look like I care?" another explosion was heard soon, south their direction.
"Now we know," they both said.
Harry ran to every knight but something was off he asked his marauders but both of them shook their heads, the box was nowhere then it hit him.
The possessed man Daphne killed did not obviously had it. He searched his body, It wasn't with him it meant one thing,it was with the demon lord above.
The battle was epic. That's all they could say at that point. Harry couldn't only watch as Daphne fought the water mage, things weren't looking good for her side, because she was exhausted with many wounds and that bastard keep picking himself up after every hit that Daphne threw at him. Harry was silently cursing himself.
"I can't let her do that on her own…" Harry jumped at the field battle.
"Come back!" They all screamed.
Harry's feet kept moving forward until a dark and grey stoney corp stood in front of him.
Harry looked up only to see a gargoyle, blocking him from his path.
The gargoyle laughed at him and Harry's eyes darted away, to find from above, a dark and giant cloud belongs to the same thing that came out of the Knight's body previously.
He concluded mentally,that the gargoyle was ordered by his master to stop Harry from reaching his wife.
Raising his wand for attack, both Sirius and Kou attacked the Gargoyle.
"Go!" Sirius encouraged him.
'Damn it! I've been here too long. ' Argai thought as he tried to dodge another hit from the fugitive princess only to get hit back into the ground.
'I've got to retreat' he thought rapidly right before he was sent flying again by one of her powerful magical punches.
Argai's back collided painfully against the ground and started to roll uncontrollably until he hit a rock. The forces of the hit turned the large rock into nothing but a bunch of little pebbles that were scattered all over the ground. Argai tried to get up only to fall to the ground limp.
"Damn it." He cursed as he faded in and out of consciousness.
"I can't die here, I still have many more achievements to complete." Where his last thoughts but before he completely passes out he felt an odd sensation run through his body almost like something was ripping out of his body. Then he blacked out.
However with magic he had, he gathered all water he could manage to and shot it in the giantess wave that was like a flood.
Daphne was stuck under the waves of water that kept hitting her from the trident. Over and over, if they kept that, she would not be able to hold on any longer.
Causing her to lose balance and fell, Argai used it as an opportunity to summon a huge wave that hit her pretty hard like a giant tsunami or a flood.
Under the water, he dragged and hit her enough that she lost what was left of her energy.
She absorbed a lot of magic, to her surprise the water around didn't just hit her,she felt as if robes were wrapped from water into her neck, trying to choke her.
She started fighting it, how poetic only by the dawn of this day she drowned an innocent kid,now here,she was getting drowned herself.
The oxygen was lacking and she started losing her consciousness, the moment she stop using magic would be her doom, the blasts she used will turn on her, she can't stop right now.
She gasped the last of air in her lung.
Feeling her chest tighten from the lack of air.
Harry swimmed around searching for her under the water, glimpsing golden lines, he ducked into the spot.
He waved his wand used one of scuba-spells to provide some oxygen to Daphne as he freed her from the water robes.
In her almost fainted state, she thanked him and he wrapped his hand around her waist to bring her up the water, her face was buried in the spot between his shoulder and neck, gathering her breaths.
He swimmed them to a neat land.
As he kneeled in front of her asking her if she was alright she nodded.
Looking at the beaten man at the other side,who albany also was drained.
Harry gave her a painful glance as he saw her beaten body,covered with dark wounds and blood and her hands were burned completely.
"Your hands…" he muttered.
"I will be fine," she smiled weakly, however, she stared behind him at the man that finally lost energy to fight.
"Seize him, he is the one who has the box," she told Harry.
Harry walked to the half conscious man, he used one handicap that drains magic and seized him, looking for the box in his pockets. He found it and took it from, to normal people it was just a. Rainy day, to Harry it was a war for more than 24 hour.
"Well, that was epic…" a husky voice behind them said.
"Who are you?" Harry commanded.
Azazel's right eyebrow rose unimpressed with his tone of voice, his face impassive. He decided to indulge the man.
"I am Azazel, prince of hell and a general of Lucifer's army. Now that I have graciously answered your question, might I be on my way to where I need to go?"
"Not quite. Why are you here?" Harry continued, ignoring his question.
As a human act of annoyance, Azazel rolled his eyes and turned his head to the only person he needed most " I am here for her,"
Azazel...my son! Lilith was reacting to her son.
'Shut up!' Daphne shouted at her.
Azazel...free me..
"What do you want, Azazel?" Daphne's voice was as icy as the frozen north. Her eyes were already beginning to darken as she prepared to summon nature's wrath to her aid if it proved necessary. The wind picked up slightly, blowing her long blonde tresses across her face, and he could see dark clouds beginning to form in the distance.
He knew his tone was bitter when he replied, but he couldn't help it. "It had been a long time since someone called me with that tone." He glared at Harry, who had been pointing his wand at him. "It is ironic that when I first met you, you were trying to "cure" yourself,"
A growl rumbled low in Harry's throat. "What do you want?"
"I have come to bring what belongs to the underworld."
Harry's aggressive stance hardened even more, looking at Daphne then back to the prince, who apparently knew about what's within Daphne.
"Leave!" Kou appeared out of nowhere growling.
Daphne on the ground was unable to focus because each word that came out of the demon's mouth was making that evil demoness within her struggle to come out, stones floated around her. She was barely conscious of what she was doing; she was deep in thought. Then Harry walked to himself besides Kou, carefully.
She was also starting to show the side effect of using magic
" I knew you would come one day." Daphne said to Azazel as he walked closer in front of her. He looked with his yellowish eyes straight into her eyes.
Harry on other hand was confused weather Daphne was the one answering or was the evil thing within her.
"Of course," Azazel replied, smiling warmly. " I've come to take you home."
" I have a home."
" Yes you do, you have a home and a family."
" You know he thinks your power is too great for you to control." Argai butted in from the tree that he was chained into.
"Argai." Kou warned
"No, I don't believe your mind games are going to work anymore Kou." Argai replied, looking at Daphne.
"Leave..." Daphne hissed at Azazel, knowing what he wanted.
She was right now battling Lilith who wanted to come out.
"No, I can feel mother in you. But I can help you, " Azazel replied, looking at her.
"No." Harry said, looking at Daphne. "Don't listen,"
"Help me? What's wrong with me?"
"Absolutely nothing." Kou said.
"Stop!" Harry yelled. He felt it in his bones, the struggles she was holding and enduring.
"Not this time, she was always held back!"
"For your own good Daphne, remember." Kou said, looking at her.
At that moment Daphne felt the presence of Lilith larger in her . Trying to probe her thoughts, to control.
"No." She whispered in a deadly voice.
" Perhaps you should listen to her Azazel." Argai said, a bit frightened "this was not in our deal,"
"Stay out of this,human." Azazel said again as more dust,trees and stone began to rise.
"Daphne, stop it." Harry said, jumping to her side, holding her face between his palms.
"No…" Tears were falling from her eyes as she was struggling, mentally.
"Listen to you. Listen to me, Your power is too great to control, look, you killed the innocent people ,and some who you loved but I can help you!"
"NO STOP IT!" Daphne screamed in grief and all the trees around shattered and the objects began to float up higher towards the sky.
"Daphne let me in!" Harry said. "Please, Love."
"NOOOOO!" Daphne shot her eyes, pushing Harry in the air, lucky for him.
Kou jumped behind him, holding him from crushing.
"Daph!" Harry screamed as the wind began to blow.
Her eyes turned metallic black and her lips and tinge of green. Her face darkened and her hair floated around her.
Abruptly, he was cut off by Daphne form, There were tears flooding down her porcelain skin, her
Her eyes were split by her demonic form's crack, . Her legs and arms were clad in a fuchsia skin patterns, the heels on her feet off setting her balance by a few inches, and her hair was a combination of her own and the demonic up.
She was in that monsterous form
Harry's eyes were wide as saucers as he observed the scene in front of him, the still human parts of his wife were struggling to turn into her demon counterpart's.
"Daph … ne …" Harry was slow to speak, mostly because he couldn't quite process what was in front of him..
"Daphne STOP!" Cried Harry as he saw Argai's skin and suit began to tear off of him. Daphne jumped up and and pushed Azazel with her palm at his face causing him to fly backwards with her on top of him.
Azazel used his wings to fly away. However Daphne didn't let him escape, her back skin sliced into long two scars,one on each side, and Harry couldn't read his eyes off the horrific sight.
Black bones appeared from the back of her and turned to tattered wings, Ad she jumped flying after Azazel, Calling his name with venom and thirst to shed blood and death around her.
"Come back you idiot!" Kou cried again, running after her.
Kou transformed and Harry jumped at his back following their leads, he could never have thought that he would ever see the possibility of evil in her.
"We need to stop her,no matter what!" Harry said, 'before she kills someone and lose everything,' it did not count killing a man with a sword, she hasn't used magic.
She was a dangerous threat to all of them, especially if she was unconscious.
Daphne kept chasing after the winged lord demon until she started to get pissed off from the chase asn in high speed,she throw her claws at him,
Hitting his left wing, causing him to fall.
She flashed in front of him and pinned his head to the floor, despite the heated skin like lava of his, she didn't feel it. Keeping him digged in the floor as she punched him, a punch as strong as a iron and weight as a mountain.
One after one, the demons crept in fear as they saw their lord beaten. lashing out with a rapid flurry of punches and kicks, but Azazel dodged them easily, weaving in a swift blur to avoid every attack that was thrown at her. He turned himself to a fire to escape but she kept following him.
Inhaling the fires from him, she was mother of demons, who was he to run from her.
The air around Azazel's hands darkened into a strange wave substance that shifted and rippled faintly like smoke, then he raised a hand and fired a sphere of the stuff at Daphne, who flew aside quickly.
The attack seemingly vanished into thin air, then suddenly reappeared and exploded at her back. She coughed from the force and staggered, her gaze flashing up, but not seeing Azazel. Where is he?!
"Here, little demoness."
As she whipped around as Azazel punched her in the stomach with the strange substance, making her gasp as she skidded to a stop. 'What IS that stuff?! It's hot, but..it's so heavy..almost like lead…'
Azazel showed no sign that he intended to explain himself , just smirked at the Demon, "How odd. I expected it to be harder for me to land a blow on you…perhaps you were just caught off guard? You probably haven't seen this magic. It is rather rare…"
Daphne retorted, facing her opponent again. Her demonic tail twitched slightly as she formulated a battle plan, then her wings exploded from her back and she flew at Azazel even faster than before.
Azazel widened in surprise before Daphne punched him in the jaw and made him go flying. Before he could stop, she appeared behind him and gave him another punch.
She once again jumped up into the air and flipped backwards to build speed, then shot down from the air and met Azazel in the mid of his distention with simultaneous punches, the force releasing a powerful shockwave.
Up,down,left, right…. She was like a cat playing with its ball.
Azazel turned his entire body to flames for protection, once he did that she did not stop instead she kept inhaling and eating his magic before she could eat him.
Killing a demon lord would cause a war between the worlds,
She smelled their fear and turned her attention to those ugly winged creatures, she flew to them at high speed to hunt them like hunting ladybugs in a garden, not even close.
Killing them with just a wave of her wing.
But it didn't satisfy her, she wanted more.
The horde of the demon prince appeared all to eat her, after smelling her.
Flying high enough to see the entire land,she smelled fire and felt the darkness.
Hearing lullabies from east and west, the magic told her of its Desire to return to her.
Mother of magic, raised her hands up and tilted her head back, pulling that magic up to her. Embracing it.
Come to mother...
"The fuck is happening now?" Harry hissed and fell on his knees, feeling gravity.
Hearing the loud scream of Kou as he curled on his knees in pain. Watching around all the monsters feel like dying flies, Before they could reach the ground, they turned into dust or smoke.
No, Ashes.
Azazel saw that as a golden chance to disappear, not caring for anything more than his own life.
She appeared in front of him smirking, talking in demonic tongue " You had stepped into Vasilia's territory…don't ever control my land again..."
He laughed at her. And out of the earth a chain of fires burst forth,
"Did you forget that I am a general?" Azazel chose to distract her with that fire to escape.
The demon general chose to burn the forest and its folk, while he escaped.
Once he disappeared,so were the flames.
Leaving the demoness on her own.
Everything went in slow motion to Harry, he saw what the woman he married was capable of doing.
The dark forces turned into snowflakes of ashes around him, covering the land.
Harry needed to stop her but was stopped in his place when her eyes spotted him.
The dark in them paralyzed them, she seemed distant, another person completely.
Harry's throat went dry as if he hadn't drunk a drop of water in days, gulping.
She moved, flying in his direction!
No… not him, she avoided him and went straight pass him
Choosing to follow her like a bloody stupid gryffindor that he was, he saw her flee straight Aragi leaning against a tree and she went to him.
Pinning him to the tree with her sland fingers, digging in his neck, inhaling his magic…
Feed...the word kept playing in her hear. He doesn't deserve magic kept thinking, he must get rid off it.
"Where did your arrogance go?" She smirked.
She threw him to the ground before she sat on top of him, gazing down at him,her nails trailed down his neck.
Kill the word played in her mind.
Her nails become sharper, ready to rip off the heart.
In a flash movement before she could touch him someone pulled Argai away from her reach while her hand was grasped by someone, by the wrist, pushing it aside.
Daphne's anger raised and used her other free hand to punish the person.
"Ouch!" Harry's voice ranged in her ear, as finally her senses started to return.
She looked up and saw nothing but her husband's face.
Harry was the one that caught her. He hugged her as tight to his body as he could.
Her eyes darted around to see the chaos, she did it again but Harry put a hand on her back, and drew circles, calming her down.
It didn't seize the panic,shock and horror in her eyes.
Her body started to show the affect of battle. Bruises and scars appeared on her flesh and blood watered out of them, droppi like tears of evil.
Harry flinched, from a wound down his side,where she hit him, but he cared less for that, his eyes darted behind him to see a blonde haired man with tainted skin, holding down Argai.
"By the name of the king of wizarding world Phobos you are arrested. You will be tried in a military court…" the man said as Argai laughed at his face.
As he finished arresting him, a woman showed up and took him and left.
The blond man turned in high to Harry and Daphne, the emerald eyes of Harry pointed at him, hesitating to tell him about this suddenly mysterious man.
Preparing himself to protect both him and Daphne,the latter grasped him faintly from arm.
"H-he is.. with us huh," She whispered into his chest with hard breathing.
Harry gulped as the man approached him,in very calm and steady moves.
He knelt in front of him and touched Daphne's heated and sweated face.
"She could not wait until we arrived, Eager as always," he sighed.
The woman apparated in front of them again bowing her head "Commander Potiphar, we had put the rebel in the prison but…" she paused and hesitated.
Harry turned to the man when he heard the name, no one has the name but his... brother-in-law.
"But what?"
The woman gulped "the head of guards Sam wasn't found…"
Putiphar turned to Daphne who managed to stay awake during conversation "sc..ped," pained,the witch kept talking.
"Fine,we captured one at least...you have done well," Putiphar patted her head. Before he looked up at Harry.
"You too, now we will finish the rest,take her back to the castle," he smiled warmly at Harry.
Yan Lin showed over to check her. "Tch, why do you all have to be so reckless! You, shity kids are so annoying! I hate humans!"
"Healer, is she alright?" Harry asked, hiding his frustration with her.
"Ummm… she's just weak. She should wake up in a week." She left them to check on others scattered around the nearly destroyed land.
Harry held Daphne close to him, "I told you to stay put! Why won't you listen to me!You almost gave me a heart attack" Almost tears could escape his eyes. He prays to every God he'd heard of for Daphne. He didn't let go of her. He sat down holding her. A weak breath hit his chest and he sighed in relief.
They finally finished this mission as he stared at her holding in the other hand the box.
The distracted land was not a scene someone could see everyday but all for the bloody box.
A loud growl was heard from the ground.
What was this energy!? From the heavens? Power and malicious intent radiated. Harry's mind failed to comprehend reason. His heart hurt,
Daphne's heart strained in its prison on her ribs when this power lashed out.
The earth under them began to ramble, an earthquake? Harry thought.
Daphne's heart squeezed painfully and silent screams tore from it as this earthquake lasted.
Fear… that was the common feeling they all shared at that moment.
Harry's heart told him to run, run away quickly and take Daphne with him. At the same time, the little boy inside him who cried every night for the mother who never had, the boy who wept for Cedric, for Arthur. It was ridiculous!
The earth cracked open everywhere, like a horrible earthquake would do.
Harry glanced down at the frightened girl who gasped at the scenery in front of her.
"Run…" was all that heard from her.
Harry's eyes darted to the beast, he saw dark and large foot landing, crushing down the ground, dark as night scales and giant claw.
Moving his eye slowly up, his heart almost stopping, his throat dry, fear.
He saw a giant dark scales Dragon with bloody two heads.
A Dragon!
Sorry guys for any mistakes.
Putiphar and Potiphar is literally the same name, despite the grammatical mistake,
I'm not usually good in describing battles but I have done my best to write it the way I imagined...
Btw Daphne's look in the battle in on my Tumblr page I have drawn it and posted it there love ...
See ya soon. Ciao XOXOXO