Garo Dark Hollow

ESKK: Well chapter 2 let's get this started people.

(Start Night Time Unknown Location)

A woman sat bound to a chair in a dark room. Her cloths ripped her body riddled with wounds as she stood there wide eyed and tear stained. Around her was masked men laughing at her as nearby a snapped wand laid abandoned and useless. She was young possibly a Hogwarts Student if one were to wager but as she sat there she was surrounded by such vile men.

"I must admit for a mudblood she was quiet a good lay." One of them said jeering at her over their defilement of her.

"Should show this filthy mudblood you cannot challenge a pureblood with their stolen magic." Another said as it was clear they had no intension to let her walk away from this Hell alive.

"Be that as it may." A third one began as the woman was wide eyed over the tone he used. She then heard a spell used and in turn she was forced to the ground while on the chair where she faced her snapped wand. "All good things must come to an end and I'm afraid our orders were clear." The man leading them said and in turn she knew what came next.

"No… Please stop. No!" The young woman begged as she knew they were about to kill her. "Please I'll do anything say anything just don't!" She begged as this only made the men laugh even harder at her in such a pitiful state.

"As much as we'd love to take you on that offer I'm afraid we cannot. But worry not we shall make it quick and painless." The man said and thus had his wand raised to the woman. "AVADA!" He began and in turn the young witch knew what came next for her.

"NO!" She yelled and in turn all slowed down to a halt.

"Do you wish to live?" A voice demonic, ominous, yet alluring spoke as she opened her eyes to find the world frozen solid. "Tell me young one do you wish to live?" The voice asked again and in turn she looked and saw her snapped Wand was glowing an ominous color.

"Wait what?" The Witch asked as she saw her Wand give off this aura.

"I asked you do you want to live." The voice repeated as the woman stood there shocked over the being's offer to ensure her life.

"I…" She began and in turn the being continued.

"I can save your life and make these Death Eaters pay… all I need is your acceptance of my offer." The being said and in turn as she looked she saw the Death Eater mid swing of his wand as he was about to invoke the second half of the Killing Curse. "So again do you wish to live?" The voice asked and in turn her survival instincts kicked in and with it her desire to live no matter the cost.

"Yes! Please save me don't let them kill me!" The young woman begged and in turn the creature chuckled to her.

"Very well." It smoke and from the snapped wand black smoke came forth and to the Witch's shock entered through her mouth and eyes causing her to cry out in shock and agony from the ordeal she now suffered.

When the deed was done time resumed and thus the Death Eater fired the spell. "KEDAVRA!" He invoked and thus the Killing Curse sickly green beam shot forth only to destroy a now empty chair. "What?" The leading Death Eater asked as he saw that their catch was gone. They had heard neither pop nor spell suggesting she used magic to free herself just then.

Suddenly a gurgled scream of agony was heard as soon all eyes fell to another Death Eater. What they saw was truly a horrific sight for any of them to behold. The escaped Mudblood had, to their horror, rammed her hand through the Death Eaters back and punched out his chest to show she now held his beating heart in her hand.

She smiled and then pulled her arm back with the heat still in her grip. Once she did so her jaw split open much to the Death Eaters fright and in turn they were forced to watch as their comrade was eaten by this Mudblood turned monster.

She then licked her lips almost sensually as they saw traces of blood on them. "You know there might just be something to blood purity." She said in a sensual manner. "Before I thought there were too many of you bigots but now… I think there isn't enough." She said and in turn she pounced on her prey. The only sound heard was the screams of terror and agony of the Death Eaters as they were torn apart by the Horror.

Come morning their heads would be found on pikes outside as the scene inside would make the responding Aurors vomits at the sight and smell.

(Scene Break Potter Residence the next morning)

In a dark room Harry Potter stood by his lonesome as he was now without his duster and only the Garoken in hand. As he stood there he waited and was thus rewarded with a massive axe blade coming straight for him. In response Harry spun and avoided it only for its brother come for him. Blocking the axe Harry forced the blade back before jumping away and avoiding another axe. The way Harry moved showed that he was not at all afraid by this situation. In fact it was more like he was training in this room.

As Harry moved and weaved while blocking and deflecting the axe blades it paid credence to it as the blades were not moving by way of unknown mechanisms. He then held the Garoken in both hands as the latest inheritor of the Golden Armor focused on his training to keep his body in top form. But during this his mind began to wander for but a moment to times that felt like a life time ago. With the events of the past two days, he could not help but think over the events that had led to him being in this position today.

At the age of fifteen he had walked out of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, having had enough of the backwards society and the corrupt people who allegedly ran it.

He had been planning it for a while, and had made the necessary arrangements for his escape. Knowing the politicians for the corrupt, money-grabbing bastards that they were, he had written to the Goblins of Gringotts Wizarding Bank and ordered that his family vaults be closed until such a time that he or one of his heirs should ever see fit to open them again.

He had enlisted Dobby the House Elf, an old friend of his, to find a derelict house in which he could reside. Following his leaving of Hogwarts, Dobby and twenty other house elves that he had persuaded to enter into Harry's employment had erected the most powerful protective wards that they could. Extra security was gained from the fact that House Elves used their own branch of magic, something that many wizards would fail to think to look for. After that they had gone to great lengths to make the house inhabitable.

The end result had been luxurious. Harry had gotten himself a quiet job that would pay for what few bills there were, and he settled in for a life of peace and solitude. But this lonely existence was not to last, however for fate had more in store for Harry.

In the July of that very year, just a few days after the Hogwarts Express would have taken the students home for the summer, Harry was on the receiving and of a most distressing vision; Voldemort and his Death Eaters had gone after Hermione and her parents in their family home.

Harry had thought that he could cut himself off completely, but he couldn't, not when it was her, not when she needed him so desperately.

At his instruction, Dobby and Harry led a rescue team of six other House Elves to the Granger family's house. As they blasted the Death Eaters into walls and recued Hermione, both her parents and her pet cat Crookshanks. But while Hermione's cat and parents were rescued Harry and Hermione were unable to escape that night for One Death Eater refused to stay down. It was then Harry and Hermione had their first interaction with a Horror. A dark beast who took every curse slung at it and hardly even flinched. The Unforgivables were even made useless in this regard as the duo were pushed into a corner. When all help seemed lost Harry and Hermione were suddenly rescued by a pair who would change their lives forever.

Their saviors were of the Order Harry and Hermione had joined long ago. During the chaos of the battle Harry involved himself in another task.

Forgetting everything that Snape had ever shouted at him amongst all the insults in their supposed occlumency lessons, Harry had closed his eyes, and concentrated. He concentrated on that point in his mind that told him when Voldemort was nearby; that point in his mind where the visions and dreams of the Dark Lord's actions came from. He found it and he attacked it. And in doing so he attacked the mind of the Dark Lord himself.

Snape had once said that giving Voldemort access to his emotions was giving Voldemort power over him, but it wasn't. It gave Voldemort ideas for whom to go after, true, but it was also a weapon that Harry could use against him. Voldemort did not understand many of Harry's emotions, and love in particular was one emotion whose concept he completely failed to grasp. In fact the emotion of love was something that hurt him. Once upon a time, the love that Harry's mother had had for her son in life was enough to destroy Voldemort's physical being. And now Harry used his love, the love he felt for Hermione, to torture Voldemort's mind.

Harry had no idea what happened to Voldemort immediately following that, though the Dark Lord never attempted to torture Harry through mind games again.

Of course with that task done Harry had to focus on the current problem. As the man in robes helped move them to safety the Horror transformed and to Harry surprise was quiet large. The surprised didn't end there as their savior the one with sword in hand underwent his own transformation. Raising the sword to the heavens he summoned forth a Golden Armor and did battle against the foe. But alas the tides were not in his favor as he was quickly pushed to a corner and in turn disarmed. From there Harry's saving people thing kicked in and thus ran to where the sword landed.

But try as he might the sword would NOT budge from its spot. Harry's struggle alerted the beast of his intention and thus it went after Harry. Acting fast Hermione fired a spell at its eye stinging it with a Bombarda and thus turning its attention to her. The Knight acted and defended Hermione while his ally erected a shield to help and in this moment the sword finally budged. Acting fast Harry swung the blade at the beast causing it great pain and thus the Knight pushed his foe back and away from Harry. Taking back his blade the warrior cut down the Horror and thus saved Harry.

With the chaos ended Harry turned his focus to more important things to deal with, though; most important being the crying young witch who had thrown herself into his arms the second she realized he was there. The man looked at Harry and made a comment that surprised him after the armor vanished that night.

"You have a gift young one."

When he said this Harry and Hermione were given items without their knowing before they vanished from sight thanks to Dobby.

When they arrived to safety Harry was, of course, treated to a lecture about running away instead of talking to her, but with her emotions running high and her guard down (and a few pointed words from Hermione's mother Emma) Harry realized that her anger was not so much at the fact that he did a runner, but more at that he didn't take her with him. They had been inseparable ever since.

Following that night, Harry had allowed himself a temporary concession to his refusal to re-enter the Wizarding World; Hermione wanted to send a letter for Professor McGonagall, announcing her withdrawal from Hogwarts School, and Harry was damned if he was going to let her got to the post office in Diagon Alley all on her own.

Dobby had used a bit of Elf magic to give Harry a disguise that managed to successfully fool everyone.

Everyone that is, except for one person: Garrick Ollivander.

Harry had no idea how or when the old wand maker had spotted who he really was, but Harry and Hermione had ended up standing next to the man in the post office. Ollivander had taken a wand from his pocket and surreptitiously pushed it into Harry's hand, which grasped it out of instinct. None of them said anything, but when Ollivander had finished with his business in the Post Office, he had Harry a subtle wink and then walked off.

Back at home, Harry had tested the wand and found that is worked well for him, so he decided to keep it. The attack on Hermione had proved to him that he could not escape the influences of the wizarding world quite as easily as he had hoped. But at that same day the warrior and his magical ally found them and for Hermione it felt like being taken to Hogwarts for her first year all over again. Only this time the warrior and his magic using alley gave them the offer and the cold hard truth.

Harry could never forget the shell shock the family and himself all felt when they found out their world was the hunting ground for Horrors and humans were their prey. But it was tempered with knowing that there were those who chose to become the hunters themselves instead of remaining as the prey. In turn they were offered the chance to join as well… well Harry Hermione volunteered herself. Her parents were against it and honestly so were the warriors. He only gave the offer to Harry due to his ability to use Soul Metal the alloy their order uses in their tools.

Hermione's reasons for abandoning the wizarding world were quite understandable. With Harry's departure, Hermione had discovered that her friendship with Ron was not quite as close as she had thought. In fact, in Harry's absence, Ron had made a play for dominance, and had been marginally successful. Of course, having girls like Lavender Brown hanging onto his every word had gone straight to his head and within a month of Harry's absence, Ron had become someone whom Hermione could no longer stand to be around.

Then there was the Ministry.

The running of Dumbledore's Army was one of the many things that Ron had attempted to hijack in order to garner more favor (another being top Quidditch player). Completely forgetting the need for secrecy, he had blabbed about it in the middle of a corridor in an attempt to impress a group of sixth-year Hufflepuff girls. Unfortunately Pansy Parkinson had overheard him and went running to Professor Umbridge.

in retrospect, calling themselves "Dumbledore's Army" had been a bad move, as that name alone was enough for the Ministry to boot Dumbledore out of Hogwarts and grant Umbridge even more power over the students. She had set up a group of students known as "The Inquisitorial Squad" to help in her reign of terror. One of their powers had been to take house points from students who misbehaved. It was something they abused terribly, and in the first week alone, Hermione had lost seven hundred points for "being a Mudblood". No one in a position of power seemed to even bat an eyelid.

The final nail in the coffin for Hermione's desire to be a part of the wizarding world was the attack on her. Well, not so much the attack itself, but two of the people involved.

Severus Snape, someone Dumbledore insisted everyone trust in despite their better judgement, had taken great joy in holding her mother under the cruciatus curse, whilst Draco Malfoy, a student in their year group and one of the Inquisitorial Squad's worst offenders, had been there on a training mission and had been one of the ones to hold Hermione herself under the cruciatus curse.

They received a reply letter from Professor McGonagall two days after Hermione sent hers, and their now former head of house was quite sympathetic, and accepted Hermione's withdrawal, though, she admitted, it pained her to lose such a promising student. She had assured them that she would be having strong words with Dumbledore.

What she had said to him, neither of them knew, but Dumbledore definitely got wind of her desire to leave the school for he wrote her a letter, insisting that it was not safe for her beyond Hogwarts wards. Apparently Aurors had arrived at her house mere minutes after her escape, and they had seen a barely conscious Voldemort make his escape. The Ministry had now retracted all their denouncements of Voldemort's return, and Dumbledore was now back in power at Hogwarts. Predictably in his letter, he made excuses for Snape, chief amongst them being that he was a spy who sometimes had to do terrible things in order to conserve his position, as well as how much Dumbledore trusted the man.

The usual tripe.

He also insisted that efforts were already being made to "bring young Draco back to the light."

Hermione's letter in response had been disrespectful, snarky and, at times, downright vicious. Using five years' worth of evidence, se rubbished every claim as to the supposed safety of Hogwarts, suggested hanging Draco by the neck from the rafters above the Great Hall as a warning against the other Junior Death Eaters, and pointed out that having a spy in amongst the Death Eaters was only useful so long as anyone acted on the information given, as reacting helped no one.

Dumbledore had not tried again.

They heard nothing more from the wizarding world for about a year and a half. With this done knowing full well Harry would join and Hermione would follow the couple conceded to this much to their visitors chagrin. But they came to a compromised in which Dan and Emma had convinced the pair to continue their muggle education through the use of tutors with the plan being to eventually go to university if this path they took did not work out. Needless to say the Order had similar ideas for members who joined as outsiders. From what the pair found out they had agents all over the world in high up places to cover up Horrors and unlike the Wizarding world they were far more efficient and dedicated to secrecy.

Then one day, completely out of the blue an owl turned up, carrying a letter for Hermione. It was from Luna. Her father had been killed in a Death Eater attack, and she needed help. She was under the age of seventeen and she was an orphan. This meant that it was up to the Ministry to decide what to do with her. Some of the more prominent families had made very generous offers to look after her, offers that the Ministry was seriously considering, especially with the amount of gold switching hands. Unfortunately these families were also the families of the Death Eaters that run around right under the Ministry's nose without being noticed.

The letter was a plea for help, and neither Harry nor Hermione could find it in themselves to refuse. Dobby brought Luna to them half an hour after the letter's arrival. Luna had brought with her terrible news. Every day more and more Muggleborns were disappearing. With each passing school holiday fewer and fewer were returning to the castle, and an ever increasing number of students would arrive in the Great Hall in the morning where the Owl Post would leave them distraught at the sight of a black envelope. These came from Ministry and were used to report deaths of family members.

The light side was losing badly.

Despite his repeated failed attempts to do so, Dumbledore was still putting considerable effort in his plans to bring Draco Malfoy back to the light, even going so far as to make him Head Boy this year. He abused it immensely, of course.

Since the attack on Hermione, Draco's known actions had resulted in Katie Bell spending six months of what was supposed to be her seventh year in St. Mungo's Hospital (she was now repeating that year), the poisoning of Professor Slughorn, who had stepped into the role as potions master after Snape moved over to teach Defense, and it was only the quick thinking of a group of students in a club that he ran that saved his life, a shocking attack on three third year Muggleborns (two Hufflepuffs and a Ravenclaw), none of whom returned to Hogwarts after the Christmas break, an explosion in the corridor on the fifth floor that resulted in Susan Bones and Hannah Abbott spending a week in the hospital wing, and a whole range of curses and injuries that befell many a student. Dumbledore, of course, insisted that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing on Draco's part (even though he and everyone else knew that there was), but no one listened to him. They knew it was Draco and his cronies. Just as they knew he was at least partly responsible for so many of them losing family members, especially amongst the D.A. students.

And no matter how much Dumbledore insisted, none of them trusted the Head Boy, just as none of them now trusted Professor Snape.

"Through his own actions or inactions, he both created Voldemort and drove Harry away," Hermione had said to that. "And he's trying to ease his soul in a misguided attempt to bring out traits in Snape and Malfoy that simply are not there."

"And in doing so" Harry had continued the thought "he's alienating himself from the rest of the school, as well as driving the wedge between Slytherin House and the other three houses even deeper."

And it was true, Luna had admitted. The more and more Dumbledore let Draco off, the worse and worse he got, and the more he and his cronies thought they could get away with.

Katie, Slughorn, Hannah, Susan and the three Muggleborns could probably have died and Dumbledore still would not have given up on Draco.

The man was not fit to lead anymore, and the Ministry was failing.

Harry now saw even less reason to return, and Hermione and Luna agreed with him. IT was best if they just let nature run its course with them and let them learn the hard way.

It was Hermione's mother who had come up with a good suggestion, however. They had Luna provide them with a list of vulnerable students and gave them a way out. The4 Makai Order provided the needed resources to make it happen and in turn tried to save as many as they could. Not many of them took it, most of the Muggleborns that hadn't already been killed had fled, and most of the purebloods were far too proud to consider living in the muggle world, no matter how much of a danger their lives were in in the wizarding one.

They'd gotten some out, however, and simply made contact with others. Some of those they had gotten away, like Justin Finch-Fletchley, had left the country. Others like Lilith Moon accepted the offer to stay with them. Those who they made contact with, like Neville Longbottom, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones and Tracey Davis had agreed to keep an eye on things, and point anyone who could benefit from Harry, Hermione and Luna's help in their direction and by extension the Makai Order. This allowed them for a wider recruitment drive and with a surge of new recruits meant more allies to place in high places in this never ending war against the Horror scourge. It also meant more allies in the front lines to fight off the Horrors as they enter their world through gates.

Harry continued his training until all of a sudden the axe Blades stopped. When they did so they began to return to their spots on the mechanism hidden away in the dark room. Once they were gone a pop was heard and from it Dobby was seen holding a red letter for Harry to read.

"Letter came for Great Knight Harry Potter sir." Dobby said as he handed the letter in question over to Harry.

Harry took the letter and drew the Madou Lighter which he then used to light the letter. Dobby was not at all worried as he had seen Harry do this a good number of times. The letter turned to ash almost instantly but then the ash began to form a message in an unknown language.

"A Horror has appeared the Watchdog ordains its extermination report to the Watchdog Sight."

When Harry finished reading the message vanished and thus left Harry and Dobby alone in the room. "Dobby well help the great Harry Potter Sir and his loyal missus Hermy prepare." Dobby said as he smiled up to Harry on this.

(Later in the Potter Library)

Hermione was reading through another book as nearby on her work bench were several Madou Tools she had been developing. Upon joining the order Hermione was of course enraged that only men could don the armor until she learned of Yaiba and the stress the armor puts on the body. Men were the only ones who can donned it because their bodies were able to handle it better as Yaiba was specially made for woman in mind. It's the only one of its kind thus Hermione had to swallow her pride and accept it for now. Still from what she heard the current Yaiba was showing the men that a woman can be as good as Knight as any of them.

Anyway when she had joined the order Hermione did it to stay by Harry's side in whatever way it may entail for the girl. Despite her master who taught her everything she knew Hermione was an astute study and a fast learner in everything save one aspect of being a Priestess, improvising on the spot. From what she understood Horrors were crafty and cruel and would use any advantage they could get even hostages to avoid their deserved fate. Hence why it took her more than 2 years to be ready to graduate for lack of better terms. Her master no doubt while being an unretentive pervert knew what he was talking about when he said Hermione needed to stop thinking and just do.

While her improve ability by the end of it still had much to be desired that can still be fixed with field experience. Besides if anyone can think on his feet and act then Harry more than fit the bill. But there was another aspect of Hermione that was able to be useful to Harry in combatting Horror's. Back in Hogwarts she was top of her class in Runes, Arthomancy, and all of her professors noted her excellent research skills. Thus it was through this she found herself with the unique gift to construct Madou tools and equipment for Harry.

She was thankful Harry and the Order had taken this once destitute home and turned it into a place to live. It was now similar to a small estate and seeing as Harry was the newest Golden Knight his own master the Garo before Harry ensured he would be well off for years to come. But Hermione won't lie to herself that looking around the home it now looked like a nice place one could raise a growing family in. Thoughts for a later date as Hermione heard the door open and from it Harry walked into her large library.

"Hermione we've been summoned." Harry said to which Hermione knew he was speaking of the Watchdog who oversees this domain.

"I'll be right out, Harry." Hermione said and in turn began to grab her gear.

(Later in the Dining room)

Harry stood before the perch that held Madou Ring Zaruba who waited for him. As Harry stood there Dobby had helped his master in equipping his Madou Robes ensuring it was pressed and ready for his departure. Dobby won't lie when he says he absolutely hated seeing Harry go off to fight these vile Horrors. But it was a task that needed to be done and until a day when the world could truly be free of Horrors then this battle against Makai shall continue. Once Harry was all set he smiled down at Dobby who soaked up the smile from the Great Harry Potter.

"Thank you, Dobby." Harry said and thus Dobby nodded to Harry just as Hermione walked out in her full gear. Once he was ready Harry took the Madou Ring and held him in his hands. "Zaruba, time to get to work." Harry said as Zaruba heard this.

"Truly Harry? And here I was hoping for a tad bit more time off." Zaruba said as he was then placed on Harry's left middle finger by Harry himself. Once all was prepared Harry and Hermione nodded to each other and walked off as Dobby remained to mine the house and ensure it was spiff and spam for their return from the hunt.

(Scene Break Hogwarts Headmasters Office)

Albus Dumbledore was sitting in his office at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, going over the events of the past two decades in his mind. Every thought came back to Harry Potter.

It was the magical protections that had been placed around Harry Potter by his mother that had routed Voldemort back in 1981. It was Harry Potter that bore the mark that proved he was the child prophesized to defeat Voldemort once and for all. It was Harry Potter that Dumbledore himself had condemned to a loveless childhood by placing him on the doorstep of his magic-hating Aunt and Uncle. It was Harry Potter who had come into the Wizarding World and thwarted Voldemort's attempt to use the Philosopher's Stone to regain power. It was Harry Potter who had overcome great adversity to take down the deadly Basilisk that resided inside the Chamber of Secrets. It was Harry Potter's blood that Voldemort had used to return himself to a state of living.

And most importantly, it was Harry Potter who had been pushed to breaking point and abandoned the Wizarding World to what he obviously thought to be its well-deserved fate.

Everything came back to Harry Potter.

For the last two years, Dumbledore had searched far and wide for Harry Potter. Despite the boy's parting letter in the Daily Prophet, renouncing the Wizarding World and all that it stood for, Dumbledore could not bring himself to truly believe that Harry would return to the Muggle world; as a man who believed, at least on some level, that wizards were superior to Muggles, such an idea had struck him as ridiculous. Harry's upbringing within the Muggle world was far from the best, the Dursley family made sure of that.

No, Dumbledore had been sure that Harry had not returned to the Muggle world, and so had isolated his search to the wizarding world. As well as concentrating on the war effort, he had used his resources to scour every wizarding population in every country on the planet in an attempt to find Harry Potter. Dumbledore knew that Harry was essential in besting Voldemort the Prophesy would not allow it any other way to it. He had to focus what tools he could in locating Harry but none of his monitoring tools could do the job. Worst of all his access to the Potter Vault had been removed as Harry had sealed the vault before his departure from their community.

But with Harry out of the picture Voldemort has been making strides in his return to power. If Harry was not found soon many would suffer for it. Draco and the other Death Eaters would fail to see the error of their ways and return to the light, and if Harry does return their might not be much of a world left to save. He had to try something everything he could and then one thought sprang to mine… bait. Harry was known for his desire to save people so what better way to draw Harry out then to orchestrate a situation where he would undoubtedly jump in to save as many as he could.

But such a drastic action would put many in the crossfire. But alas it would seem that the greater good demanded it of the headmaster. Thus with his decision made he proceeded to call upon Snape to make the needed arrangements as his inside man.

(Scene Break Harry and Hermione)

The duo began to enter an abbey as they were all calm about it. The Abby was a safe haven from the Horrors which allowed Muggles and Wizards alike to wait out a Horror attack until the sunrise come morning. They were met with the Bishop who over saw the abbey and with a small bow to the man allowed the two passage inside.

Harry and Hermione eventually arrived at stray archway that seemingly lead to a dead end. But when they presented to the archway the Garoken the wall glowed and formed into a gateway which Harry and Hermione then made their way inside.

(Later inside the Watchdog Sight)

As Harry and Hermione entered the inner chamber they saw only darkness and emptiness within. At first they would have thought nothing of it but they knew better. Just then the lights came on revealing to them a fine silk cloth covered throne with a young woman lazily laying upon it towering over her visitors.

"Well you two are certainly quick on the uptake." She said while watching Harry walk up to a wolf statues. Once he got close Harry drew the Garoken and stabbed it into the statues open maw. When the blade entered the wolf statue its eyes began to glow red as smoke spewed from its mouth. The process was a short one thankfully as soon when Harry removed the Garoken the statue produced a demonic looking dagger. The dagger hovered for a moment before it flew over to the woman who placed it upon a silk pillow to join other daggers. "Fear not that Horror will be returned to Makai." She said in a bored tone as she then turned her gaze upward to relax some.

"You have a job for us, what is it Madam Aria." Hermione said as the Watchdog sat and heard Hermione's words.

"Did I call you?" The Watchdog, Madam Aria began as she scratched her head a bit trying to recall the memory in question. "It's so hard to remember when dealing with so many Knights especially with recent times." Madam Aria said as the domains Watchdog didn't seem well invested with her guests right now.

Of course while what she said did bring concern to the pair they also knew that they had more important issues at the moment. With a Horror currently on the loose, any moment they waste is a moment too long that the Horror continues to roam about in the world.

"You mentioned a Horror had recently appeared in the world." Harry reminded and thus Aria remembered sighed now remembering it.

"Ah yes I did forgive me old age and stress seems to tamper with my memories at times." She spoke as she reached out and took a sweet from a small bowl before she proceeded on to eat the sweet. "Yes I did in fact call you, a particularly vile Horror has appeared with an odd taste for Magical Purebloods." Aria said which of course surprised the duo before her.

"So Death Eaters are a prime target." Hermione said as she realized this might force them to return to a world they swore to avoid.

"Perhaps but the Horror is also partial to magical Half-bloods so our newest Golden Knight is walking live bait." Aria said while she took another sweet and plopped it into her waiting mouth. "As much as I'm sure you would like to let the Horror do as it pleases considering your history we are duty bound to eliminate it." She said to which Harry would be lying if he said he had not considered it for but a brief moment. "So my suggestion to you both, go in, cut it down, and get out." Aria said as her tone suggests she would not take no for an answer on this.

"Very well." Hermione cut in as she knew this was a sore area for Harry as it was for her. Thankfully she was mature enough to be professional and do the job even if it meant saving bigots from a Horror they may have had a role in bringing forth.

"Good the Horror was last seen nearby close to Diagon Alley I suggest starting there." Aria said and thus with a small bow the duo took their leave of Aria.

(Scene Break with the Horror)

The Horror sat upon a bench waiting for night to fall while reading the Daily Prophet. She scoffed to it as how it had written her handiwork the prior night. How a group of 'upstanding Wizarding Citizens,' were brutally murdered by a beast of unknown origins. The Horror scoffed when in truth this was an act of self-defense when they had abducted her and both tortured and raped the girl. Not her fault the public didn't like how she went about defending herself that night. Still it mattered not since they were hardly her first victims upon her rebirth and they will not be her last. She would not stop her retaliation against these retched animals not until every pureblood was wiped off from the face of the earth itself. And when every pureblooded magic using animal was slaughtered she'll move on to the next target to satisfy her hunger.

But she had another reason for being here during the day. She was waiting for the sun to set yes but her last victim had informed her of a planned Death Eater attack occurring tonight. This was her chance to binge eat since they would all be gathered in one place for her like pigs brought to the slaughter house. And tonight for these little pigs she would be their butcher in her desired revenge. With this in mind she continued to wait as she saw how the sun travelled across the horizon getting ever so closer to the sunset. Licking her lips in anticipation the Horror could hardly wait especially when she saw Death Eaters were preparing to strike

(Scene Break Harry and Hermione)

Harry and Hermione arrived at the crime scene where Aurors were investigating with great detail. Already the remains were carried away as people went about their day with the Aurors continuing their search of the area for any clues on who did this and why. Even from out here Harry caught sight of the scene inside when they opened the door again and it was not a pretty picture. Even though this was not their first time seeing the brutality of a Horror it was still a gruesome sight to behold be you newly minted or hardened and experienced veterans.

"Zaruba the Horror formed and fed here correct?" Harry asked as he looked to Zaruba.

"Yes it did." The Madou Ring responded as he looked back to his current partner.

"Is there a trail we can follow?" Hermione asked as she looked to the ring.

"Yes it is faint we best trail it before it fades any further." Zaruba urged knowing full well the Horror could start feeding at any moment if they did not hurry.

"Lead the way, Zaruba." Harry said and in turn both the newest Golden Knight and his bushy haired Makai Priestess partner chased down the trail the Horror left behind.

(Scene Break later that Night)

Later that evening the Horror had vanished from her bench when night had fallen upon London. Long had she waited for this and now she could finally enjoy her meal. But first things first her meal had to arrive first. Moving through the darkness she saw how one by one Death Eater popped into existence preparing for their attack on this muggle area. Ever since Harry Potter left the Death Eater threat had made itself known to the Wizarding World. Forcing Harry to leave was now biting Magical London in the ass for now they had no savior to protect them save for Dumbledore himself.

She waited patiently until the last Death Eater arrived and then she went about to wait with anticipation. The minute they start moving will be the moment she strikes and in turn start to feed. Eventually the first spell was prepped and thus the Horror knew her time was now.

(Meanwhile with the Death Eaters)

The Death Eaters were the superior people in this world. Their magic was inherited by right of blood and they're world was alive because of them and now these dirty animals were polluting their society. They had to do this they had to remind these pests that they do not belong nor do their tainted blood deserve the magic the stole from them. With this in mind they were about to set fire to this muggle building to show these animals who their betters were.

But before any action could be taken a dark alluring laughter was heard from the shadows not unlike that of Bellatrix Lestrange but somehow worse. "I spy I see lovely little lambs walking into the wolf's den." The voice spoke as the Death Eaters looked around for the voices source.

"Whose there?" The leader asked as he glared about for the owner of the voice.

"Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly." The voice said until its owner fell down between them group and grabbed both of them causing a scream of terror to occur when her mouth split open. Following it up the screams were gurgled out as the Horror ate the fools whole before she had spells fired on her. The Killing Curse hit her and thus she raised her head and turned to her foes to reveal pitch black eyes to them. "Did you just try to curse kill me?" She asked to the horrified Death Eaters who looked upon her soulless empty eyes. They stepped back in fear as they saw the Horror before them. "You did, you did try to curse kill me." She answered for them and thus made her way to the fools who attack.

In response the Death Eaters scattered as they tried to get away from this monster. Spell fire were sent but none of their curses or hexes affected this demonic beast. She grabbed another and proceeded to consume him next before decapitating another with nails extended into claws. Blood spewed and even splattered across the window to show those outside what gores were going on inside. The Death Eaters tried to go for the door but were unable as the Horror now had them properly cornered.

It seems fear had blocked the memory of their own methods of escape as they tried to fire their spells at her only to watch helpless as those spells bounced off the Horror. "Oh how delicious that you who victimized others like this now find yourself like this." She said with her face and stained with blood and her mouth covered in the crimson liquid. Licking her lips they saw her salivating as the saliva melted into the floor when it landed steaming from where it hit stone. "I'm going to enjoy this." The woman said but before she could act talismans hit her back and the wall behind the Death Eaters.

First the talisman on her back went off causing the Horror to cry out in pain as the Death Eaters found a hole made for their desired escape. "Run." Came a male voice and without being told a second time the Death Eaters ran away from the scene.

"No!" The Horror roared out in defiance as her eyes returned to being human like. In response she proceeded to give chase but before she could go far Harry suddenly spun out from behind the hole and then slammed his arm into the Horror's neck. The action had in turn caused the Horror to flip and fall to the ground feeling a bit of pain from that surprise attack. Harry with the Garoken raised slashed down upon the Horror who rolled out of the blades path. Getting back up Harry took a battle stance as Hermione came in and joined her best friend and closest partner.

"Hermione is the Horror trapped here?" Harry asked as he looked to Hermione from the corner of his eye.

"Yes it can't escape." Hermione added knowing they had the Horror trapped here with them both.

The Horror glared at the two before her as they began to circle around each other ready for battle. But as they did so the Horror's eyes narrowed at them in instant recognition of them. "Wait… I know you two." She said as the memory came back to her. "Yes two years ago, I was but a 5th year student at Hogwarts when you both attended." The Horror said as Harry and Hermione saw her outfit with a Hufflepuff crest etched onto her Hogwarts uniform. "Yes Harry Potter and Hermione Granger what are you doing helping those Animals!?" the Horror demanded as she glared at the two before her with contempt etched into her eyes.

"We're not helping them we're trying to stop you, Horror!" Harry yelled as he glared at the Horror before him.

"Traitor!" She yelled while pointing an accusing finger at the duo who stood before her. "They deserve what they were getting they ALL do!" The Horror yelled as she glared at the two. "They have murdered and raped hundreds of victims and were all given nothing short of a slap on a wrist if they ever get punished at all!" The Horror yelled as she was no doubt angry and rightfully so one might add.

"I can't say I don't agree at times." Harry admitted as he looked away from the Horror standing before him. "But." He went on and then glared straight at the Horror. "That is not your place to decide and this is not your world to feed in!" Harry yelled as she glared at the Horror who currently stood before him.

Snarling a bit her growl was more demonic beast like even as she glared at her foes before charging at them with a roar. The battle started as Hermione moved back and Harry met his foe head on. They in turn began a fight worthy of a martial arts action flick with their movements. Though it was clear that Harry's ability were from harsh physical training the Horrors own attacks were wild and savage. Harry performed a spin kick which the Horror avoided before she back flipped to kick Harry in the chin. Harry avoided it and then blocked a punch from the Horror before pushing back the demon.

This went on for a tad bit longer as they were clearly trying to one up the other in this. Knowing she needed more room the Horror jumped upward to one of the high bridges. In her attempt to keep away from Harry though the Horror made a mistake that led her to Hermione's neck of the woods up above. With her Madou Brush in hand Hermione fired spells at the Horror as she got hit with one that caused her pain. Seeing Hermione the Horror tried her best to avoid the attacks as best she could.

Unaware to the Horror Harry seeing the fight began jumping upward and met the Horror on the other side of the bridge. This caused the Horror to be forced to fight off her enemies from both sides of the battle in an attempt to find some space so she can properly fight back. The Horror then blocked both attacks and used her strength to push the two hunters back. She then followed it up with a spin kick which Hermione dodged but Harry did not. Falling off the side Harry acted fast and grabbed the ledge of the bridge and used the momentum to spin himself under the bridge and back atop it. Seeing this Hermione and Harry proceeded to use their weapons and forced the Horror to the railing and had it pinned where it current stood.

The Horror snarled in fury as she was forced into this current position and realizing she had to use her hidden ability to free herself. Shooting out from her back were what appeared to be insect like legs that went about to try stabbing the two. Harry and Hermione seeing this got out of the way. This gave the Horror an opening to use those insect based legs to get away from her current foes. She jumped back down to ground level with a smirk as she now had more room to fight the duo. Seeing their foe Harry and Hermione jumped back down and took a battle stance ready for whatever else the Horror had up her sleeves here. Once they were back on ground level the two once more attacked as the Horror used her new appendages to fight back against the hunters.

Harry and Hermione were forced to block and deflect the attacks from the Horror knowing what it was doing. She then moved her body about after planting the legs to the ground and started attacking both Harry and Hermione from the air. After a few good shots in she jumped around and headed back to the hole Hermione had made to let the Death Eaters out as much as she hated letting those bigots go. Once the Horror was there she retracted her legs and began to charge out and escape. But it seems that would not be the case as the minute she hit the threshold of the boarder the Horror was electrocuted and thus forced back by the barrier Hermione had erected prior.

"Were you not paying attention?" Hermione asked as she and Harry began to approach the Horror currently glaring at them. "You're trapped in here with us and there are only two ways to get out." Hermione said and thus the Horror got angry when she realized what Hermione had meant.

"Horror, you will be cut down." Harry said as he pointed directly at the Horror with his Garoken, ready to do battle.

"Damn you…" The Horror growled as she looked downward causing her face to be covered by her hair. "DAMN YOU FUCKING TRAITORS!" The Horror roared out its rage in its native tongue as she raised her head to reveal that her face now looked more like a spiders face now just before it twisted upside down on a grotesque manor. Her body began to tear apart as and from within the host a large demonic Arachne like Horror was formed.

"Arachne Apostille Horror, Madama Okta." Zaruba spoke getting Harry and Hermione's attention on the duo. "She is quiet the troublesome one, be warry of her claws that serrate a powerful venom, and be warry of her acidic fangs they will melt you to open up your insides which she finds quiet juicy." Zaruba said as Harry understood the Madou Rings warning to him and Hermione.

Harry and Hermione then heard the Horror roar before it went on the attack opting the two to dodge in order to avoid the demon. Once they landed Harry had the Garoken drawn ready for battle which he then raised it skyward once more. Opening the portal Harry summoned his armor and not long after Garo stood in Harry's place snarling at the wretched Horror.

"Your darkness." Garo began as he dropped into his battle stance. "I will cut it away." Garo said as he took a battle stance grinding the Garoken against his left gauntlet.

"Golden Knight?!" The Horror gasped as it realized who stood before her. "GARO!" The Horror roared out with fury and in turn went on to attack Garo.

Garo of course managed to block the attack with his Garoken before forcing his foe back. Once that was done Garo jumped away and avoided the Horrors attack on him. As Garo stood atop the walk bridge the Horror fired off its acidic venom from its mouth opting Garo to run to the side and avoid it. Garo was then cornered as the Horror saw this and proceeded to fire more of its attack. Garo jumped down and slashed through the attacks and once he was close enough slashed at the Horror causing it pain.

The Horror stumbled back from Garo's attack as Garo landed a bit away from it. As the Horror reeled from Garo's last attack it glared at the Golden Knight in contempt over what he did. Garo in response charged in taking the initiative and began to hack and slash at the Horror. The Horror in response tried her best to keep Garo at bay but Okta was no match for the properties of Soul Metal. Garo then forced his way to an opening and jumped up to the large Horror's and kicked her demonic face before jumping onto her back. Once Garo was there he stabbed the Garoken into her back and began to slam his fist into her which had enough strength knock her forward as Garo freed himself. While airborne Garo slashed at the Horror's acid attacks as she had turned around to face the Golden Knight.

Once Garo landed she charged in and used her claws to attack intent to end the Golden Knight here and now. But Garo managed to not only avoid it he charged past her and with the Garoken severed one of her arms causing the Horror a great deal of agony. Okta snarled as she jumped back and stuck to the wall while gripping the stump that used to be her arm.

"Hermione!" Garo called out and thus Hermione was on the case.

"Right!" Hermione called out and in turn with her Madou Brush made a path for Garo to use so he could at last end this Horror and this hunt. It was a path of mystic platforms which Hermione summoned for Garo to use here. Garo began to jump between the platforms his Priestess ally made for him as the Horror in retaliation fired off a barrage of venom shots to stop the Golden Knight. Garo in response easily slashed through them as they came while he closed the distance between himself and Okta. Once Garo got close enough he jumped upward and sliced through the Horror creating a glowing gash that seemingly split it in half. Garo then used the Horrors shoulder to land on the wall where Hermione had a seal set up for Garo to stick on.

Looking upward to his foe Garo roared out and jumped passed the Horror slashing through her separating her head and the right side of her torso from the rest of her body. Garo then landed on the ground with his boots grinding him to a halt as the Horror fell behind him defeated by the legendary Golden Knights own sword. Once the Horror landed its body began to glow for but a moment before bursting into black smoke where it then absorbed into the famous Garoken to be sealed away.

Once the battle came to an end Garo stood up straight and swung his sword to the side before the armor retracted reverting Garo back into Harry. The former Boy-Who-Lived stood there for a moment before proceeding to sheath the Garoken back into its scabbard. He then looked over to Hermione and in turn the two shared a small smile with each other on another successful Horror hunt.

(Meanwhile nearby)

The Order of the Phoenix were staking out the area a Death Eater attack was to occur according to Severus. Dumbledore had sent them out to respond to it as soon as possible and they were there just as anticipated. But just as the first spell was fired the Death Eaters were heard screaming in terror as it sounded like some sort of monster was unleashed upon them. Following it up was the wall blowing up and the Death Eaters running away in terror from whatever was inside.

Aurors were of course called but when they looked inside the investigate they saw Hermione Granger of all people inside the location. Following it up was a Warrior in some sort of Golden Fanged armor fighting against some sort of demon like Knights of the era of Merlin. What surprised them was with Hermione's assistance the warrior had managed to slay the creature with only his sword. But the surprised did not end there as soon the warrior's armor retracted to reveal Harry Potter under the helmet. Of course the order to locate Harry was still important but as the Order was about to move in on the pair Aurors began to show up as the pair left. With a decision made the Aurors sent only one of their members to tail the pair from a distance to hopefully learn where they had been hiding while aiding the Aurors in apprehending the Death Eaters before they escaped. Still Dumbledore will be happy to learn that after two years spent on the search for them Harry Potter and Hermione Granger had been found.

(Later with Harry and Hermione)

The pair was seen walking down the street of London as night had settled and the city was ever quiet. During their walk Hermione had noted Harry had been oddly silent after the Horror was cut down by the boy. As they continued to walk Hermione felt it prudent to ask Harry on his current bout of silence right now.

"Harry are you ok?" Hermione asked as she looked to Harry with concern for him.

Hearing his friend Harry looked and put on a fake smile to assure his bookworm friend. "Yes I'm fine Hermione." Harry assured her but Hermione was not convinced especially after last time he said that.

"Harry you've been oddly quiet ever since that hunt and you promised no more secrets." Hermione said as she looked to Harry with obvious concern.

"I… it's just the Watchdog said something when we were visiting her." Harry began as he looked down for a moment. "And then the Horror being a Hogwarts student." Harry went on as Hermione saw where this was going now.

"You're worried that the war is leaking into the muggle world through the Horrors aren't you?" Hermione asked as Harry nodded to this in confirmation.

"His worries are not unfounded." Zaruba spoke as he got the groups attention on him. "Horrors activity have begun to reach an apex and each year since 1991 the number of Horror sightings and Gate detections have steadily increase." Zaruba said as he knew this information via Harry's predecessor the Garo who trained the boy. "I suspect that Aria is aware of this and in turn so is the council. If my hunch is accurate then they are undoubtedly deploying what Knights they can to learn what is causing uptake in Horrors." Zaruba spoke which caused the duo to grow worried over this new information.

"What can we do?" Hermione asked and in turn Zaruba had one word to answer the duo on this tidbit.

"Prepare." Zaruba said and in turn the group understood the warning in Zaruba's answer. But then the Madou Ring suddenly detected something nearby. "Make haste it seems that we are being followed." Zaruba said and thus the pair glanced out from the corner of their eye only to see nothing. Harry then adjusted his glasses for a moment and in turn activate them with his eye sight changing to show the unseen that cannot be seen. Hermione also had a Madou Tool out as she looked to it discretely and in turn both Harry and Hermione saw a Wizard was tailing the two of them.

"Harry call Dobby to pick us up." Hermione said as she and Harry continued to walk acting as if they did not notice the Wizard.

The Wizard in question continued to follow the duo as they walked down the street to locate their hiding place. Dumbledore at no point ever suspected the two would hide out in the Muggle World where they could easily blend in and navigate due to the pairs shared muggle upbringings. The Wizard in question continued to tail the toe under a disillusionment unaware that he had in fact been detected. They seemed to be walking around aimlessly as the Wizard thought it odd or perhaps they were reeling from that dark encounter with that beast.

But suddenly they took a turn which the Wizard picked up his speed to tail them. But when he also took the same turn, which was into an alley, he saw that the pair was gone. "W-what?!" He gasped when he saw that the two had seemingly vanished from sight.

(Scene Break Unknown Dark Room)

The Unknown duo were hidden away as they continued their schemes. The Dark Figure was nursing a glass of wine as his partner had her own glass. At the moment they were taking but a small reprieve as the female was placing cards on the table all bearing unknown crests. "It seems the Order has begun to investigate into the sudden rise in Horror activity." The woman said as she placed a card atop of another.

"Oh?" The man asked as he took a small sip of his wine.

"It will be prudent of us to start retrieving the 5 remaining sources still in play." The woman said as she placed another card on the growing pile. "One is hidden within a room that has what the summoner desires." She began placing a card to show a raven atop a card with a door. "One is hidden among the hordes in a vault of a maddened dark." She said as she placed a card of a badger atop two cards side by side, one with a goblin and one with constellation called Orion. "One was moved by a redeemed traitor from a cave guarded by the undead to a house of dark hidden by secrets." She said placing a card that had a snake on it over a card to show an old family crest. "One remains with its master and creator always by his side." She went on placing the crest of Slytherin made in black ink similar to kanji onto a card depicting a dark shogun on it.

"And the fifth?" The man asked as he looked to his partner in crime here.

"Guarded yet unknown to the guard destined to be cleansed by the Golden Savior in the Dark whose light hides it from the dark." The woman said and thus the man growled a bit knowing who she spoke up.

"Garo." He growled knowing who his partner spoke of to him. "So he finally inherited it." He snarled a bit with his tone and facial features showing a deep old jealousy.

"Eliminating him first will be prudent but may risk the trappings of fates machinations to turn against us." The woman said and thus the young man sighed.

"No… increase your effort with the Madou Tool let them do the hard work for us." He said and thus the woman was concerned.

"But we need the sources for the." She began but the man raised his hand stopping her.

"We need a small number to suffice and thankfully that fool had made several of them. We simply need only to retrieve them before they can destroy them." He said knowing of the methods to destroy all these great sources of darkness.

"Very well." She said with a small bow to the man whom she had sworn undying loyalty to long ago.

"Now then I believe its time I do my own hunting. A powerful Horror waits for me nearby." The man said as he stood up and made his way to the exit hidden by darkness. As Light prepares for its retaliation the darkness continues to plot and scheme but in a war older then human history itself the question remained who would be the victor. Only time will tell as the inevitable final confrontation was both near and far in this chapter of history. But unknown to Darkness Light always has one final hand to play even in this war between light and dark that has no clear end.

(TBC)

ESKK: Well here we are a new chapter all finished. I do hope you all enjoyed it and will join me for the next chapter. I do hope it's turning out better than my previous two attempts at this crossover. Now then be sure to leave a review for me and as I always say to you all here ja-ne.