Okay, so in the last chapter I had Ultear say that Hades is going to want Harry or will be interested in him, but in this one, something is said that makes that sound pointless. Don't worry, she only said that, because Hades could be watching, and Harry, who is an enemy, is standing right there. She didn't want to risk being found out as a traitor by the one she calls "Master" too soon into the game. She wants to get Zeref under her control before trying to kill the man.
P.S. I have someone helping me with my chapters now. EmberMagname is my second set of eyes. So far I'm grateful for the help. ;)
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Voldemort is up in the airship when he spots Harry Potter with the boy he saw in that forest a few years back. 'So he was Zeref, huh?' The snake-faced man smirks. 'Looks like I'll be killing two birds with one stone today.' Voldemort turns to leave the airship, but he is stopped by Hades.
"Where are you going?"
Voldemort feels his temper rise. He wishes to kill this old man now, but he guesses he'll wait till this is over. 'This guy is just as nosy as the old fart Dumbledore.' He turns to look back slightly. "I'm going to say hi to an old enemy of mine," is all he says before making his way out of the airship, leaving no time for the master of Grimoire Heart to stop him again.
Natsu is thrown back by Ultear's magic ball after he tries to aim a dragon's claw at her head. He's been fighting her for a few minutes since Harry and Zeref left. Natsu hopes he made the right call, but Igneel always did tell him to listen to his instincts, and his instincts are telling him that Zeref is trustworthy.
The dragon slayer plants his feet on the trunk of a tree, reaches out with his hand to grab the nearest branch, swings onto it, and then jumps up into the air.
"Fire Dragon's Roar!" A wide, long stream of fire leaves Natsu's throat and head straight for Ultear. Since it is not an object, the arc of time mage has to grow a tree to block the oncoming flame.
When Natsu sees the tree grow out from under the ground at such speed, his face morphs into something comical. Before he could properly process this, the crystal ball slams into his unprotected back.
Natsu makes an "oof" sound, thanks to losing the air in his lungs. He crashes onto the hard ground but gets back up quickly with only a small groan of pain. With a growl, Natsu says, "Why you little..." but before he could finish, Lucy comes out of nowhere and crashes right into him.
"What the heck, Lucy?" the dragon slayer questions through gritted teeth.
"Sorry, but fatso threw me over here with that doll of his," says Lucy.
Natsu raises an eyebrow at her. "What are you talking about?" As if on cue, a really big, pale guy with long, black, curly hair walks into the small clearing. "That guy is big..." says Natsu, "And is he eating a burger?" Natsu's stomach growls at the scent of the burger and wishes he could have one right about now.
To Natsu's dismay, he couldn't think more about his hunger. Instead, he has to redirect his thoughts to the tree that is falling right where they are. He has1 time to throw Lucy away, but that takes up all his time. Within a few seconds, the tree lands on top of him, keeping him pinned to the ground.
"They are all yours, Kain," Ultear tells the big guy. "I'm going after Lord Zeref and Potter." With that said, she leaves.
It starts raining a few minutes into her search for Harry and Zeref. No matter where she looks she can't find hide or hair of the two dark-haired magic users. "Where are they?" she growls under her breath. She is still surprised that someone like Harry would willingly help someone like Lord Zeref. The brat should know how evil Zeref really is since he called him by name, and yet he is still trying to help him. 'Maybe he is just trying to stop us from waking him,' she thinks logically, not knowing - nor believing - that this fact isn't true.
She just hopes she can find Meredy and Lord Zeref and get off the island soon. She can bring Potter along to keep Lord Zeref in check (hopefully), and maybe to figure out how she can survive Lord Zeref's death magic.
Ultear is ripped away from her thoughts at the sound of a cry of pain. She sneaks over to the place where it came from and finds none other than Gray Fullbuster the ice-make mage. Ultear quickly recognizes him as one of the little boys that her mother was training before she died.
Upon realizing she was there, Gray jumps and yells, "Stay back!"
"Were you following me, little man?" she asks.
Instead of answering the question, Gray grunts and says threateningly, "Who are you?"
"Surely you've noticed the resemblance…" Ultear says calmly. "There's a perfectly good reason why I look so much like your master, Ur." Gray's eyes slowly widen in shock as he realizes what she's about to say. "I'm her daughter."
Gray quickly puts the shock away and says, "Well that's news." He looks away. "So are you here to kill me? You must be holding a grudge."
"No, Gray," Ultear answers. She hadn't quite realized that he would be here too, but a plan to get rid of him and Hades in one fell swoop was quickly forming. "Actually, I've wanted to meet you for a very long time. Please don't worry –– I'm a friend! I want to make things right."
The look of complete shock has returned to Gray's face.
Ultear goes on to explain how she doesn't blame him for Ur's death, and she is very concise with her words. Gray is skeptical at first, but with some careful explaining and a few choice words (aka the words "This is Ur's will,") she is starting to convince him.
Harry and Zeref pause in their walk when they hear an explosion. It didn't sound that far away, which makes them a little worried, and it sounded like it came from the giant Tenrou Tree.
"Have any idea who that was?" Harry asks.
"It could have been Ultear and Natsu, or it could have been someone else following us," says Zeref.
{Well, whoever it was, we should move away. That way no one will get killed by accident,} says Fawkes.
Harry and Zeref nod their heads in agreement with the phoenix and were just about to turn and walk forward once again, but they stop when they see a man with wild, blond hair, red, crazed eyes, and a wide grin on his face. The two magic users feel their bodies tense at the sight of him.
"I found you, Lord Zeref," the fire god slayer says with insane glee.
Fawkes shudders. {Okay, this one might have to die. I don't believe it's safe to let him live.}
{Oh, and it was safe to let Ultear live?} Harry asks his familiar.
{She wasn't nearly as insane as this guy. Plus, doesn't he remind you of someone, Harry?} Harry knows that Fawkes has a point, the man in front of them does remind Harry of someone; a woman with black, curly hair that wore all black, and also had a thing for Voldemort. Yeah... that was a disturbing reminder.
{Okay... I did not need that,} says Harry.
{Want to fill me in as to who this guy reminds you of?} Zeref asks, but before Harry can answer, the man throws black fire at them. The three dodge the attack, and this time Fawkes is the one to counter. A burst of fire leaves his beak which moves quickly right at the blond-haired mage; however, they didn't know that this man was a slayer of some sort, so they were surprised when he ate Fawkes' fire.
The three watch him until the last of the fire is gone. They couldn't believe that they would run into another fire slayer.
"What? Didn't think that I would be able to eat your bird's flames?" the man laughs. "I must admit, it was pretty tasty." He tightens a fist before continuing to speak. "My name is Zancrow, the fire god slayer of Grimoire Heart. I'll be taking Lord Zeref now. Thank you for keeping him company while he waited, Potty."
{Well...that explained how he ate my fire,} says Fawkes with a sweat drop falling down the side of his head.
{Yeah...We'll just have to fight him without using fire spells, right, Zeref?} Harry turns to the toga-wearing man but freezes at what he sees. Zeref is holding his head in pain, and a black cloud of magic is wrapped around his body. Harry looks a bit nervous at what he sees but knows that if someone dies, then Zeref is going to blame himself. He turns to warn the god slayer, but it was too late. With a scream, Zeref's death magic expands all around them, covering Harry and Zancrow. Fawkes was smart and flew higher to avoid being hit by the magic. He doesn't want to have a burning day quite yet.
When the magic clears, Harry sees all the plants dying, and the fire god slayer lying dead on the ground. This time Harry can tell for sure he's dead because his skin is a lot paler than it was a moment ago.
Zeref walks over to the dead body and looks down at it sadly. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take your life," he says softly.
Harry walks up to him and lays a hand on the mage's shoulder. "It isn't your fault, Zeref. You lost control again, and we both know that it isn't truly your fault. It is the one that cursed you that is to blame." Harry looks down at the stiffening corpse.
{Besides, at least now we no longer have to worry about this man hurting another soul again,} Fawkes says and Harry repeats it. The phoenix says that Zancrow can't kill another person now thanks to being dead himself. With him gone, so many lives have been saved. Harry makes sure to retell all of this to Zeref as gently as he can. Zeref closed off his mind-link, which is why he didn't hear the firebird. He looks back up at Harry with a sad, but understanding smile on his lips.
"Thank you, Harry and Fawkes." Harry gives the same smile in return, and Fawkes bobs his head in acknowledgment.
Harry opens his mouth to tell Zeref he was welcome, but the crushing of dead leaves made him pause and all of them look up in the noise's direction. Standing there blocking their path is none other than the man Harry would rather not see ever again. Pain starts to develop all across his brain, thanks to the rush of memories throwing themselves at him.
~Memories~
A man with red eyes was standing over Harry in his crib, pointing his wand at the baby. At the tip of it was a green glow. After the flash of green, Harry felt pain in his forehead.
A man, who was Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in his first-ever year at Hogwarts was taking off a turban while standing in front of a mirror, his back facing it. Once the turban was off, Harry saw another face in the mirror. The face had red, snake-like eyes and no nose.
Harry was trying to save a girl from down in a damp, dark chamber. A boy, older than Harry at the time, told him that Ginny won't wake. The boy had black, curly hair and cold, blue eyes. His Hogwarts uniform was different from Harry's. Unlike Harry's red trimming, this boy had green. The boy said his name was Tom Riddle. After a few words being thrown back and forth, the boy called out in a hiss. The mouth of the giant statue opened, and out came the basilisk. After killing the snake, Harry took a fang out of his arm and stabbed the small, black, leather-bound book with it. Tom tried to stop him but failed. He disappeared with an inhuman scream.
Harry and another boy were running through hedges, aiming for the cup on the other end. They reached it, and debated on who would grab it. Harry said that they should share the win, so they both grabbed it at the same time. They fell on top of the damp, grass-covered ground, surrounded by gravestones. They were confused, but Harry was more alert than the other. He saw one of the gravestones. He read the name off of it. Tom Riddle is the name on the grave. Harry remembered that the name is shared between father and son. This must be the father's grave. There is a cauldron that is big enough to hold a small person not far from them. Harry knew that nothing good was going to happen. He was right when he saw a rat-like man come closer with something in his arms. This something made pain sprout behind his scar. "Kill the spare..." a voice hissed from under the bundle of cloth. Harry tried to warn the boy, but it was too late. The green light hit him, and Harry was caught. His blood was used to bring back the red-eyed, snake-faced man known as Voldemort.
No one, but a hand full of people, believed that Voldemort was back. They would call Harry an attention seeker, a liar, but this didn't stop him from trying to get them to see the truth. He got a few students to know that yes, Voldemort is back, but he couldn't get any of the other adults to listen. One teacher, the new DADA professor, would torture Harry and other students for reasons that made no sense. Harry for speaking the truth, another would be punished for being something they can't help. Reasons like these are what the pink toad liked to look for to punish children. Harry never got an apology when he was proven right all along about Voldemort. The public just stopped smearing his name in the now blood-soaked mud. The blood belonged to his godfather: Sirius Black.
On and off, Harry would see visions of Voldemort. They were painful but short. Harry knew that Voldemort is now aware they are looking for fragments of the man's soul. Harry knows that the last one, besides Nagini, is in Dark Hogwarts somewhere. They go to find it and have both the crown and cup destroyed and to finish the war once and for all. Sadly though, the war never ended. Voldemort cast a spell that put everyone, including himself to sleep. 500 years later, Harry woke up in a new era with Voldemort already awake and roaming the plains. Now here they are, face to face once again...
~End of memories~
Harry comes to when he hears Voldemort laughing at him. He realizes why when he notices his pain has brought him to his knees. Harry glares up with hate in his eyes at the noseless man. Voldemort stops laughing and sneers at Harry while saying, "Glad to see you still remember me. I read a bit more on the spell I used and realized what I did wrong. I thought that it would put every one of my enemies in an eternal slumber, but after waking up 500 years later, I found that Grimoire Heart had a lot of old books that I could read from. I found the spell in one of them, and it told me in full what it did. It was supposed to keep everyone in a wide area asleep for 507 years. Only the caster would wake up 7 years early. If someone else were to wake before that time then they would have no memory, but slowly gain them back over the years. You woke too early. It makes me happy to know that even with your lack of memory you still can never forget me..." He chuckles evilly at the dark glare Harry is throwing at him.
"Oh, I did forget about you, Voldemort. To be honest, I wish I never had to remember your ugly mug," said Harry with a nasty grin, "but I guess that in the end, even if I didn't remember, you would do anything within your power to make me remember before killing me, am I wrong?"
Voldemort laughs softly, "You would be right, but it would seem I wouldn't have to do so. You remember me, so that saves me the time and trouble, and allows me to go straight to the point. I've come here to kill you, Harry, and then I'll take that one and find out how he became immortal. That death magic also seems like a good thing to learn too. Even if you don't seem to be affected by it." Voldemort shakes his head. "Not surprising, really. After all, you are the boy-who-refuses-to-die."
TBC
Okay, so Voldemort was in this chapter more than I thought he was gonna be. By the way, I am not going to write how the fight with Ultear and Gray goes, because it is the same. The only difference is that Zeref isn't there, so Meredy is told to go look for Zeref and Harry, and Juvia is told to follow under Gray's orders. He figures that Harry might need the help.
Harry: I doubt I'm going to need it.
Natsu: No you have Zeref with you. I'm sure you will be able to take on both.
Voldy: That's if I don't kill the woman first.
Enj/Dark: Hey, I may not be a big Ultear fan, but Meredy is okay. Don't think for even a minute that I'm going to allow you to kill her.
Zeref: That's if your figures don't do their own thing and kill her off on their own.
Enj/Dark: My fingers may have a mind of their own at times, but that doesn't mean that I have zero control over them.
Harry: You weren't planning on writing the flashbacks as you did in this chapter. Your fingers have proven you wrong.
Enj/Dark: ...Shut up... -_-'
Natsu: Please review! XD
