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Harry Potter and the Shadow Legion
Part 2
Chapter 1
As soon as Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny left the train, they spotted Aurora and Gabrielle and they slowly made their way towards were the adults were standing.
Lord Ragnok gave them a toothy grin and said, "I heard that you four will be our interns for the next week?" The quartet nodded silently and Ragnok grinned, "Good. I will expect the four of you tomorrow morning at eight o'clock sharp."
The goblin leader nodded to Aurora and Gabrielle and took a small stone out of his pocket. He held it in his fist muttered a word in gobbledegook and vanished. Aurora and Gabrielle led the quartet off of the platform, back to the muggle part of the station. They made their way towards the main entrance where they were awaited by one of Elizabeth's cars.
The black limousine made its way towards Buckingham palace. When they rode past St. James's Park they were surprised to find a large crowd of reporters and news vans blocking the gates.
Aurora lowered the window which separated them from the driver and asked, "Do you know what is going on? Is her majesty going to make an announcement or something?"
The MMS agent who was driving the car raised his shoulder and said, "I do not know ma'am. They were not here when I left an hour ago, so whatever the reason they are here, it is recent."
Aurora thanked him and closed the window again, while the driver slowed down and carefully made his way towards the gathered crowd.
Gabrielle took a remote control from beneath a TV screen and put it on BBC 1.
A blond news reporter appeared on the screen and she said in an excited voice. "Earlier this afternoon, an anonymous source brought out the news that her majesty Queen Elizabeth, has a grand nephew. This nephew, named Harry Potter, was the son of sir James Potter, only child of princess Victoria and her mysterious husband, Lord Arturius Potter. The young James, his wife Lily and their newborn son, were assumed to have been killed in the last of the terrorist attacks, which also claimed the lives of Princess Victoria and her husband, that plagued our land a decade ago. But it now turns out that Harry somehow survived the horrible attack that claimed the lives of his parents. It is revealed that the boy has been raised by two members of her majesty's military guard. The identity of these guards are as of yet unknown, but it is assumed that they are the two mysterious women who trailed her majesty during the 5 years of terror."
A picture was shows on the screen and it clearly showed Aurora and Gabrielle walking behind Elizabeth and wearing the familiar military uniforms of the Legion. It was taken during one of Aurora and Gabrielle's few moments of public duty, where it was too crowded for the Angels to be able to perform the task.
"I would like to ask anyone who knows anything about these two women to come forward, as the people deserve to know who they are and why they were entrusted to raise a member of the royal family. The anonymous tip also mentioned that young Harry has spent the last year in a boarding school in Scotland and was scheduled to return to King'sCross station, sometime today. It is unknown which school is meant as there are..." the woman stopped talking abruptly and held her hand to her ear. She seemed to listen to something coming from her earpiece. "I just heard that a limousine, with the royal coat of arms has picked up a group of people at Kings cross station, and the two unknown women seem to have been amongst them. If this is true than we could be about to receive our first look on this mysterious young member of the royal family, as said limousine is approaching Buckingham Palace as we speak."
The camera turned away from the reporter and showed the black limousine driving past St. James's park. "Oh crap," the kids chuckled at Aurora´s remark and Gabrielle cursed softly under her breath.
Aurora rolled down the window again and told the driver, "Turn around, full speed, secondary entrance St. James's park." The driver nodded once and in an incredible manoeuvre, which no muggle driver could perform, he turned the limousine around and sped towards the entrance to the park.
Just as they were about to enter the park, the driver pushed a button on his dashboard and the floor beneath the entrance disappeared. They drove down a ramp and into a well-lit tunnel, while the secret door closed behind them.
"Won't anyone have seen us disappear," asked Ginny to Gabrielle.
Gabrielle shook her head and said, "Don't worry the entrance is hidden by notice-me-not charms, so only those who know it is there, can actually see it when it opens. To the muggle world we just pulled of a successful disappearing act."
The four kids grinned but stopped abruptly when they saw the serious looks on the adults' faces. They shared a look between the four of them and Harry asked carefully, "What's wrong mom?"
Aurora let out a sigh and said, "The situation is far worse than you four can imagine Harry." The quartet looked confused, so Aurora explained further, "When your paternal grandparents were killed, James and Lily made a very hard decision. They deliberately severed every bond they still had with the royal family and vanished from public life. They did this to save both you and Elizabeth, as they knew how much the death of her sister had hurt Elizabeth. If the Death Eaters got their hands on James, Lily and you, they would gain full control of Elizabeth. She would have done anything they demanded in order to save you three, as you were all that was left of her beloved sister.
So James and Lily asked us to look after Elizabeth, before they vanished from both the magical and muggle world. When the Fidelius charm had been put in place, only four people knew where they were located, Dumbledore as he performed the charm. Sirius, Remus and..."
"Pettigrew," snarled Harry in reply.
Aurora nodded and continued with her explanation. "Now that the news is out, the whole world will know that you are her lost family member, and all those who mean her harm, will come after you."
The quartet paled at this and Harry stammered, "So you.. you.. mean tha... that...," he was unable to complete his question as Hermione, Fleur and Ginny hugged him with tears of fear in their eyes.
Her eyes wet with tears, Gabrielle nodded and said softly, "Yes Harry. Every hostile nation or organisation in the world, will be going after you, to hurt her. And we're not only speaking about Death Eaters, but other magical organisations and muggles as well."
Aurora agreed sadly and said, softly, "That's not even all of it. If they put that picture of Gabrielle and me through their archives, they will undoubtedly find others of us. Images of maybe decades or even centuries ago. Images that show us exactly as we look today. They will hunt us down, to discover out secret. I only hope that there is anything we can do to stop this."
The group stayed silent for the rest of the trip and when they reached the literal end of the line, the driver stopped the limo. He opened his window and said a short passphrase in a microphone on the wall, causing the floor to rise beneath them.
They were standing on a car-elevator, which brought them to the subterranean garage, in which they normally would have arrived.
They left the car and saw that they were awaited by Elizabeth, who was being followed by the "top-squad", the best agents the MSS had to offer. Remus, Sirius, Kingsley, McAndrews and Moody, led by Amelia. They were waiting with drawn wands and looking everywhere for possible threats.
As soon as Elizabeth saw Harry step from the car, she ran to him and enveloped him in a hug. She looked at him with tears in her eyes and saw the fear in his. She swallowed once and slowly released Harry. Standing up, she looked at Aurora and Gabrielle, with steel in her eyes and said, "Execute Order 66".
Aurora and Gabrielle looked shocked to hear this and swallowed before Aurora said, "You mean..."
Elizabeth didn't move and just said "Yes. do it."
No one, except Aurora, Gabrielle and Elizabeth knew what they were talking about and when Harry opened his mouth to ask about it, Gabrielle shook her head and said, "No Harry. Do not ask about this."
She looked down at Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny and shed a single tear. "Stay with Elizabeth. Do not, under any circumstance, leave this palace, before we return. We will send reinforcements from Avalon as soon as we get there."
She swallowed once and enveloped the quartet in a crushing hug. "Remember, no matter what happens today, we will always love you."
Aurora took over from Gabrielle and also hugged the four children. "Stay with Elizabeth, do not trust anyone, except our family and the Legionnaires. We love you all, so much." The two Angels stood up with the looks of people who were going to their own doom and Harry clamped himself at Aurora's legs, unwilling to let her go.
"NO," he cried, "don't leave us". Hermione, Fleur and Ginny joined him and they clamped themselves to Aurora and Gabrielle, making it impossible for them to leave.
With tears running down their cheeks, Aurora and Gabrielle placed a hand on the neck of each of the kids who held them and pressed a certain nerve. The quartet slumped down and were caught just before they hit the ground.
They handed the kids to the 'Top-squad', removed all of their wands and guns and handed them to Elizabeth. Aurora added, "Don't return these before Dan gets here, he can talk some sense into them." And leaving a confused group and saddened Queen behind, they flamed away.
When Harry and the girls woke up half an hour later, they found themselves in the familiar sitting room lying on the couches and guarded by at least thirty soldiers, in familiar white skull masks.
Harry sat up straight and with a soft voice, dripping of anger he said, "Where are my mother's?"
The girls were also awake by now and sat up next to him. Two of the masked soldiers before them turned to face them and removed their masks, it was Dan and Ivan.
Hermione launched herself at her father and started pounding on his chest and began yelling, "Where are they, where are they".
Dan grabbed his daughter's arms and said sadly, "We don't know. They arrived at Avalon half an hour ago and sent the entire Legion, all 6000 soldiers, to Buckingham palace. They just told us to bring everything we had, tanks, EXO's, artillery, everything, and prepare for war."
Harry rose up, with Fleur and Ginny on either side of him and in the same cold voice as before he said, "Then who does know where they are?"
"I do", came a soft voice from the entrance. They all looked towards the entrance and saw Amelia standing in the doorway. "I just received word, the Ministry is under attack. Fudge is reporting heavy casualties and is recalling all available forces to defend the Ministry building. They have declared war on magical Britain."
All occupants of the room, both masked and unmasked, gasped in shock at hearing this and Harry stuttered, "But... but.. but... why?"
Amelia softly shook her head and said, "I wish I knew Mister Potter, but unless I go there I cannot tell you. And I will not go there, while they are on a killing spree. All we can do is wait and prepare for a counter attack. Whether from the ministry, or the Death Eaters I do not know. But I do know that they will be coming."
Amelia's words proved to be true, because barely 15 minutes later, the first casualties had fallen.
The legion had come with everything they had. The grounds of Buckingham palace were turned into a military encampment, with over 200 tanks, thousands of soldiers and an impressive amount of helicopters.
The area's surrounding the palace had been cleared for a mile and all civilians had been ordered to clear the area in expectance of the arrival of a hostile force.
The legion erected portable barricades on Constitution Hill, around the bend in front of the Victoria memorial and onto Spur Road, creating a rough triangle in front of the palace. The Mammoths had been placed around the memorial, to take the brunt of the attack and the chieftains were spread out around the perimeter of the palace.
Black thunder clouds had appeared out of nowhere and the rain was pouring from the heavens, while the Legion waited to meet its foe.
When the helicopters located the first ranks of black robed Death Eaters approaching, they opened fire without hesitation.
The Death Eaters advanced from the directions of Green park, St. James's park and The Guards Museum. They were attempting a half moon envelopment of the barricaded palace.
Soon after the first ranks had been shot to shreds, thousands more appeared, both humans and all sort of magical creatures, all enemies of the Legion had come to try and take it out, in the absence of the hated and feared Angels.
Vampires, trolls, giants, acromantula and even a few dragons stormed towards the gates of the palace.
They were met by a brutal artillery bombardment, as 180 Chieftain tanks, 28 Mammoths and several batteries of howitzers opened fire upon them.
The Death Eaters used all kinds of tactics to protect themselves from the tank shells and artillery fire. Some erected large stone walls, but those were destroyed. Others conjured large objects to cover them during their advance.
It took only a few minutes before the first ranks of Death Eaters and dark creatures were upon them. The fighting was brutal, as neither side was willing to show mercy and many a friend or family member was killed during the first half hour of fighting.
Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny had been given back their wands and guns. They had wanted to follow Dan and Ivan, as they had left them to lead their respective companies, but Elizabeth had forbidden it. So now they were cooped up in the MSS HQ, waiting for news about the battle outside.
They had not received word from either Dan, Ivan or Anderson since the battle had started. Hermione was worried about her father and the others were frustrated that they were not allowed to fight.
Dan and Ivan had been positioned in the centre, around the Victoria Memorial and behind the line of tanks. Sergei was leading his own platoon and stood on the right wing of Ivan's company.
Their companies were the only ones who had been outfitted with EXO's, as they were the ones who had used them in Africa. They had been placed at the front line to take the brunt of the enemy force with the power of the EXO's at their command.
Commander Anderson was coordinating the Legion forces from a command post on the roof, to give him a clear view of the battle field and the positions of the opposing forces. What he saw was not good.
The Legionnaires were holding their ground for now, but just barely. Despite their technological advantage and heavy weapons, they were slowly being pushed back by the sheer numbers of the Death Eaters. From the looks of it, the Death Eaters alone outnumbered them two to one and there was maybe an equal amount of dark creatures.
Almost half the Chieftains and 9 Mammoths had been taken out in the first hour of battle and the rest was pulling back to close the gaps in their lines.
The thunderstorm and the rains had caused the ground on which the Death Eaters advanced, to turn muddy and slippery. The blood and the corpses further troubled the Death Eaters during their advance and many were killed when they slipped on the remains of a former comrades in arms.
After nearly two hours of intense fighting, there came a sound from behind Anderson and he turned around. When he saw who it was he let out a sigh and said, "it's about goddamn time you got here."
When Aurora and Gabrielle had left, they flamed directly into Anderson's office and found him in debate with Boltrock and several Legion officers.
Anderson threw one look at the faces of the Angels and he paled. Also noticing the arrival of their leaders, the others stepped aside, so everyone could see them. Aurora stepped forward and said softly, "We have new orders."
Anderson swallowed and said, "Is it...,"
Aurora nodded once and replied, "Yes. Execute Order 66."
All the others paled as well and Boltrock asked, "What do you need."
Gabrielle stepped next to Aurora and replied, "Everything. Bring everything you have and take positions around the palace. We're at war. You all know what to do."
The group saluted and Anderson began giving orders through his earpiece, while the others left in a hurry. Aurora and Gabrielle flamed away again and reappeared next to the training fields, where Dan and Ivan were training with their companies.
They had already received their new orders, as both were yelling orders to their respective soldiers and were hurrying towards the vault.
When they saw Aurora and Gabrielle appear, both men turned around and ran towards them. "What's going on", asked Dan when they were still several yards away.
"We're at war", was the first reply from Aurora and both men stopped dead in their tracks.
"What happened," this time it was Ivan who asked the question and Gabrielle answered him.
"No time to tell you. Get geared up and hurry to the palace. Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny are with Elizabeth. Calm them down and keep them save."
Before either Dan or Ivan could respond, both women flamed away again and reappeared at Potter manor. They had already moved everything from Hogwarts back to the manor, so their armour was in their wardrobe.
Dressing in record time they each put on the black armour and all of their weapons. When they were done, Aurora pressed a small button on the back of the wardrobe and a panel slid open.
It revealed a small arsenal and both women took several spare magazines for their SILH's and put them in an empty pouch on their belts. Closing the panel again, Aurora turned around and after donning their red skull masks, she took her wife's hand and they flamed away again.
They reappeared in front of a familiar red telephone booth and they hurried inside. When the metallic voice began to speak, Aurora drew one of her SILH's and shot the speaker, before it could finish its first word.
Gabrielle growled out, "Shut up and go down." The elevator obeyed and sunk down in the ground.
When the elevator arrived at the atrium, they stepped out and were met by a short woman in a pink robe and a large black bow on her head. The highly dislikeable figure of Dolores Umbridge paled when she saw the masks and stuttered out, "Wha... wha... what are you... you doing here?"
The entire atrium was silent as a grave while they waited for the answer. Aurora didn't bother to reply with words though, with a lightning fast move she drew her swords and decapitated the undersecretary with a scissor move. "I always hated her," was the only thing she said.
Before the headless body had fallen on the ground, panic erupted in the atrium. The two people who had stood next to Umbridge when she had been killed tried to run away but slipped on the quickly forming puddle of blood that spurted from the neck stump. Before they made it three feet, both had been killed. They joined Umbridge on the floor.
Aurora and Gabrielle walked forward towards the mass of panicking witches and wizards who had been blocked off from most ways of escape.
In the mean time someone had hit the alarm as loud sirens started blurting out the alarms, and the security wizards were streaming towards the atrium.
Aurora and Gabrielle raised their arms in an identical move, they began to make punching moves. Large fire blasts shot out from their fists and were send at the mass of witches and wizards in front of them, killing dozens.
After a few minutes the aurors and hit wizards had begun to arrive on the scene. What they found reminded the veterans of the massacres they had seen during the first wizarding war and caused the rookies to lose their lunch or faint.
By then the atrium had been turned into a war zone. Dozens upon dozens of bodies covered the floor, most were burned or had gaping wounds, where broken tiles or pieces of fireplaces had hit them.
Aurora and Gabrielle were covered from head to toe with blood and gore. They advanced slowly through the atrium, killing everyone who tried to stop them. When the aurors and hit wizards saw who they were facing, many lost their nerve and tried to flee.
Fudge had arrived at the scene and was yelling orders at his law enforcers. "Advance. Kill them. As your Minister for Magic, I am ordering you to kill them. They are nothing but murderers who deserve only dea..." Before he could finish his sentence, Gabrielle aimed one of her SILH's at him and shot him straight through the head, causing it to explode outward as the hellfire round destroyed his skull.
A few of the darker sided ministry employees had managed to escape and alerted the Death Eaters of what was going on at the Ministry. Deciding that their time had come, they gathered in force and marched on the palace, to take advantage of the absence of the Angels and try to kill both Harry and Elizabeth, while simultaneously destroying the Legion.
When the aurors and hit wizards realised that they would not be able to escape, they rallied behind Rufus Scrimgeour, who led them in a brave, but stupid, full frontal attack.
Scrimgeour was the first to die, as he was hit by a fire blast and crumbled to the ground, only his legs and lower torso still intact. The others were quickly shot down by either fire or bullet, while Aurora and Gabrielle pressed their relentless advance.
Despite what everyone said about them, they did not enjoy hurting and killing people, especially those that were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Making their way towards the stairwell, they killed everyone who opposed them, but let them flee if they didn't attack. They fought their way down a floor, and headed towards the Department of Mysteries.
As they walked in to the long black corridor, a volley of spells and curses missed them barely and they saw Croaker and his Unspeakables standing before the door to the department.
Gabrielle raised her hand and a thin wall of blue flames appeared before her and Aurora, shielding them from the impressive barrage of spells sent at them by Croaker and his Unspeakables.
"If you let us into the department without opposition, we will not harm you." Yelled Aurora through the hallway, "Try to stop us and we will be forced to kill you all."
The only response they got was an intensifying of the barrage of curses, which had turned from light grey to borderline dark, as killing curses and Cruciatus curses were sent their way. Croaker himself even tried to breach their firewall with Fiendfyre, but it all proved useless as the wall of living flames absorbed everything that hit it.
Slowly walking forward, Gabrielle kept the wall up while Aurora punched it, sending fireballs at the Unspeakables. They tried to block them, but just as Dumbledore had failed, so did they. Everyone who was hit by one of the fireballs was consumed by it and after a few minutes only Croaker was left standing.
"WHO ARE YOU?" he yelled at them as they reached him. Aurora disarmed him and when he sat kneeling before them, she removed her mask and showed him her face.
The furious look on Croakers face disappeared as he recognised Aurora. "So it is you. When I saw the picture this morning I realised that you were likely to be the Angels. I assume you have come to rewrite history?"
Aurora nodded and said, "Yes Saul, we have. We cannot allow so many innocents to die, because some idiot decided to make some money by selling a story to the press."
Croaker nodded and said, "I know who you need to get and where he will be." He told them the information they needed and finished by saying, "Now finish the job you have come here to do. You never broke your word before, and now is not a good moment to begin. Kill me and I'll see you two, eight hours ago."
Aurora and Gabrielle inclined their heads in respect, and Gabrielle said, "Thank you for your help Saul," before Aurora grabbed his head and broke his neck in one swift move.
Softly lowering the head of the DOM to the floor, Aurora and Gabrielle donned their masks again and stepped over the bodies of the Unspeakables. The aurors and the hit wizard had been slaughtered like lambs, but the Unspeakables had put up more resistance than anyone in the last 150 years. It pained them that they had to kill them, but there had been no other way.
When they stepped through the door to the department, they arrived in the circular room with the twelve doors. "I always hated this room," sighed Aurora tiredly. "You only hate it because it is one of the few things we cannot influence."
Aurora rolled her eyes beneath her mask but Gabrielle knew it nonetheless and added, "Don't roll your eyes at me, you know it's true." Aurora just shrugged and opened the nearest door.
It revealed a sort of amphitheatre with a large stone arc in the centre. "Nope, death room". She drew a dagger and carved a large X in the door, before closing it.
As soon as the door was closed, the walls turned around and they waited patiently until they had stopped moving.
Gabrielle tried the next door and revealed a large, cathedral like room with rows upon rows of towering shelves, filled with small glass orbs. "Nope, prophecy room." She carved an X on the door and closed it, causing the walls to go spinning again.
When they stopped, Aurora pulled open a door and revealed a dark room with floating planets. "Nope, space room".
The next door they tried didn't open and they said in unison, "love room." before moving onto the next room.
Gabrielle pushed the door open and said triumphantly, "Bingo, time room."
They entered the long rectangular room and headed straight for the glass cabinet with Time-Turners. Picking up the nearest one, Gabrielle placed it around her neck, while Aurora opened one of the pouches on her belt and withdrew a long thin box.
The box was about 3 inches high, 3 inches deep and four ft long. "I really like those bottomless pouches Boltrock invented." Aurora remarked, while Gabrielle helped her to open the many small clasps that closed the box.
When they opened the lid, they revealed several dozen small squares, lined with soft wool padding. One by one, all the Time-turners were removed from their shelves and placed in the box.
When the last had been removed, they shut the lid and closed all the clasps again. Gabrielle helped Aurora to place the box back into the pouch and when they were done, Gabrielle took her partners hand and they flamed away.
They had one more thing to do, before they could rewrite time.
Author's note:
I know I know, was it really necessary to kill off fan favourite characters such as Pudgy and the Umbitch, well no, but I liked to do it anyway.
If any of you are wondering why they didn't just flame into the time room, instead of killing half the ministry, then the answer is simple. The DOM is surrounded by the same wards as Hogwarts. Meaning they can flame out, but they cannot flame in.
The reason why it was relatively easy for Aurora and Gabrielle to break into the ministry and dispose of all the aurors and hit wizards, is because those are second rank troops. Amelia has sent the best to the MSS, so the ones still employed by the DMLE are greatly inferior to Death Eaters and MSS agents.
This is also shown when the Death Eaters attack Buckingham palace. Had they been normal witches and wizards, they never would have stood a chance against the fire power of the Legion.
The Death Eaters and the Unspeakables used very powerful dark magic to fight the Legion and the Angels, magic that is forbidden by the ICW. This makes them much more powerful and more dangerous than 'normal' law abiding citizens.
As for if you are wondering why they took all the Time-turners, it is because they think they are too dangerous to be used by anyone. Even for Aurora and Gabrielle, who never liked doing it in the first place.
The Time-turners in my version are different than in cannon, as they are centuries old and the secret to make them had been lost for just as long. The only ones in the world were held by the DOM, who gathered them over the ages. Also, only one version can exist in the timeline, so if one gets destroyed, it vanishes from the time line and is gone forever.
Oh and by the way, this will be the first and ONLY time they use the Time-turners, so don't expect to see them appear again.
See you all next week
Medieval Maniak.