Ch6.Clash

The moment Harvey touched Harry. The dark forest shook. Voldemort's terrible shrieks were heard all around.

A tremor passed through the entire forest, and it shook more violently as time went on.

Voldemort felt a great deal of pain and fear when the being collided with him. What is this magic? He had no time to contemplate on it. As every moment from then on while they were in contact with each other was extremely agonising for him, and he gasped for breath, overwhelmed by the pain.

Pain assailed him, and Voldemort felt warmer after a long time. He had always welcomed the cold. Cold reassured him. Yet he was warm once again. He swayed and tried to get away from his foe.

For what seemed like an eternity, Harry felt the coils around him from the nightmarish creature loosen, and the pain grew easier.

Dazed as he was with pain and weariness, Voldemort did not stop fighting to get away from the grasp of the infernal being.

They were falling over one another and rolling in heaps on the floor of the forest, kicking and fighting as if they had all gone mad.

Yet Harvey didn't let go of the Dark Lord. The forest around him seemed to hiss with a sound of pain and anger.

Black smoke arose from the forest, trying to restrain Harvey. When the smoke-like coils tried to hold Harvey back from the Dark Lord,

Harvey momentarily stumbled.

Voldemort grasped quickly at his chance to escape and threw his will and rage at the being that managed to injure him.

The forest around the Dark Lord bent to his will, and coils dark like night arose from the ground and held Harvey back from Harry.

Pain spread through Harvey like a lightening, and it began to grow again. He too stumbled forward with a cry of bitter pain. The cries of his foes were music to the ears of the Dark Lord.

Breathing was agonising and difficult for Harvey, and a dizziness came over him that staggered him almost to the ground.

Yet he knew if he gave in, everything would be lost.

Harvey was weary and full of pain, and his limbs trembled even more as Voldemort pushed more of his terrible power to make him suffer more.

Yet the coils around Harry loosened more and more as Lord Voldemort focused more on the being in front of him. The blood-red eyes slowly reverted back to bright green.

A shudder went through Voldemort as he realised he started losing his hold on the child during his fight with Harvey Miller.

Time to end this... Voldemort finally decided. He threw his magic to end the being that he held within his coils.

humm….hummm…hummmmm….

This was heard in the Dark Forest as Harvey fought on to get away from the coils, which seemed to have trapped him in a world of pain. Harvey sensed the rising maliciousness coming from the Dark Lord.

As Harvey pushed within himself to find the strength to resist the creature before him...

humm….hummm…hummmmm…..

Golden sparks came out of the markings on his person steadily and with increasing intensity.

His eyes turned aureate.

A sphere of pure golden energy emitted from within him, and it obliterated all the dark coils around him.

Golden waves kept coming from within him.

Voldemort's eyes shone with reflected golden light. The enemy has finally shown his hand. This was not a power Voldemort had ever encountered before in his crusade. Yet it did not matter. He knew it was going to be a fight to the death. At least he had safeguards against it.

Voldemort saw his foe unleash golden energy from within, and it was coming out in waves lashing against his dark forest.

It completely obliterated his trap, and the waves were coming towards him.

The Dark Lord did not know how it would react if he came into contact with it, and he did not want to find out. Voldemort reached within him and let out a massive wave of oleaginous, violent torrents of darkness to fight the incoming assault.

Bright golden and pitch black waves clashed against each other…wave after wave.

Harvey against the Dark Lord. The will of the Dark Lord to cause untold agony was found lacking against the will of someone to fight for nothing more than to live another day.

The golden wave crushed the torrent of incoming darkness, and Voldemort knew he had lost the battle. But he may still win the war.

The Dark Lord has long ago made many safeguards against something as mortal as death, so Voldemort would rise again eventually.

Voldemort decided to destroy the child, as he was no longer useful to him. Why leave an enemy behind that would rise against him sooner or later when he could end them now? Ruthlessness was something deeply ingrained in him. That was one of the few things that made the wizarding world heel before him or cower in fear.

As Voldemort turned his attention to the child once again, a spasm of pain seemed to twist Harry. Harry was in a world of agony once again.

Harvey fully expected the Dark Lord to act in such a manner. But he never expected such brutality towards a child.

Before Harvey's very eyes, darkness rose from the forest, rushing into Harry in droves.

Harry steadily rose as he was overwhelmed by the very darkness from the forest, and Harvey watched on as the child he came to protect was slowly losing himself to the darkness around him.

Harvey tried to do something…anything to help the child. Harvey willed golden waves from within him against the torrent of darkness . Waves seemed like some sort of power bestowed upon him by the One Above All and it rushed towards Harry..

Golden wave after wave crashed against the darkness surrounding Harry. completely obliterating the darkness, and it went on to level the Dark Forest...

Harry plunged to the ground, free from the darkness surrounding him. They were no longer surrounded by a dark forest but by an endless landscape devoid of anything.

"You are too late once again," Voldemort smirked.

Harry was not moving any more from the pain, though he shivered occasionally.

"Once I am done with the child, the child will waste away soon enough. A lifetime at St. Mungo's at best. Trapping you here with the boy will be your reward for opposing Lord Voldemort. It shall delay my revival, yet Lord Voldemort shall rise again soon enough, mortal, while you are trapped in the mind of an addled child."

Voldemort smiled his terrible smile once again.... As Harvey heard those words...Harvey saw red...