"Come on, Harry! Keep up!" Lord Voldemort said in a surprisingly encouraging voice as he shot a metal spike at Harry, Harry dodged and shot an arrow at Voldemort followed by a bat bogey hex (he would have to remember to thank Ginny Weasley for teaching him that one) and finished with a blasting curse. "Atta boy!" Voldemort said after vanishing the arrow, and blocking the other two spells.
"Thanks!" Harry said before he shot a conjunctivitis curse at Voldemort's eyes before three beams shot out the tip of Harry's wand. Voldemort blocked the first one when the three beams impacted against his shield and Voldemort's eyes widened as the shield broke, thankfully for him he was able to recover from his surprise quick enough to dodge the stunner that Harry had shot at him. Voldemort blocked the wind spear and reducto curse that had followed before he started returning fire.
Voldemort first started firing two rapid fire incendio blasts, Harry jumped out of the way of the first fire blast and spun around in mid-air to help build up the necessary wind for the wind shield he used to block the other one. The wind shield succeeded even though Harry was pushed back and had barely been able to stay on his feet. Voldemort's next fire blast was far different from his two previous ones as the new charging flames were black.
Harry took in a deep breath, before it could crash into him Harry had created an earth wall from the ground below, the flames impacted against the wall, causing it to nearly crumble but thankfully it remained standing. Harry jabbed part of the wall with his wand, that section of the wall shot out from the wall and shot towards Voldemort who easily blocked it and the next one that Harry shot out, Voldemort shot a spell that destroyed the wall, causing it to fall down into a broken heap, sending dust up into the air.
Voldemort was about to get rid of the dust when suddenly a red-pink spell shot out from it, Voldemort tilted his head to the side to avoid it and allowed it to harmlessly fly past him. A second later a wolf, that had clearly been made from the very wall that Voldemort had destroyed, charged towards him but was easily cut down by a single spell from Voldemort.
"Animation charms?" Voldemort asked when Harry once again came into view. "Impressive." He complimented.
"Thank you." Harry said as he waved his wand over himself to get rid of the dust. "I always enjoy them." Harry said with a shrug before a golden beam shot out of his towards Voldemort who batted it away with ease before firing a blood red curse at him. Harry ducked, before he had fully crouched down he had managed to send off a yellow acid spell, Harry rolled to the side to avoid another spell and the second that Voldemort had taken to defend against the acid spell was enough for Harry to fire off his next spell.
Harry shot an arrow into the air before hitting the arrow with another spell, Harry brought his attention back to Voldemort and dodged his stunner before shooting several barbed wire restraints at him. Voldemort easily cut them away before noticing the arrow that was arching down towards him, Voldemort blocked a bone breaker from Harry and was ready to get rid of the arrow as it came closer, but then the spell that Harry had placed on the arrow activated and it exploded, sending shards of itself everywhere. Voldemort shielded but a piece of broken arrow had managed to get through his shield before it formed and cut him across his face.
Voldemort took a step back and raised his hand to his right cheek to find a spot of blood dripping down. He chuckled softly and looked at Harry.
"Well done, Harry. You've achieved first blood, not even your father had been able to do that." Voldemort said with a smirk.
"My father wasn't a Slytherin who had to fight for everything," Harry responded as he shot off several spells towards Voldemort. "besides the stupid boy-who-lived thing, I have earned every single one of my achievements and titles."
"Yes, you have." Voldemort agreed before shooting a thick, orange beam towards Harry. Harry quickly put up a shield, the shield barely held and Harry ended up being pushed several feet back. "That's why I want you to join me."
"We don't always get what we want." Harry said as he shot a simple disarming-body bind-stunner combo and followed up with a knock back jinx-stunner combo and then a couple of cutting curses.
"In that case you simply didn't work hard enough for them," Voldemort said after easily dealing with Harry's spells. "if you want something then you should take it!" Voldemort said as he waved his wand, sending a giant wave of flames towards Harry. Harry quickly cast a flame freezing spell on himself, the force from the flames caused him to take step back but apart from that he was pretty much unharmed.
"Well, what I want right now is to kick your ass!" Harry said as he shot a jet of boiling water at Voldemort who waved his wand and caused it to harmlessly splash onto the ground next to him, Voldemort shot a couple of spells at Harry. Harry dodged the first, and ducked the second before shooting a bolt of lightning towards Voldemort, except it wasn't aimed at Voldemort, it was aimed at the water by Voldemort's feet. Unfortunately for Harry, Voldemort quickly realised what Harry was doing and erected a golden shield that blocked Harry's lightning. Once the lightning died down Voldemort waved his wand and the water rose from the air and formed into an ice dagger that shot towards Harry.
Harry magically caught the dagger and transformed it into a metal spearhead before sending it back at Voldemort. Harry followed up by jabbing his wand forward and sending a jagged, purple beam which Voldemort shielded against. The beam didn't stop and continued to push against Voldemort's shield for several moments, energy building up as it did so, until a small explosion was heard and Voldemort's shield smashed apart, causing the man to stumble back.
Harry ducked under Voldemort's response, which had been a torture curse, but ended up having his wand arm grazed by a cutting curse that thankfully hadn't caused more than a small cut. Harry twirled his wand before sending a beam that was black with bits of white mixed in, Voldemort side stepped it before sending a cutting curse at Harry. Harry put up a shield but was quickly surprised when the curse curved in mid-air, Harry tried to move out of the way but wasn't fast enough to totally avoid it, which was why he ended up with a cut on his upper back.
Harry gritted his teeth before he started waving his wand with wide swings of his arm, sending multiple waves of varying colours at Voldemort. Voldemort blocked them all, not as easily as he had previous spells but he was able to block them, or at least he was until a shield breaker hit him and he was sent flying back when a blue wave crashed against his chest. Voldemort landed a few meters away on his back and rolled out of the way to avoid a piercing curse that had nearly hit his chest. Voldemort blocked the next trio of spells as he got back to his feet.
Voldemort fired a trio of dark spells before finishing with a simple disarming spell just to mix things up, Harry blocked the first two while the third shattered his shield. When he saw the disarming curse Harry tossed his wand behind his back and into his other hand while moving out of the way, the spell clipped his arm but with there being no wand there was nothing for it to disarm. Harry quickly cast a chain of spells, shifting back to his right hand part way through the chain.
Harry flicked his wand and a lightning whip shot out from his wand tip, Harry sent the whip towards Voldemort who batted it away with his own wand but instead of retreating the whip reacted to Harry spinning his wrist. The whip curved and wrapped itself around Voldemort's arm, Voldemort screamed in pain as he suffered the torture of Harry's lightning. Voldemort gritted his teeth and powered through the pain before sending a torture curse at Harry who let go of the whip so he could dodge.
"You...you see that?" Voldemort spoke with long breaths, though he wasn't speaking to Harry, he was speaking to his death eaters. "Before us stands a true wizard, one who doesn't need wealth, one who doesn't need superior numbers. He recognised the worth of power and he has took it, that's why I want him in our ranks." Voldemort said before he turned to Harry, his breathing slowed back down to a calming pace. "You and I are unlimited potential, Harry. Join me, join me and rule the world."
"Counter offer: surrender and I won't kill you." Harry replied, his face blank, even though he did think on Voldemort's words.
"Defiant to the end, aren't you Potter?" Voldemort asked in an amused voice before sending a coma curse at Harry who dodged and sent a metal spike and skin shredder curse, Voldemort batted both aside.
"It's a family trait." Harry shrugged before casting several more spells at Voldemort.
"Where...the fuck...is he?!" Lord Black growled out, holding Ludo by the collar and staring down at him. "The portkey should have brought him back by now! Where...is...my heir?!"
"I...I don't know!" Ludo honestly admitted, he was absolutely terrified of Lord Black who was currently looking like the devil on Earth.
"You appear to not know a lot, it would be a shame if you somehow forget how to breath. And if I don't get my heir back, then that will be very, very possible." Lord Black grunted before he shoved Ludo back into his chair. "You'll stay there and not move, because if you do...then I'm coming for you."
"You...you're a bitch." Harry coughed violently as he stood opposite Voldemort, Harry had lost track of just how long the two of them had been fighting. Right now Harry had several cuts and bruises all over his body, Voldemort had a couple but not as much as Harry. A great wizard Harry might be, but he wasn't a battle experienced dark lord in a magically made body.
"Language, Harry." Voldemort said in a mock disapproving voice.
"Fuck you."
"Harry," Voldemort tutted his teeth. "do you think your parents would approve of such language?"
"Probably not but I reckon if I die then bad language would be the least of their concerns." Harry said as a large black ball built up on Harry's wand, Harry shot the ball towards Voldemort who hit it with a spell when it was halfway to him, the ball exploded and Harry quickly reacted, waving his wand and sending the flames from the explosion towards Voldemort. Voldemort disappeared from Harry's view but Harry was sure that the man had blocked the flames, Harry would have honestly been surprised if he hadn't. Harry quickly cast several destructive and explosive spells in the direction where Voldemort should be.
Once Harry was done he quickly took a defensive stance, ready to shield against any further attacks.
"Up here, Potter." A voice said, Harry's looked up and his eyes widened, when he saw Voldemort flying up in the air. He wasn't perched on a broom, he was just hanging in the air like a muggle superhero. Before Harry could say anything Voldemort fired several spells towards Harry, Harry shielded against most of them but was caught when one spell struck the ground near him, causing a small explosion that knocked him backwards, as Harry was in the air he felt a piercing hex pierce through his left shoulder.
Harry let out a pained scream as he landed painfully on the ground, Harry looked towards his shoulder and saw the blood pouring out of it.
"Fuck!" Harry hissed.
"What did I say about language?" A voice said, Harry looked up to see Voldemort standing in front of him with his wand aimed at Harry. "Crucio." Voldemort said in a calm voice, he was too close for Harry to do anything, there was no way he could have brought his wand up in time.
Harry let out a very loud scream when the curse struck him, Harry was not a stranger to pain, the first few years of his life had basically been spent getting used to it. But this...this was far worse than anything Harry had ever experienced. It felt like white-hot knives were piercing every inch of his skin, his head was pounding and Harry really wasn't sure if his head would explode or not, he was screaming more loudly than he'd ever screamed in his life.
Harry didn't know how long he had been under the curse, it could have been a minute, maybe even a few seconds, it had felt far longer than that. Harry coughed violently, every inch of his body was sore and he struggled just getting up enough to lean on his elbows.
"The cruciatus curse, a particular favourite of mine." Voldemort said with a smirk. "You saw me flying, Harry. I could teach you how to do the same. Unassisted flight, the mind arts, dark curses, these are only a few things I can teach you, Harry Potter. Join me."
"I...I'm not going to join you!" Harry said stubbornly, coughing violently.
"Hmm, one way or another, you will join me. Perhaps another round of torture will help loosen you up to the idea." Voldemort said before he hit Harry with the torture curse again.
"What do you think is going on?" Daphne whispered, biting her lip with worry.
"I don't know," Angela admitted, looking far more worried than Daphne could ever recall the girl looking. "Harry should have been back by now, the fact that he's not is worrying. Until we find a way to do something to help the best thing we can do is stay together with the Tonks family. Like it or not, we're all leverage that can be used against Harry. We need to stick together."
"She's not wrong." Tonks agreed, looking far more calm than she appeared. There were thousands of thoughts shooting through her mind, thoughts on what could be happening to Harry right now.
"You are stubborn, more than I thought," Voldemort said in a surprised voice after releasing the torture curse, "many men would have been begging me to stop by now." He said, Harry spat up some blood but didn't say anything, truth was that he was coming close to begging Voldemort to stop. Harry just wanted the pain to stop, the only reasons for that to happen would be for Harry to escape or for him to join Voldemort.
Part of Harry was admittedly quite scared, though it was slowly becoming eclipsed by the part of Harry that was angry about the whole situation, angry that Voldemort was putting him under the torture curse, angry that his only options were to beg to the man who killed his parents and join him or die. Harry didn't beg, he wouldn't let himself die but he would not let himself beg! Especially not to Voldemort!
Voldemort raised his wand, ready to hit Harry with another torture curse when he saw lightning dance on the tips of the boys fingers and his wand. The lightning shot up Harry's body and started encasing all of him, Voldemort quickly apparated away just as a large bolt of lightning shot out of Harry. Harry got to his knees through pure strength of will and began firing lightning everywhere, his emerald green eyes were filled with a growing rage.
For the death eaters all they could do was try to get out of the way, try to avoid the raging storm that was Harry Potter, unfortunately for them at least one of them was hit.
Once Harry's lightning died down he looked around and saw that the graveyard had pretty much been destroyed, or at least the parts that weren't covered in clouds of dust were destroyed. Harry looked around and spotted the cup that had brought him here, he quickly rushed towards it, hoping that he could reactivate the portkey on it. Harry's hands touched the cup when he felt something crash against his back.
The crowd at Hogwarts all cheered when they saw Harry Potter came back, standing with the Triwizard cup, that cheering slowly died down when a few people noticed how bloodied and bruised he was. It damn near stopped when Harry dropped down, crashing face first onto the floor. The judges along with several other people quickly rushed forwards to see what was wrong with Harry, they saw the blood coming from his shoulder and the shaking from his body, what they also couldn't help but notice was the blood coming from Harry's lower back. When he had grabbed the cup he had been hit with another piercing hex, this one thankfully missing his spine.
"Boy! What happened?!" Lord Black demanded as he knelt down next to Harry along with the other judges.
"V...Voldemort." Harry breathed out. "Voldemort's back!" Harry shouted out loud enough for many people nearby to hear, "he's back." Harry repeated just before he lost consciousness, his vision went black just before everything nearby descended into chaos.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter.
Now I just want to say that at this point Harry is a great wizard for his age, one who could probably challenge many adults and win, but he is not invincible. Voldemort has years and years of experience on Harry who hasn't even finished magically maturing. I want to spend some time focusing on Harry's reaction to loosing against Voldemort.
As for Harry telling everyone, I know sometimes in stories like this the author will have Harry pretend that nothing has happened because he knows that the public won't like to hear it, I even did so in my Apex story, but I think there should be more than just bad public opinion behind not telling anyone that Voldemort's back. In my Apex story Harry had more than one reason why he didn't tell anyone. Also this Harry is bleeding out and has been under the cruciatus curse for ages, he's not at his best.
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the chapter.