Descent Into Chaos : Captured.

Loki felt a sudden expected jerk on his navel that tossed him into the air and pulled him along with Harry towards an unknown destination.

Loki felt the space around himself and expanded the runes arranged on the portkey to make himself comfortable.

Loki looked around and felt Harry near him and before they landed, Loki extended his hand and swiftly swiped one of the key weapons from Harry which he was going to use to defend against Voldemort.

This was, albeit a simple action, a very important one.

The entire trip lasted a few seconds and ended when the portkey dropped the two of them in a heavily shrouded place.

They couldn't see much else beyond a few feet away from themselves.

Loki landed on his feet, while Harry landed on his backside, tumbling around in the dirt for a while before rolling back up.

Harry looked around warily and made sure to orient himself by using Loki's position.

"Do you know what's going on Loki!?" Harry asked in a panicked tone when he saw Loki looking around them with a shocked expression just like him.

"What's going on!?? I'd love to know about that myself! Is this the level we have to finish to see who wins between us!?" Loki said with clear worry while pointing his wand away from them, towards the vague humanoid outline that they could see through the thick fog around them.

Harry looked in the direction Loki was pointing his wand in to see if anyone else was around them, but the fog was too thick to see clearly. 

Harry and Loki quickly stood back to back against each other as they slowly walked over to the vague humanoid outline.

Within moments, they stopped in front of a large white marble statue of an angel of death standing over a simple headstone with three names written on it.

Loki observed this and frowned a little bit mentally.

'This doesn't seem like Knockturn Alley.'

'Was I wrong with my prediction?'

'Perhaps we are inside the place hidden using the Fidelius charm?'

'....I don't think so…this place doesn't feel even a little familiar…unless the Fidelius charm can stop my spirituality from 'recognising' what I'm looking at?'

"Do you know what's going on?" Loki asked with confusion as he gripped his wand tightly, pretending to be worried as he cleared a little bit of dust from the names on the tomb guarded by the angel of death.

"I don't really know. It looks like the cup was a portkey and we were telepor-." Harry started but froze when his eyes laid on the name that Loki had cleared.

"Riddle!" Harry exclaimed suddenly while his muscles tensed as he gripped his wand and turned a little stiff.

"You know someone called Riddle?" Loki asked, pretending to be surprised, while also adding a slight waver in his tone that signified his fear.

Loki expected Harry to answer-

-except that was when the two boys heard a voice that seemed to be on the edge of madness. The voice was cold and sounded almost as if the person using it seemed infatuated with insanity.

"Ooo~ I like him!!! He knows he needs to be scared!!! I want to be the one that gets him!!"

Harry and Loki immediately turned towards the voice that had emerged from the fog behind the headstone.

"Not yet Bella! We need to perform our tasks first!" Another bold voice was heard from the fog.

"Hehehe~ Yessss~! We'll have you with us in your blood form soon my lord!" The woman spoke once again but her voice was a lot more fanatical this time.

"Leave them for me. I have a few unsettled debts with them." A frail, and much more weak voice spoke in a cranky tone.

There was silence for a few seconds as Harry and Loki both held their wands pointed in the same direction from where the sounds were coming.

Soon a woman in a simple black dress gown stepped out of the fog.

The woman had unruly hair that was fluffed and curled all around her face. She had a maddening smile on her face as her eyes trembled in excitement. Her lips and nails were painted black while her thin hands held a thin bone wand.

After her, a middle-aged man who was holding what looked like a bundle of rags stepped out of the fog.

"Who're you!?" Harry asked with confusion and worry as both he and Loki pointed their wands at the woman and man.

The man only smiled in response to Harry's question while the woman's already maddened smile only deepened.

Her wand twitched rapidly, as if she was so excited about wanting to use a spell, but was doing her best to hold back from trying anything out.

"I'm not scared of you!" Harry shouted, his voice bold, and the small amount of fear within him vanished with his bold declaration.

Loki could feel the soft aura of divinity hover around Harry which shocked him a little.

'He's already a demigod!?'

'The hell is this speed of progression?'

'Even Klein wasn't this fast!!'

'That changes a few things…but nothing too drastic.'

'I can still go on with my plan…well this will just be better.'

But instead of feeling fear from Harry's divinity, the couple that had revealed themselves only laughed as if they'd seen someone pull off a funny practical prank.

"Hahahahahahahahahaha~" The woman suddenly started laughing hard, her wand pointing wildly as her hands flailed around, causing Harry and Loki to tense up as they readied themselves for a spell to be launched at any time.

Suddenly, however, the woman stopped.

She flicked her head up and matched her gaze with Harry's, looking right into his emerald eyes with fanatic adoration as she spoke with pride and anger.

"I'm my master's blessed!! I am the one that will help him regain his invincible body!!! I am the right hand of my immortal lord!! I am Bellatrix Lestrange!!!"

Bellatrix's speech ended there, but its effect did not, since she'd imposed her own divinity into the surroundings, causing Loki to shiver a little while Harry remained unfazed.

'Is divinity as common as cabbages nowadays?'

'First, it was two Angels in summer camp, then two outer gods, then the unspeakable had a saint, and then I saw a True God turned king of Angles, his daughter who's an angel, and now I'm surrounded by demigods…'

'What's even going on anymore.'

"Lord? You mean Voldemort?" Harry asked gripping his wand tighter, seemingly unfazed by Bellatrix's declaration of her divinity.

Loki wanted to break character and roll his eyes.

'Of course, it's your arch nemesis! Who else would wait until the end of the year to attack you!?'

'Though…to his credit he did attack at the start of the year during the World Cup too.'

'Maybe he's learning…'

'Though clearly not very much since he hasn't just used the killing curse to kill Harry…'

'But if he's that bundle of rags…he clearly doesn't have the right amount of grey matter in his head to even comprehend anything too complicated.'

"AAHHHHH~ HAHAHA~ You cannot do anything!!!" Bellatrix said with her eyes turning round and fanatic.

"Expelliarmus!!!" Harry shouted, to quickly disarm the woman, causing a thin shot of red light to fly from his wand towards the woman.

But the woman swiped her wand and caused the little charm to fly away from her and hit the ground instead.

"Oooo~~~ A prey that fights back…If the Lord wasn't wanting you, I'd like to have you all to myself!!! Oh how nice it would be if I was able to hear you scream!!!"

The woman's eyes glazed over as she got lost in her imagination, shivering as she mumbled.

"Oh! I could add you to the statue of corpses I built over the summer! Maybe even use your entrails to paint it!"

"That's enough Bellatrix. We cannot let the Lord wait any longer." The man interrupted.

Bellatrix instantly fell silent but she occasionally giggled while looking at Loki and Harry.

Finally, a voice spoke from the robes in the middle-aged man's arms.

"Capture them!!" the voice ordered.

Bellatrix became even happier as she quickly snapped her fingers as she spoke.

"Banish!!" Bellatrix hissed!

'Language of dead!?' Loki almost immediately recognised.

Harry and Loki fell into a daze for a moment, something tugging at their souls, trying to forcibly pull them out of their bodies, but they snapped out of it almost immediately, regaining their lucidity. 

Loki was able to do it because of his connection with the Sefirah Castle, while Harry was able to do it because he was already a demigod.

But the momentary lapse was enough for Bellatrix to take advantage of them.

"Crucio!!!" Bellatrix screamed as a thick bolt of green light erupted out of her wand and flew towards Harry.

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