Descent Into Chaos : Arrival.

Loki looked at Harry and gave him a sneer.

"Has no one taught the two of you how to respect the person you duel against!? Whenever you're duelling potter, you are required to bow!"

Harry looked like he was forced against his will to bow.

Nearly everyone saw how 'Voldemort' made Harry bow so easily in spite of how much he had troubled them earlier and became partly admiring and mostly fearful of his strength.

"Just because I went easy on your friend does not mean I will do the same thing for you! For you see, I hope to show everyone here today, that you're nothing but a child that was puppeted. A child that was used by a man who you don't even know to do things that you cannot imagine!"

Harry was startled by Loki's words so his reaction was genuine, even though no one could currently see them since he was bowing.

Voldemort elsewhere was a little amazed at how well Loki played his part. He had truly wanted to make a display out of Harry today so seeing Loki doing the same thing left him a little surprised.

It was almost as if Loki could read his mind. Had he not been using the runes to stop any intrusions in his mind because it would corrupt anyone who would enter, Voldemort would've probably easily believed that Loki was messing with his mind.

"Let's have a proper duel. You may stand now." Loki said flicking his wand back to let Harry straighten. "Now lift your wand…"

Before Loki could even finish his sentence, Harry sent out a curse flying from his wand right into his face.

Loki easily caught the spell with a Protego charm and deflected it right back at Harry, behind which were three more spells chained together.

Harry quickly ducked and dodged since he couldn't use the shield spell because of the speed at which everything was returning to him but Loki still didn't give him the advantage of even dodging, casting spells at Harry's feet as he talked rhythmically.

"You-should-respect-your-opponents-while-you-duel!!"

With Loki playing around with Harry for a few minutes, the death eaters started to laugh and make fun of Harry as he danced around on Loki's tune.

The death eaters started to grow numb to the tension in the air as they all started having fun at Harry's expense, watching him dance as Loki controlled exactly how he was bending or dodging to make it look as hilarious as he could.

They began pointing at Harry and then occasionally throwing their own spells once they realised that Loki was driving Harry towards them to give them the opportunity to work out their stress too.

Of course, none of their spells ever hit Harry since Loki would give him just enough time to dodge.

While to everyone it looked like 'Voldemort' was just having fun, Loki wasn't having as much fun as everyone believed since his spirituality was running low after having to fight the real Voldemort for so long.

He was only trying to delay time at this point to allow Laura to come over and take the stage he had prepared so well.

'I have a weapon that I can use to hurt 'Him' quite easily…but if no one follows up with a killing blow, it'll be useless to use it.'

'Especially if 'He' starts to morph into a Mythical Creature once 'He's' hurt to defend himself.'

As the death eaters began to laugh more and more, however, Bellatrix's face morphed into a frown. Her wand arm twitched every few seconds and all of a sudden flicked to launch a curse at Loki.

Loki sidestepped the spell without looking back as if he had eyes on the back of his head.

The spell flew through the air and fell on another Death Eater standing on the other side.

The death eater's eyes rolled back into their head and they almost instantly collapsed onto the ground as they tried clawing their way towards Loki, desperately reaching out for help. 

Everyone could hear the dying gasps the woman tried taking into her lungs. Yet Loki did nothing. He simply turned around and looked at Bellatrix.

Everyone instantly pulled out their wands and trained them on Bellatrix while she kept her wand pointed at Loki. Her eyes remained fierce and her wand arm constantly trembled as if she was angry!

Loki looked at her with raised brows and closed his eyes as he took in a deep breath through his nose for a second before he opened them and looked right at Bellatrix.

"Give me a reason not to kill you immediately."

Everyone looked at Bellatrix and she smiled as if she'd cracked a cold case lying unsolved for nearly a millenia.

"I knew it!"

"Hmm…? Knew what?"

"You're not my lord!! I don't know what you've done! But you're not him!!!! You're not my lord!! You're a fake!!!!"

Loki's forehead wrinkled but he calmly put down his wand even in the face of Bellatrix's threat as he spoke calmly, "Why do you think so?"

Bellatrix's face grew a deep smile as she explained with wide eyes that looked at Loki with a maddening interest while she tilted her head back to look down on him.

"My lord wouldn't give me an easy death! He would've tortured me for what I did! You did not!! You are weak!! You are pathetic."

Loki frowned, wondering if his plan was going to be ruined and his cover was blown, but when he looked at Bellatrix using his spirit vision, he found that her thoughts were still confused.

From the basic runes that he could manage to grasp in the flurry of emotions she was having, Loki found her wondering something strange-

'Lord...where?'

-she was wondering where Voldemort was.

Loki's eyes widened as he reaslised exactly what was happening.

"And what do you propose I've done to your lord?"

"I don't know!?" Bellatrix shouted.

"What about him? Is that not your lord!?" Loki asked with a soft smirk as he pointed at Voldemort who was still battling against the shadowy appendages while staying out of Loki's way since he was worried about being attacked in a way he could not retaliate against.

To everyone's surprise, Bellatrix shouted, "No way! The lord cannot lose, especially not to you!! This is all an illusion!! I'm sure of it!"

Loki contained his smile and spoke angrily.

"You're a delusional witch!"

"Yes I am! Because I am currently trapped in your illusion!! I will not give up!! Fight with me everyone!!! It's him! He's the key for us to break out of this illusion!!"

No one removed their wands from Bellatrix and they all looked at Loki to see if he would give them the order to kill her.

Loki wanted to be ruthless, but he didn't have to. Almost as soon as he was about to give everyone the order to attack the witch, his intuition picked up on the arrival of another person at the edge of his vision.

A tall lady with steady steps walked in through one of the alleyways. She first looked at the curtain of darkness set up by Sirius to contain the fiendfyre dragon, and then shifted to look at Loki disguised as Voldemort.

She frowned for a few seconds but raised her hands nonetheless.

For a few seconds, everyone was confused about what the lady wanted to do. But almost instantly, she dragged her hand down as if bringing down divine punishment onto the area.

"The degenerate and corrupt will die here!"

It took a few moments of silence for everyone to catch onto what the woman had just said since she spoke in pure Latin, but almost immediately everyone's eyes widened.

Before they could react, an oppressive force, far greater than they could bear, pressed down onto their heads and shoulders forcing nearly everyone present to the floor.

Several masks cracked and shattered due to the force with which the Death Eaters hit the solid stone floor, along with several of them having the bones in their noses shattered as they flopped face first into the ground.

Few Death Eaters that had reached to become demigods managed to hold themselves standing, but even they looked burdened as if a single wisp could break their focus and concentration and force them to go splat onto the floor.

Everyone on the floor looked at 'Voldemort', stretching their hands towards him while trying to mouth words for help.

A few that could speak even tried their very best to get the message across!

"Lo…rd!!! He…lp!!!!"

But Loki just stood there calmly, ignoring them all as his gaze swept past them without any pause showing how little he cared about his supposed subjects.

The hope in the hearts of the various death eaters that had remained ignited for the last few seconds started to die as they all realised that 'Voldemort' was no longer going to help them.

The woman's eyes hadn't left 'Loki' however and she seemed to be scrutinizing to check if he was affected or was just unburdened.

Loki too looked at Voldemort.

And to Voldemort's credit, the woman's proclamation had done nothing. Even though Voldemort should have been regarded as the most corrupt and degenerate person amongst everyone here, Voldemort stood standing as if nothing was happening to him.

Voldemort was truly only feeling like he was standing under a slightly strong shower.

As such, he spoke directly with the woman-

"Was that supposed to do something?"

There was absolute silence amongst everyone there as the few Death Eaters still standing felt confused about why 'Loki' was asking such a question to what appeared to be someone on his side. Clearly a lot of Death Eaters had been affected and were being pressed into the ground and close to death.

What more could the boy want?

'That was a pretty cool and flashy entrance...' Loki thought as he watched Laura walk closer to the stage that Loki had created with loud 

resounding steps.

As Laura walked closer, the effect of her proclamation started to increase and without warning, the first sets of heads, closest to Laura, exploded like watermelons being crushed under a hydraulic press.

Harry almost barfed when he saw the brains and other organs of the people explode outwards while Loki managed to keep the nausea under control since he'd seen worse before when he was younger.

The other death eaters on the floor all panicked that they would be the ones to die next.

And so with death in one hand and disobedience to Voldemort in the other, the death eaters all mostly chose to escape. Their thoughts were mostly the same, either they would bargain with Voldemort the next time they saw him, or escape to such a far corner of the planet that Voldemort would never bother with finding them.

After the first *pop* that resounded in the silence, several other death eaters followed, creating a small amount of chaos for a moment before silence remained supreme again.

But terrible, some of the *pop*s had not been because of the death eater's teleporting away, instead some of them were because more bodies exploded, painting their entrails all around because Laura had already come pretty close.

The ground around Voldemort had started to crack by this point, showing exactly how much pressure Laura was putting on Voldemort and as Laura came closer, Voldemort was finally forced to react.

The thick forest of trees, created in Voldemort's fight with Loki's shadowy appendages, started to expand and spread around as they supported each death eater that remained behind and prevented them from feeling any pressure.

The tree itself buckled under the pressure that had shifted from the death eaters to itself, but it kept growing more and more wood around itself along with flesh to keep itself from completely crumbling.

And it did its job of protecting everyone in the vicinity.

The Death Eaters were joyful that their sacrifice hadn't been in vain except, seeing 'Voldemort' also defend 'Loki' with a tree, caused all the Death Eaters to become confused for a moment.

'Why did the lord protect him? And why was he attacked in the first place? Shouldn't she be attacking our lord?'

Soon they noticed that 'Voldemort' didn't even have a tree around him and the ground around him hadn't even begun to crack even a little.

This made it clear to everyone!

They all realised that the 'Voldemort' in front of them was Loki and the 'Loki' in front of them was really Voldemort.

Almost instantly, everyone's wands shifted from being pointed at Bellatrix towards Loki.

Loki just calmly smiled as he turned towards Laura and spoke with a small *sigh*, "Couldn't you have done it in a more stealthy manner?"

Laura just gave Loki a short glance before rolling her eyes and turning to look at Voldemort who was similarly looking at her with interest.

'Was it this woman that killed me in those visions?'

'Troublesome...'

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A/N : I will upload extra chapters for powerstone milestones once I'm back home, in about three days, I apologise for the inconvenience, but on the bright side it'll be a mass release!! Thank you for your support and for reading!