Chapter 8

AN: Hello everyone and welcome back. This is part 2 of what amounts to my Harry Potter movie for Phase 1 of Avengers. After this there should be one more chapter of battle and then one chapter or dealing with the aftermath. Then it should mostly swing back to DxD stuff for a while, mostly season 2 of the anime. After that I need to read the light novels to get a better feel for the story and get more facts straight. But please I know it's been a while since I updated but enjoy and remember to leave positive reviews when you are done!

Realm of Death

If there was one question Death had above all others it would probably be why she existed as a self-aware intelligent entity in the first place. For one it created all sorts of dangerous scenarios that could potentially inhibit death itself, contrary to popular belief she didn't go out and collect the souls of everyone who died. 99.999% of the time when someone died their soul just naturally traveled to the after realm assigned to them upon their demise that karma and belief dictated to them, for special cases the pantheons of every sentient race in the cosmos had minor death avatars that looked after specific souls but that was it.

Unlike other Aspects like Ophis the Dragon of Infinity and Great Red the Dragon of Dreams and some of the other lesser known Aspects like Life and Creation she did not have a real physical form. The Realm of Death wasn't really anything; all around her was darkness and nothingness. All she really had were her abilities that allowed her to sense people dying on the mortal plain and how they died, on some occasions she could venture into the mortal plain by possessing a vessel but even then she only had access to about as much power as one of the minor death avatars from the pantheons.

On one of those rare occasions she had created the deathly hallows for two main reasons, because once united they would give her a fully-fledged avatar that would have access to all of her great power and because it would allow her to view and have limited interaction with the mortal plain thus staving off her infinite boredom. The boredom was the main reason she questioned why she was self-aware in the first place, it probably would have been safer if death was simply an inevitable aspect of life instead of something that could be captured or influenced.

On the other hand being a self-aware existence allowed her to combat certain rule breakers that tried to defy death. That being false immortals and murderers, false immortals were those mortals who used strange and often immoral means of extending their lifespan past its natural limits. Tom Riddle had been one such being as his soul anchors had prevented her from influencing his soul when he died. Murderers were those who ended someone's life before its natural end, people died all the time from accidents and diseases but murder was an intentional act.

Either way both actions interfered with her powers, every time someone murdered someone else or made themselves immortal when they weren't supposed she had to balance her powers to maintain the delicate dance with life otherwise very bad things could happen across all dimensions. Now while false immortals were thankfully rare murders were all too common on a planet with sentient life and Earth was no acceptation. A few dozen or even a few thousand murders didn't really matter in the big scheme of things, especially when they were spread out over a long period of time.

At that exact moment though she was feeling more than a little annoyance at the murders currently being carried out, probably because her ability to see through her Avatar let her see the and feel the murders much more closely than she was normally wont to. Harry was certainly everything she could have hoped for in an Avatar and she could sense that he would be key in keeping the Earth in check for a long time to come, though a part of her really wished she had a body she could use so she could interact with him on a more personal level. She was a woman mentally damn it and if she was going to be self-aware of it then she should at least be able to take advantage of the fact.

She also felt attraction towards those he had taken as his own, so when she sensed the malformed humans heading towards the house and Harry's people she felt a stab of fear for their lives. If nothing else it would not be good for Harry to get really mad, the amount of devastation he could unleash with all of her powers on the earth did not bode thinking about. However her attention was distracted slightly when she felt a sudden tremor in her powers and bit back groan of pain at the sudden unexpected drain as she fought to maintain the balance between her and life.

Without warning an entire world of people and the planet they resided on was destroyed, no not destroyed but sacrificed, murdered. Over 22 Billion souls suddenly screamed in agony and terror before her power swept over them and the sudden vacuum where their lives should have been shuddered and imploded, Harry didn't notice any of that fore she blocked the quake from his senses. But while he ran for the house she turned her attention to the source of the pain she felt and could not hold back the scoff of annoyance and disgust.

Her would be suitor was after her attention again, looking to woo her to his side. If she didn't have Harry she might have been tempted, if only to experience affection pointed towards herself and to stop his actions. Thanos, the mad titan, was everything she hated. A false immortal and a murderer of the highest degree, he had first modified his body technologically and then used magic to ritually sacrifice his homeworld using the billions of souls there to further empower himself and giving him the ability to match many of the gods and eternals and even some of the aspects to a limited degree.

But she had Harry and was not interested, so she turned her attention away from him like she had done every time he tried to get her attention. It had been a mistake to appear before him that one time in her natural form now the mad titan was obsessed with her and the concept of death, the best thing she could do was ignore him and make sure he knew she was ignoring him. If she did then maybe he would get a clue that what he was doing was not something she appreciated, when she turned her attention away from him however she didn't realize how continuing to ignore the Mad Titan was slowly making him more desperate but she would realize her mistake all too soon.

SHIELD Helicarrier

Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division or SHIELD evolved from the old SSR of World War 2 as a result of the actions of HYDRA in its attempt to take over the world. Officially SHIELD has worldwide jurisdiction to deal with any threats beyond the mundane abilities of most nations to handle. While they did have nearly unlimited jurisdiction in the majority of nations across the globe places like Russia, China and most other Asian nations along with the middle east were not so open to SHIELD influence, the USA could also be a pain in the ass from time despite being SHIELD's origin but that was neither here nor there.

The majority of the time SHIELD focused on the various Terrorist organizations throughout the world, busting drug makers, arms dealers and human traffickers with near sadistic glee. Primarily however they focused on the HYDRA remnants they occasionally found from WWII and two relatively new Terrorist organizations that were growing called Advanced Idea Mechanics or AIM who seemed to be focused in China and someone called the Mandarin who seemed to be located in the Middle East.

The things SHIELD liked to look out for the most however were attempts to replicate the super solider serum used to make Captain America back during WWII, a watered down version had been created by Russia and had resulted in the Black Widow and the now lost Winter Solider. Another created by America itself had resulted in the debacle known as the Hulk and SHIELD was doing its best to track Banner while keeping the Army and other interested parties off his trail.

The other thing they liked to look out for was anything supernatural that might pop up, in that category they were severely lacking however. The only confirmed supernatural object they had ever encountered being the Tesseract Cube the Red Skull had used to give HYDRA energy weapons. They were currently investigating whether or not Mutants had supernatural origins but they were so few and so rare that they weren't getting very far in that area. Furthermore, SHIELD had zero knowledge of the magical world right under their noses.

95% of the witches and wizards along with the magical creatures and races existed in the European countries, what magicals existed in America were known to the President and some other higher ups. But the contract they had with them, like most nations across the world, prevented them from telling SHIELD they existed so long as they weren't exposed to the public. In the 10 years since Harry had defeated Voldemort the magical world had a sort of cultural revolution, the pure blood ideas and racism against magical races vanishing for the most part so there was very few encounters between magicals and non magicals that would be considered bad. So for the moment the magical world was uninvolved with the rest of the world but no longer stagnant as it had been.

Still super soldiers or supernatural those were the two things SHIELD looked out for the most and at the moment Nick Fury director of SHIELD was leaning more towards Super Soldiers and hating every minute of it. After Black Widow had fled the doomed hotel he had watched through her contacts as she tried to make her way down the mountain towards the city by running through the forest, it was that way that they discovered there were far more of the monsters than they first guessed.

Less than five minutes of running down the mountain and Black Widow was nearly ambushed by more than a dozen of the monsters. She escaped, barely, but was forced to run across the mountain away from the city with several of the creatures hot on her tail. He decided then to send a Quinjet to a clearing in the direction Black Widow was running to do an emergency evac, but when the jet landed it was attacked by the creatures who killed the pilots and special forces team it carried along with the craft before Black Widow could reach it forcing the woman to keep running with no rescue currently able to reach her. All he could do was watch through her eyes and hear through her ear piece as she ran, he didn't dare talk to her for fear of distracting her for even a second.

But that was not all he did, while he couldn't help Black Widow for the moment he could do something about the rest of the creatures currently heading for Narita. He had declared a level 1 emergency to the Japanese government and forcibly seized control of the JSDF (Japanese Self Defense Force) in the area while sending the rest of the fast reaction special forces units he had aboard the Helicarrier to the city. Already the building closest to the base of the mountain were being evacuated of civilians who were being rushed away from the impending battle as quickly as possible but he wasn't optimistic enough to believe that they would clear them all out of danger before the creatures arrived. His men and women would just do the best that they could and that was all he could ask of them.

"What is the status of our forces on the ground," he demanded out loud to the bridge of the carrier which was hovering just outside of the city proper and inches closer every second.

"Sir," one of his men stood up saluting before answering his bosses question. "We have 150 special forces operatives in full body armor and armed with fully automatic high caliber rifles on the ground, they have all been informed of the abilities of the enemy based on what we gathered from Agent Widow's visuals. We also have 20 Quinjets outfitted in gunship mode for urban anti infantry battle, additionally there is a Battalion of JSDF numbering 550 lightly armed and armored but with the support of a dozen APCs (Armored Personal Carriers). Currently evacuation of civilians within a mile of the mountain base is 75% complete and within 3 miles 45%, estimates put evacuation within 3 miles of suspected contact point to be 2 more hours."

"We don't have that much time," Fury groused mentally making a note to commend the man later form his promptness of adding the evacuation information without having to be asked. "Tell the soldiers to brace for danger close contact among civilians."

"Sir," the man saluted again before sitting back down.

Fury nodded and opened his communicator, "Hawkeye respond," he commanded into the mouthpiece.

"Here sir," the Marksman said from his position on the roof of one of the building in Narita watching the civilians move on foot away from the mountain while SHEILD forces and Japanese JSDF scouted, escorted and began setting up defensive positions throughout the city.

"Any sign of the enemy," he asked. If anyone could spot them before the Helicarrier's sensors it would be Hawkeye.

"None sir," Hawkeye responded diligently. Though Fury detected the faintest trace of worry and anger in his tone, most like because his partner was currently running for her life and he couldn't do anything but pray for her survival. "Not even a whisper, at the rate those things were running they should have been here by now. Even if it was only a few hanging out at the tree line I should have spotted them by now and…wait a second."

"What did you spot them," Fury asked suddenly laser focused.

"Not exactly," he replied focusing his vision down to the streets below instead of the mountain base. "Some of the JSDF guys are crowding around a man hole for some reason they look kind of twitchy and… JEASUS FUCKING CHRIST," he suddenly exclaimed making Fury and most of the Bridge crew jump in surprise.

"REPORT," Fury commanded as the drones in the air tried to focus away from the mountain to the city below.

"CONTACT CONTACT," Hawkeye cried notching an arrow and aiming below. "A half dozen of those THINGS just shot out of the man whole and are slaughtering the JSDF boys like they are nothing. Shit their popping up out of man holes all around me from what I can see, the little fucks must have found the sewer system and used it to penetrate the city perimeter."

"All forces this is Director Fury CODE RED, unknown hostiles have penetrated the defensive zone using the sewer systems. All forces are to be on high alert for ambushes, protect the civilians that are evacuating and kill any hostile that appears," Fury commanded as his drone's cameras finally showed him the carnage.

Grey skinned emancipated killers were swarming out of uncovered man holes by the dozens and spreading in every which direction. Several JSDF soldiers and a few SHILED agents had already fallen in the first few seconds of surprise but were already turning their guns on the attackers. He couldn't help a little fist pump as the heavy SHIELD weapons and concentrated fire from JSDF squads caught several of the monsters flat footed and ripped them to gory shreds. But whatever the monsters were stupid wasn't it.

As soon as it appeared that the forces arrayed against them were not breaking the monsters scattered in every direction. Filtering down alleyways and jumping through windows into buildings in less than a second the streets were empty of monsters besides the ones that died and then the screams of civilians began to echo throughout the city, "spread out in groups, protect the citizens. Hawkeye you act in support," Fury commanded as the men on the ground gave chase.

"Roger," Hawkeye replied as he began to jump down the fire escape to the cities ground below. The moon and stars shone above in the sky and he idly wondered why they weren't shining red like blood, it certainly felt as though they should.

Gremory Vacation House, Outdoor bath/sauna

Rias sighed in relaxation as she sank into the piping hot water of the bath, her muscles ached in ways she had never imagined they could before. Harry had been relentless with all of them all afternoon as evidenced by the other girls around her in the water equally sore and tired, they had made great progress with just the basics and she could tell that they would quickly get better with practice. The thought made her smile as she rubbed water over her arms, she was very proud of them all.

Well…most of them. Her smile vanished as she looked over at the two fallen Angels sitting at the edge of the water chatting with Valerie and Ravel who seemed to have hit it off with the fallen girl's despite being a devil herself. As usual Raynare and Kalawarner had their four wings with silver script and tips out, a clear symbol of their power.

Raynare spotted her looking and smirked stroking one of her wings as she cleaned her feathers, the look sent a bolt of annoyance through her. She felt her eye twitch and her hands clench, the woman had taken a sick pleasure in beating her and all of her peerage members while Harry supervised their training. Even when she fought with Akeno, Kiba and Koneko at the same time Raynare had been able to overpower them though it had been a close thing in the end.

Getting her emotions under control she let a little smirk grace her lips and leaned back in the water, gently her hand reached down to stroke her belly in a loving manner. Raynare instantly got her message and her face soured before she looked away and mentally she fist pumped. She knew, without being told, that Raynare and Kalawarner to a lesser extent were insanely jealous of her child. They considered themselves Harry's in every way imaginable but in this way he was in part her's.

"Ara ara Rias, that's not nice. Teasing our Lord and Master's pet like that," Akeno said as she slid up next to her. Reaching down she ran her hand over Rias's still flat belly smiling softly as opposed to her normal sultry smirk. "I never thought we would end up in a situation like this, I have to admit I prefer it to the alternative Rias. We have to have a baby shower to celebrate sometime soon."

"I would like that," Rias replied smiling. "And I agree I much prefer this scenario to one of being Riser's trophy wife and brood mare."

"Uh Rias," Asia suddenly spoke up drawing Rias's attention to her and Koneko who had scooted up through the water

"Can we touch too," Koneko asked ears and tail twitching. Harry had been very insistent that she begin learning how to control her Nekomata powers so she had brought out her ears and tail. She was only allowed to put them away when in public, though given the way Harry had grown fond of scratching her ears and rubbing her tail she wasn't going to be putting them up around Harry any time soon.

"Sure, go ahead," Rias said giggling and lifting herself up enough that her stomach was mostly out of the water. Both girls came forward eager to get a feel, Asia eagerly running her hands over her belly a look of pure joy and wonder on her face. Koneko actually got close and began rubbing her face against her purring just like a cat, it reminded her of those videos of peoples pets protecting their owner when pregnant. She couldn't help but wrap her arms around the girls and draw them close.

There was absolutely no warning, the wards surrounding the vacation house were not tied down by a ward stone. No matter how powerful they were they were only temporary and without a ward stone not very adaptive, the Re-Vamps were technically normal humans. The wards Harry had thrown up against regular powerless humans were designed to turn them away or make them forget why they were heading toward the resort in the first place. But with the severe mental reconditioning done to them by HYDRA the Re-Vamps threw of the magical suggestions without even noticing them.

With ghastly shrieks they vaulted over wall surrounding the bath startling the girls, there were five of them in total naked and grey skinned with no defining sexual features. Their appearance was so sudden and unexpected that none of the girls could react as three of them vaulted towards the three different groups of girls while the other two popped guns out of their arms and prepared to take aim. Rias only had time to tense up as the strange thing with blades for arms lunged at her, her hands moving to cover her belly.

She needn't have bothered, a thick mist suddenly flooded the area but for some reason the girls could all still see through it. The two monsters taking aim with guns built into their bodies were suddenly shredded by a fast moving blur before they could fire a single round, the two re-vamps that went after the groups of Raynare, Kalawarner, Valerie and Ravel followed by Xuelan and Yubelluna who had been relaxing by themselves suddenly jerked in midair as spears of black fire ran them through causing them to ash into nothing in a split second.

With a screech like metal on metal the Re-vamp aiming at Rias's group was suddenly stopped cold, one second it was leaping toward them and the next Harry was suddenly there, glowing blue sword in hands wrapped in crimson gauntlets. Large bat like wings spread wide protected the girls as suddenly a second more draconian set of wings sprang up under them folding under Harry's arms and blocking the blade strikes only to suddenly snap out throwing the monster back across the water giving Harry a large four winged appearance.

"What's happening in here," Issei suddenly yelled running into the bath, due to the amount of blood lust Harry was giving off he froze along with Kiba and Gasper who had followed him in not even taking a second to ogle the naked girls. Something he probably wouldn't have done with his master right there anyways, he was a pervert but he didn't have a death wish.

"Rias," Harry commanded not taking his eyes of the thing that just tried to kill his consort and child. "Take everyone back to my home and turn the wards to maximum, I have a feeling this is only going to get worse from here."

"But," Rias started to say with the Re-vamp charged again blade hands swinging forward right at Harry with no fear what so ever in its body. The surgeries it had undergone actually removing the augmented human's ability to feel fear at all. The blade arms slashed with inhuman speed and accuracy, so fast even the Devils might have had a hard time keeping up. A blade through the chest would kill them just as well as a human after all, but Harry didn't move an inch except to tilt and twist the void sword in his hand to deflect the strikes with a minimum amount of effort.

"Do not question me just GO," he yelled holding back the blades with only one hand on the void sword with no effort at all. "I cannot go and fight the others I sense heading for the city if I'm worried about you all back here."

"Yes my Lord," Rias said with pain in her voice. She didn't want to leave for a multitude of reasons but this obviously wasn't an attack by Devils, Angels or Fallen so she couldn't predict if her powers would be enough to protect herself and others…and she couldn't risk her child in this situation either. "Everyone come," she commanded as she backed out of the bath towards the door.

Akeno flanked by Raynare and Kalawarner stood at the front guarding the rest as Harry held the last in front of him, they trusted his ability completely but they were still taking no risks. Harry gave them a parting nod as they all vanished into the house and he felt them disappear through the teleport circle.

"Now then," he said looking back at the monster before him his arm still blurring as he blocked its rapid strikes. "Let's see what you are exactly," he snarled and reached forward hand grasping its head with a chaos gauntlet as he batted its arms to the side and then extracted not only the creature's memories but also its mind destroying the latter while absorbing the former. "Re-vamps created from humans by a remnant of the WWII Nazi organization HYDRA, well now at least I know who to go after," Harry said as he ashed the body.

Spreading his fog and by design his senses looking for more Re-vamps he found that most of those left on the mountain were moving down towards the city to join their fellows having already killed everyone else on the mountain either in the hotel or the vacation houses, though he did sense one person still alive in the hotel. However away from the hotel and heading away from the city a group of Re-vamps seemed to be chasing a single person through the forest. How this person wasn't dead yet Harry didn't know or care but they were directly between him and the city from where he was so he would save this person before making his way to the city proper.

After modifying the wards slightly, he twirled the void blade and chaos gauntlets in his hands morphing them into a long curved scythe fit for a grim reaper with a jagged long handle and a deep purple blade that crackled with energy. Pulling a robe of shadows over himself he flipped up the hood and pulled his wings in close before sprinting over the wall of the bath and into the darkness intent on seeking his prey.

Black Widow

Natasha felt her lungs heaving and her muscles burning with fatigue as she sprinted full tilt through the dark misty forest, if she had been in any mind to notice the mist that had suddenly appeared in the cool dark she would have found it very strange and been on guard. As it was she was more concerned with the murderous monsters hot on her heels that had already foiled hat was most likely her only chance of getting out of this situation alive.

The Quinjet had been her best hope but with it destroyed and the extraction team dead she had zero backup, she had only been thankful Hawkeye hadn't been with them. The monsters had gotten close once or twice since then forcing her to expended her limited ammunition to stave them off but resulting in shallow cuts on her arms and legs she couldn't stop to bandage up and kept bleeding slowly sapping her strength, only her healing factor keeping her form bleeding out thus far.

But while her body was on autopilot she could still hear through the com piece in her ear as more of the monsters attacked the city. It twisted her gut that she was stuck running for her life while people died, but all she could do was run as fast and far as her legs could carry her. Which at the moment amounted to another dozen or so feet before she turned around and collapsed against its trunk and watched as 50 yards back or so the monsters came for her through the trees.

"That's right," she panted blood staining her negligée and plastering it to her heaving breasts as she raised her pistol with her last clip. "Come and get me," she egged them on and began firing. She managed to wing the closest two in the legs making them stumble but the ones behind them charged forward diving for her as death finally came to claim one of the world's most notorious murderers and wipe her red ledger clean…but not in the way she thought.

The air whirled and shrieked like an unholy demon as a black shadowy blur leapt out of the mist between her and the monsters. A flash of deep purple and a roar of flames nearly blinded her but the monsters didn't even hesitate to throw themselves at their attacker, the blur twisted and twirled blade slashing and in less than 15 seconds she was left alone with her savior.

"W…What the fuck," she whispered half confused half accusing a look of almost anger on her face at her unexpected savior. "You couldn't have shown up five minutes ago," she accused her mind trying to catch up with the fact that she wasn't dead and being more than a little off kilter because of it. At least until her savior turned around and faced her, she heard Fury curse over her com but she was too busy freaking out to realize he had seen her be saved through her contacts. "Oh fuck me sideways," she muttered.

The man, and it certainly sounded like a man, chuckled as he twirled a large scythe in one hand like it was a drumstick. He was covered in flowing inky black robes from head to toe but now that he was standing still she noticed the four large leathery wings casually folded against his back and glowing red eyes with slits for pupils peering through the otherwise dark hood. "Maybe next time beautiful," the man creature said in a booming voice that was anything but human and before she could blink he was kneeling before her making her twitch and then freeze in surprise, "but for now rest, your safe," he said and waved his hand over her.

She gasped in surprise as her wounds rapidly closed and a burst of energy filled her body and she heard Fury do the same as he watched right along with her. Then the cloaked figure rose and turned away making to leave, "WAIT," she called rising to her feet her call making the man pause. "What…I mean WHO are you," she asked.

He chuckled again and turned his head back to peer at her, "I think that would be self-evident Miss Romanoff," he said making her suck in a breath at the casual use of her name. "Do try to take better care of yourself in the future, for your sake I hope we don't meet again in an official capacity until your much older."

Then without warning the man exploded into a literal swarm of bats, hundreds of them that blanked out the starry sky before they and the mist that filled the forest moved down the mountain. Away from her and toward the city proper, she felt her knees give out under her not able to comprehend the sudden change in the situation that left her alive safe and healed of her injuries. "What the hell did we stumble upon here," she muttered to herself as Fury began to try and get her attention over the com.

Hawkeye

"GET DOWN," Clint Barton yelled as he loosed an exploding arrow. The SHIELD agent in question dived taking down two other JSDF soldiers in the line of fire just in time as Clint's arrow caught a leaping Re-Vamp in the chest shredding the monster in a blast of gore and mechanical implants. All around him in the recently completed skyscraper SHIELD and JSDF soldiers stood in a loose circle firing in all directions as the augmented humans darted out of shadows and from open air conditioner vents taking swipes at the defenders.

Every few seconds one of them would get a hand on a soldier and that was all it took for them to fling them out of the circle, isolate them and drag them out of the room to slaughter them at their leisure. Already Clint had lost a quarter of the men and women he had entered the building with for maybe a dozen Re-Vamp kills.

"We could really use that evac Fury," Clint yelled as he targeted another monster that darted across an open doorway. "Motion detector says that these things have us surrounded, if they rush us all at once we won't be able to stop them!"

"Shoot out the windows behind you Hawkeye," Fury directed. "Two Quinjets inbound to pick you up."

"Roger," he said and motioned to two of the more lightly armed JSDF men to shoot out the large windows they had been backed up against. Narita glittered in the night behind them from the light skyscrapers and the blazing fires that had sprung up all over the once peaceful city. Despite their best efforts civilian bodies littered the streets where the defenders hadn't been able to protect them before the Re-Vamps caught up with them.

Clicks and whistles got louder as the two Quinjets appeared outside with ramps lowered and the remaining soldiers began to leap through the blown out windows into the crafts as Clint and a few SHIELD soldiers filled the entrance ways with fire and arrows to keep the attackers at bay.

"Move! Move," Clint yelled as he followed the last soldiers across the gap. Behind them dozens of Re-Vamps suddenly filled the room only to be met with concentrated heavy machine gun fire from the Quinjets that bogged them down just long enough for the jets to boost away while their ramps came up. Though one Re-Vamp did try leaping for the SHIELD aircraft only to fall almost a hundred stories to the ground below. "Fury what's the status on the City," Clint asked as he looked down over the carnage below them.

"Not good," his boss replied bluntly. "We have almost 250 confirmed casualties among the JSDF forces along with half of the APC's and just over 40 of our own confirmed KIA as well. We think we have managed to keep them within the cities limits for now but only because these things seem to be more interested in fighting our men than anything else, they only go after civilians if they happen across them but they seem to be actively targeting anything or anyone armed."

"So these things were designed to fight soldiers then," Clint surmised.

"Super soldiers," Fury confirmed voice grave. "Good ones too if twisted as Fuck, this has HYDRA written all over it. We must have spooked them coming to Japan like this so they let their latest science experiment out to cover their escape."

"Well it worked," Clint groused. "We are going to need a lot more men to clear out this city and by the time we manage that the culprits will be long gone."

"They might get away but I think these monsters are about to come up short," Fury said suddenly with an odd tone in is voice.

"What do you," Clint started to ask then spotted something strange. "What the hell is that?"

From the direction of the mountain a mass of thick fog fell roaring toward the city like an avalanche of snow, within hundreds of thousands of small black forms fluttered and swarmed. With a collision that looked like it should have toppled the buildings of the city the fog flooded between the skyscrapers. Instantly the coms were filled with screams, but of the remaining soldiers on the ground but of the monsters, who suddenly found themselves transformed from hunters to hunted.

"Something killed the ones chasing Black Widow," Fury whispered voice half excited half wary. "We have a team picking her up now but whatever this thing is, it's not human. This might be our first confirmation of a supernatural entity or power since the Tesseract, your orders Clint are to try and make contact with this being. I'm sending you the telemetry we got from Black Widow's contacts now."

"Wonderful," Clint groused as he watched the fog spread throughout the city. "Just wonderful."

HYDRA Submarine

"Fascinating," Baron von Strucker said eyes wide and voice awed. He along with the Re-Vamp's lead scientist and several other HYDRA agents and assets had made it safely to a submarine and were now safely off the coast of the island nation under hundreds of feet of water. With the advanced stealth technology built into the submarine there was little to no chance of the SHIELD Helicarrier detecting them even if it flew right over their heads.

At the moment however Baron von Strucker was captivated by the telemetry he was receiving form the Re-Vamp's ocular implants. Things had been going fairly well against the SHIELD agents and JSDF forces, he had shifted the Re-Vamps targeting programs to concentrated on the armed fighters. No matter how many civilians they might have killed every agent they killed was worth a hundred civilians, not only that but he kept the Re-Vamps contained to the city proper. Regardless of how things played out he planned on self-destructing his creations to deny the enemy any bodies to study.

Given the total surprise of the attack it looked as if the Re-Vamps would overwhelm the defending forces completely, if that had happened he would have simply ordered the remaining Re-Vamps to target the largest civilian populations they could find and blow themselves up. But then something unexpected had happened, a think bank of fog had rolled down from the mountain and within it a literal swarm of bats. There had to be hundreds of thousands of them and they were in no way shape or form normal.

Flying at what had to be supersonic speeds the swarm's bats carved their way through the city avoiding SHIELD and JSDF forces with ease while targeting the Re-Vamps wherever they were. Wings and claws and teeth sliced into and through the Re-Vamps reinforced skin and augmented bones like they were made of laser sharpened steel. Nothing the Re-Vamps sensors suggested that these bats were anything more than regular bats, but between the damage they were causing and the Re-Vamps inability to hit them he realized they had to be something else.

"Are we recording," he asked sharply and suddenly without looking away from the screens.

"We never stopped Baron von Strucker," the scientist he spared said getting an approving nod from the Baron. "But the computers can't seem to compute the damage the Re-Vamps are taking; it shouldn't be possible for regular bats to cause this type of damage to them with the augmentations we gave them."

"That's because this is not a natural event," Baron von Strucker said voice still awed. "It seems we attracted the attention of more than SHIELD when we released the Re-Vamps. This is the kind of thing HYDRA was originally created for during WWII, the location and study of supernatural powers. We will remain here for a while longer and monitor the situation before making for the United States, our benefactors upstairs will be most interested in what we have discovered. Hail HYDRA!"

"HAIL HYDRA," everyone else on the bridge shouted before moving quickly to get to work. Hacking into security cameras and other electronic devices as the Re-Vamps were wiped out to try and get a look at the event that was happening. It was only a small thing and they wouldn't get much information or data for their efforts, but the simple conformation of a supernatural event would change the thoughts of actions of not only HYDRA but organizations and groups all over the world. Because while the attacking bats were strange, something stranger was about to happen for all the world to see.

Harry's Residence

"I'm worried about Harry," Rias said as she sat on the couch in the living room of Harry's house. One of her hands was over her stomach and the other gripped the couch cushion harshly. "I've got a bad feeling; I don't like that we just left him back there on his own." On either side of her Akeno and Valerie sat and placed comforting hands on her arms trying to sooth her.

"You should have more faith in our Lord and Master Ms. Gremory," Kalawarner said softly but sternly drawing everyone's attention to her. "These creatures whatever they are, they are no match for our God. It is to our shame that we were so weak that we had to retreat behind the defenses of our Lord's home but until we increase our powers and abilities we are more of a hindrance than an asset to our God."

"But…I didn't sense any Holy or Demonic power coming from the ones that attacked us," Asia said stuttering slightly from speaking up but continued on after a second. "Would they have really been that hard to handle? Harry, uh I mean our Lord," she quickly corrected when the Fallen girls glared at her, "handled them without any problems."

"They didn't need any Holy or Demonic power," Valerie spoke up looking intent. "Just from the way they moved and reacted they have the same speed and strength of a common Vampire, more than enough to get the drop on us long enough to kill us. A sword through the heart or losing our head will kill us just like a human after all, the real problem is the numbers. If we were caught in the middle of the attack they could probably overwhelm us and take us down before we could escape."

"But…what does it matter if we die," Issei asked his voice a little confused. "Lord Harry is the Master of Death isn't he, couldn't he just bring us back if we die?" But Valerie shook her head slowly.

"Lord Harry is the Avatar of Death, the representative of the being not the being itself. The only reason he even exists is to keep the balance between life and death in the mortal plane, death works with or without him but some people try to cheat or avoid death when they shouldn't. If we were to die by accident or even in battle he could probably bring us back but Murder is different, because it is an unnatural death. To intentionally end someone else's life for no real reason puts a scar on their soul and to maintain the balance between life and death he can't bring back someone who is murdered," Valerie explained.

"So all those people who died today," Kiba asked looking distraught.

"All dead for good," Valerie said sadly. "When a person is murdered the life they should have lived goes to death creating an imbalance or scar and the scales tip so life compensates by creating new life elsewhere. But if death was to return that life that was lost the scale would tip in favor of life and the life created to make up for the loss originally would have to be destroyed to return balance, but that life would go to death creating a looping effect between the two. To avoid that no one murdered can be brought back, not even by Harry."

"Damn it," Issei muttered clenching his hands. "I guess there is a difference between God like power and Unlimited power huh?"

"Make no mistake Issei Hyoudou," Kalawarner said sharply pinning him in place with her eyes. "Our God is exactly that in terms of power. The number of beings in all the cosmos that come anywhere close to his power can be counted on two hands with fingers to spare. He could wipe this planet clean of life with little effort along with the various Pantheons who are tied to the human race simply by killing the humans their existences are intertwined with."

"I…I know," Issei said quickly waving his hands in a supplanting manner. "Just thinking that even he has to worry about us in some way like anyone else would. Nice to know he cares enough to want to protect us, you know."

Kalawarner blinked then relaxed and smiled, "yes Issei it is nice to know he cares."

"Still," Rias said bringing them back on topic. "I've got a bad feeling about leaving Harry alone in Narita, we are safe here now. It couldn't hurt to send a few of us back to check up on him and make sure he is safe."

"I will go," Raynare said speaking up and glancing at Kalawarner. "You stay here Kalawarner, our Lord would want one of us to stay with his Consort since we are currently the two strongest among us."

"I will go as well," Ravel said standing up. "I'm not as strong yet but I do have the same Phoenix regeneration of my family so it would be harder for me to be hurt."

"Fine but no more than two," Kalawarner said before anyone else could speak up. "If to many of us go we would be a hindrance more than anything else, you are just going to make sure our Lord needs no assistance. Unless it looks like he needs you stay back and don't be seen no matter what understood."

"Understood," Raynare and Ravel said nodding before making for the door. Everyone else wished them luck and gave them encouraging words before they made their way back to the teleportation circle. Then with a flash of light they teleported back to the vacation house in the Narita mountains before pulling out their wings and flying towards the fog covered city. They just hoped they weren't needed.

Harry

Though the fog remained thick and strong throughout the city the bats flooding it slowly began to condense into a single massive blob at the top of a skyscraper. Within a minute Harry stood whole again, draconian and vampiric wings folded gently against his back and scythe propped over one shoulder. With the fog in place he could sense every living thing within the city, it was how he tracked down all the Re-Vamps HYDRA had created.

They were all dead now, shredded into so much gore on the ground. All that remained living were the SHIELD and JSDF soldiers, of the 130,000 civilians that had lived in the city just over 3000 had been murdered. He could feel the scars where their lives had been and as much as he wished he could bring them back he knew if he tried that Death would stop him if she wanted to, she could take away his powers at any time if she felt like it after all.

But for the rest of the civilians almost half were still within the outskirts of the city, the rest were moving away towards other cities on anything that could carry them. That was a good idea but he couldn't sense any of the HYDRA agents within the fog so they must have gotten away just after releasing their monsters, he would have to dig and learn more about these mortal terrorists before going after them.

In fact, this whole situation had taught him something very important, he needed to learn more about and be involved in the non-magical world. Sure he had roved around the last decade far and wide but he never really focused on the non magicals in any way shape or form. This SHIELD organization was interesting and HYDRA set off all sorts of alarms in his head that reminded him to much of old snake face and his death munchers.

He especially needed to be involved if the pantheons started to become more exposed to the mortals, just form what he learned from his fallen girls he knew the Grigori were getting more active. More than they had ever been since the end of the great war and who knew where that would lead, all he did know was they whatever it was they did they would probably attract the attention of the mortal governments magical or otherwise.

This world is at a crossroads my Harry, Death said appearing next to him on the building. What happens in the next few decades, the next few years will decide if this species and its God's will survive to move beyond this one planet. But regardless of the outcome you will endure, I will have it no other way.

"Then I best make sure they survive don't I," he quipped with a smirk. "I have a vested interest in this planet and some more personal matters with a few specific people. It would be a pain in the arse to have to start all over again."

I have a fondness for them as well, probably not good for the Aspect of Death but hey if the Universe didn't want me to have opinions and feelings it shouldn't have made me self-aware…or female. So you better get to work starting with those girls of yours!

"Your wish is my command my Lady," he said smirking slightly at her intangible yet beautiful form.

"YOU MEAN MY LADY," a sudden completely unexpected voice boomed behind him. He spun around, surprise and shock total, only to be thrown back by a massive bright purple beam of energy slamming into his chest. He was blasted down into and through the building roof he was standing on as the building exploded around him as he flew through it before he was thrown out the lower side to crash into the street forming a crater on impact along with another explosion as the energy impacted along with him.

He had barely managed to put the Scythe of Chaos and Void he nicknamed Oblivion between him and the attack. Still even with it he was surprised to feel his chest singed by the blast, that had been a POWERFUL attack. He leapt up quickly holding Oblivion in front of him defensively as a figure materialized through the smoke, his fog already fading from his lost concentration. It was a large purple man more than 7 feet tall with gold and black armor and sitting on floating throne glowing with what was clearly very advanced technology.

"And who the floating fuck are you," he demanded putting on his best annoyed face as his mind went through a thousand thoughts a second. Death still stood next to him invisible to all but him and had a look of great concern on her face, that certainly didn't make him feel any better.

"I AM THANOS! CONSORT OF LADY DEATH," the alien man declared looking both angry and grave as he started down at him. "AND I SHALL MAKE YOU PAY FOR TAKING MY LADIES FAVOR AWAY FROM ME!"

P-AN: Ok PLEASE no one complain that I'm throwing in Thanos out of nowhere. This Thanos has no Infinity Stones and after this battle with Harry he will have a reason to focus on the Earth and send Loki after the humans. At this point Thanos is acting like a jealous stalker going after the boyfriend of his obsession. Having Thanos and Harry duke it out in the open where the whole world can see them will greatly affect the way the rest of the world, non magicals, magicals, pantheons, ect, will think and act. I have a plan…sort of. So please leave a nice review and I will see you all next time!

Ja Ne!