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The Light was in for a surprise in mid December about a week before the attacks were to take place. The Source had a brilliant idea to begin to take away the Light creatures to start bringing down the morale of the muggles. Wood Nymphs, Muses, Leprechauns, and Fairy's to name a few were all in danger of being wiped out. Fortunately the demons dispatched were easily taken care of by Rena, Wyatt and Prue. Matt and Mitch were still hunting down businesses Voldemort might have a hand in with Moody and Bones.

The Ministry was still in chaos, the former nobles were demanding Fudge to get their titles back. Fudge, meanwhile, had barricaded himself in his office to escape his angry constituents. The Wizengamot were meeting to impeach the current Minister and replacing him with someone who actually knew what they were doing. Dumbledore was of course trying to push Arthur Weasely into the position giving him the power over the Minister once again. Unfortunately for Dumbledore Amelia Bones was elected and her first order was to announce Voldemorts return and the fact that they were at war. She then had every single Ministry worker take a Veritaserum test to see where their loyalties lay. Over a quarter of the staff was arrested for either being a Death Eater or being a supporter.

With Kinglsey as her Head of DMLE and Amos Diggory as her Undersecretary Amelia quickly and competently whipped the Ministry into shape. Amelia knew that the clock was ticking. She recruited Aurors and opened lines of communication with other wizarding governments, something Fudge was loathe to do thinking himself superior to the other Minsters. The Muggle Prime Minister was kept more in the loop then ever before and had some of Camelots guards protecting him. Even the Queen had magical protection at Rena's insistence. It was now a waiting game.

Amelia's talks with the other countries yielded similar conclusions. All the other Ministries had performed Veritaserum tests on their employees and had lost a majority as Dark supporters of newly instated Death Eaters. Everyone hoped that with so many Death Eaters and supporters in jail the Dark Lords plans would be hindered. The other magical governments were waiting for the attacks as well, the muggle governments weren't as patient knowing their people would be hit first.

To the relief and hope of the former nobility Amelia sent messages to Rena to re-establish the good relationship the British Ministry had always had with Avalon. This had all been planned out when Amelia had received word that she had been nominated, the negotiations would go on for a while and then they would meet in public. Rena would stand by her word forcing the people to earn back their titles.

Rena had locked herself into her bedroom and was busy meditating hoping to get a premonition of what day the attack would take place. She also consulted star charts and tarot cards like her Aunts Phoebe and Paige had taught her. Her stomach sank when she kept getting the same date: December 31st. It was a brilliant plan, with large groups of people gathered to celebrate the New Year they would be prime targets for the attack that was coming. When she redid the tests and got the same results she summoned her elf and told her to summon the council for an emergency meeting.

"December 31st," Rena stood before the council hands flat on the table before her. Gasps were heard as more then a few faces paled at the implications. Numerous celebrities and politicians attended New Year's Eve celebrations and if killed or kidnaped the governments would be in chaos. "We need to start thinking of some way to deter the attacks or even soften the blow."

"What if the governments cancelled all public New Year's gatherings due to terrorist threats?" suggested Justin Finch-Fletchley a new comer to the council. There was some murmuring at this suggestion, Blaise put in his two cents.

"That's a good idea but won't the Death Eaters and demons catch wind of it and do something else, maybe even worse?"

"This is what we need to figure out. Maybe we can do a raid on one of Voldemorts various operations, give him a few setbacks." The rest of the council agreed and they talked the rest of the day having the house elves bring food and drink. Rena hoped the twins found something.

Mike and Mitch had indeed found something, they uncovered a treasure trove of information with their hacking skills, times and dates of shipments the most useful. There was a major shipment due three days before the attack at seven of their ports around the world. A major offensive was in the works, the council meeting three times a day. It was decided to send seven groups to intercept the delivery and confiscate the money and destroy the drugs leaving the dealers and death eaters for the appropriate government to apprehend. Rena was asked to stay behind but she scoffed immediately declaring she would go no matter what.

The date of the shipment was December 28th at eleven p.m. and the game plan had been set up. The seven ports being raided were located in seven different countries, two being in America. With the help of their network they had received the help of other magical governments. Raiding parties of two hundred were ready by the 27th waiting for the group from Camelot to give them the final stages of the plan.

Dumbledore meanwhile was furious. Not only did he loose Harry and his money, but he failed to get Arthur Weasely elected to Minister, and had now lost all influence in the Ministry. Bones never trusted him and was always overly polite when they met. Diggory blamed Dumbledore for the death of his son, and Kingsley still refused to have anything to do with him.

A few days before Christmas Amelia received a communication from the American Ministry of Magic. They had come up with a hopeful surefire plan to warn the people without informing Voldemort. They would have their employees send all valuables to Gringotts for safekeeping and have the goblins place the Fidelius on their homes. Once the Ministry workers had done this they would have them tell their friends and family only if positive they weren't dark or a dark supporter. It was a long shot but it wasn't a bad plan. The goblins were thrilled with the trust the various Ministries had in them and the relationship between goblin and wizard was slowly mending.

The plan went off without a hitch. The various teams moved in after a signal from an Auror sent ahead to scout the area. Within the hour the drugs, and jewels were confiscated, the Death Eaters stunned and bound and the drug eaters sent off with the muggle police. The money was divided into 8 ways (1 for each country involved). Flush with success they returned home for a very short lived celebration.

While this was happening Voldemort and the Source were trying to make up for their losses. They had plenty of demons, but too many Death Eaters were being arrested. A massive prison break was planned for December 30th, a strike force of demons would attack the numerous prisons simultaneously to avoid reinforcements. Another strike force was enabled to cause a diversion. The Source knew that Rena knew the date of the attack. However he was confidant of his ace in the hole.

After the loss of their money and drug laundering business the two Dark leaders sent Demons and Death Eaters to various muggle military bases to clean them out of weaponry. The Source knew the muggles would call for military backup and wanted to eliminate that problem ahead of time.

It was a devastating blow to the morale of many of the muggle leaders when 50 of their weaponry went missing. Muggle and Magical governments were working overtime to secure as many locations and government officials and documents as possible. It was decided at a massive meeting of world leaders (both muggle and magical) to announce a bulletin on December 31st canceling all New Years Eve celebrations due to a terrorist attack. Even going so far as to instate a curfew for all but law enforcement to be out after 6 p.m. It was drastic but what else could they do.

Camelot was ready, of that Rena was sure. The infirmary was stocked with extra healing potions and supplies, with the potion masters in constant brew mode. The council was due to meet at noon the next day going over strategies. The whitelighters were ready to announce attacks in other countries with house-elves standing by to pop off. Those fighting had been training and planning for months now and were given their groups and numbers the day before. The twins had numerous extras for the fighters and divided up their work. It was now a waiting game.

December 31st, 12 Noon.

The council was in session. The wireless had just relayed the broadcast and everyone in the room hoped the people listened and stayed inside. The waiting was killing them, no one knew when the attack would begin and where. As an added defense Rena had her charms expert charm a few hundred mirrors to make communication easier, faster, and more importantly more secure.

Around 5 p.m. the house-elves were clearing the early dinner when 8 house-elves popped in simultaneously giving many a jolt.

"Majesty!" squeaked one Rena recognized as Maya. "The attack has begun in America."

"Also in China!"

"France."

"Austalia.."

"Italy."

"Spain."

"Germany."

"Russia."

There was immediate movement which was halted seconds later as 15 more house-elves popped in with more messages.

Sorry about the cliff hanger. I appreciate the reviews, sorry about the wait.