Hello readers.

This is the re-write of my 2nd story, Harry Potter and the Blackest Night. In this version, I have cleaned up the grammar and spelling a bit, as well as tightening up the flow a little bit, and correcting some errors and misconceptions that were present in the first story. Portions of this will stay the same, as I was happy with those bits. But there is quite a bit of new stuff. If you like it, review, if you don't, still review. I am a bit of an attention-whore for it.

Standard disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, its characters, Green Lantern or any of DC's characters.

Prologue

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"Shit! I've got to get out here! I can't let them take me!" panted a man's voice. Through the darkness and the rain of a thick jungle, a tall blue man in white robes ran for his life. On the front of his white robes, was a symbol of an inverted triangle with six rays seeming to shine out from the top of the triangle, and a curved line ran through the rays. All of those were inside of a circle. On his back, he wore a green colored battery pack, and the center of it seemed to glow with an inextinguishable energy source. From the battery pack, a cable ran down his right arm and into a gauntlet that covered his hand and forearm. The cable and the gauntlet were also green, and also glowed with strange markings and designs. If one were to closely look that the gauntlet, they would see that on the back of the hand, was another symbol inside of a circle, except this one was of another circle, with two bars connected to it at the top and bottom. The same symbol was also etched into the upper third of the gauntlets middle finger.

As the rain continued to fall, the blue man could hear the flight stabilizers of his pursuers come even closer. Panicking, the blue man tripped over a tree root. Crashing to the wet and muddy ground, he looked over his shoulder in fear as he whispered "Power on."

"Power on," said the battery pack on his back. Instantly, the markings, the knuckles and the symbols on the gauntlet began to glow as it hummed with an enormous power. He closed his right fist, pointing it in the direction that the threat was coming from.

"Felon 1: Located," came a metallic voice, just off to the robed mans right. As he turned to assess the threat, his eyes widened in fear. Three red and blue robots were descending upon his location.

"Krona of Maltus," said the lead robot. The blue man, now known as Krona, observed the guns that the robots had in each hand.

"You are wanted for crimes of heresy," said the second, as the guns were then pointed at Krona. Looking down the barrel of each gun, Krona could see the yellow light charging in the guns, these were the most powerful lasers on Maltus.

"No one escapes the Manhunters," said the last robot. And with that, the Manhunters began to open fire on Krona, who began to dodge and roll away, narrowly avoiding death several times. As Krona rolled onto his side, he closed his gauntlet-covered fist again and pointed it toward the Manhunters.

"Let the fear flow, Krona," he muttered to himself, taking a deep breath. "And overcome it!"

The only warning that the Manhunters had was a green glow in Krona's eyes, and a green aura surrounding Krona before a massive explosion of green light decimated everything in a hundred-yard radius.

Picking himself off the ground, Krona went to see what had become of his metallic foes. He had only walked a few paces before he heard their metallic voice.

"No one escapes—kzzzttt."

Krona walked towards the sound, and found a single Manhunter who was busted up, and barely functioning. As Krona approached it, he took off his power gauntlet, seeing that the robot would pose no threat in this condition.

"No one escapes the Manhunters. N-N-No one—kzzzttt," said the Manhunter as Krona detached the head from the body of the robot. In one swift movement, Krona had removed the cap on the head which protected the internal circuitry from exposure to any elements. Krona then detached and reattached several wires and tapped a few buttons.

"Manhunter upload complete," came the robots voice as Krona did a few more quick repairs and reprogrammed the machine. As soon as he snapped the protective cap back into place on the Manhunters head, the eyes lit up.

"No man escapes the Manhunters," said the robot as Krona smirked, an idea already forming in his mind.

"Manhunters," he began. "Your orders have been changed."

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[The Planet Ryut, 1 week later]

Explosions and screams could be heard throughout the night. Fire was consuming buildings and people. Smoke was clouding the air so badly that it was like walking blind. It was next to impossible to breathe, but the red humanoid alien kept running. He thought that if he could make it out of the city, to the temple that was in the middle of the planets deepest forest, that he would be safe.

Running blindly through smoke so thick that the Ryutian could not see his hands in front of his face, he ran down the street that would take him out of the capital city. He could hear the cries of men, women and children as he continued to run. As much as he wanted to help, he knew that he did not stand a chance against these abominations.

Finally coming out of the smoke he ran into the trees, pausing only to catch his breath and look behind him. The capital city was burnt almost to the ground with bodies lying all around. He could make out the force that did the atrocity. They were metallic humanoid men. They were impervious to the natives' primitive weapons. And the machines destroyed all in their way.

After catching his breath, the Ryutian turned back into the forest and ran. Perhaps if he could make it to the temple, he could make a plea to the gods to save whatever survivors were left on Ryut.

After twenty minutes of running through the dense forest he had made it to the temple. He had accumulated scratches and cuts and the start of a rash from the various plants that made up the sacred forest. As he walked into the temple, the Ryutian remembered his coming of age ceremony. All Ryutians, upon leaving childhood, had to make their way through the forest with no provisions, to find the temple and make an offering to the gods.

The Ryutian stepped up to the altar, which was placed in front of the oldest tree on the planet. It was a tall and thick tree, with branches extending almost twelve feet from the trunk. Kneeling and closing his eyes, he prayed. Prayed for whatever higher power there was out there to stop the killing of his people, to stop the metal monstrosities and to destroy whoever created said abominations. At that moment the temple shook violently. At first, the Ryutian thought that his prayers were being answered, that is until he heard an explosions before the temple shook again. He quickly looked behind him, out the open entrance to the temple. And what he saw horrified him. The sacred forest had been set on fire. No doubt in an effort to flush out anybody who may be hiding in the forest. As another explosion cast more flames upon the greenery, pieces of the temple started falling around the Ryutian. The Ryutian had to jump and roll to avoid being crushed. In the middle of one roll, when he had glanced upward, he could see to the very top of the most sacred tree. There on top of it was something that glittered.

Getting to his feet, the Ryutian jumped onto the tree and began to climb, hoping against hope that whatever had sparkled was a weapon sent down from the gods. As he climbed further and further up, the Ryutian could see the faint orange glow in the distance of other cities burning. He saw more metallic men flying from city to city, searching for survivors. Luckily, they hadn't noticed him yet. Higher and higher he climbed. He had to get to the weapon before all was lost. As he reached the top, he took notice that the perimeter edge of the forest was alight and making its way to the center with many mechanical men walking calmly behind it. The Ryutian made it to the very top and saw what had glittered. It was a large black lantern. The sides reflected the light of the flames dully. As he reached it, the face glowed a dark light.

"Full of emotion? What do you mean?" asked the Ryutian, confused on why he was questioning a lantern, and also trying to figure out how he had communicated with it while hearing no words. He just knew what it was trying to say. The face of the lantern brightened slightly and then dimmed again, but not going out.

"Yes! I need help, we all do! Death is consuming our planet."

The lantern responded by the glow going between several different levels of brightness.

"I understand," said the Ryutian, taking out a sharp rock he normally used to skin animals for meals. He took the rock and plunged it into his left hand. As blood started to gush, he placed his hand on the top of the lantern, letting the blood run down it. The blood immediately turned black. The Ryutian began to recite the incantation for the ceremony that the lantern had told him. If the ceremony was successful, it would revive his now dead planet in return for unleashing its power across the universe. The lantern would craft an item to resurrect the most powerful mortals in the universe to spread its black will.

"The Blackest Night falls from the skies…" he began as the lantern began to glow more brightly.

"The darkness grows as all light dies…" inside the lantern, black energy could be seen forming the first of the items that would be sent out across the universe.

"We crave your hearts and your demise…" The energy took shape in the form of a ring. The ring hovered there for a second as a symbol in scribed itself onto the face. The symbol was an inverted triangle with five lines coming up vertically from it. The ring then exited the face of the lantern as more black energy began to form more rings.

"By my –ack!" The Ryutian was cut off mid sentence by one of the metallic men who had finally noticed him atop the tree, and had flown up to him and promptly impaled him on his staff.

The light faded from the Ryutians eyes, and he could see the light in the lantern start to fade as well, the black energy never making more than that single ring. In his last few moments of life, he saw the ring shoot off into space enveloped in black energy. He saw the machine set the great tree on fire. And he heard the machine speak.

"No man escapes the Manhunters!"

With his last gasping breath, the Ryutian did his best to open his eyes, to see a tall blue man flying next to the red and blue machine. The red and blue man wore white robes and a large, glowing green gauntlet. And he spoke.

"I am truly sorry for the loss of your planet and your people. I am completely responsible for everything that has happened to you. Please know in the afterlife that it was not personal, but I had to prove to the so-called 'Guardians of the Universe' that an unfeeling robotic force could not truly police the Universe. I am truly, truly sorry," whispered Krona, as he wept for the dying Ryutian.

And all was lost for Ryut.

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The black power ring flew through space at an astonishing speed. Being guided by the sentient will of Death himself, its purpose was to find the most powerful of all deceased mortals so it could bring about the end of the universe, the Blackest Night.

"Flesh."

After some time of flying through space, searching for its host, the ring entered Space Sector 2814. And there, it felt the resonance of a power that had passed quite a while ago, but it's power still echoed throughout the sector. It's master told it to follow the echo of power, and begin the ultimate plan to snuff out the universes light.

"Flesh."

The ring raced to a small blue planet with a single white moon.

Earth.

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In a graveyard in England, a man by the name of Cadmus Peverell stood in front of his recently deceased lover. She was his everything, his best friend, his soon-to-be wife, his confident and the one person who could calm him down when he got to be too boastful and arrogant. He loved her dearly, and now she was gone forever, taken before her time.

He looked to the sky, wondering if she was looking back at him. While looking at the grey sky, he noticed a black trail begin to form, standing out against the background of the dreary sky. He watched as it seemed to right itself and descend to the graveyard in which he was standing. He watched in amazement as it the zigzagged between grave markers until it finally found one and began to rapidly circle it.

"Merlin of Earth," it said as a skeletal hand seemed to be pushed through the ground, almost seeming to reach for the ring.

Getting a bad feeling, Cadmus pulled out his wand and pointed it at the strange, glowing talking black ring.

"Accio Ring!"

The ring seemed to become completely still for half a second before it was pulled to Cadmus. The skeletal hand sunk back below the surface of the ground as the ring got farther away. Cadmus then reached out and snatched the ring from the air.

"Unhand me mortal! The Blackest Night is coming, the end is nigh!" screamed the black ring, trying to free itself from the grip of Cadmus. Little did Cadmus know, that it was actually the voice of Nekron, Death himself, which came through the ring.

"Thou art a queer thing. What doest thou mean 'the end is nigh'?" asked Cadmus of the ring, which was still trying to get loose.

"The dead shall rise, and bring an end to all life and emotion. I will resurrect the most powerful mortal and orchestrate the Armageddon!"

"Wait! Did thou say that thou could revive the dead?"

"That I can you pathetic mortal."

"Then thou will come with me," said Cadmus, pointing his wand at the struggling ring again. Unfortunately for the ring, it didn't really have any defense mechanisms without a host.

"Petrificus Totallis!" And the ring stopped moving completely. Cadmus then placed the ring into his pocket and set off for home to tell his brothers. If his endeavor succeeded, he and his precious Luciana would be reunited in due time.

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When Cadmus returned home, he told his brothers Antioch and Ignotus of the amazing black ring the fell from the sky and held the power to revive the dead.

Their reactions were not what he expected.

"Brother, thou art a damned fool!" yelled Antioch, his aggressive mannerisms most definitely showing through.

"Cadmus, though I don't agree with Antioch's…assessment of thou, surely thou must realize that there is no magick that can bring back the dead," reasoned the youngest brother Ignotus.

"But this ring can revive the dead brothers! It fell from the heavens, and it spoke to me! Hear it!" said Cadmus, pulling the ring out, showing the face of the large black ring. They peered intently at the symbol of the triangle with the five lines.

Cadmus pulled out his wand and lifted the Full Body Bind jinx from the ring. It immediately tried to pull away from Cadmus's hand.

"Foolish mortal! I told you to release me so that I could fulfill my mission."

"Mission? What mission doest this ring want to fulfill?" asked Ignotus.

"Ah. It hath said that it wishes to revive the most powerful mortal to bring about the end of all life," replied Cadmus hesitantly.

"And thou wants to let it do so?" asked Antioch with anger leaking into his tone.

"Well brothers, my plan is simple. I have exhumed Luciana from her grave and brought her body here," said Cadmus gesturing to a large box he had brought in earlier. "We'll place a bubble-shield charm over the cottage so the ring can't get out. And it will have no choice but to revive Luciana, who as a muggle, is truly anything but powerful."

The brothers argued amongst themselves for some time, while the ring struggled against the hand the held it, yelling obscenities at the brothers. Eventually though, the oldest and younger brother agreed, but kept their wands out in case something went awry.

The Peverell brothers placed a bubble-shield over their home and released the ring. The ring immediately shot for a window, expecting to break through. What it did not expect though, was that the magic that made the shield was too different from the energies of the Emotional Spectrum that it sought to destroy. The ring bounced harmlessly off the window. It zipped around the small cottage several times before realizing that all it could attach itself to was the dead woman that Cadmus wanted to be revived. It then flew over to her body, circling it a few times before finally hovering above the body.

"Luciana Granger of Earth," said the ring as it used its black energy to raise her hand out of the dirt enough to latch itself onto her middle right finger. "RISE!"

Luciana's body began to change. Her skin became shrunk and a dark grey. Her clothes turned black with the symbol on the face of the ring being placed right on the front of her dress. And her eyes re-grew, but they were completely black with a small shine to them. Unseen to the brothers, the shine was the shaped the same as the symbol on the ring.

As she lifted herself from the ground, she looked around, seeing that she was inside a familiar cottage. Then she laid her eyes on the man she was supposed to marry and his two brothers watching her. But her vision seemed different. Everything was normal except for the men she was looking at. Cadmus was a wrapped in a violet color.

'Love.'

She looked at his younger brother, who was glowing a brilliant blue.

'Hope.'

And she spied the oldest brother Antioch, who seemed to be made of green light.

'Will.'

Somewhere in her mind, she vaguely wondered who was telling her this, and she looked down at herself. She was wearing strange black clothes and had a strange black ring on her hand. As she looked at the ring, it seemed to tell her what happened and what she needed to do now. She placed her hand on the table where the brothers were slicing ingredients for a potion to support herself.

"Cadmus," she said. "My love."

Cadmus's face split into a wide grin as he dropped his wand and rushed to embrace her. As he got close to her, he felt a sharp pain in his chest; he looked down, and saw that woman he loved and had just revived had stabbed him.

Pulling the knife out quickly, she stabbed it into another part of his chest, and quickly cut a circle around his heart.

"Why?" asked Cadmus with his dying breath.

"We crave your heart and your demise," she whispered back to him as she ripped his heart out of his chest.

Antioch and Ignotus watched in horror as their brother fell to the ground dead with his fiancé holding his heart in her hand.

"Power levels 0.01%." rang the voice of the ring.

Springing into action, Antioch raised his wand at the demon woman as a yellow-glowing Ignotus wrapped himself in an invisibility cloak to attempt a surprise attack.

'Fear.'

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" yelled Antioch.

Luciana stood there and took the curse straight to the chest from the man who went from being green to a flaming red.

'Rage.'

Antioch watched as his killing curse had no effect on the undead woman. He pointed his wand at her again.

"Stupefy!"

Luciana raised the knife she killed Cadmus with and let the light based curse bounce off the reflective surface. She began to laugh at Antioch.

"Antioch, thou always did let your anger overwhelm thou and make stupid decisions," she taunted.

Ignotus took this distraction as his chance to summon the knife from her hand and use it to cut the fingers of her right hand off, and the ring along with them.

Upon feeling this, Luciana turned to face the man who had just come out from hiding. He then used his wand to summon the ring to him and to keep it from returning to her. She lunged at him trying to take it back, but he slipped back under the cloak, disappearing from sight. She tumbled to the floor missing him completely. As she began to get up, both the brothers used their magic to cast flames upon her, burning her body to ashes so the ring would no longer have a host. The last thing she saw was the two living brothers glowing an indigo color as they held sorrowful expressions upon their faces.

'Compassion.' was the last thing she heard as the ring spoke in her head. The black energy then dispelled from her in a violent gale. As her body collapsed to the floor, the black energy gathered and formed a monster the likes of which the brothers had never seen.

Made out of the black energy was an extremely tall human-like creature. It's long legs were covered by black colored pants, and the feet had silver boots. It wore an open sleeveless cloak, which was kept in place by an odd looking belt, which seemed to be the same symbol as Luciana wore, except the two lines on either side were what wrapped around the creature, leaving the on line in the center as it was. It did not wear any kind of tunic, that was plain to see by the fact that the creatures chest was ripped open, showing a gigantic black heart. Aside from the massive wound, the creatures skin was decaying, as if it too, were the living dead like Luciana had been moments before. They also noticed that it had a very large and heavy choker on its neck, with four rings for chains. Of the chains that were supposed to be there, the only one that actually was, attached from the creatures left wrist to the front left ring on the choker, though the chain was badly rusted. The front right ring on the choker also had a chain, but it was broken and only had several rusty chain links on it. Then they looked the creature in the face, and recoiled. Its decayed skin was sunken in, and it was missing its nose, leaving only the nasal passages exposed. On its forehead, it had the same symbol of the inverted triangle and five lines rising from it. But when they looked into its gray, dead eyes, they saw more malice and hatred they ever knew was possible to exist, and they knew that this monster was Death.

"Ignotus Peverell of Earth," said the black-energy monster, taking a step forward.

"Antioch Peverell of Earth," it said taking another step forward. The brothers fearfully took a step back, but were reluctant to run away, as the monster had stepped up to being right beside the corpse of Cadmus.

As if sensing what they were thinking, the monster, baring its teeth to them, bent over and grabbed the body of Cadmus Peverell with its left hand. Immediately, the body split open all the skin flayed itself off of the dead brother. The remains began to change places, with the bones of the feet staying the bottom, while the rest of the bones began to stack on one another long-ways. The skeletal arms had moved to meet the tops of the femurs and the ribs wrapped themselves around the spine, which the monster was holding onto. Muscle and sinew started to rearrange itself too, forming a dense and stiff membrane over the bones, which had begun to take the shape of some kind of staff. While the top third had straitened itself out, the bottom two-thirds took a distinctly curved shape. As soon as the muscle and sinew would settle into its new place, it seemed to scab over with a new layer of tough and decayed skin. It continued like this, until reaching the skull at the top of the staff. The monster then ripped out the back of the skull, and Cadmus' brain out with it, and the jaw fell open, as if screaming in pain. The creature opened it's right hand, and more black energy gathered there. It took the shape of a lantern, also, predictably, colored black. Death then took the small black lantern it had just created, and slammed it into the back of Cadmus' skull, with one face on the lantern facing the opposite direction as the skull, and the other face directly over top what used to be Cadmus' face. As soon as the lantern was secured on top of the corpse-staff, a wicked curved blade drew itself out of the lantern face directly over the skull.

"You two brothers have not defeated my plan, but merely delayed it. I wish to bring the universe back to peace with the darkness of death, but the two of you have proven to me that Life will attempt to fight back. Know this Peverell brothers… You have earned the Wrath of the Death God today. And you will die!"

Death then grasped the newly formed scythe with both hands and swung it in a horizontal swipe at both brothers. They were too stunned to move, but luckily for them, the blade passed harmlessly, or so they thought, through them. What they did not see was that the open mouth on the skull underneath the blade and passed through Antioch's wand and Ignotus's Invisibility Cloak, nor did they notice the residual black energy that stayed on their items as Death spoke once more.

"It seems that since I do not have a tether here as of yet, I cannot strike you down myself. However, you are now marked with the Black Spot, and you will meet gruesome and untimely deaths… then, you will be MINE!" as Death made his exclamation, the two brothers felt an intense pain on their chests. Quickly lifting their tunics, they each saw that a bruise was forming on their sternums, and the bruise was shaped exactly like the symbol that was on the accursed ring.

"Remember my only warning mortals…" said the Death God Nekron as his body began to dissolve into a black mass. Then the black mass exploded in a violent gale.

The brothers had to shield their eyes. The black energy wrapped around Antioch's wand and Ignotus's invisibility cloak. Unbeknownst to the brothers at that time, the black energy had enhanced the items by leaps and bounds. Thus was created, the Elder Wand and the Cloak of Invisibility.

After Luciana's body finished burning, the brothers placed a full body bind curse on the ring, making it go silent and still. They then wept for their now dead brother and his fiancé who they had grown to care about before she died the first time. They vowed never to let the foul rings power over her taint her memory.

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Several hours later, they had swept and contained the ashes of Luciana and then buried them in a plot of land with another marker for their brother, they went back to the cottage. They designed a special sealing spell to place on top of the evil ring. It would act as a permanent Full Body-Bind curse, at least until someone used the counter-curse on it. But, who would think to do that in the first place?

"Antioch, we've done the best we could with this, but it seems that the effects won't be completely suppressed. Maybe we could alter its abilities?"

"Thou art right Ignotus. I have an idea. It would normally revive a person, but they would want to rip out people's hearts. Obviously, that is undesirable. Could we make it revive ghosts of the deceased, only visible to the user?"

"Methinks we can brother. But even so, this is too dangerous of an object to let loose. We must keep it in our family, from one generation to the next."

"Agreed brother. For Cadmus."

"For Cadmus."

The two brothers then set to work in making the proper spell seals on the blasted ring, but also a convincing story about how they came in possession of such a powerful ring.

Several weeks later, Antioch would meet his end in an assassination over the Elder Wand, and a few years after that, Ignotus too met Nekron again during his death caused by a plague. But that my friends, is another story.

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[Present day Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts.]

Two Aurors were moving the corpse of the finally defeated Lord Voldemort to the clearing where not four hours ago, he and his followers thought that Harry Potter, The Chosen One, had died. They had placed his corpse in a full body-bind to levitate him so they could control his movement better.

Coming to what they thought an appropriate place in the clearing, they threw his body onto the ground. What they didn't see was the Resurrection Stone that Harry had dropped prior to his death.

"Hey, you wanna mess with his body for a bit?" asked the shorter of the two.

"You know it!" laughed the other one.

"Unbind him, watching limbs flail about is hysterical."

"Alright, Finite Incantatem!"

The one who cast the counter-curse though, never did have great aim, and after enduring a long battle previously, his arm was shaky and missed Voldemort. It hit the ground and exploded in a shower of sparks.

"You missed? How the hell did you miss? The guys almost seven feet tall!" yelled the shorted one.

"Shut your damn mouth! But… what made the sparks? Usually a spell doesn't do anything when it hits the ground."

The Aurors strode over to where the jinx had hit. There they saw a ring that bore a cracked stone face that had a weird triangular eye on it. As they watched, the stone shattered, revealing another face, It was round and flat, but had a symbol on the face of an upside down triangle with five lines rising from the triangle vertically.

The symbol began to glow, and a black energy began to wrap around the ring.

The Aurors watched in fascination as the ring rose from the ground and floated around the clearing for a minute. Then they heard a voice.

"Flesh."

The ring zipped over to Voldemorts body and they heard the voice again.

"Tom Marvolo Riddle of Earth."

The Aurors sprung into action too late as the ring used its black energy to raise the hand of Voldemort and slip onto his middle right finger.

"RISE!"

Voldemort then stood up, his cloak, though still black, had gained the same symbol as the ring, and his red eyes were now black that shone with the same symbol.

Voldemort turned his black eyes on the two Aurors, who to him appeared to be made of yellow light.

'Fear.'

Voldemort realized he no longer had a wand, but a voice spoke in his mind.

'You will be provided for.'

Black energy seeped out of the face of the ring and created a wand specifically for Voldemort. He grinned an evil grin even when the voice sounded again.

"Power levels 0.00%"

Not caring about that, Voldemort raised his new wand at the two Aurors and cast a spell that one of his former minions had invented.

"Sectumsempra!"

The Aurors fell as slash marks appeared across their chests. Voldemort strode over to their dying bodies and plunged his hands into their chests, and then pulled out their hearts.

"Power levels 0.02%" stated the ring as Voldemort laughed. Even when the Horcruxes had failed, he still gained immortality.