Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter J.K Rowling does.

Ok so I have some bad news for all those who were following my other stories. A while back my PC got a pretty bad virus and I had to reformat my hard drive. As a result all the new chapters that I wrote for Devil's Bargain, Veil of Time etc. were deleted. So I am not really in the mood to re write them again after all the hard work I put into them but I will get to them eventually. So to get my creative juices flowing I decided to take a shot at my own Joined Souls challenge.

7 year old Harry Potter knew when his uncle was angry. It was some sort of sixth sense that he somehow learnt over the years. It always began with a slight tingling at the back of his head and ended up with a feeling of utmost dread due to the fact that his uncle would most probably direct his anger towards him. And that day was no different.

It began in the morning, his uncle's favorite tie was in the wash and all he had was an old ugly brown tie that did not look good no matter which way you looked at it. Harry got a punch on the ear for that. Then while eating breakfast his uncle had split some egg on his shirt causing him to go off in a rage. Harry got a punch in the stomach and one in the face. Throughout the whole day Harry winced and gasped in pain as his fresh new bruises brushed of the wall he had to paint or was pricked by the thorns of the rose bush he was pruning.

Finally the day was over and Harry could finally get some rest and even a bit of food if he was lucky but sadly for him there was some deity up there that did not like him for some reason. It was nearing sunset when he entered the house through the back door and instinctively he knew that something was wrong. The usual scene of his aunt Petunia cleaning every surface obsessively was missing. Instead the kitchen was bare of any life form. He wiped his feet on the mat by the door and crept inside the house, his eyes scanning for his relatives, a glimmer of hope entered him as he wondered if they had left him alone as maybe now he could actually have a full meal and maybe watch some TV. Slowly he passed his room of the cupboard under the stairs and saw that the light was on in the sitting room. Carefully he pressed his body against the wall and slid towards the open door, the feeling of dread entering his body. He inched forward and peaked his head into the room and quite suddenly all he felt was pain.

He creaked open his eyes and saw that his uncle was standing over him with a crazy look in his eyes and his mouth foaming slightly. It seemed that his uncle was standing by the door waiting for him and had punched him in the face causing him to fly back and smash into the stairway behind.

His uncle slowly walked towards him now with an insane grin on his face, his beady eyes never leaving Harry. "You little shit. You little fucking freak." His uncle said in a crazy voice as he grabbed Harry by the collar and yanked him of his feet and into the air. Harry could smell the alcohol in the man's breath and he knew then that something really bad had happened, his uncle never drank during the day unless something bad had happened. His uncle drew back a punch and smashed it into Harry's stomach, knocking out all of his breath and causing him to see stars. Harry whimpered in pain as his uncle still held him in the air, his collar now chocking him.

His uncle then grabbed him with two hands and flung him into the opposite wall, the impact shattering his already broken glasses and also shattering a few bones inside. After that Harry could not keep in his screams any longer as the pain was too much to bear. He screamed and howled in pain as his ribs cut into his lungs. As he lay on the floor coughing up blood and gasping for air his uncle grabbed him again unconcerned that his nephew could die at any moment. "Boy because of you boy. I lost my job today because of you." Vernon screamed at him as he booted Harry on the side of his head with all his might. With a sickening thud Harry landed on his side finally succumbing to the pain and falling unconscious. Vernon sneered at his limp body and grabbed him and threw him into the cupboard under the stairs, his drunken mind hoping that the freak will finally die.

The pain was too much to bear. Harry had woken up in the darkness of his cupboard and had nearly fallen unconscious again due to the extreme pain he was feeling. He lay there in the darkness unable to move an inch. His head felt as if someone had smashed it in with a sledgehammer and his chest was burning like an inferno. Every breath he took increased the pain more and whenever he exhaled he coughed up blood. Somehow he knew that he was going to die and he was actually happy for once, he would actually get to see his parents. His vision started to go black and his breathing became ragged as his body started to succumb to the injuries. He closed his eyes and then it hit him. His body jolted up as if hit by an electric bolt. His eyes widened in fear at what was happening as the feeling washed through him and his body jolted about three more times. He screamed in pain again as his bones began cracking back to their original positions and all of his bruises began to heal themselves. Slowly his breathing became normal and he stopped coughing up blood. The pain was now a dull thud and a slight headache, nothing he couldn't handle. Slowly and gingerly he sat up wondering what on earth had happened, how on earth did he heal like that.

It was then he heard something that scared the living daylights out of him. A voice filled with malice and hatred spoke up inside his head "Finally, freedom."

Shocked to the core Harry said in a shaking whisper "Who…who are you?"

Again the voice was heard inside his head and not from the outside "Foolish boy. I am Lord Voldemort The greatest wizard in the world. "

Please R&R and thank you for reading.

Challenge requirements:

It should start with Vernon almost killing a young Harry which results in both his and Voldemort's souls joining to save his life.

Harry must gain all of Voldemort's knowledge of the dark arts and of the wizarding world

You can have him being super powerful or you can just have him with all the knowledge and intelligence

Must be a Harry\Hermione ship or it can be Harry\Many but with Hermione the main wife

Story must start before he goes to Hogwarts (age 6-10)

Dumbledore must be a manipulator so he must be bashed

Snape can be good or bad

Has to have major Weasley bashing

It can be a bond fic if you want

Also if you get Sirius out of prison early you should have them stay near Hermione's house

Genres should be romance and whatever you choose

Rating can be whatever you want

Requirements for evil Harry

Harry must use the Dursley's as test subjects for his new dark powers

With his knowledge of all the Death Eaters, he can use it to force them to join him (although this should only happen when he is older)

His animagus should be a Dementor, a Nudu and whatever else you want

He should not be in Gryffindor