Chapter #1
The war was over.
That was the one single constant thought on the mind of a twenty year old Harry Potter, and truthfully he could not be happier. The road had been long and winding and through it all, Harry had to admit, that Dumbledore was right, love had been his greatest weapon, he had fallen in love with Ginny in his fifth year, and that had anchored him to the light, while he delved into darker and even more forbidden arts, till he became a master Necromancer, which was something that even lord Voldemort feared to try to become, for in the process, one could lose more than half their soul to death and by doing so becoming a leach.
He had become, one with death, he was what Voldemort always wanted to be, an immortal, however, while knowing that he would never be able to defeat Harry, Lord Voldemort took it out with his loved ones, first came the aged headmaster Albus Dumbledore who was killed in Harry's sixth year, as well as his godfather Sirius Black, then Ron and Hermione, in the summer, while they were all preparing for the wedding of Fleur and Bill, and then at the beginning of the seventh year Voldemort had destroyed Hogwarts.
In the grim space of three years Voldemort had destroyed a third of the Wizarding world in England, and had began spreading through Europe, creatures that had sided with him for benefits, were betrayed and destroyed, only two of six Vampire covens remained, and only Greyback pack of werewolf's were left.
It took Harry all of his might to fight and convince the underworld and its commanders to come to his aide, and his fight against Minos had been long and arduous, but in the fires of Hell, he found the army that he needed to destroy the evil that Voldemort had brought out, at a terrible personal price.
A Necromancer must make a commitment to hell and to Death, in exchange for power and immortality; he will be immortal, if he is able to part from a quarter of his soul, in this case he would not be able to love anyone else, but he would still be able to fill the emotion, making him rational but at the same time knowing that he would be waiting for eternity alone.
That was the price, and Harry took it without hesitation.
After the war was over, the British Wizarding world needed a scapegoat and so they blamed their saviour for their misfortunes, Cornelius Fudge who had been voted out of office at the beginning of the war had miraculously regained office and moved forward a motion so that Harry faced trial on the charges of genocide and crimes against the Wizarding community, with that said Harry left everything and went straight to Gringots, he moved all of his assets from the Black and Potter families and moved to a small town in the state of Washington in the United States of America, he moved to the town of Forks.
It had been a very strenuous travel, the Goblins had asked him that in exchange of the service free of charge, he would have to come to their aid if they ever needed it, the international confederation of wizards had said that he was free to go, since he had taken the Death Eaters and their evil Dark Lord, however the British ministry had exiled him never to return under pane of death.
Harry snorted 'to kill someone that cannot die' he shook his head 'that will be the day'.
With the help of the goblins, Harry had purchased 2000 acres of land that encompassed from the road through the mountain pass, over the hill, towards where the river met; it was funny, because his property was technically in between a reservation and a private estate. And the town of Forks was not but a fifteen minute drive from the front gate of the estate.
The goblins had done some research on his behalf and the architect was a local by the name of Cullen, whom he had never heard anything from, however in all honesty, he knew everything from the darkest and more obscure branches of magic, but he knew nothing about the modern muggle world.
When he arrived, he looked at the small manor that was a mixture between Hogwarts stone work, with large glass panels and the convenience of the modern world, one thing that he liked about the house, was the fact that there was a three car garage, he now could drive, as he had lost a lot of mobility from the final battle with Voldemort, even though he could walk and run normally for short periods of time, the pain was great, so he was relegated to using his necromancer staff, that could be shrunk and served the dual purpose of staff and walking cane. This made broom flight almost impossible.
Harry spend the first few weeks adjusting and trying to live alone, the time that he had served at the Dursley's, for that is what he considered it, was what allowed him to be able to look after himself and keep everything in order. The largest room in the house was actually a library, where one would find the most complete Dark library in the world, but would have a hard time if one wanted to find fiction or something to amuse themselves.
He took time to go to Hell, where he would play a game of Chess with Minos every now and then and would catch up with the news from beyond the void, he found it amusing that the daemons from hell had been actually keeping tabs on his death family and relatives in heaven, so as for him to be able to exist more peacefully, and he found relieve on the fact that he could send messages back to them.
One and a half months after moving to the states, Harry was about to live hell when Minos called him 'Harry I have a surprise for you' he said while he snapped his fingers and tow lesser daemons came into the audience chamber holding the leashes of what looked like the cross between bears and wolves 'we heard that you had a very big area that had some game, and we thought that you would not mind having some company so I present to you on behalf of his highness a straight from Diss two Hell hounds'
Harry looked at the two animals and smiled at the daemon 'Thank you Minos I will gladly take them' he said as he extended his hand and petted on of the hell hounds on the snout 'I have to go though, or I will be late for school tomorrow'
'Only you would pick such torture master Necromancer' said the beast with the long tail 'have fun and be careful with those, they tend to eat everything unless told otherwise'
Harry smiled opening the portal back to his property waiting for what he was sure to be a very long day tomorrow.
When Harry arrived at school, he knew that the term had already started but was surprised that he was the second person to transfer once school had started, he parked his car outside and saw to his surprise that there were several nice cars all parked together, but the general population used older cars, clearly a sign of the fact that whomever drove to school used cars that were first their parents and then theirs.
He got out of the silver sports car and limped towards the stairs where the students were congregating and all looking at him, he looked towards the group of pasty looking kids that were hanging around together near the expensive looking cars and he set in their direction 'Excuse me' he said out loud, all of them turned towards him but only the smaller girl smiled 'hello what can we do for you'
Harry raised an eyebrow and looked at the girl, using his passive legilimency he was able to detect some of the general thoughts and emotions running from the small group he was surprised that all of them were guarded, but more than that he could feel that this people were not ordinary muggles, they did not smell like ordinary muggles.
'I am looking for the office, I just transferred from England and I don't know my way around yet' he waited for someone to say something when he felt the presence of someone behind him; he turned around to look at a pretty looking brunette standing behind him.
'I can take you there' she said 'I am going there myself' Harry nodded and turned to look at the people 'have a good day' he turned around and started gimping towards the Girl.
'Hello I am Isabella Swan 'she said extending her hand 'but everyone calls me Bella' she turned and walked slowly so that he could walk next to her.
'My name is Harry Potter' he said walking next to her.
The first day for Harry was going from bad to worse, the schools version of Colin Creeve had completely disregarded his wish for not having an article about himself in the schools newspapers, and the teachers seemed to treat him like if he was an idiot because he was from another country and he used a cane, however the worst part of his day was when while in the lunch room a raven entered through the window and sat in front of where his tray was and deposited a bag of red sweets and a letter before moving taking off and flying away.
Harry looked at the letter that had the crest of a Cerberus with a long tale wrapped nine times around it with an arc on top of it, he broke the sill and unscrolled it.
Dear Harry
I thought that you would need a little pick me up on your first day in the leaving hell that I would not sentence anyone to that is High school.
Please take the sweets, your favourite blood poops as a way to sweeten your day.
Truly yours
Minos the Judge
P.S. Do not eat them in public.
Harry could not possibly believe the gall of the infernal gate keeper, he turned around, stood up and walked out of the cafeteria just as the people that he had first asked help came into the cafeteria; he looked at them, nodded and kept on walking.
That night Harry thought that he would go and take his hellhounds for a walk, he started his walk towards the river creek at the edge of his land, and as he was approaching hi heard several rustling sounds towards the other side of the creek, he called his hounds and started walking towards the other side and he delved deeper into the neighbouring estate he came into view of a very modern house, he walked towards the front door and ordered his hounds to stay put , not wanting to scare his neighbours more than necessary, he sent them back into the forests around them and told them to wait. The beauty about hellhounds was that they could follow commands based on their master's intent behind a look.
He walked towards the door and as he was about to knock on the door it was opened by the girl that had been the most open from the group from school, he sighed 'I am here to introduce myself to Mr. and Mrs. Cullen my name is Harry Potter I am your next door neighbour'
The girl smiled at him and moved out of the way for him to pass, he waited for her to close the door behind him and show him the way, as she took the lead they came across one of the men that was taller than Harry and had golden honey blond hair 'who is it dear' Harry raised a eyebrow again and with a small bow, he set most of his weight on his cane and said 'Harry Potter at your service, I am here to see Mr and Mrs. Cullen'
He nodded looking at him strangely and then continued walking with the girl in hand and Harry following them, as they entered the living room he saw that in fact all of the people that he had seen congregated on the school parking lot were here except for a tall blond man and a very beautiful woman next to him.
Harry turned to the girl who had opened the door and the man and inclined his head in thanks; he turned to the man and walked up to him extending his hand 'Allow me to introduce myself Mr. Cullen' the man looked surprised for a moment and took Harry's hand in his 'My name is Harry Potter and I just moved here from England'
The man nodded and smiled at Harry 'My name is Carlisle Cullen, I am a Doctor in the town's hospital' the man turned to the woman next to him 'and this is my wife Esme'
Harry bowed formally to the woman and said 'it is a pleasure to meet the person whom I owe the design of the house I am leaving in' he said.
'So you like it?' she said excitedly looking at him intently.
'I could not have asked for a more perfect home, even if I had been the one to design it' he said then he turned to the young people that were standing to the sides and to the back of the room 'your children I presume Mr. Cullen?'
'Yes indeed' said Carlisle looking fondly over the young people next to him 'allow me to introduce my children Edward' he pointed to the tall brown haired youth 'Emmet' he pointed to the tall and athletic built person 'and Alice' he pointed to the smaller girl that stood next to the on that he had met on his way to the sitting room.
He pointed to the other two 'the other two are our adoptive children Rosalind and Jasper Hale'
'I am delighted to meet your acquaintance' he said looking at all of them.
'No need to be so formal Harry after all you're no more that seventeen, it does not do well for a young man to be speaking like if he was Victorian' said Esme with a smile that was mirrored by Carlisle.
'Sorry my aunt taught me that way to behave in the presence of guests and that is the way that Minos treats me so I guess it is all the time that I have spent with him has finally rubbed off' he said scratching the back of his neck, which made them all laugh.
'So what do your parents do?' asked Carlisle interested.
'My family was murdered nineteen years ago on October the 31 he said with eyes that spoke of a hard and difficult life' he then added 'But it happened a long time ago, and the person that did it got what he disserved in the end'
Esme moved forward and enveloped him in bone crushing hug which sent shivers down his spine from the temperature of her skin. 'You poor dear' she said 'growing up without a mother'
Before he could say anything else the two hellhounds stormed into the house and stood at the entrance of the room making eye contact with Harry while the Cullen's all moved around him.
He looked at them for a moment before looking back at the two hellhounds and stepping in front of the Cullens before things got out of Hand 'Why did you disobey me?' he asked looking at the two beasts from hell.
One of the two creatures bowed its head low and said in a very raspy and high pitched voice 'Master we smelt Vampires on the move'
Harry tensed, but more importantly he felt the Cullens tense behind him 'Why did you feel the need for you to let me know this?' he asked
'Master the Vampires killed several people in a power plant not an hour away' said the daemon still bowing.
Harry thought about it for a second before turning to the Cullens who seemed to be all looking at each other and then at once he felt several probes against his occlumency shields he then turned towards the daemon 'follow the Vampires but do not harm them, the last thing I need is for Aro to get delusions of grandeur like he did before the war'
'Your wish is my command master' the one that had been speaking left the room while the other stayed where he was, Harry turned to the other one and said 'you go to Minos and tell him to ready my army in case it is needed and then go to Volterra and inform me of anything that Aro does, I want to be informed of everything'
The other bowed and left without a word, Harry stood looking out the window, before turning to the Cullens.
'So you are all cold all the time, you look a little pale even for my standards and I myself am chalk white' he moved closer to them 'and you smell differently than other mortals' he looked at Carlisle 'You seemed taken aback by the fact that I know Aro and that I knew about Vampires which leads me to believe that you are a Vampire as well'
He looked as if they were about to have a fit until Rosalie leapt to him and she was about to attack Harry before she was intercepted by everyone else.
'Let me go' she said screaming 'It is too early for us to move again' she said sobbing into the shoulder of Emmet 'we can't leave him alive he will ruin our cover and the Volturi will come for us'
Harry laughed a humourless laugh and she turned to him 'you think this is funny, you have ruined all of our lives'
Harry turned to the window and rested his palms on the crystal 'Oh Harry why can't you just be normal' he knelt on the floor and started to sob 'I can't go to war again' he looked at the sky 'I can't do it again' he turned to Rosalie 'I am twenty years old and I have fought more battles that you have read about in the news papers and killed more people alone that all of you together would not be able to, commanded armies of immortal daemons and lost the ability to love' he laughed humourlessly
And still with tears in his eyes he looked back to the sky 'I will help you all' he said still sobbing inconsolably 'I am not backing away from it I just wish that I didn't have to do it'
He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to find Carlisle 'You don't have to'
He laughed again 'Things are now in motion that cannot be undone' he looked at Alice 'isn't that right Alice?'
Alice looked shocked for a moment, before nodding.
'Why don't you tell us about your story?' asked Esme hurting for the young man that was clearly distressed.
Harry calmed down for a moment 'I will but not today' he stood up and then turned around he looked at the Cullens and said 'Meet me tomorrow at my house and bring an appetite I will provide appropriate refreshments for you' with that he disaparated with a thunderous crack in front of the Cullens.