We Are Death's Masters

Characters : Annabelle Summers(OC), Chris Clearwater(OC), Harry Potter Characters, Twilight Characters.

Summary : Anna Summers is one of the masters of Death and can travel through time. Experiencing different lives, causing mischief as she goes. She's in Harry Potter's time now. With Death's task at her hand and The Boy Who Lived on her side, Let's see what chaos they create in Hogwarts and the Wizarding World together.

Disclaimer : Harry Potter and Twilight characters or any other recognizable characters not mine. Neither is the HP and Twilight Saga universe.

Some ideas have been inspired by other fics which I will try to credit as I add more chapters. Check out my favorites which have many fics which inspired me to write.

Main Pairings : (fem)Harry/Tom Riddle Jr., Anna/Chris, Cedric/Briseis(OC).

Other pairings : Sirius/Amelia, Tonks/?.

Pairings won't be for a long time but this is just to warn you about the future.

Warning : Language, Suggestive Themes, and Violence. All according to the 'T' rating.

A/N : The story will revolve around Harry, Tom, Anna and Chris. Gellert Grindelwald will be one of the main characters as well. They will be the good guys. With Cedric, Sirius and their companions as secondary main characters. Tonks would come later as well though her companion had yet to be decided. No love triangles. Genre will be Friendship, Humor, Adventure, limited Drama, Romance, not much Angst. So it's a mix. Bashing of some Light Characters. Slash, not amongst main characters but will be mentioned in minor characters. Gender bender, Harry will be a girl in the later chapters.

Twilight characters won't be mentioned for sometime.

A/N: Edited 21/01/2018: I have made some changes in the chapter. As I'm going to do with others I posted till 18/01.

Prologue

Annabelle, the name of that doll in the horror movie. Maybe its perfect for her, as her life does seem like that - a horror movie. Well some would say that.

Or others would say it was an adventure of a lifetime.

Lifetime, Hmph! Lifetimes more like.

She had lived so many lives and she still doesn't know if she would ever get a game over. She don't think it would ever happen.

She had pleaded with Death so many times to let her be, to let her rest in peace like people are supposed to do -oh wait they aren't actually. Stupid her!

People's soul get recycled. When they die, after spending some time in heaven or hell to get healed or get punished, the souls are recycled and send back to Earth.

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All people are gray, they had done good deeds, they had done bad deeds. They do good deeds for bad reasons - helping someone only to use them later for their own means - no altruism. Or bad deeds are done for good reason - killing to protect - no mercy. There's no such thing as totally good, pure or light or white and totally bad, evil or dark or black. Everyone's Gray.

So the souls get recycled. And these recycled souls are the new and old souls. The old souls are those who remain as they are and the new souls are those who are recreated into something new. Its done by random choice and Fate, Destiny or Luck nobody interferes in it.

People's good deeds, bad deeds all are counted, thought upon, then its decided where to put them. Death have many beings, workers for this work.

Thank God for small favors, as being Death's master doesn't meant that work for her or it would have been hell.

So the workers have a system by which they work out who would go to hell to get punished and who to heaven.

In simple words, those who had done bad deeds like rape, murder, genocide are all punished in hell for eternity not much chance of getting out of it until you show remorse which most don't. Those who had done good deeds all their life like a couple who adopted and raised kids, caring for them most of their life, never discriminating between their kids, black or white, boy or girl, magical or non magical, are given the pass to heaven to heal the sorrow they suffered before, for never having a kid of their own and spend some eons there before returning to earth.

But as said people are gray, a murderer may still have loved someone but he would only get a chance at redemption if he really meant remorse for his crime while the couple may have used back handed means to get some of the children out of their previous homes but it can't count against them since it was done for good.

But 'the road to hell is paved with good intention'. So to slight someone, bully someone thinking you are doing it for there own good so they would be tough later in life wouldn't be counted as good.

So the Death's workers had quite a difficult task.

Then there are some souls who didn't do any good or any bad deeds. Some of these are sent right back on earth to earn there place somewhere. And others are left to wait in limbo to give them incentive to do something, these are the souls who have lived many times and still hadn't found their place.

May be she's lucky she wasn't sent in limbo.

So most souls are born back on earth and the cycle continues.

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There's a song which goes 'You're one in a million'. That's for the one special person amongst all. But for Death, to select his masters, the actual number is lot more than that to chose from, close to about a zillion.

Time, is a human concept. They may think its a one way river, but its actually not. Well not on Earth anyway. The humans have history, but it can change, without causing a paradox as some might protest. How? Well its a simple matter of changing the fabric of time.

Consider 'life' a game. A blasé view but, oh well. So good deeds win one points, bad deeds lose them points. And they want to win the points to move to next level, the next life with favors - gaining favors from Fate or Destiny or Luck. They don't always interfere with anyone's life, only when the person wants it. If they lose points they get the wrath - as some people say they must have done something bad in last life to get a bad life.

And Death is the being who creates life.

He is Life.

They are one and the same. One shouldn't be afraid of him, not unless they are sure they would go to hell, but they also shouldn't want to die. He gave you life. Have some respect, Man!

He just is. He gives life, takes it, and causes heartbreak - to lovers; relief - to victims and etc., etc.

To imagine the time changed, one can consider the game of life changing. Simple as that.

Its the same game mostly, same rules but conditions are changed. If someone was poor before they may be rich, having gained favor of Fate. Or if someone was happy before they may get a sad life having lost said favor. Or nothing changes at all and they gain the fruits of their labor after they die and live again, just not in the game change. Most just get their life as it was, having done nothing fruitful in the life before the game change.

The game change causes headache to the workers though. As they had to evaluate everyone's life and change them accordingly. But Death likes to keep them on their toes and entertain himself so...

One may think there are only billion peoples on earth but after the game changes and all, more than zillions have lived on earth. Right now the people living there are destroying it so Death will probably have to change the game again. Create the earth back, bring things to live, evolution. Its also one of the reason for game change - people destroy. They create things but they also destroy things. But Death doesn't always change the game totally as it requires a lot of work, so almost always he just tweaks a few conditions and rules or facts about the things happened in the game and 'Voila!', time's changed. Like tweaking the programing or codes of the game or loosening a fabric and weaving it back again flawlessly.

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In this zillions of life, there is one in a zillion , note the sarcastic tone, that is favored by Death.

For mastering his hallows, for beating the game - perfect score people, yes!, for out witting him - it happened onetime, but this instances are one in a zillion. There are also other reasons. Most people try to collect the hallows for their selfish reasons thinking they would lord over Death but those who mastered it accepting Death as their master are granted his favor.

There are 5 people, souls actually, in the world who had gained Death's favor.

One of them was her, Anna.

These people may have lived on the same time on earth, may be not. May had interacted with each other, may be not. May had been together, may be not. They don't know that. Its hard to recognize your fellow masters as they don't retain there memories and don't even know about being one.

But that's true for the other four and not her.

She had been granted the favor of her memories few hundred lifetimes before, along with the adjustments to her brain in each lifetime so she doesn't burst her head with all the information, memories and thoughts.

She had been the first master of Death too. Having beat the game. Want to know how? Well see ... Why should you be told about it, eh?

Anyway so she was the first master. They are called masters but are more like favorite players or participants for Death. He cheers them on when they live their life grandly and gets frustrated when they waste a life doing nothing or gets angry and disappointed when they become a monster in their life.

Its a dictum though that they may have murdered, pillaged and done other horrible things but have never raped - mind, body or soul of a person.

Though one of them had come close to it, tearing his own soul apart, he was only granted reprieve from getting his status stripped because of his remorse and the circumstances.

Each of them had done perfectly horrible things, they were not chosen because of their pure soul or something. But they had also done perfectly good things. Amazing, wonderful things. They are Gray after all.

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Souls are made of the free energy in the universe. They just form and Death grants them life. They are recreated by the energies too. Even though they may gain some qualities or lose some during the recreation, their core remains the same and the workers identify them by this core.

It isn't a privilege to be recreated nor is it a punishment or something. It just occurs, no rhyme or reason for it. Randomly at that.

Death gives people lives to live and then doesn't interfere with them, only watches on as they live their life, die and then his workers had been granted powers to bring them to life again.

The workers, they are extensions of Death you see, created for fulfilling their purpose. So he is the one, in a way, who grants life through his workers, whenever a new soul is created or recreated.

When the earth is destroyed all souls go back to where they came from - into energy - and form their cores after he had created the earth again. It hadn't been destroyed much before.

Only two times actually. But the humans are heading that way again. And its trouble some to create it back so he had sent Anna to do damage control. She can't save everyone, but if she could save a few he wouldn't have to start from scratch. Just heal the earth and it would thrive again. It takes a lot to destroy it, but even harder to heal. And to create it from nothing is tiresome and not impossible, but as the humans say a Byzantine, Herculean, Gargantuan task.

So he had rejected her plea to go to heaven and brought her back to life again and again till she completes her task. Its a huge task but Death thinks she didn't have to sulk about it so much.

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When Anna had first earned the title of master of Death, she was informed about it. But as they don't have the memories of their previous lives she had remained oblivious in her next lives.

The favor Death grants them is the power they have in their lives. They may be magical or non magical but they have some powers which they could harness if they took the effort to bring it out.

Most of the lifetimes they didn't even realize their inner strength and die after an unproductive life.

But when they do utilize it they change their lives.

They don't change the world. But Death doesn't care about it, much anyway. This people affect more peoples lives too but it doesn't always have to be about the world.

But when he needs some favor - like to stop humans from destroying their lives, more importantly earth - sometimes he do need to care - he calls upon his favorites like he had done with Anna.

He had tried to do it once before with Anna but it hadn't actually worked. She hadn't been able to handle the memories so had died as soon as she had born. Then he had left her alone until he found a solution for his problem. When he did find it he had granted her the favor of memories and the knowledge about how the lives works. He hadn't told her about the task of saving the earth at the time. Just letting her get adjusted to her new ability.

She had been happy to live different lives in different times. As the life was a game, she realized, she could be born in anytime and live her life not affecting the world at all. She couldn't ever be simultaneously together in the same time but the history could be altered to erase the previous version and make a new one.

So she lived her lives, gained experience and memories. Some good, some nice, some horrible, some terrifying. She had been given the memories of her previous lives from her first life to the life she lived before the present one. She had learned humans could be cruel and kind at same time, happy and sad, proud but disgusted, thrilled but terrified. She had experienced many things from others - love, hate, disgust, kindness, cruelty, pity. So many emotions - indifference. And had felt the emotions for others.

When she was ready to say goodbye to the lives, Death had told her the reason for giving her the favor - to stop the earth from destroying. So she had done her best to find the solution, changing time as she went, but it remained out of her grasp. She had first tried to save everyone but that was impossible as Death reminded her after her failures in the first handful lifetimes. Then she decided to try to save them in groups, building up the numbers, but again Death was adamant about unable to save everyone as she was trying to do. Her diplomatic ways had been crushed by the people in the lives so she had tried to force them to bend but it hadn't gone over well either.

In all of this she had learned that the magicals were always the first to go, and then Death would say she had failed the task after she died. So she studied the patterns in her next lives and realized the non-magicals' fear of the magicals, leads to their killing them and thus the earth's connection with the people.

Gaea, as some people call earth, thrives on their attention towards her, as the people in humans time used to do before. Farmers ploughing the land, working close to earth. Working with the plants. And magicals had rituals through which they gave the land their magic gaining it back again. Earth is saturated with magic. Killing the magicals leads it to explode like any energy source would do with no output, but lots of charged energy.

So she had tried to save the magicals only, but they are engrossed in their own problems. Saving them won't matter if they don't even use their magic. Most of them are hiding it. Abandoning their rituals, using sticks - oh alright wands - to use their magic. Since when did they need sticks? - Yes, yes wands!

So Anna was gonna try again to save them from their own destruction.

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A/N: Please Review and voice your opinions on the Prologue. Constructive Criticism, appreciated. I am writing for fun and wanted to share this with others. So Review and tell me if the effort is appreciated or not. Review, Fav and Follow. Hope you stay with me for my journey here on ff. Hoping to see some positive response, Novarkek.

P.S.: Song mentioned, 'One in a Million' By Bosson.