The Clockwork Tower

Summary: Harry found an old tower on a globe in a junk shop when he was ten. This tower holds secrets that could remake the world as many people know it. Slash and Dark.

Warning: Slash, Slavery, Vampires and AU.

I don't own Harry Potter, Naruto, One Piece, Game of Thrones or Rosario + Vampire or any others that are either referenced or brought in.

Chapter 1

Harry ducked into a nearby shop as he turned around the corner. Hoping to avoid his cousin and his gang of thugs.

Quickly Harry ducked down as the bell jingled. It was less than a minute later that he heard the other boys' feet pound passed his hiding spot. Taking another minute to be sure that they had all passed by him, Harry stood up and turned around to look at the shop.

It was filled with old and cracked things. From light fixtures to random decorations. In one corner there were old stuffed animals while in the other was bathroom sinks.

Knowing he should at least look around as it would be rude to hide in the shop directly, Harry stood up and started to make his way thru the shop. The first thing he found was an odd metal box that when he opened, he realized was a trick box. Taking a few moments to work the small compartment open and was shocked at what he found. The boxes inter hidden compartment were filled with bills. Most of them were hundreds and fifty-pound notes, but there were a few twenty and ten-pound notes as well. Taking a twenty-pound note, Harry quickly replaced the false bottom realizing that the box was probably was where someone held their saving before it was sold.

As he continued down the aisle, Harry found himself picking up a few other things. One was a clockwork tower inside a glass globe that would spin when the key was turned. Usually, Harry wouldn't even think about taking such a thing home as there was every chance that his relatives would destroy it. The other stuff he chose to get were less flashy as they were some old science books and light bulbs as the one in his cupboard had died a few months ago.

Making his way up to the counter Harry made sure that everything was apparently on display so that the shop owner wouldn't think him a thief like his aunt told the neighbourhood.

"Well what did you find," an older man said with a hint of mischief in his voice.

"Just these sir," Harry said as he put the two books, two light bulbs and two boxes onto the counter.

"I see," the man said as he looked first at the light bulbs before putting them into the register. He did the same for the books before moving to the boxes. First, he opened the lids to make sure only what was supposed to be there was. It was while he did this to the silver puzzle box that Harry had to stop himself from looking guilty.

Once he had moved to the wooden box with the clock tower inside it, Harry felt himself relax a little. Looking at the price as the last item was added Harry was surprised that it only came to fifteen pounds. Quickly handing the man the twenty-pound note he had taken from the silver box earlier the cashier just looked mildly surprised that someone had such a large bill.

"My aunt's birthday is next week," Harry offered as a way of explanation.

Nodding at the explanation the man at the register quickly pushed the right buttons to make it so everything was the way it should be before helping Harry loud everything into this backpack.

Once Harry had left the store he looked up at the sky to try and figure out if he had to head back to his relatives yet or not. Seeing that it was still relatively light, he decided to buy a sandwich before heading to the park. Once their Harry made his way over to what most people thought was a storm drain but was really a just a small hole that leads to the inside of the concrete box that was a few feet away he removed his backpack and lowered it into the hole before following.

He had discovered that the big cement box that was part of the park's wall wasn't some decorative bulge in the wall like people would like to believe but a decommissioned electorate grid for the neighbourhood. He'd learned this when his cousin had pushed him into the entrance of the underground hole when he was four. The opening was three feet long by two feet wide and had three other holes in it. The bottom two holes where the correct drains were that drined into the sewer and then there was the larger hole that was a foot high and two feet long was the only remaining entrance to his secret hideout.

With his bag in the hole, Harry lowered himself into the pit himself before carefully pushing his bag into the hole and quickly followed. The tunnel was thankfully rather short being only about three feet before it opened into the old grid box.

Once there Harry made quick work of unloading his backpack. First, he stashed the books with his other books he'd nicked from different places and put them beside his camping mat. The mat had an old sleeping bag on it and an old lamp that usually used for light, but he was more eager to pull one of the light bulbs from his backpack and open the box. With light bulb in hand harry made his way in the dark to the far wall and ran his hand over it until he found the light socket where he quickly screwed the bulb in before making his way over to the switch.

With light to now see Harry took in the chamber. It was about ten feet long and eight feet wide. A rusted ladder hangs over the open two-foot wide drain tunnel that Harry used as an entrance. On one side was a camping mat with an old sleeping bag and some blankets and a blow-up pillow with a few piles of books making a type of small wall. On the other side were canned food and other things of value that Harry was able to find including a small space heater.

Looking at the small space brought Harry a feeling of safety as despite his cousins best efforts no one knew where this place was but Harry and it was near impossible to get into as the top entrance had rusted shut a long time ago. If he was honest with himself, the only reason that he went back to the Dursley house was that he couldn't afford to buy food for himself.

Going back to his bag he quickly put the extra light-bulb aside for later before pulling the two boxes out. As he looked closer at the two boxes, he couldn't help but wonder why he felt the need to buy the wooden box with its clockwork globe, but he did like it. The globe was different then a snow globe in that there was no water or lose objects inside. Instead, it had a solid base made of metal that seemed to connect everything and inside it had a tower built of bronze gears that he was willing to bet worked like clockwork.

Putting the wooden box down Harry turned to the silver puzzle box that had his real prize. With a quick hand he opened the box they found the tiny button that let the lower lid pop up. Now that he didn't need to be careful Harry took the whole false bottom out before picking up the thick wad of bills.

Being careful that the bills stay on the camping mat Harry started to sort them by type before counting them. Once done Harry was surprised to find he had fifty-three thousand and four hundred pounds with the oldest bill dating back to before he was born.

Nodding to himself Harry quickly put his money back in the silver box before deciding that he still had time to see what the clockwork globe did if he wound it using the key.

Once the globe was out of its box, Harry started winding it. First once then twice until a small button popped out at three times. Pushing the as Harry looked at the tower he realized that he needed to push the button if he wanted it to move, so he did.

Harry watched as at first, the tiny gears started to turn in the base before they began to spin up the tower as two small silver gears climbed the tower until it reached the top. As it reached the top of the tower, Harry was suddenly struck with a blinding light.

Blinking his eyes, Harry was met with what appeared to be a giant empty room with an altar at one end and a large set of doors at the other.

It was the sound of grinding that knocked Harry out of his shock as he took a closer look at the walls of the room and saw that some of them were moving.

"What the hell," Harry whispered before standing up.