Prologue part 1
DISCLAIMER - I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does.
Sorry to anyone that thought this was a Born to Be Kings thing, It's not. Don't get me wrong, I will continue that but I just had this idea in my head and I had to write it down. I kept the names for Lucifer and his eldest sister because they've grown on me over the past two years. There are so many canon changes that it's basically a whole new world as well. Here we go, let me know what you think of it. Not WBWL, loving James and Lily, Dumbles/Weasley bashing.
'Prologue'
31 July 1980
Screams could be heard. Screams of pain. Screams of agony and torture. Wishes of death and for the eternal pain to stop. Screams of eternal pain and hell upon those who wronged them. Screams of threatening to cut off her husband's manhood and to never let him touch her again. These were the screams of Lily Rosaline Potter, formerly Evans, as she gave birth to her decuplets. Decuplets. Something that James and Lily Potter were not prepared for. They had only found out four months ago, at first they had thought they were having twins, and now they had to quintuple the amount of things they had prepared for their babies. That had put a dent in their shared vault.
Inside the emergency room where the delivery was taking place, a sweaty, scared woman with beautifully long red hair and a pale face, who was very obviously in pain, was trying to give birth to her first child out of ten. Beside her was a man with messy black hair and round glasses and at least 4 broken bones in his hand. His wife sure had a grip. He had complained to Lily about this but the healers were too busy at the moment trying to deliver that no one had time to nurse his sore hand. His wife, however, just didn't care. James reasoned that this was fair since she was giving birth with about 10 times the pain but still, he should be taken care of as well!
Waiting outside the room were his two best friends Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, soon to be godfathers of five children each. His old friend, Peter Pettigrew, was currently dead, he had been killed by aurors in a pointless standoff after he had joined the death eaters and murdered three muggle families. Also in the room were James and Lily's parents, Charlus and Dorea Potter and Jacob and Evangeline Evans. Lily's beloved sister Petunia and her husband Zachary Ocean, both wizards, were there as well, Petunia was worrying for her sister. It was almost 10:00pm when another man burst through the door, this man was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, estimated to be the most powerful man in the world. Politically and literally.
"Have any of the babies been delivered yet?" He asked, the twinkle in his eye that he was so infamous for was gone, and nobody in the room knew why. "No Albus". The reply came from Ragnar Björ Potter, the father of Charlus Potter and the grandfather of James Potter. Not to mention soon-to-be great grandfather to ten kids. The reason for his not-so-english name was because his mother was Freyr Potter, wife to Evan Potter and she had insisted on a norse name in honour of the strong alliance made between Scandinavia and the UK that came with their marriage. The Potters and the Ridwulf families were two of the most powerful in their countries and a marriage between them forever engaged an alliance between them. That didn't mean they couldn't throw curse words at each other during quidditch matches of course.
Ragnar Potter was reaching 100 soon, he and Dumbledore had gone to Hogwarts together and were frequent enemies, similar to James and Lucius Malfoy's rivalry at Hogwarts, not arch-enemies but enemies nonetheless.
The twinkle returned to Dumbledore's eye and he smiled. "Wonderful". The old man began humming to himself as everyone else turned back to the screams in the emergency room. Humming and plotting now that he knew his plans hadn't failed. "Ja, Dumbledore, wunderbar." Ragnar said, frowning.
Dammit, he thought to himself. I really need to remember to speak in english sometimes. Despite what most thought, Ragnar Potter was more german than anything else. He had been raised in Germany, fought for Germany in the great war and returned to his birth country afterwards. At the start of the second muggle world war, Ragnar was living in Berlin and had been one of the many that had believed that jews were the scum of the earth, and so with time he had risen through the ranks to become a senior kommandant in the Wehrmacht in the name of the fuhrer. He could see now that it was all bullshit, but that didn't stop him from having a moustache similar to that of Adolf Hitler or Charlus' friend Barty Crouch.
His eyes turned back to Dumbledore. Oh Albus, what are you planning this time?
James' thoughts of what he would have for breakfast were interrupted by the senior healers shout of "Almost there miss Potter, one final push". Almost immediately he heard a massive CRACK, and the last of his fingers along with his main hand broke all at once. James couldn't hold it in anymore and he let out the most girly scream any man has ever produced before it stopped and was replaced by the scream of a baby.
"Congratulations mr and mrs Potter, it's a boy!" Outside they could hear Sirius' shout of "HA REMUS, I GOT THE ELDEST BOY, IN YOUR FACE!". Lily, still in pain from the other nine babies still in her womb, reach out tentatively for her son. James was cradling his destroyed hand and smiling at the same time. He's got the handsome Potter looks, that one. Lily's scream cut off his thoughts.
"OH SHI- I FORGOT ABOUT THE OTHERS!" James held his wife's hand and smiled as they took his son away, admittedly worried for his flesh and blood, he didn't even get a chance to hold him yet, not that he could with his left hand demolished.
It was only about two minutes later when they heard another scream, and James felt pride that his wife wasn't screaming as much anymore.
"It's a girl!" The healer had said as she held the baby up for them to see before handing her to the same healer that had placed their son somewhere.
"SHAME SIRIUS, I GOT THE ELDEST GIRL." Remus' shout of retaliation at his best friends previous comment could be heard for miles.
This process continued for another 45 minutes, each time delivering a beautiful baby girl until the final baby was due to be born. Lily wasn't even hurting at all now, or crushing James' hand, which he was thankful for. She had become numb over the whole ordeal and only smiled when she saw her little girls being held up for them to see.
"Okay miss Potter, it's the last one, just give me one final push and we'll be done". Lily did as he asked and soon they could hear the final scream they would hear all night, as their youngest child was brought into the world.
"Congratulations it's a boy!" Both parents smiled as they looked at their tenth child who also happened to be only their second son. "He's beautiful." This was the only comment Lily had made about her children all night and James guessed it was because she could finally relax. James vocally agreed with her and as he was taken to be with his brother and sisters Lily fell asleep in his arms.
With one last breath before she slipped into dreamland, she muttered quietly to James. "I'm never getting pregnant again."James' grin was wider than an elephant and he to, drifted into unconsciousness.
Outside everyone was worried. They hadn't heard a peep from either of them since the last sons birth. A healer quenched that fear quickly by coming out and assuring them that they were just asleep. Dumbledore had tried to get in to see the children but the senior healer, an Italian man named Marlon Menendez and now official healer of all ten of the children, had turned him down. The headmaster, obviously disgruntled, sat wearily back down in his chair with a look of solemn thought on his face.
Now everyone was suspicious, what kind of man tried to see children before the parents, relatives or even godfathers got to? Everyone knew he was planning something with the kids, they just didn't know what.
Soon healer Menendez came out and said that the parents were awake and now the chosen godfathers could go in to see them and the children. Dumbledore tried to go in with them but Healer Menendez turned him down again. Ragnar had to smirk at this. It wasn't everyday that Albus Dumbledore got turned down by someone, let alone twice.
Sirius and Remus excitedly rushed into the room to see Lily in a hospital bed with James sitting beside her. Around them were five healers each holding two babies each. The two of them rushed over to their friends and checked them over, both flinching when the saw James' hand, which was painfully growing back by use of Skele-gro. Eventually James and Lily calmed them down and the all got ready to meet and name the new Potter children.
The decided to go oldest to youngest so that it would be easier. First up was their eldest son. They had known since they thought they were having two that they wanted them to have the middle names of their parents, assuming they were different genders of course. They just hadn't decided on first names.
"As granddad always said, you've got to have a name that strikes fear in the hearts of your enemies, and sparks courage in your allies and friends." James said with pride at his grandfather's words.
"How about Lucifer? My bully growing up used to be terrified of the devil and hell, and Lucifer is supposedly the devil's christian name." James smiled at his wife's words. Lucifer James Potter, i like it.
"It's brilliant Lily-Flower." James kissed his wife on the forehead before Sirius piped up. "It suits him. Coming from your blood James, he'll be a right little devil growing up." Remus chuckled at his friend's joke as the moved on to the second-born, the eldest daughter.
"These two were born so close together they might as well be super twins" James joked and earned a chuckle from Sirius before Remus voice cut in. "What about Hela? She was the goddess of death in Norse Mythology. It works considering she's pretty much the female version of devil. Plus it would be a good way to keep the Scandinavia-UK pact in place since Hela was a Norse goddess."
"That's actually really smart Remus". Lily smiled at one of her first hogwarts friends for his clever idea.
"You sound surprised Lils".
"Maybe I am." She joked and got a laugh from Sirius out of it. Now here came the hard part. They had only found out they were having 10 kids a few months ago and with the war and preparation for the quintupled amount of babies as they first thought, they didn't have time to think of more names.
Their third born was a girl with red locks and emerald green eyes, the same eyes that her mum, grandmother and older siblings had. Avada Kedavra green. She was a spitting image of Lily so they decided to go with the Evans family tradition of naming girls after flowers, they chose Rosaline Evangeline Potter.
Their fourth child was coincidentally like a female version of James, but without the bad vision, apparently none of the twins had inherited the Potter vision curse, which they were all glad for. They decided to go with Sapphire Dorea Potter, because that was the colour of her eyes, just like her grandmother Dorea.
The fifth child was a girl who had James' messy black hair and hazel eyes, but everything else about her screamed Lily. Sirius spoke for the first time in a while and simply stated "Andromeda." The Potters were confused and asked him what he meant. "That's where I've seen her before, she looks just like my cousin Andromeda." Lily thought it over and decide on Andromeda Petunia Potter.
The sixth child was a half and half mix of both parents, ruby red hair with hazel eyes, a pale body with signs of being a great quidditch player, they eventually picked Ruby Arwin Potter after her hair and paternal great grandmother.
The seventh child was trickier since they were running out of names. Sleek black hair with a tanned body like James. The eventually decided to name her Eva Emma Potter.
At the eight child it was starting to get tedious so Lily and James asked Sirius and Remus to name the last two girls. Remus spoke up since it was his goddaughter anyway. "I was thinking maybe Nerissa Selene Potter?" James and Lily smiled, showing their approval for the name as Sirius spoke up to name his youngest godchild. "I Sirius Orion Black was maybe thinking Cassiopeia?" he started the sentence strong but it turned into more of a feeble question than anything. Lily nodded and declared that her middle name will be Mary after Lily's late grandmother, who died in March of that year.
Finally the son came, they all thought about it for a moment. Then James piped up. "What about Sirius Charlus Remus Potter?" Lily was surprised, she had not expected four names but she supposed he wanted to fit everyone in. Sirius and Remus grinned at the thought that their friend would name his youngest son after them. "We love it James" Remus assured him.
Soon the were ready to go back to the manor where everyone else was, Petunia and Zachary escorting Lily's parents by apparition, and James and Lily each had a five seat stroller for the babies. Going one by one through the floo, as James and Lily were too tired to apparate properly, they arrived in Potter manor to the cheer of their friends and family. Literally everyone was there, the Potter's, Evans', Longbottoms, all their family friends were there too, including Dumbledore.
"Okay everyone, we are going to announce the names of our children so if everyone will quiet down we can get into it." Lily's voice rang across the Potter mansion ballroom and at once, everybody hushed.
"From oldest to youngest we have Lucifer James Potter, Hela Lily Potter, Rosaline Evangeline Potter, Sapphire Dorea Potter, Andromeda Petunia Potter, Ruby Arwin Potter, Eva Emma Potter, Nerissa Selene Potter, Cassiopeia Mary Potter and Sirius Remus Charlus Potter."
Everybody clapped and Lily and James went up to put their new children to bed before hitting the hay themselves. Charlus would entertain everybody.
