Web of Shadows

Chapter 01: Another Journey Begins

A young man with messy black hair and oval glasses was laying down on the ground completely motionless.

His name was Harry Potter and he was dead.

Or so he believed.

Harry slowly opens his eyes and realized despite how bright the room was, he could see just fine.

Slowly getting to his feet, Harry looks around and could only see empty space around him.

"Welcome, Harry Potter." A feminine voice said behind him.

Harry turns around and attempts to raise his wand at the person only to realize he didn't have a wand.

Harry paused and looks at the person who was clearly a female. She was wearing a strange robe that was silver-white. Wrapped around her eyes, was a cloth that prevented her from seeing.

"You're death aren't you?" Harry said as he suddenly realize who she was.

"I am an aspect of death. I am death, yet I am nothing." She replies.

"I don't understand." Harry says.

"No, I don't expect you to."

Harry sighs and looks at her calmly.

"I'm ready." Harry said.

"Ready are you? Ready for?" Death says with a smile on her face.

"To move on. I died so I should be going on to the 'next great adventure'." Harry said with a frown on his face.

"I am not taking you anywhere. I am merely going to be sending you elsewhere." Death said.

"What you mean elsewhere?" Harry asks. He narrowed his eyes at Death.

"Do you know where you are?" Death asks with an amusing looking on her face.

"I take it, limbo." Harry said.

"Yes. This is a domain where the world of the livings enters the world of the dead. However, this places doesn't mean when one dies, they stay dead. For you, you died in your world, it is for this reason, I cannot send you back to your world. A dead body remains dead. However, you have, let's say earn my interest. I also need your assistance on a matter."

"What you mean? You're death, surely nothing escapes you." Harry said.

"I am not all powerful like many believe. The purpose of my existence is to feed on the dead. In order to do that, all words must be perfectly balance. That means the death must be balance. Your world was unbalance, but it will return to balance. The world I'm talking about, is unbalance." She said, with a snap of her fingers the area changed into a city with skyscrapers touching the sky.

"This world will face many dangers in the new future and I know that when the dust settles it would began to break the fabrics of the universe. That means there is a change reality itself could be destroyed. That means all life is in danger."

"What causes it?" Harry asks. Death turns to him and smiles.

"You must figure that out for yourself. Now, I cannot let you go there as a sorcerer, but I believe you'll find a way to carve your path." Death said.

"What do you want me to do exactly?"

"I don't need to tell you what's at stake. If you succeed, you can live any life you want in any world.

"I can't go in there empty handed." Harry said. He was intrigued by this deal.

Death stares at him.

"Normally, I cannot truly interfere. I will not come to you again. As you cannot enter my realm again. This is, a onetime deal. So instead, I will be granting you this. The mind and abilities of this individual. Also as for resources, you will find you have plenty."

Harry nods his head and looks at the city.

"It is time." Death said.

Before Harry realized it, he was falling through some sort of black hole.

Harry suddenly jolts awake and looks around.

He was in an unfamiliar house. He looks around and could see it was empty. Harry gets up and could see he was wearing his muggle clothing. Harry walks forward to find out where everything was.

True to death's word, he did seem to be starting well. He sees that he had many things that wasn't normal in a house hold.

Harry decides to read news and knew the first thing he should do was assume his identity. He was a seventeen year old boy.

He quickly looks through his papers and could see that everything was in order. He had an identity. He also had money, a lot of money.

The first thing he needed to do was catch up on the world and see what was going on.

Harry almost regretted that decision. After looking through three hours of the world's history he couldn't see what was going to cause reality to be destroyed.

Harry paused as he sits down in his chair and thinks hard.

Death had taken his magic from him. But she also gave him something in return. He wasn't sure she had given him, perhaps it was because he relied too heavily on his magic.

This made him question just who or what he was supposed to stop.

Harry gets up and decides to walk around the city and see what it was like in this new world.

He doubt he could just walk around and preach he was there to save them. Many would think he would be a lunatic.

No, if he was to protect reality, it would have to be from the shadows.

Harry paused and looks at a video game store. He took a particular interest in the games where there were heroes. Harry in the end buys some official game books and took a particular interest in assassin's creed. Harry could see how that type of costume could work.

Harry returns home and immediately begins to work on his outfit.

It was fairly easy to create. He knew running around in spandex or tights wouldn't offer him any protection. So instead he focus on something else entirely. Nano-technology.

He built the suit to look like spandex but the suit itself would protect him from small fire arms while giving him the best mobility. He kept the colors black as he was sure any other color would scream 'here I am, kill me'.

Once the suit was done, Harry grabs some clothes and throws it over the suit.

The outfit did resemble assassin's creed in many ways, but it wasn't baggy or heavily clothed. The outer layer gave him a hood and covered his torso as well as his legs. He could resemble a character from assassin's creed and that was a good thing.

Harry then turns to his gadgets.

Harry paused and stop to think.

It was clear his mind was far more intelligent than he was in his past life. He was already thinking of ways to improve the suit.

Harry paused and silently thanks death before he turns and decides to work on his bracers. The first method he needed was a way to move between buildings. In that, he focus on the zipline. A rope that was like wire, very strong and durable. Could support his weight and any others. He could also use it to scale the tallest building in matter of seconds.

Harry then puts his bracers on and looks at them. He fires a line and instantly, and it hits the other side of the room in a split second. Harry looks at it and the black line was holding strong.

Harry smiles.

Harry puts away the bracers and the outfit before going to the computer and thinking about what he had to do.

He had money and resources, but no means to use them. It was then he decided to actually use what he had and bring gifts to others.

In order to do that, Harry would have to start a business.

Harry goes to his computer and thanks to the information he learn was able to find several businesses that were in trouble.

Horizon Labs and Resilient were the two in the biggest trouble. It seemed another company, OsCorps run by a Norman Osborn was running them dry of investors and shareholders.

Harry smiles as he picks up the phone and decide to give them a call.

Author Notes: A little fast pace but I wasn't sure how to write this first chapter out.

The pairings is Harry Potter and Gwen Stacy.

Please note, that Harry was given much of Peter Parker's intelligence and spider abilities. But he won't be spider-man.

R&R