Here's my first shot at a Harry Potter fic so, show some mercy. And if I butchered any names, I apoligize to any hard core HP fans. This is kind of a dark fic with small airs of comedy, drama, and romance. And parrings will include Harry/Harem (Ginny, Hermionie, Tonks), Neville/Luna, OC/Cho Chang.
I don't own a thing.
Chapter 1, The Double Bite
The battle at the ministry could only be summed up in one word: chaos. Order Members and Death Eaters where dueling with one another along with the few Hogwarts students that had arrived with Harry Potter. Two of Potter's troops had gone down, Ron Weasley had gone down quickly in the fights, something to have to do with some weird brain incident and Neville Longbottom had had his nose broken and, while attempting to fight hand to hand, had been knocked unconscious. Only Hermionie Granger, Ron's younger sister Ginny, Luna Lovegood, and the boy himself Harry Potter were still in the fight, although Harry was distracted as he had just seen his godfather Siris Black murdered right in front of him by Belitrix Lestrange. Harry had chased her into the atrium and had almost had her if Voldemort himself hadn't joined the battle, soon followed by Albus Dumbldoor. The two master wizards had dueled and after Voldemort's ultimate defeat, Cornelius Fudge had seen the Darkest Wizard in History.
"He's back." Fudge said, stunned. "He's really back."
"Told you dumbass." Harry grunted, pushing himself off the floor, Dumldoor supporting him. Harry glanced over and saw that all of the Order Members, with the exception of his godfather, had survived, as well as his friends, although Ron was still out cold and Neville's noise was at a crooked angle and he was slowly regaining consciousness. Harry smiled in spite of himself, knowing that the people he loved were ok. Fudge was saying something about his position, but it was quickly drowned out by a howl and a hiss. All the occupants in the room turned and saw two giant creatures; one of them had giant bat wings and a bat-like face. It was deathly pale and had giant fangs, and burning red eyes. The second was covered in brown fur and was wolf like. Harry thought it was a werewolf, but the only time he'd seen one was when Remus Luipn, an old friend of his family and at one point his Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, had transformed during his third year.
"Oh my God." Fudge said, hid face becoming deathly pale. "They've gotten out." The monsters charged at the bunch of wizards and witches. Moony and Lupin stepped forward to intercept the beasts, but they were batted away. Ginny gave a small shriek and the beasts caught sight of the girls. The wolf creature pulled back its lips, baring it's teeth, a strand of saliva beginning to flow down it's mouth while the bat creature bore it's giant fangs. The two creatures lunged at Ginny, Hermionie, Luna, and the auror Nymphadora Tonks, their mouths wide open and their fangs bared. There was a blur, a spray of blood, and a cry of pain. Harry Potter stood in front of the girls, breathing hard, the wolf creature had its teeth buried into Harry's shoulder while the bat creature had it's fangs sunk into his neck.
"Hey." He said, blood slowly rolling out of the corners of his mouth. "You ladies all right?" Hermionie was the first one to recover, raising her wand at he bat creature and cried, "Lumom Maximus!" blasting the creature with a blinding white light, sending it staggering back, the skin burning from it's face. Tonks was next, raising her wand and blasted the wolf with silver flames. The two creatures released Harry and fell to the ground, blood flowing freely from his open wounds. Ginny gathered him up in her arms and Luna began ripping her cloths and bandaging Harry's neck and shoulder.
"Harry." Neville said kneeling down next to The Boy Who Lived. "Harry, stay with us man."
"Ne-Neville. Harry stuttered out. "H-How's your n-nose?"
"It's been better." Neville admitted, giving a faint smile. "What about you?"
"Got a few bites in me." Harry grunted as Luna bandaged up his neck to try and stop the blood flow. "Neville, listen, if I go down here,"
"That's not going to happen." Ginny interrupted him, tears rolling down her cheeks as she cradled Harry in her arms. "You're gonna be fine."
"Ginny, I've been bitten by God knows what, was just possessed by Lord Voldimort, hell, it's a miracle I'm still conscious." Harry said with a smile. He gave a short cough and some blood flew from his mouth as he turned back to Neville. "Neville, if I go down, I want you to take care of things."
"But, what about Ron?" Neville asked, looking over at the still incapacitated Weasley.
"Ron's a good man, but Hogwarts is going to need a leader, and I can tell that's you." Harry said, grunting and clutching his shoulder. "Can I trust you?" Neville was silent for a moment, slightly stunned, but then, slowly, he nodded.
"O-of course Harry, I'll protect the students with my life." Neville said. Harry smiled and then passed out, his breath shallow and uneven. Ginny held Harry close, sobbing quietly, Luna stood next to her, crying as well. Herminoie stood behind the two girls, crying quietly into her hands, and even Tonks had tears glistening in her eyes. Neville straitened up and walked over to Fudge, who was standing over the two beasts, wringing his hands.
"This is not good, they weren't ready, this will send us back months, maybe even years." He muttered, and then turned to the kids. "Do any of you know what you have just done?" Neville didn't say anything to him. He grabbed Fudge by the front of his shirt and hauled him against a wall.
"Fudge, start talking, starting with what the hell are those things." Neville growled pointing at the two creatures.
"You are in no position to make demands Longbottom." Percy Weasly, Fudge's assistant and Ron and Ginny's older brother said, turning his wand on Neville. Neville let go of Fudge with on hand and turned and knocked Percy's want arm away and punched him across the face. Then he turned back to Fudge.
"You were saying?" He hissed, pushing Fudge against the wall.
"Dumbledour!" Fudge shouted, panicking, "Control you student." Dumbldour walked over to Neville and Fudge, his wand drawn. But instead of pointing it at Neville, he pointed it at Fudge.
"I believe Mr. Longbottom asked you a question Cornelius." Dumbldour said, his eyes twinkling more menacingly. Fudge looked back and forth between the two, fear present in his eyes.
"Th-They are genetically altered vampire and werewolf." Fudge said. "We were developing them to take care of you." He looked at Dumbldore, who's glare became harder. "We weren't done with them yet. The Death Eaters must have some how released them."
"You were doing what?" Lupin roared marching forward.
"After I had finished using them, I was going to use them to try and find a cure for the two diseases." Fudge said quickly.
"So now that they've bitten Harry, what's going to happen to him?" Neville demanded.
"I, I don't know." Fudge admitted.
"Well you had better pray that Harry survives." Neville said quietly. "Because if he dies, there will be no where to hide."
"Is that a threat young man?" Fudge said, trying to be menacing.
"It's a promise." Neville said, pushing Fudge against the wall and letting go. "Headmaster, Professor Lupin." He said, passing by.
"Neville." Lupin said.
"Mr. Longbottom." Dumbldore said. Neville walked back to the girls and found that Harry and Tonks had disappeared.
"T-Tonks took Harry to St. Mungos." Hermionie said through tears. Neville took her in his arms and held her.
"You were brilliant back there Herminoie." Neville said. "Ginny, Luna, so were you two." Neville opened up his arms and the other two girls found themselves in his embrace. "Sorry I had to punch out your brother Ginny."
"It's ok, I never really liked him." Ginny said with a tinny laugh. Neville held them, stroking their hair. A few moments later there was a crack and Tonks appeared.
"Harry's in good hands, their taking care of him and we should be able to see him in about 24 hours." She reported. Neville looked at her, she was only a few years older than him, but at the moment, she seemed to come off as a frightened child. Neville opened his arm and Tonks found herself in his embrace with the 3 other girls.
Harry was sinking through darkness, flashes going through his head, his parents death, Cedirc Diggerori's death, Siris's, it was like he was surrounded by dementors and couldn't conjure a petronious. Then he saw something, a light in the darkness. Normally, he would hat tried to move away from the light, but this light seemed different, it felt warm and he saw things, him Ron and Herminoie sitting in front of a fire laughing, the DA meetings, his visions in the Mirror of Erised, spending time with Siris in Grimold Place. When he opened his eyes, he saw 4 shades of hair in front of him, red, brown, blond, and a faded bubblegum pink.
"Am I in heaven?" Harry asked. There were collective gasps and a few cries of "Harry!" and the next thing he knew, Hermionie, Ginny, Luna, and Tonks were hugging him.
"Welcome back to the land of the living." Neville said, stepping into view.
"Yeah mate, you've been out of it for about 3 days." Ron said, standing next to him, his arm in a sling.
"Mmm, what hit me?" Harry asked, sitting up and rubbing his shoulder and feeling bandages.
"Genetically altered werewolf and vampire." Neville said darkly. "Heard it strait from Fudge's mouth."
"So, what the fuck does that make me?" Harry asked, feeling his shoulder and his neck, or more precisely, the bandages around them.
"As far as the healers can tell, you're some kind of half-breed." Dumbldore said from the doorway. "It's good to see you awake Harry, we were beginning to worry."
"Thanks for the concern Professor." Harry said with a smile. The girls around him gasped and Ron reached out to pull Ginny away from Harry. "What?"
"Well Harry, you, um, kind of have, uh, fangs." Neville said. Harry reached up and felt his canine teeth and found that they were indeed longer than normal and very sharp.
"Great." Harry groaned, rubbing the bride of his nose, and, for the first time noticed that his glasses were off. "Well, at least I don't need my glasses any more." He said with a chuckle. Then he noticed that the girls were still sitting around him. "How come you guys aren't running?"
"Well, I don't know about the others, but I think the fangs are kind of sexy." Ginny said, blushing slightly.
"Ginny." Ron snapped, but Harry just threw back his head and laughed.
"Harry, could I speak with you?" Dumbldore asked. "Privately." Harry looked around at his friends and gave a nod. Before they all left, the girl's gave Harry small kisses and Nevile nodded his head. But Ron wouldn't look at him for some reason.
"What can I do for you Professor?" Harry asked when they were alone.
"Harry, because of your…condition and your new knowledge of the prophecy, I think it's time you had some more…advanced teachings." Dumbldore said.
"What, are you going to be teaching me some new tricks?" Harry asked.
"I will not, but I have some…associates that I have persuaded into taking you in for a year." Dumbldore said. "Of course, the over all decision is up to you." Harry looked down at his hands, deep in though.
"These new teachers," He said slowly, "will they will be able to help me into taking down Voldemort and his forces?"
"I believe so Harry." Dumbledore said solemnly.
"Then sign me up." Harry said with determination.
"Very well." Dumbledore said. "I will take you to your training sight in two days." Harry nodded. Dumbledore left and as soon as he did, Neville led the Ron and the girls back into the room.
"So, what's up?" Ron asked.
"Dumbledore's sending me on some kind of special training." Harry said. "I leave in two days." The girl's faces all fell faster that a blink. "Hey, don't worry." He said, reaching out and gently touching Luna's cheek. "I'll only be gone a year, then I'll be back."
"But what if something goes wrong and you don't?" Ginny asked.
"Hey." Harry said, reaching out and stroking Ginny's firry red hair. "Don't worry, if Voldemort couldn't kill me on God knows how many separate occasions, this training will be a piece of cake." Ginny smiled and Harry leaned up and kissed her forehead. "Neville, remember what I told you back at the Ministry?" Neville nodded.
"I'll keep an eye on things Harry." He said. "I swear on my parent's grave." Harry stared at him. "They passed away a few days ago." Harry stared at Neville, once again their lives were in parallel; they had both lost their parents to Voldemort in some form or another and had slipped into the roles of leaders.
"Harry," Tonks said. "I know we haven't spent much time together, but," Harry placed a finger to her lips.
"Tonks, you don't have to say anything." Harry said. "I'm going to be gone for a year so, just hold that though until I get back ok?" He smiled at her.
"Sure." Tonks said. "You know, Ginny's right, those fangs are kind of sexy."
Two days later, Harry stood with Dumbledore in front of a set of golden gates.
"I'm afraid that this is where I leave you Harry." Dumbledore said. "I leave you with these gifts." He slid off the bag that he had brought with him and began pulling out the contents, starting with a familiar ruby encrusted hilt sword hilt.
"Godrick Gryfindor's Sword." Harry said, taking the magnificent blade and holding it in his hands.
"I also leave you with the Whip of Salizar Slytherin." Dumbledore pulled out a 10 ft, green whip and emeralds in the base of the whip. Harry took it, a smile playing on his lips on how much Voldemort would have loved to get his hands on it. "This is the bow of Roina Ravenclaw." He handed wooden bow with sapphires placed in the handle.
"Sir, where are the arrows?" Harry asked.
"Harry my boy, this is not the kind of bow that needs arrows." Dumbledore said with a twinkle in his eye. "And my final gift is the spear of Helga Huffulpuff." He handed Harry a 6 ft spear with yellow jewels imbedded just below the blade. "These are the four weapons used by the Hogwarts founders in the First Great Magic War. I hope that they serve you well."
"Thank you Professor." Harry said, taking the weapons. "Professor, I've asked Neville to keep an eye on things while I'm away, can I trust you to help him should he need it?"
"Of course Harry." Dumbldore said. "You have my undying pledge."
"Thank you." Harry said. He shook Dumbledore's hand, and then pulled him into a hug.
"Take care Harry Potter." Dumbledore said as Harry turned towards the gates, which opened on their own. "And Godspeed."
And there's the first chapter. I'll start up with the big overall story in the next chapter and introduce my OC.
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