Title: Book One of the Shadow Strider Quartet: Tainting Darkness
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure
Spoilers: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Warnings: SLASH, HET, violence, cursing, gore, smoking, AU, OOC, OC, Character bashing, creature inheritance, inheritance, new abilities, different lineage and possible mentions abuse (physical/verbal/sexual/psychological)
Summary: SLASH. After HBP. Over the Summer Harry makes a deal with a demon, but will dealing with it end in his death? Dead Manipulative Dumbledore! Creature inheritance. Dark! Independent! Harry! Dark and Morbid.
Harry's pairing – Winner: Severus Snape
"Blah" – Speaking
'Blah' – Thinking
Blah - A Snake Speaking
- Blah - - Harry or Voldermort Speaking parseltongue
:: Blah :: - General Beast-speak
: Blah : - Draco's Beast-speak
'Blah' – Telepathy
"Blah" – A Demon Speaking
PART ONE
Fall
Chapter One
Knocturne Alley
The grey haired bushed browed man slipped into the small apartment and shut the door firmly, coming into the room was a beautiful man of nineteen.
The man had an angular face with high and prominent cheekbones, though his jaw was square. His face was thin and he had a Romanesque profile. His silken spiral curled raven hair was tied back into a ponytail. His full blood red lips were parted showing off elongate canines. He was tall and had sinewy muscles. His skin was milky white and soft to the touch. His purple eyes practically glowed in their eye sockets. And his slit pupils gave him a cat-like appearance. Examining a long nail the man asked, "Luc? Who was that?"
"Who do you mean?" The bushy browed man asked morphing into Lucius Malfoy.
"Don't play with me, Luc, I know you knew that boy. The auburn haired one. He was sixteen or seventeen? Do tell me you didn't sleep with the mite!" the man exclaimed.
"I would never sleep with my son." Lucius drawled.
"Your son? You have another one? Damn they keep popping up like dandelions!"
"I only have two, Draco and Elijah."
"Elijah, eh?" Severus asked.
"I have a brother?" Draco asked coming into the room, "Why didn't you tell me!" Draco had always wanted a sibling since he was very young. But Narcissa said one pregnancy was enough. Cissa and Luc were never in love, their marriage was one of convenience. However they were loyal to each other and so the marriage and upbringing of their son was successful.
"I thought he died." Lucius said, his voice filled with pain and longing.
"How old is he? Who is his mother? How did—" Draco began to sprout out questions before Lucius waved a hand to stop him. "His full name is Elijah Leonardo Malfoy-Black. His mother was Ember Cross, his other father was Sirius Black. We were all lovers."
"How—" Draco began, but cut himself off, "Ah, the potion of three. How did you not know he was alive?"
"They killed her. They killed Ember. We assumed they killed the baby as well, but I guess not. They probably placed him else where and bound his abilities." Lucius said walking into the living room and sinking onto a couch. His head was in his hands.
"Why would they kill her?" Draco asked.
"The assassin complex." Severus answered steadily. Draco's eyes widened in shock.
The necromancer, sat on the tomb stone taking a swing of fire whiskey out of a bottle in a brown paper bag, he sung in a low eerie voice that would send shivers to any who crossed his path this night.
When the fog rolls in and the night doth fall…The Children of Cain do call…Hear their whispers, hear their talk…For they are the trumpets of their sire's walk…And when the night comes…I walk the hills…I am Judas, the unbeliever…I rise from the dead…I command the night…I gave my soul to Satan
I am death in my own right…I call upon the serpent from Hell's gate….The Ghost of the Late saints…I raise the dead…I dance on their graves…I Insult your pain…Yet No one can kill or maim me …For if I fall…I'll rise again …When the fog rolls in and the night doth fall…The Children of Cain do call…Hear their whispers, hear their talk…For they are the trumpets of their sire's walk…Let your blood boil within your veins…I beckon death…I command the night…With a breath I give plight…I am friend of pestilence…I am friend of starvation…I am friend of death…And of war…The four Horsemen arisen from Demon Lore…When the fog rolls in and the night doth fall…The Children of Cain do call…Hear their whispers, hear their talk…For they are the trumpets of their sire's walk
Horace Hellborne paused and smiled wickedly as a spirit of a small child floated up to him. Blood trickled from the spirit's eyes, ears, nose and mouth. "Does he live near here?" Hellborne asked.
The spirit wavered for a moment before replying in a hoarse disused voice, "Yes, Number Four Pivet Drive. He is your master."
"What kind of creature is he? What kind of temperament?"
"He is a wizard, a child. He's only a teenager, yet he can see death. He's tired, he worn, yet he lives. His life is horrible, the people he lives with hate him and people use him… but now he's different. He's powerful, he's smart and kind. He's special."
"Special eh? Well aren't we all?"
"No," The spirit said shaking her head, "not like him. He's a pure soul."
"Even after dealing with the demon Azeal?"
"Even then, even now."
"Interesting."
Headmistress Minerva McGonagall sat back with a sigh. She had just reviewed this year's necessary curriculum changes with the new staff.
Hagrid had retired from his position of Care of Magical Creatures Professor and Minerva had replaced him with a very reluctant, but by far more qualified and talented Charlie Weasley. Defense against the Dark Arts had been filled by William (Bill) Weasley, Potions (here her mood darkened), had been filled by Professor Richard Riddick. Transfiguration by Professor Mara Michaels. Madam Pomfrey had volunteered to take on several apprentices, not excluding Harry Potter. Professor Flitwick was teaching dueling to the younger students, while McGonagall planned to ask Harry to continue DA for the older students. Bill had happily accepted to take Harry on as a teacher assistant if Harry agreed. The Headmistress had also added a few more advanced classes for the year and intended to persuade several students to attend them. Unlike her predecessor Headmistress McGonagall was a good woman without a single manipulative gene within her.
Next she had to attend to the refugee students, the muggle-borns, from other schools. And she also had to finish adjusting castle for the high security students, namely Harry Potter and his associates. This was going to be a trying year.
The summer holiday flew past and Harry studied from his books. He had purchased:
The Basics of Animation Magic by Anna Kinematics
The Advanced Study Animagus forms by Emeric Switch
The Convergence of Beast Speak and Human Language by George Jungle
Magics of the Mind by Jean Grey-Summers
Basic Potions; Reactions and substitutions by Andrew Boom
Incomplete Experiments of Master Potion creators compiled by Severus Snape
The Theory of Magical Influence on environment by Karma Centre
The Basics of Ceremonial magics by Claudius Signa
The basics of Healing by Dr. Leonardo Bone
And there were also the books Griphook had sent him:
The Parselmagic series by Salazar Slytherin
The Malfoy inheritance series
The Black Inheritance series
The Cross inheritance series
Shadow Magics by Adrian Silver-Leaf
Elemental Control by Laura Aspen
Harry had become quite knowledgeable in potions and took pride in it. He also studied his seventh year school books and much to his surprise he had accidentally begun to read tea leaves and read them accurately. Before he knew it, Harry found himself on the Hogwarts express.
THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS
Harry sat in his compartment, alone, relaxing as he reviewed the last chapter in Shadow Magics by Adrian Silver-Leaf.
Chapter Forty-Eight
The 'Objective' Solution
Throughout the chapters we have reviewed, we have covered that Shadow magic is a magic of will, blood and verse. Shadow Walking is the ability to move into the 'shadow world'. The Shadow world is the world seen from the shadows, often described as our world within the limit of shadow jumping, in which the shadow magic user or the shadow mage can not be sensed or impeded by any semblance of 'wizard' or 'witch' magic (With exception of the Fidelius Charm'Shadow Jumping' or the ability to move from shadow to shadow faster than light, is a mix of apparation and summoning. In 'Shadow Jumping' you must both sense the shadow, while willing yourself to it and summon the shadow through incantation. 'Shadow Summoning' the ability to summon things through Shadows even if there are miles away and impeded by solid objects, however, this only applies to objects that belong to you and thus have your magical signature. 'Shadow distortion' an illusion craft that summons the deepest nightmares of the victim as their shadows. 'Shadow Personification' or the ability to use others' and your own shadow to attack or build shields.
The Hogwarts express came to a stop at Hogsmead and everyone exited the red steam train. All the first years followed Hagrid to the lake and got into row boats. The older students climbed into the carriages drawn by the silent thestrals and Harry squeezed in with Three third year Hufflepuffs who continued to stare at his scar.
BOOK ONE of the PARSELMAGIC series by Salazar Slytherin
Chapter Sixty-Two
An overview
Parselmagic, the snake speaker's magic, is a combination of tongue, blood, intent and energy. Parseltongue is the only known magic with the ability to change magic with both intent and language. There a four levels of Parselmagic; (1) Enforcing, (2) Deviation, (3) Recreation, and (4) Original.
Enforcing is the easiest level of parselmagic and uses only the hybrid tongue of the snakes (Hybrid tongue of the snakes otherwise known as lesser tongue is a lesser form on the snake language and not the snake's high language) and the energy of the wizard/witch, to use. Enforcing is basically enforcing a regular spell by speaking the incantation in lesser parseltongue and channeling energy into the words. Using enforcing you make spell impenetrable to those wizards/witches who do not speak the language of the snakes. You make shields stronger and spells more powerful.
Deviation is the second easiest level of parselmagic and uses the lesser tongue and selected vowels of high tongue of the snake, the words of the ancient Basilisks and the energy of the wizard/witch. Basically using spells in human tongue, but spoken in the language of the Snakes and deviated from the original purpose by replacing vowels in lesser tongue with high tongue. This strengthens and alters the spell. Example: Wingardium Leviosa (Latin root "levo," meaning "to raise, lift up.") pronunciation:Win-GUARD-ee-um Le-vee-OH-sah – change to – Whingardium (Whin - To Whine or Gripe) Laviose (Washed - Lavio is the root word in Lavatory. Lavatory in Latin mean washing or bathing- this is a hex to give people problems with bowel movements or if having a different intent to make them smell.
Recreation is the second most powerful level of Parselmagic it uses high tongue of the Snakes, the wizard's/witch's energy and the blood willing given of a snake. Recreation is not an advisable dueling method. It's best used for secrecy spells, ward and such. Recreation starts the basics of a created spell and builds from its original intent to make in encompass more and strengths the spell. In recreation you must spell out the spell by imagining the result for each vowel. For instance if this were used with the Fidelus Charm, using Recreation and Enforcing magic would make Fidelus charm impenetrable to those who not speak the snake language, by extending with intent using Parseltongue, the spell can also protect the mind of the secret keeper from Ligilimency (unless the ligilimenist can speak parseltongue), can react to strong emotions and can attack those who have harmful intent to those who are protected by the spell.
Original is original parseltongue spells spoken in high language of the snakes. The variety of parseltongue spells would usually be deemed dark magic, being the affect will, emotion and provoke pain. Below is the list of parselmagic spell you, the reader have read over.
Charlie sat at his place at the Staff table his eyes scanning the crowd of students for his siblings and Harry. He soon caught sight of Ginny clinging to a rather put off boy's arm. Ron was snogging Hermione, his arm lay protectively around her waist. And finally there was Harry. Harry was sitting at the corner of the table next to an empty seat and was ignoring the congregation around him. He looked unnatural tired and lonely. Charlie's heart went out to him. The boy's eyes were cast downwards and stayed that way until the headmistress began her speech.
"And we'd like to welcome Professor Charlie Weasley as the Care for Magical Creatures Professor, since Hagrid has retired after last terms most unfortunate events. Professor Bill Weasley as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Richard Riddick as the Potions Professor and Professor Mara Michaels as the Transfiguration Professor. We are now offer advanced classes for sixth and seventh year students in Politics, Economics, Law, Strategy and languages. Madam Pomfrey will be accepting four apprentices, so please inform her if you're interested. Also as you can we are now housing several refugee students for their protection, and they have already been sorted. Finally we are now in a state of emergency and so there have been precautions taken to ensure the safety of certain students."
"And lat but not least, the Forbidden Forest has as been named remained forbidden. There will be no magic in between classes and certain items have been banned, please see Custodian Flitch to check what is banned and what is not banned. Thank you and now we can eat!" And the food appeared.
A prefect walked up to Harry and passed him a note. Harry looked up at McGonagall and nodded solemnly.
TO BE CONTINUED