Chapter 3

I do not own Harry Potter or Seraph of the End

"Honestly Remus I'm fine. Can't we just go?" Harry pleaded as he set his finished dinner down on the table.

It had been two days since Harry had woken, and Remus had been fussing over him ever since, though between the blood replenishment potions and the Skele-gro, Harry was feeling better than ever.

"Not until I'm sure all your bones are fixed properly" Remus said, adding more Scarab beetles to his Pewter Cauldron. Harry sighed dramatically and flopped into a chair opposite him.

"It only took one night to regrow all the bones in my arm after Lockhart vanished them, but after two days you think my bones are still broken?" Harry asked, giving Remus his best 'are you kidding' look.

"At Hogwarts you had a trained mediwitch administering the potions, so I'm not taking any chances. Frankly I'm not even sure I can competently make this next batch of Skele-Gro" Remus said returning his attention to the potion, which was now bubbling violently.

Harry rolled his eyes. It had become apparent pretty quickly that Remus was a real mother-hen. "I can travel just fine, it's not like we will be walking back to England anyway, aren't we taking a portkey?" Harry asked sarcastically.

Remus dropped his head and sighed heavily. "Fine Harry, as soon as this next batch of Skele-gro is ready, I'll prepare the portkey. But you have to keep taking the Skele-gro after we get back, alright?"

"Deal" Harry promised with a confirming nod.

In the afternoon, Remus had finally finished struggling with the potion, and began to work on creating a portkey which would take them back to England. According to Remus, short distance portkeys - such as one staying in the same country - could be activated quickly. Internationally though, it might take hours to activate.

Harry packed the new clothes that Remus had looted for him from the local shops. After so long it almost felt foreign to wear something other than the livestock uniform. Harry walked out of his temporary room, calling Hedwig to his arm. Remus was packing all of his potions ingredients into a medium sized briefcase, including, somehow, his cauldron.

"How do you manage to fit the cauldron into that bag?" Harry asked, eyes wide.

Remus smiled widely as he packed his things away. "Undetectable extension charm. Learned it in seventh year from Professor Flitwick. Never could get it right until your mother helped me though, she really was great with charms…"

"Sounds handy." Harry responded, pretending to ignore the previously unknown fact about his mother. It wasn't that he didn't want to hear about his parents; of course he did, but Harry was still raw after his ordeal in Sanguinem, and couldn't even force himself to care at that moment.

Remus seemed to sense his sudden mood swing, and quickly changed the subject. "All packed then?"

"Not that any of this stuff is mine to pack, but yeah I'm ready to go" Harry answered

"Harry, most of the world's population, muggles, wizards, witches… they all died when the virus hit, as the survivors we have a responsibility to humanity to continue surviving, to save the human race. A little stealing then, from people who aren't even alive anymore, is not much of an issue to me." Remus said, looking Harry directly in the eye.

Harry dropped his head and let out a breath. "I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to judge you or anything, everything is just so weird now. In Sanguinem, we knew that all the adults had died, but hearing it from the vampires and seeing it in person are two very different things. Then there are those weird creatures that walked by the house last night. I just don't get what happened to the world, you survived the virus, why didn't anyone else?" Harry finished desperately.

"Like I said yesterday Harry, the Virus, and the monsters that popped afterward… I have no idea where any of it came from, and I can only guess that my lycanthropy are why neither affect me." Remus explained "All I know is that I am alive, and that you are alive, and that I intend to keep it that way. Now that I've found you though, we can look for other survivors, and maybe create a safe haven for anyone we find, at the moment it's all we can do." Remus patted his shoulder as he got up.

"Anyway, I think the portkey should be ready by now, let's get a move on" Remus said as he pulled his wand from inside his jacket.

Harry stood up, his bag over one shoulder and Hedwig sitting on the other. He looked out the window solemnly, studying the Japanese landscape for what could be the last time in his life. Japan had been his home ever since his uncle Vernon had moved the family to Tokyo when he had gotten a prestigious job offer, although it wasn't until after their death that Harry had found his true home. Harry felt his eyes welling up in his eyes at the thought of leaving. But how much was Japan home for him anyway, his family are gone, and there is nothing left for him but sadness and hatred.

"Next stop, England" Remus said, offering the portkey with an outstretched hand.

Harry turned away from the window, and accepted the portkey. The world spun wildly around him.


Remus and Harry appeared in a grassy paddock with a pop. Harry staggered to the ground and heaved while Remus looked on sympathetically. Before Sanguinem, Harry had begun to get used to the effects of portkeys, having had to take them every time he wanted to return to the orphanage, but his stomach churned in response to the long distance travel.

"Well we are definitely back in England" Remus said as he looked up at the sky. It was overcast and drizzling rain, typical English weather.

Remus bent down to help Harry up, and he struggled back to his feet.

"To the Burrow then?" Harry asked

Remus let out a deep breath. "Alright then Harry, but don't get your hopes up, even if your friends survived the virus due to their age, there is no guarantee they are still around."

"I know, but I have to know for sure." Harry said with determination.

"Ottery St Catchpole right?" Remus asked.

"Right." Harry agreed, grabbing the arm Remus held out to him. With a second pop, they disappeared from the empty paddock.

"Interesting house" Remus said conversationally as they looked upon the Burrow. "House likes this suits Arthur and Molly down the ground though" he added after a moment.

"You know the Weasleys?" Harry asked surprised.

"Not particularly well" Remus admitted. "We met through Dumbledore during the war with Voldemort."

Harry and Remus kept moving towards the Burrow when a large spray of orange sparks exploded around them, blinding Harry's view. Remus stretched an arm out in front of Harry and threw him back, wand in his other hand.

He fell onto the ground with a thud. His eyes were blurry from the sparks, but he could just make out Remus with his wand pointed menacingly. He rubbed his eyes trying to make out more of the scene. Both of them were surrounded by people, all wielding wands, but Harry couldn't make out their faces.

"Stay behind me Harry" he heard Remus say. Harry could just make out one of the silhouettes lowering their wand.

"Harry?" A feminine voice asked.

Harry squinted his still blurry eyes and gave them another rub. There was a person with a head of wildly bushy hair, but he still couldn't make out their face. Still, Harry was almost certain he only knew one person with hair quite like that.

"Hermione?" Harry asked, his tone hopeful.

"Oh my God, Harry!" Seconds later, Harry had an armful of Hermione, her hot tears spilling down his neck. Harry wrapped one arm around her shoulders, trying to return the gesture.

"Mate, I can't believe it's you." Another voice said.

"That you Ron? My eyes are kind of fuzzy" Harry asked as he squinted to see the face speaking to him

Ron clapped a hand on his shoulder "Yeah mate, it's me. Sorry about the eyes but it'll wear off in a minute, one of the twins' inventions."

"Fred and George?" Harry asked

"Yeah mate, we're here too. You really think some worldwide virus is enough to stop the Weasley twins?"

Harry smirked over Hermione's shoulder, who was still weeping uncontrollably. "Merlin Mione, let the man breathe" Ron laughed.

Hermione gently let him go, and looked into his face. Her face grew red as she looked at him, and suddenly she was slapping him on the arm. "WHERE. HAVE. YOU. BEEN?" She slapped between every word.

Harry rubbed his arm gingerly, for a small girl she could hit hard. With a pang of sadness he was briefly reminded of Akane, who used to pummel his arms when he would joke with her.

Harry rubbed the back of his head, not knowing how to answer. "I've been in Japan" he eventually revealed. All four of them looked at him in surprise, none of them knew where he lived when he was outside Hogwarts, since Dumbledore had made him swear not to expose it to anyone.

"Japan? So that's where you lived" Hermione said, rubbing her chin as she always did when she was thinking. Ron and Hermione knew that Harry lived far away, but Dumbledore had always forbidden him from telling anyone where that was, for his own safety, he had assured.

"Hang on, if you lived in Japan, why did you go to Hogwarts? Japan had its own magical school – Mahoutokoro."

"Perhaps we should take this inside" Remus said, interrupting. The others seemed to remember he was there, and they all looked at him confusedly. Apparently they had forgotten they were all pointed their wands at him not three minutes prior.

"Oh right" Harry said "This is Remus, he brought me here from Japan. He knew Dumbledore and my parents." Remus nodded at them in greeting before gesturing towards the house.

Finally standing up off the ground, they headed inside. "Ginny, it's alright, it was just Harry!" Ron yelled out. The youngest Weasley came running down the stairs of the burrow and gasped when she saw Harry.

Hermione slapped Ron's arm "Oh honestly Ronald. 'It was just Harry'" she repeated his words mockingly. "We haven't seen him in almost two years in which time the world basically ended and we thought he had died, and you say 'it was only Harry?'" She mimicked him sardonically again.

"Blimey woman, lay off will you!" Ron rubbed his arm, scowling. Harry couldn't help but smile at the two of them, evidently they hadn't changed a bit, still bickering like an old married couple. Too bad the same couldn't be said for himself after so long in Sanguinem. The smile fell from Harry's face at the sobering thought.

Ron and Hermione started to bicker back and forth, but Harry tuned them out. Ginny came running down the stairs and launched herself at Harry, throwing her arms around his neck. Harry was gobsmacked, he didn't know Ginny all that well, and the last time they had seen each other she couldn't string two words together in his presence. Ginny seemed to realise this as well, because she quickly let go, a deep blush appearing on her face as she stepped back.

"You thought I was dead?" Harry asked when Ron and Hermione stopped squabbling.

Everyone in the room looked at him seriously. "Well… yeah we did" Ron answered him.

"Harry we haven't seen you in two years, and between the virus and the monsters wandering around, we didn't have much hope you had survived. What little hope we did have disappeared after Errol came back with the letter we sent you" Hermione said sadly.

"So where've you been Harry?" Fred, or George, asked. Harry used to be able to tell the twins apart, but after so long they had all grown and changed, which meant Harry could no longer tell them apart.

"Well, Japan" Harry repeated. He still didn't feel like talking about what happened to him in Sanguinem, so he asked them a question before they could dig for more information.

"But what's been going on here? How did Hermione get here?" Harry asked them. He caught Hermione eyeing him suspiciously in his peripheral vision as Ron began to tell him the story.

"Well, on Christmas after dinner..." he hesitated, choking on his words until Hermione sat next to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "Mum, Dad and Percy started coughing up blood… We tried to floo St. Mungo's, but they wouldn't answer. They died not long after" Ron finished sadly, looking out the window. Harry followed his line of sight until he saw three makeshift headstones.

Harry gave Ron the most sympathetic look he could muster, he hadn't known Mr and Mrs Weasley very well, but what he did know of them was that they were extraordinarily kind.

"Anyway" Ron said, returning his attention to Harry "after we gave them a burial, we wanted to find out what was going on, and why St. Mungo's never answered, so we floo'd to Diagon alley. It was a huge mess, there were bodies everywhere. One of the goblins told us that people just randomly started dying, only the goblins remained unaffected. We guessed that some sort of dark spell must have killed everyone, and we went to go outside to muggle London to see if they were affected… and then things got super weird" Ron explained.

"Yeah I'll say" one of the twins continued "Muggles were dead everywhere, and this weird message was playing on those muggle things, I can't remember exactly what it said, but the gist was basically that a virus killed everyone, and that the vampires would protect people from now on. Well obviously we got the hell out of there and came back here, fat lot of good it would have done us to go with random vampires eh Harry" both twins grinned at Harry, who recoiled at the mention of the bloodsuckers.

So the vampires were here too. The image of Ferid flashed in his head, and Harry had to force himself to pay attention.

"So how did Hermione get here?" He asked.

"Well it was much the same for me, I had to bury my parents, and not long after the same message played over the community speakers" Hermione said turning away. "The message said that humanity was being punished for its foolishness, but the young are being spared, and will come under the protection of the Third progenitor, Lest Karr" she quoted, seemingly verbatim. "I'll never forget that message as long as I live" she said chillingly.

"Well anyway, I was packing up to run away, since any vampires were obviously not going to be there to protect us but luckily for me Ron, Fred, George and Ginny showed up in Mr Weasleys flying car. They brought me back here and we haven't seen or heard of any vampires since."

"Strange that they haven't been around, although I suppose it was more logical for them to kidnap the children in more populated areas." Remus spoke for the first time since coming inside.

"I came to the same conclusion" Hermione agreed "But it hasn't been entirely safe here, not long after I got here these strange monsters appeared, but we never got close, only watched them out the windows. Luckily they aren't too smart and are easy to hide from, so we've managed to stay out of their way."

"Good, I've seen them up close, and they are incredibly dangerous to humans" Remus said

"… What do you mean to humans? Are you a vampire?" Hermione asked, slowly reaching for her wand, the others joining her in a panic.

"Woah, calm down, Remus isn't a vampire, he's a werewolf, and he saved my life" Harry told them.

"Harry… he's a werewolf" Ron said pleadingly, his wand now out in his hand. Harry knew that werewolves were socially outcast in the wizarding world, but Remus had been nothing but kind to him, and with the world the way it was at the moment, such labels didn't really seem important to him.

"A werewolf who has done nothing to harm me, was friends with my parents, and who risked his own life to save mine." Harry said stepping between them. Remus had made no move to defend himself, and stood simply in the doorway watching.

"He also knew Dumbledore, fought against Voldemort and apparently knew your parents." Harry said, staring Ron down. At the mention of his parents, Ron turned to Remus with a look of surprise, as did his brothers and sister.

"You knew our parents?" Ginny asked with big eyes.

Remus smiled at her kindly. "Not well, we only met a few times through Dumbledore, very kind people, I knew them at least well enough to know they would be proud of you." Remus said to them.

It seemed to be enough for Ron, who slid his wand back inside his jacket, the others following suit.

"What do you mean he saved you Harry, what happened to you?"A Hermione changed the subject firmly, trying to catch Harry's eyes with her own.

"He saved me from the vampires in Japan, he broke in and got me out. I'd been there since the virus hit" Harry told them. Hermione gasped and put her hand to her mouth while the others looked at him compassionately.

"Harry, what about your foster fam-"she began

"Didn't make it" Harry cut her off, still not looking at her. Hermione reached out and gently touched his shoulder, but Harry gently brushed her hand aside.

"Look we need to make a plan of attack here" Harry said quickly, wanting to change the subject.

"What do you mean?" Ginny asked him

"Well we can't stay here forever" Harry told them "Those monsters could notice there are people, or vampires could show up. Either way, Remus has a plan of where we should go" Harry looked to Remus to continue.

"But we have food here from Mum's old vegetable garden, and there is still some meat with preservation charms, we have been safe here for ages now, why do we have to leave?" Ron asked turning down his eyebrows in frustration.

"Ron… I've been meaning to bring it up for a while, but Harry's right, eventually we will have to move on" Hermione told him gently. "What was this plan Harry mentioned sir?" Hermione addressed Remus.

Remus laughed softly at the title she gave him. "Just Remus will do fine. But my plan is to go to Hogwarts. Hogwarts has supplies, is probably one of the most defensible places on earth, and will have records on all the other students. If we can get messages out to where they lived, we might be able to get survivors to gather at Hogwarts" Remus explained to them.

"That is… a really good plan" Ginny said beaming at Remus.

"But what about Mum and Dad?" Ron asked in a quiet voice, almost a whisper.

"They're gone Ron, they would want us to survive, not just stay here looking at their graves for the rest of our lives" one of the twins said as the other continued "besides, Remus has a good plan, we might be able to find other survivors if there are any that escaped capture from the vampires."

Ron eventually nodded, wiping a few stray tears from his eyes. "So where do we go from here?" he asked.

"Well I'm intrigued by what you said about Diagon Alley, that the goblins survived the virus, I think we should go there first and get some supplies and hopefully talk with one of them. You have enough floo powder to get us all there?" Remus asked.

Ron nodded again "Mum always kept heaps for backup" he said, pointing to the pot next to the fireplace.

Remus approached the fireplace. "Well alright then. I'll head through first and have a quick look around, then I'll call you through if everything is clear." Before anyone could protest, he swiftly stepped into the fire. "Diagon Alley" he said clearly, before disappearing in green flames.

They all sat in the living room in silence until Ron eventually broke the tension. "Well this is not how I saw my day going" he said. "First we hear a noise and decide to ambush whoever shows up, it turns out to be Harry blood Potter of all people and now-"

"Hyakuya." Harry cut him off. They all turned to look at him puzzled. "Harry Potter-Hyakuya" he said. "It was my foster family name."

"Right" Ron eventually said, smiling at Harry. "But anyway, now we are going to Diagon Alley to 'get supplies', crazy day" he finished, and Harry smirked at him. Ron, he realised for the second time that day, had not changed at all, despite everything.

"All clear, come on through" Remus' voice came through the fireplace.


Harry stumbled out of the fireplace and looked at his surroundings. The Leaky Cauldron where Hagrid had first brought him to Diagon Alley. It was eerie seeing the usually bustling and busy pub empty except for themselves, and the silence was deafening.

Ron must have thought the same, "Wow, I don't remember this place being so creepy" he said looking around the room.

All of them had arrived in the empty room, and they heard Remus call out to them from outside, where the entrance to Diagon Alley was. Stepping through the brick archway the group was further unnerved, there was nobody in sight, and no sound coming from the most popular shopping district in wizarding Britain.

"There is no sign of any goblins here, and some of the shops have been ransacked, but most of the stuff still seems to be in the shops, so I think that the vampires have been through and probably killed the goblins, or they may have simply left" Remus said to them.

"Why do you say that?" Harry asked him.

"Because vampires wouldn't have any interest in anything in any of these shops, why would they when they can't use magic, even the ones that used to be wizards" he explained, and Harry could see the logic in the words. "Not to mention all the bodies are gone, just like in Japan. I think the vampires must have moved them all, probably don't want to make a mess of their new world. Anyway as far as I can tell the place is empty, and has been for some time, which will make our job far easier." Remus walked towards the nearest shop and gestured for everyone to follow him.

"Why are we in Wiseacre's Wizard Equipment" Ginny asked Remus as they stepped into the shop behind him.

"For these" Remus said, pointing down at a tidy pile of wizard suitcases. Remus whipped his wand out, and performed a series of complex incantations over each bag, with the rest of them watching him with fascination.

"Aren't those undetectable extension charms?" Hermione asked clapping her hands together gleefully at the performance of such advanced magic.

"Very good Hermione, I'm impressed. I also put a feather light charm on them so they don't get overly heavy. Theres one for each of you. What I want you to do is go into stores that have anything we might find useful, extra wands from Ollivanders, potion ingredients, though be careful with those, and put them all into these trunks."

Hermione looked downright giddy with anticipation, the opportunity to take as many magical items as she wanted from Diagon Alley must have been a dream come true for her, despite the circumstances which led to them being able to do so.

They agreed to meet back at the Leaky Cauldron in an hour and all headed off in different directions, with Harry going straight to Ollivanders to find himself a new wand.


Harry stumbled out of the fireplace again as Remus popped out behind him. After being in Diagon Alley, where they had collected innumerable magical ingredients and items they might want, including what had to be almost half of Ollivanders store in Harry's case, since he had no idea how to pick a good wand for himself. Hermione however had gone straight to Flourish and Blotts and gathered as many books as humanly possible, and even with the feather light charm on her trunk, her trunk still weighed an awful lot.

The rest of the Weasley's came out of the fireplace behind him, with their trunks in tow, now filled with their own things as well after returning to the Burrow.

Following Remus out of the Three Broomsticks, Harry got his first glimpse of Hogwarts in almost two years.

As they had talked about at the Burrow, they headed towards Honeydukes, where according to Fred and George, there was a secret passageway that led into Hogwarts. Harry smirked as he recalled the conversation that had led to that piece of information, with the Twins finding out that the map they had been using to cause mischief in Hogwarts had actually been created in part by Remus. The twins had treated him like something of a hero since.

"It's going to be interesting being in Hogwarts again after so long isn't it" Hermione said as they walked up the long passageway into Hogwarts.

"Sure" Harry agreed before Hermione began a conversation seemingly with herself about some of the books she couldn't wait to read that had come from Diagon Alley.

Eventually, they reached a wall, and Remus pulled out his wand, incanting something under his breath. The wall opened, and they stepped out onto Hogwarts' third floor.

Suddenly there was a small pop from in front of them, with Remus swiftly pulling out his wand and pointing it at the source of the noise.

"Oh please sirs, I didn't mean to be scaring you! I was just excited for peoples to be in Hogwarts again!" a small voice high pitched voice pleaded, and Remus put his wand away.

"Who are you?" Harry asked him curiously.

"Dippy the house elf sir" he responded in his high voice.

"The house elves are alive?" Remus asked in a hopeful tone.

"Oh yes sir, we have been looking after Hogwarts ever since that dreadful night when the poor professors died. We thought people would come straight away, but nobody ever did, so we buried the poor teachers and we've been cleaning the school and making sure everything is good here ever since" he said proudly.

"Well good job Dippy" Remus told him, and the small elf beamed at him in pleasure. "Could you take us to the headmaster's office Dippy?" Remus asked him.

"Oh you must be wanting to talk to Professor Dumbledore's painting!" Dippy asked excitedly "he will be very happy to see real wizards and witches in Hogwarts again!"

"Dumbledore is alive?" Harry asked, completely dumbfounded.

"No Harry, some wizards and witches are enchanted into portraits, usually only those with a high social status like Professor Dumbledore, and they keep their consciousness and all their memories with them after they die."

"Oh" Harry said disappointed.

They followed Dippy to Dumbledore's office, where the staircase was ready and waiting for them. Going inside, Harry heard Dumbledore's voice sing out.

"Oh Remus! I'm very glad to see you alive dear man!" Harry heard him say as Remus entered the office. Harry followed him in.

"And Harry my dear boy! Miss Granger and some of the Weasley clan too! How glad I am to see you are all well" Dumbledore said to them happily. Somehow the artist who painted the portrait managed to paint the twinkle in his eyes into the painting.

"Professor Dumbledore, it's good to see you" Remus said, and the old headmaster beamed back at him from his portrait.

"Well sit down everyone, tell me what has been going on. Dippy has been kind enough to keep me updated on some of the events of the outside world, I still can't believe that such a tragedy has occurred."

Remus conjured up a couple of couches for them to sit on, and began to tell their story.

Notes

So that's Chapter 3 done, not too much exciting happening in this one, but the really exciting stuff is not far off. A Time skip happens after this chapter, with Chapter 4 beginning 3 years from this point.

Just so you all know, in this fic Harry started Hogwarts when he was 10, which would make him a bit older than thirteen now, since he was at Hogwarts for a year and a half, then another year and a half in Sanguinem.

Thanks to everyone who has followed/favourited/kudos this story. Special thanks to everyone who has reviewed or commented

Oh and the bit about Mahoutokoro was added after Rowling revealed some of the other magical schools the other day on Pottermore. Adds nothing to the story, just thought id throw it in there.