A/N: so this chapter, despite its length, is a filler to foreshadow how some relationships will form. If you remember last chapter than you'll remember I stated in the challenge rules that Bumbledore will be against Harry's methods; this first section is to be a taste of how volatile the relationship- if you'll be able to call it that- between Harry and the puppet master will be.
Second notice, the next chapters going up will be in the order as follows: Welcome to the show, A musicians muse and temper, What doesn't kill you The end of the world as we know it. My other fics have half written chapters due to a recent uptick in work hours cutting into my writing time.
Thirdly, I know I said this on Twilight Judgement's last chapter but if you have any feedback for me- feedback being constructive criticism and not pointless 'your work sucks' flaming- I'd love to hear from you guys. Every writer grows from hearing from their audience and if that comes in the form of a PM or review I'd really like to hear what you think. This is by no means a review beg like some people do but just something to keep in mind if you were so inclined.
Lastly, yes I KNOW LUNA IS BEING HARSH AND OOC(you'll understand when you get to the appropriate section)! It's entirely intentional.
Situated in his office at Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore's mind was turning a mile a second. After Voldemort had fled, all his minions including Bellatrix LeStrange being reduced to little more than unmoving corpse limbs and blood puddles, the attempted apprehension of the man responsible had gone utterly pear shaped. His spells had been deflected like nothing or eaten by the demon heads that came out of the swords in the man's possession. On top of that, he had nearly lost a limb thanks to the white haired young woman who addressed the man as General Potter. There was absolutely no way that the monster who murdered all the lost but redeemable Death Eaters was Harry Potter!
"Eye raping me won't do you any good fag, I don't swing that way. Your little mind raping trick won't work on me either."
Dumbledore scowled deeply at the disrespect.
"Now now dear, I thought we talked about this while we tore that colony of Ogretail to shreds on our honeymoon."
The male rolled his eyes at the scolding delivered by the woman. "A spades a spade and a fag is a fag. He plotted, sucked dick and plotted the subjugation of non-magical civilians while getting ass fucked by his fag lover over fifty years ago before coming, and probably the other kind as well, to the conclusion he could enslave the magical civilian sector by locking his partner up in a gulag to rot away til he died. The so-called "good guy" won and the villain died, he looks every bit the "hero" by comparison. Not that it's a big deal either way considering they are both monsters in their own ways. The degree of separation is negligible. Like their IQ's." The male seemed to get sidetracked mentally for a moment before shaking his head and seeming to get his thoughts straight. "I have no problem with gay, bi or lesbian people but when I'm face-to-face with a thing like this" he waved his hand at Dumbledore whose eyebrow was twitching "who makes said groups of people look bad I really don't give a shit about calling it as it is. You know this well my bloody queen."
"This is true."
"Tell me who you are" Dumbledore demanded interrupting the pair. The man's slanderous, though factually correct but not that he would ever admit that out loud, comments were beginning to really ride his nerves the wrong way.
"The people are who are going to do the job you lack the balls you, a spineless faggot, can't get done" the male said with a shrug. "In the process we will kill who we have to, that includes your pet slaves who believe that everything you do is for the betterment of all. I believe your slave mantra is 'For the Greater Good'."
Fawkes, usually the patient being, was beginning to reach his wits end. Unavoidable violence was tolerated if only barely but murder, cold blooded murder, was not. An angry trill echoed off the walls as he flapped his wings violently, sparks of crimson flame licking off his wings.
"Alisa love, be a dear please and silence the bird before I devour the magic keeping it alive" the male said with an irritated eyebrow twitch.
Alisa rolled her eyes before a gesture of her hand, her right which still clutched her sword, saw the demon head shoot out quicker than Fawkes could react. The meaty thunk and death trill filled the office as the body fell to the floor twitching sans head. "How about I do it in your stead Harry dear idiot husband of mine?" the white haired woman asked with a tiny smirk etching itself onto her lips as she saw the horror on the ancient bearded man's face.
"Aw… Your God Eater absorbed it too quickly" the man named Harry said with a pout. Standing from the throne-like chair he had conjured upon entering the office, he cracked his back with a pleased sigh. "Oh well, aragamis out of the earth now. Get in my way Dumbledore and I will personally show you why the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter was at one time feared as Master War Magi. Threaten me or my wife and I will tear you limb from limb while you are conscious, am I clear?" The question was rhetorical as a motion of his hand summoned his two God Eater weapons to him. "Oh, just before I forget Albus.."
Dumbledore could only blink once just before he was punched so hard his crooked nose broke on impact and his head bounced on his desk opening a gash on his forehead. As he gasped in pain he felt his arms seized in utterly painful positions by unseen hands. "Ha-Harry my bo-"
Harry ignored the half spoken plea as he leaned over the edge of the desk with a hard unreadable expression. Plucking the dropped wand up, the wand he knew to be the Elder Wand and therefore his rightful family legacy heirloom since the Peverell line married into the Potter bloodline, he spun it around his left hand after relegating one of his swords to a sheathe on his back. "I should cut off your hands thief" he said with a callous tone. "However, I don't think that now is the opportune time to punish you and your pawns. I will make sure you and they suffer. Your name will be anathema and they will be pariahs. Their names will be taboo and their credibility so shot that I'm sure even the muggleborns would prefer to resurrect the corpse of Hitler as their leader in all his megalomania. Do you know who I'm going to start with first?"
Alisa sighed as she palmed her face. As much as she loved Harry, she married the dolt afterall, but there was normally a limit to how violent he got at any one time. The most she had seen him come unhinged was when he was fighting a one man life-and-death battle against four Large Type Aragami to protect their injured medics while she led a secondary team to plant explosive charges to bring down a five story build being used by said Aragami as a lair. By the time she and the others had returned there was absolutely nothing left of the monsters. There was no trace of the monsters while Harry was covered head to toe in the creatures black blood like some macabre onyx statue. "Later babe, he's a small scale terrorist compared to the other one. Deal with the petty criminals later" she griped smacking him upside the head. "Plus, if you have forgotten dear you have someone to introduce me to."
Harry blinked as Alisa interrupted him and seemed to break the moment for him. "I do?" he asked.
"Yes you do, the blonde you threatened me if I hurt so much as a single hair on her head" Alisa said.
"Oh, Luna! She's my baby sister" Harry said brightly, turning to his wife. Taking Alisa's arm in his hand he practically dragged her off.
Alisa snorted internally even as she smiled softly. His moods could shift on a dime but if there was one thing that she loved about Harry, about her husband and best friend in all of existence, was his devotion to those he cared for. "Baby sister you say? You told me you were an orphan" she said in a mock angry tone.
"Family isn't all about blood. I met her eleven odd years ago when I began my second year here and she was just entering her first. Her Housemates were being abusive and taking all her stuff. I stood up for her and needless to say a lot of people got in trouble for the stunt they pulled. After that she started calling me big brother and I found it endearing since she's a sweet soul I couldn't help taking on the role. You'll love her I promise. She's a little odd at first and takes a little getting used to but you will never find a more intelligent, loyal, mischievous.."
Alisa laughed internally as Harry rambled on like a proud parent, or big brother as it was, about the one he called Luna. If the girl was a tenth of the superlatives Harry was using to describe her then she was sure they'd get on famously. She obviously loved her husband and between the stories being regaled to her about the blonde witch, it was obvious the blonde witch was loved by Harry as she loved him. In a pseudo familial way Harry was often reiterating during the walk to wherever it was this Luna was.
Neither of the lovers paid mind to the crunch of bone in the office they just left. Neither did they pay heed to the agonized yelps of pain that seemed to echo throughout the castle.
Luna Lovegood smiled serenely as she twirled a knife in her hands, the blade shining with a smattering of blood. "Come on Chang, I'm Loony not retarded." Silvery blue eyes showed a cruel edge as the light from the torch bracket flickered in the breeze. "Last time you or your cronies tried to attack me and take my stuff I stuck this very knife three inches into Marietta's chest. You all ran like mice while your supposed friend writhed on the ground in agony coughing up her own blood" she continued as if she was talking about the weather.
Cho, currently bound by a full body bind curse and gagged with her own panties, could only stare at the blonde witch in unbridled terror. She didn't even want to be part of this plan to begin with! If it wasn't for her parents owing the wrong people favors she'd be ignoring the crazy witch! But nnnnoooo her whore of a mother owed a filthy rich Pureblood Lord a lot of galleons and said Purebloods only male heir called in the debt with this scheme.
"Now, I know that you wouldn't do this of your own volition; I mean, Marietta had an unfortunate accident that was reported to Master Flitwick last time." Luna's tone remained lackadaisical while her hand stopped twirling the knife and seemed to consider the red life giving liquid on the blade. "I don't particularly care why you did it either. An attack on me is an attack against the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter, you do remember my blood-sworn brother Harry Potter don't you?"
Cho's skin went whiter than white since she had not forgotten the very public blood binding Harry had done in the Great Hall two years ago. Nor had she forgotten the horror etched onto many peoples, most prominently the teachers and Headmaster Dumbledore, faces as Harry slammed a plate into his supposed best friend Ronald's face. The plate not only shattered embedding pieces of porcelain into the skin leaving bloody wounds but a particularly sharp sliver actually pierced the youngest Weasley's eye. When all was said and done, Ronald's eye was unable to saved due to the damage & Poppy had to remove the damaged organ to transplant a repulsive magical replacement eye that wouldn't stop moving not unlike a certain Defense Against The Dark Arts Professor they had last year.
"So you do remember, good. Now I'm going to release this full body bind just enough for you to speak and plead your case for why you shouldn't have an 'unfortunate accident'" Luna said while releasing the spell the tiniest degree to let Cho speak after ungagging her.
"I didn't have a choice in this!" Cho said with a clearly hysterical tone. "My mother owes a Pureblood a lot of galleons and his son-"
Luna silenced Cho again with a motion of her hand while looking thoughtful as she stroked her chin. "A debt called in but not by the true debt holder. Still an attack on the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter by the lowly 'noble', not that your family will hold that title for very long now thanks to this attack on my person, House of Chang… Decisions, decisions…"
"How about not pussy footing around and making a punishment to fit the crime Little Raven?"
Luna's body stiffened before her eyes gained a bright shine. Completely ignoring the still body bound Cho, she turned and dropped her knife before tackling the only person to call her that. "Big brother!"
Harry smiled softly as Luna's arms wrapped around him tight and she nuzzled into his chest. Kneeling down took some maneuvering, her grip was damn near vice-like, but feeling those slim arms moved from around his stomach to circle his neck as she nuzzled into his neck brought a warmth to his chest. "I can't begin to put into words how much I have missed you baby bird" he said softly in a near whisper. While he would call her Little Raven where people could hear, it was a sly tease to her Hogwarts House and her at-times-frightening level of intelligence, he would only call her baby bird in tones so soft only them two would hear it.
Luna's grip tightened even more as tears, happy tears mind you, fell from her eyes and fell to stain Harry's shirt.
From the doorway Alissa smirked softly watching the scene while completely ignoring the pleading look being shot at her by the body bound witch. God Eater, commander, husband, wizard- Harry was many things to many people but the one she hadn't ever counted on before their reappearance in his world was him as a brother. The love, the adoration and overwhelmingly obvious display of undeniable loyalty shone like a lighthouse on a ocean coastline densely shrouded in mist. "Name's Alisa, Harry's wife and-"
"Later love, family moment" Harry interrupted without glancing at Alisa. It might earn him trouble later but his wife was more than aware how he was about family or those he considered family.
Alisa huffed and rolled her eyes at the cut off.
Luna giggled despite herself as she finally pulled her head back as her tears slowed slightly. "You've aged big lion" she said in the same near whisper tone.
"Yeah I have but this lion still is going to love and protect the baby bird he took into his pride." Wiping Luna's face and eyes of tears Harry gently pried her grip a smidgeon loose so their eyes met, silvery-blue looking into dark emerald borderline black. "I'm home little sister and I will never leave you alone again. I swear on my honor as a God Eater, the Lord of the House Potter-Peverell and your blood sworn brother. I'd rather die or face the loss of magic than knowingly or willingly let it happen again" he promised as a silver aura flashed around him. "Ten years is far too long."
Luna nodded her head the tiniest amount before resting her forehead against Harry's. "I believe you big brother. I know you would never willingly leave me alone."
"Ok, ok family moment over. Blondie has a victim who needs to be punished and I really need to find out just how you seem to have my man wrapped around your little finger as much as I do" Alisa said clapping her hands.
Separating from Harry completely Luna stood and shook her shoulders out. "I already have her punishment decided, the whole thing of making a show of thinking was to terrorize her" she said with a tiny smirk etching onto her lips. Turning to Cho, Luna drew out her wand from behind her ear and twirled it while kicking her knife over to Harry. "Even being that this was forced, I am not the only younger year student you've taken part of in assaulting for any number of reasons. I shudder to think what you would teach your spawn about bullying others you perceive to be below you. For the sake of others I think the perfect punishment for you-"
"Make her barren?"
Luna's lips quirked into a semi cruel smirk. "I was going to yank her tongue out and rewrite her memories but removing her reproductive organs-"
"I meant rendering her infertile, not tearing her womb out. Eh, you do you little sister. I've seen and done worse to people who deserved it" Harry said with a shrug.
Alisa could only raise an eyebrow as she watched the blonde make a motion of her hand holding a stick, she vaguely remembered Harry calling it a wand, before a purple light shot out of the tip and impact the motionless victims abdomen where her womb was. Despite the magical bindings the scream that pierced the air was nearly on par with the death roar of the Dyaus Pita that killed her parents so long ago.
"Is she going to die?"
Luna looked offended at Harry's question as she knelt down and viciously backhanded Cho across the face; the force strong enough to snap her head to the side and crack against the floor knocking her unconscious. "Death should be a release, not a punishment big brother. You taught me that" she said looking over her shoulder. Turning her gaze back to the unconscious witch she made another motion of her wand releasing a short but steady 'blade' of red light while pinching Cho's tongue and pulling it out between her lips. In a single motion the muscle was severed and the wound cauterized barely leaving behind a stump as the body thrashed in obvious agony. A flash of white-ish light before Cho's face and Luna stood. "Come on brother, ten years is a long time and I'm sure my sister-in-law is as curious about me as I am about her."
Harry merely laughed, not at Cho's suffering mind you since she deserved the punishment, but at the candid way Luna said. "Never change Luna" he said roping the blonde witch into a one armed hug on his right side while gesturing Alisa to join on his left. When both women situated themselves he squeezed both before gazing warmly, oh so lovingly one might say, between both as he kissed the top of their heads. "Luna, this is my wife and partner Alisa. Alisa, love of my life, this is my quirky and very eccentric sister Luna."
Luna looked over at the white haired woman for a long silent minute as if trying to judge the worth of her soul. "Do you love my brother?" she asked with a serious look and tone.
Alisa was taken aback by the sudden question and she guessed it showed on her face judging by the expectant eyebrow raise on Luna's face. "I do. He's my best friend, my rock and a whole range of cheesy emotional cliches. If it came down to it, I'd die for him if I had to" she replied with an equally serious tone.
Luna's expression didn't change for another moment before her look softened as she didn't sense any deceit. "My brother trusts true and loves even fewer... But I'm guessing you already knew that. If you ever do anything to hurt him, no one will find your body."
"Woah woah, slow the thestrals Luna. I appreciate the protectiveness-"
"That's what family is for big brother" Luna interrupted.
Harry shook his head sighing in exasperation. "Alisa has taken near fatal wounds to protect me and proven how much she loves me time & again. You don't have to worry about her being anything less than genuine."
"If that's the case" Luna took one of Alisa's hands in her own and kissed the knuckles gently once "welcome to the family big sister."