Harry Potter and the Long Nightmare Hunt Chapter 1, Harry Joins the Hunt, a Harry Potter + Bloodborne Crossover fanfic

Chapter 0001: Harry Joins the Hunt

Key:

Humans "Talking" "Thinking"

Beasts "Talking" "Thinking"

Old Ones / The Doll "Talking" / "Doll Talking"

Spells if used "Talking" "Thought"

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Alrighty Everyone. This is Chosen Undead Shadow with a new story, unfortunately for others hoping for more of my other stories, they all are on Haitus at the moment. Now then this is my take on how Yharnam might change Harry Potter after he learns he was submitted under the unknown school "Gherman's Beast Hunter Academy", and asks the Goblet to allow him to commune with the Academy's headmaster Gherman, after he noticed a disturbing pattern of his Dark Arts Defense Teachers often trying to kill him and remembering an old saying "Once is happenstance, Twice is Coincidence, Thrice is Enemy Action!".

Now for the starting class I originally was going to go for Waste of Skin, but after reading a fic that inspired this story, I chose Cruel Fate just due to the fact this harry will have been abused by the Dursleys atop the rest of the stuff he has to deal with...

{"There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear." - Richelle Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher.}

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Harry Potter sat on his bed, and for once tried to piece things together without Hermione's help. He then decided to make a list and grabbed several sheets of parchment, before jotting down anything that wasn't schoolwork related, and the rough estimate of dates. Harry looked at the parchment sheets for each year, and then slowly made a list of four things: Dumbledore related, Voldemort Related, Halloween Events and End of Year Events. Then he made two parchment sheets with Voldemort Related Halloween and End of Year Events alongside Dumbledore related Halloween and End of Year Events. As the full moon began to shine the lists grew and soon he looked at a set of things that painted a picture that horrified him. The two lists were intrinsically tied together like moves in a chess board and plotted out his life caught between the Light Lord and the Dark Lord.

Dumbledore had the Potters go into hiding under a supposedly unbreakable charm that he had to have known the secret keeper to. Voldemort gets the Secret Keeper to let him know where the Potters were. Dumbledore seeds suspicion of being Traitor to Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Pettigrew plays double agent and screws both sides. Voldemort attacks Potter. Magic invoked by his mother's sacrifice rebounds the Killing curse to Voldemort. Dumbledore has Harry placed with abusive Aunt and Uncle to mimic the environment Riddle grew up in. Voldemort lays low to build strength. Dumbledore sends Hagrid to 'rescue' Harry from the Dursleys. Voldemort becomes affixed to Harry's Defense teacher in Hogwarts during a trip after said teacher met Harry. Dumbledore ignored Voldemort in the castle. Voldemort goes after the Stone. Dumbledore tricks Harry into defending the Stone and confronting Defense Professor Quirrell-Voldemort. Voldemort reveals himself to Harry and confirms that Harry has the protection and leaves a man to die from Harry's touch alongside his leaving. Dumbledore says Harry killing Quirrell is a good thing and then sends Harry back to the Dursleys. Enter overexcited house elf Dobby. Voldemort's diary releases a Basilisk on the school using a first year. Dumbledore is kicked out but returns as Harry goes to save the school again. Defense Professor tries to mind rape Harry, but the wand used causes the spell to backfire. Voldemort's younger shade reveals his origins like a Gryffindor rather then a Slytherin. Dumbledore sends Fawkes and the Sorting Hat containing the Sword of Gryffindor. Voldemort's younger self's shade sicks the Basilisk on Harry. Harry fights for his life and to save the school again. Hat drops sword, Harry kills Basilisk, Fawkes brings the diary to Harry, Harry stabs diary with Basilisk fang. Dumbledore congratulates Harry on killing something yet again, then sends him to Durskaban. Voldemort's supposed right hand gets loose from Azkaban. Dumbledore doesn't thing Harry should know about his foes right hand breaking out, nor should he know what the man looks like to defend himself. Eventual confrontation after a year of being annoyed by Dementors. Real hand of Voldemort emerges and flees to his master. Defense Professor attacks harry due to his medical condition of Lycanthropy. Harry flees. Dumbledore sends Harry and Hermione back in time to save themselves and Sirius Black from Dementors and then save Sirius again by freeing him before he was kissed. Voldemort's hand having escape forces Harry to have to go back to Durzkaban. Dumbledore insists on Harry going back to be abused. Voldemort unknowingly gives Harry vision of a plan to resurrect Voldemort. Harry goes to Quidditch World Cup. Voldemort's followers use Harry's wand to shoot up the Dark Mark. House elf is blamed. Harry arrives at Hogwarts. 4th new Defense Professor in as many years. Dumbledore announces Triwizard Tournament. Voldemort screws with the Goblet of Fire used to get Harry selected. Dumbledore allows the screw up for some reason. Voldemort's servant reports back the success after Dumbledore's drawing of the names. Harry forced into a deadly tournament.

Harry looked at the compiled list and he decided something after noting that three times thus far in as many years his Defense Professor is somehow involved in the confrontation related to Voldemort at the end of the year. He decided three things, first was to do the opposite of whatever his Defense Professor tells him for the tournament, second was he needed to know what school he was put under, and third, he was on his own for the most part, he wouldn't endanger Hermione with what was happening at the end of this year, regardless of what it was. Harry then noticed the moon and how the clouds seemingly trying to bury it. He nodded even as a faint image was shining through the mostly cloud covered moon. The odd Rune was a line above a dot, shaped like an upside down Y with an 'i' continuing on from the divergence point of the Y while each arm of the Y had a smaller line emerge from the arms and come close to reuniting with the main section of the 'i' just before the dot. Harry didn't notice but as he turned from the night sky the clouds converged and the Rune vanished, only his noting of it, only the echo of it inside his mind, the only proof it had formed.

He pulled the map from his trunk, alongside his invisibility cloak, and snuck to Moody's defense classroom. Then he knocked on the door, and rehearsed what he was going to say, "Professor Moody, you mentioned I might have been placed in as a fourth school's candidate. I... I am curious as to the name of the school... if they exist they should be contacted, if not then there might be hope for my being able to get out of the contract..." Just a few moments later Moody arrived at the door, wand aimed at Harry. "Potter..." the man's voice was odd, as if he was someone impersonating Moody rather then Moody himself. Harry filed that away for future notice and spoke before Moody could rant about either the time, not being vigilant or such. "Professor Moody, you mentioned I might have been placed in as a fourth school's candidate. I... I am curious as to the name of the school." The man paused just before he could rant about 'Constant Vigilance', then spoke. "Potter, it is far too early for such questions, but you were entered under an old Muggle school, one that specialized in lycanthrope hunting. Gherman's Academy of Beast Hunting, a school that ironically was destroyed by lycanthropes from the inside. Now then go to bed, Potter."

He looked at the door and a saying Vernon had said filtered through his mind. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action." He thought hard and recognized that most likely the chance of Moody being the one to put his name in the tournament was extremely likely, as his fate seemed to factor on the Defense Professor being the one behind the attempts to murder him each year. Remus was given a rough exception due to his fury condition.

Harry stared after Moody slammed the door shut, before he smirked faintly and walked to the Goblet which was still sitting in the Great Hall. He checked around, and noted nobody nearby, then he walked up to the goblet. "I am not sure, but I think I would be best allowed to speak to my headmaster, Gherman of the Beast Hunter Academy, however I heard he and the academy just vanished, so... Goblet of Fire, can you send me meet with my missing school?" Harry didn't know it but the rune etched into his mind was far from standard, and the request he made was far from standard, thus the Goblet just flared up some of the magicks inside itself, and the minor sentience of the goblet decided that with the school having been missing it was only right to send the boy to the school so he could learn and call him back in the morning. The flare of magic went undetected until the next morning when Hermione found Harry to be missing, however the goblet stills showed him as a Champion for Gherman's Beast Hunter Academy.

Harry meanwhile found himself in a darkened room, staggering against a wall. He noted the word in his head, and muttered it "Paleblood..." before noting an old man gesturing towards a table sized bed, to which Harry reluctantly climbed atop, after noting he was in a clinic of some sort, he was told the healing minister would be there soon, and shortly after the shock of the sudden relocation knocked him out for a bit. Harry came to, hearing a voice "Oh, yes... Paleblood..." and he looked over to see a man in some grimy but newish clothes in a wheelchair. He noted the room had some sort of incense-based smoke-like-fog hanging low. "Well, you've come to the right place. Yharnam is the home of blood ministration. You need only unravel its mystery. But, where's an outsider like yourself to begin? Easy, with a bit of Yharnam blood of your own..." the man got close enough for Harry to see the severe disfigurement that was covered by bandages around the man's right eyes. Then the man stopped then spoke up as if adding an afterthought "But first, you'll need a contract..." with that the man had Harry put a drop his current blood into a strange box covered in odd border runes that slightly stung Harry's eyes.

Soon the box began to glow and sections filled out, showing the several hardships Harry suffered: Voldemort slaying his parents, being abandoned to the Dursley's not so loving care, the troll he saved Hermione from, Hogwarts Defenses of the Stone, the Second Year fiasco when he saved someone again and got labeled a dark lord in the making, the basilisk, third year each dementor attack, the whole Pettigrew fiasco, the Quidditch World Cup fiasco, and finally the false forced entry into a deadly tournament. Harry then filled in the details needed, name, date of birth, what he plans to do with the blood, if he was willing to become a Hunter later one, he filled out each one and mentioned he would like to be a Hunter. Harry finished to contract by signing his full name, and putting the required bloody thumbprint next to his name for reference if he becomes a Hunter.

Harry handed the minister the contract and found it sealed itself up and the man seemed glad for that to be out of the way. "Good. All signed and sealed. Now let's begin the transfusion. Oh, don't you worry." Harry laid back and looked to the ceiling, idly noting he was in an older style of dress, a black vested shirt and brown slacks with nice shoes, something Harry didn't remember owning until now. The man leaned forward and Harry felt the need slip into his arm, while idly noting the various bloody cloths hanging across clotheslines, alongside a rather simple unique roofing tile style. "Whatever happens... You may thing it all a mere bad dream..." Harry turned to look at the minister and became confused at the mention of thinking it all mere bad dream. Rather disturbingly on cue, Harry's vision blurred as the minister began to laugh, Harry fell back onto the bed and Harry's vision went fully dark a second later.

He woke to the sound of water dripping and noticed the room was dark as if night had fallen. He slowly brought his head down to level with his body and looked around before noting the room was filled with a mist. He then noticed the scent of blood rather strongly and looked around before noting something that shocked him. The floor was covered in a faint pool of blood, blood that bubbled ominously as if containing something, and then slowly as if summoned by the thought of the blood containing something, a form began to emerge from the pool of blood, a beast looking like a twisted wolf emerged from the pool of blood. Any chance of it being something not like a demented werewolf was dashed as the thing brought its left arm up and revealed a human hand warped into something resembling a wolf's paw with human finger length digits, and slowly padded its way over to Harry. Just as its clawed left hand was about to make contact with his body, the monstrous wolf lit aflame and snarled dementedly flailing around for a moment before collapsing into the pool of blood. The flames lingered there enough for Harry to hope the beast was dead, but then his attention was drawn to something on his bed.

A pale white hand grabbed the bed and slowly a small faceless being crawled up onto the left side bed, the eyeless sockets and lipless teeth momentarily gave Harry a start, but he noted it wasn't seeming hostile to him. It climbed up further onto the bed and began to crawl towards him and was soon joined by a mouthless copy of itself on his right side. Then another of the beings crawled up at the foot of the bed on the right side, as the first right side being laid a hand on Harry's chest and began crawling onto him. He was slowly getting scared the more of those beings climbed onto his bed and swarmed him. Then as seemingly eight of them surrounded him on his bed, their odd keening groans both terrifying and relaxing to him, got into his sight the odd rune the cloud at Hogwarts had shown was prominently displayed in his mind. As his vision began to fade, he heard a voice.

"Ahh, you've found yourself a hunter..." her voice was unique somewhat like the Durmstrang students, but softer, different, similar to the Russian lady who Harry saw wondering the streets looking for something during his stay in Durskaban.

Harry jerked awake, noting the room was clear of blood, and brightly lit, with no sign of anything besides himself in the room. No correction it looked like the chair across from him, near the door to the stairs had some note in it. Slowly Harry turned to the left and climbed off the table sized cot-bed.

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{"After a night of bad dreams, to awaken to the sun and all the possibilities of action."- Marty Rubin}

Now then. This story was actually inspired by another story, Shabbacabba's Harry Potter and the Nightmare Newborn, s/12609388/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Nightmare-Newborn, for those interested. I used to play bloodborne until I ran into a fiery wall of rage inducing death called Laurence the First Vicar.

Now his story has revitalized my Bloodborne fighting spirit, and I plan to try to make a different take on his overall premise of Harry is sent to Yharnam during the Goblet, and will occasionally show his fights that scarred his mind and enlightened him to the true nature of man and Beast.

Though this Harry is inspired on the very Harry done there. Now then, for those curious of how the end-game Harry will play out, Arcane Strength is all I am saying on just how the build stats turns out, but the Runes... that will be the true hardest boss for Harry, deciding which Runes he(I) will use. Please review if you see any issues with the story.