This is a Harry Potter Fanfiction Only

Games, movies, books, and other game mechanics will be included.

One year has gone by and the two friends had become rather well-respected game testers for the company they first tested that Harry Potter VR Game, the fact is that due to them having achieved total completion of the game and having tried everything.

Their dedication to testing earned them quite a bit of respect from the programmers and developers of the game, they even managed to find many bugs and glitches that would have been a disaster had the game gone out without proper testing.

The fact is that some even joked that had these people tested SAO then thousands of people would still be alive and the company could have avoided ruin. This made the developers of the Harry Potter VR Game hire both friends as full-time game testers.

They got to play and keep up with games that most people only heard were being developed, top-of-the-line consoles and controllers, brand new nerve gear headsets, and everything, but that was extra, the main thing was that they got a very nice salary and even a percentage of the profits made from the games, call it incentive.

The two friends were done testing the newest game it was a Darkriders VR Game that they were both playtesting. It was very entertaining and both friends loved the entire feel of it, granted Hector more so that Hiro since for some reason he was using a crossbow.

Hector's weapon was weird in so many ways, it was a staff that could turn into scales, a lance, and a giant hammer with a huge metal staff. Hiro asked him to imagine his weapon becoming the staff with ringing bells that monks used to walk with, and sure enough, the weapon became that, only Hector's imagination was the limit, and that it had to be used for melee combat.

They were professionals and so they did everything they could to test things out, except that to do that they had to go through several bad ending paths and several paths that were frustrating to say the very least.

By the end of the week they finished playing their second playthrough of the VR Game, it appears that once all the skills and equipment were maxed out the game became rather easy when it came to combat. Hector was right in the middle drawing in all the agro while Hiro shot at them from a distance using his crossbow.

The thing is that they did end up interacting with all the supposed riders and for some strange reason Hector had the fortunate or unfortunate fate of having Fury be always willing to jump right in and help him, even when he told her many times that he was in no danger at all.

War and his other brothers used to gather with Hiro to tease both of them mercilessly and relentlessly about the fact that Fury wanted to ask Hector out to be her boyfriend, much to the embarrassment of Hector and anger of Fury.

It was finally getting time for them to leave the company dorm and they both wanted to go out and eat something nice for dinner to celebrate another job well done. Hiro as soon as he walked out of the door began to laugh like a maniac.

"I love my life, I couldn't be happier to be alive, can you believe we get to play games, get paid for it and we get free room and board, I tell you this is the very best I could ever hope I would ever have in life, and I want to keep on doing this to old age."

Hector punched him right in the gut and told him not to jinx them, didn't he know that saying crap like that was practically death's ringtone? As soon as he said that he saw that somehow a person driving a city bus began to drive right on the sidewalk where they were, and that is when Hiro simply said, "Damn it I guess I jinxed us." As the bus slammed into them at full speed.

The last thing they heard was the ambulance driving down the road and the screams of people who saw their broken and mangled bodies, they both woke up in a rather familiar room where there were seven seats on this rather large table, it was an old conference table they once saw in the last game they played.

That is when heard a man laugh as he said that it was funny as hell that they both died due to such a common Anime trope, the man was wearing armor and had a facial mask that made both Hiro and Hector realize who the hell this was.

"Hey first of all not funny, second I don't want to hear about humiliating deaths from Mr. Suicide diver, last but not least, didn't you die when you took a nose dive into the well of souls? How the hell are you even alive Death?"

That is when he looked at the person who said, "Sure was not fun, but you know I could do no less for my brother War, you two would do the same thing if it means saving him and you know it, as for me dying, well I did, but once humanity was restored so was I. Why are you so frosty with me Pestilence?"

The other person looked at him and began to breathe a little easier, "At least we will not be embarrassed and pestered by your nasty rumors about me and Fury, she is your sister, and by the way where the hell is Fury anyways? Is the doing good or do I need to worry that something bad happened to her?"

Death began to laugh as he heard Famine say, "Well you know after humanity was restored and we were all called thanks to War using the seals to call us here, which sort of brought me back from the dead now that I think of it, humanity needed a guardian of sorts before something like before happened again, so Fury sort of volunteered to be the one to keep humanity safe."

Pestilence asked Death if everything was taken care of why the hell did they end up back in this room at all? Death began to laugh as he saw him still wearing his knock-off Dick Tracy hat while pretending to be a heavy metal biker.

"Look we didn't want to bother you since apparently were living a wonderful life, but unfortunately you both ended up getting killed by a maniac who was apparently the same man who messed up an alternate version of a universe you know so well, so when you both got killed I hoped that you both will help me by trying to make that universe a better place."

That is when Famine finally decided to ask Death if it would be alright if two of the horsemen were missing for an extended time because there was no telling how long this entire thing would take. Famine wearing his armored monk armor for some strange reason.

Death told him that there was nothing to worry about, the other four could easily take care of things, and if things got a little too difficult, he could always be called them back from time to time if they needed the extra help. Pestilence simply complained that this was because people consider them the back-ups to the actual four horsemen, which Death told him that as far as he and their siblings they were horsemen of the Apocalypse, after all the only thing they had to take down currently was that corrupt council that tried to wipe out humanity and blames War for it.

So essentially Famine called it, they are getting a vacation from having to play as the backup players on the team. Death could not argue with the accuracy of that statement, so he decided to drop on them the facts.

"This person has gone to the daughter of Tom Riddle Jr, taken her wand from her effectively becoming the master of the Elder Wand, then used a true time turner to dump her outside of a place where a band of idiots will attack a Muggle pub, and then used that time turner to go to was Grindewald was first imprisoned, give him the Elder Wand, and granted him what essentially is eternal youth. This all in order to cause as much death and destruction, so this bastard can feed on it, and one day become a deity himself."

Pestilence simply said that the universe couldn't be more FUBAR if the council that wiped out humanity was in charge of it. The fact remains that they didn't even know if they were going as themselves, or as human, since they were originally part human it shouldn't be that hard for Famine to relate to them, Pestilence not so much since he lacks empathy.

Death began to laugh as he heard Famine say that and told them they would be reincarnated as two main characters of the book series they both knew about but tragically due to the actions of the previously mentioned villain that kill them, these main characters were never even given a chance to be born.

Famine would be reincarnated as a person he knows very well, but somehow felt like he would have to change his personality quite a bit, Neville Longbottom. Famine was never known to like bullies or being bullied, so if he was Neville he was not going to be the pushover doormat that the character was in the book series, or at least at the start of it.

Pestilence however will be reincarnated as Harry James Potter, the infamous child who was often called the boy who lived, until much later people called him the boy who lies in order to discredit his words that were meant as a warning of the return of a dark lord that threatened everyone, but the Minister of Magic rather ignore it rather than have to do something controversial about it.

In his point of view, it was more advantageous to simply gain as much monetary and political power to set himself as the most powerful and admired Minister of Magic in history, rather than focus and work towards the people that he is supposed to govern and protect.

Famine remembers that after Pestilence explained to death those very ideas did mention that Dumbledore in an act of kindness and wisdom did warn him that if he acted, accepted the truth, and did everything in his power to stop the returning dark lord, he would be the most loved Minister of Magic in history, or the worst if he continued to do nothing about the danger to the public.

Death told them of course since they were gamers at heart they will still possess their gamer powers, which allowed them to become stronger as they gained experience, and even made their skills and spells ridiculously overpowered, they had every single item, spell, and bonus due to their playthroughs of that Harry Potter VR Game and their recent Playthroughs of the Darksiders VR Game which Death found funny as hell that two horsemen actually played a game as themselves.

Death tells them not to worry that they had all the skills and spells they had from their games, which of course include the DnD powers. Pestilence often hated the fact that many of the people in the movies and books were able to fit in multiple houses, and he called it rather limiting, so using his gamer powers he made one change in that universe the fifth house of Hogwarts, which was symbolized by a dark purple dragon, he called it the Knights of Hogwarts, the house that would stand in the defense of Hogwarts should it ever be invaded or be in danger.

The thing was as soon as they closed their eyes they truly began to take the form of grown men that were standing on the streets of London, after spending an entire day trying to learn everything they could from magical store shop owners and their customers they found that they learned nothing new at all.

The people either call them weird or downright insane, and the frustration finally came to a head when they realized that the amount of money they had was pretty much meaningless since it was muggle money, and these shops simply refused to even tell them how to exchange it for things, or even take it for the equivalent value.

So after a day of getting nowhere, they were both tired, frustrated, and angry, so since they only had muggle money they decided to go to a nearby pub that was actually in short distance to the Leaky Cauldron, they will eventually need to visit the goblin bank and gain proper clothes after all.

Hiro said that there was no need since he liked the way their clothes were, and thanks to the fact where they came from and how they were made, these clothes unlike all the ones they could buy will never get dirty, rip or tear in any possible way. In a word, they were perfect and extremely durable, so instead, he suggested to Hector they need something to take the edge off, a nice drink.

So that is how they came into the pub and asked a barmaid if they could have a couple of bottles of whiskey and vodka, the barmaid looked at Hector and asked him why did they need to drink so much, he pretty much told her that they did because they had an extra crappy day.

She laughed and smiled at Hector and told him, that no matter how bad his day was, it couldn't be that bad. Which made him begin to laugh as it was her intended purpose as she went to ask Hiro if he and his friend wanted some food to go with that drink, and sure enough they had steak, liver, and onions.

The friends were drinking and eating their food till they saw a group of people wearing dark cloaks and skull-shaped masks, busted into the pub and began to cast spells at muggles, it was all Hector needed to see when he immediately began to use his wand from inside his coat pocket and cast protection charms on every muggle present, and he would try and keep them alive.

Hiro however did something else, without even asking he grabbed his friend's bottle and threw it at one of the men, and as the bottle broke and the person was bathed in the booze, he was hit by a fireball spell that cause the booze to burst into flames burning the man as he collapsed dead on the ground.

The other men in the group began to try and cast spells at him but as he banished and used damaged tables and chairs he quickly caused the attacking idiots to first end up losing both arms and then were killed by flaming pieces of wrecked furniture. That is when he noticed the two women that were so afraid that they could hardly do anything other than try and hide near a wall.

"If it isn't little Bella and her little girlfriend, how nice, did you and these idiots decide to come here to hunt down some muggles, you really think that nobody would stop you? Well, you were wrong, these muggles have nothing to fear, why? Because I am here."

The young woman who was still wearing a mask looked at him since this person said just a ridiculous statement after killing so many and could not believe what she was seeing. Her only thoughts were that she couldn't die, she still wanted to meet her father, the father she never got to meet or grow up with since he apparently was gone from her life before she was even born.

"This is not possible, the boy who lived, the hero of a nation, can't possibly be a bloodthirsty monster, that is not how you usually behave, tell me Harry James Potter what is wrong with you, you killed all these wizards and you looked like you enjoyed it."

That is when he looked at her and smiled, "Because I am a very different Potter from a very different and alternate time, I am the boy who lived, am I? No, I am the boy who lost everything and watched everyone he ever cared about die before his very eyes. Delphini I know you, you are the witch that tried to kill me and tried to use my son to do it."

"You wish to meet your father, well why not start with your mother, the woman whose mask I took from her face is called Bellatrix Black, and you two should be nice to each other, after all, she is your mother. Say Neville give me a hand, you resurrect these idiots and I will regrow their cut-off limbs, used them to send a message to Tom."

He looked at the burned-up corpse and kicked it, "Sure thing Harry, I can do that, but we need to keep this one since it is the ring leader of this band of muggle haters, and to keep him as an example when the Aurors finally show up, to explain what happened here."

They quickly began to work with their wands in hand and sure enough, the people were revived except for the one that was burned, and their cut-off limbs were replaced by limbs that appear to be made of silver that grew from the stumps on each arm.

"Now you lot had to upset us when we were having a meal and a drink, alright, you lot go back to Tom and tell him that his little plan will not be as easy as he thinks and if he is not careful my friend and I will be after him, tell him that the storm breaker and the storm crusher will not put up with his foolishness again should their path cross again. Now off you go, deliver my message or I could just kill you all over again maybe cut off your legs or something even worse if you don't get going."

This made the man realize that he was not kidding, but the killer's intent that Harry showed them had a very different reaction with both Bellatrix and her daughter, it was strange to them both, they could feel like their cheeks were blushing and their hearts were raising but not out of fear.

They all took off as Neville began to repair everything that was broken and by the time they managed to fix the walls and flooring they heard the popping noise of a group of men apparating near their current location, it was like the popping of a firecracker, but both Harry and Neville knew what that sound means. Sure enough Alastor Moody and several Auror walked right into the pub where they found that most of the damage had already been taken care of and both Harry and Neville were trying to finish off their drink.

Most of the muggles were unconscious but otherwise unharmed, the minute that Alastor walked near Harry he simply glared at the man and only told him he was late, almost like he was keeping him and his friend waiting for him to arrive, "Mind telling me what is your problem? and what do you mean we are late?" Harry finished his glass and looked at him with a rather cold glare that made the man realize that he was not in a good mood at all.

"Here we were my friend and I having a drink when a band of wizards and two witches decided to bust right in this pub, and started to blast curses and jinxes at muggles here, had my friend here not been casting the counter spells and casting shields on all these muggles there would be a pile of dead bodies, we had to fight them and then to make matters worse we revived them after we ended up killing the lot of idiots, and we even replaces the arms they lost fighting us, all that while you and your Aurors here were taking their sweet time."

That is when one of the Aurors present said that it was impossible to revive someone that was dead, that is when Harry walked over to the dead body of the person who was burned to death and revived him, as he was shocked to be alive once again, he immediately cast a binding spell to keep him from escaping, "If you don't believe me, examine this idiot's memories, he was the leader of the group that clearly wanted to kill all the muggles in this tavern, I would say that you should question the muggles but knowing you lot, you probably already erased their memories of what happened. Damn it, talk about poor response time, we fought, revived them, saw them get away with their tails between their legs, even repaired the damaged and it took you and these people that long to respond to a band of people using magic to attack a muggle pun in the middle of London!"

One of the Aurors flat out asked why shouldn't they just arrest them for causing this disturbance in the first place, the memories of the guy they only knocked out could have been changed to provide them with an alibi.

Alastor simply looked at the guy and then at Harry, "Cause if they had done what you said they did, they wouldn't have stayed around repairing all the damage and keeping all these muggles safe, they would have left already and killed any witnesses that are not the case. Sorry about that, please forgive him he just became an Auror a couple of months ago, chuck it to a rookie mistake."

Harry simply looked at him and nodded his head, "So you want to question us here or at the Ministry? I suggest the Ministry has fewer chances of the statute of secrecy getting broken that way. Neville sorry for taking your bottle without asking, I will buy you two bottles later, but right now it seems the Head Auror wants to have a private chat with us."

Neville looked at him and simply said that as long as he buys him those bottles he had no reason to hold it against him, as for going to the Ministry, that wouldn't be a problem, the nearest place to get into the Ministry was just a couple of blocks away from their current location, the sooner they get done with this, the sooner they can get started to do their actual job.

One of the Auror asked him what exactly were their current profession, Neville said that in muggle terms, Bounty Hunters, but really they were hunters of Dark Wizards and Dark Witches, they did bounty hunting missions after all. Most of Nevilles had the capture of some escaped criminal or wanted magic user, but then he pointed at his friend and said that most of his ended with a magic user or several dead.

"In order words, if you want the target to be brought back alive, you contact me, but if you want the target to be killed and the dead body to be brought instead then you talk to my friend. His rates are much lower than mine however, keeping a prisoner alive is quite the headache."

As they arrived at Alastor's office in the Ministry he quickly asked that they be given a potion to clear up their minds as they both had told him they had both been drinking quite a bit, and he could tell from the smell of Harry's breath. After a witch gave them a rather nasty-tasting potion Harry couldn't help but glare at Alastor.

" First things first, names, occupation, and place of birth, for the record," Alastor asked both of them and they simply couldn't help but laugh, this was so funny seeing him do that since they both remembered him as a member of the Order of Phoenix.

"My name is Harry James Potter, my friend is Neville Longbottom, we told you we do bounty hunting work, as to where we were born, are you daft? We are both born right here in Magical Britain. And yes I know you spiked our tea with Veritaserum it was quite tasty, and what not even needed, since we didn't even think about lying to you in the first place."

Hector looked at him, "We come from the future, a future that should never come to pass, a person took a true time turner and messed with the history of this place so much that it created an alternate timeline, which is where we are. We were supposed to be born a decade or two from now, but due to this person's actions we won't be."

"This means we were tossed into the ether of the universe and just right now we finally managed to return but found it like nothing we ever saw before, if you don't believe me, take this bottle, it holds all your memories from our timeline since today till the day you died protecting the life of my friend."

Hector tossed at him the bottle that he caught, and he immediately opened it and drank it, either he would gain information or prove that these two are dark wizards when the effects of the poison come to light, so either way he felt like he had little to risk since he also had a bezoar in his pocket to be ready against being poisoned.

"As my friend told you, Moody, you should really trust us, after all, we are your friends, a lot more so than some other people you know. Anyways once you regain your memories you shall see that we were telling you the truth." Hiro said as he saw the blank look on the face of Alastor Moody.

Meanwhile in an unknown location …