A/N: A look into the future plans of Voldemort. Harry also meets 'Drake'. First off this is not going to be slash, can't write it, if it does have romance, it won't be slash. This is Post HBP so there will be spoilers. I really need a beta for both this story and the other, any volunteers? I thank my one and only reviewer R-Krulle for being the first to review this fic. Questions are answered at the bottom.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, FFVII, FFX, or any other videogame or book I may put in here, so don't sue. They belong to J.K. Rowling, Square-Enix, J.R.R. Tolkien and whoever created anything else I may put in the story later.

Dark Trilogy part one: Dark War

Ch.2 Glimpse of the Future

In a place not located on any maps, muggle or wizard, a castle stood. The castle was roughly as large as the great wizarding school of witchcraft and wizardry known as Hogwarts. It was quite large, possibly larger than the school it had over seven hundred rooms and like Hogwarts was surrounded by a forest, a dark forest.

The caste was a mutilated greenish-grey coloring and although it looked rundown, the inside was in futuristic shape. Seven peaks or towers were upon the castle, these stood out from the rest of the castle as instead of being the mutilated greenish-grey coloring, they were black, pure black except for the serpentine symbol upon each one. Each of these symbols were different, although similar. Each one was a different type of snake and each snake symbol glowed with an illuminating light. Only six of the towers were still glowing, one of the towers had long since gone out. This was roughly five years ago, and the snake that had gone out was a Basilisk, the King of serpents.

Each snake that was destroyed lessened the power of the castle, the snakes were the guardians. The only way the castle could ever be seen or located to muggle or magical eyes was if all seven serpents were defeated or an heir to Slytherin befriended one of the serpents, if the snake found the heir worthy, the way to the castle would be known.

The Basilisk had been a guardian, and had hid in the Chamber of Secrets within Hogwarts. It had been slain roughly five years ago at the hands of the current heir of Slytherin's most hated foe. This foe was the boy-who-lived, although if things went they way they should, he would not be alive very long.

The other guardians to the castle were still hidden or at least alive, that was known by the other snake symbols still glowing. The guardians, all were for the most part extremely deadly. Example, the Basilisk, it had eyes that could kill, or petrify, as well over sixty or so feet long. Another snake was the current heir's familiar, and also horcrux bearer Nagini a supposedly ordinary snake, possibly a constrictor , albeit a bit large, however holding a hidden power, she like the Basilisk could not be killed by mere ordinary means. How this came to be is a mystery.

Another snake guardian was a Runespoor. A runespoor is a very deadly and intelligent three headed snake, each head acting as a fundamental feature of the snake, the head known as the critic carried the most poison, but often times the other two heads would grown annoyed and bite the other off. This runespoor had all three of its heads still intact and was larger than normal runespoors. Most runespoors were about six to seven feet this one however was roughly ten feet and was extremely old.

The last recognizable snake was an Occamy, a beautiful carnivorous and winged snake. It resembled a two legged snake with wings, it was slightly covered by plumage and was roughly fifteen feet in length, it's powers were both physical and magical, being able to protect it against mental and magical attacks.

The last three guardians of the tower of Salazar Slytherin known as the Serpent's Keep, were unique in the fact, that most had never seen or even heard of them before. They were the last of their kind and were all extremely powerful, that's why the heir of Salazar Slytherin need not worry about his base ever being discovered.

The first of the three foresworn guardians, the keepers of death, chaos, and pain was a snake-like creature called Anacondaur. The name is similar to that of the snake of the Amazon an Anaconda, yet is nowhere near the same. If the Basilisk could be considered the 'King of Serpents' then the Anacondaur could be called the 'King of Basilisks'. Unlike most normal snakes where legs are of no consequence, and unneeded, the Anacondaur has both legs and claws. The Anacondaur is a large, almost thirty foot long and thirty foot tall serpent. It has a mainly serpentine body, with four legs, two on each side, and two massive claws similar to that of scorpions. On the middle of its head is a pink jewel, the tail can be used very effectively, like a whip. Like the Basilisk it can kill on sight, or petrify, and if bitten it is extremely deadly, its location is unknown.

The second of the foresworn guardians, is the keeper of chaos and is known as Zolom. The Zolom looks like an extremely large and fat yellowish-green skinned cobra. Despite its large mass it can move surprisingly quick and is extremely deadly. It's voice can cause deafness and it's poison is deadly as well. Rumor has it that Salazar Slytherin had a pet Zolom, and taught it to spit its poison, with deadly accuracy.

The third and final of the foresworn guardians was a sea serpent by the name of Leviathan. Leviathan was a large blue almost thirty foot long serpent. Leviathan was the keeper of pain. Leviathan looks to be the color blue with tints of green, the head looks like that of a crocodile and it is known to have appeared both below and above water. It has fins so it can swim and can swim extremely fast, back when Salazar was the Dark Lord, he use to feed his enemies to this creature or send it to destroy towns near water. It seemingly has a gift similar to apparation and can apparate to any body of water so long as it is at least as big as a lake. It is known as the keeper of pain because is causes much death and sorrow and through this it causes pain for the survivors. Like its brethren it's bite is poisonous.

Six serpents still lived, and due to that it was untraceable, none but one bearing the dark mark could ever see Salazar's Keep, so when ten figures clad in black robes and not bearing the mark of the current Dark Lord arrived in front of base, it caused great panic among Lord Voldemort's followers.

(Pact of two lords)

Lord Voldemort was currently sitting down on his throne waiting for the rest of his inner circle, whom he had released from Azkaban only a little bit ago. With the death of Dumbledore he had immediately released his incompetent followers still locked up in the dirge of Azkaban. Lucius Malfoy one of his former greatest had been executed for treason. Narcissa Malfoy was to be a close second, besides she also had information he needed, but before he could get to her, she vanished, Bellatrix sputtering profusely that she had no idea where she had gone. He read her mind and learned that she was telling the truth, she was spared, but was still tortured. Dumbledore was dead and his most loyal servant had turned traitor, along with the son of Lucius.

He had given Draco Malfoy an assignment kill Dumbledore, he never really though he'd be able to do it, and this was punishment to the Malfoy's for failing and displeasing him, he hoped Draco would die or at the least be sent to Azkaban. He was enraged when he found out that Severus of all people ended up killing the old coot. According to Bellatrix he had made an unbreakable vow, and had to do it if Draco wasn't able. Draco couldn't kill, therefore he was a traitor, when Snape returned with the boy he would punish them both, Draco wouldn't make it however. He was even more enraged when Severus didn't show up, and even more furious when Wormtail appeared and said he had lost him. He didn't kill the rat, no not yet, he was still important to him. He had come to tell him that Snape was a true traitor, this was before Voldemort had learned of the death of Dumbledore. When Wormtail tried to return to the house he couldn't, the house had vanished and he couldn't for the life of him remember where it was, he tortured the rat a bit before trying to get Narcissa. It was then he had discovered that she had gone traitor as well, probably the traitorous potions master was the cause.

He was immortal, thanks to his horcruxes he could not die, and in effect he was immortal. He thought Dumbledore might be catching on to him, but he was now dead and the only person who remembered about the horcruxes was Horace Slughorn, whom he had disposed of as soon as he had left Hogwarts. The aurors had discovered his body in the middle of Diagon Alley. No one could ever oppose him now, no one knew about his plan no one. The Potter brat ended up destroying one of them, but that was quite on accident, and he had made a new one anyways, with the death of Bertha. He now once again had seven horcruxes and even if they were destroyed, one would have to find his base, which was impossible. Yes, things were finally looking up. He stood up, ignoring the pain in his head.

"My loyal followers, as you may have heard Lucius Malfoy is dead!" Voldemort's loud voice boomed over the assembled Death Eaters. The Death Eaters began mumbling to themselves, to most this was new news, Bellatrix and Wormtail kept silent, they already knew.

"My lord. Pardon me, but how did he die?" An extremely stupid Death Eater asked him, where as most of the other Death Eaters who had heard his question winced knowing what was to happen. With a rise of his wand he said something so soft none could hear and the stupid Death Eater began screaming as his insides came bursting out. Few Death Eaters turned away, most watched in pity for the young man, who was know no more.

"As are late friend just asked, I killed him." The Dark Lord said pitilessly. "The Malfoy family are traitors to my-our cause, if any see them you have orders to kill or capture them immediately. Any who fail to attempt the following will meet the same fate they shall come to. Also Severus Snape the murderer of Dumbledore-" The Dark Lord was cut off do to the cheering of his followers and although he was annoyed he too was joyful at the death.

"Yes, yes. Dumbledore is at last dead, and at the hands of Severus Snape too. This however is another thing, anyone to see Severus is ordered to capture him and bring him too me at once, if he fights back kill him."

"Yes, my lord." All of the Death Eaters said as one, even if they were confused at the orders. Voldemort watched as ten Death Eaters clad in dark robes, tried to sneak in unnoticed. His lip curled upward at the thought, he would make an example of them at the end of the meeting.

"Good. Continue to work on the jobs assigned to you, a raid will take place sometime next month, check the list at the door to see if you're to take part." Voldemort said casually, he felt a prickling in his head for the second time that night, it passed quickly, he shrugged it off as nothing important.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

Voldemort turned to the one who had begun clapping. The man like his nine friends or followers behind him was dressed in a black robe. The man was extremely handsome and roughly the same height as Voldemort. His eyes were relatively normal, and his hair was quite short, his smile was one of amusement although if one saw past the façade the would see a cruelty none possessed.

The nine men behind him all wearing black, gave off an uneasy and paralyzing feeling to the few who were by them. They had red eyes and had swords attached to a sheath at their sides, their wands were in their pockets. In actuality there were eight male and one female, they all dressed alike so it was hard to tell if they didn't lower their hoods.

"Who dares to mock me?" Voldemort sneered hatefully at the fellow man, who just smirked in reply, his head tingled again.

"Why the one who is greater than any here." The handsome man said.

"Crucio." Voldemort said throwing the torture curse at the man. The man looked at the incoming curse and faster than humanly possible raised his black gloved hand and absorbed the spell, laughing.

"Come now, Tom. You can do better than that, can't you?" Voldemort let out an enraged growl.

"Before I kill you, tell me your name!"

"All in due time my friend, all in due time." The man said calmly causing Voldemort to growl angrily. "You wouldn't want your 'loyal' followers to find out, would you?" The man said with a grin, his nine followers just stood their calmly watching what their master was doing in interest.

"What! How dare you threaten me!" Voldemort spat at the man in front of him.

"Dare or not, I do follow through, with what I say. I'd recommend sending your followers out now, they don't need to listen into our discussion." The man said, it was blackmail Voldemort knew, but some of his followers would desert him if they found out he was a half-blood.

"Death Eaters, you are to leave, this meeting is adjourned." Voldemort said through gritting teeth. "I want you all out of here. Now!" Voldemort demanded of his followers all of them leaving, except for Wormtail who had nowhere to go. "Wormtail wait outside."

"Y-yes m-master." Wormtail managed heading for the door.

"No." The man said as Wormtail got to the door. Wormtail paused to find out what he was to do.

"What?" Voldemort asked the man he was to soon kill.

"I said no. Wormtail as you call him may stay."

"Fine. Wormtail stay." Voldemort said angrily, Wormtail quickly hurried back to his masters side.

"Now you may try killing me." The man said calmly causing hatred to swell within Voldemort.

"What's the point of this?" Voldemort said wand now pointed at the man in front of him.

"Just kill me already!" The man snapped apparently losing his patience. His eyes turned reddish orange in his anger.

"Avada Kedavra." The killing curse went at the man, and to his great astonishment hit him directly in the heart and the man continued to stand.

"Your spells are pitiful, and weak. Your ambition is strong however. That is what I need in an ally." The man said continuing his calm speech.

"H-how?" Wormtail asked the man, forgetting his place.

"Quiet Worm!" Voldemort yelled at him.

"No it's quite alright, despite the fact I can't tell you. Before we get down to business, I believe it's time to send an unwanted visitor away." The man said serenely.

"Unwanted visitor?" Voldemort asked himself, his head began tingling again. "What do-" Voldemort's eyes registered what he meant and his face twisted into forms of hatred. "Potter! Get out of my head!"

Harry who had been watching everything from Voldemort's eyes registered surprise at what he had just witnessed, he tried to see behind the hood of any of the ten mysterious figures, but not a moment later he had been kicked out.

(Harry's room)

Harry awoke with a splitting pain in his head, he knew he had to contact headquarters right away. Hedwig was asleep on her perch. Sephiroth was sleeping somewhere downstairs and the boy Drake was in the room next to him.

Harry quickly got out a quill and parchment and began to write.

To: The Flock of Birds:

From: The Witness of Deaths

Moony I hope your there and doing okay and everything. I know everyone's upset with the death of the bee, but we'll have to make it through. I just had a dream. One of those dreams, you know what I'm talking about. Apparently HE(you know who) is planning a raid for sometime next month. Possibly Diagon Alley?

I've discovered that Lucius Malfoy is dead, and apparently HE is now searching for Narcissa and Draco Malfoy, apparently they betrayed them, Snape is among the wanted as well, whether he is biding time or what is not known.

I also thought I should tell you, one other thing. HIS meeting with death was interrupted by a mysterious man and his nine companions. They openly ridiculed HIM to his face, the leader of the ten people also resisted both the torture curse and killing curse! The unknown man(?) said that HIS ambition is what he was looking for in an ally. The Worm was also asked to stay put. You know anything about this? Or who this man is?

I'm for the most part doing fine, the D's have guests a man named Seth Prince Roth(can you check to see if he's a wizard?) and a boy about my age named Drake(last name unknown) staying with them. Hope your furry little problem is okay, and I'm sorry about everything, my parents, Sirius, and now even Dumbledore.

Whose in charge of the Flock by the way, I need to talk to them about something. I'll write back later, hope everything's well, and don't let the klutz get away, face your fears, love conquers all.

Sincerely,

Jr. Marauder

Harry finished writing his letter and after cautiously waking Hedwig who snipped at him, tied it to her leg and with a hoot she went off. Harry sighed in relief and went back to bed, or he would have if not for the sound he heard from outside his door. It sounded like someone heading to the kitchen. At first he thought it was Dudley, but then realized it couldn't be as the sound was that loud. He knew it wasn't his aunt or uncle either because he had memorized the sound of their footsteps from sleeping under the cupboard.

Harry was curious, there was no better word. He was also suspicious of the Sephiroth guy, so decided to go see what he was up to. Harry quickly grabbed his wand and stuck it in his back pocket before opening the door and heading down the steps. He was careful not to alert whomever was raiding the kitchen, and soon had reached the bottom of the steps. He started over when he heard a voice exclaim.

"Bloody muggles. I'm asleep for nine hours, and they don't even wake me up to feed me? Where did they say the food was kept again? Oh, yeah a refregulator." The voice exclaimed and muffled an oath when a jar of pickles fell on his foot.

Harry cautiously made his way towards the figure. The figure had said muggle, and did not know what a refrigerator, which meant two things. One the figure was a wizard and two the wizard was a pureblood. Harry listened to the voice as it talked to itself, looking through the fridge for something edible. Harry thought the voice sounded familiar, but he couldn't place it.

"Where the hell do they keep the caviar? Almost none of this stuff is even edible. I mean bologna, what the heck is bologna? If only father were still alive, then I'd be able to go home and live in the manor. But no, the fen Dark Lord had to go kill him and now we're traitors to both sides. Why, the hell am I talking to myself?" The boy asked himself before shutting up and picking out material to make a sandwich. It was then that Harry realized that the boy must be Drake, he decided to introduce himself.

"Hello." Harry said the boy dropped something because he was startled before muttering a hello, back now picking up the jar of spilled pickles.

"Hello." The boy said repeating Harry, still picking up the pickles.

"You need help with that?"

"No I bloody don't need help. Especially not from a muggle such as yourself." The boy said snottily, causing Harry to think he knew the boy from somewhere, he just couldn't place it, possibly because he was tired.

"Yeah, whatever. By the way, I'd assume by you calling me a muggle you would be a wizard. Is that correct?" Harry asked the boy.

The boy's jaw dropped, not that Harry could see it, and he almost dropped the items he had in his hands. He was just finishing up with the pickles and grabbed a garbage leaving the fridge open. "Y-you're a wizard?"

"Yep." Harry replied.

The boy was thinking something over in his head before responding. "Thank goodness I didn't know how long I would have been able to keep up this act around here. The Dursleys nor Sephiroth mentioned the nephew being a wizard."

"Sephiroth's a wizard?" Harry asked suspiciously.

"Uh, no. He's the brother of one though." The boy said closing the fridge and going to make his sandwich, the boy walked back into the shadows to make the sandwich and Harry could only make out the blonde hair on the fellow wizard.

"Oh. It's probably better if you don't tell my aunt and uncle that, they don't really like magic. They may decided to kick you out." Harry said seriously.

"Really? Wow, I didn't know that, thanks for warning me. My father was recently killed by the Dark Lord and my mother has had to go into hiding, I had to separate from her and go into hiding as well, and this place was picked out by my godfather.

"Oh, I'm sorry, didn't know." Harry said to the fellow boy.

"It's okay. You know, you sound familiar, maybe I know you, what's your name?" The boy asked curious.

"It's uh Harry." Harry said.

"Harry?" The figure scowled. "I knew a Harry he went to Hogwarts, we ended up becoming enemies, I offered him a choice, but-" The boy was cut off as Harry realized something, it fell into place.

Harry flicked on the kitchen light and saw 'Drake' for the first time, only it wasn't the first time, he had gone by another name once, everything fell into place. The boy looked up as the lights went on and stared at 'Harry' His jaw dropped in shock and he scowled, and managed to say in disbelief.

"Potter?" The boy asked, his pale features noticeable and the blonde hair finally in place.

Harry looked at the boy coolly, and had his wand pointed at him.. Drake in his surprise dropped the items he was holding and they made a resounding crash, fortunately waking up none, but the one upon the couch, and even he didn't do anything.

"Potter." Drake said again in disbelief.

Harry smiled coldly and smirked wand pointed at him.

"Hello Malfoy."

A/N: You knew it was coming. If you didn't, well let's just say that I believe in redemption, I'll say no more. Next chapter will probably be up Friday and chapter for Age of Darkness will be up tomorrow(hopefully). Hope you enjoyed this chapter and please read and review.

R-Krulle: Q: Wasn't Sephiroth the evil in FF-7?

A: For the most part yes, whether he'll be totally evil in this story, you'll just have to read and find out.