DISCLAIMER: Harry Potter is owned by Rowling. The trains are not owned by Rowling, but the Hogwarts Express is owned by Rowling. I don't know who invented the monsters. Perhaps they invented themselves, like gods, and that is why it's so hard to defeat them. Let's see what you think of this madness. It's going to have THREE chapters, I reckon.
CHAPTER ONE:
The worst part of the journey is the Leeds tunnel, which takes at least half an hour. It is said that once you enter the Leeds Tunnel, no one can hear you anymore.
No one can spare you of that darkness. They say even the patronus are afraid of the monsters.
"Oi! what's going on?"
"Has the train broken down again?"
The mid-afternoon lights of the Hogwarts Express lighted the chaos in Car One.
"Go back to your compartments, please," Harry ordered.
"It's Harry Potter!" Some students blurted out, but they obeyed at once.
"This is outrageous!" Said a sixth grader, opening the door to her compartment.
"Victorie, go back inside."
"Uncle Harry," she insisted. "This better be fixed soon. I'm about to file a complaint with The Company!
Five years ago, The Company had purchased the Hogwarts Express, and since then the train had not been on time once. Students had become used to traveling with tents, knowing that it would take them at least twenty-four hours to get home. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Parents had been asking for an alternative route to the Leeds Tunnel for years, which endangered their children. It was normal for Victoire Weasley to want to make a complaint.
"You go on and complain," Teddy Lupin said without raising his head from his magazine, "they are going to wipe their ass with your complaint."
Teddy was seventeen, but he had dropped out of school long ago. He'd gotten a job as a security officer in the Auror Corps thanks to Harry's contacts at the Ministry, although he did not seem very grateful for this gesture. "Mr. Potter!" Said a voice then. A first-year Gryffindor was coming from Car Two — Mr. Potter, come quickly! David Macmillan is trapped inside the toilet...
Harry took a deep breath. It was going to be an interesting day.
"Come on Teddy," he said.
"Fuck, no" Teddy said, "I'm not a technician. It's not my job to unblock doors".
Harry looked at his godson sternly.
"I'll deal with you later."
"Okay, Daddy," Teddy answered wryly, and hearing this Harry felt as if a stake had been driven through his heart...
Car Two was a second mess. There was a long, long queue, that went from one end of the carriage to the other.
"Look! Harry Potter!"
"He will save us".
"Let him through, you guys!"
Harry followed the boy as quickly as possible.
"Uncle Harry!" Said a red-haired girl who was also in line. "What's going on?"
"I can't talk now, Molly."
At last they reached the bathroom door. Some students were beating on it
"Get out, Macmillan! You've been inside for days!"
"Let me through!" Harry roared. "David, can you hear me? I'm going to unlock the door. You'll have to step aside".
There was no answer.
"Get it over with, Mr. Potter," said a fifth grade Gryffindor, "I'm about to pee myself..."
"David, I'm going to open the door on three, okay? One, two..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Harry turned around. Two girls were screaming, and soon more screams of terror joined in. Students pointed to Harry's feet. A river of blood was flowing from behind the bathroom door. The wagon rumbled with the footsteps of the students, who ran from one end to the other. And then they heard the roar: it sounded like a cross between a raven and a boar, but it was neither a raven nor a boar. It was a Leeds Monster.
"Everyone to Car One. GO!"
"LEEDS MONSTER!"
The students kept screaming and screaming despite Harry and the prefects' attempts to calm them down.
"... Is that thing still there?" Teddy said. His teeth were shaking as if he were freezing to death, but he wasn't freezing to death at all.
"I'm afraid so," Harry said, trying to make himself heard amid the shouting. They had moved the people from Car Two to Car One, and Harry had sealed the door with a spell that would probably not last long.
"You'll take care of it, right?" Said Teddy, "I can't deal with that thing. It gives me the creeps. I didn't become a security guard for this, okay Harry?"
Harry took a deep breath. "Do you think I'd rather be here on a Thursday night than chasing criminals in London or at home with my wife and three children?"
Harry thanked the heavens that James was in Hogsmede shopping with her mum right now.
"So what are you doing here?"
"Victoire, Molly and Dominique's parents, begged me to be here. They asked me to protect them. Do you know what the word sacrifice means, Teddy?"
"No," his godson replied "And I don't understand why ..."
CREEEEK! Teddy couldn't finish his sentence, because the ground had just broken. With knife-like claws, the gigantic creature tore a hole in the hallway floor. Harry had no idea that the monster could be so fast.
"Prefects wagon! Everyone to the prefects' wagon!"
But it was too late. A scaly tentacle was already making its way down the hall, catching three students and dragging them into the hole.
"DIFFINDO!" Harry yelled. It wasn't exactly like cutting a rope "DIFFINDO! DIFFINDO! DIFFINDO! TEDDY! HELP ME!
"No way. Give me the keys to the driver's cabin".
"Have you gone mad?! You can't hide in the cabin while all these kids get killed! THERE IS A PROTOCOL! These are the Ministry's orders!"
A second tentacle made its appearance.
"Fuck the Ministry" Teddy said as Harry immobilized the tentacle with a spell." And fuck the protocol. They can both suck my dick. Besides, I left my wand at home".
Furious, Harry shook his godson with both hands
"WHAT WOULD YOUR PARENTS THINK IF THEY COULD SEE YOU, HUH?!"
Teddy looked at him for the first time. His eyes were shining with rage and helplessness. His eyes were exactly like Tonks, specially when he was angry, but Teddy always wore them blue so that nobody would notice. His hair, on the other hand, was just like Remus' hair, but Teddy insisted on changing its shape and color all the time.
It was then that the entire carriage rumbled and the creature made itself known. It was a lizard the size of a rhinoceros, and it had five tentacles attached to its body. Perching on two legs, he roared, free at last, and without giving Harry any time to stop him, it used a tentacle to catch a second-year girl who was injured on the ground. It grabbed her by the torso and took her into his huge mouth. Blood trickled and trickled like a tropical rain, splashing everything and everyone.
Harry pulled an extra wand from his pocket and slammed it against Teddy's chest.
"Here," he said, "You're helping me fight the monster, cuz' if something happens to any of my nieces, you'll never see a single knut from me again. And you'll be on your own".
Teddy gulped. There was no choice but to obey.