So, yesterday, I said I was going to do an Elfen Lied crossover, didn't I? Bet you didn't expect me to knock the first chapter out so quickly, huh?

I eventually decided, after some thought, to do a WBWL fic. Now, hear me out. I know a few of you are sick of me doing these, but there were a few reasons for that...

1. The story I originally intended had a lot of Dumbledore-bashing, and I decided that I didn't really want to write an evil Dumbledore this time around.

2. Just about every crossover with a few exceptions is either Harry born as a Diclonius and going to Hogwarts from the get-go, or Harry ending up at the same orphanage as Lucy/Kaede. And while I did consider doing a story during or at the end of Year 5, that, again, had already been done, despite it being a very brief crossover.

3. I decided, for once, to only bash James and Sirius very lightly this time around: James' greatest sin in this story was basically disowning Harry and divorcing Lily rather acrimoniously. He's not a bad person, he's just a bigot.

4. I was considering transplanting only a few of the Elfen Lied characters to the Potterverse (Lucy/Kaede, Nana and Bandoh), but, well, given the horrible stuff a lot of the characters went through in Elfen Lied canon, I decided that I wanted to give them a better life.

Now, this isn't to say that everything is sunshine and rainbows. It may seem that way in comparison to canon Elfen Lied, but it's still a fairly dark and cynical place, only better than canon.

I actually took a leaf from sakurademonalchemist's own Potterverse/Elfen Lied story, Alpha Queen, which, sadly, hasn't gone beyond eight chapters as of writing. But her theory of the Diclonius virus only affecting magicals and particularly Muggleborns is something I used for this story, partly to soften the tone a little, but also to add a new angle.

Also, I intend to try and name the chapters after Beatles songs. Why? Well, I vaguely recall that Lucy was named for the Australopithecine skeleton...and what was that skeleton named for? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, of course.


CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION

CHAPTER 1:

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Kamakura. Once, it had been the capital of Japan, centuries ago. Now, it was a small coastal city, home to many sites of religious and historical importance, not to mention a number of annual festivals.

But secretly, it was a place of considerable importance. It was a place where the future of the human race was being decided on a daily basis. It was a place perpetually on the knife edge of utter chaos and violence.

There were two places of considerable importance to this matter around Kamakura. The first was on an island off the coast of Kamakura, once intended to be a chamber of horrors and inhumanity, but was now more of a place of hope. The second, in the Maple Inn, a former restaurant turned boarding house, a refuge of sorts.

A peace, a calm of sorts had descended on both places, insomuch as they could, given the circumstances. But peace is an ephemeral condition, a metastable state that needs only a light push to topple…


The facility originally did not have a name. Oh, it had a designation listed under the Japanese Ministry of Health, but it was so top secret, it didn't have a name. The construction seemed to be a hybrid of hospital, heavy duty biohazard laboratory, and nuclear shelter. It was like something out of fiction, like the creation of some overfunded corporate conspiracy creating bioweapons.

True, a conspiracy was involved in its creation, and the original director of the facility, Kakuzawa, was indeed involved in creating bioweapons, albeit of a specific sort. Thankfully, he and his deranged brood were now dead, and the facility had changed in purpose, becoming part research lab and part school. It had even gained a name, well, more than one. Officially, it was known as the Diclonius Research and Education Facility.

Many of its employees and students called it the Cuckoos' Nest.

Director Lily Kurama certainly thought it apt at the moment. She was pinching the bridge of her nose as she listened to the argument going on. Apparently Saito and Shirakawa were bickering about who would get priority on the upcoming paper they intended to publish on Vector detection and measurement, while Arakawa looked like she just wanted to get on with her research. Her husband Dr Masashi Kurama(1) looked like he needed more coffee.

Eventually, Lily just snapped, "Okay, enough. Saito, you can put your name first. Merlin, it's like dealing with schoolchildren." As Shirakawa scowled, Lily continued, looking down at her notes, "Now, to less scientific matters, I've had to repair the wall in Lab 3 again. Little Mariko got a little too playful with those chemicals, and there was a dent the size of a cannonball in the wall, not to mention we got a test of how effective the sprinkler system is. She loves to test boundaries. And I've already talked to her, Masashi. Still, we need to keep her on the wand exclusion list for now."

Dr Kurama nodded, shuddering inwardly at the thought of his oldest daughter having wands. The chaos she would cause. Still, better property damage than, well, injuries and death. "What about Mahoutokoro?" he asked.

"The School Board has rejected schooling Diclonii on-campus again," Lily said with a sigh. "A lot of influential families have put pressure on them to keep them out after the expulsion of my children, and even with them gaining their qualifications, there's still a lot of fear and resentment. However, Headmaster Tohsaka assures me that Professor Matou will be able to continue doing his duties as an on-site tutor here(2)."

"I guess it's as close to a compromise as we're ever going to get with the damned wizards," Kurama muttered. "It took ages for the Ministry here to classify them as people rather than youkai. And even then, I still hear some people calling this a den of oni. Or worse, akuma."

"Prejudice and xenophobia will never go away, Masashi," Lily said, smiling tiredly at her husband. "We're working to mitigate the impact the Diclonii have on humanity and vice versa. And clearing up misconceptions is part of it."

She would have said more, but the door opened, revealing a pair of figures. One was a young Japanese woman with glasses and a ditzy demeanour, holding a tray with mugs on them. The other was a girl, apparently in her early teens, with short hair a shade of pink, along with her eyes, with a pair of what looked like horns in the shape of cat ears protruding from her temple. "Thanks, Nana," the woman said to the girl, the mugs wobbling a little.

The girl nodded. "You're welcome, Miss Kisaragi! Nana's always happy to help." With that, the tray gently lifted itself from Kisaragi's hands, and placed itself on the table, before the mugs seemingly lifted off the tray by themselves and floated across the room, placing themselves in front of their recipients, with nary a drop spilled.

"I still can't get over that," Shirakawa said as she blew on her own coffee. "Vectors being used to serve up coffee and tea. Maybe you should be a barista, Nana."

"Umm, Nana wants to be an Auror, actually. I want to go and catch the bad guys with my Vectors!" Nana said.

Lily chuckled softly. Part of it was genuine amusement at Nana's enthusiasm and energy. And part of it was sad and bitter cynicism, knowing that the odds of Nana achieving her dream were slim, due to prejudice.

Nana was a Diclonius, an offshoot subspecies of Homo sapiens with powers many would consider unnatural. Well, so would wizards and witches, but Diclonii were even more different to humans than wizards or witches were. Leaving aside the powers, most Diclonii had hair and eyes with distinct shades of red and pink. What's more, they had horns protruding from the sides of their heads, at the temples, along with an enlarged pineal gland. Not to mention an increased aggressive instinct, though that could be mitigated. They could move and even damage things from afar using 'Vectors', a psychokinetic projection of will that could take the form of ghostly hands on arms.

There were two types of Diclonius. Nana belonged to the subtype known as a 'Silpelit', a term derived from the Elfenlied or Fairy Song by Eduard Mörike(3). The best analogy for a Silpelit was like a worker or soldier ant in a hive, and almost invariably female. Despite appearing to be in her early teens, Nana was actually only six years old. She was also sterile, though Lily was working to correct that with treatment. Silpelits made up the vast majority of Diclonii, being those born to magicals or Muggles with enough magical potential infected by a certain virus. Or, when certain dormant genes awoke.

Lily didn't know it, but she had Diclonius genes in her distant ancestry. And sometimes, with the right mutations, said genes could become active again. It explained how her first child was a Diclonius King, and her second child was just a wizard. Not that it didn't stop James from accusing her of cuckolding him when he saw the horns on their first son. She had snidely retorted that it was the husband who had to wear the cuckold's horns, not the child. And inheritance tests didn't lie. Unfortunately, that had spelled the beginning of the end of their marriage, something that ended completely after that fateful Halloween back in '91, now 13 years ago, when her second child had been declared the Boy Who Lived.

A Diclonius King or Queen grew normally, and was not sterile. To their knowledge, only two such Diclonii currently existed, and both of them were her children. One by birth, and the other by adoption. Which made it all the more awkward when they began, well, falling for each other. Still, better a relationship that was only incestuous on paper than one that was incestuous in fact as well.

"Do we have any further business?" Lily asked the others. Upon seeing the various headshakes, she then said, "All right. It looks like it's time to caffeinate. Now, remember, Bandoh's started the initiation of the newest recruits to the Special Security Squad this morning. If you see armed personnel you don't recognise, that is why."

"Scaring the…faecal matter," Arakawa changed her sentence at the last moment, "out of the newbies, no doubt? Let me guess, your kids are down there too?"

"Nana saw Big Brother and Big Sister down there with Mean Mr Bandoh!" Nana chirped. If there was ever a Diclonius who went wholly against the norm for them, it was Nana. Her name was something of a bad joke: she was the seventh abandoned Silpelit brought here, and was initially given the appellation Subject Seven. In Japanese, the word for seven was 'nana', and it was also a fairly common girl's name. But she was so cheerful and joyful and playful and gentle, the violent instincts common to virtually all Diclonius almost entirely absent in her.

"Probably there to give a lesson," Lily said. "By the way, Kisaragi, was there any mail for me?"

The rather absent-minded and clumsy secretary blinked behind her glasses, before she thumped her fist into her hand. "Ah, yes! I left it in your office this time, Lily. There was also that newspaper, the Japanese magical one! Actually, I think your son was in the headlines. Something to do with a fiery cup, and a tournament."

Lily turned her gaze to the ditzy woman, and said, in a flat, dangerous tone that scared even Diclonii, "What."


"He's enjoying this too much," a boy, or a young man, of about eighteen remarked to a girl of the same age standing next to him as they watched a thuggish-looking man with tanned skin and close-cropped hair lectured (well, verbally abused) a dozen or so men.

The girl scoffed. She had shoulder-length bright pink hair, and crimson eyes. Her beautiful features were frequently marred by a habitual scowl, though a sardonic smirk was touching her lips. "We enjoy putting fear into these guys too. Don't deny it, Harry."

The young man chuckled. His hair was a messy thatch that was mahogany coloured, his eyes emerald, with flecks of pink visible when one got close. Both had horns that vaguely looked like cat ears, or perhaps like the shells of some sort of marine creature, protruding from the temples of their heads. "True. I just think Bandoh enjoys it way too much, Lucy. I mean, does he think he's R Lee Ermey or something?"

Lucy, whose official name was Kaede Lucille Evans, chuckled in her turn. Then, they paid attention when Bandoh pointed to them. "Now, listen up, maggots! This is your enemy! Now, no doubt you've heard the stories about horned children, like oni out of some fairytale, acting like they're out of Akira or the X-Men or some shit like that! Maybe you've heard horror stories about families getting liquidised by scary psychic powers! Well, the reality is even worse than that. These two are Harry and Kaede Evans, though they like to be confusing and call Kaede 'Lucy'. You know, like the fucking Beatles song about drugs or that skeleton they dug up in Africa."

Harry waved cheerfully, giving a smile that showed perhaps too many teeth. Lucy just smirked maliciously, her fringe obscuring part of her face, but not her crimson eyes. Probably one of the few things they had in common with Bandoh was enjoying scaring the shit out of greenhorns joining the security forces of the Cuckoos' Nest.

"Now, take note of them. Other than the horns and their eyes and hair colour, they don't look that different from your average guy. But, and I say this without any fucking hyperbole whatsoever, that they are the deadliest people in this facility. These, then, are Diclonii. Now, you two, show them your magic tricks. Make those pencils you have disappear."

They were in a massive training hall, and a small group of ballistic dummies, made of ballistics gel, latex skin, and a skeleton substitute, were present. Harry and Lucy used their Vectors to remove the pencils they had in their pockets, before they threw them through the foreheads of the dummies. The backs of the heads of the dummies they targeted exploded in a gory spray.

"See that? If that doesn't scare you, then I dunno what will. And keep in mind, the skulls in those dummies are almost as tough as a human skull. See how the pencils rose by themselves? Those were Vectors in action. Now, I could go all technical and tell you how Vectors are psychokinetic projections, blah blah blah, but it's easier to think of them as invisible hands and arms. Hell, they even leave handprints. And while the number of Vectors and their ranges vary from Diclonius to Diclonius, they generally have a range of about two metres when they ain't throwing shit at you. And each Vector has basically three settings, vibrating at different frequencies, kinda like that thing your wife has hidden in her drawer(4)!"

A round of uneasy laughter filled the room. Then, Bandoh continued. "Setting one is basically being able to render the Vectors intangible. That means they can reach inside your body and shift shit around. I've seen Kaede there give someone a stroke by bursting a blood vessel inside the brain, and Harry there actually gave someone a lobotomy. Setting two is what you just saw: the Vectors become tangible, and are good at picking up shit and throwing it. They can pick up a car or a boat and throw it at you like a goddamned kaiju. And setting three?"

That was their cue. Harry and Lucy walked over to a fresh pair of ballistics gel dummies. Lucy swiftly severed the head and arms of the dummy, before bisecting it diagonally. Opting to ditch subtlety and grace entirely, Harry used his Vectors to rapidly mince the dummy, sending ballistics gel everywhere in a gooey splatter.

With perfect timing, Bandoh remarked, "Now, imagine that happening to one of you. Plus, another scary thing Vectors can do. Heads up you two!" And with that, he raised his MP5 and began firing at Harry and Lucy. After he fired the entire clip at them, he gestured at the bullets hanging in mid-air, and the others lying on the ground. "Unless you catch them by surprise, you'd need some pretty heavy duty firepower to get through their Vectors. We're talking high calibre rifle rounds here at the bare minimum. THAT is what you maggots are up against. Get that through your thick skulls, or you'll get a pencil through yours. Now, it's worth pointing out that going after Diclonii is not our sole duty. We'll have to be going after humans who have kidnapped Diclonii to use as weapons, not to mention wizards. You already had Lupin show you what he can do with his wand. Also, we're here to help guard the Diclonii from those who wish them harm. That may seem laughable, but the difference between us and them? We won't leave as much of a mess. Now, get to the VR training facility on the double! I want to see how much I have to train you maggots to get you to acceptable. And Sasaki(5), take a goddamned shower and change first! I can smell the shit in your pants from here!"

The group left. Bandoh lingered behind, sighing. "I've got my work cut out for me with that lot. We're getting the rejects who couldn't make the JSDF or my old outfit, or else are reservists. Like that idiot otaku Itami(6)."

"Itami's okay once he got over the fanboying," Harry said.

"He kept trying to touch my horns," Lucy grumbled. "He's lucky to keep his fingers. Annoying otaku."

"Heh. Well, I've got some greenhorns to beat into shape," Bando said. "Once I'm done, I want another spar with you two. I wanna get that blood pumping."

"Be careful what you wish for," Lucy said with a vicious grin. "They finally delivered that steamroller I wanted. I can go all Dio Brando on you(7)."

Bando laughed as he left the chamber, leaving the two Diclonii alone. "No, but seriously, I do want to use a steamroller on him," Lucy said.

"You and me both, Lucy. At least we have the excuses of a bloody annoying voice in our head. How did a sociopath like him get into the NPA's Special Assault Teams(8)?"

"One of the many great mysteries of the world, Harry," she said. And he felt her hand intertwine with his own. On instinct, he brought out one of his Vectors…and intertwined it with one she brought out. It was a familiar gesture to the two lovers. Hand-holding physically and psychically.

As they turned to look at each other, smiling, not the twisted smirks they often showed, but genuine happiness, the door slid open, and the staccato rap of angry heels on the floor interrupted the moment. "I'm sorry to interrupt, you two…but we have a problem," Lily Kurama, née Evans, formerly Lily Potter, said.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked, turning to his mother, and when he saw the thunderous expression on her face, he knew he and Lucy would be demolishing the rest of the ballistics dummies here. And when Lily spoke next, he knew why.

"You have been entered as a fourth Champion of the Tri-Wizard Tournament."

CHAPTER 1 ANNOTATIONS:

And on that bombshell, goodnight!

Okay, we'll be seeing more Elfen Lied characters in the next chapter, particularly the Maple Inn residents, and we'll be hearing more about their past exploits, albeit as background to this story.

1. I chose Masashi as Kurama's first name as a reference to Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of Naruto. After all, Kurama was the name of the Kyuubi, albeit named for another character from Yu Yu Hakusho.

2. In an abortive attempt at a crossover with Sekirei (Green Girl and Her Wizard, which can be found in The Cauldron), I used modified Nasuverse characters as OC stand-ins. I decided to re-use that here.

3. There are actually two Elfenlieds, but the one that inspired the manga and later anime was this one.

4. This is a variation on what Boomstick says in the recent Death Battle episode pitting Carnage against Lucy. I couldn't resist adding it as Bandoh's bit of snark.

5. Named for Johnny Sasaki from the Metal Gear Solid games, who has a rather troublesome bowel problem.

6. This character is based on Youji Itami, the main protagonist of GATE: Thus the JSDF Fought There.

7. Dio Brando, one of the main antagonists of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, is of course infamous for using a steamroller to try and kill Jotaro Kujo, with either a scream of "ROAD ROLLER DA!" or, in the dub, "I'M GONNA ROLL ALL OVER YOU!"

8. The NPA, as Death Note viewers would probably know, is the Japanese federal police agency. The SATs are basically SWAT teams.