Harry Potter/ Princess Mononoke Crossover.

Spirits of Rebellion

By: Mage-Alia

Chapter 1: Kindred Spirits

Summary: After the death of the great forest spirit one Boar god still lives. In a blind rage and consumed by the demonic infection he passes through a portal into a different world only to find a young boy with an amazing amount of power over the earth. Healed by hope the boar sweeps Harry away to the once great forest to start all over again, against the advance of mankind.

This is the Boars talking

This is the wolves talking

This is the human's talking

Harry stalked through the forest in a temper.

The fury he felt at Dumbledore was immeasurable, once again the senile old man had meddled in his life and it was all to clear that he'd never really had his best interests at heart at all. The ground shook slightly with each footstep and the animals fled before his immense anger. He stomped into a clearing and fell to his knees in the center before pounding his fists into the earth with a strangled cry of pain and rage before he broke into tears.

Sirius was gone and he wasn't coming back.

It had happened hours ago but in his mind the memory was still fresh. Along side the agonizing final moments of the only father figure he had was the mocking semblance of his divination teacher rasping out the damning words that bound his fate.

Even while he cried a small white transparent figure appeared on the root of a nearby tree. It had a triangular head and a dumpy little body with no real features except its dot eyes a tiny nose and a mouth that was O shaped with almost permanent wonder. 'Who was this human that wept in their forest?' More Kodama appeared but they stayed in their trees as the first little spirit tottered across the grass to where the shaking form of Harry was huddled in the grass. It bent down and stuck its head into his face, one formless hand reaching out to touch a tear. Harry's blurred red eyes looked at it blankly before he curled back in on himself once more.

The little Kodama wasn't going to have that!

A swift gesture to the trees and the other spirits began to make their way into the clearing. The first Kodama prodded Harry again and the teenage wizard suddenly noticed his audience. Their mouths had stretched into good-natured smiles and a few where even toppling over each other in an attempt to get his attention. Harry couldn't keep the smile off his face as he laughed with pure joy, the magic of the spirits banishing his pain and hurt. The first little Kodama made a beckoning gesture and vanished, only to appear on his shoulder as the whole flood of Kodama turned and began to flow into the woods. Harry, for reasons he didn't understand followed them, picking up more passengers that sat in is hair as he stumbled along a rough forest path in their wake.

It wasn't long until they came to another clearing, but for whatever reason the Kodama stopped and avoided its center, climbing into the trees. Harry looked past them and saw what they'd lead him to. A boar lay on its side in the clearing. It's breathing was labored and wounds spilled blood to the forest floor. Harry stared at it for a long time before he snapped. He wouldn't have any more deaths on his hands tonight. Not without trying first!

The Kodama on his shoulder was the only one who stayed with him as he moved into the clearing. The great pig's eyes swiveled to him instantly Harry got the shock of his life when it spoke.

"What do you want human!" There was a savage undercurrent to the breathless words as it said Human. Harry froze just out of quick striking range and knelt before it. The boar watched him through pain-clouded eyes, confused.

"Lord Boar." The words slipped from Harry's mouth unbidden, as if his body knew what to say, even if his mind didn't. "I would not see you in pain when it could be prevented." The boar gave out a harsh choking laugh before coughing up more blood.

"HAH! Your kind has killed my family! My entire tribe! Gone! Gone! What makes you think I would trust you to heal me even if you could? Besides, only the great spirit of the forest could have healed me and he is dead, killed by the same humans who destroyed my forest and my people!" Is one unhindered eye glared at him in fury. Harry found himself despairing. He knew what this boar was going through, even if he didn't understand what was going on entirely.

"Not all of us are bad." He said in a whisper. "And even we never know what we can do unless we try." He honestly wanted to save this creature, his own soul cried out to see it in pain. Getting to his hands and knees he crept closer. The pig tried to drag itself away squealing faintly in terror, but Harry reached out a hand, laying it gently on his snout and forcing the boar to breathe his scent. Never speaking a word or drawing his wand a faint glow filled the air around him and the white of the Boar's bristly fur began to leach away. The glow spread over his entire body and every problem that had been there vanished. His eyes went from milky white to brown and his skin took on a healthy pallor under the tough dark brown bristles. Then, once the healing had finished the glow receded back to Harry and faded away before he slumped to his side and lay there, barely conscious. The boar, quite stunned by the strange turn of events and stared as the Kodama that had stayed with him began to fuss, it's head rattling in concern as all around the clearing everything went wild. Flowers grew out of control before wilting away faster than they'd sprung from the earth. The ground rumbled violently as new trees sprang up from the ground nearly towering above the existing canopy. The boar looked around in panic and squealed when a tree sprung up close to his flank. Without really thinking he nosed the boy over his snout and with a neat toss, sent him onto his back before he turned tail and ran, following his own blood trail. He didn't stop when he reached the strange golden portal he'd dragged himself through and burst out into the sunlight of the meadows that had replaced the once great forest.

The boar had though they where safe. Then he felt the ground rumble once more. A sprouting tree sent him a few feet into the air, nearly unbalancing the boy on his back. He took off, running as fast as his legs would take him. The Kodama that had come with the boy clung to his hair, gleefully rattling away, while the boy himself groaned in pain before passing out as his magic was rapidly draining away.

Down by the river the young man known only as Ashitaka nearly dropped the basket he'd been holding as something powerful burst into life in the distance. Beside him the girl who had been visiting the slowly recovering village cried out in shock.

"What was that?" She asked aloud, as the villagers of iron town stopped around them. The ground rumbled beneath their feet as two white wolves came running from the hills franticly seeking out their sister.

"San!" They called out to her. "San you must come with us! The forest is returning!" San didn't waste any time. She grabbed Ashitaka and he had enough time to pass his basket before he was pushed onto one of the wolves. Seconds later they where running into the distance only to see an amazing sight. Trees had sprung from nowhere and had nearly covered the plain before the island where the river spirit had once lived, but as they got closer they could see something running ahead of the trees.

"Is that a boar?" Ashitaka asked San over the wind. She squinted ahead and nodded.

"It looks like he's carrying someone!" She cried back as the wolves began to run parallel to the running boar. They made out the small figure as being male and from his lack of response, probably unconscious. While Ashitaka checked him for injuries, San studied the boar that carried him and nearly fell off her brother wolf.

"LORD AKOTO!" She screamed out in shock making the boar snap it's head around to look at her. Behind them the trees suddenly stopped growing and everything went silent very quickly. The wolves slowed down quickly but Lord Akoto, the only remaining intelligent boar god, ran further before he finally slowed his steps and wheeled around. His breath was rasping in spite of his newfound vigor and his flanks where nearly dripping sweat. Not caring whether or not the wolves would be friendly he let his front legs buckle and tipped his passenger softly to the grass as carefully as he could. The Kodama, who hadn't faded in spite of being so far from his tree, gently prodded the boy's face worriedly and even from a distance Ashitaka and San could see that he had a pasty white pallor to his skin. They dismounted from the wolves and warily watched the healed Akoto as they approached.

"Lord Akoto?" Ashitaka inquired softly. The boar snorted stiffly and looked up from nuzzling the boy's face to meet their inquisitive gazes with a menacing glare.

"What do you want Human?" He asked rudely. San looked affronted but Ashitaka didn't show any emotion.

"The boy, he looked hurt. He would be better taken care of among other people." The young man tried to reason with the reborn god. A Boar just wasn't equipped to handle a human like a wolf was.

"NO!" Akoto nearly exploded. "He is a spirit of the forest!" He all but shouted at them. "He has great power and brought me from the brink of death. The Kodama call him the protector. He is a guardian of the forests, he does not belong with humans!" Ashitaka frowned and gave the boy a look.

"Lord Akoto, look at him, he is exhausted and I'll, he needs help and the people of Iron town can give it to him." Akoto gave an irritated grunt and looked down at the boy curled at his side.

"I will not let him out of my sight." The great pig said defiantly. Ashitaka gave him an evaluating look and then met San's eyes.

"Then you can come too." Akoto set him with a burning gaze.

"Why should I? Your kind would kill me within a day." Ashitaka shook his head.

"No, we would not kill you or the boy. You've been gone for weeks and the gods and spirits of the forest are finally getting along with the humans. No one will harm you within the walls of Iron town. I swear it on my life." Akoto looked almost pensive as he watched his young friend sleeping, then at last, he swallowed his pride and nodded.


"I will carry him." He rumbled and allowed them to hoist the boy across his back before they slowly made their way back to Iron town, Ashitaka still in awe of the new trees that had appeared in Akoto's wake.

"How did the trees grow like that?" He asked Akoto as he rode alongside the boar god on one of the wolves. "I don't think even the great forest Spirit could have done that." The Kodama ridding in the boy's messy black hair began to rattle eagerly. The wolf translated its words in a harsh voice.

"It says the boy did it." Ashitaka looked at the boy again. "He used much power to heal the boar and didn't know how to stop it. The Kodama say it will be days before he will be able to make the forest again."

"So he can return the forest to what it was?" San joined the conversation, looking at the little spirit skeptically. The wolf gave a slightly frustrated growl as the Kodama rattled its head again.

"It says his mother was Kodama in human skin (1) and his father was a great stag who sometimes looked human (2)." Ashitaka was stunned, as was San. It just wasn't possible for a Kodama to have a human form. He was lost in thought for the rest of the journey to Iron town.

(1)

Just for this stories sake I made Lily a dryad, a tree spirit. Kodama live deep in the forbidden forest so they don't know anything about witches and wizards so they just called Lily a Kodama in human skin.

(2)

Whenever James visited the forest it was mostly as a stag so the Kodama thought he was one.

Well that's it for now. What do you guys think about it? Good? Bad? I'm really kind of unsure about this one. I recently found a copy of Princess Mononoke and I don't think I know enough yet to really get a grasp on the story… ah well, just another addition to my collection of crossovers…. Speaking of which, I really gotta finish the next chapter for my Underworld one….

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Cya