Author's Note: Before we start I would like to apologize once again for the rework of this story, but as you'll see in this chapter, you'll agree it is a good thing. In the other versions I had left out two important parts to the story, details on his training as a child, whilst not too important to some, it could be better and show what he had to go through. However though, I did miss one most importantly out of the other versions, the details of his descent into darkness.
We see that he was a 'Bad Boy' before Hogwarts doing bad things, but yet I never really showed why he was like that, just that he was. It was never explained how or why he was like that properly, this in my opinion left out a lot of character building in Harry. So in this chapter, apart for doing some more detail on his training, and changing and adding a few things, I'll be showing you his descent into darkness - hence the title. I hope you like what I have planned.
Not only this, but I also found a plot hole in the last versions, if Harry had the power of fire, or any ability to be able to fight with, wouldn't he use that to gain something from his so called family? So in this chapter we see that coming to be.
I want to thank all those who sent me the files of Rise of Dark Lord Vulcan, I was worried that I lost the story forever. I now can use the details from that without rewriting it again.
I'm sorry about the last chapter, I've been told that I often put too much information at once, and at times that information was too soon, and Harry could have learnt it over time. And after thinking about it, I've decided to remove the Interlude, and allow Harry learn about them in time, and add this chapter. But instead going to add the information to the side-story I'm planning to do, which I hope will connect Harry Potter and Fairy Tail Worlds together.
Chapter Two…
Harry's Childhood - Part 2!
(Descent into Darkness!)
31st of July 2007 - Abandoned Warehouse London.
It has been a few months since Harry learnt about his ability to magic and able 'Jump' to place to place, in which change his life and got him thinking about his life so far. For the first time in his life, when he wasn't with his so called family, he showed how smart and mature he was.
As he learnt about being magical, he begun to wonder about his parents, were they magical too. It would explain the hate his Aunt and Uncle had for them, making things up about them, drunks and his mother being a whore. They were jealous that his parents had magical powers and not them. But if he was right, he and Lucy begun to wonder how they really dead, if they really were magical, Harry and Lucy couldn't see them dying in a car crash as their so called Aunt and Uncle told Harry. They knew that neither Petunia nor Vernon would never tell Harry the truth though.
As they thought about this, another question came to them, why was Harry left with them. They suspected that the Harry's parents would have known how Petunia and Vernon felt about magic, and so they wouldn't have wanted their son to stay with them. So the question was, did they die suddenly and that they didn't have a plan set out for something like this, and so seeing that Petunia was Harry's mother sister, he was sent to his Aunt. Or was there something more sinister happened, and his parents did have a plan set up should something happen to them, but yet someone had disregarded their wants and placed Harry with Petunia and Vernon anyway. This time they had no idea as to who they could ask about this.
Another question was why did Petunia and Vernon keep Harry around, they sure as hell don't love him, so why not send him to an orphanage like Uncle Vernon often threaten him with. Were they getting paid to look after him, and if so, oh Harry had no words for what he felt about the idea, all the time the punished him for spending money on him. But were they being threatened, and watched so that they couldn't send Harry away as they liked. If so, this piss Harry off more than his family being paid to look after him, as it meant that whoever was watching them knew how they treated him and they done nothing to stop it. Although both Lucy and Harry suspected it could be both, but once again they knew that neither Petunia nor Vernon would never tell Harry the truth though about this.
There were many other question that they thought up over the months, like if there were others like Harry, where were they and how could Harry find them? Other than that, Harry spent most of the past months mastering how to Jump. As Lucy pointed out, if there were others like him, they could possibly be able to Jump too and Harry would need to be able to Jump faster than them. At the start of it all Harry needed a few seconds before he could Jump, no more than six or seven seconds, but Lucy knew that Harry would need to be able to Jump in a split second should he need to escape quickly and so he would need to master this skill fast. Over the last few months though, Harry was able to master to Jump so that he could do so in four seconds. Sure it was faster than at the start, but still not fast enough for Harry and Lucy, they wanted it so that Harry could Jump within a second, two at the max.
As far as the distance he could Jump, he could go anywhere in England as long as he had a clear picture of where he wants to go. He didn't have the power to go further out of the county, but he suspected it was only because he young and over time as he became stronger he would be able to Jump as far as he wanted.
Jumping faster wasn't the only thing the two of them wanted Harry to learn, if there were others who could Jump, they wanted Harry able to see the rifts in time and space before the person appear, so Harry could Jump beforehand. It took a few months, but in the last few weeks Harry was able to see the tear in the rift that was made before he Jumped. However, not knowing anyone else who could Jump, Harry and Lucy wasn't sure if he would be able to see other people's rifts.
Now the tear in his rift worried both Harry and Lucy, if there were others who could Jump, and they were like in the movie, than they could use Harry's own rifts to follow him. So Lucy came up with the idea of Harry learning how to seal his tear in time and space. This was something that Harry only started to learn, as he was only able to see his tear in the last few weeks. As far as they knew, once he was able to see his tear, it took a good five to ten minutes for the tear to close by itself. At this time though, Harry had been unable to make any progress in being able to seal his rift tear, but he wasn't disheartened as he knew that he only begun to try. It might take a while, but both he and Lucy knew that in time Harry would be able to do it.
They knew that as long as Harry believed he could do it, and concentrate hard enough to do it, that in time Harry could do anything. The only thing that was holding back to do much was his age, seeing he was young they believed that there was so much magic a young boy like Harry could do at the moment. The other thing that was holding him back was lack of knowledge, knowledge on how to do the skills Harry wanted to do. So far all their work was guess work, they had no idea what they were doing, but thought that if they had knowledge on how things meant to happen, things would have been much faster for them.
Now mastering how to Jump wasn't the only thing that Harry was learning over the last few months, he was also trying a few easy, in his mind was easy, things he could do with magic: summoning, levitating, banishing and repairing. Summoning and repairing things as just a basic things to get on in life with, Harry knew that if he wanted more food, without money he would have to steal it from people. So he thought that being able to summon things, he could summon food from the shops, and other places without being caught. As for repairing things, he knew that he might have to break into places to get some food if he couldn't get out of his so called home until late, and so wanted to repair any damage he might do.
As for levitating and banishing, that was for his own defence, he knew that if he meet anyone with magical powers he would be useless, but for non-magical, these two spells would come in handy as he could levitate a person in the air and escape. Or if they got in too close before he could levitate in the air, he could banish a person away from him into some rubbish and make a run, or banish and then levitate a person in the air. Whatever the case, these two skill would do for now to defend himself, until he could learn more.
Learning these four skills took until end of May to learn, as they didn't seem too hard to learn, they had the basic idea what was needed and all Harry needed was to concentrate. It took a few trial and errors, but Harry was able to master the basics of these skills. All he was doing now was refining the skills so he could make them more powers, so he could summon or banish things further, levitate things higher or repair things faster or better if it was something hard for him to repair.
All in all it was fun for the two of them, Harry enjoyed watching Lucy summoning, levitating, banishing and repairing imaginary things. Harry liked the idea of his sister learning the same things as him, it was a shame she couldn't Jump like him though. Although she had the knowledge, so if she was real Harry thought it was possible for her to be able to Jump like him. It was strange though, when his sister banish things into him, Harry could feel items as they hit him. Harry had to wonder if his magic allowed him to feel Lucy and what she did to him, but as Harry thought about it he didn't really mind. If it was his magic that allowed him to feel Lucy, than he was thankful for having magic and without Lucy he would not feel a gentle touch of a human being.
Either way, it was now Tuesday 31st of July, his birthday, for the first time since he realize when it was, he was happy. He was away from his so called family, it was a gift from them to him, as long as he keep to himself they didn't care what he did. So here he was in an Abandoned Warehouse that he found in London, practicing what he could do so he could do it better.
The reason he was in London and not somewhere close to where he lived, was because over the last few months he and Lucy, Lucy first, found that Harry was being followed. Even when he was Jumping about, the same people on those connected to them would be able to find him. The two of them didn't know how they were able to find him, nor why, maybe they were the same as him and able to do things like he could. It would explain how they were able to find him, and able to follow him.
Sure Harry could talk to them, but as Lucy pointed out, they didn't know if they were friend or foe and so it was better to keep to themselves. At least until they had no other choice but hear them out, and if they didn't like what they hear they can do the hide and seek game again, but this time make it even harder.
Now it was afternoon and Harry was banishing small objects into a wall as fast and hard as he could, making it so he could use items as weapons so he need to defend himself, Lucy appeared as she said, "You're getting better at this brother."
"Thank sister," Harry said with a smile, never getting enough of saying sister, "you're part of the reason I'm getting better. Not only with your ideas on how to get better, but I don't want to let you down."
"You could never let me down, as I'm not real" said Lucy, who wanted to build up Harry's confidence in himself, in which Harry muttered to himself, 'you are to me.' Knowing that Harry wouldn't hear it any other way just yet, Lucy went on to say, "So Harry have you thought about what power you want to learn next, it has been a while since we thought up a new skill for you to learn. How about some wings so that we can fly?"
"The idea to fly sounds like a good idea Lucy," Harry admitted to his sister with a warm smile, "but to have wings I'm not too sure about. What if I'm able to summon wings, but permanently keep them unable to unsummon them, it would make me stand out more and more of a freak."
Lucy admit that could be a problem, and thought of that already, but she knew that it wouldn't make Harry nor her any more of a freak, just more special. But she knew that whilst she would think that, Harry wouldn't, he still thinks like his family beat into him that being different was a bad thing. He not long got over the fact that being able to do magic wasn't a bad thing, and didn't made him a freak. Not it would take some time before Harry realized that looking different wasn't a bad thing, people might look at him differently but he wouldn't be a freak.
She had some work to do before that happens, for now though she had to make Harry more powerful confident in himself. So changing tactics a bit, she asked, "So have you thought about what power you want to learn?"
"I have in fact, I got the idea from watching Fantastic Four," Harry explained with a smile as he thought about the power, "I would like to learn to control fire, and see what I could do with it."
Lucy smiled at the thought, she knew that he would do that for being part of him, and thought the idea had merit. Surprisingly enough, whilst she was part of Harry, she found that she wasn't into fire that much as Harry was. But still, with the idea there, she might be able to help Harry become strong and powerful. She knew what he had planned, but it wasn't something she agreed with, not only because she had her own feelings and thoughts, but also deep, deep within Harry he didn't either. But that part of him was buried underneath what other people thought was right and wrong, and forcing it onto Harry, no she was going to try and change the plan a bit, so that Harry looked out for one thing: Himself!
So with a smile she asked knowing the answer already, "That is a great idea Harry, but tell me, what are you planning to use this new power for once you mastered it?"
"To defend other like me," Harry admitted honestly, he didn't like the idea of people being abused by people, especially when the abuse is coming from people that meant to be someone meant to protect you, "I would use the power like the Human Torch does in Fantastic Four, use my powers to protect people, especially protect those from people who meant to protect us but don't."
"So basically you want to be a hero." Lucy scoffed in disbelief at the thought.
"And what's wrong at being a hero?" Harry asked confused, wondering what his sister was getting at.
"Sure you have people respect you, and all that, but it isn't all it cut out to be." Harry's imaginary sister explained, "One moment you're a hero, everyone likes, treating you like a hero, but should you make a mistake, so something wrong just once or do something that people didn't like, they would turn on you in a heartbeat. Not only that, but you would sacrifice everything and I would mean everything important in your life, namely your happiness. Name me one hero that we have read about in the comics that had a good life because he became a hero."
As Harry thought about it, he couldn't not think of a hero who had a good life. Since Lucy came into his life, they had read comics at the local library and sneak into the cinema to watch movies, mainly ones where the character had superpowers. Most of them of them had a dark and unwanted lives, sacrificing their happiness so that others would be safe.
"You can't can you dear brother, you can't think of one hero that had a good life," said Lucy as Harry was thinking about it, "yes at the end of the movie most would get a happy ending. But in real life we both know that wouldn't happen."
Harry sighed deeply at this, as much as he hated to admit it his sister was right, a hero's life wasn't a good one, it would mean giving up a lot, and not getting much in return. So realizing this he asked, "Then what would you have me do Lucy? Become a villain or something?"
"Exactly Harry, become a super villain," Lucy said with the biggest smile Harry had seen on her since she came into his life. "Whilst you'll have to hide who you are so that no one can catch you and send you to jail, you won't have to sacrifice anything you don't want to. All you'll have to do is think about what you want, and no one else. Why be a hero to a world that left you to be treated like slave, and not help you when you ask for help - I say let the world burn all I care."
"I'll need to think about it." Harry admitted with a sigh, he could see his sister point, why be a hero to a world that left him to be treated so badly and not help when he cried out for it. But at the same time, there was still a part of him who wanted to be a hero so that no one else would be treated like he did, if no other reason than that.
"I understand Harry," Lucy said with a smile, knowing that the seeds were now planted and all she had to was water them and wait for them to grow, "but whilst we're learning how to use and master fire, would I suggest something else." Seeing a nod from her brother, he went on to say, "Should you decide to become a super villain, I would suggest trying to become like Ghost Rider, make your fire into hell-fire and try and some other demonic powers."
"Oh and why is that sis?" asked Harry, wondering what his sister was thinking.
"Whilst the Ghost Rider was a hero by the end of the film and in the comics, it is only because who his host was that made him a hero." Lucy begun to explain, "If it wasn't for that fact, he would be just as evil as the devil. And I would like to see if you can get some of the powers as Ghost Rider, changing his looks, and making his weapons on fire was so cool. And if you become a super villain it would be good look something like him, as no one would know what you look like, and his clothes made him look cool. And having hell-fire would make so much better power for a super villain than normal fire, and we can find what hell-fire powers there is on the net."
Harry had to admit, looking like the Ghost Rider as a super villain would be useful, not only would people not know who he was, but also the fear. Lucy was right, for a super villain hell-fire would be better that normal, and he did like the powers that he saw in the movie, it would be cool to see if he would be able to copy them. But one thing confused him, and so he asked, "And what about trying to learn demonic powers?"
"Well the Ghost Rider was demonic Harry, and I felt a bit disappointed that he didn't have more demonic powers." Lucy explained her feeling about it. "I'm not saying it'll be possible, but it would be cool if we could try and see if you could do some of the powers. It would also make you more fearful if you ever become a super villain."
Harry had to admit yet again that Lucy's idea had merit, even if he didn't become a super villain, having demonic powers could be very useful once they look up on the net what kind of things he could do. So hunch Harry with the help of Lucy, begun to see how Harry could summon and control fire.
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25th of December 2007 - Dursley's Household!
It has been a few months since Harry started to learn to control fire, and of yet he had gotten no way with it - which didn't surprise him nor Lucy. They had no idea what they were doing, no real knowledge on how to summon or control fire the way they wanted, what they got from the comics was very vague, most got their powers from cosmic or magical accidents, where they then learn how to control it. Both Harry and Lucy wished that they had some kind of in instructions how to summon fire in the first place.
He first tried to control fire that came from lighting matches or lighters, or flames coming from things like candles or the flames from the gas cooker, but to no avail. He had even tried to use will power, forcing the fire out of him, but again to no avail. Once he tried to put his hand near the flames to see if anything would happen, all that was achieved was him getting burnt or nearly burnt for his foolish actions. The thing though was that he could sense something, like he had the ability, but yet something was blocking him or was locked - waiting for something to unlock his power.
Either way, it was Christmas morning and Harry was in the kitchen getting dinner ready for the slobs that were his family. The Dursleys were out for the morning, visiting a few friends of theirs. Harry hated this time of the year, as he would get nothing not even Christmas Dinner, which for a second year running, not even getting any gifts. In fact, any difference than the other years, is that this year he had Lucy.
Over the last few months, things have gotten somewhat better for him. Although he wasn't getting anywhere with his magical summon as he would have liked, he was getting better with his other skills. He was able to summon things up to a few meters further than he used to, and for banishing he was able to do so faster, and in doing so making it go further. As for levitating, he was able to levitate objects ten feet higher than before, and now was able to levitate himself off the ground a few feet. Not what he was hoping for, but still it was a good start. For repairing, he found that as long he had a good understanding as to what it should look like when the item he was fixing meant to look like and how it meant to work, he could fix anything, and so he was reading up everything he could on electricity so he had a much better understanding.
The last few months wasn't all fun and game you could say, apart for learning to control his magic better and trying to summon and/or control fire, he was trying to keep himself hidden. He wasn't sure who it was, but he was still being followed and it was getting harder to keep a step ahead of them. It seemed that they really wanted to talk to him, but yet Harry wasn't sure what their intentions were, and until he could defend himself well enough to be able to escape should things go wrong, he didn't want anything to do with them.
The only time he wasn't being followed, was when he was within a mile radius of the Dursleys, he wasn't sure why that was though. It was strange, it was like something was stopping them from coming in, or they were afraid of something. Normally that would be a good thing, as he could practice somewhere within this mile radius, but it wasn't that easy. Whatever got these people worried, got Harry worried too, as he felt that as he was in this mile radius, he was being was being was being watched by someone close, but by someone who was better at hiding themselves or had other ways to be able to watch him.
Whatever the case was, it was getting harder for Harry to practice his magical powers, if it wasn't like he was being watched around where he lived, he was being tracked by someone who was getting closer and closer in finding him. He was lucky so far, the fact that he was easy enough to Jump away as soon as they appeared, or in some cases see the tears of someone Jumping helped a lot - but it was getting annoying to do so. He had to find a new place to train every so often.
Anyway, Harry was so deep in thought about the past few months, as he was walking down the hallway to go to the living room to clean it up before the Dursleys returned, when he knocked over a vase. "Blast it." caused Harry as he saw it was one of his Aunt Petunia's favourites. Harry sighed with a smile, he was glad that he had magical powers and able to repair things or he would be in deep shit when the Dursleys returned.
However though luck wasn't on his side that day, as the moment he begun to repair the vase, Dursleys returned at that same moment. The moment that Vernon entered the house and saw what Harry was doing, that's when he saw red, and started to shout out things like, 'I'll not have a freak in my house,' and 'I'll beat the freakness out of you,' among other things as he took his belt off and begun to hit Harry.
As Vernon was doing this something within Harry snapped and on the sixth leashing, where he grabbed the belt and it burst into flames. Seeing this Vernon moved but tripped over something, making him land on his ass. This is how his wife and son saw him, angry but yet fearful. It didn't take them long to see why Vernon was like this, as standing in front of their husband/father was the Freak with flames surrounding his arm. Seeing this also made them fearful too, especially with how he said darkly, "I've had enough of being yours and your son's punching bag Uncle Vernon. You and your family hate me only because I can do something you can't, and I hate how you treat me, your own family member. But until I'm old enough to move out there's not much we can do about it, so from this day forth we stay out of each other's way."
"Who do you think you're talking to you bloody Freak?" asked Vernon, only to pale as a fireball just missed his head.
"No do you know who you're talking to," Harry said as another flame ball formed in his hand, "I'm the one with the power right now. I very doubt you'll tell me where I got this power without insulting me or my family, so let's leave it to the fact that I have powers that no doubt come from my parents and this is the reason you hate us."
"Why you little shit." Petunia begun, but only to have a fireball been thrown at her.
"Did I say you could talk aunt?" Harry asked in a sneer, as Dudley hid behind his mum in fear at what his cousin might do to him. "As I was going to say, you hate me and I hate you, seeing that there's nothing we can do about this, I say we leave each other alone. I keep to myself, and you only see me when I have no other choice, I'll do no more chores either. I even stay in the cupboard, although things would be better if I had either the spare bedroom or Dudley's second bedroom - although I would prefer the spare bedroom seeing it is bigger."
Vernon and Petunia looked like they wanted to say something, even Dudley looked like he wanted to too, but with a fireball in Harry's hand they were too afraid to say anything. Seeing this, Harry said with smirk, "I'm going for a walk to calm down, we all not in the right mind to say anything, and who knows what might happen if you upset me. When I get back I hope you make the choice about the rooming, as you don't know what else I could do." And with that Harry left the house before anything could be said or done to make things worse.
To be Continued!
Author's Note: Here ends the second part of the Saga, Harry's Childhood, I thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. I hope that I showed Harry's slow descent into darkness nicely, and how I handled the plot hole with the Dursleys. I hope you spare a few minutes to leave a review and let me know what you think of the chapter, and any ideas you might have for the future chapters. Sorry if you didn't like the Interlude, but I wanted to explain who they were, and how they came to be.
I would like to say that after some thought, I've decided that I'll won't be adding Charmed as part of the story, as one person pointed out already: I've already put two crossovers already into the story, with a big plot idea with the Mystics too. So it would be too much work for me. I may still use the sisters, but I won't be having them as the Charmed Ones but as Mystics who gets the ideas from the show, and have the same names. :P Let me know what you think of the idea.
Next Chapter: In the next instalment of Harry's Childhood Sage, we'll see the Earth Mystic that the Mystic Knights were looking for. We also see a group of Witch Hunters known as Paladins and Sentinels, who go after Magic Users.