So, I have absolutely no good excuse for being this late in updating. I could claim school but that is just a convenient excuse. Anyway, AN at the bottom, really big help if you read it, but I doubt most of you will, and enjoy the chapter.

It's another bad dream

Poison in my bloodstream

I'm dying but I can't scream

Will you show me the way?

Wolf Bite by Owl City (Nightcore version or not)

Harry smiled slightly as he saw the normal activity in Gringotts. He hadn't actually been here since he blew up "Aunt Marge" before his third year. Ah, good times.

Banishing that thought out of his mind, he quietly got into the shortest waiting line he could find. Glancing at the watch that Salazar had rigged to work around magic, he took note of the time, before focusing on who was around.

Plenty of goblins, considering this was Gringotts, lots of stuck up wizards who had to wait for the goblins to be ready for them. Harry was honestly beginning to think that the goblins kept them all waiting simply to amuse themselves. If it was, then they must be really bored here, or else they just took amusement from ensuring that wizards were quite unwilling to be here for too long. Neither of the answers would surprise him, to be honest. With the Ministry of Magic being as bigoted as possible against goblins and then with the bastard goat keeping Binns teaching 'History', i.e. Goblin Wars, well, he really couldn't blame the goblins for what they did to entertain themselves. Harry focused back into what was going on around him when the person in front of him reached the desk. He kept one ear open as the goblin motioned for a cart goblin to take the customer to his vault and then made sure to bow before approaching the desk.

The goblin eyed him for a moment, an appreciative gleam in his eye as he barked out

"What is your business in Gringott's today?"

Harry pulled the message that they had sent him out of his pocket and handed it over to the goblin as he said

"I requested a blood cleansing as soon as possible and Gringott's was kind enough to agree. I await the higher ups at their pleasure."

The goblin grinned as he noted the time on the missive compared to the current time. They preferred it when their customers were as polite and prompt as this one was. He was even twenty minutes early and didn't mind waiting. The goblin handed back the missive and said

"Wait over there and they will be with you when they have the time."

Harry bowed again in acknowledgement and said

"May the blood of your enemies coat your blades and the gold of your trade keep you well."

The goblin nodded back and said

"May the honor of your line keep you well in times of strife."

Harry moved out of the line to ensure that the goblin could get back to work as he moved over to the waiting area off to the side of the counters. He settled himself on one of the chairs and allowed himself to drop into a slight meditative trance.

()()()()()

Harry looked up from his meditative trance as the door at the back opened to allow a goblin to come through. The goblin glanced around and focused upon him. Harry immediately stood up and walked over, bowing as he got within fifteen feet of the goblin, the approved distance for politeness, and said

"May the blood of your enemy keep you hale as the gold of your trade keep you well, Master Goblin."

The goblin studied him for a moment and then said

"And may your vault overflow with your riches, Mr. Potter. You have requested a blood cleansing?"

Harry nodded and said

"Yes I did, Master Goblin. May I request your name?"

The goblin motioned for him to follow him as he said

"My name is Axeshatter, Mr. Potter. The elders are ready for your cleansing in the ritual room."

Harry nodded as he said

"My thanks, Master Axeshatter. Might I inquire as to the cost of a normal blood cleansing?"

Axeshatter glanced at him for a moment and then said

"A blood cleansing is fifty galleons, Mr. Potter."

Harry nodded and said

"May I offer three hundred galleons instead as a sign of my gratitude on the speed of Gringotts setting up the ritual as well as to thank the elders for performing the cleansing?"

Axeshatter grinned ferally and said

"Gringotts appreciates your generosity, Mr. Potter."

Harry bowed his head slightly in a show of respect and silenced himself for the remainder of the walk to the ritual room.

()()()()()()

Harry entered the ritual room behind Axeshatter, maintaining a respectful distance as Axeshatter walked up to the group of elders. After a burst of the goblin language, one of the elders walked over to him, stopping at the fifteen feet that was polite. Harry once again bowed, repeating the greeting that he had given Axeshatter. The elder returned the greeting and motioned for him to remove his clothes and stand in the center of the room. Harry quickly obliged, removing his clothes and placing them on a bench where they would not get in the way before he took his place in the middle of the ritual runes. He studied them for a moment, recognizing them as different from the ones Sal was teaching him, before the elder from before called out

"We will begin the cleansing now, Mr. Potter. There may be a bit of pain but that is normal."

Harry nodded and said

"I am ready, Master Goblin Elder."

The elders moved into positions on the ritual runes and they began to glow as the goblins began to chant in an eerie language that seemed to make Harry's bones resonate with each syllable. At first, the resonance was only a pleasant buzz in his bones and blood, and then it began to be a bit tingly. The glowing runes got a bit brighter as the tingling sensation he was experiencing because of the chanting and the ritual got worse. Now it felt like millions of needles were jabbing themselves into his skin and bones. His skin was beginning to look a bit red, the tainted blood rising to expel itself from his pores. The runes glowed even brighter as the pain became knives instead of needles as the blood began to seep from his pores. By this point, he was biting his tongue to avoid crying out. When the knives became superheated daggers Harry could no longer hold silent. The tainted blood began to pour out of his mouth as well, cutting off the sound he could have given off just before the runes stopped glowing and the blood stopped flowing from his pores and mouth. He coughed up the last of the tainted blood as the ritual runes cooled down. He looked at the floor around him to see the runes disintegrating the tainted blood that had been ejected from him. He masked a shudder at all of the blood that was there and wobbled over to the bench where he had left his clothes as soon as the Elder nodded for him to move. Axeshatter walked over to him with a goblet of blood replenisher to build his blood back up to normal levels. Harry murmured his thanks before downing the liquid. After five years of drinking potions, his tastebuds didn't even give a token protest to the disgusting taste of the potion. He handed the goblet back to Axeshatter and waved his hand to rid his body of the drying blood coating his skin. Once his skin had been cleared of blood, he slipped back into his clothes and walked over to the elders to thank them for their aid. After that, Axeshatter and him left the ritual room and headed to the Potter account manager's office.

()()()()()()

Harry halted a few steps behind Axeshatter when the goblin paused just shy of fifteen feet from a large group of goblin guards in the Manager hallway. Raised voices coming from the room they were guarding sent alarm bells ringing in Harry. Goblins, as far as he and Sal were aware, almost never shouted unless something had gone wrong or they were in a battle. The sounds coming from the room were not the sounds of fighting. The sudden silencing of one of the voices had his eyes narrowing in contemplation. Just what exactly was going on?

The door to the now silent room suddenly opened, allowing for a finely dressed goblin bearing a bloody sword, that he was cleaning with a torn off piece of fabric, to leave the room. The goblin looked at one of the guards and murmured something in the goblin tongue before the guard bowed and entered the room with one of the other guards. The near silent gasp from Axeshatter brought Harry's attention back to him to see him kneeling on the floor. Harry immediately followed his example, knowing that whoever this goblin was, he was important and high ranking. In fact, kneeling was only done by goblins if they were to be killed or if they met…the manager of the Gringotts that they were located at. He suddenly had a bit of a bad feeling. What else was going on with his vaults besides having money stolen from them?

The finely dressed goblin walked over to Axeshatter and barked out an order in the goblin language with Axeshatter quickly answering. The goblin then turned his attention to Harry and said

"You are the Potter heir, correct?"

Harry nodded, keeping his head bowed in respect as he said

"Yes, sir."

The goblin huffed softly and said

"Get up, both of you. My patience is only so large and that…thing…that I just finished with has already drained a large amount of it."

Axeshatter and Harry both stood up, not wanting the head manager to get even more irritated than he already seemed to be. The goblin nodded in satisfaction as soon as they both stood up and said

"Would you please follow me to my office? I have a few things to discuss with you, heir Potter. Axeshatter, please return to…actually, if Heir Potter agrees you may come as well."

Harry nodded his assent and motioned for Axeshatter to come as well when the head manager began to walk down the hall. His guards, minus the two on cleanup duty, fell in step behind the three. They walked in silence through the Manager Hall until they came to the end of the hall, where the Head Manager's office was. The head manager opened the door and motioned for Harry and Axeshatter to go in first. Once they had entered, he turned to the guards and gave a few short orders before he entered the room, leaving the guards outside the door. He sighed and walked around to the other side of the desk, nonchalantly shifting the battleax leaning against the desk to the side so that he wouldn't trip over it while walking. He sat down and studied Harry for a moment, ignoring Axeshatter, before he said

"My name is Arrowstrike. I am the Head manager at the Britain Gringotts…and I owe you an apology. The former manager of your estate has met with an unfortunate accident and it was discovered that not only was he allowing the 'esteemed' Headmaster of Hogwarts access to your vaults, but he was also allowing for the fingers of others to slip into your vaults for a bit of cash. As such, we will be forcing a deep scan of what your vault should have and what it is missing. We are willing to do so for all of the vaults you are entitled to access for a small fee, but the Potter vaults will be done free of charge as our way of apologizing."

Harry thought for a moment, sneaking a glance at the stunned Axeshatter before he focused on the issue at hand.

"Master Arrowstrike, what would the fee for deep scanning all of the vaults be?"

Arrowstrike narrowed his eyes slightly and said

"Ten galleons a scan. The full price won't be known until a blood test is done."

Harry contemplated his options for a moment longer and then said

"May I get the blood test done before giving you my answer?"

Arrowstrike grinned and said

"Of course you may, Heir Potter. All I need from you is thirteen drops of blood."

Arrowstrike held out a ceremonial dagger with a matching bowl for the blood test. Harry carefully placed the bowl in front of him and sliced his palm to allow for the blood. The blood pooled in the middle of his palm before he allowed the blood to run down his hand into the bowl. Once thirteen drops had fallen into the bowl, the blade flashed and the cut was healed, the blood still in his hand vanishing along with it. Harry passed the now clean blade and the bowl back to Arrowstrike, who proceeded to pour a potion that he had pulled from within his desk into the bowl to mix with the blood. After a few minutes, he placed a small pure white scroll into the mixture and waited for the scroll to suck in the liquid. Harry studied the procedure, curious as to how it was done. Arrowstrike raised an eyebrow at the interest shown before he plucked the now black and red edged grey scroll out of the empty bowl. He carefully unraveled it and placed it on the desk so that Harry could see it. Harry leaned in close to read it over.

Name:

Harry Alioth James Evans Potter (Bound Changeling Shadow inuyōkai)

Father:

James Algol Charlus Peverell Potter (Bound Shadow inu-hanyō)

Mother:

Lillith Marie Potter neé Evans (Bound Crimson inu-hanyō)

Grandfather(s):

Charlus Hagan Potter (Bound Shadow inuyōkai)

Herold Evans (Sealed Shadow inu-hanyō)

Grandmother(s):

Dorea Merga Potter neé Black (Bound Shadow inuyōkai)

Marie Anthony Evans neé Crest (Sealed Shadow inu-hanyō)

Godfather(s):

Sirius Arcturus Orion Black (Bound Shadow inuyōkai)

Severus Corvus Snape (Bound Karasu yōkai)

Remus Numitor Lupin (Bound Ōkami yōkai)

Godmother(s):

Alkes 'Alice' Elladora Longbottom neé Black (Bound Kodama yōkai)

Family:

Petunia Dursley neé Evans (Sealed shadow inu- hanyō, Aunt, alive)

Dudley Dursley (Squib, Cousin, alive)

Neville Frank Longbottom (Bound Kodama yōkai, Cousin, alive)

Hadar (yōkai, Unknown, alive)

Bloodlines:

The Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter

The Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Black

The Archaic House of Peverell

The Noble House of Evans

The Founding House of Gryffindor

The Founding House of Slytherin

The Most Obscure House of Crest

Vaults:

Boy who Lived vault

Potter vault (limited)

Potter Trust vault

Evans vault

Black vault (limited)

Peverell vault (limited)

Gryffindor vault (limited pending)

Slytherin vault (limited pending)

Crest vault (limited)

Crest Trust vault

Gifts (Current):

Mage Sight (blocked-95%) (Albus Dumbledore)

Shadow Travel (Blocked 100%) (Unknown)

Yōkai form(s) (Blocked 100%) (Unknown)

Runes (Blocked 85%) (Albus Dumbledore)

Mind Magic (Blocked 95%) (Albus Dumbledore)

Sensing (Blocked 100%) (Unknown)

Parsel abilities (Speaking-Blocked 85%, Magic-100% blocked) (Albus Dumbledore, Unknown)

Defense Against the Dark Arts (Blocked 60%) (Albus Dumbledore)

Potions (Blocked 90%) (Albus Dumbledore)

Potions:

Loyalty Potion (100% broken) (Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore)

Mistrust Slytherins (90% broken) (Albus Dumbledore)

Attitude Adjustment (100% broken) (Albus Dumbledore)

Heritage Block (100% broken) (Albus Dumbledore)

Harry stared at the scroll for a moment, trying to figure out exactly what he was feeling. Shocked, anger, surprise, all of those emotions he was feeling but there was something more that he was feeling. He just didn't know how to describe it. The sound of Arrowstrike talking brought him back to the present.

"We are not able to give you the Lordship rings until you are sixteen, per Wizarding Law for the Last in Line Lordships, but we can help in slowly unblocking the gifts that we can unblock. Those have a fee of fifteen galleons each. If you decide to deep scan your vaults, you will lose access to the vaults until the deep scan is finished. Depending on which vault is being scanned, that could take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of months."

Harry tilted his head slightly as he went over his options. If he did the deep scans on all of his vaults, then, excluding the Potter vaults, it would cost about eighty galleons. Unlocking the gifts that they were able to, the ones locked by the Headmaster, would be about ninety galleons. Combined together, that was about 170 galleons without any tips for the goblins. Not tipping them was out of the question, unless he wanted them rather made at him, but over-tipping had to be avoided because then they would start to consider him a pushover. So, he had to make an even amount of tipping to get this to work. 10 galleons for every twenty galleons of the cost of the combined was too little and fifty galleons per twenty was too much. So, if he wanted to be fair and not seem to be a pushover, it would be best to give each goblin a twenty five galleon tip for every twenty galleons of the combined cost. So, 170 galleons had eight full twenties and one ten So, already, that's a 200 galleon tip for each goblin to keep them all happy. However, he needs to tip for the ten as well but not at the full twenty, so he could allow for fifteen for the last ten galleons which would be a total of 215 galleons for each goblin as a tip plus the 170 for the process. Now, depending on how many goblins were used for the deep scanning and the unlocking of the gifts, this endeavor could get really expensive quick. First, he needed to know how many goblins would be working on these endeavors.

"Master Arrowstrike, how many goblins would be needed for the deep scans?"

Arrowstrike thought for a moment and then said

"For all of your vaults, including the Potter vaults, it would be twenty of them each for it to be finished in a timely manner."

Harry nodded slowly, mentally calculating the tip expense alone, and then asked

"What about for the unlocking of the gifts?"

Arrowstrike quickly said

"A full team of seven each to ensure that they are as unlocked as we can get them."

Harry thought through his calculations. Tips for the deep scanning was about 43,000 galleons, not including the combined cost of paying for the deep scans. The tips for the unlocking of the gifts in total was coming out to about 9,030, so all in all, if he did the deep scans and the unlocking of the gifts, it came out to tips being about 52,030 galleons not including the costs of 170 galleons to actually pay for the unlocking and the deep scans. He was going to need to know how much money he had before he did anything with this nightmare. Harry looked at Arrowstrike and asked

"Master Arrowstrike, may I please know my finances at the moment before I make the decision whether to do the unblocking and deep scans?"

Arrowstrike grinned and opened the scroll a bit farther to show the total income worth of his vaults as well as the amount of galleons the investments were pulling in daily. It took a few minutes for Harry to get over the fact that a) he was very rich, b) the amount of money for the nightmare of deep scanning and unblocking that he was thinking about getting was nothing on the amount of galleons he got daily simply from interest, and c) he was very, very stinking rich. Harry tore his eyes away from the money figure and looked at Arrowstrike

"I would like the deep scan and unblocking of the gifts please. All of the vaults and each of the gifts you can get off. Each goblin that works gets a 215 galleon tip for each job they do. Before the deep scans though, I would like to draw some money out to tide me over until I can get into the vaults again, please."

Arrowstrike nodded and said

"That can be arranged, but first, you need another account manager for the Potter vaults. The Black vaults have Bloodrage manning them, the Peverell vault has Stoneshatter, Gryffindor has Bonebreaker, and Slytherin has Skullbasher. The Crest vaults have Ironhook attending to them, with his kin Griphook learning to man them after him, so that is in good hands. All we need is the Potter vaults to be taken care of. Do you have any preferences, Heir Potter?"

Harry shook his head and said

"I trust your judgement, Master Arrowstrike."

Arrowstrike grinned and said

"Then we will assign Axeshatter as the Potter account manager and we will have all six of the goblins attending to your vaults check in with me every three months to check on how the vaults are being run."

Harry nodded in respect to Arrowstrike's decision.

Alright, we're going to halt right there, because otherwise this chapter will get a lot longer than I planned. For the poll, they are going to be full yōkai in their respective creature. This means I now get to try to figure out the marking that they all get too. Yay! The next poll going up is in regards to other allies. When the Twins, Bill, Charlie, and Harry go to the past, do we want the allies to go with them, or remain in the future, or a bit of both? Vote on the poll at the top of my page and I will do my best to get the next chapter up sooner than this one is going up. The next chapter will be containing clothing shopping, of which I am not going to try to explain too in depth because I have no fashion sense according to…a lot of people, the twins appearing, and their blood test/cleansings. Depending on how far in that I get, Bill and/or Charlie may make an appearance. Any questions about what happened within this chapter, review and I will get back with you as soon as I can with as good of an answer that I can give.

Until next time.

SF~