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AN: Thanks to those people who left reviews, and thanks to those who had my sister in their thoughts, and thanks for being understanding about my not posting right away.
Ok, on with the chapter!
Warnings for this chapter: Hariel putting up with annoying warsfeil, Suri Oak idiocy, a resistance interlude, Hariel burns important documents. Hariel related violence, Hariel being dressed up like a doll, Hariel being called various pet names including kitten, and last but not least, a not so happy chapter for Hariel with funny moments!
You have been warned!
Thanks to my new and awesome Beta: Himitsu-Ojou for helping me!
Hariel honestly didn't know what was worse, being lead, shirtless, bound in heavy combat sklave cuffs and chains to Ayanami, or the fact that his capturer, the man from his shop almost a year ago, seemingly had become infatuated with him and was currently calling him 'Kitten'. His eye twitched, so his animagus form was a kitten. Though the man didn't know it, it was a major sore spot for Hariel. Hariel, Leader of the Resistance, Scourge to the Military, The Hope of Freedom for sklaves, the man who had brought several military out posts to their knees, and the man who killed Voldemort TWICE, had a tiny fluffy black kitten animagus form. Yeah, laugh it up. So his animal form was an adorable kitten, so what? He was fearsome! Really, he was! Seriously…
Okay, so a kitten animagus form wasn't fearsome or impressive. That's why he hadn't told anyone but Moony and Sirius his animagus form. Even Remus couldn't stop himself from laughing. It was a given with Sirius, the man had actually fallen and hit his head, giving him a concussion because he was laughing so hard. Hariel had been pouting for weeks after that.
His adorable animagus form aside; he didn't like being called kitten. It really didn't help the matter that to the soldiers leading him, he did look like a puffed up angry kitten. In short, they all thought he was adorable. Bastards! Still, this was bad. Things never ended well for resistance leaders captured by the military. They normally ended up horribly tortured before being publicly executed. Not fun at all.
All thought was taken from him for a moment, as he was lead to a throne like chair in the main room of the airship. Hariel was pushed to his knees by the guards, a hand was placed on the back of his head, forcing in down in a bow. Hariel couldn't help but let out a low growl at that. So help him if he got loose, everyone was going to live as a hamster from this day forth! That's right! He was turning them into rodents and his animagus form was out to eat them! His inner kitty was interrupted from its maniacal laughter as Ayanami spoke.
"So this is the famed leader of the resistance." He said in a monotone voice, waving the common soldiers out of the room with the order to put the ship on autopilot. Only once the room was clear from everyone save Ayanami and the Black Hawks, did Ayanami give a smirk.
"He definitely isn't completely human," He said. At this point, Hariel couldn't keep quiet any more; it was in his nature to be a smart ass.
"And you all feel oily and disgusting, but you don't see me commenting on it," Hariel snapped out testily. There was a look of rage on Kuroyuri's face. Oh yeah, he went there. Hariel was rewarded with a slap from the diminutive Warsfeil.
"How dare you insult Ayanami-sama!" shrieked Kuroyuri at the top of his voice. Raising his hand to strike Hariel again, only to stop at Ayanami's order.
"It does not matter, Kuroyuri, captured animals will often lash out at their captors before they are tamed." He said in his same annoying monotone. Then, he turned to Hyuuga, the man who had captured him.
"You may keep him," was all that was said. Hariel face faulted as he was picked up from behind and hugged tightly by Hyuuga.
"I will love him, feed him, take care of him, and from now on his name will be Kitten!" said Hyuuga happily, adding a slight rocking motion to his hug. Hariel was glad no one from the resistance, or from his former life, especially his enemies could see this. Hariel had a feeling he wouldn't be able to survive the humiliation.
Over the next few days, Hariel was seriously considering throwing caution to the winds and just strangling Hyuuga. The man was annoying. He was always picking him up to set on his lap either to cuddle him and play with his hair. Worst of all, he kept calling Hariel things like 'cute' and 'adorable'. His inner kitten that he had fondly dubbed "Killer", when he had achieved his animagus form, was demanding blood for the insolent human calling his glorious human-self adorable and cute. He was a fierce and capable predator he was NOT cute, damn it!
To make matters worse Kuroyuri, the tiny pink haired sadistic fuck warsfeil, was dealing with the pain of his loss of Haruse by being extra sadistic to Hariel with out Hariel. Thus, the reason Hariel had recently become like a living doll. Kuroyuri and Hyuuga liked dressing him up in ridiculous clothes.
Hariel was, at this point, rebelling in his opinion healthy ways against his captors. For example, important paper work would spontaneously combust into flames. Important documents that could help the Resistance with the intelligence they could garner from them vanished. (Hariel laboriously turning them into portkeys set to headquarters.)
Though they never could effectively find sufficient evidence that Hariel was responsible, they figured out it was hazardous to keep him near their paper work, so a leash bolted to the floor on a large fluffy pillow in the corner now confined Hariel. That did nothing to help Hariel's ego. He wasn't sulking or pouting! He was regally lamenting the loss of valuable information. The fact that his bottom lip was protruding slightly had absolutely nothing to do with this. Really, it didn't.
Things were getting very repetitive for him. Wake up, eat, be picked up, and smothered by Hyuuga for a few hours. Be put on his pillow, eat, sleep, be picked up, and smothered by Hyuuga again. Be held up and humiliated while Hyuuga showed him off and his 'beloved pet' to every single soldier on the ship. Use Alohomora on his cuffs, try to escape be caught and brought back by the back of his shirt and handed over to a sobbing Hyuuga who was worried his 'precious Kitten' had gotten hurt. He was dressed up by Hyuuga and Kuroyuri, contemplate strangling Hyuuga, eat, and sleep some more. Spend an hour sitting on Hyuuga's lap while he poured over catalogues for 'pet accessories'. Contemplate, or attempt to murder Kuroyuri for succeeding in getting Hyuuga to buy something really embarrassing for him. Eat dinner and be used as a teddy bear, sleep.
Yes, life was boring. He missed the people at the church! He missed Teito, Hakuren, Castor, Labrador, and Frau. Heck, Hariel even missed his demon students from hell! All right, fine! He was sulking and feeling sorry for himself, but he couldn't help it! There was only so many times he could be stuffed into a dress and be called adorable without wanting to commit mass homicide! Looking up, Hariel almost whimpered when a soldier brought in even more packages Hyuuga had ordered for him. This was not going to end well.
Hariel hated it when he was right. He sat, openly sulking in Hyuuga's lap, while the infuriating warsfeil took off his old collar and put an expensive jewel embellished collar with a name tag with, "Kitten" engraved on one side while the other side read, "If found, please return to Lieutenant Commander Hyuuga of the Black Hawks".
"Aw, little Kitten is so adorable in his new collar! I even got you some cute little outfits!" Hyuuga cooed, completely oblivious to the murderous look Hariel was sending his way.
"The little kitten is going to kill you!" yelled Hariel, launching himself at Hyuuga and attempting to strangle him. The scuffle was largely ignored until it annoyed Ayanami and he got up from his chair, grabbed Hariel by the neck, and squeezed threateningly.
"I suggest you remember you are not necessary," was all he said before handing him back to a fully recovered Hyuuga who promptly scolded Hariel as if he had done nothing more than steal candy from him.
"Naughty little kitten! Very naughty! You're going to your pillow for time out," Hyuuga said with that infuriatingly sticky sweet smile still on his face.
Normally, Hariel would have retaliated with more violence, but what Ayanami said was true; he wasn't necessary to the Black Hawks. Ayanami could just as easily hand him over to the main military for torture and execution. Hariel would pick and choose his battles with the Black Hawks with most care. Better to seem docile and submissive then rebel constantly and end up broken. While people who constantly rebelled against their captives thought they were being brave, they were truly being foolish. Better to let them think you submissive then pull a fast one. It was better to be free with a bruised pride then completely shattered.
So as Hariel as soon as he was seated on his pillow, he curled up, intending to take a nap after he did some light mediation to get his temper under control. It wasn't long before he fell into a deep sleep, not knowing that his food had been drugged to make him sleep like the dead for several hours. As such, it wasn't until after it happened that Hariel found out that Ayanami and his men had attacked the church in a bid to capture Teito. Luckily they didn't succeed. Hariel secretly breathed a sigh of relief that Teito was still free.
Of course, that meant he had to put up with his so called 'master' by himself for the duration of his stay, but he really didn't want Teito in this mess. He really wanted to keep Teito as far away from Ayanami as he could. That man was not only evil and creepy, but he was obsessed with Teito. It really was quite unhealthy. At least Hyuuga's obsession with him wasn't a mixture of sexual frustration and homicidal tendencies. If anyone needed to see a shrink, Ayanami did…
'Mental note to self, secretly schedule Ayanami a physiatrist appointment and blame someone else.' With any luck, he would be declared crazy and executed since he was a warsfeil. Now he just needed to find the fall guy.
Hariel met a suitable fall guy not long after. They had docked for a short period of time before the invasion and take over of Antwort at Hohberg Fortress for supplies. The Black Hawks had come back to the ship, Hyuuga making a b-line for Hariel scooping him up and stroking his head like the kitten he called him, when none other than his former master, Shuri Oak, came in the main room of the ship.
"This is a fairly nice ship! It's smaller than Papa's but its suitable," said Shuri Oak unaware of the people staring at him like he's crazy.
"I give him a week before Ayanami kills him," whispered Hariel.
"Two days" replied Kuroyuri, dazed, both forgetting their immense dislike of each other in favor of watching the stupidity of Shuri Oak.
Hariel wiggled out of Hyuuga's arms in order to steal a candy apple from him while they were preoccupied. He may hate the man but his candy was good! There was no way he was watching this show with out candy. It would be a crime against nature not to. Hariel returned to Hyuuga's side to watch the unfolding events. He was after all pretending to be submissive, that and it was the best seat of the house.
"Speaking so frankly in front of Ayanami-sama! Certainly a rare and endangered species Lt. Commander!" said Konatsu, shocked.
"Already on the verge of extinction, Konatsu!" replied Hyuuga, just as shocked as his subordinate.
Hariel just nibbled on the apple watching his former master's famous stupidity at work. Vaguely, he wondered where Hyuuga bought the candy apple he was eating, it was great! Hey, he had a sweet tooth and this was nothing he hadn't seen before he had the right to be distracted by quality candy! Shuri, completely oblivious to the havoc he had caused, marched up to Ayanami and saluted.
"From this day forward, I will be Ayanami-sama's Begleiter! My name is Shuri Oak!"
"Since when were you his Begleiter?" asked the warsfeil, shocked by Shuri's audacity.
"Because Papa said to be Ayanami's Begleiter, of course!" Suri replied as if it was obvious. Looking over at his new group mates, Shuri spotted Hariel.
"That's my sklave, what are you doing with him?" Shuri demanded, grabbing Hariel by the wrist and attempted to drag him over.
Hariel would seriously beat himself over it later, but at the time, his survival instincts kicked in having him latch on to Hyuuga. If Shuri did lay claim to him as his runaway, his father would find out about him and he would definitely be killed. Luckily, Hyuuga snapped out of his stunned stupor and realized his beloved pet was in danger.
"Let go of my kitten!" He yelled, scooping Hariel into his arms.
"That's not your Kitten, that's a sklave! He's mine, Papa gave him to me!" yelled Shuri, trying to grab Hariel again.
"What's his name?" Hyuuga demanded.
"His name is Hairy or something, but he's mine and I want him back!" yelled Shuri, a definite whine to his voice.
"Then he's not your sklave, he has a pet collar with a name tag on it, see?" He said taking off the tag and handing it to Shuri.
'If Shuri actually falls for that trick, it proves that man kind is devolving due to nobility inbreeding.' thought Hariel, still sticking to Hyuuga like glue. He liked living, thank you very much!
"You're right, it isn't him," said Shuri, carelessly tossing the tag back to Hyuuga.
Hariel wiggled out of Hyuuga's arms and walked over to the next wall and, for once, gave into the urge to knock his head against it. That is, until Konatsu pulled him away from it, muttering about not letting Hyuuga-sama's property damage itself. Hariel wasn't pouting at that comment, not one bit, nope.
"It's to be expected to the great idiot son of the Oak family." Konatsu said as Hyuuga shook him in shock at Shuri's stupidity. All the antics brought on by Shuri's idiocy came to a stop when Ayanami's voice cut through the noise.
"Who's the one who brought garbage on board," He asked in a monotone, making the question sound like a statement.
"Garbage? Where is the garbage?" asked Shuri, looking around for the culprit.
"I bet the sklave did it!" He said, pointing at Hariel.
Everyone ignored him, looking away, as Hyuuga slowly raised his hand, keeping silent. Ayanami whacked him comically with the whip he carried around, knocking Hyuuga over and putting his foot on Hyuuga's head. Hariel who, by then, had finished his candy apple wished he had popcorn for all this drama.
"How long until we arrive at Antwort?" Ayanami demanded.
"Five more minutes! I couldn't help it! It was a direct order from Admiral Oak!" came the muffled yelp from Hyuuga. "If I'd refused, it would've been my head!"
Shuri, still oblivious to all of this, asked, "Hey, hey, what is an Ant-vort?"
"Antwort is the last allied nation of the former Raggs Kingdom. A snow and ice covered, heavily fortified country." replied Konatsu
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A massive generated shield protected Antwort. It was the countries pride as nothing had ever been able to penetrate the shield… That is, until it met the group of warsfeil. The shield collapsed in one go. Hariel had once again been put in combat sklave cuffs, these protected by voice recognition, connected to the floor of the ship by a chain Hariel could hardly move, let alone escape from. Normally, Hariel would use an alohomora, but magic and electronics don't mix, he didn't want the cuffs on him to explode. He liked having his arms intact, thank you very much.
Hariel had no choice but to watch in horror as Antwort was utterly decimated. It had only taken a number of hours for the whole of the country to be completely conquered. Not that Hariel noticed at the time, he was too busy shaking, tears running down his face as images of Antwort were mixed with images of the last battle.
Hariel was lost in a world of pain, grief and death as he watched. By the time the Black Hawks had finished and come back to the ship, with two new additions, Hariel's legs had given out from under him. He sat where he had fallen, shaking with grief.
Hariel was in such a state that when he saw Ayanami he lunged at him completely forgetting about the cuffs and chains screaming at him through his tears in a mixture of English, Latin, and Raggs. Ayanami ignored him and moved over to his seat, seeing Hariel as no threat, but fascinated with the two languages that did not exist in that world.
After about five minutes, Hariel fell back to his knees sobbing, whispering in Raggs; the use of English and Latin had hurt him almost as much as his memories.
Hariel didn't even protest as Hyuuga picked him up. In fact, Hariel didn't even speak for the next two days. He was almost catatonic with memories of the two wars, playing in his mind side by side. Luckily, due moistly to Shuri's stupidity, the others were able to pass the outburst off to Shuri as all Raggs language and a cry for mercy from the soldiers and the captives, instead of the mixture of curses and death threats to the leaders of the empire.
Hey, they may be evil warsfeil, but they were actually starting to like the kitten. He was able to plainly insult Shuri but make it seem like a compliment without Suri even being aware. He was amusing to say the least… or had been before he had become catatonic.
Hariel was trapped in his own mind. Images from the past and present flowed around him. The feeling of helplessness was dominant as he watched all the things that had happened while he had been unable to stop, or even help with. It was similar to the effects of a dementor; he was unable to latch on to a single good memory and was stuck in the bad.
~Flashback~
Harry was so confused. He had killed Voldemort not two weeks ago and now he was in magic-suppressing handcuffs, being dragged away from his bed in the Gryffindor tower by Ministry officials.
"Harry James Potter, you are under arrest for being suspected as the next Dark Lord." A nameless Auror said as they dragged Harry away from the school. People stopped to stare, many tired to help him only to be pushed back, Minerva McGonagall, the Headmistress, was yelling on the top of her lungs at them, while Neville and Luna had to be bodily restrained as did Hagrid. Harry himself was too stunned to do anymore then look desperately at his friends, tears streaming down his face yelling, demanding to know what he had done.
Even Draco Malfoy had tried to stop the Aurors. Nothing they did mattered. He was taken straight to Azkaban and thrown the same cell that had been Sirius'. Harry had thought he would be in there forever. He wasn't he had been in the cell for three hours before they came, accompanied by Aurors.
"Famous Harry Potter's not getting what he wants this time!" crowed his former best friend Ron Weasley with an evil look on his gleefully twisted face.
"Serves you right, trying to get us killed all those times, Potter." Hermione cackled, her usually kind brown eyes icy with malicious glee. They then dragged him off to Gringotts, as the custom was to make his last statement and will. Luckily, it was law for them not be in the room. The Goblins were still angry with him about the Gringotts break in, but they did help him make his will.
By the time he was finished, however, they wished they could help him. Harry gave goblin-made artifacts he had in all his vaults back to the goblins. The books from the Potter libraries were given to Hogwarts. His leftover inheritance money, which was quite a sum, was added to Hogwarts fund or orphaned children.
He left Neville all green houses and plant related items he had to Neville; left Luna half a million galleons for the Quibbler and searching for crumple horned snorkaks.
George Weasley was left two hundred and fifty thousand galleons for his joke shop, and making a memorial prank to commemorate Fred. The Weasley family, minus Ron, was left a whole million galleons for being his loving and supportive family. He wrote to Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, in which he called them the closest things he had ever had as parents.
He also left two million galleons to a magical orphanage fund to help keep them from abusive muggle homes. Lastly, all the rest of his money, properties, and personal possessions, minus the Hallows, and the Potter and Black Titles were left to Teddy Lupin along with a long letter and pensive memories he wanted to share with his beloved godson.
The Hallows, he summoned to him with his power and as the Master of Death, fused the three objects together as one, making a single long black staff. He used it to summon Death. Death looked nothing like he would have imagined. Death looked like a tall man with pale skin and white hair. His eyes were pitch black and the spirit looked no older then he did.
"Why have you summoned me, my Master?" He asked in a surprisingly soft voice.
Harry held out the fused Hallows to him. "I have called you to give you back what is rightfully yours and ask that they never come back to this world again." He said simply, giving Death the staff.
Death was quiet for a moment before he said, "For this, you will not meet the end you expect," and vanished into thin air, leaving a confused Harry behind. Then, he thanked the goblins, and holding his head high with a peaceful expression on his face, he went to meet his betrayers.
He was dragged through the ministry by Ron and Hermione, who both loved to make a spectacle of it, stopping every few feet through the alley and the ministry to send pain curses at him, unaware that the masses, though they could do nothing else, were crying for their savoir, trying to break through the invisible force that held them back.
Unbeknownst to any of them, a muggle-born at the ministry, after making a paten for a magical video recording device, filmed it all, and by next week, the entire wizarding world knew the truth, not what Umbridge and her cronies said. The video would bring about a full-scale revolution in the wizarding world and those responsible for the fate that met their savior suffered greatly before their deaths at the hands of the revolutionaries.
Harry, throughout this betrayal, kept calm. Yes, he was betrayed and in pain, physically and emotionally, but he looked forward to seeing his parents again. So when they made it to the Veil of Death, he was pushed through it with a gentle smile on his face while he had fallen.
~End Flash Back~
As Hariel sat, huddled in his own mindscape, a voice reached him.
"Why are you acting like this is the end? Has watching something you've seen before shatter the strong and pure soul in you?"
Hariel looked up from his huddled position in the darkness of his own mind to see Death standing before him.
"You were the only human in history to become my Master. The first thing you did was giving me my freedom and now, at this, you crumble. Know this, if you fail now, the lives of those that depend on you will end sooner than they were meant to and all your life would have been for nothing."
Hariel glared up at him. "Why would I listen to you, Verloren?" He asked spitefully.
Death kneeled down. "Verloren may be the death of this world, but I am the death for your birth world, the one that sent you here to do good. You have a long and full life ahead of you in this world, once that while full of trial now, will be full of happiness later. Upon entering this world, you gave the Chief of Heaven your three wishes, and those wishes have yet to be fulfilled. Now get up! Your chance to escape draws near… and look for an old friend in a new form, though she will still have her beautiful white wings."
With that, the darkness faded, and for some reason unknown to Hariel, he felt lighter. As though the weight from his old world had finally completely fallen from his weary heart and he was born anew.
When Hariel came back to the real world from his mind, it was to find himself in Hyuuga's lap at Hohberg Fortress. His Master was currently drawing on important paper work. There were the two twins he had briefly seen earlier stamping away at the papers. Konatsu was berating Hyuuga for his lack of work ethic and pointing out that the twins, though not knowing what they were supposed to do were stamping away at paper. That is, until he saw the tulip stamp they had made. It was then Hariel's stomach rumbled alerting them to his now alert presence.
Hariel managed to look like he had finally broken when he was looked at. He had, from what he had seen from the paperwork, been out of it for a few days. Hariel pretended to not like the attention. He really didn't but that was beside the point, and buried his face in Hyuuga's shirt, not looking at the other people.
"Aw, Kitten is scared. How cute!" Hyuuga cooed, holding out a candied apple to Hariel, who looked at it before looking up at Hyuuga. After receiving a nod, he took the apple and started on it, looking completely innocent, like he didn't remember anything of being a resistance member, all in all, he fully convinced them that seeming the destruction of Antwort had completely broken his spirit.
They would have no idea that he was still himself until they found him missing later that day. Hariel innocently headed to the bathroom, and he actually did as he said he would, he did take a bath and change his clothes, just not into what they expected. Off came the white robe-like clothes that looked similar to a dress and on came the black leather pants, white shirt, and black vest of Hariel of the Resistance, all pulled from his mokeskin pouch. He pulled his hair back in to a low ponytail and proceeded to change into his animagus form: a tiny black kitten.
It was just his luck that after moving undetected through the warsfeil office, Shuri Oak walked by. Hariel launched himself at the unsuspecting blonde's ankles, sinking claws and fangs in painfully deep, causing Shuri to yelp, pulling him off roughly and throwing him out the office rooms screaming. That was all the chance that Hariel needed. The black cat of an animagus form happily ran as fast it could from the fortress and hopped on a supply truck.
A few hours later, the military would get a report from an injured private that Hariel of the Resistance had appeared out of nowhere and single-handedly stolen a truck. Once the news reached the Black Hawks, they ran to the room where they thought Hariel would be. In his place, there was something written on the wall. 'Thanks for the apple~' and underneath was Hariel's signature.
Hariel used his fake bishop pass to send a message to Castor, Labrador, and Frau, quickly coming up with a meeting point. He was to meet Frau and Teito at a tavern in Barts. Luckily, he was close…
AN: DONE!
Sorry its late this chapter didn't want to co operate with me.
and Yes Hedwig is coming back she will be reincarnated as a white winged kitten like the one seen breifly in the manga and anime with Teito as a prince