*chapter 5*: Enter Poseidon Poseidon didn't like to be restrained or bound. He was a free spirit. He did whatever he wanted to do whenever he felt like doing it. This didn't stop him from being a good king who was loved and adored by his subjects.
The oath he took on the river Styx with his brothers about not having any more demigod children was bothering him. Unlike Zeus a stupid prophecy didn't scare him. He didn't like the idea of running away from danger. The only reason he had for not broken his oath yet was that he didn't want to bestow such a fate to his child.
He had gone to see the sisters Moirai about the possibility of changing the fate to befall his future children. The only thing they told his was that the prophecy child was going to be his son and nothing could be done about it.
This news had dejecting him greatly. When he confided in wife Amphitrite about this she had tried to comfort him to no avail. "Look at it this way if the fates have chosen your son as a candidate for the prophecy then he would have the latent ability to fulfill it. This could mean your next son would turn out to be a great hero." She said. Her words didn't comfort him but they at least gave him hope.
Unlike his brothers he didn't set double standards. He gave his wife a free rein over her love life. As he was never very faithful with her he didn't expect her to be faithful with him.
Triton didn't understand the relationship between his parents. They both loved each other at the same time weren't very faithful with each other. Despite of all this they were still happy together. The most surprising part about it was that they even cared about children sired by their spouse with another mate.
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Poseidon was having a boring day. All of sudden he had an urge to go to the surface world. As usual he did whatever he felt like doing and left his kingdom. None of his brothers stopped him from entering their domain nor did they bother him when he came on land.
It had been a very long time since he had visited the surface world. Lot of things had changed from when he last visited. The air just like the waters of the sea had become more polluted. The number of mortals to walk the land had also increased greatly.
Normally the first thing he use to do when he came to the surface world was check on his lovers or visit his children if any. As he didn't have any immediate children he decided to check on his legacies.
'Hmm! It seems only one family of my legacy is alive other than the Potter family. Well I'll go and check on the Zhang family first before I visit the Potters.' He thought to himself.
After finding out that the Zhang family was facing some tough times he decided to help out a little by leaving some perfect white pearls with a note attached to sell them in their house.
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All the Potters present in the manor including Lily sensed Poseidon's approach. They all rushed towards the manor gates to greet him.
Had Peter Pettigrew been doing the job of keeping an eye on the Potter manor properly he would have been greeted by a strange site. All the Potters including Lord Potter were bowing down to a black haired green eyed man wearing Birkenstocks, khaki Bermuda shorts, and a shirt with coconuts and parrots on it, and a battered cap decorated with fishing lures which says 'NEPTUNE'S LUCKY FISHING HAT'.
"Welcome Lord Poseidon." Charles said bowing to the God of the seas.
"All of you don't need to bow to me here we are all family." Poseidon said motioning them to rise. Looking at Lily he asked, "Charles aren't you going to introduce me to your daughter?"
"Lord Poseidon, her name is Lily Potter. She married my son few days ago and is carrying his first son. I have ordered the elves to prepare a feast in your honor." Charles said with utmost respect. It was rare for an Olympian to come to visit their house these days. Especially since mount Olympus moved to America.
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After enjoying a grand feast for dinner, the Potters and Poseidon were having a good time sharing stories and news with each other. During this time Poseidon and Lily became good friends. James was already close with Poseidon as the God of seas did visit him in his dreams when he was young explaining his powers to him and teaching him how to use them effectively.
Suddenly all the occupants of the manor felt a disturbance in the wards. This disturbance indicated that the manor wards were under attack and were preparing to strike back.
"Who is dumb enough to attack your house?" Poseidon asked with incredulity knowing what the wards around the manor were capable of doing to the attackers.
"By the looks of it; it seems that Voldemort has sent his werewolf army along with dementors and a few death eaters." James answered.
"Death eaters? These humans like eating Thanatos?" Poseidon asked looking at the humans wearing masks.
"No my lord they call themselves death eaters. They are the followers of Voldemort. Though they call themselves death eaters barring a few of them they all fear having an encounter with death just like their master who has aptly named himself flight from death." Lily informed the God of the seas.
"Charles deactivate the offensive features of the wards, I want to deal with them myself. It seems that I finally found someone to takeout my frustration on." Poseidon said flexing his muscles.
Charles deactivated the offensive wards as Poseidon along with James and Lily left to greet the enemy at the manor gates.
The death eaters only saw James and Lily heading towards them with wands in their hands.
Poseidon flexed his right arm towards the army of the offending werewolves and shot thunder at them. This killed all the werewolves in seconds. Looking at the dementors he said a few words in ancient Greek opening a portal below them straight to his brother's domain permanently banishing them.
"I guess that take care of your pest problem. I will come back visit your family soon. My brother upstairs might not like that I help you all deal with a mortal problem so for the records both of you dealt with the problem her." Poseidon said with a smile before vanishing.
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The death eaters were happy when they found out that the target of their raid was Potter Manor. They wanted to avenge their fallen comrades and make that mudbood bitch suffer. The taskforce they had assembled for the job seemed more than sufficient to level the Potter manor.
They met Peter at their rendezvous point. He had informed them that all the Potters were present in the manor before he apparated away. They approached the magnificent manor cautiously and spread out around the ward perimeter. As the saw the full moon rise they began the attack on the manor.
At first they were hardly making a dent in the outer wards of the Potter manor no matter what they did. They saw the werewolves bounce off from invisible barriers of the wardline. As they saw James and Lily coming out to meet them they thought their luck was changing and this was their big chance to attack the couple.
What they saw next paralyzed them in fear. The Mudblood whore pointed her wand at the werewolf army and shot lighting at them killing them instantly. Meanwhile James Potter had managed to banish the dementors! Banish the dementors! And that too in just a few seconds. No one in their recorded history had managed such a feat. Not even Merlin.
As they saw the couple turn their attention towards them, the chills of fear gripped them. Their feet were rooted to the spot. They couldn't move their bodies. What they didn't know at the time was that James was using his powers from Hades to immobilize them via their shadows.
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"Now Lily flower what are we going to do with these remaining pests?" James asked in a mocking tone.
"Honey, why we don't find out their orders first and then lets decided their fate." Lily replied in a false sweet voice.
"Hmm! Not a bad idea Lily flower." James said invading the mind of the nearest death eater. Seeing their orders made him angry. He told Lily what Voldemort had planned for them.
"We will kill all but one. This way we can send a message to all those who want to harm us about the consequence of taking on the Potters." Lily suggested.
"So which one of these fools gets to live?" James asked Thanatos who had appeared behind the death eater.
"It is your choice. Currently you have the power to choose who lives or dies from this group." Thanatos replied.
With a flick of the wand James removed the death eaters' mask and told Lily, "We will keep the weakest one of them alive honey let's get to work on them. Give them slow and painful deaths."
Lily pointed her wand at the death eater to the extreme right and fired a blasting curse at his crotch removing his appendage. James winced at the site of a man's bit getting blasted off. He knew the man was a goner as the bleeding would kill him soon.
He pointed his wand a big busted blonde death eater and fired a skin flaying spell at her giving her a painful death. He saw Lily had inverted a man inside out make his body organs spill out.
In this manner they brutally killed nine out of the ten death eaters attacking the manor.
"James letting this one go unharmed may give some people idea that they might get away with attacking us." Lily said stopping James from releasing the final death eater.
"You're right as usual dear." James intoned. "I'll amputate his arms and legs without the possibility of having a magical prosthetic limb and send him back via his emergency portkey." He added removing the limbs of the last death eater and activating his portkey.
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The death eaters' raids on the Diagon alley and Hogsmeade village had been quite successful. They had inflicted heavy property damages and killed a few aurors and members of the order of Phoenix.
They returned happily to their headquarters to have some fun with a few muggle families they captured near Diagon ally.
Voldemort was happy with the success of his followers. He was now waiting for the last group to bring the dead or alive bodies of Potters. He felt one of the junior death eaters he had sent to the Potter manor return via the emergency portkey.
'Wilkes is a relatively a new death eater and might gotten in the werewolf's way. I will ask him how the attack at the manor is progressing.' Voldemort thought to himself. Few of the inner circle death eaters followed their leaded to the portkey landing zone.
Voldemort was surprised to see a limbless Wilkes fallen on the floor. "Malfoy go check him." He ordered.
As Abraxas Malfoy turned Wilkes' body over he shouted hysterically, "Monsters! They are Monsters. Save me! Please save me from them."
"I know that werewolves are savage monsters but they have their uses." Malfoy said try to calm him. "Take a few deep breaths and tell us what happened? Did the werewolves attack you all?" he asked.
After taking few deep breaths and calming down a little looking at his surroundings he said three words before fainting shocking everyone present including Voldemort to their core. He said, "Not werewolves, Potters!"
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After waiting for couple of hours Voldemort came to the conclusion that no other member of the raiding party to the Potter manor had survived. He couldn't imagine how Potters could have survived the werewolf attack let alone retaliate in a manner which decimated his forces. He would have to wait till Wilkes regains consciousness to find out what happened. He couldn't risk sending any more death eaters near the Potter Manor.
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"I guess I'll have to floo the ministry to send a cleanup crew as the death eaters have left a pretty big mess near our front gate." Charles told Lisa jokingly.
"I am just thinking about the headache Dumbledore is going to give us when he gets here." Lisa said expressing her frustration about dealing with the man.
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Poseidon returned to his palace in a good mood. The visit to his legacies had cheered him especially a visit to the Potters. The Potters and him had a lot in common, a penchant of disregarding rules, a strong dislike for Athena and changing themselves according to the situation.
"You seem to be in a good mood. What happened to put you in such a good mood?" Amphitrite asked.
"I went on the surface world today and met my decedents. I had a good time with the Potter family." He answered.
"The Potter! That's it. They can help you with your problem." Amphitrite said getting excited. Seeing the confused look on her husband's face she added, "Have a child with a Potter woman. A child borne by them is always more powerful than a normal demigod. Their bloodline would give your son the edge he needs to successfully complete the prophecy. Plus he would also grow up in a good environment with a loving family to watch over him."
"That is a good suggestion. Lily is quite the looker. But unfortunately she is pregnant with her husband's first child right now." He said thinking about having Lily in bed with him.
"So your son would have an elder brother or sister to look after him as well. In the mean time why don't you show me what you have planned for this Lily." She said the last bit in a sexy voice.
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Ministry was in utter chaos due to the recent death eater attacks on Diagon alley and Hogsmeade. The entire auror force had been mobilized to deal with the situation arising. The reserves were called in as a standby.
Barty Crouch was moving around shouting instructions and wanted to debrief the auror captains returning from the scene of the attack. He had instructed a couple of squads to remain behind and do some damage control.
"I don't like it. Their retreat was too abrupt. They left when they were winning." Moody grumbled.
"May be the attacks were just a diversion. Their real target might have been somewhere else." Barty answered.
"There is a full moon tonight. They could have used werewolves on the site of their real target. But we haven't got any reports on werewolf sightings tonight." One of the auror captain said.
Just then Barty saw the floo light up and Lord Potter's head appear in it. He told the attendant on floo duty something which made her pale before disconnecting the call.
"What is it Berta?" He asked.
"Sir the Potter manor was attacked and Lord Potter wants us to collect the dead bodies of werewolves and death eaters from the front of his manor gates." Berta the floo attendant told her boss.
Hearing this Moody burst out laughing, "How many dead bodies?" he asked.
"Sir nine dead death eaters and twenty four dead werewolves." The pale attended answered.
"That's almost the size of Greyback's pack." One of the auror captain exclaimed. "How in the world the Potters manage to kill that many attackers? Were any of them injured?" he asked.
"I did not believe Voldemort would be stupid enough to attack Potter manor. It is rumored that the wards around the manor are stronger than Hogwarts' wards. Not to mention that the Potters can be vicious when they want to be." Moody grunted.
"I will take a squad of aurors myself and check it out." He told Barty as he stated to assemble a team.
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The youngest aurors in Moody's squad vomited at the site in front of them when they had taken the portkey to the Potter manor.
The site was worse than what Moody had imagined. The mutilated bodies of death eaters were lying around littering the area in front of the manor gate. The werewolves had been partly burnt to crisps and the ground where the lay had many scorch marks. There was a faint smell of ozone in air. The smell that lingers after a lightning strikes an area.
"What happened here?" He asked James Potter who was standing there as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.
"After we finished dinner, we felt the manor wards under attack. Lily and I felt that we should deal with this attack personally rather than allowing the wards around the manor take care of the intruders. You can see the end result in front of you." James explained calmly.
Moody and the auror captain Amelia Bones were shocked by what James' said.
"One of the death eater managed to activate a portkey but before he could leave James managed to cut his arms and legs." Lily informed them.
"Okay. We will need a bit more detailed description of what happened here while I will inform my aurors to clean up this mess." Amelia said in a strict business voice when she finally managed to regain some composure.
They fabricated a story of how James used the manor wards to banish the dementors and Lily using thunder attacks to kill the werewolf and latter teaming up with James to deal with death eaters. Hearing the description of the battle Moody nicknamed Lily as the werewolf slayer.
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Dumbledore rushed to the Potter manor when he got a wind of the battle that took place there. He hated the fact that the Potters hadn't given him access to their manor and he had to apparate outside the property walls.
'Why couldn't they trust me implicitly just like other light side families. Then manipulating them towards achieving greater good would be so much simpler. I should have had this meeting with them sooner. If I hadn't waited till now then those pureblood death eaters might still have been alive.'
As he got there he saw the aurors still removing the dead bodies of the werewolves and trying to identify them.
"Alastor what happened here? Are the Potters alright?" he asked in a concerned grandfatherly voice.
"Albus what are you doing here?" Alastor asked seeing his old friend.
"I heard about the attack on the Potter manor. I came here as quickly as I could after things in Hogsmeade settled down. So who all died here?" Albus asked again.
"Greyback's entire pack barring him died in the attack. 9 death eaters lost their lives unfortunately no one of great repute died. Wilkes managed to escape the counter attack by the Potters but he lost all his limbs in the process." Moody told him.
"The Potters should have detained them rather than killing them outright. If we start killing are enemy what would differentiate us from them." Albus said to the group of aurors in a sad voice.
"Albus they did whatever was necessary to protect themselves. You can't blame them for killing the enemy when we are at war." Moody told him.
'I will be placing very strong compulsions on the Potter to stop them from killing more purebloods' Thinking about his next move he headed towards the manor gate. He was greeted by the Potter house elf Leon if he remembered the name correctly.
"Welcome to Potter manor. State your business here." The elf said looking at Dumbledore.
"I want to see if your family is alright and have a few words with Charles Potter." Albus told the elf.
"My family is fine thank you for your concerns. My master is resting right now and you don't have any appointment. You can come to meet him tomorrow after making an appointment." Leon stated.
"It is imperative that I meet Charles. Tell him Albus Dumbledore is at the gate and wants to meet him." Albus said putting some power in his voice so that the elf would obey him.
"I don't care even if you are Merlin. My master is asleep and I am not going to disturb him. If you want to meet him that desperately than I suggest that you wait here till he wakes up. If you are still here when he wakes up I will inform him about your presence." Leon angrily replied.
Albus was getting angry at the audacity of the house elf in front of him. He tried to maintain his composure. "At least see if your master is awake or try telling him Dumbledore wants a word." He said barely maintaining his composure.
"No means no." Leon shouted.
Moody started laughing and Albus' predicament of being told off by a house elf. "That's one feisty elf." He said to Amelia.
Being denied entry by the elf Albus stormed out making plans to teach that bloody elf a lesson he would never forget. No one denies him anything that he wants. He always gets what he want either by hook or by crook.
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Voldemort couldn't believe the stuff he was seeing in Wilkes' head. The power both James and Lily displayed was truly spectacular. Not to mention the ferocity of their attacks. He himself would be hard pressed to keep up with those two.
He couldn't have it. No one could be allowed to have as much power as him. He would destroy the couple. Nobody stands in his way and get away with it.
But at the same time he just couldn't continue ignore the legends anymore. He had read about the legends about Potters being deadly warriors having the abilities to use unknown powers. It was the reason why nobody every challenged them and all their competitors lost against them throughout the ages.
Then how come Lily has these powers. Did she steal them? Did she always have them? No that couldn't be possible she is just a mudblood. No mudblood could be that powerful. Didn't the pureblood see the menace of the Mudbloods? They steal magic from superior and far worthy people. Lily Potter acquired her powers by stealing Potter family magic. The fool James Potter was allowing her to steal it because she serviced him like a proper mudblood whore.
If a mudblood could steal magic then so can I. I will get their magic, learn their secrets and kill them. Voldemort at that movement made is future plans ignoring the wise words of the Hogwarts motto 'never tickle a sleeping Dragon'.
What Voldemort didn't realize was that all his plans and schemes were going to go down the drains soon and the blood purity wars in Britain were going to take a new turn.