Disclaimer: I don't own any character that you recognize
Title: Obsidian Prince
Pairings: none
Rating: T
Warnings: Implied cannibalism
Summary: When Harry is 6 years old the Dursly's abruptly leave and never come back leaving Harry alone in the house. Frightened Harry runs into the nearby forest and accidentally turns into a Basilisk then meets another Basilisk, meanwhile Snape finds out that Harry is Voldemort's son. How is Harry going to ever find his real father?
Note: This is my first Harry Potter Fanfiction so if I make any mistakes like regarding spell names and spellings and such let me know and I'll try to fix them right away! Also this story will include some major Dumbles bashing and some Hermione and Ron bashing later in the story.
Parseltoungue: "~hissssss~"
Thoughts: "why is bacon so good?"
Bond talk: "*Helllooooooo?*"
Chapter 4
Obsidian reached the duo than looked at them "~may we now depart for your manor?~"He asked. The Dark Lord glanced up at him and nodded.
"~we may~" He replied. Obsidian took one long look at the cave chamber before setting off into the forest with the two newcomers. On his way through the cave many basilisks came to bid him farewell with either tears or a pat on the back (using their tail of course). Once out in the forest the duo got on either side of him and started interrogating him while still heading towards the manor.
"~sooo…~" Nagini Started "~how old are you?~" Obsidian laughed at this and Nagini reddened.
"~No worries my dear, I'm not laughing at you, it's just no one has ever so bluntly asked me my age~" He calmed down and then replied "~I am approximately 15 winters old~" Tom looked at him weird at that.
"~Approximately?~" He asked "~ you don't know how old you are?~" Obsidian cocked his head to the side in a sort of shrug.
"~ I stopped keeping track when I first met up with the basilisk clan~" Nagini stopped slithering and looked at him weird.
"~Wait, you weren't born there?~" She asked. Tom stopped to look at Obsidian strangely too.
"~ Ahh you are wondering how I could become a prince when I was not born to the clan. Well, to your first question I met Cadus in the woods when I was young and I don't remember anything before that. Secondly I fought all possible candidates to be prince and won so they had no choice but to make me prince, My scars are proof of my strength.~" Obsidian puffed his chest out proudly and the trio continued foreward. They walked in silence for a while until they reached the edge of the woods. The dark lord stopped them and looked towards Obsidian.
"~ I have blood wards surrounding the Manor so you'll have to go slowly towards them with me and I'll have to let you through, Nagini is my familiar so the wards let her go through~" Obsidian nodded his head and slowly headed forwards.
Voldemort looked towards Obsidian nervously "good thing it's nightfall or else the muggles of this village would have already noticed a30 foot Basilisk going through a barren field" The Dark Lord made it to the edge of the barrier and went to stop Obsidian from hitting it but could not find him anywhere! He glanced around nervously with Nagini behind him.
"~Nagini have you seen Obsidian?~" He asked. Nagini looked around then nodded her head towards the manor.
"~He's… over near the ..shed~" She replied awestruck. The Dark Lord quickly turned his head towards the shed that resided next to the manor and noticed the Black basilisk looking around, Obsidian then called back to them.
"~Tom I don't think that your ward is working~" The dark lord took out his wand and tapped it on the edge of the barrier.
"~No it's working~" He replied quietly, more to himself than Obsidian. "~I wonder how he got through? Maybe it doesn't work on Basilisks~" he mumbled to himself. Nagini snapped him out of it by hitting him in the leg with her tail.
"~master it would probably be wise to get Obsidian inside the house before a muggle car drives by and sees him~" The Dark Lord nodded in agreement and walked through the barrier and towards Obsidian who was waiting near the front of the house for them. When they approached Obsidian looked up at the manor.
"~this is a rather nice place you have here, but-~" He glanced anxiously at the door "~ I don't believe that it's possible for me to fit through that door~" Voldemort nodded, "~Maybe you could make the door bigger?~" Obsidian suggested. Voldemort again nodded before responding.
"~I see what you're saying Obsidian but I don't think that it's the matter of making the door bigger but you smaller~" He then looked at Obsidian "~ if I have your permission I would like to perform a slight shrinking spell on you, that you may activate and deactivate at your will but it's just basically so that you can fit through the doors in the manor without having to enlarge every single one of them.~" Obsidian nodded and Voldemort performed the spell on him so that he was only about half his original size, which then made him only slightly bigger than Nagini.
Nagini looked at him and smiled in a snaky way. "~ I like him better this way~" Voldemort nodded than once again spoke to Obsidian.
"~to undo the spell just imagine yourself as your normal size and to be this size again just imagine yourself small~" Obsidian nodded.
"~That wand of yours comes in handy once and a while~" Obsidian retorted and Voldemort scoffed.
"~Once in a while? Sigh I guess you wouldn't know of the wonders of magic, being a basilisk and all.~" he sighed and then got cheery "~Anyways welcome to Riddle Manor!~" He opened the doors and welcomed Obsidian into the main foyer.
Obsidian looked around in awe and the grand entrance room before him. He had never been inside a furnished house before! He was busy gazing at the beautiful chandelier when Voldemort spoke again.
"~Would you like to see the rest of the manor?~" he asked. Obsidian looked at him in shock.
"~There's more to this house?~" Voldemort laughed at that.
"~Oh so much more!~" He replied, and they spent the rest of the day touring the many rooms of Riddle Manor, most of which Obsidian couldn't use being a basilisk and all but it was still exciting.
Once they finished touring all the rooms the Basilisk Prince was shown to the room that he would be staying in. Voldemort led him towards the east wing of the house, and in Corven hall.
"~you're room is in Corven hall with mine and Nagini's so if you ever need anything just call and we'll be right there. You can go to bed now if you'd like, but tomorrow if you wish you can meet some of my most loyal (and only) followers~" Obsidian nodded his head and headed into his room.
It consisted of dark gray walls and bed low to the ground so he could get on it, there were no windows and the only other thing in the room was a heated rock on the ground. Obsidian sighed and got onto the bed and coiled up on it. "silly Human" he thought "I won't be able to sleep on a bed, I neeeedd… ground and…dirt annndd….." Obsidian fell asleep on top of the bed and didn't hear Voldemort come in with Nagini asleep atop his shoulders.
Voldemort looked at the miniaturized Basilisk on the bed and chuckled inwardly, he had a Basilisk in his house, sleeping on a bed. He looked around the room that had previously been Nagini's bedroom before she slept in her master's room and was pleased. "this is the perfect room for a basilisk" he thought proudly and then his mood dampened. "Harry should be here with us" he thought, then he quietly left the room and shut the door.
He slowly made his way across and down the hallway to his room then sat down on the bed, took Nagini off his shoulders and placed her on the pillow next to him, and laid down in the bed without changing. The Dark Lord stared up at the ceiling for a while imagining how great it would be if he had Harry here with him. He rolled over onto his side and looked at the blank green wall across from him until he had drifted off into sleep.
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Voldemort woke with a start when he felt something heavy suddenly crushing his ribcage. He quickly spotted the source of the problem and pried her off of him. "~Nagini it's too early for your antics go back to bed~" she then got off of him and got onto the floor.
"~Fine Mr. Grouchy I'll go find Obsidian to hang with!~" She angrily slithered out the door and down the hall. Voldemort laid down again and was closing his eyes when Nagini came racing back into his room.
"~MASTER!~" She yelled. The Dark Lord slowly sat up and looked at her angrily.
" ~What?~" He replied angrily.
"~Prince Obsidian is missing!~" she screeched frantically and Voldemort shot up out of the bed.
"~WHAT!~"
"~I went to go check in on him in his room as I told you before but when I entered it was empty!~" The Dark Lord calmed Naginidown.
"~He's probably just wandering about the house, I'll just ask a house elf~" He quickly switched into English and called a house elf. "REMMY!" He yelled into the air.
A sudden crack alerted the man and snake of the house elf's arrival. "Master Riddle Sir is in need of Remmy Sir?"
"Yes Remmy, I need you to inform me if you have seen any snake's besides Nagini wandering the house, especially a pitch black snake with a scarred head"
Remmy thought on that for a minute and then shook his head. "No Sir, Mr. Riddle Sir, Remmy cleaned the whole manor this morn and saw no sign of a snake besides mistress Nagini anywhere"
Voldemort sighed and then replied to the elf "That will be all Remmy, now make yourself sparse before I take my anger out on you!" The house elf gulped and then with a crack it was gone.
Voldemort paced the room with Nagini looking onwards, just then in the usually silent house they heard a downstairs door close. Both raced downstairs to see who it was and saw Obsidian trying to silently close the door using his tail but failing miserably in the silence department.
"~Where were you?~" Voldemort called emotionlessly from the stairs that he was descending, towards Obsidian, Nagini on his shoulders.
"~I was out catching breakfast if that's ok, I happened to find the most delicious morsel just walking in front of the gate and so I-~" Voldemort cut him off.
"~I'd rather not hear about it~" He replied. "~If your done eating I'll grab a scone and I can summon up some of my followers and then I can start our lessons.~" Obsidian nodded in reply.
Voldemort walked into the kitchen than left the kitchen but now carrying a scone and occasionally taking bites of it. He started walking towards his throne room and motioned for Obsidian to follow him, while they were walking Nagini turned towards Obsidian while still on Voldemort's shoulders.
"~Why did you leave without telling us?~" She asked pleadingly.
"~I did not know that I needed to have permission to eat~" He replied coldly and continued following Voldemort, Nagini just huffed and turned back around.
Upon entering the throne room Voldemort sank into his throne than looked at Obsidian. "~ I will now summon my followers, they are called the Death Eaters. To summon them I have to touch one of their marks with my wand and the rest will Apparate here.~" Obsidian looked confused and Voldemort sighed. "~Apparating is like teleporting and it is accompanied by a large cracking noise~" This time Obsidian nodded in understanding. "~ no other humans besides me can understand you. I'll be right back I have to firecall one of my followers.~" Without waiting for a response from Obsidian, Voldemort took Nagini off his shoulders and put her on the throne, then walked towards a dusty fireplace in a remote corner of the room.
He grabbed some floo powder from a jar on the shelf of the fireplace and threw it in and called "Severus Snape". The empty fireplace smoked until there was a full on fire in it and the face of Severus Snape could be seen through it. Snape was looking in a different direction, probably working on preparing for the new school year that was to start in two months.
"SEVERUS!" the Dark Lord's cold voice called from the fireplace. Severus looked towards the direction of the voice and saw the Dark Lords face in the fireplace. He rushed over to his lord and kneeled down near the fireplace.
"My Lord!" he replied with his head bowed low to the ground "Why is it that you've honored me with your visage this morn?"
"rise Severus" once he was off the floor and had dusted off his robes Severus leaned close to the fireplace to hear what his Lord had to say. " I need you to come to my manner immediately, I need to call a Death Eater meeting and you haven't let me down yet in your service to me….except that one incident.. but that is forgiven. Come to my Manor in an hour" with that the Dark Lord's image disappeared from the fire and the fire that had previously been burning went out. Severus nodded to himself and went back to quickly finish his work for his job at Hogwarts but then he abruptly fist pumped the air.
"Take that Lucius! He came to me before he went to you!" He and Lucius had recently been having a contest to see who the Dark Lord was fond of more and Severus just got a head start in it. Severus whistled happily while he finished up his work. Once that was done he went and took a shower, not wanting to appear dirty in front of his Lord, picked out some clean Death Eater robes and Apparated to Riddle Manor.
Obsidian waited on the floor next to the throne while Voldemort talked in human speak to one of his underlings. Obsidian looked towards Nagini who was on the throne for entertainment but Nagini was asleep on the seat of the throne. Obsidian sighed and entertained himself looking around the room. One of the walls was a different color than the rest of the walls and a few patches on the walls surrounding it were a different color too. "maybe their new?" He thought. While he was inspecting the walls the Dark Lord had finished his Firecall and walked up to him.
"~Severus will be here in an hour so you can go explore the manor some more on your own for an hour but meet back here afterwards but please stay in the size that you are now~" The Dark Lord said when he had reached Obsidian. Obsidian nodded and slithered out the open door and down the corridor.
He looked around and thought of where he should go first "I guess I'll start at the bottom and work my way up, and hope not to get lost" he thought. So he slithered down another corridor until he reached some stairs, and then slithered down a couple of stairs until he reached a locked door. Obsidian looked at the door in contempt. "No door can stop the mighty Obsidian!" he then thought of being his normal size and then when he looked down, he was. Obsidian hit his head against the locked door slightly and it swung open. Obsidian scoffed , shrunk down to his smaller size, and entered the dark chamber that lay behind the door.
The room was dark and smelled awful, in front of him was a thin passageway surround by cages on both sides. Obsidian moved forward down the passageway looking at the cages around him. Some of the cages smelled awful, like feces and vomit. Obsidian continued onward through the darkness until he heard some small cries from one of the cages at the end of the passage.
He moved closer to this cage since this one gave off the same familiar prey smell as this morning's breakfast. He peered into the cage and spotted a man squatting in the corner of the cage rocking back and forth. Obsidian moved closer to the cage and opened his mouth to take in more of the man's scent but the cage blocked him and his fangs clanged on the metal bars, Obsidian recoiled from the cold metallic feel of the metal on his fangs, but the man inside the cage must have heard him and the man rushed to the bars of the cage and reached his arms out.
"Please my Lord! Have mercy! I didn't know that you had returned! I would have come immediately! I would have if I had known! But Dumbledore is so convincing! You know of his trickery! He forced me to stay on his side! You know he did my Lord! I would never betray you! I wouldn't!" the man rambled on while Obsidian looked on from a safe distance, obviously the man couldn't see his own hand in front of his face or else the man wouldn't have jabbered on in a language that Obsidian couldn't understand.
Obsidian turned around and left the way he had come with the man still speaking gibberish from behind him as he left and closed the door on his way out with his tail. Obsidian frowned, "well that was a waste of time," he thought "by the smell I can guess that those were the prisoner holding quarters" He sighed and continued up the stairs to another room that he had not been to on his tour with the Dark Lord.
This room could not be seen from the hall but a flick of his tongue told Obsidian of its existence. At first Obsidian had only smelled Tom's smell near a wall and when he was angrily talking to himself about how he could be so stupid as to follow Tom's scent into a wall, the wall gave away and Obsidian peered into the room behind the false wall. After a couple minutes of deliberation and smelling no danger from the room Obsidian entered it and the wall closed up behind him.
Obsidian sat in Darkness for a while until he was fed up "~Well that was the stupidest thing that I could have possibly done!~" he yelled angrily, but was shocked when a voice replied to him.
"~Well not the stupidest~" a voice said, Obsidian's eyes narrowed at the source of the voice and he raised himself ready to change sizes if there was any sign of danger.
"~Who's there!~" he yelled angrily at the voice, his tongue darting out trying to smell the source of the voice. The voice chuckled at him in response.
"~Oh I'm sorry about that~" Obsidian heard a snap and all the lights turned on around him, he squinted at the sudden brightness but soon his eyes adjusted and he took in his surroundings.
The room he was in was small and kind of looked like a living room, there was a deep green couch on a pale green rug, next to the couch was a dark grey love seat. Across from the couch and chair was a large fireplace with a painting of a man hung above it, there were candles floating in the air and there was a fire smoldering in the fireplace.
Obsidian looked around confused, the room was empty except for him. "~Where are you? I don't see or smell you anywhere in the room~" The voice laughed at him again than replied.
"~I'm above the fireplace dark serpent~" Obsidian looked above the fireplace and saw the Dark haired man that was sitting on a chair in the painting wave at him, he recoiled in shock. "~ by your reaction I would guess that you have not been in the wizarding world long~" Obsidian nodded but then looked at the painting critically.
"~you are a human~" he started, and The painting nodded.
"~I was~" it replied. "~I am dead now but my spirit is within all paintings that carry my visage~" Obsidian frowned at that.
"~but your still human, so how can you understand me?~" Obsidian asked. The paintings chest puffed up a little at that.
"~I am the most famous and one of the only Parselmouth's in history! Except for the man who's house your in.~" the painting added the part at the end a little reluctantly. "~when I was alive I went by the name Salazar Slytherin but you my dark serpent friend can call me Sal. Now what may I ask are you doing in this manor? ~" Sal asked.
"~ I am here on the owner's invitation, and my name is not dark serpent it is Obsidian Prince of the Basilisks and soon ruler of all magical creatures~" Obsidian replied confidently.
"~You're a basilisk? You don't look like one…~" Sal said looking at Obsidian unbelievingly. Obsidian gritted his teeth and replied.
"~ I may not look like much now but I assure you I am a Basilisk, it's just my true form is too large to regularly fit in this manor so Tom shrunk me slightly so as to not add an inconvenience for me~" Obsidian seethed at the portrait growing angry at its impudence.
"~it seems like someone has anger issues, and the Dark Lord is letting people call him by his first name now? I'll have to let some of my friends on the light side know of this~" The portrait snickered and then walked out of Obsidian's view.
Obsidian recoiled "~ don't you dare leave my presence without my permission!~" The portrait didn't respond or come back, Obsidian huffed. "~I hope you burn in the depths of Tartarus!~" he then turned and headed towards where he had come and when he reached the sealed wall he yelled "~OPEN!~" at it and it opened and led him into the corridor that he had originally entered from. He angrily slithered towards the throne room mumbling "~Stupid painting~" along the way.
Once Obsidian had left, Salazar had returned from where he was standing just out of Obsidian's view and he snickered "boy do I love messing with my descendants, to bad Tommy boy doesn't come visit more often" He started whistling a tune as he sat back into his chair and tapped the arm.
Once Obsidian had reached the door leading to the throne room he heard Tom and another voice speaking their language to each other. He pushed open the door and entered the throne room where he saw Tom and the man next to him look over at him. The man next to Tom looked kind of expressionless on the outside but Obsidian could spot a hint of fear in the man's eyes. The man was fairly tall with very pale skin and Inky black hair that reached a little past his shoulders, the man was slim and was wearing dark black clothes with a silver mask in his hand.
Obsidian slithered up to Tom and spoke to him "~Tom is this man one of your followers?~" he asked sizing the man up. "~He doesn't look like he would do very well in a fight~"
Tom looked at him than at Snape and responded to him"~in the wizarding world muscle doesn't mean strength, a truly strong person is skilled with a wand and his mind~" Obsidian snorted at that but Tom continued. "~This man is one of my most loyal followers Severus Snape he is a healer, not a fighter, and we will use his mark to call the others~" Obsidian nodded and The Dark Lord than turned his gaze towards Severus.
"Severus this snake here is the reason that I need to call a meeting" He informed Snape. Severus looked at his Lord in confusion.
"but who is this snake my Lord?" he asked.
"I will tell you this plus more Severus once the others are here. Give me your arm" Snape did as he was asked and presented his marked arm to the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord took out his wand and touched the tip to Severus' arm. Severus stiffened from the pain but that was all the reaction that he showed.
Obsidian glanced behind him at the sound of 5 simultaneous cracks, but one was significantly later than the rest and upon entrance that person fell on his face and scrambled to get up. The 5 newcomers took off their masks and kneeled on the ground. Obsidian looked around at the newcomers that had obviously not noticed him because of the dim lighting.
The Death Eaters where kneeling on the ground in a line one next to the other in front of Tom. The one on the far left was a man with Long pale blonde hair and pale skin, Next to him was a woman with dark curly hair who had a crazed look in her eyes, on the right of her were two men who looked almost identical with dark hair and dark eyes, lastly on the far right was a short fat man who was balding and seemed to be twitching. Snape walked over and joined them next to the blonde man on the ground.
"My loyal Death Eaters" Tom said to the people on the ground, "Rise so that I may tell you of some wonderful news to our cause" The people on the floors stood up and a couple of them dusted themselves off and then faced their Lord. "Yesterday I made a great ally who agreed to fight for us in the war" The blonde man stepped forward and spoke to the Dark Lord.
"Who is this ally if I might ask my Lord?" The Dark Lord looked at the blonde man and smiled cruelly.
"you may ask Lucius since you like the others here today are the only of my followers left" He turned his gaze to the other Death Eaters. "our new ally is the soon to be King of all magical creatures, Obsidian Prince of the Basilisks" Taking that for his queue Obsidian went back to his normal size and slithered next to the Dark Lord while the surrounded Death Eaters gasped. The short fat one jumped up and down.
"Now we'll be able to win this war in no time! With the ruler of all magical creatures on our side we can't lose!" Voldemort glared at him and then replied angrily.
"He's not ruler yet but when he is, he and his army will fight for our cause so the real battle doesn't start for a couple of years or so" The fat guy stopped jumping and visibly shrank at the Dark Lord's harsh tone.
Obsidian looked at the Fat Death Eater than asked Tom "~why don't you just eat the fat one?~" Tom stopped glaring at Wormtail and looked up at Obsidian in shock.
"~Humans don't eat other humans~" he replied. Obsidian looked at Wormtail than back at Tom "~why? He is visibly weaker than the others and It's nature for the strong to devour the weak~" Tom sighed than looked back at his Death Eaters.
"I need all of you except for Severus to start recruiting people to join our cause and I need Lucius to plan an attack on Azkaban to release a couple of loyal Death Eaters. I will be busy here working out things with Obsidian, report back here in exactly one month at midnight to report to me of your success, don't bring any new recruits only yourselves" The Death Eaters nodded and all but Lucius and Severus Apparated away.
Lucius kneeled again "when would you like to plan the attack for my Lord?" he asked. Voldemort stiffened before replying.
"make it for July 31st" he said "their defenses should be weakest because of the mourning of ..Harry..Potter…" Lucius nodded and then Apparated away leaving Snape.
"my Lord" Snape started.
"Severus" the Dark Lord replied "I need you to replenish my dreamless sleep potion stock and at the next meeting I need you to do a scan on Obsidian to make sure that he's healthy" Snape nodded than Apparated away. Once they were all gone Obsidian returned to his normal size and Voldemort slumped in his throne.
Obsidian slithered up to Voldemort "~so when are you going to begin teaching me of the world?~"
The Dark lord sighed and sat up in his throne "this is going to be one long month"
AN: Sorry I took so long updating! This chapter took me awhile and I'm also working on my new story too. I don't know the next time I will be able to update, since I have now joined in my schools play, but don't fear! I will update and I will not abandon this story!
Ok so I might change the story into first person perspective but I haven't decided yet.
PS: Don't forget to check out my new story Serpensortia!
PSS: please review on this story to let me know how I'm doing! I don't really know if this story is going well unless I get some feedback…
Next Chapter: A maybe short Dumbledore chapter about what he's been doing all these years and such.
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-KaosDemon