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Prologue
"Well, this is interesting." A man commented drawing the attention of the rest of his peers.
"What do you mean Janus?" A woman with black hair asked with a frown.
"Come and see Ganos. I am sure that it will interest you as well." Janus said as Ganos and a few of the others turned their attention to what Janus was observing. To their shock, it was a black haired, green eyed child being beaten by a fat walrus like man with a belt.
"This is outrageous!" A woman shouted out as her fellows nodded with grim expressions.
"Calm yourself Oma. Besides, surprisingly the child's body is covered in a thin layer of potent Zero-Point Energy that seems to be acting like a shield." A man said with an intrigued expression.
"Be that as it may Atlas, shouldn't we save the child? He is a descendant of ours and a powerful one at that!" Oma asked with a frown.
"I would say no as would the rest of the council, but for once I agree with you. The child has powers that come close to those of us Ascended. With the treatment he is being subjected to, it is worrying that he may just become someone who likes abusing others for his own gain and pleasure. What do you say my fellow councilors?"
"As you said Atlas, while we don't intervene directly in the mortal plane, I believe that I speak for all of us that this child should be saved." Atlas nodded before turning to Ganos and saying, "Oma and Ganos, I would like you two to go and save this young boy. Ascend him if you must but bring him to Gaia. Janus, go to Othala and bring Thor of the Asgard to Gaia. Now go!"
The three mentioned nodded to Atlas as they transformed into balls of light and vanished from existence. After they were gone, a woman approached Atlas and asked, "Are we doing the right thing Atlas. Our highest law is non-interference, but here we are interfering!"
"I had a premonition Athena. In it, I saw the young child bringing back our descendants to the stars while also tying up the loose ends we left. I also saw the Nova Alterans rise even greater than we, advancing technology to levels we dare not even dream of. Technology that makes our Ascended power, seem like paltry tricks in comparison. I want to see that vision come true."
"Being a bit idealistic, aren't you Atlas?" Athena said with a grin causing Atlas to nod.
Janus appeared on Kheb before mentally dialing the sequence to create a portal to Othala. Still in the form of a floating ball of energy, Janus passed through the event horizon and reappeared on the other side. As Janus took back human form, the small grey beings eyes widened in shock as they realized just who was standing in front of them.
A small diminutive alien with a strong presence walked forward and bowed saying, "In the spirit of the Four, I greet you and welcome you to Othala."
Janus nodded and he bowed and said, "In the spirit of the Four, I accept your greetings and return in kind. I am Janus and as you may have gathered, I am an Ascended. I was sent by the High Chancellor Atlas to request the presence of Supreme Commander Thor. I am to bring him with me to Gaia."
"I am Freyr of the Asgard High Council. Thor is on a scheduled patrol that is about to end. He shall be here in a few minutes, Terran time. Until he arrives, may I ask why the Ascended have decided to interact with the mortal plane? We were under the impression that it was against your highest laws?"
"I myself was surprised. I am known to bend the rules a bit but the reason is quite grave. A child of five is being abused by his caretakers. The child is a newly evolved Alteran with very potent ZPE manipulation ability. Atlas believes that his powers are close to ours, even though he is mortal. He decided to allow an intervention."
Freyr nodded in understanding. Abusing a child was unthinkable to them. They would intervene, consequences be damned. Freyr was about to speak when Thor appeared in a flash of white light and a light hum signifying the use of their Matter Transporter arrays.
"What seems to be the problem?" Thor asked causing Freyr to quickly inform Thor of the situation. After Freyr was finished, Thor turned to Janus and said, "How can I be of service?"
Janus just shrugged, "Don't know, but you don't question Atlas. He is one of the eldest Ascendants." Thor nodded in understanding. The thought processes of the elderly rarely made sense to the youth. Janus smiled and waved his hand at the Astria Porta causing a stable wormhole to form before walking through, Thor following post haste.
"YOU DAMNED FREAK! BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR FREAKSIHNESS, I LOST THE CHANCE FOR A PROMOTION!" A large walrus of a man, smelling of alcohol, screamed as he smacked his belt, buckle first onto a young black haired boy's back. If the man was sober and calm, he would have noticed the barely glowing gloden shield like energy covering the boy like a second skin. Every time the belt buckle struck the boy, a small spark emitted from the point of contact.
From the entrance of the living room, a horse like woman was peering in with a nasty smirk on her face while a young boy, who looked like a small beached whale looked on in confusion. Even the woman hadn't realized that sparks were being emitted from the point of contact until the young boy beside her pointed it out.
"Mom, it looks like the freak's skin is glowing and giving off sparks!"
"What do you mean duddykins?" The woman asked as she focused her attention on the black haired boy only for her face to pale in shock. "Vernon! The freak is doing freaky things! He's glowing Vernon!"
The fat, walrus like man bellowed in rage as he threw away the belt and pulled out the red hot poker from the fire place. "IF YOU WON'T LEARN YOUR PLACE FREAK, THEN I WILL SHOW YOU WHAT TRULY HAPPENS TO BASTARDS LIKE YOU!"
Just as Vernon had raised the poker to smack the young boy in his face, a flash of white light filled the room before fading. Vernon, the woman and the child looked startled before confusion set in. The child Vernon was beating had vanished. "Huh! What happened to the freak?"
"I must say. Is this how to treat a child?" A woman said from behind the horse faced woman causing said woman to scream in fright and scurry towards her overweighed walrus of a husband with her son in tow.
"WHO ARE YOU? I MUST WARN YOU, YOU ARE BREAKING AND ENTERING! LEAVE AT ONCE!" Vernon bellowed with his face taking on a peculiar shade of puce.
"Be silent! Your despicable behavior has caused even us to intervene, we who stay away from the matters of the lower plane. Scum like you, are just as bad as the Ori!" A woman with dark brown hair and a stern face said with a look of contempt. Beside her, a light brown haired woman was holding the black haired boy in her arms while quietly muttering soothing words. "As for whom we are, I am Ganos Lal, better known as Morgan Le Fay and my companion is Oma Desala."
"You are like him? You are freaks!" Petunia stuttered out in fear.
"If you mean those with Magic as you all call it, then I must disappoint you. We are beings who have ascended to a higher plane of existence, once Merlin was one of us as well before he decided to descend to your realm. We are beings, you primitive beings will consider gods, though we aren't."
"Ganos, pronounce their doom and let us be off!" Oma said with a sneer at the family.
"As you wish Oma, as for your doom, I have already sent the proper documentation to make sure that you two suffer at the hands of your justice system. Your law enforcers will be here soon asking some very difficult questions. We shall be taking this young boy away from here. Before we leave, I advise you to hand over anything that pertains to him. Failure to do so will result in unpleasant consequences!"
"WHO ARE YOU TO THREATEN US NORMAL PEOPLE?" Vernon screamed and charged forward to hit Ganos only for him to freeze in place with just a glare from the woman. With a sharpening of her eyes, Vernon was thrown back into the wall, where he crumpled to the ground, groaning in pain.
Petunia looked shocked and fearful but quickly said, "I only have his parent's school trunks in the attic and a letter!"
"And the boy's name?" Oma asked as Ganos nodded and in a flash of light, the trunks appeared in front of her with the letter on top.
"Potter! Harry Potter!" Petunia screamed out in panic and fear just before the women nodded and vanished in another flash of white light, taking along the trunks, the boy and the letter.
As Petunia crumpled into a heap from the adrenalin running out, police broke open the door and started shouting out for the family to freeze.
"Come; let us go as well Athena!" Atlas said as he and Athena left the higher plane and reappeared on the planet of Gaia, the home of the Nox. As soon as they appeared, a contingent of three Nox met them. One was a woman, another, a man. With them was an elder man.
"In the spirit of the Four; greetings and welcome to Gaia. I am Anteaus, this is my mate Lya and this is Elder Ohper. How can the Nox be of service to the Alterans?"
"In the spirit of the four, I accept and greet in kind. I am High Chancellor Atlas and this is Councilor Athena. Soon three more of our people will be arriving along with a representative of the Asgard and a young Alteran descendant with near ascendant level powers, even greater than that of our peoples." Atlas said causing the Nox to frown.
"This is unusual. An Ascendant doesn't normally intervene. Isn't it against your highest laws?" Antaeus asked before Ohper said, "The child has great potential. I can see the possibilities already, and so do you, don't you? I shall speak for the Nox. We shall aid the child!"
"Father, are you sure of this?"
"As sure as I can Lya, the premonition is hazy but I see a chance of the alliance rising back from the ashes it now rests on. If the child is guided well, he shall be the one to bring not only the mortal Alterans back to prominence, but the Asgard and us as well. While we may be prospering, we have become reclusive. We do not guide the younger races like we used to do. I can see the possibility of us imparting the young with our wisdom so that they may grow wiser with age."
Everyone but Atlas looked startled at the revelation before Atlas asked, "Since Elder Ohper is agreeing, and him being the eldest, I can take it to mean that none of your people shall have any problems?"
"None High Chancellor Atlas, if Father believes that it is wise, then I shall endeavor to help. Besides, father has never guided us wrong." Lya said with a smile as Antaeus nodded in agreement.
Atlas nodded before saying, "Now we wait for the representative of the Asgard and the child in question."
"If I may, what are your plans for the child?" Antaeus asked with curiosity only for Atlas to say, "I will have two of us take care of the child until he becomes eleven and then hand over our mortal legacy to him as the new High Chancellor. Of course as Janus and Ganos raise the child, some of us shall descend and take time to finish incomplete research before handing over our legacy to the child and returning to the Ascended Plane."
Anteaus nodded in understanding as Lya spoke up, "And you wish us to teach morality and impartiality to the child. And since we are pacifistic, you shall ask the Asgard to teach the child war strategies as the Furlings are no longer with us."
"That is a very accurate assessment, but I would also like for the child to learn the values of each of our cultures directly from the source instead of databases. All of us have faults; I wish to see that our faults do not reappear in this new generation." Atlas said getting a surprised look from Athena. It was inconceivable that Atlas would accept that his people had faults.
The Nox nodded in agreement. They themselves had their own faults. But before any could voice any more comments, the Astria Porta activated. Out of the shimmering portal, a diminutive grey being walked out with another Alteran.
"In the spirit of the Four, I, Supreme Commander Thor greet you all!" The Asgard said with a light bow as the Nox, Athena and Atlas nodded in return. "Please let us dispense with the formalities and as the Tauri say, get to the main point of this meeting!"
"I am sure Janus has informed you a bit of the situation?" Thor nodded causing Atlas to quickly explain it in more detail. At the end, Thor's eyes had widened a bit as a steely glint appeared in them.
"I see. I can tell you now that it won't be a problem. During the times I am unavailable, I will have a commander help teach the child, but where is he?"
"Oma was calming young Harry Potter down. She wouldn't bring him here until he was calm." Ganos said appearing in a flash of light with Oma beside her and in her arms was Harry peering at the gathered beings with apprehension but curiosity as well. Thor in particular drew Harry's attention the most.
"You have nothing to fear Harry. They are all friends. They all want to help you, just like we do!" Oma said with a soothing tone as the gathered beings nodded in agreement, Lya even coming closer with a gentle aura surrounding her. "You can speak in your own language. I have implanted the languages of the Alliance within his mind along with his own so that there won't be any misunderstandings."
Everyone nodded as Lya spoke in her own language, "Hello young one. May I ask what your name is?"
Harry nodded nervously and replied, surprisingly in Nox, "I am Harry Potter!"
Lya nodded with a smile, "And how old are you Harry?"
"Five!" Harry said with a bit more confidence.
"That's good. I have a son myself, though he is only a year old." Harry looked on at wonder at the strange looking woman before smiling. Lya smiled in return and said, "How would you like to stay with us Harry. I am sure that we would be better that your last guardians?"
Everyone, even Thor, flinched at the excited look in Harry's eyes as he asked, "Do you really mean it?"
"Of course, young one all of us are gathered to hear if you would allow us the honor to raise you. So do we have your permission?" Lya asked getting an excited nod from Harry. Lya smiled even wider and said, "That's good, but first you must know that you are special Harry. Have anything strange happened around you?"
Harry looked startled before nodding his head. Lya smiled reassuringly and said, "That's normal for advanced humans. Much like you, my people, the Nox also have such powers. Now let me introduce you to everyone."
"First, I as you know, am Lya of the Nox; this is my husband Antaeus and his father Ohper. The Nox are a race that has been around for nearly thirty million years already."
"Hello, nice to meet you!" Harry said politely causing the other Nox nod in reply.
"Then this is Supreme Commander Thor of the Asgard. The Asgard is a very advanced race that has been travelling the stars for about twenty million years already."
"Greetings Harry Potter, I hope that we can get along." Thor said in alteran as Harry nodded in agreement though with a bit of awe.
"Finally, these men and women are the Ascended Alterans, your ancestors." Lya said causing Harry to look confused.
"I thought ancestors meant that they were dead?" Harry asked innocently causing Lya to giggle and say, "That's true, but luckily, they are not mortal. They cannot die. In time, even you may reach such a level of existence."
Harry nodded with a confused look as Atlas moved forward. "Hello Harry, I am Atlas, the High Chancellor of the Ascended Alterans. We saw the suffering you were being subjected to and decided to help. Now you will never have to go back to those people again but there is still the matter of your guardianship. We have all discussed and decided to have Ganos Lal and Janus raise you in the ways of the Alterans. While they raise you, you shall have lessons in morality and judgment from the Nox and Battle Strategies and logistics from the Asgard. In return, I ask that you help bring our mortal descendants back to the stars."
Harry cocked his head to the side in confusion before his eyes widened in shock. The Dursley's may not have allowed him to do anything he considered fun, but he had caught glimpses of movies like Star Wars that Dudley liked, not to mention the advanced science books he has read. If he was right, then these people were telling him that he would get his own space ship. "Am I going to get my own Space Ship?"
Everyone smiled with amusement, well everyone but Thor who was physically incapable of smiling, at Harry's innocent question as Atlas said, "A Space Ship and more, a great deal more. I am sure you would like them! So will you agree to our decision of being raised by Ganos and Janus while being taught by the Nox and the Asgard?"
Harry nodded his head vigorously with excitement as Atlas smiled and said, "Very well. Ganos, Janus, I give permission for bringing out the City of Tartarus again. You shall raise Harry there."
"The City of Tartarus? Atlas, are you out of your mind? Raising a child on that Mobile War Command Center! That city hasn't seen the light of day since we left Celestis and made Avalon our home!" Athena said scathingly while the Nox and Thor looked stunned at the information.
"I know what you mean Athena, but I see the need for Tartarus to come out again. Besides, while Atlantis was advanced, it was more of a political capital. This is a fully fabricated, all purpose, heavily armed exploration and colonization ship. While Harry is being raised on it, Janus and Ganos can focus on upgrades to its out dated systems to Lantean standards."
"Excuse me, but what is Tartarus? From what I can tell, it is a City Ship, but I have never heard of it. I could have sworn that I had studied all facets of our history?" Ganos asked with confusion.
Atlas, Athena and Oma shared a look before Oma said, "I am not surprised. The High Council had decided to seal away Tartarus in phase space and remove any mentions of the city from the other City Ship Databases and all the repositories."
Everyone raised an eyebrow at the revelation, even Harry, who didn't really understand most of it. Atlas continued, "Everyone thinks that the City Ship we used to come to Avalon was Atlantis as it is the oldest in record. That is incorrect. It was Tartarus that we used. It was created at the height of our war with the Ori and had the greatest of our technology integrated within. It can and still has been stockpiling potentia even while in phase space. It has Replicator Block maintenance crews that routinely change the seven potentia the city need for power and routine maintenance. With the amount of power, it has available, we can just create the necessary resources for the smaller operations buy transforming energy directly into matter. It will be very useful for Harry at the beginning."
"It was designed and built as a Last Bastion for us Alterans who were against the Ori. It can be repurposed for Industry, Mining, Research or Military purposes. Not to mention that it is well over thrice the size of Atlantis and has four of our Terminus Class Heavy Battleships docked with it." Athena added with a tone of realization. She finally understood why Atlas wanted Tartarus brought out. Even though Tartarus hasn't been accessed in a long while, she was sure that the later High Chancellors have been sending upgrade commands to the AI.
"Janus, go and get Tartarus to, as the Terrans call it, the Omega Nebula, specifically the system connected to the blue Hypergiant HD 168625. It is out of Goa'uld space and is highly rich in resources…"
"And if I am not mistaken, it is also close to the supermassive black hole that the Terrans call Sagittarius A*. You want us to restart the research into mining of black holes for exotic particle's and substances?" Janus asked with excitement causing Thor and the Nox to look startled.
While the younger two races could easily approach and observe black holes, to mine them was something their people believed to be impossible. Thor was about to question the sanity of the decision when Harry asked, "But doesn't black holes consume everything around them? I was sure I read about it somewhere? So mining things out of it should be impossible?"
Everyone looked at the child in awe. To be able to understand such concepts at such a young age was unthinkable for them. Their races all had highly developed brains, so their children having higher IQ than less evolved races were no surprise, but the level of IQ Harry just showed was the closest they have seen to a genius in their midst.
"Oh my, aren't you a young genius. I will have great fun teaching you Harry!" Janus said before saying, "What you have read about black holes is the small amount of knowledge the Terrans have gained. Our knowledge of celestial bodies is far more comprehensive. What the Terrans are only just now hypothesizing, we have known for a long time. Black holes radiate exotic particle radiation as they slowly evaporate on a time scale of Terran years at minimum. Did you ever read on sub-atomic particles Harry?"
Harry nodded with a smile, "Once, I know all about Neutrons, Protons and Electrons! I like learning about new things, especially about cosmology!"
"Then I am sure you would love to learn about all the scientific knowledge our race has gathered over the past 50 million years!" Harry nodded with enthusiasm causing the Nox and the Alterans to smile and Thor to look at Harry with a fond expression.
"Are you feeling hungry Harry?" Lya asked suddenly causing Harry to blush and nod. With a smile, Lya motioned for Oma to follow her. "Oma Desala, please follow me. We shall get young Harry some food while you all discuss and finalize the details."
Everyone nodded in agreement. There was no need for Harry to stay when there anymore. As Lya and Oma left with Harry, Janus bowed before disappearing in a flash of light.
"Now that Janus is off and young Harry is being fed, we can finalize the details." Athena said getting nods from everyone present as the group started discussing plans for the near future.
"Welcome Harry, to the great city of Tartarus, the last bastion of hope for the Alteran Race!" Janus said as Harry, Oma, Ganos, Lya and Thor appeared out of the old red Astria Porta. Harry looked about in wonder as Thor and Lya looked startled at the amount of automatic defense systems visible in the room. Oma had a wistful expression on her face as she reminisced about her time growing up in this very city. Ganos, on the other hand, just had an expression of thinly veiled shock.
Seeing the different expressions on everyone's faces, Janus laughed before saying, "Not what you were expecting, was it. Granted, it also took me by surprise. If we had access to Tartarus during the Wraith War, I am sure that we would have won. I wonder why Moros never mentioned it."
"You hacked into classified files again, didn't you Janus? As for why Moros didn't order the revival of Tartarus, I am sure that the old fool had completely forgotten about it!" Ganos said with a condensing tone while Oma just sighed.
"Right… Ah, let's give you all the grand tour. When I came here, I was surprised to see that the replicators had been replaced by nanite swarms and that most of the systems were up-to-date to Atlantis standards. It seems that Atlas was right. The latter High Chancellors have been sending upgrade orders to Tartarus. The only difference from Atlantis is the specialized Matter Constructors that seems to be Moros's work and for some reason, my own prototype temporal-spatial wormhole drive along with a scaled down version of the Vacuum Ray Offensive Platform on top of the Central Tower, were also added. The date of the upgrade orders was about a thousand years ago by Terran time. The same time Moros had descended and started meddling in Terran affairs."
Ganos sighed and said, "That fool always was unpredictable. I wonder if he had a vision of us needing Tartarus again. He always did have a very powerful clairvoyant disposition towards precognition."
Albus Dumbledore, the vanquisher of Grindlewald, Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, so many high accolades, unfortunately, he didn't feel that he deserved them. Not after the news that revealed his greatest failure.
Here he was sitting, late into the night, alone in his office at Hogwarts while nursing a un touched glass of fire whisky. Just a few hours ago, the old squib, Mrs. Figg informed him that the police had come by and arrested the adult Dursley's for child endangerment, child neglect, child abuse and probably murder. From what the catty old woman had heard, the police were anonymously tipped off and they acted as soon as they could to save young Harry before it was too late. Unfortunately, while they found the evidence of all the abuse, the police were unable to recover the boy.
At first, Albus was unable to believe it as he had multiple trinkets attuned to Harry. Trinkets that were enchanted to alert him if the child was in danger, grievously harmed, or Magic forbid, dead. Checking the trinkets, he found that he made a grave error during the enchanting. Instead of putting an alert for all harm, he only enchanted them to warn him if Harry was harmed by outside sources. It was his belief that family could never harm their own, but it seems that his assumption was wrong. All the trinket, even the one designed to give him Harry's current location on his prompting, had failed.
The only consolation for him was that Harry's name was still present in the Book of Future Attendees. The book was enchanted by the founders to have the name of all possible future students. If a student declined to attend or died, their name would be removed automatically. Though it wasn't full proof, a small hope had alighted in him.
It was nearing one in the morning when his floo alighted and out of it walked out an assortment of people at different intervals. After everyone had arrived, Dumbledore stood up and said, "I thank you for coming here on such short notice."
"What is the matter Albus?" A red headed woman asked sharply. The woman had a single monocle on her left eye. "What have you done now?"
Sighing in sadness, Albus said, "I must beg your patience Amelia. What I have to say shall be very shocking. Please take a seat everyone." With that statement, Albus waved his knotted wand and conjured enough seats for everyone. At this very moment, the door to his office splintered causing everyone to jump and point wands at the perpetrator.
Everyone was shocked to see Professors Snape, Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall standing there with Sprout's wand outstretched and the tip smoking. Amelia was the first to lower her wand and speak, "What's the meaning of this Professors?"
"Sit down Amelia and you will learn what has incensed us." The small portly woman, Professor Sprout said as she lowered her wand.
From beside her Professor McGonagall said with a scathing tone, "I told you Albus, they were horrible excuses of human beings, but in your exalted wisdom, you decided to forgo my warning. This whole set of despicable events are on you! Just because of you, my Godson's son is now probably dead. I asked to raise him, but you wouldn't allow it! You said that, 'Being away from the wizarding world will allow him to learn humility, my dear Minerva!' Where is that humility now? Did you think that I would have failed to instill the proper etiquettes and humility in him? Am I such a poor teacher?"
Everyone was shocked at the way Minerva was speaking. Everyone knew that Minerva McGonagall had a sharp tongue but to see it directed at the headmaster was something no one had ever even dreamed of happening. What the Deputy Headmistress was saying was only confusing the collection of people in the office, excluding the Headmaster himself, Amelia, and the three Professors with the Scottish woman.
After Minerva stopped to take a breath, Amelia asked, "What happened to Harry Potter, Minerva?" Turning to Albus, the woman asked with a cold tone, "You better hope that the boy is unharmed Albus or I will make sure that you rot in the highest security cell in Azkaban with a 24/7 Dementor company!"
Before McGonagall or Albus could speak, Snape said, "Normally, I wouldn't give a second thought about a Potter, but what I learned Amelia was not good. As you know, I was a friend of Lily's before she came to Hogwarts. We grew up together. I went to visit her sister Petunia, with whose family Potter was staying with. Petunia was always a cruel, even as a child."
"You went to their house Snape?" Amelia interrupted with a raised eyebrow. This was a shocking revelation. Severus Snape doing something good out of his own volition. Snape glared at the woman before nodding.
"Anyway, they weren't home, not that I expected them to be. After all the Muggle Aurors have arrested them. Using a bit of magic to hide myself, I sneaked into the lockup and used legilimency to scan their memories." Holding up his hand to forestall Amelia's outburst, Snape continued, "I know that what I did was against the law Amelia, but I needed confirmation. After reviewing the memories, I was quite horrified. Here I was expecting the boy to come to Hogwarts thinking that he was Magic's gift to the world, instead if he survived, he would probably turn to dark magic. One doesn't suffer such abuse without becoming dark. I am an example myself after all! Here, see the memories I extracted from the buffoons. Though I must warn you that you will all be sick to the core by the time you are finished."
With that said, Snape waved his wand at a set of cupboards and out of it came out an ornate bowl with runes carved into it. A watery potion was swirling within it. Extracting a set of vials from his black robes, Snape proceeded to drop them in a sequence before tapping a few runes on the rim of the bowl.
Stepping back, Snape looked up along with everyone else and watched a bubble of smoky gas form above the bowl and within that bubble, the memories Snape had extracted from the imprisoned Dursleys began to play.
Everyone was disgusted at the way the Dursleys behaved. From the moment they found Harry, the poor child was abused. From the day they found him, Harry was placed in a small boot cupboard under the stairs. He was not fed properly. Being magical, Harry grew faster and but the age of two, he was standing on a stool and cooking for the Dursleys. They saw as how the Dursleys systematically mistreated and abused the boy and even encouraged their son to do the same. Over the course of the four years, Harry was beaten, starved, worked harder than a house elf and most of all, mentally and verbally abused with beatings thrown in for fun.
The straw that broke the camel's back was the final memory. The one that showed Vernon beating a five-year-old Harry with a belt accusing the child for his own incompetence in his professional life. A small golden shield was hovering above his skin, protecting him. They saw how the Dursleys realized what was happening and then the beating increased slowly overwhelming the shield before it finally shattered. Afterwards, they saw Vernon continue beating the boy as he screamed his throat raw. By the time Vernon realized what he had done, Harry was covered in bruises, many portions of his flesh had broken open and like many gaping mouths, were drooling streams of blood.
They saw the walrus of a man panic with his wife before wrapping the now unconscious boy in plastic wraps before rushing him out of the house and into their car. After half-an-hour of fast paced driving, they stopped on a rickety wooden bridge spanning over a gushing river within a dark forest. They saw as the Dursleys laid the boy on the ground before unwrapping the plastic and then proceeded to throw the boy into the river. Throwing the plastic sheet into a small bush on the edge of the rivers bank, they then quickly returned back to the car and drove away.
A moment of intense silence fell on the group. After a few moments, Albus finally said with tears in his eyes, "I cannot fathom that family would do such a thing to their own, and a child at that!"
A red headed man turned to Albus and said, "This is completely unacceptable Albus. You always told us that Harry was safe and happy. I even offered to go check on him under the pretense of investigating a claim of misuse of muggle artefacts, but you always denied it. Why didn't you check on him Albus?"
"To tell you the truth Arthur, I had Mrs. Figg to watch over him. Then there were the trinkets I enchanted to monitor Harry." Albus said motioning to the motionless silver instruments on his desk. "I made a mistake when I enchanted them. I only had them detect injuries and malicious intent directed at Harry by outside third parties. I didn't realize that the Dursleys were capable of such horrific acts on their own kin!"
Sighing, Amelia said, "Let us stop discussing the past, and concentrate on finding Harry. I will send some trustworthy Aurors to investigate the scene of the crime!"
"Don't bother Amelia, I already went there and used all the forensic spells I learned from Rookwood. I found the bloody sheet but when I turned to investigate the river, something interfered with the spells. After performing few of the more esoteric spells, I concluded that a minor ley line flows under the river. The ambient magic will cause interference." Snape said with a frown.
"Then we need to follow the river. His body may turn up river and if we are lucky, still alive!"
"You do that Amelia, I will contact my clan and have them see if young Mr. Potter's life stone is showing change that signify an approaching death!"
Everyone turned to the diminutive Professor Flitwick with surprise before Minerva said, "But Filius, why do you need to involve the Goblins of Gringotts? The Book still displays his name."
"We both know that the name will keep on showing even if young Mr. Potter is in a coma. The Life Stone at Gringotts will allow us to know his true condition and if I get it approved from Horde Master Ragnok, we will also have his coordinates!"
Everyone nodded as Albus said, "Then do so Filius. You are probably the only one who can do anything useful at the moment. Also, everyone please prevent this news from spreading. I don't think the Wizarding Britain need to know this horrific news. It will throw the whole country into chaos. We don't need the undesirables to target Harry."
Everyone nodded and started leaving but before everyone left, Amelia turned to Albus and said, "Forget my previous threat! If Harry falls into the hands of the free Death Eaters, criminals who you allowed to go free by not protesting against the Pureblood Privacy Protection Act, I will make sure that you go through the Veil!"
Albus sighed as Amelia left and was about to sit down when Snape walked back into the room and repaired the door before sitting down in front of Albus. After a few minutes of silence, Snape said, "You promised that Lily and her family will be safe, you failed. You promised that Harry would be safe as he grew up, instead I find him nearly murdered, probably dying right at this moment. I took an oath to protect the boy Albus, an oath I have broken by not keeping an eye on him. An oath I broke by trusting in your judgement. You have failed me Albus. You have failed everyone. Most of all, you have failed an innocent child and condemned him to four years of hell. My father was a drunken bastard Albus, but even then I was not as abused as the boy. You great plan has failed Albus."
Albus sighed and said, "I know Severus. I made a horrible misjudgment and for that a young boy is now suffering at deaths door. I didn't tell anyone, but I have a trinket enchanted to monitor Harry's health. It will only fail if he is near death. It has failed. I just hope that we can get to him before it is too late."
"If he survives Albus, you are lucky. If not, it will not be I, but the whole of Wizarding Britain that will crucify you, not to mention that you will have lost all the trust we as the Order had on you. None of us will ever follow you blindly again Albus, not even me." With his piece said, Snape stood up and left the room, leaving Albus to stew in his thoughts.
It had been two years since he had come to Tartarus. While it was not much fun, as he didn't have any friend his age here on the City Ship, he was always excited for his lessons and particularly his research. He loved his lessons with the Nox.
While Lya taught him impartiality and morals, it was Ohper, along with Ganos Lal who taught him how to harness and control his immense amounts of Zero-Point Energy, or as Ganos jokingly called it, magic. From Ohper, he learned how to absorb small amounts of ambient Zero-Point Energy to bolster his own impressive reserves. Reserves that shall keep on growing until he reaches the age of three hundred.
During these two years, the only thing Harry saw other than the inside of Tartarus, Gaia and Othala was the Gas Giant in which Tartarus was parked. Over the past two years, Harry had seen how Tartarus had let out large disk like machines that have been slowly compacting the Gas Giant into a solid planet using advanced matter manipulation.
It was truly an awe inspiring experience. From his studies, creating of a garden world from a dead one barely takes more than a few weeks at most. So seeing a Gas Giant being terraformed into a solid garden world was truly unbelievable. It was quite a shame that the planet had to be changed for people to live on. It would have been so much better if they designed a city that could draw power from the very gases of the planet. Then it would be like that floating City he saw in Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back.
Then there were the boring lessons on Military Tactics and Logistics from the Asgard, while Thor was a good teacher, Harry just hated to study these things. He preferred peace, so learning Military Tactics and Logistics made him feel like an unwilling army commander. Even then, he persevered through it, though the Asgard were unable to teach him ground combat.
During his stay here, he had become acquainted with many of the Ascended Alterans who came down to finish their research before ascending again. Harry had even become quite well acquainted with many of the Nox and Asgard. Little Nafrayu, Lya's son could be seen following Harry about whenever Harry was on Gaia or the young Nox was at Tartarus. One could even say that Nafrayu was Harry's friend, though Harry saw him more as a younger brother.
It was during one of his morality classes that Harry had a sudden realization. What was happening to all the other orphan Alteran all over Terra. With that thought in mind, Harry had Oma investigate and found the reports appalling. His teachers and guardians were equally displeased. After a bit of begging from Harry, Ganos and Janus decided to see if Atlas would allow an intervention. At first Atlas was against it but after Harry said that it was his wish to save his fellow Alterans, Atlas and the Ascended Council agreed and devised a plan to bring the orphans to Tartarus, but only those in bad conditions. Those who are being treated well, they were left alone but under watch. From what Harry had heard, the orphans were supposed to start coming to Tartarus soon, though Ganos never told him when.
Another thing that Harry did was that he had accidentally downloaded all of the Tartarus Database into his mind, though he didn't let anyone know. With that knowledge he had designed and implemented a few special upgrades into one of the Terminus Class Heavy Battleship. To be exact, upgrades to its shield emitter array, cloaking arrays, sensor package and addition of point defense turrets along with a dark matter rail gun, his own design.
After the upgrades were ready, Harry had snuck off along with Nafrayu to test the upgraded ship when the improved sensors picked up a system being cloaked in overlapping cloaking fields. Fields that even Tartarus's impressive sensors couldn't pick up. Getting curious, the duo had directed their ship towards the cloaked system.
"Who do you think is hiding there Harry?" Nafrayu asked with curiosity.
Harry just shrugged and said, "Don't know, but their cloaking fields are very advanced. Better than even Nox fields. Our sensors can easily pick up Asgard cloaks because of their unique Nutrino-Ion Generators, and we can barely pick up Nox cloaks, but this is far better than both. If I hadn't designed these upgrades to the sensors, we would have completely missed it."
Nafrayu nodded before asking, "Do you think they are hostile? Because, if so, I would prefer that we don't engage them. We will approach them and then hail them. If they turn out hostile, I will activate the cloak and get out of there. If they are hostile, we need to warn everyone at Tartarus. This system is barely seven parsecs away from the Sagittarius A system."
Nafrayu nodded, apparently pleased with Harry's decision.
"Attention! We are exiting Hyperspace in thirty seconds. All personnel to your stations! I repeat, we are exiting Hyperspace in twenty-five seconds. All personnel to your stations!" The computer AI announced throughout the ship.
Harry and Nafrayu stood at near the projection platform and waited for the ship to come out of Hyperspace. As soon as the ship left Hyperspace, it was surrounded by a patrol of uncloaking Frigate Class Warships with one Battleship. What surprised the duo was the designs of the ship. Though much changed from database records, there were still the signature features of Furling Ships.
A high pitched whining emitted from the hologram pad as a small greenish-gray skinned being decked in ornate but high-tech armor appeared with a stern expression on her face. The most astounding thing was that the being was speaking in Furling.
"Halt! This is Furling Sovereign Territory. Identify yourselves and your intentions. You are trespassing!"
Bowing to the two replied in perfect Furling, "In the spirit of the Four, I, Harry, of the Nova Alterans…"
"And I, Nafrayu, of the Nox…"
"Greet you Noble Furlings." The duo finished together.
The Furling Commander was surprised at first before bowing and saying, "In the spirit of the Four, I, Stormaxe, Captain of the seventy third patrol unit, accept your greetings. Now may I ask why you younglings are aboard a Battleship?"
Harry and Nafrayu looked a bit sheepish as Harry replied, "This is a very old Terminus Class Heavy Battle Ship. I have recently and secretly added a few upgrades to it. We snuck out with it to test the upgrades. When the sensor package picked up your cloaks, I decided to investigate. It is quite fortunate that it is your race that holds sovereign rights to this territory. I was afraid that an advanced but hostile nation was here, hiding and building up a fleet. The Nova Alterans have claimed the System with the Blue Hyper Giant, as our territory and are in the process of terraforming a Gas Giant into a solid garden world. As you know it is less than seven parsecs away."
"I see. That's good news. We were afraid that we were picking up Goa'uld signatures. They have scavenged your technology and now use the outdated versions of them for their own use."
Harry and Nafrayu nodded with a smile. The Furling continued, "I wish to come aboard, may I be allowed to use the ring transports to come aboard?"
"Unfortunately, I have decommissioned the Ring Transports and replaced them with modified matter transport arrays, much like the ones the Asgard uses. Please allow me temporary access to your ship space."
Nodding, Stormaxe commanded her shield officer to transmit the passcodes. As soon as Harry received the codes, Harry activated the transport array and beamed Stormaxe into the bridge. As soon as Stormaxe materialized, she dropped her sword to the ground before bowing to the two.
"It is so nice to be able to stand amongst allies again, even if you two are quite young. Now tell me, are you willing to meet the Furling King at this moment, or shall I send a message for an appointment for which you and hopefully your guardians will come?" Stormaxe said with a smirk.
Harry and Nafrayu shared a fearful look and but before they could speak, the Astria Porta at the back of the room activated startling the three. Stormaxe quickly picked up her sword and took a defensive position in front of the two children.
Out of the wormhole, Lya walked out with a displeased expression on her face. Along with her were Ganos Lal and Thor. Seeing Stormaxe standing protectively in front of the duo of missing kids, Lya raised an eyebrow in surprise. Before the two females could comment, Thor raised a fist to his chest and spoke in greetings.
"In the spirit of the Four, I, Supreme Commander Thor of the Asgard Fleet, greet you Noble Furling. It is an honor to stand with our allies of old once more. My companions are Lya of the Nox and Ganos Lal of the Ascended Lanteans, the Alteran survivors of the Great Plague."
Lya and Ganos were surprised at that. While they have known of the Furlings, but they believed that the race had long perished. Especially after the Great Plague had run rampant throughout the Avalon Galaxy, where the Furling survivors had made their new home.
"In the spirit of the Four, I, Stormaxe, Captain of the seventy third patrol unit, accept your greetings and return in kind. Welcome to our Avalon Outpost System. This is a joyous day of all. I am sure that my King and his council will be pleased to reconnect with our old allies. Please, come and visit Craigspool. By the time we reach it, the King and his Council will be waiting to welcome you all! I thank these younglings for finding us and uniting us with you all!"
Thor, Ganos and Lya shared a look before Ganos said, "It will be our honor to meet up with the Furling King. Please Stormaxe, send the message. We shall meet your King today before we have to return back home. Please lead the way."
"Of course, Harry, if you would?" Stormaxe said with a smile.
Harry nervously stared at the three adults before activating the transporter and teleporting Stormaxe back to her ship. Right afterwards, the coordinates for Craigspool were transmitted to the ship. Seeing the nervous look on Harry's face, Ganos sighed before ordering the ship to head to the coordinates.
A/N: Hey Everyone! I hope you like this one. I don't plan to regularly update it yet, but I want your feedback on the prologue. I have read quite a few Alteran Harry Fanfiction's, but none but 'Avalon: Secret of the Stars' and 'Harry Janus Potter: Dances with his Destiny' really struck me as good, so I decided to write one myself. So tell me if you want me to focus on this story or should I do it after finishing 'Return to the Past'. PM me! ;)
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