Chapter 1
Harry fell to the floor with a thud, his cheek stinging from the blow as his uncle had just punched him. He was done with it all. He was tired of them. He just wanted to live a normal life, but that wasn't allowed for 'Harry Potter,' aka the boy-who-lived.
He was so tired of that name. It brought him nothing but pain and misery. Harry just wanted to be Harry, not someone remembered for a damned curse rebounding off him as a baby.
It didn’t help that now he didn’t even have any friends at school. Hermione and Ron had abandoned him at the end of their third year since it seemed like so much danger threw itself at Harry. He knew it would happen eventually but it still hurt. It hurt to know that after so much, they would abandon him.
Harry slowly stood up, feeling his anger fuel him as he glared at his uncle with hatred in his eyes. He was done. He was tired of suffering for no reason other than that others just wanted him to suffer.
He was going to put an end to the suffering.
“Freak what the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Vernon yelled at him, spitting everywhere as he goes to hit Harry again. As he swung, Harry caught his wrist, his eyes tinted red as he glared at his ‘dearest uncle’. With a twist, the large man was crying out in pain. He held his injured wrist to his chest as Harry started to giggle madly before it turned into insane laughter.
“Oh don’t worry ‘uncle’ Vernon. I’ll end your suffering soon, not to mention ‘dearest aunt’ Petunia’s and Dudley’s. After all, how else will I thank you three for such ‘wonderful’ care over the years?” Harry told him, his laughter turning into a soft giggle, emerald green eyes flashing red as he held out his arm.
Vernon yelled out as he was flung to the wall of the kitchen, pinned there and unable to move. Harry casually grabbed the knife off the counter, walking over to the man. He smirked as he saw the man struggle to be free, unable to scream due to his magic holding him in place.
“What’s wrong ‘Uncle’? Unable to yell about the freak using his freakiness on you?” Harry giggled out, slicing at the man with the knife. Vernon made a face, pain shooting through his sliced arm, blood dripping onto the floor. “Don’t worry. Your suffering will be over soon.” Harry told him, stabbing him in the leg. “I just want you to know how I felt all these years of abuse.”
This went on for a while, Harry smiling happily as he stabbed and cut his helpless uncle. He hadn’t had this much fun in a long time.
Once he finally freed the man of his magic, Vernon fell to the floor, barely breathing. Harry giggled, grabbing him by the hair and making him look at him. “Goodbye Uncle Vernon. I’ll end your suffering now.” And with that, Harry sliced his neck, the man struggling to breathe through his own blood for a moment before life left him.
Harry smiled, dropping the man as he got ready for the other two.
Maybe he’ll make a stop at Marge’s place as well and end her suffering.
Harry walked through the woods with a slight skip in his step and a tune on his mind, smiling. He had his school stuff shrunk and hidden in a backpack he had taken from Dudley’s room, along with a clean set of clothes he had shrunk to fit him.
Hedwig flew through the forest, gladly following the wizard she had been with for years. Harry could still see the fearful faces as he ended their miserable lives. He couldn’t help but chuckle, finding joy over their fear as they were helpless against him. They were gone now, dead and bloodied.
A static sound surrounded Harry, making him put up his guard, Hedwig landing close by.
“Hello. I was curious as to who was the one to snap here in England. I did not expect a wizard, however.” A voice rang through his head, making Harry look around for the source, seeing a tall man in a black suit standing before him. Harry blinked in surprise at the sight that the man had no face, and tentacles coming out of his back. The faceless being seemed amused at his shocked expression. “I suppose none of your kind has seen me in a long time so I am probably a large shock for you. My name is Slenderman, though I was largely known as the Operator to your kind. It has come to my knowledge that you have snapped, as in you have embraced a darker side of yourself and killed others that have caused it. Because of this, I wanted to offer you a place among others like you. You will be under my protection, and as you are currently underaged, you will be allowed to go back to your school to finish your education and I will act as your magical guardian, as connections inside your world will let me do so. All I would ask of you is to occasionally go on missions for me. You will be free to kill if you want, under certain restrictions as to not draw attention to ourselves, as well as leave whenever. Not to mention I can get you the medical attention you need and that soul piece out of you, as the only other ways to get it out would be for you to die.” Harry stared at him in shock.
“Soul piece? I have a piece of Voldemort stuck in me?!” Harry exclaimed, making Hedwig hoot worriedly at her owner as she landed on his shoulder, nuzzling his cheek gently.
Slenderman nodded at the young wizard. “It would seem that the wraith you call Voldemort managed to stick a soul piece inside of you as he died, I can remove it from you with no harm to you if you wished.” Slenderman told him. Harry thought over it for a moment before nodding.
He wanted to become stronger, better than he was now. He could tell that going with this man would make him that. Harry needed to get out from underneath Dumbledore’s thumb. He wanted to be rid of the responsibilities that were being pushed upon him.
Slenderman held a hand out to the young wizard, letting Harry grasp it as the two and owl disappeared from the forest clearing.
The wizarding world wouldn’t know what hit them the next time they saw Harry Potter.
Harry stumbled slightly as they appeared before a large mansion in the woods, making him blink as he looked around.
“You will eventually get used to the feeling of my transportation. For now, follow me, Harry. I will get the resident doctor to check you over before I take out the soul shard and you can meet the other current house residents after dinner.” Slender told Harry, making him nod as he followed the tall entity to the door.
Slenderman walked inside the mansion, looking towards a figure sitting on the couch with two others. Harry followed behind curiously, looking around as he did but still on his guard. Slenderman did say that there were others that killed here, it would be best to stay on guard.
“Eyeless, you are needed to do a check on our newest member. Once you are done, let me know. He just snapped today so be careful with him.” Slenderman told someone, making Harry snap back from his thoughts as he noticed someone get off the couch. Harry couldn’t help but blink owlishly at the blue mask the figure wore.
“Alright Slender.” The figure said, looking at Harry now from what he could tell. Hedwig hooted, looking around the place as she sat perched on Harry’s shoulder.
“Cool! He has an o-owl! Yo n-newbie, w-what’s your name?! I’m Toby! How do you kill? Do you h-have your owl p-peck out their eyes? T-that would be c-cool!” One of the other people in the room said as he hopped up from the couch. Harry blinked in surprise at the figure, not use to someone so hyper.
“Harry. No, I do not use Hedwig to kill. She's just my pet and friend. And I use a knife currently along with magic.” Harry answered the ticking boy, curious about the random jerks the boy seemed to do, but didn’t ask.
“Magic?! W-what kind?! Do you use the s-same magic as S-Slendy?! Do you use fire m-magic?! I wanna s-see!” Toby exclaimed, stuttering slightly. Harry sweatdropped, wondering where this guy seemed to get his energy. He was definitely older than Harry, probably seventeen or eighteen. He acted as if he was five, however.
“That is enough Toby. Let Harry get settled in and later if he lets you, he can show you his powers.” Slender said, smacking Toby over the head with a tentacle, making the ticking killer pout.
The blue mask-wearing male shook his head at Toby’s antics, motioning Harry to follow him. “I’m Eyeless Jack. You can just call me Jack or EJ if the other Jack is in the room. I’m one of the resident doctors when these idiots hurt themselves.” EJ explained as the two of them walked. Harry smiled, nodding as he followed the man.
“Well, as you probably heard. I’m Harry. I apparently just snapped, whatever that means. This is Hedwig.” Harry replied as the two of them went into the basement. Jack nodded as he motioned Harry to sit down on the examination table.
Harry sat there as Jack did various tests on him, figuring out his height, weight, and what scars were from what. He honestly didn’t mind it too much, other than being uncomfortable with someone seeing his scars until Jack pointed out that everyone here had come with scars.
“Alright. So far, the results are not good. You are severely underweight, not to mention shorter than what you should be your age. I’ll be assigning you to a regimen to try and get you back up weight wise, which should also help your height some as well. Slender could possibly use some of his powers as well to help if need be, at least height-wise.” EJ explained, Slenderman appearing once he was finished with whatever he was doing before. Harry just nodded, having already known most of this. “Along with these, you have several fractures and previous breaks that never were healed properly. Those will be fun to deal with but I want you to gain more weight before we try to fix those.”
“Thank you Eyeless. However, Harry will be going back to school in two months, as he is from a world that if he suddenly disappeared there would be widespread panic, so please try to fix as much as you are able in that time frame. Harry, I have managed to make it so that I am now your legal guardian in both the non-magical and magical worlds. As such, I am going by the name Sebastian D’mann for this.” Slender told the two of them, making them both nods as Hedwig hooted, having perched on a coat rack in the room.
The snowy owl flew over to Harry, perching on his shoulder delicately as Harry scratched under her chin. EJ just looked at the two of them curiously. “So, I know you said that you did magic, but what is this magical world and why exactly do you have an owl who I’m pretty sure is smarter than your average owl.” He asked.
Harry chuckled a bit as Hedwig sat up straighter on his shoulder, puffing her feathers lightly. “She is smarter than your average owl. The magic stuff I think I will probably tell over dinner. It’s easier to that way instead of saying it a dozen times. Slenderman could probably also shed more light on it as well at dinner.” Harry told him. Slender seemed to nod in agreement at that statement.
“Correct. Now. I will have to take your workspace until dinner Eyeless, as there is something I and Harry have to do.” Slender told Jack, making the eyeless man nod as he left the room, knowing not to argue.
Harry couldn’t help but wonder how Dumbledore would react to him disappearing. The thought put a smirk on his face as Slender put him to sleep while he took the soul out of him.
Dumbledore was panicking. There were no other words for it.
His weapon, Harry Potter, had gone missing, not to mention his relatives were dead.
That was the first of his problems that day, however, as Gringotts had sent him a letter telling him that he had been overtaken as Harry’s magical guardian, so he no longer had access to the Potter’s fortune, which was what was funding the future war effort.
He had to find Harry and get him to transfer the guardianship back over. That shouldn’t be too hard if it wasn’t for the fact that Harry had lost some trust in him after the Sirius event at the end of last year. He should have just gotten Sirius kissed when he was first arrested, that way he would have never needed to worry about this in the first place!
The fact that Harry had a falling out with Hermione and Ron didn’t sit well with Dumbledore either. He needed them to tell him what the boy was doing, but they had gotten tired of always having their life threatened when being around the boy. They wouldn’t spy for him anymore. He’ll have to offer them something to get them to stay around the boy, after all, Harry would always take them back if they asked and acted guilty about it.
Oh, how wrong Dumbledore was, but he wouldn’t know this until it was way too late.
Harry slowly woke up to the hooting of Hedwig in his ear as she nudged him. He felt lighter than he had before. Stronger too.
“It is time for dinner. I would suggest being careful as you first stand up. The soul piece has already been dealt with as well so you do not need to worry. I also removed a few other things, like blocks on your magic and hereditary family abilities.” Slenderman explained, making Harry blink as he got up a bit shakily.
“Blocks on my magic?” Harry asked, making Slender nod as he led the way to the dining room.
“Correct. I could not tell you who put them there. However, I have a feeling you do know. You will have to go to the wizarding bank to see what everything was. Now, everyone is waiting for us in the dining room. There has already been a chair set out for you, I believe besides Toby, but I will warn you that the next few days that many of the residents will be testing you in some forms. They are not allowed to kill you, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t test you to see how you will stand with them. Also, some of the residents have startling appearances.” Slenderman explained before opening the door to the dining room, leading Harry inside.
Conversation stopped as the two walked in, making Harry extremely self-conscious. Toby waved at Harry excitedly, his neck cracking loudly as he did. Harry smiled a bit, sitting beside Toby. There was another Creepypasta on his other side, who wore a tan jacket and had (amazing) sideburns. The whole room seemed to watch him. Hedwig sat on the chair behind Harry, looking around the room warily as if to watch for any threat towards her owner.
Slenderman cleared his throat, which Harry was unsure how since the entity didn’t even have a mouth, making everyone look at him. “This is Harry. He is from England and just recently snapped. As I am sure Toby has told some of you, Harry does have magic, as he comes from a world full of people able to do such a thing. They have hidden from those that cannot do magic as not to expose themselves, similar to us. Harry, I will mention that you can use your wand here without having to worry about ‘the trace’ as the wards around here will prevent anyone from sensing it.” Slenderman explained, which caused all eyes to turn to Harry again at the last sentence.
“Cool! Y-you’re a wizard! Does that m-mean that you can do a bunch of s-spells?! Can you catch s-stuff on fire?! Can you make t-things float?! Can you make my h-hatchets come back to me when I throw them?! I get lazy s-sometimes.” Toby chattered excitedly, making Harry sweatdrop.
“Yes, I can do several spells. Yes, there is a spell to catch things on fire. Yes, I can also use a floating spell. The hatchet thing I would have to look up, as I don’t know about that one.” Harry answered the questions, and more as Toby shot at him questions while he ate, it actually helping him calm down slightly.
Harry handed Hedwig a bit of his chicken as he scanned the room, noticing that several of the occupants were still watching him. His nerves were on fire at this point. He didn’t know how many of these people would react to him and he had to be on constant guard to make sure he wasn’t randomly attacked.
Harry held out his hand, stopping the knife that had been hurtling towards Hedwig, glaring at the thrower. “Do NOT touch her. Got it?” Harry growled out, staring at the thrower. He looked to be about sixteen, wearing a white hoodie and what looked to be a smile was cut into his face.
Hedwig let out a hoot angrily, glaring at the boy as she hopped into Harry’s lap, being careful with her talons as she nicked a piece of chicken off his plate.
Harry shook his head at the antics of his feathery companion, sending the knife back towards its owner, hearing a thud as it hit the wall next to him.
“Well, it seems you will fit in fine.” The man sitting beside him said. Harry looked over to him, raising an eyebrow as he ran a hand through Hedwig’s feathers.
“Thanks?” He replied, unsure of how to answer.
“I’m Masky. The silent one in the yellow hood in front of you is Hoodie. He rarely talks. You get more than ten words from him, the world is ending and you take cover.” Masky told him, making Harry hold back a chuckle as Hoodie smirked, waving at Harry. Harry waved back as Hedwig hooted merrily at the pets.
“Well, as you heard, my name is Harry. This is Hedwig, who’s been my best friend since I got her. I guess she’s technically my familiar as well. She’s the smartest owl I’ve ever met or seen and can easily find anyone no matter where they are.” Harry told him, grinning cheekily as he bragged a little about his owl companion, who moved back on top of his chair with her chest puffed out.
“I will so hold you to that. She’s pretty though, will not lie.” Masky replied.
Dinner past that way, with Harry talking to Toby and Masky, Hoodie occasionally making some motion when something was directed to him.
“Incendio!” Harry called out, as he and Toby stood behind the mansion, a blast of flames appearing from the end of his wand, making Toby squeal in excitement. A few other occupants had come out to watch the display, curious about the newest house guest.
“Harry, your room is beside Toby’s, he will lead you to it. I suggest getting some sleep, as tomorrow you will need it.” Slender’s voice rang out as he appeared in the yard, making Harry nod as he pocketed his wand. Hedwig flew back from her small hunting expedition, landing herself on Harry’s shoulder delicately as Harry walked inside.
Toby led him up the stairs, chatting the whole way. Harry couldn’t help but shake his head at the ticking killer, wondering how he could have so much energy.
“Here’s your r-room!” Toby exclaimed, opening the door. Harry smiled, looking around the room as Hedwig landed on the end of the wooden bed frame. It was simple, with just a bed, a dresser, and a desk for now. Harry would probably decorate a bit before bed, at least setting up Hedwig’s owl stand and casting a few spells to keep others out while he slept.
Harry took out his trunk, setting it on the ground as it grew to its normal size. He could hear Toby gasp in excitement, making him roll his eyes while smiling as he opened it, taking out the owl stand, setting it next to the bed for Hedwig, who gladly landed on it.
“I w-want a trunk l-like that,” Toby muttered, his excitement causing his stutters. Harry laughed a little, setting out a pair of clothes for him to wear for the night as he turned to Toby.
“Well, when I have to go get my school supplies I will see if you can come with, how about that?” Harry asked, making Toby grin before nodding excitedly.
With that, Toby left him for the night, to which Harry locked the door and cast a few charms around the room to alert him if anyone broke into the room, and to give them a ‘nice surprise’ when they do.
As Harry changed into his nightclothes and laid in the bed, he smiled, letting sleep take him.