Chapter One: Born of Darkness.


The young emerald eyed sorcerer made his way with his party to a temple. The temple looked out something like a horror movie where sacrifices of virgins would be made to appease a god. The emerald eyed sorcerer didn't have to worry because none of his group were virgins. That was something that he personally made sure of many times over.

The warm flickers of the warm embers greeted the group outside of the temple. Today was the day that they would arrive. Time was an interesting and mysterious thing. It had to happen on this day because it already happened.

He didn't even want to wrap his head around the craziness of time travel theories. All it would be bound to do was to make his head explode into a pile of ick. The green eyed wizard shook his head.

The four females that followed him would follow him to the ends of the Earth. Now they would follow him to a different place, they would follow him to the edge of time.

"So, she said that she would meet you here at the right time, right?"

The brunette girl was the first one who spoke up. She wore a tight black shirt that wrapped around her teenage curves. The eighteen year old girl put her hands on her hips, covered in tight black pants. She had a belt with a blade that this young man taught her to use.

This young man was Harry Potter. He wore many faces to the world. He was a mutant. He was a magician. He was also an alien. He was a businessman and a teacher that taught many super powered females how to use their abilities.

He could do it all, or so it seemed. The only things he couldn't do were the things that he didn't try. The only women that he couldn't do were the one's that he never had the pleasure of meeting.

"She did tell us to meet her here, yes, on this night, as midnight approaches," Harry said.

"As midnight approaches, no that's not foreboding at all, is it?" the brunette asked, shaking her head with a shudder.

"You're not scared, are you, Kitty?" one of the blondes in the group said to her.

The blonde was dressed in a black jacket, along with a red shirt, and a tight pair of black pants that fit around her frame snugly. Her most defining feature though was the black headband that rested on the top of her head. Her name was Gwen Stacy, one of Harry's oldest female friends and one of his many girlfriends. She was the smartest girl of her age.

She also had gifts but those didn't matter right now.

"I'm not scared," Kitty Pryde, better known as Shadowcat, said. She shook her head. The girl's ability to maintain intangibility allowed her to get into places that were only among the wildest dreams of anyone else.

"I don't think none of us are scared," the second blonde said. She wore a tight black shirt with a silver "S" shield on it. The leather black skirt and boots added to the outfit. The final article of clothing was black and grey jacket that could be folded out to be a cape if she thought it. "We just want to be extremely cautious, that's all."

"Thanks, Kara," Harry said.

Kara Zor-El had been with him here since the beginning. They met when Harry was twelve and she was eleven. Kara went through the portal in her mother's lab and ran into Harry, when he had bars on his windows. She rescued them and scared the shit out of his relatives. She was his first friend and they had become much more. Kara couldn't return home because she got stranded by Earth and her planet might have died by the time she got back because it was in bad shape.

The two of them made their way to this world after an adventure in the aptly named Department of Mysteries.

"Cautious, isn't that the name of your game?" the fifth and final member of their party asked them.

The girl's red hair bounced brightly, almost burning bright in the eerie moonlight. Her green eyes looked like Harry's at first sight but were a different shade. She wore a red robe with a golden Phoenix emblem on it. Kara and Harry appeared pretty much on top of her head when they arrived. Jean Grey had a freak out because of her Phoenix powers.

She may have played no small part in dragging them here but it was really a combination of many things.

"It's always my name, Jean," Harry said to one of his mates, wrapping his arm around her. "It's not like I don't trust Selene but…."

"This hasn't been done before, we know that," Jean said, it was almost like she was reading his mind. "At least not to the extent we're doing it."

She might have been able to if it was anyone else other than Harry. Since it was Harry, she couldn't read his mind. That made her relationship with him a challenge and she liked a challenge. She wanted someone that she could have fun with.

The fact that there were so many girls, she didn't mind it at all. It showed Harry's power and strength.

They walked into the temple. The clock nearly reached midnight; it was a few minutes away. A large statue of Harry could be seen at the end of the corridor.

"Welcome," a soft voice said. "Beloved, welcome."

The woman took several strides over towards him. She smiled when she approached him, a glint flickering through her eyes. Her dark hair hung over her head and was black as the midnight sky. The black corset fit around her breasts, holding them up. Her bright red lips curled into a smile that was warm and cunning as well . Her boots fitted fairly nicely to her legs as well and she wore fingerless black gloves.

She stepped forward and greeted Harry. She gave him a long and lingering kiss to the lips.

The girls, not to be outdone were given greetings of their own.

"The Midnight hour is close at hand," Selene said.

"Where's Vincent Price when you need him?" Gwen asked, as Kara started humming "Thriller" underneath her breath. "So what do we need to know?"

"You'll know when you take your Adventure Through Time, and when it's time to leave, you will be there," Selene said and she motioned for their hands to be moved forward. "I'll meet you all for the first time soon enough."

That statement was a mind fuck to end all mind fucks. She took a silver knife to cut their hands. It had to be treated by a special charm to cut Gwen, Harry, and Kara because of their enhanced physiology.

They disappeared, with a flash of purple light erupting from Selene's temples through the time portal.

"So, are you going to tell them of the darkness that approaches if they don't succeed?"

"They will succeed," Selene said. She gave them every advantage that they could, not they needed it because it was Harry Potter.

The insanity they met along the way would be fascinating.


A bright flash of light appeared in the sky and Harry made a graceful landing down to the ground. Kara floated her way gently down to the ground. Gwen used her acrobatic ability to get herself safely down to the ground. Jean landed firmly on the ground, maneuvering herself to the ground with her telekinesis.

Kitty very nearly went hurling towards the ground. Harry caught her in his arms before she hit the ground.

"Oh, thank you, I thought I was going to totally go splat," Kitty said and Kara pinched her. "HEY!"

"I thought we had a discussion about the valley girl thing," Kara said and Kitty stuck out her tongue. Kara scoffed at her words. "That's really mature too."

"Ladies," Harry said, clearing his throat. Both ladies turned towards him and raised their eyebrows in curiosity. "Now isn't the time nor the place for this."

"Actually where is the time or the place now?" Gwen asked. She noticed that they were in different clothes from where they left. They weren't twenty first century fare, she could say that much.

"I believe that we're in the Hyperion age," Harry told her.

"Oh you mean the time of barbarians and stuff like that?" Kitty asked. "You know like the guy that Arnold played."

"Conan?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, that guy," Kitty said in excitement. She shook her head. "Do you think that we're going to be attacked in the middle of the desert or something?"

"Actually, is there a good reason why we're supposed to be in the desert?" Kara asked. Her enhanced vision was a good thing because there was a sand storm that kicked up.

She barely was able to see through the gusts of sand and wind. The blonde placed her hands nervously on her hips.

"This is where our adventure begins," Harry said, taking a stance.

"You sound like you should be narrating a comic book," Gwen said, shaking her head. "But I guess it does have a point, even though it is the epitome of all things cheese."

"What in our life isn't?" Kara asked. "We're a bunch of super powered teenagers slash young adults who fight monsters, aliens, and crazed colorfully dressed madmen. Is that a normal life on any planet?"

"Some distant universe, a long way away maybe," Kitty said, and she waited for Harry to give them direction.

"Normal is overrated," Harry said without even missing a beat. "Just keep on your toes."

"Don't we always?" Gwen asked him with a cheeky little smile and Harry slapped her on her ass.

That caused Gwen to jump up mostly because it didn't trigger her danger sense. She shook her head and gave a lengthy sigh.

"Yes, I do, but I'm here to make sure you stay that way," Harry said and she frowned. "Just keep following the path. We're pretty close."

Jean thought that they better be. There was a gust of wind.

"We're not going to have to set up camp in the middle of the desert, are we?" Kara asked, using her super breath to give them a better path.

"I sure totally hope not!" Kitty yelled and then yelped when she got another pinch from Kara.

Harry answered that question from his girls. "That's where we started. This is our first trial through our Adventures Through Time."

"Why do you keep saying that?' Kitty asked.

Gwen smiled and nudged her. "I don't know, but it has a certain ring to it."

"Yeah, it does," Kitty admitted.

They all wanted to know where they were. Something told them that they were getting closer. Harry's instincts lead him forward and they followed him.

"We're just going to follow him to the end, aren't we?" Jean asked.

"Did you ever have Harry steer you wrong?" Kara asked.

"No, never," Jean admitted and the other girls nodded.

There was a pained groan that Harry picked up. He locked eyes with Kara and with the look on her face, it was obvious that she picked it up as well.

Gwen felt a buzzing in her head. She thought that it was her early warning system at first. It might have been but it was telling her something different.

It told her that Harry was right and they were right exactly where they needed to be.

Harry's enhanced hearing and his instincts were a potent combination. It led him precisely where he needed to go through the wild and untamed desert. The huge rapid gusts of wind continued to fire up and burn into his skin the further he walked.

There was a dark and familiar looking figure that was left in the middle of the harsh desert to die. Harry figured that this was coming.

"Is that who I think it is?" Jean asked.

Harry nodded. "She did say that we were about ready to meet her for the first time."

The group knew that whilst they could withstand the desert, this girl couldn't. She was left stranded and shaken in the middle of this harsh atmosphere.

"Come on, we got to rescue her!" Harry called and they followed.


The bitter desert claimed many people. This young girl thought that she would be the latest on the list. The things that went wrong on this day replayed in her mind. The delirium spreading through her body caused it to be hard to think. She just managed to do so.

Her name was Selene Gallio. She traveled alongside her companion but they had both been attacked in the desert. The wizard and his hoard of barbarians had made off with her companion as a prize.

Selene was left in the midst of the desert. Her body shivered when she rested in the sand. She thought for a brief moment she was going to be here forever.

Her mind might have broken before she died.

'Not that much solace,' she thought to herself when she held her head up.

She barely had the strength to hold her head up high. The woman flopped down to one knee and gave a ragged cough in the desert. The more she struggled in the middle of the desert, the more awful she felt. A chill spread all throughout her body. Fingertips grew increasingly numb despite the desert being scorching hot.

Death was something that she didn't fear. Selene was born in darkness. She had very little memories of where she started. The only memories she lived is the life that she lived.

A bright light flashed in her eyes. Selene felt like she was caught off guard. The woman lifted up her hands to shield her eyes from the blinding light.

The crisp crack of desert sand could be heard underneath the footsteps. There were travelers coming her way.

There were only two types of people who traveled this way. Bandits and barbarians and Selene didn't have the strength to deal with either.

She picked up a jagged piece of metal that she wrestled away from her attackers. It wasn't that much but it was the last line of defense that she had. She had to use it in good health. Her hands shook.

"Stay….stay back, I'm armed!" Selene cried.

The person who approached her looked extremely amused for some reason. Selene saw the sand storm subside and that allowed her to get a close look at him.

Her hiccups increased when she looked at him. She watched him approach her. This was some kind of avatar of Death, she could feel it. Selene's body shivered when she felt chills go down her spine. The green eyes and the messy back hair were familiar to her.

"You….you," Selene said and she collapsed.

There was a redhead who approached her next. She had similar, yet somewhat different, green eyes like the man who approached her.

"She's weak, looks like we got here soon enough."

Selene didn't need a diagnosis to say that she was weak.

"Well we were sent here for a reason," another voice said.

Another female voice cut through the desert. It was at this point where Selene wondered how many of them there were. There seemed to be an entire harem of them at this point.

"That's obvious, but we're in the middle of the desert still."

Death's avatar smiled and he guided Selene. She didn't fight him now. It was almost like she resigned herself to some kind of fate. Exactly what that was, he didn't know.

"Yes, in the middle of the desert, but not that far away from civilization," he commented to his group.

"But….how…"

"Watch closely," he commented.

Selene joined the rest of the party in watching closely. The young man put a single stone down onto the sand.

For several moments, there was nothing. Selene thought that she may have imagined the entire episode.

She thought frantically. 'Any second now, I'll be waking up with my face in the sand.'

Her face wasn't in the sand. A flash of light erupted in her face. Selene was caught completely off guard. Her eyes focused.

"Did you doubt him for a second?"

"We've been over this a million times. No we don't doubt him. Because he will make us look like a fool every single time we doubt them."

Selene saw a set of stairs and a tunnel. It was almost like it had been submerged underneath the desert and long forgotten.

These green eyes that looked like the death curse stared towards her. "Come with me if you wish to live."

That was an invitation that she couldn't pass up. Something stirred with Selene's subconscious. It felt like she met with this man before today but that seemed to be impossible. At least so she assumed.

Selene had been around long enough to know better to assume. She would see where this lead. Then she would have to worry about saving her companion from the Sorcerer.


"You just have this ability to stumble upon the things that we need," Kitty said.

No matter how many times she said that she would no longer be in awe with anything that Harry did, she was in awe because of something that Harry did. Her jaw hung open in shock and awe. There was also a fair amount of surprise along with that. Her brown eyes blinked excitedly.

"As amusing as it is, let's not start bouncing up and down in response," Gwen said. "Our guest is asleep in the next room."

"She seems so cute and innocent at that age," Kara said with a sigh. "I wonder what corrupted her into the Black Queen."

"Well, I trained her, according to Selene," Jean commented.

That caused Kitty to arch her eyebrow. "Didn't she train you in that role and for your duties around the Church?"

"In between worshipping the Phoenix and Star Child yes she did," Jean confirmed. "It's an interesting loop. She has to train me, so I can go into the past and train her and be all that she could be."

"Oh time travel, making my brain hurt," Gwen said. She placed her hand on the top of her head in mock drama.

Harry placed his arm around her. He tightened the grip around her and caused her to sigh. That allowed Gwen to nuzzle her face up against his shoulder.

"Don't worry, I don't know any more about it than you do."

"If it confuses Harry, we're really in big trouble."

"I don't think it confuses him, Kitty," Kara said, kicking herself back on the bench. Thanks to a little magic it was more comfortable than it might have been. "It's just like he doesn't like to think about it. Just like you don't like to think about making your cooking edible."

Kitty crossed her arms and pouted.

"Hey, I'm getting better!" she protested.

Gwen smirked. "Yeah, because we no longer have to call poison control for your cooking, so yes Kitty, we agree, you are getting better. You're getting much better. Keep up the good work and all that stuff."

Kitty's scowl deepened. Harry reached over and patted her on the back of the neck.

"Harry, could you conjure a pillow for me so I can throw it at them?" Kitty asked. She looked at them with puppy dog eyes. "Please."

"Okay, that's enough the three of you," Harry said. He turned his attention to Jean who had dipped into the next room. "So, how is our prisoner?"

"Sleeping, she looks so angelic and innocent," Jean said.

"Yeah, and you're going to corrupt her aren't you?" Kara asked with a grin.

"Just think you used to be that innocent at one time," Harry said.

"And it's your fault that I'm not," Kara bantered back.

Harry smiled and Kara decided to take a spot on Harry's lap. Or at least in theory that she did. Kitty tried to take the same spot that Kara did.

It resulted in the two of them bonking heads and grimacing.

Gwen smiled and slid onto Harry's lap. That got them looks of protest. "To be fair, that was ill advised."

"That wasn't fair," Kitty protested.

Jean amused herself for a moment. "You know, we could have left you in the past."

"But the ancient scroll thingy said I was here," Kitty protested with a pout.

"We know the ancient scroll thingy said that we were on it," Harry said, and Gwen laughed.

There was just something amusing about Harry Potter saying the word "ancient scroll thingy" out loud that she couldn't place.

"I was there, Kara was there, Jean was there, Harry, and you," Gwen said, shifting herself.

"So you were, weren't you?"

Selene walked out. She was dressed in form fitting black clothes that were made of the finest silk. She actually was impressed with what they did for her. She walked out to join the group.

"How are you feeling?" Jean asked.

"Much better," Selene said and she walked over. "Whatever you did to me, it helped me."

"That's good," Harry said, pulling out a chair which she took.

"You stumbled across the one placed that we can have shelter in the entire desert," Selene said, sitting down across from the group.

They were an interesting group. Selene thought that her life might not be dull hanging around this particular group.

"So exactly how much do you know?" Harry asked to her.

"Enough to know that I'm experiencing some strange case of Deja-Vu," Selene admitted. She could see all eyes on her and she added. "And it's not completely conscience, only bits and pieces of it."

"Some kind of subconscious thing, then," Jean said. "It feels like a dream."

"Yes, it feels exactly like a dream," Selene suggests, frowning deeply.

Harry was thinking the same thing. He suspected that Selene may have put a bit of herself into the time travel ritual. She couldn't follow them back in time because she couldn't physically travel back to a time where she was alive. And it was an extremely long time where she was alive.

Her memories were another thing already. And she knew what to do because she pieced together what already happened.

Harry had this sixth sense that they weren't the only elements that had taken an Adventure Through Time. He didn't know why but that's what he just felt.

They would have to hash out the full details about this in the morning.


Selene was supposed to be left abandoned and worst of all, she was supposed to be left for dead. Only that's not what happened. She wasn't left for dead, she wasn't abandoned. The man who stepped out of the shadows and walked down the hallway to his well-constructed fortress thought of something.

His men had orders to kill the warrior woman's oracle and capture the woman. The woman resisted his attempts to subvert her every step of the way.

'We'll see how much resistance she offers when I have her bound up in my dungeons,' he thought. He had some nasty plans.

The one and only Kulen Gath was one of the wickedest men in this Hyperion Age. He fancied himself to be a ruler.

He had devoted followers. There were rumors that he had access to artifacts that increased his power that was out of this world.

No one was willing to test his patience often enough to see whether or not those rumors were true.

"So, do you still fight me?"

"I will never serve you," the woman said from the other end of the door.

"So be it, we'll see if your tune changes in a number of days," Gath said. He blinked and grinned. "You can be certain of one thing, your servitude has no need to be consensual."

That threat was left hanging. One of his advisors stepped towards him. The man sunk to one knee before his master.

Gath's face was obscured by a hooded robe. What was more was that the robes didn't give anyone any idea about his body type.

That being said one could read his body language very well. Annoyance could be read.

"Have you found anything regarding the traveler?" he whispered.

"No, master, I haven't, there have been sightings," the man said and there was an excuse forming on the tip of his tongue. "The party I sent out perished due to the elements of the desert and I haven't been able to find them."

"What of Selene, have you retrieved her?" Gath asked.

That woman proved to have potential that could offset Gath's plans for domination. He wasn't going to play any games.

"No, she must have perished…."

"Do not leave anything to chance," Gath warned him nastily. "You shouldn't have left her for dead. You should have killed her."

"The warrior put up…"

Garth placed a staff at the throat of his enemy. He flinched when the sorcerer looked to be seconds away from attacking him.

He didn't attack, at least for the moment. The man breathed easily mostly because he could breathe at all.

"No excuses," he whispered to his enemy. "I don't want to hear single excuse. Do you hear me?"

Actions spoke louder than words. Excuses deafened all who dared listen to them.

"I want her found, and I don't care how many men die trying."

"What of the traveler?"

"Leave the traveler to me," Gath replied.

His words had no worry about them. The gospel of the traveler was spread with a group of oddly dressed people from a distant future who came to a more distant pass than this one. It was even more primitive times than this one.

The mystical artifacts that Gath collected showed that it would be less primitive.

He didn't worry about this traveler. He had his plans to deal with him. The man's wide smile crossed into a wicked grin.

No one could see it because of the hood pulled over his head. If they dared look upon it, they would be extremely terrified indeed.

"You have my orders, failure isn't an option."


To Be Continued On December 21st 2014.

So this bears a bit of explanation. This was originally intended to be a sequel to my Beyond the Veil series. But, it turns out that it is, but it isn't. Rather it's a sequel to a potential Beyond the Veil alternate timeline. In other words, I did a reboot, without doing a reboot.

Actually, the original, original plan, was for this to be a five chapter story arc in the middle of the trilogy. And obviously, given how this outlined to be a fifty chapter story, you can see about how well those plans went and why the idea was pitched and spun off into a spin off that's not really a spin off.

That being said, it's not really necessary for you to read Beyond the Veil to read this one. While it can function as a sort of sequel, it's providing you ignore several extremely glaring continuity glitches. One of the biggest things I fixed was Kara should have come in with Harry from the beginning.

That being said, it works pretty well as a standalone and likely works better if you didn't read the original Beyond the Veil trilogy. I wrote the last chapters you read in January of last year of the original series, even though I think they were popping up into July. I don't know.

Also, the first seven chapters were supposed to go out all in a chunk next week. That ended up a bit more ugly than I thought. So yeah, weekly updates, maybe twice a week when other things so down and I'm in between "seasons." My earliest estimate is that all 50 chapters should be out by the end of October 2015. But subject to change.

This chapter very much also functions as a pilot because it was written a bit earlier(like a month) before the next chapater.