Prologue:

Harry stood straight in front of the monster. His knees were weak, his arms, heavy. His robes were spoilt, stained with the scent of the sewers. The white of his undershirt was turned brown from the filthy water, the lens of his glasses were shattered.

Harry looked down at the chamber floor, he now stood on top the statue of Salazar Slytherin. He had climbed the gigantic statue using only one hand, the other was used to carry the sword of Gryffindor.

He lifted his right hand up, the sword of the brave was a heavy thing, maybe it was the silver, maybe it was the precious stones studded across it as decoration. Or maybe it was because Harry's arms were tired from the battle. Either way it didn't matter.

His green eyes gleamed with determination as he looked at the basilisk slowly rearing it's head. Looking at it now Harry could understand why some would think it beautiful. It's scales shined in the dim light of the chamber, it's horns, though chipped, was deserving to be called as a crown.

It's eyes however, those were gone, ripped to shreds thanks to Fawkes's timely intervention. But that was a good thing, otherwise Harry would have been dead ten times over.

"You cannot win Potter," Tom Riddle's voice mocked him from the ground below. The specter looked more solid now, more alive than ever before. He twirled Harry's wand between his fingers sending a wave of nausea throw Harry's stomach.

"The guardian of this chamber will not be defeated by a mere half-blood like yourself," Tom spoke as the basilisk patiently waited for Harry to move. The moment he does the snake would know where he was thanks to the noise he would make.

"Soon no one will remember the name Harry Potter," the stupid specter continued to speak, "they will never speak your name. And soon I will be reborn, and the world will know the glory of Lord Voldemort."

Harry's heartbeat picked up, it sounded like a marching band was running through his body as it defended his ears. His eyes moved away from Tom towards the snake, this was it, the moment he had been putting of. There was only one way out of this, there was no reason to put this off any longer.

Harry griped the sword with both hands, the leather crinkled under his grasp. He raised it higher and lowered it over his right shoulder. He took a deep breath and lowered his center of gravity.

He took a step forward, his shoes clicked on the marble he stood on and the basilisk moved.

It launched itself at him with the speed seemingly impossible for a snake it's size. Harry jumped to side, swinging the sword of Gryffindor widely, clipping the snake's mouth.

"KRA!" the monster of the chamber roared in annoyance as it moves back. It growled as launched itself again at Harry who easily dodged the second attack while swinging again at the beast.

The basilisk roared and began to shake violently, it didn't like being hurt. It began smashing it's entire body into the statue of Salazar Slytherin over and over, causing Harry to lose his footing and fall on his back losing his grip on the sword of Gryffindor.

The young Gryff managed to hold on to the statue's massive head as he pulled himself up only to see the Basilisk moving to launch one final attack. He needed to move, now.

Harry strained his muscles as he got onto the stone platform. He looked to one corner and saw the sword of the brave slowly sliding off the head. He threw himself forward and caught the handle just before it fell off the side and quickly stood up just in time to see the Basilisk open it's jaws wide as it tried to eat him whole.

Seeing no other choice Harry lunged forward with both hands on the blade's grip. He threw himself forward as half his body entered the snake's mouth. He thrusted the blade up into the Basilisk's brain, plunging it hilt deep, killing it.

"ARGH!" Harry roared out in pain as he felt a fang scratch his forehead right across his lighting bolt scar. Harry could feel venom course through the wound, it felt like his head was on fire.

The body of the basilisk slowly moved down, dragging Harry's body with it. It landed on the ground throwing Harry across the hard marble floor of the chamber.

Harry trashed around, it felt like his body was on fire. He was sure at least a rib was broken, but that was the least of his pain. He had been bitten by the basilisk's venom, twice. There was a fang embedded into his right arm, Harry could feel it, but the pain he felt form that was nothing compared to the pain he felt from the scar on his forehead.

"You may have beasted the beast, but it matter not," Tom's specter walked over Harry, he looked more alive than ever, "soon you will be dead, I can see the venom already doing it's work on you. Soon you will die, and lord Voldemort will live once more!"

Harry squinted past the pain and looked at the human before him. In some ways he was a bigger monster than the snake. Harry's eyes then fell to the diary, the cause of all of this. It laid there, just a few feet from him, like any other harmless book.

"I'll stop you," Harry growled past the pain, the vibrations his throat caused sent sharp pricks of pain across his head.

"You are dying, you can't stop anything."

"Yes, I can."

"No, you can't. The position is absolute Potter, nothing can stop it. It will destroy you, first your brain, then your body."

Harry looked at the spirit, he was right. Harry knew it, he was right. This would be his death, but…..but Harry wasn't afraid. It felt strange, the fact that he was really going to die, but Harry didn't care, after all he didn't have anything worth living for anyway.

No...no that wasn't true, he had his friends. Hermione, Ron, Neville, Sean, Dean, everyone in Gryffindor. The other houses, the school. The entire wizarding world.

Tears streamed down Harry's eyes, it wasn't fair, he just found them, it hadn't even been more than two years, but he was already going to die, just when he found a place he belonged.

"No more tears Potter," Tom lowered himself as he ran his hand over Harry's face. His fingers felt warm, he was nearly revived, meaning Ginny was almost dead. "Just close your eyes, this will all be over soon. You can finally rest boy, your battle is over."

Harry looked at the ceiling, at the fake sunlight coming down from the enchanted roof of the chamber. Tom was right, his battles were over, this would be his last one. And if that was true….then Harry wasn't going to lose.

He still had a fight to complete. He turned his head and looked at the diary a few feet from him, Ginny Weasley's still form held on to it.

Harry moved, he reached out with one hand and started to drag his prone form forward with his already weak arms. He could feel the burning poison spread faster with each movement he made, but it didn't matter, Harry refused to let Tom win, if he did then everything he loved would be in danger.

"It's no use Potter," Tom spoke as he slowly paced along with Harry's crawling form, "you will not survive this."

"I know," Harry growled, the words said caused his head to throb in pain. Harry could feel the poison benign away at his scar, it should be burn away, but something was fighting back, something kept the burning basilisk venom at bay. Harry couldn't see it, but slowly black fumes leaked from his head, the thing inside his scar was slowly being killed by the venom.

"Then what do you hope you accomplish?" Tom asked, his curiosity peaked.

Harry reached out with his left hand and took the diary from Ginny's grapes, bringing it close. Harry carefully lifted himself up, his head spun thanks to the extreme vertigo, but he held on.

"Your a smart man Tom, figure it out," Harry moved his right arm forward, the fang of the basilisk was still embedded into it causing black veins to form around the wound. Harry gripped the fange and yanked it out sending a new wave of pain through his body.

"Wait, what are you...," Tom's eyes sprang wide open, "no! STOP!"

"DIE!" Harry plunged the fang into the diary causing the paper to explode out black ink. It looked like human blood was pouring out of the wound, maybe in a way it was.

"NO!" Tom roared as a white tear in his body exploded outwards causing him to drop Harry's wand in pain. Tom clutched the wound as he fell to his knees.

"You will not harm them TOM!" Harry took the fang out and opened the book halfway, the fang didn't go all the way through. He stabbed the book over and over again causing his hands to be covered in black ink as slowly more and more of Tom's body started to disappear.

"NO!" Tom roared again as Harry kept stabbing into the book, tearing the spirit into pieces.

"Good Boy Tom Riddle," Harry spoke in a whisper as he closed the book before bringing the fang down one last time with all the force he had tearing through the entire book and into the hard floor underneath.

"NO!" Tom exploded in a burst of light as slowly his disappeared into nothing leaving this mortal coil.

Harry smiled as slowly he let go of the fang and the diary. His head started to spin as he fell back on the hard floor hitting his head. Harry expected pain, but it didn't come. Everything was numb now. Happyness flew into him, he did it, they were all safe. Harry saved them all.

But just as it came, it left.

The daunting feeling of fear came over Harry, he didn't want to die. He knew he was going to die, but that didn't mean he liked it, that didn't mean he wanted to. Harry felt the venom inside him stir, it was moving faster now.

The smoke coming out of Harry's head slowly stopped, the soul of Lord Voldemort was no more, and in that moment Harry was bombarded with a wave of pain.

"ARGH!" Harry roared out, it felt like acid was poured into his ears as the venom burning through his brain.

"What's going on?" Ginny stared as she slowly got and looked around, "where am-Harry!" The redhead spotted Harry thrashing across the floor like a man possessed. She tried to stand up but found her limbs were too numb.

Ginny crawled and put Harry's head on her lap, "Harry?! Harry?! Harry are you okay?!" She looked around, there was a giant 60 foot long snake next to them. She would have been worried, if it wasn't for the fact a giant silver sword was currently sticking out of it's head.

The youngest of the Weasley family looked around, she didn't know where she was or what to do. Harry kept thrashing around in her lap, Ginny was panicking, she held onto his hand as tight as she could, but that didn't help one bit.

And just then, when it seemed hopeless, the sound of a musical shrill tore through the dreading atmosphere. Ginny snapped her head towards the sound and saw a phoenix flying towards her and Harry. She was in awe of it's beauty, so much so that she didn't even move when it landed right next to her.

"Cwoo," the bird's beautiful voice said as it approached Ginny and Harry.

"C-can you help him?" Ginny asked snapping out of her stupor. The bird looked at Harry and nodded.

It slowly went over to his right arm, it had a huge gaping hole in it with blood leaking out, along with something black that Ginny didn't recognize. The phoenix lowered itself over Harry's arm and slowly little crystal clear tears feel on the wound.

Ginny watched as the skin healed itself turning back to normal. The black ink like substance leaking out of Harry's body was slowly burnt away as Harry slowly stopped thrashing around.

The bird then moved to Harry's head and cried over it. Ginny didn't notice before, but Harry was also hurt there as well. He now had another scar going diagonally across his old one forming a new scar in the shape of an 'X'. More blood and that black substance leaked out of this wound, but it was much less in quantity than the one on his arm.

Fawkes cried, his tears fell on Harry's brow, and slowly but surely the wound started to heal itself. But that was not all that happened.

The venom inside Harry's head was stalled for some time thanks to the soul of Lord Voldemort stuck inside it. But the moment it died the venom started to seep into Harry's head. It killed off several neurons present in the frontal lobe of the brain, tearing through that which made Harry, Harry. The venom then went further inside, slowly seeping into his right posterior cortical, burning through that as well.

By the time Fawkes's tears destroyed the venom the damage had been done. So the tears set to work fixing what had been destroyed. It revived the neurons killed off, but it didn't more than just that, after all the haling properties of phoenix tears were the stuff of legend. It started to replicate the neurons at an amazing rate, increasing Harry's neural network to near superhuman levels.

The healing tears of Fawkes spread out at first, the frontal lobe was a large section of the brain, but once that was healed the tears all flowed to one spot, the right posterior cortical. This caused the neurons in that part of the brain to explode, reproducing at an incredible rate causing that part of Harry's brain to advance a million years beyond what humans could do at present.

Harry Potter was still unconscious, but inside...inside something had changed, a switch had flipped. He was slowly becoming different, a different person, a different being.

Soon Harry's breathing returned to normal, his body started to sweat, almost like it was fighting off a cold.

"Thank you," Ginny whispered to the bird as she held onto Harry crying tears of joy, "thank you for saving him."

The phoenix sang and beautiful song in response, almost as if to say, 'it was my pleasure.' Ginny let herself be absorbed into the song, she felt her pain and her worries melt away.

"How do we get out of here?" she asked. Fawkes said nothing but turned around swatting Ginny's hand with his tail feathers. She quickly understood as she tightened her grip on Harry and grabbed Fawkes tail feathers.

The bird then flew up higher, carrying Ginny and Harry across the air and outside the chamber's walls. The bird flew over the rubble left behind by Lockhart's backfired spell and went up the tunnel towards Hogwarts.

Ginny smiled, she loved the feeling of the wind blowing across her face. The further away from the chamber she got the more alive she felt. She looked at Harry, even he was looking better by the minute.

Harry however was still unconscious, his brain was slowly being rewired, he was changing. He dreamed of his parents, he dreamed of a world where they didn't die. He dreamed, and dreamed. Little did he know that when he woke up his world would be changed forever.

Well there you go, the first chapter. I know the beginning isn't all that original,but I will change a lot of things in time. Fuck the timeline, this is Fanfiction.

Please leave a review telling me what you all think, it will greatly helping in my writing process.

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