Chapter 1

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Quick AN! This is my rewrite! Things are going to be different on multiple accounts. Some things might be the same from the previous version but I noticed multiple plot holes with what I was going to have and decided to make things easier on me. To do that though I needed to change what I had already written. I hope you enjoy the new version!

It started off as another nightmare. The one where Sirius died. Harry watched in slow motion as Bellatrix's stunner hit Sirius, causing him to fall into the veil. This time, Harry managed to break free of Remus' grip. He charged at the veil in a desperate attempt to do something. Anything that might make it to where Sirius (the person closest to what Harry imagined a father was like dammit!) was still alive. Anything that might make it to where Sirius didn't die because Harry stupidly walked into an obvious trap! So Harry ran at the veil. For a moment, just before he touched the silvery whisps with his scarred hand, he had a thought. Maybe I can finally meet my parents. I can join Sirius through the veil and we can stay together in the afterlife.

But just as Harry passed through the golden archway, the dream changed. Harry found himself in the desert, standing on the porch of an old house. Well, house was a bit of an overstatement. It was more like a shack. Harry had just enough time to wonder why someone would build a shack in the middle of the desert when he saw the lion. At first, Harry jumped, dropping into a defensive stance and holding onto his wand tightly. But when the lion (which was...blue?) didn't make any move to attack him, he slowly relaxed. The blue lion seemed to look at Harry in amusement before she stood and started walking away from him. She stopped after several feet and turned her head to give Harry a look. One that told him to follow her. And for some bizarre reason (Harry blamed being a Gryffindor) he did.

He followed her through the sand, which soon gave way to rock, then into a cave system. If Harry fell too far behind, the lion would stop and wait for him to catch up. This happened a few times, as Harry would stop to study the carvings along the walls of the cave. They were...amazing. It looked like they were all of a lion, sometimes multiple lions, but each one was different.

The blue lion led Harry to this large empty chamber in the cave before she finally stopped and turned to look at him. Harry was shocked when she opened her mouth and spoke to him. Say what you want but talking blue lions was a new strange, even for him. And he's a wand waving wizard that can talk to snakes.

"Hello little one," the lion spoke.

"Umm. Hello," Harry returned the greeting.

The lion seem to smile at him as she spoke again, "Little one, I wish to ask for your help."
"What kind of help? And why me?" Harry asked warily, wounds still fresh from the ministry battle a week ago. The lion flicked her tail, inviting Harry to sit down next to her. He did so slowly, the lion then laying down in a way that she was curled around him.

"Thousands of years ago, my pride was built on a planet called Altea. We were built to combine and form the ultimate weapon. Voltron," as she spoke, the cave distorted and morphed to show her story. Five mechanical robot lions, each a different color, fusing together in a flash of light until a giant robot man appeared and swung a sword. "For years, we kept the peace throughout the universe. Until my brother's previous paladin, a galra named Zarkon, changed." Now an image of Zarkon appeared, followed by the other paladins. Then Zarkon took his weapon and slaughtered two of them, the ones in green and yellow armor. "He became power hungry. Zarkon betrayed the other paladins. In order to keep Voltron out of his reach, my siblings and I were separated. I was hidden on Earth, where I remained hidden for the next ten thousand years. But Zarkon still rules. His empire has only grown stronger. He found one of my sisters but she is doing everything she can to keep him from accessing her." The red lion was shown surrounded by a barrier. "She wished to be here to talk to you herself," the blue lion told him as the images faded back to the cave walls.

"How come?" Harry was curious.

"Because little one, she wishes for you to be her next paladin," she spoke gently, which definitely helped stop Harry from having a major freak out...instead it was only a minor one.

"But why me? I'm nothing special. I just led my godfather to his death because I was an idiot and walked into a trap," Harry drew his knees to his chest and stared at the ground solemnly. He wasn't quite prepared for the lion to nuzzle his neck gently and lick his hair.

"You are very special little one. I've know that since the day I watched your birth. I knew you'd have a long and rough life ahead of you. But I also know that no matter what life throws at you, you'd survive and grow stronger," she ended her statement with another lick to his hair.

"What do you mean? When you said you watched my birth?"

"Exactly that little one. You were born here, in this cave. Your parents protected me from the galra. During so, I watched the ones called James and Lily fall in love with a third. Their bond became so strong and you were the result of the love the three of them shared. Lily was unable to bear a cub so I called to her and James. I wished to give them my blessing, which would allow them to birth their own cub. However, they were too far away for me to do so. I needed them to come enough that I could see them from my own body. But before they could find me a galra crashed nearby and was rescued by James and Lily. Her name was Krolia. She was a member of a galra resistance, fighting against Zarkon. Her mission was to protect me. The three of them fell in love in the coming months and soon Krolia was with a cub. You little one."

"So Lily wasn't my real mother?"

"She was just as much your mother as Krolia was. I know not the details but I believe Lily used her blood and magic to adopt you as her own. You share equal DNA of your father and both of your mothers," the lioness explained. Harry had to take a minute to digest the new information. He had three parents. James, Lily, and Krolia. He was probably in shock but finding out he was part alien wasn't all that shocking to him.

"...What happened to her? Krolia?" Harry asked. He was almost afraid of the answer, but he had to know.

"She had to return the resistance. You were only a few weeks old at the time. A small galra ship had found me and she fought them. In doing so she realized that the best way to protect not only me but James, Lilly, and their child was to return to space. To divert the galra's attention away from earth. It pained her so much to leave you little one. She loved you with everything she had," the lioness told him, nuzzling his neck comfortingly again. Harry took a deep breath and steadied himself.

"Is...is she still alive?" Harry refused to let himself become hopeful. He didn't think he could take it right now.

"She is. But I'm afraid I can not locate her. The universe is vast little one," she spoke gently. Harry didn't know what to feel in that moment. He just found out he had a second mother, who was fighting in a space war.

"When I go into space would...would you be willing to help me look for her?" Harry turned to look at the lion fully, a begging look in his eyes.

"My sister would be quite jealous but I will do my best. All of us would gladly help you find your mother. You have a couple years yet before it will be time to leave earth, however. Take this time to prepare and grow stronger," she told him before freezing and looking toward the mouth of the cave sadly. "Little one. Words cannot express how sorry I am for having to show you this. Something so horrible should never have happened to you," she flicked her tail, causing the cave walls to distort again.

Harry first saw himself, asleep in his assigned bed in the hospital wing (he had a name plack and everything) while Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Dumbledore stood off to the side. Then the audio kicked in and Harry felt his world shatter. He could only listen in frozen silence as Ron and Hermione demanded money from Dumbledore. As Dumbledore agreed to those demands saying that the least Harry could do for dragging them into a battle was pay them for their troubles. Then Ginny chiming in that he was paying them for being his friends anyway. All of them laughed. Dumbledore told them that another summer at the Dursley's would break Harry. Then it would be the perfect time to comfort him and Ginny could make her move to seduce Harry. Once she was pregnant they could kill him and gain full access to all of his vaults.

He wanted to be angry. Wanted to shout and vent out all the pain he felt from learning this. But something was keeping him calm. The lion. She was helping numb the pain. Harry was grateful for that. Without her warning, the traitors would have most likely succeeded in killing him for his money. Another deep breath. Ground himself in the moment. There would be time to rage later.

"I need to escape," Harry told the lion and he could swear he saw approval in her eyes.

"That you do little one. I wish I could do more but perhaps a gift to help you in your future journeys," as she finished speaking everything was covered in a blinding blue light.

And done! I'm actually really proud of this. I like this one way more than the first version. I hope you guys do as well! And I think this version is going to go a lot smoother than the previous one.

For those of you that read the AN chapter, I made a mistake. I said it would start after sixth year. But after starting this chapter I realized that "whoops. Dumbledore dies in 6th year and I kinda need him alive for this" so the story actually starts after 5th year, like in the original version.

Umm...this next part is kinda awkward so I want to apologize in advance. The guest reader "Jacki" reviewed and I would like to tell them something. I would normally just PM them directly to keep the conversation more private, however as he/she is a guest I can not do that. Jacki, I realize fully that Shiro is gay and I completely support him and Adam as a couple. But when you reviewed I felt like you were trying to control my story. It felt like you were demanding I write a certain way to cater to you. I'm sorry if that wasn't your intention and this is a huge misunderstanding but based on how you wrote the review that is what I feel. When I started this rewrite I actually was planning to make Shiro and Adam a couple but now I'm not sure I should anymore. Just because something is canon doesn't mean everyone suddenly has to follow it. This site is called FANFICTION for a reason. Yet again I am sorry if this is just a huge misunderstanding. I would have prefered messaging you directly but that was impossible.

Sorry about that to everyone who isn't "Jacki". You guys came here to read my new chapter and shouldn't have been involved in the drama.

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