Author's notes: This is a new one, yet another obscure crossover. The games this is crossed into are called Shin Megami Tensei Digital Saga 1 & 2. Yet another one I do for my own pleasure, though it may be confusing for those who haven't played the games with their rather twisted and complicated storylines that help form the backstory here. Still, I hope people will enjoy it. This is an AU starting in the 5th year.

Kalliope the Mewthree: Authoress-Mama doesn't own Harry Potter or Digital Devil Saga, they belong to J.K. Rowling and Atlus respectively. Authoress-Mama is in no way, shape or form making money from this, so don't sue her, please.

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Embryon Truths

By: Blackladycharon

Chapter One: The Leader of Lost Souls

Harry twisted, tangling himself in his sheets. His dreams, already uneasy this year, were disturbed even more after the Dementors had attacked him and his cousin. Surprisingly, Dudley had cornered him and growled rough thanks the day after. Apparently nearly dying had rendered the tub of lard willing to tolerate Harry's magic, even if he didn't like it. The nightmares Harry ran through were different this time. His own voice whispered and sang between the images that tormented him.

- I know who you are-

He stared up, betrayed, into silver eyes that gave him a mocking, disdainful look. He'd failed. Both of them were lost to him.

-The leader of lost souls-

The mute tilted his head to watch him, his silver gray hair ruffled slightly by the eternal rain and wind. They both held advantages, but he knelt and bowed, as others would to this one.

-You can't kill me-

"Nothing's changed. We will go to Nirvana. That is his command."

-I'm immortal-

"I…died?"

-I'm not afraid to die-

Silver eyes stared up at him in horrified shock, betrayal written in them as it had once been written in his own. He couldn't believe he'd done it. Stabbed his leader. But Cuvier could be right. His leader could still be that monster. Could hurt him and her. Even if his heart died, he had to protect at least one of them.

-My soul will travel on-

"I will follow you."

-You can't kill me-

"You all wish to go to the World again? You ask this of me?"

"Yes. Ze knows our nature, since two of us are Ze in a way. We… wish to remind the world." Ze smiles, Zir face as beautiful as ever. Ze is God, Zir word is Law after all.

"Very well. Choose forms."

-I'm immortal-

He stares up at the serpentine face, hissing weakly. He has no strength, no way to protect himself. He knows he will fail, in this moment of death.

"Avada Kedavra!"

The spell rebounds. Ze stands there, rage in Zir eyes as the beast escapes Zir righteous wrath.

"You are not ready to return to me yet. Find them, and protect them. They are the power you need."

Harry jerked upright, blurred eyes frantically scanning the room as if he'd still see the strange being standing before him. Even though he knew he wouldn't be able to see it clearly if it was still there. Half silver, half black hair, eyes that seemed to be black one moment, silver the next. Though the body, in its short black jumpsuit, seemed female, there was something that told you the creature was hermaphroditic. After his heart stopped racing, Harry put his glasses on, thinking. He could tell Dumbledore that he'd had some kind of disturbing vision. Yet, something within him balked at the idea. It was… sacred. He was sure of that. Brushing his hair out of his eyes, Harry leaned against the windowsill and contemplated his life.

"I know who you are, The leader of Lost Souls…" The song that he had sung in the dream came from his lips.

"I'm not afraid to die, My Soul will carry on…" Zir had told him, Harry found himself thinking. Zir had told him to find them. All of them. Harry didn't even know who he was looking for. Or who the strange God/Goddess was. Or how he even knew to refer to Zir as Zir. Harry sighed, wondering.

Pray to Zir.

The thought came, clear as tears. Harry frowned. Pray to Zir? He didn't even know who to pray to. Shaking his head, Harry decided that it was merely nerves due to the trial that was coming up.

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Harry staggered out of the trial, a grin across his face. Mr. Weasley met him.

"Harry, Dumbledore didn't tell me…"

Cleared. Of all charges." Harry accepted Arthur Weasley's congratulations moving in a kind of daze. He was safe. He was still going to Hogwarts. He wouldn't have to go back to his Aunt and Uncle's yet. He felt a snarl try to twist his lips when he saw Lucius Malfoy talking to the Minister. While Fudge suddenly developed an overwhelming need to quiz Arthur on Muggle artifacts, Lucius cornered Harry, lowering his voice.

"Don't think that getting out of this is going to save you, Potter. The Dark Lord has plans for your death." Harry felt his lips peel back from his teeth, as he answered in a low, feral voice.

"He can try. Ze protects me. He has already incurred Zir wrath." The change in Lucius was sudden. His face drained of color, and he almost stumbled back. His eyes were enraged, but beneath that rage, Harry saw fear. He could almost taste it, sweet and coppery as blood. Malfoy appeared genuinely surprised, though he recovered his composure fast enough.

"Really, Potter, what do you think a dead God can do against the Dark Lord? The Seraph is a myth. And even if Ze" He spat the word as if it had a foul taste. "wasn't, the last remains of Zir" Again with the disgusted look. "Tribe were murdered by the Dark Lord Adama centuries ago. You pray in vain." Harry tilted his head, gazing right into Lucius's eyes. The blood again drained from the elder Malfoy's face. He stared into Harry's eyes as if he couldn't believe what he saw. Harry kept grinning, aware that it was more a warning then a pleasant expression.

"Where will you Run? Where will you Hide? I see the blood drip from your eyes…"

"Your eyes…" Lucius Malfoy seemed only half aware of the fact that Fudge and Arthur had stopped talking. "Demon eyes…" He straightened, almost knocking Harry away. "Minister, I believe we have business in your office." With that, Lucius strode away. Arthur looked over at Harry, who shrugged.

"What's got into him? Come on, I want to get back to Grimmauld Place and get something to eat."

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Lucius Malfoy slammed into his study, grabbing an ancient text. It was impossible that Potter knew that. The Seraph that the Embryon tribe had worshipped was a myth, a strange combination of male and female that the Dark Lord Adama had destroyed because its followers couldn't be swayed. They believed that their God spoke to them from Nirvana, and sent Zir soldiers to defend them. Adama had supposedly destroyed all but one of the soldiers, who had taken him down with his dying breath.

Finally he found the page he was looking for.

'The Seraph's Soldiers follow Zir faithfully, though they can be deceiving in their forms and natures. Rarely do they appear outside of the True and Trusted, but when they do, they do so in disguise. They follow their two commanders, The Leader of Lost Souls and The Cyber Shaman, who are believed to be direct incarnations of the two aspects of The Seraph. Within the Tribe, they appear as a silver haired and eyed boy and a black hair and eyes girl…' Lucius skimmed the rest of the description, coming down to the next paragraph.

'Directly below the Leader and the Shaman is the Lord of Fire. Within the Tribe he appears as a tall youth with scarlet hair and eyes, signifying his power over the element of Fire. Outside of the Tribe, his disguise is often that of a small youth with messy black hair and vibrant green eyes. The Lord of Fire is often the first of the Soldiers to wake, and his fierce loyalty to the Leader and the Shaman is flawed only by his obsessive need to protect both of them, even from each other. When threatened, or threatening an opponent, his eyes will return to their natural red shade, and his belligerence rises. Curiously, the Lord of Fire is also seen as a betrayer, having attacked the Leader in a few recorded instances to attempt to protect the Shaman, and vice versa…' The book fell from Lucius's hands. He sat in his chair, pouring himself a cognac with hands that shook. His mind flashed back to what had happened at the Ministry. To what he had seen when he looked in Potter's eyes.

"Where will you Run? Where will you Hide? I see the blood drip from your eyes." Potter's face was even more frightening than Voldemort's in that moment, lips peeled back in a threat display, an almost mad, fevered look in his eyes. Eyes that no longer appeared green as grass, but a startling, searing red, the shade of fire dancing in the dark, or of fresh blood seen through tears. Ancient eyes that judged and measured and reveled in the thought of defeating his opponent in a bloody fight.

Eyes that worshiped the Seraph, and the two that formed Zir.

The Lord of Fire's eyes.

Lucius's eyes fell on the book. Embryon Truths, the ancient thing was named. Lucius poured himself another cognac, cursing. Damn Potter for making things worse. The boy couldn't die when he should have, and now he might belong to a God thought dead. A God that the wizarding world had viewed with great respect before Adama destroyed Zir's followers. If Potter was indeed one of Zir soldiers, backed by her power and granted his own through divine right, then the others had to be somewhere in the background. One soldier, wounded, exhausted, almost powerless, dying, and alone had taken Adama out. It had cost the soldier what was left of his existence, but from what the History books could tell, the soldier had considered it worth the price. If the entire group were to awaken and fight…

Unthinkable. Voldemort would lose.

Lucius stood, throwing his glass at a house elf as the cringing thing slunk away. He would have to inform his Lord of the change in the Potter boy at the next meeting. Surely something could be done to annihilate this threat before it became even worse.

-End Chap 1-

Well, what do you think so far?

Post Notes: On the 'Ze' and 'Zir'. I've seen them used in other Digital Devil Saga fanfics for Seraph, as its neither male nor female, or is both male and female, and it gets confusing and annoying to refer to Seraph as an 'it'. Also, if you're confused about what's going on, bear in mind that I've barely begun laying the structure for this out for everyone, and at the moment, neither Harry or Lucius have a good idea of what's going on. In fact, Harry really has no idea. Please read and review, tell me what you think.