Harry Potter and the Aurora Sphere

By Vorserkeien and Valkyrie4

Disclaimers – we don't own: Harry Potter (that's a good thing but the bad thing is that if we did we could have killed him off in the first book!), Star Wars (lightsabres and all, Gizmo/Gremlins and the name Elentari, which is in fact Tolkien's.

Though I guess we do own Silver-Raven, the character of Elentari, Sora and the story, seeing as it's our idea! :-p

Rating for language & major character death

Character profile:

Elentari – female, dark dark blue hair so it looks black most of the time, expert space craft pilot, twin laser edged blade fighter, very swift & agile, takes orders from very few people. Means of transport: space craft and hover-boards.

Silver-Raven – male, grey/white hair, good pilot (like Elentari) expert with a lightsabre and blasters, excellent hand-to-hand combat fighter, short tempered when it comes to certain matters (him giving orders basically) Means of transport: same as Elentari. An experienced mechanic.

R&R

Year 3000:

Ear-splitting shrieks came through the speakers on the bridge, that is, before the sound system blew up along with all but one of the lights.

"What the fuck was that?" Silver-Raven asked.

"Dunno, and can't say I really care." Replied Elentari who was filing her nails, the one remaining working light just above her head.

"Well maybe you should, we've lost all our friggin' communication." He yelled back.

"Hey, you wanted to be captain this week, you sort it out." She shrugged.

"Precisely, I'm captain, so you do as I say. Go and find out."

Elentari ignored him.

"NOW!!!!!" The remaining light broke as Silver-Raven threw an odd shaped object at Elentari, missing her and hitting the light instead. Crossly Elentari got up, muttering as she left,

"I knew letting him keep that lightsabre was a mistake."

3 hours later…

"Where the hell have you been? It don't take 3 hours to find out what happened." Silver-Raven yelled.

"Well, I was tryin' t'remember who suggested that we raided that weirdo's ship 2 days ago."

"And it took you 3 hours to do that, when it ain't even got nothing to do with it?!"

"Well why's your girlfriend vanished from the ship then?"

"Don't be stupid. Oh, change all the lights in here. I'll find out what happened." Silver-Raven said before storming off the bridge.

Elentari smirked, as she sat down deliberately choosing to clean her two long blades instead.

Yet another 3 hours later…

On the dark bridge, Elentari smiled sweetly as Silver-Raven came in, looking very worried but angry at the same time,

"Oh dear, didn't you find her? What a shame. Now you know why I was against our earlier raid."

"Shut up. And I seem to remember it was your idea to attack the ship, not mine."

"It was not."

"Was too."

"Was NOT."

"Was TOO."

"Was NOT!"

"WAS TOO!" Silver-Raven yelled angrily, as Elentari found a table, normally permanently fixed to the floor, moving rapidly in her direction.

"WAS NOT!" She shrieked from a corner of the bridge where she was properly trapped as Silver-Raven found two blades pinning him to the opposite wall.

"GET THESE THINGS OFF ME!" Silver-Raven yelled as he struggled to get free from the blades.

"I would, IF YOU HADN'T THROWN THAT FUCKING TABLE AT ME!" Elentari screamed back. The table had her trapped in a corner.

"I wouldn't have thrown it if you admitted to having the idea of attacking that freak's ship!"

"IT WASN'T MY IDEA!"

"Whatever, just get me loose!" Silver-Raven yelled. Elentari sighed and pushed the table away from her. She went over to Silver-Raven and pulled the blades out from the wall. He fell to the ground and dusted himself off.

"There, don't tell me I don't do anything for you." She muttered. Silver-Raven snorted and laughed.

"It was you're fault I was there in the first place!"

"Whatever, just get these lights fixed, and find out what happened to the communications system." She said. Silver-Raven sighed and went over to one of the control panels. Elentari grinned and sat back down to attend to her nails. Most of the panels had shorted out, but a few were still working. He pressed a few buttons and the monitor flickered to life.

"Lousy shipmate………………….I be captain for the week and this is the respect I get……………" He muttered to himself. Elentari looked up at him from the top of her eyes.

"What was that?"

"Nothing, just trying to figure out what's wrong with this damned thing."

"That's what I thought." She replied. Silver-Raven smirked to himself as he continued to search the damage reports the computer had filed for the recent loss of the comms system.

"Just seems to be a power surge." He said. Elentari laughed and shook her head.

"Yeah, caused by what? We don't have anything on this rust-bucket that generates enough power to cause a surge."

"Hey! This is a classic two-ninety-eight Rj45 series cruiser, you wont get much finer than this baby!" Silver-Raven argued. He slapped a panel lightly and sparks flew from it. He jumped back and growled. Elentari rolled about laughing.

"All right! So the previous owner wasn't so careful with it, but its still in good shape."

"The previous owner had it stolen off him remember? By us! The only reason its in the state its in is because you had to disable the engines and nearly destroy the whole thing! There wasn't much point in us stealing it after that!" Elentari said. Silver-Raven gave her the finger and walked across the bridge.

"I'm going to the cargo bay to look through our loot." He said before walking through the automatic doors. Elentari nodded and took out her blades and a rag. She started cleaning them yet again.

In the cargo bay…

Silver-Raven took the large grey sheet cover off the pile of miscellaneous things they had raided off other ships. At the back of the pile was a wooden chest. It had strange engravings in the wood, neither one of the pirates knew what they were or what they meant. But they both decided it looked cool, so they stole it. Silver-Raven dug his way through the mixture of small trinkets and strange blue orbs. All the things that had any large amount of value were neatly stacked and shelved, as not to get damaged. When he finally got to the chest, he knelt down, rubbed his hands together and flicked opened the two gold-plated latches. He opened the chest and reached inside. He pulled out a medium-sized orange orb. The light inside it was pulsating and glowing brightly.

"AH!" He cried out. The orb started to burn his hand. He dropped it and it smashed like glass on the cargo bay floor. A strange smoke appeared from the shards of orb, it floated upwards only to be sucked into the ventilation to be re-cycled to breathable air.

"Whoops." He said to himself. Looking back into the chest, Silver-Raven pulled out a large, brown, leather-bound book. It had brass hinges and a latch of the same metal. The leather was worn and ripped on the corners and a bit on the edges. He sat on the floor, crossed legged, and opened the book. The paper was incredibly thin and brittle. It was also yellow with age. None of the words made sense to him, they were written in a poem-like fashion, they even rhymed. And they were written in black ink, whoever wrote it had fancy handwriting. He flicked through a few more pages and closed it again. There was nothing more in the chest than a few robes, a broom and a small stick. He closed the chest and left the cargo bay.

Back on the bridge, Elentari had succeeded in getting their tracking devices working, although, she was slightly mystified at the results it showed. As Silver-Raven re-entered Elentari said,
"I've found her."

"Found who?"

"You're girlfriend, stupid."

"Oh right. Where?" He asked as he crossed the bridge to see what his associate had come up with.

"Well, that's the problem."

"What problem?"

"Well, she's…she's…"

"She's what? What is so out of the ordinary about where she is?"

"Umm, she's still in the same place as we are, just…997 years earlier." Elentari mumbled.

"What? Get outta the way. Lemme look."

Elentari shrugged and got up. Standing in front of a large window she listened to Silver-Raven voicing his disbeliefs, while coolly observing another craft moving rapidly towards them.

"What the hell's the matter with this thing?" Silver-Raven shouted, striking the control panel in anger.

"We got a bigger problem than that at the moment." Elentari said.

"Oh yeah? Like what? We're about to be attacked by evil-looking gangsters?" He asked sarcastically.

"In short, yes."

"What?" He said as he followed Elentari's gaze, "Fuck. What d'we do now?"

"You're asking me? Me? I thought you were making all the decisions this week."

"I am. I'm just enquiring about your opinion." He replied slyly.

"Yeah right." She muttered, then out loud, "I suggest that we find Sora."

"Logic error. She's 997 years behind us. We're not born then! How are we supposed to go back in time anyway?" Silver-Raven asked.

"No, it's logical. We go back in time the same way she went back." Elentari replied.

"Ok then smart ass, how did she get back in time?"

"How should I know? You were the one who looked at all the stuff from that ship."

"Ok, ok, let's calm down and think about this…"

"Calm down? Calm down! You're the one who needs to calm down!" Elentari yelled.

A couple of blasts from the laser cannons on the approaching ship ended the squabble.

"There was a strange book in Sora's room…" Silver-Raven began slowly.

"Then go get it." Elentari ordered. As several more blasts shook the ship, she changed her mind, "On second thoughts, I'll come with you."

"Oooooh, don't wanna be left alone with the nasty gangsters?" Silver-Raven teased,"Wimp."

"How dare you! You little…" Elentari's fingers closed around both her blade handles.

"Hey, hey!" Silver-Raven raised a hand in a 'stop' movement, "If we're going to find Sora then I suggest you stop trying to kill me."

"I will, if you stop insulting me. Deal?"

"Deal, now let's go. Ladies first."

Slightly puzzled by Silver-Raven's unusual gesture of good will, Elentari complied, only to be neatly tripped up by him in the process.

She watched him speed hastily off the bridge before she followed him cursing him in the few languages she knew.

Silver-Raven slowly opened the door to Sora's room. Elentari tried to push by, but he stopped her.

"What's wrong? Why you being so sneaky? It's not like she's here to catch you." Elentari said.

"I don't need to be sneaky, it's my room too, I'm just checking for…" Silver-Raven answered as he peeked his head in.

"For what?" Elentari asked. Just then, they heard a squealing noise moving towards the door at speed.

"Shit!" Silver-Raven yelled as he pulled his head back and slammed the door shut.

"What?" Elentari asked quickly. Silver-Raven was breathing heavily, he kept his hand on the door handle.

"That stupid Mogwai! It just can't stop flying at your face each time it sees you!"

"Don't call Gizzy stupid! Just 'cause you can't look after him properly!" Elentari yelled. Silver-Raven sighed and shook his head.

"First of all, his name's GIZMO not GIZZY. Second, its mine and Sora's turn to look after him this week, just like I'm supposed to be captain. But as always, you're taking over! If you're so great, you go in first." He said. Elentari smiled and nodded.

"Ok, but for your information, I'm not taking over, I'm just helping you along 'cause I can do anything better than you. Watch, Gizzy won't even jump up for me." She said smugly.

"Whatever, just go in." Silver-Raven said with a smirk. Elentari opened the door and stepped inside. She heard the same squealing noise that they heard before. But before she could turn around, the ball of fluff named Gizmo had attached itself to her face. She clutched the Mogwai and ran out of the room. All Silver-Raven could hear were muffled screams coming from his shipmate. He leant against the wall to stop himself from collapsing with laughter. He wiped the tears away from his eyes and walked inside. He stopped laughing when he saw the state of the room. Papers were strewn across the floor, the bedcovers were on the floor and the desk was upturned. Elentari staggered into the room with Gizmo in her arms. He was shaking like crazy. He buried his face in her chest as they entered.

"He didn't jump up at us 'cause he was happy to see us. He was scared." She said. Gizmo had left claw-marks on the cheeks. They weren't bleeding, but did look sore.

"Scared of what?"

"I don't know, if I could talk the same language as him, I would find out!" Elentari snapped.

"He talks English! So why don't you try?" Silver-Raven snapped back.

"You're meant t'be looking after him this week! You do it!" Elentari yelled as she thrust Gizmo towards him. Silver-Raven took Gizmo off her while muttering under his breath. He held Gizmo up in front of him and sighed.

"Gizmo, what happened here? Did you see where Sora went?" He asked. Gizmo nodded and leapt to the floor. He ran to the bed and jumped up onto it. He lifted the covers and pulled out a small, A5 book. It was leather bound with a brass latch. Elentari walked up to Gizmo and took the book off him.

"What's this?" She asked as she opened it.

"It looks the other book I found, only smaller." Silver-Raven said as he looked over Elentari's shoulder. She moved away and turned to face him.

"What book?" She asked.

"Oh, I looked in the chest we got from that guy's ship. There was an orange orb, which I dropped and smashed by accident, some robes, a broom, a stick and a book. It kinda looks like that one, only bigger." Silver-Raven explained. Elentari sat on the bed, Gizmo shot out of the way just before she sat on him.

"What was in it?" She asked, looking up at Silver-Raven.

"I couldn't read it, the words were in a strange language. But it was written in a way a poem's set out. They seemed to rhyme too." He answered.

"How do you know it rhymed, if you couldn't understand what it said?" Elentari asked with a smirk. Silver-Raven sighed and looked at the book in Elentari's hands.

"I dunno, I just knew." Was the answer. Silver-Raven took the book off Elentari and flipped to a page that was folded. The crease that was made due to the fold was new.

"Sora must have been reading this page."

"Can you read that?" Elentari asked. Silver-Raven nodded and looked at the page closer.

"It's much easier to read than the other book. I wonder what it means." He said as he began to recite the words to the best of his ability.

"I don't think you should read that out loud." Elentari said nervously. Silver-Raven ignored her and continued reading.

"Stop it!" She yelled as she got up. Silver-Raven still read on. She clenched her fists and took a step towards him.

"STOP!!" Elentari screamed. Silver-Raven stopped and closed the book. Elentari glared at him, he smirked back.

"Did you stop because I told you too?" She asked. Silver-Raven looked around then walked to the porthole in the wall of the room. He looked outside and laughed.

"What are you laughing at? Did you stop 'cause I told you to?" Elentari asked, the nervousness could still be heard in her voice. Silver-Raven turned around and looked at her.

"No, I didn't stop 'cause you told me to, I stopped because I read it all. And I'm laughing 'cause nothing happened." He replied. With that, there was a deafening crack that sounded like thunder. The ship shook violently. Silver-Raven fell backwards, he held onto a shelf to stop himself from falling to the floor. Elentari held onto the metal frame of the bed and Gizmo held onto her. Silver-Raven got his footing and hurried to the porthole, his eyes widened as he looked out. An orange wormhole spiralled in the vacuum outside. The colour got darker as it got to the middle. Once it reached the centre of the wormhole, it was just black. Silver-Raven stepped backwards, not taking his eyes off the portal. Elentari picked up Gizmo and walked over to her fellow pirate.

"What's wrong?" She asked. Silver-Raven said nothing, he pointed at the porthole. Elentari noticed that his hand was shaking violently. She looked at where his finger was pointing. She almost dropped Gizmo when she saw the wormhole.

"What the fuck is that?!" She yelled.

"It looks like a wormhole! But how?! How did it open?!" Silver-Raven yelled back.

"How am I supposed to know?! It probably opened when you read that stupid passage!"

"Don't blame it all on me, it's not my fault……….."

"IT IS YOUR FAULT!!" Elentari screamed. Silver-Raven put his hand over her mouth to silence her. He looked outside and ran to the bridge. Elentari followed him with Gizmo in her arms. When she got there, Silver-Raven was typing commands into the computer. Walking over to him, Elentari tapped him on the shoulder.

"Why'd you cover my mouth? You know I don't like that, and why'd you run out?" She asked.

"We're moving, the wormhole is pulling us in!" Her shipmate yelled as he continued to give the ship's computer commands.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"What does it look like?! I'm getting us the hell away from here!" Silver-Raven snapped. He cursed to himself as the computer failed to carry out the commands.

"The damned engines aren't working!" He yelled as he slammed his fist on the panel.

"Bloody typical." Elentari said to herself.

"I guess there's nothing we can do now, except wait to get sucked in." Silver-Raven said quietly.

"You were always the quitter! C'mon! We gotta figure something out!" Elentari yelled. Silver-Raven glared at her through the corner of his eye.

"And how d'you propose we do that?! Unless you can get these engines fixed in less than two minutes, I suggest we hope that wormhole doesn't take us into dangerous space!" He yelled. Elentari sighed and shook her head. Gizmo looked up at her and mimicked her. The ship shook more and more as they got closer to the wormhole. The portal smothered the ship, and closed.

When Silver-Raven and Elentari next looked out of the porthole they saw that their ship was floating in the middle of a lake.

"What the-?" Elentari began before Silver-Raven voiced the question they were both thinking,

"Where are we?"

Elentari did not answer as they stared at the spectacle opposite them. On top of a high mountain was an enormous castle with many turrets and towers and windows glinting in the strong sunlight…

TBC…