Chaos. Pure chaos. That was what was happening on the planet Sash Lilac and her friends called home.
It had been five years since Torque had come to Earth, and things had been very peaceful for the three girls. Until today...
It all started when something opened up in the sky. It was small at first, so no one paid it much mind. However, it grew. And grew. Eventually, it grew enough, and became a genuine threat...
The openings were revealed to be portals. They had begun opening up all across the world at random intervals. Many innocent bystanders found themselves caught up in these portals, transferred away to who knows where.
Being the well-known heroes of this world, Sash Lilac, Carol Tea and Milla Basset set out to try and put a stop to it once and for all.
Unknown to them that this would be a day their lives change forever.
In a small building a group of firefighter's wear trying to put out a fire that had triggered when one of these portals opened up taking a man who had lit a match to smoke.
"Someone help!" An anthropomorphic fox woman shouted as she tried to push at the line of bystanders.
"Ma'am! Get behind the line!" A firefighter shouted.
"My daughter, I need to save my daughter!"
"Mommy!" the scared and loud voice of a child was heard above them as they gazed up into a window to see a small fox kit with a pink bow in her hair staring down with terrified eyes. "Mommy!"
"Suzi!" the mother shouted in fear at seeing her daughter that high up.
"Mommy! AHHHHH!" she screamed as an explosion rocked the building and to the horror of everyone the girl was sent flying from the window.
"SUZI!"
A bright flash of purple light zoomed down the road and leaped into the air creating intense wind blowing many people back. The light shot high and made contact with the falling girl stopping her fall to death.
The streak of light shot into the air and it started to spin and fall to earth at a much slower pace before dying out letting those finally see a figure land on the ground in a crutch with the terrified young fox held securely in it's arms.
"It's all right." The heroic Sash Lilac said. "I gotcha."
"SUZI!" The girl's mother rushed forward. Lilac smiled and rose to her feet.
"Your daughter's fine." She said gently, holding the little girl out to her mother. The young woman snatcher her daughter up and held her tight.
"Thank you...SO much..."
"It's no problem-"
"Lilac, over here! We've got trouble!" The young dragon heard her best friend Carol Tea call out.
"On my way!" she shouted and sprinted off in the direction of her friend's voice. She turned the corner. "Okay! What's the-AH!" she screamed as she felt like she was being sucked into a giant vortex!
Lilac was lifted from the ground and was flying towards the vortex only for a striped tail to grab her wrist stopping her.
She looked over too see her friend Carol holding onto a lamp post for dear life her claws buried into the metal. "Why am I always saving your butt?!" she shouted over the howling wind.
"Where's Milla?!" Lilac shouted back concerned for her other friend as she held onto the base of the lamp post.
"She's helping the firefighters by shielding the blaze. I'm fine by the way!" she shouted back a tad ticked off.
"Glad to here!" Lilac snapped back. Only for her eyes to widen as she noticed the lamp post start to move out of the cement. "We need to get out of here!"
"Yeah think!" the bob cat shouted back her eyes twitching.
'SNAP'
The Lamp post suddenly broke in half.
"Oh boy!" Carol exclaimed before both girls were sent flying. However, two portals were pulling the two friends in opposite directions. "LILAC!" Carol called out.
"CAROL!" The dragon exclaimed.
The two girls screamed as they fell into the portals, taken away from their home worlds...
Lilac screamed as the portal pulled her further and further from her home, and further and further into another world entirely...
It was a nice, sunny day in Number Four Privet Drive. Perfectly normal...until a portal opened up above the sand pit in a nearby park.
Lilac screamed as she found herself launched out of the portal. The dragon smashed into the sand pit and found herself wedged in the sand with only her butt sticking out.
A young Harry Potter was currently walking in the park dragging his bags of groceries home. He had been ordered to go every week and since his family wasn't home at the moment he thought it would be a good time to go.
His plan, was to get home and get dinner started so he can avoid a beating tonight but those plans were placed on hold when he heard a scream and something impact the sand pit sending sand everywhere.
The young boy stared at the blue covered behind with wide eyes. He was told to never talk with people, mostly because they will catch the freakishness, but the person looked like she needed help. Harry limped his way over to the figure and started to dig in the sand to help her out. The sand hurt his scars on his hands making him whimper in pain.
She was out cold for a bit but when she regained her senses she found darkness all around her. 'Oh my aching head…' she thought with a wince. Her eyes widened when she heard a soft whimper somewhere near her. 'Someone needs help!' she thought desperately.
Harry's eyes widened as the butt began to move back and forth frantically, muffled screams of distress coming from under the sand. Eyes wide, he ran behind a tree. He did NOT want to be seen when he got out.
"Where AM I?!" Lilac thought, annoyed with what was happening.
It took several moments to process the situation, and the dragon blushed.
"Oh wow...That's embarrassing...Hope Carol doesn't see this..."
Closing her eyes in focused she felt her body start to gyrate slightly before she shouted. "Cyclone!" and in a twisting motion she flew out of the sand bank and landed on the ground with grace.
She dusted off the sand from her person with an embarrassed blush. "I will never live this down." She muttered. When she started working on her hair is when she finally noticed the many eyes on her.
She stared right back since she had never seen creatures like them. They looked like hairless monkeys that wore clothes. How odd. She gave them a small embarrassed wave and grin. Some just shook their heads and continued their life while some waved back.
Lilac smiled and looked around with some confusion. "Okay, so where am I? she asked now realizing she had no idea where she was. She closed her eyes and crossed her arms in thought. "I should ask around." She said with a fist pump.
Hearing a twig snap she turned around to see a small version of the monkeys hiding behind a tree. She smiled wide. "Hey! I need your help!" she said as she ran up to him.
The child let out a frightened squeak and hid behind the tree again, whimpering softly. She slowed down to a stop. 'Oh...I'm dealing with a little kid here.' She thought. 'Okay, gotta be gentle...' She tried her approach again. "Hey, little guy?" She called out softly. She got a soft whimper in response. "Come on, don't be scared, I'm not gonna hurt you." The boy slowly peeked out from behind the tree, leaving his little eyes visible. Lilac giggled. "Aww, you have really nice eyes." She complimented, wanting him to trust her. He let out a squeak and hid behind the tree again. Lilac frowned. "Okay...I'm coming back there, all right?" She warned gently. "Don't be scared..." She stepped behind the tree and saw the little boy, covering his little face in his hands. Smiling, the young dragon sat down beside him. "Hey." She greeted. He squeaked and looked up at her smiling face.
"Y-You're...one of them..." He said softly. Lilac frowned and tilted her head.
"Huh? Who's 'them', exactly?" She asked.
"Th-The talking animals...The ones that come out of the holes in the sky...They...They've been coming out of the sky all day long...It was on the news...I saw it..." Lilac was relieved.
"Oh good...The people who got pulled into the portals should be safe then..."
Harry stared up at her his fear slowly being replaced with wonder. "W-what animal are you?" he asked softly.
Lilac blinked at the question but when it registered she giggled lightly. "I'm a dragon." She said.
His eyes grew wide shocked. "D-Dragon?" he said in slight fear.
Lilac noticed his fear and shook her head quickly with wide eyes. "Hey I'm a good dragon, honest!" she said.
Harry stared up at her eyes and for some reason he wanted to trust her. That same compulsion that made him dig in the sand was coming back now.
"My names Lilac, what's yours?" she asked softly.
He blinked and looked down, "Harry…Ms. Lilac." He mumbled.
Lilac smiled and put a hand on his hair. "Heh...Cute." She said calmly, ruffling his hair. Harry blushed. "No need to be shy, kiddo." Lilac said in an encouraging tone. Then she frowned. "Why are you out here by yourself? Where's your mom, or your dad?" Harry looked down at the ground sadly, and she caught on. "Aw, buddy, I'm sorry." She said gently. "But where do you live?"
"W-With my aunt and uncle..." Harry replied softly.
"Oh. Well...where are they?"
"They went out, so I went to buy groceries." Lilac raised a brow at that.
"Aren't you a little too little to be grocery shopping?" She asked.
"I...I do it all the time..."
"All the time?!"
Harry flinched at her tone witch she caught onto and forced herself to calm down. "Sorry." She apologized softly.
Harry only looked down sadly. "It's okay…I get yelled at a lot…" he mumbled.
Lilac was starting to have a bad feeling about this child's relatives. "Why do you get yelled at sweetie?" she asked.
"For being a freak…" he mumbled sadly shocking her, he looked up at her with such sad eyes that it pained her. "You should hate me too…everyone else dose…" he spoke softly and brokenly.
Lilac bit her lip, then gently placed a hand on his shoulder. "Look at me." She said gently. Harry obediently looked up into her eyes. She was looking at him with a cross between gentle sternness and devastated heartbreak. "There is NOTHING wrong with you."
"But-"
"Don't tell yourself you're a freak." Lilac continued. "It's a lie. Everything they told you is a big fat lie. You're just a little boy. That's all you are. Just an ordinary little boy, just like everyone else." Harry sniffled. He opened his mouth to speak.
"I...I...I..." And then he broke down.
Lilac frowned sadly down at him and reached her arms around and held him as he cried his heart out. She ran her hand over his back and tried to say soft calming things in his ear, but he just continued to cry.
She let out a sad sigh and decided to just hold him while he cried. 'Poor little guy.' She thought sadly as she ran her hand through his hair rubbing his scalp gently. She gave him a once over and she finally noticed the telltale signs of abuse.
His arms where bruised and he had cuts on his hands that no child should never have. His face had showed healed bruises that where still visible. It pained her to see any child harmed, but abused. She was just heartbroken by it.
She just continued to hold him gently rocking him softly as his sobs of both sadness, pain and confusion tore her heart apart.
She was unaware of a car pulling up and a large man and a sickly thin woman getting out to look for the freak who was supposed to be home cooking dinner. What they saw was the freak in the arms of one of those animals!
The two were enraged by the freak being discovered, him apparently crying and for the fact that his animal was in their presence. They were not happy. At. All.
The doors of the car pulled open, and the two occupants stormed out. "BOY, YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE THIS TIME-" He didn't get to finish his sentence before Lilac snapped her head up to give him the most terrifying glare.
"So YOU'RE the one that did this to him." She said in a low, dangerous tone. Vernon was taken aback by how angry she sounded, but stood his ground.
"Now see here, you...you freak!" He snapped. "The boy is supposed to be back home! He's late and way too far from home! You have no idea how worried-"
"Don't you DARE pretend to be a worried guardian!" Lilac snapped. "You think I can't figure it out? You think I don't know what you've been doing to him? I can see the scars! Clear as day! I'm not stupid!" Harry let out a soft whimper as he looked up at her with wide eyes.
"GIVE BACK MY PROPERTY!" Vernon lunged forward...
But he didn't even see Lilac as she dashed towards him in a blur and slammed her foot square into his stomach. The man let out a gasp and coughed out a little bit of blood as he found himself rolling across the ground. Lilac touched down gracefully, still holding Harry tightly against her chest. "Do NOT try and get back up." She warned.
"VERNON!" Petunia shouted worried before turning her glare onto the dragon. "You freak! Put down the waste of space now!" she shouted.
The surrounding people were starting to wonder if these two were stupid.
Lilacs head snapped to the skinny woman making her flinch back at the menacing glare she was getting. "What did you call him?" she growled low.
Petunia took a step back at the tone but held her grown. "A waste. He knows that he is a worthless freak who will get nothing in life." She explained darkly. "We should be getting a reword for beating the freak out of him out of the goodness of our hearts!" she shouted at the dragon causing many gasps from the crowd.
Lilac stared at the woman with narrowed eyes angered and when she heard the quiet sob of the child in her arms. Her maternal instincts to protect and nurture where working overtime. And with the sound of his pained filled cry reach her ears she acted on them, her target was the one who had hurt the little one.
She stomped forward with narrowed eyes. Petunia realized her mistake and began to back away. "S-Stay back!" She warned. "Don't come any closer! I'm warning you!" Lilac ignored her, not taking her eyes off as she continued walking over to her. "No...No, no, get away!" Lilac, quite suddenly, seemed to disappear...
And then, the last thing Petunia saw before unconsciousness took over was a blue-covered fist slamming into her visage.
Lilac took a deep breath as Petunia fell limply to the ground. She wouldn't kill her, but she WOULD give her a well deserved punch...
Her thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of cheering.
She blinked and looked around at the crowd that had gathered all cheering and applauding her making the dragon girl blush red. She felt stirring in her arms and looked down to see a wide eyed Harry Potter.
"You…hit them…" he said softly.
Lilac nodded with a sad smile. "I did. Because they were saying bad things about you."
Harry tilted his head adorably. "T-they were. It was not the truth?"
The fact he would ask that broke her heart but she kept her smile on her face. "Far from the truth. You are an adorable little boy who anyone would love to have as a relative!" she gushed making him blush and look away.
She leaned down and pressed her lips to his forehead making his eyes widened again at the foreign act.
"AWWWWWWWW!" almost everyone said at the cute scene.
Lilac was feeling very bashful...But in a good way. She felt like she was...well...a mother to this child. She had barely reached adulthood...Yet she still felt this powerful feeling of love and warmth inside her chest as she looked at this little boy in her arms. "...Harry..." She said softly.
"Y-Yes...Miss Lilac...?" He said softly.
"Would you like to...stay with me?" She asked gently. Harry stared at her with wide eyes.
"Y-You wouldn't mind...?"
"Well, I DID say ANYONE would be happy to have you, didn't I?" Lilac said with a wink. Harry sniffled.
"Yes...Please...Don't leave me..." Harry said softly. Lilac smiled.
"I would never."
Harry nuzzled into her with fresh happy tears falling from his eyes as Lilac smiled softly down at him messing with his hair gently. She could get used to this. The dragon hero did not even care at the moment about the crowd around her, all her attention was on the little boy in her arms.
Harry nuzzled into her with fresh happy tears falling from his eyes as Lilac smiled softly down at him messing with his hair gently. She could get used to this. The dragon hero did not even care at the moment about the crowd around her, all her attention was on the little boy in her arms.
Still, she had to wonder where Carol was.
"Excuse me ma'am?"
Lilac blinked and looked over to see a man dressed in a black suit and a few police officers around him.
"I'm Agent H, member of the international police. We have been taking care of the visitors entering our world through these vortexes." He explained pulling out his badge for her to see.
Lilac looked at the badge then at the man. "So you guys are taking care of everyone?" she asked surprised.
The man gave her a nod. "That's right. We were on our way to pick you up when we got word about a police presence being needed over an abusive family." He gestured to the two adults being cuffed.
Lilac smiled. "Good...Those monsters are getting what they deserve." She said with much relief in her tone. The agent nodded.
"Yes indeed. Now, I need you to come along with me. We're working on a way to help return you to your homes and we'd like to have everyone from your world that got pulled in present." Lilac nodded.
"But...well, the thing is...Can Harry here come with me?" She asked, giving the little boy a gentle nudge.
"Please?" Harry asked with puppy eyes. The man chuckled.
"Is he the boy that was being harmed by his family?" He asked. Lilac nodded. "I don't see why not. Looks like he's gotten attached to you." The young dragon smiled widely.
"Thank you." She said sincerely. "I can't leave him at this point..."
"Thank you." Harry said cutely.
The man just chuckled. "You welcome. Both of you." He said with a smile.
"UNHAND ME YOU RUFFIANS!" A loud voice made them turn to see the two abusers being placed into cop cars.
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HE'S A WIZARD! A WIZARD!" Vernon shouted as he struggled apparently he had regained conciseness. "WE WERE DOING OUR CIVIC DUTY! YOU HEAR ME?! CIVIC DUTY!"
The agent just shook his head. "Goes to show who the real animals are huh?" he got no response. He turned to the dragon girl to see her comforting the small child who was now crying from the loud yelling of his aunt and uncle.
"They…t-hey are going to get me, they will kill me…" he heard him whimper and let out a soft sigh. When this was over those bastards will go away for a long time.
"They're DEFINITELY not gonna get you, and I will NOT let them hurt you." Lilac spoke to him in a soothing tone. "I've dealt with way worse than them. I'm more than capable of protecting you." Harry sniffled and looked up at her.
"P-Promise...?" He asked softly, wanting so much to trust and believe her. She nodded.
"Cross my heart." She said, making a cross pattern over her chest. "You're safe with me, Harry." Harry teared up again and buried his face back into her chest. Smiling, Agent H made his way over.
"So, are you ready to go?" Lilac looked up at him and nodded.
"Yeah. Lead the way."
The agent smiled and led her to his own car opening the back door for her to seat in as he took the front. He started the engine and started to drive to their destination.
"So where are we going exactly?" she asked him while running her hand up and down Harry's back.
We have a building right here in England for this, the man said. "Most of the vortexes are centered around here and the United States so we have a joint building to send you all back." He explained.
"Do you fly out the ones from there to here?" she asked.
The man nodded. "As of right now yes. We are getting some help involving the vortexes from both sides." He explained making her nod.
"That's good."
The three drove in silence until the came to a small booth that gave accesses to what looked like a military base. The man rolled down his window and showed the person in the booth his pass and they opened the gates to let him in.
Lilac entered the building, looking around. There were indeed people from her world in here. Some looked frightened, some relieved, but the fact that they were here was very comforting.
She heard soft snoring, and looked down to see Harry had fallen asleep in her arms. She smiled softly.
"Sweet dreams, buddy." She said gently, rocking him back and forth.
She continued to look around the area, and then she saw a peculiar sight...
Carol was here as well. And she was holding a tiny, pink-haired child in her arms. "Carol?"
The wildcat looked up with a grin, then looked surprised when she saw Harry. "...Lilac?"
