Author's Note: Okay the characters from Harry Potter I don't own they belong to JK. Nor do I own the name Aida or the songs in this story. Most of the songs are from the play Aida or other places which I will specify as we go along. Okay hang on to your hats it's going to be a bumpy ride.

I looked back one last time at the place I had always called my home. The only home I had ever known sense I had been born and raised in this city all my life. Most of the buildings were still burning brightly in the cool evening air sense the sun had sunk beneath the mountains in the distance. I was wondering if I would hear the scream that had frightened me as I had felt the terror our people had felt as we were attacked. The screams were no longer ringing through the sky but I knew for years I'd hear the screams when I laid down to sleep at night. Torches were being lite behind me as I looked longingly imagining what my home had looked like before it was attacked and destroyed. It didn't look like much anymore as most of the structures looked like nothing more the a pile of ashes or half of it was missing. Only the palace remain intact.

"Aida, Child, come on." My mother, Queen Elonda, took my hand gently but I didn't want to leave this place. My mother knelt in front of me. "Come on, my Princess. Stay strong, my Daughter. It's no use dwelling on what happened here to our people. We must move on now and find the strength to find our hope once more. We will find a new home to live now this place has been destroyed."

The tears on my six year old cheeks still glistened in the starlight as we began our long journey away from Emerald. We walked day and night, carrying our belongings that could be salvaged from the wreckage of our once peaceful city. We stopped occasionally to sleep.

I was the only daughter of the King and Queen of the Elven City. The only child they had left sense the other two had died years before in the Fire Wars.

That day we were attacked my friends and I had been listening to the council from the windows in the Grand Council's meeting room. We weren't supposed to do that but we did anyway. They were discussing a man that had come with a warning from this so called group Ministry of Magic. We had to obey their laws but we were nothing like them. One large difference was they used sticks to use magic, we didn't need those sticks to do spells. That's when the screams and chaos started to erupt on the southern side of the city.

I jumped up from the place I had crouched below the window with my group of friends around me.

The council didn't even notice us as the fled to the southern side of the city to see what was happening.

"Aida, we must go tell your mother," Jaron said to me. "She needs to know something is happening."

I looked at my seven year old friend and nodded quickly.

All of my friends followed as we ran to the palace to find my mother waiting for news from the council's meeting. She wasn't alone my father was there as well. How he had arrived before us was a mystery. He wanted to know where I was when we ran in. They looked relived to see us as we entered the palaces courtyard.

"Aida, take your friends and run as fast as you can to the secret caves! Wait there until we come to get you! Don't you dare leave the safety of that cave before and don't stop for anything along the way! Now go!" My father said to me and I took off all my friends behind me. We had learned at a very young age where the secret caves were hidden. It was safety precaution that had been built during the Fire Wars years before we were born.

We settled into the first one we came to and sat down to wait. We may have waited for hours or minutes we didn't dare sneak out to look at the sun as my father had told me not to leave. There was nothing to tell the time in the cave. We were waiting in an uncomfortable silence.

"Someone say something!" I finally said started to get scared in the silence that I'd never heard before. We hardly ever stopped talking to each other.

"What do you think is happening?" Whitney said quietly. "I can only think of the Fire Wars. Are dragons attacking us after all these years?"

We had all grown up on stories of the Fire Wars.

I thought about her statement for a minute then quietly shook my head before I spoke. "I really don't know what is happening. I don't think it could be the dragons though. They are in hiding now and the Fire Wars ended long before we were born. Why would they wait until now to attack?" I sighed "It must be those creatures called...... wizards and ...wartchs."

"It's witches, Aida." Joran gently corrected me.

Finally after twilight fell our parents came to get us and took us away from our home land. It had been totally destroyed and several elves had been killed in the surprise attack. Emerald had been my home all my life but now it was gone and I didn't want to believe it. Though my mind told me things my heart didn't want to hear. Then I finally had to except it. Emerald was gone forever.

That's how Azara came to be. It was built far away from Emerald. We had never been this far away from where I had grown up before. We had traveled so far to find a new home and together we began to build our new city. We helped each other build Azara, a new home for us.

I've grown to love Azara as much as I loved Emerald before it was destroyed and all my friends are still together though we have changed.

We have grown closer and older. It's been ten years sense the attack on Emerald destroyed our lives. We finally agreed to stick together no matter what happened. If another attack happened we wouldn't run we would help fight unless it was a hopeless gesture. We never wanted to be driven from our home ever again.