The night air was filled with cheerful music coming from the now lit marquee tent as the celebrations of the wedding were in full swing. Outside the tent however, was reminder of Atmos's current stability as a large amount of Aurors, including Lupin, as well as a number of Sky Knights were all standing guard and occasionally paroling the area. Inside the tent Bill and Flur were happily dancing whilst family and friends watched on joyfully. Aerrow was stood watching from a distance away, just at the edge of the marquee's room. He was enjoying the scene but still couldn't help feeling a little cut off from it at the same time as his mind was lingered on the task ahead. The rest of the Storm Hawks were all spread around the tent, Piper, now in a dark blue dress and holding a matching bag, was happily talking to Victor,Terra Durmstrung's Seeker and Sky Knight who had been one of the Tri-Sky Knight champions. Aerrow smiled a little as he noticed Finn, sat at a table close to where Piper and Victor were stood talking, trying hard not to look jealous. There then came a break in the music where a few people left the dance floor and began chatting to various people. One of those leaving the dance floor was Starling, who immediately spotted Aerrow and began to walk up to him.

"Hey, you ok?" She asked, having noticed Aerrow's preference to watch rather than join in.

"Yeh I'm, just happy watching" He replied with a smile and shrug.

"Mind on bigger things?" Starling guessed before she looked at him with a glint in her eye. "But for tonight it can be forgotten and next song your dancing with me" She told him with a smile. Aerrow tried to think of an argument to get out of the dancing but something about the happiness in Starling's face stopped him, she was right he should enjoy tonight, they'd had too much darkness recently not to. It was then that someone called out their names.
"Aerrow, Starling" A young girls voice sounded, looking towards the middle of the tent they both saw Molly, Spencer's daughter who they'd helped save from the Unknown, running over to them in her excitement.

"Molly" Aerrow happily replied as the girl, who had grown quite a bit since they'd last saw her, reached them.

"How have you been?" Starling asked as she gave her a hug.

"Fine, how about you, I've heard so much about what you've done recently, your adventures" She replied excitedly. Aerrow and Starling glanced at each other with a the same amused expression, although having grown a lot Molly was still only ten or eleven years old and her last encounter with the Storm Hawks had inspired her to become a Sky Knight and deal with more 'adventures' as she called them which the Storm Hawks would call trouble.

"Molly, I'm sure Aerrow and Starling don't want to be bothered about their work tonight" A voice belonging to Molly's father and Order of the Phoenix member Spencer.
"Spencer, good to see you again" Aerrow greeted the man with a hand shake before Starling too greeted him.
"Molly why don't you go and find the other Storm Hawks, I'm sure they'd be glad to see you again" Spencer told his daughter as he gave a look to Aerrow and Starling that said he wanted to talk to them alone.
"Ok dad" Molly replied, having picked up that her father wanted to talk to the Sky Knight's as she waved goodbye before walking back across tent. Spencer gave and slight sigh and smile as they watched her walk off.

"She's certainly been inspired by you, anyway how have you been?" He inquired turning back to them.

"Fine, well you know..." Aerrow trailed off with a shrug, knowing Spencer knew as much as any of the other members of the Order about recent events.

"I was sorry to hear about Moody, he er, he was a good man" Spencer replied sadly and Aerrow and Starling nodded. It was whilst they were talking did Aerrow notice Spencer was wearing a very peculiar tie pin, it was a silver triangle with a small circle in the middle of it which in turn had a long thin strip of silver running right down the middle of triangle. Aerrow had never seen a symbol like it before and something was telling him it meant something important, but he didn't say anything about it as after all Spencer was an archaeologist who researched ancient cities and old symbols, which had lead to his trouble with the Unknown. As they said goodbye to Spencer the music switched to a slower waltz tune and Aerrow could tell by Starling's smile that he was going to have to dance. Surprisingly she didn't lead him to the dance floor but to just outside the tent where it was empty of anyone, so that they were far enough away to remain unseen by those in the tent but close enough to the light to see each other.

"I thought you might like the peace" She told him and they slowly began moving to the music. Aerrow smiled at how well she knew him. As the music died down again and they both stopped dancing neither felt like returning to the party just yet and instead sat down on one of the benches nearby. It was a calm and clear starry night which was trapped in-between summer and autumn. It was odd to think such an evening could exist given what was happening across the rest of Atmos, but Aerrow was grateful for it, it was nice to have one evening were he didn't feel he had to look up at the sky for any incoming danger.
"Do you remember the day we met?" Starling suddenly asked, bringing Aerrow from his thoughts as he turned and saw her looking vaguely at the tent with a sad smile.
"Yeh, it feels so long ago" He replied, guessing what her mind was dwelling on as the day they had met was also the day they had stopped Cyclonis from using the Aurora stone to take over Atmos.

"Everything was so simple back then, we knew who we were facing, what they could do and who we could trust" Starling replied quietly.

"It feels like were hurtling towards something, but I don't know what" Aerrow said as Starling sighed and rested her head against his shoulder.

"I wish it would all just stop, at least just slow down" She replied.

"Were Sky Knights, for us it can't" Aerrow said quietly as Starling looked to him again with a small smile on her face.

"And yet we wouldn't want to be anyone else" She said, guessing his thoughts.
"Because otherwise we wouldn't be able to make a difference" Aerrow replied with a sigh. Starling nodded a little before she stood up and held out a hand to Aerrow.

"Come on, they'll be missing us as the party" She said with a smile, indicating the marquee. It was when they were walking back to the tent that Aerrow heard a slight rippling sound from up above. Stopping and looking to the sky he could see what looked like a shooting star, heading for the tent. But as it drew closer he and Starling, who had followed his gaze, saw that it was a patronus in the form of a large dog. The patronus travelled through the roof of the tent and hovered right in the middle of the dance floor, silencing the crowd at once. As Aerrow and Starling reached the edge of the tent they heard a voice, Sirius's in fact, coming from the patronus.

"Ministry and Council have fallen, Minister of Magic is dead, they are coming, they are coming" The patronus warned as it faded away, causing a lot of panicked whispers and confusion at what was happening. Then the panic started. People were beginning to flee, knowing it was no longer safe where they were, as people began either running for their vehicles or dissaperated, the Aurors and Sky Knight squadrons began to gather themselves together. Aerrow could just see Piper and Finn standing together looking worried by the chaos. Then the first death eaters arrived. Travelling through the tent's roof as black streams of smoke before appearing and beginning to attack anyone still remaining behind. Aerrow, who had frozen in madness, suddenly found himself being wheeled around by Starling.

"You've got to go now!" She she insisted, though there were tears forming in her eyes.
"What about you?" He asked, realising with horror that neither of them had their weapons with them.
"I'll be fine go!" She pleaded, nearly shouted before she pulled him into a passionate kiss.

"Stay safe" He told her as he cupped a hand against her cheek which she briefly took hold of before he wrenched himself away from her grasp, not trusting himself to look back. Among the chaos of the attack, which had even set the marquee on fire, Aerrow found his team who'd managed to get together. Piper was stood in the middle of them, a crystal ready in her hand. Knowing what it was Aerrow grabbed hold of her arm as the others too ensured they were all together as the crystal transported them away.