After 3 or 4 hours of cleaning, he registered a car or two pull up in the wards. (He had warded Tony's place after the incident five months ago). He recognized Tasha, Tony, Nick Fury and, of course, Phil Coulson.

Luckily, he had finished working a couple of minutes ago, so there weren't pieces of glass floating around. Harry walked into the kitchen and started to get out things for lunch, as he had brought some bread over from the bakery for sandwiches. Then he set about making a big plate of sandwiches and brought them over to the table.

"Sandwiches are right here, if anyone wants them." Harry said.

"Thanks, Harry." Tony replied absent mindedly.

"I'm going to go meditate in my guestroom, if you need anything." Harry said and with that walked into the room that he usually used at the mansion. He took to meditating after he had received the magic boost from the hollows and usually needed to do it every month or so. Harry had already had a big bucket of magic before and now that he had much more, he needed to center himself, lest the magic go haywire. Hermione had been the one to suggest it at first and it had worked.

He could have done it out in the workshop, just to keep Tony company, but with that much machinery and electronics around, he couldn't. When he meditated, he usually needed to ward the room first, because the first time he had done it, furniture and things around the room that had not been bolted down to the floor had lifted up and floated in the air.

He sat cross-legged on the bed and closed his eyes, going to his magic center. This time, when he was finally immersed in his magic, he had a sense of another kind of magic somewhere in... he was able to pinpoint it in New Mexico. The magic seemed unearthly, like it's origin was not of Earth. To Harry, it was not a kind of magic that he had seen before. It had little thunder bolts in the magic and that was the oddest thing that Harry had seen in his life and he had seen a lot of odd things. I wonder if SHIELD will know anything. I should ask Natasha once I'm through here.

After about an hour and half later of centering his magic once again, he opened his eyes and then stretched. He cast a tempus charm and realized it was 4 in the afternoon and then decided that he would spend the night at the mansion. Once he walked out of his room, he heard the sounds of construction and machinery moving. What is Tony doing? Is he trying to destroy the house? This seems to be a very common thing when Tony is working on something new.

Harry followed the sounds to the workshop, where he saw big circular pieces of metal molded together and Tony and Coulson working together.

"Hey, did you find a new element to put in your arc reactor?" Harry asked Tony. Natasha had filled him in about the inventor's predicament earlier. The first element that he had used to create the miniaturized arc reactor had slowly started to kill him.

"Yes, it should work." replied Tony and then predictably went back to work.

"Goodbye, Harry." Coulson said.

"Where are you going?" Harry asked curiously.

"On another assignment. To New Mexico."

"Well, good luck." Harry wondered if Coulson going to New Mexico had anything to do with what he had sensed earlier. It probably did. If it's anything big, which it is, SHIELD will have a hand in it. It seems like I should go with him. Luckily, I placed a tracking charm on him before he left.

"Tony, do you need any further help at all with this?" Harry asked.

"No, I've got this. You're going to New Mexico, right?"

"Yes, because of Coulson and I sensed something when I was just meditating a couple of minutes ago." Harry replied.

"Sensed something?" Tony asked curiously.

"Yes, something unearthly, and magic." Harry said.

"Oh, well, I presume you don't need transportation? I would go just to piss off Fury, but I'm busy." Tony commented, while still working on the new element.

"No, I'll probably just go in my hawk form and follow Coulson. And again, if you need anything-"

"You'll come running, I know. If you need anything, just call. But I won't. Vanko's dead, so that's taken care of."

And with that, Harry went out to the balcony and then shifted forms. Shaking his feathers out, he homed in on the tracking charm he placed on Coulson and flew toward him. Harry hadn't let Coulson know about being a wizard and he was probably too smart not to notice a hawk following him and being too intelligent for a hawk. So Harry kept his distance and occasionally cast a notice-me-not spell on himself. Coulson drove through the night, only stopping to pick up snacks.

When they finally arrived in New Mexico, Harry took extra care to follow Coulson, because he didn't know exactly where they were going. A couple of hours passed and they had just passed the town of Puente Antiguo. The magic that Harry had sensed when he was meditating was getting closer and growing with each passing minute, along with his curiosity.

Harry had taken to flying a couple of feet above Coulson's car for the duration of this trip, so he hovered over it when the car stopped. They had stopped on a hill overlooking a big hole in the ground that had a lot of trucks and truckers around it. Harry glanced around the area and noticed that most of the trucks had chains wrapped around the trucks. He had flown and perched on one of the trucks and had spotted the thing that the chains were wrapped around- it was a hammer, a big hammer, which looked like it weighed a lot. Harry flew up and then flew over for a closer look at the hammer. When he landed right next to the hammer, he received some odd looks from the people around him and when he looked over at where Coulson was, the agent had a very weird look on his face too, like he thought it was very odd to see a hawk examining the hammer.

The hammer looked like it was an old tool or weapon and it definitely had magic running along its sides, however the magic that came out of it was coming out of it in little thunder bolts. Very odd, I've never seen anything like it. Harry took one last glance at it and then flew up and decided to fly back to Puente Antiguo to keep an eye on the town. He figured that SHIELD would move in to the area and study the hammer, in fact, he had spotted some big black trucks and vans moving toward this vicinity.

When he reached the town 15 minutes later, he landed on what looked like a cafe and surveyed the town. It wasn't a big town, only a couple hundred people in it. The biggest building, but not enormous, in the town appeared to be a building that consisted of scientific instruments. It kind of looked like Tony's lab, but a lot smaller.

Harry flew up and then flew down to the ground and landed behind the cafe and then shifted back to his human form. The wizard then walked into the cafe and grabbed some lunch. Harry kept yawning every few minutes while he was eating; it had been a while since he had flown that far. Harry pulled out a pepper-up potion out of his bag and gulped it down. He then decided that being on a roof would aid in his surveying of the town, so he shifted back into his hawk form and then took off.

As soon as he landed there, a couple of smaller black cars, along with a black van, parked right next to the building. The presumably SHIELD agents started carting out the many different laboratory machinery and supplies. The three people that Harry had seen in the building, two women and one man came walking and ran toward Coulson, who had accompanied the agents.

"What are you doing with our stuff?" said one of the women, angrily.

"We are confiscating it for our own research purposes." Coulson said and then promptly flashed a badge. As he did that, he glanced upward to the roof and then his gaze lighted on the hawk taking a special interest in the proceedings. That was the hawk that had studied the hammer...

Harry watched as Coulson narrowed his eyes at him and then refocused on the other agents that were finished with packing the boxes in the van. Then they all promptly got back in their cars and drove off.

A couple of minutes later, Harry heard some noises coming up from the doorway to the building. The three scientists were coming up the stairs to the roof. Harry was perched by the edge of the roof, but he was reluctant to move, so he stayed put.

The two women and one man walked onto the roof, but once they saw the hawk, they slowed down.

"Hey, bird," the woman with the darker brown hair(who Harry had thought was Darcy) said, "That bird isn't flying away from us... Aren't birds suppose to fly away from people?"

"It doesn't look like it's wounded, though, if it was wounded wouldn't it not stay put?" the other woman said(Jane).

"Let's just leave it be. It'll fly away if it wants to," the man said(Erik).

The three of them slowly inched toward the edge of the roof and then sat down, with their legs swinging freely in the air. They started to chat amongst themselves, while Harry just continued to glance around the town, still in his hawk form.

An hour or so later, Harry was following the woman named Jane who had gotten into their van and driven and then stopped near the one pet store in town. Harry had landed on the van once it had stopped. He had sensed some of the same magic from the hammer around the same area. He looked around the street for the source and found it in the pet store that they had stopped in front of.

"Still need a lift?" Jane yelled at a tall, muscular man in the store.

Harry studied the man throughly, seeing little sparks of what looked like miniaturize lightning bolts and thunder to the wizard. Granted, Harry was the only one who could see the magic. It reminded Harry of some reading he did in school about a Norse god of thunder, Thor, he was called. He hadn't thought that was real, but then again, wizard! So, he had a god of thunder walking around New Mexico. That's the only explanation for the magic that's emanating from him. Harry wondered what he was doing here.

As Harry was thinking, the apparent god of thunder had started to study the hawk. Thor wondered why a hawk had calmly perched on the van, just watching him. He hadn't known about any sorcerers or warlocks or wizards on Midgard and the hawk definitely screamed "not just a hawk." Thor had enough experience with his brother to know that this bird was not entirely just a bird.

Harry watched as Thor gave a slight nod to him- it seems like Thor knows, hmm- and then ran around and got into the passenger seat in the van. As soon as the van started up again, Harry was about to cast a sticking charm on himself to the roof, but he heard a window open in the van and flew down to look.

Thor had opened a window in the back for him to fly into and then gone back into the passenger seat. Harry flew through the window and shifted back into his human form as he landed and then pulled his invisibility cloak on. He had heard that Jane and Thor intended on going to look at the hammer.

He spent the ride to the hammer site dozing and when the car stopped, he was startled. Didn't they have, maybe another couple of minutes to go? It was dark out when they stopped, at least 7:30pm. When Harry glanced out of the car, he was very impressed, SHIELD had erected a miniature encampment around the hammer! It hadn't even been a whole day! When both Thor and Jane got out of the van, Harry got out too by way of the door that Thor had left open for an extra minute or two, which confused Jane.

After Harry got out of the van, he shifted back into his hawk form and flew down to the encampment. He flew around the perimeter and watched Thor run into the above ground tunnels that SHIELD had created with some material. Harry had perched on this box that had cables attached to it outside of the tunnels and suddenly someone ran into the box and it lifted off the ground. Releasing a squawk, Harry turned around and looked at the man who had gotten inside. The man was very startled to see a hawk on the railing of the box next to him, but not startled enough to jump.

"Hey, hawk... You sure seem to be comfortable with me, or I guess people in general if you flew into this encampment. Actually, you look like the hawk that Natasha told me about."

Harry gave a medium loud kree, as if in agreement.

Oh, that's Hawkeye, or Clint Barton, master archer! I didn't expect to see someone of that variety here. SHIELD doesn't know that that's Thor. That's going to be amusing to watch. As the box lifted into the sky, a couple of feet off the ground, Clint pulled out a compound bow and strung an arrow. Harry was now able to watch Thor fight his way to what Harry thought would be Mjolnir, his hammer, now that Harry knew that this was indeed Thor. I wonder what Hawkeye's orders are. Then a couple of seconds later, Harry got his answer, Clint was talking to someone, presumably Coulson about either taking the shot or slowing him down.

Wanting to get a better look at Thor was doing, he flew down and flew behind a big storage container and shifted back to human form and promptly pulled his invisibility cloak on. I had wondered why Thor had to go and retrieve his hammer. Couldn't he just raise his hand and it would come to him? Harry ran to where Thor was currently fighting a very big man. It looked like the brunt end of the fight- they were both in the mud and Thor was the only one to get up. After that, Harry followed Thor to where the hammer was located.

Thor looked very excited when he came up to the hammer. Harry was just standing in the corner of the big area where the hammer was, still with the cloak on. Thor grabbed onto the handle of Mjolnir and he pulled like he expected to able to pick it up, but it wasn't budging at all. Why wouldn't he be able to pick it up? Is that part of why he's here on Earth, and not on Asgard? Thor looked very, very disappointed to not have been able to pick it up. A minute after, Harry heard stomping of a lot of military boots and turned around. Apparently, Coulson had given the order to arrest Thor. Given that Harry had no big credentials to flash to get him out of there, he slowly shadowed them.

The SHIELD agents herded him out of the area where the hammer was still sitting there and into a room that was off of the main area. It looked set for an interrogation; it had one chair in the middle of it, which they set Thor in and left. It was just Thor, Coulson and Harry in the small room.

Coulson started talking and asking questions about where was Thor from and what kind of training he had. Coulson thought that Thor was a terrorist! That was hilarious. Harry started chuckling, albeit Harry, Thor was obviously not from Earth, but that was probably just Harry. He knew when someone was supernatural in origin and Thor distinctly was.

After a couple minutes of asking questions that Thor was not answering, Coulson was pulled out of the room by another agent. Knowing that they most certainly had cameras in the room, Harry didn't dare to take off his cloak, though he silently padded across the room and gave the thunder god's shoulder a gentle reassuring squeeze. Thor had his head down, in a dejected manner.

Just as suddenly when he walked back to the corner, his magic went haywire, in a way that suggested someone was coming and he or she was a whole other game. And his magic was right, he turned to glance at the door, because his magic couldn't be reacting to Coulson, it had to be a whole new person. A tall, lean, but muscular(but not like Thor; this man was whipcord slim) man stepped through into the room. He had black hair and green eyes and was wearing a black suit and yep, Harry's magic was reacting with this man's magic. The two very different magics were weaving together. Then Harry's magic, without his permission, went and went around the man and sort of hugged him, which was the weirdest thing that Harry had seen. (Harry had accidentally started to see a physical representation of people's magic after he had woken up that one time after he had died. It had startled him a lot.) This had never happened before to Harry; it seemed like his magic really liked this man, but had just gone and done this without his knowing about it.

Along with that image, came many different images and a long line of pictures that were definitely the history of this one man. It seemed like his magic was trying to tell him something about this mystery person. Harry was bombarded with images and memories that went on like a movie in his mind and it went on for a really long time, too. He got the feeling that this man was immortal, too. Oh, that's Loki, god of mischief, huh? The brother of Thor? His memories go all the way back to mostly when he was really young. Then to Harry's embarrassment and displeasure, his magic continued showing him more of Loki's memories. So that's what Asgard looks like... awesome! Odin looks, well old. Finally, the assault of the Norse god's memories seemed to be slowing down. The last couple of memories were of little Loki(so cute) playing with his brother Thor on the Bifrost(totally cool) and then this- it was of a cold, blue world with 8ft tall blue creatures and this memory was very blurred, like it was from a long, long time ago. It seemed like Harry's magic was emphasizing this one because it showed a little, short blue creature in a small crib and Odin coming up and picking him up. That's where the memory ended. Huh, was that Loki? I thought that Loki was an Asgardian, but hmm, he was born with blue skin? I need to look that up.

While Harry was dealing with the onslaught of memories, Loki was looking around the small room. After the memories finally stopped, Harry blinked a couple times and glanced curiously at Loki. He now felt that he had known the god of mischief for all his life, which was a bit weird. He hadn't heard of that happening anywhere else in the magical world. He stayed gazing at Harry, looking him straight in the eye for a minute or two and raised an eyebrow at him, then went over to talk with Thor. Harry was so startled at the fact that this man could actually see him. He was under the invisibility cloak, for Merlin's sake! No one could see under it, well Dumbledore could, but this was new! However, from what he had seen, Loki was very well immersed in magic, too and a different kind of magic that Harry didn't know a lot about.

Harry just stood there for a couple minutes thinking about that revelation while Thor talked to Loki. Hmm, Odin's dead? That doesn't exactly connect with Loki's memories. The last group of memories that Harry had gotten from his magic featured Odin, but the king had seemed asleep, not dead. However, when I looked into Loki's eyes, he seemed pained and distressed. Also, having found out that he was a frost giant just a couple of hours ago and not a full Asgardian would probably push him over the edge.