In a Memory

Qwan looked around. It appeared they all had materialized in a huge chamber. It looked about the size of the main room of the mud man Roman Catholic Church. The floor seemed to be made of solid white ice, though it wasn't slippery. The walls reached to the heavens, literally, you couldn't see the ceiling for there were clouds in the way. The wall looked like molten diamond had dribbled down and hardened into drops, giving it the appearance of a frozen waterfall of tears. Everything about the room shimmered with a celestial glow.

There was a judge podium that seemed to be made in the same style as the walls and was built for four people. Four spookily familiar scarred young girls sat in the place four judges would normally sit on the podium. Qwan gasped inaudibly when he realized where he recognized them from. One had dark black hair and stormy gray eyes, one had wood brown hair and serious green eyes, one had almost navy hair with deep sapphire-blue eyes that looked almost identical to Artemis's natural eyes, and the last one had dark hair with only hints of red and she had deep, calculating gold eyes. They all were unusually serious and they all had the telltale signs of great wisdom thousands of millennia beyond their years, though they couldn't have been over ten. They had scars, but they looked more like pale white scratches on their otherwise pretty faces. Despite their apparent ages, they seemed to have a commanding aura that was unusual for even the most powerful adult to have. They all sat straight with unreadable expressions.

"Come in," the one with the gray eyes said. Her authoritative voice rang out in the huge room like a gong. Qwan looked around to see there weren't any doors, so how was anyone supposed to get in? His question was answered quickly when sparkles of yellow light suddenly whirled in a slow and mini cyclone and two figures materialized inside. It was Dumbledore and Sirius!

Everyone minus Harry looked from the Dumbledore and Sirius with them to the ones who just entered. Harry looked up and answered the unspoken question, "We are in a memory. The people in the memory can't see, hear or touch us while we can see and hear them, though we can't touch them. Those people," he gestured to the whole scene, "are memories."

Qwan nodded to say he understood, but he couldn't say the same for many of his friends. Minerva and Foaly were nodding but everyone else still looked confused. He noticed the memory Dumbledore and Sirius were all white and silver and they shimmered with the same celestial glow as everything else. He assumed it was because they were dead in the time of the memory. Qwan turned back to the memory.

"Good evening." Dumbledore in the memory said. All four of the girls nodded in unison.

"Greetings, Albus," the one with the gray eyes said without smiling. She clasped her hands on the table. "We should tell you why you were asked here."

"That would be much appreciated." Sirius said with thinly veiled indignity. The girls pretended to not have heard.

"There is trouble in the land of the living. We are considering bringing back some of the deceased," the one with gold eyes said. Dumbledore's memory simply smiled mysteriously while the memory of Sirius's eyes widened.

"How could you do that? You are too young. And if you could, what could be so serious as bringing back the dead?" Sirius asked. All four of the girls narrowed their eyes.

"Appearances can be deceiving, Mr. Black. As for your second question, we feel you don't have to know. However, we will just tell you it is an enemy of old coming back and he has employed the assistance of living enemies to help bring himself to power again," the girl with gray eyes said.

"There is another one being brought back to life, though we feel he shouldn't remember what went on during his death," the one with the green eyes said.

"Why shouldn't he remember?" Sirius asked.

"We shouldn't have to explain ourselves. We have devoted most of our power to keep this threat at bay. When the fairy died he didn't have any magic left. It is an unneeded luxury to give him the magic to remember," the one with the gold eyes said.

"Unneeded? And your bringing back a fairy?!" Sirius in the memory asked indignantly.

"You will meet him and that should trigger recall, as for your second question, yes we are bringing back a fairy. There are some you don't happen to know about," the one with the green eyes said, irritated.

"But-"

"We are growing weary of your constant complaining, Mr. Black," the one with sapphire eyes said testily, speaking for the first time.

"Indeed. There is currently a battle in the land of the living you will land in. As you probably noticed, you have been in flashes of the living already. It is up to you to warn the living and help in anyway you can. MEETING CONCLUDED!" the last words of the gray-eyed girl reverberated around the room and the memory of Dumbledore and Sirius faded away in the same slow, mini cyclone of sparkles they arrived in. The four girls looked at each other.

"Are you sure this is wise? We are placing a lot of pressure on the living," the sapphire-eyed girl asked.

"What choice do we have? We have taken the only course of action," the gray-eyed girl said wearily.

"It is nearly time. Let us leave and restrain the darkness again," the gold-eyed girl said. As one, the gold, the green, and the gray-eyed girls rose from their seats and dissipated as though they were mist. The only one left was the sapphire-eyed one. She rose from her seat and walked down the steps that led down from the dais. Her steps echoed through the empty room. She walked to the very middle of the room. Then she looked directly at the group.

"Don't think we can't see you. Heed our warning, Qwan," she said, and everything melting into darkness.

A/N

Whoot! More evil cliffies! Sorry about it being short, I just thought that this was a really good stopping point. I don't own anything Who can guess what the mysterious girls are? Who is the 'enemy of old'? Why did the sapphire-eyed girl address Qwan specifically? How was she able to see them in the first place? All in time, my readers, all in time… :D (REVIEW!)