Once more walking through Londonderry's streets the Storm Hawks were even more on edge.
"How did they find us?" Stork asked in a panicked whisper, glancing at any passing person for fear they would attack.
"Maybe it was the transportation crystal we used" Junko suggested. Piper shook her head.
"No, the crystal registered to the squadron and therefore to the Sky Knight but it can't be traced now, Aerrow's of age" She replied.
"We need to find somewhere" Aerrow told them as they walked down an underpass. Ace suddenly stopped walking, as if he'd had an idea.
"I think there's one place we could go" He told them.
They soon found themselves watching the hidden house of Grimmauld Place, headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, appear.
"Are you sure?" Piper asked worried as Ace pocketed the crystal used to reveal the house.
"When Dumbledore died it was abandoned, but it'll still have it's enchantments on it" He told them. Entering the house, they found it even more grimier and dustier than before. As they shut the door and stepped in a little, the lights in the hallway flickered on by themselves as if they knew someone was there. It was then at the other end of the hallway did a spiral of dust started to appear. It grew and grew as it sped towards them, frighteningly taking the form of none other than Dumbledore. As then, just as it reached them, with a hand searched out as if to attack, it was gone.
"What was that all about?" Finn asked nervously.
"Probably Moody's idea" Ace replied, sounding just as nervous. Piper, having regained her nerves produced a small black crystal.
"This will tell us if anyone's here, it'll fade it's colour if there is" She told them as she held it out. A few tense moments passed as they all watched the crystal. But it remained jet black. "We're alone" Piper said solemnly.
"I believed, I believed another wand, no no, I believed a different wand would work I swear, there must be another way" Olivander begged as Cyclonis tortured him with the Crucio spell again and again. That was when Aerrow woke up. The early morning light was coming through the drawing room's windows and birdsong could be heard from outside. Sitting up on the coach he'd slept on, Aerrow saw the rest of his team were all still asleep, they had all decided to sleep in the same room just in case anything happened. Piper and Finn were closest with Piper on the opposite coach and Finn on the floor next to it, their hands were so close to each others Aerrow wondered if they had fallen asleep holding hands. Ace, Junko and Stork were all sleeping on armchairs dotted about the room, who Aerrow sneaked past on his way out of the room.
Climbing the worn and creaking staircase, holding a torch for light Aerrow soon came to a landing with two doors, both of which leading into bedrooms which looked as of they'd gone unused in years. Closing the door again, having found nothing of importance, not that he had expected to, Aerrow heard Stork's voice from the floor below, calling their names urgently.
"Stork what is it?" Aerrow said as he jogged down the stairs to the landing Stork was on as the others came up the stairs. Stork pointed to a door, which was half opened. Stepping into the doorway all they saw was a disused bedroom.
"Lovely" Piper said, confused at what Stork had found. Stork then pulled the door shut a little so that the others took notice of it and of the name on the door.
"Regulas Arcturus" Aerrow read out.
"That was Sirius's brother, he died years ago" Ace said.
"Wait you don't think?" Aerrow said, realising something as he looked to Piper who had the same idea.
"R.A, from the locket" She said.
Sitting at the kitchen table Aerrow was reading out the R..A's note again with the fake locket in the table in front of him.
"If he found the real horcruex, did he actually destroy it?" Finn asked as they all sat around the table, unsure of what to do. Then the heard a rattling sound, very close to them, sounding as if it was in the same room. Rising slowly out of their seats, and drawing their weapons as the rattling continued, coming from a pantry, they slowly walked over. Ace reached the door first and, as the others stood in position to attack if needed too, he opened the door.