The next day having told the others about the founders object, although leaving the part about the connection out Piper was busy running through all the potential horcruexs as they all gathered round the fire. Starling was sitting opposite to Aerrow. Gratefully and if not a bit unnervingly his feelings for her that he'd had to admit had been there for a while before the night before were still there. What he didn't know was that Starling was feeling exactly the same.
"Right I've written everything down" Piper said, bringing Aerrow out of his thoughts. Piper had made a list of all the potential horcruexs including the two Dumbledore had destroyed which had an X mark next to them. "So we have the ring, the locket, something of Hufflepuff's, something of Ravenclaw's, whatever Dumbledore has potentially found and not forgetting Cyclonis herself but what else?" Piper questioned.
"What about something living?" Aerrow asked.
"What do you mean?" Ace asked as they all tuned their attention to him.
"When I saw the first memory she told Dumbledore that she could talk to snakes" Aerrow said, also remembering the vision of the snake he'd seen when he'd touched the ring.
"Talked to snakes, that's it!" Piper called out. As she brought back the book on the founders and turned it to Slytherin's page. "Slytherin could talk to snakes too, it's called Parsultounge and I think if Cyclonis has a snake, which if she had this ability I think she would that maybe the final horcruex" Piper said excited as she added it to her list.
"But where are they hidden?" Starling asked, considering locations herself.
"We may know one, Slytherin was reported to have a chamber built somewhere and if Cyclonis connected herself to him, it's where she would hid one of them" Piper deduced.
That night after a long discussion they all went to bed. Except two of them. Purposely lingering Aerrow and Starling were now alone sitting by the dying fire.
"Looks like Piper's got it all figured then" Starling said as she sat down next to him.
"Yeh I just wish it was that simple" Aerrow replied. Starling took a moment before speaking again.
"Last night.." She began. "I, how'd you feel?" She asked rather nervously.
"I was going to ask too" Aerrow said, but like the night before they felt a silent answer of agreement pass between them as they moved a little closer to each other.
"If you'd told me a few years ago I have you and the others, like this, I wouldn't have believed.." She said trailing off as she looked at him lovingly.
"I know, so much has changed, got worse or," Aerrow looked at her. "Got better" He finished smiling.
"I wonder how long it'll, take the other to guess" She joked. Aerrow jokingly considered.
"Oh I don't know..." He began to say. That was when the pain hit. All of a sudden his scar flared up so badly, it was blinding, in fact he left the room and instead saw the Ministry's corridor he'd been dreaming about. But the door was blasted open. Inside was a singular walkway with on either side shelf's of brightly lit orbs. One, on seeing the row number came into focus. With a singular figure looming over it, Cyclonis. Aerrow felt pain again and heard a voice.
"Aerrow!, can you hear me!, Aerrow!" The voice was shouting worryingly. It was then, like opening his eyes he saw once again the room he'd been sat in with a very distressed looking Starling kneeling in front of him. "I'll go get Ace" She said begin to rush off, but Aerrow caught her arm.
"Cyclonis is in the Ministry, past that door, she's after something" He said, almost gasping. "We have to stop her" He added, wincing as the pain in his arm slowly subsided.
"This might be an attack like Dumbledore warned you about" She said, staring back with worried eyes.
"What if it's not?" Aerrow asked back gravely. Starling swallowed and looked at him determinedly.
"Then the others have to know, everything" She told him.
It didn't take long to rouse the others and for Aerrow to explain everything. Though they knew about what had happened in the graveyard, but as he'd worried they began to all ask worrying questions.
"Look" Aerrow finally said worried about the little time they had. "We haven't got time, we have to get to the Ministry, now" He said, in a way that asked them all to just trust him. As quickly as possible the Condor took off into the night sky.