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"It doesn't end, does it?"

Kayla looked over at Sirius curiously. "What do you mean?"

"I mean the movement. Just when you think something is peaceful and calm, something else comes up that totally throws that world out the window."

Kayla blinked twice. "Where are you going with this?"

Sirius sighed hard and leaned forward on his broom, eyes half-lidded and staring out into the sky. "This whole week as been crazy. It's been between worrying about James and fretting about Remus' new interest. It's hard enough to deal with Peter's OCD and Remus' girl alone, but with James at my side, it wasn't so bad. It's never been this crazy, and hardly ever this dangerous. Mischief comes second nature to me, yet this all seems to really push me over the edge."

"And yourself?" he gave her a look, "You can worry all you want about other people, but until you take care of your own needs, it's gonna stay hard on you."

"But there's nothing wrong with me."

Kayla's brows dropped, eyes narrowing. "Really? According to your file you ran away from home right after your uncle's death. You've always had a hard time remaining in long-relationships because your parents had such a fragile one. You have never truly forgiven your mother from turning you out, even though you wish you could. Your life has been nothing but fight after fight. Hogwarts was the only place that offered you a shred of normality and you took it. But you don't except what has already happened. You won't except it because dredging up the past would bring you back to a place you vowed never to go again. And you've seen someone die," she added softly, "if that isn't inadvertently a problem, then I don't know what is."

Sirius' blue gray eyes stared at her golden brown ones and she thought she saw something that looked like regret but it was shortly replaced with a harsh, cold look. "And I assume that just because you have this file, that you know me?"

"I never said that," she argued, tearing her eyes away and staring forward again. "I am waiting for a contradiction. I still haven't gotten one, so you give me reason to believe that you are the troubled teen in the file I received."

"You know, I don't mention you telling us that you had files on us."

"It wasn't necessary at the time," she said non-nonchalantly, enjoying the way he growled with annoyance. Winding this boy up would be a lot of fun, she thought cruelly, but plotting with him sounds like an adventure in and of itself. "Besides, Dumbledore gave them to us right after the kidnapping plan went through. He said that if anyone was going to question James' disappearance, and seek the answer behind it, it would be the Marauders, his close knit group." Sirius nodded slowly. "It was to understand how your minds worked. Most of the Order, that is what we call ourselves, didn't need to read the files because they went to school with you guys. In comparison to me and Pricilla, as we both did not go to school with you for consecutive years. We drank up what was in those files because you were all so different. We couldn't fathom what had connected you all, and knowing that you were all friends with James made all the sense to us. He was the thing that connected you all." Kayla took a breath, letting the air before her mouth mist over. She glanced forward and shouted back to the others as to what to do next.

She then took an abrupt dive downwards, leading those behind her to take the dip as well. The Thestrals was having a harder time to manoeuvring through the clouds than the broomsticks. Kayla noticed James was trying to make sure that Lily was secured and well as himself, which was more than a little bit surprising. She blew the whistle a couple times in quick succession to slow the creatures down, and was welcomed with a thank you.

"Where exactly are we going, Kayla?" asked Sirius when they levelled out again.

"There's a small dock that will lead us to where Tiffany is. At the dock is a magical lighthouse that has been charmed to direct its users, with the proper incantation, to the object or place that is in their minds. I know the incantation used for the lighthouse, as does Henry, so we'll use that to locate tiffany.

"According to Henry, Tiffany was taken with the pretence that Voldemort would be seeing James again. I assume that that means that he wants us to go to where he is. While the Dark Lord will not make it easy to find him, he will certainly not make it hard. You will have to be ready to fight him and whatever else he throws at us. It will be painful."

Sirius shrugged his shoulder. "An adventure is an adventure anyway you cut it."

Kayla grinned her agreement and called out to Remus, Henry, James and Lily, debriefing them on the situation. All for them seemed eager to help out, save Remus, but she attributed his hesitance to nerves. The land below was slowly becoming clear, and in no time, the small group could see a vast ocean below them. The dock that Kayla had mentioned sat on the outskirts, a few miles from their current position. They flew in that direction, coasting when that got lower to the pier. The dock had no-one at it. There weren't any boats in the area either, which was curious to most people, but for witches and wizards, things concerning the Muggle world was not as interesting as their own world. Many often paid little attention to the actual happenings of the Muggle world unlike Lily or Kayla.

Once landed, they wasted no time in going to the lighthouse, James and Lily being the last to arrive because they had some trouble getting down. As they gathered together around the door to the lighthouse, Kayla had gotten into a conversation with Henry on the proper way to follow through with the lighthouse incantation. "You emphasis the E," she insisted, her wand tapping the tip of her knee. "Hurry up, Henry, and don't argue with me."

"But you don't emphasize the E," he said stubbornly, "that doesn't make any sense."

She narrowed her eyes, "If you want to get this right, then you're going to have to emphasize the E."

He growled and threw his arms up in the air. "Know what? We'll take a vote on it," he turned to the group, "How many of you think Kayla is correct?" Nearly all the hands went up, and she grinned at him, victorious. "You guys are insane."

"They just love me more," she said smugly, tapping the edge of the light-house door with her wand. "Now hurry up. You were second in command, meaning you have to do the job."

Henry groaned and mumbled something about annoying partners and Kayla being a 'piece of work' before knocking on the door in a particular pattern. At this, another door seemingly appeared beside the original, caked in dust. Kayla smiled and stretched out her wand arm, "In. Go."

Her partner glared at her and muttered some more choice words before stepping through the door, lighting his wand up as he walked. James walked in with Lily clutching his hand. Remus followed with Sirius, while Kayla took up the rear. They walked down through the door that led them into a spiral staircase. It curled upwards, leading them to them to the large light at the tip of the lighthouse. James, Remus, Sirius and Lily spent their time marvelling at the length of the stairs while Henry and Kayla kept an eye out for signs of magic. The door's reveal was a good sign that they were in the right place. However, the ability to go forth using magical means seemed prohibited at the lighthouse, which indicated that the space they were in was the right place. Tiffany wasn't a fan of magic when normal means could be used, and this held true as their magic seemed ineffective within the walls of the lighthouse.

"I found the exit," called Henry, his voice echoing throughout the lighthouse's interior.

"Open it up then, Hen," Kayla called, "We don't have much time."

"I hear you," said Henry, tapping his wand against the semi-visible door that led out to the main area. They filed out onto the light room, circling around the beacon of light that shot out of the center.

"I don't understand. What's the significance of this?"

"Significance? I'm not sure that I can properly answer that. The whole idea of having this lighthouse here was Tiffany's She only told me the incantation once and, when i asked her what for, her explanation was very...analytical."

"Oh, Henry, it wasn't that hard to understand," Kayla turned to face her other companions, hands on her hips, "The lighthouse's core is made up of a special magic stone called Kolstove. Kosltove can be found in the desert when the temperature is bad enough to cause heat waves and melt downs. It was originally used to mark a specific place in the desert because it all looked the same. The Kolstove would light up, a beam shooting into the hot sky, and show the traveller the way to water, shelter, whatever the case was. Now, we can channel Kolstove in this lighthouse to find someone who is missing because we have left our magical traces in it. Every member of the Order was asked to sign their names on the stone, so whenever we needed to find one of the members, the Kolstove stone would shoot off a light in their direction."

"That's a great idea," said Sirius with a smile.

Remus nodded. "Very ingenious. How did you find the stone?"

"Dumbledore actually found it in his office 2 weeks before school started. He asked Tiffany to research it and then, voila, the Kolstove stone was used."

"Fantastic," murmured Remus, admiring the beacon.

"Alrighty, then," said Kayla, "Fire it up, Henry."

"Wait, why can't you do it?" asked Sirius.

"Because I'm second-in-command," sighed Henry, rubbing his head, "Believe me, I voted for Kayla, but the rest of them weren't having it. They voted for me."

"Because we know how good you are with Raven," said Kayla with a wry smile, "You know exactly how her mind works."

Henry flushed with embarrassment and raised his wand, pointing it to the thin crack right below the beacon. He tapped it twice, muttering a sort of spell, and suddenly the beacon shuddered and began to rise. The light room seemed to grow in size while the core of the beacon slowly peeled open, as if it was shedding a layer. Within the beacon sat a teardrop shaped rock, its colour black. If one looked close enough, they would see carvings within the stone. Each carving was an Order member's name. It was well done, Kayla had to admit, watching as Henry said the final incantation that ignited the stone in colourful pink flames.

"Pink?" asked Lily, curiously. Kayla looked over at her and noticed she was clutching onto James quite fiercely. She fought down a comment and slipped on a smile.

"Every stone lights up differently. This one just happens to have pink as its natural colour. Now watch. This should look pretty cool."

"Should?"

"I've never seen it used. I've only read about it in some of the books in my library."

"A library?" Lily and Remus perked up almost instantly.

"Hush, and watch," laughed Kayla, watching the stone shoot a brilliant beam of pink into the ceiling. The colour gathered at the top and spilled out around them, practically enveloping them in a cocoon of pink. It would have been rather pretty, if the colour didn't suddenly change to a blinding white, effectively rendering all of the blind for a few moments. When the white cleared, the Kolstove stone was no longer emitting white light. It now shot several beams of light in a variety of directions.

"The names," cried Remus, "They're glowing." And it was true. Each of the names carved onto the Kolstove glowed a different colour, each having a corresponding beam shooting off the top.

"Find Tiffany's name, said Kayla, "I don' know how long the effects of the stone last."

"You mean it didn't say in the book?" asked James, scanning his side of the stone for Tiffany's name.

"No. It said the time limit was short but gave no indication of how long it would last."

"Why didn't you try to find out?" quipped Sirius, to which Kayla responded: "It was in Arabic. You try to translate that fast."

He grumbled and apology and continued searching. She thought it would be easier to find her friend's name, but obviously it wasn't. She didn't know there were this many people in the Order. "Got it," called Lily, "It's the orange one."

Instantly, Kayla's eyes snapped to the tip of the Kolstove, searching for the orange hue that Lily was referring to. She found it quickly enough, and saw that it pointed out across the mountains and through the ocean.

Sirius whistled, "That, my friends, is very far away."

"How will we know exactly where she is?" asked Henry, "This just gives us a brief idea of where she is. We don't know where Voldemort has kept her captive. There is nothing here that could possibly-"

"There is one thing that might work," said Kayla, "it's risky, and we won't have much chance to adapt to the change but it might work."

"What is it?"

Kayla looked warily at all of her companions before continuing. "The Kolstove stone is a stone not many wizards learned about because of its near-impossible qualities. We like to keep it a secret to preserve the power Kolstoves give us. However, there is one part of the stone that only the founder had been able to find. He wrote it in Latin, and placed multiple spells and enchantments on the pages that contained it to hide the fact. However...my family is a family of knowledge hunters. We search for things tied to the past to better understand the future. My great grandfather found the pages, and spent much of his life attempted to decode it. He passed it on to my mother, who then passed it on to me." She took a breath. This was hard to tell. "We were often tracked because of the paper, so when my mother gave it to me, she made sure to properly mask its magical scent. When I did go over it, I was 12. It was around summer time, so my parents had decided to take me to see the pyramids. The paper reacted to the magic in the area and I was able to figure out the secret part of the Kolstove.

"The stone itself has the ability to point us in the right direction. However, there is a certain part of the stone that can transfer us direction to our destination."

"Why didn't you say that before?"

"I wasn't sure if this Kostove still had the transfer piece in it. You know those black boxes that the Ministry has been creating? Vanishing Cabinets, I think. They have a piece of Kostove in it. That is what allows the cabinets to work so effectively."

"Always wondered what they put in those things," muttered Sirius. "So does it still have the transfer piece?"

Kayla bent over and inspected the stone. She noticed small nicks about it, but no chunk missing where the transfer piece was supposed to be. "Everything seems all right. All we need to do is all be touching his transfer piece when Henry says the incantation. He then has to touch the 'location' we want to be in. That means," she said, turning to Henry, "you have to speak the incantation and say Tiffany's name."

"Sounds easy enough."

Kayla placed a finger on a smoother side of the stone near the bottom. "This is the transfer piece. Place a finger or two here. It isn't very big, which doesn't really help when we want to transport multiple people. This will take us right to the center of Tiffany's captivity. Knowing the Dark Lord, he will have enchantments that will push us towards the edge of the safe hold. It might set off an alarm, and so we might have enough time to adapt to the situation. We will be attacked," she added gravely, "and there is no guarantee that we will get out alive. This is your last chance to back down. I won't judge you if you say no." Silence. "Good. Let's begin."

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