Aerrow had gone to the one place that made sense at the moment. Dumbledore's office. Walking into the silent room, absent of the small moving silver objects and Fawkes the phoenix, it felt strangely wrong to be here. As he reached the middle of the room the folding doors against the wall besides him which concealed the Pensive, which allowed people to view memories, opened to reveal the silvery bowl on top of the stone basin. Taking out a blade Aerrow held the tip over it and released Severus's memory into the bowl, which started to glow. Taking a breath as he brushed his blade over the shimmering water and lent toward the surface he felt himself enter the memories.

He found himself on a grassy hill with a large dead but strong looking tree on it which was surrounded by the countryside of a Terra his didn't recognise and, although he could not feel anything, he could tell is was a warm and pleasant summers day from the clear blue sky and amount of flowers growing in the grass. That was when he saw a young girl, no older than ten or eleven, with bright ginger hair and emerald eyes, sitting near him on the grass. As he neared Aerrow saw she was holding a small flower head in her hand and seemed to be concentrating on it. That was when he saw it open and then close before opening again, and he realised that she must be a sorcerer who had unlocked her powers, but had not received a wand as she, like he'd done, affected things around her without the need of touch.
"Your like me" A boy's voice suddenly sounded, making Aerrow and the girl both look to one side and see a boy, no older than the girl, with black hair in a small gap in the tree's hollowing trunk.

"Have you been watching me?" The girl asked, sounding annoyed as she stood up, looking past Aerrow and at the boy.

"Only a little, I'm Severus and, your like me right?" The boy, who Aerrow was shocked to find as a child version of Severus, asked as he indicated the flower head the girl was still holding.

"I'm a sorcerer if that's what you mean, I'm Lily by the way" She replied as Aerrow looked at her in amazement and seeing his mother as a child.

Then the scene changed to the great hall at Hogwarts, where Aerrow saw his mother being sorted into Griffindor house and smiling as she passed Severus, who was stood with the other new students waiting to be sorted by McGonagall, on her way to the Griffindor table. Aerrow then saw Severus being sorted into Slytherin and then, recognising her from the other memories he'd seen, he watched an eleven year old Cyclonis also being sorted into Slytherin.

The scene changed again as Lily and Severus, now looking around fourteen or fifteen, walking down a Hogwarts corridor towards him looking as if they were having an argument.

"I don't know why your nice to her" Severus snapped as Lily, who was walking a little further ahead trying to ignore him.

"Despite what people say, I know there's good in her" Lily snapped back.

"But those followers of hers, they already have a name you know, death eaters, doesn't sound very good does it" Severus retaliated, making Lily stop and face him with a glare on her face as they stood right in front of Aerrow.

"Cyclonis is my friend Severus, I trust her" She replied as the memory changed again to show Lily and gut wrenchingly Lance, Aerrow's father, talking and laughing as they walked in a park covered in autumn leaves, even kissing and sharing a brief dance as they laughed even more. The memory faded again as Aerrow head a hushed voice, the same one he'd heard reciting the prophecy at the Ministry of Magic the year before last, recite it again as an image of Cyclonis just after her resurrection appeared.

Then Aerrow saw Severus, as he had looked to him, falling to his knees as a bright and blowing spell seemed to stop him.

"No, please don't kill me" He begged as the spell faded as Aerrow saw Dumbledore standing there with Hogwarts visible in the night sky in the valley below the hilltop they we all stood on.

"The prophecy did not refer to a woman, it spoke of a boy born to someone considered her equal" Dumbledore told him firmly.

"Yes but she thinks it's her son, she intends to hunt them down and kill them, hid her, hid them all, I beg you" Severus begged as he knelt in front of Dumbledore.

"What will you give me in exchange Severus?" Dumbledore asked as he walked over to him. Severus considered for a moment before looking Dumbledore directly in the eye.

"Anything" He replied.

The memory changed again to what looked like a small house, where at the end of a narrow hallway, which seemed damaged with blast marks, was a small child's bedroom. Lily was knelt in the corner of the room clutching and comforting a terrified child, who looked no older the six, who Aerrow recognised as himself.
"Aerrow you are so loved, I love you and so does your father and your uncle, Aerrow be safe, be strong and always try to do the right thing no matter how hard it seems" Lily whispered quietly as she cradled her son. The watching Aerrow then heard the creaking of a floorboard behind him and with horror, he knew who it was as he watched Lily look up determinedly at Cyclonis, who was stood watching the scene with seeming curiosity as Lily placed Aerrow behind her and stood up.

"You shouldn't be here Cyclonis" She said firmly.

"Oh, but you know why I'm here Lily" Cyclonis replied, for once not enjoying her triumph.

"No, I won't allow you, your not coming near him" Lily told her.

"If it was anyone else..." Cyclonis began, almost sounding remorseful.

"Don't pretend you care, you would do it anyway regardless of who it was, you've changed for the worst since school" Lily cut in as she continuously ensured that the six year old Aerrow was behind her.

"Your Sky Knight husband has been feeding you lies" Cyclonis replied, sounding like her usual sneering shelf.

"My husband does some good in Atmos, unlike you and your followers who are poisoning the world" Lily retaliated back bravely as Cyclonis grew more angered and impatient as she drew out her wand and pointed at her.
"Seeing as we were friends I will give you a chance Lily, move" She ordered. Lily shook her head .

"No, never" She replied.
"Move aside now!" Cyclonis began to shout. Lily continued to refused as she shielded her son. Aerrow had to turn away as Cyclonis sent a killing curse at her, before the room faded away and he saw an image of Petigrew and then he arrived in Dumbledore's office, once again filled with silver instruments and Fawkes on his perch.

"You said you would keep her safe" Severus said, who was stood looking distressed as Dumbledore stood in front of him.
"I did not anticipate Petigrew's betrayal to the order" Dumbledore replied quietly before walking over to him.

"The boy survives, his father also as he was not in the house" Dumbledore said in a manner of comforting.

"The boy doesn't need protecting, the dark master is gone" Severus said with a few sobs.

"She will return, and when she does he will be in terrible danger, even with his father's care it may not be enough" Dumbledore told him. "He has her eyes" He added, which seemed to persuade Severus.

"What do you suggest?" Severus asked.

"If our paths meet, we shall assist as much as possible" Dumbledore replied.

The memories then each only lasted for a few moments as they jumped through different scenes of Aerrow during the Tri-Sky Knight tournament as Severus spoke.
"Very much like his father, a born Sky Knight, brave, loyal, always tried to do the right thing regardless of the hardship" He said as Aerrow then saw Dumbledore attempting to put of the horcruex ring which then seemed to glow and burn him. Then it changed to Severus's examining the blackened hand Dumbledore had had before he had died. "I have managed to halt the curse for now, but it is not permanent and it will spread" Severus told him.

"How long?" Dumbledore asked.

"Maybe six months" Severus replied before standing up and beginning to leave.

"Don't ignore me Severus, we both know Master Cyclonis has ordered Lucius's boy to murder me" Dumbledore said as Aerrow saw images of Draco. "But should he fail, I presume the dark master will turn to you, you must be the one to kill me Severus, it is the only way" Dumbledore continued as Aerrow saw himself on the astronomy tower the night Dumbledore died as Severus told him to stay out if sight as he went up. "Only then will the dark master trust you completely" Dumbledore added as Aerrow saw the office again.

"I have invited the Storm Hawks back to the castle in preparation for the mission but, there will come a time when Aerrow must be told something, but you must wait until Cyclonis is at her weakest and most vulnerable" Dumbledore told Severus, who was stood in the middle of the office.

"Must be told what?" He asked as Dumbledore sat down at his desk as he delivered the news.

"On the night Master Cyclonis went to Griffindor's Hollow to kill Aerrow, and Lily cast herself between them, the curse rebounded, when that happened it crippled Cyclonis and forced her from the house, but it also broke a fragment of her soul from her, which latched itself onto the only remaining living thing left there, Aerrow himself, that is the reason why he can look into Master Cyclonis's mind, a part of Cyclonis lives inside of him and when she took his blood in her rebirth it caused it to awake" Dumbledore explained as Severus realised what it meant.

"So when the time comes, the boy must die?" He questioned.

"Yes, he must die" Dumbledore replied quietly.

"He's been kept alive so he can die at the proper moment" Severus said in disbelief.

"He kept himself alive, as you know Aerrow is more than capable of pulling through the worst situations relatively unscathed, his father's luck I believe" Dumbledore said, not sounding happy about it either.

"Did his father know, does his uncle?" Severus asked, sounding disgusted at Dumbledore's plan.
"Of course not, don't tell me you've grown to care for the boy now?" Dumbledore asked as Severus's face seemed to sadden.

"You think it is for him" Severus replied as he sent out his patronus. It was a doe and Dumbledore seemed surprised by this as Aerrow remembered the doe patronus that had lead him Griffindor's sword on Terra Dean, realising it had been Severus all along.

"Lily, all this time" Dumbledore said quietly.

"Always" Severus whispered quietly. "So when the time comes, the boy must die?" He said again.

"Yes, and Cyclonis's herself must do it, that is essential" Dumbledore told him as the memories faded as Aerrow found himself back in the dark and empty version of Dumbledore's office. Suddenly feeling short of breath and weak at the knees he stumbled back and sank onto on of the stairs leading to Dumbledore's desk as he went over what he'd just heard. He knew what he had to do.