Walking through the silent castle Aerrow had never felt so isolated and alone. He'd never felt more alive, aware of every movement his body made as he walked. He could feel the rim of his boots slightly pinching the back of his legs, telling him they were getting to small. He felt the stinging and tightness of of his skin around the large cut underneath his eye which had begun to heal. Mostly however, he felt his heart beating madly as his mind ran over the same thoughts. He had to die. All those times he'd thought it had been about to happen, only to escape unscathed. But there would be no escape this time. Dumbledore's betrayal had been nothing, just part of a bigger plan, which the Storm Hawks had been drawn into in order to finish it off. Dumbledore of course, had know Aerrow would not duck out and would keep going until the end, even thought it was his end, because he had ensured he'd got to know him. Like Cyclonis, Dumbledore had known Aerrow wouldn't allow anyone else to die when he could stop it, and although the snake remained, it seemed the the mission would indeed end tonight.

Reaching partially destroyed staircase covered in rubble and holes Aerrow began climbing down, and then froze. Piper and a worn but recovered Finn were sat together at the foot of the stairs. Aerrow watched them for a few moments, having not wanted to say any goodbyes or explanations, he briefly considered turning back and taking a different route, but Cyclonis's hour was nearly up and he didn't have the time. Taking a deep breath he began walking down the stairs towards them.

"Aerrow, where've been?" Piper asked as they saw him and stood up.

"Snape left some memories" He replied, trying to sound casual.

"Anything interesting" Finn asked.
"No, nothing we can use, how you feeling?" Aerrow asked, diverting the subject.

"Fine, just a bit of a sore head, everyone's gathered in the hall for the plan, you coming?" Finn asked.

"Yeh, I'll be there in a minute, you go ahead, I just wanna check something first" Aerrow lied as he walked past them and began to walk away.

"Wait, Aerrow, where are you going?" Piper asked in surprise, confused at where Aerrow would need to check out. Aerrow turned to face them again, trying to come up with something, but something about his face must have given it away as Piper and Finn suddenly looked shocked and upset. "You can't, it's mad Aerrow, how can even consider going?" Piper asked him, sound hurt and upset. Aerrow though of saying something but instead chose to turn his back on them and begin to walk away again.

"You can't give yourself up to her" Finn added as he and Piper walked towards him a little as Aerrow stopped again but kept his back to them.
"Aerrow what happened, what do you know?" Piper asked gently as Aerrow turned to face them again.

"There's a reason why I can see into her mind, and hear the horcruexs" Aerrow told them as steadily as he could.

"Is this about the stupid prophecy?" Finn asked, trying to convince him not to go.

"No, no it's something much deeper than that, and I to go" He told them as took a few deep breaths. Piper's face suddenly crumpled.

"I'll go with you" She sobbed.

"No, kill the snake, kill the snake and then it's just her" Aerrow insisted as Piper's sobs grew worse as Finn looked frozen with shock.

"What about the others, what do we tell them?" He managed to asked, sounding just as upset as Piper.

"Nothing, please don't..." Aerrow tried to say but found the words becoming stuck in his throat. "...just thank you for, everything and I, tell the others too" He managed to said as his voice broke off. Piper then stepped forward and hugged Aerrow firmly, knowing she couldn't say anything to change his mind. After a few moments she reluctantly let go and watched with Finn as Aerrow gave them a last small smile as he turned and walked away.

Walking through the silent courtyard and past the dead Condor, then over the viaduct and into the grounds, all too quickly Aerrow found himself at the beginnings of the forest. As he passed the first few trees, he remembered something. Searching through his back pocket Aerrow pulled out the destroyed horcruex ring, which had the words 'I open at the close' engraved on the gold band.

I'm ready to die Aerrow though to himself and watched as the cracked stone of the ring float up from the ring and hover in front of him. Throwing the band of gold away Aerrow took hold of the floating stone and saw that a tiny symbol had appeared on it. It was the symbol of the deathly hollows. He was holding the resurrection stone.