Harry Potter: Vel'ilstaer: Stormraven
I own none of these characters, neither do I own Harry Potter.

(Harry et al.)

The wings gave out just as they arrived in Hogsmeade, Harry waved his wand and the Purple Knight Bus erupted into existence "Welcome…" Began Stan Shunpike, only to find himself staring down a wide variety of weaponry.

"Express trip to Diagon Alley. We'll pay you, triple if you get us there right now. Preferably to the steps of Gringotts and then we'll give you another destination." Harry stated

"You'll be paying regular fair or extremely important…?" Replied Stan obliviously.

"V…Look Mr. Shunpike, triple fair twice. If you get us to where we need to go without complaints."

The Unkindness bundled themselves onto the bus and with a set of bangs it took off. As it left, more Aurors and surprisingly Hit Wizards had arrived, to take Harry and his Comrades into custody. Although, really the Chief Unspeakable had wanted to examine them thoroughly for the secrets of the old magic that they wielded.

The turbulent and tumultuous ride, ended with the Knight Bus landing squarely in Diagon Alley. People started awestruck, it wasn't unusual for the Knight Bus to arrive in Diagon Alley, but it was exactly the norm. They immediately parted as Harry and the rest piled off the bus and charged up the marble steps of Gringotts.

What was said, and how it was said in Gringotts always altered depending on the circumstances. So, nothing much was worth repeating aside from the fact of Harry had promised to the Goblins that he would assist them. Then with a mokeskin bag, Harry and Neville (who himself had a mokeskin bag) left Gringotts and with another bang of displaced air, the bus was on its way again. Destination, Wales, Godrics Hollow.

"V, do you have any idea of where we're going?" Seamus asked.

"Yes and no. Yes, I know where we need to go on this particular plane and where it will lead us. However, depending on the plane we're going to it is going to be extremely likely that we're going to have an extremely bumpy time re-entering my Home."

Hermione looked at Vel'ilstaer "How bumpy are we talking?"

"You know, typical Harry Potter disaster. Probably like the most recent one with a portkey programmed for instant death at worst; at the feet of a world ending menace is another or landing with my parents."

"Your parents are dead."

"I thought we've covered this. I'm not from this plane, I'm from another. I don't get it, it's something to do with millions, if not billions of lesser gods, minor 'g' creating universes branching off from us. Then there are Regional Gods with capital letters. It's a clusterfuck, a smorgasbord of madness to understand whilst sober and sane. Best looked at abstract much like the artwork."

It took about fifteen minutes, but with a stomach-churning shriek, the bus appeared in the small magical village of Godrics Hollow. Harry left a small pile of gold for Ernie and Stan, and the Unkindness disembarked. Casting stealth and invisibility spells on themselves, they headed down the streets.

They quickly found the ruined cottage. "Vel…"

"Give me a moment, please." With that Harry entered the house, unbeknownst to him; his feet never touched the floor.

"Hey, son." Came a voice to his left. Vel turned to find leaning nonchalantly against the door to the kitchen were James and Lily Potter.

"Hi…again." Vel replied, crossing the distance and hugging the pair of them.

There was a comfortable silence between them "It's finally done. Tom's dealt with, now I'm leaving. I don't particularly wish to stay."

"We understand, in fact we're going to guide you. We were just waiting for you." Lily explained, with that the three of them left through the back door. Vel was re-joined by the rest of the Unkindness, who could clearly see Lily and James.

"Don't ask. They're merely guides." And into the woods they went, the trees got thicker and thicker; but the power of nature especially in these woods for Harry seemed to intensify. Eventually, they came across the magic of the Potter family; Harry could access via blood adoption but that was by the by.

The power emanating from the marked trees was something else "Vel, how do we do this?" Luna asked curiously.

"Truthfully, I have no idea."

However reality within the five trees convulsed slightly as a voice spoke. None of them heard the same voice, but its words were the same "Step in. Hold onto the storm-tossed raven as he speaks the spell of plane walking."

The six teens, gulped and as one stepped into the middle of the reality "All of you, link hands." With Vel grabbing onto Hermione and Neville, then two words were spoken; they might have been said softly but for all six of them the words shook their reality.

"Plane Shift! Pluton!"

Then combining the feeling of portkey, apparation and an earthquake, the six teens disappeared from the woods of Godrics Hollow.

(Pluton)

Upon her throne, the Raven Queen looked down at the dias as an ethereal green light appeared and she smiled "Vel'ilstaer and his friends, my Clerics, Paladin, Warlock of Fey and Ioun's Chosen Monk…it pleases me to see you here."

"My Lady, Mother of Ravens; the transporter of the deceased and the extremely lost…"

The Raven Queen chuckled "You're all heading to the Plane of Exandria. My Grandson is right…"

"Your Grandson, my Lady?" Neville asked curiously.

"His father has sworn himself into my service and I have breathed life back into his lungs, thus claiming him as mine own son. Thus Vel'ilstaer son of the Raven Prince and the Voice of the Tempest, is he not by law of man mine own grandson?"

"True. Forgive my…"

"Nothing to forgive, my champion. Alas, my Grandson has the right of it when you enter Exandria you will all enter at the same time, but not in the same place. There are fell deeds afoot, Unkindness and I require many agents."

Vel looked at them "We're going to play scatter roulette. We jump into the portal and see where we end up."

There was momentary pause, before Vel ran for a forming portal, which atop of it was perched a Raven. Harry charged through one, it snapped shut.

"Idiot." Hermione commented before following suit. Eventually Pluton was deserted.

"Roshana, Draconia, Rumblecusp, Ank'Harel, Vasselheim and Westrunn…best of luck one and all." The Raven Queen murmured as she looked at the Loom.