A/n: Thanks so much to my beta, Dark_One Shadowphyre, without whom I would have made a ton of mistakes. ^_^ Like calling Nightsong "Nightwind."

Disclaimer: I don't own. I will never own. I really wish I could own it.

Harry had fallen back into a restless slumber with Nightsong cradling him. He felt safe for the first the moment, but somewhere in the back of the mind he knew it wouldn't last. He knew he was in danger. He knew that somewhere out there something was chasing him, something evil. Harry moaned as Nightsong jostled the still healing whip marks on his back, only to be reassured that everything would be okay.

Mareth carefully watched the human cub. The cub was closer to the breaking point than anyone knew. Not only did the cub have to get over the trauma of what occurred to him; he would have to do so with strong gifts starting to wake within him. He could tell that soon the cub would awaken the ability to start fires.

He glanced at Nightsong. He was so concerned with getting the child to a safe place that he didn't realize that the child needed something to eat. :Nightsong, wake the child and give him a piece of the dried meat. He needs to eat something or soon his body will be permanently affected from the malnutrition.: Mareth watched as the poor cub looked around with fear-filled eyes before realizing he was safe. He felt like finding whomever had put that fear in the cub's eyes and ripping their throats out.

Mareth rested his head on his paws and carefully checked the surroundings of the clearing they were resting in. As soon as he assured himself that they were safe, he searched mentally for the cub's Companion. He wanted to force the Companion to move, to get here for the cub fast, but he knew that the Companion was tired. He had been running all day and he did need a chance to rest.

Nightsong had been shocked when Mareth had told him to feed the cub. He knew the boy had been treated badly, but he hadn't really thought about the fact that the child needed something to eat. No one was allowed to treat a child that bad in the Vale. Children were considered a special gift, and he was shocked that someone would treat a child as such.

He knew that it occurred in Valdemar, just as he knew it was illegal to treat a child as such. He knew that if a child was treated as such, he was either placed with relatives or given an apprenticeship with a healer or a bard or placed in the service of one of the lord's castles.

Nightsong noticed that it was getting darker, and that he had almost drained his gift down. He hadn't used any of his gifts since Sunstorm had died. He realized that he wouldn't make it back to the Vale with the child along, so he built camp. He made a small lean-to, built a fire, and started to make soup. He knew that the boy wouldn't really be able to handle anything besides soup.

~~~~In Haven~~~~

The twins were in orienteering class when they had been called out. They were to trance again, but this time they were to have someone with FarSight following along. The deans wanted to know where the child was along with the Companion that had appeared out of the Grove. The last time a Grove-Born Companion had appeared it had been the deans' older sister's Companion. The twins agreed and soon they were in front of the Heartstone.

The twins carefully ground and centered and than focused on creating a link between their powers. They had noticed that they could link their powers and as such triple the strength of the gifts. They found out what they already knew about the boy.

He had been abused. His gifts were starting to wake, and he was in the protection of the Hawkbrothers. They discovered that the Companion's name was Ryo and that he had had to stop for the night after exhausting himself.

~~~~~England~~~~~

Sirius looked around at the muggle town he and Remus had Apparated to. From here, they would have to fly on the broomsticks, and Remus was a bad flier. Remus always claimed it was because the wolf wanted to stay on the ground, but Sirius personally felt it was because Remus got airsick. Sirius got on his nimbus 2001 and watched as Remus did the same. It wouldn't take long to travel the ten miles to the house and when they did so, he had a huge surprise for the Dursleys'.

Five minutes later, Sirius stared in distaste at the neat muggle house. He could see the living room with all the pictures of Dudley, but not one of Harry. He noticed that Dudley was sitting in front of the television and was eating a rather large meal. "No wonder Harry doesn't like it here," he commented to Remus.

"Sirius, something's wrong. There was a lot of blood spilt and I can fell the pain and terror in this house. They did something to Harry," Remus spoke as if in a trance.

Sirius growled deep in his throat and suddenly kicked down the door. He was going to have just charmed the door, but he decided to scare the damn muggles who would dare to hurt Harry. He watched with a deucedly evil smirk on his face as the muggles started to scream. "Where is my godson?"

He watched as Petunia had fainted after whispering, "He's real?" He watched as Vernon and Dudley both turned an extremely pale white, and he watched as Vernon pointed up the stairs.

He followed Remus up the stairs and they both moved towards the smallest bedroom in #4 Privet Drive. Sirius turned the knob on the door, and stared in the room. The room was bare of anything a normal child would have in the room. There was one tattered blanket on a mattress, which was on the floor. He was about to turn around and curse the Dursleys' when he suddenly noticed that he and Remus were glowing. Not long after, he found himself sprawled in a clearing in the woods, surrounded by half-human half-lizard creatures.

~~~~England~~~~

Fred and George noticed that they were almost to Harry's house, when they noticed a glowing light in Harry's window. They than realized that they themselves were glowing, and soon they disappeared.

When they got to wherever they were, they noticed that they were in the middle of a large plain, and that several people on horseback were bearing down on them.