Hello! thanks for clicking here!!! This is my first Harry Potter story! -scared- i really hope everyone likes it, the first few chapters might be a little boring...i'm sorry! but please bear with me!!! i'll make it better as it goes along, i promise! and please keep in mind this is, well, in a way my first story i've ever posted! Thanks again for clicking! I hope you like it!!!

Chapter 1

"NO! Leave me alone!!!" you heard an echoing voice shout from somewhere before you heard a cry of anger. Soon a burning purple light was everywhere, a cold laugh, then a swirling black darkness took you.

You jumped to your feet covered in a cold sweat not remembering what happened. As you looked around you realized you were completely alone in a huge forest. The only sounds were coming from a small stream nearby and slight chirps from the birds hiding in the orange leaves that were falling to the ground before your eyes. Relaxing back into a normal stance you closed your eyes trying to remember what happened. Some sort of fight, purple light...but nothing else...suddenly your eyes shot open. You could literally remember nothing else! No memories at all, the only thing you could recall was some kind of fight. Your name...what was it? You almost had grasp of it, but couldn't quite catch it as it drifted somewhere in your mind. The sound of the stream broke through your thoughts, you then realized how dry your throat was. Following the sounds of the water, you made your way to a small opening in the trees with a beautiful clear line of water flowing between rocks and small bushes. Movement to your right caught your eye. You tried to look out of the corner of your eye as to not let the...thing know you had spotted it. It appeared to be a horse, mainly black...but there was something on its back, it couldn't have been a person though, glancing over you gasped as you saw a very strange sight indeed. It appeared to be a horse, but without any flesh, just soft black fur sticking to a skeleton of a horse, with huge black, bat like wings sprouting from its back. The horse...thing glanced over at you, taking a step back you thought to your self

'oh my god...what is this thing?'

And as if there were another person in your mind you heard an answer

'thresal' the voice replied.

Your eyes opened wide and you glanced around looking for someone even though you knew you were alone.

"Did you say that?" You murmured to the 'thresal' aloud

The thresal politely tilted it's head at you and slowly began walking over towards you.

You took another step back, but this caused the thresal to stop and so you took two steps forward because you would like to see if you could befriend such a magnificent animal. Seeing your friendliness the thresal walked more briskly towards you. When it was in touching distance you held out a fist ,as you would a dog, for the animal to sniff. The thresal sniffed your hand for only a few seconds before nudging your hand onto it's head. Smiling you began petting it, you looked down at it.

"Are you a boy?" you asked the thresal.

She snorted and shook her head. You laughed.

"ok, a girl then. You still need a name though!" Walking closer to her you began to ponder what name you could possibly come up with for such a creature.

'Calista' the name suddenly sprung into your mind. It sounded so familiar...

"How do you like Calista?" you asked the thresal. She seemed to ponder the name.

"It means beautiful." She seemed to like this because she then gave a nod and a small neigh. You smiled again at her.

"Calista it is then!...Now I just need to name myself..." you murmured remembering you didn't have a name...You suddenly heard a call of a crow.

"Rayven..." you tested it on your tongue...it had a nice ring you guessed...

"Do I seem like a 'Rayven' to you Calista?" you asked looking down into Calista's eyes. She gave another nod, this one more energetic than before.

"ok ok, I shall be Rayven then. Do you know where I might find any people around here?" you asked noticing the sun was beginning to sink and you knew it would be getting cold soon. Calista gave a small 'tsst' noise and turned to her side lowering her wing to you. Taking the hint you climbed up on her back and wrapped your arms loosely around her neck. Calista took off at a fast run and you bent down griping her neck tighter. Soon her gigantic wings spread out and began flapping and soon you could tell you were rising off the ground. Soon you were above the tall trees of the forest with the setting sun behind you. You took in a breath while you looked around you, the forest you were in moments ago seemed to stretch out forever behind you, but it ended about a mile and a half in front of you, were a humongous castle was perched on the ground with a wondrous lake next to it, but other than that beautiful land kept on going for miles around, it was so beautiful, but you soon forgot about it as Calista began to drop in to a steep dive heading straight for the lake. Somehow you knew she was going to pull up so the brief fear was soon replaced by uncontrollable excitement as you hollered into the empty land. As you guessed, Calista pulled up with her hoofs skimming the water sending droplets of water onto your face, and all to soon she was landing in front of the giant castle. Dropping off of her back you stared up at the giant castle in awe.

"And I'm just supposed to waltz in there? I'll probably get shot!" You complained turning your head to face Calista. In reply she pushed you forward with her head in the small of your back.

"ok ok, I'm going!" you said walking a little faster to get away from her pushes.

"And I'm just supposed to walk in?" you ask. She come walking over to you again, so you begin walking up to the door and try to pull it open but it's locked. You turn to walk away but see Calista giving you a look so you turn back around sighing and bang on the door three times. You wait about half a minute before one of the doors is opened by a confused looking man. Your eyes widened as you tried to find the top of the man, he had to be at least 8 feet tall! He looked down at you a confused smile crept on to his bearded face.

"Can I help ye'?" he asked

"err, well, Calista," you pointed over to the thresal, "brought me over here and told me to go in..." you half explained trying not to stare at the man.

"Erm, but why ar' ya here in da' first place? Term don't start 'till September..." he trailed off still looking at you confused.

"Term? Is this a school?" you asked looking again at the giant castle.

"O' course it is! This is Hogwarts!" he said as if that would explain everything.

"okay...but, er, I'm not sure why I'm here either, you see, I woke up a few hours ago in that forest over there," you again pointed behind you, only this time to the trees in the distance, the mans eyes widen in surprise at this, ", and then Calista brought me over here when I asked if there were any people around here..." you trailed off rubbing your arm nervously.

"Hm, that's a' bit strange...what was yer name again?" the man asked looking down at you. You were about to say you didn't know when you realized how weird that would be so you instead said Rayven.

"Well Rayven, I think we better take you up to the headmaster. Names Hagrid by the way. Come along now!" Hagrid said ushering you inside the castle. You were looking at all the different walls, doors, stair cases, statues and passages as you followed Hagrid through the castle that you almost ran into him when he cam to a stop at a statue of a bird without stretched wings.

"Sherbet Lemon!" Hagrid said to the statue, you thought he was degraded until that is the bird sprang to life opening yet another passage. You were slightly shocked at this, but not as surprised as you thought you should be though. You Began walking up a spiral staircase until you came to another stop, this time in front of large oak doors. Hagrid knocked loudly with his huge fist on the door.

"Professor, sir, there's someone here I think ye' should talk to!" Hagrid said through the door.

"Come in Hagrid." Came an old voice from inside. Hagrid slowly opened the door and beckoned for me to enter. You walked into the strangest room you'd ever seen, not like that's saying much. There were all sorts of strange silver instruments on the desks and walls and behind one of the desks was an elderly man in navy blue robes and a pointy hat on with long flowing silver hair and half moon spectacles. Sitting on his desk was a large red and gold bird, that you told yourself was a phoenix, that he was petting.

"Hello there. Can I help you somehow?" the man behind the desk asked staring at you with light blue twinkling eyes.

"I...erm..." You tried to say something yet didn't know what.

"She said she woke up in the forbidden forest and a thresal brought her up here and told her to come in, sir." Hagrid explained.

"Hm, that is interesting...," the man said looking back over to you, ", and how did you come to be in the forest?" He asked you

"well, erm, sir... I don't remember..." you answered looking down at the floor.

"What is your name young lady?" the man asked kindly

"I don't remember sir." you answered once again feeling stupid.

"Ye' told me it was Rayven a minute ago." Hagrid said looking down at you.

"That was the name me and Calista picked out while I was in the forest." you explained

"Calista?" the man asked

"She's the thresal that brought me over here sir" you explained.

"Ah, I see, "said the man nodding, ", Oh! And how rude of me!" the man exclaimed while getting up and walking towards you.

"My name is Professor Dumbledore, Rayven." he said while holding out his hand.

"It is nice to meet you sir." you replied as you took his hand, but as soon as you touched him, a splitting pain raced through your head. Yelling in shock you let go of Dumbledore and griped your head trying to stop the pain. Almost as soon as it came, the pain was gone and you opened your eyes again only to realize you were sitting on the ground. Blushing you got up and shook your head slightly to clear it.

"Rayven, are you alright?" Dumbledore asked looking very concerned

"Yes sir," you said trying to hold your self steady, ", I don't know what happened sir."

"Here, sit down." Dumbledore said while indicating to a chair nearby that you could have sworn wasn't there a second ago.

"Now, I think you should explain what you can and cannot remember so we can try and figure some things out. Yes?" Dumbledore asked sitting next to you on one side and Hagrid on the other, both in chairs you could once again swear weren't there a moment ago. And so you explained everything that had happened since you woke up in the forest.

"That is very strange indeed..." Dumbledore murmured half to himself as you finished up your summery of events thus far.

"Well, I think I will have to speak with a few people to get things sorted out, but until then, why don't you go back out onto the grounds with Hagrid and get some food to...Calista, is it?" you nodded at him "to Calista and then come back here in, ahhh, about a half hour, ok?" you again nodded at him. Then stood up with Hagrid and began walking back out side.

As you followed Hagrid back outside you saw Calista sitting there waiting for you along with a few other curious thresals. You walked over and began stroking Calista.

"Hey there girl, these some of your friends?" you asked looking around at the other creatures.

"Hello there, my name's Rayven." you introduced your self to the thresals. They all bowed or nodded their head.

"Very polite, they are." you replied looking over to Hagrid petting one of the thresals on the muzzle.

"Yeh, they ar'..." he said nodding, ", this one 'ere is Midori." He said petting the one in front of him, then nodding over the one on the left of you "dat ones Dargan 'n the last one is Nakia." he finished pointed at the one to your right.

"I had nevr' seen dis one before..." Hagrid said looking over at Calista. "O' well, can't know every creature in da forest!" he said smiling "Why don't we head on over t' me hut and grab em' something ta eat?" He asked already heading off towards the forest. You followed him for a few minutes in silence until you saw a cute little rock hut come in to view. Hagrid led you in to a paddock of some kinda and began taking all types of birds and ferrets off the lines and handing you some. You tried holding them away from your face and body without dropping them.

"You can give em' those, just mind yer fingers." Hagrid warned tossing some sort of bird in the air for Midori who bounced a little in the air and snapped the bird in his teeth. Following his lead you began tossing little animals in to the air for all the thresals. Soon you had at least five more thresals, attracted to the blood, in the paddock and you had run out of dead things to feed them. Hagrid looked up at the sun.

"Oi, it's had ta have been half n hour by now... better get goin..." Hagrid mumbled trying to shoo the thresals out the paddock. You followed Hagrid back up to the castle and found your self once again in front of Dumbledore's office. You listened and heard many voices in the room who where suddenly silenced by Hagrid's booming knocks.

"Come in." you heard Dumbledore's voice respond.

So there it is! my first chapter! i hope you liked, i'm working on two right now, so, if your interested, please continue reading! If your not interested...Please continue reading anyways!!! thanks! have good days....