Walking down the street, Hadrien marveled at how everything looked the same even though his whole world had changed.

The stores were still open, the people were still huddled in fear, it almost seemed like all the hope in the world had disappeared.

Hadrien found he couldn't care less. He felt absolutely joyful as if nothing could bring him down. Hell he would be skipping down the street if it weren't for the fact that he currently had to avoid the attention of a group of certain backstabbers.

A grimace plastered his face at the thought of his 'best friends', something that did not go unnoticed by his current walking companions.

"Are you alright Hadrien?" Peering up at the owner of the voice who had called out to him, Hadrien came face to face with the dark ash eyes of death. Tall and imposing, the being who called himself Raven seemed to stand over everyone around him, excluding a certain scared being of time who was currently hiding behind Raven while simultaneously using him as a shield to keep out of Hadrien's notice.

Ignoring said god of time, Hadrien sent a small smile of reassurance towards Raven and pulled his slipping hood further forward to hide his face.

"Let's hurry towards Gringotts. I don't want to be here any longer then I have to-" A shriek like nails on a chalkboard echoed down the street. Puzzled looks of displeasure flashed across the faces of Raven and Tempus as well as those of the people who had been passing by. Hadrien though felt a familiar sense of disgust crawl up his throat.

"How could you two have lost him! Do you know how dangerous it is for him to be by himself?! What if someone has kidnapped him?!" If someone else where to hear these words, they'd assume they were spoken from motherly concern, but Hadrien knew better. Turning his head, standing not ten feet away from Hadrien were a certain pack of loud redhead's bickering on the street. Hadrien was glad to notice that Fred and George were nowhere to be seen. Huddled in a bickering group, where some of the people he least wanted to see at this moment.

"It's all Ronald's fault! He wouldn't listen to me and while I was trying to explain that he should give me his list, Harry disappeared!" Hermione's shrill voice rocketed through his skull, rattling it like a lit firework stuck in a broom closet. Feeling the beginning of a migraine coming on, Hadrien wasn't to happy to hear another voice yell back at Hermione's accusation.

"That's not true at all!" Hadrien honestly couldn't believe he hadn't noticed how whiny Ron was when he spoke. He definitely had a migraine now if he didn't have one before, and from the looks of it Molly Weasley was through with their arguing.

"I don't care how it happened. He's nowhere to be found! You were told to watch him! If we don't find him soon it won't just be you two who will have to pay for losing him!" If it weren't for the fact that they were talking about him, Hadrien would have laughed at the fear on the know it all's and whiner's faces. As it was he also noticed that they weren't the only ones who looked afraid. Molly, Arthur, Ginny and even Percy, who Hadrien was surprised to see, also looked terrified.

"We'll find him mother, and when we do I'll personally beat him up if he hasn't been kidnapped." Glaring violently at the ground, Ronald grabbed Hermione's arm and stalked off. Watching from behind a stand of snarling lizards, Hadrien's eyebrows lowered in thought as he watched the Weasley herd run off in different directions.

"What did Mrs Weasley mean 'they wouldn't be the only ones who would have to pay'?" Hearing Hadrien's mutter, Tempus walked over to stand beside him, forgoing hiding behind Death.

"I think it is probably best for us to hurry up. The quicker we get to Gringotts the better." Tossing the questions from his mind, Hadrien nodded. Turning around though proved to be a bad decision. A little further down from them were the nightmare couple. Hadrien winced as he realized that he hadn't taken note of where they had run off too when they left Mrs Weasley.

"I don't know why we can't succeed in this plan without that git. I mean all he is, is a puppet. I don't understand why we can't just disguise someone else as him and go through with the plan." The sneer that Ronald had at that moment was almost identical to Draco Malfoy's sneer Hadrien noted, but at least it had some kind of style when Draco did it even if he was a bit of a git, whereas Ronald looked like someone had sucker punched him in the solar plexus and left him with a sour taste in his mouth.

"You know why we can't do that Ron. He has too much power to be left alone, he must be an integral part of the plan or he could screw up everything. You've been explained this multiple times Ronald." Flipping her hair behind her Shoulder, Hermione sent a condescending sneer Ronald's way. Hadrien was glad to notice that sneers didn't seem to suit her either as well. It was as if the very act brought out her malicious soul for everyone to see.

Deciding he'd had enough of being within hearing distance of them, Hadrien started to walk away only to stop at Ronald's next sentence.

"I know that Hermione, he's just so annoying! Complaining about having no parents all the time, as if his parents would have even loved him if they could see him now, the freak that he is." Rage swelled up within Hadrien, an uncontrollable hatred, something so deep and dark Hadrien couldn't see it's depths. Without him even realizing it, he had turned to glare at them, the only thing keeping him back a carefully concealed tight grip on his arms by two gods. Without him realizing it his mouth opened and one word escaped his lips before Tempus's hand blocked off his mouth.

"Ambustum..." A deep raspy voice slithered through the hair, shocking him as it sounded nothing like him at all. If he had to saw it sounded like the voice of a woman. Like as in it sounded feminine but there was something terrifying about the almost alien like notes he could hear echoing through it.

Confused, Hadrien didn't know what he had just said but if the faces of Raven and Tempus gave any indication, they definitely did. Keeping a hold on Hadrien they quickly ran away from the bickering couple who didn't seem to hear the strange voice slowly whispering through the air closer and closer to them. To Hadrien's surprise he could see some sort of dark shadow creeping through the air towards them and slowly circling around them.

"He might be annoying Ron but we still need to-" Paused, Hermione's face went extremely pale out of nowhere, the cause was readily apparent to Hadrien. The shadow thing was currently right in front of Hermione's face and from her expression of terror it seems that she could also see it. Ronald on the other hand was confused by her sudden silence and turned to look at her and in doing so he walked into the shadow.

Hey guys Naitrek here! Sorry for the late chapter ?. Things have happened and I've realised that the chapters are probably never going to be on time with my luck. ? anyway hopefully I'll have another chapter up again soon and I'm terribly sorry for the cliffhanger again...(I can't seem to stop doing those ?). Oh and for those who where looking forward to Tempus developing a fear of Hadrien that will show up in a later chapter so you guys will have something to look forward too!

~ Turtle out! ?