Hiya,

New chapter!!

Disclaimer: Once again, all you recognize from the Harry Potter books is not mine.

Outside the castle was in total chaos.

Every man was being called to fight as the palace had been totally unprepared.

Sirius still couldn't remember what he had to tell James that night but he was pretty sure it had something to do with this.

Peter was nowhere to be seen.

James was riding Arabia as head of the cavalry.

His father was up front with his men and more troops were arriving to help every minuet.

Sirius was thrashing enemy ass with his quality hand-to-hand-combat and Remus was on the roof of the castle with the archers.

His bow and arrow were famous among the archers.

The battle was in full swing. Riddle was screaming orders at his men and the men were trying to do as they were told but more often than not they were cut down by sword or arrow.

"ATTACK! THEY ARE NOTHING! OBLIVIATE THEM! KILL, KILL!" Screeched Riddle as his men fumbled around for their weapons.

Inside the castle, Greg had gone in search of Lily and her and all the other guests were being kept safe in one of the towers.

Hours passed and the ground became covered with the bodies of Riddle's army, but the Hallmarkian army were not without their losses.

Just as Riddle's army began retreating, a sharp cry descended through the Hallmarkian armies.

James turned Arabia around, just in time to see Riddle slashing his father through his heart with a silver sword.

He grinned an evil grin as James galloped towards his father.

"No!" He cried as he saw the blood trickle from the wound. The king's eyes were still open.

James took his heels out of the stirrups and jumped from Arabia's back.

He thrust his sword in front of him in blind rage, but Riddle merely blocked the hit.

James was not so lucky.

"No! You killed him."

"And now I'm going to kill YOU!" Riddle cried as he lunged his sword forward.

James dodged it, but only just.

The fighting continued. James swerved most of Riddle's moves.

Most of them.

Riddle was a good fighter but his men were losing. He had wounds from James's sword but, like James, had dodged most of his attempts.

Riddle gave the cry for retreat as men closed in on his army. The few hundred that were left fled and Riddle swung onto a loose horse to make his getaway.

James was fuming and he whistled for Arabia. As soon as she came, he used his reins to pull himself onto her back to follow the retreating Riddle.

Hallmark cleaned itself up and through a victory party. No one had seen James.

"Are you alright?" Remus asked Lily later that night.

"Yes. I suppose."

"He will come back."

"Yes. I suppose."

Remus shook his head, then went for the door to Lily's room. "Good night."

Lily said nothing.

He left.

An hour or two passed before Lily noticed a rustling in the trees outside her window. She began to shout, in case it were the enemy returning, but it wasn't.

It was James.

He was bloodied and dirtied, with clean streaks from his eyes where tears and leaked.

He was walking Arabia, his reins over her head so he could be in front.

Even her head was down.

James looked at Lily. She stared right back.

He let go of his reins and fainted.

I know I don't normally leave a note at the end of a chapter, but here it is:

I am sorry this one is so short but I needed to get this out of the way so I can get back to Lily and James. We all love them being together but we have to move this story somewhere.

I want to leave a challenge with you. I a challenging anyone to write a Harry/Draco fic. This is the criteria:

Must be rated M and be romance.

Involves them having kids.

They break-up at one point but can get back together.

This is just something for you guys to work on until I get back to writing chapters for this story. I need to keep on top of my other story Coming Home To More Than Love. You can take a look at this story to give you some thoughts on the challenge.

I'll write when I can!!