Katy returned from her room with a large, round scrying glass and a stand, and sat at the kitchen table.

"Well, I guess we can begin," she said. "I'm not sure what we'll see..."

"Fine" Ray replied as he looked at both his sister, which for him was still weird, and her husband. Ray looked up at Katy as she entered the kitchen. "Okey what are you going to do

Kelly looks at Ray, He suspects something... I know him, she thought maybe she would tell him but she promised that no one will know a thing.
"Okey so the plan basically is that we will be on our way back to find our past what we missed how we can defeat this and then what I mean what will happen after we all are good and ready to go back to society I mean everyone think we are dead what do we do... Just resurface?" Kelly asked.

"What do you mean dead?" Ray asked. "We just go back it's normal"

"No it's not normal Ray" Kelly said suddenly.
"I mean have you thought about it. It has been four years now that we haven't surfaced in society. We don't reply to our friends in our work... Our friends back from school, some of us their parents and family... It is as if we have died since our last mission even the people at Julie forgot about us and maybe they did a memorial in our name... We can't just go back it doesn't make sense we will be followed by the ministry they would like to know where were we for four years and maybe more... You don't know how much our mission to figure out our past will take or how much time Charlie and Bianca and Katy will take till they finally get to destroy all of this and what if we failed Ray? What about our families and your child and maybe in the futur my kids? Will they have to be home tutored just like you and I until we find out a way out? What about Avery and Katy? They can't even touch Ray... She can't even touch anyone that is holding him or near him... She can't feel motherhood anymore Ray... What about Bianca? She can't use magic anymore or she will lose your baby and even after she deliver him she still won't be able to use her magic neither... And what about Alphonse, he has a great reputation and he is a great healer, will he just stick with us? And what about money we are running out of it... how will we support ourselves... And why do you think that someone would want to be part of your army? They don't believe in the specters... No one does... We are alone in this.. You might be right we do need help but I guess we need help from someone much more stronger... For now I would like to keep that person for me at least after we come back from our mission to find out what happened in our past." Kelly said as she looked at everyone, she needed everyone to understand what she was saying... She had a point and she was going to start acting like she always acted... Her new personality since this mission had weakened her and she was ready to come back to her old strong persona, she was ready to become Kelly Hufflepuff again. Her body seemed to radiate again power, she was as power was surrounding her in a cocoon trying so hard to protect her and at the same time show the world that she is so powerful.
"Katy please start what you came to do... Show us a fragment of our past... Show us... Use your gift you shouldn't be afraid of it... In the end it's a gift and you payed a lot to get it... So use it and tell us what we are supposed to know"

Ray watched as Kelly made her point as she started to convince him that something was wrong with his so great plan. He looked at everyone he dragged in this battle that seemed to refuse to end, all the sacrifices they made just to bring down what had been threating them for so long. The family he took apart... The families they could have had and the amazing life they would have... She was right. Then he noticed how much powerful she seemed, she was radiating power actually. Then it was back to Katy again, it was with her that their journey would begin with her that their mission back in time would begin and he knew that they couldn't take their loved ones with them. It was here that they were going to say their goodbyes... It was in that moment that they would step further in this house that held them but there was so much more he wanted to do.
He turned to his wife before Katy would start and wispered slowly.
"Bianca take everyone back to our house... take this as well" and he placed between her beautiful and soft hands a wodden badger. "That way you can remember me with it... Bianca I'm sorry I can't take you with me but I promise you I would do my best to come back and I will find you and we will be back together and we will have as many kids as you want and we will build our dream house and we will leave as a big family and I will release you from your malediction and we I will love you and I will cherish you and I will... I will do much more... I will" Ray said as a tear formed in his hands. "And I will be back... I will" he continued as he kissed his wife gently "I will"

Katy nodded slowly, taking in what Kelly had said. She's right.

She set the scrying glass upon the table, and locked her eyes deep into the depths of the glass. She waited several minutes, until something began to take form in the glass.

"There's a room," she began, "with four people...two of them are masked. Masks with strange symbols on them. It's hard to tell beneath the robes which...."

She paused. She began hearing whispers, coming not from around her, or not even from the glass, but from inside her mind. As if she were thinking the conversation happening in the glass.

"Loraine...Angela...Xavier...and Jean," she said in a hushed voice. "They're speaking of Kyubi, and of the circle...it has layers, they say...that hide a deeper power. But a sacrifice needs to be made...Angela has lost her husband, and cannot make a sacrifice..."

The image slowly faded from sight, and Katy clutched the table in anger.

"Damn," she said under her breath. "It's gone."

She leaned back in her chair.

"I think...that they are the ones who have been talking to me. Leading me."

"Till now we know who is who" Kelly said after Katy had finished getting her vision. "Okay so we know that Jean is the Jean that we knew from Julie... He died after the specters killed him that must mean someone with power right? Feron at that moment was ordinary and didn't have the circle with him which means someone else did kill him and Feron wasn't the killer... Meaning that someone more powerful did it and I guess it's Angela...
You say Angela had a husband that must mean she remarried Xavier which happens to be Bianca's biological father, making Angela Bianca's biological mother but during our encounter we discovered that Angela killed Xavier because she was consummed with the power of the circle. So that makes her powerful enough to kill someone with the piece of the circle because we all knew that three of them besides Angela had a piece of the circle... So that must mean she was the one that killed Jean before... And if I'm not mistaken Jean had the same power as Katy here... Clairvoyance... The power of knowledge... That leaves one person without any history... Loraine... Honey you told us that your mother was called Loraine right? But that doesn't make her the same Loraine we have in between our arms..." Piper started to think loudly as she always did.
"Okey lets go further in time... You remember that our dear old friend Kami told us they were five and that the fifth got desperate and left the group just in time when they got magic... Then he came back and he got a piece of it but we don't know nothing about the fifth person and we never seem to have seen him which means two things: one, he is still alive and that's why his past was never revealed to us... Or that he was killed or trapped inside of Kyubi... Which makes him a part of it and that's how Kyubi fought the four founders of magic..."
"hm! Stuck again..." Kelly said suddenly. " Okey lets go more into the future... We know that the four founders stopped Kyubi by trapping it inside the cave at Julie... Then the massacre of the Hufflepuff family ordered by Angela because they were becoming powerful to counter both the circle and Kyubi... But the plan failed as three Hufflepuffs remained alive... Ray, Forrester and m... me" Piper hesitated on the last word.
"Ok so what do I know about the Hufflepuff family... I know that Forrester Hufflepuff was a strong wizard back at school and excelled in everything, he became the youngest auror to arrive to a head division, he has captured and solved many cases with ease and lets not forget his ingenous way to make a partonus cast a muffliato charm... Then their is Ray James... Stronger person I saw using magic... Nothing could stop him from performing his spells... Major kick back was that his magic quickly turned unstable after excess effort... Lets not forgot the boost in power he gets when his emotions are intense... Then Me well nothing special there... I mean I never was the top at anything... Okey back to the time line... So after the massacre... We have that act in which me and Ray seperate each other and wipe out our memories which I still don't understand the reason behind it... Then there is Julie's events and mission... From here our journey started and we became invisible to the world and we disappeared... Then there is the event of Europe falling under the specters power and then there is us figuring out that the circle was layers of power each stronger then the other with the first with Bianca... We found out about the Equivalent Exchange rule... We found out that we needed to get to Hogwarts before it falls in the Specters hands then it was the encounter with Feron and we discovered that Angela was still alive... We knew" whatever that means... And then back to square one... Does anyone feel that we are going in circle here?" Kelly asked.

"Yeah a complete circle... Complex as the Transmutation circle I guess we should get going" Ray said. He didn't notice what Katy did he was too busy kissing his wife as if it was the last time they would see each other.
"Kelly I guess we should start our journey beginning from this house... One more thing, start saying your goodbyes... As soon as we go to that level that Forrester opened we will won't be able to take anyone with us and we will be on our own and I guess the house won't accept that someone else stays here for a long time... So everyone as soon as we leave you will have around an hour to pack up and leave before the mansion reveals itself to everyone and we don't want that... So you will go back to my house"

"Someone darker than Feron well I hope not... At least we have him out of the way now... He's dead and we don't have to worry about him going after us" Ray revealed as he looked at Charlie.
"Shall we move to the part of the house that has been just unlocked?" Ray asked Kelly waiting to see if she decided to say her goodbyes now or that she will wait until they reach the start point of their journey as he was going to do with Bianca.

"Yeah lets move" Kelly said as she get to the door and headed towards her room. Once there, she fell on the bed and started crying, she didn't want to go, she wanted to stay with her husband, she wanted to be there when their child comes to the world, for now she needed to stay strong for everyone. She got up and took a bag that she had already was working on and that was now finished after she casted many spells to make it larger and lighter and protected, so much spell that she lost count, and started packing multiple vails and books and cloth and robes and a tent and a small note book. Then she headed towards Ray's room and started packing some of his stuff.
"I'm ready" She said when she was back in the living room. "Lets head to the third floor"

Ray nodded and started walking towards the stairs they previously tried to get to by force but failed.
Once there, Ray stopped and looked at all their friends and his wife.
"Ok as soon as I and Kelly will put our legs on the stairs the house protection will start fighting your presence get out as fast as you can don't forget you can't apparate... As we said go to our house, it has the maximum number of protection... Bianca don't forget the badger" Ray said.
He looked at Kelly that was saying her goodbyes and he took her hand as soon as she was finished hugging her friends and her husband. And they stepped on the first step a blue colored barrier rose and seperate Ray and Kelly from the rest of their families.
"Bianca go... Don't forget I will be back" he added as he started crying

Kelly looked at her husband, tears pouring from her eyes. Despite how strong she seemed to be, she couldn't find the strength to smile, she looks at her husband and places her hand on her belly and air kisses her husband and her cries increase. She looks at Ray and press his hand. It was this story that she would tell to her kids one day, the story of the pain that she had to undertake to reach her freedom. She looks at the top of the stairs and cries more. Her husband and her friends started to move away also they were still looking at them.
"So Is this really it? Why do I feel like it's going to be a long time before I meet those people again?" Kelly asked.

Ray looked at his sister and smiled. "Yes it's real, we are doing this... And I don't know if it will be long before we can find our way back to them but I know that one day we will. The world is in danger and it's not ready to fix itself so it chose us to save it... To be it's destined protectors... We have a role to play and they have their own... One is All and All is one" Ray replied as he looked at the top of the stairs.
"Can you see it?" Ray asked, he was looking at a man surrounded with light.

Kelly looked at the man in light and smiled. "Yes I can and it's not the first time I did... He was the one that showed me the past and I guess he is calling for us... He seems as he was waiting us" Kelly replied as she turned around and started climbing the steps alongside of Ray.
"Ray I love you... I always did... and now I know that your my brother... What if this was the end for us... I still have to much to say it's not fair I still have a lot more to say I just can't disappear right now"

"I too have a lot more to say" Ray said as he looked at the man somehow he didn't seem able to look at Kelly to comfort her. " I too have always loved you Kelly and now I know why... Your my sister and I know that we will have much more time" Ray added.
They had arrived to the last step.
"Are you waiting for us?" Ray asked.

Yes...

"Are we dead?" Ray asked although his question seemed stupid.

I'm afraid not... You are here to search for the answer and I'm here to enlighten your minds

A golden glow emits from the body of the man and swallows the Hufflepuff sibling whole.


Soon will start the last part of my story. The Last Tear Of A Phoenix I will tell you when it will be posted and it will take place just a few months after this event. So keep your characters Bios.
One last thing I need to ask you for please tell me what you think of the last event and of the whole of this story before it get closed and It gets moved.
I will wait till Bianca and Charlie and Katy to post before I move this thread. Mention what you think in your last posts

Bianca turned, her eyes welling up with tears as she picked up Avery and took the badger, thinking in her heart "I'll be sure to hold on to this." She whispered. She was feeling hurt, She took off her locket, the one she always wore and gave it to him. Inside was two pictures of them, one from the day they met on the beach, sitting in the sand eating ice cream. The other from their wedding day. Take this my love and remember me, remember that I love you. Never ever forget." She whispered as tears fell softly down her face. She saw Ray leave and her heart broke, she clung on to Avery and cried.

"Auntie BeBe why you cwy?" Avery asked. "Because Uncle Ray has gone bye-bye she whispered." A moment later she and and Avery left the house with Monica and headed back to hogsmeade.

Before Charlie left he turned to Kelly one last time. "I will keep your memory with me in my heart every single day," he promised. "I will count the days untiil I am with you again, together where we belong in the place of my true love, for wherever you are is where I find that place." He took another few moments to gaze at his beautiful wife, made even lovelier by both her newfound power and the fact that she was pregnant with their child. "Good luck to all of you, till we meet up again," Charlie said, turning to leave the house for what might be forever, or at least a very long time. Hopefully everything would be changed for the better when the group met up again, everything would be back to normal.

OOC: Great story, as always, and it has ended with anticipation for what is still to come. I have enjoyed being a part of it and commend you for your ingenuity and story telling abilities! I am claiming the role of Charlie to carry over.

ooc: Awesome story and I love it! Claiming Bianca and Monica for the next part of the story.

Nuuuuu Ray and Kelly stay away from the light!!!!

I look forward to the next twists and turns It got a little complicated at points, but that's a good thing Keeps you on your toes And Avery is not dead, which I'm glad about I've got Katy next time around