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Through the forest Snuffles raced with his skin feeling like a strange loose covering as he reintegrated his brain to using legs, his fur was dusty and matted from the stones that collapsed the roof above the cave making his eyes blur, however he saw Janna sprinting away with the glass ball clutched in her one arm with the stone glinting in her other hand. Soon he crossed her path, they ran next to each other, with his tongue lolling out of his mouth as he enjoyed the feeling of having a wind go through his coat again. Janna laughed as Snuffles barked at her when they matched running speeds, she laughed and carried on running beside him until they reached the clearing.

Janna moved through the clearing wearily, she felt like something was wrong from the feeling of  something that was coiling around her stomach. There was anticipation that anything was going to pop out from around her, however she ignored her stomach and placed the bubble on the ground before the stump.

Snuffles nudged her hand, "Just give me a bit..." she looked at him then to the dark opaque stone that shimmered in her palm, she shivered as a wind passed through her so she rested herself on the stump in the clearing's centre. Around her the small particles of leaves and pine needles gathered in spinning heaps.

Like a vortex of dust the particles formed shapes, feeling the stone slip from her fingers like soap Janna grabbed the stone in both hands as dark shadows under her body darkened the wood causing streaks of blackness to taint the earth, the black crystals formed at her trainers morphing into  strange amaranthine mushrooms.

Sirius watched Janna from behind her, her head bowed as the dark shadow continued to form in the air around her, he came to her side to place a hand on her shoulder but was detoured by a chilling cold when he tried to touch her "Janna, You're ice cold"

Quickly Janna shook her head, her breaths shivered as the forms gained more particles as through being formed by stipples that came from the shadows of the forest "I'm always cold..." Janna's voice lowered "Don't worry, I can do this"

Twenty odd people began to appear from the collection of small circles making them up, some of the shapes faded away and reappeared while others created people like Remus, he was the first to come back since he stumbled onto the leaves, for a moment he did not move however his hands clenching the soft earth. Immediately Sirius ran up to Remus and lifted the fallen man's shoulders to see his face "Moony" he squinted at Remus' complexion "Merlin's beard, you aged backwards a whole lot"

   "Give me a minute Sirius, I've only been alive for a few seconds" Remus coughed as he caught his first breathe whoever they turned to the rest of the shapes when the stone  Janna was holding began glowing in her palms and through her fingers.

Next to them Tonks appeared, her short hair was a striking pink that summoned Remus to catch her in his arms after she stumbled forwards. she fell into his arms with her cloak spreading like a shadow on the forest floor. Remus brushed leaves from her hair as she laid in the hook of his arm "Dora," he cooed as her eyes fluttered open. Tonks smiled at the sight of his face soon wrapping her arms around his shoulders and causing them both to fall into the leaves as she kissed his lips.

There were other thumps and crashes into the leaves, faster and faster were the particles forming shapes and distant colours—Janna winced in her concentration as she felt a zap of pain in her arms and fingers as she felt the stone pulsing in her palms—Soon Dumbledore formed from silvery feather-like leaves, he leaned back on a tree observing others examine the sensation of living again.

Soon Remus pulled Tonks up, his arms cradling her as she struggled to stand up. A shape caught Sirius' attention, his eyes widened as the shine of glasses and jet black hair caught his gaze, James Potter was swaying as his body tried to figure out how to use his legs again. When Sirius tackled him before they both fell to the ground James winced, sirisu seemed to just hug him, James and Sirius seemed to want to never let go, to Janna the hug was possibly bone crushing since Sirius' hugging caused  James to breathe sharply "Bloody hell, Padfoot," James said in a thick voice, wrapping his arms as tightly as humanly possible around Sirius' shoulders "you're killing me with this hug "

Sirius' shoulders shook as he buried his face in his friend's jumper, he could not believe James was in his arms, he laughed strangely with tears streaming down his cheeks. James finally got Sirius off him, when they stood up James  held Sirius' shoulders to inspect his' face "You look older"

    "Fucking hell I missed you Prongs!" Sirius blurted at James, soon the two hugged one another to keep each other close, the two clung onto each other tightly, hoping to never lose one another again... then James spotted Remus and Tonks.

   "Everyone looks older" James said to Remus who  was a sprinting to the young man wrapping his long arms around his friends protectively, like an older brother would "Look at you Moony, you look older than McGonagall!"

Janna lowered her head the last of the shapes appeared as people, but the hurt did not stop her, there were still the few last of the shapes, one was mostly fiery red and some people she did not know. Finally her crystals retracted as the body of Lily was caught by Remus, Sirius and James.

Breathing in deeply her hand shivered when she snuck the stone into her pocket.

Slowly Janna  stood up, feeling dizzy but Remus caught her by her elbows "Are you alright?" Lupin asked, Janna coughed on a laugh as James and Sirius attempted to help Lily walk. Tonks came to Janna soon hugging the young girl and slapping her shoulders with a hand.

   "You are truly  amazing, Janna!" Tonks cheered but halted then  looked at Janna's face with concern, holding the young girl's pale cheeks in her hands "you don't look alright"

Tonks was correct, Janna did not  feel fine after there was a shiver up her spine, she tried to let go of the stone but a sharp pain shot up her left arm causing her to shriek in pain holding the stone tightly. Sirius caught her under her arms as her knees gave in under the painful weight of her body. A black streak of darkness that engulfed the ground split the earth open, spilling soil as the ground was cracking open, churning, bunching up like roots that were resurfacing.

Remus pulled Tonks away as she attempted to fetch Janna, everyone began to feel a pulsing in the air, this was the feeling of the stump releasing a living pulse, shapes formed as a whirlwind came around the Janna, she stayed grounded as branches of black earth clung to her skin, sapping her of the darkness in her. There was a blast of strange black light that sucked in all the shine. Sirius was thrown from Janna as she pushed him off her "R-run!" she called to him as he stumbled back while she wrapped her arms around her stomach attempting to hold onto her life as much as possible.