Flame. All he could see was the flame.

Licking, turning, scorching and burning as it tore through flesh, blood and bone.

Through brunette waves and red locks. Eyes of amber and blue tearing up in terror as they watched each other burning.

Two mouths open in silent horror.

Hadrien felt like he was shaking as he watched his two 'friends' become engulfed in smoke and ash.
His whole world narrowed down into a single point of fiery flame.

His eyes could not turn away from the sight in front of him, even if he tried it felt like there was no way he could look away from the end of those he had thought to be true friends of his. He watched until there was nothing to watch anymore, until all there was, was a small pile of ash and embers. Smoke curling up from the pile in an almost morbidly beautiful sight.

His ears were mute to the sounds of the world around him. A strange ringing echoing through his head as he watched people run away, mouths open in silent screams as they fled in their terror.

Slowly, from the smoke emerged the strange shadow. Staring at Hadrien it slowly floated over to him an almost sad air surrounding it. As it curled around him, he didn't know if he should be terrified of it, but all he felt was a warm cosy feeling almost as if he was being hugged in a mother's embrace. Looking at what he assumed was its face, he swore it was almost smiling at him as it raised a hand towards his face. Before it could touch him though, Hadrien felt someone grab his arm and pull him away from the street, the shadow dissipating into mist as he was pulled away.

Turning to face the person who had grabbed him, Hadrien saw that Raven was pulling him into an alley, mumbling under his breath as he took furtive looks behind him, quickly pulling Hadrien into the alley.

Sound exploded upon Hadrien's ears as they left the street, screams and crashes echoing through the air as people ran around panicking. The scarce tell-tale sound of apparition echoing through the air as people escaped.

A shadow emerged from behind a large crate. Long bangs fluttered almost as if nervous above his left eye, Tempus breathed a sigh of relief when he noticed Hadrien being pulled along by Raven. A familiar little bird was perched on Tempus's shoulder and twittering away at him, almost as if it was speaking.

"We need to go now Raven, the streets will be blocked off by Aurors soon if we don't hurry. Something this big will have the streets blocked for days, and we need to get there as soon as possible before those redheads manage to track Hadrien down." Hadrien stopped as he felt a shiver run down his spine, finally noticing that his body seemed to be shaking. From shock or something else, he couldn't be sure, but there was one thing he was sure of.

"What the HELL just happened?!!" A dark gaze turned down to look at him, something almost pondering in there depths as they stared at Hadrien.

"I'm afraid we don't have time to explain that Hadrien. As Tempus said we need to move NOW." A small yelp was squeezed out of Hadrien's lungs as he was yanked up into a princess carry. Tempus pouted at the sight for a few seconds before turning and speeding off down the alley, Raven running after him. Any attempts at talking by Hadrien were stopped from the continuous jostling he faced while being carried by Raven.

As they exited the alley, Hadrien felt a rather large jerk and then suddenly found himself flying towards three hooded figures who seemed as shocked as Hadrien to find someone flying towards them. Before anyone could really react Hadrien crashed into them knocking the two people on the end off balance and the one in the middle directly onto the ground.

Gaining his bearings, Hadrien realized that he could hear the steady strong thump of a heartbeat echoing into his left ear. Slowly raising his head, he looked up into a pair of startled crimson pupils. Something unfathomable swirled in their depths as they stared at him, before Hadrien quickly attempted to get off the owner's body.

A groan reached his ears from where Raven was getting up off the ground, somehow managing to trip on a brick at the exit of the alley.

Scrambling to his feet, Hadrien quickly noticed the man's slightly mussed silver streaked dark hair and tall height. As the man was helped up by his two companions, who unlike him had managed to remain cloaked, he stared at Hadrien again before whispering something under his breath that unruffled his hair and straightened his clothing.

Opening his mouth to try and apologise to the man and his companions, Hadrien was stopped by Tempus's hand as the sound of multiple feet were heard running down the alleyway, a familiar angry red-headed woman's foul mouth shrieking at others as she told them to hurry up and find who had killed her darling "Ronnikins".

Paling at the imminent danger headed their way, Hadrien quickly looked around trying to find a way to get away only to see that the three people they had knocked in before had moved out of there way to let them through. Staring at the three people, Hadrien nodded his head at them, not noticing a familiar strand of long platinum blond hair peeking out from behind one hood as he hurried off towards another alley close by.

Turning his head as they reached the alley, Hadrien saw the man stare at him one last time, before turning to face the enraged Molly Weasley and fire chickens that had stepped out of the alleyway.

Hadrien would later question the sudden horror that had sprouted on the hag's face, but that was for him to dwell on another time.

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Hadrien was tired. They had been running around for two hours trying to avoid flaming chicken heads, Aurors and a rare group of death eaters. Hadrien looked at the two 'people' he had come here with, who where currently nowhere close to being out of breath. Finally they had managed to get to their destination. Well Hadrien hoped they had as currently they were in an alleyway behind Gringotts, and Raven and Tempus didn't seem to be moving anywhere else.

Noticing that Hadrien seemed a small bit confused, Raven walked up to the Gringotts wall in front of him and started searching for something. Seeming to have found it, he reached out and started to draw.

Hadrien watched as Raven carefully drew a triangle, then a circle inside of the triangle before finally drawing a line straight down through them both. As Raven pulled his hand away, Hadrien watched as a small normal looking doorway appeared in the wall.

Just as they entered, Hadrien found his mind straying to the strange man he had run into earlier. For some reason, he felt like he should have known him, but he didn't know how he wouldn't have recognized someone like him.

Noticing that Tempus and Raven were waiting for him, Hadrien pushed these thoughts from his mind, excitement taking its place as he quickly followed Raven through the doorway, Tempus following right behind him. As they disappeared through the door's arch, none of them noticed a pair of bright blue eyes twinkling with anger as they watched them disappear.

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Heyo peeps! Guess who's computer decided to fry itself? :3 T-T While a certain me was halfway through writing this chapter.... *sobs* Anyway I managed to borrow a friends computer to try and rewrite this chapter but I now need to get a new computer T-T. Hopefully, I'll find a good replacement soon anyway. Apologies for the late chapter again, but life hates me :3.

(Also I have a little short story I wrote a while back that some of you guys might like :3. Anyway I'd be really glad for a little feedback on that story if you guys feel like it)

Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and look forward to the next one!

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