( Hi Espo here. This is the longest chapter I have likely ever written. I would like to make this know as I have done some proofing but it is not the best. I would also like to add this is my own original idea for this cross over. And before you asked I will still be continuing with Moon Magic. Hope you enjoy and please Review once done.

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Chapter 1
Memories of Ones Lost

Harry walked around what remained of the court area in front of the Entrance Hall. It was finally over, Voldemort was dead not just a spirit floating about the world but truly dead and gone. And this time he had no way of returning no matter what he tried. Everything that had ever held him to this earth was destroyed, no soul anchors, nothing. He was over and gone.

Yet to Harry who could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and smile that the horror that had haunted his life, was now over and done with was not truly happy. It was not because he lacked anything to be honest. His parents before they left this life for the next and much of the rest of the Potter family had been able to amass a rather large fortune. He had a few friends that he was close to, even someone who wanted to be his girlfriend. And to top it all off he was the hero of the Magical World.

But it all felt like it was nothing, something was missing and this was because nearly all of these things had a dark twist behind them. It all came back to Voldemort, the curse of his life. Harry's lack of parents and other family was because Voldemort had killed them all off. The fame and his want to be girlfriend all came from the fact that to the world he had done something that was considered impossible, and made it so even at a young age he was forced to fight to live through a year.

The only thing that had been truly untainted by this war was his friend. Or at least that had been true up till a few months ago. When one of his friends, Ron, had not only left the group, but had nearly broke the heart of Harry's closest friend, Hermione Granger. Then later when returning only after realizing the rest of the world had it no better off than Harry or Hermione did, did he return. Sure he had saved Harry's life, but past that he never really acted as if his leaving had changed anything at all.

Harry drew out his wand, the one that had been his for all his life. It was in two pieces still, pulling out the second wand that he had won in the final battle, known as the Death Stick or Master Wand, he decided he was going to try a few things, before he went on his last great quest.

So with a few taps on his old wand using the Master Wand he was able to repair the first. He sheathed them both before standing up and looking around. It truly look like a battle field, around him, but then again the last battle, the battle for Hogwarts had been fought on this very site. He pulled out his new wand again and with a quick burst of magic sent a very powerful spell out that hit a tree causing it to return to full bloom and health. It gave him a small smile that things would return back to how they should be one day soon.

"So having fun," a voice said behind him.

Harry did not even turn; he knew who had spoken, "Yes, I am Hermione."

"Good, but why are you not inside celebrating with everyone else?" Hermione asked walking over.

Harry turned and looked at Hermione, her normally bushy hair and bright life fill eyes were showed signs of the war. But this was just from the wearing down, and time spent out trying to end it as fast as possible, and hiding from the enemy. Harry was sure given a few days she would be back to her old self in no time.

"I want some time alone is all," Harry said.

"I think you have had a lot of that up till now," Hermione pointed out.

"That and well… I am going to be leaving again soon," Harry said, looking away out over the Hogwarts grounds to the Forbidden forest.

"Leaving, but why?" Hermione asked, her voice filled confusion and hurt.

"I have a promise I need to keep," Harry said.

"A promise, to whom?" Hermione asked, moving around till Harry was facing her again.

"Well… I am not sure if you would believe me even if I told you," Harry said, as he reached into his pocket.

"Harry, I am a witch, unbelievable things happen all the time. Especially around you," Hermione pointed out.

Harry could not help but chuckle at this, it seemed that most every year he had done or surviving the impossible. He looked at Hermione closely before nodding to himself, "Fine you want to know. I will tell you, but trust me, when I say that this is a little out there even by my normal standers."

"Try me," Hermione said, before sitting down on a nearby large stone that had been taken out of the ground in the battle.

Harry nodded, "It happened during our first year, and it is why I vanished for those two weeks right after stopping Voldemort from getting the stone."

Hermione blinked, "Wait I thought you said you had no memory at all of what happened during that time."

"I lied Hermione. No I am not proud of it, but I had to at the time, and it is among a few different things I lied about," Harry said.

"So, what happened," Hermione asked.

"I well remember how I said Voldemort attacked me, rather than what I told everyone before where he passed through me and that was the last thing I remember. I actually held up my arms in front of me to block him, but I had forgotten I was holding the Sorceries stone at the time. As you can guess there was a major reaction to his magic and the magic within the stone," Harry said. As Harry began telling Hermione more of the story his mind began replaying the events of the time.

Harry could remember awakening sometime later, though he was never really sure how long he had been out of it. Slowly getting up he looked about and realized that he was not in any place he knew of, but if he were to place any guesses it was the Forbidden Forest near Hogwarts. Though he had no clue how he had gotten there.

Standing up slowly, Harry looked about before notice right by where he had been laying was the stone. But it was different than before, and pulsing slowly with some weird energy. Figuring it was not any used to him at the time he put the stone in his robe pocket and began looking for a way back to the school.

Harry had barely stepped more than a foot from where he had begun with a clash of lighting and thunder was heard nearby and it began pouring rain on him. He gasped in surprise at how fast the sky had gone from seemingly completely clear to cloud filled and raining hard in only a minute or so. But he did not wonder at this to long as he saw a rather large hallowed out tree nearby and made a run for it. Quickly he ducked inside, and sighed happily seeing he was now safely out of the rain.

Sitting just inside the tree he looked up at the sky, ideal wondering where he was to have such weird weather. But then as Harry looked up at the sky he noticed something coming rapidly into view. It was hard to miss over all, because of the creature's vivid blue color, and the fact that as it fought its way through the air, a splash of rainbow color seemed to disappear and reappear. Then without warning a bolt of lightning flew out and hit the creature.

Harry watched fearfully as the creature suddenly started falling straight towards the ground. Now normally Harry would not race out to save some creature that had been struck by lightning, which was falling to the ground. One chances were he would be hit by lighting and two and more likely the creatures was now dead. But something made him run towards the falling creature and it was the same feeling that prompted him to go and save Hermione during the troll attack.

Harry raced out, forgetting about the lightning that struck down around the forest as he wove through the tree. Keeping the falling creature in sight he was just able to make out its path it would be taking. Then wiping out his wand, he made a silent wish for this to work and cast a spell along the path the creature was falling.

Somehow against all the odds the spell struck the creature, and Harry at once gave a tug using the spell and brought the creature down to him. He ended the spell and caught the creature in his hands, before a rather loud burst of thunder made it very clear this was not a good place to remain. Like a rabbit he bolted back to the tree he had claimed a minutes before as his shelter. Once safely back inside, he slumped to the ground panting still holding the creature safely in his arms. It was not till he was able to breathe normally did he look at what he had saved.

At first he was not sure what to make of it. By all rights it looked to by a small pony, tiny by comparison to even some of the smallest ponies he had ever seen in pictures. Then there was the question of its color. Its body was a very light blue, almost sky blue, and its mane and tail was actually rainbow in color, each having one of the six main colors. Lastly it had small wings, which looked hardly big enough to lift a bird let alone a creature of this size.

But no matter what Harry's thoughts were on what this strange thing really was, he knew that it was safe. And thankfully, it seemed to still be alive as he could feel its chest expand and shrink in time with his own chest. But as time went by and no sign of the creature waking, and with little to do Harry's mind began to drift and soon he was asleep.

He slept through that night till the next morning when the first rays of the sun awoke him, and the sleeping creature. He stretched a little bit as he woke, and as he moved he let go of the little creature causing it to grumble some. Harry blinked surprised, and listened onto to hear it speak.

"Five more minutes Fluttershy… this bed is comfy," The creature said.

Harry blinked in surprise; sure he knew other creatures could speak to human. He had after all spoken to then release a snake on his cousin once even if was by accident. He had no wish to surprise this creature by making it realize what it said was not true. But it was not something he could stop now as the creature quickly realized it was not laying on any bed.

The little creature's eyes snapped open as it looked around, before spotting Harry and leapt away from him. This put it near the back of the hollowed out tree, causing it to be put into a corner without even meaning to. But Harry did not really notice this as it started firing question at him.

"Who are you? What do you want with me? Where am I?" The creature said, its voice revealing it to be a female.

"Whoa, whoa calm down. And let me answer one at a time okay," Harry said finally getting through the line of questions.

"Wait… you can talk?" The creature said, blinking in surprise, getting out of its aggressive stance.

"Yes I can talk, just like you," Harry said careful to not roll his eyes as the creature had been asking him questions to explain himself, before asking, "Now, might I ask… what is your name?"

"That is weird, I thought only Ponies, Dragons, and Griffins could talk. And my name is Rainbow Dash, what is yours?" The now named Rainbow Dash said.

"My name is Harry, Harry Potter," Harry said.

"Weird name considering you don't have a lot of hair," Rainbow said, looking at Harry closely.

"Well, my name is a little more common from where I come from," Harry said taking a quick guess that this creature, likely a pony, had a name based off how it acted.

"I see, so what are you?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, I am a human. I come from a place called England, and I seemed to have gotten rather lost, might I ask though what you are, or for that matter where I am?" Harry asked.

"I am a Pony, a Pegasus Pony to be completely correct, and currently we are in Equestria," Rainbow said, looking Harry over a confused look on her face.

"And as such I know I have officially gone crazy," Harry said, rubbing his head trying to figure out if this was really just some crazy dream instead of a real thing.

"Oh, you don't look crazy to me, though you look like you have been through one rather insane day," Rainbow said, pointing to spots on Harry's clothes that seemed rather badly torn.

Harry nodded noticing these, "Yes. I did, and it feels like it keeps getting longer."

Rainbow nodded as the two of them lapsed into silence, before Rainbow finally spoke, "By the way. Thanks for saving me last night… at least I assume you did that."

"You are right, and welcome. But if you don't mind my asking, why were you out in a storm like that in the first place," Harry asked.

"Well, I was out practicing some of my flying skills, when the weather team must have begun to set up for the storm. I did not notice till it was too late and got caught in the storm before I was able to get back to camp," Rainbow said.

Harry could feel a lie in that statement though he could not figure out why this was so. Thinking about it for a few minutes he sighed, "Well at least I was here to save you, right?"

"Right, though normally I am the one doing the saving," Rainbow said, trying to make herself look rather important.

But for something that was barely bigger than a full grown cat, the affect was rather comical causing Harry to giggle. Rainbow growled looking rather angry as she glared at Harry.

"Sorry, I did not mean to laugh. It is just you try to build up yourself that way for one so small it reminds me other younger kids playing games be being the hero of the adventure," Harry said, trying to defuse the anger before it got him into trouble.

Rainbow Dash still gave him a light glare before nodded, "Well I guess I am a filly, but that does not mean I am not awesome!"

Harry nodded in agreement, "Yes, surviving a lightning strike is one way to point to that. So, could we head back to your camp? Maybe find a way to get me home?"

"Well I rather not," Rainbow said, "But I do know one place where we could find that information. That is if you're up to walking that far."

"Where is that," Harry asked.

"Well I heard that they have a library with books about everything in Canterlot. If we are lucky then we should find a way to get you home," Rainbow explained.

"Well let's get going, how far is it from here," Harry asked getting up.

"About two days walk for one of my age, so about a day or less for you," Rainbow said getting up, looking a little put out almost.

Harry noticed this and asked, "What is wrong."

"Well you're a new friend, and I don't want to say goodbye yet," Rainbow said, looking away.

Harry smiled and kneeling gave her a hug saying, "Rainbow I am not going to just leave you. But I need to find a way home or at least let my other friends at least know I am safe. If you want you can come with me when I return if that would make you feel better."

"Really?" Rainbow asked surprised.

"Really really," Harry said.

Rainbow smiled and leapt happy from his arms and flew out of the tree and circled about cheering some. It was an interesting site till she stopped suddenly spotting something, and flew back towards Harry semi worried. Harry grabbed her and held her close drawing out his wand as he went, as suddenly two more ponies, Pegasus landed near them in full armor. The second looked at the first and took off at once, back into the air. Harry on the other hand slowly lowered his wand, he doubted he was in trouble just yet, but he was not about to take a risk.

"Those are the Canterlot Royal Guards," Rainbow whispered, looking at the one was still around in shock.

"Well I am guessing they are here for either you or me," Harry said.

"Well I didn't do anything wrong, did you," Rainbow asked.

"Not unless my coming here somehow caused something that I am unaware of," Harry said.

"I can hear you both," The Guard said walking slowly over.

Both Harry and Rainbow glugged looking at the Guard, as he spoke again, "We were sent out on a mission by Princess Celestia to search the forest for anything that might have caused the magical burst from last night, as the magic caused the storm to appear without add of anypony."

Rainbow blinked in surprise, while Harry was putting this little bit of information together in his slowly forming view of this world. It seemed that the weather was controlled and understood well beyond that of his own world.

Rainbow then spoke, "But how is that possible? Weather cannot just appear out of nowhere, we have to put the right clouds out, before we could even get a storm of that size. It had to be the weather team practice gone terribly wrong."

"That storm you talk about was no accident caused by the weather team; it was caused by forces well beyond our knowledge. As that storm was well beyond the control of the weather ponies to make. It took them nearly the entire night to bring it down from that super storm to the normal one and even then it took another two hours to make it finally stop raining," the Guard explained.

Harry felt a rather big pit forming in his stomach, as whether he wanted to believe it or not he was very, very sure that his arrival had caused that storm. This was also the same feeling that had saved him from getting in trouble before. Rainbow on the other had was staring at the guard in shock, a storm that was beyond the weather ponies to control was truly unheard of, as even in the oldest of tales the weather was always nearly always controlled by the ponies.

Rainbow looked back at Harry, who she then noticed had some form of dread in his eyes. And it did not take her long to realize he was thinking he might actually be the cause for last night storm. She did not want to believe that it could even be possible. But before she could even try and tell Harry it was not his fault, the sound of wings flapping filled the air.

Harry turned and quickly spotted the source of the wings, and saw three more royal guards appearing. One was likely the guard from before while the other two were pulling a carriage of sorts. Harry looked at Rainbow who just nodded as the three landed, she was sure this was going to be alright, or at least hoped it would.

Harry and Rainbow were told to get into the carriage and they soon set out from their location. It was only once they had gotten into the air did Harry and Rainbow actually see the destruction the storm had caused. Trees were split in clean in half, while limbs and leaves were missing from other trees. For Rainbow it was a greater shock than Harry who knew what damage a powerful storm could cause.

As they flew onwards towards an increasingly larger mountain, Rainbow could not help but ask, "Did… did you cause all that."

"Well, I don't think I did. But I don't see any other reason for why this happened," Harry said looking down at the area as the damage to the forest slowly decreased as they flew away from where the core of the storm had formed.

"I… I believe you," Rainbow said.

Harry just nodded as stayed low in the carriage as they flew onwards. It was not till they had touched down did he venture a look outside of it again. They were inside a large court area with a great many Royal Guard ponies all around them. He could count quite a few of the three different types. All male and all looking very serious.

"So this is what you found," A voice said, causing Harry to spin around and spot a pony unlike all the others around it.

Harry did not even have to guess who this was; it had to be the princess, Princess Celestia. She looked to be at least as tall as him, her main and tail had three colors, and they both shifted about almost as if caught in a none stop breeze. She also had wings, and a horn, and a crown to top it all off. It was an impressive and scary sight to say the least.

Harry shrank back a little bit clucking Rainbow to his chest in fear, and worry. Her sheer size and radiance gave off a feeling of power he had only felt once or twice before. In many ways it was like looking at the sun compared to the stars when he looked form the guards to her.

The Princess then came over after getting an answer from the guard and looked down into the carriage and smiled, "Well come on out. I am not going to hurt you. I would just like to ask some questions."

"Oh… okay," Harry said, watching her, while Rainbow Dash decided to remain silent.

Harry got out of the carriage and looked up at her and realized she was at actually two feet taller than he was, and when he was up close he could feel her power even better than before. She asked him to follow her, and he just nodded and soon she led him to a small study were they could talk. Once inside the room she sat down on a large cushion and asked Harry and Rainbow Dash to do the same.

Once they had comfortable Rainbow spoke for the first time, "you're not angry at us?"

"Not at all, I am just trying to figure out what caused that storm a last night," Celestia said smiling at them.

"Well…" Harry said, but could not finish.

"You think you are the cause of it is that right," Celestia said.

"How did you know that," Harry asked confused.

"Your feelings and thoughts are easy to read when they are written all over your face. But before we get to why you think you did it. Why don't we get each other's names first, and figure out what happened, before we begin with fun little blame game," Celestia said.

"My name is Harry Potter, and this is Rainbow Dash who I meant last night," Harry said.

"Princess Celestia is my name," Celestia said, "Though you can just call me Celestia for now okay?"

"Yes of course Celestia," Harry said.

"So care to tell me, what you are, and how you came to be out in that forest," Celestia asked.

"Well, thing is Celestia… I don't know fully," Harry said.

"Why not," Celestia asked.

"Well in order to explain what I am, and where I am from I might have to explain my entire life," Harry said.

"Well if that is what you think this would require then please do so, if you feel that what needs to be done," Celestia said.

"You're not going to force me to tell you," Harry said rather surprised.

"Harry, I have seen many, many things in my life time. Including something that cannot be explained, unless someone wants to tell me. But if I went and forced every pony to reveal their secrets, no one would like me very much," Celestia said matter a fact tone of voice.

"Okay, but I going to warn, you this is not the happiest of tales," Harry warned.

"I understand," Celestia said, a slight frown forming as best she could tell this was a young one but he talked and acted much older than that of a kid in some ways.

"Rainbow… you might not want to hear this," Harry said looking down at his newest friend.

"No I am staying," Rainbow said.

"Are you sure, this is not something one as young as young as you should hear," Harry said, causing the frown to grow on Celestia's face.

"I am sure, you're my new best friend, and friends stick together," Rainbow said rather firmly.

Harry nodded, he could not force Rainbow to leave, and he was sure the only way she would, would be from an order from Celestia. Looking at Celestia he noticed the frown, but did not comment as he sorted everything out slowly in his mind using some concepts he had found in a library book while browsing one day. The full design of the art was to keep people out of your mind, but the basics helped keep one mind organized and increase one memory.

"Okay, then be warned," Harry said before taking a deep breath and began his story, or what he knew of it.

Harry began with his life, telling them about his less than pleasant childhood. And his so called family. How he had hide and signs of his magical skill from them when weird things happen, which was a surprising amount. Causing things more than once to fly to him, or even teleporting once and while, and changing his own hair once.

Harry then explained how when he had started school this did not change much either. Dudley his cousin made it so no kids wanted to be friends with Harry. And while Dudley could never pin anything bad on him, he did make sure to get bad grades, as Harry started getting yelled at for getting better grades then his cousin.

As they got a little bit older to the ages when playground fights and competition became more common, Harry got a few beatings from his cousin and slowly forming gang, till Harry started running. By the end of the time that he had left the school for the next school he would be going to, Hogwarts, he was the fastest kid around. And would always be picked it a running competition came up.

He then told of his home life with the Dursley, and the literal nightmare it was. He did admit that doing work around the house was not a bad thing, nor was it really hard. But being turned into basically the families slave was not something he liked considering on top of it his sleeping quarters under the stairs.

He paused for a few moments after he finished explaining his life up till he had joined at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was going to let Celestia have time to think about this before he continued, because it was his bad life before Hogwarts which made him act as he did at Hogwarts.

Celestia for that matter was slightly considered on a number of levels. Harry had told her everything without trouble, or even sadness at his life up till he had stopped. To her it pointed to his emotions being almost destroyed or at least should have been. And she had seen ponies lose it over much less, yet this kid whether by some saving grace, or his own dumb luck had survived without too much of a emotional impact, or at least so it seemed.

Rainbow on the other hand was feeling very sad; her friend had suffered so much more than she ever had. Sure she had dealt with a bully or two, before but most would pick on her calling her names and finally she could not take it anymore and fled from camp as her only friend, which had been her the reason to remain strong, was not there anymore.

Harry noticed a tear or two leaking down Rainbow's face and held her close, saying, "It is okay, my life is not all bad as you may think. Just my early life, besides if I let it get to me. Well I would be much worse off than I am now."

"That would explain why you seem older than you truly are," Celestia said looking at Harry closely.

Harry looked away keeping his face rather expressionless, "One has to grown up quickly when you have to look out for yourself from your own family."

Celestia nodded, as both Rainbow and she could see the mask Harry was wearing. It was not made to fool others, but rather to keep himself in check. It was a force of will alone it seemed that kept Harry from losing his cool. And if he really thought that he was the cause of the storm, Celestia in this case was thankful that he knew how to keep calm.

"Well anyway, one day I got a letter and it was that letter that would change my life forever and explain so many things," Harry said, as he began explaining his life again.

Harry first explained about finding out about the world of Witches and Wizards. How his mom and dad had really died, and how their killed had been somehow how beaten, not killed, by Harry as a kid. He then explained about going to Hogwarts and his meeting his friends. He talked about the classes, the sports, and many other things that went on at the school normally.

Next he went onto what had gone wrong that year. First with the troll which using the painting one the wall he gave a guess at its height, and pointed out that his early life made him more than willing to give his life for others if it meant saving a friend. Kind of a weird way to earn meaning, and as such the lengths he would go to, to keep his friends as well. Then later the attack on him while he was playing the game Quidditch, which was connected.

The next problem he ran across was the incident with the dragon, and their later punishment in the Forbidden Forest. At this time how he had meant and been saved from the Shade, which was feeding on a dead unicorn. Next he told them about finally figure out what was actually going on with the Sorcerer stone.

When they went to confront the Headmaster of the Hogwarts, they were turned down and made a plan to deal with the problem themselves. Not the best plan Harry admitted. But they did not feel as if they had any other choice. He recounted the challenges that were placed to stop their and who they thought was after the stone.

As he reached the end of his tale he then explained about what had happened after he had faced down and barely won against Voldemort and Professor Quirrell. And the event right after that, where the shade form of Voldemort had rushed at him and caused that him to lose conscious. Then waking up in Equestria, and the later storm and meeting Rainbow.

It was at this point Harry ended his tale as there was nothing left to reveal. The room fell into silence as Celestia began thinking about. She looked at Harry then at Rainbow Dash, she needed more time to think before she decided on anything. As she realized this a small smile little her face, maybe she could use these two to help with her own students or help the filly who had lost her family recently. True she did not like using others, but in this case she felt it would be better for everypony over all.

"Harry do you or Rainbow have a place to stay," Celestia asked.

"No, not currently," Harry said.

"Then would you care to stay here, at least till we get a message home to let them know your okay," Celestia said, though she very much doubted it was possible based on what Harry had already told her.

Harry nodded, "That would be great."

Rainbow smiled and nodded happily at this, "Can I stay to?"

"Of course, I would never split up such a pair of cute friends," Celestia said.

"Awesome," Rainbow said happily flying a little bit around Harry.

"Quicksilver, could you please come in," Celestia said looking at the door.

A few seconds later, one of the Royal Guards came in, "Yes Princess?"

"I would like you bring my two apprentices, and their foalsitter here. As well as the filly that was brought in recently. I need to have a quick word with them," Celestia ordered.

"Of course Princess," Quicksilver said, bowing slightly, before leaving to do as he was told.

"Harry I might ask can I see this stone that brought you here?" Celestia asked suddenly.

"Sure," Harry said pulling it out of his pocket before noticing it was different that before.

Harry realized the shape had changed completely. Unlike before were it might have been like any other stone, outside what it was made of, it now was a perfect four side pyramid. He looked at it closely, and saw some weird sort of glow at the very heart of it. As he looked at it the glow that was coming from inside it seemed to call him, slowly drawing him deeper into the stone.

It was not until Rainbow poked Harry that he came out of this weird trance, nearly jumping in surprise. He shook his head and sat the stone down on the desk in the room. Celestia looked at for a few seconds before turning back to Harry, something weird was going on.

"Harry, what just happened," Rainbow asked.

"I am not sure, the stones shape changed. And now there seems to be some sort of weird magic on it," Harry said making sure to keep his eyes away from stone.

Rainbow blinked and flew over and picked up the stone before either Celestia or Harry could stop her, she then looked at Harry confused, "I don't see anything weird about it."

"Maybe I am just seeing things," Harry said shaking his head, before taking the stone from Rainbow's grip and setting it away from her, "But just in case let's leave it alone for now okay?"

"Of course," Rainbow said, noticing the slight concern that was in Harry's voice.

"Harry, Rainbow could you both wait outside for a few minutes, I need to talk with some others. Before I decide which rooms you will be in," Celestia said.

"Sure," Harry said grabbing Rainbow out of the air, and moved through the door that Celestia pointed to.

Celestia nodded and looked back at the stone pyramid that now sat on her desk. It was truly something to behold as she could feel the magic that flowed and moved about, seeming to almost warp reality. Yet, she could feel that its true purpose was not just powerful magic.

But before she could study it more, a knock was made on her door. Looking up from the stone she spoke, "Who is it?"

"Quicksilver, my princess. I have brought Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Blue Star, and Trixie," Quicksilver's voice said from behind the door.

"Good, please come in," Celestia said smiling.

The door was opened as to unicorn fillies moved quickly into the room followed by their current foalsitter. A Unicorn, with a blue coat, and dark green main entered in after them. Celestia smiled seeing the three of them and asked that Quicksilver remain outside the door till she called for him again.

She then turned those that he had brought in. The first was Blue star, a unicorn foalsitter, who was trying to get into acting; she had a neat ability to morph her form from one pony to the next and even mimic their voices. It reminded Celestia very much of the changelings, but this ability showed many traits that it was not a changeling that was before her. Her cutie mark was the theater masks.

The second was her first and oldest student, Sunset Shimmer. She was a unicorn with an orange coat, and the abilities to mess with the light waves that traveled about. But currently this power was only in its beginning stages. And Celestia after learning about the power decided to help her control it better as to avoid a possible accidents that might happen. This was shown by her sun shaped cutie mark.

The third and youngest of the group was a small filly named Trixie. Her colors were a lot like Rainbow Dash's own, but her main and tail were two slightly different tones of blue. As of currently, she did not have a cutie mark. But since being taken in she had become fascinated with some of the illusion magic that the guards used to disappear. Leading to Celestia guessing she would be finding her mark soon.

That last and second youngest of the three was also by far the most powerful unicorn Celestia had seen in a long time. Twilight Sparkle. But she was only a filly and was learning to control her powerful magical powers, less they hurt her or worse another pony. Her own cutie mark was weird, as it did not show some sort of magic, but rather one large star with several smaller stars surrounding the first. Celestia was not sure complete wither that mark was based off as it being a family trait or if her true gifts were not known yet.

"You called for us," Blue Star said, after she made sure Twilight, Trixie, and Sunset were sitting still on a cushion.

"Yes, something has come up recently and I need to ask you each something," Celestia said.

"Oh would it have anything to do with that weird storm last night," Twilight asked.

"Sort of," Celestia said, while Blue Star shot Twilight a light glare for speaking out of turn.

"What is it you need to know," Blue Star said.

"Well we might have found the source of the storm, but in doing so we collected two young ones, and currently they need a place to stay. I have given them the choice of staying here, and they would like this," Celestia said.

"And you are wondering if I can watch over another two fillies?" Blue Star said collecting the dots quickly enough.

"Yes, though these two fillies are not like these three," Celestia said.

"With all due respect, if these three cannot beat me, I doubt that these new two in addition will be even a problem," Blue Star said, sounding a little too confident.

"I am not sure if you fully understand, but it guess it would be better to show you rather than tell you," Celestia said before calling Harry and Rainbow back into the room.

To say what Blue Star saw entering into the room was what she was expecting would be downright wrong. She had been expecting two Unicorn fillies, not a young Pegasus which she could deal with. But the other one, that was currently carrying said Pegasus, was Blue Star's size and standing on two legs. And was not like any creature she had ever seen, or for that matter, read about before.

"Blue Star, Twilight, Trixie, and Sunset, these are Harry and Rainbow Dash," Celestia said giggling a little bit at the look of shock and surprise that filled Blue Star's eyes.

"Hello," Harry said before sitting down Rainbow, who at once ran over and looked at the other three fillies.

But Twilight's, Trixie's, and Sunset's eyes were locked on him. They were shocked and confused as never seeing anything like him before and quickly began pelting him with questions, each of them wanting to know more about him, and completely forgetting about the Pegasus that had just came up to them.

Harry though before he was too swamped by questions was saved by Celestia, "Now girls calm down. You don't need to probe him for information right now. There will be plenty of time later, as Harry and his friend Rainbow Dash will be staying with you for the next few weeks while we figure out how to contact Harry's home. That is if you are all willing?"

"Yes, of course," Twilight said.

"Yes please," Sunset said, before looking at Rainbow who was looking at them.

"Sure," Trixie said still staring at Harry.

Blue Star sighed, this was not quite what she had signed up form when getting a job here, but if this what it took she would be more than willing to watch all five. Even if one of those stood as tall as her instead of being less than half her height like normal.

"So Blue Star do you think you can keep an eye on him," Celestia asked.

"Yes I believe so," Blue Star said.

"Good. Quicksilver," Celestia said, before calling out.

"Yes Princess, could you please take Harry and the others back to their rooms," Celestia said.

"What rooms are Harry Potter and Rainbow Dash to be staying in," Quicksilver asked.

"The ones right next to Twilights, and Sunset. Also move Trixie into that wing as well," Celestia said.

"Okay everyone follow me," Quicksilver said before leading the foals and one human out of the office their rooms.

Blue Star moved to follow but Celestia asked her to remain behind. She had something she needed for Blue Star to know about before she could make sure Harry was taken perfect care of. It took nearly thirty minutes for Celestia to explain what she needed to have done for Harry. Not only was his diet which had had a lot of meat in it before changed, but also the fact he would need some fresh clothes.

Blue Star nodded keeping careful track of what Celestia had told her. She then asked why or for that matter where Harry came from. Celestia sighed saying that would be something she would have to ask Harry, as right now Celestia did not feel comfortable telling another pony his story. Blue star was slightly surprised by this, but decided not to press the subject.

Celestia then let Blue Star leave to get back to her job, before shaking her head. It had been a truly long day, and even longer night, as she had been out with the weather team trying to bring the storm under control. To think that the stone held enough power to create that storm, or worse still if Harry held that power and did not even know it yet.

She had a lot to get through, but as Celestia turned her attention back to the stone to begin studying it she noticed something slightly troubling. The stone was missing. Now this would not be a bad thing normally, but for an object like this to go missing made her worry greatly. Thankfully she knew likely who had taken it, and as such made her ways Sunset's and Twilight's rooms.

Sunset smiled as she closed the door to her room, before pulling out the weird crystal pyramid. She was not sure what had drawn her to it, but the light that it had given off when she had first entered the room, made it impossible not to grab. She did not normally do stuff like this, but for some reason she felt she had to do it this time.

Using her magic she moved it slowly about examining every inch of it. She poked it once or twice but nothing seemed truly interesting about it like it had been before. It seemed now just some weird pyramid shaped stone. She sat it down on her bed as Twilight came into her room, leading both Harry and Rainbow showing them around. Sunset at once went to greet them and show them around her room, but as they moved about Harry spotted the stone lying on her bed and spoke up.

"Sunset where did you get that stone," Harry asked.

"It was sitting on Celestia desk, why?" Sunset said slightly confused.

Harry sighed and picked it up, "You should not have taken this. It is… well the reason I am in this place rather my home."

"Oh really is it powerful or something," Twilight asked, looking at the stone, it was catching her attention much like had already done with Rainbow, Sunset, and Harry.

"Well, yes actually and Celestia was going to study it," Harry said looking at the stone.

"Could I look at it," Twilight asked, hopefully.

"Well it cannot hurt too much, I suppose just be careful," Harry said sitting down in the room, so Twilight could look at the stone better.

But like before as soon as she actually touched it, the interest seemed to leave her within moments. Though she could still feel the weird magic that surrounded it, and was interested by that. Harry moved and sat the stone down on Sunset's night stand once Twilight was done. Harry figure he might wait till the Foalsitter came by to return the stone to Celestia. It had not actually done anything weird or strange that he had noticed since he had come to this world.

As such he began talking with Rainbow, Twilight, and Sunset who actually liked being call Sun or Shimmer, about their world. It was through them he learned first about the cutie marks which each of the three ponies already had, which showed up with they figured out what they were supposed to do with the rest of their life.

Harry felt this was slightly mean as it meant they could never be able to enjoy something else. Twilight than pointed out this was not true. Just because their mark meant one thing, did not mean they could not, or would not enjoy doing something else. Twilight pointed out her own mark stood, or at least they were thinking it stood for the different paths of magic, but she also enjoyed reading and spending time with Shimmer. Harry nodded understanding a little bit better.

There talk then switched over to talk about the place they were currently at, which Twilight and Shimmer had a lot of information on, since they had grown up in Canterlot. Rainbow then explained about Cloudsdale, her home town, which was made entirely out of clouds. Which surprised Harry that such a place was possible to actually a city. Rainbow pointed out that Pegasus ponies could walk on clouds, and with the ability to control the weather, this actually made the best homes.

It was at this point the foalsitter Blue Star, and Trixie returned, and checked on them. Harry said they were doing fine, but he needed to have something returned to Celestia. Blue Star and Trixie both looked at the stone in surprised. Trixie poked it a few times, before Blue Star agreed to take it back to Celestia. But the moment that Blue Star's magic touched it, a weird glow began to surround the stone. Blue Star at once pulled back her magic, but that did not stop the glow from growing in intensity.

Harry at once moved in front of the small fillies and told them to get out of the room as he drew his wand. While he was not sure what was going on, or what he could really do it about it. That did not mean he was going to risk someone else's life, even if they were talking ponies. Blue Star teleported and moved around to grab the four fillies to get them out, but before she could actually get close enough to grab and teleport again six rays of light shot out from all five corns and center of the pyramid and struck each of them in the chest.

Harry gasped and yelled as he was thrown to the floor by the force of the magic, though the others seemed to fair a little bit better than he had since they were on all fours. Then without warning a burst of pain hit each of them as their head began to ache from some reason. This feeling lasted for all of five seconds before it passed and the glow and powerful lines of energy that connected them each to the weird stone faded.

Harry slowly got up, but he could barely think as his thoughts moved every which way at once. Even normal thoughts were hard at this point. It was only a few moments later when Celestia appeared outside the door and saw this scene and gasped. She at once pointed her horn at the stone powering up an attack, as to destroy it. But before she could unleash the spell on the stone, the light faded from the stone as well and it fell to the floor and broke into several pieces. Celestia blinked in surprise, letting the spell disappear, before carefully using some of the items around the room to get the pieces into a bag so she did not trigger another weird event, then went to check on the five.

Harry and the others by this point were able to stand back up fully, and get their minds under control again only to realize one thing. Their minds were not as… lonely as before. Somehow the stone had connected their minds, much to each of their surprise, but also their annoyance. Thankfully for them nothing else happened that day and Rainbow and Harry were able to get settled into the castle.

Over the next week or so they worked on getting Harry used to their world, showing and teaching him a great deal. In return Harry showed what he could about his own world. Including his own magical skills, even if it was lacking. He had only started working on it after all. After this he worked on copying some of the skills they had, by just making the magic he had move how he wanted to with limited results.

The next thing they learned about what the true meaning behind Twilight's cutie mark when while looking up at the stars one night Harry suggested that she try and move the stars about. To Twilight's surprise she could move the stars about without a problem, the only problem ended up being that she caused the sky to go crazy as stars began moving about all over it. Twilight began to panic at this seeing that she had in her terms, "broke the sky."

Harry picked her up though and helped her slowly to calm down, saying it was not her fault. After calming her down more, the stars began to slowly down moving lazily like before, but still not in their normal spots. Twilight closed her eyes for a second and thought for a few moments and then pulled all the stars back to their rightful paths. How she knew where every star went though was beyond her to explain.

With the stars set back into their right places Twilight decided to try one last thing. Her horn glow filled the area in a violet light. Then with an extra bright burst of magic and power her horn shot a blast of energy into the sky above. After the magical glow vanished and they were able to see again, they noticed that where the magic had hit five new starts now stood twinkling in the sky around a sixth star.

Twilight explained that she had made the stars, as one for each of their group, with Harry's being the center most. Harry had pulled Twilight into a tight hug thanking her for this gift. Once she was sat down looking rather happy with herself, the others pulled her into a hug as well. Blue Star smiled and let go, before going to find Celestia to tell her the very interesting news.

But all the time they spent together was not just learning, but also playing and having fun. And though Harry mostly stayed out of these play time, thanks to his size, he would still stay nearby. Blue Star at these points would often talk with him using the newly made mental link as to not disturb the others. They would talk about a great many things growing closer together as well. And as the second week began drawing to an end Blue Star said she had something to tell and show all of them. But sadly then would not come to pass.

Celestia had returned the stone the day Blue Star would show Twilight, Rainbow, Sunset, Trixie, Harry, and Celestia her secret. It seemed that the magic that had been in it had faded from the stone. And even trying to put the pieces back together wielded no results. As such the stone pieces sat on Harry's bedside table where Twilight and Sunset found them. And in their child like wisdom they figured they could figure out the secret of the stones.

"What you two working on," Harry asked coming into the room, after they had managed to put the stone back into is nearly prefect pyramid shape.

Twilight smiled and moved out of the way showing him, "Well Celestia could not figure it out. So Shimmer and I thought we could give it a try, as we were affected by it."

"Makes sense," Harry said sitting down by them.

"By the way while working on this we notice some sort of weird symbol on one of the pieces." Twilight said hold up the piece.

Harry took the piece and looked at it closely, it was true the symbol was weird looking. He put it back down a little bit later not sure what to make of it, when he noticed their the other large pieces even the ones that had been fitted back together, had a Cutie mark of each of his five new friends on them. One of the pieces showing what Trixie's mark was likely to be.

"I… I think this is what connect us," Harry said.

"Well yes of course, it has all our cutie marks after all. Though that would mean that weird symbol is your own cutie mark… if you had one," Twilight said.

Harry nodded it made sense in some ways, "So you having any luck?"

"Well we got everyone but yours and Twilight's pieces on," Shimmer said happily.

"Which means that that those two last pieces will be simple," Harry said.

"Yep," Twilight said floating the stone up and began pushing the last to pieces together.

Indeed the last two pieces slide together without a problem and with a slow glow the stone became a one piece again. Harry slowly and carefully took it out of the air and looked at it smiling.

"Well done," Harry said to the pair of them.

"You're welcome," Shim said happily.

"Want to take this to Celestia see what she can figure out about it now?" Harry asked.

"Sure, or we could just keep it here, it is not like it is doing anything wrong," Twilight pointed out.

Harry thought about it and nodded, there was nothing wrong with leaving it alone for now, and telling Celestia later tonight. It is sad though as a child's or fillies logic is not always the best. Setting the now fixed stone on his bedside table something did happen that he had not expect. As it touched the table, where his wand had been also sitting the magic from the wand, the stone, and Harry's own magic reacted bring out the dormant power within the stone.

A shock wave rippled out from Harry throwing both Twilight and Shimmer against the wall, before they could even give a yell of shook. Harry was able to get out a mental call for help before the magical pulsed again and captured him inside a sphere of powerful magic. The stone began to come apart, the points and sides each talking up spots around the bubble of magic walls. While the center piece remained floating in front of Harry.

It was at this point that Rainbow, Trixie, and Blue Star came into the room and saw what was going on. Blue Star at once ran to help Twilight and Shim, waking them up before turning to try and help Harry escape the sphere. But by then it was too late, like before the five corners of the pyramid sent out a beam of light that hit each of them.

But unlike before where it had given them a great gift, the ability to talk with each other through their minds, it was taking their magical power from them. Rainbow was soon on the floor panting hard, followed a few seconds later by the other four ponies. Harry was slamming his fist against the sphere's magical walls and core trying to help them in some way. But it was all for not as the beams broke with the sound of a cracking whip. As each string broke with the pony it was connected, they gave out a yell of shock, pain and fear.

Their minds went silent; there was no connection between any of them anymore. Twilight started to get up followed by the others as they tried to move to help Harry in some shape form or fashion, but they were too weak. The stone had drained too much of their magic for them to even be able to stand firmly, let alone try an actually rescue attempt.

Harry felt tears coming to his eyes as he saw all the magic, begin to pool at the center of the sphere making him realize what was about to happen. He was heading back to his own world. He was sure of it. He looked out at the others in the room, and felt a sob hit his body as he fought harder still to escape even as more magic was drained from him. He did not want to go back to Hogwarts, this was his home now, and he needed to stay here.

But as the glowing center stone grew in brightness he realized that it was all for nothing. So he did the only thing he could do at this point. It was not flashy, or even brave. It was what he needed to do to make sure they would always remember him.

"Twilight, Rainbow, Shimmer, Trixie and Blue Star... I… I am sorry but it seems I need to return to my home world," Harry said, fighting the need to break down and cry at the unfairness of what was happen. He had found true happiness why did it have to be taken from him not even a week after he had gained it?

"No Harry break out!" Rainbow yelled, tears already falling from her eyes as she looked at her closest friend held prisoner in the bubble of magic.

"I can't," Harry said, his body shaking as he fought to keep from breaking down, "But… but Rainbow… I promise I will return okay?"

"No that is not okay, you don't need to leave stay here," Rainbow said, as with a last burst of energy hurled herself at the sphere only to bounce off.

"Rainbow no, please stop," Harry yelled as the small filly tried again and again, it was breaking his heart.

Rainbow stopped, as Harry's yell cut like a knife not only into her heart but the others, as she asked, "But, don't you love us? Aren't we your family?"

Harry nodded, "Yes, I love each and every one of you. But I cannot stay, I wish I could, this is taking me back to my world, away from my home and family… But I will return I promise, I will do everything in my power to return."

"Harry please don't let it take you away," Twilight and Sunset yelled at the same time.

Harry shook as it felt like yet another sword as driven though his heart, he could barely handle leaving them. He hid his eyes carefully as he spoke again, "It is to… to late, I love all of you with all my heart and I will return I promise."

Then with another pulse of magic the world grew white for Harry as he vanished from that world, for good. He never knew how much time had passed, before he was waking up to yet another sky and forest. He was back in the forbidden forest, as he could just make out Hogwarts in the distance between the trees. Above him a storm came into being, but Harry did not care though, his friend were gone, lost to a place he had no clue how to return to.

And without them around, to keep himself strong he broke down and cried. Angrier and hate filled him, at the stone for bringing him back. Sadness and total lose at the only people he would ever consider his family. And above all his broken heart and mind at losing the very special connection he had with each of them.

Harry noticing his wand nearby him picked it up before lashing out and throwing a huge portion of magic into it. Rather than form a spell that he knew a bolt of lightning flashed out and struck several trees blasting them apart before it finally stopped a distance away. He turned and did the same thing unleashing yet a more powerful bolt than before causing massive trees to be destroyed as the bolt crashed through them. He turned again, but stopped when he saw something glowing on the ground.

It was the center of the stone that had connected them all, and it was slowly pulsing with energy like a little heart. He could feel inside it the love of his five close friends, and their determination. Clutching it to his chest he looked around for the other pieces but did not see them anywhere. Harry sighed and looked at the small piece and smiled sadly in spite of everything.

"I promise I will return, one day, somehow I will return to be with you forever," Harry said touching the stone.

With this he began making his way through the forest down one of the paths of destruction he had caused. He had a new goal as he pocketed the stone, he needed to find the other pieces to it and rebuild it. Once that was done he would return, return to Equestria. Return to his home. And most importantly return to his family.

Now wither by dumb luck or someone else design he ended up leaving the Forbidden Forest by Hagrid's hut. He made his way over to the door and knocked before fainting on the doorstep, his bursts of magical destruction finally taking their toll on him. As such Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived, had returned to the Wizarding world after vanishing from it for nearly two weeks.

Harry at this point end his tale looking at Hermione and pulled out a necklace on which was attacked a tiny small stone glowing and pulsing, "This is that stone that I made that promise on first year. And as I promised I have been collected each of the pieces, and now I am only a few pieces away from completing the quest and returning home."

Hermione stared in awe at what Harry had just told her, something she was sure no one else knew about him. And more importantly he had solid proof of it. One no one could come up with a tale that crazy and detailed without some time to think about it long and hard. Plus during the last part Harry had nearly broken down before calming himself down slowly before continuing.

Moving over Hermione pulled Harry into a hug, before giving him a kiss on the cheek. She knew one thing for sure, Harry needed someone with him again. And she only knew one person loyal enough to him to go through with this crazy plan.

"As you wish now where are we going next?" Hermione asked stepping back.

"We?" Harry asked confused.

"Of course, Ron may have just broken up with me again, but that does not mean I am letting you run off on some silly adventure alone," Hermione said simply.

Harry chuckled, her attitude reminded him of Twilight's at times, "We are headed to the Ministry of Magic, to the Veil of Death to collect the final piece."

Hermione nodded before taking his hand, and then with a sharp crack they vanished from Hogwarts. Hermione and Harry appeared inside the main entrance for the Ministry of magic, and notice that surprising it was completely empty. There were no guards, no people going to work nothing. Harry just smiled a little bit at this it meant that everyone was likely out celebrating. And it would mean no one would try and stop him, in his finally hours in this world.

Harry walked towards the elevators followed by Hermione. He pushed the button that would take him to the Department of Mysteries. Even as the elevator moved though, no one got on, showing just how empty the building really was.

"Hermione what do you mean Ron broke up with you again," Harry asked.

"Just that," Hermione said simply.

"What happened," Harry asked pressing a little bit.

"He never changed," Hermione said simply, as they reached the floor where the department was located.

Harry tried a few more times but finally gave up. Hermione was clammed up as much as he had been about his lost friends. He could not bring himself to push her hard enough to find out either. She was one of his few true friends, and there was no need to find out now. There would be time later one, maybe.

Harry opened it up and was slightly surprised to see that all the door in the room were blasted off their hinges. Harry pulled out both of his wands before walking forward carefully, just in case. Hermione followed her own wand at the ready as they moved forwards. Soon though they were standing in front of the Death Veal, a large stone Arch with a powerful magical shroud hanging down the middle of it. As Harry moved closer he could hear the voices coming out of it, voices from people that had long since died, or even recently died.

"So Harry what is the plan," Hermione asked.

Harry sighed, "It is time to give back the Deathly Hollows, to Death. I am going to wrap them together than toss them into the shroud."

"And you think that will work?" Hermione asked rather surprised, by this bold idea.

"Yes, you see my mark on the stone from way back when was the mark of the Deathly Hollows, but it was different from the normal one. As from the lower corners of the triangle shot out two lines that formed an arch. And if I am not mistake, this is the last part of the Deathly Hollows," Harry said.

Hermione blinked, it made sense in the most basic of ways, "Well if you are sure, then let's do it."

Harry nodded and pulled out of his pocket two things. The first was a Ring which held on it the Resurrection Stone. Then out came the Clock of Invisibility. Then lastly the Master Wand, the most powerful wand ever. Harry then put the ring over the wand so the band slide down along the wands length. He then wrapped the two in the Cloak before standing up with the bundle and looked at the arch.

"From Death this was given to the Brother Peverell Three, each powerful and dangerous. Now I the controller and Master of Death, shall give up this right and title back to Death himself, and return I ask for the final pieces of the puzzle," Harry said, his voice echoing around the chamber.

Hermione was not sure why he said those words, but the affect was noticeable as the Death Veil began to pulse slowly, and the sound of the voices began to grow louder. Hermione could not help but take a small step back in fear semi worried about what would soon happen.

Harry then walked over and placed the bundle on the ground, and with a flick of his wand sent it flying towards the stone arch. But before it could go through the magical veil, the three objects stopped moving then flew back towards Harry, much to Harry's surprise who caught them. He then realized that the items were still wanting to move to another location behind him. He quickly casted a shield charm causing the magic to fail on the items as he turned around to see who had entered the room.

"Well Harry it would seem you have once again brought me all that I need," came the sickly sweet voice of Madam Umbridge.

Harry glared at the toad of a woman, as he began to move away from her. He would not be stopped now, not when he was so close, and not by this person of all people.

"SO I might ask what bring you here," Harry asked.

"I work here, as the Minister of Magic," Umbridge said rather proud of herself.

Harry though at this started laughing, "You Minster of Magic, oh now I think you really have lost you mind!"

A flash from a spell hitting and dissipating over his shield was what he got in reply as more people began entering into the room. Harry quickly began counting and once everyone was in the room surrounding them it was now thirty of them against Hermione and himself. Things were not looking so great, but then again he had been up against Voldemort and won, this should not be as bad, he hoped.

"Now Harry you should not tell a lie. I am the new Minister of Magic, and you shall hand those Hollows over to me. If you should wish to live," Umbridge said, still proud of herself.

"Why ever should I do that," Harry asked, debating the need to actually use the items himself.

"Because as powerful and dark artifacts it is the Ministry of Magic's job to make sure they are properly destroyed," Umbridge replied.

"Or used for you own purposes," Hermione countered, her anger growing some.

"Quiet Muggle, we shall see to it about whose magic you stole once we are done here," Umbridge said, a smirk growing over her toad like face.

Harry sighed, was this the world that he had to fight for, one still filled with corruption and evil. He looked at Hermione than at Umbridge and shook he head. He was done with this world, and the evil in it. It was time to end this here and now, and head back to his real home, and family.

"So, you think that you can control myself, and Hermione? You think you can just rule the wizarding world like Voldemort? You think we will just let you do this," Harry asked his voice growing in strength.

"But of course you cannot win, I have these twenty-nine Aurors plus a host of Dementors at my call," Umbridge said smirking before pointing her wand at Hermione, "Now you shall hand over the Hollows or I shall be forced to torture your friend here."

Harry nodded, "I know what you will try. But I am not going to give in."

With this Harry dropped the shield spell and threw the Hollows towards the veil. Umbridge gasped in shock and went to summon the items back, but before her spell could take affect Harry sent a disarming charm at the bundle sending it rapidly into the Veil, as unlike what the name of the spell sounded like it was really just a powerful push of energy.

The moment the Hollows made contact with the veil the room went dark and began to drop in temperature. Mist began to cover the floor as the Veil and the stone around it began to reshape. Many of the wizard's and witches that had come in with Umbridge were backing up slowly, fearful of what Harry had possibly awoken or caused.

Finally the shifting stopped and before them stood a tall figure nine feet high at least, covered in a long black cloak with a hood up to hide his face. He seemed to look about the room, though the hood never moved an inch. Then without a sound or reason he moved forward a few feet before stopping and looking around again.

Harry backed up to where Hermione was rather fearful himself. But even as he backed up he looked about for the final piece he needed, but he could not see it anywhere. But that did not mean it was not somewhere nearby.

Hermione swallowed as she looked at the figure, "Is that… who I think it is?"

"Yes, that is Death, I am sure of it." Harry said.

Death then began raising his hand slowly and with that the chill in the room grew, till it was nearly freezing as ice began to cover the floor. Around the room yells and screams were heard, then without warning out of the doors that Dementors came flooding into the room and flew towards Death.

They began to collapse down slowly forming a dark ball that floated in Death's skeleton hand. It was hard to tell how many flew in and became that dark mass, but it looked to be hundreds if not thousands. Finally the flow of Dementors stopped and everyone was able to breathe again, as the temperature began to rise slowly again.

Death then turned and looked at Harry before speaking, his voice clear and yet muffled at the same time, "For the return of these items I will grant your request, as well as your friends future request."

Harry blinked in surprise looked at Hermione confused, who looked to be just as confused as him. Death than turned and looked at the group around them, which was only three wizards and Umbridge, as the rest had fled the moment they saw a chance. They had been paid to deal with a witch and wizard, not fight Death himself.

"How dare you," Umbridge said, still pointing her wand at Harry and Hermione.

"How dare he? Madam, you should look at yourself," Death said, moving towards her.

"M-m-myself?" Umbridge said, backing up till her back hit the wall, turning her wand towards Death.

"This boy has passed every single trial that was thrown at him. And not for his own glory but for those he loved, and in the end he gives up the power to control me, and my own helpers, what your kind has named the Dementors, so he might live a peaceful life. So I in return will grant him this, and remove the fully corrupted elements from this so called Ministry of Magic, so that hopefully none shall try and follow him," Death said holding up his hand again.

Rather than a scythe appearing a demonic looking staff with a long straight blade on the end appeared in his skeleton hand. Umbridge raised her wand and cast a spell hoping to somehow stop the creature before her, but nothing worked. Death kept moving forward, unstoppable, then with a swing of his weapon he cut Umbridge clean in two. But rather than blood being sprayed everywhere, a black void appeared where the blade had passed through her.

Umbridge blinked in surprised, thinking she had been somehow spared from dying. But as she raised her wand again, she began to feel weird. And without a warning the void spread and sucked her body into the world of the dead. It was at this point the other three that had remained behind fled the area, though they did not make it too far before they too were sent to the world of the dead. Death moved back to the center of the room and struck the floor opening yet another void. Before he turned and looked at Harry and Hermione.

"Go now to Hermione's house there you will find the final pieces you need, as well as Hermione's future's request. Just remember that that request will not be fulfilled in the way you may think," Death said before stepping into the void and vanishing, though wither it was back to the realm of the dead, or to deal with more corrupt people Harry and Hermione did not know.

Harry then raised his own wand and with a loud crack they disappeared and reappeared in the park outside Harry's Uncle's old house. He turned to Hermione nodded letting her know it was her turn to bring them to her house. Hermione did as she was told. And they disappeared with another loud crack.

Only to reappear in a place that looked like it had been a battle zone. Hermione looked around confused she had been aiming for the park less than a block from her house, not Hogwarts. It was not until she recognized some of the playground equipment did she realize the horrifying true. Her home town had been attacked by Voldemort's Giant Army.

"Oh no… this… please no," Hermione said before taking off at a run towards where her house would be.

Harry did not take long to realize the same thing Hermione had, as the sped down the street. They soon came to a house that looked like something had walked right through it, all that remained were two walls facing each other. Hermione seeing this sank to the ground as she saw under some of the ruble a hand.

"No, why them," Hermione asked running forward to remove the ruble, only for Harry to hold her back.

"Harry let me go I need to save them," Hermione yelling, fear and despair in her voice.

"It is to late Hermione," Harry said, remembering the dead bodies he had seen before now.

"No it is not I can save them," Hermione said begging, but slowly sinking to the ground.

"You cannot save them, Death knew this already," Harry said sinking down with her and pulling her into a hug as she began crying.

It was hard to tell how long she cried, as the years she had been keeping bottled up finally broke through. Six years worth of memories and emotions she had kept bottled up, good or bad because she had to keep herself strong and level headed for her friends. Six years she had pushed herself to be the best so she could get a good job, and make sure she came out on top. Six years that she had pushed her own parents away, till they were almost strangers to her, before she had finally removed their memories of her to keep them safe from the war. Only to have it backfire in the worse way possible. Six years lost, with no future to be had with them ever again.

It was getting close to night time, before Muggles had made their way through to this part of the town and began cleaning up and searching for bodies. Harry helped Hermione stand as they made their way over to the search and rescue groups. But part way there he stopped, and stooped to pick up two small chucks of stone. As he walked he saw they were the final pieces to the puzzle, it was a bitter joy he felt. He seemed to have gained the second chance to be with his family at the cost of Hermione's own.

For two days afterwards they stayed at the camps around the destroyed town, Harry helping with rescues in any way he could. Hermione helped with aiding the nurses healing those, and saving the few that were close to death. Both using their magic in order to help anyone they could, not caring who saw anymore. Voldemort had caused this war, not caring who he killed, wizard, witch, muggle, or child. And it would take all of those to return the world back to some form of normal. Even if that meant bringing Magical kind, back into the non-magical world.

At the end of the third day Harry walked over to his tent and pulled out of a small backpack all the pieces to the puzzle. There eight in total including the one around his neck. One for each of his five friends, as well as a piece with his own mark on it, while the last two being deaths own gifts.

Laying out each of the pieces her remembered where he had collected them. Twilight's had been hidden deep in the Restricted Section of the Library. Sunset's piece was on top of the Hogwarts highest tower. Blue Star's piece was in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, it seemed the caldron had vanished leaving the piece in its place. Then Rainbow's was sitting in the middle of the Quidditch pitch. While Trixie's own had been in the Room of Requirements. And his been with him since his return.

Carefully he took out the center piece and began putting the puzzle back together. His piece slide into one to the two sections that Death had given him. Before adding on the other, sealing his piece in the center. Secondly he added on the five corns, and soon the stone glowed and sealed itself forming one slowly piece again. Once done Harry pocketed it and went to find Hermione.

She was not hard to find for that matter, she was currently second in command of the medical teams. As her skills with healing magic she had learned and potions, plus her very organized mind let her keep everything up and running. She had personally saved ten people, though it was still a hollow joy, which she had come to like the work. Though in another day or so they would be calling off the rescue part and just move to search for the bodies, at which point Hermione was planning on leaving.

Harry walked into the tent and was surprised to find it empty of people currently. Moving to the back were a curtained off area kept the supplies from easy viewing or grabbing, Harry found Hermione making a list of what they still had. He waited patiently for her to finish.

"So you have come to say goodbye," Hermione said, as she kept checking things.

"No, I have come to take you with me," Harry said.

Hermione's pen stopped in its tracks for all of three seconds before it started moving again, as she spoke, "No."

"Why not Hermione?" Harry asked, a little taken aback.

"Because where you are going is joy filled and pleasant. And I am now anything but that," Hermione said bitterly.

"What about Death following your request?" Harry asked.

"My request! My only wish after the war was to be with my parents again," Hermione nearly shouted, "He cannot fulfill that request! They are dead!"

"But that was not your future request," Harry tried to counter.

"For what, them to come back to life, we all know what those methods look like or end up doing," Hermione said bitterly.

"Hermione, I don't think he meant for them to come back to this world, I think they were waiting for you were I am going," Harry said, honestly.

Hermione sighed and set down the pen, and pad of paper before turning around and looking at Harry. Her eyes were rather empty, as if the life had left them. The only reason they still showed something was because Hermione was not willing to let the same fate befall others of her hometown.

"How can you believe that, how do you even now that will be true," Hermione asked, a hint of despair was in her voice.

"I cannot prove it will be true, but I believe it is. Come on Hermione search your own heart, you once said that there is nothing that is impossible," Harry said.

"I was talking about Ron passing a test, not life and death," Hermione said.

"Is there really a difference," Harry asked.

Hermione blinked, and stood silent staring at Harry for a few seconds before laughing. It was slightly quiet, but it was still Hermione's real laugh. After a few moments she smiled, the first real one she had given since seeing her family's bodies. She then walked over to Harry and gave him a deep hug, before turning to leave the tent.

"I guess there is not. So when are we leaving," Hermione asked, as Harry moved to follow.

"Soon, I have a location where we can use the stone," Harry said.

Hermione nodded, before looking back at Harry, "Harry if… if we don't find my parents…"

"We will find them Hermione, if not I will… well I am not sure, but I will think of something," Harry said, "But whatever happens I will always be your friend, and be there for you. I promise."

Hermione nodded, "Thank you Harry."

Harry smiled, "Now I think it would be best if you let them know we are leaving."

Hermione nodded and ran to let the head of the search and rescue group to let them know they were leaving. After that had been done it was only a few more minutes before they were ready to go, and then with one final loud crack they were gone from that area. They reappeared in a place Hermione did not recognize though, it was a huge open field in the middle of a large forest. She looked about confused trying to figure out where they were as Harry moved to the center of the field and pulled out the stone and sat it on the ground.

Quickly walking up to Harry she asked, "Where are we?"

"This is the location of the Quidditch World Cup," Harry said, "the one we went to back in fourth year."

"Why here though," Hermione asked.

"Because the nearest house is a few miles away so any magical show this stone puts on when I activate it, will be hard to spot," Harry explained.

"Makes sense," Hermione said.

Harry nodded then took her hand in his own, "Now hold on tight and don't let go until I tell you to okay?"

"Okay," Hermione said holding onto Harry's hand a little tighter than needed, but she knew if she was thrown away from him by the magic there would be no second chances for her to follow him.

Harry nodded and held on just as tight, he would not let his friend get left behind. He knew it would more than break her heart, it would break what little hope she likely had left. To be honest he knew death would likely be her future if they lost each other now. With this in mind he pulled her close till they were almost hugging as he lean down and touched the stone with the tip of his wand.

The affects were nearly instant as a glow came from the stone, as the pieces began to come off it and circle around Harry and Hermione. Harry put his wand away and held Hermione closer, as they watched the pieces form a large sphere around them like it had before, the magic then rushed out from the pieces forming the bubble that had taken Harry from Equestria six years ago.

Harry smiled and tapped the bubbles side. They were solid, he looked and smiled seeing Hermione was still with him, holding him tightly. This was right, he knew it would work. Around them the area started growing dark as storm clouds began to build, then without warning a bolt of lightning struck the bubble, and it vanished from sight as the storm struck.