Eva Deluca and Excalibur's Hilt

Prologue, Hidden cries

The storm growled from the heavens as two lovers looked at the small child in their hands, her form wrapped in a small blanket as her face snuggled to her mother. As they watched her grow she started to gain interest in other works such as magic, her eyes lit up as she crammed every ounce of knowledge she could store in her memory, always excited for more books in her life. Than her life became odd, on her eleventh birthday she was given a letter from an owl as she was just going to sleep, her little brother sleeping in his smaller room while the big eyed bird pecked at the window.

The little girl took the letter from the owl with care and opened it with a curious shine in her eyes,

'dear miss Deluca,

we are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
term begins on 1st of September, we await your owl by no later than the 31st of July.'

Eva was ecstatic as she took it all in, she was a witch and was so happy that she ran to her parents room with a grin plastered on her face. Yet when she entered the room her eyes went wide with horror, a man held a stick at her mother and without a moment to spare he said two words.

"Avada Kadavra' the man growled as the wand hit her mother's heart, he sparks of green and red twisting into her mother's ribcage only to land onto the floor with her father lying with her, eyes dark without life. Eva took her letter, her bag, her little brother and a purse of knuts before running from her home, she wasn't letting her brother die before he could go to school.

After at least two miles of running the girl stopped to sit on a curb as her baby brother started to wake up, his hands clinging to Eva with fear while the girl looked around for someone, Anyone to help them. this had been a while as the older of the two started to fiddle with her chocolate brown hair, her almost black eyes shining with her younger brothers hazel orbs. before they started to think of the worst a bus zoomed to them, a man walking to the entrance of the bus as a type writer hung from his shoulder.

"afternoon miss or mister, this is the knight bus and I Johnathan Zorro will be your conductor for the night" the man greeted, his untamed brown hair sticking out at every direction from under his hat as his toffee gold eyes noticed the two children on the curb with small bubbles of water on their face; Johnathan stopped his greeting and held his hand out to help the smaller girl.

"little miss, are you okay?" the brunette asked as his eyebrows furrowed at the small girl that shook her head and started to sob, her brother joining her teary cry, bringing the male to a halt as he started to bring their bag onto the bus with the children in tow.

"why are you out in London at such a late hour?" he asked as the eldest started to explain,

"our family is gone, our parents were killed after I got a letter" Eva struggled to keep herself from crying even more but after a few minutes of talking to John he started to feel sorry for the young orphans. as the bus started to stop the man looked at his watch he smiled at the old man driving the bus and lead the children off the bus, pushing a card into a hole puncher and watching a younger man walk onto the bus after him. Johnathan looked at the two with a frown when he started to have an idea brew in his head,

"miss Eva, I have a friend of mine that may be able to help you with finding a family" he smiled at the children as the two carefully nodded, worried if they would be hurt by this friend?

when they found this friend, he was sitting under an overhang from a cottage. his untamed beard and hair draped over his form with his giant coat, His grey eyes held a smile when his mouth couldn't be seen as he greeted the Conductor with the children in tow.

"evening Johnny" the tall man sweetened his tone when he saw the small girl holding her brother, he stopped for a moment as Eve tried to take in the sight, she had been taken onto the grounds of the school that excepted her to have classes in yet, she had nothing to give this school? the man knelt down to the child's height as she clung to her brother to keep him warm, he smiled at her and held a hand to her until she trusted him enough to hold it.

"what's yer name sweethart?"

"Eva, Eva Deluca, and you're called?"

"Hagrid" the man answered and for those years she started to have a life on the Hogwarts grounds, living with the magical beasts that her new guardian had tamed, yet the man that harmed her family was seen for months at a time.