I actually started writing this around Christmas of last year I just didn't have a chance to post it. So happy belated holidays ya'll!

The first time that they met was during the attack on New York.

They stood in the middle of the city, watching as the worm hole opened up and an entire armada of alien beings came pouring into their world. Everything from that point seemed to happen so fast that all of them barely had any time to process everything.

They were so busy with their own individual battles that they totally missed every other super powered freak/being in New York coming out to play and keep the Chitauri from running ram shot all over the designated areas where the civilians were hiding.

Steve had just tossed his shield and was busy tracking it's movements as it bowled over some of the invaders when all of a sudden he saw a strange looking black misty shadow appear and heard someone shout, "Watch your six!" and started to turn just in time to see one of the aliens about to strike him down when the black misty shadow wrapped around the alien wrenching a strangled gurgling sound from it before it flitted away and let the creature drop to the ground dead.

It's chest had been torn open by something floating within the dark mist that was hovering several feet away before solidifying into a small figure with a dark hooded cloak.

Blinking at the sudden appearance of the figure as Thor, and Tony made their way over to see what the hell was going on, the figure in the cloak reached up with a small, delicately boned hand and pulled the hood off of it's head, letting a thick blue black braid fall down said person/creature's back before turning to look at them for a moment.

Letting them see vivid green eyes, soft ivory skin, and pale pink lips set in a very young looking, very feminine heart shaped face before turning back to the aliens moving in on them and whispering something underneath her voice that caused her to light up like she had just been struck by blue-green lightening and then flung her arm out in an arch- sending the blue-green lightening into each of the attacking Chitauri and sending them flying through the air only to hit the ground dead as Tony removed his facial mask for a few seconds and finally found his voice and demanded to know who she was.

She turned back to them after sending another bunch of aliens flying and simply said, "Less talking more fighting please."

"You'll get no arguments from us kid. But once this is all over, I want to know what the hell you're doing in the middle of ground zero."

"I believe that my reasons for being here should be rather obvious Mr. Stark. But just in case you really do have a very short attention span- I'm here to seal up that large hole in the sky and destroy anything trying to come through." The girl said as she pointed towards the worm hole with the terrifying armada on the other side of it.

"And how do you plan to seal it kid?"

"Oh, I have my ways. Right now I'm waiting for some backup. It shouldn't take them long, but while I'm waiting, I'll lend you and your friends a hand."

"I'd rather you went back to mommy and daddy and stayed with them."

"Well it's a good thing that they're dead then, isn't it." She said in a harsher tone than she intended because Stark suddenly became eerily silent as several of the others looked at her with varying expressions of sadness and disbelief. Looking away from them, she could almost block them out when Stark found his voice again and asked if they were somewhere in the rubble or something?

She merely looked back at the man over her shoulder as several more misty black shadows appeared and began to take shape around her.

Upon finally becoming completely solid each figure pulled back the hoods on their cloaks revealing several other kids. Each one no older than sixteen or seventeen.

"Lily! I've got the weapons, the healing potions, phoenix tears and the champion's blade. Ron is bringing Buckbeak. And his older brother is letting you borrow one of his dragons. You have less than two minutes to possibly reconcile the fact that you just might die here."

The dark haired girl stayed strangely quiet as the other one prattled on for several moments before finally stopping and holding a satchel full of stuff out to the one named 'Lily' as aid girl snorted and said quietly, "Ah Hermione, ever the optimist, eh."

"Shut up." Hermione said with a small grin and a embarrassed flush as Lily took the satchel from her before she was rudely pushed aside with an indignant squawk by one of the other teens.

"Scuse me! Best friend coming through-" A teenage boy with dark hair said as he pushed his way past the other girl and grabbed onto Lily and hugged her tightly as he said, "Lil's! I've missed you."

The girl blinked for a moment before awkwardly laughing and patting the boy on the back and saying, "Hello Neville. How long's it been since the last war? A year? Two?"

"Actually it's been barely six months, but who's counting?" Neville said with a wry grin as he released the girl who went on to mutter something along the lines of,

"Oh that's right. Lord Voldemort and the death eaters... I'd almost forgotten what it's like to wake up in a cold sweat."

The Avenger's listened to the conversation with great interest as the boy laughed nervously and then said, "Don't feel bad Lil's. I've almost forgotten what it was like to wake up from the nightmare of seeing you dead at the dark lord's hands."

It was at this point that Tony practically stopped paying attention to the alien invaders that were partially being held back by several of the other kids present and shouted in a fit of undeniable outrage, "What?!" Earning a funny look from the kids and the Hulk and a few others in their little group before Hermione rolled her eyes and said,

"What are you getting all upset for? You weren't present when the dark lord came back from the dead, raised his army, mass murdered several thousand people with very powerful bloodlines, and came after Lily because even as a small child- she was the only person in the world that stood between him and purging both the wizarding world, but your world as well."

"H-Hermione...c-c-could you please not tell strange people my life story?" Lily asked in a slightly hesitant tone as the brunette wheeled around to look at her strangely before demanding.

"And why the bloody hell not? These people may be stranger's but they are the champions of the muggle world. And you- Girl-who-lived, are the one and only true combat witch in the known world. You are the one who defeated the dark lord and protected both worlds from total annihilation. I for one am very proud of you."

Lily turned a fetching shade of pink and turned her back on them in an attempt to hide her growing embarrassment as several loud roars were heard in the distance and two large creatures appeared in the sky.

"Oh. It looks like Ron and Charlie are finally here with Buckbeak and the dragon that we asked for." Lily said before some more misty black shadows appeared behind her and solidified into more kids. The first of whom to pull their hood off and speak was a young girl with long platinum blond hair and pale blue eyes.

"They aren't the only ones here."

"Luna!"

"Good day to you Lily, Hermione, Neville," The girl looked at Tony, the Hulk, Thor, Steve, and Natasha for a moment before giving them a warm smile and saying, "Good day to you lot as well." And then walked over to the Hulk and asked, "Are you part mountain troll?"

The Hulk merely looked at her and snorted, earning a soft giggle from the girl before the two large beasts landed a good distance away from them.

Everyone took a moment to check out the newest arrivals to the battlefield and nearly felt their jaws drop open in shock at the sight of the large rust colored dragon with the thick, razor sharp spines running along it's back. And the half eagle-half lion creature that stood a good distance from the dragon- possibly for safety reasons.

"Lily!" A red headed boy on the half eagle-half lion called out as he carefully slid from the creature's back and then the moment that his feet were on the ground again he took off running towards the girl. Apparently not caring if anyone saw just how eager he was to get to her.

The moment that he reached the girl, he wrapped his arms around her and picked her up and spun her around laughing as he said excitedly, "I rode on Buckbeak! Did you see? He didn't throw me off or anything!"

"I saw."

"We all did. You did very good Ron." The blond girl said with a smile as the boy released Lily and turned to greet the others as an older red head in his early twenties walked over to the group after sliding off of the dragon's back and asked,

"Does anyone have a plan on how to take these guys out or are we to do like we did with Lord Voldemort again and run around like lunatics?"

"I have a plan. But I'm not sure if we have enough people to pull it off," Lily said as everyone gathered around and did a quick headcount. Despite the presence of the muggle champions, the rest of their numbers consisted mainly of magic wielders who's numbers were somewhere between seventeen to twenty five people.

Which wasn't exactly bad, but not really all that good either when it came to fighting back an army. Still she and her friends and the rest of the group that made up the original members of Dumbledore's Army had worked with less before.

Since the death of the dark lord, she had gotten far more powerful than anyone had ever anticipated she could ever become. Which in itself was somewhat shocking since most significant magical power boosts tended to do irreparable harm to the wielder that inevitably led to said person's death in a very short span of time.

However somehow Lily's previous 'death' had done something to her. Not only giving her a significant power boost, but allowing her to wield her new abilities without the usual witch/wizard weaponry.

At this very moment, as it stood- Lily herself was a living breathing weapon capable of doing great damage and also capable of preventing great damage. She may even be capable of destroying a great number of the new enemy forces on her own, however if she did so the drain would come back to bite her in the ass later.

Especially if she got injured badly and needed to do a healing spell or two on herself or even someone else.

"Okay so what is the plan then?"

"You and Ron use the dragon and Buckbeak to thin down some of the numbers. Five of you will stay here under the direction of Hermione and protect the backs of our muggle friends," Lily said as she motioned with her head towards the Avengers. "Luna, you take some of the others with you- I want teams of two to check out each of these damaged buildings and remove any civilian muggles to a safer place. One of the people on each of the teams directed by you should have some phoenix tears and other healing spells memorized to provide medical aid. If you find someone critically injured and close to death, put them to sleep if you can't heal them. I see no point in letting them suffer agony and fear unnecessarily until they pass on."

Luna and the others all nodded their heads in understanding before Lily then turned to Charlie, Ron and Hermione and reached into her cloak and pulled out some vials of something red like blood and quickly explained. "These vials are full of what was left of the Basilik poison that almost killed me and Ginny in the chamber of secrets. I harvested it for Voldemort but because of how things turned out I never got to use it on him. I managed to harvest enough from the Basilik's corpse to be of use should something like that ever happen again."

"Take as many as you can and tuck them into you're cloaks. I want you to use them on the invaders. Just toss the vials over their heads, and then bust them open with a spell that will splatter the stuff on them and watch them turn to stone. It's an automatic KO that will take them out for good and thin down the ranks."

The three did as they were told before Luna was told to come take some to hand out to the others before Ron then asked her what she was going to do. Lily merely gave him a smirk as her green eyes started to glow and she pointed up over their heads at the wormhole in the sky and said almost gleefully, "I'm going to destroy any more invaders attempting to come through and seal the hole in the sky. Now everyone has their jobs. Let's stop wasting time and get to it. Our new friends are becoming exhausted."

Nothing more was said as everyone quickly scrambled to do as she bid before she turned away and held a hand up over her head and began muttering something under her breath again before something that looked oddly like a broomstick appeared and smacked into her palm before she shouted, "Accelerate!" And before anyone could say much less do anything- she was on the broom and flying straight up into the sky towards the unknown.