Prologue: The Encounter
The forest was dark. No shadows moved and the usual night sounds were
oddly vacant from it all. If you dared through a quickening heart and raspy
breath to look at the sky you could see a full moon.
The pack of four had never experienced such a silent night.
The other stag, on the other hand, had. It had been around since before
anyone in living memory could remember. Only the scarred creature observing
silently in the darkness came close to matching it in age.
Neither were bothered by the oppressing darkness.
Prongs, known to most as James Potter, eyed the other stag. It was a
majestic creature, towering over the other stag. Streaks of black and silver
ran through its coarse coat. Old scars and giant sweeping antlers marked
it as a beast much older that he was. He trusted the older stag's judgment.
If the stag was calm, he himself would be calm.
What James Potter didn't know, was that this particular stag
was not used to being hunted.
The scarred creature suddenly lifted its head and let out a strangled
cry of warning as the scent of gunpowder assaulted its nostrils.
The new stag reacted first, leaping in the path of a bullet aimed for
the younger catching it in the chest. Prongs let out a low alarmed call
and was soon gone from the clearing. A large black dog carefully keeping
a thin looking werewolf in line ran soon after.
The shadow of a small rat flickered soon after.
A few hours later the four marauders gathered in their common room.
The four schemed and joked driving away the fear of their experience in
the now-not-so-silent forest. James laughed at his stupidity of trusting
the stag. It was probably senile from age. His friends laughed with him.
It was Sirius who asked the last question of the night.
Were those human screams echoing as they escaped from the forest?
They passed it of as another werewolf. How wrong they were..
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