A/N: This story has nothing to do with my Harry/Hermione fic Falling For Each Other. This is a D/H fic....well later on it will be. Anyway, I'm not stopping my other fic I'm probably gonna go finish writing chapter six of that once I post this. PLEASE Review!!! I NEED reviews!! I know you guys probably think I'm weird for not finishing the other fic before I write this, but the idea came to me while I was lying in bed at 3:00am yesterday and I couldn't let it slip my mind. So I wrote it and I hope you enjoy it.
The lone form of a white wolf stood in the middle of the Forbidden Forest, just off of Hogwarts grounds. The wolf had been roaming the forest, in an almost bored manner. It's ice cold grey eyes scanned it's surroundings, when it heard a sudden crunch of leaves. The wolf's ears perked up and it turned it's head abruptly, to see the shadowy figure of a person scurry out of the small clearing and hasten into the trees. The predator bounded towards it's potential prey, to fast for the human. But as the wolf ran, it's form changed, and became that of a tall, muscular boy of 17, with platinum blonde hair. The boy pulled the person down to the ground.
"What did you see?" he demanded angrily. He realized the person was a girl, he knew she must have been from Hogwarts but he couldn't tell exactly who. Then a sliver of moonlight fell across the girls' face and he knew right away who it was. "Granger!?" he said astonished and then became furious "What did you see?! Tell me!" he said getting angrier.
"I saw you changing into a wolf!" she said trying to push him off of her, but he had her pinned to the ground to tightly. "You're an illegal Animagi."
"If you tell anyone, you won't live to see graduation, you mudblood filth!"
"Oh what are you going to do...kill me?" she said in a skeptical tone.
"I'm a predator, Granger. A wolf. I can kill very easily. I never did like you anyway." he said fiercely, the look in his gray eyes made Hermione afraid. Maybe he was telling the truth. "Now go, before I kill you right here." he let her free and she stood up. "Go!" and with that Hermione ran back to Hogwarts, careful not to make any noise as she ran back to Gryffindor tower. Draco emerged from the forest. He couldn't believe he had just been caught. But he had been serious when he said he'd kill her if she told. And he knew for a fact, she was scared. He fell asleep that night, feeling quite uneasy.
Draco awoke early that morning, and went down to breakfast. He locked eyes with Hermione for a moment and she quickly looked away. Her brown eyes were filled with what looked like fear. He smirked as he sat down at the Slytherin table, maybe his threat had worked. Draco piled some eggs and bacon onto his plate and began to eat. When he was just about finished with his breakfast Professor McGonagall approached him.
"Mr. Malfoy, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you in his office." Draco tried to act calm but inside he was panicking. What if Hermione had told? He walked to Professor Dumbledore's office where McGonagall said the password and led him in. Harry, Hermione, and Ron, were in his office too.
"Professor McGonagall I would like to have a word with these four in private please." McGonagall nodded and walked out.
"What is this about Professor?" Harry asked.
"You four are needed to help save your magical community. As you know Voldemort, came back to strength three years ago, in your fourth year." Harry, looked down at the floor, obviously remembering the tri wizard tournament. "You all have your own qualities, which will help you on your mission."
"What exactly is our mission, Professor?" Hermione asked.
"You will need to find out where Voldemort is. To do so you will need to collect ingredients for a potion which in turn will show you where Voldemort's hideout is. Then you will need to go to this hideout and make sure that some how Voldemort drinks this." he held up a small vile with a bright green liquid in it."Why can't some more powerful wizards like yourself do this sir? I mean we're only seventeen." Ron said.
"Ron, you, Harry, Hermione, and Draco are very powerful wizards. More powerful than you know just yet. And wizards like myself need to stay here to make sure Voldemort doesn't try to take over the ministry or Hogwarts."
"He won't help us." Harry said pointing at Draco. "His father is a death eater, and he'll just rat us out." he finished.
"I don't believe that Mr. Malfoy here has ever wanted to become a death eater himself. Where do your priorities lie Mr. Malfoy? With Voldemort? Or with our side?" asked Dumbledore. There was a pregnant silence. Draco thought to himself. He was brought up to worship Voldemort, but it was true he didn't want to become a death eater. But if he joined Dumbledore's side his father would be furious...Then again if they succeeded in capturing Voldemort his father would be put in Azkaban, and Draco would never have to hear his father's verbal abuses again.
"My priorities lie with the light side." Draco said. Harry, Hermione, and Ron all looked surprised, but Dumbledore looked content.
"Very well, pack some clothes and you will leave tommorow at dawn. You're dismissed." he said finally. They all left, not speaking at all, as they went their seperate ways. Harry, Hermione, and Ron to the Gryffindor tower, and Draco to the Slytherin common room.
None of them slept more then two hours that night. The description of their mission was a bit fuzzy but the supposed Dumbledore would clear it up in the morning. They got up all got up at 5:00 am, got dressed quickly and went up to Dumbledore's office. All of them were quiet as they waited for Dumbledore to give them clearer instructions.
"You four will need to retrieve five items for the potion to enable you to find Voldemort. The hair of a Veela, the scale of a dragon, the fangs of a Vampire, hair of a werewolf, and the horn of a bicorn." Dumbledore said. "Here is a map," he continued handing Hermione the map. "It shows you what locations you must go to, and what you will find there. I have packed you all backpacks with a weightless charm on the so you won't feel any weight on your backs. They are packed with the things you will need for your; food, water, etc., also your brooms are in these packs, they have been shrunken by magic, of course so you will just have to perform the counter spell. You are dismissed, and good luck to you all. I have faith in you." Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Draco, left walking silently out of the castle and out onto Hogwarts grounds. The sight was breathtakingly beautiful. The morning sun barely shone over the horizon, where beautiful hues of pink and purple were beginning to show as the sun made it's way slowly into the dark sky. Draco adjusted his black, long sleeve, button down shirt. None of them were dressed in their Hogwarts' robes. Hermione wore a pale pink sleevless shirt, and slightly flared dark denim jeans. While Harry wore his usual long sleeved stripe shirt and blue jeans and Ron decked out in his olive green shirt and blue jeans. Hermione looked down at the map.
"We have to go through the forbidden forest, or fly over it to the north."
"Fly over it." The three boys said simultaneously.
"Ok, then." she said.
"How will we know when we get to wherever the hell we're going, Granger?" asked Draco, with the normal bitterness his voice carried.
"This map is something like the marauders map." Draco looked lost, and Hermione realized he didn't know what that was. "There are little moving dots on the map that are the three of us and it will show us where we are by those little dots."
"Whatever." Draco said, as they un packed their brooms and performed the counter spell and their brooms returned to normal size. All except for Hermione.
"Umm...guys...I've never actually ridden a broom before." she said uneasily.
"Oh great, Granger, we haven't even begun this journey and allready you're slowing us down. I don't see why you had to come on this trek." Draco said coldly.
"Maybe, because you're just a dumb git, Malfoy. Harry is on this trip because he's go to be the bravest person on campus, and Ron is on this trip because he is a very brave person, probably just as much as Harry. And he and Harry put together are the dream team. They can conquer anything when they are put to the test. And I'm the smart one. The brains behind the operation, the third member of the magnificent trio, I know more about these magical creatures then probably all of the knowledge in your small pea brain. Plus I keep Harry and Ron in check. Frankly, I don't see why you are the one on this trip." Hermione said furiously.
"Because, mudblood I'm more powerful than you'll ever know, just like Dumbledore said. So don't mess with me.
"Oh really? Well if I remember correctly Dumbledore said we were all extremely powerful wizards, and if you don't want me to tell anyone your secret than I suggest you don't mess with me." Draco glared at her with pure poison in his eyes.
"Shut up you mudblood filth."
Ron lunged at Malfoy, but Hermione shot her arm out to stop him. Harry gave Malfoy an if-looks-could-kill look.
"Herm, you can ride with me." Harry said. Everyone mounted their brooms, and Hermione got on behind Harry, putting her arms around his waist. All of them took off, and began flying to the north, glancing at the compases at the front of their brooms.
After an hour of flying in silence, Hermione felt comfortable enough to let go of Harry's waist and look at the map.
"Ok, you guys." Hermione practically shouted. "The first thing we're retrieving is the hair of a werewolf. We have directions to Professor Lupin's house. Tonight is the full moon and if he took his potion he should be able to give us a hair, with out any problems. We'll be spending the night there and then we have to fly to the forests near Strasbourg, France, for the horn of a bicorn. And after that to Austria, Romania, and Bulgaria. For the other ingredients.
It was actually a longer flight to Lupin's than everyone had expected. At noon, the stopped in a forest, the name of which they didn't know. They all pulled some sandwiches and canteens of pumpkin juice. Hermione lay, stomach down on the ground, looking over the map, eating her sandwich, and taking sips of pumpkin juice. Harry and Ron were eating their food, and talking about quidditch as usual. But Draco was off sitting on a rock by himself, eating his lunch silently. Draco soon became very bored, with no one to talk to. He looked around for a moment, at Harry, and Ron, then at Hermione. He sighed and walked off into the woods.
An hour rolled by quickly and Harry, Hermione, and Ron were packing up when Ron realized Draco was gone.
"Where the hell is Malfoy?" He asked them, as he looked around.
"I'll go find him, you guys stay here, in case he comes back." Hermione said. Harry and Ron nodded and sat down once again, as Hermione wandered into the forest.
"Malfoy!" she shouted. "Malfoy! We have to go, now come out!" Hermione heard the crunching of leaves and looked quickly to her left. "Allright, Malfoy I've had enough of this. Where are you?" she walked further into the woods. Hermione came across a small stream, when she noticed a lone white wolf standing at the waters edge in, just in front of her. "Malfoy, we have to go now."The wolf didn't even regard her. "Malfoy! Have you heard a word I said!?" she shouted. As the wolf turned around, to face her it stared straight into her eyes, with it's fiery brown eyes, she realized that wasn't Malfoy. When Draco became a wolf he had the same icy gray eyes he had when human. Hermione backed away slowly. But it was too late. The wolf had seen potential prey and Hermione was it. The wolf bounded toward Hermione, as she tried desperately to run. It was to fast for her, the wolf pinned her to the ground, growling. The wolf bit at her arm, and tore the flesh. Hermione screamed a blood curdling scream, as she fought frantically to push the wolf off of her. It bit her once again, on the torso, and Hermione screamed once again. Just when Hermione thought that she could fight no longer, and she could feel herself getting drowsy from loss of, she could hear the pattering of paws on the ground and she thought that it was another wolf that had come to feed on her. But this wolf ran toward the one on top of her and pounced on it, pushing it off of her. She could hear the fierce growls of the two wolves as they fought. Then suddenly she heard the whimper of one of the wolfs and faintly heard it run away. The one which had pushed the other one off of her, trotted over to her and looked down into her eyes, with it's own gray ones. Hermione suddenly realized that it was Malfoy, and watched him as her vision blurred, change back to his human form. Hermione moaned, and her vision clouded with a blackness and she knew no more.Draco had been roaming the woods, in his wolf form, looking for something interesting when he heard a girl's blood curling scream. He ran, frantically toward where he heard the scream. His ears were perked up and he heard another high pitched scream and ran even faster. The sight Malfoy came upon stunned him. A white wolf was on top of Hermione, clawing, and snapping at her. He could see blood seeping through Hermione's shirt and he bounded toward the wolf and pounced on it with all of his might, knocking it off of her. Draco, bit and scratched at the animal, until he bit it hard enough to cause it to whimper and scamper away quickly. Draco hastened back to Hermione and looked down at her for a moment, surveying her wounds. She was bitten across her torso, and a deeper wound was on her arm. She had claw marks on her arms and legs and a few of those marks were bleeding. He changed back to his normal form. Hermione had a dazed look in her eyes, as she gazed up at him for a second before she passed out. For those few moments all of the bad thoughts Draco had ever had for Hermione fled him. She looked so helpless, so fragile. Draco picked Hermione up, and brought her back to their 'camp'.
Harry and Ron ran over to Draco, who was holding Hermione. Harry looked at Hermione, blood was seeping through her pale pink shirt and her arm was bleeding, as well as numerous cuts, which looked oddly like claw marks.
"What have you done to her?!" Ron asked accusingly.
"I didn't do anything to her, Weasley." He said laying Hermione on the ground carefully. "I saved her life, she was attacked by a wolf." he finished. Harry pulled some bandages out of his bag and wound them around her arm. He lifted her shirt a bit look at the wound on her stomach. It looked quite deep but he bandaged her up best he could. "Ennerverate." (A/N: Omg I'm sooo sorry. I couldn't find what book that spell was in to spell it right. Sorry people. But if it's that unrecognizable it's the spell that wakes a person up. Anyway back to the story.) Harry whispered. Hermione stirred and her coffee brown eyes fluttered open. "Herm, are you ok?" he asked.
"Harry do I look ok to you?" she asked bitterly, although her voice was raspy and just above a whisper.
"We have to get to Lupin's. He can probably patch her up better than we can." Harry said. Draco and Ron nodded. Harry pulled the map out of Hermione's pack and tucked it in his pocket. Ron and Draco mounted their brooms as Harry helped Hermione onto the back of his, and she wrapped her arms around his waist weakly. She leaned her head against Harry's back, to tired to hold her head up as they flew. Another hour passed and Harry motioned for everyone to fly down. The map told Harry they were just near the house. When all of them had landed, Hermione being supported by Harry so she could stand, then looked at the small wooden cottage in front of them which was Lupin's home. Harry and the others walked to the door and knocked on it eagerly.
A/N: Sorry I ended it but I'm kinda tired. It's late. Now I need to go write chapter six of my H/H story called "Falling For Each Other" so....I'll try to get that up soon too, as well as chapter 2 to this story. Thanks a bunch for reading it! Please, please, please review. I need to know what you think good or bad I don't care!! Just give me feedback!! Pweese? ::pouts:: Well, what are you waiting for? Stop reading the author's note now and go review!