Authors note: This is my first time posting a story so I'll post two chapters and if it's total rubbish please let me know and I'll try again. Also I don't have a beta so any and all mistakes are mine.

Draco Malfoy looked around the deserted corridor in confusion. "Where in the world am I?" he thought to himself. The corridor seemed to stretch into infinity, darkness swallowing both ends of the cold stone corridor. As he looked, trying to decide which way to go, Draco became aware of a tapping sound that seemed to be traveling closer to him. Tap, tap, tap quicker sounding then the heels of a man but not as heavy sounding as the hooves of an animal that just left…. "Claws!" His mind said as his eyes desperately tried to pierce the darkness of the tunnel. Turning Draco began to run in the opposite direction of the tapping. " Great" he thought to himself" I live through Voldermort living in my house, being a death eater and the final battle at Hogwarts. After all that I end up as a snack for some unknown animal!" Faster and faster he pushed himself running flat out and still the thing was gaining on him. " I need to throw it off my trail," he thought franticly. Up ahead there was a tee where two corridors met. Putting on a last burst of speed he careened around the corner just as the thing tackled Draco from behind, the impact knocking his legs straight out from under him.

Suddenly the world shifted and when Draco fell it wasn't a stone floor that rushed up to meet him but cold, wet ground. Draco slowly rolled over onto his back looking up through a canopy of trees and the star filled sky above still breathing hard after his mad dash and subsequent fall. His breath came out as short bursts of frozen vapor. " This is just so bloody great!" Draco thought petulantly" I'm lying here on the cold, hard ground, sticks, mud, leaves and god knows what else clinging to everywhere. Ran the five meter dash in fifteen seconds, then I get tackled from behind by a two ton…"His eyes went wide with the realization that he didn't know what hit him and more importantly where the thing was!

Bolting up into a sitting position Draco looked wildly around him trying to spot the animal. There! A large hulking shadow slowly detached itself from the tree line. As it approached him Draco was surprised to see a large black dog. A VERY large black dog! The dog was almost in front of him when it begin to change. Its body seemed to shift and morph. When it was done it wasn't a dog but a man standing in front of him. 5'10" with brown hair that fell in waves to broad shoulders the man was solidly built. Dressed well even by Malfoy standards he held himself with the pride and arrogance of someone who's good and knows it. But what caught Draco's attention was the man's eyes. Dark brown, and expressive but with a touch of madness that was quite unsettling. "I felt better when he was a dog" Draco thought.

"Well boy are you just going to sit there? Tisk, tisk, I expected better of you."The man said with a laugh.

"Who in the name of Merlin are you?" Draco said finding his voice at last.

"Sirius Orion Black at your serves"

"Sirius Black but your dead!"

"oh yes" Sirius said with a short bark like laugh." I know that all to well. Thanks to my dear cousin I am totally and firmly dead."

"Then why?" Draco whispered" I'm not dead am I?"

"No Draco you are not but as one of the last two Blacks you have a job to do."

"and that is….?"

"why to save Harry Potter of course!"