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Authors rant: This story was something that has been running around in my head and sceaming to get out. I have decided to do that now seeing as it was giving me a headache what with all the noise it makes. It is not meant to offend anyone and I hope you will all like it and take into mind my inexperience at writing. Well have fun and let me know what you think. All comments are welcome. Except flames they hurt. And aren't very nice either.

Prolouge: The Attack

An orange tabby cat lounged in the evening sun, blissfully unaware that he was being watched. A pair of light blue eyes almost silver in color watched him from behind a fence post. They dissapeared. Then flashes of black and purple speed behind a bush right near the fat tabby. The eyes appeared again and a wicked gleam of anticipation appeared in them. A shadow creapt closer and closer then stopped and prepared to pounce on its unsuspecting prey.

"Selene Ann Lupin you leave that cat alone!" A woman's voice yelled from the house behind the shadow, now revealed to be a girl of about five.

"Sorry Aunt Maria but he was askin' for it" the girl pouted. The woman smiled softly and patted Selene on the head avoiding the soft black dog-ears.

" Yes well that may be so but you really shouldn't pick on ditcht, he's very tired already from you chasing him around all day." The woman then turned and started walking towards the house. " Come inside now, its almost time for supper."

The young girl bounced to her feet and raced inside, black tail waving, fat tabby completely forgotten with the promise of food. She got through the door then skidded to a halt the ears on her head twitching in the direction of the stairs.

" Toren's awake, Aunt Maria." She said then continued on her race to the kitchen.

Maria shook her head at the girls antics then headed up the stairs to get her son. Selene was a very special child, she knew. Her father was a werewolf, and apparently the virus that would have passed on to his daughter mutated before she was born. As a result the young Lupin girl had wolf ears and tail. Her eyesight, as well as her sense of smell, were astounding, and caused Maria many surprises. She was also very active. And could transform into her full wolf form at will. Remus didn't seem worried however as she didn't suffer the same insanity that he did.

Maria stopped her musings of Selene when she heard her son give a giant wail. She walked into his room and smiled down at the infant. No more than a year in age.

"Hello my angel, how are you? Did you have a good nap?" she cooed to him as she lifted the baby into her arms. Toren giggled happily and clung to his mother.

" Let's go down and see what Selene is up to, shall we?" She said as they started down the stairs. In the kitchen, Selene was seated at a chair by the table, obviously trying to be patient but fidgeting a little.

She smiled when she saw the baby and put her arms out to hold him, while her Aunt got dinner finished. Maria smiled when she heard her son laughing while Selene mock growled at him.

" Aunt Maria, when's Toren's dad gonna come home?"

Maria's normally cheerful face dimmed a bit. "I don't know, sweetheart, I wish I did."

"I hope it's soon, I know it was a big mistake. Mister Black can't be a bad guy, he's my Papa's friend. And papa doesn't make friends with bad people." Selene said.

Maria smiled at the child and started putting food on the table, laughing silently to herself as Selene's nose twitched at the delicious smells. The girl managed to drag her attention away from the food and ask a question.

"How long is papa gonna be gone?"

Maria smiled at her. "Only until tomorrow, Selene."

"Ok." She said with a shrug. Papa sometimes had to go do work for the man with the long beard. She liked him, he was funny.

They ate dinner and then it was bath time. Selene didn't like bath time, it made her fur smell funny and she got water in her ears. Maria spent a half-hour chasing after the hyper child, while Toren sat by and laughed. Once in the bath, after much struggle and splashing, she managed to get them both cleaned and into pajamas. A bed was set up in Toren's room for when Selene came over. After tucking them both in and telling them a bed time story about the "Amazing Mauraders" she closed the door and went down stairs to have a cup of tea and read Witch Weekly.

Upstairs, Selene wasn't asleep. She sat at the window and watched the moon through the branches of the big tree outside. Whenever she missed her papa the moon always seemed to help. She opened the window a little so she could smell the air outside and listen to the sounds of the forest that was beyond the fence of the backyard. After a little struggling she got it open and stuck her head out, the crickets chirping and the owls hooting were like music to her ears. She felt the light breeze blowing through her short hair and breathed in the smells of the forest. Her ears twitched. The sounds had stopped. She looked out towards the forest, her brow furrowed. What was wrong? Why was it so quite?

Suddenly there was a big bang down stairs that hurt her ears and caused them to lay flat on her head to try to muffle the sound. And her Aunt was screaming. What was happening?

"RUN SELENE RUN! GET TOREN AND RUN FAR AWAY!" That was Aunt Maria. What was all the screaming about? It hurt her head. There was a flash of green light through the crack in the door. Then the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs.

Selene's heart was pounding as the footsteps grew closer.. She peeked out the crack in the door and saw a scary man in a dark cloak coming up the stairs. She watched as he got to the door and put his hand in the crack.

Selene slammed her foot against the door and heard the man bellow in pain. She raced across the room and grabbed Toren out of his crib, then jumped out the window into the tree. She ran down the tree and across the backyard. She looked back as she hopped the fence and saw more black cloaked men coming out of the house. They chased her but they were no match for her speed. She ran and ran. Until she was too tired to move. Then she collapsed, still hugging the crying infant to her chest.

A large Gryffin was drinking from a lake when it heard the sound. Something it had never heard before. She followed the noise and saw two small human cubs. The smaller one was crying. The other wasn't all-human. In fact she didn't know what it was. It was curled around the smaller one and trying to keep it warm with its tail. The gryffin thought about leaving them but her heart wouldn't let her. They were obviously to small to care for themselves and would die if she left them. She walked over and lowered her great head to the crying one. It stopped and looked up at her with large, watery dark blue eyes. She made a cooing noise and the cub calmed, and fell asleep. She carefully picked both up in her large talons and flew back to her den.

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A few years later:

A toddler of about three years in age, with shaggy black hair, walks unsteadily towards a cliff edge laughing happily the entire time. As his foot comes off the edge a large white talon blocks his way and turns him around. The boy looks up at the majestic creature and raises his chubby arms in the air.

"Mamma." He says smilingly.

The Gryffin smiles. She lowers her head to nuzzle the child,.who laughs as the feathers tickle his cheek.

A shadow passes over them and they both looked up to see what it is.

"Lena!" Toren gurgles out, overjoyed to see his favorite person.

" Where are you off to young lady." The Gryffin asked of her adopted daughter.

The girl's ears lowered and she looked up at the Gryffin.

"Exploring." she said with a cheeky grin. The Gryffin gave her a look that said 'sure you are' that all mothers seem to possess. Then gave a sigh.

"Fine but-" She didn't get to finish as Selene was already off and running, "BUT LEAVE THE DRAGONS ALONE!" she yelled in a last ditch effort to get her to behave. The dragon clan was still miffed over the whole 'Selene the mighty dragon rider' bit. Oh well. They all loved her anyway, no matter how rambunctious she got.

"Mamma!" Toren giggled as his adoptive Gryffin mother picked him up and went back into the den so he could take a nap and give momma some quite time.

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Authors note: I hope you all like it. I have a lot more planned for this story. Feel free to ask any questions. The time line in this is the past right now it will work its way up, I'm just developing the characters right now. Selene is the same age as Harry Potter is and will eventually meet him. Remus Lupin never knew what happened to his daughter or Toren and assumed they had been killed in the attack since the death eaters set fire to the house. Selene was only five at the time and although she remembers she has a father she is content to live with her gryffin mother and Toren in the forest. Selene's mother died at her birth. And I don't know if gryffin's talk or not but I figured that if Tarzan could talk to apes why can't Selene and Toren talk to gryffins and other magical creatures if they are raised around them. Plus it just makes it easier on me to assume they can.

Let me know what ya think. Next time: meet Nemo the silver fox!