A blade shot through the darkness. A piercing cry rang through the room and bounced down the hall.
"Ahhh! What are you doing? No! No! Oh dear God help me! Please somebody help me!" A young man, with long black hair and gray eyes stood, chained to a dark wall in the back of the room. There was a small fire next to him and torches burned faintly on the walls.
A long thin man, completely robed in black, was coming toward him with a knife, a knife still red hot from the fire it was pulled from.
The man tore the boy's shirt off and drove the knife into his abdomen. The boy kept screaming and calling for help, but slowly his voice drained to little more than the movement of his lips and tongue.
"Ahhh! Help me! No! Please somebody help me!"
"Sirius? Padfoot, are you okay? Sirius? Wake up Padfoot!" Exclaimed James Potter as he ran over and grabbed his friend's hand.
"Sirius, what? James, why isn't he waking up?" Remus Lupin rushed over to Sirius' bedside and began to shake him violently. Sirius continued to trash and scream and beg for help and mercy.
Suddenly he froze, sat bolt upright, flung his eyes open and clutched his gut. His dark hair fell into his face as her struggled for breath. Suddenly, his mouth began to froth and blood spilled out of it.
"Sirius then fell back unto his bed peacefully. To the horror of his friends his white sheets turned red, dyed by the blood streaming from his mouth and a strange wound in his abdomen.
James and Remus woke their friend Peter Pettigrew and together they carried Sirius Black down to the Hospital Wing.
"What is the meaning of this? Why are you kids up so late-- oh," Madam Pomfrey bustled into the room, still tying her night robe around her and pulling her clip board off of a moon drenched windowsill. "What happened?" she said stopping in front of Sirius.
"I...I...We don't know." Stammered Remus finally.
"He won't wake up." James muttered.
Sirius screamed and began to trash around wildly as James and Remus lowered him into a bed. The Marauders explained what had happened to Madam Pomfrey as Sirius kicked, screamed, and begged for anybody to stop the pain.