Prologue

The night was death-cold, and as dark as a dementors hood, broken only by a dim, solitary light coming from the second story house at the end of the cul-de-sac. There sat a young boy, barely six years old, playing with a stuffed bunny he had gotten for his birthday not a fortnight ago. The boy was completely oblivious to the world around him, if he had just looked up he would have seen a man standing in the middle of the street, staring at the sky, and perhaps this would have scared him enough to run and wake his parents, but he simply sat on the floor giggling to himself as he hugged his bunny.

The man in the street sniffed the air, and as he smiled, a gust of wind blew and shifted the clouds in the sky above him. By the time he let out a single, mangled laugh the light of the full moon struck his face and he began to transform. His skin ripped apart as fur began to grow, and his face elongated, forming a snout, and then fangs. As he grew his robes tore apart and his fingers merged together into paws, then split again as deadly claws clattered onto the asphalt of the street.

The man-wolf then began to walk, slowly sneaking up on his prey. When he was below the window pouring light onto the street he began to climb, slowly at first, but his claws were strong, and easily ripped the brick of the house. Within seconds he was hanging below the window of the boys room. It was all too easy to smash trough the glass, and pin the young child beneath is deadly paws. The beast inside him wanted to kill the child and feast on the delicious human flesh, but the man knew how to overpower these urges, and he did just that.

He wanted the SOB who killed his sister to pay, and what better way to have his revenge, than to turn the thing John Lupin cared about the most into a cold-blooded killer? He lowered his muzzle to the child's shoulder and easily tore through the flesh. His teeth opened and ejected the venom that would alter the boys genetic make up and transform him into a demon-wolf every full moon. And even as he heard footsteps storming up the hallway, he felt only satisfaction.

John's POV (Lupin's Father)

The sound of breaking glass woke me from my dreams of crumple-horned snorkacks, and the muggle cartoon character 'Winnie the Pooh' whom my daughter was infatuated with. I sat up and rubbed my eyes, expecting more noise, perhaps another crash, but all I heard was a thump from my son's room, and his happy giggling. I smiled and shook my wife, Tessa, who was asleep beside me. She opened her eyes blearily and mumbled 'whosa gomba chewmba?'

"listen-" I began, but an ear splitting shriek cut me off, and Tessa and I jumped out of bed, wands in hand from our beside tables, and sprinted down the hall to Remus's room. Time seemed to slow as Tessa and I took up positions and kicked down the door together, muggle po-lease fashion.

It took me a moment to see what was happening in the room- I had forgotten my glasses, again- but almost immediately I heard Tessa scream "GET AWAY FROM OUR SON YOU MONSTER!" she proceeded to magic the door at him before he could hurt Remus but the damage was already done, I saw the blood covering his mouth in the fraction of a second it took Tessa to jinx the door from the ground, out the window with the wolf- surely it was Fenrir Greyback- on the end.

Together we rushed over to Remus's still body. As Tessa checked for a pulse I examined the wounds. Remus had a few scratches on his chest, but it was nothing fatal, and of course his shoulder. There were six jagged holes on either side, tearing through skin, muscle and veins, straight to the bone.

The world was spinning, I heard my wife crying over the tiny body beneath us, but I couldn't understand what she was saying, and our daughter woke in the room across the hall and started crying. But none of it mattered anymore, He had found me, found my son. But it wasn't real, I kept telling myself, this isn't real, it's just a nightmare, a horrible horrible nightmare. Any second now the cat will jump on me and I'll wake up to the smell of breakfast and the sound of Remus and Emma running around downstairs. This nightmare has to end soon!

But it never did.

A/N To be honest this chapter has very little to do with the story, I had written this for a different FF I was going to write, but this one seemed more appealing, so I decided to abandon the other and just work on this story. This is my first FF that... Well lets just say this is my first FF Ok? Lol so keep reading please? The story should get much better as I get more comfortable with writing it. Unfortunately I do my best writing after midnight, but my parents take away my laptop so I have to find a way to keep writing. I may have to write it in a notebook, which I suppose could work, but I don't like the idea of re-typing it into my laptop... I guess I'll just see what happens. So read the next chapter, and any that I post after this, and then leave me a review! It doesn't have to be long or well written but I don't want to write if I don't know if anyone likes the story, but I'd hate to abandon this story because no one reviewed it, so review! To make me happy? :3

ILY all, unless you're some sort of crazy pedo stalker. Lol

~SF {Tomato}

PS. If you need to talk to me or ask me anything please call me Ar? But I rather like 'SF {Tomato}' so that's how ima end my Authors Notes :P