"Who were those guys, and what did they want?" Dylan asked shortly after Sirius and the gang had left.
"The real question here is not WHO were they, but WHAT were they." Fang stated. "I've never seen anyone, or anything, be able to transform into another animal. And trust me, since I left, I've seen some pretty wierd stuff."
"Wizards." Came a reply from somewhere in the dark shadows of the room. "They were wizards. And I'm a witch."
At this, a tall, lean girl with strawberry brown hair stepped into the room. She had a gleam in her beautiful blue eyes.
"I'm sorry, but, who are you? Do I know you?" Max asked skeptically.
"No. But the wizards that just left do. I followed Sirius back here to make sure that he got the antidote to Remus in time."
As the "witch" stepped further into the room, Max noticed something that she had not seen before.
"You're pregnant." It was more of a statement than a question.
"Yep, five months. That's why James would have a heart attack if he knew that I was anywhere near Remus on a full moon. Even if he had taken his antidote."
"Wait . . . full moon . . . dangerous person . . . antidote . . . I've got it! He's a werewolf." Dylan exclaimed. He always had been the brains.
"Correct. Our friend Lupin has been a werewolf since he was very little."
"That must be really hard on him."
"Yes, it is. Oh, I'm sorry, how rude of me. I suppose that in all of the confusion I never got to introduce myself. I'm Lily. Lily Potter."
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Potter . . . Potter . . . For some reason, that name rung a bell. "I'm sorry, but have we met you somewhere before?" Max asked, still trying to come up with where she had heard that name before.
"No, but my husband just left a few minutes ago." Lily said
"Oh, now it makes sence. That man with the black hair, James was it, is your husband."
"Yes," Lily said, "did they say where they were going, by any chance?"
"Oh, yeah. They left about twenty minutes ago. They said something about finding an abandoned place for a transformation to take place."
"Did they say where they were going took look for this abandoned place?"
"Nope. Sorry."
"Ok. Bye then."
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Max was just about to try and get some sleep when she heard the door creak open. A man in nothing other than a white lab coat walked in.
Before anyone realized what he was doing, he had moved to Fang's cage, opened it, and led him into the other room. Then the man moved Dylan into a cage in a room across the hall. Max heard a few screams from the room Fang had been taken to.
Awhile later, the man brought Fang back in and put him back in the cage. But, Max could tell something was different. Fang's eyes were glazed over, as if he was in a whole nother world.
"What did you do to him!" Max yelled.
"We erased his memory. We want to see how long it will take him to learn how to fly."
At this, Max started crying. She didn't know why she was crying. She had never realized how much she really had cared about Fang.
Max heard a small POP, but didn't think much of it.
"Why are you crying?"
Max looked up and saw Lily. "Because, they erased all of Fang's memories. He will never remember the way we felt about each other." Max said, her eyes glazed with tears.
"Oh, that's no big deal. I can fix it in a jiff."
"really," Max started to perk up at Lily's comment.
"Yep. But first, lets get you guys out of here."
"Ok."
And, without a further thought towards Dylan, Max let Lily apparate herself, Max, and Fang away from the school.
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They fell to the ground on a big hill about twelve miles away from where they were. "Are you guys alright?" Lily asked them.
"No! That was the weirdest thing I've ever done. And I've done A LOT of weird thing before this." said Max matter of factly.
Fang just sat there, staring of into the distance.
"We had better find Padfoot. He's the best a restoring memory."
Lily started to lead the way up the hill. After awhile, they came to a small, shabby looking house. It smelled strongly of dog.
"PAAAAAAAADFOOOOOOOOOT! PROOOOOOOOOOONGS! COME HEEEEEEEEERE!" Lily yelled.
A sratching sound could be heard, and then a large bear-like dog came bounding out of the house. He was about to leap at the witch named Lily when a stag blocked his path. The stag gave him an obvious warning look and he skidded to a halt.
Then, the dog and stag morphed into the wizards named James and Sirius.
"What are you doing her Lily. You know how i feel about you being around Remus on a full moom." James exclaimed.
"Well, it's not like it ever stopped me before, besides, these kids need Sirius' assistance. This boy's memory has been erased and we were hoping that Sirius could restore it," Lily explained. Seaking of Sirius," James stated out of the blue, "if you ever try to jump on my wife again, especially when she is pregnant, I will gouge you with my antlers, force you to morph into a human, and then gouge you with my nails."
"Well, as I was saying," Lily started again, "I want Sirius to try and restore this boys memory."
"I'll try," said Sirius, pulling out his wand. Sirius pointed his wand at fang and muttered an incantation.
"Wh-what happened?"
"We were in the school, and they took you away." Max explained.
"I know that part, but what happened after that?"
"Well, they erased your memory. This man here, Sirius, helped us fix you."
"Fell free to call me Padfoot," Sirius interjected.
"Ok, Padfoot then, how did you fix me? As far as I know, you can't reverse the erasal of memories. Can you?" Fang said.
"Well," James started, "you can when you're a wizard."
"Woah, woah, woah, hold on a minute, wizards? As far as I know, they don't exist. And I'm pretty sure I would know. Trust me."
"Well, they do. Lily," James said, turning to the red head standing next to him, "since you wanted to rescue them so bad, you can deal with them. Padfoot, Moony, and I have some things to take care of." With that, the two men turned into a large black dog and a stag, and trotted off towards the house.
"Sooooooooooo . . . what's so special about you guys that they would want to study you at such a high tech lab as that."
"Well, it's easier if we show you." So, Max and Fang unfurled their wings and took off into the sky. They were shocked to see that Lily didn't look fazed by this display at all.
"What, not even the slightest bit of shock?" Max asked as she and fang were landing.
"Not really, as i said, i grew up in a world where magic was just life. Yuo know? So this is really no big deal to me. But I can ACT surprised if you want."
"No, it's kind of . . . refreshing." Fang said. "You know, to be around someone who doesn't find you odd at all but who just treats you like a normal human. Everyone usually looks at us like we are something from a circus."
"Well, I'm actually kind of curious what kind of work those marauders and doing. Lemme grab my broom and we can go follow them.
