Left to Fate

Chapter One

I woke up in a cold sweat. The dreams, or a better term, nightmares, I was having were haunting. They scared the death out of me.

"I have her, Sirius... better hurry, or it'll be too late..."

"She won't last long..."

"Her fate rests in your hands."

"Come and get her, Sirius... or she'll be mine for the destroying!"

That voice... it was high, but pure evil. It disturbed me how much evil could be detected there. Who did the voice speak of? Me and some girl...?

Could it be Tonks again?

The last time I had weird dreams, Tonks had gone missing. That made sense. Maybe she was back in Depths of Death.

So I opened my bedroom door and into the living room of the apartment. To the left, the door to Remus and Tonks' room. To the right, the door to James and Lily's room. I turned to the left and opened the door a crack. To my relief, Tonks was still sleeping in bed next to Remus. I shut the door as quietly as I could and turned towards James and Lily's room. Lily and James were both there, too.

I shook my head and blamed it on the chocolate.

I went back to my room, and saw that it was 3:42 AM. And there was no way I was going to go back to sleep with that creepy voice. So I waited.

At six, I left the apartment complex entirely and then straight for Zoe's. I was going to check on all of my female friends to see if it was them.

"Zoe Nightshade!"

"Sir Black...?"

"Oh... you're here..." I sighed. "Is Kara here?"

"Yes..."

"That's all I needed. Thanks."

I tore past the Mayan creations, the Aztec, the Inca... Basically, I ran through history, all the way back to Niah and Sira's house in the far back of Alleu.

"Sira!" I called. "Sira, are you there? Niah!"

"Sirius?" the old hag of Sira's mother, replied. "What's the matter?"

"Where's Sira!"

"She... she's not here, Sirius," she replied. "Do you need her...?"

I tore out of there as fast as I could, back to my apartment.

"Prongs! Moony! Lily! Tonks!"

"What is it?" James said, poking his head out from the kitchen. "Something the matter, Padfoot?"

"Sira..." I said weakly. "Sira's gone... weird dreams... evil..."

I collapsed.

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When I came to, all four of my friends were standing above me. Tonks had flamboyant pink hair and elvish ears, while the other three looked as they usually did.

"So... Sira's gone?"

"Yeah," I said lamely. "And last night... some weird, high, evil voice kept telling me that I was running out of time and that he had 'her' and that 'her' fate was in my hands... what does that even mean!"

"Err..."

Then a cold chill whistled through the room. I stopped dead. The amount of evil aura in the room was overpowering. A dark shadow loomed over us, with a stick-cane-thingy glowing next to a face with white eyes.

"Sirius Black."

"I'm here!" I said, jumping. "What is it...?"

"Sirius Black... her time is running out... Come... to the Isles of the Banished... if you wish to see your pretty girl again..."

"How!"

"Ask the one who predicted your pretty girl's fate... she'll know..."

And then it was gone.

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Not-So-Short Author's Note: Taa-daa! Here it is! Chapter one of Left to Fate! That was fun to write! So, I think this time we're gonna have Marauders: Version Two come to play. (Add Lily and Tonks, subtract Wormtail) It'll be great fun, having the two romantic couples... and then Sirius. Haha. Now the hopeless romantic is not Lupin, but Sirius! (Everyone is so out-of-character...) So, stay tuned, because the next chapter will be out tomorrow or Thursday, depending on how inspired I am. You may even get two tonight! Whoo!

I think my favorite line was "it scared the death out of me". It's such a bad joke. You can hate me for it if you want...

I really, really, really want to write this. And I have a few oneshots planned for this duo series... One for Runningwind, one for Thorin I, and maybe Kara or Zoe. Of course~

Uh. I may delete my plot bunny-less stories. Like AES and my Drawn to Life one. They're not even original ideas, really. One's an OoT write-up, and one is a write-up of the second DTL game. Although, I will keep They Will Not Break Me. I really liked that one, as well as Emma Snape.

Lol, just reread my AES story. SO LAME IT'S FUNNY. Oh my gosh. It's gone now, though... oh well. I might do a Wind Waker thing after this. It's my favorite Zelda... Maybe I'll do both this and Wind Waker after this... Anyway!

Thanks for reading, guys! I hope you enjoyed, and reviews are very much appreciated... even if you have some critisisms! That's okay... I need to get better anyway. :D

*Zabria Rose*

EDIT: Ah, wait! I almost forgot! I wanted to do an AU Zelda. So thoughts on that...? I know, AU (alternate universe, if you didn't know) high school Zelda fics are totally unoriginal... but I've wanted to do one really badly since... well, always. About Tetra, maybe. Haha. Sorry for the random interruption that had nothing to do with the rest of the story!