Ok, Copyright... Well, the songs I borrowed belong to the original owners and the Bring It
On soundtrack, The Josie and The Pussycats soundtrack, the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Soundtrack, and Blessid Union of Souls cd, any others who I borrow songs from.. and the songs Can't Fight the Moonlight and I Do Love You. The charicters mostly belong to J.K Rowling. A few belong to myself. The names belong to whoever created them. The quotes I borrowed from TV belong to their original writers/qouters whatever!!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay people, this is (as you can tell) about the Marauders. This takes place in their sixth and seventh years. There is a traitor in the midst of the Marauders, but who is it? This will take some abrupt turns later on, and the traitor isn't who you would expect. It will get better later, I promise!!! This is my first attempt at writing a Harry Potter fanfic, so cut me some slack. I am more well known for my Tenchi Muyo fanfics . . . Anyway, this is a four part story, so please enjoy!!!
AUTHOR'S NOTE 2: Sorry it took so long for me to post this! I've been checking out a real "haunted" house with my friend, Sara. Too bad it's been knocked down... I'm going back tommorrow and checking it out more. After all, I want to check it out because it has something to do with the end of this story, along with the graveyard that's in our neighborhood from the 1850's. I'm trying to become a more experienced and better writer by actually having seen my setting. It will help me make the ending A LOT better!!
WARNING: THIS IS GETTING A LITTLE DARK!!!
Chapter 9: Murder By Night
"Yes!" Meilin cried. At last it was ready. She burst through the doors of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom and ran towards the direction of Gryffindor Tower.
"It's finished!" She panted, bursting into the common room, where Sirius, James, Peter, Remus, Lily, Shampoo, and Selena were all enjoying themselves playing cards. They looked up and a smile crossed on Meilin's face.
"Planning on becoming an unregistered animangi? Tisk, tisk. Perhaps I should tell Professor McGonagall?" A soft, dark voice said from atop the stairs leading to the girl's dorm.
"Rebia, What's going on down there?" Another voice called from inside another dorm.
"Nothing." Rebia muttered, then descended down the stairs. "You know, she already knows I'm an animangi." Rebia smiled, an evil, crazed smile. "Want proof? I'll show you." Rebia glowed, and strangely began to shrink. She changed into a small dog, but then, it wasn't a dog. It was more like... a jackal. Meilin gasped. It was a wonder Rebia looked so much like a jackal. The small canine's ears twitched, sensing every movement and sound. The nose twitched also, as if it had never been aware of so many different smells. The mouth was twisted in what looked like a smile, but when Meilin looked closer, it was growling. And it wasn't just growling at them all, it was growling at Sirius. The growl changed into a snarl and it stood up, coming up a little higher than Meilin's knees. But there was one thing that did make up for it's size; and that was it teeth.
"Rebia! Rebia, Where-" A voice stopped at the stairs. "Oh, um..." Celestina cleared her throat. "Rebia, leave them alone and come here!" She called down the stairs. Rebia turned her head and bounded up the stairs and out of sight, into Celestina's dorm. The look on Peter's face suggested he could kiss her about now.
"Meilin, Are you okay?" Sirius asked cautiously. Meilin noticed she was breathing a little harder than normal. She exchanged a look with Shampoo and nodded.
"Yeah, You looked like you were going to pass out again." Remus agreed.
Changing the subject, Meilin forced a smile. "Anyway, It's done."
"Yes!" Peter and James exchanged whoops of joy and accidentally slammed into each other. Selena laughed at them, pulling Peter up.
"Let's meet tonight at 9:00 in Myrtle's bathroom. Who wants to try it out first?" James asked, looking around.
"I already tried it." Meilin said quietly.
Shampoo got that look she always got when Meilin did something she didn't approve of. Meilin just shrugged her off.
"What did you turn into?" Peter asked excitedly.
"A..." A smile came to her lips as she prolonged the silence. "Dragon." Shampoo snorted. Lily gasped. James looked a little surprised. Peter didn't look the least bit amused. Remus rolled his eyes and went back to pick up the cards. Sirius' look was unreadable. This puzzled Meilin. What can he be thinking? she thought. I bet he doesn't like me... A wave of panic crossed her mind.
"I better go," She said quickly, running out of the common room before anyone could stop her. She walked slowly and silently towards her common room, across the school. She entered and sank into a puffy armchair. Her thoughts were like a waterfall in her mind, all coming and going quickly, as though caught in a fast current.
"Meilin?" A soft voice from upstairs startled Meilin.
"Yes Missy?" Meilin asked, turning around.
"How come you never want to talk to me anymore? I mean, it's always like 'No, I'm going to meet Sirius. I don't want to talk to you now.' and 'Get me this, get me that, I'm too busy, I don't want to hang out.'" Meilin could hear a faint trace of tears in Missy's voice. She was right. She had been rather mean to Missy lately.
"I'm sorry-" She started but Missy cut in again.
"No, I don't want to hear it. You aren't the least bit sorry, and you know it." Missy stormed off, leaving Meilin alone in the common room. She sighed. She wasn't having a good day. She climbed up the stairs and changed into a pair of pajamas. She lay down on her bed, pulling the covers above her head. She fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
******
Meilin was awoke rudely by somebody shaking her.
"What...?" She forced her eyes open.
"It's almost nine! We've got to go!" Shampoo continued shaking her. She looked around. All of the girls we're doing their own separate things, including Missy, who was sitting in a circle of candles. She was chanting and rocking back and forth, making the flames flicker. All of the girls (except Missy) seemed to be getting ready to go somewhere. Shampoo grabbed Meilin's wrist and dragged her out the door and straight to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. All of the rest of the group was there, waiting eagerly. The thought of Missy was pulled out of Meilin's head as she was caught up in the excitement.
"And now, Who will be the first to attempt the unknown?" Meilin asked in her best magician's assistant voice.
James outbeat them all, jumping forward and almost tripping over Peter. She took out a small wine goblet and placed it in James' hands. She picked up the ladle and placed some of the warm potion into the goblet. James' eyes glowed with excitement as he watched her pour every last drop into the goblet. "Girl," He said before he drank the potion. "You need to work in a casino; You'd be everyone's good luck charm." He let out a cry of joy and drank the potion. They all backed up as he got bigger. When he was done transforming, he had turned into a stag.
"Umm... James, I think you better turn back now." Selena took another step back and stepped into a puddle on the floor. James turned back and a grin was on his face.
"Meilin, I could kiss you!" He said.
"I suggest you don't." Meilin said. "Next," She grabbed the goblet from James and gave it to Sirius. After a second, she pulled it away from him.
"What?" He asked.
"I won't give it to you unless..." A smile crossed her face.
"Oh, c'mon Meilin, that was ages ago."
"No promise, No animangi." She smirked.
"Okay, I promise. Now give me that goblet."
"Good boy." There was a hint of devilish nature in her voice. She handed him back the goblet, and liked James, filled it with every last drop from the ladle. Sirius drank it and it took a moment for it to take affect. When he was done changing, he was a huge, black dog.
"Oh so cute!" Meilin attacked him, squeezing him around the neck.
"Meilin, I think he can't breath." Shampoo said coolly.
"Oh... Sorry." Meilin blushed and stood up. Selena was sitting on the floor, picking fuzz off of her pajamas and talking quietly to Peter.
"Knock it off, lovebirds. Peter, you're next." James said as Sirius changed back with a pop. Peter stood up and took a deep breath. He drank the warm potion, and with a pop, became a small, tiny rat. James knocked him into the air as Shampoo lunged, ready to kill. She meowed and leaped again, and this time, landed on a dizzy Peter. He had changed back in the nick of time. Shampoo let out a disappointed meow as she jumped back up on her perch on the stall door. Selena let out a shuddering breath and took the goblet. Her reflection shown in the purple liquid. She gulped it down in one gulp, but nothing happened.
"Hmm... I wonder what's wrong..." Meilin started leafing through the book again.
"No, it's okay. I already learned how to do it." Selena counterclaimed.
"You couldn't have." Meilin cried out. "Oh, there has to be some other way..." She flipped rapidly through the pages, and found nothing. "Selena, I'm sorry, but you just weren't meant to be an animangi." And Meilin did look sorry.
"Okay, fine." Selena backed towards the door. "Good-bye." She let the door close on it's own, but to Meilin it was as if she had slammed it. She let all the guys file out before she stopped Sirius.
"Remember, You said you wouldn't tell about that." She gave him a serious look.
"Okay, I solemnly swear I won't tell anyone about that trick I played on you where you fell over in the mud and came back into the castle and Filch told you off."
"Sirius!"
"Okay, I'm joking."
"Goodnight, Sirius."
"Goodnight, Meilin." Before Meilin could think about it, She kissed him on the cheek. Before he said anything, she ran after Shampoo. They walked together, laughing and talking, but at the same time, feeling sorry for Selena. As they walked into the common room, everyone was in an uproar.
"What's going on?" Meilin asked another Ravenclaw girl. She was a rather large fifth year.
"I don't know, Meilin." She had a clipped accent that really stood out. "But something happened in your dorm."
Meilin's attention had been pulled from the girl and directed to Rebia. Was that a smile? Unmistakably, Rebia was smiling as she turned around and went back into her own dorm. Meilin and Shampoo pushed their way to the top of the stairs, and finally made it to their dorm. Right outside the door Angel and Misty were crying and Stephanie was trying to hold back tears.
"What's wrong?" Shampoo asked.
"It's Missy," Stephanie cried. "She's been murdered."
Meilin's breath caught in her throat. "You're joking," She said. "She can't possibly be dead." She pushed everyone out of the way. Rachel was standing over by Missy's bed, which had scorch marks. Clearly the candles had burnt her bed when she had been dragged ... or whatever else might have happened.
"What do we do Meilin?" Rachel sobbed.
Meilin looked around the room, which had been trashed. Stephanie was right, she would have had to been murdered. The rest of the beds had been slashed to pieces. Meilin looked around. The teachers didn't know yet, so the body still had to be around. She noticed blood stains on the floor, which led over to the corner of the room.
"Oh my God..." Meilin's voice was almost a squeak.
"What?" Shampoo asked as she climbed over the debre and aftermath of their room.
There, under a pile of feathers and what was left of a pillow, was the body of Missy. There was no blood on the body, but it looked as if whatever had done this had ... drank it? No, thought Meilin, no... It's all my fault.
"Somebody go get a teacher. NOW." Rachel rushed out of the room and went to find a teacher.
Clearly whoever had killed Missy had ripped open her throat.
"It's all my fault." Meilin cried out as she turned to Shampoo. "It's all my fault!"
"Don't talk like that." Shampoo said, grasping her shoulders.
"You don't understand. It's all my fault!" She broke free of Shampoo's grasp and ran, blindly to wherever her legs would take her. She closed her eyes as she ran, letting her body taking her wherever it was going. She remembered something that she heard a long time ago, written upon the doors of some sacred tomb. A sacred tomb she had never been in.
"My heart is stolen forth and taken to a place it knows best." She repeated the words as she ran. Her body was taking her to somewhere, somewhere she knew best. She felt her legs stop her. She opened her eyes and looked at where she was. Quickly saying the password, she stepped into a dark Gryffindor common room. Nobody was there, so she accended the steps to the boy's dorms. She knocked gently on a door, and a tall guy answered. She recognized him as Amos Diggory, and well, she considered him a jerk.
"Excuse me," She said, her heart pounding in her chest. "Which dorm is Sirius Black's?"
To her surprise, he didn't say anything about her being there. Instead he lead her down to a dorm and knocked loudly.
"Chick escort service for Sirius Black." He said loudly, a teasing smile on his face.
"Shut up," She grumbled. Suddenly the door opened and Sirius answered.
"What kind of joke is-Oh, hello Meilin. What are you doing here?" He asked, concern in voice.
Meilin couldn't help it. She broke down crying.
On soundtrack, The Josie and The Pussycats soundtrack, the I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Soundtrack, and Blessid Union of Souls cd, any others who I borrow songs from.. and the songs Can't Fight the Moonlight and I Do Love You. The charicters mostly belong to J.K Rowling. A few belong to myself. The names belong to whoever created them. The quotes I borrowed from TV belong to their original writers/qouters whatever!!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay people, this is (as you can tell) about the Marauders. This takes place in their sixth and seventh years. There is a traitor in the midst of the Marauders, but who is it? This will take some abrupt turns later on, and the traitor isn't who you would expect. It will get better later, I promise!!! This is my first attempt at writing a Harry Potter fanfic, so cut me some slack. I am more well known for my Tenchi Muyo fanfics . . . Anyway, this is a four part story, so please enjoy!!!
AUTHOR'S NOTE 2: Sorry it took so long for me to post this! I've been checking out a real "haunted" house with my friend, Sara. Too bad it's been knocked down... I'm going back tommorrow and checking it out more. After all, I want to check it out because it has something to do with the end of this story, along with the graveyard that's in our neighborhood from the 1850's. I'm trying to become a more experienced and better writer by actually having seen my setting. It will help me make the ending A LOT better!!
WARNING: THIS IS GETTING A LITTLE DARK!!!
Chapter 9: Murder By Night
"Yes!" Meilin cried. At last it was ready. She burst through the doors of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom and ran towards the direction of Gryffindor Tower.
"It's finished!" She panted, bursting into the common room, where Sirius, James, Peter, Remus, Lily, Shampoo, and Selena were all enjoying themselves playing cards. They looked up and a smile crossed on Meilin's face.
"Planning on becoming an unregistered animangi? Tisk, tisk. Perhaps I should tell Professor McGonagall?" A soft, dark voice said from atop the stairs leading to the girl's dorm.
"Rebia, What's going on down there?" Another voice called from inside another dorm.
"Nothing." Rebia muttered, then descended down the stairs. "You know, she already knows I'm an animangi." Rebia smiled, an evil, crazed smile. "Want proof? I'll show you." Rebia glowed, and strangely began to shrink. She changed into a small dog, but then, it wasn't a dog. It was more like... a jackal. Meilin gasped. It was a wonder Rebia looked so much like a jackal. The small canine's ears twitched, sensing every movement and sound. The nose twitched also, as if it had never been aware of so many different smells. The mouth was twisted in what looked like a smile, but when Meilin looked closer, it was growling. And it wasn't just growling at them all, it was growling at Sirius. The growl changed into a snarl and it stood up, coming up a little higher than Meilin's knees. But there was one thing that did make up for it's size; and that was it teeth.
"Rebia! Rebia, Where-" A voice stopped at the stairs. "Oh, um..." Celestina cleared her throat. "Rebia, leave them alone and come here!" She called down the stairs. Rebia turned her head and bounded up the stairs and out of sight, into Celestina's dorm. The look on Peter's face suggested he could kiss her about now.
"Meilin, Are you okay?" Sirius asked cautiously. Meilin noticed she was breathing a little harder than normal. She exchanged a look with Shampoo and nodded.
"Yeah, You looked like you were going to pass out again." Remus agreed.
Changing the subject, Meilin forced a smile. "Anyway, It's done."
"Yes!" Peter and James exchanged whoops of joy and accidentally slammed into each other. Selena laughed at them, pulling Peter up.
"Let's meet tonight at 9:00 in Myrtle's bathroom. Who wants to try it out first?" James asked, looking around.
"I already tried it." Meilin said quietly.
Shampoo got that look she always got when Meilin did something she didn't approve of. Meilin just shrugged her off.
"What did you turn into?" Peter asked excitedly.
"A..." A smile came to her lips as she prolonged the silence. "Dragon." Shampoo snorted. Lily gasped. James looked a little surprised. Peter didn't look the least bit amused. Remus rolled his eyes and went back to pick up the cards. Sirius' look was unreadable. This puzzled Meilin. What can he be thinking? she thought. I bet he doesn't like me... A wave of panic crossed her mind.
"I better go," She said quickly, running out of the common room before anyone could stop her. She walked slowly and silently towards her common room, across the school. She entered and sank into a puffy armchair. Her thoughts were like a waterfall in her mind, all coming and going quickly, as though caught in a fast current.
"Meilin?" A soft voice from upstairs startled Meilin.
"Yes Missy?" Meilin asked, turning around.
"How come you never want to talk to me anymore? I mean, it's always like 'No, I'm going to meet Sirius. I don't want to talk to you now.' and 'Get me this, get me that, I'm too busy, I don't want to hang out.'" Meilin could hear a faint trace of tears in Missy's voice. She was right. She had been rather mean to Missy lately.
"I'm sorry-" She started but Missy cut in again.
"No, I don't want to hear it. You aren't the least bit sorry, and you know it." Missy stormed off, leaving Meilin alone in the common room. She sighed. She wasn't having a good day. She climbed up the stairs and changed into a pair of pajamas. She lay down on her bed, pulling the covers above her head. She fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.
******
Meilin was awoke rudely by somebody shaking her.
"What...?" She forced her eyes open.
"It's almost nine! We've got to go!" Shampoo continued shaking her. She looked around. All of the girls we're doing their own separate things, including Missy, who was sitting in a circle of candles. She was chanting and rocking back and forth, making the flames flicker. All of the girls (except Missy) seemed to be getting ready to go somewhere. Shampoo grabbed Meilin's wrist and dragged her out the door and straight to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. All of the rest of the group was there, waiting eagerly. The thought of Missy was pulled out of Meilin's head as she was caught up in the excitement.
"And now, Who will be the first to attempt the unknown?" Meilin asked in her best magician's assistant voice.
James outbeat them all, jumping forward and almost tripping over Peter. She took out a small wine goblet and placed it in James' hands. She picked up the ladle and placed some of the warm potion into the goblet. James' eyes glowed with excitement as he watched her pour every last drop into the goblet. "Girl," He said before he drank the potion. "You need to work in a casino; You'd be everyone's good luck charm." He let out a cry of joy and drank the potion. They all backed up as he got bigger. When he was done transforming, he had turned into a stag.
"Umm... James, I think you better turn back now." Selena took another step back and stepped into a puddle on the floor. James turned back and a grin was on his face.
"Meilin, I could kiss you!" He said.
"I suggest you don't." Meilin said. "Next," She grabbed the goblet from James and gave it to Sirius. After a second, she pulled it away from him.
"What?" He asked.
"I won't give it to you unless..." A smile crossed her face.
"Oh, c'mon Meilin, that was ages ago."
"No promise, No animangi." She smirked.
"Okay, I promise. Now give me that goblet."
"Good boy." There was a hint of devilish nature in her voice. She handed him back the goblet, and liked James, filled it with every last drop from the ladle. Sirius drank it and it took a moment for it to take affect. When he was done changing, he was a huge, black dog.
"Oh so cute!" Meilin attacked him, squeezing him around the neck.
"Meilin, I think he can't breath." Shampoo said coolly.
"Oh... Sorry." Meilin blushed and stood up. Selena was sitting on the floor, picking fuzz off of her pajamas and talking quietly to Peter.
"Knock it off, lovebirds. Peter, you're next." James said as Sirius changed back with a pop. Peter stood up and took a deep breath. He drank the warm potion, and with a pop, became a small, tiny rat. James knocked him into the air as Shampoo lunged, ready to kill. She meowed and leaped again, and this time, landed on a dizzy Peter. He had changed back in the nick of time. Shampoo let out a disappointed meow as she jumped back up on her perch on the stall door. Selena let out a shuddering breath and took the goblet. Her reflection shown in the purple liquid. She gulped it down in one gulp, but nothing happened.
"Hmm... I wonder what's wrong..." Meilin started leafing through the book again.
"No, it's okay. I already learned how to do it." Selena counterclaimed.
"You couldn't have." Meilin cried out. "Oh, there has to be some other way..." She flipped rapidly through the pages, and found nothing. "Selena, I'm sorry, but you just weren't meant to be an animangi." And Meilin did look sorry.
"Okay, fine." Selena backed towards the door. "Good-bye." She let the door close on it's own, but to Meilin it was as if she had slammed it. She let all the guys file out before she stopped Sirius.
"Remember, You said you wouldn't tell about that." She gave him a serious look.
"Okay, I solemnly swear I won't tell anyone about that trick I played on you where you fell over in the mud and came back into the castle and Filch told you off."
"Sirius!"
"Okay, I'm joking."
"Goodnight, Sirius."
"Goodnight, Meilin." Before Meilin could think about it, She kissed him on the cheek. Before he said anything, she ran after Shampoo. They walked together, laughing and talking, but at the same time, feeling sorry for Selena. As they walked into the common room, everyone was in an uproar.
"What's going on?" Meilin asked another Ravenclaw girl. She was a rather large fifth year.
"I don't know, Meilin." She had a clipped accent that really stood out. "But something happened in your dorm."
Meilin's attention had been pulled from the girl and directed to Rebia. Was that a smile? Unmistakably, Rebia was smiling as she turned around and went back into her own dorm. Meilin and Shampoo pushed their way to the top of the stairs, and finally made it to their dorm. Right outside the door Angel and Misty were crying and Stephanie was trying to hold back tears.
"What's wrong?" Shampoo asked.
"It's Missy," Stephanie cried. "She's been murdered."
Meilin's breath caught in her throat. "You're joking," She said. "She can't possibly be dead." She pushed everyone out of the way. Rachel was standing over by Missy's bed, which had scorch marks. Clearly the candles had burnt her bed when she had been dragged ... or whatever else might have happened.
"What do we do Meilin?" Rachel sobbed.
Meilin looked around the room, which had been trashed. Stephanie was right, she would have had to been murdered. The rest of the beds had been slashed to pieces. Meilin looked around. The teachers didn't know yet, so the body still had to be around. She noticed blood stains on the floor, which led over to the corner of the room.
"Oh my God..." Meilin's voice was almost a squeak.
"What?" Shampoo asked as she climbed over the debre and aftermath of their room.
There, under a pile of feathers and what was left of a pillow, was the body of Missy. There was no blood on the body, but it looked as if whatever had done this had ... drank it? No, thought Meilin, no... It's all my fault.
"Somebody go get a teacher. NOW." Rachel rushed out of the room and went to find a teacher.
Clearly whoever had killed Missy had ripped open her throat.
"It's all my fault." Meilin cried out as she turned to Shampoo. "It's all my fault!"
"Don't talk like that." Shampoo said, grasping her shoulders.
"You don't understand. It's all my fault!" She broke free of Shampoo's grasp and ran, blindly to wherever her legs would take her. She closed her eyes as she ran, letting her body taking her wherever it was going. She remembered something that she heard a long time ago, written upon the doors of some sacred tomb. A sacred tomb she had never been in.
"My heart is stolen forth and taken to a place it knows best." She repeated the words as she ran. Her body was taking her to somewhere, somewhere she knew best. She felt her legs stop her. She opened her eyes and looked at where she was. Quickly saying the password, she stepped into a dark Gryffindor common room. Nobody was there, so she accended the steps to the boy's dorms. She knocked gently on a door, and a tall guy answered. She recognized him as Amos Diggory, and well, she considered him a jerk.
"Excuse me," She said, her heart pounding in her chest. "Which dorm is Sirius Black's?"
To her surprise, he didn't say anything about her being there. Instead he lead her down to a dorm and knocked loudly.
"Chick escort service for Sirius Black." He said loudly, a teasing smile on his face.
"Shut up," She grumbled. Suddenly the door opened and Sirius answered.
"What kind of joke is-Oh, hello Meilin. What are you doing here?" He asked, concern in voice.
Meilin couldn't help it. She broke down crying.
