Precious Metal 4
by Katerina *Elise
A/N- Hi, everybody! Here's the next part. Kudos to my
betareaders, Megan and MountainDewChika. I luff ya'll!
Happy ficcing!!!
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Chapter Four: The Transformation
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
"You ready, Hermione?" Remus asked.
"As ready as I'm going to be!'' She replied
nervously. ''Are you sure you're ready to do the charms
and the transfiguration?"
Remus nodded and Hermione nervously continued.
''So, what are you going to turn me into?''
He laughed heartily. "I guess that's just one
more thing that they don't teach you in books. I don't
choose."
Hermione stared at him. ''What do you mean?
Then who does?''
Remus grinned again and handed her a flask of
potion. ''Just drink the potion and then you'll
understand.''
''But, but-'' She said, taking the potion from
his outstretched hand.
''You'll be fine. Just relax. You're going to
be out for about an hour and I'm going to be watching
you the whole time.'' He put his arm around her
shoulders. ''Drink up, honey. You're going to want
some time with your new form.''
Hermione sighed, looked at Remus, then closed
her eyes and downed the potion.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Hermione was falling, floating madly through a
deep darkness. Sounds echoed as she slowed and finally
came to rest on solid (if rather squishy) ground.
'Well, *there* you are. What took you so long?'
A soft voice drifted around her.
"Where am I?'' She asked, spinning around,
watching the darkness turn into a forest glen. ''Who
are you?''
'Oh, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself.'
There was a noise like a throat being cleared. 'I am
*you,* you see?'
''Oh, well, hi- wait, what did you say?''
'I am you. Well, I am the you that knows you
best. I am your mind. I am your knowledge, your fears,
your imagination, your heart.' The voice seemed to
smile. 'Even though it's not really yours anymore.'
''It isn't?'' Hermione asked, surprised and
amazed at the same time.
'Nope. I bet you didn't know that.' The voice
grew closer to her and whispered in her ear. 'You
haven't even figured out who it is yet, have you?'
The voice sighed, in front of her this time.
'Well, it's a good thing you're so much alike. You're
going to be spending a lot of time together soon, and
some of it's not going to be pretty.
'But... You're not here for a lecture. Let's
get cracking.'
The voice seemed to be circling her now.
'You're brave, yet timid. Loyal, yet secretive. Tender,
yet fierce. You are passionate, yet you are holding back.
And I was right... Very much in love.
'Yes, the form I have chosen for you is just
perfect. I suppose it will be quite a shock to you if
you don't know your own heart.'
The forest faded into oblivion and the voice was
silent. The last sound she heard was the baying of a
wolf to its mother-goddess, the moon.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Remus stood back on his heels. He had spent
about fifteen minutes on the many spells and trans-
figuration techniques that it took to turn someone into
an Animagus.
There were many ways to make the transformation
go wrong, and the worst was if the spells or wand motions
went wrong. Which is why Remus had spent fifteen minutes
on four minutes of spells.
\\It's not that you *like* her or anything. You
just don't want anything to bad to happen to Hermione.\\
he thought.
\\Miss Granger,\\ he told himself. \\Not
Hermione. You can't call her by her first name. People
may get ideas. But what have I ever cared about giving
people ideas?\\
A small groan came from Hermione's throat, and
Remus watched in almost unbearable anticipation while
her body morphed and shifted into its new form. Bone
and sinew popped and gradually settled into the second
shape they would have to accommodate.
The first shift was always the worst, Remus
remembered. It had been the worst with James and Sirius,
but had been almost awful with Peter. He couldn't help
but smile at the memory of that pudgy boy being squeezed
into a tiny rat's body. It would have made him laugh if
he didn't remember how much that 'rat' had betrayed him.
How he had betrayed them all.
He shook his head. \\Don't even think about it,
Remus. It's not important anymore. Just worry about
Hermione.\\
Suddenly, there was a flash, and Hermione lay
before him in all her muscular beauty. Remus quickly
transformed into his own Animagus form, a large golden
wolf.
She was waking up. She opened her eyes. When
she saw Remus, she tensed visibly and bared her teeth
malevolently at him.
**Who are you?** She growled.
**It's all right!!** Remus thought-spoke to her.
**It's me!**
She stopped growling and sniffed the air, cocking
her head to one side. **Remus? I didn't know you were
an Animagus.**
The golden wolf parted his lips in what could only
be described as a smile. **Werewolves are natural Animagi.
It's in the blood.**
She jumped down from the couch and he circled
her. **You have a beautiful form, Hermione.**
She was extremely excited. **What am I?**
He jerked his bright head to a large mirror on
the wall. **Go and look for yourself.**
She crossed the room and looked into the mirror.
What she saw WAS beautiful.
Hermione was a wolf, almost exactly like Remus
except smaller and silver. She looked like Christmas
snow covered in tinsel and diamonds. Her eyes were a
shade of blue that matched no other, pale and clear.
The only word that could describe it would be... well,
blue.
Remus came up behind her and nuzzled her
shoulder with his nose. **You really are beautiful.
In both forms.**
She sighed. He was so sweet to her.
/Quite a surprise if you don't know your own
heart./ Her mind whispered. She spun around. **How
do I become human again?**
**What, bored of your new form so soon?** He
chuckled with a betraying feral grin. **Just imagine
yourself as you were and you will become so.**
Simultaneously, the two returned to their
natural forms. Hermione stood there for a moment and
suddenly the magnitude of what she had done hit her.
She rushed over to Remus and hugged him tightly. "I
did it! I'm an Animagi!"
On a whim, she kissed him persuasively on the
mouth. A feeling like Remus had never felt ran up and
down his spine-a belonging. He kissed her back,
deepening it slowly and passionately. He pulled back
and wrapped his arms around her waist, both of them
laughing as he swung her around and around.
Finally, after much celebration, they sat down,
the kiss very much on both of their minds.
"Hermione, you need a nickname." Remus grinned
and thought. "How about... Starlight?"
"It's perfect, Professor!" She exclaimed.
"Call me Moony." He answered, looking into her
eyes intently.
"Alright... Moony." She answered. //You really
are a strange person, Remus J. Lupin.//
Remus laughed. "I know I'm strange, Hermione.
It's one of my best qualities. And my middle name is
Jaden."
"Remus, how did you do that?" Hermione looked
at him with a queer expression on her face.
"Do what?"
"You... I think you read my thoughts." Her
eyes blasted confusion out at him.
\\I read her thoughts?\\ He thought.
"Yes, you did! And what I want to know is how
you did it!"
"How in the he-" he sputtered. "I didn't say
anything!"
"Yes, you did! You said 'I heard her
thoughts'!" Hermione stated indignantly.
Remus breathed in a deep breath. "I think we
need to pay a visit to Professor Dumbledore."
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
TBC
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
A/N- Wonderful, wonderful! I got the next part
up!!! Lovely, lovely! I'm so happy! There are only
two dark spots to my fanfiction workings. One, I
started school this past Thursday and am taking
Advanced Chem, Mississippi Studies, Advanced Spanish,
and Advanced Biology. Stinks, dudn't it? And
secondly, I only have one review for a story that I
posted... I think I'm going to end up taking it
down... But i loved it so much! Everyone, I think
that 'Perhaps' is going to be taken down by the end
of the week... So, if you read it, go review so I
can write continuations. I mean, no one wants to
work on a story that doesn't get even five reviews!
Oh well... Anyway, Kudos to my reviewers,
Midnight Dove, Corina (Mako) Borsuk, ~*^baby-g^*~,
The Wolf Child, Alishandr, Tracy, Agent FAB,
Princess_Zelda, JessiCA, In Fair Verona, Veronica James,
Kandie, Michelle, Lana Riddle, Anna Marie, kiki,
witchy_grrl, Azrael, AJ, FoReVeR uNkNoWn, Clavel,
MountainDewChika, Kamikazee, and Saavik.
dang... that's quite a bit, actually! oh well,
please don't stone me if i don't post soon,
school is a killer!
Luff you all!
~Katerina*Elise
by Katerina *Elise
A/N- Hi, everybody! Here's the next part. Kudos to my
betareaders, Megan and MountainDewChika. I luff ya'll!
Happy ficcing!!!
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Chapter Four: The Transformation
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
"You ready, Hermione?" Remus asked.
"As ready as I'm going to be!'' She replied
nervously. ''Are you sure you're ready to do the charms
and the transfiguration?"
Remus nodded and Hermione nervously continued.
''So, what are you going to turn me into?''
He laughed heartily. "I guess that's just one
more thing that they don't teach you in books. I don't
choose."
Hermione stared at him. ''What do you mean?
Then who does?''
Remus grinned again and handed her a flask of
potion. ''Just drink the potion and then you'll
understand.''
''But, but-'' She said, taking the potion from
his outstretched hand.
''You'll be fine. Just relax. You're going to
be out for about an hour and I'm going to be watching
you the whole time.'' He put his arm around her
shoulders. ''Drink up, honey. You're going to want
some time with your new form.''
Hermione sighed, looked at Remus, then closed
her eyes and downed the potion.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Hermione was falling, floating madly through a
deep darkness. Sounds echoed as she slowed and finally
came to rest on solid (if rather squishy) ground.
'Well, *there* you are. What took you so long?'
A soft voice drifted around her.
"Where am I?'' She asked, spinning around,
watching the darkness turn into a forest glen. ''Who
are you?''
'Oh, sorry. I forgot to introduce myself.'
There was a noise like a throat being cleared. 'I am
*you,* you see?'
''Oh, well, hi- wait, what did you say?''
'I am you. Well, I am the you that knows you
best. I am your mind. I am your knowledge, your fears,
your imagination, your heart.' The voice seemed to
smile. 'Even though it's not really yours anymore.'
''It isn't?'' Hermione asked, surprised and
amazed at the same time.
'Nope. I bet you didn't know that.' The voice
grew closer to her and whispered in her ear. 'You
haven't even figured out who it is yet, have you?'
The voice sighed, in front of her this time.
'Well, it's a good thing you're so much alike. You're
going to be spending a lot of time together soon, and
some of it's not going to be pretty.
'But... You're not here for a lecture. Let's
get cracking.'
The voice seemed to be circling her now.
'You're brave, yet timid. Loyal, yet secretive. Tender,
yet fierce. You are passionate, yet you are holding back.
And I was right... Very much in love.
'Yes, the form I have chosen for you is just
perfect. I suppose it will be quite a shock to you if
you don't know your own heart.'
The forest faded into oblivion and the voice was
silent. The last sound she heard was the baying of a
wolf to its mother-goddess, the moon.
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
Remus stood back on his heels. He had spent
about fifteen minutes on the many spells and trans-
figuration techniques that it took to turn someone into
an Animagus.
There were many ways to make the transformation
go wrong, and the worst was if the spells or wand motions
went wrong. Which is why Remus had spent fifteen minutes
on four minutes of spells.
\\It's not that you *like* her or anything. You
just don't want anything to bad to happen to Hermione.\\
he thought.
\\Miss Granger,\\ he told himself. \\Not
Hermione. You can't call her by her first name. People
may get ideas. But what have I ever cared about giving
people ideas?\\
A small groan came from Hermione's throat, and
Remus watched in almost unbearable anticipation while
her body morphed and shifted into its new form. Bone
and sinew popped and gradually settled into the second
shape they would have to accommodate.
The first shift was always the worst, Remus
remembered. It had been the worst with James and Sirius,
but had been almost awful with Peter. He couldn't help
but smile at the memory of that pudgy boy being squeezed
into a tiny rat's body. It would have made him laugh if
he didn't remember how much that 'rat' had betrayed him.
How he had betrayed them all.
He shook his head. \\Don't even think about it,
Remus. It's not important anymore. Just worry about
Hermione.\\
Suddenly, there was a flash, and Hermione lay
before him in all her muscular beauty. Remus quickly
transformed into his own Animagus form, a large golden
wolf.
She was waking up. She opened her eyes. When
she saw Remus, she tensed visibly and bared her teeth
malevolently at him.
**Who are you?** She growled.
**It's all right!!** Remus thought-spoke to her.
**It's me!**
She stopped growling and sniffed the air, cocking
her head to one side. **Remus? I didn't know you were
an Animagus.**
The golden wolf parted his lips in what could only
be described as a smile. **Werewolves are natural Animagi.
It's in the blood.**
She jumped down from the couch and he circled
her. **You have a beautiful form, Hermione.**
She was extremely excited. **What am I?**
He jerked his bright head to a large mirror on
the wall. **Go and look for yourself.**
She crossed the room and looked into the mirror.
What she saw WAS beautiful.
Hermione was a wolf, almost exactly like Remus
except smaller and silver. She looked like Christmas
snow covered in tinsel and diamonds. Her eyes were a
shade of blue that matched no other, pale and clear.
The only word that could describe it would be... well,
blue.
Remus came up behind her and nuzzled her
shoulder with his nose. **You really are beautiful.
In both forms.**
She sighed. He was so sweet to her.
/Quite a surprise if you don't know your own
heart./ Her mind whispered. She spun around. **How
do I become human again?**
**What, bored of your new form so soon?** He
chuckled with a betraying feral grin. **Just imagine
yourself as you were and you will become so.**
Simultaneously, the two returned to their
natural forms. Hermione stood there for a moment and
suddenly the magnitude of what she had done hit her.
She rushed over to Remus and hugged him tightly. "I
did it! I'm an Animagi!"
On a whim, she kissed him persuasively on the
mouth. A feeling like Remus had never felt ran up and
down his spine-a belonging. He kissed her back,
deepening it slowly and passionately. He pulled back
and wrapped his arms around her waist, both of them
laughing as he swung her around and around.
Finally, after much celebration, they sat down,
the kiss very much on both of their minds.
"Hermione, you need a nickname." Remus grinned
and thought. "How about... Starlight?"
"It's perfect, Professor!" She exclaimed.
"Call me Moony." He answered, looking into her
eyes intently.
"Alright... Moony." She answered. //You really
are a strange person, Remus J. Lupin.//
Remus laughed. "I know I'm strange, Hermione.
It's one of my best qualities. And my middle name is
Jaden."
"Remus, how did you do that?" Hermione looked
at him with a queer expression on her face.
"Do what?"
"You... I think you read my thoughts." Her
eyes blasted confusion out at him.
\\I read her thoughts?\\ He thought.
"Yes, you did! And what I want to know is how
you did it!"
"How in the he-" he sputtered. "I didn't say
anything!"
"Yes, you did! You said 'I heard her
thoughts'!" Hermione stated indignantly.
Remus breathed in a deep breath. "I think we
need to pay a visit to Professor Dumbledore."
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
TBC
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)
A/N- Wonderful, wonderful! I got the next part
up!!! Lovely, lovely! I'm so happy! There are only
two dark spots to my fanfiction workings. One, I
started school this past Thursday and am taking
Advanced Chem, Mississippi Studies, Advanced Spanish,
and Advanced Biology. Stinks, dudn't it? And
secondly, I only have one review for a story that I
posted... I think I'm going to end up taking it
down... But i loved it so much! Everyone, I think
that 'Perhaps' is going to be taken down by the end
of the week... So, if you read it, go review so I
can write continuations. I mean, no one wants to
work on a story that doesn't get even five reviews!
Oh well... Anyway, Kudos to my reviewers,
Midnight Dove, Corina (Mako) Borsuk, ~*^baby-g^*~,
The Wolf Child, Alishandr, Tracy, Agent FAB,
Princess_Zelda, JessiCA, In Fair Verona, Veronica James,
Kandie, Michelle, Lana Riddle, Anna Marie, kiki,
witchy_grrl, Azrael, AJ, FoReVeR uNkNoWn, Clavel,
MountainDewChika, Kamikazee, and Saavik.
dang... that's quite a bit, actually! oh well,
please don't stone me if i don't post soon,
school is a killer!
Luff you all!
~Katerina*Elise