Lycanthropy
A/N: It was humorous, because on the night I was writing Remus' transformation, just as I finished, LeAnn Rimes' "Can't Fight The Moonlight" came on at about 4:00 a.m.
Disclaimer: Lynn and Allen Alkaiser are the only characters that belong to me in this story.
Lycanthropy: The ability to change into a werewolf
or any other animal.
Sirius glanced over at his friend worriedly.
Remus was panting softly, his face flushed, and his normally somber amber eyes suddenly pulsing with a steadily increasing glow. He had a glaze of sweat on his forehead and he hadn't touched his food.
At the Gryffindor table, Allen was in a similar state, only he was viciously attacking his food with his fork, devouring it ravenously. His face was, likewise, flushed and his eyes were glowing. Harry and Ron were throwing each other odd glances from across their famished acquaintance.
Meanwhile, to one side of the Gryffindor table, Lynn was gently picking at her food, her eyes slowly growing brighter as the moon started to rise. She whimpered inaudibly and across the Great Hall, her brother's eyes met hers.
They both excused themselves from the table and left to go wait just outside the doors of the Great Hall. The eyes of three professors, Lupin, Sinistra, and McGonagall trailed them, and the first got up and followed them out of the banquet hall.
The Alkaisers were waiting for him outside, and in a few moments, they were joined by professors McGonagall and Sinistra.
"Are you sure you're all right with this, Remus?" asked Sylvia, walking behind Lynn and gently gripping the girl's shoulders protectively. The witch held a great deal of responsibility for the well-being of the students in her house, true, but Remus was her friends and she wanted to make sure she received his consent.
Remus nodded, only managing to give her a weak smile.
Lynn and Allen glanced at each other and Remus noticed that they were clutching each other's hands behind their backs.
He raised his ever-brightening eyes toward the Deputy Headmistress.
"I'm sure about this, Minerva," he said, his voice a bit hoarse.
He gave the two teenagers a small smile which only Lynn returned.
"It's their first time in the castle, after all."
The Gryffindor Head nodded and the Astronomy professor released her student's shoulders.
Sighing, the two professors each looked at their students then gave Remus a nod.
He folded his hands behind his jet-colored robes and peered down at the two flushed students whose eyes were getting brighter and brighter by the moment.
They were being very quiet, though whether this was their nature or because this was how they got during the full moon, he couldn't tell.
"Well," he said, in the same gruff voice. "Off we go, then" and he turned on his heel and swept off, the two students following close behind, their hands now unclasped. Lynn followed directly after Lupin while Allen drew in a short distance behind.
The transformations weren't what he expected at all.
They were all locked in Remus' office, the furniture safely outside the room lit only by the light of the full moon.
He soon could figure out which was the younger, or at least less powerful lycanthrope.
Remus felt his heart wrench as the younger male let out an anguished scream. His back arched and his figure grew out, hair sprouting all over his body, his ears and nose lengthening, teeth gnashing, snapping mercilessly at something which only he could see…
Remus watched, both horror and pity in his glowing eyes when a painful spasm racked through his own body. He gasped, opening his eyes just in time to see coppery-colored fur spread over Lynn's own body.
Fight it… some instinct in Remus told him. Fight it the transformation…
But it was pointless, he knew, and he allowed himself to drop down on all fours onto the dark green carpet, another tremor wrenching its way up his spine, forcing a gasp on its way out.
He looked up, wheezing for breath, suddenly taken by surprise to see Lynn, not growing, but seeming to shrink down into her robes. Allen, meanwhile, was laying down, his robes behind him, a grey wolf, alternating glances between Remus and his sister.
Remus held a hand in front of his face, seeing dark brown fur sprout on it and he cried out, his own spine arching, feeling his nose and ears lengthening, his robes, having been left unbuttoned, falling off as his hands and feet transformed into paws, his mouth into a long snout.
When he opened his eyes, now transformed, he tilted his head in surprise and blink when he saw a bundle of robes in front of him.
He turned his head over to the grey wolf on his left who proceeded to walk over and, taking Lynn's robes in his mouth, gently pulled them back to reveal the shape of a medium-sized, copper-colored fox, sitting in the mass of cloth. Remus blinked, seeing the creature scratch its ear casually.
Remus sat down and caught the fox giving her brother something like a grateful look for relieving her of the unnecessary.
Turning from each other, the siblings settled their eyes upon Remus who suddenly stiffened and backed away warily.
A terrible thought occurred to him that Snape might not have prepared a Wolfsbane potion for the two students.
His worries were suddenly erased when the vixen stole over to him and laid her head down on her paws, looking up at him as if to say, "Was this all you were worried about?"
The younger wolf merely glanced over them, turned away and looked out the window as if preferring to stay out of such affairs.
The moon was now rising slowly over the edge of the Forbidden Forest and Allen suddenly sat up straight and howled, snout pointed toward the moon. He was soon joined by Remus who let out a deep, piercing howl in comparison to Allen's low, but shallow-sounding one.
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In the morning, Remus woke up to find Lynn sleeping peacefully in between himself and Allen, both fully clothed.
Quite embarassed, he was suddenly glad he had fallen asleep with his robes over him and he stood up quietly, quickly fastening his robes over himself.
Out of the corner of his dimming eyes, he saw the girl shiver from the sudden lack of warmth and he conjured up a midnight blue blanket over her, letting it sink down and envelop her in its folds.
He covered his mouth in a quiet yawn and looked back down at the girl, suddenly remembering the previous night's transformation.
Funny, he thought to himself, looking at the girl curiously. Were-foxes aren't unheard of, but theyt are supposed to be very rare.
He'd have to go look the matter up somewhere. He was hardly up to asking Lynn about it.
Turning his attention back to her brother, he winced, Allen's anguished scream ringing in his head once again.
He fought, he mused to himself. The boy still tries to fight it, even after all these –
He stopped his thoughts there and wondered just how long they both had been victims of the curse
Now that he thought of it, it was not only strange that both siblings were lycanthropes, but that each had a different form of lycanthropy.
He made a mental note to look into that matter, also.
Remus winced suddenly, a wave of exhaustion passing over him. He allowed himself to sit down by the doorway, waiting for the two to wake up.
A/N: It's short, I know, but I haven't updated anything for a while and I don't want people to think I had died or something…