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"Sam are you sure this is the right way?" Remus asked nervously looking around.
Sam checked the map.
"Positive!" He said. "According to the map the campsites nearby. In fact the clearing should be just beyond the hill. Betcha we can see all the way to the village from here."
He was right there was the clearing at the top of the hill and as the sun began to set while Sam cooked dinner lights from the nearby town began to flicker on. After supper Sam began to set up his tent while Remus struggled with his own.
"Hey Remus want a hand?" Sam asked the pile of tent, which was his brother
"Yea!" Remus's voice said from under the tent "please?"
Not much later they had finally gotten both tents up Sam was poking at the fire keeping it burning while Remus roasted marshmallows.
"Hey Sam." Remus said breaking the silence
"Yea?" Sam said not breaking his stare into the flames.
"Could you tell me a story?"
"Me tell a story?" Sam said "oh Come on Rem I'm not good at telling stories, that's dads department."
"Come on just one. Tell me what dad's told you bout our family and stuff like that" Remus said staring at Sam with his sad puppy brown eyes.
Sam sighed
"Oh all right but don't sue me if its not all that great."
"Kay!" Remus said crawling into his tent and laying flat on his stomach watching his brother.
"Lets see." Sam started trying to remember the story that Charles always told him to get him to go to sleep. "Well thousands of years ago there wasn't as many witches and wizards as there are now. But one of the very few was Merlin. Hoping to save the magic he possessed. He decided to begin to train his young son Hawk in the magical arts. Hawk was barely a week into training when there came a knocking at Merlin's castle gate. Standing in the pouring rain was a boy the same age as Hawk. After inviting the boy inside to dry off the boy introduced himself, as Merlin's cousin's son Cameron Lupin he was hoping that, as Merlin's kin Merlin would take him in as an apprentice. Merlin explained to the boy that he was already training his son and couldn't take on any more apprentices. Cameron though disappointed offered to stay and work as a stable boy. Now Merlin was reluctant to have the boy stay just to work. But he wasn't sure what else he could do, however what Merlin did not expect was the fast friendship between Hawk and Cameron and though he was unsure if everything would work out Merlin agreed to take Cameron on as an apprentice. Merlin was overjoyed to discover that both boys easily surpassed him in talent." Sam paused to catch his breath he glanced over at his brother and then careful at the sky it had clouded over just after the sun had set.
"Come on don't stop!" Remus said wide-eyed
"Um yea where was I, oh yea. Merlin raised Cameron along side Hawk treating him like a son and Hawk and Cameron who where rarely seen without the other, acted as brothers. Then one night shortly before his 18th birthday, Cameron who was outside the castle walls after hearing strange noise. He had heard howling coming from the forest Cameron's curiosity overcame his teachers warning and he ventured into the forest."
"What's ventured?" Remus asked
"Means went into."
"Why didn't Cameron listen to Merlin? Why'd he go into the forest?"
Sam took a deep breath, he had asked his father the very same question and Charles had told him that no one in the family knew.
"No one knows." Sam said simply "anyways, inside the forest the howling turned to growls and suddenly out of no where a giant wolf appeared it attacked Cameron biting him on the arm it would have torn Cameron to shreds had Hawk who had ventured out in search of his best friend not come upon the scene and used a charm to drive the wolf away. With Hawk's help they made it back to the castle. Merlin had no time to be angry with his apprentices for Cameron was on the verge of bleeding to death. Merlin and the servants worked long into the night and even though he'd had a very close in counter with death Cameron lived. It was only afterwards while Cameron was resting that Merlin questioned Hawk on what had happened in the forest. Hawk told his father about the wolf. Merlin had heard stories of a creature that was human by day and wolf by night. He studied all day long and into the night. The wound had quickly become a scar; though only a few days had passed there was no infection and no signs of danger following it. Nearly a week after the attack, Cameron was back to his old self and the first day after he woke up went for a ride on his horse. Now Merlin watched Cameron closely fearful that something wasn't right. Stories began spreading through the villages of a giant wolf that killed livestock and anyone who dared venture into his path. All the stories seemed to point out that the attacks had been going on for months but where only during the full moon. Now Merlin had heard the stories, stories of a man that became a terrifying beast during the night of the full moon man named Lycaon. As the first full moon after the attack approached Merlin knowing he had no choice instructed that Cameron was to be locked in a windowless room and that no one in the castle under any circumstance was to unlock the door to the room no matter what they may hear. All in the castle questioned secretly Merlin's decisions but knew the wizard had to have his reasons and did not argue. Hawk however argued trying to get out of his father why he was locking his best friend up. Merlin refused to tell Hawk and put a sleeping enchantment on the boy because Merlin knew Hawk would try to free Cameron." Sam paused again adding another log to the fire. "Well the night came and the full moon shone down from the sky. Normally Merlin would have had both his apprentices up in the towers working on their astrology. But not this night, this night one was locked alone in a room and the other was deep asleep in his fathers study. Merlin took to the room next to Cameron and used an enchantment to allow himself to see through the wall into Cameron's room. Just as he feared the moment the full moon rose Cameron's body began to twitch he screamed in pain but his screams soon turned to mournful howls. His body began changing his face grew longer and grew hair. His hands curled up into his palms and sprouts of hair began forming. In an instant Cameron Lupin was gone and in his place was a large wolf. This wolf looked different from any other wolves Merlin had seen it was larger and moved differently unsure like. The wolf paced around the room near the door then without warning it attacked anything and everything that was in the room tearing at everything clawing madly at the door. This went on all night then as the moon finally sunk down the wolf to ceased it laid down calmly and just as before only in reverse began to transform back to a human. Cameron had no recollection of the previous night all he remembered was being locked in the room and the sudden pain that had ripped through him then all was blank."
The fire cracked Remus watched his brother wide eyed mouth open. He was gripping his bear tightly.
"So Cameron was a werewolf right!?" Remus asked
"Right the first werewolf of our family the only werewolf of the family." Sam said nodding. He reached to his neck and held the necklace given to him at birth. According to the traditions, the first-born son in the family was to wear the chain attached to the chain was a circle of metal of some sort inscribed on the circle was the initials C.R.L. No one knew what the initials stood for Charles hadn't known neither had Sam and Remus's grandfather Jasper. "Anyways Merlin began devoting half his life to continuing the boys training and the other half to figuring out a way to cure Cameron. Finally after years of testing just a month before Cameron's wedding Merlin concocted a potion that allowed Cameron to keep his mind when he transformed."
"What's keep his mind?" Remus asked
"Means he knew what was going on he only looked like a wolf but had a humans mind."
"Oh"
"So. As long as Cameron drank the potion the day before the full moon he kept his mind. A few years later Cameron's first son was born Merlin wasn't sure if the werewolf blood that Cameron possessed would be passed on to Cameron's children. So Peregrine was kept closely watched during the full moon, however he did not transform. But near his 5th birthday Merlin and Cameron decided that for Peregrine's own safety he was to be given the potion and kept with his father during the full moon. However the full moon came and Peregrine stayed human. Merlin and Cameron where overjoyed the werewolf blood hadn't been passed." Sam paused again for a breath then continued, "However one month later Peregrin glanced at the full moon and became the same terrifying monster his father had once become. This started more years of tests and studying on both Cameron and Merlin's part. They're study proved one thing, Peregrin had werewolf blood but was safe as long as he did not look at the full moon in anyway. Merlin hoped that the werewolf blood would eventually fade from the Lupin family but it did not it grew stronger. Cameron's daughter neither his granddaughter nor any other girls in the family have ever been affected by the werewolf gene they do carry it however.
Many year passed as they are today wizards outlive muggles and Cameron's great, great grandson opened a new door to the werewolf gene. With help from the aging Merlin Bane discovered that he could become a wolf just like that by just thinking about it. Merlin disappeared from sight a few years after this and word spread through the Wizarding world that he had been imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake, fearing that the same may happen to him or his family Hawk fled England for nearby Scotland leaving his estate and his friends. And Lupin's have continued in the Wizarding world living as wizards, knowing that one glance at the full moon can transform him into a terrifying monster." Sam finished.
He looked around and grinned as he saw Remus had already fallen fast asleep. Sam stood up and stretched he poured a bucket of water on the embers and crawled into his own tent. Quickly falling fast asleep.
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