Wolf and Fox
Author's Note: Thanks everybody who reviewed. I do hope to keep writing and finish this story. To someone who reviewed: I just made up their names; I didn't get them from anywhere but my head. Oh yeah, I forgot to put the disclaimer before, so here it is now:
DISCLAIMER: The setting and some characters and objects belong to J.K. Rowling, and I am not attempting to steal them. Please don't sue me.
Chapter 2: Pumpkin Juice and Potion
Alec and Vicki strode into the Great Hall for lunch. They had finished their classes and were definitely ready for a break. Alec headed for Gryffindor table, and Vicki seated herself at Slytherin. Without realizing the same thing was going through their twin's mind, Alec and Vicki both noticed their pumpkin juice had a reddish color to it.
"Katie, do you notice anything weird about my juice?" Vicki questioned the Slytherin sitting next to her, who was busy chatting to her friend.
"No, nothing." Katie said, barely looking.
"Oh well; it'll probably taste the same," Vicki said to herself, lifting the drink to take a swig.
At the Gryffindor table Alec was also pondering about his strange drink. He shrugged his shoulders and raised his glass.
Both drank deeply from their goblets. They choked. Vicki quickly set down her glass. It tasted horrible. Alec also set down his glass. He felt a strange prickling sensation. It was the same for Vicki. Both rose quickly and left the hall.
"What are you doing?" Vicki said to Alec, wondering why he had also left the hall.
"My pumpkin juice-,"
"Mine too!" Vicki cut him off. "What's going on?!?"
Alec had a grim look on his face. "I've drank potion before, and it felt just like that. Someone's poisoned us, Vicki."
"Now, I wonder who that could have been." Said a quiet voice from behind them.
Alec and Vicki whirled around. Snape was standing there, smirking all over his ugly face.
"It was you!" Vicki said, scowling.
"What have you put in our drinks?" Alec growled, his fists clenched.
"You know, unregistered Animagus get in big trouble with the ministry." Snape said silkily.
"Are you saying," Alec whispered, "that we're Animagus?"
"Yeah, I am," Snape said back, "but I think I'll let you dangle for a while before I let the headmaster know, he's sure to be pretty upset."
"You evil scumbag!" shouted Alec, turning red. "Wait a minute." Alec stopped. "That potion is supposed to be really complicated. How could a dunce like you have managed it?"
Snape's grin turned to a scowl. "Easily, I assure you."
"Yeah, right," Alec scoffed. "Prove it."
"Alright, then. You just have to crouch down and close your eyes. Then imagine yourself turning into the animal you most look like and imagine yourself as. You'll see that I'm telling the truth. Cheerio, wimps." He left.
"We better go to the Forbidden Forest or something, in case he's telling the truth," Vicki said sadly.
"Good idea, let's go. Everyone's still eating," Alec said back.
They ran together out the huge double doors of the castle, down the stone steps and toward the Forbidden Forest. They reached the edge of the trees.
"Alright, let's do it." Alec said.
They both crouched down.
"The animal I most look like and imagine myself as?" Vicki thought. "Red hair, quiet…a fox!"
"An animal like me," Alec wondered. "Let's think. I don't stand for teasing and I'll fight If I need to, a bit of a loner… I know, a wolf."
Vicki thought about turning into a fox. She imagined her legs shortening, and sprouting ears and red fur. She was imagining so hard that she could almost feel her nose elongating and her eyes sharpening. But she was only imagining, it couldn't really be happening. She opened her eyes. For some reason she felt on extra alert. She turned toward Alec. "Great! We're not-…"
But instead of Alec standing there, it was a huge grey and brown animal. A wolf.
She looked at herself. She was covered in reddish fur. So she hadn't been imagining, the changing was real.
