I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!

My computer has been fixed and I'm back in business, no more misusing the I.T. resources at school, no more bothering Birdie to type chapters for me, no more doing homework instead of Fanfiction (Wait, is that a bad thing?)

Hi Birdie! You won't have to type any more chapters!

Hee hee, I still remember the look you gave me when you realised I had filled an entire notebook with this chapter!

Yay! Happy happy happy! Lalalalalala

Birdie: Yay. Can we proceed?

Reaper: A 'congratulations' would have done, but since you asked... Well I may be having the time of my life, but Remus sure isn't! But what's this? A RESCUE? Wow! Omigod! No way! The poor little werewolves are being rescued!

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Chapter... (Umm can someone please CONFIRM what chapter this is!)

: Peace, It was the owl that shrieked. (Quote)

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The initial joy of Isabelle and Will's engagement had dimmed slightly, and now everyone was desperately trying to do something before Remus was horribly killed.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much anyone could do; they just had to keep hoping

"And if that doesn't work we can wait till the next full moon and tear ourselves apart" Adam was saying

"Well we can't rule out mass suicide, now can we?" Daniel said, mock- cheerfully

"Not in front of the children Daniel" Said Mary for the umpteenth millionth time that week.

"What's sui, suicui- suicicide?" asked Maddy

Mary glared.

Remus laughed to himself, poor Mary, she tries so hard.

"Never-mind-about-that-Maddy" said Adam very quickly, trying desperately to get back on Mary's good side (and failing miserably)

"If you-" Mary began, she never finished.

At that moment the door swung open. The entire room tensed, and not irrationally, seeing what had happened when that door opened before.

The door was a strange symbol in the room, the prisoners longed for it, yet they feared it as well. On one hand, they desperately wanted to get out that door and back to their friends or family, back to the freedom most of them had always taken for granted. On the other hand, when the door opened it was usually to let something terrible in, not to let them out, and even then, beyond the door and the walls of wherever they were, was a world that mostly hated and feared them, a hate they couldn't hope to escape from.

Well, it wouldn't hurt to try.

They needn't have worried; it was only agent Crockwell with a tray of food (probably punishment for interrupting Malfoy's fun)

Remus really didn't like this particular agent that much, who would?

"Venison and grouse today I hope" Said Toby playfully. Inevitably, it stated a chain reaction throughout the cells.

"BEER!" (Will)

"PIZZA!" (Isabelle)

"BERTIE BOTTS EVERY FLAVOUR BEANS!" (Daniel)

"SOFTMINTS AND APPLE TANGO!" (Theo*)

"SPINACH! BROCCOLI! BRUSSEL SPROUTS!" (Mary)

Everyone fell silent and stared at Mary rather oddly. Remus stifled a laugh. Before Mary gave her rather predictable explanation, he decided to destroy the others notions of getting a half-way decent meal (Though it pained him greatly, hee hee hee)

"No, I'm afraid It's mystery stew, reprocessed mashed potatoes and mushy peas" he said sadly. (Like they ever got anything else)

Oh, how he missed Molly's cooking!

"Awwww" said the group of unlikely friends, who apparently also missed Molly's cooking, not that any of them had ever met Molly of course.

"You know, if they want to keep us alive for study" Toby said thoughtfully "They should try not to poison us with this food"

"Toby!" Said Daniel disapprovingly "Where's your gratitude? Poor Lucius Malfoy probably spent all day slaving over a hot oven cooking that for us"

"He probably spilt some on his fluffy pink apron" added E.B

Everyone burst out laughing at the hilarious yet slightly disturbing mental image

"Look on the bright side," said Jenkin, startling them all, as the small boy was usually very quiet, having never met many wizards before, and being terribly shy.

"What's that?" asked Daniel

"No school!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah, No work!" said E.B

"No Madame Lloyd!" Continued Jenkin

"Madame Lloyd? You... you don't go to Park Neverton in Chelmsford, Essex** do you?" Asked Brittany worriedly

"How did you know?!" gasped Jenkin.

"We went there!" yelled Brittany "Me an' E.B!"

"Madame Lloyd is STILL teaching there?" asked E.B incredulously "She was a zillion years old when WE went there"

"What about Mrs. Iliffe?"***

E.B and Brittany gave a violent shudder.

CLING CLING!!

The sound echoed through the room, sounding like someone about to propose a toast.

All heads turned to Crockwell, who was banging a spoon on the side of one of the glasses like an African drum.

She had the look of utmost boredom on her face, she gave them a sullen 'I would rather be anywhere else than here' look which made-

Her face.

It seemed Crockwell had somehow removed several spots from her blotchy face, one was more noticeable than the rest, either that or it was just Tonks in disguise, come to rescue them

"Wotcher Remus!"

Obviously, it was the latter.

"Tonks?!" He cried, unable to believe it was possible.

"YES!!!" she exclaimed, running to his cell

"TONKS! WHAT THE-" He started his sentence but found himself unable to finish as the implications of his new situation set in.

Tonks was here, in disguise as one of the many lackeys of Lucius Malfoy, either part of some plan to rescue him, or entertaining a new occupation within the ministry.

It wasn't too hard to figure out which.

And if Tonks was here to rescue him... well, you didn't have to be a transfiguration professor to know what that meant.

/I might even get out of this alive/ he thought to himself with a small smile

"Did I miss some thing here?" asked E.B

"No time to explain!" said Tonks quickly. She had been reverting back to one of her other forms ever since Remus recognised her. Out of her robes she produced a set of keys, which the werewolves immediately realised were the keys that would unlock their cells.

"Hey an animagus!" yelled Toby

"No shit Sherlock!" Gasped Daniel, as Tonks swung open the door to his cell.

Tonks quickly set to work with the other cells, and soon the small passageway was filled with people.

"I take it she's a friend of yours?" asked Aaron

"Nympha-"

"IT'S TONKS! MY NAME'S TONKS!"

"Nymphadora Tonks" introduced Remus

"Every time, Remus, every time we meet someone new you find it necessary to- BUGGER ME! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU?!!!" She shrieked, having just noticed Remus's current state of health.

"Didn't Percy tell you?" asked Remus

"Wha- wh, oh yeah, he did didn't he?" she said still shaken by her friends condition "Hey, how'd you know that Percy came to the order?"

"Your here aren't you?" He smiled

"Oh... well, he wasn't our only source of information you know. You did good work with that old hag, Black-"

"Now now Tonks, Sirius isn't that bad..." He grinned

"Ha-ha" she ha'd "Glad to see these undesirable conditions haven't affected your sense of humour... Snape will be thrilled..."

"Snape? He's here?" Asked Remus, praying it was not so

"Oh yes, he was pretty adamant about coming, wanted to see you... haven't the foggiest why..."

"I bet I do," he muttered under his breath

"...Anyway, we also had another informant... Timothy Goodyer if I remem-"

"TIM!!!" Squealed Maddy

A drawling voice broke the heartfelt conversation.

"This is all wonderful, but can we get a move on?"

Though Remus hated to admit it, the joy of being free had to wait. They weren't out of the woods yet and right now the top priority was leaving the tiny room they had been imprisoned in for so long. Not really that long in real time but seeing what they'd all been through, it was too long. To finally escape would be indescribable; this must have been how Sirius felt when he had crossed the sea from Azkaban.

Poor Sirius, the two friends were going to have to have a long talk when this was all over.

They decided to leave then and there before a hoard of minions came upon them.

"Alright people," said Daniel "This is it, we will escape tonight or die trying! Tonks, I assume you'll be leading us to freedom?!"

"Ummm... well you could put it like that, but I-"

"Good. Right men... and women... tonight we take the road that will lead to liberation for all our kind, it will just be a few minutes of cowardly running for our lives for us, but it will be the start of years of struggling for acceptance for our kind, we must begin here, by sticking up for our rights and defying the prejudice morons who put us here, we must create a secure and safe future, free from terror and racial hatred for our children!"

"Nice speech, but not very original" observed E.B

"This will all end in tears, believe me, you sound like that pig from 'Animal Farm,'" stated Joe

"What are we, suffragerewolves?" asked Brittany

"Oh come on people, get into the spirit" prompted Daniel, obviously annoyed by their lack of enthusiasm.

"Werewolves of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains..." Said Aaron sarcastically.

Daniel sighed and shook his head.

Tonks rolled her eyes, and with a smile, beckoned them over to follow her.

CRASH!!!

A jolt of panic ripped through Remus's being, as Tonks knocked over the food trolley

"Run!" he hissed, quickly becoming panicked.

They had got this far; they weren't going to blow it now.

It seemed though, as if 'blowing it' was inevitable as several male voices echoed down the hall, getting closer and closer.

The group darted out the door as fast as possible, in to the hall that they recognised from when they were first brought there, straight into three tall figures dressed in black.

"It's about time you three morons got here," exclaimed Tonks.

"Where is he?!" demanded Sirius, pushing past the 'greasy haired git' and the 'paranoid old geezer' trying to find his best friend.

"Now Sirius" said Tonks hastily "Don't have a cow but-"

"REMUS" yelled Sirius, noticing his friend desperately clinging on to Jesse's shoulder, looking like he'd just been through a meat grinder.

Sirius shoved several of the group aside and grabbed his friend, looking deeply into his eyes. Remus smiled.

"Hello Padfoot" he said softly

But before Sirius had a chance to reply...

EEK!!!

The small cry bounced across the room, Mary screamed

"Peace, it was the owl that shrieked" quoted Brittany, trying to calm her friend down

Remus looked over.

And he would never forget what he saw.

That was no owl.

It was a rat.

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* The real Theodosius's (Yes he's a real person) favourite food. He added it to his bread during DTfood (or Home eq, depending on where you're from)

**The name of this school has been changed to protect the innocent...

***This name has NOT been changed, no one innocent involved there...

Ooooh, another cliffhanger!

In the next chapter we have a mystery guest, and many things are revealed! Many interesting things...

Birdie: *yawn* is it over yet?

Reaper: *Scream! * You nasty little dodo, How DARE you!!! I spent ages on this chapter, unlike you!

Birdie: What are you talking about?

Reaper: I recently re-read the chapter you typed up for me, it contained this sentence: /Percy was not sure how Lupin could be so calm and, almost cheeryful, when he had 2 days to like./ Cheeryful? Like? Were you drunk? Don't you know that you should always do numbers in WORD form, like two rather than 2?

Birdie: oops!

Reaper: -_-; Never mind... anyway... Time for the reviews, everyone who's reviewed since chapter seven

The Spatula Chick: Thankyou thankyou thankyou! You've been very supportive! And thankyou for remembering that the fic was still here, I'm surprised that everyone hasn't just forgotten me and abandoned me, do you like the new chapter? Please continue to read and review!

Zerocool.0: Wow, you actually bothered to look this thing up? Thanks! But please update your own fics before my insanity gets me fired. Out of a cannon and into the sun.

Lonely N Fading/ JubileeBlack: Why are you lonely and fading? Can I do anything to cheer you up? Will this chapter cheer you up? Hope you're o.k... I'm sorry about your story... Here, have some cyber ice cream {}

\/ People who are picky about spelling and grammar suck, (Birdie:*cough* hypocrite) it's the truth, if they wanted to give you some 'constructive criticism' they should at least say something nice too. Please continue your support.

Orion-san: I'm afraid I don't remember that far back, so I'll take your word for it. Your old country sounds nasty, I remember when my father made me soup one time, so I can guess what your water tasted like. Thanks for the tip on WordPad, I may use it next time!

jon's girl: You'd like me to save Remus, wouldn't you? They all do... but you'll have to wait for the next chapter MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA P.S Thanks for saying that this was one of the best stories you've read in a long time, (poor you)

Tempest In Blue: I hope your face isn't permanently marred due to my little story, please read and review

Calimora: ...and then they all died horrible painful deaths and Voldemort ruled the world, outlawing chocolate and ice cream forever. JUST KIDDING!!! Hee hee hee... thanx though, hope you enjoyed^_^

This Parrot Has Ceased To Be: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! It's what I was afraid of... people hating me... please forgive me *Sob sob sob*

JeanieBeanie: Let everyone live? Hmmmmm we shall see... Hee hee hee (Please enjoy and review)

dark star11: Depressing is it? well this chapter is a little lighter, and as for the gnomes I'd rather they didn't, you can send them to my school to chew on my head of year!

Yay! Thanks everyone!!! cya l8r!^_^

P.S I just did the spell check, and guess what? The word 'git' (as in greasey haired git) is not actually a word, but the word 'gits' (as in more than one git) is.

Can someone who knows someone who's a dictionary writer please explain that?

Oh, and a lovely red onion for the first person to tell me where my quote is from and who said it!!!^_^