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I forgot to say "the lady of
wolves" is something that comes BEFORE IsabĂș exists, so therefore,
everything since this chapter is a story developed twenty years before the first
chapter. These "lady of wolves" are a series of chapters that have a
common story.
Sorry for not telling you before! And sorry for breaking my "no author
notes" promise. I couldn't get a hold on myself.
Oh! and just to let you know things
between rackets [] are thought-speech dialogues.
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The Lady of Wolves: In the beginning.
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[I don't know, Sirius. I don't like to go out when it's not with all of you.
Besides we shouldn't...]
[You sound like a Prefect!]
[I AM a Prefect!]
[Please Moony! We always go out when its full moon... and you know Filch gave
Peter and James detention for the thing that happened last Saturday.]
[ We were halfway through the portrait... if only Wormtail could stop gasping
at every single thing James do! ] Said Remus exasperatedly.
[At least he had the decency to close the map before he gave it up. Well, it's
no big deal anyway; we knew that map by heart already... But, changing the
subject, what do you say? Are we going out tonight? ] Sirius pleaded.
[It will be too dangerous. What if you can't control me by yourself? What if I
hurt someone?]
[Nothing will happen; I promise. Please, I hate being trapped. You are my last
hope! It will be boring if we don't go out tonight... you cannot leave me by
myself, that would be awesome dull] he looked at his friend who was not very
convinced about his idea [Please Moony! I hate-]
[-being stuck inside this place] Remus finished Sirius' sentence. Moony
narrowed his eyes [I am sure I will regret this.]
* * *
The sky looked beautiful, it was a clear sky. The full moon shined through the
window where a girl stood, looking out at the sky.
The girl smiled. Her prediction about the full moon was right, that night
looked lovelier than ever before. Carefully, she got dressed. It was a habit
she had developed: every last day of full moon she would walk outside to her
front yard and gazed at the moon.
She missed her home. She missed her grandmother, but she couldn't go back: not
after what she had done.
She bit her lips as she remembered her nightmares of that night: a man... or
was it a wolf? He was calling her name. He wanted something she had. He was...
close. She could feel him. He was here.
No, he couldn't be here! How could he? He lived only in her nightmares... or
did he...? She felt fear invading her; she felt the urge to run back to her
house... 'Coward!', She reproached herself, 'you are a useless coward like you
always were... and that's why they're dead... because you are a stupid coward!'
The cold winter wind hit her face as she slowly walked back. She held the stone
on her necklace. The necklace her grandmother had given her. The necklace that
made her feel so strange and powerful. This was the first night she had dared
to use it. The necklace made her feel strange, as if she could listen to the
smallest sound of the mice... as if she could smell everything at once ten
times stronger. She could even smell her sister, back in the house. She could
smell him.
Her heart was beating fast as she walked faster. Maybe she would have to face
him. Goosebumps ran through her spine.
The night was peaceful and quiet, too quiet for what it should be. Suddenly, a howl
filled the air, making it dense. The girl stood terrified. Unexpectedly, two
figures appeared within the darkness of the wood.
[Moony, we have to go back, mate. Moony? Hey Moony, are you listening to me?] Said
Sirius frightened; he knew his friend had also noticed the harmless girl.
Sirius, not knowing what to do to stop him, ran quickly and stayed between the
enormous werewolf and the girl. He didn't know what to do. He knew his friend
would attack him if it were necessary to bite a human being.
' Is it you?' the girl whispered, no one answered.
The werewolf gave a shove to the big black dog in front of him. 'Oh Dear! Moony
won't forgive me if I let him bite her' Sirius thought, running as fast as he
could to stop Remus from biting the girl. Too late, the werewolf was
dangerously close to the girl.
'STOP!' she yelled, showing the stone of her necklace. She didn't realize what
she was doing.
And to everyone's surprise, the werewolf stopped on his tracks.
[What the-?] Sirius reached to say in thought-speak.
The girl stood still and almost as amazed and scared as Sirius. All of a
sudden, the werewolf fell onto the floor, motionless, and gradually started to
go back into his human form. The werewolf, Moony, became completely human.
Sirius looked at the girl, she was focused on the werewolf, so then Sirius
could become human again.
'Can anyone explain just what happened?' Sirius said in amazement.
' You are not he.' she said to the motionless Remus, a bit relieved, a bit
confused 'you do not smell like he does' she confirmed. She heard noises in the
bushes and understood. He was leaving. Whatever he was, he did not want to be
seen.
'Ouch!' complained Moony
'Are you okay?' inquired Sirius
'I'm... fine. w- wait a minute.' he looked at the full moon, frightfully 'the
sun hasn't rise yet, so how come am I here?' Remus was confused. But he spoke
in a low voice so that the girl wouldn't hear.
'I- I don't have any idea, Moony, but maybe the girl knows' whispered Sirius
pointing his finger to the girl.
'Are you all right?' Moony asked her.
'I- I don't k- know.' she said.
' I didn't bite her, did I?' he asked his friend.
'No, you didn't, you simply... turned back... I think the girl has something to
do with it... Moon, I am as lost as you are!' confessed Sirius.
The girl watched them talk. She heard them even though they were whispering.
She suddenly seemed very tired and in some seconds she had fallen asleep
hitting the floor with a loud thud. Sirius held her until she opened her eyes.
'Easy, steady now. how do you feel?' Remus asked.
'Fine.but, who are you?' she whispered weakly.
'I am Sirius Black, and this is my friend, Remus Lupin' Said Sirius from behind
her.
'My name is Diana' she replied, with a marked Spanish speaker accent 'What
happened?'
'I don't know, we've just found you.' Sirius lied.
'I thought I saw a werewolf here and.' She looked troubled.
'A werewolf?' asked Lupin, trying to make it sound ridiculous.
'How did you find me?'
'We saw you unconscious on the ground - or at least we thought you had fainted
or something. It was pretty scary.' Sirius lied -again- quickly.
'Thanks for worrying,' Diana smiled, after some time of silence she rolled her
eyes to the floor shyly, 'I really appreciate your help and I don't want to be
unfriendly but I think I should be going by now.' she said softly, then she
turned back and started to walk.
Sirius looked at Remus, 'we better get the hell out of here, fast' he said.
Sirius became a dog again and watched the strange girl go back to the house; he
was very lucky, because as soon as the girl disappeared, Remus became a
werewolf again.
* * *
'Yeah, you're right. That's awful weird.' nodded James as Sirius and Remus
explained what just happened last night. 'Are you sure that's exactly how it
happened?' asked James, for the fifth time.
'I'm telling you, it was awesome... and when the girl was gone, Moony became a
werewolf again!' Sirius continued.
'I've got to see that with my own eyes' Padfoot decided as he messed up his
hair with his right hand.
'Don't count me in! I have to make my homework for muggle studies.' Remus
grumbled.
'Haven't you done it yet?' Peter asked him, it was a silly question to make,
but it was typical from Peter to make a silly question, so no one really minded
replying anymore.
'Moony, are you really going to stay to do your homework? I mean, you have
plenty of time now that we are on Christmas holidays.' asked Sirius, he was
always the first one to look up for troubles and adventures.
'Yesterday was the last day of full moon...'said Remus 'I could do with a night
of sleep...' Remus saw James look at one of the girls that walked beside them
on the crowd towards the library as if pointing her at Remus and raised his
wand before Remus quickly added 'but if you are to change your mind about hexing
me in front of Andrea, then...'
* * *
That night, James looked outside his window wishing he could be there. It had
been dull of them to talk about their plans out loud on the school corridor.
Snape had heard them and he told professor McGonagall they would run away from
the castle that night. She didn't take her eyes off of them the whole night.
Then, they went out with the Invisibility Cloak James owned when a terrible
thought appeared on Sirius' mind:
'We never saw where the girl went, and it is very possible that she is not
coming out!' he said.
'You say that we escaped from Hogwarts, then went out from Hogsmade and just
here you realize that you are not sure where the girl is?' complained James in
a hushed whisper.
'Well, you didn't think about that possibility either.' Sirius shoot back, a
little annoyed.
'Because I trusted you would find her!'
They went there anyway, but they didn't find Diana. James got a little
disappointed; but the next day they were on the road again, only hoping to
catch the mysterious girl on their way.
* * *
Diana looked at the sky. She looked inside the house; she wondered whether she
would be captured on her second night going out. She disliked breaking the
house rules, especially when she hardly knew her sister and felt rather more
like a weight than a visiting sister. But at the same time, she was terribly bored
and she wanted to see the snow that had fallen for the first time that winter.
It was the first time she saw snow, so she was very enthusiastic about going
out.
Suddenly, the sound of a familiar voice interrupted Diana's thoughts.
'You have to talk to them. I have no where to go now... I can stay at Hogwarts
for these holidays but I reckon I have nowhere to go when the term is over.'
'See? That's what I meant earlier... I know your family is terrible but maybe
you shouldn't have said THAT to your mother.'
'Don't lecture me again. Will you Remus? She deserved it. Besides I can't stand
them any longer, any of them... ever since I came to Hogwarts they have been
nothing but a pain... I put up with it long enough. I am not a kid anymore!'
'Anyways, with or without Regulus on the Slytherin team... we will win the Cup
this year'
'No doubt about it.'
'Besides, I'm the best player of all times!'
'Yeah, sure!' said a voice with a sarcastic tone.
'I tell you what, you are the best player ever and I just love full moon'
* Laughs *
'Who's there?' Diana demanded. Silence remained for a while. Then, four boys
came in front of her eyes, she didn't recognize any of them. One of them looked
at her, like analyzing her face and then smiled, she couldn't deny the boy was
very handsome.
'Hey, Prongs! This is the girl I told you about!' he said
'Do I know you?' she asked trying to get a better look of them. She couldn't
see far. She had the sudden realization that she had left her glasses at home.
The necklace was not a lot of help when it came to vision.
'Wow! Did you forget about us already? We were the ones who found you on the
woods!' he smiled at her.
'Oh! Sorry, It's darker now, I didn't recognized you' she said apologetically.
'It's okay. I can barely see with this light' he kept smirking.
'But. wait a minute, you were only two that night, weren't you?'
'Yes, I am James Potter, we haven't met yet' a new boy said reaching her hand.
The boy rumpled his wild black hair, 'and he is Peter Petigrew' he continued,
now pointing at another boy 'we call him Wormtail because he eats worms along
with hamster tails.' he said with a malevolent grin.
'Hey!' Wormtail protested.
'You can call me Prongs as well' the untidy-haired boy said.
'I am sorry, but I don't remember your names' she apologized to the other two.
'I'm Sirius Black - but you can call me Padfoot!' said the first one, who was
still smiling.
'My name is Remus Lupin, the boys call me Moony, though.'
Diana was just about to introduce herself when.
'And you are Diana, aren't you?' Sirius interrupted with a grin.
'Yes' she smirked, it was cute of him to remember her name 'but my friends call
me "Hobby", though. I gather it is some type of bird of prey... a
hawk I guess... they call me that because-' she began to explain before she realized
she was talking somewhat dorkyish... not that she had anything against
intelligent people, but she didn't want to look boring in front of her new-found
friends.
'Pleased to meet you.' Sirius beamed, without minding a bit of her nerdy
outburst. He took her hand in his and kissed it. Diana's heart pumped a bit
faster almost at the same time her head told her that this particular type of
boys were trouble. Handsome, gentleman-like boys are always trouble and she
knew it well too much to trust someone like this again.
'Owwww! That is so sweet, Padfoot!' Prongs jerked, the small watery-eyed boy
giggled. Diana felt a little bit ashamed.
'Oh! Shut up, Prongs!' Sirius mumbled as he kicked his friend playfully.
'Hey! Cut it out! I wasn't the one who went all "heartbreaker" on the
lady!' the other replied.
'So, how old are you?' Remus asked her, ignoring his friends' game.
'I'm 15, what about you?'
'We're all 16. But sometimes they act like they are 5 years old.' he answered.
'I can notice so.' she concluded just before a snowball landed on James' hair.
'Now this has gone too far... SNOW WAR!' he shouted and snowballs were thrown
at Moony and herself.
They played with the snow for a long time, then, they stood there talking and
joking until 3:10am. By that time, they were already sort of friends. Not close
friends, but certainly friends.
Of course, the four-some had to lie about themselves. The rule of secrecy
towards the muggle world they took very seriously (in spite of their disrespect
for other types of rules). they soon were playing the game where you have to
choose an annoying person to share a desert island with.
'Now it's my turn!! An alien or the Komodo dragon?' James asked Diana.
'I'd choose the alien!' Interrupted Sirius.
'Nah! The Komodo dragon it's the coolest! It eats it's pray without killing it'
laughed Remus.
'Hey! It's my decision! And I choose the alien'
'See, I told you she wouldn't listen to you!' gagged Sirius.
Diana smiled, but then her smile faded away.
'Is there anything wrong?' Remus asked.
'It's just that I miss my friends back home' she smiled weakly.
'Where are you from anyway?' Inquired Sirius, who was making a snowball.
'I'm from Latin America' she answered. 'My full name is Diana Carolina Senda
Moy Martinez. I have my grand grandmother's name.' She said with a sigh 'It's
sort of a family tradition' she replied. Sirius' eyes met James', and then they
both stared at Peter who was looking sleepy.
'SURPRISE!!!!' Sirius and James shouted at the same time.
'Ouch!' Peter protested. Sirius and James had attacked him with their
snowballs.
'So, what's your phellitone number?' asked Remus. Diana thought about that
question.
'I'll tell you tomorrow' she beamed maliciously 'Well, I better go before
someone discovers I'm missing'
'So, see you tomorrow night?' Said Sirius with a flirting tone.
'I'll be here at one O'clock. I can't go out before. Someone could notice I'm
not there' She answered, waving her hand.
The guys saw her leave.
* * *
The night after that, she didn't even stop looking at the sky that night. She
just went out just in time to meet the boys. They were already there.
'Hello!' Diana greeted her friends.
'Hullo' said Remus, James waved and Peter smiled.
'What took you so long?' Said Sirius.
'What took me so long? I am just in time!'
'No, you're not' Sirius answered teasingly
'Yes, I am'
'No, you're not'
'Are you two finished?' said Remus a bit annoyed at their bickering.
'NO' Diana and Sirius replied at the same time, but just as Diana turned to her
opponent she felt cold ice against her back. She squealed and jumped before
realising that Sirius had put snow inside her winter coat. Sirius, Diana,
Peter, James and Remus laughed.
'So... tell me... how does it feel to be a wizard?' She finally asked.
Remus looked at his friends, Peter was a little paler than James. Sirius had
opened his mouth in a horror expression. There was an uncomfortable silence for
a few seconds.
'C'mon guys! I have known that you're wizards ever since the day I met James
and Peter!'
'H-H-HOW DID YOU KNOW WE ARE WIZARDS?' Remus pronounced in an amazement tone.
'Well, first of all, only wizards wear that kind of robes; second, only wizards
use magic wands; third, it is not phellitone but telephone; fourth, you didn't
know too much about soccer... and face it, we're in England! Here it's all
about soccer; fifth.' she said briskly. Sirius let out a bark- laugh.
'Okay, okay. You didn't need to be in the divination class to guess what we
were. But how on earth you know about-about-about the people of our kind and
about Hogwarts?' James said, still in amazement
'Hogwarts? What's that?'
'It's where we study. How come you know about us and not about Hogwarts?' Remus
said, still with an inquisitive look in his eyes
'That's a very logic answer; I'm surprised you don't know it.' Her voice
dropped as well as her mood. ' My sister was a witch...' she paused, her
expression transformed. Suddenly she looked very sad 'don't ask. I moved here
some months ago. I haven't known anything about the wizard world since I left
my home country'
'You are not a witch, are you?' inquired Peter
'No' she answered.
'Then how come... how come you did that to me?' Remus said.
'Did what?' she asked
'Turn me back...'
'I didn't do that!' she said 'I am a muggle... I... I could never do anything
like that...' she trailed off 'must have been him' she said in a soft whisper,
almost to herself.
'Who?'
'Well. I think that 3 o'clock it's a good time to go back and catch some sleep'
she replied quickly. She saw James shrug.
'Good night'
'See you tomorrow'
'Diana!' Remus called after her 'do you want us to accompany you back?'
'No, that's okay, thank you' She beamed at him, ignoring Sirius, who was now
making fun of Remus proposal. If she knew what was to happen next, she would
have accepted.
'Ok, bye'
'See you'
Diana started to walk back; she was in the middle of the way when she saw it
staring at her. The wind was running against his face. The wind changed its
direction too late. Now she could smell his scent. Her blood froze. It was he.
'Is it you?' her voice was trembling. If she didn't know wolves are unable to
smile, she certainly would have sworn that the wolf had done so.
The wolf became human. His black hair shined with the light of the moon and his
blue eyes looked at her with a ravenous look.
