.. Harry's thoughts *..* Spirit /../ Moony

Chapter 13: Moonlight Expeditions

Both just stood there until the sun was almost fully hidden at the horizon. A pain filled scream woke Harry from the trance he was in and he immediately turned into the dark unicorn. Trotting over to Remus, and lied down next to him. What can I do? Harry thought helplessly as he saw Remus writhing on the ground because of all the pain he was going through. Tell me what I can do! Let me help you Remus! Just as the thought had been finished, a calm voice entered Harry's mind. *Hello Harry, I am the spirit and the soul of the animal you are now residing in. I will always be there to help you learn the powers of a fallen unicorn.* A fallen unicorn? *Yes, that is what you are, an innocent, tainted by the darkness in your soul. Now let's help the poor creature next to you, that you seem so fond of. A fallen unicorn has the ability to take the pain of others and sometimes make them immune to a specific type of pain like this one.* I can stop the pain Remus feels with the transformation? *Yes, and you can prevent it from ever returning again.* Please tell me how to do it! Harry thought desperately as he watched the partly transformed Remus screaming and writhing on the ground. *Ok, first you have to touch your horn to his forehead and think hard about how much you want to take away his pain and keep it away. It will hurt and you'll feel drained for a short while, so don't be surprised.*

Breathing deep, Harry leaned down and touched his horn to the half wolf, half human's forehead. Remus stopped his struggle instantly and Harry concentrated on taking the pain from him, and most importantly, keeping it away. Suddenly he felt a searing pain make it's way through his body.

*Will it away Harry, make it leave your body as quick as possible. Think of all the happy things you can think of.* The spirit said hurriedly and Harry thought of all the time with his friends, his godfather, quidditch and most of all that Remus would finally see him as something else than his fathers son. That did it, the pain vanished and only left a dull ache in his body. A storm was raging above them and lightning was flaring everywhere. Hearing a soft whine beside him, Harry turned his head and saw moony looking at him with a question in his eyes.

Spirit? *Yes lightning?* Why do you call me lightning? *Because every unicorn has a name for something great they do in they're lives. You just took the pain you felt and made it become the lightning storm in the sky. Because of this, your name from now on will be lightning! Now what did you want to ask me?* Is there any way I can talk to Moony? *Actually there is, you just have to think what you want to say and sent it to Moony who will no doubt want an explanation right about now. Have fun!!!* Harry groaned and looked at Moony again. Are you feeling better now? /What? How are you able to.../ the wolf stuttered with a startled expression on his face. Easy, I'm a unicorn and all unicorns can talk to all animals they want. By the way, my unicorn name is lightning, so you can use that ok Moony? /Yes, yes of course. I'd be honored./ Why would you be honored by me giving you my name? Lightning questioned. /Because if a unicorn gives you it's name it means that it trusts you more than anyone./ Didn't know that, but does not matter, I trust you more than most anyway. Now how about we run a bit? I'd like to test how fast I am. /Sure, would you like to do a little race with me? We could run on a little path I found in the forest./ Good idea, show me the way.

With that Harry stood up and started trotting over to the foot of the trees, Moony running beside him. After a while, they stopped at a path that looked like it wasn't used very often. /Here we are. The rules are, there are no rules, so have fun finding out everything you can do in this body!/ With that said, Moony jumped up a started running down the path at a amazing speed. Startled, Lightning snorted and sprinted after him. WOW! Lightning thought, This is amazing! *I know. Do you remember that Moony said that there were no rules?* Yes... *Well, you can actually fly if you want and it's much faster than running like Moony.* How can I do that? *Think of having wings and you'll have them! It works with pretty much everything you want, just think about having it and you will. Now fly!* Concentrating his thoughts, lightning felt something in his back move and he felt lighter with each minute. After some time he tried to move the black wings on his back and rose into the air. Searching for Moony he found almost half way to the finish. Gaining a burst of speed from flapping his wings hard, he quickly flew to the finish line, sat down and made his wings vanish. Just then moony came into view and sat down next to lightning, panting hard. /How did you get here so fast?/ I flew /Ohhhh./ Moony replied and suddenly jumped at the unsuspecting Lightning, just to bite him gently in the back of his neck. Two can play that game Harry thought and started to bite and kick the wolf, which ended in retaliation from Moony. After almost 3 hours of play fighting, Lightning and Moony made they're way back to the castle. /Than you for coming with me tonight, I didn't have that much fun since the marauder's were still roaming the halls of Hogwarts./ Moony said with sincerity in his voice. You are welcome, I had fun too. With that said and done, they both laid down on the grass and Moony licked Lightning's nose before closing his eyes and going to sleep.

TBC.

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