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/.../ Animagus talking

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Nightly Flight

Chapter 3

Quickly after they group returned they split up. Tala said she had to go to the library for some research and the boys decided to turn in early. Tala though was in fact not going to the library but to the astronomy tower and the boys were not turning in for the rest of the night. Remus made his way to the Hospital Wing then was escorted out to the Whomping Willow. Soon after appeared out of the castle was a stag, a dog, and a rat.

Tala walked up the spiraling staircase. She was of course now breaking about a dozen school rules because it was now after hours, but she didn't care. She made her way out into the open air. Glancing up at the sky, she noticed the bright and glowing full moon shining over the grounds. Tala took a deep breath of air and exhaled it but where the tall, auburn haired girl stood there was now small amber colored cat, though this cat was different. Folded on her back were small wings. She quickly spread them and took to the air.

'Now this is what I call freedom.' She thought as she flew through the air. She dove down towards the lake, leveling herself off before she hit the surface. Balancing at the shore, she saw a large grey rat. 'Hmm...I wouldn't mind scaring that little fella.' She thought before gliding behind a rock close to the rat. She watched as it sniffed the air. After a moment, she pounced at it. The rat gave a loud squeak as Tala placed a paw on either side of it and started laughing.

/You should have seen your...oomph./ she looked up to see that a big black dog was standing over her growling.

/Why were you trying to eat Wormtail/ He barked at her.

/I wasn't trying to eat anyone, now if you wouldn't mind my wings are bent in an odd position and it kind of hurts. / She stated before pushing the dog away.

/Wings? But you're a cat. / He said looking at her strangely.

/No, I'm a Sharr; I'm more closely related to a Sphinx than to a common cat. / She scoffed. /Why would you want to protect a rat anyway/

/Because he is my friend as are the two coming out of the bushes. / The dog said as two more animals came out of the bushes, one was a beautiful stag, the other and light-brown werewolf.

/Rather strange bunch you are. / She muttered and decided that she would prefer to sit in the tree rather than on the ground.

/Padfoot who in the world are you talking to/ The stag said looking up at her.

/She is a Sharr...umm I don't know her name yet though/ He said looking up at her expectantly.

/It's Penna. / she said lazily from the branch she was now laying on. She remembered from her Latin class she took awhile back that penna meant wings

/How come we never heard about Sharrs in Care against Magical Creatures/ Wormtail whispered to Prongs. Unknown to them Tala had heard them.

'They're Animagus like me!' she thought 'What if I actually know them and their in one of my...' her thought were interrupted when the werewolf let out a howl. She like the others looked towards the horizon where the sun was slowly beginning to rise.

/Sorry but we must part now. I hope to meet you again. / The dog said before rushing off with the others. She too had to rush back to her dorm. She flew fast to the Astronomy Tower. Once landed she quickly transformed rushing towards the Gryffindor Tower, so she could be there before anyone woke up. She whispered the password, and made it into the cozy common room. She stopped when she heard her sister's voice.

"Yeah Lily her bed was empty and the bed looked like it haven't been slept in when I went to wake her." Tala snuck over to the couch taking some of the blankets off the back and covering her with them, making it look like she fell asleep there. She closed her eyes and until then she did not notice she was that tired until sleep took over her.

Tala opened her eyes, realizing she dozed off. Looking around she noticed that she was no longer in the common room. She was laying in a bed, though not her own. She was about to get up when she heard voices.

"James just wait till she gets up to change." Said a voice she knew as Sirius.

"But Quidditch practice...I got to be out there at least 2 hours before to prepare. You know that." James whined, he was after all Quidditch Captain. She could hear something being thrown.

"Take your stuff and change in the locker room." Sirius said. Tala peeked through the curtains. She knew it was almost three in the afternoon because practice was at five. She also noticed she was in the boy's dorm.

"What the hell." She said causing Sirius, who was on the floor reading, to jump.

"Don't do that!" He yelled at her.

"Why am I in your dorm room?" She asked ignoring his yelling

"Because I couldn't carry you up to your room," he smirked. He looked like he was about to burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?"

"You hair is what's funny." He said conjuring up a mirror. She took it and burst out laughing. Her hair was sticking up like little devil's horns. After the two of them got the laughs out of them, she smoothed down her hair and looked curiously at the book Sirius held.

"What ya reading?"

"Oh this, I'm trying to find stuff for my CAMC report." He said showing her the title 'Fascinating Felines.'

"Oh maybe I could help." She said picking up one of the book "What are ya looking for?"

"It's called a Sharr." He said. Tala looked up at him with surprise but he didn't notice because he was already flipping through another book.

After a few minutes, Sirius spoke up. "Hey Tals how come you never talk about your past?" Tala was taken back by the question.

"I don't really have much to talk about it." She said quietly, flipping the pages in the book.

"But what about your family and you never talk about you summers why?" Sirius asked wanting to know about his friend. What he had not expected was for her to get angry. She slammed her book down on the floor and glared at him. Her eyes looked like they were about to burst with tears.

"So really want to know, well my parents are dead. They died because of someone's stupid mistake. That person never had to go to prison; no, they still walk around doing that same job putting others at risk doing the same job he was doing.

I had to move away from my childhood home to another country where my uncle teaches to go to school. He is always away so I live alone with my sister who I rarely see during the summer because she is always at that damn Stillers house. So hmm, it's a wonder I don't talk about my perfect life." She yelled at him, her tears freely coming down her face. Tala got up and stormed out of the room pushing past Remus who came to see what all the yelling was about.

"What in the hell was that about?" Remus said looking down the now empty hallway, before turning back to a shell-shocked Sirius "I don't think I ever seen her cry, what did you do?"

"I..I…I thought it was an innocent little question." Sirius sputtered out. "I just asked her why she doesn't talk about her family and what-not."

"What would you do if someone asked you about your family?" Remus prodded moving to sit on his trunk at the end of his bed and picked up one of the books off the floor.

"I'd tell them to go bother someone else." Sirius brushed off wondering where Remus was going with this.

"See you should understand how some people don't like talking about that stuff, you because you hate your family, me because of what I am, and her because she doesn't want to bring back the pain." Remus could see his words sinking into Sirius thick skull. "How about you go apologize to her."

"God why do I have to be such a git sometimes." Sirius said getting up.

"Hey when you like someone you tend to act that way." Remus said as Sirius made his way out the door.

"She is just a friend!" Remus could hear him yell back.