Everlasting Battle For Live
Part IV: Hunting the hunter
Written by: Kalinenaka
S.W.I.S.H
Society for Werewolf's In need of Safety and Hope
Doesn't it sound lovely..
And there are wizards who actually believe that it is a good place for a werewolf to be.
But please, let me began with what happened to me yesterday.
My dear friend Albus Dumbledore paid me a visited. And by now I know, if he pays a visit, something is about to go wrong with, in, or on my life, friends or house.
He was furious at me that I didn't listened to him, when he said that the shed would kill me.
And I was furious at him for treating me like a little child.
'Then stop acting like one.' The old man said. I looked to him angry.
'You will not change in your any more shed. Do you understand what I'm saying?'
'Accept that you treat me like a child, and that you concern far to much. No, should I?'
'Lupin. Don't play a game with me.'
'Is this a threat?' I asked him.
'Depends.' He simply said.
'No. I'm not a dog. And I will not be locked up like one.' I spat back to him.
He looked rather misunderstanding right now.
'Let me get that straight. You don't want to go to the S.W.I.S.H, because they watch over you during the full-moon nights, when your running outside with a small pack off other werewolf, and treat all your wounds freely. While you lock yourself up inside, almost bleeding to death?'
'I don't go. Don't want to.' I said. He did had a point there. But then, only outside werewolf's heard the other stories.
'You'll go.' Dumbledore said strongly.
'No. Unless you have an other suggestion.' I say his eyes twinkle. Bad…
'Take a biscuit.' He said, looking very tired.
'What?' Were did that came from. And I thought that he was supposed to be smart. My arse.
'Take one.' He held out a plate with cookies.
'They will kill me.' I suddenly said
'They will take care for you. Please take one.'
'Alright then.' So I did. My cooking wasn't that good. I still was a little bit hungry.
And immediately after I took my candy something pulled behind my navel. The candy was a portkey. Small basterd he is. The ground vanished beneath me. And the wind and many colours raced against my body. But is stopped as soon I felt the ground beneath me again.
So here I am.
In a cell. With silver bars for the door, and for the very small twenty by twenty centimetres window.
There is no bed in my cell. Hell, there isn't even a bed in one cell. And there are about 420 cell's in here. All filled with werewolf's like me.
My cell is on the fifth floor. Block D. Cell number 15.
That's also happens to be my number.
5D15
I wasn't transported to this cell though. But I was transported to a chamber in this building.
There I waited on a chair. In a ice creamy room. With no pictures on the wall. There do were windows. With off course bars, probably even silver to. And off course one door. A bit darker ice cream coloured.
Then the door opened, I looked up.
'Hello there Mister Lupin.' A cold and stern voice spook to me.
Off all the people in the world, it has to be him..
I gave him a sarcastic smile back, only wishing him the worse..
'Your not really a chatter, are you?' The man asked.
I didn't answered the man.
'I see you haven't lost your sense off humour.' He said to me.
'I don't joke around.' I shot back.
'Well, you do make a good clown.'
It's then when I stood up, and walked angry towards him. Only stopping a few inch before him.
'Already angry, and there's so much more I want to show you.' He said to me. Leaning in even closer. Out noses almost touched.
'Better watch out, or else I'll have my teeth on you.' I whispered in his ears.
'Better watch out who you'll bite, I know you better then yourself. Don't forget that I hunted you all your live.'
'Don't worry. I could never forget such a nice person like yourself.' I said sarcastic. Looking him directly in the eyes.
'Then come with me, friend.' He said, turned around, and reopened the door.
I followed him, knowing that I couldn't get out off here soon. I needed to be prepared.
We walked through halls. Not once I saw an other human.
But after a while walking, we stopped for a door. A stele door with bars, actually.
'Open this door. I brought an other one.' He said.
'Entrance given.' An other voice said.
The door opened, we walked in.'
Once we both were in, the door closed behind us.
We walked inside off a hall. Probably at least 5 meters high.
At the other side there a similar door.
The door opened to, as we walked near it. And then we were there.
Inside the prison.
We walked to the middle of the gigantic room. I never saw anything like it.
7 floors high was it. Most off the cell were already filled with werewolf's.
Two more wizards walked towards us.
'Number.' One asked Orion.
'It hasn't gotten one yet.' He answered. I looked at him furious.
'Then take him back.' The second man said.
'No, I want to do it personal.' Orion complained. The two other man then looked at me.
Then smallered there eyes, like they would see something that they missed in the first place.
'Were can I leave it.' Orion asked the two man. The first man looked at the paper he carried.
'Take him to block 5D14.' He finally answered.
'Follow me, no games.' Orion said then, turning back to me.
He walked to the righter section off the building. The only sound in the building came from us, as we walked on a again stele stairway.
I followed him nicely. We walked to the fifth floor. He stopped, and turned to me.
'Remember were I put you.' He warned me.
Then he stepped off the stairs, and walked past the other cells.
We stopped by cell 14. There we looked inside the cell. It was already taken. A man, think he is about my age. He stood up, and walked towards Orion.
'Another one?' He asked the arrour.
'Haven't got enough, he?' He kept asking Orion.
Orion looked at him. Then he walked to the edge, and leaned over the border.
'Why isn't he in his one cell?' He yelled towards the other two man.
'He started a fight with an other prisoner. With that cute guy in block B.'
A female voice spook up from cell 13.
The arrour turned around.
'So, and I guess that you helped him?' He asked the lady.
'No, off course not.' She answered.
'I only started a fight in the kitchens.' She added with a sneering smile on her face.
The next thing what Orion did was literally throwing me in cell 15. The latest in the hole row.
Once he closet my cell door, he opened the door of cell 14.
'You come with me.' I heard Orion spook..
And the man did. They walked down, and then I saw them walking out off the room.
About an hour later Orion came back. Alone.
He came back to get the woman in cell 13. He also opened her door, and mentioned to follow him. And so she did.
Also this couple I saw walking out off the room.
They didn't came back before the next morning.
And when they did, both of them wired wounds. On there arms and face. But I know that there were more wounds. Although neither of them said it.
We didn't got something to eat that night. Nor were we aloud to wash ourselves. Well, that's also partly because we spent all the night long in our cell's. Laying on the cold rock-hard stones. Tying to fall asleep, but failing miserably. At least I did.
At the clock of twelve (I think there wasn't a clock to look on) I stood up, and looked at the other prisoners. And from what I could see most off them were asleep. Accept from few other prisoners. One of them attracted my full attention.
I didn't got a good look on her. But I tried to see her. She sad with her back against the wall. Knees pulled up, and her face rested on her lap. I think see is crying a bit, but it's difficult to see in the dark. Even if you got the eyesight of a werewolf.
Probably she's in here long. Because ever where on her body she got wounds. Her hear isn't combed or cut for a long time. And she's far to skinny.
And I think she's about six years old.
The next morning when I was finally able to get some sleep, the lights sprung on. And About ten people came walking inside.
'Breakfast. Everybody to the kitchens.' Orion yelled.
'Block A open.' Probably the block to the right of me opened. Every body went out off there cells, because I could hear there footsteps. And the doors closet behind them.
A few minutes later they walked down, on the way to the kitchens.
'Everyone present.' A voice yelled as he inspected block A.
'Block B.' The same happened here. Followed by 'everyone present.'
The same thing happened by Block C.
I saw the little girl stand up, and walking outside. With her head down, and walking with pain in her legs.
Then Orion yelled my block.
'Block D.' My doors opened. I stood up, and walked outside of my cell.
Now I was finally able to look who the other wolfs were in my block.
In 12 an other man came outside. About 40 years old. The man and woman in cell 13 and 14 hadn't come back yet, I noticed.
'Everyone present who's ought to be.' A voice yelled. The other werewolf's of my floor turned around, and walked down. I just followed them.
When we reached the ground we walked to the right off the hall. Unlike yesterday, when I came thought the door between the blocks B and C. Now we walked to an other door, between the blocks A and D.
We walked through an hall. When I came near the end off the hall the rumour got louder. Then I could finally I walk through the door.
In the kitchen there were very long tables. It reminded me off the house tables back in the days on Hogwarts.
But these tables were a bit shorter. And everybody he was there worn ripped clothes.
I stood I a line, to grape some food.
When it was my turn to fill the plate up, I got some rice with a few vegetables.. And something what I didn't wanted to eat. A living worm in my rice….
I turned a round, and decided where to seat. Most of the people inside all sat in groups. I didn't want to interrupt the groups. Until I heard something..
'He you!' I turned a round to see where that sound came from. Then I saw a group off five people looking my way.
'Ya, you.' The same voice said. It came from one man at that table.
'If you don't got a place, then come and sit here.' He made a gesture to sit opposite from him.
I took the place.
'I saw you coming in yesterday.' The man explained, when I sat down. He was about fourthly-five years old, brown short hear, and still he looked young. How did he do that.
'I am Jack. Jack Jordan. And you are?' The man asked me.
'I'm Remus Lupin. Nice to meet.' I looked at the others. Next to Jack Jordan sat a young boy. About seventeen years old, but looked much older. Dusty hair, and dusty clothes.
Next to him sat a woman. She to worn dusty clothes. But she still managed to smile while looking around. How she managed that I never found out.
'Next to me is Willy Lommers.' Jack Jordan continued. Pointing at the seventeen old year boy. 'And this here at my left is Amy Rydebrouk.'
'That there.' He continued, pointing at the man left from me. Who looked actually a bit like Jack Jordan himself.
'Is Matthew Beayens. And next to him sits Micheal Siemen. He is from Germany.'
Jack added. Micheal Siemen really looked like the typical German people.
Amy turned around, and looked at me. Then she looked at my plate.
'You have a worm in your rice.' She said. Her voice was soft, and tender. But also scared and hurt.
'Yeah, I noticed. Now I'm not hungry anymore.' I said back.
'Are you going to eat that?' The German boy asked me.
'Wasn't planning on it.' I answered him.
'Can I have the worm then?' He asked me again.
'Yeah, sure.' I grapped the worm out off my food, and gave it to the man.
'Why do you want it?' I couldn't help but to ask.
'For my bird. I found one who's trapped in here. Now I'll take care off him.'
I didn't managed to say anything then. It got quiet. Until.
'He, look who's back.' Jack Jordan said.
We all looked up to say who he was talking about.
Two people came walking towards us. One man, one woman.
'He, look who we got here. Unsure Heroes.' Micheal Siemen said.
Both off them sat down on to the right off me. Then the woman turned to me.
'You're the new guy, aren't you?' She asked me.
'That would me.'
'The one Orion is after?' The man asked me.
'Again that would be me.' I answered the man.
'We're Paco and Ruth Amikeco.' The man said to me.
'We're the ones next to you.' The woman continued.
'Be quiet ladies.' A quart yelled thought the room.
After the less-then-one-star meal the quarts sent us working. Today I was needed in the garden.
So, a group off twenty and me went outside the building. Off course there were quarts watching us, making sure that we didn't run back inside. But why did anyone wanted back inside? The first half hour went pretty well. With the sunshine in our back, a cool breeze round our faces. That was until Orion came.
'So, working hard ladies?' Nobody answered. He smiled while walking around.
'I need two volunteers.' He suddenly said.
'You.' He said, picking someone out who I didn't knew. I kept looking to the ground.
Then I saw two feeds stopping in front off me.
'And off course our dear cuddly lapdog Lupine.'
I stood up, already angry at the man.
'So that's saddled then.' He said in my face.
'You two come with me.' He said, pointing at me and the other man.
'The rest off you dogs.' He pointed then at all the others.
'Will not touch his job.' Then he pointed back at me again.
'Lupine will do it all tonight.'
I thought that it couldn't get any worse, but I was mistaken miserably when I saw what we needed to do. We didn't walked back inside. Instead he walked over to a cage at the other side off the ground. The walls were only made off stolen bars, and there were many blood tracks and scratches in there. I could smell the death in it.
'Last moon to my great joy an half breed like you died.' Orion told us.
'But he left us a present. I want you to clean this up.' Then he opened the cage, and kicked us in. He gave us a bucket water, and two sponges.
The other man started doing his job immediately, but I couldn't help myself to look around.
'Surprised Lupine?' Orion whispered in my ear.
'What happened in here?' I asked him, very confused. To me it looked like a fighting ring.
'Oh, lets just say he got an accident.'
I looked back to him, still confused.
'Your small brain doesn't get it he?' He said back.
'This place is called the arena. You'll get to know this place to. Now clean it up.'
I will never forget that horrible time. The smell off death, all the blood on the floor, and the traces off silver usu.
It was late in the night when Orion came back for us. The other man, who never sad something to me, went back to his cell. But Orion took me back to the garden. There I continued working. With him watching my back.
When I was done in the garden the sun came up. Orion took me back to my cell, and left me there. I didn't went down to grab something to eat.
About then minutes later the rest came back.
Because it was the first Sunday in a month nobody had to work today. Bless this day.
At one o'clock the quarts came back, herding us outside. Once in this day we're aloud to go outside.
I was sitting against the building, when I saw a group of four walking my way.
'Hello Lupin.' Matthew Beayens said to me. I smiled in return.
'Can we join you?' the German asked.
'Sure. It's a free country.' I said back.
'Maybe outside it is, but not in here.' Paco said with a long face.
'Can I ask you something.' Ruth asked me, when she said down in front of me.
'Sure.' I simply answered.
'What does Orion have against you. We all know he's a jerk, but against you he's much worse.'
I have to admit, that I never expected this question.
I got lost in my mind very quick..
Memories off when I was bitten.
My mother found me the next morning laying in the forest.
Is was she who carried me back to our home. It was she who heeled my first wounds, and it was she who I saw the first time when I opened my eyes being a new creature.
I didn't have the strength to stand up. So the next few days I lay in my bed.
My mother brought me some food and drinks. Played games with me, and read to me.
But the fourth day when she came walking inside she wasn't alone. I heard two pair footsteps walking on the stairs.
She brought him back.
John.
My father.
But only my father entered the room. My mother went down again.
My father closet the door, and said down on the ground, next to me. We both didn't say anything. But my father tried at some point.
'Remus, I wanted to tell you how sorry I was.' He said in a weak and sad voice, looking to the ground as he spook.
'I treated you bad, very bad. Every single breath off your live I made you feel worse then you already were. Seven years long I did that. I can never make it up to you. I know that.
But I want to change that all. I regret every single day off it. I want to give you a better live, one that you to deserve.
You, your brother and your mother deserve. Do you think that there is a small change I can try? Do you want to try it? Are you willing to give me a second change, even after I failed to be a good father? I know I ask you much, I know in what state I brought you. But I must ask your forgiveness.
Please, it is all I want, please.' With that last word he looked up, and met my eyes.
I saw that he was crying. I could see that he really mend his words. I could even feel it.
'Can you forgive me?' He asked me again.
I nodded then because I was unable to speak at the moment.
Then he hugged me, even crying a bit more.
'I'll do my very best to be a good father from now. I must am, 'cause I have the bravest two sons in the world.'
Then he hugged me again, and for a long time we sat like that.
When he released me I did had one question to ask him.
'Why?' I asked him.
'Your mother told me something I never knew. Something I never expected to exist really.'
I looked at him confused.
'You are a wizard Remus.' My father told me, I almost immediately chocked to death.
'A what?' I asked him back in disbelieve.
'Your mother told me five days ago. It scared me very much, so much I completely lost my mind, and left her. The first day I could be without her. The second I fought about her very much. The firth I needed her back. And the fourth day I asked her forgiveness.
That's two days ago, she said yes along you'll do to. Yesterday I asked your brother for forgiveness, he to forgave me. After I found him packing his stuff. And today I asked your forgiveness.' He looked me straight in the eye again.
'I must be the luckiest father in the world, resaving all your forgiveness's. I will make it up to you Remus. Never forget that.'
'Mum is a which?' I asked him in disbelieve.
'Yeah, she is. And you are a wizard. Unfortunately Romulus isn't. I hoped that he was to.'
'So I am two freaks.' I looked to my blankets again.
'No Remus!' I could hear a strung voice rising, for a moment it scared me. I thought back at how my father used to be.
'You are no freak. Never think that. Not for being a wizard….
'Well I still am a werewolf aren't I.' I interrupted my father.
'Yes, you are Remus. We both can not deny this. But being a werewolf isn't the end of the world. During the transformations it will be painful Remus. And you must keep in mind that you keep yourself looked up every month during the full moon. But there is so much more then that.' I looked back to my father then.
'You'll have much better senses then the other people.' He continued.
'But, I still am a freak, everyone will think that.' I interrupted him again.
'At some points it is truth Remus. Most wizards and which's are scared of you. Think that you'll bite them. It will be hard for you to get a job, and there is no cure for it yet.
But only you will taste real freedom Remus. Once a month the werewolf does. So do you.
And freedom is the most imported thing a man can have.'
At that point I didn't understood my father.
But know I do.
I really know..
Freedom
1; the condition or right of being able or allowed to do, say, think, etc. whatever you want to, without being controlled or limited:
2; A right to act in the way you think you should:
3; the state of not being in prison:
Well this says the dictionary.
And of course there right, at some point..
But real freedom,
That's different.
It means running.
Running forever over a soft beach. With your nose in the sky. Bleu water next to you.
A cool wind through your fur. No worries, no real goal.
And a pack running along.
Yes, that is what freedom really is.
I had it some time, in Hogwarts, with a dog, deer and a rat.
But now I lounge for it, again.
And it is temping me to be rebellious.
So, what could a man like me do, in a cell on the fifth floor..
Loads..
And the guards even don't know about it.
Ten man, its all I need.
Four who will abstract the guards.
Two who will stand on the watch.
Two who will sneak in and deliver the massage.
And one more, one man more, who works inside the guards patrolling group, who will take the massage outside the grounds.
Jonhy Mackor. The youngest guard off them all. About twenty years old.
Easy to manipulate.
And then the tenth man. Well, he isn't a man really.
Apparently Micheal Siemen hasn't got a bird. I found that out the second day I was here. He actually got a little baby dragon hidden in this grounds. Somewhere inside the dry cleaner's.
How the dragon managed to get save past the guards I don't know, But since he is we might as well take advances of him. But not yet, we need him later in the progress.
For now he can rest, and grow up stronger.
So within a few minutes, the routine off today starts.
The guards come walking inside, Orion will lead us to the kitchens, there we will eat.
And then it changes all…
So, Orion is walking inside, in his oh so routine clothes, on this of so routine day...
'Breakfast. Everybody to the kitchens.' Orion yelled.
'Block A open.' And again, this the block to the right of me opened. The doors closet behind them, so everyone was out. Footsteps followed.
A few minutes later they walked down, on the way to the kitchens.
'Everyone present.' A voice yelled as he inspected block A.
Block C came. Again this day I followed the little girl as she stood up, and walked outside. With her head down, and walking again with pain in her legs. She looked more dead every day.
Then Orion yelled my block.
'Block D.' My doors opened. And I walked outside of my cell.
Paco and Ruth looked pleased to see me. Of course they knew off the plan.
'Everyone present who's ought to be.' A voice yelled. The other werewolf's of my floor turned around, and walked down. I just followed them.
When we reached the ground we walked to the right off the hall.
Again we walked through the doors between the blocks A and D.
So, I had a plate full off food, and we said with eight on the table.
'Got it?' Jack Jordan asked me. I evilly smiled him back,
'Course, I have.' I answered him.
'Here is something you might as well need.' Amy, who said next to Jack gave me a small package. I unwrapped the package.
It was a knife. A sharp one to. I tugged him in my shoos. For my cell wouldn't be save, and my clothes look bad.
'Nicked it from the kitchens, wonderful if you work there.' Amy continued.
'Yeah, looks like me to.' Willy Lommers said.
'Orion made me work in the gardens, now I'm out off the kitchen. Apparently someone who worked in the garden is doing the pit right now.'
I felt my body head risen a bit.
'I wonder who it is.' Willy Lommers said.
'You work in the garden to, isn't it Remus?' Micheal Siemen said then.
'Really Remus, I never saw you there?'
I looked at them up, my mood changed from happy to very sad in just a minute.
'I don't work there anymore, I work in the pit.' Last followed very soft.
The mood changed immediately. Everyone looked at me as if I were a ghost.
'What?' I asked them.
'You really work in the pit Remus?' Jack Jordan asked me.
'Yeah, for over two weeks now. ' I answered him.
'What is it??' I really got nervous now..
'You know what the pit is, don't you?' He asked me.
'Yeah, Orion told me some about it.'
'So, you know that you clean the fighting arena?'
'Yeah, two hole weeks I have.'
'Do you know what that means?'
'No, just that Orion..'
'You really don't know?' He interrupted me.
'NO, what?' Now I was scared to death..
'You're the next.'
'What?' I asked him. Jack Jordan beckoned be closer. He followed in a softer too.
'Every full moon two werewolf's are chosen by someone. On that night he lets them fight each other. We can here the creams off pain and the joy of the guards over here. One werewolf will be killed by the other one. The survivor will be fighting the next month to. This you all knew probably.' I nodded.
'Since the day that Orion came here it changed a bit. One day I overheard him talking about the pit. Apparently he is the one who picks out the werewolf's. He does at after the full moon. The survivor and his new appointment will clean the pit, so it will be a "clean death" he said'.
I couldn't believe it.
'I only worked one time together, but that was the first time, and he doesn't do it anymore. I don't have a appointment.' I said back.
'You have Remus.'
'Oh, who then?' I asked him in disbelieve. Jack looked at me in the eyes.
'Remus, it's the little girl in block C.' I couldn't believe my ears.
'Chin op mate, maybe we're gone by then.' Paco said, pointing at my shoos.
'Make sure you scare the shit of Jonhy Mackor.' Ruth said then.
'Don't worry, we will.' Jack Jordan sad, looking to me. I began to grin again, remembering that we might don't have to fight at all.
After the meal was over, the eight of us took our places in.
Paco, Ruth, Willy Lommers and Amy Rydebrouk will abstract the guards by making lots off trouble. Mattfew Beayens and Micheal Siemen will stand on the watch, so that I and Jack savely can see Jonhy Mackor.
The door opened again.
Paco, Ruth, Willy and Amy went first outside.
Mattfew, Micheal, Jack and I went hiding next to the other door.
And then it happened, they start making trouble. They fought, yelled, run, and yelled at others to join them. With the resold that some other brave man actually did.
The door opened, most quarts came outside running.
We slipped inside, looking for Johny's camber.
And we found it soon. Mattfew and Micheal stayed outside the door. Jack and I entered the room.
He said behind his desk, looking over the papers.
'Well, well, well. What have we here?' Jack began, walking towards the left of his desk.
'I wanted to ask you the same thing.' Jonhy Mackor said, standing up.
I walked to the right of his desk.
'Jonhy, Johny I think you are forgetting something.' Jack said.
'Something that you shouldn't.' I continued.
Jonhy Mackor looked at us angry. Probably already knowing in what direction we want.
Then he made a quick move towards the drawer at his left trying to grab a weapon.
I grabbed him by his shoulder, and pulled him away from it. Then I hit him in the face.
He felt backwards. His head hitting the edge of the chair.
I grabbed him by his neck, and pulled him upwards again.
'Listen up, and listen good since I am only going to say this once. I need you to do something.
You see, I got a letter I want to sent. But I can't because you and the others stupid quarts put me in this jail. And I happen to know that you can sent letters, so you will have to so that for me. Do you understand that.'
He looked at me rather angry.
'Good doggie. I always thought you were smarter then the others.' I said again, wiping a bit dust if his shoulder.
'I won't sent it.' Jonhy Mackor said then. I looked up to Jack, then looked back to him. We both smiled at his comment.
'Oh, I think you will sent it. You see, you got two choices. One is agreeing in sending the letter, and then we wont bother you again, and leave peacefully. The other choice is sending the letter, but then you will have a few cuts around your body.' I made his point clear by grapping the knife Amy gave me. I placed it at his neck.
'Maybe you won't even have ten fingers anymore then, or two ears, two eyes. Or maybe you will be missing something more down your body.' And with that I slowly let the knife go lower. Until it reached the button of his trouser. Jonhy flinched, I was pleased.
'I see you get the point then?' I asked him. Jack had a hard time holding back his laughter.
But Jonhy still didn't not, nor answer.
'Maybe we should make things more clear.' I looked back to Jack. He was smiling now, understanding what I just said. He walked over, grabbed Jonhy Mackor, and dashed him back in his chair. He didn't let go off Jonhy's shoulder. I moved to stand front of him.
'Shame Jonhy. I was hoping that I didn't had to sent another letter to your pretty girlfriend, telling that you missed the point.' I placed the knife to his cheek again.
'You wont to it! The other guards will be back soon.'
'Jonhy, I do believe indeed that you missed the point.' I said in a very dramatic voice. It was hard to stay serious, seeing Jack in a hard time holding back his laughter. I almost needed to laugh myself.
'You see, the other guards are rather busy holding everything in hand. I really hoped that I didn't have to do this, but you leave me no choice Jonhy.'
Very slow I let the knife sink lower and deeper in his skin, drawing a bit of bleed from him when I cut trough the first few lathers of skin.
'Stop.' Jonhy said suddenly, when the knife got to his neck. I looked Jonhy in the eyes.
'You had your change, Jonhy boy, and you missed it.' Then I continued with the knife. When I reached his chest through his sweater as he spook again.
'Stop, please.'
'Sorry?' I said.
'Please.' Jonhy said again, looking down..
'You know what to say.' Then I continued cutting in his chest,
'All right, I will sent it.' He said, sounding scared.
'Promise?' I asked him in a soft voice. As I cut him deeper in the chest
'Yes!!' He yelled, probably from the pain, of fear. I really don't know.
'Good.' I stood up. Jack released Jonhy and he clasped forwards. Then Jack reached a towel from a closet behind him and gave it to Jonhy. Who used it to stop the bleeding. We watched him, ready to jump in if he changed his mind.
'Where is this letter?' He asked me, shaking a bit.
'Here.' And with that I through the letter on the table in front of him.
'When can you sent it.' Jack asked him.
'Tomorrow. The today's mail all ready gone. If Orion sees me sending another letter he knows something is wrong. I doubt that that is what you want.' Jonhy explained, looking me in the eyes.
'You are smarter that I thought Jonhy.' Jack said, probably pleased with his explanation.
'Now that we have that clear, we leave you alone.' I said.
'But, make no mistake by stepping to Orion, then we'll have to go further down.'
Jonhy looked at us if he really considered hitting us.
'Sure.' He finally said.
Then I walked closer to him. When I stood in his front, I grapped a clean piece of the towel, he still hold against his chest. And cleaned the knife. Then I put it in my right boot again.
'Good.' I turned around, and Jack and I walked outside.
Jack closed the door behind him.
Both Mattfew and Micheal stood still waiting outside. So here went everything well to.
'And?' Mattfew asked.
'He will sent it.'
'Good, now we only have to go back.'
We practically run the hole way back to the cell door. Once gotten through that dammed thing we saw that the party was still going. Apparently the guards had a hard time.
We managed to slip past the guards, and past Orion. And I calmly walked up to my cell. When I gotten at my floor I saw Ruth and Paco hanging at the edge.
I smiled at them when I stood next to them, looking over to the others.
'Tomorrow one owl will fly out. Carrying a letter, which will make us free, sent by a guard.'
And we all laughed. Maybe we did that because the trouble we made. Maybe because we fouled Orion. Or maybe because we thought at being free again.
So days past after the party. And every single one was back in his routine. Only the day after the party Jonhy came walking over to me during breakfast. He only told me that the owl left. He turned around then, and walked away once more.
About a week after the party, when every one was inside the cell after working Orion came walking inside the Prison.
I saw him talking to the two man that stood there always, and when he finished he came walking to Block C.
I wondered if Jonhy did told Orion. After a few more minutes I heard footsteps coming on the 5th floor. So, Jonhy did betrayed. I thought, making a mental note to hit him in the face next time I saw him.
I heard Orion walking closer.
My cell door went open.
He stopped in front of my cell door.
'Lupine come with me.' He said, I stepped outside, and walked with him back down to the two guards I met on the day I got here.
'What number will it have?' The one with the note block asked Orion.
'5D15'
'All right.' He scratched on the paper.
'Come.' Orion said to me, and we walked through the door.
We walked a long way. If Jonhy told Orion something then I would all ready know about it.
I noticed that we walked depend into the ground.
I thought that we kept walking all day, but finally we got to a door I never saw before.
This door was completely made off silver.
Orion opened the door, and beckoned me to walk inside, as I did.
He closed the door behind me, stepping in here to.
The room wasn't like a room I ever saw before.
No windows. Only a few lights from candles.
The only thing that stood in this room was an empty wooden chair.
'Sit down' Orion said.
I turned to wards him. Angry, rebellious and full of his sickness.
He grapped his wand out.
'Mobilicorpus.' Orion said. He lifted me up, and moved me in the chair.
After that he said another spell. Thin snakelike cords tied me up to the chair.
'Do you know why you are here?' Orion asked me. I merely looked at him.
'In all these days you spent in here, I would have thought you would know by now.'
He smiled at me. Then he turned around, and muttered another spell. Now he unvanished equipment for branding.
He grapped a knife, probably also stolen from the kitchen, and cut my right sleeve from the rest of my clothes.
'Lupine, try not to scream to hard.' He told me after demolishing my clothes.
He grapped a stele stick, with the number 5D15 on it. He hold one end of the stock in the flames he to made by magic. When the blade was warm enough he turned back to me.
'Now, be a good boy and stay still.' He walked over, and put the almost burning blade to my upper arm. I tried to hold back my screaming. But tears from pain were rolling on my cheeks.
The blade burned the number in my skin. Softly, painful, and to long Orion hold the blade at this place. I wanted to scream from pain, but I couldn't give Orion that pleasure.
After what seemed like hours Orion stopped burning me. He placed the blade back into the fire.
'Lupine, Lupine, Lupine. Did you really think you could fool me? You are a beast, a creep, a murderer. And all my live I tried to break you, and now I can.'
After he said that in a sweetish voice he grapped the blade again, and placed it back on my already burned skin.
The burning blade went through my skin. I could smell the burning off my skin. The smoke came from it. Orion pushed the blade even deeper into my arm, and at this point I could hold back the screams anymore.
I screamed from the pain. I churched Orion. And deep in my hard I shouted at Dumbledore for me getting in here. But that was nothing compared to the words I wanted to yell at Sirius Black. If he hadn't betray James and Lily I wouldn't have this live at all.
The blade draw blood from my arm. And Orion didn't stop until my hole arm was under my own blood.
He put the branding equipment away with a vanishing spell.
'You know what you are?' He asked me. I looked him in the eye.
'I am Remus Lupin. A graduate with honours from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Orion laughed at me.
'You Lupine, are a murderer. I know how it went. It wasn't your friend Sirius Black that betrayed James Potter. It was you. You. You. Murderer….'
'I am scholar, a writer. A human.' I yelled at him.
'Fine. If you won't listen then I'll do it the hard way.' He released me from the cords and pulled me up.
'You murdered the Potter's' He shot to me before he hit me in my face.
Orion kept muttering murderer as he beat me up that time.
After he had enough of beating me, he grapped his knife and continued then demolishing me.
I tried to hit him back, but I couldn't. Orion moved to fast for me. He slowed me down with every injury made on my all ready broken body.
At some point during this time I couldn't see clear anymore. Then Orion punched me on the head.
I collapsed.
After all my years of fighting against him, he finally managed to break me down.
I woke up in my cell. I don't know how I got there, and neither I know when I got there.
It's dark. So probably it in the night somewhere.
I tried to stand up, but when I lifted my head I felt dizzy.
I sat up, so that I was in the shadows and against the cold stone wall. From this point I was sitting I could see the persons in Block C.
Including the little girl.
This time she didn't sat in her cell as normally. But now she stood in the front of her cell, if I didn't know any better I would say that she was watching over me.
I moved out the shadows. Crawling on the ground. When I was in enough light I waved at the girl.
She waved back, but didn't smile or anything.
What has happened to this girl that she couldn't even smile anymore.
I sat there then the hole night. And she stood there.
Tomorrow, if I'm not mistaken would be another day that we had a day of.
I would talk to her tomorrow.
When the next day came I couldn't remember falling in sleep. I awoke when the doors off my cell flew open. I didn't even heard Orion's yells this morning.
During breakfast I didn't say much. Only ensured that I was ok when I saw the worried looks on the face from Paco and Ruth.
After that I rushed outside, in the welcoming son. I walked over the grounds, in search for the little girl.
It took me two hole hours to find her.
She said against a three, kneed pulled up, and looking down.
I walked over to her, and stood against the tree.
'Hello little girl.' I said to her.
She didn't looked up, she just looked down.
She didn't even give a reaction that she knew I was here.
I stepped next to here. She feared me, and backend away a bit.
She still looked down, if she didn't dared to look up.
I sat down on the grass in front of her.
Only then she looked up to me.
'Hello.' I said to her once more.
She blinked in me as a surprise.
'Hello.' She said softly back to me.
'I'm Remus. What's your name?'
'Kary.' She said to me.
I smiled at her. She smiled a bit back, probably still scared of me.
'Thank you for watching over me last night.'
She looked down again.
'Are you here alone.' I asked her. No reaction.
Suddenly everything felt in peaches. Like a domino brick that knock the other over. So that ever brick will fall down.
I softly lifted her chin up with my right hand. So that she was looking in my eyes again.
'How long have you been in here?' I asked the girl.
'Since I was four, and got bitten.' She said to me then.
'And how long have you been deaf?' I asked the girl.
'When I was five. They hit me on my head, since then.' She said.
My hate for Orion increased dramatically.
'So, you can read lips then.' I said smiling. Clever girl she was.
'Yes, father taught me.'
'He was in here to?' It was over my lips before I had a change to kick me for it.
'He was. No he isn't anymore.' I looked at her questionly.
'Last full moon he was killed by them. He tried to get our out, but…'
She wasn't able to make her sentence complete.
'I'm sorry.'
'Can I ask you a thing?' The girl said to me.
'Yes.'
'Next moon, in the pit. Will you do it please?' I looked back to her. Sure she couldn't mean that I should kill her. I can't do that, I won't do that.
'I'm sorry.' I said back to her.
'You must!' She moved a bit, so that she was sitting right opposite of me.
'Please, I need to go. I can't stay in here!'
'No, you don't have to. I'm getting you out of here. I promise.'
'Promise?'
'Yes, I promise.' She smiled warmly at me. It was a beautiful smile, not just a made up one many people worn in here.
We talked the hole day long. About everything and more. About my live, about hers. She told me that she always wanted to see the son rise. But never gotten to do.
Sometimes Paco or Ruth joined in, and talked about there lives to. We talked about the wizarding world to. Although Paco and Ruth didn't went to a school, they surprisingly knew much about it. I wondered where they learned that. Kary told me that her father was a wizard to, and thought her some stuff to defend herself. But since she was in her, she couldn't practise anymore. Because they broke her fathers wand. Luckily I left mine home, hidden on an safe place. I promised to learn her more about it. When we were called in for supper she sat next to me, with the others at one table. I promised to myself that she never ever had to be alone in her once more.
Since that day nothing special happened anymore. Not a single word from the outside which I expected.
Although I knew that the only way we could escape was during the next full moon I did felt worried. One night when I still was awake and looked over to Kary, then I remembered a poem that I read a long time ago.
I grapped my knife I still got in my boot, and wrote it in the wall.
Locked up
Crouch down she cried
Devoured by fear
Words game too short
For always a prisoner
Locked up
Hiding herself
Buried in a corner
Watched by devils eyes
Problems starting
Locked up
Bonds broken
Left by untrustworthy
Knifes cut her open
Piece by piece
Locked up
Once she will dance again
In the sun, in the rain
Freedom and hope recovered
Together escaped from the present
When I finished writing it I sat back against the opposite wall and reread the poem over and over. It reminded me much about Kary, special in her state she now is. And about the promise I made to her. Which I intended to keep. And about Orion, how he managed to destroy her live.
Then I grapped the knife once more, and wrote a small stuck under the poem.
If one can hear a name in a wolf man cry
This blessed one will be soon to die
No harm is undone, no peace is repaired
Only an empty body more under the dark sky
Then I placed the knife again once more.
The second last paragraph was my promise to Kary, and the last paragraph was my promise to Orion.
Days past and we heard nothing. I began to worry, so did the others.
The full moon came tonight, in about ten hours he would rise.
We slowly walked around the grounds, I still worked in the pit, with Orion in my neck.
He told that he would have a show tonight. I knew what he mend.
The hours past quiqly, much to my dislike. About a quarter before the setting of the moon Orion came in the hall, picking me and Kary out.
We walked in silence to the pit. I knew he had to get out of there, but how..
When Orion opened the pit, he through us in. Kary almost hit her head against the board, but I prevented that.
Orion locked the silvered door.
We were alone for now, Kary was scared. I tried to comfort her a bit, the way I was comforted by my friends when the moon would come.
I tried to say to her that everything was going to be all right, but a familiar pain shot through my body, and hers.
I never saw someone else transform, but I would wish it even to my worst anomies. Not even to Orion.
We both howled from the pain, I could her the others howling to.
When we were transformed Kary had her tail between her legs, and she was to scared to move.
I walked over to her, and tried again to conform her again.
She stepped close to me, telling me that she was scared of them.
At this point I sensed a familiar scent. Orion, he was here. He watched us. But he wasn't the only one. A few other humans, all guards, were standing with him to.
They were watching us from behind the bars. Orion had a gun in his hand.
I growled at him, ready to defend the cub.
He shot in the air.
'Better kill her Lupine, it will be less painful for her.' He said in a sneering voice.
I growled in anger. I would never hurt her, I would protect her from him.
He shot again, then he pointed his gun to me.
He pulled over the thicker, and I immediately felt a pain in my shoulder.
Orion hit my, and shot again, But this time he shot at Kary, followed another pain growl.
Kary was hit in her stomage, and she collapsed on the ground.
I growled from rage.
Then I heard something behind the guards. Something that loured from the shadows.
A growl. A werewolf. A huge, angry, werewolf.
A werewolf that came from the outside, our escape maybe.
The guards pulled out there wands, and stepped back.
My turn.
I softly leaped over, and grapped one guards through the bars. With my claws I torn of most clothes.
Then Orion hit me with a spell. I released the guard, and walked over to were Orion stood.
Kary followed me over the place. Hidden safe behind my dangerous body.
Orion amid his wand at me again. The other werewolf growled in warning.
BENG!!!
Somewhere in the prison an explosion was heard, followed by sirens, and howls of pleasure.
All the cell doors opened, werewolf's came running outside. Trough the doors, windows, anyway.
Some werewolf climbed over the barrier, some tried to break the doors down, a few turned there attention to us.
BENG!!
A next explosion, followed by fire golf. A four metre drackon flew outside. Trying to roaster a few guards.
Orion and the other guards vanished when the saw the werewolf running towards us.
I smelled Paco, Ruth, Jack, and even some I never spoken to.
The free werewolf placed his paws against one bars, and began scratching it. He got help by the others.
Soon enough they made a hole big enough.
I crawled outside, and carried Kary in my mouth.
We run to the other side, since Kary was to small to jump over the barrier, we run outside through the door.
Deep in my mind I knew that I hadn't see the last from Orion.
But all worries died, when I stock my nose in the air, and stretched my legs while running through the forest.
I never felt such a pleasure, it was great.
Everywhere you look you saw free werewolf's.
We were like a sea, a wild sea that streamed over the landscape. Claming what was ours.
On a small hill in the forest, I stopped and turned around.
The prison was burned down, guards were busy trying to blush the fire.
Ruth howled at me, asking were I was.
I turned around, and walked away from the prison.
We run further and further away.
As far as possible. Back to my house.
At some point Kary and I stopped our tracks, and said goodbye to Ruth, Paco and Jack, who went further north.
I walked over to a calm river. The Driffield beck.
There I put Kary on the grounds.
She tried to stand, but failed, and collapsed to the ground once more.
I lay down beside her, and cleaned her wounds. She moved a bit, and crawl on my front legs.
There she fall asleep.
When the sun began to rise I awoke Kary. We both watched the sun rise, demanding the place from the moon.
It took a few moment longer before the moon to set, and we both transformed back.
We quickly run over to my house.
There I gave Kary new clothes, that were way to big for her. I shorted them a bit my magic.
I pulled on my muggle yeans again. And a red t-shirt.
Kary was amused that I was a wizard to.
I told her that I went to Hogwarts, and that she would probably go there to.
'Hogwarts, there went dad to.' She said then
'Oh, what was his name then?' I asked the girl.
'Wayne McConray.' She said, pleased.
'The Gryffindor quidditch keeper?' I asked her unbelievable.
'Yep, you knew him?' She asked me again.
'Yeah I knew him alright.'
I talked about my Hogwarts time. About all the pranks Wayne pulled, and about the marauders. Off course, there were times I couldn't say all the details. But she got the picture.
It felt good to do so.
Like she was my own daughter.
'Can you teach me all this stuff?' She asked me awhile later.
'Sure I can. But for now you need to rest.'
I guided her to my bedroom, were she took place in my bed.
I pulled the blankets to her shoulders. She felt asleep. Smiling as she did so.
It was good to take care for her. I felt like a normal person again, and I had found a reason to live again.
I could help her through there transformations the way my parents were never able to.
I never would have to leave her side, nor she would have to leave mine.
Kary.
A six years old parentless deaf girl.
A werewolf, bitten by her father.
My reason for everything.
To pull all my strength again, to guide her trough this world.
I sat down on my couch, grapping a cup of coffee.
I smiled at all the memories that flashed through my mind.
Somehow when Kary was with me live didn't seemed bad.
Not bad indeed.
For now, I had found my way back home again.
And I took home a daughter.