Of Vampires and Lycans
Chapter 1 - Introduction of Rita and Syn
Rita Kristen Janson sat in an empty compartment in the Hogwarts Express, staring out the window with a blank look on her face.
Rita was a seventh year student along with the Golden Trio, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. She was tall and pretty with long reddish-brown hair and blue eyes. She wore her Hogwarts robes and was holding something in her hand tightly.
Suddenly, the compartment door opened and Rita's head turned to face the person that dared to enter. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the ones that stepped in and Rita cracked a smile for them.
"Hello, Rita. We were wondering if we could stay in here. Everywhere else is full." Harry said and Rita nodded.
She had to admitt, she had a crush on Harry, but what girl didn't? She just didn't go for the heroic things alone, though, like every other girl on the planet.
"Are you going to say anything or do we have to pretend you are?" Ron asked and Rita smiled again and noticed Hermione gazing curiously at the thing in her hand.
"What's that in your hand, Rita?" Hermione asked and Rita looked down at it and sighed.
She opened her hand and ther was an amulet that looked like a half-moon, the same color and everything.
"An old friend of mine gave it to me a while back, when I was like 5 or so. It takes the shape of the phase of the moon. If there is no moon, it turns black." Rita said and she put the amulet back on its string and put it around her neck.
"Who was that friend?" Harry asked and Rita looked at him.
"Her name is Syn. No one knows her last name, though, except the ones extremely close to her." Rita said and Hermione looked as if she was in deep thought.
"What's she like?" Hermione asked after about five minutes of thought.
"She's. . .uh. . .well, tall, thin, friendly to the people close to her. She's a good friend of mine." Rita said and she looked like she was a little scared.
'I've said to much. What if she never forgives me?' Rita thought, looking horrified at the thought.
After that, Rita fell silent and didn't talk for the rest of the train ride. She was scared.
Suddenly, the train stopped an the lights went out. Some girls up in front screamed and Rita looked up, shocked.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Rita got out their wands, but Rita was more nervous than they were. She hadn't been through the stuff that they had.
A high-pitched roar caught everyone's attention and Rita screamed.
"They've come for me! Let me out!" She yelled and the Golden Trio got out of her way as she opened the compartment door and ran out into the hallway.
Tall wolf-like creatures were in the hallway and Rita could hear them on the roof as well. Rita stopped in front of one of them and it stepped aside. Rita ran passed the creature and ran into another one behind it.
Rita fell to the floor and looked up at the creature as it turned out to be a normal human, or so it looked.
"Syn!" Rita gasped and the woman lent her a hand and helped her up.
"Yes, child. We have come back for you. Come!" Syn said, but leather-clad figures appeared in the hallway, shooting the creatures and Syn was hit three times.
"Syn!" Rita yelled as the woman fell to the ground.
Syn gasped as the silver rushed through her veins and grabbed at Rita's robes. Syn pulled the shocked Rita down and the girl watched as her eyes turned cobalt blue and the white part of her eyes turned black. She, also, noticed that Syn's teeth were sharp and she gulped, knowing something was going to happen.
Syn pulled at the collar of Rita's robes and shirt and she dug her teeth into her shoulder. Rita cried out when this happened and she grabbed at the back of Syn's jacket, trying to make her stop.
Suddenly, Syn was pulled away from the girl, weakened. The man that held her cast a worried glance at Rita and opened a compartment door, that just happened to hold Draco Malfoy and his flunkies.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" Malfoy yelled before he looked up and saw the big man holding the woman, who was still gasping, trying to survive the silver intake.
The man opened the window and threw the woman out and closed it back without taking another glance at her and he left the compartment.
"Syn!" Rita yelled running into the compartment and opening the window, only to see that her best friend was laying on the ground with blood coming out of her nose and her left leg bent under her body. "No! Syn!"
Rita ran back out of the compartment and began to cry as the train was rid of all the creatures. Rita ran back to her compartment and curled up in the corner, hugging her legs to her chest and crying her eyes out.
Rita pulled out her amulet and grasped it tightly as she mourned the loss of her best friend in the world.
Before long, everyone was calmed down, except for Rita, that is, and the train was going again, but the leather-clad people were still on the train with their guns at the ready.
"She can't be dead. She can't be." Rita whispered over and over and Harry put his hand on the girl's shoulder.