A/N: Weekly long post. Four pages on MicroWord. Have fun. You can read it over the span of four days! Hey, hey!
They appeared almost all at once, in front of the Great Hall, there was really no one in sight, except for Filch, who stopped dead in his tracks, his mouth wide open, not able to do a thing about the vampires appearing in the school. "I thought it was impossible to do this," Lyric said, he'd half expected them not to make it in.
"We're vampires," Bam said with a smile, "Of course we can Apparate past the defenses. Haven't you read Hogwarts A History?"
"Not you too..." Lyric murmured under his breath, "Wouldn't the Founders thought about vampires—?"
"What business would vampires have with Hogwarts? Especially back then, we wouldn't have even bothered."
"What he means to say is, the Founders wouldda kicked their asses anyway," Interstate murmured in a snicker.
"Anyway, we're here now, there's no one around. Now what?" Bam asked, the other vampires from before started to appear around them in different places, loudly Lyric thought, but again, probably not as loud to human ears. If his dad were near, he would have identified the noise. If his dad was close...then he already knew the vampires had arrived.
"Follow me," Interstate said slowly, walking forward to the Great Hall, Lyric listened harder, and suddenly realized the noise that was coming from behind the doors.
"Interstate," He said suddenly, "The whole school is in there."
"Does it look like I care?" Interstate snapped, tugging on the door, it didn't budge. With a roll of his eyes he passed his hand over the handles, he darted his hand back suddenly with a hiss, "Great, I can't get through," he said, "I bet there's teachers in there. I don't want to wonder through the whole school looking for Dumbledore...not in the dark, there could be Death Eaters anywhere."
"Let me try," Bam snapped, "And you two, get over here!" he added, yelling at two vampires who had started to go astray from the group. Lyric surveyed how many had turned up, about fifteen to twenty deadly un-trusting fighting vampires.
There were woman to, one that struck him as odd to be there was a normal girl, her hair was dark brown and tumbled down her shoulders, she was in jeans and a black form-fitting top, and she was wearing a long black coat like Bam was. She was eyeing the school around idly with sharp dark eyes, like she was examining a part of her past. Former student? Lyric wondered...and then she looked at him, with a small smile, that's when he looked away.
While Bam and Interstate worked on the door, Bam arguing that he just needed a second to collect himself and as he put it, "get it together", Lyric's eyes wondered back over to the vampiress. She seemed to be taking over the group, looking back at Bam every so often. He got the feeling like she was second in command, or Bam's girlfriend too...either one would fit the description.
"Listen up, if any of you even think of harming the kids, leave now. Seriously, this is a chance to prove who we can be," she snapped at her companions when their attention seemed to be wondering astray.
"My brother's working for Voldemort," someone said from the crowed in an annoyed voice.
"Well if you want to go to the dark side, be my guest Sanjeet, I'll meet you on the other side, with a stake through your heart," the woman replied darkly with an unforgiving tone.
"No, he betrayed me. I will kill my brother for what he had done."
Oh, Lyric thought absent mindedly, that's nice...
"Knives and guns out," The vampiress then ordered, everyone suddenly flicked out black handled guns and knives, and a chill crept up Lyric's spine, he grasped his wand tighter, watching a vampire twirl his knife in his hand.
This was the real thing. What was he doing? He wasn't an Auror, he couldn't fight, he was only a fifth year for that matter! He didn't even know what he wanted to be when he was older...this was too crazy. Too surreal. His heart suddenly leapt as he remembered Keaton.
Oh no, Keaton! What was she thinking? He'd left her alone...was she all right? Had their dad gotten to her or not?
"You look nervous," Lyric looked over at the vampiress, "Names Adrienne."
"Lyric," he replied quietly.
"Yeah, Lupin right? We all know about you, I was around when Remus Lupin first came, I was a first year when he was in his seventh," she said with a sigh, "I remember him though. Very clearly, there was always something different about those four, the whole school knew them anyway...they were legends."
"Still are," Lyric said quietly.
"Yeah, them and Harry Potter. I wonder if he's here...I've never even seen him before."
Lyric was surprised about how normal this woman was acting, Adrienne... "Are you in charge or something?" he asked curiously.
She smiled, "When Bam's screwing things up, yeah, I take charge."
"I got it!" Bam suddenly called impatiently, Lyric turned back just as two other vampires pulled the doors open. Interstate was the first to enter. Lyric followed by his side hurriedly, feeling his face heat up as the entered the Great Hall. Most of the girls screamed when they entered, and Lyric finally got the courage to look up. His assumption was confirmed. The whole school was there...all of them talking loudly, seated on the floor (the tables had gone), but it became deathly quiet and chilling when they entered the Great Hall. Lyric watched as seventh years took out their wands, the younger kids following the example, all of them looking scared out of their minds.
"For heaven's sake, what now...?" Professor McGonagall was the first to speak, it didn't look like she remembered ever taking Interstate to fetch a bunch of deadly vampires.
Most of the vampires stayed together, none of them hung around at the end, or jumped out at kids or anything, which was probably a good thing, their loyalty to Bam and Adrienne was being extremely tested. Lyric suddenly for once realized how organized they were, how they followed their leaders without question, none of them were breaking the rules at all...
Professor Dumbledore was already standing, and the rest of the Professors were swooning over a table of maps and dots, with books and wands, most suddenly, everyone stopped, and immediately went into battle mode, wands up and raised at the new intruders.
"Interstate," Dumbledore said in a would-be-calm voice, "What have you done?"
"Professor Dumbledore," Interstate said, his head raised bravely, "This is Bam Sang, leader of the Sang Clan in France...he's going to help us."
Everyone stared, their eyes then averting to the vampire standing next to Interstate with a bored expression, he was eyeing each Professor with a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me kind of look, Lyric wondered if he would actually say it out loud...he wouldn't would he? "You've go to be kidding me."
And he did. Even Adrienne seemed to exchange a shocked glance at Bam for his disrespect. "Sorry," Bam went on to say, covering up his comment the best he could, "I didn't mean it like that it's just...aren't you under attack from Death Eaters? I mean, you're just standing here, you need reinforcements, with all due respect Headmaster, you need fighters..."
"And what can you do about it?" McGonagall protested, "You don't even know the proper use of a wand, you're not magical in any way, it's a wonder how you found us in the first place. You all will be shot down immediately. These are Death Eaters, ones with wands, you have no wands!"
"We have...how do you say? Adapted," Bam said with a kind light voice, Lyric got the feeling he was trying not to loose his cool the best he could, "Cut it out!" Bam yelled suddenly at another vampire that had been smiling at the nearest sixth year girl. He turned back to the Professors with a calm look, "Désolé" he murmured quietly.
"In what ways could you have possibly adapted to wizard curses?"
"That's a secret," Bam said tapping his head with one sharp nailed finger.
McGonagall rolled her eyes most suddenly and un-characteristically for someone as professional acting as her.
"What did you have in mind Mr. Sang?" Dumbledore asked, over the shock of having vampires in his school, he seemed to now even fear for the students for once, he never took his eyes off the group of vampires, but neither was anyone else. And all of the students were within a twenty-foot radius of them by now.
"Call me Bam," He said slowly walking up to the Head table curiously, brushing his fingers over the map that was scrawled across it. "Where are the Death Eaters?"
There was a moment of silence, and then Dumbledore looked at Snape, who quickly reacted, Lyric sensed un-ease in the Professor, obedience of some sort...Lyric had never felt it in the Professor before, his eyes seemed nervous as he looked at Interstate.
"They have broken through the curses of the school, Voldemort himself is said to be among them, most are in the front of the school, though they are also inside, which is exactly why we have locked ourselves here. The Ministry is aware of our situation, and any available Auror is coming to fight, this could well turn into a war..."
"Who let the bad guys in?" Bam asked in a serious, quiet voice.
"Noah Lupin and ZJ Miller," McGonagall butted in, Lyric winced, hearing his father's name, he even felt Interstate become tense.
"That's not good," Bam said, more talking to himself than anyone else, Snape looked up at Bam from the map, as if he was thinking what to say to it.
Moments later... "No, no it's not," Lyric hid a smile by looking away to the crowd of students. Familiar classmates looked back, and then Lyric realized he was still in his werewolf form, not that anyone would have noticed...
But he was aware they all knew, even with the little Sight he had left in him, he could feel their anxiety.
"My instructions were not to kill the werewolf, what about this Miller?" Bam made his way back down the steps away from the table, and looked back at Dumbledore.
"No, do not," Dumbledore said darkly, "They will be held for questioning."
Suddenly Lyric got a rude realization deep in his gut.
His father was going to go to Azkaban...
Noah Lupin had pushed it too far...he really was going to Azkaban prison if he survived this...if he got through this at all...he would be gone...gone forever...
Lyric stumbled back like he had been hit, his dad who always seemed to be laughing...or had been a few months back. Look at what this ordeal had done to him...how could they do that to him? All Lyric could hear was his dad's voice in his head... When you get to Hogwarts, don't take crap from anyone alright? Lupin isn't a very respected name because of our blood...
Lyric wished he could tell him...you made it respected...you did whatever you could for me...for Keaton and me to live normally...you did all you could...
Bam glanced at him sympathetically and stepped infront of him, blocking Lyric out from Dumbledore's watchful gaze. Lyric felt a cool hand brush his own with a small squeeze, and looked up to see Adrienne who winked at him, pulling her delicate hand back away.
"Alright then, it is settled, we're going to fight," Bam said quickly to everyone's horror, "First off, you two stay here," he said pointing to two loyal looking vampires, both wearing all black, with equally black hair, they looked like twins, there wasn't much color in any of their wardrobes.
"The rest of us, scout the school, take out as many Démons De Traître as possible near here," he said hopping down the final step and leading the way back out of the Great Hall, as they were walking, Lyric looked at Interstate questionably.
"Demon Betrayers...Death Eaters," Interstate said with a cough and then a, "Wait! Hey, y'all can't leave me here!" a yell loud enough for the whole school to here, which was exactly what was happening.
"You can't come," Bam yelled in return, "You're a student! We can't harm any students, it'd look bad if you got hurt!" he said as the rest of the vampires twirled their more than likely cursed and charmed knives and guns out of the Great Hall. Lyric saw Adrienne give him one last reassuring smile, he kind of liked her...she was nice at least, there was something about her that almost seemed familiar.