AN: Well here is the update! i had fun writing this chapter and i hope you like it!!
It's much better the first chapter thanx to my new beta reader Madman!! he's been really helpfull in finding mistakes (my spelling sucks!)and adding a bit of his humor! Thanx a lot!
Oh well, i hope you readers like this chapter! i'll be updateing soon!
Disclaimer: everything belongs to JK Rowling. only the plot is mine. If by any chance my plot matches any other fanfic, don't sue because I'm writing this just for fun!!
Chapter 2After James knew that the tree was frozen, he climbed out of the hole in his stag form, knowing that Moony was still behind him. Looking up at the sky he saw the full moon shine towards the ground, just this one sight triggered many memories of the marauders and their adventures.
Without a second thought he headed towards the forbidden forest. James had promised himself that he was going the search deeper into the forest, although he knew the forest layout like the back of his hand; there was still the urge to discover. He was going to discover something tonight all right, but it's not the forest.
He could hear Moony and Padfoot come out of the hole following him. Suddenly he heard Padfoot bark. Looking back to the werewolf he could see that Moony was standing still and was looking fixatedly in one direction, unwaveringly. This is bad, James thought, quickly looking in the direction where Moony was looking.
What he saw sent a ghastly chill down his spine; Lily was running away to the castle. Of all the times to go strolling around the grounds it had to be full moon.
Sirius had already seen Lily and was trying his best to block Moony, pacing slowly from side to side with his hackles raised, so he could give time for Lily to go into the safety of the castle. James sighed in relief, Lily was running to the castle and Moony was far away and what's more, he had to go through James and Sirius first to get to her.
But Remus's uncontrollable thirst for blood drove the werewolf to lunge at Sirius in a desperate attempt to pass the massive dog. They were both slashing and tearing each other apart with their razor sharp claws and teeth. Sirius landed blows on Remus, which would surely kill a human in seconds. Remus almost didn't care about the brutal blows he received but returned his assaults with rapid and savage clawing, ripping Sirius into bits. Horrible sounds of snarling and slashing filled the normally calm night air. Sirius gathered up his strength, pounded Remus and sent the werewolf hurtling through the air. After slowly getting back on all fours, he approached the werewolf who had landed a few metres away, and seemed unconscious. Sirius no longer was worried about Remus anymore and so put his guard down. A huge mistake it was, for Moony opened his eyes ,sprang to life and without warning tackled Padfoot, who fell hard to the ground. James immediately ran towards the two fighting canines and managed to hit Moony with his prongs. The werewolf was thrown off Sirius, whom he had pinned on the ground.
Moony immediately stood up and ran past his two friends in the Lily's direction, who was still trying to run.
James and Sirius immediately fired into pursuit after the wolf, trying to get to Lily before Moony did. If they didn't... James didn't want to think about what a thirsty werewolf could potentially do. Werewolves were cursed to go after any human being for their blood. If they don't attack any humans on full moon their thirst and hunger is transferred to the next full moon and so on, until they can get to some one. Moony, being secluded from any human contact when a werewolf for nearly a year, wouldn't be so keen on passing up a chance for even a drop of human blood.
James with all his might put on a burst of speed and ran as fast as he could. The stag was now faster than the werewolf, so James caught up quickly. Lily was on the ground now; James saw her tripping on a stone while she was running and was watching fearfully at the werewolf that was running full speed at her with snarled teeth flashing, mouth foaming and with a merciless glint in its eyes.
James charged the werewolf's side, pummelling it to the ground. It took a few seconds for the werewolf to recover from the forceful blow, and turned its attention to James. What the werewolf saw wasn't his best friend trying to protect an innocent person.
All he saw was an animal, who was getting in the way of its dinner.
While Moony was charging at James, Sirius managed to catch up and jumped onto Moony, starting a fully-fledged canine fight that James was happy he wasn't a part of, since they were both practically ripping each other apart as before. It was true that some part of Moony saw them as friends, but the beast which now controlled him, regarded them as a nuisance, stopping him from his dinner.
James ran over to Lily and stood next to her. Lily looked at the stag nervously but quickly tried to get on, which was what James' hoped she would logically do: it was no option to be in a middle of a fight between two gigantic dogs with teeth longer dinner knives, even though it meant climbing on top of a stag which you have never seen before –anything could happen in the magical world.
After a couple of tries, Lily finally made it on the stag, and grabbed the stag's neck to hold on. She had never ridden a stag, much less even a pony: it wasn't really comfortable, but comfort wasn't something to be worried about at a time like this.
Sirius was still fighting with Remus and was slowly pushing it back into the shrieking shack. Every time the werewolf wanted to turn on Lily, Sirius would anger the werewolf again and again until it was distracted and they were moving slowly away from where Lily was.
James ran as fast as he could to the castle, in no time he was panting. He had never had the chance to carry anyone on his back before and to be truthful; it wasn't something he would like to do again.
Lily tried her best to hold on to the stag's neck as they raced to the front doors of the castle.
Once they were at the front door, Lily got of the stag and looked at the stag again, before it started to change into the form of James Potter, who slumped on the door, panting as if he took somebody on a piggy back ride from an escape from a mythical wolf.
Whack!! James held his hand against his now burning red cheek were Lily had just slapped him.
"What was that for??!!" exclaimed James with exaggerated innocence.
"What was that for?! WHAT WAS THAT FOR??!! YOU WALK AROUND WITH A WEREWOLF AND NEARLY GET ME KILLED AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME WHY I SLAPPED YOU???!!!" shouted Lily in a fit a rage.
"Shhhhh, calm down or you're gonna get us caught by Filch!" James whispered hastily at Lily.
"Not if I tell him first!" Lily said still angry.
James grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her away from the entrance and into a shadow covered corner.
"What are you doing?!" said Lily.
"Don't go telling Filch before you hear the truth!" James said sternly, his breathing was normal again and he regained his composure.
"And what is that then?" Lily said, expecting a very, very good answer for all what happened.
"We became animagus to..."James was interrupted when a bark was heard and a big black dog ran next to James transforming into his normal form.
"I got Remus-" Sirius eyed Lily warily, pondering for a moment, before pulling out his wand and pointing at Lily's head. Before Sirius could do any thing, Lily had her wand out and James grabbed Sirius' arm.
"James! What's with you, she knows that we're animagus!" Sirius snarled at James like the dog he was.
"I know, but this is Lily we're talking about. Lily, our friend!" said James almost pleadingly.
"I know we're talking about Lily; Lily who knows too much about our secret though she is our friend which I don't care because this goes beyond friendship as this secret might destroy our lives forever if it is revealed by our friend who understands ITS LAW WE BROKE!!!" Sirius frantically spilled out. James and Lily just stood there; staring at Sirius with wide eyes. Sirius then cleared his throat and continued normally, if angry is what normal is for him.
"Well have you told her everything? She knows about us being illegal animagus, and that alone can get us thrown out of school, or worse into Azkaban!" Sirius shouted angrily.
While James and Sirius were arguing, Lily was just standing there with confused emotions. One, she was still shocked by the fact that she was nearly killed by a werewolf. Two, angry with James for not telling her in the first place.
"We can trust Lily, she's not about to tell the ministry about us!" James said loudly.
"Hello, I can hear you, you know!" Lily interrupted slightly annoyed. Both James and Sirius looked at Lily, James looked a bit embarrassed and Sirius still looked angry.
"How much has this fathead git told you about us?!" Sirius said coldly.
"All I know is that both of you... and maybe Remus... are animagus and you go wandering around the school at night!" retaliated Lily.
"Hasn't he told you about how Remus-"
"Found something weird around the shrieking shack the other day!" James interrupted Sirius, stepping in front of him giving Sirius a 'play along' look.
Lily looked at James disbelievingly, "So let me take a wild guess, you all went to investigate and found a werewolf!?"
"Um.....yeah.....sure.....THAT'S RIGHT!!!" both James and Sirius said together.
"So where is Remus then?" Lily said narrowing her eyes.
James suddenly became very nervous; he didn't really think that Lily was buying the story. With that said, he didn't really have a good answer to that question, it was one thing to not tell Lily something, but it was another thing to Lie to her straight out, and James didn't want to break the trust that he was building up with Lily, which was what he had painstakingly accomplished after many years.
Sirius figured out why his friend was hesitating with the question and thought up a good cover story.
"Remus is in the forest making sure that werewolf doesn't come back out of the forest." said Sirius. "So will you keep this little incident quiet?"
"I'll think about it." replied Lily.
"With all due respect, I would like to know now." said Sirius, gritting his teeth with annoyance and anger.
"I will, if you keep it quiet about me sneaking out!"
"Deal." Sirius immediately pulled out a piece of parchment from his robes. He pointed his wand at the parchment and muttered something softly under his breath, before rolling it up again.
"Take the route along the charms corridor and you should get back without bumping into any teachers." said Sirius calmly.
"What are you going to do?" asked Lily suspiciously.
James looked back at his friend after being quiet for the last part of the conversation. He was really against lying to Lily, she was a smart girl, and eventually she would have figured out about Remus. Now it would make sense to her, with Remus leaving every month, Remus getting sick during potions, his lack of energy during part of the month. With this everything would be clear to her.
"We're going to call Remus, tomorrow he needs to go the funeral of his second cousin uh....Harold." said Sirius.
"Wait, I thought he went to Harold's funeral last month." said Lily again suspiciously. "Funny how many Harolds die at one time."
'Damn you Padfoot, why did you go use the same name as last month!' James thought angrily, glaring at Sirius.
"It's Remus's other second cousin, he has two that are named the same!" James said quickly, making up for Sirius covering for him earlier.
Lily walked over the Sirius and slapped his on his left cheek before turning around and walking to the front doors of the school
"You should know what that's for..."she called back. James tried his best to hold in the urge to laugh, looking at Sirius who was rubbing his left cheek, cursing "Why that little.....", but was interrupted with James bursting into hysterical laughter.
"Don't say a thing!" Sirius said venomously, with that they turned around and transformed into Prongs and Padfoot to join Moony.
AN: hope u liked it!!
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