Alexandra Dragonhart(A.D.): I was getting a little discouraged from writting this story since nobody had reviewed in a while, but the last reviewers(on this site and others) have given me my will to write back...and my muse! I'll try to update often enough, even if it means shorter chapters.

Hermione: Shouldn't you put a disclaimer here?

A.D.: Huh?

Hermione: roll eyes Alexandra doesn't own any of the characters or ideas that you can find in the Harry Potter books and/or movies. All she owns is this storie's ideas and her original chracters, namely, the four werewolves(Miranda, Kevin, William...and the rest of their pack), Lizzie, the Blood Clan and any other character you don't recognize.

A.D.: blinks What she said, laywer people...ANYWAY, on with the story.

The Blood Clan and the Marauders

Chapter 7: Into the Wolf's Jaws

The frigid dungeon's corridor was occupied only, by Remus, who still hadn't moved, and his friends, but they knew it would soon be flooded by students. Sirius and James were kneeling near their catatonic friend. Peter stood a little further away, looking very pale. The two girls stood somewhere between them. Lily was bitting her lip. She was trying to remember anything she could from any book, TV show or anything else that could help Remus.

Lizzie turned her head towards the stair from which they had come. She sniffed the air once, but now that they were all there, whatever scents had been lingering here before, they were now overtaken by theirs. She sighed and turned back to the current situation when James spoke.

"I know that the best thing would technically be to wait for a teacher to come, but if they find us here like this they're sure to suspect Remus." he said, looking at his girlfriend.

"But..."Lily began.

"We can't let that happen and not even try to do anything!" Sirius exclaimed, almost yelling.

"Don't yell!" Peter pleaded. "Somebody will hear us."

"Maybe we should just wait for a teacher..." Remus said quietly.

The others all looked at him with surprise. He slowly stood up with the help of James and Sirius. He looked towards the door and then at Sirius, who looked like the one who complied the less with his idea.

"Padfoot, we don't have a choice. Even if they don't find us - me - here, they may suspect that I'm responsible. What else could do something like that?"

Lizzie suddenly came to a realisation and almost let out a squeal. Maybe it wasn't Remus! She remembered the feeling she had got from the other new students. They were werewolves! That was it. It was them who had done this. She felt a warmth invade her body, but as she was about to tell the others, she realised she couldn't. How would a normal girl know such a thing. They'd never believe her.

"Lizzie?" she suddenly heard Lily ask.

"What?" she asked with confusion.

"What do you think? Stay or leave." James asked.

"I...err...I think that we should leave. It could be a lot of other things, you know." she answered, thinking fast.

"See! I'm not the only one who thinks so." Sirius exclaimed.

"We can't just leave the scene of a murder!" Lily argued in an exasperate way.

"You are right Miss Evans." Dumbledore's voice declared.

All six teenagers turned to look towards the stairs, where the Headmaster stood, McGonagall at his side. They both looked very serious. It wasn't uncommon for McGonagall, but the older wizard seemed like a totally different person.

"We weren't going to leave!" Peter yelled in fright.

"Stop panicking, Pettigrew." McGonagall sharply replied. "Nobody said that you were."

"Professor...Headmaster, do...do you have any ideas what could have done this?" Remus asked, looking down.

"None for the moment. And I shall wait before making accusations that could be wrong."

"Can we leave now?" James asked giving a quick look into the classroom.

"Yes, of course." McGonagall answered without even looking at them. "Tell your fellow Gryffindors that the class will not occur today."

Miranda let out a huge yawn as she looked around the Charms classroom. Beside her, Kevin was sitting straight, but had his eyes closed, his head sometimes droping slightly before he caught himself. William sat in front of them. Sat was of course only an expressing. He had laid his head on the desk and obviously was sleeping. She wondered why the teacher hadn't realized the three of them paid no attention, contrarly to their fellow Slytherins. She shrugged it off. The night hunt had been worth losing a few points anyway...and the only way she cared for Slytherin winning the house cup was just that Gryffindor wouldn't.

"I wish we would get more nights like that one." She whispered to herself.

Suddenly she felt an ice-cold sensation coming from inside one of her pockets. It had surprised her, but not as much as it had surprised her companions. William almost fell off his chair when he felt the same sensation coming from his pants' back pocket and Kevin jerked awake, pushing his books off his desk. The teacher gave the two boys a meaningful look and turned back to his board.

"Damn! Why the Hell are they contacting us now?" William muttered.

"After the class we'll go." Kevin told Miranda, who wrote it down on a note she passed to William.

Sirius, James, Remus, Peter, Lily and Lizzie went to their common room and told everybody that the class was cancelled, which caused a few questions, but mostly screams of joy. They were, however, not in a mood to do much of anything. Remus went up to the boys' dorm saying they should wake him up for the next class and James went up about a minute later to check up on him. Lily sat to a table with a few books to take advantage of the free time to do homeworks. Peter went beside her so she could help him with his own. That left Sirius and Lizzie to sit with nothing to do to forget what had happened.

"Well...uh...I'm...I think I'll go for a walk." Lizzie said, getting up. "I need to think about all of this."

"I'll go with you...if you don't mind." Sirius said, also getting up to his feet.

"Well, I..." she stopped, her gaze fixed on him. "Alright."

"Great. Let's go outside, though. I feel like I'm going to get crazy if I stay inside the scholl for any longer."

Lizzie smiled, but inside she could feel her stomach twist and felt like she was going to be sick.

"What am I doing? Okay, calm down it's just an innocent walk." Lizzie thought.

She and Sirius walked out of common room together, both lost in their own thoughts. Lily looked up from her book, opening her mouth as if she was about to say something, but realized her friends were gone.

"Guys?" she questionned looking around.

When she found them nowhere in the room, she shook her head in a defeated way and looked back down. She was used to this kind of thing by now. The boys, being pranksters and all, had a nick for doing that.

Dumbledore sat on a chair, his hands joined together on the table in front of him as a large group of professors sat and stood a little everywhere in the room.

"What is going on, Headmaster?"

"Has there really been a murder?"

"Murder? Who did it?"

"Is the school being closed?"

"Do the students know?"

"Who was killed?"

The old headmaster raised one of his hands to demand silence, which he obtained right away. All the present wizards and witches faced him with questionning looks plastered on their faces.

"Please calm down. I can only answer one question at a time...and I will explain everything." Dumbledore declared in a very calm manner. "There was a body found, but what happened exactly is an unknown information as of now. The school will remain opened for now."

"Who was killed?" a teacher asked.

"Drannaor." McGonagall said quietly, her answer followed by complete silence. "A substitute will assure the Potions class for the time being."

Kevin, William and Miranda, wearing black, green lined, hooded cloaks, where walking on the school grounds, near the Dark Forest. The weather, which had been beautiful only moments before had turned horrible, as if to match their procession towards the Forest and theur summoner. William kept looking back towards the castle in a nervous manner that annoyed Miranda to the point she kept pushing him every time he did so. Finally she slapped him behind the head as Kevin completely ignored them.

"You're bloody annoying, Will!" she exclaimed.

"But what if somebody followed us? What if somebody finds out that..."

"We'll just kill them. Besides, we made sure nobody did, moron." Kevin cut him.

"And leave another body for the teachers and students to find? How clever." a woman's voice said.

In front of them, just under the first trees, stood a woman wearing a cloak similar to theirs, only her face was completely hidden. She took a few steps towards them and chuckled slightly.

"That was very careless of you, children." she told them playfully.

"Karla." Miranda stated, her voice trembling ever slightly.

"Seriously, you will not leave bodies out in the open anymore. We do not want the school closing before we find IT." the woman told them, ignoring the girl. "Also...it would be interesting if the Gryffindors were to find out little Elizabeth's secret. Finally, we, the Elders, have a gift for you lot."

She reached into her cloak with one of her hands and took out four pendants. The three teenage werwolves lokd at them in wonder. She put one around each of their necks and gave one more to Kevin. Then, she took out a small bag and also gave it to him.

"Use these carefully. Do not play meaningless games anymore. Use them only when they are needed. The fourth one is destined to your new playmate. He shall help us...even wether he wants to or not. The powder is also for him. I'm sure you know what to do with him, Murray."

"Yes."

"Well, then...you can go ba..." she suddenly stopped and violently turned to her her left, looking towards the castle.

Her eyes looked around with a predator's attention for a minute or two and then her gaze stopped on a large rock. The three teenagers looked at it, trying to see whatever had attracted their elder's attention.

Sirius and Lizzie were slowly walking around on the grounds, not really having a destination. Lizzie gave Sirius quick looks every minute or so, unsure what to do or say. He probably thought about Remus and the possibility his friend was the murderer.

Sirius, for his part, did indeed think about Remus. He couldn't believe Remus would kill somebody. It had never occured to him that Remus could escaped their vigilance on their little escapades. He sighed heavily and shook his head.

Suddenly, a light rain began to fall. Without a word, the both turned around and began to walk back towards the castle, but before than had moved two meters, the rain changed into a flood. Lizzie let out a scream and they both started running. They stopped under a three. Sirius was laughing his head of and Lizzie slumped to the ground, her back to the three.

"So much for our walk." Sirius let out sitting beside her.

She turned her head and found her face only inches from his. To keep dry...or at least less wet, Sirius had to sit quite close to her.

"Y-yeah." was all she managed to say.

"Guess we're stuck here." Sirius said with a grin. "Just the two of us."

Lizzie felt herself blush and rapidly looked away, not wanting him to notice. She was certain he was just teasing her anyway. Lily had told her he did that a lot with girls.

"I guess so." she whispered, watching the now dark grey sky.

"Well, maybe we should play a game."

"What kind of game do you want to play while stuck under a three while rain is pouring down?" Lizzie asked, amused, as she turned her head back towards his.

"I know. We can play riddles. We describe something and the other must guess. Let's say we have three chances."

"Alright." she said, looking away. "But what about our next class."

"Bah. It's not for a while. Don't be so stuck up." he said sounding slightly annoyed.

Lizzie felt a tug at her heart as he said those words. She looked at him straight in the eyes and grinned.

"Just wondering if I'd get to see you all wet, Mr. Black." she said playfully while she was going crazy inside.

She had never been in a situation like this with a boy. All the boyss he knew were vampires and would never even think of spending good time with her.

"Fine. I start." he replied, grinning back. "It's black, green, silver, and if you try to catch it by the top there's no way you'll ever get a grip on it."

Lizzie laughed and shook her head. Sirius simply looked at her in a very serious way, waiting for her answer.

"Alright. Black, green and silver....that would probably be related to Slytherin..." she paused for a few seconds and then had a second laugh. "Snape!"

"Correct!" Sirius exclaimed. "Your turn."

"As soon as you say it's name, it disappears."

"I know! Peter!"

"Sirius! You just wasted a chance."

"Okay, okay! I'll try for real." Sirius looked up at the sky, deep in thought. "A thought?"

"No."

"Silence!"

"Yeah! You're good." She said, truly impressed.

Sirius chuckled and shook his head negatively. He looked at her and grinned widely.

"I just remember that Lily had once did that one to James." he shrugged. "But that ain't cheating, right? My turn."

Lizzie gave him a mock glare and slapped him gently on the shoulder. He rubbed it as if she had hurt him and pouted. She laughed and he smiled once more.

"Okay. I got a good one." he said, looking at her straight in the eyes.

She looked at him with curiousity while her stomach began twisting again.

"It's smart, funny, beautiful and right under this tree." he said.

Lizzie bit her lip as her heart starting beating faster. Sirius smiled at her, but ti wasn't that prankster smile he gave her before. He just sat beside her, looking at her and waiting for a reaction, still only inches from her. The girl manage a weak smile as se felt herself blush.

"You're so bloody annoying, Will!" a girl's voice yelled not to far away from where they were.

Sirius' attention was drawn to the exclamation. Lizzie let out a breath she had not realized she had been holding, closing her eyes. Sirius got up and looked towards the sound and he suddenly looked very serious.

"What the Hell are they doing out at this time...and not finding shelter?" he wondered aloud.

"Who?" Lizzie asked, while discretely sniffing the air, to no result since the wind was blowing in their direction, taking their smell away from her.

"Slytherins."

Lizzie also got up and looked in the same direction as Sirius. They could she the three of them walking near the edge of the Dark Forest, they had their cloaks' hoods on, but the green edges marked them as students of Slytherin. They stopped as a figure came out of the woods.

"What the fck is going on?" Sirius wondered aloud. "I'll get closer."

With that he ran towards a large rock a few meters away. Lizzie ran after him, also curious as of who they were meeting. They kneeled behind the rock and tried to hear anything that could help them guess the identities of the hooded figures.