This Can't Be The End
Chapter 2: Of Scaly Tails
Remus crept up the rickety staircase, his claws clicking lightly on each step taken. He could smell human flesh mingled with the even stronger stench of fear and wonder. But it changed.
Sirius picked up the smell as well, laying back his ears and growling he bounded up the stairs and past Remus, blocking his path and growled a warning. Suddenly the scent was gone. Sirius put a puzzled look on Padfoots face so that even Prongs got the message.
Peter scurried past James and Sirius pushing Moony back down the stairs. Reaching the top he scurried though a crack in the doorframe.
Moony STOP the werewolf ignored him and kept trying to push past the big dog and stag curious to find out what had happened to the human stench. Sirius growled another warning and Prongs bellowed
Moony Please, you don't want to do this, Remus dose not want this to happen All the time trying to get him back down the stair.
Hermione felt wired, changed somehow, stretched and elongated. She looked around and found that not only could she see perfectly well in the dark, but that she wasn't in her room or any she had been in. Then she remembered . . . She was in the shrieking shack. There was the four-poster bed almost exactly as she remembered it from her 3rd year except that it looked newer. And the boarded windows. She saw a tail . . .
"Ahhhhhh . . ." she was supposed to scream but came out as a muffled roar which made her scream and roar even more.
When she had quieted a bit she picked up a muffled shuffling and squeaking and saw a bald rat-tail disappear through a crack in the doorframe. She didn't pay any attention to the rat and thought that the whole place must have been infested with them anyway. She had more important things to worry about like the fact that she had a scaly tail, wings and the fact that she seemed to fill the whole room . . .
Peter came scurrying back down the rickety staircase to find that James and Sirius had managed to push Moony back and were keeping guard at the bottom of the stairs. Moony was pacing just out of reach. Being as small as a rat Wormtail had to jump and grab Prongs' tail to get his attention. Prongs looked down at the squeaking rat and started being led back up the stairs, clambering awkwardly as he came, with Padfoot and Moony following in his wake.
Hermione heard a clattering and looked towards the door. She could smell flesh, her mouth watered slightly. Shaking her head to get the thoughts out she whipped some silvery hair over in front of her eyes. Cringing she lowered herself to the dusty floor and wrapped her tail around herself, feeling sorry.
Seconds later a creaking heralded the door being swung wide and a proud set of antlers rising to the ceiling. Rasing her head slightly she took in what she saw. A magnificent stag stood in the doorway its eyes wide and staring like a rabbit in headlights. It began pawing the floor and started backing back down the stair but was stoped with a growl as a bear like dog squeezed past not noticing what was in the room. Its eyes swept the room and stoped on Hermione who raised her head even more taking in the new sight. Whimpering it also started backing away almost trampling a rat that had taken cover underneath. Then Hermione drew a breath, in came, walking proud, a werewolf with flashing yellow eyes. She fainted.
Suddenly she began to shrink losing her tail, wings, scales and horns. Shrinking back into her human form.
Sirius understood what was happening. Quickly he stood in front of the fully transformed human girl. Moony started advancing on the stricken human, bearing his wickedly sharp teeth, his eyes wide and staring. Sirius tensed up and tackled Moony out of the door. Prongs rushed and stood visual at the door. Sirius and Moony were locked in combat, jaw to jaw, until Moony broke free and rushed at the door. Prongs lowered his antlers and stood his ground blocking the doorway. Meanwhile Peter had transformed back, with risk to his life (AN: the first and probably last time!)
and had rushed to the girl's side. Looking on he saw Prongs lower his head and stand his ground as Moony rushed at him. Stepping forward the stag caught the werewolf in its antlers and threw him back down the stairs. Rushing to the door Peter slammed the door shut, threw the lock shut and dragged a chest-of-draws in front of the door.
Moony landed with a thud at the bottom of the stairs looking up he recognised Padfoot and Prongs standing at the top looking down at him.
Sirius bounded down the stair and placed his paws on the shoulders of the struggling werewolf. Looking down into the werewolf's eyes Sirius saw them melting back into an amber shading.
Suddenly pain flared up through the werewolf's back and chest, howling in pain he curled up into a tight ball and waited till the pain disappeared. Afterwards he felt a hand on his shoulder. Wiping tears of pain from his eyes he looked up to see Sirius crouching next to him. He felt so glad to have friends like the ones he had, who stood by him.
"You ok pal?" Sirius asked sympathetically, griping his shoulder.
"I'll manage," he rasped back getting slowly to his feet and wincing in pain "It's nothing I can't handle."
"Oh yeah, sorry bout that," Sirius said apologetically offering him a hand. "But there was a girl."
"I wanted to see her." Remus grimaced. "She could turn into a dragon . . . Very impressive. I expect that would take quite a bit of magic for that, not to mention a very powerful wizard or, in our case, a witch. Just imagine," a shiver flickered over his face, "I could have bitten her. Thank God you guys stoped me." He looked up at James and found Peter waiting at the top. Standing next to him was James and the mysterious brunette in his arms.
Upon waking Hermione kept her eyes shut hoping that it was just a really cool nightmare. It was just a dream, it was just a dream, I did not see Moony Wormtail Padfoot and Prongs, I did not see them, its impossible cause it was just a dream. She turned her head and a ray of light from the open window fell across her face and she opened her eyes.
Peering at her from both sides of the couch were four boys.
She almost fainted again with shock. One of the boys had unruly black hair, hazel eyes and was almost the splitting image of his son. Crouching next to him sat a long, dark haired, gorgeous, dull smoky eyed 17 year old. On the other side stood two more guys. One with light brown hair that fell over his ears and his tired amber eyes. The last boy had mousy brown hair and had a slightly pointed nose.
Hermione gasped and sat up on the couch. She almost burst into tears but she held them off but alas tears began to leak out, quicker the more she tried to make them stop. Curling up in a ball she tried to hide.
Feeling a hand on her shoulder she looked up wiping tears away with the back of her hand and saw James peering worriedly at her.
"Who are you?" he asked gently. She looked scared to his eyes. If only he knew how much she was.
"James . . ." she whispered. Looking around, "Sirius . . . Remus . . ." her eyes stoped on Peter " . . . You . . ." giving him daggers she fainted again.
"Bloody hell. I wish she would stop doing that," remarked Sirius loudly scowling at her prone form.
"What was that about?" Peter asked in a small, dejected voice. James patted him reassuringly on the shoulder and gave him a small smile.
"If no one has any objections, I think I'll take her to Madam Pomfrey" Remus stated, moving around the couch and picking Hermione up into his arms as gently as he could.
Sirius caught the look in Remus' eyes when he felt the girl relax into him. Sirius grinned slightly and thought Now now Remus your going to have competition if you continue with that. Sirius thought that the 'mystery' girl was rather fetching with her brown curls and shapely figure.
Remus marvelled at how light she was and how well she fitted his shape. He hadn't felt like this for a long while, but then again, who could ever love a werewolf.
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