Me: Hiya people!

VampGirl: You are really nuts, you know that?

CJ: ::Sigh:: She is getting worse then me. That is something I thought I would never say. The student has passed the teacher.

Me: How did you know I passed my fifth grade teacher on route 103?

CJ: o.o'

VampGirl: I am surrounded by idiots.

Fred: And on my grave
What will it say?
Here lies another soul that was saved
So please don't cry
Just sleep at night
And I will wait on the other side
(Good Charlotte-Meet my Maker)

Disclaimer: Yippidie doo daa, I own nadda!

Saying of the Day: Live, Freeze or die

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Harry crept from the house, praying no one would catch him. In his right hand, he clutched his wand. He silently hoped that he ran into the animals again. He felt attracted to them, as if he was meant to be with them(-hint hint-).

"Ok. This is nuts. I am sneaking out in the middle of the night, looking for a couple of rogue animals. Great Harry, just get your ass sent back to England the third day you are in America." he growled under his breath.

Harry heard a faint barking. His head snapped up to see the big lab bounding to him. It was wagging its tail about a million miles and hour.

"Easy." Harry said, petting the dog.

"Ignore him and go back to wear you come from. It is not safe for people like you to wander the streets at night." a sharp voice said. A small, cloaked figure walked forward. Harry couldn't see the person's face because they wore a mask that resembled a crow or raven.

"Who are you?" he asked, gripping his wand.

"We are those banished into the night, destined to forever only have each other." Another cloaked person said, but this one had a cat mask.

The dog barked and changed, becoming a black swirl of cloth and a mask like a dog. He spoke, not to Harry, but to the others.

"He has the light in him. He is one of us."

"You are dreaming Dog breath." the first person said.

Something clicked. Harry remembered when Maggie and Vicki told him to call CJ Dog breath. Could this animagus be CJ?

"It is true. My canine side smells it as clear as day. You two don't have the sharp senses I have. He is the last point in our circle." 'Dog breath' said. He turned and pulled off his mask to reveal that he was indeed CJ.

"Oh my God." Harry whispered.

"Good job, CJ! Just go and show the whole world what we are!" the bird masked one exclaimed. The raven mask was pulled off to reveal Maggie.

"Guess who!" the cat one pulled off her own mask. Vicki.

"So you are witches and a wizard? And animagus'? Geese, I was in the dark." Harry mumbled.

"We are not exactly what you say we are." Vicki started.

"We are The Protectors. We were created to fight the creatures that would hurt innocents. "Maggie continued,

"Our forth member was killed in a fight with a manticore. We think you may be his replacement." CJ said.

"Uh. Whatever." Harry said. He was skeptical, but something inside him told him they were right.

"Only one way to find out."

The three made a circle around Harry. He felt like his soul was being plucked from his body. He found himself in a dark forest. He wasn't afraid because three lights swirled around him, fighting back anything that would hurt him.

A silvery panther, raven and dog formed from the three lights. They resembled patronuses.

'Run with us.' they called before taking off. Harry followed. He felt free and an amazing power flowing through him. He grinned.

'Picture your patronus.'

Harry thought of the stag. It appeared in front of him, but he was pushed back by the panther and lab, which both had their teeth bared.

'This is not your true self. It is a copy of another's. Look deep inside yourself.'

Harry closed his eyes. Brilliant golden light pulsed through his eyelids, nearly blinding him.

When he reopened his eyes, a silvery lion stood. It's great mane and hide glowed like moonlight in the dark forest.

'Embrace him as a part of your self.'

Harry walked forward and touched the lion. Within a second, he was looking out at the three sliver animals. They were practically beaming in pride. He understood at that moment what had happened.

He had become the lion.

Harry opened his eyes and found himself back on the street. He was in his lion form and he longed to run. He roared, stretching his corded muscles. His giant paws flexed.

'Ready to run, Harry?' the panther -Vicki- asked. She was grinning.

'I was born ready.' he laughed, shaking his mane. It felt good. Wait until Ron and Hermione saw this. They were going to flip.

Maggie flapped her wings and took to the air. CJ and Vicki ran on either side of Harry, letting him get used to his new abilities.

Something flickered in the edges of his vision. He pulled back his golden lips and changed direction.

'Ah. I sense something big. I fly ahead. Wait for my signal.' Maggie cawed flying towards the source of the flicking light. Harry padded to a stop.

'Come quick! Dark magic users!' Maggie screeched.

The lion, panther, and dog took off as fast as they would go. Harry recognized the cloaked men instantly.

'Death Eaters.' he hissed to the others. They nodded and walked forward, unafraid. They changed into their cloaked selves, masks restored. Harry willed himself to return human.

When he began changing, instead of his jeans and tee shirt, he wore the cloak and a mask he was sure resembled a lion.

"Hey! No stealing our look, boys!" Maggie growled.

The Death Eaters turned, wearing faces that made chills go down Harry's spine.

"Go home children. There are dangerous people walking at night." one man said, sneering.

"Like us." Harry retorted. He almost laughed at what he said, and the looks on the Death Eaters faces.

"How dare you!" an all too familiar voice drawled. Lucius Malfoy departed from his place inside of the group to leer at the smaller band.

"You really don't want to see our bad side, blondie." Vicki growled.

"The Protectors dislike being picked on." CJ continued.

"We shall have the honor of killing you." Maggie laughed, sweeping into a bow.

"No. Let me. It is my first night. I need practice if I want to survive manticore attacks." Harry said, looking straight into the elder Malfoy's eyes.

"Your voice is familiar. Have we met?" Lucius asked.

"We have indeed, Malfoy." Harry snarled, removing his mask.

"My God..Potter."

Harry changed into a lion. His emerald eyes glaring at Lucius Malfoy. He leapt, landing on a few Death Eater's chests. He growled and swung his giant paw at them. They screamed and ran away, scrambling over their comrads who had fallen under Harry's assault.

'Not bad for my first time?' he said, turning around. His friends grinned, all laughing.

"Not bad at all."

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