A New Beginning

By Silverwolves

Silverwolves: Once again I must apologize for my stupidity; I misspelled beginning in the previous chapter.... again. Hurray Chapter 11! Woot! Anyway uh don't have much to say here other then I have a bad cold so yeah.....Ploop.... random freakiness shall be present.

Summary: Taking place several years after Harry and his friends leave Hogwarts, this story follows the adventures of a shy werewolf, Caleb Lupin, (Remus Lupin's son), a mysterious vampire named Karmithius Dellon, a energetic half cat demon named Ryoku Leonne, and Akmed Sevmetto a sarcastic descendent of an Egyptian god. This story is about STUFF!

(Caleb and Ryoku will be communicating telepathically in their animal forms; their thoughts will be in italics)

Chapter 11

Secrets

The same day during dinner, a vicious rumor was being spread.

"Did you hear the rumor?"

"What rumor?"

"Professor Holloway, the one who teaches Arithmacy died the other day!"

"What? Professor Holloway? How'd he die?"

"I dunno, but the rumor is that he had his blood sucked out by a vampire!"

"A vampire....but"

"Yeah, a vampire, and while he was IN Hogwarts!"

"You mean there's a vampire running around here?"

"Maybe"

Alu and her friends were listening quietly to the conversation taking place a few seats away from them.

"Listen to those two!" Alu complained. "Talking about a 'vampire' in Hogwarts!" Alu huffed and flicked a piece of sausage across the table. "Honestly, Dumbledoor would NOT let a vampire in Hogwarts!" Alu winked at Kar.

Kar shifted uncomfortably, he wondered if the rumor was there be another vampire in Hogwarts? He doubted it, he would have been able to detect the scent.

Ryoku nodded while Alu babbled on about vampires. She was really thinking about how Kar was reacting to this. If the rumor was true, could Kar really have killed their own professor? It seemed impossible since he was staying at her house for almost two weeks.

Suddenly they heard the doors of the great hall open. In walked Dumbledoor and the rest of the teachers.

Dumbledoor stopped at the Gryffindor table. He looked around and then said;

"Is a Karmithius Dellon present?"

"Uh, yeah..." Kar apprehensively stood up.

"Karmithius, or Kar....may I have a word with you in my office?" Dumbledoor smiled and Kar walked over to where he was standing.

"Follow me...." Dumbledoor raised his left eyebrow and then walked towards the door.

If Kar had a heart, it would be beating a mile a minute.

"You think he's in trouble?" Asked Akmed.

"Maybe..." Ryoku said quietly.

Caleb heightened sense of hearing picked up the voices of some Slytherins from the Slytherin table.

"I told you he would get in trouble for that!"

It was Margulies, and his brainless followers.

"Yeah!" squealed Rory. "That was brilliant!"

"Your mom is so wicked!" Bart boomed.

"Yeah, it was pretty brilliant, aren't we lucky that we know two vampires!"

"Yeah! Kar and..." Bart was interrupted.

"Shut up half-wit!" Margulies put his hand over Bart's mouth. " Bart was interrupted.

"Shut up half-wit!" Margulies put his hand over Bart's mouth. You never know who might be listening!"

"You mean like Dumbledoor?" Bart asked stupidly.

Margulies and his friends laughed.

Caleb turned away.

Caleb realized that Kar was in jeopardy. He thought about telling Ryoku that Kar was a vampire, since she was the only one that supposedly didn't know, but then he remembered what Kar had told him the night he found out.

"It's because... I'm a vampire... and if you tell anyone I will personally make sure you die a slow and terrible death."

He won't be able to kill me if he's Azkaban, and beside everyone knows except one. Caleb thought morbidly.

That night, Caleb wandered down to Madame Promphrey's office, and the made his way to the Whomping Willow.

Kar hadn't returned from his visit with Dumbledoor.

(Meanwhile, in the castle)

Ryoku had followed Caleb to Madam Promphrey's office.

In her cat form of course. She waited patently for Madame Promphrey to come back in so she could slip out of the castle.

And she where Caleb really goes once a month....she smiled at her cleverness.

Madame Promphrey came back in and Ryoku slipped out.

Just in time to Caleb....go into a tree?

She followed inconspicuously. She came to the tree and entered the same way Caleb did. Following the sound of his footsteps she made her way across a pile of old boxes.

What was he doing? Going to Hogsmeade?

After walking awhile, she realized this was some sort of house. She sniffed the air, her long grey tail twitching.

This must be the room he's in, she thought coming to a door.

She stood up on her hind legs and scratched at the door.

Caleb was on the bed, he had heard a scratching. He went to the door and opened it a crack.

"Just a cat..." he sighed. He flopped down on the bed.

He looks awful! Ryoku rubbed her head against his leg. He scratched her head.

"At least I won't have to worry about hurting you" He smiled sadly. "You're just a cat.... It's those humans I need to worry about."

She had no idea what he was talking about, hurt her? Why would he only hurt her if she was human?

Caleb glanced at the window. The full moon was peaking out from behind the clouds. He shuddered involuntarily.

Ryoku backed away and watched him on top a dresser.

He closed he eyes, and the opened them. They had changed from yellow-green, to blood red.

Ryoku mewed, now she was scared.

Caleb the collapsed, he was on his hands and knees, shivering like crazy.

He screamed a horrid animalistic scream. Like the cry of a wounded dog. She watched in horror as his hands became large paws, his face lengthened into a snout and white fur covered his entire body. He was screaming and howling in agony. Then he stopped. Where Caleb once was, now stood a large white wolf, with gleaming blood-red eyes.

Ryoku understood immediately. Caleb disappearing every month, the weirdness around the full moon. Caleb was a werewolf. Werewolves can only harm humans....thought Ryoku, so that's why he let me stay here.

Caleb was now pacing the room growling madly.

Maybe I should try to talk to him. Ryoku hopped down from her perch and landed a few feet away from Caleb.

Surprisingly, he was the one who tried to talk to her.

"Why are you here?" His eyes shifted from red to yellow-green again.

"Um... I, I d-don't know."

Caleb walked toward her.

"I recognize your voice...."

"Y-you d-do?"

"Why are you afraid? I won't hurt you. Unless you decide to use your human form..."

"How did you....?"

"Know that you aren't a cat? You smell like Ryoku, therefore you are Ryoku...."

"You're acting weird"

"Probably the wolf in me talking, I can't help it"

"I don't understand, aren't you mad at me? I mean now that I know you're a werewolf."

"If I were in my human form, I might be mad. Hard to tell, right now I don't care. But then again, I suppose I should ask you the same question, aren't you mad at me, now that I know you're a cat demon?"

"Wait? I didn't even tell you that."

"Never underestimate the power of scent."

"I'm not mad. Wait a second, if you knew I was a cat demon, then do you know about....?"

Ryoku stopped, wondering if he knew about Kar.

"Kar? Yes. He is a vampire.... weird isn't we're all friends, and we all have some strange gift....or curse."

"What do you mean by 'we all'?"

"I'm a werewolf, you're a cat demon..."

"Half cat demon"

"Whatever, Kar is a vampire, Akmed, is some sort of dog....thing, and Alu is a seer."

"WHAT?"

"It's true...I thought you would have realized it by now too. I have, Akmed has, Kar has, and even Alu has had dreams about it. Not the brightest light bulb in the box now are we?"

"How did all of you know, and me not know, and how come you know that they know and how come Alu tells you things, when I'm her BEST FRIEND!?!?"

"Slow down...."

"Shut-up"

"I'll explain. Around the begging of the year, Kar wandered into the shrieking shack, and found me as a werewolf, I attacked him but didn't bite him, he then told me that he was a vampire, and he found out I was a werewolf. Kar knew right away what all of you were, he can sense things like that."

"When did he tell you this?"

"A while back, on a night of the full moon in November, he told me about all of you, and that's how I found out."

"Okay so, how did Alu and Akmed find out?"

"Alu is a seer, she can see into the future, past and present...She woke up one night and came into the Gryffindor common room... she had a dream about me and my werewolf form. Akmed and I were working on a project and she asked me about the dream. She told me she knew what we all were, and of course, we needed to explain everything to Akmed, since he was right there, the only thing we didn't tell him about was Kar. He found out while we were staying at your house, when Kar killed a cat."

"So...so...you mean I'm the only one?"

"Who doesn't know yes.... we figure you would find out in your own time."

Ryoku was dazed. 20 minutes of listening to Caleb had just changed her life.

"We'll figure it out in the morning..." Caleb lay down.

"But I suggest you leave since I won't be wearing any clothes when I wake up...."

"Too much information! Leaving!" Ryoku squeezed through the cracked open door and left, just in time to hear Caleb's wolfish laughter echoing through the shack.

(Silverwolves: BUM BUM BUM! Muhuhaha! Is this a cliff hanger? Dunno, know that everyone knows everyone secrets what will they gang do? Stay tuned!

To my reviewers.

Danielle: Hehe okay I'll try.

xBloodxStainedxTearsx: You dun have to apologize..... I thought it was pretty funny! : Boop.... yes.... yes I shall try.

(Silverwolves: I suppose you want to talk to the sadistic, insane, infuriating, melancholic, and dim-witted wolves. But you can't. They are currently on vacation and are expected to return next chapter if they haven't killed each other. Love you buy-bye)