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Thoughts

"Speech"

"Beastspeak" (the context will explain which type of animal)

'Parseltongue'

"Flashback"

Chapter 7: Journey

"Riten, ea Jasophelythian. ho ari you?" A voice asked from behind them.

Turning around they were surprised by what they say. It was obviously a man wearing what looked like a pair of Dragon hide pants and vest, as well as boots, all black. He had long black hair falling down his back; he appeared to be around six feet one inches tall and looked very well muscled.

But that's as far as similarities went. First of all they could see the tail moving behind the man. Second the man's hands appeared to end in claws, not with fingernails, his eyes were like a cats with the pupil being red and the iris gold. But what was probably the most notable was the pair of cat ears coming out of his head.

"Riten, ho ari you? Can you unditan mi? Do you sia me ranguagi?" The figure said in a questioning tone. "Remus, can you understand what he said?" Hermione asked Remus while keeping watch on this mysterious figure in front of them. "No, but I've heard that language before, just can't remember where."

"Hello, I'm Jasophelythian sorry for not speaking this language before, but I have never heard it, you are the first I hear to speak it. May I know your names, brave ones?" The man said. "I'm Remus J. Lupin, my companion is Harry James Potter and this beautiful young lady is Hermione Jane Granger." Remus answered him, while still looking a bit suspicious but mostly curious.

"Greetings, as I said before I am Jasophelythian Rendarak Draconiaz-Arqan, but please call me Jasoph, it is quite a handful to say my whole name all the time." He said while grinning because of the faces they had put while trying to figure out how to pronounce his name, "Now that we know each others names I would be delighted if you'd let me ask you a few questions, and of course feel free to ask some yourselves."

Looking at the others, he saw to his surprise that Harry was not looking distrustful but curious and pensive, probably wondering if this man or whatever he was might be would be able to help them. Then he looked at Hermione and could see that she just wanted to ask all about what he was, and could not blame them as he was just as curious. "That sounds fair," answered Remus, "You ask one and we ask one?" Seeing the man's nod Remus waved him to start.

"Forgive me, but I could not help but overhear that you're from over a thousand turns in the future, may I ask how you happened to be here?" He asked them quite curious. "Indeed," Remus answered. "But we do not know exactly how many, nor how we came to be here." After a brief pause and seeing that the man wouldn't say anything he asked, "Not to sound rude but what are you, I have never seen a being like yourself."

"None taken, after all I doubt you'd see many of me, especially from when you came from as I am the last of my parents' kinds and the first and likely last of mine. My father was the last of the elder dragons; he sacrificed himself to kill the last of those who had destroyed his kind and to protect my mother. At that time, neither knew of me. My mother who also was the last of her kind, an Arqan, she had been alone for centuries until the elder dragons welcomed her in their land and she stayed there for thousands of years and fell in love with my father. She died giving birth to me. From the paintings and photographs I have seen of her, I looked exactly like an Arqan in this form, except for my eyes for the red in them is a mark of the elder dragons. While having never seen my father in any way, from what I'm told of my mothers descriptions I look like what she described him to look when I shift. When I say I am the first of my kind is because I am a mixture of these two species that are now extinct, I call myself Draconiaz-Arqan in their honor." Without giving them a chance to answer, he asked them, "And you Remus, no disrespect intended either, but I am curious, you are human and yet you are not, while your two companions are human, for the most part."

"Well you see, I am a werewolf," Expecting the shout of beast or something similar, he was surprised when he just saw mild curiosity with a bit of puzzlement. "Ah right, werewolves don't exist yet, well while I don't know how werewolves came to be, we are human, or were at some point, there are few people who are born werewolves, the only ones are those who's both parents are werewolves. Those unlike the ones converted can control themselves, for you see a werewolf looks human, the only difference is during the full moon when we transform into a wolf form, kind of like animagi, only we cannot control what we do, and we will strive to attack other humans and if we do bite another person while in that form they will be converted into werewolves."

"What did you mean when you said that you could shift?" Harry asked. "Ah, that is the greatest art of the elder dragons, they spend centuries perfecting it, but thanks to my Arqan genetic memory I know everything my parents knew so I have an instinctual knowledge of it. Basically it's the ability to shapeshift; I can change my form into anything I want." Jasoph answered in a rather proud voice. "What are you planning on doing while you are stuck here?"

"Well, we don't really know. We didn't think we had been thrown back in time, so I guess we'll have to find a way to get back to our own time." Hermione said and when she suddenly remembered something she asked, "You said that you had never heard our language before, how come you can speak it?"

"Another gift from my mother, it's something all the Arqans could do, we can speak and understand every language ever created. I believe the ones who have this ability that are not Arqans call it Natutongue." Jasoph answered. "I believe we can continue with the questions later, but for now, would you like to eat some lunch? We have been talking for a rather long time and Solaris has passed the midday point."

"Solaris?" Questioned Hermione. "It's what my people call the star of this planetary system." Jasoph answered to the astonishment of those around him as they could not believe someone in this time knew about planetary systems, much less that the sun was also a star.

"Why of course, I completely forgot because of our meeting." Remus answered rather sheepishly. With that they all set about conjuring the food in different ways and different things. As they all ate they continued exchanging information about each other and about their worlds. As the day wore on they continued talking and did not notice as the sun got lower and night finally arrived.

"Would you like to stay with us, as I see you have no gear, you are more than welcome." Remus told him. "Why thank you, but forgive me if I don't sleep, for that is something which I don't do, don't need too."

"Part of what you are?" Asked Hermione. "Yes' my body regenerates and because of the high level of magic in m body sleep is not needed." He answered.

"As you have nowhere to go, I would like to offer you to come with me on my journey, I am currently headed to my home in Arante, where you might be ale to find a way to get back in our libraries, it is the nearest civilization, well rather the only one, the rest of the world is rather barbaric, and in all my travels I have yet to discover another civilization, but now I am headed back home after 10 long years." He told them.

"ARANTE!" Remus shouted. "That's the ancient name of Atlantis, if I'm not mistaken it was changed about 15 thousand years before our time. That means we are sometime before 13000bc. Jasoph, what is the current turn in Arante?"

"If I'm not mistaken it should be the 14th sun of the 7th moon of the 5451st turn of the 7th age." He answered Remus a bit puzzled. He was even more so when he saw Remus get very pale at this information. "That means we are close to 20 thousand years in the past." This shocked them all into silence for a while, until Harry said, "Remus, do you remember how my dad became an animagus?" At seeing Remus nod he continued, "You're going to have to teach me and Hermione, and fast, because we have less than a month before the full moon." Remus if possible became even whiter and said, "It takes more than a month to become an animagi, James and Sirius took nearly 2 years. The fastest ever done was in over a year."

"Well, I guess it's time for Mione and me to break another record because we don't have another option. I'm not leaving you alone during the full moon." Harry answered him, to which Hermione added her approval. "If I may, being a natural at it myself, I should be able to help you and I believe it is possible to do it before the full moon, we have 14 suns to go before it comes." Jasoph told them. "Jasoph who do you count your years?"

"Well we have 28 suns to a moon and 13 moons to a turn, every 20 turns we have a 14th moon which is a time of celebration for all 28 suns, this extra moon is done to stay in time with the rotation because if we went without it we would fall short little by little since 13 moons is 1.4 suns short of our rotation around Solaris." Hermione was amazed, because if she had calculated correctly then their system was as exact if not better than the one used in their time. And to be aware of it so far in the past, it was simply amazing.

"Well, I suggest we go to sleep and we can start working on your animagus forms in the morning." Remus said, "You're going to need to be well rested and we will work on it nonstop for most of the day and see how it goes."

Everyone bade a good night to everyone, Jasoph staying at the table inside the tent and writing in a book he pulled out of thin air.

AN: there it is a new chapter, hope you enjoy it, and please RR. I would really like to know what you think, I would also like add that I need a beta reader, so if any one is willing please let me know. And I would also like to add that I've made a yahoo group for this fic the link is in my profile..

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