Author's notes: I like to first thank klen for the review from chapter 2. Second the white Lion makes its first appearance, and Laura is confronted by her guardian spirit in this chapter. Sorry about the mess with the lines hopeful this one is better then the first one. Enjoy this chapter and please R&R.

Chapter 4: The White Lion appears

Laura quickly woke up breathing heavily and dripping in cold sweat. She kept have the same nightmare ever since she got to Hogwarts a week ago, She was always push in the water and an ice cap frozen over the water prevent her from getting out, making her drown under the ice cap. Laura was scared to fall back to sleep sometimes, but she knew she had too, She look at her side and saw Lia asleep next to her pillow.

Laura, get a hold of yourself, its was just a bad dream…that you've been having for a week, but you need to sleep, she thought to herself as she lays her head down on her pillow and falls back to sleep.

"Young cub, Why are you afraid?" a Voice said in her dream. Laura knew this voice; it was her guardian and protector. Laura looked at the water in front of her, and was scared to go anywhere near it.

"Young cub, you need to be brave." The voice said.

"I'm not brave enough, Nayo, I'm not strong enough." Laura shouted in protest. A light wind blew as a young Indian appeared in front of her. "Young cub, you must be ready for the coming battle." He said with a gentle voice.

"What battle, Nayo, I can't break through the ice, every time I try, I can't escape it." Laura said lightly as she looked at the water again. Nayo gently pats her on the head and kneels down in front of her, "Young cub, you must learn to face your fears, the water is your fears trying to prevent you from breathing, and the ice is a fear that keeping you under its thumb, if you break that fear you can do anything." He said.

Laura looked into Nayo's eyes and lightly smiles at him but it quickly fades away, "You're right, I need to confront my fear, but how can I when I don't know what it is?" Nayo shook his head, "That is what you need to figure out for yourself, young cub, but for now you must begin to train."

Laura awoke up to Lia licking her hand. The sun was beginning to rise as she looks to a clock in the sixth year girls' dormitory: it was close to six o'clock in the morning on Saturday as she got ready for the day. Laura gently picked up Lia and petted as she walks down the stairs to the common room in Gryffindor tower and sat down in a chair by the fireplace.

She was trying to figure out what her protector mean by her greatest fear was the ice keeping her in the water. She knew she had to figure it out and soon before someone would figure it out before her and use it against her. Laura was scared, she never wanted to go into battle ever in her life, but she knew someday she would have to.

Laura decided to pick up her book and read it till it was time for breakfast, but then she heard foot steps coming from the girls' dormitory. Hermione appeared at the bottom of the stairs with a smile on her face. "Good morning, Laura." She said to her.

"Morning, Hermione, sleep well?" Laura asked kindly as she continued to read.

"Well, I was going to ask you that. You were tossing and turning last night." She said to Laura. Laura lightly sighed and closed her book and laid it on the desk in front of her chair, "It was just a nightmare I've been having, that's all."

Hermione knew something else was bothering her, she could tell that Laura had something on her mind, but knew she didn't want to talk about. Hermione looked at the book's title that Laura was reading. "The history of Salem? Is that about the Salem witch trials?" She asked.

"No, it's about the history of Salem's school for witches and wizards, and how it's progress during the Revolution to about ten years ago," Laura said as she picked up the book again, "I could let you borrow it, if you want to read it?"

Hermione nodded her head, "So is Salem near the real Salem?"

"Nope, Salem was named in honor and memory of the muggles, witches, and wizards who were killed during the Salem witch trials, but it's no where near Salem." Laura said, "If Muggles try to look at the school, all they'll see is an abandon quarry area with signs saying 'Danger, do not enter.'"

Laura and Hermione continue to talk about Salem and where Laura lived at in America for at least two hours when Robby and Billy came down. Hermione couldn't believe how Laura opened up to her when they started to talk about her school and home. Laura might be shy, but Hermione realized there was more that meets the eye.

After breakfast, Laura, Robby, Billy, and Drake disappear from the sights of their fellow students and friends. No one knew where they were and got Karen a bit upset and looking around the school grounds. "Are you sure did you see either one of those three after breakfast?" Karen asked Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and all three of them shook their head. "Sorry, Professor Eaglehorn, we haven't seen them." Harry said.

Karen walked away from them, and the three began to talk. "That's strange, Laura and I talked for two hours and now she's gone?" Hermione told her friends.

"I could expect those twin brothers of hers to worry their mother, but that Laura girl has been hiding something ever since that day in Defense class," Ron said.

"Yeah, but according to what I've heard, that Long is gone too, he left saying he was going to the library to do his paper but no one has seen him." Harry said and then a white flash went across the edge of the Forbidden Forest, "What bloody hell was that?" Ron said

All three of them stood up and when closer to the Forbidden Forest's edge when a loud roar echoes across the grounds. The three looked around the forest when saw a white lion standing at the edge. The lion knew they saw it, as it shook its silver mane in the sun. The three were awed by the lion, and then the white lion began to move towards them.

Then a howl echoes across the grounds as a white wolf jumps between the three and the lion, growling directly at the lion. The white lion stopped and ran back into the forest with the wolf chasing after it. Harry, Hermione, and Ron didn't know what to say but quickly ran back up to the school.

Laura, Robby, and Billy were up in the common room when Harry, Hermione, and Ron came back up. "Where were you three?" Ron said to them.

"We were here." Billy quickly said

"Yeah, they were have trouble in Potions so I though I would help them." Laura said with a smile on her face. Robby was writing a long paper on wolf's bane and Laura was pointing out the errors he was making on the paper. "I'll be right back, guys." Laura said as she ran up to the dorm.

"We were in the Library but we left when Drake came in." Robby said with an upset looked on his face. "Laura, told us to leave and they talk for about ten minutes and Laura was so upset when they got done." Billy finished.

Laura came back with her herbology book and looked up something and quickly corrected Billy, who was writing about devil's snare and how to spot it. "You three missed something amazing, there was a white lion in the Forbidden Forest!" Harry said, and then Billy, Robby, and Laura's jaws dropped.

"It can't be! The white lion couldn't have followed us." Robby said looking at Billy.

"Mom said the white lion is evil and never to be trusted." Billy said.

Laura didn't say anything, instead she back helping her brothers. This was getting serious, "What do you mean the white lion followed you?" Hermione asked, and then Laura walks back upstairs to get another book. "Meet us here tomorrow after breakfast, and we'll tell you everything." Robby said and Billy nodded in agreed as Laura return with another book for her to help her brothers with.

This is getting out of hand, Laura thought as she continued to help her brothers as Karen and Professor McGonagall enter Gryffindor's common room. "There you three are, you know how worried you had me?" Karen said to her children.

"Sorry, mom, we were up here, Billy and Robby asked for help on their homework." Laura said to her mother and the twin nodded in agreement. Karen smiled lightly, "Well, don't scare me again." She said then both Professor McGonagall and she left the common room.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione knew they had a mystery on their hands, who or what was the white lion and the white wolf they saw this afternoon? Would the Eaglehorn brothers tell more about the lion and the wolf and why they're both here?

End notes: Yup, the white lion made its short appearance, and if you don't know who the white wolf is, then you didn't pay attention to the prologue very well, did you?" The next chapter is where the interested stuff begins happens as the boys tell about the white lion as they know it in the next chapter, and we must prepare ourselves for the first Death eaters attack on Hogsmeade and something will happen to two characters during that attack. Don't think about changing that channel as this year is about to get hot.