(A/N): We're baaaaaaaaaaack! lol heres a mssg from -Ditzy-Ash-:

"Sorry it took me about three weeks to finish this damn chapter . . . i had SEVERE writers block!

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Chapter 6 – Panther-Forgiven

In the dark of night, a black shadow quickly passed the seemingly-sleeping Zeph. It soon shifted into a young girl, the shadows barely hiding her lustrous figure. Giving a gasp, she reached out a slender hand and waved it over the sign in Zeph's arm, the remainder the night nothing but dried blood. But the boy was deathly pale. The moonlight suddenly peaked out, revealing Izzy in all pale-ness. "Oh dear . . ." she muttered and cut her wrist with claw-like nails, and held her wrist over his mouth, letting the blood drip into it. When he moved around, as if in his sleep, Izzy sighed and looked around closely before closing her eyes, the wind picking up. A few minutes later, a panther, black as night with ruby red eyes, stood in her place, and gently coaxed Zeph among her back.

"Hold on." She thought.

"Hum . . . MmK . . ." Zeph responded sleepily.

Soon enough, Izzy appeared in the Slytherin common room, her ruby eyes looking around at the room before her uncertainly, before flopping Zeph onto the couch before the fire. Transforming back into Izzy, she laid him down slowly and then disappeared.

"Wake up! Iz!" Who in bloody hell would be waking her up at a time like this? "We have school!" Liz yelled, a few inches from Izzy's opening eyes. A few moments later, Liz ducked before the abnormally large teddy bear flying through the air hit her square in the face, thrown by a grouchy Izzy.

"I'm sick!"

"Yea right! You've said that before! Get up or I will tell the professors about your sneaking about!"

"Oh, shove it!" was Izzy's reply.

"You wish." Snickered Liz, running out the door to avoid the pillows that had been thrown at her. Izzy smiled to herself, for all of her annoying ways, could always cheer her up.

Soon enough. She never really apologized to Zeph after storming away after she had found out that he was a Vampire. And when she saved him last night, she had felt like it was all her fault that he was about to die. Hermione would never get over it. She sighed and began dressing for school. Her thoughts buzzed around in her head, nagging her bloody mad. "Can I talk to him? Will he even want to talk? Of course . . . he's your best friend.

"But there still could be other secrets . . ."

Blowing a curly lock of hair out of her face, she crept into the Great Hall, looking nervously around before being dragged to the Hufflepuff table by Liz. Jealousy of friends flared in her mind when she saw Takato, Zeph, and the Kisea girl all sitting together . . . like nothing had happened. Then one by one they glanced up at her sympathetically. Kisea forced a small smile, but compared closer to a grimace. Izzy's eyes widened and she quickly turned and ran out of the Hall.

The rest of the day shot by quickly, leaving Izzy to find herself on a bench in the small courtyard, her legs crossed underneath her, and slouched over. Moving her head to rest in her hands, she stared at the ground in a daze, her thoughts struggling to collect themselves, to make sense.

Her anger wasn't really anger at him for being a Vampire, but for keeping it secret for so long. Fears aside, he was her friend, or rather, hopefully still was. She did have her own secrets. But she figured to keep it a while longer. It was her best kept secret after all. She smiled and stood up, heading back into the castle, running headlong into Zeph. Sighing, she looked around.

"I know you're an animagi." He said.

Izzy sighed. "How'd you figure?"

"You're the panther."

"And you're the . . . the . . . Va- . . ."

"Vampire?"

"Bloody yes!"

Zeph sighed and shoved his hands into his pocket, while Izzy shuffled from foot to foot. "You can be mad all you want, but you're still gonna hang out with us tomorrow!"

"Kisea better bloody well leave me alone, then!"

"She's not that bad!"

Izzy flashed him a glare and then grabbed his arm. "Lets go feed me . . . I'm starving!"

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