Ch. 9- Can't Fight the Moonlight

It was very late Friday night. Most people in Gryffindor tower was asleep. Lily was sleeping in a chair by the now smoldering fire with her advanced potion making book lying open on her stomach, her quill and parchment, which she was using to write her essay lay forgotten on the table in front of her. She was awoken with a start when she heard loud voices coming from the spiral staircase, leading from the boys dormitories. Lily opened her eyes. The voices were moving towards the common room but no one was coming.

"Come on Peter!" someone hissed in the night.

"Shhhh. Quite Sirius!" another voice spoke. Lily recognized that one. It was Potter and his friends sneaking out. Where were they though? Lily thought to herself. She could hear them, but couldn't see them.

"You guys, someones in here." Another said. This time it was Sirius.

Lily heard their footsteps moving closer. She quickly shut her eyes tight and pretended to be asleep.

"Don't worry, it's only Evans," the voice that was James spoke. "and she's asleep"

"Shouldn't we take her up to her dorm?" Sirius asked,

"Nahh. Come on let,s go. We don't have much time" James said.

Once Lily heard the footsteps moving away, she snapped her eyes open just in time to see the portrait hole swing open. She quickly got off the chair and followed them out the portrait hole, following the sound of their voices.

"Ouch! Peter watch where you're stepping" James barked

"So-so-sorry" Peter stuttered.

Lily followed the sound of their voices all the way out the front door and across the grounds towards the whomping willow. Lily hid behind a near by tree and watched the four take a cloak off revealing all of them.

"oh my god. One of them has an invisibility cloak!" Lily gasped. She watched the scene unfold with her mouth hanging open. She made sure none of them were looking and creeped closer behind another tree. Then, right infront of her eyes, she saw the smallest of the quad transform into a small animal she couldn't identify, it was either a rat or a mouse. Whatever it was, she saw it scurry across the grounds and into a small hole under the whomping willow. Instantly, the tree branches stopped swinging around and were motionless in the air. She saw the other three figures slid into the hole under the tree and disappear from sight. When the branches started swinging again, Lily revealed herself from her hiding place and walked towards the tree. I'm gonna get them for sneaking otu at night. Lily thought. Smiling, she pulled out her wand and yelled

"Imobilas!".

Instantly, the branches stopped swinging and hung in midair. She put her wand back into her robes and clambered in the hole. She found herself facing a long dark passageway. She took out her wand again, muttered "Lumos" and continued down the passageway. After what seemed like hours she reached a door. SHe opened it and peer into what looked like an old shack.

"ok Potter where are you?" Lily whisperd.

The floor and furniture was covered with alayer of thick dust. Some of the chairs were overturned and the walls and some of the wood floor had, what looked like to Lily, nail marks from a gigantic beast. Some of the floor panels were pulled out of the floor. Lily noticed a staircase in similar shape on the left side of the room. SHe climbed the stairs and reached the landing. To the right she saw a door that was opened ever so slightly. "James and his motly crew must be in here" Lily thought. She leaned agains the door but didn't hear any voices, just the sound of someone in extreme pain. The thought of busting James and his friends for sneaking out vanishing from her mind, she made to open the door when it swung open and she found herself face to face with a werewolf.

Lily's scream never left her body as she galloped down the stairs closely followed by the werewolf. Lily threw the door open and hurtled herself into the passageway. Not thinking to light her wand she ran as fast as she could away from the werewolf. She had gotten about halfway when she heard the werewolf yelp. She turned on the spot and found a huge white stag and shaggy black dog holding the werewolf against the wall, it's teeth clenched in a hungry expression. Lily gaped at the scene, glued to the spot. The stag, still holding back the struggling werewolf, turned its head and looked into her eyes, a look of sheer terror and concern on its face. Regaining the feeling in her legs, she hurtled herself around and sprinted the lenght of the passageway until she found herself beneath the whomping willow, who's branches were swinging around. She ran as fast as she could away from the tree towards the great oak doors of the school. She threw them open and walked as fast as she could, making more noise than was probably wise, towards gryffindor tower.

"What are you doing out this late?" the fat lady asked.

"never mind that, perturbo, perturbo!" she all but yelled at the fat lady.

The portrait hole swung open and Lily climbed inside, grabbed herpotions book and climbed the stairs to her dormitory, where the rest of the girls were asleep. She climbed into bed without changing into herpajamas andpulled the covers over her,her mind still racing from what she had just witnessed. one of them is a werewolf! she thought. and i almost got bitten by it! and the other three are animagus! she thought. She knewPotter and his friends alwasy found a disregard for hte rules, but she never thought they'd become animagus illegaly. She rolled over onto her side and peered out her window, where she saw the full moon illuminating the dark grounds.

Which one is the werewolf?

Finally, after what seemed like hours, Lily finally fell asleep.

a/n: yes, low and behold a new chapter! i actually had this up for like 5 minutes before i left for florida so for those of you who have this story on alert, you probably got a broken link. sorry bout that. i submitted it before it was completely finished. anyway, hope everyone had a great holiday and new year! i appreiate all your reviews but this story has 2300 some hits and only 25 reviews. Please, if you read, take 2 minutes to write a little note about what you liked, disliked, whatever you want. now, perturbo, i looked up in an english-latin dictionary means trouble. and the spell Lily used to immobilize the tree branches is the one Hermione used in the cos movie to stop the pixies. sorry i can't spell. i'm working on chapters for my other stories and a new one.

and i have exams from January 17-20th so i might not update. and now i have soccer practice wednesday nights. I'll try to update as much as i can though!

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