Boo! I thought you guys might like this a update before the week starts, before school on monday. Well have fun. Read and Review.

-Doublesims

Chapter five: The Dermentors

Harry saw the dim black outline of Ron, wiping a patch clean on the window and peering out.

"There's something moving out there," Ron said. "I think people are coming aboard…"

The compartment door suddenly opened and someone fell painfully over Harry's legs.

"Sorry! D'you know what's going on? Ouch! Sorry—"

"Hello, Neville," Said Harry, feeling around in the dark and pulling Neville up by his cloak.

"Harry? Is that you? What's Happening?"

"No idea! Sit down –"

There was a loud hissing noise and a yelp of pain; Neville had tried to sit on Crookshanks, Hermione's new cat.

"I'm going to ask the diver what's going on" Came Hermione's voice. Harry felt her pass him, heard the door slide open again and then a thud and two loud squeals of pain.

"Who's that?"

"Who's that?"

"Ginny?"

"Hermione?"

"What are you doing?"

"I was looking for Ron –"

"Come in and sit down –"

"Not here" Said Harry hurriedly. "I'm here"

"Ouch!" Said Neville

"Quiet!" Said a hoarse voice suddenly.

Professor Lupin appeared to have woken at last. Harry could hear movement in his corner. None of them spoke.

There was a soft, crackling noise and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames. They illuminated his tired grey face, but his eyes looked alert and wary.

"Stay where you are," he said in the same hoarse voice and he got slowly to his feet with his handful of fire held out in front of him. But the door sild slowly open before Lupin could reach it. Standing in the door way, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin's hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. It face completely hidden beneath its hood. Harry's eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, greyish, slimy-looking and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water…

It was only visible for a split second. As though the creature beneath the cloak sensed Harry's gaze, the hand was suddenly withdrawn into the folds of the black material.

The hooded creature looked around the compartment, and bought in a big breath like it was trying to breathe in more than air. The feeling of hope, joy and fun was sucked out of each of the children in the compartment. Harry went ridged and looked like he was having a fit or something like it and fell of his seat. Professor Lupin new he had to do something seeing he wasn't affected like the children because of his nature. He stepped over the fallen boy, wand drawn and said to the creature.

"None of us is hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Go" But the creature didn't do anything. Lupin muttered something the others couldn't work out and something silvery shot out of his wand and pushed the creature out and away. Lupin went to the door to watch it go.

The sound of running footsteps caught his attention he turned to face where it was coming from, and jumped back. Three more of those creature was went pasted the door in a hurry, with two silvery giant animals hot on their tails. On was well it looked like a giant rabbit hoping down the corridor jumping of the walls and floor, the other was a slivery giant mantra flying through the air like it would swim though the sea. As they past some feeling of hope and joy came back to the children.

The noise of the footsteps was coming from two boys that were running behind the silvery animals. One was short with golden hair spiked out in different directions making it look like a sun. The other was tall six foot one with dark ash coloured hair. The shorter was carrying a staff in both hands and also a wand in his right. The taller had the taller had a wand in his left and was carrying another boy on his back. The boy had snow white hair. The stoped in from of the Professor.

"Can you help us?" Asked the worried Aster as he looked back at the unconscious Jack.

"Come in" said Professor Lupin stepping aside to let them in. Aster dropped Jack in Lupin seat beside the window.

Lupin turned to Hermione "See if you can wake Harry up." The train gave a jolt and the lights flicked on as the train started to move again.

"Harry, HARRY" Hermione said as she sat down beside him.

"Hear let me help" Said Ron.

Sandy smiled sadly at those two trying to wake up there friend as he sat beside Jack gripping his hand, in his own way saying he is there for him.

"Can I ask what happened to your friend?" Asked the Professor.

"Dermentors." Said Aster "Jack lives off joy and fun it's helped him through his type life he had to live. Well before we took him in, and well now were brothers." Aster stopped thinking he may have said too much. He turned to the Professor getting a better look at him. "You're Lupin aren't ya?"

"Yes I am" Lupin said looking through his bag as Harry got himself off the floor. Harry was now looking around the compartment taking notice of the new boys in the compartment.

"But I heard screaming –"

A loud snap made them all jump but Sandy. Professor Lupin was breaking an enormous slab of chocolate into pieces.

"Here" he said giving a piece to Aster "see if you can get your brother to eat it." He gave a large piece to Harry. "Eat it, it'll help."

Harry took the piece but didn't eat it.

"What was that thing?"

"A Dementer," Lupin said now giving a piece to the others "One of the Dementer's of Azkaban."

Everyone but the three brothers stared at him. Professor not giving them anything else to work on Aster spoke up.

"They suck out the Joy, Wounder, Hope and Fun out of anyone and most animals, but some are lucky to be immune to em' but for someone who lives of off Fun, Hope, Joy and Wonder it can be fatal. It was just lucky Sandy and I have studied them before, new how to protect ourselves and others if need be."

Sandy felt Jack squeeze his hand. Sand formed above his head gaining Aster's attention. "Come on Frostbite wake up, their gone now"

Lupin sighed "I need to speak with the driver. Eat it'll help" he added to Harry as he walked past him to the door.

"Bunny? Sandy?" Jack said coming to.

"Jack! Crikey mate you gave us a fight!"

While Sandy and Aster helped Jack catch up on where they were and what happened, Ron was doing the same for Harry and Hermione was comforting Ginny.

"Did any of you –fall off your seat?" Asked Harry.

"None of us did" Said Ron but pointed to the three guardians. "But they came running down the corridor following some sort of silvery animals; that were chasing some of those Dementers. Carrying the white haired kid who was unconscious." And if he just thought about it. "Oh we didn't catch your names, did we?"

"I'm Aster and my brothers are Jack and Sandy" Aster said pointing to each in turn. "And the chocolate will help ya should eat it."

Professor Lupin came back and smiled when he saw they were eating the chocolate. "We'll be at Hogwarts in ten Minutes."