Chapter 1

"Ted wake up!" Ted was woken by the voice of his best friend, Liam.

Liam had taken care of Ted for as long as he could remember. Actually he took care of all of the children werewolves. Greyback had assigned him with this job because he was really good with children. He lived in the werewolf headquarters, where Greyback would call all of his followers to discuss all of his plans, and give his orders to the other wolves. The ultimate goal of the werewolves was to build an army of werewolves that was large enough in number to overthrow the wizarding race.

Greyback's main strategy was to kidnap children and teach them the ways of the werewolves, because young children were fast learners. The headquarters were also used as a home for the children werewolves. Liam taught them how to pick pockets because children were good at pickpocketing. He would use the money they earned to buy them food and necessities.

He would also take them to places filled with wizards such as Diagon Alley and teach the children to pickpocket from wizards too. The money they stole would go into Greyback's funds. Greyback would use these funds for any werewolf business that they might be needed for.

There was another wolf that helped Liam take care of the children, named Alistair. Alistair's job was to teach the children how to use magic and how to fight. He was a strict teacher and wouldn't stand any funny business. So naturally he was also in charge of disciplining the children if they misbehaved. It was like a good cop, bad cop kind of situation between Liam and Alistair.

The other wolves who worked for Greyback would rotate the duty of living at the headquarters and taking care of the children. These wolves would spend the rest of their time making ends meet and carrying out other duties for Greyback. No one really liked the duty of watching the kids except for Liam. It was like Liam was born to care for children.

Ted had lived in the headquarters with the other children until the past 2 years. Greyback had decided that Ted was mature enough to live on his own at this point. But Ted had no idea where to go. He was afraid to leave the place where he had grown up. He expressed this to Liam. So Liam found him a place to stay with his good friend, and werewolf, Mark. Ted was so thankful to Liam.

"Nice job looting somebody last night. You got a lot of gold," Liam said. He had found Ted's stash of objects. But Ted didn't care if Liam found it. He knew he could trust Liam not to take anything. "But what's up with all of the forks and spoons you stole? Don't you eat with your hands anyway? Or are you practicing using silverware for your new fancy prancy school? Do you think you're better than us now because you are going to the elite wizarding school?" He hit Ted over the head with a pillow.

"Shut up and let me sleep," Ted mumbled to Liam. Though he knew Liam was only joking.

"You can sleep all the time when you go to that stupid school," said Liam. "Tonight is our last night to get wasted! Now get your lazy ass up and get ready for an epic night!"

"It's not my last night," Ted said. "I still have a couple weeks before I have to go to the school."

"Yeah, but you are going to be busy preparing to go to the school," Liam reminded Ted. "Tomorrow a professor is going to come and give you your exam scores, and give you a class schedule or something. Then you have to go get your school supplies from Diagon Alley. And Greyback is going to want to go over plans with you for the next couple of weeks. This is really the last chance you'll get to hang out with us."

Liam was right. Preparations with Greyback were going to be pretty intense. This was probably the most important mission for the werewolves that Ted had the great task of executing.

Greyback wanted one of the werewolf children to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While attending, the child was supposed to explore the school and look for secret passages that were rumored to exist in the school, and to find out all of the defenses that the school had, then report them to Greyback. Then Greyback would formulate an attack strategy to tackle each defense, and have the army of wolves go through the secret passages and infiltrate the school. When the full moon rose, the wolves would bite as many children as they could and take as many children back with them so they could to build an army. Even if they couldn't capture all of the students they bit, the students would still be infected and turn into the very werewolves that wizards hated.

Ted was going to attend Hogwarts posing as a student named Nathaniel Roland Jr. Nathaniel was the son of Abigail and Nathaniel Roland, two werewolves who were followers of Greyback. Nathaniel and Abigail met shortly after they joined forces with Greyback, fell in love, and got married. They had a son together whom they bit soon after his birth to transform him into a werewolf. They taught him the ways of Greyback and his followers as he grew up. Fortunately, the family was not on the Werewolf Register of the Ministry of Magic.

Six years ago Nathaniel received a letter from Hogwarts inviting him to attend the school. His parents scoffed and threw it away. They sent their son for a proper education at Greyback's headquarters with the other werewolf children. A professor from Hogwarts came to their home to invite him again, but Nathaniel told the professor politely that he planned to teach his son at home and declined the invitation.

When Greyback made his plans he remembered that Nathaniel Jr had been invited to attend Hogwarts six years prior, so he had Nathaniel contact the school to accept the invitation now.

Nathaniel Jr, however, did not want to attend. He didn't want to have to live among retched wizards, who treated the werewolves so cruelly without being able to feed on them for what would probably be months, because the school was very big and it would take time to discover all of its secrets. And Nathaniel would have to blend in with the students so as to not raise any suspicion of his ulterior motives. That would mean Nathaniel would have to study. And Nathaniel, like most werewolves, wasn't good at reading. And most importantly, Nathaniel wouldn't get to drink and sleep with girls during his stay at Hogwarts, due to the strict rules of the school.

So Nathaniel asked Ted to take his place for the mission. Ted was much better at reading than the other werewolves. He had a natural knack for it. Ted was also a metamorphagus. He could change his physical appearance at will. So he could easily blend in as one of the students at the school. And Ted was also 16 years old like Nathaniel. Nathaniel had thought Ted was the best candidate for the job. So he begged Ted to request to take his place in the mission, and Greyback agreed.

Ted agreed because he had no trouble in sacrificing his freedom for a matter of mere months for the werewolves cause. Wizards were the vilest creatures, and Ted would do anything, and give up everything, to defeat them.

Ted himself was never invited to attend Hogwarts because his parents abandoned him when he was bitten, so werewolves had taken him in, Greyback told him. Ted had no memories of his life before the werewolves took him in.

When Nathaniel Sr sent the letter requesting Nathaniel a seat at Hogwarts, Hogwarts accepted the request. But they wanted Nathaniel to attend the final exams with students of his age, and based on his scores they would place him into the school. Nathaniel was supposed to enter the 6th year of Hogwarts based on his age. So he had to take the O.W.L. exam with his future classmates in May.

Ted obviously had to take that exam too because Nathaniel could barely write. Alistair got him a book called A Concise Review of the O.W.L. and got to work teaching him everything. It was a difficult several months. He barely had time to enjoy himself because he was so busy studying. Liam probably missed hanging out with Ted. Liam had done so much for Ted while he was growing up to make him happy.

"Alright," Said Ted. "Let me take a shower. What did you bring to drink?"

"Your favorite: Ogden's Old Firewhisky!" Liam exclaimed.

"Nice!" Ted yelled from the shower. Mark popped out of his room.

"Did I hear you say firewhisky?" he asked.

"Yup. Only the best for Ted on his last night as a free wolf. Please don't tell me that's what you're going to wear when you come out with us." Liam said, eyeing Mark's clothes wearily. "You're going to embarrass us."

"Sorry Ms. Liam. Is this not the latest style in Witch Weekly?" Mark asked sarcastically.

Liam threw a table at Mark, who ducked out of the way. The table crashed into the wall.

"Hey, no throwing furniture! We don't need to scare the muggles and have them come banging on our door again!" Ted yelled from his shower.

"I read Witch Weekly one time and you won't let me hear the end of it!" Liam yelled. "Hurry up in there, Ted! I don't want to spend all night waiting for you to finish taking a shower!" Liam hollered to Ted. Ted turned off the tap and came out and pulled on a pair of pants.

"Mark, did you talk to the guy I attacked last night?" Ted asked as he sprayed his chest with a deodorizing potion.

"Yup. I treated his wounds with a silver powder and dittany mix; you almost killed the guy Ted." Ted dropped the potion in horror.

"Relax! I'm kidding!" Mark chortled. "Killings not a big deal though. Liam accidently killed a victim once and I've accidently killed two. It's just a part of life," Mark said dismissively. Ted knew Mark didn't feel this way. Ted was his roommate when Mark accidently killed a victim. He was so guilty he wouldn't leave his bed for three days. Ted had never killed a victim.

"Anyway, the duffer was sobbing like a baby. He was blubbering something about how being a werewolf would ruin his chances of getting the promotion he was working so hard for. I told him that he didn't need the Ministry, that he could have a high position in the werewolf ranks. He just cried for several more hours," said Mark.

"So is he going to join the werewolves or not?" Ted questioned.

"I don't know. I locked him up in an old abandoned building with a few other people who were bitten last night. I forged a letter to the Ministry in his name saying he was bitten and turned. Now we just have to wait for the Ministry to turn his back on him like they do on everyone else, then when he loses his job and they start chasing after him to lock him up, he'll realize that joining us is the best option he has," said Mark.

Mark's job in the werewolf ranks was to convince the people bitten on the full moon to join Greyback's army. It was easy to pick up the kids and make them forget their parents, but adults were harder to convince. Mark would normally inform the Ministry of Magic that the victim had been bit. These days the Ministry was terrified of werewolves, so most of the time they would try to lock up the victims. At that point most of the victims would chose to join Greyback, but some would try to convince the Ministry to let them live a normal life. It was a stupid choice, because even if the Ministry agreed not to lock them up they would always monitor them. The rest of the wizard community would shun them, and never allow them to have a job. It was just as bad as being locked up.

"Anyway I don't want to talk about work now," said Mark. "Where are we going tonight?"

"We're going to Hexes. It's going to be packed tonight." Liam stated. Hexes was the most popular wizard night club in the United Kingdom.

"I can't afford Hexes," Ted said as he dried his hair.

"Shut up, Ted. It's your last night for fun. I'll take care of it." Liam stated firmly.

"We don't have to go to Hexes. The entry fee is so high." Ted said. The entry fee for any wizard night club was high. But it was worth the money. Ted had gone to a few muggle night clubs, but they were nothing compared to wizard night clubs.

At wizard night clubs they would play wizard music. It was like muggle music, but every few lines they would sing a spell. These spells would change the atmosphere of the environment. The gravity on the dance floor would reduce so that dancing would become so much more fun. The dancers were able to move so fluidly to the beat of the music and were able to do all kinds of great leaps and flips and spins.

Ted wasn't a very good dancer. Liam and Mark we're exceptionally talented dancers (they always used their talents to impress girls). They tried to teach Ted some of their moves, but Ted never really caught on. He didn't enjoy dancing very much. But he did enjoy music.

Since Ted was young he wanted to create music. When he was eleven he stole a guitar from a wizard and tried to teach himself how to play. Alistair told him it was a waste of time and threw the guitar away. Liam retrieved the guitar for Ted and also stole a book called A Nitwit Wizard's Guide to Playing the Guitar for him. Whenever Ted got the chance he would secretly try to learn how to play. Unfortunately, he rarely got a chance to play because none of the other werewolves approved of him playing the guitar. They all told him it was a waste of time.

"We are definitely going to Hexes. No ifs, ands, or buts about it," Liam said.

"It's your last night with us," Mark said. "Don't ruin it. Come on."

"Ok," Ted agreed. "But when I come back I'm going to take you guys out for an awesome night!" After all, Ted may not have been allowed to feast on the students but he planned to pick a lot of pockets while at Hogwarts.

"Now you're talking!" Liam exclaimed. He poured all of them a shot of firewhisky as Ted came out of his room, dressed. "Cheers, to an epic night!" They clicked their glasses and took the shots.