The moon gleamed white in the background as it lit up the figure of the tall, furry, human sized figure in front of her being. The glow that radiated only for a full moon had created shapes over a majority of its face but Kagome could see the claws a clear as day. Her breath stilled as its figure moved forward, every paw bringing her a cautious step back until her back hit the bark of a tree.
It wasn't until the snout was brought to sniff from her ear to down her neck had Kagome truly realize what it was. A werewolf. There was a werewolf dashing around Hogwarts and most of not all didn't even know. Though Kagome wouldn't be surprised if the Headmaster already knew. He is Albus bloody freaking Dumbledore! You don't just become as famous as he is without just a bit of deception along the way.
Kagome shivered as the werewolf growled between the skin of her neck, she tried to keep her fear in check, afraid that the creature would kill her at any moment. She had no room to run. The canine was so close to her. If she moved one inch it would surely be able to stop her in less than a second. The werewolf turned away from her neck in slow emotional agony. His face boring into a stare at hers in which she was forced to look as well.
She looked into the eyes of what she presumed to be a he. There was something familiar about them, as of it was something she had seen before. A foreign yet familiar feeling bubbled in the pits of Kagome's stomach. It raged and roared to life in pure, raw, violent power ready to wage war against the beast in front of her but it couldn't. It was like there was this little thin barrier that in almost made it through but couldn't quite break just yet.
There was the snap of a twig. The werewolf being the first to react by turning his attention away from her and to the source of the sound. It looked as if he were going to leave in search of the disturbance of their little staring contest. Kagome supposed that the only reason he chose to stay was because he already had a tasty snack within his claws. Yay! She's going to be puppy chow! Note the sarcasm and eye roll.
It seemed like he was a bit more agitated now. The trance he had seemed to enter with her earlier was gone, exiting the calm and replacing it with a more aggressive demeanor. Kagome couldn't help but gulp as a shaky breath entered her system at the sound of his rough growl. It radiated danger, primal instinct and an unexplainable furry.
Kagome could hear the fast moving wind and the next thing she knew there was an arrow lodged into the creatures side. He jumped back, a wail leaving his body as his furry, clawed hands swung in abandon. There was another arrow. Kagome was pretty sure it was meant for the beast in front of her but with his wild movement the arrow missed, grazing her cheek as it impaled the tree she leaned on. Kagome refused to let out a single shriek. The stuffed vocal of sound after the years of night terrors refused to be released. No. Instead Kagome had done the only thing she thought logical at this moment. Run like hell.
She should have acted in more graceful. Her feet stomped on the ground with a burst of movement. There was a strong of curses rushing through her mind as she realized that she was only in her bare feet. Every movement brought a brush of dark brown soil and fallen crunched leaves to imprint on or in between the space of her toes. Sticks have pieces of themselves away as Kagome felt the pain of splinters making a home in the soft of her skin deeper and deeper.
To make things just a bit more complicated; Kagome was in unfamiliar territory, a place she had never entered before. Then with the luck she has, it just had to be night and the pale, dim, glow of the moonlight barely giving her enough sight of the path she was so blindly walking to.
Kagome couldn't help but turn her head to look back once she heard the throaty howl from behind her. He sounded even angrier than he looked when she had first seen him.
Kagome pushed her legs into large leaps and steps that bounded off the ground with a force. She could feel the familiar burning in her gut of when she knew she had been running to long for her body to handle. The lack of proper oxidation burned at her throat whenever Kagome released an orchestra of fast desperate pants. She pushed herself harder, made her body move faster. She knew she wasn't going to last long. The rush of molten red blood swirling in her face made it all the more difficult to breathe. Black spots entered her vision, taking away even more of her sight. If that werewolf didn't eat her then she would surely die of pushing herself too hard.
She stumbled, falling to the ground when her foot caught the root of a tree. There was no energy left for her to consciously conjure to pick herself up as she lied with a spinning head; lips barely kissing the ground in an attempt to breathe. Her mind was a muddled mess in all of her exhaustion, barely able to think of a single spell to help in her situation. Even if she could, her arms didn't seen to agree with the thought of having to lift itself up.
The sound of moving leaves, dirt, and branches meet her ear. Considering that she was able to hear it must have meant that he was close. Incredibly close. It shouldn't have been much of a surprise. She may have had a head start but he was an animal, hunting prey was in his DNA; not for her though. He could find her in minutes, she could get caught in minutes.
He was towering over her. The large shadow of his figure completely covering her to where she could no longer see the lunar light. Kagome tried to turn her head to look at him and couldn't help but glare even as the fear coursing through her veins feel like they're going to choke her. She hated feeling like this! The way her father would make her feel so often. So weak and pathetic. Just the thought of him completely consumed her in a burning rage as she clenched her jaw and kept her glare set on the werewolf for making her feel even remotely the same way of that abusive man.
His claw dug deeply into her skin when he grabbed her at the soft skin of her thigh, making sure she wouldn't be able to escape. Kagome let out a sharp hiss, her hand taking up dirt at feeling the pain of her broken flesh. She could see him raise his other fist, paws and claws making a rapid way towards her upper body part in what may be a critical blow to her body.
Kagome closed her eyes tightly, waiting for the hit to come. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion on what she waited for what she just knew would be the death of her. She didn't want to die though, not like this. She's tried too hard on trying to stay alive for Sev's sake.
Her eyes snapped open at the thought. Severus! How could she be such a fool? She can't die! What would happen to her twin brother if she did? She couldn't chance it.
It was like a new charge of energy swarming through as the new found will and rage built up inside her to finally snap the barrier inside her. "Get. Away. From. Me!" Kagome hissed out every word with a burning passion that seemed to move towards her hands in a kind of lilac light similar to whenever she uses her magic. It grew to the point to where it formed a large ball that Kagome was unable to contain and launched it straight into the monsters face.
He released her in favor of clawing at the light on his face that seemed to be burning his flesh. A raging growl ripping away from his throat. Kagome took this as a chance. A chance to run again and if she's lucky find a place where he can't find her. Though with his enhanced senses she doubted that she'd have such luck.
She moved slower this time, stumbling from the injury on her leg as she struggled to keep moving while trying to hold the assulted area of her thigh and stop the gushes of blood seeping through her fingers. A mew cried out to her. Kagome came to an unwise stop. Midnight! The kitten was in front of her right,cocking his head to the side in a completely adorably but really unhelpful manner considering this situation.
"What are you doing here?" Kagome whispered. It wouldn't be long before that thing came after the coppery scent of her blood and tear her throat out with his teeth! "It's dangerous are you seriously trying to get your arse killed!" He didn't seem to be buying it. If anything he was looking at her in a way of him telling her that she was a complete hypocrite. "Never mind we have to go!"
The wind seemed to pick up at that comment. Like all the air seemed to firm around one area as it formed a miniature hurricane in from of her. Kagome's eyes grew wide when the little cat turned into a huge feline with all the same features as before save for the size, animalistic eyes, and thick, long, tear through anything teeth. Kagome was speechless.
Midnight waved his head back, gesturing for the young girl to get on. Kagome was still in a state of shock but seeing as she could hear the foot/paw steps of the beast being her she felt as if she hadn't much a choice. Kagome lifted herself up. Slightly grunting when she tried to lift the injured leg off the ground and having the said injury on her thigh press against the hair of the mammal under her.
Kagome grabbed on to the black hairs when Midnight began to break into a sprint. Kagome released a yelp when running had turned to being lifted higher and higher until they were nowhere near the ground and she was feeling the fear of staring down at the spot she once stood on. She tugged on the hairs fisted in between her fingers, "come on midnight, let's go."
However, try as she might the cat refused to budge, instead staying to stare at that one spot for reasons unknown to Kagome. Kagome could already begin to see the rays of the sun beginning to pick her skin as the moon slowly turned to sunrise and she quietly hopped that Molly hadn't woken up yet for one reason or another.
The beast had made his way below them and Kagome quietly felt a grip of fear enter her as she wondered how long Midnight was able to stay up here. The large canine looked up at them. In the night they were near invisible but once the sun came out they were sticking like a sore thumb. The werewolf howled as he seemed to be incredibly weakened for some reason; Kagome didn't believe he grew so weak from whatever she had done earlier.
They stayed a little longer, apparently there was something Midnight had wanted to see and once they saw it Kagome couldn't help but be owl eyed. "Merlin's beard." She breathed out as they flew back towards the castle known as Hogwarts. "Remus Lupin is a werewolf."