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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"The Great Milkshake Rescue/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"Part Two/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So how exactly are we going to pull this off?" Sirius asked, watching Scorpion mash the Henbane and pour the juices of it into a little bowl she had in front of her. She added some odd grey powder and a strange green jelly-like substance to the bowl of henbane juices. She mashed them together, then looked up at him. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do you trust me?" She asked, locking eyes with him. Sirius felt his cheeks growing hot. His mouth felt dry. He hated that he felt like that around Scorpion. That's how girls were supposed act and feel around him./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Is that a trick question?" He asked, attempting to be funny and charming. Usually he didn't have to try, nor did he specifically want to, but now he did. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No, Sirius. I want to know. Do you trust me?" Her eyebrows knitted together as she continued to hold his gaze. It was a stare down of sorts, and Scorpion was winning. Sirius felt the sudden urge to look down at the ground, but he didn't want to look away from those eyes. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, I trust you." He answered./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Good." She smiled, mixing the ingredients she'd put in the bowl until they somehow became a blood red jelly. She then poured the juice from that, which was somehow bright pink, into the milkshake beside her. emWhat a waste of a perfectly good milkshake,/em Sirius thought to himself. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You have to drink this, I'll give you additional information afterward." She said. For once her voice was dead serious. Then she smiled and, returning to her earlier, playful tones, she said; "I'll give you a little kiss on the cheek if you do." Sirius felt himself growing hot again./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Erm... okay." She handed him the glass. He was slightly surprised when it tasted exactly the same as it did before she added whatever potion she'd put in. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"He put it down and was about to ask what it was supposed to do, when he began to feel extremely tiered. His limbs felt like lead and his eyelids and suddenly became the weight of boulders. He yawned so widely he felt as though he looked like the cavern for a second. What was he even doing out here, and who was that adorable girl right beside him? He fell back into the grass, a welcome sleep stealing over him./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""What did you do to him?" Remus asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I loosened his soul." She replied brightly, as though she were talking about an art project./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You WHAT?" Remus bellowed./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'm going to switch his soul with the chakra of a skinwalker, then Sirius will be able to get us into the cavern. Then, we'll have exactly forty-five minutes to find your friends and get them out before the potion begins to ware off. Then I switch the soul and chakra back, and kill the unlucky skinwalker, easy as that." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""That's not a good idea." Remus heard himself squeak./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do have a better one?" Scorpion asked, but just as politely as ever./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Well, no." Remus admitted, shuffling his feet. "But you should've told Sirius what was going to happen."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I didn't want him to be scared. Ugh, we don't have time to argue." She put her hand over Sirius's mouth and her other hand over the skinwalker's chest. A dark blue orb of light appeared in her hand over the skinwalker, and a shining whit light came floating slowly out of Sirius's mouth. Remus knew there was no way to stop it now, Sirius's soul was already outside of his body. She turned around with caution, placing Sirius's soul over the skinwalker's mouth, and pushing the odd, pulsing blue light into Sirius's chest. The skinwalker sat up, groaning. emNo, /emRemus corrected himself, emSirius sat up. /em/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'll give you that kiss when you get back in your body." Scorpion told Sirius, grasping his wrist. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Kay." His voice was warped and scratchy, but Remus could still tell he was dazed. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Here's the plan, Sirius." Scorpion said in a low voice stepping closer to him. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I've put you in the body of a skinwalker, so you have increased strength and senses. You'll cary the two of us in there in the form of the mutated zombie deer thing, and pretend to be bringing us in as prisoner. We find your friends' cages, get them out, and high-tail it out of there. Once we get out, I'll place a temporary sanctarium charm around the mouth of the cougar, and put you back in your body. Then, you get your kiss, and we all get out of here." Sirius nodded. Even in the skinwalker's body his crush was evident. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Hold on a second, I don't know how to change form." Sirius said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sure you do, silly." Scorpion teased. "It's the same as being an animagus, but you can turn into anything." Her fingers slid down into his hand, and Sirius's cheeks became redder than they'd been./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Right, that makes sense." He muttered. Sirius heard the sound of some boy yelling out, followed immediately by a girl. Two figures fell into a nearby bush with a heavy thud./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"He couldn't find Flametail anywhere. She wasn't at the castle, it was really the only explanation. He'd been studying her the night before. He wanted to know what made Peter think that she was trustworthy and strong enough to be their lone savior, and things didn't quite add up. There were articles about her doing all sorts of good deeds around the world, in America, in China, in Japan, there in England, in India. There were articles a bout her discovering magical creatures from those places too, and more dangerous places like the Amazon rain forest where she discovered an acramantula, alligator cross breed and Antarctica were she was the first one to prove that something called a Frigus Furrure existed and lived there. There were book excerpts showcasing spells she'd invented, and they were light-hearted innocent spells, like an instantaneous cloths changing spell, or a spell that turns you into your spirit animal, though there were no instructions available for that spell. Each of these was accompanied by a picture. Her hair was much longer in all of the pictures than Severus had ever seen it. At first glance, you wouldn't have noticed. It fell to her hips like always, but Severus realized that it was up in a braid, so it was actually a lot longer, but some of the articles were published during that school year, including one written two days earlier. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"She also had a scar down her left cheek in her pictures, but Severus was certain he'd never seen a scar anywhere on her. It was also never mentioned that Scorpion Flametail was attending Hogwarts, except in a list of ninjas in the Flametail clan, and her identification photo was the only picture of her Severus could find that looked like the girl he was used to seeing sulking around the halls with thick volumes on dark magic or digging a random hole by the forbidden forest and suspiciously burying something. There was something odd going on. Severus made his way back down to the archives, intending to talk to Master Leilani about Flametail, but something strange happened. His vision clouded over and turned completely white. It started to disperse and a scene in which Peter and Potter were both in opened before his eyes. The two of them were standing in front of a mountain shaped perfectly like a cougar. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus, come help us." Peter whispered./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""They're going to kill Sirius and Remus. You've got to help us." Potter pleaded. "Please, I swear I'll never be mean to you again." /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sev!" Someone was calling him from somewhere far beyond the cougar. It was a very familiar voice. He was laying on his back on the floor of the library, in front of the entrance to the archives. Lily and her friend Chrysanthemum were standing behind him. The blonde had a sneer on her face, but Lily looked very concerned. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus, are you okay? What happened? Did someone attack you?" She asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No... not... oh, Merlin we've got to save them, Lily. They're going to die." Her eyes widened as though she now knew exactly what had happened. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Chrysanthemum, will you go get Madame Pompherey please?" Lily said to her friend./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yeah, sure, whatever, Lily." She muttered and walked slowly away, probably hoping that Severus would die while she stalled. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Who's going to die, Severus? Tell me what you saw." She said, helping him to his feet. A hot blush covered his cheeks when she touched his hand. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I saw Potter and Peter. They were standing in front of this cave shaped like a cougar...Potter told me that someone was going to kill Black and Lupin. Lily we've got to do something."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I know, Sev, calm down. Master Leilani will be able to help us. She'll tell us where that cave is, there can't be many of them. I'm sure we can get her to come with us, if not, we can do this ourselves." She opened the entrance to the Archives and pulled Severus in. The bookcase rolled shut silently. They were running down the stairs of the Archives, when they ended up running smack into someone coming the opposite way. There was only one person that could be./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Watch it, will you?" Flametail hissed, trying to gather the books she'd dropped. Without thinking, Severus snatched up the collar of her robes, and pulled her up, almost off of her feet./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Where have you been, you bloody coward?" He hissed at her. She blinked, looking shocked. "Your partner has been missing and in the jaws of doom, and you decide that that is the best time to just wander off? What the sodding hell were you thinking?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Put me down, Snape." She hissed venomously. Severus threw her onto the stairs. "I don't really care if Potter and Pettigrew die, and If Lupin and Black are smart, they won't, so why don't you just..." She cut off when Severus slapped her across the face. He wasn't sure where his anger was coming from, he just knew that it was there and it was strong. She gasped, incredulously./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus," Lily gasped./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You're going to help us wether you like it or not." He growled, menacingly. "Take us to the mouth of the Cougar now."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I was going to beat you senseless for having the gall to hit me, but since you're going on a suicide mission, I guess I should do myself the pleasure of prolonging you inevitable suffering in the near future. If you want to go running into the open arms of skinwalkers, all you had to do was ask." She extracted a blackened, cracked up crystal from her pocket. She drew the outline of a doorway on the wall. Inside the outline, a giant, dark, ominous hole expanded into existence. "Sayonara." She said in a very creepy tone. Lily looked unnerved. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You can stay here, I wouldn't blame you." Severus said, gently. Why was he even doing this? Those four made his life a living hell at Hogwarts. What did he care if they died? Potter, Black, Lupin, and Peter... Peter. Without a second thought, or waiting for Lily's reply, Severus ran straight through the doorway, and fell out of it. He was surrounded by morning air for a moment, yelling as he fell. He landed in a bush that had many thorns all over its branches. Lily had landed right next to him. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Lily screamed. Severus looked around. Flametail was holding hands with some Native American man, Sirius Black was lying on the ground in what looked like a black catsuit, not moving, and Lupin, in the same suit, was standing next to them, looking apprehensive. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, so you decided to help, did you... and how did you get here faster than us?" Lily demanded./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'm sorry, but you really must have me confused with someone else." Flametail replied. Lily must not have noticed what Severus did. Flametail's hair was longer, and she had a scar on her left cheek. She also had a polite, bright tone in her voice./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, I'm afraid we do." Severus apologized, clambering out of the bush with as much dignity as he could manage. "We thought you were Scorpion Flametail."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""She is," The man said, "The one we know and hate is Vipress Flametail, her twin sister."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I don't mean to be rude, but who the hell are you?" Severus snarled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, right, I forgot I was an old man for a second. I'm Sirius... I just got my soul switched with a skinwalkers cat-tra..."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Chakra." Flametail corrected./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Right, a skinwalkers chakra."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why?" Severus asked./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You'll see." Flametail said, unhelpfully. "You two just wait out here... we kind of have a plan, but it's always good to have back up. If we aren't back in thirty minutes, tie that thing down," She jabbed her thumb over at Sirius's body, "If we're not back in forty, we failed and we need help. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Maybe I should be part of the back up group too." Lupin said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No." Flametail denied his request. "Don't try to worm out of this, we need three people."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'll trade with him." Why did he keep saying things like that? He didn't want to go in./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Okay then."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Actually, maybe that isn't a good idea." Lupin said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, Merlin, Lupin. Do you really think I'd drag Lily and myself all the way over here just to sabotage this, you probably wouldn't do well on your own anyway, even with Flametail's help, so the only logical reason for me to be here is that I actually plan to help, not just stand here all day as a contingency." Why exactly was he fighting for this?/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why do you want to get in so badly?" Lupin scowled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why do you all of a sudden want to go?" Severus shot back./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Woah, okay, calm down. I'm taking the psychic." Flametail said. "This is a time sensitive mission, we don't have time to argue... you need a mission suit." She clapped her hands, and Severus felt his robes tighten around him. Lily giggled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You look good, Sev." He blushed and looked down at himself. He was wearing a matching uniform to the other three, but his had a golden Egyptian hieroglyph in the shape of an eye on the side of his left pant leg, and matching golden silk hung loosely around his waist. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why..."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No time, lets go!" She commanded. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Lily's point of view/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"She had to admit it, the boys looked pretty damn good in the uniforms Flametail forced upon them. She was pretty sure that even Potter would look attractive in one of those... ugh, why was she even thinking about that? It had been a while since they'd gone in, and she was scared for them. Sure, Black and Potter were annoying, but they didn't deserve to die at such a young age, and Severus and Peter were just misunderstood. They were good guys... for the most part. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do you think they're going to be okay?" Lily asked Lupin./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I dunno, but I sure hope so." He replied./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Even Severus?" She inquired. The silence was hard to handle. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, even him. I never particularly disliked him, I just never really stood up to my friends for him like Peter did."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I wonder why he did that. I thought it was great and everything, but why?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I reckon he has a bit of a crush on Snape."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Peter? I didn't think he was gay." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yeah, I kind of figured out that he is... I'm not even sure if he knows it yet, but he pays attention to male bodies way more than to female bodies." He said thoughtfully. "And I have a certain, er... knack for telling when someone has feelings for someone else. I haven't been wrong yet, and I don't plan to now." Lily nodded./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So, why'd Scorpion call Snape 'the psychic', Lily? Do you know?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I don't know how she knew, but Severus found out he was psychic a few days ago. That's how we found you guys, he had a vision of this cave... but I'm not sure what he saw, exactly. Lupin looked impressed./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I've never met a real psychic before. After all of this is over, I'd like to ask him some questions about how clairvoyance works." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So would I." Lily agreed/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You think we should tie Sirius's body down, about now?" Lupin asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sure." Lily did not need a reason to do that./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Nope!" Flametail called cheerily from the mouth of the cave. "We've got everything under control." Potter, Peter, Severus and Black were with her. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, er... Hi, Evens." Potter said, half grinning. "You came to help us too?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No. I came to help Peter." She corrected him. He looked very disappointed. "Do you need help getting Black back into his body?" She asked, walking forward./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Lily, no!" Severus called, he was standing in the mouth of the cave... but wasn't he right behind her? It was a bit too late. Potter grabbed both of her arms, except he wasn't Potter anymore. He had taken the form of a skeletal, mutated deer standing on its hind legs. All of them had turned back into their demon forms. Lupin was struggling against three of them while the other two were attempting to pull Lily into the cave. Something struck her in the back of the head, and darkness enveloped her senses, but she knew she wasn't in the cat's mouth yet. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"The Great Milkshake Rescue/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Times New Roman;"Part Two/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Sirius's Point of View/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So how exactly are we going to pull this off?" Sirius asked, watching Scorpion mash the Henbane and pour the juices of it into a little bowl she had in front of her. She added some odd grey powder and a strange green jelly-like substance to the bowl of henbane juices. She mashed them together, then looked up at him. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do you trust me?" She asked, locking eyes with him. Sirius felt his cheeks growing hot. His mouth felt dry. He hated that he felt like that around Scorpion. That's how girls were supposed act and feel around him./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Is that a trick question?" He asked, attempting to be funny and charming. Usually he didn't have to try, nor did he specifically want to, but now he did. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No, Sirius. I want to know. Do you trust me?" Her eyebrows knitted together as she continued to hold his gaze. It was a stare down of sorts, and Scorpion was winning. Sirius felt the sudden urge to look down at the ground, but he didn't want to look away from those eyes. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, I trust you." He answered./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Good." She smiled, mixing the ingredients she'd put in the bowl until they somehow became a blood red jelly. She then poured the juice from that, which was somehow bright pink, into the milkshake beside her. emWhat a waste of a perfectly good milkshake,/em Sirius thought to himself. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You have to drink this, I'll give you additional information afterward." She said. For once her voice was dead serious. Then she smiled and, returning to her earlier, playful tones, she said; "I'll give you a little kiss on the cheek if you do." Sirius felt himself growing hot again./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Erm... okay." She handed him the glass. He was slightly surprised when it tasted exactly the same as it did before she added whatever potion she'd put in. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"He put it down and was about to ask what it was supposed to do, when he began to feel extremely tiered. His limbs felt like lead and his eyelids and suddenly became the weight of boulders. He yawned so widely he felt as though he looked like the cavern for a second. What was he even doing out here, and who was that adorable girl right beside him? He fell back into the grass, a welcome sleep stealing over him./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Remus's Point of View/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""What did you do to him?" Remus asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I loosened his soul." She replied brightly, as though she were talking about an art project./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You WHAT?" Remus bellowed./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'm going to switch his soul with the chakra of a skinwalker, then Sirius will be able to get us into the cavern. Then, we'll have exactly forty-five minutes to find your friends and get them out before the potion begins to ware off. Then I switch the soul and chakra back, and kill the unlucky skinwalker, easy as that." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""That's not a good idea." Remus heard himself squeak./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do have a better one?" Scorpion asked, but just as politely as ever./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Well, no." Remus admitted, shuffling his feet. "But you should've told Sirius what was going to happen."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I didn't want him to be scared. Ugh, we don't have time to argue." She put her hand over Sirius's mouth and her other hand over the skinwalker's chest. A dark blue orb of light appeared in her hand over the skinwalker, and a shining whit light came floating slowly out of Sirius's mouth. Remus knew there was no way to stop it now, Sirius's soul was already outside of his body. She turned around with caution, placing Sirius's soul over the skinwalker's mouth, and pushing the odd, pulsing blue light into Sirius's chest. The skinwalker sat up, groaning. emNo, /emRemus corrected himself, emSirius sat up. /em/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'll give you that kiss when you get back in your body." Scorpion told Sirius, grasping his wrist. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Kay." His voice was warped and scratchy, but Remus could still tell he was dazed. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Here's the plan, Sirius." Scorpion said in a low voice stepping closer to him. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I've put you in the body of a skinwalker, so you have increased strength and senses. You'll cary the two of us in there in the form of the mutated zombie deer thing, and pretend to be bringing us in as prisoner. We find your friends' cages, get them out, and high-tail it out of there. Once we get out, I'll place a temporary sanctarium charm around the mouth of the cougar, and put you back in your body. Then, you get your kiss, and we all get out of here." Sirius nodded. Even in the skinwalker's body his crush was evident. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Hold on a second, I don't know how to change form." Sirius said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sure you do, silly." Scorpion teased. "It's the same as being an animagus, but you can turn into anything." Her fingers slid down into his hand, and Sirius's cheeks became redder than they'd been./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Right, that makes sense." He muttered. Sirius heard the sound of some boy yelling out, followed immediately by a girl. Two figures fell into a nearby bush with a heavy thud./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Severus's Point of View/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"He couldn't find Flametail anywhere. She wasn't at the castle, it was really the only explanation. He'd been studying her the night before. He wanted to know what made Peter think that she was trustworthy and strong enough to be their lone savior, and things didn't quite add up. There were articles about her doing all sorts of good deeds around the world, in America, in China, in Japan, there in England, in India. There were articles a bout her discovering magical creatures from those places too, and more dangerous places like the Amazon rain forest where she discovered an acramantula, alligator cross breed and Antarctica were she was the first one to prove that something called a Frigus Furrure existed and lived there. There were book excerpts showcasing spells she'd invented, and they were light-hearted innocent spells, like an instantaneous cloths changing spell, or a spell that turns you into your spirit animal, though there were no instructions available for that spell. Each of these was accompanied by a picture. Her hair was much longer in all of the pictures than Severus had ever seen it. At first glance, you wouldn't have noticed. It fell to her hips like always, but Severus realized that it was up in a braid, so it was actually a lot longer, but some of the articles were published during that school year, including one written two days earlier. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"She also had a scar down her left cheek in her pictures, but Severus was certain he'd never seen a scar anywhere on her. It was also never mentioned that Scorpion Flametail was attending Hogwarts, except in a list of ninjas in the Flametail clan, and her identification photo was the only picture of her Severus could find that looked like the girl he was used to seeing sulking around the halls with thick volumes on dark magic or digging a random hole by the forbidden forest and suspiciously burying something. There was something odd going on. Severus made his way back down to the archives, intending to talk to Master Leilani about Flametail, but something strange happened. His vision clouded over and turned completely white. It started to disperse and a scene in which Peter and Potter were both in opened before his eyes. The two of them were standing in front of a mountain shaped perfectly like a cougar. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus, come help us." Peter whispered./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""They're going to kill Sirius and Remus. You've got to help us." Potter pleaded. "Please, I swear I'll never be mean to you again." /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sev!" Someone was calling him from somewhere far beyond the cougar. It was a very familiar voice. He was laying on his back on the floor of the library, in front of the entrance to the archives. Lily and her friend Chrysanthemum were standing behind him. The blonde had a sneer on her face, but Lily looked very concerned. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus, are you okay? What happened? Did someone attack you?" She asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No... not... oh, Merlin we've got to save them, Lily. They're going to die." Her eyes widened as though she now knew exactly what had happened. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Chrysanthemum, will you go get Madame Pompherey please?" Lily said to her friend./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yeah, sure, whatever, Lily." She muttered and walked slowly away, probably hoping that Severus would die while she stalled. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Who's going to die, Severus? Tell me what you saw." She said, helping him to his feet. A hot blush covered his cheeks when she touched his hand. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I saw Potter and Peter. They were standing in front of this cave shaped like a cougar...Potter told me that someone was going to kill Black and Lupin. Lily we've got to do something."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I know, Sev, calm down. Master Leilani will be able to help us. She'll tell us where that cave is, there can't be many of them. I'm sure we can get her to come with us, if not, we can do this ourselves." She opened the entrance to the Archives and pulled Severus in. The bookcase rolled shut silently. They were running down the stairs of the Archives, when they ended up running smack into someone coming the opposite way. There was only one person that could be./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Watch it, will you?" Flametail hissed, trying to gather the books she'd dropped. Without thinking, Severus snatched up the collar of her robes, and pulled her up, almost off of her feet./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Where have you been, you bloody coward?" He hissed at her. She blinked, looking shocked. "Your partner has been missing and in the jaws of doom, and you decide that that is the best time to just wander off? What the sodding hell were you thinking?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Put me down, Snape." She hissed venomously. Severus threw her onto the stairs. "I don't really care if Potter and Pettigrew die, and If Lupin and Black are smart, they won't, so why don't you just..." She cut off when Severus slapped her across the face. He wasn't sure where his anger was coming from, he just knew that it was there and it was strong. She gasped, incredulously./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Severus," Lily gasped./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You're going to help us wether you like it or not." He growled, menacingly. "Take us to the mouth of the Cougar now."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I was going to beat you senseless for having the gall to hit me, but since you're going on a suicide mission, I guess I should do myself the pleasure of prolonging you inevitable suffering in the near future. If you want to go running into the open arms of skinwalkers, all you had to do was ask." She extracted a blackened, cracked up crystal from her pocket. She drew the outline of a doorway on the wall. Inside the outline, a giant, dark, ominous hole expanded into existence. "Sayonara." She said in a very creepy tone. Lily looked unnerved. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You can stay here, I wouldn't blame you." Severus said, gently. Why was he even doing this? Those four made his life a living hell at Hogwarts. What did he care if they died? Potter, Black, Lupin, and Peter... Peter. Without a second thought, or waiting for Lily's reply, Severus ran straight through the doorway, and fell out of it. He was surrounded by morning air for a moment, yelling as he fell. He landed in a bush that had many thorns all over its branches. Lily had landed right next to him. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Lily screamed. Severus looked around. Flametail was holding hands with some Native American man, Sirius Black was lying on the ground in what looked like a black catsuit, not moving, and Lupin, in the same suit, was standing next to them, looking apprehensive. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, so you decided to help, did you... and how did you get here faster than us?" Lily demanded./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'm sorry, but you really must have me confused with someone else." Flametail replied. Lily must not have noticed what Severus did. Flametail's hair was longer, and she had a scar on her left cheek. She also had a polite, bright tone in her voice./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, I'm afraid we do." Severus apologized, clambering out of the bush with as much dignity as he could manage. "We thought you were Scorpion Flametail."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""She is," The man said, "The one we know and hate is Vipress Flametail, her twin sister."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I don't mean to be rude, but who the hell are you?" Severus snarled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, right, I forgot I was an old man for a second. I'm Sirius... I just got my soul switched with a skinwalkers cat-tra..."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Chakra." Flametail corrected./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Right, a skinwalkers chakra."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why?" Severus asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You'll see." Flametail said, unhelpfully. "You two just wait out here... we kind of have a plan, but it's always good to have back up. If we aren't back in thirty minutes, tie that thing down," She jabbed her thumb over at Sirius's body, "If we're not back in forty, we failed and we need help. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Maybe I should be part of the back up group too." Lupin said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No." Flametail denied his request. "Don't try to worm out of this, we need three people."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I'll trade with him." Why did he keep saying things like that? He didn't want to go in./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Okay then."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Actually, maybe that isn't a good idea." Lupin said./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, Merlin, Lupin. Do you really think I'd drag Lily and myself all the way over here just to sabotage this, you probably wouldn't do well on your own anyway, even with Flametail's help, so the only logical reason for me to be here is that I actually plan to help, not just stand here all day as a contingency." Why exactly was he fighting for this?/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why do you want to get in so badly?" Lupin scowled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why do you all of a sudden want to go?" Severus shot back./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 16.0px;" /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Woah, okay, calm down. I'm taking the psychic." Flametail said. "This is a time sensitive mission, we don't have time to argue... you need a mission suit." She clapped her hands, and Severus felt his robes tighten around him. Lily giggled./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You look good, Sev." He blushed and looked down at himself. He was wearing a matching uniform to the other three, but his had a golden Egyptian hieroglyph in the shape of an eye on the side of his left pant leg, and matching golden silk hung loosely around his waist. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Why..."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No time, lets go!" She commanded. /p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"Lily's point of view/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;"She had to admit it, the boys looked pretty damn good in the uniforms Flametail forced upon them. She was pretty sure that even Potter would look attractive in one of those... ugh, why was she even thinking about that? It had been a while since they'd gone in, and she was scared for them. Sure, Black and Potter were annoying, but they didn't deserve to die at such a young age, and Severus and Peter were just misunderstood. They were good guys... for the most part. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Do you think they're going to be okay?" Lily asked Lupin./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I dunno, but I sure hope so." He replied./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Even Severus?" She inquired. The silence was hard to handle. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yes, even him. I never particularly disliked him, I just never really stood up to my friends for him like Peter did."/p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I wonder why he did that. I thought it was great and everything, but why?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I reckon he has a bit of a crush on Snape."/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Peter? I didn't think he was gay." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Yeah, I kind of figured out that he is... I'm not even sure if he knows it yet, but he pays attention to male bodies way more than to female bodies." He said thoughtfully. "And I have a certain, er... knack for telling when someone has feelings for someone else. I haven't been wrong yet, and I don't plan to now." Lily nodded./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So, why'd Scorpion call Snape 'the psychic', Lily? Do you know?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I don't know how she knew, but Severus found out he was psychic a few days ago. That's how we found you guys, he had a vision of this cave... but I'm not sure what he saw, exactly. Lupin looked impressed./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""I've never met a real psychic before. After all of this is over, I'd like to ask him some questions about how clairvoyance works." /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""So would I." Lily agreed/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""You think we should tie Sirius's body down, about now?" Lupin asked./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Sure." Lily did not need a reason to do that./p
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p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Nope!" Flametail called cheerily from the mouth of the cave. "We've got everything under control." Potter, Peter, Severus and Black were with her. /p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Oh, er... Hi, Evens." Potter said, half grinning. "You came to help us too?"/p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""No. I came to help Peter." She corrected him. He looked very disappointed. "Do you need help getting Black back into his body?" She asked, walking forward./p
p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Times New Roman;""Lily, no!" Severus called, he was standing in the mouth of the cave... but wasn't he right behind her? It was a bit too late. Potter grabbed both of her arms, except he wasn't Potter anymore. He had taken the form of a skeletal, mutated deer standing on its hind legs. All of them had turned back into their demon forms. Lupin was struggling against three of them while the other two were attempting to pull Lily into the cave. Something struck her in the back of the head, and darkness enveloped her senses, but she knew she wasn't in the cat's mouth yet. /p