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Chapter 7, Darkest Night

*Lumos*

Remus looked around the room helpless as Dora's screams continued though they were getting quieter and weaker he didn't have much time left if he was going to help her, finally his eyes found it a door left ajar behind one of the book shelves that seemed to be the amplifier to Dora's screams, ignoring the pain in his shoulder he went to the door and opened it enough he could get through.

He soon found himself in a dark tunnel like hall the only light was coming from the farthest end and Dora's screams were louder than ever as she begged someone to stop before her screams became sobs, he was running as fast as he could down the hall but came to a sudden stop as he found there was a fence like barrier blocking him from getting into the room before him, almost at once both his rage boiled over and his stomach turned over making him feel sick as he seen Dora was chained by her hands to what looked like a mid-evil toucher table her cloak had been ripped off and thrown aside, her clothes were in shreds and bloody, her hair had been tangled as if someone had been handling her by it, her lip was broken open and bleeding horribly, thin red cuts covered every inch of her all growing closer and closer to her throat, her cheeks were stained with tears as she sobbed trying to get free but she wasn't strong enough.

Remus' rage grew and he made an attempt to rip down the chain link fence but a sickly sweet voice drew his attention.

"What a bad little mutt you are not staying where your told,"

His eyes searched the room before finding the form that was separating from the shadows, he felt himself snarl as Bellatrix smirked clicking her tongue at him and shaking her head, with a quick movement she snapped her fingers and a large wild looking male werewolf stepped from the shadows a twisted smile on his face as Bellatrix pointed a white bone like finger at Dora in silent command, Remus felt his stomach threaten to empty its contents as the male went to Dora and she began to scream and beg again but the male ignored her grabbing her by the neck with one clawed hand while his other made 5 lines of new red cuts across her torso causing her to let out a blood curtailing scream, he did not however stop there as she screamed he let his hands wonder her body causing her to sob and beg him to stop again.

Remus felt his rage fill his body and as he leered at Bellatrix who snapped her finger again causing the man to step away and lick the droplet of blood from his claw, Bellatrix smirked looking to Remus.

"What's the matter mongrel don't like seeing you toy played with by someone else?"

Dora whimpered looking at her aunt for a moment and Bellatrix looked her over before ignoring Remus and stepping in front of her with a smirk trailing a claw like nail from Dora's neck, over her chest and torso before trailing down her thigh causing her to whine again.

"If you try anything I'll let him do as he wishes with her."

Remus opened his mouth to retort back at her but stopped as Dora found it in herself to kick her aunt back and spit at her leaving a red drop on her ivory cheek.

"I don't care what you do to me but you leave him alone you hag!"

Bellatrix seemed unfazed as she whipped the blood away with her finger before turning her back on the room standing in the door way.

"Get rid of both of them."

With those simple words she left the room and as the door closed the fence keeping Remus out was gone and he was being grabbed by the front of his shirt lifted off the ground by the man who's twisted smile had yet to waver, a pit seemed to open in Remus' stomach he was in danger, real danger, and he could do little to save himself let alone Dora who seemed to be growing weaker by the second, he glanced at Dora and his rage filled his body again and before he could think he had kicked the man square in the chest, he was dropped at once landing hard on his back side as the man stumbled back trying to breath, Remus took the chance to make an attempt to remove the chains from Dora's wrists but no more had he touched them was he grabbed by his shirt and thrown across the room and into the wall which he felt give slightly under him, he gasped for air but only felt a warm trickle come up his throat and over his lips as he sputtered.

He had little time to recover before he was lifted by his neck so he was looking right into the man's face.

"Such a weakling, so the pup I left in the woods was raised to be the next alpha, how pathetic such a weakling being prince can't even save his own mate, I thought you'd have died after I bit you who saved you surely not my brother."

Remus felt shell shocked as he listened to the man who laughed and threw him to the floor but before he could get up he was pinned down by his foot.

"What didn't they tell you that you weren't born into the pack? Oh no I happened upon a little toddler on a full moon and figured easy pray but I was unable to finish the job when I was chased off, I left him bleeding and screaming in the middle of the woods to die, if you were taken in by the pack it must have been that witch my brother married because he would never take in an outsider."

Remus felt himself growl as his mind struggled to keep up before everything seemed to go blank, suddenly the man was struck hard in the chest and knocked back, it was as though he were watching the whole fight take place from a strangers point of view as the man was sent into the wall with three gushing claw marks across his face, suddenly Remus felt the fever of transformation set in and his body began to shake as he fell to his knees every bone in his body snapping as he turned, the man before him seemed to be undergoing the same fate but he was nearly twice the size of the brown wolf who was now growling with bared teeth its fur standing on end, the man had now become a large jet black wolf with mangy matter fur and scar that covered his body.

Remus snarled and lunged for him clapping his jaws tight on the other wolf's neck refusing to let go as the other wolf tried to shake him off though only gained deeper gashes in his neck until he had backed into the wall and knocked Remus off, Remus yelped as he was slammed into the wall but quickly gathered himself and attacked the black wolf again wrestling him to the ground ignoring the sharp claws that dug into his face as he clamped his jaw around its neck again but did not let go this time as the coppery taste of blood filled his mouth until the wolf bellow him was no longer able to fight.

As if all the wind was taken from his body Remus felt the transformation undo itself, once it was done he shakily got to his feet moving back to Dora who now had her eyes closed and was looking paler than ever her breath shallow and shaky, he worked quickly to undo the chains and once they were off he held Dora close shuttering at how cold she was but when he tried to take another step he fell to his knees coughing heavily as darkness pulled at his vision and his heart thudded in his ears, he made an attempt to get to his feet again though his body wanted nothing more than to lay down and not move but he knew if he stopped now he may never get up again and there was the possibility Dora never would either.

He gritted his teeth and got to his feet using the wall to steady himself as he left the room holding Dora close the only sign she was still alive was the few breaths she took every few minutes, he wasn't sure where he was going or what he was going to do but his feet took him down the hall his eyes unfocused as he moved but after he reached a closed door he fell to his knees again as he coughed again this time crimson splattered on Dora's skin as he fell to the ground beside her, it hurt to breath and he could feel the hot blood rising in his throat with each raged breath within seconds of hitting the floor the darkness consumed him as his body went numb all over the only feeling he did have was that of Dora wrapped tightly in his arms.

*Nox*