Werewolf Hunting

Disclaimer: I am not JK therefore I own nothing she does...

Authors Note: Ooooh! Isn't this exciting? Considering the amount of death threats I have gotten to finish this I decided I should get on with it, so here we go!

Chapter Thirty Three: The Climax and the Conclusion

Boewyn had watched Dumbledore and Moody fire spells at the werewolf and knew that it would do nothing. Werewolves were highly spell immune, and this one was on the verge of rabid, which meant spells would do even less. Just piss it off even more.

Boewyn drew his gun and loaded it with a silver bullet, his mind working on auto pilot. He raised the weapon and took aim, his finger wrapping around the trigger.

Boewyn fired.

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From the moment Peter had shouted out, James and Sirius had begun to move. James had run for Boewyn, he had to stop him, he couldn't let Boewyn kill Remus! Sirius had run the other way, Peter stayed behind the bear, too terrified to move, in afterthought James couldn't blame him.

Boewyn pulled the trigger just as James reached him. James barrelled into Boewyn's side, knocking the man down. The echoing bang of the gun rang in James ears as it went off so close to him. They hit the ground with a painful thud, James rolling some way down the stairs. There was ringing sound and James looked up, the bullet had missed Remus and instead hit a hook which held the chain of a chandelier. The hook broke and a tonne of chandelier dropped from the roof and landed directly on the Death Eaters with a sickening crunch.

James grinned madly. It had worked!

But there was still one more problem.

Remus.

The werewolf had stopped it's charge when it heard the gunshot and then jumped as the chandelier had hit the ground. It's large nostrils flared, breathing in the scent of the blood spilt from the Death Eaters, throwing back it's massive head. It howled, a long, hungry and endless cry.

"Oh crap" Boewyn whimpered behind James.

James didn't take his eyes from Remus as he asked a question he didn't think he wanted to know the answer too.

"What?"

"That is not a good thing" Boewyn moved to his feet, "A very bad thing in fact"
The werewolf's howl finally stopped, yet the sound continued to reverberate around the entrance hall. The overlarge wolf lowered it's head, it's eyes large and slightly unfocused as the lust for blood took over it's mind completely. Long tendrils of drool, dripped from it's muzzle as it took in each of the four humans frozen in place on the staircase. It's nostrils flared once more as it breathed deep the human scent, struggling with it's current predicament of which one to kill first.

Dumbledore, Moody, Boewyn and James couldn't move, they could barely breathe. Most of them had faced things some people could never manage to imagine, yet this was the kind of thing that lurked in nightmares. This was the inconceivable, being faced with a blood thirsty and abused werewolf, one that sought revenge.

Slowly the great beast dropped, it's belly scraping the ground as it began to stalk it's prey. It's eyes were intent and focussed as it began to close the distance between the terrified humans and itself.

The werewolf was only feet from them, muscles began to bunch and stretch as it prepared to leap.

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Sirius had moved as close to the entrance doors as he possible could without being seen. Once there he had watched as James had tackled Boewyn, knocking his to the ground, the bullet missing Remus and knocking loose the chandelier. He had to snigger as it landed on the three very surprised Death Eaters, they deserved it.

However when Remus had thrown back his head and howled, his entire body had frozen up. The sounds had cut deep into him, chilling his blood and numbing his brain, he could only watch at Boewyn and James stumbled to their feet and froze along with Moody and Dumbledore. He had watched, unable to do anything as the werewolf had begun to stalk the four of them, getting closer and closer. His mind was screaming at his to do something anything, but getting no response. Finally the werewolf was right before it's victims and began to crouch even lower, preparing to leap upon it's prey.

Something deep inside Sirius brain suddenly clicked.

Sirius moved.

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A deep guttural growl tore up through the werewolf's throat, a sound meant to incapacitate it's prey even further.

The muscles under the fur seemed to swell before...

A bark rang throughout the hall. The wolf ignored it, but it came again and again, followed by a howl. The werewolf hesitated, then swung it's head around to see what was making the noise. James crossed his fingers.

The werewolf focused on a large black dog which stood in the open doorway. The dog wagged it's tail, upon seeing the werewolf's attention on him and barked again. Bounding forwards a short way the dog dropped and barked several times in a demanding way. The dog then howled and ran back towards the door, still barking. The werewolf snarled viciously and turned back to it's prey, muscles bunching once more.

The dog ran up behind the werewolf and head butted it, barking more firmly. The werewolf snarled and snapped at the dog. A massive paw snapped out and knocked the dog down, causing the smaller animal to yelp. The werewolf once more turned back to the humans, who were still frozen. The dog jumped up and pounced at the wolf. The werewolf snarled again as the dog head butted it on the side of the face. The werewolf breathed in the dogs scent. Which continued it's almost playful assault of the beast. The wolf visibly hesitated again. There was something familiar about the dog, something which cut through it's blood lust and pain.

Pack Mate.

The werewolf's eyes seemed to come back into focus, as it sniffed the dog lightly. There was a moment when it looked back at the humans and snarled, but the dog grabbed the wolf's ear in it's teeth and tugged on it. The werewolf made a decision. Humans could be dangerous, why risk it.

The dog led the werewolf out of the hall and onto the ground, head butting and nipping at the beast whenever it looked like it was changing it's mind about leaving behind it's prey.

The moment the wolf and dog were out of the hall, Dumbledore flicked his wand and the massive doors shut with a bang.

There was a collective sigh of relief breathed into the silence.

"Well that was close" Boewyn stated cheerfully. "An excellent reason to move to Bermuda and breed rabbits I'd say."

"Why rabbits?" James couldn't help himself from asking even though Moody was making 'No. Don't go there' hand signals behind Boewyn's back.

"Well... mostly because rabbits don't go for the jugular when you piss one off."

"Oh." James considered this for a second, "And why Bermuda?"

"Are you kidding? BERMUDA! Who doesn't want to go the Bermuda?"

"I thought you wanted to go to Paris." Moody said mockingly

"I am so over Paris right now." Boewyn announced.

Moody rolled his eyes, and James sniggered. Dumbledore cleared his throat.

"May I ask what you were doing out of your common room after curfew, Mr Potter?"

James shifted nervously from foot to foot.

"Well, Sir, I... I was missing Remus, Sir, so I thought I would go for a walk and clear my head." James tried to finish on a confident note, "err... Sorry?"

"I shall let it pass this once." Dumbledore said, twinkling brightly, a knowing look in his eyes. James smiled nervously.

"It is probably lucky you were here, I will not pretend that you don't know that was Remus." As he said this, he gave a pointed look at Boewyn, who balked.

"Don't look at me like that, Old Man. I feel bad enough about that as it is without the twinkle of disappointment from you." Boewyn whined.

Moody moved over to the chandelier and looked at the crushed Death Eaters.

"I'll contact the ministry and get an Auror team here" he said to Dumbledore.

"Very well. Perhaps we should go to my office?" Dumbledore waved his wand and shimmering walls of light appeared in all the entrances to the hall.
"We do not want any students, 'out for a walk', to come across this I think" he smiled then turned and began to head towards his office.

"Umm, Professor? What about Remus?" James asked nervously.

"I shall send out a search party of teachers at moon-set to find him, fear not, Mr Potter."

James nodded relived. Moody moved to walk next to Dumbledore. Boewyn however waited for James.

"Thanks kid, stopped me from doing something I'd no doubt later regret."

James didn't know what to say to that, so he just nodded.

"How old are you?" Boewyn asked.

"Sixteen" James replied, surprised.

"Okay, I won't invite you to have a drink with me then." Boewyn stated cheerfully. They then followed Moody and Dumbledore to the headmaster's office.

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Peter waited for the three men and James to get a few corridors away before making sure he was covered completely with the invisibility cloak and running across the hall, skirting around the chandelier and slipping out the door. He ran across the ground until he reached the Whomping Willow. Not far from it was a small wall made of stones. Peter moved towards it and after checking the map for anyone else, he took off the cloak and carefully folded it, he removed one of the stones revealing a hole inside the wall. He put the cloak inside an dchecked the map, Sirius was leading Remus this way. He slipped the map in and covered it again. He then transformed and ran over to the base of the Whomping Willow waiting for Sirius and Remus to bound into view, he pressed the knot in the trunk and watched as Sirius looked over and led Remus over. Sirius coaxed Remus into the tunnel, Peter scampering in after them.

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The teachers found Remus inside the shrieking shack the next morning, much to their surprise, though they said nothing about it. They carefully took Remus to the hospital wing, where Madame Pomfrey checked him over. James, Sirius and Peter visited him as soon as they could to be told that, with time, Remus would recover fully, much to their relief.

In hushed voices the three told Remus about the night before and what had happened, especially the chandelier being dropped on Remus captives, to which Remus sniggered. As much as he didn't like wishing harm on others, he wasn't feeling the most sociable to Dark Wizards at that time. Dumbledore ducked in accompanied by Moody and Boewyn, to see how Remus was doing, and to let Remus thank Moody and Boewyn for doing the best they could to find him. Boewyn had mockingly pompously replied to that with; 'all in a days work for a hero' which resulted in Moody stepping on his foot in disgust. The three men had then left, Boewyn announcing that he 'loved happy hour... endings! Not hour endings. Love happy endings.' This left James, Sirius and Peter to tell Remus about everything which had happened in his absence, particularly their prank against Severus.

They then began to plan their next lot of pranks, beirfly stopping while Lily ducked in to welcome Remus back and to wish him well.

The four boys were glad that Remus was back safe and that things were finally going to return to normal.

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Moody and Boewyn stood outside the gates of Hogwarts, the Aurors had come by late the night before and cleaned up the mess left by the chandelier. Moody had told them that the Death Eaters had tried to attack Dumbledore who Moody was visiting with his 'friend' Boewyn, a brief battle had taken place and a spell which missed it's target had knocked loose the chandelier. Dumbledore and Moody decided that this story was much better then the truth, mostly for Remus' safety.

"A job well done I'd say" Boewyn announced cheerfully as they walked towards Hogsmeade's apparition point.

"Here" Moody sighed, and handed over a bag that went 'clink' as Boewyn took it. "Seventy Galleons"

"Not that I'm complaining but, I thought you said fifty?" Boewyn questioned

"I guess you earned a bit more." Moody glared at Boewyn "Don't look into it" Boewyn examined the money closely.

"No don't think I will." He stated.

Moody pulled a smaller bag off his belt.

"This is for the Kobold's, since we never got their payment from the Death Eaters." He said blankly. "I'll leave it to you to get it to them, since you were the one who swore. Don't spend it on booze" He ordered.

"Got it. I don't wanna die by Kobold attack anyway."

They walked in silence for a short while before Moody decided he would try do some good by the hunter.

"You know, with that money you could get yourself a new wand."

"Or I could buy booze!" Boewyn looked delighted at the prospect.

"Or... you could buy yourself a new wand" Moody prompted.

"Or I could buy booze!"

Moody gave in.

"Or you could buy booze" he sighed.

"I like the way your mind works, Al"

Moody shook his head is disgust.

They finally reached the apparition point.

"Do me a favour, Boewyn" Moody stared.

"Hmm?"

"I want nothing more to do with you unless I have no choice." He stated flatly.

"I'll stay clear away from you and anyone else for that matter." Boewyn grinned maniacally.

"Thank you"

"Don't mention it"

Moody apparated away, but just before he did he heard Boewyn cry out,

"See you around, Al!"

Moody groaned.

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Boewyn stepped out of the Kobold's Cavern after giving them their payment. He sighed and prepared to apparate, planning on returning to the Underground.

He hesitated and looked up at the sky, it had been quite a long time since he had seen it. No counting this last month.

He sighed, and thought for a while, his mind drifting to the seventy galleons Moody had given him as pay.

Maybe...

He wondered how his sister was doing, she had moved to Australia quite a few years ago. She heard they had a much more open-minded attitude towards werewolves and the like and had decided that maybe she would check it out. Last Boewyn had heard, she had been enjoying herself immensely and was continuously nagging to come and see her.

Boewyn was pretty sure that the Goblins could exchange galleons to muggle money. He could then catch a plane to Australia and see how Kara was doing. He had a feeling that spending some time above the surface would be good for him. He chuckled to himself as he thought that there was also next to no chance of Moody running into him there.

Boewyn grinned madly to himself and began to sing cheerfully.

"And I'll be taking care of business, every day! Taking care of business, every way!"

There was a 'crack' as Boewyn apparated away, still singing.

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Authors Note: You know what they say! Finish on a song! And there it is... It's over! No more...

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