A Sirius Unicorn

Disclaimer: I own nothing, except the plot and a few OC's you haven't heard of. The world is J.K. Rowling's and a few of my idea's for the Unicorns came from the book, The Unicorn Chronicles, and the movie, The Last Unicorn.

I relize it's been a while since I've posted, but hey, demand didn't seem all that great. If anyone out there is actually reading this, besides me (and Sary of corse :) I'd appreciate a review. With out further ado, Ooo I rythmed! yay!-On to the Fifth chapter.

Chapter Five. Padfoot and Silver

The rest of the days classes seemed to fly by for Athena. In DADA, Professor McGenis had them all partner up and assigned them dates to dual. As had been the case with every other class, Sirius and Athena always seemed to be together. They were scheduled to dual next Thursday and had to do the proper research for the dual beforehand.

Athena thought that out of all the classes she had that day, DADA was going to be the most interesting. Professor McGenis was a very handsome auburn hared wizard. With his bright blue eyes and fun classes, it was no wonder that he was the crush of most of Hogwart's female population. The Marauders and the Pruitt brothers claimed second and third place, respectively. Remus had done an analysis, and had confirmed that it was largely due to the 'older man' syndrome and that the Marauders and Pruitt brothers did not integrate well into the other houses, largely due to the fact that they often pranked the other houses.

Athena was also looking forward to the chance at dueling a wizard in their own fashion. She just hoped the encounter wouldn't prove too embarrassing for Sirius.

Dinner found Athena, Sirius, Guenivere, James, and Remus all sitting together devouring the last of the roasted chicken. All of them had forgotten how hungry doing boring classes all day could make you.

"So Prongsie, where's Peter? I haven't seen him since he left our dorm this morning. You don't think he got eaten?" Sirius asked as he stole one of the last pieces of carrot cake off of Athena's plate.

"Don't know Pads, why don't you check the map when we get back." James said, only to get smacked by Remus. "Hey! What was that for Moony. Oh, is it getting to be that time of the month again? OUCH!" James screeched when Remus decided to make an encore performance.

"No you great coat rack." Remus said with dignity, as was his customary way. "It's for opening your big mouth two times too many. By the way, Peter told me last night that he doesn't have but two classes with us this year, and they're both tomorrow."

"Yea, but that doesn't explain where he was at lunch, or where he is now. Maybe he-HEY! You can't do THAT!" Sirius exclaimed as Athena wingardium leviosoed her carrot cake back onto it's rightful plate.

"I believe I just proved that I could." Athena said and quickly sunk her fork into the cake and slowly ate it. She made sure to chew extra slow and to incorporate frequent, "Mmmm"s into her eating.

Sirius looked close to tears as he watched Athena eat the sugary goodness. When he was finally able to turn his eyes away from the spectacle, he said to Remus, "What were we talking about again? I was distracted." Athena stuck out her tongue. Sirius just smirked and licked his lips at her.

"You were scheming where Wormtail could have gone. But I don't know why you're so worried. You're the one that's always complaining about how clingy he is. Plus, you know we'll see him tonight."

"We better. Otherwise, there'll be no getting around the Whompping Wil-"

"BED! You were going to say bed. Honestly Padfoot. You REALLY should decharm that bed for Peter. Who knows how many bruises he's incurred on its behalf." Remus said, cutting off an amused Sirius.

Athena decided right then, that whatever they were hiding had to be pretty good, and whatever it was, she was going to find out. Right after her lesson with Dumbledore that is.

"So sorry guys, but I'm going to head. You go head and finish your dinner. I'll catch up with ya at breakfast." Athena started toward the entrance hall.

"Bye 'Thena'!" The group chorused. When she was safely out of the hall, they all scooted a little closer and Remus said, "Is it just me, or something strange with Athena?"

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Athena's lesson with Dumbledore went over very well. She was shown all the insight he had to offer on the mysterious Tom Riddle and she was shown his own findings on what he believed the horcruxes were. To Athena, the idea of fearing death and spending so much effort into becoming immortal, was ludicrous. But she supposed this was all due to the fact that she didn't have to worry about dying.

She was coming to really like Hogwarts. For short time that she had been there, it was proving to be at least entertaining. The Marauders were hilarious and Sirius was filling that gap Aramos had left. That gap of a best friend with the potential to be more. Her only misgivings rested with the Gryffindor head girl. Lily Evans was not an easy person to room with. Especially when she seemed to have it out for you. Athena only hoped that whatever James had up his sleeve worked, and worked soon. Because she didn't know how much more she could take of the coldness in her dorm.

It was the thought of returning to the unpleasant dorm room that made Athena remember that the Marauders were up to something that night, and she had promised herself to find out. So she quickly ran to the common room and seeing no one, cursed her forgetfulness. She had wanted to see one of their infamous pranks first hand. Turning to the window, she saw a beautiful full moon illuminating the Hogwart's grounds and a group of animals running toward a gnarled tree. Athena narrowed her gaze and made out the forms of a large dog and a stag, and what appeared to be a rodent of some sort clinging to the stag's antlers.

"Wormtail...," Suddenly it all made sense. Padfoot was Sirius, James was Prongsie, err, Prongs, and little Peter was a rat. How fitting! That only left Moony. But she already knew his secret. The irony of the situation hit Athena full force. Here she was, a Unicorn Humanagus and the Marauders were all Human Animagus. It was all so terribly funny that Athena couldn't help but laugh to herself as she headed back out the common room and down to the grounds to spy first hand on the remarkable boys.