Tail
of Two Puppies
By: TonksLupin and IJustWannaBeMe
Each of
the Marauders hustled around the room silently looking for some way
out. Sirius snapped his head in James direction," Do you have the
Marauders Map on you?"
James rushed his hand into his pocket
into his robes and nodded excitedly. He took out a spare piece of
parchment and whipped his wand in the middle of it and whispered,"
I solemnly swear I am up to no good." Almost immediately, tiny
inked details ran through the parchment. Soon at the top it read,
'Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs are proud to present the
Marauders map'. James opened it with such force he almost teared
the fragile paper. He skimmed the map for what seemed like
hours.
"You find anything?" Sirius asked. James threw his
black locks up and saw that Sirius and Peter had stopped looking and
to watch him instead. It was like being some seal in a circus with
your crowd expecting you to do back flips and juggling to entertain
their tiny minds.
"Nothing", James answered. He pointed his
wand in the parchment in the map's ink slowly disappeared form
existence until the map was completely bare and put it in his
robes.
"What?" Sirius was bewildered.
"There is nothing!
This room isn't even on the map!" James hissed. He snapped his
killing eyes at Remus," Why isn't this room on the map, Remus?"
he practically growled this time. "You were the one that put
everything on the map."
Remus looked at him with concern," I
guess I forgot to put it in. I've never even been in this room
before to tell you the truth." Remus continued to search the wall
he had claimed to examine.
" What? That's a bunch f bullshit!
You know that right?" James got tense, how could he not know! Did
he do it on propose?
"You shut your bloody mouth right now
before I shut it for you!" Sirius threatened," So what if the
room isn't on the map? I've never been in this room either, so
don't you dare start blaming him!" Sirius was now four inches
away from James.
James glared at Sirius, but then took a glance
at Remus. Remus was now sitting in a chair at one of the desks
supporting his head on his hand. James eased his shoulders and walked
to a wall. He faced it and almost whispering he said," I'm sorry
Remus."
"It's o.k." Remus replied," I should pay
attention to my surroundings. Then I might have known that this
room-
"No Remus, don't start blaming yourself." James
snapped. He couldn't stand himself; he could feel tears building up
in his eyes warming his face. "Don't you ever blame yourself. You
did nothing wrong. I was being-"
Something big dropped, but
didn't break, just a loud thud. Only three marauders turned to face
were the sound came from. Remus was on his side shaking
violently.
"JAMES!" Sirius shouted and pointed out the window.
There over the forbidden forest was a magical and magnificent full
moon. James' eyes widened then Sirius and James turned their gaze
to Peter. Peter started back raising his eyebrows in fear; he had not
completed his animagus forming.
"Pete!" James and Sirius
shouted together.
James go and get Remus while I help Peter!"
Sirius yelled over Remus' howls of pain. Sirius didn't need to
tell James twice, he ran to the werewolf and got on his knees and
grabbed his bleeding side.
Sirius rushed around the room with
defenseless Peter in his firm grasp. Sirius then headed for the door
with Peter.
"What are you doing? Fenrir is out there!" James
yelled.
"I know a secret passage near hear! I'll take Peter
there and perhaps he can get Dumbledore or something!" Sirius
replied. And together the two rushed out the door.
They ran down
the hall and took a right. It lead to a dead end but there was a
portrait, nothing fancy, just a simple sleeping wizard wearing dark
purple robes in his study with books and parchments scattered around
the room.
"Hungarian Horntail!" now it didn't seem like it
was a big deal if someone heard them. The portrait swung open and
pushed Peter in there," Peter, go to the end of this passage, it
should lead to the third floor near Defense!" Peter nodded and shut
the portrait. Sirius made a dash and ran towards the room he was in
thirty seconds ago.
Remus was almost in his full werewolf state
and James was already in his stag form. Sirius bowed to the and aloud
his body to take his animal form. Then he rushed to Remus. It was
over. The werewolf lay motionless on the ground. Moony's eyes
slowly opened his eyes and looked up to his friends.
" Padfoot!
Prongs!" he growled playfully. His long jaw formed into a dangerous
smile, but then became expressionless. He sniffed the air and
dreamily closed his eyes. "How's about we go hunting" Remus
asked casually strutting towards the door.
"How's about we
don't?" Sirius leaped to the front of the door.
" Oh come
now Padfoot, haven't wondered what they taste like?" James and
Sirius knew immediately what Remus was talking about. Humans.
