Just to say thanks to some of the readers for helping me out with this story. And I do not own Harry Potter though I'm saying it again I really wish I did.
After a day people began to acknowledge the fact that Athena was not all that she seemed. Every morning she'd come down paler than ever, but at night she was very lively. However one night the Marauders could not sleep at all, not matter how hard they tried the night air kept waking them up. So they decided to go down into the common room to discuss their next joke. To their instant surprise they found Athena quietly reading looking perfectly wide awake, but there was no roaring fires blazing, no bright lights only the thin white candle Athena was reading by, all was dark.
"Can I help you?" Athena snapped frowning at their general idiotic presence, her eyes turning a dangerous shade of violet.
"Nobody move, she's dangerous," whispered Remus.
"No it's alright my eyes just go violet at night, though I wouldn't try anything stupid!" she spat.
The Marauders went on planning, though they talked quietly because all were afraid of Athena's wrath.
"Right I think we should target Snivellus next, Jack are you even listening to me!" shouted Sirius. Jack at the moment was staring at Athena who's face was turning an extremely dangerous shade of white!
"JACK LISTEN TO ME!" loudly shouted James, waving his hand in Jack's face.
"OI, curly boy quit staring," snapped Athena. Jack couldn't stop, he'd discovered he really liked her, ok she was sometimes like the princess of doom and gloom. But when she was happy you felt all warm inside, also when she smiled, her wonderful impish smile it felt so warm you just had to smile back. That smile was extremely rare and they'd only seen her use it on Lily, Marlene and the teachers. She could be cheeky, cheerful, kind but because of who she was these were rare feelings for her. If only they could make her feel happy more…
"That's it I'm going before any of you get's hurt," cried Athena, she now had small sharp teeth protruding from her upper lip. And with that she raced upstairs.
"Ooooooo, Jack loves Athena," taunted James and Sirius.
"Shut up," bashfully said Jack, throwing a cushion at the two.
"You do! We've seen you staring at her," they said in unison.
"Hey what about you and Lily like you don't like her," Jack taunted. James turned a deep shade of red "Yeah what about it?"
"Just the fact that everytime you see her you drop dead," innocently said Jack. This time James threw a cushion but instead of hitting Jack it collided with a rather small bat! BANG! POP! Athena dropped to the floor unconscious "OH MY GOD SHE'S NOT BREATHING, JAMES YOU JUST KILLED SOMEONE!" cried Sirius.
"Sirius calm down, the reason she isn't breathing is she's a vampire and she's already dead she can't die again," reassured Remus. Then he ran full speed to the hospital wing and came back with what looked like a phial of blood. "Woah! Is that blood!" frightfully cried James. Remus carefully put the blood into the syringe. "Yes it is I think she about to go to the kitchens to get her midnight dose when we came down, anyway knowing it would look suspicious she risked her life and decided not to go. Now that was a bit stupid seeing it would be extremely fatal to her," explained Remus plunging the syringe into Athena's neck, instantly she shot up.
"NOW WHICH ONE OF YOU STUPID IDIOTS DID THAT, WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I WILL RIP YOU LIMB FROM LIMB!" Athena cried.
"A simple thank you would have been nice," muttered Sirius.
"Yes thank you Remus I owe you my life, BUT FOR THE REST OF YOU I OWE YOU NOTHING NOW WHO DID IT," she spat her eyes fully violet, her olive skin now pure white, her brown hair black and flowing around her and her sparkling fangs fully grown…
But strangely enough she went upstairs and did not say a word, the Marauders went straight back to their dormitories, barricaded the door and hid under the bed covers, all apart from Remus who happily slept knowing he'd got into Athena's good books. The morning finally came, and Athena emerged looking more tired than ever, she hadn't bothered to do her silky hair and her eyes were all grey underneath.
"Oh Theeny, look at you come here I'll do your hair," cried Lily.
"Thanks Lils you know your hairs so much nicer than mine," Athena exclaimed.
"Well yours is lovely, it would look so nice if you only tried to make it nice," said Lily brushed Athena's hair into a ponytail.
"So what have you got then? Athena asked
"Potions why?" replied Lily
"Well I've got potions to," excitedly cried Athena.
"Yippee! That's so cool and the rest of our lessons are the same to," ecstatically said Lily hugging Athena. Then racing down the stairs came Jack, James, Sirius and Remus. Unfortunately they were going way to fast and collided with the girls at the bottom.
"HEY! What was that for," angrily snapped Athena rubbing her head. All four of then got up and began to rub their bumped heads trying to untangle themselves. "We were just so eager to get down to breakfast," innocently said James. The girls scowled, collected their already heavy bags and tried to find their way down to breakfast, "I think it's this way," muttered Lily pointing to the spiral staircase, which led to potions.
"No, that goes to Potions, hey at least we know how to get there," chuckled Athena using her rare smile, although her sharp teeth started to show.
"Careful you don't want the whole school to know," Lily cautiously hissed. Instantly Athena shut her mouth as if it was glued together. They decided to follow some second years to the Great Hall and soon found their way. The hall was magnificent and the tables were laden with food!
"Wow look at all this food!" cried the boys. There were eggs, bacon, sausages everything you ever dreamed of! Suddenly a tiny house elf scurried over to Athena and handed her a goblet of what looked like blood!
"It's ok its just red pumpkin juice nothing wrong with it," muttered Athena. Lily looked at Athena with a face of puzzlement, why on earth was she lying? Strangely enough James seemed to have read her mind "Well vampires aren't exactly the most respected creatures are they," he mumbled. Lily him a scowl on her pale face "Well there's no need to be so bigheaded is there!" And with that she poured a whole jug of ice cold water on his head. Gails of laughter filled the Great Hall and if Severus hadn't rushed over to calm Lily down then Athena was sure James would be in the bottom of the Great Lake!
"C'mon Sev, Marls, Lils let's get to potions," cheerfully said Athena. Professor Slughorn sat at the teachers table silently watching, Athena seemed a lot happier than she did an hour ago. And that "red pumpkin juice" she was drinking, it was far to red to be pumpkin juice, maybe just maybe it was blood…