Chapter 3

Week 1

Sirius was awoken to Ron screaming the next morning. Both himself and Harry met in the hall and opened the door to find that Ron was trying to pull Neville off of his arm. Sirius quickly pulled the toddler off of Ron, who looked like he was seriously considering throwing the child. "I'll take him to the living room while you get the others." The boys nodded as they followed him out of the room but turned to go into one of the side rooms instead of going down into the living room.

Once in the living room Sirius put Neville on the couch and turned the TV on and left the room, making sure that the baby gate was secure before he left. Sounds coming from the kitchen made him investigate and find that Dobby was in the kitchen making breakfast. Dobby smiled at him and said, "Morning sir. Mr. Dumbledore asked me to bring a few more things over and I decided to make breakfast as well." Sirius nodded his thanks as he got a cup of coffee.

Once he'd had a few gulps of the bitter liquid he walked over to the bag an looked into it. There were a few plastic toys and a lot of small yellow plastic jars. Curious Sirius picked one up and looked at it. "Play-dough?"

Dobby nodded, "It should keep them occupied but I suggest only letting them play with it in the kitchen so that they don't make a mess." Sirius nodded and put the bag on the counter. Soon Ron, Harry and the toddlers came into the kitchen to eat breakfast. They thanked Dobby, who left quickly after that.

Sirius looked around before asking, "where is Neville?"

Ron and Harry shrugged, "probably still in the living room where you left him."

Sighing Sirius walked down the hall to get Neville. As he got closer to the doorway he heard a man from the TV yelling. "You wanna f**k with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!" The sound of gunshots filled the room as Sirius looked down and saw that Neville was hypnotized by the TV. Quickly Sirius picked up Neville and turned the TV. "I don't think that is the best thing for you to be watching."

Neville seemed to strongly disagree as Sirius carried him back to the kitchen and put him in his seat. Once a plate of eggs and toast was in front of him he seemed to forget about the TV and started to eat. "What was on the TV?" asked Harry after Sirius had sat down.

"Scar Face."

Harry was quiet for a moment before saying, "I don't think that is really. . ."

"Yeah I probably should of looked what was on the TV before I left," agreed Sirius as he started on his breakfast.

"It couldn't of been that bad," said Ron as he finished his plate. "I mean he was only in there alone for what? Three? Four minutes maybe."

"F**k you!" yelled Neville as he threw an over easy egg at Harry.

The three of them stared stunned at Neville as he went back to eating. Finally Sirius closed his mouth and said in a stern voice, "Don't you dare say that anymore Neville or you will be in trouble." Neville glared up at Sirius before repeating himself. Sirius growled before snapping, "Keep that up and I will feed you to You Know Who."

Neville looked at him in a confused way until Harry said, "I don't think he really understands the. . ." Harry's abrupt stop made Ron and Sirius look at what he was looking at. On the counter Lucius and Remus were sitting on the counter drinking the coffee that Sirius had left on the counter.

The next few moments seemed to happen in a blink of an eye as Both Remus and Lucius jumped from the counter and ran down the halls squealing at the top of their lungs. Sirius jumped up and said, "Ron, take the other four to the living room while me and Harry try and catch those demons."

Ron nodded and looked around before suddenly asking, "where is Draco?" A quick scan of the table made them notice that the only three that were still at the table was Hermione, Neville, and Severus.

"Okay new plan we take them to the living room and then we try and catch the demons," revised Sirius as he picked up Neville and ran to put him in the living room. Ron and Harry quickly followed behind him with the other two.

Once they were in the living room Harry turned on the TV as went through the channels until he found what looked like a performance of some kind of play. Figuring it was better then Scar Face Harry dropped the remote and ran after Ron and Sirius to try and find the other three.

"Up here!" yelled Ron from upstairs. Harry ran up the stairs to find Ron wrestling with Remus as he tried to color on the walls with a marker. Harry grabbed the marker from Remus who decided that screaming was the only thing he had to say about having his fun ruined. Remus quickly fought himself free and ran into one of the back down stairs screaming the whole way.

While they chased after Remus, Sirius was having his own problem with Lucius. "Okay you brat give it back," said Sirius. He was currently in a side library. Lucius was on top of one of the bookshelves. Somehow when he had run by Sirius one of the many times he had gotten a hold of Sirius's wand.

Lucius didn't seem to be listening as he giggled and pointed the wand at a random book and it turned purple before melting. The toddler giggled again before laughing louder and waving the wand around randomly sending sparks in every direction. Sirius dodged most of them but suddenly realized that a few patches on his jacket were multicolored. Finally having had enough Sirius climbed up the shelf after Lucius and grabbed his wand.

He was able to get his want back but then he realized that he didn't have any balance on the shelf and simply fell off. Sirius looked up just in time to see Lucius wiggling on top of the shelf before jumping off the shelf and grabbing onto a curtain and swinging on it. Sirius got up quickly and tied the curtain around Lucius so that he all he could do was hang there. Sirius then pulled the curtain down and carried the little ball of energy back to the living room.

On the way there he saw that Harry and Ron had done something similar with Remus, but it involved using a blanket. "What happened to you?" asked Harry seeing the multi-color mess that was his godfather.

"He got my wand," replied Sirius. "Have you found Draco yet?" The boys shook their heads no before they continued down the hall to the living room. When they reached the room they were relived to notice that Draco had gotten decided to go into the room on his own. However their joy was short lived as they actually listened to the songs that were being sung on the TV that the four toddlers were hooked to.

"Kill humanity and speed them to their graves.
Come Cthulhu and shorten their lives. Cthulhu hear our shoggoth prayer for you

Make Cthulhu waken from slumber brining mankind horror

Except our sacrifice

Hear our shoggoth prayer great one"

Focusing on the TV they saw a group of people in robes chanting. Sirius picked up the remote and turned the TV off. The toddlers all let out groans of disappointment. After a moment Ron said, "Is it just me or are we the worst babysitters ever?"

In the end it was decided that Remus and Lucius would be put in child harnesses and given to Sirius as he watched all of the children in the kitchen as they played with the play-dough that Dobby had given them that morning. Meanwhile Ron and Harry would be cleaning up the house after it had been destroyed by the run of the little monsters

It was a few hours before they came back and found Sirius asleep on the floor with the leashes tied around his feet so that the toddlers couldn't escape but still had enough room that they could play with the others. "I'll make lunch," said Harry as he walked around the group playing on the floor and started to make lunch.

Ron nodded before sitting down next to Hermione, who seemed to be making something. "What are you making?"

"Cthulhu," answered Hermione. Ron looked down at the squid like creature. He suddenly remembered that Cthulhu was the creature that the cult was singing about.

Suddenly Severus made a "thppp" sound and said, "Shoggy!" and held up a green mass of play dough with little eyes all over it. Ron decided to go help Harry make sandwiches

Once they were finished they woke up Sirius and made all of the children eat their lunch, followed by nap time. After they doubled checked to make sure that all of them were indeed sleeping they cleaned up the kitchen and had a quick re-grouping meeting.

"Okay I think we need a better game plan," said Sirius. "We can't really give them a chance to get left alone for very long. Otherwise they turn into monsters."

"Agreed," said Ron and Harry.

"We need someone always in the living room so that they can monitor what is on TV," said Harry. The others nodded in agreement.

"Also someone to wake up early so that they don't wake us up and get a jump on us," said Ron, still a little miffed about what had woken him up that morning.

"Okay how about this," started Sirius. "Wake them up, breakfast, play time, lunch, nap time, TV till dinner, and after dinner is quiet time. Like we read tot hem or something before they go to bed."

"That seems like it would work," said Harry. Quickly they were in agreement and regrouped with the toddlers still sleeping in the living room.

Their master plans for how they were going to deal with the little ones lasted almost a whole day. However since they were out numbered two to one it was quickly becoming apparent that they needed help. One or two of them was always breaking away and causing trouble. Severus and Hermione being the worst, and most dangerous, offenders. They didn't color on walls like Lucius or Remus, but they seemed to enjoy putting things like crushed crackers in Harry's bed as well as ever shoe they came across was a potential hiding place for spiders, tacks, and anything else interesting that they found while exploring the house. Ron in particular seemed to being having a hard time with the spiders that kept showing up once the little kitties learned what funny noises he made when he found one.

"I think we need help," said Sirius one day after the kitties had been put to bed to bed. All of them were cleaning up the mess of play-dough, crayons, and markers that where scattered everywhere.

"Maybe we can send a message to Dumbledore?" asked Harry. It was quickly agreed that that is what they needed to do.

Dumbledore was on his way to talk to them about how he could get them help but he was being pestered by more then just them. "Dumbledore I want to know why Ron and Harry where taken away? What is this about them being in quarantine?" said Mrs. Weasley.

"My husband and my son have been gone all summer what is going on? And I hear that you are using our summer house as the quarantine area!" snapped Mrs. Malfoy.

Dumbledore smiled and backed up a little, "I am sorry ladies but I can't reveal any information just yet until we have a better understanding of what is going on." Once that was said he quickly aperrated.

They were quiet for a moment before Narcissus turned to Molly and said, "truce until this is over. I have an idea of where he went come one." Molly nodded and quickly followed Narcissus.

Sirius met Dumbledore outside and was asking about getting help watching the cute fluffy demons. The Headmaster was trying to talk Sirius down when they heard a loud crack next to them. Both stopped and saw that Mrs. Malfoy and Mrs. Weasley were standing next to them. Both looking very annoyed.

Narcissus looked at Sirius and was about to say something but Molly stopped her and said, "truce remember." The other woman's eye twitched but she eventually just nodded and looked back towards Dumbledore and glared and crossed her arms.

"What has happened to our family members!" she demanded completely ignoring Sirius.

Before Dumbledore could say anything Sirius said, "that's it! Headmaster the three of us need help and they want to know what is going on can't they just help us with those monsters!"

Both woman looked back to Dumbledore confused as to what Sirius was talking about. The headmaster pinched the bridge of his nose and said, "I didn't want to bring anyone else into the house since we want to keep the number of the possible contamination down."

"Chicken?" asked a little voice from the center of them. Everyone looked down to see a little blonde boy sitting in the center.

"Damn it Harry was supposed to be watching Lucius!" snapped Sirius.

"Lucius?" asked Narcissus as she crouched down to the boys level and looked at the cat ears. Lucius giggled and asked to be picked up.

"Yes the side effects of the sickness is age reversal and animal features," said Dumbledore. "The others that are currently infected are Remus Lupine, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, and Draco." As He explained this Narcissus picked up Lucius and watched in stunned silence as he husband giggled and started to play with a stray thread her sleeve.

"Hungry!" said another small voice as Severus peeked out from behind Sirius and tugged on his pants leg.

"Your always hungry Severus," sighed Sirius as Severus walked into the center of the circle and started to dig around in Molly's purse. Soon he picked out a skein of yarn and stuck it in his mouth. Molly looked at a moment before picking him up.

Dumbledore and Sirius watched curiously as the two woman just stared at them a moment before they looked at each other then back at the children then back to the Head master and asked, "can we keep them like this?"

AN: I AM HORRID!

I have a reason for taking so long! X-mas presents and school took up all of my time. No really I was making presents since September. I think I made at least 20 hand knitted presents for people this year, (not even done yet some people are getting late presents), but since I am out of school now I have a little bit more time, (oh wait I have work to). I will finish this if it kills me and I am sorry it is taking so long and thank you to everyone that has been patiently waiting.

Anyone that knows that play that was being watched gets a cookie. If you don't know go to YouTube and type in "The Shoggoth Prayer" cause it is hilarious.