Remus apparated in to the forest at quarter to five, the same time he had arrived at the camp site for the past two days. Once again he had left a heavily pregnant Tonks at her mothers house, keeping her safe and protected. Quietly he slipped the wedding ring from his finger and put it in to his pocket over his heart, smoothing down his cloak he walked in to find the camp in complete and utter chaos.
Two bodies laid beside the fire, their eyes open and a look of peacefulness on their young faces, tanned brown from the harsh sun that they lived their daily lives in. He felt anger bubble in his body, clenching his fists at his side to subdue it, he marched in to the main area where the bodies laid, looking over them to make sure that it was magic that had killed them.
"Where were they found?" He snapped at the nearest person, who was hurrying back to one of the tents to gather their belongings and flee once more.
"J-J-just by the stream, alpha. Not a mark on 'em, alpha." The man stutted, his cockney accent becoming more and more apparent as his nerves spread through out his body. "W-we searched every where we did. Not one person found who did it, alpha."
"Then it was no death eater, they would have conjured up the dark mark to show others where he had found us..." Remus paused, his mind working in over drive as he thought about who would do such a thing and leave not a trace. He was about to give up when a memory flashed in his mind, one he had tried to ignore since it happened.
"Well hello there werewolf."
Remus spun around to stare at where the voice had come from, drinking bottle half way to the small stream. He couldn't see anyone, until slowly his eyes adjusted and he saw the tall woman partial hidden in the leaves. He watched as she walked out of the shadows and stared at him, her hair was dark oranges and reds, matching perfectly with the Autum colours of the leaves. Her body was slender, but he knew by the way she walked that it was toned and ready to fight or chase, which ever option he gave her.
He was startled to see the pointed edges of her ears, before they vanished back behind the veil of hair that, even though she had been walking through dense forest, was parted perfectly down the centre of her head. "Elf." He whispered, standing up and drawing his wand out, not knowing how to deal with an elf, sometimes knowledge learnt in a book had a habit of vanishing when it was needed once more.
"Well hello." The elf spoke, moving towards him, but stopping just before she stood in direct sunlight. "It's so nice to finally meet the wolf that I have been hunting. And no, not elf, half elf. I was cast out when they found out my father was a wizard, of course, my mother dealt with a more, shall we say, harsher punishment then banishment from the kingdom." She smiled, showing off pointed teeth before her mouth closed once more.
"Dark elf." Remus corrected, pointing his wand at her heart. "And what makes you hunt me?"
"Why, the bounty on your head! Dumbledore's lap dog, the one and only wolf that thinks he can live a normal life!" The dark elf let out a laugh which sounded like the rustling of wind through the leaves, and made Remus's hair on the back of his neck stand up on end. "See, my talents for hunting have been very valuable for becoming a Snatcher, and well, all the mudbloods and squibs have mysteriously vanished." Once again she let out the laugh. "So now it's time to do something that no one has ever done before..." She moved through the patch of sunlight, and Remus caught a glimpse of her true form. Tall, dark skin that looked like dead leaves placed one on top of the other in layers to create it and black eyes, before she stepped back in to the shadows and the glamour was once again in place.
"And what is that?" He asked. She was close enough now that the tip of his wand touched her heart, yet he couldn't mutter any spell to help him, his thirst for knowledge outweighed how threatened and scared he felt.
"Capture the elusive and good hearted, Remus Lupin." The elf whispered, pressing her body against his, so that the tip of his wand was digging, what would be painfully for normal beings, in to her breast. She laid her lips against his softly, and he felt the poison of her touch, before she pulled away and vanished in to the undergrowth of the forest once more.
His lips tingled, and as he looked down at his reflection in the stream, he was horrified to find out his lips had turned the darkest shade of black he had ever seen.
She was back, and as the thought hit him, his fingers instantly went up to his lips, as if ready to feel her poison once more. "We need to get everyone out of the camp, now!" He yelled, hand leaving his lips to wrap around the end of his wand. "Only take what you can carry, I want this camp empty in twenty minutes. We have no time, now MOVE!" The camp became a blur of activity, as the other wolves hurried to leave, but in the blur, he saw her through the trees, twirling her wand between her fingers as she watched him and waited for the finale hunt to begin.