Chapter XXI

Hermione was on top of Remus, their bodies hot and slicked with sweat perspiring between them and feeling him thrust up to meet her as his cock slide deeper within, her walls constricting as she was coming to her very peak and waiting for Remus as she wanted to reach it together. Their intertwine bodies came again and felt he couldn't hold it in any longer as he held down her hips pressing firmly on them with his hands as he gave one final thrust and released in her wet depth.

Knowing she was ready and flexed her muscles and tighten her walls around, squeezing and milking him until he was completely spent before lying down on top of him, feeling his chest move up and down with each breath they took as Remus wrapped his arms around her tired and exhausted body and moving his hands up and down her, sending pleasure down her spine from his touch. She could get use to this.

"That was…bloody amazing." Remus whispered as they held each other and she nuzzled under his neck, her hair soft and silky on him, "I definitely love you Mione. I really do, you know that." He kissed the top of her head.

"Yes I do and I love you too Remus." She kissed him on the lips, lingering there for a moment then pulled back and grabbed the blanket, not the old ragged one that had been here before but one that was almost felt like silk but was able to keep them warm in the winter and cool in summer.

They had managed to smuggle some things into the shack to make it more inviting with lively warm and comfort for her and Remus. They with their covert effort and the help of James, Sirius and Keller, had transformed the shack from the decrepit lifestyle it once was, removing the dust, cobwebs and rat droppings and fixing some of the furniture, like the bed, which they rarely used as they usually fell to the floor later on and just had it there for decorative until she thought Remus would get a bad broken back if she hadn't had its' legs lower to the ground for their use.

There were soft cushions and candles about, giving a warm glow and burning incense to rid the murky air and add a touch of a sexual and exotic atmosphere almost like a Arabian's harem and only when the wolf, Moony saw his mate by his side during the nights in which he transform was relaxed and not filled with any mad driven rage to claw and tear at anything or used the serum Keller brought for them to stay in his human form.

Lying on the down coverlet, snuggling in his chest, inhaling his scent and was about to lay down to take a small nap, after having gone through two orgasm tonight and not counting the one they did in the early afternoon before lunch, before they had to go back to the castle for their other classes then later get ready for the Hallow Eve ball.

She could hear the fast pounding of his heartbeat in her head, in fact it seem to feel like it was her own and then a loud anguish scream, making her open her eyes and sit up.

She knew that cry she heard just now wasn't her wild imagination; that sounded like Keller and she was in pain!

Remus noticing Hermione jolting up startle and watched as she pulled back and was slowly getting up to her feet. "Mione, what is it? What's the matter—"

Then he heard it too and recognized that sound anywhere. It was one he was use to hearing from himself when he was crying out in pain, fear, hate, every single emotion let out in one bestial howl.

He looked to Hermione, all weariness gone from her body and in its place awareness as she look around for her discard clothes all over the room. She found her skirt but her corset was missing along with her knickers but weren't very important to her before she found his white undershirt and pulling it on.

"You don't mind if I borrow this do you?" She said quickly as she button it on, missing one or two buttons as Remus was already pulling on his pants and taking the black jacket and pulling it on before he went to find his boots but had no luck finding them.

Ah screw them! Barefoot, he and Hermione rushed down to the tunnel and out of the whomping tree to find Dumbledore standing a few inches from the tree, not taking any notice of their disarrayed and disheveled states. "Professor, we're were just about to find you, you see it's about—"

"Ms. Corvin I know Mr. Lupin. Sirius had already informed me and I have feared for the worst as she may have gone off to the Forbidden Forest alone. I sent him to fetch Hagrid as we might need him in case we run into unexpected creatures." Hermione knew what he meant by, like the acromantula or centaurs and possible other if depending how deep Keller went in the woods. Dumbledore turn his head to see Hagrid coming towards them with a Threstal by his side. "Thank you for coming Hagrid but I don't think we'll be needing him when we'll be going to search for Ms. Corvin."

"I know professor Dumbledore, I was 'ust 'eeding 'hem when 'irius came and told me what 'appen. And when he 'ention 'Eller's name, well 'Rion, is 'ell bonded to her and 'ight be some 'elp sir."

"Very well then, we best get moving before other students might wonder what's going on. Mr. Lupin, go and inform Mr. Black I want you both to wait in my office as I have something to discuss with both you later." And before he could protest, he turn to Hermione, "Ms. Lucian, you'll have to come along as only you are the only person whose mindlink to Ms. Corvin and might know where she's heading."

"Yes sir." And went with Hagrid to the forest as she hope that Keller was in any way in trouble.

Oh Keller what happened to you?

Remus went off to find Sirius coming and told him what Dumbledore requested and were standing by the grounds stock-still as the headmaster left them and followed after Hagrid and Hermione before they headed back to the castle to the headmaster's office to await their return.

"Wonder what he would want to talk about with us Padfoot?" He said as they made it to the gargoyle, "Bertie Botts!" The gargoyle moved and Sirius seem to stand there, unable to take another step before Remus turn to stare at him.

"Come on Padfoot!" Sirius followed, though gloomy as if he feared for something like going to the galley and being executed for a crime he sole wrongly committed. They entered the room and Remus went to stand by the window, staring out to the forest and wondering how Hermione and the professor and Hagrid were doing in finding Keller.

"Moony." Remus turn to see Sirius standing behind him, sensing something was wrong; he could smell it coming off him. "Yeah what is it?" Sirius looked at him, looking guilty and convicted as he said, "You might want to take a seat because what I'm going to tell you, won't be pretty."

Keller didn't know where she was going or where she was heading as she was gliding to the forest ground, resting after a well-earned flight.

Her body was now shaking from the cold but she should have been use to it but it was her inside that was making her shiver as she sat on a rock next to a small pond. She become incredible thirsty as she bend down on all fours and went to get some water but pulled back once she saw her face in the water's reflection.

Her face, god, it looked like a monster's. The face was distorted and hideous, her entire skin blacken and having a bat-like snout with large flaring nostrils with her ears flattened against her skull while her hair receded back in her scalp and was looking at the monstrosity before her with empty hate-filled eyes. She never had gone this far in her transformation, only once and that had been five years ago. But the image she saw now burn inside her skull as she closed her eyes from the mirror image and slashing it furiously with her long talons as if to shred it into nonexistence.

Elder why is this happening to me, why am I to become this creature? She wept within her hands in the cold darkness before her large bat ears picked up the sound of hooves trampling and turn around and saw something come into the clearing.

Hermione, not getting any luck with the link went to use her basic instinct as she sniffed around her like a bloodhound to get a good scent of a clear trail of where Keller might have gone in which direction. There wasn't much on the ground, only to find her shoes, the torn stocking and dress on the ground but she saw that Orion was racing ahead of them as he had found the torn dress first, catching her smell on the clothes.

"Look like 'Rion caught the scent!" Hagrid said as he and Dumbledore and Hermione followed after him, she praying they find Keller safe and in one piece.

Keller saw a group of centaurs surrounding her, some looking at her with curiosity, other with plain disgust written on their faces as they gazed at her horrid form while some back away as she looked to them with her jet-black eyes and snarling, pulling back her blacken lips and revealing her long sharp fangs.

One of them, she supposed the leader, walked forward, staring at her with repulsion and hardness on his face written, "Who or what are you and why are you here?"

Why indeed? She thought cruelly at the question as to why she was even allowed to live and breath another day while assuming a body that was not her real face anymore but a disguise as the one she was standing in was what she truly was in matter of flesh and body.

"I am what I am, this is what my true being is even as I lay bare witness to hide beneath a disguise of which is not my own form anymore." Her voice sounded different, raspier and hollow as she stared defiling the leader with a cold hard look. Another centaur with dark hair step forward, "You will answer Magorian his question or else!"

"Or else what!" She hissed, watching some of the centaurs faltering under her icy gaze and said again to him, "I like to see what you will do if I refuse to speak to your kind." She saw that the dark haired one looked at her with fury while a white-blond hair youth try to calm him, "Please Bane calm yourself, I'm sure this creature did not mean to—"

"That's enough Firenze! She smells like one of them and dare I let that vampire near the herd!" Everyone was muttering louder and looking at her again, horrified while she looked at the one called Bane. "Well if you want to rid me so badly, why don't you bloody do it yourself, or sod off!"

That did it as now Bane looked to her with a cold fury and soon was racing towards her and Keller, baring her fangs and wings as she went straight at him and let the bloody fight ensue.

"YOU DID WHAT?!" Remus had jump up from his seat, knocking it over backward as he stared at Sirius in disbelief after he heard what had happened.

How could he, how could he bloody let Snivellus know to go through the tunnel and then tried to reveal his innermost secret.

"What the bloody fuck were you thinking?! Do you know how dangerous it would have been if James hadn't of come and saved him and I might have- would have, Merlin what were you thinking Padfoot?!"

Sirius watched as his friend who was pacing around the room, ranting and screaming about the consequences that would have happened and Sirius was trying to calm him down. "Remus I'm sorry, I really am."

"YOU'RE SORRY! YOU'RE BLOODY SORRY NOW AFTER WHAT YOU ALMOST HAD ME DO, TO ALMOST GET EXPELLED BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T HANDLE ANYMORE OF SNIVELLUS AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO ALLOW HIM TO SEE A REAL LIVE WEREWOLF?! YOU AND YOUR SICK JOKE ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED! DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU DONE! DOES IT SIRIUS BLACK?" He yelled, his face red and his breathing become ragged as he tried to keep himself from lugging at Sirius and choking him to death.

Once he was calm and his eyes less feral and dangerous than they were did Sirius approached him.

"I'm very sorry Remus, I wasn't thinking at the time, I was just so mad, so jealous you know because Snivellus was hanging out with Keller in the class and no I'm not proud of myself for what I did. It's my fault, all because of me, she's in the forest, and I don't know if I'll be able to forgive myself for what I've done." He said as all he could think of now was Keller, Keller in the forest, crying and scared or hurt because she had been felt hurt and betrayed because of him.

It was his entire fault, his entire goddamn fault.

Keller fell to the ground, the shit beaten out of her as two-three other centaurs joined the fight, making this a dirty cheat as she fought more than one while one came from behind and hit her in back, her wings directly before she had a chance to block it. She screamed as she felt the shattering of pinions and bones snapping like twigs and fell to the ground and was hit across her face with one or two hooves and lying on her back, adding more pain to her broken body.

"Stop please, be reasonable!" Firenze was yelling to calm his centaur comrades as she felt one of them crush her leg underneath them, knowing it was going to take about two whole bloody days for it to heal. If she got out of here alive that is.

Her body was covered in bruises and cuts, blood pouring her face and her chest rising and wincing as she labouredly breath through her mouth while there was a loud pounding inside her skull now and felt she had gone through worse things but this was hell as two centaur took to holding her down on each side by standing on her arms, pinning them down and almost making the bones splinter to bits as Bane stood over her, gloating down at her as she growled angrily at him and tried to muster some strength to fight again but felt too weak and already her blood was being soaked into the ground, sapping away any last bit of energy she had and could hold on to breath as they had yet to crush her body or mash her brains to bits.

"You should know we don't like your kind anymore than we like humans and this is what we do to those who are like you and the rest of your damn species!" He raised his forelegs, watching with growing horror as she knew where he was planning to hit them right at her chest, crush her ribs and organs, probably have the bones pierce her heart.

She tried to move but was paralyzed and thought now this was over.

This is it, I guess, goodbye Mione, goodbye cruel world, I hope to see you in the afterlife if we ever do meet again. She closed her eyes and waited for the blow, one that would send her to the underworld where she belonged. She didn't even hear the approaching footsteps or heard the loud commanding powerful voice, casting a spell in their direction.

"Impedimenta!" And Bane's body became frozen as two others, a Threstal and an unknown creature with the body of a human but had the look of a demon lunged at the one standing over Keller and throwing them off.

"Hagrid quickly grab Ms. Corvin!" The half giant moved to where the unconscious Keller was lying that had been lying underneath Bane and pulled off his wooly mammoth-like coat and wrapping around her and held her to his chest, looking to the rest of the centaurs and holding her more tightly away from them. Dumbledore appeared as he went to the centaur leader. "Magorian, please listen to me. This is a student of my school, she is a mixed breed of two different kind and is not to be harmed in anyway."

"And why should we believe that?" One of the other centaurs said but Magorian silenced him and looked to the headmaster with curiosity. "Tell us then Dumbledore, if you are so willing to let this creature live as to why we should believe what you might say be true?"

"Because they are not from this time, they are from the future and they can prove it to you." Dumbledore said calmly and watched as the reaction of many of the centaurs' change and looked to the one cradled in Hagrid's arms. "She and her cousin were send here by accident and if any harm is done to them, then disastrous event shall happen."

"Is there any proof then to prove they are from the future?" Dumbledore nodded. "Yes, Ms. Lucian if you please be kind." Looking to Hermione who was snarling at the centaur, her lips pulled back showing off her fangs at him before the professor called out to her.

She got off the centaur and moved away as it scrambled off to join the others as they looked at her in awe and fear as well.

They should be after what they almost did to Keller; I wouldn't have hold back and tear him to bits and drain his blood right in front of the others in order to protect my cousin.

She tried to think of something that might be in part of the future and remembered the prophecy told of what would happened about the Dark Lord and Harry Potter. She looked to Dumbledore to see if this was all right, knowing he did not know yet of whom it was speaking about not mentioning certain names. Again he nodded and then she spoke in a clear voice for them to hear:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...

Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies...

And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...

And either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives"

When she finished speaking she heard only stun silence before Dumbledore spoke again, "Now I must warn you, that if these two are to be harmed by your herd again, I won't hold back for what I will do to protect them as my students."

"'Either will I!" Hagrid said, clutching Keller's form tighter and Orion hissed, his white eyes blazing and baring his teeth, snarling at the centaurs and digging his hoof in the ground. Hermione couldn't help add her own threat to the promise as she stared at each and every one of them with an exact cold glare with her dark threatening eyes.

The centaurs seem to have taken this into consideration before Magorian spoke to Dumbledore, nodding his head to the agreement, "Very well then, we will keep our distance away from these two and be silent about the prophecy as long as they keep theirs from the herd and never dare near us again."

"Agreed then." Dumbledore said as he, Hermione, Hagrid and Orion left the forest, a strange bunch if anyone ever seen as they headed back to the grounds and to the castle.

But before they did, Dumbledore tried to change her form from the one she was in but found he couldn't even while she was still unconscious. Hermione remembered that she had an idea as it concerns the serum packed away in the shack for their uses to regress the change and lie in their normal form.

"Hang on professor, I'll be back!" And race to the willow, down the tunnel to the shack and came back, carrying a syringe in hand and having Keller's arm out and placing it directly in the vein and pushing in.

She felt Keller wince as she felt the needle pierced her flesh and as Hermione squeeze the serum into her bloodstream then pulled it back out.

They waited for a minute before the skin began to become a less darker pigment until it was almost white as snow, the facial features changing, reversing the large bat-like ears and snout to become smaller and disappearing before Keller's face emerge, covered in blood and ugly bruises. She became slightly conscious and had the chance to opened her one good eye to see her cousin standing by and smiled weakly.

"Hello again Mione…Nice to see you here in the underworld…funny it looks just like the school…Are my parents here waiting for me…" She mutter before she fell unconscious again as Dumbledore conjured a blanket to cover her form and wrapped it tightly around with the still bleeding wounds while the rest heal slowly and possibly painful in her predicament.

"Hagrid, take Ms. Corvin to the hospital wing and have Poppy inform what has happened and tell her I will be there shortly with the Head of her house, Professor McGonagall and Ms. Lucian, you may go with them after if you like and stay the night as I've heard from Madame Poppy she's not keen in being in the hospital wing all the time. But I'd like to have a word with you in my office with Mr. Lupin and Mr. Black."

She nodded as she took one last faint glance to where she saw Hagrid heading to the castle and to the hospital wing.