Bonnie: Yay! I love the Marauders! Love them love them LOVE THEM! Well, here's another crazy chapter by yours truly!

Pairings in this chapter: You may have to look for the Sirius x Remus and Lucius x James hints…

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANYBODY! In case no one knows…

Chapter Seven: Dark Days: Severus's and Remus's Story

Hogwarts Day 2.5 (Still Last day)

Remus woke up feeling a sense of foreboding; there were flashes of light going in all directions. Feeling a bit disoriented, Remus looked around the shadowy room. Outside, there were flashing lights of gold and violet. What an odd combination of colours.

Sirius and James were not in their beds. Alarmed, Remus quickly rummaged around for proper clothes and grabbed his wand before leaving to find his friends. Remus had a gut feeling that they were where the flashing lights were. He ran out onto the Hogwarts grounds and skidded to a halt when the grounds were suddenly surrounded by unblinking round yellow eyes.

Small black (although hard to tell in the dark) creatures with glowing, monotone yellow eyes and crooked antennae sprouting out of its head came moving out of the ground. They moved in a twitching fashion as though they don't know what they are doing, but they came fast upon Remus as he stared at them wide-eyed. His dream from two nights ago flashed by with increasing familiarity.

The same voice from his dream echoed in his mind, whispering one word: "Heartless"

"Those creatures from before… are heartless? No… heart?" Remus whispered, contemplating what this means. He looked on, frozen to the spot as the heartless came in droves. A large flash of gold light missed him by a few feet, knocking Remus back into the current dilemma. He fished out his wand and cast a few "Flipendo" spells at the swarm of black.

Just like in the dream, the heartless were knocked and the rest swarmed in confusion and chaos as Remus fired every spell he could think of. He took the opportunity to dash in the direction of the Shrieking Shack.

He passed by the lake, which was now pitch black and tinted purple. It looked like a poisonous lake in the night. A lone figure stood at the edge of the lake. Remus halted to a stop; Severus was right at the edge looking out into the open waters.

"Severus?"

"The door is open." Severus didn't acknowledge Remus's presence but it was clear he was talking to him.

Remus's thoughts went back to the door in the Shrieking Shack. How did Severus know about the door? Is it really open now?

Severus now faced Remus; his onyx eyes had become even darker than before, meeting Remus's tan coloured eyes directly. It was almost intimidating and Remus fought the urge to look away.

"Come with me Remus, now we can go to the outside world. We may not have another chance."

Remus glared back, "what about Sirius or James? Are you just going to leave them?"

"James and the mutt are coming with us." Severus snapped before turning back to looking the black and purple swirls in the night sky.

Severus continued speaking, "listen, once we leave this place, we may never come back to it. We won't see our parents or professors again. This is our only chance to go out and see the other worlds!"

Before Remus could reply, dark swirls came bursting out between them. The entire pitch-black lake emitted a black aura. Remus strained to see Severus in time to see Severus extend his hand out to Remus, the darkness threatened to swallow them whole. On pure instinct, Remus reached out for Severus, not wanting him to be swallowed up. He reached further for Severus but at the last second he hesitated… and pulled back.

He had pulled back.

As the thought flew by his mind, Remus felt himself being dragged further down into the darkness. The effort to reach Severus had been broken and Remus could only see darkness. Why did he want to pull back? Wasn't he supposed to help Severus?

Then light flashed in different directions and Remus found himself upright and slightly dizzy. He stood at the edge of the lake, facing the exact spot where Lucius had been. Remus blinked the black spots out of his eyes and looked around confused. His sharp hearing picked up a small whisper, carried by the wind. "Keyblade…"

"Keyblade" More echoes of the word seemed to float around him, whispering the same word, getting louder and louder.

"Keyblade… keyblade… keyblade…KEYBLADE"

Remus was assaulted with bright white and had to quickly shut his eyes, feeling kind of disoriented and hard to digest or figure out what was going on. After a while of keeping his eyes shut because he didn't know when the light would be gone but then he felt something slightly heavy appear in his right hand. He opened his eyes and in his hands was a weapon that looked like an abnormally large key. His hands wrapped around the handle like it was some kind of sword. At that moment, a huge swarm of shadows came crawling from the ground towards him.

On instinct, Remus swung the key-like blade at the heartless and to his surprise, every hit destroyed a shadow. He ran past them, slashing the closest heartlesses near him awkwardly, and then he headed farther away from Hogwarts. He had to get to the door, maybe he'll find his friends there.

Remus barrelled to the Whomping Willow, running and dodging through the branches to reach the switch to turn off the violent tree. There didn't seem to be any heartlesses within the branches but plenty outside. Remus blasted a few more away before sliding into the secret tunnel to the Shrieking Shack. The heartless had avoided the tunnel altogether so Remus slowed down, catching his breath before proceeding on.

At the end of the tunnel, Remus stumbled upon a cloth on the floor, his eyes widened as he recognized it as James' invisibility cloak. He picked it up, shrunk it and stuffed it into his robe pockets so he can return it to James later. By now, Remus starting to feel worried about if something had happened to Sirius and James.

Severus was gone! James was going to kill him for this, Remus realized hoping Severus was alright. He was sure Severus could take care of himself though. Blood pounding, he made it to the other side of the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack and a sight stopped him cold.

A dark void was swirling in the middle of the room and James was staring at it in shock.

"Sirius…"

"James!" Remus called, rushing forward. James turned to him, his hazel eyes were half-closed and it looked like he was in a daze. "Remus…" A violet coloured light shot out of the void, encasing James and pushing him into Remus, who spread out his arms. James eyes closed and when he fell into Remus, he suddenly disappeared; dissolved even. Remus stumbled back in shock and the wind picked up strongly. He covered his eyes from the wind and when it died down; Remus found he wasn't in the Shrieking Shack but instead at the edge of the lake again.

His friends are gone now, Remus's single thought flew through his head but before he could contemplate any farther, a loud sound came from the lake and a huge shadow creature, not unlike the one from his dream a few days ago, emerged. Giant cracks appeared on the shores of the lake. Remus stared at the huge shadow in shock and horror as he realized that he, the lake and the giant creature were now separated from the rest of the mainland. He was alone in facing this creature.

'No, I can't die here. I have to find Sirius and James!' Remus thought and the giant key reappeared in his hand. Remus stared at the key and made a decision. He held up the key with his two hands, ready to take on the dark creature.

His tan eyes searched for a weak spot. The legs of the shadow looked very strong but then he swivelled to the arms, they were looser and flimsier. Making a decision, Remus jumped out of the way of the shadow's arm and slammed the key into the arm. The creature cried out in pain and Remus smirked this time. He felt a surge of energy propelling his movements. Normally, he wasn't this nimble except when he transforms but it seemed the key also boosts his abilities. Remus's body gradually got used to the movements and positions it had been pulled into and Remus felt some kind of euphoria from being able to move and jump so swiftly. He pulled out his wand and wildly thought of a spell to cast, "diffindo!" He shouted and a purple light seared into the shadow's arm, effectively cutting it off. The giant shadow roared in… pain? Remus wasn't sure but he quickly moved to the other arm and hacked at the other arm with the giant key, fascinated by the black splats being botched out of the arm and desintegrating. He jumped out of the way as the arm thrashed about, setting down black glop. Remus stared at the glop, small familiar antennae creatures came out after him. Quickly, he drew his wand again and blast them to smithereens with a few hexes; then hacked away at the remaining arm before jumping away and finishing the arm off with the severing charm.

The shadow jumped and jerked around without its limbs and Remus decided to make one final blow, he dismissed his key weapon and it disappeared. He pulled out his wand taking aim. Remus then shouted a spell.

"Freezus!"

An icy blue spell shot out, hitting the shadow in the yellow eyes and the creature toppled over, blowing up wind and dirt. Remus fought against the wind and covered his eyes with his cloak sleeves.

The wind was blowing upwards, seeming to suck Remus into the dark void hanging above Hogwarts. Remus could not hold on much longer and soon he was lost in the darkness.

TBC…

Bonnie: Well that was gloomy… It was also agonizingly hard! I'm sorry if Remus seems kind of dazed and unintelligent in the beginning but I think it's kind of hard to swallow all this information and events happening without being explained what's going on…

Donald and Goofy (and Champ Bear) are coming in way later. Remus will not end up in Traverse Town yet… Meanwhile though, those three will be searching different worlds for where to find Traverse Town as they don't know where it is either…

Bonnie: Thanks! And Read and Review for me please!