The young Marauders and the Golden Trio

Chapter17: Riddle

~Severus~

I ran, Not caring if the others were behind, not like it would matter anyway, I ran into the woods, it was getting dark and cold, wind was blowing though my black hair and into my eyes. I stopped to catch my breath by one of the trees I looked behind me to see if the vampires were still after me, they weren't. I sat down and put my head in my hands, this day wasn't going like I planned. I was meant to apologise to Lily for calling her a Mudblood by taking her on a trip to Blackpool and she would be my friend again and forgive me but no that did not happen, instead we ended up in Scotland. Not that there is anything wrong with Scotland it was just what been happening, first I had to run around to look for most stupidest people on the planet, Sirius Black and James Potter, then Black locked me in the cellar and to make it worse I called Lily a 'Mudblood' again and more than once.

"Are you ok my friend?" said a female voice, I looked up at a girl, she looked no older than me, her long hair was as black as the night sky and she had eyes grey as mountains and a pale face like snow she looked like someone from the Black family but she didn't dress like one she wore a bright blue long dress with a white sash around her waist, she was very pretty.

"I do not think you heard me my friend, is your hearing now at an end," and she laughed, she was rhyming.

"I heard you the first time thanks," I grumbled in annoyance, I hated it when people rhymed because their words get stuck in your head.

"Then it is polite to answer," she sound calm when she said.

"Sorry," I said as I struggled to get up from the ground.

"Thank you, have you found the clue," she said as she helped me get up.

"What clue?" I asked curiously.

"Timoken knew," she said sadly.

"Well I'm not Timoken" I said but something came to me "wait! Isn't Timoken the vampire who sent them other vampires to seek Annabeth?"

"If they do find her it will be the cause of her death."

"Who's? Annabeth's?" I asked.

"Heed me my friend, your journey is not at end. Those vampires are dangerous so listen I'm serious They don't care for Annabeth they care for breath, The lamps do not only make people travel though time or make people rhyme but to bring back the dead so look ahead my dear and I hope this riddle makes it clear." As soon as she said that a blue light formed around her and she disappeared leaving behind a silver ring in the shape of a raven.

"Severus!" cried a familiar voice as I picked up the raven ring, it was Remus Lupin. He came running towards me his face pale than usual and he had the two lamps and a book in his hands "I see you're ok," then he noticed the ring in my hand, "where is that from?" he asked, I was about to tell him to mind his own business but then I saw Lily running out from the gloom followed my Black, the two Potters and then Granger and Weasley.

"Is everyone here?" said Sirius

"Looks like it" said Harry out of breath "doesn't look like they're after us."

"But they will be though," said Hermione who was as just out of breath as Harry was "what's that in your hand?" she asked me and they all turned to me and I ended up telling them about the mysterious rhyming girl I had just met.

"Well what did she say?" asked Ron I repeated what the girl had said to me.

"Wow!" gasped Hermione "you can remember that well."

"That's what rhyme's do sometimes." said Remus; he seemed to writing something down in his little notebook "you're meant to remember them and this one sounds very important so I'm writing it down so we can work it out, let me see that ring," he held his hand out to me and reluctantly I gave it to him and he examined it. "What bird do you think this is?" he asked.

"I thought it was a raven for some reason," I sighed.

"Let's have a look," said Sirius as he snatched the ring off Remus, "If you look very closely you can see it has a tiny sapphire for an eye, now where have I seen something like that before?"

"It might be something to do with the riddle let's have a look at it anyway." said Hermione so we all sat down in a tight circle with the lamps and book in the middle and Remus with his notebook.

"As you can see," he began "I have underlined all the rhyming words, it's getting dark can we have a lumous please?" and Lily who was sitting right next to him lit her wand, "Thank you lily, and as I said I think each rhyming word leads to a clue of some kind."

"But a clue to what?" asked James

"I don't know that's what we need to find out let's have a look at the fist line 'those vampires are dangerous so listen I'm serious'"

"Well I'm Sirius," said Sirius "so it must be something about me."

"And it does say the vampire's are dangerous" said Ron in a small voice "so that's a start."

"They don't care for Annabeth they care forbreath" Remus read out "but they're vampires they don't need breath."

"And it has something to do with Annabeth!" gasped Hermione, "let's have a look at the other line I think we're getting somewhere."

"The lamps do not only make people travel though timeor make people rhymebut to bring back the dead so look ahead my dear and I hope this riddle makes it clear"

"So it can make people rhyme," said James

"And bring back the dead" Harry said almost hopeful.

"That must what of happened to that girl" I suggested "she always rhymed".

"So she must off been a victim of the lamps!" gasped Remus then he looked at the ring "what if that girl Snape saw was Annabeth? And she was one sending the patronas."

"What" cried Lily "but Mrs Rowling Said..."

"Well she's lying or the vampire's are" Remus interrupted, "or there is something she is not telling us, why didn't Greyback just bite Annabeth when he had the chance and what did Mrs Rowling say about Annabeth's father?"

No one answered, in fact she didn't tell us about Annabeth's father or any other family member's and why would Fenrir Greyback, the most savage werewolf of them all take a little girl away wouldn't he just bite her and have it done, this was getting strange.

"And what about those photographs in her car boot?" asked Sirius "that was creepy; they were dated like one hundred years ago."

"Rowling said she went to this fair once and got her photo taken with this old camera thing" said Ron.

"She was lying" said Remus and he stood up "there is something she's not telling us," and he turned to face Hermione, Harry and Ron "I bet she knows how to get you three home and I think this riddle can help us."

"So what are we going to do about?" asked Ron "just walk up to her and demand information, she is going to be guarded by blood thirsty vampires for Christ sake!"

"Well that's were you come in Ron, I have a plan"

I've fixed chapter 1 and I think we only have 3 or 4 chapters leaved