The young Marauders and the Golden Trio

Chapter18: transforming

~James~

The plan was so simple; I don't know why I didn't think of it before. First we went to the village to buy the supplies using all our money, and then went to plan our attack. First thing to think about was the vampire's, they knew we would come back and would kill us if they even saw even a shadow of us, so we need all the protection we could get. Secondly was how we were going to get Mrs Rowling to talk. Snape said torture but Hermione said Annabeth wouldn't like that so we didn't bother with planning it until we manage to get rid of the vampires. But before we did that we spent fifteen minutes on the riddle.

We hid behind one of the bushes looking out to the cottage. Dark cloaked vampires could be seen circling around the house like walking black birds and two stayed guarding the front of door. There were so many, I wondered if she had any vampires with her, probably not.

"Are you ready Ron?" asked Remus, Ron nodded. Ron was probably the only one with less protection except for the holy cross he hid in his back pocket, when all the rest of us had garlic around our necks and aluminium chains to tie up the vampires. Ron was going to be bait. I looked up as I heard rumbling from the thick dark sky, the clouds were rolling in like a herd of black sheep. I shivered with cold or was it fear, it was hard to tell.

We all wished Ron good luck and we took our places. Ron strode up bravely toward the vampires. The vampires slowly turned their thin faces to him looking as hungry as a pack of wolfs, one of the vampires guarding the door hissed and that was what we wanted, that was our cue. Harry and I were the first to jump out of the bushes with garlic and aluminium chains in hand ready to launch at the vampires then Sirius and Remus came from the other side and then it was the girls, Lily and Hermione and Snape (yes I know what I said) but the vampire's were a lot and mean a lot faster than us, as we expected and the one who hissed took Ron by his shirt and hair and hissed at us with his dagger fangs showing out and his ruby eyes staring menacingly at us "drop your weapons or I will bit him."

"Oh no you won't!" cried a croaky old man's voice from out the sky, it was the man from the illegal floo network on Sirius motorbike, he landed on the vampires body knocking him out leaving Ron protected under the vampire's weight, then other vampires were suddenly around us, they formed a circle ready to attack but then Lily threw one of her smelly garlic balls at one of the vampire's face this time it was a woman and she backed away screaming as soon as the garlic touched her. Then it was garlic fight as we threw every piece of garlic we had, some of the vampires dodged them and some didn't some of them zoomed away into the safety of the woods while the rest stayed to fight back. The old man was shooting spells and hex's at them and one by one they fell unconscious or they were to tired to fight anymore this is exactly what we wanted, we used the aluminium chains and tied them up against one of the trees and then we suddenly collapsed on our knee's, looks like the vampire's aren't the only one's worn out.

"Come on you stupid teenagers!" ordered the croaky old man who left Sirius motorbike on the ground "you all have a job to do, so do it!"

"Thanks dude" said Sirius "we couldn't have done this without you, how can we repay you?"

"Repay me!" he laughed out loud "my dear English boy you have saved me from the most ugliest woman I've ever seen!"

"Wait!" said Hermione urgently "I thought your date was not until five."

"Oh it was" he replied "like half an hour ago, see you" and as he said that he apparated away.

"Oh no" moaned Remus "I only have thirty minutes left."

"Thirty minutes to what?" asked Snape,

"Never mind," I said "let's just go and find Mrs Rowling."

~Harry~

The house was dark and silent only the wind could be heard as the wooden front door of the cottage slammed shut with a bang behind us, complete silence fell. We stood by the doorway not knowing what to do or what to expect for all we knew there could be traps or other vampires ready to strike. So with no garlic left and chains gone we held our wands in our hands even though there might be a chance of us not using them and we didn't want to be expelled from Hogwarts and I didn't want to end up in another court meeting again. With dad...James leading the way we tiptoed to the most obvious place she would be. We got Snape to guard the front door as we made our way to the cellar.

We found her on floor staring at the game of Curses and Fortunes her blond her was all over her face her hands we're clenched she looked as if she was about to cry. And she whispered softly but loud enough for us to hear her "you children have destroyed everything, my protection, my heart, everything"

"You did that yourself" said Remus almost angry "you kidnapped my friends and lied to us, we know you have been using time travel with just one lamp haven't you!"

"I don't understand" she said softly not looking at us in the eye.

"The games up Mrs Rowling" said Sirius "we have worked out the riddle Annabeth had sent us."

"What!" Mrs Rowling gasped and Remus tore the page the riddle was on and passed it to her. When we spent that time on the riddle we found out that there was more to it.

"As you see," said Lily "the first two rhyming words dangerous and serious we actually had the idea that Sirius was dangerous but how can he be? Next is Annabeth and breath so Annabeth is still alive and time and rhyme we think it also makes people rhyme because that how Annabeth speaks but that might just be it and then there is dead and ahead it suggests the lamps can brings back the dead and there is dear and clear now we don't understand that do you think you could explain?"

"I might do" Mrs Rowling said "but it not definite."

"Tell us" I insisted.

"On the week Annabeth was taken she said something about how this werewolf would try and kill me."

"But what does that have to do with riddle?" asked Ron.

"I don't know but I think it means that in the end everything would become clear."

"Clear" said Hermione "but what about dear?"

"I'm not sure" sighed Mrs Rowling "is your friend ok?" she nodded to Remus. All eyes were on him, his body began to stiffen, he was changing. I know what werewolf's are capable of. I remember two years ago when Remus was my Defence Against The Dark Arts professor I found out that he was a werewolf when we found out that Sirius was innocent, Remus forgot to take his 'wolfsbane' and transformed, he nearly killed us but the wolfsbane didn't exist when Remus in this time period, we were all in danger.

I know this was a short chapter but I wanted to get something done there 2 more chapters after this