The young Marauders and the Golden Trio
Chapter19: Battle
~Lily~
I felt terrible. I have leave Remus down in the dark cellar alone, I could hear his screams as we sprinted out of the cottage, I had no idea where we were going to go. Werewolf's can sniff people out from miles in fact he could get anyone from the village, I was so worried I didn't even notice the heavy rain dropping from out the sky soaking my hair and my shoe's skidding across the soggy mud. I collapsed on the mushy, wet grass, I was on hands and knees taking deep breaths trying to calm myself down, I felt a warm hand on my shoulder I looked up to see Mrs Rowling with a worried look on her face, she knew what I was thinking, we had to save Remus until he kills someone.
"Right is everyone safe" asked Sirius.
"Yeah but I think we're missing someone" said Ron as he looked around at everyone.
"Severus!" I gasped "he's still at the house we have got to save him!" but as I got up to leave Harry took me by the arm.
"Not a good idea Lily," he shouted so I could hear him over the rain "you could get hurt too let James and Sirius do it."
"But why?" I screamed, what could James and Sirius do against a werewolf?
"You will see why!" said James proudly and before I knew it he had transformed into a tall, beautiful stag and then Sirius transformed into a huge black dog. My mouth must have been hanging open because I could hear the others laughing their heads off they didn't seem as half surprised at what just happened. It is not normal for teenage boys to suddenly turn into animals, even though James and Sirius have always been animals but you know what I mean.
"Ok guys," laughed Ron "go and save the slimeball" Sirius gave a bark and James nodded his head and the sprinted to the cottage.
"T- t- they are a-animagus" I stuttered.
"Yep" said Ron "so what do we do now?"
"I think the only thing we can do now is figure out a way to get home" said Hermione.
"Yes where have you put the lamps?" asked Mrs Rowling we all turned to her and we remembered how Remus said Mrs Rowling shouldn't get the lamps, but what else could we do?
"We hid them in one of the bushes," said Harry uneasily "a bit deeper into the forest."
Probably in all the excitement we didn't notice how cold, tired and hungry we were. We were just looking for the place we had put the lamps, we knew we were in the right area from the red ribbon we tied on one of the trees before we had acted, but we checked every bush under every tree and we couldn't find them.
"This must be some kind of joke" moaned Ron.
"Someone has stolen them!" gasped Hermione.
"But no one know about the lamps expect us right?" said Harry cleaning the rain from his glasses.
"Expect maybe the vampires," said Mrs Rowling as she put her head in her hands out of exhaustion or shame.
"But we tied the vampires up," said Harry popping his glasses back on "unless some set them free?"
"And that someone doesn't want you guys to go home," I said taking nervous glances at the other three "any ideas anyone?"
"I can think of some people," mumbled Ron, just then there was crash of lighting, we screamed as one of the tree's suddenly came crashing down just in front of us.
"LETS GET OUT OF HERE!" screamed Mrs Rowing and we ran into the trees.
"I think someone is trying to kill us!" screamed Ron through the trees.
"It wouldn't be the first time Ron!" shouted Harry.
The rain was getting worse it was pouring faster and heavier I could hear strong, icy wind whistling though my ears, my t-shirt and shorts we're drenched to my skin, but then Ron tripped over and I fell on top of him covering myself with mud and then I spotted what Ron had tripped over it was the aluminium chain. Helping up Ron and with the chain in hand he kept going, the vampires mustn't be too far now, we stopped. We heard singing, men and women singing in cold but beautiful voices, their voices sank into my ear holes for I have not heard of such an interesting song in my life and they were so beautiful I forgot about the rain and the cracking thunder from the dark clouds it was Mrs Rowling who brought me back to reality.
"It's the vampires chanting," she said hopefully "they only do that when they are completing their task."
"They're going to turn on the lamps aren't they?" shouted Harry "come on!"
The singing was coming closer as we sprinted though the trees towards the voices and from the distance we spotted the black hooded figures slowly circling a stone, round table. I could not see the table very well from where I was standing but judging by the ivy growing around it, it must have been very old and on the table where the lamps were we also spotted that one of the vampire's looked different from the other's, he was wearing a red cloak and his hood was long and coved his whole face.
"The one in the red is Timoken" whispered Mrs Rowling excitedly "they're going to get Annabeth back!"
"What, really?" gasped Hermione "Annabeth told Snape the vampires were dangerous."
"But dangerous to who?" said Mrs Rowling calmly "to us or someone us" and she carried on watching the vampires, she was so transfixed on the circle she didn't notice Hermione drag us back from her and she whispered urgently,
"I don't care what Rowling says I still think them vampires are up to something more."
"So do I," I said, "we need to attack the vampires again we don't have the garlic anymore but we have the chain and the Holy Cross and we have rocks and sticks on the ground we have a chance!"
"Hang on a minute," said Harry "we can't just go in there so suddenly we have to wait till the right moment and besides maybe we can get them to do the dirty work for us."
We were going to ask what Harry meant but suddenly a bright golden light shot out from the middle of the round table it shot up though the rain clearing the dark black clouds revealing the full moon, it all felt magical as the air rushed though us with warmth and power. Mrs Rowling grasped my arm.
"Do you see that Lily?" she cried with joy "if you step into that light you can choose to go to anytime period you like and now they have opened it." I turned to the others Harry winked at me though his thick glasses, now I knew what he meant by 'do the dirty work for us' the vampires have all ready opened the lamps for us now we could chooses what time we wanted to go, not switching on two lamps and wait for a few minutes and then let them take you to a time you don't want to go to, all we had to do was get rid of the vampires, then I turned to Hermione who didn't look as pleased, she was eyeing Mrs Rowling closely before saying in a warning voice,
"You seem to know a lot about the lamps don't you Mrs Rowling?"
"Oh" she said looking a bit surprised "the vampires told me about it, they're very clever" but as she said that I could sense some hint in her voice she was lying. Harry picked up one of the branches lying on the ground, Ron picked one up too after taking his silver cross out of his pocket. Hermione did the same as got my chain ready staring straight ahead at the vampires, the one in red, who Mrs Rowling said was Timoken, lifted his hood up. We could see though the golden light; he looked about eighteen at least, his long dark hair was as black as night and his blue eyes were like two crystal balls with the way he was studying the light.
"My friends!" he cried he sounded more like a human than the rest of the vampires "we are here tonight on the day of the moons storms to take the power to
turn back time, to change the future." the others clapped in agreement "and give all this power to the one man who has promised victory and magic to the vampires the one and only Lord Voldemort!" the others cheered it would have deafened my ears if it wasn't for the shock that washed over me. I think the best time to act was probably now. But then cry of anger screeched from Mrs Rowling lungs, the vampires turned to her direction, Mrs Rowling stormed towards them.
"How could you!" she shouted "you said you were going to get my daughter back instead you wanted power for your own greed!"
"Well what do you think it was for" laughed Timoken "do you really think we would just help any woman who lost her child, we only said that so some foolish children would go back in time to find the other lamp and they have done just that."
"NOW!" cried Harry and sprinted towards the vampires Harry, Ron and Hermione were using their branches to hit the vampires while I used my chain as a whip and then I saw Timoken out of the corner of my eye and I swung the chain at him but he dodged and disappeared, I glanced around me until I heard Hermione screech my name and I felt a cold hand on my mouth and another one holding me around my arms it was Timoken.
"Put down your weapons" hissed Timoken "or you will never see this girl again." Harry was the first to put down his weapon and Ron and Hermione followed suit. "Good" said Timoken more casually "now get on your knees" they did including Mrs Rowling my heart was beating faster than ever now. Where the vampires going to let us go even if we do as they ask?.
"Now what should we do with you all," he sighed "feed you to the vampires or save you for the Dark Lord?"
"Or maybe let us go and pretend this never happened?" suggested Ron hopefully.
"Good suggestion but no," Timoken said "it not really that simple" he threw me down with the others and one of the vampires lifted me by the shoulders so I was on my knees "let's have a vote on it, who is hungry?" The vampires hissed in delighted, we have had it, this is the end, we were going to have our blood suck out by vampires, one of the hooded vampires with shining blue eyes pulled me up by my hair and she hissed,
"I will have this one" and as she was about to bite me I heard a sound which has always stayed in my memory to this very day it was the sound of a werewolf howling and I heard a rustle in bushes the behind me followed by hooves and the padding of a dogs feet suddenly the werewolf leapt out of the bushes and launched its self at the vampire who was holding me, I ducked but the vampire wasn't fast enough and the werewolf pinned her down and at that moment a stag came racing by and knocked over a couple of vampires, it had to be James, so the werewolf must be Remus, then Sirius, as a dog, sprinted up to Timoken and tore at his robes, he screamed and tried to kick Sirius away but that wasn't enough and it seemed to make Sirius madder and he launched at his face, the other vampires tired to get to Timoken but Remus and James was holding them back with hooves, claws, antlers and teeth and soon enough me, Ron, Harry and Hermione had picked up our weapons.
"Stay clear of Remus!" shouted Harry to us "I don't think he knows we're here at the moment, let him just handle the vampires" and sooner or later it became a battle some off the vampires had snapped out of there shock and tired to zoom past us but Remus was too fast he managed to get scratch them to death (literally) with his claws.
Suddenly I heard dog whine from the round table we all turned to see Sirius at Timoken's feet, Sirius was shaking he seemed to be in a fit. James (still in stag form) raced over to Sirius as fast as he could but Timoken didn't stop him he just gave an evil, cold laughter that turned my whole body to ice.
"You foolish children!" he laughed "You may have won this round but it's not over yet!" and before anyone could stop him he vanished into the glowing light of the lamps.
This chapter has took me a while to do so be grateful I spent all this time on it to make it as good as possible lol. The last chapter will be up by next week including the link to the first chapter of the 2nd series (and I still haven't thought of the names yet)