The young Marauders and the Golden Trio

Chapter20: It's not always goodbye (finale)

~James~

At that moment Timoken left Sirius stopped shaking and the vampires who managed survive the battle went though the portal following him. Remus was very tired and didn't bother chasing the others so he just ran back into the trees for a quick nap or something until his next meal. I was about to go after him when Lily raced in front of me and put her hands out to stop me.

"Let him go James" she cried "he's not going to harm anyone not after all he got off the vampires." I stopped and turned back into my human form, "We can look for him later but don't you want to say goodbye to your son?" I turned to Harry he had cuts on his face were the vampires must of scratched him, his glasses had cracked and his hair was a big shaggy mess on his head he limped up to me with tears in his eyes.

"So this is it" he said nervously.

"This is it" I sighed, then a wave of sadness washed over me this was probably the last I was going to see him for a very long time, I wanted to know more about him like what house is he in? Does he have a girlfriend? Or are we going to be happy? "But hey" I said cheerfully as a thought struck me "you won't miss me I'm your father you are probably going to be glad to see the back of me sometimes." but he just gave me a sad smile and a big, tight hug.

"Say thanks to Lupin for me." he whispered in my ear.

"Sure" I said "promise," I meant it. Suddenly Sirius, now human, took Harry off me and giving him his own big hug.

"See you soon." he said.

"Yeah" sighed Harry "just don't kill me."

"Sorry." and Sirius letting go and patting Harry on the head instead, then I felt Hermione give me a light hug .

"You have done well today." she said with tears in her eyes.

"Thanks," I answered "but I couldn't have done it without you guys" and I meant it.

"That's what Harry says," She laughed and then she stopped "hear take this" she gave me the book she, Remus and Sirius had found in the library of Glasgowmead. "I think this book has more in it than what it seems," she must have noticed my confusion "look give it to Remus when he's back to normal he might spot something, this adventure isn't over yet its only just beginning," and she turned away to hug Sirius and I met Lily's eyes, Hermione must have told her something similar or more. Ron came up to me and firmly shook my hand.

"Good luck mate," he said.

"You too," I said "stay with Harry yeah," he nodded and went to say goodbye to the others and then joined Harry and Hermione who were already by the portal Sirius and Lily came to stand by my side.

"Goodbye you all!" cried Lily with tears streaming down her face, "I will never forget you and what you have done for us and Remus says the same thank you!"

"Have a safe journey," called Sirius "it was nice meeting you all and that I'm going to meet you." I just waved as I watched Harry and Ron go though the portal, Hermione was about to step in but she turned back to us.

"Remember to take the lamps off the table when I've gone!" she called "and thank Mrs Rowling for me!" and she vanished into the golden light of the portal.

Lily dried her eyes with the back of her sleeve and gave a sad smile , "let's get these lamps off the table and look for Mrs Rowling," she said "no doubt she would have run back the cottage and of course you need to find Remus before he gets hungry again and attacks the villagers, oh yeah what have you done with Snape?" she asked us with narrowed tearful eyes.

"At the cottage," said Sirius, "don't worry we haven't killed him, we just knocked him out so we can try to convince him it was all a dream, but if that doesn't work we would have to find someone with magic and at age to warp his memory."

And that was probably for the best, Snape who was guarding the front door at the time had no idea what had been going on down at the cellar had no idea that a werewolf was down there when me and Sirius got to the cottage Remus was just about to eat him, but I knocked Snape out with my antlers when Sirius battled Remus. But sadly Snape isn't as stupid as he looks he will work it out eventually who Remus really is and we couldn't have that.

As soon as Lily took the lamps off the table the warm golden light disappeared leaving in its place a shower of cold fresh rain and the monstrous thunder of the clouds was back upon us. We went back into the trees towards the cottage still keeping signs out for Remus but there were non and I started to worry.

The second we got Lily back to the cottage me and Sirius transformed and raced off to find Remus. We eventually found him quivering under the roots of an old tree, he looked like a little lost puppy alone under there, we found the gap Remus must have went though and with the help of Sirius managed to squeeze my antlers under there. Now the three of us were all snuggled together against the harsh thundering above us, together we could face any dangers that threatened us; vampires, dark arts .we even stopped Voldemort from getting the power to control time, for now anyway.

I must have fallen asleep because the moment I opened my eyes the golden orb of the sun was already rising from the forest trees, the rain drops on the leaves and ground were sparkling like diamonds as the suns ways reflected off them. I turned to Sirius who was now in human form watching over Remus who was also now human. I turned back human too and took a look at Remus's pale skin and soft looking brown hair he looked so peaceful like that you would never think he was a werewolf. Suddenly Sirius climbed out of the tree and scratched and yawned, "I'm going back to the cottage to find something we can wrap Remus in, won't be two ticks."

A few minutes later Sirius only came back with a white fluffy dressing gown, "sorry this would have to do him" he sighed "his clothes ripped during his transformation and because there are no men living the cottage Lily said a dressing gown was best suited."

We didn't want to but we had to wake Remus up from his deep sleep, we managed somehow to get him in the dressing gown and get him back to the cottage. When we got there Mrs Rowling was asleep in her armchair and Lily was pacing up and down the floor with black bags under her eyes when she saw us she gave us a huge smile and said how worried she has been which woke up Mrs Rowling and she asked why Remus was wearing her dressing gown when we explained why she instantly asked Remus his size and ran to the village to buy him a plain t-shirt and jeans which looked one size too big and she made us a cuppa each and some biscuits and I remembered how hungry I was, Sirius and Remus explained they had had two Mc Donald's on their journey and I got really jealous.

When we had finished Mrs Rowling had a quiet talk with us, "now you four have had quite a journey."

"Yeah" said Lily "I never knew that so much can happen in just a few hours"

"And more things are going to happen eventually," sighed Mrs Rowling "from what it looks like Voldemort has got the vampires on his side and now that Timoken is hiding though time and space we will never find him and get revenge."

"What do you think he's going to do now?" asked Remus.

"Probably stay low for a while he has failed Voldermort because of some kids, he's not going to like that but when he does come out Timoken would be looking for revenge on you and then the other children."

"You mean you could just kill Harry just like that?" I asked panicking.

"Well knowing vampires they like to do things quickly and not mess around, so to make things easier they would have to kill the person who brought Harry life."

"Me" I whispered, I started to shake, I'd had enough with vampires for one day.

"He will be after you if you like it or not" said Mrs Rowling reading my thoughts "all of you until you find away to stop him."

"Are the Dementors on Voldermort's side too" asked Sirius "I mean when we were looking for the other the lamp they started to attack us and the same when we were coming back here, we nearly got killed."

"Probably Sirius," she said shaking her head, "maybe they are working for him or they knew somehow you were after the other lamp and tried to stop you for some reason but for now keep them lamps apart and always have your wands with you."

"Thank you," said Remus "but what do we do now? And what about Annabeth she must have some part into this."

"Find her," said Mrs Rowling "please, if she was the one who sent out the warning to the Snape boy and saved you from the Dementors she must know more."

"No promises," said Sirius, Mrs Rowling nodded.

"Your parents must be worried about you" she said "should I give them a ring?"

"My parents!" I jumped up "they must be worried sick, we said we would be back by midnight and now it's early morning they must have called the police and everything!"

"Then you should call them, the phones in the hall." Said Mrs Rowling.

When I called my house my father was the first to pick up I had never heard him shout at me before it rather scared me but when he calmed down he told how worried he was and that he loved me and my mother was at the police station, then he told me Remus's dad was there and that he wanted a word with Remus. When Remus was on the phone to his dad Remus just rolled his eyes and sighed at each word. I didn't know the relationship between Remus and his father but it must be a strange one. Lily was next to call she said she would tell her parents everything when she got home but she told us after the phone call she wasn't going to tell them everything just that she accidently landed in Scotland and Snape fell unconscious and was rushed to a hospital, she told Mrs Snape that to but Lily didn't want to talk about her.

A few minutes later Severus got up and started telling us the dream he had and we got the Motorbike ready while Severus and Lily hopped on their broomstick as Lily waved goodbye and saying thank you to Mrs Rowling and some goodbyes, Sirius started the motorbike and it lifted in the air. To tell the truth I was glad to leave Scotland and with the book and lamps sitting in the sidecar I was looking forward to the rest of my summer.

The End NOT

If you want to know what happens next read the first chapter the second series called The Moon necklaces (I know it's a strange name but oh well you will know why it called that when you read it)

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The Summery

The Sequel to The Young Marauders and Golden Trio...The Marauders need to find Annabeth and to do that they need nine necklaces that only nine people can find. New friends and sometimes you gretest foe can be the one you trust the most.