Chapter 1 – A year without rain:-

Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own neither 'Wizards of Waverly Place' nor it's characters. I also don't own the song 'A year without rain'

-A/N: Continues on from the episode "Wizards V. Werewolves". (I am aware that Alex and Justin had this heart to heart talk but I'm pretending that it never happend).

Writing from a book is underlined

Can you feel me
When I think about you
With every breath I take
Every minute
No matter what I do
My world is an empty place

Like I've been wandering the desert
For a thousand days
Don't know if it's a mirage
But I always see your face, baby

I'm missing you so much
Can't help it, I'm in love
A day without you is like a year without rain
I need you by my side
Don't know how I'll survive
A day without you is like a year without rain

[A year without rain; by Selena Gomez]

"I can't believe this!" Alex exclaimed, as she stormed into the deserted sandwich shop. "How could that hag you call a girlfriend do that to Mason?"

"Excuse me? He attacked me!" Justin countered as he followed her; with Max trailing behind. "Juliet was only defending me and in case you forgot; he turned her into a crone!"

"Yeah, it's not like you're a Wizard or anything like that," she replied with so much malice, Justin couldn't help but flinch. "Did you forget about hand magic?"

"It wouldn't have been enough!" he yelled out desperately; guilt flowing through his mind; why couldn't he think of that? He was supposed to be the smart one. But even with all that studying, the one time he was needed the most, he failed.

"A simple barrier! You couldn't even put up a simple barrier?"

"It's not my fault!"

"You know what? I am going to find Mason and turn him back to normal! And when I do, you better hope the hag isn't there because I'll turn her to dust," she muttered bitterly before turning away with a dangerous glint in her eye and running up the stairs.

"Wow! I've never seen Alex like that before. Think we should go after her?" Max asked - in one of his rare moments of clarity and common sense. Justin was with no doubt surprised but remained silent thinking over his failure.

The next day:

"Hey loser, get up!" Alex yelled into her little brother's messy and incredibly filthy bedroom. She walked in intending to force Max out his bed when she tripped over something and landed with a loud 'oomph'. Lifting her head off of its position on the floor, Alex groaned loudly and examined the object that caused her fall. It was a blue wooden log. The brunette rolled her eyes and muttered, "I won't even ask."

She lifted herself off the ground and carefully made her way through the rest of the junk. When she finally reached Max's bed – a feat that took her 10 minutes (unrealistic - I know; but whatever) whereas in a normal room it would take less than 10 seconds.

"Max. Max come on, get up," Alex shook her brother, urging him to wake up but getting no response. Taking a big breath, Alex yelled; "Max! Mom made Brownies!"

Hearing this Max jumped out of his bed and – much to the amusement of Alex – started running towards the door, but before he could; Alex's hand reached out and grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him backwards, nearly choking him but Alex didn't really care.

"What the potato?" Max asked in surprise.

"Potato?" Alex asked in an equally surprised voice. "Seriously Max?"

He shrugged and asked her what she was doing in his room. His reply was a smirk and her arm attaching onto his, pulling him along as she raced out of the room.

"Where are we going?" he asked as she dragged him into the family room making him stumble repeatedly. Even as Alex answered, "to the Lair," she continued her sprint and pulled a protesting Max down the stairs into the sub-station, past the tables and into the kitchen.

There she stopped, much to the relief of Max – who was starting to feel a bit nauseous. Alex pulled her wand out from its safe keeping place; her boots.

"Open portal, open now,

Into the Lair, don't ask how!" she chanted. A white flash could be seen in the pantry and then it open to reveal the Russo's secret Wizards Lair.

"Come on Max! You and I are going to look through the magic books to try to help Mason."

"Huh? I don't get it?"

"We," she explained, pointing at both her and Max, "are going to find a way to help Mason."

"But I thought it was impossible to return them to normal."

At this Alex's eyes narrowed. "Who said it was?" she asked, then as she turned around and walked into the lair. "And I never said them. Just Mason," she added without looking back, leaving her brother to follow – hopelessly confused as always.

"You search the Wiz World Web (did I get that right?) and I'll go through the books."

"Sure."

"By the way, Harper's going to help too – as soon as she gets her but out of bed," Alex informed her brother, smirking inwardly at the dopey grin that formed on Max's face. It was no big secret that her little brother had a crush on her best friend – though she could never understand why; after all Harper wasn't exactly hot. She was pretty – that was for sure – but you could never focus on that when she was wearing those freaky clothes of hers. With a wink she turned around and made her way to the bookshelf.

As Alex looked around for a book that seemed remotely useful, she found herself thinking of the irony of the situation. Once she believed that books were going to be her demise but now she was turning to them as her saviours.

Soon enough, her wandering eyes came across a seemingly promising book called 'Transformations for dummies'. With a sigh she picked up the book and headed for the sofa.

"Let's see what you've got," Alex mumbled before opening the book and scanning the index. "Werewolves... Werewolves... Ah, here we are," she exclaimed, "page 63."

Alex turned the pages until she reached her page. She then started reading like she'd never read before.

There are two types of werewolves; purebreds and mutts. Purebreds are the rarest because after millenniums of crossbreeding and converting; the werewolf race has been contaminated more so than any other race. There 3 types of transformations linked to werewolves: Human into werewolf, werewolf into human and werewolf into Wolf

- Human into werewolf:

When a purebred werewolf scratches a human with the intention of transforming them; that human is transformed/converted into a mutt werewolf. Also, when a mutt werewolf kisses a human, that human is transformed. For reversal see below.

- Werewolf into human:

A werewolf can also be transformed into a human if given a Wolf's Bane potion. For reversal, see above.

- Werewolf into Wolf:

When a werewolf is bitten by a vampire it is cursed and is forced to revert to a regular wolf. No known reversal.

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