Dear readers, Have fun reading!
I know it has been an awefully long time since I posted another part to this story and I'm sorry for this.
If there are any readers left, I would like to thank you for your continuing support.
As for an explanation as to why it took me so long, I wasn't sure how I wanted the story to develop, how the bond between Ariel and Hermione/Adin would work and so I hope that now I do know, you will all appreciate it.
R&R!
In the dragon's lair
I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before today, to look at the moon. It would have been so easy, but now I had worked myself into a tight spot. I hadn't had a lot of time to think it through, not really. I just wanted out as fast as I could.
Now I was back on the run, with my Ariel for company and I was once again stuck in a lair, this time underground, waiting for the worst night of the month claimed me once again.
I called out to Ariel, I needed her inside before the dawn hit the lands. It would surely be noticed that I was gone with that big of a bang, I needed to hide once again.
Ariel came almost as soon as I called out. We were starting to get more in tune with each other, more comfortable with the bond we had. She flew down and settled herself around we, waiting for the food I had to offer.
„Sweetheart, I know it isn't much. We just need to survive for two more days with this and then I can go and get some fresh food." I whispered to her. „I hope it's enough to sustain you until then."
I laid out the last part of the carcass I had left and watched her swallow it hole. I used her as my soundboard, knowing that there was no one else around that could hear my sorrows.
„I wonder what will happen tomorrow. I will go wild, since I haven't had my wolfsbane-potion." I started, until I realized that the change might affect our bond too. „I hope you'll be spared of my madness and that I won't hurt you. But I can't promise you that, Ariel, I need you to be safe tomorrow."
The thought plagued my mind, what if I hurt Ariel? What if I couldn't control myself and would run away? What if I … My mind was blanked by the overwhelming sleep that flooded my brain. The last thought I had was: I think Ariel is making me fall asleep.
I awoke with a start the next night. I wasn't sure where I was and I already felt the incredible pull of the full moon. There was nothing I could do, but draw a circle inside the cave that would contain me, until I was human again. I did a quick hale mary and than gave myself to the moon.
The pain, if possible, was even worse than the first time. Her bones cracked, her face deformed and hair began to sprout all over her body. There was nothing I could do, but scratch at my skin and bite at my legs and arms. It came as sudden as it went and my head was flooded with Adin in side of me.
Adin free. As she sniffed the air around her, she tried to walk to the open air, but was forced back by an invisible wall. She snarled, she wanted to roam, she wanted to hunt, to kill.
A howl and a growl left her lips and she started looking for a weak point in the invisible circle that trapped her. She sniffed, she clawed and she ran into it, until she broke free. After letting out another howl, she ran towards the open air, out of the cave.
„Hermione." a voice rang through her head. Stupid human. She snarled once again and kept running towards the forrest in front of her.
„Hermione." There was that voice again. „Hermione, you have to fight." This time Adin had enough. She wanted to be free, to roam and hunt. In the forrest she immediately began sniffing the air and listening intently for the nearest pray.
„Hermione, enough. Fight!" Her concentration broken once more, Adin started to growl. She ran into the bush, coming eye to eye with a beautiful and juicy doe. She launched her attack.
At the reserve
„Ron, stop it. She isn't here." Charlie did his best not to shout. „And even if she was here, you wouldn't be able to see her. IT'S THE FULL MOON!" This time he had shouted. His oaf of a brother didn't seem to understand the dangers of a werewolf on the full moon.
„I know that Charlie, but we have found someone who can help. There's a cure." Ron started. „We need to capture her now, because it only works if she's wolf when the cure is applied." Ron was remarkably calmer than Charlie had anticipated. This didn't bode well for Hermione at all.
„Ron, get your head out of your ass. There is no cure for Lycantrophy, you know that as well as I do." Charlie tried to reason with him, but Harry cut him off.
„Yes there is, we found it." Harry had interjected. He was barking orders to the aurors and tried to bark orders at the dragon tamers too, but that didn't go over so well.
„How dare you assume we are part of you petty little quest. You are not the boss of us." One of the dragon tamers shouted. „Now be quiet or leave, I want to sleep."
In the forrest
She pounced the doe and bit it hard in its neck. The metalic smell of blood filled the air. The doe was still trying to escape, so Adin started shaking her. It spasmed some more, before it stilled in her muzzle.
Adin happy. Adin feed. She started ripping up the doe as wolfing down the ripped pieces of flesh.
„Hermione, you have got to fight. Come back to me." Another snarl left Adin's throat as the voice once again rang through her head. She felt the human trying its hardest to fight the animal nature. And for a moment, the human was in controle.
„Ariel, help me." She had shouted. Adin nipped it in the but, before another sentence came out and took over again, sniffing the air for a source of water. It didn't take long for her to find it. She started sprinting towards the lake she had come across after she left the cave.
It took her only moments to get to the water and quench her thirst.
Adin looked up at the moon and started to howl, looking for a friend, a pack. Suddenly a strange, worrying smell came wafting through the air. She immediately started growling and assumed an attack-position. She knew that smell. It was bad.
The dragon swooped down on the snarling wolf and snatched it up in her claws.
„Hermione, fight it." rang once again through the wolfs mind. The dragon took her back into the hole she came out of and kept her prisoner there, trapped between the floor and her claws.
Adin fought. She scratched and bit and growled at the claws that were keeping her in place, but nothing seemed to work. And as the night passed, she was once again going through the motions of the change.
I woke up only moments after the moon had set, trapped in the claws of my dragon protector. „Ariel, you can let me go now." I said, trying to stand, but failing horribly. I some proper food. But first, I needed to cuddle into Ariel and sleep some more.
I will protect you little one, a voice rang through my mind. Sleep now, I will watch over you.