Forsaken Bite (HP Fanfiction)

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Hermione understood the risk of her walking into the woods, but she had to find this certain herb found at night. The problem though, it was a full moon out and there could be werewolves lurking nearby though she doubted there were any there in the woods that they were staying in, but she knew she should keep it in mind. 

However, she needed the herb and she needed it now with everything that was going on with the war. Hermione waited till Harry and Ron had gone to sleep when she slipped out of the tent to hunt down the herb. She did not know if it was here or not, but she had to attempt to find the herb to try and make the potion. Hermione walked through the forest, careful not to make too much noise so she could avoid running into anything out there in the woods. 

An hour or so had passed, but she still couldn't find the herb. Thankfully she hadn't seen any sign of a werewolf nearby. Hermione was about to give up when her eyes landed smack on the herb she needed. Finally, Hermione thought as she rushed over to the herb and started to pluck it and toss it into her bag. She had pulled a little more than she needed when the sound of a twig snapping caught her attention. Hermione paused, dashing her eyes around in search of what could have made that sound. About a minute or so passed, but all that answered was the silence. Hermione sighed as she got herself up from the ground and started to head back to camp. 

She was walking a minute or so when another twig snapped. Hermione paused, standing in the opening as she waited for another sign as to what was out there stalking her. That was when a low growl caught her attention. She hadn't even turned halfway around when something slammed her down on the ground with its jaws wrapped around her shoulder. 

Hermione's screams billowed into the night as she tried to pull the beast off her. After hitting the beast in the head a couple of times, its jaws removed themselves from her shoulders and it dashed away from her. Hermione started to cry before gazing down at the bite mark. Its teeth had dug deep into her skin that blood was spitting out of the open wounds. Hermione pushed herself into a sitting position as her eyes landed on the beast that gave her the wounds. 

It was a large silver thin wolf with a narrow snout and almost no fur wrapped around its body. Its golden rimmed eyes glared at her with its canines exposed and ready to bite her again. It didn't take Hermione long to know the wolf that had bit her was a werewolf. Hermione crawled over the ground till she found a hole of under a bunch of roots that formed its cavelike feature. 

Once she crawled under the roots, Hermione pulled out her wand and started to case the spell so whoever was outside the barrier couldn't see her. She leaned against the dirt wall, crying her eyes out while worrying of what was going to happen to her once she told her friends, she was infected with the werewolf disease. 

Somewhere else 

The wolf heard the female's scream somewhere off in the woods as it paused its own hunting to figure out where the woman was. He knew it was impossible with the trees echoing it through the world. The wolf walked a couple feet towards where he thought the woman was as he tilted his head. His focus was shifted when he felt his Alpha standing right beside him. 

Got any idea where she may be at? The scream sounded pretty close. Alpha asked him through their wolf talk. He shook his head that he hadn't the slightest, but he knew that they may find her... at least her corpse.