CATastrophe

Chapter 1- The plan

It was three days before April; there came the stress from the teachers, as well as Hermione constantly reminding everyone that the OWLs were drawing ever nearer. Of course with that the entire fifth year students were under a considerable amount of stress, but Hannah Abbott became the first to receive the Calming Draught from Madam Pomfrey after she burst into tears during Herbology and sobbed that she was too stupid to take exams and wanted to leave school now.

For others, stress was a not a big issue on them at the moment, especially with Jet, her friends and her sisters. It was after dinner down in the Great Hall, they headed back up to the Gryffindor common room to enjoy a nice relaxing evening, but of course that was not going to happen too soon.

Jet was seventeen years of age, two years older than most of the fifth years, and that's what year she was in though (long story, and very complicated to describe). Jet had red hair that fell down to her shoulders so nicely. Her eyes were a reflection of the silver moon in the night sky, or so what most people say they looked like. That night, she wore her dark blue jeans with her red turtleneck. She was not into wearing any other colours, especially pink; it was not her favourite colour ever. Her sisters were the same as her, even with the same expressions, basically a frown that played on their faces. They also had the same pale complexion.

Isla was a year younger than Jet, she too was in her fifth year. She had golden brown hair that was wavy all the way down to her elbows. She had such a glow around her. She was always in a peaceful state and calm, even in the most stressful of states. A smile always sat on her lips at every moment. That's basically how Jet fell in love with her when she met her. At that point of time, Isla was wearing her knee length blue jean skirt; her shirt was a rose coloured blouse. Her eyes were a beautiful turquoise colour. It was like the water in the Caribbean.

After Jet gave the Fat Lady the password (Calming Draught) the group of girls headed into the room. Everyone else was sitting on the couches, and chairs revising through all their notes preparing for the OWLs in the next two to three months. As the girls moved through the room, Jet saw three people start to shake uncontrollably in their seats.

This was starting to get insane; it was no wonder why people were given something for their nerves. But of course, Jet could not get herself worked up into a huge amount of anxiety, especially when she was now a couple of weeks pregnant, stress would really cause serious problems on the child. So Jet had to make sure she was calm and relaxed at all times.

Sitting in the corner with her mountains of books was Hermione Granger. She was so intent on finishing any homework before starting her revising. She was one of those people who put a lot of strain on them over something like this.

"Hey Hermione, how's it going?" Jet asked cautiously.

"Nah, not now, talk later," Hermione replied a little agitated.

Jet swore she could see Hermione start to twitch with edginess. Without bothering her anymore, the girls decided to head up to Jet's room. It was connected with Hermione, Parvati, Lavender and two other girls' room. She loved that she had her own room since she shared it with Isla and her first child Ivy.

Ivy was now just a year and two months. She was such a great joy to Jet and Isla. Her eye colour was just like Jet's a nice gray look. At that moment she was out with the nanny, who was walking Ivy around.

"Okay, there is a lot of tension that I don't really want around me right now." Jet said as she sat down on her bed.

"So what should we do to get our minds off all of this?" asked Rowan, Jet's sister.

"I'm not totally sure," Isla said.

"I'm going to need to go for a walk," Jet said in a scream of hysteria after five minutes rolled by. For some reason the pressure finally got to her.

"That would be wise," Isla said getting up from the chair near the fireplace.

The girls got out of the room and headed back down to the common room. The tension increased a lot since they left the room ten minutes previous. Hermione of course was still sitting in the corner working very hard.

"So, how's it going?"

"Work now."

"Okay, insanity has finally gotten to her."

Once more, the girls left the common room to walk around the halls to clear their minds. Thankfully the halls were deserted making it easier for them to walk around in quiet.

"So, what should we do now?" Natalie asked, another sister to Jet.

"I have no clue, I just want to stay away from all the stressful people," Jet replied.

As the group of girls rounded the corner, they almost bumped into Sakura a very close friend of theirs; she had green full elbow length hair. Cat ears popped out from underneath her hair. She was wearing her usual green outfit (which was her favourite colour); as well she had black spots all over the outfit. She was slim, and very beautiful. Her life was so peaceful, even though that was not her. She was not a tamed cat, she was always on the go, raising havoc wherever it need be.

"Whoa, sorry Sakura."

"No problem, where are you girls going?"

"Just around, we're so bored, I don't feel like being near any stress."

"Same here, I'm actually trying to figure out a plan right now."

"For what?" Celeste asked curious.

"Not here, come on over here," Sakura ushered her friends to a deserted classroom which has never been used before.

Before the girls got into the room, footsteps sounded behind them. Three of the girls jumped up and the rest turned around to see Fred and George Weasley standing behind them.

"Holy crap you guys, are you trying to give me a heart attack?"

"Sorry about that," Fred started.

"So what are you girls doing?" and George finished, both sporting mischievous smiles.

"Do you really want to know?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah sure, if it's good," Fred and George said in unison.

"Okay, come with us, I'll tell you my plan," Sakura motioned for everyone to go into the room. When everyone was inside the room, Sakura shut the door.

"Now, you all know all about my origin, that I've been a cat girl for a long time. The only reason I'm actually putting this plan together is for the stress, you know, to liven things up, and to piss off Professor Umbridge royally.

"So basically what you want to do is to turn the entire school into cat people?" asked Celeste.

"Yeah, basically."

"Sweet." The twins said in unison and in awe.

"Okay, so the ingredients are a little tricky, I have most of them." Sakura said pulling out a sheet of paper with the ingredients on them. "Now the ingredients consist of…

-One sprig of fresh catnip

-The jingle of a bell

-The essence of a tiger

-The fur of a kitten

-Three drops of fresh milk

-And the jewel of Bast

Like I said I have most of the ingredients, the jewel of Bast was given to me because I am a feral cat girl from Arcania. The Jewel Bast must simmer in the cauldron for two days and the potion made on the third day."

"Holy, that's a lot of ingredients," said Rowan.

"Now, we're going to need someone who is skilful at making potions," Sakura said. "Or this could all go deadly."

"I am, I would love too, but um…not at this present time. I'm still not sure what the side effects of the potion might me. But Hermione might be able too."

"You want to bring her into this?" Sakura asked sceptically.

"Look, I haven't seen Dreama in a while, so Hermione would be the best choice in order to do this."

"Okay, but would she be able to snap out of her little stress issue and do this?"

"Sure she will."

"All right, now, the potion itself would be…" Sakura went on to tell them about the potion, but Jet left when she heard something outside in the hall. She opened the door and went down the hall to find that no one was there.

"So there's a possible chance that it will last from one to…" Sakura said that was when Jet came back in and heard, "seven months or permanent."

"What? It'll be seven months or permanent?" Jet freaked from the doorway.

"No, no, you didn't hear it correctly. I said it would be from one month to seven months, or if for someone reason, it might be permanent."

"Oh yeah, that's a great thing to be telling me. So what about my child."

"Right, it'll be okay, I assure you. If something goes wrong, I'll give you a potion to reverse the effects. Yes there is a potion but I don't want to use it if we can help it. So this is how is goes, if the potion wares off, but you still hear purring from within you, then I'll give it to you."

"Thank you so much Sakura."

Sakura gave a devious look at her friends with a smile growing on her lips. "So you think you are up for it?"

"Definitely!" Everyone agreed.

"All right, come on, hands in. On the count of three, one…two…three…Cat's rule!" Everyone raised their arms in a triumphant cry.

"Okay, before we go, we need a cauldron and boiling hot water." Sakura said as she took out the jewel Bast.

"There's one over here, everything's all set," Rowan said filling it up a good portion of the way and setting it under the already lit on fire.

"Okay, we'll meet tomorrow to get the rest of the plan into action," Sakura said after she placed the jewel into the water.

With that, everyone left the room, careful not to be caught by anyone and headed up to the Gryffindor common room for a well-deserved goodnight sleep.