A/N: Excuse the lame title please. This is my first story published so be relatively nice to me, o.k.? I'm not going to be offended by any constructive criticism but flames will be fed to my special phoenix (she eats it like my cats eat cat food). This: ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* means that it's a dream sequence and this * * * means that it's a flashback. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. Well, scratch that. I do own Toni and her father and mother, Kai and Lizi but Toni, Kai, and Lizi are based off of people that I know. Any characters that look like they come from Harry Potter Land, well, they most probably do. All I own other than Toni and Co. is the plot. And it's pretty useless to sue me, you won't get very much. Now, without any further ado, my lovely story.
The Prophecy of Eight
16-year-old Lily Evans was pissed off. Nope, sorry, slight correction, she was majorly pissed off. From first glance, one may suspect that it was just because of her red haired temper, but this time it wasn't. This time, her parents and her sister had gone too far. Suddenly, she heard screams and she raced out of her room thinking, 'Here we go again.'
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Against his neck, he could feel the knife pressing. How did it ever come to this? Who would take care of his family now? His eyes darted to his wife, motionless on the ground. Some you would have to take care of his young daughter. He winced as the knife pressed down a little harder and a trickle of wet blood escaped from its holdings of skin.
"I never wanted it to come to this Mr. Shipelling, you must understand that," a rough voice mumbled into his ear. And the last thing he heard was the cry of his 5-year-old daughter as he fell to the floor.
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Antoinette Shipelling, or Toni as she had been called, sat bolt upright in bed, gasping in fear. She felt wetness on her face and realized that she had been crying. She jumped as the door was flung open and her best friend Lily flew into the room.
"Toni! Are you," here she took a gasp of air," all right?" then there could be heard a deep breath being taken, "I heard screaming!" Lily said, while trying to catch her breath.
"Lils, I hope you know that breathing is a good thing. In and out. In and out, deep breathes. That's right." Lily scowled at her.
"Hey, I'd like to see you sprint across the house at full speed. And I was worried. You should be grateful that I care so much."
"You know I'm grateful Lils. Or at least you should know that. I was only teasing." Lily relented and smiled.
"It's so unfair. I can never stay mad at you." Curiosity and concern sparked in her eyes once more. "What was the dream this time?" Toni's smiling face slipped away and her dark blue eyes became stormy. Her whole body tensed up and her face was stone-like. "I saw my father get killed again. I also saw my mother. I guess this time she had already died."
"Toni, when are you going to let this go?"
"You know I swore to myself that I'd never forget them and that I promised to them that I would help them get revenge. You know better than all the others!"
"Yeah, but..." Selling that it was useless to argue, she sighed and changed the subject.
"Lord, why do we have to live here, will you remind me again? I'm so mad at my so called family that I could scream!" Lily's emerald eyes became like chips of ice and her hands clenched into fists.
"You already are screaming, technically at least."
"You're not helping."
"Sorry." Toni didn't sound sorry at all. "What did they do now?"
"Well of course you know how you and I were adopted at a pretty young age, or at least I hope that you do. Well mum and dad," here she put a sarcastic emphasis on the words mum and dad, her British voice spitting out the words like poison, " mum and dad said that they only adopted me because I looked most like them out of all the children at the orphanage. That really isn't so bad, and it wouldn't be if they hadn't said that in front of "perfect" Petunia and the company that was over. They all laughed at me and made me feel terrible, utterly terrible. Petunia was making wisecracks about what a nuisance it was, having to take care of you, and mum and dad joined in. As if Petunia really needed anything to inflate her head anymore." Toni shook her head in sympathy.
"Just remember that tomorrow we go to Kai's house and then we don't have to come back next year."
"Yeah, I know. It's going to be so weird, leaving Hogwarts. I mean, that's every bit as much my home as this house is, maybe even more so. We've been there for so long that I'm going to miss it a lot."
"Well, we'll be able to see more of Kai and Lizi during the holidays, just think of that. And we'll be able to practice outside of school."
" We already do practice outside of school, or has your goldfish-like memory forgotten that too?"
"I think that you know what I mean Lils."
"Yeah, I do know what you mean. Oh! Did you hear that Lizi's coming to Kai's the same day that we are instead of the planned week later?"
"Really? Wicked! Now this is going to be a vacation!"
"Yeah, air, water, fire, and earth all together again for one last year." Lily thought of her two other friends, Kai Sidhe and Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lizi, Potter. It was lucky that Lizi got to get away earlier than planned because her twin brother and his friends were going to be coming over to the Potter estate until the end of the summer. She recalled a conversation that she had had with Lizi at the end of last year.
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"LIIIIIILLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! Help me!!! Make them go away!!!" screamed an auburn hair girl as she raced into the compartment that Lily, Toni, and Kai were sitting in at the moment. "Them" raced after her but "Them" halted at the door. "Them" happened to be Lizi's twin brother, James, and his two other best friends, Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. The other tagalong of this group, Peter Pettigrew, was absent for the moment.
"Potter, what do you want with your sister now? You're going to see her almost all throughout the summer, why can't you leave her alone now?" Lily said, sighing yet anticipating the thought of another confrontation with the infamous Marauders.
"Why Lilikinns, I'm hurt. Can't I just give my sister a hug? Sirius and Remus want to give her a hug too. They're just too excited that they get to come over and see her for a whole week before she disappears off to play with you three." Said the leader of the group. The second largest player in the school, only bowing down to Sirius Black, King of Players, James Potter had almost all the girls falling for him at one point or another with his "cute" and "sexy" and "always-looks-windblown" hair and his "deep" and "sensitive" and "caring" eyes. Though, to him, the world was a game, and he was determined on playing it.
"You insensitive pigs! You planned this so that you could prank your sister for a whole week without her being able to properly retaliate because she was outnumbered. I think that you deserve a bath, a very cold bath. You seem dirty with your sins." This was Toni speaking and as she stood up to get them, without any wand movements or incantations, a sheet of water poured down on them and washed them out into the corridor.
"And don't you dare think about coming back in here or else you'll get scorched-"
"-Or blown around like daisies-"
"-Or the earth will shake you all the way home." This was Lily, Kai, and Lizi, each saying one line respectively. What they meant by this was that they would use their powers to make them leave them alone. Just like Toni had. These powers that I mentioned were elemental powers that they had had since they were born. Of course, these four were the only ones who knew that they had them so James and Co. were slightly confused.
"What are you talking about?" questioned Sirius with a look on his face that suggested that they were all crazy.
"Oh nothing, just saying that you should watch out what you say to us. You never know what could happen." There was a mysterious hint to Lizi's voice as she said this, leaving the three Marauders completely in the dark.
"Well goodbye boyos. See you on the other side." And with that, Lily had shut the door, leaving three very confused, wet, and disgruntled boys sitting in a heap in the corridor.
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Lily chuckled at that memory and then yawned.
"I guess I should go back to bed. I don't want to be completely out of it tomorrow."
"Yeah, me too. G'night Lils."
" 'Night Toni." Leaving that at that, the two girls went their separate ways and fell into a dreamless sleep that left them completely rested for the day ahead of them.
To Be Continued…
A/N: O.k. So, that wasn't the best chapter ever but, review anyways and tell me what you think. Or, what you don't think. Ummm… I don't think that that made any sense. Oh well. The bottom line is, REVIEW!! Please?