Angels in the Castle
Chapter one:
How to Dung Bomb a Time Lord
"No, for the last time James," Lily said in frustration. "I will not go out with you!"
"Please?" James begged. "Just once?"
"NO." Lily stormed out of the portrait hole, leaving a dejected looking James behind.
After she heard James shut the portrait hole she slowed down and glanced behind her, feeling slightly guilty for rejecting James again. She sighed, looking at where James had been standing with her. She was about to turn around when she saw an angel statue standing near the wall, with its face covered by its hands as if it was crying. Lily was pretty sure it hadn't been there when she walked into the common room earlier that day.
She shook her head and walked away at a brisk speed. Someone must have put it there while she was in the common room, probably for some prank.
Something urged her to turn around and look back. When she did she saw the statue again, but this time it was right in front of her.
James sighed. He hoped that some day, she will finally say yes.
Remus looked up from his book. "Maybe you should just stop bugging her about it."
James turned to glare at him. "I'm not bugging her!"
Sirius stopped shooting sparkles from his wand and said, "Yeah, you are."
James glared at him too, as Peter stopped writing his essay to watch.
"That was the fifth time you asked her out this week." Remus reminded him.
"Look who's keeping track," Sirius teased, receiving a glare from Remus too.
"Okay, okay, I surrender!" Sirius said, holding his hands up to show it. "But I have an idea to cheer you up." he told James.
James raised an eyebrow. "I'm listening."
Sirius put on an evil grin. "I just got a new box of dung bombs from Zonko's last week..."
James put on grin identical to Sirius' while Remus put his face in his hands.
"So," Sirius continued. "How about the Entrance Hall?"
"Oh yeah!" James cheered.
James, Sirius and Peter all turned to Remus. "Well?" James asked hopefully.
Remus sighed. "Fine."
James and Sirius cheered and high-fived each other.
The Doctor walked up and down the Entrance Hall scanning everything in sight with his sonic screwdriver. At last he stopped and took a look at his screwdriver.
"Yes, yes, yes... Ah ha!" he muttered to himself. "Time distortion! Something here messed up time... Messed up something important..."
He paced the Hall, muttering. "What could do this? What can- no! Wait, yes!" The Doctor looked up with a triumphant look on his face. "It's-"
He was cut off by a yell. "Dung bombs away!"
Suddenly there was a series of explosions from all around him, and the room filled with a think green gas and a terrible stench.
Holding his breath, the Doctor ran forwards, towards where the voice came from, and hopefully, out of the gas.
After a few seconds he was out of the cloud of gas and in front of four teenagers in school uniforms staring at him.
The Doctor looked back at them and dusted off his jacket and straitened his bow tie.
"And what are you doing here?" He asked them.
"And what are you doing here?" The stranger asked the Marauders.
"We go to school here." James replied. "What are you doing here?"
"There's a problem here and I intend to fix it." the stranger answered. "Now, have any of you seen anything... unusual today?"
They exchanged glances. Remus shook his head. "Who are you?" he asked, prepared to draw his wand.
The stranger smiled. "I'm the Doctor."
Remus raised an eyebrow. "Doctor... Who?"
"Just the Doctor."
Sirius snorted. "That's a weird name to have."
The Doctor ignored him. "Do you mind telling me where I am?"
James looked at him like he was crazy. "How can you be here but not know where you are?"
"Never mind that," the Doctor replied, waving him hand. "Where is this place?"
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," James answered cautiously.
The Doctor narrowed his eyes at them. "Where are we really? Hogwarts is fictional."
"Hogwarts," Remus said slowly, glancing at the others.
"No, no, no, that can't be... Unless!" the Doctor clapped his hands together and grinned like a maniac. "It's real!"
He turned back to the four.
"And who are you?"
"James Potter."
"Sirius Black."
"Remus Lupin."
"Peter Pettigrew."
The Doctor stared at them, wide eyed. "No way,"
They looked at him with similar confused expressions. "What?" Sirius asked.
"Never mind," The Doctor said. "Anyways, something did something here that wasn't supposed to happen and messed up time a little."
Remus, deciding to play along for a little while to find out who this man was, asked, "Do you know what it was?"
"I have a suspicion, and I was about to announce it to no one in particular when somebody," he glared at the Marauders. "Made the hall explode with a very foul smelling gas."
"It wasn't my idea to release Dung Bombs in the hall," Remus muttered.
"It was mine!" Sirius announced cheerfully, waving his arm in the air. James and Remus rolled their eyes.
"So, what?" Remus asked the Doctor.
The Doctor's expression suddenly became very serious. "Weeping Angels."
The wizards looked at him blankly. "What?" Peter asked.
The Doctor suddenly launched into a long but fast paced explanation. "Weeping Angels are creatures that feed off of potential energy. One touch and they send you back in time, letting you live to death, feeding off of everything that could have been, all your stolen moments. They're quantum locked, they don't exist if they're being seen. Look at them and they turn to stone, and you can't kill a stone. The Angel can't do anything either, until you blink. They move so fast, you blink and you're dead. You have to keep an eye on them, and escape. When someone's looking at it, it just looks like an ordinary angel statue, its eyes covered like its crying. They cover their eyes because they can't risk looking at each other."
The Doctor took a deep breath. "Now tell me, have any of you seen any strange angel statues that weren't there before now?"
James, Sirius, and Peter all shook their heads, but Remus nodded. All eyes turned to him in worry. "I saw two. Right outside the portrait hole. I saw it right as we walked out."
"I didn't see it; I was too busy carrying the Dung Bombs." Sirius said. "You?" he asked James.
James didn't answer. He was staring straight ahead with wide eyes.
"What is it?" Remus asked James in concern.
"We walked out a little bit after-" he stopped, looking panicked.
Remus' eyes widened too, but the others looked back and forth between them in confusion.
"Lily," Remus breathed and all of the others gasped.
"That's it!" the Doctor shouted triumphantly. "The Angel got Lily, and sent her back in time! That's what messed up time!"
Remus looked back at him. "How?"
"Um..." the Doctor said awkwardly."She's rather important for time, you see, if she never gets back, something very important for your world will never happen... and well, I can't tell you everything."
"Okay then..."
James looked up at the Doctor. "How can we get her back?"
The Doctor grinned. "I have my ride for that, but first we need to get rid of those Angels before they do any more damage."
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