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Chapter 1 :

In the school library of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, sat a sixteen year old student. This tall, flaming red haired girl with the most beautiful green eyes was an extremely hard working pupil and she was sitting revising from her book, Moste Potente Potions. Her name was Lily Evans. She had quite a kind sort of personality with many loving friends. As Hogwarts was a boarding school, she only saw her family in the Summers, which in a way was good as her sister Petunia thought of her as some freak. However, she had gotten over her sister a couple years back. Her only problem now was James Potter.

It was the evening, dinner had been eaten and most students liked to relax in their common room, go out for a game of Quidditch and in Lily's case, do homework, read a book or revise. The library now was very quiet, that was until attention seeker James entered the library.

"Hey Evans!" he called," we've gotta go see Dumbledore, remember ?" Lily pretended she hadn't heard him and buried her face into her book.

James Potter was a student from Lily's year. He was tall, had chocolatey brown eyes and messy jet black hair. There was no denying that he wasn't handsome. It was his habits that really bugged her. He was a seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team and quite an impressive one too. There was never a time where he hadn't caught the snitch and never a time he hadn't boasted about it. He was clever but he boasted about it too much. His head was way too big for his body. His best friend Sirius Black was just as bad and together they enjoyed bullying Severus Snape. This, Lily could not stand. To make things worse, James had a huge crush on Lily and tried acting cool to impress her and I can assure you, it wasn't working.

He shouted her name again and Madame Pince, the librarian, ran to shut him up. Lily slowly got up, pushed her chair under and walked across to where they were stood. She rolled her eyes at James. Him and his friends, known as 'the Marauders' were always getting into trouble for being cheeky with teachers or playing pranks on people. The only one of James' friends that Lily thought was decent was Remus Lupin. He tried to keep his friends out of trouble though it never worked and he was also kind to everyone.

When Madame Pince had finally stopped giving James a telling off, they set off together to the Headmaster's office. On their journey there Lily remained silent whereas James seemed very eager to find out what they were going for. He began making completely random suggestions until Lily had had enough. She yelled at him until he finally apologised and after that he was quiet. Instead he started flicking and messing around with his hair which he found rather cool. Sadly, Lily did not and she walked on quickly without him, hitting him hard on the shoulder with her book as she passed.

Lily was already comfortably seated when James arrived a couple minutes later. He summoned a chair with a simple spell and sat next to Lily. She could tell he had gone into sensible mode, he mostly always was in front of Dumbledore, the headmaster. Dumbledore stood up behind his desk, picked up a hand size cream coloured box and spoke, "I received this box in the mail yesterday. It came with a letter explaining its magic which to you I cannot tell and it said to pass it onto you two. In this box there will be a short note explaining what to do. All I can say is that tonight you will be leaving Hogwarts and together setting off for an adventure. Use your time well." He smiled at both of them, his bright blue eyes twinkling. James was staring at him with his eyebrows slightly raised, "Professor, are you okay ?"

Dumbledore smiled and replied, "I'm perfectly fine. Anyway, I shall give this box to Miss Evans over here who will probably take better care of it," Lily looked at James with an 'in your face' sort of look. Dumbledore continued, "Well, you should be off then. See you in a couple of years!" With that the two were dismissed. They left the office with Dumbledore chuckling to himself and headed back to the common room with many suspicions in their minds and confused looks.

The time was half past seven. Lily and James sat on the soft rug by the fire of the Gryffindor room which was now empty with the exception of two first years playing exploding snap in the corner. Lily opened the small lid. It was very light and the lid was neatly decorated with words engraved in a language they didn't recognise. There was a piece of parchment which James grabbed. Underneath the parchment there lay a row of the three most beautiful sparkly crystals. One was a shocking pink colour with rigid edges and it looked quite dangerous. Whereas the other two crystals looked very safe and even more beautiful. The second one was a soft blue colour with white swirls on it with very smooth looking edges. The last one was sort of square shapes except the corners were curved. Its colour was emerald green, the colour of Lily's eyes. This crystal didn't look solid at all, it seemed soft. James was about to pick them up but Lily smacked his hand and told him not to. Just in case. She took hold of the parchment and unfolded it. There was something written in neat black ink. It read,

"Take the pink stone to begin, it will take you in. The blue stone is for harm, don't be fooled by its charm. The green stone is last in turn, you must use it to safely return."

"Erm...I don't get this." said James

"Well, I didn't really expect you to," came Lily's harsh reply. She turned to see James' offended facial expression and ignored it, "Lets take the pink stone to start with then, pass me the box." Lily took the box and took out the shocking pink stone. She turned it over, it looked the same. She held it tightly with two hands and a ball of bright yellow light appeared in front of her face. Lily grabbed hold of James' hand feeling slightly scared and confused. Another ball of bright yellow light emerged from the original one and floated over to James' face. Lily used some common sense and grabbed her school bag and the box of stones with her other hand. James copied. The two balls of light were getting bigger. And brighter. The ball was now expanding to make a big bubble of bright light around Lily and James. They started feeling dizzy. They were being spun around. "What's happening ?" cried Lily. James said something but she didn't hear the reply. The pink stone which was bright yellow at the moment was burning in Lily's hand and the rigid edges of the pink stone were digging into her skin, but she didn't let go. Their whole body was now covered with the blinding light that was burning their skin. They wanted to stop everything, but how ? Then suddenly everything came to a halt. The spinning stopped. The light went away and the air felt cooler but they couldn't see anything, everything was black and silent. "I'm hungry." complained James breaking the eerie silence. "We've just been eaten by light and all you think of is food." James couldn't help laughing at this but he knew Lily was upset, so he put his arms around her to comfort her and the silence was back. This whole light business had only taken a couple of seconds but it seemed to them hours.

They were back in the Gryffindor common room but it still felt slightly awkward and not right. They glanced around the room and realised that the first years who had been playing exploding snap had been replaced by a tall girl around their age who they hadn't seen before. Funnily, she resembled Lily.

A/N : Well that was the first chapter. What did you think ? This is my first fanfic story ever so please review and keep reading ! Thanks.