A/N: This is quite an old one from me, and chapters should be released quickly as I'm moving from Quizilla back to and bringing everything from there over here so I can delete everything and stick to Fanfiction.
As usual, I own nothing but my own characters and storyline here, everything else is not owned by myself and never will be.
Best get on with the story:
Prologue.
"You know that's got to the about the hundredth teenager I've seen in Kings Cross with an owl in a cage," a rather posh woman spoke to a group of other seemingly posh people as I passed.
"Don't speak badly about my owl," I turned sharply as a rather rude comment was said about its colour. Raven coloured owls were pretty, not the words that sprang from their mouths.
"Ignore the girl," one of the men in the group sent me a disgusted look to which I only responded with a glare of my own and continued walking to platform 9 and 3/4.
My parents hadn't been able to see me off this year. The first year neither of them could be here, usually one could come, but this year none.
It was to do with the work Auror's were given recently. Apparently, from bits of conversation between my parents I'd overheard, something evil was coming. I didn't know what and I didn't question it but muggles had been dying to magic curses.
The Avada Kadavra curse.
One of three forbidden curses.
I bit your bottom lip anxiously and looked up at platform 9, then across to platform 10. My eyes finally landed on the wall between the two platforms and a smirk came over my face.
Another year at Hogwarts, another year of doing what I did best.
"Kali I know you're behind me," I muttered before the girl could try and scare me by jumping out.
"Aww no fair," the bubbly girl spoke, teaming up beside me as I glanced at the clock.
Still 10 minutes until the Hogwarts train would leave. That's plenty of time for us to catch up with one another, find a compartment and begin this year's master plans!
"Come on," I smiled at the girl and walked at a calming pace through the wall, making sure no muggles could see me.
I felt the familiar, surreal feeling as I walked through the wall and onto the Hogwarts Express platform. My eyes instantly scanned the area to make sure they weren't in the area.
They were the group known as the Marauders. A group of idiots to say the least...a group of idiots that sadly myself and Kali did befriend in our fifth year. Still it didn't stop them from not pulling pranks on us.
It's been a rather curious adventure for Kali and I during our Hogwarts years. First year Kali and I met for the first time.
I am the direct descendant of Godrick Gryffindor, so as expected I got sorted into Gryffindor house. This was where I met Kali Siren. She'd made a fool of herself the second she stepped off the sorting chair.
She tripped over and fell flat on her face in front of the whole school. Something everybody laughed at but one person. A caring Gryffindor known as Lily Evans.
It was also in our first year we became aware that Sirius Black had also join Gryffindor. Everyone was suspicious of him. Why? Well let's just say he didn't come from the most loving, respected wizard family.
Come the end of the third month at Hogwarts though Sirius Black had teamed up with James Potter and all thus the start of a huge friendship and the most well known in Hogwarts began forming.
James and Sirius in first year got into so much trouble that Remus Lupin, a respected first year Gryffindor tried to step in, thus joining the two and making the trio.
Remus wouldn't overly get involved with the two on their pranks, but James and Sirius soon had Remus joining in even in the slightest of detail.
Peter Pettigrew was the last to join the group come the start of the second year where he'd tried so hard to become friends with the group he'd managed to get details on how they could be animagus! Poor Peter had gone through hell in first year trying to be one of the group.
That was where Kali and I stepped in at the start of second year. We overheard the private conversation between the four and used it ourselves to become unregistered Animagus.
Kali and I teamed up with Lily Evans who hated the Marauders pranks and worked her hardest to stop them harming innocent people. The Marauders were what they named themselves in second year with the group complete.
Come third year the whole school learnt of a crush James developed on Lily. Also in third year Kali got a crush of her own on Remus Lupin. Lily was pleased by this and respected Kali's crush.
Third year was a bad year for all of us, both the Marauders and Kali and I.
Kali and I successfully became Animagus but when we were out after hours, exploring in the Forbidden Forest we were in for a shock.
This was the day Kali and I learned that one of the Marauders were a werewolf, we just didn't know which. We daren't tell Lily and decided to keep it between ourselves and keep a close eye on them.
However that day the werewolf had almost killed Kali and she was sent to hospital for a month before she could return to school.
Nobody knew what happened, except for me and the Marauders knew I knew. I could always tell by the looks I were given. But for Remus he was utterly disheartened, thus me learning he was the werewolf.
The Marauders didn't do anything to us for the rest of third year but come our fourth year we were back on the prank list. And Kali and I hit them back hard, of course without Lily knowing. Ah yes we in ourselves were pranksters on the Marauders, stopping their plots, doing our own and them getting the blame for it. A perfect cover for us both.
Fifth year was a dangerous year also. James had begun stalking Lily Evans, wanting to date her which meant we were in close contact with the Marauders a lot of the time. Kali and I were the main two who stopped the Marauders in their tracks half of the time, so been in close contact wasn't really the best thing to do.
Kali was happy also though as she got to be near the boy who she still crushed on even when he almost cost her her life.
"Kiara the train leaves soon," Kali poked me as she levitated her bags to the back of the train where bags were stored on the journey. I took the cage of my owl and placed him carefully on the "companion" rack.
I kept a rather large box with me covered by a black cloth as well as a shoulder bag that contained my school uniform and some hair and make-up products.
Kali's eyes stared at the box with curiosity plastered over her pale blue eyes. I gave her a mysterious glance and boarded the train, looking through each of the compartments as we walked down, seeking out a certain Lily Evans.
We finally located the teen and entered her compartment, taking seats opposite her.
"Kiara, Kali how was your holidays?" she asked instantly, smiling up at us.
Lily, unlike myself and Kali was muggle born so it amazed her what we'd do holiday-wise.
"Stupid posh parties my parents held at our manor," my grunt was very unhappy and Kali knew the pain I went through of those stupid parties.
"S'ok Kiara next year you can have me and Kali round to share the pain with you," Lily laughed, knowing how much I hated my family parties.
"Anything but the dresses and the boys!" I groaned.
"Seriously Lily she was owling me for days after one of the parties explaining how much she had to bath and shower every second of every day through the fowl guys that had touched her," Kali burst out laughing.
"Not funny," I shied away from the two laughing girls.
"Still don't want a boyfriend then Ki?" Lily quizzed.
I sighed. She asked every year. "No," was my same reply. I didn't want anyone, so the hell what? "Still love Jamessss?" I sang out.
"Oh please you know I cannot stand that boy or any of his friends. Honestly Kali I can understand why you like Remus, but how any girl would want to be with Black I cannot even begin to imagine!"
"Yeah he isn't the cutest boy in Hogwarts, Remus is!" Kali sang out.
The conversation revolved around boys for a good amount of time, most of which I paid little attention to and watched the train set off and watched country slowly pass by.
"Hey Ki what's in the box?" Kali finally recalled the box I'd kept on me from earlier and noted it sitting on my lap.
I turned to Kali and Lily with a serious expression on my face. "I can only show you if you promise not to scream."
"Promise!" Both girls chorused and Kali put her hand over her mouth for good measures.
I nodded and moved a tiny bit of the black cloth and opened the cage door that lay beneath it. Kali and Lily tried to lean in to see but I wouldn't allow it.
I felt the creature inside the cage crawl onto my hand and seconds later I pulled it out of my cage.
Kali didn't scream but her eyes widened and a loving expression came over her face, "Where the hell did you get it?" she gasped, admiring the creature in my hand.
"It's just a baby isn't it?" Lily questioned, her face getting closer to my hand.
A tiny bat sat clutching onto my fingers, happily listening to what was said.
"It's a baby fruit bat," I explained, stroking it with a finger. "It flew...well sort of fell into my room over the summer with a broken wing. I nursed it back to full health, it was about half its current size when he first came to me." I explained, carefully opening out one of the bats wings. "This was broken and torn up from a bird of some sort, but I fixed it with magic, and well the result is he wouldn't go back and wanted to stay with me."
"That's amazing," Lily sighed. "You're too much of an animal lover to ever want a boy in your life."
Lily let out a sigh, her eyes glancing towards the compartment door where a shadow had just danced past. We all chose to ignore whoever it was, probably someone looking for their friends. Besides I couldn't get in trouble for having a bat right?
About half way into the journey Lily went to get changed, leaving Kali and I to guard the compartment, which we did expertly, Kali taking the first watch, marching up and down the compartment with her wand ready to strike.
I took the second 5 minutes, doing exactly the same, making little sparks out of my wand as I did so, the bat I had perching on the side of the black hat I wore.
Lily returned to a shower of red and purple sparks, which she didn't seem very amused about. I didn't allow her time to say anything about the sparks though as I grabbed my own bag and ran to get changed.
Unfortunately I didn't get very far to the changing rooms before I was stopped.
"Hey Lupey," a rather hushed whisper spoke from the compartment to the left of me.
James Potter. Using the nickname he'd given me when finding out my Animagus form.
"What Prongs?" I narrowed my eyes at him. I knew instantly what he'd ask as I was pulled into the compartment with the four Marauders.
I sighed, seeing I wouldn't get out of this quickly and took a seat between Sirius and Peter, making Peter blush at the close contact with a female.
"So Lupey what has-"
"Lily hasn't mentioned you since we left the platform," I explained, cutting him off mid-sentence. "Can I go get changed now?"
"You can get changed here if you like," Sirius laughed and James agreed.
"You disgust me," I grunted, going to stand up but Sirius put his legs over me and Peter. My eyes narrowed further at the boy as I felt the bat climb further up my hat.
I sighed and relaxed slightly, taking the bat off my hat and trying to calm the creature. "And don't scare him," I growled.
The four boys look interest in the little bat I sat stroking caringly, each of them seemingly never been this close up to one before.
"He's not shy is he?" Remus commented, admiring the care I took over the creature.
"A lot of animals are shy of humans because of how they've been hunted," I explained. "But babies, give them the right care and attention without putting any harm towards them and they won't shy away from you, like this little guy here."
"How do you know it's a guy?" James quizzed.
"I sexed it," I shrugged, but that sentence threw James and Sirius into a laughing fit, I guessed at the word 'sexed' mentioned.
"You know a lot about animals," Peter commented with a shy smile.
"Of course I do, animals are my passion and when I'm older I'd love to become an Auror for sure but I'd also like to work with animals," I explained to the shy Peter.
"Any idea how to get rid of flea's?" Sirius asked genuinely.
"Flees? Why?" I asked curiously and the other three boys snickered.
"Well in my Animagus form I do get the odd flees," he explained with a laugh.
"Let me go get changed and I'll explain at Hogwarts," I reasoned.
Sirius thought it over and removed his legs from me. I smiled thankfully and allowed the bat to climb onto my hat again. I gave a quick wave and exited the compartment to go get changed.