When they reached the Griffindor Common room, they couldn't believe how spacious it was. After the prefect of their house, the brown-haired girl who had stared at them so oddly when she had told them to get into their robes for school. Firenze and Bane flashed eachother identical grins when their prefect stopped them in front of a portrait of a rather plump lady, who was fanning herself with a bored expression on her face.
"Aren." The prefect stated simply, and the portrait door swung open, to reveal a large room. A fireplace crackled in one corner, there were various couches, a bookshelf or two, random portraits on the walls were waving and saying hello. Along with that were several tables for studying. "The girls dorms are that way, and the boys dorms are that way." The prefect pointed first to the set of stairs on the left, and then to the set of stairs on the right. "Remember as you are first years, you are to sleep on the first floor of the dorms. You will find all of your belongings at the foot of one of the beds." She paused for a moment, eyes flickering between each one of the first years. "On no occasion are any boys allowed in the female dorms. However, females are allowed to enter the male dorms, as long as they don't sleep there." She frowned. "Schedules for classes are on the bed where all of your stuff is located. Now, I suggest you all get to sleep, immediately." She stalked away, and climbed up the steps, in a huff.
"I guess she's right." Bane said, placing his hands on the back of his head, he stuck out his tongue momentarily. "We don't want to be late for our first day of classes. The sooner we get to the class, the sooner we can learn more magic to prank people." He grinned
Remus, Peter, Sirius, James and Bane headed over to the Male dorms with the rest of the first year students, about half way through, James turned back to see Firenze sitting on the couch fiddling with her wand. Or was it Bane? He still couldn't really tell the difference between them. "Err, are you going to go to bed?"
"Yeah, eventually." Firenze grinned "I feel like thinking a little bit before I do though."
James shrugged and left Firenze to her fiddling. Bane waved to his twin with a wide smile, and walked cheerily away.
Firenze drew a figure eight with her wand and then she saw the girls slowly filing into the dorms. She prodded at the couch for a little, and then she smiled, and stood up, she knew exactly what she was going to do to her first teacher. It was so simple, so easy. It didn't even involve magic! But, it made her smile nonetheless. She stalked after the girls with a wide grin.
When Firenze reached the floor where the first years slept, she was greeted with a chorus of girly screams.
Night Guys!" Firenze waved to the boys as they walked up to the boy's dorm
"You arent tired?" Bane asked
"Not yet, but I will go to bed soon!" She pulled out her wand and started trying out spells with it. The boys all shrugged and left her, soon she saw the girls enter the girl's dorm, and decided to follow them.
"Um.. how did you get up here?" The red-haired girl asked, turning scarlet when she saw Firenze
"I walked up the steps." Firenze said in a confused voice
"B-But that's impossible!" a girl with brown hair stuttered "Y-You cant come up here!"
"Why not?" Firenze asked
"Because you are a boy!" A girl with long black hair squealed
"No I'm not!" Firenze said, looking hurt and horrified
"Wait... you aren't a boy?" a brown haired girl with blue eyes asked
"I AM FEMALE!" Firenze yelled
"OH MY GOSH!" the girl with red hair looked ashamed "I AM SO SORRY! You just look so much like your brother! So, what's your name?"
"Firenze Firestorm." Firenze replied with a grin. "I like to look like my brother because its much more fun to confuse people, that and, every time I grow out my hair, my brother sticks gum in it! and who are you guys?"
"Lily Evans." The red-headed girl said
"Alice Heater." The wispy haired girl smiled faintly
"I'm Molly Prewett." The girl with the orangish-red hair smiled
"Raelynn Bones." A girl with long silky black hair mumbled
"Marline McKinnon." A rather simple brown haired girl smiled at them all.
"I'm Firenze Firestorm!" Firenze grinned at all of them. "Nice to meet you all." She tottered happily over to her own four-poster bed and picked up her class schedule. "oooohh.. Transfiguration!" then she nodded. "I can't wait to learn how to turn a desk into a lion!"
"Isn't that dangerous?" Marline asked
"It sounds insanely dangerous!" Lily gaped
"So?" Firenze shrugged. "I don't-" she was cut off again by an indignant meow of frustration. "SHUT UP SENIOR FLUFFYPANTS!"
"Senior….what?" Molly peered over at her.
"Senior Fluffypants!" Firenze grinned, she hurried to her bedside and opened the disgruntled cat's cage, the massive grey cat shot out of the cage and cowered in the corner, glaring at them all.
"W….WHAT IS THAT?" Lily asked, eyes wide, mouth pursed in a look of horror.
"That's my cat, her name is Senior Fluffypants. She's ugly, she smells, and she cant deliver notes, but when you squint your eyes and tilt your head, she looks like a goblin!" Firenze grinned
The girls in the dorm all squinted their eyes and tilted their heads. Molly and Raelynn smirked, and there was a small laugh from Marline and Molly.
Lily however just scrunched her nose up. "That is so disgusting. Why don't you grow your hair out so you look like a girl?"
Firenze smiled sadly "Because when I do I look like my mother, it upsets my uncle. I act like a boy because I am a girl alone in a house full of men, I have no choice because girlie things are not tolerated at my house."
Lily looked over at Firenze sadly. "Im..sorry..." She said softly
Firenze grinned brightly and laughed, her laugh was clearly feminine. She usually laughed with her brother, whose laugh hid the quality of her laugh. "Its allright, lots of people think I am a boy." She jumped into her bed. "Now, im going to bed! NIGHT!" She changed from her robes into a set of pajamas, and lept into bed, closing her eyes and she was instantly asleep.
Early the next morning, Firenze woke with a grin, leaping out of bed, she dressed in her robes in record time and darted out of the girls dormitory up to the boy's dormitory. She saw an empty four poster bed lying near Bane's and she lept onto it, jumping up and down for a bit, then she leaped onto Banes bed, and then to the next bed, and the next, successfully waking nearly everyone. However, Sirius did not get up out of his bed, he only pushed her off and mumbled something, falling back asleep. Firenze came crashing down to the floor, and frowned, she put her finger into her mouth, licked it and then proceeded to give Sirius a wet willie.
"GAAAHHGHH!" Sirius fell out of his bed and onto the floor. "GROSS BANE! WHAT DID YOU DO?"
"IM FIRENZE!" Firenze grinned, leaping onto his bed. "Well it's a good thing you are up. That means I don't have to draw on your face with marker anymore. Get dressed all of you, just wait till you see what I have planned for today." She lept off of his bed and dashed over to stand beside her twin. "Come here you." She grabbed his arm and lugged him a little bit out of the way. "Okay, so here's my plan for the day." She stood on her tiptoes and whispered into his ear.
Bane grinned. "Bloody brilliant, and I have my own thing to add to that." He bent over and whispered something to her.
"EXCELLENT." They both shook eachothers hands with identical grins.
"I'll meet you all downstairs, alright?" Firenze darted out of the room with a laugh.
"Is Firenze always this…. Energetic in the morning?" Sirius frowned, wiping his ear with distaste.
"Heh, sometimes its me too." Bane threw a pillow at his face.
After they had eaten to their fill in the great hall, they made their way down to the Transfiguration room.
Firenze looked over at Bane. "Care for a rousing song of Voldy-Moldy?"
Bane grinned back. "Why yes, lets."
"Voldey-moldey's got some pimples on his butt!"
"Voldey-moldey's mother is a slut!"
"Voldey-moldey's strips and runs around in his scanties!"
"Voldey-moldey wears pink and gold ladies panties!"
"Voldey-moldey-
"You two are going to get killed sing a song like that." James said through his laughter.
"What?" Everyone needs to know that Voldemort has a Moldy Butt." Bane grinned
Laughter again broke through their group again, Peter laughed more nervously than anything else, fumbling with his fingers. Remus only chuckled and adjusted the books he was carrying.
"Agh, finally." Bane said. "We reached the Transfiguration room, I thought we were going to be stuck on those moving staircases forever."
They all made their way to various seats in the Transfiguration room, sitting as close as possible to eachother so they could easily plot. As the classmates filed in Bane and Firenze delivered twin grins to eachother, and headed over to the teacher's desk. They bent over the chair first, and then went to the chalkboard, and then hurried back to their seats, grinning like mad.
The woman who had lead them into the great hall the night before entered the room not long after, her black hair tied up in a tight bun on her head. She headed over to the chalkboard. "Good morning class." She said with a pursed up look on her face. "I am Professor McGonagall." She reached for a piece of chalk and started writing her name, and in her hand, the chalk exploded violently.
Laughter rang out in the room, from almost everyone. Lily was one of the few who hadn't laughed and was glaring daggers at Bane and Firenze.
Professor McGonagall frowned. "Very amuzing." She said. "Exploding chalk." Then she made her way over to her desk. "I'm going to ignore that minor prank, considering it is your first day here at Hogwarts." She eased herself into her chair, and before anyone could blink, the chair collapsed to the ground, and she landed rather painfully on her butt.
The classroom burst into laughter again, Bane and Firenze high fived each other with identical grins. Professor McGonagall frowned even more as she stood. "Ten points from Gryffindor." She said stiffly. "Now, if you don't mind, I am going to start class." She pulled out a wand and pointed it at her desk, which changed before their very eyes into a rather disgruntled looking cow. She then waved her wand again and the desk changed back to normal. "Now, today we will be transfiguring a piece of hay into a needle." She levitated pieces of hay around the room to everyone at their respective desks. "But first, we need to take a few notes."
After listening to the professor ramble on and on about transfiguration, the class had sobered up. "Now. I want you all to apply what I said and try to transfigure that piece of hay."
The class did not do very well, some unfortunate big-eared boy in the front of the room managed to somehow blow up his piece of hay. The classroom burst into peals of laughter at the sight of the charred desk, and the poor boy who was now missing his eyebrows.
Firenze stared at the piece of hay on her desk, and then pointed at it, flicking her wand. The piece of hay changed colors instantly, turning silver, and started to shape its self into a point at both ends. Firenze stared at the needle on her desk, it wasn't completely a needle, some hay still grew out of the top end, but why had it been so easy for her? She looked to Bane, who was waving his wand randomly at the hay, which had somehow turned a puke green color, and sprouted legs which were waving around aimlessly. Sirius was leaning back, not even trying to transfigure his piece of hay. James waved his wand so much that it poked him in the eye. The only other one who had managed to do anything was Remus, and his needle was slightly metallic colored.
Firenze snickered when she saw him poke himself. She pulled out several pieces of paper and started to tear them into tiny pieces. She balled them up into tiny wads in front of her, flicked her wand at them, and tried to turn them into rocks, only managing to turn them into awkward-looking sponge-like objects. With a grin, Firenze started to flick them at the back of people's heads, causing them to turn around and deliver glares to her. Bane at this point stopped to watch, grinning, the waving legs on his piece of hay forgotten. He started to fold a piece of paper in the shape of an airplane, then threw it at James, who snatched it out of the air with cat-like reflexes, and stuck out his tongue. Professor McGonagall was writing something on the board, mumbling under her breath.
Unfortunately, one of the sponge objects Firenze had transfigured went rogue and slammed into the back of Professor McGonagall's neck.
Professor McGonagall turned around, her face as red as a tomato. "FIRENZE FIRESTORM!" she called out. "Five points from Gryffindor!" She then turned around again and started writing furiously on the board.
James, Sirius, and Bane smiled at Firenze, giving her the thumbs up and nodding in appreciation. Firenze smiled when she saw Bane's puke green piece of hay, the six legs it had wiggling freely. She flicked her wand at it and it sprouted large purple eyes , and grew larger around, a mouth appeared on its puke green face. The strange six-legged creature lept across several desks, and flicked a large, sticky, pink tongue at Sirius, hitting him smack dab in the forehead. James, Bane, and Firenze were doubled over in silent laughter. Remus watched with a grin plastered on his normally sorrowful face, and Peter simply watched in adoration. and the weird creature scrambled up Sirius's face with its sticky legs. Sirius attempted to peel the weird thing off of his face.
The weird creature scrambled off of Sirius's face, skittered across the desks again and climbed up to the top of Remus' head. It had crossed a great many desks to end up where it was, so almost everyone in the classroom was watching the weird creature. Firenza and Bane grinned at each other and pointed their wands at the creature with identical movements, whispering different spells. The creature's eyes swelled to the size of dinner plates, and its body swelled to the size of a watermelon, and with a high pitched squeal, it exploded in a mass of purple goo.
Sirius fell out of his chair, James looked like he was turning blue from lack of oxygen, Remus looked bewildered, and the whole class burst into peals of laughter. Professor McGonagall turned around, eyes burning, she moved away from the chalk board to reveal a small space where there was no purple goo, the place where she had been standing. When she saw the purple goo oozing and dripping from every corner of her classroom she pursed her lips, a smile threatening her lips. The classroom fell silent for a long time, and everyone watched Professor McGonagall
"Twenty points from Gryffindor." Professor McGonagall stated. "And it seems I must end class for the day." She looked around the room. "Class dismissed."
With grins as wide as possible, Bane, Firenze, James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter left the room.
"That was bloody brilliant." Sirius grinned, wiping goo from his face with his already goo-plastered robes.
"An A-class prank." Remus smiled
"Did you two plan that?" James asked with a grin.
"Nope." Bane and Firenze grinned
"We just make it up as we go along." Bane waved his hand at them
"Yeah its almost like-"
"YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?" Lily had interrupted Firenze, she was red-faced and dripping goo on the floor.
"Why yes actually." Bane grinned
"UGH." Lily growled. "YOU ARE ALL SO IMMATURE!" and she stalked off in a huff.
"Bye Lily!" Firenze called with a smile
Lily made a sort of un-attractive screeching noise as she rounded the corner.
"ahahah, who knew Evans was part Banshee?" Sirius grinned
"I did!" Firenze raised her hand. "Anyways we had better get cleaned up so we can go to our next class."
"Hey, you know, you two make an awesome team, so how about we join forces and plan more awesome and elaborate pranks?" James grinned at them both
"I'm for it." Firenze smirked
"Ditto!" Bane thrusted a fist into the air dramatically.
"You guys aren't going to leave me out of this." Sirius' eyes sparkled with a mischievous light.
"How about you Remus?" Firenze looked over at him happily.
"oh.. er.. alright." He said surprised. "But.. I can't do any pranks tomorrow, I have to go visit my sick aunt."
"Ah." James said, then looked at Peter, who was still lurking behind them nervously.
"I..i h..h..hope t…that you w..wont mind me….. j…joining you all.." he looked at James with adoration in his rather beady eyes.
"THE MORE THE MERRIER!" Firenze shouted, pumping the air with a fist.
"Alright, so our next class is potions with Professor Slughorn." Firenze grinned "Who has any ideas."
"Well." Remus suggested, "I may have seen a few nifflers outside the castle."
"Excellent." Bane said "And what do you propose we do with them?"
Remus frowned. "uh.. I dunno.."
Sirius was next to smile. "I think I have a few ideas." He said
James grinned wildly. "And I think I have a way to get them into the castle without being seen."
"i…i… I can.. di.. distract uhh… umm…the care o..of m..m..magical creatures teacher." He squeaked as if thrilled by the fact he could help in some way.
"So its settled." James said. "Let's get cleaned up."
