Disclaimer: Sadly…I don't own any of the HP characters…only JK Rowling does….like I said…sadly. The others like Angellous are mine. My other characters will come in on later chapters.

Chapter 2: Rivaled Houses

Sirius stared a long time at the stained pillow case until he heard his best friends stir in their sleep. Sirius quickly put his blanket around the pillow case and pretended like he had just gotten up as well. By that time, James had woke up, then Remus, and then Peter. Sirius had reminded them that they were hours overdue for class. The only one's panicking were Remus and Peter as James and Sirius paid no attention to them.

After getting dressed and having some candy since they missed breakfast, they walked down the hallway when it was time for their next class. Throughout the whole day, they had been given a lecture when one of their teachers saw them in the hallway. It had been a hard day for all of them. They all had the same class until the last one. Remus had gone off to an Advanced Creatures class while the other went to Mythical Beasts. When Remus stepped it, the class was starting already and there wasn't any more seats left…but one.

Next to the seat was a girl with medium raven hair with a long braid to the side. Her eyes were crimson red, giving her house a more devious look. Her robes were neatly pressed and her green tie was untied. Slytherin.

"Just what I needed," Remus thought. He took a deep breath expecting rudeness from the girl, but instead had given his a thoughtful smile. When he took a seat she pushed a piece of paper with notes on them.

"Notes. You missed them," she said. Her voice was calm and friendly.

"Uh…thanks," Remus said confused. She, a Slytherin, was being awfully nice to him, a Gryffindor.

"You can borrow those and just give it to me tomorrow," she said while turning back to her notebook writing down more notes on the board.

"Alright class, why doesn't someone read this before we get to the lecture, Ms. Vulpes?" The teacher asked the Slytherin next to Remus.

"Yes ma'am," Vulpes said then reading the notes on the board ",The werewolf is one of the most fascinating creatures in the magical land." She read on until she finished the paragraph when the teacher asked her opinion on werewolves. Remus felt his inside turn. "Ma'am, I love werewolves," Vulpes said gaining Remus' attention. "Even though they are dangerous, it's not like they wanted to be dangerous, some may regret it and others are embarrassed about it."

"I see. Well, I hope you don't become one, that look on your face seems like it."

"Yes ma'am." Vulpes took her seat and concentrated on the assignment that was floating over each student's head. All Remus could do was stare at her. Never in his life had he met someone like her.

After class Remus learned her full name: Angellous Vulpes. She transferred and was sorted during the summer. He also learned that she was in the rest of his classes as well and she sat in the back of the class. The only problem was that his friends would never allow being too friendly with a Slytherin, but Angellous was different. Angellous raced out of the class before Remus could actually have a decent conversation with her. Disappointed, he walked back to the Gryffindor room and plopped himself on the sofa. Slowly, the song of the flame had put him to sleep.

James walked with Sirius to the library finishing their extra homework for being late to class. Peter dragged behind. When they arrived to the library, they noticed that not many people were there. On the other side of the library, Snape was sitting in the corner reading a potions book. Sirius grinned at James. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Sirius said turning to James.

"Well if it means that you're thinking what I'm thinking, then maybe were thinking the same thing, but that's just through thinking, any thoughts?"

"Spiders," they both said together. Finally, a heaving and panting Peter caught up with them.

"You walk too fast," said Peter.

"No time for that! Peter, run to our room and grab the box beside my bed and me and Sirius will get ready."

"More walking!"

"Go!" After Peter was out of sight, the two boys turned face to face and nodded at each other. "If you can even find a box," laughed James.

"I forgot to ask you, why have you been excluding him in our festivities dear Prongs."

"Well, Padfoot ole' pal, I have a hunch that he's up to no good. Or maybe I just don't want screw ups," James laughed again.

"True. Common, let's go." The two boys quietly sneaked in getting ready to put a spell for spiders to come out of Snape's long sleek black hair. Sirius had walked to a book stand in front of Snape taking the front side and James to the back side for they believed that Snape's hair was just too much greasy and cannot be done by one person. The librarian was startled by the loud screaming in Snape's direction. She rushed over there, but all she could find was Snape picking tarantulas off his hair. She looked around, but no one else was there. After she had taken off the curse, she sent him to Madam Pomfrey to get poison check. She walked around the library trying to find suspects, but everyone seemed too far away to have gotten anywhere near Snape. Since no one was actually hurt, she went back to her business.

A book was grabbed and was floating in mid-air. Then, James and Sirius appeared. "I love that invisibility cloak. It's just so fun."

"I'm never letting anyone have this thing, I don't care if it's Lily, my son, or even you," James said selfishly. Sirius didn't care much as long as he got away with whatever they were doing. Then a girl's voice appeared from behind. At first James turned expecting to see Lily, but instead it was Angellous.

"That wasn't very nice," she said pushing away James to get a book behind him.

"Look here! Just because you're a girl doesn't mean that we'll go easy on you. We treat all Slytherins the same. So apologize!" James was furious.

"Ok then. I'm sorry I got to waste my time on immature children like you," she said turning around. The two boys gawked at her till she disappeared still trying to process what she said. They couldn't believe what just happened.

"Don't worry mate, we'll get her," James said to Sirius who was also turning red.

Remus was awoken by Peter that night. Peter glanced at Remus who was staring back at him. "I'm just here to get some stuff for James and Sirius, I wanted to see if you were ok. You were talking in your sleep." Peter smiled and began to walk out.

"Wait. You know that they're probably finished doing whatever they're thinking of. They don't have much patience so you might as well just wait until they get …" Before Remus could finish his sentence, the entrance to the common room slammed open.

"I'm telling you, I've got a bunch of ideas on how to get back at the Slytherin!" Sirius said stomping in. Remus bolted up at the sound of Slytherin. The two boys went up angrily to their room and going to bed. Peter gave a shrug to Remus who decided to take a walk around the castle.

While walking, he realized that his feet led him in front of the Slytherin Common Room doorway. He gave a sigh and turned away, but Snape appeared in front of him. "I know it was your friends that brought all those damn spiders out. And since they aren't here, I guess I'll just have to take it out on you." Snape snickered and raised his wand. "I hope you like being petrified for a whole week!"

Remus reached for his wand, but realized he left it on his bed. "This isn't good…"