A/N: I'm back again! Thank you so much Hippie Jade and Arctic Fox! Two of my three special reviewers! I've started this the day after my last update, aren't I good! But I will probably not work on it much tomorrow, coz it's sports day and I'll need to spend a long time trying to remove the blue hair spray and zinc ream from myself. I hate sports day. Too much sport. Oh well, at least we get to be idiots by wearing strange colours, and in the case of my friend and I, cork hats. Where they came from? No idea. My mum brought them for a parade we were in. IN 45ºC HEAT! Thus ends my rant. Enjoy the story. Caution: low level coarse language in this chapter. Very low level.
Disclaimer: When I'm a rich and famous author and you guys want to manipulate my characters for your enjoyment but no profit you don't have to write these. Not mine.
The Baranbali students were thrilled with their win. The Hogwarts students weren't happy, but were gracious losers, as they were being hosted by the winning school. The Quidditch match had, of course, made the Hogwarts Quidditch fanatics, like James Potter, worry about whether or not they would be able to hold or participate in a Quidditch cup.
"I think he might be sick," said Shenay with concern.
"But… Who knows how long we'll be here… No Quidditch for months, a year? No, they couldn't do that…" James muttered.
"No, it's just Quidditch withdrawal. Same thing happened that time he was banned for a week, remember?" Sirius said, reminiscing with Remus.
"Except that time he ended up spraying the crowd with exploding tomatoes in retaliation. Maybe we should talk to McGonagall," Remus replied.
"It would be so cool if you guys could join our cup. Only I don't think there's enough time for eight teams to all play each other, especially seeing as we don't know how long you'll be here," added Shenay. James looked outraged.
"There's always enough time for Quidditch!" He half yelled.
"Obviously," said Shenay. "But the teachers might not agree," Just about everyone except James and Shenay were getting slightly sick of the endless Quidditch talk that had proceeded since the end of the match. The two of them continued to chat while the rest of them sat with varying degrees of bored looks on their faces. They were in the Burruluu common room, where they had gone after the game, which had ended at ten o'clock. It was now nearly twelve.
"Pranks!" Sirius yelled suddenly. He received eight odd looks, but six of them were also grateful for the distraction.
"What do you have in mind?" asked James.
"We can re-do some of our old ones," Sirius said thoughtfully. "They've never been done here before,"
"No, let's try something new," James argued.
"And non-lethal," added Remus. James and Sirius looked insulted.
"Us? We'd never hurt anyone! We are merely providing entertainment for all! If there has ever been a victim, surely it is only the unjust rules we have escaped from!" Sirius proclaimed.
"Never hurt anyone?" Remus cried. "Remember the valentines day incident? Half the Slytherins were incapacitated for days!"
"Gits," Sirius said idly.
"It doesn't have to be dangerous. We'll just do something… big," said Katie.
"Let's do something to the Slytherins," Sirius whined.
"And the Dayarras," added Star.
"Gits," they said together, then smiled.
"What if we went into the Dayarra common room, set fire to…" Sirius began.
"NO FIRE!" yelled Remus and Allira.
"We could try ice, though," Allira added thoughtfully.
"Or water," added Katie.
"Or bricks," added Emily. Everyone except Sirius looked at her in fear.
"Now that's what I'm saying! We get some bricks…" Sirius ranted.
"I repeat: non-lethal." Remus repeated.
"Maybe we can combine all of this…" James said smiling.
In a few minutes, they had prepared for their almighty prank. They were assembled outside of a huge tapestry depicting gold and similar luxuries. Next to them was a huge pile of tissue boxes.
"Ready?" whispered James. The other eight nodded. "Alright, go," All together they levitated the tissue boxes, until they formed a wall covering the tapestry. Then they all began transfiguring the tissue boxes into bricks, except for Peter, who wasn't very good at transfiguration, and turned a box into a pillow. He gave up after that. Soon, all of the tissue boxes had been turned into bricks.
"Stage two," whispered Sirius. They all muttered 'Congelo', and freezing air came out of their wands. They directed them towards the cracks around the bricks. They held it for as long as they dared, then James muttered 'Sigillum', and they left as quickly as they could.
"Ah, good fun. I'm starving." Sirius said, taking a seat at the Burruluu table. It was noticed by everyone that all of the Slytherins and Dayarras were missing. They began to eat. At half past twelve Ms Eyrich got up and hurried out of the hall. Within minutes she was back, looking furious.
"Attention!" She shouted. "Some students have played a cruel prank on the students of Slytherin and Dayarra house. If I find out that any of my students have been involved in this, you will be punished. To pull a prank like this is one thing, but to pull it when we have guests, on our guests? It is an embarrassment to our school," She looked disgusted as she sat down. Whispers broke out over the hall. James and Sirius couldn't hide their smiles, but the rest of them looked slightly embarrassed.
"I suppose it was pretty cruel," Remus said thoughtfully. "We don't even know what Dayarra house is like," he added quietly.
"Yeah, but we do. They're awful," replied Allira.
"Look, we have nothing to worry about. There's no proof it was us," James said quietly.
"That won't stop the Dayarras. They'll know it was us and they won't stop till they've got revenge. They're ruthless," argued Shenay.
"Oh well, at least if they prank us we can prank them back," said Star confidently.
"That's the way we should be thinking!" said Sirius joyfully. It was then that the Slytherins and Dayarras came into the hall. They all looked very cold. Many of them were glaring in their direction. They tried to ignore them and continued eating, but eventually they found them too disconcerting.
"How about we go back to the common room?" asked Peter nervously.
"Sounds good," murmured the others. They left as quickly as they could.
They made their way to the Burruluu common room. It was a nice room. It had a cozy atmosphere, despite being quite large. Nearly an entire wall was devoted to windows that faced the grounds. They sat down as lots of the other Burruluus and Gryffindors began to return from lunch. A boy who looked about their age with a couple of earrings in his left ear and wearing camo boots waved to them. Katie waved back. Sirius and James raised their eyebrows and smiled at her.
"What? He's my friend!" Katie said indignantly.
"Who is he?" asked Sirius.
"Just Eddy. A guy from our grade. You'll be sharing a dorm with him. Speaking of which, shouldn't your stuff be here by now?" she said evasively.
"Fine, avoid our questions. See if we help him fall for you." James said, mock-offended. He turned and walked towards the stairs. Sirius followed. Remus rolled his eyes and smiled at Katie, then followed. Peter came too. The thought of being alone in only female company terrified him.
"You're going to interfere, aren't you?" predicted Remus as he caught up to James on the stairs.
"Naturally," replied James casually.
"You haven't considered that Katie might prefer it if you stayed out of it?" Remus asked.
"Nope," James smiled. Remus would have said a bit more about respecting privacy then, but they had reached the door and he didn't want to say anything in front of Eddy. Without bothering to knock, James pushed open the door and strode inside.
"Hello. My name's James, and this is Sirius, Remus and Peter," said James to Eddy and the other three boys inside. "We're the Gryffindors you're rooming with," he added unnecessarily.
"Hi. I'm Jack," a boy with spiky dark brown hair and bright blue eyes said.
"Kurt," nodded a boy with black hair with blonde highlights and a black stud in his right ear.
"I'm Neil," said a pale boy with sandy coloured hair.
"And you must be Eddy!" said James in excitement, shaking Eddy's hand vigorously. Eddy looked worried that this bizarre stranger already knew him. James noticed this and tried to tone it down a notch. He threw himself down on a bed which he saw was his.
"These Baranbali chicks are hot, eh?" he said casually. Eddy shrugged.
"I dunno, your Hogwarts girls are pretty cool," said Jack. "That girl in our grade, with the red hair? Lily or something? She's pretty hot,"
"NO JAMES, LEAVE HIM!" shouted Sirius, tackling him.
"Lily-Show-Him!" James muttered, struggling. Remus moved to help restrain him.
"He didn't mean it, James!" Remus yelled. He turned to Jack, who looked thunderstruck. "Say something!"
"Come to think of it, she's actually pretty ugly," he said quickly.
"YOU BLOODY ASSHOLE!" James screamed.
"JAMES THIS IS A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION. YOU ARE DREAMING. NO ONE MENTIONED LILY," Sirius yelled desperately.
"Oh," James said, and stopped struggling. "Odd, I don't remember falling asleep. Sorry Jack,"
"No problem," said Jack meekly. He looked terrified.
"James, let's go back downstairs and talk to the girls," Sirius said with an air of trying to keep him calm.
"Sure," James agreed. "Coming, Remus, Pete?"
"I'll be alright up here," said Remus.
"I'll stay too," said Peter, digging around in his trunk in search of food.
"Ok, see you later," said Sirius, and they left.
"What the hell was that all about?" asked Jack.
"Yeah, sorry about him. He's obsessed with Lily Evans. She doesn't like him, of course. But that doesn't stop him. Don't get between them if you like your face the way it is; James is good at revenge," Remus said wryly.
"Duly noted," said Jack.
A/N: New rant: I LOVE SPORTS DAY! So team spirited. Even if we did only come second and we lost team spirit. I WAS SINGING FOR US. I WANT AN AIR HORN. So that I can sneak up on people while they sleep and blast it in their ear (Watch out, Emily!). Next year my friend and I will wear togas. Ooh, I can't wait till we get up to the super significant thing in the plot. I'm not saying anything else yet. Please, review.
P.S.: don't James and Sirius remind you slightly of teenage girls when I write them? I had to write it like that though, because the girls couldn't say it because they already know about him, and I really wanted to introduce the character and get them to go into the dorm and whatnot. This chapter is pretty short but I wanted to get something up. Hope you like.
