"HEY! No need to cast silencing spells on me this time! Since we're hitting them in broad daylight," I said to Red as we jogged down the hidden passage to the Slytherin common room – we were too excited to restrain ourselves to a walk. She flashed me a grin, but didn't say anything – we were at the door already, and I shifted my focus to the task ahead.

Storming into the Slytherin common room, we started firing modified Tinctus spells immediately, knowing we had a very limited window of time before our victims reacted, located us, and started throwing hexes and jinxes. Red got off the first one and I snickered at the sight of Mags turning a sparkling pink before I shifted my eyes to my own targets. I spotted Uni almost immediately and hit her with our Color charm – her skin and hair and robes turned white and purple, making her look like Gotamon from Digimon.

Red and I saw Amy and fired at the same time, making the young Slytherin sparkly sky blue before moving on. I hit Fire, turning her plum – Red got Wolf, who became a dark gray. In quick succession, I cast the spell on three Slytherins – LaVida was a random shade of blue; Follicle changed to magenta; Gandalf flickered between glowing white and a sickly shade of gray.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Red's targets – Kinsie looked almost pretty, her colors the pale blues and oranges of sunset, while Rasiaa was almost comical in a solid orange that matched one of my favorite manga character's hair. Donna, who Red knew, she turned crimson, and I hit E. Red's brother with a mustard yellow. Reckoners creepy features were bright, bright pink by the time I was done, and Wolfey got to be a perfect shade of Slytherin green, since she liked our graphitti prank.

Red rounded off our numbers by changing Jennise the color of Kentucky grass, Fezzes to cobalt blue, and the girl who gave the Gryffindors their pet dragon Cuddles, Laura, got the royal treatment when my friend turned her red and gold. I hit Doll with Hufflepuff yellow and black at the same time Red changed Pooh a sparkly lemon-yellow, and then together we made Hologram look like Captain America – blue with white stars.

With the last of the Slytherins changed to wild colors, we darted back into the secret passageway, high-fiving and laughing. We managed to get them all without getting hit with a single jinx or hex or curse ourselves! I could hear groans as the Slytherins tried to Finite the colors, only to have our flashing countdown of six hours appear.

"Oh man, I LOVE pranking!" Red gasped out, laughing so hard she had to lean on the wall.

Laughing only slightly less hard, I danced around, triumphant. "I can't keep still! Pranking is so much fun!"

Just as I was about to ask where we should go to wait for the fallout, I heard Deputy Headmistress Xanda's voice and grinned. Throwing caution to the wind – we were going to get detention for this anyway, I knew – I poked my head back out the secret entrance and fired another Tinctus at the former-Slytherin, turning her fuchsia.

Seconds behind her was Headmistress Claire, yelling out our detentions even if we were hidden. Laughing too hard to speak, I waved my hands at Red.

"What color?!" she exclaimed.

"I don't know!" I laughed. "The opposite of fuchsia? TEAL? TURQUIOSE?" I collapsed against the wall, unable to breathe through my amusement.

Red pulled a color wheel from nowhere and fired the spell at our irate Headmistress, and I about die from the hilarious sight of her turning yellow.

Just as Claire found us and gave us detention, I passed out from the lack of oxygen. Sometimes, our pranks really were too funny.

A/N: For a look at the planning that goes into these pranks (if anyone besides our Headmistress Clairebear1982 or Deputy Headmistress Little. Miss. Xanda is reading this), check out RedButterfly33's fic of the similar title, Detention, at s/11355381/3/Detention

Until next time, dearies!