Bright emerald green eyes stared down and the waif like form that was curled up under the thick red duvet, the top of a silver-blonde head just visible from under the comforter. The owner of the emerald colored orbs bit her bottom lip gently in contemplation, before grasping the shoulder of the sleeping form and giving it a firm but gently shake.

"Nugh..." The form groaned and attempted to roll away from the offended hand that was trying to raise her from her slumber.

Unfortunately, the waif like girl only succeeded in rolling right off her four-poster bed, much to her chagrin and the green-eyed beauty's mild amusement.

"Wake up, Izora. All the other girls already went down to breakfast."

A grunt was all the green-eyed girl got as a reply and then a silver blonde head appeared over the side of the bed, the messy strands falling into blearily blue-green eyes.

"Lily?" Izora murmured confusedly as she wiped the sleep from her eyes.

Lily nodded and promptly began to rummage around in the pale blonde girl's trunk, pulling out random articles of clothes as she did.

"Here put these on." The brusque redhead commanded after shoving the clothes she had picked out into Izora's hands.

Izora just looked blankly at her fellow dorm mate for a few seconds, before stumbling into the bathroom to change. Tired blue-green eyes were reflected in the large bathroom's mirror, dark circles under said eyes standing out against the pallor of Izora's skin. Said girl sighed as she continued to stare at her haggard appearance from her sleepless night and splashed some cold water on her face, feeling slightly more refreshed. After patting her face dry with a towel, Izora slipped on her undergarments, jeans, and long-sleeved shirt. Then the waifish blonde ran a brush through her elbow length hair a few times and exited the bathroom.

Lily was sitting patiently on her bed, reading a book as she waited for Izora to finish up. Hearing the door opened, the fiery redhead bookmarked her page and looked up at the tall, thin girl standing in the door way of the loo. Izora glanced over at where Lily was sitting observing her as she walked over to her bedside table and grabbed her elbow length gloves, a scarf, and her shoes. She could feel the redhead's curious gaze on her, but she didn't turn to look as she slipped on the articles of clothing on and then reached into the mess of sheets and blankets on her bed. After rummaging around for a few moments, Izora pulled a sleepily looking Draci Icre out from the nest he had made by the scruff of his neck. The pine marten gave an agitated chitter which caused Izora to giggle slightly and place the familiar around her neck.

"Hush Draci, it's time for breakfast." Izora tapped the marten's nose before turning to Lily, who was watching the odd exchange with fascination and curiosity.

"Ready Lily?"
"Hmm? Oh yes, let's go." The redhead shook her head and stood, following the taller girl out of the dorm.

The two girls walked down the stairs in a companionable silence that was broken as soon as they reached the bottom of the stairs when Izora was suddenly yanked away from Lily's side and swept into a rib-crushing hug by none other Hogwarts' very own womanizer.

"Izora, my love, it has be too long!" Sirius cried dramatically as he twirled the startled girl around.
Lily simply sniffed snootily and walked out of the common room with her elegant nose in the air.

"Padfoot, you wanker, stop hogging the girl!" James' deep voice shouted from somewhere near the fireplace and not even a moment later, Izora found herself being yanked away from Sirius and smothered by said bespectacled boy's muscular chest.

The abundant amount of physical contact that Izora was suddenly experiencing caused her body to go into fight-or-flight mode. Unfortunately for James, her body decided to fight instead of flee and she slammed the palm of her hand against the boy's diaphragm and ground the heel of her shoe into his instep. James gasped and released the thin girl, as he doubled over with a groan of pain. Izora was quick to back away from him while the three other boys rushed to their friend's aid.

"Bloody hell, Iz, what was that!" James gasped, as he struggled into an upright position.

"I-I-I'm sorry. I-I panicked a-an-and..." The girl gave a choked sob as she stuttered, blue-green eyes glistening with tears.

James groaned again and rubbed the spot where Izora had hit him, "For such a skinny bird, you certain back a wallop."

With her face as red as Lily's hair, she whirled around and ran up the stairs to the girls' dormitories. But before she could even get halfway up, the stairs disappeared and turned into a slide like it was charmed to. Izora squeaked and Draci Icre gave an annoyed chitter, as they slid down to the bottom and landed at the feet of four very confused boys, one of which had placed his foot on the bottom step causing it to turn into the slide.

It was silent between the five teenagers, the four boys standing in a semi-circle around the blonde girl on the floor with her head lowered in shame and humiliation. Remus was the first to move, as he gently grasped Izora's thin arms and lifted her up as if she weighed nothing. This spurred the other three boys into action and they began fussing over her like a couple of worried mothers, much to Remus' chagrin and Izora's confusion.

"Stop crowding her you bloody idiots, before you give her another panic attack." Remus snapped and forcefully removed James and Sirius by grasping the backs of their necks. Peter had been smart enough to back away before Remus had even finished his sentence.

Both Sirius and James then proceeded to vocally express their discontent with being manhandled but were silenced when the tallest Marauder gave them a harsh look. Instead the two boys sulked with their arms crossed and pouts on their lips.

"Are you alright Izora?" Remus asked kindly, looking her over.

Izora just looked at all of them with wide blue-green eyes, "You mean, you're... You're not mad?" She asked in a small voice.

Now it was the boys' turn to look flabbergasted, Sirius and James taking it a bit further as they both began to sputter and choke in shock. Remus, ever the level-head one, grasped Izora's fidgeting gloved hands and shook his head.

"Of course not, Izora. It's obvious that you're not used to so much physical attention." The lanky boy soothed.

"Yeah, Moony's right. Prongs deserved it anyway." Sirius grinned cheekily.

"Oi!"

Izora's pale lips quirked slightly at the corners when James cuffed his best friend upside the head and Remus rolled his eyes, a mocking sigh of exasperation escaping his full lips.

"Come on. Breakfast will be over soon." Remus stated quietly as he grasped Izora gently by the elbow and led her out of the portrait hole with Peter trailing behind them and leaving the other two boys wrestling on the floor of the common room. At the sound of the portrait hole closing, the two boys sat up and looked at each other before leaping up and racing out of the common room with cries of indignation at being left behind.

Once the five Gryffindors arrived at the Great Hall, Izora started to walked over to the Hufflepuff table but was stopped when one of the Marauders grabbed her arm.

"Where are you goin' love?" Sirius asked as he tugged her towards the middle of the Gryffindor table.

Izora tried in vain to pull her thin arm from the tall boy's grasp, "I-I wa-was going to si-sit with a fr-friend." She stuttered out and gave up on trying to free herself when the Hogwarts heartthrob sat her down on the bench next to James before taking the seat on her other side.

"Aht da 'Ufflephuff hable?" James asked through a mouthful of eggs and bacon.

Izora's upper lip curled slightly in disgust when some egg landed on the sleeve of her shirt. Remus promptly reached over from across the table and smacked the back of James' head.

"Oi!" James yelped and demanded, "What the bloody hell was that for?"

"Don't talk with your mouthful." The honey-eyed boy reprimanded in an amused tone.

James merely huffed, while Sirius and Peter laughed at his expense.

Izora smiled slightly and flicked the piece of egg of her shirt sleeve, hitting Sirius's cheek. The blonde girl's eyes widened drastically and she clamped down on her bottom lip as her pale cheeks turned a deep shade of red in embarrassment. The grey-eyed boy turned to look at her with a stunned expression on his face, the slightly soggy piece of egg falling off his cheek and onto the table with wet splat.

The other three boys were quiet for a few moments before James let out a deep, belly laugh, almost falling out of his seat. Remus' lips twitched slightly and he quickly covered his mouth with his hand to stifle his own laughter while Peter gave a nervous, squeak-like laugh.

"Sorry!" Izora squeaked and looked at Sirius blue-green eyes wide.

Sirius shook his head, a mischievous grin working its way onto his face, "Oh you're going to get it now, Izzy."

If possible, Izora's eyes widened even further when she saw him reach for a bowl of cereal.

"S-Sirius, d-d-don't even..."

Izora never got to finish her sentence because Sirius unhesitatingly poured the cereal over the pale blonde's head. Now it was Izora's turn to stare at the boy with a stunned expression, before her blue-green eyes narrowed dangerously and she fixed the smirking womanizer with a withering glare. Unfortunately, with her blonde hair dripping milk with bits of cereal sticking to hair and face, the look did not have its desired effect.

Sirius grinned at the cereal covered girl before turning back to his plate of food, thinking that she was too shy and timid to retaliate. So when he suddenly felt a thick warm substance land on his head and slid down his face, he gasped and whirled around causing the porridge that Izora had just poured over him to go flying. Sirius ignored the yelps of shock and indignation from his fellow students that had been hit with by the flying porridge and stared at the smirking blonde standing beside him, the empty bowl in one hand while the other rested on her hip.

"Y-you, just..." Sirius stammered before trailing off and narrowing his grey eyes at Izora.

Izora just gave a snooty sniff, a smirk still dancing across her pale lips. The smirk was quick to disappear when Sirius reached for a platter of scrambled eggs, which he grabbed a handful of.

"Don't you dare." Izora snapped, but she was ignored and moments later she had scrambled eggs smashed into already dripping hair.

"SIRIUS!" She shrieked and grabbed a handful of food from James' plat and threw it at the boy, hitting in smack in the chest.

Sirius was quick to retaliate and grabbed some more food and chucked it at Izora, who ducked just in time, resulting in James getting hit by the projectile of food.

"Oi!" James yelled as he grabbed a muffing and threw it towards the laughing Sirius.

In moments the entire Great Hall had become a battlefield in the massive food fight that Sirius and Izora had started. Izora and the four Marauders had taken cover under their house table, laughing breathlessly and covered in various breakfast foods. Somehow, Izora had gotten squished between Sirius and Remus, who was covered in bits of sausage and hash.

"This is bloody brilliant Iz!" James cried from his position crouched beside Sirius.

"Best way to start the school year." Sirius agreed and clapped the giggling blonde on the shoulder.

"Wicked." Peter said, nodding his porridge covered head vigorously.

Remus just smiled down at her, his honey-colored eyes glimmering with amusement. Izora smiled happily, at their praises, knowing that she would be in a world of trouble once McGonagall got a hold of them, but she couldn't bring herself to care because she knew had just made four new friends.

Edited Again 4/24/12

Edited 8/19/11

Author's Note: Alrighty! I realized how short this chapter was and thought I'd add a bit more too it and because this idea just popped into my head literally ten seconds before I started writing it. I hope everyone likes the chapter even more than they did before and I'm super sorry about how the author's note from the previous version of the chapter disappeared, my computer was being stupid again. -_-"

Anyhootie! Onto the thank you's to my wonderful reviewers again!

Demon of Serenity: Muahahaha, I made you first this time! I was cheering when Iz attacked James too and I'm the author! Thank you for pointing out that I didn't explain how the stairs turned into a slide, I fixed that. Blah, school… I started on the eighth, the day after Warped Tour, so not fun. I guess I'm kind of lucky that I do online school though. I hope you like the revised version of this chapter!

XxBellatrixLestrange917xX: Haha, again muchos gracias! I'm completely amazed that I've actually been able to keep all the canon characters in character. To Kill a Mary Sue is the best ever! I seriously can't wait for the next chapter.

Queer King Stephen: Sorry about the previous shortness, I've never been good at separating chapters. Good ole Iz, she may come off a shy and timid, but the girl can kick some serious booteh!

super16simone: I'm intrigued, what story is it? Is it any good? I'm always looking for a good fanfic to read.

Cissyb: Heehee, yeah. I specialize in odd writing; just wait until I get around to posting my other stories. ;]

FleurSuoh: Why thank you! Oh and I love your pen name. It means Flower Dragon right?

Nizuna Fujieda: I hope you liked the revised version just as much as the original!

Cookie05: Muchos gracias! I'm glad you liked it and I hope you like the revised version!