Shifting Warriors: Book I: Chamber of Secrets

Chapter 10: The Prank Masters Pranked?...Quidditch Spectacles

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Animorphs wish I did but I don't so oh well.

Another couple days went by with classes and homework, it seemed the closer they got to Christmas the more work the Professors were piling on them. Kai still was doing a good job of keeping his school work done and ahead. He still found time to go out and exercise in all his forms, he was even getting better at tail blade fighting against Andy, he still couldn't win against him but he was getting closer

Fayth on the other hand was keeping ahead in her school work but just barely. She almost always found herself in the library the day before an essay was do trying to finish it up. She kept well enough ahead in Transfiguration since she was good at it, Charms, Defense, and the other basic classes were alright. Where she was falling behind was Potions, she didn't have the patients that Kai had, she inherited that from her mother. Not to mention she was always tormented by the other first year Slytherins because she usually partnered with Ginny. This fact was the current discussion of Kai and Fayth as they sat in the library working on homework together.

"I'm worried about her Kai," commented Fayth as she rubbed her eyes, they hurt from looking at parchment to long.

Kai didn't need any clarifying on who she was he already knew, "What makes you worried?"

"She is always pale," started Fayth, "and not the oh you just don't get enough sun pale the unearthly, undead pale of like a vampire or something."

"She could be feeling under the weather," supplied Kai.

"Yeah, but this is all the time Kai," reiterated Fayth.

Kai nodded, "What else?"

"She is distant from everyone, sure we communicate as were doing our potion and stuff but it is the bare minimum," stated Fayth, "nothing very concrete or personal."

"Sound like depression," stated Kai.

"You know as well as I do that isn't what it is," stated Fayth, "I know you, you have more connection to the intuition then anyone I have ever met."

Kai sighed as he laid down his quill, "Your right, I do know that it isn't depression it's more…sinister then that."

"Sinister," stated Fayth, "yeah that is a great word to describe it, the animal sense in my head are all crying out that something unnatural is at work."

"Natural to us and natural to the rest of the wizarding world is two different things," replied Kai, "but I agree."

"What should we do about it, she is our friend, she was one of the first people of this world to talk to us, you really like her," stated Fayth.

Kai did a double take, "Wait what I really like her? That was said with not the same reason as I think."

"Oh, don't lie to me Kai I have known you forever, you really "like" her," stated Fayth.

Kai sighed again he couldn't lie to his cousin, "I am not really sure what to think about her, she is very important I will give you that."

Fayth just nodded her head, guys were so thick headed sometime even her cousin.

Kai shook his head, "Back on topic what are we going to do to help her, I think the first thing we need to do is find out what is wrong with her."

Fayth cringed, "That sounds like more time in this library."

Kai chuckled, "Yeah it will mean more time in this library, if we're going to help Ginny we first have to know what is wrong with her."

Fayth sighed, "Yeah your right."

"I will start looking around since I am ahead on my homework," stated Kai as he rolled up his parchment he was working on, "you finish that potion essay."

"Okay dad," stated Fayth rolling her eyes.

"Better believe it," chuckled Kai.

Kai and Fayth spent every free chance they got studying up on different magical maladies looking for a way to help their friend. The other bit of free time they had they finalized the prank they were going to pull on the twins.

The prank needed to be simple enough that a couple of first years, even gifted first years as they were, could pull off. It also had to fly under the radar of the Professors which was easy, but it also had to fly under the radar's of the twins which was not so easy.

"Food," stated Kai one day.

"What?" replied Fayth and Andy?

"We should slip whatever was going to do into their food," reiterated Kai, "we know where the kitchen is and I bet we could talk one of the house elves to do it for us."

"Okay that is a good way to get it to them but what are we going to get to them?" asked Fayth.

Surprisingly Andy came up with the suggestion, "What if we give them this potion?"

Kai and Fayth looked at the potion he was looking at.

Florescent Hues: This Potion will chance a person into a florescent color adding in the detection if they are lost and cannot be found.

Kai smiled as he put his knowledge of potions to work, "You know if we change this ingredient and this ingredient we can have the colors cycle through over and over, they would look like a couple of neon signs for an entire day."

Fayth smirked, "That is perfect, but these ingredients are going to be hard to get."

Kai and Andy nodded their agreement, "We will have to think of a plan."

Kai and Andy were sitting in the dungeon they had finished their potion early and perfectly. They decided that the simplest way would be for someone to distract Snape while the other slipped into his store room and grabbed the stuff. Lucky for them they had the tools to do it, so after class Andy walked up to Professor Snape to ask a couple questions. They decided Kai would be the better choice to get the stuff since A) he has spent a lot more time in any animal morph then Andy has B) Andy had to change to his normal form before he could change again.

So while Andy was talking to Professor Snape and distracting him Kai ducked behind their work station and transformed into his mouse form. He quickly scampered across the room and under the door without anyone knowing the better. The other part of their plan required Kai to work the banishing spell which wasn't hard. In the store room he transformed grabbed the ingredient banished them to his trunk and was a mouse and out again before anyone knew the better. With their supplies in hand they could make the potion.

It was another day before the potion was finally done. Lucky for them it wasn't hard for them to talk one of the house elves, a young female one named Haily who took a liking to Kai, to slip the potion into the cups where Fred and George would be sitting. The spectacle and the fruits of their prank was hilarious, the twins spent an entire day flashing fluorescent colors that were bright enough to blind whoever looked at them. Fred and George thought it was hilarious to flaunting around the castle glowing like neon signs, they were already thinking about their next move in the prank war.

The first weekend in November brought the first Quidditch game of the season and man was it an intense one. The game was between Slytherin and Gryffindor where apparently Draco Malfoy was the seeker for Slytherin, and all of them got new brooms.

'Its sad that Draco had to buy his way on to the team, look he has no talent once so ever,' stated Andy as he perched in a hawk form he had attained next to Kai who was also in hawk form. Fayth had decided to sit with her housemates to watch the game, Kai and Andy decided they get a much better view of it as hawks with the intense eyes.

'Andy look over there,' stated Kai gesturing to a corner of the field if you weren't a hawk you wouldn't be able to see it.

Andy looked there was a small creature huddling in the corner watching the match intently, 'Isn't that a house elf?'

'Yeah but it isn't a Hogwarts one,' replied Kai watching the house elf.

A bludger flew close to the house elf and he waved his hand there was a red glow around the bludger and then it took off like a speeding arrow.

'What did he just do to that bludger?' asked Andy.

'I don't know but I bet were going to find out,' stated Kai as he saw the house elf vanish in a puff of smoke.

They sure did find out as the bludger that they saw the house elf mess with spent the rest of the game locked on one Harry Potter. It chased him all over the pitch never once going after anyone else. This confused Kai even more, Andy had already forgotten about it lost in the match he like Fayth was fascinated with this game. Why would someone send a killer bludger after Harry Potter? Especially when that someone was a house elf?

In the end Harry was able to pull out the win but was rewarded with that idiot Lockheart removing all of the bones in his arm. Worthless Professor. The students learned the next day that there was another attack this time on a student a Gryffindor apparently; this started a whole ocean of bad karma.

Author's Notes

Alright here is the next chapter; I had to watch my timing a little since I am trying to parallel this with Harry's story.

Hopefully people are enjoying it!

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Morph Update:

Kai: Mouse, Clydesdale, Bull, Bernease Mountain Dog, Red-Tailed Hawk, Rooster, Flesh-Eating Slug, Andalite

Fayth: Clydesdale, Cow, German Shepard, Guinea Pig, Red-Tailed Hawk, Grizzly Bear, African Elephant

Andy: Andalite, Human, Flesh-Eating Slug, Mouse, Red-Tailed Hawk

Coming up next: The Dueling Club!