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A/N: I'm sorry this took so long, but I've been busy. Also, my updates might start taking longer like this one. These last few weeks have been busy. But now my updates might take longer because I got a summer job.
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The Marauders Year 2
Chapter 14: Hogwarts Takeover Part 2
Dark Moon sat on the Head Table in the Great Hall. Many of the students were glaring at him. School was hard enough with all the peer pressure and dealing with the Slytherins. They didn't want to have to deal with their school being taking over by four maniacs!
Dark Moon honestly didn't care about the students glaring at him. He was still exhausted from the full moon. So exhausted, that he was actually hoping that one of the students would attack him to put him out of his misery so he wouldn't have to deal with the pain of his wounds anymore. But actually getting hit with a spell wasn't going to happen. Eclipse wanted to make sure that he wouldn't get hurt in his exhausted and weak state, so he got him two guards. And these two guards were also wearing blue cloaks, but Dark Moon knew who they were, Solstice and Solar. Also known as Gideon and Fabian Prewett.
*F*L*A*S*H*B*A*C*K*
A few days ago the Marauders were sitting in the common room late at night. They were the only ones in there at the moment and were planning their takeover of Hogwarts.
"No, we need something that will give us cover." James said.
"Something like those Vapeur Bombe that Sirius gave me." Remus suggested.
"Yes, but I want them in little ball form so they are like smoke bombs." James replied.
Remus raised a brow. "Where did you learn about smoke bombs?"
"I live in an area that muggles and wizards live together. You pick up a few things." James said with a shrug.
Sirius leaned back in his seat. "That is going to be a little difficult. I don't know how to do that."
"We can help you if-"
"You tell us what you are doing."
The boys whipped around to see Fabian and Gideon in their pajamas and grinning at them.
"We aren't doing anything." James replied innocently.
Fabian snorted. "Yes, you are and whatever you are doing is beyond your knowledge."
"You need the help of two older students." Gideon said, putting a finger at himself then at his brother.
James sighed and spoke quietly with his friends. After a few minutes, he waved Gideon and Fabian over to them. He quietly told them their plan. When he was finished, Gideon and Fabian were grinning like mad.
"We have never done that. So, we are going to make an alliance to do this?" Fabian asked.
Sirius nodded his head. "If you can get us those smokes bombs, yes."
"When are we going to begin the operation?" Gideon asked.
Sirius looked at his friends, who nodded their heads. He turned back to the twins. "We are planning to take over on Sunday when Remus returns."
"Returns?" Gideon asked confused.
"I have to go home on Saturday." Remus replied.
Gideon and Fabian knew not to ask. They knew that Remus had a lot of problems in his family and that he didn't like to talk about it.
*E*N*D* *F*L*A*S*H*B*A*C*K*
After waking up from his nap earlier, Eclipse told Dark Moon as they were approaching the Great Hall that the point of taking over Hogwarts now was to see how long it took the students to realize that their capturers were the four troublemaking second years.
When they entered the Great Hall, Dark Moon was confused to see two more cloaked figures already there. He asked Eclipse about them and he replied that they were his guard until he felt strong enough to guard the students on his own.
*F*L*A*S*H*B*A*C*K*
Gideon and Fabian woke up at seven like they normally do, but unlike normal, they quickly got dressed and left the dorm without bothering to wait for their friends. Today was the day the Marauders and them were planning to takeover Hogwarts. They snuck into the common room and over to the fireplace. Fabian pulled a brick out of the wall near the fireplace to reveal a secret compartment. In the secret compartment were two cloaks and two small black drawstring bags. Inside the bags were their own smoke bombs and little bombs.
After throwing the cloaks on, the two sixth years left the tower and headed to a secret passage that was near Gryffindor Tower. They were the only ones who knew about it. Neither of them told the Marauders about it. They had to find it on their own, so the Marauders had to find it on their own too. The secret passage was dimly lit by a torch every four feet. This passage slanted downwards like a very steep hill. It led to the small chamber in the Entrance Hall. They agreed to wait here and watch what the Marauders did before joining them.
When four cloaked figures appeared, the twins smirked and watched as the two tallest went into the Great Hall by blasting the doors down while the other two stayed in the Entrance Hall. Smoke started pouring out of the Great Hall and small explosions could be heard.
As the smoke cleared, the two other cloaked figures were gone. The twins waited until someone appeared. They watched as two cloaked figures appeared, dragging a teacher between them. A few minutes later one of the figures returned and entered the Great Hall just to come back out a few minutes later with a teacher tied to a chair and floating in front of him.
When the four cloaked figures left the Great Hall after all the teachers were taken away, Solstice and Solar followed the boys in the shadow. They followed them to the Hospital Wing and watched as three of them came out, then followed them again from the shadows to the Gryffindor Tower.
They waited outside in the shadows until Eclipse and Death came out and began following them again.
"How are we going to do this?" Death was asking.
Eclipse smirked. "We are going to wing it. It will be more fun this way."
Solstice walked out of the shadows with Solar following him. "I think it is time that we joined you."
Death turned around to look at them. "It's about time you two showed up."
"It's good you two showed up. I need you two to go to the Great Hall. Dark Moon is going to watch over the students after he's taken a nap. But the problem is that I don't think that will be enough for him to get his strength back. He's had a long and tiring night so I want you two in the Great Hall to help him and act like guards to him until he gets his strength back." Eclipse said.
"Sounds fun." Solar said. "We'll head there now and wait for Dark Moon to show up."
*E*N*D* *F*L*A*S*H*B*A*C*K*
Shadow was sitting on the desk in the Hospital Wing as he watched the teachers struggle in their binds while glaring at him. He sighed and stretched his arms above his head. How did he get the most boring job?
McGonagall glared at Shadow. "What is your leader's plan?"
"I don't really see how that is any of your business." Shadow replied.
"It is my business since I am the Deputy Headmistress here." McGonagall said angrily.
Shadow smirked. "Were Deputy Headmistress. We are the rulers of this school now in case you forgot."
McGonagall narrowed her eyes. Something was wrong with the supposed new rulers of Hogwarts. They was something oddly familiar about them, but what is it?
"What?" Shadow asked her.
McGonagall pursed her lips and didn't reply.
"What happened last night to make you so tired and weak, Dark Moon?" Solar asked.
Dark Moon flexed his fingers then his hand followed by his wrist. The sleeve of his cloak slipped a little so he could see his bandaged up arm. "Not much. I was just up all night with my uncle at St. Mungo's. He's in a horrible state, and then my cousin and I got in an argument about halfway through that night which ended up being a fight." He said in a calm, unconcerned tone.
"Why were you fighting with him?" Solstice asked.
"Stress levels were high." Dark Moon replied easily. "Do you guys have a sister?"
Solstice grinned a little. "An older sister. She's getting married this summer. Her name is Molly Prewett. Why?"
"I was just curious because I remember Jason telling me at one point that she is getting married to Arthur Weasley. He said he knew Molly from Hogwarts. She was a few years above him and in Gryffindor." Dark Moon replied.
"What has he said about her?" Solar asked as he swept his eyes over the students who were beginning to get really nervous about what was going to happen.
"She is really scary." Dark Moon said, grinning slightly.
Solstice nodded his head. "She is. She really disproves of pranks."
"Must be difficult for you guys then." Dark Moon said.
"I'll say. She is always-"
"Scolding us-"
"For playing pranks."
"She just doesn't realize-"
"That pranks are a part of-"
"Who we are!" They finished together.
Dark Moon looked between the two and laughed. "Interesting way of talking."
"Thank you!" Solstice and Solar mocked bowed to Dark Moon.
Dark Moon laughed and looked back at the students. The school was under their control and the students knew it.
Eclipse and Death slammed the Hospital Wing doors open and marched loudly inside. Death was holding a brown rucksack which he threw onto an empty bed. He jumped on the bed and laid on it with his hands under his head.
"So are we going to start?" Death asked.
Eclipse mumbled something under his breath that sounded like 'lazy arse." "Sure, why not?" He said louder. He crossed his arms and looked at the professors. "For reasons unknown, Dumbledore has handed the castle over to us without a fight."
"You're lying. He would never do that." McGonagall snarled at Eclipse.
Death and Eclipse looked at each other and shrugged.
"Believe what you want. It won't change the fact that we are still in charge here." Death said. He opened the rucksack and pulled out a wand. "I believe this is your wand, Minerva?
McGonagall glared at him. "How did you get that?"
"That," Death tossed the wand into the air and caught it a few times, "is none of ya business."
McGonagall growled. That was her wand so it was her business.
Eclipse snorted. "You are lucky Dark Moon isn't here or he would have beaten you up for talking like that."
Death grinned. "This is the perfect place to be beaten up, isn't it?"
"Sure it is." Shadow replied with an eye roll. "But I think you two are getting off track."
"Right you are, Shadow." Death said, but stopped and looked at Eclipse. "What is the point?"
Eclipsed slammed his palm into his face. "Next time Dark Moon is coming with me and you are going to watch the kids."
Slughorn frowned. "What have you done to the students?"
"Nothing yet and if you want it to stay that way, you will follow our ruling this school without complaint." Eclipsed answered. "You will teach your class and that is all. You will not tell the students anything that doesn't have to do with your class. Understand?"
The teachers shared annoyed and angry looks. For the sake of protecting their students, they would agree with these people.
"Fine."
"Goody, so onto the next part?" Death asked excitedly.
This worried the teachers. If someone called Death was happy, it couldn't be good.
"Yes. Fawkes, go to Dark Moon." Eclipse told the phoenix that was sitting on the desk with Shadow.
Fawkes blinked and took off into the air.
"How did you get Fawkes to abandon Dumbledore and listen to you?" Sprout asked angrily.
Eclipse, Shadow, and Death looked at each other and shrugged. "No idea."
Death turned back to the professors. "We will let you go now and give you back your wands, but if you try anything, I want you to remember the students."
Dark Moon looked up when he heard Fawkes's song and saw the phoenix flying towards him. The phoenix landed next to him and let Dark Moon pet him.
"What does that mean?" Solstice asked.
"Just this." Dark Moon pulled his wand out. As he did this, the Head Boy and Girl stood up and took their wands out, causing Dark Moon to smirk. "You can try." He said quietly to himself.
Both Heads tried to fire a spell, but like the professors, their wands blew up in their faces. They coughed and waved the smoke from the explosion away.
"You swapped their wands too?" Solar asked.
Dark Moon shrugged. "We wanted to be sure it would be safe." He stood up on the table and pointed his wand ahead of him. With a sideway slash, a blast like sound and a whispered spell, anything that had to do with Hogwarts' houses was ripped from the walls of Hogwarts. Outside the Great Hall, the house hourglasses emptied themselves.
Some of the students screamed in shock as the house flags set on fire as soon as they touched the ground after being ripped from the wall. The other students glared at Dark Moon as some of the younger students burst into tears at what was happening.
"Isn't setting it all on fire going a little far?" Solar asked quietly.
Dark Moon kneeled down on the table. "Don't worry. This stuff is fake. We duplicated all the stuff last Thursday and put the fake ones up." Dark Moon explained to them.
"You guys really thought everything through." Solstice said.
Dark Moon nodded his head. "We didn't want to destroy any real school property. McGonagall would kill us and I want to live to see seventh year."
"Us too." Solar and Solstice said.
Solstice turned back to the students to address them. "The teachers have already surrendered. It's time you do as well."
"What did you guys do to your voices?" Dark Moon whispered to Solar.
Solar grinned. "A vocal spell. It changes our voices."
Dark Moon nodded his head. "Tell them they may leave the Great Hall, but not to try anything and they can't send letters to anyone. They are to go directly to their rooms. Also, because I don't trust them, they will be escorted by you two, one house at a time."
"Sure thing, Dark Moon, but what will you be doing while we are doing this?" Solstice asked.
"Sitting here, keeping an eye on the students." Dark Moon replied. "Maybe take another nap."
"You just woke up an hour ago." Solstice said.
"And you got three and a half hours of sleep. Isn't that enough for you…."
"Or are you that greedy for sleep?"
Dark Moon snorted. "I got absolutely no sleep last night so I'm exhausted. Just make the announcement now."
"Hey kids!" Solstice yelled.
The students looked at the three.
"We will be taking you back to your houses now and you will stay there until we got the school set up that you are allowed to roam it." Solar said.
"You will also not be sending any letters!" Solstice added, causing the students to become outraged.
"Shut up!" Solar screamed at them. He pointed to the farthest left to the Slytherin table. "We will be taking you to your common room first. Up!"
When Solar and Solstice left the Great Hall, Dark Moon leaned back on his hands and watched the students. He was dying from his wounds. He was afraid to move too much because he thought he might tear open one of his wounds. They really should have waited one more day before starting their plan to rule Hogwarts.
After untying all the teachers and giving them their wands back, Eclipse, Shadow, and Death left them to their own devices and headed to the Owlery. Eclipse cast a locking spell on the Owlery so no one could get into it to send a letter. With that done, the three turned and headed to the Great Hall.
Eclipse entered the Great Hall and rolled his eyes. Dark Moon was lying on the Head Table with his legs hanging off the edge. He looked around the Great Hall to find the Slytherin and Ravenclaw tables empty.
"Hiya Death, Shadow, Eclipse." Solar and Solstice greeted when they came back into the Great Hall.
"We're almost done with getting the students back to their common rooms." Solar said.
"When we are done with this we will patrol the school to make sure no students left their common room after we took them there." Solstice added.
Eclipse nodded his head. "The professors are in their rooms or their office or their classrooms."
"What is Dark Moon doing?" Death nodded his head towards Dark Moon.
"Sleeping, maybe. I don't really know." Solar replied.
"Is he supposed to be doing something besides sitting in here?" Solstice asked.
Eclipse shrugged.
"Oi, Gryffindors! Follow us!" Solar yelled.
Eclipse, Death, and Shadow moved aside to let the annoyed, angry, and upset Gryffindors be shepherd out of the Great Hall with Solar in front of them and Solstice following behind them to make sure no one tried to sneak off.
"Yo Dark Moon!" Death poked Dark Moon in the stomach.
Dark Moon yelled in shocked and kicked his leg out to hit Death in the head. Death yelled as he fell backwards onto the ground and grabbed his jaw.
"Dark Moon, I think you broke his jaw." Eclipse said in a daze voice.
Dark Moon groaned and sat up. He pulled his wand out and slid off the table. "Eclipse, block us from the Hufflepuffs while I heal it."
Eclipse and Shadow moved in front of Death and Dark Moon.
"Sorry about that." Dark Moon whispered as he pulled Death's hood off. He whispered a spell as he waved his wand, ending the spell with his wand pointed at Death's chin. Death yelped in pain as his jaw was healed. "All fixed."
Death pulled his hood over his face. "Thanks for that."
"How much longer will your potion last?" Dark Moon asked.
Eclipse frowned and turned around. "Twelve hours, maybe less."
Dark Moon nodded his head. He watched Solar and Solstice come back in and take the Hufflepuffs away. "Let's go to the Headmaster's office."
"Hey Professor Dumbledore," Dark Moon said when the Marauders entered the Headmaster's office.
"Yes Mr. Lupin?"
"Can you change the password into your office so the teachers can't come up here and try to get your help during the game?" Dark Moon asked.
Dumbledore smiled. "Sure." He left his office and came back a few minutes later. "All done."
"What is your new password?" Dark Moon asked.
"Exploding Bonbons." Dumbledore replied.
Dark Moon smiled. "Lovely."
Lily turned to her friends, Marlene McKinnon, Mary Macdonald, Karen Danas and Mali Jonan, in the Gryffindor common room. "Have you seen Potter and his friends?"
The girls shook her head.
"Now that I think about it. I haven't seen Gideon or Fabian all day either." Ness said, looking away from the window.
Shawn frowned and ran up the dorm steps to the second year dorm. He threw the door open and looked around the room. It was completely empty. An empty cauldron sat on the floor near the cabinet in the room. He opened the cabinet and the Hogwarts' school flags and the sorting hat fell out of it. "They didn't." He laughed. He scooped the flags and sorting hat up into his arms and walked back to the common room.
"Look at what I found!" Shawn laughed loudly as he lifted the flags and sorting hat up for everyone to see. "Found them in the second year dorms."
"Those little….." Lily growled.
"But the people wearing the cloaks were tall, except that one. They don't look like second years." Mali said confused.
"They made a growing potion." Shawn explained.
"How do you know?" Angel asked.
"I found the empty cauldron in their room." Shawn replied.
Angel rolled her eyes.
"Gideon and Fabian must be in on this since there are six of them." Ness said.
"We have to end the game." Shawn said with a grin.
Ness smiled. "And how do we do that?"
"I have no idea!" Shawn yelled as he fell back onto the couch with his head on Angel's lap. He smiled up at her.
A few hours later, Ness, Shawn, and Angel snuck out of Gryffindor Tower. They quietly walked to McGonagall's office, checking around each corner to make sure that one of the Marauders or twins wasn't coming.
"What are you three doing here?" McGonagall asked when the three successfully made it to her office.
"Potter, Black, Lupin, Pettigrew, and the Prewett twins are the ones behind today's activities." Shawn chuckled.
"Marauders, I should have known." McGonagall growled under her breath. She smirked evilly. "Time to find them." She pulled her wand out and three silver cats burst from her wand and swept out of the room.
Shawn nodded his head and left the room. He wanted to find the twins and take them down.
McGonagall swept from her room to begin searching the school for her students.
In the Hospital Wing, Dark Moon and Death lay passed out on the beds while Shadow and Eclipse were playing a game of Exploding Snape. They knew they couldn't go back to the Gryffindor Tower since the growing potion hasn't worn off yet.
Being so immersed in their game, they were really surprised when the Hospital Wing doors were blasted open by their Head of House. Shadow stumbled backwards off the bed. The thud of him hitting the ground caused Death to shoot up. Dark Moon just kept sleeping.
"What's going on?" Death asked groggily.
"You four!" McGonagall growled.
Before she could go any farther, there was a loud blast from above them.
"What the hell is going on?" Eclipse growled. He jumped off the bed and pulled his wand out.
"Lower your wand, Potter." Slughorn said.
Eclipse paused and looked at Death and Shadow. "Took them long enough to figure out it is us."
Another bang from above made the teachers and Marauders stop and look at the ceiling.
"What the hell is going on?" Shadow asked.
"Wands boys." McGonagall said and with a wave of her wand all of the Marauders' wands came to her.
Before the boys could protest about their wands being taken, their bodies growled light blue. When the light died down, they were back to their normal twelve/thirteen year old selves. Their cloaks were now two sizes too big for them so they threw them off.
"You boys are in a lot of trouble." McGonagall said.
"We figured, but at least we had fun first." James replied. He looked over at Remus, then back at McGonagall, Sprout, Slughorn and Madam Pomfrey before moving over to Remus's sleeping form. He slipped his cloak off him and pressed his hand against Remus's chest. To his horror, he felt something wet through the fabric. He lifted his friend's shirt to find his bandages covered in blood. "Stupid idiot! We told him not to push himself today and he goes and does the exact opposite of what we say. Madam Pomfrey, can you help him? I think he tore one of his wounds open, the idiot."
Madam Pomfrey bustled over to Remus and pushed James out of the way to start working on Remus's wounds that ripped open since that morning.
Another bang from the floor above made James break his gaze from watching Madam Pomfrey heal Remus to look at his teachers. "What is going on up there?"
"Let's go find out!" Sirius declared. He raced past the teachers with James and Peter following. They ignored the teachers yelling at them to stop.
When they reached the next floor, they find Shawn and Ness dueling against Fabian and Gideon. Angel stood on the sidelines watching in amusement. "Hi boys. Got caught?"
"Yeah, I say we're going to be in detention for a while." James replied.
After McGonagall made it up to the next level and ended the duel, she took the Marauders (minus Remus) and twins to her office to scold them for their prank while she sent Shawn to Gryffindor Tower to retrieve the Sorting Hat and the House flags. She gave them an hour long lecture before sentencing them to four double detentions and took a hundred points from Gryffindor or she said she would as soon as the hourglasses were fixed.
In Gryffindor Tower, the Marauders were met with an angry scolding from Lily before they snuck up to their dorm to find Remus already there. He looked up at them and grinned. "What did McGonagall say?"
"Four double detentions, a nasty lecture, and one hundred points from us as soon as the hourglasses are fixed." James replied. "How are you?"
"Fine. It was only two cuts that ripped open. I'm upset that Madam Pomfrey woke me up from my nap though to send me back here." Remus replied. "All well. I'm tired so night guys!"
"Night Remus!"
A/N: The ending of the prank was rushed cause I was in a hurry. Sorry.
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