Sorry I took so long with this chapter! This current story will be split into two chapters, and I'll have the second one out as quick as possible.
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"But I still don't understand that whole thing about the inside of a Dementor-"
"Lu! Bells!"
Stopping in mid conversation/debate, the two girls watched with mild interest as their friend ran up to them, a mysterious object clutched to his chest. When Colin finally caught up, they saw it was a small, silver box. In fact, it was the very one he received this morning during breakfast, the one that made him squeal (yes, squealed) in delight, and then run out the doors of the Great Hall, leaving Bella and Luna to watch after him. Shrugging, they turned back to finish their food, and didn't see him until breakfast was over.
"What's that?" Bella asked warily, leaning slightly away from the box. She was more than familiar with his 'mystery objects', and his excitement could only mean that he was going to try to get money from this. His money-making plans usually don't go well, which can account for her fear of the Whomping Willow Operation.
"You would not believe what I just got!" He chattered quickly, delicately pulling off the top of the case, and began slowly pulling it out. Bracing herself for some catastrophic disaster, Bella covered her eyes and turned away, body tensed and ready to run like Hell if necessary. She stayed in that pose for a few minutes, waiting, before getting tired and just turning around.
"How pretty!" Luna sighed, staring at the object. Grumbling about 'not meeting her expectations' Bella grudgingly looked at the mystery object. It was a small crystal orb that fit perfectly in the palm of Colin's hand. Perhaps the interesting part of it was the multi colored lights that swirled around each other in the middle. There were three: Red, Blue, and Green.
"You won't believe what this can d- Wait, where did it go?" An obnoxious yet familiar cackle echoed throughout the empty halls, interrupting Colin with all his 'belief' stuff. With the angriest look he had on his face yet, face red and teeth clenched, Colin let out a furious roar and promptly brandished his wand, aiming it right at the ugly little creature that was bouncing of the walls.
"GIVE IT BACK, PEEVES!" He growled. Peeves cackled again, the sound disgustingly shrill in their ears, before he started flying away. With fierce determination, and one more growl ,Colin ran straight after him, leaving Bella and Luna no choice but to follow. Even though he was out of sight, it was not that hard to find him; his screams were louder than a bright red arrow pointing straight towards him. When they arrived, he was angrily shouting spells, the nasty thing managing to avoid all of them. Bella had to quickly duck to avoid an oncoming Stupefy. And then, the unthinkable happened.
"Heh, Heh! Little Cree- Oops!" They all watched in horror as the orb slipped from his hands, and dropped towards the ground. At the same moment, all three students jumped for it at the same time. It missed just a few inches shy of Colin's outreached fingers, and crashed as it fell. The multi-colored lights slowly seeped out of it, and they gazed in part amazement, part horror as they each grew. They wrapped each other around the children's bodies, and they were all blinded by bright flashing of light. After a few more moments of utter confusion, the lights were gone, and so was Peeves. The orb rolled lazily in the middle of the floor, the two parts it broken into shining dimly in the sunlight. With a gasp of anguish, Colin rushed forward to grab it spying no swirling colors.
"Oh, shit. I swear, I'm gonna… gonna… What the hell is wrong with my voice?" Curiously, he placed his hand on his neck feeling nothing out of the ordinary, except for when his hands trailed over the warm metal of a necklace. Was that there before? But why were his hands so small, and why were his legs this cold..?
"WHY THE FUCK AM I WEARING A SKIRT!" he screamed, frantically trying to pull the fabric lower. Something kept falling in his eyes and his head felt so heavy. Grabbing some of the mysterious things, he could see they were long strands of dark brown hair. Becoming more and more frantic by the second, Colin ran his hands over what he was sure was his body, until he felt some things that were not supposed to be there.
"Um, Bells?" he squeaked. Hearing a groan coming from the lump of blond hair next to him, Luna tiredly sat up, rubbing her eyes.
"Yeah, Col?" There was a pause, before her eyes widened even more, and she looked at Colin, then herself and then.. herself? Because she was a hundred percent sure it was herself staring back at her. A sense of dread overcame the both of them, before Bella-Well Luna, rolled her eyes skywards.
"Oh, for fucks sake!"
(End Flashback)
"And that's pretty much what happened." Luna- Bella finished, placing her hands on her hips. The Golden trio stared dumbly at the three younger students, the first one to break the silence being Harry, who mumbled a quick 'I'm Sorry', even though he was not at fault. He awkwardly rubbed his head, wondering if this girl he developed a fancy towards possibly got in more tireding situations than he did himself, Chosen One and all.
Hermoine gave Lu-Bella a reassuring pat on the back, while Colin, who was in his almost-girlfriend's body, sobbed while he tried to push together the two broken parts of the orb. Seeing her look so pitiful wanted to make him give her a hug- until he realized he would probably get punched in the face if he did.
"Ah, damn!" she-he sniffed, rubbing his snot with his sleeve. Bella crinkled her nose in disgust, giving her clothes a sad glance. Be-Colin didn't notice this as he was a bit depressed at the moment. Obviously, the most calm of the three, as always, was Col-Luna, who was humming a melody as she gazed up towards the roof, seeming fascinated at its cracks.
"Colin, that's disgusting!" The harsh tone was very unusual coming from the usually serene blonde's mouth. In fact, a few Fourth Years who overhead them cast a few curious glances in the direction of the girl who all have labled a compete ditzy lunatic. Noticing their curiosity, Bella in Luna's body cast them a withering glare.
"What?" she demanded rather indignantly " I know there isn't anything on my face, so go on then! Shoo!" They stood there for a few moments, before hurrying their way along the corridor. Harry fought his natural instinct to wonder why Luna was acting so weird, than usual of course, trying to tell his subconscious that it wasn't Luna. Oh no, it was his girlfriend(almost), and he wondred how he never realized how much she cursed before. He watched, mind racing as Bella in Luna's body stared cursing again, yelling at Colin in Luna's body. They seemed to argue more than Ron and Hermoine, just without the sexual tension. More of the sibling variety.
"Why do you look so confused, Harry Potter? Is it that weird seeing your girlfriend in my body?" Coming from Colin's mouth, there was so much wrong with that sentence. Pushing back remarks of how Bella was not his girlfriend ( officialy), he gave C-Luna a long look.
"So, what are you all going to do now?" He-well she shrugged, unusually well-groomed brown hair staying in place. The sounds of the heated argument between the two second years abruptly stopped, and Harry turned to see the quickly retreating back of Isabella; Luna's body was nowhere to be found. When he turned back around, Colin's body was gone too. How exactly did they do that without him noticing?
"A trick the twins taught us to scare people. It only took a couple of chocolate frogs, so it was a good deal." He jumped, letting out an embarrassing squeak. Colin-well, Luna was standing behind him, hands clasped behind his/her back, a small smirk playing on his/her lips. Harry placed a hand on his racing heart, his mind struggling to keep up, burdened with the thoughts of switched bodies and disappearing acts. At the mention of bribing the twins, something that he and Bella briefly talked about, he opened his mouth to ask exactly what the twins were making, before more frantic screams interrupted him.
"WHO'S LOONY NOW, EH?" Luna in Colin's body sighed, before hurrying to the corridor. Bella in Luna's body was towering over a few, scared students, wand brandished and waving dangerously in their faces. Colin in Bella's body was taking in all of the action, quickly taking pictures from various angles. Co-Luna sighed, obviously depressed at the thought that she couldn't tease Harry anymore, before quickly pulling her wand out of her bag. Muttering the incantation, Bella's wand flew out of Luna- well, Bella's hand and into the switched girl's. Eyes wide, the kids scurried to their feet and ran. Harry watched in amazement as Colin finished taking pictures, ginning happily as he wiped the sweat of of his/Bella's forehead. Luna quickly chastised the girl who had her head bowed, blond hair falling in her eyes.
"Sorry, Lu." She mumbled nervously twirling her fingers. Colin came up behind her, wrapping his arms around the girls neck.
"Don't be so mad, Lu! Besides, thanks to these pictures,I can get a helluva lot of money! Probably enough to pay for all my books next year! think of the headlines "Newly Discovred Decorus Child Caught in Heated Battle' or maybe something about her bullying children smaller than her. Think of the possibilities!" He brushed the bangs off the now-smiling Luna- well Bella's face, both of them sharing a content expression. Harry tiredly placed his head in his hands. Less than twenty minutes and he already had the biggest migraine in all of his life. This three were too peculiar.
"You broke Harry!" Colin exclaimed, chortling loudly. Bella blushed, averting her face from the curious glances Luna sent her. Just then, Hermoine ran up behind them, face red and panting. In her right hand she was clutching a book that was almost bigger than her, in the left a quill. Ron was nowhere to be seen.
"Headmaster Dumbledore wants to see you!" she exclaimed loudly. The trio nodded, and began walking in the general direction of The Headmaster's office. She nodded towards Harry, and he followed behind them. By the time he caught up with them, they were already past the statue and going up he stairs. Did the twins provide them with some form of super speed? Yet another thing he had to ask Bella after this whole fiasco had been sorted.
"Why do I feel as if some thing bad- well, something worse is going to happen?" He sighed, before following the second-years up the stairs the the office of his Headmaster.
"So, I guess that its Peeves fault, but if I were to punish someone, it would be that blockhead right there, right Dumble?" With a nervous giggle and a final wave of her hands, Luna sent a ill-meaning glare towards the shy Bella, who was more-or less hiding in the corner. Harry, from his perch on one of the chairs next to Colin carefully watched Dumbledore's expression. He blinked, looked over at the three switched teens, blinked again, and reached over to grab a lemon-drop. He gave a sigh as as he saw he only had three left. Harry kept his gaze down, nervously fiddling with his fingers as he absentmindedly listened to the conversation going between Godfather, and his goddaughter in another body. Colin's body was posed in an effeminate gesture, legs crossed and hands gently folded on his lap. As though somehow noticing his gaze, Luna in Colin's body turned her eyes towards him, a small smile playing on his-her lips. She jutted her chin towards Dumbledore, signaling that he was about to say something important.
"The Sphere of Converting" he stated, sucking on a lemon drop" It looks like a crystal orb with different colors inside, correct? It wasn't that expensive, up until two days ago when the last one disappeared. Most say it causes more trouble than what it is worth, as it causes things to 'switch' when its essence, or the colors, are released. What it converts could be completely random, it might make a chair perform the action of a lamp, or vice-versa. But if the public were to find out that it can, in fact, even switch a person's spirit-" He cut himself off, sighing once more.
" To get back to your original bodies, you must first collect the essences and place them back into the sphere. Its rather simple, all you need is an extraction tool which can be acquired from Professor Snape." They all winced. That just made everything ten times harder.
"But I must ask, Mr. Creevy, how did you become in possession of such an item?" Colin let out a barking laugh, before grabbing his two companions and racing out the door, barley mangling a farewell over his shoulder. Harry sighed and stood up, wondering why he was even called here.
"Col..."
"Yup?"
"Time Turner?"
"Time Turner." Their conversation was apperently only heard by Harry, as he got up to leave, before he was called back.
"Harry?" He stopped and turned to face his old Headmaster." Please do me a favor, and make sure Isabella doesn't cause too much mayhem." Harry grinned and nodded, before closing the door behind him, and eagerly following his friends.
"How the hell did you do it, Lu?" Bella asked in amazement, as she gave C-Luna a big hug. Colin's body chuckled in a very Luna-like manner, patting the young girl on the top of her sandy-blond hair. Colin was a bit pre-occupied while trying to figure out how to fix the orb so that the captured essences would stay put. Harry was still shocked at how easily Luna managed to acquire the item. He didn't know how she did it, as they all had to stand outside while she talked to the big-nosed git, yet she managed. Now, she was holding a rather small, black object that seemed to resemble a hand-held vacuum. At the end of the hands was a minature sphere, possibly for containing their essences.
Jumping up, Luna stretched her arms above her head, cracking her knuckles. It was a strange gesture coming from Luna's body; but then again, Harry had seen many strange things today. He took the item from Luna, feeling how cool and smooth the object was. He followed Bella as she led the group through the hallways, eyes open for anything out of the ordinary. They passed the usual things: ghosts, floating objects, meek first years and rambunctious seven years before finally stopping at what was perhaps the strangest.
"Is that normal?"
"Well Colin, we're staring at a portrait thats blinking red... And now green.. Yellow.. Back to red again.."
"Just shut up and take the essence out, Bells!"
Mumbling underneath her breath, Bella snatched the object from Harry, and pressed it toward the painting. Nothing happened.
"Bella do you nee-"
"No! I got this, okay? Just wait a moment." So they did. They waited several moments, in fact. Yet, still refusing any help, Bella just stubbornly kept the tool against the portrait. It got to the point when, in a fit of anger, she began bashing it against the wall. Luna sighed, moving to take the object out of her hands.
"Stupid fucking vacuum wannabee- DAMN IT!" kids walking past looked positively shocked as the serene. insane Luna loudly cursed, throwing the tool across the room. Making a dive for it, Colin managed to save the precious item. They mumbled about her having a 'breakdown.'
"Hormones." Harry jumped as Co- Luna whispered in his ear, grinning when the boy looked so ridiculously shocked. It wasn't until Harry realized what she said that he began blushing, remembering all those 'talks' the teachers at his old school had, about their bodies changing and what not. And then the less pleasant memories of his Uncle threatening him with a knife, swearing to kill the boy if he got some girl pregnant. He should have said that to his son- who Harry knew was probably somewhere in the back of a car doing...things.
Colin quickly handed the object to Luna who promptly pressed it against the portrait, and pressed the little button on the handle, that a now very sheepish looking Bella had overlooked. A white light flashed for a moment before Luna pulled away the object, and handed it back to Harry.
"Lets continue," she stated" We have two more to go. I have a feeling they may be harder to find than the last ones." They started walking again, this time Luna in the front. Harry was relieved to find that his promise to Dumbledore may be easier to fulfill since they hadn't gotten into any trouble so far. Sadly, for the Chosen One it seemed as if Fate wasn't so chummy with him.
A tall girl with curly, copper-colored hair and icy eyes stepped out in front of them, effectivley blocking their path. Her skirt was very short, barley covering her backside, her shirt a size to small, her bra obviously showing through, and long, cat-like nails. Harry was more than surprised to find that she wore the Ravenclaw robes; she didn't exactly look like the most intelligent person. Obviously, someone wasn't winning the Nobel Prize anytime soon. She glared at his juniors, a strange cross between a smirk and a frown playing on her lips.
"Well, what do we have here? Little Looney and her-" Bella- who obviously looked like Luna, spared no pause in roughly moving past the girl, not-so-accidentally pushing her into a wall. Colin snickered, though at this moment it looked like Bella snickered.
"There's what you have, Lucy!" he called over his shoulder as he walked around the hepa of the girl now lying on the floor, screaming something about her nails. Luna obliviously walked past her as if she wasn't there leaving Harry by himself the only thing blocking him from completing his promise was a very, very angry girl. He looked forward to see Luna turning the corner, ad figured it would be best to just walk past her. And so he did.
And thankfully, no cat-fighting ensued.
