The Marauding Five : Year Four

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The Marauding Five : Year Four

Chapter 7: Prankster's Day

'We hadn't been playing much pranks this year, have we?' Sirius yawned, rocking the puffy chair to and fro.

'No detentions anymore. I kinda miss those old days now,' James sighed.

'Well, we can-' Remus started.

'Cook something up? Maybe, Re, but my head's awfully stuck now,' Lily slumped.

'Let's see…' Adele said.

'Hold it one moment, Adele! We have a message coming through!' Lily stopped.

Hullo kids! Rose here! Rose Evans wrote.

Hey mom! What's up? Oh, it's pretty boring these days Lily replied. Mentally.

Yea. You can sleep peacefully in your bed now James said.

Well, Gram thought you'd maybe like to-

Go after Rottie Ripp? Nah! He's sooo boring! Sirius said.

No, I didn't say that, but-

We'd behaved and read our books, so don't suggest that Remus said.

Adele was looking at her four friends, a confused and puzzled expression playing on her pale face. What's happening? Why are they not talking to her? They seemed to be thinking real, real hard though and everyone knows that the Marauders, especially the geniuses (title goes to Lily and James), do NOT think at all.

I think I'd better run now, kids. Lily, take care of James, kay? Rose wrote.

Mom!!!! Lily yelled.

Me? Let a girl take care of me??? What happened to the old tradition, huh? Where boys take care of girls, and not the other way round? James said.

Okay, James, take care of Lily, please? Thanks!

I hadn't even said yes! James said.

Ciao!

Buh-bye! Sirius said.

Adios! Remus echoed.

Grr… Lily and James both said.

Click! And the connection with the Thinking Parchment is broken. Adele looked at them expectantly, waiting for their ramblings on what were they thinking about. Lily was hysterical, as was James, about the idea of taking care of each other when they could barely take care of themselves when it comes to careless topics. Both conjured a small voodoo doll and hit it on the wall unmercilessly, poking it with pins and burning it.

'Well?' Adele said, knowing that she will not get her answer by looking at them, as she usually does with her old schoolmates in Gordonholp.

'Well what?' Sirius said, tearing his eyes from Lily and James both shouting rude things and curses and jinxes on the doll.

'Well…?' Adele said, pointing at the couple knocking furiously at the wall.

'Well…' – Remus did what Adele just did – 'what?'

'You know exactly what I meant!' Adele said, frustrated. She had a temper, though not as hot as the redhead's across the room, yelling things about the voodoo doll, christened as Rose Evans.

'What did you mean?' Sirius said.

'What happened?'

'What what happened?' Remus said.

'You guys spaced out just now. Said something about message.'

'And your point is…?' Sirius said.

'What happened???'

'What? Happened?'

'Yes, what happened just now?'

'What else? You saw it!' Remus said.

'Saw what? All I saw is you guys turned red suddenly and Lily and James ready to kill,' Adele said.

'Aah! That's it!' Sirius said.

'That's what?'

'It! It!' Remus jumped.

'What's it?'

'Nothing,' Lily said, breathing and panting heavily in her anger.

'Tell me!'

'A weird invention she made,' Sirius said, jabbing a finger at the redhead.

'Shut up!' Lily snapped.

'You're full of ideas,' Adele muttered. Hearing this, Lily bowed lowly.

'Anyway –huff– here's out –pant– revenge,' James said after calming himself down with a few gulps of cold water. The voodoo doll the two were working on a while ago was now on the bed, straws pulled out and tortured in almost everyway possible.

'Very cruel, yes,' Remus sighed wistfully, following her gaze at the cursed doll. 'We always do that to release our anger when we were younger.'

'Isn't- isn't that suppose to work?' Adele said shakily.

'Nah! They didn't add the enchanting part. Count Aunt Rose lucky,' Sirius said, inspecting the doll which was sawed into halves.

'Guess so… and isn't Rose Lily's middle name?' Adele said.

'Isn't Celine Adele's middle name? Or Edward James'? Or Orion Sirius'? Or Romulus Remus'? We all have our parents' middle name!' Lily said sarcastically. Adele could tell that Lily isn't quite glad with the way the conversation turned.

'No, I'm – uh, we're – quite fine with it, thanks,' James said, brushing it off.

'Huh?' Adele said.

'Oh, hey! That reminds me!! I have an idea for all of us!' Lily said, her face brightening at that thought.

'What?'

'I'll turn all of you into Psychic! And all of you can learn Black Magic!' Lily said excitedly. 'That way, we will all be almost immune to everything! Well, sorta.'

'How? I mean, how can you make someone into a Psychic? You can't, can you?' Remus said.

'I thought it needs natural talent!' Sirius chipped.

'Why not? My dad wasn't one until mum made him! So's James!' Lily argued.

'But no one could learn Psychic!' Adele said.

'Nope, definitely nope. Not learn, though. I turn you all into one,' Lily said, her face glowing brighter.

'Uh, how?' Sirius asked.

'Adele here can demo it for you,' James said, pushing Adele to Lily. lily grinned at her and made her sit on the bed.

'And if this doesn't work… you'll die,' James added evilly. Adele made a move to run off quick but Lily held her back.

'He's just kidding! C'mon, don't you wanna get prepared?' Lily pleaded.

'Prepared for what?' Remus asked.

'Geez, Voldemort, who else?' Lily said.

'Here Re, I do you and Lily do Adele,' James offered. Remus backed off.

'I wanna give it a try!' Sirius bounced to James.

'You- you sure this'll work? I don't wanna die yet,' Adele mumbled, fidgeting.

'Don't worry! See, even James made it!' Lily said.

'Is that an insult?' James called.

'Er, no. Anyway, let's just finish this.'

Remus sat down, watching his for friends as they started the 'ceremony' to enable them to turn into Psychic. A bright yellow light shot from James's corner, and from Lily's, white. Remus blinked to rid the colorful stars in his eyes.

'There! All done!' James said happily to Sirius.

'Just like this?' Sirius said, disappointed. He was hoping for more, like pain, screams and all.

'Just like this,' James confirmed.

Lily, on the other hand, had a tight problem. Adele had somehow repelled her Psychic powers and the two girls were confused at what had happened. Adele still hasn't acquire the Psychic skills but Lily seemed to glow brightly.

'Um, Li? What's happening?' Remus asked. Lily thought for a while as she registered the current event.

'I think it's cause Adele repelled the transfer. My powers got back to me. Odd, this never happened when I transferred the powers to James,' Lily said.

'How come?' Adele asked.

'I don't know. James, you do Remus and I'll doing Adele again,' Lily said.

'Right,' James said.

And the Psychic-transfer ceremony began again as the blinding light glowed brightly. Sirius waited impatiently for them to finish. The light faded, and Lily and Adele were still the same as before.

'I don't understand,' Lily said, puzzled. 'Why wouldn't it work?'

'Probably cause I'm a Black Mage,' Adele suggested randomly.

'Adele… Black… Lily… White…' James muttered, thinking hard. 'That's it!'

'What's it? Who's it?' Remus said.

'Adele's a Black Mage, right?'

Nod.

'Lily's a Psychic, right?'

Nod.

'Black Mage and Psychic don't go along!' James said smartly.

'Yeah right. Lily learnt Black Magic, remember?' Sirius reminded. 'Idiot.'

'But I notice something different though. The aura you gave off is yellow, and Lily's is white,' Remus offered.

'Probably each of us had our own aura,' Sirius said dismissively.

'Here, why not you try then. Concentrate your psychic powers…' Lily said.

'Waitaminute. I don't even know how to control it! Where is it?' Sirius said.

'Oh… uh, James? Why not you try Adele also, since I can't do it?' Lily suggested.

'Oh, great. I end up doing the rest of us,' James muttered. Lily moved aside and James took her place, concentrating his powers on Adele. The yellow light glowed brilliantly and faded. But this time, Adele is glowing.

'Hey, Adele got it!' Lily exclaimed. 'But why?'

'Probably I'm better than you are,' James snickered.

'I think there's something about the light – or aura – that we emit,' Remus said.

'I get it!!! Lily's a white mage, right?' James said, snapping his fingers. 'Boy, are you smart, James!'

'A white mage?? Potter, Psychics aren't mages!' Lily said.

'No, but white and black don't mix. You're a Psychic, and maybe a white mage, too! Your aura proves it!' Remus said.

'How? But I learn Black magic!' Lily protested.

'Yes, but not given, right?'

'Right…'

'That means… Lily's a combination of all four of the rarest magical folk????' Sirius said, eyes widening.

'Exactly,' James and Remus said.

'I'm gonna hate you!' Sirius cried childishly.

'Hey, it's not that I want it!' Lily defended. 'I'm in huge danger now!'

'Yeah! don't you dare bring yourself to the ministry!' Adele said protectively. 'I'm keeping you with me! No way am I gonna let anyone drink your blood, take your heartstrings, eat your skin and all those!'

'See?' Lily said smugly. 'Blame my mom, or Lily Trenna, if you're so displeased with me. I'm just a normal kid!'

'Very normal. You have Psychic, Seer, Black and White magic. Simply wonderful,' Sirius muttered.

'Yeah. This must be because of some sin my previous self must've done. See what trouble she got for me? I can picture this easily: Lily Evans, Magical Zoo Species; A Rare Combination,' Lily mourned. 'How simply wonderful that is. Being three is still okay, but now that I'm four, I have a feeling I'm gonna die early now. And I was planning to live up to hundred!'

'Anyway, do we still need to train? Like Lily?' Remus asked.

'No. of course we have to! Nothing's free now! If we don't have to, we'll be out of stress forever!' James said, sighing. 'My dream come true.'

'What's your level now?' Sirius asked curiously.

'Floating. Huge good it was. I lack training these days, thanks to Minnie,' James muttered.

'Hey, if Psychic can be transferred this way, wouldn't everyone be Psychic?' Adele said.

'Smart question. Why, Lilydums?' Remus asked.

'One easy question: if you tell someone you're a Psychic, will they believe you?' Lily asked.

'Fat chance.'

'See? Unless you really, really know that person, you'll believe it! that Divination insect told Lily last year, "You're not a seer! You're just a talentless girl that thought you were!" and yadda yadda yadda,' James said.

'But when you told me, I believed you right off!' Adele argued.

'The same reason why we trust you when you said you're a black mage. Cause our past life knew it already. Subconcious mind,' Remus said, pointed at his head.

'If they're our subconcious mind, we're really insane then,' Lily whispered to James.

'Probably that's our answer to why we're such geniuses,' Sirius said. 'We learnt that all before!'

'No! it's also cause we're naturally brilliant!' Remus said. 'Remember our muggle school? I bet no wizard or witch lived as a muggle for eleven years.'

'Yeah…'

'Um, did I tell you that your Psychic has it's limits, since it's transferred? You can reach only up to the floating level,' Lily said.

'Hooray!! I completed my training!! Hold on. The mind-reading level, floating level… only TWO?!' James cried.

'Yeah, but that's enough to defend yourself, right? Besides, my objective is to make all of you into a Black Mage! And unfortunately for you, Adele, we get to learn everything you can,' Lily said, cheekily poking her tongue at the raven headed girl.

'How unfair!' Adele pouted.

**

Not much pranks this year! Girls, I think I won the bet!' Pertsy declared proudly.

'Nooo!' Nina, Tally and Sita moaned.

The four girls were talking about the bets they had placed on the Marauders: When will they grow up? Unlike their first, second, and third year, the Marauders seemed to have forgotten the existance of pranks and the yearly greeting in the Great Hall wasn't done. So Pertsy, who had betted on their fourth year, decided to claim her winnings since the Marauders "grew up" already.

BOOM!

Well, maybe not.

'Aha! You hadn't won yet, Pertsy!' Tally said gleefully, secretly thanking the Marauders that they'd decided to cause some trouble.

'No! Why must this happen?' Pertsy cried. To confirm it (Please, be them and not Peeves! Pertsy begged), the girls ran to the direction where the loud explosion was heard. The Slythering dungeons was bombed into pieces and everyone in Hogwarts was running franticly towards the scene, wondering what on earth had happened. A colorful burst of flowers decorated the sky.

'I told you 9008 firecrackers were too much! See? It got us, too!' Remus yelled.

'Sirius threw in the extra 992!' Adele accused.

'I'm innocent!!' Sirius called.

'Well, Adele used the fire,' James said.

'Did not!' Adele said.

'Did! I didn't burn those! I was setting the cluster rings!' Lily yelled.

'EVANS, POTTER, BLACK, LUPIN, VARENS!!!!!!!!! DETENTION!' McGonagall yelled and her throat gave a dry croak.

'Yeah!' the Marauders cheered, high-fiving each other in vistory.

'You lost this year! Now, be a good girl and hand over those galleons,' Nina grinned. Sulkily, Pertsy gave them two galleons each.

'We did it, we did it!' The Marauders sang happily.

'Did what?' Tally said, making her way to them. Five earnest faces ointed at what looked like a common room and a dormitory, but much worst since it had been burnt to crisps. A huge piece fell over the armchairs.

'The Slytherin common room!' Lily laughed.

'Why did you bomb it? For no reason?' Sita said.

'Cause today's the day! Everyone knows it's today!' James exclaimed.

'What day?' Nina asked.

'Today's Friday,' Tally said.

'What?! No wonder I'm so unlucky today! Friday's my unlucky day!' Pertsy wailed.

'Hah! That's not it!' Remus said. The Marauders grinned broadly at them and an uneasy feeling began to inch it's way slowly to the four girls. Why are they grinning at them?

Feeling something dreadful had happened, the girls quickly ran back to the Gryffindor tower, and into their dormitory. Their worst fears – or lurking fears – were confirmed. The whole room was in a huge mess. Things were flying everywhere, the brushes were dancing and the mirrors were singing an opera tune. They turned to the window, where four broomsticks hovered before it, Adele sitting behind Lily.

'Hope you enjoyed that!' Sirius cackled.

**

During lunch, everyone settled themselves down in the Great Hall. Dan was talking to Tally about their DADA homework when suddenly, five teenagers ran by, as if chased by fire.

'Where're you going?' Dan called to them curiously. Laughing, they ran all the way to the High Tables where Lily and James levitated all the teachers and themselves. Tally turned to the table for food, deciding to ignore the maniacs.

'Uh, anyone seen lunch?'

Boom! Boom! Boom! A loud rumble was heard and a crowd of food (Yes, food!) ran into the Great Hall and drowned everyone. To add to it, Adele used her black magic to roast the food, so the students had to jump up to avoid benig burnt.

Just when everyone had crowded to an empty corner, Remus pulled the trigger to set the dungbombs off. The horrid smell spread itself all over the room – uh, hall - along with some Filibuster's Fireworks. Sirius let loose a hug eboxful og boggarts the gang had managed to comb out and it turned into almost everything possible. A half slug, a zombie, a dracula… all of them.

'Potter, Evans, Lupin, Black!! Oh, and Varens!!!! Let us down!' McGonagall yelled, shaking a fist at them angrily.

'No, no!! Minerva, we'd be in dead trouble!!!' Halley shrieked. McGonagall, however, was too busy yelling things at the five Marauders to listen to Halley.

'Huh?' Ripp said blankly. The professor, instead of growing out of his careless ways, grew even more careless, that half the school suspected that his brain is a size of a miniature sparrow eggcup. He is now as good as lost his mind. 'Yeah!! We fall! Fall, fall, fall!!!!!! Yipee!!!'

'No! not fall!!!! Minerva, do something with your cousin!' Sinistra cried, when the Marauders let them "fall".

BOOM!

Peeves flew in, cackling happily with the Hogwarts band behind him.

'Howdy, mates! Let's go for some music!!! Hit it, ghosts!' Peeves cackled. At that, the ghosts the the eerie note and a small party began where Peeves started singing. He had a horrible voice (no doubt) and the supposedly eerie notes turned into comic scripts.

'Nice, Peeves, but you could do to get your tune right,' Sirius grimaced, his hands clutching his ears.

'Ditto,' James winced.

'Gah! Who cares?' Peeves yelled, breaking into another deafening song, worst than the last.

'What's going on today?' Tally cried in dismay.

'You mean what day is today. What made them go ballastic today?' Dan corrected.

'Tricks day…' Sita muttered in suggestion.

'BINGO!!!!!! Your answer's right, right, right!!!!!' Adele cried, jumping in front of them with a broad grin. 'So your prize of the day isss…'

'A hundred dungbombs and a trip to Stink Island!' Lily finished. 'Come to think of it, is there such place? It must really be heaven there, don't you think?'

'Of course there is! How can anyone doubt that!!!' Sirius chided.

'And … what? James, what on earth is this?' Remus said, holding a piece of paper. James grabbed it from Remus' hands and read outloud:

'Five thousand litres of sticky honey! Fresh from Three Broomsticks – wait! Who put that there? That's our monthly supply!'

'Me,' Sirius grinned, yanking hard on a rope. A huge tub suddenly appeared and tip itself over the bewildered Sita. A hundred dungbombs fell from the sky, exploding, and stink pellets made an island around Sita.

'What? What exactly is happening!!' Sita cried, covered all over in honey. 'Someone! Get me outta this mess!'

'Ta-dah!' Peeves said, pulling another dangling rope. To the school's horror, ash black powder fell from the strategically placed disco ball (when did THAT came…?) along with streamers, confettis and a large banner with colorfully charmed words of "Happy Prankster's Day!" When the black powder touched some students, they turned into…

Fire Frogs.

'Lily, what sorta powder did you use there?' Remus asked.

'Oh, remember the episode with Gamonde Corn last year? Those were the ashes I collected,' Lily beamed. The Marauders all gaped at her.

'Ashes do THAT? Gee, I wish I kept those bits I burnt my old chair with,' Adele sighed.

'Worst luck. That's a lesson to learn: never throw anything useful,' Lily smirked.

'You call this' – Sirius pulled some stray streamers – 'Useful?'

'Er… not them. You use that only once, since it'll disappear. I got that from my old Christmas cracker.'

'Hah! I outsmart Lily!' Sirius yelled gleefully. He secretly thanked his lucky stars because he just "accidentally" had a chance over that section.

'You did not! If it disappears, there'll be nothing left of it, then! Tisn't any waste!' Lily retorted, not willing to give up the name just yet.

'Tis!'

'Tisn't!'

'Tis!'

'Tisn't!'

'Tis!'

'Tisn't!'

'Cut it out!!!' James and Adele yelled at the same time.

'Actually, Lily's quite right. It isn't any waste is this thing disappears into thin air,' Remus said logically.

'Oh, you have time for logic,' Thomas said sarcastically. They ignored him.

'Wonderful. What happened to my fans? Everyone just sides Lily,' Sirius muttered.

'When have you a fan?' James asked.

'… Point taken.'

'See? I won, I won!' Lily cried, jumping up and down.

'Oh yeah? I'm the best mischief-maker, then!' Sirius said, throwing a dungbomb at the crowd. In reply to this, James took out a dinamite from his robes pocket and bomb the empty High Tables. Adele watched with interest.

'James won!' she declared, holding up James' hand.

AN: hiya!!!!!! Am back to haunt your dreams!!! That is, if you have any. Some people just have dreamless sleep *sigh* unlike me. I have tons and tons of dreams, each one weirder than the other :P honestly, you don't wanna know what goes in my head at most time [quote ya, Ginny :)!!!]. Anywayz, am really tired now, and I still have to finish my stupid school project… really, what happened to the fun things in life? Just hope they hadn't apparated off yet, cause I really need some fun injected in my head now… maybe that's why this chapter was odd…

Anywayz, I can't well promise the next chapter early, cuz those projects just keep pouring and pouring! I suggest you read Even Angels Make Mistakes! by me and Ginny :) for something I don't think you'd expect and a huge laugh you probably will enjoy ^^ ta, people!