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Chapter 3

Lily awoke to Katrina shaking her.

"You're going to be late for breakfast!" she exclaimed. Lily rushed to get changed, tame her hair, and put on a bit of makeup. Finally, she went to breakfast and arrived just as the schedules were coming in. Lily sat down when her snowy owl, Athena, gave her a schedule. Lily looked it over.

"Transfig. first with Hufflepuff, DADA with Ravenclaw, Potions with Slytherins," she said in disgust, "and blah blah blah. Same ol' same ol." The week was pretty much like this for awhile. Lily had classes, homework, James and Sirius playing tricks on her, and her devising a prank of humilation with Katrina and Amelia in return. James and Sirius noticed that Lily was planning something, she didn't say a word when they made her potion explode in her face. She laughed.

The potions teacher, Professor Alante, told them that "You MUST NOT have this potion come in contact with your skin. The results will be diasterous." When the potion came to Lily's face, hands, and arms, tiny blue spots errupted from her skin. Then nothing happened, so Lily relaxed a bit. Professor Alante ducked slowly, and the other class members followed in suit. James, Sirius, Remus, Katrina, and Amelia were standing, but were slowly backing away from Lily. Peter was under his desk, trembling. Sirius was smiling as he was backing away, and many "Ow!'s" were heard throughtout the room, because Sirius made an effort to step on all the Slytherin's fingers. James was stern, but his eyes were laughing. Katrina and Amelia were scared looking. Then all of a sudden, all of the blue bumps on Lily's skin exploded at the same time. Orange slime splattered in all directions, covering everything. It was a suprising amount from just small bumps!

A minute later, everyone was recovering from the attack, and Lily sighed. The professor rised, and so did the rest of the class.

"This is what happens when the potion come in contact with the skin!" yelled Professor Alante. Then he grew quiet and wondered aloud "But isn't there more to it?".

Then the orange slime started to move. It was slow at first, but moved quicker and quicker. It grouped at the middle of the room, and grew to be a small hill when all of the slime had been collected. Then it started to take on some form. The shape grew bigger and bigger, and it was still a giant blob. Then arms sprouted from the sides, and legs too. Then everything stopped. No breath was heard, nothing. It was so silent, you could hear a pin drop. Lily was opposite of everyone else in the dungeon, during this mutation process, the class had moved to the front of the room, and were huddled close to the door. Lily's friends were farthest from the door, but were still part of the group. Lily was huddled in a corner.

The blob screamed, a low muffled scream. It turned and faced Lily, and charged at her. She stood up, whipped out her wand, and screamed:

"CRUCIO PINSIO!!!" (AN: I made it up.) This made a red stream burst from her wand straight at the blob. The force from the wand was huge, Lily hit the wall behind her. The wand was shaking violently. (AN: Think Ghostbusters) It was going to snap soon, and Lily would be a goner. The blob couldn't take it, it was trembling too, like it was going to break. Yet it could still fight the force. It very slowly came toward Lily. Amelia ran up, got out her wand, and yelled Crucio Pinsio, and the red stream came from her wand too. The power wasn't great enough, so Remus, James, Katrina, and Sirius ran up, whipped out their wands, and said the words too. The read stream burst from their wands. Lily looked like she were going to faint, and her wand couldn't take this much longer. Together, the group fought the blob. It was sooo close to Lily, it tried to reach her but couldn't by an inch.

Then, the blob screamed again, this time in agony. An explosion was heard, and the room was covered in orange dust. Everyone and everything was covered, nothing was spared. The dungeon was silent, when a sound like bells ringing sounded in the air.

Lily was laughing.

She was laughing hard, and the whole class stared at her. She fell to the floor, but that was because she was weak.

"Thats what I forgot." said the Professor." You six, have just saved our lives. That blob was a Bloodmaster. If it got to Lily, he would have sucked her dry." Lily's laughing died down. Sirius beamed. "Well, go to Madam Schmitt." said the professor.

James made a move to help up Lily, but she refused. She got up on her own, and her eyes shot daggers at him. James then realized he started this prank, and almost got Lily killed. Sirius was laughing as they were walking through the corridors. "Wasn't that awsome!" he exclaimed. James was stern the whole time. When he heard this, he was angry.

"What do you mean awesome? We could have gotten Lily killed!" he exclaimed. Sirius grew soloum. "We could have, couldn't we." he said quietly. At the time, Katrina was on one side of Lily, and Amelia on the other. Lily didn't hear James and Sirius' coversation, she was in her own world.

When they reached the Hospital Wing, Madam Schmitt was horrified that the students were covered in orange dust when other students' conditions could get worse with dust around. So instead of them staying in the hospital wing, Madam Schmidtt took them to her office, where there was a painting of a nurse sitting on a bed with a boy on it, taking his temperature. This was a life sized painting, and the office was huge, with many more beds in it. It was a hall, with the painting at the end of it. It wasn't far, it took them 10 seconds to get to it. Beds lined walls on the sides of the painting, although no children were in them. Madam Schmidtt mumbled a word, and the painting swung open. There was a perfectly circular cylinder passageway. It looked almost metallic, and they passed through it, to find a dark room. They could see, after all, it did have windows. There were six beds that formed a half-circle, to fit the circular room they were in. Two doors were on either side of the beds, and they assumed they were bathrooms.

"You will stay here." said Madam Schmitt. She then left them the way she came. The rest of the day and night was uneventful. Lily ignored James and Sirius, she only spoke to Remus, Katrina, and Amelia. During this time, Lily cleaned herself up, practiced charms on the room, but mostly slept. She was the weakest of everyone. Everyone else got clean, and sat around or slept. The next morning eventually came, and they left. Lily continued to ignore Sirius and James, they didn't even try to apoloigize.

Finally, Lily's plan of humilation was ready. Amelia, Katrina, and Lily crept into the boy's dorm at 2:00 a.m. to make sure they were asleep. Sparks flew from their wands for about an hour. After their plan had been performed, all went to sleep, all anticipating the next day.

On the next day, a Friday, screams awoke the whole castle.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" James, Sirius, and Peter awoke to find their room pink! The floor was light pink, beds were bright pink, walls were neon pink, pajamas were pink with bows all over them, and all of their possesions were pink! Even James, Sirius, and Peter themselves were different. Sirius's skin was royal blue, Peter's skin was yellow, and James' skin was neon green. All of their hair was red, fire engine red. Their eyes were pink, and really stood out against their skin. The only things that wearn't pink were Remus, his bed, or his belongings. Everyhing else was pink!! Remus was laughing hysterically, he knew Lily was responsible for this. James and Sirius were hysterical, everything they owned was pink! There was a note on Peter's bed saying:

Peter,

This is the worst you'll get. You laughed, you paid. (AN: I wish it wasn't the worst he was gonna get!!! This could be one very bad story for Peter if I want it to be!)

"Ok." said James calmly, "Noone has to know about this." We'll get changed, and pretend it has never happened, right?" Sirius was nodding his head, still in shock, Peter nodded his head, and Remus was recovering from his laughter fit. Peter, Sirius, and James went to get changed, to find that the only things they had to wear were pink robes covered in bows, like the pajamas. James found a note in his drawers, written in pink, saying:

Mauraders,

Do you by chance like the color pink? I thought it looked nice on you, and the whole school will soon agree with me I think.

-The fair Lily

P.S. If Remus lends robes to you, those will turn pink too!

"Curse you Lily!" muttered James under his breath.

With every option eliminated, Peter, James, and Sirius had to go to breakfast, in their pink robes with bows on them and live through the roar of laughter that greeted them when they walked in. Lily was talking to Katrina and Amelia. She was so care free and was acting like nothing had happened, it got James mad. He turned to Sirius who was gawking at the ceiling.

"What is it Sirius?" James then looked up. The ceiling had a huge picture of them awaking and realizing that everything was pink. It was like a mini-movie. This was it for James, and Sirius. Peter was too hungry to really care, so he was already gorging himself on food, as usual.

"LILY!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Sirius and James in unison. The whole room stopped. The laughter halted as James and Sirius grabbed Lily and dragged her out. When she was being dragged out, she bowed and yelled to her friends:

"Get Remus and help me!" The girls knew what they had to do, and got Remus right when he was walking into the Great Hall. The went into the lobby, to find Lily being magically held up to the wall.

"HOW LONG WILL IT LAST LILY?" yelled Sirius.

"WHY SHOULD I TELL YOU?" yelled Lily back. Sirius was evidently aggrivated, and was raising his wand when Remus tackled him.

"You never think before you act. You could have hurt Lily!" said Remus. "Don't you remember AT ALL that you came close to KILLING her, and you never apologized?" James put her back down, and Lily spoke.

"Now, we're even." and she walked off, not feeling hungry at all.

Katrina walked up to James and slapped him HARD. He had a red mark on his face, which Katrina immediately charmed so it would stay, and sting the whole while.

"You never apologized. She could have died, and you don't apoligize." she whispered. "HOW DARE YOU!!!" she screamed. James only looked at her, his eyes were saying he was sorry, but he was not. Amelia did the same to Sirius. She slapped him and charmed it too.

"I thought you were a better person than this. This is just LOW." Amelia and Katrina walked after Lily. Remus was left. He only shook his head and walked off.

The end of another chapter has arrived!! I have to say, that was creative, for me anyway. Did you like it? Please R+R, I can always use it!