The Bandit Damsels
A Regular Valentines Day… Or So You Think!
Disclaimer: You know the drill. If you don't, check earlier chapters.
A/N: Sorry this chapter took me so long to start writing and to post it. I had a busy break. And my other stories too. Hogs Have Warts has 3 chapters up and another in progress. The Tale of the Unwanted Lorelei Smith (title may change) has 2 chapters up. Also I am writing a story with my brother called The Deceiving Truth under the pen name Mandegal, so please check it out. The fifth chapter was recently posted to it. Now, on with the STORY.
February 13th 11:55 pm – Hogwarts
"Come on already," said an invisible voice into the air.
"We're coming, sheez," said another invisible voice into the air.
"Hurry up. I want to get this do before Flich, the teachers, and Prefects do their rounds in this area," said yet another voice that sounded close to the first.
"Does everyone know what spell to say?" asked the first voice.
"Yes we do!" answered a fourth voice, close to the second. "You ask us that every time we do something like this. Didn't you practice with us?"
"Sorry," answered the first. "You're right."
A giant wooden door opened and shut by itself. It led into an even bigger room than the doors were themselves. Inside the room, there were five tables. Four of the tables had an end facing the wall were the giant wooden doors were. The other end of the tables faced the fifth table, which was placed in front, centered, and raised in the grand room. The room was large enough to fit a number of large houses in it, by width, length, and height. Thousands upon thousands of unlit candles floated around the room.
The room appeared to have no ceiling, and it looked as if you were looking at the sky outside. Everyone said that it was enchanted. At that exact instant, there were thousands upon thousands of star twinkling in the dark night sky. The slipper moon shone brightly, lighting a small area so that the voices could see where they were, where they were going, and what they were doing.
"Everyone, out!" exclaimed the third voice.
Four girls of age twelve appeared out of thin air, and two of them were each folding a silvery piece of cloth.
"Kalani, give me your cloak and I'll put it in my bag," said one of the girls who was folding a piece of cloth.
"Here you go Delicia," Kalani Kai said.
"Thanks," answered Delicia Malfoy.
"Kalani, Delicia, come on. I want to finish before breakfast!" Allegra Black yelled up the hall to where Kalani and Delicia stood.
"We're coming. Hold your horses." Kalani and Delicia walked over to where their two friends stood.
"Ok, I'll go first," said Delicia. She took out her wand pointing it at the ceiling and down in a big swoosh while whispering, "Post Primus Bubo Mutare Suavis Ad Cor Suavis." (A/N: Sorry that the spells are so long.)
"Divina, you next," remarked Delicia.
"Ok." Divina took out her wand and waved it in a circular motion around the room while she muttered, "Suavis Heu 'Be Mine: BD." (A/N: BD means The Bandit Damsels.)
"My turn," Kalani quipped quietly while jumping on the balls of her feet. "Post Primus Bubo Mutare Charta Ad 'Howler'." Kalani whirled her wand around.
"Me next!" Allegra shouted quietly. Allegra took out her wand from her pocket, bowed to the three girls who giggle, and whispered, "Howlers Boare: 'HAPPY VALENTINES DAY. YOURS TRULY, THE BANDIT DAMSELS. (BD)."
The girls laughed quietly as they brought out the silver cloth, two pieces of parchment and stood together.
"When we get back, let's work on our maps and finish the potion," suggested Kalani.
Divina taped the parchment she held with her wand and muttered, "Humiliate First!"
Allegra taped the parchment she was holding with her wand and muttered, "Good, Bad."
The two pieces of parchment started to turn into maps of Hogwarts before their eyes.
"Same groups. Come on Allegra," called Delicia as she put her cloak on.
Allegra joined Delicia with one map, and Divina joined Kalani under her cloak with the other map.
"Last map to the common room has to kiss Harry!" yelled Delicia as she and Allegra ran out of the Great Hall quickly with Divina and Kalani trailing behind them.
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"Ok, wipe the maps clean," whispered Delicia in their dorm.
The four girls were sitting on Divina's bed with a silence charm around it.
Allegra pointed her wand at the map she was holding. "All for Laughs." The map was now a piece of parchment,
Divina did the same except whispered, "Ask Questions Later." (A/N: to open this map you say 'Humiliate First.' To open the map that Allegra is hold you say 'Good, Bad.')
"Ok," said Kalani. "Open the maps again. WE have to add the stuff at the top. And we have to find a way to not mix up the maps."
The maps were opened. The maps were just maps. No names on them.
"Ok, let's put the groups name on it. Then Manufacturers of Mischief, Flowers/Elements, and our nicknames," suggested Allegra.
Delicia, since she had the neatest writing wrote on one map:
Bandit Damsels' Map
Manufacturers of Mischief
Flowers
Mistress of Pleasure – Starflower, Mistress of Cheerfulness – Blue Belle, Mistress of Divineness – Buttercup, and Mistress of Heavenliness – Snap Dragon
On the other she wrote:
Bandit Damsels' Map
Manufacturers of Mischief
Elements
Mistress of Pleasure – Cry, Mistress of Cheerfulness –Hunter, Mistress of Divineness –Swift, and Mistress of Heavenliness –Doe
(A/N: Mistress of Pleasure is Delicia. Her name means Pleasure. Starflowers are white (in this cases) like her with her silver hair, eyes, and light skin. Cry because of her animal form. Mistress of Cheerfulness is Allegra. Her name means Cheerful/Lively. Blue Belles are blue like Allegra with her blue hair (yes it's blue, midnight blue, but blue), and purple/blue eyes. Hunter because for her animal. Mistress of Divineness is Divina since her name means Divine. Buttercups are gold/yellow like her. Swift because of her animal. Mistress of Heavenliness is Kalani since her name means Heavenly. Snap Dragons because Kalani is brown/purple which Snap Dragons can be. Doe because of her animal. In the story, the girls will either call each other with the flower name, nickname, animal name, or real name.)
"Ok, let's add the last ingredient to the potion," whispered Delicia.
Allegra reached under the bed and took out a caldron carefully, and then she reached under the bed again and brought up a glass jar of patinent jelly.
Kalani took the jar from Allegra and added four pieces of the patinent jelly to the bubbling caldron. "There. The potion has to sit until next year."
"That will be our third year. Dumbledore said not to become Animagus until fifth years," said Divina. She wasn't too fond of breaking the rules but still did.
"So we become Animagus' next year, and become register Animagus' in fifth year," Delicia reasoned.
"Well…" Divina started but was cut off.
"I like that idea," Allegra stated.
Kalani smiled. "Ditto."
Divina shook her head. "Fine."
The three other girls jump onto her, almost suffocating her with their hugs.
When they were do hugging, Divina asked them a question they had all been thinking about. "How do we fine out what animal we become?"
The three other girls looked at one another. They didn't get that far. It looked like they would have to head to the library tomorrow.
Divina went over to her chest and placed one of the maps in it, then whispered, "Alohomara."
Allegra did the same, only just with her trunk. Delicia crawled under Divina's bed and carefully place the caldron inside of a box. She whispered the locking charm on the box and crawled back out from under the bed.
The girls all went to their separate beds and placed their wands on the bed side tables. Each girl (including Dawn) forgot to close her curtains around their bed.
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A few rays of golden sunshine seeped through the curtain covering the window. Kalani, who forgot to close the curtains around her bed started to stir, for the light was shinning on her.
She slowly sat up in bed and looked around at the occupants of the room. Allegra was curled in a ball at the end of her bed like a baby as usual, while Delicia was sleeping like an angel-all innocent. Kalani quietly chuckled at the irony of this. She looked to her right. Divina had most of her body off the bed away from herself so that Kalani couldn't see her. Dawn, surprisingly, was still in bed asleep.
Kalani hated Dawn. She hated her with all of her heart. When they had first met, Dawn had taken one look at her and dismissed her with a wave of her hand.
~Flashback~
An eleven- year- old Kalani Kai walked through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station, and bumped into another girl with an owl.
The girl saw that the other girl had an owl, asked if she was going to Hogwarts. When Kalani answered with a yes, she asked the girl how to enter the platform. 'Just run at the barrier between 9 and 10,' the girl had said pointing to the barrier. Kalani had been unsure about that, so the older girl went first. When she had disappeared from sight, Kalani walked through the barrier.
She looked around her as a platform materialized out of nowhere.
'Wow,' she had thought.
The sign above her read, 'Platform 9 3/4'
A conductor on the train called out, 'Hogwarts Express leaves in five minutes! Please board.'
Kalani walked to one of the entrances and tried to lift her trunk onto the train, but with no luck
"Do you need help Deary?" woman with red hair asked her.
"It would be greatly appreciated," was Kalani's answer.
"Ron," the woman called.
A tall teenage boy with red hair walked up to them. "Yes mom?" he asked the woman.
"Will you help…" She looked at Kalani. "I'm sorry Deary, but I don't know your name."
"Oh. It's Kalani Kai."
"Ron, will you help Kalani with her trunk?"
The boy, Ron, nodded his head and picked her trunk up, lifting it onto the train.
"Thank you very much," said Kalani to the lady and Ron.
Ron, again nodded, and walked off to join his friends.
"Your welcome Deary. By the way I'm Mrs. Weasley." Mrs. Weasley held out her hand to her which Kalani shook. "Are you a first year Kalani?"
"Yes."
Just then, the train started to move and Mrs. Weasley pushed Kalani onto it.
"Bye Kalani," shouted Mrs. Weasley as she waved to Kalani.
Kalani walked towards the first compartment that she saw. She slowly opened the door and looked in; inside of it, six blonde girls were sitting there talking. When they heard the door open they looked up.
"Can I sit here?" Kalani questioned timidly.
One of the girls looked at her, shook her head, and dismissed her with her hand. Kalani quietly closed the door behind her and went to look for a place to sit.
There she had met Delicia, Allegra, and Divina. Divina and Allegra had been friends since they were both adopted, and Delicia had just met them. The third girl welcomed her into their group, no questions asked, and she was happy.
~End of Flashback~
The girl who had 'dismissed' her was Dawn, and this was why Kalani hated her. Only three good things had come from that ride: she had become friends with Delicia, Allegra, and Divina, she got a big 'brother', and Mrs. Weasley was always kind to her.
Ron Weasley was her big 'brother'. You mess with Kalani, you get seventeen-year-old (now any ways, last year sixteen) Ron Weasley after your blood, giving you hell. Kalani was sad because Ron wouldn't be there next year. She loved Ron like a brother since she only had a step-sister who hated her.
And Mrs. Weasley, having found out when Kalani's birthday was always sent Kalani a present then and at Christmas.
Kalani looked over at Dawn's bed again and grinned evilly. Kalani may seem innocent like all her friends, but she was still a prankster.
Kalani quickly picked up her wand, pointed it at Dawn, and muttered a spell. And just incase someone checked to see she what spell was last cast by her wand she got out of bed and walked to her dresser. Opening the doors, she looked at the locked box there.
The box was made of finished wood with ivy carved into it. Kalani pointed her wand at it and whispered, "Alohomora." The box clicked open. Kalani took out a picture of a man. "I love you dad," she whispered to the picture. (A/N: You'll find out more about Kalani later on. J)
Kalani put the picture back, closed the box and locked it with a key around her neck. She slowly climbed back into her bed and laid there waiting for the others to wake.
~
Kalani quickly closed her eyes as she heard Dawn get up and walk to the bathroom.
'Five four three two one,' thought Kalani.
"AHHHHHHHH!" came Dawn's scream.
Kalani heard the other girls stir and pretended to wake up.
"Wh…What… h… happened… Dawn?" asked Kalani in between fake yawns. She walked over to the closed bathroom door with her friends.
"I'm RED! AND PINK!" she howled.
Someone had started to knock at the door, which Delicia opened. Outside the door, most of Gryffindor house along with the Head students in front could be seen.
"We head someone shriek, is everything alright in here?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, everything is fin…" before Delicia could finish, she was cut off by a-
"NO! EVERYTHING IS NOT FINE! I'M RED AND PINK!" yelled Dawn, emerging from the bathroom.
Dawn sank down onto the floor and started to cry. Hermione, being who she was, stepped into the room and shut the door behind her. She sat beside Dawn and tried to comfort her.
Hermione turned her head towards the others in the room. "Who did this?" she asked in a hushed whisper.
Delicia, Allegra, Divina, and Kalani didn't say anything. "It will be ten points from Gryffindor… each if I don't find out who did this."
"Why?" asked Divina.
Hermione glared at her. "Because it isn't nice to change the colour of people."
"But what if only one of us did it and we don't know who it was? Or what if someone else did it? Not one of us? What if Dawn did it her self? You know that she doesn't like us!" Everyone was surprised. Divina was usually soft spoken, not defending, that was usually Allegra.
"Why don't you check their wands?" asked a hoarse voice.
Everyone looked at Dawn.
"I don't know what spell was used," said Hermione with a shrug.
"Still check. If you don't recognize the spell then test it out on something."
"Everyone get your wands." Hermione glanced at Dawn. "Even you Dawn."
The girls gathered around Hermione as she checked at their wands with 'Prior Incantato'. The spell that appeared from Dawn's wand was 'Engorgio'. The spell that appeared from Kalani's, Allegra's, Delicia's, and Divina's wands were 'Alohomara'.
Hermione sighed. "I guess I can't take off any points." She looked at Dawn. "Finite Incantatum."
Dawn was back to her normal self, but everyone in Gryffindor had still seen her in the red and pink. She was seething with anger.
~
Everyone sat in the Great Hall eagerly awaiting the post that morning for it was Valentines Day.
Suddenly and owl flew in the Hall, and it looked around from who the letter/package was for and headed for them. Hundreds of other owls followed the first.
But what everyone failed to notice in the excitement of getting their Valentines was the innocent/smug looks on the faces of the Bandit Damsels.
Suddenly, throughout the Hall this note was heard at different times. "HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! YOURS TRULY, THE BANDIT DAMSELS. (BD)."
Once people got the idea, they all started to throw their letters in the fireplaces around the Great Hall. Once that was finished everyone glared at the Bandit Damsels. They were still had to find out about the candies.
~
Even though people had glared at them at breakfast, people were now laughing about it and asking them about the pranks. However, unlike last time a major prank was pulled, the girls got a week of detention and had to clean all the dishes in the kitchen every night for detention.
A/N: Sorry about taking so long. I was sick, had a ton of homework and was sick. Oh yea, flamers are welcomed because for some strange reason my house is freezing. Thanks to my beta reader Mistress del Mare for looking it over. If anyone has any ideas they are always welcomed.