James sat around a small dinner table with Liza and supposedly his 'father'. His 'mother', who he had yet to see, was still sick. There were two unfimilar children staring at, almost expectantly. He smiled at them. They smirked back. He got a little scared at that, they looked... well... they looked evil. And then there was Uncle Gill, who looked too young to be his uncle.

'James, that's Danny and Kate, they are evil.' Liza explained in his head. ' Like us, except younger. Danny is older then Kate by a year. And they are always get into trouble. Oh... and you're their mentor.' She finished. Liza smiled across the table at him.

"So, I heard you told the Princess off today, sweety." 'Father' asked.

"She had it coming, speaking to me like she's above me!"

"She is above you." Her father said carefully.

"I think we're all equal, and plus, I'm way prettier then her." Liza said, she was half joking, even though it was true.

"She's royal, and if you don't respect her, she can have you shipped off to god-knows-where." Her father said, then turned back to his corn. Liza sighed, she would rather be shipped off then to serve under Princess Ugly.

"I think her sister would be a much better Queen then she'd ever be." Liza said sitting back.

James looked up, that was the first time he had heard anything or Princess Lily. He knew her because she was his fellow prefect at Hogwarts. She was really nice...

"You haven't even seen Princess Lily, how do you know there is one?" Danny exclaimed across the table to Liza.

"I've heard of her greatness, and I even met her when I was little."

"How little?" Danny pressed.

"Little little." She said, then quickly and quietly finished and got up. "If you'll all excuse me, I am gonna go to bed." She got up and left. 'I'm coming with you tonight'. She thought to James.

James, not really knowing how to act around these people, left right after her. He went back to the barn, where it looked like she was heading to. Liza was by one of the horses getting it ready.

"What is the club house?" James asked her.

"Oh... it's just a tree house... you all built it when you were younger." She smiled at him. "Hope your not afraid of heights."

"Oh I assure you I'm not."

"Good."

"What time are they gonna get here around?" He asked.

"Oh, probably round seven. You might want to get your riding clothes on."

"Riding clothes?"

"Over there." Liza pointed to an old dresser by the door. On top there were more old-fashioned yet kind of comfortable clothes.

After he changed, he sat with Liza discussing more of this odd-style life until there was a weird clunk outside the barn door.

"What was that?" Liza asked getting up.

"Is it Remus and Sirius?" James asked following her.

"No," She stuck her head out the door. "Hey! Hey! What are you doing!?!" Then she took off after something.

James followed right behind her. They had been running for quite a long time, the intruder never slowing and Liza and James following close behind him. James could tell they were in a forest. There were trees and moss all around and he was always tripping over tree roots.

Finally, they had stopped, come to a clearing. But they weren't alone, all around, people jumped out from trees and confronted the three, soon two. The intruder had led them into a trap.

"Gypsies." Liza spoke miserably. Everyone around them were smirking and they all had swords or knives...

*

"Come on Sirius!" Remus whispered outside Sirius's window.

"Coming." There was a small bang and then a crash. "Oops."

Sirius jumped the three feet from his bedroom window. "I hope Dad didn't like that portrait." He said. "Let's go."

"Took you long enough." Remus whispered.

"Shut up."

They were both going on foot because Remus didn't want to explain to his father why there was to horses missing from the Knight's kennel and even worse, that a inventors son was riding one.

Cause, you see, Remus and Sirius's father never got along very good. Remus's father thought Sirius's father was trying to defy every law of science and that it was a crime and he should be put in jail. And Sirius' father thought Remus's father was rude, a bully, and an idiot. That didn't really stop them from being friends.

They were almost to the house, talking in whispers the whole way. When they got there, they peeked in the barn, where they said they'd meet, but no one was there. But there were a few candles on and the door was wide open.

"Looks like they left in a hurry." Sirius whispered.

"Let's try and follow them..." Sirius said trying to do what any brave knight would do... but he wasn't really a knight. He didn't even have the proper training, where as Remus was forced to even though he didn't want to.

"It's pitch black out here, stupid." Remus hissed. "We can't see anything."

"Then let's take some horses out and split up..." Sirius suggested.

"That's actually a good idea."

So, they got two horses from the barn, the two Liza already got ready, and started out.

"Maybe we should stay together." Remus suggested.

"Why, are you afraid of the dark?"

"No, I just think it would be a good idea if we don't go off in separate directions and get ourselves lost."

"I thought Knights were sposed to know this part of the forest like the back of their hand."

"Well... I didn't really pay any attention during that part of training." Remus said, he was actually blushing cause he was ashamed of his title and also the fact that he didn't know what to do as a 'knight'.

Sirius shook his head. "Maybe your right." He said with a sigh.

And they rode on. Soon, they heard some fighting going on, clinking of swords and such and heard some shouts.

They rode into a clearing, well... it wasn't very clear at the moment... "Gypsies." Remus groaned.

He saw that Liza was being held captive by a guy had a silver knife to her throat. She was screaming at him and thrashing, trying to avoid the knife while James was sword fighting... wait, James doesn't know how to sword fight.

He was sword fighting... his form wasn't half bad. After a yelp from Sirius, he was right in helping James, so Remus went and tried to help Liza. Of course, Remus had weapons. A sword and a small knife, just in case.

"Let her go." He said, trying not to sound to pompous and brave, while Sirius screamed his head off... bravely. Liza elbowed the gypsie in the stomach and turned to him while he was doubled over. Remus came to stand by her.

"Need any help?"

"Need this," she said, grabbing the sword in his belt. She was smiling as the gypsie pulled out his sword.

"So yer gonna try and fight me, are ya?" He said nastily.

"No one holds a knife to my throat and gets away with it." She said smoothly.

"Fiery little thing aren't ya?"

"You have no idea."

And so he started, he tried to attack so Liza moved. She is really fast. Remus thought as he watched this. He decided he just couldn't stand there so he went over and helped Sirius and James cause Sirius had screwed up James's groove and was now being cornered by some very annoyed gypsies.

Remus hit one of them in the head and stole his sword and stood by James, whow as protecting Sirius. "What about me?" He whined.

"You just stand back, and don't hurt yourself." Remus said.

"Bloody knights." Sirius muttered.

Clinks of swords could be heard as they fought the gypsies, of course, they didn't know what was gonna happen since they couldn't get away. And the horses were by the trees near the stump twenty feet away from them. And some other gypsies were sneaking up behind them.

*

Liza had gotten the gypsie up against the tree and was threatning him wi th a sword. Lucky for her, he happened to be the unofficial leader of the gypsies.

"Call them off." She ordered.

"Why should I? You came into our domain." He said despite the silver blade that was threatning to puncture his stomach.

"Call them off now!" She order, putting slight pressure on the hilt of the sword.

"Stop." He said weakly as the blade almost punctured his skin.

"Louder." Liza hissed at him.

"Stop." He said louder, barely getting the attention of the people cornering her brother, Sirius, and Remus.

Everyone turned to him. The gypsies saw he had a sword to his stomach and started towards her.

"Don't move, or he dies." She threatened. They stopped and the boys looked at her surprised. "Now, we're leaving. Your not gonna follow us. And we're taking our horses back." She nodded to the restrained horses that were bucking and trying to get away from their captures.

Remus walked over to the horses and harshly grabbed them while scowling at the gypsies who held them.

"Bye." Liza said shortly and they all took off running.

"That was close." Sirius said panting as they reached their clubhouse that was at least a mile and a half away and Sirius looked about to pass out.

"Wouldn't have been that close if you hadn't come in screaming like an idiot." James said.

"Got their attention off you didn't it?" He said.

"Shut up you two. Let's go." Liza said, she started climbing to the top of the tree, there was no latter or anything. The clubhouse was a tree house, and it was really high in a tree. The tree looked easy enough to climb, if you know where to step, and James didn't, but was that gonna stop him? Probably not.