Chapter 6: A feast and some fun.

"Hey look at those like totally cool pumpkins, like they are totally, like, mad!" "Yeah they look like, totally, like Snape like when he's mad, like!" "Like specially that one!" "Hey you stupid Hufflepuffs!" "That's not very polite you rude potato!" "What did you call me Potter!" "Run or he'll throw his hair grease at you!" "Ron wait!" "Like wow! Like Snape really looks like a pumpkin now! Like cool!" "Harry is like so cute!"

As Harry ran out of the hall after Ron, both ignoring the giggling Hufflepuffs, they passed the mini marauders and the giggling triplets who were entering the hall for the feast. "Hello Harry. Don't even ask." Ashe added meaning the girls giggling behind them. "They've been like this since we left the common room. It's really starting to bug me!" Lyn exclaimed. "Starting! I was annoyed when we got off the first flight of stairs." Darien stated. "I feel for you boys. Now if you excuse me I have to go find Ron and get him back here." Harry told the boys walking away. "Come on Nuna what is so funny?" Lyn asked frustrated. "T.T secret, can't tell." Nuna replied grinning. "What the hell is T.T?" Lyn replied angrily. "Ummm.Lyn, calm down. You're turning red." Ashe stated, "No serious. You're turning REALLY red." He added when Lyn started laughing. With a flick of his wand Darien produced a small mirror and pushed it into Lyn's hand. "AHHHHHHHH!!! Nuna what did you do to me?" Lyn screamed. Nuna looked knowingly at Mystic and with a swish and a flick a LARGE cream pie flew out of the Gryffindor table and SMACK into Ashe's face. "Mystic! You had better not have thrown that!" Ashe screamed drawing attention to them and to his and Lyn's red skin. The hall erupted with laughter and the girls quietly slipped away before the guys could exact revenge, but not without a snap shot for the book of humiliation.

The next morning: "Ha ha ha ha ha! That was cool!" Mystic reminised. "Myst lets sit down. I'm hungry." Nuna whined. "And what have you got to say Sazza?" Darien asked. Sazza lifted her wand and automatically Darien turned white, literally, backing away. "Good, because I am hungry, and right now YOU, Darien, are the only thing between me and my English muffins with cream cheese and tomato, so MOVE!!" Saz ordered fiercely. Darien squeaked and dodged into the hall out of Saz's range. Saz calmly put away her wand and linked arms with Annuna and Mystic, Nuna in the middle, and stalked into the Hall for breakfast. Myst sat over a tall pile of pancakes, spreading strawberry jam and whipped cream, honey or butter and sugar over them. Saz, pulling a plate of English muffins with melted cream cheese and slices of tomato towards her, grinned and licked her lips. Nuna pulled up a giant bowl of strawberries a bowl of sugar and chocolate up beside her, melting the chocolate she dunked her strawberries and sprinkled them with sugar before popping them in her mouth. Myst rolled a jam and cream pancake and took a bite, looking up behind Nuna and Saz, and choked. Ashe hit her on the back, hardly. Myst glared at him before looking down at Emberlynn, the bright red dragon that was the length of Myst's arm, from fingertips to elbow and said, "Sic him." Ashe flushed white with fright and said "Help me! Myst, anything, I'll do anything just, please, no dragon, no fire!" Myst stopped the Emberlynn with a small, pale hand and regarded the sheet white teenager in front of her. "Nuna?" she asked looking to her oldest sister. Deep, dark eyes took in the position Nuna was in, the shade of Lyn's skin, and Mystic snorted, turning to Saz. Saz winked at her but shook her head slightly. Myst shrugged and went back to her pancakes. "Anyway what was so funny you choked?" Saz asked curious. Myst grinned devilishly and pointed behind Nuna and Saz. They turned around. Behind them half of the male population at the Hufflepuff table were drooling over Nuna. Lyn growled and slid a protective arm around Nuna's waist. While they were occupied with sightseeing, Darien sneakily took one of Saz's muffins. There was a low growl from the area of his hand. That growl was all the warning he got before Chiot snapped long, pointed, white, SHARP, teeth over his hand. One of her fangs punctured right through the web of skin between his thumb and forefinger. Darien screamed.

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Saz paced. Darien was in the Hospital wing with Madame Pomfrey fussing over him. Lyn had tried 4 different ways to get in, Ashe tried 3, Nuna and Myst had a joint effort of 1, but Saz was In the lead with a total of 10 different, creative ideas. There had been pleading, "Colds, sore throats, fatal diseases and serious injuries" but no one saw him. Thick white curtains surrounded his bed and the triplets, Ashe and Lyn were locked out, unable to even open the door without being spotted. "I know!" Myst cried, "Let's use Ashe! His head's so thick we could use it as a battering ram!" Ashe dived for Myst, who dodged, sending him head first into the wall. "Wait!" Saz cried, having held her head tightly in her hands thinking, "No one suspects a Hufflepuff!" "Huh?" "She's nuts." "How does that aid our situation?" "No one suspecs a Hufflepuff. We curse cousin Rupert and claim the slytherins attacked him." "So we're going to bash up your cousin so you can see your boyfriend?" Ashe asked Saz. "Yes! No! I mean. He's not my boyfriend." Saz stuttered. "Well let's go ask Rupert." Lyn intervened the argument brewing, he and Nuna headed off hand in hand. "Hang on. Isn't he in the Hufflepuff Common room?" Ashe asked. "Yeah so?" "How will we get in?" "We know the password, duh!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "So you wanna hex me into oblivion so you can see your friend?" the big blonde 4th year asked incredulously. They nodded looking uneasily around the Hufflepuff common room, where they were being given death glares by suspicious hufflepuffs. "And how will you make it worth my while?" he askd leaning forward, pressing his fingers together. "I thought you were a Hufflepuff not a slytherin!" Ashe cried, Rupert flexed beater sized biceps, "I take that back!" The girls laughed, "We're gonna claim you were hexed by slytherins, you get back at those slythertwits and you get immunity for your house in our next school prank." Saz added evilly. Rupert grinned, "Sure why not?" he through his arms wide, "HEX ME!" The triplets fell beside themselves laughing, "If we hexed you now people would think you were trying to give Crabbe and Goyle a hug!" "I'M NOT GAY!" "Ok, but at least look as though you were about to reach for your wand." "Let's do this in a quiet corridor." "Let's go then."

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"Madame Pomfrey! Madame Pomfrey!" Myst cried running ahead of the others who were lugging the large, heavy and very unconscious Rupert, Myst threw open the doors. "You are not seeing Darien!" the nurse cried from behind a set of curtains. "Miss.Rupert he was attacked, how do you reverse the purple boil curse?" "Please Miss he's heavy!" Saz cried, legs buckling. "Girls if I MUST TELL YOU ONE MORE TIME." Madame Pomfrey started coming outside, "Oh my.Bring him to this bed. What happened? Where did you find him?" "We found him in the charms corridor, I think the slytherins got him, I thought I heard Snape's voice when we arrived." Nuna said, sliding him off her shoulder. " Well we'll soon fix him up, now if you girls don't mind." Madame Pomfrey closed the curtains on them, as they stepped back distinct sounds of cooing could be heard. The girls grinned and dashed over to where Darien lay, looking confused. "Daz are you alright?!" Saz cried running to his bedside. "Ah young love!" Nuna sighed clasping her hands together before being toppled into Lyn by Myst's shove. Lyn turned hot pink, thanks to the continuing affects of the mood skins, caught her and joined her glaring at Myst. Myst returned their glare with a death stare of her own, making Lyn go white and take a step back, leaving Nuna to fall to the cold, hard floor with a yelp. "SHHHHHH!!!" Madame Pomfrey hissed from behind the curtain. Terrified yelps followed her hiss. "Oh be quiet you wimp this won't hurt.much." "So reassuring." Ashe quipped. Meanwhile. Saz clutched Darien's hand (the non bitten one). "I'm so sorry, so so sorry, so so so sorry, so so so so sorry, so so so so so sorry, so so so so so so sorry, so so so so so so so sorry." Saz failed to notice Darien slowly turned a mixture of hot pink and purple at her nearness. Unfortunately for them, Ashe and Myst did. "Aww, look, Darien's embarrassed!" "Hot pink you know what that means, give him a kiss Saz!" Saz gave them the one fingered salute. "And you said I never tried!" Darien whined. "You're not trying now, are you?" she replied smugly. "Fine!" and with that he pulled Saz's head down and kissed her soundly. "Finally!" The two broke apart grinning and started back at it again, with a little more passion. "Now that's just getting gross!" Ashe exclaimed after just a few moments, shielding his eyes. Lyn looked at Nuna expectantly, having picked her back of the floor. Nuna rolled her eyes and gave him a quick peck on the cheek before smirking. Lyn, not ready to give up, put on a puppy dog face before slowly wrapping his arms around her and kissing up the side of her neck. "Is there something in the air in here?!" Myst asked Ashe disgustedly, eyeing the other two couples, "Urgh! Let's leave them to it!" The two left the others, who were rather preoccupied since Nuna had given in to Llewellyn's persistence. "I hope they're not going to keep on doing that to us." Ashe grouched once the two were outside. "Yeah our sanity would be most severely scarred." Myst added, looking around, disorientated, "Now what do we do?" "I dunno how long till lunch?" "2 hours, you hungry?" "No, just bored. Perhaps we should do that essay Flitwick set us yesterday." "Oh my God!" Myst exclaimed, "We have resorted to willingly do work! The matrix is ending!" "The matrix?" "Muggle film idea, thing. I'll explain." Myst and Ashe wandered off.