Simply Sirius
Chapter 2
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything here, because all of these characters belong to the people who created them!!!! All of this material is not mine, and I do not own it. (Well, except for the characters I created. I do own those.) Thank you!
This chapter is a bit on the long side, so...
*Again, this is from Sirius Black's POV.
After a few minutes of looking around the common room, we went to the dormitories. Luckily, our stuff had been stowed in a room with only four beds.
"We got a room to ourselves! Oh yeah!" James cheered.
"I got this bed!" I yelled, running for the one closest to a window.
An hour later, we were all settled in. My bed was located, as previously mentioned, closest to the window and farthest from the door. Next to me was James, then Remus, then Peter. Peter and Remus started a game of chess, and James came over and sat on my bed next to me.
"Well Sirius, I can't believe we're actually here! Hogwarts at last!" James sighed.
"Yeah, it's so weird. After all those years of dreaming of magic, now we're gonna learn it!" I replied, equally happy. "But, James, there's one thing that's bothering me. It's Rika."
James frowned. "You mean that blonde chick who's a friend of the redhead? Lily's friend? Yeah, what about her?"
"Well, I don't know, there's just something weird about her.."
"Wait a second, Siri, do you...?"
"What?"
"Do you, you know....like her?"
"OF COURSE NOT!!!!"
"Well, sorry, but-"
"JAMES POTTER, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD THINK SUCH A THING!!"
"Sorry! Anyway, what's weird about her? She's just a girl."
I sighed. Peter was arguing with Remus about whether or not the move he had made was legal. "James, first of all, I don't like girls. They're all giggly, and very annoying. You should know that, being as you have a little sister!"
James shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. But what's the problem with Rika?"
"Her eyes. She's so pale, yet her eyes are...black! And during the sorting ceremony, did you see what happened?"
"No, I was poking Remus. Hehe, he makes the funniest faces..."
"Oh. Well, for some reason, her face went really pale, and I dunno..it just seems odd that that would happen during the Sorting Ceremony."
"Siri, it's probably nothing. Don't worry about it, okay?"
"Okay..."
Just then, we heard a loud crash, and Remus stood up, yelling, "I WON!!! I BEAT THE BLOODY HELL OUTA YA, PETE!!!!"
James and I laughed, and after another victory cheer, Remus proposed that we got into the common room. Everyone agreed, and we left.
We weren't alone there. The girls from the train were seated in the armchairs next to the fireplace, and Lily glared at James as we approached. He returned the glare with a sarcastically sweet smile. I snorted, Remus shook his head (trying to hide a smile), Peter was looking around nervously, and the other girls tried to hide laughs.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
James answered, "Oh, lots of things."
"Like what?" Lily snarled.
"Well, breathing, thinking, blinking, you know, living in general. And, talking to your lovely self, of course," James said smugly.
Lily's face took on an odd shade of red. I burst out laughing and had to excuse myself. When I came back, Remus was desperately trying to get Lily and James to stop biting each other's heads off. Peter was just looking around nervously, as usual. I began to think that that was all he did. Juniper and Rika were watching the argument with interest, and Quinn was trying to help Remus.
I joined Remus and Quinn, and within an hour, the two were separated. We went back to our dormitories, Lily and James glowering at each other all the way.
That was how things were for the first month. Lily and James were constantly at each other's throats, while Quinn and Remus tried to keep them calm. Peter did his usual nervous looks, while Juniper and Rika watched the quarrelling, occasionally joining in the argument. I joined in to assist James a lot, but usually when I did, Remus would whack me and bellow at me about how I wasn't helping. Sometimes, though, I started squabbling with Rika about something she had said to defend Lily, and we would get in our own little fight. (At that point, Remus and Quinn would just roll their eyes and leave us alone.)
In addition to these uncontrollable rows, we pulled a number of harmless pranks on the girls. (Well, Peter said that they weren't harmless, but Peter's a wimp, you can't take what he says seriously!) They were mostly little things, like spiders in their dorm, and trick wands during class. The girls retaliated a bit with something more embarrassing. As it turned out, Juniper was a wonderful artist, and sometimes we would wake up to the sound of laughter. It came from the common room, where people were staring at exaggerated if not reasonably accurate drawings of us sleeping, eating, and doing all sorts of things in an absurd manner.
On the first day of October, James was oddly quiet. He even passed through breakfast without speaking to Lily. We asked him if he was all right, and he said yes, so we left him alone.
By lunch, he still hadn't even looked at Lily, or any of the girls for that matter. I knew something was up.
Just before Transfiguration, James pulled me aside and said, "Sirius, you know what month it is right?"
"Um, yeah, it's October, but I don't see-"
"October is mischief month," James cut me off. Just at that moment, Lily let out a loud laugh, and we glanced at her, then back at each other. I smiled slowly, realizing what James had been thinking about.
"We are so bad," I said
"Oh yeah, you better believe it!" James laughed. Then, Remus came up, followed by Peter.
"What's up guys?" asked Peter. I grinned at James.
"Trouble," we told him. Then, we explained our idea to him and Remus on the way to class.
The plan was this: we would construct the ultimate flashy stink bomb, especially for the girls. Over the next 3 weeks, we spent all of our spare time experimenting with Dungbombs and Filibuster's Fireworks. The girls may have suspected something because we were so quiet and peaceful (in appearance), but they didn't take it seriously.
Just 4 days before Halloween, we were ready. Our bombs were perfect, and packed away in old Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans boxes. Looking them over, we grinned at each other. James and I gave each other a high five, and Peter even relaxed enough to let out a laugh.
On Halloween, we picked up the candy boxes and tried to look as innocent and sorry as possible. (According to Remus, it didn't go too well for me and James.) We were as nice as possible to the girls at the feast, but only because it was in our plans. (James was struggling not to make a remark to Lily. It helped that she refused to speak to us at all.)
Later, in the common room, we went to the girls at their usual spot in the armchairs near the fireplace. "Girls, listen, we really, um." James started. He trailed off as Lily sent him an icy stare.
"We have Halloween candy for you as a way of saying sorry, because we really feel bad about the way we've been treating you all," I picked up quickly.
"Yeah, and so, do you accept our peace offering? 'Cause, we really mean it," added Remus. Peter further emphasized this with a furious head nod.
Juniper looked us over carefully. "Well, I don't know.." she said.
"Yeah, you guys might just be pulling a prank or something," said Rika.
"I don't trust 'em at all!" shouted Lily, pure hatred on her face.
"Wait gals, we're serious! We really are sorry for being such jerks!" I announced, desperate to pull it off.
The girls just looked at me. "Well, Sirius Black, either you're a very good actor or you're telling the truth. And, being as you aren't very good at anything, I'm guessing you're telling the truth," Rika assessed.
I let out my breath with relief. "Great, then you girls just enjoy the candy!" James told them.
"Thanks," Lily said, smiling at us for the first time. The girls got up and went to their dormitory, and we took their seats in the armchairs.
"I can't believe they bought it!" whispered Peter.
"Yeah, I know. That was great acting, Sirius! Rika sure has you wrong," James said.
"Thanks," I replied.
"Yea, Siri, I'm glad I got better in time to see that!" Remus added. He had been sick for the previous week, and we were worried that he wouldn't make it to the feast. Fortunately, the sickness was only there for exactly a week, just as it was last month.....?
I was pondering this when the sound of fireworks went off, accompanied by screams.
"They opened it!" gasped Peter.
We ran to the stairway leading to the girls' dormitories, where clouds of smoke, stars, and the stench of Dungbombs was coming from. Seconds later, Lily, Rika, Quinn, and Juniper came running out, coughing. James, Remus, Peter and I were on the floor, laughing. The looks on their faces were so hilarious that even Remus had lost all dignity, and even Peter had lost all nervousness.
Then, Lily was at us. "JAMES POTTER, I WILL KILL YOU!!! I AM GONNA MURDER YOU, YOU BLOODY BEAST!!!" she screamed, beginning to kick him.
Arthur, Molly, and Minerva came over and separated them. Remus, Peter, and I rushed over to calm James while Rika, Quinn, and Juniper ran over to pacify Lily. As we dragged James to the dorm, I heard Rika whisper to Lily, "Don't worry, Lils. We can get them bad. We can get them so bad, they'll wish that they'd never even looked at us."
For the first time, I began to get worried. Perhaps these girls weren't such easy targets after all.
~*Author's note: Now, should I end it here? No, I won't, because one of my friends, (aHEM) would kill me if I did. So read on! *~
We woke up to the girls' revenge the very next day. Before opening my eyes, I yawned, and said, "James? You awake?"
He replied in a strangely alert tone, "Sirius, you are not going to believe this."
I opened my eyes and nearly fainted. Stuffed into our dorm room were all the jack-o'-lanterns from the Great Hall during the feast. Somehow, the girls had gotten them all into our room, and they were floating around, giving us about 4 feet of space between them and the ground. (And the ceilings are normally 10 feet high!)
I heard a sigh from the other end of the room. "Well, I guess they got us this time," Peter mumbled.
James clenched his fist and proclaimed, "This means war."
Remus groaned. "Oh great, here we go!" Just at that moment, the pumpkins started to make noise. At first, some were just whispering. But then, minute by minute, they got louder and louder, until every pumpkin in the room was screaming, yelling, or laughing as loudly as possible. They didn't stop until Arthur came in and used a silencing spell.
After that, our pranks got more frequent, and every week, we had at least one detention. The girls, who were for some reason calling themselves the Unicorns, also got regular detentions, though not as many as us. The eight of us were ruthless.
For Christmas, we all decided to stay, partially because the girls were staying and partially because our families were basically busy. Well, James's parents and sister had gone to visit a great-aunt, Peter's parents were busy with settling arguments amongst the mermaids of the Mediterranean Sea, and I didn't want to go home because of my older brother. Remus decided to stay because we all were, and besides, he had already gotten his week-long illness. I was still wondering about that, but couldn't quite figure it out.
The thing that convinced me to stay was a letter that my older brother Warren sent me. As usual, it was nasty as ever, being as Warren is a nasty person. I think it's because he's a squib. You see, my family has wizarding roots that trace back to the ancient Greek times. However, for some reason, My older brother Warren isn't a wizard. Rather, he is as lacking in magic as a Muggle, thus making him a squib. It doesn't help that he hates magic in any way shape or form. Fortunately, he was 17, and was moving out in a year. This was probably what inspired him to send me the letter that he did. It was this:
Dear Sirius,
I have to say, life has improved much during your absence. Mum and Dad still do magic, but upon my requests, they don't all that much. Now, to cut straight to the point, I am writing to you regarding your Christmas vacation.
As you know, this is my last year at home. I want this to be my best home Christmas ever, so please, I hope you choose not to come home. It would be so much better, and easier for me, because I plan on inviting my girlfriend and best friend Vernon Dursley to the house. If you do insist on coming here, you will not be allowed to speak a word about magic at all. I don't want you messing up my life.
Sincerely, Warren Black
Now, I forgot to mention one thing about my brother. In case you haven't noticed, he is rather formal and intensely rude.
At any rate, our gang was staying, and the "Unicorns" were going home. At first, James was a bit glum, but when he heard about the girls going home, he cheered up a great deal. When he got an idea for a Christmas prank, he was even happier.
Though the Potions teacher, Professor Fowl, would hate to admit it, I happen to be the best in the class. Because of this, James got the idea of me making a sort of truth potion. Not a top quality one, because Veritaserum is difficult for even fully qualified wizards to make, but a basic one. In addition, whoever drank the potion would have to say a secret into the bottle.
The potion was ready two days before everyone left for break. We put it into four bottles, one for each girl, and then Remus enchanted the bottles to record the girls saying their secret, then return to us. We had then attached a To and From card to each bottle. Under the From part, we wrote "the Perfectly Ridiculous Super Jokers", the P in perfect for Peter, the R in ridiculous for Remus, and so on. (I think you get the message.) Peter left the bottles outside the girls' dorm room door on our way to dinner that night.
We kept on laughing all through dinner. The only good thing about this was that we couldn't talk to the girls. However, it did get them suspicious. More than once, I saw Lily's eyes narrow, and she whispered something to Rika who then whispered something to Quinn, who passed the message to Juniper.
At any rate, we got through the meal without too much havoc. (Okay, so Peter accidentally spilled salt into Quinn's pumpkin juice, which earned him a smack, but that's it. Well, besides when I "accidentally" kicked Lily under the table, and James "accidentally" knocked Rika's plate off the table, and Remus (really) accidentally knocked over Juniper's goblet.)
On our way back to the common room, we were actually nervous about what we had done.
"Sirius, do you think it'll work?"
"Of course Peter, what could go wrong?"
"James, he was asking me, and-"
"What, you don't think it'll work?"
"He didn't say that Remus, he just-"
"It should work, okay? Let's just stop flipping out, and act calm, or the girls will suspect something," James said.
"Um, I think they already do," Peter pointed out. I looked over to the armchairs near the fireplace, and saw the girls in a huddle, discussing something seriously.
"Well, let's just go to bed now. There isn't much else we can do here," I said loudly, winking at my friends. In truth, we would just go to the dorm room and wait for the bottles to come back with the girls' secrets.
At around 10:30 PM, our door burst open. The bottles came zooming in, and landed with a slight crash on the floor in front of Remus's bed. The door then slammed shut, and we were slightly stunned for a moment.
James sighed and turned on a light. I did too, and got out of my bed to examine the bottles. They were whispering the same messages over and over again.
James, Remus, and Peter joined me. We all picked up a bottle. Mine was the one we had sent to Rika, James got Lily's, Remus got Quinn's, and Peter got Juniper's.
I held the bottle up to my ear, hardly daring to breathe. Perhaps this will tell me what's so odd about her, I thought. What I heard did indeed tell me, but not fully.
"I...I'm not a human...I'm a..I'm..." the bottle whispered in Rika's voice. It trailed off there, leaving me quite stupefied. I heard James, Remus, and Peter snorting and trying to hold in bursts of laughter.
"She.she has a purple bunny stuffed animal named Harry!" gasped James between smothered laughs.
"Oh my god, you guys should hear this! Quinn..she..has a crush on her Muggle neighbor named Irwin!" Remus laughed as quietly as possible.
"Listen to this! Juniper apparently has a stuffed anteater that she sings to every night!!" Peter burst out. We all started at that one. After five (or so) minutes of uncontrollable laughter, they remembered about me.
"Hey Siri," James said, wiping away a tear of laughter, "what's Rika's secret?"
At that, I got quiet. "Well, it says...it says she's not human."
They stopped laughing and looked at me.
"What do you mean?" asked Peter timidly. I handed him the bottle. He listened for a second, then handed it to James, eyes wide. James did the same, handing it to Remus.
"Guys, I sure don't know what's going on, but that it weird," said James slowly.
"Yeah. We should look into this later," Remus said, yawning. "But for now, let's go to sleep. We can torture the girls in the morning."
Surprised that he had taken this so lightly, we went back to bed. I meant to ask Remus why he didn't seem to care that Rika wasn't human, but I forgot during my sleep.
In the morning, we went to the Great Hall for breakfast with huge grins on our faces. We had definitely not forgotten about the girls' secrets.
They were already at the table. As we sat down, James said, "So, Lily, how's Harry?"
She turned bright red and gasped furiously. But before she could reply, Remus said, "And Quinn, have you heard from Irwin recently?"
Quinn too turned red and gasped, but she added a glare in Remus's direction. "How bout your stuffed anteater, Juniper? Does it like your singing?" Peter said timidly.
Juniper's eyes opened wide and she glared coldly at him. He seemed to shrink away. I added quietly, "And Rika, if you aren't a human, then what are you?"
The girls all looked at each other when I said that. Rika was enraged; she came over, slapped me across the face, and said in a deadly calm voice, "Sirius Black, you are so finished."
Then all four of them stalked off to the common room.
"Well, that got them," said James cheerfully.
"Yeah, but what are they gonna do to us now?" Remus said. We looked at each other. After a moment, I shrugged.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see."
We saw it when we got into the common room that night. Everyone was in there, pointing at the walls, laughing.
The Unicorns came over to us. "Well, boys, we know that you sent us the potions," Lily started.
"Yeah, I mean, it was totally obvious that Perfectly Ridiculous Super Jokers was an anagram for Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James," added Rika.
"And since you were so kind to play that little truth trick on us." said Quinn.
"We decided to reward you with a stocking decoration, being as it's Christmas. Or, rather, a decoration with your socks in it," Juniper finished, giggling.
We finally got a good look at the walls. Our jaws dropped when we saw it.
On each wall, there was a message written with our clothes. They read, "James is a jerk", "Sirius is stupid", "Remus is bizarre", and "Peter is a wimp". That wouldn't have been so bad, but they had dotted all the "i's" with our underwear.
Following a second of shocked silence, the 8 of us got into a huge fight about it. It almost gor physical, but Minerva, Molly, and Arthur came over and stopped it. James screamed, "Lily Evans, I hate you!" as he was dragged to the dorm by Arthur.
And so we spent the rest of our Christmas vacation hating the so- called Unicorns.
Yeah, I know, wimpy ending, but sorry! I can't think of anything else. Ok, you read it, now review it please!!!!! If enough people like it, I'll write another chapter ASAP!!!! Also, if you want, you can email me at unicorn726@admin.balita.org but make sure that you make the subject "fanfic" (or at least include that in it). Thanks!!!!
~Torq
Chapter 2
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything here, because all of these characters belong to the people who created them!!!! All of this material is not mine, and I do not own it. (Well, except for the characters I created. I do own those.) Thank you!
This chapter is a bit on the long side, so...
*Again, this is from Sirius Black's POV.
After a few minutes of looking around the common room, we went to the dormitories. Luckily, our stuff had been stowed in a room with only four beds.
"We got a room to ourselves! Oh yeah!" James cheered.
"I got this bed!" I yelled, running for the one closest to a window.
An hour later, we were all settled in. My bed was located, as previously mentioned, closest to the window and farthest from the door. Next to me was James, then Remus, then Peter. Peter and Remus started a game of chess, and James came over and sat on my bed next to me.
"Well Sirius, I can't believe we're actually here! Hogwarts at last!" James sighed.
"Yeah, it's so weird. After all those years of dreaming of magic, now we're gonna learn it!" I replied, equally happy. "But, James, there's one thing that's bothering me. It's Rika."
James frowned. "You mean that blonde chick who's a friend of the redhead? Lily's friend? Yeah, what about her?"
"Well, I don't know, there's just something weird about her.."
"Wait a second, Siri, do you...?"
"What?"
"Do you, you know....like her?"
"OF COURSE NOT!!!!"
"Well, sorry, but-"
"JAMES POTTER, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD THINK SUCH A THING!!"
"Sorry! Anyway, what's weird about her? She's just a girl."
I sighed. Peter was arguing with Remus about whether or not the move he had made was legal. "James, first of all, I don't like girls. They're all giggly, and very annoying. You should know that, being as you have a little sister!"
James shrugged. "Yeah, I guess. But what's the problem with Rika?"
"Her eyes. She's so pale, yet her eyes are...black! And during the sorting ceremony, did you see what happened?"
"No, I was poking Remus. Hehe, he makes the funniest faces..."
"Oh. Well, for some reason, her face went really pale, and I dunno..it just seems odd that that would happen during the Sorting Ceremony."
"Siri, it's probably nothing. Don't worry about it, okay?"
"Okay..."
Just then, we heard a loud crash, and Remus stood up, yelling, "I WON!!! I BEAT THE BLOODY HELL OUTA YA, PETE!!!!"
James and I laughed, and after another victory cheer, Remus proposed that we got into the common room. Everyone agreed, and we left.
We weren't alone there. The girls from the train were seated in the armchairs next to the fireplace, and Lily glared at James as we approached. He returned the glare with a sarcastically sweet smile. I snorted, Remus shook his head (trying to hide a smile), Peter was looking around nervously, and the other girls tried to hide laughs.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
James answered, "Oh, lots of things."
"Like what?" Lily snarled.
"Well, breathing, thinking, blinking, you know, living in general. And, talking to your lovely self, of course," James said smugly.
Lily's face took on an odd shade of red. I burst out laughing and had to excuse myself. When I came back, Remus was desperately trying to get Lily and James to stop biting each other's heads off. Peter was just looking around nervously, as usual. I began to think that that was all he did. Juniper and Rika were watching the argument with interest, and Quinn was trying to help Remus.
I joined Remus and Quinn, and within an hour, the two were separated. We went back to our dormitories, Lily and James glowering at each other all the way.
That was how things were for the first month. Lily and James were constantly at each other's throats, while Quinn and Remus tried to keep them calm. Peter did his usual nervous looks, while Juniper and Rika watched the quarrelling, occasionally joining in the argument. I joined in to assist James a lot, but usually when I did, Remus would whack me and bellow at me about how I wasn't helping. Sometimes, though, I started squabbling with Rika about something she had said to defend Lily, and we would get in our own little fight. (At that point, Remus and Quinn would just roll their eyes and leave us alone.)
In addition to these uncontrollable rows, we pulled a number of harmless pranks on the girls. (Well, Peter said that they weren't harmless, but Peter's a wimp, you can't take what he says seriously!) They were mostly little things, like spiders in their dorm, and trick wands during class. The girls retaliated a bit with something more embarrassing. As it turned out, Juniper was a wonderful artist, and sometimes we would wake up to the sound of laughter. It came from the common room, where people were staring at exaggerated if not reasonably accurate drawings of us sleeping, eating, and doing all sorts of things in an absurd manner.
On the first day of October, James was oddly quiet. He even passed through breakfast without speaking to Lily. We asked him if he was all right, and he said yes, so we left him alone.
By lunch, he still hadn't even looked at Lily, or any of the girls for that matter. I knew something was up.
Just before Transfiguration, James pulled me aside and said, "Sirius, you know what month it is right?"
"Um, yeah, it's October, but I don't see-"
"October is mischief month," James cut me off. Just at that moment, Lily let out a loud laugh, and we glanced at her, then back at each other. I smiled slowly, realizing what James had been thinking about.
"We are so bad," I said
"Oh yeah, you better believe it!" James laughed. Then, Remus came up, followed by Peter.
"What's up guys?" asked Peter. I grinned at James.
"Trouble," we told him. Then, we explained our idea to him and Remus on the way to class.
The plan was this: we would construct the ultimate flashy stink bomb, especially for the girls. Over the next 3 weeks, we spent all of our spare time experimenting with Dungbombs and Filibuster's Fireworks. The girls may have suspected something because we were so quiet and peaceful (in appearance), but they didn't take it seriously.
Just 4 days before Halloween, we were ready. Our bombs were perfect, and packed away in old Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans boxes. Looking them over, we grinned at each other. James and I gave each other a high five, and Peter even relaxed enough to let out a laugh.
On Halloween, we picked up the candy boxes and tried to look as innocent and sorry as possible. (According to Remus, it didn't go too well for me and James.) We were as nice as possible to the girls at the feast, but only because it was in our plans. (James was struggling not to make a remark to Lily. It helped that she refused to speak to us at all.)
Later, in the common room, we went to the girls at their usual spot in the armchairs near the fireplace. "Girls, listen, we really, um." James started. He trailed off as Lily sent him an icy stare.
"We have Halloween candy for you as a way of saying sorry, because we really feel bad about the way we've been treating you all," I picked up quickly.
"Yeah, and so, do you accept our peace offering? 'Cause, we really mean it," added Remus. Peter further emphasized this with a furious head nod.
Juniper looked us over carefully. "Well, I don't know.." she said.
"Yeah, you guys might just be pulling a prank or something," said Rika.
"I don't trust 'em at all!" shouted Lily, pure hatred on her face.
"Wait gals, we're serious! We really are sorry for being such jerks!" I announced, desperate to pull it off.
The girls just looked at me. "Well, Sirius Black, either you're a very good actor or you're telling the truth. And, being as you aren't very good at anything, I'm guessing you're telling the truth," Rika assessed.
I let out my breath with relief. "Great, then you girls just enjoy the candy!" James told them.
"Thanks," Lily said, smiling at us for the first time. The girls got up and went to their dormitory, and we took their seats in the armchairs.
"I can't believe they bought it!" whispered Peter.
"Yeah, I know. That was great acting, Sirius! Rika sure has you wrong," James said.
"Thanks," I replied.
"Yea, Siri, I'm glad I got better in time to see that!" Remus added. He had been sick for the previous week, and we were worried that he wouldn't make it to the feast. Fortunately, the sickness was only there for exactly a week, just as it was last month.....?
I was pondering this when the sound of fireworks went off, accompanied by screams.
"They opened it!" gasped Peter.
We ran to the stairway leading to the girls' dormitories, where clouds of smoke, stars, and the stench of Dungbombs was coming from. Seconds later, Lily, Rika, Quinn, and Juniper came running out, coughing. James, Remus, Peter and I were on the floor, laughing. The looks on their faces were so hilarious that even Remus had lost all dignity, and even Peter had lost all nervousness.
Then, Lily was at us. "JAMES POTTER, I WILL KILL YOU!!! I AM GONNA MURDER YOU, YOU BLOODY BEAST!!!" she screamed, beginning to kick him.
Arthur, Molly, and Minerva came over and separated them. Remus, Peter, and I rushed over to calm James while Rika, Quinn, and Juniper ran over to pacify Lily. As we dragged James to the dorm, I heard Rika whisper to Lily, "Don't worry, Lils. We can get them bad. We can get them so bad, they'll wish that they'd never even looked at us."
For the first time, I began to get worried. Perhaps these girls weren't such easy targets after all.
~*Author's note: Now, should I end it here? No, I won't, because one of my friends, (aHEM) would kill me if I did. So read on! *~
We woke up to the girls' revenge the very next day. Before opening my eyes, I yawned, and said, "James? You awake?"
He replied in a strangely alert tone, "Sirius, you are not going to believe this."
I opened my eyes and nearly fainted. Stuffed into our dorm room were all the jack-o'-lanterns from the Great Hall during the feast. Somehow, the girls had gotten them all into our room, and they were floating around, giving us about 4 feet of space between them and the ground. (And the ceilings are normally 10 feet high!)
I heard a sigh from the other end of the room. "Well, I guess they got us this time," Peter mumbled.
James clenched his fist and proclaimed, "This means war."
Remus groaned. "Oh great, here we go!" Just at that moment, the pumpkins started to make noise. At first, some were just whispering. But then, minute by minute, they got louder and louder, until every pumpkin in the room was screaming, yelling, or laughing as loudly as possible. They didn't stop until Arthur came in and used a silencing spell.
After that, our pranks got more frequent, and every week, we had at least one detention. The girls, who were for some reason calling themselves the Unicorns, also got regular detentions, though not as many as us. The eight of us were ruthless.
For Christmas, we all decided to stay, partially because the girls were staying and partially because our families were basically busy. Well, James's parents and sister had gone to visit a great-aunt, Peter's parents were busy with settling arguments amongst the mermaids of the Mediterranean Sea, and I didn't want to go home because of my older brother. Remus decided to stay because we all were, and besides, he had already gotten his week-long illness. I was still wondering about that, but couldn't quite figure it out.
The thing that convinced me to stay was a letter that my older brother Warren sent me. As usual, it was nasty as ever, being as Warren is a nasty person. I think it's because he's a squib. You see, my family has wizarding roots that trace back to the ancient Greek times. However, for some reason, My older brother Warren isn't a wizard. Rather, he is as lacking in magic as a Muggle, thus making him a squib. It doesn't help that he hates magic in any way shape or form. Fortunately, he was 17, and was moving out in a year. This was probably what inspired him to send me the letter that he did. It was this:
Dear Sirius,
I have to say, life has improved much during your absence. Mum and Dad still do magic, but upon my requests, they don't all that much. Now, to cut straight to the point, I am writing to you regarding your Christmas vacation.
As you know, this is my last year at home. I want this to be my best home Christmas ever, so please, I hope you choose not to come home. It would be so much better, and easier for me, because I plan on inviting my girlfriend and best friend Vernon Dursley to the house. If you do insist on coming here, you will not be allowed to speak a word about magic at all. I don't want you messing up my life.
Sincerely, Warren Black
Now, I forgot to mention one thing about my brother. In case you haven't noticed, he is rather formal and intensely rude.
At any rate, our gang was staying, and the "Unicorns" were going home. At first, James was a bit glum, but when he heard about the girls going home, he cheered up a great deal. When he got an idea for a Christmas prank, he was even happier.
Though the Potions teacher, Professor Fowl, would hate to admit it, I happen to be the best in the class. Because of this, James got the idea of me making a sort of truth potion. Not a top quality one, because Veritaserum is difficult for even fully qualified wizards to make, but a basic one. In addition, whoever drank the potion would have to say a secret into the bottle.
The potion was ready two days before everyone left for break. We put it into four bottles, one for each girl, and then Remus enchanted the bottles to record the girls saying their secret, then return to us. We had then attached a To and From card to each bottle. Under the From part, we wrote "the Perfectly Ridiculous Super Jokers", the P in perfect for Peter, the R in ridiculous for Remus, and so on. (I think you get the message.) Peter left the bottles outside the girls' dorm room door on our way to dinner that night.
We kept on laughing all through dinner. The only good thing about this was that we couldn't talk to the girls. However, it did get them suspicious. More than once, I saw Lily's eyes narrow, and she whispered something to Rika who then whispered something to Quinn, who passed the message to Juniper.
At any rate, we got through the meal without too much havoc. (Okay, so Peter accidentally spilled salt into Quinn's pumpkin juice, which earned him a smack, but that's it. Well, besides when I "accidentally" kicked Lily under the table, and James "accidentally" knocked Rika's plate off the table, and Remus (really) accidentally knocked over Juniper's goblet.)
On our way back to the common room, we were actually nervous about what we had done.
"Sirius, do you think it'll work?"
"Of course Peter, what could go wrong?"
"James, he was asking me, and-"
"What, you don't think it'll work?"
"He didn't say that Remus, he just-"
"It should work, okay? Let's just stop flipping out, and act calm, or the girls will suspect something," James said.
"Um, I think they already do," Peter pointed out. I looked over to the armchairs near the fireplace, and saw the girls in a huddle, discussing something seriously.
"Well, let's just go to bed now. There isn't much else we can do here," I said loudly, winking at my friends. In truth, we would just go to the dorm room and wait for the bottles to come back with the girls' secrets.
At around 10:30 PM, our door burst open. The bottles came zooming in, and landed with a slight crash on the floor in front of Remus's bed. The door then slammed shut, and we were slightly stunned for a moment.
James sighed and turned on a light. I did too, and got out of my bed to examine the bottles. They were whispering the same messages over and over again.
James, Remus, and Peter joined me. We all picked up a bottle. Mine was the one we had sent to Rika, James got Lily's, Remus got Quinn's, and Peter got Juniper's.
I held the bottle up to my ear, hardly daring to breathe. Perhaps this will tell me what's so odd about her, I thought. What I heard did indeed tell me, but not fully.
"I...I'm not a human...I'm a..I'm..." the bottle whispered in Rika's voice. It trailed off there, leaving me quite stupefied. I heard James, Remus, and Peter snorting and trying to hold in bursts of laughter.
"She.she has a purple bunny stuffed animal named Harry!" gasped James between smothered laughs.
"Oh my god, you guys should hear this! Quinn..she..has a crush on her Muggle neighbor named Irwin!" Remus laughed as quietly as possible.
"Listen to this! Juniper apparently has a stuffed anteater that she sings to every night!!" Peter burst out. We all started at that one. After five (or so) minutes of uncontrollable laughter, they remembered about me.
"Hey Siri," James said, wiping away a tear of laughter, "what's Rika's secret?"
At that, I got quiet. "Well, it says...it says she's not human."
They stopped laughing and looked at me.
"What do you mean?" asked Peter timidly. I handed him the bottle. He listened for a second, then handed it to James, eyes wide. James did the same, handing it to Remus.
"Guys, I sure don't know what's going on, but that it weird," said James slowly.
"Yeah. We should look into this later," Remus said, yawning. "But for now, let's go to sleep. We can torture the girls in the morning."
Surprised that he had taken this so lightly, we went back to bed. I meant to ask Remus why he didn't seem to care that Rika wasn't human, but I forgot during my sleep.
In the morning, we went to the Great Hall for breakfast with huge grins on our faces. We had definitely not forgotten about the girls' secrets.
They were already at the table. As we sat down, James said, "So, Lily, how's Harry?"
She turned bright red and gasped furiously. But before she could reply, Remus said, "And Quinn, have you heard from Irwin recently?"
Quinn too turned red and gasped, but she added a glare in Remus's direction. "How bout your stuffed anteater, Juniper? Does it like your singing?" Peter said timidly.
Juniper's eyes opened wide and she glared coldly at him. He seemed to shrink away. I added quietly, "And Rika, if you aren't a human, then what are you?"
The girls all looked at each other when I said that. Rika was enraged; she came over, slapped me across the face, and said in a deadly calm voice, "Sirius Black, you are so finished."
Then all four of them stalked off to the common room.
"Well, that got them," said James cheerfully.
"Yeah, but what are they gonna do to us now?" Remus said. We looked at each other. After a moment, I shrugged.
"I guess we'll just have to wait and see."
We saw it when we got into the common room that night. Everyone was in there, pointing at the walls, laughing.
The Unicorns came over to us. "Well, boys, we know that you sent us the potions," Lily started.
"Yeah, I mean, it was totally obvious that Perfectly Ridiculous Super Jokers was an anagram for Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James," added Rika.
"And since you were so kind to play that little truth trick on us." said Quinn.
"We decided to reward you with a stocking decoration, being as it's Christmas. Or, rather, a decoration with your socks in it," Juniper finished, giggling.
We finally got a good look at the walls. Our jaws dropped when we saw it.
On each wall, there was a message written with our clothes. They read, "James is a jerk", "Sirius is stupid", "Remus is bizarre", and "Peter is a wimp". That wouldn't have been so bad, but they had dotted all the "i's" with our underwear.
Following a second of shocked silence, the 8 of us got into a huge fight about it. It almost gor physical, but Minerva, Molly, and Arthur came over and stopped it. James screamed, "Lily Evans, I hate you!" as he was dragged to the dorm by Arthur.
And so we spent the rest of our Christmas vacation hating the so- called Unicorns.
Yeah, I know, wimpy ending, but sorry! I can't think of anything else. Ok, you read it, now review it please!!!!! If enough people like it, I'll write another chapter ASAP!!!! Also, if you want, you can email me at unicorn726@admin.balita.org but make sure that you make the subject "fanfic" (or at least include that in it). Thanks!!!!
~Torq