Chapter 11

Lily and James walked back into the dance hall.

"Where've you been!" exclaimed Sirius, "We was about to..." he whispered to James, "you know... do... the thing."

"Oh!" exclaimed James, "I totally forgot!"

"James!" reproved Sirius, "You must have been doing something pretty interesting to make you forget this!" he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.

James punched his friend lightly on the arm. "Don't talk of such things Padfoot!" James winked.

"Let's go."

After James told to Lily that he and his friends had planned something, the two friends met up with Remus and a slightly noticeable sadder Peter.

"Hey Wormtail what's wrong?" asked James.

Peter, on the outside, brightened. "Nothing Prongs; I'm good to go."

"Okay Marauders, get ready for the drill."

Everyone was milling around having a good time. No one suspected that anything was going to happen, but... it did.

Suddenly, what looked like baby dogs, deer, cats, horses and more animals scampered across the floor of the Great Hall. Girls screamed as baby rats scurried around with baby cats in close pursuit.

Lily chuckled as she tried to pet a baby squirrel but failed, because her hand went right through it. The Marauders scored again. Everyone was freaked out for nothing.

What happened next, made Lily fall over on the floor laughing.

All the baby animals' parents came for them.

Just imagine this, you're just having fun with your date laughing and dancing, but then a whole load of baby animals scamper around the hall. You don't care that much seeing as you like baby animals. But then big grown up animals come in and try to get to their young. You'd be freaked wouldn't you?

Most of the students were.

As suddenly as the animals came, they all went out the doors and disappeared.

The hall filled with chatter.

Lily was surprised that the teachers hadn't done anything to try to stop it. But anyway, she was glad that they got away with it. She looked to her left, and saw a confused bunch of Marauders coming towards her.

Lily smiled. "Brilliant boys,"

"It wasn't us." Said a wide-eyed James.

Lily gaped. "It wasn't you? Who else could it have been!"

Sirius shrugged. "No one's bright enough to do that but us. I wish we had the idea…" He pouted.

Lily looked behind the boys and saw Professor McGonagall listening to their conversation. The teacher looked satisfied, and went off to eavesdrop on some other unsuspecting group of students.

James and the three other boys pulled her into a corner.

"It was us!" Remus beamed.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Well why didn't you say so in the first place?"

James shook his head. "Do you really think that we would go bragging about our splendid magnificent work in front of McGonagall! Are you getting daft Lily?"

"One question. How did you know she was there?" asked Lily.

"If something ever happened, we'd be the first ones she would check on, so we just knew she'd be there."

"Ok."

"You're not going to ask us how we did it?" complained Sirius.

"Nope." Lily walked over to Raye.

"How's did you like the animal show?" she asked.

"That was scary!" said Raye, "Was it Sirius and those boys who did it?"

"I don't think so." Answered Lily, "I mean, why would they do something that had to do with animals?"

"Yea, I guess so."

"I think I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight." Said Lily.

"Night. See you later." Replied Raye.

Lily went back to the boys.

"Night guys." She started to head out, and James caught up to her.

"Come on Tails, the night is young, and so are we."

Lily chuckled. "James, it's almost 12:00 which means that the dance will be over in a couple minutes, which means it's time to go to bed."

James got to thinking in desperate measures, "PLEASE!"

This time Lily laughed out loud. "Fine James, if it's that important to you I'll stay up. Or whatever you want to do… within reason."

James smirked. No one could resist his begging.

"Good. Let's go in the forest."

"James; I somehow don't think that's such a good idea."

"Come on! I want to show you something!"

Lily shook her head in wonder at his persistence. "Alright, if you say so…."

They went out to the gardens, and then crawled through the bushes to get to the main courtyard.

Like two shadows they snuck across the open field and over to the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Once there, James and Lily weren't there anymore. They had vanished. Instead, stood a majestic stag and a beautiful unicorn.

"This way." Said James, and the stag took off running.

"No need to wait for me." Said Lily, and the unicorn took off and overtook the stag easily.

They ran and ran until it seemed that they must be near to the other side of the forest.

James slowed, and motioned for the unicorn to do so as well. He snuck around a glade of trees, and told her to go in.

Lily stepped through, and found herself in a small open place with a little pond surrounded by lilies.

She turned back into a human and gasped.

"James, it's beautiful! How did you find it without us seeing?"

James turned back human as well.

"I do a little exploring by my self. You don't think I hang out with those guys all the time do you? I mean one needs some time alone with ones self once in a while."

Lily nodded. "I guess I know what you mean."

"Change back, and touch the water with your horn." James told her.

Lily did just that.

The water visibly turned blue, then purple, and then regular again. The water was then as pure as a unicorn itself. Nothing evil or dirty would be in the water for one hour.

Lily turned back.

"Wow." She said. "It's so... clean."

"Yea." Said James, any water that a unicorn's horn touches, keeps it clean for one hour."

Lily looked at James and cocked her head. "How do you know all this?"

James' cheeks turned a light shade of pink.

"I... sort of read about them after we knew you could turn into one."

A smile grew on Lily's face. "I can't believe it. James Potter is blushing! You know, I've never seen you blush before."

"Yea Lily, I only blush for you," said James sarcastically.

Lily felt the water with her hand. "It's warm!"

"It is?" asked James.

"I thought you knew all about unicorns and water," Taunted Lily.

"Not this, so bite me."

"Only once?"

James shook his head.

"Any way Tails, we should go."

Lily slowly crawled over to James. "But we're having so much fun." She said seductively, "Wouldn't you hate it if a good chance like this slipped from your grasp?"

James covered her mouth with his own and gently massaged her lips. "You know, your right." Lily jumped up.

"Great! Lets go!" Lily dived into the pond.

James groaned. Of course she wouldn't be talking about "that". He shrugged and jumped in too. "One question Tails; what will we do when people ask us why we're wet?"

"Prongsie silly, ever heard of a drying spell? Anyway, it's night. People will be sleeping."

They splashed around for a while, but then the water started getting cold.

"The unicorn whatever must be wearing off," Said Lily. "Now we should really go."

"I'm with you." Agreed James.

They both got out and dried themselves off. Then they changed shape, and started running back to the castle. (Animals have an inner sense of direction and time, so they don't get lost.)

When there, it was about 3:00 in the morning, so they snuck up to their rooms and after saying a quick goodnight, went up to their separate beds.