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A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys, and I'll really work on getting it all going faster! This chapter is all action packed and someone returns…^_~
James watched quite a few duels, until both Remus and Peter had been released from a grumpy Madam Pomfrey, and joined him just before their favorite Gryffindor girls were going up against a group of older Slytherin girls.
While Remus and Peter sat at the edge pf their seats, looking a bit pale, James was sitting back, relaxed, yet screaming out encouraging words and cheering the girls on. He was still rather disappointed that Sirius wasn't there yet, however James always believed on making the best of things, and he was sure Sirius wouldn't let them down in the end.
He watched as Rose whipped her wand out, her face showing no sign of weakness or fear, and felt good knowing that he was related to him. Then there was Lily, and boy did she look pretty, her long dark red hair pulled back from her face in a tight ponytail, her large emerald eyes shinning with excitement, and her pink lips curled into a pretty smile. It was weird, but James was sure he would never bee able to look away from her…she was too pretty…but then the duel started.
Watching intently, James groaned loudly watching Vanessa and then Lily go down, but not before taking 2 of the other team with them, which left Rose alone with the oldest girl…who sent a chilling cutting curse, missing Rose's flesh by inches, and cutting a large lock of shiny black hair away! James couldn't help but jump out of his seat outraged; cutting curses were far too dangerous, the girl shouldn't have been allowed…but the duel went on. The next time Rose wasn't very lucky, and that went for about a whole bunch of other times, curving deep cuts into his sister's flesh, causing blood to run down Rose's arms.
James was about to run to the stage and pull Rose away himself, just when Remus grabbed his arm and pulled him back hissing in his ear, and even though his voice wasn't warm in the least bit, James found it to be his calming down medicine.
"Trust Rose, she's pretty strong…she'll get through this! Look at her, the blood doesn't seem to be having the least bit of effect on her, I'll bet you anything she doesn't even know it's there…"
Incredibly enough Rose did pull it all off together in the end, her arm waved her wand so gracefully James could not believe his eyes, sending the other girl to get thrown back and hit the ground so hard she did not get up again. Cheering so loud, James was sure his throat would burst into flames, he made his way towards the two fallen girls, thinking that helping Lily might make her really notice him.
The day went on with fight after fight, James was a bit disappointed that Lily and his sister didn't quite make it to the finals with the older grades, but static that all those times practicing dueling with Sirius was finally paying off…and Remus wasn't too shabby either. But James didn't know how the hell they were gonna win without Sirius showing up soon, and it seemed as though both Remus and Peter had given up on him, but not James.
"We're gonna win," James said loudly, trying to keep Remus and Peter's spirits up, both boys had gone through a lot of injuries, and James just appreciated the fact that they were willing to keep going.
"We always do," Remus said a small smile played on his lips.
"Ya!!!" though Peter didn't sound too sure.
James tried his hardest to keep his grin on, sure he was still static about dueling, but he was starting to feel a bit hurt that Sirius wasn't even here yet and they had nearly gone halfway through the competition without him. Staring across James saw 2 5th year Ravenclaws, and a 6th year one. GREAT, James thought tiredly, this just keeps getting better and better!
"Do you little boys honestly think you can beat us?" asked the tallest boy, smiling humorously.
"No, but we're not backin' down!" James said stubbornly.
"How do you think we got this far?" Remus backed James up, "don't underestimate us if you really wanna win!"
"We are so dead," Peter whispered to James, who was sure he could feel him shaking…but realized it was himself.
"Lets do it!" James said his voice not as loud as usual, his mind begging his shaking arms to stop.
Within seconds Peter was down…and soon followed by Remus, who had been hit quite a few times but very strong power behind each curse. Though with a bit of Remus help, James had also managed to get one of the 5th years down….and now he faced two much older wizards, using his young age and great reflexes as an advantage to dodge curses, though he wasn't sure how much longer he would last!
Feeling a sudden burning feeling on his chest, James realized he must have been hit by a hex strong enough to brake through his shield, and started to feel dizzy. His feet begged him to stop and let them fall to the ground, his chest burned so horribly he wanted to scream. Slowly letting his legs bend James leaned a bit forward, ready to fall and let it all end…that's when he heard him.
"NO JAMES! DON'T YOU F***ING DARE GIVE UP!!!"
That voice, so familiar, so strong…the pain in his chest felt totally numb suddenly, and James quickly straitened up, just in time to dodge a real harsh looking hex. Sirius, James thought, and saw a small flash back of when his best friend stood up against those two older Slytherin boys Lestranges and McIver! If Sirius was here he could do it!!! James thought, and realized what Sirius would say if James so cowardly just gave up…and thinking this James' mind cleared and his pain and fear numbed…giving him the perfect chance to hit the oldest boy with a curse a millisecond before his lips preformed his next curse.
James had put a lot of power into that one curse, making the boy stagger back and fall to the ground…but James wasn't off the hook yet, as the other boy used James' 2 second stop as an opportunity to hit him with another curse, and a second horrible burning sensation entered James body, causing him to cry out in pain and fall to his knees, and the other boy thinking he had won jumped up in the air cheering.
"JAMES! GO GET HIM BRO!!!" Sirius voice screamed out, and this time through all the pain, James was able to make out his best friend's face, his dark eyes that showed so much strength hidden within them.
Letting out a loud scream from the agony it took him to get to his knees, James wiped his wand up so fast screaming out a stunning spell towards the bewildered Ravenclaw boy who fell back in an instant. Though it took every little bit of power he had left, James slowly got to his knees and walked up to Sirius grinning, through the horrible pain.
"Hey Sirius, What took you so long?" James said, glad to see his friend's grin, before everything went blurry and suddenly black.
* * *
"You're parents are actually going?" James asked looking rather surprised, "this Voldie dude sounds like bad news"
"If he didn't then my parents wouldn't be going now would they?" Sirius snapped, getting off of his chair, "it's not really important now we've got better—What the…"
the other 3 boys burst into laughter at Sirius' confusion, in all the action going on they had all forgotten about Lindsey's rather unfortunate crush….though her Snape T-shirt hadn't come off! Sirius watched her chase the greasy haired boy for a full minute before rolling around in hysterical laughter, and then getting up, he smiled brightly at his friends.
"Good to see you guys kept busy, what did you use on her?"
"We didn't!" Remus smiled at Sirius' dumbfounded look, "I think it was Rose n her crowd!"
"Girls…they come up with the strangest stuff," Sirius shook his head darkly, "so how did they do?"
"Got cut, but they went pretty far for 2nd years….n so did we!!!" James added, though he still wasn't quite sure weather he was awake or not.
"How the bloody hell did you get beat those Ravenclaws???" Sirius now looked at James with large awed eyes, making James' grin widen.
"It was you buddy, I was thinking you'd probably beat the hell outa me if I just dropped!" Sirius just led out a large snort of laughter.
"You better believe I would! Good job mate!"
James somehow felt much more confidant; just having Sirius stand along side of him gave him more courage than he could even explain. He also felt less guilt, as Peter was no longer obligated to duel even though he had no desire too. Sirius turned and high fived Remus and then James, making them all feel as though their team was finally complete, with Peter standing in front of the crowd cheering them on!!!
"Little first years vs. us…you gotta be kidding!" said a 6th year Gryffindor, named Derek Ashwest.
"I know," Smirked the second one, Marko Bones, "and it's the little troublemakers, they probably have some zonko tricks up their sleeves!"
"Hah! They're not even old enough to go to Hogsmead!" said the last boy, Anthony Goldstein, but Sirius just laughed at this.
"Not everyone's family is as cheap as yours, mine always have dinner at Hogsmead at least a couple times a week!" Sirius said, "and trust me when I say Zonko has nothing over us!!!"
James looked side ways at Sirius' determined face, and felt his own sprites raising sky high, though he was very aware that these Gryffindor guys were no joke, they were all extremely powerful! And he was right, before either of them had even the chance to send out their first hex, they were all hit. James couldn't believe it as his body began to go limp, he was losing energy and fast, it must have been a weakening charm, he thought looking around at Sirius and Remus who also looked extremely tired as they tried dodging the hexes and sent their own none of which worked.
"James, Remus! I'll keep Goldstien and Bones busy…you two attack Derek!!! NOW!" Sirius yelled out, his voice incredibly enough steely though his eyes looked nothing less than exhausted.
Once again Sirius' voice gave James some kind of strength, he had been right in thinking Sirius wouldn't give up in a duel, this was bad…as bad as it usually could get, but Sirius wasn't about to give up…and neither was James, and by the looks of it Remus. The two other boys didn't even nod at Sirius' command and just did what they were told. Screaming out stunning hexes at the same time, they managed to hit Derek hard enough to fall to the ground so hard he didn't get back up. Before James had the chance to scream out in triumph, he saw that Sirius' brilliant plan had its risks, like one involving Sirius being hit.
Horrified James watched blood seep out and stain Sirius' white shirt, which was now not only torn but almost completely red…but Sirius clenching his teeth in pain did give up, instead looking at his attacker in pure hatred, he sent a strong paralyzing charm, which hit Goldstein accurately in the chest. With a surprised look the other boy fell hard to the ground. Bones however dumbfounded wasn't about to give up and sent a few quick curses towards them, one of which hit James on his right shoulder.
James fell to the ground stunned, and Sirius biting his white lips in pain, looked even angrier now. He sent a couple of well strong curses at Bones, one which hit, causing the other boy to wince in pain as his shirt burst on fire. Extinguishing it quickly, though the skin underneath looked rather red and raw, he quickly send even more curses and managed to disarm Sirius with so much power, that he slammed his head hard on the ground causing him to lose conscious.
I'm the only one left, Remus thought fearfully the second Sirius was hit, but his determination to avenge his friends…the only ones who accepted him for the horrible monster that he was…he was going to make sure Bones went down first!!! Even for the exhaustion that was eating away all his energy, Remus knew what he had to do, and was ready for Bones the second Sirius hit the ground. Fighting away all the pain it took for him to quickly dodge the curses (that thanks to Sirius were not as accurate as they would've been if Bones wasn't in so much pain cause of his burning skin), and sent out his own. Though incredibly frustrated that he kept missing by inches, Remus kept going, this was for his friends, who meant everything to him.
"Give it up Lupin! A second grader is no match for me!" Bones called out a bit smugly as he missed another one of Remus' hexes.
However Remus used his little moment of distraction as his chance to send another curse towards him…and it hit. But he wasn't done yet, Bone's hit him right back with another energy draining charm, but Remus feeling his legs buckling underneath him now sent a second boiling curse, hitting the other boy in the chest were it had been burned not too long ago. Bones screaming with agony fell to the ground…a second before Remus did!
A/N: I'm gonna have the championship round not in the next chapter…but a later….and to all you reviewers: I'm sorry for taking so long the last time!!! First month of school is always busy busy busy…^_^
A/N: Thanks for all the reviews guys, and I'll really work on getting it all going faster! This chapter is all action packed and someone returns…^_~
James watched quite a few duels, until both Remus and Peter had been released from a grumpy Madam Pomfrey, and joined him just before their favorite Gryffindor girls were going up against a group of older Slytherin girls.
While Remus and Peter sat at the edge pf their seats, looking a bit pale, James was sitting back, relaxed, yet screaming out encouraging words and cheering the girls on. He was still rather disappointed that Sirius wasn't there yet, however James always believed on making the best of things, and he was sure Sirius wouldn't let them down in the end.
He watched as Rose whipped her wand out, her face showing no sign of weakness or fear, and felt good knowing that he was related to him. Then there was Lily, and boy did she look pretty, her long dark red hair pulled back from her face in a tight ponytail, her large emerald eyes shinning with excitement, and her pink lips curled into a pretty smile. It was weird, but James was sure he would never bee able to look away from her…she was too pretty…but then the duel started.
Watching intently, James groaned loudly watching Vanessa and then Lily go down, but not before taking 2 of the other team with them, which left Rose alone with the oldest girl…who sent a chilling cutting curse, missing Rose's flesh by inches, and cutting a large lock of shiny black hair away! James couldn't help but jump out of his seat outraged; cutting curses were far too dangerous, the girl shouldn't have been allowed…but the duel went on. The next time Rose wasn't very lucky, and that went for about a whole bunch of other times, curving deep cuts into his sister's flesh, causing blood to run down Rose's arms.
James was about to run to the stage and pull Rose away himself, just when Remus grabbed his arm and pulled him back hissing in his ear, and even though his voice wasn't warm in the least bit, James found it to be his calming down medicine.
"Trust Rose, she's pretty strong…she'll get through this! Look at her, the blood doesn't seem to be having the least bit of effect on her, I'll bet you anything she doesn't even know it's there…"
Incredibly enough Rose did pull it all off together in the end, her arm waved her wand so gracefully James could not believe his eyes, sending the other girl to get thrown back and hit the ground so hard she did not get up again. Cheering so loud, James was sure his throat would burst into flames, he made his way towards the two fallen girls, thinking that helping Lily might make her really notice him.
The day went on with fight after fight, James was a bit disappointed that Lily and his sister didn't quite make it to the finals with the older grades, but static that all those times practicing dueling with Sirius was finally paying off…and Remus wasn't too shabby either. But James didn't know how the hell they were gonna win without Sirius showing up soon, and it seemed as though both Remus and Peter had given up on him, but not James.
"We're gonna win," James said loudly, trying to keep Remus and Peter's spirits up, both boys had gone through a lot of injuries, and James just appreciated the fact that they were willing to keep going.
"We always do," Remus said a small smile played on his lips.
"Ya!!!" though Peter didn't sound too sure.
James tried his hardest to keep his grin on, sure he was still static about dueling, but he was starting to feel a bit hurt that Sirius wasn't even here yet and they had nearly gone halfway through the competition without him. Staring across James saw 2 5th year Ravenclaws, and a 6th year one. GREAT, James thought tiredly, this just keeps getting better and better!
"Do you little boys honestly think you can beat us?" asked the tallest boy, smiling humorously.
"No, but we're not backin' down!" James said stubbornly.
"How do you think we got this far?" Remus backed James up, "don't underestimate us if you really wanna win!"
"We are so dead," Peter whispered to James, who was sure he could feel him shaking…but realized it was himself.
"Lets do it!" James said his voice not as loud as usual, his mind begging his shaking arms to stop.
Within seconds Peter was down…and soon followed by Remus, who had been hit quite a few times but very strong power behind each curse. Though with a bit of Remus help, James had also managed to get one of the 5th years down….and now he faced two much older wizards, using his young age and great reflexes as an advantage to dodge curses, though he wasn't sure how much longer he would last!
Feeling a sudden burning feeling on his chest, James realized he must have been hit by a hex strong enough to brake through his shield, and started to feel dizzy. His feet begged him to stop and let them fall to the ground, his chest burned so horribly he wanted to scream. Slowly letting his legs bend James leaned a bit forward, ready to fall and let it all end…that's when he heard him.
"NO JAMES! DON'T YOU F***ING DARE GIVE UP!!!"
That voice, so familiar, so strong…the pain in his chest felt totally numb suddenly, and James quickly straitened up, just in time to dodge a real harsh looking hex. Sirius, James thought, and saw a small flash back of when his best friend stood up against those two older Slytherin boys Lestranges and McIver! If Sirius was here he could do it!!! James thought, and realized what Sirius would say if James so cowardly just gave up…and thinking this James' mind cleared and his pain and fear numbed…giving him the perfect chance to hit the oldest boy with a curse a millisecond before his lips preformed his next curse.
James had put a lot of power into that one curse, making the boy stagger back and fall to the ground…but James wasn't off the hook yet, as the other boy used James' 2 second stop as an opportunity to hit him with another curse, and a second horrible burning sensation entered James body, causing him to cry out in pain and fall to his knees, and the other boy thinking he had won jumped up in the air cheering.
"JAMES! GO GET HIM BRO!!!" Sirius voice screamed out, and this time through all the pain, James was able to make out his best friend's face, his dark eyes that showed so much strength hidden within them.
Letting out a loud scream from the agony it took him to get to his knees, James wiped his wand up so fast screaming out a stunning spell towards the bewildered Ravenclaw boy who fell back in an instant. Though it took every little bit of power he had left, James slowly got to his knees and walked up to Sirius grinning, through the horrible pain.
"Hey Sirius, What took you so long?" James said, glad to see his friend's grin, before everything went blurry and suddenly black.
* * *
"You're parents are actually going?" James asked looking rather surprised, "this Voldie dude sounds like bad news"
"If he didn't then my parents wouldn't be going now would they?" Sirius snapped, getting off of his chair, "it's not really important now we've got better—What the…"
the other 3 boys burst into laughter at Sirius' confusion, in all the action going on they had all forgotten about Lindsey's rather unfortunate crush….though her Snape T-shirt hadn't come off! Sirius watched her chase the greasy haired boy for a full minute before rolling around in hysterical laughter, and then getting up, he smiled brightly at his friends.
"Good to see you guys kept busy, what did you use on her?"
"We didn't!" Remus smiled at Sirius' dumbfounded look, "I think it was Rose n her crowd!"
"Girls…they come up with the strangest stuff," Sirius shook his head darkly, "so how did they do?"
"Got cut, but they went pretty far for 2nd years….n so did we!!!" James added, though he still wasn't quite sure weather he was awake or not.
"How the bloody hell did you get beat those Ravenclaws???" Sirius now looked at James with large awed eyes, making James' grin widen.
"It was you buddy, I was thinking you'd probably beat the hell outa me if I just dropped!" Sirius just led out a large snort of laughter.
"You better believe I would! Good job mate!"
James somehow felt much more confidant; just having Sirius stand along side of him gave him more courage than he could even explain. He also felt less guilt, as Peter was no longer obligated to duel even though he had no desire too. Sirius turned and high fived Remus and then James, making them all feel as though their team was finally complete, with Peter standing in front of the crowd cheering them on!!!
"Little first years vs. us…you gotta be kidding!" said a 6th year Gryffindor, named Derek Ashwest.
"I know," Smirked the second one, Marko Bones, "and it's the little troublemakers, they probably have some zonko tricks up their sleeves!"
"Hah! They're not even old enough to go to Hogsmead!" said the last boy, Anthony Goldstein, but Sirius just laughed at this.
"Not everyone's family is as cheap as yours, mine always have dinner at Hogsmead at least a couple times a week!" Sirius said, "and trust me when I say Zonko has nothing over us!!!"
James looked side ways at Sirius' determined face, and felt his own sprites raising sky high, though he was very aware that these Gryffindor guys were no joke, they were all extremely powerful! And he was right, before either of them had even the chance to send out their first hex, they were all hit. James couldn't believe it as his body began to go limp, he was losing energy and fast, it must have been a weakening charm, he thought looking around at Sirius and Remus who also looked extremely tired as they tried dodging the hexes and sent their own none of which worked.
"James, Remus! I'll keep Goldstien and Bones busy…you two attack Derek!!! NOW!" Sirius yelled out, his voice incredibly enough steely though his eyes looked nothing less than exhausted.
Once again Sirius' voice gave James some kind of strength, he had been right in thinking Sirius wouldn't give up in a duel, this was bad…as bad as it usually could get, but Sirius wasn't about to give up…and neither was James, and by the looks of it Remus. The two other boys didn't even nod at Sirius' command and just did what they were told. Screaming out stunning hexes at the same time, they managed to hit Derek hard enough to fall to the ground so hard he didn't get back up. Before James had the chance to scream out in triumph, he saw that Sirius' brilliant plan had its risks, like one involving Sirius being hit.
Horrified James watched blood seep out and stain Sirius' white shirt, which was now not only torn but almost completely red…but Sirius clenching his teeth in pain did give up, instead looking at his attacker in pure hatred, he sent a strong paralyzing charm, which hit Goldstein accurately in the chest. With a surprised look the other boy fell hard to the ground. Bones however dumbfounded wasn't about to give up and sent a few quick curses towards them, one of which hit James on his right shoulder.
James fell to the ground stunned, and Sirius biting his white lips in pain, looked even angrier now. He sent a couple of well strong curses at Bones, one which hit, causing the other boy to wince in pain as his shirt burst on fire. Extinguishing it quickly, though the skin underneath looked rather red and raw, he quickly send even more curses and managed to disarm Sirius with so much power, that he slammed his head hard on the ground causing him to lose conscious.
I'm the only one left, Remus thought fearfully the second Sirius was hit, but his determination to avenge his friends…the only ones who accepted him for the horrible monster that he was…he was going to make sure Bones went down first!!! Even for the exhaustion that was eating away all his energy, Remus knew what he had to do, and was ready for Bones the second Sirius hit the ground. Fighting away all the pain it took for him to quickly dodge the curses (that thanks to Sirius were not as accurate as they would've been if Bones wasn't in so much pain cause of his burning skin), and sent out his own. Though incredibly frustrated that he kept missing by inches, Remus kept going, this was for his friends, who meant everything to him.
"Give it up Lupin! A second grader is no match for me!" Bones called out a bit smugly as he missed another one of Remus' hexes.
However Remus used his little moment of distraction as his chance to send another curse towards him…and it hit. But he wasn't done yet, Bone's hit him right back with another energy draining charm, but Remus feeling his legs buckling underneath him now sent a second boiling curse, hitting the other boy in the chest were it had been burned not too long ago. Bones screaming with agony fell to the ground…a second before Remus did!
A/N: I'm gonna have the championship round not in the next chapter…but a later….and to all you reviewers: I'm sorry for taking so long the last time!!! First month of school is always busy busy busy…^_^