Marauder Mayhem
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
Chapter 18 - October 8th
Sirius got up quietly from Raven's bed and glanced at the clock. 'Shit, it's almost ten!' he thought to himself. He was lucky. Raven had just fallen asleep a few minutes ago. He'd better be quiet. He slowly snuck out of her room and up to the boys' dorms where James and Peter were waiting for him.
"Where ya been, Sirius?" asked James as he came in the door.
"Fell asleep in the library," lied Sirius. He hated lying to James.
"Well, let's go!" Peter's face was filled with excitement.
Sirius led the way back out of the dorm, with James and Peter with him under the invisibility cloak. They came to the entrance hall and he slowly opened the door so it would not creak. They crept along the grass and when they came to the Whomping Willow that was thrashing about, Peter transformed, slipped under the branches and prodded the knot on the trunk. The tree froze, and the marauders slipped into the hole that had opened at the base. Once inside the hole, James threw off the invisibility cloak and transformed into Prongs. Sirius transformed beside him and the rat, deer, and dog continued along the path that would lead them to the Shrieking Shack.
(A/N: JUST SO YOU KNOW, IF THE MARAUDERS ARE IN THEIR ANIMAGII FORM, I'LL REFER TO THEM BY THEIR MARAUDER NAMES (MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT, OR PRONGS). YOU'LL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE ALTHOUGH THE CHARACTERS CALL EACH OTHER BY THEIR MARAUDER NAMES ALL THE TIME, I ALWAYS CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAME IF THEY'RE SPEAKING OR I'M REFERRING TO THEM. IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, JAMES TRANSFORMS INTO A DEER SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS PRONGS. SIRIUS TRANSFORMS INTO A DOG, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS PADFOOT. PETER TRANSFORMS INTO A RAT, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS WORMTAIL. MOONY IS A WEREWOLF, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS MOONY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS, OTHERWISE, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE READING THIS FANFIC, BUT JUST IN CASE! ALSO, I THINK THAT ALL ANIMAGII WHILE IN THEIR ANIMAGUS FORM CAN ALL TALK TO OTHER ANIMAGII IN THEIR ANIMAGUS FORM. THEREFORE, WHEN IN THEIR MARAUDER FORM, MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT, AND PRONGS WILL ALL TALK TO EACH OTHER LIKE NORMAL, BUT ONLY OTHER ANIMAGII WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR THEM. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK! 3 RAVEN)
The path suddenly angled upward and soon Padfoot was nudging a door open at the top. They were now on the first floor of the Shrieking Shack. They continued up the stairs and were met at the top by their best friend and ferocious beast, Moony. Moony growled at them at first, but then his werewolf eyes softened as he recognized the animals.
"Ready for some fun?" asked Padfoot.
"Not yet," said Moony. "I need to rest awhile." He wandered back into the room he had come out of and jumped up on the bed, walking around for a few seconds, and then settling down. Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs all followed him into the room and settled themselves on the floor around the bed.
"So what are we doing tonight?" asked Prongs, curled up at the foot of the bed.
Padfoot rolled over onto his back and scratched his ear with his foot. "We could always terrorize the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest or find a woman for Wormtail in the cave beyond The Three Broomsticks," he teased.
Wormtail's rat face lit up. "Yeah!"
Moony, Prongs, and Padfoot laughed. "I meant a rat woman, Wormtail. How thick could you get?"
Wormtail pondered this for a moment. Moony suddenly became alert and stood up on the bed, sniffing the air. His werewolf eyes seemed to glass over and fill with danger.
The door opened slowly and all four animals stared at the empty hallway. Then Raven pulled off the cloak and threw it to the ground. She crossed her arms and rose her eyebrows at the animals that she knew were her friends. "Honestly, boys, did you think I wasn't going to figure out your big secret?"
Moony had remained still on the bed, trying to fight off the wolf, until now. As Padfoot shouted for Raven to get out and realized she couldn't understand him, Moony bounded off the bed after Raven. He lunged at her as Padfoot and Prongs threw themselves onto the werewolf's back, trying to pull him away from her, but there was no need. Raven was gone.
"What the-" Padfoot looked around for Raven and saw the only thing that could be her, a small red fox, standing at the other end of the room.
"Raven?" asked Prongs.
"No, it's Dumbledore, and you're all in deep shit!" she answered him sarcastically.
Moony moved towards her cautiously and sniffed. The fox cocked her head downwards to show him that she was a friend. The werewolf accepted this gesture and relaxed beside her.
"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Padfoot.
"Why didn't you tell me?" the fox asked.
"Because you would have told Lily and Lily being the perfect student she is, would have told Dumbledore."
"I wouldn't have told Lily!" protested the fox.
Padfoot barked for a laugh. "How stupid do you think I am?"
"So, a fox, huh?" asked Moony.
"How stupid is there?" the fox retorted to Padfoot.
Padfoot growled at her. "I suppose you think we're gonna give you a Marauder name now?"
"Of course we are, Padfoot. Either she joins us, or we'll hafta kill her," joked Prongs.
"Are you registered?" asked Wormtail.
"Of course not! I stumbled across the animagus potion when I was fourteen."
"Oh good, we aren't either," said Wormtail, delighted at what he considered his own cleverness.
"I know, I looked you up," said the fox, offhandedly.
"What? How long have you known?" asked Padfoot, slightly hurt that he hadn't known anything about it.
"Quite a while."
"So, what'll it be, guys?" asked Prongs.
"What'll what be?" Peter asked him.
"Raven's Marauder name, Wormtail."
They all started tossing around names. They continued for half an hour and no one had come up with anything really good that one of them didn't disagree with.
"Raven, you always come up with the good ideas here, you think of one!" said James, out of exasperation.
"I am not thinking of my own Marauder name, thank you. You're on your own," replied the fox.
"Okay, I have two ideas," said Padfoot, finally. "Vulpix or Minx."
"Vulpix?"
"Yeah, wasn't there a fox Pokemon named Vulpix?" he explained.
Prongs cocked his head and thought for a minute. "Oh yeah. That's good, Padfoot!"
"Well, what's a minx?" asked Wormtail.
"It's a word, Peter," responded Padfoot shortly.
The fox answered him. "It means a girl who's kind of daring and-"
"Smart ass," supplied Padfoot.
"Spirited," finished the fox.
"Yeah, that definitely fits Raven, too," said James.
"So what'll it be?" asked the fox.
The Marauders decided to think on it.
A/N: SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK IT SHOULD BE??? HELP ME DECIDE, PLEASE! I THOUGHT OF VULPIX A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I WAS PLAYING POKEMON. BUT THEN I WAS WATCHING PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND CAME UP WITH MINX. THE DICTIONARY SAYS MINX MEANS "A PERT GIRL, A WANTON WOMAN" SO IF YOU WANT A BETTER IDEA OF THE WORD, LOOK UP SYNONYMS OF PERT. I WAS KIND OF LEANING TOWARD MINX BECAUSE IT FLOWS BETTER AND IT SAYS MORE ABOUT RAVEN AS A CHARACTER, BUT VULPIX SAYS MORE ABOUT HER BEING A FOX. I DON'T KNOW!!!! PLEASE, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. NEXT CHAPTER IS QUIDDICH!
Disclaimer: Yeah, I obviously don't own any HP stuff. You all know that cuz you're not stupid, and even if ya are, it's okay! However, I do own Raven McKinnon and a few other made up characters along the way.
Chapter 18 - October 8th
Sirius got up quietly from Raven's bed and glanced at the clock. 'Shit, it's almost ten!' he thought to himself. He was lucky. Raven had just fallen asleep a few minutes ago. He'd better be quiet. He slowly snuck out of her room and up to the boys' dorms where James and Peter were waiting for him.
"Where ya been, Sirius?" asked James as he came in the door.
"Fell asleep in the library," lied Sirius. He hated lying to James.
"Well, let's go!" Peter's face was filled with excitement.
Sirius led the way back out of the dorm, with James and Peter with him under the invisibility cloak. They came to the entrance hall and he slowly opened the door so it would not creak. They crept along the grass and when they came to the Whomping Willow that was thrashing about, Peter transformed, slipped under the branches and prodded the knot on the trunk. The tree froze, and the marauders slipped into the hole that had opened at the base. Once inside the hole, James threw off the invisibility cloak and transformed into Prongs. Sirius transformed beside him and the rat, deer, and dog continued along the path that would lead them to the Shrieking Shack.
(A/N: JUST SO YOU KNOW, IF THE MARAUDERS ARE IN THEIR ANIMAGII FORM, I'LL REFER TO THEM BY THEIR MARAUDER NAMES (MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT, OR PRONGS). YOU'LL KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE ALTHOUGH THE CHARACTERS CALL EACH OTHER BY THEIR MARAUDER NAMES ALL THE TIME, I ALWAYS CALL THEM BY THEIR FIRST NAME IF THEY'RE SPEAKING OR I'M REFERRING TO THEM. IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, JAMES TRANSFORMS INTO A DEER SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS PRONGS. SIRIUS TRANSFORMS INTO A DOG, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS PADFOOT. PETER TRANSFORMS INTO A RAT, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS WORMTAIL. MOONY IS A WEREWOLF, SO HIS MARAUDER NAME IS MOONY. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS, OTHERWISE, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE READING THIS FANFIC, BUT JUST IN CASE! ALSO, I THINK THAT ALL ANIMAGII WHILE IN THEIR ANIMAGUS FORM CAN ALL TALK TO OTHER ANIMAGII IN THEIR ANIMAGUS FORM. THEREFORE, WHEN IN THEIR MARAUDER FORM, MOONY, WORMTAIL, PADFOOT, AND PRONGS WILL ALL TALK TO EACH OTHER LIKE NORMAL, BUT ONLY OTHER ANIMAGII WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR THEM. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK! 3 RAVEN)
The path suddenly angled upward and soon Padfoot was nudging a door open at the top. They were now on the first floor of the Shrieking Shack. They continued up the stairs and were met at the top by their best friend and ferocious beast, Moony. Moony growled at them at first, but then his werewolf eyes softened as he recognized the animals.
"Ready for some fun?" asked Padfoot.
"Not yet," said Moony. "I need to rest awhile." He wandered back into the room he had come out of and jumped up on the bed, walking around for a few seconds, and then settling down. Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs all followed him into the room and settled themselves on the floor around the bed.
"So what are we doing tonight?" asked Prongs, curled up at the foot of the bed.
Padfoot rolled over onto his back and scratched his ear with his foot. "We could always terrorize the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest or find a woman for Wormtail in the cave beyond The Three Broomsticks," he teased.
Wormtail's rat face lit up. "Yeah!"
Moony, Prongs, and Padfoot laughed. "I meant a rat woman, Wormtail. How thick could you get?"
Wormtail pondered this for a moment. Moony suddenly became alert and stood up on the bed, sniffing the air. His werewolf eyes seemed to glass over and fill with danger.
The door opened slowly and all four animals stared at the empty hallway. Then Raven pulled off the cloak and threw it to the ground. She crossed her arms and rose her eyebrows at the animals that she knew were her friends. "Honestly, boys, did you think I wasn't going to figure out your big secret?"
Moony had remained still on the bed, trying to fight off the wolf, until now. As Padfoot shouted for Raven to get out and realized she couldn't understand him, Moony bounded off the bed after Raven. He lunged at her as Padfoot and Prongs threw themselves onto the werewolf's back, trying to pull him away from her, but there was no need. Raven was gone.
"What the-" Padfoot looked around for Raven and saw the only thing that could be her, a small red fox, standing at the other end of the room.
"Raven?" asked Prongs.
"No, it's Dumbledore, and you're all in deep shit!" she answered him sarcastically.
Moony moved towards her cautiously and sniffed. The fox cocked her head downwards to show him that she was a friend. The werewolf accepted this gesture and relaxed beside her.
"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Padfoot.
"Why didn't you tell me?" the fox asked.
"Because you would have told Lily and Lily being the perfect student she is, would have told Dumbledore."
"I wouldn't have told Lily!" protested the fox.
Padfoot barked for a laugh. "How stupid do you think I am?"
"So, a fox, huh?" asked Moony.
"How stupid is there?" the fox retorted to Padfoot.
Padfoot growled at her. "I suppose you think we're gonna give you a Marauder name now?"
"Of course we are, Padfoot. Either she joins us, or we'll hafta kill her," joked Prongs.
"Are you registered?" asked Wormtail.
"Of course not! I stumbled across the animagus potion when I was fourteen."
"Oh good, we aren't either," said Wormtail, delighted at what he considered his own cleverness.
"I know, I looked you up," said the fox, offhandedly.
"What? How long have you known?" asked Padfoot, slightly hurt that he hadn't known anything about it.
"Quite a while."
"So, what'll it be, guys?" asked Prongs.
"What'll what be?" Peter asked him.
"Raven's Marauder name, Wormtail."
They all started tossing around names. They continued for half an hour and no one had come up with anything really good that one of them didn't disagree with.
"Raven, you always come up with the good ideas here, you think of one!" said James, out of exasperation.
"I am not thinking of my own Marauder name, thank you. You're on your own," replied the fox.
"Okay, I have two ideas," said Padfoot, finally. "Vulpix or Minx."
"Vulpix?"
"Yeah, wasn't there a fox Pokemon named Vulpix?" he explained.
Prongs cocked his head and thought for a minute. "Oh yeah. That's good, Padfoot!"
"Well, what's a minx?" asked Wormtail.
"It's a word, Peter," responded Padfoot shortly.
The fox answered him. "It means a girl who's kind of daring and-"
"Smart ass," supplied Padfoot.
"Spirited," finished the fox.
"Yeah, that definitely fits Raven, too," said James.
"So what'll it be?" asked the fox.
The Marauders decided to think on it.
A/N: SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK IT SHOULD BE??? HELP ME DECIDE, PLEASE! I THOUGHT OF VULPIX A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I WAS PLAYING POKEMON. BUT THEN I WAS WATCHING PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND CAME UP WITH MINX. THE DICTIONARY SAYS MINX MEANS "A PERT GIRL, A WANTON WOMAN" SO IF YOU WANT A BETTER IDEA OF THE WORD, LOOK UP SYNONYMS OF PERT. I WAS KIND OF LEANING TOWARD MINX BECAUSE IT FLOWS BETTER AND IT SAYS MORE ABOUT RAVEN AS A CHARACTER, BUT VULPIX SAYS MORE ABOUT HER BEING A FOX. I DON'T KNOW!!!! PLEASE, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK. NEXT CHAPTER IS QUIDDICH!