Hi! It's MoonWolf and her adorable silver Phoenix, Silver.

"I'm not adorable I'm tough"

"Riiight." Pats Silver on the head

A/N: For those of you who have already read this I've changed it to tell the story of the summer before James and Sirius's first year of Hogwarts. For those who havent ignore this Authors note.

P.S I might make this a series into all their year of Hogwarts if you want. Just tell me in a review.

Disclaimer: The Marauders and other Harry Potter characters you recognize don't belong to me. OK. Good.

Marauders: The Beginning

James Potter was ordinary in every way. He was... no. He had... nope. He looked... wait... no. OK. So he wasn't so ordinary.

He was short for his age of eleven. His auto black hair stuck up in all direction no matter what he did to it. Though the least ordinary thing about him was that he was a wizard. Yes, that's right a wizard. And even in the wizard world he wasn't quite that ordinary. Unless you count being the Minister of Magic's son being ordinary.

At the moment he was sitting behind a tall bush in his backyard with someone who could have been his twin. even though there were some differences. While James's hair stuck up in a mess the other boy's hair fell down in a mess. Also while was on the sort side, skinny and had light brown eyes. The boy sitting or should I say squatting down next to him was average height with a strong build and had dark brown eyes that were almost black.

That boy was James Potter's absolute best friend, Sirius Black. The two of them were best friends since as long as they could remember. They were born on the very same day, October 30. And they grew up as next door neighbors. James was born first though around 6 PM while Sirius was born around 6:05 PM. You could almost always tell that James was born first because he was always a /little/ more responsible than Sirius. Thought being born on the beginning of Mischief Night did increase their tendencies to get in trouble.[1 They were constantly getting in trouble for playing pranks.

This time was no exception. The two friends sat waiting for the cost to be clear. Both sets of their parents were going out for awhile to go to a meeting leaving the young boys with their older siblings. While they were gone the two pranksters were going to set up a trap.

"Do you have everything?" Sirius asked James.

James looked at all the stuff around him and Sirius. "I think so? Did you remember to get the glue?"

"Glue? I had to get the glue?"

"What do you mean 'I had to get the glue?'. Yes, you had to get the glue. I got everything else! All you needed was to get the glue and you couldn't even get that!"

"Hey can't you take a joke." Sirius said with a laugh. "I got the glue and something else that I thought would make the job allot easier." He then pulled out two jars of glue and a wand.

"Oh my god! Whose is that and where did you get it?" James cried out with amazement.

"It's Talia's." Sirius told his amazed friend. "She left it in my room this morning when she came to yell at me for taking her radio. So I borrowed it." Talia was Sirius's thirteen year old sister and one of the main victims in the two boys pranks.

Finally sensing the coast was clear the two boys quietly left the safety of the bush with all their supplies. Carefully James poured the long stick glue all over the floor of the back porch. While he was doing that Sirius, using his sister's wand, levitated a whole bag of chicken feathers and two jars of honey to a beam above the backdoor. Then they set up a trip wire that would tip the honey then the feathers on to the person who would get stuck in the glue. James did one on the inside of the house and Sirius on the outside.

After making sure everything was set James ran through the house and around to the backyard. On the way he barricaded the front door making sure that no one could get through. While James was gone Sirius then set up five Filbuster fireworks and one dungbomb then lit them. As soon as all of them were lit he ran to hide with James behind the bush that they were hiding behind before.

He silently duck down beside James. As soon as he got in a position where he could see the porch everything exploded in a flash of colors and an awful smell.

"James William Potter, you had better not have blown anything important up!" Thomas, James's older brother yelled from the house just as Talia's voice came from the Black's house next door.

"Sirius Osirus Black what did you do with my wand?!"

A moment later tom came rushing out the Potter's back door as Talia rush up right past the two boys and up the porch. Not looking where they were going the two of them tripped over the tripwires and landed in the still wet glue. Finally the two jars of honey and the bag of feathers came crashing down on the two stuck teens.

For a moment the two boys just sat behind the bush staring at what they just did. Then they burst out laughing.

"Can you believe they fell for it!" James laughed at Sirius.

"Yeah! Sirius said to James. Then he called out to Talia. "Hey glad you could drop by sis."

"Hahaha." Tom said in a dry voice "very funny.

"Now you two had better get us out now before we tell." Talia told the boys.

Sirius and James looked at each other "Nah!" they said at once. They got up to run to the Black' house. Unfortunately they ran right into their parents who, when they couldn't get through the front door of the Potter's house decided to go through the back.

Their fathers looked just about to start laughing along with their sons but their moms were a different story.

"What do you have to say for yourselves boys?" Mrs. Potter scolded them. That wasn't a very nice thing to do with Tom and Talia."

"Yes, now give me Talia's wand." Mrs. Black said to Sirius. Sirius reluctantly gave back the wand. "Now once we get those two unstuck I want you to help clean up all the glue you put on the Potter's porch."

"Yes mum." Sirius said quietly.

James then sensing that they might get into even more trouble turned their attention to the two owls that just landed in the Black's kitchen. "Looks like there's a post. We'll just go and cheek." James and Sirius then ran around thier parents and up to the Black's kitchen.

When they got there they looked at the two owl's sitting there.

"Hey we each got something." Sirius said to Jame who was raiding the fridge.

"Cool bring them up to your room." James said grabing something to eat.

As soon as they got to Srius's room Srius flopped down on his bed while James took the floor.

"Oh my god!" Sirius suddenly yelled

"What? Did you eat another dung flavored jellybean?" Replied James who was attempting to get his chocolate frog under control.

"No! I got my acceptance letter to Hogwarts!"

"Your not serious!" James yelled climbing up to the bed to have a look.

"I'm always Sirius." Sirius replied to the over used joke. (A/N: I had to put it in somewhere.)

"Still" James said sticking to the subject. "we're not supposed to receive our letters until next week."

"Well mabey. all I know is that I got mine. Listen."

Dear Mr. Black,

We are pleased to inform you that you have ben accepted to "Hogwats school of Witchcraft and Wizardey". Enclosed is a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1. We await your acceptance owl by no later than July 31.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress

"Whoah! cool I got mine to." James said to Sirius from the floor where he was reading his letter.

"Come on lets go tell the 'rents."

"Yeah they can't still be mad at us."

"Let's go."

[1 Trust me that totaly effects

There first chapters done. What do you think good, bad, should be thrown aside and never heard from again.

Silver- The last one! The last one!

I'm not talking to you! Go to your corner and figure out what we shoud do for the next chapter.

Silver- Fine Gose to the corner.

Good. Now where was I. Oh yeah. Now go review and tell me what you think. The more reviews I get the better chance of you getting another chapter. All suggestions accepted. Until next time. Adios. Amigos.