Hey sorry for the delay on the postage. I would like to thank my new beta
reader Kaelin. My anckle acturally got better much quicker than they
thought so I was only out one weekend. Well here is more postage and
thanks for the reviews I love to read them. Sorry about the format I tried
to fix it so lets see how this works.
~stormie
New Pranks and Flying Cats
Year 2
The Potters picked James, Sydney and Lily up at the train station. Lily's parents were in America at the main office in the states for Mr. Evans company, Triple E. Her parents were returning in a week so she had to stay with the Potters. Fortunately they would not miss her birthday. The Marauders and Delightful Duo were going to raid their parents' potion stores to see if they had the ingredients for the potion. They were going to meet in a week at Lily's house to bring what they found. They were keeping the supplies there so that their parents wouldn't find out. Also Lily could magically hide it in her room and her parents couldn't find it.
After a week they met at Lily's house and brought what they could find. Lily had made a list of what they needed. They marked off what they had.
"Ok, all we need is: wolf ears, bat wings and star spotted frogs spleen." Lily read off the list.
"Ok. We should be able to get that all at Diagon Alley." Remus said
"I think we need to take a trip to shop for birthday presents." James said
"Totally" Sydney said
They all asked their parents by various methods and got permission. They ran to James house and flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. When there they split up they were going to go in three different groups to get the supplies. Lily and Sydney were first, getting the hardest.
"Um, hello, I didn't see any star spotted frog spleen and was wondering if you could tell me where it is?" Lily asked
The clerk looked at her. Thankfully it was a teenager so he didn't ask why. The guy just flirted with them. Next Remus walked in alone. He asked for bat wings. When asked why he winked and told the guy "I have an idea how to make an untraceable love potion." The clerk grinned and gave it to him. Sirius and James tried next. They recognized the guy as a Quidditch player from school so started talking about Quidditch to him and he forgot to ask why they needed wolfs ears. They all met later in front of the joke shop to talk.
"Man that was like taking candy from a baby," Sirius exclaimed
"I know he didn't even remember what we asked for by the time we left." Sydney said, and she high fived Lily.
"Wait, what did you do to get it?" Remus asked slyly
"Oh nothing," Lily smiled and twirled her hair around her finger and giggled.
"You two are bad" James laughed
"That's where you're wrong" Sydney said
"We're good," Lily told him, and with Sydney finished, "really good." They smirked and the guys couldn't help but agree.
They then split up to look for presents seeing as all their birthdays were in June and coming up. When they finished their shopping, they returned home. They met the following day for James and Sydney's birthday party. Their parents had arranged for them to have their birthday in the country at a muggle free facility. All the first year Gryffindors were invited along with all of the potter clan. They brought their brooms they could fly, and some surprise pranks. Lily had to floo with the potters to get there.
The party was great they played Quidditch, tag and some other ones they made up. Two weeks after James birthday Lily was jogging to the park. She saw James, Sirius, Remus and Sydney ahead of her and waved. They waved back then started yelling at her. She couldn't understand them because she had on her headphones. There was a car coming up quickly behind her, swerving all over the road. She was on the sidewalk running. As it got closer she finally took off her head phones to hear the group. She turned around and froze. The car was so close they wouldn't e able to get to her in time. The next thing she knew she was yanking out of the way on the other side of the street as the car passed her. She was looking around confused. She was then squashed by four rib breaking hugs.
"What happened?" she asked
"We saw the car behind you and tried to get your attention but you couldn't hear us," Sydney started.
"We couldn't get to you in time because you were to far away." Remus was next.
"When you saw the car you froze," Sirius told her.
"I was willing you to be next to us and the next thing you were," James said in a whisper. They all looked at him.
"One of your powers must be telekinesis, moving things with your eyes," Lily said after a moment.
"Are you ok?" James asked her.
"Yea, I'll be fine. I just scratched my knees up pretty bad." They looked down and her knees were bleeding.
Remus blew on it, trying to get the gravel off, and it stopped bleeding. They looked at each other. Sirius put his hand on the cut and it healed. They were shocked.
"Ok, there's another of your powers." Sydney said
"How come we have never been able to do this before? We've been hurt tones of times," James said
"Maybe you needed something to awaken your powers like pulling me out of the road. Remember when I put those curses on you that awoke mine," Lily explained
"What about Sydney?" Sirius asked
"We told her. We couldn't tell you because we didn't know," Lily pointed out
"That's very probable," Remus agreed.
They helped Lily to her feet and walked her home. Slowly the shock of what almost happened hit Lily. She got to her house alright, but she was shaking a little. James told the others to go he would help her upstairs. They got a few unflattering remarks from Sirius but chose to ignore them. James helped Lily upstairs to her room. She sat on her bed shaking and contentiously rubbing her eyes. James sat down next to her.
"It's ok to cry, you know," he told her.
"No, it isn't. I don't cry," Lily explained. "Crying is for little girls."
"No, it isn't. Everyone has to cry. If you're worried about everyone knowing, I swear I won't tell."
"It's not that. I just feel so weak when I cry and that's the one thing I try not to be."
"It's ok to be weak sometimes, if you have friends to lean on who are strong to support you." James hugged her and she buried her head in his shoulder so he couldn't see the tears rolling down her face.
Lily finally calmed down and thanked James for staying with her.
"Oh, now I remember why we were looking for you. We wanted to start the potion since we have all the ingredients." James said as he stood up.
"Ok. Let's go get the others," Lily said and got up.
They ran over to James house where they found Sirius throwing objects at Sydney with his eyes and she was throwing charms at him. Sirius had huge cheeks and was squeaking. Remus was on the floor laughing.
"We can't leave you three alone for 10 minutes without having a disaster area," James mused. "How come you didn't wait for me?" He moved the rug under Sydneys feet and she tripped and landed on Remus. That started the battle except this time it was Sirius, James and Remus against Sydney. Lily looked on in amusement for a while then froze everyone. They looked at her. She let Sydney go.
"Now, what to do with the Chipmunk, Wolf Boy and Fish Face?" Lily asked. James had scales and fins while Remus had gotten a tail and collar.
"I don't know. Should we turn them back, or not?" Sydney held up her hands, balancing pros and cons.
"I don't know, Sirius looks kind of cute with his chipmunk cheeks," Lily laughed.
"I was going for a hamster but chipmunk is better," Sydney pondered.
Lily smiled. "Now if we let you go will you behave?" The boys tried to nod their heads. "Ok." She snapped, and they were free.
"Change us back," they whined.
Sydney changed Remus and James back but not Sirius. "Change me back," he pleaded.
"The chubby cheeks fit you." Sydney smiled
A lamp flew at Lily who was laughing, and a chair at Sydney. Lily snapped her fingers again and a shield was around them. "Oh no. Bad Chipmunk Cheeks." And she gave him fur as well.
Everyone laughed. "Chipmunk Cheeks." Sydney trailed off. "I like that. It fits," she said to Sirius' displeasure.
Sirius thought a minute, then actually asked an intelligent question. "Lily, how come you always side with Sydney and Sydney, how come you always side with Lily?"
Lily was quiet for a minute putting together her reply. "Because if I didn't I would have to side with you nitwits and it would be 4 against 1. The odds aren't fair, 3 vs. 2 is more fun. Plus, we can read each others minds and it would be too easy," Lily finished.
"Anyways, we're girls and we're always right," Sydney told him.
"Yeah right" James said but continued before they could interrupt. "What are we going to do about the potion? Should we start it now or wait until we get back to school?"
"Are you sure you guys want to do this?" Remus asked.
"Of course we do Remus," Lily told him.
"Maybe we should wait until we get to school. That way it wont be so hard transporting it." Sirius said.
"Wow, he had a good suggestion," Sydney teased.
"I always have good ideas," Sirius told her.
"Yea, but they are only for pranks, nothing practical," Lily countered. That sparked the battle to start again. This time, everyone joined. The result was disastrous.
Mrs. Potter walked in the room because she heard yelling, and she had to duck a flying cat. "What in the name of Merlin is going on?" She yelled.
All the kids froze. James quickly made up an excuse. "Um, we were talking over some prank ideas and looking through the kit when something exploded and hit the three of us. We were so confused we started banging around, and knocked over stuff." They hoped it was a good excuse.
"And that's why the cat was flying?" She asked with an amused smile.
"Well, you see, it was on the bed, and Sirius accidentally sat on its tail, and it jumped really far." James continued, looking at the others for help.
"Sure, just clean everything up. And Sirius, try to stay off the cats tail," she smiled at the look on his face. "Oh and I love the chipmunk cheeks." Mrs. Potter left, chuckling to her self.
The group had a hard time fixing everything up and the cat--who was already paranoid of the boys who tested pranks on it--was hiding under the bed shaking. When they were done Sydney started looking for her cat.
"Where is she?" She looked under the bed. "You guys terrorize her enough. Now she's going to have a nervous break down." Sydney couldn't help but giggle.
"What, she didn't like flying?" Sirius asked naively.
"No, I guess not numbskull. If cats were meant to fly they would have wings," Sydney told him.
"What, like those?" Sirius asked. The cat had sprouted wings and was flapping them.
"Lily," Sydney said sternly.
"Yes?" Lily answered innocently.
"Did you give my cat wings?"
"Yes, they look quite lovely, don't they?" The gray cat had blue wings that looked like silk.
"Actually, they look great. Let's keep them," Sydney decided.
Mrs. Potter came back in to check the room and make sure it was clean and to tell them it was time for lunch. "Well I see you cleaned everything up." She was surprised.
"Of course we did," James told her proudly.
"Well, it's time to e-" the cat rubbed against her leg and she looked down. "What in all that is holy did you do now?!" She picked up the cat.
They looked at each other. "The box of pranks exploded again because James dropped it, and something hit kitty, and she sprouted wings," Sydney said trying not to laugh at how ridiculous it sounded.
"Okay, if you say so, but change her back," Mrs. Potter told them.
"But, doesn't she look so pretty with wings? Can't she keep them?" Lily asked.
Mrs. Potter looked at the cat, then the kids. "Fine. But nothing else to torment the cat, and ino flying lessons/i!" She looked at the boys whose faces fell. You could see the gears turning in their heads a minute before.
"Aww. But Mom, what's the point of him having wings if he can't fly?" James asked.
"Cats weren't meant to fly and you're not going to teach him to. And that's final." Mrs. Potter looked at all the boys.
"Yes ma'am," the boys grumbled.
"Good. Now, it's time for lunch." Mrs. Potter ushered them out of the room, rescuing the cat from torment for the moment.
~stormie
New Pranks and Flying Cats
Year 2
The Potters picked James, Sydney and Lily up at the train station. Lily's parents were in America at the main office in the states for Mr. Evans company, Triple E. Her parents were returning in a week so she had to stay with the Potters. Fortunately they would not miss her birthday. The Marauders and Delightful Duo were going to raid their parents' potion stores to see if they had the ingredients for the potion. They were going to meet in a week at Lily's house to bring what they found. They were keeping the supplies there so that their parents wouldn't find out. Also Lily could magically hide it in her room and her parents couldn't find it.
After a week they met at Lily's house and brought what they could find. Lily had made a list of what they needed. They marked off what they had.
"Ok, all we need is: wolf ears, bat wings and star spotted frogs spleen." Lily read off the list.
"Ok. We should be able to get that all at Diagon Alley." Remus said
"I think we need to take a trip to shop for birthday presents." James said
"Totally" Sydney said
They all asked their parents by various methods and got permission. They ran to James house and flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. When there they split up they were going to go in three different groups to get the supplies. Lily and Sydney were first, getting the hardest.
"Um, hello, I didn't see any star spotted frog spleen and was wondering if you could tell me where it is?" Lily asked
The clerk looked at her. Thankfully it was a teenager so he didn't ask why. The guy just flirted with them. Next Remus walked in alone. He asked for bat wings. When asked why he winked and told the guy "I have an idea how to make an untraceable love potion." The clerk grinned and gave it to him. Sirius and James tried next. They recognized the guy as a Quidditch player from school so started talking about Quidditch to him and he forgot to ask why they needed wolfs ears. They all met later in front of the joke shop to talk.
"Man that was like taking candy from a baby," Sirius exclaimed
"I know he didn't even remember what we asked for by the time we left." Sydney said, and she high fived Lily.
"Wait, what did you do to get it?" Remus asked slyly
"Oh nothing," Lily smiled and twirled her hair around her finger and giggled.
"You two are bad" James laughed
"That's where you're wrong" Sydney said
"We're good," Lily told him, and with Sydney finished, "really good." They smirked and the guys couldn't help but agree.
They then split up to look for presents seeing as all their birthdays were in June and coming up. When they finished their shopping, they returned home. They met the following day for James and Sydney's birthday party. Their parents had arranged for them to have their birthday in the country at a muggle free facility. All the first year Gryffindors were invited along with all of the potter clan. They brought their brooms they could fly, and some surprise pranks. Lily had to floo with the potters to get there.
The party was great they played Quidditch, tag and some other ones they made up. Two weeks after James birthday Lily was jogging to the park. She saw James, Sirius, Remus and Sydney ahead of her and waved. They waved back then started yelling at her. She couldn't understand them because she had on her headphones. There was a car coming up quickly behind her, swerving all over the road. She was on the sidewalk running. As it got closer she finally took off her head phones to hear the group. She turned around and froze. The car was so close they wouldn't e able to get to her in time. The next thing she knew she was yanking out of the way on the other side of the street as the car passed her. She was looking around confused. She was then squashed by four rib breaking hugs.
"What happened?" she asked
"We saw the car behind you and tried to get your attention but you couldn't hear us," Sydney started.
"We couldn't get to you in time because you were to far away." Remus was next.
"When you saw the car you froze," Sirius told her.
"I was willing you to be next to us and the next thing you were," James said in a whisper. They all looked at him.
"One of your powers must be telekinesis, moving things with your eyes," Lily said after a moment.
"Are you ok?" James asked her.
"Yea, I'll be fine. I just scratched my knees up pretty bad." They looked down and her knees were bleeding.
Remus blew on it, trying to get the gravel off, and it stopped bleeding. They looked at each other. Sirius put his hand on the cut and it healed. They were shocked.
"Ok, there's another of your powers." Sydney said
"How come we have never been able to do this before? We've been hurt tones of times," James said
"Maybe you needed something to awaken your powers like pulling me out of the road. Remember when I put those curses on you that awoke mine," Lily explained
"What about Sydney?" Sirius asked
"We told her. We couldn't tell you because we didn't know," Lily pointed out
"That's very probable," Remus agreed.
They helped Lily to her feet and walked her home. Slowly the shock of what almost happened hit Lily. She got to her house alright, but she was shaking a little. James told the others to go he would help her upstairs. They got a few unflattering remarks from Sirius but chose to ignore them. James helped Lily upstairs to her room. She sat on her bed shaking and contentiously rubbing her eyes. James sat down next to her.
"It's ok to cry, you know," he told her.
"No, it isn't. I don't cry," Lily explained. "Crying is for little girls."
"No, it isn't. Everyone has to cry. If you're worried about everyone knowing, I swear I won't tell."
"It's not that. I just feel so weak when I cry and that's the one thing I try not to be."
"It's ok to be weak sometimes, if you have friends to lean on who are strong to support you." James hugged her and she buried her head in his shoulder so he couldn't see the tears rolling down her face.
Lily finally calmed down and thanked James for staying with her.
"Oh, now I remember why we were looking for you. We wanted to start the potion since we have all the ingredients." James said as he stood up.
"Ok. Let's go get the others," Lily said and got up.
They ran over to James house where they found Sirius throwing objects at Sydney with his eyes and she was throwing charms at him. Sirius had huge cheeks and was squeaking. Remus was on the floor laughing.
"We can't leave you three alone for 10 minutes without having a disaster area," James mused. "How come you didn't wait for me?" He moved the rug under Sydneys feet and she tripped and landed on Remus. That started the battle except this time it was Sirius, James and Remus against Sydney. Lily looked on in amusement for a while then froze everyone. They looked at her. She let Sydney go.
"Now, what to do with the Chipmunk, Wolf Boy and Fish Face?" Lily asked. James had scales and fins while Remus had gotten a tail and collar.
"I don't know. Should we turn them back, or not?" Sydney held up her hands, balancing pros and cons.
"I don't know, Sirius looks kind of cute with his chipmunk cheeks," Lily laughed.
"I was going for a hamster but chipmunk is better," Sydney pondered.
Lily smiled. "Now if we let you go will you behave?" The boys tried to nod their heads. "Ok." She snapped, and they were free.
"Change us back," they whined.
Sydney changed Remus and James back but not Sirius. "Change me back," he pleaded.
"The chubby cheeks fit you." Sydney smiled
A lamp flew at Lily who was laughing, and a chair at Sydney. Lily snapped her fingers again and a shield was around them. "Oh no. Bad Chipmunk Cheeks." And she gave him fur as well.
Everyone laughed. "Chipmunk Cheeks." Sydney trailed off. "I like that. It fits," she said to Sirius' displeasure.
Sirius thought a minute, then actually asked an intelligent question. "Lily, how come you always side with Sydney and Sydney, how come you always side with Lily?"
Lily was quiet for a minute putting together her reply. "Because if I didn't I would have to side with you nitwits and it would be 4 against 1. The odds aren't fair, 3 vs. 2 is more fun. Plus, we can read each others minds and it would be too easy," Lily finished.
"Anyways, we're girls and we're always right," Sydney told him.
"Yeah right" James said but continued before they could interrupt. "What are we going to do about the potion? Should we start it now or wait until we get back to school?"
"Are you sure you guys want to do this?" Remus asked.
"Of course we do Remus," Lily told him.
"Maybe we should wait until we get to school. That way it wont be so hard transporting it." Sirius said.
"Wow, he had a good suggestion," Sydney teased.
"I always have good ideas," Sirius told her.
"Yea, but they are only for pranks, nothing practical," Lily countered. That sparked the battle to start again. This time, everyone joined. The result was disastrous.
Mrs. Potter walked in the room because she heard yelling, and she had to duck a flying cat. "What in the name of Merlin is going on?" She yelled.
All the kids froze. James quickly made up an excuse. "Um, we were talking over some prank ideas and looking through the kit when something exploded and hit the three of us. We were so confused we started banging around, and knocked over stuff." They hoped it was a good excuse.
"And that's why the cat was flying?" She asked with an amused smile.
"Well, you see, it was on the bed, and Sirius accidentally sat on its tail, and it jumped really far." James continued, looking at the others for help.
"Sure, just clean everything up. And Sirius, try to stay off the cats tail," she smiled at the look on his face. "Oh and I love the chipmunk cheeks." Mrs. Potter left, chuckling to her self.
The group had a hard time fixing everything up and the cat--who was already paranoid of the boys who tested pranks on it--was hiding under the bed shaking. When they were done Sydney started looking for her cat.
"Where is she?" She looked under the bed. "You guys terrorize her enough. Now she's going to have a nervous break down." Sydney couldn't help but giggle.
"What, she didn't like flying?" Sirius asked naively.
"No, I guess not numbskull. If cats were meant to fly they would have wings," Sydney told him.
"What, like those?" Sirius asked. The cat had sprouted wings and was flapping them.
"Lily," Sydney said sternly.
"Yes?" Lily answered innocently.
"Did you give my cat wings?"
"Yes, they look quite lovely, don't they?" The gray cat had blue wings that looked like silk.
"Actually, they look great. Let's keep them," Sydney decided.
Mrs. Potter came back in to check the room and make sure it was clean and to tell them it was time for lunch. "Well I see you cleaned everything up." She was surprised.
"Of course we did," James told her proudly.
"Well, it's time to e-" the cat rubbed against her leg and she looked down. "What in all that is holy did you do now?!" She picked up the cat.
They looked at each other. "The box of pranks exploded again because James dropped it, and something hit kitty, and she sprouted wings," Sydney said trying not to laugh at how ridiculous it sounded.
"Okay, if you say so, but change her back," Mrs. Potter told them.
"But, doesn't she look so pretty with wings? Can't she keep them?" Lily asked.
Mrs. Potter looked at the cat, then the kids. "Fine. But nothing else to torment the cat, and ino flying lessons/i!" She looked at the boys whose faces fell. You could see the gears turning in their heads a minute before.
"Aww. But Mom, what's the point of him having wings if he can't fly?" James asked.
"Cats weren't meant to fly and you're not going to teach him to. And that's final." Mrs. Potter looked at all the boys.
"Yes ma'am," the boys grumbled.
"Good. Now, it's time for lunch." Mrs. Potter ushered them out of the room, rescuing the cat from torment for the moment.