Nez: -superhero stance-

Zan: What's that for?

Nez: -sings 'Freckles' from Rurouni Kenshin soundtrack-

Zan: -sighs- You're so weird. –dances to 'Freckles' midi-

Nez: -V for victory- I know! –wink-

Part Eight: Visiting the Unknown

School went by quicker than Christmas Break and before anyone could get their bearings straight, Easter Holiday was upon them.

"Are you guys going to stay here?" James asked Nehszriah the day before the train. She was sitting next to Remus in the common room doing her Astronomy homework.

"Nope, Fish-chan and I are going home this holiday," she replied, barely breaking concentration.

"I'm going too," Remus said cheerily. Nehszriah smiled at him and turned to James and Sirius, who had just come over.

"You two want to come?" she asked. "I think you'd like it."

"Sure," Sirius chuckled. "Someone has to monitor you two during the break, and I think it'd be best if we come along."

"Really?!?! Cool!" Fish-chan squealed. She seemed to pop out of nowhere to cling to Sirius happily, which made some seventh year girls giggle. Sirius just sighed and wished he could take it back.

-the next day-

"Wheeeeee! We're finally going back home!!" an excited Fish-chan yelled. She, James, Sirius, Lily, Nehszriah and Remus were locked in a train compartment on the Hogwarts Express. They were all dressed in Muggle clothing and ready to get home.

"Where's Peter?" Lily asked.

"With his fat girlfriend Haley," James growled.

"I swear, she's a hooker," Sirius commented.

"Well, that's probably why he's with her!" Nehszriah added. Everyone laughed.

"King's Cross! Everybody off!" a voice yelled. The teens fetched their luggage and went through the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10.

"So," Remus asked. "Where's our ride?"

"Right here," Nehszriah said with a sly grin, pointing to a bathroom. It had a sign on it that said: "Pardon Our Dust- Closed".

"What do you mean we are going to get home through a toilet?" Lily said, quite disgusted. Fish-chan pushed her into the door, where she vanished like it was the train barrier.

"LILY!" James yelled. He ran after her, followed by the rest of the Maraurders.

"The door was a portkey?" Remus asked, stunned that they were in an airport.

"Yep! Now come on!" Fish-chan said as she and Nehszriah led the way to another portkey, which took them into someone's basement. It was very dark, for there was only one light on, and it kept on flickering.

"AAAAHHHHH!" Sirius screamed. Everyone looked back to find Nehszriah's friend Tsuki, arms wrapped around the scared Maraurder.

"He's soooo cute!" she squealed. Fish-chan had to pry Tsuki loose so Sirius could breathe. She looked at the other people in her basement. Lily's hand latched onto James's and Remus was already halfway up the stairs with Nehszriah. Everyone else followed to find a mass of people in the living room.

"SIS!" squealed the voice from Part Six, Zanbato. He jumped his older sister and they were soon beating each other up mercilessly. Remus had been right in thinking him to be tall and skinny, for he was. The tall and gangly siblings looked nearly identical, except Zanbato's short hair, eyeglasses, Yu-Gi-Oh! t-shirt and jeans.

The gang then also got their first clear look at the Muffins- or Muffin Mafia as they liked to be called. Tsuki was pretty average in height and was in an Inu-Yasha t-shirt, a patch-covered jean jacket and bondage pants much like Nehszriah's, except the trim was purple. Akina was slightly taller than Tsuki and was out of the kimono from before. Instead, she too donned an outfit of jeans and a t-shirt. Blonde-haired Chels had pigtails, a green long-sleeved shirt and tan corduroy pants. The Fuf, who seemed to be slightly more chipper than before, had on jeans (do you see a trend here?), a green t-shirt and over that, a blue flannel shirt. Her short brown hair slightly resembled James's in fashion, except a bit tamer.

"No Tara or Kate again?" Fish-chan sadly asked. (Nez: Tara, Kate, I'm really sorry that I keep on writing you out, but I've met Tara once and don't really know her well enough to write about her and I've only heard stories about Kate. Please forgive me!)

"Family vacation and grandmother's house," Chels answered.

"What kind of house is this?" Lily asked as she prodded the microwave oven above the counter. It beeped on and scared her so much, she drew her wand and was about to hex it, when she realized how silly it would be to hex an inanimate object and put it away. Tsuki turned off the microwave oven with a laugh.

"That's right," she said. "You guys didn't have buttons like this on a microwave back then."

A confuzzled Remus looked at her.

"What do you mean 'back then'?"

"Didn't Nehszriah tell you? We're in the future, or your future anyways," Fuf smirked. "You guys are all adults in this time period. Your kids would be our age."

"WHAT?!?!?!" the Maraurders yelled together. Lily sat down in the chair next to her, Sirius needed to prop himself up on the counter and Zanbato started giggling.

Tsuki looked around the room, adjusted her bandanna, and decided to lift the ugly mood.

"Let's PARTY!!!" she screeched. With that, the Muffins and Zanbato got out the munchies and Faygo, maneuvering around the frozen Maraurders from the past.

Review Reply!

Zan: First off, Nez made a labeling mistake in chapter 7. Milligrams and milliliters are sooooo not the same thing. You can't have milligrams of water either, I think...

Nez: Danke schön, Einstein. –twitch-

Zan: -confuzzled- Huh? Donkey shoe?

Nez: Why do I let you co-write with me? –twitch- -bops Zan over head- Okay... as a group review: I might turn Snape back, the fight scene is quite possible and drivers training is not possible for me, for I did not turn in any work in Geometry, so therefore failed the class (got a 'B' on my final though!) I might even be so stubborn as to just wait 'till I'm 18 and take the road test then.