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A/N: Okay like I promised here is another chapter! So I don't have much to say but read and review!

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Chapter 8: Detention

Before Lily knew it, it was already six thirty on Wednesday. Lily made her way down to the Potions classroom by herself. She had no idea where James might be nor did she care. "As long as I don't need to work with him, I'm happy!" Lily thought to herself.

Lily knew why she put her wand on James. It was the fact that she didn't see the point in revenge. Her thoughts drifted to James Potter. "Why did I get angry at him? He was only trying to help!" Lily seemed to be struggling to find answers to everything that night. "Oh yeah it's the fact that he got me stuck in detention!" Lily's temper rose with the thought, "Me in detention! What did I do to deserve this? My parents are going to kill me! Plus I am sure it goes on some type of record! People are going to think me some type of delinquent for getting detention on my second day of my first year at school! Oh, Potter will pay, I'll-"

Her thoughts were interrupted when James came running up to her.

"Ready for detention?" He asked with a grin on his face. Lily didn't answer but if looks could kill Potter would be dead ten times over.

"Guess not." he said with a shrug. Lily sped up and to her immense dislike so did James. He still tried to talk but Lily just glared at him so he finally gave up and walked in silence until they reached the Potions classroom. They entered the room, but unfortunately they were three minutes late.

"Well, well, well, it is nice of you to finally arrive." Professor Baddock said with a sneer, "but unfortunately I am going to have to take away five points from each of you for your tardiness."

"Now I am going to need you two to clean out all of the cauldrons without magic." he said while handing them each a rag and a bottle of cleaner.

"I hope that the fact that both of you with be working together will not be a problem," he said with an evil glint in his eyes, because he knew that from yesterdays events that this would cause a problem, "Now I'll be back, I must go speak with Professor Dumbledore on a matter that if far too complicated for anybody such as yourselves to understand. So I expect you to work quietly and you may leave once your work is complete." He then excited the room, leaving two very disgruntled students in his wake.

"Barmy old codger!" James grunted once he left the room. Lily just rolled her eyes and started to clean the cauldrons. Which was actually pretty horrible because there was still some potion left at the bottom that would burn your hands. James stood there grunting out insults about the professor till Lily finally snapped.

"POTTER!" she yelled, "IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL!"

"Jeez!" he said wide eyed, "what crawled up your butt and died?"

Lily wanted to hit him but she settled for a frustrated yell.

"Fine, fine," he said, "I get it, I'll shut up and clean the bloody cauldrons!" Then he got his rag and started cleaning the cauldrons, still grunting under his breath, though Lily couldn't hear him, because she was too wrapped up in her own thoughts. Then after about two minutes of silence James spoke again.

"You know, I still don't see why you are mad at me." he said, "What did I do?"

Lily just continued to work as if she didn't hear him; she really didn't want to talk to the boy who could have very well destroyed her future by landing her in detention.

"Hello? Anybody home?"

"What?!"

"I said-"

"I heard you!"

"Ok, so what's your answer? I don't have all day!"

Lily expelled a long frustrated breath, still working for a minute before replying.

"You shouldn't have tried to curse him!"

"But he called you a….a you know…"

"I am aware of that!"

"So then why did you point your wand at me?"

"Because revenge is not the answer."

"What?" he asked surprised, "But I was only trying to help!"

"Did I say that I needed your help?"

"No, but…"

"But nothing, if I needed your help I would have asked for it!"

"Fine! I'll remember not to help you in the future!"

"You do that! And now if you don't mind I would like to clean these cauldrons so I can get out of the detention you got me into!"

Silence followed this until they were done. They left the Potions classroom and set off for the Gryffindor common room; Lily sped up and left James far behind, both of them deep in angry thoughts of one another.

Time flew by quickly for the first years. James and his friends sat in the common room one evening.

"I'm bored!" Sirius announced.

"Yeah, me too!" James added. Remus and Peter just nodded their heads.

Remus was a strange story. When he came back from his mother's he looked more weak and pale than he usually did. He also had tons of scars on his body. He just said that he went into the woods that surrounded their house and got scratched from the trees. Both James and Sirius really didn't believe him but they let it slide, for they knew that they couldn't get the truth out of him no matter how much they bugged him about it.

"This place is too boring!" Sirius exclaimed. "We need to brighten things up a bit!" He added while a small grin crept onto his face.

"What do you have in mind?" James asked, while catching on.

"Not sure," he said, "I'll get back to you on that." He then seemed to go into deep thought.

Five minutes later the same grin crept back onto his face.

"I've got an idea…" he said slowly.

"Yeah, what is it?" James asked while moving closer to his friend.

" We, my fine friends, are going to fix the little problem that this school has," Sirius said happily, "by becoming mischief makers…"

"Alright sounds good so far, go on." James said simply while Remus seemed rather disapproving at the thought.

"Well, I have an idea to uh… how shall I put it… make this school a better, and a uh much happier place." Sirius said with a pause for his words to sink in before continuing, "And I have an idea to start this process. That is if you are all up for it."

"I am!" said James without any hesitation. Then they both looked at Remus and Peter expectantly.

"Sure, I guess…" added Peter. They all looked at Remus who didn't seem to keen about the whole idea.

"Well?" asked James after about a minute.

"Um, I don't know, I really don't want to get into trouble."

"What's the point in life, if you play it safe? Come on Remus you only have one life live it to the fullest! Take risks!" Sirius exclaimed

"Well, I suppose…"

"Great, now if you all come a little closer, I'll tell you my plan…"

Lily walked into the Great Hall the next day for dinner. She sat down in her usual seat between Alice and Athena.

"Ah, nothing like a good dinner after a long day!" Lily said cheerfully.

"Yeah, especially if that day had Potions in it!" Athena added with a grimace.

If any of the girls, or anyone for that matter would be looking at the four boys who had huge grins plastered on their face they would have known something was up, but seeing as how they didn't everything went as planned. Everyone dug into their food as started talking as usual. Nobody seemed to notice that four certain Gryffindor boys did not.

Lily and the rest of the school exited the Great Hall after dinner and made their way back to the Gryffindor common rooms, and everyone went to bed and slept soundly. Nobody was aware of what four boys had managed to do on that fine evening.

Lily woke up and yawned, and then made her way sleepily to the bathroom. She was walking past the mirror when she stopped and looked at her reflection in pure shock before she let out an ear splitting scream. Her roommates came flying into the bathroom and they also let out a scream. They all looked at each other in too much shock to say anything. They heard distant screams coming from others rooms.

Everyone was scurrying around the castle. Nobody knew what to do. At first the Gryffindors just thought it only happened to them, but when they reached the Great Hall they saw that it was not only them but the whole school, even all the professors. Everyone in the school, that is, except for four certain students.

Professor McGonagall came towards the boys. Well they were pretty sure it was McGonagall. The only thing they could see was an emerald green person come walking up to them clearly outraged.

"You boys! Detention for a month!" she said angrily, "And I suggest you undo what you have done, right now!" And with that she turned around and headed back to the staff table.

"We better make an announcement!" Sirius said happily. James and Sirius stood up on their seats and called for attention.

"People, people, please settle down!" Sirius said to no effect, "Quiet!" he yelled a bit louder than he intended. Everyone looked at him.

"Now before we begin, may I say blue is definitely your color Professor Dumbledore." James said with a smile, "Now I am sad to announce that the spell isn't permanent-"

There were many signs of relief at that.

"But, on a more happier note it should last about a week!"

There were cries of outrage at that.

"Hey, hey, people you should be happy! At least we turned you all your favorite colors!" Sirius said with a grin on his face.

That didn't seem to go over very well. Everyone in the school, safe four, was in-fact covered head to toe in their favorite color. Several bright pink girls started to cry right after they heard it would wear off in a week's time.

For the next week all of the brightened up students made there way around the castle as their favorite color. Though they started to get use to the fact that they were orange or green, and they started to look at everyone and see what their favorite color was. Almost all of the Slytherins were black so they were easy to spot in the crowd of pink and blue students.

Lily was in-fact the same color green as her eyes. Athena was a dark blue color, while Alice donned baby blue. Athena was rather glad that none of her friends were the color pink because she hated to even look at the color. Though a fair amount of the girls' population was a bright pink color, even half of the Slytherin girls. And to the schools horror there was even a light pink Hufflepuff boy.

After that, time seemed to pass by to quickly and before they knew it they were exiting September and entering October bringing with it Quidditch and the thought of the Halloween feast. In between that time the four boys played many more pranks, until it came to be expected. They earned the name the Marauders. Nobody was sure who started the name, but it spread around the school quickly. The Marauders liked the name and that was what they were called from then on.

A/N: okay there is the chapter I promised you! I will probably have the next one up tomorrow! Please review!