Chapter 5 :
The following morning, all four of the marauders sat down in the great hall eating breakfast; as the four girls sat down to join them.
"Morning, Williams" Sirius smiled at Sandra and winked, "Had a pleasant night?"
"Very pleasant indeed, Mr. Black" she replied politely, "And you, sir?"
Sirius let out his typical bark-like laugh, then winked at her again and said; "A little chilly, but else it wasn't bad, thank you very much, Miss Williams."
Peter looked puzzled and shook his head slightly from side to side in confusion and James put his hand on Sirius' forehead to check as if he was sick and had a fever. Katherine, Lily and Janie stared at Sandra with bulging eyes.
Remus finally smiled and asked "Sirius? Sandra? Would any of you care for filling us in on what's happened?"
"Yeah," Lily said, "Yesterday you couldn't stand being in the same room. How come you've stopped bickering?"
"We've just decided to burry the hatchet, sort of speak." Sirius said plainly looking at Remus.
"So you two are together now?" Janie asked hopefully.
Sirius frowned slightly, but covered it quickly with at smile, hoping no one had noticed.
"No, we are just good friends." Sandra said, giving her girlfriends a look that said she would explain everything later.
"But Padfoot...." James started having noticed his best mate frowning, but shut his mouth when Sirius to sent him a look, that said he would fill him in later.
"Now would someone, please, pass me the pancakes" Sirius said hungrily eying James' plate. "And the toast to, I haven't had a descent meal in weeks, thanks to you Williams!" he winked at Sandra.
Sandra just shrugged and then joined her friends' roar of laughter when Sirius nearly choked trying to swallow a whole pancake and a piece of toast at the same time.
Later that evening in the common room, the marauders and the four girls, sat at the blazing fireplace, no one talking about the current state of the relationship between Sirius and Sandra, as both the remaining boys and girls had been filled in by either of them. Everyone, including the couple in mention, had decided just to enjoy the peace of the truce for now.
While the girls where working on their latest 1 foot and 3 inch essay for Potions, about the various uses of Dragon Blood, the four marauders where huddled together, trying to come up with a good prank on Severus Snape.
"We could bewitch his hair to look even more greasy?" suggested Peter happily.
Remus shook his head and smiled haughtily at Peter and said "I doubt that will be a possible feat, Wormtail, but nice try, though."
"How about turning old Snivellus into a goat?" James suggested merrily, but was cut of by a grinning Sirius.
"You did that last year, Prongs. Did you forget?" he said with a provoking grin, "Are you getting that old, mate?"
James gave a snort of laughter and threw a cushion at Sirius, but he ducked and it hit Lily squarely in the face and knocked over her inkbottle.
"Potter! You moron!" Lily shrieked at him. "Look at this mess."
"No problem, Lily-kins," James said with a supercilious grin spread across his face. He took out his wand and said loudly; "Scourgify!"
James eyes widened in shock as everything happened in slow motion. He had meant to clean up the spilt ink, and so he did. But he had been so enthusiastic that also the writing on every parchment disappeared. All four of the girls essays was now gone. Back was only four pieces of blank parchment.
Sirius, Remus and Peter were having a fit of laughter, but the girls weren't amused at all. Like one voice they all shrieked his name and stood up.
One by one, they all raised their wands and threw a hex on him.
Janie's hex hit James and his before so supercilious grin turned into a rainbow coloured row of teeth.
Katherine's hex hit him right in the face, and his skin started to turn green, spreading all over his body.
Sandra cast a transfiguration spell on his nose, so it grew several inches and left him with an unmistakable foul smell of dragon dung.
And at last Lily's spell hit him fully on his most sensitive place, his hair, which grew rapidly to it reached his waist and turned blue with red stars.
By now the remaining people in the common room had turned to watch the scene and was screaming with laughter, seeing the leader of the Marauders being pranked severely. Barely able to move from laughter, Sirius conjured a big mirror for James to look in, and when he saw his new self he screamed at the girls with fury.
"TURN ME BACK! NOW!!" he was frustrated, not at all used to being the one people played pranks on.
"Maybe tomorrow, Potter" Lily said calmly with a mischievous smile.
"Yeah, we have been waiting for this opportunity for so long, to end it this fast." Janie said her eyes twinkling.
"You mean, you have planned this?" he asked, surprised at the thought that girls could plan such a prank.
"Ever since you messed with Lily's hair on the Hogwarts Express" Sandra said grinning widely.
"You've got to be impressed, Prongs!" Remus managed to say between to fits of laughter.
"It's not like you've hadn't had it coming for the last few years, James" Katherine smiled wickedly.
"You 4 better turn me back before morning or else...." James glared at them, unwilling to admit to them, that had they did this to somebody other than him, it would have been a remarkable good prank.
"Or else what, Jamie-kins?" Lily said in a mock sweet voice. "You'll what? Pranks us all to death?"
"As if you wouldn't all ready." Katherine mumbled.
Sirius, who was now slightly recovering from his laughter attack, turned towards the girls and said.
"As brilliant as this prank might be, I don't see why Remus, Peter and I have to suffer?"
"What do you mean, Mr Black?" Sandra said eyeing him with a puzzled expression. "Are your eyes to sore to look at our new beauty queen, Jamie Potter?"
"No, not all, but no offence Prongs." Sirius said quickly eyeing James. "But you stink, mate."
"Hey! " James exclaimed. "That's out of bounds, Padfoot." Eyeing Remus he continued. "Say something will you, Moony. You're a prefect. Do some justice."
"Sorry, mate" Remus grinned. "But you do stink." Turning towards the girls he said; "We do have to share a dormitory with him tonight, will you please remove the smell of dung?"
Sandra nodded and mumbled a counter curse and James nose shrank and the smell of dung disappeared.
Janie said something to, and James' teeth returned to normal. Katherine to returned his skin to the normal colour, but Lily just smirked at James and said ;
"I won't undo your hair Mr. Potter, sorry." She grinned wickedly at him. "Not yet anyway. Let it be a reminder for you to behave yourself, for a while."
James groaned and went to bed followed by the rest of the marauders. The girls sat down grinning and started their essays yet again.