For disclaimers & exceptions see chapter 1.

Chapter 3

"Sora?!" Silver-Raven cried. Sora stopped in her tracks as she stared at him and Elentari, who was still trying to stop Gizmo escaping from under the sheets.

"R-Ravvy?" Sora stuttered. Silver-Raven laughed and ran up to her, he picked her up around the waist and spun her around. Sora laughed as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Elentari stared at the two and shook her head. She turned her back to them as they started to kiss.

"Oh PLEASE! We don't need the nightmares." She said to herself. Silver-Raven pulled away from Sora and glared at Elentari.

"Shut-up! You're just jealous 'cause you don't have a boyfriend!" He yelled, slightly angry. Elentari closed her eyes and counted to ten, it normally calmed her down. Glancing at Silver-Raven and Sora, Harry walked up to Elentari and tapped her on the shoulder.

"What?"

"Are Sora and that other guy…an item?" He asked, sounding quite nervous about what the answer may be.

"Yeah, so? We made that clear before when Rav kept calling her his girlfriend. Or didn't you get that through your pre-pubescent head?" Elentari replied, knocking his forehead with her knuckles. Harry frowned and sighed.

"Ok, just making sure."

"I would have thought it's pretty obvious that they were an item anyway, either that or REALLY good friends." Elentari snapped before turning to Sora. "How did you get here?" She asked. Sora shrugged her shoulders and let go of Silver-Raven.

"I started reading a book I found in the cargo bay…next thing I know, I'm lying down outside the entrance hall in the middle of the night." She explained.

"It must have been the same book we read." Silver-Raven said, looking over at Elentari, who glared at him and growled.

"What do you mean 'us'?!" She yelled. "You were the one who read it! Not me!" Silver-Raven glared at her and sighed.

"Alright, I'll accept my responsibilities as captain and admit that I read the passage out loud." He said.

"You? Accepting responsibility? That's a first." Elentari muttered. Silver-Raven was about to take a step towards her when Sora stopped him.

"C'mon you two, stop fighting for once." She said. Silver-Raven and Elentari looked at her and nodded. The other adults, who had kept away for the past few minutes, walked up behind Sora.

"Sora, who are these people?" Professor McGonagall asked. Sora turned to her and then back at the pirates.

"The girl is Elentari, a good friend of mine, and the guy's Silver-Raven, my boyfriend." She answered. The teachers nodded and stayed behind her. Elentari held up the bundle of bed sheets and frowned.

"You forgot Gizzy." She said. Sora laughed and pointed at the Mogwai.

"And that's Gizzy under there." She added. Silver-Raven sighed and yelled.

"HIS NAME'S GIZMO!!" Everyone looked at him, and then turned away again.

"Whatever Rav." Elentari sighed.

"Can we see?" George asked. He reached over and was about to pull the sheet off when Elentari glared and sank her teeth into the back of his hand. George yelped in pain and pulled his hand away. Elentari had left deep and sore teeth-marks in his skin.

"You bitch! You bit me!" He yelled. Elentari growled and narrowed her eyes.

"Uh-oh, not even I call her that man, you're in for it now." Silver-Raven said as he walked over to Elentari and took Gizmo off her. She slowly drew her daggers, keeping her sights on him.

"No one, and I mean NO ONE, calls me a bitch and gets away with it…" She hissed. George backed away, still cradling his hand in his other arm.

"L-listen…I-I'm sorry…c'mon…I d-didn't mean it…" He stammered. Elentari ignored his pleas and launched a dagger at him. It was hit, inches away from his face, by a flash of light. The dagger fell to the floor a few feet away, the blade appearing to be slightly damaged by the bolt.

"Very good Potter." One of the teachers complimented. "You're skills are increasing."

"Thanks sir." Harry replied. Silver-Raven, who was standing next to Harry, looked down at him and growled.

"What did I say about magic?!" He yelled, smacking Harry on the back of the head, causing him to fall forwards.

"That's enough." McGonagall said, "Now…"

"You bastard!!" Elentari yelled suddenly.

"Language please, if you don't mind."

"What?" Asked Silver-Raven unperturbed by the furious cry, then "Ah," when he saw she was crouching on the ground holding something.

Saying that the bolt had slightly damaged the blade would be an understatement, snapped it in two would be more accurate.

"Do you know how much one of these costs?" She yelled, getting up to stand glaring at Harry.

"Probably as much as it's going to cost me to get a new broom." He replied coolly.

Silver-Raven shook his head, yet again, sighing. "You lot really don't know what NOT to say to her, do you?"

"Why?" Fred asked, "It was a fair comment."

Silver-Raven simply looked at him.

Although Sora had reasons for disliking Harry herself, she did not think that it would be a very good idea if Elentari lost her temper yet again that day, so she intervened rapidly.

"Ele, don't take it out on him. There's been enough fighting for one day." She said, standing in front of the female pirate. Elentari narrowed her eyes at Harry and glanced at Silver-Raven, then at Sora.

"So...what now?" She asked. Silver-Raven walked up to the two and shrugged.

"Well, we came here to find Sora, and we did. I propose we go back home."

"Home? HOME! Our home is drifting in that lake over there!" Elentari yelled at him. "If we were to go back in that, we wouldn't last a second!"

"Ok, ok. Jeez Ele. So what do you think we should do? Huh?" Silver-Raven asked. His friend just shrugged in response. Sora and Silver-Raven sighed and went into thought.

After a few moments pause, Silver-Raven snapped his fingers and grinned.

"I've got it!" He cheered.

"Wow, another first." Elentari muttered under her breath. Silver-Raven, who didn't hear her, kept grinning at them.

"What is it, Ravvy?" Sora asked. Her boyfriend looked at her, the grin slowly started to fade.

"I uhhh…I forgot…" He said quietly. Sora sighed; Silver-Raven was forever forgetting things.

"You useless imbecile! You could have had a good idea, and you just forgot?!" Elentari yelled.

"Uhhh….yeah?" Her friend replied. The female pirate's face turned red with frustration. She grabbed Silver-Raven's jacket and shook him hard.

"WELL YOU'D BEST REMEMBER QUICKLY!!!!" She screamed. Sora did her best to pull Elentari off him, but she hadn't the same strength as her friend.

A loud 'bang' went off near by. Everyone, except the wizard who caused it, Snape, jumped and stared at him.

"Thank you, now can we all…"

"Did you just use that stick thing in your hand?" Silver-Raven interrupted suddenly.

"Yes"

"I thought we said no magic!" Elentari yelled, catching onto Silver-Raven's displeasure.

"This is a…" McGonagall began.

"Uh, why don't you go back to the staff room, and I'll…we'll join you in a bit after I've explained a few things to our visitors." Sora said, sounding anxious.

The staff were puzzled by her nervousness, however Sora knew they had only seen part of the pirates' temper, but they understood her wish to be alone with the pirates for a while.

After both staff and pupils had left, including a friendly warning from George about the giant squid in the lake (Silver-Raven had not been impressed), Sora explained about the school, Hogwarts, and its purpose. Elentari managed to remain reasonably calm, Silver-Raven…uhh…did not.

"You mean I have go into a castle full of magicians?"

"Wizards."

"Shut it, Ele. You mean a castle where we don't have anything to protect us against their…their…"

"Magic?"

"Yes."

"Actually…"

"We're not going to need anything." Sora said gently, ignoring Elentari.

"And what if something goes wrong? No wait, of course, sorry I forgot, everything's already GONE WRONG." Silver-Raven yelled.

Sora put her head in her hands. "Ele, help me here please. I have a feeling that we're gonna need their help to get back, sorry forward in time." She jerked her head at the castle.

Elentari grinned. "Okay."

The female pirate walked up to her companion, and tackled him down to the lakeshore, making sure that the end result was that he was in the lake and not her.

While Silver-Raven was sitting in the shallow water she spoke to him.

"Right, the more you argue, the longer you'll sit there, and the more likely the squid will find you. Now, I don't know about you, but I, for one… and Sora," She added after a brief pause, "Would like to return home, even if it does mean getting attacked by 'evil gangsters' when we do."

"And so do I, but the spells…"

Elentari folded her arms and looked at him. He shut up.

"Just to prove that I'll always be one step ahead of you…"

"Will not."

"Do you want to get eaten by this squid thing?" She asked, her voice holding a dangerous edge.

Silver-Raven sighed, "Get on with it."

Elentari chucked something into his lap. "Deflectaspell shades from that colony west of Dargo."

"I know. But we only got two pairs."

"I won't wear any." Sora said when she pushed past Elentari to help her boyfriend out of the lake, as a tentacle appeared and disappeared again below the water.

Elentari shuddered, she never had liked creepy-crawlies.

Silver-Raven glared at her.

"Okay, sorry for not believing that there was that …thing…in the water, and throwing you in there. Can we get a move on now?" She asked crossly.

Silver-Raven nodded, slipped his DTS shades on and the three pirates made their way towards the castle entrance.

TBC…

R&R