Nez: This chapter was written out completely before I even finished Chapter Four… or was it Three?

Zan: What! You wrote it all down on paper?

Nez: Yup! Just call me Your Highness, Queen of OC-dom! -grins-

Zan: -sighs- Oh Lord…

Chapter Six: Ureth the Big-Headed

It was the Sunday morning after the Glenview Coming Home Dance and the Maraurders were beat. After dancing, they all went out bowling at the local bowling alley and did not get back to Nehszriah's house until two in the morning. The guys just slunk down into the ice-cavern basement and fell asleep almost instantly. Now it was eleven in the morning and Nehszriah was ready to go out and get some munchies.

"Come on guys!" she yelled as she walked down the stairs. "Food run! Get your lazy bums up!" She got to the bottom of the stairs and flicked on the lights only to find three well-spaced and incoherent, blanket covered lumps in her basement. Her eye twitched and she yanked the blanket off of the nearest lump, which happened to be Remus in nothing but his boxer shorts.

"Blanket…" he mumbled as the sudden rush of cold woke him up. He looked up to see Nehszriah glaring down at him. He grabbed the blanket from her and hid.

"Look who's finally awake," she said.

"Let me have some privacy why don't ya?" Remus whined as he poked his head out of the top of the blanket.

"Feh," Nehszriah scoffed as she whipped out her wand and levitated the Sirius and James lumps. With a flick of her wrist, they both slammed into the floor, jolting both of them awake.

"I'll kill you woman!" James moaned as he sat straight upwards. Sirius silently sat upwards and gingerly rubbed his head, for it had hit a randomly placed Hot Wheels car on the floor.

"I'm going out and you three are going to come with me," Nehszriah said. She conjured three piles of clothes and started towards the stairs. "You guys have fifteen minutes to dress, got it?"

So, when the time limit had ended, the Maraurders silently marched up the stairs and into the living room, looking like one of the most motley crews one has ever seen. Remus had a light blue button-up shirt tucked into a pair of khaki slacks and had even conjured some eyeglass frames for himself, making him look like a complete nerd. James looked as if he could be the captain of the Glenview football team, complete with a white, preppy Abercrombie hooded sweatshirt and baggy blue jeans. Sirius was the most entertaining of all, being he looked like a gothic punk ready to go to a "Warped Tour" concert: black Hot Topic pants, a black band t-shirt, heavy boots, grungy bracelets up and down his arms and he even had found some hair gel in the basement bathroom and messed it into his hair.

"Nehszriah, do you really want us to go out like this?" James asked, fiddling with the drawstring to his hood.

"Yes," Nehszriah said frankly. The guys saw that she too had changed, wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a dark purple pinstriped shirt over it that had the sleeves rolled up to her elbows.

"Nehszriah, your clothes…" Sirius gaped.

"Eh, I needed a change," she answered. With that, they all put on coats and walked outside. It was a fairly normal Muggle community outside. The four teens walked through the cold happily, knowing they were on their way to procure munchies. They crossed a main street and were almost halfway towards the convenience store when Sirius fell behind.

"Padfoot, what's going on? Trying to sneak up on us?" James laughed. He turned around only to see Sirius being held in a headlock by a very tall and geeky teenage boy that had black hair, glasses and an unusually large skull.

"Give up? Come on say 'uncle'!" the boy laughed. Obviously, he had come out from behind the nearby hedge and tackled the unsuspecting wizard from behind.

"Ureth!" Nehszriah shouted. The boy dropped Sirius, stood straight up and smiled.

"Hi there Nez!" he grinned. Nehszriah just helped Sirius up and got in the guy's face, which was hard to do since he was a full head taller.

"Ureth, if you attack my guests one more time I'll…" she started.

"He looked suspicious!" Ureth cut in.

"Whatever," Nehszriah growled, rolling her eyes.

"Excuse me," Remus asked, walking up to Ureth. "How do you know our Nehszriah?"

"I attend Muggle school with her. Why? How do you know her?" Ureth answered, a defensive tone to his voice. He and Remus stared each other down, making it look like a battle of the nerds.

"I am her friend," Remus growled.

"Now, now," James laughed nervously, stepping between the two. "Let's behave ourselves." Ureth glared at Remus until Nehszriah finally spoke up.

"Ureth, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Nothing," he answered. "Hey, do you want to play .hack with me?"

"Dot Hack?" James asked. "What in the world is this 'Dot Hack'?"

"Come on! I'll show you!" Ureth said happily. He grabbed onto James's forearm and dragged him down a side street and into a house. Nehszriah, Remus and Sirius chased after them, but once they entered the poorly lit house, found no trace of either teen.

"Damn, where are they?" Sirius grumbled.

"Here," Nehszriah said, pointing towards a staircase leading towards the basement. Light was peeking from it and single file, Nehszriah, Remus and Sirius crept down the stairs, wands out incase something attacked.

"Nehszriah," Remus whispered. "What's down here?"

"This is where Ureth usually plays video games," she whispered.

"KYA!" a figure shouted, jumping out from behind seemingly nowhere. It was also a teenaged boy. He was just as tall as Ureth and had brown hair, blue jeans and a grey fleece and held in his hands a wooden kendo sword.

"Toran," Nehszriah said dully.

"Stand back forces of evil!"

"Toran…"

"Fear my WRATH!"

"Toran, you baka, sword-happy dolt! It's just me, Nehszriah!"

The figure turned on a light switch and cocked his head.

"Who are they?" he asked, pointing at Sirius and Remus.

"Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Now what in the world are you doing down here?"

"Looking for Ureth," Toran said blankly.

"I think he dragged our James to wherever it is above us," Remus said, standing in a far corner and staring up at the ceiling. Sure enough, when the ran up the stairs, they found James and Ureth in Ureth's bedroom. James, being slightly shorter than average, was jumping to try to retrieve his glasses from Ureth, who kept them barely out of his reach.

"Sit," Nehszriah said, pointing her wand at Ureth. He immediately fell to the ground and the disgruntled James retrieved his glasses. Sirius backed away slightly, having seen Fish-chan use the same maneuver on Carl-kun the previous night.

"Playstation!" Toran yelled happily. He sat down in front of the television set on the floor and turned on a small black box with a controller coming from it. Soon, he was leveling up a character in a fantasy video game.

"What in the world is that?" Sirius asked, sitting down next to Toran and poking the Playstation.

"My PS2!" Ureth yelled. "Toran! Off!" Ureth was still stunned from Nehszriah's spell and was pretty much just laying on his back spread-eagle.

"I'm gonna play .hack!" Toran insisted. He put a disc into the Playstation and the game quickly loaded. Before long, he was leveling up a character he called "Kite" on the screen, cursing softly if something did not go his way.

"Nehszriah, what is that… thing?" James asked.

"What, Toran or the PS2?"

"Both," Remus and James said together.

"Toran is another of my classmates and the PS2 is a game system. You play video games on it."

"Cool," Sirius commented, gazing into the television screen with the same glazed over look as Toran.

"Then are all of your classmates as odd as this?" Remus asked Nehszriah.

"Maybe."

"My… Playstation…" Ureth groaned as he crawled over towards Toran, Sirius and the Playstation. He clutched the controller and threatened to unplug it and let the character die. Toran immediately paused the game and backed down.

"Hey, how did you get in here Toran?" James asked, a bit puzzled. Toran just got up and smiled.

"Now that's a secret!" he said, holding up one finger and grinning profusely. Nehszriah muttered something about a "Xellos", whatever that was.

"Hey, can I play this 'Dot Hack'?" Sirius asked, reaching for the controller.

"You need to know how to play first," Toran laughed.

"That's it!" Ureth said, springing up. "I shall teach you all the fundamentals of the ancient ways of the gamer…"

"Damn," Nehszriah sighed. "I'm never gonna get out of here."

Yes… there we go. A nice intro to the insanity that is to come. -plays Pink Floyd and Queen- Yup. -bops head- So, please review now. Domo Arigato. -bows- . -makes clicking noise-