BETAD VERSION
A/N: I know that I've kinda been ignoring the relationships, but let's just say that they've come to terms with their feelings but decided not to act on them. Besides if you noticed they're already starting to act a little more "friendly" to each other.
If you forgot.
~ . ~ = telepathic speech
"." = normal speech
'.' = thoughts
Chapter 11 BUSTED!!!
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
The next night the fabulous foursome (Ahah! No noughty things now *sigh* Ignore, it's just Zosa) were sitting in the common room waiting for a good moment to sneak out, so that they could leave and get the ingredients. They were wearing black clothes under their robes. The clothes were similar to their battle outfits but they didn't have the Crest markings and the four wore simple sneakers. Finally they found the moment when Parvati and Patil opened the portrait, giggeling for some reason and sped out of the common room.
Once outside the portrait and seeing that the Fat Lady wasn't there, they removed their robes and magicked them away. Once they where done Hermione spoke up; "Alright we each get what we're supposed to and meet in moaning Myrtle's bathroom."
The others nodded in agreement. The four mages transformed and sped of into different directions in groups of two.
~*~ Harry and Audrey ~*~
Harry and Audrey was currently running through a corridor on the sixth floor.
~ We'd better change back into humans, our animal forms can't take the secret passage stairs~ Harry thought to Audrey.
~ Good idea ~ Audrey replied.
The two changed back into humans and ran to a tapestry of an Ice Dragon. Audrey bowed before the Dragon and then put her hand on his claw. The Dragon nodded curtly and the tapestry rolled up to reveal a portal. Harry and Audrey walked through it and walked down the narrow stairs. Once down, Harry knocked three times on the wall and they walked out from behind a suit of armour on the third floor.
"Well that saved us 5 floors, let's get going" Harry said.
They walked to the left side of the corridor into a small circular hall where students often sat to relax.
Suddenly.
"WHOOSH!"
"What in the name of Hades was that!?" Audrey exclaimed as she dodged something that had flown towards her.
Then.
"WHOOSH!". "SPLASH!"
Audrey and Harry saw a water balloon zoom by and splash against the wall just above their heads.
~ Peeves! ~ Harry thought.
"Show yourself Peeves!" He said aloud, gritting his teeth and looking around trying to locate the insufferable dead son of a bitch.
Peeves became visible.
"Ickly little students out of bed!" he screetched.
"That's getting old Peesvy" Audrey drawled. "Templa en'tessa [1]" she murmured and snapped her fingers.
Peeves froze in midair, his eyes darting from one side of the corridor to another. Then he looked at Audrey, who was smirking, he looked a bit scared. Audrey and Harry waved to him and walked on.
They walked around the corner but stood stock still as they suddenly heard something.
"Now I got ya, you naughty filthy out of bed students!!!" they heard Filch scream.
"SHIT!!! FILCH!!!" Audrey yelped, she looked at Harry and they both ran into the other side of the corridor.
~*~ Ron & Hermione ~*~
Ron and Hermione had taken a secret passage into the dungeons.
"Merlin, I really hate that secret passage. Sliding down a slide worth 8 floors is no fun." Ron groaned while rubbing his butt, which he had been doing for five minutes.
"Stop whining Prowl, the slide isn't that bad." Hermione said as she unconsciously rubbed her behind a little.
"You're right the slide isn't.it's the landing that's bad." Ron agreed.
Hermione sighed and began to walk ahead to Snape's office. Soon they were standing in front of the door.
"So how are we going to get in?" Ron asked.
"Elementary my dear Prowl, we break in." Hermione said and she waved her hand over the lock muttering something.
The lock made a "click" noise and the door opened smoothly without making any noise. The two looked right and left and entered the office.
"So where do you thing he keeps the ingredients?" Ron wondered.
"I guess they're in his storage cupboard." Hermione replied as she walked to a half hidden door.
Hermione waved her hand again and this door opened silently as well. Hermione started to look through the various ingredients.
Suddenly.
"Mist, I think I hear something." Ron whispered.
"No it's probably imagination." Hermione said, but she walked to Ron anyway and listened.
Then she heard.
".bloody first years.thinking they can.what they want." they heard Snape's voice rant as it steadily came closer down the corridor.
"Damn, we gotta run." Hermione said.
Ron nodded in agreement and the two of them shot out of the office into the other end of the corridor. But Snape had seen them.
"What the.What do you think you're doing, stop right there!" Snape yelled and smoothly glided even faster as the overgrown bat he was after Hermione and Ron.
~*~ Harry and Audrey ~*~
Audrey and Harry were running fast, a madly screaming Filch not too far behind them. Filch was screaming about how insolent students should be shackled.
Harry noticed a side corridor not too far ahead. He shot into it, grabbing Audrey by her waist and pulling her along. They ran to the end of the corridor and found.
A door.
Suddenly the heard Filch's running steps coming closer. They looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement. Harry grabbed the handle of the door and threw it open. But what they saw wasn't like anything they'd expected to see. They were looking outside towards the lake, and found that they were also 4 floors up.
"So Nova, how well do you control your levitation?" Harry asked in a conversational matter while looking down.
"Well enough to make the jump, but we're still gonna have a pretty hard landing." Audrey replied looking down as well.
"I prefer a pretty hard landing over a very pissed off Filch who'd probably shackle us to the wall no matter what school protocol and Dumbledore says." Harry gravely said.
Audrey chuckled softly. Then she held her hands out and Harry grabbed them. They looked behind once more, and then down, then at one and another. They grinned at each other and jumped down.
~*~ Ron & Hermione ~*~
Meanwhile Ron and Hermione weren't much better off.
"Where in the name of the 7 hells are we Mist?" Ron asked.
"I don't know Prowl!" Hermione replied scorchingly.
Ron looked at her incredulously, looked up to the heavens and declared,
"Call the Prophet, Hermione Granger admits that there's something that she doesn't know!"
Hermione scowled.
They had been running from Snape ever since he had caught them stealing potions ingredients for the sorting potion. But they took a wrong turn somewhere as they didn't recognize where they were.
"Major wrong turn." Ron muttered after they had lost Snape.
"No shit, but we'd better go on." Hermione replied and they walked further ahead.
Suddenly they heard running footsteps. They looked at each other and yelped; "Snape!"
They started to run again. They ran until they got to a stair that led to a trapdoor. They ran up the stairs, Snape was getting closer, and pushed against the trap door. It flew open and Ron and Hermione ran through it. They closed it again and Hermione quickly cast every locking charm she knew. The two Marauders looked around and saw that they were on the edge of the lake near the rocks.
~ Prowl, Mist, can you hear me? ~ they heard Harry ask.
~ Yeah, Snitch we just escaped from Snape ~ Hermione replied.
~ How did it go with you two? ~ Ron asked.
~ Filch caught us, mainly because Peeves thought he'd have some fun, took care of him by the way, but we managed to ditch Filch, thing is, we had to jump four floors down to do so ~ Audrey answered.
~ YOU DID WHAT!!! ~ Hermione yelled.
Harry, Audrey and Ron cringed at her volume.
~ We jumped from the fourth floor and Audrey used her levitation so that we wouldn't end up as pancakes. We had a bit of a hard landing, but we're still in one piece ~ Harry replied casually.
~Merlin that must've been scary, but I would've loved to see the look on Filchie's face ~ Ron commented chuckling.
~ Me too ~ Harry added looking just a bit mournful.
~ We'll tell each other our escapades when we're back together. Let's meet at the clearing ~ Hermione said.
~ Sure, see you there ~ Audrey replied.
"They jumped down 4 floors!" Hermione exclaimed. "By Bee's socks, only those two would do such a thing!" Hermione sighed and shook her head.
"Indeed, but it's who and how they are and we still love them anyhow, right?" Ron replied with a grin.
Hermione nodded smiling.
"We'd better go." she said.
They transformed into their animagi forms and ran into the forest.
~*~
Audrey and Harry were already waiting for Ron and Hermione. They were sitting side to side on a fallen tree and pulling trick with their elements. Harry would form a small ball of fire and Audrey would summon little wisps of wind to give it a certain shape.
When Ron and Hermione arrived they changed back into humans and walked towards their friends.
"Hello beloved leaders!" Ron greeted.
Harry and Audrey looked up, they hadn't notice the other two arrive.
"Hi Prowl, Hi Mist." Harry replied sullenly.
"Ditched Snape quite well didn't ya." he added, smiling a bit half- heartily.
"Why the long face Nova?" Hermione asked.
"Snitch and I just realized something." Audrey replied.
"We're screwed." Harry added.
Hermione and Ron looked confused.
"They, with that I mean Filch and Snape, recognized us. They'll warn Dumbledore, who'll put two and two together and figure everything out." Audrey replied sighing.
Ron and Hermione nodded glooming; now they understood.
"Frankly put we're BUSTED!!! Big time." Harry shrugged.
"Dumbledore's gonna blow his socks." Ron got out.
Hermione nodded in agreement.
"So, do we give ourselves up or do we wait for them to find us?" she asked.
"We stay here." Ron said firmly.
"We're not going to surrender and admit that we were wrong with hanging shoulders, 'cause we aren't." Harry added.
"We know we had to do this, and together we stand strong. It's just as the prophecy said, our friendship will conquer all." Audrey said. (Ouuu rhyme there see?! *points* ^-^) - Zosa. As usual, ignore her)
She and Harry got up from the trunk and joined Ron and Hermione in a circle. Harry extended his hand and said; "Snitch, Mage of Fire and Spirit."
Audrey extended her hand and put it on Harry's hand, their fingers intertwined and she spoke; "Nova, Mage of Air and Breath."
Ron put his hand on theirs and said; "Prowl, Mage of Earth and Body."
Hermione put her hand on Ron's and their fingers intertwined as well. She took a breath and added; "Mist, Mage of Water and Blood."
They looked at each other and smiled.
"Mischief Makers, Fighters, Friends and Family, 'till the end and way beyond." they said together smiling at each other.
~*~
Not too long after they had made their vow they heard movement in the bushes. The four Marauders where sitting on the fallen tree.
"Here they come." Harry muttered.
They stood up and stood next to each other in a row waiting for the adults to arrive. Ron had his arm around Hermione's waist and Harry had his arm around Audrey's waist. Hermione and Audrey had their hands clasped together.
Each of them had strangely shining eyes. Harry's emerald green eyes had streaks of scarlet and yellow, like little fires. Audrey's gold/brown eyes had blue and violet twists. Ron's light green eyes had green and red streaks and Hermione's chocolate brown eyes had blue and green twists.
The sounds from the bushes got louder, but the four friends just stood still, waiting. Finally the bushes parted and out came.
Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin.
Dumbledore was looking quite pissed. But Harry and the others just looked at him defiantly. Dumbledore took a deep breath and said; "The four of you have some explaining to do and it better be good."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
[1] Templa en'tessa = Paralyze . in Tolkien's Elvish language Tengwar
That was all for this episode Folks
*Looks Back at chap*
Well I'll be damned I actually left a cliffy
Chap 12 is already half written.
Chapter 12 -- Of Explanations and Order Initiations
Ja Ne
Nova
A/N: I know that I've kinda been ignoring the relationships, but let's just say that they've come to terms with their feelings but decided not to act on them. Besides if you noticed they're already starting to act a little more "friendly" to each other.
If you forgot.
~ . ~ = telepathic speech
"." = normal speech
'.' = thoughts
Chapter 11 BUSTED!!!
~*~ Normal POV ~*~
The next night the fabulous foursome (Ahah! No noughty things now *sigh* Ignore, it's just Zosa) were sitting in the common room waiting for a good moment to sneak out, so that they could leave and get the ingredients. They were wearing black clothes under their robes. The clothes were similar to their battle outfits but they didn't have the Crest markings and the four wore simple sneakers. Finally they found the moment when Parvati and Patil opened the portrait, giggeling for some reason and sped out of the common room.
Once outside the portrait and seeing that the Fat Lady wasn't there, they removed their robes and magicked them away. Once they where done Hermione spoke up; "Alright we each get what we're supposed to and meet in moaning Myrtle's bathroom."
The others nodded in agreement. The four mages transformed and sped of into different directions in groups of two.
~*~ Harry and Audrey ~*~
Harry and Audrey was currently running through a corridor on the sixth floor.
~ We'd better change back into humans, our animal forms can't take the secret passage stairs~ Harry thought to Audrey.
~ Good idea ~ Audrey replied.
The two changed back into humans and ran to a tapestry of an Ice Dragon. Audrey bowed before the Dragon and then put her hand on his claw. The Dragon nodded curtly and the tapestry rolled up to reveal a portal. Harry and Audrey walked through it and walked down the narrow stairs. Once down, Harry knocked three times on the wall and they walked out from behind a suit of armour on the third floor.
"Well that saved us 5 floors, let's get going" Harry said.
They walked to the left side of the corridor into a small circular hall where students often sat to relax.
Suddenly.
"WHOOSH!"
"What in the name of Hades was that!?" Audrey exclaimed as she dodged something that had flown towards her.
Then.
"WHOOSH!". "SPLASH!"
Audrey and Harry saw a water balloon zoom by and splash against the wall just above their heads.
~ Peeves! ~ Harry thought.
"Show yourself Peeves!" He said aloud, gritting his teeth and looking around trying to locate the insufferable dead son of a bitch.
Peeves became visible.
"Ickly little students out of bed!" he screetched.
"That's getting old Peesvy" Audrey drawled. "Templa en'tessa [1]" she murmured and snapped her fingers.
Peeves froze in midair, his eyes darting from one side of the corridor to another. Then he looked at Audrey, who was smirking, he looked a bit scared. Audrey and Harry waved to him and walked on.
They walked around the corner but stood stock still as they suddenly heard something.
"Now I got ya, you naughty filthy out of bed students!!!" they heard Filch scream.
"SHIT!!! FILCH!!!" Audrey yelped, she looked at Harry and they both ran into the other side of the corridor.
~*~ Ron & Hermione ~*~
Ron and Hermione had taken a secret passage into the dungeons.
"Merlin, I really hate that secret passage. Sliding down a slide worth 8 floors is no fun." Ron groaned while rubbing his butt, which he had been doing for five minutes.
"Stop whining Prowl, the slide isn't that bad." Hermione said as she unconsciously rubbed her behind a little.
"You're right the slide isn't.it's the landing that's bad." Ron agreed.
Hermione sighed and began to walk ahead to Snape's office. Soon they were standing in front of the door.
"So how are we going to get in?" Ron asked.
"Elementary my dear Prowl, we break in." Hermione said and she waved her hand over the lock muttering something.
The lock made a "click" noise and the door opened smoothly without making any noise. The two looked right and left and entered the office.
"So where do you thing he keeps the ingredients?" Ron wondered.
"I guess they're in his storage cupboard." Hermione replied as she walked to a half hidden door.
Hermione waved her hand again and this door opened silently as well. Hermione started to look through the various ingredients.
Suddenly.
"Mist, I think I hear something." Ron whispered.
"No it's probably imagination." Hermione said, but she walked to Ron anyway and listened.
Then she heard.
".bloody first years.thinking they can.what they want." they heard Snape's voice rant as it steadily came closer down the corridor.
"Damn, we gotta run." Hermione said.
Ron nodded in agreement and the two of them shot out of the office into the other end of the corridor. But Snape had seen them.
"What the.What do you think you're doing, stop right there!" Snape yelled and smoothly glided even faster as the overgrown bat he was after Hermione and Ron.
~*~ Harry and Audrey ~*~
Audrey and Harry were running fast, a madly screaming Filch not too far behind them. Filch was screaming about how insolent students should be shackled.
Harry noticed a side corridor not too far ahead. He shot into it, grabbing Audrey by her waist and pulling her along. They ran to the end of the corridor and found.
A door.
Suddenly the heard Filch's running steps coming closer. They looked at each other and nodded in silent agreement. Harry grabbed the handle of the door and threw it open. But what they saw wasn't like anything they'd expected to see. They were looking outside towards the lake, and found that they were also 4 floors up.
"So Nova, how well do you control your levitation?" Harry asked in a conversational matter while looking down.
"Well enough to make the jump, but we're still gonna have a pretty hard landing." Audrey replied looking down as well.
"I prefer a pretty hard landing over a very pissed off Filch who'd probably shackle us to the wall no matter what school protocol and Dumbledore says." Harry gravely said.
Audrey chuckled softly. Then she held her hands out and Harry grabbed them. They looked behind once more, and then down, then at one and another. They grinned at each other and jumped down.
~*~ Ron & Hermione ~*~
Meanwhile Ron and Hermione weren't much better off.
"Where in the name of the 7 hells are we Mist?" Ron asked.
"I don't know Prowl!" Hermione replied scorchingly.
Ron looked at her incredulously, looked up to the heavens and declared,
"Call the Prophet, Hermione Granger admits that there's something that she doesn't know!"
Hermione scowled.
They had been running from Snape ever since he had caught them stealing potions ingredients for the sorting potion. But they took a wrong turn somewhere as they didn't recognize where they were.
"Major wrong turn." Ron muttered after they had lost Snape.
"No shit, but we'd better go on." Hermione replied and they walked further ahead.
Suddenly they heard running footsteps. They looked at each other and yelped; "Snape!"
They started to run again. They ran until they got to a stair that led to a trapdoor. They ran up the stairs, Snape was getting closer, and pushed against the trap door. It flew open and Ron and Hermione ran through it. They closed it again and Hermione quickly cast every locking charm she knew. The two Marauders looked around and saw that they were on the edge of the lake near the rocks.
~ Prowl, Mist, can you hear me? ~ they heard Harry ask.
~ Yeah, Snitch we just escaped from Snape ~ Hermione replied.
~ How did it go with you two? ~ Ron asked.
~ Filch caught us, mainly because Peeves thought he'd have some fun, took care of him by the way, but we managed to ditch Filch, thing is, we had to jump four floors down to do so ~ Audrey answered.
~ YOU DID WHAT!!! ~ Hermione yelled.
Harry, Audrey and Ron cringed at her volume.
~ We jumped from the fourth floor and Audrey used her levitation so that we wouldn't end up as pancakes. We had a bit of a hard landing, but we're still in one piece ~ Harry replied casually.
~Merlin that must've been scary, but I would've loved to see the look on Filchie's face ~ Ron commented chuckling.
~ Me too ~ Harry added looking just a bit mournful.
~ We'll tell each other our escapades when we're back together. Let's meet at the clearing ~ Hermione said.
~ Sure, see you there ~ Audrey replied.
"They jumped down 4 floors!" Hermione exclaimed. "By Bee's socks, only those two would do such a thing!" Hermione sighed and shook her head.
"Indeed, but it's who and how they are and we still love them anyhow, right?" Ron replied with a grin.
Hermione nodded smiling.
"We'd better go." she said.
They transformed into their animagi forms and ran into the forest.
~*~
Audrey and Harry were already waiting for Ron and Hermione. They were sitting side to side on a fallen tree and pulling trick with their elements. Harry would form a small ball of fire and Audrey would summon little wisps of wind to give it a certain shape.
When Ron and Hermione arrived they changed back into humans and walked towards their friends.
"Hello beloved leaders!" Ron greeted.
Harry and Audrey looked up, they hadn't notice the other two arrive.
"Hi Prowl, Hi Mist." Harry replied sullenly.
"Ditched Snape quite well didn't ya." he added, smiling a bit half- heartily.
"Why the long face Nova?" Hermione asked.
"Snitch and I just realized something." Audrey replied.
"We're screwed." Harry added.
Hermione and Ron looked confused.
"They, with that I mean Filch and Snape, recognized us. They'll warn Dumbledore, who'll put two and two together and figure everything out." Audrey replied sighing.
Ron and Hermione nodded glooming; now they understood.
"Frankly put we're BUSTED!!! Big time." Harry shrugged.
"Dumbledore's gonna blow his socks." Ron got out.
Hermione nodded in agreement.
"So, do we give ourselves up or do we wait for them to find us?" she asked.
"We stay here." Ron said firmly.
"We're not going to surrender and admit that we were wrong with hanging shoulders, 'cause we aren't." Harry added.
"We know we had to do this, and together we stand strong. It's just as the prophecy said, our friendship will conquer all." Audrey said. (Ouuu rhyme there see?! *points* ^-^) - Zosa. As usual, ignore her)
She and Harry got up from the trunk and joined Ron and Hermione in a circle. Harry extended his hand and said; "Snitch, Mage of Fire and Spirit."
Audrey extended her hand and put it on Harry's hand, their fingers intertwined and she spoke; "Nova, Mage of Air and Breath."
Ron put his hand on theirs and said; "Prowl, Mage of Earth and Body."
Hermione put her hand on Ron's and their fingers intertwined as well. She took a breath and added; "Mist, Mage of Water and Blood."
They looked at each other and smiled.
"Mischief Makers, Fighters, Friends and Family, 'till the end and way beyond." they said together smiling at each other.
~*~
Not too long after they had made their vow they heard movement in the bushes. The four Marauders where sitting on the fallen tree.
"Here they come." Harry muttered.
They stood up and stood next to each other in a row waiting for the adults to arrive. Ron had his arm around Hermione's waist and Harry had his arm around Audrey's waist. Hermione and Audrey had their hands clasped together.
Each of them had strangely shining eyes. Harry's emerald green eyes had streaks of scarlet and yellow, like little fires. Audrey's gold/brown eyes had blue and violet twists. Ron's light green eyes had green and red streaks and Hermione's chocolate brown eyes had blue and green twists.
The sounds from the bushes got louder, but the four friends just stood still, waiting. Finally the bushes parted and out came.
Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin.
Dumbledore was looking quite pissed. But Harry and the others just looked at him defiantly. Dumbledore took a deep breath and said; "The four of you have some explaining to do and it better be good."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
[1] Templa en'tessa = Paralyze . in Tolkien's Elvish language Tengwar
That was all for this episode Folks
*Looks Back at chap*
Well I'll be damned I actually left a cliffy
Chap 12 is already half written.
Chapter 12 -- Of Explanations and Order Initiations
Ja Ne
Nova