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Vixens vs. Marauders:A Lily and James story By notyouraverageblond
Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was a handsome prince and his princess. They both lived in a beautiful castle… Oh wait, sorry, wrong story.
Twenty years ago, in England, there was a prankster, quidditch playing wizard and a careful prankster, studious witch. They both attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizard's name was James Potter and the witch's name was Lily Evans. So what, right? But at Hogwarts, those two names weren't heard in a sentence together unless it was one like "The Marauders pranked The Vixens again. I hope nothing comes our way... James just turned Lily's hair pink! He better prepare to die... James told Lily to go jump in the lake and she pushed him into it!... Lily slapped James for trying to copy her homework..." You get the picture. They were definetly not the best of friends.
Now, Lily and her friends Violet, Rose and Poppy were best friends. They had their own group and called it 'The Vixens'. Most people generally referred to their group as 'The Flowers', but they got tired of that. Just because their names were flowery didn't mean their personalities were. Don't misunderstand, these girls were perfectly nice, just a little temper problem. And because of the corresponding boy group, their tempers were unleashed extremely often.
The boys were James, Sirius, Remus and Peter. Their group was 'The Marauders' many people agreed with this title, since it suited their prankster ways. They hadn't really thought of it by themselves. They got help from Professor McGonagall. She had called them 'Marauding little boys', and the title stuck. Each of the boys had their own crush. Unfortunately, all their crushes belonged to The Vixens. And as boys have an extremely annoying way of showing they like someone, they pranked the girls. And so a great war began.
The boys had first become victim to the keen and clever minds of The Vixens when the boysplayed a prank on them in first year. The Marauders thought it to be a harmless joke, but the girls thought otherwise. The Marauders had set the girls hair on fire. Each fire had glowed a mixture of their hair color and eye color. Lily's hair had glowed red and green, Violet's hair black and purple, Rose's hair brown and pink and Poppy's hair blond and blue. Unfortunately, the fires actually burned, and the girls lost eighteen inches of hair. They had all had hair past their bottoms, and now it was up to their shoulders. As most girls with long hair know, it is extremely hard to lose your hair, whether you give it to a cancer association, or it is burnt off by several annoying boys who deserved the month's worth of detention they got. The Vixens had all had to go to the hospital wing, and were informed that their hair could not be grown out by magic, they plotted revenge. And the mind of a girl whose hair has just been burnt off is a very dangerous and imaginative place indeed.
The next day, The Vixens were released from the hospital wing. They had been up until eleven pm and had decided on the perfect plot….
The Vixens walked up to The Marauders, who were watching them warily. "We just wanted to let you know…" Lily began, "That there are no hard feelings for your prank last night…" continued Violet, "And we think it was very funny…" added on Rose, "And, after all, it was just a harmless prank," finished Poppy. The Vixens smiled at the astounded boys and walked away with a "Goodbye, and have a nice day," spoken in unison. "How do they do that?" asked James. "How do they speak like that?"
"I have no idea," answered Sirius, "but don't you think they would at least be a little mad at us for burning their hair up?"
"Girls minds work in the strangest ways, Sirius," said Remus.
"I thought they'd be yelling and screaming at us," said Peter.
The boys stood in awe for a few moments, before walking downstairs to dinner in the Great Hall.
Twenty minutes later, Lily muttered under her breath "commence operation GBIT (Get Boys In Trouble". The girls each muttered a carefully thought up spell, and felt the spell take affect. They looked at each other and screamed at the top of their lungs. They each started crying.
Lily turned and looked down the table at the Marauders.
"We tried to be friends with you and told you there were no hard feelings about burning our hair up and this is what you do to us?" she sobbed out. Of course, they were fake sobs, but no one could tell. All four girls rushed out of the hall and towards the hospital wing, still pretending to cry. They barely heard Professor McGonagall yelling at the boys "This is going too far! You boys have detention for two additional months after your original month of detention is over."
"But Professor, we didn't do it! We didn't prank them, honestly!" Their protests were futile, and The Vixens could hear Professor McGonagall saying,
"Those poor girls, what did they ever do to you?" before they were out of hearing range. They almost stopped and cracked up there, but they kept going, keeping to the plan they make last night. They got to the hospital wing, and Madam Pomfrey quickly helped them. She soon left, telling the girls to call her if they needed anything. That was when they lost it.
"That was brilliant," choked out Poppy, trying to breathe through her laughter. The others nodded. "Turning our hair purple and green was a really good idea, Rose, did you get it from one of the textbooks?" asked Lily, after they calmed down a bit. "No," said Rose, grinning, "I got it from an extra book I bought in Diagon Alley called Curses and Counter curses (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle You Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) By Professor Vindictus Viridian. Lily gasped. "That's exactly the same book I got the idea to turn our skin hot pink and blue!" Poppy and Violet stared. "That's where we got the ideas to our ears into rabbit's ears and our teeth into gopher teeth," they said. "Great minds think alike," the girls said in unison, then collapsed into giggles.
It was that prank that made all the professors think that the girls were quiet, innocent, peaceful and civilized young ladies, and that the boys were loud, bad, rough and rude hooligans. There was also the fact that the girls were always perfect in class and knew the answer to every question the professors asked. The boys goofed off in lessons and got in so much trouble that they barely had a free night because of all their detentions. The boys still pranked the girls, and the girls still pranked back in a subtle and more clever way than the boys, but nothing really changed until The Vixens and Marauders were in third year. That was a year of discovery, promises, choices and some extremely hard transfiguration work…
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