"What about frog feet for a day?"

"No, people wouldn't be able to see them through his shoes."

"Not if we made them big enough so they won't fit in the shoes."

"Still…..I'm not too crazy over that idea…"

"Fine then, you think of something!"

"I'm trying to! And you know this is a group effort, don't get mad just because I don't like some of your ideas!"

The two girls glared at each other until Jennifer sighed. "I know that Lily, it's just that all the stress is catching up to me. Haven't the teachers ever heard of a break?" She looked over at Lily. "Truce?" Lily nodded tiredly. "Truce." Alexandria let out a big breath of air in relief. "Finally! All the bickering was giving me a headache. Anyways, who are we pranking and why? I forgot." Lily frowned for a second in concentration and then smiled.

"We're pranking Sirius Black on the charge of cheating on a girl from our school. If he had just broken up with her it would have been alright but since he cheated on her that calls for a prank." Jennifer added her own comment. "But nothing too big since it is a relationship problem." The others nodded in agreement. "So, what do you think Alex, what should we do?" "Well, how about…"

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"Now?"

"No, not yet."

"…"

"Now?"

"…..Yes!"

Casually, Lily drew out her wand and pointed it towards their target under the table. "Bombs away," she muttered quietly before casting the spell. A second later, Sirius Black sported a head of snakes instead of hair.

"WHOA!"

He leapt out of his seat. "Get them off!" he shrieked. "Remus, do something!" Suddenly, Sirius noticed something horrible. Laughter. Directed at him. People were laughing at him! That simply wasn't right. Plus, as he calmed down about the snakes (nasty Slytherins…) he realized that someone had broken one of the unwritten rules of Hogwarts. Never. Ever. Prank. A. Marauder. James who was sitting next to him seemed to realize that too.

"Remus, can you undo that charm? I want you to work on that." Standing up on his chair, James roared, "WHO PLAYED THAT PRANK ON SIRIUS?" There was silence as everyone looked around for the culprit. Lily stood up calmly. "I did. Have a problem with it?"

"YES! YOU JUST PRANKED MY BEST MATE!"

"WELL TOO BAD THEN! HE DESERVED IT!"

"BUT YOU NEVER EVER PRANK A MARAUDER, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT?"

"NO, BUT EVEN IF I DID, I WOULD HAVE STILL DONE IT!"

"UNDO IT!"

"NO!"

By this point, both Lily and James were breathing heavily and were red in the face from yelling so much. The rest of the school was in shock that someone had pranked AND yelled at a Marauder. Then again, they had never met a Prowler before either. James growled.

"I'm warning you Evans, you don't want to get on my bad side. If you undo that spell, I might let you off." Lily laughed, a mocking smile on her face.

"No Potter, you don't want to get on my bad side. And if you'll excuse me ("No."), I'll be returning to my breakfast." With that Lily sat back down, slowly and deliberately speared a sausage with her fork, placed it in her mouth, and ate it. James stared at her with his mouth open wide in astonishment. He promptly closed it and snarled out, "This is war Evans."

Lily merely scoffed. "No Potter, this is going to be me kicking your arse and you trying to retaliate." James opened his mouth in indignation but then closed it as Remus tugged him down.

"Why'd you do that?" he asked as he scowled darkly, his face mirroring that of Sirius's who still had a nest of snakes for hair. Remus just sighed.

"Nothing you said would have made this better. Now, as for the prank war, we better lay down some rules. I was thinkin-" Sirius interrupted Remus, his grey eyes darkening. "Before that, can you fix this?" He pointed disgustedly at the snakes.

"I can try." And he did. For the next five minutes, Remus (and James) tried everything he knew to reverse the spell but nothing worked.

"Sorry Padfoot but it looks like you're going to have to wait it out until the spell wears off." Sirius growled softly." Fine. But we have to start working on a prank right away! Nobody pranks a Marauder." James nodded solemnly next to him. Remus nodded to but not before adding, "Except a Maruader." James just groaned. "Moony, did you just have to ruin the moment?"

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"Nice comeback Lils." Lily smiled as she took a bite of eggs. "Thanks. You guys don't mind that we're going to be in a prank war do you?"

"Nah, it's okay. Besides, it'll give us something to do," Jennifer reassured her, "other then school, school, and more school. Right Alex?" Alexandria nodded absentmindedly as she continued to browse through a magazine. "Did you know they're having a sale tomorrow at Moonshine? And I can't go! Maybe I can get Mother to buy something for me…" Lily reached over and plucked the magazine out of Alexandria's hands.

"Hey!"

"Alex, were you even paying attention?"

"Of course I was, we're having a ……bank award?"

"NO! A prank war!"

"Oh. I knew that."

"Uh-huh."

"I was!"

"Right…….anyways, we need to go to classes now. What do we have Jen?" Jennifer glanced at her timetable. "Double Potions with the Hufflepuffs. Oh joy, toxic fumes and damp moldy dungeons. What a great way to start your day." Stowing away the schedule inside her book bag, Jennifer got up. The others soon followed and they went with the crowd till the Great Hall doors where they separated and went to the dungeons.

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Yes, I finally got another chapter up! Sorry for being so late. If you were wondering, I haven't given up on this story.