MWPP: Through Moony's Eyes
Chess
"I'm bored," Sirius whined. Peter, James, Sirius, and Remus were all sitting in the Gryffindor common room, tossing around a rubber blue squeaky ball, that Remus got last Christmas.
"You're always bored Sirius," Remus commented. "Would anyone mind playing a game of chess with me?"
"I played chess with you 5 times yesterday," Peter said.
"And you lost every one of them," James said, laughing. "Well, we could jinx all the doors on the fourth floor to slam every five minutes."
"We did that last week," Sirius moaned.
"Change the Slytherin flag colors?" Peter suggested.
"Two weeks ago," Sirius said, bitterly.
"You guys can try to figure out what you want to do, but I'm going up to the dormitories to read up on Transfiguration," Remus said, standing up and heading for the stairs, chess set in hand. As Remus walked up the stairs, he heard a noise like buzzing bees, getting louder and louder. He twisted the door knob to find dozens of pixies let loose in his dormitory. They were everywhere, going through suitcases and tearing apart books.
"JAMES, SIRIUS, PETER, GET UP HERE!" Remus shouted, after closing the door, not letting the pixies escape into the common room.
"What is it?" James asked as soon as they got to the top of the stairs.
"Pixies, let loose in our room. Slytherins probably did it in revenge from when we put dungbombs on their chairs during Muggle Studies." Remus stated.
"Aw, pixies? I hate those things, they pull on my hair and laugh at me," Sirius said, shuddering.
"Though that dungbomb prank was pretty good," James said, chuckling.
"This is no time for laughter, we have a situation on our hands," Remus said, sternly, as he slowly opened the door, just wide enough for all the boys to fit through. And Sirius was right, the pixies didn't like him very much. However, within an hour, the boys managed to vanquish all the blue pixies, and get their things back in order.
"Stupid pixies, this was my favorite shirt," James muttered, holding up a red shirt with a big hole in the middle.
"Those stupid slytherins, they'll pay for this, I promise you," Sirius said. James nodded.
"Boys, we spend so much time fighting over who's better, Gryffindor or Slytherin, why don't we have a clever competition to show which house is better," Remus suggested.
"But we already know who's better, Gryffindor, duh," Sirius said.
"Exactly, so that means public humiliation for Slytherins. But, instead of having a competition of brawn, how about a competition of brains?" Remus said, with a sparkle in his eye.
"What do you have in mind Remus?" James asked.
"Let me handle it, all you have to do is be at the quidditch pitch at midnight tonight," Remus said before proceeding to exit the dormitories, and out of the common room.
"Well, this ought to be interesting," Sirius murmured.
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"Ok Remus we're here, just like you told us," Sirius whispered, appearing from under James's invisibility cloak, along with Peter and James.
"It's so dark, I can't see anything," Peter quivered. More figures started to move onto the quidditch pitch.
"Remus, who else is here?" James asked, his eye's darting around.
"Other Gryffindors. Like Frank, Alice, Camille, Angela, Lily...maybe," Remus said with a tone of doubt in his voice.
"Yes, I'm here Remus," came Lily's voice from the shadows, "I couldn't miss out on this adventure."
"What adventure is this, exactly?" Frank asked. There were murmurs throughout the group.
"This...," Remus waved his wand and candles were lit throughout the field, revealing a giant chess board ready for play. Individual chess pieces were big enough for a person to sit on them. All the Gryffindor's eyes had expanded and their mouths were down to the floor. "Is a giant chess game. To decide which house is better. Ours or..." Remus pointed to a group of people standing on the opposite side of the field. "Them."
"Slytherins," James sneered. The Slytherins walked over to where the Gryffindors were standing.
"We're here Lupin, lets start this game so we can beat you and get back to sleep," Snape seethed.
"Yeah Remus, lets start already, so we can send these buggers back to bed with a loss," Sirius retorted.
"How did you like those pixies?" Snape barked.
"Why I outta," Sirius started, his fist raised over his head. James and Peter quickly jumped in to stop the fight that was about to happen.
"Settle down, we're going to solve this on the field." Remus said, giving Snape and Sirius a scolding look. "Gryffindors, we're white, Slytherins, you're black. Pick a piece, careful what moves you make, those pieces destroy each other." Remus instructed. "This is just like Wizard Chess."
And so the infamous chess game begun.
"James, take out Drake's bishop!" Alice shouted from across the field. James's knight moved across the playing ground and struck the bishop that held up Slytherin Drake Bartly, into smithereens.The odds went back and forth between the two houses.
"Peter, watch out!" Sirius yelled, but not in time. Snape's rook blasted through Peter's pawn as though it was paper. Peter was sent soaring over to the sidelines, though he landed safely. Sirius took revenge by smashing through Snape's rook. Camille let out a little yelp.
"What was that about?" Angela asked suspiciously.
"Nothing," Camille answered, avoiding Angela's gaze. The game proceeded, as less and less pieces were on the game board.
"Remus, MOVE!" Lily shouted, but to no avail. Remus's bishop erupted into a cloud of dust, and Remus soared through the air and hit the ground hard, on his head.
"Remus are you ok?" was the last Remus heard before he passed out on the sidelines.
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Remus blinked his eyes open, this time, however, he wasn't in the hospital wing.
"Good of you to join us Mr. Lupin," came the icy voice of Professor McGonagall. Remus looked around to see James, Sirius, and Peter sitting next to him. And they were all in McGonagall's office..not a good sign.
"Now, where was I?" McGonagall thought outloud.
"You were telling us how proud you are of us and how we aren't getting detention," Sirius provided. McGonagall's eyes narrowed.
"A months detention for each of you, for turning the Quidditch field into a chess board. And an extra week for you Mr. Lupin because it was your idea."
"How do you know it was his idea?" James questioned.
"Remus is the only one to put that much thought into it,'' McGonagall said simply. "Now, no Hogsmead for any of you next weekend. You'll meet with Filch everyday seven to nine in the evening. End of discussion, you're dismissed."
The four boys sulked out of the room. Once they were out of earshot of their professor, the comments started.
"Remus, you missed it!'' James started.
"I took out the queen!" Sirius said proudly.
"They were very upset," Peter continued.
"Then once everyone left," James said.
"When we were cleaning up," Peter said.
"McGonagall showed up," Sirius continued.
"You were still passed out," James stated.
"And now we have detention and no Hogsmead," Sirius finished.
"But we won," Remus restated with a grin.
"You better believe it," Sirius said, his eyes glinting.
A/N: My brother helped me with this chapter. But it was a good idea, I mean, the teachers couldn't have thought of putting a giant chess game to protect the Sorcerer's Stone without some inspiration. :)