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The determined group of travellers continue on their quest for the Phoenix feather. Three of them walked blindly and sleepily due to the late night conversation and twin's feet last night.
"Had a nice sleep?" Fred asked enthusiastically as they passed complete nothing-ness on a boring path.
"Not really," Harry, James and Lily said in unison.
"I woke up with a big headache this morning," James said, yawning. "Couldn't explain it." Harry and Lily exchanged smirks.
"I'm getting bored," George said after a few minutes of walking.
"Well, you won't be for long," James said. "We're closing on an," he paused and checked the map again for typos, needless to say, there were none. "Enchanted active volcano."
"A what?" Lily asked, jerking to reality.
"An active volcano," James said. "Honestly, how many volcanoes are there in Bulgaria?"
"Ve are not in Bulgaria anymore," Viktor said.
"Who says?" James asked.
"The map," Viktor said, pointing to a borderline on the map that separated Bulgaria from Greece.
"I knew that," James said.
"No you didn't," Lily said in a sing-song voice.
"Well, anyway, the volcano is a few miles away," James said.
"I think I see it," George said.
"Where?" Sirius asked.
"The pointy top of a fiery red mountain, little one," George said.
"Is that a way to talk to your mentor?" Sirius asked.
"Yes, if the 'mentor' is a few years younger," Fred said.
"Stupid age difference," Sirius muttered under his breath.
"Yes, age difference is stupid," Fred said.
"But it also can be helpful," George added.
"That's the way we get to decide stuff," Fred said.
"Who's going to test our products first," George said.
"Who gets to pull the first prank on a boring teacher," Fred said.
"Who gets to eat the last piece of mom's cooking," George continued, counting off the fingers of his hand.
"Who gets to prank Ron when were bored," Fred said.
"Who gets to pin a fake spider on Ron's undies," George said smirking.
"So it was you who did that," Ron said, blushing as the others sniggered.
"Okay, everyone has to keep quiet," James said as they arrived at the foot of the volcano. "This volcano only erupts when there is a very loud noise, for example, your voice. We have to walk around it quietly."
They cautiously walked past the foot of the volcano, all of them keeping as quiet as possible. There was a moment of silence; it seemed that nothing could go wrong, at least, until Sirius accidentally stepped on a twig. A small snap echoed; the volcano rumbled, ready to expel its contents. The rumbling slowed down and there was a puffing noise as a storm of ash came from the volcano and rained down upon the group.
All of them took out their handkerchiefs and quickly pressed them on their mouths and noses. Fred breathed in deeply through the handkerchief, unfortunately, there was a hole in it and the ash went up his nose. "Ah-ah-ah," Fred said. "No, no, no," everyone whispered. "Haa," Fred sighed as the urge to sneeze disappeared. Then, it came back… in an unexpected way.
"A-tishoo!" George sneezed through his thick handkerchief. "Twin connections, I knew they would be the death of me," George whispered.
All of them stayed silent as they watched the volcano, all of them afraid. The volcano shook, there was an unexpected, violent earthquake. All of them fell to the ground, their feet frozen with fear. The volcano expelled its fumes and small amounts of lava slowly trickled down the volcano.
"Well, that wasn't so bad," Lily whispered as a trickle of lava touched the ground, burning a blade of grass.
"BLOODY HELL!" Sirius yelled. A small amount of lava had dropped onto the back of his pants, burning a hole through the fabric and setting his pants on fire. The volcano shook again and expelled huge amounts of lava. The lava flowed down the volcano, advancing towards the group.
"WHY DOES EVERY BLOODY THING TARGET MY ASS!" Sirius yelled.
There was an explosion and the earthquake became more violent. Everyone started to yell and run away. "Wait," Lily said. "The lava and earthquake will only stop if we stop." "You sure about this?" Harry asked. "Positive," Lily said. "If I'm wrong, though, we will be burned to a crisp." The odds were clearly against them, but James shrugged and remained standing next to Lily. Everyone looked at each other and, hesitating, they remained where they were.
Everyone stood in a close group; they silently waited and watched the volcano, getting ready to run for their lives if necessary. As the earthquake slowly but gradually started to slow down, soon, it stopped completely. Now, everyone's attention was directed to the lava which was now only a few feet away from them. Everyone held their breath and calmed down, the lava quickly stopped in its tracks and hardened, only a few centimetres from their feet.
"Well, that was a very interesting event," George whispered.
"Very," Fred muttered.
"You call this interesting, you should have seen the deranged centaurs and wild Hippogriffs," Sirius said softly.
"The centaurs were not deranged," Hermione said. "To be honest, I think I should make another group. How does Society to Help Immobilised Terrified Centaurs. No, wait, the short form of that would be inappropriate."
"Take away the C and what do you get?" Sirius asked.
"SHIT!" everyone softly chorused.
"Were you serious about shit, Hermione?" Harry asked as Hermione began giggling uncontrollably.
"Of course not," Hermione said. "Can't Hermione Granger make a joke?"
"Well, it was convincing," Fred said, walking in front of the group to hide his smirk.
"If you were serious," George said, following his twin.
"We would need to get you a straight-jacket for Christmas," Fred said.
"And get you a reservation in the Nutty-ville Mental Institute," George said.
"Shut up, both of you," Ron said, prodding both of them with a stick.
"Sorry, bro," Fred said. "Forgot she was your girl." Fred grabbed the stick and threw it away.
"Yeah," George said. "Looks like we still need to get her the straight-jacket and reservation."
"Looks that way," Fred said. "She does look a little confused, that's the first sign of madness."
"Or the first sign of brain damage," George commented. "Our Ronny, the person only a mother or a deranged nutcase would love." The both of them laughed hysterically, until…
"Do you feel weird, George?" Fred asked, twitching.
"A little itchy," George said, his right hand jerking to his neck. He scratched his neck vigorously.
"Me too," Fred said, both hands jerking to his face.
"We already had our dragon pox," George said, retrieving the stick and scratching his back with it.
"Then what is this?" Fred asked, snatching the stick from his brother's hand and scratching himself with it.
Sirius burst out laughing. "Welcome to my life!" he said.
As the rest of them started to laugh, the twins became suspicious. "What did you do to us?" they both cried out in unison.
"The Marauders always have something up their sleeve," James, Sirius, Remus and Lily said. James pulled out a container labelled, 'Itching Powder'. "Sometimes, Muggles invent amazing things," Remus said.
"Argh!" the twin groaned as they began to rub their back against each other. "Do you guys know how wrong that looks?" Remus asked, raising his eyebrow.
"How long is this powder going to last?" George asked.
"About a day or two," Sirius said, smirking.
"You guys are the best," Ron said, putting his arm on Sirius's shoulder.
"We know," Remus said. James started bowing and pretending to cry. "You all are so nice to me," he said. "I'm so happy."
"Knock it off," Lily said, gently shoving James.
"Never insult the Marauder's friends," Sirius said, laughing. Fred and George looked at them with an angry expression which quickly changed to an amused expression and a laugh. But even though they are laughing on the outside, on the inside, they were thinking of a way to get the Marauders back for that.
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