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The Late Night Mentally Unstable Mouseketeers

Chapter 2 – Amortentius

"Ten minutes to Hogsmeade!" James kept saying in each compartment he entered. He was Head Boy and he was supposed to alert the students to get ready for reaching the Hogsmeade Station. Other prefects and the Head Girl were also doing the same. When he reached the LNMUM compartments, he decided not to say anything and leave them to be late, but then he wanted to see what they were doing there. So, without knocking, he opened the door and saw Pike and Cyndi snogging on one side and in the opposite side Gwen was reading a book, Lena was sleeping with her head in Gwen's lap, and her legs on Slim's lap. Slim was reading the Daily Profit. No one seemed to notice James, so he yelled 'ten minutes to Hogsmeade' at the top of his lungs and closed the door. There was a thud in the compartment and James grinned as he reached the other LNMUM compartment. Again, without a knock he opened the door and yelled 'ten minutes to Hogsmeade' and shut the door and quickly went to the other cart. Cory cursed loudly as JJ jumped from her seat and hit him with her elbow. Siri and Nim took out their wands and went out after James to hex him, but they saw an angry Pike already going after him, so they returned back to their seats.

"Why didn't you go?" Rianna asked.

"Pike was going after him already." Siri said.

"You don't want to be around an angry Pike." Nim said.

"Could be fatal." JJ said.

And then they heard noises and curses and saw Lena running across the corridor and heading to where Pike went. She was followed by the others.

"Let's go!" Dense said and they all went out to see what was going on.

James and Pike were in the luggage cart and they both had their wands pointed at each other.

"You will come with me and apologize to all of my friends." Pike demanded.

"Make me." James said with a smirk.

Pike raised his wand and was about to strike when Lena ran into the cart, followed by Cyndi.

"Pike! Stop!" Lena said and Cyndi quickly ran to Pike's side and put her hand on his arm and lowered it. Pike looked at her then at James and lowered his wand.

"Don't think you'll get away with this, Potter." Pike said as he left the compartment with Cyndi.

Lena was rubbing the bump on her forehead, which she got from falling off because of James' sudden yelling.

"Looks like you don't want to learn, Potter." Lena said.

"He never learns." Slim said from behind, and wiping his nose with his sleeve. His nose was bleeding. Apparently, when Lena fell off the seat, her foot accidentally hit Slim's nose, which caused it to start bleeding.

Lena turned and saw her friends and some other students had gathered at the entrance of the cart. Lena grinned and winked at her friends and then turned back to James with a stern look.

"Do you know what happens to anyone who bothers us, Potter?" Lena asked, and James raised an eyebrow.

"What are you? Some kind of untouchable saints or something?" he said with his head held high.

"They turn into bunnies." Lena said and pointed her wand at James. "Rabbifors!" she yelled.

"Protego!" James said, but he was less than a second late. The spell hit him and he turned into a brown rabbit.

"James!" Remus called and ran to his friend's aid. He was followed by his other friends, Sirius and Peter.

"The show's over!" Lena said to the crowed that was gathered there, and when Remus turned James back to human, Peter and Sirius had a hard time keeping him from hexing her.

"Prongs," Sirius said in a whisper while he was holding James and preventing him from attacking Lena. "We'll get her sooner than we thought! Look!"

As everyone left the cart, Lena high fived with her friends and they left as well. To Sirius' amusement, Severus Snape was there as well. And noticed that Lena grinned at him, and he was the last one to leave the cart, which made him the last person Lena saw.

Sirius took out his wand and followed her. When he was sure no one was watching, he pointed his wand at her back and whispered 'Amortentius!'

A pink spark emerged out of his wand and made its way to Lena's back. When it hit her she cursed loudly and bent backwards a bit to ease the pain. She quickly turned and didn't see anyone in the corridor.

"Damn this back ache!" she said and continued her way to her compartment. Her back stung so hard that made her eyes become watery.

"What's wrong?" Cyndi asked as soon as she saw Lena in the corridor.

"My back hurts for some reason." She replied and entered the compartment.

"Well done there, Lena." Pike said. "I would've used an unforgivable, but thanks to you and Cyndi I was able to stop myself."

"I didn't stop you. Cyndi did." Lena grinned, although her grin was pained one. "She held you hand, remember?"

"And what's with that face expression?" Gwen asked.

"Back ache." Lena said. "Stings."

"Want us to check it?" Cyndi asked.

"Yeah." Lena said. "Boys, out!"

"Can't we stay?" Slim and Cory said together.

"NO!" Lena yelled at them. "Out!" she pointed at the door.

"I'll keep an eye on them." Pike said and pulled Slim and Cory out of the compartment.

"I wouldn't trust him." Cyndi said. "Siri, would you be so kind and watch them for us?"

"No problem." Siri said and went out as well. She dragged the boys into the other compartment and made them sit there until they were called back.

Lena took off her sweater and turned her back to the girls. "What do you see?" she asked.

"A red spot." Cyndi said. "Looks like a rash."

"That was a curse." Nim pointed out.

"Definitely a curse." Gwen said. "I have a healing lotion with me." Gwen took out a little bottle from her bag and using her wand she conjured a piece of gauze. She put some lotion on it and put it on the redness on Lena's back.

"Thanks." Lena said. "I bet it was one of them."

"But that is no curse!" Cyndi said suddenly, pointing at a bandage on Lena's neck and shoulder, which made Lena go pale.

"Shit." She cursed and quickly pulled her sweater over her head.

The train stopped and everyone was leaving, except for the four girls. Siri opened the door and asked if they were finished, but she noticed that Cyndi, Nim and Gwen were glaring at Lena who was looking at the floor, obviously refusing to tell them something important.

"Umm... girls, the train stopped." Siri said.

Nim turned and nodded to her, then turned to Cyndi. "We'll continue about this at the school." She turned to Siri. "Tell the others as well: meeting near the lake at midnight."

"Okay." Siri said, giving her a puzzled look and went to tell the others.

Cyndi and Gwen picked up their bags and left the compartment, leaving Nim and Lena behind.

"You shouldn't keep secrets from us, you know." Nim said and picked up her bag.

"But it's nothing serious!" Lena said in her defense. "I told you, I fell off a tree!"

"Having your neck and shoulder heavily bandaged is a serious thing, Lena!" Nim said. "Now, let's leave and we'll talk about it tonight at the lake." Lena sighed and walked out of the train after Nim.