Chapter 8 -- Friends Again --
Eleven year olds don't live off drama like older teenagers so once Tyson got her secret off her chest along with Sirius talking more to James about his, most of the group went back to normal. And most means without Aerith, Rielly, and sadly Erayn. Erayn had only felt part of their group that year because she was getting closer to Sirius and when she broke up with him she felt that tie break. The group didn't want to push either Sirius or Tyson about their problems so the subject was quickly dropped.
"So Ty, how's the off restrictions feeling going with you?" Sophie laughed the next morning at breakfast. Sophie, Tyson, James, Lily, and Rory were the only ones from the group up yet.
"I would say extremely well!" Tyson smiled back and took a bite of sausage.
"Hey Denium now that we have our old team back, when do practices start back up?" James asked from next to Sirius and Charlotte as Denium walked past with Sara and Daus.
"Oh hey hold on." Denium stopped Sara and Daus, "Um I talked to Dumbledor and got a better practice time, it's from 5 to 7 every Tuesday and Thursday!" James nodded, "Tell that to everyone that's not here, k?" James nodded again.
"Where you three off to anyway?" Lily looked up from her conversation with Rory.
"Oh we're meeting Justin, Jena, Belen, and Ben out front to talk about something." Denium shrugged it off.
"Oh okay, talk to ya later then." She smiled and turned back to Rory after the three bid everyone farewell and took off out the doors.
"So who's the next victim?" Lindzi smiled sitting down at the table followed by Remus.
"Oh we dunno, most likely someone from the scrimmage team." James piped up; Lily who sat across from him rolled her eyes, "What?" He asked Lily looking alarmed.
"Nothing" She continued shaking her head until she looked up at James who had his head tilted looking very confused. Though she could tell it was a fake confused look she had to laugh, causing James to break out into his misfit grin. Just then Sirius walked in with Marie and Peter.
"What's so funny?" Rory asked Lily and James, when he turned back from his question to Tyson and Sophie and found them laughing.
"Nothing" Lily said for the second time in a row. James just shook his head agreeing with Lily. Rory eyed them skeptically as Sirius, Marie, and Peter sat down.
"What's so funny?" Sirius asked Rory about James and Lily, who were in fact still laughing for some unknown reason.
"I dunno" Rory scrunched up his eyebrows in a playful yet confused look causing Lily and James to burst into a new fit of giggles.
"Someone took too many happy pills this morning." Whitney softly grumbled looking tired as she walked up to the group, "I don't know how you all do it." She weakly smiled and sat down.
"Do what?" James managed to gasp.
"Be all happy and giddy and hyper this early. Even though you know perfectly well that classes are about to start and we have Jarves first thing." She shrugged and got some food. With her comment Will came up behind her and laughed.
"Ah I don't have him till this afternoon!" He sat down and Tyson smiled.
"Yeah well having him early means we get his class over and done with, you have to dread it all day" She laughed.
"So I'd rather dread it all day then have to start my day off with him, he'd ruin the rest of the day!" Will replied looking straight at Tyson making her blush. Sirius and James rolled their eyes.
"Either way his class is horrible!" James mumbled, him and Lily had managed to control themselves after Will came up and the Jarves conversation started.
About a half hour later everyone was down stairs and just about done eating when Taglen walked into the Great Hall.
"What's he doing?" James whispered to Sirius who sat next to him, Sirius looked up at Taglen and narrowed his eyes. With one quick movement Tyson swiveled around almost knocking herself out of her seat, thus making someone have to catch her. And to her delight that someone was Will.
"It's just Taglen and he's not even looking over here calm down and be careful." He laughed helping her sit up straight.
"Um yeah you're right, nothing to worry about, um thanks" Tyson blushed and tried to suck up to him causing Sirius and James to moan playfully. Will just smiled and nodded before going back to his plate of food. Tyson looked over to James and Sirius who were glaring at Taglen (who had sat down at the Slytherin table by now) purposely not looking at Tyson. So looking for some help she looked to Sophie. Sophie didn't understand what Tyson meant when she looked at her raising her eyebrows and nodding her head, then shaking it.
"What is it Ty?" Sophie finally blurted out making Tyson groan and slouch over.
"Oh she's trying to get you to secretly tell her what Taglen is doing so she doesn't have to turn around to look herself so that it seems that she doesn't really care about what he's doing so that Will will notice and magically fall in love with her." Sirius smiled and said all in one breathe. The group burst out laughing except Tyson and Will, who both were blushing as red as a beet.
"For your information Sirius, I was not asking that in the least. In fact I'm getting up now to go over to see my boyfriend whom I happen to like very much!" Tyson blushed trying to cover her lie but she did get up and move to the Slytherin table to talk with Lucius, Severus, and Lindsay (who happened to be over there already), and also Taglen.
"She is the biggest liar I have ever seen!" Lizzy laughed.
"I wouldn't say that exactly..." Lily trailed off looking at the marauders who all were sitting next to each other.
"Yeah I would say one of the biggest liars, ANY of us have ever seen." Rory laughed as the group all stared at the four boys who were trying to plead not guilty and that they have never lied, which caused the group to go into another uproar which got them a few warning glances from a few professors that sat at the head table.
"Okay Okay, I have to admit I don't ever remember hearing Remus tell a lie." Lily smiled to one of her best friends.
"Yeah Lily thank-you finally someone who listens!" He smiled back.
"Oh please you've lied to the professors for us numerous times during a prank!" Peter rolled his eyes.
"Busted!" James and Sirius both laughed.
"Okay then I think I'll wipe my slate clean and start over, no more lying for me, nope none at all. Even for the sake of a prank!" Remus smiled at Lindzi as if he had just won something and was proud of it. Lindzi smiled back and both put three fingers up as James, Sirius, and Peter were making remarks like; 'okay you do that' and 'yeah okay' Remus and Lindzi both mouthed the silent count down to each other, "three, two, one" When they said one all three boys realized what Remus had said and started up on him.
"No you can't do that!" James blurted.
"You're the excuse that gets us out of trouble!" Sirius agreed.
"Tyson sucks at lying she can't do it... and we can't either!" Peter finished up.
"Calm down guys, I was messing with you. I won't really leave ya'll hanging!" Remus laughed when he had heard enough of the boys' companying and whining.
"Thank God! I thought we were doomed!" James pretended to wipe sweat off his face.
"Come on its time for class." Charlotte rolled her eyes and started to get up which was followed suit by the rest of the group.
"Yeah and to think we are so young... to be doomed of no pranks at our delicate pranking age" Peter sighed.
"Oh don't even say that! I can't bear it!" James played along.
"No more pranks... ever!" Charlotte whispered over James' shoulder making him jump.
"Don't do that!" He looked mad for a moment before breaking into a smile.
"Can you guys even try to be good till the end of the year; it's only three more months?" Lily pleaded with the marauders and Tyson during the last ten minutes of their last class of the day.
"Umm why?" Peter looked at Lily strange.
"Umm maybe cause the end of the year is the house cup thing?" Sirius hit Peter upside the head.
"So you will?" Lily looked hopeful.
"Wellllllll" James looked like he was contemplating it.
"No!" All five of the pranksters said at the same time.
"And why not?" Lizzy asked while putting her materials away.
"Maybe because we're....what's the word Remus?" Peter asked while snapping his fingers pretending not to know.
"Pranksters?" Remus rolled his eyes and laughed.
"Yeah that's the word!" Peter laughed as the professor dismissed them.
"Ah hush and come on Peter." Tyson grabbed hold of his arm and dragged him out the door grabbing Sirius and pushing him in front of her so that he would go, "We don't have all day James and Remus!" She called back to the boys, who just rolled their eyes and started to get up.
"She's a tad bit controlling when it comes to pranks." Remus sighed.
"And bossy" James agreed.
"Then why do you do as she says?" Sophie laughed.
"She makes up some pretty good pranks." James said as him and Remus started walking away from the group.
"And I suppose that's what you're going to do right now?" Whitney called after them.
"You bet!" Remus laughed as him and James disappeared down the hall.
Tyson along with the Marauders practically ran down the hall towards the common room.
"So you know for a fact that the Slytherins have COMC this period and will be outside right?" Tyson asked as she panted for breath after saying the password to the portrait of the fat lady.
"Yes I'm sure; they've only had the same classes at the same time for the whole year!" James puffed as he climbed through the hole.
"Or maybe he's getting you back for saying that your reliable contacts told you about the pranked the front door on Valentine's Day?" Peter laughed as he caught his own breath.
"You idiot it was rigid for a prank, you just opened the door for them!" Tyson slapped Peter on the back of his head.
"So what does that matter?" Sirius asked taking a few things from his bag which he had laid on the nearest table.
"What are you two telling me that you still don't understand how that prank worked?" Remus laughed. Tyson looked over to him.
"Thank-you, some one with some common sense!" She rolled her eyes making him laugh.
"Um I understand too" James waved a hand in her face telling her that he was there as well.
"Oh really then how did it work?" Tyson stopped laughing to try and look serious at him though it deemed harder than expected.
"Oh um well..." James stuttered.
"Right you don't know, it's whoever opened the door from the outside. The person had to actually turn the knob for the bucket to appear then open the door for it to spill." Remus shook his head and took one of the objects from James' hand. James had pulled out a bunch of muggle things called balloons from his bag handing a few out to each of them. Once they got the balloons they took out their wands and moved to the window facing the forbidden forest. While they talked about the prank Tyson went up to her dorm only to emerge again moments later. In her hands were two buckets, a bucket of gold paint and a bucket of red paint. They slowly filled up each of the balloons with red or gold paint, tying them securely with a knot then placing them on a couch so they wouldn't break.
"Okay that's the last of em'." Peter nodded to the balloons that Remus and Sirius were tying, "Now when do they start coming out?"
"Well some should already be down there but they still have a few minutes till class starts." Tyson shrugged, "Wait look!" She opened the window and looked out. Sitting not far from the castle was a group of Slytherins.
"What are they doing, class isn't even over here?" Sirius asked noticing that they were all bent over something in the middle of the circle. Not much could be seen from the 7th floor of the castle.
"Oh hold on!" All of a sudden Peter spun around and ran up the steps to his dorm.
"What's he doin?" Tyson asked as they all stared at where Peter had been moments before.
"Dunno" The other three shrugged. Soon Peter came running back down waving something around in his hand. When he reached the small group of pranksters he held the object still long enough for them to see that the thing looked brass and a bit like the muggle object; binoculars, sept with lots more knobs and dials.
"What is that?" Tyson looked dumbfounded for the second time since New Years.
"That!" Sirius took the thing from Peter, "Is something called Omnioculars!"
"Yes and I can explain, hurry before they go!" Peter stole them back, "We can use these to see what they Slytherins are doing." He gestured towards the small group of Slytherins who were still huddled around something, "You can slow things down and replay them, or just use them to see things up closer." He continued to explain.
"Oh cool, can I see em?" Tyson gently held her hand out asking in a soft voice, staring at the omnioculars with awe. Peter turned them over to her with evil looks from Sirius and James who had wanted to see them first. Quickly Tyson turned around and got situated to see the Slytherins, "How do I slow it down?"
"Oh press and hold this button." Sirius leaned over her and pressed a button, she looked up at him then to where his finger was, then moved her left index finger slightly to the right and held down the button making Sirius move his finger.
"I could have shown her." Peter muttered.
"Ah hush Peter!" James' whined.
"Where'd you get those anyway Pete?" Sirius asked.
"Oh my grandfather gave them to me when I found them in one of his spare rooms in his mansion. He said he got them the last time he attended the World Cup." He shrugged and looked back at Tyson who was practically hanging out of the window trying to see. Remus simply pushed her foot back down to the ground to keep her from falling out.
"Oh no they're not! Those little pieces of scum!" Tyson jumped up almost dropping the omnioculars out the window.
"What?" Peter and Remus jumped up yelling as Sirius and James both made a dive for the omnioculars. Sirius made it first and easily took them from Tyson's loose grip since she wasn't even paying attention to him.
"Those jerks are planning a prank to pull on us during the end of term feast when the House Cup is awarded!" With that Sirius half fell on the window trying to see out as James practically jumped on him trying to take them from him.
"Would you" Remus put a tight grip on the omnioculars, "stop it" he ripped them from James and Sirius' grasp handing them back to Peter, who tossed them to an armchair out of the way.
"How do you know what they're doing?" Sirius pushed James off of himself and straightened his cloths, sticking his tongue out at James.
"Because those things showed me that it was Taglen in the middle of that circle huddling over a blue print of the Great Hall. In the corner said the date of the End of Term Feast, our table was circled and had all these markings on them. That group down there is not just a group of Slytherins that's our enemy of war, the Tagz." She pointed to them. With a sudden glance at each other Sirius and James made another dive towards the omnioculars, but almost in one swift movement Peter and Remus grabbed hold of them and didn't let go.
"That's not fair though they have at least ten people down there. We only have us five here." Remus sighed letting go of James after the two had stopped squirming.
"Then we'll just have to recruit more won't we?" Tyson smiled her know smile then picked up two balloons sitting them on the window sill, "Come on before class starts!" She motioned for the others to follow suit.
Tyson led the example by tossing one balloon out the window then charming it with the floating spell, after she aimed it right over the middle of the circle she lifted the charm and the balloon came crashing down on the group. None of the other airborne balloons that day were quite as enjoyable as the first. All the Slytherins jumped up screaming and yelling trying to get the paint off of them. When they tried to look up to see where it came from more balloons came raining down on them, leaving them looking as if they just came out a Quidditch game supporting the Gryffindor team. Tyson stole the omniculars from James who had finally managed to get them and use them.
"Hey gimmie em back!" James sounded like a four year old.
"Oh hold on, would you?" Tyson grumbled from behind the omniculars, she pressed the replay button, and watched the scene before cursing softly.
"What?" Remus asked.
"When the first balloon dropped it didn't land on the paper just the person next to him so he grabbed it off and ran before another hit, we didn't see him run off since we were watching the balloons hit the others." She sighed and tossed the omniculars to Peter again, "Here"
"Oh don't be so flippin pessimistic!" Remus spat. The other four looked at him with astonished faces.
"And what might that mean?" Tyson asked.
"It's the opposite of optimistic" They continued to stare at him, he sighed, "Oh you guys don't know anything! It means you always look for the bad things in stuff rather than the good ones."
"Right, and why do you say that?" Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Because look we just pranked every one of the Tagz except the leader, that's pretty good if you ask me..." He trailed off.
"Yeah and we didn't even mean to hit all of em'" James looked down at the gold and red Slytherins who were still yelling.
"Oh crap we're gunna be late for class! Come on!" Remus yipped draggin them with him down the steps and out of the portrait.
"Okay what'd you want to see us for?" Belen asked as her, Jena, Daus, and Ben all sat
down around the small group. Tyson and the Marauders had asked for some time to speak with certain people during lunch. And those people were everyone that the boys and Tyson could really trust and the four were the last ones to arrive.
"Well as you all know the end of term is coming up rather quickly, right?" Tyson started talking to the group.
"Well yeah duh, in about three months" Arthur Weasley laughed; Molly looked at him and shoved him almost into the lake. Molly wasn't a big girl but Arthur was a very small boy so it didn't take much to move him.
"I think she was asking a rhetorical question, right Ty?" Molly smiled up at Tyson as Arthur regained his balance.
"Yeah that means only a month till the last Quidditch match!" Denium looked more and more like the muggle stereotype, jock, by the day.
"Yeah" Will and Rory agreed and all three exchanged high fives.
"Go Gryffindor! You already kicked two house butts!" Justin joined the jock-like mess.
"Umm just to let ya know Ravenclaw has beat Slytherin and Hufflepuff also, meaning we just might have a chance to beat you. We have been practicing hard…" Jena trailed off rolling her eyes making Belen laugh.
"Yeah don't get your hopes up boys; we're obviously not as good as we think seeing how we lost the scrimmage." Lindzi sighed.
"Ah Lindz, that's only because you all went up against players with a lot more experience." Sara tried to comfort her.
"Um yeah that's all great and wonderful but we've got more important things to talk about!" James stated.
"Oh God, something more important than Quidditch? We've got to be here for only one other thing, and that's a prank." Lily sighed. She hated pranks, and she hated that James and the others pulled them on the Slytherins, sure they were mean and rude but that didn't mean that they deserved to be pranked…but then again the Tagz did pull pranks on them….
"Why Lily, you're a smart one!" Tyson laughed.
"Wait what does this have to do with the end of term?" Dave asked, obviously confused.
"Well just from what they've said so far you can probably safely assume that they want to pull some kind of prank before the year's over." Ashley acted as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Well you have some of it right" Sirius looked slightly undecided.
"Yeah I bet it isn't just how they can pull of a prank before end of term; I bet its how many they can pull off before end of term." Marie laughed.
"Well what's this have to do with us?" Lizzy motioned to the group sitting on the ground.
"Oh we are the guinea pig I bet, just watch!" Charlotte moaned.
"No your not, actually we need you for the total opposite." Peter spoke up.
"You want us to prank you?" Sophie laughed in question.
"No would you hush so she can talk?" James stared at her; she glared at him and turned back to Tyson.
"Anyways… okay look. Taglen has his little group and-"
"That thing isn't little compared to us! They have over twice as many people as we do!" Sirius cried.
"Oh no, I am not!" Whitney caught on to what the pranksters wanted from them.
"Ah come on please?" James pleaded.
"Please what?" Sara asked.
"Let me finish would you?" Tyson gave off an irritated sigh.
"Fine" James sat down next to Charlotte.
"Okay look the Tagz far out number us Marauders. And we five know personally that they're all planning a prank on what seems to be the whole Gryffindor house-"
"What?" The whole group not including the Marauders and Ravenclaws yelped interrupting Tyson.
"Again let me finish!" Once everyone was quiet, glaring and mumbling, but quiet none the less. She started again. "Now we say by the looks of it, it's the whole house. BUT that would be way too hard to pull off so we think that it might just be aimed at us pranksters and" Again she was cut off this time by Whitney.
"So it's just the pranksters and yet you want us all to help you, meaning we would become part of the target, yes?" She looked smug.
"No, well technically yes, BUT…."
"Exactly."
"Oh come on look here's the deal, we're gunna get royally creamed by the Tagz if we don't do something to stop them. The only way to stop them is if we have more people to help, now we're asking you, please help us. We just need you guys to help us find out what their planning, find a way to stop it, and perhaps pull a prank on them." Remus gave off his puppy dog eyes.
"Oh I hate pulling pranks myself what if we get caught?" Lindzi asked trying not to fall for Remus beautiful eyes.
"You won't we promise! We won't give you guys the jobs that are risky for getting caught, and if something happens we'll take the blame, they'll believe us!" Sirius jumped in.
"Well?" Tyson and all the boys tried to act sad and needy.
"Count me in, and heck gimme a risky job!" Marie stood up and walked over to the pranksters, slapping high-fives and receiving thank-yous.
"Lindzi?" Remus took her hand; she closed her eyes and dropped her head in defeat.
"Okay fine" She opened her eyes and looked at Remus who was beaming, he helped her up and they moved over to the pranksters. Will and Rory looked at each other then smiled and jumped up both exclaiming that they'd help with a risky job too. Followed by Belen, Jena, Daus, and Ben, they all went over to the small group which was slowly growing with pranksters.
"What if something does happen and then I'm kicked off the Quidditch team or out of my captain spot?" Denium looked worried.
"Oh get your head away from the Quidditch field and come on!" Ashley rolled her eyes grabbing hold of Denium's hand with her right hand and her left had Justin's hand; she dragged both boys past the imaginary line into the prankster side.
"Plus if that happened, we'd all get caught and the only person left on the team would be Erayn." James laughed as did a few others.
"You wanna?" Arthur asked Molly in a hushed tone.
"I guess we can." She nodded and they moved over to the over side, "I just hope to God that I don't have pranksters for kids when I grow up and get married."
"Why I think it might be fun to hear about their pranks, it'd remind me of now" Arthur laughed.
"Come on please?" Ashley was begging Dave.
"No, do you know how much trouble I'd get in, for even knowing that you guys are planning this? Do you not remember I'm a prefect?" Dave whined.
"We promise you won't get caught, we'll give you the easiest job." Peter pleaded.
"Fine!" Dave didn't look to happy at his decision but went with Ashley to the other side, "Oh God don't let us get caught!" He whispered under his breath.
"Hey lets try this, let's live a little!" Sophie nudged Charlotte, Lily, Lizzy, and Whitney.
"Oh I was hoping one of you would want to!" Charlotte nodded as did Lizzy, but Lily and Whitney screamed a firm no.
"Ah why not?" Charlotte asked.
"Because I'm not getting into trouble. I'm making good grades, haven't been in trouble at all this year, and I'm hoping to become Prefect in a few years. But I'll be a good prefect and tell on you guys?"
"That's it I'm not doing it!" Dave looked worried and tried to go back over to where Lily was but Ashley grabbed him and told him to stop. Everybody else though became frantic at Lily's last comment.
"You're not going to tell on us then are you?" Remus eyes grew.
"No but I'm saying somebody should stop you." Everyone except Dave and James calmed down.
"What and let the Tagz prank us without fighting back?!" He grew red in the face, "I don't think so I'm not backing down to a Slytherin!"
"Ah shut-up James, Come on Lil please just join us." Rory tried pleading with her.
"No!"
"Where are you three going?" Whitney cocked an eyebrow at Lizzy, Sophie, and Charlotte.
"Um Whit, Lil, we want to do this, so we're gunna" Sophie hesitated at first but then felt safe about it and talked with confidence.
"You're betraying us?" Lily looked bug-eyed.
"No Lily actually you and Whitney are. I mean the whole group is over here and you two are over there. Lindzi risked getting in trouble, Denium risked his captain spot, the Quidditch players are risking the team, and heck Dave is risking his prefect badge." Charlotte stated making Dave cringe, who had in fact decided to stay.
"Ugh play the guilt cards on us why don't you?" Lily sighed.
"What does that mean?" Whitney looked up to Lily who had just stood up.
"Come on Whit, you can't beat it you might as well join it." Lily helped Whitney up then pulled her to the group where they were welcomed with thank-yous, thank Gods, and you won't regret its.
"So what are you doing this summer?" Rory asked James as Tyson and Sirius kept looking past them towards the Slytherin table glaring at Taglen.
"Oh you know the whole family togetherness thing." James rolled his eyes.
"Um okay, how bout you Sirius?" He turned to Sirius.
"I'm going home with James and staying there all summer."
"Kinda like a lost puppy?" Tyson laughed.
"A puppy? Wouldn't that be fun though, being a dog?" Sirius' head turned at an angle as he thought of the idea.
"Um yeah, sure." Tyson rolled her eyes.
"I don't mean a small dog I mean if I could be a real big dog, an animagus…" He trailed off still thinking.
"Yeah okay like you'd ever be powerful enough to become one of those!" Remus laughed as he sat down next to Sirius.
"Ahh lay off him; he's not doing toooo badly in his classes." Rory dragged out the too.
"Of course he's not, and I'm not one of the biggest pranksters in the school." Tyson joked.
"Okay get off the topic of my genius brain, what are you doing this summer Ty?" Sirius turned the subject to Tyson as everyone laughed at Sirius.
"Oh Charles said that he had something big surprised for me… actually he said he has two surprises but the second one won't come till the middle-ish of summer." She smiled.
"Charles?" Rory looked puzzled.
"Yeah my uncle, I live with him." Tyson nodded.
"Really, why do you live with him?"
"Well my parents are dead." She half lied.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Did they die in that small battle against that dude calling himself the Dark Lord a few years back?" Rory started into some really touchy stuff for Tyson, Sirius had become uneasy as well on this question.
"Um yeah" She lied again. "But they weren't quite against him." This time she told the truth, her parents had joined a new organization of followers called Deatheaters.
"What?" His eyes got big, Sirius almost jumped out of his seat.
"Don't worry I'm not like them, that's why I've always lived with Charles, my father's muggle brother." She tried to get the thought that she was like them out of Rory's head, and it seemed to work, Sirius had started nodding like he agreed.
"So you like Charles then or no?" Rory asked confused getting back into easy conversation.
"Charles? Oh I love him to death! I would never ever pull a prank on him, he's the reason I'm not like my parents." She smiled.
"Holy crap, never pull a prank on him? Never?" James' eyes got big.
"Plus he's getting her two surprises." Remus laughed.
"Yeah that too, but also because he's the one who taught me to be a prankster as well, so everything I know he taught me. Or at least the basic idea came from him and I just made a branch off of it. So anything I pull on him he'd flip back on me, believe me I know." She laughed remembering the first and last time she ever pulled a prank on her uncle.
"Yeah that could be a good reason!" James laughed, "Oh crap it's almost 7:30!"
"Yeah so class doesn't begin till 8." Sirius cocked an eyebrow in confusion.
"We promised the girls we'd come back to the common room before 7:30 to walk them here." James raised his own eyebrows.
"Oh yeah, whoops forgot bout them!" Rory laughed.
"I'm soo telling Lily you said that!" James laughed as he got up and started towards the door. Rory and Lupin soon followed, with Rory yelling to James that he'd better not or 'else'.
"Well that was interesting." Sirius looked at the door that his three best guy friends ran through.
"Yep loverly, hey why you spending the summer with James, because of your parents?" Tyson asked.
"Yeah my parents are tired of me, they don't want me around. How come you didn't tell me that your parents were deatheaters too?" He whispered.
"I don't know, because their dead I thought it didn't matter." She shrugged.
"But then I wouldn't have felt so bad if I knew you had to go through the same thing."
"Sirius, my parents died when I was 7 and before that I never saw them, so they never had the chance to treat me like your parents treat you."
"Thanks that made me feel better." Sirius rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Oh don't start this again Sirius; you know that how they treat you is not right! Hey if James and you get tired of each other this summer I'm sure Charles wouldn't mind if ya stayed with us." She moved the topic to something easier.
"Yeah I'll keep that in mind." Sirius nodded.
"So what you have in mind about Taglen and the feast?" Tyson smiled at him at an angle because she was bent over trying to get something out of her bag.
"Well I thought maybe a truth potion in their food…" He thought of the pros and cons for the prank as Tyson pulled out their Prank Spiral.
"Okay good idea, well no how would we get it just in the Slytherin food better yet how in just the Tagz food?"
"Yeah your right, and they might end up saying some stuff we really don't wanna hear. You know what we need to do first?" Sirius smile at her.
"What?" She returned the smile.
"We need to find out whom exactly is a part of the Tagz, and maybe give each of them a welcoming 'present' for joining the war."
"Yes, we must be proper war enemies." Tyson nodded.
"Okay how are we going to go about doing this?"
"By stealing that" Sirius looked over to where Tyson was starring though smiling. His eyes landed on Taglen, who was writing in a little black book oblivious to anything around him.
Once an idea came to Tyson's head there was no 'putting it to the side'. And this showed after the idea of stealing Taglen's own prank book came about.
"That thing has to be hiding what they're planning." Tyson mumbled as she stared at Taglen who was eating. By now the whole group was eating breakfast though Tyson and Sirius just sat there plotting against Taglen waiting for the rest to finish.
"Oh would you hush about that stupid book?" Lily rolled her eyes.
"No, just think, just for a moment. If his book is anything like mine and the boys then it's a gold mine, I mean come on I'm surprised he hasn't tried to steal ours yet. If one of us gets the other's prank spiral then the war is over, done with, finished!"
"Okay we get it calm down." Lily shook her head.
"Fine, Sirius, James come on I think I have a plan."
"I thought you said we were part of the group now, shouldn't we be allowed in on the planning?" Rory smiled. Tyson sat there looking at everyone puzzled.
"Um okay fine, but it means your all missing lunch, met us by the lake at lunch!" Tyson nodded quickly and jumped up then made her way over to Malfoy and Snape.
"Hey Lucius, what's up?" Tyson sat down next to her boyfriend.
"Hi, nothing much you?" He smiled before going back to his plate.
"Oh nothing, hey Taglen, whatcha writin'? A lovvvvvveeeee note?" She cooed. Taglen looked up from where he looked to be fixing something in his spiral, suddenly he sat up straight and closed the book.
"No, thank-you I'm not. What are you doing over here you git?" He smiled politely.
"Hey, Dae, knock it off, she's my girl don't call her that." Lucius glared at Taglen while Tyson smirked behind him. Taglen just squinted his eyes and went back to the spiral.
"So what brings you over here?" Lucius turned to Tyson.
"Oh just wanted to come over to see ya." Tyson said absent mindedly while trying to peak over Taglen's hand which covered the page he was writing on. He noticed what she was doing and slammed it shut.
"So Ty.." Severus started but Tyson flashed a big smile and interrupted him.
"Um sorry Severus, but I just remembered that I forgot something in my dorm, I gotta go!" She jumped up. Two things happened at the same time in the next moment, one was that James and Sirius both jumped up seeing the Tyson flash her prankster smile so they started over to her, the second was that Lucius grabbed Tyson's wrist and pulled her over to him after standing up himself. Quickly he wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close until her body was up against his. He planted his lips right on hers then pulled back and smiled at Tyson's response. Tyson almost fell back from surprise and looked horrified then raised her hand to her lips muttering that she had to go and turned around to where James and Sirius were both frozen in horror right behind her. She muttered two words to them before walking off extremely fast and very red in the face. Lucius smiled at James and Sirius who had their mouths open making them regain their composure and moving to catch up with Tyson. Lucius smiled at looked around, the whole class of first and second years were staring at him while the older years were laughing. He took his seat looking very smug.
"What did she say?" Taglen also had his mouth hanging open but for another reason.
"Um something about exploding food, probably just surprised." Lucius just shrugged. Taglen groaned and slammed his head down on the table causing the whole Slytherin table to look at him funny.
"She's the one that told us to be here at lunch, where is she?" Lily rolled her eyes and sat down next to the lake.
"Ahh chill Lil," Sophie laughed at her rhyme, "She's probably putting the finishing touches on some part of the plan."
"Yeah whatever" Whitney rolled her eyes, "It's starting to get a little humid out here." She noticed.
"Yeah a little but oh well" Tyson said as she came up behind everyone carrying her prank spiral in one hand and a stack of papers in the other.
"Finally, you only took forever" Lindzi laughed.
"Yeah sorry bout that, I kinda had to deal with an idiot to get down here." Tyson sighed in a tired manner pushing her dark hair away from her face.
"Taglen?" Lizzy shook her head.
"Yeah, but anyways, about my plan."
"Oh good now we can get down to business" Rory smirked.
"Please Rory, planning a prank is not business, but more of an art" Sirius smiled.
"Yeah what he said" Remus and James said in unison pretending to be mad.
"Anyways" Tyson dragged out the word trying to get everyone back on track.
"Yes? Do you want something?" Peter asked.
"Yeah to get rid of you dolts so I can get on with the plan. Rory, Peter, James, Sirius, Remus… no Remus you stay, but the rest of you I want you to go up and find the Slytherin common room." Tyson stated turning from the group of boys with their mouths hanging open.
"Their common room?" Peter's eyes looked like saucers.
"Find it?" Rory added.
"In mid day?" Sirius said.
"Without knowing any part of this plan, meaning having no motivation?" James finished.
"Yes, we need to know where it is by tonight" Tyson didn't even turn back to face them.
"Okay!" Rory and Peter smiled.
"No not okay" Sirius whipped around to face the two.
"Why not? It'll make more of a challenge." Rory shrugged, slowly James and Sirius started to nod and smile.
"Yeah, you're right! Let's go." James nodded and started back up to the castle, once they were gone Remus laughed but Whitney frowned.
"Why'd you send them off like that?" She asked.
"Because they'll never be able to actually find it without getting caught." Remus answered for Tyson since he had caught on already.
"Yeah, and that keeps them outta our hair while I explain the real plan." Tyson smiled as she looked up from skimming through her spiral.
"Okay look I know that Taglen has, or will, plant something in the plates all along the Gryffindor table, and once he sees where me and the boys are sitting he'll activate those plates, then something about making the food fly everywhere somehow. I didn't catch the last bit cause he saw me lookin' at the spiral." Tyson rolled her eyes as if she hadn't committed a 'crime' in the world of a prankster war.
"So just you and the marauders?" Sophie asked sadly.
"Yeah, isn't that great?" Whitney smiled.
"But that means that we're not really part of the prank. I mean yeah we'll get to pull it but what's that get ya if the person doesn't know that you're the one who did it but can't tell on ya?"
"Um maybe you don't have a chance of getting caught in a prank or in trouble?" Lily looked at her as if she was stupid, "Duh" Sophie frowned at Lily for a moment till Tyson spoke up.
"Calm down Lil. Soph, I know zackley what you mean. We'll just have to plan some smaller pranks that anyone who wants to be noticed can be head of. We'll only have one or two of us marauders there in the background to make sure things go alright, the rest can be with a professor who can vouch for them."
"Sounds like a plan! I'll get noticed!" Sophie smiled.
"And pranked" Lily added causing Sophie to glare at her.
"So who wants to be 'noticed'" She asked showing quotation marks with her hands around the noticed. Sophie and Marie were the first hands up soon followed by Lindzi, Lizzy, and Charlotte. Only Whitney and Lily hadn't raised their hands.
"Okay fair enough Lily, Whitney you'll participate in the smaller pranks." They nodded and Tyson opened her spiral, flipped a couple of pages, kneeled down, and motioned for everyone to gather round her.
They had been discussing some smaller pranks when lunch time was just about over and the rest of the Marauders and Rory came running down the front steps and up to the group smiling.
"We…almo….caught… found… room" Rory panted smiling.
"What?" Lily laughed at her boyfriend.
"We almost got caught!" Peter's eyes were wide with an adriddlian(sp) rush.
"So, that's not surprising. I mean come on you were trying to sneak into another house's common room." Whitney rolled her eyes
"No not sneak into it find it." Sirius started but Tyson pushed past him and walked up to Rory.
"What did you say?"
"We found it!" James moved in front of Rory answering for him, smiling the biggest prankster smile know to man.
"Do you know what this means?" Tyson looked astonished as did the rest of the group that hadn't left to find the common room.
"That we know where they sleep?" Lindzi laughed not really knowing.
"No you idiot, it means that we get to use our Slytherin personal pranks that we have!" Sirius rolled his eyes.
"Sirius!" Remus looked at him like he had just said something horrible.
"What?" He spat back.
"Um mind not talking to a girl that way… especially my girl at that?" Remus hit him on the arm.
"Oh sorry." Sirius mumbled then turned back to Tyson. "Which one first?"
"Two words; suran wrap!"
"Suran wrap? You mean the muggle thing for cooking?" Charlotte asked.
"Yep, some of the oldest pranks-"
"And best" James nodded.
"Yep and best, in the book have to do with suran wrap."
"That's why we call em 'classics'." Sirius smiled.
"How we gunna get the suran wrap?" Lindzi asked suddenly.
"Hmmm. Oh I know, I can write to Charles and he can send me some by tomorrow!" Tyson laughed, picturing her uncle's face when he read that she wanted to be sent suran wrap.
"Okay so we can start the personal ones at lunch tomorrow!" Sirius smiled.
"Right now lunch is over so we gotta go to class but we can talk more in there" Remus nudged random people towards the castle.
Later that Afternoon; right after classes
"Okay, so this suran wrap exertion will need a few different people but not too many. A few boys and a few girls. A most of 5 people!" Tyson started making a list of everybody she thought was willing to participate. Everyone was sitting on the grand staircase since most of the school was outside enjoying the rest of the day. Though they still sat close enough and whispered low enough not to be heard.
"That's easy us boys and you." James shrugged.
"No." Sophie and Tyson both simply stated. James looked over at Sophie who he hadn't expected to answer him.
"Why?" He asked.
"First off I can't be the only girl there, I'll need some help. Plus we can't be the only ones to be doing all the pranks anymore." Tyson said with Sophie nodding in agreement.
"Okay that's fine, I'll skip out of this one." Remus said, "I wanted to work on some homework over the weekend anyways." Sirius glared at him and muttered 'sissy' causing Remus to roll his eyes.
"Knock it off. He can still go, we'll make two planned dates to pull the same pranks a week apart to really get them. After a week they'll have stopped checking everything for the wrap." Peter said looking up from Tyson's notebook he was flipping through.
"Hey that's a good idea, right okay then we'll need two teams then." Sirius smiled.
"Okay tomorrow night will be the first night, we should have the wrap by then. We'll need experienced pranksters in both trips for guidance. Okay Lily Whitney are you two coming on this one, or is it too big?" Tyson looked to the two girls.
"No I think not!" Whitney shook her head.
"Me either." Lily agreed. Rory looked disappointed but obviously got over it as soon as Tyson nodded and started planning again.
"That's fine. Then we have…" She quickly tallied up everyone that was on the list. "We have, man, we have a lot… 23 people. We can't split all that up into two groups of five."
"Well Dave has prefect rounds and that means that I'm not going without him, sorry… so that makes it 21 people." Ashley added.
"It's okay, makes it easier."
"Wait a minute! Dang it we have that flipping test not tomorrow but the day after. We can't be up all night cause it's first class that day." Sara sighed talking to all the 6th years since there were only Gryffindors and Ravenclaws there and the Gryffindors and Ravenclaw 6th years both had 1st class of Transfiguration.
"Wow that takes out Denium, Justin, Daus, and Sara." Tyson looked around for 6th years as the 6th years all moaned.
"Well that makes 17 people." Ben stuck hi tongue out at his brother. Daus just glared at him.
"Um Tyson I'm not good at sneaking around especially at night… I don't think I can do this." Molly mumbled.
"Are you sure, we could help you?" Tyson looked up at her concerned.
"No it's fine, I can help with another prank."
"That's okay then, you don't have to."
"Then I don't think I want to either." Arthur added while blushing.
"I kinda figured that." Tyson lightly chuckled giving him a warm smile.
"Okay that brings us down to 15… we can make it three nights and three groups with 5 each is perfect." James figured everything up real quick.
"So everyone else still in it then?" When the rest nodded she continued, "okay the hardest night will be the last night because they'll probably be waiting for it so we need 'brave' people for that one, but we need experienced ones for the other ones two. That's what's hard cause us Marauders all really want this to work and want to go first but it'll be better for the last night."
"I wanna be on the last one" James spoke up.
"Me too." Sophie and Marie said in unison.
"Okay James and I are a definite for the last one then you two, Sirius and Peter are second then first is Remus and . No Peter and Sirius will joke around to much together, okay Sirius you're gunna be in the first set with Rory." Tyson was erasing some names from the list and put them in other spots while Rory and Sirius gave off unsure looks.
"Oh you'll be fine." Remus saw the two boys looking at each other strangely.
"What?" Tyson looked up at Remus.
"Oh nothing keep going." He shook his head.
"Charlotte Belen and Lindzi will be the second set."
"I want to go with Jena." Belen shook her head.
"And I want to go with Lizzy." Lindzi nodded.
"God, you guys are strange. It's not like we're not all best friends. But fine, Lindzi Lizzy you're in the second set and Belen and Jena is with Sirius and Rory in the first."
"Can you put Ben with us?" Jena asked, Tyson looked up and sighed.
"Fine, okay that leaves Charlotte and Will. Charlotte is with second and Will can be with my group third!" Tyson seemed a little too happy making everyone laugh and Will blush, "Is that good?" She asked making sure everyone was finally happy with the order.
"Yes, read it out for us so we've got it straight." Remus answered.
"Okay; tomorrow night is the first night and it'll be Sirius, Rory, Belen, Jena, and Ben. Is that good?" She paused and everyone nodded.
"Then a week later will be the second one and that is Remus, Peter, Charlotte, Lindzi, and Lizzy." Again she paused and no one made any movements so she went on.
"And the third night is a half week after the second and it's James, Marie, Sophie, Will, and myself." She paused once more and again got quiet, "Good we're set."
"Okay so we're done, cause I gotta head to the library." Sophie stood up.
"Yeah we're done, we'll have another meeting let's see we're getting the wrap tomorrow morning then tomorrow at lunch, k?" Tyson also stood up grabbing her notebook.
"Yeah, man we're never gunna get to eat." Rory laughed as the rest of the group nodded then split up going different ways.