Chapter 10 The Saran Wrap Attack
"Ok it's been 20 minutes since the last chime of the clock, it's time for you guys to go!" Tyson let everyone know. Rory and Sirius both jumped up and got their stuff together. Within seconds they were ready to run out the door.
"Ok have all five boxes?" Tyson asked sounding like a mother about to send her boys off to school.
"Yes Mum," Sirius laughed making sure Tyson knew who she sounded like.
"Funny ha ha." She glared at Sirius for a moment then shrugged. "Well good luck then, and make sure you help the Ravenclaws keep outta trouble too."
"Right" Rory smiled and almost dragged Sirius out of the common room.
"You think they'll pull it off?" Lizzy asked Tyson.
"Yeah Sirius might be a conceited airhead but he knows what he's doing when it comes to pranks." Tyson nodded then declared that she was going to get ready for bed.
"You don't want to be up for when they get back?" James looked surprised.
"I said I was getting ready for bed not going to bed." With that she made her way up to her dorm and into the shower.
"Okay, she said they be sitting against the base of the Grand Staircase, you see em?" Sirius asked as they looked over the top railing of the staircase while they both sat underneath the invisibility cloak James had let them borrow.
"Yeah right there" Sirius followed Rory's gaze and saw the three Ravenclaw pranksters all sitting against the staircase out of sight from any prefects or professors that happened to be walking past. Slowly the two Gryffindors made their way down to the other three and revealed themselves to them.
"Thought you'd never get here." Ben whined.
"Well we did, now come on." Knowing that all five of them wouldn't be able to fit under the cloak Sirius just discarded it and left it in the bag next to the boxes of saran wrap. The five would just have to stay hidden until they arrived in the Slytherin Common Room and hope that no one was awake.
Within five minutes they stood at the Slytherin entrance way, Sirius was hesitant to give the password thinking a Slytherin would be up and they'd get caught.
"Oh just put the cloak back on and you sneak in first then come out and tell us when the coast is clear, we'll hide here to the side behind this row of armored knights." Belen shook her head and moved over to the knights quickly followed by Jena and Ben.
"Right," He grabbed the cloak from his back, tossed the bag to Jena, and put the cloak on. "I'll be right back!" He muttered from behind the cloak then disappeared into the entrance of the Common Room after saying the password.
Sirius only took one look back at his pranking buddies before slipping into the common room. He knew he had the cloak on but it still felt as if anyone could see him. So cautiously he stepped into the room and moved behind the closest chair available then looked around. To his luck no one was in the room, but knowing anyone could be awake he made his way to the dorm room stairs and went up them, stopping right outside both doors and just listening for movement. Nothing. If everyone was really asleep then their spell would work to keep them asleep but if anyone was awake then it'd ruin the whole spell. Since no sound came from either the boys or girls' dorms he thought it save to bring the others in and have Jena perform the spell.
"Ok it's clear." Sirius whispered as he stuck his head out the door. Jena, Ben, and Belen moved forward and past Sirius into the common room, "Where's Rory?" He asked as he remembered that he hadn't seen Rory go back behind the knights before he first went into the common room.
"Oh he said he'd be right back, he had to get something. We don't know what it is that he's getting." Belen shrugged.
"That little" Sirius almost swore but bit his tongue. "I knew he'd screw this up!"
"Hey Black lighten up, no one said he was off getting caught." Ben said in Rory's defense.
"Yeah well I bet that's what he's doing." Sirius glared at no one particular as he closed the door behind them shutting Rory out, where ever he was.
"Whatever come on we have a job to do." Jena rolled her eyes, just then the door to the common room leading out into the school started to open. "Crap, hide!" Jena whispered her orders. Before the door even got half way open the four had hid. The door had closed and one set of footprints were heard for some moments before any voices were.
"Guys? Where are y'all?" Rory's voice was low but firm.
"Oh thank-God it's you Rory. I thought we were caught or something." Ben sighed as he stood up as did the others.
"Where have you been, you know that you can't just leave like that during this dangerous of a prank?" Sirius growled.
"First off, I would never call a prank like this 'dangerous' and second I was being smart and went and got this" He held up a few rolls of duck tape. The other four looked at it for a second, actually Sirius was glaring at it.
"Ok I think I'm lost, why do you have tape?" Ben looked from Rory to Sirius but it was Belen that answered him.
"To keep the saran wrap up on the beds and toilets." She smiled at Rory, "Thank- you Rory, obviously our two master prankster Tyson and Sirius completely forgot the first rule of pranking, Never attempt a mission without all necessary supplies."
"And you didn't remember the tape either, why?" Sirius raised an eyebrow.
"Oh Shut up Sirius" She replied, "Let's just get to work." Everyone agreed to the last statement and they went about to the finer details of the prank.
"Okay I cast the spell, everyone should stay asleep." Jena smiled back at the other four.
"Cool. Me, Ben, and Rory have the guy dorms you two have the girl ones." Sirius looked at Jena and Belen.
"Sounds good!" Belen nodded and turned with Jena towards what they assumed was the Slytherin Girl dorm and the boys went to the guy dorms.
"Stay quiet even though they're under the spell." Sirius informed them.
"Yeah yeah yeah we got." Rory rolled his eyes. "If he thinks he's gunna boss me around all night I'm gunna duck tape to a chair." He whispered to Ben who just laughed.
"Ok first bed, here take this end of the paper and I'll pull it down." Sirius ordered Ben who just did what he was told. "Ok" Sirius dropped the box on the floor after getting a piece big enough to fit the bed. "where's the tape?" He was holding one side of the wrap against the top barrier of the bed.
"Here" Rory held up a thing of the tape that he took back from Jena.
"Pull me off some?" He figured he better ask rather than order Rory. Rory just shrugged and pulled off a big piece and handed it to him then another to Ben. When both top sides were secure all three worked to pull it tight on the bottom. In about 5 minutes, with much arguing and shoving between Rory and Sirius, they had the whole bed done and they stood back to observe it.
"Nice, hey whose in the bed anyways?" Ben asked.
"Oh I don't know some unpopular 1st year. The 1st years we want aren't in this dorm…let's just do one every dorm." Sirius answered.
"Ok, so next dorm then?" Ben asked again.
"Yep." With that they went on to the next dorm not even knowing that the girls were already done with three beds.
After finishing another bed of someone else they didn't really know the boys went on to the next dorm and found the dorm jackpot. There slept Malfoy, Severus, Taglen, Blaze, and other student they didn't really care for.
"Ok we'll get those four then go get the other 2 guy Tagz." Sirius whispered.
"Malfoy isn't a Tag…" Ben stated.
"I know but I don't like him." Sirius smirked making Ben snicker. After about 10 minutes all four beds were done, they went into the bathroom and covered them as well.
"Ok the only two left are Mikey Jacobs whose a 2nd year and Eric Stone a 3rd year. We can just split up two and one and go do those two beds easily." Rory stated as they walked out of the 1st year dorm.
"Yeah and we can help." Jena stated, startling the boys. The two girls had finished with their job and was seeing how the boys were coming along.
"What are you doing here?" Sirius whispered.
"We're done." Belen smiled.
"Already, you had more beds than us though." Ben looked at them with wide eyes.
"What can we say, we're girls and girls are better than boys." Jenna smiled at her boyfriend who just rolled his eyes.
"Fine, me, Ben, and Jenna have Stone's bed, Rory and Belen has Jacobs'." Sirius ordered, all of them looked at him skeptically but finally nodded and got to work. As they were all heading down the steps to go into the Slytherin Common room they heard the door to the common room open, quickly they all jumped behind the couches they just neared and kept quiet. Presently they saw a large boy enter the room followed by another.
"I thought you said the spell wouldn't work if not everyone was asleep?" Sirius whispered to Jenna once he realized it was the two idiots Crabbe and Goyal, they didn't have much to worry about, but much was a term used lightly still.
"Not asleep in the dorms, he was out of the common room completely, different story." She whispered back.
"Gimmie the tape." Rory motioned to the one roll that they had left. The two Slytherins, both smiling stupidly held food, giving away that they had been to the kitchens, plopped down on armchairs. Jenna gave the tape to Rory who had the prankster smile plastered to his face that was getting all too familiar with this particular group of friends. He pulled off two big pieces and had Sirius hold them then two smaller pieces and gave them to Ben, then the rest of the role back to Jenna. The Slytherins just sat talking and eating not even noticing the pranksters hiding a few couches away.
"You're not!" Sirius grinned though still whispering.
"I am." Rory whispered back. He took one of the long pieces from Sirius back then gave Belen one of Ben's pieces, then ordered instructions. "Ok, me and Belen'll get Crabbe, Sirius and Ben will get Goyal. Big pieces around bodies holding them in, little pieces for the mouths so they can't scream. Jenna pull off two more and…this will sound funny but tape em to their eyes so they can't see who did it too them, you gotta be fast though." He whispered as she was already pulling off two more. "Alright, we'll sneak up close behind them, wait till they both stuff their mouths then everyone go into action, ready?" He looked to everyone for nods which he received. So quietly they moved behind the Slytherin idiots and luckily both of them put food in their mouth at the same time, and everyone sprang into action. Within seconds both boys were taped up nice and tight and didn't get to see who or what attacked them. Snickering they left the common room and got to the main staircase without getting caught by anyone.
"Well tonight was fun, too bad we don't get to see their reactions." Belen smiled thinking of what might happen.
"Yeah I have to admit, you girls are good at pranking and being slick," Sirius laughed.
"Hey we've got to go before we get caught, it's a wonder that we haven't got caught yet." Ben tugged on Belen's sleeve.
"Yeah I suppose so, night boys." With that everyone said their good-byes and went their separate ways, Gryffindors to the left, Ravenclaws to the right. Sirius practically dragged Rory under the invisibility cloak so he could get back and inform Tyson and the other marauders, who were without a doubt still up waiting, of their loverly pranking time.
"So how'd it go?" Tyson sprung up from the couch she was sitting on the moment they walked through the portrait, almost pouncing on Sirius.
"We got caught." Sirius shoved her aside.
"What?" Tyson looked horrified along with the others that had waited up.
"Oh knock it off Sirius, we did not. It went great, Ty!" Rory rolled his eyes at Sirius.
"You jerk." She punched Sirius rather hard but he just glared at her and went to sit on the couch.
"Tell me all details!" Tyson looked back to Rory as they all settled back on various arm chairs, couches, and the floor. It took a few minutes, what with all of Sirius' snide remarks interrupting every few sentences.
"And you're sure they didn't know it was you all?" Tyson asked for the third time that evening.
"Yes Ty, they've only told you a million times already." James sounded irritated.
"I think that's a bit of an exaggeration don't you think?" Lily looked at him as if he were a problem child, which he was.
"Oh Shove it Evans." It was a tad bit too late for these pre-teens to be up, everyone seemed to be on edge and only Remus saw this.
"Okay cool it everyone. Look we have classes tomorrow and we got the prank done. Let's go to be before everyone eats each other and I'm left to clean up the remains!" Remus looked and sounded tired. They all looked at each other while thinking about what he had said.
"Yeah you're right, I'm going to hit the hay. I'll talk to you guys in the morning." Rory nodded and moved toward the dorms.
"Me too." Lizzy got up off the window sill looking exhausted. After that either one by one or in groups of two or three went to bed until it was just Tyson, Sirius, Peter, and James.
"So it went well then?" James asked.
"Yeah man, smooth." Sirius shrugged.
"No complications between yourselves?" Peter looked skeptical.
"What do you mean?" Sirius looked at the other four as if they were up to something.
"Between you and Rory, you didn't get into an argument with him while doing a prank did you. Cause you know that that's not allowed in the prankster rules." Tyson said bluntly.
"Rules? First since when have we followed rules, and who in the world would even give pranksters a set of rules you dummy? Second I'm not stupid I know a fight would have ruined it so no I didn't, now get off my back." Sirius turned on his heel and stormed up to his dorm.
"That prick." Tyson gritted her teeth.
"Wow it's way too late for this crap." Peter rubbed his head and followed Sirius up to the dorms.
"Hey Ty I think you need some sleep too, why don't you head up to bed?" James put a hand on her shoulder.
"Yeah I will." She muttered.
"Okay then I'll see you in the morning. Night." James smiled faintly and walked off. Tyson sat there with her arms folded across her chest for a moment, then sighed and went up to her own bed where, once she laid down, she was out for the night.
The next day proved to be bad. It started off bad and it ended bad nothing other wise. But let's go back to lunch.
"James, pass the bread sticks." Lily moved her hair behind her so she could eat without having to eat her hair as well.
"But yeah so you said the next match was when?" James either was ignoring her or didn't hear.
"In a month." Denium didn't look up from his cereal.
" James?" She looked at him.
"Okay so we still have time to practice then."
"Yep." Denium nodded.
"Potter!" Peter looked irritated.
"What?" James didn't look to happy at being yelled at.
"Answer her."
"Answer who?"
"Lily."
"What?" He turned to Lily,
"Pass. Me. The. Breadsticks." She said slowly through gritted teeth.
"Yeah fine, shoulda said something rather than havin Peter yell." He tossed them to her and went back to his conversation while the others who had been listening to this episode groan and roll their eyes.
"Yeah I'll keep that in mind." She muttered.
"Okay who'd we say was goin next week?" Tyson just stared at her closed prank spiral, her head propped up in her palm looking half asleep.
"Me, Peter, Char, Lindzi, and Lizzy." Remus took the spiral from her and looked through it to make sure he was right.
"Hey did you get more wrap?" Char asked Tyson.
"Hmm? Oh yeah it arrived this morning."
"Hey how come you put this one and last night's a week apart but you put this one and the next one only half a week?" Lizzy looked over Remus' shoulder.
"Oh cause the Slytherins'll think that their smart and wait a week till they get paranoid but we'll gettim early." James pulled himself from his Quidditch conversation with Denium to join in on a prank one.
"Hey that's smart, but wouldn't they be still paranoid through out the week so wouldn't it be better to do it a week and a half after?" Will chimed in. This made everyone in the conversation think for a moment.
"He is right…" everyone could tell Sirius didn't want to admit it but he did.
"Then do you guys in the third group wanna switch it?" Peter ran a hand through his blonde hair.
"Well it does make sense to do it later than we had it." Tyson had her eyes closed. Sirius poked her elbow causing her head to drop. Being tired and all her reflects to be slow and she just barely caught herself before she went face first into her breakfast.
"Stop it Sirius." Tyson just propped her elbow back up and closed her eyes again. Everyone was astonished that she didn't back hand him or something.
"You feeling okay Ty?" Lily went to feel her forehead.
"Yeah I'm fine." Tyson didn't sound it.
"You feel a bit warm." Lily brought her hand back, Sirius put his up in its place.
"Ty you do feel warm."
"I'm just tired."
"I think you should go to the nurse just in case. She'll fix you right up." Sara said from a bit further down the table.
"Fine, can't do any harm." Tyson shrugged and started to get up right as Lucius walked up behind her.
"What's goin on? You k Ty?" He pushed her hair behind her ear.
"She's going to the nurse, she doesn't feel well. Why don't you walk her there." Tyson looked about ready to fall over and Lily was the only one in the group that had the ability to say something to him that wasn't rude or a snide comment so she was the one who had to speak up.
"Okay I will. Come here babe." He wrapped an arm around her and she laid her head against his shoulder. He took her bag from her and put it on his other side where his bag was. And like that they made their way out of the great hall.
"Hey Ty you feelin better?" Remus asked as Tyson sat down in her desk right as their second period, was about to start.
"Yep, she gave me this gross stuff to drink and it made me feel better." She pretended to gag.
"What took ya so long then?" James asked looked over at her laughing at her.
"Well first I had to wait for her to get done with these two kids that had some how grown spikes out of their ears, it was weird, then once she got done with em she had to make the potion and once I drank it, it took awhile to work…then she had to be dramatic and made me sit there after I felt better just to see if it had any side effects on me,
"She'd give you a potion that could possibly have side effects?" Lily looked horrified.
"Oh what kind of side effects?" Sirius interrupted her.
"I know I asked her the same thing, she just told me that I didn't want to know but if anything funny happened then to come straight back to the hospital wing. And Lily she said for the most part it cures the common cold but some times it has funny outcomes. It's kinda like an allergic reactions, some have it some don't."
"Hmmmm." Sirius sat back in his chair as the professor shut the door signaling the start of class.
"And just what does that hmmm mean Sirius?" Remus laughed quietly.
"I think it means we're going to be borrowing the spell card for that potion so that we can make it and test it out on a few certain people.
"But you idiot if they don't have a reaction to it then all it'll do is make them incredibly healthy, and that is no fun." Peter added.
"But just think if even one of them did have a reaction." Remus looked like he was daydreaming.
"And what would happen in this 'reaction'?" Peter looked skeptical.
"That we'll just have to wait and see." Remus smiled as the professor yelled at them to shut up or they'd have a week's worth of detentions.
"Okay so apart from the suran wrap thing you guys are going to be doing this potion thing now too?" Char asked as she sat down next to the lake hoping to finish up some homework.
"And this one is one you don't even know will work?" Lizzy sat down next to her.
"Well no we don't know it will." James had found a rock to sit on not to far from Char.
"Then why do it?" Lizzy looked confused.
"We hafta get them back." Tyson spoke up.
"The Slytherins, Daemeon? I thought that's what the suran wrap thing was for?" Char asked.
"This isn't for them it's for someone else." Rory walked up and sat down with Will next to him.
"Who's it for?" Lizzy and Char both looked extremely scared and puzzled. James, Tyson, Will, and Rory and smiled big.
"You'll see." James laughed.
"I didn't like that 'you'll see' did you?" Lizzy whispered over to Char as Tyson and the boys were leaning over her spiral laughing at something.
"Not at all. I don't think they're going to be playing fair on this one."
"What do you mean?"
"I think they're gunna prank someone who doesn't deserve it."
"They've been doing that all year I mean come on they've even pulled small pranks on us, Char."
"Well yes but those were small and if you think about it they were all just harmless ones. This prank they're planning now could really hurt someone."
"No it couldn't I mean why would Madame give the students it all the time if it would be harmful?"
"She knows how to give it to them and she warns them. They're not gunna warn them and they'll probably put in more than needed to make the prank efficient." Char looked really worried.
"Well who do you think they'll prank if not the Slytherins?"
"Who else do they have a grudge against, I mean think who was most excited about this prank?"
"Well Sirius and Remus were…"
"No that was when they first thought of it, once they discussed it and found out who they should prank who was left wanting in on the prank?" Char looked over at Tyson, James, Rory, and Will huddled over the spiral still. "What do those four have in common? Think cause it's not prankster cause Will's only wanted to participate in this upcoming two pranks so he's not much of one…think harder."
Lizzy stared at them for a moment then happened to let her eyes go behind them and glanced for a second at the Quidditch Pitch, back at the four, then back at Char. "They're all on the Quidditch team." Lizzy started to realize where Char was going with this. "And they just lost to Denium's team…"
"I think that qualifies their large prides for payback, don't you?"
"Yeah, but why with this prank? Why couldn't they think of something else?"
"I don't know but I think we need to play interference on this one."
"That could be dangerous." Char just nodded.
"Hey what are you two whispering over there? Come join in on the fun!" James hollered over to them since they had wondered off a bit.
"Well we do need all the inside info right now." With that they went and joined the small group and messed up pranksters.