DISCLAIMER:

This story was inspired by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Therefore, I do not own the characters except for Gwenyth Elwyn, who I had made years ago.

NOW ONTO THE STORY!

Gwenyth Elywn

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Dark Summoning

Chapter Six: Unburned to the Touch

She stared into the darkness of the room, she could just make out the shadowy shape of a small stacks of books in the corner, an inky blackness of suits of armor, a rectangular object, she figured was the cabinet she had seen since she first found the room of requirement, and many other shadowy forms, that she could not tell.

She had spent so much time in the Room, that she had not realized darkness had fallen. And one particular shadow that sent a chill down her spine, was the figure of a man. A man holding a wand. She could catch the cold gleam of brilliant, blood red eyes. And she knew who it was. Gwen Elwyn was once again in the presence of the Dark Lord, Voldemort.

"What do you want?!" Gwen shouted at the evil wizard, who stood still as a statue. "Lumos!" A tiny ray of light cast a weak pale glow in the direction of where Voldemort stood. At least, where he once stood. He was gone.

My mind is playing tricks on me. Gwen figured with a shrug and nervous laugh. I guess I should get going, it is late. The others will wonder where I wandered off to.

Gwen whispered, "Nox." The weakly casted light faded out and she turned back to the darkness of the Room, did not see what, or rather who, she was looking for. She walked out the door, closing it softly behind here, so as to not make any noise that might alert any professors or caretaker that was walking the moonlit halls.

As she was about to head out the passageway, she heard footsteps. The footsteps were coming towards her direction. Gwen stood still, her heart pounding, her blood frozen. Could it be him? Could it be someone who would believe she was up to no good? She was past her curfew. Gwen looked out the window. A pale yellow orb hung in the air, strewn by thousands, maybe millions, of gems. The gems were scattered within a sea of inky blackness.

The footsteps grew louder, the sound echoing through the halls, despite the fact the owner, or owners, of the footfalls seemed to be sneaking around.

"We are almost there." a familiar and almost recognizable voice hissed in the darkness. "Once we get to the Room of Requirement, we can have easy passage to the Shrieking Shack."

Of all the horrible thoughts that raced through Gwen's head, about who the footsteps could belong, she now had no doubt they were probably Death Eaters.

Or maybe they are the Death Eaters that are going to be initiated sometime soon. She figured. She had to stop it, but also needed to avoid her identity being revealed. Gwen whispered a cloaking spell, one she had been working to enhance, and felt the effects take place almost immediately. She stepped out from the shadows, walked boldly to the center of the hall, and saw...no one.

She knew she had heard the voice. The voice had whispered something about the moon. It had probably been a group of Death Eaters and maybe something to do with a ritual or spell those evil wizards and witches casted once every full moon. Disappointed that she had not been able to find the fiends and put a stop to their horrendous and malevolent plot, Gwen ran through the hall.

She raced up some passageways, through the staircases, and to the Gryffindor common room. Gwen bolted into her dormitory, jumped into her bed, and threw the covers over her. She hoped that when Professor McGonagall came to check up on them, her favorite professor would be left unaware that her star pupil had been roaming the halls late at night.

Early morning, the castle glowed, in the steadily growing rays of sunshine, as if it had been strewn with diamonds. The birds flew through the whispy clouds, in the bright blue sky. The serenity and the peacefulness of the scenery, was like that of a painting. The Autumn breeze flowed through the trees, including a tall, creaky, gnarled willow. This was the Whomping Willow, a tree that was planted in the corner of the Hogwarts grounds.

The slow growing light, flowing over the inky blackness of the night sky, found the witches and wizards a the Wizardry School, waking up with a start. A high pitched scream issued from the Gryffindor common room, as Gwen shrieked in angry and surprised horror at Sirius' latest prank. Normally, she would brush it off, but this time it had gone too far. Her hair was a mess, streaks of pink and purple mixed with her now frizzy, naturally dark, brown hair. She fumed with rage, coursing through her like hot molten lava.

"Sirius Noble Black!" she shrieked, her sea glass eyes glowing with malovelent intent. "When I get my hands on you, you will regret every meeting me!" And she stormed down the stairs, ignoring her friends' pleadings to "calm down" and "think this through."

"Think she caught on, yet?" Sirius asked, glancing at James, with pleased accomplishment, as if he had cast a Patronous Charm that had chased away a horde of dementors, rather than what he had really done.

"Unless that shrieking sound I hear is a banshee, then I would assume so." laughed James.

"You two are so immature," complained Remus as he rolled in bed, trying to get his last few minutes of rest before the showdown between Sirius and Gwen. "Whatever happens next is your own fault, and I plan to stay out of it."

"Okay, fine," James said, crossing his arms. "But at least make yourself useful; we still need to work on our forms."

"Great," Sirius grimaced as he heard Gwen calling his name, including his middle name, which happened to be one of the many banes of his existence. "Now, she will wake up the entire castle." And he walked outside the dormitory, to see her meltdown from the stairwell.

"Sirius Noble Black!" Professor McGonagall heard Gwen screetch and watched as she stormed down the stairs, only becoming aware of the Professor glaring at her with shocked disappointance.

"I expected better of you, Ms. Elwyn." McGonagall said, frowning at her star pupil. "Now please go back to your room, and keep it down. Ten points from Gryffindor thanks to your outburst."

"I will Professor, but not before," Gwen's friends rushed down the stairs to keep her from costing them more points, but they were too late. "After I tell you about what Sirius Black did to my hair!" The Professor stared at her incredulously, but after she whispered, "Revelio." Automatically, the simple disillusionment charm was lifted, and the devastation of Gwen's natural wavy, dark, brown hair was revealed.

"Sirius Black!" Professor McGonagall shouted out, looking directly at the smirking Sirius, who hung over the stairwell railing.

"Congrats, Sirius!" James laughed as he high fived his mischievous friend. "You will definitely get detention for at least a few months!"

"Maybe even longer," beamed Sirius, smiling from ear to ear. "Either way, I most definitely broke the Hogwarts' record for student with the longest detention."

"And you most likely cost us House points." muttered Remus, as he rolled his eyes and returned to his studying.

"Well time for me to go!" Sirius said, as James cheered and Peter wooted feebly, he always tended to take Sirius' and James' sides, while Remus groaned and shook his head in disapproval."

Sirius made his way down the stairs, walking down as if he was going to be awarded with a highest honor. He took one look at Gwen's mess of hair, and tried to stifle a laugh, but Gwen caught it.

"Oh, you think this is funny?" she said, hotly. "Well, it is not, Sirius Noble Black." Sirius winced as he heard his middle name once again, giving Gwen a small amount of satisfaction.

"It is most certainly not funny, Mr. Black." glowered McGonagall as she waved her wand and undid the damage that was done to Gwen. "And for such behavior, you will spend a good five months of detention."

Sirius did a small jig in the air, which was caught by the Professor. "And just for thay," she responded. "Gwen will be allowed, this one time, the opportunity to get even with you, and Mr. Potter." she finished with a wave of her wand, in the direction of the stairway leading to the boy's dormitory. With a cry of surprise, James slid doen the stairs, which had transformed into a slide.

"What? No fair!" James whined as he dusted himself up, and straightened out his crooked robe and fixed his glasses, which had gone askew. "It was Sirius' idea to jinx Gwen, not mine."

"I figured as much," McGonagall said. "But because you decided to eavesdrop and encourage your friend's immature and impolite behavior, let that teach you a lesson."

"And Mr. Black, to impress someone, you should never hurt them or play foolish and harmful pranks on them." The Professor smiled as Sirius looked aghast and bewildered, blushing immensely. "Make it a good prank, Ms. Elwyn. Good day." And McGonagall walked away.

Gwen ascended the stairs and was greeted by her friend, Lily, who had been spying on the four the whole, but unlike James, she had remained in her dormitory, using a charm that allowed her to listen in on conversations without anyone else discoverinv it.

"So, you get to return the favor to Sirius!" Lily exclaumed with excitement.

"And James." Gwen said, with a devilish grin. "What will I do to those two?"

"Can I help out?" Lily asked. "I have been studying pranking spells after the last few times James and Sirius jinxed and hexed us."

"Sure, I can use all the help you can give me."

"Yay!"

×´Now, let's see..." Gwen said, as she closed her eyes, deep in though. "I can give Sirius a spell that would cause bad luck and give James a spell that could disable his wand."

"What about disabling both their wands and using some potions?" Lily suggested as she opened a book, turning it to face Gwen. "You can use one or maybe both of these."

Gwen stared at the pages with amusement. On the page was a boy with pink and purple splotches and his hair golden and silver streaked, looking like he had just messed up a potiom, and an explosion had erupted. His hair eas a tangled mess and was sticking up, every this way and that.

"These look perfect!" Gwen smirked, eyes flashing with the very idea of cursing botj Sirius and James. "I can use the skin changing nuggets on Sirius, that pig will eat just about anything."

"And we can slip the hair changing drought into James' pumpkin juice." Lily grinned with cruel excitement. "He would not even know what hit him!"

And the two began working on the potions. The thre mixtures were an ugly shade of color. The first was a thick, oily looking, sludgy purple, this would disable the wands. The next one, the hair changing drought, was a watery green and blue liquid, smelling of grease, garlic, and burnt rubber. The last mixture, the skin changing nuggets, was a brownish, yellowy orange, with a taffy consistency.

"I would hate to drink or eat any of those!" Lily said, wrinkling her nose at the thougjr and smell.

"Same." Gwen nodded in agreement. "Too bad for boh Sirius and James."

"What do you think they are doing in there?" James quizzed as he paced back and forth, trying to calm his sudden tremors. He and Sirius both would jolt up when they heard the two girls laughing.

"Too bad we cannot go and see," Sirius moaned. "With that blasted charm on the stairs and all."

"It serves you right," Remus said moodily, as he glared at the book in his hand, as if it was the cause to all the trouble."

"Remuuus!" Sirius whined as he grabbed the book from Remus' hands - "Hey give thst back!" - "Aren't you at all concerned about what those girls are up to!"

"No," Remus wrenched the book from Sirius' hands and dodged his friend. "Only you and James are going to suffer at their hande. Unlike you prats, Peter and I have never caused Gwen and Lily any trouble."

"Fine." Sirius said, shaking his head in defeat. He slumped back om his bed and waited.

"Sirius." Gwen called out as she walked into the room. The boys were too apprehensive to ask how she got passed the security charm.

"James." Lily said, sweetly, as she entered the room, behind Gwen.

"Get it over with..." James grimiced.

"I will not go down without a fight!" shouted Sirius, as he pulled out his wand. James took his out too, but looked less ready and enthusiastic about fighting with the two girls.

"Calm down, guys." Gwen said.

"Yeah," Lily jumped in. "We decided not to prank you after all."

"Whaf a relief!" Remus mutered sarcastically.

"Peace offering." Gwen said, with a smile as sweet as honey. "Want some, Sirius?" she handed him a box of sweets, delicious looking nuggets.

"Sure!" And before James could warn Sirius, after seeing the two girls exchange villianous expressions, Sirius stuffed all the nuggets down his throat. "I feel strange..." he hiccupped and teetered slightly.

"You cannot fool me, girls!" James said and was about to cast a spell, but Gwen and Lily were too fast.

"Accio, James' and Sirius' wands!" To the two boys' horror, and Remus' secret amusement, the wands soared into the girls' hands, Lily had James' and Gwen had Sirius'.

"Time to begin!" they said in unison, pouring a tarlike liquid into the wands. Lily darted fast and poured a flask of watery potion on to James' hair." The two girls handed back the wands, smiling triumphantly, by now Remhs was roaring with laughter.

With a burp and a series of hiccups, Sirius' skin changed, an ugly splotchy pink and purple. James gave a cry of dismay as his hair began to transform before his eyes.

"My hair!" he wailed, as with a small explosion, his hair fell into disarray, and streaks of silver and gold mixed in with his natural dark brown. "You two will pay for this, ahhh!" James called out as he was sprayed in the face with his Aguamenti spell.

"Noooo!" wailed Sirius as he looked at his splotchy skin, but then he shrieked as tiny blue bell flames spread on the end of his cloak. Remus stifled a laugh. Gwen walked to Sirius and scooped up the tiny flames, in her hands, and did not appear to be burning with pain.

"You are one of them, aren't you?" Remus said, causing the others to jump with startled surprise, everyone had forgotten he was there.

"One of what?" both Lily and Gwen said in confused unison.

Both James and Sirius jumped up and scrambled to the back of the room. "Those were just pranks, please don't hurt us." they begged.

"Gwen has never hurt you and never would." Lily said quietly.

Gwen stared at the four boys. James and Sirius clung to each other for dear life, Peter squeaked in terror, his tiny eyes widening, and Remus took out a book and began madly flipping through it. This was way beyond the pranks that the frienemies played on each other

It is almost as if they think I would kill them. Gwen thought miserably.