As the small group reached the clearing that they had originally waited in neared, everyone could see and hear the fighting, panicking and fire had disappear from the gaps between the trees.
"Well, so what do we do now? Shall we barge through and see if everything is ok, or wait till Sirius finds us…?" Cheesy asked abruptly
Everyone exchanged looks with each other.
Suddenly from out the near by bushes, jumped a figure.
"WHALABOOGYWANGAGAHAHAHABOOOO!!" it shrieked, lunging at them.
Lemo scream and clung to Barry, Andy shrieked and hid behind Andrew, who was trying to hide behind Andy, Jub went in hysterics and wouldn't stop screaming until Don put his hand over her mouth, and Lotte fainted. The only person who showed no emotion was Vector.
"Haf yew no shame? Scareeng everybody like that!"
"No, I don't believe I do, if I remember rightly I swapped my shame for a sense of humor in my third year at Hogwarts, and even that's not very good," said a familiar voice, who obviously was enjoying himself seeing them all shook up. Stepped into the wand light everyone was annoyed, yet relived, to see Sirius.
"Righto, my minions! Shall be getting back to this camp of our so we can 'blow this popsicle stand', as the hip and young say these days?" he said shifting his eyes across everyone to make sure they looked ok.
Lemo snickered from her place behind Barry. "He said 'blow this popsicle'." Everyone ignored this.
"Here I'll take her," Sirius said, offering to carry the still unconscious Lotte.
"No, thank yew, Ah am fine," Vector said pointedly. Looking just a tad annoyed Sirius led them out of the forest.
xxxx
"So, what happened? Who were those guys who were marching out the forest and whatever? They caused a lot of bloody damage," said Barry, scanning an area of burnt and burning tents.
"Well, the weird dudes who had the red balaclavas and black robes on? Yeah, well they were, until a few hours ago, the non-existent Life Shitters, that haven't been seen for 16 years," said Sirius, magically mending his robes.
Everyone looked at each other dumbly.
"Oh for Merlin's sake! What do they teach you at that school!?" Sirius sighed "The Life Shitters are What's-His-Name's followers!" he explained, everyone's blank expressions turn into shocked of surprised ones.
"Wait wait wait wait wait!! You mean What's-His-Name's followers were in the camp ground of the Quidditch world cup? What!? We're all going to be murdered in our beds! Ahhh!! Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! That's crazy! No way! It had to be a joke! I mean, does that mean What's-His-Name is back? Oh my god! Were going to d..!" Jub's rant was cut short by Lemo as she coved her mouth with her hand, before Jub worked herself into a frenzy and started hyperventilating.
"There, there, Jub. Don't hurt yourself now," Said Lemo, as she took her hand from Jub's mouth.
xxxx
Reaching the tent everyone looked on in shock, the tent they had been in an hour was covered in burn marks and the grass around it was burnt black. Lotte, who had gained consciousness a few minutes before, held up scrap of canvas from the tent flap
"What the fuck!? We sure missed a good fight..." she remarked in an awed tone.
"Ok guys, you can stay here or go and find your parents or whatever. They'll be worried sick no doubt," Sirius said to Jub, Don, Cheesy, Banana and Lotte.
As they started off to find their folks…
"Umm…Lotte, meh ah shpeak vit you a mominit?" Vector asked bashfully
"Uhhhhh…no…wait, I mean, yes…Uh yeah... s-sure…" Lotte stammered, blushing crimson. As the couple walked away Andy and Lemo burst out in a fit of silent giggles.
"Hmmmmm….I wonder what he wants," 'Drew remarked to Barry, bouncing his eyebrows as he watched Lotte and Vector walk out of sight behind a semi-burnt tent.
"Come on! In the tent, get your things. Mush mush!" Sirius said snapping his fingers, ignoring the current situation.
xxxx
It didn't take long to gather up stuff and shoving it in their backpacks.
"Hey guys, uhh…I better go and find my family, so I'll see you at Hogwarts then," said Lotte as she poked her head in the tent to say goodbye
"Hey!! Lotte, wait!" cried Andy, hastily zipping up her backpack and rushing out the tent to catch up with Lotte, Lemo, Barry and 'Drew eagerly following her. Lotte, who was happily singing to her self, stopped and turned around.
"Soooooooo, what did Slum want, huh Tegan? And the main question, did you give it to him?" said Andrew bouncing his eyebrows, obviously eager for details. Andy, slapped the back of his head.
"ANDREW!! Don't be mean! So, what did he want?" asked Andy grinning.
"Hey! How come you can ask!?" asked Andrew, sullenly, receiving a glare form Lemo.
"Because she didn't sound like she wanted raunchy details or sound clips," Barry explained patiently.
"You guys! Quit it! He just said he enjoyed meeting me and he hoped that he'd see me again sometime soon, that's all," Lotte said blushing for more than the second time that evening.
There was a silence
"…and he kissed you…" said Lemo, obviously expecting more.
Lotte looked at Lemo, surprise. "What the hell!? How'd you know that? You weren't spying on us were you??" Lotte said suspiciously
"Why, did you guys do something you don't want us to know about?" said 'Drew asked smirking, and then was promptly kicked in the shins by Andy.
"OW!! JOKING! I was joking!" he cried, hobbling around trying to get rid of the pain in his shin.
"Hey, Lotte, turn around," instructed Barry. Mystified, Lotte turned around. Picking a small piece parchment stuck to her arse, Barry held up the piece of paper.
"Aha! Its Vector's Address!" he sniggered
"Hey! What are you doing looking at her arse?!" Lemo said, glaring at Barry suspiciously.
"Uhhh… I wasn't! I swear!!" said Barry, shifting uncomfortably stuffing the piece of parchment in Lotte's hand. Before anything else could be said Sirius butted in.
"Done? Good lets go."