A/N: So here's the next chapter. I didn't have much homework to do, I was able to write it and put it up rather quickly, so you're lucky. Enjoy!
Chapter Eight: An Announcement Marked By Tears
The next day, both Lily and Sora got up early, which was no small feat for Sora. Silently, as to not wake up their fellow roommates, they got ready and dressed. Both were lost in their own little worlds, thinking about what was about to happen. Before leaving the room, they slipped on their new red cloaks with "H6" written in scroll letters on the corner. Lily traced her finger over the emblem and sighed, she was now officially in the same group as the four boys that she had sworn to hate forever.
Climbing down the stairs, quietly, Sora mulled over the decision that her and Lily had made the night before. They were now the two most powerful girls in the whole school, yet she felt no different- besides the fact that the heavy red cloak was making her a bit hot and stuffy. Sora still didn't know if she and Lily had made the right choice.
Still in silence, both girls slipped out of the common room and walked towards the room of requirement. Sora looked over at Lily and saw her looking at her cloak with disgust.
"Something the matter, Lils?" Sora asked, calling her friend by the nickname she had given her in their first year.
"The cloaks are red" Lily answered, frowning. Sora looked down at the cloak, seeing nothing wrong with its redness.
"Red is a lovely colour" Sora said. Lily groaned.
"Yeah, it would be lovely if my hair wasn't the same color!" Lily said sullenly. "And you know how easily I blush! If one person says something even somewhat nice or embarrassing to me, I'll look like a Tomato!" she wailed. Sora tried to stifle a laugh, but didn't really succeed.
"Cheer up, yeah? We only have to wear the cloaks on 'special occasions'" Sora said, making quotation marks in the air when she said the last two words. Lily couldn't help but grin.
The two girls reached the room, walked past it three times, then entered.
"That whole walking by three times seems like a bloody bother to me" Sora mumbled as they entered in.
The four boys were already waiting for them in the room, each wearing matching cloaks.
"How early do you lot wake up?" Sora asked the boys. They shrugged.
"I can't say exactly- five, perhaps" Remus said. Sora gaped at him.
"Five! Dear lord, you are robots" she said.
"Nah- we're just not lazy like you" Remus answered, Causing Sora to make an interesting face at him. James shook his head. It had only been one day and it felt like the girls had been with them forever.
"Okay so we should go over what we are going to do today" James said.
"What we are going to do?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, how we plan to announce to the school our surrender and your joining with us" James answered. Lily scoffed.
"You have a plan for that?" she said "Do you schedule everything?"
"Scheduling keeps you from making stupid mistakes, as you are all too famous for doing Mistress Evans" James said, his voice becoming cold. Sora rolled her eyes.
"Just tell us your plan, James" she said. James took out a paper and gave it to Sora to read aloud.
"Why don't you just wear your glasses, everyone here knows you have them" Sirius asked. James scowled.
"They look stupid" he mumbled, causing Sora to grin.
"Well then, in that case, I guess it would be my pleasure to spare the ever great James Potter from looking stupid" she said, holding the paper up to read it.
"Surrender/Initiation Plan. Step One, the H6 congregates on the balcony of the great hall"
"The great Hall has a balcony?" Peter asked, interrupting Sora. James nodded.
"Yeah, but I don't think anybody else knows of it" he said proudly. "Continue reading' he said to Sora.
"Step Two: Address the Hogwarts public and tell them about the Marauder's surrender and the forming of the H6 in that order" Sora read, looking up at the five faces in front of her.
"Yeah, what else?" Remus asked.
"No idea, that's all that was written down" Sora said, shrugging.
"It's a good plan, pretty obvious, though" Sirius said. James frowned deeply.
"It's not obvious at all, it took me a while to come up with that balcony bit" James said, defending himself.
"That balcony bit was pretty cool" Peter said
"Don't bother flattering him Peter, it was a pretty lame plan" Lily said, earning her a famous "James Death Glare".
"Let's just get on with the plan, huh? It's about breakfast time right now" Remus said. Sora was beginning to see that he was the calm and collected one in the group. James was the temperamental hothead, Peter was the sarcastic comic relief, and Sirius was the mysterious, semi-supportive one. She wondered what Lily and herself would be classified as.
"Okay then let's move out" James said. The six of them walked out of the room and headed towards the Great Hall. Lily thought that they must look very intimidating, all in their matching cloaks, it was a bit odd.
When they reached the entrance of the grand hall, James took out his wand and tapped the little bronze gargoyle by the door once.
"State your name" the gargoyle said in a raspy, dry voice.
"James Potter" he answered, his voice sounding very boastful for some reason.
"Welcome Master Potter" The gargoyle said, sliding out of the way to reveal a narrow staircase.
"Wicked" Sora said. "How did you find this?" she asked.
"My mum and dad found it when they came here. It's a Potter family secret" he said. The six kids walked up the stairs and found themselves on a rather respectably sized balcony. The floor was made of pink marble and the railing seemed to be pure gold. It was a beautiful little place, overlooking the four student tables as well as the professor's table.
"Shall we do this, then?" James asked. The rest of the five nodded. Lily looked out at the students below her and felt a nervousness growing the pit of her stomach. She hadn't really been good with public speaking before.
"Don't worry, I know James is going to do all of the talking" Sora said, reading Lily's nervous face.
And right on cue, James walked up to the edge of the balcony and signaled for the rest to follow him. Once they were all next to him he cleared his thought rather loudly and clapped his hands a few times until he had the attention of all the members of the Great Hall.
As soon as the students saw the six up on the balcony, whispers flew across the hall. Sora shook her head; Hogwarts was such a gossiping school.
"Fellow students" James said, his voice echoing in the vastness of the hall.
"You can cut it with the whole formal thing" Peter whispered to him. James responded by deftly elbowing him in his stomach.
"Sirius, Peter, Remus and I are here today to announce to you that we have officially surrendered this war to Mistresses Lily Evans and Sora Kaito" he said. A loud gasp went through the hall. Everybody stared at James with large eyes. What did this mean? Was this the end of the Marauders?
"And unfortunately, this does mark the end of the Marauders" James continued, causing the people of the hall to lapse into an even greater state of wonder and excitement.
"But it is not because we four boys are stepping down from out positions, but because we are inaugurating two new members into our group." James added quickly. The hall became so silent that a pin dropping would sound a like a bomb exploding.
"The group before known as the Marauders has now changed into the much improved group, The H6." He continued.
"And now let me introduce you to the new two member, Mistress Sora Kaito and Mistress Lily Evans" he said, pushing the two girls to the front. Both of them looked down over the vast sea of people below them.
"I never knew there were so many people in this school!" Lily whispered.
"They're all your loyal subjects now" James said to her, grinning. Lily's eyes widened. Her loyal subjects! She would never, ever get used to that type of power.
Everybody in the hall just stared at the two girls for quite a while. Then somebody, a first year perhaps, bowed down to them. Like a ripple, everybody in the hall started to bow as well.
"Oh, get up, you're such a daft lot!" Sora cried out to the people, who looked very shocked. From behind her she could hear Sirius give out his familiar bark-like laughter.
"There's no need to bow down to us- we're students just like you" Sora said to the people "We didn't join the group because we wanted power" she added.
"No you joined the group because you are two good for nothing, meddlesome whores!" a sickly familiar voice called out from the side of the hall. Sora and Lily lazily turned their heads in the direction of the voice to see Molly, Grace and Emily standing up, quaking with fear.
"Nice to see you three again. I guess the green dye wore out" Lily said to them casually.
"Don't you dare talk to me like that, you filthy little skank!" Molly cried out.
"Now what in the world did I do to deserve to be called such an awful name" Lily asked the girl.
"I told you to stay away from the Marauders; I told you they were ours!" Emily screamed. Sora raised her eyebrows at that comment.
"Well obviously the Marauders didn't share the same opinion" Sora said, causing the three girls to fume.
"What would you know about the Marauders?" Grace seethed "Your just a little filthy girl whose daddy buys her everything she wants!" she added.
"Great description of yourself, Grace" Lily answered.
"Yeah, except it seems that daddy couldn't buy you your little boy toys" Sora added, causing a few people in the hall to laugh. The laughter, though, was just fuel to the raging psychopath girls' flames.
"You mark my words, Kaito, you will be sorry that you ever made that comment" Molly said, shooting daggers from her eyes. Sirius suddenly came up to the front.
"You lay one finger on her, Molly and I swear that I will personally rip every single hair out of that pretty little head of yours" Sirius said, his voice dripping with malice.
"You think I have a pretty little head!" Molly cried, her voice suddenly filled with bliss and her eyes brimming with tears of joy.
"No fair!" cried Grace and Emily in unison, holding each other's hands and jumping up and down like five year olds.
"Are they serious?" Sora said, looking at the slightly disturbing scene in front of her.
"Unfortunately, yes" Lily answered, looking equally as disgusted.
Suddenly Molly, Grace, and Emily came back from the happy little world that they had just been in and mellowed considerably.
"If this is the way that you four boys are going to treat us after all that we have done for you, then so be it" Molly said, her tears of joy suddenly turning to tears of sorrow. Sora wondered if the girl needed to be put on medications for her mood swings.
"You won't be seeing any more of us three ever again!" Grace said dramatically.
"Good riddance, then" James said back. All three girls burst into frantic tears and crumpled on the floor, making sure to add dramatic little flairs and hand flourishes. James looked at them as though they were toads.
"Does anybody else have any comments?" James asked. Everybody shook their heads.
"Well I guess this meeting has been traumatic enough" James said, eyeing the three Ravenclaw girls who were now rolling on the floor and bawling, as though they were insane patients.
He turned around and whisked off the balcony, his red cloak fluttering behind him.
"He sure knows how to make a grand exit" Lily said, rolling her eyes.
Sora looked at James's receding back and then at Molly, Grace, and Emily.
"Why do I have a feeling that we made the wrong choice" she said to Lily, shaking her head.
A/N: Okay, so how was that? This chapter marks the end of the H6's 3rd year. The only reason why I wrote this up till now was to show how the group was formed. Now the real, fun, juicy story can begin. The next chapter will forward so that when you see the H6 again, it will be the first day of their 7th year. And let me just say right now, what a year that will be. Filled with betrayals, lies, romances, and of course, more wacky drama with your most favorite six people…