AN: Wow, it's been a while. Sorry for taking so long, but life got in the way and I had some family issues. So, here we go. I still don't own Harry Potter or any of the related characters. The Great Hall was crowded as children were scrambling to eat as much as possible before they had to leave to catch the train to get back to platform 9 ¾. The staff was at the head table looking fondly over the crowd and talking about the year that they just had. Professor McGonagall glanced over at her Gryffindor table to see the Marauders laughing at a pouting Sirius who was covered in syrup. Dumbledore chuckled and said, "those five certainly do make things more interesting around here don't they?"

McGonagall whipped her head around to glare at the headmaster. "More interesting," she scoffed, "those trouble makers caused Gryffindor to lose more house points than all the other three houses combined!"

"Ah, but they also gained those points back did they not?" questioned Dumbledore, looking pointedly at the Gryffindor themed banners decorating the hall.

While the professors were debating whether the Marauders were an amusement or a menace, the Marauders themselves were fondly reliving their first year. "Hey Jamesy," snickered Sirius, "look who's headed our way." As soon as Sirius said this, James whipped his head around in order to see Lily Evans making her way towards the Gryffindor table. The rest of the Marauders laughed as James visibly drooled over the presence of the red-headed girl.

Hermione cleared her throat to get her friends attention. When they were all listening to her she said, "So I think we had a pretty great first year; top of our class and the best pranksters in the whole school hands down."

Remus laughed and replied, "Well, there wasn't any competition really, was there?"

All five of them started to snicker quietly. As her friends were enjoying the food (they are boys after all), she looked back on when they were first called Marauders.

Caretaker Argus Filch was prowling the corridors looking for students who were out past curfew. As he was patrolling, he heard a noise coming from the entrance to the Slytherin common room. He shuffled slowly over only to hear a muffled snicker. He leapt around the corner yelling, "Aha! I've got you, you little troublemakers!" Only to realize that there was nobody there. He glanced around in confusion muttering to himself, "I could've sworn that there was somebody here."

As soon as he said this another round of laughter occurred. He started to walk towards the entrance, but as soon as he reached the door a loud bang sounded right in his ear and a bucket of pink goop was dumped onto his head. As he furiously wiped the goo off of his face, he noticed that his hands were covered in pink polka-dots. He stared in horror only to hear footsteps running down the hallway. He yelled after them, "I'll get you for this you no good, stinking marauders!"

The sound of footsteps continued down the hall until they were far enough away from Filch. As soon as they were in the clear, James, Sirius, Hermione, Peter and Remus all appeared out of thin air as James and Hermione folded up two cloaks. Remus gasped, "We are so lucky that James and Hermione have invisibility cloaks, without them we would've been caught for sure."

Out of breath Sirius added, "I'm just glad that we have two. Otherwise two of us Marauders would've been left out of all the fun. One cloak can only hold two of us."

"There were three of us under one of the cloaks Sirius," Hermione quipped.

"Yeah," said James with a smirk, "but you're so small you don't count."

"Hey!" Hermione said indignantly.

"Wait a second," said Peter, "what was that you called us Sirius?"

"Marauders," Sirius replied looking smug. "Our group needs a name, and Filch just gave us the best one we ever could have asked for."

James hummed, "the Marauders…I like it!"

"Causing mischief," interrupted Hermione.

"And pranks," added Peter.

"Wherever we go," finished Remus.

The five looked at each other and grinned widely. This was the beginning of something amazing.

"Oi Hermione," yelled Sirius startling her out of her reminiscing. "Breakfast is finished we're heading to the train now."

Hermione smiled fondly at Sirius and followed the rest of the Marauders to the train. When they got to the train they started to talk about their summers and what they were going to do. Sirius was going home to twelve Grimmauld Place; it wasn't something he was looking forward to. Remus was going to a cabin that his family rented during the summer. James was going to Potter Manor, and was excited to be able to fly during the summer. Peter was going on a vacation to Italy with his family. Hermione smiled and said that she was just going to go home and relax around her house for a while.

The five friends promised to write to each other frequently, and James said that he'd invite them all over to his house at some point so that they could plan next year's pranks. When the train pulled up to the station, each of the five Marauders said one last goodbye and went off to find their families to take them home.

AN: So there it is. Tell me what you think. I'm sorry for the long wait. Let me know if you have any requests for upcoming chapters let me know. I'm open to suggestions.