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Adrian was confused. He was very confused. What had started out as a delightful ball with the lovely Gryffindor that he had always wanted to talk to had turned into a frantic and tearful search for her guardian-like cat. Now he was in the kitchens (it made him wonder, how did all of these supposed boring non-troublemakes even know so many ways about the castle...) with her friends, and quite frankly they were not sane. Not one bloody bit sane and it was freaking him out.
"Right all, we should have a good plan! We shall call this operation: Plan Death and Murder! Any objections?" Lara declared with a bossy tone. Adrian opened his mouth to ask a question but was promptly cut off. "Brilliant, then we can proceed."
Adrian sighed. Were all of these innocent looking girls this demanding? What he had mistaken to be a group of boring, very uninteresting girls that focused on their grades and looks was actually a group of hyper, chocolate crazy, slightly creepy (just slightly, no big deal), ditzy peoples. Except Nadia, of course. Nadia defied everything he just said. 'Cause Nadia was special...
"Right, so a brief review on what we want to do," started Lily. "Well, first off- we want to get our loving Death back. Second, we want some sort of retaliation on that dark haired beauty of a beast. Is that clear? So, as for revenge, there are some really... unique things I had in mind..."
Around this time, a certain group of troublemakers were running away from an angry Filch and Mrs. Norris. on the floor just above the group that was beginning Operation Plan Death and Murder. Actually, more correctly, Remus was walking fast with his face buried in a book, Sirius was running backwards and shouting encouragements to Filch, saying things like "Put some effort into it!" or "Work those skinny legs!", and James was busy continuing their trail of havoc by casually tossing pieces of meat on the floor every couple meters or so.
They had managed to untether the thestrals with every intention of getting them to the very top of the Astronomy Tower without using magic or flying. Three fourths of the male population had joined in the betting. Sadly enough, a large majority of them believed that they could do it. And they probably would have, if a dark haired maiden covered in scratches and holding a wailing cat rather impolitely ran by, scaring the thestrals. One of them ran into Sirius, the furthest behind due to his taunting.
"What the-" he began, unable to finish his sentence before he was squished unceremoniously between to thestrals that could have used some dieting. The thestrals, already agitated, let out a shrill whinny and tossed Sirius to the floor and charged on, stampeding the unfortunate janitor and his cat and carrying them to the far side of the Forbidden Forest where they would be found by a very confused Hagrid the next day.
Unfortunately, the floor could already just barely hold the weight of a growing teenager like Sirius who could easily eat a pile of food three times larger than himself. The combined force of Sirius's weight and the force of the thestral's throw brought him crashing down to the floor below him, but not before leaving a beautiful outline of Sirius's body in the floor above. James and Lupin came to a screeching halt. James peered down into the hole.
"Sirius! Oi, Sirius!" James shouted. "Are you alright? SIRI-"
"Quit your yappin! My head hurts and you're makin' it worse than it already is!"
"Sorry." James grinned apologetically as he stared down at Sirius, who was making his way out of a pile of rubble. He did have a rather painful looking bump on his head, which was probably his source of irritation.
"Oi, do you think you can make it back up here, Sirius?" James asked.
Sirius groaned and rubbed his head. "I honestly don't think so." he muttered. "But if you guys want, I'll try."
"Nah," James said grinning, "Moony and your ever loving Prongs will go down there and fetch you. Honestly, Padfoot, you can't do anything without us, can you?"
Sirius was too tired to argue. "Just get me up, will ya? I can hear a group of people coming and I don't want my reputation to be ruined."
"Can't you wait a bit longer?" James asked. "I'm savoring this moment."
"Savoring what?" growled Sirius irritably.
"Well, I'm looking down on you."
"Sorry, didn't catch that. Thought you said you were looking down on me."
"Well, as a matter of fact, I did!"
"You're doing WHAT?" Sirius shouted, then winced as a sharp pain shot through his head. "Whatever." he muttered. "Just get me out."
James realized that if his taunt had been ignored, then Sirius must be in more trouble then he expected. But unfortunately for all three boys, especially James, the group of people came closer.
"Got it," he sighed. "I'm coming down."
"What in the name of Merlin did you guys do this time?" a very familiar voice asked in bewilderment. The three boys looked to see Lara, followed by Nadia, Alice, Lily, and a boy unknown to them.
"Lily!" James said happily. "Nice to see you!"
The group looked at the mess that three boys managed to make and sighed, all thinking mentally, "They've done it again." Adrian's thoughts were accompanied by one more. "They're friends of these three? No wonder they knew so many ways in and out of the castle. And no wonder they're only half sane... Maybe Pomfrey should take a look at them..."
"James," Remus said, "I think we should get Sirius out of there and to Madam Pomfrey soon." Adrian sighed with relief,at least they understood the extend of their stupidity.
James, thrilled in seeing Lily, made the stupid mistake of trying to show off for her using Remus.
"You mediocre dunce! What sort of pathetic fool would want to wallow in the horrible administrations of the devious Madam Pomfrey? Pray, I fear your own mind has been lost and a simple knock to the skull should fix you up. Although, then again, your personality is such that no amount of knocking could ever bring you back..." James spoke with a sort of formal pompt that set Adrian into even more confusion, Lara to a facepalm, Lily to extreme embarrassment, and Alice to mild interest.
Remus shut his book with a snap, and shot an evil look at James.
" What was that?" Remus asked in a dangerously low voice. His usually placid demeanour was gone; replaced by an eerie cold aura, and his eyes could have frozen beer at that moment. James shivered, immediately regretting picking a fight with him. Sirius slapped his forehead.
"The stupid idiot." he muttered. "He's gone and done it again."
"Done what?" chorused the newcomers, who had never seen Remus angry before and were slightly disturbed.
"What do you think?" Sirius jabbed a finger towards the hole and gave a shudder. "He just opened Pandora's box."
The group watched in silent horror as they watched a scene worthy of an Oscar winning horror movie. In short, watching an innocent floating feather tickle James to the point of insanity while an army of enchanted teddybears gave him "massages" in which his bones made odd creaking noises.
James lay sprawled in a heap directly next to the hole. "I'm sorry, oh mighty lord!" he gasped. "I have spoken out against your will, please forgive me."
Remus glanced over at James. "Have you reflected upon your deeds?"
James's head bobbled up and down. Remus nodded in satisfaction.
"Good," he said. "Then that makes up for all the past pranks you've played on me."
James head jerked up. "Wait..." he said, his feeling of dread growing larger. "What about for just now?"
Remus smiled, but it just didn't quite reach his eyes. Who am I kidding? He missed it by a mile.
"Today's punishment hasn't even started," Remus said. "Let's see..."
His eyes wandered around the room and landed on James, who, may I remind you one more time, was directly next to the hole. His body was too tired to move, therefore unable to retaliate. Remus grinned.
"Yes," he murmured to himself. "Yes, that'll do."
James had never felt so sorry for a single statement in his life.
"Wait! What are you doing!" he asked with increasing panic as Remus advanced closer to him. The realization of what he was about to do hit him. "NO!" he screamed. "Don't do it!"
Remus reached James, and, with an evil smile, conjured a plethora of crocodiles and sent them chasing after our poor misguided hero.
His task completed, Remus conjured up a ladder and climbed down to where Sirius lie calmly. When he reached the end, he stretched and grinned at Sirius, who lay below. "That felt good."
Sirius had a piano of a smile on his face. "I bet it did. Now then, mind giving me a hand here?"
The hospital wing had six new patients that day. One was crushed by thestrals and fell, another was tickled to death and massaged and then sent for "running excercises", and four more requested assistance for extreme trauma.