Prompts: Mustard Yellow, Irritable, Pebble.

From: Laurawesome.


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"I don't think you should've done that," Remus commented for the hundredth time, picking at a blade of grass as a pebble flew over his head and into James' ready hands.

"Moony," Sirius scolded from a meter or so away on his left, the pebble landing lightly back into his hands. "Turn that bloody prefect head of yours off before this pebble accidentally does it for you."

Remus rolled his eyes. "I mean it; you could have gotten a pebble from anywhere. You didn't have to take it off those Hufflepuffs."

"They're only first years," Sirius defended as he threw the pebble over Remus, back to James, who was sitting a few meters away on Remus' right.

"They were in the middle of a game, though."

"They were playing Gobstones, with a pebble!" James exclaimed. "That defeats the point of the game! You're supposed to play Gobstones, with Gobstones! They were basically playing Pebble."

"If you think about it, we did them a favour," Sirius said before noticing James' lack of movement. "Back to me, Prongs!"

James threw the pebble back and Remus sighed with controlled irritation.

"But they were having fun," Remus argued. "And they seemed pretty miffed when you took it."

He turned to glance at the group of black and yellow clad children sitting by the lakes edge. They glared at him. But to his surprise, they were now smiling ever so slightly as they watched their pebble fly from James' to Sirius' hands and back again, whispering ominously.

"Holy mother of Merlin!" Sirius cried unexpectedly.

Remus swivelled back around to see Sirius clutching his wrist with his left hand, the right gripping the pebble.

It took Remus a few seconds to see it; Sirius' arm was turning a dull mustard yellow, becoming gradually brighter as it spread further up his arm. The colour seemed to radiate out from the pebble, because Sirius' other arm had started changing colour too.

Sirius must have figured this out at the same time as Remus, because in a split second he had thrown the pebble at James at such a speed, James barely had time to blink before it hit him smack bang in the centre of his forehead.

No sooner had the pebble bounced off James' face, than he started turning mustard yellow as well.

The first years started pointing and laughing loudly at the scene unfurling before them. Sirius and James scrambled to their feet, tripping every so often as they staggered towards Remus.

James' eyes were as wide as galleons. "What the-?!"

"Why are we-?!"

"What's happenin-?!"

"I don't know!" Remus interrupted their many questions. "But I have a feeling it has something do to with them." He gestured towards the first years.

Sirius, whose face was now completely yellow, narrowed his eyes. "Right…" he made to charge at the Hufflepuffs, but Remus held him back by his shirt's collar.

"Why're you so bothered? They're only first years," Remus allowed himself a laugh then, raising an eyebrow at Sirius and James.

"Not funny, Lupin!" James said through neon yellow, gritted teeth as he threw daggers at the aforementioned first years.

"I think it is," Remus shrugged. "Let's go and give Madam Pomfrey a little visit, see if she can sort you two out."

He tugged the violently cursing James and Sirius along behind him as he trekked up to the castle, leaving the giggling first years to retrieve their pebble and restart their game of Gobstones.


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