Time flew by for the small group of four who had a flight to catch. However, first things first, they had to group together. "Come on you two we gotta go. The plane leaves in two hours!" Hadrian yelled towards the room the twins were in.
"We're coming, master! We just needed to grab the items we needed for all the pranks we were planning." They told Hadrian as they approached him.
Hadrian frowned in concern, "Do you two have everything? Including a weekend bag?"
The twins' eyes widened, "Crap! We forgot the weekend bag!" They exclaimed before darting off back to their room. "Sorry Master!"
Hadrian chuckled, checking his wrist watch for the time. "We have to meet Neville in twenty minutes you two!"
It took some time between the twins running back and forth trying to find their missing bag but they managed it. Turns out it was sitting already packed and ready to go on the couch with their travel bags for the weekend. Both felt like complete idiots and face palmed once they realized where it was. "I can't believe we forgot that we already had the stupid bag..." Fred complained as they left the room to meet up with Neville.
"Well..It's like the old saying goes, 'If you want to hide the treasure, you put it in plain sight.'" Luna giggled, having caught the tail end of their complaints.
"It's not funny LuLu!" Fred whined some more, scrubbing at his head in frustration.
"She does have a point. Maybe that's what we should do to the students and teachers at UA High. Hide the pranks in plain sight and watch the chaos unfold." George began to brainstorm the saying along with how they could get away with hiding wizarding pranks in plain sight from certified heroes and heroes in training.
"I suspect Eraser will see the pranks and either stop them or get involved just for his own special brand of entertainment." Hadrian put his two cents in.
"Think we can get away with pranking the cafeteria at lunch time?" Neville questioned, seriously contemplating what they could accomplish in the one large room.
"We could..." Hadrian began tapping his chin in thought, "But we don't want to traumatize the rest of the student body. From what the RatGod has told me the Support Classes have an explosion going off at least once or twice a day. So we know that those types of pranks will be ok."
"But how would we move around unseen?"
"We could always slink around in the shadows setting and releasing pranks as we go."
Hadrian smirked, fully aware of what they were going to be doing just to travel around. "I want to capture Eraser." He told his small group his plan.
"You want to capture an Underground Hero?" Neville questioned back, completely unsure about what was going through his Lord's head. Hadrian simply gave his guard a shark-like smile full of promise and chaos. Neville returned his smile with another filled with an equal amount of chaos, "We going to have that song playing?"
"Just the beat. I've managed to remove the voices to the song just to keep the beat. I figured the beat alone would be more than freaky for our chaotic jokes we intend to play." Hadrian explained swiftly. Glancing towards his watch to catch the time, his eyes widened, "Shit! We have to go. Now!"
"Ian! Let's Go! The portkey is glowing already!" Neville hollered from the living room. The group rushed to grab ahold of the portkey each taking a breath as they were whisked away from the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade. What felt like forever only took but a moment for the group of four to land harshly on the ground of an office. "Ian were was that portkey set to take us?" Neville groaned, picking himself up from the ground.
"Well now this is interesting. I thought you guys would be flying in and arriving by the front door. Not drop in my office. How did you manage to accomplish that?" A small squeaky like voice questioned out towards the group at large.
"Ugh..." Neville groaned again holding his head as another dizzy spell seemed to hit him again. "Ian...where are we?"
"Well I mean I could answer that if you could answer a few of my own questions?" that same voice questioned softly as he waited for a response. "In the meantime. Would you care for some tea?"
Neville glanced towards the voice that was speaking to him, seeing a stout like man who appeared to be the combination of several different animals. Most notable ones being a dog, mouse and a bear, "A chimera?" The beady black eyes of the man's mouse head stared at him with amusement, Neville grimaced clutching his head as another dizzy spell hit.
Opening his eyes again he relooked at the unknown voice once more to continue taking in his appearance. Glancing towards the man's face once more as his eyes were drawn to a large scar over the right eye. Small relatively rectangular-shaped ears with pale pink insides slanted outwards sat atop his head. The man has an elongated muzzle with a small round nose to taper off his facial features, one of the final things he noticed was the white fur and large dog-like paws with pink pads with a tail that was thin like a cat.
Neville watched as the chimera-like man walked around his desk, that was when he noticed the chimera wearing a sports white dress shirt with a dark red tie around his neck. A black double-breasted waistcoat along with matching dress pants, his outfit was completed with orange lace-up sneakers that had incredibly thick soles. The shoes appeared to be quite large on the chimera man however he seemed to make it work. The chimera-like man could be seen with a small glass of tea topped with honey added in only to place the cup on the small table and slide it towards Neville himself. "Please drink. Should help you with the dizziness you seem to be feeling."
Neville went to reach forward only for his body to lean a little too far forward, his arms reached out and landed roughly on the table top with a clang. The small teacup clattered to the floor with the force, "S-sorry sir.." Neville groaned, stuttering out fighting off another wave of dizziness. "I-Ian..The hell happened..?"
The chimera-like man took a sip from his glass of tea before responding, "I don't know who this Ian is. But I do know you all wound up in my office here at UA High School."
Neville's eyes widened, "UA?!" he screeched out in alarm. Glancing towards the chimera sharply. "You're positive that's where we are located?" he questioned out of alarm. Neville's eyes gained a worried tint once he saw the chimera nod, glancing sharply towards where the others landed he could see the twins awake and trying to awaken their master. "Ian!"
Neville had gotten up to move towards his Lord only to hit the floor with his knees. "Shit.." The twins panicked glancing towards Neville. George moved first towards the lone guardsmen. Crawling was a safer bet since the entire group was suffering from a forced long distance portkey travel. Their equilibrium would be off until tomorrow. He leaned down and under Neville to check the dilation to his eyes, shaking his head when he couldn't see correctly he pulled back and huffed in irritation.
George pulled back and glanced around the space they were in, not seeing what he was looking for he glanced towards his brother who was already holding out his want to him. Brightening up he crawled his way back towards his twin and grabbed his wand before going back towards their friend and masters guard. Stilling when a sudden bout of dizziness hit, he waited for it to pass before moving back and continuing his thought process. Waving his wand, the tip lit up dimly. Sliding back into place he looked closely at Neville's closed eyes, shaking his shoulder just slightly he watched as Neville's eyes shot open in panic.
George placed his hand back onto Neville's shoulder to not only steady him but to let him know he was there with him. Neville carefully looked towards the older boy, his eyes trying to focus on the other one next to him. "Fred?" he questioned softly. George shook his head in the negative, "George?" Neville questioned again looking for confirmation. He himself could only see dark blobs or shapes but seeing the one he was talking to nod in the affirmative, he let out a shuddering breath of relief. "I can't see anymore, George. Do you have any idea what's going on?" George shook his head in the negative for the question before shifting his wand towards the boy's eyes.
Neville winced, "Ouch.." squinting his eyes as the bright white light hit his vision. George looked concerned when Neville's eyes were fully dialated black with no sliver of his natural eye color. He killed the dimly lit wand before looking towards the chimera stout like man and mimed for a pen and paper.