Thursday, November 02, 2006

Spells, Spears, and Snape

“So now what do we do?” Keyblade asked. “Are we just going to wait here for Filch to catch us?”
“Yeah, I think so,” Bookworm nodded. She had just used all the Symphonians’ Life Bottles and Apple Gels to recover from her horrifying experience in the Mirror of Erised.
“I’m bored!” Tas announced. This was an absolutely terrifying thing to hear from a kender, but there wasn’t much anyone to do about it.
Suddenly, the wall exploded! Three enormous dog heads appeared through the giant hole. Everyone started running around screaming. Fluffy watched all the noisy little people run. He hadn’t gotten to eat the intruders earlier and was feeling very hungry.
“No Fluffy! Bad dog! Don’t eat my friends!” Colette ran to try and stop Fluffy. The giant dog ignored her. A large glob of drool fell from his mouth and landed on Tas’s head.
“Wow! This is great! I’ve never been drooled on by a three-headed dog before! I can’t wait to tell Flint about being eaten by a three-headed dog! Do you think it really will eat us?” Tas asked excitedly.
“Not if I can help it!” Shade said. She stopped running around screaming and recited a spell that she hoped would prevent Fluffy from eating them. Unfortunately, the spell did not work the way Shade hoped. As a powerful magical creature, Fluffy naturally had an immunity to some spells. Shade’s spell bounced off him and shot off in all directions around the room. It hit Shade, Bookworm, Keyblade, Ed, Al, Lloyd, Genis, Tas, and Colette. Instantly, they all grew a lot younger.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?” Bookworm screamed. From inside the Mirror of Erised, her reflection fell over laughing.
“Oops… sorry,” Shade said. “That spell was supposed to turn Fluffy into a little puppy.”
“So now it made us younger instead?!” Keyblade complained.
“Yeah, I think we’re all about eleven now,” Shade said.
“Waah! Now we’re short!” Bookworm whined.
“Hey! I don’t think Ed got shorter… but he does look younger,” Keyblade said. “Does this mean Ed hasn’t grown at all since he was eleven?”
“No! There must have been something wrong with that spell!” Ed said, alchemifying a spear to kill Shade.
“What is going on here?” demanded Snape. He walked through the large hole Fluffy had made in the wall, followed by Filch and Hagrid. They stared at the group of crazy eleven-year-olds trying to kill each other. Mrs. Norris meowed loudly. Fluffy drooled on little Tas’s head again. Filch went to Mrs. Norris to congratulate her for catching all the rule-breaking students. Hagrid fed Fluffy some large dog biscuits. Snape snatched the spear from Ed, who was still trying to stab Shade.
“I love your doggie, Mr. Hagrid,” Colette said, patting Fluffy. “I knew he’d be able to bring us to Lloyd and my friends.”
Snape glared at everyone. “Using dangerous Muggle weapons in the forbidden part of the school… I think you can all expect expulsions and many points taken from Gryffindor,” he said with an unpleasant smirk.
Filch laughed. “Pesky students! They think they can get away with their stupid little pranks! I’ll bet you all thought it was really funny to sneak into the forbidden corridor… If I had my way, you’d all be whipped while hanging from your ankles in the dungeons!” A huge grin spread across his face at the thought of it. An equally large grin spread across Tas’s face. He had never been hung from his ankles in a dungeon before! What an interesting experience!
“No! You can’t torture us! And you can’t expel us either! We aren’t students here!” Bookworm protested. Tas stared at her in disappointment.
“Not students? What do you mean by that?” Snape glared at them. Ed decided this would be a good time to snatch his spear back from Snape. It might have worked if he hadn’t tried to fight Snape and stab Shade at the same time. Shade easily moved out of his reach. She recited a spell that made Snape, Filch, Hagrid, and Mrs. Norris freeze momentarily.
“What did you do now?” Bookworm asked. She had had enough of Shade’s spells.
“It was a powerful memory spell. They were getting too suspicious of us. Now maybe they’ll listen to our excuses,” Shade explained, dodging Ed, who had now successfully gotten the spear away from Snape.
Keyblade hit him with her alchemified keyblade and took the spear. “Can’t you wait to kill Shade until later? If you keep doing this, we’ll just get in more trouble with Snape.”
Ed muttered something like “you’re expelled… not my apprentice… probably taller than me anyway…”
“Don’t worry, Keyblade. Big Brother doesn’t really mean that. But I don’t think you need any more training anyway. Congratulations! You’ve passed your alchemy training!” Al said.
Keyblade got really excited at this news. “YES!!! I rock!” She said, jumping up and accidentally hitting Shade with the keyblade and Bookworm with the spear.
When Snape and the others finally recovered, they were completely confused. They could not remember what was going on. For some reason, they were in a forbidden room where two first-years were trying to kill another, very excited, one. This made no sense whatsoever. Snape realized they were obviously breaking school rules and were probably Gryffindors. That was more than enough reason to try to get them the strictest punishment possible. “Stop! All of you, come with me! You’re going to explain this to the Headmaster!” Snape smirked unpleasantly at them, but no one really noticed because they were too busy trying to kill each other.

2 Comments:

Blogger Bookworm said...

I finally wrote it! Now you don't have to strangle me, Shade. And I finished my Drivers Ed classes, so I can't use that as an excuse for why I take forever to add to the fanfic. I guess that means I can't procrastinate so much anymore. *sigh*

1:17 PM  
Blogger Shade said...

nope, no procrastination tolerated whatsoever! post the next segment soon please!

7:58 PM  

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