Amazons VS Marauders

Chapter 3: The Phoenix

***THE MARAUDERS***

"We can't let them continue with this", James Potter mumbled to himself, lost in his thoughts.

"Prongs?", Sirius Black asked, unsure about why his best friend was talking alone. "What are you talking about?"

The four boys were in their dormitory, each on their bed, each of them busy with a different occupation. Sirius was quickly writing a Charms essay, Remus was reading a book, Peter was eating his third chocolate bar from Honeydukes and James was daydreaming, looking throught the window.

"The Amazons, what else?"

Remus Lupin raised his eyes from the book he was reading to stare at James. His brown eyes were tired, the full moon getting closer and closer.

"Prongs, you're not talking again about finding out who they are, right?", he demanded, quite exasperated.

"Of course I am! Why shouldn't I?", he exclaimed.

James was determined to know who they were. He was tired of always being outshined by the Amazons everytime they were showing a prank. James wanted to show -not only to the Amazons, but to everyone- they could do a prank, that the Marauders were the best pranksters. He was also curious about who they were. They were or in his year, or a year younger, he was sure about that. Yes, the Amazons appeared in their fifth year, but the kind of magic was too high for someone younger.

"Because if they don't want their identity to be known, they'll hide it. Those girls morphed the fourth floor's armors in lions. Giant lions. I don't want to be on their bad side, do you?", Remus explained.

"Wait, rewind- Did you say 'those girls'?"

"Yeah, I did", Remus answered, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Why do you think it's only girls?", James asked, surprised.


"Well, it's obvious. Their name is telling it. 'The Amazons'. In ancient Greece, there was a group of warriors. Woman warriors. They were proud to be womens, and wherever they were going, they were winning the war, killing everyone who wasn't with them. They were devastating, destroying every city, everything around them. So yeah, I think it's a group of four girls, fighting for women's rights", Remus shrugged. "I guess they don't like the way you and Pad treat girls. I can't really blame them."

James was agape; he didn't understand why Remus hid those informations from him. He was looking for one, single information about them for years now, and one of his best friend knew this?

"Why didn't you tell me before?", James asked.

"Because you didn't ask", Remus answered simply, going back to his book.

The young boy with jet black hair still had an indignant look on his face. He glanced at his best friend and raised on his feet; he wanted answers, and he was about to get them. James wouldn't stop the search before he knew more about the Amazons.

"Where are you going?", Sirius asked, ready to follow him only to escape from his homework.

"To the Library", James answered, closing the dormitory door behind him.

The three other boys stared at each other, shocked. It was the first time since they were in Hogwarts they saw James Potter going to the Library willingly.

***

"What are you looking for, Prongs?", Sirius asked, staring at James, lost in a pile of books.

"Informations about 'The Amazons' in ancient Greece and informations about their nicknames... Anything, Pad, really, I just want to know who they are."

Sirius sighed. He wasn't thinking of spending all his afternoon in the library, and he didn't know how to change his best friend's mind. Sirius didn't really mind, about the Amazons. Of course, he was curious about who they were. He could even date one of those girls, because they seemed to be fierce, in his opinion, with the pranks they were creating. But he wasn't obssessed with finding out who they were.

People entered the Library, and Sirius turned around, trying to find an interest. When he saw who was the newcomer, a huge grin appeared on his face.

"Well, Prongs, I'm going to ask a girl about the Amazons, just to help you", he muttered, before joining the object of his attention, Sofia Belcour.

He quickly glanced back at James, to see his reaction, but the young boy didn't even heard him. He was too plunged in his research to pay attention about what Sirius was saying.

Not even bothering with that, Sirius followed his prey, like an animal would. He was staring at Sofia from behind, waiting for the right moment to come. When the young girl began to struggle, with a book positionned too high for her, Sirius took the occasion. He slowly walked beside her, picked up the book and handed it to her.

***THE PHOENIX***

Sofia smiled, unsure. If there was one thing she knew, it was that he wasn't acting nice for no reason. He had an idea in his head, and that scared Sofia. If he thought she was going to shag him because he was trying to be nice...

"Thanks", she mumbled shyly, still smiling.

"Your welcome, Belcour", Sirius grinned back.

Sofia turned around and spotted a small table, where she could read in peace. She immediately walked towards the table, but with concern and fear, she realised that Black followed her.

When the young girl sat, and realised he sat in front of her, she sighed and turned towards him.

"Can I help you, Black?", she demanded, her french accent even more audible than usual.

"Actually, yes, you can. Are you doing something next Saturday?"

Sofia furrowed her eyebrows. There was the 'Beginning of the year' party, but she was planning to not go. It wasn't her thing, if you must say: alcohol everywhere, cigarettes everywhere, girls dressed like skanks everywhere, music way too loud, slowly causing people to become deaf. But she was ready to tell him she was going with her friends, so Sofia wouldn't have to go with him. And she could just not go...

"I'm going to the party in the Room of Requirements with my friends", she lied. "Why?"

Sirius layed back on his chair, his arms behind his neck.

"Well, I wanted to ask you if you wanted to go with me, but it's fine if you're going with your friends. I'll meet you there", Black winked, raising to his feet.

"You wish", Sofia mumbled under her breath.

Luckily for her, he didn't hear. Sofia stayed in the Library for around ten minutes: she couldn't concentrate, under Sirius' gaze. She picked the three books she chose earlier, put them in her bag and left the room.

Sofia had to go in the Room of Requirements and have a small talk with the Amazons. She felt like they didn't talk in weeks, and she missed them. Also, she wanted to ask the others if they were going to the party. Everyone in sixth and seventh year were invited, even the Slytherins. Because they knew how to party, by the rumors.

The young girl quickly sent the note to her friends, by their rings. Sofia knew they would all answer the call. They were best friends for three years, now, and nothing could ever separate them. Not the fact they were in different houses, different blood purity, different friends, different personnalities, nothing.

After Sofia requested three times to the Room of Requirements the place where her and her friends go, she entered the room. In the room, there was a fireplace, three cozy couches, a small table with chairs around it, and a small armchair. It was Sofia's favourite place in the castle: quiet, cozy, peaceful, and the only other people to know about it were her best friends.

She started to read a book, waiting for her friends to show. Holland was the first to come in, followed by Theresa.

"Hey girl!!!", Sofia yelled, running in Holland's arms.

"Hey little Sof!!!", she yelled back.

Both girls laughed, pulled away and Sofia ran towards Theresa.

"Hey Beauty Queen!!! That prank you pulled yesterday was completely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!! I swear, it scared me, even thought I knew something would happen!", Sofia announced in her friend's arms.

"Thank you! I would have enjoy being there! I'm so disappointed I missed it, seriously.", Theresa giggled.

The three girls sat, and Sofia told them every single details about the Marauders' face when the lions came. They were all close to die from laughter, but they didn't care. The Amazons were just happy to be together, at that moment.

"So, why did you want to talk to us?", Holland finally asked.

"I'll tell when Ellie's going to be there. Does any of you know where she is?"

" 'She' was struggling to go up seven floors with a plaster on her ankle", Elizabeth's light voice answered, in the doorway.

The three girls jumped, turned around and smiled when they saw their friend. But they soon began to ask three thousand questions each about how she hurt herself.

"Well, there is one answer to every single questions you had: Fabian Prewett is a silly monkey."

"Fabian, huh?", Holland asked, wiggling her eyebrows.

The other girls giggled, while Elizabeth was rolling her eyes, a smile playing on her lips.

"Yep. He scared me while I was jogging, I fell backwards and BOOM: I sprained my ankle."

"But, why do you have a plaster? Madam Pomfrey can repair broken bones in like five minutes, why do you have a plaster for a sprained ankle? Isn't it already healed?", Theresa demanded, confused.

"Of course it's healed!", Elizabeht announced, grinning. "But when I explained what happened to Madam Pomfrey, she was angry against him, as much as I was. So we decided to make him feel guilty, so she put a plaster on it. He was my little slave alllllll day! When there was stairs, he was lifting me up, if my bag was too heavy, he was carrying it for me..."

Theresa, Sofia and Holland shared incredulous looks, before roaring in laughter. Sofia was proud of her: she showed Fabian she wasn't a girl to play with.

They all high-fived Elizabeth, still laughing.

"So, you called us for what, Sof?", she finally asked.

"Okay, so, Sirius Black asked me to Sunday's party."

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, I know! And I really, really don't want to go with him: he shags every single thing that moves! So to escape, I told I was going with Lily, Marlene and Alice... At the beginning, I was planning to just, not going, but the more I'm thinking about it, I have an other idea... Are you guys going to the party?"

"Hell yeah!" Holland and Theresa cheered.

"Yeah, me too", Ellie giggled.

"Okay, so what about we pull a little prank on him? At the party? He won't play with any girls after that, believe me", Sofia announced. "He'll be so ashamed, he's not going to try anything for days."

"I'm in! We have to show him that girls aren't toys!", Holland announced. "What's on your mind, Sof?"

Sofia smirked. That was going to be amazing.