The Blessed One

Chapter Seven~Pranking with Peeves

I woke up to find the room engulfed in darkness. Glancing at my clock, I saw that it was five thirty. Slowly, and silently, I pulled back my covers, and crept across the room to the bathroom. Once inside, I went for a quick shower. I soon found myself thinking about what the Sorting Hat had told me the night before. The more I thought about the prophecy, the more confused I seemed to become. Eventually, I just decided to forget about it. At around five forty five, I got out of the shower, and performed the drying spell on my hair, and used my metamorphagus abilities to style my hair into its usual long, chocolate curls.
I then turned the light off, and crept back into the dorm room, and became a stealth ninja trying to find my way in the dark towards my trunk. I found it by stubbing my toe on the corner of it, and after using a lot of colourful cuss words, I finally found my new robes after rummaging through my seemingly never ending bag. I quickly got dressed into my robes, and slipped out the room and down the stairs to the Common room, where I told Peeves I would meet him the day before. However, I didn't plan what happened next.
"Who's there?" Asked an unfamiliar voice from the darkness.
I stood still, my foot hovering, about to be placed on the ground after the final stair.
"We know you're there!" Said another voice. Different, yet strangely similar to the first.
"Rose." I quietly answered the voices.
"What are you doing down here at six in the morning?" The first voice asked again.
"And why would I do that?" I scoffed, gaining back some of my confidence. "I might ask you the same question!"
"Good point." They replied simultaneously.
"Okay, how about if we all swear not to tell Mini, we all come out and say what we are doing?" I suggested.
"That's a good idea!" The said simultaneously. "Hang on, who's Mini?" They questioned.
"Oh," I laughed, "That's just my nickname for McGonagall!"
"Ahhhh, that makes sense!" The laughed.
They then stepped out of the shadows and into the firelight. I then realised that they were the ginger twins I had seen the night before, during the Sorting Ceremony.
"I'm Fabian Prewett," the first boy said.
"And I'm Gideon Prewett." Said the second.
"I'm Rose Silverwell Heartweather." I grinned at them.
"So what are you doing down here then?" Asked Fabian.
"I'll tell you if you tell me what you're doing down her then." I smirked.
"But we told you our names first!" Complained Gideon
"Okay, fine." I grumbled. "I'm supposed to be meeting Peeves down here at six to prank my best friend James! He so deserves it though, because he swapped my tea for water mixed with dust! He's asking for it!" I explained with a smirk.
"Wicked! Can we help?" The asked, grinning simultaneously.
"Of course!" I answered, "we just have to wait for Peeves."
It was then that we heard bang, and Peeves exited one of the suits of armours lining the walls, and said , "PEEVES REPORTING FOR DUTY, SIR YES SIR!" With a salute.
"At ease soldier!" I said grinning.
"Wicked!" Repeated the twins.
"Well let's get started then, shall we?" I grinned mischievously.

We soon began devising a plan to prank James. Peeves then suggested that we prank all of the boys in James' dorm.
"That's a great idea, Peeves!" I beamed at him. "The more the merrier!"
Once we had finished planning, we crept up the stairs to the top, where the twins said James' room would be. We silently slipped into the dorm, and started setting up the prank. The twins and I were placing dozens of stink pellets around the room, all programmed to go off when I said the incantation. We then began changing all their robes for pink clothes covered in hello kitty. Afterwards, we used a hair colour changing potion my dad had given me to change their hair to their least favourite colour, and we made it so if anyone tried to give them normal clothes, they would spontaneously combust.
We also planned that once we had set up the stink pellets, me and the twins would wait outside the room to set them off. The signal would be Peeves parading back and forth in the room, playing his trumpet as loud as possible. When I prank, I like to go all out.
"Ready, soldier?" I asked through the door.
"Sir, yes, Sir!" He whispered though the door.
"We're ready when you are." I whispered back.
We then heard Peeves begin to play 'Reveille' on his trumpet so loud, I'm surprised he didn't wake up the whole castle.
"Now, Rose!" Gideon whispered frantically.
I took my wand and casted, "Emissus."
We then legged it down the stairs, and back to the common room.
For a few seconds there was silence. And then the shouting began.
"ROSE!" All four boys screeched in unison. There was a lot of banging, crashing and cursing coming from their dorm, enough so that it caused many people to come out of their dorms asking what was happening. It was then that the boys decided to appear.
They sprinted down the spiral staircase, yelling threats down the stairs at me. Meanwhile the twins and I were rolling on the floor laughing. That was, until we heard,
"ROSE! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Coming from the bottom of the stairs.
"Merlin," I groaned. "MISSION ABORT! RED ALERT! GO GO GO!" I yelled frantically at the twins. We were soon on out feet, and running out the portrait whole, down the moving staircases, through the double doors, and into the Great Hall. As soon as we were at the Gryffindor table, we collapsed in a heap on the bench, leaning on each other's shoulders for support as we tried to catch our breath. Once our breathing had gone back to normal, we then began laughing again at James' face when he came down the spiral staircase. When we had finally calmed down, we then started to eat breakfast. A few minutes later, Lily joined us with a scowl on her face.
"Why didn't you wait for me?" She asked me, hurt written all over her face.
"I'm sorry, Lil," I started sincerely. "But I had already asked Peeves to help me prank James yesterday, and we we're supposed to meet in the common room at 6 this morning, but I managed to bump into these guys," I indicated to Fabian and Gideon, "and then we decided to pull a massive prank on the boys! It was wicked!" I exclaimed.
"Oh well okay," she said rolling her eyes, "If you already had plans that's fine, just tell me next time, yeah?" She said.
"Of course, Lil!" I smiled at her.
"Oh and that reminds me, we were going to visit Sev today weren't we?" I asked her.
"Yeah! Let me just grab some toast." She replied.
"Bye, Gids! Bye, Fabs!" I waved happily to the twins. "Se ya later, yeah?" I asked.
"Sure!" Smile Gideon.
"You and Lily come sit with us at dinner!" Called Fabian to us.
"Okay!" I called back.
"Bye, Ro!" They shouted together, causing me to laugh.
"To the Slytherin table!" I exclaimed, earning a laugh from Lily as I linked arms with her, dragging her up to the mighty Slytherin table.