So it begins…

The four marauders, aka James, Remus, Sirius and Peter, had sneaked out of class AGAIN.. and were busy in the library doing their normal routine.

As if.

The marauders in the library??? That could never mean anything good. In fact, that meant “Go away and hide for a month to prevent getting absolutely humiliated in front of the school” to whoever was “lucky” enough to be at the receiving end of their wrath.

“Have you found it yet, James?” Peter whined, being impatient as usual.

“Oh shut up, wormtail. It’s not exactly easy to sift through these books that totally scream “throw me away, I’m disgusting!” James rebutted sarcastically. He too wasn’t having a good day, having just gotten totally embarrassed in front of Lily, the love of his life by his most favourite person in the world- Severus Snape or should I say Snivellus. He definitely wasn’t going to be able to get a date with her at the rate this was going.

Finally, after many hours of sitting in the boring old library and as they were about to give up, Remus found it.

“O yea.. We are totally geniuses” Sirius sang, dancing around the library like a maniac. The librarian immediately shot him a dark look, but he just turned around a smiled like an angel with a halo on top battering his eyelashes at the librarian. The librarian sighed and just turned around. Sirius looked very happy with himself as he being Sirius Black after all, could charm every single girl in the universe and he prided himself in that.

“The spell that is able to transport anyone to another universe. We are soooo brilliant. This way, we would never have to bother about Snivellus again… Go us.. Go us. Go Us..” Sirius couldn’t help but start singing. Remus snorted and rolled his eyes. Sirius could really be overly dramatic.

“Now, all we have to do is get Snivellus to a place where no one can see him and make him disappear forever.” James cackled evilly like a wicked witch.. erm wizard. (A/N: sorry for the pun.. couldn’t resist..:) )

“oh yea, I totally agree with ya, but Jamie dear, if you wanna cackle you gotta do it in a real high-pitched voice ya know?” Sirius couldn’t resist teasing and began to cackle, causing the glass in the library to break. “Oops…”

Remus rolled his eyes again, this time smirking. His two best friends could really act like complete idiots sometimes. “Sometimes I wonder why on earth I am friends with you people. Stop being melodramatic and lets go celebrate our success. And tomorrow, we shall unleash our plan. Muhahaha”

James and Sirius stared at him and said together: “And WE are dramatic??? Moony, you are plain insane” and stalked off in the other direction, with Peter trailing behind them.

Remus finally stopped his maniac laughing and looked around. “Was it something that I said???”

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Severus Snape walked along the corridor, his eyes darting nervously left and right. Something wasn’t right and he could feel it. Potter and his gang had been waaay to quiet to past few days and he couldn’t help but get a little worried. He looked around one last time and he snorted, saying “Well, I guess Potter’s lack of brains and wit has finally gotten to him” and grinning widely to himself stalked in the other direction, not noticing Remus in the shadows.

Remus smirked, that had been easy. He was definitely very confident that their plan could be easily pulled off. That guy didn’t even bother to look closely at his surroundings! With that, he whistled in the secret marauder way and James, Peter and Sirius got out from the trap door. No, I should say that James and Sirius had jumped and landed both gracefully on the floor, with Peter stumbling along and falling flat on his face.

After Peter had finally managed to stand straight, Remus whispered to them “He always goes this way every Thursday. At the end of the corridor there will be a dead end and we can trap him and curse him to oblivion there!”. Sirius grinned and rubbed his hands together. “Finally, we get to dance the crazy victory dance! I wanted to do that for ages but just couldn’t get the right occasion for it. Hmm.. why not do it now?” With that, he pulled Peter along in what seemed to be a cross between a cha-cha, jig and waltz.

Peter, of course being peter, then proceeded on vomiting on top of Sirius due to what the Marauders had christened the “What-happens-when-Sirius-goes-crazy-and-decides-to-dance-sickness”.
James and Remus sighed and proceeded on whacking the two on the head and dragging them along after Snape. Peter was hit so as to stop him from making a huge mess on the floor which no doubt they would have been made to clean by Filch for no good reason at all (or at least to them) while Sirius was hit ‘cos he was just plain noisy and would have gave them away. You can see what normally happened during their pranks. Sirius and Peter were almost always out cold, leaving James and Remus to finish off the pranks.

As Snape turned corner after corner, James couldn’t help but say to Remus ” I think Snivellus is lost.. All the stress must have been too much for his peanut sized brain that he could not even figure out the way.”, and gave a huge fake sigh.

Only when James and Remus’ hands were about to drop off from dragging almost 6 sacks of rice worth of bodies, Snape finally reached the dead end they had all been waiting for.

(I don’t know why James and Remus had never wondered why on earth Snape had went through all the trouble and time of going through the huge maze that is Hogwarts just to get to a dead end. Maybe they were really just plain stupid. I don’t know, that’s for you to decide!)

Then, to the utmost surprise of the boys, Snape sat down cross-legged on the floor and just did, well, nothing.

However, if the boys had listened to Snape’s conversation with Lucius Malfoy, his best friend earlier this afternoon, they would have known why. Snape had long found out about their plan as he had seen them in the library and we all know what happens when the marauders are in the library. Thus, he knew about everything and decided to just sit down and wait for the spell to be fired. However, he had come very prepared. He had brought a mirror. (dramatic music plays)

10 minutes later, after deciding that Snape was of no threat whatsoever to them (although I don’t know what on earth led them to think that), they decided to take action and James and Remus together said the spell under their breath.

“Finally,” thought Snape, his legs were aching and sitting cross-legged was definitely something he never wanted to do again. As he heard the spell whizzing across the air directly at him, time slowed and slowly but surely Snape ducked and raised the mirror in the direction of the spell and faced it at the group of boys behind him.(A/N: think matrix bullet time)

Bam! Snape’s aim was true (although I don’t know how on earth it could be that accurate) thanks to his 6 years of Quidditch training. A bright light filled the room and surrounded all four of the boys. However, before the bright light fully enclosed on all of the boys, Remus and James looked at each other and said simultaneously : “Oh, shit!”

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The last thing the marauders, or what was left conscious of them anyway, knew, they were surrounded by a bright light which enveloped them, due to a spell gone wrong all thanks to Snivellus.

However, they were about to have a rude awakening as they suddenly felt suffocated and struggled to er.. I don’t think they even knew where at that point of time. Anyway, when they finally got rid of that irritating feeling that occurs everytime you hold on to your breath for too long a time underwater, which is also known as drowning, they or at least Sirius, James and Remus, opened their eyes and found that they were in the middle of a hot spring in what was obviously not Hogwarts or Earth as there were many trees surrounding them, large and tall trees that probably had disappeared off the face of the earth millions of years ago.

Peter on the other hand, was still struggling at the bottom of the spring, and probably had not realized that he was under water and was probably going to die from lack of oxygen.

The three boys sighed and yanked Peter up to the surface of the spring. Sometimes they wondered why on earth Peter was with them in the first place. He wasn’t exactly wonderful at quidditch like James, or the worlds biggest playboy like Sirius or even a werewolf like Remus…oops.. as smart as Remus. In fact, he wasn’t even special at all. While they were pondering this matter over quietly, for once, they didn’t notice the girls sneaking up behind them with a huge pail of icy cold water. Man, were they going to get a rude awakening.

“Splash!” Suddenly, the Marauders had found themselves even wetter than they already were and freezing cold courtesy of the girls/elleths. They had wanted to use the hot springs for a nice bath and seeing that the occupants weren’t even elves, they didn’t see why they had to be deprived of the privilege.

The boys looked up and glared at the girls, different emotions running through their heads all at once. Anger, Fury, Vengeful and then for Sirius at least; Interest. For all of the elleths there were definitely much prettier than the human girls back home at Hogwarts and Sirius perked up. Turning on all his charm at what he supposed was the leader and the prettiest of the group, he flashed them a mega-watt smile that had probably used up all if not most of the batteries needed to keep Las Vegas alight at night.

However, the current object of his affection was not as pleased as him. Or as dazzled. Her hair was dark brown with a little lighter brown here and there, depending on the way light reflected off her hair, as was most of her kin from rivendell. Her skin contrasted with her hair perfectly, making her look perfect, like a china doll almost. She pursed her lips and narrowed her smoky gray eyes, saying in an icy cold voice: “I don’t know how you guys ever got past the border guards and I don’t care. Just get out of the hot spring and out of my sight.”

All the marauders winced. Sirius looked dismayed, his charm had never failed before and he wasn’t prepared for it to fail now, in front of so lovely a lady. He tried again, this time REALLY putting in a lot of effort in trying to please the lady. “But milady, we have no idea where we are and how we got here. I am terribly sorry we disrupted your outing. Has anyone ever told you that you are the most beautiful maiden I have ever seen?” Now he was really turning on the charm. He was really sure of himself this time but the next words the maidens spoke totally wiped that impression out of his mind.

“You are nothing but a mere human, and an ignorant one. Of course you have never encountered anyone fairer than milady here, she is the fairest elleth in rivendell, other than the Evenstar of course.” The elleth next to the leader said proudly, her green eyes shining brightly. She had bright red hair and was almost as pretty as her good friend. In fact, James almost fainted at the sight of her. She was a dead ringer for lily and James couldn’t help but admire her beauty.

The rest of the marauders could hardly contain their amusement. The Sirius Black had finally met his match and James always the brave one, was about to faint! Remus, ever the peacemaker, decided it was time to intervene before they had to physically tie Sirius to a tree to ensure that he didn’t do something stupid or carry James to the hospital, if there even was one here. He respectfully said to the elleths, as they were obviously not very happy with them: “I apologise for my friends’ behaviour my ladies, they are obviously not in their right mind.” Sirius and James at this glared furiously at Remus, who just continued talking. “Would you ladies please be kind enough to lead us to someone who might know how we arrived here?”

Just as the lead elleth looked as if she was about to retort angrily, another elleth stepped forward. She softly told her friend to relax, in a voice so low, that only elvish hearing would be able to hear. Then, she said: “Sure my lord, I shall lead you to Lord Elrond. He is master of Rivendell and one of the wisest still left on this middle earth. I am sure he would be able to find out how you arrived here. Please follow me.” Her striking bright blue eyes met Remus’s warm hazel ones and for a moment, neither moved, bewitched by the other.

After a few moments, the other Marauders got impatient and roughly jabbed Remus in the stomach. Both of them jumped, Remus more than the elleth of course, as the elleth was well- an elf, and blushed. The elleth then proceeded to guide them through the forest of Rivendell and finally to Lord Elrond’s office. However, their strange behavior did not go unnoticed by their friends and soon, Sirius whispered to James- “Moony likes the girl.. Moony likes the girl!” James grinned widely and then replied proudly: “Of course! He’s a marauder! Nice to know not all of us have not lost our touch”

Upon hearing that, Sirius could not take it anymore and shouted loudly for anyone within hearing distance to hear, which meant almost all of rivendell, “For the last time, I haven’t lost my touch! I am just warming up.. You wait and see! Hmmph!” With that, he pouted, making all the elves around them laugh at his childish acts.

After what the Marauders thought took forever, they finally stopped outside Lord Elrond’s office and the elleth right in front knocked. They heard someone say “Come in” and they did.

Once in the room, the Marauders marveled at how beautifully the room was decorated, in fact, it overlooked probably every single species of plant life. In fact, all of them all had the same thoughts when they saw the room: “Man, this guy is rich!”

A guy, no elf, who the marauders presumed was Lord Elrond stood up and greeted the elleth. “Laurelin! What brings you to see me this beautiful morning? Your parents are fine I suppose?”

Laurelin blushed and replied respectfully: “Of course my lord, my friends and I had found these men in one of our hot springs. They claimed to not know where they were or how they got here. And you know how Anarrima, Serinde and the rest are like, they absolutely detest humans and it was up to me to bring them to you.”

“Then I must thank you, Laurelin, for you have done me a great favor. I was about to go look for them personally myself. Mithrandir felt their presence and bid me to find them lest they got hurt, or did something irrevocable if you get what I mean.” Lord Elrond smiled kindly at her and smirked at the guys who just smiled innocently back.

“You are welcome my lord. Is Mithrandir here already? I thought he was due to arrive in 2 days.”

“Well, he has some important things to do here that required him to rush here at once. Now go find Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen and bring them to see him, I am sure that they have not yet heard the news”

“As you wish. Namaarie” With that, Laurelin curtseyed and walked out of the room.

Then, Elrond turned and looked at the Marauders. “I have heard of your story from Mithrandir. Do you know how foolish it was of you to attempt to send someone through universes? You could have given someone an extra leg, head or both!”

The marauders were silent for a while, and although Sirius had a great urge to retort back to Lord Elrond that he thought that actually it was great, as long as he got the extra brain, James stopped him and explained: “I am sorry my lord, but a certain guy had angered us greatly and we could not resist ridding him from our lives forever.” Wow, thought James, I didn’t know I could speak so well.

Elrond sighed, and said “Well, I guess what is done is done. Now we must see if we can send you home again. Until we can find a way, you may stay in rivendell and try and make yourself useful.” He then paused, as if remembering something. “Oh and did you bring your wands over?”

Peter started talking first: “Well my lord, actually we -” and got cut off by Sirius. “We did not manage to bring them over.” Sirius then shot Peter a look which obviously meant “Shut-the-crap-up”.

Lord Elrond arched an eyebrow, but said nothing. He knew from experience that they obviously had brought their wands, but didn’t want to tell him. After so many years with the horrible twins, he had learnt how to be wary about others around him and was not so easily fooled. He would have to keep an eye out for those four. “Very well then, a maid shall show you gentlemen to your rooms. I hope you enjoy your stay in Rivendell.” As an afterthought, he also added: “and stay out of trouble.”

They gave him the most angelic and innocent looks they could muster and after a very feeble- and clumsy- attempt to bow, followed the maid to their rooms.

As the marauders walked along the elvish corridors to their rooms, they couldn’t help but grin and gave each other high-fives. This was sooo going to be an interesting place.

Elleth: Female Elf
Laurelin: Elvish for Song of Gold
Mithrandir: Elvish name for Gandalf the Grey

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hi.. so this is an intro to all my oc’s.. and so that you guys don’t get confused, this is a “Backandforthover”, invented by me. this basically means that they go back and forth through worlds ok? Yup.. and thanks for reading.. 🙂 Amirel