A/N: Firstly, I would like to make it clear to everyone that this occurred about a century after the Last Alliance. So, it is NOT a dark time.

Disclaimer: Nothing you recognize from lotr or hp is mine..

The first part of this chapter will be from LaurelinÂ’s point of view:

As Laurelin walked away from Lord ElrondÂ’s room and began to make her way through Rivendell, she wondered about the four guests that had apparently mysteriously arrived in Rivendell. She had always been the thoughtful one amongst her friends, being quiet sensitive and always loved to fade into the shadows. However, she was not always like this. Her parents were originally from Lothlorien, who had longed for the peaceful excitement of Rivendell. Sure, life in Rivendell was exciting, with creatures of almost every species visiting from time to time, but after most of her friends and family left for the Havens, she felt alone.

Yet she was still thankful. She had two marvelous best friends, Anarrima and Serinde. Anarrima was stubborn and headstrong, having kept most of her feelings under a tight mask that no one other than her good friends were allowed to see after her parents had fallen in the Last Alliance. They were exceptional warriors, and Laurelin couldnÂ’t help but smile as she remembered the skill with which Anarrima wielded her weapons. She could use both swords and bows perfectly and there were few who could beat her in combat. Anarrima was a fearless beauty, and when she passed most elves would have a big problem deciding whether to cower at her presence or faint at her beauty.

Her other good friend Serinde, was also a wonder in her own right. She was extremely loyal to her friends, and Laurelin was sure that if there ever came a time where a new dark lord rose again, Serinde together with Anarrima would be one of the first on the battlefields; ready to protect their friends and family. Serinde, although not as good as Anarrima when it came to fighting, made up for that weakness with her wit and craftiness. When the two were faced with each other, it was definitely a draw. Other than being good at fighting, she was great at weaving. She could weave all the stories of the elves into fabrics with the ease of a professional, even though she was a mere thousand years old, a child in the eyes of the elves. She was obviously not from Rivendell, with her bright red hair and green eyes. Her parents were unknown but she often joked that she possibly was a child of the Valar, of maybe Elbereth herself. Laurelin grinned at the thought. That would not have been a surprise, for Serinde had the skills and brains to be one of the Valar themselves.

Laurelin was not as skilled in fighting as her two friends, and she tried hard to change that, training hard and long daily. Today was her only day off in weeks, and those irritating boys had to go and spoil it. She sighed heavily, thinking “Not like the training has changed anything though, don’t know why I am even bothering about it.” She shook her head, clearing her mind of those unpleasant thoughts as she turned the corner and neared Elladan and Elrohir’s rooms. She heard loud strange noises coming from their rooms and sighed. This was going to be a really long day.

(A/N: IÂ’m sorry that part was a bit boring, but it had to be done so that you guys would understand more about the girls. Ok, enough of the boring stuff, its back to the guys!)

The four marauders had finally reached their rooms and being tired and weary from their “long journey”, they decided that it was safe to leave Sirius alone by himself in his room as the high sugar level in his blood had probably already went down. They then said their goodbyes and went off to have a nice long soak in the bath.

And guess what? They were wrong. As usual.

10 minutes later, they heard loud maniacal laughter and shouts coming from SiriusÂ’s room. Being the nosey, curious bunch that they were, they decided to go and investigate. The scene that met their eyes was definitely worthy of entering the AmericaÂ’s Home Videos- if they could just find a video camera somewhere. Anyway, when they went in, Sirius was bouncing on top of a mattress, which was in a bath tub, which was overflowing with what seemed to be a mixture of large gigantic air bubbles and water. As the Marauders gaped open-mouthed at the sight before them, Sirius noticed their arrival and started talking.

“Look guys, see what I’ve found. Guess, guess, guess!!! Come on, don’t tell me that you don’t have one too? It can’t be, they are so fun, to not have one is definitely insane!!!” Remus put his head in his hands and groaned loudly. Taking their silence as consent, he got even more excited, jumping harder up and down on the mattress. He must have put a spell on the mattress so that it didn’t break ‘cos at the rate he was jumping, the mattress should have been unfit for sleeping 9 minutes ago. “Look, look, look!!! Seeeeee…” He then pushed an elf who was probably in his teens in front of them. “I’ve got a personal servant!!! I can get him to do anything, you see, I can ask him to go get marshmallows and dump them into the bath and he can do it in 5 seconds. Elves can totally run fast, Hehehehehehe! You know, they might even be better than my house elves!”

Just as Sirius said this, a magical swirl of what seemed to be stars appeared in front of him and Minnie the house elf appeared right in front of the Marauders! “NO SIR!!! You cannot get rid of Minnie, Minnie will be good from now on, Minnie will stop stealing your food, Minnie will give you everything you want from the house, Minnie will do anything you want, Minnie will-“She was cut off as Sirius suddenly stopped jumping.

The room was silent for a moment and then a wicked smile spread over Sirius’s face. “You’ll give me everything I want from Hogwarts?” “Yes of course, sir!!!” Minnie screamed enthusiastically. James rolled his eyes. House elves.

“Ok then you must come every time I call your name ok?” “Of course!” Minnie smiled happily to herself and then disappeared in yet another swirl of stars.

“Huh???? What on earth had just happened???” that was definitely what everyone was thinking.

However, as usual, the silence was short-lived.

“Wahooo!” Sirius gave out a victory cheer and jumped even harder on the mattress, pulling all the guys along with him and failing drastically thus resulting in half of their bodies on the mattress going up and down, making a really funny sight.

The elf servant had originally been speechless after seeing the house elf but looking at the scenario in front of him, couldnÂ’t help but started to laugh.

“Now looking what you’ve done, Sirius! You’ve made the poor elf go insane!” James, Remus and Peter chorused together. Sirius just gave them a sweet, contented smile.

Hours later, and after a good rest, an elf knocked on all four of their doors. Or actually just three of their doors. SiriusÂ’s door had fallen off after he accidentally used himself as a human bowling ball and aimed in the wrong direction. That guy was definitely mental.

“The Lord Elrond requests your presence at the dining hall for dinner my lords. Please follow me.” The marauders didn’t really get a chance to refuse, not that they wanted to of course, they were starving but hellooo? They were guests not prisoners, or at least only Peter thought so. The rest of them were too busy making fun of how the picture of Isildur cutting off the ring looked like a game with model soldiers and this big ugly thingy that was attacking them. Soon, they reached the dining hall.

Upon reaching the dining hall, they were shown to a really long table with lots and lots of people sitting on it. They were shown to seats near the head of the table and James couldn’t help but smirked, saying to Sirius: “Look at those little people near the bottom of the table there, isn’t it so sad?” Sirius snorted loudly and couldn’t help but agree, attracting attention from the other elves on the table. They were sitting opposite an old man with a big grey beard, grey hair, grey clothes, grey eyes and practically grey everything! “Man, his life must be boring!” Sirius thought to himself. Near them, the three girls that they had met earlier on in the day were also seated near them. “I was correct!” Remus smiled gleefully to himself, “They were somebody special, although I can’t see why two of them are, they are as unreasonable as Death Eaters! The other one is ok though,” he thought as he remembered Laurelin. “She was very kind to us even though we had never met before or were elves. She must definitely be a great friend.”

Remus was awakened from his “La-la land” or dream-world as the rest of the marauders called it, when the Lord Elrond and who they assumed was his wife entered the dining hall. All the people immediately shushed as he and his wife sat down and gestured for them to sit too. Peter rolled his eyes: “This is sooo stupid. I thought when we left Hogwarts we would never have to do this anymore but I was so wrong.”

The dinner began and both Sirius and James began wolfing down their food as if there was no tomorrow. Food went into their mouths quicker than you can say speedy Gonzales and by the time they were finished with their meals, the elves had only finished the first course. Lord Elrond arched an eyebrow at them and the old man smirked and laughed out loud.

The marauders stopped whatever they were doing and stared at the old man. “Yo Sirius, I think you have competition for the most insane guy here, ‘cos that guy” James pointed to the old man, “Is plain insane: I mean, who on earth just laughs out loud for no good reason at all?” Sirius just grinned and sighed at the same time, saying “I know everyone loves insane people.” With that, he got up and bowed, making everyone stare even harder at them.

Just then, a clear voice sounded and Sirius turned and saw the object of his erm.. should I say previous affection talking. “Who do you think you are?” and then stood up turning to James said: “Do you know who you are comparing this HUMAN too?” Seeing James bewildered expression, she sighed and explained, her eyes getting colder every minute. “The person whom you affectionately called “that guy” is not some plain old guy. He is Gandalf the grey, or Mithrandir, as called by the elves. He is a maia sent by the Valar themselves to help middle earth. You just insulted him more than you can imagine.”

At this James just continued staring at the elleth, as though not understanding what she had just said and the elleth then got even more frustrated at James and was about to criticize him once more until Gandalf intervened. “Now, now, Anarrima, I know that you care for me and want to protect me, but this is not the way.” Anarrima grudgingly sat down; and continued to glare at the boys.

Happy that this issue was settled, Gandalf then looked at the boys and said to them “Ah, you must be the four boys that I had noticed enter Rivendell. You must be confused are you not? Well, when you had entered Middle Earth, I had felt a disturbance as all of the wizards in this world are connected by one way or the other and upon the entry of another four wizards, all of us were definitely affected. The fact that the Lady Galadriel also saw you in her mirror also helped me confirm my suspicions.” Serinde, finding something in Gandalf’s speech a bit weird, decided to ask him, “Why do you call these boys’ wizards my lord? Are they not just nothing but a human?”

Gandalf sighed, saying “Yes, they are wizards, and if they brought their wands I am sure that they can perform some magic for you to see, as can I.”

Anarrima snorted loudly and definitely not appropriately questioning: “These boys can perform magic? Is this a joke Gandalf? This cannot be, they are just kids and are so young.”

James stood up indignantly, saying “Excuse me, we are not young at all. In fact, we are already almost 17 if you must know, and nearing adulthood! However, I am very sure that we still can do things that you can’t do.”

Serinde then chuckled loudly: “I am sure you can” and smiled patronizingly at the boys.

Remus then, getting angry too at the various attacks on his and his friends characters said to Serinde: “Yes we are! Is that really so hard to believe?”

The three girls looked at each other and simultaneously, they chorused together: “Yes!” Even Laurelin who had been quiet all along agreed with the three and that made Remus extra angry and a little bit sad although he did not know why. He couldn’t believe that Laurelin too did not believe in them. He was about to begin to try and convince them otherwise but Lord Elrond stopped him.

“ENOUGH! The boys are wizards and whether you accept it or not, can be great helps to us and any other kingdom. If they can find their wands of course.” Lord Elrond winked at the boys and continued “And I expect you to respect it” There was murmurs of yes all around the table and the Lord Elrond dismissed them.

As the four marauders walked back to their rooms, only one thought was in their heads: “They were sooo going to get their revenge”.

…..

As the Marauders sauntered off in the other direction doing goodness knows what, they didn’t notice two elves sitting in the corner of the table, who had been watching their “performance” from afar. They had on identical smirks and Lord Elrond eyed them warily. Oh yes, trouble was brewing alright.

Back at SiriusÂ’s room:

“Why did we have to go to your room?” Peter whined. He had never been a fan of Sirius’s fashion taste and right now he was seriously reconsidering the fact of disowning Sirius for good. And for good reason too. For someone who had only been in that room for less than 12 hours, he had totally erm, refurbished it. The walls were splashed with bright orange with black dots here and there, making the whole room look like a gigantic tigger and Sirius had somehow changed all the flowers in his room to cactus. The guy was creative, he had to give him that, but bright orange??? This was what happened when people spent too much time obsessing about what colour to change their enemy’s hair into.

“Why not???” Sirius asked. “I personally think it was the best I had done so far, if I say so myself. Although I don’t think I got the spell right, it was supposed to change it to bright orange with black stripes, hmm, I wonder if any of you can help me?”

“No!” They all shouted in unison.

Sirius pouted and faked a hurt look and Remus decided to cut in “Relax Peter, it’s only going to be for a while, then we can leave Sirius to his mad room”

Peter wasnÂ’t exactly happy with this, but who was he to say anything? He had always been the timid one, afraid to stand up for what he thought. Anyway, if Sirius liked it, that was his business, after all, Sirius was the one who was going to stay in this room, not him thank goodness. Peter thought he would be blinded after only a week looking at all the bright colours everyday.

“So, what are we going to do about the girls? They have caused us so much trouble and worst of all- have doubted our abilities! I say we should play a trick on them to pay them back for insulting us and at the same time showing them how good a wizard we are.”

“Good idea Prongs, lets do it!” Sirius said ever enthusiastically.

“Ok, I am fine with it, but do you mean all of the girls? I mean, Laurelin is really nice, and she did lead us to Lord Elrond…” Remus was cut off by James and Sirius, who said at once: “No way! She agreed with them too remember? And that days she was probably just pitying us because we were mere humans remember?”

Oh shit, mere humans, yeah Remus remembered. He sighed heavily and he looked downcast. Mere humans, Mere humans that were probably not good enough for elves. Lesser beings. And what more, he was a werewolf! He was sure that that definitely put defined him as a even lesser being. What was he thinking, that they might actually be friends?

Looking at Remus’s downcast face, Sirius and James immediately looked embarrassed and knew that they had struck a nerve. They tried to remedy the solution by changing the subject, and while they were still thinking about what they wanted to say, Peter for once was clever than he looked and said “So what pranks are we going to pull on them?”

Remus snapped out of it, probably because of the sudden display of intelligence in Peter, after all, he wasnÂ’t normally this smart. Or was he? Remus didnÂ’t know, he normally just didnÂ’t care.
Sirius then piped up excitedly, glad that they had succeeded in distracting Remus. “Yeah, hmm, I know of many, but to do that I need…”

Suddenly, Minnie the house elf popped out of thin air again to their utmost surprise and handed Sirius some tattered and torn notebook. “Here you go, sir!”

“Oh yeah, I need this! Great, thanks a lot Minnie, I…” But as he turned around, he was even more surprised to see Minnie already gone. The look on his face must have been really funny because the Marauders burst out laughing.

“Sometimes, Sirius, I swear that Minnie can totally read your mind!” Remus joked, still rolling on the floor, clutching his sides laughing.

“Oh gee, thanks a lot, I really appreciate this information, now my brain feels totally violated.” Sirius faked a pout. “Anyway, back to the book, here is where I keep all my ideas for pranks; and the spells required too. You see this is totally useful, I have like over 500 unused pranks here. And they are all totally original and guaranteed to work or your money back.” Then Sirius burst into laughter too. “I can totally be a product advertiser.” Mimicking a man’s real deep voice: “Drink Yummy, and you will have great big muscles just like me.” And he flexed his nonexistent and imaginary muscles proudly.

The Marauders burst into laughter again. Sirius totally cracked people up all the time. That was probably why every single girl in Hogwarts who wasnÂ’t in love with James adored Sirius, Peter thought bitterly.

“Okay now back to business, so how ‘bout we do this, this, this and this! All agreed? Okay, we shall go into action tomorrow night. Remus you take Anarrima’s so you don’t chicken out, James you take Laurelin’s so that you don’t faint and I will take Serinde’s. Peter, you will stay in your room and pretend that we are all in your room. That way, we have an alibi in case anyone gets suspicious of us.” Sirius proclaimed loudly. “Now you all can be dismissed. See you guys tomorrow morning and don’t be late!”

“Yes teacher.” They chorused in unison and scrambled out of the room before Sirius could hex them for insulting him. However, as usual, they still got caught and hexed as Sirius chased them out. They then spent the rest of the night bright blue. Some people never learn.

When Remus returned to his room, he looked out of the window of his room and stared at the moon. It was almost full, a sure sign that the full moon was about to come in a few days. He cursed himself mentally for forgetting to ask Lord Elrond about where he could transform, he didnÂ’t want to hurt the innocent. However, as he turned to leave the side of the window to look for Lord Elrond, he heard someone sing. Mesmerized by the voice, he leaned further out of the window to listen properly. He recognized the voice as LaurelinÂ’s of course, he wasnÂ’t sure that he would ever forget the lovely sound of her voice and although it was sung softly, due to his status as a werewolf and the upcoming full moon, his hearing was many times sharper than the normal human or elf so he managed to hear every word.

When you get caught in the rain,
With nowhere to run,
When you’re distraught and in pain,
Without anyone.
When you keep crying to be saved,
But nobody comes,
And you feel so far away,
That you just can’t…

Find your way home.
You can get there alone.
It’s okay.
What you say is…

I can make it through the rain.
I can stand up once again.
On my own. And I know,
That I’m strong enough to mend.
And everytime I feel afraid,
I hold tighter to my faith.
And I live one more day,
And I make it through the rain.

And if you keep falling down,
Don’t you dare give in.
! You will arise, safe and sound.
So keep pressing…

On steadfastly,
And you’ll find what you need,
To prevail.
What you say is…

I can make it through the rain.
I can stand up once again.
On my own. And I know,
That I’m strong enough to mend.
And everytime I feel afraid,
I hold tighter to my faith.
And I live one more day,
And I make it through the rain.

And when the wind blows,
And shadows grow close,
Don’t be afraid.
There’s nothing you can’t face.
And should they tell you,
You’ll never pull through,
Don’t hesitate.
Stand tall and say…

I can make it through the rain.
I can stand up once again.
On my own. And I know,
That I’m strong enough to mend.
And everytime I feel afraid,
I hold tighter to my faith.
And I live one more day,
And I make it through the rain.

And I can make it through the rain,
And stand up once again.
And I’ll live one more day,
And I, I can make it through the rain.
Oh yes, you can.
You’re gonna make it through the rain.

(Through the rain by Mariah Carey)

Laurelin sat in her room, with unshed tears in her eyes. She had walked back to her talen alone and seeing the Marauders together supporting each other as if they were real brothers related by blood had made her even sadder. True, her parents were still there for her, but they seldom visited, and most of the time she was alone. Most people had thought she was shy and did not want to disturb her. Even Anarrima and Serinde, who were her closest friends in Rivendell, seldom saw her as she was always busy or at least that was what she wanted them to think. She was just withdrawn from the world around her, plain and simple despite how much she wanted to deny it. She only went to functions if she had to and wanted nothing more than to avoid the other elleths her age. All they could think of was ellons and beautifying themselves. Well most of them at least, she silently corrected herself. Anarrima and Serinde were much better, however if they were interested in a male, they always went crazy and obsessed. After all the crying and such, she began to feel exhausted and slowly drifted off to sleep. However, surprisingly, or at least to her, her dreams were filled with nothing but a face with warm hazel eyes.

As Remus listened to the song, he was sad when the singing had come to an end. The voice had been filled with so much pain, sadness and emotion that Remus could not help but get touched by it. Then, suddenly remembering what he had to do and the importance of it, he set of for Lord Elrond’s office, if he could find the way. After all, nothing can be more important than innocent lives, he thought. But surprisingly again, his heart argued with his brain “Can it?”

Finally, after walking in MANY circles and going in millions of merry go rounds, he reached Lord Elrond’s office. Knocking on the door, he was surprised to see a rather erm, hassled Elrond open the door. I wonder what Elrond had been doing before he knocked. Remus smirked and Lord Elrond asked in a clearly irritated voice: “Now what is the problem, I hope it is important enough to disturb me at this time of the night.”

“Of course it is. At least I think it was more important than what you were doing just a few minutes ago” Remus rebutted, not really caring that he was teasing a esteemed lord. He just knew that he had insulted him and he would pay. Lord Elrond just glared at him and said in a definitely impolite manner: “Spit.” “Well you see, I am not sure if Gandalf told you, but I am a werewolf.” Looking at Elrond’s expression, which easily showed that he did not understand a word of what on earth Remus was talking about, he decided to explain further. “You see, at every full moon, I turn into a wolf. Then I have no control over my actions and will probably do something irrevocable. Ruining the forest, killing people, destroying homes, etc, etc”

Lord Elrond then just calmly said “I see”

Remus of course, immediately thought he was crazy because he was sure that no one in his or her right mind would after finding out that his people and possessions would be in danger just say “I see”. “Hello??? I need something that is strong enough to house me and stay standing even if I brutally attack it. Get it?” Lord Elrond just continued smiling calmly at him and said “Ok. Sure.” Remus was now definitely sure he had lost his marbles. He just grunted in anger and stalked off. “Elves” he muttered under his breath.

Lord Elrond grinned even wider when he heard Remus’s comment. Man was he in for a big surprise. He then said “humans” and re-entered his room to continue doing his erm, business.

Very quickly, the day passed and soon it was time for the prank. They met in James room this time, deciding it was better and also easier on their eyes and sanity. After they finalized all the details, it was time to set off. Each of them had memorized their spells before hand and put a chameleon charm on each other and tested it out. James would have used his invisibility cloak, but due to the fact that he had left it behind, he had no choice but to use the spell. As the guys wanted their first prank in rivendell to start with a bang, they had decided to have different pranks that were customized for each of their receivers.

Remus was the first to reach AnarrimaÂ’s talen as it was the nearest to their rooms and he silently slipped in. They had also put a silencing charm on themselves incase they were heard. Lucky for them they did, as elves had wonderful hearing, although they did not know that yet.
First, Remus put a spell on all of Anarrima’s clothes which made them say in bright fluorescent colours: “I love humans!” He also added that spell to her forehead and the sight of her sleeping with bright flashing lights on her head saying “I love humans” was nearly too much for Remus to bare. He laughed his head off and luckily due to the silencing charm, Anarrima didn’t even stir. Then, as he sifted through her things, he was surprised to notice that she was a warrior from the vast collection of weapons that she owned. Smirking to himself, he decided to make the handles VERY slippery as a finishing touch. He made a mental note to get someone to challenge Anarrima to a duel the next day in public and totally embarrass her in the crowd. He also put a sleeping spell on her that would only wear off after 6 hours. As he looked at his handiwork, he was very pleased with himself and slipped out of her talen again and back to his room.

James had also finally reached Laurelin’s talen put his plan into action. Remus didn’t like it, but the other three of them had outvoted him. He whispered the spell and smirked as he saw that it worked. He too put a sleeping spell on her that would last 7 hours. Tomorrow would totally be hilarious. He continued laughing silently to himself as he went back to his own room. If anyone had seen him, he would have made a really funny sight as he was laughing his guts out with his mouth wide open but no sound was coming out from him. ‘I crack myself up’ He couldn’t help but think as he arrogantly stared at his reflection in the mirror.

On Sirius’s side, he too had reached Serinde’s talen. However, due to his pathetic perverted mind, he had chosen at the last minute to take all of Serinde’s underwear and hang it on the roof of her talen, for the whole world to see. Then he also silently transfigured a coin he had brought along with him into a seemingly replica of Serinde. Not bad if I say so myself, he thought. He then put the replica into Serinde’s clothes closet where she was sure to find it the next day. He chuckled to himself and thought: ‘I am such a genius’. He made sure that he alos put a sleeping spell on Serinde that would last for 8 hours as that way, they could watch all of their wonderful victim’s reactions without missing out a second of it. He then slipped out of Serinde’s room and made his way back to his room with a contented sigh.

However, Peter was not as happy as the rest of them. As usual, he was left out on their prank and while the others were off having fun, he was stuck in his room talking to himself and pretending the others were there. Not that he didnÂ’t know why he was in that position, Peter had never been good at charms or transfiguration and he probably would only be more of a burden than a help. However, he still felt that it was unfair and that he deserved better. He sighed heavily but what could he do other than sigh? He was just nothing but a little mouse after all.

Next Chap: What did they do to Laurelin???

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After a really really long time, it was finally 6 oÂ’ clock in the morning and time to check on the lovely ladies. As Anarrima was going to wake up first, they quickly put the charms on themselves and hurried over to her talen. They were just in time to see Anarrima waking up. When she got out of bed, the Marauders couldnÂ’t help but stifle a giggle. She was wearing pyjamas which had a picture of what obviously was an elvish version of what seemed to be Barbie dolls. After they stifled giggles for a really long time, they suddenly realized that they had on silencing charms and they even if they laughed their heads off, she wouldnÂ’t be able to notice. They laughed even harder at this and because of their vigorous movements, Anarrima vaguely noticed some sort of outline on the wall.

Remus, being the self proclaimed smarter and more responsible one, noticed that Anarrima was looking, no staring, straight at them. He poked James, Sirius and Peter hard in the ribs, which caused them to jump even higher into the air and give a huge scream which made them even more visible. Remus rolled his eyes at them, really if the situation hadn’t been so serious, as he knew the consequences of them being caught, he would have started laughing his whole body off at the sound of Sirius and James squealing like girls. He sighed and had no choice but to petrify them. He could feel their eyes glaring holes in his back but he didn’t care. He didn’t know about them, but he definitely didn’t want to get caught pranking people after only 2 days in Rivendell. He gave them a small smirk and then stopped moving. Anarrima continued looking at them, but as she was still a bit drowsy from the sleeping charm and after staring at the wall intensely for a few minutes, she just decided that her eyes were playing tricks on her and went back on her normal business. “I really need to get back to work” she thought, “all this extra rest is making me drowsy.”

Then, Anarrima changed without blinking an eye. ‘Oops’, thought Remus, ‘I think the sleeping charm I put on her was too strong.’ He then smiled sheepishly at his friends. The rest of them just glared harder at him. Anyway back to the show. Anarrima just changed, brushed her teeth and did her hair without ever looking twice at her appearance. She then walked out of her talen and to the archery field to practice her archery as she did every day. Remus glared at her and cursed under his breath, saying something about irritating females. As a result, he was forced to levitate all three of them to the archery field too. That was when the show started to get interesting- at last. As Anarrima walked into the archery fields, all the elves around her began to stare at her. I mean, who wouldn’t? An elf, with “I love humans” plastered all around her, was definitely an interesting sight- and a sure sign that someone has officially gone insane. It was only when she got to the archery fields and all her fellow colleagues (?) started laughing their heads off and then literally started rolling on the floor clutching their sides laughing then did Anarrima began to snap out of it. “WHAT IN THE NAME OF VALAR IS SO FUNNY MAY I ASK YOU?” She was definitely not happy. The elves around her all quietened down, frightened of her wrath. Anarrima was a nice person to be around normally, but when she got angry, hell froze over.

There was a period of silence, and then someone mustered up his courage and told her: “My lady, please do not be angry, but did you take a proper look at yourself and your clothes when you got out of your talen?”

“Yes of course, I mean, I’m not sure, but I should have, I think I did, but then everything is so furry and…” The marauders laughed out loud at this, or at least Remus did, the rest just looked really really amused as they had already lost their ability to speak. Another archer then cut in “You see my lady, if you would just look then at your clothes, they have the words “I love humans” in bright florescent colours.” At this, Anarrima looked down at her clothes and to her utmost dismay, she found that it was true. The archer looking totally pleased with himself, then continued “As you probably have noticed, it wasn’t actually very easy to miss, or to pretend to have not seen it. After all, why in the name of Valar would you want to proclaim that you love humans? They are nothing but a bunch of useless fools.” At this all four of the marauders got really enraged and made a silent agreement with each other. That elf was definitely next.

“By the way, my name is Lindor, my lady.” At first Anarrima was too shocked to speak, then, she quickly recovered and got REALLY ANGRY. “WHEN I FIND OUT WHO DID THIS TO ME, I WILL PERSONALLY CUT THE PERSON INTO FIFTY THOUSAND PIECES AND GIVE HIM TO SAURON MYSELF!” At this, Sirius perked up: ‘Hey, not bad, she is willing to go to Mordor just for little old me, Awwww, I knew she could not resist my charm. Maybe we should do this more often.’ Looking at Sirius’s more than contented face, the marauders couldn’t help but roll their eyes. Trust Sirius to turn everything into a joke.

At this time, Remus thought that it would be good to show themselves now and uttered “Finite Incantatem” and all four of them appeared from what seemed to be thin air. Sirius was the first to recover and said arrogantly to Anarrima: “Good morning my lady, lovely morning isn’t it. Proclaiming your love to humans eh?” At this Anarrima got even more enrage and was about to raise her bow threateningly at Sirius who just continued saying: “Although, if I were you, I would take a good look at the mirror as you have something bright and flashing on your head. ‘I love humans’ I believe it says.” He smirked and looked to see Anarrima’s reaction. She then gave a strangled cry and ran to the bathrooms to take a look. Sirius had been correct. There was something bright and flashing on her head. In her fury, she clenched her fist and hit the mirror hard, causing it to be broken into pieces, and screamed really really loudly. Just outside the toilet, the Marauders gave each other grins and high-fived. “One down, Two more to go. Look out Rivendell, here we come”.

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After that erm, one-sided encounter with Anarrima, the boys proceeded to go check on Laurelin. After all, the great Sirius himself had concocted all those “ingenious” ideas and wouldn’t it be a pity to miss any display of their prowess? So, anyway, they were walking towards Laurelin’s talen when realized that they were seemingly walking past the same two statues for the past 5 minutes. Two identical statues to be exact- and both eerily glaring daggers at them. Then, as they continued walking on, the statues started to make noises. Finally, only after the statues shouted at the top of their voices, did the group stop walking and turn to face the “statues”.

“ ARE WE THAT TRANSPARENT THAT YOU IDIOTS COULD NOT NOTICE US AT ALL?!? OR ARE YOU GUYS JUST AS SLOW AS AN ORC!!!” The statues, which currently appeared to be elves sceamed at them. Obviously angry, their nostrils were red and flaring wildly.

Which Sirius of course thought was absolutely hilarious and started laughing, snorting loudly and hitting his head very hard at the same time. DonÂ’t really know how he did that, but hey, who cares?

And then, the whole group just had to make everything even worse by saying in unison: “Say What?” Although I think Peter really didn’t understand how statues could talk, much less scream their heads off at them.

Which really made the elves even more angry and they looked like they were about to explode from fury. However, one of them quickly calmed down and nudged the other, speaking in hushed tones. Well, technically they were just speaking normally to each other, but then the Marauders didnÂ’t exactly have the oh so wonderful elven hearing did they?

Anyway, as I was saying, the other elf had obviously fed him mental medicine or hypnotized him or something, ‘cos he quietened down considerably, and was even beaming at them. “ Well milords, what do we have here?”

“Hey Remus, I didn’t know elves were so stupid that they don’t even know what is going on now..” Sirius said in a fake whisper that was so loud even sleeping dwarfs would have heard it.

“Yes I know, isn’t that such a sad thing?”

Tired of being ignored by the Marauders, again, the elves both cleared their throats reeeeally loudly.

“Yes my lords?” Sirius and James asked together, batting their eyelashes and grinning seductively at the elves like they had seen all the girls do in the movies. Remus and Peter burst into laughter and the other two pouted and pretended to kiss them which resulted in even more laughter. Even the two elves had to join in. After all, how often is it that they are able to see a comedy act with gay humans? I don’t think they even know what ‘Last Comic Standing’ is!

Then, suddenly snapping out of it, Sirius said, “Wow, isn’t the shock totally overwhelming?”

“Ya… it’s like.. whoa.. we didn’t know twin elves could not only speak together, they can get angry together and clear their throats together!” James then gestured for the twins to come closer and then said into their ears “Hey, then do you guys bathe together too?”

At this comment, one of the twins, the apparently un-hypnotised one as he got angry with them again, turned bright red and was about to punch them really hard until his brother stepped in, literally. He held the other twin and used his butt to keep his brother away from the Marauders and said calmly to them: “I am sorry but you must be mistaken, we are not some commoner,” and then he said the next sentence pretty arrogantly “I am Elrohir and this is my brother Elladan”, pointing at his butt, oops sorry, the person next to his butt “and we are Elrond’s sons.” At that point of time, everything was going ok until Elladan foolishly insulted them, again. “Yes, and if you don’t show us due respect, you will be kicked out of Rivendell.”

“OOoooh… the lords of rivendell eh? So now pretty boy is gonna try and pull rank on us because he aint clever enough in a battle of wits eh? Bring it on then, we are soooooo scared.” Remus said teasingly, rolling his eyes. Why on earth did every single elf totally despise and look down on humans? Stupid racial discrimination, after seeing it in action this past few days, it’s really starting to get soooo old.

Elrohir did not like this and being the serious one, said warningly “Dan, if Ada finds out about this, knowing him, we will probably be the ones out of Rivendell, not them.” But Elladan, being Elladan, of course did not heed his advice, to both of their undoing. (Dramatic Music Playing in the Background)

Then Elladan, being an elf, took their words very literally and said proudly with a tinge of satisfaction, “You should be”

With that, Elrohir then sighed heavily and whacked his head with his hand. This was not going well at all.

Remus also sighed and shook his head. After all, he didnÂ’t want to make enemies but at the rate they were going, probably the whole of rivendell would be mad at them when they were finished.

Sirius too was also very anxious to got to LaurelinÂ’s talen to view their handiwork and was about to just ask them to leave them alone when a high pitched scream came from the direction of LaurelinÂ’s talen.

They clenched their fists, swore loudly and then said in unison: “Now look what you have done!”

To this, the twins just grinned widely and said: “ My, my, my. Watch your language boy, and besides, look who’s acting like twins now?”

Sirius then grit his teeth and said “Alright! Enough is Enough! Are you guys thinking what I am thinking?” To that, all James could say was “Yup, we are all thinking, how on earth could Sirius ever manage to think?” “I shall ignore you gentlemen, for it is obvious you are mentally unsound and blinded by my genius.” He paused for effect for a while and then continued. “Anyway, as I was thinking… …”

And guess what happened?

The twins suddenly disappeared in a poof of sparkly dust.

And all Sirius could say to that was: “Yes! Thanks a lot Minnie, You totally rock!”

Upon seeing this, all the Marauders could do was gape open-mouthed at Sirius and finally Remus choked on a fly that had obviously thought his mouth was a container with food and said: “ For our sanity’s sake, we are sooo not gonna ask just what, on earth just happened.

Back on plain old earth, somewhere in MacyÂ’s departmental store:

It was Christmas in the United States of America and as usual, macyÂ’s was having a special section in the departmental store where little (or big) children could have fun and even ask santa for wishes. On this day, the children were in for a big treat as they not only had one but two santas! The kids swarmed all over the Santas, pulling every single part of the Santa costume that they could find.

However, if you looked closely at the santas and beyond their great big fluffy beards, youÂ’d see that they were identical, and were elves! Why? Well, they were the two unlucky twins of course, I mean, like who else would be able to get transported to Earth against their will and still not knowing what on earth had happened?

Well, time passed very slowly at MacyÂ’s, and as the twins found that somehow, they werenÂ’t able to move, and they tried to scream but they found no sound came out so they could do nothing but sit there, and talk to the children who for some reason found it extremely interesting to talk to a guy with a white beard with absolutely no taste when it came to clothes. I mean, who on earth walks around dressed in almost all red?

Anyway, as the kids took their turns to talk to the “Santas”, the twins found that not all the children were nice and sweet. Some of them, pulled hard at their ears, determined to prove to his friends that they were fake, while some found even more pleasure in yanking their fake beards and letting it go, causing their chins to really really hurt. Others brought a whole gang to attack them, stomping on their feet and spraying whip cream all over their faces, telling the twins that it was good for their complexion, and the twins, who obviously didn’t know what in the name of valar was going on, just nodded and smiled. Which obviously caused the kids to laugh even more, after all, how often is it that they get a santa which they can bully and not get in trouble for it?

However, the little kid that the twins disliked the most was a sweet little girl, who unknowingly, sprayed saliva all over their faces when she talked, which almost made them hurl. But then, none of them had the heart to tell her that, they just kept smiling at her. After that, they couldnÂ’t even wipe their faces because they couldnÂ’t move, so they spent the whole day, looking like their faces got caught in the rain.

You know, if you had watched the whole episode like Minnie did, it sort of looked like a movie called: “101 ways to embarrass a fool!” So, Minnie as usual, got a brilliant idea and videotaped it all. Then, she let them go. After all, they had to return home to get even more embarrassed when the Marauders played the tape in Rivendell- don’t they?

Back in Rivendell

As Anarrima walked out of the toilet, still angry but feeling slightly calmer than she had before, she saw the Marauders far away and thought ‘Wow, look, it’s the human fools again!’. Wondering what they were doing when their rooms were the opposite direction, she decided to catch up, without being seen of course, and see what was going on. When she saw that the twins were talking to the Marauders, she couldn’t help but mutter under her breath “Well, dumb and dumber talking, now that’s a sight!”

Then, she sat down on the forest floor and watched the show. That was, until she heard Laurelin scream. Upon hearing what ever that guyÂ’s name was (Sirius) reaction, she narrowed her eyes. What had they done to Laurelin? Then, when the twins suddenly disappeared, her eyes narrowed to mere slits and was about to rush out and beat the life out of them when she suddenly vaguely remembered them appearing out of thin air. She cracked her knuckles and smiled devilishly to herself- if what she thought was really true, somebody or shall we say some people were soooo going to pay.

And then, she walked off to go and plot.

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hmm.. hope u guys like this chapter, anyway, will be posting the next chapter soon so stay tuned ok? Smile.. Amirel