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Post by hermoine on Jan 27, 2004 15:14:42 GMT -5
Oh this one was just as great as the previous ones. You rule Pkia!
Hm...that's an idea, setting beasts off in the commons. ;D
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Post by Jenny's Back! on Jan 27, 2004 21:42:23 GMT -5
*Hmm.. I would have never thought about that idea. ;D Thanks pkia! Hehe.. kidding, but it could make a very good rp...
Anywho, REALLY great chapter. I just love this story! hehe. It is wonderful. keep on writing!
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Post by Sphi on Jan 29, 2004 20:22:47 GMT -5
Yea! I was right about the slime!
Aw, this story just gets more and more amazing. I loved the conversation between pkia and the Slytherins. "It’s not so much a 'tradition', as a new idea." *lol* That's priceless. ;D
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Post by Will on Jan 30, 2004 22:40:57 GMT -5
Oi, I had some catching up to do. All three chapters that I just read are so brilliantly written! Like Silver had already said, the interacting between the two house and Pkia are just great. But my favourite character has to be Lord Pocket Voldie. He so cute and funny… in an evil sort of way…
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Post by potterknowitall on Feb 19, 2004 18:08:15 GMT -5
i apologize in advance for this chapter. this isn't really the sort of introduction that the person who wrote it should be giving, but i don't like it, and i feel that i should let you know that i sat on it for three weeks - intending to rewrite it, lengthen it, make the huffs seem less evil. but it won't come out right. however, it's necessary to get on with the story, so it's getting posted, regardless
Chapter 10: Gopher Wood and Feathers
After a series of close calls with Gryffindors in the corridors, and narrowly avoiding getting seen by Pocket Voldie who was prowling around on his little broom for her, Pkia finally arrived at the last set of stairs before the Astronomy Tower. There was no one around, and though she tried to hear if anyone was talking nearby by not moving and holding her breath, she didn’t know if there was anyone upstairs either. She could’ve been a day early – or a day late – but she climbed up the ladder anyway, pushing the top of the trapdoor up slowly.
“Oh, you have got to be kidding me!”
“You’re late.”
“And many birds were plucked to make your cloak, but I’m not complaining.”
Pkia climbed all the way up the ladder, and closed the trapdoor behind her after arriving at the Astronomy Tower 5 minutes past midnight. Sure enough, it was the feathery group themselves: Lirael, KoNeko and Robin, less one blue parrot. They were, again, dressed up in the costume, perhaps to look official or business-like, but really, they looked more comical to Pkia right now, with their folded arms and impatient faces. Pkia folded her arms, too, and shook her head.
“I don’t understand,” she said. “What on earth have I done to upset you? I didn’t tell anyone about our meeting in the corridor the other day, and besides that, I don’t know what else I could’ve done!”
“Really?” said Lirael, rhetorically.
“Yes. I don’t understand what this is all about, or how you managed to find this out,” Pkia said as she pulled out the small envelope that they sent her.
“We have our sources,” said KoNeko, flatly. There were a few moments of silence as Pkia waited for them to offer some sort of explanation.
“Is this some sort of game? Or test?”
“No, of course not,” said Robin.
“Would someone like to fill me in on the joke, then?” said Pkia, agitated and beginning to think that they were suddenly going to start laughing and say ‘Gotcha!’.
They didn’t.
“The joke? We thought you were the funny one, turning Nialle into a parrot and all,” replied Lirael scarcastically.
“I told you! That wasn’t me!”
“Oh, of course. Someone just happened to pull that funny prank after you saw us in the corridor in our ceremonial outfits.”
“Ceremonial outfits?” she shook her head. “I didn’t do it, I swear. It was all a joke that got out of hand.”
“I hate it when jokes get out of hand, don’t you? Wouldn’t it be funny if we dropped that letter of yours down the main stairwell? I wonder who would find it. Do you think that they would find it funny?”
“No! You can’t do that,” she said defensively, and getting even more tense at their accusations. Despite the way that she and Sands got along, and that she was supposed to be the one with wings right now, she didn’t want Sands to have to face this group on a joke that went too far.
“Look, I can’t tell you who make the potion, but I can assure you that it’s all been taken care of. I’ve had the student apologize to Nialle and assure him that he was going to be as right as rain as soon as the potion wears off.”
“Well that’s a convenient excuse. You can’t tell us who did it, or why, only that it wasn’t you, and the victim can't speak his own mind” said Robin, not entirely convinced. The group actually seemed to be believing her a bit more – at least enough to shake their confidence that it was Pkia herself for certain.
“Ask Nialle yourself,” she pleaded. “He’ll tell you that I didn’t do it. You can’t release that information without be certain that it’s me!”
Robin heaved a deep sigh and turned to the others, speaking in their strange language. Pkia just stared at them, curious, nervous, tired, impatient, irritated, and way too stressed out by the evening’s events. After a few “Gopher wood!”’s were exchanged, they nodded in agreement and turned to Pkia.
“Ok. We’ll go see Nialle, and see if he’s stopped repeating.”
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 20, 2004 1:40:43 GMT -5
*laughs* pkia, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for the new installment...
Haha! This is so cool. I wonder who our sources are...
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Post by hermoine on Feb 20, 2004 13:49:11 GMT -5
This is soo....cool!
Hmm...sources sources. I think i've got a little idea of what's going on.
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Post by Sphi on Feb 21, 2004 1:49:15 GMT -5
I was just wondering when the next chapter would be put up, actually!
I love the ending! Hehe, "gopher wood"...I wanna know what that means now. Gotta love those Huffs and their crazy language! They don't seem that evil, though; just distrustful.
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Post by KoNeko on Feb 22, 2004 3:46:43 GMT -5
*narrows eyes* What? Sphi? We're what now, untrusting? Who told you that? Do you think we're paranoid?
Heh, nah, it's just the order that does it. It's sort of... mysterious.
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Post by potterknowitall on Feb 28, 2004 22:23:28 GMT -5
another short chapter, apologies it would've been too long if i continued, so i just split what i had in half.
Chapter 11: Vitty-min C
The feathered group led the way back down the ladder and down the stairwell from the Tower. They didn’t realize that anyone else was up at that hour, and even Pkia wasn’t sure if the Gryffindors were still looking for her, or if the Slytherins were still off stealing food for the members of their menagerie. She decided it would be best if she just forgot about it altogether, because she was quite sure that explaining to the Hufflepuffs why the Gryffindors might be in cahoots with Pocket Voldie, or why they might suddenly bump into a group of oozy Slytherins – well, she just didn’t have the energy to bother. It was uncomfortably silent in the hallways, though, and Pkia spoke up to break it.
“So, just exactly what kind of group are you guys?”
“A secret one,” replied KoNeko.
“So does that mean you can’t tell me why you’re wearing the feathers?”
“What do you think ‘secret’ means?”
“That you can’t tell me?”
“Good call.”
The awkward silence resumed at this short answer, and they continued walking, not breaking pace. She could hear her shoes click on the floor, the shuffle of Nierme’s feet, the drop of Robin’s, and KoNeko’s falling in time with Robin’s. It was a long stretch from the Tower to the Infirmary – they were on opposite sides of the castle – and the click, shuffle, drop, fall became familiar. Click, shuffle, drop, fall. Click, shuffle, drop, fall. Click, shuffle, drop, fall. Click, shuffle, drop, fall, clunk.
Clunk?
Yes, she distinctly heard a pair of ‘clunk’s as they crossed the Muggle Studies classroom. She looked around anxiously, but couldn’t see anyone. She ignored it, attributing it to some beast that the Slytherins might have misplaced. The clunking stopped for a little while, but as they turned the corner, she heard a bunch of clunking again. Someone was following them, and just as she was about to turn back to the Hufflepuffs and suggest they slip into an empty classroom, she heard Natz shout:
“Get out of the way!”
“Arrr!” screamed Sands, Rita and Rikku as they dove towards the Hufflepuffs, brandishing wooden swords quite violently and waving them around.
“Release that Ravenclaw, you scurvy curs!” bellowed Sands and she adjusted her ragged pirate hat before assuming dueling position. Rita, who was blocking the Hufflepuffs from the other side, did the same thing, and glared at the Hufflepuffs quite menacingly.
“Pkia, what’s going on?” demanded Robin, who instinctively moved away from the terrible threesome.
The three Ravenclaws were wearing their regular school robes, but they seemed to have tattered the edges of them on purpose. They wore flimsy pirate styled hats, and each of them had a wooden sword which Pkia recognized as part of her collection of props in her Costume Room. Rita had, on her shoulder, a fake parrot which only managed to stay there because its feet were securely fastened with what looked like an entire roll of Spell-o-tape. Rikku was holding a hook in her left hand. The group looked quite ridiculous, and their “fierce” expressions made them positively laughable – and one might have laughed, if they didn’t look entirely prepared to use their wooden swords.
“Return that there Ravenclaw, she said!” shouted Rikku, motioning towards Pkia.
“What on earth are you two doing?” asked Pkia, who had backed against a wall. She looked around and saw Natz hanging back near the corner the pair had ran around, biting her nails anxiously. “Natz? What’s happened?”
“Don’t ye be bothering with that! Get yer hind over here, away from them foul overgrown fowls!”
KoNeko caught her nerve, finally, taking offense to the pseudo-pirates reference to their costumes. “No! We’ve got business to take care. Go find yourselves some ship to overtake.”
“Aha! Ye be trying to tell us what to do, eh? Who do you think you are?” scoffed Rita. “We’re here to save our fellow Ravenclaw from falling into your clutches!”
“No, you three, it’s really ok. I want to go with them. We need to sort something out.”
“Ah, no! Blast!” lamented Sands. “She be fallen to their powers! They’ve brainwashed her!”
“Ye’ve only got two choices, missy! Ye can come with us freely, or we can lug you off in a potato sack!”
Pkia hesitated, completely confused and caught off guard. Rita looked like she was entirely serious with the threat – she even had a sack draped over her left arm – but Pkia couldn’t understand what had come over them. She looked to the Hufflepuffs in a sort of attempt for confirmation that she could go, but they were too busy staring curiously at the group. KoNeko glanced towards her, however, and Pkia mouthed “I’ll meet you at the infirmary.” KoNeko nodded in understanding and then threw up her arms.
“Alas, we cannot fight with you fearsome pirates! We give up. Take her.”
“Aha, so ye have heard tale of our triumphs and don’t want to test us! Clever birds. Release the Ravenclaw, and don’t move for five minutes. We’ll know if ye try anything funny or attempt to follow us!”
“Oh, we know you will, Sands,” said KoNeko, humouring her.
“Sands? I’m not Sands! I’m Black Beard! Terror of the seven seas!”
And with that, she tore down the hallway, sword first, and let Rita and Rikku grab Pkia by the arms and take her with them.
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Post by En on Feb 28, 2004 23:33:22 GMT -5
*tries to breathe* This just keeps getting sillier... wahahahaha...
*catches breath and attempts a straight face*
20 bonus points for brilliant use of Waddiwassi, by the way....
*loses it and cracks up again* Ahahaha! You have no idea how funny the Huff bit was...
...how long am I going to be a blue parrot?!
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Post by KoNeko on Mar 1, 2004 6:34:13 GMT -5
*grins* Pkia, are you intending to bring out the obscurity in every single house or something? It's like living in an insane assylum or something, for you I guess! But yeah. This stuff is a really good read. Well done!
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Post by Nie on Mar 1, 2004 7:47:59 GMT -5
Well you gotta remember that for the newbies, it's generally the obscurities of each house now that give them their overall impression of each one.
Pkia, this is great! ;D I didn't realise us Huffs seemed so evil.
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Post by hermoine on Mar 1, 2004 10:07:32 GMT -5
Click, shuffle, drop, fall. Click, shuffle, drop, fall. ;D
This stuff keeps getting better and better. From where do you get these ideas?
Click, shuffle, drop, fall. Click, shuffle, drop, fall. ;D
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Post by Rubes on Mar 1, 2004 21:41:15 GMT -5
When you said you were putting pirates in, I didn't expect this
I think that 'clunk' was actually Pkia's currently empty head. She needs ideas people! Even if it is Pirates and Vikings Sorry, no large spiders named Shelob though. Pkia doesn't like that idea . So, send away.
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