Twins in the tower

[Aridan]

Aridan had sent a small letter to his sister. He had been out most of the day with Quidditch, he had been trying to help the team get back together. After the prefects left there was no captains left to run the team so it quickly fell apart. He Had loved quidditch his whole wizarding life. Both he and his sister were Muggleborns. They always had odd things happen to them as children, Aridan had once made the trashcans as his school slam into a large bully one day. Arella had a few things odd happen to her to.

Aridan remembered one year Arella was in a mood and moved while getting her hair done, and she lost a good chunk of hair. She cried the whole night but by morning the hair looked normal again. Aridan and Arella told each other these odd things but never their parents. They both received letters to attend different magical schools.

Last holiday though they both received a letter from Magic Horizons asking them to attend the magical school. Aridan was the first on the train there. He had not had any doubts or second thoughts. Arella had been second, she had friends in her old school which she liked she didn’t want to leave them but in the end she did.

Aridan stood on the cold stone waiting for his little sister to come up the steps.

[-a r e l l a-]

"Lumos" came Arella's voice at the bottom of the steps to the tower. A light shone out from the tip of her wand, lighting up the dark staircase before her.

Arella rolled her eyes, her owl Shania, had only delivered Aridan's letter minutes ago, and so Arella had t run to the Astronomy Tower from the common room. For some reason Shania didn't like to deliver mail to or from Aridan, Arella told her twin that her owl was only playing with him...but sometimes she wondered herself!

Walking slowly up the case of steps, Arella made usre to hold her wand out in front, to lead her way, and that she held her long school robes up so that she wouldn't trip. Reaching the top of the stairs she noticed her brother and smiled.

"Why...why do you like metting in crazy places?" she asked, a little out of breath from the climb

[Aridan]

“This place is not crazy.” Aridan said to her with a smirk “It is out of the way is all.” He said with a smirk seeing how much she struggled. “Dang girl you need to work out more.” He was being the normal big brother, he had to pick and poke or else she would think something was wrong. He sat down on the cold stone “So how do you like the school so far?” he ask her in a calm tone showing how bored he was.

Aridan had been planning a prank but would need his sisters help. Trouble was it involved pranking Hayzie. Though Arella liked to prank she didn’t like the pranks that were targeted for certain people, and she didn’t like it if she knew and liked the person. Aridan was hoping she would put aside her friendship for the sake of becoming head pranksters.

“I got something to ask you sis?” he said with a sweet tone, regretting it the moment iut left his mouth. Arella knew him well enough to know if he was being overly sweet he was up to something.

[-a r e l l a-]

"Maybe I did need to work out...but those stairs gave me a workout to kill!" she said, poking out her tongue, then prodding Aridan in the gut.

"Nox" she whispered, and the light on the tip of her wand extinguished it's self.

Leaning against the wall and closing her eyes she spoke quietly becuase it felt wrong to disturb the peace in the astronomy tower.

"I haven't seen much of the school...seems good though..."

Her eyes opened wide, and she turned to face her brother: Arella knew that voice: Aridan was creeping for something.

"Now what?!"

[Aridan]

“Well if you recall we made a deal with Hayzie and her pal that we would give them a run for their money in pranks right.” He said in softly shifting in his seat slightly. Arella was the younger of the two but she was good at spells, Aridan was the planner and was good at spells to but Arella had a knack for them that Aridan at times envied. He shifted again under her eyes. “I have a plan but I need you to help me.”

He was watching her wondering if she would take part in the prank. He could do the prank on his own but it would go so much better and easier if they pulled it together. Arella knew the spells as well as Aridan did, and they both had made some spells for pranking.

Aridan sighed “Remember those pictures of Hayzie I had you bring form home.” He said with a slight grin. “Well I have been working on a spell that will inter change those pictures for the ones in the hall outside the Gryffindor Common Room. He was smiling at this point. “But that’s not a good prank just a funny thing to do to a friend…” he looked down “That’s were I really need your help, I want to put a spell on the Gryffindor table in the great hall.”

He looked at her for a moment “I want to use my overgrowth spell on the table, so when they go to eat their whole table is covered in vines and small trees and such.”

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Arella's smile slowly grew and grew until it became a mischievous grin. As she watched and listened to her brother carefully, Arella imagined the scene, and started to think through all of the spells she knew that could possibly help play a part in this prank.

"I like it. What do we do?" she asked, knowing that Aridan was the planner, and she was the one who would put it into action...

[Aridan]

Aridan was glad she agreed to help him out with the prank. He moved over to her “I got my overgrowth spell and Time Elapse ready and perfected but well I think they may be to weak to do what I want to do.” He pulled her towards a seat so they could plan what they were going to do. He knew where the Common Room was, so the portrats outside would need asked to do the prank, he was sure they would it was a good natured prank on a old friend.

But the second required they make it into the kitchen and got to enchant the table before time. His time elapse spell was good but not great, it was strong enough to work on what they needed but they would only have a hour or so till it went off. He looked at his sister “Don’t you have a spell that can make illusions?” he said honestly forgetting if she had it or if it had been in a book he had read.

[-a r e l l a-]

"Well I'll leave the planning down to you as I know thats what you're good at. The illusion spell is just "Illutseon" and while you say it just think really hard about what you want the illusion to be...let me demonstrate.."

Getting to her feet, and holding her wand out Arella whispered "Illutseon", closing her eyes and thinking hard.

The scene that appeared before Aridan now was not of the Astronomy Tower, but of his old bedroom back home in London.

"See? Like it?" she asked, with a proud smile.

[Aridan]

Aridan smiled “Yes of course I do.” He said with a smug smile “Hayzie is so not going to like us is she.” He said with a laugh in his voice. He knew his sister was smart and good at making spells. He sat looking up at the the stars then he thought of something. “What about that spells we were talking about last year.” He said looking into his sisters eyes. “you know the one I mean.” He said with a smile. “Lets head to the library and see wht it will take do actually do the spell.”

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Arella smirked, as immediately she knew what prank Aridan was talking about. Last year the twins had come up with what they considered to be the prank of pranks. They hadn't been prepared to do it last year though, so had put it off vowing to use it one day.

This was the perfect time for this huge prank. It would be tough, but Arella was confident in her own abilities now, and those of Aridan.

Waving her wand, Arella chanted: "Finite Incantatum" and all current spells, the only one being the illusion she'd cast upon Aridan, ceased to be.

Reaching out her hand for Aridan to take she smiled.

"That'd be perfect...we can do it all we need is a little research...lets go...to the library!" she was so excited; adrenaline pulsated through her bloodstream. She'd been here less than a day and already Arella was planning to make her mark upon Magic Horizons.