"Mm, what is this?" wondered a boy, who was sitting quietly reading a book. On his table, a small brown sphere fell and rolled until it collided with his book.
As the pale-skinned boy was about to pick up the small sphere, it exploded releasing one of the most unpleasant smells the boy had ever smelled in his short life. In addition, a thick, brown smoke quickly spread through the place.
This didn't just happen to him. In a matter of seconds, several dungbombs exploded in the Slytherin common room, which went from silent and calm to being engulfed in screams and a curtain of foul-smelling smoke.
"Let's hurry. Let's take advantage of the smoke from the bombs!" shouted Sirius as he ran under the cloak. As he emerged from the hallway that was still heavy with smoke, he smiled a wicked grin as evil smile as he took in the scene before his eyes.
The brownish-transparent smoke generated by the dungbombs was still visible. It wasn't like the smoke created by Fumos, so he could watch as the Slytherin students screamed, coughed, and tried to escape to somewhere safe.
"Fumos!" exclaimed James and Sirius again.
When the smoke came to cover them they pulled back the cloak and began the bombing. They both had a bag full of dungbombs. James just in case, threw Fumos again, to make sure no one could see them.
"Let's have fun, guys!" exclaimed Sirius as he threw five dungbombs at once.
At that moment, true chaos broke out in the Slytherin common room. Dozens of dungbombs hit every corner of the common room. Many hit the students in the face and exploded leaving them with a foul smell.
James was throwing stink bombs masterfully, although he couldn't see through the smoke, he could be guided by the screams, to make sure he hit the snakes.
The smell of the dungbombs, besides affecting everyone present, clung to the curtains, seeped into the crevices of the furniture, and wafted throughout the room.
Many girls shrieked angrily. However, they had to keep quiet. Otherwise, the smell would end up coming in through their mouths.
The brown smoke and Fumos smoke created a scene where no one could see anything, making it difficult to escape from the common room or go to the dormitories. On the other hand, the boys' dormitories were no longer a place to pass through, as they were filled with a putrid smell.
'I hope I hit Narcissa in the face,' thought Sirius as he continued to throw bombs. He still had plenty of them.
The three of them moved together, and James had the invisibility cloak ready, as they had to tread carefully now that everything was chaos and they didn't have much vision.
As they dropped more bombs, the smell coalesced and got worse and worse, to the point that many students were coughing a lot and had red eyes from all the toxic brown smoke.
"Cof, cof, cof, cof, cof," Rabastan coughed, kneeling on the floor, there was no place where the foul smell did not reach. He wanted to flee through the portrait, but because of the smoke, he couldn't find it. At first, he covered his mouth and nose, but it was impossible to breathe. He already felt his whole being contaminated inside.
Some older students tried to cast charms to clear the smoke and be able to find the culprit or minimally escape since the smell could not get rid of, but when they managed to dissipate the white smoke, more smoke appeared out of nowhere and the process was repeated, they even became targets of dungbombs.
"Shoot that one. He wants to disperse our precious smoke!" said Sirius as he saw a student making a great effort to cast a spell.
The poor student got six stink bombs all over his body, then disappeared through the brown smoke.
"These caps won't hold out long," said Lupin, noting that he could smell a bit of stench.
"Just five more minutes," Sirius said without stopping waving his arm and throwing dungbombs, practicing for the day he had to make the quidditch team.
After a frantic five minutes, the bombing ended. Every corner of the Slytherin common room was infected by a foul smell, no furniture was spared.
The three culprits put on their invisibility cloaks and began to walk through the smoke that still lingered, looking for the exit. After a few minutes, they managed to find the exit. It was easy to get out as many students were leaving as quickly as possible.
James as he left the common room, could see a large number of Slytherin students outside with disgusted faces. Some affected them worse, coughing non-stop with red eyes and nasty expressions.
'Will they be okay... right?' wondered James, looking a little surprised at everyone's faces who looked like terminal patients in a hospital. Lupin had the same surprised look on his face as James.
How there was a large amount of smoke, they couldn't see how the dungbombs affected the Slytherin students. They never thought it would be that bad. They didn't calculate that the fusion of 100 dungbombs would create a new, even more disgusting smell.
The three boys looked at each other with worried faces. They quickly fled the scene under the invisibility cloak. No one said anything on the way they had to get to their common room as quickly as possible.
Arriving at the portrait of the fat lady, they waited for someone to arrive and say the password. They could have come out of the invisibility cloak, but they didn't want to leave any proof that they were outside at the time the attack happened.
After five minutes a tall girl said the password and entered through the hole. They took advantage of this opportunity and followed her. Without stopping they went to their dormitory, where Toby and Peter were waiting for them.
"Did everything go alright?" asked Peter as he noticed the door open by itself. Out of nowhere, James, Sirius, and Lupin appeared.
"Yes..." said James as he closed the door. Holding up his invisibility cloak, he noticed that it didn't permeate any stinky smells.
'That's weird... it should have a foul smell...' thought James in confusion as he sniffed his cloak, but it was as if nothing had happened to it. It was better for him anyway, since he wouldn't have to wash it or anything.
"It was..." said Sirius as he pulled his nose plugs out of his nose and threw them away from him.
"Amazing!" he shouted then started laughing. Even though he saw the Slytherin students red-eyed and coughing a little, he knew it wasn't very serious. Toby had had worse done to him, though it was just Rabastan and his gang.
"It was frenetic..." said Lupin, feeling his heart beating fast.
"You should have seen Rabastan's face," said James with a faint smile.
Knock, knock, knock.
As they were talking about how the prank went off perfectly, someone knocked repeatedly on the door. James got up and opened it curiously.
"Guys, it's urgent! Something really big has happened in the Slytherin common room!" shouted a boy that James and the others recognized. It was Ben Ray, a first-year Gryffindor student.
'Did the prank spread that fast?' thought James in surprise.
"Oh... What happened?" asked Sirius, pretending to be interested.
"I don't know the details, but there are a lot of people heading to the Slytherin common room. Let's go," Ben said, waving his hand, and they all followed him. Sirius previously told them about the incident in the bathroom, but now Ben took it upon himself to tell them about this incident.
As they left the common room, James could see many people from all the houses, heading in the same direction as them. He had a bad feeling. It had only been fifteen minutes since they had left the Slytherin common room, and already there was so much commotion, it wasn't a good thing.
Lupin noticed this too and his expression became more worried. The only one walking with a slightly victorious smile was Sirius, who was pleased with his creation.
As they reached the corridor near the snake portrait a large crowd was blocking the view, not letting them see what was going on.
"Excuse me, excuse me, thank you. Let me through," Sirius said as he led the way for the marauders and Ben.
As they reached the front of the crowd they could see that the snake portrait was open and there were a large number of professors: McGonagall, Slughorn, Sprout, even Madame Poppy, who had a very furrowed brow, but the person who caught James' attention the most was an old man with white hair and a big beard. He had crescent-shaped glasses and light blue eyes.
'The headmaster?' thought James.
"This is not good..." whispered Lupin in James' ear.
'Maybe... did we go a bit too far?' thought James as he looked at the Slytherin students with pale faces and red eyes. Every so often more students came out. Some are in a better state than others.