[Flashback 4: Final Flashback]
I've been playing this silly game with them for about a week now, and each night I've been slowly digging the hole deeper, waiting for them to jump in. Tonight feels like the night.
Finally, it's time for me to act. I'll show them how out of their goddamn league they are if they think they can plot against me.
On another note, I've also finished all my preparations for my... well, calling it a prank is an understatement, but it gets as close as possible to what I'll be using to mess with them big time.
I leave the library as usual and head for the Slytherin common room. This castle is so damn peaceful yet creepy at night. I mean, it's creepy by day too, but at night, its creepiness goes up exponentially. The portraits watch your every movement, and the ghosts always pop up from random directions when you least expect them to.
Like one time, I was in the middle of taking the shit of the century, it was feeling so good that I was feeling a sense of odd satisfaction. But then this mother-fucking son of a bitch ghost moved through the stall walls as if the place is just public domain, and I literally pissed myself. Luckily enough, I was already inside a toilet, otherwise I'd have soiled myself. They've lost all decency at this point and are bored out of their minds. I bet they've spent decades peaking on others fucking, decades on gossiping, and eventually got bored of it. Now they're just creepy because they're creeps.
As I make my way, I see on my map that, as I've already expected, the four morons are preparing yet another ambush that is fated to fail.
But this time, they're stretched far enough away from one another so that I can counter-ambush them.
"Finally! I was about to get bored with waiting," I mutter happily.
See, the whole point of these past few days has been to lure them out. I can beat them up just fine, but I've prepared something much more fun.
I glance at the map and head as fast as I can for the path occupied by the Rat. Not only that, but I literally go full speed, something outside their calculations, as I've been slowing myself down these past few days to lull them into a false sense of security. I've never gone full speed.
I arrive inside an empty hallway. On the walls, I see the usual portraits, some sleeping, some eating, and some engaging in sexual activities. At night, this place turns into a display of erotica, mostly with old and wrinkly people. Anyway, I ignore everything irrelevant and focus on my task. I know exactly where the little rat is hiding, waiting for his chance to attack me and hoping to buy enough time for his friends to arrive.
Approximately 4 meters away from where I'm standing, the little shit is hiding behind a set of armour in his animagus form. This is exactly what I hoped for. If he had the balls to face me, then I'd have to let him be and try another time.
I slowly walk down the hall, pretending that I'm not aware of little Pedo Peter being there, waiting to jump on me. The little creepy shit has spent decades with children. Don't tell me he hasn't messed with them all while being there! Mess them up, Obliviate them, and return to pretending that you're a rat! Heck, he may have even interfered with Harry before the boy got a chance to shoot his shot. Well, in some universe, he most certainly has done it! I'm a believer in the multiversal world theory; otherwise, I couldn't explain my own reality.
Just as I pass him by, I notice his little shitty rat face peeking from behind the place he's hiding in. I turn around and see him grinning wickedly, and I cast a Stupefy on his hairy little ass before his slow brain can even process what's going on.
He freezes like a stuffed animal, and I slowly walk over, pick up his body, and place him inside a bottle I've prepared and am carrying around with me.
"Hahahaha, gotcha, bitch!" I can't help but say after laughing like a madman.
After securing Peter, I dash as fast as I can to the common room and enter it, only dropping my guard once I'm inside.
"Constant vigilance!" I warn myself. This world is as shitty as they come, and I don't want to die like an idiot. Well, I've been an idiot enough times already.
I place the little bastard on the table and pull out my side project. It's a very small harness, much like a BDSM one, and I'm very proud of myself since I've been working on this thing for days.
See, I created this magical harness of sorts and made sure it's unbreakable with some nasty little special effects, like a taser within it, a means for me to decide on a radius that it can move away from me. Finally, there is something that I call the 'Glitch'.
The 'Glitch' is a forceful apparition. I literally wrecked my brain on how to achieve it, and eventually succeeded in apparating things that are away from me. This feat might sound pretty useless because I need to etch runes and the like on the objects that I want to call upon, which needs preparation, but I combined it with this harness, and I hope it will work. And if it doesn't, well, no one's going to miss the rat anyway.
The main purpose of this harness is that I required a means to educate my new pet! I don't want a pet that does not behave as it should!
After quite some time and with great difficulty, I placed the harness on the fat rat and couldn't help but grin.
The moment Little Pete was released from being paralyzed, he tried to run for it, the ungrateful little bastard. But then he started screeching like a dying bitch.
"Haha! Hey, little buddy, see, you cannot escape or attack me, or even transform back!" I say with a savage grin as his beady eyes zone in on me, and I go on to explain to his stupid ass what he is wearing.
If he could, he'd probably ask me something stupid like, "Why are you doing this to me?!"
"So, in case you haven't understood the long-winded explanation, you are wearing some nifty gear! It's gonna kill you if you transform back! And it allows me to do this anytime and from anywhere I please!" I say as I zap his little ass, watching him screech in pain.
"Starting immediately, you are my pet! And I will call you Reek! You see, Reek, when I first started school, I wasn't all that well off to get myself a pet. But now, I have no intention of getting myself a substandard pet. What's the point of having a pet that's just like all the others?! A cat is useless besides for cuddling, an owl is just a flying monstrosity with one creepy-ass neck, and finally, a rat?! Well, if I get myself a rat, it has to be one especially smart rat! At least human-level smart," I say as the little rat watches me anxiously.
Meanwhile, outside the Slytherin common room, three idiots stare gobsmacked at the entrance with pure trepidation. Occasionally, they glance down at the map James is holding in his hands, their feelings mixed.
"What the fuck is wrong with this bastard?" Sirius finally explodes.
Remus looks dumbly at the map, noting Peter Pettigrew and Severus U. Prince in the same room. "I don't know why he's taken Peter with him, but we need to do something," he finally says.
"And what, pray tell, do you think we can do?!" James asks, annoyed. For a while now, all these guys brought him was endless trouble, and they weren't much help.
Sure, Sirius is his brother from another mother, but Peter was just an add-on to the group, and Remus, well, Remus was a kid who needed friends. A true Gryffindor doesn't leave anyone in need of help. But the issue here is how are they supposed to help Peter?!
"I don't know, contact a teacher?" Remus suggests after some moments of fruitless contemplation.
What can they do? They're three unregistered Animagi, and if they go to a teacher, what should they say?
"Hello, Professor, our friend is an unregistered animagus and is being held hostage?" Sirius starts talking, voicing the absurdity of their predicament.
"Sure, they'll help us, but we'll also be expelled by him because surely Snivellus will bitch about us being unregistered Animagus's! This wouldn't be a problem earlier as we could make him submit by using family and money, but now that ship has sailed." James says annoyed.
"Or should we tell the Professor that we've created a map that helps us locate everyone within the school, and with the map in hand, prove that Snivellus is holding Peter hostage?! We'll be in deep shit, but at least we'll get Peter back." Sirius adds, frustration evident in his tone.
"And we'll once more end up with being expelled! Because most likely Peter is in his Animagus form!" James says.
"Either way, we'll be expelled and fined at best, and at worst, expelled and imprisoned in Azkaban," Remus concludes with a heavy sigh.
"And then what? We leave Peter with him?!" Sirius questions, his annoyance palpable.
"I don't know, but we can't leave him alone with that bastard! Merlin knows what he's doing to our friend right now?!" Remus says in a defeated tone.
"Do you think I don't know that?!" James says angrily. He, like all of them, knows that Snivellus is out to get them. The vengeful bastard beat them up, humiliated them, and now he wants to make them submit.
"I think we need to talk to our families. This has gone far beyond mere school-level bullshit," James eventually admits, the weight of their situation sinking in.
*Collective sigh*
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