Neutral Omens

Luna had woken up rather late this morning, as she had been up late last night trying to get her Arithmancy sums correct within an hour of the setting moon. She made her way down to the little restaurant on the first floor without incident. Not that she was expecting any incidents, prankful or otherwise, to occur.

Yawning hugely, she opened the door to the restaurant, and was greeted with a bucketful of green jelly. A bucketful of green jelly that had, more precisely, fallen on her head. She blinked, mouth still open in mid-yawn. Luna touched her cheek with a finger that came away green. She stared at her finger for a moment. Then she placed her fingertip in her mouth, licking the goo off.

"Mmm. Lime. My favourite."

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Destruction grinned hugely from his place on the window across the hall, whence he could just see the girl being jellied. Seeing that she wasn't moving further into the room, he called out "Hey, can you come over here? I need your help with something."

After all, it wouldn't do to have a guest not experience the full potential of April Fools Day.

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Luna thought she vaguely recognized the man who was standing near the window across the hall. Ah! Yes, it was... actually, she'd never gotten his name. Luna shrugged and called back, "Sure. What do you need my help for?" She walked towards him, but not really paying attention to where she was going, as she shook most of the jelly off. With a muttered "Scrougify!" she was mostly clean, but she still could feel a bit of jelly squishing between her shoulderblades.

Poor Luna never got a chance. With a surprised "Oof!" she was on her bottom, having slipped on what seemed to be... a banana peel?

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Destruction laughed out loud as Luna's foot slid across the floor. And hit a tripwire...

"We are the Champions" blared out across the manor loud enough to wake the dead, and certainly enough to wake the voluntarily corporeal.

Destructions eyes crossed. It suddenly occurred to him that it may have been a good idea to invest in a pair of earplugs. Too late, however - the shock of the sound-wave blast toppled him right out of his perch on the windowsill. He landed on a rollerskate and careened across the room until he smacked into a doorframe, where he sat down abruptly.

Peals of surprised Endlessly laughter almost but not quite drowned out the music.

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It was a good thing Luna was already on the floor. She winced as the loud music cut across the whole space of the restaurant and almost cried out "Silencio!" But as the large man sat there laughing, she decided against it, and instead Transfigured the banana peel into a pair of earplugs, which she promptly stuffed in her ears*.

Carefully avoiding the booby traps that she was now looking out for, she made her way over to him, and held a hand out to help him up. "Hi! I'm Luna!" she shouted as loud as she was able.

*Her ears would be smelling of banana for days. Not that it was really a problem.

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"D- Uh, William!" He shouted back. "Isn't it beautiful?"

With that he took her extended hand... only to pull her down onto the floor beside him with a wide grin.

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Luna landed on her bottom for the second time that day. "Ow!" To say that Luna was surprised would be correct.

Cocking her head, she looked carefully at him. "Any relation to Fred and George Weasley, Duhwilliam?!" she shouted at him.

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"No," Destruction smirked. From the context he guessed that he would have if he still occupied his former role. Oh, well. "Perhaps you could introduce me sometime."

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Adam walked in, hands over his ears, and neatly sidestepped the rigged buckets of jelly. Catching sight of Luna and Destruction on the floor, he laughed.

"Hey there!" he yelled, grinning. "Did you do this?"

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"Who, me?" Destruction tried to look innocent. "Would I be sitting on my arse without earplugs if I had?"

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"Yes," said Adam smiling. "I expect you would. Do you think we can turn it down just a little bit?"

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"Um... if you can find the stereo." Destruction glanced across at said machine, which was surrounded by rollerskates, bananapeels and an intricate network of greasy string which he felt he mgiht have gotten slightly carried away with.

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There were very few things that Wednesday liked less than getting up the morning after he had drank a little too much Jimmy Beam.

But as 'We Are the Champions' played loudly throughout the Manor, he relized that this was, indeed, worse.

Someone would pay for the indignity of playing 'And bad mistakes... I've made a few' after he has just woken up with the worst hangover since prohibition.

He walked into the bar and... Big Surprise, there was Destrution. He saw the red-head grinning at a girl and talking to the antichrist. The banana peels, jello, rollerskates, and waxed string reminded him of his last get-together with Freyja, but realizing that fertility godesses just weren't that kinky anymore, he figured it must have some other meaning.

He stepped gingerly into the room, (or as gingery as a 6'+ muscley old god can) only to have a rake flip up from the floor and whack him in the head. With unexpeted trajectory, his glass eyeball flew through the air, landing in, what else? but a glass full of anonymous liquor that must have been left out from the night before. Covering the empty socket he yelled at Destruction. "So what's the occaison, Kjöt Höfuð?"

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Destruction nodded with approval at the flight of the glass eyeball and waved cheerfully at Wednesday. "Happy April Fools, old friend! A bit of a newfangled tradition, but..." he shrugged and spread his arms as though to indicate that the surrounding chaos was worth it. "Come join us!"

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Adam made his way gingerly through the room avoiding all the traps and pitfalls until he stood in front of the stereo. Locating the volume knob, he turned it down to a tolerable volume, and ears still ringing came back to where Destruction and Luna were sitting.

"This is pretty funny," he said. "I didn't think of doin' anythin' for April Fool's Day. Did you fool anyone else yet?"

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Luna sighed with relief as the blonde boy turned down the Muggle radio, and popped the earplugs out of her ears.

"Maybe," said Luna. "Sometime."

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"Well, apparently he fooled that old guy over there." said Luna, pointing.

"April Fool's? Oh, so that's why!" said Luna. "I thought it was because, well, some friends of mine had come visiting."

"By the way, I'm Luna." she said, extending an arm, still sitting on the floor.

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Luna giggled when the rake whacked the old man on the head, and started laughing out loud when his eyeball flew through the air, only to land in a glass full of liquid. "That's... that's really funny!" said Luna, gasping, in between bursts of laughter.

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"Hallo, Luna," said Adam taking her hand. "I know who you are. We met at the Halloween party. How have you been doing? Enjoying your stay in Tadfield?" He looked at her for a moment. "Would you like some help up?"

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One-eyed, Wednesday's depth perception was somewhat lacking, so he wasn't completely surprised when he practically fell on his ass via roller-skate. Somehow, though, he managed to stay vertical. He looked at Destruction, the entity was enjoying this.

"April Fools, eh?" Wednesday felt he had a good idea who the 'fool' in question was as he watched Destruction proudly indicate the mess.

"Alright, I think I will join you." He grinned the way Fenris wolf would right before he chomped down on his ragnorok snack*. Seeing the trip-wires attatched to the jukebox, he yanked on one- tipping the wirlitzer nearly on top of Destruction's head. The song abruptly changed to "Another One Bites the Dust.'

*which was to be Odin, as it turned out

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Wednesday turned to Luna, then. "Oh, I didn't see you, young lady," Feeling suddenly Loki-like, he reached into his pocket, pulling out a bright, shiny coin. "You look like a wizard, my dear. Maybe I can offer you this rare and magical coin. I've had it for ages but have never had much use for it."

Slowly making his way to Luna, he offered her the coin. "You have to be careful, though. Are you familiar with Nordic spells? Sidr? Very powerful. Just repeat after me: 'ÉG munu Baulabaul eins og a kýr'and you'll learn the secret of the ages."

Of course, what he didn't tell her is that the secret of the ages was that the world began when Audumla, the cosmic cow, licked God and the giant Ymir from a huge block of salty ice. Therefore, the fact that this spell actually caused a person only to be able to 'moo' was more of a hint than an actual revelation.

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"Yes, please. He" said Luna, pointing at Destruction, "pulled me down. Not that it wasn't funny," she added.

"Oh, yes, I remember now. Adam, isn't it? And it's been nice so far, although I've been rather busy trying to find Crumple-horned Snorkacks."

"I see that you're still pretty clean." Luna Summoned a bucketful of red jelly, but directed it to Adam at the last second.

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"Hmm. Well, how much do you want for it? It looks pretty valuable, sir." said Luna.

"I've heard about Nordic spells, but I've never seen one in action, as yet. It would be interesting."

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"Oh I think you'll find it very interesting, young lady. You look like just the type of person that could handle Nordic spells. Only very intellegent people can really handle them, so you should do just fine."
Wednesday smiled.

"Well, you're right, it is a very valuable coin... hmmm... perhaps you might be able to help me. Sometimes I need help for my magical spells. Maybe you could find time to help an old man with his magic?" Wednesday took the coin and placed it in her hand. "Just repeat after me, my dear. "ÉG munu Baulabaul eins og a kýr."'

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