DITD: Cereal of Chaos

Characters: Harry (HP), Mandy, Grim, etc (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)

Written: 04-18-06
Edited: 04-11-11

They were trying to watch the television. Harry Potter sat in the middle of a couch in a normal, respectable muggle neighborhood. To his right was Mandy Maxwell, his best friend and occasional mistress. To his left was Grim, the reaper of death who was his friend while sometimes being his servent, serf, and slave. At the moment, Mandy had the remote control.

The channel changed just as a doctor on the television cut into a cranial bone and the loud, whinning beep caused the bones of Grim's jaw to rub together in a sound that told Harry that the living skeleton was smiling.

The channel changed again to a familiar parody. Accodring to Grim, Scary Movie was an 'unrealistic horror made humor' but Harry, personally tended to like this movie.

It was a normal moment, a scene of a regular hang out of the bored children with their ancient companion. Annoyed at a ruckus Dudley was making upstairs in the overly large boy's room, Harry was about to turn his head to ask why exactly they were hanging out at the Dursley's house while Mandy had a dish and a large screen television when they were interrupted.

There was an explosion of feathers and an unfamiliar bird came to in a whirl of wind that would have gotten his aunt to scream years ago. Ever since Petunia's nervous breakdown years back [about a month after Mandy had showed up when they were three, now that he thought about it] she seemed to skip right over anything 'not normal' and pretend it had never happened. Vernon still had the tendency to turn red, purple and then every other color most would never think possible before storming out of the room to get drunk and ignore the horrible 'freaks.'

The large man drank a tad more than he used to.

There was a red bird that had Dudley Dursley's head in his mouth. Harry made a sound in his throat that might have been 'yuck' or 'gross' but conveyed the same feeling of disgust. The poor bird.

A raised eyebrow was the only physical sign he showed off, prefering to keep his thoughts to himself and letting Mandy handle everything. He wasn't exactly her serf or anything, but she was a bad ass and even he could admit her slightly frightening nature to everything. He just stayed out of her way and took care of the three of them his own way. Harry knew that he would have run away from Privet Drive years ago if it wasn't for the Maxwells moving to England, but his aunt insisted he stay, even if she seemed to detest him and everything about him.

Harry knew not to let it bother him though because he had no love for the woman either. It made no sense but he let it stand. It's not like he was abused anymore or anything. He got everything he asked for, and though he had to put up with Piers and Dudley with thier stupidity around the supernatural, it did turn out occasionally entertaining. Besides, he usually stayed with Mandy anyways, the extra room at her house being totally furnished by her parents who were wrapped around each other for him upon her demanding nature.

Years back, right before Grim had become thier friend for eternity, his uncle's sister's dog, Ripper, had died. When Grim showed up to take him, let's just say that Mandy won a limbo contest and leave it at that.

[It had not been that she liked the dog. It was fact that Ripper was hated even by Petunia Dursely nee Evans, but Grim had taken Mandy's chance of poisoning the little mutt.]

Watching the bird fly around and sqwack while still holding Dudley 'hostage,' his thoughts on the red and gold bird were changing from amused to annoyed. Though he hoped it swallowed Dudley, and choked on him killing them both, he couldn't ignore that it had smashed into the television.

Dumb bird should be given to Grim to play with.