*Seen through the eyes of Shayna*
It was chaos, absolute chaos, and that is not a good thing for a student of Order. Nikisa was fine, in fact she was thriving on this, but not me. The others don't care one way or another I know, this isn't their area but still.
*Meh. I'll survive* Shayna thought to herself.
*Why ever would you not, Shay?* a voice said inside her mind.
"Because its Nikisa's place in all this chaos. Its making My head spin." I told my friend Megan.
*C'mon silly.* Megan thought to me as she motioned for me to follow her and I obeyed, she had never steered me wrong before. Megan led me to a brick wall in-between two of the train platforms. Megan turned to me then as an image formed in my head of swirling orange and brown seen through a window beside a door, and somewhere in all those colors was a black box that had no color inside it. The image was from Megan of course and I took it as a warning of what was coming. Megan grabbed my hand then and dragged me all wide-eyed friend right into the wall, and through. Beyond the bricks was another train platform, and it was just as Megan predicted it would be like. People walked to and fro climbing into and out of a large red steam engine that had the name 'Hogwarts Express' written on it, all the while talking and shouting as loud as they could. It was, if possible, worse then the rest of the station. Megan continued to lead me, and she was humming a calming spell around me so I guess it wasn't too terrible the chaos was lessened a bit by the chant. She lead me to an empty compartment and I gratefully fell asleep on the cushions.
*General view*
Back outside Megan exited Platform 9 3/4 and returned to the rest of the group. Not a one of the eight girls asked where she had gone too, or Shayna, they simply knew better. After 10 years together at the ABBA Academy they learnt a lot about one another. For example, Shayna is incredibly bright and a great actress, though she's also very shy. She's also fairly strong in her magic as are all the others, but with her intense sensitivity, even a slight disorder is slightly taxing on her. Whereas Nikisa, her counterpart in Magic talked a lot, and her power is more accidental, in her field of magic she needs disorder for it to work, at all. Strangely the two of them are great friends and often spent hours talking to one another. All the girls are very special in their magical abilities. Most if not all witches and wizards go to school and find that there are many different classes to go to, like Charms and Transfiguration. Yet in these eight girls, the very mysterious 'they' found something different, something older and much more powerful. In these girls rested the eight spirits of nature, powerful magic was welled within them and defined them in their characteristics as was never seen before. Shayna had Order magic, Nikisa Chaos. Megan had Light magic, Kate Dark, Holly Air, Robyn Earth, Stacy Water, and Krista Fire. Each had a temperament to match and they were all very powerful, beautiful and strange. With their powers came other characteristics that they had to hide lest they be persecuted as being different. Krista's short dark hair was usually long fiery tongues of flame that flowed around her face and highlighted the two burning orbs that were her eyes. She is also extremely tall and back in the train station she was the radiating point for all of them to gather around.
*Seen through the eyes of Krista*
I was trying to organize all my friends together before the all disappeared, and especially Megan, since she was the one who claimed to know where they were supposed to go.
"Hey chicka!" I yelled when I spotted my light haired friend in the crowd, "C'mon, where are we going?" In answer to my question Megan crooked her finger and started leading them back the way she had come. Without too much of a problem they got onto platform 9 3/4 just as the conductor yelled "All aboard!" Without any thoughts of keeping together the seven girls ran, everyone for themselves, and jumped on at different points of the train.
*Seen through the eyes of Shayna*
I felt the train moving beneath me when I started to waked up. When I opened my eyes I saw two more, belonging to someone else, looking quite concerned, right in front of my face.
"Welcome back sleeping beauty." Nikisa joked as her orange colored eyes danced with mirth at her pun.
"Where are the others?" I asked sleepily as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and also their blue green coloring, which left my eyes black as night.
"Haven't shown up yet, but I decided to wait for you before going to look for them."
"That's good..." I said as the door to our compartment opened and a strange boy stood looking in. His eyes glowed amber in the slight light of the train and they looked disappointed.
"Sorry." he mumbled as he started to leave.
"Wait!" Nikisa said, "Have you seen any strange girls wandering the train?"
"Not really, unless you mean that tall chick with the reddish eyes. Do you?" he asked.
"Yeah, where did you see her?" I said standing up.
"Oh she was beating up some prissy boys near the front of the train."
"Thanks." Nikisa said as he left.
"Let's go get Krista, before she kills someone." I said as we left the compartment.
*Seen through the eyes of Megan*
I was loitering outside a compartment, when a person came flying through the wall beside me. I bent and helped the huge boy to his feet and sent him off towards the back of the train. He was soon followed by another huge boy and small scrawny fellow with blonde hair. I leaned through the tear in the wall to look at my friend and shook my head at her. In answer to my unspoken, unthought question, the wall closed up in front of me, repaired. I entered the compartment, through the door, and sat opposite my fire-eyed friend and took the fire laced glance with my own golden orbs.
"That helped" Krista said ending the glare, "So where did you hide our Shayna?" she asked me as she rolled her shoulders to get the kinks out.
I shook my head in exasperation, and got up. With a sigh I opened the door and looked at my friend again, raising my eyebrows.
"Lead on." she said as she followed her friend out and down the corridor, "Hey isn't this the way 'they' went?"
I just had to grin back at her, I knew I wouldn't let her do anything. Shaking my head again, we continued on. In the third car we came too, we heard the sounds of some sort of fight going on in one compartment. Without thinking I just opened the door, and was hit with 5 different spells at the same time. The weirdest sensation went through my body as my legs became all wobbly, and well the rest of my froze stiff, then I started feeling sick to my stomach, and I had the worst head ache ever, and I think I smell smoke.
*Seen through the eyes of Krista*
I was totally ticked off by this. Poor Megan, her shoes are on fire and she looks terrible. I could feel the fire building in my veins as I squeezed by my ailing friend into the compartment. The three boys I had beaten up earlier were there, along with two more I don't recognize, one with messy black hair, who was kind of cute, the other had red hair that matched with one of the two girls that were also in the compartment, the other had straight brown hair. I glared at them all letting all the fire out through my eyes, at least figuratively. All seven of them shrank away from my gaze.
"What do you think you are doing?" I asked, and I almost broke my glare and laughed at that, I sounded like a mother, a ticked off mother that is. None of them answered. "You, 'children' in your pathetic squabbling have hurt a dear friend of mine." I said solemnly, "The three of you know what happens now, don't you?" I asked just the three as they sank further into the seat they had fallen into, they all looked rather pathetic, hardly worth my time, but then again Megan was still magicked, so some sacrifices to dignity had to be made, "And you four are going to find out." I said as I felt my red eyes burst into flame.
"WAIT!" a yell came from the hall. Shayna and Nikisa crowded in the door with Holly, Stacy, Robyn and Kate in behind them.
"Krista, stop it, you know how your fighting gives me a migraine." Shayna said with a quiet voice that caused the people inside to start at its force.
"Besides darling, Megs fine." Holly said.
"And besides again, we can't let you have all the fun." Stacy pouted, as Megan came into the compartment. She plopped herself down in between the two new boys and put her arms around their shoulders.
"But?" I started. Megan gave me that look.
"I..." look.
"C'mon..." look.
"Please?..." look...
"FINE!" I yelled finally and I sat down opposite of Megan, between the blonde haired boy and the red haired girl.
"Okay, no matter how entertaining this is, we're late, and Mademoiselle McGonagall is expecting us right away." Kate said speaking up for the first time.
"Dang, we weren't supposed to take the train, Megan." Nikisa said, a happy glint in her eyes.
"Yeah, well how do you suggest we get there, now that we're here?" Holly asked, though I'm sure she already knew the answer.
"Why we'll board of course." Nikisa said as she crossed to the window of the compartment and flung it all the way open. I figured she might do that as I pulled my fire board out of its hiding place. The others pulled their assorted boards out of wherever they had stashed them. Stacy's was slightly different in that, it was more of a surf board then a snow board. With a withering smile at the people in the compartment I jumped backwards out of the window, followed by the others. As we disappeared from view.
*Seen through the eyes of Stacy*
I'm sure those poor students in there think we all just killed ourselves. I thought to myself, laughing maniacally as a gust of wind caught my board and lifted me up into the clouds behind my friends. Home once again in the clouds on my board we started carving our way towards the Hogwarts castle. I could almost feel the two forces we were being carried by, as I traveled down one cloud to slope up the next crest. One force is the wind that always seems to be in our favor, making killer waves out of clouds for me. The other force is like this beam of light that we're following. I know that it's actually Megan and her pets. As the Sorcerous of light she attracted two golden Pegasus. I still remember that. Megan was cavorting among the clouds just after we had made our sky boards, and she had just found her true form with a bit of help from me, of course. Anyways as she was carving up some nice sundaes she hit something, on of the Pegasus' and then she went back to heal it, fell in love and found the other one when she let it lead her to its home. Megan has turned into her true form I think. Yeah she's hopped off her board onto one of her steeds. We all have true forms of course, but not all of us can to function properly in those forms. Like me. I can't operate in my true form, unless I were in the water. I think it has something to do with the fact that my true form looks like a mermaid. Megan, the lucky girl, can function in all environments.
Hey is that Hogwarts? Well that only took a couple of minutes. Megan must be using her powers to make us travel as fast as light, I knew I felt that pull. We must also be invisible to all who looks towards us. Megan's so thoughtful she would think of that right away. Well time to get out of the clouds and back to reality. Once we landed on the front steps, Megan returned to her other form, and we all walked inside. Why do I have this feeling, like we're forgetting something.
*Seen through the eyes of Professor Dumbledore*
"Where have those girls gone too? They missed the portkey." Professor McGonagall pouted. I was in my office awaiting our missing transfer students, and the Professor was keeping me company, in a matter of speaking, "And those boys too, why I think that they never received that last letter telling them not to come on the train..."
"Professor McGonagall, I am certain that they will all find a way to arrive safely, in the mean time we should get the other students settled in, I believe the train will be arriving soon." I told her as I stood and motioned her towards the door. A flash appeared somewhere behind me as we started walking, when I turned to see, I saw an image of a pretty girl winking slightly at me, she quickly disappeared.
"Well I guess they've come then, I do so hope they haven't gotten into any trouble." McGonagall said as we both hurried down to the Entrance Hall where our out of the country guests were gathering. Once we had made it down the seven or so flights of stairs we saw the huge crowd that had gathered just inside the door. I easily picked out the eight Canadians from the crowd, they were the ones that didn't wear any robes of any kind, those outfits are rather bright in that crowd of dark colors. The all wore jeans of different colors and designs, and the group wore t- shirts or long sleeves of varying style. One of them wore a blue vest with its hood up. Lots of them also had sweaters tied around their waists, it must be the style in Canada. They were dancing as well, but no one else seemed to hear the song. Well at least some of them are having a good time. I think they must have seen us, they're stopping and looking at the Professor and I with their strange colored eyes. Time to welcome the whole lot of them I guess, as I clear my throat to get the attention from the others gathered in the room.
"We are pleased to welcome you all to Hogwarts for this year. I'd like to explain a little something before the other students arrive. Before the feast you all will be sorted into houses, though this is usually only for first years, you are included since this is your first year at Hogwarts. I'd ask that you bear with us all, there are a lot of you so it will take some time, and we also have first years from England to sort and so I shall be putting a spell on the entire ceremony to speed things up. Over the summer we have made renovations and there is a room for all of you there by the Canadian bunch. So please enter while we await the others." I said in my grandest voice.
'Do you mind if we go outside?' came a soft voice from nowhere. I nod my head and then watched in amazement as the eight girls from Canada left through the huge doors. Strange bunch, I wonder how I heard them...
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
The train is pulling up in Hogsmede for another year, me and my three friends Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, so got off the train first, I'm so hyped to be back, despite those weird events on the train. We said the usual 'Hullo' to Hagrid as he gathered the first years around himself, and now we should go get a carriage. I'm home. I was so into the fact that the castle was in front of me as we walked up the many steps to the front doors, but something strange is happening. Everyone's stopped, and Whoa! Who are those girls, and are they... dancing? Hey those are the girls from the compartment. I can feel the rest of the school behind me, but I just can't stop staring. There are eight of them. Eight girls in Muggle clothing dancing on the front steps of MY school? That's like sacrilegious. The girls stopped their dancing, I think they heard the number of gasps that escaped the crowed behind me. They all turned and smiled at us, then entered the castle. I think they were giggling amongst themselves, I hate it when girls do that. We all followed dumbly as we entered the Great Hall and awaited the sorting to start for another year.
"Hey does the Hall seem larger to you?" Hermione asked. Craning her neck around.
"Yeah, it does, hmmm..." Ron said examining the Hall as well. But then McGonagall entered and behind her came lots more students then the usual group of first years. Most of them aren't even wearing the uniform. What's up with that? Dumbledore's standing as the large mass of people approached the front. Good, I think he's going to explain this.
"This year, due to Voldemort's return, many smaller schools from around the world were forced to shut down. These school-less students have been divided up among the larger schools, and Hogwarts has decided to take many of them here. We have done some major renovating to accommodate them all. Now, new students when Professor McGonagall calls your name please step forward to be sorted. Thank you." at his words a great many whispers sprang up around the Hall, I had my own doubts about this arrangement, but we all quieted down when the sorting began. Ashley Ahrens was first and was sorted into Ravenclaw, then an Aaron fellow and a Kevin who were sorted into Hufflepuff. Then the bright blonde girl from the train, who answered to 'Megan' was sorted into Gryffindor. That was odd, I don't know why she would be put into Gryffindor, but then again, I don't know why many of my classmates are here. The sorting continued, name after name, and it all seemed to go by much faster then usual despite the great number. By the end of it all of those strange girls were with us in Gryffindor. I just hope they don't make trouble for us. I wonder where they are from. As everyone started eating we all started learning more about our new students. The muggle dressed girls are from Canada and the one named Robyn claimed to be from Nod or something, I don't think I got that but it must explain their weirdness factor. I never did trust the western countries. Then there were the twins who were from Ireland, a small group from the Sudan, wherever that is, I really need a globe. There was another large group who was from New Zealand or something. Megan's not talking much. Her friends are though. Quite a lot actually. I think I should try to have a conversation, um maybe I should apologize for earlier on the train.
"Um, hi, Megan, isn't it?" I said haltingly, I'm really no good at this whole thing. She nodded her head at me and looked at me, she seems quite calm, through her strange golden colored eyes.
"So, where did you live before coming here?" I asked, I think I already know this but oh well.
She didn't answer me, what did I do wrong, is she deaf? No then what? Hey are her hands moving? Yeah they're shaped like a letter 'W'.
"West, like in the Americas?" I asked catching on. She nodded.
"Where?" Now her hands are pointing upwards.
"Canada?" nod. Cool I'm getting the hang of this!
"Cool, are all of your friends from there too?" nod.
"So why don't you wear robes?" I asked stupidly. Um, she's not answering,
"It's not comfortable to wear robes in Canada, its either too hot or too cold," Kate answered, she must have heard my question, but why didn't Megan answer? "Plus we don't have a school per say, instead we learn our magic at night in our home and during the day we go to muggle school."
"Oh, why doesn't Megan talk?" I asked of Kate.
"Um, well, we aren't sure, she doesn't talk about." she joked then she turned back to her own conversation with Nikisa and Seamus. So turning back to Megan, I decided to talk to her more, I'm too interested to give up now.
"So what year are you all in?" I asked.
She held up six fingers.
"Cool, you're in our year." I said motioning to Hermione and Ron. This is interesting I wonder how much more I can learn about you eight. Hey is she grinning? But why? She couldn't have heard me, but it feels like she had, weird.
*Seen through the eyes of Hermione*
I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep tonight. Twelve new students in our grade, eight girls and six guys. I mean, yeah that's good and all, this'll even the field more between guys and girls, but I'm not sure about these new girls. I think I can hear a few of them talking or something now. I don't think Megan's spoken a single word, she just looks at people with her golden eyes and uses her hands to convey answers, or else one of her friends answers for her, and its weird you know. They're all eccentric, and their clothes, I've never thought that anyone wouldn't wear robes at Hogwarts, this is just weird. All the other new students wore some type of robes, why couldn't these girls, its throwing off the balance of everything. There is definately something odd about them. What is that pretty music? Whoa! What on earth? Megan's sitting on air, and a cd's floating in front of her. Is that where the music's from? What's that red light coming from her fingers? Is she meditating? Megan saw me! Wait, she's waving? I shrink back, and listen to the song, it is really beautiful, I think I'm falling asleep.
*General*
As day dawned on Hogwarts, and a new day started, the terrible trio went down to the Hall at their usual time and sat together at the Gryffindor table. The trio was slowly eating their large breakfast. They were joined by a spattering of students from other common rooms, and some other Gryffindors.
Without warning the early wakers were jolted out of their quiet reverie by a very, very, very large explosion. All of the windows that allowed sunlight to shine into the Hall shattered inwards. Most of the windows broke by some unseen force, but one in particular broke because of the body that crashed through it and fell onto Gryffindor table, sliding almost the entire length only to stop by Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, who had just joined them.
*Seen through the eyes of Ron*
Robyn!? Isn't she one of the quieter Canadian girls? Why on Earth is she crashing through the windows? She's shaking her head, and standing. What the bloody hell is that girl doing. She's walked back the whole length of the table, to the window.
"We need another ten feet!" she yelled at someone outside. Then the girl did a flipping jump out of the window! I am so confused. Everyone's staring at one another unable to think of anything to say I suppose, I know I can't. Hey more people are coming in! Hey its Nikisa! What's her hurry. Running into the hall like that. I mean what if she breaks the doors down? She'd running all the way up to the high table. Oh, my gosh does she have a death wish? I mean really! Jumping on top of the high table like that. I mean I'm sure those teachers aren't to pleased with her.
"ANNOUNCEMENT!" she yelled, man, that girl's going to make me go deaf! "There are experiments currently going on outside, and we are sorry for any inconvenience." she said a bit quieter, bowing a little, "By the way... DUCK!"
Another bang and crash! I think its from outside, and all the nicely repaired windows were broken again as Robyn's body came flying through the window for the second time. Hey, she's gotten good distance on this one. She slid the entire length of Gryffindor's table and slid off the end, to land on the floor, ouch that's got to hurt.
"How was that Nikisa?" she asked, still on her back, I think I can't really see her too well, bugger everyone's standing now.
"Well I didn't see the start but the slide was rather nice." I heard Nikisa comment. She sounds like she's commenting on a painting.
Man those girls are odd, they can't use the doors either, the had to jump out the window before they were repaired. The Hall was quiet again. Then our schedules arrived and we passed them down the table.
"I wonder if the new students are taking classes with us." Harry commented as he looked over our following day. Man what a coincidence just the students we were talking about are coming in. Why are most of them covered in ash? What were they doing? Man they look dazed. More students came in behind them, and hey their wearing basically what they wore last night. The eight Canadian girls plopped down in spots next to Harry and me, grabbing their timetables from the pile, as I passed them to Nikisa.
"Hmmm... This is going to be really weird." Kate said, "I think I might actually miss band class."
"Band? I loved Band, but I think I'm beginning to miss Math, and we haven't even started." Krista said, Nikisa nodding in agreement.
"Come off it, you all miss the guys not the classes." Holly said shaking her head at her friends.
"Oh? What, and you aren't going to miss Chris?" Shayna asked with a laugh. Holly blushed and took a bite out of her bagel.
"What do you miss Shayna?" Robyn asked.
"I miss Canada in general."
"Bus rides, for me." Stacy said with a crazy grin, "How 'bouts you Robs?"
"I miss Lemieux." she said Megan nodding her head emphatically beside her, "I miss those guys too, I mean now we aren't supposed to keep in touch." Robyn said turning sadly to Megan. Megan nodded with sympathy, then she shook with suppressed mirth, then looked straight into Robyn's eyes. Robyn nodded, then blushed.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How, what are you ppl talking about?" I said finally. Man I'm losing my sanity or something.
"We're talking about home." Stacy said glaring a bit at him, "Not that it concerns you any." she said scathingly. Ouch!
"Sorry, but its the most interesting conversation I've heard here. And how does Megan talk?" I asked a little cheekily I know. Megan shook her head at me, is she scowling?
"She doesn't speak. She hasn't for a while now, though she still manages to communicate her 'desires' when she wants too. Especially with you-know-who." Krista told them, grinning as she turned to Robyn in Megan, fixing them in her brown eyed gaze.
"WHAT! What do you mean, you-know-who, they're not shagging are they?" I squeaked in a barely audible voice, man, what is she thinking!
"I don't know, have you shagged him yet Megan?" Stacy asked their blonde headed friend. Megan rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Oh, not yet, I suppose." Nikisa said with an evil grin that rivaled that of one of the twins, in the middle of their newest prank. Megan appeared to think it over, then shrugged her shoulders.
"But, but, how, I mean, how long have they been together?" Hermione asked, panic was registering on all of our faces, anyone who could hear them, I mean Megan, sweet seeming, non-talkative Megan, and You-know-who? Shudder.
"Not long, they met a couple of years ago, and they just kind of hit it off, though it took them forever to realize it." Shayna said with a grimace of distaste marring her features. Couple of years? I thought he was just returned!
"Hey, what's up you guys?" Holly asked eyeing the expressions that were probably dawning slowly upon revulsion and fear.
"Yeah, you act as though you know him, though I think that's like impossible." Kate said eyeing Ginny who was sitting beside her.
"You- know-who, and MEGAN!?!" Ginny said her horror sounding in her voice. I'm just glad she spoke and not me.
"What? I mean, c'mon its not like she's going out with a Voldemort or anything." Holly said simply. AHHHH!!!!
"She's not? But you said 'you-know- who' that's Voldemort." Harry said, ignoring me and the rest of us as we all flinched again at the sound of the name.
"Yeah, the 'you-know-who' that we know, and you don't." Krista said as if this was obvious from the beginning. Which it obviously wasn't!
"I mean c'mon, we don't expect you to know Eric, since he's from Speedy Creek." Robyn told them. Speedy what? I'm freaking out again!
"Yeah, I mean, only Megan and Robyn have ever met him." Shayna said. Megan stook out her tongue at them.
"Okay, I guess I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, of course you English folk do scare easily." Krista said graciously. Hey!
"Uh, right you are really weird." Ginny said shying away from Kate.
"Well, duh, of course we're weird, we wouldn't be us if we weren't." Robyn said, the grin returning. Huh? They admit it?
"Hey, where were you living in Canada?" Harry asked quietly, thank you for changing the subject man!
"Oh, our actual house was underneath the high school in Rosetown, and we lived there, kind of, we had other houses where we appeared to live, and Robyn and Kate actually lived in different places altogether, though they just commuted." Shayna answered vaguely. Right Rosetown... where the heck is ROSETOWN! She seems dizzy I hope she doesn't puke. Whoa Professor McGonagall's here!
"You eight are to report to Professor Dumbledore's office during first class. And we might have to arrange detention for that stunt you pulled." she said sternly, oh ouch.
"Yes Mademoiselle McGonagall." they answered in perfect unison, how did they do that?
"Here I am just Professor McGonagall dears." she said less sternly and then left.
"Ouch in trouble already are we girls?" a lewd voice purred behind them. Draco stood there with his cronies standing at either shoulder. The slimy git.
"No." they answered together. Then they stood and left the Hall. Draco glared after them, then at us. Then he stomped out of the Hall, seething with silent anger. Stupid slimy git.
It was chaos, absolute chaos, and that is not a good thing for a student of Order. Nikisa was fine, in fact she was thriving on this, but not me. The others don't care one way or another I know, this isn't their area but still.
*Meh. I'll survive* Shayna thought to herself.
*Why ever would you not, Shay?* a voice said inside her mind.
"Because its Nikisa's place in all this chaos. Its making My head spin." I told my friend Megan.
*C'mon silly.* Megan thought to me as she motioned for me to follow her and I obeyed, she had never steered me wrong before. Megan led me to a brick wall in-between two of the train platforms. Megan turned to me then as an image formed in my head of swirling orange and brown seen through a window beside a door, and somewhere in all those colors was a black box that had no color inside it. The image was from Megan of course and I took it as a warning of what was coming. Megan grabbed my hand then and dragged me all wide-eyed friend right into the wall, and through. Beyond the bricks was another train platform, and it was just as Megan predicted it would be like. People walked to and fro climbing into and out of a large red steam engine that had the name 'Hogwarts Express' written on it, all the while talking and shouting as loud as they could. It was, if possible, worse then the rest of the station. Megan continued to lead me, and she was humming a calming spell around me so I guess it wasn't too terrible the chaos was lessened a bit by the chant. She lead me to an empty compartment and I gratefully fell asleep on the cushions.
*General view*
Back outside Megan exited Platform 9 3/4 and returned to the rest of the group. Not a one of the eight girls asked where she had gone too, or Shayna, they simply knew better. After 10 years together at the ABBA Academy they learnt a lot about one another. For example, Shayna is incredibly bright and a great actress, though she's also very shy. She's also fairly strong in her magic as are all the others, but with her intense sensitivity, even a slight disorder is slightly taxing on her. Whereas Nikisa, her counterpart in Magic talked a lot, and her power is more accidental, in her field of magic she needs disorder for it to work, at all. Strangely the two of them are great friends and often spent hours talking to one another. All the girls are very special in their magical abilities. Most if not all witches and wizards go to school and find that there are many different classes to go to, like Charms and Transfiguration. Yet in these eight girls, the very mysterious 'they' found something different, something older and much more powerful. In these girls rested the eight spirits of nature, powerful magic was welled within them and defined them in their characteristics as was never seen before. Shayna had Order magic, Nikisa Chaos. Megan had Light magic, Kate Dark, Holly Air, Robyn Earth, Stacy Water, and Krista Fire. Each had a temperament to match and they were all very powerful, beautiful and strange. With their powers came other characteristics that they had to hide lest they be persecuted as being different. Krista's short dark hair was usually long fiery tongues of flame that flowed around her face and highlighted the two burning orbs that were her eyes. She is also extremely tall and back in the train station she was the radiating point for all of them to gather around.
*Seen through the eyes of Krista*
I was trying to organize all my friends together before the all disappeared, and especially Megan, since she was the one who claimed to know where they were supposed to go.
"Hey chicka!" I yelled when I spotted my light haired friend in the crowd, "C'mon, where are we going?" In answer to my question Megan crooked her finger and started leading them back the way she had come. Without too much of a problem they got onto platform 9 3/4 just as the conductor yelled "All aboard!" Without any thoughts of keeping together the seven girls ran, everyone for themselves, and jumped on at different points of the train.
*Seen through the eyes of Shayna*
I felt the train moving beneath me when I started to waked up. When I opened my eyes I saw two more, belonging to someone else, looking quite concerned, right in front of my face.
"Welcome back sleeping beauty." Nikisa joked as her orange colored eyes danced with mirth at her pun.
"Where are the others?" I asked sleepily as I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes, and also their blue green coloring, which left my eyes black as night.
"Haven't shown up yet, but I decided to wait for you before going to look for them."
"That's good..." I said as the door to our compartment opened and a strange boy stood looking in. His eyes glowed amber in the slight light of the train and they looked disappointed.
"Sorry." he mumbled as he started to leave.
"Wait!" Nikisa said, "Have you seen any strange girls wandering the train?"
"Not really, unless you mean that tall chick with the reddish eyes. Do you?" he asked.
"Yeah, where did you see her?" I said standing up.
"Oh she was beating up some prissy boys near the front of the train."
"Thanks." Nikisa said as he left.
"Let's go get Krista, before she kills someone." I said as we left the compartment.
*Seen through the eyes of Megan*
I was loitering outside a compartment, when a person came flying through the wall beside me. I bent and helped the huge boy to his feet and sent him off towards the back of the train. He was soon followed by another huge boy and small scrawny fellow with blonde hair. I leaned through the tear in the wall to look at my friend and shook my head at her. In answer to my unspoken, unthought question, the wall closed up in front of me, repaired. I entered the compartment, through the door, and sat opposite my fire-eyed friend and took the fire laced glance with my own golden orbs.
"That helped" Krista said ending the glare, "So where did you hide our Shayna?" she asked me as she rolled her shoulders to get the kinks out.
I shook my head in exasperation, and got up. With a sigh I opened the door and looked at my friend again, raising my eyebrows.
"Lead on." she said as she followed her friend out and down the corridor, "Hey isn't this the way 'they' went?"
I just had to grin back at her, I knew I wouldn't let her do anything. Shaking my head again, we continued on. In the third car we came too, we heard the sounds of some sort of fight going on in one compartment. Without thinking I just opened the door, and was hit with 5 different spells at the same time. The weirdest sensation went through my body as my legs became all wobbly, and well the rest of my froze stiff, then I started feeling sick to my stomach, and I had the worst head ache ever, and I think I smell smoke.
*Seen through the eyes of Krista*
I was totally ticked off by this. Poor Megan, her shoes are on fire and she looks terrible. I could feel the fire building in my veins as I squeezed by my ailing friend into the compartment. The three boys I had beaten up earlier were there, along with two more I don't recognize, one with messy black hair, who was kind of cute, the other had red hair that matched with one of the two girls that were also in the compartment, the other had straight brown hair. I glared at them all letting all the fire out through my eyes, at least figuratively. All seven of them shrank away from my gaze.
"What do you think you are doing?" I asked, and I almost broke my glare and laughed at that, I sounded like a mother, a ticked off mother that is. None of them answered. "You, 'children' in your pathetic squabbling have hurt a dear friend of mine." I said solemnly, "The three of you know what happens now, don't you?" I asked just the three as they sank further into the seat they had fallen into, they all looked rather pathetic, hardly worth my time, but then again Megan was still magicked, so some sacrifices to dignity had to be made, "And you four are going to find out." I said as I felt my red eyes burst into flame.
"WAIT!" a yell came from the hall. Shayna and Nikisa crowded in the door with Holly, Stacy, Robyn and Kate in behind them.
"Krista, stop it, you know how your fighting gives me a migraine." Shayna said with a quiet voice that caused the people inside to start at its force.
"Besides darling, Megs fine." Holly said.
"And besides again, we can't let you have all the fun." Stacy pouted, as Megan came into the compartment. She plopped herself down in between the two new boys and put her arms around their shoulders.
"But?" I started. Megan gave me that look.
"I..." look.
"C'mon..." look.
"Please?..." look...
"FINE!" I yelled finally and I sat down opposite of Megan, between the blonde haired boy and the red haired girl.
"Okay, no matter how entertaining this is, we're late, and Mademoiselle McGonagall is expecting us right away." Kate said speaking up for the first time.
"Dang, we weren't supposed to take the train, Megan." Nikisa said, a happy glint in her eyes.
"Yeah, well how do you suggest we get there, now that we're here?" Holly asked, though I'm sure she already knew the answer.
"Why we'll board of course." Nikisa said as she crossed to the window of the compartment and flung it all the way open. I figured she might do that as I pulled my fire board out of its hiding place. The others pulled their assorted boards out of wherever they had stashed them. Stacy's was slightly different in that, it was more of a surf board then a snow board. With a withering smile at the people in the compartment I jumped backwards out of the window, followed by the others. As we disappeared from view.
*Seen through the eyes of Stacy*
I'm sure those poor students in there think we all just killed ourselves. I thought to myself, laughing maniacally as a gust of wind caught my board and lifted me up into the clouds behind my friends. Home once again in the clouds on my board we started carving our way towards the Hogwarts castle. I could almost feel the two forces we were being carried by, as I traveled down one cloud to slope up the next crest. One force is the wind that always seems to be in our favor, making killer waves out of clouds for me. The other force is like this beam of light that we're following. I know that it's actually Megan and her pets. As the Sorcerous of light she attracted two golden Pegasus. I still remember that. Megan was cavorting among the clouds just after we had made our sky boards, and she had just found her true form with a bit of help from me, of course. Anyways as she was carving up some nice sundaes she hit something, on of the Pegasus' and then she went back to heal it, fell in love and found the other one when she let it lead her to its home. Megan has turned into her true form I think. Yeah she's hopped off her board onto one of her steeds. We all have true forms of course, but not all of us can to function properly in those forms. Like me. I can't operate in my true form, unless I were in the water. I think it has something to do with the fact that my true form looks like a mermaid. Megan, the lucky girl, can function in all environments.
Hey is that Hogwarts? Well that only took a couple of minutes. Megan must be using her powers to make us travel as fast as light, I knew I felt that pull. We must also be invisible to all who looks towards us. Megan's so thoughtful she would think of that right away. Well time to get out of the clouds and back to reality. Once we landed on the front steps, Megan returned to her other form, and we all walked inside. Why do I have this feeling, like we're forgetting something.
*Seen through the eyes of Professor Dumbledore*
"Where have those girls gone too? They missed the portkey." Professor McGonagall pouted. I was in my office awaiting our missing transfer students, and the Professor was keeping me company, in a matter of speaking, "And those boys too, why I think that they never received that last letter telling them not to come on the train..."
"Professor McGonagall, I am certain that they will all find a way to arrive safely, in the mean time we should get the other students settled in, I believe the train will be arriving soon." I told her as I stood and motioned her towards the door. A flash appeared somewhere behind me as we started walking, when I turned to see, I saw an image of a pretty girl winking slightly at me, she quickly disappeared.
"Well I guess they've come then, I do so hope they haven't gotten into any trouble." McGonagall said as we both hurried down to the Entrance Hall where our out of the country guests were gathering. Once we had made it down the seven or so flights of stairs we saw the huge crowd that had gathered just inside the door. I easily picked out the eight Canadians from the crowd, they were the ones that didn't wear any robes of any kind, those outfits are rather bright in that crowd of dark colors. The all wore jeans of different colors and designs, and the group wore t- shirts or long sleeves of varying style. One of them wore a blue vest with its hood up. Lots of them also had sweaters tied around their waists, it must be the style in Canada. They were dancing as well, but no one else seemed to hear the song. Well at least some of them are having a good time. I think they must have seen us, they're stopping and looking at the Professor and I with their strange colored eyes. Time to welcome the whole lot of them I guess, as I clear my throat to get the attention from the others gathered in the room.
"We are pleased to welcome you all to Hogwarts for this year. I'd like to explain a little something before the other students arrive. Before the feast you all will be sorted into houses, though this is usually only for first years, you are included since this is your first year at Hogwarts. I'd ask that you bear with us all, there are a lot of you so it will take some time, and we also have first years from England to sort and so I shall be putting a spell on the entire ceremony to speed things up. Over the summer we have made renovations and there is a room for all of you there by the Canadian bunch. So please enter while we await the others." I said in my grandest voice.
'Do you mind if we go outside?' came a soft voice from nowhere. I nod my head and then watched in amazement as the eight girls from Canada left through the huge doors. Strange bunch, I wonder how I heard them...
*Seen through the eyes of Harry*
The train is pulling up in Hogsmede for another year, me and my three friends Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, so got off the train first, I'm so hyped to be back, despite those weird events on the train. We said the usual 'Hullo' to Hagrid as he gathered the first years around himself, and now we should go get a carriage. I'm home. I was so into the fact that the castle was in front of me as we walked up the many steps to the front doors, but something strange is happening. Everyone's stopped, and Whoa! Who are those girls, and are they... dancing? Hey those are the girls from the compartment. I can feel the rest of the school behind me, but I just can't stop staring. There are eight of them. Eight girls in Muggle clothing dancing on the front steps of MY school? That's like sacrilegious. The girls stopped their dancing, I think they heard the number of gasps that escaped the crowed behind me. They all turned and smiled at us, then entered the castle. I think they were giggling amongst themselves, I hate it when girls do that. We all followed dumbly as we entered the Great Hall and awaited the sorting to start for another year.
"Hey does the Hall seem larger to you?" Hermione asked. Craning her neck around.
"Yeah, it does, hmmm..." Ron said examining the Hall as well. But then McGonagall entered and behind her came lots more students then the usual group of first years. Most of them aren't even wearing the uniform. What's up with that? Dumbledore's standing as the large mass of people approached the front. Good, I think he's going to explain this.
"This year, due to Voldemort's return, many smaller schools from around the world were forced to shut down. These school-less students have been divided up among the larger schools, and Hogwarts has decided to take many of them here. We have done some major renovating to accommodate them all. Now, new students when Professor McGonagall calls your name please step forward to be sorted. Thank you." at his words a great many whispers sprang up around the Hall, I had my own doubts about this arrangement, but we all quieted down when the sorting began. Ashley Ahrens was first and was sorted into Ravenclaw, then an Aaron fellow and a Kevin who were sorted into Hufflepuff. Then the bright blonde girl from the train, who answered to 'Megan' was sorted into Gryffindor. That was odd, I don't know why she would be put into Gryffindor, but then again, I don't know why many of my classmates are here. The sorting continued, name after name, and it all seemed to go by much faster then usual despite the great number. By the end of it all of those strange girls were with us in Gryffindor. I just hope they don't make trouble for us. I wonder where they are from. As everyone started eating we all started learning more about our new students. The muggle dressed girls are from Canada and the one named Robyn claimed to be from Nod or something, I don't think I got that but it must explain their weirdness factor. I never did trust the western countries. Then there were the twins who were from Ireland, a small group from the Sudan, wherever that is, I really need a globe. There was another large group who was from New Zealand or something. Megan's not talking much. Her friends are though. Quite a lot actually. I think I should try to have a conversation, um maybe I should apologize for earlier on the train.
"Um, hi, Megan, isn't it?" I said haltingly, I'm really no good at this whole thing. She nodded her head at me and looked at me, she seems quite calm, through her strange golden colored eyes.
"So, where did you live before coming here?" I asked, I think I already know this but oh well.
She didn't answer me, what did I do wrong, is she deaf? No then what? Hey are her hands moving? Yeah they're shaped like a letter 'W'.
"West, like in the Americas?" I asked catching on. She nodded.
"Where?" Now her hands are pointing upwards.
"Canada?" nod. Cool I'm getting the hang of this!
"Cool, are all of your friends from there too?" nod.
"So why don't you wear robes?" I asked stupidly. Um, she's not answering,
"It's not comfortable to wear robes in Canada, its either too hot or too cold," Kate answered, she must have heard my question, but why didn't Megan answer? "Plus we don't have a school per say, instead we learn our magic at night in our home and during the day we go to muggle school."
"Oh, why doesn't Megan talk?" I asked of Kate.
"Um, well, we aren't sure, she doesn't talk about." she joked then she turned back to her own conversation with Nikisa and Seamus. So turning back to Megan, I decided to talk to her more, I'm too interested to give up now.
"So what year are you all in?" I asked.
She held up six fingers.
"Cool, you're in our year." I said motioning to Hermione and Ron. This is interesting I wonder how much more I can learn about you eight. Hey is she grinning? But why? She couldn't have heard me, but it feels like she had, weird.
*Seen through the eyes of Hermione*
I don't know how I'm going to get to sleep tonight. Twelve new students in our grade, eight girls and six guys. I mean, yeah that's good and all, this'll even the field more between guys and girls, but I'm not sure about these new girls. I think I can hear a few of them talking or something now. I don't think Megan's spoken a single word, she just looks at people with her golden eyes and uses her hands to convey answers, or else one of her friends answers for her, and its weird you know. They're all eccentric, and their clothes, I've never thought that anyone wouldn't wear robes at Hogwarts, this is just weird. All the other new students wore some type of robes, why couldn't these girls, its throwing off the balance of everything. There is definately something odd about them. What is that pretty music? Whoa! What on earth? Megan's sitting on air, and a cd's floating in front of her. Is that where the music's from? What's that red light coming from her fingers? Is she meditating? Megan saw me! Wait, she's waving? I shrink back, and listen to the song, it is really beautiful, I think I'm falling asleep.
*General*
As day dawned on Hogwarts, and a new day started, the terrible trio went down to the Hall at their usual time and sat together at the Gryffindor table. The trio was slowly eating their large breakfast. They were joined by a spattering of students from other common rooms, and some other Gryffindors.
Without warning the early wakers were jolted out of their quiet reverie by a very, very, very large explosion. All of the windows that allowed sunlight to shine into the Hall shattered inwards. Most of the windows broke by some unseen force, but one in particular broke because of the body that crashed through it and fell onto Gryffindor table, sliding almost the entire length only to stop by Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny, who had just joined them.
*Seen through the eyes of Ron*
Robyn!? Isn't she one of the quieter Canadian girls? Why on Earth is she crashing through the windows? She's shaking her head, and standing. What the bloody hell is that girl doing. She's walked back the whole length of the table, to the window.
"We need another ten feet!" she yelled at someone outside. Then the girl did a flipping jump out of the window! I am so confused. Everyone's staring at one another unable to think of anything to say I suppose, I know I can't. Hey more people are coming in! Hey its Nikisa! What's her hurry. Running into the hall like that. I mean what if she breaks the doors down? She'd running all the way up to the high table. Oh, my gosh does she have a death wish? I mean really! Jumping on top of the high table like that. I mean I'm sure those teachers aren't to pleased with her.
"ANNOUNCEMENT!" she yelled, man, that girl's going to make me go deaf! "There are experiments currently going on outside, and we are sorry for any inconvenience." she said a bit quieter, bowing a little, "By the way... DUCK!"
Another bang and crash! I think its from outside, and all the nicely repaired windows were broken again as Robyn's body came flying through the window for the second time. Hey, she's gotten good distance on this one. She slid the entire length of Gryffindor's table and slid off the end, to land on the floor, ouch that's got to hurt.
"How was that Nikisa?" she asked, still on her back, I think I can't really see her too well, bugger everyone's standing now.
"Well I didn't see the start but the slide was rather nice." I heard Nikisa comment. She sounds like she's commenting on a painting.
Man those girls are odd, they can't use the doors either, the had to jump out the window before they were repaired. The Hall was quiet again. Then our schedules arrived and we passed them down the table.
"I wonder if the new students are taking classes with us." Harry commented as he looked over our following day. Man what a coincidence just the students we were talking about are coming in. Why are most of them covered in ash? What were they doing? Man they look dazed. More students came in behind them, and hey their wearing basically what they wore last night. The eight Canadian girls plopped down in spots next to Harry and me, grabbing their timetables from the pile, as I passed them to Nikisa.
"Hmmm... This is going to be really weird." Kate said, "I think I might actually miss band class."
"Band? I loved Band, but I think I'm beginning to miss Math, and we haven't even started." Krista said, Nikisa nodding in agreement.
"Come off it, you all miss the guys not the classes." Holly said shaking her head at her friends.
"Oh? What, and you aren't going to miss Chris?" Shayna asked with a laugh. Holly blushed and took a bite out of her bagel.
"What do you miss Shayna?" Robyn asked.
"I miss Canada in general."
"Bus rides, for me." Stacy said with a crazy grin, "How 'bouts you Robs?"
"I miss Lemieux." she said Megan nodding her head emphatically beside her, "I miss those guys too, I mean now we aren't supposed to keep in touch." Robyn said turning sadly to Megan. Megan nodded with sympathy, then she shook with suppressed mirth, then looked straight into Robyn's eyes. Robyn nodded, then blushed.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How, what are you ppl talking about?" I said finally. Man I'm losing my sanity or something.
"We're talking about home." Stacy said glaring a bit at him, "Not that it concerns you any." she said scathingly. Ouch!
"Sorry, but its the most interesting conversation I've heard here. And how does Megan talk?" I asked a little cheekily I know. Megan shook her head at me, is she scowling?
"She doesn't speak. She hasn't for a while now, though she still manages to communicate her 'desires' when she wants too. Especially with you-know-who." Krista told them, grinning as she turned to Robyn in Megan, fixing them in her brown eyed gaze.
"WHAT! What do you mean, you-know-who, they're not shagging are they?" I squeaked in a barely audible voice, man, what is she thinking!
"I don't know, have you shagged him yet Megan?" Stacy asked their blonde headed friend. Megan rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Oh, not yet, I suppose." Nikisa said with an evil grin that rivaled that of one of the twins, in the middle of their newest prank. Megan appeared to think it over, then shrugged her shoulders.
"But, but, how, I mean, how long have they been together?" Hermione asked, panic was registering on all of our faces, anyone who could hear them, I mean Megan, sweet seeming, non-talkative Megan, and You-know-who? Shudder.
"Not long, they met a couple of years ago, and they just kind of hit it off, though it took them forever to realize it." Shayna said with a grimace of distaste marring her features. Couple of years? I thought he was just returned!
"Hey, what's up you guys?" Holly asked eyeing the expressions that were probably dawning slowly upon revulsion and fear.
"Yeah, you act as though you know him, though I think that's like impossible." Kate said eyeing Ginny who was sitting beside her.
"You- know-who, and MEGAN!?!" Ginny said her horror sounding in her voice. I'm just glad she spoke and not me.
"What? I mean, c'mon its not like she's going out with a Voldemort or anything." Holly said simply. AHHHH!!!!
"She's not? But you said 'you-know- who' that's Voldemort." Harry said, ignoring me and the rest of us as we all flinched again at the sound of the name.
"Yeah, the 'you-know-who' that we know, and you don't." Krista said as if this was obvious from the beginning. Which it obviously wasn't!
"I mean c'mon, we don't expect you to know Eric, since he's from Speedy Creek." Robyn told them. Speedy what? I'm freaking out again!
"Yeah, I mean, only Megan and Robyn have ever met him." Shayna said. Megan stook out her tongue at them.
"Okay, I guess I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, of course you English folk do scare easily." Krista said graciously. Hey!
"Uh, right you are really weird." Ginny said shying away from Kate.
"Well, duh, of course we're weird, we wouldn't be us if we weren't." Robyn said, the grin returning. Huh? They admit it?
"Hey, where were you living in Canada?" Harry asked quietly, thank you for changing the subject man!
"Oh, our actual house was underneath the high school in Rosetown, and we lived there, kind of, we had other houses where we appeared to live, and Robyn and Kate actually lived in different places altogether, though they just commuted." Shayna answered vaguely. Right Rosetown... where the heck is ROSETOWN! She seems dizzy I hope she doesn't puke. Whoa Professor McGonagall's here!
"You eight are to report to Professor Dumbledore's office during first class. And we might have to arrange detention for that stunt you pulled." she said sternly, oh ouch.
"Yes Mademoiselle McGonagall." they answered in perfect unison, how did they do that?
"Here I am just Professor McGonagall dears." she said less sternly and then left.
"Ouch in trouble already are we girls?" a lewd voice purred behind them. Draco stood there with his cronies standing at either shoulder. The slimy git.
"No." they answered together. Then they stood and left the Hall. Draco glared after them, then at us. Then he stomped out of the Hall, seething with silent anger. Stupid slimy git.