Disclaimer: I own Ivy, Sabre, Topaz, and Daz. Yay! Unfortunately the characters you actually care about aren't mine...

St Ives

Chapter 1

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Topaz

Present Day:

I scowled at my brother. He was being deliberately obnoxious. Sabre looked at me with innocent hazel eyes. I sighed inwardly. He was never innocent. He used to be the bad boy of the county for Christ's sake!

It was times like this that he was familiar, cos after he grew up and got brought home by the police one to many time, he had been the perfect blond angel. He still wore the light blue hoodie and baseball cap, but that was for a whole different reason. He liked to tease me now, still not having fully grown up. He was twenty, I mean honestly!

'Don't come crying to me when Mom busts you.' I said snobbishly. I cringed straight after I said it, but didn't let him know it. Sabre grinned wolfishly. He looked so creepy when he did that.

'Stop it.' I said sharply.

'What did I do, Ives?' His smile grew, 'Oh, wait, does the smile still bother you?' He chuckled, looking like a crocodile. It put me on edge. He knows it, which is worse.

'Sabre, I don't like that look...' I said, hoping for Mom to come through the door, to put a stop to Sabre freaking me out.

'What look?' He said slowly creeping toward me from his place at the window. I took a chance when he leaped at me 'MOMMY!' I screeched and ducked toward the door...

... to find Albus Severus Potter, the boy of my dreams, laughing heartedly at me. I looked at Sabre, to find him slouched casually against the wall I had just run from. I glared at him.

I was so angry! I kept it in though, coz I'm that nice. That and it would not be a smart mood to let out my hotheadedness when Albus already knows I'm scared of my own brother. It's not like I don't have an excuse to be frightened of him WITH THE WHOLE FANGS AND FUR AND CLAWS THING GOING ON!

inhale OK now Ivy, girl, lets not lose our head.

Looking back, I haven't really told you who I am have I? Sorry: I'm Ivy. I'm a Quadrectile. In other words, I was born with two extra arms at birth. They're pretty useful too, but it's still not something I'd rather display to the public. I don't want to be famous accidentally, I want to be famous my day, my way. My Mom is famous, but that's the whole first Dragonian Headmistress thing. My Mom is Sierra Jessemany - say it with me, Jess-SEM-man-ee (really people, it ain't that dang hard!) - who just so happens to be the Dragonian Wonder Child. I love her name, when you say it you like imagine fireworks or something... Si-E--rra Sier-RA...

Oops, I just said it aloud and now Albus is staring at me like he finds something funny. Well, he's stopped laughing now. 'When did you get here?' I asked him, taking his mind off my moment of humiliation. Well, OK, humiliation may seem like an exaggeration, but still!

Look, the thing about me is that I cannot take a joke. It annoys the hell out of me when someone takes the mickey. I haven't reacted too well in the past, which hasn't helped my popularity, but I can get away with it, being Topaz's little sister.

Oh my gosh! I totally haven't told you about Topaz! Whoa, something is totally wrong with me. Topaz is my second oldest brother, and he ain't too much of a talker so I talk for the both of us. He has black hair that he occasionally spikes up which makes him look really sexy. He has Ivory skin, and beautiful dark green eyes that look like almost blue like the ocean.

I sound like a fan-girl don't I? Technically it would be alright if I did fancy him, which I DO NOT by the way, because Mom adopted me and Sabre when Topaz was five. It turns out I was a witch (what were the chances of that? I mean really?) and I was allowed to go to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and wizardry!

I might as well start at the beginning, God knows where you'll end up if I don't, so back to the past I go!

Two Years Ago:

I was sat on the train with Dara, a.k.a Daz. If you don't know who Daz is then you's got something wrong with you's.

You don't know? Really?

Wow... Which hole have you been living in?

Anyway, Daz is Topaz's best friend, secret lover, no.1 fan-girl and has a huge obsession with my brother. She's got red hair (typical). Well, it's sort of pink, not really red. But am I the only one who's seen the pattern? Lily Potter sr. had red hair, Ginny Potter had red hair... Redheads must love the Potter's. James Potter jr., the son of Ginny and Harry Potter, has a crush on Daz as well, which is sort of the same thing.

Daz was watching me, when I zoomed back into reality, with an amused expression. 'What are you doing?'

'Writing my mental Autobiography.' I answered dreamily. This probably didn't happen in real life, but I'm imagining it sort of did.

No, now I remember what really happened. Sabre had taken me and Topaz to the station, because Mom had traveled ahead to set things up for the new school year. It was my first year, I was eleven years old, a biological anomaly, and now I was a witch. Wow. Sabre would be staying with Uncle Tobi, because they got on the best. Sabre adored Uncle Tobi.

I'm doing it again, sorry.

Anyway, Topaz had cleared off somewhere, and left me with Inxra, my Mom's great-great-grandmother's panther-familiar. Inxra was getting an almighty fuss from Daz, who loved Inxra.

At that moment, the compartment door opened and there stood a shy-looking boy with jet-black hair and green eyes framed by circular glasses.

'Can we come in here?' He asked nervously. I grinned. He was kind of cute, in a wimpy way. I gestured in, and he looked relieved and set his stuff in the racks. He looked behind him, and a puzzled expression settled on his face. 'Rose?' He asked. I couldn't see 'Rose' but I heard her gasp slightly when she seemed to come back to reality. Then she rushed into the compartment looking very flustered. She stored her barn owl next to the boy's trunk. By now you should have guessed that the boy was Albus Severus Potter, cause if you haven't, then GET OUT OF HERE AND DO YOUR RESEARCH!

Rose jumped visibly when her trunk levitated up next to the owl without her doing anything. She span round and stared at Daz. I knew what was going on so I didn't have to turn my head from the owl.

'Watch the owl!' A familiar voice hollered and Daz dropped her wand. I glanced up to see my brother stare at Rose's trunk. Rose glanced at her trunk; it was following the same route as the Topaz's eyes.

'How did you do that?' she asked incredulously. Topaz lowered the trunk to the platform before flashing a bright smile at her. He sat down next to Daz who whacked him upside his head.

'I was watching the owl.' She huffed.

'I was just making sure, Daz.' Topaz smirked.

'No you didn't, you wanted me to drop it so you could rush in and save the day!' She snapped back.

My brother shook his head tiredly. He caught sight of Albus' face and grinned guiltily. 'Topaz. And you are?'

I struggled to contain my laughter. Like Topaz even has a conscience.

'Albus Potter, and this is Rose Weasley.' Albus introduced.

'You human?' Daz asked nonchalantly, 'It doesn't matter to us, it's just interesting to know.' she added after seeing Rose's face.

'Oh. Yes, we are.' Daz nodded.

'I'm not.' Topaz explained, 'She is.'

'Was that Dragonian magic then? That eye levitation spell thing.' Rose asked fervently.

Topaz smiled, 'It's called the Optical Levitation spell.'

'Not the Optional Levitation spell.' Daz cut in. I laughed out loud then.

'Only you have ever done that.' Topaz said disbelievingly, 'In the many, many people that have heard the name, you are the only one to call it that.'

Rose giggled at the the exact moment Daz burst out laughing. I joined in and it soon ended up in hysterics with only Topaz sober.

Chibi was perched on his shoulder. She was a lavender-blue monkey with sky blue eyes.

I then noticed Albus was looking at me interestedly. 'Hi. I'm Ivy. You look sorta like James.'

'And how do you know what James looks like I wonder?' Topaz asked pleasantly but with a steely glint in his dark eyes. I glared at him. 'You're Albus aren't you?'

Albus nodded, clearly unsettled. 'He's my adopted brother.' I pointed to Topaz.

'I wasn't the one who was adopted.' Topaz muttered.

'Alright, have it you're way! Topaz was five when my brother and me were in trouble. His mother came to our rescue and saved us from where we were and so Mom was very kind in adopting us.'

'Who?'

'What?'

'Me and my brother Sabre. We were in trouble so Sierra came to save us.'

'Sierra?'

'You're her son?'

'Great.' Topaz muttered. He was playing with Chibi.

'I'm sorry, we didn't recognise you. We haven't actually seen Sierra before.'

'Don't worry about it. I look more like my dad anyway.'

'Wow, you're monkey's so cute.' Rose gasped. I rolled my eyes. Another Topaz fan girl. 'What's her name?'

'Chibi.' Topaz answered, as emotionless as ever.

'Awww!'

'Little show-off.' Topaz smirked when Chibi danced in front of the audience she had, 'Kind of like someone else I know.' he said, looking at me pointedly. I stuck my tongue out at him. 'Albus, I'll trade brothers with you.'

'Deal.' We hi-fived.

'You got a crush on James?' Daz asked sisterly-like,

'James got a crush on you.' I said pointedly, completely avoiding the question,

'I know.'

'And you don't care?'

'Is this going to turn into a discussion about James Potter? Coz if it is, I'm out of here.' Topaz said in an annoyed voice,

'What you got against James?' Rose asked curiously.

'He isn't that pleasant to Topaz.' Daz explained,

'Why not?'

'Coz Topaz is a nerd.' I explained just as Daz said: 'He's jealous stupid of Topaz.'

'I'm going with Daz in this one.' Rose said, 'James may be a bundle of laughs but he gets so defensive and jealous if someone's better than him.'

'Yeah, that is true.' Albus agreed,

'What is it that you have and James doesn't?' I asked, though I thought I already knew the answer,

'Me.' Daz said, and I could hear a covered hint of pride. I smirked inwardly. This was going to be interesting.

'He seems to think that Daz and I are an item.' Topaz said, his eyes twinkling,

WHICH IS TRUE! I felt like screaming. Topaz loves Daz, Daz definitely loves Topaz, so why don't they just get together?