Diclaimer- I don't own this
"Mei! We can't go right now! Your mother said that we have to get home by 7! Mei! Are you listening?"
Mei sighed. She says that my mother wants me back by 7, thought Mei slightly amused, but yet she still follows me. Is that weird or what?
"Mei! Listen to me! I'm talking to you!"
Once again Mei sighed. "Look, Lia. We both know that you what to go see The Pond by moonlight as much as I do. So why don't you stop wasting your breath lecturing me and instead use your breath to walk faster?"
Lia stopped, speechless. And then she burst out, "Why, you- ! You knew that I wanted to go see The Pond but yet you didn't stop me from lecturing you? And when you do stop me, it's about the time that I feel like I'm going to drop dead from lack of air? Why you little- ! I'm going to get you!"
That was all the warning that Mei got before Lia started to run at her full speed. Mei started to run for her life. She knew that Lia was on the track team and was the fastest in city on both long distances and short distances. But yet Mei still could evade the hands of Lia because she also had an impressive record. She was the best martial artist in their state! She was good enough to be able to do high-level ki attacks.
Usually, people didn't see Mei as Lia did now, but that was because Lia had been able to get through Mei's shell. Still though, if you were in school and saw her when she was not with Lia, you wouldn't be able to talk to her because she would just turn her back on you and if you just looked at her without Lia around, all you would see would be a never smiling face and ice cold eyes. The only time she would react besides when she was with Lia, was if you challenged her. She would fight with you, but would stop immediately after you recognize that you lost or when you black out or something. But she would never hurt a person if not necessary. The smart people that fight her and when she ended the fight before they blacked out knew that she was actually a nice person under that icy exterior.
Anyways back to the story.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Stop Lia! STOOOOOOOPPPPPP!" Mei yelled out as they reached the pond. Alas, though Lia did stop, it was enough for her to not fall in the pond, but Mei was not that fortunate. KER-SPLASHHHHHHHH! In went Mei. Just as Mei touched the water, a brilliant light filled the little clearing where the pond was. Momentarily, both Mei and Lia were blinded. Though if they weren't, they would have seen a beautiful woman with elegant white wings appear before them and touch Mei on the forehead. A barest of touches that Mei didn't even feel it. The woman mouthed the words, "I choose you." and disappeared.
Mei blinked rapidly to clear her eyes from its black dots. Her vision cleared up, she stood up gracefully, dripping water. Lia, looking up from the ground, which she had been staring, also clearing her eyes from its dots, and caught sight of Mei. "..." went she, and then "..." again. Then, "HA HA HA HA HA!" Lia burst out in a round of loud laughing while holding her stomach and pointing at Mei. Mei climbed out of the pond and glared needles at Lia, "Do you find something funny?" her voice like acid. Immediately, Lia grew quiet. They both looked out at The Pond, which was quietly reflecting the full moon's soft glow from it's shimmering surface. For a while, you could hear nothing except for the silent movement of the water and the rustling of leaves created by the night wind. Finally, Lia whispered, "It's beautiful..."
Mei nodded her head, "I know." she said, just as softly. Suddenly, Lia stood up straight, "Uh-oh. I just thought of something. What are we going to tell your mother? About where we were and why you're so wet?"
Mei chuckled softly, "Easy, we'll just say that we went for a walk and I accidentally tripped on to a lawn whose sprinklers were on. I got soaked and we spent some time at the nearby mall bathroom, trying to dry me off."
Lia looked at Mei, shocked, "How do you come up with these stories so fast? It's no wonder that you get A's in language arts all the time."
Mei smirked at Lia, "Unlike somebody we know, right?"
Lia shoved Mei in an embarrassed way, "Oh, shush up Smarty-pants. We should start walking home now. Lets go."
Silently, Mei and Lia walked home, each lost in their own thoughts. When they got home, Mei's mom gave them a lecture, told Mei to go take a shower, and then told them to go to sleep.
Marla walked to her bed, a bad feeling in her gut. Quickly, when she was sure that both teenagers where asleep, she went back to her room and started a fire. She sat on her bed waiting for the fire to fully get going. There, she sat and thought about when she first took in Mei, her foster daughter.
Flashback-
Marla was just drifting off to sleep, when she heard a banging on her door. Quickly, she got up and wrapped a shawl firmly around her shoulders and ran to the back door. She knew it was somebody that she knew, or else her spells wouldn't have let them in. When she reached the door, she was shocked to see it was Severus Snape, a good friend of hers. What even shocked her more was that he was bleeding heavily and was very disheveled, and to add to every thing, he was caring a child, one that looked no older than 1!
Gasping, Severus handed her the baby, "Please, take care of her for the time being. They are after me. I caught them right before they could do any experiments on her. I have to leave now and go back to Hogwarts. They can't get me there. Please, take care of her. You are the most powerful witch I know. You will get into no harm. I covered my tracks. They don't know that you have her. I'll come to get her when the time is right. I'm sorry, but because of her, I cannot contact you. But, you can contact Albus. But don't do it until about a year later. By the way, her name is Mei and she's 1 years old. Got to go, goodbye..."
With that, Severus vanished with no sound at all, leaving the child behind. Marla shocked, stood there until she came to her senses. Quickly, she bent down and picked up the child. She walked back into her house and studied the baby. She was just a little thing, her eyes closed in slumber, her chest rising and falling with each breath that she took. She was just starting to grow hair, so her head was just covered with bits of fuzz. Seeing the baby, no, Seeing Mei, start to shiver, she took her to her room and started a fire going. Right away, Mei stopped shivering.
The next day, Marla went to the near-by orphanage and said the she had found the baby on her doorstep, in the morning. She registered her name into the files that they kept, saying that she had adopted the child and had named her Mei Akari Knight. Since then, she had kept Mei until Albus contacted her. They had talked and she had decided to keep Mei, having grown fond of the girl.
-End Flashback
The crackling of the fire broke Marla from her thoughts. Quickly she went to her closet, shoved the clothes aside and muttered a single word. Immediately, the illusion of the wall faded away to reveal shelves and shelves of bowls filled with mystical substances and queer objects like a big bowl filled with water that swirled with pictures that faded and reappeared and so on. Marla went to the bowl that held a strange powder. She grabbed a pinch, muttered another word which made the illusion of the wall reappear and walked back carefully into her room. Swiftly, before any of the powder fell from her fingers, she sprinkled it into the fire. Then she said, "Albus!"
A moment later, a white head appeared in the fire. "Well, hello Marla, long time no see!" Albus Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled behind his half-moon glasses. Marla smiled back. "So," began Albus, "What can I do for you today?"
Marla thought dryly, Count on him to lessen the tension in the room. Aloud, she said, "Albus, remember Mei. She came home today and I got a bad feeling in my gut. Does that mean that something bad is going to happen to her? And don't evade my question Albus. Because if you don't answer my now, I'm going to keep annoying you about it!"
Albus smiled again, "Now, Marla, why would I want to evade your question? You know, you called at the right time. I was just going to send you a message."
Marla looked at Albus, "Wait don't tell me, some more students from here has been accepted into Hogwarts. Am I right?"
"Right you are! And know what else is very interesting? It seems like Mei has been accepted into Hogwarts as well."
"What! You're kidding me, right? Mei's 15! She's not 11! How can she get accepted into Hogwarts?"
"Well, it seems as if she has a high level of power. I don't know why we didn't sense it before. Ah, well. It seems like she will be a transfer student like you. The letters for the students will be arriving in a couple of minutes. Wait for them."
"Ugg. I'm going to get a headache."
"Well, I've got to get to bed. If I don't, I won't be able to get up tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Marla waited for a moment and the letters came with a silent POOF. She touched the pile of mail with her wand that she had pulled out from who knows where, and mutter a couple of words, making the letters disappear and reappear in the correct mail box. With that, Marla collapsed in bed and went to sleep.
"Mei! We can't go right now! Your mother said that we have to get home by 7! Mei! Are you listening?"
Mei sighed. She says that my mother wants me back by 7, thought Mei slightly amused, but yet she still follows me. Is that weird or what?
"Mei! Listen to me! I'm talking to you!"
Once again Mei sighed. "Look, Lia. We both know that you what to go see The Pond by moonlight as much as I do. So why don't you stop wasting your breath lecturing me and instead use your breath to walk faster?"
Lia stopped, speechless. And then she burst out, "Why, you- ! You knew that I wanted to go see The Pond but yet you didn't stop me from lecturing you? And when you do stop me, it's about the time that I feel like I'm going to drop dead from lack of air? Why you little- ! I'm going to get you!"
That was all the warning that Mei got before Lia started to run at her full speed. Mei started to run for her life. She knew that Lia was on the track team and was the fastest in city on both long distances and short distances. But yet Mei still could evade the hands of Lia because she also had an impressive record. She was the best martial artist in their state! She was good enough to be able to do high-level ki attacks.
Usually, people didn't see Mei as Lia did now, but that was because Lia had been able to get through Mei's shell. Still though, if you were in school and saw her when she was not with Lia, you wouldn't be able to talk to her because she would just turn her back on you and if you just looked at her without Lia around, all you would see would be a never smiling face and ice cold eyes. The only time she would react besides when she was with Lia, was if you challenged her. She would fight with you, but would stop immediately after you recognize that you lost or when you black out or something. But she would never hurt a person if not necessary. The smart people that fight her and when she ended the fight before they blacked out knew that she was actually a nice person under that icy exterior.
Anyways back to the story.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Stop Lia! STOOOOOOOPPPPPP!" Mei yelled out as they reached the pond. Alas, though Lia did stop, it was enough for her to not fall in the pond, but Mei was not that fortunate. KER-SPLASHHHHHHHH! In went Mei. Just as Mei touched the water, a brilliant light filled the little clearing where the pond was. Momentarily, both Mei and Lia were blinded. Though if they weren't, they would have seen a beautiful woman with elegant white wings appear before them and touch Mei on the forehead. A barest of touches that Mei didn't even feel it. The woman mouthed the words, "I choose you." and disappeared.
Mei blinked rapidly to clear her eyes from its black dots. Her vision cleared up, she stood up gracefully, dripping water. Lia, looking up from the ground, which she had been staring, also clearing her eyes from its dots, and caught sight of Mei. "..." went she, and then "..." again. Then, "HA HA HA HA HA!" Lia burst out in a round of loud laughing while holding her stomach and pointing at Mei. Mei climbed out of the pond and glared needles at Lia, "Do you find something funny?" her voice like acid. Immediately, Lia grew quiet. They both looked out at The Pond, which was quietly reflecting the full moon's soft glow from it's shimmering surface. For a while, you could hear nothing except for the silent movement of the water and the rustling of leaves created by the night wind. Finally, Lia whispered, "It's beautiful..."
Mei nodded her head, "I know." she said, just as softly. Suddenly, Lia stood up straight, "Uh-oh. I just thought of something. What are we going to tell your mother? About where we were and why you're so wet?"
Mei chuckled softly, "Easy, we'll just say that we went for a walk and I accidentally tripped on to a lawn whose sprinklers were on. I got soaked and we spent some time at the nearby mall bathroom, trying to dry me off."
Lia looked at Mei, shocked, "How do you come up with these stories so fast? It's no wonder that you get A's in language arts all the time."
Mei smirked at Lia, "Unlike somebody we know, right?"
Lia shoved Mei in an embarrassed way, "Oh, shush up Smarty-pants. We should start walking home now. Lets go."
Silently, Mei and Lia walked home, each lost in their own thoughts. When they got home, Mei's mom gave them a lecture, told Mei to go take a shower, and then told them to go to sleep.
Marla walked to her bed, a bad feeling in her gut. Quickly, when she was sure that both teenagers where asleep, she went back to her room and started a fire. She sat on her bed waiting for the fire to fully get going. There, she sat and thought about when she first took in Mei, her foster daughter.
Flashback-
Marla was just drifting off to sleep, when she heard a banging on her door. Quickly, she got up and wrapped a shawl firmly around her shoulders and ran to the back door. She knew it was somebody that she knew, or else her spells wouldn't have let them in. When she reached the door, she was shocked to see it was Severus Snape, a good friend of hers. What even shocked her more was that he was bleeding heavily and was very disheveled, and to add to every thing, he was caring a child, one that looked no older than 1!
Gasping, Severus handed her the baby, "Please, take care of her for the time being. They are after me. I caught them right before they could do any experiments on her. I have to leave now and go back to Hogwarts. They can't get me there. Please, take care of her. You are the most powerful witch I know. You will get into no harm. I covered my tracks. They don't know that you have her. I'll come to get her when the time is right. I'm sorry, but because of her, I cannot contact you. But, you can contact Albus. But don't do it until about a year later. By the way, her name is Mei and she's 1 years old. Got to go, goodbye..."
With that, Severus vanished with no sound at all, leaving the child behind. Marla shocked, stood there until she came to her senses. Quickly, she bent down and picked up the child. She walked back into her house and studied the baby. She was just a little thing, her eyes closed in slumber, her chest rising and falling with each breath that she took. She was just starting to grow hair, so her head was just covered with bits of fuzz. Seeing the baby, no, Seeing Mei, start to shiver, she took her to her room and started a fire going. Right away, Mei stopped shivering.
The next day, Marla went to the near-by orphanage and said the she had found the baby on her doorstep, in the morning. She registered her name into the files that they kept, saying that she had adopted the child and had named her Mei Akari Knight. Since then, she had kept Mei until Albus contacted her. They had talked and she had decided to keep Mei, having grown fond of the girl.
-End Flashback
The crackling of the fire broke Marla from her thoughts. Quickly she went to her closet, shoved the clothes aside and muttered a single word. Immediately, the illusion of the wall faded away to reveal shelves and shelves of bowls filled with mystical substances and queer objects like a big bowl filled with water that swirled with pictures that faded and reappeared and so on. Marla went to the bowl that held a strange powder. She grabbed a pinch, muttered another word which made the illusion of the wall reappear and walked back carefully into her room. Swiftly, before any of the powder fell from her fingers, she sprinkled it into the fire. Then she said, "Albus!"
A moment later, a white head appeared in the fire. "Well, hello Marla, long time no see!" Albus Dumbledore smiled and his eyes twinkled behind his half-moon glasses. Marla smiled back. "So," began Albus, "What can I do for you today?"
Marla thought dryly, Count on him to lessen the tension in the room. Aloud, she said, "Albus, remember Mei. She came home today and I got a bad feeling in my gut. Does that mean that something bad is going to happen to her? And don't evade my question Albus. Because if you don't answer my now, I'm going to keep annoying you about it!"
Albus smiled again, "Now, Marla, why would I want to evade your question? You know, you called at the right time. I was just going to send you a message."
Marla looked at Albus, "Wait don't tell me, some more students from here has been accepted into Hogwarts. Am I right?"
"Right you are! And know what else is very interesting? It seems like Mei has been accepted into Hogwarts as well."
"What! You're kidding me, right? Mei's 15! She's not 11! How can she get accepted into Hogwarts?"
"Well, it seems as if she has a high level of power. I don't know why we didn't sense it before. Ah, well. It seems like she will be a transfer student like you. The letters for the students will be arriving in a couple of minutes. Wait for them."
"Ugg. I'm going to get a headache."
"Well, I've got to get to bed. If I don't, I won't be able to get up tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Marla waited for a moment and the letters came with a silent POOF. She touched the pile of mail with her wand that she had pulled out from who knows where, and mutter a couple of words, making the letters disappear and reappear in the correct mail box. With that, Marla collapsed in bed and went to sleep.