The story
Chapter1: the troublesome triplets
The whistle screeched across the platform 9 ¾, with quick kisses goodbye the triplets dashed onto the last carriage of the steam train, the Hogwarts express, waving to their parents on the platform.
The dazzling red haired, emerald eyed, woman and her dark haired husband, with even more dazzling purple eyes, waved away their three daughters with a terrible feeling that they would never see them again; which was strange as the last four times their daughters had left they had never had such a premonition.
The girls didn't have such a feeling of foreboding, as they hopped into the last compartment on the train, eagerly awaiting their fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They were already plotting pranks against various Slytherin students and of course a win for their house, Gryffindor, in the house cup!
Although triplets there was strong differences between the sisters; Annuna was the eldest and had inherited their mothers long red curls, emerald green eyes and slim build, Mystic was the youngest and took strongly from their father; short, straight black hair adorned a face set with brilliant purple eyes. She was the shortest of the siblings only 5feet 1inch, with dancers build. Sazza was in the middle; with hair the same as Mystic only to her waist, she had their mother's height, a full 5feet and 8inches, and her eyes were different in colour, the left one purple, the right one emerald green. Sazza was the strongest of the three, having a muscular build but still keeping the grace the girls all shared.
All the girls were beautiful-though humbly dismissive about it- they turned many heads, though woe be upon any Slytherin that looked twice!
As they settled into their compartment they heard a knock on the door, opening it they met their archrivals Draco Malfoy and his henchmen, Crabbe and Goyle, 7th year slytherins the lot.
"So…" Malfoy drawled, "The three stooges have returned" eying them with disgust, Crabbe and Goyle sniggered like the idiots they were.
Mystic immediately lurched to her feet, fists clenched and Sazza and Annuna joined her, to help-or hold back- their sister; Annuna whacking her head on the overhead compartment.
The intruders roared with laughter. Big mistake.
Each picking a target the girls attacked gracefully with lightening speed, and with a few quick punches their opponents landed outside with broken noses and jaws; wishing they'd remembered the trio had mastered all seven levels of martial arts by the time were 10.
"Ooh those…" Myst uttered some extreme comments about those outside, awarded with a gasp of shock from her sisters, "I wish I could turn them into mice and set Kit on them!" she growled.
Kit chirped from in the corner, a miniature dragon she stretched only 60cm from nose to tail tip, twittering in her own tongue she agreed with her volatile mistress, though she suggested roaches…they were a lot more crunchy!
" Sazza why did you have to open the door?" complained Annuna, a rubbing an ankle where she had fallen over Soleil's cage on the way back to her seat- Soleil being her pet phoenix, "Your so gullible sometimes Saz!"
"Well if you were less of a klutz and Myst hadn't leapt up they would've left bored.' she retorted as her sisters blushed. Mystic was known for her temper and Annuna always managed to slip, fall over or walk into something at least once a day!
The incident was soon forgotten as the girls settled down, allowing Kit, Soleil and Sazza's purple puppy, Chiot, some of the sweets from the trolley.
The compartment suddenly exploded with laughter as Kit swallowed both a curry and a red chili, bertie bott's every flavour bean, at once; going vibrant shades of yellow, orange and red, squawking in alarm as smoke poured from her mouth!
They were laughing so hard they did not hear a knock on their door or four students enter their compartment.
The boy, well young man really, in the middle cleared his throat loudly, though barely held back a grin at Kit's antics. The girls span around in shock to see a tall boy with messy dark hair and eyes as green as Annuna's, flanked by a brunette and a boy and girl with flaming red hair and freckles that marked them clearly as siblings.
The brown haired girl and the tousle haired boy sported head-boy and girl badges on their smart school robes and the other two sported prefect badges, same as the triplets themselves wore.
The head girl was holding hands with the red haired boy, Ron Weasley, and his little sister Ginny was slowly moving to do so with the head boy, Harry Potter. Sadly the other prefects included Malfoy but everyone, except certain slytherins, believed that Harry and Hermione deserved their positions, respected them, and did as they said. (A first in the history of Hogwarts!)
"Guys why don't you come join us in the prefects' compartment?" asked Hermione sweetly; she and the girls had been friends for years, swapping spells almost every other day.
"We wouldn't fit!" Saz replied with a gesture to their menagerie, laughing.
"Malfoy appeared a short time ago with a broken nose, and Crabbe and Goyle had busted jaws." Harry stated blandly, the hatred between him and Malfoy ran deep, "Can you think how that might have happened?"
"No…" the girls replied, with a world of sarcasm in their voices. They all smiled, no one liked Malfoy and he was too proud to admit he had been beaten up by girls.
"Well if you ever want to come visit us..." Ginny went on while swinging on Harry's hand.
"You know where to find us!" they all chimed in as their friends left.