King's Cross Station 10:40
A small family walked by the station. The father was a tall man with black hair in a cowlick, he had brown eyes and fair skin; the mother was a short woman with light brown and long hair, tied in a ponytail, she had deep blue eyes. Walking beside them was their young son, about his mother's height; he inherited his father's dark hair and his mother's eyes, although he bore more resemblance to her.
The boy was pushing a trolley, it carried a big trunk and a metal cage, the metal cage was carrying something that looked suspiciously like a black dragon.
"What's the platform's number?" The father asked, looking around.
The boy pushed his ticket out of his pocket.
"It says here platform 9 ¾." The boy read. "But it doesn't exist!" He protested.
His father just shrugged, but his mother gave him a small smile.
"C'mon Lance, I guess you just need to look."
Lance rolled his blue eyes and replied.
"Well, at least if I lost the train I wouldn't need to go to this school." He murmured. He didn't really want to go ever since he received his letter. A wizard's school, he was going to be considered an aberration worst than he already was. Because Lance wasn't a normal boy like the others on the city where he lived, he was far away from normal.
But he thought his mother's arguments were probably right, that school was an opportunity for him to learn to control his powers, it was better than trying to ignore them, so he sighed and stared confused at the wall between the platforms 9 and 10. Suddenly, like magic, another family appeared behind them.
"Excuse-me, are you lost?" The man asked them, he had black messy hair and green eyes, a strange scar marked his forehead, and he wore round glasses.
"Yeah, we're looking for platform 9 3/4." Felicia, Lance's mother, told them.
Lance took notice of three children standing behind the green eyed man. There were two boys, the only differences between them, were their height and the fact that one had green eyes like his father and the other brown ones, like his mother, who was also standing with them. The third kid was a very young girl; she had fiery red hair, in resemblance of her mother.
"Is this your first year at Hogwarts too?" The boy who seemed to be the eldest, the brown-eyed one, who was also pushing a trolley, except ha had an owl instead of a dragon, asked. Lance nodded in agreement.
"You're a muggleborn, aren't you?" he inquired.
This time Lance got confused and lifted an eyebrow. What was a muggleborn? Was that even a word?
The brown eyed boy agreed to himself, he didn't think he needed to explain anything though, and extended a hand to Lance in a polite fashion.
"I'm James Sirius Potter." James introduced himself proudly. "This is my brother, Albus Severus, and my sister Lily Luna Potter. What's your name?"
"Lance Robinson." Lance shook James' hand, saying his name in a proud tone, much like James'. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"The pleasure is all mine."
"All right kids, everyone to the station or you will lose the train." Felicia called. The boys had even forgotten the adults were there and they were going to take the train to the new school.
"James, you go first." Harry Potter, James' father, instructed. James knew what he should do. He faced the barrier between the platforms and ran to it, but instead of colliding, he disappeared through it.
"It's like the passage in the mountain?" Lance whispered nervously to his mother while the Potters finished passing through it.
Felicia nodded, smiling to her son, who finally brave faced the seeming solid wall and ran towards it.
Like he was expecting he went through it and saw himself in a new, crowded platform, where a red, very old, locomotive were waiting for the passengers.
"Five minutes." Wilbur looked at his watch. "All right Lance, you're ready?"
"No more than I was when we left home." The boy gulped nervous. "I will miss you two so much, all the rest of the family too."
"We will write to you every week, I promise." Felicia kissed her son's forehead.
"And send you a photo every now and then." Wilbur added.
"Send us a letter when you arrive, right?"
"Count on me mom." Lance tried to smile.
"Hold on Lance, we have something for you." Lance looked shocked at his parents. Felicia took off her pocket a small square red box.
"We were going to give it to you just when you're fifteen, but we thought it was better to give you it now." Wilbur said.
Lance opened the box, inside was a medallion, in a golden chain, it has a round silver circle, the centre neon blue, with a golden hammer on it and in the handler of the hammer written in red was the name Robinson.
Lance smiled. "It's so cool. Thank you!" He hugged both his parents. "Now I have a little piece of home to take with me."
"But please, take good care of it Lance!" Felicia asked. "Bad things can happen if someone finds out what it's, intentionally or accidentally."
"All right, I hope I can see you at Christmas!" And with this, he pushed his things onto the train and climbed on it.
He walked through the train, searching for an empty cabin, but the whole train seemed full of students. In several seconds he just began to random walk without pay attention at the cabins anymore, it was when he heard a recognized voice.
"Hey, Lance!" He looked at the cabin and saw James Potter with another boy with red hair and about the same age of the two. "Come to join us!"He invited with a smile. Lance nodded and entered the cabin, sitting at the redhead's side. "Lance, this is my cousin, Fred Weasley II. Fred, this is the boy I told you."
"It's true you have a dragon?" Fred asked.
"No. Not a dragon. I have a Skyress."
"It looked like a dragon." James protested.
"They look, but they not grow up to be bigger than a cat and have different powers instead of just fire. Mine is a Black Skyress, he has powers based around shadows and fire, his name is Shadow."
"Why don't you have an owl? Like as us normal people..." Fred asked.
"I'm not a normal guy, plus, the owl is with my parents, so they can send me letters."
"So, good time to tell us about this mystery of your family, no?" James asked.
"No! I need to learn more about the world I'm entering before we reach the school. So, let me see, firstly, why some of the older students have different colours on their uniforms?"
"The students were selected in four different houses, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff." James explained.
"Sounds like a lot of trouble. Do you know what house you'll be sorted into?"
"No one knows, but we'll probably be in Gryffindor, all our family was there. But anywhere else is fine as long as it's not Slytherin." Fred replied.
"And how this selection thing is done? Do we have to do some kind of a test?"
"Nothing you will need to worry about." Was all what James told him.
"And is there something I need to worry about?"
"We'll tell you at school, even if we end up in different houses, you seems like a nice guy."
"What is this medallion?" Fred asked.
"I don't know what's so secret about it, but it's a present from my parents."
"Why the golden hammer? Does it have something to do with your family?"
"It's a symbol. I can't tell you so much about my family. Each of us swear keep secret when we interact between the two worlds. And don't ask, I will not tell anything more."
The two cousins looked confused. What that boy had so big to hide? But they decided change subject to Quidditch, with James trying to explain to Lance everything about the game, and with this they passed the time until lunch time.
James and Fred bough the food since Lance said he didn't have money. But Lance noticed something that attracted his attention; he picked something out of his pocket. "Hey guys, how about we trade? A Chocolate Frog for a pack of Explosive Gum."
"What's Explosive Gum?" The other two asked surprised.
"It doesn't hurt." Lance assured them. "They're delicious and refresh a lot."
James smiled. He hadn't proved, or even saw, that kind of thing before. He immediately passed two Chocolate Frogs' boxes to Lance, receiving back a package with blue and white stripped round gums. He gave one to his cousin and the two put one in their mouths at the same time. James immediately felt like the gum was really exploding and so like his brain was freezing, he felt his eyes filling of tears and waited a little 'till the sensation got away. Fred in another hand felt the explosion, but instead of cold, everything got suddenly very hot.
"Wow!" The two exclaimed as the bad sensation got away.
"Where did you buy this?" James asked.
"It only exist in one place, but I can't tell you where. If you want I can send a letter home when we arrive at school and ask my mum to get some for you two."
"I think this is going to be super good." Fred commented, "But why is everything around you so mysterious? Your family isn't magical, but you act like they aren't Muggles either."
"Let's just say I'm just half normal human, well, not even half." He was trying to calm down his new friends, after he did the mistake of tell them something he shouldn't but haven't noticed before say, but it was just getting the two more curious to find out what was going on.
Right then the compartment door opened, revealing a tall boy, probably around their age, tan skin, black hair and black eyes.
"Well, well, what I have here? Hello Potter, Weasley."
"What are you doing here Drake?!" The two looked angry at him.
"And who are you?" The boy, Drake, asked to Lance.
"You know, you remind me of someone I know."
"Really?"he asked amused.
"Yeah, another boy with a rat face and a creepy look... But he at least smelt like chocolate."
The three boys inside the compartment burst into laughter, which only made Drake look even angrier.
"A Mudblood trying to insult me? Guess what, your comments don't mean anything, after all I am so very above you!" Drake smirked.
"Take that back!" Lance stood up angry. "Your son of a virus!"
"What did you just call me?" Drake asked, trying to intimidate Lance.
"Son of a Virus." Lance repeated firmly.
Drake was about to reply when the two were interrupted by a third figure of an older girl with red hair.
"Fighting already?" She asked. Both boys noticed the badge on her robes and both remained quiet.
"Good. Now back to your compartment, Drake." She ordered. With a dark smile to the four kids, Drake left the room.
"And who are you?" She asked to Lance.
"Lance Robinson. Why do you have that badge?"
"I'm a Hogwarts HeadGirl. If I were you I'd try to avoid problems with Drake from now on, or I will not care if you are my cousins' friend or not." And with that she left too.
"Cousins?" Lance turned to the two.
"Yeah, she is our cousin, Victoire Weasley." Fred explained. "She's is in love with rules and punishing those who break it; don't mess up around her in school." Lance rolled his eyes.
"How many of your relatives go to this school?" He asked laughing.
"Actually we're four Weasleys and one Potter in Hogwarts." James replied. "But we have one Weasley in Beauxbatons and four more Weasleys and Two more Potters still too young to enter school."
"Wow! That's what I call a big family! I don't have any sibling, but I have a lot of cousins too."
"What did you call Drake, Son of a Virus?" James raised a curious eyebrow.
"I normally don't use this kind of language, but he called me something too, I feel it was an insult and I just couldn't help myself."
"Yeah, call someone a Mudblood is the worst insult to a Muggleborn."
"Then he deserved that."
"But why did you use that expression? It isn't a Muggle thing." James protested. "Where I live there are a lot of Muggle families with kids and none of them ever said something like this."
"It's a thing from my mother's side of the family. Where she came from and still works it's the worst insult you can give someone, but some people consider Son of a Glitch a very bad one too. Or son of a Cy-Bug, like my aunt and Clar even says." Lance giggled.
Imediattely Lance cursed himself for being such an idiot. But unfortunatelly he couldn't help. He even let things slip when he was distarcted, excited, sad or angry. He was't proud of it, it was his principal pass to trouble, but he just couldn't help let it happen.
The two cousins shared a puzzled look. What in the heck was a Cy-Bug?
And with that they passed the rest of the travel talking and sharing candies, sometimes trying one or other spell just for fun, and playing explosive snap. Finally the train stopped at the station in Hogsmead, the three pocketed the rest of their candies and exited the train together.