They call me Poison. It's my specialty. But my real name is Zena York. Yeah yeah yeah, cool name blah blah. Doesn't matter. I hate it. Only a few people get away with calling me that. Spyder, Mako and Snake; me best pals. We were part of a… traveling circus so to speak. We are the 'abnormal' part of the show, with our abilities and all.
Notice the 'were' up there? I'll give you a second to double check. Okay, we ran from that fool Octavious- the Ring Leader.
Now that you know a little bit about us, let's jump into our story.
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"I'm just saying, we need English money. American probably won't work here", Spyder ranted, waving around his hands as he walked backwards so he could face us.
"Well I say 'poo!' to these English-men. They can sort out the difference for themselves!" Mako snapped, getting in the face of a bystander before returning his attention to me. "What do you think? You're ringleader now."
"I think we should do corner shows and get paid that way, if we decide to return to America, we still have American money", I rationalized, stopping to look in a bakery.
"There you go again", Spyder whined, pulling me away from the window. "Looking at your damn sweets."
"But they're so good!" I argued, trying to get back to the bakery.
Snake sighed angrily and picked me up and swung me over his shoulder after I had gotten away from Spyder.
"You know, Snakes ass isn't that bad looking", I mused, watching it as I bounced lightly on his shoulder.
Snake growled and set me down.
"That's so gross", He grunted before my stomach let out a loud growl.
I pouted and rubbed my tummy.
"Think we can con some old guy out of his money? Or for food?" I asked, slipping my arms underneath Makos and Spyders.
Snake trudged along behind us, silent as he usually is while Spyder thought about it.
"I guess that would be okay, take a little bit of work though. I mean, we hardly know the situation that the economy in Europe is like, let alone how people react to street kids", Spyder replied, looking over to Mako. "What do you think Shark-Man?"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Mako roared at Spyder. "And I think we should con that family."
Mako had pointed to a family of four. The dad and one son were fat, while the mother and the other son were skinny. I smirked at the sight of them.
"Okay, you guys stay here, I'll do the talking", I ordered, before walking over to the seemingly busy family.
The father seemed to be yelling at the dark haired boy and froze when his wife motioned to me with her head. He turned around on a dime and directed his glare at me.
"Uh, hi. I'm Poison and my friends and I need a little bit of help. We kind of just moved here and only have American money and no place to sleep. Do you think you could keep us for a few days at your house?" I asked timidly. When I saw he was about to decline, I cut in. "We'll clean and cook and look for jobs if you let us stay. We'll pay rent and everything!"
He narrowed his eyes at me before turning around to his wife and whispering to her. He turned back around.
"No cleaning or cooking will be necessary, our nephew does that", he spat out nephew like it was offending. "You will look for jobs and pay rent though."
"Thank you! You won't regret this!" I reassured him before turning around and motioning the boys over. "This is Snake, Spyder and Mako."
"Oh dear…" The wife placed her hand to her chest. "Are those really the names your parents gave you?"
We all let out small snickers.
"We don't have parents!" Spyder informed before grabbing at his sides and bending over with laughter.
"Oh lord! No parents!" she basically shrieked. "Oh Vernon, we have to keep them! They can stay in Dudley's second room and the boy can go back to his closet!"
Well, to say that was officially weird would have been officially correct. We didn't end up kicking out Harry-the nephew-, but did end up sleeping in sleeping bags on his floor.
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My eyes snapped open when I heard something scratching on the window. I propped up on my elbows to look at the window, only to see a Snowy Owl flapping right outside. I glanced at Harry's bed to see him in a deep sleep. Sighing, I stood up and opened the window so the offensive bird could perch on the window.
I noticed the letter tied to her leg and reached forward to take it off. She nipped at my fingers and I let out a hiss, pulling my hand back. I moved quickly this time, snatching the letter from her and sticking out my tongue for my victory.
I turned the letter over in my hands, feeling the old looking parchment. I looked at the front and all it said was 'Harry'. I looked back at the snoozing boy before turning back to the letter and shrugging. It couldn't be too important if it was sent by owl and didn't have anything other than one word on it. Harry shouldn't mind. I opened the letter and read it.
Dear Harry,
How has your summer vacation been coming along? Mine has been wondrous! Mum and Dad took me and Ginny to Diagon Alley a little early to get us new robes! I hope to see you soon at Hogwarts.
Ron
P.S. Hermione won't be sending any owls this summer, hers is sick.
What the hell? I rolled my eyes, folding up the letter and putting it back in the envelope before setting it on the bedside table. I yawned and slouched back to my sleeping bag and going back to sleep.
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"Wake up Poison! We have letters!" I heard Mako excitedly yell from the general area of the window.
"Woah, these are heavy!" Spyder said, presumably picking one up.
I groaned and stuck out my hand, waiting for the letter to plop into it. And plop it did, making my hand crash down onto the floor.
"Ow!" I mewled, sitting up and shaking away my morning bed-head.
I opened the yellow envelope and took out the letter, skimming it over and taking out the list of school items that the letter mentioned.
"Who wants a CAT? Sheesh", I said, shaking my head.
"I happen to love cats", Spyder grinned before bursting out laughing.
"Yeah, the ones in girls pants", Mako whispered in my ear, causing me to snicker.
"You guys are weird", I heard Harry comment while he packed for his new year at Hogwarts.
"Yea, and where would the world be without us?" Spyder asked, bending into one of his starting positions.
"In a dark, humorless corner I guess", Mako got into his position while continuing. "I guess that's why…"
"Carni's are the best!" I finished while Snake and myself got into position as well.
"Carni's?" Harry asked incredulously.
"Yea! We came from Octavious' Traveling Circus of the Abnormal and Extreme!" Mako replied, pulling out of his box like stance.
Harry just raised his eyebrow.
"You guys are going to have to pack for Hogwarts you know. And buy school supplies", he chided, throwing some weird looking cloth into his trunk.
"Money came in the packages", Snake replied shortly, holding up a silver coin.
"So, when do we get to go shopping?" Spyder asked, jumping up and down like a little girl. We all gave him looks. "Good chance to get girls….."
Snake shook his head and returned to studying the parchment.
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"Woa…" I whispered, staring through a window and into what I presumed to be a pet shop. "I want a three headed King snake…"
"Com'on Poison! We can get you a horridly disfigured pet later! I want to get my wand!" Mako complained pulling me away from the window and toward a shop called Olivanders.
We entered the shop and an old man slid on a ladder towards us, looking down his nose at us before hopping off and grabbing some measuring tape. He motioned for Snake to step forward and let the measuring tape go. The tape measured weird places while the man strolled through the back. He returned shortly with a long blue box.
"Ten and a half inches, cherry-wood, Fang of Basilisk", He opened the box and presented the stick- excuse me- wand to Snake.
Snake gave the man a skeptical look before taking the wand and letting his hand fall to the side, small dark green sparks fell from the tip of the wand during its arch and the man just smiled and the tape began measuring Spyder. Spyder tried to knock the tape away but it just kept coming back while Olivander looked for his wand. Olivander returned and presented the wand to a frazzled Spyder.
"Eleven inches, Oak, Acromantula leg."
This process continued for Mako and I. Mako got a Nine and a half inch Aspen wand with a mermaid hair and I got Eleven and a half inch Willow with Threstal hair.
Our shopping from there on was boring and redundant; Spyder getting slapped for hitting on someone, Snake or Mako pulling me away from shop windows, Spyder getting slapped, Shopping, Spyder getting slapped. Well, you get my point… I hope.
We finally got to go pet shopping. And to make things better, the three-headed snake was gone. So I was stuck strolling along the isles to look for another animal. I stopped to peer into a dark cage near the back when a large kitten ran up to my face. And when I say large, I don't mean fat, I mean as big as a Great Dane large.
"Awwe!" I cooed, stroking it's forehead through the bars.
"Do you want him?" The creeper voice of the storekeeper mad me jump. "He's only a sickle, no-one wants him."
I just stared at the crazy looking woman before handing over the small piece of Wizarding money.
"He can change sizes too, just ask him to", the lady walked off after unlocking the cage.
The kitten jumped out and gave my cheek a sand-paper kiss.
"Hey, can you get smaller so I can carry you?" I asked as Mako, Spyder and Snake came to me with their pets.
The Tabby kitten seemed to smile at me before a whirl of cat hair exploded from it and he was the size of a normal kitten.
"Did your cat just explode?!" Spyder asked as his parrot groomed his hair.
"No!" I said incredulously. "He just got smaller, he was the size of that one Great Dane we saw that scared the shit out of us, you know, the horse sized one?"
"You're kidding!" Mako and Spyder exclaimed together, their eyes wide and mouths open.
"Nope", I replied while we exited the shop.
The kitten curled up comfortably in my arms while we left to return to the Dursleys house. We arrived just as Vernon and some fat chick were entering the house. Mako and Spyder gave me a look and I shrugged, skipping up the stairs to pack for the school, Snake following silently and Mako and Spyder whispering quietly to themselves.