Preface
Years One-Three; a Brief Synopsis
Eleven year old Nick Negron found out he was a Wizard in the summer of 2008. His mother Neela had kept her magical heritage a secret, wanting to protect Nick as a child from a Dark Wizard known as Auron Sayle. When Sayle attacked and murdered almost an entire family, leaving one survivor and her older sister who wasn't home at the time, he was somehow also defeated and disappeared. That was when Nick was barely six months old, and since then Neela had just fallen into the routine of Muggle life, and just forgot all about it until he showed her the acceptance letter from America's Wizarding school, Salem's Academy. Filling him in on his heritage, Nick was excited to start school that year, visiting Merlin's Mall in Wizard New York City for his school shopping.
When he had arrived at Salem's, he had found out that all of the students weren't just sorted by their year of study, but their House as well. There was Sol, Luna, Aqua and Terra houses. Sol was for the brave. Luna was for the smart, and also sometimes devious. Aqua house members were the softies, but they apparently had a great Quidditch team, another thing Nick had learned about. Terra house, last to be brought up by the Sorting Hat, an enchanted Fedora cap the school had used for generations were the mischief makers, loving to play tricks on their fellow students. Between the Houses there were some rivalries, like Sol and Luna House were usually in competition with each other, just as Terra and Aqua were. Nick and his younger sister Yuna, who started attending in 2010 in Nick's third year, were in Sol House. Nick's group of friends spanned all the Houses. There was Billy Marino, Candace Cunningham and Leo Trace, all in Sol House with him. Then, Candace's sister Bethany and Norman Thaw in Aqua. Shawn Bishop was the lone Terra member, and lastly there was Melissa Montero in Luna House. The eight of them became quick friends throughout their first year at school, sticking together when the group wound up finding a long-lost Magical artifact known as the Infinity Wand. The Wand was sentient in the way that it chose its user, and it chose Nick. He loved the untold power the wand gave him, every spell he cast strengthened ten-fold. When his use of the wand caused Melissa to be badly injured, and then healed once he had realized what he had done, Nick vowed never to use the wand again unless absolutely necessary and, upon returning home handed it to Neela for safe-keeping.
Nick's second year was uneventful until around mid-February when, as the group had detention together in the Black Forest on the edge of the school grounds. Unknowingly, they wandered right into the revival of Auron Sayle. Fortunately, the group got away before he could see them spying, telling Lawrence Strife, the Headmaster at Salem's about the event. Melissa, being the survivor of her family's murder when the group were all just toddlers, begged Strife to help her sister and her stay off his radar. He agreed and sent everyone back to their dormitories. Then, as the year ended, Melissa stopped hanging out with the rest of her friends. When Nick confronted her about it, she shot him down angrily and told him that she hated him and the rest of their friends, the revelation both shocking Nick and sending him into a depression for that summer. When third year had started, and Melissa still seemed to hate the group it brought Nick deeper into himself, much to the sadness of the rest of their friends.
After a few months of the same negative attitude from Melissa, Nick decided to get over it in his own way. All of his friends could see that losing Melissa's friendship had hurt him badly, but they were surprised when they found him antagonizing Melissa in their shared classes. When they asked Nick about his changed behavior towards the girl, he told them it was to help him cope, make him happier just by interacting with her even when she hated him. The others didn't know what to tell him and so they let it continue. By the end of their third year at Salem's, Nick was back to his old self but now with Melissa as an enemy.
It is now 2014, Nick, Melissa and the rest of their friends are starting their seventh and final year of school at Salem's, with Yuna starting her fourth year. Auron Sayle was defeated in the teenagers' sixth year, and now the Wizarding World in America is at peace again. Nick, Melissa, and all their friends will go through their last year with vigor, through the heartbreak, shocking news and other hijinks only a Wizarding school can offer. But, this story begins just before their seventh year, so let's not get too ahead of ourselves. The Adventures at Salem's are going to finish whether Professor Strife gets his shit together or not, but you'll understand that later.
Next Time: Nick and friends make their way back to Salem's Academy for their seventh year. What secrets does Nick have that his friends don't know about? In another time, Nick starts his fourth year where Professor Strife tells the student body some news that is sure to excite.