"Noel! Slow Down!" My friend Avril called.
"Not my fault that Saevio is faster than Rosa." I replied gesturing to the onyx colored Pegasus I was riding. "We're almost there anyway."
The huge castle came into view before I could get the words out of my mouth. As we came closer I could see students gathered by the open windows watching us. Saevio tossed his head, enjoying the attention he was receiving. I petted his neck as we landed. I could hear the thud of hooves as the other pegasi landed carrying my classmates. An old man with a long silvery beard and kind eyes appeared before us with a warm smile. The headmistress of our school, Professor Carmichael, came to meet him.
"Oh Albus! It's been to long!" She exclaimed as she dismounted her brown pegasus, Venus.
"Emeline, so good to see you! We had a stable built for your pegasi, it's too your left, and once you're done I'll send Professor McGonagall to show you to your rooms." He turned to walk away but paused and turned his head, "And welcome to Hogwarts."
Professor Carmichael instructed us to dismount our pegasi and lead them to the stable.
Though it was new, if someone had told me that the stable was one hundred years old, I would have believed them. The style that it was built in was a very old style and the details were very intricate, which nobody did anymore. It was absolutely beautiful.
I untacked Saevio and put him in one of the stalls.
"Minerva!" I heard Professor Carmichael call from behind me. I turned around to see Professor Carmichael give her a hug which Minerva, or Professor McGonagall I presumed, returned with a less than enthusiastic look on her face.
"Nice to see you Emeline." She paused and forced a smile. "If you're done with your pegasi, I'll show you and your students to your rooms." Professor McGonagall looked past Professor Carmichael to us.
"I'm Professor McGonagall, the Transfiguration professor." She said to us.
Some of us muttered "Hello" or "Nice to meet you" as we were taught.
"Well then, follow me." She said as she turned on her heel and walked out of the stables.
I couldn't help but marvel at the beauty of the old castle. The portraits were another thing that amazed me. Some of them smiled and waved while others just watched us intently.
When we had wandered for what seemed like forever, we arrived at a portrait of a woman in a long purple dress. She had long, curly golden-blonde hair, and kind dark green eyes.
Professor McGonagall turned to us.
"To get in your common room, you must give Evangeline, the woman in the portrait, the password which is," she turned to the woman, "Phoenix heart."
The portrait swung open to reveal a stone passageway that we all went into.
Avril turned to me, "Hey, your middle name is Evangeline."
"Uh huh." I murmured absently as I continued to observe my surroundings.
"Professor Carmichael, your room will be to the right, the rest of you follow me."
Professor Carmichael went into the opening in the passageway to the right while we continued on.
The room that the passageway led to was filled with big armchairs in a dark purple color. A cozy fireplace was in one of the walls. I could easily call this place home for the next year.
"It is to my knowledge that you're school is divided into three houses," She paused and a couple of us nodded, "To your right and up the stairs is the Ipsum dorms, straight and up the stairs is the Aliquam dorms, and left and up the stairs in the Xysticus dorms. You'll have an hour to refresh yourselves before the evening meal, and then one of our seventh year students will come and lead you to the Great Hall where you will be introduced to the students." Professor McGonagall paused as if to ask for questions, and when no one said anything she turned and left.
One of the girls, Summer, plopped down on one of the couches and exclaimed, "I love this place already!"
"Tell me about it! It's gorgeous!" Another girl, Jade, agreed.
"Well, as beautiful as this room is, we better go 'refresh ourselves' before 'the evening meal.'" Avril said imitating Professor McGonagall's crisp accent.
I elbowed her in the ribs. "Summer and Jade are right, this place is beautiful, we should all be very thankful that we are allowed to stay here. And to show our thanks," I eyed Avril, "We should be on our best behavior."
Avril muttered under her breath, "No promises."
I rolled my eyes and smiled playfully. "Alright, let's go get ready for dinner." I said with my mild southern drawl.
We divided off into our houses and walked up the stairs.
The top of the stairs revealed a long room with six four-post beds on two of the walls, which perfectly fit all the girls in our house. The walls were a pale blue and the beds were decorated with silver and blue comforters, according to our house colors. There were french door dividers between each bed. I picked the bed closest to the far end of the room. All of our bags were sitting in a row along the back wall. I grabbed my navy duffel bag and unpacked my clothes.
I pulled one of the dividers over so that I could change from my jeans and t-shirt into my dress uniform. Our dress uniforms were the uniforms that we wore on special occasions. They were dresses in our house color, blue for Aliquam, yellow for Ipsum, and red for Xysticus. The dresses had two inch sleeves and the skirt of the dress came down to about two inches above our knees. We also had to wear two and a half inch silver heels with our uniform (for some reason the woman who came up with our dress uniforms must have liked the number two). When it was cold outside we wore gray pea coats that did almost nothing to keep us warm.
I pulled my blue dress on, but waited to put on my heels, those things could kill a person.
I moved the divider back and sat on my bed. Yes, I thought to myself, I could easily call this place home.
Hope you liked the first chapter! Please, please, please R & R!
Here are some pictures that might better give you an idea of what some of the things in the story look like:
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