Ok chapter 3. Well technically it's chapter four since my first one was a default chapter. What is a default chapter anyway? Ah… never mind. Anyway, I hope everyone likes this chapter; it took me longer to do it because I had to refer to the Harry Potter books a lot. You'll probably see why once you get to those parts. So, thanks for acknowledging my presence and stories! Review!


Mikara and Sevi walked through the doorway and into a pub called the 'Leaky Cauldron.' It was dingy and dark inside; the walls had been painted a deep purple, ages ago. The paint was peeling along the ceiling and you could see the chipped plaster underneath. The floor was covered in, worn out, wool carpet which was stained from all the beverages that had spilled on it. There was an oddly colored stain that was the shape of Abraham Lincolns' head.

She followed Sevi as he headed for a door in the back of the small pub. The door led to a dead end. All that was there was a brick wall about ten feet tall. Sevi walked straight up to it, tapped on it in some sort of pattern, and pushed on one of the bricks. The wall, all of a sudden, opened up to reveal a street that branched off into other streets; they were filled with shops and people were rushing from place to place looking for things called, 'Dragons Liver', 'Racing Brooms', and something called 'Floo Powder'.

Sevi walked down the long street and turned in front of a huge, snowy white, building. It was much larger than the other small buildings. Mikara noticed that there was something, which very much resembled a four-foot toad, standing outside the big entrance. Sevi walked up and into the front doors; Mikara followed closely behind him, wanting to grab his hand for comfort. She reached his side and slipped her hand in his. He looked at her with a sharp intake of breath and almost made her release his hand; but the frightened look on her face made him allow her small hand to tightly clench onto his slim one.

They reached a second set of doors which had an inscription carved into it. It read:

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

She and Sevi walked through those doors; bowed to as they passed, by two toad-things. The next room they entered consisted of more toad-things, and they were sitting behind long counters on stools. They were scribbling down things, and looking at gems and weighing things too.

Sevi walked up to an unoccupied toad-thing. "We've come to take money out of Miss Mikara Kaze no Hana's safe." He took a golden key out of his left pocket, with his free hand, and handed it to the toad-thing.

He took the key a little sharply, and examined it for a moment. "Right. Ragnarl!" He called out. Another toad-thing rushed over to them. The toad-thing handed Ragnarl the golden key, and they followed it through one of the hundreds of doors that led out of the main room.

Behind the door they had gone through, the walls and the ground were made of stone. The passageway was narrow and it had torches leading down through the tunnel. A small cart hurtled up the railway tracks that lead down the steep tunnel. The three of them climbed into the cart and it suddenly flew down the passageway. It seemed the cart knew where it was going all on it's own because it turned the corners so sharp; besides, the toad-thing was napping.

After about ten minutes of near-death turns and fierce winds piercing their faces the cart finally stopped in front of a small door in the passage wall. Ragnarl unlocked the door and shoved it open. There were gold coins, silver ones and bronze colored ones too. Where had it all come from? She'd never had money. So how could all of this be hers?

She watched as Sevi walked into the vault and pulled a large moneybag out of his pocket. He scooped a lot of gold coins into it. Then grabbed some of the silver and bronze ones as well. He walked back out and handed Mikara the bag. She held it as he climbed back into the cart and looked at her expectantly. She climbed into the cart after Sevi and the toad-thing got in. They set off with sharp turns again, almost causing her to lose her grip of the bag of coins. They sailed along- sailed? Yeah right, they got tossed around and it caused Mikara to almost get whiplash.

They finally stopped up at the entrance and she and Sevi got out. Mikara felt a little light-headed, but Sevi seemed fine- like he'd been doing this all his life.

They left the bank and Mikara followed Sevi to a shop that seemed to sell clothes. Well, maybe not clothes, it seemed the shop- 'Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions'- sold exactly what the title said it sold; it was a shop for robes.

Sevi walked up to the front door and paused. "I've got some business to attend to. So I'll be back soon. Just go inside and show her this." He handed her a list of supplies for school; it read:

Uniform

First-year students will require:

Three sets of plain work robes (black)

One plain pointed (black) hat for day wear

One pair of protected gloves (dragon hide or similar)

One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupils' should carry nametags

Course Books

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment

1 Wand

1 Cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS

ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS


Mikara watched as Sevi walked away, leaving her on her own. She took a deep breath and opened the door to Madam Malkins robe shop. She stepped inside and smelled the fabric. 'Can you even smell fabric?' you ask? Well, she did.

A woman, who looked rather short and was dressed in all burgundy, came up to Mikara and asked, "Hogwarts?" Mikara nodded and Madam Malkin led her over to a stool and helped her stand on it. She held out her supply list for the woman, but she just smiled and said she didn't need to look at it; that she knew exactly what to do by heart after working there for over ten years.

Mikara stood on the stool feeling like a little awkward. She'd never been fitted for cloth- (oops!) robes, before. Heck! She'd never been fitted for anything before.

While she was being fitted two boys and a man, Mikara assumed was there father, walked in. The two boys looked identical, she figured they must be twins. They looked a year or two older than her and they both had flaming red hair, freckles and were very tall. They seemed to be arguing about something. "…It was grass, not booger." The twin on the left said.

"No. It was booger!" the twin on the right argued back.

"Grass!"

"Booger!"

"Grass!"

"Booger!"

"Enough!" They're father yelled. "Stop arguing so we can pick up Percy's new robes." He walked up to the front desk and rang the little bell, which sat up front, for service.

Madam Malkin put a hold on her fitting of Mikara and walked to the front desk to greet her customer. The two boys had spotted Mikara and walked over to her. "You a firstie?" The twin on the left asked her, as she hopped of the stool.

"What?" She had no idea what he was talking about.

"Hogwarts." The twin on the right answered. "Is this gonna be your first year?" He explained.

"Oh." They looked so similar; it would seem impossible to tell them apart. "Yeah."

"Yeah? Well, I'm Fred Weasley." Said the twin on the right.

"George Weasley; at your service." The twin on the left said, bumping his brother out from in front of Mikara.

They both stuck out there hands for Mikara to shake. She shook each of there hands. "It's very nice to meet you." She let go of George's hand. They were both smiling suspiciously.

"Fresh meat." George whispered to Fred.

"Yeah." Fred whispered back.

"What?" Mikara looked at them with an eyebrow raised, and a questioning stare.

"Err… nothing." George hurriedly said. "Miss…?"

"Mikara Kaze no Hana." She looked back and forth between the two.

"So, your Japanese?" Fred asked her.

"No. I was named after the- um, the founder of the orphanage I live- lived at." She felt a little embarrassed telling them such personal information about herself.

"You're an orphan?" George asked. "Uh, I mean. What happened?"

"I don't know. All I know is that I was found on the orphanage steps when I was about three months old." She shifted on her feet uncomfortable with the topic they were recently discussing. Luckily for her, Madam Malkin took that moment to come back, and the boys' father was calling for them to go.

"Ehh; just a second dad- sorry. We gotta go though, so we'll see you at school?" Fred started walking backwards toward his father. Mikara nodded.

"Yeah. See ya, Mikara!" George called and followed his brother and father out the front door.

Mikara finished her robe fitting and left Madam Malkins shop with a bag of robes. She didn't know what to do, since Sevi hadn't come back from his thing he was supposed to be doing, yet.

She saw a sign for 'Magical Menagerie'. She walked through the front doors and up to the front desk where a woman sat reading the newspaper. The front-page title was: 'Cauldron explosions!'

The woman saw Mikara walk up to the counter. "Can I help you with something, dear?" She wore brightly colored orange robes and a purple hat sat atop her head.

"Um, yeah." She answered and noticed all the animals around her in cages. There were rats dancing in a cage on a counter-top. There were at least fifty different creatures in the shop; most of which were locked up in cages.

Mikara noticed a cage of kittens in the corner of the shop. There was a little orange one fighting with a brown one that had little spots of white on it's back and tummy. There was also a gray one in the corner of the cage sleeping soundly. It had little black spots all over it, reminding me of pepper.

The woman at the counter noticed her staring at the kittens so she looked over to the cage as well. "Oh, no. Not again!" She cried and began looking under the counter-top and throughout the shop. She called out the name 'Ruby' while looking. "Excuse me. But what are you looking for?"

The woman had stopped peering under tables long enough to call out to Mikara. "One of the kittens has gotten loose. She's always doing this; it's pretty much become a daily thing. I swear when find her I'm going to lock her up in a cage that she won't be able to teleport out of!" the woman rambled on for a while as she searched for Ruby the kitten.

Mikara stood where she was. "Cats can teleport?" she asked the woman once she came back clutching a little black kitten. Now she knew why it's name was 'Ruby'. The little black kitten had the reddest eyes she had ever seen; they weren't an evil kind of red either, they were a lively and mischievous red: Ruby.

"Not all of them, dear. This one is a half-breed. Half of her is part of a telepathy cat breed, cats normally have sixth sense about things and since she is half of a telepathy breed her sixth sense of things is increased." The woman explained as she sat the kitten on the counter-top atop of her discarded newspaper. "The other half is that of the teleporting breed, no one has wanted to adopt her as a pet because she could disappear at any moment and she's always hiding from me." The woman sounded a little irritated.

"I'll take her!" Mikara said before she could stop herself. The cat seemed all right, just a little playful and it seemed all she wanted attention.

The woman raised an eyebrow. "If your sure…" she sounded glad to be getting rid of the cat though.

The woman took some coins from Mikara as payment. Mikara left, with Ruby in her little cage, and some food.

Mikara stepped out the door and saw Sevi standing over by 'Madam Malkins' looking around frantically.

She walked over to him and tapped on his shoulder. "Hello, Sevi." She said as he turned around. "I went and bought a pet since the list said I could get one; I hope it's all right that I didn't wait for you to come get me." She looked a little worried at the fact that his forehead had worry-sweat on it and his eyes seemed openly concerned.

Ruby hissed at Sevi. "It's fine. Just don't do it again." He said, glaring at Ruby. He turned around and headed for a shop that said, 'Ollivanders'; a wand shop. Mikara and Sevi walked inside the door.


'fluffy the adventure squirrel': I don't want to give too much out about the secrets within the story. But, Mikara isn't related to the Lestranges, if that's what you were implying. Who she is related to is a secret, well who her mother is, anyway. We've already concluded that Voldemort is her father. She doesn't have any memory of what happened or of who her parents are. There are little hints that say she's a Metamorphmagi; She doesn't know that she is one though. Not for a while anyway. There are a few other talents she has as well, that will be revealed in good time.

When she arrived at the orphanage they named her Mikara Kaze no Hana, after the founder of the orphanage. Which she told Fred and George in this chapter.

I figured she would have a nickname for Snape since she'd known him for so long, ever since she was little and he'd been assigned to watch over her by Dumbledore. I hadn't mentioned the fact that it was Snape who was watching over her. I figured it would add a little mystery to the beginning of the story; and I wanted to see who would figure out that it was Snape. So I hope that all questions have been answered, if not, then please ask me. Thanks for all the reviews. And remember, I welcome flames.