Chapter 4- Back to school again.
The train was packed this year. Hunter found himself sitting with Kelly Kelly, John Cena, Stephoine and Chris once more. All seemed normal and quite until drifts of smoke would pass in the hallway. It was quite unsettling to Hunter to see such a thing, so he went to investigate. Stephoine and Chris joined him of course to see where the smoke was coming from. It wasn't long until Matt and Jeff Hardy, along with some new first years went screaming "FIRE!" down the hallway.
However, since this was an enchanted train, a fire couldn't break out now could it? Venturing closer and closer down the hall, they peered into the windows to see where the smoke could be coming from. Chris however found the source. "Over here!" he whispered.
They peered through the window. There saw Mel, Kane and Lee. Lee however looked petrified as she clenched onto a fire extinguisher for dear life. Hunter flung opened the door and saw Lee nearly jump. "Oh, it's only you" she sighed.
"What the hell is going on here? Why are you clenching that?" he demanded of her.
His attention turned to Mel who was concerned for Kane, he looked more pale than normal, and his nose a fire red as his eyes watered. He began to take deep, sudden intakes of air before he let out a monstrous sneeze. Fire burst from his lips and nose, in an instant, Lee blasted the flame with the extinguisher, instantly putting it out.
"Ah, I see why you hold that for dear life"
"God Kane, cover your mouth!" Chris said in utter disgusted.
"Since when did you get a cold? You were fine the last time we saw you!" Stephoine demanded.
"It just happened, I went someplace cold" Kane replied in a stuffy tone.
"Oh, you went to Canada huh?" Joked Potter.
Chris and Lee shot rather angry glares at him. "Hello! I'm from Canada, it's not like we live in igloos all summer!"
"Yeah, besides the coldest place to get a cold is Winterpeg!" Chris announced. "I know, we lived there for years. I have a very strong immunity against the cold you know. Canadian skill"
"Winterpeg?" Hunter demanded.
"You need to be a Canuck to know. Privy only to Canadian sorcerers and sorceresses" Chris explained.
However Hunter sought to change the subject, he stared back at Lee. "Why the hell are you sitting here if he's going to sneeze fire on you?… wait… Kane… she knows?" he demanded.
"Knows what?"
"I know, he's a dragon," she whispered lowly to the three friends. "I have had this hunch since last year, he was gone for a week, and I know dragons take a week to shed their scales, not to mention they were all over the common room" she explained. Hunter stared at Kane in disgust.
"What? People thought it came from their dragons, not me!" he snapped back as he was loading for another sneeze.
"Fire in the hole!" Chris yelled as everyone hit the dirt, Kane unleashed a random fire once more; Lee put it out before anything caught ablaze. "Why the hell are you even sitting here?" Chris demanded.
"It was either here, or the assholes of Scaleyarse. I rather deal with the flaming boogies thanks"
"Boogies?" Hunter whispered to Chris in great confusion.
"How about you come and sit with us before you get burnt alive" Stephoine asked of her.
Lee nodded in agreement; she gathered her things and turned to Mel and Kane. "Thanks for allowing me to sit with you, please this is no disrespect to either one of you…"
Mel stopped her then and there. "Don't worry, you are not a dragon, I can handle him. Besides, you ran out in your fire extinguisher." Lee looked to the canister and saw it was already at E. She left with Hunter and the others, just as Kane was getting ready to let loose another monstrous sneeze.
"I notice you are traveling a little light, where are your boys?" Hunter asked.
There was a thunderous thud coming from above them, Lee looked up and smiled. "They prefer to ride on the roof," she said in a calm tone.
"And we thought Kelly was odd!" Chris whispered to Hunter. They ventured back to the cart where John and Kelly talked. They moment they stepped in did John hand a paper to Chris and Hunter.
"We got invited to sit in a private cart, some guy named Piper…"
"Piper?" Hunter whispered as he looked down at the paper. It was an invitation to a private party in a different cart near the front of the train, strange though, Stephoine, Lee nor Kelly were invited. Curious though, Hunter and Chris went to check it out.
"Who is this Piper guy?" Chris asked.
Hunter told his friend that Piper was the guy Darcodorf asked to return to Ringwarts to teach, he assumed that he would be the new defense against the dark art teacher or something. Much to their surprise, they came to the cart, it was well decorated with various foods to eat, they were greeted by Piper with open arms and were told to help themselves and feel at home.
"This place is creepy" Hunter whispered noticing all the Scottish colors about the place. "I feel like I'm under a kilt"
"Man, get that thought out of your head now! You know what those guys wear under there! Not pretty!"
There were many others in the cart as well, those who have impressive skills at school. What shocked Hunter and Chris though was the fact that Trish too was invited! "Why are you here?" Chris asked his sister.
"Piper saw me put a curse on a girl from Scaleyarse. He was impressed and invited me, this place is kinda creepy," she whispered in a low tone.
Hunter however looked about and noticed there were some people from Scaleyarse; they talked about what Rando has been bragging about. It was something worth investigating; Hunter leaned to Chris and whispered. "I'm going to do some spying solo"
Chris agreed, Hunter pulled his cloak out of his shirt; he tucked it into his sleeves for safekeeping. He placed it on in an empty hallway before following one of the Scaleyarse students back to their side of the train. It happened to be Montel Vontavious Porter; he trailed him down to Scaleyarse's cart. Hunter snuck in as he heard Rando bragging aloud to his friends. "So what made you come to this conclusion?" Batista questioned. Hunter knelt down into the corner of the cart, out of the way yet able to hear everything.
Rando had that familiar smug look on his face. "Because, once Vincemort takes over. Everything will be different; we will have rules designed for us. I am so confident in this, I don't even think I'll bother coming to school next year"
Hunter bit his lip, knowing he likes to call Rando names after he becomes so confident about himself. "But Rando…" Ric protested.
"No buts!"
The train came to a stop. Batista reached above for his luggage, Hunter didn't move in time and was hit in the head by one of the cases. He sneered out a hiss in pain, not knowing if someone caught him. Rando, Ric and Batista continued unpacking, none noticed him. Hunter was about to get up himself with Rando did something quite unexpected. He came running back into the cart. Rando cased a paralyzing spell. Hunter couldn't move an inch! Tearing off the invisible robe, Rando grinned as he backed away once more. Hunter was frozen on his hands and knees when Rando came at him with a running start, he punted Hunter hard in the head before tossing the invisible robe back over him. Rando walked out grinning, thinking he just got away with the perfect crime. After all, who can see what you have done, if they are under an invisible robe?