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Previously: Sandy looked at Bunny and Jack but walked bravely to the Hufflepuff table that was applauding loudly. Bunny and Jack exchanged glances. This could be a problem.
Chapter 6: The First Night
Jack and Bunny turned back to the table and pretended to enjoy their dinner, although really they were thinking about how they would manage to work together since Sandy was in a different House than them. It would be a lot harder to talk about what each of them had found out.
"Jack, are you okay?" Jack was startled out of his thoughts as Anna asked him if he was okay. The rest of the group turned to look at him.
"Uhhh, yeah. I'm fine," he responded. He bent down to scoop a spoonful of cold peas into his mouth. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Anna looking at him, then going back to her food and Bunny, who glanced at him a little longer than necessary, no doubt thinking the same things Jack was.
Finally, they got through dinner. Sandy got up quickly and headed over to Bunny and Jack, who met him in the middle of the aisle.
"How do we do this now?" Jack whispered. Sandy shrugged, looking a little worried.
"Well, I guess we'll just have ta make it work. Ya know, meet up in the halls an' do a quick report or somethin'," Bunny said. The others agreed, then Bunny and Jack said goodbye to Sandy and the three went to join their respective Houses as they left to go to their common rooms.
Ron and Hermione led the rest of the Gryffindors to the Gryffindor dormitories and common room. Bunny and Jack walked together near the back of the group with Hiccup, Rapunzel, Merida, and Anna. They approached a portrait of a very fat lady "-she's called the Fat Lady," Hiccup told them, and Hermione said "Mimbulus mimbletonia" to the portrait. It said "Precisely," and swung open to reveal an opening in the wall. Jack climbed through it to find the Gryffindor common room. On one wall there was a roaring fire with squashy armchairs by it and a couch facing it. Dispersed through the rest of the room were more armchairs, desks, and a couple more couches.
"This is the Gryffindor common room. You will find the dormitories both upstairs and down, girls on the left and boys on your right." Hermione told the first years. Bunny and Jack said good night to eachother then headed to their respective dormitories.
Jack walked up the stairs, taking them two at a time. He opened the door to find Hiccup, Harry, Ron, and Neville already there and getting ready for bed. Jack didn't need to get ready; he preferred to sleep in what he normally wore. They all got in bed and soon Jack could hear Ron snoring and Harry's steady breathing. The others were all asleep.
Jack hopped silently out of bed, grabbed his staff, and opened the window. He grimaced at the chill that came rushing into the room. It didn't bother him, but the sudden drop in temperature might make one of the others wake up. However, if he wanted to get out tonight, it couldn't be helped. Jack climbed up onto the windowsill and stood up on it, balancing on the thin frame. He leaned backwards and let himself fall out the window, flipping head over heels as he fell. Jack then used the wind and flew right back up, clearing the top of the tallest tower in the castle. Jack whooped as he flew through the air; he missed it already. He stopped suddenly as he got a glimpse of a black strand of sand. Knowing that it had to be nightmare sand, Jack flew as fast as he could, following the strand. He stopped short as he saw, at the end of the trail, a child curling in on herself and whimpering. There was a cloud of black sand above her head, depicting a mummy wrapped in bloody bandages with its arms out in front of it, walking slowly towards a figure that was evidently the girl. Jack looked around at his surroundings, realizing that this must be the Slytherin tower. He pulled himself away from the dorm window and flew off to find Sandy.
Jack found his friend rushing on his cloud of dreamsand towards the tower.
"Nightmare. Slytherin tower," Jack said, gasping for breath. Sandy nodded briefly and kept going, altering his course slightly to make his way to the right tower. Jack gathered his strength and dashed after Sandy.
Sandy reached the tower and stopped at the locked window. Jack arrived a minute later and saw that the window was locked. He simply touched it with his staff and it froze over. He then punched the window, sending pieces of glass flying into the dorm to shatter on the floor. The two got inside the dorm and Sandy's eyes widened as he realized that the girl was showing the same symptoms that Jack was when he got the nightmare on the train. Gathering his strength, Sandy smashed his hand onto the side of the mummy. A flash of gold light was seen throughout the room and Jack worried that the other students in the room would wake up, but they all stayed asleep. Then he saw Sandy's sand covering the black, overwhelming the nightmare sand. With another flash of light, however, the golden sand reversed itself, making way for the black nightmare sand to return. Now it was time for Jack's eyes to widen in horror. Sandy just sighed, this was only the second time and it was already getting old. He gathered all of his strength and did the same thing to the nightmare as he did to Jack when he got one: with dreamsand swirling around his palm, he slammed it into the mummy's head. The nightmare sand disappeared and the child smiled, her nightmare having turned into a good dream. Sandy breathed heavily and he and Jack exited the dorm through the window.
"Well. That was an… interesting experience," Jack said, flying next to Sandy who was on his dreamsand cloud. Sandy finally got his breath back and nodded heavily.
"See you tomorrow at breakfast." Jack said good night to Sandy. The latter waved and the two parted, Jack going back to his dorm and Sandy going to finish giving dreams to the other students. The girls in that Slytherin dorm would have to step carefully the next morning – they would wake up to a shattered window.
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A/N: And Pitch strikes again! Tell me what you guys think about the story so far. I kinda feel sorry for the Slytherin girls. They'd probably be really cold the next day. They also might have to go to the Great Hall with cut feet from the glass Jack and Sandy left on the floor… meh. They might deserve it later. Please review and until next time!