Nants Ingonyama bagithi baba!
Sithi uhm ingonyama
The room shook with vibrations as Asher shot up in bed. The room around him was blurry but he could still see the blurred movements of his roommates as they were shocked awake by the noise.
Nants ingonyama bagithi baba
Sithi uhhmm ingonyama
Ingonyama
Asher grabbed his glasses from bedside table, before adjusting them on his face. Most of the room mates were covering their ears. Some had just fallen back onto the bed in frustration and a few actually seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Siyo Nqoba
Ingonyama
Ingoyama nengwa' enamabala.
The chanting continued on a few more times as Asher and Brice shared a look.
"I forgot." Brice said slightly annoyed
"Same," replied Asher as the song continued.
"They have drums this year."
"And xylophones," Asher noticed. "They're going all out this year." They shared another look as it dawned on them.
"25th anniversary"
From the day we arrive on the planet.
And blinking step into the sun.
There is more to be seen than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done.
"You know, I always underestimate the choir every year," Brice admitted as the music continued playing. There were no speakers anywhere, but the song filled the room. It filled the entire castles.
"It's a good alarm clock; although, I'm not sure that I wanted to wake up at sunrise." Asher added. Today was the fifteenth of June. Also known as the anniversary of the day the lion king was released in theaters.
There is far too much to take in here more to find than can ever be found.
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless rounds.
"Every Damn Year!" Asher's other roommate moaned trying to drown out the sound with his pillow. "Why? Why can't they just let us sleep?"
It's the circle of life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place!
On the path unwinding
It's the Circle
The Circle of Life.
Brice and Asher sat in their beds listening to the ever so popular song. It's not like they hated it. The school's choir had a lot of amazingly talented voices. It was just that being shocked awake by someone screaming "her comes a lion" in Zulu as the sun began to peak over the horizon pushed people the wrong way.
The first time that this happened Asher wasn't at the school yet. According to his sister—who had been there- it was a group of muggle raised kids (and some half-bloods who had been raised in both worlds) that wanted to celebrate the anniversary of their favorite Disney movie. They had managed to get through the entire song before the professors found them.
The year that followed they got through the entire song again
The third year, the professors were ready.
They hadn't even hit the half way mark when they were cut off.
After that, the students had gotten creative in their hiding places.
It's the Circle of life!
And it moves us all!
Through Despair and hope
Through faith and love!
"Oh?" I think they're going make it all the way this year," Asher noted as they started on the final chorus. The year before they had been found and shut down by the teacher's right before the last chorus. It had also been a few years since they had been able to complete the entire song.
Till we find out place,
On the path unwinding
It's the Circle
The Circle of life!
"I'm not gonna lie," Brice said when the song came to an end, "That was a broad way worthy performance."
"I'm pretty sure it was Broadway's version of the song."
"The real question is when did they have time to practice this?"
"You know who has an answer to that questions, Brice?"
"Mel." They both said. After that they promptly fell back asleep until they actually needed to wake up. It was a worthy performance, but sleep called them.
When the boys woke up for breakfast they dressed and hurried down to the great hall. As usual the place was already a buzz with activity. Today was the day more flash mobs happened across campus than any other day. So long as the performance was between classes and wasn't really disrupting anyone the professors didn't mind as much. The sunrise performance—needless to say—wasn't appreciated.
Asher and Brice didn't even bother going to their table. They walked right over to the Slytherin table and sat down across from Mel. No one gave them a second glance. While it was still taboo for students to sit at a table other than their own houses, no one really stopped them from doing it. Most people didn't even bother pointing it out or looking when it came to Mel. You could almost always expect someone from a different house to be sitting with her, so two Ravenclaw boys was nothing.
"How did they do it?" Brice asked immediately. No introductions, now "how was your morning, Mel" or "Did you enjoy waking up at sunrise to the 'Circle of life'
"Well, aren't you straight to the point," she joked taking a sip of whatever was in her cup.
"Where's Sulli?"
"Tying up a few loose ends." She answered with a smirk, "Now, what was it you wanted?"
"This year's performance was longer than any other year. Longer performances mean's more time for the teachers to find them."
"Oh, did you like it this year? They went a little out of their comfort zone and did the Broadway version of the song instead of the movie version."
"It was impressive and you are avoiding the question, Mel." Asher informed, "How's they do it?"
"I'm not entirely sure if I'm at liberty to discuss my client's tricks and secrets."
"Look, Mel. We will figure it out one way or another, we just wanted to do it the easy way," Brice explained. "You really think two Ravenclaw super sleuths like us won't be able to solve the mystery behind the practice and performance location? The difference here is will we tell the teachers about what we discovered or not."
"Are you threatening her?" Asher asked quietly glancing at his friend.
"And did you just call yourself a super sleuth?" She added.
"Yes," he looked between the two of them, "To both of those."
"Alright, I admire you're bravado, Brice. I'll tell you, but if I learn that you told anyone else—and trust me when I say I will know about it—you will regret it."
"And now you're threatening me. We've gone the full circle." He joked, "I won't tell anyone. I'm not dumb."
"Obviously. You are friends with Asher. Anyway, the location was the shrieking shack."
"Seriously?" Both boys shared a glance, "That seems far too obvious."
"I think you'd be surprised. There aren't actually that many people who know how to get in and out of there, or about its existence."
"Seems like it." Asher said.
"Right, well thanks for sharing the secret. We won't tell a soul." Brice assured, "Now I'm hungry, let's go eat." Brice practically dragged Asher back to their table so they could eat breakfast before heading to their first class of the day.
I didn't really spend a lot of time editing this chapter...for the few people who actually read this, so sorry. I've been really busy lately. College is a struggle.
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