Ancient Incantations
Chapter 7
Dylan had absolutely no idea where the Gryffindor side of the nations had gone, but gone they were and judging by the fact that Liam informed him they had to deal with Lockhart, they would be gone for a while. Joy.
He was now stuck with four of the Nordics, one of his brothers and a confused Italian. All of whom were in the middle of a discussion about brothers.
"Big brother."
"Not saying it."
"But Emil! I've always wanted to be called big brother, you should be lucky."
"Ve~" Feliciano leaned in to join this discussion, "What's so bad about calling him big brother? Even Romano doesn't get worked up when I call him fratello…"
"Who cares? I'm not saying it."
"Big brother."
"I said I'm not saying it!"
"Big sis."
There was an awkward pause, especially as it was that moment that Ron and Hermione had walked over to see what the fuss was about. And then Ron started laughing as Emil sighed, "You make no sense."
"I'm still your big brother."
"Am not!"
And they were back to square one.
Hermione sat down next to Dylan when he sighed again, scooting a little further away fro the group and pretending not to know any of them. Hermione seemed more than happy to stay away from them for a few moments.
"I don't understand. What's with the whole brother thing?"
"Honestly I'm not sure…I'm pretty sure it's just Emil denying to bring back something from his childhood." Was Dylan's reply, before his expression slowly turned into a thoughtful frown, "Where's Harry?"
"Huh?" Hermione blinked, not expecting the simply question before pointing while across from where they were sitting, now noticing the others had paused to watch the Gryffindor Quidditch team argue with the Slytherin's. They both frowned.
"I smell trouble…"
"Ve~ You can smell trouble?"
Emil sighed, muttering something about being surrounded by idiots before they all edged closer to listen in on the conversation,
"I booked the pitch for Gryffindor today, Flint."
"Oh, don't worry, I've got a note!"
Dylan frowned as they watched Flint pass a note over to Wood, who unfolded it and read out "'I Professor Severus Snape hereby give the Slytherin team permission to practise today, they're going to need to train their new seeker.'" Wood then put down the piece of paper as the others walked over, interest piped as Wood raised an eyebrow in disbelief, "You've got a new seeker? Who?"
Liam edged closer to his brother in order to whisper in his ear, "I bet it's someone that needs feeding to Shamrock."
Just as the Slytherin team parted in order to reveal Draco Malfoy, smug smirk on his face as Liam clamped a hand over his mouth and looked away before snorting, "I told you so."
"Malfoy?" Harry nearly laughed in disbelief.
"That's right." Malfoy retorted, "And that's not all that's new this year."
It was then that they all noticed the brooms that almost sparkled, obviously new and Ron gasped, "Those are Nimbus two thousand and ones! How did you get those?"
"We got them off Draco's father."
Draco opened his mouth to say something, but it was then that Liam stepped forward, "So hang on a second, you mean to tell us that you came here to brag, only to tell us that you didn't get onto the team with skill, but by buying your way in?"
Dylan almost sniggered at the sheer innocence in Liam's eyes as the realisation sank in, before Draco was retorting, "Well at least I can actually afford things!"
A ripple of laughter ran throughout the Slytherin team, surprising Tino with their cruelty. It was more surprising though, when Liam burst into laughter, earning raised eyebrows from his friends and a scowl from Malfoy as the Slytherin's stopped laughing,
"What's so funny freak?"
That only sent Liam into more laughter with a gasp of, "I really should feed you to Shamrock!" Before promptly bursting into laughter again. Dylan shook his head as he watched his brother, before noticing Alastair standing next to him.
"What's Liam laughing at?"
"I don't know…"
It was then that Liam took a moment to compose himself, clutching his side with one hand and wiping his eyes with the other before taking a breath, standing up straight, looking Malfoy in the eye and stating, "You all laugh because we're different. I'm laughing because you're all the same."
When Alastair sniggered it became obvious Malfoy didn't understand because he blurted, "What's that supposed to mean!? Tell me or I'll tell my father!"
When Liam burst into laughter again, Arthur walked over with a smirk and said, "That's exactly what he means. You're just a bunch of cowards that relies on his little daddy-waddy to do everything for him." Malfoy opened his mouth to retort, before something flittered across his face and he closed it, turning around and stomping off.
Their laughter still didn't subside, not even when there was a loud crash and Alastair stomped his foot yelling, "Damnit! What did I tell them?!" before running off to the direction off the crash.
However their laughter was stopped when they were all sitting in Hagrid's hut a while later, with Ron vomiting frogs into a bucket,
"So let me get this straight…" Arthur started fro where he sat next to Alfred, "After that whole thing with Malfoy you tried to attack him but your wand was broken so it backfired?"
Harry nodded.
"And why exactly did you try to attack Malfoy?"
There was a pause for a moment before Hermione stood up abruptly and walked over to the window, earning confused look from Feliciano as she stated, "…He called me a mud blood."
Hagrid gasped, "He did not!"
Alastair banged his fist on the table at the same time Arthur stood up and yelled, "Thou gleeking flap-mouthed scut!"
Nobody questioned Arthur's words, though Alastair did glare at Liam when he muttered, "I will feed him to Shamrock…"
"Guys?" Feliciano asked, suddenly finding himself the center of attention, "What's a mud blood?"
"It means foul blood."
"Which Shamrock will be spitting out once he gets a taste of Malfoy~"
"Liam!"
"…I regret nothing."
"It's an insult to people who are muggleborn - people with non-magic parents." Arthur sighed,
"People like me." Hermione interrupted, looking downcast, before glancing bitterly at them, "It's not something you hear in a civilised conversation."
"Civilised? Civilised people don't get eaten by -"
"LIAM!"
Liam shrank down into his seat while Hagrid decided to continue, "You see Harry, Feliciano. There are some families, like the Malfoy's, that think they're better than everyone else because they're what some people call purebloods."
"That's horrible!"
The statement was proven correct when Ron threw up another slug and Tino walked over to rub circles on his back, no doubt pitying him due to the look on his face, "It's disgusting." He commented.
"It's stupid." Arthur added, "Wizards would've died out had we not married the non-magic folk."
To Matthew's concern, Alfred looked like he was thinking, so him and Matthias were poking him to try to rouse their friend.
"More to think, there hasn't been a spell that our Hermione can't do." The others nodded in agreement as Hagrid walked over and hugged Hermione, before Matthias blinked and turned to Hagrid,
"Does that mean she can curse -"
And then Lukas whacked on the head with a nearby book, "No."
Tino then turned to Liam, "Lim, what's a Shamrock?"
Alastair, Arthur and Dylan groaned at the same time, only to be cut off as Ron shrieked when Liam bolted upright with a few curses before running out with a call of, "I'll be right back!"
The others stared at the door.
"What the heck -?" Ron began, but was cut off by another slug heaving session.
The others pitied him.
"So, how long do you think it'll take for Ron's slug retching to come to a stop?" Alastair asked casually as he continued walking ahead of Dylan, who was holding his wand, the bright light at the tip of it that dimmed slightly when he sighed,
"I don't know. Arthur reckons a couple of days. But um, where are we going?"
Alastair blinked, before turning around so he was walking backwards and held up one of the blue pixies from earlier. Dylan raised an eyebrow.
"What? I told them I'd feed them to Nessie if they kept messing around."
Dylan nearly choked on air, "Hang on! We're walking around, away from Hogwarts in the middle of the night to look for a mythical monster!?"
Alastair looked offended, "Dylan, that's mean. That's like saying to Liam that Shamrock doesn't exist…"
"What did happen to Shamrock? Didn't he go to Hogwarts?"
"Beats me." Alastair replied, before he stopped walking and grinned, "We're here!"
Dylan blinked in surprise before bluntly stating, "We're at a lake."
Alastair rolled his eyes, "Well duh."
"Can we just get this over with?"
"…Fine." Alastair pouted, before blinking in surprise as the pixie he held in his hand bit him, "…That really didn't hurt little guy." Alastair commented, before turning towards the lake they had stopped at.
It was literally in the middle of nowhere as Dylan stared at the endless fields of grass, so the lake stuck out like a sore thumb, but he hadn't even realised it was there until they stopped. Maybe he had been thinking too much…
His recent thoughts, were interrupted when the water began to ripple and glow a gentle blue, catching even Alastair off-guard as something broke the water's surface with what could've been a joyful growl.
Dylan blinked, finding himself staring at the Lock-Ness monster of legend.
It was harder to see in the dark, but Dylan could clearly see the outline of a long neck, the head almost like the bud of a flower as it crooned forward to look at Alastair. Large, black beady eyes contrasted against the light teal skin it possessed, before it opened it's mouth and gave out a mysterious sound.
Alastair laughed, before stepping into the water slightly and then hugging it, with a joyful cry of, "Nessie! I missed you!"
Dylan was starting to worry for his family.
Alastair then glanced at the pixie that was still trying to bite his hand, holding it out to Nessie, who blinked before eating it.
Dylan pretended not to hear the loud chomps, which was easy when Nessie cut off from his eating and Dylan noticed the blue glow had increased and was now wrapping around his legs like a mist.
"What the?!" Alastair yelled as a sudden stream of black cut through it and Nessie snarled. Scotland whispered something to him and with a reluctant look, he descended back in the ocean.
"Romano…?" Alastair turned to Dylan in surprise, momentarily pausing from staring at the last spot he saw Nessie before following Dylan's gaze.
Because there, floating above the water was a Romano-shaped shadow that merely smirked at them, suddenly yelping in surprise as a wolf suddenly jumped through it, skidding on an invisible floor above the water and snarling.
"…That's not Romano." Alastair corrected as he backed away until he was stood next to Dylan, "We need to go back, now."
"But -"
"Now!"
Dylan watched with wide eyes as his brother pulled out his wand, before pointing it at the Shadow-Romano, that looked over at them with what could've been wide eyes, before vanishing in a stream of grey and white.
He was faintly aware of his brother tugging at his arm, but he was transfixed at the wolf that had blinked at the disappearance of the shadow, before locking it's gaze with Dylan's.
It's face was more angular than most wolves he had seen and it's posture was certainly different, leaving Dylan to conclude that it was an Italian wolf.
'No one is unneeded. There will definitely be a time when someone is needed for something, like now. So let me ask you a question, are you ready to be used in a game against time?'
Dylan jumped at the sudden voice, staring at the wolf that cocked it's head, waited for an answer before its edges began to blur and it vanished.
It was at that moment that Alastair was finally able to move Dylan from where he had been rooted and with a yank, managed to get Dylan running as they ran back towards Hogwarts.
But Dylan was regretting leaving the question unanswered.
And he wasn't even sure why.
A/N: ... So many REFERENCES! Has anybody else heard the Nordic Five song with Norway and Iceland arguing and then Norway randoly goes, "big sis?" When they're talking about the brother thing? IS ANYBODY ELSE PROUD I BOUGHT NESSIE INTO THIS!? IM SO PROUD! Now...To find a way to bring him back... xD
Poor Romano. I feel cruel to him, yours and Dylan's questions shall be answered later. Eventually. MUAHAHAHAHA! But you got to see more of the Nordics and Liam and Dylan, so YAAAAY! And Arthur's insulting thing was Shakesperian if google served me well... Does anybody here know what a Shamrock is? I do *grins madly* Liam does~ Arthur, Alastair and Dylan do too as well but...DO YOOOOOOU?
Didn't think so. i'll go watch the next part of the movie now. Ooh! Next chapter is night-tie again. With the detentions I think. YIPEE XD
~ Blessed Be Awesome People!
