8
Chica
"What are you doing?" Matt asked. "You have my class in two hours Chica, why are you here now?"
"I was just setting my stuff here so I don't have to carry it with me." Chica answered.
"I don't get it." He said walking towards her. Chica paused, still holding her pens and notebooks in her hands.
"I am going to go for a walk. Alone." She said setting the things on my table.
Matt picked up a notebook, turned it over in his hands, looking at it strangely. "What is this?" He asked.
Chica took the notebook from him and put it back in her bag. "Private," she answers. "I'll be back," she said as she walked out of the classroom.
"Kazuto, are you here?" Chica called as soon as she reached the forest.
"No, but I will be," she heard. She looked around for him since his voice sounded right by her.
"Ayudar me soy fuerte," Chica said aloud.
"Why do you need strength?" Kazuto asked her
"To carry on," Chica replied, taking a sketch book from her backpack. She stared drawing the waterfall from memory and at the edge of the pool, she unintentionally drew a grave.
"Who does the grave belong to?" Kazuto asked her, his head resting on her shoulder.
"I don't know…" she answered. "It's not Nolan's," she adds pointing to his actual grave. "See? There're different."
"Why did you call me?" Kazuto asked after a moment.
"I just need to be around you for some reason. I just feel safe with you around. Corny, I know." Chica said with a small smile on her face. "Maybe it's the fact that you're a Unicorn."
"That could be the reason, but not the full one…" Kazuto answered mysteriously.
Chica stared off into the trees thinking of what Kazuto had just said. She must have been like that for a while though because when she later glanced at her watch it was already time to head back up to the castle. "I have to get to class…" she said as she gathered up her things. She stood and saw that Kazuto had turned into his human form behind her, Matt's dark robes and all. "May I have a hug??" she asked him. But before her sentence was even finished, his arms were already around her.
"Do you need me to come to class with you?" he spoke softly into her ear.
"If you wouldn't mind…" she answered back, equally soft.
Kazuto smiled at her and escorted her back to the castle.
Senpai
Senpai tossed over and looked at the clock. "Holy shit, it is eight thirty! I have only thirty minutes until class starts!" She said aloud as she was jumping out of bed and making her way over to her trunk with her stuff in it. She put her robes on and grabbed her school bag before dashing out of the dormitory. She made it to her class with only seconds to spare, luckily.
"Well Miss Senpai, your luck never ceases to amaze me. Now take your seat." Boder told her. She blushed as she slipped into an open desk next to Daniel. "Okay, class. Welcome to Defense Against the Dark Arts, I'm Professor Boder, and I'll be your teacher…" Boder started explaining.
Senpai felt some one tap her wrist. She turned to face Daniel and he whispered, "Hey, have you thought about the Harpy problem?" She nodded a yes as she took out the notes that she did last night.
For the rest of the hour, Professor Boder talked about the class, and his expectations, and the grading process. "Tomorrow, we're going to do a thing or two about harpies, so get a good night's sleep and read pages 42 through 50 for your homework." He just managed to say, before the bell rang.
"What is our next class?" Chica asked Senpai.
"Um, Herbology, in green house three." She explained, leading the way.
As they were walking to the green house, Chica asked Senpai who her favorite teacher was back at high school.
"I would have to say Mr. Shipman," She said blushing, then added "Except for the times he picks on me that is."
"The reason that he picks on you is because you are an easy target!" Chica teased her. Senpai was about to hit her, when she stopped dead in her tracks and gasped.
Chica
"Mr. Shipman, you're here!? Why?" Chica asked, completely confused.
"Kazuto, are you a new student here now?" Kisa asked when she saw them walk in.
"No, I'm just here for Chica," He said.
"Cool! We have joint classes!" Chica said, amazed.
Kisa
"Not too surprising though, as this is the only Herbology class at our level." Elie said with a teasing smile. Everyone laughed and entered into Green House Three, Mr. Shipman holding the door open for them.
"Why are you here Mr. Shipman?" Senpai asked as they went by him.
"I've always taught the higher Herbology classes, it's just too much for Professor Sprout. Why do you ask? I don't think we've met before."
"What!?" Senpai exclaimed. "Don't you remember? You were our teacher at Milaca."
"Milaca? Where's that?" Mr. Shipman asked confused.
"Maybe we were mistaken…"Chica said as they sat down. Mr. Shipman walked to the front of the class and started telling the students what they would do during the year.
"I would swear he was the same person," Senpai whispered to Chica who was next to her.
"You're right, but it can't be unless he has amnesia or something," Chica answered, whispering aswell.
Chica
"I doubt it was amnesia… He has been here awhile," Rupert said.
"Yeah, I don't agree with his teaching methods. He doesn't take things seriously, and his tests are too easy!" Emma said, complaining.
"You guys better turn around before we get into trouble," Kisa said, who was sitting on the other side of Rupert.
Justin and Rose, who were sitting along side Emma, were just looking at Kazuto. "See something interesting?" Chica snapped at them.
"It's okay Chica," Kazuto said reassuringly. "They aren't bugging me," he added.
"Are you sure?" Senpai asked, not realizing that Mr. Shipman had stopped talking and was looking at them.
"Are you done talking? Or are we going to have to wait for you in order to continue class?" Mr. Shipman asked. "I know this is the first day of class, but you seven have an essay to write about not talking in my class!"
"Joven!" Chica said quietly.
"Hey now… watch your language," Kazuto reprimanded her, though he was smiling.
"Sorry! But he had no right giving you an essay! You're not even in his class!" Chica said ticked, a little louder than she should have. Luckily, Mr. Shipman was talking to a group of rowdy Hufflepuffs and failed to hear her.
"No, I'm not, you're right. But I am going to talk to Dumbledore to see if I can be." Kazuto said, taking Chica's hand in his own under the table. Chica smiled, letting him hold her hand lovingly and started to pay attention to Mr. Shipman, who was having the room take notes on class room procedures (Emma and Chica were the only ones who were actually writing them down though…). "Chica, what are you using to take notes?" Emma asked, thoroughly confused.
"Oh! It's a pen!" Chica said, holding it up in front of her so she could see it clearly.
"That's not what I meant, silly!" she said laughing. "I meant what are you writing in?"
"Oh. Latin, English, Spanish, and Pig Latin," Chica exclaimed "Senpai is writing in French, and Kisa and Tsukasa are using Kanji, which is one of the Japanese alphabets. One out of six, I believe." She added.
Kisa
"That sounds really confusing." Emma said, laughing quietly. Rupert shushed her as he didn't want another essay. Emma glared at him and Justin couldn't have looked happier. Rose jerked his attention back to taking notes though as soon as she caught the look on Justin's face. Class ended and they all went their separate ways. Kisa and Tsukasa went to Divination with Chica and Kazuto; Daniel along with Emma, Rupert. Justin, Rose and Senpai went to intermediate potions.
"Why aren't you coming to potions?" Senpai asked. "I saw it on your schedule."
"We're in advanced potions." Kisa said with a smile. "Elie too, right?"
"That's right!" Elie said. "So I will see you all at lunch, I have Care of Magical Creatures now, so see you later."
Daniel laughed and shouted, "Good Luck!" to her as she ran down the hill towards Hagrid's hut. It was called Hagrid's hut for simplicities sake; every one knew what you were talking about when you said it. However, Roy Mustang was the teacher of the Care of Magical Creatures class ever since Hagrid moved into the forest to live with his brother. Roy of course, didn't live in the hut but it was perfect for class so that's were it remained. Later, everyone understood why she took the class – Roy is a hunk!
Elie stood outside with the other students as they waited for class to begin. She looked around and noticed that the class was half Gryffindor and half Slytherin. Roy had them split into groups of two.
"Make sure your partner is from a different class! We're trying to make some new 'friends' too!" Roy said cockily.
Elie watched everyone paired up and simply gave up hope on being chosen willingly by a Slytherin when a roughly handsome boy came up behind her and said in a deep voice, "Want to pair up?"
"Kay," Elie said shyly.
"Now, everyone have a partner?" Roy asked, and they all nodded. "Good, now listen for instructions. I want each of the groups to come up here and pull the name of a creature out of this hat. You will then proceed into the forest to find the creature that you drew. You will have a time limit, so if you come back empty handed you will not receive a low grade. But if I find out that you're not even trying, you will have to write an essay on that creature to be handed in at the start of our next class. Now line up and pick a creature." Elie and her partner were the first ones in line, "Go ahead and pick"
Elie put her hand in the hat and pulled out a slip. She unfolded it and read, "Wood Fairy"
"Well, let's go then." The boy said, taking her arm with his and walking towards the forest.
As they looked for the wood fairy, Elie noticed that he had extremely messy blonde hair and piecing blue eyes. She asked him what his name was and he had said, "Lucia" with a smile. The smile took Elie a little a back. It wasn't really happy or encouraging or anything like that. It was actually almost evil, and Elie liked it a lot.
"My name is Elie," She revealed to him, with a smile of her own. "Have you been at Hogwarts a long time?"
"Ever since I turned eleven. You?"
"Ever since I turned eleven." They both laughed at her imitation of him. Elie noticed that his laugh sounded a little off too. Something just wasn't right. Elie took his hand, but she didn't really register what she was doing until she already had done it. She just felt like it was the natural thing to do. Lucia smiled that off smile of his, and walked beside her almost protectively.
'Even though we are in the Forbidden Forest, why would he care about my safety? He was from Slytherin; they were said not to care about anyone but themselves, so why? We had just met too…' Elie's thoughts were interrupted when Lucia took his free hand and pointed to a tree that was just in front of them.
"There's one," he said and Elie opened the cage she had been carrying. Lucia stunned it with a spell and put it inside the cage. "There. He may not like it too much, but he'll have to stay in there until Roy says we can let him go."
"Poor little guy," Elie said, and then shrugged. "Nothing we can do though, right?" Lucia agreed with her, and then escorted her to Hagrid's hut.
Chica
"Where is everybody?" Lucia asked, looking around the hut.
"I don't know." Elie replied. "I think we're the first one's here."
"You are correct. You are the first group to bring back the correct creature!" Professor Mustang said. "As a reward, you don't have to write an essay, you get two free answers on your next test, and you get to leave early!"
"Cool!" Elie said, grabbing her bag.
"What are we supposed to with the wood fairy?" Lucia asked Professor Mustang as he grabbed his own bag aswell.
"Leave him with me." Professor Mustang answered. "I am going to make sure he gets a good night's sleep, and the spell you used didn't have any negative side affects."
"Thank you," Elie said cheerfully as she handed him the cage. "See you tomorrow." She said to Professor Mustang. "Are you coming with? Or are you going to wait for your friends?" She asked Lucia.
"I'll walk with you to your next class, if that is okay. I have to ask you a question anyway."
"What do you have to ask me?" Elie asked, after they had left Hagrid's Hut.
"Would you like to go out with me?" Lucia asked pulled her to a halt and looked into her eyes.
"Yes I would love to!" Elie replied, excitedly. After he received her answer, he bent to give her a kiss and a hug.
"I am glad." He told her as they made their way to the castle, again hand in hand.
