I'm sorry. I said I would post bunches. But I forgot to post them. Take this as compensation, we will post many more chapters fairly quickly! Just trying to word check them.

It was once again, the dreaded time. October 15th, we were called to have a meeting with our house to talk about everything. It was the Friday before break, once we finished our meeting we would be going home, and I'd be going to the Knolle Hole for dinner. We would return on the 25th of October, with a week to prepare for the duels that would come up.

We all gathered into the common room and sat wherever we pleased. Many of us had begun to carry our homework with us to these meetings, because we knew we wouldn't talk, and so did everyone else. Seele began reading the list, asking each student what they would be doing over break. Finally, she got to my name.

"Vespera, what will you do over the next week?"

I shrugged, "I'm going over to the Knolle's for dinner with Cenek, Jaelah, and Erikk. After such matter, I'll probably go to the Malfoy manor, and stay locked in my room reading the rest of the week."

"Why would you stay in your room on purpose? Wouldn't it be nice to get out of there, to see your family?" Seele asked, as though she was probing for information to come from me.

"I have a father who will be on a business trip, a mother who is taking care of the house, and an obnoxious brother who will still be at Hogwarts. I might as well stay in my room. I'll probably get ahead on homework and such."

Seele frowned, but continued, "Jaelah, what are your break plans?"

"I was going to jailbreak my best friend. Then we were going to torture my sister some. However, I just found out that she's willingly putting herself into her jail and not actually being forced there," Jaelah glared at me while I gave her a slight grin. "As such, I will probably work on the cooking and baking things, so I can actually be in the classes with my same year."

Seele seemed to accept this answer and continued forward.

When she reached Cenek's name he shrugged, "I have dinner like Vespera said. Then I'll study for my exams."

One of the other kids scoffed, "Yeah he doesn't have anything to worry about. His family will accept him just fine. 'Oh, I'll study.' yeah right. You'll probably run around with daddy and mommy and enjoy your break unlike the rest of us who fear going home."

Cenek's eyes looked downcast, and he didn't defend himself. I glared at the kid who spoke up, "Don't act like your life over break is going to be so horrid. I heard you yesterday, you're not going home to the ones who have hurt you. You'll be at the beach with your friends you've made here. Cenek has to go back home to a life you may not know about, why don't you give him some respect. If you don't want to, maybe you'd like me to teach you some."

The same kid laughed, "We all know that I can outrun you in any moment, I'm not afraid of you."

Seele in her usual calm self, thought we would talk it out, she encouraged it. I glared at the kid, and pulled out a book. The kid laughed, "I knew you weren't up for a challenge."

"A true fighter knows that one should wait until it's least expected. I expect you to apologize for your rudeness, and will persist until you have done so."

Cenek looked at me and whispered, "Don't worry about it Vespera."

I shrugged, "Whatever." I scanned the page. I had been reading books for duel club, and knew that somewhere in this book would be a curse that even the kid wouldn't expect from me.

They continued around, and when the kid spoke up he said where he was going, to hang out with friends to avoid his family. I looked up and locked eyes with him, I whispered, "Augen einfrieren."

He didn't realize anything was wrong, only Jaelah had heard me cast my spell and seen my wand move in two arcs. The kid wouldn't be able to blink, slowly he would just be uncomfortable until his eyes dried out and he went to the clinic. Jaelah nodded at me, and we finished up our meeting.

Cenek took my arms and pulled me back up, "Thanks for trying to defend me, but it's fine really. Don't worry about it. I'm used to it, no need to get revenge."

I shrugged, "Too late." I looked at the boy, and saw his eyes turning red. He was scratching at them, but hadn't noticed what was wrong yet. "I was studying and found a great test subject."

Cenek rolled his eyes, "What am I going to do with you?"

"Accept that you found a good person to fight in the duels."

He nodded, "You aren't wrong, you ready to go find the others?"

"Yeah, let's go to the office and find the parents," I paused, "Why do we always use magic to get to the house? It's not a far walk I thought?"

He shrugged, "I don't know, we just do. We can monitor people who enter and exit I guess." We started walking before Jaelah came behind me and jumped on my back.

"What the heck Jaelah!" I made two steps before my knees started to give out, and I collapsed, dropping Jaelah.

Cenek bent to the ground, "You okay?" He picked me up and supported me.

"I'll be fine."

Jaelah stood up and brushed herself off, "Thanks for helping me up too. Thanks for dropping me. Yeah whatever." She stuck her tongue out at me and then kept walking off.

"What's her problem?" Cenek asked.

"She's a grump? I'm not sure. At this rate we're never going to get to the house though, come on!" I walked faster and Cenek ran up, and threw me over his shoulder. "Gah! Put me down!" He started to run as I was kicking and laughing through the school.

We got to the main office and received many funny looks. Cenek sat me down, smiling, and we all took the floo to the Knolle Hole.

Upon arriving, Flick asked, "May I have Morgan over? We wanted to work on our homework."

Her parents nodded, "Very well, ask if she may stay the night. She can help watch the other children, she always has gotten along with them very well."

Flick grinned, "Thank you." She then skipped off and I giggled, knowing the truth.

We all sat down at the dinner table, the boys pushing our chairs in. Cenek leaned over, "I'm sorry. This is so awkward."

I whispered back, "I can always practice spells if it gets too bad."

He glared at me, and went to his seat.

"So, Chadwick, how are classes going?" his parents asked the twin.

"Oh, they're wonderful! Yesterday in class, we got to pluck the feathers off the phoenix and send them in for wands! We are also working on a potion that will cure all ailments! We haven't gotten very far on it, but we're hoping we get through it before finals. Speaking of, what's the final exam going to be this year father?"

Headmaster Knolle answered, "It wouldn't be fair if I told you all, but it has an emphasis on dark magic and tag teaming. Speaking of, Jaelah, Vespera, I hear you two will be in the tournaments?"

Jaelah and I nodded, but Jaelah spoke up, "Certainly we will be. We've been practicing, I just don't know how we will ever beat all the higher up students that have had so much more practice than us. It's hard catching up to the spells they all know!"

Cenek was trying to stifle a laugh, and started to feign a cough when his dad glared at him. "Well, I'm sure they'll go easy on you, won't you Chadwick?"

Chadwick nodded, "I always go easy on the third-year students, but I'm not going to let you win!"

I smiled, "Thank you for giving us a chance to not look like complete fools Chadwick!"

He grinned, as though he was so proud of himself for doing something kind, "Anytime. Speaking of, do you guys need help with your spells?"

Jaelah looked at Erikk who smiled and nodded, "Certainly Chadwick! Some defensive spell help would be much appreciated!"

Chadwick looked at Cenek, "Say, why don't you enter in the tournament this year? You haven't done that in a while."

Cenek shrugged, "I've been putting all my time into training these two. Plus, I don't want to make it to the final round and have to fight to the death with them, I'd be a goner."

I looked at him with my eyes wide open, "The final is a fight to the death?"

He shrugged, "Not officially, but unofficially, yes. Whoever makes it to the end is usually going so hard they accidentally kill the other. I was going to tell you guys if you made it there but..."

I smacked my head on the table, "What's a year of school without potential death threats/"

Jaelah grinned, "We'll be fine Vespera! We have enough control that we cannot kill!"

Chadwick held out his hand, "Let me see your wand, how powerful is it?"

Jaelah shrugged and pulled out a wand and handed it to him. "This is the one I've been using."

He looked at it, "Kaya wood and Phoenix feather, 7 inches. Not a bad wand. Where did you get this from? Kaya wood isn't something that's used in British wands very often."

Jaelah smiled, "It's from my grandparents, they brought it from Japan and had it made into a wand. Though, you aren't that great at identifying wands."

He handed it back, "You just confirmed I was right on the wood, what's the core made from then? I know my way around wands, I know that was a phoenix feather inside of it."

"Firstly, it's handle is made of a yew wood, while only it's body is made of Kaya wood. The main core is a phoenix feather, but it's coated in basilisk venom, and the quill has a chimera scale embedded inside of it. That, and it's obvious that there are sapphires and bloodstones embedded throughout, it gives the wood lines of the Kaya wood an ice glow, if you would like to demonstrate Vespera."

I smiled and pulled out my wad, "Lumos Solem." A bright stream of light hit Jaelah's wand and created a fabulous color. "You know, it's said that yew wood has dark leanings, ad kaya has a nice flair with the logical arts."

Chadwick had a horrified look on his face, Jaelah spoke up, "I've changed my mind, I don't want your help with the dueling, I'll handle it myself."

She laughed, and Cenek, Erikk, and myself all lost it as well. "You'll have a hard time beating us Chadwick, you'll wish you never came across us."

Jaelah calmed down quickly, "If I may be excused? Vespera and I really should be getting home to our families."

The Knolle parents nodded, and everyone stood. "It was a pleasure to have you for dinner, and I hope you can visit again soon. Best of luck with your studies. Cenek, Erikk, show them out please."

They nodded, and we left the room. I could hear a great sigh of relief, "I didn't think they would ever leave. That was the worst" I could hear from Aldrick.

'Well, glad to be gone from that. You'd think our charms would have worn off on them more."

Cenek nodded at me, "You would think, but hey, they called me by something different at least!"

"Chadwick, we always call you by the right thing. Erikk took Jaelah's hand and kissed it. "I'll see you next week."

Jaelah nodded ad took the floo to her home. I sighed, "They'll learn one-day Cenek. I hugged him, "I'll see you when we get back to school."

With that, I too took the floo and went home to see my empty house at the Malfoy Manor.