Chapter 10: Animagius Completion
"Ugh I can't believe you're making me do this," Amethyst huffed rolling her eyes as she was measured for her new school robes.
"You're not dropping out of school, Amethyst," Rubicelle sighed.
"Why? You know I've got a place on the Quidditch team," Amethyst said with a grin.
"No, Meth, you're coming back,"
"Fine I'll come back but only to give Dumbledore a heart attack,"
The woman measuring her looked at her in scandal.
"Oh look somewhere else woman, you're not even supposed to be apart of this conversation," Amethyst said rolling her eyes.
The only good thing about the day that Amethyst saw was that it was an opportunity for some clothes and sports shopping.
Tom walked into the shop looking smug.
"Wipe that smug smirk off your face, Riddle," Amethyst growled.
"Someone is rather sensitive," he laughed.
"It may have something to do with the fact that you know I got an offer off one of thee best Quidditch teams in England and yet I'm being forced to go back to school. To be confined by a load of old washed up idiots that couldn't do anything better than to lord over snot nosed children to get a superiority boost,"
Tom couldn't help the laugh that escaped him at Amethyst's view on their teachers.
When they left the store they left with four new school robes and several everyday robes.
Rubicelle shook her head as she laid down that night, her feet were aching from the amount of shops Amethyst had dragged her and Tom to. She knew her sister only did it as one last act of freedom before they caught the train to Hogwarts the next day.
It was twelve fifteen on September the 1st and Amethyst was sat in a compartment with her brainless minions while Tom and Rubicelle were at the Prefect's meeting.
They had been made Heads that year and Amethyst thrived on the fact it meant that she had a free pass for the most of it.
She stood up not offering an explanation before going for a wander.
"Where's your usual body guard NaStasia?"
Amethyst was surprised when she was pushed into an empty compartment.
She looked around to see Lestrange stood there looking at her through squinted eyes.
Before she could even say anything he sent a hex at her.
She dodged it thanks to the rigorous training regime she made herself do during the summer so she had good fitness for her last school year.
"Crucio," Amethyst snarled her eyes flashing.
The boy thrashed and screamed louder than ever before and Amethyst could see the agony in his mind.
After a minute she let the curse go.
He lay twitching on the floor.
"You may have surprised me once Lestrange but I am better than you, and I will always be better than you so try that again and I will make your life a living hell," she whispered deadly in his ear before storming out of the compartment he had pushed her into.
Tom and Rubicelle walked down the train on their duty before going to find Amethyst.
"I wonder what will come of this year," Rubicelle said idly as they made sure everything was calm.
"Nothing hopefully," Tom said opening the luggage compartment.
They were surprised to see Amethyst having a serious make out session with the eldest Lestrange brother.
Amethyst pushed them out with her telekinesis without even breaking away from the boy.
Tom blinked at Rubicelle and saw his sister rolling her eyes.
"What was that?" he demanded.
"You may not have been around much the last months of school Tom but surely you know that she's been slightly erratic when choosing who she wants to go with,"
"That was Lestrange though," Tom said getting angrily.
Rubicelle shrugged. "She's made out with him before,"
An hour later Amethyst walked into their compartment as if nothing had happened.
She nicked one of the chocolate frogs that had piled up and put her feet over Tom's lap.
"So how was the meeting,"
"Boring," Rubicelle said. "How was Lestrange?"
"Boring," Amethyst answered.
Tom shook his head.
How could they be so casual about it?
"Loosen up Tom, it isn't as if you've never kissed a girl before," Amethyst said rolling her eyes before closing them and resting her head against the window pane.
"What's up Meth? You're in pain," Rubicelle stated worriedly.
"Headache," Amethyst shrugged.
The expansion on her telepathy had grown during the summer therefore there hadn't being many people for her to deal with but now they were on a train with over a thousand different children on and their thoughts were shouting at her.
She knew it would get better when she got used to it but she needed time to adapt.
Rubicelle knew what her sister meant, she had also been getting expansions on her gifts but because of the mishap with her seeing ability her expansion had been slightly delayed and she was thankful in some way.
Dumbledore looked on as the three AWOL Slytherins entered laughing and joking as if they'd done nothing wrong.
He knew none of the other professors would see what they did as wrong considering that they were of age but he liked to know where they were and what they were doing.
He saw Amethyst look up towards him and he could have sworn her whole eyes flashed purple before returning to normal as Rubicelle nudged her in the side.
"Ah so Miss NaStasia decided to return to school. Jolly good now Slytherin will be in for yet another consecutive year with the Quidditch cup," Slughorn said joyfully.
"She wasn't going to return?" Dumbledore quizzed.
"Oh no, I heard from a former student of mine Derik Dunkan that she'd been requested to be starter seeker for Whipalby Worriers, they're starting to go down hill you see and they know Miss NaStasia's skills are just what they need to get back up to first,"
Dumbledore wondered just what had made the girl return to Hogwarts for her last year.
"This is taking ages," Amethyst whined as she yawned.
They were sat in the room of requirements trying some more Animagius progress.
"Obviously, most people don't get it for a few years," Rubicelle said rolling her eyes.
"Tom got it during the holidays," Amethyst said bluntly. "That's months not years,"
Tom had easily overcome all boundaries and had become a deadly jaguar on the week that the girls had been in Greece.
"Yes well Tom has always been strange," Rubicelle said with a grin.
"Says the girl that sees into the future, feels others emotions and turns invisible," Tom said dryly.
While her sister and brother argued Amethyst sat with her legs crossed concentrating.
She hated to seem inferior to others and she was very competitive. She'd taken Tom's early transformation as an insult and she was determined to prove she was just as good.
Rubicelle and Tom fell silent as they watched a magnificent rare white panther swish it's tail from where Amethyst had been sat.
"Meth?" Rubicelle asked her eyes wide.
The panther transformed back and Amethyst was beaming with her eyes bright with excitement.
"I did it!"
Both Tom and Rubicelle sat gaping at her.
Neither had expect her to get it so soon even with her determination.
"How did you do that?" Rubicelle asked her shock laced in her voice. "We both know we may have gifts that we're not as powerful as Tom,"
Amethyst rolled her eyes.
"I'm not inferior to anyone. I'm just as able as Tom is, it just takes me a little while longer,"
Tom shook his head.
Amethyst had gotten the transformation early from sheer determination.
"You're completely shocking," Rubicelle said shaking her head.
"You're just jealous because you didn't see it coming," Amethyst said sticking her tongue out at her sister.
Rubicelle crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. "Whatever,"
Amethyst chuckled. "Don't worry, Celle, we'll get you transformed before the end of the month,"
It was three weeks into term that Rubicelle transformed and during her transformation the twins found that their extension on their gifts also allowed them to link with each other.
If they had hold of each other's hands they could feel each other's gifts and magic flowing through them.
They had been shocked when Rubicelle started to transform when she had hold of Amethyst's hand.
It proved to them that Rubicelle only needed the boost over the threshold before she was able to transform at will as well.
She was a white lioness.
"You're both rare animals, figures," Tom chuckled.
"Well we're rare people," Amethyst grinned.
The girls dedicated their free time into developing their connection and having Tom test them with it.
When touching the girls had the abilities of their sister as well as their own, it was as if the single touch projected what the other sister was capable of onto the other.
"I'd hate to be the person on the end of your joint anger, they're in for some trouble," Tom sniggered.
"Just waitm I can't wait to be able to zap you with double power because you're being an arse," Amethyst grinned. "Oh and by the way here's you're birthday present from us, happy birthday," she said as she spotted the clock hit twelve.
Tom opened the package and felt a lump swell in his throat as he looked at a pocket watch with not only a clock but two pictures of the three of them, the ones they'd taken the previous year.
"Thanks," he whispered looking at the picture where Rubicelle was in front of him and Amethyst was on his back.
They looked truly happy and the other picture was of him stood in the middle of them, squirming, with their arms around him grinning happily. Rubicelle was shaking her head in the picture at her sister and Amethyst was trying to give him a wedgie.
"Welcome," the twins chimed with grins.