Chapter 12: Durmstrang and Beauxbatons

The next day at Hogwarts was quite more exciting than the day before. This time Hogwarts will be welcoming special guests from two of the most prestigious wizardry schools in history and the world. Rumors were swirling all over the Hogwarts on who the special guests will be but for Harper, who was extremely expert on this 'world', just sit back and watched the other students giving out their predictions. She just enjoyed sniggered at their predictions.

Alex, who was happily unaware about the special guests, was out at the Hogwarts ground. The morning was cold as always and she had the Gryffindor robes on as she walked up the small hill to the Owlery. She never has been at that part of Hogwarts and she's eager to find out what's inside. Harper was supposed to be with her but due to an incident at Central Park back in New York, she decided not to. She doesn't want to talk about it because she might faint and that could lead to something more trouble. According to her, she's "afraid" of fainting.

Walking up the medieval stoned steps, Alex looked out at the distance and noticed that the view was also breath-taking. "Wow," she said in awe. "I can't get tired of this."

BOOM!

"What's that?" Alex quickly turned and looked around. What was that?

BOOM!

Where's that come from? Alex thought. Quickly, she ran down the stoned and across the ground. Pulling her robe closer to her, she ran passed the pumpkin patch by the weird-looking hut into the small opening to the forest. She kept running forward through the clusters of trees. At the end, she stopped by the shore and looked around. There was nothing there. There was nothing in the sky. There was nothing on the surface of the lake.

"What a waste of energy…" the rebel Russo breathed out. She sit down on a hallow log and waited there, sighing.

BOOM!

"AH!" she shrieked as she fell off backward to the grassless ground. Rolling over to her side, she hang on to the log and looked up in awe.

Something large emerged from the lake creating huge splashes and waves. Alex stood up and watched it coming up; slowly jutting out what it looked by a huge white flag with red crested at the middle. A huge brownish medieval looking ship

A huge brownish medieval looking ship emerged from within the lake and created splashes and waves. Just as it entirely emerged from the lake, the flags on its wooden poles were dropped down. All of the flags were white in color except the big one which seemed to be the main one. In the middle, there was a large bright red bird-like crested.

BOOM!

Alex shrieked again and noticed that it was coming from the ship. She looked closely and found there were cannons jutting out at the side of the ships like those in pirates' movie. She could see people starting to come up to the deck. They all were wearing what it looked like from Alex's view, brownish coat and squared hats. Alex focused again and noticed one of them walking to the edge holding what it looked like a staff. Then one man in white robes emerged from below and started shouting things at the people. Shortly afterwards, Alex could hear them replied to him in a foreign language. She knew it was foreign because she never seen anything like it.

Meanwhile at the Hogwarts castle, Max was walking around the courtyard by the clock tower with his new friends from his house, Hufflepuff. They were just walking out of Herbology class where to no surprise Max 'accidentally' pull out the Mandrakes and have nearly everyone passed out. Lucky for him, he had those pink fluffy earmuffs on. He just got a detention. Not too much of a burden according to him.

"Woah! Look at that!" cried out Max's classmate from Ravenclaw. She was looking up in the sky and pointing out her finger straight. Everyone at that area started to look up wondering what she meant. Max was curious at first, thinking that they might never see an airplane but it looked more bizarre than that. A pastel blue coach pulled by twelve huge, winged horses flew across the sky. The horses looked like galloping in the sky. Max stood there with his friends looking up.

"Those are the Beauxbatons!" cried the Ravenclaw girl.

"Beau-what?" Max asked his friend. They shrugged.