And The Master Of Riddles
Never sliding an Inch
Never turning off-key,
Who is this master?
Could it be me?
I am still not sure
How it could become
But if I Didn't know it was inside me
Am I still the one?
Chapter 3:
Kareoke Train
(By Aino)
It was only a couple of hours before the train to Hogwarts. The tension was rising higher than it had been in days at the Sailure and Blight houses. The Blight house had invited over Mr. Sailure and Mina to their house for the evening so that they could all go to the train station together. Mina already had all her things packed up and ready so she was helping Aino with her suitcase.They finally got all of Aino's Baggage together. Mina now explored Aino's room. Mina was already born into a Muggle enviorment because her father is one. Mina's mother had been a witch but Mina didn't know much about her. She recognized most of the stuff cluttered around Aino's room; The CD player,Books, Clothing,A computer, a closet full of toys,an Electric Guitar and amplifier, and many many piles of sketch paper, pencils, and other drawing equipment. Aino was quite the artist as hard as it is to believe.She was always sketching or doodling pictures in her free time. Mina requested that she should cartoonize Malfoy when they met him at Diagon Alley. Aino had a smug look on her face the whole time she was sketching him with Mina looking over her shoulder.Once that was finished, Mina and Aino took to her Electric Guitar which blared across the house with a couple off notes.
"No you hold your fingers down that way for note G.." Aino showed Mina how to position her hands on the guitar. Mina had seen them before and liked them but she didnt know how to play. Mina stopped eventually and gave the guitar to Aino who played a neat song she heard on the muggle radio and CDs she has.
"Anything for you...
Turn my castles blue
Turn my bones to sand
Just to see you
I'd give you anything
I'd give you anything
I'd give you anything....."
Aino continued playing and finished the song. Mina clapped and Aino bowed and laughed. Mina and Aino went downstairs to go see her brothers. Aino was getting a little agitated at the fact that Julious hadn't changed back her hair yet. They passed the hall and walked straight up to a door that had various stickers on it which involved skate boarding and Music Bands. Aino slammed her fist into the door three times to get it to open up.
"What do you want?!" Evan said poking his head out the door,his brown eyes scanning the room. Evan had small spiked up Dark Brown hair with the tips of it dyed a light blonde.
"I want that stupid brother of yours to get his butt out here and un-hex my hair!" Aino yelled at Evan who cocked his eyebrow.
"He's your brother too Killer, hold on" Evan said as his head slipped back into the room slowly, his eyes glaring at Aino's in a lock.
" 'Killer' ?" Mina said looking over at Aino who rolled her eyes.The door opened again seconds later with Julious looking peeved, wand in hand.He was a very tall guy, strongly built with hair like Evan's except there was a large blonde splotch in the center of the hair rounding his forehead.
"Change my hair back!" Aino told Julious in disgust.
"Why? I like it that way, fits in with your fruity nature" Julious replied in a sarcastic tone.Aino frowned.
"Do...it..." Aino said through gritted teeth, her fists clenched tightly.
"Make me" Julious said. stuck out his tounge, and slammed the door by Aino's face.
"BRAT!" Aino yelled at the door and started to stalk out into the hall
"Don't make me come out there Mrs. Fruit! I'll turn it Electric Pink next time!" Julious said through the shut door. Mina thought it was time to get out of there and follow Aino.
Aino stalked up stairs furious with her brothers, Mina close in tow. Aino walked around into the large kitchen which was conveniently close to the patio. Mr. Sailure, Johnathan, and Mary (Aino's mother, we'll just call her Mrs. Blight) were out on the patio conversing, waiting for the time to come when they would send their two children, Mina and Aino (Evan and Robert preferred not to get involved with Magic school, even though they learned and used some of it any ways) off to Hogwarts. The hour was drawing near so they all decided they should be off. Mrs. Blight stayed home while Mr. Sailure and Johnathan walked down to Johnathan's truck (they didnt want to be suspicious) where they all piled in and drove down to the train station.
The station was packed with plenty of Muggles and other Wizarding students, they could tell because of the vast amounts of luggage they carried and the owl cages, odd cats, or other animals they also carried with them.
Mr. Sailure was about to walk into a brick wall when Aino piped up. "Uh...what are you doing?" Aino asked.
Mr.Sailure chuckled ,"I'm going into our platform, nine and three quarters silly!" He told Aino. Aino gave him a quizzical look and looked at Mina who was smirking.
"Now he thinks he can walk through walls.." Aino sighed
"Its an Illusion Aino, its just there to keep off muggle attention" Johnathan said as he walk forward and suddenly slipped into the wall wand was gone from sight.
"Oh cool!" squealed Aino and ran straight into the wall finding herself on the other side of a platform she had never seen before. Stone letters overhead read "Platform 9 3/4". Aino laughed to herself and watched as the rest of the group slided through the wall and onto the platform.
Just ahead was a large train bearing the name "Hogwarts Express" with the Hogwart's coat of arms.Mr. Sailure and Johnathan turned around to look at their girls.
"You behave yourself Aino...I don't want as many owls sent about you than Julious had.." Johnathan said in a confident tone.
"Same goes for you Mina! You are known to wreak havoc too" Mr. Sailure said shaking a finger at Mina.
"Oh we'll be good!...HONEST!" The girls chorused angelically and ran off toward the train's entrance waving goodbye to their fathers. Mina and Aino Dragged up their luggage and found an empty compartment to place it in and flopped down on the Train's cushy seats.
"Talk about luxury!" Aino aid and leaned back. Aino then pulled out her portable CD player and headphones and turned it on.
"Aino that thing isn't gunna work at Hogwarts..." Mina said
"Why not?" Aino replied,"I've got enough batteries to last a year!"
"No that's not it..Muggle devices don't work in the Hogwarts school barrier..." Mina said
"WHAT?! Aw man! I'm going to die without my music!" Aino moans and slumps farther in her chair."I guess I'll just have to listen to it going up there then.."
"Hey! I wanna listen too! I know you packed your battery powered big CD player in your luggage-yes I saw it, now crank that thing out and up!" Mina said playfully tugging on Aino's arm.
"Besides...I wanna see what those full blooded Wizard kids think of it"
Aino smiled evilly and rushed to dig out her big boom box. She found it and set it up, she placed a CD in the lock which contained some extremely noisy Heavy Metal music. Aino flicked on the "on" button just as the train started to move away from the platform. A Large booming sound could be heard in the girls apartment as the music blared out across the train. Aino was getting a little into it and was making Guitar hand playing motions along with the music and found herself on her knees doing an imaginary Guitar Solo. By now they had attracted attention and half of the students came to see what was with all the racket. Some kids knew what this was while others were ether astonished or amazed at how much noise a tiny black box could make. Other were Watching Aino on the floor doing her Guitar imitations.
One of the boys came by and turned the Boom Box off. Aino came to a halt.
"Hey! I was listening to tha-.....Oh hey Malfoy!" Aino said while she got up and dusted her knees off.
"What IS that thing..?" Malfoy said amused, looking at the Boom Box in more detail "Why does it play that annyoing sound?"
"Its a boom box...for muggle music" Aino said
"Muggle...So are you a dirty Mudblood too?" Malfoy said backing away from the box. Mina frowned.
"No, my dad is in the Muggle compartment in the Ministry of Magic, Johnathan Blight" Aino muttered. Mina waited to hear Malfoy's answer.
"I've heard of that Mudblood lover...Says you live in the Muggle enviorment" Malfoy said bitterly.
"Just for scientific uses only...If it weren't for my father or any other Man or Woman that worked in t he Muggle compartment of research, some of the things you use today would never be there Malfoy, so what's wrong with it? They aren't gunna' bite you or anything." Aino said, studying Malfoy's face. He shrugged
"Sure sure....See you at the sorting at Hogwarts Mina" Malfoy said and smiled at Mina. Mina smiled back and waved.
"Some temper he has...." Aino whispered to Mina as he left.
"Oh he'll get over it sometime" Mina shrugged "I still want to listen to music, but make a little lighter this time"
"Alright" Replied Aino, "Want to play Kareoke? It'll be fun! and the people in the door can play too!"
All the students that were crowded around the door looked at each other in confusement. Aino Beckoned them to come in. Some who knew what to do ran in and waited to be called on. Others followed confused and exited at the funny word 'Kareoke'. Aino told them to all line up and watch. Aino just so happened to have bountiful music lyric sheets with her so that new singers could keep up with the beat.
"Okay Pupils!" Aino said rubbing her hands together looking at all the kid's faces. One caught her eye instantly. She had long brown frizzy hair. Aino had seen Mina with this girl before.
"Mina! Isn't that your friend?" Aino pointed to Hermione who looked confused.
"Yeah! Hey Hermione! Long time no see!" Mina came up to Hermione hugging her.
"Hi Mina!" Hermione replied"I couldn't resist coming down here to investigate that horrible loud noise that disrupted my reading" Mina sighed. Mina knew Hermione for quite sometime now. Aino never knew this and Mina saw that she was starting to notice.
"Aino, this is Hermione,Hermione this is Aino" Mina said pointing to the two
"Pleasure!" Said Aino shacking Hermione's hand grinning.
"Nice hair Aino" replied Hermione.Aino picks up a lock of her blue hair and swishes it back laughing.
"Okay so where were we...oh yeah! I was about to start my Kareoke game!" Aino said, "Why don't you sit down and watch Hermione? Mina gets to go next" Aino winked and told the rest of the kids to also sit back and watch the first round, they would get there chance. Aino pretended to hold a microphone.
"Listen up real good!" Aino said as she plopped in a pink CD into the boom box. She got up and started mouthing with the music rhythm. The song came from none other than Britney Spears. Aino strutted around the compartment acting like a Valley-girl, singing 'Oops I did it again!' Everyone was cheering and laughing at the sight. Even Mina and Hermione couldn't help themselves from falling out of their seats. Once the song ended Aino bowed and moved off to the side.
"Get the picture?" Aino looked around at the nodding heads. "Okay Mina! You're up!" Aino said retreating back to where Mina and Hermione were sitting. Mina got up and took out the CD. She exchanged it with a bright red one. Mina got up holding her imaginary microphone while the music blasted out.From what it looked like, Minako had chosen a very loud song by the infamous Limp Bizkit. Aino was not slapping her head thinking of the reason why she didn't choose her favorite Limp Bizkit song; 'Rollin'. Mina was up the wall and everywhere on this one. Her hair had now been let loose from her ponytail and she had the crowd of cheering kids waving there arms chanting "Keep Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' Rollin',huah!" Mina was a big success, even Aino was very impressed at Mina's performance. Once the song had ended the audience 'awwed', they wanted more!
"Y'know the way you were doing that hand and head shake thing Mina...I could mistake you as Fred Durste!" Aino laughed as
Mina tried to get all of her hair back to its normal state.
"Y'all like that?!" Aino yelled as the kids screamed over her voice in cheers and hoots.
"Who's next....lesse..hmm..You there! Kid with the red hair and freckles! Right next to scar boy!" Aino said as she pointed to the student
"Excuse me...'scar boy'..? Aino, do you know who that is...?" Hermione said in a surprised tone.
"Um...no? Why would I need to know him?" Aino asked
"That's Harry potter!" Hermione said looking over at Harry who was now blushing furiously.
"Hairy-Cotter?" Aino raised her brow
"No, no! Harry Potter! The boy who survived an encounter with You-know-who!"
"Ohhhh..........huh? and I-dont-know-what!" Aino looked very confused.
"Oh my god....You don't know who Harry Potter is?!" Hermione gasped. The boy with re d hair and freckles doubled over laughing.
"Is there something superduper important about him? Is he in re-hab?"
"NO!" Hermione, Harry, and Mina chorused together.
"I think she is though!" The red-headed boy said in between laughs.
"Be quiet Ron, this is serious" Hermione said, starring at Aino in disbelief. Aino now had the most shortest (yet it seemed like hours) talk on who Harry Potter was, directed by Hermione.
"Okay...And this is important because? Why is everyone interfering with Scar Boy's personal life? He's even got books he has no law right to?! Man, you should sue..." Aino said to Harry who was now starting to get how Hermione was feeling.Aino.Was.CLUE LESS.
"My name is Harry..." Harry said quietly.
"Right Scar Boy" Aino said as she flung her arm around his neck and talked real quietly to him now"Y'know..If you take up that law suit idea..I better get half of the income or else.." Aino now took her arm of his neck and proceeded to act clue less again, oblivious to the world around her.
"Hey what happened to our Kareoke?" Aino wined.
"Everyone left when Hermione droned on and on about Harry" Ron said.
"Very funny..." Hermione hissed.
The rest of the train ride was pretty boring. When the witch with the food cart came, Aino bought almost five of everything on the cart so she could share with everyone.
"What are these?" Aino asked probing an odd color pouch containing multi colored beans. She picked up a slime green one and examined it.
"OOooo..You better watch out Aino! Those are Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans! And the Every Flavor part isn't a joke..."Mina said in an ominous voice.
"I had one that tasted like Paint last year!"
"I had one that tasted like Rusted flavored Water"
"Well Back Up ladies and Gentlemen! I had one that tasted like Dog..."
"EEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!"
"GROSS!!"
Aino looked at the bean and said"Cool!" She popped it in her mouth. Everyone waited to see what she said. Aino looked pale.
"What is it Aino?" Hermione asked
"Sewage..." Aino ran to the window and spat it out. The cart was engulfed in wild laughter. For the rest of the trip,
Hermione, Aino, Mina, Harry, and Ron dared each other to eat the beans that looked odd or suspicious. Each one of them had more spasms than a cat hacking up hairballs. When they were close to Hogwarts, the students were told to put on their uniforms. Harry and Ron left along with Hermione who came back to change with them.
"Hey that looks good on you!" Aino said to Mina who had her robe buttoned and tightened.
"No offense Aino...but your Uniform looks like a guys..." Mina said through snickering with Hermione.
"Ahh so what..Daddy made a boo-boo, I'll let it slide" Aino said tilting her hips to one side. Ron and Harry came back a
while later with their luggage in hand so that they would be ready to get off.The train screeched to a halt. Students
bustled from all corners to get off the train and onto the ground. The group forced their way down and into the dark where a
loud booming voice called into the darkness.
"Firs' Years! Firs' Years o'er 'ere!" the voice said. Aino and the other walked down toward the voice where a humongus man
stood before them with a great tangled black beard and shining black beady eyes.
"Woah..." Aino jumped "Since when did we get Paul Bungian as a tour guide?!"
"That's Hagrid!" Said Harry waving to the giant.
" Hallo 'Arry!" Hagrid said as they walked forward."I'm er gunna' take yeh' all to the castle by me boats!" Hagrid pointed
to a long set of boats. Aino and Mina were still intrigued by the thought and raced to get a boat. Mina and Aino were
accompanied by Hermione and a boy named Seamus.Once the boat was in the water, the real fun started.
"Hey! I saw something moving!" Aino yelled
"Where?!" Hermione screamed, clutching to the rafters of the boat. Aino laughed and splashed Hermione with a handful of
water that almost made her have a heart attack. Seamus looked uncomfortable around all the girls in the boat and stayed quiet.
"Hey, you want me to tip over the boat?" Aino asked Seamus. Seamus eyes grew wide in shock and nodded his head saying 'no!'.
Aino and Mina laughed at Seamus while Hermione was still hypervenalating from the splashed lake water.
The boat finally came to the other side of the lake where Aino,Mina, and Hermione hopped off. Just before Seamus got off,
Aino rocked the side of the boat with her hand, making Seamus scream.
The students were welcomed by none other than Professor Mcgongal at the front gate. He directed the students into the larger
overly sized doors and into the great hall.. They were then directed into the Great Hall where they would be sorted and take
part in a Welcoming feast. Aino took note of the lavish silver wear and table wear that they used and the brightly colored
banners on top of every table.
"I have died and gone to heaven..." Aino said.
"Oh it gets way much better than this..."