Disclaimer: I own all that you don't know about. J.K. Rowling owns all Harry Potter Characters and Terry Goodkind owns Kahlan and Richard.
Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch
Chapter Two: Back to School
"Here I am. Stuck with the meanest teacher in the school and she's about to tear my head off. Aren't I the lucky one?" Chris thought, as she was being dragged to the back of the boat by her ear.
"What do you think you were doing running off like that! You had us all worried sick! Your friend Sean wouldn't get out of bed for a week!"
"Am I going to get detention?"
"Right now I'm thinking of expelling you! Detention isn't even in the picture!"
"Sorry I asked," Chris mumbled to herself.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing."
"Do you want to be expelled Miss Evans? Because it can be arranged."
"No." Chris was finding it hard to answer. She felt like her throat was swelling up. Something was wrong. She was having trouble breathing.
"Um, Professor Hamil?"
"Do not interrupt me you little git! I am trying to get a point through your thick head don't you understand that?"
"I wasn't trying to -gasp- interrupt you. I am having some -gasp- trouble breathing and -gasp- I need your h--." Chris couldn't finish the sentence. She couldn't breathe.
Professor Hamil saw at once that it was an Engorgement Charm. It was blocking off her airway. She quickly undid the Charm and quickly told Chris that she was a horrible child for playing tricks like that on her.
Professor Hamil didn't hear the giggles from behind the door but Chris did. Those nasty O'Laughlin's! They were going to pay for it this time.
A very nasal voice came over the intercom. "We will arrive shortly at Raulings Private Academy for Irish Children. Please put on your school robes and prepare your baggage."
"You may be excused to go and get your things for now. I want to see you first thing after the Welcoming. Is that clear?"
"Yes, Professor Hamil," Chris replied as she sulked out of the room.
Chris went back to her compartment and gathered her few belongings. She saw something that wasn't there before. It was a letter addressed to her. It read,
Dear Chris,
Please don't try and find me I will find you. I was really hurt by what you did and still haven't completely forgiven you. I had to explain to the orphanage why you weren't there. Believe me it wasn't a pretty sight to behold. The Headmistress locked herself in her office for a week!
I have some other bad news. Natalie has run-away again and I can't find her. I am so scared. I don't know why the two people I care about most have to run away from me. Am I really that scary? Please DON'T try and find me I will come to you when I am ready.
Your 'Almost' Friend,
Sean McDonald
"Oh Sean," she thought. "Why did I have to make you do this. Why?"
Chris was in denial. She didn't know what to do. She wanted to see him so bad but didn't want to lose his friendship forever. She was lost and confused.
Suddenly she felt that familiar floating in the pit of her stomach.
"Oh great! Here we go again to the place of spinning of doom," She muttered to herself as the boat lifted itself out of the water and started spinning very quickly. Faster and faster it spun. She wished the boat would hurry up so she wouldn't have to display her wonderful pyrotechnics.
She could hear the first years screaming in the next compartment. It made her think of the time that she and Sean had done that. She really didn't want to think about Sean right now.
She needed to keep her composure for the teacher's conference. Now that was going to be ugly. Professor Tilt would probably cry and hug her and then become very strict and rude.
The only Professor that she liked was the Potions teacher that had come in her second year. She had stayed over for the summer with Sean and a couple of other kids and he taught them.
As she picked up her bags and headed to the exit she thought to herself, "It'll be just my luck if they make me clean all the windows." She sighed to herself as she looked up at the magnificent green castle. It was spinning round and round. They called it the "Castle on a Cloud". It was shrouded in mist to keep muggles from seeing it. It made the castle invisible. Chris hated it here. She knew that someday she would be able to leave it all behind. Someday.
She and Sean had gone the orphanage together. He had been dropped off when he was four and his sister Natalie was just a few months old.
He and Chris did everything together. They were real practical jokers. They even had their own box full of detention slips.
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"Richard, where are we? This is not the Midlands," said Kahlan to her husband Richard.
"I don't know Dear, but I think that those people over there can tell us." He pointed to a small group of people that were eating at the edge of a lake.
As they walked around the corner a magnificent castle came into view.
"Hello, who are you?" said a man from the group. He had black hair and sky blue eyes his robes were a dark scarlet color.
"My name is Richard Raul and this is my wife, Kahlan."
"It's nice to meet both of you," said a woman with blond hair and almost black eyes who was wearing blue robes.
"Why don't you come and eat with us?" said yet another man that had red hair and brown eyes who was wearing canary yellow robes.
"Come Richard let's eat."
"Before we do, I just have one question."
"And what would that be good sir?" said the man in scarlet robes.
"What year is it?"
"The year is 1000 BC but we only know that because of Catherine's amazing divination powers." said the man in yellow robes who was referring to the woman in blue robes.
Zed had told Kahlan and Richard that they were in the year 4000 BC. They had been transported into the future 3000 years!
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AN: This is the new chapter two. Please no flames. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you again for just reading this, I really appreciate it.
Thanx -Chris Lillith