The Flower Chronicles: Chapter 5: Rirrom de Rorroh
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Lily awoke to a couple of screams that were unmistakably those of Alexandra and Jacqueline. She laughed to herself until she heard another scream. And another. And another. And another. And --- "AHHH!!!" Lily just then realized that she had awoken covered in slime, her nose and amazingly grown huge and crooked, along with quite a few warts and..never mind, she couldn't count all of the other horrid things that she had woken up bearing.
She looked around the dorm room and as much as she pitied her friends and herself, she had to admit that this was pretty funny. Involuntarily, she started laughing and Rhia, Ashes, Lorre, and Sarah were laughing with her the next thing she knew.
Within minutes Lily and her friends were all ready to go down to breakfast. So they left, leaving Alexandra and Jacqueline to do their makeup, hair and to pick out a pair of robes that were 'just right'.
They skipped down out the of the common room and went this way and that way down stairs and up and down several corridors just to find that they were lost.
Out of pure frustration, Ashes kicked the toe of a suit of armor and everybody was surprised when the suit of armor moved aside and pulled open a wooden door letting them into a large room with a warm fire crackling in the corner with very appealing navy blue furniture dotted in various places around the room. The five girls cautiously stepped onto the thick maroon carpet and looked around at the room that was covered in dark yellow (but not ugly, really) walls.
Once all five of them were well into the room they heard the sound of a slamming door behind them. They all spun around and directed their eyes where the entrance to the room in which they stood once was. Although they somewhat expected to see a shut, or locked door they were all shocked to see that no door at all appeared to be in that place.
"Oh. My. God." Rhiannon was starting to become nervous and to any outsider it would appear that she was so afraid because she knew more about what was going on than the other girls did. But Lorre, Sarah, Ashes, and Lily didn't see that, they trusted Rhia far too much (even if they had just become friends the day before) to think of something like that.
Getting more scared by the moment all five girls huddled close together as Rhia looked around for something.or someone.
Soon Lily felt Sarah squeeze her arm as she squealed out in hope, "Look! A door!" They all turned their gaze to where Sarah was pointing, and she had been right. A door.
Rhia, nervous and panicking, broke away from the group and ran across the room to the door, flung it open, making it slam against the wall, and fainted, right there. Lily covered her mouth to keep from screaming. Her first friend; her best friend, was lying there on the floor in front of what appeared to simply be a closet, but if one looked closer they could see that the back wall was not a wall at all, but a mirror.
Cautiously Ashes stepped forward dragging Lorre and Sarah, who was still gripping Lily's arm tightly, over to the place where their friend lay helplessly. Gulping, Ashes reached down to feel Rhia's pulse, and dropped her friend's wrist when she felt what was happening in her wrist. It was a pulse alright, but definitely not one that anyone would normally expect. Ashes knew that pulse though, it was one of a seer during a vision. Which meant that.no, that couldn't be. It wasn't possible.or was it? Ashes knew that she couldn't tell anybody what she had just found out, if Rhia had wanted somebody to know, she would have told somebody. Yes, that was it. Ashes just had to keep this to herself, not even letting Rhiannon know that she knew, Rhia would tell them all in time. Or so that's what she assumed Rhiannon would do.
Lily looked at the mirror that stood facing them. Nervously, Lily pulled her friends off of her, and stepped towards the elegant glass. Once she was in good view of the mirror, she read the inscription carved on the top of the frame: Rirrom de Rorroh. She didn't understand.what did it mean? Lily turned her gaze from the inscription to focus on her reflection. What she saw made her scream, literately.
(A/N: Muahaha.you don't get to know what Lily and Rhia saw in the mirror..yet.Muahaha.)
Grabbing her three conscious friends' hands and instructing them to help her lift up their one unconscious friend. Once Rhiannon lay in the four girls' arms, looking very lifeless indeed, Lily and the others made a run for where the door they had originally been, closed their eyes, preparing themselves for the collision but they ended up not feeling anything. They opened their eyes to see that the effect of the wall was very similar to the one of platform 9 and ¾. Looking around they figured that they probably had missed breakfast and some classes. When they looked out a nearby window, seeing that the sun was high in the sky, their thoughts were confirmed. I guess they had been in that room longer than they had believed.
Soon the four girls were debating on what to do next.
"I say we see Dumbledore."
"Go to the hospital wing, definitely."
"No way, we should just go to class."
"No can do, one, we don't know what class to go to, and two, we still have Rhia to consider."
"I think we should just go back to our dorm and sort this out."
"No, that would just be a waste of time. We can figure things out right here."
There was a POP noise and the four friends looked down at Rhiannon to see her violet eyes wide open and blood shot while she spoke very clearly, yet very trance-like, "Sorry Mum. I never meant to let you down. I am so sorry."
With the same POP Rhiannon Sinistra had her eyes tightly shut as if trying to block out the sun shining in her eyes. The four girls looked at each other quizzically but Sarah, Lorre, and Lily simply shrugged, and decided to accept the idea that it was just a crazy thing out of the blue. But Ashes knew otherwise.she couldn't tell them though.unless.no, never mind.
Ashes rose from her thoughts, "I changed my mind you guys. Let's go see Dumbledore. And if you aren't all coming I don't care. I am, and I'm taking Rhia with me."
Shocked at Ashes's sudden burst of demanding, Sarah, Lorre and Lily followed Ashes, to wherever she was going, extremely willingly.
After wandering aimlessly for quite a while Lorre was starting to get frustrated, "Uh, Ashes, sorry to bother you but, um, where are we going?"
Ashes thought that was a rather stupid question, "Duh, Dumbledore's office, I thought we already had that conversation.
Sarah rolled her eyes, "We know that, Ashes, I think what Lorre meant was do you have any idea where Dumbledore's office is and how we are going to get there."
Actually, Ashes hadn't really considered that and had thought that they could find the Headmaster's office by simply looking for it.
Without anybody saying a word, the group of girls began to wander aimlessly again, and they bumped into someone who they had assumed to a Professor.
The tall man pulled his cloak tightly around himself and snarled at the 11 year olds standing before him. Nervous as she was, Lily figured the best thing to do was to ask the strange man if he could direct them to Dumbledore's office.
"Uh, Sir? Do you know where the Headmaster's office is?"
Lily could barely hear the man cackle under his breath, "Oh, how well I do know."
The dark figure continued to mumble to himself until Sarah finally spoke up, "Well, if you know then, could you tell us where it is?"
Annoyed for his thoughts to be disrupted, the man answered her coldly, "Why don't I just take you there, ladies?"
Nodding, the girls began to follow the cloaked man, silently wondering how he could not notice the limp figure of Rhiannon in their arms.
He lead them in front of a stone gargoyle, once again began mumbling and as if on cue, the statue moved aside, revealing a spiral staircase.
Slowly the girls made their way up the stairs while the cloaked figure's footsteps were heard tapping down the corridor.
Entering the room they were shocked to see the Headmaster sitting at his desk and look up, smiling, at them. Well, smiling until he saw the lifeless figure that they held.
With a troubled look upon his face Albus Dumbledore asked what had happened, "Oh dear, what happened to Miss Sinistra?"
Lorre quickly began explaining everything that had happened, but unfortunately Dumbledore could not understand a single word she had said.
The Headmaster looked at Lorre quizzically, "Um, maybe the best thing to do is to ask Miss Sinistra herself."
The four girls nodded silently, as their Headmaster woke up their friend, Rhia, with simply one word and a flick of his wand.
Rubbing her head, the young Rhiannon Sinistra sat up dizzily from her spot on the floor. When her eyes had finally focused, Rhia gasped, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry Professor. I didn't want to.I swear."
Face full of confusion, the Headmaster kindly asked if he could speak to Miss Sinistra alone and the other four girls left his office. But before they could be out the door, he called to them, telling them to just start classes tomorrow, as the school day would soon be over, and that he would inform the other Professors of the cirkumstances.
The four girls made their way back to Gryffindor tower with only the sound of their shoes hitting the cold hard floor. When they finally reached the Fat Lady, mumbling the password, and stumbling in, Lorre stepped right on Remus's back not noticing that he was lying on the piece of floor in front of her.
Remus's friends snickered in the place they were sitting but then stopped, realizing something must be wrong as they hadn't seen the girls all day. Peter was still oblivious to the seriousness of the situation, while James and Sirius tried to send Remus silent signals.
Not seeing his friends' signals, and still not realizing that this was not the best time to mess around, Remus reached up, smiling, and grabbed Lorre's ankle pulling her down to the floor. Lost in their own worlds, while Lorre was glaring at Remus with pure and cold hatred, the other three girls continued on their way to the dormitory. It was silent except for the distant steps of the girls climbing the stairs and Remus was completely and entirely confused.
Lorre stood up, gathering all of her dignity once again, well at least all that she could manage, which to tell you the truth wasn't all that much. All the same, she stood up, straightening her robes and began to step over Remus. Just as her foot was raised above his back, she pulled it back and kicked him right in the ribs. Once again she went to step over the body on the floor, this time completing the action. With a solemn look on her face she continued towards the stairs and joined her friends in the dormitory.
The girls sat on their beds not saying a word. Nobody wanted to speak, nobody wanted to be silent. Nobody knew what they wanted.
Tired of the silence, Sarah got to her feet and spoke, "Come on you guys, so Rhia passed out on the first day of school, Lily screamed her head off, Remus was an idiot, Lorre got pissed.so most girls might not have this normal of a first day. But how can we let that ruin everything? It could have been worse you know." She looked around the room and the other girls still hung their heads, "Come on." She tried her very best to force a smile, "Let's go have dinner."
Sarah walked over to the door, and opened it, holding it open as her friends walked through, and then following behind them.
Even though this was only the first day of school, the majority of the group was well known in the wizarding community, and gossip spread fast. Which was quite amazing being that they had believed that Dumbledore was the only one who knew anything.
A blond boy at the Hufflepuff table called out to them, "Hey! Is Rhiannon doing okay?"
They uncomfortably shrugged and slightly nodded. I mean she was doing okay.
Some people weren't so nice about it though. Malfoy for instance, "Hey mudbloods and other types of pond scum, did your fellow piece of mold have a stroke or a heart-attack?"
Ashes turned and glared at Malfoy, "We may be pond scum, but at least we aren't snake dung, like some certain person, or more like people." Lucius Malfoy opened his mouth to make a smart comeback, but not being able to think of one, closed his mouth, turned and walked away.
Smiling, Ashes turned back to her friends, "Shall we continue on our way, ladies?"
In agreement the group made their way over to the Gryffindor table, and occupied the last four seats. Dinner seemed strangely silent, and not just to the first years. Nobody thought much of it though and the next thing they knew, they were back up in their dormitories and climbing into bed.
Lily couldn't sleep that night, so she turned to the bed next to her. Lily stood up and quietly tiptoed over to Lorre's bed. She whispered into the curtains, "Lorre." No response. "Lorre?" Still no reply. "Lorre, are you awake?" Lily smiled to herself and stepped back when she heard movement coming from inside. The curtains were pulled aside and Lily was glad to see that it looked like Lorre had been awake too, and she hadn't woken her up.
Lorre smiled that she wasn't the only one awake, "Hey Lils, couldn't sleep either?"
"Nah."
And out of boredom and the fact that they were wide awake, Lily sat down on Lorre's bed, and they started to talk.
(A/N: hey! Updating finally.I was in a really weird mood.so don't kill me.I know its crap blah blah.but f you truly care (which you prolly don't as I don't even really care.ok ok..so I do care) anyways review! The button is right there! Ya just gotta click and say something! Well love you all.and if you read my other stories.sorry sorry..i will update as soon as possible.which may or may not be very soon, but the more reviews the faster I update.well buh bye. - Me/Jessie/The Princess of Insanity/The Squiggle Queen (as amazing as it may be, we are all one person) review my lovelies review! Oh and if you read my story on hp.com as well (*cough*hazel*cough*) please send me the address to my story on the boards.I cant find it!)
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Lily awoke to a couple of screams that were unmistakably those of Alexandra and Jacqueline. She laughed to herself until she heard another scream. And another. And another. And another. And --- "AHHH!!!" Lily just then realized that she had awoken covered in slime, her nose and amazingly grown huge and crooked, along with quite a few warts and..never mind, she couldn't count all of the other horrid things that she had woken up bearing.
She looked around the dorm room and as much as she pitied her friends and herself, she had to admit that this was pretty funny. Involuntarily, she started laughing and Rhia, Ashes, Lorre, and Sarah were laughing with her the next thing she knew.
Within minutes Lily and her friends were all ready to go down to breakfast. So they left, leaving Alexandra and Jacqueline to do their makeup, hair and to pick out a pair of robes that were 'just right'.
They skipped down out the of the common room and went this way and that way down stairs and up and down several corridors just to find that they were lost.
Out of pure frustration, Ashes kicked the toe of a suit of armor and everybody was surprised when the suit of armor moved aside and pulled open a wooden door letting them into a large room with a warm fire crackling in the corner with very appealing navy blue furniture dotted in various places around the room. The five girls cautiously stepped onto the thick maroon carpet and looked around at the room that was covered in dark yellow (but not ugly, really) walls.
Once all five of them were well into the room they heard the sound of a slamming door behind them. They all spun around and directed their eyes where the entrance to the room in which they stood once was. Although they somewhat expected to see a shut, or locked door they were all shocked to see that no door at all appeared to be in that place.
"Oh. My. God." Rhiannon was starting to become nervous and to any outsider it would appear that she was so afraid because she knew more about what was going on than the other girls did. But Lorre, Sarah, Ashes, and Lily didn't see that, they trusted Rhia far too much (even if they had just become friends the day before) to think of something like that.
Getting more scared by the moment all five girls huddled close together as Rhia looked around for something.or someone.
Soon Lily felt Sarah squeeze her arm as she squealed out in hope, "Look! A door!" They all turned their gaze to where Sarah was pointing, and she had been right. A door.
Rhia, nervous and panicking, broke away from the group and ran across the room to the door, flung it open, making it slam against the wall, and fainted, right there. Lily covered her mouth to keep from screaming. Her first friend; her best friend, was lying there on the floor in front of what appeared to simply be a closet, but if one looked closer they could see that the back wall was not a wall at all, but a mirror.
Cautiously Ashes stepped forward dragging Lorre and Sarah, who was still gripping Lily's arm tightly, over to the place where their friend lay helplessly. Gulping, Ashes reached down to feel Rhia's pulse, and dropped her friend's wrist when she felt what was happening in her wrist. It was a pulse alright, but definitely not one that anyone would normally expect. Ashes knew that pulse though, it was one of a seer during a vision. Which meant that.no, that couldn't be. It wasn't possible.or was it? Ashes knew that she couldn't tell anybody what she had just found out, if Rhia had wanted somebody to know, she would have told somebody. Yes, that was it. Ashes just had to keep this to herself, not even letting Rhiannon know that she knew, Rhia would tell them all in time. Or so that's what she assumed Rhiannon would do.
Lily looked at the mirror that stood facing them. Nervously, Lily pulled her friends off of her, and stepped towards the elegant glass. Once she was in good view of the mirror, she read the inscription carved on the top of the frame: Rirrom de Rorroh. She didn't understand.what did it mean? Lily turned her gaze from the inscription to focus on her reflection. What she saw made her scream, literately.
(A/N: Muahaha.you don't get to know what Lily and Rhia saw in the mirror..yet.Muahaha.)
Grabbing her three conscious friends' hands and instructing them to help her lift up their one unconscious friend. Once Rhiannon lay in the four girls' arms, looking very lifeless indeed, Lily and the others made a run for where the door they had originally been, closed their eyes, preparing themselves for the collision but they ended up not feeling anything. They opened their eyes to see that the effect of the wall was very similar to the one of platform 9 and ¾. Looking around they figured that they probably had missed breakfast and some classes. When they looked out a nearby window, seeing that the sun was high in the sky, their thoughts were confirmed. I guess they had been in that room longer than they had believed.
Soon the four girls were debating on what to do next.
"I say we see Dumbledore."
"Go to the hospital wing, definitely."
"No way, we should just go to class."
"No can do, one, we don't know what class to go to, and two, we still have Rhia to consider."
"I think we should just go back to our dorm and sort this out."
"No, that would just be a waste of time. We can figure things out right here."
There was a POP noise and the four friends looked down at Rhiannon to see her violet eyes wide open and blood shot while she spoke very clearly, yet very trance-like, "Sorry Mum. I never meant to let you down. I am so sorry."
With the same POP Rhiannon Sinistra had her eyes tightly shut as if trying to block out the sun shining in her eyes. The four girls looked at each other quizzically but Sarah, Lorre, and Lily simply shrugged, and decided to accept the idea that it was just a crazy thing out of the blue. But Ashes knew otherwise.she couldn't tell them though.unless.no, never mind.
Ashes rose from her thoughts, "I changed my mind you guys. Let's go see Dumbledore. And if you aren't all coming I don't care. I am, and I'm taking Rhia with me."
Shocked at Ashes's sudden burst of demanding, Sarah, Lorre and Lily followed Ashes, to wherever she was going, extremely willingly.
After wandering aimlessly for quite a while Lorre was starting to get frustrated, "Uh, Ashes, sorry to bother you but, um, where are we going?"
Ashes thought that was a rather stupid question, "Duh, Dumbledore's office, I thought we already had that conversation.
Sarah rolled her eyes, "We know that, Ashes, I think what Lorre meant was do you have any idea where Dumbledore's office is and how we are going to get there."
Actually, Ashes hadn't really considered that and had thought that they could find the Headmaster's office by simply looking for it.
Without anybody saying a word, the group of girls began to wander aimlessly again, and they bumped into someone who they had assumed to a Professor.
The tall man pulled his cloak tightly around himself and snarled at the 11 year olds standing before him. Nervous as she was, Lily figured the best thing to do was to ask the strange man if he could direct them to Dumbledore's office.
"Uh, Sir? Do you know where the Headmaster's office is?"
Lily could barely hear the man cackle under his breath, "Oh, how well I do know."
The dark figure continued to mumble to himself until Sarah finally spoke up, "Well, if you know then, could you tell us where it is?"
Annoyed for his thoughts to be disrupted, the man answered her coldly, "Why don't I just take you there, ladies?"
Nodding, the girls began to follow the cloaked man, silently wondering how he could not notice the limp figure of Rhiannon in their arms.
He lead them in front of a stone gargoyle, once again began mumbling and as if on cue, the statue moved aside, revealing a spiral staircase.
Slowly the girls made their way up the stairs while the cloaked figure's footsteps were heard tapping down the corridor.
Entering the room they were shocked to see the Headmaster sitting at his desk and look up, smiling, at them. Well, smiling until he saw the lifeless figure that they held.
With a troubled look upon his face Albus Dumbledore asked what had happened, "Oh dear, what happened to Miss Sinistra?"
Lorre quickly began explaining everything that had happened, but unfortunately Dumbledore could not understand a single word she had said.
The Headmaster looked at Lorre quizzically, "Um, maybe the best thing to do is to ask Miss Sinistra herself."
The four girls nodded silently, as their Headmaster woke up their friend, Rhia, with simply one word and a flick of his wand.
Rubbing her head, the young Rhiannon Sinistra sat up dizzily from her spot on the floor. When her eyes had finally focused, Rhia gasped, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry Professor. I didn't want to.I swear."
Face full of confusion, the Headmaster kindly asked if he could speak to Miss Sinistra alone and the other four girls left his office. But before they could be out the door, he called to them, telling them to just start classes tomorrow, as the school day would soon be over, and that he would inform the other Professors of the cirkumstances.
The four girls made their way back to Gryffindor tower with only the sound of their shoes hitting the cold hard floor. When they finally reached the Fat Lady, mumbling the password, and stumbling in, Lorre stepped right on Remus's back not noticing that he was lying on the piece of floor in front of her.
Remus's friends snickered in the place they were sitting but then stopped, realizing something must be wrong as they hadn't seen the girls all day. Peter was still oblivious to the seriousness of the situation, while James and Sirius tried to send Remus silent signals.
Not seeing his friends' signals, and still not realizing that this was not the best time to mess around, Remus reached up, smiling, and grabbed Lorre's ankle pulling her down to the floor. Lost in their own worlds, while Lorre was glaring at Remus with pure and cold hatred, the other three girls continued on their way to the dormitory. It was silent except for the distant steps of the girls climbing the stairs and Remus was completely and entirely confused.
Lorre stood up, gathering all of her dignity once again, well at least all that she could manage, which to tell you the truth wasn't all that much. All the same, she stood up, straightening her robes and began to step over Remus. Just as her foot was raised above his back, she pulled it back and kicked him right in the ribs. Once again she went to step over the body on the floor, this time completing the action. With a solemn look on her face she continued towards the stairs and joined her friends in the dormitory.
The girls sat on their beds not saying a word. Nobody wanted to speak, nobody wanted to be silent. Nobody knew what they wanted.
Tired of the silence, Sarah got to her feet and spoke, "Come on you guys, so Rhia passed out on the first day of school, Lily screamed her head off, Remus was an idiot, Lorre got pissed.so most girls might not have this normal of a first day. But how can we let that ruin everything? It could have been worse you know." She looked around the room and the other girls still hung their heads, "Come on." She tried her very best to force a smile, "Let's go have dinner."
Sarah walked over to the door, and opened it, holding it open as her friends walked through, and then following behind them.
Even though this was only the first day of school, the majority of the group was well known in the wizarding community, and gossip spread fast. Which was quite amazing being that they had believed that Dumbledore was the only one who knew anything.
A blond boy at the Hufflepuff table called out to them, "Hey! Is Rhiannon doing okay?"
They uncomfortably shrugged and slightly nodded. I mean she was doing okay.
Some people weren't so nice about it though. Malfoy for instance, "Hey mudbloods and other types of pond scum, did your fellow piece of mold have a stroke or a heart-attack?"
Ashes turned and glared at Malfoy, "We may be pond scum, but at least we aren't snake dung, like some certain person, or more like people." Lucius Malfoy opened his mouth to make a smart comeback, but not being able to think of one, closed his mouth, turned and walked away.
Smiling, Ashes turned back to her friends, "Shall we continue on our way, ladies?"
In agreement the group made their way over to the Gryffindor table, and occupied the last four seats. Dinner seemed strangely silent, and not just to the first years. Nobody thought much of it though and the next thing they knew, they were back up in their dormitories and climbing into bed.
Lily couldn't sleep that night, so she turned to the bed next to her. Lily stood up and quietly tiptoed over to Lorre's bed. She whispered into the curtains, "Lorre." No response. "Lorre?" Still no reply. "Lorre, are you awake?" Lily smiled to herself and stepped back when she heard movement coming from inside. The curtains were pulled aside and Lily was glad to see that it looked like Lorre had been awake too, and she hadn't woken her up.
Lorre smiled that she wasn't the only one awake, "Hey Lils, couldn't sleep either?"
"Nah."
And out of boredom and the fact that they were wide awake, Lily sat down on Lorre's bed, and they started to talk.
(A/N: hey! Updating finally.I was in a really weird mood.so don't kill me.I know its crap blah blah.but f you truly care (which you prolly don't as I don't even really care.ok ok..so I do care) anyways review! The button is right there! Ya just gotta click and say something! Well love you all.and if you read my other stories.sorry sorry..i will update as soon as possible.which may or may not be very soon, but the more reviews the faster I update.well buh bye. - Me/Jessie/The Princess of Insanity/The Squiggle Queen (as amazing as it may be, we are all one person) review my lovelies review! Oh and if you read my story on hp.com as well (*cough*hazel*cough*) please send me the address to my story on the boards.I cant find it!)