Chapter 2: Training
That next morning the whole Jackson house woke up, and got into the car and drove to the airport and flew to England. They were a little behind schedule, but as soon as they made it to England they hurried to the train station where they showed Chanse the way to get onto Platform nine and three quarters. "You want me to what!?" Chanse yelled.
] "Just go through the wall its ok it's easy. If you want you can run through." Chanse looked scared and shrugged her shoulder and walked in front of the wall and took a deep breath.
"Ok." Chanse began to run towards the wall
"Wait Chanse!" Chanse's mom yelled, Chanse took a quick stop.
"What?" Chanse turned and said, a little upset.
"Here give this egg to Hagrid when you get to the training field, as a token for training you." Chanse walked over and took the egg and put it in her bag. Heather kissed Chanse and pushed her towards the wall. Chanse took another deep breath and ran strait through the wall.
When she got to the other side she saw a whole new world in front of her. "You must be Foxlin."
"Don't call me..." Chanse turned around and looked up and saw a huge man standing over her "...Foxlin." She gasped.
"Oh sorry well I'm Hagrid. We can talk about everything on the train." All Chanse could do is nod, and stand there with her mouth wide open. She watched Hagrid get on the train and she sort of came out of her amazement and watched all these new creatures that she had never seen or even dreamt of ever seeing, pass by her. She thought to herself.
"Where am I? Who cares! I first must deal with one thing at a time, this giant guy, Hagrid." She looked over at Hagrid getting all Chanse's stuff boarded on the train. "He doesn't look so bad. I can do this!" She nodded her head, "I can do this."
"Come on Chanse hurry the trains pulling away." Chanse snapped out of her daze and saw that Hagrid was on the train and the train was indeed pulling away from the station. Chanse started to run as fast as she could.
Hagrid watched in amazement, "I've never knew any muggle could run that fast." When Chanse caught up next to where Hagrid was standing with his hand sticking out for Chanse to grab. She didn't grab his hand, but she jumped into his arms.
On the train, Hagrid and Chanse got settled into a cabin, and Hagrid was about to say something, but when he had sat down and looked at Chanse she was busy watching everything outside. Hagrid looked away from her for a little bit, but then he looked back at her and watched her. After about twenty minutes of silence Hagrid finally spoke up, "So if you don't like being called Foxlin then what am I suppose to call you, hmm?"
Without even turning away from the window Chanse replied, "You can call me Chanse, or if you're my coach or a teammate on my team, you can call me, Fox. But you can only call me Fox if I'm on your team." Chanse took her eyes off the window for a couple of seconds and looked over at Hagrid out of the corner of her eyes.
"Ok," Hagrid nodded, "Chanse." Hagrid looked down at the ground and then leaned over to his bag and reached deep into it looking as if he was looking for something that wasn't in there. Chanse quickly over at him, and as soon as she did he found something. "Yes!" His voiced boomed in the cabin.
He pulled out a clipboard, and looked over at Chanse, who quickly turned and looked out the window again. Hagrid gave a quick smirk and looked over his clipboard. "Well what level of training would you like? There are four levels, level..."
"Your hardest." Chanse said strongly. Hagrid looked up from his clipboard in surprise, and saw Chanse was still watching everything pass by.
"Excuse me? I thought I heard you say my hardest level." Hagrid laughed. Chanse turned from the window and got into her bag, next to her and pulled out her mini stereo system, then stood up and walked over in front of Hagrid, and leaned forward.
"You heard me right; give me your hardest level!" Chanse said strongly again, "And by the way, I'll be across the hall because it's a little too stuffy in here." Chanse slid the door open and walked out of the cabin.
"Brat." Hagrid murmured, "I bet she'll think she can rule this school when she comes, I'm going to have to put her on the hardest level because she asked and she needs it." Hagrid started to get up to go give her schedule for the hardest level. He looked in the aisle and saw her in the hallway walking across. All of a sudden she bumped into a little man.
"I'm sorry." Chanse said and bent down and helped the man to his feet, "Are you ok?" The man nodded and walked down the aisle into the next compartment. Chanse watched him, then shrugged her shoulders and walked across and shut the door and turned on her stereo.
"Well, maybe.maybe she's not as bad as I thought." Hagrid watched Chanse, curiously, who was doing all kinds of weird moves. Hagrid walked across the hall and heard Chanse singing and it brought a smile onto his face.
He opened the door and laid down the schedule, on the cabin bench, and watched her, but it didn't even bother her. Hagrid continued to stand in the doorway for a while and listened to Chanse sing. He finally closed the door and went back into his cabin and watch Chanse, through the window, sing and dance.
At some point, she stopped dance and sat down and started to read the schedule, but she didn't stop singing. She turned down her music and laid down on the cabin bench, and went to bed. "Hagrid, dear boy, you've misjudged that poor girl. She's gone through a lot this past week; she has the right to be a little edgy." Hagrid smiled.
He got into his bag again, and he pulled out a fuzzy blanket, and then walked over to the Chanse's cabin. He walked in and laid the blanket on top of her. He started to walk out then he turned back around and looked at Chanse, who was sound asleep.
About an hour later, Hagrid walked back in Chanse's cabin, "Wake up, Chanse. We're going to be at the train station in ten minutes."
Chanse rubbed her eyes and sat up, "Ok." Hagrid left the room and went back into his cabin.
A few minutes later Chanse came into to Hagrid's cabin, all rapped up in the blanket, and sat down on the bench opposite of Hagrid. "Thank you for the blanket, Hagrid. And I'm sorry about being so mean to you. I just don't know how to deal with all this. My parent explained I get it all, but it won't sink in yet." Chanse raised her eyebrows, and got in to her bag and pulled out a small packet, "They also gave me that packet that explains everything that goes on at Hogwarts," Chanse handed the packet to Hagrid, who looked it over, and nodded, "but the only thing I read about was the sport, Quidditch." Chanse laughed.
Hagrid laughed back, "AH. Quidditch, it's a fun game, if you can play."
"I'll learn," Chanse cocked her head to the side, "trust me I'm a fast learner, and I love sports." Hagrid nodded.
A couple seconds later the train came to a stop, Chanse fell forwards and Hagrid caught her, "Thanks." Chanse stood up.
"You're welcome." Hagrid stood up and started to walk out the cabin, "Come on lets get right to starting your training."
Hagrid and Chanse walked off the train and walked over the train benches, where Chanse sat down. "Stay here, I'm going to go get your bags," Chanse nodded her head, "I hope you have shoes you can walk in for a while." Chanse looked at Hagrid, all confused way and shrugged her shoulders.
Hagrid walked off and disappeared into the crowd of creatures. Chanse looked around a little then got into her bag and pulled out her tennis shoes. When she finished trying up her shoes, she looked in the window next to her and saw her reflection.
"Oh! I look terrible." Chanse quickly took her hands and smoothed down her hair, which was all, fuzzy, and sticking out every which way. Then she pulled out her eye drops, and dropped a couple of drop into her eyes, which were a little red and puffy.
While she was trying to make herself look a little more presentable looking, she accidentally hit her bag and her CD player fell out onto the ground. The batteries, and CD went flying across the ground. "NO!" Chanse screamed, she fell onto the ground and picked up her CD and popped it back in the CD player, and then scrabbled across the ground to grab the batteries. She grabbed one battery but she couldn't find the other one, she looked around frantically then she finally realized that she wouldn't find it. She sat back up on the bench and sat there holding her CD player, staring at it, and then she sighed.
"Here, I think you dropped this." Chanse looked up and saw a hot young man standing in front of her, with his hand out, and in it was her battery. Chanse smiled.
"Thanks." She smiled grabbed the battery out of his hand.
"No problem. You're not from around here are you?" He smiled.
"Nope." Chanse was stunned in how hot this guy was.
"Well, maybe I'll see you around here again." He winked and walked into the crowd and disappeared into it. Chanse melted and let out a sigh, and she leaded back on the bench and turned her head and saw her reflection again and was in shock.
"I looked like this when he came over!" Chanse gasped. "Oh well, I'll probably never see him again." She looked in the window and made herself look the best she could, which wasn't half bad.
Then she popped her batteries into her CD player, and turned on her mix. As soon as Chanse heard the music she closed her eyes. She slowly started with listening to it, then she began to hum, then to softly singing, then to doing a little dance moves to it, and then she was singing really loudly to her music. She opened her eyes and saw that she had attracted a crowd around her.
She stopped singing and looked around at all these different creatures. Chanse became very embarrassed and scared; she took off her headphones, and realized that they were applauding her singing. The more she listened to the applauses the less embarrassed and scared she was. She started to hear them chant "More, more, more!" She looked around then looked down at her feet and smiled a little but she couldn't hold back her smile anymore and then slowly she lifted her head and began to smile even more.
She asked the crowd, "You want more?"
"YEAH!" The crowd screamed.
Chanse turned to another song, and closed her eyes, and began to slowly start singing and dancing. She opened her eyes and saw a reporter in front of her with a camera and snapped her picture, slowly more reporters came, and took her picture of her singing.
At the end of her song people were screaming and hooting for and Chanse began to laugh and she waved to the crowd and then she scanned the crowd just to see who she had just sang for. She looked around and saw Hagrid standing in the back whistling for her performance, and she laughed and waved to him.
She kept looking then she saw the guy who brought the battery back to her, slowly clapping for her, and then he pushed his way out of the crowd and disappeared again. Chanse quickly blushed and made her way through the crowd to Hagrid. "That was great!" Chanse blushed
"Thanks."
They walked for what seemed like the longest time, down this small path (big enough for them to walk side by side though) that was in between this empty field and something that looked like a wheat field. Chanse didn't mind because she liked to walk and she had her music, and Hagrid didn't mind it either cause he got to listen to Chanse's beautiful voice sing.
"Damnit!" Chanse shouted.
"What?" Hagrid asked, watching Chanse beat on her CD player.
"My damn CD player is out of batteries! Shit!" Chanse took off her headphones and stuffed the CD player back into her backpack.
For a while they walked in silence, and every now and then Hagrid would look over at Chanse who was very pissed off that her CD player was out of batteries. For some reason Hagrid stopped, and Chanse kept walking, because she didn't notice that Hagrid had stopped, because she was to upset about her CD player.
"So Hagrid where are we going?" Chanse waited for a response. When she didn't get one she turned around, "Hagrid?" There was no Hagrid behind her, in front of her, next to her; there was no Hagrid anywhere. Chanse got a little worried, she thought, 'What happens if something happened to Hagrid? I hope he's ok...What about me, I don't know where I am, or what I'm doing?'
A few seconds later Chanse heard a strange noise, it sounded like it was getting closer, but Chanse had no idea where it was coming from. Chanse looked around, but she didn't see anyone or anything. All she saw was, to the right of her, a field and, to the left of her, a wheat field. "Hello?" She yelled.
She looked around again then dropped her bags and got ready to fight no matter what. She faced the wheat field and every now and then she turned and looked behind. She looked down the path and saw that the wheat was moving down there. She turned and faced down there, and then all the wheat around her was moving. Chanse took a couple steps back and then...
That next morning the whole Jackson house woke up, and got into the car and drove to the airport and flew to England. They were a little behind schedule, but as soon as they made it to England they hurried to the train station where they showed Chanse the way to get onto Platform nine and three quarters. "You want me to what!?" Chanse yelled.
] "Just go through the wall its ok it's easy. If you want you can run through." Chanse looked scared and shrugged her shoulder and walked in front of the wall and took a deep breath.
"Ok." Chanse began to run towards the wall
"Wait Chanse!" Chanse's mom yelled, Chanse took a quick stop.
"What?" Chanse turned and said, a little upset.
"Here give this egg to Hagrid when you get to the training field, as a token for training you." Chanse walked over and took the egg and put it in her bag. Heather kissed Chanse and pushed her towards the wall. Chanse took another deep breath and ran strait through the wall.
When she got to the other side she saw a whole new world in front of her. "You must be Foxlin."
"Don't call me..." Chanse turned around and looked up and saw a huge man standing over her "...Foxlin." She gasped.
"Oh sorry well I'm Hagrid. We can talk about everything on the train." All Chanse could do is nod, and stand there with her mouth wide open. She watched Hagrid get on the train and she sort of came out of her amazement and watched all these new creatures that she had never seen or even dreamt of ever seeing, pass by her. She thought to herself.
"Where am I? Who cares! I first must deal with one thing at a time, this giant guy, Hagrid." She looked over at Hagrid getting all Chanse's stuff boarded on the train. "He doesn't look so bad. I can do this!" She nodded her head, "I can do this."
"Come on Chanse hurry the trains pulling away." Chanse snapped out of her daze and saw that Hagrid was on the train and the train was indeed pulling away from the station. Chanse started to run as fast as she could.
Hagrid watched in amazement, "I've never knew any muggle could run that fast." When Chanse caught up next to where Hagrid was standing with his hand sticking out for Chanse to grab. She didn't grab his hand, but she jumped into his arms.
On the train, Hagrid and Chanse got settled into a cabin, and Hagrid was about to say something, but when he had sat down and looked at Chanse she was busy watching everything outside. Hagrid looked away from her for a little bit, but then he looked back at her and watched her. After about twenty minutes of silence Hagrid finally spoke up, "So if you don't like being called Foxlin then what am I suppose to call you, hmm?"
Without even turning away from the window Chanse replied, "You can call me Chanse, or if you're my coach or a teammate on my team, you can call me, Fox. But you can only call me Fox if I'm on your team." Chanse took her eyes off the window for a couple of seconds and looked over at Hagrid out of the corner of her eyes.
"Ok," Hagrid nodded, "Chanse." Hagrid looked down at the ground and then leaned over to his bag and reached deep into it looking as if he was looking for something that wasn't in there. Chanse quickly over at him, and as soon as she did he found something. "Yes!" His voiced boomed in the cabin.
He pulled out a clipboard, and looked over at Chanse, who quickly turned and looked out the window again. Hagrid gave a quick smirk and looked over his clipboard. "Well what level of training would you like? There are four levels, level..."
"Your hardest." Chanse said strongly. Hagrid looked up from his clipboard in surprise, and saw Chanse was still watching everything pass by.
"Excuse me? I thought I heard you say my hardest level." Hagrid laughed. Chanse turned from the window and got into her bag, next to her and pulled out her mini stereo system, then stood up and walked over in front of Hagrid, and leaned forward.
"You heard me right; give me your hardest level!" Chanse said strongly again, "And by the way, I'll be across the hall because it's a little too stuffy in here." Chanse slid the door open and walked out of the cabin.
"Brat." Hagrid murmured, "I bet she'll think she can rule this school when she comes, I'm going to have to put her on the hardest level because she asked and she needs it." Hagrid started to get up to go give her schedule for the hardest level. He looked in the aisle and saw her in the hallway walking across. All of a sudden she bumped into a little man.
"I'm sorry." Chanse said and bent down and helped the man to his feet, "Are you ok?" The man nodded and walked down the aisle into the next compartment. Chanse watched him, then shrugged her shoulders and walked across and shut the door and turned on her stereo.
"Well, maybe.maybe she's not as bad as I thought." Hagrid watched Chanse, curiously, who was doing all kinds of weird moves. Hagrid walked across the hall and heard Chanse singing and it brought a smile onto his face.
He opened the door and laid down the schedule, on the cabin bench, and watched her, but it didn't even bother her. Hagrid continued to stand in the doorway for a while and listened to Chanse sing. He finally closed the door and went back into his cabin and watch Chanse, through the window, sing and dance.
At some point, she stopped dance and sat down and started to read the schedule, but she didn't stop singing. She turned down her music and laid down on the cabin bench, and went to bed. "Hagrid, dear boy, you've misjudged that poor girl. She's gone through a lot this past week; she has the right to be a little edgy." Hagrid smiled.
He got into his bag again, and he pulled out a fuzzy blanket, and then walked over to the Chanse's cabin. He walked in and laid the blanket on top of her. He started to walk out then he turned back around and looked at Chanse, who was sound asleep.
About an hour later, Hagrid walked back in Chanse's cabin, "Wake up, Chanse. We're going to be at the train station in ten minutes."
Chanse rubbed her eyes and sat up, "Ok." Hagrid left the room and went back into his cabin.
A few minutes later Chanse came into to Hagrid's cabin, all rapped up in the blanket, and sat down on the bench opposite of Hagrid. "Thank you for the blanket, Hagrid. And I'm sorry about being so mean to you. I just don't know how to deal with all this. My parent explained I get it all, but it won't sink in yet." Chanse raised her eyebrows, and got in to her bag and pulled out a small packet, "They also gave me that packet that explains everything that goes on at Hogwarts," Chanse handed the packet to Hagrid, who looked it over, and nodded, "but the only thing I read about was the sport, Quidditch." Chanse laughed.
Hagrid laughed back, "AH. Quidditch, it's a fun game, if you can play."
"I'll learn," Chanse cocked her head to the side, "trust me I'm a fast learner, and I love sports." Hagrid nodded.
A couple seconds later the train came to a stop, Chanse fell forwards and Hagrid caught her, "Thanks." Chanse stood up.
"You're welcome." Hagrid stood up and started to walk out the cabin, "Come on lets get right to starting your training."
Hagrid and Chanse walked off the train and walked over the train benches, where Chanse sat down. "Stay here, I'm going to go get your bags," Chanse nodded her head, "I hope you have shoes you can walk in for a while." Chanse looked at Hagrid, all confused way and shrugged her shoulders.
Hagrid walked off and disappeared into the crowd of creatures. Chanse looked around a little then got into her bag and pulled out her tennis shoes. When she finished trying up her shoes, she looked in the window next to her and saw her reflection.
"Oh! I look terrible." Chanse quickly took her hands and smoothed down her hair, which was all, fuzzy, and sticking out every which way. Then she pulled out her eye drops, and dropped a couple of drop into her eyes, which were a little red and puffy.
While she was trying to make herself look a little more presentable looking, she accidentally hit her bag and her CD player fell out onto the ground. The batteries, and CD went flying across the ground. "NO!" Chanse screamed, she fell onto the ground and picked up her CD and popped it back in the CD player, and then scrabbled across the ground to grab the batteries. She grabbed one battery but she couldn't find the other one, she looked around frantically then she finally realized that she wouldn't find it. She sat back up on the bench and sat there holding her CD player, staring at it, and then she sighed.
"Here, I think you dropped this." Chanse looked up and saw a hot young man standing in front of her, with his hand out, and in it was her battery. Chanse smiled.
"Thanks." She smiled grabbed the battery out of his hand.
"No problem. You're not from around here are you?" He smiled.
"Nope." Chanse was stunned in how hot this guy was.
"Well, maybe I'll see you around here again." He winked and walked into the crowd and disappeared into it. Chanse melted and let out a sigh, and she leaded back on the bench and turned her head and saw her reflection again and was in shock.
"I looked like this when he came over!" Chanse gasped. "Oh well, I'll probably never see him again." She looked in the window and made herself look the best she could, which wasn't half bad.
Then she popped her batteries into her CD player, and turned on her mix. As soon as Chanse heard the music she closed her eyes. She slowly started with listening to it, then she began to hum, then to softly singing, then to doing a little dance moves to it, and then she was singing really loudly to her music. She opened her eyes and saw that she had attracted a crowd around her.
She stopped singing and looked around at all these different creatures. Chanse became very embarrassed and scared; she took off her headphones, and realized that they were applauding her singing. The more she listened to the applauses the less embarrassed and scared she was. She started to hear them chant "More, more, more!" She looked around then looked down at her feet and smiled a little but she couldn't hold back her smile anymore and then slowly she lifted her head and began to smile even more.
She asked the crowd, "You want more?"
"YEAH!" The crowd screamed.
Chanse turned to another song, and closed her eyes, and began to slowly start singing and dancing. She opened her eyes and saw a reporter in front of her with a camera and snapped her picture, slowly more reporters came, and took her picture of her singing.
At the end of her song people were screaming and hooting for and Chanse began to laugh and she waved to the crowd and then she scanned the crowd just to see who she had just sang for. She looked around and saw Hagrid standing in the back whistling for her performance, and she laughed and waved to him.
She kept looking then she saw the guy who brought the battery back to her, slowly clapping for her, and then he pushed his way out of the crowd and disappeared again. Chanse quickly blushed and made her way through the crowd to Hagrid. "That was great!" Chanse blushed
"Thanks."
They walked for what seemed like the longest time, down this small path (big enough for them to walk side by side though) that was in between this empty field and something that looked like a wheat field. Chanse didn't mind because she liked to walk and she had her music, and Hagrid didn't mind it either cause he got to listen to Chanse's beautiful voice sing.
"Damnit!" Chanse shouted.
"What?" Hagrid asked, watching Chanse beat on her CD player.
"My damn CD player is out of batteries! Shit!" Chanse took off her headphones and stuffed the CD player back into her backpack.
For a while they walked in silence, and every now and then Hagrid would look over at Chanse who was very pissed off that her CD player was out of batteries. For some reason Hagrid stopped, and Chanse kept walking, because she didn't notice that Hagrid had stopped, because she was to upset about her CD player.
"So Hagrid where are we going?" Chanse waited for a response. When she didn't get one she turned around, "Hagrid?" There was no Hagrid behind her, in front of her, next to her; there was no Hagrid anywhere. Chanse got a little worried, she thought, 'What happens if something happened to Hagrid? I hope he's ok...What about me, I don't know where I am, or what I'm doing?'
A few seconds later Chanse heard a strange noise, it sounded like it was getting closer, but Chanse had no idea where it was coming from. Chanse looked around, but she didn't see anyone or anything. All she saw was, to the right of her, a field and, to the left of her, a wheat field. "Hello?" She yelled.
She looked around again then dropped her bags and got ready to fight no matter what. She faced the wheat field and every now and then she turned and looked behind. She looked down the path and saw that the wheat was moving down there. She turned and faced down there, and then all the wheat around her was moving. Chanse took a couple steps back and then...