Hello! Chapter eight is coming up!
Disclaimer: I've written it for every other chapter. Why would it be changed now? I have, what, twenty-five dollars? There is no way I own either CCS or HP.
A New Riddle
Chapter Eight.
Ginny's Transformation.
"Okay, welcome to the library!" Nakuru called at the top of her lungs when she saw the first few Ravenclaws walk through the door of the library. (This is a session where all four houses are there. So of course McGonagall is going to be there to keep an eye on Sara. She might kill Draco!) Then she caught site of a batch of honey brown hair and ran over to it and latched herself onto the person it belonged to. "Sakura! You're in my class today!" Sakura struggled under the extra weight but still stood.
"Yes, Nakuru, could you get off me please?" Sakura asked. Nakuru jumped off and smiled brightly.
"I'm sorry. I'm just so excited over the fact that I'm teaching with your brother! By the way, we're doing a project today about famous wizards and witches, sorcerers and sorceress and we talked over it. He said that if you and Eriol want to do Clow or the Card Mistress, you may, but you will have to change your name. Got it?"
"Yeah." Eriol and Sakura said at the same time.
"You are doing Clow, right?" Nakuru asked.
"Yes, of course."
"Have you seen Tomoyo yet?" Sakura asked Nakuru, looking around.
"No. I hate it how they separated you."
"So do I."
"How's Sara?"
"She's in a bad mood." Syaoran said.
"There's a difference?"
"Yes, in good moods she has a better attitude and you don't want to see her in her bad." The Slytherins then walked in, each looking as snobbish as each other. Nakuru ran over to them and introduced herself and then introduced Touya for him. She then noticed the one that McGonagall had warned her about when around Sara.
"Mr. Malfoy. I advise you do not get on Sara's nerves this session. I have been told that she is not in the best of moods." She said. He snickered and nodded his head. "Good. Hello, everyone. I do believe everyone is here, with one exception, please take a seat." She pointed to the chairs and desks in the middle of the room. Touya was already by a blackboard, writing the assignment that they have to do. Everyone took a seat, Gryffindors with Gryffindors, Slytherins with Slytherins and so on. "I am Nakuru and this is Touya. Today, we will be doing research on a famous witch, wizard, sorcerer or sorceress. This is due in next week. It is an assignment, so I expect you will do your best on it."
"The topics you will have to research on this person is on the board. The books for wizards are on the left of row three, witches are on the right. Sorcerers are on the left of row four and sorceresses are on the right. You are not to make up anything. I want facts only, and trust me; I have thoroughly read every book here so I will know if you're lying. You are not to go beyond those two rows. Off you go." Touya said and looked over at Sakura, who was getting up from her seat and was now accompanied by Tomoyo, Meilin and Naoko. "Has Nakuru talked to you?"
"Yes."
"So?"
"I guess I will. Are there any books here about it?" Sakura asked. Touya chuckled.
"I don't know. Ask the gaki. He lives here."
"You haven't read any of them?" Eriol asked.
"Of course not."
"I have read all of them."
"You wrote most of them." Syaoran groaned. "And I was told to read them all."
"Awe, my cute little descendant's complaining. Wow, today is a lucky day."
"Off you go. I don't want you guys of all people to fail." Touya said, turning Sakura around and pushing her towards the shelves. He was shocked to see Hermione there already with five thick books in her arms. "Are you alright?"
"I'm devastated!" Hermione squealed.
"Why? What's wrong?" Sakura asked.
"I haven't read any of these books!" Ron popped his head in the row from around the corner and laughed.
"Hermione had read every book in Hogwarts at least twice."
"Oh, really?" Eriol asked, stepping up to her. "So who are you doing?"
"I thought I'd just do someone easy, say Nicholas Flamel."
"Ah, great choice."
"Who were you going to do?"
"Clow Reed."
"You're obsessed with him, aren't you?"
"Not really. I just think it's easy to do something that you already know heaps about."
"Y'know, there was hardly any books on him in Hogwarts."
"Yes, but the Li Clan hold many books of him. Syaoran, are they where they used to be?"
"Hai, unless my mother has decided to change that around, too." Syaoran said.
"Awe, poor Syao-kun." Sakura laughed again as she patted him gently on the head. Sakura saw someone stride over to the other rows. She ran over to the person. "Sara?"
"What?"
"You're not allowed to be down here. We're supposed to stay in the third and fourth."
"That's exactly what Ms. Lain said about the forest by the orphanage. I found the Ayane Cards there. So things are sometimes best ignored. And besides, I've found the books that I'm after." Sara grabbed three books and headed back to the desks.
"So who are you doing?"
"Ayane. Who else?"
"I thought that you might have wanted to do the Card Keeper. You can do that, y'know; just give yourself a different name. That's what I'm doing."
"I do not need people knowing about my life." Sara snapped, not looking up from the parchment that she was now writing on.
"I guess I can understand that. You're saying that because me, Syaoran, Tomoyo, Eriol, Meilin and Naoko would find out, huh?"
"And whoever said that actresses were air heads? Now, you have an assignment to do, as do I so leave me alone."
"Humph, bye." Sakura said, leaving Sara. She sat down at the desk that she was sitting at before and started taking notes about the Card Mistress.
"Hey, Sakura, what are you doing?" Ron asked, sitting next to Sakura. He read the first few sentences. "Ah, the Card Mistress. Who is she exactly?"
"The chosen one to keep and protect the Clow Cards." Sakura answered simply.
"You and Eriol seem obsessed with that Clow Reed."
"We do a lot of work on it."
"How do we know that you're not the Card Mistress?"
"You'll just have to see." Sakura giggled.
"What are you going to do to my sister?"
"Oh, come off it. It's secret girls stuff that requires the help of Eriol and Syaoran."
"Why couldn't it need Harry or me?"
"So who are you going to do?"
"Harry, of course."
"Do you think you'll be able to find any books on him? The Li Clan don't exactly follow that sort of magic."
"I don't need to. I have all the information that I need. All I have to do is ask him. Where are your books?" Ron asked, now noticing that Sakura had done half a parchment of work and still hadn't needed to look up once.
"Oh, I know a lot about the Card Mistress. She's like a sister to me. That's why I study the magic so intently."
"Is she Tomoyo?"
"Oh, no. Tomoyo has the same normal powers. No Clow Cards included."
"I guess."
As the session went on, things settled and soon everyone was working on their assignments without a word being said. Most of it was because Touya threatened to send Nakuru on half of the kids.
An hour and a half into the session, Sara stood from her seat, gaining much attention from everyone in the room. She put three pieces of parchment on the front desk that Touya was sitting at and sat back down at her desk.
"You've finished?" Touya asked in disbelief.
"When you are constantly reminded about the sorceress that you are doing it about, it's fairly easy."
"Ayane Tale. Who is she?"
"The creator of the Ayane Cards. You have heard about the war that she and Clow Reed had, right?"
"Yes I have."
"So you're not totally brain dead." Sara chuckled and then picked up her quill and started to write on some more parchment.
Five minutes later, Sakura placed her work of three parchments by Sara's, gathering everyone's attention.
"You did yours on the Card Mistress. Very good." Draco, who handed up two pages, soon joined Sakura. "Lord Voldemort. Interesting." Touya said but then heard the reverberation of Sara's ink well crashing against the table.
"Damn. Oh, gees." She said, lifting her ink-saturated work up from the desk.
"Anyone ever notice that at the sound of Lord Voldemort's name, Miss Pessimistic turns into a ditz?" Draco snickered.
"What is it that you're insinuating?" Sara asked angrily.
"Maybe the reason why you were chucked into that orphanage was because of Lord Voldemort."
"You have no idea." Sara chuckled but was then tapped on the shoulder by McGonagall. "You're lucky your father is rich. It seems like you can get away with anything."
"That's enough from you." McGonagall warned. Sara leant back in her chair with her eyes closed and folded her arms over her chest.
"Whatever."
"Young lady, will you stop treating other people so disrespectfully?"
"I am treating them exactly how I have been brought up to live as. I cannot change my lifestyle over one night." Sara said, her eyes still closed. "Why have they sent you here? Are you here to make sure I won't kill rich boy?"
"I am here to keep an eye on you. After potions, I doubt any teacher wants you in their class."
"So I'm supposed to have you watching my back all the time? Do you have to watch me sleep? Or are you afraid I sleepwalk?"
"We will carry on with this conversation later."
"Why not now? Do you fear that something bad might be said? That these students here will learn what happened to that boy at the orphanage a few years ago? That these student's parents might not want their children at school with someone like me? It's happened before. I was kicked out of my first school because I had scared off all the other students." Sara said, standing up to face Minerva. "Or are you afraid that they'll find out some family secrets?"
"Please sit down, Miss Riddle." McGonagall said harshly. Sara glared at her before she took her seat again. Minerva looked down at the work that Sara had been doing before it had been covered in ink and picked it up. Looking over it, she noticed that the characters were not of an English language, but Japanese hiragana and katakana. "What's this?"
"This is for the new fifth graders eyes only. That is why it is written in a language that you will not understand. Unfortunately, neither will they because of the ink spill. So, I'll just have to tell them later."
"Okay, class, lets continue with the lesson please." Nakuru said, getting the attention away from Sara and Professor McGonagall.
The session passed without a sound after that and Tomoyo, Naoko and Hermione were the only ones to finish.
The rest of the day went without any problem and McGonagall refused to leave Sara's side during the lessons that she had with Slytherin.
Soon, it was lights out for the houses and, with the help of Harry's invisibility cloak for Tomoyo, who already had a new outfit for Ginny, and Meilin and the Illusion Card for Sakura, Ginny, Eriol, and Syaoran, they all got to Sara's room, which had been locked by the Lock Card. They knocked gently on the door and Mana floated through the wall to see whom it was, startling Ginny.
"Just wait here. I'll go tell Sara it's you. She's had a feeling that McGonagall has been watching her everywhere she went." Mana laughed. He floated back through the wall and they heard Sara unlock the door. Everyone came in casually and stood or sat around the room. Sakura, Tomoyo, Ginny and Meilin had taken a seat on Sara's bed, Syaoran stood with his back against the wall and Eriol took a seat at Sara's desk.
"So, describe how you want 'Kayne' to look." Eriol said to Ginny once everyone had settled down.
"I want Eriol's colour hair that's about Sakura's length and Meilin's eyes." Ginny said after looking around at everyone.
"I think we have to get rid of your freckles." Sakura said, looking closely at Ginny's face. "Because I doubt anyone with that colour hair and eyes have freckles."
"That's cool. I hate them anyway."
"And we have to make you taller." Meilin pointed out. "You are way too short for a year five."
Sakura grabbed out two Sakura Cards, Illusion and Big. "Illusion, make Ginny have Eriol's hair." She said, tapping the card with her wand. Ginny's hair grew shorter and blue. "Now, make it my length." Ginny's hair grew again just a little. "And give her the same eyes as Meilin." Ginny's eyes instantly turned to a ruby red. "Get rid of her freckles, too. Big, make Ginny the same size as," Sakura started and then looked around at everyone. Syaoran was the tallest, followed by Eriol, then Meilin, Sara, Sakura and Tomoyo. "Sara." Ginny started to grow about five inches. "Tomoyo, can you tape it? I can't keep her like this." Sakura said to Tomoyo. She may have been able to transform her there but if she needed them elsewhere then Ginny would turn back to normal Ginny. Tomoyo did as she was asked and taped the whole thing.
"Wow, Ginny. If I didn't know that this was you, I'd have no idea." She laughed while circling her.
"Really? So it'll work?" Ginny asked.
"If we can figure out a way to." Eriol said.
"That's easy." Sara said, approaching him with a large book in her hands. "The book has a charm here. It can be permanent though. It just depends on how much the person wants it to be."
"What do we need?" Syaoran asked.
"The person on whom we are doing this on; Ginny, and a picture of who they want to be; Tomoyo's camera." Sara said. "So Syaoran and Eriol wasn't really needed."
"Actually, he has to talk to his mother about this. She probably would have sensed the Sakura Cards being used. And I came up with the thought, so nuh." Eriol informed her, sticking his tongue out at her on the last part. Sakura got out Mirror and told her to copy Ginny's image, so she's also have a 3D image of it, too. Sara handed the large book to Ginny and told her to read a passage out aloud and to put her name and then the name of whomever she wants to be where it has been left blank.
"I read this charm to change my looks
To the person I imagine to be.
It is not the face and body of another,
But what I created.
I promise not to use this charm for a terrible use.
I am Ginny Weasly turn me to Kayne Host."
A bright light shone from Ginny, causing everyone to cover their eyes and when they opened them, Ginny was no longer there. She now stood, blue hair up to her chin and crimson eyes without freckles. Her Hogwarts clothes, unfortunately, were now two sizes too small.
"Wow! Oh no! My voice!" Ginny squealed. "Ron will remember it."
"That's easy done." Sakura said, getting Voice Card out of her pocket. "Voice, give G-Kayne a different voice."
"You don't have to, Sakura." Ginny said, and to her surprise, her voice was now a little bit deeper, yet sweeter. "Thank you." She hugged Sakura tightly. "Won't you want it back? I mean the card?"
"Of course I will, but I doubt I'll use it. Now, Voice, be careful and stay with Kayne. She will be great and please, don't change her voice."
"Kayne, I think you'll need these." Tomoyo said, handing Ginny the spare clothes that she had brought with her. Ginny quickly looked towards Sara who pointed to a door in one wall. Ginny smiled and ran through the door, into the bathroom.
"She looks great." Sakura said. "I can't believe it worked. Is there a reversal?"
Sara flipped through the book to the reversal half. "Yeah. She just needs to say the last line around. That's all."
"Tomoyo, do you expect me to wear this?" Ginny asked from the other side of the door.
"Why not?" Tomoyo asked. "Don't you like it?"
"I do, it's just kinda bizarre."
"Sakura never complained about the outfits that I made for her."
"You made this?"
"Would I lie?"
"Wow, it's great and all, just weird." Ginny said, stepping out of the bathroom in a yellow version of the Tomoeda School's uniform, only the skirt was a bit longer.
"I didn't have much time and that was the only material I could find. I'm sorry."
"Oh, no Tomoyo, it's great and all, just not what I quite expected a fifth year to wear."
"It's just so we can walk back. You can borrow one of Sakura's uniforms when we get back while I make you a new one. We've already talked about it."
"Happy now?" Sara asked. Ginny nodded. "Fine then get out of my room. I do wish to sleep."
"Sure, but how is everything supposed to work out?" Ginny asked.
"We'll send your brother a fake letter explaining everything, along with Dumbledore and we'll monitor their outgoing letters for a few weeks." Eriol explained.
"Sara, Filch is coming." Mana said, flying into the room via the wall. "He's noticed the light on and everything."
"The talking?" Sara asked.
"No, just the light and the moving around."
"If he stays too long or comes to close to finding any of them, attack the cat." Sara said and watched as Mana disappeared into a wall. She hid Syaoran, Eriol, Meilin and Ginny under her bed and Sakura and Tomoyo fit under the desk. She quickly covered it with a sheet from her bed like a tablecloth and sat at it with a book. A knock came from the door. She walked over to it and swung it open angrily. "What?" she asked with a fake yawn.
"Sara, what are you doing up at this hour?"
She held a potions book up to his face. "Studying. I did miss out on some of the class when Professor McGonagall took me out of class, y'know."
"Are you alone? I could have sworn I heard noises." He said, walking into the room.
"Sometimes I let Blizzard out of his cage."
"I heard human voices. I doubt your bird can talk."
"Who would I talk to? Everyone is scared of me." Sara pointed out.
"Your father." Filch snickered. "He has been known to come here frequently."
"So you think that I talk to that fool? I doubt he could lift a finger anymore. Now leave. I have been studying all night." Filch walked into the bathroom and started to look around. "What are you looking for?"
"Usually when little girls say they're all alone, they have a boy in their room somewhere." Sara chuckled.
"Do you really think boys are on my brain? Sure, I have plans to mutilate one, but no. Mana is the closest thing to a boy who has come in here, besides you. So leave. I have no one in my room and will never have anyone, with the exception of fools like you who think I like the company of others." Filch stepped up to the bed and everyone under it watched his feet stop. He got on a knee and they saw his hand glide under the blankets and grab them. Just as he was about to pull the blankets up, an ear-piercing screech filled the halls. It was that of a cats'. Filch immediately stood up and ran out of the room.
What he saw, he couldn't believe. Ms. Norris ran past, her tail ablaze and she was being chased by what seemed to be a toy dragon.
Sara followed him out of the room and laughed whole-heartedly. Everyone in the room wondered what had made her laugh so simply. It was a laugh that no one had ever heard her laugh. It was usually just a snicker here and there.
Filch watched in wonder and then the dragon disappeared.
"What the?" he asked in awe. Ms. Norris stopped in front of him and started to lick at the bare skin on her tail. The fire had gone out as soon as Mana had left, bit the shrill had brought Yelan from her room.
"What happened here?" she asked angrily. Syaoran heard and shuddered under the bed.
"A-a dragon b-burnt Ms. Norris." Filch stuttered as he picked up the damaged cat.
"A dragon?" she asked, looking over at Sara, whose laughter stopped. "Ms. Riddle, can you please follow me?" Sara followed her after closing her door. Yelan led her to her office where they sat down.
"What now?" Sara asked.
"Was it Manaturs?"
"He had no right coming into my room and going through all my private stuff."
"What were you doing up at that hour with Sakura, Xiao-Lang, Eriol, Meilin, Tomoyo and Ms. Weasly?"
"I told Eriol that you'd sense them."
"So this was Eriol's idea?"
"Yes. They just needed a place to work in peace and I gave them that."
"So they snuck out in the middle of the night, walked over half of the castle, just to do some work in your room?"
"Pretty much yeah."
"And what work was that?"
"Ask Eriol. I'm not allowed to tell." Sara said. Yelan got up from her seat and walked over to Sara's room.
"Get up, everyone. I am greatly disappointed." Everyone crawled out of his or her hiding spots but when Yelan saw Ginny-or now Kayne-she saw red. "What have they done to you, child?"
"Oh, no. This isn't their fault. I take full responsibility, Madam Li. Ron told me about what goes on in their class and I said that I'd love to be in their grade, so they all helped. I know this must sound like a stupid idea to you. I am very sorry." Ginny said. Just then, Sara walked into the room and grabbed out a suitcase from her cupboard.
"Miss Riddle. What is it that you are doing?" Yelan asked.
"Well, now you know that I'm a murderer and someone who does something like this, I thought you were going to kick me out." Sara explained and then realised Ginny was in the room.
"Murderer?" Ginny screeched. "You've killed someone before?"
"Can we not talk about it?" Sara asked. "I just went back in time and stopped myself. Don't tell anyone."
"That's fine with me."
"What are we going to do with you?" Yelan asked Ginny.
"Call me Kayne Host. You see, we saw it as simple as giving a letter to my brothers telling them that mum had to get me back home for some reason and tell Professor Dumbledore the same thing. We'll just say that I'm an exchange student that you organised. Please." Ginny said.
"Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Sure! Am I allowed to?"
"Is there a reversal to the spell?"
"Of course there is, aunty Yelan. We wouldn't do anything to harm her." Meilin said. "You have our word."
"And besides, I could always change her back." Eriol said. Yelan looked at each of their pleading faces and then groaned.
"Fine. I'll explain everything to the teachers in the morning meeting tomorrow. Now I want you all to get to bed. You need some sleep. And Sara, never send Mana to chase Ms. Norris again please." Yelan said, relieving everyone. Ginny ran up to Yelan and hugged her, much to the shock of everyone else.
"Now that that's done, can you all get out of my room? I wish to sleep tonight." Sara yelled, scaring everyone, including Yelan, and they scurried out of the room.
8################################################ ß Harry the Caterpillar.
The end of chapter eight! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I hope you guys all had great a Christmas. I did.
The next chapter will be about Kayne's first day at school. I have the greatest thing planned for later chapters. But I'm not telling. /^0^\ Don't ask. I'm not sure myself.
Catchya later.
~Jinko Kawaii
