Aki oppened her eyes slightly, and moaned softly displeased about having to wake up, "another school day, how ANNOYING" she said with a muffled and sleepy voice as she attempted to stand up. Aki was a pretty young girl around the age of 15. Her skin was strangely pale, reaching a silverish colour, specially at night, when the moon shone brightly in the skies, and her envious rays caressed the woman's fair face. Her features were quiet handsome, large, chinese like, dark blue eyes that didnt reflect anything but the mistery of a magick sleeping deep within the young girl. Those were a pair of misterious eyes that deeply concerned those who had seen her, they could never understand why their faces didnt reflect on the abyss blue orbs. Her lips were thick and fleshy, of a rosy colour that, in her young age, made the teenagers think about kissing those hypnotizing and sensual lips. Hidden under those lips were a set of pearly teeth, and i make refference to them since her fangs, although not too noticeable, were slightly sharp, much similar to a canine's fangs. Her body was curved into beautiful shapes that, although agile and muscular, were envied by the teenage girls in the school that had not been so well gifted. And the strangest thing in her body was this moon shapped mark on her forehead, the one she always claimed was a scar from chickenpox.
Aki stood up, attempting to balance on her still weak and numb legs, and walked torwards the window to let some fresh air purify the vicious athmosphere. Her dalmatian dog, Vilwarin, wagged his tail and ran torwards the window, his humid, dog nose, scenting the cold, winter air entering through the window. Aki squinted her eyes as a figure aproached the room, it was a rather large, brown bird, and strangely enough it looked like an owl. A shriek escaped her fleshy lips and the woman leapt away, as a large, king owl, entered the room and landed on her bed, in his mouth something that looked like a letter. Aki walked timidly and hesitant torwards the large bird, who observed her through his large, yellow eyes viciously. The young woman grabbed the letter and leapt back, afraid the bird might attack her for taking the letter. She stared at the envelope, wich was built out of parchment, and read out, "Akira Moonhowl, second room to the right, second floor, Wolf Valley Avenue, NÂș 15, Dragon Hyde Town" Aki gasped, how could someone know exactly the room she slept at? She turned the envelope aound and saw a strange shield bearing a snake, a hawk, a lion and a badger, and under it, she read, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry". Aki made a face as if she was observing something really disgusting, "ha ha, nice joke, must have been one of my friends" she told herself throwing the letter on the bed without really bothering about opening it. Although Aki was a Witch, she had been instructed into not believing in magic, and her logical mind, inherited from her father, told her magick was impossible.
Without a last glance at the letter, the young Witch arrived at her school, ready for a normal and monotonous day, but how wrong she was, she didnt even think the events that would happen today, caused by some strange force that had penetrated her through the letter.
She mounted on her large aprilia motorcycle, and rode to school, her head covered by a blueish helmet. She was a peculiar young lady.. Her long and slender legs were covered by a pair of loose, militar coloured pants. She was dressed on a pair of mountain boots, and a tight, militar coloured, green T-shirt slythered around her curves. She entered the classroom walking in a way that easily told the rest of the people she was not a person to argue with. Indeed she was feared, she had gotten in fights and always won, in other words, she was the leader of the whole school. She approached one of her friends to speak with her, "hello Dyla" she commented cassualy, but eyeing the people suspiciously, waiting for a single sign that told her she should attack. The young woman, who was ugly, with dirty blond colour and thick eyebrows, smiled timidly, "why hello Aki! How are you?" she told the frightening woman. Aki nodded still gazing at people, head high and proud, "well, I'm ok, how's Josh? Havent seen him in a while" she commented, Josh was Dyla's brother. The girl scratched her head nervously, moving her gaze to points in the wall apparently much more interesting that the sudden question, "well...he is leaving, got admitted in Oxford, you see?" she explained in a nervous stutter. Aki nodded uninterested, not really thinking about the answer recently gotten.
As the bell rang emmiting an acute shriek, like the siren of an ambulance, the young girl grimaced, such sound had always been painful to her ears, but she had already gotten used to it. She walked torwards her desk and sat down, drawing her books out. She rolled her eyes as an old looking man entered the classroom with quiet, even steps, so silent he seemed not to be stepping at all, "physics" muttered Aki with a tone of boredom and monotony. The proffesor started explaining the lesson, sending Dyla out to the board to work out a rather complicated problem. Aki simply stared, feeling her eyelids getting heavier and dropping as her mind drifted to a state of lightness and sleep, the sounds becoming nothing but a faint numb murmurr, "Mrs. Moonhowl!" a voice boomed entering her mind. Aki snapped her eyes open and became suddenly very aware of the surroundings and the events, the proffesor was standing right in front of her, his face red with anger, and his fingers gripping a pencil so tightly he seemed about to snap it. The whole class remained in a tense silence, waiting for the storm's departure, "that will take points from your house" the proffesor snapped in a voice too strong for his weak appereance. He turned arround and paced in large steps torwards his desk. Aki raised her eyebrows in conffusion, "s...sir, what did you say?" she asked shocked, she thought she had heard him say he would take points from her house, whatever that meant. The proffesor fulminated Aki with his gaze, "I said I will sing a Warning Paper, next time it will mean three days expelled" he growled angrily. Aki narrowed her eyebrows, her heart started flaming with the fire of anger, and a strange sensation, a rush of energy pulsated through her veins.
How it happened, she didnt know but the blackboard started falling, approaching Dyla and ready to squish the life out of her. Aki stood up, not knowing what to do, the fire of rage being stinguished by the ice of fear that hd grown in her heart, "be careful!" she yelled stretching her hand forward, as if trying to stop the blackboard from collapsing. Suddenly, it did. The blackboard stopped it's fall, floating in mid air as if the time had been frozen all of a sudden. Aki collapsed on her chair, shocked, no, she hadnt done that, she couldnt have, although a little part of her mind told her she had. Dyla rushed from under the board as quickly as she could, not bothering about the silent voices and the shocked faces that where drawn across the class. Without a warning, the blackboard collapsed on the floor and broke in two halves, drawing a gasp from the several students. The old physics teacher stared at the board with disbelieving eyes, this recent event kicked all the physical theories written from the ages of the ancient greeks. The bell rang although for a few seconds the class remained paralized, still staring at the fallen pieces...had it been magick?
Dyla ran torwards Aki who was walking torwards her motorcycle, "Aki, Aki, that was awesome, what happened this morning I mean!" Dyla gasped breathlessly due to the race and her own excitement. Aki nodded in a bad tempered manner, not bothering to decrease her speed, "it was like magic!" Dyla exclaimed excited, hoping with all her might that she had magic blood within her veins. Aki let her contained breath blow with exasperation, "I do not believe in magic" she hissed stating her point with clear words. Without another word she turned the key to turn on the motor and rolled the handle, making the motorcycle race away. As Aki turned around a corner, she appeared all of a sudden inside a large, medieval lookin alley. She came to a stop inmediatly, staring around the alley, people paced uninterestedly around but that was common, no, it wasnt that which was shocking, not even that the alley was medieval like since that was normal in many cities. What was shocking was that people were dressed on robes of all colours and styles, wearing large, pointed hats. Owls flew over her, in daylight many owls were flying past, some of them carrying envelopes made out of a thick, yellowish material. As she moved carefully, pushing the motorcycle with her with great effort, she saw the different shops, "Flourish and Blotts, Books of Magic" she read making a face. She heard an old woman screaming, "Dragon Livers, twenty Knuts, Acromantula Claws three Galleons" the voice boomed powerfully, almost as if she was using a microphone. Aki grimaced, "what's all this nonesense? Dragons? Magic? Hat is this? A sect?" she exclaimed annoyed, her fervient beliefs against all unlogical happenings being attacked all of a sudden by her misterious appereance in a place where peculiar events occured.
A young Witch apporached her, she was around her height with thick, brownish with golden highlights, bushy hair. Her eyes were the colour of caramel, and her lips were fleshy, of a pinkish colour. Her skin was perfect, without a single trace of acne. She was dressed in a veis skirt and a flaming red sweater, over those was a black robe with the sybol of a lion sewed on it, and she was carrying a lot of strange, leather covered books, "excuse me, are you lost?" she asked in a sweet but slightly knowing voice. Aki stared at her in wonder but letting a slight disgust flow into her features, "er...perhaps...what's this place?" she asked giving in to the obvious that she was not going to find out where she was without asking one of theese weirdoes. The young girl nodded, "Diagon Alley" she answered joyfully, raising her head proudly. Aki raised an eyebrow, "erm...right...er...what is this? Some sort of street for the Hidden Arts?" she questioned the young woman. The girl stared at her incredulously and moved her gaze across her body and over the motorcycle, "are you a Muggle? Or some sort of new Witch?" she asked suspiciously. Aki raised both eyebrows in shock, "a What?" she exclaimed in a loud voice. The girl nodded and looked around as if searching for some answers, "hum...how did you get here?" she asked trying to get to the end of this misterious case, it wasnt possible that a non magical person had been able to reach Diagon Alley. Aki snorted annoyed, "I'd like to know that, I was going back home from school and suddenly, I turned a corner and here I am!" she explained raising her head in a way that showed she was the leader. The girl nodded, "uh hum, perhaps and interdimensional portal?" the girl deduced acocoodating her books over her chest. Aki shook her head furiously, " oh no, dont speak about magic, I dont believe in such crap and..." she stared saying angered, her voice becoming a dangerous hiss when her words were stopped by the sound of a familiar voice calling her name.
Aki turned around abruptly and saw her mother approaching, dressed on light, violet and blue robes and carrying a large, wooden trunk with her. Aki made a disgusted face but more of incredulously reflected in her features, "M...Mom! what are you doing here...DRESSED LIKE THAT?" she snapped loudly, attracting some gazes torwards her, which suddenly focused on the strange, Muggle clothing and the rare motorcycle. Laura Moonhowl stopped next to Aki and smiled shyly, "oh...I saw the letter laying on your bed this morning and wondered why hadnt you told me, I came to get you your books and things for school, but we still need to get you your robes and your wand" she explained really quickly and nervously, shaking her hands about. Aki raised her eyebrows at her and stared at the two as if they were crazy, "I beg your pardon? Are you trying to tell me all this crap is real?" she snapped hitting her motorcycles driving handle. The young girl nodded, "It is, Aki, trust me, I was bornt from non magical parents, what I cant understand is why having a Witch mother, you dont know about magic" she explained entering the conversation. Aki stared at her incredulously, and turned to look at her mother, "so you are a Witch...you have been telling me for fifteen years that Magic didnt exist, that it was nonsense, and it turns out you, out of all people, are a Witch" Aki growled, feeling once more her blood boiling with the fire of rage. Laura looked down in shame, "I know it was a mistake, but I cant explain yet why I hid this from you...sorry Aki" she said with shame. Aki was about to answer when the stranger's hand touched her shoulder, forcing her to turn around, "erm, Aki, guess I'll see you at Hogwarts, ok? Bye" she said and turned around, dissapearing into the crowd. Aki turned to lok at her mother with questioning eyes, "where..." shestarted but never got to finish, "Hogwarts is the school where you will be going at, now lets go" she answered commandingly, with a tired voice, she did not want to hear her daughter's arguing, the one she knew would come.
Aki did not argue, as much of a rebel she was, she did not feel like arguing at the moment, and as much as she hated leaving her friends. A second thought attacked her, why not? It would be exciting going to a magic school, seeing all the strange things that roamed the world of the Hidden Arts, "I oppened the portal, I needed you here to get your wand, sorry, I should have told you I'd do this" Laura said all of a sudden without turning to look at her daugher due to the shame. Aki noddded mumbling an agreeing response, but not really caring at the moment, she was in her dreamland, in the imaginations of the adventures that would go there...she didnt know she was about to live the greatest adventure of her life.
They entered a small shop in which's door Aki could read "Ollivander's Wand Makers ever since 1885" she raised an eyebrow, ever since has this weird thing been going on? The shop was dull and dark, a few wands were exposed here and there, sticks made out of polished and barnished wood, their handles forming the most pictoresque patterns. An old man came out, his frizzled hair was white with greyish points here and there, and his eyes pale almost as if he was albino, "hello...ah, Laura Moonhowl, 20 cm, very flexible, oak, the heartstring of a fine, female Norwegian Ridgeback" he said with great wisdom. Aki stared at him as if she was seeing someone who had escaped froma psychiatric hospital, "indeed, Mr Ollivander" Laura Moonhowl said with a friendly smile. Mr Ollivander stared at the rebel young woman, "ah, young Moonhowl, come here to get your wand I guess?" Mr Ollivander said with a kind voice. Aki shot him a venomous glare and nodded, she was not little, she could pretty much take care of herself. Mr Ollivanders came out with a handfull of elongated boxes, and placed them on his old, wooden counter, "here, Cherry, 35 cm, not too flexible, and the feather of a fine phoenix" he said handing Aki a reddish coloured wand with a leather handle forming the tail of a phoenix. She shook it slightly not knowing why but having a feeling that this was right, but before she could react Mr Ollivander had retreived the want and placed another in her hand, "25 cm, Ash, dragon heartstring, flexible, perfect for charms" he said with a smile. Aki shook the lighter coloured wand and suddenly a great colum of boxes fell down. Mr Ollivander shook his head, "hum...no, not this one" he said retreiving the wand from her hand. After many failed trials and many fallen boxes, Mr Ollivander stopped, his hand placed around his ching, and a finger tapping on it lightly, "a very peculiar young lady needs a peculiar wand...and I think I have just the right one" he said in a thoughtful voice that progresively got more and more excited. He rushed inside with such agility it surprised Aki, she had not expected an old looking man like himself being so strong and healthy, but after all, this was the Magical World. He returned with a box, and oppened in, inside was a wand made out of white wood, the handle built ouf of silver had the shape of a wolf's head, and between it's jaws it was holding a spherical christal the colour of pearl. Mr Ollivander smiled, "white willow, 30 cm, flexible, the feather of a fine Snow Griffin, perfect for transfiguration, and charms specially those related with the night" he smiled and winked an eye at the young woman. Aki grabbed the wand roughtly, glaring at him, and raised it. Inmediatly silvery and white sparks spiraled around her like glitter, a shower of stars that build an unbreakable bond between her and her wand, Aki and the night.
Later that nght Aki was searching through the computer for material about magic, she wanted to know everything about it before going to Hogwarts like a complete ignorant. She reached some strange site which actually spoke about Hogwarts, and entered, seeing a ragged, old, wizard's hat's picture first. She stared at the hat with curiosity, and was about to click on it when it moved, "ah! Akira Moonhowl, I have been four years waiting for you" the had exclaimed in an old, ragged voice like himself. Aki stared at the screen with disbelieving eyes, "are you talking to me?" she asked incredulously. The had stared at her, "no, is there another Akira Moonhowl here?" he asked in a mocking tone Aki disliked. The hat smiled knowingly with the gash that made his mouth, "ah, well, take your wand, I will show you a few things" he said. Aki did as was told and pointed it at the computer, not too sure this was correct, "now flick and swish, and say Realitum!" the hat exclaimed calmly. Aki did as told and suddenly she felt herself being engulfed by a gust of cold wind that blew around her like an slithering snake. She saw nothing but darkness and the voice of the hat speaking in her mind, "hum, very intelligent, and mischievous also, you could do good in either Ravencaw or Slytherin...no...no evil in you, not too ambtious either, friendship comes first to you...no, not Slytherin, deffinitely not Hufflepuff, brave, very brave...you should be in..." the little voice in her mind kept saying, and her conffusion grew larger. Suddenly she gasped as the voice boomed loudly, "GRYFFINDOR!" he yelled. She heard the cheers coming from a lot of people, and in front of her eyes passed the knowledge of the four years she should have spent in Hogwarts.
She landed in her chair, the web site had dissapeared but her want remained in her hand, "wow...let's see...LUMOS!" she said trying to prove the truth of this strange charm she had casted, the one that had given her the knowledge of the past years. The tip of her wand lit like a flashlight, it was then that she knew all this was true, it was then that her faith in the magical world, and in Magic was bornt.
To Be Continued...
AN: how did you like this? Sorry it took so long to write, dont worry, next chapter will include those characters we know and love, like Harry, Ron, Hermione, and a new quidditch captain, which is not Harry like in all stories. Well, keep reading and review to tell me if its worth being continued.
