A/N: I only have two things to say before I start typing chapter one *GASP!* so here they are!
Dslguy14 – thanx for the constructive criticism. Me an' Chels did write a LotR story (which REALLY needs to be posted…*hint hint, Chelsea!*) but it turned out…well, let's just say, wacky. It started as a serious and romantic story (blech) and turned out into all out madness, thanks mostly to Chelsea and our friend Adele lol. And your comment about introducing new characters? Well, there are…wait, lemme count *pauses to count on finger* TWO new characters in this very short chapter that was written by Chelsea (grumbles for the shortness) and there are definitely more to come and there is a guarantee about the twists in the plot…hehehe….
Oh, and sorry about the coke. ^_^
Chelsea – I was never done with chapter one, ur the one who wrote it, smart one!!!
Chapter One: The Necklace
By: Chelsea
The Dursley house at number 4, Privet Drive was deathly silent as Harry Potter crept down the stairs towards the kitchen. As he skipped over the creaky stair at the bottom, he rubbed his lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. It was still stinging from the nightmare he had been having earlier.
Nightmares were nothing to Harry, in fact, they seemed almost a part of everyday life now. It was the recurring ones that worried him. For few weeks after school, there were the ones about Sirius. He hated those ones. But those ones stopped a few weeks ago. Now, he was having a new one. One that seemingly had nothing to do with Harry. And this one had been going on every night for two weeks.
Harry made his way to the refrigerator, taking his fingers off the prickling scar. He opened the fridge, quickly flicking off the light with his other hand. He took a container of strawberries and a pitcher of water and sat down to eat at the wooden table a few feet away.
"There's nothing like cold water and strawberries on a summer's night," he muttered and he bit down into a particularly plump strawberry.
As he sat eating, he reflected in the nightmare as he had done so many other nights before.
It took place in an old kingdom which he did not recognize (A/N: Chels, how could he? I mean, has he been to an old kingdom lately? Sorry, everybody. It's just me being technical), yet it felt all too familiar (A/N: I'm not gonna say a word.) Though the details were fuzzy, he remembered this: It was a story of a beautiful princess, who was loved by a wealthy man, but, for some strange reason, the Princess killed the man who truly loved her, and Harry always woke up with a severe headache after dreaming this odd dream.
"It sounds like something out of a whacked-out fairy tale, that's what it sounds like," Harry murmured to himself sarcastically. He put his head in his hands and groaned softly, then felt a rush of air by his neck and then something cold – so cold that it made him jump – touch his arm. He looked down and found something dangling from his neck he was sure hadn't been there just a second before. (A/N: Okay, this is my last one in this chapter, but this is important. They way Chels first wrote this had me all confused. Now I'm not gonna give anything way yet, till the end of the chapter when you know what hit Harry's arm and everything, but the way she wrote it, even a genius couldn't figure out what it was. No 'fense, Chels. Hehe.)
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Kaida Chang tossed in her bed, knowing she wasn't going to go back to sleep anyway. But apparently tossing and turning for five minutes gave her pleasure (A/N: What kind of a person gets pleasure from tossing and turning? Sorry, last one! Continue, please [and that was an order, not a request!!!].), because that's exactly what she did.
Finally, she sat up, rubbed her eyes, put her thin, wire-rimmed glasses on, and looked around her room.
The room she shared with her cousin Cho was messy (nothing new there) but sort of organized (A/N: Ahh, sounds like my room! Dang it, I did it again!)
Cho's steady breathing above Kaida told her that she was sleeping soundly in her bed. Kaida quietly got out of bed and silently crept over to the floor and past the dresser, when something caught her eye. A thin silver chain, and dangling from it, a golden orb, surrounded by this bronze rings was hanging in mid air above the dresser.
Kaida picked up the necklace and a surge of power spread from her fingertips throughout her body.
"Whoa," she muttered as she clasped the necklace and started out the door.
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Mercedes Lupin woke up with a sweat dripping down her face. After a few deep breaths, she realized that it was only the nightmare again. The nightmare she'd been having for two weeks. The black-haired beauty sighed and pushed a curl behind one ear. Out of instinct, she brought a hand to her heart, and, with a jolt, noticed a necklace. A necklace that hadn't been there when she had went to sleep last night.
She looked down at the necklace. It was a blood-red orb – a perfect circle, and surrounding it were various bronze (bronze, not BRASS, Chelsea!!!) rings. It was beautiful, yet terrifying in the same way. And Mercedes when soon find out why.
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Harry looked down at the black sphere dangling from the silver chain around his neck. The necklace was very girly-looking, but it was pretty cool because of the thin bronze rings circling the ball. He unclasped it from his neck (with some technical difficulty), put the water and strawberries away, and then snuck back upstairs to his bedroom, pondering about the mysterious necklace.
Where had it come from and why him? He had no doubt that it was a magical act, and not one of a muggle. But who would give him a necklace that looked as if it belonged to a girl? Harry's thoughts wafted around the inexplicable piece of jewelry as he drifted off to sleep.
A/N: Sorry for all the interruptions, I just couldn't help myself!!! And, up there when it said "He had no doubt, etc," I was soooo tempted to put "lol, that's a band!" but I didn't, thank goodness.
Now, about my second interruption. You all now know that what hit Harry's arm was the necklace; you were supposed to figure it out when you first read the thing. But I, being the dumb ass that I am, could not figure it out! Chels was spendin' the night at my house, and she had just written that section, and I couldn't figure what the thing was. At breakfast (which was, like, an hour later), I asked her again and she said "Look at the title of that chapter, Raven!" And I was like, "That doesn't help!" But, after a few more tries to get the answer, she still said that and I figured out that the necklace hit Harry's arm. Oh my GOD, did I feel stupid. Now, I don't want my readers to feel that way (if you do, well that's not really my problem, its Chelsea's, so go complain to her), in fact, I want them to laugh at my stupidity and thank the Lord that they aren't as dumb as me.
Oh, and one more thing. If you review now, you just might get that Vanilla Coke I promised last chapter.
Okay, so I lied, but review anyway!!!!!
