Inklings of Celebrity
Chapter Four: Up, Up and Away
A/N: ^_^ Sorry about mixing up the flying teacher! Sorry if I screw up some terms and stuff. Also, Folken is Professor deFanel because he's just altered his name a bit. Also, some people from Esca & HP weren't always given a character. This is great for me, the author, because I will give them a personality. BTW, I'm passing Selena off as being really pretty, no idea if she is or not. But if her brother was, then there's a good chance she is.
The first day of school was a cheery September morning. The sun shone persistently, but not too hard, while the breeze was invigorating. The students were all eager to get out onto the Quidditch field, which they used for flying practice. Harry was clutching his prized Firebolt, which many rich students also had with them. The Gaeans were looking dubiously at their Nimbus 2000s, which were just sticks with twigs sticking out from them.
Before the teacher arrived, a group of male Gryffindor students walked up to Dilandau. They had arrived in June and had been enrolled at Hogwarts. Both Dilandau and Selena recognized them, and were ecstatic.
Hey, Dilandau, your wish the other day did come true, or at least part of it has!
How did Viole, Shesta, Gatti, Dalet and Guimel get here?
Who cares, at least they're alive! While Selena and Dilandau were talking about it, Van was very scared. He had killed the Dragon Slayers, after all, and his last memories of them were not pleasant, as they had been...DEAD. Hitomi noticed this, and went over to cajole Van into believing that a few Dragon Slayers had just been replaced that day.
This was, in fact, very close to the truth. The five Dragon Slayers had gotten the same odd letters as the other three had, and had paid Doppelgangers to replace them for a long while. The Doppelgangers apparently held on to their false identity even after death.
Dilandau had started to talk to the Slayers, who had given him that explanation. Selena came over, and decided to tell them about their leader's experimentation, "Dilandau was born from the Zaibach scientists, and placed into me, where he dominated and had his own body replacing mine. I've been in him for ten years."
There was a stunned silence between them, then Gatti spoke, "Is that why he always had to go to the scientists?" The two shrugged; Dilandau had never known what they had done to him there, as they'd knocked him out first. Selena then spied Van, who was still a wreck, and went over to tell her friend the odd turn of events, calming him down tremendously.
That was when Madame Hooch, their flying teacher, arrived. She gave a brief explanation to the new students, and a review to the others. Then? The class flew, one at a time. Van was used to flying, since he flew Escaflowne and had wings. Flying came naturally to him.
However, he still felt a tremor of fear as he got on his skinny broomstick. He wasn't afraid of falling, as he'd just fly with his wings, but he was afraid that he wouldn't be good at it, and prove his lack of magical talent. But as soon as he touched the broom, he felt a rush of confidence, and when his turn came to fly, he flew on the broomstick as if he were a bird, or part of the sky itself.
The class gasped to see such superior flying, and Madame Hooch started to think of adding him to the Gryffindor Quidditch team; the Weasley twins had been kicked off for bad behavior. Meanwhile, Van was having fun up in the air, twirling a few loops every now and then for fun. Folken, watching from his office window, smiled. He decided that he would try to learn how to fly on broomstick, it looked like fun.
When Van came down, flushed and smiling, the teacher spoke to him of Quidditch. Harry was somewhat surprised at Van's flying; he thought that Van would probably take over his place as Seeker. The Quidditch Cup was once again in place for Harry's fifth year, and he wanted to win.
Selena went next, followed by Dilandau. They were also good fliers, owing to the Zaibach flying guymelefs. Most of the Gryffindors were very surprised at this, since the new students had said they'd never flown before. In fact, Selena herself was surprised at her flying, expecting to fall off any second.
After their flying class, Selena and Dilandau had Divination, with the eclectic Professor Trelawney. The way to her classroom-apartment was very confusing, as it involved a trapdoor. The two had to just reached the top. Here Professor Trelawney scared Selena out of her wits and making her fall out the trapdoor by suddenly appearing out of the smoke and mist in the Divination class.
Most of the class laughed at this, but Selena gave them an evil glare, stopping them in a few seconds, when she'd gotten into the class again. She sat as far away from the door as she could, beckoning for Dilandau to sit with her on a puffy lump, probably a chair, near the window. Viole and Dalet, who both were in the class, joined them. This made some girls very annoyed that Selena had three good-looking guys sitting with her, completely at ease, when they had been working on the Dragon Slayers for a long time, who still didn't even notice them.
Professor Trelawnley stared hard at the two silver-headed Gryffindors, but her mind made a strange connection... there was only one of them. She blinked hard, and walked over to her two most devoted students, Parvati and Lavender. "My dears," she whispered, "Look closely at the new arrival. What do you see? Let your mind's eye take over."
Parvati and Lavender stared intently at the two laughing Gryffindors, but saw nothing odd. Their eyes blurred a bit, making the outline of the two look like one, but that was all. Lavender wondered exactly why this was, but said there was nothing out of the ordinary about it.
The Divination teacher started her lesson, talking about mind-reading. Of course, our favorite duo volunteered. Dilandau was going to choose a number between one and one million, then relay it to Selena, who was outside the class. He chose 927 645.2594 , just to make it more phenomenal.
When Selena came back into the class, she repeated the number, astonishing everyone around her. The lesson continued with Professor Trelawney asking them to pair up and try to have a conversation. Of course, Selena & Dilandau paired up, lying on two puffs on the ground and discussing their flying lesson earlier on. Dilandau had also been asked to the Quidditch team, but was wondering if he'd go or not, since Van was going. Selena, who hadn't the faintest idea of Quidditch, was urging him to go anyway.
At the end of the period, Harry Potter realized something; his death had not once been predicted. He thanked his lucky stars, then escaped before his death did happen to be predicted.
Van and Hitomi had been in Astronomy, which Van had to be dragged away from; he found Earth's constellations very interesting. Their next class was Potions, where Selena and Dilandau were, along with the Slytherins. Professor Snape had been in a foul mood that day, and when Van, with Hitomi by his side, came in, he decided to take it out on his new students by testing them.
"Hey, silver hair," he snarled, making both Selena and Dilandau look up from a desk by the window. This infuriated him, for some odd Snapey reason. "You by the window."
"Yes," asked Dilandau with one of his customary smirks.
"Who are you and what house are you in?"
"My name is Dilandau Albatou, and I am in Gryffindor," he replied, wondering what that fellow was up to. If he was going to pick on him, well, Dilandau had his sword with him, hidden under his robes.
"Ten points off Gryffindor for rudeness."
"You aren't a Gryffindor teacher, are you?"
"I happen to be a Slytherin. although it's not any of your business, young man."
Huh! He's calling me, the Diabolical Adonis, young man. "Oh, surprise. I thought you were taking points off yourself for a while there, and we wouldn't want that to happen, now would we?" If the Gryffindors hadn't been in fear of losing more points, they would have been cheering for Dilandau.
Snape closed his mouth with a snap. "Twenty more points off Gryffindor, and detention for a week."
Dilandau had never had a detention, let alone heard of one; too many Zaibachians had been afraid of him. He snickered, "I actually have no idea what the hell you're talking about, by the way." Even the Slytherins were enjoying themselves by then.
"It's a form of punishment, Albatou. You show up and I give you something to do." Snape was really disliking this albino freak, even more so than Harry Potter.
Dilandau was really amused to see this ugly fellow trying to discipline him. The most that had ever happened was a small reprieve from Folken whenever he obliterated a place. He decided to show up to see what a detention was like. The teacher was obviously too weak to whip him.
Dilandau carried a smirk on his face throughout the class, losing up to 70 points for his house. Of course, he still didn't know what points were, as Zaibach never used incentives or any 'psychological encouragement'. His classmates weren't very fond of him at this point, although Dilandau didn't really give. Only people that had been with him in his most dangerous times were important.
Like Selena. Although Dilandau had usually disliked her, he dug into his mind for companionship when bored or alone, in spite of this. In his older years, Dilandau was allowed to fight, and had been able to command the Dragon Slayers, and had never even thought of Selena. Until Van had scarred his perfect face. Now it was unblemished again, the way Selena had seen him when he was released. But when the scar formed, Selena was the one to live when Dilandau had sulked and brooded.
For about a day, anyway. That was why no Dragon Slayers had gotten abused. Selena had actually done well as him, not going out to find her fool brother or telling all on the Vione what happened to us. He wondered about the reason behind it. Maybe blackmail? No, Selena wasn't that type of person.
When they went down to lunch, Dilandau was especially nice to Selena.
A/N: Wow! My chapters are getting really long! Anyway, I'm thinking of doing this in the 1st person form ( I ), because I write better that way; or at least I think I do. Dilandau's definitely made his mark now in Hogwarts! Although Viole is the unknown Dragon Slayer, he'll have more prominence in this story. So will Ginny Weasley, Ron's sister, for that matter.