Kings Cross Station was bustling with people. The Souma family arrived in several cars, and unloaded their trunks onto trolleys before they looked at their tickets.
"What's the platform number?" Hatori asked Ayame who was looking at his ticket.
"Nine and three quarters," Aya said. "The train leaves at 11 o'clock sharp so we had better get over there right away."
"What kind of fool are you?" Akito hissed. "There is no platform nine and three quarters." The gray eyed head of the family looked as if his temper was about to snap.
Hatori quickly interjected, protecting the snake from the rain of blows that was about to come showering down on him. "What's the real platform number?" he asked.
Aya, oblivious to the danger his light comments were placing him in, responded flippantly. "I told you, it's nine and three quarters." For emphsis he flipped his silvery hair.
"Let me see that!" Yuki snapped. He pulled the ticket out of his older brother's hands and quickly avoided being hugged by the silver haired boy.
He stared at the ticket, his violet eyes wide, and the ticket stared back at him. The platform number was reading nine and three quarters. At first he couldn't believe the ticket, then a suspicion grew in the pit of his stomach. Aya had rigged the ticket to say what it said.
"Well, what's it say, you damm rat?" Kyou demanded impatiently as several little girls walked by giggling at him.
Before Yuki could respond, Tohru spoke up. "Well, my ticket says nine and three quarters too," she said. "Maybe we should ask for directions from someone . . ." she started towards a uniformed man.
"Wait one second. It's probably the same as Diagon Alley," Uotani said.
"You mean?" Momiji said. He had his wand in his hand and was heading towards the ticket vendor between platforms nine and ten. The look on his face said that he wanted to tap the walls with his wand.
Kyou hit him in the head. "Put that away," he said stiffly.
"WAhhhhhhhhhh! Kyou's picking on me," Momiji wailed.
Tohru put her arm around him to shield him from view. "It's okay, he's just trying to help," she told Kyou. "You shouldn't be so mean to him."
"Yeah! Tohru-kun likes me!" Momiji exclaimed happily and moved to give her a hug.
Hatori absently reached out and caught him by his collar, pulling him back from the brunnete.
"So then the platform is nine and three quarter, is it?" Akito said softly. "Find it, and find it now." He would never admit it, but he was getting lightheaded from standing for so long without pause.
The Souma's split up and tried to find the missing platform, all of them moving discreetly, but by 10: 49 they still hadn't found anything. "I'm going to - " Hatori began to say, but his words were lost as the others arrived.
Shigure along with Kisa, Hana, and Haru had come in the second vehicle. Because Haru had gotten lost in the hotel lobby, and it had taken Hana forty-five minutes to find him. They had all of their stuff on trolleys.
"What seems to be the problem here?" Shigure asked brightly.
"We can't find the platform," Yuki answered shortly. After looking for the correct platform for a little over an hour he, along with several of the others, was grumpy. Momiji, Tohru, and Aya were still as bright and chipper as usual.
Kisa raised her hand timidly. "It's the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Just walk through it. Potter-san said that it would be best to take things at a run if your nervous."
"Who's Potter-san?" Tohru asked. "When did you talk to him?"
"In Diagon Alley. He helped me find my stuff and told me about the platform. He said that - "
Momiji didn't need to hear anymore. "Come on Tohru," he said. He burst into a run pushing his trolley and dragging Tohru and her trolley.
They hit the barrier and vanished from sight.
Akito nodded, deciding that because he was light headed and needed to find the barrier, Kisa could be excused for not telling him about meeting a wizard earlier. "We don't have enough time to go in solo, so we'll move in groups. Haru, you're with me. Let's go."
The ox started at the mention of his name, then cursed silently as he realized that he was going to be with Akito again. They both moved through the barrier and dissappeared from sight.
Uotani and Hana went next. "Why waste any more time? Hana asked. She didn't run through the barrier at all. Calmly, she strolled over and walked through with the Yanki on her heels. They vanished from sight.
Kagura grabbed Kyou's arm. "We're going through together," she said and ducked through with the cat on her heels. Kyou could be heard cursing softly as they went through, but not wanting to cause a disturbence in the train station he kept from protesting.
"Aya, why don't you and Shigure go through next?" Hatori asked.
Shigure and Aya looked at each other and grinned. "Let's go," they shouted. "Together we will burst through all barriers!"
"Come with me Aya."
"But of curse ''Gure-san!"
"With you by my side I'm unbeatable!" Shigure said.
They both gave each other the thumbs up sign and laughed.
In the meantime, Yuki had walked through by himself. "Those idiots. . . . . ." he could be heard muttering.
"Kisa, you should - " Hatori started to say, but at that moment, Aya bumped into a woman and was turned into a snake. Fortunently not many people noticed.
Hatori quickly approached the lady and made her forget about the incident along with several other people who had seen the transformation.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
With Aya and Shigure causing such a big fuss, Kisa slipped out to the car and returned with the Fire Tiger on her heels. She quickly slipped past the barrier, pushing her trolley in front of her.
A bright red train met her eyes. She quickly headed to the last compartment and tried to shove her chest into the proper place.
"Oi, you're taking him to school!" Ron exclaimed. He caught a corner of her trunk and helped Harry heave it into the storage compartment.
Kisa nodded. "Of course. The letter said that we could bright a cat." She had thought a lot about how to get her tiger to the school and that had been the loop hole that she needed.
Harry and Ron exchanged looks quickly. "They said that you can have a cat, but I think that they rather were hoping that you would have a house sized cat not a tiger," Hermonione explained.
Kisa blinked her eyes and laughed, surprising herself. "I think so too, but I couldn't leave him behind. He wanted to come, and I can get around that rule if I try hard enough," she said.
"Did you give him a name yet?" Harry asked. He was fingering his sleeve nervously and thinking. ** She's going to get along great with Hagrid. They have the same passion**
The small girl nodded vigorously. "I've decided to name him Frost," she said happily. "It suits him, don't you think?"
"Not really, no," Ron said. "I think that he looks more like a stoked fire, but then if you like the name, then that's all that really matters, right?"
Kisa smiled brightly and nodded.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Haru followed Akito to the front of the train. The very first compartment. Then they stowed their stuff and sat down.
"Name's Draco Malfoy. Who might you two be?" a slick blond boy asked. He had a permeate sneer on his face or so it seemed.
Haru didn't like him at all and quickly toned the boy out. He really didn't want to go black in front of Akito. It was always hard to say exactely what Black would be up to.
Akito on the other hand decided that he was going to make conversation. "Akito Souma," he said. "This is Hatsuharu, he's my cousin."
Haru grunted a reply, but only distantly.
"Well, this is Crabble and Goyle," Malfoy said. He went on to introduce several others. "So, which house to you think you'll be sorted into?" he asked several minutes later.
"House?" Haru asked. He tuned into the conversation in time to hear the words house. "What do you mean by sorted into?" he asked. "If you mean that we'll get branded you got another thing coming!"
Before either Akito or Malfoy could say anything, Haru's question was answered.
"There are apparently four houses, and while your at Hogwarst you will live in one of the houses and the people there will be like family for you!" Shigure said loudly.
"I just know that I'm going to be in Slytherian. It's got a snake for a symbol, how could I not be there!" Aya asked brilliantly. He spun around flamboyantly.
Haru tuned the conversation out again. It was just like a dorm room at a college. He didn't have to worry about that any. He had been worried about being penned like an animal.
"What took you three so long?" Akito demanded coldly. He turned his attention away from Malfoy and towards the green eyed boy who had just climbed into the compartment.
"We had a little bit of an accident in the station. I took care of it," Hatori said.
Akito nodded and then turned back to his conversation with Malfoy. Shigure and Aya began to write names down on a piece of paper.
Hatori didn't bother to ask what the list was for. He already knew. They had a list throughout high school for all the people that they wanted to play jokes on. He was willing to bet that the same thing was true for Hogwarts.
"Oi, what are you two doing?" Malfoy demanded. He hadn't returned to his previous conversation with the head of the Souma family yet.
"Hmmmmmm?" Aya said looking up. He had been drawing snakes twisted like hearts at the top of his blank list.
"I asked what you're doing?" Malfoy reapeat, irratation in his voice.
"I'm imagining what it's going to be like in Sytherian house," Aya said. "Do you think Yuki will have the same house as me?" he added, looking at Shigure.
"You say that you'll be a Slytherian? I doubt it. You're not smart enough. Probably be a Hufflepuff. They're realy stupid, although not as stupid as those Gryffindors, and you're brother. . . . if he's anything like you, he'll be the same," Malfoy said coldly.
Having someone like Aya in his house wasn't something that he wanted to happen at all.
Shigure smiled offered his hand to Malfoy. "Shigure Souma, what's your name?" he asked brightly.
"Draco Malfoy. . . . . .why?" he asked, looking at Shigure's offered hand in disgust.
The inu only smiled and wrote something at the top of his list. A single name, Draco Malfoy.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Yuki sank into a chair and closed his eyes. His whole world was swimming. He felt rather light headed all of a sudden, and he couldn't explain why. He was having a hard time breathing.
It was probably a combined effect of spending the night sharing a room with Haru and Akito and the difficult time they had finding the train.
He sighed heavily. Just pulling air in and out of his lungs was painful. He passed out.
And there was a POOF. He transformed into a rat due to too much stress.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Tohru and Momiji waited for Hana and Uotani then they packed their trunks into the storage compartments and found a place to sit.
The train started to move away from London rapidly. Momiji bounced around happily chatting with Tohru.
"This is so much fun!" Momiji chirped. On his shoulder he had a fluffy white bunny rabbit. He had decided that instead of a cat, owl, or toad he was going to have a bunny. "It suits me best!" he explained.
"What will you call her?" Tohru asked.
"Momichihi!" Momiji had exclaimed. It was his nickname, and he decided to name it after himself.
"I think that this bunny is pregnant," Uotani said.
"It's electric signals are pointing to that," Hana said.
"That's great!" Tohru exclaimed happily.
Just then the door opened and a plump witch came in pushing a cart with snacks on it towards them. "Would you children like some snacks?" she asked.
"Would we ever!" Momiji exclaimed. He quickly bought several armfuls of candies and chocolates.
Then they were tearing into the packages. "Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans," Hana said. She was holding the package in her hands.
"Let me try one!" Momiji exclaimed. He popped one of the beans in his mouth. "Yeah! It's carrot flavored!" he cheered.
"Chocolate frogs. . . . . ." Tohru said. She opened the package and a frog leaped out. "AHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!!!!" she screamed.
The door was flung open and Kyou charged in. "Tohru, what's wrong?" he demanded. Kagura was right behind him. They had been searching the train for the onigiri since the train had left the station. The car that they were in was the second from the last and both had began to worry that Tohru had accidentally gotten lost and missed the train.
"The frog moved," Tohru explained nervously as soon as she found her voice.
Kyou looked around, but didn't see any frogs. He looked away, his eyes falling on what looked like a package of jelly beans. "May I?" he asked, his stomach rumbling painfully with hunger.
Momiji smiled and tossed him the package. "Try one, they're really good."
Kagura sat down beside Tohru and Uotani. "Can I have one of the chocolate frogs?" she asked. She had leaned foreword and read the package name.
"Just be careful, they seem to move," Tohru said, still slightly shaken from her experience with the frog.
"If it tries to escape, I'll fry it with electric waves," Hana spookily promised. Tohru laughed lightly and handed Kagura a package.
The boar opened it up, and immediately the frog started to leap away. It was fried just as quickly. "There," Hana said quietly. "Now you can eat it."
Kagura pushed the package away from her and turned towards some of the other sweets. The electrically fried frog suddenly lost it's appeal.
A gagging sound behind them drew their attention to Kyou. "Leeks! It tastes like leeks!" he wailed. He was scraping one of the Bertie Botts every flavor beans off the roof of his mouth and his tongue.
Momiji started to laugh, and the others followed suit. No one paid any attention to the electrically melted frog.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
On the way to the bathroom, Haru spotted Yuki. He looked around quickly, noting that nobody seemed to have noticed the young boy's transformation.
He quickly gathered the rat and the clothes up and headed off in search of Hatori.
While Hatori was looking over Yuki, Akito was having an argument with Malfoy. The snotty blond haired boy had said something about Haru being stupid after he had left, and the head of the family had taken it personally.
Just as they were about to come to blows there was an explosion. Under the cover of the smoke that resulted from Yuki turning back into a human, Aya and Shigure played their first joke.
When the smoke cleared they were no where to be found. Yuki was dressed and being treated in human form by Hatori. Akito was laughing lightly and Haru had fallen asleep.
Of course Malfoy's hair had tiny beetles beaded in it, and a unicorn horn was sticking out from the middle of his forehead.
He tried to pull it off, but it was stuck with super glue. Because magic didn't work well on unicorns, spells would also prove difficult to preform to get it off.
Aya and Shigure high fived each other outside the door. There first joke had been performed. Now Malfoy had to attend the opening ceremonies looking like a beetle horned freak.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
A loud voice boomed over the loud speakers. "We'll be arriving Hogwarts in five minutes. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately."
Kisa blinked worriedly. "Potter-san, do you think that you could take Frost to the school for me? He gets frightened if I leave him alone for too long."
Harry gulped, but agreed to watch the giant Fire Tiger for the young girl. "Only if you think he'll behave," he warned. "I don't want to get into trouble."
"Frost'll behave," Kisa promised and whispered several things to her tiger. He slowly turned and walked over to Harry.
The train slowed right down, and finally it stopped. People pushed their way out of the train and onto a tiny, dark platform. Kisa shivered with the cold night air.
Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students, and she heard a familiar voice. "Firs' years! Firs' years over here! How you doing there Kisa?" Hagrid asked. "Harry, Ron, Hermione," he added a quick greeting for his young friends.
"C'mom and follow me," he boomed. "Firs' years follow me!"
The Souma's all gathered together and followed Hagrid down the path that led to the lake. "No more then four people per boat!" Hagrid called out. He pointed to a fleet of little boats that was floating in the water.
Tohru, Hana, Uotani, and Momiji all climbed into a boat together. Shigure, Aya, Hatori, and a boy that they didn't know got into the next boat. Kagura, Kyou, Yuki, and Kisa all rode across in one boat. Akito and Haru were in the same boat which pissed Haru off a lot, but not enough to make him go Black.
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan
"What's the platform number?" Hatori asked Ayame who was looking at his ticket.
"Nine and three quarters," Aya said. "The train leaves at 11 o'clock sharp so we had better get over there right away."
"What kind of fool are you?" Akito hissed. "There is no platform nine and three quarters." The gray eyed head of the family looked as if his temper was about to snap.
Hatori quickly interjected, protecting the snake from the rain of blows that was about to come showering down on him. "What's the real platform number?" he asked.
Aya, oblivious to the danger his light comments were placing him in, responded flippantly. "I told you, it's nine and three quarters." For emphsis he flipped his silvery hair.
"Let me see that!" Yuki snapped. He pulled the ticket out of his older brother's hands and quickly avoided being hugged by the silver haired boy.
He stared at the ticket, his violet eyes wide, and the ticket stared back at him. The platform number was reading nine and three quarters. At first he couldn't believe the ticket, then a suspicion grew in the pit of his stomach. Aya had rigged the ticket to say what it said.
"Well, what's it say, you damm rat?" Kyou demanded impatiently as several little girls walked by giggling at him.
Before Yuki could respond, Tohru spoke up. "Well, my ticket says nine and three quarters too," she said. "Maybe we should ask for directions from someone . . ." she started towards a uniformed man.
"Wait one second. It's probably the same as Diagon Alley," Uotani said.
"You mean?" Momiji said. He had his wand in his hand and was heading towards the ticket vendor between platforms nine and ten. The look on his face said that he wanted to tap the walls with his wand.
Kyou hit him in the head. "Put that away," he said stiffly.
"WAhhhhhhhhhh! Kyou's picking on me," Momiji wailed.
Tohru put her arm around him to shield him from view. "It's okay, he's just trying to help," she told Kyou. "You shouldn't be so mean to him."
"Yeah! Tohru-kun likes me!" Momiji exclaimed happily and moved to give her a hug.
Hatori absently reached out and caught him by his collar, pulling him back from the brunnete.
"So then the platform is nine and three quarter, is it?" Akito said softly. "Find it, and find it now." He would never admit it, but he was getting lightheaded from standing for so long without pause.
The Souma's split up and tried to find the missing platform, all of them moving discreetly, but by 10: 49 they still hadn't found anything. "I'm going to - " Hatori began to say, but his words were lost as the others arrived.
Shigure along with Kisa, Hana, and Haru had come in the second vehicle. Because Haru had gotten lost in the hotel lobby, and it had taken Hana forty-five minutes to find him. They had all of their stuff on trolleys.
"What seems to be the problem here?" Shigure asked brightly.
"We can't find the platform," Yuki answered shortly. After looking for the correct platform for a little over an hour he, along with several of the others, was grumpy. Momiji, Tohru, and Aya were still as bright and chipper as usual.
Kisa raised her hand timidly. "It's the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Just walk through it. Potter-san said that it would be best to take things at a run if your nervous."
"Who's Potter-san?" Tohru asked. "When did you talk to him?"
"In Diagon Alley. He helped me find my stuff and told me about the platform. He said that - "
Momiji didn't need to hear anymore. "Come on Tohru," he said. He burst into a run pushing his trolley and dragging Tohru and her trolley.
They hit the barrier and vanished from sight.
Akito nodded, deciding that because he was light headed and needed to find the barrier, Kisa could be excused for not telling him about meeting a wizard earlier. "We don't have enough time to go in solo, so we'll move in groups. Haru, you're with me. Let's go."
The ox started at the mention of his name, then cursed silently as he realized that he was going to be with Akito again. They both moved through the barrier and dissappeared from sight.
Uotani and Hana went next. "Why waste any more time? Hana asked. She didn't run through the barrier at all. Calmly, she strolled over and walked through with the Yanki on her heels. They vanished from sight.
Kagura grabbed Kyou's arm. "We're going through together," she said and ducked through with the cat on her heels. Kyou could be heard cursing softly as they went through, but not wanting to cause a disturbence in the train station he kept from protesting.
"Aya, why don't you and Shigure go through next?" Hatori asked.
Shigure and Aya looked at each other and grinned. "Let's go," they shouted. "Together we will burst through all barriers!"
"Come with me Aya."
"But of curse ''Gure-san!"
"With you by my side I'm unbeatable!" Shigure said.
They both gave each other the thumbs up sign and laughed.
In the meantime, Yuki had walked through by himself. "Those idiots. . . . . ." he could be heard muttering.
"Kisa, you should - " Hatori started to say, but at that moment, Aya bumped into a woman and was turned into a snake. Fortunently not many people noticed.
Hatori quickly approached the lady and made her forget about the incident along with several other people who had seen the transformation.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
With Aya and Shigure causing such a big fuss, Kisa slipped out to the car and returned with the Fire Tiger on her heels. She quickly slipped past the barrier, pushing her trolley in front of her.
A bright red train met her eyes. She quickly headed to the last compartment and tried to shove her chest into the proper place.
"Oi, you're taking him to school!" Ron exclaimed. He caught a corner of her trunk and helped Harry heave it into the storage compartment.
Kisa nodded. "Of course. The letter said that we could bright a cat." She had thought a lot about how to get her tiger to the school and that had been the loop hole that she needed.
Harry and Ron exchanged looks quickly. "They said that you can have a cat, but I think that they rather were hoping that you would have a house sized cat not a tiger," Hermonione explained.
Kisa blinked her eyes and laughed, surprising herself. "I think so too, but I couldn't leave him behind. He wanted to come, and I can get around that rule if I try hard enough," she said.
"Did you give him a name yet?" Harry asked. He was fingering his sleeve nervously and thinking. ** She's going to get along great with Hagrid. They have the same passion**
The small girl nodded vigorously. "I've decided to name him Frost," she said happily. "It suits him, don't you think?"
"Not really, no," Ron said. "I think that he looks more like a stoked fire, but then if you like the name, then that's all that really matters, right?"
Kisa smiled brightly and nodded.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Haru followed Akito to the front of the train. The very first compartment. Then they stowed their stuff and sat down.
"Name's Draco Malfoy. Who might you two be?" a slick blond boy asked. He had a permeate sneer on his face or so it seemed.
Haru didn't like him at all and quickly toned the boy out. He really didn't want to go black in front of Akito. It was always hard to say exactely what Black would be up to.
Akito on the other hand decided that he was going to make conversation. "Akito Souma," he said. "This is Hatsuharu, he's my cousin."
Haru grunted a reply, but only distantly.
"Well, this is Crabble and Goyle," Malfoy said. He went on to introduce several others. "So, which house to you think you'll be sorted into?" he asked several minutes later.
"House?" Haru asked. He tuned into the conversation in time to hear the words house. "What do you mean by sorted into?" he asked. "If you mean that we'll get branded you got another thing coming!"
Before either Akito or Malfoy could say anything, Haru's question was answered.
"There are apparently four houses, and while your at Hogwarst you will live in one of the houses and the people there will be like family for you!" Shigure said loudly.
"I just know that I'm going to be in Slytherian. It's got a snake for a symbol, how could I not be there!" Aya asked brilliantly. He spun around flamboyantly.
Haru tuned the conversation out again. It was just like a dorm room at a college. He didn't have to worry about that any. He had been worried about being penned like an animal.
"What took you three so long?" Akito demanded coldly. He turned his attention away from Malfoy and towards the green eyed boy who had just climbed into the compartment.
"We had a little bit of an accident in the station. I took care of it," Hatori said.
Akito nodded and then turned back to his conversation with Malfoy. Shigure and Aya began to write names down on a piece of paper.
Hatori didn't bother to ask what the list was for. He already knew. They had a list throughout high school for all the people that they wanted to play jokes on. He was willing to bet that the same thing was true for Hogwarts.
"Oi, what are you two doing?" Malfoy demanded. He hadn't returned to his previous conversation with the head of the Souma family yet.
"Hmmmmmm?" Aya said looking up. He had been drawing snakes twisted like hearts at the top of his blank list.
"I asked what you're doing?" Malfoy reapeat, irratation in his voice.
"I'm imagining what it's going to be like in Sytherian house," Aya said. "Do you think Yuki will have the same house as me?" he added, looking at Shigure.
"You say that you'll be a Slytherian? I doubt it. You're not smart enough. Probably be a Hufflepuff. They're realy stupid, although not as stupid as those Gryffindors, and you're brother. . . . if he's anything like you, he'll be the same," Malfoy said coldly.
Having someone like Aya in his house wasn't something that he wanted to happen at all.
Shigure smiled offered his hand to Malfoy. "Shigure Souma, what's your name?" he asked brightly.
"Draco Malfoy. . . . . .why?" he asked, looking at Shigure's offered hand in disgust.
The inu only smiled and wrote something at the top of his list. A single name, Draco Malfoy.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Yuki sank into a chair and closed his eyes. His whole world was swimming. He felt rather light headed all of a sudden, and he couldn't explain why. He was having a hard time breathing.
It was probably a combined effect of spending the night sharing a room with Haru and Akito and the difficult time they had finding the train.
He sighed heavily. Just pulling air in and out of his lungs was painful. He passed out.
And there was a POOF. He transformed into a rat due to too much stress.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
Tohru and Momiji waited for Hana and Uotani then they packed their trunks into the storage compartments and found a place to sit.
The train started to move away from London rapidly. Momiji bounced around happily chatting with Tohru.
"This is so much fun!" Momiji chirped. On his shoulder he had a fluffy white bunny rabbit. He had decided that instead of a cat, owl, or toad he was going to have a bunny. "It suits me best!" he explained.
"What will you call her?" Tohru asked.
"Momichihi!" Momiji had exclaimed. It was his nickname, and he decided to name it after himself.
"I think that this bunny is pregnant," Uotani said.
"It's electric signals are pointing to that," Hana said.
"That's great!" Tohru exclaimed happily.
Just then the door opened and a plump witch came in pushing a cart with snacks on it towards them. "Would you children like some snacks?" she asked.
"Would we ever!" Momiji exclaimed. He quickly bought several armfuls of candies and chocolates.
Then they were tearing into the packages. "Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans," Hana said. She was holding the package in her hands.
"Let me try one!" Momiji exclaimed. He popped one of the beans in his mouth. "Yeah! It's carrot flavored!" he cheered.
"Chocolate frogs. . . . . ." Tohru said. She opened the package and a frog leaped out. "AHHHHHHHHHHhh!!!!!!!!!" she screamed.
The door was flung open and Kyou charged in. "Tohru, what's wrong?" he demanded. Kagura was right behind him. They had been searching the train for the onigiri since the train had left the station. The car that they were in was the second from the last and both had began to worry that Tohru had accidentally gotten lost and missed the train.
"The frog moved," Tohru explained nervously as soon as she found her voice.
Kyou looked around, but didn't see any frogs. He looked away, his eyes falling on what looked like a package of jelly beans. "May I?" he asked, his stomach rumbling painfully with hunger.
Momiji smiled and tossed him the package. "Try one, they're really good."
Kagura sat down beside Tohru and Uotani. "Can I have one of the chocolate frogs?" she asked. She had leaned foreword and read the package name.
"Just be careful, they seem to move," Tohru said, still slightly shaken from her experience with the frog.
"If it tries to escape, I'll fry it with electric waves," Hana spookily promised. Tohru laughed lightly and handed Kagura a package.
The boar opened it up, and immediately the frog started to leap away. It was fried just as quickly. "There," Hana said quietly. "Now you can eat it."
Kagura pushed the package away from her and turned towards some of the other sweets. The electrically fried frog suddenly lost it's appeal.
A gagging sound behind them drew their attention to Kyou. "Leeks! It tastes like leeks!" he wailed. He was scraping one of the Bertie Botts every flavor beans off the roof of his mouth and his tongue.
Momiji started to laugh, and the others followed suit. No one paid any attention to the electrically melted frog.
** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **
On the way to the bathroom, Haru spotted Yuki. He looked around quickly, noting that nobody seemed to have noticed the young boy's transformation.
He quickly gathered the rat and the clothes up and headed off in search of Hatori.
While Hatori was looking over Yuki, Akito was having an argument with Malfoy. The snotty blond haired boy had said something about Haru being stupid after he had left, and the head of the family had taken it personally.
Just as they were about to come to blows there was an explosion. Under the cover of the smoke that resulted from Yuki turning back into a human, Aya and Shigure played their first joke.
When the smoke cleared they were no where to be found. Yuki was dressed and being treated in human form by Hatori. Akito was laughing lightly and Haru had fallen asleep.
Of course Malfoy's hair had tiny beetles beaded in it, and a unicorn horn was sticking out from the middle of his forehead.
He tried to pull it off, but it was stuck with super glue. Because magic didn't work well on unicorns, spells would also prove difficult to preform to get it off.
Aya and Shigure high fived each other outside the door. There first joke had been performed. Now Malfoy had to attend the opening ceremonies looking like a beetle horned freak.
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A loud voice boomed over the loud speakers. "We'll be arriving Hogwarts in five minutes. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately."
Kisa blinked worriedly. "Potter-san, do you think that you could take Frost to the school for me? He gets frightened if I leave him alone for too long."
Harry gulped, but agreed to watch the giant Fire Tiger for the young girl. "Only if you think he'll behave," he warned. "I don't want to get into trouble."
"Frost'll behave," Kisa promised and whispered several things to her tiger. He slowly turned and walked over to Harry.
The train slowed right down, and finally it stopped. People pushed their way out of the train and onto a tiny, dark platform. Kisa shivered with the cold night air.
Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students, and she heard a familiar voice. "Firs' years! Firs' years over here! How you doing there Kisa?" Hagrid asked. "Harry, Ron, Hermione," he added a quick greeting for his young friends.
"C'mom and follow me," he boomed. "Firs' years follow me!"
The Souma's all gathered together and followed Hagrid down the path that led to the lake. "No more then four people per boat!" Hagrid called out. He pointed to a fleet of little boats that was floating in the water.
Tohru, Hana, Uotani, and Momiji all climbed into a boat together. Shigure, Aya, Hatori, and a boy that they didn't know got into the next boat. Kagura, Kyou, Yuki, and Kisa all rode across in one boat. Akito and Haru were in the same boat which pissed Haru off a lot, but not enough to make him go Black.
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan