The First Challenge is Set
Everyone woke early next morning; the sun was shining through the window alighting their dorms and waking them as they pulled back the covers of their four poster beds. They all dressed and went down into the common room, where there were already quit a few people who had already had their breakfasts and some who were making their way downstairs.
Lily and Nissa walked into the common room together just as James and Sirius were coming down the stairs from their own dorm, closely followed by Remus.
"Morning all." James said brightly when he saw the two girls, and their new friends who were slowly walking behind them not wanting to be left behind and to get lost trying to find their way back down to the great hall.
"So ladies can we give you a hand in finding your way back down to the great hall?" Sirius asked Nissa as he put his arm around her shoulder.
Nissa looked at his arm around her shoulder, and then moved out from under it and smiled at him.
"I'm sure that we can find our way, but thanks." Nissa said pleasantly, and started to walk towards the portrait hole with Lily. But the other three girls didn't follow them they all looked up at Sirius and James and smiled at them, obviously wanting two good looking guys to show them instead of finding their own way down.
"You can help us, if you want too?" Natalie Halbert told him smiling.
Sirius looked at Nissa confused by her behaviour, and then looked back at James and Remus. James smiled at him making him feel more annoyed but Remus shrugged also wondering about her behaviour. And then it hit him, he turned back to the other three girls and smiled at them.
"Come on then, lets all go down together." Sirius said brightly and loudly.
James and Remus followed him as did the girls sticking close to them as they followed Nissa and Lily out of the common room. But Nissa hadn't done what Sirius had wanted her to, and that was to look back at him with the other girls. The only other person who had been interested in what was going on was Peter, who quickly followed them not wanting to be left behind or get lost on his first day.
They walked down stairs after stairs, behind tapsters and even more stairs, though it seemed as though Sirius was following them, and hadn't remembered the route at all. Though to everyone's surprise, Nissa had remembered and had lend them all down to the great hall. Though it did draw people's attention towards them considering that they had come in such a big group.
"You have a great memory." Lily said as she sat down next to her, and was helping herself to some bacon and eggs.
"You've got a great sense of direction." Natalie said as she sat down opposite them.
"Not that you lot weren't a great help as well." Ella Larson said as she looked at James and Sirius dreamily.
"Yeah of course." Sirius said as he sat down moodily next to Nissa, and ignored her as he and Remus helped themselves to bacon and egg as well.
"Can you pass me the button?" A small voice asked sat next to James.
They all looked round at him, which at this he went very red in the face. Sirius smiled at him and passed the button over to him.
"So you are?" Sirius asked.
"Peter." Peter answered in a small voice.
Nissa looked up and over at him, not really getting anything off of him, part from that he was very shy and nervous still. Nissa went back to eating just as Sirius was about to say something else Professor McGonagall handed them their time tables.
They all looked them over pulling faces as they got to some subjects.
"Hey, look at that. Thursday 12 o'clock at night north tower." Sirius told them.
"Why at night?" Peter asked.
"Well, you need the night sky to get a proper look at the stars." Nissa answered, before Remus could.
"Oh, right yeah." Peter said in an even smaller voice then before, and holding up his time table so that they couldn't see his face going bright red; but it was only a small piece of parchment and didn't cover up much.
"Star gazing... how romantic..." Ella said dreamily looking over at Sirius, who weren't listening to them anymore.
Nissa and Polly Rosewell looked up at her and laughed, which Ella chose to ignore.
"So when's the flying lesson, its not on mine is it on yours?" James asked looking up at Sirius and Remus.
Nissa looked up at this, also wondering when their flying lessons would be.
"Don't know it doesn't say." Sirius said.
"Must be later on in the year." Remus added.
"I hope it's not too soon." Lily said as she heard what they were talking about.
"Me too." Agreed Ella, going slightly white at the mere thought of flying.
"Oh, I can't wait." Nissa said excitedly. "To be up there in the air, as free as a bird, to just fly..." Nissa drifted off with a dreamy look plastered across her face.
All the lads had looked up when she had said that she was looking forward to the flying lessons, Sirius just sat there smiling at her imagining her flying as a beautiful bird for a couple of minutes, before James kicked him under the table.
"What?" Sirius asked confused.
"Nothing." James answered smiling at him.
"So, are you any good then?" James asked her. "I fly all time, back at home."
"I couldn't really, considering I live in the city." Sirius told them, sounding disappointed.
"Oh yeah, I flew when ever I could." Nissa answered. "And always made Infidus buy me the latest broom." They all looked at her. "What?"
"You call your dad Infidus, by his name?" Ella asked surprised.
"He isn't my father." Nissa said rather hotly. "I'm in no way at all related to him, I only have to have his name because I live with him. But I am not related."
"Ok, then." Sirius said slowly. "Sore point then...moving on."
"Well, I'm sure we'll find out if you're really any good soon enough." James said carrying on as though the subject had never changed.
"I think that we have to make our way towards Charms." Natalie said. "Any idea where it is Nissa?"
Nissa looked up at her. "Never been, but we can always have a look around for the class can't we?"
"We better start looking now then, if none of us know where it is." Lily suggested as they all started to get up.
"We're with Ravenclaw for charms." Ella informed them.
"Do you think we should go as well?" Remus asked them.
James and Sirius looked at one another and then nodded.
"We'll follow them, until we've found our way around." Sirius said. "Hey, how about we start to explore at dinner, grab a bite to eat and then start to explore?"
"Great idea." James said, as they followed them out of the great hall. "I bet there are loads of secret places in this place just waiting for us to find them."
"Hurry up Peter." Sirius called over his shoulder.
Peter smiled brightly as he hurried up the stairs after them all, looking very glad that they want him to be around. They all walked along the corridors and up the next flight of stairs before Nissa stopped dead and looked around as though she was lost.
"Oh, Sirius." Nissa called back to him.
Sirius stopped with the others had and looked at her, wondering what she wanted.
"Can you just have a look in that room?" Nissa asked.
Sirius looked at her speciously wondering what she was up to, he looked at both doors either side of him and then back at her.
"Why?" Sirius asked.
Nissa smiled and walked over to him. "The question should have been which? And it's that one on your left."
Sirius looked at her until finally he gave in and walked over to the door and opened it, it turned out to be a classroom with already a couple of students inside, along with a very small wizard who was smiling at them all looking into the classroom.
"You must be the new Gryffindor's." The wizards said.
"Yeah... yeah we are." James said beside the silent Sirius.
Sirius looked over at Nissa who smiled at him; the other girls quickly joined them.
"How did you do that?" Natalie asked.
"Was that magic?" Ella asked eagerly. "Oh, please show me, I don't know any coming from a muggle family and all."
"We knew where we were the whole time, didn't we James?" Sirius said smiling.
"Of course we did." James agreed as they went inside and took up their seats.
James sat at a table near to the back, Sirius sat down next to him while Remus and Peter sat in front of them.
"Well I'm glad that you did." Nissa told them, as she chose a table on the other side of the room just in front of them with Lily. Natalie, Elle and Polly sat on the table in front of them.
The rest of their two classes slowly joined them over the next five minutes before the class started.
"I don't get her." Sirius said to James, as he finally looked away from her.
"I think that's the whole point." James said smiling. "You're not going to get her, she's just there for you to look at and not touch... But her friends on the other hand, they're another thing."
Their first lesson was a lot of fun, and they made new friends with Ravenclaw, but the lesson was over far too soon for some, because the Gryffindor's was not looking forward to their second lesson of the day which would be with Slytherin and Potions.
They all left Professor Flitwick's classroom and headed towards the dungeons, where they were going to spend the next 45 minutes with the Slytherin's and their head of House Professor Jevidah, someone they had all heard not to cross.
The Slytherin's were already waiting outside the classroom when the Gryffindor's arrived, Nissa stood on her tiptoes so that she could see over the heads of the others.
"Severus!" Nissa shouted and made her way passed the very shocked Gryffindor's stood around her and the shocked Slytherin's who didn't already know her.
"Oh, its you." Ludovic Vega shot at her when she stopped in front of them all smiling at Severus.
"Nice to see you as well." Nissa said.
"Aren't you a Gryffindor?" a girl asked stood next to Severus with her friends.
"Yes, why?" Nissa said pleasantly.
"Shouldn't you be with them then?" the girl shot at her.
"I'm surprised that Nissa here isn't in Slytherin." Ludovic told her.
"I'm not." Severus said.
"She's a right evil cow!" Ludovic said.
"What!" Nissa said, as her friends and Sirius and James made their way down to her encase she needed them. "You're only saying that because I stood up to you, when you attacked my owl."
All the Gryffindor's started to laugh at this as her friends stopped behind her.
"Oh, I see that your back up is here." The girl said.
"She nearly bit my hand off." Ludovic said through gritted teeth.
"Which you must have done something for the owl to want to bite your hand off in the first place." Sirius shot at him.
"And who the hell are you?" Ludovic said.
"They're those idiots I told you about." Severus told him.
"Oh yeah, the only idiot around here is you, you greasy haired big nosed git." James shot at him.
Severus pulled out his wand, as did James and Sirius, and a couple of others around them, but Nissa stepped in front of Severus and looked at him very seriously, she was just about to say something when Professor Jevidah walked up behind them all.
"And what's going on here then?" Jevidah asked calmly looking at his own students for the answer.
"They started it sir." The girl said suddenly.
"Not a very good way of starting your first day at the school now is it." Jevidah said, as he opened the door to his class room and walked in.
Slowly everyone put their wands away still glaring at one another and followed him into the classroom, James and Sirius motioned for Nissa to follow them and to sit near them not wanting her anywhere near the Slytherin's. But Severus put his arm around hers and they walked into the classroom together, Severus looked back over his shoulder and smiled at them as he sat down next to Nissa.
"He can't do that." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry we'll get him back." James reassured him. "And when we're finished she won't want to go near him."
"Why would she want too in the first place?" Remus asked.
"Oh, he's not going to get away with this." Sirius promised himself and them.
(A/N:- hoped you enjoyed, next chapter coming soon to a computer near you!)
Everyone woke early next morning; the sun was shining through the window alighting their dorms and waking them as they pulled back the covers of their four poster beds. They all dressed and went down into the common room, where there were already quit a few people who had already had their breakfasts and some who were making their way downstairs.
Lily and Nissa walked into the common room together just as James and Sirius were coming down the stairs from their own dorm, closely followed by Remus.
"Morning all." James said brightly when he saw the two girls, and their new friends who were slowly walking behind them not wanting to be left behind and to get lost trying to find their way back down to the great hall.
"So ladies can we give you a hand in finding your way back down to the great hall?" Sirius asked Nissa as he put his arm around her shoulder.
Nissa looked at his arm around her shoulder, and then moved out from under it and smiled at him.
"I'm sure that we can find our way, but thanks." Nissa said pleasantly, and started to walk towards the portrait hole with Lily. But the other three girls didn't follow them they all looked up at Sirius and James and smiled at them, obviously wanting two good looking guys to show them instead of finding their own way down.
"You can help us, if you want too?" Natalie Halbert told him smiling.
Sirius looked at Nissa confused by her behaviour, and then looked back at James and Remus. James smiled at him making him feel more annoyed but Remus shrugged also wondering about her behaviour. And then it hit him, he turned back to the other three girls and smiled at them.
"Come on then, lets all go down together." Sirius said brightly and loudly.
James and Remus followed him as did the girls sticking close to them as they followed Nissa and Lily out of the common room. But Nissa hadn't done what Sirius had wanted her to, and that was to look back at him with the other girls. The only other person who had been interested in what was going on was Peter, who quickly followed them not wanting to be left behind or get lost on his first day.
They walked down stairs after stairs, behind tapsters and even more stairs, though it seemed as though Sirius was following them, and hadn't remembered the route at all. Though to everyone's surprise, Nissa had remembered and had lend them all down to the great hall. Though it did draw people's attention towards them considering that they had come in such a big group.
"You have a great memory." Lily said as she sat down next to her, and was helping herself to some bacon and eggs.
"You've got a great sense of direction." Natalie said as she sat down opposite them.
"Not that you lot weren't a great help as well." Ella Larson said as she looked at James and Sirius dreamily.
"Yeah of course." Sirius said as he sat down moodily next to Nissa, and ignored her as he and Remus helped themselves to bacon and egg as well.
"Can you pass me the button?" A small voice asked sat next to James.
They all looked round at him, which at this he went very red in the face. Sirius smiled at him and passed the button over to him.
"So you are?" Sirius asked.
"Peter." Peter answered in a small voice.
Nissa looked up and over at him, not really getting anything off of him, part from that he was very shy and nervous still. Nissa went back to eating just as Sirius was about to say something else Professor McGonagall handed them their time tables.
They all looked them over pulling faces as they got to some subjects.
"Hey, look at that. Thursday 12 o'clock at night north tower." Sirius told them.
"Why at night?" Peter asked.
"Well, you need the night sky to get a proper look at the stars." Nissa answered, before Remus could.
"Oh, right yeah." Peter said in an even smaller voice then before, and holding up his time table so that they couldn't see his face going bright red; but it was only a small piece of parchment and didn't cover up much.
"Star gazing... how romantic..." Ella said dreamily looking over at Sirius, who weren't listening to them anymore.
Nissa and Polly Rosewell looked up at her and laughed, which Ella chose to ignore.
"So when's the flying lesson, its not on mine is it on yours?" James asked looking up at Sirius and Remus.
Nissa looked up at this, also wondering when their flying lessons would be.
"Don't know it doesn't say." Sirius said.
"Must be later on in the year." Remus added.
"I hope it's not too soon." Lily said as she heard what they were talking about.
"Me too." Agreed Ella, going slightly white at the mere thought of flying.
"Oh, I can't wait." Nissa said excitedly. "To be up there in the air, as free as a bird, to just fly..." Nissa drifted off with a dreamy look plastered across her face.
All the lads had looked up when she had said that she was looking forward to the flying lessons, Sirius just sat there smiling at her imagining her flying as a beautiful bird for a couple of minutes, before James kicked him under the table.
"What?" Sirius asked confused.
"Nothing." James answered smiling at him.
"So, are you any good then?" James asked her. "I fly all time, back at home."
"I couldn't really, considering I live in the city." Sirius told them, sounding disappointed.
"Oh yeah, I flew when ever I could." Nissa answered. "And always made Infidus buy me the latest broom." They all looked at her. "What?"
"You call your dad Infidus, by his name?" Ella asked surprised.
"He isn't my father." Nissa said rather hotly. "I'm in no way at all related to him, I only have to have his name because I live with him. But I am not related."
"Ok, then." Sirius said slowly. "Sore point then...moving on."
"Well, I'm sure we'll find out if you're really any good soon enough." James said carrying on as though the subject had never changed.
"I think that we have to make our way towards Charms." Natalie said. "Any idea where it is Nissa?"
Nissa looked up at her. "Never been, but we can always have a look around for the class can't we?"
"We better start looking now then, if none of us know where it is." Lily suggested as they all started to get up.
"We're with Ravenclaw for charms." Ella informed them.
"Do you think we should go as well?" Remus asked them.
James and Sirius looked at one another and then nodded.
"We'll follow them, until we've found our way around." Sirius said. "Hey, how about we start to explore at dinner, grab a bite to eat and then start to explore?"
"Great idea." James said, as they followed them out of the great hall. "I bet there are loads of secret places in this place just waiting for us to find them."
"Hurry up Peter." Sirius called over his shoulder.
Peter smiled brightly as he hurried up the stairs after them all, looking very glad that they want him to be around. They all walked along the corridors and up the next flight of stairs before Nissa stopped dead and looked around as though she was lost.
"Oh, Sirius." Nissa called back to him.
Sirius stopped with the others had and looked at her, wondering what she wanted.
"Can you just have a look in that room?" Nissa asked.
Sirius looked at her speciously wondering what she was up to, he looked at both doors either side of him and then back at her.
"Why?" Sirius asked.
Nissa smiled and walked over to him. "The question should have been which? And it's that one on your left."
Sirius looked at her until finally he gave in and walked over to the door and opened it, it turned out to be a classroom with already a couple of students inside, along with a very small wizard who was smiling at them all looking into the classroom.
"You must be the new Gryffindor's." The wizards said.
"Yeah... yeah we are." James said beside the silent Sirius.
Sirius looked over at Nissa who smiled at him; the other girls quickly joined them.
"How did you do that?" Natalie asked.
"Was that magic?" Ella asked eagerly. "Oh, please show me, I don't know any coming from a muggle family and all."
"We knew where we were the whole time, didn't we James?" Sirius said smiling.
"Of course we did." James agreed as they went inside and took up their seats.
James sat at a table near to the back, Sirius sat down next to him while Remus and Peter sat in front of them.
"Well I'm glad that you did." Nissa told them, as she chose a table on the other side of the room just in front of them with Lily. Natalie, Elle and Polly sat on the table in front of them.
The rest of their two classes slowly joined them over the next five minutes before the class started.
"I don't get her." Sirius said to James, as he finally looked away from her.
"I think that's the whole point." James said smiling. "You're not going to get her, she's just there for you to look at and not touch... But her friends on the other hand, they're another thing."
Their first lesson was a lot of fun, and they made new friends with Ravenclaw, but the lesson was over far too soon for some, because the Gryffindor's was not looking forward to their second lesson of the day which would be with Slytherin and Potions.
They all left Professor Flitwick's classroom and headed towards the dungeons, where they were going to spend the next 45 minutes with the Slytherin's and their head of House Professor Jevidah, someone they had all heard not to cross.
The Slytherin's were already waiting outside the classroom when the Gryffindor's arrived, Nissa stood on her tiptoes so that she could see over the heads of the others.
"Severus!" Nissa shouted and made her way passed the very shocked Gryffindor's stood around her and the shocked Slytherin's who didn't already know her.
"Oh, its you." Ludovic Vega shot at her when she stopped in front of them all smiling at Severus.
"Nice to see you as well." Nissa said.
"Aren't you a Gryffindor?" a girl asked stood next to Severus with her friends.
"Yes, why?" Nissa said pleasantly.
"Shouldn't you be with them then?" the girl shot at her.
"I'm surprised that Nissa here isn't in Slytherin." Ludovic told her.
"I'm not." Severus said.
"She's a right evil cow!" Ludovic said.
"What!" Nissa said, as her friends and Sirius and James made their way down to her encase she needed them. "You're only saying that because I stood up to you, when you attacked my owl."
All the Gryffindor's started to laugh at this as her friends stopped behind her.
"Oh, I see that your back up is here." The girl said.
"She nearly bit my hand off." Ludovic said through gritted teeth.
"Which you must have done something for the owl to want to bite your hand off in the first place." Sirius shot at him.
"And who the hell are you?" Ludovic said.
"They're those idiots I told you about." Severus told him.
"Oh yeah, the only idiot around here is you, you greasy haired big nosed git." James shot at him.
Severus pulled out his wand, as did James and Sirius, and a couple of others around them, but Nissa stepped in front of Severus and looked at him very seriously, she was just about to say something when Professor Jevidah walked up behind them all.
"And what's going on here then?" Jevidah asked calmly looking at his own students for the answer.
"They started it sir." The girl said suddenly.
"Not a very good way of starting your first day at the school now is it." Jevidah said, as he opened the door to his class room and walked in.
Slowly everyone put their wands away still glaring at one another and followed him into the classroom, James and Sirius motioned for Nissa to follow them and to sit near them not wanting her anywhere near the Slytherin's. But Severus put his arm around hers and they walked into the classroom together, Severus looked back over his shoulder and smiled at them as he sat down next to Nissa.
"He can't do that." Sirius said through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry we'll get him back." James reassured him. "And when we're finished she won't want to go near him."
"Why would she want too in the first place?" Remus asked.
"Oh, he's not going to get away with this." Sirius promised himself and them.
(A/N:- hoped you enjoyed, next chapter coming soon to a computer near you!)