Disclaimer: Okay I don't own Harry Potter or anything connected to it. If I did I wouldn't be posting here. I do own Star and Rabekuh and Lune.
Chapter Three
The Hogwarts Express
"Listen Malfoy, Nobody asked you to come in here so why don't you just bug off!"
Star watched as Draco and Ron had yet another run in. Unfortunately, she and the Malfoy family had gotten here later than Draco usually did so the only available compartment on the train was the one across from the compartment containing Ron, Harry, Hermoine, Ginny, and Lune. A couple of Harry's friend, Seamus and Dean had come back to visit, disturbing Draco and his friends. Draco had gotten up to do something about it.
"Well, if you and your friends would pipe down maybe I wouldn't have had to come in here!"
"What are we being to loud for you to have a lie in with one of your friends? Your friend Star perhaps?"
"I told you once Weasley! I will not have you befouling her name!" Draco pulled out his wand, "Serpensortia Musebu!"
A giant cobra shot out of Draco's wand and coiled itself around Ron's neck, choking him. There was sudden pandemonium. Harry lunged at Malfoy; Hermoine was trying to come up with a spell to uncoil the snake. Ginny was screaming for Harry to be careful, but Lune simply walked out of the compartment rolling her eyes. Star also rose and left the compartment only to run into a girl around her age wearing Griffyndor robes, she smiled when she caught Star's gaze.
"Pathetic aren't they?"
"Quite, but then again...isn't most of mankind?"
Rabekuh smiled and Star giggled. She got up and walked across the small hallways to the compartment, she drew up every angry emotion she could and pulled out her wand, "Teishi!"
A blast of blue light erupted from her wand and surrounded each person in the compartment, including Draco. Star swished her wand through the air making each person face her, "Now I am tired of this! Ron, I don't know what you have against me other than being friends with Draco, but I'm no whore. Get that through your head! I'm the president of a Quidditch company who hasn't graduated from school and am ending my last year here at Hogwarts. Draco, I appreciate you standing up for me. It's very sweet, but you can't just attack every person who doesn't like me. You'll be attacking half of the people at school no doubt. Now" she un-cursed them all, "Draco get that snake off of Ron."
"No. He wants it off he can get it off his bloody self," Draco walked out of the compartment and sat down in the one opposite and struck up a new conversation with his friends.
Star sighed and looked at the Grffyndors, "Listen, I'm sorry for whatever I've done. But like it or not, Draco is my friend. He saved my life a few weeks ago and I'm very grateful for it. I would like to be your friend as well, but not if it's conditional," Star walked out of the compartment and started to go into Draco's but thought better of it and walked down the hallway until she found Rabekuh sitting in a surprisingly empty compartment by herself.
"Mind if I join you?"
Rabekuh looked up and smiled, "Not at 'tall."
"Thanks."
"Care for a game of Chess?"
"Don't mind if I do."
Rabekuh conjured up a chessboard and pieces sitting upon a stand in the middle of the compartment. Star sat down on the white side while Rabekuh started the game with black. A couple of hour's later, they were both engrossed in the same game when Draco stopped at the doorway and got a disgusted look on his face.
"Just what do you thin-"
"Shh!"
"She's a-"
"Shh!!"
"Star!!"
"Do you mind, Malfoy! We're in the middle of a match, now shush she's about to take my queen!!" Lune yelled at him not taking her eyes of the chess pieces of which Star's Knight had just impaled Rabekuh's Queen. Rabekuh groaned and took to looking at the board for a move she could make. Star glanced up at Draco for a split second before returning to the board, "You were saying Draco?"
Draco scowled, "She's a Grffyndor. What do you think you're doing with her?"
"Playing chess. It was either find something to do or spend time with you and your friends droning on about Quidditch or how to dispose of Harry Potter. And since neither sounded greatly appealing I decided to walk and I found Rabekuh. damn! You took my bishop!!"
She laughed, "Sorry."
"No you're not." Star looked at the board with great scrutiny. Draco seemed flustered, "Drone on about Quidditch? You love Quidditch you said so yourself!"
Star sighed and stood up facing Draco, "Yes Draco, I love Quidditch but I own a Quidditch company. The last thing I want to do is sit for hours and talk about Quidditch. I do it all the time. And as for Rabekuh? I don't care that she's Grffyndor. I don't have anything against Grffyndors, you do. You may be my friend Draco but I won't stand here and let you decide who I can and can't friends with."
He sighed and looked back at her. He was about to tell her that Grffyndors can't be trusted when the train gave a great lurch sending Star flying into Draco's arm who had just been thrown into a wall. Rabekuh went flying into the compartment door and got knocked unconscious. Star screamed as the back of the train seemed to fall with gravity and she with it.
Draco reached down and grabbed her hand to keep her from falling. He noticed that her scream seemed to meld together with the screams from other students on the train. He looked down the corridor and saw that many other students were falling down the corridor; it was if the back of the train had fallen off the tracks and was dragging the rest of the train with it. Draco searched for something to hold on to as he himself started to slip with the train, he grabbed hold of a doorframe of one of the compartments as it shut on his hand breaking most of the bones in his hand. He let out a loud howl of pain and he tried desperately to hold on to the door.
Star looked up towards Draco and saw three teachers climb up the corridor towards the engine room and out of the train. She tired to get a better grip on Draco's wrist as she hung in mid air. Her eyes grew wider at the sight of a student free falling down the corridor heading straight for Draco. Draco looked up at the exact moment he got hit by a Hufflepuff making his broken hand strain more to hold on. The Hufflepuff bounced off Draco and hit Star who lost her grip on Draco and fell down the corridor with the student screaming the whole way.
Draco closed his eyes in pain, when he opened them he felt the train start lifting and disappear around him. The next moment he fell to the floor with a loud thud. He looked around and tried desperately to stay conscious while dealing with the pain in his hand. When the teachers climbed back into the train, Draco couldn't be happier that Dumbledore insisted that three professors remained on the train to and from Hogwarts at all times, the teachers started pulling the students off the train starting with the students in the corridors. As he got pulled off the train he looked up and came face to face with Nymphodora Tonks, the new DADA teacher.
"Let me see your hand Mr. Malfoy," Professor Tonks demanded kneeling down next to him.
"Why? You don't want to help me. You hate me," Draco replied trying to stand up without using his hand.
"Just where do you think you're going Mr. Malfoy?"
"To find my friend. She fell down the corridor when the train. What did happen with the train?"
Nymphodora looked toward the tracks on the bridge, or rather the bridge that was supposed to be there, "We're not sure. The middle of the bridge gave out when the train was almost across. Thankfully we were able to fly the train over to this plateau before it fell any more. We're working on getting everyone off the train."
Draco looked over at the train and saw Harry get off carrying Ginny Weasley. He ran over without getting his hand fixed. Stopping for a moment the young blonde swallowed a large lump of pride, "Potter, have you seen Star?"
Harry scowled at him, "I'm not her keeper Malfoy. Why would I know where she is?"
"No, she fell down the corridor when the train fell. I haven't seen her since she fell," Harry watched his face. Draco seemed genuinely worried. He sighed, "Really, Malfoy. I haven't seen her. All I saw was everyone fall against the back wall of our compartment and Ginny almost fell out the window."
"Fine," Draco walked off not even bothering to nurse his hand. He felt a large hand on his shoulder that turned him around, "Professors!?" Both Nymphodora Tonks and Remus Lupin (the new history of Magic/DADA teacher) were standing there in front of him as if they had been following him. Professor Lupin spoke up first, "Draco, there's something you need to see. Nobody seems to be able to identify her body. She seems to be the only one we lost on the train."
His eyes grew wider and he could feel the sadness grow in his body. He look hard at the ground as if he looked hard enough Star would be there. He followed his professors across the sea of students to a small body no more than maybe 5'3" feet long with semi-red hair. The world seemed to blur around him as Draco walked over to the body and knelt down next to her. As much as he wanted to he couldn't bring himself to turn the body so she'd face him.
"Draco??"
'Great now I'm hearing voices-no-just hers. I only knew her for a short while-and yet I felt so close to her,' Draco thought to himself after hearing the female voice call out to him.
"Draco?"
The blonde Slytherin looked up from the body half expecting to see a ghost or some female, he gasped," S-s-t-tar!?"
She sighed with relief and looked at him, "I thought you were gone. When I couldn't find you-"
He stood up and crossed over to her in a split second, once they got in reach Star quickly wrapped her arms around him. Draco stood there stunned for a moment then smiled and wrapped his arms around her pulling her closer. He turned his head to face the now three professors (Professor McGonagall had joined the other two professors), "Professors? I don't know who that is but this was the girl I was looking for."
But the three professors weren't looking at Draco and Star anymore; they were looking up in the sky at something that obviously had them scared. Draco turned his head and sagged his shoulders, there hanging almost directly above this girl no one could identify was a green skull with a serpent intertwined in it's mouth. Star turned her head to see what Draco had sagged his shoulders about; a confused look crossed her face.
"Draco? Is that…." She started but faded her question when she saw the look on everyone's faces.
"I'll tell you later, " He answered.
"Gather up the students," Professor McGonagall told the other two professors, "I'll send an owl up to the school to inform Headmaster of what has happened and to inform the ministry," she looked up at Draco, "come Mr. Malfoy, Ms. Trivius, let's go. Come on."
Draco put an arm around Star's shoulders and walked with Professor McGonagall back towards the rest of the students.