Well... Well, well, well... Look at what we got here. Readers whom have been waiting about 3 1/2 months for an update that I am writing the same day of its posting. As you know my drill, I was updating story by story. Now you may get lucky though. I'm ending that after this. From now on it's when I think up the chapter that it's to be written and posted. Of course there should be some thanks to Ame... Toriko Ame on this site to ya'll that is.... She actually offered to help me get up to or past 4000 and looked over the chapter when I was stuck around the 3100's on the word processor count.
So feel glad that I am posting now. I warn you though; I may not get much access to a computer around July. So that may result in a very rare update till I can set something up. Either that or finally convince my kaa san that a laptop with Internet capabilities via satellite or something would be my best graduation present. Maybe I can convince my aunt for it. Anyways, first, as usual, I will respond to your reviews. Then I will ramble. Finally getting the story on, I may ramble a bit more, as you to review and praise those that have been reviewing this whole time. Okay?
Winged Knight - Evil review bugs! Stomps them flat Its actually pretty easy to understand dragon language. Under their hiss, you can hear the words that they're saying. Of course the usual trouble will start as it does every year... Just needs time. We just got past the first day of classes after all. Admires the necklace That's so sweet of you to get it and give it to me... hugs and makes you a new treasure room There... Now you have your own.
SilverKnight7 - Will do!
Shattered Illusion (?) - sighs I cant keep up with your name changing girl... You're killing me here! Yes Ty was Tyler in the chapter. Yes the fact that Phoebe has empathy is a why she sensed all that in the last chapter. Though I must laugh a bit at you being surprised at Piper helping with potions. For as you said, it was obvious. I think the Pen of Inspiration finally kicked in. Turns out that I forgot to load it up with the ink.
Vananovwen - Blah! Girl get back from your aunts damn it! Oh and you'll see a certain person around in classes and such soon enough.
DarkFire180 - Thanks I think if its a compliment that my story is a toughie. I warn you though. As well as things may seem and how their probably going to end, I usually hold surprise endings in things like this. You'll find out soon enough on that. Yes Youko needs to listen better, but just think of his reputation and such. He doesn't just listen when it comes to such things. Yes, you guessed it all correctly. You are a guessing genius!
Kodomo Hikari - We already talked about most of the stuff. Yes, I still listen to TLC as well when I can. I get sad on missing that original group. The new one is just... Not it... Proves that you can't replace the original members for them. Nods in determination
ColdFang - smirks evilly Ah, now that's something one can never be too sure of. Hiei can be unpredictable at times y'know.
Lady Keo - Shini, thanks for the translation. I know this wasn't very soon, but I tried that I did.
Hedi Dracona - Well... I can't really have many lines for the extras. Don't worry though, there will be more chapters coming about when the extras get to have a few more parts. Though, sadly, there will be some time away from Hogwarts. Yes this is a spoiler, but one that all knew would come.
Vamps - Yes, Miroku... You will see him soon enough. Also, I have read Doubledemon Ring... I think we both needs to be updating more.
Kitsune Youkai Hime - Well, I said that Inuyasha would be coming up 'later' in the story. So Inuyasha had not shown up yet. Just be patient for now.
Incybincer - I'll get to finish it eventually. Good stories take time to develop. So once again, which seems to be the theme, please be patient for me.
OO Wow... 16 reviews in that time. TTTT you all really do love me! Is this a sign that I will reach 100 reviews before chapter 16? I feel so loved. Then maybe, my new goal will be 200 by chapter 25? Maybe it's possible ne?
Anyways, you know I'm sick of disclaimers. Things will need some progressing, so I'm hitting fast forward on this story remote...
ACCION!
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So the week went by. It seemed that the rest of the week went by like nothing. Care for Magical Creatures was interesting and dangerous as it usually was. Hagrid had been given permission to have a new creature around for the first quarter of the semester. Though the first class didn't have the students meeting the being. Instead they were reviewing what they had learned and going over general rules. To quote Hagrid, "Anyone tha's go a break der rules, 're go' in face the consequences on the'r own."
This riled up a few of the Slytherin's. Though once Malfoy spoke up, silence went across the group. Harry, Hermione and Ron went up to him with their wands out. Before anything happened though, Hagrid broke it all up and sent everyone out for the end of class.
Next was Transfiguration with McGonagall in which they were to make animals and inanimate objects into plants of some sort. This class was with Ravenclaw and Gryffindor. Though Ravenclaw was hopeful that they would be the best, Gryffindor had a few too good students. Kurama took in his specialty and made a cat, quill and a piece of parchment into 3 different types of roses. The cat went into a whole rose bush though. Hermione was able to at least make the things she was handed into vines and thorns. Ron tried to turn a rat into a cactus, but ended up turning the rodent into a spiky haired thing instead. Harry was given a rat as well. Along with a feather and goblet. He, after some tips from Hermione, turned the rat into a fig, the feather into a pine needle branch and the goblet into a lotus flower.
By the end of the class, almost everyone had turned at least one thing into a plant. Even Neville succeeded in turning a rosary into a rose. Actually, with his knowledge and knack for Herbology, he did very well this class. After turning everything to his or her original state with finite incantatem, everyone went to the Great Hall for lunch.
Kurama, err, Shuichii, looked deep in thought while staring down at his plate. Yusuke wondered why for only a second, till he looked across the Hall and saw Hiei. They shared the same faces, but Hiei was just sharing a glare down the table at a girl with black and red streaks. She promptly threw a roll at Hiei's face. Which was caught a moment before hitting him. Miriya was across from Malfoy with a small device that was really just a wind up toy. Though tweaked so that when it sensed motion, food would be shot at the target. Getting a mash potato covered pasty white rich boy.
Eventually lunch was over and the next class was a favorite of many. The 'accursed' defense against the dark arts. Gryffindor and Slytherin made there way to the class and entered, taking similar seating that they did in Potions class. At the table were 3 teachers. Once everyone sat down, they all got up and moved out of the room, locking the door behind. Everyone looked at the now locked door then each other. Aurora and Yusuke took immediately to their arm wrestling. See over the past couple of days, the tension seemed to have loosened between everyone. Though distance was still brought about Aurora and Kurama. It wasn't long till the match was over and someone was hanging, literally.
"I suggest you try repeating that comment a bit more respectfully before I decide to remove a part of you that is not supposed to come off..."
"Why should I do that? You filthy mutt! You shouldn't even be in Slytherin." A certain blonde said, somehow being about an inch off the ground by an all too familiar vertically challenged, spiky haired youkai with a short temper. Before Hiei had taken out his wand though, a blob of blue-white orb lights came up besides him. At the desk a smaller group of what seemed to be just one big being.
At the desk was Leo, in the same robes as on the opening ceremony. He was holding Wyatt who was in his own little jade robes. They sat down and looked as the other group of orbs started to come together. There was Piper, Paige and Phoebe standing and looking stern at the 2 students. Paige looked to Piper, who raised her arms quickly. The next moment, Hiei was on the side of the dungeon that was closer to Leo. Malfoy was somehow already back in his seat with a glass of water near by. The three charmed ones were already back at the desk looking at everyone with stern faces.
Once everyone settled down, Paige finally spoke up. "You all have some serious issues... If you're to pass this course at all then you all must learn to put aside your childish, petty, disputes... Do I make myself clear?"
The class said nothing. Instead each student just stared blankly at his or her equally blank parchment. Thoughts of the ability of these new professors and their origins popped up in over half the class. Most of the Slytherin's figured that the new professors were 'mudbloods' that had no idea what they were doing at all. Most the Gryffindor's thought that how everything was on the other side of the room in an instant was probably the most wicked thing ever.
Phoebe got up and walked around the room. Before reaching the front desk again, she glances back at a hanging stuffed dummy. Turning back around, she spun and delivered a hard right kick to the center of the target. The mannequin gets ripped off its support chains at the force of the impact. Slamming into the wall with a loud slap as the leather hits the brick, bringing the student's upright to complete attention. Eyes gazing over at the still kick stance professor in a pair of thin sweats and a tank top. She resumed a standing ease form and returned their stares. "I believe your letters mentioned clothes that are loose fitting. Which is a pair of pants that are not tight on you, and also are comfortable. As well as a shirt that won't constrict your movements. I see 3 people have done what we had asked..."
Phoebe went back to her seat behind the desk and leaned back. As she went to rest, Piper got up and started to pace around the room, picking up on the speech. "This will be the only time that we will allow you in the attire you came in today. Next class if you don't come prepared as we told you, you get a zero for the day and your grade takes a pretty big dip. Something I have a feeling that most of you can't afford to happen."
Her eyes gazed and set on for a few moments on three select students. Those students were Malfoy, Kurama and Hermione. Most students just simply agreed to what the professor was thinking. Those three all had a thing for getting good grades, and it seemed that if one got a bad grade, they would fight his or her way back up to that high standing. The more perceptive children noticed the strange action. Piper had only seen everyone in a single lesson before this one, which was a potion class. Though one class shouldn't be enough to get such an accurate generalization of who's the real grade freaks. The rest, well, they just didn't care about what Piper was saying.
Piper looked around the class. With a sigh she walked back to the desk and sat down, nodding to Paige. With that, Paige got up and leaned against the desk facing the class. She took a nice long look at each student and pushed herself off of the desk finally. "Okay, so how about we get started by us letting you know what the plans are for the year. This way, you may have a chance to study a bit ahead of time... Or at least know where to head if you finish early...."
She looked around the class to check the students' expressions. Some looked eager, a few seemed bored already and some didn't seem to care. With a sigh she just continued. "First, we want to just work on your reflexes and a bit on your strength. Though this will only be a few weeks, seeing how we cant really expect you all to be masters and we also have a lot more areas to cover. After that we will be going into studying how to make spells work without a wand. These are sometimes considered to be 4 lines in rhyming couplets, but as long as you know how to say it, it generally works well. Then this quarter will end and we'll be starting to study a few specific common demons and how to vanquish them."
Paige put the hook on the bottom of the same punching bag that took the place of the stuffed dummy that Phoebe hit and turned on a small device that had three zero's on it. Making a decent fist, she punched the bag on a small red 'X' and on the device, the number 110 showed on it. After she looked at her nails, she pressed a button on the top of the machine, resetting it to the number zero. "This is a strength tester. Based on how hard you punch, the number will be recorded. The average number is really 120, but I didn't want to chip a nail." She waited for the giggles around the class die down before she continued. "The highest this thing can go is 300. It is possible for someone that's 'normal' to get a 300 as well. So no calling people a freak if they get that number. The lowest this thing goes is 50, but I don't want to hear anything if anyone gets that grade as well. I do and his off on house points and 2 weeks of detention. Now everyone lines up and punches the bag. After 3 seconds you press the small red button on the top of the recorder. Before going back to your seats, tell us your name and then you may leave. This is the only thing that we're doing for today."
The students all lined up and did as told. Seeing how making a whole paragraph will probably give the readers a headache. So simply, in the order in which everyone went up, the list and outcomes have been placed.
Parvati-115
Lavender-117
Draco-147
Crabbe-163
Goyle-167
Hiei-250³
Harry-150
Ron-143
Kurama-250³
Aurora-174
Hedi-210
Sam-132
Pippin-150
Ty-174
Korbin-184
Lexus-110
Lionel-107
Chrissica -142
Neville- 109
Yusuke-289³
The rest of the class had gone with the average score. After the last student sat down, shaking their fist, which was balled up wrong, Paige had gotten up. She couldn't understand why the students had remained and just sat down. "You all to remember I said to leave once you went up right?"
A few of the students gave a sound of realization. Getting up and leaving only a few stayed behind. Mainly Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama. Harry, Ron, Hermione almost stayed, but they felt it best just to leave for their last class for the day, which was potions. Draco went up with his burly pets behind him like begging dogs waiting for scraps. Keeping an eye on the situation, the reikai tantei just stayed their places and watched warily.
Of course, possibly having to due with the lesson task, Malfoy spat out at his trio of professors in his ungrateful snotty tone. "What was even the point of something that seems to be rigged? Obviously your not used to this world, but we use wands around here, not some filthy muggle tactic, to keep ourselves out of danger. What kind of teacher doesn't know such a first year fact?"
He scoffed, with the echoes of his henchmen behind him. Paige and Piper slapped their books down on the table quite loudly as Phoebe just kept scratching away with her quill on the parchment. Slowly Piper's eyes raised enough to glare into Draco's cold stare. He immediately takes a few steps back from the ferocity in the witches' eyes. They were those of a spell-caster that has defeated, and destroyed, many beings. Though it was unsure if she was willing to do the same to Malfoy without second thought, he wasn't going to take the chance on. She spoke up with a sharp tone of voice, making sure she was heard and not wanting to be misunderstood. "Mister Malfoy, I believe we have made ourselves clear on this subject. It is, firstly, part of the curriculum that your headmaster wishes to be taught among the students. Secondly, you will need to be slightly trained on your strength and reflexes for later subjects. Lastly, there will always be a time when you do not have a wand on hand and you will only be lucky that you are not attacked in that time. Now unless you have any further objections on how we teach, then I suggest you leave, or else you may be late for potions..."
"Actually, I do have one other thing to bring up. Why are there three of you. Too weak to teach a single class on your own? I noticed that you all have classes to teach with either another teacher or with you three...." Malfoy shot dirty looks at each of the sisters. The three looked at each other then over to Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle.
At the exact same moment the three said "10 points from Slytherin." Which really rounded up to a 30-point deduction in those 2 seconds, causing Malfoy's face to drop. He couldn't believe it. He is a Malfoy and these three new teachers dare to deduct points from him. With a shot of vengeance in his eyes he left promptly with his usual egotistical stride in each step, only fueled with the followers right behind. Though he didn't just leave in a bitchy fit, he also had a very good look at the results page. Combining what he actually saw on that muggle device with the recordings of the professors, Draco was able to remember the results of those he would bother noticing. Automatically thinking that the machine was off for one key reason. Even though by just a few measly points, that Potter boy still had gotten a higher score then him. Him! A Malfoy actually was getting a lower outcome than that Potter was! (A/N: No, I don't feel surprised, remember, this is his opinion... egotistical brat....)
He tucked away the events of DADA class for later to send in a letter to his father about. Not far behind, Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama also were on their way to the dungeons. Every one of the three was easily loathing that class. Snape kept sneering over Yusuke and Kurama's work for their house. Of course with Hiei though, he just didn't like Snape seeing how he was a ningen and didn't seem loyal. So in other words, wasn't worth the fire youkai's time interest or respect.
As the six stepped in the bell for class to begin rang. Sitting down, they saw Piper come in through some flames in the wall and sit in the corner. Brushing herself off she tapped on a board, flipping over a rather complex, NEWT level, potion that seemed to be for matter instant transportation. Then just as the board was flipped completely and flat on the wall, the black haired towering stick of pasty grease came from his chambers. He looked at the board; nodded then shot a nasty hate filled glare at Harry and Aurora. "Any potion not finished at the end of today's lesson will lose 20 points from their house... Each"
Promptly both teachers left back into the back office for the children to work on their newest project. The students all looked at each other in a slight state of shock. Quickly getting into groups of three they started on their potions. Harry, Ron and Hermione were, of course, grouped together by one of the cauldrons. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were at another about 2 tables away. In-between was Yusuke, Hiei and Kurama with an advantage seeing how Kurama made sure each plant related ingredient was at the right stage of development. That and Hiei could make sure that the flames were in check. The other table that was in-between the Malfoy and Potter table was Aurora, Neville and Chrissica. Chrissica read out the directions and stirred sometimes while Aurora dealt with most flames, getting the ingredients and also stirring. Neville had the preparing with the ingredients a putting them in the concoction. Of course anyone in Hogwarts knew that it was impossible for a class with a Malfoy and a Potter cant last with its peace for very long.
Which was proved soon enough when Draco went over to the others table. Sneering at the cutting done he slightly pushed Harry's elbow, thus causing the knife cutting the hollydizzie's unevenly and also getting a bit of Harry's finger. "Watch what your doing Potter. Your gonna end up losing house points" Malfoy spat out with a smirk. He knew just what he was doing. Purposely ruining the potion and getting on Harry's nerves was a perfect way to get the Potter boy in trouble.
This worked all too well though on getting on Harry's nerves. With a glare Harry promptly gave a quick small jab into Malfoy's gut. "Why don't you just sod off Malfoy. Go find someone to pay off. You seem to be good at doing that just like most of the rest of your family."
Malfoy didn't expect this to happen. Usually Harry was stopped from losing too much of his temper by his friends. Those same friends that seemed to be shocked at what Harry did. Malfoy got up and brushed himself off, his elbow hitting Neville a bit, this time unintentionally. "Watch it Longbottom! Couldn't be a bigger oaf now could you?"
With increased tensions and nerves, Neville started to shake in the same hand that held his neatly cut hollydizzie's as he started to put it in the cauldron. Though with all the shaking, he put in a tad too much before putting the extra down on the table again. Everyone stares as they saw the potion bubble, cackle and pop. Neville quickly backed up and over to Hermione. Hearing the sounds of the professors returning and muttering angrily at each other, Malfoy pushed aside those in his way to get back to his seat. This caused the potion that Neville, Chrissica and Aurora was working on to splash all over 3 people. Those three people being Aurora, Hiei and Kurama who all looked a tad miffed upon getting wet. All three took out their wand and pointed at themselves after saying a cleaning charm.
Though it their robes weren't clean when they said the charm. Instead the robes cackled and in-between the three a small orb formed from the three energy electricity's merging together. Just as the door from the back office opens, everyone's head turns to the professors who blink just at the same time. Piper speaking up first. "Where is Minamino, Jaganshi and Oracles?"
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The three lay on the grass just outside the forest seemingly unconscious. In the distance the voice of a young girl is heard yelling as she nears towards that location. "That's it Inuyasha! I'm going home!"
The voice of a somewhat young, but roughened and annoyed man responded just as loud, but not moving. "Go ahead! I'm tired of having to protect and save you all the time! We don't need to you find the shards anymore anyways!"
"Fine!" The girl almost tripped over one of the unconscious people. This one was a boy that seemed to be very height challenged with medium length spiky black hair and this white starburst. She thought it was kinda cute with the way that the headband was also there. She went to poke him awake when she felt a hand grab her wrist with an almost burning sensation. With a shriek the sounds of people running towards the area is heard.
"Kagome!"
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Foot-Note: ³ = What do you expect? They cant just show off in the class, they need to hold back. As for Yusuke getting that score, well, he's a show off at times I think... Basing off of Genkai's Tournament that is....
Major yay-ness! Now aren't you pleased with this chapter despite the wait? I know almost 4 months is way too long, but I did try to get as far into the year and where people wanted and keep the whole nice gradual feeling. I didn't want it to seem too rushed. Now I'm going to kiss someone, scalp another for touching my book and try to get some things up while updating my bio!
Ja ne for now minna!
--- Dragon Ladysupreme AKA Aya