Chapter 5
"Anything off the trolley, dears?"
"I would like... 14 chocolate frogs, 5 bags of Bertie Bott's every flavor beans, 4 sugar quills, and 2 packs of Drooble's best blowing gum." Harry said in one breath.
"Stocking up on candy, are we?" The lady said with a chuckle.
"Um... I'm sharing them with everyone." Said Harry.
"Oh! I'm very sorry." Harry reached for his coin purse and pulled out four shiny gold coins. "That will come up to a total of... 3 galleons and 12 knuts." Harry gave her the money and began handing out chocolate frogs to everyone. Yoh licked his lips and opened his chocolate frog. To his dismay, it hopped out of the packet and jumped out the window. Hao tosses his over to Yoh. Ren gave his to Jun, who took the card and threw the frog out the window.
"The card's Merlin." Yoh opened the packet, and found out he was right. After thumb-wrestling the frog into his mouth, he went over to Horo-horo.
"What did you get?"
"Dumbledore."
"I've gotten Merlin." There was a pause.
"Trade?" They said at the same time.
"It's a deal!" They shook hands and exchanged cards. Ren jumped off of his seat took the chance to move and sat next to Hao. Ren-left side, Hao-middle and Yoh on the right. Again, not his first choice of seating, but anything or anyone was better than Horo-horo. Ultimately, Ren preferred to sit alone. Ren put Bason's stone tablet onto the table. He soon regretted that as Bason came out to do something. (In Ren's case, ruin his life)
"You like Pillika don't yoooooooouuu?" Cooed Bason. Ren turned red, and Yoh laughed. "That's why you moved!" Pillika, luckily, was asleep, and was taking the newly vacant seats.
"Shut up."
"oooo Ren likes Pillika!" Said Yoh childishly. Hao gave him a look, but Yoh ignored him.
"Do you want to die?"
"There's no denying it! You like her!"
"Do not!"
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey lay off my sister!"
"Uh oh..." Muttered Yoh backing away from the two fighting shamans.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
"Heheheh..." Anna just rolled her eyes and Manta laughed nervously. Jun watched the scene from afar.
"You could have sat next to me you know, I'm hurt." Said Jun sarcastically. "But, If you prefer Pillika to your older sister, I can understand."
"Stay out of this Jun!"
Many death-threats later, the compartment door slid open reveling the last person Harry wanted to see: Malfoy.
"Why hello, Potter." He said in his usual arrogant voice. Crabbe and Goyle stood next to him. Malfoy smirked. "Ah, what have we got here? The shamans are hanging out with Potty, Bush face and Weasel. You should be smarter than that to be hanging out with these 'dorks'." Malfoy walked over and shoved the nearest person to him and laughed. BIG mistake. The person he had shoved was Hao and he looked ready to kill. Instead he looked over Malfoy's shoulder. "What are you looking at?"
"Hao-sama!!!" Hao was suddenly tackled by Mari and Macci who started hugging him, Yoh and the others were sweat dropping like mad.
"Not now." Hao mumbled.
"Oh!" Mari and Macci got off. "Sorry."
"Just take care of them." Hao pointed to Malfoy who was snickering loudly.
"What's a pretty-boy and his groupies going to do huh?" He taunted. Crabbe and Goyle laughed dumbly behind him. Hao glared at them again. He held out his hand.
Harry reached for his wand. Ron and Hermione did the same
"This." A huge flame erupted in his outstretched hand almost burning Malfoy's nose off. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyal screamed like girls and ran like the wind. Hao, Harry, Ron, Hermione and the others were laughing their heads off.
"Chuck," Mari Commanded. "SHOOT THEM!" Chuck got his gun and started shooting like mad without a particular target. None of the bullets hit anyone, but they scared the pants off Malfoy. To Yoh's surprise, only some people saw them due to the bullets such high speed. They seemed to only be silver dots ricocheting off the walls.
"Your skills are improving, Mari." Said Hao.
"Mari has been practicing a lot!"
"Yeah, on Kanna." Mumbled Macci. "She's at the front arguing with... whoever's in charge here since they didn't let her smoke." Hao grinned.
"Typical."
"So, have I improved?"
"Just work on your aiming." Said Hao pointing at the tiny bullet holes next to the window. Mari blushed started whispering with Macci.
"Hey, nice job!" Said Fred who seemed to be spying on them.
"I liked the part when he ran away screaming 'fire!!!'" Said Fred stepping forward. "Now, we know his weakness. Hey, do'ya mind setting his broom on fire during Quiddich?"
"How did that fire come out of his hands like that?" Whispered Harry.
"Who cares?" Said Ron. He turned back to Fred and George "Fred, George? What are you doing here?"
"Oh, we were just checking in to see if our dear lil' brother was doing okay." Said George in a fake sugary voice.
"Tell the truth." Said Ron raising an eyebrow.
"Well, that new girl in that cabin..." Fred pointed to the compartment door to the left of them. "Jeanne was what they called her but er-"
"He thinks Jeanne's hot." Said Hao coolly. George blushed. Ron and Fred snickered.
"Wh-what???" Lyserg glared at Fred and George while Yoh laughed.
"He wanted to 'check her out' a bit more" Said Fred still laughing. "If you ask me, she's a little short for age."
"Jeanne-sama!" Lyserg waved at his former leader.
"Hello Lyserg!" Said Jeanne who was at the doorway. Fred whistled and Harry and Ron turned to look. Then she turned to look at the group. Then she saw Hao-and fainted.
"Bloody hell!" Exclaimed Ron.
"Ron! Shut up." Hermione scolded.
"erm... I think we should go..." muttered George.
"She didn't take one of our 'faint pills' did she?" Said Fred worriedly.
"Um..." George looked at her nervously. "Ok... she either could have just fainted for some unknown reason, or she took one of our 'get out of exams' formulas. Either way... Let's get outta here!" The two boys ran out of the compartment.
"So, Lyserg. Any bright ideas?" Asked Anna.
"Huh? Why me?"
"Because she was once your leader." Said Anna matter-of-factly.
"Well erm..."
"Mari can kill her if you want!"
"That's okay..." Said Yoh nervously. "We'll figure it out."
"Mari thought Yoh killed Hao-sama! Mari hates you! Mari isn't talking to you!"
"huh???"
"Actually, I think it will be pretty hard to convince her." Ren said shaking his head.
"Why?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Said Hao. "She pretty much devoted her entire life into killing me. So do you think she's going to throw all that away?"
"I guess if you put it that way, I guess not." Said Manta.
"Umm... what exactly are you talking about?" Asked Harry.
"It's a long story."
"No please maybe we can help." Insisted Hermione.
"Well, long story short-"Yoh started.
"Jeanne thinks I'm dead." Finished Hao. "And-"
"You? Dead?"
"She also wants me dead... so when she wakes up, she is most likely to try and kill me on the spot. Unless we do something." Said Hao calmly. "She's got a bit of a sick sense of justice." He added.
"Kill you??? Why would she want to kill you?" asked Ron. Harry gave a hollow laugh.
"Don't worry, you're not the only one." He said to Hao. "Give him a break, Ron. Someone's trying to kill me, and if someone asked, I wouldn't want to talk about it. Besides, with Dumbledore around, I don't think anyone can kill anyone here."
"Tell us!" Insisted Ron.
"It does not concern you." Hao glared at Ron making him shrink into his seat and fall silent. Hermione gave him her famous 'told you so' looks and Ron shrunk even farther down his seat. "So, are you going to help, or not?" Hermione nodded and dug her hands into her bag, and pulled out a blue roll of tape. The letters on it said: Spellotape.
"Maybe this will help." Anna nodded and took out some of her prayer beads. Hao motioned to a seat. Mari and Macci pulled Jeanne onto it. Anna began to tie Jeanne's hands into a firm knot. Ren unrolled some spello-tape.
Amidamaru shook his head from inside his stone tablet eyeing the beads anxiously. "Pure evil I say. Even I couldn't break free from those!"
A/N: OMG!!! I UPDATED!!! I found a public computer and wrote this (Not that short either!) Don't expect another update for a long time, so you can kill me after I update in 1000 years. (I just recovered from a writer's block)
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