Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or Harry Potter. I do own Hikaru, Triton, Meilan, Solo, James, and Millardo.
Genre: Fantasy/ Humor
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Yaoi, Yuri, Shonen-ai, Shojo-ai, boy/boy, girl/girl pairings. Mpreg... maybe... I haven't decided yet. Mentions of it though. Relena bashing.
Notes: Alternate Universe, timeline-what-timeline, Gundam Wing/ Harry Potter fusion. This is sixteen years after endless waltz and one year after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius did not fall through the veil, and the story has other AU parts that will be explained.
Pairings: 1/3, 2/4/5, Zechs/ Noin, Relena/ Dorothy, Sirius/ Remus, Harry/ Draco, Hermione/ Ron, Hikaru/ Solo, Triton/ James, Meilan/ Millardo, Blaise/ Ginny.
Summary: What happens when Hikaru and Triton Yuy-Barton bring their friends from school home for the summer? And what if those friends happened to bring their parents? What happens when Harry Potter and his friends meet Heero Yuy and the other ex-Gundam pilots? With Voldemort still lurking in the bowels and five new teachers this is likely to be an interesting year for the Wizarding World.
Thanks for the reviews Yuerohye (your name is really cool by the way, it's almost like the name Heero Yuy mixed up) and Pilot-Trowa-Barton! This may also be an off chapter. I just wasn't in the mood to work on this story yesterday so now that I am I better shut my big trap and start writing. Wow! Seven reviews! Seven! I didn't think I would ever get that many! Heck, as long as one person likes this story I'll continue writing it. Without further ado here is chapter four.
Harry Potter and the Angels of War
Chapter Four: The Hogwarts Express
"We have to go to platform WHAT?!" Duo's cry echoed around King's Cross Station and cut the busy hustle and bustle like a knife. It went silent and not even the whistling of the trains could be heard as all heads turned towards the small group standing between platforms nine and ten. It was only the Gundam pilots and their brood since Harry and the other wizards had gone separately.
"He didn't take his medication this morning. Just ignore him." Quatre said in a placating manner to the onlookers. As soon as he said this everyone turned back to their own business and didn't give the odd group a second glance.
"That was mean Quat." Duo pouted.
"Shut up baka." Heero said darkly and gave Duo a mighty push. The other three Gundam pilots winced waiting to hear an impact but instead blinked as Duo flew through the barrier between platforms nine and ten. A few minutes later the rest of the group joined the grinning Duo.
"Ch. The things you wizards come up with these days." Duo muttered shaking his head.
"Heero, how did you know that the platform was through the seemingly very solid brick wall?" Quatre asked in amusement.
"My winds passed right through it." Heero answered. "If it was a solid barrier than they would have been forced around it. Now get moving the train leaves in five minutes."
"Aye, aye el capitán." Duo said with a mock salute and helped the boys get their trunks onto the train.
"Baka." Heero muttered as he grabbed Meilan's trunk from where she and Solo were struggling with it and carried it easily aboard the train. Solo and Meilan blinked before grabbing the end of Hikaru's trunk with shrugs.
"Only Uncle Heero." Meilan remarked.
"Yeah, no kidding." Solo answered.
Ten minutes later found the train chugging along happily. The Gundam pilots had found an empty compartment and their children went off to find their friends. "How long is this going to take?" Duo asked.
"Quite a long time." Quatre answered. Trowa and Heero were sitting together on one side of the compartment reading the newspaper, the daily prophet, together as Wufei meditated. "Come on, let's play poker."
"Might as well." Duo sighed. "There's nothing else to do." So he took out a pack of playing cards and he and Quatre played poker for a while.
"Hey guys." Meilan said as she, her brothers, and their 'cousins' took seats in the same compartment as Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Draco had gone off to sit with the other Prefects. Though it was a well-known fact that Harry and Draco were a couple they never rode on the train together. Their relationships nearly put half the student body into cardiac arrest when they found out about it. It wasn't the fact that the two were both boys. It was just that it was Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Together. As a couple.
"Hey." Harry, Ron, and Hermone answered back. Hermione and Ron were Prefects, as was Meilan. But they, meaning Harry and Meilan, had sent poor Millardo and Draco as their, meaning Ron, Hermione, and Meilan, representative as they wanted to sit with their friends. The two blondes just couldn't refuse their significant others so they obediently left mumbling to each other about manipulative boy/girlfriends.
"Where are your parents?" Hermione asked with a slight frown as the boys helped their friends stow the trunks away.
"They're in their own compartment." Solo answered. "I think Dad was starting to bug Uncle Ro so we decided to get out of there."
"Smart idea." Ron muttered.
"No kidding." James answered blandly as the five took seats.
"Hey, do you guys wanna play exploding snap?" Solo asked.
"Sure." The boys answered. Hermione and Meilan shook their heads and sat next to each other reading their new textbooks for the year. "Girls." Was the exasperated reply to that silent answer as the boys rolled their eyes and got into their game.
Twenty minutes later there was a knock on their compartment. Hikaru, who was closest to the door opened it to reveal Trowa. Trowa shot him an apologetic look and started speaking to his sons in rapid French.
"May I borrow your cat carrier?" Trowa asked. The other teens in the compartment blinked not understanding that language. James knew a little but not enough to understand what was going on. Solo and Meilan knew a few words but were just as lost as Hermione, Harry, and Ron. The only languages they knew were Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Mandarin.
"My cat carrier?" Triton asked. He and Hikaru traded looks.
"Why?" Hikaru asked.
"Noir and Scythe got into a fight... on top of Duo." Trowa answered. "He is embarrassed so he asked me to talk to you in French."
"I see." Triton said with a nod. "Sure." He picked up his cat carrier and gently removed Yuki from it and than handed it to Trowa.
"Uh... Dad?" Hikaru asked.
"Yes?" Trowa asked.
"What happened to yours?" Hikaru asked. Trowa switched back to English.
"You don't want to know." He answered. He gave a wave to the teens and closed the sliding door behind him.
"Uh..." Solo trailed off.
"You don't want to know." Hikaru and Triton echoed their father.
"Another one of their moments huh?" Solo asked.
"That's what it sounded like." Triton answered. He and Hikaru rolled their eyes before settling down to watch James and Ron play wizards chess. Yuki was now curled up in a fluffy white ball on Triton's lap.
"Blasted cats." Duo muttered as he and the other pilots got off the train. Despite his mutterings he pet Scythe who was draped across his neck. Towards the end of the trip Trowa returned the cat carrier to his oldest son. The two cats had promised to behave and indeed spent the rest of the trip curled up together in an empty seat fast asleep.
"At least they were smart enough not to fight on top of Heero." Quatre answered with a grin at his husband. Heero snorted and Wufei coughed to hide a laugh.
"True." Trowa answered. Noir was sitting on his shoulder, watching the world with intelligent golden eyes. He and Heero got in one carriage while Duo, Quatre, and Wufei took another.
"These creatures are thestrals correct?" Quatre could be heard asking before the carriage door shut behind him.
"This Hagrid that you will be helping out. The thestrals like him." Heero remarked. Trowa nodded. Though the tall Latino was the expert at all land animals under the sun. If you wanted to know about an animal that flew through the air you went to Heero. Aquatic animals were Quatre's department as Duo took animals that were closely related with death and Wufei took those animals that loved fire. Obviously there was a lot over lapping in their fields.
"Yes, Hikaru says that he is a great animal lover. He especially likes Dragons." Trowa answered.
"Dragons? He'll get along with Wufei than." Heero remarked.
"Yes." Trowa answered. He moved Heero to sit in his lap and the two looked out the window as the magnificent castle that was Hogwarts came to life before them. Lights glowed from every window and made the castle seem more like a miniature city than anything. "It's beautiful."
"Hai." Heero answered. (A/N: hai- yes.) "I can see why the boys want to keep coming back." Trowa wrapped his arms around Heero's waist and rested his chin on top of his husband's unruly brown hair.
"Hn." Trowa answered, stealing Heero's word. But it was really the only thing that he could say to describe the moment.
"Welcome back to another year at Hogwarts. There are many things I'd like to address but now is not the time. Tuck in." Dumbledore said after the sorting. (Duo had gotten a kick out of the singing hat.) He sat back in his chair and the tables instantly filled with food. Duo nearly jumped out of his chair, and would have, had Quatre not caught his arm and forced him to remain still.
"Impressive." Duo remarked.
"Hn." Heero answered as he looked warily at the food on his plate.
"It won't bit you my boy." Professor Flitwick the Charms teacher commented atop his stack of pillows. He was a tiny wizened thing; he even made Heero look tall. His hair was white and he had kind dark eyes. Heero still looked skeptical so Duo reached across Quatre and stole a piece of steak off of his plate and took a bite out of it.
"See Ro? It's fine. I would pretend to choke or something but as we're on the staff that would look bad." Duo remarked.
"Hn." Heero muttered and started cutting up is food. Duo moved to try and take another piece but Heero caught his wrist and sent him a glare that would make birds fall out of flight.
"Humph." Duo pouted. Than he stole a piece off of Quatre's plate instead. They were sitting at the staff table at the front of the Great Hall. It was a large room with four giant wooden tables where the four houses sat and the staff table at the front of the room. The ceiling was enchanted to look like the night sky and was currently clear and bright showing off the stars. Hundreds of white candles floated above the tables to give them light.
"Who are they?" Neville Longbottom asked. He was a small boy with messy brown hair and dark eyes. He was a little chubby and had a disheveled look to him. The poor boy was quite accident-prone and if something could go wrong around him. It usually did, than got unusually worse.
"They are the new Professors." Solo answered. To the amazement of his friends he didn't say anything else.
"That small one looks just like you Hikaru." Dean Thomas remarked. Dean was Seamus Finnigan's best friend. He had skin the color of cocoa, black hair, and dark eyes that glowed with intelligence.
"Yes he does, doesn't he." Hikaru answered, not looking up from his plate. Hermione, Ron, Harry Ginny, and Seamus looked at each other and than shrugged. If their friends weren't going to say anything about exactly who the new teachers were then they might as well not either.
"Are they relatives of yours?" Neville asked.
"Why do you say that?" Triton asked, serving himself more mashed potatoes.
"Well, that other one. The tall one looks just like you." Dean answered.
"He does, doesn't he." Hikaru said mechanically. Neville and Dean just gaped at their friend as he poured himself more pumpkin juice.
"A few start of term announcements." Dumbledore remarked as the tables cleared themselves of food. The silver plates and goblets emptied and cleaned themselves. 'Heh, would you look at that-ouch! Watch the braid Fei!' 'Shut up baka!' The students went quiet and looked up to their headmaster. "First years should note that the Forbidden Forest is out-of- bounds to students." He sent a look over towards the Gryffindor table where Harry, Ron, and Hermione traded smirks. "As is Hogsmeade village to all students under third year."
"Mr. Filch, our caretaker has asked me to remind you that there is to be no magic in the corridors between classes. A few new items have been added to the list of objects that are forbidden in the castle. The full list can be found on Mr. Filch's office door." He than gave a smile. "As I see many of you have noticed there are quite a few new faces among our staff this year. Professor Chang is our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." He motioned to Wufei who gave a small bow and the school clapped politely.
"Professor Barton is going to be assisting Professor Hagrid this year in Care of Magical Creatures." At this Trowa gave a brief nod in greeting.
"I am pleased to announce that we have a new subject this year. Professors Winner, Maxwell, and Yuy will be teaching Battle tactics to students who sign up for their class. This course is for students in the third year and above. If you wish to sign up for this course than please do so with your head of house after you are excused from my rather boring speech." The school laughed. As their names were called Quatre and Duo waved and when Heero's name was called Duo merely pointed at Heero so the students would know who he was.
"Now than, before I excuse you I would like you to sing the school song." Dumbledore remarked. The smiles of the teachers became rather fixed at that causing Duo and Heero to exchange wary looks while Quatre swallowed in anticipation. Wufei looked around at the teachers as if wondering whether he should run now and save his poor eardrums. Trowa sunk a little lower in his seat as if thinking that if he was closer to the ground than maybe the sound would pass over him.
Dumbledore raised his wand and golden ribbon streamed out of the tip to form the words that ghosted in the air. "Everyone pick your favorite tune and off we go!"
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
By the end Heero had paled considerably and Trowa was looking at him worriedly as if wondering if he was about to pass out. Wufei had a very fixed look on his face, Quatre was muttering prayers to his god that it was finally over, and Duo was biting his lips as he tried not to break out laughing. "Aw, music. The magic of the heart." Dumbledore remarked while he whipped away a tear.
Duo had by this time shoved his fist into his mouth to keep from commenting and Heero was staring at the man as if he was insane. Meanwhile Quatre, and most of the staff, were also wiping away tears. Though the fact that those were tears of agony rather than tears of joy did not seem to occur to the Headmaster. "Now off you go, tomorrow is a day of learning." With that the students stood up and left with the Prefects shouting out for the first years to follow them.
"Did you see Uncle Ro's face?" Solo asked with a laugh. "He looked like he was about to take out his gun and shoot himself in the head."
"Yeah, well I have to give Uncle Duo credit." Hikaru answered. "He managed to not make a comment."
"I think the fact that father stomped on his foot might have had something to do with that." James remarked. Just than they reached more students from Gryffindor and stopped talking in fear of ruining the surprise.
"That was the worst singing I have ever heard in my life." Duo muttered as he followed his friends to their bedrooms. Their rooms were to be near each other as there was less of a chance that they would get lost. (Especially since all of them had memorized the blue prints of the castle that they found in a book. They also knew exactly which doors lead where and the pattern of the moving staircases.)
"Don't go up that staircase Duo." Heero remarked. "It changes every Monday." Since that day was Monday it was obvious that it wouldn't lead to where they had to go.
"Right." Duo muttered and took his foot off the bottom stair and followed the others as they walked down a hallway before taking another staircase.
"Well, it wasn't so ba-" Quatre cut off as his foot got caught in the trick stair and sank down to his ankle. He gave a frustrated sigh as Duo and Wufei pulled him out. "Let me guess, this stair case moves every Sunday and changes back at six o clock on Monday." Heero nodded and Quatre gave an irritated whine.
"This is worse than sneaking into an OZ base." Duo muttered. "I wouldn't be surprised if we show up to our own classes fifteen minutes late because we got lost or stuck somewhere."
"At least you have Yuy with you." Wufei muttered. "Trowa and I are sunk."
"Not really. My classes are outside. If worse comes to worse I could always just jump out the window. I'm sure one of those thestrals wouldn't mind giving me a ride." Trowa answered. Wufei gave a good-natured groan.
"Hn." Heero muttered. They had reached their rooms. He opened the door and dragged Trowa in after him. Just before he slammed the door behind the two he poked his head out. "Try and wake up on time for breakfast baka."
"Sure Ro. No promises though." Duo answered. With that Heero slammed the door shut ending this chapter and a very odd day.
Well, there it is. I would have had it done a lot faster but my mom kept bugging me. Sheesh, it's not like I don't do chores or something. I'm always at her beck and call. Maybe I should just rig up a bell or something. Look there she goes again. Grr... Okay, I'm back. Anyway, I hope you liked it. I somehow lost my first Harry Potter book and it took me awhile to find the words to the alma mater. I better go start on those chores my mom is making me do. Please review! Flames are welcome!
Genre: Fantasy/ Humor
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Yaoi, Yuri, Shonen-ai, Shojo-ai, boy/boy, girl/girl pairings. Mpreg... maybe... I haven't decided yet. Mentions of it though. Relena bashing.
Notes: Alternate Universe, timeline-what-timeline, Gundam Wing/ Harry Potter fusion. This is sixteen years after endless waltz and one year after Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius did not fall through the veil, and the story has other AU parts that will be explained.
Pairings: 1/3, 2/4/5, Zechs/ Noin, Relena/ Dorothy, Sirius/ Remus, Harry/ Draco, Hermione/ Ron, Hikaru/ Solo, Triton/ James, Meilan/ Millardo, Blaise/ Ginny.
Summary: What happens when Hikaru and Triton Yuy-Barton bring their friends from school home for the summer? And what if those friends happened to bring their parents? What happens when Harry Potter and his friends meet Heero Yuy and the other ex-Gundam pilots? With Voldemort still lurking in the bowels and five new teachers this is likely to be an interesting year for the Wizarding World.
Thanks for the reviews Yuerohye (your name is really cool by the way, it's almost like the name Heero Yuy mixed up) and Pilot-Trowa-Barton! This may also be an off chapter. I just wasn't in the mood to work on this story yesterday so now that I am I better shut my big trap and start writing. Wow! Seven reviews! Seven! I didn't think I would ever get that many! Heck, as long as one person likes this story I'll continue writing it. Without further ado here is chapter four.
Harry Potter and the Angels of War
Chapter Four: The Hogwarts Express
"We have to go to platform WHAT?!" Duo's cry echoed around King's Cross Station and cut the busy hustle and bustle like a knife. It went silent and not even the whistling of the trains could be heard as all heads turned towards the small group standing between platforms nine and ten. It was only the Gundam pilots and their brood since Harry and the other wizards had gone separately.
"He didn't take his medication this morning. Just ignore him." Quatre said in a placating manner to the onlookers. As soon as he said this everyone turned back to their own business and didn't give the odd group a second glance.
"That was mean Quat." Duo pouted.
"Shut up baka." Heero said darkly and gave Duo a mighty push. The other three Gundam pilots winced waiting to hear an impact but instead blinked as Duo flew through the barrier between platforms nine and ten. A few minutes later the rest of the group joined the grinning Duo.
"Ch. The things you wizards come up with these days." Duo muttered shaking his head.
"Heero, how did you know that the platform was through the seemingly very solid brick wall?" Quatre asked in amusement.
"My winds passed right through it." Heero answered. "If it was a solid barrier than they would have been forced around it. Now get moving the train leaves in five minutes."
"Aye, aye el capitán." Duo said with a mock salute and helped the boys get their trunks onto the train.
"Baka." Heero muttered as he grabbed Meilan's trunk from where she and Solo were struggling with it and carried it easily aboard the train. Solo and Meilan blinked before grabbing the end of Hikaru's trunk with shrugs.
"Only Uncle Heero." Meilan remarked.
"Yeah, no kidding." Solo answered.
Ten minutes later found the train chugging along happily. The Gundam pilots had found an empty compartment and their children went off to find their friends. "How long is this going to take?" Duo asked.
"Quite a long time." Quatre answered. Trowa and Heero were sitting together on one side of the compartment reading the newspaper, the daily prophet, together as Wufei meditated. "Come on, let's play poker."
"Might as well." Duo sighed. "There's nothing else to do." So he took out a pack of playing cards and he and Quatre played poker for a while.
"Hey guys." Meilan said as she, her brothers, and their 'cousins' took seats in the same compartment as Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Draco had gone off to sit with the other Prefects. Though it was a well-known fact that Harry and Draco were a couple they never rode on the train together. Their relationships nearly put half the student body into cardiac arrest when they found out about it. It wasn't the fact that the two were both boys. It was just that it was Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Together. As a couple.
"Hey." Harry, Ron, and Hermone answered back. Hermione and Ron were Prefects, as was Meilan. But they, meaning Harry and Meilan, had sent poor Millardo and Draco as their, meaning Ron, Hermione, and Meilan, representative as they wanted to sit with their friends. The two blondes just couldn't refuse their significant others so they obediently left mumbling to each other about manipulative boy/girlfriends.
"Where are your parents?" Hermione asked with a slight frown as the boys helped their friends stow the trunks away.
"They're in their own compartment." Solo answered. "I think Dad was starting to bug Uncle Ro so we decided to get out of there."
"Smart idea." Ron muttered.
"No kidding." James answered blandly as the five took seats.
"Hey, do you guys wanna play exploding snap?" Solo asked.
"Sure." The boys answered. Hermione and Meilan shook their heads and sat next to each other reading their new textbooks for the year. "Girls." Was the exasperated reply to that silent answer as the boys rolled their eyes and got into their game.
Twenty minutes later there was a knock on their compartment. Hikaru, who was closest to the door opened it to reveal Trowa. Trowa shot him an apologetic look and started speaking to his sons in rapid French.
"May I borrow your cat carrier?" Trowa asked. The other teens in the compartment blinked not understanding that language. James knew a little but not enough to understand what was going on. Solo and Meilan knew a few words but were just as lost as Hermione, Harry, and Ron. The only languages they knew were Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Mandarin.
"My cat carrier?" Triton asked. He and Hikaru traded looks.
"Why?" Hikaru asked.
"Noir and Scythe got into a fight... on top of Duo." Trowa answered. "He is embarrassed so he asked me to talk to you in French."
"I see." Triton said with a nod. "Sure." He picked up his cat carrier and gently removed Yuki from it and than handed it to Trowa.
"Uh... Dad?" Hikaru asked.
"Yes?" Trowa asked.
"What happened to yours?" Hikaru asked. Trowa switched back to English.
"You don't want to know." He answered. He gave a wave to the teens and closed the sliding door behind him.
"Uh..." Solo trailed off.
"You don't want to know." Hikaru and Triton echoed their father.
"Another one of their moments huh?" Solo asked.
"That's what it sounded like." Triton answered. He and Hikaru rolled their eyes before settling down to watch James and Ron play wizards chess. Yuki was now curled up in a fluffy white ball on Triton's lap.
"Blasted cats." Duo muttered as he and the other pilots got off the train. Despite his mutterings he pet Scythe who was draped across his neck. Towards the end of the trip Trowa returned the cat carrier to his oldest son. The two cats had promised to behave and indeed spent the rest of the trip curled up together in an empty seat fast asleep.
"At least they were smart enough not to fight on top of Heero." Quatre answered with a grin at his husband. Heero snorted and Wufei coughed to hide a laugh.
"True." Trowa answered. Noir was sitting on his shoulder, watching the world with intelligent golden eyes. He and Heero got in one carriage while Duo, Quatre, and Wufei took another.
"These creatures are thestrals correct?" Quatre could be heard asking before the carriage door shut behind him.
"This Hagrid that you will be helping out. The thestrals like him." Heero remarked. Trowa nodded. Though the tall Latino was the expert at all land animals under the sun. If you wanted to know about an animal that flew through the air you went to Heero. Aquatic animals were Quatre's department as Duo took animals that were closely related with death and Wufei took those animals that loved fire. Obviously there was a lot over lapping in their fields.
"Yes, Hikaru says that he is a great animal lover. He especially likes Dragons." Trowa answered.
"Dragons? He'll get along with Wufei than." Heero remarked.
"Yes." Trowa answered. He moved Heero to sit in his lap and the two looked out the window as the magnificent castle that was Hogwarts came to life before them. Lights glowed from every window and made the castle seem more like a miniature city than anything. "It's beautiful."
"Hai." Heero answered. (A/N: hai- yes.) "I can see why the boys want to keep coming back." Trowa wrapped his arms around Heero's waist and rested his chin on top of his husband's unruly brown hair.
"Hn." Trowa answered, stealing Heero's word. But it was really the only thing that he could say to describe the moment.
"Welcome back to another year at Hogwarts. There are many things I'd like to address but now is not the time. Tuck in." Dumbledore said after the sorting. (Duo had gotten a kick out of the singing hat.) He sat back in his chair and the tables instantly filled with food. Duo nearly jumped out of his chair, and would have, had Quatre not caught his arm and forced him to remain still.
"Impressive." Duo remarked.
"Hn." Heero answered as he looked warily at the food on his plate.
"It won't bit you my boy." Professor Flitwick the Charms teacher commented atop his stack of pillows. He was a tiny wizened thing; he even made Heero look tall. His hair was white and he had kind dark eyes. Heero still looked skeptical so Duo reached across Quatre and stole a piece of steak off of his plate and took a bite out of it.
"See Ro? It's fine. I would pretend to choke or something but as we're on the staff that would look bad." Duo remarked.
"Hn." Heero muttered and started cutting up is food. Duo moved to try and take another piece but Heero caught his wrist and sent him a glare that would make birds fall out of flight.
"Humph." Duo pouted. Than he stole a piece off of Quatre's plate instead. They were sitting at the staff table at the front of the Great Hall. It was a large room with four giant wooden tables where the four houses sat and the staff table at the front of the room. The ceiling was enchanted to look like the night sky and was currently clear and bright showing off the stars. Hundreds of white candles floated above the tables to give them light.
"Who are they?" Neville Longbottom asked. He was a small boy with messy brown hair and dark eyes. He was a little chubby and had a disheveled look to him. The poor boy was quite accident-prone and if something could go wrong around him. It usually did, than got unusually worse.
"They are the new Professors." Solo answered. To the amazement of his friends he didn't say anything else.
"That small one looks just like you Hikaru." Dean Thomas remarked. Dean was Seamus Finnigan's best friend. He had skin the color of cocoa, black hair, and dark eyes that glowed with intelligence.
"Yes he does, doesn't he." Hikaru answered, not looking up from his plate. Hermione, Ron, Harry Ginny, and Seamus looked at each other and than shrugged. If their friends weren't going to say anything about exactly who the new teachers were then they might as well not either.
"Are they relatives of yours?" Neville asked.
"Why do you say that?" Triton asked, serving himself more mashed potatoes.
"Well, that other one. The tall one looks just like you." Dean answered.
"He does, doesn't he." Hikaru said mechanically. Neville and Dean just gaped at their friend as he poured himself more pumpkin juice.
"A few start of term announcements." Dumbledore remarked as the tables cleared themselves of food. The silver plates and goblets emptied and cleaned themselves. 'Heh, would you look at that-ouch! Watch the braid Fei!' 'Shut up baka!' The students went quiet and looked up to their headmaster. "First years should note that the Forbidden Forest is out-of- bounds to students." He sent a look over towards the Gryffindor table where Harry, Ron, and Hermione traded smirks. "As is Hogsmeade village to all students under third year."
"Mr. Filch, our caretaker has asked me to remind you that there is to be no magic in the corridors between classes. A few new items have been added to the list of objects that are forbidden in the castle. The full list can be found on Mr. Filch's office door." He than gave a smile. "As I see many of you have noticed there are quite a few new faces among our staff this year. Professor Chang is our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." He motioned to Wufei who gave a small bow and the school clapped politely.
"Professor Barton is going to be assisting Professor Hagrid this year in Care of Magical Creatures." At this Trowa gave a brief nod in greeting.
"I am pleased to announce that we have a new subject this year. Professors Winner, Maxwell, and Yuy will be teaching Battle tactics to students who sign up for their class. This course is for students in the third year and above. If you wish to sign up for this course than please do so with your head of house after you are excused from my rather boring speech." The school laughed. As their names were called Quatre and Duo waved and when Heero's name was called Duo merely pointed at Heero so the students would know who he was.
"Now than, before I excuse you I would like you to sing the school song." Dumbledore remarked. The smiles of the teachers became rather fixed at that causing Duo and Heero to exchange wary looks while Quatre swallowed in anticipation. Wufei looked around at the teachers as if wondering whether he should run now and save his poor eardrums. Trowa sunk a little lower in his seat as if thinking that if he was closer to the ground than maybe the sound would pass over him.
Dumbledore raised his wand and golden ribbon streamed out of the tip to form the words that ghosted in the air. "Everyone pick your favorite tune and off we go!"
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
By the end Heero had paled considerably and Trowa was looking at him worriedly as if wondering if he was about to pass out. Wufei had a very fixed look on his face, Quatre was muttering prayers to his god that it was finally over, and Duo was biting his lips as he tried not to break out laughing. "Aw, music. The magic of the heart." Dumbledore remarked while he whipped away a tear.
Duo had by this time shoved his fist into his mouth to keep from commenting and Heero was staring at the man as if he was insane. Meanwhile Quatre, and most of the staff, were also wiping away tears. Though the fact that those were tears of agony rather than tears of joy did not seem to occur to the Headmaster. "Now off you go, tomorrow is a day of learning." With that the students stood up and left with the Prefects shouting out for the first years to follow them.
"Did you see Uncle Ro's face?" Solo asked with a laugh. "He looked like he was about to take out his gun and shoot himself in the head."
"Yeah, well I have to give Uncle Duo credit." Hikaru answered. "He managed to not make a comment."
"I think the fact that father stomped on his foot might have had something to do with that." James remarked. Just than they reached more students from Gryffindor and stopped talking in fear of ruining the surprise.
"That was the worst singing I have ever heard in my life." Duo muttered as he followed his friends to their bedrooms. Their rooms were to be near each other as there was less of a chance that they would get lost. (Especially since all of them had memorized the blue prints of the castle that they found in a book. They also knew exactly which doors lead where and the pattern of the moving staircases.)
"Don't go up that staircase Duo." Heero remarked. "It changes every Monday." Since that day was Monday it was obvious that it wouldn't lead to where they had to go.
"Right." Duo muttered and took his foot off the bottom stair and followed the others as they walked down a hallway before taking another staircase.
"Well, it wasn't so ba-" Quatre cut off as his foot got caught in the trick stair and sank down to his ankle. He gave a frustrated sigh as Duo and Wufei pulled him out. "Let me guess, this stair case moves every Sunday and changes back at six o clock on Monday." Heero nodded and Quatre gave an irritated whine.
"This is worse than sneaking into an OZ base." Duo muttered. "I wouldn't be surprised if we show up to our own classes fifteen minutes late because we got lost or stuck somewhere."
"At least you have Yuy with you." Wufei muttered. "Trowa and I are sunk."
"Not really. My classes are outside. If worse comes to worse I could always just jump out the window. I'm sure one of those thestrals wouldn't mind giving me a ride." Trowa answered. Wufei gave a good-natured groan.
"Hn." Heero muttered. They had reached their rooms. He opened the door and dragged Trowa in after him. Just before he slammed the door behind the two he poked his head out. "Try and wake up on time for breakfast baka."
"Sure Ro. No promises though." Duo answered. With that Heero slammed the door shut ending this chapter and a very odd day.
Well, there it is. I would have had it done a lot faster but my mom kept bugging me. Sheesh, it's not like I don't do chores or something. I'm always at her beck and call. Maybe I should just rig up a bell or something. Look there she goes again. Grr... Okay, I'm back. Anyway, I hope you liked it. I somehow lost my first Harry Potter book and it took me awhile to find the words to the alma mater. I better go start on those chores my mom is making me do. Please review! Flames are welcome!