*Sorry its taken a little longer to get this chapter up, I've been lacking
in inspiration lol.
Anyway thanks to Dragon Princess, Islandgirl801 and BubblySweetAngel and
QTsweet2003 for your reviews. They are soooooo great, I really appreciate
it. I might try and push the story on a little bit in this chapter, then
reveal something about Raid in the next chapter. Not sure yet, we'll see
how it pans out.
Here is the next chapter for those of you that read it, I'm going to keep writing because I like to you non reviewers cant get rid of me, hahahaha *evil laugh**
Tears
Harry, Ron and Hermione hurried out of the Defence Against the Dark Art classroom quickly to go and find Raid at the Great Hall.
"That was a really bad thing to happen on Raid's first day." Hermione said. "I mean with the OWL's coming up this year and everything."
"I don't think she's really going to be missing out on anything though." Ron said. "I mean it seems like she's pretty confident in her ability."
Hermione grinned in spite of her worry for her new friend.
"You have no idea." She said mysteriously to the boys.
Both Harry and Ron looked at Hermione curiously. Wondering what she knew that they didn't. They didn't bother to ask because they had heard that mysterious tone before, she would never tell them anything about it. Shaking their heads, the boys followed her in to the Great Hall for dinner. They sat down at the Gryfindor table and looked around for Raid. She was nowhere to be seen. They carried on looking for her through the students slowly filing in from their last lesson.
"Where is she?" Harry asked.
The other two shook their heads.
"I'm starving." Said Ron. "Come on, lets eat then go and look for her. She's probably already eaten. Or will turn up later"
With that Ron piled his plate full of battered fish and chips. Hermione and Harry followed his example but didn't fill their plates quite as full. The three of them quickly ate their food and since Raid had not shown they left quickly to go and search for her. Their quick search of the castle yielded no results. So they went to look outside, to see if she was with her Unicorn. As they made their way to the Entrance Hall they heard a strange noise, like wheels grinding on the floor, Curiously they made their way to the front doors. The noise got louder but was coming from behind them.
"Hi guys!" came a shout from behind them. Raid flew past them on her skateboard and, flipping in to air just at the top of the stairs she skilfully twisted the board between her feet before coming to a gracefully landing at the bottom of the stairs. She turned the board and stopped, running back up the stairs to her friends she was breathless and smiled broadly at them. She stopped but then ran past them to the back of the Entrance Hall.
"How was Defence Against the Dark Arts with the evil frog woman?" She shouted to them.
"It was, uuh.." Ron began but was then totally focused on the piece of wood with wheels that Raid was propelling towards them with her right foot,
"Boring." Harry finished for Ron. However he too was captivated by Raids skateboard.
The three watched as Raid came up to the hand rail that swung down the middle of the stairs to the Entrance Hall. Once again she flipped the board up, but this time caught the end of the board on to the hand rail and began to slide down it. The board stalled and Raid was pitched forward down the stairs. She rolled down the stairs and came to a stop when she hit the floor at the bottom.
Her friends issued cries of concern and raced to the bottom of the stairs to help her. They found her lying on her back, laughing. Hermione offered her hand to Raid. Using the offered hand, Raid pulled herself up, still laughing.
"Why are you three looking at me as if I'm completely mad?" She asked once she'd got control of herself.
"Because you uh, just fell and rolled down six steps?" Harry said incredulously.
"Oh that." Raid said simply. "I laughed because I've been trying to pull that trick or ages, never managed though."
"Oh." Was Harry and Ron's reply to this unusual statement.
"Come on Raid, we'll go to the kitchens and get you some food. I presume that you have been out here since you left DADA (A/n I got bored of writing defence against the..) and are now completely starving." Hermione said.
"Now you mention it Mio, I am starving. Lead the way to the kitchens." Raid said.
"Mio?" Ron asked.
"Yeah why not?" Said Raid. "I have a nickname I think Hermione should too. What do you think?"
"Mio." Hermione said to herself, she looked at Raid and smiled. "Yeah I like it. Guys?"
"I like it." Harry said, "Yeah." Ron agreed. "Mio." He said ginning.
Raid picked up her folded robes that were lying by the doors and the others noticed she was wearing her normal clothes. She was dressed in long, very loose, what looked like men's black combats and a short red t-shirt with her trainers just showing from underneath the trousers. They watched as she took out her wand and made her skateboard disappear.
"Come on then Mio." She said, turning to Hermione.
"See you guys later." Hermione said.
"Yeah, see you." Harry said. Turning to Ron he said, "Well she is different." They both laughed and made their way up to their common room.
An hour later the two girls made their way in to the common room. They collected some books, parchment and a quill and made their way over to a table where Harry and Ron sat. They were doing Divinitation homework.
"What about next Thursday? I've already used drowning." Ron asked Harry. Trying to decided how he would die next week.
"How about." Raid said, "You will be killed gruesomely by another student?"
"Perfect." Said Ron.
Hermione pursed her lips but said nothing. The boys knew she disapproved of this method of doing their Divinitation. However she had to admit that it was a good idea, Professor Trewlawney loved a good tragedy. Hermione would never say so the Harry and Ron though. Putting down their books, Raid and Hermione sat down.
"What are you doing tonight?" Harry asked.
"Arithmacy." Raid said darkly. "I hate homework."
"Really?" Hermione said surprised. "I would have thought that you didn't mind doing it, Since you know everything anyway." She joked.
"I don't know everything!" Raid said in her defence. "This Arithmacy is hard. I just hate doing homework, I can think of a number of things I'd rather be doing."
"I know, I know." Hermione soothed. "I was just kidding."
Ten minutes later, Raid looked up from her work, thoroughly bored.
"Have you guys ever been in the Forbidden Forest?" She asked the other three.
Harry grinned at Ron. "Yeah, a couple of times." He said "Really, tell me about it." Raid said excitedly.
Harry and Ron launched in to the tales of Hagrid's dragon, then of the Chamber of Secrets and Hagrid's advice of 'follow the spiders'. Hermione even put down her quill and joined in the conversation about the Forbidden Forest.
"Could you remember where the Acromantula nest was?" Raid asked Harry and Ron.
Ron visibly paled under his freckles.
"Why, why? You don't what to go their do you?" He asked sounding terrified.
"No, no, no. Definitely not!" Raid said with force. "I want to know so I can avoid it!" Then she continued in a whisper. "I want to explore the forest, all of it. On Shadow. I could probably handle most things when I'm with him, but I'd be no match for a spider as big as a bus." She shuddered as did Ron, who was looking decidedly ill.
"You want to explore.." Harry began slowly but was cut short by Neville coming over.
"Hi guys, do you think you could help me with my Divinitation homework, I just don't understand this whole star thingy." He said, sitting down next to Raid.
Harry and Ron laughed. "Yeah sure Neville, we don't either. We'll let you in on our little secret."
Raid glanced at Neville. And quickly got up
"I err, I'm going to go to bed I think. Long day, see you tomorrow, Harry, Ron, Mio." Raid said hurriedly and quickly made her way to the girls dorm, bumping in to people frequently and muttering apologies.
"What's up with her?" Ron asked.
"I don't think she likes me." Neville said in a small voice, looking at the desk. "She hasn't spoke to me since she arrived."
"Well that is true." Harry said. Then sounding annoyed. "She always leaves when you arrive. That's not right, it's rude!"
"Yeah." Ron agreed. "I know Neville, tomorrow at breakfast when she's sitting with us at the table, come over and sit down, if she leaves we'll go and have a word."
"You would? Thanks guys. Anyway this homework.." Neville said, sounding somewhat relieved at the hearing of a plan.
Raid sat on her bed, the drapes closed. Silent tears were falling down her cheeks. She sat lost in thought of the past and current events. She couldn't help who she was, but she couldn't stop it hurting her. She lay down and cried herself to sleep.
*Gasp* What is going on???? Hahahaha you'll to wait and see. R&R peeps*
Here is the next chapter for those of you that read it, I'm going to keep writing because I like to you non reviewers cant get rid of me, hahahaha *evil laugh**
Tears
Harry, Ron and Hermione hurried out of the Defence Against the Dark Art classroom quickly to go and find Raid at the Great Hall.
"That was a really bad thing to happen on Raid's first day." Hermione said. "I mean with the OWL's coming up this year and everything."
"I don't think she's really going to be missing out on anything though." Ron said. "I mean it seems like she's pretty confident in her ability."
Hermione grinned in spite of her worry for her new friend.
"You have no idea." She said mysteriously to the boys.
Both Harry and Ron looked at Hermione curiously. Wondering what she knew that they didn't. They didn't bother to ask because they had heard that mysterious tone before, she would never tell them anything about it. Shaking their heads, the boys followed her in to the Great Hall for dinner. They sat down at the Gryfindor table and looked around for Raid. She was nowhere to be seen. They carried on looking for her through the students slowly filing in from their last lesson.
"Where is she?" Harry asked.
The other two shook their heads.
"I'm starving." Said Ron. "Come on, lets eat then go and look for her. She's probably already eaten. Or will turn up later"
With that Ron piled his plate full of battered fish and chips. Hermione and Harry followed his example but didn't fill their plates quite as full. The three of them quickly ate their food and since Raid had not shown they left quickly to go and search for her. Their quick search of the castle yielded no results. So they went to look outside, to see if she was with her Unicorn. As they made their way to the Entrance Hall they heard a strange noise, like wheels grinding on the floor, Curiously they made their way to the front doors. The noise got louder but was coming from behind them.
"Hi guys!" came a shout from behind them. Raid flew past them on her skateboard and, flipping in to air just at the top of the stairs she skilfully twisted the board between her feet before coming to a gracefully landing at the bottom of the stairs. She turned the board and stopped, running back up the stairs to her friends she was breathless and smiled broadly at them. She stopped but then ran past them to the back of the Entrance Hall.
"How was Defence Against the Dark Arts with the evil frog woman?" She shouted to them.
"It was, uuh.." Ron began but was then totally focused on the piece of wood with wheels that Raid was propelling towards them with her right foot,
"Boring." Harry finished for Ron. However he too was captivated by Raids skateboard.
The three watched as Raid came up to the hand rail that swung down the middle of the stairs to the Entrance Hall. Once again she flipped the board up, but this time caught the end of the board on to the hand rail and began to slide down it. The board stalled and Raid was pitched forward down the stairs. She rolled down the stairs and came to a stop when she hit the floor at the bottom.
Her friends issued cries of concern and raced to the bottom of the stairs to help her. They found her lying on her back, laughing. Hermione offered her hand to Raid. Using the offered hand, Raid pulled herself up, still laughing.
"Why are you three looking at me as if I'm completely mad?" She asked once she'd got control of herself.
"Because you uh, just fell and rolled down six steps?" Harry said incredulously.
"Oh that." Raid said simply. "I laughed because I've been trying to pull that trick or ages, never managed though."
"Oh." Was Harry and Ron's reply to this unusual statement.
"Come on Raid, we'll go to the kitchens and get you some food. I presume that you have been out here since you left DADA (A/n I got bored of writing defence against the..) and are now completely starving." Hermione said.
"Now you mention it Mio, I am starving. Lead the way to the kitchens." Raid said.
"Mio?" Ron asked.
"Yeah why not?" Said Raid. "I have a nickname I think Hermione should too. What do you think?"
"Mio." Hermione said to herself, she looked at Raid and smiled. "Yeah I like it. Guys?"
"I like it." Harry said, "Yeah." Ron agreed. "Mio." He said ginning.
Raid picked up her folded robes that were lying by the doors and the others noticed she was wearing her normal clothes. She was dressed in long, very loose, what looked like men's black combats and a short red t-shirt with her trainers just showing from underneath the trousers. They watched as she took out her wand and made her skateboard disappear.
"Come on then Mio." She said, turning to Hermione.
"See you guys later." Hermione said.
"Yeah, see you." Harry said. Turning to Ron he said, "Well she is different." They both laughed and made their way up to their common room.
An hour later the two girls made their way in to the common room. They collected some books, parchment and a quill and made their way over to a table where Harry and Ron sat. They were doing Divinitation homework.
"What about next Thursday? I've already used drowning." Ron asked Harry. Trying to decided how he would die next week.
"How about." Raid said, "You will be killed gruesomely by another student?"
"Perfect." Said Ron.
Hermione pursed her lips but said nothing. The boys knew she disapproved of this method of doing their Divinitation. However she had to admit that it was a good idea, Professor Trewlawney loved a good tragedy. Hermione would never say so the Harry and Ron though. Putting down their books, Raid and Hermione sat down.
"What are you doing tonight?" Harry asked.
"Arithmacy." Raid said darkly. "I hate homework."
"Really?" Hermione said surprised. "I would have thought that you didn't mind doing it, Since you know everything anyway." She joked.
"I don't know everything!" Raid said in her defence. "This Arithmacy is hard. I just hate doing homework, I can think of a number of things I'd rather be doing."
"I know, I know." Hermione soothed. "I was just kidding."
Ten minutes later, Raid looked up from her work, thoroughly bored.
"Have you guys ever been in the Forbidden Forest?" She asked the other three.
Harry grinned at Ron. "Yeah, a couple of times." He said "Really, tell me about it." Raid said excitedly.
Harry and Ron launched in to the tales of Hagrid's dragon, then of the Chamber of Secrets and Hagrid's advice of 'follow the spiders'. Hermione even put down her quill and joined in the conversation about the Forbidden Forest.
"Could you remember where the Acromantula nest was?" Raid asked Harry and Ron.
Ron visibly paled under his freckles.
"Why, why? You don't what to go their do you?" He asked sounding terrified.
"No, no, no. Definitely not!" Raid said with force. "I want to know so I can avoid it!" Then she continued in a whisper. "I want to explore the forest, all of it. On Shadow. I could probably handle most things when I'm with him, but I'd be no match for a spider as big as a bus." She shuddered as did Ron, who was looking decidedly ill.
"You want to explore.." Harry began slowly but was cut short by Neville coming over.
"Hi guys, do you think you could help me with my Divinitation homework, I just don't understand this whole star thingy." He said, sitting down next to Raid.
Harry and Ron laughed. "Yeah sure Neville, we don't either. We'll let you in on our little secret."
Raid glanced at Neville. And quickly got up
"I err, I'm going to go to bed I think. Long day, see you tomorrow, Harry, Ron, Mio." Raid said hurriedly and quickly made her way to the girls dorm, bumping in to people frequently and muttering apologies.
"What's up with her?" Ron asked.
"I don't think she likes me." Neville said in a small voice, looking at the desk. "She hasn't spoke to me since she arrived."
"Well that is true." Harry said. Then sounding annoyed. "She always leaves when you arrive. That's not right, it's rude!"
"Yeah." Ron agreed. "I know Neville, tomorrow at breakfast when she's sitting with us at the table, come over and sit down, if she leaves we'll go and have a word."
"You would? Thanks guys. Anyway this homework.." Neville said, sounding somewhat relieved at the hearing of a plan.
Raid sat on her bed, the drapes closed. Silent tears were falling down her cheeks. She sat lost in thought of the past and current events. She couldn't help who she was, but she couldn't stop it hurting her. She lay down and cried herself to sleep.
*Gasp* What is going on???? Hahahaha you'll to wait and see. R&R peeps*