Hey everyone,
I am sssssssssssssssssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry that I haven't updated in a while but school's started and it's bloody hectic. So I might not get time to update in a while cause of all the homework that we're getting. On top of that, my nephew has decided to take over my computer and I can't even stay on it for two minutes with out him complaining that I've been on it for hours to my mum.
Little brat!
Anyway, My computer crashed and we had to get it fixed but it has returned from the dead and so I can update this story.
Enjoy, I hope.
Chapter 14: Squeak, Squeak and Slime
Sunrays shined through the window waking up the girls.
"Hey guys, I talked to Anubis and he said that I may have pronounced the spell a little bit different, but it ain't really bad. Instead of it revealing what rank we are I reviles what we're going to become when we're older. So I'm going to be one of the many head warriors for their army, Cass, you're going to be a leader of something, proberly the Mistress of Magic. Hermione your proberly get some kind of sight, you might become a seer. Rachel you'll be a healer, and Nikki you'll be an Auorer (A/N: I have no idea how to spell it so if anyone knows can you please tell me) of a sort," Alana explained, stretching.
They got dressed in their uniforms, all of them leaving their ties loosely done up. All of their hair was the same colour as the night before. Hermione left her hair out, Alana just had hers in a ponytail, Cassie had hers in a ponytail, which was folded in half and held in place with another hair band, so it looked like a clip was holding up her hair. Nikki kept her short hair out, Rachel had hers in a half-up-half-down. Each of them wore makeup but not much, just a little eyeliner natural eye shadow, lip-gloss. Cassie wore a crocodile tooth around her neck with a piece of leather, Alana had a sort of Celtic shape around hers and Hermione had a dragons tooth. All of these were thought to bring you luck. Rachel wore a cross and Nikki had a star in a circle chocker.
"So where do we go from here? The girls asked the two Australians.
"Well, Breakfast then we have to go to form where we listen to the notices, get our name ticked off, standard stuff. Then we go to our classes on our timetable, these include some Muggle lessons including languages if your taking them. We get our timetables at form," Alana answered leading the way keeping an eye out for the first years they had seen the other night.
They went down staircases and corridors until they found the great hall. It was packed with students. They sat down at the Criptillia table. The Snowstalkers glaring at the Criptillia.
"Yo Cass, what's with them?" Draco asked sitting down alone.
"Huh? Oh, the Snowstalkers. They hate us, we hate them. Same relationship with the Wolverines and the Frillies. Sometimes we glare at each other and over here we make a game out of it, whoever can stare them down the longest wins. They get to pull the first prank on them of the week. But since you guys arrived we're told to be on our best behaviour but we can still pull them anyway, the teachers will never know," she answered.
They ate breakfast and headed out to their form rooms.
"Good Morning everyone, and hello to our exchange students, I'm Dr Robson your form teacher. I may have you for some of your classes. Now, Christy?"
"Here."
"Cassie?"
"Here"
"Alana?"
"Here"
"Tom?"
"Here"
"Draco?"
"Here"
And so the roll went.
"Ok here are your timetables, now listen up as I read out the notices. Interhouse drama auditions commence on this Wednesday. All who would like to join please come to these rooms at lunch that day:
Criptillia – VPA block-room 1
Frill necks – Music room 2
Snowstalkers – Drama Cottage
Wolverines – VPA block-room 2
Quiditch tryouts start this Friday.
Snowstalkers – Friday
Frill necks – Saturday
Wolverines – Monday
Criptillia – Wednesday next week.
Muggle sport sign up boards are located on the Gym noticeboard. If you are interested please sign up.
Last week a student was bitten by a baby Chillawig when they tried to pet it thinking it was cute. Please note not to touch any of the animals (i.e. lab rats/mice, lizards, or any other animals) that wander around the school. These animals can hurt.
Would Head Boy, Christian Tale and Head Girl, Talia Nalison please see Miss Couch in TCR at Lunch today. You two know why you have to be there. Would all students that had their ipods, walkmans, mobile phones, game boys, mini Quiditch sets, and their 'Alive and Kicken toy models' confiscated last term please come and reclaim them. These items are not to be used during class no matter how bored you get. If they are seen again they will not be returned until the end of the summer through the mail," Dr Robson read out.
Hermione looked down at her timetable for that day:
MondayDADA (Frill Necks)
Potions (Snow Stalkers)
Potions (Snow Stalkers)
Break
Muggle Studies (Wolverines)
Muggle Studies (Wolverines)
Lunch Charms (Frill necks)
Arithmancy (Frill Necks)
"What you have first?" Cassie asked leaning over her shoulder.
"DADA, then double potions," replied Hermione.
"Who with?"
"DADA is with the Frills then Potions with the Snowstalkers."
"Ooo, tough break. At leased we're all in the same classes. Although I've got Transfiguration then Potions. Still. You're stuck with Hopelly then we have Dr Robson for Potions. She's all right, sometimes she's a bit strict but she's not all bad. Now, Hopelly, she's something to worry about. Even if you forget one thing she's blow her head off. I just love pissing her off," Cassie laughed.
Hermione looked weirdly at her Australian friend.
"Are you alright?"
"No of course I'm not alright other wise my life would be boring."
"Rrright."
"How about we ignore the weirdo and head to class?" Draco suggested.
"Sounds great." Hermione relied.
They headed up to their classroom following Alana. They sat at their seats and waited for their teacher.
"I see your all here. Now are you going to give me the same crap as last term? I didn't think so," came a voice after the door slammed shut.
A tall muscular woman stood at the door, her short blonde hair was a mess.
"What are you waiting for? Open up your books to Chapter 32: Salamanders on page 652 and start summarising. I want seven whole pages done by the end of this period, hand written, no magic. Now start!" she sneered, all of the DADA textbooks slammed open on the page where they had to start summarising, there was no pictures at all in the book so it was all text, very small text.
They were to summarise everything about Salamanders and their magical properties.
The lesson finally came to an end. Everyone started to leave but was called back.
"Before you leave you have to show me your work. If you haven't done the seven pages then you'll have a Wednesday and copy out everything from the start to Chapter 12. Now single file," yelled Prof. Hopelly from the front.
Everyone lined up, heads down as if they were going to be condemned by the devil. Just about every time she saw the papers the students heard "Wednesday" being called out. Hermione showed Prof. Hopelly her fourteen pages of neat scribble. The Professors eyebrows nearly reached her hairline.
"Well, well. You're the first not to have a Wednesday so far, and you don't even go to this school. You're dismissed," the professor, said surprised.
Everyone looked astonished at Hermione as she walked back to her desk to pack up her things before she left. Draco was next and no yelling came. Once again, everyone looked at the exchange students surprised that they had completed it and had even gotten at leased seven more pages done.
Hermione and Draco left and headed down to Potions. Luckily their teacher was late so they weren't in trouble.
"Where were you guys? Weren't making out?" Cassie asked raising an eyebrow.
"No, how could you think that?" Hermione asked.
"Dunno, I think some of my friends are rubbing off on me."
"Yeah, and I'm snoopy," Draco mumbled.
"Oh you are? I just love snoopy," Cassie squealed loudly.
"I was being sarcastic. Hello? What's that sound? Is that empty space?"
"No, it's temporary storage. Information goes in, information goes out."
"Ok in you go," their teacher called walking down the hall.
Everyone sat down and waited.
"Ok, today we'll be making the 'Inner Creature' potion. It reveals what your inner creature is. This potion was meant to be a metal making potion but as the creator accidentally added the wrong ingredient so she end up with this potion. The instructions are on the board, groups of two and start working, oh and follow them to the point. One mistake could make you a weasel, ferret or a sewer rat. Believe me it's happened," Dr Robson said sitting down and marking some work.
The students started working on the potion.
"Twenty crushed snail shells, a handful of Mad-lop weed, ten cups of Mad-lop weed slime, two pinches fairy dust, one crushed 20gram diamond, half of one dragon claw. Let the mixture simmer for an hour then add a quarter of a flask of Knucker venom," Hermione muttered to Draco as he crushed the shells.
Hermione reached into the pot on the end of their table for the Mad-lop weed. Her hand touched liquid slime and she quickly pulled it back. Her hand was covered in green goo.
"Disgusting," she muttered and reached back in. Students around the room were doing the same, each cringing as their hand sank deeper into the green slime to reach the Mad-lop weed in the bottom. Hermione pulled hers out, it was a bright pink colour and very thick. She plonked it on top of Dracos crushed snail shells. Hermione poured in the ten cups of the slime. Draco put two pinches of fairy dust into the cauldron.
"Mione, how are we going to crush the diamond?" Draco asked place the diamond into a mortar.
"Um…stand back. Curia!" the spell hit the diamond and it became crushed in the bowl. She poured it in and the mixture became a shade of purple.
"Next, one dragon claw," Draco went to put in the whole claw.
"No! Do you wanna be a ferret again? It says half a dragon claw. Half of one not a whole one. Open your eyes will you," Hermione demanded.
Draco but the claw and dropped it in.
"So what are we gonna do for an hour?" Draco looked at Hermione puzzled.
"I dunno. What do you wanna do?"
"I dunno. What do you wanna do?"
"I dunno. What do you wanna do?"
"I dunno, this is going no where."
"I dunno, I'll have to agree with you."
"I dunno, then why are we still saying I dunno?"
"I dunno." Hermione laughed.
"Your smart, think of something."
"You don't need to remind me."
"But I like too."
Hermione smiled and they watched their potion go from purple to red to yellow until it settled on orange.
"By now your potion should be orange add your flask of venom and let it simmer while stirring counter clockwise fifteen time. Turn off the flame and let it cool. It should then be the colour of the venom you put into your potion with swirls of orange so pay attention to the venoms colour. There should be a layer of mist on top of your potion. The mist should be bright blue if not, step away from your cauldron unless you want to be that colour for the rest of your life," Dr Robson explained and the rest of the instructions appeared on the board.
Draco added their purple venom. Others had red, royal blue, green, yellow, pink and even white. Hermione stirred it fifteen times counter clockwise and turned off the flame. The potion cooled and a layer of bright blue mist had settled on top. One boy had red mist on top.
"Everyone! One at a time taste your potions except Marcus. If you put one drop of that on your tongue you'll be squeaking for the rest of your life," Dr Robson rushed to the red mist boy and pulled him away. He had already stuck a finger into the potion and was turning red. He licked his finger and turned into a sewer rat. "Great! I swear that boy was thick." The rat ran out the door squeaking only to be chased by a cat. "Thomas go get Marcus or he'll be cat food." Marcus's partner ran out the door after the cat and the rat.
"Ok, lets start with Draco and Hermione. Just take a beaker full and drink one at a time. Hermione, why don't you go first," Dr Robson gestured to their potion.
Hermione filled her beaker and drank the purple and orange liquid. It tasted like sour cardboard. She felt her bones twisting and replacing but not breaking. Her face elongated and formed a snout. Hermiones clothes changed into pure black fur, her hands and feet turned into giant padded paws with sharp claws. She grew a tail and her eyes turned cat like. Dr Robson conjured up full-length mirror and Hermione saw her self in animal form. She was a Tiger but not a normal tiger, a pure black tiger.
"Well, well, well. Not many people become one of the legendary pure tigers. They are chosen for a task that changes everyone's life forever, but given that you have magic blood I'm not surprised. Infinoto Reversay!" Hermione felt her self-changing back again. Everyone was in Awe when she changed back.
"Draco, you're next," Dr Robson instructed.
He drank and like with Hermione, it tasted like sour cardboard.
His face elongated, his hands and feet turned into big paws. His clothes changed into silver fur. He grew a bushy tail. Draco's canine teeth grew, as did his other ones. Hi senses perked up and one word ran through his head. 'Danger!'
"A silver wolf. That's impressive. Infinoto Reversay!" and Draco changed back. "Two impressive animals both from the same country but different in so many ways. Next I think we'll have Cassie and Tammin."
They both drank their white and orange potion. Cassie changed into a giant Wedge-Tailed Eagle and Tammin turned into a Dingo.
After the rest of the class had turned into animals the bell rang for their twenty-minute break.