A/N: This is listentowhatisay doing the little author's note thingy. I understand there will be a little confusion when Flint appears in this chapter.
(ST is writing in italics) She says he's hot!
I'm sorry. I needed a way of making Draco sorta jealous, and Flint just popped up. I understand he is completely ugly with some really hideous teeth, but I feel that an explanation is: he had drastic plastic surgery and oral correction on his face and teeth. This way he can be hot for once in his poor, sad life.
I can live with that. BTW, thanks to mystic- tear-drops and lo22 for re-viewing. We also added descriptions in the intro. So go read it!
Chika sat in King's Cross station. Her mind was running through everything she had done that morning. "Got my books, got my stuff, and packed my broom up. I wonder if I forgot anything." Chika's mind continued to race so quickly with these thoughts that she almost missed the man dressed in a horrible, moldy, purple suit leading a small boy toward the platforms. She watched as the man carefully looked about before leading his son through the platform divider.
"Wait. Through?" Chika blinked a few times and saw that the man and boy really were gone. "Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained." Chika picked up her bag and grabbed the handle of her trolley. She faced the divider, took a deep breath, and ran. Closing her eyes, she headed for the wall and came out on the other side.
Unsure of where to go, Nona was wandering around between platforms nine and ten. The one thing she forgot to ask Cedric and it was the most important. Staring at the clock on the wall, she began to get worried after seeing how close to 11 o'clock it was. Then as if by fate, she watched as, what seemed like, a father and son went straight through the divider between the two platforms.
"What?!" She blinked in an attempt to make sure it was real. Then another person went through. It had to be the entrance. She didn't have time for it not to be. Standing, Nona, too, headed through the divider without hitting an actual wall.
The girls, both unknowing that the other was there, took in the site of the Hogwarts Express. The red engine and the numberless cars were impressive. Chika stepped into a car, following a boy until he turned into a compartment on the right side. She looked into the compartment across the hall and, finding it empty, sat down. Putting away her things, she pulled a beaten book out of her bag and began to read.
Nona stood for a few moments on the platform. Side-stepping a group of laughing second years, she grabbed the handle of a car door. Walking down the hallway, she looked into the compartments, right then left, right then left. She looked into a window and, to her amazement, there was Cedric. She slide open the door.
"Hey Cedric!" He looked up and saw she was dressed totally different from when they had first met.
"Nona? Is that you?" Cedric gestured for her to come in and sit. "Wow! You sure have changed," he said, indicating the black and red mini skirt, red tube top, and black jacket.
"Oh…yeah…" she said, looking down at herself. "This is the me you didn't get to see. When you first met me, you caught me on a kind day. Is this a problem?"
"No, no." He motioned for her to sit down. She sat across from him, and they began to chat about the last few days.
A boy with the brightest, white-looking blonde hair just happened to saunter on by their compartment without them noticing. He paused for a second a little ways passed the compartment thinking over what he had just seen. A smirk came across his face as he realized there was new meat in his own year. Turning around, he made his way back toward them. When the door slide open, Nona and Cedric turned to look at who was coming in.
"Diggory, why don't you take a hike?" Draco made sure it didn't sound like a question.
"You can't order me about, Malfoy, and you have no business here." The Malfoy boy turned his eyes on Nona.
"My business is where new ladies are at." He moved toward Nona.
"My name's Malfoy…Draco Malfoy." He stretched out his hand, and she placed hers in his. Moving it up to his lips, he kissed her hand tenderly.
"Nona Sancaster," she said, allowing him to kiss her hand. Draco turned his attention back to Cedric.
"Leave Diggory!"
"Not on your life, Malfoy." Cedric brought out his wand.
"Crabbe! Goyle!" Two gorilla sized boys pounded through the doorway. They had their fists ready for a fight. They tackled Cedric. Nona jumped up.
"Stop it!" she yelled, lifting her wand. They immediately froze. "Cedric, it's okay. I can handle myself. I'll see you later." She magically removed him from the pile and stood him on his own two feet.
"I don't think I should leave you here, especially with him."
"I've already told you: I can handle myself." She winked at him, and he left, for it was her wish. She went ahead and dropped the two gorillas to the floor. They scrambled to their feet and made a try at tackling her.
"Hold it!" Malfoy ordered them, and they immediately stopped in their tracks. "Go get some food or something off the trolley. We need some alone time," he said, with that same smirk from earlier as he sat down. They left a little disappointed. "Come sit down next to me." She looked him up and down before sitting. Draco scooted closer with his face inches from hers.
"You should back off before I make you back off." He placed his right hand on her thigh and began moving it up toward the hem line of her very short skirt.
"What's the matter, Princess?" She grabbed hold of his right wrist and, with strength no one knew she had, flung him to the ground by the door. Pulling out her wand, she directed a large amount of anger at the, now, very worried looking Draco.
"Good-bye!" A bright light exploded from the tip of her wand, sending Draco through the closed door.
(5 Minutes Earlier)
Cedric stood in the hall, a little disoriented. He knew that he shouldn't of left Nona alone with Malfoy so he decided to stay close. Looking into the compartment across the hall, he saw that there was only one occupant inside. He opened the door and the person looked up from her book.
"Can I sit here for a bit? My friend kicked me out." The girl smiled and set her book down.
"Sure," she smiled, "Come on in." Cedric did so and sat across from her. Extending his hand he said, "Cedric Diggory." The girl took it and said, "Chika Neverlend." Cedric looked Chika over and asked, "New to Hogwarts?"
"Yeah," she said, surprised, "How did you know?"
"I just guessed." He smiled at her as she picked up her book again, readjusting her legs. He took in her entire look, the slightly frizzy brown hair, the orange sweatshirt, white jeans, and orange sandals.
"Orange your favorite color?" he asked.
"Huh?" she was startled out of her book, "Kinda." He smiled again.
"I didn't mean to startle you. Is that a good book? What is it?" He reached across and took the book as she held it out to him. The cover read Traductions Antiques de Runes : un Guide de Debutants.
"Transductions antiques dee runes: un guide dee debutants?" he asked tripping over the words as he spoke.
"It's one of my old text books," she said shyly, "I was just, uh, brushing up." Cedric gave a little chuckle and Chika smiled weakly.
"I take it you didn't study in England last year." It was more of a statement then a question.
"I've gone to Beauxbatons Institute of Magic for the past 4 years."
"Wow," Cedric whistled, "Why'd you leave a school like that? Your parents move or something?"
"Well-" Before Chika could make up an excuse, there was a bang from the hall and the door of the compartment flew open. A lifeless body hit the floor in between Cedric and Chika. Cedric jumped at this then stood, running from the room.
Chika knelt down and felt the boy's forehead. Brushing away a few strands of blonde hair, Chika was suddenly face to face with the brightest blue eyes she had ever seen.
"Get off me!" the boy shouted. Throwing Chika off him he sat up, clutching his chest. Chika timidly got to her knees and asked,
"Are you all right?" The boy looked at her for a moment rubbing his chest.
"I'm fine," he said through gritted teeth. Suddenly, Chika felt two pairs of strong arms pinning her to a wall. Her head hit the wall and then snapped forward.
"Let her go. She's not the one we need to worry about." Chika, eyes streaming, felt the support leave her arms. She fell to her knees and watched as the three boys left the compartment.
Standing up after hearing much commotion about a girl blasting a boy named Malfoy, she crossed the room and looked out into the hall. Seeing only a large mass of black robed people, she decided that if Cedric or the blonde haired boy would want to find her, they would have come back. Reaching into her bag, she pulled out her uniform. Finding her way to the changing rooms, she changed and returned to her compartment. Looking out the window, she realized that they were slowing, probably nearing Hogwarts.
Chika gathered her belongings and headed towards the door. Stepping out the door at the station, she suddenly realized she had no idea where she was going. She looked around and noticed that none of the first years knew where to go either.
"Firs' years! Firs' years over here! Firs' years this way!" Chika decided it was safest to follow the other new students. As she got closer, a hulking figure came out of the rising mist. For a moment she thought it was Madame Maxime, but as the figure got closer she saw it was a large man.
"You a transfer student?" the man asked in a gruff voice.
"Uh, yes," Chika squeaked.
"Good. Stay wit the firs' years until someun' says diffrn't." Chika nodded and joined the group of first years. The man waited a little while longer and then began to lead the group down a path to a rocky cove. A small fleet of boats, each with their own lanterns, sat there.
"No more'n four to a boat!" the man called out. First years scrambled to get into boats. Chika chose one in the middle of the fleet. Climbing in, she nodded to the other three people already in the boat. Two boys one with short brown hair and one with slightly curly black hair and one girl with blonde hair in pigtails all smiled sheepishly in return.
After a few moments all the boats began to move as one. Soon a castle was looming above the boats as they passed under a stone bridge. Several moments of staring and ooooo-ing later, the boats clunked onto shore. Allowing the others to step out of the boat first, Chika mentally prepared herself for whatever awaited her. She then stepped off the boat and followed the group up a winding staircase that lead to the castle. A slightly mean looking witch stood there and talked with the man for a few moments before turning to the group.
"Follow me please and anyone who is a transfer student stand at the rear," she said turning and leading the group inside the castle.
Nona feared what might happen to her because of the fight with that Malfoy creature, so she sent Cedric to explain the story to the Head Master before Malfoy could complain. Now, as she followed this quite older looking witch, she wasn't as sure of staying out of trouble as before. She allowed the younger students to pass her by before taking her position at the rear. Slamming into someone, she turned to said person angrily.
"Watch it!" Only after she had said it did she realize just who it was.
"No, you can't be here," she quietly commanded to the betrayer, Chika Neverlend.
"No, you can't be here," came the reply. Minutes of arguing went on as the two followed the line into the great hall. Chika was completely unaware of anything but the fight they were having, while Nona at least was keeping her voice down. After a long pause in moving but still a lot a fighting, Chika got extremely angry.
"WHY ARE YOU HERE?!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed, causing the entire great hall to go silent.
"Ms. Neverlend?" asked an authoritative voice.
"WHAT?!!!!" screamed Chika in response.
Both girls turned to find they were the last ones left in the line, and they were standing in the center of the hall with everyone staring at Chika because of her outburst.
"That's the Headmaster," Nona whispered in Chika's direction. The girls walked up to the front of the hall, Chika sitting upon the stool that was placed there after apologizing to the Headmaster.
"As you can see," Headmaster Dumbledore spoke turning back toward the great amount of student, "these next two girls are not first years. They are transfer students from Beauxbatons, and we are happy to have them. Please make them feel as comfortable as possible if they are in your House. Please continue, Minerva." The same witch from the front of the castle brought forward an old hat, placing it on Chika's head. A voice began speaking to her.
"Interesting...it has been quite some time since I've done an older student. Isn't your father in the Ministry?" Chika was too stunned to speak.
"Don't be shy. I won't bite."
"Y...y...yes," she said to the voice, stammering.
"I thought so. Just to inform you: I've been studying the inner most part of your soul in order to choose the correct House for you, and I think I have the one. I can tell you have some courage and a lot of heart. That makes you a perfect fit for...GRYFFINDOR!" the hat said only announcing the house to the other students.
Claps and cheers rang from one of the tables, and as the hat was removed from her head, she went over to them. Many of the students introduced themselves in politeness and she answered with "hello," but quickly, after seating herself, turned her attention back to the front of the hall.
"Nona Sancaster." Nona walked forward in the midst of much noise. A lot of the boys wolf-whistled, half of the other students started talking about "she's the one who blasted Malfoy," and the last half were stating "I read in the papers that she blew up an entire wing of her school for a prank." Dumbledore raised both hands for silence, and immediately there was so.
Nona sat herself upon the stool, and the hat was placed upon her head. A warning from her father about the talking hat prevented her from being frightened by the voice that sounded in her head.
"I've heard of you. Your prank was plastered all over the papers."
"Why thank you. Now could we please get on with this?"
"No need to get snippy with me. I had the perfect house for you before I was completely placed on your head. That doesn't usually happen for most students."
"Well, woopty-doo."
"SLYTHERIN!" announced the hat, in a not so friendly tone. A larger cheer than that of Chika's erupted from a table to Nona's left, while a lot of oh's and darn's came from the other three. She looked over at her new table and found a smirking white-blonde haired boy staring straight at her. Approaching the table, she found only one seat open, but she was excited to find it was two seats away from Malfoy. As she sat, a very cute older boy she sat next to introduced himself.
"The name's Flint."
"Nona," she answered in reply.
"Nona. That's a beautiful name." He moved his hand and squeezed her thigh. She knew Draco was watching, so she decided to play this out.
"Why thank you. I've never been told that before," she answered leaning to see around Flint, "Draco, is it?"
"Yes," he said, sounding surprised she was talking to him.
"You could learn a thing or two from this guy. Maybe if you hadn't tried to use your name as a pick-up line, I wouldn't of had to blast your ass?" A bunch of laughter exploded from the entire table because everyone had been listening. Draco became extremely angry.
"So, it's true? Malfoy, you told me it was a rumor," came Flint's voice.
"She only attacked me because I turned her down," Malfoy spoke a complete lie to protect his reputation. He had a completely smug look on his face when Nona turned once again to look at him.
"Malfoy, you are a disgusting, arrogant, little rich boy who goes crying to your elders when you don't get your way! Your upset because unlike all of the other girls you've gone after, you can't have me!" She stood, grabbed the extremely hot bowl of soup that had just appeared on the table with the rest of the feast, walked over to Malfoy, and dumped it in his lap. The entire school had been watching, and broke out in laughter.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!!!" he screamed, as he jumped up and fanned his crotch with his hands.
"Now, are you satisfied with the way I feel about you? Oh, your "boys" should be fine after someone escorts you to the nurse." As if on cue, a girl their own age, with the highest pitched voice Nona had ever heard, came bounding up.
"Drakiepoo, are you alright?"
"Go away, Pansy," he ordered, still fanning his crotch.
"Drakiepoo?" Nona asked in amusement.
"Ms. Sancaster!?" came the Head Master's voice. "Please follow Professor Snape to my office immediately. I will meet you both there shortly." Nona grabbed a muffin off the table, blew a kiss at Flint, and followed the very angry and dangerous looking Snape out of the Great Hall.
"Oh my God! I can't believe she did that," spoke a very bushy haired girl, who Chika remembered was named Hermione.
"Yeah, she's amazing," said the red-haired one, named Ron, dreamily. Chika was the only one who knew that what had just happened was a typical Nona reaction.
"Here we are speaking about the new girl over there when we have our own one right here," said Hermione, "and where the devil is Harry?" She looked around. Chika was surprised by this question.
"Do you mean Harry Potter? That Harry?" Chika remembered hearing he was attending Hogwarts.
"Yeah, he's our best mate," answered Ron. His attention had come back to the group because Nona had left the great hall.
"Wow, I get to meet Harry Potter. Wait until I tell my father. He'll say I'm acquiring good friends," Chika said, laughing. A tall boy with shaggy hair walked up to them.
"Hey Hermione, Ron, and...I don't think we've met." Chika froze as she looked upon the lightening shaped scar on the forehead of the Harry Potter.
"I'm...uh...Chika Neverlend."
"Well, hello Chika. Name's Harry, but from the look on your face, you already knew that." He sat himself down between her and Hermione.
"Where were you at?" asked Hermione.
"The Ministry of Magic. Secret business."
"You're always there. You used to avoid going there at all costs," piped in Ron.
"Yeah, well now they come and get me instead of sending owls because somebody told them about my made up excuses." Harry looked straight at Ron.
"It wasn't my fault. Dad charmed me into telling him." This conversation between the three of them continued on through the rest of the feast. They made attempts at bringing Chika into the conversation, but she wasn't in a very good talking mood. More students introduced themselves and Chika met Ron's brothers, Fred and George, and their sister, Ginny. She also met Angelina Johnson, chaser and captain, of the Gryffindor quiditch team. Angelina came over to tell Harry that Alicia had broken her leg surfing that summer and would not be playing. They went on to talk about this year's quiditch team and Chika tuned them out.
As the feast came to a close, everyone headed for their respected houses. Chika followed Hermione and Ron as they showed the Gryffindors where to go. Harry was telling her about how each of the four houses had a common room and dorms located all over the school.
"Ours is just behind the portrait of the Fat Lady there." Harry pointed at a large painting of a large woman in a pink cocktail dress.
"That's one big picture," Chika commented.
"Yeah." The entire group stopped and the Fat Lady asked for the password.
Hermione spoke up and said "Mimbulus Mimbletonia"Which was evidently the password because the portrait swung forward and everyone scrambled through the portrait hole and into the common room.
The room was filled with squishy armchairs and many tables. Two staircases on either side lead up the dormitories. Most of the students climbed directly up to bed but Harry, Ron, Chika, and Hermione stayed behind talking to one another.
"I'm going to bed," Hermione said a bit later, yawning, "Coming Chika?"
"Yeah," Chika replied, "'Night boys." She waved as Hermione lead her up the staircase and into the fifth year girl's dormitory. The room was shared by Chika, Hermione, and 4 other girls that hadn't introduced themselves yet. Hermione told Chika that if she wanted a hot shower it was better to get up early. Chika thanked her and, after changing into her pajamas, laid down on her bed to take everything in that happened that day. She didn't want Nona at Hogwarts and Nona definitely didn't want her there either. Something had to happen, or there would be a major showdown. She was sure of it.
Chika's mind continued to think about everything that had happened thus far, seeing Nona, meeting Cedric, meeting Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and of course, coming to Hogwarts. Chika drifted off into a peaceful sleep, unaware of just how much trouble she and Nona would cause.