Hi guys, the chapter get longer form now on... well maybe there will some short ones latter on but hey this is the first long one.
-Doublesims
Chapter Four: The Hogwarts Express
Seeing they were early they had found themselves a compartment to themselves.
"Okay we know there is a shadow over the school and Manny wants us to get rid, but I still don't like the idea of me going to school." Said Jack, as he looked out the window to the busy platform outside.
"I don't know mate, ya may be surprised you may have some fun." Said Aster as he got out his sketch book he bought with the money Toothiana left them and sketched a new egg design, he just came up with. Phil might be in charge at the North Pole while North wasn't there and Baby Tooth at the Tooth Palace and Manny was doing Sandy's job for him, Aster still needs to design chocolate and Easter eggs. Jack was letting the Winter Sprites run the last of winter in the Southern Hemisphere and winter in the Northern Hemisphere, for the this year. He said he'll let them have some fun, but he'll be watching.
"Hey Sandy, want to play exploding snap?" Asked Jack.
'Oh boy this is going to be a long trip' thought Aster looking up to Jack shuffling the deck of cards.
The family of red heads had only just got on when the train was ready to move. There were kids that looked in to their door of their compartment but one look at Aster and they walked off again. But there was one kid that opened their door that gave them a bad vibe. The kid was blond and had a pale, pointed sneering face. He had two others behind him, looking like he has bodyguards. They were both wide and muscly; one was taller and had a pudding-basin haircut and a very thick neck. The other had short, bristly hair and long, gorilla arms.
"I haven't seen you three before, but you're too old to be first years"
"Been home schooled" Said Aster with hostile that could match the blond haired boy that leaned on the door frame like owned the place. "What's ya name mate?"
"I'm not telling a foreigner" Said the blond heired boy with a tone that reminded Jack of Pitch Black. Jack and Sandy looked up from their game.
"Don't talk to my brother like that!" Jack said with purposes.
"Brothers!" Said the blond with disbelief. "You don't even look alike."
"All three of us were adopted, and like my brother asked what's your name kid?"
"Fine and its Malfoy. Draco Malfoy."
Sandy looked at the boy with a thoughtful look on his face, he never like this boys dreams. Jack cracked up laughing while Aster smiled "Think my name funny do you?"
"No… well sorta mate, it just means we're not the only ones with names that mean something else. My name is a sort of daisy actually." That just made Jack laugh harder, "and his is the name of Muggle myth"
Draco took a step back not knowing his name meant something else. Jack saw this and had to add his two cents "What didn't know your name was Latin." Sandy then made a dragon appear above his head. "You're a big stupid Dragon." Jack added to the blond in simular way as when Jack and Aster have their blues. 'Actually dragons are really cool but I'm not telling him that.' Jack added to himself.
Draco face when red which made Jack go back into a laughing fit. Draco hadn't had that happen since his first trip on this train. "Fine then what's your name Flower Boy."
Jack rolled his eyes at the blonde's antics, "Got to try better than that, he has me as a brother." He said.
"His right if you were trying to tease me you didn't do a good job at it and it's Aster."
"Aster what?" asked one of Draco's bodyguards.
"E. Aster Bunnymund" replied the older. "And you don't hear my brothers if I don't hear yours."
"Crabbe and Goyle" said Draco pointing to each in turn.
"Okay so your some sort of Crustacean" Jack said pointing to Crabbe "And you are just short of a Gargoyle" He added pointing to Goyle. "And I'm the Winter Spirit"
"What?"
"The Winter Spirit? ... Jack Frost"
"Oh what about him?" Draco asked pointing to Sandy.
Jack rolled his eyes.
"If we tell you his name will you leave?" Asked Aster having enough of this boy, there is only so much he could take, and this boy was pushing it.
"Maybe" said Draco, in that voice that really meant; 'No. No I'm not'. Aster, Jack and Sandy heard it though.
'Oh you will' Jack thought playing with his staff.
"Sanderson Mansnoozie. Now can you please leave us be?" Asked Aster, but already knowing it wasn't going to happen.
"What's wrong with your brother can't he talk, must be real bad a casting spells if that's the case."
Before Jack or Aster could come back with a reply, Sandy had gotten out is wand and cast a spell. It missed it original target because of his anger but hit Goyle full on, changing his hair to neon orange. A wide eyed Draco looked at the little guy. Sand formed above its masters head 'get out'. The boys almost ran out of the apartment.
"Crikey mate, remind me not to get on ya bad side."
Down the train another group of three just finished talking about Sirius Black and was moving on to trips to Hogsmeade.
The Hogwarts Express moved steadily north and the scenery outside the window become wilder and darker while the clouds overhead thickened. People were chasing backwards and forwards past the door of the compartments. Jack had stolen Aster's sketchbook while he was having a sleep and was drawing the sleeping older. Sandy was pretty impressed of the detail he was putting into his drawing.
At twelve thirty the plump witch with the food trolley arrived at compartment door.
"Anything off trolley, dears?"
"Oh um hang on." Jack said putting down the book and moved over to Aster's side, making shore that the witch couldn't see, Jack made a snowball, catching Sandy's eye he winked "Hey Bunny wake up." He said as he shoved the snowball down Aster's shirt.
"AH COLD, bloody hell Frostbite!" Aster yelled as he jumped off the seat.
Fighting a laugh down Jack pointed to the flabbergasted witch at the door. "Food? Sandy and I are hungry and you have the money."
Grumbling Aster got himself off the floor, unsurprisingly the snowball was now gone it had done its job. "Sorry about my brothers." Aster looked at what there was to offer. He sighed Toothiana was going to have a fit. "We'll get three Pumpkin Pasties and Three Cauldron Cakes" He looked longingly at the Chocolate Frogs. The witch passed the pasties and cakes to Jack.
"Anything else?" She asked catching his look.
"Go on Aster we won't tell, and as long as you clean your teeth after, Tooth won't notice, what she doesn't know won't kill her."
"Aster? Tooth?" Said the witch. She looked at the boys again. "Wait your Nick's and Ana's boys ain't you?"
"Yes and we appreciate it if you won't tell but we'll get three Chocolate Frogs as well."
"And a box of Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans" added Jack.
The plump trolley witch made it down the train, she made it to a compartment she knew that one of the new Professors was in. She was a bit surprised to find there were students in there as well but when she saw which students she wasn't. It was the Golden Three.
"Anything off the trolley?" She asked the three.
"D'you think we should wake him up" Ron asked awkwardly, nodding towards the Professor. He looks like he could do with some food"
Hermione approached the Professor cautiously.
"Er –Professor?" she said. "Excuse me –Professor?"
He didn't move.
"Don't worry, dear," said the witch, as she handed Harry a large stack of Cauldron Cake. "If he's hungry when he wakes, I'll be up the front with the driver."
He might've been very good company, but the Professor presence in their compartment had its uses. Mid-afternoon, just as it had started to rain, blurring the rolling hills outside the window, they heard footsteps in the corridor again, and their three of their least favourite people appeared at the door: Draco Malfoy, flanked by his cronies, Vincent Crabbe and orange haired Gregory Goyle.
Ron gave a laugh when he saw Goyle's hair it wasn't as bright as when Sandy cast the spell but it was still pretty bright. "Run into my brothers did you?" He asked cheekily.
"Actually it was a family of misfits, worse than yours Weasley." Malfoy said in his usual lazy drawl. "I heard your father finally got his hands on some gold this summer. Did your mother die of shock?"
Ron stood up so quickly he knocked the Crookshanks' basket to the floor. The Professor gave a snort.
"Who's that?" asked Malfoy, taking an automatic step backwards as he spotted him.
"New teacher" said Harry, who had got to his feet too, in case he needed to hold Ron back. "What were you saying, Malfoy?"
Malfoy's pale eyes narrowed; he wasn't fool enough to pick a fight right under a teacher's nose.
"C'mon" he muttered resentfully to Crabbe and Goyle, and they disappeared.
The rain thicken as the sped yet further north; the windows now were a solid, shimmering grey, which gradually darkened until lanterns flicked into life all along the corridors and over luggage racks. The train rattled, the rain hammered, the wind roared and Aster finally noticed Jack was drawing in his sketchbook.
"Frostbite give that back" Aster said snatching it out of Jack's hands.
"Hey." Jack said upset he had almost finished that one "I was going to give it back"
The train started to slow down.
"Well look at that, we must be there." Said Aster trying to look out the now blacken window. Sandy looked out of the window and shook his head. A picture of a clock appeared above his head; the time then was speeded up. It disappeared than he shrugged his shoulders. The message 'not enough time has passed to be so'.
The train was getting slower and slower. As the noise of the pistons fell away, the wind fell away, the wind and rain sounded louder than ever against the windows.
Aster and Jack who were the same distance away from the door looked at each other, not likening this one bit. Aster, seeing he was the oldest, got up to look into the corridor. All along the carriages, heads were sticking out of their compartments.
The train came to a stop with a jolt and distant thuds and bangs told them luggage had fallen out of the racks. Then, without warning, all the lamps went out and they were plunged into total darkness.
"Bunny" said a voice so unlike who said it. "I don't feel so good."