And this time, we have some unexpected translations
Ma Belle Amour is French for My Beautiful Love
Ho voluto essere al vostro fianco per tanto tempo, mia bella
Is Italian for I have wanted to be at your side for so long, my beautiful
Chapter 40
A relaxing new world
Sora's POV
I'm really glad that Riku's ability to travel between worlds – one that had gotten a boost after he became a Keyblade Master – will make sure we can provide the students with some much needed relief as, over the last few days, I have never seen either Andromeda or McGonagall react as fierce as they did last chapter.
Then I feel Roxas responding to our plan and he asks: "Need some help?" To which I ask: "Can you?" And I feel him moving my body. My eyes widen and he says: "Hey, different souls, same body." Making me shrug as he spreads his fingers wide, his middle finger and forefinger to one side and the little and ring finger to the other.
Feeling a power rise within me that I never felt before, I realize that Roxas is using the powers he learned as a Nobody when he was still with the Organization and my realization is proven as a vortex of dark power, created out of a single circle of dark, swirling power on the floor, and with a flaming outline shows up.
Some students scream and I say: "No need to worry, this is just something my Nobody learned before he merged back with me. We're starting to become separate beings in the same body and he used this power to help us get to a new world. And no, we checked, the time spell does not affect us if we travel to another world."
The students that screamed now nod reluctantly and Remus says: "I'll go first." Stepping through the portal and shouting: "Holy white beaches of Maui!" Making me laugh and others look confused. Riku explains: "He's in our world, Destiny Island, which exists out of tropical islands." The students nod and the rest of the family slowly steps trough.
The teachers are next and only the Heads stay behind to slowly and according to years direct their Houses through the portal. Finally all Heads, all students and all guests are through and I say: "After you, Riku, Kairi, Leon." The three nod and I follow them home, Roxas helping me close the portal behind me as I step onto the sandy beach.
I then turn and see everyone – except Leon, Kairi and Riku – look around shocked while at the same time everyone takes off their heavy robes. Yellow sand covers the part of the island on which we are currently standing and of course Riku, Kairi and I are on the small side island, rising out of the ocean about 4 feet away from the island.
There are palm trees on this part of the island and a large tree, together with one gigantic mountain hide this part of the island from the other side, while another part of the island is also raised and has a bridge, connecting this side island to the rest of it. The raised piece of the island is also a Seaside Shack, where we keep most of our equipment and toys.
This shack is reachable through a door carved into the mountain behind the platform and a small wooden shack build on the left of the platform. Another part of the island is also raised, this shown by wooden planks build against the front of the platform and this holds two ladders to higher, human build platforms and a waterfall with beautiful pond.
Behind the waterfall, I remember quite well, is the secret place, a small cave carved out from rocks and covered in chalk drawings, including one of me and Kairi sharing a Papaou fruit that I believe I have to change and a secret drawing I made behind a large rock located there. And finally is the door to the world's heart located in that very place.
One of the two platforms is simply to walk on and view the rest of the island from a higher view, while the other, the one near the Secret Place, holds a small treehouse where my friends and I hide if there's a storm. All in all the location is perfect, the scenery is beautiful and the weather couldn't be better as the sun shines like gold down upon us.
I smile at my island and say: "Welcome to our home. This is where Riku and I always pushed each other to be the best and this island is where we always watched the sunset, before we would go back to the main island with help of those canoes you see there." And I motion for the small wooden dock at the far south-west corner of the island.
Everyone looks around shocked and Hermione asks: "You live here?" We shrug and nod and I say: "Yeah, and we believe this to be a much better place to read, don't you think? Cause if you want to stop listening, you can go fish, take a swim, go surf, or just relax in the sun. Sounds great, right?" Everyone nods and many of them smile.
Then McGonagall says: "Very well, we'll take a two hour break, have some lunch – I hope the House Elves can reach us here – and then continue the reading." But then I straighten my back and with my arm up and my thumb aimed at myself, I say: "Just leave lunch to us, Professor. You're all going to get a first class island meal."
To this Riku turns to me and asks: "And if we can't catch enough fish fast enough?" But I smirk and whisper: "You and me go fish, Kairi and Leon go get the rest from the main Island. I'm not going to waste a month of provisions here on one meal." The boy snickers and quickly tells the plan to Kairi, while I see our guests split up to do something.
Many of the younger years remain where they are, yet a lot of the older years either move over to the beach to have a lie down or move to explore the island, the Ravens having notebooks taken from their bags while Badgers move to happily sit together in relaxing spots, the Snakes moving to the Secret place and the Lions obviously out to explore.
The Bulgarian all seem to just gather together in the shadow of the mountain and tree, yet the French seem to get highly excited as they change their robes into bikinis and swimsuits and then start running into the surf, laughing and running through the water and creating images that make many of the other school males drool at the sight.
Riku and I walk over to the Seaside shack, entering it on one side and leaving it from the other, each with a spear in hand. The shack had almost made me push Riku against one of the closely-build in walls and kiss his lights out, but my duty as host and fear that he would reject me had kept me back from doing so.
Some students look shocked as they see the spears and Draco asks: "Wait, you're – you're going to catch our lunch?" I nod and say: "Yeah, we always do that. Especially on birthdays. Then we catch the same amount of fish for that meal as we do for a whole week." The boy looks shocked and slightly disgusted, to which Riku says:
"Don't worry, we have a tub filled with desalinator. The fish will be perfectly edible, I assure you." Malfoy nods and I smile at Riku, loving how he always has a word of comfort or wisdom for whoever needs it. He smiles back at me and holds up his spear a little, asking: "You ready for some good-old fishing, Sora?" And I laugh: "You bet."
Harry's POV
This island is restful, beautiful, uncoverable, relaxing and all in all pure amazing and wonderful, making me smile as my parents and Viktor have found a small cove leading to the other side of the island and have taken our refuge there, me and mum sitting, while Viktor and dad lean against the side walls of the cove.
All of us are watching as others are exploring the islands and I see Riku and Sora diving into the water, holding only their heads above water and moving so slowly I wonder if they're really swimming. Then dad says: "Now that's professional." I look at him and see he's looking at the same thing I am, before he says:
"They're both moving so slowly, they're not causing too many vibrations and that makes the fish come close to them, because they don't realize humans are there. They think it's just other fish." This makes me look at the two impressed and mum asks: "Personal experience, lovely?" And dad's face turning sour speaks volumes.
Mum had his arms laid out behind him and his head in his neck as he asked the question, but seeing the expression he quickly moves to sit back up straight, his own expression showing his guilt for ruining the mood. The man then asks: "Let me guess, those twelve years you had to be alone during a full moon?"
And dad answers: "Right at once, love." Making mum sigh. I cuddle with mum, lying my body under his arm pit and Viktor goes to lean against the other wall next to dad, both acts of comfort being reacted to by thankful smiles from both men and mum wrapping his arm around me to pull me closer into an embrace.
Of course, with others like Hermione I would have flinched or tensed up if someone were to hold me like this, but my mum has held me like this long enough during the reading to make me feel comfortable with it and I decide to bring the humor back, like the true son of a – no, three – Marauders would do and ask:
"By the way, mum, never heard about knocking?" Making Viktor and dad laugh and turning mum red as he must remember how I almost cursed him earlier. The man hits me over the back of the head with the playful statement: "Little prat." Making me laugh too, but then his words scare me as he turns thoughtful and asks:
"Wonder if you're still as ticklish as you were when you were just a baby. Want to find out, little son of mine?" And before I can respond is the man on me and is he tickling my sides and the part on my body just to the side of my left arm pit, making me cry out: "NO!" Before I surrender to giggling and laughing like hell under the terrible fingers.
Hermione's POV
Blaise and I are simply sitting on the dock Sora pointed out earlier and Blaise has already explained me how well Riku and Sora are hunting for fish together. Then I suddenly hear Harry screaming and look to where the sound came from, only to hear him laughing a minute later and from under the leafs of a palm tree I see him being tickled by Sirius.
I smile at this and sit back down as I had feared the worst when I heard the scream just like Nella Diggory who had taken up the role of chaperone for us due to the courting and then Blaise asks: "So, how long do you think it'll take for those two to confess they love each other?" And I look at him confused before he says:
"I mean Riku and Sora, Hermione. I saw them sending each other looks whenever the story turned dull or things happened that weren't too drastic. They really like each other and I'm just waiting for the bomb to burst. Seeing Riku's longing looks and Sora's obvious excitement and impatience, it's kind of hard to see who will burst first."
I look at him shocked and ask: "How – how did you notice that?" And he smirks as he says: "The handy thing about staying in the background is that no one notices it when you observe them. You're the first who noticed in the last four years, Ma Belle Amour." I look at him shocked, having learned a bit of French and ask:
"You speak French?" The beautiful tanned boy nods and says: "It's a common thing for Pureblood kids to learn. Harry will have to as well, together with one other language of his own choice. I chose Italian." And he grabs my hand as he looks deep in my eyes and says: "Ho voluto essere al vostro fianco per tanto tempo, mia bella."
I shake my head, barely understanding that and then he softly kisses the side of my lips, just at the right tip and whispers: "I said that I have wanted to be at your side for so long, my beautiful." And I feel a strong blush grace my cheeks as I never expected anyone to see further than either my brains or my character.
But for Blaise to actually think me beautiful makes me wonder something and I ask: "Blaise, did this start when I showed up at the Yule Ball?" Blaise smiles at me as I have my head facing my lap and he says: "No, when I was in the wooden suspension bridge and saw you punch Draco." I look shocked and ask: "You saw that?"
He nods and says: "Truly, darling, it was priceless. I loved it and kept throwing it in his face the entire summer afterwards. Draco hated me." This makes me snicker and I ask: "Getting payback for his behavior, were you?" And he says: "Hey, if any Slytherin has to get him back for it, it better be someone who can actually take that prat."
And we both laugh before I decide to see just how far we can go on a physical aspect considering the rules for the whole courting thing and softly lean over ever so slightly. And to my utter joy does Blaise happily wrap an arm around me and pull me close against his side, allowing me to feel just how strong this lean tanned lad really is.
Collin's POV
This island is amazing with capital A and I feel super proud that I followed professor Lupin's request and took my camera with me. The man had asked if I could take as many family pictures along with pictures of him and his mate and Harry and Viktor, but I'm sure he'll understand why I want to take pictures here too.
I've been running around the entire beach, making pictures of just about every tree, every hill, cliff and all the wooden structures, have taken pictures of the waterfalls from three different angles and have even snuck my camera into the small cave I found to take a single picture, before going over in snapping photos of how everyone is reacting to the island.
So far I have Professor Lupin and Viktor relaxing against the wall of a small hidden cove, Harry losing his breath while being tickled by Mr. Black, Professor McGonagall standing on the highest structure to supervise everyone, Madame Maxime and Hagrid getting some fruits from the high palm trees and Hermione and Blaise laughing together.
I also managed to make good use of a part-time job I started shortly after the beginning of my first year and managed to get people who had someone crushing after them to pose for me, so I could take a picture to send to their admirers. And while I know that some of my clients would rather I be more sneaky, would I never spy on my targets.
The only one who had been less than impressed had been a Seventh year Slytherin who actually had a Sixth year Ravenclaw crushing after her, yet I had made the smart deal with her that I would convince her admirer to just keep his fancy to the picture instead of her. After making this deal, the girl had shrugged and posed for me.
And to be honest, I had wondered about the tastes of some of my clients as one of them actually crushes on Pansy Parkinson, yet because of Crabbe and Goyle, had I refused this client and told him how they pester and bully me enough without me enticing them as it was. The Hufflepuff had sighed, but nodded in understanding.
All in all I just don't want to leave the island, too many chances for good pictures await me here. And while I happily take a picture of the huge and wide ocean and the island that has many houses on them and can be seen in the far distance, do I think: "I really hope Sora and Riku stay until I turn off age, so I can come home with them then."
Andromeda's POV
This is exactly what I have always envisioned me and Ted to visit on our honeymoon or an anniversary or maybe even send Nymphadora to, so she and her, possible, husband can live their lives here happily. But now I have a new goal for this island and I gulp, taking a deep breath before walking over to the south east of the island.
There my sister is sitting on an cushion made out of palm tree leaves, charmed to stick together like that, and the woman has a stylish blue pair of sunglasses on her face, while clearly enjoying as little sunshine as possible, thanks to her terrible pale skin. And to my slight relief is she joined by several French girls with the same complexion.
I sigh and take a crate I see standing close by, sitting next to the woman and looking up, enjoying and admiring how there are just no clouds visible at all unless you look down to the horizon and the other Island visible deep within the horizon, obviously miles away. For minutes neither of us speaks and I just enjoy my sister's company.
Then she asks: "Any valid reason you came to see me, Andy?" And just by the shortening of my name and the use of my old nickname do I know that my mission, to get reacquainted with my long-lost sister, isn't as hard as I first thought. I smile at the woman and say: "Not really. You any reason not to talk to me, Cissy?"
And the woman answers: "Not really, no." Making us both smile. And while the woman may pretend to be relaxing, is the fact that she is still close to where her family are seated proof that she thought out her postion just fine and even while seated next to her, can I easily sense her gazing at them from behind her sunglasses.
"Even with how different we responded to our upraising and how different we have become since our marriages, we still have one thing in common. We still care for our family above all else and will always feel protective of them." Goes through my mind as I enchant the crate into a lounging chair as I lean back and relax myself.
