Isabelle had no more issues from Eva. At least not directly, but sure enough, the rumors started again. Vanessa told her classmates about how she had single handedly fought Rebecca off of her. Vanessa had very little notice of scars, but she also had on more makeup than usual, which to Rebecca, made her look funny. Rebecca had no shame in hiding her scars. She also didn't like a lot of makeup. She only wore it if her family was hosting some stupid party for rich people.

None of the professors seemed to want to stop the rumors either. Only Professor Scamander took points from anyone who dared mentioned the fight. Vanessa lost twenty points and was threatened with more detention after trying to call out Scamander for favoritism.

Rebecca had received her detention letter from Professor Stetson and would be serving it on the upcoming Saturday. Throughout the week, Stetson would call Rebecca up to attempt more nonverbal spells. Rebecca was sure it was just to show off her black eye.

Rebecca had been trying to do nonverbal spells and had only succeeded in them when it came to charms (her best subject). However, Stetson wanted dueling and defensive spells. Rebecca was absolutely sick of trying Stupefy that she went back to her seat and lost Wampus twenty points for doing so.

Once Saturday morning arrived, Rebecca set foot for Professor Stetson's office. When she arrived, Stetson was waiting outside the door. She looked to be in a terrible mood.

"Follow me." She said quickly. Rebecca did so without question.

During their walk, Stetson said, "You're terrible at fighting. Why did you even bother?"

"Excuse me?" Rebecca asked.

"Any smart witch would had used her wand and blasted her opponent off their feet. But instead you rather deal with what's on your face."

Rebecca kept quiet. She wasn't going to explain herself to Stetson, but Rebecca asked her, "Why didn't you give Vanessa detention?"

"Professor Codmen will be overseeing hers." Stetson said.

"But how come you didn't give her detention along with me?"

Stetson led Rebecca outside onto the North side of the school. The grass had mildew still and it was foggy. It was October and the leaves were falling as autumn announced its arrival.

"Miss Bancroft's sister said you started it, therefore you will be punished." Stetson said.

Rebecca asked no more questions. They were now approaching an old pukwudgie. He was about half the size of Rebecca. Of course, this was not Rebecca's first encounter with one. There were many of them at Ilvermorny who ran security and maintenance of the school. Rebecca assumed her punishment would be doing one of the two and she doubted Stetson would trust her with security.

"William." Stetson said to the pukwudgie.

"Professor Stetson. First student of the year you sent me. I'm surprised it hasn't been sooner." The pukwudgie had a brash voice.

"I guess they don't like hand cleaning." Stetson said. "Make sure this one stays with you until noon."

"Noon?" Rebecca asked. "That's four hours!"

"Four long hours of scrubbing." William said. "Will do Professor. So long."

Professor Stetson walked away and back into the castle. William spat onto the ground and said, "Like hell I do what she says." William turned to look at Rebecca. "You're only supposed to be here to clean the statues of the founders. That shouldn't take longer than two. Besides, aren't you the one who fought that Bancroft girl?"

"Er, yeah." Rebecca said. A smile drew across William's pointy face.

"Excellent. I heard about it. Us pukwudgies hate her. I tell you what. You help me with these statues and I'll see to it Bancroft 'misplaces' her homework."

Rebecca couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Why do you hate Vanessa?" she had to ask.

"Her father cut some funding from us and she runs around demanding us to do a better job. The whole Saturn Society can rot in Hades. Well come on then. Let's get busy."

The statues of the founders were life size. Rebecca was thankful they weren't larger than that. Despite having a lot of money, the Warrens never had a maid. Rebecca knew how to keep a clean house, and by hand at that.

Rebecca had received a rag and a wash bucket with soap and water and was instructed to be careful. Rebecca took a look at the statues for a moment. There was a female and three males, two who looked very young. Rebecca went to start scrubbing the female.

"No!" William shouted. Rebecca nearly tripped over her bucket. "I'll wash Isolt. You can start with James."

"Okay..." Rebecca said. During the cleaning, it became clear to Rebecca why William was more interested in Isolt.

"I knew these people." William said. "I was with Isolt when she first arrived in these woods. Saved all of their lives.

"Pukwudgies live that long?" Rebecca asked.

"Yes. But granted, Ilvermorny is a lot younger than those schools in Europe. Isolt was from Ireland. James, her husband, was a no-maj. The two boys, Chadwick and Webster Boot, are their adopted sons. They started this school after Isolt fled from her aunt back home."

"So an immigrant flees home from someone who is after them and founded this school, but there are people here who are against the very thing." Rebecca said.

"They probably don't even know who Isolt is, those ungrateful beasts." William grunted. "MACUSA took over the school and started running things their way. The school song ain't even right historically."

"So did the aunt come after Isolt?" Rebecca asked, intrigued by the story.

"Oh yes. She would had killed them all if it wasn't for me." William continued. "Gormlaith Gaunt. A descendant of Salazar Slytherin, who of course believed in pureblood supremacy."

"I was sorted into Slytherin back at Hogwarts." Rebecca said. She used to be ashamed of it, but overtime, thanks to her godbrother, she had grown to embrace it.

"That's terrible." William said. Rebecca ignored him. She knew it wouldn't do any good to argue with him about it.

"Anyway. You see that snakewood tree over there?" William pointed at a large tree in the middle of the grounds. "That is where Isolt buried her aunt's wand. It grew into that. I killed her aunt with a poisoned tipped arrow and that's where she fell."

Rebecca continued to look at the tree, but no longer was she interested in it. Passing between her and the tree were a group of people led by Vanessa and her gang. They were all holding brooms and chattering excitedly. They didn't notice Rebecca.

"Damn quodpot is back again." William said. "I tell you, that is a messy game. Personally, I enjoy quidditch. At least the worst thing that could happen is having to pick up someone's broken broom."

"Or if someone dies." Rebecca said.

"Oh... well, that too I suppose." William said. "Well, that's about as clean as they're going to get. I'll tell Stetson I kept you long enough. If she has a problem with you being done early, I'll kick her in the shin."

Rebecca laughed and told William thanks for the story, but instead of returning to the castle, she decided to follow the Horned-Serpent quodpot team to the pitch. She wanted to see exactly what William meant by the game being messy and she hoped to get a laugh out of Vanessa screwing up. It made sense to Rebecca now as to why she wasn't a terrible fighter. She played a sport which had a lot of contact in it.

Rebecca sneaked her way into the stands. Compared to the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch, Ilvermorny's wasn't much different, but the lower stands were raised much higher and the towers might of been the same height as Hogwarts' but they appeared shorter in relation to the raised lower seats.

The grass also had markings much like an American football field. Rebecca also noticed that there were faded markings of the American National Quidditch Team logo. Now the crests of Ilvermorny and it's houses were there.

Rebecca watched them play, or practice rather. One of the players had a pocket watch and would time a player who had a quaffle. They would attempt to dodge the rest of the team and try to score. Some were better than others. The time keeper blew a whistle after a minute which would result in the person holding the quaffle to hand it over to someone else.
Rebecca watched carefully when it was Vanessa's turn. Rebecca had to admit she was good, but perhaps the rest of the team was making it easy on her. She appeared to be the team captain as she was motivating her team the most.

The next person after her was, to Rebecca's surprise, Rose. But Vanessa did not seem as motivational as she was with everyone else. It seemed that Rose was trying out. Rebecca knew that Rose was a big quidditch name at Hogwarts playing Chaser for Gryffindor. This type of game appeared to be right up her alley as all she did before was score goals.

And to no surprise, Rose was doing well. She scored on her first attempt. Vanessa seemed slightly impressed and wanted Rose to go again. However, Vanessa shot a glare at the time keeper. Rose went again. She had done good at weaving in and out of the defenders, but this time the whistle blew. Rebecca was sure it was blown sooner than it should had been. This time, Rebecca tried to count on her own. Instead of one minute, it got down to thirty seconds. There was no way anyone could get the ball through the hoop.

After three more "failed" attempts by Rose, Vanessa pointed to the castle while looking at Rose. Rose did not leave. Instead, she argued with Vanessa, but just as Vanessa did with Rebecca, she hit Rose first. Rose held her mouth, and then hit Vanessa herself. Rose and Vanessa's brooms began to fall to the earth at a slow rate as they fought above. Once they landed, the rest of the team gathered around. Rebecca couldn't see what was going on, but surely it wasn't good for either girl.

As much as Rebecca despised Rose, this was unfair and Rebecca left the stands and hurried down to the field. They were still going at it from the looks of things. Rebecca remembered what Professor Stetson said and pulled out her wand and shouted, "Flipendo!"

Three of the Horned-Serpent players were forced to the ground as Rebecca headed right into the middle of the circle where Vanessa had Rose pinned to the ground. Rebecca fired another shot at Vanessa, but missed because Vanessa already had her wand at the ready and blocked. Next thing Rebecca knew, she was knocked onto the ground. Vanessa used her own Flipendo jinx. Rebecca was quick to get back up though.

But it did not matter because Vanessa continued to cast spells at Rebecca. Each one were nonverbal so Rebecca could only tell if something was coming if Vanessa started to flick her wand. It was just enough for Rebecca to move out of the way. But Vanessa was able to block everything Rebecca cast back because she had to take the time to say them. The fight was hopeless.

But the spells stopped after Rose jumped onto Vanessa. This was a short struggle as now Cassandra and Sheila pulled her off. While they held her arms, Vanessa hit Rose in the stomach and face. Rebecca charged at them. The rest of the Horned-Serpent team got out of the way. Rebecca ran a hard right hand at Vanessa's face. She and blood went to the ground and Vanessa didn't move.

But the victory was short lived because now Cassandra and Sheila had Rebecca won over. Rebecca fainted after many hits to her body and face.

The fighting was done and only Rebecca and Rose were left on the field. Vanessa was carried away by the other team and Sheila and Cassandra made sure no one would help Rebecca and Rose.

It was Rose who woke up Rebecca.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

Rebecca's head was pounding and she thought her ribs might had been broken. "I'm fine. You?"

"Never... never better." Rose said with a cough, but then she said in a fury, "You ruined my chances of being on the team!"

"What?" Rebecca asked in confusion.

"I was going to prove to them I was able to take a few hits. You coming to help messed everything up!" Rose got to her feet and started to walk away.

"You're a bloody idiot if you thought for one second that you had any chance with Vanessa as the captain." Rebecca called out to her. Rose stopped in her tracks but then started again. Rebecca wiped her face. She felt terrible, but she couldn't stay on the pitch forever. She slowly got up and limped her way back up to the castle.

Rebecca was careful to not run into anyone on the way back to the common room. She didn't need anyone to call for the matron. She was almost to the common room when she heard, "Rebecca?"

Rebecca cursed under her breath. She turned to see Professor Scamander. His face lit up with shock and concern. "What on earth happened to you?" He hurried over to her to get a better look.
"Nothing." Rebecca said, trying to hide her face.

"So your face has always looked like that then?" Scamander asked.

"Yep. It's a new trend." Rebecca said sarcastically, now clenching her stomach. "Look, please don't ask me the details. I don't need more detention."

Scamander looked over her and said, "Come with me. I know someone who can fix you up in a jiffy."

Rebecca hesitated. She stood where she was. Scamander gave her a reassuring look. "Don't worry. You won't be in trouble. You have my word. Besides, it's either me or the matron with a billion questions."

On that note, Rebecca gave in and followed Professor Scamander.