Chapter 5 - confrontations and revelations.

The dinner that followed Hermione and Emily's sorting was filled with tension and anger. Mostly coming from Ron and Draco, it was perplexing to the girls why Draco was so angry at them but it all became clear very quickly. No one was paying any attention to Draco!!!!!!!! The injustice of it all!!!!! The focus of every pair of eyes in the great hall was the princesses sitting at the Slytherin table.

"I believe it is time to leave, before the curses start to fly." whispered 'mione

Pouting " ahhhhhh, but the fun is just starting 'mione, Draco looks like he is going to whither from the lack of attention. Ron is going purple and Harry, ……..well actually, he isn't even glaring at us, that's kind of weired."

" Yeah I hadn't noticed that, he doesn't even look mad, I may still have a friend in this school. Maybe he has realized that he is just a pawn in a gigantic chess game, I hope he has, he disserves some happiness." Hermione couldn't believe that Harry might be free of Dumbledore's meddling as well, that would be more than she could ever wish for. After all Harry had been effected much like she had, he had been taken away from the people who loved him and put with people who couldn't care less what happened to him.

After surveying the hall one more time the girls got up to leave but were unceremoniously stopped by a blonde ferret and his two cronies.

"You girls can't leave without the permission of the PRINCE of Slytherin. You might think you are all high and mighty now that you are a princess." the word came out dripping with distain. "However you will learn to show some respect to your superiors, Granger. Or feel the wrath of my house." Draco said with a smirk firmly planted on his face.

"Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha." Hermione and Emily collapsed to floor in theatrical laughter. "you think… gasp… that ….hehehe… you can threaten us. Good one Malfoy. Now we'll be leaving before you tell another joke that splits our sides." Emily gasped out between bursts of laughter. As they walked out of the hall they were both thinking the same things. We are going to be in for a whole load of trouble when we get to the common room. Hermione cringed as she thought of the battle that her and Em were going to face later on that night. Draco was not one to be crossed and they just double teamed his ass. Their first night in Slytherin was going to be anything but calm, although it would be a good refresher course on curses for Hermione.

The girls were sitting in front of the fire with potions books spread in a 5 foot circle around them, showing off their continued bookworm mentality, when Draco burst in and throw a slashing hex at them. "Bitches you don't deserve to be called Slytherins. Let us show you what it really means to be in the house of Salazar." The common room descended into chaos with many brightly colored balls of magic heading for the twins. Slicing, burning, transfiguration, levitation, binding, the slytherins used it all. Several minutes later saw the dust settling and nervous students waiting to see the results of their attack. In front of a ruined fireplace sat two black haired, red eyed, strikingly powerful witches. Their possession was obvious from their changed looks but the words that came out of their mouths, in unison, cemented the theory of possession.

"How dare you attack the only living heirs of our family. Now you will feel the wrath of those who rule Italy and the ones who will end your pitiful attempt at leadership." The girls began to chant in Latin with a blinding light emitting from their eyes "With tendrils of fire I shall burn you. With the security of ice I will bind you. With the essence of nature I will subdue you. With the force of the wind I will banish you. With the strength inside of me I shall destroy you." After the ancient spell was finished the girls faded into an exhaustion induced coma not to wake for several days: not until their bodies had come to terms with the influx of power that had surged through them as they protected and defended themselves. The rite of passage had officially begun.

———Thestralhorse

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