Ebony eyes gazed out the window at the scene that was passing by the windows. Left my parents and home behind. She thought to herself, feeling very little remorse. It's not like it was my real parents or my real home. She sighed as she leaned against the side of the car and gazed at the ground. She had never seen Durmstrang before and had no idea what to expect. A little Austrian girl going to Durmstrang, who knows what could happen.
Suddenly the door opened and three guys walked in. They all appeared to be her age as they sat down on the other end of the car and took turns glancing at Evyon. Finally one spoke up and said, "I'm Kio." He looked over at his companions and gestured to each one in turn. "That's Seboyk and Vincent," he looked back to Evyon. "What's your name?"
"I'm Evan, Evan Keldun." She replied not looking over at them. She kept her gaze locked with the ground at all times, feeling as if they could see right through her disguise. This will work for a couple of years, but what happens when I become more… girl like? She wondered to herself before looking out the window.
"Where are you from Evan?"
"Austria," she replied shortly. Evyon had never had any friends before and so therefore she wasn't very good at speaking with others. She had spent most of her time practicing spells and incantations. "You?"
"I'm from Japan, Vincent is from France and Seboyk here… well," he said looking at his friend and stopping.
This made Evyon look up and cast her gaze to Seboyk. Where is he from? How come his friend doesn't know?
"I'm from Russia," he finally finished looking over at Evyon with a smile.
Evyon noticed it now. Seboyk was an elf therefore he was very quiet. His ears are so pointy! She thought never having seen an elf before it was a strange feeling.
"Why are you staring?" Seboyk finally asked.
"I'm sorry," Evyon replied. "I have never met an elf before, actually… I have never met anyone before." She finally admitted before looking back down the floor, although she could still tell that they were staring at her.
Kio looked over at Vincent who hadn't spoken the entire time. He raised his eyebrow with a smirk and Vincent gave him the same look.
Vincent stood up and walked over to Evyon sitting down next to her. "It's okay, Evan. We won't tell anyone, your dark secret."
Evyon's eyes shot wide when he said this and she looked up at him. "What dark secret?"
"That you don't know how to talk with people."
"Oh," Evyon replied giving a slight sigh of relief and gazing at the ground once more.
Vincent was about twice the size of Evyon. He was a very stocky kid with dark brown hair. Although Seboyk was very skinny, but taller than the others and with dirty blonde hair and Kio was somewhere in between, with black hair.
Evyon felt awkward being in the same room as them and especially being this close to one of them. Vincent was very intimidating. She felt like he could break her in half without even trying or using magic and that scared her. "I'm going to take a walk," she finally said getting up and leaving the car.
Standing in the aisle she looked back and forth and saw nothing so just began down one direction. Every time she passed a room she felt like everyone was staring at her and this annoyed her, so she began to stare back at them, with an almost evil look. Finally she made it to an open space in one of the trains and walked over to the window looking out at the scenery they were passing, when suddenly the train began to dip down and they were going under water. That can't be good. She thought to herself.
"Hey, don't worry," a deeper voice said from behind her.
Spinning around Evyon came face to face with a guy who was about a head taller than she was.
"Didn't your father tell you that Durmstrang was under water?"
"No, I guess he forgot to mention it," Evyon replied looking at the guy in front of her. He was absolutely gorgeous and she couldn't take her eyes off of him, with his spiked black hair and his Asian gangster look. Finally she looked away and back out the window.
"So how many years have you been going to Durmstrang?" She asked.
"This is my third year, I'm 14." He replied to her as he stepped up to the window. "The name is Rufio, and I'm from Japan."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Evan, from Austria."
"Just a word of advice, try not to be so nice. The guys here will rip you apart like bacon." He warned slapping her on the shoulder encouragingly before disappearing once more.
Rufio, I'll remember that. She thought as she made her way back to the room. There she found only Seboyk sitting by himself in his dark maroon robes. "Are we getting close?" She asked him.
"Yes, we are. You may want to put yours on as well." He advised her.
Evyon suddenly knew that she had completely miscalculated this in her plans. "Okay, thanks." She said as she grabbed her trunk and pulled out her robes.
"Hey Evan, if that is your real name…"
"What are you talking about?" Evyon asked turning to Seboyk.
"Please, I already knew you were a girl. Your voice is way too high for a guy's and you are way too insecure. Anyway, you better work on it, or else you're going to have a lot more issues than just suspicions about you." Seboyk warned. "I'll let you change," he said and disappeared.
Evyon watched the door that he had left through for a few moments and then began to put her robes on. Why in the world did I think I could pull this off. Someone has already discovered me. What else could go wrong now? She contemplated the worst, but decided she would deal with it when it came to it and put her other clothes away before Kio and Vincent returned.
"Where's Seboyk?" Kio asked looking directly at Evyon.
"I don't know, he wasn't here, when I got back." Evyon lied looking directly at Kio. She wasn't going to let them know she was afraid. I made it this far, I'm not going back now!
"Okay, he always did have a way of disappearing on us." Vincent replied and the two sat down, while Evyon replaced her trunk in the loft.
"So what is Durmstrang like? I don't really know much about it." Evyon asked looking between Vincent and Kio.
"Well I heard from my older brother that it's really crazy!" Kio told Evyon. "It's extremely cliquey and you have your group and that's it."
Vincent smirked at Kio and shook his head. "Don't let Kio scare you. He just likes to mess with people."
Evyon smiled at Vincent before looking at Kio. "You have a brother?"
"Yeah, he's a couple years older than me." Kio replied.
"Oh, that's so cool! You get a better chance at surviving then don't you?"
"Hahahaha!" Kio and Vincent both bursted out laughing when Evyon said this. "Yeah, like that would make a difference! You really don't know Durmstrang at all. It's every man for himself and sometimes if you get lucky your friends or teachers will stand up for you. Although it's not likely."
Evyon's smile dropped right off her face and she felt like she had lost it through the bottom of the train. I am so dead in this school. She thought as Vincent and Kio recovered themselves from their laughter.
"Dude, Evan… we're just kidding." Vincent said as he looked over at Evyon who looked like she was about to be sick. "Aww man Kio! Why do you always have to scare people like that! He's probably a muggle-born too."
"I am not muggle-born!" Evyon snapped at Vincent defensively. "How dare you make that accusation!"
"Dude back off! I didn't mean anything by it." Vincent said throwing his hands up in a defensive gesture.
Evyon huffed as she turned and looked back out the window at the water.
"Oh man, I can't wait till the ball." Kio finally said after a while.
"What ball?" Evyon inquired.
"Oh right, you don't know. Well once a year the girls from Beauxbatons come over and we have a little party. Ya know, dancing, maybe something else." Kio said nudging Vincent. "ya know what I mean?"
Evyon looked at Kio and smiled. "Oh yeah… that." She said pretending to be one of the guys. Girls? That's the last thing I need. They usually can tell when someone is lying. I would know. She thought to herself as the train began to slow down. "Are we here?" She asked looking at the others.
"No, we still have a ways to go. We probably just had to stop, there's a lot of traffic down here." Vincent replied.
"Traffic?" Evyon asked.
"Yeah, go out and look through the window. There's a better view," Kio said gesturing towards the door.
Evyon stood up and walked through the sliding door and looked down the hallway. She saw Seboyk looking out the window and decided to go join him. "Hey Seboyk," she said as she leaned against the window.
"Sup Evan," he said looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
"Shut up!" she snapped in a whisper before looking out the window and the thousands of tracks outside. "Oh my gosh, I never knew something like this existed." She thought aloud.
"Yeah, it's amazing huh? I mean magic and all."
"It's crazy! My parents never told me anything about the magical world. Like they were hoping I was… muggle or something." She confessed to Seboyk.
"Now, why would they want that?"
"I don't know…" silence fell between the two as the train began to move again. Finally Evyon asked, "you're not going to tell anyone about me are you?"
"No, of course not. It's not like I care what you do, unless the reason you came here is because you're obsessed with boys." Seboyk said jokingly.
"Haha," Evyon said
sarcastically. "That's the exact reason why I did this Seboyk."
She pushed him playfully and then caught sight of his pointed ears
again. "Are there… more like you at Durmstrang?"
"You
mean more elves?"
"Well, yeah, but other creatures too?"
"Yeah of course!"
"I never heard about anything like that at Beauxbatons or Hogwarts." Evyon replied.
"Yeah, it's because the schools are 'prep' schools and don't want to admit to what kind of students go there otherwise they would have less normal wizards and witches coming." Seboyk explained.
"Oh… that's kind of stupid. The whole point is to be immersed in the magical world. What better way than to interact with the other crea-… people?" Evyon had almost said creatures and realized how Seboyk felt.
"It's hard being different, everyone stares at you and most people try to avoid you when they find out." Seboyk said with almost pain in his voice.
"I know how you feel Seboyk," Evyon replied.
"No… you don't."
You have no idea.
She thought looking away to the ground once more, when suddenly a
pair of feet came into her vision and she looked up. A group of guys
her age had just stopped in front of her.
"Get out of my way!"
One of them snapped, he had black hair and gray eyes that seemed to
bore into your mind and read your thoughts.
Evyon was so utterly confused that she looked over at Seboyk who was keeping eye contact with the outside, so Evyon just stepped against the wall to let them by.
"What's the matter elf?" The guy black-haired guy said as he walked past Seboyk and the rest of them snickered as they disappeared into a car a few doors down.
"Who was that?" Evyon asked Seboyk.
"That would be your worst enemy if you become friends with us." Seboyk said not looking away from outside. "The black-haired one who spoke is Kai. He's the leader of the Efee's. Let's see, the multi-colored, emo one is Ramy, while the tall intelligent one is Cairo."
"What's an efee? How does everyone already know each other here? How did everyone meet?" Evyon questioned.
"You'll see what an efee is. Don't worry. Well most of us meet at magical gatherings when we are really young, others just have parents who are friends."
"Oh, I see…" Evyon replied feeling like such an outsider. "Are there any other 'gangs' I should know about?"
"Yeah, actually there are the Touline's. Those two groups and us are just complete enemies. We actually met a long time ago at the Quidditch World Cup. We were only about 5 years old, but everyone knew that we hated the other. Each supporting a completely different team, although a few of the boys created a gang and so we decided if we wanted to survive in Durmstrang we would have to do the same."
"Why do you join with another group? Ya know, like for protection?"
"Look Evyon, there is something you still don't get here. We guys don't care about protection. It is about being unafraid and being able to stand up for yourself. Don't be a girl, be a guy." Seboyk said rather annoyed as he stormed back to the room leaving Evyon alone.
Evyon turned and looked out the window. Don't a girl, be a guy. Seboyk's words kept running through her head as she stood there. Why do I have to be such a girl! She snapped at herself before turning to go back to her car, only to look into the face of Kai.
"Where are you going newbie?" He asked with a smirk on his face.
"Who are you calling a newbie? You're a first year too!" She snapped back not backing down. Be a guy! She thought as she stood her ground.
"I might be a first year like yourself, but I know more than you do and I will kick your ass!" Kai said raising his fist to hit Evyon when suddenly Rufio grabbed his hand and looked down at Kai shaking his head.
"Yeah, about that. I don't think that's a very wise decision." He said looking at Kai. "Now why don't you just go back to your room before we have to do something about this."
Kai ripped his hand away from Rufio before looking back at Evyon. "This isn't over," he whispered as she shoved past Evyon and disappeared once more.
"Thanks," Evyon said to Rufio.
"Hey, it's cool. Some these guys just don't get it. I hope you do." He replied. "We should be arriving soon. Better grab your bags." With this Rufio said good-bye and left to go to his car.
"Evan! Hurry up!" Kio called from their car.
Evyon hurried down the hallway grabbing her bags and following Kio and Vincent to the exit when the train had finally stopped. As they got off the train you could see the water around you, but the train and the castle seemed to be incased in a bubble.
She was amazed to see the sight that appeared before her. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine it to look this amazing.
"Hey move it!" Kai snapped as he pushed past her, smacking his bag into the back of her knee, giving her a charlie horse.
"Damn it!" She snapped as she landed on the ground, but quickly braced herself on her bags and got back up. "Jackass," she breathed before following Vincent, Kio and Seboyk towards these strange almost whale like creatures.
"What is that?!" She asked looking at it in confusion.
"That is an oxquine. They are very dangerous creatures, which are put under spells so that we first years can ride them to the castle. Unless you would rather walk through the water, which I say good luck to." Seboyk explained as they climbed onto the large creature.
As the oxquine filled up, he gave a loud, long screech and then began to move through the water. When it did this a bubble was created around the boys so that they could breath through the water. Everything was peaceful in the water and it didn't seem like anything was going wrong so Evyon began to let her guard down and enjoyed the beauty when suddenly she saw something black streak underneath the oxquine.
"Does anything else live in these waters?" She asked looking over to Seboyk.
"Of course there are other things that live in this water. Psh, seriously." He said as the other boys began to laugh and suddenly the oxquine took a sharp dive to the left.
"What the hell is going on!"
"Evasive maneuvers. We don't want to get hit by the efee."
"The what?!" She snapped.
"The efee."
"What's an efee?"
Evyon was looking over the edge of the oxquine when suddenly a jaw full of razor sharp teeth appeared and snapped at the bubble on the oxquine. The efee was a rather small creature compared to the oxquine, maybe ten feet in length, while the oxquine was at least sixty feet, but it was deadly. It looked furry, but each strand was actually a long poisonous spine. The tail was like a giant bush of spikes that glistened green. As Evyon watched the creature all of the spines laid down against the flanks of the creature making it look like a long fish and it disappeared extremely fast underneath the oxquine and the large creature took another evasive maneuver.
"Right, efee… I'll remember that one." She thought aloud as she watched the creature kind of liking it. It was powerful and deathly, but small at sleek at the same time.
Finally they arrived at the castle of Durmstrang. This adventure had already been a lot and there was much more in store for Evyon. As she got off the oxquine and looked at it one last time, she wasn't sure if she could handle it, but she was determined to make it. There was one last thing she needed to know before entering the halls of Durmstrang. "What is our group called?"
"We are the Malcohr's," Kio replied proudly.
That was the only thing that Evyon actually knew about. It was the hybrid of a Chimera. In fact it was a chimera but it had a dragon's, vampire's and werewolf's head, with a poisonous tail. And on the full moon of every month, the creature was unstoppable. Nothing stood in its way and survived to tell the tale.
Evyon was officially ready to enter Durmstrang. No longer Evyon, but Evan now. She was a guy and ready to prove to everyone that she could be one. Bring it. She thought to herself as they entered the hall, leaving their bags in the front room, before entering the food hall and sitting down at a table together.
This is bad ass! She thought when suddenly she saw, from across the room at another table, the Efee's staring at her and she knew this was going to be hell, but she was ready to have as much fun with it as possible.
