Chapter three: Silent Fortune

(AsVoria)

Dear Miss Aniko Ensile Dumbledore Black;

We are pleased to announce that due to your entrance into the TTFQ, that your MST test (Magical Strength Time-coherent) will be postponed until the end of May. We will send you the date in the later part of January. We would like to also congratulate you on your entrance into the TTFQ competition. We look forward to seeing you win. As MP for Activities and Culture I would like to tell you that the first task has been set for November 28th, good luck, and please don't die. It would be very unfortunate if you do, Princess.

Your mother, my good friend, would like to congratulate you personally on you entrance into the quest. She will be there for the First at Nine am. I would like to inform you that the Empress A. Dumbledore has acquired a small animal. I believe a dog; which rumor has it she got him around April – June of last year. Rumor also says it could be your father Sirius Black, in dog form. She calls him Padfoot, yet, then again its just rumors.

Sincerely,

James Green

Ps. your mother says to practice your Crescimento Interno spell. The one you almost failed last term. She suggests finding an object and doing it until it's perfect.

Aniko read the letter that came this morning by Elvin-air, which was one of the mail carrying types in Lareeum. The most popular was various kinds of winged creatures. She then put the letter onto the table and propped her feet up on the nearest table leg. Jade was sitting across from Ani. She still wanted to read the letter one more time. So Jade picked it up off the table and read it through once more. Jade smiled, putting the letter back on the table. Aniko was eating rice this chilly afternoon and the boys, well, they were creating another so-called "foolproof" plan for a prank of the Stygian House. Which was really okay because it was all to get back at Sedgwick for betting them in Airedology. Jade sighed and listened to their plans. Then something hit her about the contents of her letter. Jade took her feet off the table leg below and stood on the marble floor. She leaned in toward Ani and whispered

"Yo, An didn't you fail Professor Hedwigs exam last term?" She asked quizzingly.

"Uh, hell no, I just barley passed, I think it was a 59?" Aniko coolly answered her. She laughed at the thought of the Professor's face when she barely lit the glass bulb up.

"Ya and he said to never take his InnerCrescum class ever again. Man he's going to be in for a surprised." Aniko said though fits of laughter.

"BLACK! This isn't funny! So cool." Jade chimed, very annoyed at her best friend.

"Ya and I know where this convo is going and I really DON'T want to TALK about it, so lay off Dr. Phallus." Aniko spoke in a very chilly voice with no real feeling at all. If Jade was smart she would have stopped right there, like any other sane person would have, but this was Jade Potter. She knew how to get around Aniko E. D. Black's ever changing moods.

"ANIKO!" Jade yelled at a whisper, seriously annoyed now. "Your mother is trying to tell you something about the first fate. You MAJOR idiot!"

"HEY!" Aniko whimpered back, very hurt.

" What? Ani… hey don't give me that look… STOP IT…. Your mother, Aniko, is a very smart woman. Yes she is and don't give me that look."

"Jade, you know that I RREEAALLLLYY SUCK at that spell."

"Ya so, I'll help you. By the time I'm done you'll be great!" she chimed sweetly.

"Ya. I would rather NOT do it."

"Ani, you would rather drink, until you don't feel the pain of you dad any more?" Jade didn't care how that statement made Aniko feel, right now she just wanted to strangle her.

"OK, Jade that was really LOW! Even for you."

"I don't care." Jade answered coolly. She stood up from the table, and grabbed Ani's hand as she left. Jade pulled Aniko down the hall toward a outside alcove. Students stood eyeing them as they went. Aniko pulled and twisted, trying to get free of Jades grasp. They marched down the stone and marble halls until they came to a small alcove. Jade pinned back Aniko back with her hands pushing on Ani's shoulders. Aniko stared back at Jade. There was fire in her eyes, that Ani had never seen before. Jade sighed and dropped her hands from Aniko's shoulders. As Jade did this Ani's pressure in her chest released and she began to relax a little. Her once rapidly beating heart slowed down and her sweaty palms seemed to be drying slowly. Aniko wiped her hands on her pants. Ani watched as Jade slide down the wall to the floor beside her. After a long few moments of silence, Ani decided to sit down beside her.

"Listen Black." She spoke smoothly and almost silently.

"You have to put your weird dreams behind you, along with any other troubles you have for now. You NEED to focus on the tests. I'm afraid you might, scratch that, you WILL die. So get fucking over yourself and grow up." Jade told her.

With that she punched her hard in the arm, got up, and walked away. Aniko watched Jade go down the hall, her back getting smaller and smaller. She rubbed the spot on her arm where Jade punched her and she set her head back against the stone wall. As she opened her eyes to the ceiling, the hallway began to spin and burr around her. Aniko closed her eyes to stop the pain of feeling like someone was pulling her into two. After what seemed like hours, Ani opened her eyes to see tan marble in front of her. She looked around and found a boy sitting next to her. Someone she had never seen before and the minute she saw what he was wearing she knew he was an Aired or more commonly called a "Wizard". She looked him up and down, head to toe. His hair was black, curly and cut into a shag style. His eyes were green and hidden behind black round glasses. The boys face was evenly placed, and he was very attractive. He smiled at her quizzically and Aniko noticed what he was wearing. He wore black pants, a white collared shirt that just showed of his trim body. He wore white and red sneakers, and a black, red and gold trimmed cape. The last thing she noticed was the red and gold lion on the chest part of his cape. The odd boy extended his hand and Aniko shook. Harry starred at the very odd girl who sat beside him. She was dressed in black cropped pants, with a white, wrinkled collared shirt. On her shirt was an image of a white Phoenix. She also wore a sliver and white tie around her slim neck. Harry couldn't help but notice she had most of the top buttons undone. He shook these thoughts from his head. He looked her up and down one more time. She wore hot pink converse with black ties on her feet, her hair was pin straight and ebony black. Her eyes were sapphire blue, and she wore no cape, her face was oval and she had a delicate nose. She, Harry thought was very attractive, but somehow he thought he knew her.

"Hi, I'm Harry."

"Hi, I'm A.B." Ani answers him.

"A.B?" Harry asked.

"Yes." Ani answered sharply.

"Is it short for something?" He asked again, as they both sat on the cold stone floor.

"Yes, my name."

"Oh, Okay." He said, sounding sad because she wouldn't tell him her real name.

Aniko looked at Harry just as the afternoon sun hit his perfect face. Its warm glow was cast onto his face, making his features and green eyes stand out more. Her stomach flipped at the thought and she silently cursed herself and she blushed. Aniko turned her face away from Harry. "You have a boyfriend remember, CEDRIC! He's your guy, you Dolt. So stop it!" said her little inner voice. She sat beside Harry until the sun was half set. Yet because of the weird, funky tension that had set in between them Aniko began to laugh. She looked up from the floor to see Harry looking at her as if she was mental. Then she laughed even harder, because of the weird look he had on his face, and he got a new look the same one Jade would give her. The "Hurt Ego face" she liked to call it. Harry turned away from the laughing girl, he turned back to look at her when she was done and noticed she had no wand. "Was she a Muggle?" He became even more uncomfortable and began to fidget.

"What's wrong with you?" Ani asked bluntly.

"Uhh.. Ya.. Here's the thing. where's your wand?" Harry asked cautiously.

"Wand?" she asked him.

"Ya." Harry said and lifted his body from the floor.

"Ok, I've never…" and before she could finish Harry cut her off.

"OMG! Hurry WE got TO GO, we gotta get you out of here, Mate." Harry told her hardily. With that Harry pulled Aniko from the floor by her shoulders. "Not again, how many times does this have to happen today." she considered. Harry pulled her down hallway after hallway, past door after door, and until she had enough. She dug her feet into the floor and twisted free from his grasp, which took more work then with Jade. Harry's back was outlined perfectly by her fitted cape. Aniko was pissed at him, their was very few people she let pull her down a hallway. Harry was not one of them. Harry turned around to face her. She was going to give him a piece of her mind. It was just too bad he was so pretty.

"WHAT THE GOD DAMN FRICK ARE YOU THINKING!" she howled at him.

"SAVING YOU!" Harry barked back.

"WHAT!" Aniko screamed at him.

"You're a Muggle, you need to get out of here, or they're going to hurt you." He said gently. Aniko blankly starred at him, did he really not know she was a mage. As his words blended in her head, she thought MUGGLE was some kind of insult, Aired's used on one another, but when it sunk in she could help but laugh. A huge rafter shaking laugh that soared so high it took on a life of its own.

"What's so funny, because I'm really not getting the joke mate." He said to her

"I'm… Not…A….N.M." she said while being bent over through fits of laughter.

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