Chapter 3 The First Adventure

The weather outside was warm and the sun was bright as the four friends made their way down to Hagrids hut. Albus got hot, took off his cloak, and draped it over his left arm with his book back draped over his right shoulder. As the group got closer to the hut, they saw that there was a swarm of Slytherin first years standing outside the hut talking amongst themselves. Gaby and Rose were the first to reach the group, while Anna was helping Albus, who was still yet kind of sleepy, and the group of slytherins circled around Rose and Gaby.

"Leave us alone," Rose exclaimed.

"Please leave us a lone Scorpius", said Gaby sending the blonde boy a very nasty glare as she slowly reached for her wand, in case Scorpius felt like acting brave in front of his friends.

The boy took a step closer to the girls and smirked as his friends closed the circle, hiding Rose and Gabrielle from sight.

"Or what?" Scorpius asked, taking out his wand and playing with it lazily, looking from the red head to the black haired girl. Rose opened her mouth to try and settle things peacefully, but Gaby was quicker - plus, she hated to be isolated from her sister. She pointed her wand straight at the Slytherin's face and smiled sweetly as an answer.

"Merlin's beard, what's happening here?" Al's voice floated to the two girls from behind a rather massive looking Slytherin.

"Get away from them!" Anna told the group, sounding a bit annoyed.

"It's okay, sis!" Gaby told her, keeping her eyes on Scorpius, who now had an angry expression. "They won't hurt us if Mr. Malfoy here wants to continue to have a face." Of course, she was bluffing. They were all first years and could barely levitate a feather, let alone use some of the more dangerous courses. However, Scorpius had no way of knowing that the girls held more power than any normal first year has.

Before the fight got any worse, a tall man with black shaggy hair and a beard to match came out of his hut. He was Professor Hagrid, the professor for 'Care of Magical Creatures'. Hagrid walked over to the group of students and broke up the action that was going on.

The lesson seemed to drag on and on as Hagrid talked about the different creatures in the magical world, and how he fancies them. The whole class had fallen asleep by time the school bell rang and everyone got up and ran back up to the castle. The four friends seem just to walk up back, wasting no time out side since their next class was potions with their Uncle Heath Tavian, whom they have to refer to him as Professor Tavian like everyone else.

As they walked down to the dungeons and entered the Potions classroom, it was dark and dreary and the professor stood in the corner staring at the students entering the classroom. Anna, Gaby, Rose and Albus entered and noticed that they were sharing the class room once again with the slytherins. They all gave a sigh and took a seat in front of the class, with Anna and Gabby sitting at one table and Rose Albus and sitting at the table to the right. They pulled out their things for class and did as the professor instructed them.

The day finally ended and the four friends were sitting up in the common room in front of the fire place before dinner. They were busy doing the homework that was laid upon them, not even noticing that it was time for dinner….

"You'd think they would make out first day easier..." Albus muttered, reading a very delicate-looking book Gaby brought from the library earlier.

"Maybe they did..." Gabrielle answered gloomily as Rose rolled her eyes and Anna smiled over the book she was reading for Charms.

"Would you two shut up already?" Rose said, making Gaby and Al put on an innocent smile and return to doing their homework - which they did for another half hour or so, until Anna looked at her watch and noticed they had missed dinner, much to Al's despair. But the boy soon had an idea that made a grin appear on his face.

"A boy in my dorm was saying something about a secret stash." Albus told them, beaming. He got up and quickly threw his books into his bag before starting to walk up to the Gryffindor boys’ dorm. But, much to his surprise, the three girls mimicked his actions and were right behind him when he opened the door to his dorm.

“Hey! How come you can come here?” a boy with rather long, brown hair asked when the three girls entered the room.

“The founders thought girls could be trusted.” came Anna’s answer, just as Albus was getting ready to say something.

Albus rummaged around the room for a bit trying to find the secret stash that he had told the girls about. Maybe it's not here He thought as he looked through the dorm closet. The girls on the other hand stood there watching their friend franticly looking around the room for the "Stash". Anna sighed and finally grabbed Albus by the arm then taking him down stairs.

"Now what?" Anna exclaimed upset because there was no treats. "What are we going to do."

There was silence, everyone in deep thoughts until Gaby spoke up. "How about we sneak down to the kitchen. I heard James and Nicholas talking to a hufflepuff telling him how to get into the kitchen."

"Thats a good idea!" said Rose. "But how are we going to get down there with out being caught. Students aren't allowed to be out of the common room at night?

"Oh, you're no fun Rosie, always bringing up the bad side in all the fun." Anna said.

The four of them talked about what they were going to convincing Rose that it was okay to go down, as long as they don't get caught. Once all the gryffindor students were in bed, the four friends met up with each other by the fireplace and finally snuck out of the common room.

Of course, the three Gryffindors didn't need to be told twice and in no time the children were walking around a dark, damp corridor, curious to know where it would lead and lighting up the tips of their wands in order to see where they were going. Rose was the first to find the exit: a not very tall door carved into the wall and covered by a curtain. But, to their surprise, when they sneaked out from behind it, they found their selves face to face with a boy. The brown-haired boy seemed just as shocked to see them, so Albus had to be the first one to break the silence.

"Who are you?"

"I could ask the same thing...how do you know about the passage?"

Albus opened his mouth to answer, but Gaby was quicker, glaring at the stranger, which seemed to amuse him, bringing the taller boy out of his surprised state.

"Now that's none of your business, is it?" the girl said, seeing Rose give her a look that told her to calm down.

"Hey, you guys started questioning, not me."

"Will you two shut up!?" Anna asked, pulling them by the arm back behind the curtain as Rose and Albus followed. Putting a finger to her lips and gesturing for them to take her seriously, she carefully made sure the fabric covered them completely just as Filch's voice floated to them, complaining about armors being vandalized on the third floor. When he was a safe distance away and the children could no longer hear him, Al made sure he was gone while Gaby and Anna raised identical eyebrows at the boy.

"I met up with my darling sister..." the boy said, shrugging. "She loves me to death, literally. Name's William, by the way."

"Ah, well I'm Arianna Tavian, this is my Twin Gabrielle, "Anna said to the boy. "And this is Rose Weasley and Albus Potter and we're all first year Gryffindors. What house are you in?"

"A bunch of Kittens." said William with a smile. "I'm a second year Hufflepuff. So what are you guys doing out here?"

The four friends looked at each other, were they going to tell the boy where they were going and risk the fact that he might tell on them or tell the boy and threaten him that if he tells they were going to do something horrible to them. Gaby excused the group from the boy and they got into a circle and started discussing what they were going to do. They all agreed to tell him and threaten him if he told.

"Ok," Gaby said as she turned back to William. "We're going down to the kitchen to sneak some snacks. If you tell a professor or a prefect, we'll have your head for it, and don't think we'll forget cause we wont."

After that the friends started on their way down to the first floor, quickly and quietly. William was left alone left in his thoughts, he wasn't going to let them have all the fun on their own. The boy quietly followed behind the friends hoping to see where the kitchen, so that he would be able to sneak down there him self with his group of friends.

It wasn't easy for the growing group to move through the castle, especially since they didn't have a clear idea about what direction they should go - that was because the castle was a completely new place for the first years and Al and Gaby didn't trust their new friend enough in order to follow his advice. They ended up almost face to face with Filch two more times before they reached a large painting of a bowl of fruit. Rose tickled the green pear, making it turn into a knob.
The children entered and found a small ocean of greenish creatures fussing around. One of the house elves stopped in the middle of the way and stared at the intruders for a second before he rushed to them with a big smile on his face. It turned that finding food wasn't a problem and it only took the rest of the house elves another second to bring the children an assortment of cakes, sandwiches, pumpkin and apple juice, as well as some muffins and five glasses of milk. The girls thanked them as the boys started eating, only being able to nod since their mouths were full.

Later that night, when Gaby and Anna sat on the windowsill and talked, it would be hard to decide which was hardest: to convince Al and Will that they had to go or to convince the elves of the same thing. Anyway, a bit part of the food they had been given was placed in Rose's bag and the five left the kitchen. Al was so cheerful he even let William lead the way, much to the girls' amusement. When they had to part, the Hufflepuff waved them good bye - after taking his share of the 'loot' from Rosie - and put on his most charming smile, that made the girls roll their eyes and Albus look like someone had made him eat a particularly nasty bug.

Back in the common room, the four friend divided the 'loot' into two parts, one part for the girls and the other part for albus to share with his roomies. The girls though tired, talked happily as they walked into their dorm, taking no notice of the two other girls who had already fallen asleep.

Anna, Rose and Gaby sat in the middle of the dorm with their wands lit in the middle of their circle. They started talking about William, the handsome Hufflepuff that they had met. Anna rose pulling her thick black hair into a pony tail letting the bottom fall into a curl, she started to dance pretending to be dancing with William.

Ella a blonde haired blue eyed first year gryffindor sat up in her bed and stared at the three girls in the middle of their dorm. "Would you please be quite, i don't understand you three we've got classes tomorrow and you're up partying."

Gaby tried to put on a hurt expression but almost failed because she was laughing so hard tears started to form in her emerald eyes.

"We are NOT partying!" the girl said, straightening her back and looking dignified.

"We're talking." her twin said, putting on the same serious face and making Rose laugh even harder.

"Well talk quieter!" Ella told them, looking both angry and a little amused. It was almost impossible to resist the urge to smile when you saw the two Tavian girls acting like that.

"C'mon Ella!" Rose pleaded, as sweetly as she could. "Just a bit more...we were talking about this boy we met..."

"Ooh, what boy?" the girl said, suddenly looking very much awake as she practically jumped out of bed and joined the three on the floor.

"I thought you wanted to sleep." Gaby said, rolling her eyes and seeing her sister chuckle.

"Tall, brown-haired, blue-eyed, second year Hufflepuff." Anna told Ella, trying not to laugh again as Rose started to giggle and Gaby grinned widely, seeing their room-mate blush slightly.

"How did you girls meet him?"

"No need to act so surprised, Ella, we bumped into him while running away from Filch." Anna answered, starting to dance again with her imaginary partner when Rose got up and took a musical jewlery box and opened it. An old walz floated to their ears, delighting them and making Anna's steps seem even more graceful. She, opposite to her twin, had taken a liking to music since she was little, so dancing was soon to follow.

The girls sat up most of the night, disreguarding that they had classes the next morning, talking about William and what they had done that night. Anna was the first to head off to bed, shortly followed by the other girls. The dorm was soon filled with soft snores and that meant everyone was fast asleep.