Chapter 4: Decade Long Separation
Lily Evans was reading her favorite storybook, The Secret Garden, for the third time on the living-room sofa when her sister walked into the room.
"So what could this weirdo be doing, huh?" Petunia commented haughtily as she walked passed Lily on purpose and then headed towards the kitchen. Petunia had accidentally seen Lily displaying her unusual healing powers in the last few years and was forced not to tell anyone about it by her parents.
Lily ignored the comment as she continued reading. Ignore her. Ignore her. She looked up and saw her sister at the kitchen and revert her concentration back to her book.
"Ooh, reading a book huh?" Petunia, who had finished drinking her water and then headed back into the living room, and pulled Lily's long ponytail.
"LET GO OF MEEE!" Lily winced in pain, glaring at Petunia.
"What if I don't?" Petunia snickered menacingly and pulled her ponytails even harder.
"PETUNIA! What are you doing to your sister?" A voice boomed across the room from the hallway.
"Nothing at all, daddy." Petunia, instantly removing her hands from Lily's hair, put on the most innocent look and walked out of the room, while glaring evidently at her pretty younger sister.
Lily was massaging her scalp while looking defiantly at her sister. The pain was gone instantly and she released the rubber bands on her hair and retied the ponytails.
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"Catch me if you can!" James shouted over at Sirius in the air. He was flying on his new broomstick, Nimbus 1500, which he gotten on his birthday in January from his parents this year.
"No problem, Jamsie-poo!" Sirius replied. He too, had gotten his first real new broomstick, the same model as James, from his parents on his birthday in May this year.
They were whizzing around the quidditch field in Potter Manor for a few hours. After awhile, the sun began to set. They had gotten bored of just flying around the pitch. Then they flew around the vast gardens in Potter Manor. It was humongous, but they got bored of that as well after flying round the stretch of fountains for a while.
"Let's fly around the neighborhood, Sir-Sir-Poo," James called over his friend in the air, with an impish look on his face.
"Good idea, I was about to suggest that if you don't, we could probably go further than that." Sirius replied with a let's-try-something-more-daring look.
Stefanie was in skipping around the garden at Black's Mansion when she noticed what the guys were trying to do. Twins usually have extrasensory perception and she somehow knew that Sirius was going to do something wild. She ran into the house quickly, dropping her skipping ropes and grabbed her Nimbus 1500 from the store room and flew to chase after the guys. Something is going to happen. I just know it.
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Remus was flying around his gardens alone on his Nimbus 1500 for the whole afternoon. Since it was the newest broom in town, practically all the rich children own one of them. It was getting late, and tonight was a full moon night.
He sighed and walked back into his large but empty house wearily. His parents were out in some Ministry meetings again. He was lonely. He did not attend any school but had private tutors who taught him every basic skill he needed from magic to languages. He had no friends ever since he became a werewolf. Why me? He often wondered.
He changed out of his sweaty robes and two house-elves walked him towards a shack in the isolated corner of Hogsmeade and left after he entered the shack.
What did I ever do to deserve this? He thought bitterly.
Suddenly there was a crashing sound behind him. The windowpanes were shattered and two boys about his age crashed straight into the room.
The two boys got up quickly and dusted themselves. Both identical guys were wearing expensive looking robes, which now looked dirty and torn.
The chocolate brown eyes of James Potter met with the light brown eyes of Remus Lupin. The blue-green eyes of Sirius Black met with the light brown eyes of Remus. Then the chocolate brown eyes James exchanged a look with the blue-green eyes Sirius. The three of them were standing stiffly and looking at one another, not knowing what to say.
As suddenly as everything was, Remus started his transformation.
"RUN! THAT'S A WEREWOLF!" Stefanie shouted from outside, noticing Remus was starting to transform. Ever since she had the close encounter with a full-grown werewolf, she had spent days to read and research on werewolves. Nevertheless, she still had a kind of phobia with werewolves, but at the same time, she was grateful for the boy who got bitten from saving her three years ago. I wonder how is the guy who saved me three years ago.
The two boys grabbed their broomsticks that were lying on the floor and flew out of the shack to join Stefanie in mid-air.
The three of them turned back at a safe distance to take a one last look at the shack with the wild howling sound and flew home.
"Did you two know the dangers?" Stefanie reprimanded. "You two could just get bitten and become a werewolf, like him." The two boys remained quiet, exchanging a confused look.
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There were seven figures, all standing in a circle, emitting some sort of light in their middle. These figures seemed to be colour coded. All of them were wearing a hood of a different colour. Looks like some cartoon heroes. Like power rangers?
Suddenly the scene changed.
The black-colored person was talking to a snake in this strange language. A cobra? How could anyone communicate with a snake? That's really strange. Oh well, I'm in a dream, of course weird things could happen.
The scene changed.
The green-colored person seemed to performing some magical tricks. Things were changing from one to another. The matchstick became a sword? Wow! The feather became a book. The book looked ancient. Let me take a closer look. H-O-G-W...
The scene changed.
The red -colored person was standing rooted at a place. A little too still. Suddenly there was a rush of mixture of spinning colours. Hey, wait a minute. I thought I was in a room a few seconds ago? Now? I'm in an ancient looking like place with a castle in front! What a magnificent castle in fact.
The scene changed.
The blue-colored person was staring at a tree. Suddenly the tree became a beautiful woman. What! Transformation? The blue-hooded person stared at the woman and she floated up around the room, as if he was manipulating all her movements. Oh my god! Better than David Copperfield in illusions.
The scene changed.
The orange-colored person did not seem to be moving at all. So still. Why were most of them standing or sitting so still on the ground anyway? The chairs and tables around her were moving as if she was controlling all the movements with her mind.
The scene changed.
The yellow-colored person was touching a seriously wounded person. Eeeww! So gruesome and bloody. Yucks. The blood just seemed to seep back into the skin and the opened wound closed up as if it was a rewinding. The skin was looking normally without a trace of scar or wound or blood. Oh my god! Doctor! Healer! Whatever it was.
The scene changed.
The violet-colored person was sitting in the middle of an empty but nice-smelling room. It smells of flowers, lavender with jasmine. Oh, what's on top of her head? A giant white mist? Looks like a screen. Am I watching her thoughts or what? Er... Did I see myself in the screen?
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Ring? Arabella opened her eyes sleepily. The wake-up bell just rang loudly across the sleeping quarters. She could see her friends around her waking up unwillingly. She stretched her hands and gave a large yawn before standing upright.
That was a really strange dream. Witches and wizards? The supreme seven? I ought to go publish a book based on this story line. Haha! She chuckled at her strange but interesting dream. She often had all these sort of weird dreams, so it was nothing new. She gave a sleepy yawn and walk out of the dormitory to wash up with the rest of the sleepy girls. Being a ten-year-old and not exposed to anywhere out of the orphanage, she knew nothing about the world outside or her background.