Chapter 18
Time Flies By
I woke up feeling really refreshed this morning. I would get my new schedual today, so that I could be with my Slytherin housemates. The only real change was that I now had Herbology with Ravenclaw, instead of Hufflepuff, the rest of the classes I have with Gryffindor.
I skipped down into the common room only to get the strangest looks from my new house mates, I guess they aren't used to seeing anyone happy in their house. Putting off their unwelcoming faces, I marched up to the Great Hall, pleased that I wasn't sore from the Slytherin Initation last night. Truthfully, I didn't remember much of anything last night after the third time I got hit, they must have gotten tired of curseing me by then.
When I entered the hall, I noticed my favorite twins at the Gryffindor table. I quickly made my way over there, happy to see them since we havn't talked face-to-face for weeks.
"Hey guys, how were your holidays? Thank you both so much for the gifts! Did you get yours on time? If not it was all the stupid owls fault, for some reason they really don't like me, the feeling is mutual though." I plopped my self down in between Fred and George grinning like an idiot, good thing they are used to it.
"Yes Kitty Cat, we got your gifts, thank you. As for the break, we came up with a couple of more candy ideas to try out." Fred and his stupid nicknames, ger.
"You can even help us if you aren't to involved with your Slytherin friends." Thankfully I knew George was joking or I might have been affended.
"I'll help, might as well. I think we can even get my so called Slythein friends to test the candy for us. You know the really 'good' candy."
"Kitty cat, that is really mean. Would you really do that to your friends in Slytherin? Wait, of course you would, and the both of us," Fred motioned to George and then himself, "would be helping."
"And speaking of Slytheirn, how was your first night in the dungeons?"
"Well, I made it through their initation, I guess that's all anyone can ask."
George must have caught something on my face because he immedaitely asked, "What did they do to you?"
"They used the cru..." Before I could finish, Dean, a first year like me came by.
"Hey Zeak, you're in Slytherin now, go sit with your own house. We don't want you here at the Gryffindor table."
I rolled my eyes and got up, normally I would have said something to him, but the Twins were ready to beat the daylights out of the stupid Gryffindor. "Guys, it's ok. I do need to go and associate with my new house...that way we have some testers when the time comes." I then walked off, leaving Fred and George with identical grins on their face. I think the grin was in combination of getting testers other than themselves for the candy and the thought of beating Dean up later. They won't do it while I'm there because I would stop them, they know I fight my own battles when the time is right, but they always like to help, they are like my big brothers that way.
I took my seat at the Slytherin table and started my first day back to school with some yummy breakfast.
My time in Slytherin just seemed to fly by. I made my trips out to the forest, learning lore from the Centaurs, avoiding evil spiders who hunger for my flesh, and playing with the new werewolf cubs, they were really cute.
Firenze and I continued exploring the forest, one day, I found a trail of silvery liquid on the trail. He said it was unicorn blood, then ran off to go tell the herd about it. The next time I came out to the forest, Firenze tole me that I couldn't come out any more, that there was something dangerous in the forest, and had apparently been there all semester, the head stallion of the centaurs, didn't feel it neccessary to tell everyone about it though.
Let's just say I didn't stop comming out to the forest because of the unicorn killer. It is not that I am really brave or anything, it's just that who ever had been doing it had been at it all year, the danger didn't get larger, I was just aware of it now. Besides, I had a lot of friends in the forest they would pretect me. When Firenze found out that I kept coming to the forest, he decided that it would be better in his company so that he could keep an eye on me.
One night Firenze and I were running through the forest, I was in the shape of a leaopard, the only way to keep up with the four legged creature, when we heard a scream come through the forest, a human scream, the kind that didn't belong there. We raced to where the scream came from, when we got there the first thing I saw was another dead unicorn. Everything else came a bit slower, the fact that there was a hooded man standing over the poor dead creature, and a familiar face, Harry Potter, looking on at the scene too.
Firenze didn't stop like I did, he jumped over the frozen Harry and scared off the unicorn killer. I don't know why anyone would kill a unicorn, the consequences of drinking their blood was not worth it. When I came back to the present, I saw Harry get on Firenze's back and start running back along one of the forest trails, I took off after them, I didn't need Firenze to try and start a mental conversation to get tme moving.
Soon we came along Hagrid and some other students, Hermione, Neville, and Draco. I quickly took to the trees, I didn't need anyone asking about the clouded leopard that didn't belong to this forest. I kinda dozed off for a bit, until the humans all left, I have no idea what happened between the time we got to Hagrid, and the time that they all left. I did find out that if I go to sleep as a leopard, I dream of huntting monkeys in the forest tree tops, cool really.
Judgeing the by the moons postion, I realized it was quite late, so I said my goodbyes to Firenze, then made my way back up to the castle.
Before I could even quite realize it the semester was almost over, I had my last end of the term test tomorrow morning, it was History of Magic, I really hate that class, it's easy, but oh so very boring. I got a letter from a pesky owl this morning, the stupid bird pecked me on the nose, I thummped him on the head after that. The letter, suppriseingly, was from Professor Quirrell, he wanted to talk to me about something tomorrow afternoon. I didn't do anything wrong, well, at least in his class, so I have no idea what he couls possibly wan't to speak about, but I guess I will find out. Hopefully it won't take too long, the Twins and I havesomething great planned for Slytherin.
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