(Hiccup P.O.V)
"Welcome all new students to Hogwarts! Through these doors we will enter the main hall where you will soon join your fellow classmates." The teacher at the front of the crowd of students called, although I couldn't see her for heads.
It was then that I could see the tops of the large wooden doors open and the crowd of people began to move forward. I looked at Jack who raised his eyebrows in interest.
And that was when we got attacked.
Out of nowhere an arm swung round Jacks shoulder and my shoulder and yanked our heads together almost causing them to clash.
"I wis wonderin where ye guys went" The Scottish voice spoke as she hung her arms around our shoulders, her curly red hair getting in my face and in my even in my mouth. I tried desperately to get it out but there was just too much of the stuff.
"M Merida y you're chocking me" Jack coughed as he tugged at her arm in the hope to loosen it. She merely laughed at his pitiful efforts.
"It's called revenge Jack!" She smirked removing her arm from my shoulder so that she can torture him more. I would of helped him but that girl is intimidating and quite frankly he did deserve it.
"Merida you promised!" Rapunzel yelled from the side of me completely catching me off guard and I just about jumped into Merida and Jack. Merida looked up at Rapunzel with Jack still in a headlock, his face now rosy and he was gasping for air. She frowned and reluctantly let go of him. Jack quickly rushed over and switched places with me. He glared at her and pointed.
"That girl is vicious!" He yelled using me as a shield. I put my hands up and smiled awkwardly. She pulled a face at him and folded her arms across her chest.
"Oh! Guys, this is Mavis! She's a first year too!" Rapunzel smiled as she introduced the pale black haired girl next to her who gave a wave.
"That's Jack and the boy he is using as a shield is Hiccup." She added. She could of left the shield bit out, that was unfortunately made quite obvious.
After that we began to calm down a little and carried on following the crowd towards the glowing hall. As we entered the hall we all awed at the warmth and homely feeling the hall had. It was lit with thousands of floating candles all bobbing up and down high above us. Above them where the roof should be was a beautiful night sky glittering with stars. Such amazing magic it must have been to create that. The hall had four long tables stretching almost the length of the hall. Each table clearly represented a Hogwarts House and the students who sat at them were matching their house with their uniforms. At the top of the hall was another table housing all the teachers and just in front of that table was a stool with a hat on it?
"Oh this is so exciting!" Rapunzel squealed grabbing onto Mavis's arm and shaking it relentlessly.
As the crowd piled in a teacher dressing in a big red coat, who must be the headmaster, stood up raised his hand for silence. He was a big broad man with a long white beard and white hair.
"Welcome students! Welcome to Hogwarts!" He bellowed across the hall raising his broad arms into the air. "This is your new home for the year, where you learn to embrace your wizarding powers. I am your Headmaster, Professor St North. However before we begin the Sorting Ceremony as some of you students may have noticed we are lacking in a certain teacher. I am afraid to inform the disappearance of our Deputy Headmistress Professor Tara." The crowd gasped in horror and whispers started to echo across the great hall.
"Who's Professor Tara?" Jack whispered to me. I shrugged in reply.
"Quiet, quiet" He yelled again hushing the students. "Her disappearance still remains a mystery so in the meantime I would like to introduce our substitute Deputy Headmistress Professor Flower." He gestured over to a relatively young looking girl with short tangerine blonde hair and a green and white dress. She gave a smile to the students and a little wave.
"She will explain how we sort you lot into your houses." He added before handing it over to the other professor.
"Evening students, as you know I am Professor Flower and I will be covering for your Deputy Head until she returns. As for the sorting business, when I call your name you will come out and take a seat on the stool and I will place the Sorting Hat on your head and it will decide what house you shall be put in. The house you are placed in is the house you shall remain in throughout your time here in Hogwarts." She stated. Once she had finished she looked over at the Headmaster for approval. He smiled and gave a thumbs up and she gave a sigh of relief before beginning to call out the names of all the new students.
(Rapunzel P.O.V)
Oh I am so excited my heart is beating so fast. I wonder what house I am going to be placed in. Merida and Mavis explained the houses to me; Gryffindor is red with a lion, Hufflepuff is yellow with a badger, Ravenclaw is blue with an eagle and Slytherin is green with a serpent. Now cats are cute but so are badgers but there are very vicious but then again so are cats, then there are eagles which are free and witty and snakes, I don't know about snakes, I've never really seen one but they're reptiles and Pascal is a reptile and he's nice so I guess using that logic they can't be that bad. They also explained something about what values:
"Qualities we value not exhibit"
Now I'm getting nervous. What do I value? Oh god, my minds gone blank! What if I'm placed in a house who doesn't always respect the values I have? What if Merida or Mavis or Jack or Hiccup isn't in the same house as me? Then I won't know anyone! What if I don't make any friends?
"Em Rapunzel, are you okay? You've gone kinda pale." I jumped as the question caught me off guard. It was Mavis.
"Oh! Ah, I'm a little nervous" I awkwardly smiled and began twiddling my fingers.
She gave a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, it's all just a big adventure I guess." She laughed. "But we'll still be friends even if we're in different houses, I pinkie promise!" She held out her pinkie. I just looked at her pinkie confused. "Oh! A pinkie promise is a promise that you cannot brake no matter what." She smiled. I held up my pinkie and she wrapped her pinkie around mine and gripped it. We both giggled.
"So it really lasts forever?" I asked as I brought my hand back down.
"Yup, it's the rules. I think."
With that I turned to my left.
"Jack! Pinkie promise" I said determined with my pinkie outstretched. My sudden demand got Hiccup and Merida both looking at me too.
"Huh what?" He replied a little shocked and confused.
"Pinkie promise me that we will still be friends even if we aren't in the same house!" I demanded.
"Uh okay..?" And with that he pinkie promised.
"You too Hiccup" I said moving on to him. Without saying a word he pinkie promised and then finally I turned to Merida.
"I'll a'ways be yer friend Punzie!" She smiled as she pinkie promised.
"Rapunzel Corona!" The voice of the professor rang out over the crowd. I looked up at where she was standing. I guess it's my turn.
I shuffled through the crowd as it slowly parted letting me past to get to the front. I got to the front and made my way to the stool that the professor gestured to me to sit on. I gently placed myself on the stool and looked up at the sea of faces. The hat was slowly placed on my head and my whole body tensed up.
"Friendship, huh?"
It spoke!
"Don't want to lose them. No, refuses to lose them. You are very loyal friend, a quality best not lost. I know exactly where to put you."
"Hufflepuff!" The hat yelled and the crowd at the yellow table cheered and whooped. The hat was removed from my head and I went to join my new house.
(Merida P.O.V)
My turn! Gryffindor! Please let it be Gryffindor! But what about Punzie? I felt a little bit of guilt build up inside me. A Gryffindor and a Hufflepuff can still be friends. Heck we may even have classes together. Aye I pinkie promised. I sat down and the hat was placed on my head.
"Hmmmmm, you'd make a good Gryffindor but you'd also make a good Slytherin. Bravery and chivalry or ambition and resourcefulness, hmmm" It questioned.
Oh no, not Slytherin! Anything but Slytherin!
"I think bravery and chivalry."
"Gryffindor!" The crowd cheered and so did I. I ran to the Gryffindor table and grabbed a seat next to my fellow Gryffindors who all congratulated me. I am so excited! I am a Gryffindor! This day can't get any better!
(Hiccup P.O.V)
Damn it Jack my name isn't that funny. I could still hear him laughing from the stool. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third can't be that funny.
"Now you're an interesting one." The hat said startling me.
"Your need for acceptance clouds your judgement. Your intelligence precedes you and will always remain your strong point and something you highly value in yourself. However this need tells you otherwise. Tricky, hmmm, alright, okay."
"Ravenclaw!" The hat bellowed and the crowd cheered. I went to join my new house and sat down at the table.
Ravenclaw, why Ravenclaw? What did the hat mean by clouding my judgement? Arg this doesn't make any sense.
(Jack P.O.V)
"Slytherin!"
That fast! The hat wasn't even placed on my head! Okay then looks like I'm in Slytherin. As soon as I sat on the stool I got up again because as soon as the hat barely touched the tip of my head it yelled out what house I was now in. I could hear Merida laughing and cheering at her hardest, probably glad I wasn't in her house. I glared at the Gryffindor house as I made my way to the Slytherin table in the hope that she'd see. Stupid Gryffindor, why'd she get to be Gryffindor? Vicious little Scot!