Agh, I meant to get this out on Friday but I kept getting these errors on my account every time I would try to upload. I'm working on Chapter 14 right now.

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CHAPTER 13

Just as monumental as my first encounter with her, my first lesson with Hisoka was just the same.

"You what?" Audrey said crossly, staring at the geisha.

"Oh please, you're beyond ready." Hisoka said, waving an impatient hand.

"You didn't even ask me!" Audrey exclaimed.

Hisoka had conveniently signed me up for my first competition…without telling me.

"Well, I asked your parents, your grandfather, and even your Uncle Ivan had something to say…he was quite bizarre." Hisoka replied, gliding around the room for a moment.

Audrey snorted.

"Don't snort, it makes you sound like a man." Hisoka said.

"I only snorted because my great Uncle is in love with your playing. This is probably why he was so bizarre." Audrey pointed out.

"Ah." She replied. "Well anyway, you're more ready then you think you are. The junior division's repertoire is from Bach's Cello Suites and then a choice of your own for finals."

"And when is this?" Audrey said, eyeing her nervously.

"The end of November, it's in London on a Friday night. I received permission from Albus and everything." Hisoka beamed.

Though she would never admit it publicly to me until I was older, I always knew Hisoka and Albus had something. It was obvious from day one.

"Let's do some runs then." She said, picking up her instrument.

My lessons were switched to twice a week, fitting around the nights Marlene and I would go to dance. We hadn't really run into many problems as first years at the school, until one night in October.

Marlene, Audrey, and Sarah, a girl in their year from Hufflepuff left their dance class in the East wing of the school.

"Merlin." said Sarah, wiping the sweat from her brow. "I hate 2/4 jigs."

"I know." Marlene groaned. "My legs are on fire!"

"I honestly think she was trying to kill us." Audrey said, stretching her dance shirt for a moment.

"What are we doing on Friday?" Sarah asked.

"Modern." said Marlene. "Thank god…I can't do another 2/4 in one week, I just cant."

Audrey was about to speak up, when they heard a weird grunting noise from around the corner as they were walking in the same direction. Before they could turn around, they saw them.

Two large mountain trolls were standing, stupidly of course, in the hallway.

Sarah's eyes widened, she didn't have time to say anything before one of the trolls grunted and threw its club in their direction. The three scattered.

"Come to Hogwarts, they say…" said Marlene, through gritted teeth. "…safe environment, they say…"

Down at the other end of the hallway, they heard familiar voices and laughter.

Marlene, Sarah, and Audrey were hiding behind two suits of armor. The trolls couldn't figure out where they went and began to grunt.

Audrey for some reason, understood them.

"Where they go?" One asked.

"I dunno." said the other.

"I hungry." said the first.

I have no idea how I understood what they were saying…I was horrified at the time. The three of us were so small compared to the twelve foot trolls.

Audrey saw four pairs of feet come around the corridor; she looked up to find Peter, Remus, Sirius, and James. They wore the same expressions that the girls had worn earlier. Peter was making incoherent noises of fear, Remus elbowed him in the stomach.

"What the bloody-" James said out loud but didn't have time to finish his sentence, one of the trolls threw its club at him and it knocked him backwards.

Marlene looked down at Audrey; she was on the floor behind the armor while the other two stood. She looked as though she were calculating.

Audrey caught her eye, and they both said simultaneously.

"He deserves it."

Out of the three boys that were still visible, Remus seemed to be the only one keeping his cool.

From the moment I met Remus, I knew there was something about him…something I couldn't place.

The trolls were advancing on the three, Sirius looked ready as did Remus. Peter was cowering against the wall…not surprising.

"We have to do something." said Audrey. "They're going to be torn to bits."

"A diversion perhaps?" Marlene supplied.

"I have an idea!" said Sarah. "Audrey, go get the club if you can, try to pick it up or even levitate it. Marlene and I are going to shoot some sparks from our wands towards the windows, and when I give you the signal, aim it at them."

Audrey nodded, army crawling her way to the club nearby.

It wasn't difficult picking the club up without magic, but it was to explain to Marlene and Sarah how I managed to have enough strength to pick it up…

"NOW" screamed Sarah, as she and Marlene both sent sparks in the direction of the two open windows in the hallway.

Audrey swung the club around a few times then chucked it, it soared in the air and hit the first troll right in the head. He swayed for a moment, and then knocked into his friend. The two fell out of the window…

THUD.

THUD.

Sirius Black stood at the other end of the hallway gaping. Audrey laughed.

"Where did you even come from?" Peter squeaked.

"We encountered the trolls a few minutes before you did." replied Marlene. "We ended up having to hide behind that suit of armor!"

Sirius was still gaping like a fish, James who had just managed now to finally catch the breath that had been knocked out of him, stood up, walked over, and closed Sirius' mouth.

"Brilliant." said James. "I honestly would have never expected you three daisies to be able to take down two mountain trolls."

"Says the one who got a club to the gut." retorted Audrey.

James was about to reply, but they all froze, hearing heavy footsteps coming.

Sarah had found a hidden door behind a tapestry, opened it quickly and ushered the others inside.

They waited silently in the dim lit room, listening to what was going on outside.

"How do you think they got into the school, Albus?" said the voice of Professor McGonagall.

The six Gryffindors in the secret room exchanged glances, wide eyed.

"They're dead!" said a voice from the outside of the castle; it sounded a lot like the gamekeeper, Hagrid.

"But who would take on two mountain trolls?" asked Horace Slughorn.

"I do not know, Horace. But whoever did, was very lucky they were not injured. You should go check your houses, make sure the students are safe."

As if their eyes could get any wider, the seven first years all stared at each other.

"We are going to get in so much trouble." Marlene mouthed, worried.

"You won't." Sirius pointed out, cleverly. "You three were at dance class."

"But we should have been back at our common rooms by now." said Audrey, biting her lip.

"Say you saw the trolls and we scared so you took a detour, and got lost…being first years and all." chimed in James.

"James Potter has a good idea for once; Merlin must be coming back from the dead!" Marlene said sarcastically.

James grinned.

They waited for a few minutes, to make sure the hall was completely silent. The boys shoved the girls towards the door lightly.

"Wait!" Audrey hissed. "What about you four?"

"We've got it worked out." said Sirius, non-chalant.

"Yeah, we'll be fine. Just get your pretty-selves back to the common rooms." James said, still pushing them towards the doors.

As the girls walked down the hallway, Sirius poked his head out of the tapestry and called.

"And feel free to wear those dance shorts more often!"

Marlene flipped him off.

Sirius poked his head back into the secret room and exclaimed excitedly. "I think they like us!"

"What's not to like?" James grinned proudly, puffing out his chest.

"Now the real question is." said Sirius, beginning to pace. "How the bloody hell do we get back without being seen?"

Remus slapped his palm to his forehead.