Warning: This chapter is kind of, maybe, definitely, just a little bit Nalu-centric so if you don't like it you can skim those parts.
Harry's POV
Once we were four hours into the trip Natsu, Gajeel, and Evelyn's motion sickness came back in full force. They turned green and started moaning from anguish. "I can knock you out if you want me to," Erza chirped. All of them rapidly started shaking their heads. Natsu lay down in what little space he had and put his head on Lucy's lap. The blonde wizard sighed and stroked his hair lulling him to sleep.
"I'm sorry guys, I can't use troia again," Wendy apologized, while the white, talking cat tossed her head.
"It's not your fault they can't handle themselves on transportation child."
"So nothing's going on between you two huh?" Ginny asked skeptically, looking at the two of them.
"I promise! Why would I lie?" she retorted. Luna and Mirajane snickered.
"I thought for sure, something would happen between you two," Luna raised a pale eyebrow. "Especially after the Grand Magic Games." Lucy flushed and starting stuttering, denying that there was any romantic relationship.
"I did hear about that," Mirajane considered thoughtfully. "Cana was boasting about it at school one day after we came back."
"What happened?" I asked interested in the topic.
"Absolutely nothing! Even if something did happen it was a mistake," Lucy snapped and promptly shut up and glared out the windows. She whispered something about summoning someone named Loke.
"Aw, but if you do that Natsu might get jealous," Lisanna teased while Lucy's face turned red.
"See you guys later!" Ginny and Neville departed cheerfully, leaving incase there was a fight. Shortly after Ron and Hermione stormed into the cart. After they greeted us they sat down; Hermione distastefully eyed Natsu sleeping with his head on Lucy's lap while she continued to play with his hair. Apparently she didn't think well of their relationship. No sooner had they entered than they started filling me in on who the prefects were.
"And guess who's the Slytherin prefect?" she scoffed.
"Malfoy," I guessed instantaneously. Ron ranted about him a bit more before the git came by the car flanked dutifully by Crabbe and Goyle. Erza jumped up and gave him a look of disbelief.
"Draco?" she asked astounded that the wizard was here. All of the wizards were staring at him, equally as surprised as the redhead.
"Hello Scarlet," he greeted haughtily but he gave a reluctant smirk. Gray and Natsu returned the smirk with their own smiles, well Natsu tried to smile, instead he just whimpered. "Luna, nice to finally be able to talk civilly again."
"Likewise," she agreed, smiling at him.
"What are you nine doing here?" Malfoy turned to the exchange students.
"We're here as exchange students," Erza informed him. He considered that for a moment before coming in.
"Wait, how the hell do you know him?" Ron thundered. "You have to be death eaters if you know him." I thought it was suspicious myself, they all seemed so nice but for some reason they knew Malfoy and they were friends with him. And he was friends with Luna? Luna seemed like the kind of person Malfoy would make fun of and bully.
"We're not Death Eaters, if you think we'd do terrible things like that you must be out of your mind," Lucy snapped. "Draco went to school with us for a while before transferring here. Our school accepts students of all ages so Draco came a while ago before leaving." They were holding something back that much was obvious.
"Hello Lucy, Evelyn," he smiled at them but Natsu issued a growl, low and threatening. How he managed that through looking like he was about to pass out, I have no idea. Malfoy's sharp, gray eyes held his fierce gaze for a while before backing down with a hiss. "Crabbe, Goyle, leave for a moment. Dragneel can you take a walk with me?"
"Can you not see that the pyro's dealing with his motion sickness right now?" He attempted to glare at Gray at his being called a pyro. Malfoy laughed nodding.
"Well I'll see you guys later. Oh and Natsu try not to blow up the school. It could get expensive to repair." We laughed while Natsu snarled at him again.
"I'm confused," I admitted once the weasel had left. "How can you like him?"
"He's not that bad," Erza said. "But if he's being mean to you I can deal with him.
"He was pretty mean when he got to our school but Erza set him straight," Lisanna explained.
The exchange students were laughing and began arguing like they always seemed to do. They had seemed to go back to the popular topic of Natsu and Lucy's relationship.
"So you're absolutely positive nothing happened?" Lisanna interrogated, prodding Lucy to get her to answer her questions. The interrogation about the blonde's romantic life continued.
"Is this really that interesting?" Hermione asked, my best friend seemed irritated that they were talking about that.
"Yeah, I mean just look at them," Mirajane answered gesturing to their position. Hermione, once again, shot them a disdainful look.
"What about how he reacted when Minerva and Flare were beating you?" Lisanna continued as if she hadn't been interrupted. Lucy winced as if it brought back painful memories.
"Let's not talk about that," she huffed and turned back towards the window. "Besides Lisanna, I could be asking you the same questions about Bickslow and yourself." At that the white-haired teenager flushed bright red and averted her eyes.
"He liiiikes you," Happy chanted, reiterating what he had said multiple times before.
"Listen cat, if you don't shut up I'm plucking your whiskers," Lucy threatened, whipping her head to glare daggers at the blue creature.
"What are the grand magic games?" Hermione queried. "I haven't heard of them before."
"It's like a competition to see which wizarding school is the most powerful," Gajeel clarified. "They only take place where our school is located."
Several hours later the train pulled to a stop and we exited. As soon as we got off Natsu came alive again whooping and cheering that he had survived. "Come with us," Hermione prompted. "And then we can ask Professor McGonagall how the sorting will work for you." There were nods and then we saw carriages. Natsu groaned again and now I was fighting back laughter also. He was just so dramatic.
"What are those things pulling the carriages?" Erza asked. I turned to her and was surprised that she could see them too.
"You can see them?" I marveled.
"Yeah, why wouldn't we be able to?" Natsu fired back. There were nods among several of the other wizards.
"They're threstrals," Luna explained as she stood next to them. "Only those that have seen someone die can see them. Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am," Luna comforted before getting into her own carriage.
"Too many deaths in my opinion," one of them said, and a mourning kind of silence filled the air. The ride to the hall continued in silence. There were gasps from the others in the carriage when the castle became visible. Well mostly everyone, those suffering from motion sickness were slumped over again.
"Potter," McGonagall called.
"Yes Professor?"
"Bring the exchange students in later, they'll come after the first years are sorted." I nodded and told them to stay here until they were announced. They all nodded and started talking amongst themselves again. All of them had gathered into a circle and had begun debating over something.
"Okay, see you lot after the sorting," I departed into the hall and took my seat next to Hermione and Ron. The sorting went by fairly quickly and then Dumbledore stood.
"This year we will be doing something slightly different," Dumbledore announced. "We have ten visiting students from the Fairy Tail School of the Gifted and they will all be in fifth year even if some of them are a bit young. Without further ado let them be sorted. The doors whooshed open and all of them walked in in a large group instead of in a line and waited for them to be sorted.
So yeah that happened. I hope you guys don't mind that I made Malfoy a mage, he's just one of my favorite characters and I think it made for an interesting plot twist. Sorry if the Hogwarts characters are a little ooc, it's been a while since I've read the books.