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Kiriha stood at the gate staring up at the white building with pink accents that was Ouran Academy, a sigh left her lips as she pushed her dark hair behind her ear before opening the gate and beginning to walk in. As she walked she couldn’t help but notice the noisy, annoyances the girls in this school were, they squealed unnecessarily and those dresses they wore made Kiriha flinch in wordly. ‘Who would willinging wear those unattractive and unflattering things willingly?’ She couldn’t help but think those thoughts as she walked by them. She was proud to still be in her Shuchikan Academy, white button up shirt, red vest, blazer, black skirt with white strips along the edge of it and she wore her usual black leggings instead of the knee high socks. The girls from Ouran stopped staring after Kiriha, laughter peeling up behind her which she ignored, she didn’t care about those types of girls.

Her own parents were wealthy but it had been her choice to go to Shuchikan instead of Ouran, the dresses had been a huge part of her reason to not go, she wouldn’t lie to herself. The ugly puffy sleeves atop the shoulders, the thin hugging sleeves, the constricting bodice and massively swelling skirt bottom. She’d have happily shredded the dress before ever wearing it much to the displeasure of her mother who had in her own time gone to Ouran, her mother was a famous hairdresser and it was one of the reason that Kiriha looked as well as she did during school. Her father a famous photographer, the Kuze name was known all over the place and little did anyone realize that some of her baby pictures were spread all across the world from the moment she was born she had been on the front page of many magazines caught out and about with her mother.

Kiriha didn’t care about the trepidation of the spoiled rich girls of this school, the only reason she was here was because it was a great honor to Shuchikan Academy to have the ‘elitist’ Ouran Academy invite and open the possibility of exchange between the two schools. It was new and frankly it was unheard of that Ouran would open their gates to the brightest students from a private school, and just because Shuchikan Academy was a private girl’s school didn’t mean that it was for rich kids. They had many brilliant commoner girls at the school, Kiriha had just been lucky in getting what amount of brains that she did considering her parents work, neither of them were… genius’. Her grandfather was the one who ran the businesses between both of her parents jobs, perhaps she had inherited it from him, she could always assume that anyways.

Locked into her own thoughts she made her way up the stairs to actually head into the school, the lawn before it was huge, unnecessarily huge just another way to flaunt how rich this school was. It made Kiriha sick. Getting inside the school she grabbed her schedule, she took notice that while she was only sixteen she had been placed in the year above her, class 2-A, she knew that she would have problems with the math selection this older class would have but she was up for the challenge. Her deep amethyst eyes looked around as she used the map to traverse through the huge castle like school to find her way through to her classes before she went back outside and stood by the entrance to wait for her classmate who should be showing up any moment.

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Kaoru didn’t want to get out of bed yet, he didn’t want to face the sun as he rolled over and placed his arm over his eyes to help block out the light, it took only second for it to sink in that the exchange students from Shuchikan Academy would be showing up at Ouran today. He jumped out of bed quickly showering and getting ready as he dried his short messy auburn hair while he got into his uniform. His door opened to see Hikaru standing dressed as well, the twins shared identical mischievous grins as they hurriedly grabbed their things for school and went down stairs. As usual Yuzuha, their fashion designer mother wasn’t home and their father wasn’t either, peaking into Ageha’s room they found her awake and getting ready to go with the nanny. “Ageha, be good today okay?” Kaoru said with a smile to the little girl who turned towards her older brothers with a rather blank look on her face. “Why should I.” She said with a slight huff before walking past her brothers and leaving their view.

“Why does she always do that?” Hikaru asked looking after her. “All we do is shower her with gifts and clothes to show our love… isn’t that what you’re suppose to do Hikaru?” Kaoru asked confused. “That’s what I thought too brother.” Hikaru said with a shrug, the two of them hurriedly grabbed something to eat from the kitchen and then made their way out to the limo that was awaiting them as they sat back in the seats they talked aloud. “What do you think they will be like?” Kaoru asked curiously. “Probably poor like Haruhi.” Hikaru stated softly looking out the window. Kaoru frowned lightly knowing that Hikaru had feelings for Haruhi, he didn’t want to start the day off badly already, not before they could scope out the new girls. “Do you think they are smart?” Kaoru asked Hikaru. “They would have to be, I think Tamaki and Kyoya were talking about only the two with the highest scores were coming.” Hikaru said looking over at Kaoru. “Why are you so interested?” Hikaru asked staring at his brother.

“Nothing exciting like this ever happens, do you think they would fall for our tricks.” Kaoru asked with his usual mischievous grin, Hikaru’s own matching grin soon shown. “We’ll have to find out, which ones do you want to do?” He asked thinking about the many games the two of them play with the clients of the Host Club, because surely these two new students had never seen a host club as fine as theirs was. Plus Shuchikan was an all girls school after all. “We have to play the witch one is Hikaru game.” Kaoru said with a nod. “Of course we just have to make sure Haruhi isn’t around.” Hikaru agreed both twins knew very well the power Haruhi had to always be able to tell them apart. It was frightening sometimes how quickly she was and how accurate. The limo pulled up to the steps of the school having bypassed the now open gates, standing on the steps was clearly one of the new students. Kaoru stared out of the window with Hikaru by his side, before they could get out and go over to the girl another girl joined wearing the same uniform and they went inside.

“New students.” Hikaru said with a grin as he got out of the limo and made his way with Kaoru up to the classroom, surely they would see the two girls in their class. The thought hadn’t occurred to them that either girl would be smarter or older then them. As they sat down they were soon joined by Haruhi who smiled at the twins, Kaoru noticed the way Hikaru’s eyes lingered on Haruhi before he bumped into him lightly. Hikaru looked away very aware that Haruhi had feelings for Tamaki and Tamaki had feelings for her, regardless it was a tough situation for Hikaru and Kaoru felt terrible about it. “Have you seen the new girls?” Haruhi asked curiously as she sat down in her desk. “You haven’t?” Kaoru asked curiously having expected the two to be walking around the school looking lost and asking for directions. “We seen them this morning, didn’t get much of a chance to talk to them though, they came inside right away.” Hikaru explained sitting down in his own chair to wait.

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|| Mood ;; Curious || Company ;; Family>Mouko,Ayame>Classmates> Mouko, Ayame || Feeling ;; Relaxed || Outfit ;; Spring/Summer School Uniform || Location ;; School Grounds || Thoughts ;; 'I hope practice comes quickly.' ||

Hoshimi was awoken to her mother knocking on the door softly, being a light sleeper the pale eyed girl opened her eyes slowly blinking as she looked around her still dark room. Through the walls of her house she could hear her mother talking with her siblings, the twins were heavy sleepers and often took two or three talks with in order for them to wake up. Hoshimi pushed away her comforter with the night sky spread out across it as she put her feet against the chilly floor causing her to shiver, waking up instantly. She got out of bed, remade it before grabbing her uniform and making her way to her bathroom, last year her parents decided it was about time she had her own bathroom. After a quick shower she was out drying her long mane of wavy hair with a towel as she listened to her mother and father talk vaguely about something down stairs. Only muffled voices told her they were talking.

She put her hair in double braids which was the usual thing for her, let to worry about it while in class. She walked out of the bathroom ready to go as she made her way down the stairs in her socks, Sora and Tsukiyo were fighting over the bathroom as she walked down with her bag in her hand. Sitting at the table her mother smiled at her while she set the food down in front of her, this was slightly unusual as usually her parents were gone by now. "What's wrong?" Hoshimi asked curiously watching her parents. "I have a doctors appointment today, after your club activities, so you have to come to the bookstore right away." Kaede said with a sweet smile, Hoshimi sighed lightly but nodded. "As usual." She said lightly while eating her food and getting up to go into the refrigerator to grab the simple bento she made last night, finding it gone she turned around trying to not look annoyed. "The twins got hungry last night in the middle of the night, I didn't think you'd mind if I let them have it." Kaede said with a smile. She was a rather slow mother sometimes.

"Of course not, its not like I spent three hours making everyone's lunch for today so everyone had something." Hoshi muttered in irritation as she grabbed her empty bento box, rewashed it and scrounged for left overs of anything at this point. Hearing her father chuckle she turned to him with a stern look. "Why aren't you out working yet?" She asked watching her father flinch slightly knowing his daughter was in a bad mood already. "Uh... I wanted to see my children off to their first day of school." He said meekly with a smile. Hoshi put her lid on the bento before grabbing her bento marked 'CATS FOOD' and put them both into her bag before she slipped on her shoes and grabbed her larger bag containing her swim gear, which had been placed by the door last night. She opened the door muttered a 'I'm leaving now' as she exited the front door and started on her walk towards the school.

Hoshi walked down the street heading towards the park where she slowly felt this morning's tension escape her. The morning was a bit cool from the breeze that blew by once in a while as she walked; over all it was calming. That and the two little cute kittens finally appeared making their way over towards her meowing happily, with a smile on her face she finished the trek up to the school in much better spirits. After wishing the kittens a good day and warning them to behave she made her way inside where she switched out her shoes and put away her swim bag she made her way to class C-3. Walking in she found she was the first one in the classroom and decided to pick the first row, first seat so that she was right by the window. The class filled up, Kyouya-sensei started class quickly where he took attendance and then they started with science. It was alright enough for the quiet girl before it moved on to English, her favorite subject. She whizzed through the sheet of homework and classwork almost instantly, and then gym started, unhappily she wore the gym uniform before doing whatever sport it was they did today.

Then she was free, it was lunch time as she quickly changed grabbed the two bento boxes and left the classroom, she switched her shoes and went outside finding someplace to sit on the grass where she had left Mouko and Ayame. She opened the bento for the two growing kitties and waited while she started to eat her own food, she wondered where the two little troublemakers were as they were usually waiting for her, but didn't worry about them.

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|| Mood ;; Amused || Company ;; Ryuu Akiyama || Feeling ;; Relaxed/Playful || Outfit ;; Summer/spring uniform || Location ;; School grounds. || Thoughts ;; This is nice... its not often I get to spend time with Ryuu. ||

Hoshimi sat on the grass while she ate enjoying the peacefulness of the day thus far, instead a smile crossed her face as she heard her friend join her and start talking. "If they made you captain, I'd feel sorry for the poor souls who have to learn from you." She said looking up at Akiyama. The two of them were in Swim club together and the Occult research club as well so they spent plenty of time together, even though they were a year apart and had no classes together. Hoshimi enjoyed talking with Ryuu and the two of them usually just joked around and teased each other, which isn't a side many people actually see from her. She has to be the mature one in her family which means responsibilities and being an adult in her family, that reminded her of having to go straight to the book store to work tonight.

Hoshimi took her thoughts away from those thoughts and instead stared at her friend, fellow club-mate and underclassman. Seeing the bright pink and blue streaks in his hair made her smile slyly as she glanced down at her food. "You know, those colors are going to fade out in the swimming pool if you don't wear your cap... it would be quite sad if something were to happen and you couldn't find it." She was of course just teasing him, she enjoyed his colored hair, he was always fun and exciting. Hearing meowing she seen Mouko and Ayame making their way through the bushes and running over towards her with a smile she watched as both cats made it to the bowl of food and started eating. Turning to Ryuu she winked slightly. "You don't see them." The two small cats were healthy, it was easy to tell as they ate happily, the fur on them was lush and fluffy.

Hoshi went back to eating the rest of her food, after she finished she put away her bento and instead leaned back slightly against the grass, the weather today was nice. "I can't wait for swim club to start, you ready for it?" She asked with a smile while looking at Ryuu once more. She started to laugh though as Mouko was trying to club up the boy with her, trying to bat at his hair while Ayame was curled up by Hoshi's knee on the grass. "Mouko! You silly cat, don't do that to Akiyama." Hoshi playfully scolded but she couldn't actually get made it was adorable to see the orange tabby trying to climb on Ryuu.

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Location || Hogwarts Express Company || Kassie Mood || Amused Thoughts || We really are complete opposites Outfit || xx

If there was one thing Cressida loved about muggles it was their fashion sense, she donned her muggle clothing that morning with a triumphant smirk to herself in the mirror as she finished off her makeup. Another muggle thing she loved. She was ready for the train ride, she grabbed her things and started down the stairs in her heels carrying her trunk with difficulty, stairs plus heels plus a heavy trunk made her morning a bit tougher than it should have been. Her father was home for once and took the trunk from her with a smile as Rhys ran over to her grabbing her legs and hiding his face. “Don’t leave me.” He spoke quietly hugging her leg tightly. Cressida hated leaving Rhys alone in this household but as her mother walked into the hallway with her face stern Cressida couldn’t help but want out of that house. “I’ll be back after this year and I won’t be leaving you Rhys.” Cressida said setting her hand atop his head as Balthazar stepped back inside the house. “Ready to go?” He asked his daughter with a smile, Cressida nodded her head. “Can I come?!” Rhys asked loudly pulling his head away from her leg.

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Rhys was hiding his face in Cressida’s leg again, she couldn’t help the soft smile that graced her lips as she stared down at the young child. “Rhys you have to let me go.” She said softly. “Nuh-uh.” He mumbled shaking his head back and forth. Cressida knelt kissing Rhys’ forehead softly as she spoke so only the two of them could hear her. “I’ll be back at the end of this year and I’ll take you far away from that house, okay?” She asked seriously and Rhys nodded quickly but didn’t say anything. “You’ll be good while I’m gone right?” She asked again and with another nod from little Rhys she hugged him before walking through the wall and onto the platform. It was always easier for Rhys if he didn’t see her beyond that point, they had made that mistake last year. Cressida boarded the train struggling with her heels, the trunk and of course Jormungand who was coiling around her in excitement. Finally the seventh year dropped off her trunk before making her way down the train, she’d find the trunk later when she needed to change, until then she wasn’t going to worry about it.

Cress peaked into several different compartments looking for either fellow slytherins of one of her friends, seeing none she continued moving along the train as it started moving with a slight lurch. She kept her balance with a hand against the wall but after a few minutes she continued walking as she looked around, finally she found a compartment with a familiar face in it. Kassie and Cress were some of the most outlandish friends you could imagine, the two of them competed against one another in Quidditch for a few years, and they eventually met off the field during one of the storms. Cressida had been standing out in the middle of the down pour and Kassie had been making her way towards the forbidden forest in it. Needless to say the two spent some of that night bonding and talking off the competitive field and found out they had a couple things in common.

Stepping into the room Jormung raised his head slipping his tongue out into the air to sniff around, smelling that it was just Kassie and Irelia he settled down onto Cressida’s neck as she sat down with a soft ‘umph’. Turning her grey eyes to the hufflepuff girl Cressida took in the cute outfit the other girl was wearing, her own the opposite of her friends. “You look nice, how was your summer?” She asked curiously as she ran a finger up and down the top of Jormung’s head as his eyes shut and he laid happily on her ignoring everything around him.

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Location || Hogwarts Express> Dorm> Great Hall Company || Kassie>Jormung>Caelum Mood || Amused Thoughts || Hope I wasn't caught staring into space at Caelum's face.That would just be the perfect way to start my last year.. not' Outfit || xx

The train ride had been pleasant and quite uneventful, the two girls talked a bit about their summer before the trolley witch came by and Cressida bought some Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. She couldn’t help it, the unknown always called out to her and though she had eaten the colored beans for seven years straight and she knew which flavor was which color she still continued to eat the whole box. Ear wax and vomit flavored and all. They were unpleasant of course, a slight wrinkle of her nose was about the only sign that she disliked the flavor. As the train pulled into hogsmeade she grabbed her things with a wave and kind word to Kassie before she jumped into the carriage with some others and then she was deposited on the steps of hogwarts. With a deep breath she smiled as she made her way up the steps and then down the steps to the dungeon where she was happily greeted with the green and silver colors of her house common room, she made her way to the dorm that she was in, depositing her things, and changing into her uniform before she unpacked some of her things. Mostly her clothes into the wardrobe, setting her broom by the head of her bed, her books on top of the table and watching as Jormung slithered off her neck and laid down on her bed.

Shaking her head with a light smile she left the room with a sweep of her robes and made it into the common room where everyone was talking and getting together into groups. Cressida talked with a few people that she knew before it was time for dinner, then she walked to the Great Hall grabbing her seat and waiting. It wasn’t very long before someone took the seat next to her, she turned her grey eyes to see who it was and was surprised to find her captain sitting next to her. Hearing him ask about her vacation was amusing as he shot a look at the staff table, she let an amused quick of a smile show on her face while she answered her question. “Evenin’ Cap. The usual I suppose. Rhys didn’t want me to leave for school again. Jasper’s a whore. My mother’s an annoyance and my father was nearly nonexistent.” She said with a slight shrug, she wasn’t sure if he recalled her two brothers names and didn’t bother to explain, she also didn’t know if he knew about how her parents acted. Most people didn’t, sometimes it came to be quite a shock.

“How was your summer?” She asked only slightly curious about the attractive younger males summer, mostly it was just small talk, apparently helping him keep away from the teacher he was avoiding. It was no surprise to her, she’d heard the other girls talking about him, had actually been around when Imogen and Kiara have been talking about him. Cressida usually left about that time and she finally couldn’t help the quip she had been holding back. “Girl troubles Cap’n?” She asked with a sly grin. [c]“Or perhaps its more along the lines of women troubles?” She asked mischievously. He probably wouldn’t go into details about his female issues, but Cress couldn’t miss the chance to tease him about them. The two were on decent enough terms, he let her keep her spot on the team, which she was entirely grateful for and since then she’s done all she could to play the best for her team.

In her younger years she had found him attractive, she’d have been blind not too of course, but having seen the amount of attention he got reminded her too much of Jasper. And since then she keeps him merely as her captain and fellow younger classmate, instead of a handsome young man. Cressida listened to what he had to say tearing her eyes off him lest she be caught staring, which she hadn’t meant to be doing in the first place. She scanned the room around her looking for any other familiar faces while she listened, before long it would be time for the sorting to begin.

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Location || Great Hall // Slytherin Table Company || Caelum Mood || Amused // Wistful Thoughts || My final year... Outfit || Uniform

Cressida made it a habit to not listen to murmurings that went around the school, especially about a fellow slytherins home life, but seeing the way Caelum reacted she assumed she should probably reword her question. Especially since she wasn’t trying to pry into his life. Small talk and all. She was pleased by his change of subject instead which meant that she could just drop that all together and they’d both ignore that one. Instead her eyes caught the glance up to the teachers table, as he denied the fact a sly smile crossed her face and instead rose an eyebrow as he mentioned he was having girl problems. “Care to share?” She asked turning her eyes to watch him, wondering what he was about to say.

Listening to him, both her eyebrows rose up in surprise as he shared about Imogen and his new found feelings for her, she chuckled. “Completely mad Caelum, you never fancy girls.” She said finding humor in his words. As he sighed though she tilted her head to look at him slightly while he stared down into the mug he had grabbed. “It might help being back here, doubt it but it might.” She answered wondering if it was true or not. “Does Jared know about how you’ve been feeling for Imogen? Better question. Does Darcy know?” Cress asked curiously knowing the two were friends.

Hearing him state that five minutes being near Imogen and he’d probably get a headache made Cress chuckle as she turned her eyes to the Gryffindor table. The blond girl was a handful and boy could she talk you to death, and she would if you let her. But she was a nice girl. She didn’t have much to say on the matter as they watched the first years make their way into the Great Hall looking around in wonder. “It’ll probably be me. Prefect Duty's and all.” She remarked thinking about her first year which was forever ago. “I wonder… did I look that mystified when I first stepped into Hogwarts?” She wondered aloud but she didn’t expect an answer. Especially since Caelum was a year younger than her.

“Its hard to believe after this year I’ll be gone.” She stated before turning to look at Caelum. “You had better start looking for someone to replace me.” She admitted though she hated the idea of leaving hogwarts, let alone Quidditch. “One final year.” She muttered taking a sip from her own mug.

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Harry wasn’t sure what to do with himself after he had defeated Voldemort, he thought that everything would just fall into place for him, that he and Ginny would finally be together and happy. They were together for a time, until the topic of finishing school came up, the school was being rebuilt by the teachers and Ginny was going back to actually finish her studies correctly, he knew that Hermione was going to do the same. But Harry just wanted a chance to relax, to get his mind back together, to accept that a part of him had died, he just wanted some time to think things over. How was he going to continue moving forward when nearly all the people he loved had died in the war. His parents had only been the beginning, then Sirius, Moody, Dobby, Tonks, Remus, Fred, Snape and finally Dumbledore, not to mention all the other people who had died. He was still suffering, and he didn’t want to go back right away, he wanted time to sort out his thoughts. Ginny hadn’t liked that and they had gotten into a fight about it before she broke up with him.

Molly and Arthur had opened their house to him, but after the fight with Ginny, Harry took to staying at Grimmauld place with Krecher, Hermione and Ron would come by, just like Molly would stop by and bring him food. Hermione lectured him about the importance of going back to school, Ron eventually had a talk with her because she stopped talking about it. It wasn’t until McGonagall stopped by and talked with him about everything heavy that had settled down on his chest did he finally feel lighter. He told her everything that he had been doing, from his first year until the end. McGonagall, who was never one to show favorites even though she loved Quidditch the teacher who was always strict with him, gave him a hug, almost like a mother would do to a child who was upset. He hated to say that he started crying, he finally got that chance to cry about everything that had been happening from the beginning. And by the end of it he agreed that he would go back to school.

So here he was standing on platform Nine and three quarters, his trunk on the trolley minus his cage, his heart still ached at the thought of losing Hedwig as he had. Ginny walked onto the train ignoring him, they still hadn’t talked much. Ron said she was mad that it had been McGonagall who had gotten him to agree to schooling, but Harry didn’t explain to anyone why talking with her had changed his mind. Hermione and Ron were standing next to him holding hands, he was happy for the two of them of course but it was a hollowed feeling. Hermione set her hand on his shoulder gently offering him a smile for support, many of the students were coming back to finish their year the right way. He seen Neville who was with Seamus and Dean, the three of them headed over to Harry clapping him on the shoulder, welcoming him back. The warm welcome was appreciated as they all joined the train together, the six of them sat in the same compartment together talking about their summers.

Family’s were still in shambles for some people, lives slowly being worked through, fixed and placed back together, Harry was glad that he wasn’t the only one trying to put his life back together after the war. The train ride was the same way it usually was, it felt as if nothing had changed and yet everything had, sitting here listening to his friends talk together he missed Hedwig more than ever. “Harry?... Harry!” Hermione’s voice rang through his thoughts, he looked over at his friends, each one wore a worried or concerned face.“Sorry I was spacing out a bit.” Harry replied with a crooked smile, Hermione visibly let out a breath but she smiled. “We’re all going to change into our uniforms, you coming along?” She asked and it was then that he had noticed they all had their robes and uniforms sitting on their laps. “Right, let me get mine.” Harry said gathering his from his trunk as well.

The six of them made their way to the back of the train where they changed in the separate areas he seem many faces smiling at him, a few looked away from him for one reason or another. It felt normal, he changed with the guys before heading back to the compartment where they sat down buying some treats from the trolley woman as she rolled on by. Nothing had changed, it was like the train ride was stuck in an infinite loop of pleasant feelings and thoughts, he didn’t mind either. “Harry, why didn’t you buy a new owl?” Hermione asked suddenly bringing him back to the cart they were in once again. ]“I couldn’t do that to Hedwig, she had served me so well, I’m not ready to try to take another animal so quickly after her death.” Harry explained looking at the group who was waiting for his response. “I just think that a new pet would be good for you Harry.” Hermione said worriedly.“I’ll be fine, I might get a new pet eventually but I’m not ready for one right now Hermione.” Harry said with finality in his voice on the subject.

Hermione sighed and finally the train pulled to a stop in hogsmeade, the six of them got out splitting up to get into the carriages, Harry was sitting next to Neville who looked out the window. “How’re your parents?” Harry asked knowing about the other boys parents. “They’re alright, still in St Mungo’s, best place for them.” Neville said with a sad smile. “Hows your gran?” Harry asked liking the old woman, who had come to fight in the war last year, or at least look for her grandson. “She’s good as usual.” Neville answered with a smile. Harry wasn’t quite sure if she had fought or not in the war since he hadn’t spent much time inside the actual fight anyways. The carriages pulled to a stop and they got out in front of the stone steps of Hogwarts, it looked just like it had when he first started school. It didn’t look like the war had ever happened, almost like things had gone back in time and none of it had ever happened. He was painfully aware though that Dumbledore wouldn’t be the Headmaster of the school, just like he knew Snape wouldn’t be skulking about the dungeons or assigning detentions in potions.

It was a terrible reality, but it was one he knew he had to accept. They gave up their lives believing. Harry would continue moving forward with his own life, just as they would have wished him to do. The double doors opened as the students second year and above waited on the steps and grass in front, McGonagall the new Headmistress walked out welcoming them back into their home. “Welcome to Hogwarts.” Was all she said before she turned heading inside, everyone talking followed the woman, interested to look around the castle they all knew and loved. “The Hourglasses are fixed!” A second year explained in excitement. Harry smiled as they made their way to the Great Hall where the teachers sat at the desk, old faces shown back out at them with a few brand new ones as they took their seats at their tables.

OOC: I hope this doesn't drag on terribly so, I pushed myself to write more and hit a limit to see if I could still do it. >.>; Post styles will be up as soon as I get them, going to soak in a bath while I think about how to start with Lydia, who I am also going to push for the same limit with.

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Lydia was a Ravenclaw repeat seventh year, she had stayed in school during the war, despite her parents urging her to leave, but she was stubborn and wanted to prove that no matter what she would pass this year. She wouldn’t leave. She stayed on the good side of the Carrow’s the best she could, making sure she played a part, one that she disliked but did for the sake of her grades. She had chosen to stay out of the war and finally left to go home where all her siblings were with her parents, and she had waited to hear what was going on with the school, having felt no urge to go back and fight. All she had wanted was to finish school with good grades and move on with the next phase of her life, getting a job, of course her plans didn’t involve finding a boyfriend like her younger sister’s did.

The Ravenshire family was huge containing Five children of varying ages and the parents, not including aunt’s and uncles and cousins. Emmaline, the mother, was a Gryffindor while Kaelan was a Ravenclaw. Lydia was the eldest in the family being the first born, she had a knack for Ancient Runes, Potions and Defense Against Dark Arts. Claxton is the second oldest, being a sixth year in the Ravenclaw house taking after Lydia and his father, his knack was Astronomy, the boy loved the stars. Medora the fifth year in Ravenclaw, the girl was good at charms, thats was sadly all that she was good at. Her mind was always on other things, like boys. The twins were the next ones, being third years Callum and Eilidh were the youngest two both placed in Gryffindor after their mother, Callum was great at Herbology and Eilidh was amazing with transfiguration.

Lydia was currently pulling her trunk onto the train with the help of her brother, they all helped each of the siblings pack into the train before turning to say goodbye. “Have a good year this year Lydia.” Her father said looking at her. “I already finished this year once already. If the stupid war hadn’t broken out I wouldn’t have to do this all over.”Lydia mumbled annoyed. “Lydia!” Emmaline scolded and Lydia rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. “Don’t blame her, she is right, she would have passed her last year just fine and been out getting a job by now.” Kaelan said with a nod. “She shouldn’t speak such things out loud!” Emmaline says in a high voice full of worry. “What if they think we are ungrateful.” She continued. “No one would think that.” Claxton said with a smiled. “Not anyone who knows our family anyways.” Medora said with a grin standing on her tip toes.

“Lydia just wants to finish school, you don’t realize what’s it like to be repeating a grade in wizarding school like this.” Callum said looking at Lydia. “Yeah especially for someone like Lydia who gets the highest grades in her classes.” Eilidh said with a peel of laughter smiling at the oldest girl. “Look who's talking you little trouble makers!” Lydia said with a playful smirk towards the twins. “Alright, alright. Get on the train, enjoy your year and all of you should write home once in a while.” Kaelan said with a smile hugging all his children leaving Lydia for last. “You know I’m proud of you, you can pass all your classes again this year.” He said softly to her. “I know, maybe it will look better that I did two completely separate curriculum and passed with flying colors.” Lydia said even though she doubted it. “That’s my girl.” He said letting her go as the five siblings stepped onto the train together.

It was clear that the Ravenshire family were going to be the next big family, one like the weasley’s. Maybe just as well known as the Malfoy’s or Blacks and Potters. It was easy to pick them out in a crowd. They all had various shades of the same dark brown hair with natural red highlights. Various shades of blue colored eyes, each child was slightly different in looks of course but when they all stood together as they did now, you could clearly tell they were siblings. The twins took off running through the hallways looking for their friends in Gryffindor while Claxton wandered away with a slight wave towards the two sisters left standing together, and Medora just looked around eagerly. “Let’s see how hot everyone is this year.” She said with an excited look as she walked off. Lydia shook her head side to side slightly as she walked down the hallways looking in each compartment hoping to find her best friend, upon not seeing the other ravenclaw girl she took an empty compartment letting her Bengal kitty run around the compartment before she settled on the girls lap.

Lydia’s hair was nearly black in dimmed lighting but in sunlight it was easy to see her hair color was a rich brown color with the red tinge to it, her eyes were really light blue, almost grey at times. She sat by the window of the compartment and pulled out her book from the satchel she carried, The Ravenshire’s were a pure blooded family but they didn’t have the same pure blooded ideals as some of the other family’s. Lydia pulled out a muggle book and opened it on where she had left off in the car ride to the train station and began reading to words across the book while the train slowly started rolling. Her friend would find her soon enough and as the trolley woman stopped by she bought some candy and nibbled on it.

OOC: They both probably drag terribly xD
Anyways they are on, should have both post styles by the end of tonight~

[xo Galyxi]

Location :: Midas // Tavern // Midas' streets || Company :: Alone // tavern goers //people on the street || Health :: Practically Full || Energy :: Full || Thoughts :: Well a brawl usually happens when I set foot inside a tavern... should probably just avoid them..

Haya was in Midas for another round of fights in the Colosseum; she’d left for a while to go adventuring and stuff with the guild but the call to just fight and brawl always came back. Haya walked through the market of wares looking hardly interested as she browsed and wasted time before heading to the Colosseum. Her fight wasn’t until afternoon anyways, that’s when the real fighting started, the mornings were for beginners who were just testing the limits, the afternoon and evening was for the more advanced and intermediate fighters. She moved from stall to boring stall, sure some of the wares were decently made by other players but she wasn’t about to buy anything she had all that she needed on her right now anyways. Unless she wanted to buy food, which was starting to sound like a good idea by the sounds of her growling stomach.

Moving away from the middle of Midas she instead found a tavern to go instead, sitting down she leaned against the wall kicked up her feet and started to enjoy a drink while she waited for her food. She watched players who were already drunk sing slurred songs together, she almost quirked a smile when one of the men who was swaying dangerously finally toppled over knocking into the chair and table as he went down. Out cold. She knew what kind of characters and players they were, they were drinking to forget that they were now stuck living inside a game, that their lives could forfeit at any moment. They were too much of a coward to live in the game, they probably set up another useless shop that flooded the streets of Midas with less than par shares of items and equipment.

Her food was set down in front of her by woman, Haya thanked her wordlessly instead nodding her head and slipping her extra coin, she woman walked off with a smile pocketing the coin that was extra and went about her work. Haya on the other hand kept her guard up while she ate her food, she knew trouble could sprout up at any moment. Finishing her meal she sat back slightly relaxing though alert as she reveled in her full stomach, seeing something move out of the corner of her eye she tensed slightly ready. She found the woman who had been working was being pulled into the lap of one of the drunken men, his hands pawing at her lewdly as she protested and tried to get back up. “Sir, knock it off.” She cried out frightened.

The drunken man, urged on by his other drunken friends leaned in to try to kiss the shrieking woman, Haya couldn’t take it any longer as she stood up and made her way over just in time. Kicking the chair out from under the leaning drunk, she grabbed the woman as he fell backwards flailing his arms around. Haya pushed the woman along as the other drunken men shot up angry as Haya sighed irritably, the man on the floor got up as well all of them baring their fists, ready for a fight, weapons forgotten in their haste. One man barreled forward as Haya easily sidestepped the drunken man and hit him on the back with her armored arm, he fell flat to the floor dazed. Haya waited for the next one, only she didn’t wait long as he surged forward and the tripped over the fallen man.

Haya withheld a deep sigh of annoyance at the idiocy in front of her as another man rushed her, she clapped her hands around his head one over each ear, he yelled wobbling around before falling, crashing into a table. Two more men left, they stood back it seemed like they were trying to decide on if they were going to try to come after her together or alone. Honestly together would have been a smarter idea of course, not that it would have stopped her nor done either of them any good. Instead they held up their hands in seemingly surrender and as Haya turned her back, heading towards the front desk where she would pay for the damage done to the furniture in the place. Seeing the woman’s eyes widen, Haya knew something was coming but before she could turn she was then hit on the back by a chair, stumbling slightly by the unexpected collision she turned to the man her eyes narrowing.

She grabbed him by the throat, not choking him but keeping a well enough grip as the other man rushed at her, she threw one man into the second both of them crashing through the front door of the tavern. “ ‘scuse the mess.” Haya said lightly setting the coin on the desk as she walked over the two, now unconscious bodies on the dirt ground watching as people stood around on the street. People jumped back seeing her emerge over the bodies shake off the remaining pieces of broken chair and make her way down the street once more a slight smirk on her face, she did love a good brawl in the morning.

[xo Galyxi]

Location :: Another Tavern || Company :: Broker, Diadon || Health :: Full || Energy :: Full || Thoughts :: 'Might as well jump right in.'

Haya decided it was still too early to make her way to the Colosseum for the fights, she didn't want to watch level 6-13 players tentatively bash at each other or just swing randomly, full of fear. She wanted to see the heavier players, the ones who were seasoned, the ones who weren't afraid. She instead decided to go to a different tavern, she was around them enough, she'd have another drink and just ease drop on peoples boring conversations. She made it to the tavern but in getting to the place she seen a curious shadow on the ground, looking up she found a dragon just hanging out on the rooftops. Nodding her head slightly she turned into the tavern and walked down the rows hearing an interesting snippet of conversation she paused looking at the two at the table.'Boshins Champion huh?' She thought with a brief smirk and took a seat nearby ordering a drink as she relaxed and listened in on the conversations around her, mostly listening to the two in front of her.

The conversations around her were normal, lower levels complaining to each other about the quests being too hard, or how difficult getting the item for it was. On any normal day she might have offered to help out the lower levels around her, but not today. The talk of Boshin’s Champion caught her interest, sure she had heard some vague things about it but the chance to actually hear more and potentially find and get a hold of the item. Not that she really wanted it, just beating the boss to get it though would make her day great, great enough to miss out of the tournament she was suppose to be joining in today. Speaking of which, she got a message from one of her battling buddies as they liked to call each other and opened up the message, scanning the words she found out that none of her usual's would be in it today.

All of them had other things to do with their guilds today, she sighed but looking in front of her before replying to the message. ‘It’s alright, I think I found something more interesting to occupy myself with until the next tourney guys. Good luck on the guild quest.’ She sent it while grabbing her mug and standing up, she might as well just join the table with the guys if she was going to follow them and potentially weasel her way into the group. Sitting down she joined them with a nod, sipping from her mug before speaking. “I’m joining this little get together, overheard you talking about Boshins Champion, I want to help.” She’d probably still follow them even if they told her no and so she sat waiting for the reaction that was bound to come along with her intrusion.

ooc: Decided to join you guys because I don't want to be that one person who's a loner the whole roleplay xD

[xo Galyxi]

Location :: Tavern || Company :: Cyrus and Daidon || Health :: Full || Energy :: Full || Thoughts :: 'Let's get this going then..'

Haya knew just joining without an invitation would be rude to some people but honestly its not like she was one of the stealthier classes where she could just sneak around and follow them. Honestly she was a knight, the heavy armor clanged when she walked she was not going to be sneaky any time, unless she unequipped her armor of course, but then she would be rather useless if a fight broke out. The second guy at the table gave her a wolfish grin and a wink, she hardly lifted an eyebrow at that, instead turning her attention to the first guy who was talking. As the guy with the tail and ears continued she listened to the possible lore behind the game and watched as the red head stared unblinkingly at the silver haired man. As the talking stopped she nodded slightly. “Kill the dragon, easy as blood and wine.” She said with a slight shrug.

Seeing the looks given to her she wondered what it was she said that was weird until it sunk in that she had said something from the real world, her and her best friend started saying it, with mental sigh she pulled her thoughts away from her best friend. She hadn’t found the girl, not that it was an easy feat to do knowing so little about her friend other than she had red hair, green eyes and was a mercenary. Neither of them had exchanged in game names thinking they could join up at any time, big mistake; she had to believe that Hotaru was alright and still in the game. Another reason to hurry off to join Arthur’s court, the sooner she got to him the sooner she could help people get out, hopefully no more lives would be lost in the process, and at the very least no one she knew would go out like that.

Haya listened to Daidon confirm the spot they would be going too, the forest past Drago mountains, it was still a pretty large area but with some luck they would find it, they just needed to make sure they had enough supplies. Luckily she had been assuming to take part in the Colosseum fights so she had stocked up on her healing potions. “I’m ready to go now.” She said with a nod as she received the notification that she was being invited into the group by [Beast Tamer] Daidon Nial. She accepted it and turned to look at the other with them, the archer with the ears and tail both of them were expecting for him to join the party, by the look on Daidon whether he liked it or not. She thought about her friends list and the few people on it sorting mentally on who was which class and which level, coming down to it she didn’t have anyone a high enough level to be of any help on this quest.

“I haven’t got anyone who could help us.” She answered in return to the question of the mage or healer.

[xo Galyxi]

Location :: Midas Gate || Company :: And asleep Cyrus || Health :: Full || Energy :: Full || Thoughts :: 'Must be time for his catnap.. better polish this armor while I wait...nothing better to do..'

Haya noticed the confused look sent to her by the beast tamer, but she ignored it pretty much, seeing his level didn’t bother her either, a level 57 wasn’t bad, the Archer was a few levels lower being 40. That could prove an issue, as she sat half listening she contemplated how she was going to keep the archer safe while they were out, it seemed she would have to keep all attacks trained on her as much as possible. So far It was only the three of them.

Hearing Daidon speak about not really having anyone on his friends list either, or that were close by anyways made her sigh, she agreed with him silently about them just having to recruit someone who was a mage or a healer on their long journey. Daidon was a bundle of energy as he called them grumps while he stood up hastily making his way to the front of the tavern clearly ready to leave. Haya got up following after him and stood outside to find out the dragon shadow she had seen before was his dragon and the thing was that of beauty, all ebony and electric blue. Haya seen the beast tamer give the dragon a cinnamon roll, curious enough of course all things considered but she said nothing even watching as his teeth snapped so close to his owners hand.

Daidon exclaimed that he was ready to go, and then said he was going to get some more things, that made Haya raise an eyebrow and then he was gone leaving her with the Archer. Not really knowing him she simply nodded her head slightly as he saluted her and also walked off instead she pulled up her user interface and looking through the things she needed, which was hardly anything so she decided to head towards the gate instead. She made her way a bit more nimbly through the streets after she had taken off her armor, something she didn’t usually do of course. As she made her way to the gate she took notice of a person laying atop the gated wall. Seeing the tail made her snicker softly, it signalled Cyrus was going to take a nap while they waited for Daidon.

Haya leaned against the wall before pulling out her armor and beginning to polish it, it gave her something to do and it had been a bit dusty after all, she brought out both swords as well polishing them while she waited for the last of her teammate to join them so that they could be on their way.

[xo Galyxi]

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Rin had been in Coravan on business and had just finished stocking up on the supplies that she would need before she moved onwards, making sure she was finished she stepped out into the desert making her way out across the sands silently keeping an eye out around her as she walked. She made her way towards the border of Kestral and Coravan walking was a natural thing for her, she enjoyed it actually as it usually gave her time to think; sometimes that was a bad thing as well. She made her way over sand dune after sand dune she was lucky she had replaced her usual shoes with something more sturdy for walking though sand. She’d hate to have sand between her toes.

About half way through the desert she came across two men riding on horses galloping towards her quickly, she kept to herself and only when they slowed did she set her narrowed eyes into a glare. They paused looking down at her one man rubbing his eyes and squinting at her closely as if trying to see her clearly. “Why don’t we just kill this one and take the body back to the boss? Surely no one will look close enough right?” The second one asked and Rin tensed ready for a fight when the first guy who was leaning down to get a better look at her grabbed her chin turning her to face the light. His eyes widened as he quickly let go of her face and fall off the side of his horse, her sword in her hand at his throat already. “Wha-what?” The second guy said pulling at his whip, Rin dodged it and using the hilt of her sword she hit him off his own horse.

“We don’t want any trouble!” The first guy said hurriedly standing up and picking up the dazed second one from the sand and hurrying out of range. “Who is she?” The second guy asked softly to the first guy as they got back onto their horses. “Shes called Yasha no Toujin.” He said risking a glance back to see her sheath her blade smoothly. “Whats that mean?” The second guy asked as they started to move away from her as she started walking again though she could hear their conversation. “It’s said to mean Female demon of the sword blade.” The first guy said before he galloped his horse once again and the second one followed after him. Rin was left behind with a smirk crossing her face from amusement, at least people knew better than to mess with her.

Rin continued on her way, it was hot and the sun beating down on her was annoying enough, she trekked onwards though and soon walked over the top of the dunes seeing the plain’s coming into view. It would be relief to get out of the sun soon, though she gave a few minutes pause as she seen two groups getting ready to crash, a group of three and a second group of four. Two archers, a Knight and Mercenary. She knew this group well enough to have been warned from them, a group of PKers a couple of friends had told her about, with a scowl on her face she hurried down the dune and made her way into the fray. With her speed and no one paying attention to her she was able to sneak up behind one of the two archers, she had no problem dealing death to PKers.

With a well aimed slash of her sword she quickly made work with one of the archers health watching as it started to drop quickly where she turned turned to the second getting ready for another attack on the back line.

[xo Galyxi]

Location :: Midas Gate || Company :: Kira!! || Health :: Full || Energy :: Full || Thoughts :: 'She's alive?!!'

Haya had been polishing her sword when someone said something hearing the words that came out made her pause before she looked up shocked, seeing the red hair and green eyes she couldn’t help but doubt and secretly hope it was who she thought it was. Haya set the swords down on the ground before she walked around the player in front of her scoping her out, it couldn’t be possible. It just couldn’t. Finally Haya leaned in close to the player with red hair her eyes looking around the two of them before she finally whispered. “Hotaru?” The other player threw her arms up around Haya and hugged her close yelling in excitement. Hearing the girl ramble Haya couldn’t help but chuckle, it really was her best friend, right here in front of her.

“How have you been? How’s the game treating you? I’m going to add you as my friend alright?” Haya asked a few questions while opening her in game interface and selecting the player in front of her seeing the name was Kira and her level was 80 just like Haya’s. Asking to add her as a friend Haya was proud to know that even though they hadn’t been playing together they were on the same wavelength. “Impressive stats and level my love; I see you have been busy online.” Haya couldn’t help but feel some hope inside her that maybe just maybe Daiki was still in the game alive somewhere. But that wasn’t something she could worry about right now of course, she had other things to worry about; like this future mission.

Looking around her and finding no sign of Daidon yet she sat back on the ground grabbing up her swords and looking up at Kira before patting the ground next to her. “Tell me all about what you have been up too, I don’t know how long I have before I have to go yet though.” Haya said with a sheepish smile, Kira would probably be the only one who could even get the real life her out of Haya and that was because they were like sisters.