Zyanya jumped out of the train in excitement. She was finally here. Of course, they were only in Hogsmeade but they would reach there soon. She was going to Hogwarts!

Awesome.

She turned round to see that Amara was not there. Her sister had been held back by Rush who was reluctant to get up from his slumber. So she had come first.

Now where should she go? She knew they had to go by boats. Mom had told her. But where were the boats?

She went a few more steps and stood in a corner so as to make way for others. She wished Amara would come soon. She hated being alone.

Aphrodite walked out of the train after she finished changing her clothes unto robe, Theo said that they had changed their clothes before the train down and look after a groundskeeper that will take them to Hogwarts. When she came out, Aphrodite spotted Zyanya that standing in the middle alone, she decided to greet her, "Hi Zyanya, you're waiting for Amara?"

Christmas made her way off of the train and onto the platform at Hogsmeade glad to be almost at school she couldn't wait to be back through the doors of Hogwarts castle

Amara literally jumped out of the train. Show-off. She held Rush rather tightly. She didn't want the little devil to jump and run again. She had sent Zyanya and the others ahead unless they wanted a show from Rush. She looked around and spotted Zyanya with Fro. She made way towards them.

"Hey, hey" she said, as she neared them. "He took so long to get out" she said, patting her little black cat. "Ready, shall we go?" she asked them. They had to get a boat, right?

And she found one missing. Natasha. Nice.

"Where is Nats?" she asked the pair of them. They'd all gone out together and she was the last one out of their compartment. She looked around, trying to find the shy little girl.

People annoyed her, probably far more than they should but there you had it. People annoyed her.

She wasn't planning to stalk out of the compartment the way she did, it just happened as a natural reflex and would more than likely be seen as a favour. It wouldn't have been anything short of a favour because Lottie said it herself; she was the reason the girl was upset. As simple as that. She upset people even when she didn't talk.

At the moment she wasn't sure whether she was more annoyed...or hurt. Either way she wasn't in the best of moods and wondered if faking an illness would have allowed her to miss the speech. Sure it would have meant missing the feast too but she wasn't particularly hungry anymore. There was just one problem with that. She couldn't miss the feast because Lottie said they needed to talk.

About what? She didn't know anymore. She didn't know a lot of things anymore.

Lex slipped Felix into his cage (he knew this part was coming and didn't pretend otherwise) and put it on top of her trunk. Something or someone would take him and her things to her dorm. He was lucky. He didn't have to sit through the feast with a sinking mood. She looked around after some time. No Lottie. Maybe she was riding the carriages with Garrick. That would make her feel better.

Might as well make her way to the carriages then.

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH.

Zyanya was getting tired of waiting when she saw Fro walking up to her. "Yes, Amara had stayed back to get Rush. He is a very stubborn cat. You already saw it." She said to her, remembering the little incident with the cat on the train.

"I guess we have to go on to the boats now. You feel thrilled?" Zyanya asked to Fro. They were becoming good friends.

Just as she asked the question, Amara came up with Rush in her hands. Finally. "Natasha? She was coming behind for one minute and then I lost her in the crowd. When I got out and turned back she was not there." She replied to her sister's question. She wondered where the girl was. After all, Natasha had been so nervous.

James jumped off the train.he was just so exited. father had told him so many stories of when he was in hogwarts.he ran to the boats with much gusto he couldnt wait for the term to begin

When Zyanya mention about Rush, Aphrodite remembered what had happened in the Hogwarts Express and understand why Zyanya came out first. After a long journey from King's Cross Station to get to Hogsmeade Station, Aphrodite was tired but excited. Soon she will first set her foot in Hogwarts! While hugging Iris who had been hiding behind the cloak she was wearing, Aphrodite said, "Of course I'm very excited, Zyanya. How about you?" she asked with a cheerful tone, "Shouldn't we wait for Amara and Natasha first?" she added.

When Amara came out of the train only with Rush, Aphrodite just realized that Natasha was not with Amara while they came out first. "Did you see her?" she asked Zyanya. Without waiting for her answer she said, "Wait here, I'll be looking for her," said Aphrodite to Amara and Zyanya, "I'm leaving Iris to you, Zyanya. Thanks!" Further, Aphrodite hands Iris into Zyanya's hands.

Isabel heaved her trunk out of the train,honestly the train ride seemed to drag out longer and longer every year. Stopping to look around as she took in her surroundings,she let out a content sigh . This place was her break from her Italian nightmare of a so called summer vacation. It had been a nightmare, of course seeing that both Vinnie and Sean had decided to ditch her and so inevitably doomed her to the worst summer.

But that was now all in the past she was ready to fully enjoy her third year without her parents interruptions. Interlacing her fingers she brought them up over head and stretched to loosen her stiff muscles, staying still was something she just wasn't good at.

Bringing her arms down and to her side she quirked her head to the side,as she spotted the usually hyper Gryffindor,though at this time she looked a bit down and a bit annoyed, Isabel wondered what had gotten to the Gryffindor,after all she didn't see Odessa around or any of his croonies.

Leaving her luggage she made her way over to her.

"hey Lex,you look a bit annoyed,what's up?" Isabel wasn't gonna ask her if she were alright clearly she wasn't.

There wasn't any point in looking for anyone to walk to the carriages with, when she thought about it she didn't know where Aidan was and Cassia...she hadn't even seen her on the platform. Expected really seeing as she was hiding but that didn't make it any better. Someone else she might have looked for was Alice but that kinda changed the moment she ate her chocolate frog.

Ugh.

She still wasn't looking forward to that.

Lex got through two steps before she heard someone talking to her, asking annoying questions. She turned slowly and took in the familiar Slytherin before her.

Was it that obvious? Pity. She couldn't leave things like that. This was NOT bothering her. No way. She didn't care, or well she was trying not to care therefore she couldn't look like there was something off. Lex rushed a smile onto her face, a grin really because those were more convincing. Everyone knew that. "Nah, I'm fine, just...not looking forward to the speech, you know?" And this conversation wasn't going to be about her either. "Ready for Third Year?" She wasn't. She hated it already.

It was obvious that Lex didn't want to talk about what exactly had bothered her. Isabel inwardly shrugged. if she didn't want to she wouldn't push her. It was none of her business,she would let it slide. Though she had never seen the Gryffindor so put off.

now physically shrugging, Isabel addressed the gryffindor.

"Yeah I understand what you mean,the headmistress should really consider how every one else feels having to hear her boring worn out speeches,ya know?"

Isabel was more than ready for third year it would be her best one yet,that was for sure.

"yeah definitely, looking forward to it ,I'm going out with a bang this year for sure,ya know"

Isabel was getting really pumped thinking about it for the fact that she had a knack for saying 'ya know' at the end of all her sentences.

If there was one thing Lex liked, it was a person who could take a hint. This almost earned the girl a real smile but that wasn't happening--BUT IT COULD BECAUSE SHE WASN'T UPSET. Ahem. Just saying.

Anyway, the conversation changed like she wanted it to and now they were talking about basically trivial things. She preferred this. Trivial was easy, she did it all the time. "I think she appreciates the sound of her voice a little too much for that." No one could deny their lovely Headmistress had a special spot for herself. Might not have been such a bad thing except for when she had children, tired from a long train ride and hungry too. No one would listen.

A bang huh?

"What kind of bang? You plan to light something up?" Fireworks were pretty and she was going to see some over the summer, the summer that needed to hurry back because she was officially OVER this term.

In a hurry to get her poor owl out of the luggage compartment from the train, Eliza scurried through the throng of students and wedged herself in near the opening. Her eyes scanned the multitude of cages and luggage and sacks until they landed on her little stripey looking owl. She reached out a slender hand and snatched the cage up, pulling it tightly to her, and whispered, "Well hello Luna dear, how was your ride? Not completely dreadful I hope." She reached her hand into the cage and petted her feathers softly. Hearing the coo in return, she gathered that it had been decent enough, and that was really all she could hope for.

She smiled and tapped the owl's beak lightly. "You don't want to stay in this cage any longer do you?" To which Luna ruffled her feathers and shook her tail on her perch. "I didn't think so," Eliza responded and wrinkled her nose. "How about you just fly up yourself? You know the way by now," she said encouragingly and opened the door fully for the owl to exit. Luna hooted and chirped a quiet sound, then gave Eliza one last thankful look before flying herself over to the owlery.

Ah, the start of another year, he thought as students began to burst forth from the scarlet steam engine, now grimy from the journey. As he spotted unfamiliar faces, his traditional summons boomed forth above the general cacophony of the unloading process.

"Firs' years over here! All firs' years this way, please!"

Before Sky knew it, it was time to make her way off the train and to the carriages. Blegh. She wasn't really fond of the carriages, they always smelled like horse to her. You would think that a creature that was invisible wouldn't smell. But nope. Thestrals stunk. Though, guess she should just be glad she couldn't see the things.

Anyway, she jumped down from the train and made her way through the small train station, ignoring the calls of Mr. Firth.

Mika climbed carefully off of the train and glanced around the station. She couldn't help but don a goofy smile as she spotted Mr. Firth - after all she really wanted to know if his cattle was still here. She had already collected her things out of the stupid luggage place. And sure - Aidan had been right.

She wasn't going to do anything about that unfortunate incident. It was no ones fault.

She made sure her things were tucked away and easy to get to the school before she situated the box of cupcakes and treats in her hands. Of course, it wasn't situated well and the lid kept popping open as she moved.

"You evil box" she muttered at it as if that would help. It wouldn't but the contents of the box, sweets, cookies, and cupcakes and even a small bit of ice cream was now visible to everyone. Yep the box was awesome cause it kept everything nice and cool but the ice cream it didn't matter...it was Floreans and everyone knew Floreans didn't melt.

Zyanya held out her hands to get Iris. "Don't worry. I'll keep him till you come." She said to Fro, smiling. She watched as Fro went in search of Natasha. Poor Nats. She hoped that the girl was not lost. She felt glad that Fro had gone to look for her.

Iris meowed at her breaking into her thoughts. She smiled and looked at the cute cat. She patted it gently on its back. Iris really seemed to like her.

As time passed by in front of her eyes, Kat had just realized that the train had stopped. It meant that they finally arrived at Hogsmeade and the feast is looming at the corner. Oh, at last. The train ride was definitely really long as every other train ride was, so the Slytherin Prefect was really relieved to finally have her feet on the ground. Like... literally the ground. The train floor was not so comfortable since it was moving and stuff. Yeah, okay.

The Prefect went out the the train and looked around the village for a moment. Merlin, she has missed this place a lot. It had been about 2 and a half months of being away from this place. She was definitely looking forward to the future Hogsmeade weekends. But no time for her to waste by just staring and reminiscing memories from this village. Kat went over to the carriages with the other second to seventh years. Sixth year was going to be a blast... maybe.

Sarah got off the train, and was kind of dispointed to be on immoblie ground again. She liked movement. She was in her school robes and all, yet school seemed so far away. She gathered her belonging, Angelina in her cage, also her trunk and satchel and looked around. She showed one or two first years where to go and she began to make headway towards the carriages. She knew it was kind of hopeless to go with a friend as she was no ones special friend. Penelope now had her boyfriend there and Alexa well Alexa had a lot of friends besides Sarah. Yet Sarah waved off that loneliness, she did have to be with a friend all the time after all, being alone enabled her to make new friends. With a brave smile on her face she made her way to the carriages. She was independent and all.

A small group of first years had gathered, but he wanted to make sure there weren't any stragglers. Scanning the chaos, he decided that searching in the darkness was a lost cause. His voice rang forth over the platform once more.

"Aaaaaany more firs' years? This way, firs' years!"