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dark_emeralds · 07-10-2008, 04:34 PM

oh look postie! *throws crowbar into the ocean "won't be needin' that"*

Chapter Twenty

"Your father scares me sometimes." Helga whispered to Rowena.

"My father scares me all the time." Rowena whispered back. Helga giggled.

They all sat by the fire and Godric told his story. They laughed in the right places and stared at him blankly at least once every sentence. Helga gasped and grabbed Rowena's shoulder every now and then.

"And then they said "Godric Gryfinndor, you are free to go." Godric finished with a barley noticible florish.

"Wow oh mighty knight of England." Rowena said, rolling her eyes but smiling.

Helga laughed along with her friends but noticed something off.

"Why would anyone want to build a school? We're educated just fine." Helga said.

"I think it's because not all of the muggleborn's get discovered." Salazar said thoughtfully.

"Yes, I suppose you're right." Rowena said.

"I've always thought it was because adult's hate us." Godric said.

"We ARE adults." Rowena said.

"I don't feel like an adult." Godric grumbled.

"It's because you're still a child mentally, we the three of us are making history you'll still be mocking your parents behind their back and jumping on your bed." Rowena repiled, Godric blushed pink and waved away the comment.

"Now shall I tell you about how I met a thief on the way home?" he asked.

"A thief?!" Helga exclaimed.

End of Chapter Twenty

draco*malfoy*lover · 07-10-2008, 08:30 PM

great chapter!

pams!!

hpObsessed · 07-11-2008, 04:29 AM

Yay! *throws confetti in the air* A new post! Great chapter, PAMS! Please!!

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-12-2008, 09:02 PM

Oh man, I was looking forward to using my crowbar...*goes and fishes it out of the ocean* Just in case...

Oh a thief. Fun. Well, I'll write the chapter today or tomorrow. Let's see if I can get it up by Tuesday. (I really doubt it.)

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-13-2008, 03:08 PM

Ok, here is the next chapter. And it's only Sunday!

Chapter Twenty-One

Salazar Slytherin

The three friends leaned in closer, eager to hear Godric’s story.

“Yes, a thief,” he said, clearly enjoying the spotlight. “It was terrible, he nearly took everything I had!” said Godric dramatically. Salazar rolled his eyes. What a ham.

“Just tell us already!” said Rowena impatiently.

“Okay, okay already!” grumbled Godric. He sat up a little straighter, so that they could all hear him better. And then he began:

“Well, I was about a week’s ride away from finally getting home, when suddenly this….well, this thief jumped in front of my horse. Stupid fellow. Nutmeg almost stamped a hole in his head….anyway…. Nutmeg managed to stop short before she hit him. He knocked me unconscious with a Stunning spell. All I saw of him before everything went black was a long, thin scar that ran from his left eyebrow, across his ugly leering face to the right corner of his mouth, and down his neck, his tunic covering up the rest of it. When I woke up, Azrael was missing. I think my horse chased the bugger off, though, because nothing else was gone.

“It hurt to lose Azrael, you know, it belonged to my father and he passed it on to me before he died. So it was with a heavy heart that I continued on my journey home. About three days later, I happened upon a corpse lying in the road. I recognized the scar that disfigured his face and was surprised to see that this was my robber. His bare chest revealed that the scar continued down his side, all the way to his ribcage. 'What had happened to him?' I wondered, but there was no time for that.

“I took Azrael back from him and ran, in case he wasn’t all the way dead, back to Nutmeg and she galloped away as fast as she could.”

Godric looked up with an expression of smugness, having finished his thief story. Ro and Helga looked at him, astonished, with expressions of admiration on their faces.

“Yes yes, very honorable of you,” said Salazar irritably. “Did anything ELSE happen while you were away that you want to tell us about?” Actually, he was just as amazed as the girls were, but he covered it up with impatience and an irate tone.

Godric thought for a moment. “Nope, that was it. Unless you want to hear about the sock puppets.”

Ro, Helga, and Sal looked at him like he had grown an extra eye and announced that he wanted to marry a turkey.

“I guess not,” Godric said, blushing crimson and looking at his toes.

The four of them then went outside to sit in the sun, feeling as though the world was complete and they were the happiest they had ever been. Godric's sock puppets were forgotten immediately.

End of Chapter Twenty-One

End of flashbacks

all right, so what do you think? Which is your favorite flashback?

harryzabest · 07-13-2008, 11:37 PM

Awesome chappie! I think I like Helga Hufflepuff's flashback the best.

PAMS!!!!

hpObsessed · 07-14-2008, 05:09 AM

Yay! Another new (and great) post! My favorite flashback? Ummm… I can’t decide! I love them all!

PAMS please!

draco*malfoy*lover · 07-14-2008, 04:39 PM

yay a new postie!! loved it.

pams.
--Prongs

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-15-2008, 11:29 PM

Thanks!

I don't think Susi knows I posted. I should probably call her about that.

In the meantime, I have updated the list of readers that I made on page 5. Here is everyone so far:

1.)kaitybell
2.)dark_emeralds
3.)Abbie0312
4.)MusicalTheatreGirl
5.)D/Hr4evr
6.)hrmy_lvr_4evr
7.)ravenclawrox*_*
8.)driveunit1
9.)DeathEater24601
10.)harryzabest
11.)HeatherTipton
12.)x-HermioneGranger-x
13.)Ginnie Weasley
14.)iheartdan
15.)peipei
16.)voldemort&88
17.)Hufflepuffyness
18.)Abby13**
19.)Prongs999
20.)supercodi95
21.)hpObsessed
22.)draco*malfoy*lover
23.)Keysquah
24.)Godrica Gryffindor
25.)3uzz3ee

12 Ravenclaws, 5 Gryffindors, 1 Hufflepuff, 5 slytherins, and 2 unsorted. 25. Seven more readers than the previous list.

Keysquah · 07-16-2008, 12:52 AM

Alrighties!! I have caught up now!! Very nice chapters!
Just one question, I read all the flashbacks... I didnt really understand them! I didnt read any comments, so you might have already explained them! lol
Anyway, I love them no matter what!! I can totally imagine the whole thing!!!!!!!!

Another thing that I may not have mentioned before... They killed the squid!!! Why? Isnt he supposed to be there?

Awesome story!!

dark_emeralds · 07-16-2008, 12:46 PM

he's a magically re-generating squid... never thought of that did you keysquah... neither did i, i never realized that it's still there 1000 years from then... oopsies, maybe i'll put that in chapter 22: RETURN OF THE SQUID!

Keysquah · 07-16-2008, 01:16 PM

Hahahahahaha!!
Well, Im glad I could be a help! lol
Maybe the squid has a relative in the lake... LOL

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-16-2008, 03:38 PM

No don't put return of the squid! Maybe he had a wife or something and magical squids live thousands of years?

anyway, PAMS!!

Hufflepuffyness · 07-18-2008, 12:09 AM

i can't decide which one i like more. . . . . lol, return of the squid, i like it!

Abbie0312 · 07-18-2008, 12:58 PM

Hehe sock puppets!!! Love it!

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-18-2008, 05:50 PM

Thanks Abbie.

PAMS Sus!!!

harryzabest · 07-22-2008, 10:05 PM

I'm the only Hufflepuff reader?!?! that's sad.... and cool at the same time!

3uzz3ee · 07-28-2008, 10:17 PM

*NEW READER*

I love your story...

Especially the fact that Gryffindor is obsessed with socks...

Abi...xox

Paint.the.Limelight · 07-29-2008, 05:16 PM

Welcome! I added you to the list.

Yeah, socks rule!

Paint.the.Limelight · 08-10-2008, 11:15 PM

OK, I'll be doing the next chapter, guys. I'll put it up soon.

And just in case anyone's wondering, I'm going to leave out return of the squid.

Paint.the.Limelight · 08-12-2008, 08:40 PM

OK here it is, guys. Sorry it took so long!

Chapter Twenty-Two

Godric stood back (a lot back) and stared at the completed castle. It towered over their heads, almost thirty times higher than the enormous oak trees. It was made of stone and marble. The sharp-looking spires on the tops of the towers glinted ominously in the moonlight. Godric couldn't help smiling. It looked magnificent. But hopefully not too frightening. He turned and grinned broadly at the others.

Rowena grinned back. She was just as satisfied as he was about the exterior there was only a very little amount of work left inside. She glanced up at the five high towers, doing the math in her head. If that oak tree was five hundred feet tall (they grow taller in the Wizarding world than in the Muggle community) then the highest tower must be....

"Fifteen thousand feet!" she said aloud. The others gave exclamations of surprise and delight. "Three years of work and we've finally finished the school, and it's fifteen thousand feet tall!" said Rowena happily.

Helga nodded. "It's truly amazing," she agreed, her normally soft voice even softer than usual in her awe.

"Well, don't get all misty-eyed yet," interrupted Salazar. "Who knows if anyone will want to come? None of us are very good teachers." He ignored the others' disapproving frowns. These past three years of hard labor had made Sal cranky and waspish, and he annoyed the others constantly. At first, it was because he felt he had no choice, but he was slowly becoming himself again, and now annoyed them simply for fun.

Helga rolled her eyes at him and slapped him across the face (gently) to make him shut up. Salazar subsided into a sulky silence. "Hogwarts," she said. "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." It sounded good and was easy to say.

"Hogwarts," echoed Rowena.

"Hogwarts," Godric said, looking up at it again.

"Hogwarts," muttered Salazar. He was trying to conceal his ecstasy by acting bored.

They all smiled at Salazar and attacked him in a tickle fight. When finally they had made him laugh, the four of them pushed open the enormous doors and walked inside the massive entrance hall, talking and laughing like they had when they were teenagers.

No one saw Salazar slip off into the shadows, towards the dungeons.

End of Chapter Twenty-Two