Hmph. Curious little thing, wasn't she? Elliot raised a blonde eyebrow at her. "My father was one." Yep. Let's just leave it there for now, firstie. But the next comment brought a little smirk to her face...once again. "Thanks....I suppose so, eh? I mean, I am one heck of a smart cookie..." she sighed, smiling a bit as she thought of how clever she really was..."Right?" her attention snapped to Alexa. RIGHT, FIRSTIE?! Right. Better say right..

Hmph. Elliot nodded, which was an acceptance of the girl's apology. No need to say some things aloud, especially nice things. Like forgiving someone...hmph.

Phahah!

BOSS LADY.

Elliot loved it, and she couldn't help but cackle away..."Boss lady..one of my many nicknames. I'm also known as Ice Queen and Empress Elliot." She told her with a lazy wave of her hand. She liked Empress Elliot the most...because she one day planned to rule the world...yep. *Nods.*

She GLAAAAAARED at the cat. "I've got my eyes on you, cat," she growled...not daring to taking her blue ones off the cat's...her own eyes were shaped very much like a cat's. And she loved it...

Geeze!

Was Logan ever going to be allowed to have a nap on this bloody train?

He had been sprawled out on a bench sleeping when suddenly someone screamed out. The next thing he knew, he was on the floor of the compartment and his head hurt.

Grumpy, he rubbed it and went to investigate.

... Finding Ronnie. "What on earth is going on?" She seemed kinda frantic.

Ronnie spun around as someone spoke to her. She seriously was NOT in the mood to talk to probably some curious firstie right now, she really wasn- Oh. It was just Logan. "My stupid cat ran out of the compartment I was in!" she explained, glancing up and down the corridor. Gosh, where was he?! Hopefully he hadn't gone into someone's compartment...

"He keeps running off all the time. I am just fed up." she said with an exasperated sigh. Stupid cat. Mehh. First he went and tried to attack Isaac's owl, and NOW he was just running around all willy-nilly?! NOT okay! He was in a lot of trouble. No more kitty treats for him, that's for sure!

For a second Logan thought she was going to snap at him but then she addressed him normally so he assumed that everything was okay. But oh dear... her poor cat. Biting his lip slightly, he started scanning around the corridor in order to help her. "What does he look like?" Since many people had cats, it was kinda pointless to search without knowing the cat in question.

"Have you ever thought of putting a bell around his neck? Maybe then you can hear it if he wanders off." Only a suggestion.

"He's gray with little white paws." Ronnie answered with a nod. D'aww, he had the cutest wittle paws. They were like mittens! Eeeep! ....but he was still gonna get it. No matter how cute he tried to look to get out of it, like he always does.

A bell? She'd never thought of that, and now that she thought of it, it was actually a pretty good idea. Even though it'd be kinda annoying hearing a bell all the time he was prancing around. But still, it'd help her know where he is and all. "Ya know, that's a real good idea, Logan. I think I'll do that." she said.

Aww, that sounded so adorable. Logan nodded to let her know that he had heard and kept searching. "Good, that way he won't be able to get too far away." Hopefully.

Entering an empty compartment, he started looking around in case the animal had come in to hide away. Unless it was a social cat. As far as he knew cats didn't really like being around a lot of people. o_O But then what did he honestly know about cats anyway?

Tiffany stood there still and listened to him carefully, tried not to miss any single part of his statement. But what was coming out from him later was falter. Maybe she was wrong telling him this whole thing, maybe she should just keep this inside her mind. If she had done so, they didn't have to be in such an embarrassing situation.

You may know that I am so cold, apathetic, not sensible, stubborn and..

She looked down as she heard what he said about himself. It was actually good to know that he knew what his problems were but of course mostly because of her telling him so. But then it wasn't really the thing the lioness wanted after telling him all those. Now she regretted of telling him so. She sighed. Gerald Rush was saying that he was sorry about that right now, what else do you want, Tiffany? She moved her glance up a bit as she decided to say something to him. Maybe telling him that it's alright or that she didn't really care about that anymore, maybe telling him that she's sorry too for acting like this to him. But then he's gone. Gone to nowhere.

Tiffany ran through the crowd till she had finally spotted him at the end of the corridor. She grabbed his arm to stop him from walking any further. "It's alright,"she replied. She forgives you for all of your stubborn behavior. "And...I'm sorry too."she uttered, almost like a whisper.

Gwen just showed a small smirk after hearing Kurumi’s reply. She understood. Somehow, all the cats seemed to be willing to go for a walk, or in the search of food. But Jinx was nowhere to be seen. The fifth year kept scanning the place, carefully examining the floor of the train corridor, but every time she thought she’d spotted something, it only proved to be someone’s shoe. Hmph. And no Jinx. She raised her eyes from the ground, looking back at Kurumi, who just started saying something. ‘That’s a good idea…’, she started saying and, before even managing to take the cookie from the Gryffindor Prefect, she spotted something.

Hmmm.

What was it?

Gwen narrowed her eyes suspiciously, looking at a black spot near the door of a compartment, coming closer and closer to the place where they were standing. Failing to see Walnut’s reaction, the Ravenclaw looked intensely at the black furball who was making his way along the corridor. ‘Jinx!’, the girl beamed. ‘Maybe the cookies worked…’ After all, they had a quite powerful smell. And Jinx was one of those pets who always acted like FOOD DETECTORS. Yes. The tuna smell may have braught him back. Since Jinx finally got back, Gwen didn’t answer Kurumi’s question about what he looked like. ‘Thanks’, she told the Gryffinodr, because it was probably because of her cookies that the cat was back.

As soon as she took Jinx in her arms, the black cat looked suspiciously at Walnut. ‘Meyow’, Jinx made his presence noticed. Gwen gave the cat a small pat on the head before drawing her attention back at Kurumi. ‘Looking forward to getting back to Hogwarts?’, she asked the seventh year and started looking out the window. She was eagerly waiting to get back. Even though it was going to be different… with the Headmaster, some of the Professors and the people who graduated last year who weren’t returning. Sigh.

Okay.

At least he had told his apology to her, right? That's alright if she still didn't want to apologize him or didn't want to meet him either. The blonde guy looked so unhappy for this. He had lost Tiffany, the girl who he considered as his close friend. Why he seemed so unlucky with girls? Zhenya had dissapeared without saying goodbye or something and now Tiffany also didn't want to see him anymore because of his attitude.

Exhaled, he walked heading to look for an empty compartment and maybe he could have some sleep there and forget all things that happened before.

But when he walked there, suddenly he felt that someone grabbed his hand. Gary stopped his walk and turned back. The person who stopped him was.. Tiffany? His blue eyes widened as he noticed at her. So.. Did she want to apologize him? He stared at her for a while and heard that she had apologized him. Finally! He was so.. glad. Very much glad. A smile appeared at his face. It wasn't a cool smile as usual. But it was the happy one, the smile that he rarely showed to other people. He moved closer and pulled her into his hug.

Louisa walked onto the train with one cat sleeping in its basket and another one walking happily few steps ahead of her. Thankfully she got her trunk to be loaded before she got on so that was taken care of. Now she had to find her way toward the Prefects' compartment through the narrow corridor with all these students around. Eh. The hooded girl squeezed herself and the cat carrier between a couple of younger girls before she froze in her spot.

Where was Viola?

Instintively, her gaze dropped to the floor and did a full quick scan to everybody's shoes. Aaaaaand bingo! The cat was following one of the girls and meowing at her feet. "I don't have patience for this," she grumbled to herself before jogging after her, "Excuse me!" Viola of course recognized the annoyed tone of her owner and started planning her escape route by picking up her pace and aiming to ruuuun through all those humans' delish shoes.

"Hey! Catch the cat quickly!"

Hopefully it ended up being a good idea. Kurumi had sort of become a 'when in doubt use cookies' sort of person...and that hadn't really worked too well on the platform when the first years had been climbing the Hogwarts Express to get their pets. Then again, they hadn't even given it a try because the pair obviously had issues with listening to anyone older than themselves. Merlin were they in for a rude awakening once they got to Hogwarts....

Making sure that Walnut was situated safely on her shoulder, Kurumi moved in the opposite direction of Gwen for a step or two and was just about to snap off a piece of cookie for Walnut while she continued her search when she heard Gwen speak again. "Oh good! I'm glad he decided to come back to you." Instead of found him, cause, well, it was clear Jinx was that sort of cat. He could smell the cookie...see the cookie...tast---well, no, he couldn't do that yet because it was just out of reach but it would be his soon...

Or not.

Tail swishing even MORE in agitation, Walnut's ears went down and he may or may not have let out a low growl when his Mistress stopped with her cookie offering and began to move towards the OTHER superior being. Yeah, keep that meow to yourself fuzzface.

Smiling, Kurumi reached out and gave Jinx a quick pat on the head, which displeased Walnut a biiiiiit more, and then met Gwen's gaze. "I'm....actually not too sure how I feel about this term," Kurumi said, her voice laced with so many emotions that it was hard to sort out any one of them. "I still can't believe that this is my last train ride to Hogwarts....it's been my home for so long. Hard to imagine next year not going back."

Last....this term was going to be filled with a lot of those. Lasts.

"B-B-But how about you? You looking forward to it?"

Taylor smiled and nodded at what Damon said. She, of course, agreed to it seeing how she have been saying basically the same thing to the firstie. "Well, then I guess I will see you in a coma in a few years." Tay smirked at the young and funny girl.

It took Ari quite a while to realize why she had trouble walking further. A cat was blocking her way.

What should she do? Her first instinct was to raise her right foot and give it a push. A gentle one, of course. Luckily, she didn't do that. Luckily, because the cat's owner was someone Ariadne recognized as the Head Girl, and she had the feeling that the Ravenclaw wouldn't have liked it.

But then she said something. Catch the cat? 'Are you talking to me?' 'Cause the train corridor was pretty crowded, you know. She could've been addressing anyone.

With this hesitation, Ariadne had wasted precious moments in which the cat darted forward and was now at a considerable distance. It was all her fault! 'Here, kitty, kitty! Come here!' she tried to call the animal back, but it kept running. There was no other choice but to run after it.

'I'm sorry, I can fix this!' she yelled back at the cat's owner, trying to make her way through the crowd of students.

Damon couldn't fight the laugh at what Lex had said, "I have to agree with Taylor on that one, just hope it'll be after my last year here."

Wow! This younger students were crazy, but listening to them was well interesting. They were so young and careless and not serious at all compared to some of the older students at the school. You couldn't blame the older kids though, they had way more stress to deal with especially those doing OWLs and NEWTs. To think about that, made Ness want to flail about from nervousness, but her thoughts were quickly interuppted by the sound of her name...her full name.

There was only one person at this school that called her by that, and as Nes blinked out from her daze she saw that the figure coming towards her was after all who she thought it was. Oakey!

With a beam on her face she took a step closer to him and gave him a hug. "Oakey!" They didn't get to see each other so often anymore and it was kind of sad. "I was hoping I'd get to see you soon." She really was. "My compartment is just so busy." That was probably the most she would say about it. There was too much to tell to go in full detail.

After the conversation she had with Ariadne, losing Jinx was just what she needed. She was so happy to see that the black furball decided to come back, even though it was probably because of that powerful tune smell of the cookies baked by Kurumi. Anyway, she was going to hang around the train corridor for a bit longer, since her Gryffindor friend had decided to break the news to her just before Jinx dashed out the compartment. And Gwendolyn definitely needed time to process all the information.

So, once Jinx was back, the fifth year calmed down a bit. ‘Meyow’, Jinx tried to draw the girl’s attention back to him. Instead of Gwen, the other girl gave him a pat on the head. Finally, the black furball wasn’t looking suspiciously at the Gryffindor Prefect anymore. How can you look suspiciously at someone who has cookies?! COOKIES. It wasn’t his fault that his owner, Gwen, couldn’t even make tea.

Hmph.

‘Right’, Gwendolyn mumbled, only now realizing that she may have managed to remind Kurumi that this was her last term at Hogwarts. Ughhh. She was blaming her dizziness for this. ‘I umm… I am’, she started saying, trying to figure out what was the best thing to reply. ‘Even though I had a great summer, I’m really excited to be getting back’ Mhm. That was true. She missed Hogwarts. A lot.

Other than that… hmm… she was curious to find out what had changed since the last time she had been there. She remembered Tate’s speeches. She couldn’t believe there wasn’t going to be any ‘don’t die’ part at the beginning of the feast this year. Pity. ‘How umm… how was your holiday?’ If she got this question wrong too, then she had better returned to her compartment.

Suddenly, Jinx jumped back down, but this time, he decided to stay around. Naaah. No more walking. It was enough for the day.

Lazzzyyy.

So sleepy.

This train journey was taking far too long for Terry's liking and the more that they moved on, the sleepier and the hungrier the boy became. So to wake himself up a little, he decided to go for a walk. Unfortunately, he could only get so far before he was prevented from going any further by the door. He thought it would be cool to go see the driver of the train, see if he could have a go himself, how awesome would that be? He slipped his hand over the door to find it locked and then sighed. Well, maybe another day?

The 12-year-old started to head back towards where he had left his rat and case at the back of the train. He was fairly certain that Brie would be able to cope by herself, she had curled up on top of his suitcase, tucked her pink nose in her paws and drifted off into such a deep sleep that nothing could interrupt her, hence why Terry had decided to leave her there.

He stopped for a minute, took a quick look around and bit his lip. Would he really have to remember all these peoples names because that would be nearly impossible!

This train journey, as fantastic as it was, it was going waaaay too slowly for Bliss' liking. She'd already had more than her fair share of adventures and she wasn't even at Hogwarts yet! Hogwarts. What a wonderful place, she just couldn't wait to get there! Her last year had been great enough, but this year would be better, she was sure of that! After all, she would be a teenager this year!

Bliss looked around and down the corridor, it was full of people, all with different expressions. Some looked excited, happy, ect. Others looked bored or tired. One boy in particular stood out to Bliss, though she wasn't sure why. Hmmm. She decided to approach him and she tapped him lightly on the shoulder. "Hey!" She said cheerfully.

The train was full of noise, it was a good noise, the sound of excited children who Terry could empathise with. This year was going to be amazing, he could just feel it. The first time he had ever been separated from his twin but somehow, that didn't really bother him. He'd make friends here, people who had more in common with him and who wouldn't boss him around like they ruled the place.

His thoughts however, were interrupted by a tap on the shoulder. He swung around, staring at the tapper, confused as to why his attention had been summoned. The culprit, he saw, was a girl of around his age, something with which he didn't mind too much. He grinned, happy for some company and a friendly face. "Hello!" he chuckled. Was there something she wanted? "Am I in your way?" he asked. Maybe she wanted to get to the compartment behind him or just wanted to progress further along the corridor.

"Kinda creepy." So, Alice decided to just kidnap a Kneazle, that probably belonged to someone, and gave it to Blue, huh? "But... it could be a psycho cat? Why else wouldn't it have an owner?" Or, it could have rabies of course. Theo eyed it closely, looking for any foaming at the mouth signs. Eh, it looked normal. He huffed as Blue ignored the whole hate-relationship that he had with Alice. He was kinda looking for some BACK UP there, but oh well. "Okaaay, Barnabus." Theo wouldn't argue with that.

At the quidditch talk, Theo bounced in his seat. Only, the BEST part of school, right? He was excited.

"I got a Locketbreaker. It's a NEW version." Yeah, the word 'new' which flashed next to the broom's name really caught Theo's eye when he was shopping for one. Besides, it was relatively cheap. "I plan on upgrading to a better one every term." He added, with a firm nod. His parents would cooperate with that.

...
THEY WOULD, I TELL YA.

"Totally, so much better than the rubbish school brooms." UGh, vomit at those things.

Bliss giggled at the boy's assumption that she just wanted to get past him. Didn't anyone ever just stop and talk? Hmm, they did if Bliss had anything to do with it. HEHE. "No, you're not. Just stopped to chat, if that's alright," she told him, and looked him over. He was taller than she was, but then most people were and he seemed to be the same age-ish that she was. Maybe he was one of those rare people, in her year and a boy. So far she only knew of Theodore.

She stuck her hand out for the boy to shake and looked up at him, "I'm Bliss by the way," she said and grinned.

"Oh you're father was a snake too?! Daddy was a snake but my mother was a puffer...her family wasn't too happy about that but oh well." Some people think I'll be a snake like him but some say I might be a puff...I don't think I wanna be a puff though..."[/b] She confessed. She knew that all the houses were equal but she couldn't bare the thought of going around with a name that sounded like candy...oh and now this Elliot girl was basking in the compliment she had given her. Yeah...she figured she would have...but then she started giving her this funny look. "Oh yes, definitely! Really, really smart!" She would even let her help her with her homework sometime...

"Really? Who gave you those names?" Boss Lady was understandable but the other two seemed like a stretch...unless of course she was actually a cold person or someone with hopes to rule the world...but she was sure this girl wasn't like that. Right?

Then she started glaring down at Felix. She hoped she wasn't one of those people who went around kicking cats because the last woman who did that had to go to the hospital and receive several stitches....he was a mean kneazle cat when he wanted to be.

I've got my eyes on you too.

"Oh don't pay any attention to him; he can be a little grouchy at times." Most times when Lex was involved.

"No way, I totally won't end up in a coma and you know why? Because I'm that positive that I won't fall in love. You guys were probably still indecisive about the whole thing but I'm pretty sure that my determination is enough to keep me away from such a thing." She looked over at the two being all love dovey again then shook her head. "And besides, people who are in love do gross and weird things." VERY gross and weird things if you asked her. Who enjoyed walking around and holding hands anyway???

There it was! The ever-so-famous Renesmee Bear Hug, Oakey let her squeeze set in. There was something odd about it though, there was something pinned on her robe and Oakey could feel it pressing against his chest.

When Renesmee released him, he looked down and inspected her robes for what pressed against him. "Renesmee!" Oakey beamed when he saw he Captain badge resting upon her. He took her in for another hug this time squeezing her! "You're the new Captain! This is GREAT!"
That's what she meant when she said her compartment, she gets to sit in with the Prefects and other captains. He let go of her from his hug.
"Prefects are already at it?" Oakey asked as he watched Louisa yell and chase after something.

He felt something furry squeeze between his legs.

She was stood there still and she didn't look like she wanted to get past him at all. That was a good thing, Terry enjoyed talking to new people, making new friends so that he could hang around with people at school and not be constantly lonely. "Oh okay. Yes that's fine by me! I'd love to talk to you" he grinned. Well not necessarily love because he didn't actually know her that well yet and you never know, she could actually be mean or something though he very much doubted it.

Oh Merlin it was another hand shaker. He accepted her hand, shaking it quickly and then drawing it right back. Why did everyone insist on this formal greeting? It was something old people did, not students. "I'm Terry. Terry Radley. I'm a second year" he grinned. "What about you?" he asked .

Irina decided to stretch her long legs by walking about the train. Her grey eyes looked about and into each compartment she passed and saw students chattering away. She had been prepared to come to Hogwarts for a while now but she wasn't exactly prepared for this many students.

She hoped to simply have a good year and learn as much as possible.