Ned's eyes lit up in awe as he watched the rip on his pants go away. He stared at the girl and nodded awkwardly. His smile was so huge, that it almost looked out of the ordinary.
'The wizarding world? I certainly haven't been there. Do you have flying dragons in there and living mermaids and all? Like in the books?!' he started throwing one question after the other at Laura without even thinking about his being obnoxious and all. He was not used to speaking to people freely, or more like having people speaking freely to him, so this girl was his life-saving straw of rescue in the world he never knew, the... magical world.
'I have read many books on,' *cough cough* 'Sorry,' *cough cough* *cough cough* *cough cough*
Ned blushed, not sure if it was because of the cough or because of the situation where he was ruining the moment and the cool conversation they were having. He hurried to take out the syrup from his trunk, which he had taken into the compartment with him, and sipped some millilitres of the thick, gooey liquid.
'Sorry,' he said. 'If it is not a problem,' he started. 'Can you explain to me how do you do all this? I have never seen anything like this befor...' but his words stopped in mid-air as his mind drifted to an unknown woman with long blonde hair, her icy blue eyes looked at him with hatred as she flicked one of those wands at him. He didn't understand what was happening, but there was a light pain and then... He came to in the compartment.
'Before.'

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Charlotte Symzy walked down the crowded halls of the Hogwarts express, the emerald green trim on her robes flared with brilliance as she walked down the halls, pushing others out of her way. She stepped, crossing her feet, and peered into each compartment she passed by, occasionally popping her bright pink piece of bubble gum. Three Slytherin Boys, and a Slytherin Girl accompanied her, teasing younger students as they walked by.

Charlotte twitched her lips into a mischievous grin, as she found the compartment she was looking for. It was filled with first years. Typical Laura, trying to make friends with newcomers, cause no one else would befriend her. She slid the door open with her wand. "Oh, poor Laura... Lost her shoes again." Charlotte put a fake pout on her face, looking down at the barefoot Ravenclaw.

Grabbing her by her robes, she took her out of the compartment, and threw her onto the floor. Her and the other Slytherins laughed, in a crazed tone. "Wingaurdium Leviosaw!" With that, Laura was hoisted up by her ankle by thin air, and bobbed about. "Poor Laura, with no mum, or dad here to help her. But wait, you have... your friends." She said Farley, pointing to the group of first years in the car with her. "Or, is it them?" She pointed to the group that Cal was in.

Cal got up out of his seat, seeing a movement in the corridor. When his eyes saw what was really happening through the glass, he slid the door open furiously. Cal didn't know the girl, but he knew what bullying was, and he hated it. "Oi! Leave her alone!" Cal pulled out his wand, ready to stop the girl at all costs. Angered, Charlotte threw Laura back into her compartment, moving her around, and hitting Arabella out of the Compartment, in the hall with her and Cal. "Oh no! Two first years!" She said with sarcasm. "Your going to stop, us? Yeah, good luck with that." The Slytherins around her chuckled, and stepped forward, trying to intimidate the two first years. "We're ready when you are." She said, in a, come at me tone. The one sided talk was quite a commotion, and all the compartments in that train car could hear it. Callus looked to Arabella with a readied expression, and then to the others in his cart with an expression that said, help me.

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Hiroshi instinctively stood up, his wand already wrapped tightly around his hand. Hiroshi had no idea what he was doing, this was incredibly out of character for him. This wasn't his fight, he barely knew these people. This could get him in serious trouble. Trouble he could avoid if he were just to sit back down. He couldn't afford to make any mistakes and get sent back to Japan. It took nearly the whole year to convince his dad to let him go to Hogwarts. Hiroshi just couldn't afford it. He placed his wand back into his pocket, and right as he was about to take his seat again, he looked up at Cal.

Cal took a look at the boys in the compartment with an expression that clearly said he needed help. Hiroshi tried to look away, but something inside his head kept creeping and shouting for him to stand up and help. Hiroshi felt his palms get sweaty, he tried to reason with the voice inside his head, but finally something snapped. His hand reached for his wand again, holding it behind his back. He looked at Cal and gave him a nod of approval.

Ned's head span to the side and the corridor visible from the glass window of the sliding doors. His eyes darted to a heated conversation, hidden behind the walls of the compartment, happening somewhere close, but not right next to it.
"Oh, poor Laura... Lost her shoes again."
'What's happening?'he asked in fear or something close to this feeling.
He jumped and, due to an unknown by then curiosity, opened the compartment door which had slid back closed after the last person used it, and sneaked out of it. The entire hallway was filled with heads and a number of students were arguing. He was moving as thought something was guiding him, but it was not his own will.
"We're ready when you are."
He heard it plain and clear. It was the last word which closed the talk and started the real fight. Were the grown-ups around here allow such things? He couldn't tell. Being the one usually bullied, he knew that the girl, Laura, who was obviously being thrown around needed comfort. However, he knew not who she was and where was she. While he neared the scene, to see if she was still not somewhere between the arms of the Slytherin girls, he stupidly stumbled on one of his shoelaces and fell face-first on the floor, after having first bumped into one of the bullies who accompanied the tall Slytherin. He was out of that trance and the whatever which was guiding him was gone. Now, the worst was coming.

Arabella Stood up shocked at the Slytherin who grabbed Laura. What in the world is going on? Arabella rushed to the door unsure of what to do, She hated people bullying others. It absolutely killed her to see people get hurt by their peers, well anyone for that matter, But what could she do? She couldn't stand up to these kids with the ability to control their magic, she had learned a bit from her brother but not enough to protect her. Then Cal stepped into the fray and Arabella's eyes got wide. "No, Please don't Cal. Don't do it." She whispered to herself knowing full well Cal couldn't hear her but she willed him to any way.

"Oi! Leave her alone!" Arabella's heart fell, How were they supposed to stop them. Without any notice Laura came flying at her. With eyes wide Arabella Attempted to move out of her way but tripped and was hit out of the compartment by the slytherin girl, smack in the center of the group of older kids next to Cal. Enraged Arabella Pulled her wand out of her pocket and stood shoulder to shoulder with Cal. She saw him looking at her with an expression she could only describe as determination, Arabella returned his look with one of her own. "I'm ready whenever you are." She said just loud enough for Cal to hear but not loud enough for the group of slytherin kids to hear.

With a look of pure determination she moved her gaze from Callum's to the slytherin's, searching their faces for one she recognized. Her older brother, Xander, had been sorted into slytherin and been reprimanded several times for the deliberate harming of fellow students. She hoped beyond hope that he wasn't there. She took a good look at two of the slytherin boys, weight being lifted from her heart just a bit as neither of them were her brother. As she moved her gaze to the third boy her heart felt as though it had just dove into the deepest depths of the ocean, frozen. She was hurt beyond belief and took a deep breath to hold back the tears that she knew she would later spill. The one person whom she had known as good had just proved her wrong. Her hurt turned into anger and her fuse snapped. Screw being younger, she would never let them get away with what they had just done.

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"Well, if none of you are going to start it, we will." Charlotte looked at Xander, who would take Ara, and at another, named Michael, who would take Cal. Michael stepped forward, wand already pointed at Cal, ready to strike. Cal had almost no time to think, before Michael shot a spell at him. With no incantation, Cal didn't know what to expect, so he just tried to block. Cal waved his wand in a circle motion, and barely deflected the spell, having it knock him down, but he quickly got back up, and returned one back to Michael. "Expelliarmus!" Cal's spells were weak, and barely worked, so Michael was able to deflect them.

After Cal was done with his barrage, Michael struck back. "Everte Statum!" Cal was sent flying back to the other end of the train car. Rubbing the back of his head, he got up. His muscles were sore from the impact on the back of the train car, but he managed to get up. "Expelliarmus!" Cal tried twice, but his spells fizzled and stopped midway. "Your just weak, and pathetic!" The rest of the Slytherins laughed. Driven with anger, Cal remembered what happened with his failed magic attemp in the car, if he could do it once, why not again? Callum ferociously thrashed his wand, and a bright, sparkling red light came out, catching Michael in the chest, and knocking him down on the ground, about ten feet from where the rest of his Slytherin crew were. Cal smiled, until he noticed the other Slytherin was coming for Ara.

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Arabella stared in utter rage and horror at her brother who was slowly advancing towards her. How could she fight her own brother? She stood her knuckles white as they gripped her wand. She took a step back as he got closer. "There's no where to run now." His smirk grew as he spat the words at her. With one final step she hit the wall beside her compartment door.

"How can you do this?" She stood up straighter against the wall, "How can you attack your own sister? What makes you think that anything your doing now will benefit you at all?"

"That's none of your concern Ara." He said calmly as he stuck his wand at her throat.

"Do you think that girl is really going to like you just because you beat up a stupid first year?" she saw his eyes narrow with anger. she gulped and the wand dug further into her throat making it harder for her to breath and speak, but despite it she continued. "Is that it? Cause if it is I guarantee you she's just using you to get more popular, the moment she gets what she wants it's bye bye Xander." Arabella took in shaky breath, that did not work as planned. She just succeeded in making him more angry. He shoved her away from the wall and yelled.

"Everte Statum!" Arabella gasped in terror as she was thrown against the wall.

Paul watched silently as all this went down until he noticed Xander shove Arabella against the wall. He know magic his magic was very weak, but he wasn't going to just let them bully people "Oi git" he said to Xander as he quickly walked up to him "What you think your hot stuff?" he said Sure he was younger, but he would be damned before he would let some one get away with hurting a girl, especially if that girl was unable to defend herself. Well Paul time to be a bloody hero he thought morbidly as he attempted to throw a punch at the boy.

Xander's face was still red with the white hot anger that was inside him. He was about to continue with Ara, but was interrupted by an annoying first year. As he threw the punch, Xander grabbed the punching fist, and made his grasp tighter, until the hand he was grasping turned white, and he returned a punch to the boys jaw, sending him sprawling backwards.

Xander turned back to Ara, to see her being helped up by Cal. Xander narrowed his eyes on them, and bellowed, "Vento Duo" a small, albeit powerful whirlwind, slammed them up onto the ceiling of the train. He then proceeded, by smashing them back on the floor, and as he did, Cal wrapped his arms around Ara, to protect her from the fall. Cal, struggling to get up himself, managed to help Ara up, then himself. Xander had another spell ready, but with a bright light, him, and all the other Slytherins were stopped in their tracks.

"Immobulus!" Laura stood, out of the compartment,, with her wand pointed in the vicinity of the Slytherins. She, and some other Ravenclaws, dragged them to a compartment with other Slytherin, and slammed the compartment door in their face. She had a confident smile on her face, as she skipped back to the compartment she was in previously.

Arabella was only vaguely aware of what was happening after she hit the wall. She saw one of the kids from Cal's compartment stand up to her brother and attempt to throw a punch at him, she would have to thank him later, given that he didn;t get knocked out by the punch that hit him for the attempt. The look of pure anger on her brother's face as he slammed her and Cal, who had thankfully come to help her, up to the ceiling and back to the ground was something she would never forget. Something she could never forgive. With Cal's help she stood and attempted to help him up as he stood up as well, just in time to see a group of hufflepuff's slam the Slytherins into a compartment. Ara let out a breath of relief and staggered to the wall to steady herself only to slide back down to the floor. She felt a tear fall down her cheek and took a shaky breath. Any anger towards her brother had faded away into pain, both mentally and physically.

"T-t-thank you Cal." She managed to stutter out the words before her throat closed up. "If you and the other guy hadn't of shown up I don't know how far my... my... brother would have gone..." she pulled her knees up to her chest and took a deep breath keeping her focus on his feet rather than his face. She refused to cry, and she knew the moment she looked up or any comforting gesture was made she would break. She could here the pounding of the slytherins on the door of the compartment they had been shoved and locked in, only slightly diluted by the sound of her own heat beat. She was entirely sure that anyone near by could hear it.

Shaking her thoughts from the group of Slytherin's she drew her mind back to Cal's feet. The event of him wrapping his arms around her as they fell flooded her mind and her brian fought with itself over wether she should blush or be concerned, it ended with utter sorrow from the events prior and Concern for Cal. "Cal, Are you okay?" She took another shaky breath, if he had gotten hurt because of her brother... she didn't know how much more she could hate him at this point. "D-did he hurt you?"

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Cal's mind was warped and twisted in so many ways. Her brother! That, was her brother?! What!? He cleared his mind of Arabella's brother, and put it just, on Arabella, who had a tear sliding down her face. He slowly, made his way over to Ara, still hazy from his head hitting the ground. He slid down next to Ara, his head spinning. He finally cleared up, just in time to hear her speak.

"Don't worry about me, I'm fine." Which was completely, untrue, but he didn't want to fuel the fire that she already had inside her. He put his hand up to her face, and wiped away the tear, that was still sliding down. Sitting there, he could feel revibratiin through his body. He didn't know if that was her heartbeat, or his.

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Arabella felt Cal sit next to her. "Don't worry about me, I'm fine." She doubted that he was telling the truth but she couldn't bring herself to face him. She couldn't get her brother's face out of her mind, just the fact that her brother would do something like that to anyone made her shrink in terror. She was torn away from her thoughts and was forced to face Cal when he wiped away the tear that had slid down her cheek earlier. She gasped, He was just as banged up as she was, if not worse. She choked on her own horror and tears, and found she could no longer keep herself together. tears flowed freely down her face.

"I am so sorry! I d-didn't th-think he was cap-capable of something so cruel. I..." She couldn't take it she turned away from him. Why would her own brother do something like this. What had they ever done to him. Not wanting to look like more of a wreck than she was before she started crying she hid her face. Ever since she was little, Xander had told her that crying in front of people was a weakness and the moment you did they would betray you and use it against you.
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When he wiped her tear away she had finally seen what really happened. A cut on his lip, a bruise on his forehead, and some more cuts and scrapes, but really, he was fine. It only hurt for a second, and then it was gone. The only thing was the lingering fuzziness in his head. He wiped off the first tear just fine, but this many tears, he couldn't wipe off simultaneously.

She stuttered as she spoke, choking on her tears, but he could make out what she said. "Ara, it's not your fault. I'm fine, really, I am." He tried to calm her, but it was clear it didn't work. He didn't really know what to do, so he put his arm around her, hoping it might do something.

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Hiroshi just stood in the apartment as everything unfolded in front of him. He stood in terror as he saw spells being thrown around, people slamming onto walls of the compartments, and punches being swung. Hiroshi heard stories of wizard duels, but never in his life had he thought it would be anything like this. Before he knew it, the battle had come to an end. And yet there Hiroshi was still standing there , dumb founded with what had just happened.

He scanned the damage of the aftermath of the duel. Cal was on the floor comforting the girl that had gotten flung, and Paul seemed to be doing ok as well recovering from the punch he had received.

Hiroshi couldn't believe that he just stood there and let this happen, he clenched on to his wand until his knuckles turned white. He took a deep breath and began to walk toward the compartments the other Slytherin students were thrown into.

Hiroshi got to the door and swung it open. He pointed his wands towards Michael and in the most confident tone he could muster

" You. Me. Now ."

Arabella fought against the tears but there was nothing she could do. She faintly heard Cal say something but couldn't hear over her own heartbeat, at least she thought it was just her's. She stiffened when his arm went around her. but within seconds she leaned into to him and took deep breaths to calm herself down. What had just happened was terrifying and horrific, but she couldn't hold onto it right now, she could deal with the emotions later. Now she had to find away to keep more people from getting hurt. Arabella managed to stop sobbing and let a few last tears fall down her face. With a deep breath she finally stopped her tears.

"Thank you Cal." She whispered as she turned to face him. She knew her cheek had been bruised and her lip was cut and now her face was streaked with tears but right now that didn't matter. She took another deep breath has one of the boys from Cal's compartment swung open the door to the compartment that held the slytherins, seemingly challenging the guy that Cal had been fighting. "Oh no..." Ara said under her breath and held it knowing that what was over for then had just been restarted.

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It was nice, having her so close to him. Their eyes in a lock, but it seemed Ara had noticed something. Cal looked in the direction, to see Hiro challenging the boy he just fought. "Damnit." he muttered. He didn't know what to do. It was Hiro's fight, but he knew Ara would breakdown if something happened.

In the car, Charlotte, Michael, and another boy, looked up at Hiro. Michael winced, as he tapped the burn where he was hit. "I don't know about know. But – when we get to school, ill make sure to kick your ass." The Slytherins chuckled, followed by a sharp slam of the door, and a locking spell.