Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Hogwarts: The Path of the Chosen Ones ❯ One Fateful Day ( Chapter 1 )

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Hogwarts: The Path of the Chosen Ones
Chapter 1
One Fateful Day

Brittney

I stood behind a whole line of people ready to get the newest Harry Potter book, “The Half-Blood Prince” that was coming out today. I was a major fan of the highly ranked book series and there was no way I was missing out on this one. My friends shared the same love for the series that I did and they would be so amazed to see that I was the first to get the book…well, me and my friend Daniel. We were best friends since forever and we always got the books together. “So, think this will be better than the other 5?” I asked as we moved upwards in the line. We were almost there. Daniel nodded and said, “Oh, hell yeah. Azkaban wasn’t really all that special anyhow.” I nodded as well and said, “I know this book will be worth it.” Finally we got to the register and paid for our books, my heart bursting with joy just from the sight of it. “Hell yeah!” Daniel said, quickly flipping through the pages of the large numerous paged book. I looked down at my watch and said, “We still have some time to make it to school before the bell rings. Let’s hurry.” We hurried to our high school and noticed a group of people waiting patiently. These were our friends and we always met in the morning. Daniel and I ran up to them and I said, “Hey, guys!”

Michael Wilson who was 15 smiled and said, “Hey, what’s up, Brit. Dan.” I lifted up my book and said, “We got the Half-Blood Prince.” My cousin Amber smiled, took a drink of her coffe and replied, “I have mine on reserve at the bookstore. Its gonna to be a week before Ehren and I get a copy.” I smiled and said, “Let’s go read some chapters in the cafeteria.” My friends nodded and we went into the cafeteria. We read a few chapters for a while then saw Andrew Deteau coming up to us. He was the oldest of all of us at 16. He was another one of our friends. “What are you all doing?” He asked looking at us with our noses in two books. “Just reading.” Daniel replied, still reading. “Harry Potter.” I added, turning a page. Silently with understanding, Andrew sat down and started reading beside Daniel.

I read for a while before glancing up at the clock to see what time it was. I frowned noticing that the hands were not working. I then glanced down to see what time it was on my watch. It wasn’t working either. “What the…?’ I whispered. I marked my book and asked, “Are any of your watches working, guys?” They looked up at me and then Amber gasped and said, ”Look!” We all turned and what we saw made our eyes widen in stunned awe.

Everybody was gone. The once full cafeteria was now completely empty. Michael stood up and said, “Where the hell did everyone go? I didn’t hear a bell ring.” My mind was completely clueless. I had no idea what was going on.

Daniel
I couldn’t believe it. Nobody was to be seen. As we stood there trying to figure things out, a large vibration shook the building. Then another one and another one. By now, we were either on the floor or trying to hold on to something for balance. “What the hell is that?” Andrew said, looking around and blinking. I shook my head saying, “I don’t know…it sounded like footsteps. Brittney’s worried eyes darted left and right as she asked, ”Footsteps? What the hell is capable of making footsteps that big?” Before we could say anything, her answer came walking through the cafeteria door.

Michael
We were now face to face with the biggest monster I had ever seen. It was thick and gray, standing on two feet. It had little strands of hair on its head and dark gray warts were all over his body. My eyes widened as well as everybody else and I yelled, “What the fuck?” “It’s a mountain troll!” I heard Andrew say behind me. We all recognized it as a being from Harry Potter. “But how?” Daniel asked. I shrugged. Suddenly, the troll looked this way and we jumped. “Now what?” Amber asked. I back up saying, “I don’t know…but I think we should hide, he’s coming this way!” Shit, and hide we did!

Amber
All 5 of us ran around frantically, hearing the mountain troll roaring behind us. I noticed Brittney and Daniel hiding under a table and decided to join them. I could feel the heavy footsteps behind me and just as I crawled over to them, felt a cold rough hand grab my ankle “AHHH!” I screamed in terror as I was lifted eye to eye level with the troll. By instinct, I hit him in the face screaming, “Let me go!” The troll grunted in pain, then in retaliation, shook me ferociously. ‘That didn’t work.’ I thought to myself as I noticed Britt and Daniel rushing out from under the table. “Help me, guys! Please!” I yelled helplessly. “Hold on!” Brittney yelled back. Daniel looked furious. “Drop her!” He yelled at the troll. Then something strange happened. Daniel’s eyes began to glow a red color, almost scarlet red and he lifted his hand. Then to our surprise, fire came out it and hit the troll head-on in his face, as a result, making him drop me to the ground brutally.

Daniel
I looked down at my hands. Did I just do that? I touched the one that I used and winced. It was scorching. So it must have happened. “Brit, did you see that?” I asked incredulously. She nodded with the same astonished look I had and said, “I’m going to check on Andi and Mike.” As Amber scrambled towards me, Brittney went the other direction, going to the corner were Andrew and Michael were stationed at. I stared at my hands again, then looked up at the troll. It had quit rubbing his eyes and I noticed his eye gaze following Brittney. To my horror, it started after her. Amber gasped and I yelled, “Brit! Watch out!” I could only hope that she turned around in time.

Brittney
When I heard Daniel yell at me, I turned around right in the path of the troll. “Shit!” I yelled, falling backwards to the ground. This was a nightmare. It had to be. ‘Wake up, Brittney! Wake up!’ I thought to myself. Little did I know, that while I was thinking this, the troll had decided to grab me. Then I heard Michael’s voice exclaim, “Brit! Look up! Hurry!” I did what he said and when I saw the hand reaching for me, put my hands up as a shield yelling, “NOOOO!” Just then I felt my whole body freeze up and then a bright blast of white-blue came out of my hands. It was ice. “Ice?” I asked myself in confusion. It hit the troll right in the middle of its chest. Then the ice started freezing his body into solid ice. “Wow.” I whispered. After the ice spread all over the mountain troll and covered it, he fell backwards and shattered into a million or so pieces. All 5 of us were breathing heavily and I slowly got up, looking at my hands. “Wow…did I? How did I do that?” Daniel moved off the table and came up towards me saying, “Holy shit, Brittney! That was amazing!” I nodded saying, “I can’t believe that came out of me!” We all watched as suddenly the icicles of troll just disappeared from right in front of our eyes.

I sighed and we blinked as a flash of light blinded us. When all became clear again, there were people everywhere. Dazed, we slowly walked back to our table where our books were waiting. We sat down in silence. People walked around and were talking as if everything were normal. We looked at each other and Michael gulped then asked, “Guys, did that …really just happen?” In answer, Daniel reached out and touched Amber’s now lukewarm cup of coffee with his finger and in that instant the coffee was steaming. Then I held in my hands hesitantly, blew on it and it came out as ice.
“Uh guys…this is bad.” Michael said.

We all nodded as the bell finally rang.