On Eagles Wings

 

Mark woke up the next morning with a thick layer or sleep covering his eyes. He prised them open with extra effort and realized that he wasn’t the first up. Sam it appeared had indeed been up a while ago and his bed was carefully made, Cicero also was not there, Jex however was and was snoring loudly.
 
“Wake up!" said Mark prodding the half-human in the sides. “Its half past seven, we need to go get some breakfast!”
 
“Nursewadada…no biscuits for me auntie!" said Jex before continuing to snore. Mark wondered if there were any spells to wake people up, he opted for prodding again.
 
“Waaaa?" said Jex his orange eyes opening. “Waaa u wan?”
 
“Its time to get breakfast!" said Mark stifling a laugh at Jex’s ear, which had peeled itself back against his head.
 
“Erm ok OK gimme a minute!”
 
Mark waited as Jex ran to the showers and came back completely dry.
 
“Drying spell?" said Mark curious.
 
“Vital with hair like this!" said Jex pointing to his long white hair. Mark grinned and nodded.
 
“Come on then!” So they left, in the common room they found a half-asleep Nellie waiting for them.
 
“I thought you were going to the library with Sam!" said Mark.
 
“Well that was the theory, but an extra few minutes proved to be too big a temptation!” replied Nellie groggily.
 
“We’re off to breakfast you coming?" said Jex apparently now fully awake.
 
“Yeah sure, I need coffee!”
 
So they left the common room, the Knight waved to them as they left and they proceeded towards the great hall…where a large jar turned itself over onto Mark.
 
“What the?" said Mark, his muffled voice from inside the jar.
 
“Mwahahahahahahahahaha hello ickle firsties!" said a figure with a wicked grin and a yellow bowtie.
 
“Who and what the hell are you?" said Jex.
 
“What the hell am I? What the hell are you?" said the figure.
 
“That would be Peeves!" said Krow turning up behind them. “He’s the school poltergeist!” He lifted the jar from over Mark.
 
“Thanks!" said a grateful Mark.
 
“Beat it Peeves!" said Krow.
 
“Nah I think I wanna talk to the freak boy some more!" said Peeves looking mischievously at Jex. Jex grinned.
 
“Mobilispectros!" said the half-human, a look of utter horror crossed Peeves face as he flew through the wall away from them.
 
“Impressive magic there!" said Krow to Jex.
 
“I’m half sylph we learn these things! Besides we had a ghost in the shop, she annoyed the hell outa me so dad taught me that spell to get rid of her!”
 
Krow laughed.
 
“Come on I’ll escort you to breakfast!”
 
They eventually reached the great hall where Jex’s unnatural grin doubled in size and a similar one materialised on Mark’s face. The tables were covered in breakfast foods, from crisp bacon and sausages to porridge. Nellie was simply overjoyed at the massive pot of coffee that sat there. They sat down next to Cicero and Storm who had arrived there earlier.
 
“Morning!" said Mark as he sat down and helped himself to a few sausages.
 
“FOOD!" said Jex grinning, helping himself to everything he saw.
 
“Anyone see Sam?” asked Mark as he bit into a heavily buttered slice of toast.
 
“No I think he was up at the crack of dawn, he’s probably in the library now!" said Cicero whilst chewing on a sausage.
 
“I’ll see if I can find him after breakfast!" said Mark. He stopped suddenly, there was a sound of flapping and he stared up to see all ceiling filling with hundreds of owls each with various packages attached to them. Mark spied Hecate flying towards him; she landed on his shoulder and held out her leg. It had a letter tied to it. He fed Hecate a piece of bacon and she nibbled his ear happily hooting at the successful delivery of her first letter. Next to Mark a golden owl landed on Jex’s shoulder, where it shimmered for a minute and then against all odds turned into a hedgehog.
 
“Midget!” exclaimed Jex. “What are you doing here?” The hedgehog nuzzled Jex’s cat like ears affectionately.
 
“That’s a hedgehog!" said a confused Storm. “Why was it an owl?”
 
“Dad enchants him!" said Jex as though this were normal. “When midget flies long distances he turns into an owl, it because of this!” He pointed to Midget’s collar, which shimmered slightly.
 
“So erm how come your hedgehog can fly?” continued an utterly bewildered Storm.
 
“Well he’s magic isn’t he!”
 
“Oh!" said Storm realizing that that was the obvious answer.
 
Mark grinned and turned his attention back to the letter, he instantly recognised his Dad’s handwriting. He opened it.
 
Hello Son!
Enjoying your day at Hogwarts? How is school met any friends?
Your mother sends her love and says if you have any problems she’ll be there in an instant. We’re not sure how much weight this owl can carry so we’re keeping this letter brief; we bought a wizarding newspaper subscription courtesy of your friend Justin’s father who we spoke to afterwards. It’s amazing the pictures move and everything!
Well I’m going to leave the letter there now!
Hope your well and speak to you soon, oh your brothers say hi.
 
Love Dad, Mum, John and Andy.
 
He smiled at the letter and scrawled a quick reply on the back saying he was fine and had made several friends and would write him a longer letter when he had the time. He watched as various people received various letters, he was secretly glad to see that Deus didn’t receive any letters. He looked up to the staff table and saw that Snape had returned, an odd looking man with sallow skin and greasy shoulder length black hair. Snape glared past them his evil looking glare directed at a boy with scruffy black hair and glasses, the famous Harry Potter Mark recalled.
 
“When are we going to go look for Sam then?” asked Nellie through her bowl of coffee. Mark had almost forgotten they had been down at breakfast for half and hour and their lesson would begin in another forty-five minutes.
 
“We’d better go now I think!" said Mark gloomily.
 
“But there’s more food!" said Jex looking at the black pudding with a lustful glint in his eye.
 
“There’ll be more at lunchtime!" said Storm laughing. “But I agree we’d best go find Sam it’s not nice to be ignored on your first day!”
 
So they set off towards the library in search of their friend. They passed the usual suits of armour and a disgruntled Peeves until they came to the library. They soon spied Sam sat there with an enormous pile of charms books reading away, but he was also sat with two brown haired girls. One of the seemed to be trying to look mysterious while reading a charms book, the other who could only be described as small and sprightly was energetically jotting down spell words with a ridiculous grin on her face.
 
“Morning Sam!" said Mark as they approached the table.
 
“Ah so you did decide to join us then!" said Sam grinning, he beckoned them all to sit down and they did, a couple of them grabbed some of the disused charms books from the table and began thumbing through. Mart turned his attentions to the two girls.
 
“Hello!” he said. “I’m Mark!”
 
“Morgana!" said the sprightly girl quickly. “Morgana Corby!” Mark grinned and turned his attention to the girl feigning a mysterious stance. She looked like one of those vampires in Dracula films except not as pale and without the fangs.
 
“Angelina!” She said in an airy voice. “Angelina Mithrandiel!”
 
“Oh sounds like something from "Lord of the Rings"?" said Mark stupidly.
 
“Lord of the what?”
 
“Muggle book sorry!”
 
“Oh you’re muggle-born! I suppose this must all be new and exciting for you!" said Morgana with a grin the size of Jex’s ears.
 
“Well yeah I have to admit it is new and amazing, I mean..” A grin spread across his face. “I can do magic!”
 
“We’ll see about that!" said a familiar mocking tone from behind them.
 
“Who in Merlin’s name are you?" said Angelina.
 
“Xander Deus!" said Deus with a malicious grin, Dagrak as normal, who appeared to be talking to his wand, followed him along with a Slytherin girl who Mark remembered was called Candice. “I’m not sure that muggles can do magic I think its just a joke!”
 
“If he cant do magic then he wouldn’t be here!" said Morgana irritably. “Why is it that Slytherins all feel that everything depends on who your parents are…is it that there’s nothing interesting about you?”
 
Deus gave her a glare, Dagrak continued talking to his wand and Candice stuck out her tongue pathetically.
 
“Deus…I know that name!" said Angelina. “Your father was working for you know who and got arrested didn’t he!”
 
Deus glare turned into a look that would, if looks could kill, have turned Angelina into a bloody stain on the wall.
 
“Don’t you ever speak about my father!" said Deus his head now next to hers. “If you mention him again I’ll hex you so hard you’d forget your name!”
 
“She’s Angelina!" said Dagrak stupidly obviously having paid no attention whatsoever to Deus’s attempt to look menacing.
 
“Why do I surround myself with idiots?” said Deus sarcastically.
 
“Candice is not an idiot!" said Dagrak with a lopsided smile and his patented vacant stare.
 
“Oh I wasn’t talking about her!”
 
“You mean you have another friend wearing an invisibility cloak?" said an amazed Dagrak as he started poking the air around him. “Where?”
 
Deus shook his head and without glancing at the Ravenclaws set off for whatever lesson he had next. Dagrak followed, though apparently only because he had nothing better to do and Candice stuck out her tongue again and left.
 
“Do you think he can come up with any better insults then to tell me my muggle lineage is stupid?" said Mark no longer particularly bothered by Deus’s attempts at insults.
 
“Nah, Slytherins have ambition but the brains are reserved for us!" said Nellie smiling while looking up from a book entitled Charming Ways To Charm Someone.
 
“Come on then we’d better get going to charms!" said Jex looking bored and refusing to pick up a book.
 
They left and headed towards the class.