𝐃𝐄𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 / 𝘭. 𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦 & 𝘥. 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘧𝘰𝘺

𝐇 𝐎 𝐆 𝐖 𝐀 𝐑 𝐓 𝐒 𝐄 𝐗 𝐏 𝐑 𝐄 𝐒 𝐒

"This'll be fun," Onyx spits as she rather aggressively shoves her trunk into the over-head bin. Todays the first day of school, and we're boarding the Hogwarts Express. "Yup," I join in. "Nothing like a 9 hour train-ride with the people I oh-so adore the most."

"Ouch, Shanty. Your sarcasm stings, you know?" Lorenzo says as he places his hand to his heart. "First time seeing you in 2 months and you're already on my nerves." Onyx snaps.

We spent the first month of summer vacation at the Malfoy Manor with Draco, Lorenzo, and Blaise. The last two months we spent with our family's in Italy.

"How was your little girls trip by the way? Bring any gifts?" Blaise adds in. "It was great Blaise, thank you for asking, and yes we did. You'll get them when we get to school." I say. "Tell them about the cute boys!" Onyx exclaims.

"Cute boys?" Lorenzo repeats with his eyebrows furrowed. "Yeah. Me and Onny went into the city for lunch, and we met these boys in the restaurant. There names the Nicco and Rocco I think.."

"Hm..." Blaise hums. As I start to settle in, I take a good look over all my friends faces. Each of them with a different expression. Onyx: annoyance, Lorenzo: Confusion, Blaise: well, I don't even know what you call that. He looks mad and tired and happy all at once. And then Draco: who looks tired, sleep deprived, and anxious. He hasn't said a word to any of us since we got here. Not that I care, anyway. He's always been cold to me, yet i'm not sure why.

I've sort of gotten use to it, though his demeanor has changed. I don't know what it is, and I don't know why I care so much, but I just do.

Lost in my thoughts, I start to drift off to sleep. I feel Onyx laying my head on her shoulder as she gets comfortable to nap too. I'll figure out whatever's wrong with him when I wake up.

A good 6 and a half hours later, the sounds of panicking frightened teenagers wakes me up. As I get used to my surroundings, I realize what's going on. Some sort of black smoke fills in the hallway, slowly seeping into some of the compartments.

I hear a VERY annoyed Onyx next to me, muttering something about "Stupid first years" and " Probably the gingers back at it again"

The more the smoke rolls in, the harder it is to breathe. I see Lorenzo, Blaise, an Draco covering there noses with their shirts, as Onyx puts the blanket we where previously using to sleep, over our heads.

Even with all precaution we took, it's not enough. I start to cough, then Onyx, then Lorenzo, Draco, and Blaise.

"We- we gotta get out of here," Blaise stammers between coughs. "It's not any fucking better out there, Blaise!" I don't usually cuss, but I don't think now is the time for these stupid comments.

"Okay- alright, everybody calm down!" Lorenzo states with sudden dominance in his voice. "On 3, we make a run for it, alright? we'll get to the Ravenclaw section and find a seat there."

We grab our stuff from the over-head bins, and do what he says. make a run for it.

Opening the door to our compartment, and the only thing you hear is the rest of the people on our side wheezing and gasping for air. Who'd do such a.. sick thing? For what reason? Cause we're Slytherins?

The fog starts to thin as we approach the door to our section. Lorenzos in the front of the line, mumbling some-what reassuring little nothings to us all.

Onyx grabs my arm and pushes me up towards her, Draco, and Blaise. I didn't realize I was falling behind. Draco very roughly grabs my arm saying something like "cmon palazzo, you don't wanna die do you?" under his breath. DIE? Hell, I know this fog is dangerous but it can't be THAT bad, can it?

Lorenzo shoves the door open, and we all trail out into the Ravenclaws section. Finally able to breathe, we drop our shirts from where they previously where (covering our noses) and look for an empty compartment to sit.

"What do you think all that was?" Onyx says, breaking the silence. Before all you could hear was the heavy panting of the group.

As we make our way into a new compartment, Draco speaks up. "My father had me studying all this weird dumb shit over the summer," He says. "That fog, it was in a book I read.. I don't remember what it was called, some sort of evaporated poison. It most definitely can be lethal."

"So someone was trying to kill us? Hell, trying to kill someone is one thing, but poisoning a whole section? What kind of hatred do you need to have for someone in order to do that.."

The rest of the ride is spent by us trying to figure out what the hell happened. If it was an accident, not an accident, if it was a murder attempt, a prank gone wrong.. who knows..

Our conversation comes to an end as we approach hogsmeade village. As we step off the train, we see Harry, Hermione, and Ron rush up to Hagrid, who's supposed to be taking us up to the the carriages.

"It was probably them who did it," Draco states. "You can't blame everything on them just cause you don't like them, Malfoy." Lorenzo adds. Draco rolls his eyes as we get on the carriage.

"Haven't even gotten to the school and this year has already gone to shit," I mutter under my breath as the thestreals pull us off away to the school.