Legacy Of The Doomed

My shot

Nervously Alex walked up and down the front doors. He couldn't even say for how long he had been waiting out there for now but he knew that it was too long. Sometimes he could hear roars or loud clapping from the castle which made him wonder what was going on in there. The Sorting Ceremony, of course. He had never been more excited in his entire life and never so calm at the same time. God, was this even possible? Apparently, yes.

Alex knew that it was very important to find out which house he belonged to since it would define him for the rest of his life. Was he a scholar or a warrior? On the one hand he hated to be defined by some enchanted carvings but on the other he was happy that he wouldn't have to decide for himself where he belonged to.

Even more nervous he was about the wand thing. What if he wouldn't find his wand? He had never worked with one before and maybe he was too old to learn how to. Alex shook his head. Stop. You already sound like Aaron. With a small sigh he looked up at the two marble statues that flanked the front doors. He knew that the female one portrayed Isolt Sayre. Please help me, he prayed. It was a little scary to be alone with the two pairs of eyes staring down at him although he would never admit it.

After all airships had landed and all students had disappeared through the big doors Professor Washington had come by and talked to them about what they would have to do. Aaron had been allowed to go inside and watch the newcomers from the balcony together with the others. Meanwhile Alex had to wait outside for the first years to finish their ceremony. When he had asked the Professor why he couldn't go in with the others he had said that if he didn't want to have the same classes with them they shouldn't share the same ceremony as well. So Alex had to watch the kids walk in before him and was now almost dying from waiting too long. Suddenly a loud voice boomed over the slowly dying clapping he could hear even from outside.

"Okay, okay if you all could please remain silent for another second?" Alex recognized Professor Washington's voice. He pressed his ear to the wooden door to hear better.

"As some of you might already know, thanks to our lovely paintings, we have a new student from the Caribbean. He'll start in year six although he didn't even know about magic until yesterday so please help him when he has questions."

Alex gasped and had to hold himself back to not burst into the hall and explain to everyone that he in fact could do magic just as good as everyone else, just not with a wand, and that this didn't make him more stupid than the other kids. He sure as hell didn't need any help!

"We'll have another sorting ceremony today and I hope whichever house he will be sorted in will help him through this year", Professor Washington ended his little speech. So, Alex had been announced by the headmaster, now he should step into the hall and stand on the Gordian Knot where the carvings would choose his house, just as they had agreed on. But he was angry. Very angry. Why does everybody underestimate me?

As Alex thought this a loud slam pierced through the silence and the front doors flew open with so much power that they bounced back from the wall. Not again! Slowly he stepped into the quiet hall. Hundreds of faces where watching him from the balcony, some of them were looking just as surprised as Alex himself, others frightened but most of them were just shocked. Professor Washington shook his head with closed eyes as if he had almost excepted something like this to happen. In the contrary to Alex who couldn't understand why he just had done this.

He searched for Aaron but couldn't find him between all the other students so he decided for once to do what he had been told and stepped onto the Gordian Knot.