basically hogwarts//legacies

chapter three ;

octavia's pov
us students begin to hold each other's hands as Dorian starts his lecture, "alright gather together. Chain spells are about the fluid moment of energy from witch to witch." Dorian pauses, "where's penelope park?" Penelope Park, aka my siblings worst nightmare. Penelope and Josie dated, it didn't turn out well. Lizzie takes pride into her suffering.
"Um.. lady cramps, Mr. Williams." Lizzie smiles up at him.
"Sorry I asked." Dorian sighs, "A disharmonious group makes for an uneven flow." Tavia look to Lizzie and Josie holding in my laughter in turn they all end up a giggling mess of teenagers, except Hope.
"Okay.." Dorian sighs once more as a letter drops down from the sky.
"Uh-oh who's in trouble with the headmaster?" Josie question as Octavia looks at Hope. "Probably the people who started a rumble with the local high-school." Hope answers emotionless, earning a glare from the triplets.
"Lizzie Saltzman, Josie Saltzman and Tavia Saltzman and baby makes four, off you go" Dorian says sassily, "ok jeez Dorian way to be sassy."She jokes earning a glare from her teacher.

     "This makes no sense Dad! Why are we being punished?" Lizzie expresses.
"Because you started a brawl at a charity football game that risked exposing what we really do here." Alaric scolds her daughters.
"Well you weren't mad last night." Lizzie frowns.
"I was mad last night. My undying love for my daughters just happened to trump my rage. I volunteered everyone in the game so stop complaining." Alaric explains.
"To be fair, i was sticking up for my girl Lizzie like the good sister I am!"
"And they say women are difficult.." Tavia mumbles.
"You're lucky it's just community service and not actual jail time."Alaric sighs. Octavia rolls her eyes but inevitably knew he was right.
"Can I at least offer a rebuttal in my defense, if it pleases the court?" Alaric gestures for Lizzie to continue with an amused look. "First of all, i was provoked. My response was totally proportional considering the levels of abuse I was forced to endure." Tavia scoffs a bit. "Secondly.. if anyone should take the blame, it's Josie." Lizzie says quickly throwing her sister under the bus. "What?" Josie and I quickly question.
"I'm sorry. I totally cracked under cross but if you had just let Kaleb catch the ball.." Lizzie starts.
"You'd still be in trouble" Alaric starts. "But nice job throwing your sister under the bus." Hope muses. "Thank you, Hope." Josie says with a hurtful glint in her eyes.
"Why is Hope here again?" Tavia questions to herself.
"Speaking of the bus leaves in ten minutes and I expect all four of you to be in it, working together today, harmoniously and without drama. End of debate." Alaric demands.
"I wasn't even at the game. Why am I being punished?" Hope asks.
"You know what you did." Alaric answers the tribrid softly.
"All right, now, go, all of you. Come on." Alaric says, Tavia sighs walking out the doors with Josie.
"What did Hope do, do you know?"Tavia asks Josie but got no response.
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"So what'd you do? My dad never gets mad at you. You're the prodigal daughter. Must have been juicy." Lizzie prods the red haired girl earning a nudge from Tavia.
"Sorry, no time for girl talk. Public service awaits." Hope answers annoyed.
"All right, listen up. It's a beautiful day. You got options: litter, weeds, graffiti. Your choice." Dorian states handing Kaleb a tool. "It's bad enough we get punished while the humans get a pass, there ain't no way in hell I'm picking up their garbage." Kaleb says handing Lizzie the garbage tool. "Uh, I don't do trash either." She says holding her hands up.
"Grow up." Tavia groans.
"I love trash, as of this moment." Hope grabs it walking away.
"Perf. It suits you." Lizzie fake smiles, "looks like we're scrubbing paint today." Lizzie says looking towards her sisters.
"Dad told us to work together, okay, harmoniously." Josie answers.
"Yeah and he also said without drama, and I am feeling a rage attack coming on, so I will be remaining drama-free over by that wall of graffiti." Lizzie points. "Are you coming or not?"
"I don't know Lizzie, is there another bus you want to throw me under?" Josie answers walking towards Hope.
"Fine, daddy's girls. Anyone else?" Lizzie asks and then people started moving around.
"Tavia?" Hope questions the girl but only receives a guilty glance back.
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Octavia sighs at the graffiti on the window, "You've got to be kidding me."
"Come on, MG, any slower and you'd be going in reverse." Lizzie sighs, Octavia nodding in agreement. "Look, I'm doing the best I can without vamping in public." MG retorts.
"That's plain pitiful, bruh." Kaleb sighs, earning a glare from the two Saltzman witches.
"Well at least he's trying." Lizzie sassily remarks back. "We don't see you pitching in." Octavia finishes off, helping MG scrub off "Salvatore is 4 loosers".
"Cause this whole things wack. What, we get punished for wanting to win a game fair and square?" Kaleb snickers.
"It's wasn't fair. We're supernatural they're human." Octavia nods in agreement, "I can break a bone with my mind."
"And LeBrons maybe the best player ever. Should he quit scoring? Cause no one on the court can check him." Kaleb answers, "We're faster, We're stronger. We're better. And we got nothing to apologize for. Nothing." Before any of the group could react the group of townies come walking up full of laughter.
"Hypothetical question.." Conner starts. "Great." Kaleb and Octavia sigh. "How bad would it suck if whoever did this graffiti just came back tonight and put it right back up again?" Octavia stands up to join her sister, arms crossed.
"Well, whoever it is, I hope he improves his spelling." Lizzie smiles, Kaleb sniggering.
"Hey, MG." Dana smiles.
"Dana. What's good." Octavia looks at MG with 'wtf' written all over, it was clear MG likes Lizzie, it was no mystery.
"Uh, he's busy, Dana."
"Um, he can speak for himself, Saltzman." Dana mocks.
"Ooh you lil-" Octavia starts before being pulled back by Kara.
"You know what, I was just getting ready to grab a break." MG explains to devil incarnate.
"Mm." Dana hums.
"MG.." The sisters question in unison, all of a sudden Octavia felt coldness cover her head, Dana dumped her milkshake all over her as to Conners all over Lizzie's chest. "You bitch!"
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Lizzie and Octavia angrily walk past the Primary Class which had Tavia's personal favorite, Pedro and gardening. "Hey.. Lizzie- Tav.. you uh—"
"Choose your next words very wisely Pedro." Lizzie storms off.
"Bye Pedro!" Octavia smiles walking with her sister and into the school. Following Lizzie into their fathers office.
"A jerk. You are a total jerk." Lizzie says opening and closing the door, "What happened to you?" Alaric asks his daughters.
"A Neanderthal from Mystic Fall High assaulted us with a milkshake," Octavia sitar is "this stupid girl Dana was being— you know what? I can't even talk about it. But now Hope and Josie are all sisters in solidarity. But as I was walking home, I did the work and I dug deep, and we- I realized it's all his fault." Lizzie pointed.
"How is this my fault?" Alaric asks flabbergasted.
"Because if you had just been at that game instead of running around with Hope, then everything could've gone differently. And it's not fair that she gets to know secrets that your own daughters don't." Lizzie tears up, earning a nod from Octavia. "She's got a point." Emma agrees.
"Not helping."
"We are not going back there." Lizzie head-strongly responds.
"Okay, that's fine, why don't you help out the primary school students out in the garden. I know you love the garden Octavia." Alaric nods to his girls.
"At least now you know why I am so screwed up." Lizzie tells Emma before walking out. Alaric looks to Octavia who just raises her hands, "Don't worry, you don't have to deal with me at least for now. But hey good luck with my g Emma!" Tavia fake smiles walking out too and upstairs.
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When Octavia finally gets all of the milkshake out of her hair, she barely makes it out of the main room before Lizzie and Pedro run in along with a scary looking gargoyle, Octavia immediately touches the counter as Lizzie grabs Pedro's hand. "Now, find my dad go!" Lizzie yells, Pedro pauses looking at Tavia, "Go Pedro!"Octavia yells running to her sister. He nods running to find Alaric. "Imperium monstrum." The sisters chant, the gargoyle lunging at Octavia, but Lizzie jumps in-front of her to block it, falling on top of Octavia hitting her head and falling into unconsciousness.
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Stirring awake, Octavia makes out the figures of Josie and Hope, "Octavia? Oh my- come on get up!" Hope helps up the girl. "Where's Lizzie? Somethings wrong." Josie says quickly. "I don't know- okay uh.. a gargoyle.. Lizzie jumps in front of me and that's all I remember.." Octavia shakes her head. Octavia decides to stay with Hope, her mind still a little foggy.
"What are you doing here?" Alaric questions making the two jump out of their skin.
"Oh, my god." The two mutter turning around. "You scared me." Hope sighs.
Dorian was supposed to keep you away."
"He tried dad, he lost." Octavia adds pointing out to obvious. Oh yeah btw i was totally not unconscious on the floor where you left me or anything hahah.
"Here, killing Gargoyles 101. He thought you could translate it." Hope hands Alaric the book.
"Gaulish. Son of a..." Alaric frowns.
"So are we on our own, or did the Gauls provide clear instructions?" Hope asks hurriedly.
"In a nutshell it says hit it hard, repeat as needed." Alaric says.
"That's help-" Octavia is interrupted by the gargoyles roar.
"Is that-"
"holy shit balls." Octavia gasps.
"Yeah. Holy shit balls." Alaric stops, "listen, it poisoned Lizzie. I'm guessing to get my attention and then it took the knife."
"The knife? The dragon knife?" Hope asks dumbfounded.
"What?" Octavia asks confused.
"And your still breathing?" Hope asks again.
"I have a theory about that."
"Well, save it," Octavia cuts hope off, "We had to put up that containment spell which Hope and Josie took off of the school to get in, meaning our monster can get out." Octavia breaths in.
"A containment spell? Lizzie wanted to make sure whatever attacked her didn't escape into the world. Good girl." Alaric said pride in his voice as he walks over to the armor thing. "Yeah me too, but thanks." Octavia mutters. "Alright I guess we better find it... before it makes the evening news. So how'd you take the containment spell down?" Alaric asks.
"Hope didn't. I did." Josie muses walking to her dad and grabbing the weapon. "And I have questions."
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Josie, Hope, Alaric And Octavia walk down the hall to where Emma had the kids and Lizzie.
"Emma?" Alaric questions. Emma gets up and opens the sliding door. Emma hushes us as the gargoyle approaches from behind, gargoyle flies towards us. Octavia quickly pushes Hope out of the way, close to being stabbed but Alaric runs up, "No!"
"Dad!" Josie and Octavia yell out, but the gargoyle doesn't stab him. Josie runs from behind the creature and hits him in the head, which the gargoyle turns to Josie angry. "Not my sister bitch!" Octavia yells out as her and Alaric hit the gargoyle hard once again. "Fluctuate Inpulsa" Hope yells out flinging the knife away. "Josie, O, help me!"
"How?"
"Just repeat after me." Hope answers.
The three begin holding hands chanting, "Fluctus inpulsa." The two Saltzman twins join in, the gargoyle starts to shake until it breaks into millions of different pieces.
"Nice job." Hope smiles.
"How could you jump in front of her like that?" Josie starts about Hope. "You could have died, dad." Josie continues.
"Honey, I knew it wouldn't kill me, because my research said so." Josie walks off to Lizzie in tears.
"You keep doing this to them, us. I get that Hope has no one right now but we feel the same way. We don't have any parents, moms gone all the time. You're always out with Hope. It hurts. I bet you didn't even notice me laying unconscious all alone while a dangerous gargoyle was out and about." Octavia concludes handing Hope the weapon she was holding and stalks off towards her sisters.
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"If you'd ask me a week ago, I would have told you I knew the difference between myth and fact. That supernaturals were limited to the species under this roof. I would have said that folklore and fairy tales were just stories. But I can no longer say that's true. Cause just a few days ago, we were confronted by the existence of a dragon." Students begin whispering amongst themselves but Alaric continues, "and then today, our campus was terrorized by a gargoyle come to life." Octavia holds onto Lizzie's hand a little bit harder. "Some of us were forced to fight. We won. This time. They were drawn here by a knife that went missing earlier this week. And for whatever reasons these creatures consider us the enemy. In their minds, we're the villains because we won't give them what they want. We don't even know why they want it. But we're going to find out." Alaric pauses. "I can't say for sure what their real intentions are, I can't say there won't be even more attacks. That's why I'm telling you this. To warn you. To ask you to look out for each other. To do what's best for one another. Because we're more than just a school. We're a family. And we will stand together we will fight together and we will win or loose this battle together, no matter what comes next."
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this chapter was so so long, I rewrote it a couple of times, it was so stressful. but here it is I hope it isnt too terrible. I'm trying to find a way to incorporate Kara more, it's just difficult sometimes.