Hogwarts Unity and the Protective Sisters

Chapter Twenty-One - Fluffy

The morning after the sleepover the ravenette was the first to wake from her group of friends. Richelle smiles at the trio beside her after recalling all three comforting her last night when she told them about her life with her muggle family. She stretches and eventually gets out of the bed to go change into her school robes. Once she finished she came back into the room to see the young Slytherin was awake.

"Good morning Guin," Richelle tells her friend.

"Morning Riles. I'm going to change into my robes. Mind waking those two? We can't be late for Charms." Guin responds as she grabs her robes and heads to the bathroom.

"Sure!" Richelle chirps. The redhead smiles at her friend and shuts the bathroom door behind her. Richelle walks to her friends and shakes both of them until they wake up.

"Good morning you two! Time to wake up!" Richelle chirps at the two girls that were half awake.

"Five more minutes," Rosabelle grumbles into a pillow. Susan slowly gets out of the bed and grabs her robes and goes into the bathroom once Guinevere exits the room.

"We stayed up way too late last night," Rosabelle claims as she stretches.

"Yea, but we got to know one another better, so it was all worth it in the end," Guinevere pipes up as she finishes the braid in her hair.

"Yea. Let me get changed and then we can grab breakfast before class," Rosabelle tells the girls as she goes to the bathroom. The girls patiently wait for the Ravenclaw and fifteen minutes later they set off for the Great Hall for breakfast. All four eat quickly and set off. They wanted to explore the castle before class a little bit, so they decided to take a few snacks as they roamed the halls. As they walked, Richelle suddenly remembered something that she had wanted to ask last night.

"Will you three dress up for Halloween this year?" The other three girls look at her oddly.

"Dress up?" Guinevere states.

"Yea! Don't you dress up for Halloween?" She questions them again.

"Why would we dress up?" Rosabelle asks.

"I didn't know we had to," Susan says.

"Wait... you've never dressed up for Halloween?" Richelle looks at her friends and all of them shake their heads. "Well now you have to! Halloween is when you can dress up and be anything you want!"

"So I could be a princess then?" Susan quietly asks. Richelle nods her head and resists the urge to coo at the sweet Hufflepuff.

"I've always wanted to be an angel," Rosabelle states.

"Well I'll be a demon then since we're practically opposites!" Guinevere retorts. "Wait, so what will you dress up as Riles?"

"I'm going to be Dracula!" She exclaims. The girls just smile and giggle. They expected no less from her, but they would have to make sure Dracula saw their costumes. The girls continued their walk and suddenly the staircase shifted. All four girls clutched on to the railing.

"What's going on?" Susan asks.

"The staircases move. We better get off of them before we get off track." Guinevere states.

"Let's go in here." Richelle says once the stairs come to a halt. The four girls walk into the dark corridor and look around.

"It's so dark in here." Rosabelle says.

"I don't think we're supposed to be here," Susan states as fear mixes in with her voice. A meow echoes in the hall and all four girls pivot around and see Mrs. Norris behind them. Richelle glares at the raggedy cat, but Guinevere had a different idea.

"I got you!" She exclaims as she swoops the cat up in her arms. Mrs. Norris meows in  protest as the young Slytherin holds her.

"What are you doing!?" Rosabelle silently yells at the excited red head.

"Hugging a cat. What's it look like I'm doing?"

"You should probably put her down. Mr. Filch will be angry with you." Susan tells her.

"He's not here now so it's fine. I've always wanted a cat too so I'm just going to hold on to her for a bit." Guinevere says. The three girls decide to not argue with the Slytherin and they walk down the hall. Mrs. Norris surprisingly didn't seem to mind being held by the young girl and actually purred most of the walk too, but once they got to a certain door she jumped from the girl's arms and took off.

"What was that all about?" Guinevere says. The four girls watch the cat run from view and then turn back at the door in front of them.

"I wonder what's behind the door that scared her off," Rosabelle quietly says.

"Let's find out!" Richelle claims and tugs on the door, only to see that it was locked. The ravenette grows frustrated and tugs harder. Guinevere motions for her to stand back. She grabs a few pins from her pocket and picks the lock open. The door opens with a click and all four file inside. As soon as they enter the room Susan passes out from fright.

"I think this is way Mrs. Norris ran away." Rosabelle shakily states. The other two girls were infatuated with the creature in front of them. A large gray, brown Cerberus was snoozing in front of them. Richelle gently reaches out to pet the head on the right and it shifts a bit in its sleep, but doesn't wake up. Guinevere decided to pet the beast as well and was considering setting the creature off in the castle. Taking a look at the door though, it didn't look like it would fit.

"Girls, lets go before it wakes up," Rosabelle says as she grabs Susan.

"But Ro," the two girls say in unison.

"We're going to be late for class. We can always come back later," she reasons with them. The two girls pat the creature one last time and leave the room and shut the door behind them.

"I wonder why that creature was in there," Richelle thought out loud as they made their way to class.

"Who knows. Oh welcome back to the land of consciousness Susy," Guinevere says to the Hufflepuff.

"What was that thing?" Susan asks.

"That creature was a Cerberus my dear Susy," Richelle tells her.

"And a fully grown one too," Guinevere pipes up as they come to the door of their Charms class. None of the girls were very awake yet, even after seeing the beast, but they made it in to the class anyways.