Out of The Shadows (Golden Trio Era) {1}

The Hogwarts Express

"The ticket says Platform Nine and Three Quarters, dear." Mr. O'Brien tells his wife what is displayed on the ticket. The O'Brien arrived at Kings Cross at 10:50am, giving them ten minutes to get on the platform and then the train. They briskly walk through the station, to the platforms 9 and 10. "Right Avery, you're with me." Mrs. O'Brien walks her daughter into the wall, where they disappeared. "Come on, Mikayla." Mr. O'Brien guides his daughter through the wall. They rush to the end of the train, where there may be some empty seats. Avery and Enya were waiting for the rest of their family at the last door of the train. They get all their stuff onto the train with 3 minutes to spare, "Goodbye Dad." Avery smiled giving her father a hug. "Goodbye Father." Mikayla smile before turning to her mother "Goodbye Mammy." They chorus giving her a hug, Mikayla grip was slightly tighter around her mother. "Ok, go find seats" Fergal tells them. They look around and there's only room with two boys. Avery knocks on the compartment door before sliding it open.

"Can we join you? The other compartments are full." She speaks in a smoother tone than usual. "Yeah, go ahead." The dark haired boy speaks. Avery sits by the window across from the dark haired boy, Mikayla sits near the compartment door across from a red headed boy. "My name is Avery O'Brien, this is my sister Mikayla." Avery introduced them, Mikayla is rather shy, but she knows she needs to make friends. "Hello." her voice quiet but kind. "I'm Ron Weasley." The red head informs the girls, he holds out his hand, Mikayla shakes it first with a smile. "I'm Harry Potter." Avery gasped but Mikayla just smiled at the boy. Mikayla stretched out her hand and shook Harry's. "Do you have the scar?" Avery asks, "Avery, you're being insensitive." Mikayla glares at her sister. "Yeah, I do." Harry lifts up his fringe. "Cool." Mikayla spots a rat in Ron's hand. "Who's this little guy?" she asks in a higher pitched voice. "Scabbers, he used be my older brother Percy's before he became Prefect." Mikayla smiles as the rat sniffs her fingers. "Wait, are you Arthur Weasley's son?" Avery asks in a bold tone. "Yeah, one of them at least." Ron says in a rather sad tone, "I'm the sixth to go to Hogwarts." Mikayla immediately knew why Ron was quite melancholy, Mikayla knew being in one person's shadow was hard enough, never mind five. Ron lists out the achievements of his brothers and the stuff that was handed down to him from them. Avery nose was scrunched looking at the rat. The topic stayed on family as Harry tries to comfort Ron. Mikayla doesn't say much, mainly because Avery just talked over her. Harry was quick to notice this.

At 12:30 the trolley came into sight. A witch with a friendly smile pushed it, Ron said he was okay with his sandwiches that looked like vomit. "I'll have four of everything, please." Harry asks, the lady smiles and gives him a total. Mikayla steps forward and pays for half because she wanted to be nice, Avery looked astounded that her sister would do such a thing, but the real Avery would've known that her sisters kindness is her greatest fault. She decided not to say anything because she promised her mother that she wouldn't fight with her sister and make sure she makes friends. "What are these?" Harry asked the group mainly Ron as he held up chocolate frogs. Harry asked if they were real frogs, which Avery quickly told them they're not. "See what the card is, I'm missing Agrippa." Ron told Harry, Mikayla almost sung, her sister always called her a freak because she collected the cards. She's so happy someone else collects them, "Ron, I have two Agrippa's if you want it." After Harry announced he got Dumbledore. Ron's face lit up brightly, "Really, that would really nice of you." Mikayla nodded, she took out a box from her trunk, "I'll just have to find it." Mikayla opens the box, searching for the card in what looks like a sea of thousands. Once she finds it, she hands it straight to Ron before packing the box away again.

Once she looked up again the compartment door opened up. A round faced boy stood looking almost distraught. "Sorry, but have you seen a toad?" They all shook our heads no. He explains his situation but since they haven't saw the toad they are no use to him, Mikayla wanted to help him but thought that making friends with the two boys that sat across from her was a higher priority. Ron was about to show everyone a spell his brother taught him before a girl returned with the round faced boy. "Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one." They repeated our answer before she left, she saw Ron's wand in his hand, she sat down between the O'Brien twins letting poor Neville try and find his toad. Mikayla got up and followed Neville. "Neville is it?" She asked the toadless boy to ensure that his name was actually Neville. "Yeah, Neville Longbottom. What's your name?" Mikayla stretches out her hand, "Mikayla O'Brien" Neville shook her hand. Mikayla knocked on an compartment door, "Hey guys, don't mean to bother you but you haven't seen a toad have you?" Every shook their heads, "Oh, if you see it, we'll be walking around the train." Mikayla continued to help Neville until the girl returned. "I'm Hermione Granger." "Mikayla O'Brien." Mikayla stood outside her compartment, she saw a boy with slick blonde hair and a pale face making his way down the corridor with two thugs behind him. They made eye contact before Mikayla took her seat. "No luck." she told the others.

The three boys entered the compartment, Mikayla's eyes set on Harry's who looked uncomfortable with the sudden imposers. The boy says the rumour Harry Potter was in the compartment had circulated through the train. He knew exactly which boy it was too. He introduced his associates before informing the group his name. Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle pure-bloods, Mikayla rolls her eyes. Malfoy insults Ron's family. Avery smiled but Mikayla glared. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there." Mikayla scoffs at Malfoys spiel. Harry tells Draco that he can figure it out himself. "I don't know who you two are." Draco admits looking at the sisters, "O'Brien, I'm Avery, my sister is Mikayla." Draco nods approvingly. Mikayla feels sick, like her name has been violated. "Wanna join us?" Draco asks the sisters, Avery jumps up but Mikayla stays sitting. "I'm ok, thanks." Draco looks at Mikayla with a tinge of sadness. Draco starts mouthing at Harry to get a rise out of him, which was working. Mikayla stood up in-between Harry and Draco. Looking Draco dead in the eyes, "Get out now." Draco felt a twinge of fear, he never expected this out of Mikayla, his father always described her as the quiet type. Draco, Avery, Goyle and Crabbe left the compartment at Mikayla's command.

Hermione returns soon after nagging about fighting, "We didn't do anything wrong. Mad Mikayla just scared them." Hermione turned and looked at Mikayla, "I suppose she give a peaceful impression." Hermione speaks as though Mikayla couldn't hear her. Harry mentions that he has met Malfoy before, telling us the story of his visit to Diagon Alley, Ron told some already known information of Lucius Malfoy's activity with the Dark Lord. He then turned to Hermione asking if they could help her with anything in quite a rude way. She told us that we'd be arriving soon, which resulted in a get out so we can change comment. Mikayla ask Hermione if she knew anywhere she could change instead of with the boys. Hermione lead her to a spacious bathroom in which Mikayla thanked for her help and apologized for Ron's behavior. Once in her uniform, Mikayla went back to her compartment, the boys stood outside as if they were waiting for her. "I see her, she's alone." Harry tells Ron, Mikayla is confused but not in the mood to ask the boys what it was about. "They said we'll be there in 2 minutes and to leave our trunks on the train." Ron told her, she smiled whilst nodding.