I'm No Different. ( ChaeYu / ChaeTzu )

25. Something Different

"Get a room..." Momo frowns before going back to smothering Chaeyoung with her affection. 

"So I heard you spent a day in the muggle world with the No Jam Bros," Jihyo says, "What did you think?"

"It's so cool," Tzuyu says with a smile, "It was only a few hours but I learned some new stuff and saw different things."

"Oh wow that's nice," Jihyo smiles but then her lips shift into an 'o' shape as she appears to remember something, "Speaking of different, the Tri-Wizard tournament is taking place this year! After the hat sorting ceremony, we're going to be introduced to the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang!"

"Woah, yeah!" Dahyun says in excitement, "Then these two kiddos can finally go to Hogsmeade!"

"Oh yeah," Tzuyu says with a smile, she did get the permission slip signed by her grandmother but she completely forgot. 

"You guys have got to try butter beer," Nayeon says, "It is, the best."

"Bweer? Wev canth dwink bweer?" Chaeyoung asks as Momo squeezes cheeks.

"Yeah, you can't get drunk off of it unless you drink like ten bottles of it," Jeongyeon sleeply says as she sits up, "They wouldn't let you drink more than five bottles anyways."

"We know from experience," Jihyo laughs. 

"So many things to look forward to this year..." Tzuyu says, not realizing how big her smile is, "I can't wait."

"Awww...look at you being excited," Sana giggles and she throws her arms around the tall Maknae, "Why are our youngest friends so cute today~?"

When they arrive at Hogwarts, the sun had just set and the dark, starry night overtakes the light. They all ride on the carriages to the castle and continue to speak  about the summer experiences; for once Nayeon and Tzuyu have something to say. They talk about how they actually got to relax or their maid told them stories of before they were born.  Some stories were good and some were bad but they interesting nonetheless. Sana talked about how when she and Momo were in Japan with their families. Mina talked about how she visited Jihyo and they spent a week doing games of all sorts. Dahyun was out with her family to various tropical places. When they arrived at the castle, they went to their designated house tables. The student body gawked at the somewhat small first year class but stayed quiet as the hat sorting began. 

"Shin Ryujin!" Professor Shacklebolt yells and a girl with short hair steps up and sits down on the chair. 

"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat yells a second after being placed on the girl's head. A roar erupts from the table and Tzuyu watches Ryujin be greeted by the table, including Chaeyoung. 

"Lee Chaeryoung!" The professor anounces and a girl with a nervous yet innocent expression approaches the hat. Tzuyu can see that she knows Ryujin because they're both looking at each other...it's interesting how some people already know each other for what appear to be a long time before school starts. 

"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat yells after a little while.

The Hufflepuff table erupts into cheers and Ryujin shoots her friend a thumbs up as she walks to the table of black and yellow. 

"Now that the first years are sorted...are our guests here?" Professor McGonagall asks and Filch, at the entrance of the Hall, nods. "Excellent!"

The door swings open and after a few minutes of silence, they all hear foot steps. They get louder and louder until it stops. Everyone anxiously waits and as they stare at the empty doorway, a large bird made of what appears to be paper flies in. Everyone watches it fly around the hall before gracefully gliding towards the entrance. As it does, it seems to change color and enlarge in size before exploding into a colorful confetti that turns into miniature birds flying all around. That's when all the birds hover above almost everyone and begin to play a gentle tune...as they do, a single girl with fair skin and light brown hair appears in a blue beaxbatons uniform in the door way. She waves her wand and some birds enlarge while others unravel yet fly around as ribbons in a breeze. The girl gracefully twirls down aisle and everyone's eyes are glued on her, especially the boys. The girl then stops on the middle of the aisle waves swirls in their that transform all the birds into ribbons to create an ocean of color of them, they then begin to twirl and the music, that is somehow still playing, gets louder and faster. More girls and a few boys come out through the doorway, dancing and doing fancy waving with ribbons of their own. There's twelve of them in total, including the first girl. They make all of the paper ribbons form a hurricane of color around them and the music is more dramatic as the colors swirl faster and faster, making the tornado taller and taller. When it seems to touch the roof, the ribbons slow down and begin to fall like multi colored flower petals. As they wall, everyone takes notice of the fact that the twelve students are in a circle and as more petals fall away and disintegrate into light, a very tall woman is in the middle of the hurricane.

"That's headmistress, Olympe Maxine," Mina whispers softly to Tzuyu, "The last Tri-Wizard tournament was held at Beaxbatons."

"Oh...she's very tall," Tzuyu notes and Mina nods.

"Welcome, Madame Maxime..." Professor McGonagall curtsies with a gentle smile.

"It is a pleasure to be here once more, Headmistress," Madame Maxime returns the gesture with just as much friendliness and gracefulness. 

When all of the students from Beauxbatons stream in, they hear heavier footsteps and loud banging of what sounds like wood and drums. A tall boy with black, slicked back hair, caramel skin, and dark eyes leads a charge of five boys and four girls in brown Durmstrang uniforms. The tall boy bangs his staff into the ground and the others follow he slowly steps forward and continues to bang, at first slow, but then fast. The drums start to bang faster and boys behind them stream in running and doing cartwheels. Girls follow, twirling their sticks around them as the ends seem to illuminate and set off sparks. The head boy stops in the middle of the aisle, his followers a good distance behind them. There are students surrounding all of them now, hitting their staffs into the ground, sparks going off more and more as they hit faster. The tall boy in the middle of the aisle takes out his wand, strikes his staff, drops it and it transforms into a broom. He steps on it and actually flies into the air standing on the broom. The nine wizards he left behind on the ground, wave their wands, letting off particles of light to transform into the Durmstrang symbol. The flying boy waves his wand, making it brighter and brighter before it finally explodes into mini fireworks, falling down and is it falls down, they all seem to collect into a pile in one spot. Everyone watches as the sparks and ashes seem to form a humanoid figure; a man. When the man was complete, everyone held their breath as he moved and color returned to this man and his face. He was tall, short black hair slicked back, pale in complexion and dressed in a burgundy pinstripe suit.

"Welcome, Headmaster Gorelov," Professor McGonagall curtsies, "It is a pleasure to see you once again."

"No, Headmistress," The man smiles a thin yet friendly-ish smile and bows, "The pleasure is ours."

The Dumstrang students take their seats and the Headmaster takes his place at the table on the other side of McGonagall.

"That's Kristan Goelov," Mina whispers, "He's the youngest ever Headmaster of Durmstrang and changed some policies there...only thing he didn't change was the admission of muggleborns."

"I guess some things never change for some people," Tzuyu whispers.

"Yes...but in the end...this whole thing is something different..." Mina smiles at her, "I'm actually excited."

"Me too," Tzuyu whispers, "Let's hope this year will be a good one...not just eventful."

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If anyone wants to know what year this is, it's September 2013 :)

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