Your Favorite Bloodsport {Closed to RedLipstick34}

[GalaxyGirl]

High heel tapping punctuated across the stony pavement of King's Cross. A very posh looking woman with platinum blonde hair and sunglasses marched her way through the bustling parents and children who were preparing for the leave of the Hogwarts Express.


Trailing behind her, a young girl looked straight behind. She was the spitting image of the woman. Ash-blonde hair fell past her shoulders in straight locks, and fringed bangs hid her pale eyebrows and rested just above her long-lashed stone-gray eyes.


The girl was Isla Hallows. She did not look amused. Mainly because she wasn't. Isla could barely withhold a sigh as she followed after her mother. The servants had her bags and were following after her, so at least she didn't have to carry them like the other children, but the whole situation was annoying. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was supposed to be the greatest magical academy in the entire wizarding world, yet they made the children ride a stupid, grimy train to school each year?


Perhaps she wouldn't have such a horrid view of the place if she had gone there for her first two years. Instead, Isla was a Durmstrang student up until last year, and compared to the winding gothic architecture and flying-horse-drawn carriages, Hogwarts was looking less like a wizarding school and more like a primary school. Pathetic.


"Hurry, Isla!" the blonde woman in front of Isla snapped.


The woman was her mother, and she had a meeting to go to. It explained the hurry, but the fact that she was practically shoved onto the train...well, that didn't do much to help Isla's mood.


As she found an empty compartment, Isla sat down, crossing her legs and smoothing her designer dress out in front of her. As the other children met up from previous years and found compartments with each other, Isla just wished that no one would bother her. If she could go the entire next four years without speaking to anyone, she would be just fine.


(Sorry it's a little short. I just wanted to get something up tonight. I'll post Bailey in a little bit, but he probably won't be in the same compartment as Isla).

 

[RedLipstick34]

It hadn't taken Fin long to find his usual group of friends, though they were late to board the train together. He rode the Hogwarts Express with the same group of people since their first day of Hogwarts, though a couple had been added throughout the school years. It consisted of mostly Slytherin's, with a couple Ravenclaw and one decently cool Hufflepuff thrown in. It didn't matter what house they were in as long as they laughed at all of his jokes and pranks, and admired his every move.


It was their third year now, and that meant electives, and puberty, and being cool meant more things than usual. For example, his best friend Orion had already been to second base with a girl over the summer break, and one of the other Slytherin's told a story about his father teaching him a bit of awesome Dark Arts that they obviously hadn't been able to actually perform, but it was a cool story nonetheless. The stakes were up, and if he was going to be the talk of the school, Fin would have to do something exceptional soon, or come up with a good enough story to seem exceptional.


The driver was already warning of the train taking off soon and everyone finding seats when they walked through the door. Naturally, there weren't any empty compartments left, and they'd have to settle for taking over one with a couple people in it. After a decent walk down the hall, Fin spotted a compartment with only one inhabitant. It was a girl he'd never seen before, and she might as well go ahead and learn that no one got a compartment to themselves on the train, so he ushered his friends inside.


"Only compartment with any room, sorry." He said simply with a shrug, pushing his suitcase on the shelves overhead and taking a seat by the door.


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Gwen was naturally friends with everyone she met, really, so she met up with her favorite friend, also from Ravenclaw, and waited at the entrance of the train for the boys her friend wanted to sit with while they gossiped and caught up on their summers. Gwen had a particularly wonderful break, having gone to Australia for the biggest part of it with her father, who she rarely got to spend summer's with. After an excellent vacation, she was refreshed and ready to see all of her friends again. Fin and his group were Slytherin's, not that houses mattered to Gwen, but she always found it sort of strange that Illissa gravitated towards them, no matter how entertaining they tended to be. But when they finally arrived, she watched her friend go doe-eyed, though she couldn't be sure which boy it was for. Gwendolyn knew the crushing look very well, as not only did Illissa have a new crush every year, but Gwen herself also regularly received it from boys.


They boarded the train with the boys and were lead to a compartment that only held one girl so far. The girl really didn't seem to want company but finding a compartment that would fit the group would have been difficult otherwise. Gwen took the seat across from the girl, smiling politely and putting her hand out in her usual mannered way. "Hello, I'm Gwen. Terribly sorry to barge in like this." She apologized, Illissa snickering at her shoulder.