The Seer and The Silvereye: Chapter 1

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This is the first chapter of my story collab with my irl bff @The_Potterhead_Owl SERENITY: "Mother, don't cry!" I try to console my mother and father as they sob uncontrollably on Platform 9 3/4. "I-I j-just can't b-believe I'm s-saying goodbye f-for a whole s-school t-term..." Mother wraps me in a tight hug that smells of mints and hyacinth. "Y-you be good, a-and stay out of t-trouble. Y-you are a r-really talented girl, you know that?" "Thank you, Mother," I smile and sweep a lock of pale blonde hair behind my shoulder. "I mean, I didn't work hard to be a Seer, I was just born one." Yes! Let's stop the story for a sec. Hello! Hi. My name is Serenity - Serenity Aubriana Lukas. And yes, I am a natural Seer, a person who can predict the future. Let me see... hmm, you are a Muggle? Yes? Perhaps you have never seen the Wizarding World. How strange! But enough about YOU, more about ME! As I pulled my several trunks (of a bright white sparkly leather) onto the bright red Hogwarts Express, my mother and father wave frantically at me from the platform, until they finally become tiny dots in the distance. "Heyyyyyy!!" I hear a person behind me. I spin around, and become face to face with a girl about a head shorter than me. She has a round face, shining brown eyes and straggly brown hair. "I'm Natasha!!" the girl (Natasha) seemed to always speak loudly and quite obnoxiously. "Who are you???? DO YOU WANT TO FIND A COMPARTMENT?? OH GREAT!!" Not waiting for an answer, she bounded off towards a compartment that had another girl and boy inside. They were obviously twins, and they both had the same dark eyes and shining black hair. "HEYYY!!" Natasha squealed. "I'm Natasha! Who are you??" "I'm Mei Ling, and this is my brother Lee," the girl said. The boy gave a half smile and returned to his Daily Prophet. "I'm Serenity Lukas," I sit down, brushing the dust off my robes. "Oh, and by the way, I'm a natural Seer!" I sweep my hair over my shoulder, absentmindedly twisting a wavy lock around my index finger. The scenery races past in a flash of blue and green and brown. Natasha's mouth falls open. "You're a Seer?!?! LIKE, A REAL ONE?!?!?!" I nod, and Natasha squeals. "OOHHHH, PREDICT SOMETHING ABOUT ME!!" I look deeply into Natasha's eyes, and try to focus as flashes of information fly into my mind. "Whoa..." Mei whispers. "Her eyes are glowing..." I snap back into normal, and turn to Natasha. "You have a mole on the inside of your right foot," I speak evenly and lightly. "You have two younger brothers who are one year apart in age. You tried to dye your hair pink before you came to school but your mother found you and turned it back to normal." Natasha's dropped jaw is so dramatic I almost laugh. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN WAS THAT?!?" "Um... hi?" a voice comes from the doorway, and I turn to see a girl with jet-black hair cut in a pixie cut, braided with a singular strand of a silvery whisp of hair that looks suspiciously like unicorn hair. "Can I sit here? I mean, there's no more space anywhere else," "Sure..." Natasha's words are missing their usual exclamation marks, so I'm starting to think something's really wrong until she tries hard to maintain her usual bubbly aura. "Sooooo!!! Serenity here has been predicting some stuff about us!! Ooohhh, predict something about..." "Jamie," the girl offered. "Predict something about Jamie here!!!" Natasha grins and turns to Jamie. "Would that be okay?!?" Both Jamie, Natasha and I all know it was a rhetorical question and Natasha was by no means going to listen to an answer. Jamie looks a little, well, a lot, nervous but she nods. I stare into her chestnut brown eyes and, for a strange moment, saw her pupils contracting, but they soon returned to normal and I ignore it. Then I am transported. I'm in a forest, watching a small girl pick a small wisp of silver hair from a tree branch. "This is from a unicorn!" her eyes look awed, and with a start I realise this is the 8-year-old Jamie, in a dark forest. "Ohhhh, it's getting late... Jamie, can't we go now? I think you've gotten enough Venomous Tentacula seeds..." I realise a boy is standing a few feet behind Jamie, twiddling his thumbs. "Ohhhh... it's the full moon, oh Jamie, we need to go now!" "Honestly, I don't know how we are related. You're such a scaredy-Skrewt, don't WORRY!" Jamie's laugh is interrupted abruptly as a howl pierces the dark moonlight. "Oh no oh no oh no oh no..." Jamie's brother - who looks around six - starts to shake. "We need to go now Jamie!!" There is a rustle in the bushes and the howls grow louder, and suddenly something breaks through the bushes With a crack A rustle And a d e a f e n i n g howl "Run!!" Jamie screams at her brother. He doesn't hesitate - he runs out of the forest, screaming for his parents. Jamie tries to follow. but she trips on the tree where she found the unicorn hair and came plummeting to the ground. Something breaks through the trees. (+)