Chapter 13 - Sticks And Stones Aren't Stronger Than My Friends

" Ready for another round of fun Bandit? " Louis asks his friend which in turn, nods his head. " Alrighty then! Off to the forest we go! " Louis exclaimed, excited to meet his friends in the forest again. But just before he could have one foot out the door, he was yanked back by a force that tugged him by the hoodie of his jacket.

" Yeah, no. You are supposed to be in class learning. Not going out on mini adventures with your new found friends every chance you get, while you leave a clone to attend all your classes. I swear your clone is more in love with studying then you! " Louis shrugged his shoulders at that. 'Its not my fault if my clones are so good at learning a topic I already know, plus my knowledge does pass on to my clones, so it more like a revision if anything really. ' mind linking his thoughts to Richard only made the boy more frustrated with his cousin. After a while, Richard found it best to just give up and head to class, whether Louis would be going there or his clone was not his problem, he was having a headache at this point.

Staring at the back of his cousin heading off to class, Louis couldn't help but ask " Perhaps it be best if I attend class for today, there is always tomorrow for an adventure. " Bandit, in his robe, made a noise of agreement at Louis' self question. With that, the odd pair made their way to class.

Once lunch came around, classes had ended by then and students were heading off towards the dining hall in order to appease their famished stomachs. The three cousins made their way towards the Gryffindor table amid the crowd of hungry children. " I will never get how these idiots function. " Annie, frustrated with the shoving of the crowd says. " Your telling me, at least your not the one being pushed around like a bludger!. " Richard retorts back, only to be caught off guard by a laughter above both their heads. Looking up, their line of site is met with Louis flying in the air, hovering above the sea of small humans as if observing their movements. " Great. You can fly. Now why don't you help is out of this predicament too? " Annie states bitterly, the shoving of the crowd already close to getting on her last nerve.

Eyes widening at her obvious discomfort and on the verge of exploding, Louis hastily casts the spell on the two with a flick of his wand. " The spell is easy yet complicated enough that I have to use my wand. Perhaps if I can find a way to remove the unnecessary enchantments from the spell, there won't be a need to use my wand at all! " Louis exclaims in delight. " Why? it's already a miracle your able to cast a flight spell. Though it is complicated to the point you have to use your wand, simplifying it could make it less effective. Don't you agree Ann? " Richard asks, " Why are you dragging me into your discussion? My forte isn't in practicality spells, it's in body enhancement spells and you know that. " " Ah, right. My bad. " He apologises once realising his mistake. Rolling her eyes, they proceed to consume their food while still floating.

Once lunch ended, the three headed off to the library interested in seeing what the school had to offer for the students education. And not because they had nothing better to do at 1 in the afternoon. ' I'll spend an hour here before heading off into the forbidden forest, I promised Gideon I'd go with him back to the griffon home. It seems like I peeked the interest of their king. ' The boy casually states to the other two mind-linked, Richard chokes on thin air at the news while Annie trips on her own foot. ' I'm sorry Louie, mind saying that again? It seems my hearing isn't functioning, though it is through mind-link, the KING of the GRIFFIN kingdom wants to meet you, cause you peeked his interest? ' Richard asks flabbergasted and in denial at what he just heard. After a few seconds of awkward silence, Annie speaks, ' Now that I think about it, Louie does have royalty friends of the animal kingdoms due to their interests in him at first. Great, now I have a feeling that Louie is going to become Merlin at some point in the future. ' ' Ew, I'd have a long white beard if I became him. No thanks. ' Louis retorts back with a disgusted look on his face at the thought of him looking like merlin.

The three giggle at the thought seemingly out of nowhere and now visible, making those around them look at them like their weirdos. They quiet down after some time, once fetching books that caught their interest.

Sitting down at one of the unoccupied tables near the shelf they picked their books from, the three begin their silent reading. Half an hour later, the entrance of the golden trio filled the peaceful atmosphere surrounding the area. ' I swear, those three were raised by barbarians, or monkeys. Must they rave on and on about Nicolas Famel, the maker of the sorcerer's stone? Their basically shouting out " I know what your doing, I will find you, and I will stop you " they'll make horrid wizarding detectives if that's the career their pursuing ' silently scoffing the three students next to their table, Louis gets up and begins to leave to the forbidden forest. " Have fun, and dont forget to bring back souvenirs. " Annie mumbles as she continues reading her book on the history of merlin and his adventures. Richard just waves him off, to engrossed in his book about the origins of magic.

With Bandit snuggled into his hoodie's collar since breakfast, Louis turns invisible and heads off to meet his Griffin friend.

Entering the zone of the forbidden forest and roaming the grounds. A unicorn runs into Louis, quite literally. Tackled into the ground from the force of the impact, Louis only laughs as he hugs the unicorn that ran into him, " Meister! Stop! It tickles! " Is all his able to get out in between laughing and crying from the unicorn called meister. Meister stops after a few minutes and let's the boy previously tickled till tears came rolling down hi eyes, stand and readjust his disheveled clothes due to the unicorn.

" So what can I do for you? If I recall, you were summoned back to your homeland due to something urgent happening back there. Is everything okay now? " He asks concerned. Meister nods his head answering back. Confused, he asks again " Then why are you so jumpy today? You do remember I have someplace to go to with Gideon today right? " the unicorn nods again. " Okay.....Then, what is it? " Answering the question at last, the horn of the unicorn glows and a letter appears out of thin air. " Cool " was all he could say.

Taking the letter into his hand and opening up, he read it out. " Greetings young Louis of the house of prince, I apologise for using your family name but it is in accordance to for when writing a letter to someone. Anyways, I would like to invite you to our homeland to get to know each other. It seems that young Meister has taken an extreme liking to you and I would like to meet you to figure out why so. I eagerly await your response. Ps, Meister will send bring you to our homeland when you have decided. " A long silence followed once Louis finished reading it, only to be broken by the boy bouncing up and down like a puppy.

" No way!!! I get to go to your birthland?! So cool! " He exclaims as he rams into the unicorn to hug him in thanks.

Not long after, Gideon shows up flying in the sky approaching the unicorn, niffler and princeton. Saying their goodbyes, Louis clombs onto Gideon with Bandit in the pocket of his hoodie, ready to see the king of the Griffins.

As Meister sees the three off, a sudden noise brings his attention to the area. Trotting closer to the spot where the noise came from, the unicorn is surprised when its met face to face, Robin and Marrie the squirrels Bandit ran into during the time in the school. Confused on why the two looked like they were planning a murder and funeral for people he did not know of, he neighs to bring their focus onto him and asks them what their doing. After the two squirrels rants and obvious anger filled story about some magic creature hunters that stumbled upon the forbidden forest grounds, and how they started to terrorize whatever they found worth money, Meister decided then and there that he would make the hunters regret ever being born. No one messes with his friends, that and the centaurs would kick up a fuss if they found out and he did not want that to happen for they were they most annoying to communicate with.

What they didn't know however, was that a Unicorn had planned their demise ahead of time for them. Freeing the captured creatures silently, Meisters plan began.

Mid way into the witch-like laughing, a stick hurled its way straight to the face of the presumed boss, effectively stopping his high pitched laughing. stumped by the stick, the boss grew furious no later as his face turned red and steam poured out his ears, " OI! WHICH IDIOT THREW THAT AT ME! " he hollered out to no one in particular. Instead of receiving a verbal answer, a rock the size of a soccer ball flew straight into his stomach, knocking the air right out of him. Curled into himself on the ground to ease the pain, the subordinates stopped staring wide eye and started to look around for the culprit. Only for their faces to kiss tree trunks slammed into their faces out of nowhere.

While his lackeys attempt to soothe their faces, the boss manages to regain his composure and stands up again.....It was futile however, as he was pummeled to the ground by thousands of acorns raining down on him out of thin air. Hearing and witnessing their boss's state, the lackeys turn around wanting to run out of the ' haunted ' forest to save themselves. It did no good for them, as they ran straight into a fluffy wall twice the size of them, falling onto the ground. Looking up to see what the wall that blocked them was, their eye widened by a margin upon seeing a grizzly bear staring down into their souls.

Not wanting to stay any longer then needed, the group of hunters gathered together in one area in an attempt to stay safe, though it did nothing as a net made of vines encased them and lifted them into the air. " HOW IN THE BLOODY HELL DID THESE STUPID ANIMALS GET A NET! " The boss bellowed out as the rest of the hunters moved about uselessly, screaming incoherent words.

Just as the group of hunters calmed down, a unicorn trotted it's way to the group, a menacing aura surrounding it.

Knowing they had no way out, the boss stared straight into the eyes of the unicorn and spoke with a sickening smirk on his face " brainless creatures like you are the reason why we wizards cant get anything good. " Already angered enough with the group, the boss's words made Meisters anger erupt, as his horn glowed he knew they were only words, that there were good people like Louis. But there were always going to be bad people, but if those who understood the magical creatures like Louis grew, their lives can become more joyous. With that he casted a simple nightmare spell all unicorns knew, and played them into the sky far away from Hogwarts on the other side of the world.

Happy with what they accomplished, the creatures of the forest celebrated soon after with berries and the like sprawled onto the dining table Louis made for them and held a feast happy of their victory.