After that day, Orion directly came back to Hogwarts. He now had to find another way to find out about his origins, and right now he only sees two ways, either he brings back Merlin, or he himself goes back to see what happened in the past.
And both he is not sure how to do or where to start from.
Sigh.
As the days passed and the news of Rose and Orion participating in the Triwizard Tournament spread through Hogwarts, the reactions from their fellow students were anything but supportive.
The hallways buzzed with whispers, and the common rooms were filled with murmurs of disbelief and ridicule.
Orion hardly cares, he by now is used to walking around by reducing the surrounding sound anyway. He can't even hear them gossiping. And about them acting differently around...Ha, for him those useless kids don't even exist at this point.
He only cared about a few people in Hogwarts and besides that, he didn't give two flying fucks about anything.
Rose on the other hand was different, she walked down the corridor, feeling the weight of the stares and hearing the faint laughter behind her back. It was as if the entire school had turned against her and Orion. She kept her head high, determined not to let their comments get to her, but it wasn't easy.
"Did you hear? I heard that they use black magic to enter their name in the tournament. Can you believe it?" a student whispered to his friend as she passed by.
"What there is to believe about, that Orion can do anything and potter, she is just a slut trying to suck up to his fame? I wonder what kind of things she is doing to do to keep that someone like Orion keep sticking to her?" the friend replied, snickering.
In the Great Hall, where students usually gathered for meals, the atmosphere was no different. Rose and Orion sat together at the Gryffindor table, trying to ignore the pointed fingers and mocking smiles. Rose glanced at Orion, who seemed unfazed by the attention, but knowing him she was sure that he hardly cared. But there is definitely tension in his jaw but Rose doesn't think so that Orion is worried about the tournament.
Suddenly a feeling spread inside her, thinking what she heard before.
'Why is Orion so nice to me in the first place? Why he is keeping me around? It's not like I am pure blood like Daphne, nor I am a genius like Hermione. I am just slightly famous but so is Orion. So why...'
"Hey, look, it's our underage champions!" someone called out, and the table erupted in laughter.
"Bet they won't even make it past the first task," another student added, causing more giggles.
Rose clenched her fists under the table, feeling a mix of anger and sadness. She didn't understand why everyone was being so cruel. It wasn't as if they had asked to be chosen. They were just doing their best to rise to the challenge.
But then suddenly. A sound came.
BAM.
Someone slammed the table with so much intensity that it almost splite apart, there was a crack in the table.
"Sorry, there was a fly there. They are such a bother, keep buzzing around the ears. No one likes flies.
Right." Orion looked coldly at the side which was making the noise and there was an absolute silence in the hall.
If not for the crack slowly spreading on the table then it was the pressure which Orion released which shut them up.
"See not that hard to prevent hissing around right." Saying this Orion just returned back to sleep. In fact, he didn't even do this because he wanted to stop them from talking bad about Rose or anything, he just was getting disturbed when sleeping.
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After dinner, as they left the Great Hall, a group of Slytherins blocked their path. Draco Malfoy smirked, his arms crossed.
"Well, well, if it isn't the baby champions," he sneered. "Do you need us to get you some training wheels for your brooms?"
Orion stepped forward, his expression calm but his eyes cold. "Just get your scaly ass out of here, need nothing more," Orion replied with a roll of her eyes, not even giving any attention to his presence.
Draco's smirk faltered, but he quickly recovered. "Ambrosius, do you really think that by taking the name Merlin you are really his descendant? You are nothing than a lowly mudblood."
"Careful now, who knows later you learn that same blood you are running in your veins, trying to ask your mother, she might remember me."
...
Draco's face started to turn red.
"You..." He took out his wand and pointed it at Orion.
"Though I am sure the blood is different. You see anything related to me can't be that small." Orion look at the short wand Malfoy was holding and smirked.
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