Chapter 2- Our Father and Our Wands
Both Draco and Aphrazeil stood in front of their father, excitedly awaiting their training wands. The two have been glancing around and they found no signs of said wands. Aphrazeil was already squirming in anticipation, barely caring that it was very un-Malfoyish.

Lucius watched amusedly as both his sons squirmed and fidgeted. They were really impatient for Malfoys. Better work on that...

The two young Malfoys sighed in relief when they saw the fire turned emerald green and a small, stumpy man(?) stumbled out of the exquisitely designed fireplace.

"Mr. Malfoy," the man bowed low, "a pleasure to see you again."

Lucius nodded, he wanted this filthy old man out of his mansion as soon as possible.

"Mr. Ollivander," he addressed. "Pleasure is all mine." he lied.

But Mr. Ollivander barely heard him. He had spotted the two young boys and immediately approached them.

"Ah... yes," he said squinting at them. "These are the boys," he faced the elder Malfoy. "Correct?"

"Yes."

"We'll start with you," he pulled Aphri in front of him and took out a measuring tape and waved an age wand at it. The measuring tape wobbled and began to take measures of the oddest of places. First the length of his fingers then the width of each of his lips. He finally batted the damned thing away when it tried to measure his tongue.

Aphri vaguely heard his brother snicker. He growled and threw him a glare which only served to amuse him more.

Mr. Ollivander was ignoring everything around him. He was searching threw his bag, pulling out multiple wands.

"Here," he said giving Aphrazeil a particularly new one, "give it a wave."

Aphri did as he was told and waved. Nothing happened so Ollivander quickly snatched it away. He gave him another older one, explaining that it was made of cherry and unicorn mane. Aphrazeil gave it a wave and still nothing happened.

Mr. Ollivander sighed as he searched through his bag once again. It seems that he figured that none of the other wands he pulled out was a match.

The room was soon piled with wands; it seems that the wand maker's bag was a bottomless bag. His head was already inside said bag and the three Malfoys could hear some low muttering but it was nothing important. Ollivander came out with a wide grin on his face. It seems that he found the perfect wand.

"There," he said thrusting the wand at Aphri, "try this."

Aphri did the same thing he did to the other wands and this time the wand glowed a soft green before it went out.

"Perfect!" Mr. Ollivander applauded. "It's made of bleach wood and dragon scales. The dragon nearly killed me when I plucked it of. Now..." he turned to Draco and waved his wand over his head. The measuring tape started working on the older Malfoy and like Aphri, it annoyed him greatly.

Mr. Ollivander pulled out another wand from his bag and handed it to Draco. Following Aphri's actions he gave it a wave. Nothing happened. Ollivander quickly snatched away and handed him a new one, telling him that it was made of a dragon heartstring and cherry wood. Draco waved it in the air but again nothing happened. This went on for a few more times until Mr. Ollivander gave Draco a wand made of powdered dragon's claw and redwood. Like Aphri's it gave out a soft green glow when waved.

"Good." Ollivander nodded. "Both wand cores came from the same Norwegian Ridgeback. It just shows how close both you really are."

"Is that all Mr. Ollivander?" Mr. Malfoy asked politely. It pays to be polite to possible allies. "Because the children will have their first training session in a few minutes and they still have to get use to the feel of their new training wands."

"Yes that is all Mr. Malfoy." Ollivander replied, packing up the rest of his wands. "But those are only for training. You will have to replace them when they start their schooling."

"Understood," Lucius nodded. "Please send the bill by post."

"Good day to you, sir."

Not caring for adult conversation, as both Aphrazeil and Draco were currently too excited, experimenting with their new wands.

"Could you believe it?" Draco said in awe. "Our very own wands..."

"No, I'm still trying to believe it myself..."

"Hey, you know what?" Draco grinned. Seeing Aphri's confuse looked he continued. "Blaise and the rest would be sooo jealous."

"Draco that's not very dignified." But Aphri's grin was very evident. "But it is a good chance to show off."

Draco agreed vehemently.

"C'mon, let's ask father when we get to use these." Draco held up his redwood wand.

The siblings approached their father and asked him when their training session will start.

"In a few minutes your instructor will be here." Malfoy explained, "I want you to behave like young aristocrats. Understood?"

"Yes father." the boys replied dutifully.

"Good." Lucius nodded. "Since Severus has little patience for incompetent children."

Severus was a very strict but fair man. He could easily hold one's attention with a threatening whisper. As was shown when Aphri and Draco were discussing their wand cores.
"Boys," Snape hissed, "What is so important that you ignored my lecture about how to properly levitate an object?"

Both siblings jumped in attention, craning their necks to look at their professor.

"Well you see professor-"

"Professor Snape, you see-"

Severus sighed as the two youngest Malfoys continued to babble about their ludicrous (which wasn't really THAT ludicrous) theories on why they got the same dragon but of different parts for wand cores.

"Stop it." he growled, "I don't want to hear anymore of your useless theories. We are currently studying Charms. We will take up Magical Theory two days from now. Now I suggest that you listen to my lecture if you want to pass the quiz we're having at the end of the week."

"We're going have a quiz!"

"Yes." Severus nodded brusquely. "And if have listened to me at the beginning of the

lecture, then you would've known that." He smirked at the boys. "Each week we will have a quiz to find out how well you actually listen during lectures. Practical work will be done at different times."

"Now because it is your first day, I will show you some of my little and quickly evaporating patience and let you off with a warning." Both boys sighed in relief, "But I want you both to help me organize my potion ingredients. It's similar to the detentions I give to the less than well-behaved Slytherins."

Aphrazeil and Draco nodded. They understood that the professor is only disciplining them and accepted it quite easily.

"Yes sir."

"Good. Now let's continue with our lesson."

The end of the week came too quickly for both boys. They were hurriedly reviewing everything they took on as of late.
"Quick Drake," the younger of the siblings said in a no nonsense voice. "Which famous wizard was turn into a cat in 1673?"

"Salem," Draco recited confidently. "And he was turned back into a wizard when the Witch's Confederation found out that he was framed by Wigellia Bunser."

"And," Aphri continued. "They named the city known previously as Arich after him to apologize on 1681.

"Correct."

Lucius entered the study, clapping proudly at his sons. "I'm impressed," he said glancing at them appreciatively. "You two have learned quite a bit within a week. I didn't study Salem until I was nine. I see Severus has been making sure you work properly."

"Yes father." Draco answered for both of them. "Professor Snape has been great. He's taught us tons of useful stuff."

Lucius raised a brow at his son's use of words but didn't comment. Everybody had their own quirks and apparently Draco's was his language.

"We're supposed to take a test later when professor Snape arrives," Aphri commented lightly, "did you take tests as well when you were our age?"

"Yes," Lucius nodded, thinking about his past, "I believe I did, although not this difficult."

Both boys beamed at the hidden compliment.

"Well boys, I believe Severus has arrived." Lucius said, dusting imaginary dust from his robe. "Good luck on your test boys."

"Yes sir."

Stupid ending, I know but I didn't really know where to stop it. Just review and tell me what you guys think.
Akira