A/N: Welcome to the Next Generation of House of Anubis. This is a reimagining of my Season 4 concept, written out in prose. And no, the students that graduated from the school in Touchstone of Ra will not be showing up in every episode. Without further ado, here's the cast and then, the first episode.
Nicholas Hamilton as Xavier Ferris
Jake Davis as Dexter Lloyd
Roxy Fitzgerald as Cassie Tate
Kae Alexander as Erin Blakewood
Charlie Rowe as Roger Zeno
Asa Butterfield as Freddie Jenkins
Sophie Nélisse as Kate Richardson
Frances Enell as Poppy Clarke
Kelly Bishop as Eve Haversine
Mina Anwar as Trudy Rehmann
Paul Anthony-Barber as Eric Sweet
House of Newbies
Xavier Ferris stepped out of the taxi and stared up at his new home. Anubis House was, according to the brochure, the best of the houses at the Amun Academic Boarding School. He walked up the path and rang the doorbell.
The door was answered shortly by a friendly-looking Indian woman.
"Hello, I'm Trudy Rehmann, your housemother! It's good to have you here."
"Xavier Ferris." Xavier said. He hauled his suitcase up the step into the house.
"Woah!" he said, getting a look at the hall.
"This place is amazing."
"Yes, it is the nicest house." Trudy said.
"Some of your housemates are already in the living room, if you want to say hello."
"Sure." Xavier said.
He walked into the living room, where three people were sitting on the couches.
"Hey there, you must be Xavier, my roomie." The only boy of the group stood. He had red hair and had the look of a practical joker to Xavier. Xavier didn't really know what a practical joker 'looked' like. Maybe it was the red hair. It reminded him of Fred and George from Harry Potter.
"I'm Xavier." Xavier shook the boys' hand.
"Dexter. This is Cassie," he pointed to a blonde girl who was on the phone with her father.
"And Erin," he indicated an Asian girl who was reading The Aesthetics of Chaos, which Xavier assumed was preparation for an honors class, since he was taking English, but had opted out of the higher level.
"Welcome to Anubis House!" Erin said enthusiastically.
"Hey Dexter, I'm a bit tired." Xavier said, feeling his eight-hour flight hit him like a ton of bricks.
"Which room is ours?"
"Follow me." Dexter said, leading him to the first bedroom on the main floor.
"Thanks." Xavier said, and Dexter walked off.
Relieved to be alone, Xavier kicked off his shoes, peeled off his socks and started to unpack.
When he opened one of the drawers, however, he found that someone had left a necklace, shaped like
"The Eye of Horus." Xavier knew, though he wasn't sure how. He picked up the necklace and padded back in the living room, still in bare feet.
"Hey Dex, what's this?" he held up the necklace.
"Oh! That's mine!" Dexter said, grabbing it from Xavier.
"I left it in your drawer, didn't I? Silly me." he took it from Xavier, who went back to his room.
"What were you thinking, leaving it in there?" Erin demanded.
"Eddie told you to keep it safe." Cassie chided.
"I know, I just left it there while I was alone in that room, so it didn't get caught in my clothes or something." Dexter said.
"What's the big deal, anyway? If Xavier can open the oven, we need him in Sibuna!"
"What's Sibuna?" a girl standing in the living room entrance asked.
"Nothing. Nothing, just a dungeons and dragons thing." Dexter lied quickly.
"Oh, Okay. Well, I'm Kate Richardson." The girl was incredibly attractive, with blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Hello! I'm Trudy Rehmaan, your housemother!" Trudy came in to greet Kate.
Dexter turned back to the girls and said in a hushed voice:"We need to test this. If none of us can open it, we recruit Xavier. Deal?"
"Deal." The girls agreed.
Xavier awoke at 4:45 and quickly changed clothes, pulling on fresh socks and putting his shoes back on before going back to the living room for dinner. Everyone else seemed to wear shoes all the time around here, and he didn't want to stand out by being the barefoot guy.
He had woken up just in time, it seemed, for the rest of the students had started to arrive.
Xavier met his neighbors, Roger Smith and Freddie Jenkins, as well as the other girls that would be living in the house: Kate Richardson and Poppy Clarke. Then, he met the new caretaker. Dexter had just started to tell him a bit about the old one, Victor Rodenmaar, when she entered the room.
"Greetings, everyone. My name is Eve Haversine. You will address me as Ms. Haversine. No exceptions. I know my predecessor, Victor Rodenmaar ran a tight ship in this house, but I believe in an even tighter one. Lights out is now at nine o'clock precisely. I will want to hear a pin drop."
Sure enough, when the clock struck nine, Eve was standing in the entrance hall.
"It is nine o'clock, you all know what that means. You have five minutes precisely, and then I shall want to hear a pin drop."
Then, she dropped a pin.
As soon as Eve had gone upstairs, Dexter slipped out of his and Xavier's bedroom.
After pretending to be almost asleep while Dexter left, Xavier threw off the covers and followed, curious as to what Dexter might be up to, and whether or not it had to do with the necklace he'd found earlier.
He watched from the kitchen door as Dexter met with Cassie and Erin, and each tried to put the locket on the second oven door.
"It won't work for any of us. My hunch was right." Dexter said.
"Alright, I guess you can ask Xavier."
"Ask me what?" Xavier asked, stepping into the kitchen.
"Oh! Xavier, try to unlock this oven door with this locket. If you can, we'll explain everything."
Xavier sighed. He loved a good mystery, though, so he pressed the locket in the empty slot.
The 'eye' glowed red and the oven door lifted up.
"What is going on down there?" Eve was coming.
"Quick, down here." Dexter led the group, down a secret passage, into the cellar.
Dexter walked over to a shelf and spun a secret combination lock to the numbers 1890, causing the shelf to open a secret antechamber, filled with books.
"Woah!" Xavier said.
The four students walked into the antechamber, the door of which slid shut.
"Alright, Dexter, Cassie, Erin, it's time for answers."
So, Xavier got his answers. Dexter, Cassie and Erin took turns explaining all about the Frobisher-Smythes, their discoveries in Egypt, and the artifacts that had been hidden in the house.
"Sibuna is a secret student club, tasked with uncovering the secrets of this house, and this school." Dexter finished.
"Woah. So, what's the mystery this year? I mean, if they've already found the Cup of Ankh, the Mask of Anubis, the Staff of Osiris and the Touchstone of Ra, what else is there?"
"I don't know. But if I know my stuff, Eve Haversine is up to something. Why else would she want us in bed by nine?" Dexter said.
"Sibuna can find out." Xavier said. He raised his hand to his eye, like they'd shown him, and the others mimicked him.
"Sibuna." They said.
"Now, We should probably head back to bed." Erin said.
The others agreed, and they snuck successfully back to their rooms.
What the four Sibunas did not notice was the fifth boy in the cellar, hiding and watching them.
Roger Smith went upstairs and knocked twice on Eve's office.
"Enter." She said.
Roger stepped inside.
"I've got news. Not sure if it's good or not." Roger said.
"What is it?" Eve asked.
"Sibuna has reformed."
"What? How? They've all gone and graduated!"
"Dexter, Cassie and Erin were here for the final adventure. Eddie Miller passed the legacy on."
"Damn it." Eve slammed a fist on the table.
"It's worse. The new boy, Xavier? He can use the locket."
"Nina Martin's locket?"
"The very same." Roger said.
"Damn." Eve said.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Earn their trust. Become a Sibuna." Eve said.
"What?"
"If you get in their circle, you can find out what they know and make regular reports back to me. Don't worry, Roger, we'll get your father back. And Nina Martin will be our sacrifice."
What the two in the office did not know was that Roger was not the only spy in the house. Kate, who had heard Cassie and Erin walking back to their room, had snuck out, only to catch Roger entering Eve's office, and had overheard everything
Next Time: House of Suspicions
Coming Monday