Chapter 1: The Chocobo Adventure!
One summer, Harry was sitting in his room at the Durselys'. He had nothing to do all summer. He tried to study magic, but it quickly got boring without Hermione to give him the answers. He tried playing with Hedgwig but she quickly tired of his prodding and started to bite him. So now he was bored with owl bites all over his fingers. So, he took to sleeping all the time. After all, another hour slept was another hour he didn't have to be awake. Unfortunately, he got used to all this sleeping that, on the day he was supposed to go to Kings Cross station to board the Hogwarts Express, he overslept by three hours, so the train already left by the time he got there.
"Oh no, not again…" he muttered. He heard a loud WARK behind him. He turned to see a large yellow bird standing on the tracks, with a handsome guy with blond spikey hair sitting atop it. "Hey, are you going to Hogwarts?" asked the guy.
"Why, yes I am. Who are you?"
"My name is Cloud Strife." Said the guy. "Climb aboard the Chocobo."
"But where will I put my bags?" asked Harry.
"Fat Chocobo is around here somewhere. He can take your things and meet up with us at Hogwarts later. Hey, Fat Chocobo! Where are you?" called Cloud in a loud voice.
A gigantic chocobo waddled out from behind a parked train. "Okay, Cloud, what do you want me to take for you?"
Harry piped up. "The suitcases and the owl cage, if you will." In a blink, the fat chocobo shoved both heavy suitcases and Hedgwig's cage down its gullet, with much protest and flapping from the white owl. Harry could only stare at Fat Chocobo in shock as Cloud pulled him onto the other Chocobo's back.
"He… he ate my owl!"
"The owl'll be fine. Maybe a little shaken. But fine."
"But…"
The chocobo began to dash down the train tracks with rapid speed. Some time passed in utter silence. Then Harry piped up.
"Why are you going to Hogwarts?"
"There
is a great evil that is travelling there. I intend to stop it."
"Oh,
that's nothing new. There's always a great evil threatening
Hogwarts. His name is Voldemort and he is a very powerful wizard."
"I see. Well, what is going to come is probably even worse. Not only will he destroy your school, but possibly your entire planet as well."
"No, I
don't think anyone could be as bad as Voldemort. He killed my
parents."
"Well, I lost people important to me too, you know.
You're not the only one."
"What is this thing anyway?" Harry said, changing the subject.
"It is a Chocobo. It's a large bird that people breed and race. I breed and race Chocobos when I'm not doing other things like avenging my dead girlfriend."
Soon, they saw the Hogwarts castle coming up before them. The chocobo flapped its wings and flew up in the air, setting down at the door for Harry.
"They usually can't fly, but I have special materia, so don't try that with my other chocobos." Said Cloud.
"Don't worry, I won't. Thank you." Said Harry as he scurried into the banquet hall, convienently missing the sorting ceremony because those are boring to describe after you've read the first book and all.