Short one but an update no less!
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After two straight hours of shopping Draco needed a break. He decided that the ice cream parlor was a good place to stop. Upon entering the shop he noticed the stares people were giving his dog. So he returned them with a glare of his own.
Slowly making their way to the counter Draco decided that he wanted a bowl of chocolate ice cream, Harry decided that he would eat whatever Draco got when he wasn't looking. With a wolfish smile in place Harry decided that messing with Draco until school started would be fun.
"Hey there kid. What kind of animal you got there?" the man behind the counter asked.
"None of your concern. Now, I'll have a bowl of chocolate ice cream. Two scopes." Draco said never really looking or paying attention to the man. Draco pulled out the exact amount of money due and payed.
With a scowl the man rudely handed over the bowl, almost dumping it on Draco. Harry let out a warning growl and bared his teeth at the man. With a smirk Draco turned, walked out of the parlor and sat at one of the outside tables, Harry not far behind.
Sitting down, Draco pulled the shrunken bags from his pocket and, finding the right one, resized the bag. Draco carefully took out the leather, emerald encrusted collar he had bought. There was a single strip of silver with the name Saraph (Variant spelling of the Hebrew seraph, meaning "burning one", or "serpent".) engraved into it.
"What do you think? Saraph fits you cause' not only do you breath fire but you're going to be living in the snake pit." Draco smiled while he stared at the new, shining collar. When Draco did look over at Saraph he found that the wolf had his front paws resting on the table and he was just finishing the chocolate ice cream from the bowl. "Hey! That was mine you mutt!"
Draco tried pushing the big wolf down but didn't even manage to move him an inch. "Fine than be that way!" Draco then crossed his arms and began to pout over his lost ice cream. Harry leaned toward Draco and gave him a salvia coated kiss, running his tongue from the boys jaw bone up to under his eye.
"Yuck! Ewww" Draco quickly retched for the napkins on the table. As Draco reached Harry had the opportunity to like the other side of his face. So he took it. Again, starting at the jaw line and up to Draco startlingly silver eye.
"Would you stop that already?" Draco said as he wiped down the sides of his face and pulled out his wand to cast a cleaning charm. "I get it, you're sorry, but that's no reason to drown me in spit!"
"Are you talking to you're… umm is that a dog?" Draco jumped at the voice coming from right behind his chair. Draco turned to see Blaise pointing at Saraph and Pansy snickering at his antics.
Abruptly standing, Draco quickly put on a face of indifference. "Well, what are you two sneaking around here for?" Draco raised his nose in the air and crossed his arms. Harry was getting apprehensive with the two standing their staring at him. Then Harry realized that Blaise wasn't staring at him but at Draco.
"We weren't sneaking around. We were school shopping and happened to see you arguing with that thing." Blaise made a face toward Harry as if he were the most disgusting thing in the world.
"His name is Saraph and I would think you had the decency to address him properly." Draco took to the defense of his wolf.
"Calm down Draco, it's not like the dumb animal understands what's going on anyhow." Pansy was staring intently at her nails and Blaise nodded his head in agreement.
It was Harry's turn to take the defense. He was still half standing on the table so promptly jumped down and nudged Draco behind him with his mussel. Once Draco understood what Saraph wanted him to do, he easily moved where the wolf placed him.
Blaise was watching and decided that with the wolf so close he could see if the antlers were real. He quickly reached out wrapped his hand around Saraph's left antler while his head was turned. Time must have stood still, because in what seemed like slow motion for all three wizards.
Pansy looked up from her nails and was preparing to scream, Draco was leaning over Saraph's massive body and wrapping his arms around his neck, Blaise was frozen in silent panic as he watched the beast before him snap his open mouth toward his out stretched hand.
All this happened in mere seconds and Saraph's teeth managed to graze Blaise's hand while he retracted the appendage. Pansy's scream that had filled the air died, Draco was fully laid across Saraph's back with a hold on his neck, and Blaise still was too shocked to do much beside stare. The shock slowly passed as Draco got off of Saraph's back and picked up the dropped collar he had been holding.
Blaise realized his hand was bleeding and got mad not only at the mutt that had done it but at said mutt's owner for not controlling the beast. "You." Blaise said pointing at Draco with a murderous look in his eye. "I'll have this beast put down before you can say 'good-bye puppy'." With that he turned and beckoned Pansy to fallow. Pansy gave Draco an apologetic look, then fallowed Blaise.
"That could have gone better." With that said Draco clamped the leather straps ends together around Harry's neck. The ends melded together in a never breaking bond. "There, now the protection charms can be activated." Harry had no idea that Draco had placed the collar around his neck until he felt saw Draco tapping on the emeralds of the collar.
"Don't worry boy, I'm just activating the protection charms on this thing." Draco did the work with a small smile playing on his lips. Harry liked seeing Draco enjoying himself, especially after that incident. "There, now I need you to lick this necklace." Draco pulled out a chain with a wolf's paw hanging down from it.
Harry did as he was told and licked the paw. The paw glowed a bright white then returned to normal as if nothing had happened. "This will allow me to apparate to where ever you are and vice versa." Draco patted Saraph on his head in between the protruding antlers. Draco placed the necklace around his neck and smiled down at Saraph. "We should go school shopping now that I bought everything that you'll need." Draco stood and collected the bag that he had pulled the collar out of.
"Come on Saraph, we only have like an hour before father comes for us."
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"Hurry! We need to get to Madam Milkin's!" Draco and Saraph were running at full speed toward the store when Saraph ran right between Draco's legs and ran faster with Draco now sitting on his back. Draco was holding onto Harry's fur as the wolf ran at break neck speed to the shop.
They were 15 minutes over the assigned time Lucius had given them. Saraph bounded down the street and stopped right in front of Madam Milkins. Draco quickly jumped off of Saraph's back and rushed into the store.
"Your late."
"I know and I'm sorry father! Saraph and I were at the book store and we lost track of time…" Draco tried explaining, Saraph was left out side in Draco's hurry to get inside.
"Enough! You disrespect my orders and now you're making excuses instead of accepting your error!" Lucius raised his hand to smack the useless boy across his face.
Another slow motion moment, yes, the second of the day. Lucius hand was heading for Draco's face, Draco was cringing away with his eyes screwed shut, and Saraph was busting through the window and slowly changing back to his wizard form.
Lucius was blinding by a white light and closed his eyes though he felt he wrist being grabbed, Draco felt himself being pulled and held against a strong chest, and Harry was the one pulling Draco into him while he grabbed Lucius's wrist.
Surprised couldn't even began to describe both of the Malfoy's reactions.
Not only was Lucius staring at a very mad Harry Potter, but a very naked one as well. "What do you think you doing?" Seethed the angry savior. Lucius was to dumbstruck to reply, so he was just opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water.
Draco was brave enough to venture into the 'conversation'. "Potter? What in Merlin's beard is going on?" Draco tried to push away from the nude teen's chest but stopped his effort when he noticed something that shouldn't have been on Harry, a leather collar with emerald jewels.
"Saraph?" Draco looked closer at Harry and realized both Harry and Saraph had those glowing green eyes. "Harry?" and that's when Draco Malfoy fainted in Harry Potter's arms.
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