We spent a week in that valley. Each day I would travel further and further, trying to find a clue on how we got here besides the egg. So far there was nothing. I found a road on the fourth day and just observed the people on it. They seemed to be stuck in the middle ages. I was walking back to our tent when I heard Teddy yell. I didn't think, I just apparated to our camp site and found him running from the tent. I had my wand out and stood at the ready.
"Woah, what's wrong?" I asked him.
"The egg moved!" he yelled as he rushed behind me. "I swear I didn't put it in the fire."
"Please don't yell in my ear. Now, what about the egg?" I rubbed my left ear as I shot a quick glare at him.
"I think its hatching." Teddy smiled. He seemed to have gotten over his initial shock. No matter how dangerous dragons can be, seeing one hatch is always cool.
"It shouldn't be." I rushed to the tent. I thought dragon eggs needed to be heated to extreme temperatures.
Sure enough it was wobbling on the ground while I was positive it was on the table when I left. I scooped it up and brought it outside. No need for a baby dragon in there. Once I sat it down I heard a muffled squawk. Teddy and I watched as cracks appeared on its beautiful surface. Soon enough a bronze snout appeared from within the egg.
Once the dragon was out of its shell it looked around. Its eyes roamed over everyone before they settled on me. It squawked happily then tried to stumble over to my spot on a log we used as a bench. It tripped over its bat like wings a few times be for it got to me.
"Hello little lizard." I said as I reached out to him. As soon as I touched it I felt ice shooting up my veins. It couldn't compare with old Tom's Cruciatus but I dare anyone to feel this and not give out a very manly yelp. I slid off the log so that I could use it as a back rest, I was afraid that without it I would fall on my back. I could hear Teddy growl and the dragon squeak. My vision was spotty for a moment but I needed to keep Teddy safe, and to keep him from killing the hatchling.
"Calm down, all of you." I said as I got my sight back. I adjusted my glasses then looked at the two I yelled at.
Teddy had both a normal stick and his wand pointed at the dragon. He looked a little ridiculous. The dragon was trying to hide between my back and the log. The elves looked nervous but the calmed down.
"Now, put that stick down Teddy, you look like a dork. And you," I said to the dragon, "get out from behind me."
They did as I asked and I was able to fully sit up but I stayed on the ground for the logs support. I looked at my hand and saw a strange mark on it where I had touched the dragon. I grumbled about strange dragons and wolfish godsons. Strangely I could feel fear and concern that was not my own. I snapped my occlumency shields up and heard the dragon yelp. When I looked at it, it had its tail between its legs and its head down.
"Teddy sit down. I have a feeling that something magical just happened." I sighed. Why does the weird stuff always happen to me, Harry flipping Potter.
He did as I asked and I motioned for the dragon to climb on my lap.
"For some reason this dragon is able to enter my mind. I have shut it out but from what I could tell the little lizard is scared and sorry for what happened to my hand." I said to Teddy and the house elves.
"He better be." Teddy muttered, probably just embarrassed from freaking out.
"I would like to keep it with us." I could hear Kreature grumble about the amount it would take to feed a 'beastie' but he continued to tend the fire. Teddy grumbled about crazy uncles and narrowly dodged as I swiped at the back of his head.
"It is cute." He eventually said, his hair flashed a bright bronze to greet the dragon by.
"Yes it is." I said
"For a flying lizard" Teddy tapped a finger on the dragon's nose.
"I'm going to let you back in my mind. Be good." I told the dragon.
Once I let my shields down I immediately felt it. The poor thing was sulking. I tried to tell it that all was forgiven and eventually its thoughts settled. I felt his hunger right before I heard its little tummy growl. Teddy laughed and got up for the food. The dragon watched Teddy enter the tent then exit it with a lot of meat. The dragon wiggled in my lap before looking at me for what seemed like permission. I nodded and it met Teddy halfway, only a few feet from the tent. Teddy took the magic seal off of the meat before tossing a piece on the ground in front of the dragon, I was secretly proud he didn't try to hand feed it once I saw its teeth. It gobbled it up in a somewhat savage way. Teddy then walked to the fire and gave the elves the meat for lunch. He gave the last piece of raw meat to me.
"Even the babies are dangerous." He said as he sat.
"Hagrid had one that lit his beard on fire." I smirked.
We both watched the bronze dragon finish its piece. When it was done it meandered back and sat next to me. It was watching the elves work our food. I instantly conveyed that they were not food. They were nest mates. Again it took a little while before I was sure the dragon would not try to eat them.
"Uncle Harry?" Teddy got my attention. He was staring at the fire with a sad look on his face.
"What's wrong Teddy?" Both I and the dragon were looking at him.
"I have a feeling that we can't go home again." He sighed.
"If there is a way we'll find it. My magic feels the same but there is something else. I'm not sure what but this place seems to have a different magic." I admitted.
"I think I feel it too. What are we going to name the dragon?" Teddy looked at the dragon and coaxed him over.
"I'm not sure. Is it a boy or a girl? What do you think?"
The two of them were batting at each other while Teddy's hair would flash different shades of bronze. His eyes were also changing to a different shade of yellow.
"He smells like a boy dragon. Charlie let me see a few hatchlings once and he pointed out the girls and boys. He smells a little different but defenatly male." At this point the two were now bopping each other on the head. The dragon with his paws and Teddy with hands.
"How about a famous wizard's name?" I asked as Teddy jumped behind the log I was sitting against.
"I don't know. Ah!" The dragon just jumped the log and onto Teddy's head.
"We can wait for a name." I smiled at the two. I scooped the dragon up.
"Master Harry Sir, lunch is ready." Romp informed me as they brought the food over.
The dragon perked up. He was probably hungry again. I gave him the other piece before I accepted my plate. He tore into next to me while Teddy and I ate our own meals. They were very plain but that was to be expected when you were living in the wild. I had just finished my meal when the dragon climbed up onto me and promptly fell asleep.
"Looks like I'm not going anywhere for a little while." I smiled.
The next week went by a little like that. I was surprised by how quickly he grew and learned. He now understood most English. He never entered Teddy's mind but that didn't seem to bother the two of them. I would occasionally hear the thought of 'nest-mate' coming from the dragon when he was looking for Teddy. It always made me smile. He was fiercely protective of all four of us. At only a week old he wanted to protect us from a wolf that wandered too close to our camp site. I quickly scared it off with a harmless lumos. That night he curled up in between our beds instead of by the fire like he normally preferred.
He was getting bigger too. He was about the size of a dire wolf now. Currently the three of us were hunting. The dragon did not seem surprised by my animagus form, only took to wrestling me more to get me to shift.
We were hunting a boar like animal. We had to go further north to hunt because of the new mouth to feed. Teddy was currently chasing the boar. I don't how dragons normally hunt but ours seems like an expert stalker, though I keep having to ask him to be patient and wait for the right time through our link. Suddenly his head turned sharply and then I heard the sound of the rushing boar and a laughing Teddy. He always enjoyed our hunts. The dragon sprang first and flared his wings. The boar screamed and took off towards me. I clamped my jaws around its neck before it even knew I was there. I had the underside in a tight grip but boars are much harder to kill than a deer. Then our dragon came and bit onto the top of the boar's neck. We held it there until it stopped moving. I could feel its blood on my face and couldn't help but wrinkle my nose in disgust. We all took turns dragging the oversized pig back to camp. Teddy stopped and looked at me when we got there. He put his finger to his chin.
"Uncle Harry, you've got a little…" he trailed off then laughed at my expression when I felt the now dried boar's blood on my human face.
"Yeah yeah, laugh at the one who did the dirty work." I cast a quick scourgify and the mess was gone.
"You looked pretty feral, nothing like the ministry's hero." Teddy gave out a quick laugh.
"Oi! Back beastie, back!" I heard Kreature yell.
The dragon was sulking away from the boar we left for the elves to prepare. I snickered at the thought of a dragon cowering before an elf and he snapped his attention to me. He sent me my own memory of Dobby sending Malfoy Sr. flying.
"Well it looks like our dragon friend has some sense." I laughed. "How about we find a name for him?"
Teddy and the dragon both perked up. Teddy had a mischievous glint in his eyes but the dragon looked genuinely curious.
"Alright come here you two." I sat at our main log turned bench. I wasn't the best at transfiguration but I could manage a spell like that. The dragon sat with his head in my lap and Teddy sat beside me.
"I say we start listing off names and if you like any let me know." I said out loud so both of them would hear it.
"Godric, Salazar, Albus, Severus." I listed but got disapproval.
"George, Pigwidgen, Errol." Teddy smirked.
"Be serious Teddy." I scolded.
"Sirius?" he laughed.
Still the dragon remained stubborn. We started listing off the names of the members of The Order of the Phoenix. I paused after I said Kingsley. My dragon lifted his head up and cocked it to the side, something he had learned from Teddy.
"Kingsley?" He gave out a yowl of approval.
Then in my head I heard him say three names. Harry, Kingsley, and Teddy.
"Hey!" Teddy grabbed his head. "Stay in Uncle Harry's head."
"You spoke! You said your first words!" I was so excited and proud and I let him feel it. I pushed him over in a tackle and we wrestled around for a moment. Once we were both panting Teddy jumped in and we had a family brawl.
"Alright, alright." I laughed. "We are all excited but we need to set up mind boundaries."
We all righted ourselves then returned to our spots on the bench. Kingsley draped as much of himself over me as possible.
"Now Kingsley, you can't just enter people's minds. You need permission. And Teddy you are going to learn occlumency. I don't know where we are but if there are more dragons like Kingsley then I want your mind protected." Kingsley turned and nuzzled Teddy in what I assumed was an apology.
"Cool!" Teddy yelled out at the thought of learning new magic.
"Master Harry sir, your food is ready" Romp told us.
Kreature set the uncooked portion of the boar in front of Kingsley, and I even saw him pat the dragon on the head. That day the five of us all ate together. Even Kreature. He may still have the old ways mindset but he was starting to loosen up. It was all in all the best day we had here in the new world.