Harry Potter and Mistborn, boy oh boy are they good. And lucrative! Not for me though, I don't own jack squat.

Chapter three: The plot advances.

I woke up in an unfamiliar bed, surrounded by curtains. "I must be in a hospital" I thought. Looking around me I was able to spot a small table to my left with my belongings and a hefty stack of letters resting on top of it. I couldn't make out any of the words written on the letters, it was far to dark for that. "I guess I'll wait to look at those." Looking down at my arms I noticed that they were wrapped in bandages, starting at the wrists and working their way up to my shoulders, with a small gap around my elbows. "How did that happen?" I wondered. Then it hit me, the dragon, the bank, the two girls, the dragon again. "Oye, no wonder I'm in the hospital." As far as I could tell it was very early morning. Looking up over the top of the curtains surrounding my bed I spotted a couple of crystalline balls that were glowing faintly. "That's a weird chandelier." Seeing nothing else in the darkness, I went back to sleep.

I've always been a fairly light sleeper, so when I heard people starting to move about on either side of me I instantly woke up. It was much lighter now, but still dark enough to sleep if you really wanted to. Looking back at the table to my left I spotted my glasses. "It's a miracle those didn't break." Putting them on it became evident that someone had cleaned them for me. In the light I was able to make out the senders of some of the letters. I had received letters from; The Ministry of Magic, "what is this, a larp invitation?" Gringotts bank, "that makes sense." And Florean Fortesque. "What?"

Before I could start reading I heard copious amounts of rustling to my right. Glancing over I saw two hands pulling the curtains apart, followed by a head covered in bushy brown hair. The girl just stared at me for several moments, I did the same. "Well, there's no sense in holding a staring contest." I decided to speak up first. "Good morning." The girl popped back out of my curtains. Then she yelled "Daphne!" And another head popped in to take the first ones place, but this new one was on the left. "Good morning to you as well." I said. Daphne's head popped out to.

I patted at my hair, "it couldn't possibly be that bad, could it?" "Not to be rude or anything, but could someone please explain to me what on earth is going on?"

Both girls came into the curtains again. "Do you just want to move them out of the way?" I asked. The girls nodded and and pulled the curtains back. I was indeed in a hospital, I saw several other curtained off areas and a single window at the end of the room. "Alright, so what's going on and why are you two acting so strangely?"

The girl to the right (brown hair) blushed. "Sorry," she said. Gesturing to the foot of my bed she asked; "Do you mind if I sit there?" "No, not at all." Both girls sat down. The brown haired girl spoke first:

"My name is Hermione, what do you remember from the bank?" "Oh yeah! That's why I recognize these two!" "Uh, I just woke up so my memory is still a little foggy, but the two of you were there right?" They both nodded. "And I fought a dragon." Nods again. "And then I blacked out. Oh, and I'm Kieran by the way."

The girl to my left, Daphne, grinned. "Yeah, I guess that's pretty much what happened." I smiled back. "So... What happened next?" Daphne's grin faded a little. "Well, maybe hermione should say what happened."

Hermione cleared her throat. "Ah, well, it's kind of a funny story actually. After you blacked out it looked like you stopped breathing, so I decided to perform muggle CPR on you." "Muggle?"

Oh yeah," I said. "I know what that is." Hermione seemed to relax a little. "Okay, that's good. Anyway, when I went to do the mouth to mouth, well, Daphne understands this part better than I do."

Daphne grimaced a little. "Well, when Hermione went to do the 'mouth to mouth' it activated a soul bond." I was confused, and it must have shown on my face because I soon got an explanation. "There are three stages of soul relationships; soul mate, soul bond, and soul bound. Most people understand the idea behind a soul mate." She glanced at me for confirmation, I nodded. "And soul bound is so rare that it doesn't even really matter for this conversation, but soul bonds do."

"When two people have a soul bond it's basically a magical garuntee that they can have a long and happy relationship. The bond neutralizes all wedding contracts, and it gives formidable protection against potions and spells that might drive the two bonded people apart. Once the bond is finalized both people are legally emancipated if they are underage and are officially recognized as adults in the magical community."

I mulled that over for a while, constantly looking between Daphne and Hermione. "Okay, I have a few questions but I'll save most of them for later." I looked at Daphne. "If I'm bonded to Hermione it makes sense for her to be here, but what about you?" Daphne's face flushed and she gestured for Hermione to explain. "Okay then. Well, as you know, when one person giving CPR gets tired another person steps in to take their place..."

I looked at Daphne again. "So, the same thing happened with you?" The platinum blonde girl nodded. "Did anyone else try?" I asked. Hermione spoke again. "No, luckily we were able to get you to St. Mungos after that, that's the hospital we're in right now."

Well. That's a LOT of information to procces. "Alright, time for my other questions. First, could you please explain the whole 'magic' thing to me?" Both girls looked confused. Daphne spoke up. "What do you mean?" "Well" I answered. "Obviously I know about my own abilities which I used to fight the dragon. But up until the very moment it stuck it's head through the wall I didn't even know dragons existed. There's also the whole 'magical garuntee' thing you mentioned. And finally, considering the amount of information I've already learned this morning, I'm willing to bet there is a whole lot more that I don't know that I should know."

Both girls looked at me in stunned silence. Finally, Hermione spoke. "Kieran, where are you from?" "I'm from the United States, I came here on vacation with my family when things went horribly wrong, and then I fought a dragon." Both girls looked like they didn't know what to say. Hermione spoke up again. "Kieran... What school do you go to?" I wasn't sure why they were asking me questions but it seemed important somehow. "Uh, I just go to the local highschool back in Utah." Both girls looked strangely concerned. Finally Daphne asked me a question. "Kieran, do you have a wand?" That was the weirdest question yet. "A wand? Like, a magician? No. I do know a couple of card tricks though."