Merry Christmas, I forgot to mention that I would release on holidays too, so another one will be posted on New years. I still don't own Bleach or Harry Potter and I didn't get a present that would ever allow me to so nope not mine. And thanks for ready everyone! And sorry for any mistakes, I sort of hurried and didn't check it over again before putting it up.
Chapter Three
Talons, Teachers and Tea leaves
Toshiro woke up early waited five minutes and heard Ryuu moving around in the next bed over meaning Kasai had woken him up. Kori was exploring the castle and Momo was sleeping in the owlery. They both met up in the commons before heading down to breakfast through the quiet halls.
"Did you get the report finished?" Ryuu asked holding Kasai who had fallen back asleep in his arms. "Yes, I had Momo take it before I went to bed," Toshiro answered at they walked into the Great hall where a few students were dozing off and breakfast was hot on the tables. The two had waken early so they wouldn't have to explain to the others why they weren't eating and could tell them they already finished.
As the hour past Malfoy began entertaining a large group of Slytherins with a very funny story. Soon Harry walked in, as he passes with his friends Malfoy did a ridiculous impression of a swooning fit and there was a roar of laughter.
"Hey Potter!" shrieked on of the girls after Hermione had told Harry something. "Potter! The dementors are coming, Potter! woooooooo!" Harry dropped into a seat across from Ryuu and Toshiro, next to George Weasley. "New third-year course schedules," said George, passing three over since the shimigami and soul keeper already had theirs. "What up with you, Harry?"
"Malfoy," said Ron, sitting down on George's other side and glaring at the slytherin table. Before anyone could speak a pure black cat with amber eyes hopped onto the table. "Mate, your cat grew up over night!" Ron exclaimed. "This isn't Kori," Toshiro responded breifly. "You could have at least introduced me Hits-chan," Yourchi purred in her manly voice. "Did the cat just talk?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah, this is Yourchi sensei," Ryuu answered feeding the ex-captain some bacon. "I came to tell you that Urahara needs you two to sign up for his class, you should also bring your friends along, it's today after classes," Yourchi informed them. "Who else is signed up?" Toshiro asked. "There's a lot, Gryffindor has the most then Ravenclaw, Slytherin and finally Hufflepuff has the least," she replied.
"So are you a human or a cat?" Ron asked. "Human," Yourchi responded before adding one last thing, "Those kids are loud, maybe Urahara will quiet them down. I'm looking forward to all of you being in my class see you later."
And sure enough Urahara came in and instantly the Slytherins quieted not wanting to loose the house cup to Gryffindor. Hermione started examining her new schedule. "Ohh, good, we're starting some new subjects today," she said happily. "Can you help us to our classes?" Toshiro asked. "Of course, I'm sure a lot of people have needed help their first days too," Harry told them. "Hermione," said Ron, frowning as he looked over her shoulder, "they've messed up your schedule. Look, they've got you down for about ten subjects a day. There isn't enough time!" "I'll manage. I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall."
"But look," said Ron laughing, "see this morning? Nine o'clock Divination. And underneath, nine o'clock, Muggle Studies. And" Ron leaned closer to the schedule disbelieving "Look underneath that, Arithmancy, nine o'clock. I mean, I know your good Hermione, but no one's that good. How're you supposed to be in three classes at once?"
"Don't be silly," said Hermione shortly. "Of course I won't be in three classes at once." "Well then-" "Pass the marmalade," said Hermione and nodded when Ryuu picked it up and sent a questioning glance. "But-" "Oh, Ron, what's it to you if my schedule's a bit full?" Hermione snapped. "I told you, I've fixed it all with Professor McGonagall."
Just then, Hagrid entered the Great hall. He was weaing a long moleskin overcoat and was absentmindedly swinging a dead polecat from one enormous hand. "All righ'?" he said eagerly, pausing on the way to the staff table. "Yer in my fis' ever lesson! Right after lunch! Bin up since five gettin' everythin' ready... Hope it's okay...Me a teacher...hones'ly..." He grinned broadly at them and headed off to the staff table, still swinging the polecat. "I can't decide what teacher he remains me of," Ryuu muttered.
The hall was starting to empty as people headed off toward their first lesson. Ron checked his course schedule. "We'd better go, look, Divination's at the top of the North Tower. It'll take us ten minutes to get there..." The golden trio fisnihed their breakfasts hastily, the group then told Fred and George good-bye and walked back through the hall. As they passed the Slytherin table, Malfoy did yet another impression of a fainting fit. Ryuu kept going forward but willed the juice in the goblets which slapshed up making it seem like Draco had an accident making the shouts of laughter come from even Gyffindor.
"Did you do that mate?" Ron asked Toshiro. "No must have been someone else," Toshiro replied shooting a glare at Ryuu who shrugged. The journey through the castle to North Tower was a long one. Both boys looked at the tower carefully as they went. "There's...got...to...be...a...shortcut," Ron panted as they climbed their seventh long staircase and emerged on a landing, where there was nothing but a large painting of a bare stretch of grass hanging on the stone wall.
"It's proabally this way," Ryuu said looking down an empty passage to the right. Neither boy was winded but both wished they could use flash step. "Can't be," said Ron. "That's south, look, you can see a bit of the lake out of the window..." After a short discussion with a knight in a painting and asking for direction they made it to a narrow spiral staircase.
"Thank you," Toshiro told the night. The golden trio was puffing loudly as they climbed. "How are you guys now tired?" Ron asked at they made it to the last few steps. "Our school does a lot of physical training, usually a whole hour like this and some sparring in the afternoon," Ryuu responded. Ron's eyes widened and he muttered something. They climbed the last few steps and emerged onto a tiny landing, where most of the class was already assembled. There were no doors off this landing but Ron nudged Toshiro and pointed at the ceiling where there was a circular trap door with a brass plaque on it. "'Sibyll Trelawney, Divination Teacher,'" Harry read after Ryuu had nudged him after being nudged by Toshiro. "How're we supposed to get up there?"
As though in answer to his question, the trapdoor suddenly opened, and a silvery ladder descended right at Harry's feet. Everyone got quiet. "After you," said Ron grinning, so Harry climbed the ladder first. Ron followed then Toshiro, Hermione and finally Ryuu followed by the rest of the class. Toshiro emerged into the strangest-looking classroom he had ever seen. In fact, is didn't look like a classroom as all, no mats but chairs and tables.
Besides that it looked like a cross between someone's attic and an old fashioned tea shop. At least twenty small, circular tables were crammed inside it, all surrounded by chintz armchairs and fat little poufs. Everything was lit with a dim crimson light; the curtains at the windows were all closed and the many lamps were draped with dark red scarves. It crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume, as it heated a large copper kettle. The shelves running around the circular walls were crammed with dusty-looking feather, stubs of candles, many packs of tattered playing cards, countless silvery crystal balls and a huge array of teacups.
A voice suddenly came out of the shadows, a soft misty sort of voice. "Welcome," it said. "How nice to see you in the physical world at last. Professor Trelawney moved into the ifre light, she was very thin; large glasses magnified her eyes to several times their natural size, and she was draped in a gauzy spangled shawl. Innumberable chains and beads hung around her spindly neck, and her arms and hands were encrusted with bangles and rings.
"Sit, my children, sit," she said and they all climbed awkwardly into armchairs or sank onto poufs. Ryuu and Toshiro found themselves at a table above Harry, Ron and Hermione. "Welcome to Diviation," said Professor Trelawney, who had seated herself in a winged armchair in front of the fire. "My name is professor Trelawney. You may not have seen me before. I find that descending too often into a hustle and bustle of the main school clouds my Inner Eye."
Nobody said anything at this pronouncement and Ryuu swore he heard Zenpachi yelling for his next fight from his seat. Professor Trelawney delicately rearranged her shawl and continued, "So you have chosen to study Divination, the most difficult of all magical arts. I must warn you at the outset that if you do not have the Sight, there is very little I will be able to teach you. Books can take you only so far in this field..."
Toshiro growled softly since books were how he got ahead in classes while Ryuu stiffed a laugh at the chibi tachio's disappointment. "Many witches and wizards, talented though they are in the area of loud bangs and smells and sudden disappearing, are yet unable to penetrate the veiled mysteries of the future," Professor Trelawney went on, her enormous, gleaming eyes moving from face to nervous face. "It is a Gift granted to a few. "You, boy," she said suddenly to Toshiro. "Are your classes going well?" "Yes," Toshiro answered.
"I wouldn't be so sure by all the paper stacking up," said Professor Trelawney, the firelight glinting on her long emerald earrings. Ryuu's and Toshiro's eyes, or at least Toshiro's narrowed at the though of having left Mastumoto to do the paperwork. "We will be covering the basic methods of Divination this year. The first term will be devoted to reading tea leaves. Next term, we shall progress to palmistry. By the way my dear," she shot suddenly at a girl, "beware of a red-haired man."
The girl gave a startled look at Ron who was right behind her, and edged her chair away from him. "In the second term," Professor Trelawney went on," we shall progress to the crystal call if we have finished with fire omens, that is. Unforunately, classes will be disrupted in February by a nasty bouts of flu. I myself will lose my voice. And around Easter one of our number will leave forever."
A very tense silence followed this pronouncement, but Professor Trelawney seemed unaware of it. "I wonder, dear," she said to a girl whose name was Lavender Brown, who was nearest and shrank back in her chair, "if you could pass me the largest silver teapot?" Lavender, looking relieved, stood up, took an enormous teapot from the shelf, and put it down on the table in front of Professor Trelawney. "Thank you, my dear. Incidentally, that thing you are dreading - it will happen on Friday the sixteenth of October." Lavender trembled.
"Now i want you all to divide into pairs. Collect a teacup from the shelf, come to me and I will fill it. Then sit down and drink, drink until only the dregs remain. Swill these around the cup three times with your left hand, then turn the cup upside down on its saucer, wait for the last of the tea to drain away, then give your cup to your partner to read. You will interpret the patterns using pages five and six of Unfogging the Future. I shall move among you, helping and instruction. "Oh and dear," she caught Neville by the arm as he made to stand up, "after you've broken the first cup, would you be so kind as to select one of teh blue patterned ones? I'm rather attached to the pink."
Sure enough, Neville had no sooner reached the shelf of teacups with he bumped a pink one and it fell. Toshiro was beside him and caught the cup a foot off the ground. "You want me to carry it for you?" Neville nodded and the two went to fill up their cups. Ryuu grabbed a teacup, filled it, and sat next to Toshiro who had just sat down after helping Neville. Seeing as the tea was hot hyourinmaru chuckled as many tried to drink the scalding tea and made a few ice cubes without Toshiro's consent which he made in the tea.
The quickly drank it so they wouldn't have people trying to guess why it didn't burn. They swished the dregs around as Professor Trelawney had instructed, then drained the cups and swapped them. "Broaden your minds, my dears, and allow your eyes to see past the mundane!" Professor cried through the perfumed air. As the two carefully inspected the tea cups Professor Trelawney came over.
"Well let's see this looks like a falcon, kami, Toshiro whose this deadly enemy. And a club, meaning an attack," Ryuu told Toshiro. "Very good my dear. Have you done this before?" Professor Trelawney told him. "I had a friend who really wanted to marry me so she kept reading out tea leaves to find out, I guess I picked it up along the way," Ryuu responded. "So Shiro what about mine?"
"There's a sun and a skull meaning your going to be happy in a dangerous time, also there's an acorn meaning your going to get some gold," Toshiro said shortly. "Very good my dears you have sharp inner eyes," Professor Trelawney said. Then she whirled around as Harry let out a snort of laughter.
"Let me see that, my dear," she said reprovingly to Ron, sweeping over and snatching Harry's cup from him. Everyone went quiet to watch. "Professor Trelawney was staring into the teacup, rotation it counterclockwise. "The falcon dear, you have a deadly enemy." "But everyone knows that," said Hermione in a loud whisper. Professor Trelawney stared at her. "Well, they do," Hermione said. "Everybody knows about Harry and You-Know-Who."
Toshiro was about to ask who that was but changed his mind, he was probally a dark wizard if the didn't even say his name. Why not call someone by their name, if we did that to Aizen we wouldn't get anything done. It's a childish fear, hyourinmaru growled. "The club an attack. Dear, dear, this is not a happy cup..." "I thought that was a bowler hat," said Ron sheepishly. "The skull, danger in your path, my dear..."
Everyone was staring, transfixed at Professor Trelawney, who gave the cup a final turn, gasped, and then screamed. There was another tinkle of breaking china; Neville had smashed his first cup. Professor Trelawney sank into a vacant armchair, her glittering hand at her heart and her eyes closed.
"My dear boy ...my poor dear boy...no...it is kinder not to say...no...don't ask me...""What is it Professor?" said Dean Thomas at once. Everyone had gotten to their feet and slowly they crowded around Harry's and Ron's table, pressing closer to get a good look at Harry's cup. "May I see it?" Toshiro asked not wanting for anything bad to happen. Professor Trelawney nodded handing him the cup.
"So you saw a Grim in the cup but if you looked right here, there's a line dividing it, part of it is makes the club and the other part looks like a sun," Toshiro said handing the cup back. In truth, while tilting the tea cup a bit the figure was cut. "You're right," Professor Trewlney said in amazment.
"I think we will leave the lesson here for today," said Professor Trelawney in her mistiest voice. "Yes...please pack away your things..." Silently the class took their teacups back to Professor Trelawney, packed away their books and closed their bags. "Until we meet again," said Professor Trelawney faintly,"fair fourtune be yours. Oh and dear," she pointed to Neville, "You'll be late next time, so mind you work extra hear to catch up."
The group walked down the stairs towards Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration lesson. "What is a Grim anyway?" Harry asked after a while. "It's a sign of death, the black dog," Ryuu infromed him. Kasai, who had been waiting at the landing looked up at him with her green eyes for a second. It took them so long to find her classroom that, early as they had left for Divination, they were only just in time.
Toshiro and Ryuu sat in the middle of the class room, a row behind the golden trio Professor McGonagall was telling them about Animagi, wizards who could transform at will into animals, which was probally what Yourchi had passed for. Then the Professor herself transformed herself in front of their eyes into a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes.
"Really what has gotten into you all today?" said Professor McGonagall turning back with a faint pop. Toshiro and Ryuu slammed their hands over their eyes at the sound of the pop thinking that she would end up the same as Yourchi when she transformed. "Is there something wrong you two?" McGonagall asked looking at the transfers along with the rest of the class.
Please don't tell me their use to this! Relax Ryuu, she still had clothes on. Ryuu brought his hands down after he had made sure Ryuunosuke was right. He nudged Toshiro who also brought his hands down. "Uh gomen, we're use to Yourchi sensei ummm circumstances after she transfroms," Ryuu stood up, bowed then sat back down. Professor McGonagall didn't press any farther leaving the class to wonder.
When Transfiguration class had finished, they joined the crowd thundering toward the Great Hall for lunch. Ron was still worried about the Grim in Harry's cup. "Ron cheer up," said Hermione pushing a dish of stew toward him. "You heard what Toshiro said." Ron spooned stew onto his plate and pasted it to Ryuu who gave it a critical look before spooning a small serving on his.
"Harry," he said in a low serious voice, "you haven't see a great black dog anywhere have you?" "Yeah I have," said Harry. "I saw one the night I left the Dursleys'." Ron let his fork fall with a clatter. "It's got to be a stray then," Toshiro suggested taking a few spoonfuls of stew. Ron looked at Toshiro as if he'd gone mad. "If Harry's seen a Grim that's...that's bad," he said. "My-my uncle Bilius saw one and- and he died twenty four hours later!"
"Coincidence," said Hermione airily, pouring her self some pumpkin juice. "You don't know what you're talking about!" said Ron, starting to get angry. "Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!" "There you are then," said Hermione in a superior tone. "They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim's not an omen, it's the cause of death! And Harry's still with us because he's not stupid enough to see one and think, right, well, I'd better kick the bucket then!"
Ron mouthed wordlessly at Hermione, who opened her bag, took our her new Arithmancy book and propped in open against the juice jug. "Oh, I forgot to asked, whose this you-know-who anyway?" Ryuu asked. Ron chocked, harry's eyes windened and Hermione looked up from her book. "You don't know who he is?" Ron asked. "No," Toshiro answered. "Voldemort," Harry answered under his breath making the two other repeat their actions. "You aren't suppose to say his name Harry!" Hermione hissed.
"Why not? I heard of Voldemort before, and he didn't seem all that powerful. Azien could proabally cream him," Ryuu commented. "Don't say his name," Hermione hissed again. "Aizen?" Harry asked. "Soskue Aizen, he use to be the fifith classroom teacher before he and two other teachers betrayed the school and tried to excute a girl. He also got Yourchi sensei and Urahara sensei fired because he framed them for having illgael experiments, but their back now," Toshiro answered.
"He also made this army of monsters that he created from muggle souls. Sometimes the more powerful students are sent out to fight them, like Kurosaki-a friend of Shiro's- Renji-top student of the sixth classroom-, Toshiro and the other top student from the tenth classroom, my twin and me also help out, and there's a lot of others," Ryuu listed off. "So the teachers don't help?" Ron asked. "Of coarse they help, Kenpachi sensei would go nuts if he didn't fight!"
Toshiro was pleased to get out of teh castle after lunch. Yesterday's rain had cleared; the sky was clear, pale gray, and the grass was springy and damp underfoot as they set off for their first ever Care of Magical Creatures class. Ron and Hermione weren't speaking to each other so Ryuu was talking to Harry as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid's hut on the edge of the forbidden forest. It was only when they saw the backs ahead of them that Harry pointed out that they must be having these lessons with Slytherins.
Hagrid was waiting for his class at the door to his hut. He stood in his moleskin over coat, with a boarhound at his heels who wagged his tail once he say Kasai. "C'mon now get a move on!" he called at the class approached. "Got a real treat for yeh today! Gray lesson comin' up! Everyone here? Right follow me!"
For one moment Toshiro thought that Hagrid was going to lead them into the forest; Toshiro had already been told many stories about it. However, Hagrid strolled off around the edge of the trees and five minutes later, they found themselves outside a kind of paddock. There was nothing in it there.
"Everyone gather 'round the fence here!" he called. "That's it, make sure yeh can see, now, firs' thing yeh'll want ter do is open yer books-" "How?" said the cold drawling voice of Draco Malfoy. "Eh?" said Hagrid. "How do we open out books?" Malfoy repeated. He took out his copy of The Monster Book of Monsters, which he had bound shut with a length of rope. Other people took theirs out too; some, had belted their book shut; others had crammed them into tight bags or clamped them together with binder clips.
"Hasn'-hasn' anyone bin able ter open their books?" said Hagrid looking crestfallen. "Of coarse! It's an excellent book for this course Professor Hagrid!" Ryuu said from his spot beside Toshiro. "How were you able to open the books?" Hermione asked. "Stroke the spine," Toshiro answered. The rest of the class did some and their books came open without a hitch.
"Oh how sill we've all been!" Malfoy sneered. "We should have stroaked them! Why didn't we guess!" "I-I thought they were funny," Hagrid said uncertainly to Hermione and Toshiro. "Oh tremendously funny!" said Malfoy. "Really witty, giving up books that try and rip out hands off!" Toshiro gazed calmly at Malfoy, his eyes as cold as ice. "It was simply to give you the best infromation. Do you have any reason to fuss over this book until you've read it. So until then Shut up," Toshiro said.
"Righ' then," said Hagrid, who seemed to have lost his thread, "So-so yeh've got yer books an'-an' now yeh need the Magical Creatures so I'll go an' get 'em. Hang on..." He storde away from them into the forest out of sight. "God this place is going to the dogs," said Malfoy loudly. "That oaf teaching classes, my father'll have a fit when I tell him-" "Shut up baka!" Toshiro snapped.
"Ooooooooh!" squealed Lavender Brown, pointing toward the opposite side of the paddock. Trotting toward them were a dozen of the most bizarre creatures Toshiro had ever seen. They had bodies, hind legs, and tails of horses, but the front legs, wings and heads of what seemed to be giant eagles, with crud, steel colored beack and large,, brilliantly orange eyes. The talons on their front legs were half a foot long and deadly looking. Each of the beasts had a thick leather collar around its neck, which was attached to a long chain, and at the ends of all of these were held in the vast hands of Hagrid, who came jogging into the paddock behind the creatures.
"Gee up there!" he roared shaking the chains and urging the creatures toward the fence where the class stood. Everyone drew back slighty, expect Ryuu as Hagrid reached then and tehtered the creatures to the fence. "Hippogriffs!" Hagrid roared happily waving a hand at them. "Bea'iful aren' they?"
Toshiro could sort of see what Hagrid meant. Once you got over the first shock of seeing something that was half horse, half bird you started to appreciate the hippogriffs' gleaming coats, changing smoothly from feather to hair, each of them a different color: story gray, bronze, pinkish roan, gleaming chestnut and inky black.
"So," said Hagrid rubbing his hands together and beaming around, "If yeh want ter come a but nearer ..." No seemed to want to and Ryuu was just about press up against the fence already. Harry, Ron and Hermione, however, approached the fence cautiously. "Now, firs' thing yeh gotta know abou' hippogriffs is, they're proud," said Hagrid. "Easily offended, Hippogriffs are. Don't ever insult one 'cause it might be the last thing you do."
Malfoy and his henchmen weren't listening; they were talking in an understone and Toshiro had a nasty feeling they were plotting how best to disrupt the lesson. "Yeh always wait fer a hippogriff ter make the firs' move," Hagrid contuined. "It's polite see? Yeh walk toward him and yeh bow an' yeh wait. If he bows back, yeh're allowed to touch him. If he doesn' bow then get away from him sharpish, 'cause those talons hurt. Right, who wants to go first?"
Most of the class backed farther away in answer. Even Toshiro had his misgivings about the giant animals. The hippogriffs were tossing their fierce heads and flexing their powerful wings; they didn't seem to like being tethered like this. "I'll do it," Ryuu said climing over the paddock fence. Toshiro groaned to himself, the sotachio could have sent him a partner with a little bit of common sense.
"Good man Ryuu!" Hagrid roared. "Right then, let's see how yeh get on with Buckbeak." He untied one of the chains, pulled the gray hippogriff away from its fellows and slipped off its leather collar. The class on the other side of the paddock seemed to be holding its breath. Malfoy's eyes were narrowed maliciously.
"Easy now Ryuu," said Hagrid quietly. "Yeh've got eye contact, now try not ter blink, Hippogriffs don' trust yeh if yeh blink too much." Buckbeak had turned his great, sharp head and was staring at Ryuu with one fierce orange eye. "Tha's it," said Hagrid. "Tha's it, Ryuu...now bow."
Ryuu planted both knees on the ground and bowed over his forehead touching the ground, then slowly stood back up. The hippogriff was still staring haughtily at him. It didn't move. "Ah," said Hagrid sounding worried. "Right, back away, now Ryuu easy does it-" But then, to Toshiro's enormous surprise, the hippogriff suddenly bent its scaly front knees and sank into what was an unmistakable bow.
"Well done Ryuu!" said Hagrid ecstatic. "Right, yeh can touch him! Pat his beak, go on!" Ryuu walked up slowly and rubbed the side of Buckbeak's head. THe hippogriff closed his eyes and leaned into Ryuu's hands. The class broke into applause, all except for Malfoy, and his henchmen who were looking deeply disappointed, and Toshiro who has never been the person to clap.
"Righ' then Ryuu," said Hagrid. "I reckon he might let yeh ride him!" That was more than Ryuu had bargained for and took a small step back. "Yeh climb up there, jus' behind the wing joint," said Hagrid," an' mind yeh don' pull any of his feathers out, he won' like that..." Ryuu hesitantly put his foot on the top of Buckbeaks wings and hoisted himself onto its back. Buckbeak stood up. Ryuu wasn't sure where to hold on; everything in front of him was covered with feathers."Go on then!" roared Hagrid slapping the hippogriff's hind quarters.
Without warning, twelve foot wings flapped open on either side of Ryuu; he just had the time to seize the hippogriff around the neck before he was soaring upward. It was nothing like walking on air as all shimigami and soul reapers do; the hippogriff's wings beat uncomfortably on either side of him, catching him under his legs and making him feel he was about to be thrown off; the glossy feathers slipped under his fingers and he didn't dare get a stronger grip; instead of the smooth walk he now felt himself rocking backward and forward as the hindquarters of the Hippogriff rose and fell with its wings.
Buckbeak flew him once around the paddock and then headed back to the ground; this was the bit Ryuu had been dreading; he leaned back as the smooth neck lowered, feeling he was going to slip off over the beak, then felt a heavy thud as the four ill-assorted feet hit the ground. He just managed to hold on and push himself straight again.
"Good work Ryuu!" roared Hagrid as everyone except Malfoy, and his hench men cheered. "Okay, who wants a go?" Emboldened by the transfer's success the rest of the class climbed cautiously into the paddock. Hagrid untied the hippogriffs one by one and soon people were bowing nervously all over the paddock.
"How was it?" Toshiro asked Ryuu. "Like facing an angry Soi-fon at first," Ryuu replied. The two watched as Neville ran repetedly backward from his, which didn't seem to want to bend its knees. Toshiro finally took pity on the boy. "Your too jumpy, your bow isn't low enough and you keep breaking eye contact," Toshiro told Neville. "But it's so big," Neville responded quietly. "You can't let the size daunt you, now try again."
Neville did as he was told but made mistakes. "Okay watch then give it another go," Toshiro sighed. He slowly walked up to the hippogriff, his face impassive. He gave a low bow his hands at his sides. In a matter of seconds the hippogriff bowed back. Toshiro petted it then backed off. Neville took a deep breath then made his expression more neutral before slowly walking up and not breaking eye contact. He bowed just like Toshiro and the Hippogriff bowed back.
That was when they heard the high pitched scream. The three boys looked over to see Hagrid wrestle Buckbeak back into his collar as he strained to get at Malfoy, who lay curled in the grass, blood blossoming over his robes. "I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled as the class panicked. "I'-" The blond boy was cut off by a slap to his face. "Get a hold of youself!" Ryuu snapped kneeling beside Malfoy.
Hagrid tried to bend down to pick him up but Ryuu waved him away. "Now, he's going to be doing a healing spell. He needs everyone to be quiet so he can concentrate. Pansy Parkinson, I want you to go up ahead and tell Madam Pomfrey that he will be up soon, so she can double check. Dean Thomas I want you to get Headmaster Dumbledore. Hagrid, your going to go up with Malfoy and tell the complete story, Thomas you were close enough so you can tell details. Finally Crabbe, Goyle your going to be helping Malfoy to the castle," Toshiro ordered.
Pansy opened her mouth to aruge but was quickly dragged away by Dean Thomas. Everyone else was quiet and watching to see what the transfer would do. The next move surprised everyone; instead of taking out his wand he hovered his hands above the wound. A green light emitted from his hands, although a little dull, the blood stopped within two minutes and in ten the wound was healed leaving a drained Ryuu who had poured out too much energy to heal it quicker.
Ryuu fell back singaling for Crabbe and Goyle to take Malfoy, Hagrid cast a worried glance at Ryuu before following them along with the rest of the class besides Toshiro, Harry, Hermione and Ron. "Are you okay mate?" Ron asked. "I'm fine, just spent too much energy. I'm not the best at healing," Ryuu answered looking up with a smile. "What do you do just now?" Hermione asked. "It's our healing technique called Kaido. You just focus your energy into the wound and it heals. Class four is dedicated to healing but everyone learns it," Toshiro answered.
"We should probably get back to the castle Urahara's class is gonna start soon."