Draco was awakened later that morning by both his father's.

"Happy birthday our dragon," smiled Lucius watching Severus pulled their son into a large hug.

"Good morning Papa, daddy," smiled back Draco hugging Severus back with one hand and pulling Lucius into the hug with the other.

"Good morning gentlemen," greeted Narcissa walking into the room "happy birthday Draco."

"Thank you and good morning to you too Narcissa," smiled Draco once again beckoning for Narcissa to join the group hug, which she gladly did.

"I have a present for the birthday boy," said Narcissa pulling away from the hug and handing over a large jade wrapped box.

Draco smiled again "thank you Narcissa."

"Your very much welcome Draco, now go on open it," said Narcissa nudging the package closer to Draco, which he opened without hesitation.

"Wow thank you so much Narcissa, its beautiful," beamed Draco hugging the basilisk armored camouflage cloak to his chest.

"I'm glad you like it Draco," smiled Narcissa "I hope you will find a good use for it."

"Oh I will, thank you," said Draco clipping the cloak around his shoulders and smirking when he saw the clasp, it was a dragon with a moonstone eye, carved from a dragon claw.

"Dragon, I too have a present for you," said Severus handing over a slightly smaller box wrapped in black paper with a Slytherin green ribbon.

Draco opened the present and his eyes widened, there laying on velvet cloth was a diamond dragon-fang kama chain with a moon stone-sapphire blended eyed dragon winding up the handle, Draco's favorite weapon, and by far the rarest and hardest material known to any world.

"Thank you so much I am…I am truly speechless with both gifts," said Draco hugging them both.

"You are not finished yet Draco," smirked Lucius handing over a small cashmere bag.

Draco took the bag, still beaming from the extraordinary presents he had just received, and opened it, inside was a tiny silvery orb with a black slit, hanging on a coiled fire dragon breathed diamond chain.

Draco looked curiously at his father as Narcissa and Severus' eyes widened.

"Lucius you got him a dragons eye?" asked Severus stunned.

Lucius smirked, "yes it seems as thought I have, Draco this is no ordinary dragons eye, this eye holds outstanding healing powers, and protection, it can also be used to speak the language of the creatures."

Draco's eyes widened "Daddy I can not…"

"Yes you can Draconis, this is my gift to you, and you are old enough to know the power of this object, I trust you my Draconis," cut in Lucius, pulling Draco into a hug "take care of it for me."

"I promise you, I shall," smiled Draco curling into his father in a tight hug.

Draco soon pulled away and tied the dragon eye around his neck, Draco grinned up at the three adults and pulled them all into bone-crushing hugs "I love you all, thank you so much this has been a wonderful birthday."

"You're very welcome," coursed the three adults.

The love was interrupted by Draco's owl flying in through the open balcony doors; the owl hooted and held out its leg to deliver the letter and two shrunken packages, which Draco promptly took off, handing the owl a few treats and a bowl of water.

"Who are they from?" asked Narcissa looking over Lucius' shoulder and Draco was still seated on his lap.

"Greg and Vince, they wrote me back," replied Draco who gently cleared his throat.

"Dear Draco, miss you terribly, thanks for saying that we could cop… I'll just skip that part… Hogwarts isn't the same without you, Blaise says hi and Happy birthday, hope this reaches you on your birthday. And as for that don't worry part; what do you take us for Draco? Well Happy birthday, hope you like your gifts.

Missing you more, we have double the missing power

Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle

P.S. Potter seems to behaving himself, and we sabotaged beaver's potion yesterday, but we'll keep watching for more opportunities.

"Well seems like Hogwarts is doing just fine, lets see what they got me," said Draco hoping by some false chance his fathers won't mention the missed part, or the sabotage.

"Draco what the does the letter mean, and the skipped part," nonchalantly scolded Severus.

"Alright, the skipped part was me telling them that they could overlook my homework for ideas, and I sort of hinted that I didn't want the beav… I mean the mud…miss granger to get ahead of me in school while I was away, hehe, you still love me right?" asked Draco with an innocent puppy-eyed look.

"Yes we still love you Dragon, its amazing that you can still pull that look off with results," said Severus forgetting his scolding, and giving into Draco's look.

Lucius and Narcissa both gave a light chuckle, Draco was the only one excluding his mate that he would give in to, at leased that easily.

Well breakfast awaits, Draco I hope you are happy with your presents," said Lucius rising from the bed.

"I am thank you all," replied Draco, every birthday Draco felt no need to get dressed, it was his special day, taking his fathers hands, they walked down to the dining balcony, were laid out on the table in a delicate manor were all of Draco's favorites.

Draco sat in his usual chair on Lucius' left side, and smiled, grabbing some sweet fruits from a large bowl Draco began eating.

"Seems like someone has gotten his appetite back," said Severus a pleased note in his voice.

"It would seem so papa may I have a goblet of blood?" asked Draco.

"Why this sudden appeal for blood," cut in Lucius.

"I just need it, I'm feeling… dry to put it bluntly," replied Draco, he never had blood unless the need called for it. 'Perhaps my body is changing.'

"Well I don't see why not," said Severus snapping his fingers, and a goblet filled with shiny metallic fluid.

Draco smiled, lifting the cup up to smell the blood, "papa is this is your blood?" he asked, taking a sip on the still warm fluid.

Severus nodded "you need your strength for today."

"Thank you papa," grinned Draco downing the goblet, and when the adults went looking Draco licked the inside of the cup to get as much blood as possible.

"So what do you have planned for this morning?" asked Lucius with an amused glint in his eyes, he saw Draco attack the cup for every drop it had.

"Well, I was thinking I would go back to the garden to see if Ms Elian is there and perhaps visit Blade in the stables," replied Draco "but first I'm going to get dressed, please excuse me everyone."

"Have a good morning," called Narcissa, as Severus and Lucius kissed Draco's forehead.

"Be safe my Dragon, may the goddess be with you," coursed both parents.

"And to you," replied Draco, before heading up to his room, where he showered, dressed in a blue tunic, with cream-colored breaches, his new camouflage cloak which changed to the color of his shirt only a few shades darker with his dragon clasp and sandy-brown dragon hide boots and belt, and he tied his hair back in a braid, slipping the kama and a few other weapons into the cloak and checking to see if the dragons eye was still securely around his neck. He smiled at his reflection 'perfect.'

Walking outside, Ms Elian was know where to be seen, opening his senses fully he still felt know one, sighing he reached up to a branch and began to climb the tree, the higher he got, the happier he got, soon Draco was sitting on the highest branch, looking out over the Elvin landscape, from a distance he saw a bird, and as it drew closer it got bigger.

"HEY DRACO," yelled Elian from astride the bird.

"HEY," Draco yelled back, Elian slid off the bird and landed on a branch next to Draco.

"There's a good boy, thank you Corbin," smiled Elian waving to the bird that flew up into the sky again, with a single flap of its wings.

"I thought you weren't coming back to meet me," said Draco looking at the smiling sky rider.

"Sorry I'm late, I just had to finish my patrol," replied Elian "and sorry about running off like that yesterday."

"That's alight; you know yesterday I got this completely opposite belief of you," said Draco looking at the happy, hyper woman.

"And what might that be?" asked Elian curiosity evident in her voice.

"Yesterday I thought you were a grower, I mean you were wearing all green," replied Draco.

"Do you visit here often?" she asked.

"All the time during holidays, I'm still in school," replied Draco.

"I mean leave the grounds of Malfoy manor?" said Elian rephrasing the question.

'No not really," replied Draco.

"Well you of all people should know not to judge a book by its cover," said Elian playfully.

"Well it just that…" started Draco.

Growers are more common Elvin folk then Flyers," finished Elian "don't worry kid I'm just bugging you."

"DRACO, Draco," called Severus riding up to the tree on horseback "come on we have an hour to prepare for the trial, oh hello you must be the Ms Elian, my mate and I have heard about."

"All good I hope?" asked Elian, and Severus nodded "well I must be leaving, Draco good luck on your trial," she kissed his forehead "may the goddess be with you."

"And to you," replied Draco getting on the back of Severus' horse.

"She seems nice," said Severus kicking the horse into a run.

"She is, and her partner, the bird one I mean, he is truly stunning," replied Draco.

Severus and Draco talked for a short while before they began to prepare him for the trial.