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The next day they were driving ina country road on the middle of nowhere. Draco was driving and Hermione was looking like she was expecting him to hit every tree they passed. 'How the heck did I get here?' he thought.
"Will you relax Granger? I am not going to crash. I am a Malfoy and Malfoy's never crash." Malfoy said.
"No I will not, WATCH WHERE YOUR GOING! You almost hit that tree!" She screamed.
"Sorry," he muttered under his breath. She stared at him. Had he really just apologized? Before she could say anything the car slowed and stopped.
"Why did you stop?" she asked.
"I didn't. It stopped by itself." Draco said.
"Cars don't stop by themselves." She stated matter-of-factly. "Did you run out of gas?"
"How the heck am I supposed to know that?" She tried to see the gas gauge from where she was sitting but couldn't. Crap. She did NOT want to climb over him. He seemed to know what she was thinking.
"What are you scared of, Granger?"
"Nothing." She unbuckled her seatbelt and leaned over him which he found quite amusing. "Granger's afraid to get to close to me.' He thought. She leaned over and looked at the gas gauge and said that they had run out of gas.
"I thought I saw some homes back that way. We only have an hour of light left so unless you want to spend the night out here I suggest we start walking." Hermione told him.
After only an hour of walking she stopped because Draco was complaining. "Why can't we apparate back?" he asked.
"Because we are not allowed to use magic." Was the only answer he got.
"Well, who made up that-" he started to say but Hermione interrupted.
"Draco shut up!" It was only because she used his first name and not Malfoy or ferret or something else that actually made him shut up.
"Say it again." He said.
"What shut up?"
"No the other part."
"What? Draco."She said with all the sarcasm she could put on Draco. "I think I hear people over there." She said pointing off in one direction. She found the way he was looking at her a little awkward but somehow she found herself liking it. A lot. Not that she would ever tell him that.
When they got closer to the voice they found a very strange sight. Three teens about their own age were standing in a clearing and talking to a strange animal. It looked like a blue centaur with no mouth and a pair of stalk eyes on top of its head. Hermione let out a little scream and grabbed Draco's arm with out thinking. He looked down and saw her staring at the thing's tail at the things tail. It curved down and ended in a scythe-like blade. Next he noticed a hawk and a bald eagle landing and suddenly took a couple steps back because the eagle started changing into a girl. He figured she must be an Animagus. One of the boys asked the girl a question they didn't hear but they heard her answer.
"It looks like Visser Three has new allies. We saw them bring a man down. He was dressed in black with a gray mask on his face."
"Where are you going?" Hermione asked because Draco was moving closer.
"It sounds like a Death Eater."
They heard the girl continue, "It might have just been the light but he was very pale and had a pointed face with long white blond hair. He told them that if he didn't return the Dark Lord would be very angry. They took him to Visser Three."
"Who is this Dark Lord?" the boy with blond hair asked.
"I know" Draco said walking into the circle, dragging Hermione with him because she would not let go of his arm.
"Who are you?" The boy asked, his voice full of suspicion.
"I am—" but Draco stopped because the blue centaur thing was holding his tail next to his throat.
"Go on." The boy told him.
"I am Draco Malfoy and this is Hermione Granger." Draco replied, "The man you were talking about is Lucius Malfoy, who is, unfortunately, my father. The Dark Lord he mentioned is…" but his voice trailed off.
"His name is Voldemort." Hermione told them, ignoring the fact that Draco flinched when she said his name. "Who are you?"
"I am Jake." The boy told them. "And this is Rachel, Marco, Cassie, Tobias (he pointed at the hawk) and Ax (pointing at the centaur)."
"Who are they and what are they doing with my father?" Draco asked Jake.
They are the Yeerks. They are a parasitic species that crawl thru the ear and take over the brain and control the person. This is how they have enslaved many worlds. said a voice in their heads.
Draco and Hermione looked around. "What was that?" Hermione asked nervously.
"That is how Ax communicates in his natural form. It is called thought-speak. Actually we all do when we are in morph." Jake told her.
"What's morph?" Hermione asked, her curiosity getting the best of her.
"It's kinda hard to explain. It's a lot easier to show you." Cassie told them. Then without warning they started changing. Jake turned into a tiger; Cassie morphed a wolf, Marco into a gorilla, Tobias into a human and Ax into a rattlesnake.
"Are you all Animagi?" Hermione asked.
"All what?" Tobias asked.
"Animagi," Draco repeated.
"Well we call ourselves the Animorphs. Never heard of an Animagi before."
"Maybe you've heard the singular-Animagus?" Hermione asked him.
"No. Why, are you one?
"I'm not sure." Hermione looked at Draco and said. "We better send Professor McGonagall an owl and tell her that You-Know-Who might have more allies."
Jake and the other reverted back to their normal forms and asked who Professor McGonagall was.
"Head of Gryffindor House and Transfiguration teacher"
"What school is that at?" Marco asked. "I've never heard of Transfiguration before."
"Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Hermione told him.
"So you are a witch and Draco is a wizard?" Rachel asked.
"Yes," Draco replied.
"How did you become animorphs?" Hermione asked.
"Well to make a long story short Ax's brother, Prince Elfangor, crash landed here while fighting the Yeerks in space and told us about them, then gave us a cube and transferred the morphing power to us." Marco said.
"Who is You-Know-Who?" Jake asked suddenly.
"His name is Voldemort and he wants to take over the magical world." Hermione told them. "My friend Harry is the only one who can destroy him. He made seven horcruxes, which is a piece of a soul in a container outside a body, in an attempt to make himself immortal. In order to destroy him we must destroy them first. We have destroyed all but one so far. The last one is his pet snake that is with him at all times." Hermione explained.
"Will you help us against You-Know-Who?" Draco asked.
"Only if you help us with the Yeerks." Jake answered. "Press your hands on this here." He told them as he pulled out a small bluish-white cube.
Hermione did at once and Draco moved closer and put his arm around her and he put his hand on the cube. After a couple seconds they felt a tingle go up their arms and Jake out the cube away.
"You have the morphing power now." Jake told them. "To acquire an animal you must touch it and concentrate on it. Then remove your hand and focus on the animal to change into that animal. You must demorph before two hours or you will be stuck in morph permanently." Jake reminded them. "I suggest you go home and practice to get used to the sensation. Touch, concentrate and change"
authors note-well there was chapter 6! sorry for the long wait. i was waiting for my beta to give it back. let's get a little competition going. review and i'll award 5 points to whichever house you wannt or say sort me and i'll put you in a ramdom house. i'll also have a trivia or random question at the end of each chapter that you get bonus points for answering right. question for this is random-what are some of your Christmas traditions?