AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello all this is your friendly neighbour hood writer here just to say sorry it's taken so long but I have been busy with life and a new job which is demanding and awful hours. I will update again soon.
Chapter 7: Guardian's and revelations
Danny walked into defence against the dark arts the next day with a smile on his face the man standing in the room was the biggest fraud he had ever met and that was saying something, Danny was smirking as he took his seat leaning into his brother he whispered something barely audible to the rest of the class that had the boy chuckling away moments later.
"No need to compliment me behind my back boys." Lockheart said to them both causing them to howl with laughter.
"Stop laughing you two." Hermione said dreamily.
"Oh come of it don't tell me you believe anything this idiot wrote, his a bigger phoney than the lock ness monster." Danny said to her she looked annoyed at him.
"He is not a fake, he wrote those books you know." Hermione said.
"Yes because books can never be misleading Hermione now can they?" he asked.
She looked angrily at him before choosing to ignore him, Danny watched as the idiot tried to get back control of his class which he was failing miserably at after that little talk from Danny his confidence and bluster had disappeared. At the end of class the two boys walked out with Ron, Hermione was not talking to them at the moment they had angered her by disrespecting the teacher in the classroom.
When they walked into the great hall at dinner that evening the rest of the class was talking about what had happening in their class, Dumbledore looked rather dumbfounded by the whole thing someone had managed to get rid of their useless teacher by the end of the first day no one had ever managed that apart from Danny.
Dumbldore didn't know whether to be proud of the boy or annoyed that he had to call in some favours to get James assigned back to the school as a teacher for the year.
"I am sorry to announce that Professor Lockheart as resigned due to stress of teaching, I am pleased to say that James Potter as agreed to teach you all this year." Dumbledore said Danny and Tom hoorayed at that cheering the welcome change in personnel while the others except for the girls looked angry that they had lost the last professor.
Hermione waited until they were seated again before having a go at them for what they had managed to achieve in one lesson.
"How could you he would have been a brilliant teacher." She demanded.
"Him a great teacher that's like saying that Snape would make a great god." Danny snarled back at the girl. "Good riddance to bad rubbish." Harry said.
"Some of us aren't gods you know, some of us need to learn this first hand and he would have been perfect." Hermione said.
"Why don't you write to him and get him to give you private lessons." Tom said to her and Danny howled with laughter.
Hermione huffed at them while the others at the table gave them both a round of applause for achieving the best of them all, even Fred and George were impressed by their stunt in class that morning which was a rare thing indeed. Danny got the feeling that Hermione would not be happy with him for some time as he walked back to the dorms Danny caught sight of a familiar blond staring at him rather confusedly for a moment.
Danny walked back to where he had seen the blond but didn't see him at first he heard a door close down the hall, when he came to the said door he opened it to find the blond staring at the wall while Zeus and Hera stood by the black board.
"Well I have to say that this is a bit of a surprise." Danny said the blond looked at him sadly but turned his head away quickly.
"Danny you still don't write to us." Zeus said to him annoyed.
"Well that would be because it has only been a few days and most of the phoenix's are out looking for Voldemort." Danny said.
"Most of them?" Hera demanded.
"Well the others are spying on his associates and followers." Danny said to her.
"You young man worry too much." Hera said.
"Some might say that I don't worry enough mother." Danny said to her.
"She was telling the truth but how?" Malfoy asked.
"Oh no please tell me you didn't, tell me you did not give me a minder on Earth so that I would stop ignoring you and him of all people are you trying to drive me up the wall woman." Danny said to his mother realizing what was going on and why he had someone he could not stand the sight of sitting in the same room as him.
"You need some one to make sure that your okay." Hera said soothingly.
"But him… Lockheart would have been a better choice." Danny said to his mother who laughed.
"This is our punishment to you." Zeus said.
"And stripping me of my powers wasn't enough for you people." Danny said.
"That didn't work as you know all to well." She said to him.
"But its Malfoy are you insane woman." Danny demanded annoyed.
"I am in the room you know." Malfoy said nonchalantly.
"Yes we know." Danny and Hera said together.
"I wouldn't worry son, they have been arguing like this for years and years. I believe this started soon after the Titanic incident when we put him on magical restriction rather amusing for the god of magic to be on magical restriction don't you think." Zeus said to the blond.
"You mean his not even at his best?" Draco asked.
"Not even close certain parts of his pantheon will not be available till his seventeen." Zeus said.
"He did not have to know that father." Danny snarled giving the man marshmallows for ears.
"Impressive, I didn't think that people could do that to the king of the gods." Danny said.
"You do remember what I did to Apollo at the start of term right?" Danny asked.
"That was cool I will give you that." Draco said to him shocked that they could talk like this.
Dumbledore walked into the room at that moment shocked to find that the two boys were talking with two adults one of whom had marshmallows for ears at the moment, he suspected that Harry was likely to be responsible for that it seemed to be the most likely answer.
"Who are these people?" Dumbledore asked.
"Mischief must have summoned him." Harry said out loud.
"Oh I wondered where he would go when he wasn't with his mother." She said to the world at large.
"Yes his met up with a meddlesome headmaster by the name of Dumbledore Hera really you should keep more up to date with the worlds happenings." Zeus said realizing that the meddlesome headmaster was in the room at that moment in time and blushing slightly Danny and Draco roared with laughter while the headmaster looked put out.
"There goes my father king of the gods putting his foot in it again." Danny said.
"Why me though?" Draco asked.
"I have no idea, I would guess that they want someone who will annoy me and keep me in line anyway." Danny said.
"They think I can do that?" he asked.
"They thought they could strip my powers and make me mortal so I wouldn't put it past them to do something like this." Danny said.
"How did that work out for you?" Draco asked.
"I haven't told them this yet but all of my powers are available to me again." Danny said to the blond.
"What does that mean for me though?" Draco asked.
"It means that you will never have to serve that half blood nitwit you father do and that you will have the protection of the god of magic to make sure that you are safe for all time." Danny said.
"You mean that I am immortal?" he asked.
"Yes that is not to say that you cannot die, it just means that old age won't kill you. When you turn seventeen you will stop aging." Danny said.
"So I look that beautiful from then on." Draco said causing Danny to chuckle.
"My you are sure of your self aren't you Draco." Danny said to the boy with a shake of the head and a chuckle.
"I need to think about my looks you know." Draco said.
"Boys no fighting." Hera said.
"Oh dear I think they have something much worse planned for us." Danny said.
"We have no such thing planned for either of you." Hera said.
"You need to work out with Draco what he would wish to do to improve himself to make him better suited to your pantheon we all know you favour the light and a Veela no matter how cute is a dark creature." Hera said to him.
"You know I think I want to be sick." Danny said Draco was agreeing with him.
"I will need to have separate rooms then." Danny said.
"Yes I believe that you will." Zeus said looking at the headmaster.
"They can have the heads rooms, since the head boy and girl both wish to stay in their dorms this year." Dumbledore said.
"I guess that will have to do for now anyway." Danny said.
"What do you mean change me?" Draco asked.
"There are certain species that don't mix well with me so you get to choose another sub species." Danny said.
"Or another species altogether." Hera added.
"That's cool." Draco said.
The two of them walked with the headmaster to the head boys and girls rooms which were off from each other and a living room was sitting between the two rooms it was pretty open planned with everything an adult could need.
"Well this was better than I was expecting." Danny said.
"Worse than I was." Zeus said causing his son to laugh.
"See you later pops I have to talk to the cute bodyguard and if you tell him I said that I will kill you." Danny said.
"So you do like him." Zeus said and Danny shrugged.
He watched the adults leave before walking back to the sitting room where Draco was looking rather oddly at the door which he was coming out from, Danny laughed as he sat down and the boy startled he had been staring at the door not paying attention to the other boy as he moved around the room freely thus getting a shock when the boy sat down.
"Hey didn't see you there." Draco said.
"You my little friend were in shock for a while there." Danny said.
"A lot has happened what did you expect." Draco said.
"Oh nothing at all, I thought it was rather cute seeing you watching the door I had just come out of and not noticing me." Danny said.
"A Malfoy is not cute he is gorgeous." Draco said causing Danny to chuckle.
"You are conceited you know that." Danny said to the boy who laughed.
"Do you even know what that means?" Draco asked causing Danny to pout.
"I don't need to know what it means I just know that it sounds right." Danny said to the blond who was laughing at him.
"So how do I choose what I want to become?" Draco said.
Harry thought really hard about being some where else with the blond and they disappeared from the rooms that they were in at that moment to be standing on a fluffy white plain, Draco was looking around in surprise this was the last place that he had expected to end up it was cloud tops.
"Harry we should be back at the school." Draco said.
"And we are this is just our minds here, it takes a lot of power to leave that plain of existence as a human you know, while a god can do it in a blink of the eye." Danny said to the blond.
"So what do we do." Draco said.
"I sit back while you watch a slide show on different creatures until you have found one that agrees with you." Danny said with a smirk.
And so it was Danny say on a fluffy white cloud chair watching the blonde as he went through literally thousands of creatures and sub species, some of which were extinct or what people believed to be myths which had at one point existed. Danny watched the wonder on his friends face, when had he become a friend he thought to himself then realized that they had been speaking civilly to each other all night and chuckled at his own thoughtlessness.
"What are you laughing at?" Draco asked.
"Oh the fact that we have been talking civilly all night without any problems, any luck yet." Danny asked.
"No not yet." Came the reply.
Hera dropped by some time later the two of them looked up in shock for a moment before returning to their watches, Hera pulled up a cloud next to her son she looked annoyed about something that he hadn't figured out yet.
"When you came here did you think to freeze your time stream?" she asked and Danny almost laughed almost.
"Crap I knew that their was something that I needed to do that I had forgot about." Danny said.
"You have been unconscious for a week your parents are worried sick about you by the way." Hera said.
"Oh tell them to stop worrying we'll be back when he finally chooses one of these things." Danny said.
"Please do hurry up." Hera said disappearing in a puff of smoke.
"Always about the dramatic exits mother." He said shaking his head and heard a chuckle in the air.
Danny watched for a while longer it seemed like eternity had come and gone sitting in that chair he was playing cards with fate and sure that the man was cheating some how then realized this was fate and this was the reason no one invited him to poker nights up stairs.
"You know its good sport to let us win occasionally." Danny said.
"Yes but I hate losing." Fate mumbled and Danny laughed at him for that as he disappeared.
"Hey Danny I chose." Draco said.
Danny looked up at the boy and smiled walking forward it was a moment before he recognized the creature in front of the both of them then he chuckled it was a fully bellied laugh by the end of it all, Danny looked at the boy with a faint smile on his lips he had chosen well and that was something that impressed the young god.
"A dragon, half dragon at that and one of the light dragons, I didn't think you would choose one of them but I am pleased you did." Danny said feeling the magic of the creature he had chosen then taking the vela out of the boy adding the dragon to him instead.
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Danny woke up in the hospital wing with a headache and people looking down at him he seemed to be mildly annoyed that his mother had not explained to them what had been happening and why he was asleep for so long, he heard someone groan from the bed next to him and watched the newly improved Draco Malfoy sit up in bed.
"Well you certainly look different." Danny said.
"What the hell happened to you two?" Lily demanded.
"Oh not much mother and father decided that I needed a guardian so we were off choosing a species for him." Danny said.
"Your parents chose Malfoy?" Ron demanded and Harry nodded.
"It makes sense that they have a grudging respect for each other even if they don't admit it." Dumbledore said.
"I don't care his a snake." Ron said angrily.
"Grow up Weasley." Draco said back.
"Now I do not want a fight boys." Dumbledore said.
"Yes because I don't want to think about the smear that would be Ron if you did, remember that your different now and need to learn what your boundaries are until then no getting into fights unless someone is trying to kill you okay. Your training begins tomorrow so don't be late." Danny said.
"Like I could do that I live next to you in the head students rooms." Draco said.
"Good point Drake I may just have to wake you up in that case water from the Antarctic should do the trick." Danny said.
TBC
