Some people commented that too much swearings are found in this fic, way too much than the actually HP books. Well, my impression of Scorpius and his gang are like that, a group of swearing teenagers. xD Sorry if you can't appreciate it…

Enjoy anyway!

The Dragon

"So, what's the plan?" Roxanne asked.

The four of them had congregated outside the Gryffindor common room, hiding behind a pillar. Scorpius had cast the disillusionment charm on all of them. They were trying to follow Albus, James and Rose on their way to Coactus' 'tea party', so that they could get Coactus fired for bringing in dragons to the school. "Wait for the Potters to come out." Scorpius said. "Meanwhile, don't move too much. The disillusionment charm just camouflages us and makes us hard to be seen, but it doesn't make us invisible."

"What if they are not in the common room?" Sebastian said. "We can just go to the last castle ourselves to check it out."

"Are you sure that Coactus is going to show them his dragon?" Roy said.

"Well, there's absolutely nothing to see in the last castle, other than the dragon. I figured Coactus just wanted to show off his dragon, and seeing how close Coactus and the three of them are, Albus and Rose would not give him away anyway. So yup, the possibility that we can catch Coactus red-handed is very high." Scorpius deduced.

"What do we do after that?" Sebastian asked. "I don't dare to inform Professor McGonagall." He said honestly.

"We can tell Slughorn. He likes me." Scorpius said simply. His potions had always top the class (slightly better than Rose), and Professor Slughorn always seemed to be taking Scorpius' potions as the model potion all the time.

"Oh look, they're here!" Roxanne whispered excitedly. They snuck behind them as quietly as possible, hiding in their layer of disillusionment charm.

"I really wonder what Mr. Coactus would be showing us." Rose commented enthusiastically, bouncing a bit while walking next to James and Albus.

"I wonder too, I mean, I asked all my friends, and they all said there's nothing to see in the last castle." James said, frowning. "But I guess it's because they themselves never went there before."

They walked towards the end of the castle, the all-too-familiar place in which they ran through with drenched robes. Trying to hide behind Albus and gang was getting really hard with lesser and lesser pillars around. Scorpius frowned as he concentrated all his remaining energy to conjure up a stronger spell, the Bedazzling Hex, to conceal the four of them even more.

"This is kind of interesting!" Sebastian whispered excitedly.

"Sh! Don't speak!" Scorpius scolded, but it was slightly too late, as the three in front spun around suddenly.

"I thought I hear someone…" Albus said, frowning. Scorpius, Sebastian, Roy and Roxanne leaned quietly against the wall and held their breath tentatively. "Weird…" He shrugged and the three of them continued their journey. Scorpius sighed in relief, as he threw Sebastian one last reproachful look.

They walked for quite a while, and they stopped in front of all-too-familiar hidden door. The cupboard blocking the door was shifted to the side, making the door visible. The door opened as Mr. Coactus walked out of it. "Hey, James! Albus! And you too, Rose! You came!"

Scorpius smirked, as he exchanged gleeful glances with his three other friends. Coactus was definitely the one bringing in the dragons now, and they were definitely going to catch him red-handed.

"What is it that you wanted to show us, Mr. Coactus?" Albus asked.

"Oh, you wouldn't believe your eyes once you lay it on this baby!" Mr. Coactus exclaimed happily, putting on a grin that did not at all match his face. James, Albus and Rose looked at one another eagerly as well. "Just come into this room with me." Mr. Coactus said, holding up the door for them.

"Reducio." Scorpius whispered. The four of them shrunk in size as they slipped their way into the room as well. "Prior Incantato." He whispered again when they are in the room, returning themselves back to their original sizes. The room was as filthy as always, and it was apparently cleaned up after the near-collapse incidence previously, but there were visible cracks all over the place. Scorpius could feel Roy cringing over to his side whenever a spider fled by.

"What is this room, Mr. Coactus?" Rose asked, forcing a wry smile, apparently uncomfortable in the room. "It's kind of dark…"

"Lumos." Coactus said, lighting up the place. "The thing I want to show you is rather secretive, so it has to be hidden in this room, please forgive me, my dear, after today, after this plan, I am going to seal of this door that is almost forgotten by the school, and nobody would ever find this place ever again…" Coactus seemed to be talking to himself more than to Rose.

"So…where is it, Mr. Coactus?" Albus asked, looking around. "All I see are spiders…"

Coactus smiled, his eyes seemed to be staring at somewhere far. "Follow me, as I tell you a story…" He started walking in the direction of the field-that-lived-the-dragon. "You know the war twenty years ago, the one where your father fought and won? Well, the fact is, I was in it too, but I was really really young that time, I didn't know anything. My father fought in the war though, and he was killed in the war."

"I'm really sorry to hear that, Mr. Coactus." Rose said kindly. "The war really killed a lot of people…"

"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING!" Coactus barked suddenly, shocking all of them, as he spun around and pointed his wand at the James, Albus and Rose. "My father fought in the war and died. He was a death eater, and he was killed by Harry Potter! I was so young back then, DO YOU KNOW WHAT BECAME OF ME WHEN MY DAD DIED, DO YOU?"

There was no answer as every body just eyed the wand warily.

"The Dark Lord, he helped my family, we were poor, and he gave us money, he gave us power!" Coactus continued saying. "Because of the Dark Lord, we managed to live! If he never came we would still be living under all you wizard's feet, like a pathetic beggar!" James leaned over slowly and whispered a "get ready for your wands" to Albus and Rose. "He was our savior, our master. He was my master. But that Harry Potter! He killed him! Harry Potter killed my savior, my master, and my father; he basically took my family and everything that meant a lot to me away! HE RIPPED MY LIFE APART! Now I have to be stuck in the streets, squeezing my neck just to earn enough money to live, and then I thought, why not let Harry Potter suffer too? Why not take his family away from him too, why not…"

"NOW! EVANIO – "

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Coactus shouted, disarming James, Albus and Rose's wands. He held on to the three wands as he smirked. "Trying to outwit me, eh? NOT A CHANCE! I'm going to kill you tonight, and let Harry Potter suffer the same way I did! DEPRIMO!"

A strong wind taking a form of tornado blasted through the room, causing the floor below them (except for the floor below Coactus) to be destroyed. "Goodbye kids!" Coactus waved as he ran back to the exit. "Colloportus!" He locked the door behind him, and left just like that.

James, Albus, Rose, Scorpius, Sebastian, Roy and Roxanne were falling to the ground about three storeys below. "CUSHIONIOSIS!" Scorpius shouted, as an invisible cushion formed at the ground, catching all of them.

"Malfoy? Scottson? What the hell are you doing here?" Rose exclaimed.

"It's a long story." Scorpius said, looking around frantically. "But keep your guards up, there's a dragon here. That fucking Coactus left us here alone with the dragon." Damn it, Coactus really was the one bringing in the dragon, but he did it with such an evil intention! He should have known. After all, Coactus entered the school so suddenly, and immediately brought a dragon along. Argh, damn it! Scorpius cursed silently. I should have known! I should have thought further and realised something…

"AHHH!" Rose screamed suddenly. The dragon had spread out its wings and was turning around to face them. This is bad…

"Don't scream, you idiot!" Scorpius said, as he whipped out his wand. "You three, stay back, since your wands are taken."

"What should we do, Scor?" Roy asked, clutching his wand anxiously.

"I don't know!" Scorpius shouted hysterically. Shit, their lives is at stake here, think, Scorpius, think! "First, don't provoke it, when it shoots flame at us or hit us, we can protect ourselves, I don't think it's wise to provoke it. I don't know what to do to a dragon damn it!" He turned to Rose. "Do you know anything about dragons?"

"What? No! I don't…it's not in the syllables so I didn't read up on it!" Rose said, almost in the verge of tears.

The dragon turned its head and started trudging towards them. This is bad, if they could not think up of any solutions to defeat the dragon, then they would need to escape. Scorpius glanced at the exit, which is around 5 metres away, but three storeys up in the air, with the door locked up. Damn this, they could not just possibly fly up there, especially without a broom. But wait, if there's no flying broom, they can make one out of the surrounding rocks!

"We can put the flying charm on these boulders here, and fly all the way up to the exit." Scorpius said. Sebastian, Roy and Roxanne looked around, and nodded confidently. They had been practicing on their flying charm to make the quidditch merchandises, so they were quite confident about it.

"Yeah, but such a big boulder, and with seven of us, I think we need a lot of distracting time." Roy said. "A lot." He emphasised as the dragon opened his mouth and started shooting flames at them.

"AGUAMENTI!" Scorpius shouted, and immediately put up a defensive shield around all of them, seeing the tail of the dragon coming down for a strike.

"ARGH!" Scorpius clutched his wand harder as the tail struck down hard on the shield he created. He was just a mere first-year, his weak shield charm could not hold off the dragon for too long. He opened his palm only to see bloodstains. Fuck. His body cannot take it either. He needs some other way to distract the dragons. "ROSE, THINK FURTHER! THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULDN'T HAVE READ ABOUT DRAGONS WHILE BATHING YOURSELF IN THE AIR OF THE LIBRARY!" Scorpius shouted frantically, as he braced for another attack.

"I don't know…I really don't know…" Rose sobbed. "I…I can't think under pressure…"

Fuck this…Scorpius bit his lips as he wiped his injured, bloody hands on his shirt. He could feel his inner lungs hemorrhaging as well. He would just die if he continued his defensive approach. He turned around to see Sebastian, Roy and Roxanne working on the boulder. "Rose, Albus and James, you three help them in whatever manpower they need. Stay right here don't move, alright." He said, running off to the other side of the field. "I'm going to distract this dragon. And Rose, stop crying and THINK!" He demanded angrily.

"Aguamenti!" Scorpius shot water at the dragon's back. The dragon turned around, apparently irritated, as it started to roar thunderously. Scorpius wiped his sweat off his face as he tried to think of what to do next. He sent small fiery sparks at the dragon, all that was learnt in Defence Against Dark Arts, but the dragon seemed to feel nothing. "I'm probably just going to die…" Scorpius said, shaking his head. What's wrong with him, coming up to save the Potters and the Weasley girl? They could have been saved by just remaining invisible. And why the fuck was he doing this, risking his life to distract a dragon when he did not even know a quarter of any suitable attack spells (he was more interested in non-violent magic)? He was just going to die a horrible death, and he would be known as 'the boy who stupidly goes into a dragon's lair again'. And he won't ever see his parents being so proud over his school results, and them having their dark mark completely removed, and he won't ever have the chance of going to Sebastian's house, Roy and Roxanne's house, and he won't ever have the chance to tell Rose once and for all that the prank last time was not exactly done by him… …

"ICE, SCORPIUS!"

"What?" Scorpius said, snapping back to reality. The dragon's paw was on his way to the ground now, and Scorpius immediately jumped away, using the jumping charm to increase the distance.

"The dragon's weakness is ice! Ice-type animals like the sealion dragon!" Rose shouted. "But ice-type spells should work too!"

Great, ice-type, ice-type… "HYDRIFREEZIO!" Scorpius shouted, sending a freezing charm with all his might. Only the wings of the dragon were affected slightly, as it has bits of ice sticking out of it, making it unable to fly. The torment on the dragon, however, was vast, as it was just thundering and stomping on the ground like a kid throwing tantrums.

"Hydrifreezio! Hydrifreezio!" Scorpius continued, wanting to completely freeze the dragon. But the dragon was too large, and it kept moving and wailing. Scorpius was panting in exhaustion when the dragon was just half frozen. "Damn this." He cursed, as he coughed a bit.

There was blood on the floor. Fuck. He was coughing out blood. Guess overworking your body to cast such difficult spells is really bad for your body…

That sudden realisation seemed to shock him even more as he suddenly coughed much more violently into his hands. And his hands had even more fresh bloodstains.

"Hydrifreezio!" He shouted one last time as he collapsed onto the floor in dizziness.

"Scor! The boulder is finished! Run here!" Sebastian called out.

Ah, finally! Scorpius heaved a sigh of relief as he started running over to his friends. His vision was blurred suddenly, but he shook it off as he climbed onto the boulder.

"I cast the gripping charm on this boulder too!" Sebastian announced proudly as the boulder flew towards the exit, away from the half-frozen dragon. Scorpius merely smiled weakly at it.

"Alohomora." Scorpius said, unlocking the door. He tried to open the door. He could not.

"I think Coactus sealed off this door. With cement or something, to pretend that this room doesn't exist." Scorpius said fragilely. His energy was drained completely, he could not perform anymore spells.

"Gimme your wand, I'll blast it off." James said, taking Scorpius' wand. He blasted off the door (and the cement behind it) rather easily, and they scrambled out of the room.

"We're safe!" Roxanne announced happily.

Yes, they were finally safe. Fuck it, finally, after so freaking long… Scorpius thought as he fainted on the spot.

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