The next few days were quite interesting. It took a while, but the first years managed to get used to their surroundings, and accepted the fact that one of their parents was an immortal being that they believed to be evil.
Classes were getting harder, but Kyla and her friends always took notes to help them understand everything. The professors got used to them, even the Care of Magical Creatures professor, who was still a bit mysterious.
They were in Care of Magical Creatures class, and Professor Ahmet Reano (A/N: That's his name by the way) was leading them to the forest surrounding the castle. He asked the students to gather around him as he gave some instructions.
"As you may know, all magical humans, or in your case, half-humans are capable of creating a magical bond with a creature. Making that creature you're bonded familiar." He said, his blood red eyes staring deeply into the children's eyes, almost as if he could see their souls. "In this forest, you will find animals that are known to bond with half-demons. You may bond with them, or you may not. Try making a good impression on each animal you find, and you might be successful." He said, trying his best to sound more intimidating after each word.
"What if we find an animal that we don't bond with?" Venus asked, raising her hand to get the Professor's attention. Professor Reano raised an eyebrow and spoke slowly as if he was talking to a five-year-old.
"You look for another one, obviously. If you don't bond by the end of the class, you can still return to try again later." He said. "Though there is a possibility that your familiar doesn't habit these woods."
"Professor, what if they try to hurt us?" Asked Mark Jacob, Kyla's half-sibling.
"No creature will attack you as long as you don't provoke them. Even if you do, their respect for demons and their children might be enough to keep you safe. Though I suggest behaving yourselves, because I don't want to drag your unconscious bleeding bodies to the infirmary. Now go." He said with a stern expression, making all the children shudder under his gaze.
"Well, isn't he a ray of sunshine?" Said Astrid, before muttering a quick 'Good Luck' before disappearing between the trees.
"Good Luck" All the girls replied, looking nervously at each other before parting their ways. Kyla curiously looked around, admiring the high and dense trees, with dark green leaves. Orange mushrooms glowed in the grass, and the sound of birds made the atmosphere calm and serene.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, enjoying the feeling of the fresh air filling her lungs. She slowly opened her eyes and gasped as she saw a huge, silver snake with its body wrapped in the branch of a tree. It stared right at her eyes, and its body seemed...unstable. As if it was made by a silver smoke.
"Um...Hello. Where did you come from?" Kyla asked, approaching the snake. The animal seemed to take her actions as a threat and hissed. She started to get nervous and took a step back. Trying to sound braver than she was, she started a conversation.
"You look like the snake my brother released from the zoo." She said, running her eyes through the snake's silver scales. The snake tilted it's head, as if it was confused. "My brother. His name is Harry. Harry Potter."
The snake lifted its head, ready to strike, and hissed loudly. It's body flashed in silver before it destabilized completely, turning into shapeless smoke. It floated above the branch, before descending and zigzagging between the trees, going deeper into the forest.
"Hey, wait up!" Kyla called, following the silver smoke. Whenever she tried to turn around after giving up, the smoke took the shape of the snake and hissed. Encouraging her to follow it.
'What does this thing want with me? Are familiars always that persistent?' She thought, running through the forest with her vision focused on the silver smoke like it was all that mattered. She had to follow it, she had to. But she didn't know why.
She was so focused on her new goal that she barely noticed that the trees got higher and the forest got more dense according to how far she went.
Then suddenly, they reached a cave. She wanted to hesitate, she wanted to run the other way, but she couldn't. She was like a stubborn puppet trying to control her own strings.
The cave was huge, dark, and had a dark atmosphere. Dark green vines and purple mushrooms grew among the stones, but the mushrooms didn't glow like the ones at the forest. In fact, the cave would be completely dark if it wasn't for the sun, and the silver smoke that glowed.
As she penetrated the cavern, she began to notice a few sentences written on the walls, in Latin. All she could translate were the words "doomed", " eternity", and "prison". She didn't like what she read at all, but was forced to onward.
After going deeper in the cave, she desesperatly tried to run away, but couldn't move at all. All she could do was stare in awe at the glowing inverted pentagram on the ground. It glowed in a deep purple light, and muffled screams seemed to be coming from...beneath it. And on the middle of the pentagram stood a man.
His silhouette was unstable, and his body was surrounded in a black smoke. He had dark long hair and a dark beard. His skin was pale, and his blue eyes glared at her in a terrifying manner.
"Harry Potter..." The man whispered in fury as the silver smoke exploded. The man extended his hand toward her, and Kyla noticed his arms were chained to the ground by glowing purple chains that seemed to emerge the pentagram as if they were getting through a portal.
And when Kyla finally managed to get free from whatever was controlling her, she heard a loud noise behind her. The entrance had collapsed, and the cave would be in pitch black if it weren't for the glowing chains. She desperately took a step back, unable to know where she was even going.
"Lumos." She said, and the red inverted pentagram appeared right beneath her fingertips, glowing in a vibrant red light. The man fought to get free from his chains as Kyla debated wether to attack him or not.
'There's no way first-year spells are useful against that.' She thought as she ran her gaze around the cavern, searching for an escape route.
She heard a roar, and an orange blur ran towards the man, sinking it's claws on the man's legs. The man howled in pain, and exploded in purple particles, that were sucked by the pentagram. The last thing Kyla saw before passing out was the orangle blur slowly walking towards her. And now she could see what it was. A dragon.