Paths of a Wizard Chapter 10: Lunch, Dance, and a Steambath, a harry potter fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own "Harry Potter" would be awesome if I did but sadly I do not. It is all owned by J.K. Rowling. I am getting no money for this story, it is purely for entertainment. So please do not sue me because I have no money what-so-ever.

This story is rated M due to future violence, blood, gore, language etc. If you don't like these things then find another story to read. If you do like this type of stuff I hope you enjoy the story.

-The Author is not responsible for any and all exploding heads that may or may not happen while reading this story- (I hope you like this He-Who-Has-No-Name)

(Dragcun sits in front of a computer banging his head on the keyboard.)

Dragcun: Crap(bang), crap(bang), crap(bang). It has taken forever to get this chapter done. College can suck, as can real life, and not to mention having this chapter ready for over a week but do to some error being unable to update the story, if you haven't taken a hint Fate decided that I was going to take my turn as her whipping boy for the next while. Well, hopefully I can speed things up a bit now. Almost done with the first chapter of my new Bleach story as well….just got to check a few names….and spelling, that's the one thing I hate about Japanese Anime….the weird names and spelling, but hey, that's one of the things that makes Japanese Anime what it is, and now that I think about the Japanese probably find the way America spells things weird as well. But anyway, I hope that you all enjoy this chapter and please read and review, I like to know what people think of the story. Now….where did Dragcu get to I wonder?

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Harry and Hermione both dived out of the way as Dragcu's scaled fist slammed into the ground where they had just been standing, leaving a small crater where it hit. Harry looked on in shock, while he had seen Dragcu's true form before it never ceased to surprise him at the power Dragcu had. However Harry was quickly shaken out of his shock when he heard Hermione shriek and saw her flying at him, apparently Dragcu had used his tail to wrap around Hermione's legs and flung her at him. Harry quickly moved into a position to where Hermione would collide into him but hopefully not get injured while he took the brunt of the impact, his plan worked and they both hit the ground hard. The next thing Harry knew he and Hermione where up in the air with Dragcu holding by their necks with his claws right at their jugulars.

"Pathetic," Dragcu snorted before he dropped them both to the ground, "Hermione, pay attention to your surroundings, your opponents will use whatever they can in a fight. And Harry, you can't save everyone from harm. It's hard but sometimes in war you have to watch friends and loved ones get hurt and or killed so that the enemy can get killed. You could have fought back if you had avoided Hermione and shot a spell at me."

Harry and Hermione picked themselves up and wiped the dirt of themselves as they listened to Dragcu tear into them. "Dragcu, we aren't soldiers, we are students and teenagers." Hermione stated with a glare.

Dragcu sighed as he rubbed the back of his head, "I know that. But you're in a war. So like it or not your now soldiers. Get….Used….To…..It." Be punctuated the last for words by poking the two teens in the chest, which since he was still in his True Form his claws helped get his point across. "Its ether learn or die now. And I have now bloody intentions of having you die so that option is out." Dragcu looked like he was going to continue on but then he stopped and sniffed the air. "We are done for the day…..go…get to class…now." Dragcu then turned and walked off.

Harry and Hermione looked at each other in confusion, "Did we get him mad or something?" Hermione asked as they headed back into the castle. Harry only shrugged in response as his thoughts went back to the current events.

While he and Hermione had already agreed to get married at Christmas Break, much to the displeasure of both of Hermione's parents until they were told of the consequences of not doing it, but they had yet to actually have a first date. With the training and studying they did that detail slipped up on both of them. Harry however planned on getting Dragcu's help for something special on the next Hogsmeade trip to hopefully help make up for that error,

Later that day…..

Harry, Hermione, and Ron were sitting down eating lunch when Dragcu appeared again sniffing the air. Everyone watched as Dragcu got done on his hands and knees and sniffed the ground and moving around. After about three minutes of this Harry's curiosity got the better of him and he approached Dragcu. "Is umm….something wrong Dragcu?"

Dragcu looked up from his strange activity and looked around seeming to just then notice where he was. "Well…this is awkward. But something is odd….someone has been following me around lately and it's annoying me. I've followed the scent to here but its got mixed in with all the other scents in here. I was this close to figuring out who has been following me to. " Dragcu said a bit sheepishly.

At this point Snape, who had been stalking angrily towards Dragcu shortly after Harry approached him, decided to speak up. "And who would be following a thing like you around. 50 points from Gryffindor for this nauseating display at a meal."

Dragcu barely glanced at Snape before snapping his fingers. Everyone gasped and looked at where Snape had been standing to see that he had been somehow moved to the center of the Great Hall and that his robes had been changed into a white button up long sleeve shirt with some muggle pens in a pocket protector, a pair of long plaid pants that was pulled up to his belly button, a pair of shiny black dress shoes, and a set of oversized glasses on his face. Snape looked around confused for a moment before he was frozen into place.

Dragcu was smiling evilly at the now frozen Snape when a high pitched shriek was heard from the Slytherin table. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO OUR HEAD OF HOUSE YOU ABOMINATION?" Everyone turned to look and see Dragcu, Crabbe, and Goyle charging towards Dragcu with their wands drawn.

"You are a bunch of idiots you know that?" Was all Dragcu said before he snapped his fingers three more times and Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle where right next to Snape except they were wearing nothing but neon pink diapers, bibs, and bonnets. Dragcu turned to the rest of the Great Hall smiling, "For your listening and viewing pleasure Professor Snape, and Draco Malfoy and his butt buddies have volunteered to sing and dance to one of the muggle worlds more interesting songs, Loser by Beck Mellow Gold. Remember to tip your House Elves and that I am awesome." With that Dragcu snapped his fingers again and the four people in the middle of the Great Hall began to sing and dance to the song as it played from seemingly nowhere. As most of the Great Hall, including the other professors, laughed at the scene or threw up at the jiggling fat on Crabbe and Goyle, in some cases both, at the act before them Dragcu motioned for Harry, Hermione, and Ron to follow him out of the Great Hall.

Once outside Dragcu took another few sniff of the air and growled, "Damn I lost the scent again…..that's the second time this person has evaded me…..its starting to get on my nerves."

"What's so important about this person anyway Dragcu?" Harry asked.

"I'm not sure. But this person's scent in driving me nuts….almost like I NEED to find whoever it is. If I didn't know better I would swear I had found my mate." Dragcu said with a sigh as he leaned against the wall.

Ron looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking, "Why couldn't the person be your mate Dragcu? And I thought your kind fell in love."

Dragcu sighed again before continuing, "We do fall in love Ron, but each Usra Nolbitu has at least one mate in the world. In most cases it is another Usra. Now that doesn't make the love we feel for any other any less but the animal or elemental part of all Usra feel the urge to breed with his or her mate. Generally, this leads to the mate ether becoming a second wife/husband or mistress/lover, but not always because the mate can at times be the one we fall in love with in the first place. After I landed in this dimension I realized I still retained my species immunity to time. And due to other unforeseen circumstances it is near impossible for me to die. So I used some of my magic to seal away the part that seeks a mate and I forced myself to not fall in love or grow overly attached to anything."

Hermione gasped in shock at hearing this, "But why do that Dragcu? Love and care or important parts to life!"

Dragcu sighed again and took a deep breath as he rubbed the bridge of his nose, "I know that. But put yourself in my position. Time and disease don't affect me, and unless something massive happens I can't be killed. So as I remained forever as I am I would be forced to watch those I love and care for grow old and wither until they die. I don't even have the hope of a future death to meet them again. In my old world I could deal with it since all Usra are immune to time but could die in combat or in a accident, here….that can't happen to me now. I have already set myself up for great pain in the future by getting so attached to you three. I don't think I could stand to lose one I loved, it would drive me insane." Dragcu looked out a nearby window and seemed lost in thought for a moment. "I'm….I'm going to get back to forging your weapons, the scents gone for now anyway. I'll talk to you three tonight at the edge of the Forbidden Forest to do the Cleansing Ritual." Dragcu turned and left leaving the three confused teens behind.

Hermione took a few steps forward towards Dragcu when an arm wrapped around her waist, "Don't, I think Dragcu needs to be alone for right now." Harry whispered into her ear.

Hermione sighed, "Alright, but….don't you think we should do something?"

At that moment a diaper clad Draco Malfoy stormed up to the Trio. "POTTER! Where is that foul creature? I DEMAND HE SHOW HIMSELF AT ONCE! ONCE MY FATHER…" Draco never finished his sentence since he disappeared from the corridor with a pop.

Harry and Hermione looked around confused for Draco when they saw Ron smirking. What did you do to him?" They both asked at the same time.

"Great. Now you two are talking at the same time. Soon you'll be finishing each others sentences as well." Ron said with a knowing smile.

Hermione glared at Ron and poked him in the chest, "Don't avoid the question. What did you do to Malfoy?"

Ron smirked again and chuckled before he answered, "I still don't know how to work all the wards in Hogwarts, but one of the first wards I have learned is the Placement Ward. It allows me to force anyone or anything to be in or around a certain part of Hogwarts. Just as long as it's on the grounds. Its original purpose was to make sure certain students went to class instead of playing hooky by preventing them from going anywhere but where the ward was set to allow them to go. But I figured it could be used for temporary teleportation by setting the ward to a person and a place for a few seconds then taking it off. I thought Malfoy needed to cool off a bit, so I used the Placement Ward to place him about six feet above the Black Lake. By now he floundering his way back to shore probably muttering about how his father will hear of this." Ron finished with a chuckle.

Harry and Hermione stood in silent shock for s few seconds before they fell over and starting rolling with laughter.

Harry finally was able to sit up while leaning against Hermione, "Ron, that was bloody brilliant."

Hermione was also still chuckling but still glared at Harry, "Harry it was funny but language please. And Ron that was brilliant…" Hermione stopped with a look of shock on her face before she continued, "Wait….Ron…that was brilliant…you never do brilliant. Since when do you make brilliant decisions?"

Ron and Harry glanced at each other before Ron spoke, "I'm not sure really. The goblins said I was doused with so many potions it wasn't funny. But….every since I've been checking my food and drink I find that my thoughts aren't as muddled as they once were. I think one of the potions used on me was a Mind Dampener Potion. But it would have had to be a massive dose to make me as dense as I was. Almost fatal dose actually." Ron murmured with a thoughtful expression.

Harry placed his hand on Ron's shoulder, "Don't worry mate. We will find out what those potions were tonight with ritual Dragcu said he was doing. Then, one piece to this weird puzzle will be placed. I hope."

-Some time later-

The whole castle for the last few hours had been serenaded by the repeated sound of metal hitting metal and the sound of heavy metal music. Now this was a odd enough occurrence in the magical castle of Hogwarts as it was but the fact that the sounds seemed to get louder in the bathrooms of the castle was something that puzzled even the Professors. It bothered them so much so that they placed the whole castle in lock down and sent all the students to their dorms. No one noticed however the look that Harry, Ron, and Hermione all gave each other before they snuck away and headed to the familiar scene of Moaning Myrtle's bathroom as the rest of the student body filed away to their dorms.

Once there they all nodded to one another when they found that the sounds were even louder here. Harry hissed at the sink and opened the passage that lead to the famous Chamber of Secrets. Harry was surprised to see that the slide-like passage had seemingly been scrubbed clean and when they landed at the bottom found that the rest of the entrance chamber was in the same state. The three friends continued on until they came to the second great door which Harry opened as well. Once the great doors was opened again the sounds of the music was almost deafening and the clanging of metal was revealed to be a shirtless Dragcu hammering away at a piece of red hot metal at a forge.

Hermione looked over at Harry as they watched Dragcu work and occasionally bobbing his head to the music, "I don't remember you ever saying there was a forge down here." She had to fairly shout to be able to be heard.

"That's because there wasn't one. I have no idea where it came from." Harry shouted back.

"WHAT?" Ron shouted, trying to hear what the others where saying.

Ron's shout seemed to cut through all the other sounds because Dragcu looked behind him and snapped his fingers making the music stop before turning back and hammering away at the red hot metal again.

"You have to forgive me if I don't stop this to talk. Its at a critical point and I can't stop now or the metal will warp beyond even magic's ability to fix." Dragcu hollered over the clashing sounds of his hammer.

"That's fine….But what are you doing?" Hermione slightly hollered at Dragcu.

"I told you(CLANG) that I was going to go work on your(BANG) weapons some more(CLANG). I am working(BANG) on the blade of your weapon right now Hermione(CLANG)." Dragcu set his hammer down and picked up a nearby pair of tongs and carefully lifted the still red hot metal off the anvil and carefully dipped it into a nearby bucket of water. The hiss of the hot metal touching the cool water echoed throughout the chamber and the steam that rose exited through a vent that suddenly appeared above the bucket.

Dragcu stared curiously at the vent for a moment before shrugging. "I swear I've been around this castle for almost as long as it was built and it still surprises me." He muttered as he examined what was now clearly a long thin blade that the tongs held. "Hmm…almost done….a few more hammerings and then I can etch in the runes. Then make the handle, etch a few more runes, and its good to go." Dragcu said with a nod before placing the blade down on the anvil he had been working on.

"That steam had to be hot…I wonder where it went?" Harry wondered out loud as he stared at the vent.

-Meanwhile elsewhere in the castle-

Professor Severus Snape was a bastard. He knew it and freely admitted it. And quite frankly he hated kids, especially if their last name was Potter. "Speaking of Potter I will have to figure out something truly horrible to do to that insufferable brat. What his bet creature did to me was unacceptable" Snape thought as he looked over what classes he had to deal with today.

He never would have been teaching if not for the fact Dumbledore was his best hope of not going to Azkaban. But now that Dumbledore had left, Severus was seriously thinking of leaving the country. "After all, I hear they need a Master Potion Maker in Hawaii right now." He thought as reached over to grab some newt's eyes for the potion he was making, "Doesn't mean I can't make sure some of these brats need therapy for the rest of their miserable lives before I got though." He chuckled darkly. Right as he was about to drop in the eyes he heard a strange noise below him, he glanced down only to see a cockroach scurry down the drain between his feet. With a growl he looked up now to see a large hole in front of his face where there used to not be one. "What the he…" Was all Snape could get out before a blast of scolding hot steam burst into his face. Snape stood still for a few moments after the steam had stopped; his head now bright red and in some places peeling and his hair cleaner than it had been for years.

After standing stock still for nearly a minute Snape let out a scream of agony that was heard throughout the castle as he bolted towards the door, or at least what he assumed was the door since he could barely see, and promptly tripped head first into another unfinished potion he had been making. The cauldron knocked over spilling Snape out as he crawled away still screaming as the unfinished potion kicked in, what was supposed to be a potion that was supposed to induce clumsiness into the drinker as an unfinished potion was a head shrinker potion. So there Snape crawled, screaming in pain as his head shrunk down to a little under a fourth of its original size, his voice getting more and more high pitched as it shrank, until he mercifully lost consciousness due to the pain. It was to this scene about forty minutes later that Madame Pomfrey walked into the dungeons expecting to get her monthly stock of Pain Relieving Potion that she walked into.

-Back at the Chamber of Secrets-

Harry shook his head of his thoughts on the vent and turned to Dragcu, "Dragcu, You said this was the night to do that ritual to remove the potions from us right?" he asked.

"Indeed it is Harry. And before you asked Hermione there is Two things you need to do before the ritual. One, don't drink anything from now till tomorrow. And two….don't wear any underwear….in fact…it would be best if you wore only your robes." Dragcu said with a shrug.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron all looked at one another glowing red until they all exploding in a resounding, "WWWWWHHHHHHHAAAAATTTTTT!"

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Dragcun: And there ya go folk. Again sorry for the long delay but things are getting out of hand here. But now I hope everything will return to semi-normalcy.

-Dragcu launches himself out of a shadow swinging a large axe at Dragcun-

Dragcu: NORMAL IS FOR THE WEAK! AND THE WEAK MUST DIE!

-Dragcun steps aside letting Dragcu fall through a open window that suddenly appeared and listened to the sound of Dragcu's shrieks as he fell for a long time-

Dragcun: I wondered where he was hiding. I swear he will never learn, the creation can never hope to beat its creator….maybe I shouldn't have made him so stubborn, o-well to late now. So any until next time please R&R!