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"We have to join one of them in the fight or....."Ron began, but Draco finished thesentence for him.
"Or while they are fighting we will get past them unnoticed..." Draco smiled cunningly at Ron, who smugly smiled back.
"Now Potter, where the hell is your invisibility cloak" Ron and Draco both asked Harry at the same time.
"Potter?!" said Ron as he turned around and there was no Potter staring back at him, "Where is he now? Bet he's gone off," Ron rolled his eyes and turned back to the two fighting teams, expecting to see Potter secretly creeping behind them all.
"Nope, I don't think he has," smirked Draco, as he kicked something, "he's deffo out of it," Draco laughed quietly. Harry was lying in an awkward position, having fainted once he had set eyes on the huge fire-breathing aggressive dragons.
"Bloody Hell! Why did the bloody cup thingy think he was a worthy competitor?"
"I don't know, but it is bloody funny though," said Draco, still chuckling to himself.
"Draco, I think you should stop kicking him now, he is definitely out cold," Draco looked at Ron and shrugged, before giving Harry once last kick.
*
"I'm sorry Will, but we have to put him somewhere, we can't just leave him here," whispered Ron sympathetically as he lifted an unconscious Harry onto William's back, strapping Harry down, "You got it yet Draco?"
"Yep, but I had to go through his socks, and Merlin, I think fresh dragon's dung on a hot summer's day would smell better," said Draco still holding his nose, he held the cape out in front of him like it was a diseased rag, "You are one brave guy to go under that,"
"No," Draco looked confused, had he just gone through Hell to get that rag and Ron wasn't going to use it, "We are going to be going under it," smiled Ron.
"No, no and No, I'm not going under that,"
*
"It stinks,"
"Shut it, or someone will hear us and realise we are taking the easy route, and take your bloody hand away from your nose"
Both Ron and Draco were under the cloak, only just hidden. William was waiting for Ron's signal to come and follow, or he would come if trouble broke out.
"Where are you going?! We just past a cave," whispered Draco, trying to pull Ron back.
"I don't want silver thank you, I'm settling only for gold,"
Draco just sighed, why did Ron have to go the difficult route?
"Tad-ah, our cave, I'll give Will the signal but both of the teams are bound to notice, they'll come after us, so get your wand out and be ready. Good luck," smiled Ron.
"Why 'good luck'?" asked Draco, he wasn't going in alone...was he?
" 'Cause I don't know what is in there...probably our deepest darkest fears and I don't know if we will be able to stay together, just listen to me and we will be ok, I promise,"
Ron's voice and face were trusting but Draco knew that that would be a hard promise to keep, people had died, what was too say that it wouldn't happen again?
Ron let out a huge whistle and William took to the air, but the two other teams heard it and saw them, while the dragons were dreamily watching the flying pony, both teams ran to their chosen cave.
The Beauxbatons had gone the 'easy' route, they were going for the silver cave, they had three other tasks to come first and three would be a crowd. Durmstrang had decided to go for gold; what match was two teenagers, an unconscious Harry Potter and a flying pony against them?
"Did that cave just close behind us?!" said Draco, as darkest covered the cave.
"It is probably charmed to send different teams different ways, just in case we all decided to go for the same egg," Draco just nodded slowly, he had never been a fan of darkness and now he was in a pitch-black cave which was full of nightmares.
"Lumos," muttered Ron, Draco copied, happy for some light, Ron also lit up Harry's and put it in William's bridle so that the horse would also have some light, but William seem pretty happy.
"This isn't enough light," said Ron, Draco sounded his agreement and William neighed, his sign of agreement, "time for a bit of light and help...Lumos Maxima," muttered Ron.
Draco gasped and William took a step back as a bright white light jumped out of Ron's wand, it cast the whole cave into light, Ron tutted.
"Good one, Ron" Draco said happily as the cave was filled with light.
*
"Draco, don't be alarmed but..." whispered Ron gently, pointing behind Draco's head, Draco took a deep breath and turned his head slowly around.
Two huge yellow bat-eyes glared back at him, how could he 'not be alarmed'?!
"B-b-bats, h-huge o-ones," stuttered out Draco, he hated bats.
Draco screamed and bolted past Ron.
'I thought I told him not to be alarmed.'
Suddenly, what seemed like thousands of other eyes appeared, Ron turned and ran as fast as he could, William easily over took him.
"Why the hell are we running, we are bloody wizards!" Yelled Ron, after a minute of running, while still running he flicked a spell back, not looking around, "Will, stop Draco before he runs into something,"
*
"Draco, just calm down, take some deep breaths," Ron did feel sorry for Draco; he knew before that Draco hated bats, but Ron had told him to follow his instructions.
It was five more minutes before Draco was calm enough to move on, and Harry had woken up, so Draco got to ride William for a bit.
"Merlin, is that all you can do Potter?! Moan and complain," Harry was just about to say something back; when Draco put his finger to his lips, signalling that he wanted silence.
"I think I hear someone...maybe we are close to the egg and Durmstrang are there," whispered Draco, Harry, him and William turned to look at Ron.
"Draco, sadly I don't think that you heard the footsteps of Durmstrang," smiled Ron sadly, Ron walked over to the cave wall and pushed it, it opened up like a door, "this will take you to the Durmstrang path to the egg, I'll keep going this way, you three follow it " Draco went to protested at Ron going alone, "I'll be fine and someone is going to have to go this way, I'll see you at the egg, but if I'm not there, don't wait; just leave without me," Ron smiled as he watched his friends – and Potter – walked through the hole, with a flick of his wand he closed up the hole to safety.
There was no going back now.
With Draco and Co.
"Why didn't Ron want us going with him?" said Draco, not expecting an answer; horses didn't speak English, well not to his knowledge.
"Who's there?" said a voice, it was one of the Durmstrang boys; Ron had introduced him to that voice earlier.
"Kamen?"
From around a huge rock, Kamen walked out, it was obvious that he had been in some kind of fight; his clothes were torn, his wand snapped and he had a red liquid on him – blood, Draco guessed – Draco wondered if it was his or someone else's.
"Merlin, what happened?!"
It took them a while to get Kamen to give them his answer. "V-vampire, we didn't even vealise ov know there vas vne in here, it vent through a hole in the cave vall, so ve are safe now, but it attacked us earlier...I don't know vat happened to Victor or Vincent...vat are you doing here? I thought ve were led different vays,"
"Shit! That's what I heard!" said Draco, jumping up from besides Kamen, Kamen gave Draco a confused look.
"Vere is von?!" realising that Ron wasn't standing with them
"I heard a noise, thought it was you guys, Ron said that it wasn't but didn't tell us what it was – I knew he knew – he pushed the wall and made a hole in it, told us to climb through it, he was our captain so we had too and then we met up with you. He must have not wanted to put us in danger but knew that the vampire would follow us back into this cave if we all went through, which would put you guys in danger! That idiot!"
Ron's POV
'I had too; I couldn't lead them straight to him. I overheard Dumbledore saying to Karkaroff that having a Vampire was too risky and dangerous – stupid death eater. Now I'm going to be killed or turned into one of them. Merlin...what if it has already got the Durmstrang team, Karkaroff couldn't have killed or even risked his own team...no, no, he wouldn't do that...but you can never fully trust a vampire. What if he had got to the girls?! They wouldn't stand a chance against a vampire, not even with their wit and charm,'
Thoughts, bad thoughts, spun around Ron's head – he knew it wasn't safe going after a vampire all by himself, but he had to, he just couldn't let the others get hurt too.
"Vonald Veasley isn't it?" said a cold voice, Ron turned around to see a handsome vampire. The vampire had white skin, with piercing deep-green eyes, his hair was jet black – making him seem more paler – he looked evil but had a sense of charm and trust to him, a false trust which enabled him to get blood whenever he desired it.
Ron knew he had to act as calm as possible but he knew that vampires could read minds.
"Yep, that is me; may I ask who you are?"
"I am K,"
"K stands for what?" Said Ron, trying to make idle chit-chat so that he could distract K and get away, it was a long-shot...that would never work and he knew it.
"My name, which you do not need to know. Now, Veasley you have taken away three blood creatures, vhich vould have made a nice drink, so I shall give you a choice...you can become one of us, a vampire I mean, or you die trying to fight me...vhich one is it to be?"
"Both are bad choices, you know," said Ron trying to buy some time so that he can clearly think about his next move which will decide his fate.
"Enough chit-chat Veasley" said the vampire threateningly, "I am hungry".
"Come and get me then" said Ron, his wand out in a duel position.
The vampire lunged forward.
With Draco & Co.
William tapped his front right hoof, he had found something. The three boys ran ahead to see what William was looking at.
A huge three headed dragon lay asleep; it was guarding the golden egg. The three boys took a few steps backwards so that they could talk without disturbing the dragon.
"What can we do? We don't have our teams and going back without a full team will get us disqualified," sighed Draco, would they ever get out of this hell?
"You could go...just tell vem to come and get me,"
"We can't just leave you here, what if that vampire comes back?" Draco shook his head, he wasn't leaving Kamen here with a triple headed dragon!, "we just wait, look we only have three days for this right?" both Kamen and Harry nodded, "so they will come and get us at 8:00 tonight and it is 6:00 now, so we only have two hours to wait and I'm sure Ron will get here before then, and then we can get the egg and take you with us," smiled Draco, happy with his mini-plan.
"But vat if Von doesn't come back? Vat if that vampire comes back...or worse...a vampire Von?" said Kamen quietly, he didn't want to say it but knew someone had too.
*
"Ve're going have to go, Draco, ve can't leave it any longer, it's 7:00 and vat if ve have to face something else," said Kamen, after an hour of sad, depressed silence.
"I can't just leave him...he's my friend,"
"I have had to lose two friends today, and Von will make it a third, let's just go,"
Draco shook Harry to get him awake; he did as Ron had said and didn't kick him. William walked slowly behind the three males, wanting to see his new master again.
"Shit, I don't know if we can do this," Draco said shocked, Kamen poked his head around the corner to where the dragon lay.
"Ves ve can, vor Von, Victor and Vince," Kamen put on a brave face and beckoned the others around, he had a plan.
*
"This isn't going to work," said Draco, he didn't really know Kamen, he was just a friend of Ron's, so why should he trust him?!
"You would have done it if your Ronald had said it," said Harry, annoyed with everyone and everything, he hadn't had any attention in days!
"OW, stupid horse," spat Harry, after William had pushed Harry over with is nose; William had taken Harry's last comment to be an insult against his master and over the time that William had been with them, Harry had been a right idiot!
Kamen nodded and William reared and ran into the dragon's cave; he would distract the creature while the boys got to the egg, they would wait for William to land, so that they could then all get away. Yes, they would be without their full teams but they needed to get out of this hell-hole. And if that plan failed, they would just feed Harry to it; Draco preferred the second plan of the two.
The dragon opened its large yellow eyes to see William standing on its nose, trying to get it to move out of the way of the egg. It moved its large body, quite quickly for an animal of its size but William was quicker; he had to get his master's friends out – and Harry.
William did circles around the dragons middle head, his movements were swift so not to get hit by blasts of flames coming from left, right and below. The flames were a brilliant red and orange colour bewitching but deadly, if Draco had not been in the situation he was in, he would have loved to have just stared straight into them.
Kamen said nothing but just beckoned them forward, all three males speed towards the egg as fast as their legs would take them, but Harry decked, yelling loudly.
Unfortunately, the dragon noticed, William couldn't do anything; they would only survive if their legs could ran fast enough. William considered trying to pick them up, but knew that that wouldn't work, so he stood by the egg, neighing them forward.
Draco tripped and smelt the dragon on his back. The dragon's middle head was almost touching Draco's neck, smelling him, smelling the scent of his food. Kamen turned and saw the dragon over Draco, but knew he couldn't do anything, his wand was broken and it would probably do more damage than help.
It was the end for him...
"OI, OVER HERE," yelled a voice, it wolf-whistled and the dragon ignored Draco; the other human was sending sparks up and was yelling loudly, "RUN THEN DRACO!"
Draco tried to get but he had twisted his ankle, Kamen knew the other human would keep the dragon at bay; he ran back and helped Draco limp towards the egg and William.
Harry saw the egg only a few steps ahead, should he wait for the others or just go himself? But for once in his life, Harry Potter did the good thing and waited.
Kamen arrived with Draco and was just about to touch the egg.
"You can't go now, what about-," Draco couldn't finish, someone yelled over me.
"BLOODY HELL! I THOUGHT I LOST THAT TWAT!" Kamen stopped and saw a very angry vampire at the entrance the dragon's cave, looking at Draco's saviour.
Ron stood with his trousers in shreds, his top now non-existent, marks covering his whole body – some were still bleeding rather heavily – but yet he had a happy and proud smile on his face.
Ron picked up both Vincent and Victor, who he had picked up, threw one over each of his shoulders and ran as fast as his long legs would let him.
"PRESS THE BLOODY EGG! IT'S A PORT KEY, I CAN GRAB ONTO ONE OF YOU BEFORE IT LEAVES," yelled Ron, jumping over a bone.
Draco trusted Ron, and held on to it, it started to glow a red colour; Harry and Kamen held it, Kamen holding on to William's bridle and trying to help Draco stand up.
"AHHH," yelled Draco, as he landed where they had started; the crowd went wild. They had seen it all, and were amazed that they were actually alive, but Draco, Kamen and William didn't care about them...
Harry stood up and waved to everyone, bowing.
"RON!" shouted the two boys in unison; they couldn't see Ron or the two Durmstrangs he had saved.
"Well, that was a nice trip, don't you think?" smirked Ron, he seemed to be walking on air, he gently landed on to the ground, still standing, "Madame Pomfrey, I think these boys need a bit of attention," said Ron as he placed both injured males on to summoned stretchers.
William neighed loudly and bolted over to Ron, who hugged him tightly; that was one good horse, which had helped them out over the time he had been with them.
Kamen came and thank him for saving his two friends and teammates.
"You scared the shit out of me, Ron, I thought you were a goner," smiled Draco, he hugged Ron.
"Truth be told, I thought I was too...,"
