Chapter 13

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AN: I just realized that I didn't say which arms their birthmarks are on. They are located on their right forearms.

Last time:

I could only think to do one thing before I completely lost it.

'DRACO!'

This time:

Draco's POV

I was in Divination working on an assignment when I felt a sort of pressure on my forearm where my tattoo is. Not knowing what it was I ignored it. Then I heard it…

'DRACO!'

That's when I knew why my tattoo felt weird; Kaia had lost control and now not only was she angry, her Dragone was taking control. A fact that I was pretty sure she didn't know about. I didn't have much time before she was completely gone, and I didn't know where she was. So I did the only thing I could think of, and concentrated on the energy radiating from her into me. The next thing I knew, I was right next to her, and I had to act quickly.

Kaia's POV

I didn't know where I was anymore; all I knew was that I was so angry. I was trying with all I had to keep some of it under control, but it wasn't working. The energy build up was so intense, and I felt like I was going to explode; I needed a way to let it out. All of a sudden I heard a soft voice trough the roaring sound in my head.

'Kaia,' Draco whispered softly, trying to coax me to listen.

'Kai,' he repeated again, shortening my name to catch my attention, 'you have to listen to me. You're Dragone is taking control; she is angry, you need to calm her down so you can release all of the built up energy. Calm her down; you are one in the same. You are the only one she will listen to. I can't help you until you calm her down,' he whispered.

Taking his advice I tried to talk to her, the other part of me; the dragon part of me. 'Why are you so angry?' I asked her tentatively.

'NO ONE SHALL DISRESPECT A DRAGONE!' she half growled, half yelled back at me.

'What is your name?' I asked her, gaining confidence.

'My name is your name, we are the same, I am the other half of you; your dragone half,' she replied with a growl.

'Then how can we communicate?' I asked

'I am connected to your anger. Your powers are connected to your emotions. When you feel anger, I feel it; your anger, depending on the severity of your rage, gives me the opportunity to come through. Take control; you would say. But, only when you feel a certain amount of rage; this is the first time I have been able to come through, because this is the first time since you have come of age that you have let your anger through,' she explained.

'My power has built too much; I need to let it out. I can't do that while you are in control,' I started, 'relinquish your hold,' I commanded, 'you are endangering us and others.'

'As you wish,' she conceded.

My head felt loads lighter after she backed off. Then I heard Draco, 'Kai? Can you hear me?' he asked

'Yes,' I replied in a whisper.

'I'm going to help you expel that extra energy ok? But, you're going to have to trust me,' he said. But, before I could reply, he grabbed my hand and connected our tattoos. As soon as they touched, the world around me went black.

When I woke up hours later, I was on the couch in our shared common room. When I looked around, I saw Draco sitting in the arm chair next to the fireplace.

"What happened?" I asked groggily

"You lost control and your dragone took over. Why may I ask did that happen?" he asked, his anger growing with each word.

"She was offended when Nott, Greengrass, and company threatened me when I caught them tormenting a first year Hufflepuff," I responded with an exhausted sigh, "Why am I so tired?"

"Your body had become used to harboring that building power. When I took that built up energy away, you passed out because you had been practically letting that power sustain you. When I touched your mark, it felt to me that it had been building up since before that little incident today?" he asked with barely suppressed anger.

Thinking back I realized that I had been walking around with mounting irritation towards Ron's behavior, but I didn't want to tell Draco that, so instead I replied, "I don't honestly believe that that is a very accurate observation," I said as innocently as possible.

'It's hard to believe that you so easily forget that I have access to your mind,' he thought to me viciously.

"Draco, I didn't even realize that I was walking around like that I-"

"The fact is your parents have told you, I have told you, many times in fact, to be mindful of your emotions! Yet you still walk around like the Gryffindor Bookworm that you used to bewearing your emotions on your sleeve! Hermione Granger is gone! Therefore you can't walk around like her! You are in Slytherin now! Walking around like that will get you nowhere. In fact because of who you are it will get you killed! So keep walking around like that and we will have more occurrences like the one today!" He sneered at me.

"Draco-"

"Don't Draco me! You know I'm right and you need to get it through your head that I am and accept that not only is Hermione Granger gone! But she never really existed! So do me a favor and think about that because once you do it will make my job loads easier, and keep you from being exposed."

"I'm sorry-"

"No, I don't want to hear it, I already sent an owl to your parents so they'll probably be contacting Dumbledore within the next few hours; I'm going to bed. You should probably do the same; today took a lot out of you, and make sure you read that book they sent you; it will answer all of your questions, including the ones you have yet to formulate."

"Draco, I never meant to walk around like that I was just so caught up in the fact that my best friend since first year could turn on me so easily after everything that we have been through. I just didn't know how to deal with it, and I'm sorry," I said weakly, "I can't go from being Gryffindor's Bookworm Princess one day to being Slytherin's Dragone Princess the next," I said with a small smile on my face.

"Slytherin's Dragone Princess rules alongside the Serpent Prince who will show her how to rule her Slytherin housemates the right way, and bring out her true Slytherin" he said with a small smirk.

"Forgive me?" I asked with a smile heading towards my room.

"Of course Princess," he said returning it as I closed my door.

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