Hagrids Hut

Newt Scamander walked in and shook Hagrids hand "Good to see you again Hagrid! How's your friend in the woods? Is his colony doing well?" he asked curiously. Hagrid smiled "Aye! Plenty of food and space for his family to grow." he responded.

Marcus cleared his throat and Newt turned to him and his friends "Ah right! Dumbledore called in a personal favor to come and speak with you. He told me everything, which is why I brought this." he said showing his shaking briefcase.

Marcus nodded and his friends looked at him "Dude is everything okay?" Dan asked with concern and Sam just looked plain scared. Marcus sighed deeply "I...I was about to tell you guys I just didn't know how." he confessed.

His friends and Hagrid looked confused "Tell us what?" Sam asked and Marcus looked at the famous Magizoologist who seemed to understand what he wanted and put his briefcase on the table. Everyone gathered around the table as he opened it and rummaged inside, he winced for a second and then he pulled out a tiny little dragon the size of a rat. Newt placed it on the table "This is a miniature Hungarian Horntail. Very dangerous." he explained.

"It's about time sir! It's so humid in there!" the dragon yelled in a rough voice, like rocks scraping together, and Marcus went wide eyed as the dragon crawled around complaining about how stuffy the briefcase was. Marcus looked around and no one seemed fazed that the dragon was speaking "Is...Does he normally complain so much?" Marcus asked. Everyone looked at him in shock "You can understand him?!" Dan asked amazed and Marcus was confused "He's speaking English. Aren't you?" he asked the dragon.

The Horntail looked up "English? That stupid language you guys have? Absolutely not! I would never speak in such a way! All those stupid adjectives and nouns! You made it so complicated for no reason!" he snarled before blowing a small plume of fire.

Marcus rolled his eyes "Man he is mean!" he said as everyone just stared at him in shock, even Newt was awestruck, Marcus stared back at them "What?" he asked. Newt stepped forward "Marcus you weren't speaking English, you were speaking with just random guttural sounds, the same sounds that dragons make." he explained and Marcus furrowed his eyebrows before looking down at the dragon that was cleaning his wings.

"You can understand me?" he asked cautiously and the dragon made a sound that sounded like a knife scraping a tree, he was laughing, "Of course not...wait how can I understand a human? What are you?!" the dragon asked before it flew in the air and hovered in front of his face and examined him "You are human that's for sure, but you aren't a regular warm blood. You can understand me. Interesting, well understand this then, I am not going back in that prison box there! It's so gross!" he rambled on.

"What did he say Marcus?" Newt asked and Marcus turned to the older man "He said that he hates being in your briefcase, it's humid and he refers to it as a prison." Marcus translated.

Newt looked shocked "Prison? No I would never do something like that. Horner really doesn't like it in there?" he asked and after another quick conversation with the dragon Marcus turned and shook his head "He also said his name is Nax not Horner, he said if you call him that again he'll...okay actually I'm not going to translate that." he said with a blush at the obscenities that the dragon was shouting.

Newt frowned "Well, I never knew that he didn't like it. What does Hor...Nax say he likes to live in then?" he asked in wonder.

Another brief conversation, "Um...I don't think that would be allowed Nax. I'm in a lot of trouble already and if I did that I would...I am not! No you are! Oh yeah well you have bad breath! Okay that's just rude!" Marcus said before crossing his arms in annoyance.

Newt stared at him for a few seconds before Marcus glared at the dragon and translated "He said he wants to live with me! I'm the only person that could ever understand him and he says that I'm the only one that could truly take care of him! Only thing is I have way too many pets as is and I doubt with everything going on that Dumbledore would let me keep a freaking dragon with me!" he said angrily.

Newt scratched his stubble for a few minutes "What other pets do you have?" he asked curiously. Marcus sighed and pointed to his dog "I have Streaks here and a small baby Bowtruckle named Crick. Both require all of my attention. I can't take a dragon!" he said with another glare shot at the dragon that just huffed in annoyance.

"HANG ON TIME OUT!" a voice rang out behind them, Marcus turned and his friends were just looking at him shocked "Dude you can speak to dragons?! Since when?!" Dan asked with wide eyes. Marcus shrugged "Since always I guess. This is the first time I've ever had a conversation with one and I wish it was a nicer one!" he said staring at the small dragon.

They both started arguing again and eventually Marcus started taking out his wands but Sam grabbed both of them out of his hands "I'll just...take these away from you for now." he said and put them in his robes.

Newt had been silent this whole time "Marcus, ask Nax what he thinks of your...is that a dog?" he asked as he stared at the behemoth of love that was Streaks.

Marcus asked and Nax flew in front of Streaks "Large and smelly! He would be a perfect bodyguard! I approve of this monster! He would serve me well!" Nax said as he landed on the table again.

"He said he likes Streaks. Why do you ask?" Marcus said as Newt opened his briefcase and he disappeared in the briefcase until only his feet were showing. Then he climbed out and he was covered head to toe in Bowtruckles.

"I was going to bring one or two out, but they have attachment issues." he explained with a laugh.

Marcus smiled before Nax shrieked "Leaf creatures! Death to the leaf creatures!" he shouted and breathed ready to shoot fire. Marcus clamped a hand over his mouth "Oh no you don't Nax! You aren't hurting them!" he ordered angrily before moving his hand.

Nax started mumbling angrily but didn't breath fire, Newt was utterly amazed "Was he about to burn them?!" he asked and Marcus nodded.

Newt looked at the dragon and then at the Bowtruckles, "Hey Marcus, what if I adopted your Bowtruckle? I know how to take care of them and apparently I don't know how to take care of a dragon with some anger issues." he said.

Marcus looked at the dragon and even though they fought a lot he could see sadness in its eyes when he said he couldn't take care of him.

He looked at Newt "I just...I would miss Crick a lot." he admitted and Newt laughed before he knelt down and placed a hand on the young boys shoulder "I promise you, if you start to miss him I will visit and you can see him alright? Bowtruckles grow attached to their owners so I'm sure Crick would miss you too. This is your decision though Marcus you can always say no." he explained.

Marcus looked at Nax and again even though the dragon was rude and obnoxious he could see in his eyes a longing to be loved and understood.

"I'll take the dragon!"

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