This story is based on Harry Potter written by J.K Rowling

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"- normal speech

'- Parseltongue

The next morning I wake up to an unusually tight Akasha coil wrapped around me. It's not tight enough to disturb my sleep or bother me, but it is very strange.

Looking over at Tom reveals a similar situation with Nagini while he is still asleep. I wonder what's wrong?

I hiss soothingly as I lightly scratch along his body, 'what is the matter Akasha? Are you alright?'

We shift slightly so that I am laying on my back while his bottom half is still coiled around my waist. The rest of him is laying across my front with his head resting on my chest and neck.

He hisses, 'That dragon almost hurt you, he came so close. I didn't know if I could protect you or if he was going to take you from me.' He slightly tightens around me and presses harder into my neck. 'You can't leave me Hermione.'

I didn't realize how the encounter yesturday must have effected them. Of course a familiar would feel that way, it just hadn't hit me how close of a call it was.

I continue lightly scratching his scales, 'It's alright Akasha, we're fine. How can I make you feel better?'

He starts to rub himself on me in his usual nervous habit for when he is worried. 'I will not be leaving your side unless we are home, not even for hunting.' He stops his movements seemingly appeased for now. 'Now you must rest.'

Confused I look towards the window see it's still dark outside. I roll my eyes, great, it's way to early to be awake. I roll over and cuddle back into Akasha's coil.

I'm sure Tom will wake me up on time.

_Tom P.O.V_

I wake up to the morning sun streaming into the window. Looks like it's time to get up.

I get up to stretch but Nagini doesn't budge. I start petting her and hiss, 'hey what's going on?'

She stays wrapped around me. 'It is too dangerous here, we must be careful.'

Well I guess she would be shaken after what happened with the dragon but she doesn't need to worry. With Mia here to protect us we'll be fine, but I get the feeling that isn't enough for Nagini so I will just have to deal with her being a little more clingy then usual.

I walk over to Mia's side of the bed and shake her. "Come on Mia, we need to go soon." I can't control the urge to whine, "And I'm hungry."

She rolls over and chuckles, "Yes of course, can't have you suffering like that now can we?" She stands up and stretches. "Go and get dressed, i'll start breakfast and then we can talk about what our plan for the day is."

Thats right, sometime before bed Mia and Mathew went to see Roland and Sam about todays plan.

I grab clothes out of my bag to go change in the bathroom, which took longer than usual because of how much time it took to convince Nagini to let me. I was out and ready 15 minutes later and was greeted with the smell of breakfast.

She starts discussing plans while cooking the scrambled eggs, crumbling in pieces of bacon as she cooks. "Today we will be checking in with more dragons, most of them normal with a few notable exceptions." She pulls some plates from her bag and hands them to me. I set the table as she continues. "One being the oldest living dragon in the reserve. Not the oldest in history, just as of right now. Which is remarkable because it's a Swedish Short-Snout." She pauses as she serves breakfast and asks me, "Do you remember why that's so rare for one to be so old?"

I mentally sift through all the information from the dragon books I have read. "They are known for their appearance and there is a high demand for their hide to make things like gloves, boots, shields and other things."

"Exactly! Good job." She says excitedly, ruffling my hair before she goes to sit down in her chair. "The second odd one is an Antipodean Opaleye who has recently given birth to three eggs. Not the best idea because the normally non-aggressive dragon will become very aggressive if she believes her babies are in danger." She starts eating while she continues. "This is the same with all dragons of course." She waves her fork at me, trying to emphasize a point. "Remember to stay close to me today. We are not going to have a repeat of yesterday and the Antipodean Opaleye is the most risky."

I shovel eggs into my mouth in an attempt to eat faster. It's almost time to go. "Don't worry Mia, I'm sure we'll be fine."

She just chuckles at me. "Whatever you say Tom."

We finish our food barely on time. After making sure we have everything we head down to meet the others.

_Hermione P.O.V_

The start of our trip is very similar to the day before. We go from area to area checking up on the dragons and their conditions. The insident from before has yet to repeat itself and so far only one other dragon needed Dragon Tonic.

We do end up stopping by to check on Tessith for a few moments to see if the Dragon Tonic has kicked in.

Of course the only thing he hisses in greeting is, 'Leave! Already gave you warning.'

Deciding that it was already a miracle he hadn't attacked us on sight, we stay for only a moment before continuing. It seems that his Dragon Tonic is working and our second to last stop will be the old Swedish Short-Snout.

We walk for a while before stepping into the clearing where we spot the aforementioned dragon. Said dragon is currently curled up on a fluffy patch of grass, it's silvery blue scales sparkling as it soaks in the sun.

As pretty as it is that doesn't throw me into a stupor, the fact that there was nearly no reaction from it as we stepped into the clearing was what stunned me. It lazily opening it's eyes was the only thing it did.

I chance a look over at Baker and Roland to see them completely unconcerned. This must be a common accurance then. Since the rest of us don't understand I ask, "What is going on?" Behind me Mathew hums in agreement.

Baker quickly becomes embarrassed, most likely realizing that they left out a few details. "Well we think that he has mellowed out with age or maybe being so old is boring for him, we're not sure, but he just hasn't shown interest in anything for as long as we have been here." He shrugs. "Who knows when the last time he did was? Certainly no one alive."

This explanation received a snort in response from the very dragon they were discussing. He proceeds to growl quietly, 'I may be older than most, but I am no where close to as old as I can be. Silly human.' Apparently deciding we are of no interest, he closed his eyes.

I simply stare, there was nothing else to do as the information was processed. He was able to understand us perfectly.

As soon as I wrapped my brain around this I start hissing excitedly, 'You can understand us? Oh Merlin this is incredible! I wonder how long you have been able to. Maybe it was the same spell that is used on owls. Of course dragon hide is usually impervious to spells but they must have worked around it somehow.'

Durring my excitement I had grabbed ahold of Tom's hand and walked further into the clearing while I went on a rant. And the moment I started speaking Parseltongue the previously relaxed dragon had his head and neck raised up and was watching me intensely as I rambled.

As I paused to take a breath I noticed all these changes and looked up at the now relatively close dragon. His face didn't reveal much but I could tell by his stare that he probably thought I was a very interesting specimen. Which could be very good or very bad depending on his mood.

Our staring contest was interrupted by Tom's awed hiss, 'did you really understand us before?'

Whether it was the awe or innocence in his voice that made a difference I don't know, but instead of staring at him like an experiment, he lowered his head and rumbled softly. 'Yes, I can understand every human language, but I have never heard one so similar to my own, what is it?'

It was safe to say that he has a soft spot for Tom and he just gained a fan so I didn't hesitate before replying. 'It's known as Parseltongue. Before we discovered that we can understand dragons it was only known to work with snakes.'

He rumbles in reply, 'I see, it's very odd having humans that understand me. I'm used to frequent one sided conversations.' He has what could be a sly expression. 'It's very easy to learn many secrets that way. Surprising what tamers will talk about on their visits.'

I stifle a giggle and Tom starts to jump around excitedly before asking questions in rapid succession, 'What's it like being a dragon? Do you like flying? Is being old boring? How long can you actually live? Do you talk to the other dragons? Are you like a boss dragon? Do all of the others do what you tell them to? How long ago was the spell placed on you? What's your name?'

I can already see the dragon panic as he decides what to answer so I turn to wave over Mathew, leaving them to it.

Mathew walks over cautiously, keeping an eye on the dragon. "Care to explain?"

I smile apologetically. "Sorry about the excitement, he replied to what Baker said which means he can understand us." I look over at Tom. "And now he is being bombarded with questions."

He nods lost in thought. "Ah, now I see, should we tell the tamers?"

I smirk. "No lets not, it's so much more fun that way."

He smirks along with me as we walk back over to Tom, catching the answer to the last question.

The dragon rumbles, 'My name is Magna.'

A very fitting name if you ask me. Tom then starts to introduce all of us, pointing at each of us in turn. 'I'm Tom, this is Nagini, and that's Mia, Akasha, and Mathew.'

Magna gives a nod in acknowledgement. 'I am pleased to meet you all.'

After a moment Baker and Roland call out to us, "I hate to interrupt, but if everything is fine we should continue."

Mathew responds with an affirmative and I start to say goodbye when Magna interrupts me, 'Where are you going?' He stares at us sternly with a mix of concern and not wanting his conversation Partners to leave just yet.

'We need to check up on the Antipodean Opaleye nearby that gave birth, she is the last one before we leave.' I hiss in reply.

He evidently does not approve of our plan because he growls lowly, 'That is not a good idea, Moa will rip you to shreds if you go near her eggs.'

Her name is also very fitting. 'We know, we will take a quick scan and get out of there as fast as we can, we will be careful.'

He continues to grumble in disapproval, 'That is not good enough.' He exhales through his nostrils. 'Alright, only as long as I sent mark you and accompany you there.'

Akasha hisses a warning along with Nagini. 'You will not sent mark my human.' His coils tightening slightly.

Magna simply snorts. 'Not enough to cover up your sent snake, just enough to warn other dragons that you are protected.'

Realizing that he won't let us leave until we agree I hiss, 'Alright, Tom you first.'

Magna proceeds to rub his snout over most of our bodies until he is satisfied with his work. He then gets up and stretches his limbs before we go. Seeing that everyone else is confused, as they should be, I yell over, "he wants to come with us, something about us having a stupid plan and not trusting us with our own safety. Don't worry you won't even notice he's there."

Baker and Roland shake their heads doubtfully but they resigned themselves to it, while Mathew just shakes his head fondly at our continually weird antics.

As all of us make our way to the next area I think about a plan in case everything goes wrong, and despite my earlier confidence I am sure something will.

I don't really like to use the smoke travel thing the order had taught us but I'm probably going to need something that can distract as well as get me out of the way. The problem is that I can't travel well using it with another person, I am barely able to handle using it while holding Akasha. That means I will have to trust Magna to protect Tom, which shouldn't be a problem. Mathew and the rest can take care of themselves i'm sure.

I hope I will have enough stamina to last long enough as a distraction. That type of travel takes a lot out of me.

_Tom P.O.V_

I can't believe we got to meet such a cool dragon today. And so far we haven't been attacked like yesturday, little things but nothing serious.

Now we are almost done and get to go home soon. Which is nice because I miss home, but that means leaving Magna. I'll just have to make sure that we come and visit often. I get excited just thinking about all the things I get to tell Demi when we get back.

I've been riding piggyback on Mia since we left the clearing so I look up once I feel her stop walking. At the other end of the clearing I see the Opaleye laying there asleep next to her nest of eggs. Her scales are a pearly color that shine reflecting every color of the rainbow when they move, and the eggs are a pale grey.

The others decide to take advantage of the fact that she is asleep and move behind a cluster of sizable rocks next to the dragon and her nest. Roland gets closer, doing a diagnostic scan on the dragon as Baker does the same with the eggs.

I don't know what it was but something woke her up because her pupil-less eyes snapped open the next second and she was standing by the time Roland and Baker could get back behind the rocks with Mathew.

And as I see her breathe fire towards the rocks, I admit that today couldn't have gone as smoothly as it did without something going wrong.

_Hermione P.O.V_

As soon as I see Moa move I sprint to Magna on my left, moving Tom from my back to my front.

I throw Tom as gently as I can towards Magna who catches him in a claw and then pulls him close wrapping him in his wings. Good, that will protect him from any fire.

I hiss loudly at him, 'Get Tom out of here as fast as you can.'

He reluctantly nods and I turn my attention back on Moa who seems to be trying to make a barbecue out of everyone.

Figure It's worth a try so I start waving my arms and hiss, 'Moa! Over here!'

I gain her full attention and she breathes a stream of fire at me. I avoid it using my smoke travel, which feels weird since it's like having to propel yourself forward with magic or like slow motion Apparating that leaves smoke behind you as you move.

It takes alot of stamina and I'll probably only last around 5 minutes.

I dodge jet after jet of fire clearing most of it, but there are a few times when I am too tired to move fast enough and the ends of my robes get singed.

After a minute I register that Mathew, Roland and Baker are able to leave the clearing and that Magna was able to get Tom out of there.

I don't stop though. I need to make sure that they are able to get far enough away or else Moa will just give chase.

I continue to dodge for another few minutes, my robes getting singed more often, I'll have to buy some new ones.

Merely a moment later I finally collapse from Exhaustion, looks like I didn't make it to 5 minutes after all.

I lay there not able to move a muscle as Moa breathes more fire at me. But before it ever gets near me it's blocked by a huge wing belonging to Magna.

He growls dangerously at Moa, 'You dare try to hurt one of my humans?'

Moa growls unintelligibly back, although it isn't as intimidating as Magna is right now.

He finishes with a no nonsense tone, 'you will stop, tend to your eggs.'

Her instincts to check on her eggs must over power everything else because she turns her back to do just that.

I smile at him and hiss tiredly, 'You're amazing Magna.' I pat Akasha making sure he's ok. 'You too Akasha.'

Magna lowers his snout to prod and sniff at me. 'Are you well? Have you been injured?'

I raise my hand slowly and rub his snout. 'I'm fine, just tired, that's all.'

He exhales through his nostrils in what i think is his sigh of relief. 'Good, we must go, can you stand?'

Seeing as I would prefer walking to anything else I hiss, 'Yes, with some help.'

Magna then proceeds to scoop me up with his claws and sets me standing up right. I lean on his side the whole way to where Tom and the others are waiting.

As soon as they see me Tom and Mathew are rambling off questions and checking me over for injuries. After I assure them that I'm alright they finally calm down.

We all say goodbye to Magna, reassuring him that we'll be fine and promising to visit soon. Once that is done we are finally able to head back towards our rooms to pack up so we can catch our Portkey.

It takes a little while before we're done, but once we are I sigh and hug Tom to my side. "We'll be home soon and you'll get to tell Salazar all about it."

We meet Mathew on the way to the voyeur and continue together. Once we meet up with Baker and Roland we say our goodbyes and tell them that they would get a copy of our report as soon as it was finished.

With all of that done we were finally able to take the Portkey back to the office.

I collapse into my chair still thoroughly tired and sigh. "Thank Merlin thats over, I probably couldn't handle another dragon."

Tom takes that chance to crawl into my lap. "That's not true, you were super badass Mia."

I raise a brow at his choice of words. "Super badass you say?" I give Mathew an unimpressed look. "I wonder who's been teaching you that."

Mathew shrugs. "He's not wrong."

I scoff at that but just then we started to hear some raised voices outside of our office. I would have to save this conversation for later. Checking the time tells me it's around 2pm a little bit later than when we usually leave, which makes sense because we have never heard this happen before.

I motion for Tom to sit on the couch and we open the door leading to the rest of the department.

What we see infront of us is Nora, one of the nicest people in the department, in an very heated argument with a man.

We step out of our office and I get their attention. "What is going on here?"

Nora twitches mid rant as if she's been electrocuted, spinning towards us. "Ah, Hermione, Mathew, I didn't know you were due back yet."

Mathew adopts a serious expression. "Yes, that much is obvious, care to explain?"

She becomes increasingly nervous. "Well this gentleman is Sullivan Nazoni, he is registered as a werewolf and has been requesting wolfsbane potions." She finishes as if that explained everything.

I nod. "Ok, then why are you arguing?" I have an idea of what's going on and so does Mathew but i'm not letting her get off that easily.

She looks like she would rather run then answer. "It is our policy, we are unable to supply werewolves with wolfsbane for free as it is expensive and do difficult for an average employee to brew so we must turn them away."

I hum, "And this is a policy made by Rio I assume?" At her nod I continue, "Last time I checked we were in the Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, and our policy was to help any in need. Certainly werewolves in need of wolfsbane falls under that category?"

She looks very scared now but she still continues. "Yes but we do not have the means to help."

Mathew picks up for me. "And you think they have the means to help themselves? Lets assume that they can infact brew it themselves, how can they buy all of the expensive ingredients when it is very likely that they don't have a job? There is no way around this Nora, you know Rio is wrong."

She sighs, defeated. "Be that as it may, we don't have the ability to give him the potions he needs."

I give her a stern look. "You never asked us did you? I happen to have some wolfsbane on me that I brewed reacently. You shouldn't assume things about your co-workers."

I gesture towards the door and spoke to Sullivan, "let's continue this in our office."

We walk into the office and Tom lifts his head from his book, now paying attention to us and our guest.

All of us sit down and I pull out my bag to set on the table. "Ok, how much will you be needing?"

His voice is Gravely when he speaks, "Enough for me and my friend, that's all."

I nod. "Is there a chance you know 2 other werewolves? I have enough for 4 people, might as well put them to use."

He thinks for a moment and nods.

I continue as I summon all of the jars and vials from my bag. "Since even with the wolfsbane you'll be worn out after you change, you'll need some extra stuff." I pull out the last of it. "These 4 are the Vitamix Potion, one vial per person. The 4 jars are Burning Bitterroot Balm, also one per person. These 4 vials are the Replenishing Potion, one per person. And the last of the extras are these 2 vials of Calming Draught for emergencies, only a sip is enough."

At last I pull out a box. "These are the Wolfsbane Potions, there are 28 of them in here, only 7 per person to take once a day for 7 days. And you have to make sure that the last one is the day of the full moon which is June 1st. Thank Merlin we got here when we did, it's cutting it close as it is."

He nods. "Thank you both, I will be sure to remember your instructions."

I smile happily and put all of the loose vials in a second box. "Great, and before you leave I wanted to let you know that I have been experimenting with Wolfsbane to try and improve it, but I have no way of knowing if anything works if I can't test it. Don't worry about it right now, It's just something to think about it."

He nods already lost in thought. "Yes I will think about it, thank you." He stands and picks up both boxes, smiling slightly at us before he leaves.

I lean back in my chair and sigh. "We're finally done!"

Mathew chuckles, "yes it was all in a days work."

I groan. "You're awful."

Tom just giggles at us both.