I'm so sorry this took so long! I was having internet problems but I finally got it updated so now I can update!
Also I love Hagrid there is no Hagrid slander in this..he's..he's just very hard to write
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"And it looks like the Hufflepuff Takers are not going to let Potter have any chance of catching Beartic! Come on, Puffs beat the snakes!"
"Jordan!" Prof. McGonagall scolds the Gryffindor while the Gryffindors laugh in the stands
"We're more like dragons thank you very much!" Aria yells loudly which the Slytherins yell in agreement but then she decides to focus more as she and Nimbus dodges the attacks coming from Cacturne and Passimian. But it was quite hard as the first attack the Raid Beartic let out was an Icy Wind which had frozen the whole floor of the stadium.
Groaning in annoyance she grabs Nimbus and takes a running leap, sliding on the ice and easily dodging the attacks. Turning her head she sees Darmanitan charges forward, cloaked in fire. As soon as the Flare Blitz hits the Beartic, Aria wobbly stands up, "Nimbus attacks Diggory with a Quick Attack!" She prepared the Snag Ball ready as her eyes were on the Hufflepuff Catcher, Cedric Diggory who was about to throw his own Snag Ball.
"Pika!" glowing with an outline of white he slips and slides towards the third year who yelps when Nimbus tackles his legs. Thanks to the ice and the force of the attack he slips and lands on his back giving Aria enough time to throw the Pokeball.
The Slytherins let out a cheer as the Snag Ball clicks signaling that the Raid Beartic was caught, "And Aria Potter won the match for Slytherin..giving Slytherin 150 points for winning the match," Aria rolls her eyes at the disappointment in Jordan's voice.
Aria picks up Nimbus scratching behind as the Slytherins come spilling onto the ground. She jumped a bit when she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up into Dumbledore's smiling face.
"Well done," he said quietly, so that only Araia could hear, "Nice to see you haven't been brooding about that mirror..been keeping busy...excellent.."
Aria smiles but inside she frowns, "I've been trying to forget about that mirror..why are you trying to get it on my mind?"
In the following weeks after finding out that the Cup of Life was being hidden on the third floor, Aria and the others had something more to worry about. The end of the year Exams were coming and everyone was freaking out.
"The exams are ages away," Ron complained once as Hermione started making study schedules and color coding all their notes.
"Ten weeks!" she snaps while Crookshanks hisses at him, "That's not ages, that's like a second to Nicolas Flamel,"
"Hermione," Piers comes up from behind her and gently settles her down into the chair, "Nicolas Flamel is over 3000 years old..we are only 11 and 12.."
Hermione takes a deep breath trying to calm herself down but the others understood. With her being a Scholarship student she had to keep her grades up but they wish she didn't breathe down their neck at them.
Still they did learn something during their forced study groups. All of them did well in Pokemon Care but Hermione was the best in the biologic part in the class, while Piers was the one who was the best in the grooming stuff (has to be with Zigzagoon not liking water-at all). In Herbology Neville and Raihan were the two the others went to, Neville and Raihan were the best. Neville said that his family grew berries on the farm while Raihan said his family had an Apricorn Farm.
"Wait if you have an apricorn farm..then how did you," Aria waves to the jewels that she had braided into her hair.
"Lots of people think that they can just make Pokeballs from the apricorns but you also need jewels to make them so my family gets a discount on the shipping for jewels from both mines..we had some spare so my parents let me choose since I heard that a lot of Sorcerers and sorceress use jewels to amplify their power.." Aria hums at that.
Neville was also good at Items and their Uses having used a Focus Band during a mock battle with Professor Flitwick. He just seemed to know which items were good for which type of battle.
To the surprise of everyone and even Ron himself, the Weasly was really good at Potions. Sure he had a hard time reading the books but when it was time to actually make the healing items, Ron was really good at it.
"The Prewitt Families own the Pokemarts in Galar," Ron explains, "So sometimes I went over to help them stock up..and I also help making dinner for Fred and George,"
"Why would you have to help make food for them?" Hermione asks and Ron flinches.
"They have a peanut allergy and my mum use peanut oil for a lot of the food she makes..when they started to react to it she didn't believe them thinking they were playing a joke..I think it was the rare time Dad had ever yelled at mum for when he got home from his Gym duties to see Nurse Joys looking over them after Percy had called them when we saw that they really couldn't breathe.." he shrugs at the looks, "We all decided to make sure that doesn't happen again by making them their own food without peanut oil, especially since she keeps forgetting who likes who.."
Both for Battling 101, Aria and Leon were the best at it. Both have never lost a mock battle unless the two were facing each other and when they did it was always a tie..even though Leon said that his Pokemon were the ones to faint first. But Aria always said it was a tie.
After cleaning herself in the Locker room she met up with the others and started to head to the library to finish the homework that the teachers had piled on them..
"I'll never remember these numbers.." Ron groans, throwing his pencil down at the math homework they were given. Hogwarts while a Pokemon Academy was still a school so they had regular classes like math, science, languages and history..he looked out the window wishing they were still outside. It was the first fine day they had in months, the sky was a clear, forget-me-not blue and there was a feeling in the air of summer.
Aria who was working on an essay for Snape looks up when she hears Lyn, "Now you don't want these books Hagrid..they are so misinformed I'm surprised that not only does the Academy keeps them that any baby Dragon type even survived from these teachings,"
Lyn and Hagrid shuffled into view with Hagrid holding onto a pile of books, "Thanks again Lady Dragoon..I really appreciate this,"
Lyn smiles and pats his arm, "It's no problem Hagrid.." she looks over at the seven and smiles at them, "Congrats on another win Aria..I see that you all are studying,"
"Yeah thanks to Hermione," Raihan grumbles while Hermione sticks out her tongue.
Hagrid looks at them all and chuckles, "It seems like I'm always seeing you lot always heading to the library. Bit keen, aren't you?"
Lyn snorts, "Now they are but they were mostly in the library looking stuff up on Nicolas Flamel and what's on the third floor with that Dynamax Dodrio,"
Hagrid sputters while the others turn to Lyn with wide eyes but she winks at them, "Who told you about Fluffy?!"
If they didn't already know about Fluffy's name they would be choking but seeing Lyn's look Aria decided to tell the truth, "We found out about him when we accidently got onto the third floor thanks to the staircase moving on us..and I heard you speaking to the Headmaster about Nicolas Flamel and that the Garbodor attack was a set up to try and get," Hagrid stops her quickly waving his hands and making shushing sounds while looking around quickly to see if anyone was hearing.
"But we already found out who he really is and what Fluffy is guarding, it's the Cup of- '' Ron mumbles when Hagrid places his hand over his mouth.
"SHHHHHHHHHH!" Hagrid shushes him, "What is wrong with you?! Don't speak about it out loud!" Ron mumbles out a sorry before yelping when Piers hits him on th back of his head.
"But Hagrid," Hermione says sweetly, "You're the only one that Professor Dumbledore must trust..we can't ask anyone else about this because we think Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape and Professor Quirrel are the ones after the cup.."
Hagrid was about to puff up in pride but then he blinked in confusion, "The Professors? Nah that can't be.." he realize that he was going to say something outloud and sigh, "Listen, come to me hut..I'm not promisin' I'll tell yeh anything..but don' go rabbitin' about it in here, students aren' s'pposed ter know,"
He nods his head to Lyn before he heads out of the library, "Well..that went better than I expected," Piers state while giving a book to Inkay who happily reads it, "He use to glare at me when ever I walked next to Ari before Da was declared innocent," he shrugs his shoulders at their looks, "What I was use to it, everyone besides you all were doing it as well..they thought I would follow in my Dad's footsteps and betrayed her,"
Aria glares at him, "If they do it again tell me…"
"Ari your arm is going through the table again," Neville points out and Aria looks down to see her arm covered in shadows and as Neville said going through the table...she quickly looks around before pulling it back up, "No one saw that right?" she sighs in relief when they shake their heads, "But seriously if anyone gives you any trouble,"
Piers smiles at his cousin/Godsister, "I know Ari..I'm use to it..heck I knew I was going to probably get more glares for being in Slytherin," Piers always wanted to be in Slytherin, his Aunt Andromeda telling him stories of it along with his cousin Tonks telling him stories of her Slytherin friends.
"So what was Hagrid doing in the library?" Ron looks to Lyn, "and what were you helping with?" his eyes shine in excitement..and he was tired of working on school work.
Lyn smiles, "Hagrid had always wanted a dragon type and he finally got his hands on a dragon egg..I saw him in the dragon type section," she shakes her head, "He was looking through dragon Types of Galar which was disgustingly wrong,"
"Isn't it because dragon types are rare in Galar?" Hermione asks and Aria blinks.
"I keep hearing about that..everyone is saying that Dragon Types are rare but we celebrate Kilgharrah the Dragon God who sorts us and both me and Raihan have dragon types," she rolls her eyes at the look Raihan gives her, "Trapinch will evolve into a dragon type so I count him as a dragon type,"
"During the reign of the Forgotten King, when he was trying to destroy the Old Religion, he decided that with Dragons have no part in being in Galar..he hunted them down and killed them and their trainers..even those who didn't have the dragon typing but evolved into dragons were killed off. Even though it was many many years ago we're still trying to make up for it,"
Aria nods at that but softly pets Hedwig's head, she didn't want to think about not having Hedwig with her. Hedwig was her starter..her first Pokemon, the one who will be her second in command on her team. Even though she heard many whispers at the fact that she should have a ghost type like many Potters before her, she wouldn't get rid of Hedwig.
"Anyway," Lyn said, "I help him get the right books to read, From Egg to Inferno and A Dragon-Type Trainer's Guide. He then asked me for my help since the Dragoon Family is the only family in Galar to really know how to train Dragon Types.
Raihan nods his head to that, "Yeah I remember my sister talking about.." he looks down and growls. Aria saw the flash of pain in Lyn's eyes as she place a hand on Raihan's shoulder.
Later on that day, Aria finds herself looking at Hagrid's hut, usually Slytherins stay away from him. The very tall man lived near what people call the Forbidden Forest, forbidden unless you have direct permission because of all the Dynamax Dens that were in the forest.
When Aria knocked on the door, they heard a mad barking before said door flew wide open. Aria screeches as a large lump tackles her, knocking her straight down. The others begin to laugh loudly as Aria wiggles her way out from the Stoutland that was chickening her.
"Fang! Get off of her!" Hagrid appears with his great bushy face as he grabs Fang by the collar pulling him off of Aria, "Sorry about that…" the others help Aria up before they head inside. The hut, while quite small for Hagrid, was big for the kids. Not only was their many types of meat hanging from the ceiling along with many types of items, Razor claws and fangs, black belt, Water Gems, and Blue, Red, Green and Yellow shards. But the thing was that it was stiflingly hot inside even though today was a warm day.
Lyn was there stroking the fire in the fireplace where a large egg laid. Hedwig who was sitting on Aria's Shoulder cries out and flies over to stare at the egg in wonder.
"So..what's this about the Professors?" Aria, seeing no reason to beat around the bush explains that during the first Royal Raid match that it was either McGonagall, Snape or Professor Quirrel who had messed up the Boldore.
Hagrid scrunches up his face at that, "Codswallop..I know Professor McGonagall! She use to be my Professor when I was a student and while Professor Snape..is a bit harsh, the Headmaster trusts him and Quirrel? Are yer serious? Quirrel is afraid of his own shadow! There is no way.." Hagrid shakes his head chuckling to himself.
"But Hagrid! We saw it with out own eyes..there Pokemon had all the signs of using an attack that confuses Pokemon..glowing, unblinking eyes.." Hermione says with conviction in her eyes.
Hagrid waves his hands, "They can't be because they're helping protect ter Cup!" but when he said that Aria looks at the others. It would be easy to find out what was protecting the cup and how to get past it if you were helping with said guarding.
"Ok so those three are helping..what else is guarding the cup?" Leon ask Hagrid who rubs his beard.
"Let's see...besides Fluffy from me...and those three professors..there is Professor Sprout..Professor Flitwick..oh Dumbledore did somethin' himself..I don't see the point..no one is going to get past Fluffy..and only me an' Dumbledore knows how too," Hagrid said proudly.
Hagrid!" Lyn calls out as the egg begins to shake, "It's time!"
Hagrid's eyes widen and he grabs some mits before he carefully pulls the egg out from the fire. Aria leans closer as Hedwig flies back onto her shoulder. It was a brown egg with a white top and orange spots around the center.
As soon as Hagrid place it on the table, they could hear a funny clicking noise coming from within.
"Where did you get it from Hagrid?" Ron asked as he crouched over, "I mean it's one thing to get a Dragon egg..but a fossil egg as well?"
"Fo-fossil?" Hermione whispers in awe and Ron nods his head.
"My brother Charlie is a Ranger, remember? Lots of people would just release their Tyrunts and Tyrantrums when they realize they can't control them so my brother has to find a good place for them to live..he sent pictures of the eggs so I recognize them," Ron turns to Hagrid, "Seriously how did you get one?"
"Won it," Hagrid puffs proudly "I was down in Hogsmeade havin' a few drinks an' got into a game o' cards with a stranger. Think he was quite glad ter get rid of it, ter be honest,"
"Its..its nearly out," Raihan points to the deep cracks that were now appearing. All of them drew their chair up to the table and with bated breath watched as the scraping noise grew louder..and the egg splits apart.
"Awwww," Aria couldn't help herself as the dragon/rock type flopped onto the table. With his head being large it was having a hard time standing up. The scales were a beautiful grayish-brown while the small hump on its back, belly and lower jaw was a light gray. Its nose scrunches up as the black eyes lock onto Hagrid before it gives out a tiny roar. Neville squeaks when the tail knocks over his cup of tea when it wags it happily.
"Isn't he beautiful?" Hagrid sniffles as he reaches out a hand. He pulls back his fingers in time when the Tyrunt tries to snap at him leaving purple goo to drip down the wooden table and burns a hole into it, "Awww Dechraul and Kilgaharah bless him, he knows his mummy!"
"She, Hagrid," Lyn points to the orange spikes on Tyrunt's head, "The females have longer orange spikes on the heads and it looks like the little one has Poison Fang as an egg move,"
Hagrid nods his head, "Well then..I decided to call him Norbert but Norberta is a fine name for a pretty young lady!" He looks at the Tyrunt with misty eyes as the baby Pokemon wobbly stands up with encouragement from Hedwig.
Aria smiles as Fang places his head on her lap, drooling onto her pants. She slowly holds out a hand to Norberta to sniff eyes glow as she laughs as Norberta nuzzles her hand, "I..I love Pokemon," she whispers in awe.
With pockets full of hard to eat muffins that they couldn't refuse they all head back to the castle, "So from what we know the Cup of Life is being guarded by Fluffy and other traps made by the Main Pokemon Teachers,"
"But we still don't know who is after it though..but we do know that McGonagall, Snape and Quirrel," Raihan ignore's Hermione's "Professor!" as he stuffs his hands into his jacket, "Are on the traps which means they only don't know how to get past Fluffy,"
"Still..I wonder what's the difference between Fluffy and a regular Dynamax Pokemon..I mean they can just knock it out right?" Neville points out making the others turn to him.
"That is true.." Rons mutters while Mothra lays on his head, full from the sweet tea that Hagrid gave them, "I seen many Dynamax Battles since my Dad's one of the major eight Gym leaders,"
While the others talk about Dynamax Battles and what was guarding Cup, deep within the Forbidden Forest, red lights stream into the air. Many Pokemon frolic in the long dark grass, Honedge, Scyther, Foongus, while Murkrow, Skarmory and Gligar flew over.
But the Pokemon weren't the only things in the forest..circling around the Dynamax Dens were small balls of fires. But these balls of fire..have a shape to them..like a squid. Three tentacles each, their flames were the same purplish energy that was coming out of the den. They have one eye in the middle of their heads, each a different color; white, yellow, cyan, blue, green, pink, purple, violet, orange, red, indigo, crimson, magenta, ivory, gray, black and jade.
They hum and dance happily playing around the lights of the den..when a Shadow Ball hits them. Flying from the blast they weren't prepared for the blast of wind to make them fly into a cage.
One of the flames hits the trunk of a tree and slides down..its white eye opens in pain but he quickly flies into the root of the tree. Watching in fear as a Pokemon made of wood appears from the trees. The shaggy white mane covered most of its face and trails down its back but the small flicker trembles at the hatred and anger that it saw in the yellow eyes.
"Get the Wisps..we need their power," a voice calls out and the white-eye wisp watches as the Shiftry nods his head..before a dark purple Aura covers the great green fans that made his hands before a wave of the dark energy was sent towards the others.
The white-eye wisp closes its eye as the scream of terror and pain echo through the forest.
Watches Sonic rise of the wisp..I will not get inspired..I will not get inspired..looks at the flame Wisps..fuck I got inspired!
So short chapter today..I really didn't know what I wanted to do with this one..I knew I wanted Aria to make friends with Hagrid and talk more about what classes the others were good in..one thing I didn't like that Hermione was good at everything but Harry and the others..were mediocre? I mean come on! Their parents had so much talent give these kids some of the talent juice!
Anyway next chapter will hopefully be up Saturday! Remember to review!