Chapter_01
Pansy sat in the common room of the Slytherin house, she had her head in her hands and thought about what she did in the great hall. She didn't exactly wanted them to kill Harry but that was a good idea to win a bit time to evacuate the wounded. But unfortunately no one saw what her plan was.
And now she sits here, debating if she should just go up and support her school in the war against the Dark Lord. But she is too much of a wimp to actually do it.
In the meantime many Slytherin members had left the room and the school. They thought, that if McGonagall wouldn't even hear them out they should help the Dark Lord to get revenge, how childish.
Pansy was still thinking about going back out there and help Hermione, uhm, I meant the school, of course. She felt the couch beside her sink a bit and looked over into familiar brown eyes, Blaise.
"What should we do? So many have already chosen to side with you-know-who." He looked concerned at the remaining students who still couldn't decide what to do and the ones who wanted to help Hogwarts.
Just as Pansy wanted to answer that she would go and help Hogwarts, the door burst open and the Slytherin prince himself stood in the doorway with a scowl on his face and his wand in his hand, ready to cast a curse.
"You, dimwits, what the bloody hell are you still doing here?!" He shouted and everyone was convinced that he would take us all to the Dark Lord. "We have to save the school, so get off you asses and protect the students!" And without another word he run out to do what he said, protect his loved one.
Pansy and the other slytherins sat there in stunned silence. Pansy jumped up from her seat and run into the hall, when she noticed no one except Blaise followed her she shouted to the others.
"You better get your asses up or you are next!" And took off to find Hermione.
Hermione and Ron were fighting against Nagini but couldn't keep up with her slithering movements. Nagini had already disarmed Ron and had now, with one swift move with her tail knocked the basilisk-tooth out of Hermione's hand.
Hermione and Ron walked slowly backwards when the snake slithered straight at them and noticed too late the ruble behind them, they fall to the ground. Hermione held on Ron's hand for dear life when the snake rose up and shot its head down to them to kill the two friends.
But just before these long, sharp teeth could reach Hermione, something pierced down, into Nagini's head and killed the giant monster snake.
Hermione starred up in surprise at the person in front of her, Pansy. But it wasn't the Pansy she knew, this one had giant black wings, canine teeth, white claws and horns, and not to forget the black scales that were partially on her skin.
Hermione looked back down at Nagini's pierced head, up the bloody claws and into the toxic green eyes that stared at her with something in them that Hermione couldn't quite explain.
"What the bloody hell are you?!" Hermione heard someone scream beside her. The brunette totally forgot about Ron, she glared at him.
But before anyone could say anything more a new rush of Voldemort's supporters tried to come over the bridge. Pansy opened her black wings and with one flap was hovering over the school, she flew over to the bridge and took a long breath.
Hermione could see a symbol appear in front of Pansy and when her breath reached it, big flames burst down on Voldemort's supporters effectively burning them.
Pansy looked down on the people under her burning and screaming. She hated to do this but she didn't had a choice, if they had reached the school, many of the people dear to her would have been hurt, especially her muggle-born object of desire.
Pansy looked back at the School ground and saw harry dueling Voldemort and how he defeated the Dark Lord. She had to admit that even if she doesn't like him he is a good guy and a good friend, she can leave Hermione in his care.
Pansy looked over to where she had left Hermione behind. The brunette looked directly at back up at her, for a moment Pansy considered to fly down to her crush but quickly decided against it and with one last look flow of into the other direction, away from Hogwarts and her life as she had known it.
The raven-haired girl couldn't go back to her old life after she had revealed her biggest secret, the Dragon-Curse.
Hermione saw pansy flying away and just as she wanted to run and grab her broom a hand jerked her back.
"What are you doing?" she looked up into Ron's confused eyes.
"Pansy is flying away we have to stop her! Or she will hurt herself!" she wanted to run forward but the grip on her hand got harder, nearly painful.
"We are talking about Pansy here. She will be fine and back later. And then she will be the normal-looking-Bitch she has always been." Hermione's eyes shoot her friend unending glares but he seemed not to notice as he continued. "Besides we defeated the dark lord, we should celebrate." He gestured with his hand behind him to all the other students. But the anger in Hermione just intensified.
"How can you say that?! We would be dead without Pansy. She even used the Dragon-Curse!" After seeing Ron's blank face she gets even angrier, if that is even possible. "It's a curse, Ron, it will harm the user and she used it to save us!"
And with that she ripped her hand out of his grip and swung herself on her broom to look for the Dragon-girl.
Hermione flow for at least two hours when she started to feel drained. She had used her magic far too often this day and flying after that wasn't helping. So she turned around and flow back to her school.
When she finally reached the school she could already hear the commotion going on. The wounded are getting treated and the ones who can stand are celebrating with songs and drinks.
But Hermione didn't fell like celebrating, she hadn't accomplished what she wanted. Pansy had fled the scene before the brunette even could have thanked her.
"Oh, thank merlin, I found you!" She looked up and frowned. Harry came jogging towards her but what made her frown was that Draco was following him. "We looked for you everywhere around school. Where have you been?"
He stopped in front of Hermione and put his hands on her shoulder, checking for any injuries. When he couldn't find any, too bad ones, he took a step back.
"I was just looking for Pansy." Hermione saw the blond boy behind Harry stiffen. "She saved me and Ron and burned down the bridge but after that she just flow away." The brunette eyed Draco, he seemed concerned and was looking deep in thoughts when he spoke up.
"Do you know where she is now?" Draco looked like he would run the second Hermione would tell him.
"No." She could already see his worry increase. Was he always this easy to read? "She had a head start because Ron stopped me, so she was already too far away, sorry."
Hermione didn't knew why she apologized but it seemed right.
"No, it was not your fault." Draco turned around and left. Hermione looked over to Harry who had been quiet for the whole conversation and found his green eyes staring at her.
"Why are you guys so worried?" He seemed like wasn't finished so Hermione didn't say anything. "Not, that I'm saying you aren't allowed to, but what is so bad when she just flow away?"
Hermione then noticed that she never told them how Pansy flow or what the black haired girl had actually done.
"The problem is that she not just flow away on her broom." Harry looked now confused. "She used her wings. She had used the Dragon-Curse." Hermione tried to stay as calm as possible but it really pissed her off that Pansy had done something so reckless.
"What?" Harry still looked confused, even more now than before. Of course, he doesn't know what that is, Hermione sighed.
"It's a curse, if you use it you can fusion with a dragon's power, where ever he is, if he agrees to it. Then you can use all of his abilities and you get dragon characteristics, like wings and claws. It's not forbidden but very dangerous for the user and the enemies."
"That's so cool!" Harry interrupted with bright eyes but then he scowled. "But why is that worrisome?"
"Because, it's a curse, it harms the one using it, if it is activated for too long."
Pansy started to get tired, her wings started to ache and her energy felt like it gets drown out fast and fast. She knew she had to brake the connection but she wasn't far enough yet, so she used the little strange she had left and gave a strong push with her black wings.
"You should break the connection, or you will die." A voice in Pansy's head said. It was the dragon who had responded first to her call of help, Tharos.
"Yes, I know but I have to get a little bit farther." Tharos was a very old dragon, he had already lived when Voldemort started his first try.
As Pansy was flying to her destination she remembered the first time she read about the curse.
The Dragon-curse, a curse as old as magic itself. The user makes a telepathic call out to every dragon out there, for help or power or anything else, and if one or more answer the user can fusion with its power. The dragon is in the meantime unable to use its own magic, which means it can only fly or use its claws to defend itself. The user on the other hand can use any elemental power the dragon had and gets wings, claws and sometimes scales.
…Pansy first came into contact with the curse when she was seven years old. She had been browsing through the library at her home when everyone else was doing their own thing, like always. She found a book in a corner of the library, totally covered in dust, it caught her attention because it was much smaller than every other book in the library and looked much older.
And it proved to be very interesting, when Pansy first read about the Dragon-curse she wanted to try it instantly, but therefore she had to learn the telepathic magic first, because it would be much easier to get permission from a dragon if she first asked in person.
So she dedicated all her free time to learn it fist and on her eights birthday she walked out into the woods nearby her house and looked for a dragon. She was young and naïve and thought it would be easy to find one but of course life wasn't so easy. She had been running around the woods for nearly the whole day when she noticed she was lost. She had started to cry when only the darkness of the night had been left.
As she sat there alone and crying on the ground she didn't notice the gigantic creature coming towards her. The dragon looked down at her with its gigantic red glowing eyes and blew a bit air into her face, Pansy looked up and froze, she didn't expected a dragon to be this big.
It was nearly as big as a house, its scales were a dark red bit a few orange ones. Its red eyes looked like they alone could set something on fire if it looked long enough. And the claws and teeth that were sticking out of its snout gleamed bright white with a promise to kill if it ever touched something.
She was scared, only now she realized how stupid she had been. Dragons are animals, they would surely attack her when she would stand in front of them, but why didn't it do anything but stare.
Pansy slowly stood up, keeping an eye on the dragon and then spoke the words for the telepathic magic. She felt a door opening to the dragon and tried speaking.
"C-can you understand me?" She stuttered, not sure if that was still such a good idea.
"How come such a young human can already use such a difficult spell?" A gruff voice sounded in her head, the dragon crooked his head a little. When he noticed that Pansy was frozen in fear he tried again. "I won't hurt you, I'm just curious and you seem to be too."
Pansy was more than thrilled that she could hear the dragon but even more because it seemed like a friendly dragon.
"I learned very hard." She answered and could see the amusement in his eyes. "Don't mock me, I want to learn the Dragon-Curse!"
Suddenly the dragon lowered his head directly in front of her.
"Oh, is that so?" The Pansy nodded furiously with a big tooth-showing-grin. "Then I, Tharos dragon of fire, will assist you. You seem highly interesting, little girl." He showed his teeth in the same way Pansy had done before him.
After that they talked for a bit and then he showed her the way out of the woods.
In the next four years Pansy had learned more and more about the curse and how to use it probably without hurting herself. She had met many dragons and fused with their powers and now she is even able to fuse with a dragon she had never met…
A cramp in her right wing ripped her out of her memories and made her aware of the many feet between her and the very painful looking ground.
"Be careful." Tharos said. "You have to cut the connection this instant or you will fall and die or the curse will tire you out and you will die, choose now."
"You're right." Pansy could feel the dragon's surprise that she didn't argue but she didn't had the energy for that and that means something.
When her clawed feet finally touched the ground she fell directly to her knees and the wings, claws and scales all vanished in a thick smoke.
"Rest now." This were the last word Pansy heard before she collapsed from exhaustion in the woods.