Authors note: I've noticed that there are very few Harry Potter stories with gryphon's and even fewer with Harry Potter gryphon transformations and the one there is has been abandoned, so I decided I would do it myself. Hope you enjoy the first chapter of Harry Potter and the shadow gryphon. Rated T to be safe since I'm paranoid.
"This is speech"
'This is thoughts'
This is a spell
-this is gryphon speak-
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter only my own ideas. If I did own Harry Potter both Ginny and Ron would have never married anyone.
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In a cave in northern Denmark a young shadow gryphon was just about to leave home for the last Time.
-mom I'm ready to go to find my familiar.- said Sgàil(1) Sgàil is a young shadow gryphon who is just a shade lighter than pitch black like a shadow with some lighter feathers scattered around at random.
-yes I know I just wanted to say goodbye one last time.- replied Sgàil's mom Sgàil's mom is stone grey instead of the shadow grey Sgàil is and is where Sgàil gets her lighter feathers from.
-goodbye mom I'll remember you!- Sgàil yelled back as she flew off towards where she could sense her familiar.
-I know you will now go find you familiar!- Sgàil's mom yelled.
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3 months later June 20
Normally a 6 year old child wouldn't be outside in the sweltering heat all by themselves weeding the garden, then a gain normally that child wouldn't normally live in a cupboard under the stairs for most of their life, they also wouldn't normally turn their teachers hair blue just by willing it to happen. That is what abnormal Harry Potters day was today though.
Harry was just pulling the last dandelion up when he heard a voice from the nearby bush.
-why are are you weeding all alone in this heat?- asked the voice.
"AH!" Screamed Harry as he fell on his rear.
"BOY WHAT ARE YOU SCREAMING ABOUT!" Yelled Vernon from as he came outside.
"N-nothing uncle Vernon!" Harry whimpered back.
"Good now finish weeding freak!" Ordered Vernon.
"W-who are you?" Harry whispered to the bush.
-I'm Sgàil. Why is your family yelling like that? They shouldn't do that.- The voice now known as Sgàil asked. "Also what your name?'
"Because I'm a freak a freak called Harry Potter, the fact that I'm talking to a bush proves that proves it." Harry replied.
-I'm not a bush I'm a shadow gryphon.- Sgàil said.
"I've heard of gryphons but what's a shadow gryphon? And gryphons don't exist." Harry questioned.
-A shadow gryphon is like a gryphon that can manipulate shadows and darkness.- Sgàil answered as she walked out of the bush making Harry gasp.
"But gryphons don't exist!" Harry said 'do they?' He thought as he said that.
-I'm standing right here though.- Sgàil said while smelling Harry to see if he was her familiar.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked while scooting back.
-smelling you to see if your my familiar, which you are!- Sgàil said as she hopped on Harry causing him to fall over on the grass.
Oomph "ack! What is a familiar?" Harry asked the gryphon on top of him.
-How do you not know? You have to be a wizard with an affinity to the dark to have a shadow gryphon familiar." Sgàil asked then replied as she got of of Harry.
"What do you mean a wizard? I'm just a freak!" Harry asked extremely confused.
-do you mean no one told you!- Sgàil said eyes widening in shock.
"Is that why my teachers hair turned blue during school last year?" Harry asked wanting to know.
-Yes! That is a sign!- Sgàil exclaimed. -But will you please tell me why you relatives wouldn't tell you?" She whined.
"Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia hate anything freakish." Harry said looking down at the ground in shame. "they always blame anything freakish on me and throw e in the cupboard." He finished close to tears.
-thats horrible they shouldn't do that!- Sgàil said nuzzling Harry to make him feel better -you should come with me I can take you to a nice safe place!- she said in excitement.
"But I can't I'll just be put in an orphanage." Harry replied while shaking his head
-not if you stay with me!- Sgàil said excitedly
"Ok fine I'll think about it." Harry replied exasperated
-thank you!- Sgàil said
"BOY WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG!" Vernon yelled as he came out to see what was taking Harry so long. "FREAK WHAT IS THAT THING!" He yelled going a bit purple in the face.
"Oh no." Harry whispered know he was going to be in for the beating of his life.
-What?- Sgàil asked slightly confused.
"BOY GET AWAY FROM THAT SQUAWKING FREAKISH THING THIS INSTANT!" Vernon yelled as he pulled out a knife going full on purple not knowing what Sgàil was.
'No this is it I'm going to die' Harry thought as he started to cry and back away
'Oh that's why he's scared. I need to get Harry out of here!' Sgàil thought -harry hold on!- she yelled out grabbing Harry and running with him on her back to the bush.
Harry was scarred, he was the most scarred he'd ever been and he'd been plenty scared before like during Harry hunting and whenever Vernon is nearby. But he'd never been so scarred in all his short life as he was now. So he did the only thing he could and held on as Sgàil ran into the shadows the bush made so she could shadow step them out of there and to a nearby cave she'd been sleeping in. As Vernon was halfway across the yard she got in the bush and managed to shadow step them out of there to her cave.
"Thank you so much Sgàil!" Harry cried out as he flopped down on to the damp cave floor and started to shake violently as he realized he couldn't go back. "B-but what w-will I d-do n-now?"he asked not knowing what to do.
-I could make you like me- Sgàil offered
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Authors note: I bet everyone hates me right now! Also sorry if I get anything incorrect I'm not British so I wouldn't know.
(1) Sgàil means shadow in Scottish Gaelic