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A/n- second chapter to Miste! Hope y'all enjoy!
Disappearance
~* 6th years Gryffindor boys' dormitory *~
Seamus Finnigan yawned. "Ahhhh—Harry, you don't think we'll be given homework on the first day of class, do you?"
Harry grunted in reply as he tugged his robe on over his vest.
Dean Thomas was busy replacing his soccer poster with a basketball one, making Ron make a face.
"What is it that's so interesting about eight-feet tall freaks shooting balls into baskets?" Ron prodded at the poster, trying to make the players move.
"Well then what's so interesting about a team who always loses and is called the Chudley Cannons?" Dean shot back, taping one edge of the poster down with Spellotape.
"Plenty of stuff! There's—" Ron faltered.
Dean sniggered, "See?"
Neville lifted up his bedspread, looking under his bed, yelling, "Trevor? Trevor???"
~* Forbidden Forest *~
The beast snapped her ferocious jaws again to ward off the neighing unicorn. The poor creature had stumbled into her path when she was napping, and she was very irascible first thing in the morning. No matter, she could smell the person now. She was very close.
She stretched her wings and flew above the forest, expertly trained eyes scoping out the looming castle overhead. The person was in one of the towers…yes, she was so close she could almost taste him.
~* 6th years Gryffindor boys' dormitory *~
Out of the blue, Neville screamed.
"What, Neville?!" the other boys rushed to see what was so horrible.
Neville's face was pressed against the glass, and he was ogling at the fantastic beast hovering outside of the window. It had great pearly aqua-white wings and gargantuan claws. It made a small guttural sound as if pleased with itself and suddenly lashed out at the window, splintering glass everywhere.
Neville, Seamus, and Harry (having been the closest to the window) leapt back, stunned.
Ron and Dean stared at the magnificent creature in all its cruel glory as its claws struck out again and this time it clasped around Ron's waist.
"Ron!" Harry shouted, fumbling for his wand.
Seamus pointed his wand at the beast, stammering, "S-stupefy!"
It made no effect on the beast as it clenched Ron in its grip and slowly flapped away.
Neville, Harry, Seamus, and Dean can all still hear Ron's frightened screams.
~* Gryffindor common room *~
"It WHAT?!?!" Prof. McGonagall shrieked.
Harry clamped his hands over his ears, and mumbled, "It took Ron."
~* Forbidden Forest's Cave of Miste *~
Ron stared in terror at the—the thing in front of him.
It unfurled its wings and had touched his left arm gently.
Ron winced and pulled his arm back. The gash was hurting more than ever now.
"Do…not…be…afraid…"
Huh? Ron's head shot up. Did the dragon just talk?
"Human…speech…is…not…easy…for…me…"
"Ooookay."
"My…name…is…Miste…"
"Uh-huh."
"I…have…come…to…retrieve…you…to…avenge…"
Uh-oh. Avenge? That doesn't sound good.
"You…have…kept…me…locked…up…in…a…cave…in…Romania…for…so…many…years…"
"Romania?"
"I…was…so…lonesome…"
"Uh…"
"I…managed…to…leave…a…mark…on…your…left…arm…"
"This?" Ron rolled up his sleeve, revealing the crescent shaped scar.
"Yesssss…" Miste's tongue darted out in a very reptile-like way.
"And you have brought me here to…" Ron whimpered, "kill me?"
"Nooo…"
Ron breathed a sigh of relief.
"To imprison you…like you have…imprisoned me…"
Ron's eyes rolled up and he fainted.
~* 6th years Gryffindor girl's dormitory *~
Hermione was already dressed and read for classes when she heard the news. "B-but, how can a dragon fly in Hogwarts territory? That isn't possible!" she stuttered and then took on a serious look. "I'll go search for him."
"But Hermione!" Parvati Patil shrilled, shaking her by the shoulders, "It's not safe!"
"I don't care!" Hermione stuffed her wand into her robe pocket.
"What has happened to you?! You'll get expelled—or worse, killed!" Parvati tried to yank the wand away.
"No, Parvati!" Hermione cried, pulling her wand back. "Please, be quiet. I…want to go rescue Ron. Please?" she looked pleadingly at Parvati.
Parvati's eyes widened. "You want to…do you…love him?"
Hermione lowered her eyes. "Yes." She softly replied. "I love him and I want to save him. Please, don't tell anyone, Parvati."
Parvati bit her lip but nodded reluctantly.
"Oh thank you!" Hermione threw her arms around Parvati.
Parvati hugged her back, "But, if anything happens, anything at all—I'll tell Prof. McGonagall."
"Deal."
~* Cave of Miste *~
Ron blinked.
How long had he been fainting?
And where was the dragon?
"Er…Miste?"
"Yes?" it was not the raspy voice the dragon usually bore, but a small delicate voice not unlike Hermione's. Ron's heart gave a leap at the name.
A slim figure slowly came into focus.
It was a girl, about the same age as him, with aqua white—almost transparent hair cascading down her shoulders to her waist. She was breath-takingly beautiful.
"Are you…Miste?" Ron asked reproachfully.
"Yes, Ron."
"H-how did you turn into…her?"
"This is me, my true form."
"Then how did you get turned into a dragon?"
"You put me under a curse."
"Me?!"
"When you were but a baby, your brother Charlie smuggled a small dragon egg to you as a first birthday present. Your mother would have none of it and demanded it be send back. But it was too late, the egg hatched and the last remaining Icelandic AeroPearl was born. Then Charlie managed to keep it for a while, at least long enough for your mom to find an abadoned baby girl on her trip to the market, with no letter at all. The girl was about the same age as you, 1 year old, so your mom thought she would take care of the baby until it was old enough to fend for itself, but alas, the baby dragon killed the baby girl and your mom was furious and weeping. She had loved the child as if it was her own, and with anguish she cursed the dragon to have the spirit of the baby girl inside of her forever. And you came in when the curse was completed, and you played with the dragon. The dragon gave you that small gash on your arm. Then you took your mom's wand and garbled a random curse you found and it turned out sending the dragon to a distant cave in Romania, doomed to be there forever until the curse-giver turned sixteen." The girl had settled down next to Ron as she explained the whole story. By the end she was crying and Ron was holding her, trying to comfort her as he rocked and forth on the stone ground.
When Miste recovered enough to talk, she croaked out, "I was the baby girl."
Ron gawped at her, wide-eyed. Then he took her in his arms and by that time his own tears was mingled with hers.
Then a sudden streak of blue light blasted thru the cave.
Ron looked up. He gasped. "H-Hermione!"
Hermione stood at the entrance of the cave, her face streaked with tears and blood. Her hand was gripping the wand which sent off that bolt of light. Her robe was torn and bloodied in some places. "RONALD WEASLEY I HATE YOU!" she yelled and ran off, her teardrops forming crystal-like images on the floor.
A/n- slight misunderstanding with Hermione there…r+r please
Later dayz
CyberSerpent .~
