The Dragon of Death
Chapter 1: If these are the best years of my life, I must have some serious third degree burns in my future.
Begin Chapter One
"Worst-case scenario: they kill me. Best-case scenario: ...they... kill me."
Malfoy, the bugger, still sounded perfectly unmoved by my situation.
"I am sorry Snake, but this is not my problem. It's yours now. You either get the rest of files on my desk by tomorrow morning or ...well, there are always the alternatives, and ask anyone. Nobody chooses the alternatives."
"Why? Couldn't you just let me go with a pat on the back and a little certificate for effort or something?"
"One must keep a reputation my dear. If anyone hears that Tomas Malfoy accepted a botched job then they may see that as a sign that I am getting soft. If Tomas Malfoy wants something, Tomas Malfoy gets something. No exceptions, no mishaps. Do you understand?"
"You should have been born an only child, you know that?・/p
He glared at me until I left.
~~~~~a short while later~~~~~
I snuck down one of the seemingly endless hallways in the Malfoy Manor. This place has got to be 80 miles long! I thought tiredly. And then: I wonder what the hell is so important in those damn files anyway. Hmmm…Suppose I take a tiny little teensy weensy look at them before I hand 'em over to the old bat...
"Who are you?"
I whirled around. Oh shit! I relaxed only slightly when I saw it was just a small child. Small children are very dangerous creatures. It was a very small child. Couldn't be more than 3 or 4 years old, I realized.
"Who are you?" He repeated.
He was dressed in very uncomfortable looking black robe-pajamas with silver snakes on it. Clutched lovingly to his small chest was a ragged and torn little teddy bear with one eye missing. I remembered his question.
"I'm, uh." Think, damn you, think! Can't tell him Snake, it'll get you in deep shit, so.. Tell your real name! No, that'll get you in more trouble! Just say it, damn you! Fine!
"I'm Ryuujin."
He nodded solemnly. "I'm Orion."
Orion, Orion, so familiar, so- oh, yeah. That's why he's familiar! I'm a flippin' genius! Genius don't flip. Shuddup.
"Why're you here, Ryuujin?" Think fast, think fast, think- Duh!
"I'm delivering a report to your father. Shouldn't you be in bed, young lord?" I winced as I called him 'lord'. I hadn't called someone lord since, well, I had never called anyone lord. Not even that one demonic prince all of the Muggles where so afraid of. What was his name? Satik? Satin? No, wait, Satan, that's it. He still owes me for that chess set…
"Probably."
Huh? Oh, yeah. I was talking to someone. Figures. I was standing in the middle of enemy territory in front of what could possibly be the next Dark Lord, and I was daydreaming about Hell. Now wonder I was shipped off to St. Mungo's before. "I would suggest you get there then, young *wince* lord."
The boy nodded at me and then- well, disappeared, it seemed. I shrugged and dismissed it. I had a suicide- err, mission, to complete.
~~~~~another short while later~~~~~
I took a few deep breaths. I wasn't really used to running so hard, or so far. I had been in Azkaban for three years, and before that, kept heavily sedated at St. Mungo's, after all.
I glanced down at the small package of folders nestled in my hand. I looked at the tabs. Seemed these were folders on all of the people who were deemed dangerous to 'the cause' by my dear brother, Lucius. Lesse, Snape, Severus; Weasley, Arthur; Weasley, Percival; That one got my eyebrows up. He was only three years graduated from Hogwarts, how could he be a threat? Zabini, Arrow; Zabini, Stryfe; Zabini, Blake; These also surprised me. I had been pretty sure my old friend Blake and his parents were all dead. The obvious ones were all there as well, you know, Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, etc.
It was the last two files that caught and held my attention. Toomin, Shinigami and Malfoy, Ryuujin. "Aw, shit. He was supposed to think that we were dead, like the rest of the world does. Kuso."
End Chapter One
A/N: Okay, here's a little mini glossary of words/names:
Ryuujin= dragon god
Shinigami= god of death
Kuso= crap
Tomas= twin
Blake= pale
Toomin= the name of the Ellimist from Animorphs
This will be a OC-Draco-Blaise-OC-OC centered fic, okay?
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