Crossing Paths:
A Harry Potter Crossover

Author's Note: (Hazel) Okay, so after I finished chapter 8, I got the fever and had to write another chapter. Let's see where this one takes us, shall we? I have a feeling that this is going to be a very Ginny focased chapter, I've been very sympathetic towards her lately, so that's where I'm going with this one. Suki, perhaps we should actually plan our stories...

Chapter 9:
Broken Heartsville

"And I'd give up everything
Only for you
It's the least that I could do..."
Michelle Branch, I'd Rather Be In Love With You

Ginny Weasley knew what it was like to be dealt a difficult hand. No, she wouldn't dare say that her hand was impossible, for good things as well as bad had happened in her life. It was enough to make her believe in karma at least. It seemed for everything bad that happened a good thing happened. And for every good, a bad.

The latest good thing; becoming friends with Harry Potter. The karmatic balance; he had a Soulmate and she was supposed to help him find her. Unfortunately, this Soulmate, was not her, which was entirely too depressing. Ginny was a regular bleeding heart.

In fact, Harry Potter was the reason she sat in the dark and drafty library on a sunny Saturday afternoon when she could have been outside, doing something else, like postponing the inevitable and at least trying to see if he would ask her out on a date. Just one date, that was all she was asking.

Ron slammed his book shut and swore. Hermione quieted him down and he opened the book again. Silence rang throughout the almost completely empty library once more. Ginny couldn't really blame Ron for feeling frustrated. It seemed as though the Arcobaleno Dragon was nothing but a myth. They were the light side of a breed of humans who could shift into any animal at will. The Dragons. There was another breed as well, but they were legend to be dark, dangerous and deceitful. On the other hand, the Arcobaleno were supposed to be fair, just and kind.

If she didn't find some form of solid information soon, Ginny was going to scream.

***

Chocolate was definitely the best medicine for a broken heart. Unfortunately, Ginny was having to enjoy it outside under a tree instead of in her bed where she would rather be. And Hermione, who at the moment had no idea of her friend's state of mind, was making an outline of all the information they had gathered since the Hogsmead weekend.

Harry was at Quidditch practice and Ron was watching, so the two girls were left to their own devices. Of course Ginny would have rathered her own devices be her bed, chocolate and a good romance novel, but Hermione had dragged her outside saying she needed a little sun. So the ground, chocolate and her daydreams would have to do.

"Ginny?" Hermione's call snapped Ginny out of her latest daydream, in which Harry was apologizing for ignoring her for so long and then asked her to go with him to the next Hogsmead day.

"Hmm?" Ginny's eyes fluttered open.

"You haven't said much about all of this. How are you taking it?" So, Hermione had come to the same conclusion she had. She had no better chance with Harry than an ice cube had in hell, especially now that it was apparent his other half was somewhere close by.

"I'm fine." Hermione's eyebrows raised and Ginny sighed. "Hermione, we both know that I have about a one in five million chance with Harry. I realized this a long time ago. This is just forcing me to face it." Hermione sat up and held her arms out to Ginny, who leaned into them and let the older girl hold her. "I'd do anything for him Hermione, you know it. I think he knows it." Ginny hadn't let herself cry over the recent rash of events, but as Hermione stroked her hair as Ginny's mother would have done, she felt a few tears slip away.

"Harry wouldn't use you like that. If he knew, he wouldn't let you help, Gin." Ginny nodded and sat up. "If it helps any, I still think it should be you. You deserve him and no one would treat him better." Ginny brushed her tears away smiled.

"Damn karma." Hermione smiled and went back to her notes. Ginny tried to go back to her daydreams, but they were all bleak.

***

Ginny sat in the front row of Transfiguration class and tried not to fall asleep. They were reviewing Animagus transformations today, and Ginny was not interested. She would much rather have been trying to figure out who Harry's Soulmate was. That way it would be done with and she could cry from now until her time on earth was over with. She was being overly dramatic and knew it.

"Pay careful attention class, Mr. Hashteher, Miss. Hashteher and Miss. Harman are going to be displaying their Animagi forms." Professor McGonagall had gotten her attention off her Harry problems, and into the lesson. "They will be telling you about their forms, and the downfalls of having your form be a non-domestic animal."

Hazel smiled and tucked her hair behind her ears, then shed her robe. "My transformation is a white Siberian tiger. You'll notice when I change a black stripe running the complete circumference of my head at the crown. As well, my right front paw is entirely black." Watching Hazel shift into her animal form was a completely knew experience. She had watched McGonagall do it several times before, and she seemed to move faster as if a spell had been cast. Hazel's shift was slower, more deliberate, as if each and every molecule of her DNA was shifting and changing to the other half of her. The end was spectacular. A tiger stood no more than twenty feet away and let out a roar that made Loki laugh. She pawed at the back of his leg, making him jerk forward as his head would have had the young woman been in human form. She looked to weigh twenty pounds heavier than she did in her human form. The tiger's muscles rippled as she stretched her legs and whipped her tail back and forth. Those unnerving blue gray eyes stared straight into Ginny.

Loki removed his own robe and glanced over the students. "My form is a cougar. My identifying marks would be my entire coat as my colouring is not exactly normal for a cougar. My coat is silvery gray instead of the usual golden colour. Along with that, there's a nick in my left ear." Loki growled. "Never get into a fight with Hazel, boys and girls. It's not fun, especially when you loose and she's a good ten pounds heavier." Loki's shifting was much like Hazel's, in the fact that he seemed to be letting loose some part of him that had been hidden. He was a silver gray like he said, but perhaps a sooty black much like his hair was a more appropriate name. His strange eyes were still apparent in this form; it seemed that somethings didn't change. This cat was slightly smaller than the Hazel's tiger and Ginny know understood why Loki had lost the fight. He had been understating how much heavier Hazel was, she was twenty pounds heavier than the lanky cat and the cougar looked as though it would rather lie in the sun than fight.

Sukida rolled her eyes as the two big cats sat down on their rumps and stared up at her expectantly. Had Ginny not known better, she would have thought the three could communicate telepathically. "I am a Siberian Husky. My fur is silvery blue and white, my eyes the same colour as they are at present. My distinguishing marks are my four silver blue paws an completely white tail." Removing her robe as the two before her had done, she shifted slower than Hazel, but more quickly than Loki, as if her concentration needed to be more than one, less than the other. The class clapped politely as Sukida wagged her tail and panted lightly. She leaned her head to the side and stared at Ginny. The dog, which she reminded herself was really one of her student teachers, trotted forward and sat down at Ginny's feet.

The red head could have sworn that Sukida was trying to tell Ginny something, but a brief moment of chaos erupted and the dog jumped in between a growling Loki and Hazel. She gave two sharp barks and the two cats transformed back into people. Professor McGonagall glared at the two, who were glaring at one another. Sukida transformed back, eyes flashing.

"Loki Hashteher! Just what do you think you are doing?!" Her rainbow eyes were flashing! Rainbow eyes! Oh, just wait until Harry heard this one.

"Sukida." Hazel elbowed the shorter girl. "Your eyes, Sukida." It took Sukida a moment and then she grabbed Loki by his ear and Hazel by her elbow.

"I'm sorry for the disruption in your class, Professor. Believe me, they will both be dealt with accordingly." As the three left the room, Ginny got the strong suspicion that this happened frequently.

***

Harry most certainly could not believe what Ginny was telling him. "Ginny, you've got to be kidding. Sukida?" The look on the younger girl's face said that she was completely serious.

"Gin, you're crazy. So she just decides to show up? Honestly." Ron shook his head and Ginny turned back to Harry.

"Look, I wouldn't tell you if I wasn't absolutely sure. All four of them show up at once, apparently as student teachers. It's my bet that they were sent here for another reason though. Maybe they're Aurors." Ginny's face was flushed with excitement and it was obvious how much trouble she was having keeping her voice quiet.

"Or dragons." Harry didn't realize he had completely omitted Ron and Hermione from the conversation. "That's what Zaykaia Luna said. She was a dragon. I thought she looked oddly like Loki, her eyes... they were rainbow flecked, just like that one of Loki's. And if Sukida's eyes are as well..."

"It means that they're related and we've got at least two of a rare breed of Dragon on our hands, if not four."

End Author's Note: I've got nothing to say. Please review. -Hazel