Yeah, ok, I got that review and now here's the second! And yeah- I do not own any of the characters or anything else related to Harry Potter, that's J.K Rowling's stuff. Well, 'cept the Drakis. I made that up. ^^

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~~~~~~~Chapter 2 -*- The Draki~~~~~~~

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!!" Harry almost falls over in shock. Remus, Tonks, Moody, Hagrid and a host of other people (there were far too many names to remember- a couple of them were people he didn't even know).

Well, the party was good, except that Fred and George had jinxed the candles on the cake not too blow out for about fifty tries, then half blows up the cake (they were in a right mess then).

Harry had already unwrapped all of his presents, and Hargid came up to him and said "Sorry, Harry, Dumbledore couldn' make it, he's busy back at school yeh see...and, well, he left yer a present...but it's not gonna arrive for a few hours yet."

"What is it?" Harry asked, full of curiousity.

"Can' tell yer, It'd ruin the surprise for yer." Hargid replied. "Mmmm, well, okay. He's got in contact wit' a few others in the Order, and he's giving yer a nice break from England for a while, yeh, yer goin' on a holiday. Can't say where though. I don't know meself."

Suddenly there's this loud WHOOSH! WHOOSH! sound of beating wings, and Harry looks outside, his mouth gaping and eyes goggling.

There was a DRAGON outside, and it landed with precision, then bent down low, and let somebody off. "Oh, geez!" Harry heard Hagrid say. "It's an hour early! Wha's it doin' here now?"

"THAT'S the present?" Harry asked.

"Yeh." Hagrid replied.

"But I thought dragons were illegal!"

"Well, she really isn't part of...uh, how coul' I put this? She's not a wizard like you, Harry, that's a Draki."

"Draki?"

"You've never heard of a Draki? Don't blame you, not many people talk about it." Hermoine joined in.

"How come you know?!" Harry asked her.

"Read about them. And you know, Professor Binns has actually mentioned them in class a couple of times." She replied.

"How do you expect me to be able to pay attention to him!" Harry said.

Hagrid moved outside to greet the new visitor. And probably to look at the dragon.

Suddenly a small dragon burst inside, and started to causing a bit of a noise. The Draki came in, and looked wildly around for the small dragon that had just came running in.

"ETERNITY!!" She yelled. She found the dragon, which was called Eternity by the fact that it had looked up from where it had been (sitting on Ginny's head and mucking up her fiery red hair). She went over to it, and picked it up by the tail, and gave it a nasty glare. She dropped it, and Eternity managed to fly back up and land on her shoulder before it had hit the ground.

"Err..."She said, looking at everyone's expression (mainly of shock, because of how she had just treated that dragon). Her faced turned a shade of pink, and she went back outside.

"So..what is a Draki, anyway?" Harry asked Hermione.

"Hmm? Oh, yes. They pretty much are wizards, only that they like dragons that much that they kind of isolated themselves from the main wizarding world. Well, a long time ago they did that anyway. They live like us to the Muggles, only we actually know about them."

"Oh, right. You'd reckon Hagrid would become one." Harry said. "Well, he likes dragons heaps."

"You can't just become one. They're pure-blooded wizards, and they know extremely powerful magic. If they could fight Voldemort, I'm sure they'd be able to at least have a chance of disposing him." Hermoine had said the last part in a whisper, because she knew a lot of people would've jumped at the Dark Lord's name.

"Oh." Harry doubted that. He knew of what the prophecy had said.

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"Seeya soon, Harry!" Called Tonks, as Harry was just climbing onto the dragon's back.

"Y'know...you can bring somebody else along, I'm sure Mum won't mind..." The Draki said as Harry clambered onto the dragon's neck, just behind her.

"Well, I don't know if they'd be allowed to." Harry replied.

"Hmmm...well okay, I'll ask myself." She said.

"If anybody else wants to come, there's enough room!" The Draki called.

"Can I go?" Ginny asked Mrs Weasley.

"No, it'll be too dangerous. Anyway, this is Harry's present from Dumbledore." She replied.

"Aww..."

Hermoine looked around. "Well, I'd like to go, except I don't know what my parents would think." She said to Mrs Weasley.

"Well, okay, I'll tell your parents that you're here." She said to Hermoine.

"Okay." Hermoine went up to the gigantic black dragon, and it looked at her. Hermoine looked a little nervous, but the Draki on top leant down to the dragon's head and whispered something to it. The dragon's eyes swiveled round to the Draki, and bent down low for Hermione to scramble on.

Ron soon followed (after protests from Ginny) and the dragon's huge wings began to beat, before the Draki up fron shrieked "Wait!" The dragon stopped, and without waiting for it to lower down to let it off, she jumped off.

She winced when her legs came in contact with the ground. But, not paying any attention to them, her eyes scanned to surrounding vicinity worriedly. She sighed, as if she forgot something and was about to do something stupid, and then whistled.

From the back of the small crowd, Eternity came running, and then she called "Nomad!! You too!!" Then from around the same place, Nomad, a tiny (barely the size of her arm) dragon, or more fittingly, flying serpent, came flapping down. She muttered to herself, and picked up the two, and waved for the big dragon to take her up.

The dragons wings began to beat (almost sending Lupin flying) and took to the air, in a graceful, almost effortless swoop.

The last time Harry had felt this free was when he was on his broom over to Twelve Grimmauld Place last summer. The ground came away from him, and before he knew it, he was over the cloud level. England went under it,and all he could see was blue sky and cloud.

"Well, we're going to be seeing a lot of each other for a while, so I guess I'd better get to know you guys. I'm Regina Bahamut." The Draki said, leaning over, to talk to them.

"I'm Hermione Granger, this is Ron Weasley, and this-" Hermoine began.

"I'm Harry Potter." Harry said. He knew what she was going to do "Harry Potter?!" She would say in amazement.

She turned around, and Harry waited for her to say it. "Call me Reggie, ok? Regina to me sounds really formal." Is all she said.

Harry didn't believe that. She didn't go all psycho!

"Umm, yeah, it's gonna take a couple of days before we get there. You want me to go over where we're going?" Reggie said.

"Yeah, that'd be good." Ron said from the back. But Ron didn't really sound like himself.

Harry leant back over to him and murmured "What's wrong with you? You're not acting normal."

"Well, it's just that..." He went red.

"No...you LIKE her? You barely even know her name!"

"Yeah I do...Reggie Bahamuth."

Harry looked at him, in a sort of disgust. Then he looked over to Reggie. Well, she did look kind of pretty. Her long dark brown hair was up in a pony tail, and she had sparkling emerald green eyes. She was thin, but a little short. She was a little taller than Ginny, and she wore thick dragon skin.

"Um, okay, well we're going to be spending most of today flying, then at about....a couple of hours before sun down? I can't really remember, and it really depends on how fast Zemare flies, but yeah, we're going to spend a night at Azzure, the new colony in the Sahara Desert-"

"WHAT?!" Hermoine had said, shocked. "But that's un-inhabitable!"

"Well, I just said there's a colony there, didn't I? It's only new anyway." Reggie replied. "ANYWAY...we're going to be staying at Azzure for a night, then we're heading of for Central, in the Outback of Australia. That should take..." She trailed off, counting her fingers. "Half a day, and then I need to pick up some supplies for home, so we'll be there for a few nights, then we're going to my home, in the Pakkun colony, which is on an island somewhere in the ocean a couple of hundred k's off Australia...quite remote, but me and Zemare've been doing this for ages so there'll be no problems there... we'll be there for a coupla weeks, and then we do the same, in reverse."

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It took most of the day to get to Azzure, as Reggie had said. Harry was astounded when he laid eyes upon Azzure. There was some rude shacks here and there, as Reggie had said, 'It's only new', but what really caught your eye was this absolutely HUGE lake, and the shacks were on the lake edge. You'd really think somebody would've seen it, and come here and found out by the Drakis, but Reggie saw their expressions of bewilderment and explained "That's-I guess- a kinda conjured-up lake. Some of the magic we know is elemental, so we can move earth and create lage amounts of water....that's pretty much what they did here."

Reggie whispered what Harry thought was "Landirrah!" to the dragon (Zemare is it's name if you haven't put two and two together yet). Harry felt a sudden rush. He relised something. They falling out of they sky!

"What are you doing?!" He heard Hermoine exclaim to Reggie.

"Laaaaaaandiiiiiiiiing!" Reggie called. "Man, I love this part! YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!" Reggie looked like she was a kid at an amusement park on a rollercoaster or something.

Zemare had pulled back her wings, and was in a completely stream-lined shape. She was plummeting at a mind-boggling speed. Zemare, then roared. It was the first time since the Triwizard Cup that he had heard a dragons' roar. He shuddered at the memory. But it was a kind of warning to say that she was landing, for the patch of ground they were about to land in was littered with dragons! They all suddenly backed away, and with the dragging off her claws, she landed.

"How was THAT?" Reggie asked. The other three were too speechless to say anything.

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The end of chapter 2!! Well, this one was certainly longer...i think! Thanx if you've read this far!^^ Well, this time ill wait for 5 reviews...and ill probly have the rest of the story done by the end of the holidays at this rate! (thats one per day for...16 days, so maybe not...we'll just see)

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