Hey!^^ This chapter is probably going to be as bad as the last one...sorry!
I just can't think of anything exciting to put in here:S so bare with me
please! And so this is going to be the last chapter in Central (even if i
have to make it so long that it takes u guys a week to read!) , so the next
should be better. Ok...the name thing... thanks for that! I'm going to have
one of Reggie's sisters as Nerissa, and how do you peoples think of Sue for
her mum? I'm still thinking about her younger brother...maybe I should go
borrow a baby name book from somewhere...
Ooo, yes. Thanks to mysticaldreams, Quidditch gal and crazy-chic2 for the reviews!^^
I do not own Harry Potter, never had, and never will.
*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*
~~~~~~~Chapter 5-*- The Tournament~~~~~~~
Harry could hear shuffling outside. What was outside...? He had only been asleep for half an hour or so.
CRASH! He was definatley awake now. It sounded like it come from outside, where he had heard the shuffling.
There was a piercing CRACK! and soon followed by a exasperation of "Aww, crap!"
Harry calmed down. He knew who it was now. Just Reggie.
There was more shuffling. Then a dull THUD. Reggie soon replied with "Oh, dammit Zemare! Hold still!"
Harry tried to get back to sleep, but the fact that Reggie and Zemare were too noisy...
After a while, Harry came outside to see what she was doing.
It was pitch-black, and he could only barely make out a large, black silhouette of the dragon known as Zemare. On top, it seemed, Reggie was tying something onto Zemare's back.
Zemare writhed, as if it was tickling her, and Regina was half knocked off, she was dangling by the black dragon's side. Then, THUMP. She landed on the ground.
"Zemare!" She hissed. "You're going to wake everyone up!"
"I think it's a little late for that now." Harry said from behind.
"Eep!" Reggie had definitely been startled. She turned around to face Harry. Her staff was by her side in and instant.
She sighed. "Ohh...phew. It's you, Harry..."
"What are you doing anyway?" He asked her.
"Huh? Ohh...the stuff arrived not long ago...I'm just putting it on, 'cos I'm so lazy that I probably won't do it tomorrow...did that make sense? Anyway, I'm putting the supplies on Zemare, only she won't hold stiiiill..." and here she raised her vioce, and gave a sideward glance towards her dragon. "Sorry if I was too noisy!"
"By the looks I'm the only one who was woken..."
"'Kay. That's good then." Reggie yawned. "I think I might do this tomorrow then..." And she got up, told Zemare in Ancient Draki something, and walked back inside. Harry followed, but he knew he wasn't going to get much sleep now.
*****************
He was right. That dragon that Harry had met at Azzure still lingered in his dreams... And, well, everytime he woke up, his scar burned horribly.
It was around 11 in the morning now, and the sun baked the dry ground. Nobody really dared to leave the shade. Sure, if you left under the wing of a dragon, because dragons don't mind intense heat, but otherwise you were stuck inside.
"Ack..I'm sick of this!" Reggie said. She went outside, and whistled. The sound of rustling wings was heard, and in and instant, Zemare stood there proudly, even is she was dripping water from snout to tail.
"Oi.that'd be right...she's been swimming at the lake..." Harry heard Reggie mutter to herself. "C'mon...lead the way, Zemare! I need to check the table for the Tournament!" She told the dragon.
"...Tournament? What kind? Like the Triwizard Cup?" Hermione asked.
"I'll show you...come on!" Reggie said excitedly.
She motioned for them to follow, and she walked outside, and under Zemare's wing, which shaded them from the blazing sun.
The hot sand was quite warm under their shoes, and Ron was staring at how Reggie was just walking over the boiling-hot ground, bare-footed!
Zemare lead them through what they thought was the main road (or track really, they didn't need bitumen to cover their roads--it was a dirt track), and branched off to the right a few times before they came upon two large rocks.
"Ahh...what did they have it as last time...? Mmm...wasn't it Nomeska Adel or something?" Reggie asked Zemare.
Zemare nodded.
"Ooh...kay...which means it should be Nomeska Alluria!" She said the last words clearly and loudly, as if she wanted to make sure somebody heard it.
Then, the rocks slowly slid apart. And in between them, opened up a hall carved out of the red earth. But what looked really strange was that if you looked at any other perspective of the rocks besides straight ahead, you would see flat, endless desert.
"That was a password, wasn't it?" Hermione remarked.
"Yep, it changes every three months, going through colony areas and villages. Like Pakkun is actually just the colony name. The village I live in is Pakkun Norellia, but the villages are so closely-knit in the Pakkun colony, you might as well drop the village name."
They walked inside, and Zemare left back for the lake. "Yeah, this is the registration hall for the Tournament...we keep a password in here so nobody else but Drakis can get in...but you guys are welcome. Below us are the training halls...oh, hey Julia!" Reggie waved to her friend, a tall girl with tanned skin and bright blonde, almost white hair.
"Hey, Reggie! You're here to take a look at the table, right?" She asked.
"Do I even need to answer that?" Reggie grinned.
"Mmm, guess not. Here." She handed a sheet of paper over. Reggie scanned it for a bit, and then almost yelled "WHAT!! THEY'RE STARTING WITHOUT ME??!! THEY SAID THEY'D WAIT UNTIL I'D GET BACK TO PA--"
"Calm down, Reggie! They haven't started any at Pakkun...just other places." Juia said, a little angry.
Reggie double-checked. She blushed. "Eheh...you're right..."
"Well, see you 'round, I'm going to go practice a bit." Julia said, and walked off to one of the staircases littered around the sides of the hall.
Reggie mumbled a bit, and looked over it again. "Hey!" She said. "There's one starting in two minutes! C'mon, you guys will be able to check it out!" She pulled them off to a staircase to their left.
They went down for about two minutes, and came out to another cavern similar to the one they were just in. "Ahh.okay right one, this is Training Area 5...yup." Reggie said quietly. "They should be starting soon." Reggie told them.
A small crowd had gathered around the edges of the cavern now. They joined it, and waited for a bit. Then, down came a red-haired woman, and a blonde haired man, followed by a pale grey and blood red dragon.
"What are they going to do, fight each other?" Ron asked.
"Precisely." Reggie replied, a glint in her eye.
"WHAT? That's...that's...stupid! They'll get killed!" Hermione said, outraged.
"Don't forget, our magic is stronger than yours. We can heal a lot easier than you normal wizards. We have Healers standing by anyway, we're not that stupid." Reggie replied.
"Well, if they're going to fight it's probably going to be to the death, isn't it?" Ron asked.
Reggie gave him a disgusted look. "What? No! All the aim is to knock your opponent off their dragon. Not to kill each other!"
By now both competitors had organised themselves in the center of the cavern, and were climbling onto their dragons, the woman on the pale grey and the man on the red, staffs ready.
"So..I gather you're allowed to use magic, then?" Hermione asked, pointing to the woman's staff.
"Uh-huh. Most magic. Y'know, some are a little extreme...and considering the space we're in too..."
Suddenly, the red dragons reared up and took to the sky. The grey soon followed.
The man aimed his staff at the dragon, and performed an Elementus Firra attack. The fireball was considerably hotter than the one Reggie had fired yesterday.
The dragon dived down and low enough for the rider to cop it in the face.
"Tsk...a dragon that cares nothing for it's rider...obviously it doesn't like her one bit."
The dragon was thrown back by the impact, but teeth clenched, and with a massive scald on her face, the rider came out of the fire, and aimed her staff right at him.
"ELEMENTUS AQUAGA!" This was different to the spell Reggie had used yesterday. It didn't come out from the ground; it came out of the tip of her staff.
It caught him off guard, and in the face. The dragon was hit too, but not directly.
Then, almost straight away came another almighty yell, "ELEMENTUS THUNDIRA!" And an electric current followed.
It struck them both, and the light was too bright for Harry to handle. He shielded his eyes.
It soon subsided, and the blood-red dragon and the male rider, now thoroughly burnt, fell like a rock out of the air. People scattered, as the dragon crashed into the cavern wall.
Harry spotted three people dressed in white robes hurry to each contestant.
"C'mon...it's over. We'd better get ready to leave..." Reggie said, tugging on their sleeves. Harry, Ron and Hermione still had their eyes glued on the scene of chaos and destruction. "Look, don't worry, they'll be just fine-- see!" and they watched as the woman's face was instantly healed by one of the Healers.
It took them a while to get through the densely packed crowd.
Their thoughts were still on the round that they had just seen.
"Well...rounds normally last a lot longer that that...and I really didn't expect her to win." Reggie commented.
"She did deploy a lot more tactic than the man though." Hermione replied.
"Yeah...but it doesn't just go on who wins. There are points involved. She took a fire ball to the face, and you lose quite a lot of points by doing that. That dragon will keep doing that though...from the looks it hates her." Reggie said.
"How come there isn't any commentating or anything? Or a judge for that matter." Ron asked.
"There is a judge. You just can't see him. And anyway you watch. No need for it. It distracts them anyway!" Reggie explained.
They came out, and by the looks they had spent most of their day down here. It looked to be about three in the afternoon.
"Agghhh! We'd better hurry! I have to go tie the supplies onto Zemare, then we need to go!" Reggie took off at a run, leaving the other three to struggle behind, picking their way through the thinning crowd.
*****************
They arrived not long after back at the place they were staying at to find Reggie making a last few adjustments to the way she had the boxes strapped to Zemare's back, near her tail.
"C'mon, hop on! It's ready!" Regina exclaimed as she turned around to greet them.
She moved forward to her riding position, while the three climbed on. With Ron (to his dismay) seated at the end.
Eternity flitted onto her shoulder, while Nomad yet again was handed a piece of parchment.
"Okaaay! Ready back there?" Reggie called back.
"Yeah!" Ron called.
"Yes!" Hermione, who was just behind her said.
"Ready!" Harry replied.
"Good! Zemare! It's homeward bound now!! Back to Pakkun!" Reggie yelled excitedly, causing Eternity, to jump in fright.
Zemare took off at a run. She roared, which was seconded by Eternity's, and thirded by the many dragons in and around Central. Zemare leaped, and air filled her wings. Within a few good beats, she was firmly off the ground and at a rocketing pace too. She shot higher, and higher, until you could no longer see Central, it was swallowed by the massive red sea of sand.
They were well on their way to Pakkun.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
....I never expected to get through that!! Okay, so maybe I was wrong about it being a bad chapter, but then it's what you guys think isn't it??? Make sure you guys review, ok? Seeya! ^^
*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*
Ooo, yes. Thanks to mysticaldreams, Quidditch gal and crazy-chic2 for the reviews!^^
I do not own Harry Potter, never had, and never will.
*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*
~~~~~~~Chapter 5-*- The Tournament~~~~~~~
Harry could hear shuffling outside. What was outside...? He had only been asleep for half an hour or so.
CRASH! He was definatley awake now. It sounded like it come from outside, where he had heard the shuffling.
There was a piercing CRACK! and soon followed by a exasperation of "Aww, crap!"
Harry calmed down. He knew who it was now. Just Reggie.
There was more shuffling. Then a dull THUD. Reggie soon replied with "Oh, dammit Zemare! Hold still!"
Harry tried to get back to sleep, but the fact that Reggie and Zemare were too noisy...
After a while, Harry came outside to see what she was doing.
It was pitch-black, and he could only barely make out a large, black silhouette of the dragon known as Zemare. On top, it seemed, Reggie was tying something onto Zemare's back.
Zemare writhed, as if it was tickling her, and Regina was half knocked off, she was dangling by the black dragon's side. Then, THUMP. She landed on the ground.
"Zemare!" She hissed. "You're going to wake everyone up!"
"I think it's a little late for that now." Harry said from behind.
"Eep!" Reggie had definitely been startled. She turned around to face Harry. Her staff was by her side in and instant.
She sighed. "Ohh...phew. It's you, Harry..."
"What are you doing anyway?" He asked her.
"Huh? Ohh...the stuff arrived not long ago...I'm just putting it on, 'cos I'm so lazy that I probably won't do it tomorrow...did that make sense? Anyway, I'm putting the supplies on Zemare, only she won't hold stiiiill..." and here she raised her vioce, and gave a sideward glance towards her dragon. "Sorry if I was too noisy!"
"By the looks I'm the only one who was woken..."
"'Kay. That's good then." Reggie yawned. "I think I might do this tomorrow then..." And she got up, told Zemare in Ancient Draki something, and walked back inside. Harry followed, but he knew he wasn't going to get much sleep now.
*****************
He was right. That dragon that Harry had met at Azzure still lingered in his dreams... And, well, everytime he woke up, his scar burned horribly.
It was around 11 in the morning now, and the sun baked the dry ground. Nobody really dared to leave the shade. Sure, if you left under the wing of a dragon, because dragons don't mind intense heat, but otherwise you were stuck inside.
"Ack..I'm sick of this!" Reggie said. She went outside, and whistled. The sound of rustling wings was heard, and in and instant, Zemare stood there proudly, even is she was dripping water from snout to tail.
"Oi.that'd be right...she's been swimming at the lake..." Harry heard Reggie mutter to herself. "C'mon...lead the way, Zemare! I need to check the table for the Tournament!" She told the dragon.
"...Tournament? What kind? Like the Triwizard Cup?" Hermione asked.
"I'll show you...come on!" Reggie said excitedly.
She motioned for them to follow, and she walked outside, and under Zemare's wing, which shaded them from the blazing sun.
The hot sand was quite warm under their shoes, and Ron was staring at how Reggie was just walking over the boiling-hot ground, bare-footed!
Zemare lead them through what they thought was the main road (or track really, they didn't need bitumen to cover their roads--it was a dirt track), and branched off to the right a few times before they came upon two large rocks.
"Ahh...what did they have it as last time...? Mmm...wasn't it Nomeska Adel or something?" Reggie asked Zemare.
Zemare nodded.
"Ooh...kay...which means it should be Nomeska Alluria!" She said the last words clearly and loudly, as if she wanted to make sure somebody heard it.
Then, the rocks slowly slid apart. And in between them, opened up a hall carved out of the red earth. But what looked really strange was that if you looked at any other perspective of the rocks besides straight ahead, you would see flat, endless desert.
"That was a password, wasn't it?" Hermione remarked.
"Yep, it changes every three months, going through colony areas and villages. Like Pakkun is actually just the colony name. The village I live in is Pakkun Norellia, but the villages are so closely-knit in the Pakkun colony, you might as well drop the village name."
They walked inside, and Zemare left back for the lake. "Yeah, this is the registration hall for the Tournament...we keep a password in here so nobody else but Drakis can get in...but you guys are welcome. Below us are the training halls...oh, hey Julia!" Reggie waved to her friend, a tall girl with tanned skin and bright blonde, almost white hair.
"Hey, Reggie! You're here to take a look at the table, right?" She asked.
"Do I even need to answer that?" Reggie grinned.
"Mmm, guess not. Here." She handed a sheet of paper over. Reggie scanned it for a bit, and then almost yelled "WHAT!! THEY'RE STARTING WITHOUT ME??!! THEY SAID THEY'D WAIT UNTIL I'D GET BACK TO PA--"
"Calm down, Reggie! They haven't started any at Pakkun...just other places." Juia said, a little angry.
Reggie double-checked. She blushed. "Eheh...you're right..."
"Well, see you 'round, I'm going to go practice a bit." Julia said, and walked off to one of the staircases littered around the sides of the hall.
Reggie mumbled a bit, and looked over it again. "Hey!" She said. "There's one starting in two minutes! C'mon, you guys will be able to check it out!" She pulled them off to a staircase to their left.
They went down for about two minutes, and came out to another cavern similar to the one they were just in. "Ahh.okay right one, this is Training Area 5...yup." Reggie said quietly. "They should be starting soon." Reggie told them.
A small crowd had gathered around the edges of the cavern now. They joined it, and waited for a bit. Then, down came a red-haired woman, and a blonde haired man, followed by a pale grey and blood red dragon.
"What are they going to do, fight each other?" Ron asked.
"Precisely." Reggie replied, a glint in her eye.
"WHAT? That's...that's...stupid! They'll get killed!" Hermione said, outraged.
"Don't forget, our magic is stronger than yours. We can heal a lot easier than you normal wizards. We have Healers standing by anyway, we're not that stupid." Reggie replied.
"Well, if they're going to fight it's probably going to be to the death, isn't it?" Ron asked.
Reggie gave him a disgusted look. "What? No! All the aim is to knock your opponent off their dragon. Not to kill each other!"
By now both competitors had organised themselves in the center of the cavern, and were climbling onto their dragons, the woman on the pale grey and the man on the red, staffs ready.
"So..I gather you're allowed to use magic, then?" Hermione asked, pointing to the woman's staff.
"Uh-huh. Most magic. Y'know, some are a little extreme...and considering the space we're in too..."
Suddenly, the red dragons reared up and took to the sky. The grey soon followed.
The man aimed his staff at the dragon, and performed an Elementus Firra attack. The fireball was considerably hotter than the one Reggie had fired yesterday.
The dragon dived down and low enough for the rider to cop it in the face.
"Tsk...a dragon that cares nothing for it's rider...obviously it doesn't like her one bit."
The dragon was thrown back by the impact, but teeth clenched, and with a massive scald on her face, the rider came out of the fire, and aimed her staff right at him.
"ELEMENTUS AQUAGA!" This was different to the spell Reggie had used yesterday. It didn't come out from the ground; it came out of the tip of her staff.
It caught him off guard, and in the face. The dragon was hit too, but not directly.
Then, almost straight away came another almighty yell, "ELEMENTUS THUNDIRA!" And an electric current followed.
It struck them both, and the light was too bright for Harry to handle. He shielded his eyes.
It soon subsided, and the blood-red dragon and the male rider, now thoroughly burnt, fell like a rock out of the air. People scattered, as the dragon crashed into the cavern wall.
Harry spotted three people dressed in white robes hurry to each contestant.
"C'mon...it's over. We'd better get ready to leave..." Reggie said, tugging on their sleeves. Harry, Ron and Hermione still had their eyes glued on the scene of chaos and destruction. "Look, don't worry, they'll be just fine-- see!" and they watched as the woman's face was instantly healed by one of the Healers.
It took them a while to get through the densely packed crowd.
Their thoughts were still on the round that they had just seen.
"Well...rounds normally last a lot longer that that...and I really didn't expect her to win." Reggie commented.
"She did deploy a lot more tactic than the man though." Hermione replied.
"Yeah...but it doesn't just go on who wins. There are points involved. She took a fire ball to the face, and you lose quite a lot of points by doing that. That dragon will keep doing that though...from the looks it hates her." Reggie said.
"How come there isn't any commentating or anything? Or a judge for that matter." Ron asked.
"There is a judge. You just can't see him. And anyway you watch. No need for it. It distracts them anyway!" Reggie explained.
They came out, and by the looks they had spent most of their day down here. It looked to be about three in the afternoon.
"Agghhh! We'd better hurry! I have to go tie the supplies onto Zemare, then we need to go!" Reggie took off at a run, leaving the other three to struggle behind, picking their way through the thinning crowd.
*****************
They arrived not long after back at the place they were staying at to find Reggie making a last few adjustments to the way she had the boxes strapped to Zemare's back, near her tail.
"C'mon, hop on! It's ready!" Regina exclaimed as she turned around to greet them.
She moved forward to her riding position, while the three climbed on. With Ron (to his dismay) seated at the end.
Eternity flitted onto her shoulder, while Nomad yet again was handed a piece of parchment.
"Okaaay! Ready back there?" Reggie called back.
"Yeah!" Ron called.
"Yes!" Hermione, who was just behind her said.
"Ready!" Harry replied.
"Good! Zemare! It's homeward bound now!! Back to Pakkun!" Reggie yelled excitedly, causing Eternity, to jump in fright.
Zemare took off at a run. She roared, which was seconded by Eternity's, and thirded by the many dragons in and around Central. Zemare leaped, and air filled her wings. Within a few good beats, she was firmly off the ground and at a rocketing pace too. She shot higher, and higher, until you could no longer see Central, it was swallowed by the massive red sea of sand.
They were well on their way to Pakkun.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
....I never expected to get through that!! Okay, so maybe I was wrong about it being a bad chapter, but then it's what you guys think isn't it??? Make sure you guys review, ok? Seeya! ^^
*~Biddett da Pigeon Stalker~*
