Chapter Four- The Transformation

When they arrived in class, they sat down and waited for Snape to start teaching.

"as you all know, we will start with another potion called: the Draught of Peace. I hope you are all ready for it because it is quiet complicated," said Snape. He tapped the black board and writing for the instructions started to appear on the board. "you may begin and you have and hour and a half to finish. Good-luck."

Everyone started on their potions. Dise and Hermione were hard at work. Harry and Ron were still reading the first instruction on the board. Half way through the class there was a loud BANG! And when everyone looked over at Neville, not to their surprise his potion was blasted into rocks.

"Apparently he added the frogs legs before the shumkin's eyes, it always comes out that way if you added the frog legs first. Poor Neville, I wonder what horrible things Snape is going to do to him, now," whispered Hermione.

Dise looked over at Neville then to Snape, who was drifting towards Neville. She could see Neville shaking with terror. Dise always knew that Neville was scared of Snape the most. She couldn't think of what horrible things Snape is going to do to him, so she immediately poor in the snakes blood supplement instead of the gremlins liquid first. At first nothing happened, Hermione looked at her in horror. Then Dise added a little bit more of Gremlin's liquid and then a louder, bigger BOOM! Exploded in her face, everyone laughed except Draco who looked over at her and rolled his eyes. Snape immediately turn away from Neville and towards Dise.

"Ms. Rave, I know that you are a some what," he breathed deeply before finishing his sentence, "a brilliant young lady, but what why would you ever want to pull a Longbottom?" Everyone laughed including Draco. Dise eyed him, and he stopped. He nudge Crabbe and Goyle who stopped and everyone stopped, too. Neville blushed bright red, and slinked down on his chair.

"I guess we Gryffindors know how to stand up for one another," she said, Snape eyed her and looked down at her with disgust. "even if it means one would be in a bit of trouble." Snape turned around and walked towards the front saying, "twenty points from Gryffindor."

"typical," said Dise.

"oh, my, did I say twenty, I meant twenty-five," Snape corrected.

Draco looked at her and levitated a note to her. No one saw, and Dise immediately opened the note, quietly.

hey,

I think it would be wise of you, not to talk back to him. He can take all the points from you, if he wanted. By the way, meet me today at the top of the tower of the east wing. I have something to show you. I'm not sire but it might help you as well.

I should know.

-DM

She looked at the note and re-read it a few times. It struck her by curiosity then she flipped the note around and wrote on the back.

I would know what to do, thank-you very much. I wouldn't care if he did took all the points from Gryffindor. It would just mean that he's a big clump of dung. Naw it's ok. I don't want being caught running around with 'the wrong type of crowd'. and yea, I do know what you did to Harry the first year of school. I don't need your help, I can do things on my own. But thanks for trying to help.

-PD

She held it in her palm and Draco looked over curiously, what is she doing? then he felt something squish in this pocket. He reached in and pulled out the note that, she had written back. He read it and looked up to see her head. He wrote back another letter, right when it levitated back to her the class had ended. She grabbed it and threw it in the trash can. She looked at him and shook her head indicating, no I don't want to read any of your pity. He looked at her and gave a big wide smile, then she walked away.

Lunch again came, and they were eating joyfully. Then Dise felt a big huge burn on her thigh where her tattoo burned. She jumped up and on the other side of the Slytherin table Draco jumped up too at the exact same time. They looked at each other, Draco looked worried and cautious. Dise looked mean and paranoid.

"what's wrong Dise?" said Harry while still chewing.

"oh nothing, I just remembered something that's all." She sat back down and started to eat like if nothing had happened. She strived to eat like normal through out the lunch time and shook her head at Draco whenever he looked at her. It seems like she was communicating with Draco. Lunch ended, so she walked with her friends to their next Charms class.

During Charms, they were learning about dragons and Dragles. Draco sat across the walk-way from dise. He kept on looking at her and she kept on ignoring his eye. She finally looked at him in the eye and then he nodded. She closed her eyes and rested her head on her arm.

"So what are Dragles? Can anyone answer?" said Professor Flitwick. Hermione's hand shot straight up into the air.

"Yes, Ms. Granger?"

"Dragles are people who are half dragon. They turn into their type of element dragon once every year on a given date. Dragles are come to be, when an anamagi turned into a dragon and fell in love with a witch. Then it was transferred to their children after that. But only one child would be chosen to be a Dragle. They would always have a scar which would indicate their position," answered Hermione.

"that is very much correct Ms. Granger, 10 points to Gryffindor."

Luckily, Hermione didn't say what kind of tattoo they had. Dise looked over at Draco and saw his grasping his arm. His eyes seem to be watery, but so watery that is looks like he's crying. She has never seen Draco so worried, whenever she looks at him he would always be talking to some other girl or laughing wit his friends. But ever since November started and the end of when he found out what she was. He's acting a lot different.

She looked at him. Now he's rubbing his arms hard, the girl next to seemed to have notice and it looks like she asked him if he was ok. He nodded and when she reached over his arm he moved her hand and probably rejected the favor. Dise looked at him and felt so sorry for ever being mean to him. She was confused and worried at the same time. Confused that maybe he wasn't being nice to her because they're the same kind, maybe he still just wanted to get in her pants. She wasn't even sure if she liked him or if it was because she found someone of her kind. She was worried that tonight would go wrong, like it has many times before. Looking at him wrinkling his forehead and rubbing his arm even harder she felt a sharp pierce in her heart. what am I doing? Am I --am I really falling for him now.

The pain on Draco's arm is just burning, he feels annoyed. Maybe it wouldn't hurt as much if he rubbed it harder. Parkinson kept on insisting that she rubbed it for him. But the fact that he's falling for someone else, and she's sitting across from him. He can't blow it this time. Draco is starting to fall for Dise. At first she was just someone he couldn't get. He just tried harder to get her, but she still didn't fall for him. That makes him see that she's the one, because all the other girls allow him to do what he does even if he's mean and disrespectful to them.

"are you alright Mr. Malfoy?" asked Professor Flitwick with is squeaky voice.

"yeah, I'm--" he rubbed once more, "fine."

"you sure you don't need to go to the Hospital wing?"

"no I'm just fine Professor." He looked over and whispered to Dise, when Professor Flitwick turned around. "are you ok, Dise?"

"I'm just fine, you look really pale. You are sure your alright….Draco?"

"just---fine"

Dise scowled at the fact that he's trying to be macho man, he gave her a sweet smile and she smiled back. He looked at her in amazement that she called him "Draco" instead of "Malfoy" or "Pin head" The class finally ended and the first to ran out was Draco. Dise wanted to run after him to see if he was OK, but something made her stop. Dinner was just as usual, she saw Draco coming in to dinner near the end. He looked a little better. A little after he sat down he must have said something funny that the whole table shrieked with laughter. That made Dise feel a lot better.

Her tattoo burned again, but this time she tried not to jump. She looked over at Draco and, of course, he was looking at her in concern. Professor Dumbledore stood up to announce the first two Houses to play Wizard Challenge.

"as of course, you are all desperate, to know which two lucky Houses will go first. Instead of me giving a long speech I will just tell you first hand and the rules. Hufflepuff and Slytherin will be the first two lucky Houses to play the Challenge." the Houses roared with joy and screams of 'YAY!!'. " The rules are to stay on the trail and do not I repeat do not go anywhere you are not suppose to go. We trust our fellow Hogwarts student and that is how the Wizard Challenge came to be. The Houses will most definitely have to work together. If there are any bad acts we will be sure that, that student will be disqualified. Do not use wand against each other and are only for the special creatures that lurk in the maze. You may not use the top three curses for example the Unforgivable curse. And finally you MUST enjoy," he said with a glistening glitter in his eyes. "Enjoy." he finished. Dinner ended and as the students walk out Dise clutched her chest.

"ow," she exclaimed.

"are you alright Dise?" asked Ginney.

"yeah, I'm just --fine," she breathed.

"you need help mate?" Ron asked.

"no I'm--I'm fine. I'll just go--go to the hospital wi--ng."

"are you sure, we can help you, you know." asked Harry.

"no, I'm just fine, you guys go ahead, I'll see you in the common room?"

"yeah, we'll meet you there," said Ginney.

"alright, then--bye!," she tried to smile so her friends don't have to worry. She clutched her chest even harder this time. She leaned on the wall and waited for Draco. Once he arrived she clutched him by the collar and lead him down the hall way to a corner. His friends laughed and called at him.

"I guess we'll see you a little later eh?" yelled Goyle.

"you're a lucky man, mate. Very lucky." yelled Crabbe.

Once their around the corner. Dise lets go of his collar, and Draco turned to her.

"are you ok?"

"if I wasn't I don't think I would ever touch you," she tried to speak out so he would hear.

"well fine I guess you don't need my help I --" Dise let out a little scream. She fell to the floor still grasping her chest.

"come on, I'll show you where I usually start." Dise loked up at him with disgusting eyes. "I meant when I start to transform."

They arrived at the top of the east tower, which looks like a top of a building. The night sky was spread with stars and the icy cold wind spread across each others face.

"ok just take deep breaths and once you feel like its coming tell me. OK? I'm sure I can make it less painful." Draco told Dise.

"what are you gonna do?"

"there's this little supplement that I made whenever I was about to transform. I drink it and it makes me feel a lot easier and faster. It works for me." Dise clutched her chest harder and fell to the ground on her knees.

"it's coming," she whispered. Draco pulled out his potion and let her drank it. It hurts so bad that she couldn't open her mouth. It went straight down her neck.

"oh crap." he knew that it was minutes until she transformed. She let out a scream that was so painful that Draco felt her pain too. He poured the potion into his mouth and held it there. He looked at her then put his lips on Dise then opened his mouth to her. He poured the potion into her mouth and finally the transformation began. He let go and the backed up looking down.

Dise looked at him in surprise she felt her whole body tingle and then her hands were turning bigger. Claws were growing, teeth were growing sharper, eyes were widening. Finally after a few minutes she was fully transformed. He looked at her.

"hi." he said looking at her.

She gave a small roar, trying not to wake the others. She shot up in the air and flew round and round. She shot a small fire out of her mouth into the air. oh, so you're a fire dragon. she looked so delighted to fly around. Free from everything, no one to tell her no, no stress and the only thing that is near her was the stars and the moon. Over everyone and the cold wind blowing at her. Draco sat down and looked up at her and smiled. After an hour or so, Draco looked at his watch and looked up at her. He caught her eye and she came down.

"is it time already?" she asked.

"yeah, its getting late, dear." said Draco.

"oh, wait-- did you just call me dear?"

"no, no--no I said Dise." he was blushing horribly.

"really?"

"yeh"

"ok, then lets go…dear." she whispered.

They were near the end of the Hall when Draco reached over and grabbed her hand and stopped.

"hey I-I just wanna say something." he said. "your really different from all the other girls and I- I just want a chance. I know I was a bit harsh before, I just wanted to score you and-"

"so you want to score me now?" smiled Dise.

"no! no-- no I don't want to, I mean I do, NO I mean like not in that way, not like I don't want to, wait, no…." he gave a deep sigh.

"look I'm just kidding, I know you kinda don't and do. Listen I'm starting to like you," she said leaning in closer. "you're the only one that care about me except my friends, for some reason I really care about how they think of me, but with you, it doesn't really matter. I just want to say…Thank-you."

"yea. And you're the only one that I really care about, THAT'S a girl. And you really helped me figure things out. I haven't really had a night with anyone ever since you came, really! You changed me I'm really not that jerk anymore. And I never had this type of feeling toward a girl before. It's different."

She leaned in and kissed him on the lips. She looked at him and smiled. Draco wanted that feeling again, when he 'kissed' Dise up on the Tower. When she took a step forward he grabbed her by the arm and kissed her real gentle. She stopped to look at him, he looked her in the eyes and put his lips gently on her again, he opened his mouth and deepened his kiss. It was back and fourth for a while, when finally she stopped it. She gave, finally, not a smirk but a sweet smile and her eyes twinkled in the candle lights. Draco's blue eyes sparkled as well. They stared at each other for a while and then finally he took her by the hand and lead her down to the hall. They were stopped by Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginney. Both let go of each others hands.