Playing with Fire
Sirius woke a start and sweating the next morning, he threw the covers back and sat there in the dimly lit bedroom breathing heavily; he quickly looked around the room trying to remember that it had all been a nightmare that she was alright and a couple of floors up. Just not talking to him, he didn't balm her how could he; and if she knew everything then she would never want to see him again.
He swung his legs over the side of the bed and went to have a shower hoping that he would feel better, which he knew it was going to take more than a shower to ever feel like normal again.
Remus sat on the sofa flicking through the data sheets they had been given as homework yesterday, when the door opened behind him and Sirius walked slowly out. He walked round a dropped down next to him on the sofa.
Remus looked up at him, and knew straight away that there was something wrong. "Are you going to tell me, or do I have to guess?"
"What? Oh, it was nothing just a couple of nightmares." Sirius answered as off handed as he could.
"Nightmares, I thought that you were doing alright with them." Remus said concerned for his friend.
"I was, but last night...oh I don't know." Sirius said leading back.
James came bouncing out of his bedroom happier then they had seen him in ages, they both looked over at him and then at each other; Sirius really wasn't in the mood, but it was his best friend so he would cheer up for him.
"Isn't it a greet morning, and its going to be a greet day." James said cheerfully, and he swung himself over the sofa and landed facing them. "Its flying today, and not that stupid flying, but real flying like what we used to do. I'll show them who the better flyer is."
Remus and Sirius looked at each other smiling and then back at James, who had a fixed smile plastid across his face; it looked as though nothing was going to put him in a bad mood today.
James walked in first to the changing room with Lily at his side; he still had the smile from when first got up that morning. Sirius couldn't help feel better after spending the morning with him, and now the nightmare seemed a million miles away now.
"Did you see the size of it from outside?" Harry said as he walked in with Ron and Hermione. "Can't wait to see it, and to fly as well its been to long."
"Personally I'm not really a flyer." Hermione said as she sat down on the benches.
"Oh Hermione, you're a witch your supposed to like flying it's the whole point." Ron told her.
"I agree." Nissa said brightly as she walked in behind them, she smiled at them all as she walked over and sat down on the benches next to Hermione.
Sirius tried to smile at her, but couldn't now that she was here in front of him it kept seeing going up in flames, and it didn't help that she liked it here as well.
"You alright Sirius?" Nissa asked him. "So...are you in a better mood today?"
"What, I was fine yesterday." Sirius shot at her, getting stern looks from his friends.
"Of course you were." Nissa told him. "I'm not one of those girls from your school who seem to want to throw themselves at you, and into your bed."
"You'll be surprised." Sirius shot at her. "So what, you wouldn't sleep with a human, what about all those male friends of yours?"
Nissa stood up suddenly; her friends moved around the other side and stood on the benches so they could see what was going on but was out of the way encase it kicked off.
"How dare you." Nissa said. "What that's what you think of me, you don't even know me. Though what I've heard about you it seems as though it would be you who would jump into bed with any good looking girl you saw, even any good looking guy probably."
"What! I'm not gay!" Sirius shouted at her. "You're doing it again; this is what your best at isn't it. Pushing people away, hurting them so that they don't get close so you don't have to get close to them. At this rate you'll die a sad lonely old woman."
Nissa pulled out her saber and swung at him, a ball of fire shooting out the end sending him flying across the room and slamming into the wall.
"Nissa, please try to control that temper of yours." Oliver told her as he walked into the changing room. "Though at less it wasn't a member of our team. What ever your name is, I'm sure it wasn't that bad. Come on everyone get changed, and then we'll go out."
"He's the teacher?" Hermione asked, but of course none of them was listening they were all more concerned about Sirius.
Sirius struggled to his feet, but didn't look at them because he knew what they would all say to him.
"Sirius..." Remus started.
"I know, you don't need to tell me." Sirius said rubbing his side.
After they were all changed, Oliver stood in front of the large doors leading out into the arena waiting for silence to fall, well just from the students from the other school.
"Right then, could you have taken any longer to get changed." Oliver said, and looked down the list of names he had changing over a couple of them. "Right I've made a couple of changes to list which you were going to paired with, after what I saw I think that Nissa and Sirius should be paired together."
"Thanks." Nissa said as she stood up and pulled out her staff. "Don't worry I won't hurt him much."
"That's reassuring to know." Oliver told her. "Come on then everyone out you go, we haven't got all day."
James jumped to his feet, he was still smiling as Sirius looked over at Nissa who didn't look at all pleased about the pairing. James looked around for the broomsticks but couldn't see any anywhere.
"Erm...what are we flying on?" James whispered to Sirius.
Sirius noticed this for the first time as well, and then they saw the other students pulling out their staff's; they swung them around and wing's grew out the end of them and they flew out of the doors. Hermione grabbed hold of Remus' arm when she saw them flying out.
"I can't do that." Hermione said, Remus smiled at her but it still didn't reassure her.
James pulled out his staff excitedly and almost hit Harry over the head with it, Harry smiled at him as he pulled out his own; they both walked towards the door and looked out at the sight what meant them.
"Oh my god." Harry breathed.
"Well that's different." James said. "We can do this."
They both smiled at each other and then mounted their staff's and flew out over the lake, their friends looking on. Hermione clutched at Remus' arm tightly not wanting to let go of him, afraid that if she did then she would be made to go out there and fly.
"Come on Sirius, I wouldn't mind flying some time today." Nissa told him as she walked over to the door.
Sirius walked pass Remus and stood beside her at the door, she smiled at him and then he quickly stepped away from her, as an image of her pushing him out flashed in front of him. But she ran at the open door and dived out with the wings of her staff open.
Sirius completely panicked and dived out after her laying flat against his staff, as the rest of them ran to the door and looked out. Nissa rolled over onto her back and smiled up at Sirius as she turned her staff around the wings growing out the end, wings like that of a dragon; and then she swung it beneath her and shot up through the air.
"What the hell was that were you trying to give me a heart attack?" Sirius demanded as he flew over to her.
As Nissa turned around smiling she saw how concerned he was, and stopped smiling; it was the same look her friends always had. But she just didn't get it, because she thought that he didn't like her, or that...well he confused the hell out of her.
"Sorry, its just trick I do sometimes." Nissa told him, as James and Remus flew over to them. "I've been doing it so long, and well thought everyone was kind of used to it. But I guess you've never been to one of our matches then."
"No I haven't, and how the hell are you supposed to get used to you doing something like that?" Sirius demanded.
"Sirius maybe..." Remus tried to say.
"No! You..." Sirius shouted but Nissa interrupted him.
"You can't tell me what to do...I fly that's what I do." Nissa shot at him. "I'm on the Firmasca team as Videre the same as James, I bet that you don't tell him that its to dangerous for him to fly or even yourself because even you're on the team."
"That's different." Sirius told her.
"How, how the hell is it different?" Nissa shot at him. "Its so much more dangerous, goddess I could end up being tore to pieces injured and sent to the med bay or something. So how the hell is it different? Its no more different then...then...oh it doesn't matter what's the point in trying to explain anything to you?"
"Because it is...because...I...I care about you!" Sirius shouted at her.
Nissa just stared at him studded by his words, everyone had fallen silent as they listened to them and now they had all heard.
"You don't even know me." Nissa said quietly.
"That's because you won't let me." Sirius told her.
Nissa just stared at him, she couldn't really take it all in, he was really confusing her now; when she looked away from him she saw Ewan stood in the high commentator box. She looked back at Sirius who was looking at her in a way she didn't understand; she shuck her head and started to fly past him but he stopped her.
"I thought you didn't run away from anything." Sirius told her, Nissa looked back at him.
"I don't and I'm not, but I have to go." Nissa told him, she smiled at him slightly.
"Why?" Sirius asked her and then looked over to where she, and saw him stood there. "Him...are you and him...well you know?"
"He's my best friend, and he means everything to me...but no we're not." Nissa answered as Sirius let go of her.
She swung her staff out from underneath her and just stood there, they couldn't believe it she was stood in mid air without seeming to use any magic at all. She stretched her arms as wings seemed to grow out of her back and her whole form changed before their eyes, it was no longer her but a dragon stood in front of them; she turned in the air and flew over to the stands. Ewan ran out and dived as she flew underneath him and they flew off together though not towards the school, but out towards the ocean.
"Did I really just see that?" James asked.
"I think so...but no one can do...that's impossible." Remus answered.
"But she did it." Sirius said. "No wonder she always liked flying."
Hermione almost fell of her staff and grabbed at Remus' arm again and he held her up.
"It's not impossible, well not for the Dragon Queen it isn't." Hermione told them. "It's their greatest legend here; a Tasian with the power of the dragon will be born in their greatest need, only she can bring peace."
"But why does it have to be her?" Sirius asked.
Sirius woke a start and sweating the next morning, he threw the covers back and sat there in the dimly lit bedroom breathing heavily; he quickly looked around the room trying to remember that it had all been a nightmare that she was alright and a couple of floors up. Just not talking to him, he didn't balm her how could he; and if she knew everything then she would never want to see him again.
He swung his legs over the side of the bed and went to have a shower hoping that he would feel better, which he knew it was going to take more than a shower to ever feel like normal again.
Remus sat on the sofa flicking through the data sheets they had been given as homework yesterday, when the door opened behind him and Sirius walked slowly out. He walked round a dropped down next to him on the sofa.
Remus looked up at him, and knew straight away that there was something wrong. "Are you going to tell me, or do I have to guess?"
"What? Oh, it was nothing just a couple of nightmares." Sirius answered as off handed as he could.
"Nightmares, I thought that you were doing alright with them." Remus said concerned for his friend.
"I was, but last night...oh I don't know." Sirius said leading back.
James came bouncing out of his bedroom happier then they had seen him in ages, they both looked over at him and then at each other; Sirius really wasn't in the mood, but it was his best friend so he would cheer up for him.
"Isn't it a greet morning, and its going to be a greet day." James said cheerfully, and he swung himself over the sofa and landed facing them. "Its flying today, and not that stupid flying, but real flying like what we used to do. I'll show them who the better flyer is."
Remus and Sirius looked at each other smiling and then back at James, who had a fixed smile plastid across his face; it looked as though nothing was going to put him in a bad mood today.
James walked in first to the changing room with Lily at his side; he still had the smile from when first got up that morning. Sirius couldn't help feel better after spending the morning with him, and now the nightmare seemed a million miles away now.
"Did you see the size of it from outside?" Harry said as he walked in with Ron and Hermione. "Can't wait to see it, and to fly as well its been to long."
"Personally I'm not really a flyer." Hermione said as she sat down on the benches.
"Oh Hermione, you're a witch your supposed to like flying it's the whole point." Ron told her.
"I agree." Nissa said brightly as she walked in behind them, she smiled at them all as she walked over and sat down on the benches next to Hermione.
Sirius tried to smile at her, but couldn't now that she was here in front of him it kept seeing going up in flames, and it didn't help that she liked it here as well.
"You alright Sirius?" Nissa asked him. "So...are you in a better mood today?"
"What, I was fine yesterday." Sirius shot at her, getting stern looks from his friends.
"Of course you were." Nissa told him. "I'm not one of those girls from your school who seem to want to throw themselves at you, and into your bed."
"You'll be surprised." Sirius shot at her. "So what, you wouldn't sleep with a human, what about all those male friends of yours?"
Nissa stood up suddenly; her friends moved around the other side and stood on the benches so they could see what was going on but was out of the way encase it kicked off.
"How dare you." Nissa said. "What that's what you think of me, you don't even know me. Though what I've heard about you it seems as though it would be you who would jump into bed with any good looking girl you saw, even any good looking guy probably."
"What! I'm not gay!" Sirius shouted at her. "You're doing it again; this is what your best at isn't it. Pushing people away, hurting them so that they don't get close so you don't have to get close to them. At this rate you'll die a sad lonely old woman."
Nissa pulled out her saber and swung at him, a ball of fire shooting out the end sending him flying across the room and slamming into the wall.
"Nissa, please try to control that temper of yours." Oliver told her as he walked into the changing room. "Though at less it wasn't a member of our team. What ever your name is, I'm sure it wasn't that bad. Come on everyone get changed, and then we'll go out."
"He's the teacher?" Hermione asked, but of course none of them was listening they were all more concerned about Sirius.
Sirius struggled to his feet, but didn't look at them because he knew what they would all say to him.
"Sirius..." Remus started.
"I know, you don't need to tell me." Sirius said rubbing his side.
After they were all changed, Oliver stood in front of the large doors leading out into the arena waiting for silence to fall, well just from the students from the other school.
"Right then, could you have taken any longer to get changed." Oliver said, and looked down the list of names he had changing over a couple of them. "Right I've made a couple of changes to list which you were going to paired with, after what I saw I think that Nissa and Sirius should be paired together."
"Thanks." Nissa said as she stood up and pulled out her staff. "Don't worry I won't hurt him much."
"That's reassuring to know." Oliver told her. "Come on then everyone out you go, we haven't got all day."
James jumped to his feet, he was still smiling as Sirius looked over at Nissa who didn't look at all pleased about the pairing. James looked around for the broomsticks but couldn't see any anywhere.
"Erm...what are we flying on?" James whispered to Sirius.
Sirius noticed this for the first time as well, and then they saw the other students pulling out their staff's; they swung them around and wing's grew out the end of them and they flew out of the doors. Hermione grabbed hold of Remus' arm when she saw them flying out.
"I can't do that." Hermione said, Remus smiled at her but it still didn't reassure her.
James pulled out his staff excitedly and almost hit Harry over the head with it, Harry smiled at him as he pulled out his own; they both walked towards the door and looked out at the sight what meant them.
"Oh my god." Harry breathed.
"Well that's different." James said. "We can do this."
They both smiled at each other and then mounted their staff's and flew out over the lake, their friends looking on. Hermione clutched at Remus' arm tightly not wanting to let go of him, afraid that if she did then she would be made to go out there and fly.
"Come on Sirius, I wouldn't mind flying some time today." Nissa told him as she walked over to the door.
Sirius walked pass Remus and stood beside her at the door, she smiled at him and then he quickly stepped away from her, as an image of her pushing him out flashed in front of him. But she ran at the open door and dived out with the wings of her staff open.
Sirius completely panicked and dived out after her laying flat against his staff, as the rest of them ran to the door and looked out. Nissa rolled over onto her back and smiled up at Sirius as she turned her staff around the wings growing out the end, wings like that of a dragon; and then she swung it beneath her and shot up through the air.
"What the hell was that were you trying to give me a heart attack?" Sirius demanded as he flew over to her.
As Nissa turned around smiling she saw how concerned he was, and stopped smiling; it was the same look her friends always had. But she just didn't get it, because she thought that he didn't like her, or that...well he confused the hell out of her.
"Sorry, its just trick I do sometimes." Nissa told him, as James and Remus flew over to them. "I've been doing it so long, and well thought everyone was kind of used to it. But I guess you've never been to one of our matches then."
"No I haven't, and how the hell are you supposed to get used to you doing something like that?" Sirius demanded.
"Sirius maybe..." Remus tried to say.
"No! You..." Sirius shouted but Nissa interrupted him.
"You can't tell me what to do...I fly that's what I do." Nissa shot at him. "I'm on the Firmasca team as Videre the same as James, I bet that you don't tell him that its to dangerous for him to fly or even yourself because even you're on the team."
"That's different." Sirius told her.
"How, how the hell is it different?" Nissa shot at him. "Its so much more dangerous, goddess I could end up being tore to pieces injured and sent to the med bay or something. So how the hell is it different? Its no more different then...then...oh it doesn't matter what's the point in trying to explain anything to you?"
"Because it is...because...I...I care about you!" Sirius shouted at her.
Nissa just stared at him studded by his words, everyone had fallen silent as they listened to them and now they had all heard.
"You don't even know me." Nissa said quietly.
"That's because you won't let me." Sirius told her.
Nissa just stared at him, she couldn't really take it all in, he was really confusing her now; when she looked away from him she saw Ewan stood in the high commentator box. She looked back at Sirius who was looking at her in a way she didn't understand; she shuck her head and started to fly past him but he stopped her.
"I thought you didn't run away from anything." Sirius told her, Nissa looked back at him.
"I don't and I'm not, but I have to go." Nissa told him, she smiled at him slightly.
"Why?" Sirius asked her and then looked over to where she, and saw him stood there. "Him...are you and him...well you know?"
"He's my best friend, and he means everything to me...but no we're not." Nissa answered as Sirius let go of her.
She swung her staff out from underneath her and just stood there, they couldn't believe it she was stood in mid air without seeming to use any magic at all. She stretched her arms as wings seemed to grow out of her back and her whole form changed before their eyes, it was no longer her but a dragon stood in front of them; she turned in the air and flew over to the stands. Ewan ran out and dived as she flew underneath him and they flew off together though not towards the school, but out towards the ocean.
"Did I really just see that?" James asked.
"I think so...but no one can do...that's impossible." Remus answered.
"But she did it." Sirius said. "No wonder she always liked flying."
Hermione almost fell of her staff and grabbed at Remus' arm again and he held her up.
"It's not impossible, well not for the Dragon Queen it isn't." Hermione told them. "It's their greatest legend here; a Tasian with the power of the dragon will be born in their greatest need, only she can bring peace."
"But why does it have to be her?" Sirius asked.