Disclaimer: I own Zelda!!!! *gets hit by the megaton hammer* Ow~ Okay! Okay…I don't own it. I don't own anything…

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"Now, that wasn't too bad was it?  At least I didn't get us lost." Link said brightly as they joined the rest of the Gryffindors who were currently gathered around a small pumpkin patch.

Yami was panting and sweaty, having run around the entire school campus several times trying to find their class.  He glared at Link, but didn't say anything as he tried to catch his breath.

"Oy! Yugi! Link! Over here!"

Both looked up and saw Ron waving wildly at the two of them.  They quickly headed over to Harry and Ron who were currently playing with something.

"You two are in this class too?"

"Uh huh."

"What's that?" Yami asked curiously, trying to see over Harry's shoulder.

"It's a niffler." Harry said, holding up a small, furry creature.  It had wide, spade-like feet and a long snout.  It curled up in a tight ball in Harry's hands and dropped off into a quick nap. "We used them in class last year.  Wonder why Hagrid still keeps this little guy with him."

"What exactly do they do?"

"They find gold, treasure, anything shiny…and bring it back to the whoever they belong to.  We have a contest to see whose niffler can collect the most gold by the end of class.  I won the contest last year." Ron said with an obvious tone of pride.

"And I'll bet that lame prize you won last year was all your family could survive on all year after they bought you your school supplies." A familiar drawling voice said.

"Doesn't that idiot have something better to do other than following us around the school?!?" Yami asked.  The rest of the Gryffindors shook their heads.  Yami cursed silently.

"Well, I don't want to be here anyways." Malfoy said, looking sullen. "It's not my fault I have to be your class."

"He's in our class?!?"

"Double Potions and Care of Magical Creatures with the Slytherins." Ron said rather grimly.  Harry didn't look too happy about the arrangement either.  "We've been doing this for the past few years.  It's okay if you just ignore them, just hope they don't become too interested in you and decide to use you to practice their magic on."

Hermoine suddenly whacked Ron in the head.

"Hermoine!  Where'd you come from?"

"Library." Was the only thing she said.

"Oh…what's that?  It's really cute." Zelda said from behind Hermoine.  She was pointing at the niffler who was yawning and cuddling up against Harry.

"Are you two always going to be hanging around each other now?" Ron asked, ignoring Zelda's question.  Hermoine didn't answer directly and instead stuck her tongue out at him.  Ron frowned but didn't say anything.

"I wonder what's keeping Hagrid?" Harry said, glancing speculatively towards Hagrid's hut. He looked down to the tugging on the back of his robes.

"Grrreow?" the tiny blue dragon asked.

"What's that?" Ron asked. The others glanced their way curiously.

"How would I know?"

"Hisss…"

"H-H-H-Harry…the d-d-dragon…" Ron said through chattering teeth.

Thick ice coated most of Ron's robes as the dragon glared daggers at the niffler.  The niffler squealed and tried to dive into Ron's robes.

"Argh!  No!  Stay out of the robes!  Stay out of the robes!!!" Ron yelled, trying to pull the squirming form out and ignoring the laughter from both the Slytherins and the Gryffindors.

"The little lizard seems to be jealous!" Malfoy laughed, "It's as desperate for attention as Potty!"

The dragon heard and began to hiss softly.  It spread its small wings and launched itself at Malfoy, latching itself to the hem of his robes.  Malfoy began screaming and tried desperately to pry the dragon off, but it hung on doggedly. The Gryffindors were howling with laughter as Malfoy finally pried the dragon off and ran as fast as he could, still screaming with the dragon hot on his heels.

"That was interesting…" Link said, handing a fire arrow to the shivering Ron.

"Hey there 'arry!"

"Hagrid!" Harry said happily.

Hagrid shuffled over to the group, his enormous form easily cutting through the massed students.  "You three are the new students, eh?  The name's 'agrid, keeper of the keys at 'ogwarts an' yer Care o' Magical Creatures teacher."  He bent over and asked softly in Harry's ear, "You 'aven't seen a little dragon…'bout this big anywhere 'ave you?  I was goin' to use him in today's lesson…but I can't find him anywhere."

"Is it blue?" Yami asked, a faint grin hovering on his lips.

"Yeah, you know where it is?"

He pointed over to Malfoy who was sobbing pitifully now that the dragon had caught up to him and was sitting on his head chirping happily.  Malfoy's feet were frozen to the ground in solid blocks of ice.  He was yelling, "Wait untill my father hears of this! *sob* He'll make you pay for doing this to me!  He'll *sob* close down this school and…" …the threats go on and on.

"Buttercup!" Hagrid exclaimed, gently lifting the dragon from Malfoy's head, ignoring Malfoy completely.

"Buttercup?!?"

What kind of a name is that?

"He's an artic crystal-winged dragon." Hagrid declared.

"Why crytal-winged?" Hermione asked.

Zelda carefully ran her fingers over the wings. "Ow!" she cried, suddenly withdrawing her hand.  Several drops of blood dripped from the long cut on her hand.

"Be careful there…if ye' look carefully at his wings…" Hagrid told them, taking one of Buttercup's wings and gently unfolding it, "It looks like overlappin' feathers, but they're actually tiny crystals…"

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Link and Yami were standing around Malfoy, both had a slightly smug air about them…maybe because Link had added another layer of ice to Malfoy…this time pinning his arms to his sides…

"Wait until my father hears about this!!!" Malfoy yelled, struggling to break free of the thick ice.

"Then he'll be ashamed at having a chicken like you for a son." Yami said.

"Unfreeze me already!!!"

"Hm…you know what?  I think most of us like you better this way."

"Grr…unfreeze me now!"

Yami smirked and drew a card from his deck, "Okay then."

Link looked slightly alarmed, "Yami, I think you're going a little too far…"

Yami held the card aloft, "Burning wastelan --"

//No!//

/Don't worry, I'll go easy on…Yugi!  Finally!  You were unconscious long enough!/ Yami breathed a sigh a relief and disappeared back into the millennium puzzle.

"So…Yugi, should we leave him here for a while?" Link muttered softly.

"…What were you guys doing?"

"Oi! Are you people ever going to come to class?" Ron yelled.

"We're coming!" Link yelled back.

Yugi managed a few steps before collapsing onto the grass.

Link stopped walking and knelt by Yugi's side.  "Are you okay? You were hit in the head pretty hard…"

Yugi glanced fearfully at him, then muttered a quick, "I'm fine…" He got to his feet shakily, then collapsed again.

/Yugi…remember Link?  You trusted him last night, why not now?/

//…I guess his appearances just take some getting used to…//

'Yami, why don't you just take over again…he's in no condition to --'

Yugi panicked and stared at Link who had a confused look in his eyes, "You…can…"

"You can't leave without me!"

Link narrowed his eyes and glared at Malfoy.  The former bully shrank back as best he could in the ice.

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"Another thin' you should know, ne'er insult an artic crystal-wing dragon.  They'll ne'er stop chasin' you 'till they've 'ad their revenge, then you'll wind up like that git over there…" Hagrid said.

"What's taking them so long?" Ron asked.

"They're coming." Harry said. "Hey…why's Link carrying Yugi?  Wasn't he fine before?"

Everyone shrugged.

"Maybe Malfoy did something to him." Hermione said.

Link set Yugi down gently on the grass, then ran back to Malfoy.  They all watched as Link took out his bow and fitted an arrow to it.

"No!!! He's going to kill Malfoy!" Pansy screamed and tried to lunge at Link.

Harry tripped her as she ran by and Ron pinned her to the ground.  Link drew the arrow back and as he did so, the arrowhead burst into flame.

"What if he really does kill Malfoy?" Hermione asked Zelda anxiously.

"Who cares?" 

"I wasn't asking you, Ron!"

Zelda ignored Ron, "He won't kill Malfoy.  He's a good shot, he can't possibly miss the ice."

"…the…ice?"

Link released the arrow and it hit the ground near the ice, rapidly melting it.  Malfoy sat down and started rubbing his arms and legs, trying to get the circulation going again.  "Too bad we couldn't have just left him frozen, no doubt everyone would like that…but then I'd have gotten in a load of trouble." Link shrugged, "It was fun while it lasted.  Heh…we missed half of class that way."

"You'll eventually get into trouble for disrupting the class though." Hermione pointed out.

"Not really, we got to watch an example of the dragon getting its revenge for being insulted." Harry said.

"But what if Malfoy's father does tell the ministry about the incident?" Ron asked.

Hagrid hugged Buttercup tiny body tightly, the dragon's misty breath forming ice crystals in Hagrid's bushy beard, "I can't let them try and take Buttercup like they tried to take Beaky…I've suffered enough losses in my life, I won't let them take Buttercup away from me!"

"Are we going to continue with class yet?" Pansy asked impatiently.

"Since when did you care about class?" Hermione asked with a slight mocking tone.

"Since never, I just don't want to watch the big oaf blubbering about things of the past." Pansy retaliated.

"Hermione sniffed huffily, then left.

The rest of class turned out to be very interesting, but most people were in such a bad mood that many wound up accidentally insulting the dragon and getting frostbite/bitten/slashed.

"I didn't insult the dragon so why did I get slashed at?" Harry asked.

"Because it doesn't like you Potty!" Malfoy sneered.  The dragon turned in Malfoy's direction and ran in his direction.  "AAAARRGGGHHH!!!!!  NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

The six students stared as Malfoy ran off screaming…again.

"Look on the bright side, at least it's not like those blast-ended skrewts from last year." Ron muttered.

"That's for sure." Hermione agreed.

"What's a --" Yugi began.

"You don't want to know." Harry, Ron, and Hermione said in unison.

//What's a skrewt?//

/How would I know?/

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I know it's short and I'm really sorry about it.   I've been really busy lately and haven't been able to get on the computer that much.  Anyways, I figured that I hadn't updated in a while and should at least upload what I have at the moment.  I'll be adding more eventually so keep checking back for updates.