Quest of the Seekers: Animals Within
Year Two at Hogwarts
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Chapter 7: The Hogwarts Animals
It had been nearly three weeks after the quidditch game. The Slytherins were, as usual, being smug around the Gryffindors when they beat them at something. Tyler knew that this was due to the fact that Gryffindor had beaten Slytherin last year when James Potter, and Sirius Black were on the team and most of the slytherins hated Potter and Black. Bloody hell, Tyler even hated them for what they did to him at the corridor to the common room last year and when Black tried to send a curse at him so Tyler understood but stayed out of it. The other houses were angry right back at the slytherins so Tyler stayed in places where fights weren't usually brought up with his fellow seekers just doing whatever they were doing being it homework, quidditch talk, showing off elemental progress, yadda yadda.
"Hey guys."
"What Reggie?" asked Brad.
"Tomorrow's Halloween."
"Yeah, we already knew that."
"No Tyler, I mean that there is a trip to Hogsmeade scheduled and it will only be first and second years here so I thought we could go to the cave and start up with the Animagus Training."
"Yeah, why not?"
"Okay."
"No objections here."
"Good, how about we meet at the cave five minutes after everyone else leaves?"
...
The day of Halloween had arrived and it was a Hogsmeade weekend. Tyler and Matt were in the common room with Regulus trying to convince him to bring in some stuff for them since they weren't allowed to go to the village yet.
"Just promise us some sweets Regulus."
"Sure mates, as long as you give me the money for it."
"You really know how to be a friend," said Matt glumly with sarcasm.
"Hey, just protecting my money," he said putting his hands up in surrender.
"Oh...alright." Tyler and Matt then handed Regulus some money to buy them treats from Honeydukes in Hogsmeade.
"There, was that hard?" He got glares from them both. "Just a little Slytherin humor." He shook his head at his friends in laughter and left with the other older slytherins.
"Well what do we do now? The castle's empty except for 1st and 2nd years now."
"Well I already have plans with my friends. Sorry Matt."
"You really spend a lot of time with them," he said suspiciously.
"Well they're my best friends."
"And we're not."
"You and Regulus are, ...its just different."
"Different? We're your own kind."
"Exactly" he said cutting him off. "You guys are important to me including Severus. But Jacke, Reggie and Brad were my first friends and they're important to me too. Just try to understand that, please Matt."
Matt looked at Tyler apparently speechless. Tyler had told him off before but he told him that he was important to him. He had also respected him even though they were arguing.
"Now I can actually start to see why Severus liked you so much." Matt broke into a small smile. "I guess I got a little jealous of them. They're not slytherins but you talk so highly of them as if they were."
"They aren't and I respect that."
"Why? I don't get that. Out of all the trouble we get from their houses."
"Which isn't their fault. I don't blame them for what they're house members do to me and they don't blame me for what mine do to them."
"Look Tyler. I got it. I'm not going to change how I feel about them but I'll respect, the FACT, that they're your friends too."
"How were you hanging out around me if you didn't?"
"I just tried to pretend that they weren't around so it would not make me angry."
Tyler looked at his fellow slytherin for a brief moment. Matt was jealous of the other seekers like they had been jealous of him. Green with envy that Tyler had such close friends that weren't, and his friends were envious that Tyler had managed to get friends that were green like him. (A/N: Just a little author joke, green, like the slytherin colors, green with envy, get it?)
Thanks. Well I have to meet them now but I promise I will do something with you when I get back."
He left Matt who went back to the dorm to finish up potion homework. He went to their secret cave which they had earlier nicknamed "The Seekers Cave" in honor of their group and levitated the entrance to find that they were all there already."
"Hey, I'm sorry I kept you guys waiting."
"We've been only waiting around for two minutes."
"Well let's get started." Reggie pulled out the book and rechecked. "Okay lets focus on getting our left arm to change only. Jacke, try to get yours to be a lion's paw, Brad, into a badger's arm, Tyler, vanish it since you don't have any and I'll try to get a eagle's wing."
"Look at you take charge," said Brad with an impressed tone. "It's so hard to believe you were resisting this."
"Like he did last year." Tyler added.
"And he took charge in risking rule breaking like now," finished Jacke.
Reggie looked at Brad like he just woke up from a long sleep then looked at Tyler and Jacke. "I blame you two for that."
"We're flattered."
""Yeah, we are."
Then they all broke out laughing and went throughout the room to start training. Tyler went to the part of the cavern where he had trained using the eel to control lightning. He closed his eyes and thought of being a snake. He tried to imagine that there was no right arm like Reggie suggested but found his imagination wander off. He imagined having emerald green skin, great yellow eyes like Chaos and having a sway looking body. Boy did he like snakes and he wanted to know what it was like. He then realized that he was supposed to be focused on his arm only and that he had drifted off. He opened his eyes so he could get ready to try again but found that he was on the floor.
'Did I collapse to the ground while I was daydreaming' he thought.
He tried to get up but found he couldn't move his arms. He went to look to why his arms weren't moving but saw he had an extended neck. He also saw that he had no arms at all! He wanted to scream but let off a hiss of parseltongue. For a second he thought he got confused and let his other language slip until he moved to the pond.
It turned out that he didn't get confused. He became a snake similar to Chaos' appearance except for the emerald green skin while Chaos had dull green with spots.
He was completely shocked at what happened. What did happen? He looked to see his friends for help but saw they weren't in the cave. His eyes were really sharp in this new form. He, however, found a lion moving around. He tensed with fear until he saw an eagle on the floor and a badger too. Then it hit him, those weren't wild animals, they were his fellow seekers. The lion had to be Jacke, the badger was Brad and the eagle was Reggie. Suddenly Tyler wished he could be his old human self again and a second later, where the snake used to be stood Tyler in his recognizable form.
'How the bloody hell did that happen?' He couldn't think of how he changed and changed back. 'All I wanted was to be that snake and I turned into it and then I just wished I could turn back and I did.' Then Tyler mentally slapped his head. 'That could be the secret.' He then walked to the animal forms of his best friends.
"Guys you have to wish to turn back into your human selves. Trust me."
The animals looked like they were lost but after a few moments, the recognizable forms of Reggie, Brad and Jacke were in their place.
"What...What the bloody hell happened?!" Jacke was shocked beyond those words even more than when he and Tyler attacked Professor Gellman. Jacke then looked at Reggie. "I thought you said it would take years, how come we did it on the first try?!!"
"I...I...I honestly have no clue."
That was not the answer they wanted to hear. If Reggie had no idea of how they did that then who did. Brad looked like he was going to scream with the amount of shaking he was doing.
"Brad could you stop," Tyler snapped at him. "You're going to make me nervous."
Brad then extended his hand out to the pond and had a few drops of water hit him in the face. Obviously, he wanted to cool off but was too nervous to manipulate correctly. Then something happened to make everyone jump. Jacke let out a loud
"Wait!"
"Don't do that!" shouted the other three.
"Sorry, but I think I may know why. Reggie, is it possible that our elemental powers have anything to do with this?"
Reggie hit his head with his hand and a "Why didn't I think of that sooner," could be heard from his mouth.
"Of course, the elemental potion made us sensitive to the powers of the earth. It must've made our bodies sensitive to transformation even after we became elementals and not limit it to that."
"So we really did it?" Brad looked marveled at this and Tyler couldn't blame him in the slightest. "We really became animagi?"
"Yeah...I guess we did."
"Well that sure beats waiting for years so I could see what I look like as a lion animagus. By the way Tyler, did I look good mate?"
"You were dashing," said Tyler flatly trying to mess around with him.
"Guys hold on. I think our new transformations might have a new twist."
"What do you mean Reggie?"
"Well Brad, the elemental potion made our transform quicker but maybe it also affected our transformation attributes?"
"English please?" said Jacke loving to use the muggle term Brad had told them about weeks ago.
"Maybe we can change our animal forms to how we like. You know, like the size or something like that."
"Well let's try it."
Tyler and his friends wished they were animals again and for the second time tonight transformed. He wished that he was a little smaller and sure enough the snake form of Tyler got to be a quarter of the size less. He then worked to be as big as a house but stopped growing to be about almost as half as big then the length he originally was.
He looked at his counterparts to see similar results. Reggie made his bird form a little more stout and taller but stopped at around his own height. The badger form that was Brad looked like a baby badger that immediately grew to be confused as one that was hit with a charm to make it bigger. The lion had fun prancing around changing his size as he pranced.
Tyler wished himself back and wondered why didn't he get bigger. After his friends got back to normal he asked.
"Reggie, why didn't we grow any bigger. I wished to be as tall as the roof but only got around...here," he said putting his hand at the top of his head.
"Oh I forgot to mention it. The book said that our animal forms don't exceed our own height."
"So we can only get as big as ourselves?" Jacke asked pointing out the obvious. "Well that's not too bad since we haven't found uses for our forms yet."
Brad looked at his watch and Tyler was shocked to learn that it had been four hours. Time seemed to zipping by.
"Look guys, I better get back and its been a long day. We'll talk more later. But I have to say one more thing." He then spoke in a tone similar to Reggie. "Be careful, don't wish to change or you'll blow our cover." He than ran off to the common room leaving a snickering Jacke, smiling Brad and an annoyed Reggie.
End of Chapter 7
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Nightlit: I'm glad to see you're back in the game but I couldn't really understand the review you sent. Could you be a little clearer next time with the spelling mistakes? Not meaning to sound rude. And please update your story please. I'm dying with suspense.
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Author Notes:
Well they finally managed it. Don't think the story is over just yet. No it still the beginning. The next chapter will have the most dangerous secret kept in the wizarding world revealed. How will this affect the rest of Tyler's life or his family's. It "Tyler's Secret Exposed."
On another note. I notice that I'm not getting too many reviews even though I see I'm on a few favorite lists. I now you guys appreciate my stories but I want more reviews to tell me what you think. I'm starting to think that I shouldn't update as fast as I do to force some on. Or worse, always end my chapters in cliffhangers and still put longer delays on chapters instead of loading new ones 3 to 6 days. Keep this in mind. Now Review, please.
Year Two at Hogwarts
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Chapter 7: The Hogwarts Animals
It had been nearly three weeks after the quidditch game. The Slytherins were, as usual, being smug around the Gryffindors when they beat them at something. Tyler knew that this was due to the fact that Gryffindor had beaten Slytherin last year when James Potter, and Sirius Black were on the team and most of the slytherins hated Potter and Black. Bloody hell, Tyler even hated them for what they did to him at the corridor to the common room last year and when Black tried to send a curse at him so Tyler understood but stayed out of it. The other houses were angry right back at the slytherins so Tyler stayed in places where fights weren't usually brought up with his fellow seekers just doing whatever they were doing being it homework, quidditch talk, showing off elemental progress, yadda yadda.
"Hey guys."
"What Reggie?" asked Brad.
"Tomorrow's Halloween."
"Yeah, we already knew that."
"No Tyler, I mean that there is a trip to Hogsmeade scheduled and it will only be first and second years here so I thought we could go to the cave and start up with the Animagus Training."
"Yeah, why not?"
"Okay."
"No objections here."
"Good, how about we meet at the cave five minutes after everyone else leaves?"
...
The day of Halloween had arrived and it was a Hogsmeade weekend. Tyler and Matt were in the common room with Regulus trying to convince him to bring in some stuff for them since they weren't allowed to go to the village yet.
"Just promise us some sweets Regulus."
"Sure mates, as long as you give me the money for it."
"You really know how to be a friend," said Matt glumly with sarcasm.
"Hey, just protecting my money," he said putting his hands up in surrender.
"Oh...alright." Tyler and Matt then handed Regulus some money to buy them treats from Honeydukes in Hogsmeade.
"There, was that hard?" He got glares from them both. "Just a little Slytherin humor." He shook his head at his friends in laughter and left with the other older slytherins.
"Well what do we do now? The castle's empty except for 1st and 2nd years now."
"Well I already have plans with my friends. Sorry Matt."
"You really spend a lot of time with them," he said suspiciously.
"Well they're my best friends."
"And we're not."
"You and Regulus are, ...its just different."
"Different? We're your own kind."
"Exactly" he said cutting him off. "You guys are important to me including Severus. But Jacke, Reggie and Brad were my first friends and they're important to me too. Just try to understand that, please Matt."
Matt looked at Tyler apparently speechless. Tyler had told him off before but he told him that he was important to him. He had also respected him even though they were arguing.
"Now I can actually start to see why Severus liked you so much." Matt broke into a small smile. "I guess I got a little jealous of them. They're not slytherins but you talk so highly of them as if they were."
"They aren't and I respect that."
"Why? I don't get that. Out of all the trouble we get from their houses."
"Which isn't their fault. I don't blame them for what they're house members do to me and they don't blame me for what mine do to them."
"Look Tyler. I got it. I'm not going to change how I feel about them but I'll respect, the FACT, that they're your friends too."
"How were you hanging out around me if you didn't?"
"I just tried to pretend that they weren't around so it would not make me angry."
Tyler looked at his fellow slytherin for a brief moment. Matt was jealous of the other seekers like they had been jealous of him. Green with envy that Tyler had such close friends that weren't, and his friends were envious that Tyler had managed to get friends that were green like him. (A/N: Just a little author joke, green, like the slytherin colors, green with envy, get it?)
Thanks. Well I have to meet them now but I promise I will do something with you when I get back."
He left Matt who went back to the dorm to finish up potion homework. He went to their secret cave which they had earlier nicknamed "The Seekers Cave" in honor of their group and levitated the entrance to find that they were all there already."
"Hey, I'm sorry I kept you guys waiting."
"We've been only waiting around for two minutes."
"Well let's get started." Reggie pulled out the book and rechecked. "Okay lets focus on getting our left arm to change only. Jacke, try to get yours to be a lion's paw, Brad, into a badger's arm, Tyler, vanish it since you don't have any and I'll try to get a eagle's wing."
"Look at you take charge," said Brad with an impressed tone. "It's so hard to believe you were resisting this."
"Like he did last year." Tyler added.
"And he took charge in risking rule breaking like now," finished Jacke.
Reggie looked at Brad like he just woke up from a long sleep then looked at Tyler and Jacke. "I blame you two for that."
"We're flattered."
""Yeah, we are."
Then they all broke out laughing and went throughout the room to start training. Tyler went to the part of the cavern where he had trained using the eel to control lightning. He closed his eyes and thought of being a snake. He tried to imagine that there was no right arm like Reggie suggested but found his imagination wander off. He imagined having emerald green skin, great yellow eyes like Chaos and having a sway looking body. Boy did he like snakes and he wanted to know what it was like. He then realized that he was supposed to be focused on his arm only and that he had drifted off. He opened his eyes so he could get ready to try again but found that he was on the floor.
'Did I collapse to the ground while I was daydreaming' he thought.
He tried to get up but found he couldn't move his arms. He went to look to why his arms weren't moving but saw he had an extended neck. He also saw that he had no arms at all! He wanted to scream but let off a hiss of parseltongue. For a second he thought he got confused and let his other language slip until he moved to the pond.
It turned out that he didn't get confused. He became a snake similar to Chaos' appearance except for the emerald green skin while Chaos had dull green with spots.
He was completely shocked at what happened. What did happen? He looked to see his friends for help but saw they weren't in the cave. His eyes were really sharp in this new form. He, however, found a lion moving around. He tensed with fear until he saw an eagle on the floor and a badger too. Then it hit him, those weren't wild animals, they were his fellow seekers. The lion had to be Jacke, the badger was Brad and the eagle was Reggie. Suddenly Tyler wished he could be his old human self again and a second later, where the snake used to be stood Tyler in his recognizable form.
'How the bloody hell did that happen?' He couldn't think of how he changed and changed back. 'All I wanted was to be that snake and I turned into it and then I just wished I could turn back and I did.' Then Tyler mentally slapped his head. 'That could be the secret.' He then walked to the animal forms of his best friends.
"Guys you have to wish to turn back into your human selves. Trust me."
The animals looked like they were lost but after a few moments, the recognizable forms of Reggie, Brad and Jacke were in their place.
"What...What the bloody hell happened?!" Jacke was shocked beyond those words even more than when he and Tyler attacked Professor Gellman. Jacke then looked at Reggie. "I thought you said it would take years, how come we did it on the first try?!!"
"I...I...I honestly have no clue."
That was not the answer they wanted to hear. If Reggie had no idea of how they did that then who did. Brad looked like he was going to scream with the amount of shaking he was doing.
"Brad could you stop," Tyler snapped at him. "You're going to make me nervous."
Brad then extended his hand out to the pond and had a few drops of water hit him in the face. Obviously, he wanted to cool off but was too nervous to manipulate correctly. Then something happened to make everyone jump. Jacke let out a loud
"Wait!"
"Don't do that!" shouted the other three.
"Sorry, but I think I may know why. Reggie, is it possible that our elemental powers have anything to do with this?"
Reggie hit his head with his hand and a "Why didn't I think of that sooner," could be heard from his mouth.
"Of course, the elemental potion made us sensitive to the powers of the earth. It must've made our bodies sensitive to transformation even after we became elementals and not limit it to that."
"So we really did it?" Brad looked marveled at this and Tyler couldn't blame him in the slightest. "We really became animagi?"
"Yeah...I guess we did."
"Well that sure beats waiting for years so I could see what I look like as a lion animagus. By the way Tyler, did I look good mate?"
"You were dashing," said Tyler flatly trying to mess around with him.
"Guys hold on. I think our new transformations might have a new twist."
"What do you mean Reggie?"
"Well Brad, the elemental potion made our transform quicker but maybe it also affected our transformation attributes?"
"English please?" said Jacke loving to use the muggle term Brad had told them about weeks ago.
"Maybe we can change our animal forms to how we like. You know, like the size or something like that."
"Well let's try it."
Tyler and his friends wished they were animals again and for the second time tonight transformed. He wished that he was a little smaller and sure enough the snake form of Tyler got to be a quarter of the size less. He then worked to be as big as a house but stopped growing to be about almost as half as big then the length he originally was.
He looked at his counterparts to see similar results. Reggie made his bird form a little more stout and taller but stopped at around his own height. The badger form that was Brad looked like a baby badger that immediately grew to be confused as one that was hit with a charm to make it bigger. The lion had fun prancing around changing his size as he pranced.
Tyler wished himself back and wondered why didn't he get bigger. After his friends got back to normal he asked.
"Reggie, why didn't we grow any bigger. I wished to be as tall as the roof but only got around...here," he said putting his hand at the top of his head.
"Oh I forgot to mention it. The book said that our animal forms don't exceed our own height."
"So we can only get as big as ourselves?" Jacke asked pointing out the obvious. "Well that's not too bad since we haven't found uses for our forms yet."
Brad looked at his watch and Tyler was shocked to learn that it had been four hours. Time seemed to zipping by.
"Look guys, I better get back and its been a long day. We'll talk more later. But I have to say one more thing." He then spoke in a tone similar to Reggie. "Be careful, don't wish to change or you'll blow our cover." He than ran off to the common room leaving a snickering Jacke, smiling Brad and an annoyed Reggie.
End of Chapter 7
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Nightlit: I'm glad to see you're back in the game but I couldn't really understand the review you sent. Could you be a little clearer next time with the spelling mistakes? Not meaning to sound rude. And please update your story please. I'm dying with suspense.
...
Author Notes:
Well they finally managed it. Don't think the story is over just yet. No it still the beginning. The next chapter will have the most dangerous secret kept in the wizarding world revealed. How will this affect the rest of Tyler's life or his family's. It "Tyler's Secret Exposed."
On another note. I notice that I'm not getting too many reviews even though I see I'm on a few favorite lists. I now you guys appreciate my stories but I want more reviews to tell me what you think. I'm starting to think that I shouldn't update as fast as I do to force some on. Or worse, always end my chapters in cliffhangers and still put longer delays on chapters instead of loading new ones 3 to 6 days. Keep this in mind. Now Review, please.