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Chapter 2:

Friend? Enemy?

Just as Darlas reached the cave mouth, Icy stirred in her sleep. Some of the dragonesses nuzzled her gently. They were glad that she had slept through the arguing and that she was safe.

Gradually she became conscious and rubbed the sleepiness from her eyes. Ice stood up to stop the nuzzling. She wobbled at first, and then she realized that the eyes of everyone were on her.

She continued to wobble as she attempted to walk. It was difficult. Her body was doing the same movements that they usually did, but something wasn't right. She stopped and stood still.

"Good morning. What is everyone looking at? Is something wrong?"

No sooner were the words out of her mouth than she saw a blur of speed. It moved so fast that it nearly knocked her over. In fact, it jumped on her and pushed her over. It had been the quickest of all the dragons, but the most dangerous one. He was called Viper. As small as he was for a dragon, only Ice was immune from his ferocious temper that all others were weary of.

Viper seemed really happy and started to nuzzle her. She guessed that he was worried about her safety because he only ever acted like this when he was worried. He purred as she pat him and told him that nothing was going to happen to her.

Unexpectedly Vipers eyes contracted. He looked unsure, but so quickly had he hidden this emotion that she was wondering whether she had truly seen it or not. She wanted to ask him why he seemed uneasy, but decided against it. He would tell her in his own time. She was his best friend after all.

Icy shooed Viper off her lap and stood up. She found it really difficult.

Ice looked down at her body and screamed. She - Icy - the human - had wings and a tail.

Icy became hysterical. She yelled out curses in English, French, And Draconian and Parceltongue. Beauty tried to calm her down by saying, "Wear the cloak you got for your birthday. Perhaps you're changing into one of us." Then Whisper walked off and Beauty hunted for Icy's coat which had a magical weapon necklace made by the centaurs sown around the collar.

Icy wrapped her tail around herself and folded up her wings. As Ice reached the cave mouth, Beauty told her to take Darlas with her. Icy only agreed only because she knew it would be a treat for him.

Once Icy and Darlas were away from the caves, they started to explore the forest. They ate lunch with the Centaurs and spent the afternoon with the Unicorns.

Eventually they headed back to the caves. The sun had finally begun to set. Icy carefully stepped between the sleeping dragons and lay down next to the golden queen. She closed her eyes and fell in a deep sleep. She was tired after walking with the unicorns or rather running.

She went to sleep happy though, as before the day was out her tail had gone.

By the time she awoke the next morning, her wings had gone too. She vowed that she would never go without the cloak again.

The golden dragon named Beauty, which Icy lay beside, was her adopted mother. As a baby Icy's parents left her in the forest to die because of her powers.

When she discovered the child in the caves nearby, Beauty could not leave Ice there to die. For the rest of her childhood the dragons, with the help of the other forest creatures, had raised her.

Throughout her years, she loved to watch unicorns playing; the stories told by an old centaur of adventure and history; and she loved watching the children at Hogwarts, despite the fact that they never saw her and she couldn't play with them.

As the years pass through, Icy felt lonely. She longed for a human friend.

One day, she saw a girl. (They were both 12) This girl had caught her attention many times over the year before, when the girl first started attending Hogwarts.

The girl was looking at the sky, seemingly transfixed. Ice didn't look away in time and the girl after feeling someone watching her, looked directly at Ice, hidden to all-else through the forest bush.

Icy panicked as the strange girl started walking discretely towards her. She had been discovered. Ice knew that everyone would be mad at her. First she tricked her family (for which she now felt extremely guilty) and now a student had seen her! That meant big trouble.

The girl slowly walked towards Icy. When she got nearer, she slipped into the clearing just inside the forest, making sure that no one was watching her. The girl knew that it was out of bounds for a Hogwarts student to enter the forbidden forest; but she did anyway.

The strange girl said "Hello. My name is Emily. What is your name?"

Icy answered shyly "Icy. Princess Ice."

"Really!?!" Emily said, "I'm a princess too! You can call me Kuraphina, Kura or Ra instead of Emily if you want to. All my friends do."

Icy was so happy to talk to someone her own age and species, that she could not stop herself from telling Emily everything.

However, afterwards she felt angry with herself. Icy did not even know this girl Emily, yet she has told her about everything. The dragons, her parents, everything she knew. And, this girl Emily had asked her all the right questions so that she would tell her everything, or so it seemed to her. Icy's anger continued to rise, and she was preparing to run away, but only after using a unique ability she had of being able make people forget about her.

Emily sensed that something was wrong, and that her new friend who had just revealed everything about herself was preparing to leave. But Emily didn't want Ice to leave. So she decided to tell her everything about herself, including a demonstration of her powers and details of everything she had done. And in particular, she told Icy about life in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and her brother Godric and his ex-friend Salazar.

Over the next two years they became closer than sisters. The dragons, unicorns, centaurs and other animals of the forest grew to love Emily just as they had grown to love Icy.

Emily was a girl with such strong fire-like qualities that she attracted everyone's attention and admiration. She and Ice had recently turned 15. The air was a little chilly and the sun had just fallen from the sky.

Emily was speeding towards the forbidden forest to meet Ice. Over the two years that had past, no one had known where she disappeared to at night. They only knew that she went out after tea and was in bed by curfew.

Emily walked through the grounds and entered the forest near the grounds keeper's hut. Her robes were white as snow and dragged on the ground behind her. As the forest became more rugged and dense, she scooped the hems of her robe off the ground. Emily didn't want any tears in her robes because she did not want anyone to know where she had been.

A little while later, she saw a girl dressed in cool blue robe. Her shimmering silver-blue hair fell down to her shoulders and masked her face from the view.

Emily recognised the girl instantly and called to her. "Icy, I'm here!" Ice turned around. After greeting each other warmly, a unicorn named Star-Flyer came bounding up and nuzzled their shoulders in welcome.

Emily waved her hand over her pocket and a sugar cube appeared in it. She pulled it out and gave it to the gleeful two-year-old unicorn. Star-Flyer ate it, and dashed off. Icy and Emily couldn't help but laugh about him as they headed towards the cave.

The only difference between Ice and Emily over the years was that Icy has green eyes with a hint of blue and silvery blue hair, whilst Emily had flame red hair and brown eyes that had a hint of red in.

Icy had the biggest and best family in the world according to Emily. Her family was made up of dragons, centaurs, unicorns and other creatures that are living in the forest. However, Icy thought that Emily was lucky to have a human family and a brother as loving as she described Godric. She had always thought she should have had an older brother, she felt sometimes that she wasn't whole, and that a big brother was out there somewhere, searching for her.

Emily and Icy talked for hours before saying goodbye, Emily went back to Griffindor tower, whilst Ice went into the cave, a little way off.

The unicorn Joe had accompanied Emily to the edge of the forest, just to be safe.

Bane, the centaur trotted after Icy. She was so tired that Bane startled her when he said, "Are you alright, Princess?" She had forgotten that he was beside her.

Even thought she was sad, she told him, "Oh, I'm fine. Thanks for walking with me. I think I had better get inside before they make a fuss. See you soon, Bane."

He knew that something was wrong but didn't want to push her. He also knew about the prophecy she told 10 years ago, when she was five. He was now one of her protectors.

She hugged him and vanished into the cave. Bane wondered home and pondered on his reaction to her. He knew that centaurs were not to have affairs with humans. But Bane trusted Ice. They all did, except one clan who lived in a different part of the forest. The other clan hatted all humans and did everything in their power to protect themselves from any human influence, even if it meant cutting off all contact with others of their species who disagreed with their methods of doing so.

With these thoughts Bane started to gallop home.

True to the prophecy, trouble came with the young prince...

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