Well that was not a long chapter at all. Believe me this one will be much longer.

MoonGoddessSerenity: I wouldn't know how I act when- I mean if I got drunk. Hehe

the oro-ing elf: thank you!

"…" Talking

'…' Thinking

DISCLAIMER: Do you want me to say it again? Fine, I no own Harry Potter or any other people from the books. Even though I wouldn't mind if I did, but that's not the point.

Ware Wolf among Them

Chapter 3: SHIT! FLYING HORSES!

The next day at breakfast, they got their schedules for the year.

"Hey question."

"Yea, Aletha," Orion said. He was sitting across from her.

"How can we be in Defense against the Dark Arts tomorrow if we don't have a teacher?"

"That's a very good question that I can not answer."

"Oh. I was just wondering."

"Maybe we'll just sit there and do nothing," Ron said hopefully.

"I doubt that, Ron," Hermione said snoodily.

"Well I'm done and ready to go to Care of Magical Creatures," Aletha said standing up and finishing off her bacon. Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Aletha headed towards Hagrid's hut while Orion and went with Ginny to Divination. When they got to Hagrid's hut, they saw Emi with three other girls.

"Hey, Emi."

"Hey Aletha," Emi said watching them walk towards her.

"I didn't know you were a Slytherin."

"I'm one of the nicer ones."

"Sure…"

"Oh this is Sri, Nina, and Elea." Sri was fairly tall, had waist long white hair with dyed fuchsia tips and brown eyes. Elea was a bit taller than Emi, had shoulder length brown hair, and very light grey eyes. Nina was a lot shorter than all of them. She had short dirty blonde hair that flipped out a little in the front on her right side and purple eyes.

'How come we've never seen these people before,' Harry and Ron asked themselves.

"You've never bothered to look," Elea said.

"What?"

"You herd me. You never bothered to look."

"But how'd you know-"

"What you were thinking? It's a little thing called telepathy. Or in simpler terms, mind reading," Sri explained as if bored with stupid questions people ask.

"We're supposed to follow Hagrid now," Elea said.

"Now evr'ybody follow me now," Hagrid said. He took the class to a large makeshift stable that had a large lock on it. They could hear whinnies and neighs coming from inside.

"Ok class, today we're studying winged horses. Now can anyone tell me the four major types of horses there are?" Hermione's hand shot up above the crowd. Aletha suppressed a giggle. Emi glanced at her and almost cracked up too.

"Hermione."

"The four major types of winged horses are the Abraxan, the Granian, the Aethonian, and the Thestral."

"Good job, Hermione! Ten points to Gryffindor. Now can anyone tell me what each of them looks like?"

Hermione's hand shot in the air again along while Aletha just sorta gestured.

"Yes Aletha."

"Abraxans are immensely powerful giant palominos. Granians are grey and particularly fast. Aethonians are chestnut colored and popular in Britain and Ireland. The last, but certainly not least, Thestrals are very rare, black, and posses the power of invisibility. They're considered unlucky by many wizards."

"Very good! Now inside this stable are the ones just mentioned and a few others. I borrowed them from a friend so don't do anything stupid." A few eyes wandered over towards Draco. Hagrid opened the stable doors and at least twenty or thirty winged horses were separated into five sections. The first four had all of the mentioned horses and the last had mixed breeds.

"To whom do these horses belong, Hagrid," Sri asked.

"Well they all b'long ter an ol' friend."

Aletha was standing near the section of stables for the mixed breeds. She leaned against the first one while she listened to Hagrid talk. She felt a horse head come over hers and start sniffing. She turned around and her eyes widened as she looked at it. "Archippos," she whispered. She glanced at the stable next to him. "Alcippe!" The two horses were almost exact opposites. Archippos was a mix between an Abraxan and a Granian. He was a darker shade of Palomino and slightly bigger than other Abraxans. Alcippe was a lighter colored Aethonian and much skinnier but showed no signs of malnutrition. She did a double take and noticed that everyone was looking at her.

"Um. Hi. This is my horse Archippos and my brother's horse Alcippe."

"Aletha's mother kindly let me borrow her horses fer this lesson," Hagrid explained.

'And won't finish if we don't hurry,' Hermione thought. Elea had to stifle a giggle when she "herd" this.

"Well, do we have any volunteers," Hagrid asked.

"Volunteers for what," Draco asked with a touch of fear in his voice.

"Volunteers to ride 'em of course!" Nina fetched Archippos from his stable, but nobody else did anything.

"Come on people! I promise she won't bite," Aletha said nodding her head towards Alcippe. 'Much.'

Elea stepped forward though the crowd and went to fetch Alcippe from her stable. "Meh, what the hell? I take a smack at it."

"Good!" Aletha said happily. Nina mounted Archippos and whispered some things into his ear. He started off toward the open doors with Alcippe following behind. The students moved out of the way to make a path for the large beasts. As soon as Archippos got out the door he took off into the sky with Alcippe going off in the opposite direction. Archippos went over the lake, around the Astronomy tower, over some of the forest, and back towards the stables. Alcippe did the opposite. Once they had landed Nina and Elea dismounted from the horses. Every one wanted to go now. A horse with an Arabian appearance, called Malika, nudged Emi as she walked by. Sri found a sweet Granian named Sadhbh (Pronounced SIEV) and Elea left Alcippe to look around and found a Thestral named Casimir.

Draco went up to Alcippe to ride her, but he approached her way to fast and she saw him as a threat. She started to back away to warn him. People started to stare and a few yelled at him to back off, but hey he was as stubborn as the horse. Both Nina and Elea tried to calm Alcippe down. A/N: Do you know what I'm talking about? No? Ok. Well Nina is a horse whisperer. She speaks to them in an ancient language sorta like Harry can talk to snakes. Only it doesn't sound like horse noises. And Elea is a telepath so….ya….. you should know how that works But Alcippe wouldn't listen. She galloped up in rear right as Malfoy was flung into a pile of hay and Nina was able to get closer and calm her down.

"Well class is over. Read the pages on winged horses in your book, and we'll have a small quiz on it next time."

"Hagrid we'll help with the horses."

"No need Harry," Aletha said. Nina said something and Alcippe and Archippos went back into the stable Sri, Elea, Emi, and Aletha followed to make sure they got put away correctly. They walked back out and Sri waved her hand, the doors closed, and the lock clicked shut.

"See! All done!"

"Well you guys get on ter class."

Draco had climbed out of the hay with help from Crabbe and Goyle. He looked ok. No limp, blood, or mixture of the two. He was only covered in hay. He started to pick it off his robes, grabbed his stuff, and headed to his next class.

"Ok I don't have ter take 'im ter the hospital wing so get on ter yer next classes."

"See ya, Hagrid," all of them said walking towards the castle.

Once they got a fair distance from the stables, they started to talk about what happened.

"How'd Malfoy suddenly get flung into the hay anyways. He wasn't near it when he froze," Ron asked quite confused.

"That was my doing," Sri said, "I can move things with my mind. I'm not the best yet. I still have to use my hand but I', getting better at it."

"You have telekinetic powers," Hermione asked sorta shocked.

"Yes. I've never actually tried to move a person before. I figured, 'Hey no better time then now.'"

"Good thing you did," Harry said, "Wouldn't want to repeat what happened with Buckbeak."

"What happened with Buckbeak?"

"He was killed," Hermione said hurridly.

The next class was with the Slytherins again. The day dragged on and on. It felt like an hour took a day to complete.

When lunch finally came, Aletha, Ron, Harry, and Hermione went to the Gryffindor table while Emi, Sri, Nina, and Elea went to their table. They saw Malfoy sitting with his usual group of friends showing off his bruises. They could hear him saying, "Bloody beast. My father's going to be furious when he finds out."

Aletha saw Sri stand up and go walk towards him. She said something and they went just outside the castle. Aletha, being the nosey person she is, followed them.

He turned around and as soon as he did Sri punched him in the face.

"Nobody talks about me just because I helped them." She turned around and walked away. She sat back down at the Slytherin table. Soon after, Aletha sat back down at her table. Harry and Ron clapped quietly.

"Thank you," Lee Jordan said; he was sitting nearby.

"But- that wasn't me."

"Oh… Thanks anyways!"

Well it's not as long as it could have been but oh well. I swear on my British copy the Silmarilion that the horse breeds I did not make up. I'll get the next chapter up when I finish writing it, so until then, peace out.

Aletha