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Thoughts

"speech"

"Beastspeak" (the context will explain which type of animal)

'parseltongue'

"flashback"

Chapter 3: Impressings

I must be cursed, he thought, how else would I end up in the middle of nowhere with nothing but my wand and a sword. Let's think…I'm in…somewhere? I'm also thirsty, hungry and cold. Not to mention wet, if I ever find who invented those two spells, I'll castrate them with a rusted spoon…damn, that sounds painful. Mentally grinning to himself he thought, should try it on Malfoy once I get back to Hogwarts.

You may ask why he would be annoyed, well it wasn't the fact that he was in the middle of nowhere, nor the fact that he was thirsty and hungry. It wasn't even the fact that he was alone. What it was, was the fact that he nearly drowned himself when he tried to get some water to drink from his wand but instead of saying "Plubious" he had said "Fluvious" causing gallons upon gallons of water to fall over him, before he could get enough air to mutter a "Finite Incantatem", and that at least was better than the shot of wine in the face he got from the "Vineo!" he'd muttered before, remembering having heard Mr. Olivander use it during the wand testing back in fourth year.

After those incidents he had decided not to try to conjure food, as he really didn't know much about it except for a few basics from the books the twins had sent. But it seemed that if he wanted to eat, he would have to catch it, and he had yet to see any animals, except for the bird flying around.

And so onwards he journeyed with somewhere around 5 miles before he got to the mountain. Little could he imagine that his first trial lay ahead, but it would not be something to prove his bravery, but to prove his compassion. He kept walking in the general direction of the mountain for close to half an hour, before he heard speaking.

'Foodsss, it'ssss been ssso long, I finally findssssssooomethingsss to eat, the winter hasss driven all off. But this egg isss minesss, all minesss.' Looking around Harry spotted a snake slithering around a very strange egg, while its size was the same as a chicken egg, that it is not what attracted him to it, but that the shell was colored in golden and red swirls, that continuously moved around the shell. He knew immediately that it was the egg of a magical animal, but not what animal would be in it, and that he shouldn't let the snake eat it.

'Ssstop! Getsss away from the eeegg. Do not eatsss it!' He spoke to the snake and was as surprised as always to hear hissing coming from his mouth, yet understanding it perfectly. This startled the snake at hearing its own language from another animal that was clearly not a snake. 'Ssssspeaker, sssstaayy awaaayysss! Thiiisss issss my egg, I found itssss and I willl eatssss it!' It replied in a fierce hissing that would have been far more threatening had the snake not been a foot long and half an inch wide.

Looking it in the eye, while attempting to look commanding he looked away when he felt a slight headache begin, but immediately looked back at the strange yellow eyes it possessed and hissed in what he hoped sounded commanding, 'Leave the eeegg! You willsss not eat it! I command you! SSSSTOOOP! YOU WILL OBEYSSSS ME' The snake while startled that this gangly two-legged creature would dare to command her was surprised to feel the need to obey it. 'Yesssssssspeaker', It answered meekly but continued with its original fierceness, 'But if IIII can'tssss eat the eggsss, what then ssshall I eatsss? It'sss been ssssunssssssince I've hatched and I havesss not hadss anything to eatssss, when willsss I findsss foodsss again?'

'You cansss come with me, and I ssshall give you food, whenss I havesssssssome, thisss I ssswear.' Harry answered after thinking it for a bit, and besides, he'd at least have someone to talk to, he just hoped she proved to be a good companion, and was once again startled when he knew that it was female, even if he didn't know how he knew.

She was hungry, had been for suns, since she had come from her shell, she found her mother dead and the other eggs broken, only she had survived the unknown attacker, and she was hungry. She knew she was alone, she had no mother to protect her, so she'd have to find her own food, but at least she knew that there weren't a lot of creatures that would attack her, she didn't know why, but she knew that most of them feared her kind, her only worry was finding food, or that what had killed her mother and fellow would be hatchlings was still around, after all she was but a foot long and half an inch wide. With that thought she saw it up ahead.

She could tell it was an egg, having come out of one a few suns past, but it was different than hers. Hers had been white with green dots moving around the shell, she knew because she had entertained herself with the dots for a few suns while waiting for her father to come. But at the end of three suns he had not come back and the dots had stopped moving, so she decided to go find food herself. But this one it was all red and gold swirls all around they moved and she found it very pretty, even if something told her that she should hate the creature that came from it, maybe itss mother had killed herss? She thought.

Continuing to slither around it while looking at it, since it was so pretty she decided she could wait for a bit before eating it, she spoke out loud to herself, 'Foodsss, it'ssss been ssso long, I finally finds sssooomethingsss to eat, the winter hasss driven all off. But this egg isss minesss, all minesss.' She was then startled to see a weird two-legged creature come before her, he looked at the egg, and she wondered if it would want to eat it, too.

'Ssstop! Getsss away from the eeegg. Do not eatsss it!' It spoke, a fact which confused her a great deal, she knew that no other creature should speak her language, but with this thought her suspicions were confirmed, he wantsss my egg! Noo it isss mine, I foudsss itssss, I'lll eatsss it! She thought to herself before speaking while attempting eye contact since she knew innately that it would hurt him, she knew she was too young to kill with a look. She also knew she was too small too look very frightening and the creature didn't seem scared of what she was.

'Ssssspeaker, sssstaayysss awaaayysss! Thiiisss issss my egg, I foundsss itssss and I willl eatssss it!' She replied, still trying to get eye contact. When he finally did look she was pleased to see him look away in pain, but was disappointed when he looked back at her. Realization dawned on her, she was too weak to hurt him with her look, and she hadn't eaten since hatching. After returning his eye contact the creature spoke again in her own language, 'Leave the eeegg! You willsss not eat it! I command you! SSSSTOOOP! YOU WILL OBEYSSSS ME' She was once more startled by the need to obey the creature. 'Yesssssssspeaker', she answered meekly but continued with her original fierceness and in what sounded to her a very hatchlinglike way, 'But if IIII can'tssss eat the eggsss, what then ssshall I eatsss? It'sss been ssssunssssssince I've hatched and I havesss not hadss anything to eatssss, when willsss I findsss foodsss again?'

'You cansss come with me, and I ssshall give you food, whenss I havesssssssome, thisss I ssswear.' It answered her. Thinking about it, she decided to accept, after all he was bigger and she knew she could trust it, after all it spoke her language. She was also young and in need of help. So with her mind decided she stopped her eye sight from hurting it. 'I acssscept Sssspeaker.'

'I acssscept Sssspeaker.' She answered him. He was relieved; he'd have someone to talk too. 'My name isssss Harry Potter; call me Harry, what isssss yoursssss?' If he was going to spend time with the snake he'd at least have to know her name. 'Ssssarina, and where are you headed Harrry?' She answered him.

'I'm going to the topss of that mountain to ssssee what isssss around thissss plassssce, and I'm glad you acsscepted, I wasss getting kinda lonely here. If you want you can ride around my arm so you don't have to walk…er…sssslither all the way.' Harry answered while putting his arm to the ground so the snake could climb on it. Without responding she slithered and wrapped herself around his arm, surprised and pleased at finding it was warm.

After picking up the egg and putting a warming charm on it, just in case, even if it was very hot, he placed it in one of his pant pockets, and continued on his way, while talking to the snake and discovering she was only 5 days old.

After close to 3 hours of walking and running he knew that there where about 3 more miles before he reached the edge of the forest, he was glad he had his werewolf reflexes and strength at that moment. It was at that moment that he heard some whimpering about 300 feet ahead of him, so trying to be as quite as he could he went forward while trying to find what was whimpering.

He finally reached a small clearing in which he saw a small wolf with a deep gash on his side, and a couple of what he thought used to be hogs on the other, clearly dead. He could tell the wolf pup was dying, which would explain why his pack had left him there. They knew it would not survive. But Remus being Remus had to do something and he did think that he could help the small pup, which he decided could not be more than a month old.

"Hey there pup," he said softly so as not to scare him, and felt a small jolt of pain at remembering Sirius for that is what they called Harry when he was not around.

"I won't hurt you; I'm going to help you." Remus continued once he saw the small pup try to get away unsuccessfully. He could tell that it was hurt badly.

"Smell me little one, I'm a wolf like you, I'll explain it later but for now let me help you" He knew it would understand him, after all he too was a wolf, and was glad to see when it sniffed the air and relaxed. After all, every one knows that wolves are loyal and take care of their own, obviously the pack had thought that the small one had died, so had left him there.

After getting down on his knees so as to help the wolf better he muttered a few charms he had grown accustomed to using on himself after the full moon, starting with a scourfurgi to make sure the wound was clean. "Scourfurgi, Sanatos, Curare, Sangri Creatos, Sicatriz Vanishio, Dolor Reducio" he was pleased to see the small pup was left with no scar and the pain was mostly gone. The wolf was about 7 inches high and 13 long plus 5 more for the tail. It had grayish white fur and piercing sky blue eyes.

"Thank you. Who are you who speaks my language and smells like pack, yet are not pack?" The little wolf finally answered. "I am Remus Lupin, and before I answer your question, would you like to come with me on my journey since your pack is gone and I'd rather not leave you alone, but I have a long way to go." Remus answered him, worried for the pup's safety.

"I am Kiba Lobo, since I would have been dead had you not come I shall go with you. I no longer have a home in the pack, they believe me dead, and I would be dead if I tried to find them on my own." He must be the son of the Alpha, Remus thought to himself, if he has the last name Lobo.

"Good then Kiba, I'll carry you so as to let your injury heal well, don't know how well I fixed it, and we have a long journey ahead of us." After picking him up and continuing to walk Remus explained how he was a wolf yet at the same time wasn't.

It had been the last sun when his pack had been attacked, they were taken by surprise, and so a few were hurt, himself included, but they were not pack for nothing and the females had immediately formed a circle around the cubs to protect them while, his father led the males into attacking the hogs. He did not remember much of the fight, having fallen unconscious after a while, but he did remember hearing while semi-conscious one of the females saying to his father that the only serious wounded was his son. He remember the pain in his fathers voice when he had asked her if his son would survive, she'd told him that he was either dead or very near it. He remembered hearing his uncle Kiba, after who he was named, who also happened to be his father's second in command coming back and informing that there were centaurs around heading in their direction and that they should leave before they were attacked again. After that he had been in and out of consciousness a lot, the only thing he could remember wit clarity was when the centaurs arrived.

"Van, the hogs did not do much damage to the wolves, only that little cub was killed. We need to attack them directly and get them off our forest, they are growing too much, they are scaring away the food, there are too many of them." One of the voices said.

"True," another answered "but there are many of them and if we attack one pack we'll have to kill it and kill all the other wolves too, because they will attack us when they see us after that. I told you Gret, attacking them is not the solution we have to reason with them, we are thinking beings." After a silence for a while he heard the second voice again "Save whatever meat you can from the hogs, leave the rest, do not touch the wolf cub, we do not need the smell of one of their slain on us"

He'd passed out after that. Now he'd just woken up again, and after smelling Pack close by decided to whimper to attract attention to himself. But what had come was clearly not pack. The creature looked like a centaur from waist up but below that it had 2 paws instead of 4. The male, he could tell that much it also had some odd coverings. His musings were interrupted when it spoke.

"Hey there pup" Whatever that meant he did not understand. He tried to get away, but he couldn't move. The creature spoke again and to his amazement in his own tongue

"I won't hurt you; I'm going to help you. Smell me little one, I'm a wolf like you, I'll explain it later but for now let me help you"

Looking at this creature who claimed to be Wolf, he decided to smell, and to his surprise, the creature did smell like wolf. He saw the creature step forward and kneel next to him before it again spoke some nonsense. "Scourfurgi, Sanatos, Curare, Sangri Creatos, Sicatriz Vanishio, Dolor Reducio" but to his surprised he felt a lot better afterwards.

"Thank you. Who are you who speaks my language and smells like pack, yet are not pack?" He asked this creature to which he felt indebted. "I am Remus Lupin, and before I answer your question, would you like to come with me on my journey since your pack is gone and I'd rather not leave you alone, but I have a long way to go." It answered. Could he be an Alpha too? He thought to himself. But I don't remember of any pack that had Lupin for a name.

"I am Kiba Lobo," he decided to answer; "since I would have been dead had you not come I shall go with you. I no longer have a home in the pack, they believe me dead, and I would be dead if I tried to find them on my own."

"Good then Kiba, I'll carry you so as to let your injury heal well, don't know how well I fixed it, and we have a long journey ahead of us." After picking him up and continuing to walk Remus as he called himself explained how he was a wolf yet at the same time wasn't.

She had been walking for what felt like days, in reality it was only one hour. Right now she was resting in the shade of a tree, at the base of the mountain. She'd been there for about 5 minutes, she was resting not because she was really tired but because she was dreading climbing the mountain, but knew she had no option, it was the only way to orient herself.

With those thoughts she drifted of to sleep, only to be wake up three hour later when a nest fell on top of her from the tree. In the nest there was one small egg, it had small cracks in it, she was saddened by that realization knowing that whatever bird it belonged to would not be born now. She also saw some white feathers, and blood in the nest, so she assumed that whatever laid the egg was no longer alive.

Putting the nest on the ground and cleaning herself of the dry grass she prepared to head up the mountain when she heard a small crack. Looking at the egg she was surprised to see it moving and sat down again, to watch it hatch, after all she could learn a lot from it.

When the egg finally cracked open she saw the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen, she knew immediately that it was a small owl, and she would take care of it, but what she didn't expect was when it looked at her she felt a small presence in her mind and heard it speak. Mama? It asked her in her surprise she did not respond but kept looking at the small owl. Mama? Are you my mama? I'm hungry. It continued. Not knowing what to do for the first time in her life she answered yes and used a summoning spell for some worms and fed them to the small bird.

"What should I call you little one?" Hermione asked herself out loud and was surprised when the small bird answered her, I'm called Arith. "How do you know your name?" She asked it, the small bird looked at her and answered, It is my name, why wouldn't I know it? Unable to refute the logic of that statement she picked up the small sleeping bird and after conjuring a small blanket to wrap around it she went on her way, delighted at making a new friend.

After cracking its shell Arith looked around herself only too see who she assumed to be her mama looking at her so she impressed herself upon her mind and spoke, Mama? Seeing no reaction but feeling shock from her mama she tried again. Mama? Are you my mama? I'm hungry.

Then her mama finally moved, she brought up a stick and made some weird sounds and suddenly a whole pile of worms where before her and she ate until she was full, and kind of sleepy, but before she could fall asleep she heard her mama speak again, "What should I call you little one?" Too sleepy to wonder why her mama didn't know her name she answered, I'm called Arith. To which her mama responded by asking how she knew her name. She looked weirdly at her mama and said in a tone that plainly said that it should be obvious. It is my name, why wouldn't I know it? She fell asleep before she could hear her mama's response.

From his spot on the top of the mountain he watched as the three humans each impressed a different companion, while surprised at one of them for impressing a basilisk and speaking in it's own tongue, he was more amazed that he had not killed it and instead decided to help it, when he thought everyone would have killed it, ashamed to admit, himself included. The other mans impressing a wolf wasn't as unusual, after all he had saved its life and wolves were very loyal. But the girl, he somehow knew she thought the small owl was the most beautiful thing she had seen, personally he thought it was the most ugly hatchling bird he'd ever seen, and he had seen a few, but seeing a small owl with no feathers and a head almost the same size as it's body and very small wings, he thought that it was definitely a face only a mother could love. He was glad he'd seen owls before, because if that was the only one he'd ever seen he would decide they were all ugly birds.

But at least he now knew that they would be very worthy companions if they accepted to travel with him, after all they had all shown great compassion that not many would, the snake most would have killed it outright, the wolf the would consider it dead anyway, and the bird, the thing was ugly and not many would have known what to do or would have taken it with them after giving it some food that once.

Yes, they would be worthy companions indeed.

A/N: For my story basilisks have the power to stop their eye sight from killing if they want too.

Also when Sarina says hatchlinglike she refers to sounding childish. I'm also making it so that animagus can understand the creatures that are the same as their animagus form, therefore Remus who's a werewolf, which in a way is like a forced animagi form can understand wolfs and dogs, if you're wondering why dogs, it's because dogs are wolfs, only they are domesticated there is very little difference between the two, genetically dogs and wolfs different about the same amount as different breeds of dogs or wolf.

Another note, in the part where the centaurs are speaking, it is their own language, but for the purpose of you all understanding it was written in English, and Kiba can understand them because he was born in the forest and his pack had learned the centaur language.

It's quite funny when you update something and end with something smaller than you started, all the other chapters I've done have become bigger, by a lot, this one became a dozen or so words smaller.

Nioko – More will be explained about why Ron did what he did at a later chapter, but do remember, he only sent one letter to Harry, and not many explanations, but more will be explained. Enjoy your vacation and think of it this way, more to read once you get back. Thanks for the review.