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CHAPTER ONE – The Land Before Time

Harry and Dobby landed and fell to the ground extremely dizzy.

Hedwig was making some angry sounds that were half-hearted at best. She couldn't fly straight to save her life and eventually just stopped moving her wings and fell the short distance to the ground like a rock.

"That was fun!" Harry happily exclaimed.

Dobby nodded, but then grasped his head because apparently nodding wasn't the most pleasant of sensations.

Harry stood up while Hedwig just rested on her back on the ground. He smiled at the head rush from standing, took two steps, and couldn't maintain his balance as he tipped over to his right and landed with a 'thunk'.

"Hmm. Okay. I think mild disorientation is a bit of a side effect of traveling this way." Harry explained from his prone position on the ground. "And does anyone know what that smell is?"

Hedwig lifted a wing and pointed towards the large brown rock pile providing them shade.

All three of them were beginning to feel relatively normal by now and the queasiness of disorientation had left them. It was quickly replaced by a queasiness from the wretched stank.

"What the heck kind of rock is that?" Harry asked as he went over to inspect it. He was prodding it with his finger. "It's soft." He laid his palm flat against it and pushed a bit. It gave some and made a slight slurping sound. "And wet."

Dobby spoke up. "Umm, Patch? I'm pretty sure that's not exactly rock. I think it's the end result of a creature's digestive system."

"Oh crap!" Harry yelped jumping back.

"Exactly," Dobby agreed with a bright smile.

"What in the world digests that much?"

Dobby's large eyes widened. "A gigantic wingless dragon."

Harry turned to Dobby. "A gigantic wingless dragon?"

Dobby nodded solemnly and his donkey ear was perked up and at attention. "Yes, a gigantic wingless dragon."

"And why would you say that? And what is a gigantic wingless dragon?"

Hedwig took this opportunity to sit up, take notice of their situation, and run away from Harry and Dobby back towards a slightly wooded area. Whether she didn't feel up to flying or forgot she could, no one was sure. But Harry was still greatly amused to see an owl running on the ground.

"Well Master, err, Patch, I did not know gigantic wingless dragons were real before today."

Harry rolled his eyes. "And this massive pile of waste here convinced you they are real?"

Dobby looked a bit scared and was splitting his attention between looking at Harry, and looking over Harry's shoulder behind him. "Well, Patch, this massive pile made me think something gigantic was around. I'm only making a best guess now about the gigantic wingless dragon being the one responsible."

Harry finally caught on. He then remembered that owls don't normally go sprinting on the ground without reason. Not to mention Dobby seemed to be paying more attention to something behind Harry rather than looking him in the eyes. And of course the loud breathing and blocking of the sun behind him were the final clues for Harry to put it all together. "Hey Eddie?"

"Yes Patch?"

"Is there a gigantic wingless dragon behind me right now?"

"Yes Patch."

"Does he look angry?"

"He doesn't look happy, but he looks more curious and confused."

"Do you think we could befriend him?"

"I'm not sure this is the right time or place for that, Patch. I suppose I should point out that he seems to have a significant part of a smaller dragon stuck in his teeth."

"Oh. Well in that case…" And before Harry finished his sentence, he ran straight over and grabbed his friend Dobby and started sprinting away as fast as his little legs could carry him.

The gigantic wingless dragon seemed to be chasing them given the loud roaring and ground trembling with each step it took. Harry had still not taken the opportunity to look at it, but he felt running away was more important at the moment than getting a better look at the gigantic wingless dragon.

Dobby had his arms wrapped around Harry's neck and was just watching the gigantic monster chasing them while he rested his head on Harry's shoulder. He kept repeating 'Faster, Master' like a mantra to keep the beast away. A few times he'd say 'Masfer, Fasser' and Harry would giggle.

They caught up with Hedwig who was still waddling as fast as she could, and Harry scooped her up too. Harry leapt over some overturned trees and found a ravine. As soon as they passed by some more trees he quickly stopped in a small enclave and threw his invisibility cloak over the three of them. Hedwig was obediently staying quiet. Harry was trying to catch his breath as quietly as he could while he watched a gigantic wingless dragon step right over them and continue running through the dense foliage. It was clearing a path better than any bulldozer could have.

Harry finally got a look at the massive beast and realized that it was not exactly a gigantic wingless dragon. He whispered out, "Eddie. That's not exactly a gigantic wingless dragon."

Dobby quietly whispered back "What is it?"

"That's a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A dinosaur."

The danger appeared to be pretty far past them now. Dobby stuck his head out the enclave and looked around in all directions. "A dinosaur? I've never heard of them."

Harry shook his head. "I'm not surprised. They haven't been around for a long time."

Harry pulled out his wand to confirm what he had already figured out. "Tempus."

The spell responded with a slight haze. '65 Million B.C.'

"Well the beans work," Harry assured them.

Dobby's eyes were wide. Hedwig would have fallen again if Harry wasn't holding onto her.

"We traveled over 65 Million years into the past?" Dobby asked.

Harry nodded.

"Are there very many wizards around this time?"

Harry shook his head. "I doubt it. I think it's going to be a really, really long time before humans evolve." He paused before adding, "Or God creates Adam and Eve, if you prefer."

Dobby began taking off his shirt. "So we can be naked and no one can punish us for it."

Harry wasn't familiar with this side of Dobby. "Sure, go ahead. Personally, I prefer wearing clothes, but don't let me stop you."

Hedwig took this opportunity to cough up a small present and remind Harry he was still holding her.

"Oh sorry, Hooters."

Hedwig shook herself off a bit and flew up into the air.

Dobby had finished putting on his birthday suit. Or at least as close as he was going to get.

"Keeping the socks, Eddie?" Harry asked.

"Of course, Patch. I'm not a savage."

Harry agreed with him and nodded. "You do realize you're awfully pink, and there are probably a few more wingless dragons around here that might see you as meat."

Dobby thought about that and agreed it made sense. "Okay, I'll tell you what. Next time one of us is nearly something's lunch I'll try and hide my own tastiness."

Harry shrugged.

Approximately two seconds later, Hedwig came flying by at top speed screeching "HOOT!" the whole way. She nearly cuffed Harry on the ear, as he began swatting at the non-existent bug next to his head now. Immediately following Hedwig was a massive pterodactyl flying full speed with its mouth wide open apparently intent on having owl for lunch.

"Hooters!" Harry yelled out to his owl.

Hedwig doubled back and was headed towards Harry. She saw Harry had drawn his wand and quickly dove straight down.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Harry exclaimed and caught the massive reptile right in the chest with it.

The creature's body froze and continued on its current path. It slammed through some tree branches before catching a piece of trunk and crashing down to the forest floor. The ruckus created seemed to draw even more attention to the area's newcomers.

Dobby was grumbling about 'mutant wizard luck' while he reluctantly was putting his clothes back on.

A smaller creature had snuck its head around a tree and was looking at Harry curiously. Hedwig was resting on harry's shoulder for now and didn't like the looks of the thing.

The creature was about Dobby's size and some sort of dinosaur. It jumped around quite quickly and seemed especially skittish.

Dobby was keeping his distance, but Harry stayed where he was while the little thing slowly made its way closer. It hopped up on a log about five feet from Harry and the protective owl on his shoulder.

Harry smiled at the funny looking little thing.

It may have read this as a sign of weakness, or feared an attack was coming. Or perhaps it just didn't like the look of Harry's smile. It opened its mouth wide and led out an extremely weird rattling sound as some sort of wings or flanks extended from behind its head. It hissed out an angry warning.

Harry tried smiling again.

The creature made a loud 'gack' sound and spit at Harry. Thankful for his Quidditch reflexes, Harry jumped out of the way in time while Hedwig jumped off and flew away. Harry watched as its spit seemed to be burning through some of the foliage it had hit. Harry responded in the most logical way he could. He spit back at it.

Apparently, this wasn't the response neither Dobby nor Hedwig wanted. As evidenced by the fact that Dobby let out a sad little whimper, while Hedwig who had set up perch on top of Dobby's head, just dropped her head and shook it.

The creature on the other hand took a direct hit from Harry. It barely moved and seemed somewhat dazed at what had happened. Harry was wondering if his ability to spit made the odd little bugger think he was kin of some sort. When the creature shook its head and rattled and spit again, Harry realized that he wasn't out of the woods just yet.

So he spit back at the creature and hit it again.

The two hopped around each other spitting back and forth. Harry kept dodging in time, while the small dinosaur apparently wasn't quick enough or didn't care enough to avoid Harry's saliva bombs. This continued for quite some time.

Dobby was now settled comfortably resting against a tree while Hedwig watched the scene aghast still on the top of Dobby's head. Every once in a while Dobby's donkey ear would tickle Hedwig tail feathers and then move back before she could notice. Hedwig was getting quite irritated and couldn't catch what was tickling her. Eventually, she bent down and bit onto the donkey ear she was sure was to blame.

"Yeowch!" Dobby yelled.

This significantly distracted Harry, who was having so much fun he completely lost track of everything around him other than his spitting foe. The dinosaur took this opportunity and nailed Harry on the arm for its first hit.

"Yeowch!" Harry yelled. The spit was burning his flesh quite painfully and he quickly rubbed it off. He was swinging his hit arm in an attempt to make the pain lessen. Exactly how that would be accomplished by this maneuver no one really knew, but Harry has always been an odd one.

The spit covered face of the smaller dinosaur was bobbing up and down in what was unmistakably laughter.

Harry didn't take to kindly to this mockery and kicked the thing quite hard. Most likely his magic was fueling his emotions, since normally he would not have been able to kick it more than a few feet. Certainly not high enough and far enough to disappear from sight.

Harry could only wince and yell out "Sorry!" to the crazy spitting little bugger as he disappeared over the horizon.

Dobby was rubbing and massaging his donkey ear, and surprisingly became the voice of reason. "Now that you're done punting the natives for a little while, perhaps we should consider taking another bean? We're several million years from civilization, and more likely to get eaten than anything else here."

Hedwig was vigorously nodding her head.

Harry frowned. "Fine. We can go soon since there won't be a whole lot here, not to mention something makes dinosaurs go extinct and I don't think we want to stick around for that."

Dobby was mildly impressed by the maturity Harry was showing.

"But before we go, I have got to ride a dinosaur." Harry explained with a smile.

Hedwig was wishing she hadn't coughed up that meal so that she could crap on Harry right now.

Dobby sighed and his donkey ear drooped in sadness. "Hey. How big does the dinosaur you ride have to be?"

Harry shrugged. "It doesn't have to be a T-Rex. Just something that can support me and preferably won't eat me."

Hedwig looked up at Harry and was cursing him owlishly for his ominous choice of words. She was still holding out hope that he would learn one of these life lessons in a way other than the hard way.

Dobby pointed to his left. "What about that guy? He might let you ride him."

Harry snapped his head towards the dinosaur barely fifteen away. "Velociraptor. My memory is a bit hazy but I think there's something I should remember about this type."

Hedwig saw two more velociraptors subtly slinking towards Harry. She took this opportunity and avoiding any sudden movements, she slowly began to fly up into the air.

Dobby asked. "Are they friendly? Because this guy looks like he's smiling." Dobby nodded and smiled. "He's so excited, he's drooling."

The good sized dinosaur began taking slow steps towards Harry.

Harry stepped in front of it and remembering when he first met Buckbeak, bowed out of respect. It was a good thing too, because at the exact moment he ducked another velociraptor leapt at him from his blind spot and let out a vicious snarl.

Dobby was startled. "Feisty, aren't they?"

Harry smiled. "Aww. These guys want to play."

Harry walked up to the first one that was still standing in front of him and slapped it soundly across the face.

The velociraptor looked at Harry in absolute bafflement.

Harry could only laugh at his new friend's expression. When he couldn't take it, he doubled over laughing at the sheer astonishment on the velociraptor's face. This too was a good thing as a third velociraptor from Harry's other side's blind spot let out a loud war cry and flung his body and sharp claws towards Harry's head.

"Geez Louise! You nearly took my head off. I think we all need to settle down before someone does something they regret." Harry explained to the three velociraptors slowly circling and enclosing in on him.

Dobby took this as his cue to slink away and hide.

Harry was beginning to wonder if dinosaurs differentiated between the way they play with their friends and the way they play with their food. Or if their friends were their food.

The velociraptor on Harry's left lunged towards him only to be quickly repelled several hundred feet by a strong banishing charm. Harry was keeping his eye on the other two velociraptors still circling him. And he was keeping an ear open to hear if the one he banished was coming back. Sure enough he heard a fast approaching rustling sound. When the velociraptor was in sight it was already in a high leap lined up to land right on Harry.

Harry aimed his wand and nailed the beast right in the chest with a stunner. The velociraptor landed awkwardly and was stumbling as it walked around. It seemed the stunner wasn't enough to knock the velociraptor unconscious, but it clearly affected it. Even still Harry was unprepared for when the dinosaur sneezed. Its head rocked back and it let out a second much louder sneeze.

Harry didn't know what the heck was going on but the other two velociraptors were still circling him as though he was prey. Any time they'd get very close Harry would send a 'Stupefy' their way. They were real quick and avoided the spells but hadn't been able to close the distance. Harry was beginning to get a little worried and wondered where Dobby and Hedwig were.

Harry was managing to hold his ground and keep the two active velociraptors back. The other one was just sitting on its rump and shaking its head back and forth. Every thirty seconds like clockwork, it would let out a sneeze that was as loud as or louder than the one before. Harry was beginning to wonder if it was going to continue and eventually sneeze itself to death.

It was then that Harry heard his hero.

There was a loud rumbling coming from Harry's left. Dobby's voice could be heard in the distance. "Hop on, Patch!"

The two circling velociraptors even paused in their stalking to assess this new coming threat. Harry quickly recognized the charging beast as a triceratops. Dobby was standing on its head, holding onto two of its horns like ski poles. Dobby was bending at the waist and bouncing with each bob of the triceratops head. It appeared Dobby could steer by leaning and slalomed through the trees. The triceratops came crashing through the slight clearing the velociraptors had trapped Harry at. As it rumbled by, Harry reached out and grabbed Dobby's hand and swung himself onto the back of the rampaging dinosaur.

An especially high-pitched "oomph," was all Harry said as he landed a bit roughly on a particularly sensitive spot. Harry regained feeling in the necessary places and turned around and saw the velociraptors begin to give chase before shortly pulling back.

Harry and Dobby were smiling and enjoying the dinosaur ride, while Hedwig flew above them and used the opportunity for a little moving target practice.

The rampaging triceratops made it out of the tree line and into a grassy plain of sorts. The brush was thick, and the ground was uneven. The triceratops tripped and flipped over its own body and was careening towards a sharp rock face.

Harry and Dobby both flew clear away a good fifteen feet into the air before rolling with their landings and letting out painful whimpers. The triceratops slammed into the rock face with a loud 'whump'.

Harry and Dobby slowly sat up and made sure they had all their bits and pieces. Dobby spent a few moments double and triple checking his special ear. They both looked over at their erstwhile savior and saw the triceratops was not doing well. It appeared its hide was too tough for even those rocks, but it was clearly debilitated. It couldn't stand and was acting as though it were drunk.

Dobby sighed and mumbled about 'mutant luck'.

Harry then realized their abrupt stop had attracted a fair amount of attention. And primarily that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The T-Rex was quite happy to have such a large meal gift wrapped for him and was hungrily nearing the dazed triceratops. Harry knew he had to help their hero and the first dinosaur he ever got to ride.

He doubted a stunner would do anything, if it just gave a velociraptor sneezing fits. He could try and juice up the spell a bit, but even with that, it was unlikely considering the size of the T-Rex. Remembering back to first year, and dealing with a troll at eleven, they wouldn't have been able to stun that one either. Getting the idea he spotted a large rock stuck in the ground in the distance. He wasn't sure how far into the ground it was or how much power it would take. But directly in between Harry and the rock was the T-Rex. Patch knew this had to work.

He quickly focused his strength and his magic and yelled out, "Accio rock!"

Highly unfortunate for him, Harry's old spitting foe had made it all the way back to here from his one way boot trip to the horizon. And chose this moment to jump on Harry and hiss and rattle quite loudly. Having a small dinosaur land on Harry in mid-spell knocked him back and his spell went almost straight up into the air. He lost his focus on the spell but managed to maintain his strength and the summoning charm disappeared into the sky.

Dobby saw the creature had pinned Harry down and appeared to be about to spit right in his face. Dobby saw his chance and took it. He started by screaming "Nooooo!" and continued screaming it for the couple of seconds it took him to sprint over towards Harry. Everyone around paused and turned to look at the oddly screaming elf. Right as he neared Harry and the dinosaur, Dobby planted his right hand and swung his body around to be facing away from Harry and the spitter. Dobby tucked in his little legs before donkey-kicking them straight out with as much force as he could into the left flank of the spitter.

The poor little dinosaur was launched quickly high into the air and was a line drive shot that landed right in the T-Rex's open, drooling mouth.

Harry sat up and said, "You know, my luck really isn't all that bad."

Hedwig took this moment to reappear and bite down hard on Harry's ear.

"Yeowch!" Harry yelled. "Don't take out your cramps on me, woman."

Hedwig bit him again and pointed into the sky with her wing.

Harry yelped at the second bite but looked at what she was pointing to. It looked like there was a tiny dot in the sky. As he watched it, Harry thought the dot was getting bigger. It even appeared to have a slight orange halo around the rapidly growing dot.

Dobby had been carrying a bean to eat in case of emergency. He realized he had lost it when his donkey instincts took over and kicked the spitter into the T-Rex's mouth. He was about to start combing the ground looking for it when he noticed the T-Rex chewing and swallowing the spitter. When the T-Rex disappeared from sight, Dobby realized exactly where his missing emergency bean had landed.

Dobby now noticed the quickly growing dot in the sky that had attracted Hedwig and Harry's attention. He was a bit appreciative that they didn't notice the massive disappearing T-Rex. As he watched the dot he seemed to get the feeling this was some imminent unavoidable danger. "Patch! We need to eat beans right now. Hooters, hang on, we need to go."

Hedwig's eyes were wide and she was nodding fervently.

Harry asked "What's your hurry?"

Dobby pulled out the beans and gave Harry one to match his. "Patch, did you notice when your spell in the air ended?"

Harry shook his head. "To be honest, I'm not sure it did. I thought I saw it or felt it still when it made it into outer space."

Dobby was nodding his head urging Harry to hurry up.

"Oh wow, the dot is a lot bigger now. It's got a funny looking shape too."

Hedwig bit down hard on Harry's ear again.

"Okay fine, Hooters. Sheesh." Harry said. "Beans on three. One. Two. Three."

And just as the dot grew large enough to block out the sun from the field they were in, Harry, Dobby, and Hedwig disappeared.

65 million years in the future, in the middle of the twentieth century, downtown Tokyo was being terrorized by the inexplicable appearance of what Japanese aurors called a gigantic wingless dragon. The magical government did their best to obliviate the entire city of the knowledge of the rampaging beast, but not even they could stop the rumors spreading like wildfire. The creature made it to the ocean and disappeared but the legend of the beast grew. When Dobby found out what had happened, he truly meant it when he said, "Oops."