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The portrait to the Gryffindor common room was slammed shut, the Fat Lady cursed the student before opening to let in three other teenagers. Hermione, Ron and Endil approached the fuming Harry cautiously, the black haired teen was pacing the common room, ranting, raving and stomping. He was angry about the fact that someone had to be appointed to take care of him, after what happened to his god-father, Sirius, he was none to pleased with the arrangement. Hermione and Ron tried reasoning with Harry, whilst Endil stood in the corner, watching the scene unfolded.
"Harry calm down" Hermione said, turning to Ron for help.
"Yeah mate this isn't helping" Ron added.
"How can they do this, after Sirius, am I some sort of child that needs constant care!" Harry fumed. "it's like they don't trust me to make the right decisions, to stay out of trouble."
"They worry about you, we all do!" Hermione reasoned, Ron simply nodded, agreeing with Hermione.
"Well I wish they would not worry so much, I don't need some species confused girl to protect me." Harry spoke, louder then before, flicking his gaze to Endil.
"Harry!" Hermione yelled "Mind your manners and stop acting like a spoilt prat!"
"No I will not, until they treat me like a 17 year old and not a 3 year old I will act the way I bloody feel like acting." He turned to Endil who, despite her cool appearance, was fuming at being called species confused. "And what do you have to say about all this."
"First of all do not try my patience tonight, or my job will be over fast." Endil took a deep breath, walking toward Harry "In the past few days I have been called to a meeting held only once before, been told I was chosen to protect some 'boy' from a extremely powerful dark wizard, a job I am not sure I will live after, traveled for days to the point of exhaustion to arrive here. I have left my herd, my mother and my friends! I am in a foreign world, surrounded by foreign creatures. The sounds of the castle hurt my ears, the smells overcome my senses and I am feeling extremely claustrophobic due to these 'walls'. I am tired, sore and missing my previous life of peace with the unicorns. Cut me some slack for at least one night."
Harry stood, stunned by what he had just heard, then with a vicious sneer he stormed up the steps, into the boy's dorm and slammed the door. Ron muttered an apology for his friends behavior then followed Harry's path up the stairs and into their dorm, determined to find out what really was up with Harry. Once the boys had left the room Hermione turned to Endil, a extremely apologetic look on her face with something that seemed to be..sympathy? Pitty? It was really not something she wanted to see at the current time, Endil had agreed to do this mission, so she did not want people pitying her.
"I'm sorry about Harry, normally he is happy to be here at Hogwarts. Something probably happened at home, put him in a bad mood."
"You don't have to apologies for him" Endil sighed once more, rubbing her face with her hand "I just want to go to bed, can you please show me where they are?"
Hermione nodded, turned and made her way up a flight of stairs that was beside that of the ones Harry went up. Endil groaned as she climbed the stairs, this place was all walls and stairs, not to kind on a tired body but essential it seemed. Hermione opened a door and stepped through, Endil had to bit back a moan as she found the room to be extremely small, well it reality it was large but all the beds made the room seem smaller and to make her claustrophobia even worse the beds had curtains around them. The room was hot, thanks to the large boiler in the middle of the room, it was extremely stuffy and smelt of mothballs.
"Would it kill you people to open a window" Endil muttered, she was used to the cool of the forest and the damp grass as bed, this was too warm for her liking.
"Open a window!" Hermione exclaimed, rubbing her arms. "It's to cold to open a window."
Endil gave a grunt and asked were her bed was, Hermione pointed to one in the far corner and the left. Endil fell into the bad with little grace, it was soft, softer then the grass she was use to laying on. She twisted and turned to get into a comfortable position before falling asleep, in the safety of the castle she allowed her guard to drop and did not hear the whispering of the girls as they climb into bed hours later.
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At the morning breakfast Endil was swamped with questions by Hermione, Endil felt the constant barrage of questions to be extremely annoying but still felt obligated to answer them. Most were simple questions about how a guardian is born and what age it is known to them, Hermione kept at Endil throughout breakfast, whilst Harry and Ron proceeded to stuff their faces with as much as they could fit into their mouths.
"Whaft wift the sphone?" Ron asked, bits of pancake and other food stuffs falling from his mouth, the very sight was sickening.
"In most societies people tend to swallow before they talk, unless you are from some barbaric times please do so and then address me!" Ron swallowed hard at Endil's words, elbowing a laughing Harry hard in the ribs before asking once more.
"The stone on your forehead, what is it for?"
"It is like a power source, much like your wands! When I transform it becomes my horn and while I'm human it shows as a mere stone." Endil reached up to run a finger over the smooth, cold rock. "Because I'm both species I can choose to become, permanently, one form. I can do this by removing the stone when in human form. But there are catches, only I can remove it and it cannot be done in anger or pain but only of a clear mind. There is also a downside, I may choose to become human and once I take the stone off I may change into a unicorn and remain so forever."
"So you have a 50/50 chance of changing into the other form and not the one you want to be" Hermione questioned, make a small noise when Endil nodded her head. Although she did not plan to ever take her stone off, that would mean forfeiting her place as guardian and it was a role she had been born into. She had the herd to considered above everyone, it was like some unspoken oath that the herd comes before yourself, to always protect them even if you own life is at risk.
"Why would you want to stay some smelly, four legged beast?" Harry said, eyes focusing on his eyes for far too long.
"My mother was one of those smelly, four legged beasts, as am I!" Endil almost growled out, normally she was a peaceful creature but Harry was really trying her patience, his insults against her and her kind were leading him closer and closer to dieing by her hand.
"Look it's time for class!" Hermione exclaimed, trying to break the uneasy silence that had fell over the four person group. "We best get going."
The three students got to their feet, stuffing various items into their bags then sped off. Endil lingered in the hall for a moment longer, glancing at the odd student that was lucky enough to have a period off. Endil took this free time to explore the castle, it was best to know where everything was and since she had no body to guide her she found herself wandering aimlessly.
For some time she was sure she was being followed, the feeling of eyes watching her was growing to heavy and yet she could not hear footsteps. Endil slowed her pace down, pretending to be interested in some of the paintings that were hung on the wall, but in reality she was taking this time to really concentrate on whom was following her. It seemed that whom ever it was, was getting closer, the footsteps were sounding and gave her some idea as to where they were. Endil wandered around a corner and pressed herself against the wall, listening to the steps as they drew closer, more urgent as if the person thought they may lose her.
The person was on the other side of the wall, Endil took a deep breath and rushed around the corner, throwing her whole body weight into the stalker. The person gasped as she rammed into him, throwing both of balance and sprawling into one of the walls. Endil pulled herself atop her stalker, straddling his waist, a pair of hands grasped her wrists.
"You crazy bitch…what the hell do you think your doing!"
"Me..you're the one stalking me!"
"Ha in your dreams"
"Who are you anyway?" Endil questions, the person beneath her smirked but remained quiet. Endil asked again, voice lower in threat and when he didn't answer again she raised herself slightly off the stomach of the boy and then dropped back down. The person grunted and cursed under his breath.
"Malfoy, Draco Malfoy" the blonde haired wizard gasped, rolling onto his side when Endil got off him.
"You're a Malfoy!" Endil exclaimed, there had been whispers in the woods about the followers of the Dark side, Malfoy had been a name commonly used.
"None other, why heard of me?"
"Not you, your father. He is not only despised in the wizarding world but in my herd as well"
"What do I care about being liked by some over sized ponies, all there good for is meat to feed the better beings."
Endil had, had enough of insults to her home and family, she rushed at Draco and pinned him to the wall, a arm across his throat. Draco's eyes were wide, gray met with blue, shocked against furious/
"I have had enough of your kind insulting my own, you wizards could take some tips from my herd and learn some manners. Hogs have better manners then some of you people."
"If you don't like it leave"
"I can't I have a job to do and I intend to see it through to the end"
Endil pushed harder on the throat of the wizard, sneering at him before dropping her arm. She was so angry with everyone and everything here, it was as if everyone was set on playing with her nerves, she was not used to such disrespect. Even the newborn foals knew enough to give her a small amount of respect towards her, she protected the herd she was entitled to some level of low stress. It appeared Draco had picked up on her high anger level, he started to laugh which only made her more furious. She needed to get out of the castle, she needed to pent some of this anger before she flipped and blew something up, like a certain blondes head.
Endil stormed away from the laughing teen, picking up her pace until she was almost running toward the doors and to her freedom. Draco, not being one to back down from a fight, especially one that had involved his father. He saw Endil pick up her pace as he gained on her, he found himself smirking at the fact he was catching up on her, some great protector she couldn't even out run a boy. Endil rounded the corner, steadying herself as she stumbled and threw herself against the door which flung open.
I was a relief to feel the cool, fresh breeze on her face. Behind her she could hear Draco getting extremely close, to close for her comfort, best to bring out the big guns. Endil leaped into the air, changing at a speed only she could master and touched back down on the ground with four hard hooves. Endil threw her head up, giving a teasing whinny as she turned her head to look behind her at a shocked Draco. Then with a small buck she sped off, a speed which Draco could only ever dream of reaching.
Draco slid to a stop, his mind whirling at what he had just seen. Sure he had seen her change in the Great Hall but this was different, he had witnessed it up close and it was amazing. She would have to have a great amount of power to be able to perform such a trick and at her speed as well. Draco watched, in stunned silence, as the unicorn ran directly into the forest, not caring about what she was doing only that she has some free time and intended it too use it to her advantage.
His fun had gone, he was a good walk away from the castle and his legs hurt from running so fast. Draco cursed under his breath and started walking back to the castle, mind completely focused on the white haired wonder that had just slipped through his fingers. He had to admit she was a attractive female, even if she was part beast, he would have to have a taste of her. How many times could you say you had kissed a legendary creatures, unless of course you preferred messy haired teens by the name of Harry Potter. Yuck!
Alright second chapter done…I made a slight improvement to the first chapter after being struck by a idea whilst waiting for a tv show to begin…funny when they come…
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