Once again, long update. I guess I just don't feel that need to put up a chapter every week anymore. I'm sorry, but for all I know updates will be this slow. Please forgive me. ; (

Previously

Chapter 16 – The Newest Member

After a few moments of admiring the egg, Ron moved up the stairs to the boy's dormitories and put the egg in a safe place. Ron was amazed by the egg. He couldn't tell what breed of dragon it was or anything. Harry really must have gone to great lengths to get a dragon egg so rare Ron, who knew quite a bit about dragons, couldn't tell what breed it was. Ron retuned to the Gryffindor common room a few minutes later to be stunned again.

Sitting on a couch, Luna sat, happily chatting to Ginny about something. Ginny seemed to see Ron and flicked her head in his direction, indicating to Luna that her boyfriend had entered the room. She looked and smiled as he approached. After a quick hug and hello, Ginny dragged Ron to a corner of the room.

"What have you done to her?" Ginny hissed. "She's... normal!"

"Yeah. She was a little like that at the beginning of the year. I haven't really noticed though. Is she really normal now?"

Ginny just looked slightly confused before nodding and wandering off to chat with Harry.

Chapter 16 – The Seventh Dragon

The day continued as any Christmas day would. Everyone enjoyed their gifts, then had a feast for dinner. Ron still seemed to be dazed from his present. Seeing this, everyone just let him think, get over the fact he was going to have a dragon.

In the middle of his thoughts, Ron felt a hand on his shoulder to see Harry smiling down at him. Ron gave just as big a smile back, but made sure he paid attention when Harry began speaking.

"Ron, I know you are excited about the dragon, but there are some things I have to tell you. Me and Chazor have used any magic we can find to make the dragon more like our dragons. You will be able to communicate with it, and the other dragons will be able to communicate with it, but that's all. It will not have any magical ability from what any normal dragon has. I know it's not like our dragons, but for now that's the best we can do. I hope you enjoy your dragon as a friend and a battle partner." And with that Harry left Ron to think once again.

At first, Ron was still happy that he had a dragon. Then as he thought about Harry's words, he grew jealous. 'Harry's a powerful wizard, a mage! He can do better than that, he just doesn't want me to be better than him.' The more Ron thought about it, the angrier he became. After a few minutes Ron stood and stormed out of the common room. All Ron wanted to do was to escape people, escape the Mages.

Ron wanderedthe halls for awhile before returning to the almost empty common room. Ron ignored anyone in the room, and almost screamed when he saw Hermione sleeping next to Zach on one of the couches. He suddenly felt an urge to hurt something. Before he could question himself, he grabbed his sword and egg and ran to the Room of Requirement.

As soon as Ron entered the room, he told the room to make a huge number of dummies, which he quickly dispatched. He told the room to make more and it did. Ron continued to release his rage onto the dummies for about an hour before he heard a loud crack. He turned to see his egg cracked open and a small red dragon crawling from the egg. Ron's rage instantly disappeared as he watched the small being come out of the shell. As soon as it stood Ron knew it was not anything like the others. It stood on two legs, with smaller front arms with razor sharp claws. When Ron thought for a moment, he noticed it looked like some old animal from a muggle book he'd read. 'What was it called?' Ron thought. 'Oh yeah, a velociraptor!' The more he thought about it, the more he recognized similarities. The only real difference was that it had wings extending from its back, just below the neck attached to the body. The small dragon looked about before resting its eyes on Ron. Ron felt a quick jab of pain in his head and then a voice.

'Are you my master?' The voice asked. Ron looked around in bewilderment before realizing it was the dragon speaking to him.

"Yes. Well, no. How about friend? Master sounds wrong." Ron watched as the dragon seemed to nod and prowl around the room, looking at everything with interest.

Well, that sucked. I couldn't think of what else to write, but here's the chapter, please respond. And don't hate me for being so slow. :)