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Age of the Dragon

Chapter 1: The Dragon Rises

Saturday, November 26th, 1994

As Harry stared at the Hungarian Horntail a familiar feeling came upon him. It happened before on the day that Hagrid showed him the dragons. Harry felt a sadness at seeing the beautiful and powerful creatures caged to be used for the entertainment of witches and wizards and he could've sworn he heard someone say "Help us." It hadn't been the first time he'd felt like this.

Thursday, June 17th, 1993

Chamber of Secrets

Harry watched as the magnificent serpent started slithering toward him and thought he heard "I'm sorry." Slytherin's monster was sorry? Harry was frozen in place and just saw the yellow of the Basilisk's eyes when Fawkes came in and tore them out. The creature screamed out in pain and Harry felt sorry for it. Riddle told the Basilisk to smell for him and still attack him and he heard "Run. I must obey." In the end Harry was able to impale the Basilisk with the sword from the hat and in its last death throws he heard "Thank you for releasing me, young heir. I'm sorry for the bite. My venom won't harm you."

Saturday, November 26th, 1994

At the time he hadn't thought much of it. He could understand the Basilisk because of Parseltongue, but why had it called him "young heir?" At that moment the Horntail smashed his spiked tail into the ground and Harry jumped out of the way behind a big boulder. He heard laughing and looked up at the stands, but could see no one laughing. He then heard clearly.

"Come out young heir. I promise I won't hurt you." said the Horntail.

Harry came out from behind the boulder.

"Why do you call me young heir?" asked Harry.

"Ugh! I must teach you a better dialect. You have a scent to you. One my kind has not come across in centuries. What is your name?" asked the Horntail.

"My name is Harry Potter, what's yours?" asked Harry.

"It is an honor to meet you Harry Potter. I am Rathera. If you'd like I wish to bond with you as your familiar." said Rathera.

"What would I have to do?" asked Harry.

"You have to beat me in combat, I'll bite you and you'll receive some of my magic, then you claim me as your familiar." said Rathera.

"And how am I supposed to beat you?" asked Harry.

"You're supposed to retrieve that golden egg?" asked Rathera and Harry nodded. "Ok. Here's what you do."

Rathera blew fire at Harry and he jumped back behind the boulder. When the flame stopped Harry fired a stunner and hit Rathera in the eyes and she started to fall forward. Harry just got out of the way before being crushed. Harry looked at Rathera and saw she wasn't moving and started to walk past her and was just about to make it when she lashed out and bit Harry's leg. Harry screamed out in pain and turned to where Rathera was starting to get up. He saw the rock formation above her and fired a Reducto at the base causing an avalanche of rocks to come crashing down on her. Harry didn't wait for the result and went as fast as he could and grabbed the golden egg making everyone in the arena cheer.

"AMAZING! HARRY POTTER TRIES TALKING TO THE DRAGON, DIRECTLY ATTACKS IT AND LIVES TO GET HIS EGG!" Announced Bagman.

Harry walked up to Rathera and placed a hand on her head and said.

"I, Harry James Potter by the rules of combat claim this Dragon as my familiar."

There was a flash of magic signifying that the claim was recognized. A hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Harry, you need to go to the Hospital Tent and get that bite looked at." said Charlie Weasley.

Harry looked at Rathera as the other handlers were leading her away.

"Don't worry, Harry. What you did was legal. The colony in Romania won't be happy, but I'll make sure nothing happens to your Dragon. Before we leave we'll have to figure out where you're going to keep her." said Charlie.

At that moment there was a roar and the Dragon broke free from the chains and started to fly into the air.

"I'll be in the caves nearby, young heir. Come find me after they've healed you." said Rathera as she took off.

Harry went to the Hospital Tent and Madame Pomfrey started tending to the bite on his leg.

"Nothing ever simple with you is it, Mr. Potter?" said Pomfrey.

"Doesn't seem to be." said Harry.

Hermione and Ron came in to see him after Madame Pomfrey was done.

"Oh, Harry you had me so scared." said Hermione giving him a bone crushing hug.

"I'm ok Hermione." said Harry.

"And what are you doing here?" asked Harry.

"I wanted to tell you that I forgive you, Harry." said Ron.

Hermione took a step away from them.

"You forgive me?" said Harry.

"Yes." said Ron not knowing the danger.

"What for?" asked Harry.

"For entering the tournament." said Ron.

Harry walked toward Ron, his wand forgotten on the bedside table, and punched Ron in the gut and then an uppercut to the jaw.

"You forgive me! I'm only going to tell you this one last time! I didn't enter this fucking tournament! Our friendship is over Ron now get out of here! said Harry.

"You can't make me…"

Harry went over to Ron and grabbed him by the neck and threw him out of the tent.

"Stay the fuck out!" said Harry.

Harry turned around and started to head back to the tent when there was a flash of red that went right past his head.

"Fuck you, Potter! It's time someone show you that you're nothing but a lying cheating fake! Avada…!" started Ron.

There was a growl and Rathera came swooping down and landed in front of Ron. For a second she just stared at Ron then she growled at him.

Ron never was a smart person. In fact people who really knew him would say that this wasn't actually the stupidest thing he ever did.

"Stupefy!" Ron fired at the Rathera's eye like Harry did and he hit the point, but what he wasn't aware of was that the fight between Harry and Rathera was playacting so when she didn't fall over he just kept throwing spell after spell.

Dragon's skin is really tough and has some magical resistance to it so Rathera wasn't in any real danger from Ron's spells unless he decided to throw the killing curse, but when you have a cutting spell and two Reducto's hit the same spot it hurts. So it was understandable that after the second one hit that she swung her spiked tail so hard and fast that it almost split Ron in two when it hit. His last thought before he bled out on the ground of the arena was, 'I competed in the Triwizard Tournament.'

Author's Note: This story is a request from Master1701 and is going to be my first attempt at a Harry/Multi pairing. It should be fun. Please review, favorite and follow.