*Dodges poisoned tipped arrow which comes through the window*
I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll pay more attention to fanfic from now on.
I feel like an sshole. I haven't been weekly updating and I feel really bad about it. Over this past month I have been watching all sorts of anime and reading all sorts of manga that I have missed. I hope you will forgive me.
When I'm writing Natsu's speech, I know that it is broken up with 'ya' and things like that. My Natsu will have a tiny 'serious mode' where his speech is 'correct'.
This is most likely hard to read, I wrote this on my Ipad using note. I apologize if the sentences are too short also.
Like Yesterday Previously
After a little while, Natsu calmed down.
"Well... I still need to bring back these three," Natsu said whilst gesturing to the first-years.
"What?" they all chorused.
"You were told on by Draco Malfoy. All of you, including Draco, have detention."
Like Yesterday
"What?!" The three first-years and Hagrid yelled out.
The professor scratched his cheek while he told his story. A thought cloud appeared above his figure. In the cloud was a red-cloaked chibi Natsu and he was walking through the dark Hogwarts corridors.
As Natsu turned the corner, he saw a smirking pale, blonde haired chibi tween.
"Bad-attitude-kun?" Natsu asked, "Why are ya in the corridors at this hour?"
Draco's face reddened with rage. "Why are you calling me 'Bad-attitude-kun'?" Draco said, "My name is Malfoy, M-A-L-F-O-Y."
"Oh yeah, I forgot that ya are Arrogant Prince's son."
"What do you mean by 'Arrogant Prince'?"
Just as Natsu was going to respond, Draco kept going.
"I should tell my father about this! Next newspaper you read will have the headline ~Hogwarts school teacher, Natsu Dragneel, was suspended without pay after insulting students.~"
"Eto... I don't read 'newspapers'... What are they? And, how do I put this... I have your father wrapped around my finger."
"What?"
"I was his teacher. He respects me but hates my nicknames. So... Arrogant Prince's son, why are you in the corridors at night?"
Draco's face slowly recovered from his redness. "I saw Harry Potter along with Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger walking around too. They're at Hagrid's."
Natsu just looked at him, causing Draco to yell out, "What?!"
"Follow me."
That led Draco to his doom, AKA, to Professor McGonagall's office.
The thought cloud popped when Hermione laughed.
"Nani?"
Hermione wiped small tears from her eyes while she explained. "Malfoy was stupid enough to think that turning us in at night would stop the professors from giving him detention."
Natsu deadpanned, "I don't understand what you're saying, but it sounds correct."
Next Saturday
Argus Filch, the nasty caretaker, was leading the four first-years to Hagrid's. 'Twas detention time. Argus rapped on the door and a giant with a crossbow was seen.
"Get that bloody thing away from me," The grumbly voice of Filch said.
Hagrid swiftly put the crossbow behind his back as he walked down his house's steps.
"Hello ther' Harry!"
"Good evening, Hagrid."
"I'll be leaving you little insolent, spoiled, bratty children to Hagrid." Filch's mouth turned into a deadly smirk. "You're going into the Forbidden Forest."
Draco's pale face turned pink. "What do you mean we're going into the Forbidden Forest!?"
"It's detention. Hagrid will escort you," Filch replied before walking away back to the castle.
Hagrid went back into his hut for a moment before coming back with a very large dog.
"We're goin' te investigate sumthin' killin' unicorns," Hagrid explained while petting the dog's head.
"That's servant stuff!" Draco intervened. "Isn't there any other type of punishment?!"
"Well..." Hagrid hesitated. "ther' is teh Punishment Game..."
All of the first-years widened their eyes.
"What's the Punishment Game?"
"It's wher' Professor Dragneel makes some sort of punishment for yeh," Hagrid explained.
"For an example... Malfoy," Hermione said, "If you don't want to do a servant's stuff, then you will be dressed as one, and care for Happy for a week."
"What?" Ron asked.
"I read about it in Hogwarts: A Magical History. Did anyone read it?"
Draco stood frozen. He whispered underneath his breath, "Forbidden Forest it is."
-"Wait a second, Hagrid. Don't line break now."
"What Harry?"
"There's an uneven amount of people here? How are we going to split up?"
"I'll go wit' Hermione and Ron. Yew can go wit' Draco and meh dog. He's a bit of a baby sometimes."
As if on que, the dog started to whine. And after lots of nasty comments pointed at each other, Harry, Draco, and the dog followed behind Hagrid, Hermione, and Ron into the forest.
And so they were now in the forest. The first-years and Hagrid were walking like ducklings, with Hagrid as the momma duck, and the kiddies and dog as ducklings.
Hagrid walked in the front while holding a lit lantern. When he pushed a tree branch up to make a path, he immediately spotted glistening silver blood in a small clearing.
*Roof Roof* the dog barked at the scene in front of him.
"What.. Is it?" Harry questioned.
Hagrid crouched down slowly to get closer to the mystical liquid. He placed two fingers into it and pulled them back up. It had the viscosity of blood.
"As I thought," Hagrid remarked. "It's unicorn blood, I've found a few pools of it and need yeh teh find the body."
"There are unicorns in this forest?" Ron asked.
"Yes, you idiot," Draco said. "Weren't you listening to what we're looking for?"
Ron immediately started to go after Draco, but he was quickly restrained by Hermione. His face was flushed pink with rage and he shouted profanities at the equally flushed Draco.
"We should probably split up now," Hermione recommended to Hagrid.
Hagrid reached into his dark brown muddy coat and shifted his hand in the pockets. After a few seconds, Hagrid pulled out a smaller glass lantern. He slowly jogged over to Harry and gave it to them.
"We'll go this way," Hagrid said. "We'll meet back up 'ere."
Draco turned back sassily while Harry coaxed the dog in front of him. The dog, who memorized the unicorn's scent, lead the way into the forest.
When Harry, Draco, and the dog were leaving, Ron glared at the back of Draco's head.
Harry, Draco, and the dog now had been looking on their own for 15 minutes. They hadn't found anything yet, until now. The dog sniffed one last time before stopping. The wind started to pick up all of a sudden.
Then slowly and cautiously, the dog moved backwards, not turning its back. Harry and Draco stood, staring at the retreating dog, until it full on ran. Simultaneously, they tiptoed to the edge of the clearing.
Harry's eyes widened and Draco's face paled. Draco dropped the glass lamp, which he was holding, and screamed, like a girl, as he ran after the dog. Harry stood, frozen, at the sight in front of him. There was a black cloaked most likely male figure drinking blood from a pure white horse-like animal.
The male figure's hood shot up, startled at the glass breaking sound (lamp), and immediately spotted Harry. Harry tripped on a large root patch and scrambled on the ground to find his glasses.
The figure flew towards Harry as he recovered. Harry found his glasses and crab-walked backwards, until he was trapped in between two trees. When the ghostly figure was five feet in front of him, Harry's scar on his forehead started to burn. He placed one hand in front, to say stop, while the other was applying pressure to try and make the wound hurt less.
The cloaked figure got closer and closer to Harry. It crouched down as if to meet Harry's eyes, but that was its mistake. Another mystical animal appeared from the fog of the forest, now a centaur. The male centaur went on its back legs to try and hit the figure above Harry with its front hooves. The cloaked figure was startled and immediately flew away and disappeared into the fog, leaving the unicorn corpse on the ground.
As the centaur bucked, Harry was frozen in his position on the ground, he was saved.
"H-Hello there, sir, how are you?" Harry asked his savior.
"The stars..." The centaur man replied.
"Huh?" Harry questioned.
The centaur kept his gaze to the stars and he kept muttering "The stars..." over and over until he slowly brought his gaze down and looked on at Harry.
" 'Tis a dangerous night, tonight," the horseman declared. "Harry. You must return to the castle."
"Y-you know my name?" Harry asked.
"Not a soul in this forest doesn't."
Harry was frozen in his form on the ground. "T-thank you for saving me, it's a shame a unicorn had to die though," Harry said.
"Yes, 'Tis a shame," The horseman remarked. "Unicorns are pure creatures, if someone were to kill them and drink their blood like that man, they are the worst scum of scum. Trubbishes, or even their evolved form!"
The ground began to shake with tremors and Harry quickly got up and looked around the clearing. He saw a glowing lantern, suspended high in the air.
*Woof Woof* barked the rescue dog.
" 'Eyyy 'arry!" Yelled a loud monsterous voice. "Are 'ye okey Harry?!"
"Harry!" A feminine voice yelled, "Are you okay mate?"
"Harry!" a bushy haired girl yelled. "Thank goodness you aren't hurt!"
And thus, four people and one dog walked on into the clearing, with Malfoy bringing up the rear, and the three interesting individuals in front.
"I guess... Those are your companions?" The horseman speculated.
Harry nodded and said thank you once more before the centaur left to join a group of passerby centaur saying, "Moshimoshi" accompanied by a man in a horse costume, named Stagittarius.
*Long whistle*
"That's too bad, looks like he can't fight very well on his own..." Person no.1 said.
"... If he is the chosen one, then he needs to learn," Person no.2 said.
"You can't just have a will to win," Person no.3 said.
"So... Is he actually going through with his plan?" Person no.4 said.
"-, I heard him," Person no.1 said.
*There is a rumbling sound before person enters the circular room and once they close the door, it rumbles again.*
"I heard what you said," Person no.5 said. "Are we really going to not touch him?"
"I believe it to be the wisest decision. It will prepare him for the future," Person no.4 said.
"-."
The four people left, leaving Person no.4 in the room.
Because I feel like such an sshole for giving you no content, I will be giving this chapter to you without it going to the 2,500 word minimum.
I feel like a mystery writer because of how many hidden messages I have put in this story. Even the tiniest words or numbers hold some sort of meaning. For those who want to try and crack my code, or understand my intentions, I hope it isn't that hard or too unpredictable.
I apologize if this has crude writing, I haven't written anything in weeks.
Have a nice day, morning, afternoon, night, or week.
Bye.
