This chapter was updated on July 13th, 2011

Chapter 26

IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE!

You guys, I am going to fucking hit something.

Okay, So there was another mix up with how I edited the chapters. Yeah, yeah, laugh all you want.

Okay, so last chapter, you guys were probably fucking confused when Ron showed up all of a sudden. Dont be anymore.

Chapter 25 was supposed to be explaining how Ron came to Japan as a surprise to Harry for Christmas, yadda yadda yadda. so the main thing you have to know is this:

Harry was walking home through the park and noticed a girl acting strangely. He walked closer and noticed it was Haruhi, just staring at the full moon. He called her name, she ran away. He heard howling as she ran.

When Ron is at Harry's apartment, Harry tells him what he saw, how he thought that Haruhi was a werewolf.

I hate this so much, you guys, I'm so sorry. I guess I accidentally clicked replace instead of "add" in the chapters list. I feel so horrible. There was so much more of hogwarts in that chapter, all of that hard work, GONE! So chapter 25 was supposed to be 26, and this was supposed to be 27..


"How are you not mad at me?" Haruhi asked in disbelief, grabbing Harry's shoulders and shaking him vigorously. "How can you not be furious with me? I have lied to you, I could have killed you before!"

Harry started to raise his voice too."Because I really don't care! Haruhi, I don't really give a damn if you're a dragon, a ghost, or an effing mermaid! I just want to know why you didn't tell me any of this before."

"I could get in so much trouble for telling you this!" She said.

"I could've gone to prison for telling you my little secret," he said in a hushed whisper "I thought that we were going to start being honest with each other.."

"You're the one who already found out that I was a werewolf, why didn't you just confront me.. why didn't you just end it all quickly?"

"Nothing has to end."

"Be realistic, Harry. You don't know what this is like. You can control being a wizard. I can't control all of..all of.. all of this. Lord knows how many people I killed that night, and I really don't want you to be added to the list of lives I've ended."

"You couldn't have killed anybody! You couldn't have. You're being ridiculous, there would have been something in the news if you killed anybody."

"Oh my god, what if I devoured their corpses and left nothing for anybody to find?"

"Stop it now. You didn't devour anybody. "

"Harry, what if I did leave something for somebody to find and a little kid just stumbled upon it?"

"Haruhi, that's just plain-"

"Oh my god, I've traumatized a little kid. They'll never leave their house again, they wont go to anybody's funeral and they'll spend thousands of yen on their electricity bill for leaving the lights on all the time!" Haruhi had grabbed handfuls of her hair, her eyes wide. "I have to go. I'm going to search the entire park that I remember being in before I turned." she said quickly. She opened the door shakily.

"This is madness, you've really gone insane you're not thinking rationally. You're not even thinking. What are you even going to do? You don't even have a plan." Harry said, leaving the apartment.

"I'm going to hit something." She said in agitation. Harry grabbed her hand, but Haruhi slapped it away. "Harry, you don't understand. What if somebody I knew saw me? My family will hate me, people will cut me open like I'm some freakish science experiment!"

Haruhi's body began to glow a bright light. Harry covered his face with his arm. when he felt that the light had gone away, he put his arm down; only to receive a great shock. Where once stood his beautiful and gentle lover, was something so magnificent, yet terrifying.

{Ugh, what the hell was that?} Haruhi said. {What? Why are you looking at me like that?} Harry couldn't understand a word that she was saying. Haruhi didn't even notice that something was "wrong" with her voice, what freaked her out was what she heard next.

{Is that you? Where are you? I can't see you! How can I hear you?}

{Tsumibito..? We..Why can I.. how is that even... We'll straighten this out later. Harry, really, what's the matter with you?}

Harry was too shocked to even let out a peep.

"What's going on out-" Ron poked his head out of he door upon hearing strange growling noises coming from outside. He took one good look at Haruhi, and screamed. Harry covered Ron's mouth with his hand, trying his hardest to make him stop screaming. Haruhi stood there, flabbergasted, and slightly insulted. She took a step forward, but then felt something that was very different.

Why was she walking with her hands AND legs?

She looked down at her hand, but it wasn't a hand, it was a claw, with talons and scales, she looked around her frantically, but hit herself in the face with her wing. She stared at the strange structure. She moved it a little. Once she realized that it was, indeed, a fucking wing, quickly she went into Harry's apartment and headed for the bathroom; knocking down Harry and Ron with her tail as she did so.

"Quiet down!" said one man from and apartment below. "Stop with all of that screaming, some of us are trying to sleep! Control that beast of a dog up there!" Followed by a slam of their door.

"Ron! Ron you have to be quiet! Just shut up!" Harry looked around them, just making sure that nobody saw them. He didn't see anybody on the street or looking at them through windows.

Ron's screaming slowly turned into a very raspy breathing. Harry held his shoulders just in case. "Harry." Ron said. he had to hold on to harry for support. His voice was hoarse and cracking. "Harry I just... Harry there's a.. dragon in your flat."

"I know." Harry sighed.

"Why is there a dragon there?"

"It's complicated."

"I think... I think that I'll ask Charlie to come over and take a look at it."

"Her." Harry said.

"Excuse me?"

"That's.. um.. that's Haruhi."

When Harry said that, Ron began to laugh. "Lord, mate. At first I thought you were joking, but you're really dead-set on making sure I don't like her. What is it? You think I'm going to try and steal her away? Really now, where'd the dragon come from?" Ron was genuinely amused. For a second Harry wondered why Ron wasn't pissing his pants from fear, but then he realised that Ron must have had tons of experience with dragons, and Haruhi didn't seem like a threat to anybody. Harry pushed Ron back into the apartment. He left Ron near the living room, gesturing for him to be quiet, and walked slowly.

"Haruhi?" He said. He could hear sad growling noises coming from his bathroom. He could see her tail, but she was still in there. Suddenly, he was forced to the ground by a giant beast throwing all of its' weight onto him, doing what Harry thought was crying. Tears poured like a violent fountain from Haruhi's eyes, while Harry tried his best to comfort her. "Shh, calm down.." Low-pitched, but loud, growls and rumbles were heard coming from the beast, she was sobbing.

Harry heard an extremely loud thud behind him, he turned his head as much as he could've and saw Ron on the floor, unconcious. Why is it always me? He thought to himself. He reached for his wand which had fallen on the floor and had cast a soundproofing spell on his apartment.


"Ron-san, I am so, so so sorry that you had to see all of that." Haruhi said, hanging her head down aplogetically She bowed to the two of them.

"It's really fine.. How about we all just forget this ever happened, eh? Come on, let's go get something to eat. I'm starved."

"Hang on, that's all you've got to say?"

"Yeah, come on, let's go." Ron said, avoiding their eyes. "I'm hungry, let's go Harry." He put on his jacket, facing the door."

Haruhi was still bowing. Harry couldn't tell if she was even breathing. Her hands, however, were sort of delicately "holding" the ground, as if it was some sort of security blanket.

"But Ha-" Harry started.

"I'll just be going home now." She interupted him, not giving him the stood up, not facing Harry either. She would eat the big dinner she made alone. Ron should spend some time with his best friend, not with him and his girlfriend. Harry gave her a kiss and held her hand tightly. Their lips did not make the traditional "smacking" sound that notifies everyone in the room that an intimate moment had been had, so that Ron would not feel more awkward.

Haruhi ate her dinner cold that night, and was kept company by Tsumibito. "Such a stressful day." She said, stroking his head. {Harry told Ron that I was some Anime-Custard thing from their world, that I chose to be a..you know. I think he bought it.}

{Anime-Custard?}

{I forget the real name, of course. Don't be silly.}

{All sillyness aside...We've never been able to communicate that far apart before. Maybe you should stay a dragon for the rest of your life}

{Hush. No more talk about the d-word, or the v-word, or the w-word.}

{That's not going to make it go away}

{It will in my mind} She said, taking a sip of her orange juice.

{Okay then. You know..Chiyoo told me she had a plan.}

{Never go by Chiyoo. Being trapped in the body of a bird for 150 years can make you a little bit loopy. Doesn't even remember her real name.}

{She says that she's finally found a way out}

{She says that all the time} Haruhi said, recalling the incident at the hospital.

{She's finally going to do the thing. You've finally turned, she's going to try her best to get you to help her.}

Haruhi stopped eating. {No. Nope. I'm not helping.}

{Like how you're not going to help me?}

{You were made like that, you're not being punished. There's nothing I can do.}

{But there's something you can do for Chiyoo}

"No means no!" Haruhi said, slamming her fist on the table. "When Chiyoo deserves it, then maybe I'll think about it."

{Shh! I already told you there are people watching us! And stop treating me like a little child! We don't have to put up the mother-child charade anymore! You're family isn't here.}

{It's hard not to, you're just so cute.} She said, pinching his cheek. {I'm so used to it, too. I guess it's more of me being protective of the doll than you. I mean, I created it myself, you just chose to live in it}

{Hehe, thanks. But Haruhi, you know Chiyoo won't take no for an answer. The only way to pull it off is with a beast marked with the Seal.}

{Tsumi, by sacrificing a beast.}

{Oh, lighten up. The Witch wont kill you. If it wasn't for Chiyoo, how would we be able to communicate before today, Haruhi? Chiyoo is the-}

{I know, I know how important she is, but It's not like she's in a rush..Effing spirit. Using her rank to her advantage.}

{Maybe she'll help us in return if you help her now?} Tsumibito asked her.

Haruhi sighed. {How could I not help a friend like her?} She smiled. {She was there at the hospital, you know.}

{She didn't mention anything to me then! How rude! I only found out today!}

{She was here today?}

{Oh, no. That sudden surge of energy when you turned into a ... you know.. that was enough to power "the lines" for about five minutes. That's why we could hear each other, and I could even hear Chiyoo, all the way at the hospital.}

{Are you serious? I.. did that?}

{Dragons are powerful, Haruhi.}

Neither of them had anything else that they wished to add to the conversation. Haruhi glanced at Tsumibito every once in a while, then went back to her dinner. That was how most of their talks ended, very awkwardly.

Haruhi spun her knife around her fingers. In spirals, in loops; quickly and gracefully. Yet, she looked at the knife so boredly. Her face rested on her free palm, her elbow on the table. The handle of the knife was in her grip now, and she stared at it blankly. Her mind was set on the events that happened earlier that day. She threw the knife at the wall. At a perfect 90 degree angle, the blade penetrated cleanly through the picture of her family seal.


"You're angry, aren't you?" Harry asked. The two of them sat down at the Ramen Stand. There wasn't a restaurant with space for either of them anywhere, so they settled for this. Ron slurped his ramen, content with the fact that after several tries, he was finally able to use a pair of chopsticks. He chewed slowly, staring into space. "I didn't know either, you aren't alone here." Harry said.

"Just drop it, will you?"

"You like the food?"

"It's a lot to take in in one day..."

"Because I don't care about what she is, who my girlfriend is matters much more to me."

"Effing insane..but then that means.. that means she's not a werewolf!"

"Oh..right.."

"Yeah! There's the up-side! If she knew what she was doing when she was a... you know.. then she's tame.. so she won't kill anybody! That means that you were just imagining things! Why would a werewolf register as an Animagus?"

"That's true.."

"It's just.. I've never been so far away from home or my family before.. And Hermione was telling me that this place was a completely different world. And when I found out she was a Animagus.. it was like.." Harry didn't urge Ron on to say much, he knew it was awkward enough for him. "A piece of home was here.. Didn't know you could become a bloody dragon though."

"So you're not mad?"

"No..why would I be? I actually think it's kind of brilliant."

"You damn arse!" Harry hit Ron in the shoulder "Why'd you make such a big fuss about it at the flat?"


Now, I know that this chapter was not some of my finest work, but I thank you all for reading :D

At this point though, I'm kind of ashamed to say that I've been more focused on just finishing the story than I have been on making it awesome. My mind keeps on flooding with ideas, all of them for the end instead of the chapters I need to write NOW, so everything is just so unorganised. Sloppy work, I know.

Next chapter, I'm going to plan more before I just start writing something down and confusing myself.