Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling and Akame Ga Kill is owned by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro. I own nothing.

Draco Malfoy made his way to Professor Esdeath's office for his detention tonight. Needless to say he was not happy about it. Not one bit. His father should have gotten him out of this. Draco had written a letter to the Malfoy patriarch and he knew that his father had visited the school to buy his way out of trouble, but for some reason it didn't work.

His father had always taught him that if he ever got into trouble to just mention his name and things would work out in his favor, but for some reason Professor Esdeath did not seem fazed by the name or the weight it carried at all. Knocking on the professor's office door rather scornfully he heard her say for him to come in.

"Ah you actually showed up," Esdeath said standing up from her desk and handing him a lantern. "Come, your detention will not be served here."

"What are you talking about?" Draco asked indignantly as he hefted the heavy iron lantern. "What kind of a detention doesn't take place in a classroom?"

Esdeath looked over her shoulder at Malfoy, her icy stare holding him in place. "You'll see." Draco couldn't be sure but he swore he saw the corner of Esdeath's mouth turn upwards in an almost sadistic and crazy fashion.

Leading the way out her classroom and throughout the castle, the two stepped foot out onto the Hogwarts grounds and headed towards Hagrid's cabin. The giant of a man sat out on his front steps, the massive hound he had for a pet perked up when he saw the two figures approaching. The hound went to release a bark, but when Esdeath approached the dog whimpered and ran into the hut with his tail between his legs.

"Evenin' Professor," Hagrid said as he spotted the two only a few yards away from his cabin. "Wha' brings you an this one out so late?"

"Oh young Malfoy will just be experiencing my kind of detention tonight," Esdeath said as she looked on into the mist filled forest.

"Goin' into the forest ar yeh?" Hagrid asked. "If yeh ar make sure you're prepared. No tellin' what kind o critters come round at night."

"Don't worry no harm will befall me," Esdeath said as she patted the sword at her side. Draco was having a complete opposite reaction.

"Are you serious?!" Draco yelled in anger and fright. "Why are we going into the forest?! Besides students aren't allowed!"

"I am serious, we're going in there because I say so, and if you are accompanied by a teacher you will be fine," Esdeath answered not even looking at him. "Now come along."

"No."

"Excuse me?" Esdeath asked as she gazed over her shoulder at the boy.

"I said no!" Malfoy yelled crossing his arms to his chest. "There is no way in hell that I am going into that forest willingly! And I don't care if you are a teacher I'm not listening to you and that's that!"

Malfoy scoffed and turned his head upwards in a stubborn and defiant gesture. Draco didn't know what Professor Esdeath was going to do to him after his declaration, but whatever it was it wasn't to have a collar clamped around his neck. "Wh-what?!" Draco asked in shock as he saw Esdeath holding onto a leash that connected right to the collar.

"No fussing come along now," Esdeath said as she gave a tug and pulled Draco along as if he were some kind of dog.

"What are you doing?!" yelled Draco as she dragged him closer and closer to the forbidden forest.

"You said that you would not come willingly so I figure just take your will out of the equation." Esdeath continued to pull him along.

As they got right to the forest's edge Draco pulled out his wand and pointed it at the collar about to perform a releasing charm, but Esdeath saw this and yanked him forward so forcefully that Draco was thrust off his feet and ended up dropping his wand in the grass below. If Esdeath noticed this she didn't show any sign of it as she kept on walking dragging Draco in tow. "Wait!" Draco cried out. "My wand! I need it!"

"No you won't," Esdeath told him. "I was actually planning on taking it from you anyways so it saves me the trouble."

"But why?" was all Draco could ask as he was led deeper into the forest.

"Because if you're strong then you won't need it," was Esdeath's reply. "Plus it will reinforce the point I was trying to make in class. A point which you clearly did not believe in."

Draco began to lose track of how long they had been walking in god forsaken forest. It had to be a half an hour at the least. Since any view of the fires from Hogwarts or Hagrid's hut were no longer visible through the trees, which Draco could swear were getting taller and more gnarled and twisted with their exposed roots.

"I believe that you can walk on your own now," Esdeath came to a stop and undid the collar around Draco's neck which he rubbed to feel for any chafe marks it might have left on his pasty skin.

"What exactly are we doing all the way out here Professor?" Draco asked trying to sound his usual cocky self, but hard as he might try he couldn't hide the fear that was in his voice.

"Apart from teaching you a lesson, hopefully kill something."

"K-kill?" Draco stammered. "I- I can't do that."

"Why not?" Esdeath asked. "When I was twelve I could bring down beasts three times my size. I'm not saying you could do that, but you can still kill a small creature."

"And how would I do that without my wand?" Draco asked. Although he himself didn't know he would be able to kill even with his wand.

"Get creative," Esdeath said. She began to walk off.

"Wait!" Draco called. "Where are you going?"

"To find something to kill of course I thought I made that quite clear." Esdeath rounded a tree, and took off into the fog filled forest. Draco was all alone now.

Looking at the ground around him Draco scanned for anything that could even come close as a weapon. He had no kind of idea what kind of detention called for leaving a student all alone in the woods and without defense, so he needed to find something to protect himself with soon, before something found him.

After brushing away a pile of leaves Draco came across a long jagged rock, in a way it almost resembled a dagger. It wasn't much but it was the best he could find on such short notice. He doubted it could kill anything, but it could defiantly wound.

He decided to go the way Esdeath had went, maybe he could catch up to her and this detention would just be over and he could return to the castle. At least Esdeath had left him with the lantern, it would be near impossible to find his way through the forest without it.

As he ducked his head over a low hanging tree branch something suddenly came flying right at him. It was a bat. Panicked Draco stumbled backwards, and tripped over an exposed tree root. As he fell down on the ground the lantern fell from his grip smashed itself against a rock, leaving him in total darkness.

Draco began to panic now, even more than he had been before. Now he was practically blind the only other source of light came from the moon, but that was mostly obscured by clouds.

After a few moments Draco heard what he believed to be footsteps off in the distance. Was it Esdeath? Was she coming back to find him? "Professor?" Draco called out in a low voice, not even sure it was her.

It wasn't. As the footsteps got closer Draco could now hear that it was more like hooves than actual feet, and there were a lot more than just one set. As the clouds parted ever so slightly from above Draco could see a whole herd of centaurs come galloping by a few yards away from him. It looked like one of them was injured as two others held him up between them by his arms. The leader of the herd shouted a few commands and they galloped off into the mist in a hurry.

Draco knew that centaurs didn't like humans so it was best to stay away from wherever they were going. He picked himself up off the ground and turned around to the direction he thought that he had come from. He should have used his rock to mark the trees or something. That way it would have been much easier to find his way back. The marks would have been hard to see without his lantern, but at least he would still be able to feel the trees for them. He cursed himself for not thinking of that sooner.

Still it was so dark out, the clouds seemed to move at a slow pace as the moonlight only shown down for a few moments before it disappeared again. Draco could have used to light to stop himself from bumping into the boulder, but wait. Boulders aren't hairy.

As if on cue the clouds shifted to reveal the "boulder" to be an arcomantula that stood nearly as tall as his chest.

The giant spider snapped its pincers at him as Draco jumped to his feet and took off in any direction his feet would carry him, he didn't care which. He bumbled over roots and the uneven ground, and he could hear the spider not far along behind him.

Risking a glace over his shoulder he saw the spiders face just mere feet from his own. Not even thinking about it Draco thrust the jagged rock backwards and the spider let out a small shriek. Draco wasted no time in putting more distance between himself and the spider.

He didn't get too far before he heard the sound of eight long legs chasing after him once more. The rock must have just barely hurt the thing. What was he going to do? He had no weapons. Draco nearly tripped on a branch that fell down from one of the trees, but he caught himself before he fell and kept running until he once again tripped over an exposed root.

Draco could hear it. The spider was crawling towards him ready to spin him up into a cocoon and feast upon him. He closed his eyes as he felt his bowels spill their contents, this was the end for him. The spiders hot breath was only a few feet away when Draco heard the spider yell out in pain.

Opening his eyes just a little he saw the moonlight reflecting off a long silver blade that had impaled the spider right through the thorax, pinning it to the forest floor. A figure dropped down from the trees and put the heel of her boot between the spiders eyes, and with just a little force applied Draco heard a distinct ka-crack! Esdeath had just put her heel through the spiders skull.

The spiders legs seemed to curl up towards its body as it took its last breathes of life, before it too faded like the moon had done throughout the night.

"Y-you saved me," Draco said as he stared up at Esdeath who pulled her heel free of the spiders skull.

"I suppose," She said. "Although if you were stronger I wouldn't have had to."

"How would I do that? I lost my wand and the stone."

"You could have just used the spear I dropped for you, but you just kept running until you tripped."

"What spear?"

"The one you nearly tripped on," Esdeath told him. "I came across a herd of centaurs I believe they're called that. The leader said I was trespassing on their territory and that I should hand over my sword. So I cut his leg off and took his weapon, I thought you might be able to use it."

"You were watching me?"

"Of course I wanted to see if you had the strength to survive on your own when you are in a situation where you can't use magic," Esdeath said to him. "You don't."

Draco wanted to argue with her but instead what came out of his mouth was, "You're right."

"Hm?"

"What you were trying to teach in class you were right about us not always having magic." Draco hated to admit that. He had been told all his life that magic was might, and that he could always depend on it for anything. But just earlier tonight he lose his wand with such ease that he would have died if it hadn't been for Esdeath who saved him without even using magic.

"I consider this detention a success then," Esdeath said as she pulled her sword from the spiders corpse. "We can head back to the castle now. I trust I don't need to chain you to get you to follow do I?"

Draco quickly pulled himself up and walked behind Esdeath. For someone to get Draco Malfoy to admit he was wrong was a rare thing in this world. And Draco knew that. Just who is this woman? Draco thought to himself as she led the way through the woods.