AN: sorry this took so long to get out. I lost my first draft to to a computer crash but I wrote it again with a few changes to make it flow better.

thank you to all the people who are following my story it gives me motivation to keep writing also a big thank you to the two people who did the extra effort to review i will try not to disappoint. now if you have a problem with any part of my story line let me know if it is a valid suggestion and not a complete troll I might take it into account in future chapters

Standard disclaimer: I own nothing, not even Sam's shoes

Harry Potter, The Silver Dragon

By, nickflash

Chapter 3

On The Run

'thoughts'

'spells'

"regular speech"

August 1st 1986

The fight of flight instinct in humans or stress response is one of the many things we do without thinking. So after a good scream Sam tried to get up to run away do only to find herself too injured to even get up to run so she decided she would at least go down fighting. Her fear overrode any logical thoughts, such as this creature saved her life and has not attacked her when it could.

After five minutes of silence and a great deal of calming down on Sam's part she notices the creature that looks like a dragon has not attacked her and is in fact looking at her as if waiting for her to be done with her freak out, with those strangely intelligent eyes of his(she is assuming its an him). Taking stalk of the situation she tries to ignore the starring dragon and think of what to do next, she is stranded in a Forest with limited supplies and of course there is the dragon staring at her. If she is honest with herself this is a lot better than being dead. going back to her campsite pick up her things and leave was a lot easier said than done. because her parents were still dead on the ground in the middle of the campsite.

For the dragons part this was the most entertainment he has had in a long time and was just enjoying the show.

1 hour later

After finding her camp and heading to her tent while ignoring the two bodies on the ground so she does not breakdown and start crying again, she finds her shrunken trunk and heads back outside and back into the woods to think of what she should do next keenly aware of the dragon following her.

The dragon once known as Harry Potter decided to follow his best(currently) source of entertainment as he has been very bored over this last year. With having nothing to do but hunt and walk, so this is the most interesting thing he can do. Of course he also feels like he should protect this human for some reason he can't fathom. So he has followed his source of amusement all around the small human camp laughing inside at the looks she is giving him that are a cross of curiosity and fear.

After and hour of walking in the woods Sam decides to face the being that has followed her all morning ever since they met.

"are you just going to keep following me everywhere I go?"

a blank stare is what she got in response

"of course you can't talk""I must look stupid talking to a dumb wild animal" now that got a response he somehow managed to look offended but she just thought it was a trick of the eye there is no way an animal could understand her.

"can you even understand me" not expecting an answer she is surprised to see his head nod as if to say yes

"ok if you can understand me take a step to the side" and sure enough he takes a step to the side

"well then I need to give you a name because I don't want to call you dragon all the time" thinking for a few moments she comes up with the perfect name for him

"How about I name you Ladon after the dragon that protected the golden apples on the tree of immortality, because you protected me from those men""speaking of those men we need to leave the area before they come back with more people to finish the job"

with one last silent prayer for her parents she turns to the direction she knows is south and starts walking. Not even one minute into walking she hears the telltale sound of people popping in with apperation.

Turns out the universe hates her, not only are the new people here to kill her but she still can't find her wand and the dragon is no where in sight. Quickly patting all her pockets for anything to defend herself all she finds is a small Swiss army knife which in a real fight is just about useless let alone a magic fight.

Ladon had decided five minutes back that he would find his entertainment's stick that she seemed to be looking for. Following his nose to track her scent to it. he found it just as he heard those odd popping sounds again that means more stick waving people. With his prize in his mouth he makes his way back to his human female to give her back her stick. When he sees a green flash in the distance he takes off top speed so he will not be too late to get to her.

Things are not going well for Sam and she knows it, for the last two minutes she has been dodging and weaving around every spell thrown in her direction but she can tell they are only playing with her if they wanted they could pop over to her and take her out if they wanted. She kind of wished they would come closer so she could use her knife for something other than looking pretty. As if hearing her wishes one pops right next to her grabbing her shoulder "got you now" she said the sent wild stab in his direction. she got lucky with a hit to his neck dropping him to the ground dead. She did not even have time to realize she just killed a man because at the sight of her attacker dyeing they upped the intensity of spells coming her way and it was only a matter of time before she is hit. Thirty seconds of dodging more that felt like hours she saw one of the most beautiful and relieving sights she has ever seen. A bright silver dragon running towards her with spells of every color on the rainbow bouncing off his scales like a light show in a concert. the trees and ground exploding all around him while he ran towards her.

Even from this far away Ladon could smell blood and saw more flashes coming from all directions even few stray spells bouncing wildly off his scales. Finally he reached the fight, if you could even call it that, even he gives his prey more of a fair chance. Not even feeling the spells now directed at him as he entered the clearing his human is in. stopping right in front of her he drops the stick from his mouth just as a bright purple spell hits the ground near his head splashing dirt in has left eye. Now it must be said he was going to just watch this whole thing from the side only doing enough to keep his human alive but now they hurt him so it is only fair he hurts them back. Since he can't tell which one of them shot the bright light at him he will just have to hurt them all until he feels better.

As soon as her wand was back in her hands she fired off all the spells she knew trying to take down all the enemy wizards. She was not even stopping to think if what she is doing is right or wrong, it was all about survival. A blur of silver to her right deflected a curse aimed at her side into a tree which promptly exploded sending splinters and branches everywhere felling it. Turning and firing a cutting curse at the man who fired that overpower blasting hex and she was satisfied to see his wand get cut in half and him apperating out of the fight. Her feeling of success was cut short as a two red spells barely missed her.

After five more minutes of fighting she was running out of both magic and energy. The enemy noticing her spells getting less frequent and her moves slowing apperated all around her to finish the job. Spotting the tree downed by the explosion hex she jumped over it for cover just as her right shoulder got nicked with a piercing hex right as she jumped over the log to relative safety. Fighting to keep calm Sam considered her options 1. she could keep fighting with her left arm and die 2. she could try to run then get hit in the back and die or 3. hope she has earned enough of Ladon's trust for him to take her away to safety and medical attention 'speaking of Ladon where is he'. Looking over her fallen tree she sees the men that were firing at her seem to have turned their wands on the bigger threat both literally and figuratively. They had formed a circle around him and were firing a constant stream of hexes, curses and jinxes at him. All the spells were ricocheting off his scales into the ground or sky causing multiple massive explosions blowing up the ground and trees all around Ladon. The wizards paused their firing when they could no longer see him in the dust cloud their spells formed.

Ladon had a problem, he was doing fine attacking their flanks but now that his human got injured and took cover they are all focusing on him. He hunkered down trying to wait them out, closing his eyes to protect them and pulling his wings to his body, as the spells bounced everywhere rocking the very ground he laid on. After a minute of constant bombardment it stopped. Opening his eyes to see why, only to find a dust cloud all around him 'perfect I can escape in this' moving his wings and tail into takeoff position and turning to face the direction of the human girls hiding place he takes off with one giant leap.

Sam watched the dust cloud hoping her new friend isn't dead not only because she kind of likes the over grown lizard but also because if he is dead shes next. Her musings are cut short when a blur shoots out of the dust cloud straight at her.

Let it be said Sam does not hate flying but if you get picked up by surprise by a ten bloody foot dragon in the middle of a fight then that could give you cause to be uncomfortable 200ft in the air with your only means of support being the claws of a dragon. All said and done though she is very happy to out of that situation and if she can read the actions of the dragon correctly they will most likely land before dark in some random cave it knows. Looking down below at the land going by she has to wonder how fast they are going because she doesn't feel the wind at all even though, based by how fast the ground is going by they must be going around 200Km/H. Ladon must have the ability to cut or eliminate drag and/or friction at will, useful ability if you are a flying creature'. Figuring now is as a good a time as any to get a good look at her savior/friend she notices how his winds beat in sequence not at the same time and how all his scales overlap to completely cover every inch of his body from nose(snout?) to the tip of his tail 'that must how he survived all those spells there is not one small gap in his scales for a spell to get through'.

It was late afternoon when they descended into a large natural cave behind a waterfall that fell into a pond. The cave was just large enough for the two of them and the back of the cave was far enough from the water to be dry, plus Ladon's natural body heat made the place a nice temperature. The cave itself though did not look natural it was smooth as if the walls have been melted and cool repeatedly. The roof of the cave was higher than the mouth of the cave reaching what she guessed was 20 feet at the top but much wider around forming a dome. "you built this didn't you" if a dragon could look prideful Ladon pulled it off just fine. This was the moment that her stomach decided to tell the world she missed breakfast and lunch and needed fed by producing a comically loud groaning noise. Ladon for his part looked around the cave for the animal that made the noise before realizing it was his human female and she was hungry. He pointed to her stomach and then out the cave to tell her he was going hunting. Then pointed to the cave floor to tell her to stay here before taking off to find a juicy deer.

"I guess I will stay here then not like I could leave if I wanted this cave is 50 feet above ground with a drop to sharp rocks below" she said mostly to herself. Then started looking around the cave to see if she can find anything useful. After a quick look around all she found startlingly enough was a kitchen sink. Running a very large number of tests only to find out it was a real, sink she moved on. About an hour and a power nap later Ladon came back with what looked to be a cow and a large amount of wood. Placing the cow down then moving the logs to the back of the cave Ladon pushed the cow to his human so she can eat and stop the loud belly moises he finds annoying.

"Ladon humans can't eat raw meat can you light the wood you brought here on fire while cut off some meat?" said Sam as she pulled out her now dubbed lucky pocket knife of doom whose name is still in the beta phase and will have multiple updates in the future. With her lucky pocket knife of doom she proceeded to cut long strips of meat from the dead cow. Looking over to the pile of wood she picked out a nice long stick and sharpened it to a point.

"ok can you light the wood on fire for me?"

opening his mouth he released what looked like a small plasma blast lighting the wood in one pile on fire. With the fire lit she propped the stick up that held the meat with a rock over the fire to cook while she talked to Ladon about what they will need to do in the future.

"now that we escaped again they will probably leave us alone for a bit to plan out their next move but the ministry of magic, which is the leadership of the magical community, will know about you now and sent out dragon hunters to catch you so we have to be extra careful from now on and only travel at night to avoid being spotted by the people looking for us" with a look of understanding in his still oddly intelligent eyes she continued.

"I think we should head off the island to the mainland where we will have more room to move without being seen and make our way to Romania, which is another magical country like this one but with a much lower human population so we will be free to roam as much as we want" getting another nod she tuned back to her food and got eating. After eating her food she started to get very tired and sleepy now that the Adrenaline wore off. she was feeling all the exertion of the day hit her like a ton of bricks and she was out like a light a soon as she laid down.

Looking down at Sam, Ladon takes after her example and goes to sleep.

Same day ministry of magic during the firefight

"sir we are detecting a large amount of magic being used in a muggle area"

"don't worry it is sanctioned" 'covering up this will make me even my Malfoy, thank god'

"send me a message when it ends"

"yes sir" the worker turned back to the map looking out for other blips to appear

3 hours later after the fire fight

The same clerk noticed the blip stop for the last time sent a message to his boss telling him it is over. Fooing over to the Leaky Cauldron, Eric waited for Malfoy to appear. An uncharacteristically disheveled Malfoy headed over to him looking deeply disturbed.

"did something happen?"

"yes something bloody well happened, that bitch got away but she is not the biggest problem(AN:pun intended) she had a dragon defending her of a type I have never seen before"

thinking over this new information and how to use it to his own advantage he came up with an idea

"you say that it protected her so I bet she and the dragon are going to stay together. If we get the department for the control of magical creatures to track down the dragon we can find the girl and take her away from the dragon, for her own safety of course. We hit two birds with one stone. All we have to do is stun and then obliviate the memory of the girl and dragon from the teams memory. After we kill the dragon we can sell it's parts for a hefty sum."

"good idea that will work nicely" getting up to leave Malfoy heard Eric call back

"we are even now Malfoy do remember that"

The next day, dragon cave

Sam woke up a little sore from the fights the day before and not to mention shaving slept of hard rock. Sam ran into her first problem of the day she had to relieve herself but there was no bathrooms for miles and she couldn't leave the cave without Ladon's help. "can you take me to the forest below I need to relieve myself" getting black stare back she yelled back in frustration "just take me down to the pond below" this he appeared to understand because he moved to the edge of the cave opening and motioned for her to get on. Reaching the lake and moving to the woods to relieve herself Sam realized Ladon was going to follow her wherever she went so she did the best she could to ignore him while she relieved herself, perfectly aware of the dragon watching over her.

After her most embarrassing bathroom(small bush) break ever she sat down with her feet in the clear water of the lake to think over her option and what she must do next 'I need to get money from the goblins but it will take time to reach Diagon alley as I don't even know where I am let alone how far away London is from here' pausing here thoughts to look around for Ladon she only notices the shadow moving over the pond until it is too late. With a giant splash Ladon hit the lake at high-speed drenching Sam in the pond water. "LADON! Why did you do that?" asked a very upset and wet Sam. Standing up and walking out of splash range Sam pulled her shrunken trunk out of her pocket to look for new clothes.

All dressed up in nice dry and clean clothes Sam walked over to where Ladon appeared to be sun bathing in the noonday beams "Ladon they will come for us again we need to head out before the figure out where we are no matter how isolated this place is". As soon as she was done speaking she packed up what little she had with her and walked over to where Ladon was preparing for a long flight. Jumping onto Ladon's back and Sam settled in for a long ride.

Looking around the horizon Sam spots a city to their right "Ladon touch down outside that city I need to grab a map so that we can find our way to where we need to go" Ladon glanced up at her to see where she is pointing then turned in that direction.

"when we reach the city you need to stay hidden or we will be found so stay up in the clouds or in the woods and I will come back to where you land when I am ready to go." Looking up at his human Ladon nods then starts looking for an unseen place to land near the town where his human wishes to get this map thing. Finding the right place to land Ladon descended to the clearing allowing Sam to jump off.

"ok you need to hi-" that was as far as she got because Ladon seemed to shimmer out of sight "now I am jealous you can turn invisible too" giving up trying to wrap her head around this new skill he showed her 'now I just have to get the map and get out'.

Walking into the town and finding a map was harder than she thought, it seen not one person in the town knew where to find a map. Heading back to the town center to get her barrings Sam spotted two people in black robes(not hard to notice in a muggle area) they appeared to be looking for her which means they must have a way of tracking her down. Walking slowly with the crowd Sam exits the town back into the woods when Ladon becomes visible again next to her almost scaring the literal shit out of her "Hey a little warning before you just appear next to me please" 'at least he looks genuinely sorry about that' "we need to leave they found us so without a map we just have to fly south to the coast."Getting back on Ladon they take off just a few minutes before a group of wizards storm into the clearing where they just were.

5 hours later

arriving at the coast after dark Ladon managed to find a cave on the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Using his hot fire he heated the rock to keep them warm for the night then settled in to sleep. Sam stayed awake pondering how her life has been completely screw up in the course of two bloody days 'I go from simple student to running for my life' taking a page from Ladon's book she leans on his side and falls asleep dreaming of telling stories over a campfire with her parents like a family should.

Waking up when Ladon moved to stand up Sam looked out the cave to see that the sun has come up she makes sure her belonging are safely stored in her pockets 'wouldn't due for my stuff to fall into the channel' looking over to Ladon "can you get some fish for us we will need all the energy we can get for crossing the channel because there is no stopping once we start flying until we reach the other side"

nodding his head Ladon took off to hunt for some fish to eat and spots a school of fish near the surface not far out. Shooting a plasma blast at the water to stun the fish, he then scoops them out and returns to the cave to feed his human. When he lands and spits out some fish for her to eat before he remembered she likes hers cooked. So he heats a boulder in the back up hot enough to cook the fish and turns back to his meal.

Seeing that Ladon heated a rock up for her she took out her fish gutter pocket knife of doom and gutted and carved the fish. finally putting it on the rock to cook. After allowing her fish to cook and cool off to eat she was surprised to find it tasted very good 'am I just really hungry or is cooking fish on heated rock a good way to cook. This needs further testing later on'. Cleaning her knife on her shirt and putting it away Sam sees that Ladon is done eating and waiting on her to go

"time to leave I guess, when I thought over traveling to France I never guessed to would be like this" seeing his look of confusion Sam realized Ladon had no clue what France was and that completely ruined her attempt at a lightening the mood. "fine lets just go but you need to go invisible again so we have a less chance of being spotted going across." When she got on he vanished in an instant which made it look very weird as it seemed like she was sitting on air

"I'm ready let's go" going into a short run Ladon jumps out of the cave spreads his wings out then starts flapping then to gain altitude. With a short glance behind her to get one last look of her home country she turns forward determined to never look back.

woop chapter done now I may get another chapter out before christmas but it could end up taking longer with how busy I'm about to be