Chapter 7 Something's foot.

It started out as a normal day in Ringwarts. Hunter and Chris had learned many things, one of them from Showgrid by accident. They were told of a champion stone. Unknown as to the origins however learned it was extremely powerful. In their spare time Hunter, Chris and Stephoine researched about the stone. Only to know of one other person who knew its power and secretes. "Taker Darcodorf?" pondered Stephoine. "He knows of this?"

Chris pulled out a card from his magic toad that had a small bio of Taker Darcodorf. "He worked on it with a long friend of his, Paul Bearerlor. They created the stone to unleash one's immortality in their powers" Chris explained.

"Sweet" Hunter grinned. "But… where is it now?" he asked.

Stephoine pulled out a book and flipped through the pages rapidly. She stopped at one page and cleared her throat. "It says here Paul Bearerlor has been in hiding, only to drink the powerful energies that the stone creates when casted into a small pool of water. Paul drinks from it to ensure life for twenty years" she explained.

"Damn he must be old!" Chris smirked. Hunter was in deep though for a while.

"Say… they said there was something in the basement right? Could that be where it's hidden?" Hunter questioned. Chris and Stephoine looked to Hunter in a shocking manner.

"Are you saying… you want to go looking for it?" Chris demanded. Hunter smiled and nodded. "You're mad! When do we start looking?"

"You two are a bunch of idiots if you are thinking about looking for it!" Stephoine scolded.

"Well no one asked you!" Chris shot back. "Why the hell are you even hanging out with us?" Chris' words hurt Stephoine. She left the table and ran. Hunter didn't like the way Chris told her off like that.

People grew concerned when Stephoine didn't show up for dinner, it was raining outside and many were concerned for her. Hunter was told Griffengree was down points due to his misconduct in his class with professor Spark. Figures, he knew Spark didn't like him… but not hate him as to deduct points. 70 he last counted were taken off because of him. They were about to sit and eat till Professor Stevely came running in panicked.

"OGRE! OGRE! WHAT! I SAID OGRE!" he yelled and then passed out. Taker Darcodorf didn't waste any time.

"Teacher get the students to their rooms. All available staff came with me now!" he ordered ready for action. Hunter and Chris followed Kane half way to the room. However Hunter realized something.

"Stephoine! We have to find her!" He grabbed Chris and pulled him off to the side. "We have to find her before the ogre does!" he explained.

"What is ogre is like Shrek? I mean he could be nice?" Chris suggested.

Hunter stared at him as if he had a hole in his head. "If you see a talking donkey then we are ok. If not. I will kick you a for thinking such a stupid idea!" Hunter growled back. As it turned out, there was no talking donkey. They looked everywhere they could; they came to the girl's bathroom.

"Are you mad, I ain't going in there" Chris stated.

Hunter nodded. "Ok, scream if you see the ogre" with that said Hunter went into the bathroom, Chris quickly followed much to their shock they head Stephoine screaming, before them was his pale red ogre standing at least ten feet tall!

"Oh hell" Hunter muttered. The ogre took hold of one of the toilets and started throwing it at Stephoine. The quickly dodged it, but now they were stuck on how to get out of the bathroom.

"Anyone have any bright ideas?" Hunter demanded.

"Screaming is good" Chris replied. Stephoine tried her magic against, but she grew too scared. Hunter figured if he was going down… might as well go down fighting. He took hold of his want; the Ogre took hold of another toilet.

"Throne dethroned!" he chanted, the toilet levitated above the ogre's head and fell directly on it! It made it dizzy, so Hunter jumped it. Trying to think of a spell but he was being thrown every which way! Chris decided to do something drastic taking his wand and closing his eyes to do so. Hunter was thrown from the Ogre when a loud piff sound was heard; the ogre fell to the ground and was out cold! Just as the teacher stormed in, Taker Darcodorf was the first one in. He glared at the three wondering what the hell happened. Lindala quickly followed as did Spark and Stevely.

"What the hell happened here? What is that God awful smell?" Taker Darcodorf demanded. He saw the Ogre lying on the ground knocked out cold.

"This is going to cost you 10 points for not doing as we say… however…"

"Wait, they did it because they were worried about me" Stephoine stated.

Lindala looked to her. "Let me finish. Hunter… Chris, you are both given thirty points for stopping the ogre, not many first year students can say they did" she replied. Hunter, Chris and Stephoine made their way out. Chris held his wand back with disgust.

"Where the hell did you stick that thing?" Hunter demanded.

"Dude… trust me. You don't wanna know!" Chris replied. "I got to sanitize it now… any spells for that?" he asked.

"A lot of soap and water" Stephoine smirked.

Word spread like wildfire of what had happened. Hunter went to see Showgrid one day who was hiding something. "Showgrid?" Hunter asked. Showgrid turned quickly yet hid something behind his back. "What do you have?" he asked. Showgrid reluctantly showed Hunter what he had; it was a black speckled egg. Hunter didn't see what the big deal was.

"It's a dragon!" he whispered.

"Dragon? But Showgrid we have dragons, messenger dragons" Hunter explained.

Showgrid smiled. "Yeah I know… but this one will be BIG. I have always wanted a pet Dragon, Cuddles was easy to tame…"

"Cuddles?" Hunter asked.

"My three headed guard cat…. Oh… I don't think I should have told you that," he said worriedly.

"Cuddles…. Guard cat… Showgrid what's going on?" Hunter demanded.

"Sorry Hunter, I said too much. But all I can say is that guy at the bar knew his dragons, this one is a fireball from Canada!" Showgrid grinned. Hunter just smiled. Hunter went back inside Ringwarts. The Christmas holiday was coming up very soon, and he was going to stay at Ringwarts. Christmas at his cousin's house always sucked. He never got anything, so he decided to stay and research the champion's stone with Chris. Chris had to stay this year. His parents were seeing his older brother Andrew who was researching dragons. He was nicknamed Test for a reason. Hunter was in the main room where people normally came to eat. Stephoine was all packed and ready to leave. She looked at the boys.

"You are going to look up the champions stone?" she asked.

"We have, we can't find it anywhere!" Chris replied. Stephoine had the 'I know something you don't know look'

"You checked everywhere… but the restricted section" she smirked as she left. Chris looked to Hunter.

"She knew where we could look?" he demanded. Hunter shrugged.

"Women" he sighed.