I walked into breakfast with my nose stuck in a book. I hopped out of the way of others. I don't care what people say, you can read a book and walk at the same time. Just be careful. Anyway, the book I'm reading talks about the mistreatment of werewolves.

Especially since Voldemort used them to scare people.

It's really not fair. It's not their fault they become that on the full moon! And can you blame them for hating people when in human form? They are persecuted and slaughtered, all because, once a month, they become a monster. I mean, why is tha-

Bump! My train of thought broke as I bumped into Professor Angemortil.

"Sorry!" I said, and helped him to his feet.

"It's fine. Just watch were your going." He said. He looked at the book I was reading. I expected him to say something, but he just nodded and walked off.

I shrugged and sat down.

"Hey, bro!" Nikolas, the kid who called me insane for petting a dragon, said.

"Hey. How's it going?" I said.

"Pretty good. Decided I might get that girl to go on a date." He said. He pointed to a pretty Ravenclaw girl, who he had been crushing on for a week now.

"Good luck." I said.

"Who needs good luck when you got good looks?" He said with a grin. I smiled. He was a bloody riot, sometimes. Other times, he was just a normal riot. we talked a bit more, but I let him do most of the talking. Then we went to class.

We had finished with the dragon, and moved on to pegasi. It was alright, but I would rather move on to the free period. That was... interesting. It started with Nikolas talking to that Ravenclaw girl. I was a little bit away, ready to pull him away if things got bad.

"Hey, Ella!" He said. She looked at him, and smiled sweetly.

"Hello, Nikolas." She said shyly. Not because she liked him, necessarily, but she was a bit shy all the time.

"Umm, I was wondering if, you, uh..." He was definitely sincere about liking her. He was never tongue-tied.

"If I would like to hang out sometime? Yes, I would enjoy that very much." She said with a smile. He smiled and walked over to me. I saw the look in his eyes and laughed he snapped out of it and looked at me.

"What's so funny?" he asked with a frown.

"That look in your eyes! Your completely love struck!" I said. He smiled and nodded.

"You will understand when your older." He said with a grin. I laughed and punched him in the arm. and then I looked over a bit and ducked. A spell hit the vase next to me, and turned it into an owl. I looked at the slytherin who had cast the spell. He grinned and put his wand away.

"Almost got ya!" Erik said. I smiled. Why did a smile? Because he was my friend. I rolled my eyes, and punched him in the arm as well.

"Saw Nik talking to that Ella girl. Did you get a date, bro?" Erik asked. Nikolas nodded and smiled, "Good. Better do good, or I will turn you into a bat." That was Erik's way of saying good luck and I'm proud of you. He's a slytherin, what do you expect? We talked a bit longer before going to our next classes. Potions class bores me. Nobody ever gets into trouble. So, I will skip ahead. Transfiguration. That was crazy!

"Alright, class, today I will teach you to turn a feather into a full bird." The professor, Professor Alevinck, said. I didn't think this would be interesting.

I was wrong. I turned my feather into an owl. Nikolas decided to turn his into a parrot. Someone turned their's into a chicken, and another person messed up and turned their's into a chicken egg.

We just got to the interesting part. Apparently, this person's transfigured egg aged quickly, because when another person's pet toad jumped out of their pocket, and landed on the egg, it hatched.

Into a basilisk.

The baby basilisk looked around for a second, confused, but gained it's bearings, and slithered away quickly. Too quickly for a single spell to hit it. We heard screaming in the halls and ran out, seeing the basilisk coiled and ready to jump at another student. I made split second decision. I yelled at the creature..

Well, to me and the basilisk, is sounded like a yell. To everyone else, it was a low hiss.

"Stop! Do not hurt that person!" I said in parseltongue. which seriously confused me. It looked at me angrily. I averted my eyes.

"Why should I listen to you, one who cannot even look into my eyes! You are weak!" It said, it's voice sounding like a child.

"Because you are weak as well! You are but a child!" I answered.

"And yet you look away! Because you do not have the ability to look me in the eyes! I am stronger than you!" It said in an angry tone. Just then, a spell hit it. It was trapped in a cage, with bars so close together, even it could not squeeze through.

"Good heavens! How did a basilisk get into the school!" The headmaster said. The Professor explained everything that happened, from the egg hatching, to me speaking parseltongue. The headmaster looked at me.

"Hmm. Well, we could kill this creature. Or we could conduct an experiment." he looked at me with a gleam in his eyes. My dread was immediate.

"Wait, you don't mean to have the boy take care of it! This cold blooded killer!" Alevinck said.

"It would be a good challenge for him!" The headmaster said.

"He is not ready for such a challenge!" The Alevinck said. That broke me.

"I accept the challenge." I said. Everyone looked at me, and the headmaster smiled, "Why not? I'm a parselmouth. Better me than anyone else. Or kill it before it has a chance to live!" The headmaster continued to smile.

"It's settled, then." He handed me the cage.

"What if the Ministry finds out?" Professor Alevinck said. The headmaster shrugged.

"I plan to inform them. They will agree. the Minister of Magic believes in giving the students a challenge. The professor stayed quiet and walked back to the classroom. It was already time for the next class, and we all left. The rest of the day was not very exciting. So, let me skip to the night.

I hummed as I changed into my evening clothes. I put on a black and red hoodie with the words "To heck with a pony! I want a dragon for Christmas!" on it, some black jeans, A pair of earrings made of red onyx and shaped like dragons that moved occasionally, and sometimes roared. I walked outside and sat down on a bench to read.

"Hello. I like your earrings." I looked up, a bit startled, at Estrella.

"Thanks. They roar occasionally, and on command. Well, sometimes they listen." I responded.

"Give it a try." She said. I looked at her for a second before realizing she meant my earrings.

"Roar, guys." I said, and they glanced at me, let off a dragon sigh, and roared. It was tinier than a normal dragon roar, but it scared a few people. They ran around yelling "Dragon!" before realizing nothing was burnt to a crisp and frowned. I smiled. I looked at Estrella and looked at what she was wearing. It was a shirt with a dragon on it, skinny jeans, and some jade earrings shaped like Eyes, which were blinking.

"You like what I'm wearing?" She said. She was shy when I first met her on the train, but as she got to know me, she got a little less strange.

"Yeah. It looks nice." I said with a smile. She smiled warmly.

"Well, kiss already!" A shout came outta nowhere. I looked around and saw Nikolas and Erik walking over to us. I rolled my eyes and waved.

"We better make room for them." I said. She smiled.

"Alright." She said. And scooted closer to me.

"Aww! Aren't they a cute couple?" Erik said to Nikolas. Nikoles smiled and nodded, "I think we interupted their romantic moment, though. Oh well!"

"We were not gonna kiss..." As I said it, I glanced at Estrella and thought about whether we would have kissed or not. No way to find out, I guess.

Chapter two! Done! Leave a review, please!