a/n: There may be some freighting stuff in this chapter so yet another reason this story is rated teen.
In The Dragon's Lair
He walked out onto the arena. The crowed burst into cheers shouting his name, over and over again. He took one small step closer to the golden egg. It sat in the middle of the circle gleaming the gold like a star crashed to Earth. The stone arena gave Cedric a monstrous feeling. He took another step fire appeared close by.
The Swedish Short-Snout opened its mouth once more, blazing a fire from its mouth. The blue-grey scales lightly moved slightly in the breeze and glimmered in the sun light. He moved closer to Cedric every second he Cedric did not move. Cedric tried to remember the spell as the audience was ohing, ahing, and screaming in fear of the dragon. Cedric looked around for the perfect rock. All around him there were tiny rocks, too tiny to be used, he had to find the right one. Keeping his eyes on the Short-Snout as he slowly moved behind a rock. He took a glace around the rock he needed was not there. He saw another big rock. Cedric went for it.
Running fast for cover he went behind another rock, slightly cutting his right arm on the way. The rock he was hidden behind now was bigger than the last. Cedric looked around for the rock once more. The dragon took a few more blows of its fiery breath at Cedric before it stood there waiting for it prey to come out.
Behind the rock Cedric was trying to calm his nerves, breathing in and out, in and out. He looked around once more for the rock he needed. It was not there, behind the huge rock protecting Cedric.
Cedric turned his head toward the right to glance at the dragon. It was still waiting there, waiting for him. He wondered if Fleur and Victor would have this much trouble as him. Harry came to his mind. When he Harry had pulled out his dragon from the bag it looked more grave than all the others.
He turned to the left to see if any more rocks were there to protect him from the fire of the dragon. None lied in sight. One rock stood there away from all the pebbles. It was the rock Cedric had been looking for. It was not small nor huge like the other rocks in the arena but it was perfect. Very slowly Cedric pulled out his wand and pointed at the rock. He knew somewhere out in the crowd Cho was there so why did he need to be so nervous. All he had to do was turn the rock into a dog and the face a bi scary dragon. There was nothing to lose. So there was everything to lose, it took him a while sitting there staring at the rock questioning what needed to be done. Cedric finally came up with the guts. He ran out from the rock that sheltered his from the fires of the dragon.
"CACRCOSA!" The dragon's fire came out but not quick enough, Cedric ran behind the rock and dived into it shelter cutting his arm more. He felt blood trickle down his arm from his earlier fall. It was nauseating the feeling of blood and defeat. Cedric listened, there was a bark, and then again, the rock had been turned into a dog. He looked out from behind the rock and saw the Dragon's eyes closely watching the Labrador running across the stadium. Cedric also saw the golden egg gleaming in the center. It was now or never. Cedric ran for the egg closer by the second. The dragon's attention was fully on the dog, his plan had worked. He grabbed the egg in seconds a stood holding it in the air. The crowd was in cheers all saying his name over and over. Then there were screams the dog had been killed. The dragon blew its fiery breath once more. This time burring Cedric left side.