Just a little filler/bonus chapter of sorts with not much relevance to the story, but some cute twin fluff - and the dragons finally hatch!
Disclaimer: Nope. Still don't own the rights to the masterpieces otherwise known as Harry Potter and Fairy Tail.
"What am I supposed to do, Sting?" Rogue hissed to his brother.
"Pfff, beats me. Maybe you should just tell her she's your mate - that would make everything easier." The blonde dragon-slayer stretched his arms over his head, yawning.
"We're fifteen. How the hell can I just tell her that she is what normal people would call my soulmate, baka!" Rogue hissed, before groaning and falling backwards onto the sofa. "I give up. At this rate I'll have to ask," he paused and shuddered, "Mira."
Sting laughed, poking his brother until he opened his eyes again. "Seriously, little bro, just tell her! The longer you keep it from her, the more pissed off she'll be when she finds out."
"I know, I know, but I just don't know how to tell her! I mean, what do I do? Just walk up to her and go 'hey, I know we've only known each other for a few months, but you're my mate, and for dragon-slayers that basically means we're meant for each other, so want to stay with me for the rest of your life'?" Rogue said sarcastically.
"Yeah, that could work," Sting said, completely missing the sarcasm.
Rogue huffed, rolling over so his face was buried in the pillow. "I just can't, okay?"
Suddenly, he bolted up like Laxus had just zapped him in the ass. "Did you feel that?" He asked his brother, who nodded.
"That was the magic circle on the eggs breaking - they're about to hatch!" Sting said excitedly. Natsu ducked his head through the doorway.
"C'mon, guys! Wendy sent me to get you two - it's time!" He grinned, and the three of them ran as fast as they could to the Room of Requirement.
Seeing that the door was already open, they walked in, immediately spying their eggs in amongst a crowd of Mahoutokoro students and teachers.
They were shaking, some of the shell cracking off, and Rogue suddenly felt a sharp shot of pride go through him as he watched Hermione use the basic shadow dragon-slayer magic he had taught her to incubate the egg. She looked up as though she could sense his presence, and nodded her head towards the egg. He understood what she meant, and hurried over to help it with his own magic.
Theirs was the first to hatch, probably because there were two of them working on it, and the hatchling was adorable. Rogue instinctively knew that she was a female, it was part of being a dragon-slayer, and reached forward to pet her head.
"Skiadrum..." He whispered, before clearing his throat. "Her name will be Skiadrum."
After his adoptive mother, Hermione realised. She nodded, smiling at him before petting the hatchling herself. The scales weren't rough as she thought, but rather silky and soft - kind of like Rogue's shadows.
Little Skiadrum wriggled around a bit, and finally stood, walking unsteadily over to Rogue before plopping herself on his lap.
"Can we touch her?" A hesitant voice said, and Rogue looked up to see Mila and Alyksander. He nodded, and Mila, the braver of the two, put her hand out a gently stroked Skiadrum's head.
"She is beautiful. Not like the one who did this," Mila gestured towards her arm, and Alyksander grabbed his sister's free hand.
Then, the other dragons started to hatch, and everyone watched on in awe as the hatchlings dragged themselves over to their respective parents. All of the dragon-raised slayers named their dragons after their adoptive parents, except for Gajeel whose dragon was female. He named her Shrimp, which made Levy blush as Lucy nudged her, winking.
Laxus and Erik, who Jellal had asked to visit, named their dragons as well. Laxus called his Bolt - very original - whilst Erik named his after Kinana. Mira giggled at this, and told everyone that if she was here, the shy professor would be blushing madly right now.
Evreryone spent the rest of the day in the Room of Requirement, later joined by Viktor, Petya, Ginny, Luna, Draco and the Weasley twins. The Durmstrang boys had become good friends with Draco and Blaise, another Slytherin, and possibly the only other one in whole house besides Draco who wasn't a racist asshole.
It was about ten minutes to curfew when everyone realised they should be in their dorms, and quickly ran so they would make it in time. Hermione kissed Skiadrum on the head before Rogue took her back to Ravenclaw tower, and then gave her boyfriend a goodnight kiss as well. It was only thanks to the Weasley twins that they made it back on time - being the pranksters they were, they knew a ton of secret passages, and it was one of these that they took to get back to the portrait before the Fat Lady went to sleep.
"Thank god!" Harry panted. "I didn't think we'd make it!"
Hermione shushed him as she shifted the child in her arms - little Mila had been sorted into Gryffindor, while her twin was in Ravenclaw. "Don't wake her up, idiot!" She whispered, and carried the little girl upstairs. At Viktor and Petya's request, Headmaster Dumbledore had put her in the same dorm as Hermione, and Mila often climbed into Hermione's bed, snuggling up to the girl she had come to think of as an older sister. Hermione sighed and laid her down, quickly changing and climbing into bed.
It only took about five minutes for Mila to climb out of her own bed and into Hermione's, and the brunette rolled her eyes, pulling back the covers for her 'little sister' to climb in.
"You're the best, big sis," she heard Mila mumble before going back to sleep, and she couldn't help but smile - as an only child, she'd always wanted a little sister.
A/N - Another bonus chapter of sorts - the eggs have finally hatched and Erik made his cameo appearance. I'm sure that Enyo will be good friends with all the dragons - especially Igneel junior! Maybe they can run/fly around, setting fire to stuff while Lisanna chases Natsu, because if there's fire involved, it's obviously his fault! Mila and Alyksander are the cutest, don't you think? •_•
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