Author's Note: Hey guys, what's up? I'm sorry if my grammar in the last chapter was horrible. It was really late when I did it but it's up and so is this one. yay! Chapter 3: The First Task, In this Chapter I might be taking samples out of the original book for the tasks.
The Guardians: SHADE!
Shade: *looks off to the side discreetly* Yes?
The Guardians: DO IT!
Shade: OK! I do not own Harry Potter if I did, I would be rich, OK?
Dragon Speech
regular speech
Shade: Ok let's get on with it!
It was the morning after the Guardians first arrived and they were all getting ready for breakfast. Julian was taking inventory again while brushing his teeth, Alice was working on a new potion to get her a potions Mastery which would make her younger than Snape when he got his. Victoria was taking a shower while a book she was reading was charmed by her to tell her the story out loud and Shade was working up a sweat fighting dummies in his dueling room while trying to improve his form. Back in the Great Hall, the teachers were streaming through the portrait hole, sleep weighing them down as they walked while the students were slowly trickling through the Great Hall doors. The Guardians flew through their portrait holes, wearing the same clothes as the day before, the painted people waved goodbye as they flew lazily down the hall and into the Great Hall. They all entered flying slowly towards their Champions and sat down next to them.
Dumbledore stood up as he saw that everyone was accounted for before saying, "Today for the Champions is the First Task, you have until noon to prepare, good luck to you all," he smiled before waving his hands and food appeared on the platters in front of the students on the table, shocking the Guardians slightly before everyone dug into the food.
Alice flew over to Cedric and stopped next to him.
"Hey," she said excitedly.
Cedric smiled at her and scooted to the left slightly to let her sit down before turning back to his food.
"So... What exactly is your job?" he asked curiously. She beamed at him and started to tell him all about how she was going to become the youngest Potions Master since Snape. She also told him how she was going to have to help him if he were in a life threatening position but saving his life.
Meanwhile, at the Gryffindor table, Julian flew over next to Viktor.
"Hello," he said with a soft smile.
Viktor nodded to him and shifted over on the bench for him to sit down. Julian sat down and the two built men sat in silence while they ate, which was quite awkward for those around them.
"Where did you get that scar on your cheek?" Viktor asked quietly after a few minutes of silence.
Julian smiled softly before launching into a tale about how his caretaker set up a dangerous obstacle course when he was 10 to test his survival skills.
Meanwhile, Victoria flew over to Fleur at her table and landed gently next to her bench.
"Vat do you vant?" Fleur looked down her nose at Victoria slightly.
"Well, Dumbledore said that I had to guard over you which means that I have to make sure you don't die, but if you want to die, by all means, go ahead," Victoria said snappishly.
Fleur looked at Victoria in shock, not realizing that even bookish girls can sass back before smiling gently and scooting over, making room for Victoria to sit down. She sat down and smiled softly at Fleur before starting to eat breakfast.
Fleur tapped her on the shoulder gently, "So, vat is your favorite book?"
Victoria looked at Fleur and smiled before launching into a lecture about the origins of books.
Finally, the last Guardian flew slowly over to the Gryffindor table, towards Harry and landed softly behind him.
"Hello..." Shade said shakily, glancing between Harry and the floor.
Harry jumped slightly before turning around, realizing that Shade was behind him and scooted closer to Hermione slightly to make room for him at the table. Shade smiled gently before climbing onto the bench, sitting down and starting to eat.
"Hi, so, what type of dragon are you?" Harry asked, looking over at Shade slightly.
Shade looked back at Harry with a gleam in his eyes before going into detail about his clan and himself.
After breakfast, the Guardians followed the Champions to wherever they were going. Viktor went to practice his dueling outside on the Quad with Julian while Fleur went to the Charms corridor to practice shooting jets of water out of her wand with Victoria. Cedric went to talk to Professor McGonagall to learn more complex transfiguration with Alice tagging along with him while Harry went out onto the Quidditch Pitch to practice his flying routines with Shade flying right beside him.
After a few hours of practice from the Champions, it was time for the First Task. The Champions walked towards the arena out near the hills around Hogwarts where there was a tent set up right outside the arena. As they enter the tent, the Guardians were flying around the arena and surrounding area to make sure this task wouldn't be interrupted by wizard nor beast. As they landed again, Julian paired up with Alice to make sure that the dragons were still in their pens while Shade and Victoria go into the tent just in time to see Rita Skeeter take a photo of Harry and Hermione hugging.
"Hey, you aren't allowed in here, move along!" Shade snapped at her before turning in time to see Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr. come into the tent with a small bag which was shaking.
Shade growled and bristled slightly as he saw Ludo Bagman shake the bag intentionally, riling up the dragons. The other two Guardians flew through the tent entrance and all of them watched as their Champion pick a dragon, Cedric with the Swedish Short-Snout going first, Fleur with the Common Welsh Green going second, Viktor with the Chinese Fireball going third, and finally Harry with the Hungarian Horntail. The Guardians wished the Champions good luck before heading up into the stands with the students.
When the first canon went off, Alice was already on the edge of her seat, watching as the Swedish Short-Snout cornered Cedric but tilted her head slightly in amazement as Cedric turned a rock into a Labrador to distract the dragon. It partially worked, halfway through, the dragon turned its attention back to Cedric, and burned his face. Cedric retrieved the egg, however, and passed the task with flying colors. As he was escorted out of the arena up to the Hospital wing, Alice flew by his side telling him random facts about the muggle world to get his mind off of the pain in his face.
During the second round, Victoria watched as Fleur charmed the Common Welsh Green to sleep and went to get the egg, but while retrieving the golden egg, the dragon snored and let out a jet of flame that set her skirt alight. She extinguished the flames quickly before retrieved her egg. Victoria went down to congratulate her and walked with her back up into the stands.
After the third canon went off, Julian tried to look disinterested but kept looking at Viktor every few seconds and after dodging flames and hiding behind rocks, Viktor finally got into a good position to blind the Chinese Fireball before taking the egg and bounding back to the tent. Julian nodded in approval and even smiled at Krum as he made his way through the stands.
Finally the fourth canon went off, Shade was growling softly under his breath, hoping and praying that Harry didn't die. As Harry walked out, he quickly ran behind a large rock, wincing slightly as the Hungarian Horntail blew fire on the rock he was behind. Shade inhaled sharply and dug his claws into his seat, leaning forward slightly before staring wide eyed as Harry summoned his broom and took off. Shade let out a breath in relief but it was too soon, the dragon tugged hard on the chains before stretching out his wings and flying after Harry.
Shade stood up quickly and weaved between students and professors before marching straight up to Dumbledore and shouting, "Harry is in danger, he could be killed! I have to go after him!"
Dumbledore looked at Shade then back in the direction Harry went off to before nodding as Shade shot straight up and flew quickly in the direction of both Harry and that dragon. He flew faster and finally managed to spot the dragon, and more importantly Harry who at the moment was hanging from a spike coming from the roof tiling.
Shade growled loudly before turning to face the dragon who had gone still, "What are you doing?! You can not kill him!"
"Well why not?" the dragon whined, climbing off of the tower roof he was on and turning to hover in front of Shade.
"Why do you think? Your job is to protect the egg, not kill the Champion going after it," he replied calmly before glaring at the dragon, his eyes gone a pure electric green.
The dragon snorted but complied, flying off back to Romania where it came from as Shade turned quickly, only to find Harry's grip slipping. He flew quickly towards him before reaching out his feet which weren't covered. Right before his feet touched Harry's shoulders, they started to transform, his nails growing longer and sharper, his feet elongating slightly as they started to look more and more like dragon/raptor feet. It looked like scales were growing out of his skin which lead all the way up to his knees and Shade gently grabbed Harry around the shoulders.
"How are you doing that?!" he shouted up to Shade.
"All the Guardians can do it, they can turn any part of their body into anything on their creature inheritance," Shade shouted back before steering Harry gently so that he could scoop up the dragon egg as they entered the arena again.
When the crowd saw Harry take the egg, everyone in the stands stood up and cheered, he did it, the next clue for the second task. Shade put Harry down in the Gryffindor section of the stands before smiling and flying off back to Hogwarts but something was off, what was the second task and what could the clue be?
Author's note: Sorry that this one was shorter than the last one, I was going to make it longer but it's 2:35am right now, so I should get to bed, please rate, review, and follow the story! there will be more chapters soon but let me rest first, my brain is fried.