Author's Note: Hey guys, Here's chapter 7, have fun! also, here's the language thingy that tells you which one's which.

Draconic

Parseltongue (If there is any in this chapter)

"Regular speech"

'Thinking'

"Mermish"

It had been a few months since the Yule Ball and the Champions were still trying to figure out the task. Julian and Viktor were going through language books while Fleur and Victoria went and bought up half the books during Hogsmead weekends. Cedric and Alice got a hint and went straight up to the Prefect's Bath (A/N: get your mind out of the gutter Tory), though they stayed hidden on the way there very well, while Shade and Harry were getting frustrated from not understanding what the hell the language was.

"What. The. Fuck!" Shade shouted for the third time that day, "Why the hell is this so hard to do?!" he whined and let his head fall on the table with a thud in the empty Common room.

Harry sighed and leaned back in his chair, "I don't know, all I did was open it and the stupid thing started screeching like a banshee."

Shade paused at that, 'screeching? No, it couldn't be possible but'... "Ok, can I see the egg? I just need to see if my theory is right."

Harry passed the egg over to Shade and quickly clamped his hand over his ears as Shade opened the egg. To regular humans it sounded like screeching it's true, but to Shade it was Mermish singing,

"Come seek us where our voices sound

We can not sing above the ground

while you're searching ponder this,

we've taken what you'll surely miss

an hour long you'll have to look

to recover what we've took

past an hour the prospects black

too late it's gone, it won't come back"

Shade gasped and closed the egg before looking up at Harry, he said excitedly and hurriedly, "The Black Lake! It's got Mermaids! That's the second task, 'an hour long you'll have to look, to recover what we took' they're taking something from you and are going to have the Mermaids guard it."

Harry stared at him dumb-founded, then stared at him some more and stared at him while Ron and Hermione came in, "What's up with him?" Ron asked.

"I think I broke 'im," Shade shrugged and sat back in his chair, waiting for Harry to unfreeze.

Harry blinked once, then twice before turning slowly to face Shade, "You can speak Mermish?"

Shade nodded happily, "Yep, I didn't realize that that was Mermish, plus I wasn't here when you opened it the first time, it was a hunch really."

Harry looked at Shade in shock before groaning and slumping in his chair, "That means that I have to find something that will make me breathe under water for an hour right?"

Shade smiled and nodded, "Yep, come on they might have something in the Library and we need all the help we can get."

He grabbed Harry and Hermione by the sleeves and dragged them out of the Common Room, shouting back to Ron and Neville, "COME ON!"

They both launched themselves off the chairs and followed after them, Ron groaning about reading while Neville sighed in resignation.

The four Gryffindors and Guardian spent the next two days practically living in the Library until Professor Moody came up to them on the second day.

"Ron, I need you to come with me please, Professor McGonagall want's ta see you," he said in a gruff voice before walking away with Ron in tow.

Harry sighed before leaning his head on a book, "Where is this stupid plant!?"

Shade and Hermione just laughed at his muffled question, "You know you can just wave your wand and ask for the right books right?"

Shade demonstrated by saying, "Water Breathing Plants," and four different books flew down and made a neat stack on the desk.

"See? That's how you use the library," Hermione stated with a small smile.

Her and Shade just laughed at Harry's annoyed expression while in another part of the castle, someone was about to get hurt by a very large sink.

Alice and Cedric swiftly walked past people and towards the Prefect's bathroom. Cedric lead the way while Alice held onto the egg. As they entered, Alice gasped in shock; on one side of the room there are the stalls with toilets inside. Opposite the toilets there is a large, swimming pool-like tub with bath taps surrounding it. The pool-like bath is sunk into the ground and is not above ground. The bath taps all run different-coloured bath water, soap bubbles, foam, towels, and bath robes. These bath taps are a hundred golden taps surrounding the whole pool-like tub, with a different jewel set in each tap. There are bath supplies on one side of the pool, such as soap, bath oil, bath powder, bath salts (A/N: Oh noooo~ Zombies!), shampoo, hair spray, and conditioner. Looking at the tub, she imagined it would take quite some time to fill, but it actually fills remarkably fast, considering its size. Under the bathroom there are sewers that can be entered by blasting one section of the wall. She walked around, setting the egg down on one side of the tub, and walked up to one of the sink taps, tracing the pattern and jewel on it.

"So do thes-what ARE you DOING?!" she shrieked.

When she turned to ask him that question, he had already stripped down to his pants and school shoes which he was in the process of taking off.

He looked up quickly, "What do you mean?"

She averted her eyes and quickly ripped the sink of the wall, "Take one more step near me and this gets thrown at your HEAD!"

He looked at her in shock but quickly recovered as she motioned to throw it at him, he cowered slightly, "No, no-WAIT! I was getting in the BATH!"

She stopped mid throw, which Cedric was happy about, and put the sink down with a sigh as he relaxed slightly, "Next time you do this, please TELL me before hand so I don't accidentally permanently end you."

Cedric nodded, shaking slightly, "Ok."

Alice sighed before nodding, "Great, I'm going to watch the door."

She walked out and leaned against the wall, waiting for him to come out.

-TIME SKIP (day of the Task)-

The Guardians flew to the shore of the Black Lake, waiting for their Champions to show up.

"Hey, have you guys seen Julian?" Victoria asked.

"No, I haven't seen him since yesterday," Shade said, shaking his head slightly.

"Maybe he went and got himself some Bulgarian Giant last night," Alice said with a smile as the other Guardians snickered slightly.

"Maybe but unlikely since that 'Bulgarian Giant' is coming up the road right now," Shade said with a smirk.

It was true, Viktor, along with the rest of the Champions, were walking towards them, spectators and other people were walking behind them.

"Aw man~ I seriously thought Julian got himself some giant, he really needs it," Alice said with a fake whisper.

The Guardians all laughed at that remark before greeting the Champions, they all boarded boats and made their way across the lake to a large platform in the middle where everyone was gathered.

Victoria suddenly turned and looked at Shade, "Oh, that's right, the Headmaster told me to tell you that you are guarding all of the Champions this round since only you can breathe underwater."

Shade looked at her in shock, shaking slightly, "W-WHAT?!"

She winced slightly at his loud voice before slapping him in the face and shaking him, "Pull yourself together man! You can DO this!"

Shade shook his head to clear his vision from the shaking before nodding and walking off to find Dumbledore.

He spotted him before walking up to him, "Sir, am I guarding the Champions this round?"

"Yes Shade, you will line up on the starting block with the Champions but you will dive in first and swim to the merpeople's village, do not worry, I have told them of you, but you must swim in your half and half form or they will see you as a threat," Dumbledore said.

Shade bristled invisibly but nodded before walking to the starting block, greeting the Champions, he said, "Hey, I'm guarding all of you this round."

They all nodded and turned towards the water, Shade visibly relaxed and summoned one of his dragon forms forth. Before everyone's eyes, he started to change; his wings sprouted from his back which had changed to a dark blue color with silver lining the bone. His tail ripped through his pants which was a foot longer than his legs and had two tail fins at the end, it was the same color as his wings with a silver strip along his bone with scales trailing up his back to the base of his wings. His nails started to form into claws which were black and had dark blue scales going up his arm until they ended at a point at his elbows. His feet started to change into dragon shaped feet which had the same scales going up his legs until they ended at a point at his knees. Finally, fins sprouted and replaced his ears which worked as both gills and ears. His eyes changed from molten silver to navy blue with hints of silver and light blue, his pupils were narrow slits which made them look cat-like. The Champions looked at him in shock but he just shrugged it off before diving into the water.

Ludo Bagman started to speak after Shade dived into the lake, "Well, all our champions are ready for the second task, which will start on my whistle. They have precisely an hour to recover what has been taken from them."

All the Champions were shivering in the chilly February air, Harry was wearing the standard one piece tank top and shorts of red and black with his wand strapped to his thigh. Cedric was wearing the same thing only it was yellow and black, Fleur was wearing the same except it was a pale blue, while Victor was wearing a tan tank top with red shorts.

Before he blew the whistle, Harry had to eat the gillyweed, which gave him gills to breathe underwater, and webbed hands and feet to allow him to swim faster. As they entered the water, both Fleur and Cedric utilised the Bubble-Head Charm, while Viktor partially Transfigured himself into a shark. All the spectators had no knowledge of what was happening during the task until at least one champion returned, but were able to monitor time remaining by observing a provided clock.

They all took different ways to the Village but they all knew the general direction it was in. Shade was swimming around with the merpeople until he heard the Grindylows shrieking about a new meal. He quickly swam after them only to find that they were attacking Fleur, he was about to leave, thinking she could take care of herself, but then realized that the Bubble-Head charm that she used was shredded to pieces by the little devils. She would drown soon if he didn't save her so he breathed in and roared loudly at the Grindylows, thank the gods that there were only a few of them, scattering them before taking her to the surface where Dumbledore took her and swimming back to the Village, waiting for the next Champion.

Harry was the first to reach the Village, he was shocked to find that the 'item' that had been stolen from each Champion were people close to them. Placed in an enchanted sleep, then tied to the tail of a stone Merperson statue, were Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley, Cedric's girlfriend Cho Chang, Fleur's younger sister Gabrielle, and shockingly, Julian, one of the Guards. He looked around and swam to Ron's foot where the rope was tied, he quickly tried to untie him before seeing Cedric from the corner of his eye.

Cedric quickly sent a damaging spell to the rope around Cho's foot, freeing her and swimming quickly up to the surface where some spectators grabbed them some towels and helped them out of the water. They both turned to the water, waiting for the next person to show up.

Viktor was the last to arrive at the Village, though Harry still hasn't been able to free Ron. He was shocked to see Julian tied to one of the statues and quickly bit through the rope to free him before dragging him to the surface. As they surfaced, Viktor and Julian were helped out of the water and were given towels.

Julian shivered and walked towards the other Guardians but was confused as he saw that Shade wasn't there, "Hey, where's Shade?"

"Oh, he's there, in the water; since we can't breathe underwater and we're not allowed there, Dumbledore told him that he was to Guard over all of the Champions," Victoria answered.

"He WHAT?! I'll kill him myself! How DARE he put my little brother in danger!" Julian replied furiously, those near him backed up a little as Alice and Victoria tried to calm him down.

Back under the water, with no sign of Fleur, Harry made the decision to rescue both the remaining hostages himself. Although the merpeople objected and tried to stop him by jabbing him with their pitchforks and trying to take one of the hostages from him, Harry managed to free himself from their grasp, and dragged Ron and Gabrielle to the surface. Shade was about to swim up to the surface after him until a Grindylow attached itself to his leg, he was trying to kick it off when more of them appeared. They slowly started to drag him further under the water. He tried desperately to swim away but the Grindylows closed his wings and tail fins with their tentacles and bodies, making that impossible. He thrashed and roared but it was to no avail, they wouldn't let go.

"This is a nice juicy one isn't it?" he heard one say.

Yes, he will do nicely for our feast, maybe we will drag the others that smell like him under, they ARE coming closer to the water," the other one reasoned.

'Others? oh no, they mean the rest of us?' Shade thought in horror about what his family would face.

He growled low, the Grindylows froze at the sound before Shade ripped them from his wings and tail, roaring at all of them, "Don't you DARE touch my family!"

The rest of the Grindylows which weren't torn to shreds, fled in fright at the sight before them, Shade looked like a pissed off mother dragon whose baby was torn away from it. Shade roared again before stretching out his wings, beating them twice he shot out of the water and onto the platform. His family and the Champions all circled around him as he landed. When he landed, he stood but soon crumpled to the ground, he realized that he was very tired as he felt his muscles quiver and shake from the strain.

"Shade! Are you alright? When I told Julian about what the Headmaster said, he tried to tackle him to the ground," Victoria said, wrapping multiple blankets around his shoulders.

He nodded before saying with a smirk, "Y-Yea, Grindylows are a pain."

Victoria hit him gently, "God damn it Shade! You could have died! Don't joke about it!"

Shade laughed as Victoria jumped at twin voices and two bodies seemed to materialize out of thin air, "Why Forge, I think my heart stopped!"

"Oh dear brother the horror! Every time is a joke time!"

"This is like a stake to the heart-"

"To horrible to take-"

"Oh dear," the twins finished together, pretending to faint on one another.

Victoria sighed and shook her head but you could see a small smile make it's way onto her face, "Ok, fine! I won't say anything like that again."

The twins smiled before helping Shade up from his position on the floor, "Well, I believe it's time to head to the castle, right Forge?"

"Agreed," George said before the Guardians, Champions, and Spectators all headed up to the castle, all dreading and looking forward to the third and final task in June. Dumbledore on the other hand, was looking forward to a pie custard with his name on it.

Author's Note: Alright! That's a wrap people! Time for the third task, MOLDYSHORTS! I-I mean Voldemort, he he...he *looks away nervously* Anyway, yea, WOOHOO! Instead of Harry it was Shade getting caught by the Grindylows, how's that for a plot twist?!...No? ok.

Alice: *sighs* Dude, seriously, why couldn't we go underwater?

Shade: because Dumbledick forbade you from going, plus would you really want your wings and fur soaked? -_-

Alice: I guess not, but still, do you think I'd give a fuck?

Shade: *shrugs* maybe? I don't know but probably not, anyway, rate, review and follow please! also, bury me in feedback, I seriously want to know if I'm doing anything wrong.

Alice: *stage whispers to Victoria* She's craaaaaaazyyyyy, I'll distract her and you run!

Shade: Hey! I heard that! and stop doing your Olaf impression!

Alice and Victoria: *they both laugh* You knew that was coming though

Shade: yes, yes I did, now back into your box until I think up the next chapter, Back!

Victoria: Alright! jeez woman, give her too much power why don't you...

Shade: *Shuts the box* alright well, see ya in the next chapter, bye!