Heres chapter 5. this chapter is the first task. i hope you all enjoy my take on the first task.
I do no own Harry Potter, Ms. Rowling does. I Do own my OCs
"Shut up" Humans speaking
"Crap" Thoughts
$letsss go$ Parseltongue
"Avada Kedavra"Spells
Chapter 5: The First Task
November 24th, 1994
The weeks leading up to the first task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament have been filled with endless lessons for all students, as well as a lot of prep work by the 5 Champions for whatever the task may be. The most interesting things that happened in the lead up to this day have been the first Hogsmead trip which the other 2 schools were aloud to participate in, so Hadrian took Fleur out on a small date, and while on their date they spotted the other unwilling champion Neville Longbottom out with the bushy haired girl who they remember hearing was named Hermione Granger, a Mundane-born witch. It seems that the boy had finally mustered up the courage to tell his bushy-haired friend how he really felt about her and asked out on a date, which she obviously accepted and so when they encountered Hadrian and Fleur they two were on a date, as a result the Blonde Half-Veela came up with the brilliant idea to make it a double date, and all 4 teen ended up spending the whole day together, even having drinks at the 3 Broomsticks Pub.
The 2 couples learned a great deal more about each other, from Neville the two French champions learned that he Lived with his overbearing Grandmother Dowager Lady Augusta Longbottom ever since he was 15 months old, after his parents were tortured into insanity by followers of Voldemort. They learned from Hermione that she was the first magic user in her family and that her Parents were actually pretty well off, being Dentists, which to her shock Both Harry and Fleur knew what that was, she did note that her father originally didn't want her to come to Hogwarts but caved to the idea after Professor McGonagall explained the dangers of having an untrained witch in the house. All in all they found themselves have a fun time and even parted ways on good terms.
The second interesting thing that happened was that about a week ago Harry and Fleur were both called to Madame Maxime's office in the coach and were told what the first task was going to be, it seems that ,in the words of Harry's father Lord Dracula, the geniuses who put the tournament together decided to make the first task Dragons. According to Maxime there were 5 different kinds of dragons, a Chinese Fireball, A Welsh Green, a Swedish Short-Snout, and the 2 most dangerous A Hungarian Horntail, and A Ukrainian Ironbelly.
Now is the morning of the 1st task and all 5 champions are sitting in the main hall having breakfast, or at least trying to, Cedric and Viktor are eating as if its a normal day, Fleur is picking at her food eating it slowly, Neville is not eating at all even tho Hermione keeps trying to get him to eat at least a piece of toast, and Hadrian has 3 empty plates in front of him and is drinking what looks to be some kind of red wine or juice. One of the younger Ravenclaws decides to ask him
"Um excuse me Heir Dragonov. Whats that your drinking?" the dark haired teen turns to the little 2rd year smirks and says
"This is the blood of a virgin. Its said that virgin blood has incredible powers of healing, vitality, and strength. So I thought that I'd give it a try, because Morgana knows that I'm going to need all the strength and vitality I can get for Today's task." the 3rd year and every other Hogwarts student in earshot pale at this until Fleur starts the giggle and Harry himself starts to laugh hardily, this starts the rest of Beauxbatons laughing, followed by Durmstrang, and half of Hogwarts, until finally after 5 minuets the laughter stops and the teen says
"Relax little one, that was a joke, I would never drink the blood of a Virgin, though what I said about Virgins blood having great powers was true. No what I have in this cup is a special Romanian wine, its meant to give vital nutrients to the body while also being alcoholic. My Father owns a Vineyard in Romania that makes it and distributes it to both the magical and Mundane worlds." the 2nd year just nods her head and goes back to her breakfast, while Fleur leans over and asks
"Ce qui est vraiment dans votre tasse mon amour?(Whats really in your cup my love?) Hadrian leans over close to her ear, his breath on her ear causing her to shiver slightly as he responds
"Doar ceea ce am spus este in cupa dragostea mea. Sangele de un virgin. Am avut mi-a adus de Cassius fost de atunci sa o vreme de cand am hranit trecut.(Just what I said is in the cup my love. The blood of a Virgin. I had it brought to me by Cassius since its been awhile since I last fed)" the blonde Veela shudders, nods her head, then kisses him despite the fact hes been drinking human blood, the goes back to her food. A little bit later Professor McGonagall stands up and says
"If I could have the Champions Follow me, its almost time for the first task." as she walks down between the tables all 5 champions rise and follow her out of the Great Hall and out of the Castle, they continue walking until the come to a makeshift arena with a tent infront of it which is where they stop and the stern woman turns to them and says "The first task will start shortly, until then the 5 of you will wait in this tent, the School heads, as well as and Mr. Bagman will be in shortly to reveal to you what the task is. I wish good luck to you all." and with that she turns and walks away.
All 5 competitors enter the tent to find it furnished with only 3 chairs, however Hadrian remedies this by brandishing his wand and conjuring a Love-seat for himself and Fleur, leaving the chairs for the other 3 boys. Over the next 15 minuets the 3 of the 5 champions can hear the sounds of students gathering outside to watch, while Harry and Fleur are busy in their own little world, with her laying on top of him and their lips locked in a heated kiss, however all good things must come to an end and so a moment later all the school heads, along with Crouch and Bagman, plus Skeeter enter the tent, which causes the teen couple to separate, and pay attention as Bagman begins speaking
"Well Hello all! Today is the first task, now I know your all dying to find out what your task is so lets begin. Now your first task is to retrieve a Golden egg from a Dangerous Magical creature, now in the bag Mr. Crouch is holding are small life like models of the creatures you'll be facing, as he comes around You'll need to place your hand inside the bag and pull out one of the models, note also that the models will have number signs around their necks, this is to determine the order you 5 will go in."
Barty Crouch proceeds to go around, the first to stick their hand in is Victor who pulls out a model of a Small, Smooth, Scarlet colored dragon with the number 2 around its neck as Crouch says
"ooh The Chinese Fireball, quite a challenge." then he goes to Cedric who places his hand in the bag and pulls out a small silvery-blue dragon with the number 1 around its neck and Crouch says "Ah the Swedish Short-Snout, love to see how you handle it." then goes to Fleur who pulls out the model of a Green dragon with the number 3 around its neck and Crouch says "Ah the common Welsh Green, the most tame, but still dangerous." then its Harry's turn, he places his hand in and comes out with a Metallic grey colored dragon with the number 5 around its neck and as crouch is about to comment the teen says
"The Ukrainian Ironbelly, perhaps the most Dangerous dragon out there besides the Hebridean Black. This must be my lucky day." after this its finally Neville's turn, as he puts his hand in and comes out with a model of a black scaled dragon with bronze colored horns and spikes protruding from its tail, and it has a number 4 hanging from its neck. At that point Bagman speaks again and says
"well there we have it the order will be first, followed by Mr, Krum, then Ms. Delacour, , and finally Mr. Dragonov last. Mr. Diggory when that cannon fires that will be the signal for you to head out and face your dragon. Good luck to you all." and with that all the Adults leave, and a few seconds later fires the cannon and Cedric heads out.
The other champions can only sit and listen as the dragon roars, and the crowd gasps, while Bagman announces whats happening like its a Quiditch game, after 15 minuets they hear the wind bag say
"And he's got the Egg! But he's not walking away unscathed." 5 minuets after that the cannon goes off again and Bagman says "Mr. Krum come on out!" and the Bulgarian nods to the other three before he heads out to take on his dragon. Again the 3 remaining champions are left to listen to the noises of the task, Fleur turns to Harry and says
"I'm nervous my love. I know my dragon will be the least dangerous but I cant help but to wonder what could happen if it becomes angry." the dark haired teen pulls her in for a gentle kiss and replies
"Worry not my silver rose, I have every faith that you will pass this challenge with not a hair out of place. All you have to do is believe in yourself and theres nothing you cannot do." his words cause her to relax and nod her head in agreement. After another few minuets they hear Bagman announce
"And Krum has the Egg!" like clockwork 5 minuets later the cannon sounded and Bagman announced "Ms. Delacour your up!" the blond gives Harry one last kiss saying
"See you on the other side Mon Amour." and steps out of the tent to face her dragon, leaving Neville and Harry alone together. Nev turns to the dark haired teen and says
"Well you and I are the last 2, and wouldnt you know it we get the 2 most dangerous Dragons." Hadrian smiles and says
"You sound as if your not surprised by the outcome of the draw. Is danger a normal thing for you Neville?" the sandy blonde haired boy nods as the two continue to listen to Fleur's turn and replies
"Yeah. Maybe when we finish this task, if we're both still alive, I'll tell you all about my first 3 years here. It seems like ever since Professor Dumbledore named me the "Boy-Who-Lived" every year since I started Hogwarts has been filled with Danger." the dark haired boy nods at this and says
"Well I look forward to hearing all about it after we beat our Dragons." a moment later they hear Bagman say
"And She's got the egg! OOOH but gets her skirt set on fire as shes walking away from the Nest." Neville can see the look of concern on the other teens face at this and says
"I'm sure shes alright, I mean she seems like a smart and powerful witch so she probably put the flames out quickly enough to not suffer any burns. Worst case scenario is that the crowd got a brief look at her knickers." Harry nods and says
"I'm sure your right Neville. Thank you for your words." the blonde teen nods his head before the cannon goes off and Bagman announces
"And Now lets have Mr. Longbottom!" said boy goes walking towards the exit to the tent when he hears the dark haired boy say
"Good luck Neville." the other boy just nods in thanks and heads out. After hes gone the shadows rise up and out of them appears Adam Dracula who comes up next to his son and asks
"So do you have a strategy for the Ironbelly son?" Harry looks at his father and replies
"Yes. I think its time to show the old man and everyone else the power of Vamperic Elemental Magic. I will subdue the dragon using the very Earth itself, and when I have it down on its belly, bowed, as it should be, I'll walk into the nest, retrieve the golden egg, and then walk out without even a single speck of dirt upon my person." The blonde Vampire King smiles at this proclamation before quickly becoming serious and saying
"As much as I would love and be proud to see such a thing son, I'm afraid that you cannot do that. I have recently been Informed that there is a Spy of Tom within Hogwarts, and no its not Snape. If you show off your power like that now you may scare off the spy who will tell his master of how powerful you are, and in turn Tom may choose to go after Neville instead of you." the dark haired teen frowns at this as he hears the sounds of Neville trying to get past his dragon to get the egg, and says
"Very well father, I suppose I could just conjure titanium chains to wrap around the Dragon, and then use the Flame Freezing charm to stop any spouts of fire it sends my way." Adam nods at this and says
"A sensible alternative Hadrian. I must leave you now, but I will be watching from the Stands. Remember no matter what I will always be proud of you." and with that the man fades back into shadows and vanishes once more. After nearly half an hour Harry finally hears Bagman announce
"Longbottom has the egg! However It cost him Burns and Claw marks over half of his body!" Harry's resolve strengthens at that and 5 minutes later the cannon fires for the last time and Bagman says "And Our Final Champion Hadrian Dragonov!" as the dark haired teen comes out into the open rocky area, he sees the crowd of students from all 3 schools in the stands, then turns his eyes on the judges box and sees all the school heads, plus Bagman and Crouch, and sitting in the visitors section is his Father and Fleur's family.
Then he hears an ear piercing "RAWARRRRRRRR!" and turns to his adversary for the task. Standing at over 20 feet tall, and measuring in at 60 ft from nose to tail, starting at him with deep red eyes and weighing in at just over 4 tons, the Ukrainian Ironbelly cuts an intimidating figure. However Harry remains the picture of calm, as his wand slides into his hand from his wrist holster, and he levels it at the nesting mother as she fires off a gout of flames at him, however he silently casts the Flame-Freezing Charm and instead of the flames burning him they merely tickle.
He then begins to walk around the Dragon all the while Transfiguring stones into Titanium Chains that he begins to wrap around different parts of the Dragon's body, first the legs causing her to go down on her Knees, to which she fires off more flames at him, but again the Flame-Freezing Charm makes it tickle. He then wraps chains around her wings, and moves quickly so as not to waste time and misses getting hit with more flames, then proceeds to wrap the last Transfigured chain over her back, before concentrating really hard and Conjuring 2 more chains to go over her back, then turns towards her head.
She begins to flail about, attempting to break the chains and spewing flames all over, however Harry points his wand at the storm of flames and intones "Apa Furtuna!" as he fires off a geyser of Water from his wand straight into the flames, dousing them and causing steam to fall over the area, obscuring the view of all those watching. Hadrian seeing his chance to show off without actually showing off, since no on can see, puts his wand back in its holster and proceeds to chant lowly in Romanian while moving his hands in strange patterns, as the ground begins to rumble.
The crowd believing the rumbling is due to the dragons struggles become worried for the Dragonov heir. Back in the steam the dark haired teen finishes his chanting and says in a clear voice, eyes glowing with power, while moving his right hand in a motion like throwing a lasso, "Lanturi de pe Pamant!" and suddenly chains made of rock sprout from the ground and wrap around the dragons neck and mouth therefore mussling her, and pining her completely to the ground, the boy then takes his wand back out and transfigures the earthen shackles into the same metal as the rest of the chains, then casts another spell with his wand "Rafala de Vant!" and a gust of wind sweeps through the area blowing away all the steam, causing all the spectators to gasp as they see that he has the Ironbelly subdued, and they watch as he walks over to the clutch of eggs, picks up the golden one, then turns, Bows to the crowd and judges, and then heads to the medical tent.
However as he passes the bound dragon he stops and leans close to her and starts hissing lowly so no one can hear and says
$Pleasssse forgive me noble creature, but There wasss a falssse egg in your clutch that I needed to retrieve. Ressst easssy knowing that asss sssoon asss I passs through that flap over there, that your ressstraintsss will vanisssh.$ the dragon looks at him shocked as he begins walking away, she would never have expected in all her life to meet a speaker of the Serpent tongue. True to his promise as soon as Hadrian enters the medical tent the chains all around the Dragons body disappear. Right after entering the tent the Hogwarts resident Medi-Witch comes bustling over saying
"Lets have a look at you then Young man. I swear the people who thought up this tournament must be foolish, pitting teenagers against fully grown nesting mother dragons. Its ridiculous I tell you." the dark haired teen shakes his head and says
"I'm perfectly fine Madame, not even a spot of dirt. But by all means see for yourself." the woman runs a diagnostic spell on him and finds what he says to be true and says
"well thats a miracle, your the only one who escaped with no injury what so ever, even had some minor scrapes, the worst one tho was young Longbottom, the dragon burned over half his body and clawed the other half, its lucky they brought in more healers just for the tournament else I fear we'd of lost the last Longbottom." Harry nods at this and asks
"And what of Fleur Delacour?" the matronly witch points over to a bed with a screen around it and says
"Shes over there, she only suffered first degree burns, those will heal in a day or so with the cream I've given her." the boy nods his head and says
"thank you" and walks over to the bed Fleur is in and pulls back the screen, she looks at him and instantly smiles as he says "Hello beautiful. I hear you got away with only first degree burns. You see I told you you would do well." the blonde nods and replies
"Yes you were right, as always, and I would have walked away unscathed as you seem to have done, but I had not anticipated that the dragon would spout flames while asleep. Alas it burnt away half of my favorite skirt, and left burns on my legs before i put the flames out." as she pouts and harry chuckles at that before they hear Bagman's voice call out
"Will all the Champions who are able to please come out to receive their scores!" Harry helps Fleur to her feet and they head out of the Medical tent and join both Cedric who has half his face bandaged and Viktor, standing infront of the spectators and Judges again, Bagman then says
"Its time to give out the scores for the first task! Now each judge will score each champion from 1 to 10 and then the combined number will be your overall score. First we have the first Hogwarts champion Mr. Cedric Diggory who used a brilliant bit of Transfiguration to turn a rock into a dog to distract his dragon which worked until he was half way to the nest upon which the dragon turned its attention back on him and he suffered burns to his face, however he did retrieve his egg. So let the scores be seen." Crouch holds up his wand and a smokey number 7 appears, followed by Bagman himself who give him a 7, then Maxime who gives a 6, followed by Karkaroff who gives a 3, causing everyone to boo, and then Dumbledore who gives Cedric a 9. Bagman says
"Mr. Diggory has 32 Points! Next is Mr. Krum who used a Conjunctivitis Curse to blind his dragon. However his actions caused the dragon to destroy half of its real eggs therefor he will be docked points." Crouch gives a 5, Bagman gives a 5, Maxime actually gives a 6, Karkaroff gives a 10 unsurprisingly, and Dumbledore gives a 5. Bagman continues on
"Thats 31 Points to Mr Krumm. Next is miss Delacour, who enchanted her dragon to sleep, however when getting the egg the dragon snored and spouted flames and set her skirt on fire, but she kept calm and put the flames out quickly, now the scores." Crouch give an 6, Bagman gives an 8, Maxime gives an 8, Karkaroff gives a 2, which causes the Beauxbatons students the boo big time, and Dumbledore gives a nice 7 and Bagman Announces
"That ties Miss Delacour with Mr. Krum with 31 points. Next we have Mr. Longbottom who used Plant magics in an attempt to keep his dragon busy, however the Horntail quickly set the plants a blaze and proceeded to slash at him with its claws, the boy managed to avoid serious injury by jumping back just in time, he then attempted to use a summoning charm which only got him half caught in a gout of flames. However finally he managed to get the egg after levitating a boulder and dropping it on the dragons head knocking it unconscious. Now his scores." Crouch gives a 7, Bagman gives a 9, Maxime gives a sympathetic 8, while Karkaroff gives a 4, and Dumbledore gives a 9. "This gives Mr. Longbottom a score of 37, putting him in the lead!" the crowd roars at this. Bagman finishes up saying
"And Lastly we have Mr. Dragonov, who using impressive transfiguration skills, turned stones into metal chains and wrapped them around the dragon, then when he ran out of stones he Conjured the same chains to keep going, however there was a 5 minute widow after he doused a storm of Flames with a Geyser of Water, that nothing could be seen, however when the steam cleared he clearly had finished subduing the dragon, retrieved the egg and got out without even a mark on him." After this Crouch gives an impressed 10, Bagman gives a 10, Maxime gives a 10, Karkaroff gives a begrudging 6, and Dumbledore gives an 8. Bagman finishes saying
"That gives Hadrian Dragonov a score of 44, putting him in first place with a substantial lead. That concludes the first task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament! The second task will take place on February the 24th, and a word of advice to the Champions those eggs hold the clue to the next task. Until February 24th Everyone have a great rest of the year!" after that everyone begins to go their own ways, with Harry holding on to Fleur as they walk back towards the Beauxbatons carriage to rest, and so he can help her apply her burn cream to her legs and give her a nice massage to help her relax, however on their way there they are intercepted by 2 girls wearing Hogwarts robes.
One is wearing a Green tie with the Symbol of Slytherin house on it, shes blonde, 5'3, and from what the dark haired teen can see through her school robes is quite well endowed in the chest area and has a curvy figure, the second girl is wearing a Black and Yellow tie with the Symbol of Hufflepuff house, shes a strawberry blonde, with an even larger chest then the blonde next to her as can be clearly seen even through the school robes, and stands at 5'4. The two walk up to him and the blonde says
"Heir Dragonov, My name is Daphne Ophelia Greengrass, Heiress to the Most Ancient and Noble house of Greengrass." the Strawberry-blonde then speaks
"And I'm Susan Amelia Bones, Heiress on the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Bones." the dark haired boy nods his head and says
"Its a Pleasure to meet you ladies, what can we do for you?" Daphne replies
"Nothing right now. We just wanted to come and congratulate you on completing the first task." then Susan takes up the conversation
"We also wanted to say that we were very very impressed with how you handled that dragon. I've never seen someone take on a dragon and walk away with not even a hair out of place before." Fleur scowls at this, while Harry smiles and says
"We'll thank you Ladies, but I only did what I believed that my Father would do in my Place. However your congratulations are appreciated. Now if you'll excuse us, we're both very tired and my girlfriend needs to apply her burn cream to her legs." the two girls nod however before they walk off Susan says
"Heir Dragonov if its not to much trouble could you and your father meet with me and my Aunt this weekend? We have something to discuss with you that involves the House of Potter." Harry thinks about it a moment and the says
"Ofcourse, I shall inform my Father of this and he will contact your aunt Madame Bones about a time and place to meet." the strawberry blonde nods her head and the two girls walk off together back in the direction of Hogwarts. Harry and Fleur continue on to the coach and Fleur says
"My Love be careful around those 2 girls." the teen looks at her confused and she continues "I Don't trust them, I believe they have ulterior motives for approaching you. Please promise me that you will keep your guard up around them and not be lured away from me." Harry just chuckles and says
"You worry for nothing my Sliver rose. I love you, and nothing will ever change that. Those girls will never lure me from you, for my heart belongs to you. Now put them out of your mind, we have to get that cream on your legs." the blonde nods as they reach to coach, and go inside to rest.
Annnnd Cut. Well theres Chapter 5. I hope it was good. and as i said i introduced Susan and Daphne in this chapter even tho it was only short. Anway sorry this was a little late, i was writing up the final chapter for another of my stories. anyway next chapter is the Yule Ball, and Christmas/New Year Holiday. As always read and review. Until next time.