So here finally is chapter 8. Sorry it took so long but i was kind of procrastinating with it, Got distracted by reading other peoples stories and what not. In any case i got it done. next chapter will have a bit of an explination of magical vampires in this story as well as a glimpes into the wealth of the Dracula and Dragonov familes and will be a bit of a filler before chapter 10 which will be the 3rd task and the return of Voldemort. Anyway please enjoy this chapter.

"Crap"Human/Merpeople speech

"Damn"Human/Merpeople thoughts

"Accio"Spell spoken

"Morsmorde" Spell Thought/ Telepathy speech.

Chapter 8: Second Task

February 24th 1995, Hogwarts, Scotland

The Morning of the second task finds All the champions once again sitting in the great hall waiting to be taken to the black lake for the task, each one trying to prepare themselves for what lies ahead, all but one. Hadrian Dracula sits calmly, one might say regally, at a 5th table that he himself created for the entire Beauxbatons contingent to sit at, drinking a glass of warmed blood, sitting to his left is his fiancee and fellow champion Fleur, and standing behind them is the red-haired Captain of the Shadow Guard, and former spy for the Vampire King in Hogwarts, Cassius.

The reason for the 5th table, and the presence of Cassius is that after the students of Hogwarts read in the Daily Prophet about how he and his father were vampires, all but a few of the British Witches and Wizards began to ostracize not just him but all of Beauxbatons, with people like Karkaroff and Snape accusing Madame Maxime of blatantly keeping his heritage a secret. However through all the glares, and the looks of fear and disgust, as well as the insults thrown towards him from the students of Hogwarts and a few from Durmstrang, Harry has held his head up high and ignored them, however the few who dared to spit insults at Fleur were not so lucky, as many students, mostly pure-blood Slytherins and a few Ravenclaws, ended up in the hospital wing for multiple different reasons, none however have been stupid enough to attack him or any one close to him.

One good thing that has come from his outing as Prince of Vampires is that he and Neville have become great friends, as the young Longbottom heir proclaimed infront of all three schools that he didn't care what race Harry was, what mattered to him was the kind of person he was inside and that he was the Dracula Heir's friend no matter what, this earned him the dark haired teen's respect, another good thing was that after a short conversation with Susan the young red head accepted that he was a Vampire and that he'd never drink her blood without her permission, or use his vamperic hypnosis on her, and the two grew a bit closer.

Also the night after the article came out the dark haired teen got to witness just why his father has the title of King of Vampires and No-Life King. The two of them went to a gathering of the 5 covens of Britain and Ireland, called for by Adam himself. During the gathering of the Covens the blonde haired Vampire demanded to know who gave the coven leaders the ok to support Voldemort during the last war, however the answer they gave only sealed their fates.

They told their King that they made a group decision to join with the Human Dark Lord to take over the British Magical World to gain the rights they deserve as the wizard and witches betters, and that they weren't going to allow an order from in their words "the Usurper" of the Vampire throne to stop them. That answer got all of them slaughtered, his father tore into each and everyone of them with the Dracula ancestral sword, as well as his power over the shadows and the elements, painting the room in their blood, and absorbing their souls and powers into himself.

After the slaughter no vampire in any of the Covens exceeded the age of 400, and the blonde King placed 3 of his most trusted Elder Vampires, each in their 800's, in command of 3 of the Covens, the last 2 he took for himself and Hadrian, giving the teen command of the Scottish Coven while he himself took control of the Coven in London, however his little display did as it was supposed to, as news spread to all covens across the world that to disobey King Dracula means instant death.

Now we find the young Vampire heir just enjoying his morning, once again ignoring the mutterings and looks from the other 2 schools, before looking over to his blonde love and noticing that she looks worried he proceeds to ask her

"Whats wrong Silver rose? Are you still on edge about today's task?" the blonde looks at him and he can see real fear in her eyes as she says

"No Mon Amour I'm not worried about the task, the training from your father over the hols helped with that. No the problem is Gabrielle, Maman and Papa said that she wasn't in her bed this morning, and no one has seen her since she went to bed last night! I'm scared that one of those pure-blood bigots kidnapped her!" Harry places an arm around her and pulls her close and says

"Shh...shh its alright. I'm sure thats not the case." the blonde beauty looks up into his eyes and says

"How can you be certain?" the dark haired Vampire just smiles and says

"Because if that was the case the charms I placed on the bracelet I gave her for Yule would have alerted me instantly and I would have saved her within 10 seconds. No by the look on the face of our Headmistress and the twinkle in the eye of the fool Dumbledore I would hazard a guess that they've decided to use your sister as the thing you'll miss the most." this statement while easing her mind about her sister being kidnapped, also angers her that they would place her sister under a lake filled with Merpeople. After breakfast is done Dumbledore and the other school heads stand up and the old man says

"If everyone will follow my fellow heads and I down to the Black Lake, the second task shall begin in but 20 minuets." with that all 3 schools rise and follow all the teachers, school heads, as well as Bagman and a Red haired young man that they were told is Percy Weasley, who is Crouch's assistant and filling in for him because hes sick. After a short walk, everyone reaches the shore of the Black Lake to find a make-shift dock of sorts, the champions, school heads, Bagman, and Percy step onto the dock, while the schools and the visitors who have come to see the second task which include Fleur's parents, as well as Augusta Longbottom the grandmother of Neville, take a seat in conjured stands to watch.

Each of the Champions strip their clothes off to reveal bathing suits, with Cedric wearing yellow and black trunks and short sleeved shirt, Krum wearing something similar but completely red, and Fleur wearing a one piece powder blue Bathing suit, however its Harry that causes a reaction from everyone, the dark haired teen's clothes melt away to reveal only a pair of Black Mundane style Board shorts with the Dracula coiled dragon on his left short leg in blood red, and on his upper body is nothing, showing off his athletic and strong body, with 4 pack abs, and well defined bicep and pectoral muscles, and just the slightest bit of dark hair on his pale chest.

This attire causes all the girls from Beauxbatons and Hogwarts to blush, and the older witches watching to stare in awe at how fit the 14 year old is. Dumbledore clears his throat and casts the Sonorous spell and says

"Welcome to the Second Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament! In today's task the 5 champions have had someone irreplaceable taken from them last night, and those people rest at the bottom of the lake. Now each champion will have 1 hour to get to the village in the center of the lake, retrieve their hostage and return to this dock. For each minuet over the hour that they take points will be deducted. Now let the Second task begin!" he ends the spell and one by one each champion dives into the water, starting with Harry.

The Dark haired teen takes out a little snorkel from his shorts pocket and proceeds to transfigure it into a scuba tank and breathing mask, and then puts them on, the reason for this being that since he's half human he still has to breath in oxygen only not as much as a full fledged human, and once he has the two items on securely he begins swimming towards the Merpeople village. On the way he's attacked by Grindylowes, however using his control of the elements he freezes the water around them and turns them into Grindylowe-sicles, then as he enters the village he hears his father's voice in his head say

"Fleur is out my son, the Grindylowes attacked her and forced her to exit the lake or rise being eaten alive. You will have to save not only your hostage but Little Gabby as well." The dark haired teen just nods his head at this, and enters the Merpeople Village proper, and as he makes his way to where the hostages are kept he sees many Merpeople staring at him with fear and trepidation.

He swims over to the hostages and notices that his hostage is Susan, and next to her is Gabrielle, he moves over and first cuts the rope holding Susan to the structure with a clawed finger, and then as he moves over to do the same with Gabby, he gets surrounded by the Merpeople who place their tridents to his neck as one says

"Only one hostage may be taken by each champion. The young one stays until her Champion comes!" Harry sneers at the creatures and with but a thought sends them all flying away from him as he takes off the breather and uses the shadows from the lake floor to create a pocket of air around himself and says

"You dare to raise your weapons to the Prince of Vampires?! The little one's champion is her sister, however she will not be coming as the Grindylowes made that impossible. That little girl will be my sister-in-law someday so I will be taking her as well as my own hostage and theres not a damn thing you can do about it! Try to stop me and I will slaughter you're entire Village!" he then places the breather back on and drops the shadows, as the Merpeople back off in fear of the angry Vampire, he then cuts the rope holding Gabby and grabs her and Susan just as Cedric comes and saves Cho.

Harry swims to the surface of the lake with both of the girls and when they break the surface the girls finally react, taking in huge gulps of air, and shivering from the cold temperature of the lake, Gabby is speaking fast in french mostly thanking her future brother for saving her, while Susan just clings to the teen and says "Thank you Harry." the boy nods and then swims easily with the two back to the dock.

He easily lifts the two girls on to the dock with his vamperic strength then gets himself out of the water, each of them is them wrapped in towels and wool blankets to both dry them off and warm them up, Fleur comes over and grips her sister into a fierce hug and proceeds to apologize to her for failing to save her from the lake, but the little blonde waves off her apology and tells her its ok because Harry saved her, while thats happening Susan is giving the dark haired Vampire Prince a kiss on the cheek and thanking him again for getting her out of the lake, before letting herself be dragged off to Madame Pomfrey to get a pepper up potion and then head back to the castle to get changed out of her wet clothes by her best friend Hannah Abbot.

Harry then casts off the blanket and towel, before wrapping himself in shadows, and when they recede hes dry and wearing a red Mundane business suit with a black tie and as he turns around to walk over to his Fiancee and her family he instead walks right into a passionate kiss from Fleur, to which he wraps his arms around the beautiful blonde's waist pulling her closer to himself, and kisses her back just as passionately, and after about 10 minuets of this they hear a throat clear and stop to turn and see that it was Dumbledore who cleared his throat as the old man says

"I think thats quite enough. I believe that such acts of young love should be done in private." Harry however laughs and says

"I think that your just jealous because you don't have anyone to love you anymore old man." this causes Fleur to giggle, and the old man to fume silently, however before he can respond to the accusation, Adam Dracula appears from nowhere and clasps his son on the shoulder and says

"Good work my son. You saved 2 hostages and managed to scare the Merpeople into submission with but a small demonstration of your powers. I would say that your well on your way to learning how to be a King." this causes the dark haired teen beams slightly at his father's praise,

before the man turns to Dumbledore and says "As for you Albus. You are a true fool you know that? Placing not only the niece of the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and current Regent of the Noble and Ancient house of Bones in the lake but also to place the younger daughter of the Head of French Law Enforcement and current front runner for the position of French Minister for Magic in the lake as well. I hope that you're ready for the proverbial shit storm that is about to reign down on your head, especially from Jean seeing as you did not have his or his wife's permission to use her as a hostage. Not to mention his daughter is Half-Veela and the conflict between the Veela and Merpeople Nations is legendary. If my son hadn't of saved young Gabriel then she very well could have been killed by the Merpeople as a message to the Veela Nation, and then you'd have an international incident on your hands."

Albus almost pales at this information, however he keeps his composure and responds "I assure you King Dracula that I would never have allowed any harm to come to any of the hostages from the Merpeople. As for not having the permission of the younger miss Delacour's parents, Madame Maxime assured me that she had attained their permission to use the young lady as her sister's hostage, if that was in error then it should be taken up with the Beauxbatons headmistress and not myself. As for Amelia, I think when she sees the magically binding permission form that Susan filled out to be your son's hostage that she will have no problems with it."

the blonde then steps up close to the old man so that only he can hear his next words and says "You believe you have it all figured out don't you boy? Lay the blame for Gabrielle's taking on the french headmistress, and then try to placate Amelia by showing her a permission form that is not worth the paper its printed on. However you forgot something of importance, Susan is only 14 years old and thus cannot sign any legal forms or documents without her guardian's permission or presence. And since Legally and Magically, Amelia Bones is the guardian of Susan Bones, that means your usual excuse of acting In Loco Parentis, wont fly. Quite simply you broke the law, try to worm your way out of that." and with that he steps away from the old man as the last champion, Neville, appears with his hostage, as he walks over to his son and the Delacour family and proceeds to lead them away to await the scores for the second task, leaving a visibly pale Albus Dumbledore to realize he may have messed up.

After all the champions have been dried off and warmed up, and had any wounds patched up, Bagman once again uses the Sonorous charm to enhance his voice and says

"I will now announce the champion's scores for the second task! First we have Cedric Diggory who through use of the Bubblehead Charm managed to rescue his hostage and return to the dock in 50 Minuets, thus earning him a score of 40 points putting his total for the tournament up to 72 Points! Next is Hadrian Dracula who through use of Transfiguration turned a simple snorkel into a Muggle Diving device and rescued not only his hostage but Miss Delacour's as well, and returned with both in 57 Minuets, thus earning him 35 Points giving him a grand total of 79 points!

Next we have Mr. Krum who used an unfinished form of Human Transfiguration to rescue his target, however as he arrived back at 1 hour and 10 minuets, which is a full 10 minuets outside of the time limit Mr Krum is only awarded 30 points bringing his total to 61 Points! Then is Miss Fleur Delacour who was the first to arrive back, however it was without her hostage as the Grindylowes forced her to retreat, she is awarded 20 points bringing her total to 51 points!

And lastly is Mr. Longbottom who using Gillyweed managed to save his hostage and return with her in 1 hour and 23 minuets, but as he was 23 minuets outside of the time limit we award him 25 points giving him 62 total points! And with that the 2nd task of the Tri-Wizard tournament is over. The 3rd and Final task of the tournament will take place on June the 24th so until then we wish you all a good day!" Then he casts a Finite and ends the spell.

After that everyone goes their own ways, with the Delacour/Dracula group in particular heading towards Madame Maxime to get an explanation as to why Gabrielle was used as a hostage, when they reach the half-giant woman the first to speak is Jean-Claude Delacour who says

"Headmistress Maxime a word s'il vous plait." the woman turns to the group, smiles and responds

"But ofcourse Seigneur Delacour. What can I do for you?" the man looks at her with anger in his eyes and says

"Why was it my Youngest daughter was used as a hostage? Better yet why weren't myself nor my wife consulted about it or asked our permission to have her used as such?" the Beauxbatons Headmistress rears back at this as if she had been slapped and responds

"I do not know what you are talking about Seigneur Delacour, Dumbly'dor assured me that we had your permission to use Gabrielle for a hostage after I brought up my concerns about the war between the Veela and Merpeople Nations. In fact he showed me the permission slip with yours and Dame Delacours signatures." while she is saying all this Adam Dracula is reading her mind to see if she's lying, when he sees that everything shes saying is to her knowledge true, however he can see the telltale signs that a memory charm has been performed on her to alter her memories, specifically of the conversation with Dumbledore about using Gabrielle Delacour as a hostage.

And before Jean can respond back the blonde vampire speaks up and says

"She's speaking the truth Jean. I've read her mind and to her knowledge and memories everything she said happened." the man looks at his friend incredulously but when he sees him just smile mirthlessly he lets it go, sighs and says

"I see, well then I apologize for my words Madame Maxime. However I can assure you that the Signatures that Dumbledore showed you did not belong to myself or my Lady, they were in fact forgeries which I will be investigating. In the future when looking at a legal document for my Younger daughter be sure that you make sure the signature truly belongs to Myself or Apolline." the huge woman nods her head and replies

"Ofcourse. Please forgive me for my error, as I trusted my fellow school head, but I promise you in the future I shall not be so trusting." she then looks to Gabrielle and says "Gabrielle, s'il vous plait pardonnez mes actions en vous utilisant comme un otage. Si cela vous a affecte negativement en aucune maniere, vous pouvez jeter tout le blame sur moi.(Gabrielle, please forgive my actions in using you as a hostage. If this has affected you negatively in any way then you may lay all blame on me.)" the little blonde half Veela just smiles and responds

"Tout va bien madame Maxime. Je suis arrive a etre sauve par mon frere Harry, si cela fonctionnait bien pour moi.(Its alright madame Maxime. I go to be saved by my brother Harry, so it work out fine for me.)" at this everyone just chuckles, realizing that being saved by Harry was the highlight of her little life thus far, and said teen just bends down and places a light kiss to the 8 year olds cheek and says

"Your welcome Gabby." which causes her to beam and her sister and mother to giggle. After this everyone breaks apart, with the Delacours and Harry heading towards the Beauxbatons coach, while Adam Dracula begins heading towards Hogwarts Castle, which Harry notices and asks

"Father why are you going towards Hogwarts?" the blonde man turns to his son and smiles and says

"I have an old promise to collect from a certain witch. Don't wait for me son, go and celebrate with your fiancee. I assure you that you will see me again tomorrow." the teen looks confused at this and says

"Why will I see you again tomorrow?" Adam smirks and says

"Because tomorrow you are going to be Joining me at Gringotts London branch tomorrow for an accounting of our vaults in that branch. Its time for you to take a more active role in learning what is to be a King, starting with how we make our money." the teen nods as the man pats his shoulder one more time and then turns to continue his trip to the castle, while Harry turns to continue his trip to the coach with a slight bit of excitement for finally getting to find just how wealthy both the houses of Dracula and Dragonov are, along with possibly getting an accounting of the Potter Family vaults.

Annnd Cut! Well theres chapter 8. As i said before sorry that it took me so long. Next chapter will be a visit to Gringotts followed by a bunch of other filler stuff, including Dumbles getting slapped with a lawsuit for Altering the memories of a foriegn head of school. Anway as always read and Review. Until next time.