Chapter Three; The Den of Dragons

"Eve, it's not that I don't trust you or anything but are you sure about this?" Jerry questioned her with uncertainty while he swung his leg over her broomstick.

"Sure, I'm a witch aren't I?" she questioned him back.

"Yeah, the only problem is that I'm not." He told her.

"Don't worry Jerry, you're about to have the ride of your life." She began with a wide grin. "Now just wrap your arms around me and hold on tight." She told him as he quickly grabbed ahold of her before they shot up towards the sky. "Woohoo!" Eve cried excitedly while Jerry shut his eyes tightly.

"Am I dead yet?" he wondered as Eve giggled.

"Of course not! Far from it in fact. C'mon Jerry, open your eyes and see for yourself." She told him as he slowly opened one eye and then the other. Sure enough they were soaring high up into the sky towards the clouds. Eve tilted her body to the side while she turned her broom. "Isn't it great? Don't you just love the wind rushing through your hair?" she questioned him as he smiled a little bit.

"Yeah, I guess so. It must be a really exciting thing to be a witch." He said.

"It's the best!" she exclaimed before she glanced over at him. "But of course there is nothing wrong with being a muggle or a squib either." She told him.

"What's a squib?" he asked her.

"It's a nonmagical person born to at least one magical parent. They're very rare though." She explained.

"Oh." He said as she guided the broomstick through the cloud. "So where exactly are you taking us?" he questioned her as she grinned slyly and mischievously.

"You'll see." She told him while they continued gliding through the sky together.

….

A little while later they landed back on the ground. "You know my mother had her first kiss on a broom. That was with Harry's biological father though not mine." Eve said when all of a sudden they ran into Jessie.

"Eve? What are you doing here? You don't even work here." She said.

"I know. It's just that I brought Jerry here because I figured that he would want to see it." Eve told her as Jessie leaned her head in towards them.

"You brought a muggle here with you!? Do you know that not only could you be risking his safety, but going against the wizarding law for the exposure of our world!?" she whispered quietly but Jerry still managed to hear her.

"But I already know about witches and wizards. My little sister's a witch." He told her.

"There, you see now Jessie? He already knows and he's not going to tell anybody so I would really appreciate it if you didn't either." Eve said before she grabbed ahold of Jerry's hand and started dragging him away. "Now c'mon Jerry." She said before he could get another word in edgewise. Jessie folded her arms and shook her head while she watched them.

"Harry is not going to like this." She said to herself.

"Wait a minute Eve, where are you taking me?" Jerry asked her.

"You'll see." She told him but before he could have the chance to see anything, he heard it instead. For there came a triumphant roar from inside the distance and a puff of fire and smoke rose into the air. Jerry gulped and felt his heart racing against his chest while Eve led him over to the fence. Then they both climbed up onto the bottom railing and looked over at a couple of male Hungarian Horntails fighting with each other.

"Are those dragons?" Jerry questioned even though he was pretty sure that he already knew the answer as Eve grinned and nodded her head.

"Yep." She told him.

"Then shouldn't we go get someone and let them know that they're fighting?" he asked her as she gave out a rather large gasp and quickly turned her head over to look at him.

"What!? No! Of course we can't! You heard Jessie, you're not even supposed to be here!" she exclaimed.

"Yes but Eve, it looks like they could wind up killing each other. And I know for a fact that if Harry was here he would definitely say something about it." He told her as she took a deep breath and sighed heavily. Although she hated admitting it, but she knew that he was right. Even though she knew that dragons usually settled their differences she didn't want to take the chance as she saw one of the males leap on top of the other one and slashing his claws in the side of the other male's face.

"Alright,.." Eve admitted reluctantly with another sigh before she leapt back down onto the ground. That's when the Horntail that was on top of the other one stopped and looked at her while he sniffed the air and started to growl at her while she walked away. Jerry gasped and felt his heart once again pounding frantically against his chest while the Horntail swished his tail from side to side. Although Jerry didn't know that much about the wizarding world, he knew that Eve didn't have the proper dragon training like Harry did.

The Horntail let out another roar and blew out a jet of fire inside her direction. "Eve! Look out!" Jerry cried as he chased after her and knocked her over onto the ground and landed on top of her.

"Jerry! What are you doing!?" Eve yelled while pushing him away from her.

"Saving your life!" he told her while he reached his hand down to her and offered it to her. "Need a hand?" he asked her as she slowly reached out her own hand towards it and grabbed ahold of it before he pulled her to her feet.

"Thanks. I'm sorry that I yelled at you I just thought that_" she began.

"Don't worry about it. Let's just get out of here before somebody catches us." He told her as they both turned around and saw David standing there in front of them folding his arms and glaring at them.

"Oh, it's a little too late for that." He said.