Over the month that it took for Severus to work with Charlie Weasley over Floo, Lex and Mia would spend more time at the hut than they previously had, never slowing in their studies though, just doing them in the hut. Lex and Sofia would talk all the time, he would translate both ways and Mia became close to the dragon also, carrying her on her shoulder when she was small still. But as she was young, magical, and going to end up huge, Sofia was quickly growing too large.

It was the day before Hagrid would leave, and this Friday Professor Quirrell had cancelled class, so Lex and Mia had rushed straight down to the hut after their Herbology class, finding the man outside, loading up his crossbow, "Hey there, what are you two doing down here? Don't you have class?"

"Nope, Professor Quirrell cancelled and we finish with a break so we're free until Monday now. Where you going with the crossbow?" Lex asked as he hopped onto a log.

"Found a dead unicorn in the forest, something had killed it, an abomination to kill something as pure as a unicorn but whatever it was drained its blood, the ultimate crime," Hagrid told the pair.

Hermione's eyes flared up, "We're coming with you."

The large man was about to fight her, until he looked into her eyes and gulped, "Right. Stick together and take Fang, he'll find me if something happens."

The pair happily hugged the large boarhound that raced around the corner, before following Hagrid into the trees. At an obvious fork in the path they stopped, the two kids with their wands out and Hagrid with his crossbow at the ready, a quiver of arrows sticking out from a pocket, "Stay on the path, and you had both better be back at my cabin in 2 hours or I will have Snape in here."

"Right" "2 hours," neither Gryffindor wanting to incur the wrath of the potions master.

And they split up, Hagrid going left, the duo and a drooling Fang going right. The further they went in, the darker it became, eventually forcing the tweens to light up their wands. Mia's watch showed that they had been walking for 30 minutes when both of them bent over in pain at the evil that flooded over them. The air had been knocked out of their lungs, but when he had air again Lex groaned, "I think we're near."

"You think Lex?" The witch coughed out.

Much more on alert, the pair went deeper, towards the evil even though common sense would have had them running the other way. It wasn't too far before they found the cause of the evil. They walked into a clearing and saw a unicorn laying on its side, a figure hunched over it, the silver-blue blood creating a small puddle.

As soon as Hermione saw that the unicorn was still alive, she attacked the figure, drawing on the puddles of murky water as she had done with the taps against the troll. Pummelling the person with balls of liquid, she called to her friend, "Lightning Lex!"

The wizard brought forth a supply of bolts, having practiced to create more than one at a time, and began shooting them at the retreating figure. He knew he hadn't hit him, but had revealed it was a man who had attacked the unicorn. Keeping guard, he asked the witch, "How's the unicorn?"

While Lex had been throwing his bolts, Hermione had knelt by the magical horse and attempted to save her, speaking to her calmly as she did, "It's okay, I'll make everything better. Don't move."

The unicorn looked into her saviour's eyes and spoke weakly, "I am not to make it. Please, keep my foal safe, he is special. I hid him in the brush nearby."

"I promise," Hermione said softly, tears flowing down her face as the unicorn drew her final breath.

"Mia?" Lex knelt next to his friend and saw that the innocent creature was dead, "Oh Mia, I'm so sorry."

The witch stood and went into the brush, speaking to her friend to explain, "She has a foal, I need to find him, I promised to care for him."

Hearing that, the wizard assisted, searching on the other side. He found the scared foal, huddled in a hollowed out tree, so called for Hermione, "Mia, I found him."

Hermione raced to where her friend was and knelt in front of the tree. Reaching out, she gently ran her fingers along the foal's neck, "Little one, it's safe now."

Slowly, the foal brought his head out of hiding, showing the two demigods that he could not be any more than a few days old, and he locked eyes with Hermione, "Where's my mummy?"

"I'm sorry sweetie, she was hurt really bad by a bad man, but I promised her that I would take care of you. Would you like that?"

Cautiously the foal moved from the tree hollow, which was when the tweens realised he truly was special. Sprouting from just behind his front legs were a pair of feathered wings, not very large as he was only small, but intriguing the pair greatly. Standing only 2 feet, with a pure gold coat and wings with black hooves and horn nub, and the most innocent sea blue eyes, the foal was amazing.

He tentatively shook out his body and stepped forward, nuzzling Hermione, "Mummy called me Nye. Who are you?"

"I'm Hermione and this is Alexander, but you can call us Mia and Lex if you want," the witch rose and smiled down at the foal before turning to talk to Lex, "His name is Nye."

Knowing that all horses were able to understand their country's native language, a fact he learnt from his friend, Lex knelt down and smiled at the little foal, "Hey there Nye. Do you want to come with Mia and I?"

Nye nudged the boy hard enough to knock him onto his butt, bringing laughs from the two demigods and a snickering whinny from the horse. The trio slowly began to walk back to Hagrid's, Fang running off at Lex's order. Every so often, Nye would flutter his wings a little, taking his feet barely an inch from the ground, but bringing laughter from them all.

They were about halfway back when the demigods sensed another presence. Not knowing whether good or bad, Hermione had her wand out, protecting Nye, while Lex had a crackling lightning bolt in one hand, his wand in the other. They could hear twigs cracking, heading towards them, and when the sound maker appeared, he wasn't what they were expecting.