Hey guys, extremely sorry for the very long delay in updating this but its been the same for all my stories.

First i had exams, then i had a fieldtrip for a week, then i was moving out of halls to go back home and then to top it off my laptop got infected with like 30 trojans! It was completely ridiculus.

Hopefully i'll update quicker next time. Hope you enjoy!

Unfortunately for Harry, who also wished he wasn't doing the tournament, it seemed that although the Gryffindors supported him completely. The rest of the school though was supporting Cedric and the other two schools weren't feeling too friendly towards him either.

To make matters worse he and Ron had a fight and weren't speaking to each other, due to this he spent a lot of time with Hermione when she wasn't with Ron, and the exorcists. He could understand why Kanda had been so mad that Lavi and Yana had entered his name, especially since they only found out they could enter the tournament the day the goblet was revealed.

"What happened to you guys?" asked Harry shocked when he saw Lavi and Yana. They looked like someone had dragged them through a thorn bush with all those scratches. Yana pouted and pointed miserably to Kanda who was smirking.

"Kanda got his revenge for us entering his name," she moaned. "I don't know why he was so mad! He's perfectly fine with the idea now!" Allen rolled his eyes and placed a couple more plasters on Lavi who kept flinching every time he put one on.

"The only reason he's not complaining now is because it gave him an excuse to beat up you two," explained Allen. "And now he's thought about it, he realises that it'll be more fun than being bored in classes- Lavi stop flinching, it doesn't hurt that much!"

In other news Hagrid had brought these creatures called Blast-Ended Skrewts which Yana found absolutely fascinating much to Allen's dismay, he really hoped she didn't want to keep one as a pet although he did turn a blind eye when she and Lavi locked one in Cross's office.

There was also the annoyance of the Slytherins all wearing 'Potter stinks' badges and they kept rubbing it in Harry's face too, luckily Kanda was pretty much left alone in terms of him being a champion, it was a good thing because it likely would have resulted in a long hospital stay if someone had bugged him about it. But everyone at Hogwarts had learnt by now how quick he was with that katana of his, the other two schools were quick to learn after a few girls from Beauxbatons tried to flirt with him.

It wasn't until Colin Creevy came to take Harry to the wand weighing ceremony that the exorcists realised taking part in this tournament without blowing their cover might be a bit harder than they thought.

"Wand weighing?" whispered Lenalee to Hermione urgently as Harry left the classroom. "What's that?"

"Oh, the champion's wands are inspected to make sure they're in working order," Hermione explained. "It wouldn't be fair if one champion was at a disadvantage because of their wand."

Yana, Allen and Lenalee exchanged horrified looks. The exorcists couldn't use magic and therefore didn't have wands… how the fuck were they going to explain that?

"And where have our exchange students gone?" asked Snape. Hermione spun round to find that their seats were empty and all their things were gone, she gaped in disbelief, they'd been there a few seconds ago.

The three exorcists were at that minute discretely following Harry to the classroom where the wand weighing was to be held. Hopefully someone would have an idea of what they were suppose to do about this.

"Crap, crap, crap!" moaned Yana. "We're so screwed! Why did Dumbledore allow us to enter when he knows we can't do magic?"

"We're in so much trouble!" howled Allen. "This is a magical contest, what are we going to do?"

"I'm sure Dumbledore will have sorted something out," said Lenalee hopefully as they followed behind Harry. Then they crashed right in to Lavi who was coming from the opposite direction, luckily Harry had already entered the room so he didn't notice them all piled up on the floor.

"Lavi, what are you doing here?" asked Lenalee rubbing her head. The red head raised an eyebrow and snorted.

"Following Kanda to see what they do about this wand weighing thing," he said. "I assume you were following Harry so you knew where it was." The younger three smiled sheepishly and nodded.

"But damn! We really didn't think about this when we entered Kanda!" moaned Yana. "How is he going to explain not having a wand?" They all jumped up and put their ears to the door, hopefully they weren't going to blow their cover, exorcists still don't really have a good reputation amongst other people.

Meanwhile, inside the room Kanda was glad that Skeeter woman was so interested in Harry, almost as soon as he entered the room she dragged him off for an 'interview'. He wasn't sure he would have been able to hold back attacking her with his katana if she'd tried the same on him. The Japanese teen glowered moodily at Cross who was lounging in a chair and billowing enough smoke for an industrial chimney.

"So what is this all about anyway?" he grumbled. "What do they want us for now?"

"It's the Wand Weighing ceremony," Cross grunted. "Suppose to make sure the champions' wands are working properly so no one can complain about being at a disadvantage." Kanda raised an eyebrow.

"I'm an exorcist, I don't have a wand," he said bluntly. Cross paused for a moment.

"Hmm… we'll just have to wing it then."

At that moment Dumbledore entered followed by a relieved looking Harry, Skeeter on the other hand looked a bit put out, Kanda scowled as she eyed him up and fingered his katana until she got the message and looked away. He watched with slight interest as Ollivander tested each wand and stiffened when the creepy man turned to him.

"And now for Mr Kanda," said Ollivander looking expectantly at him. Kanda glanced at Cross who sighed heavily and got up from his chair.

"Kanda has already been checked to our school's standards," he told him. "You don't need to inspect him." The old man raised an eyebrow and turned to Dumbledore who smiled.

"Their school is rather unorthodox I'm afraid," the Headmaster said cheerfully ignoring everyone's curious stares. "If Professor Cross says that Mr Kanda is up to their standards then we'll have to leave it at that, they're understandably reluctant to let others inspect their methods."

Although Kanda was grateful that it had been solved without too much hassle it had made everyone extremely curious about their school now, even worse that Skeeter was here and it would probably get published in the paper.

"I still don't see why his wand can't be checked like everyone else's?" huffed Fleur. Cross smirked and blew a plume of smoke in her face.

"Maybe you'll understand after the first task."

Kanda spun round to glare at the door as he heard laughter, he quickly yanked it open and glared as the four exorcists who'd been listening through the door fell through.

"What are you idiots doing?" he growled as Cross sauntered over looking smug.

"Haha… we were curious," laughed Yana. "We wanted to see how you did." The other three on the floor rolled their eyes and sighed.

"Yana you were supposed to make up some excuse," moaned Lenalee as they picked themselves up. "Now we're busted."

"Oh you were busted anyway," said Cross raising an eyebrow. "Any excuse you came up with would have been obviously silly."

Harry was still staring at them in surprise, these students from B.O. Academy were so weird! For one they seemed incredibly laid back about everything and their teachers didn't seem to care about what they got up to as long as they didn't get completely screwed. The whole thing about Ollivander not checking Kanda's wand was weird too, Fleur had a point when she said that checking his wand wouldn't reveal their methods if that was why they were being so secretive.

Having said that he could recall seeing any of them ever use a wand, the only classes he shared with them didn't require one and he'd never seen them practise any spells. He blinked in disbelief for a moment, could it be that they actually didn't have wands and were trying to cover it up? But then how did they do magic?

Kanda was very glad the next morning that he seemed to have sufficiently scared Rita Skeeter into not poking around for information on him, the article she wrote was horrendous and he was starting to feel sorry for Harry because she seemed to have some obsession with him. They could tell just by the look on his face that he hadn't said any of those things and that he really didn't like all the attention he was getting from the tournament.

Fortunately it was a Hogsmeade weekend so the exorcists could finally get some research done without interference from the other students. Miranda had been doing most of the research so far, so as you can imagine not much had been done and the poor woman had finally been banned from the library due to the chaos she seemed to cause every time she went. It didn't really help that they had no idea where to start looking and no Akuma had attacked in the time they'd been here that might help pinpoint a general location.

Since Miranda had now been banned from the library so the five younger exorcists were searching in there today while Cross did 'research' in Hogsmeade. Basically he has getting piss drunk and chatting up women, even though he called it intelligence gathering.

Krory and Miranda had also gone to Hogsmeade but this was because the younger exorcists thought it might be better to have someone that was sober there just in case Akuma attacked while everyone was visiting.

"Urgh! This is hopeless!" cried Allen dropping his head onto the table.

"Shhh! The scary librarian lady will throw us out!" hushed Lavi. Lenalee shuddered, Madame Pince was one scary woman and partly the reason why Miranda had had so many accidents there.

"But this is pointless," said Yana reasonably. "We have no idea where to start looking and we don't even know for sure that there is Innocence here or whether the Akuma just attacked here by chance!" Kanda grunted in agreement and continued flipping through the book he'd picked up.

"If they attack again it's more likely that there's Innocence here," he muttered. "Until we find some evidence we're just chasing rumours." Lenalee sighed heavily and closed her book.

"There's barely any rumours to begin with," she murmured. "With magic involved it's nearly impossible to tell what's classed as unusual."

Yana huffed in frustration and slammed her book shut and stalked off towards the doors.

"I'm exploring the grounds," she said. "I need a break from the books and who knows, maybe I'll find something out there."

Allen hesitated for a moment before jumping up and running after her, the other three looked up briefly before deciding to continue reading, after all they were more likely to find a clue about the Innocence somewhere her than romping around outside.

Yana and Allen spent a few hours just walking around the castle, the lake and the quidditch pitch, this place was just huge! It was starting to get dark by the time they finished and everyone had come back from Hogsmeade, they were about to go back to the castle when Allen noticed a glow in the Forbidden forest.

"I thought people weren't allowed in the forest," said Yana frowning. "So what's glowing?" They exchanged looks before grinning and running into the trees.

"It would be stupid not to check it out," reasoned Allen. "After all it could be Innocence, that glows." They stopped abruptly when a roar reverberated through the trees. They both gulped nervously and glanced back towards the castle.

"Umm… that wasn't your stomach… right?" asked Yana fidgeting. He glared at her slightly and pouted. "Fine I know it wasn't you. I'm just dreading meeting whatever it is."

"It seems to be in the same direction as the glow… are we still going to check it out?" he asked. She shrugged.

"Might as well, the others will kill us if we leave now." They continued forward with more caution now and eventually heard voices up ahead making them slow down again and take to the trees so they wouldn't be discovered.

Yana ran into Allen's back as he stopped suddenly and started whimpering.

"Allen? What's wrong?" she asked worriedly. He pointed a shaking hand forward and she peered round him to see what the fuss was about, her eyes immediately widened.

"Oh shit! Kanda is going to kill us!" she whispered.

"What do you mean us? It's you and Lavi that entered him!" protested Allen.

"That's who I meant by us, oh damn we're going to die!" she moaned.

Dragons. Bloody huge fire breathing dragons.

Kanda was going to have a bloody fit.

"Do you think any of them are venomous?" asked Allen curiously. She groaned and dropped her head.

"Don't! You're making it worse!" she moaned. "Does Innocence even work against dragons?"

"Ah… he's so screwed."

They crept back into the main hall and sunk down at the Gryffindor table moodily.

"Hey, did you two have fun outside?" asked Lavi grinning at them. They both glared at him and started eating glumly. "What's wrong?"

"We think we found the first task," mumbled Allen poking a potato. They all stared.

"Well what is it?" asked Lenalee eagerly. "How did you find out?"

"We were exploring the forest," Yana told them. "So we found out by accident."

"It's dragons," blurted out Allen.

"What?" asked Kanda. They all squirmed slightly, he sounded way too calm about this.

"Dragons, they've got you all a dragon each," said Yana. "I think you have to fight them or something." Lavi paled and jumped up dragging Yana with him.

"I'm getting out of here before he blows up," he yelled. "He's gonna really kill us this time!" Lenalee and Allen turned to stare at Kanda who was frowning down at his plate.

"Are you ok Kanda?" asked Lenalee looking worried.

"Akuma are worse than dragons," he said starting to eat.

"So you're not going to chase after Lavi and Yana?" He smirked evilly.

"I'll let them panic for a while." Allen looked nervous.

"So what are you going to do about the dragon?" he asked.

The look on Kanda's face was positively feral, pity the poor dragon that got paired off with Kanda.

Yay finally a new chapter!

Again sorry for the long delay, but its finally here!

Hmm... what should Kanda do to the dragon?

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