A/N: A Centaur Drabble for IndieWrites! She's kept my cabin fever to a minimum and has a hand in keeping me from sleeping nearly fifteen hours a day. Yeah, you guys have no idea how much your reviews mean to little ol' me, do you? I did this one while jamming with my Dad, who plays guitar as a hobby. You didn't know that and nor do you care! Eh. Enough blather! On with the story! Oh, and thanks for all the support for my latest, Plunny Zone.

DISCLAIMER: No matter how much I wave my wand, I will never own Sev and our favorite green-eyed Wizard. *sobs*

WARNING: Yaoi is an important part of these. Please desist in flaming.

-Ryder

P.S. There may be more than one title that gets a continuation; Dragon's Might, Dragon's Might II... etc.

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Hooves drummed the hard-packed ground as Harry fled the hunting humans.

"Dionysis, this is really not good!" he panted as he hid in a grove. His horse half trembled as the exhaustion hit him full-force. "Please, I don't want to die..." A divine presence brushed his shoulders before he slumped down in relief as the hunters lost his scent. "Whew! Humans aren't so nice."

"Hmph. Did you expect them to be?" Harry looked up to see another stallion, this one also an ebony, with shoulder-length hair braided through with feathers and seashells.

"Well... I know a family of Wizards who aren't so bad."

"Wizards? You consort foolishly." Harry stuck out his tongue and stood shakily, intending to go.

"I didn't have a herd to tell me all that, now did I?" he snapped caustically, flicking his tail and turning away from the obviously rogue stallion. "I was dumped out in the middle of a field." He snorted sharply and poked his head out of the glade for a moment. "They're gone. I'm sorry for bothering you, oh great one."

Harry mock-bowed, shifted his satchel and was about to trot down the hill when he heard a cough. "Perhaps we got off on the wrong hoof... I notice you carry an herbalist's satchel."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing. I am, however, greatly injured by the hunters you fled earlier." Now Harry saw the right forehoof was off the ground, dripping blood from a deep wound. Harry gasped and knelt, taking off his satchel to dig through it. A canteen, some soft bandages, and an herb tinicture were the first items out. He reflexively reached for the hoof, looking up as he did so.

"May I? Sorry, my Healer training takes over whenever I see an injury." he says with a small smile.

"Do as you see fit." was the aloof reply as the other Centaur allowed him to touch the wounded limb.

He closed his eyes and concentrated, Healing the worst of the damage with his Earth Magik. After that the wound wasn't so bad and Harry wrapped it up with the herb tinicture, tightening the bandage with a dash of his personal Magik. "There, you should be able to run for quite some time on that. Where are you going?"

"I wander from forest to glade; humans are avoided at all costs. The other Centaurs tend to leave me in peace. I stay and sleep with the Unicorns."

"You mean-"

"No, foolish colt. I keep my body free of such entanglements. It is why I can stay with the Unicorns. That and I am Goddess-Blessed."

"Can I join you?" Harry internally cursed his own curiousness. "That's why the hunters didn't follow us..."

"Indeed. Milady's one they revere and this grove is sacred to those of us under Her wing. It seems She has taken a liking to you. You may join me on one condition; keep that inquisitive trap of yours shut."

"Inquisitive trap? I've barely spoken a hundred words to you."

"A hundred and twenty, to be exact. I suppose that isn't too bad." Harry huffed and crossed his arms.

"Fine." He whirled and turned in the opposite direction, trotting at a fair pace through the deeper part of the glade.

"I am not used to conversation."

"Really? You're a curmudgeon of the worst kind. Go away." now Harry was in a mulish mood, not intent on any sort of company.

"You Healed me."

"I've had ungrateful folk before. You're not the first." he shot back, increasing his pace to a canter. "I meant it." The stallion cut him off, blocking him with his larger horse-half. "Get out of my way."

"My name is Severus." Harry froze mid-stride and stopped. "You're surprised?"

"You seem rather thick-headed... Severus. The name's Healer Hadrian; I prefer Harry." he capitulated, crossing his arms and staring at the other Centaur with censure. "Now, are we even?"

"Of course, but our destination lies in that direction. Go any further and you'll encounter a cursed lion."

"Huh. Alright, but if you're that callous again? I'm handing you your haunches on a silver platter."

"Understood."

-PoV-

The feisty Healer was a surprisingly good travel companion. The Unicorns adored the bratty colt, who had revealed that he was a full decade and a half younger. Not that it really mattered since Centaurs lived for quite a few centuries... Harry was currently chatting with a water nymph that he'd Healed.

"Oh, you're adorable together. Is he gentle?" Harry coughed, having swallowed too much air on his breath intake.

"What?"

"You are Mates, yes? I think it's romantic..."

"No! No, we're not. Why would you think that?"

"You bicker like a Mated pair. That and you two are always touching." High color touched the cheekbones of his companion. "You haven't noticed?"

"No..." Harry said with a strained smile. "Good day!"

"Go get 'im!" Harry fairly galloped out of her range.

"Crazy nymph." The Healer shook himself hard, as though getting rid of water from a bath. "Do we really act like that?"

"I wouldn't know. I've never been Mated. The females do not appreciate a rogue stallion's suit and the male herds will usually avoid the route I take."

"Wait. You're saying that it's possible for males to be Mated to one another?"

"Yes, Harry. It's unusual, yes, but not forbidden." Severus suddenly tugged Harry into the brush. "Shh." Harry peered out and muffled a gasp. A Centaur herd had gathered to dance, the lead stallion decked out with leaves and feathers in his tail and human hair. Beautiful, ethereal music sounded from the lute and reed players as each pair lined up and danced with a happy abandon. They slipped away, Harry's face rather thoughtful. "We should leave."

"Why?"

"That's my parent herd."

"Your Mum's in there?"

"Yes as well as my rival for Lily's affections. She had a foal some years ago, but lost the colt in a terrible storm that separated them."

"I thought I scented Severus..." He stiffened as he heard Lily's voice.

"Lils, you're- Hold up. There's a second scent that's familiar. Take another whiff..." They silently stood, barely breathing.

"Hadrian! But... Why would he be here with Severus?"

"The rogue makes a round of our lands every year. You know that."

"Must you call him that? He's still my best friend."

"I don't understand how you could defend him... He fled when we were attacked by Dementors!"

"Because you know his Father's one of them!" Lily hotly argued back. Harry looked at him with wide green eyes that remarkably looked like Lily's all of a sudden. But Harry wasn't Lily; he was his own Centaur and had grown up too fast. "This is supposed to be a day of celebration, James. Let's go back."

"I saw him."

"What?"

"I saw that rogue. He was here with another Centaur." The Healer shook and then, making a decision, fled as fast as his legs would carry him. Severus followed after, their hooves being joined by Lily and James. "Get back here!"

"Sev?" He slowed minutely, his hooves hitting the ground with less frequency. "Come on!" Harry whirled and grabbed his hand, looking at him for a moment before nodding. They flowed to a stop, facing the Mated pair together. "Hadrian?"

"Do I know you?" The suspicious gaze was exactly like Lily's; how had he not noticed that?

"I'm your Mother." The softer green eyes looked at Harry with hurt. "I know you don't remember me..."

"I was abandoned on the doorstep of a Healer. I don't remember anything before him." Harry snorted. "I was never allowed out of the compound."

"You were so curious... And adventurous. You got that from him." She nodded towards James, who looked at his son with disapproval. "James!"

"That's not our little one." Harry took a step back, shaking his head slowly.

"Severus, we're done here."

"I should think so. Lily, I am sorry."

Harry brooded as they headed for the Unicorns.

"My Father... He's not a very nice lead stallion, is he?" Severus snorted at the understatement.

"He and his band of 'friends' tormented me when I was younger. Eventually I was kicked out of the herd for retaliating back."

"Oh."

"What of you?"

"The human children found me a distraction to their pain. I spent long hours with dying patients and learnt of their lifestories. I appear to be immune to most, if not all, diseases. I asked to leave the compound when I reached the human age of seventeen. I've been on my own ever since."

"An odd life you have lead." Severus murmured as they trotted swiftly through the forest.

"Pfft, says the Centaur who sleeps with Unicorns and knows nearly every hiding place on this route of yours." Harry giggled, his tail high and his gaze teasing.

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Ending A/N: I'm sorry, but it seemed natural to end it there. I'm not gonna strain myself if it wants to be finished. Thank you so much! As always, folks, ASK ME FOR DRABBLES! I'm currently on an editing kick, so some of my stories have disappeared.