Chapter 10

Rin entered the room behind Ollivander and the door closed behind him making him jump slightly. The old man just smiled and looked Rin in the eyes and said "nervous Mr. Okumura." It wasn't a question. "So what exactly are you going to have me do for this examination sir?" Rin said unable to look the man in the eyes. "Well we usually begin with a demonstration of magical prowess so first I would like you to perform for me the aquamenti charm to fill this bucket with water. Simple enough yes?" He took the bucket from behind the desk in the corner and placed it in front of Rin.

"Please proceed." Rin stared at the bucket and nervously said "aquamenti" as this was uttered a small stream of water began to fill the bucket until Ollivander motioned for him to stop. "Very good your understanding of basic charms is adequate. Now I would like to test your understanding of more combatative spells." The older man waved his wand and produced a small statue "now please cast any spell you can think of to destroy this statue effectively." Rin stared at the statue and thought for a moment "there are so many different types of spells we learned but I need to blow this up the best way possible... Bombarda! That's what I'll use." He cast the Bombardment spell correctly and exploded the statue into tiny pieces.

"Very well done Mr. Okumura, next up is an examination of any other skills beyond learned magical expertise, such as: the martial arts, muggle sciences, or... inherited abilities" Ollivander's eyes twinkled as he said the last part. Rin had started sweating and murmured he would need a few things first, a test dummy and some candles, the items were conjured and he set to work. Rin first demonstrated his physical skill with his sheathed sword by nearly breaking the dummy to Mr. Ollivander's surprise he barely broke a sweat; next was the more difficult demonstration, Rin sat and focused on the candles for what seemed like ages until one by one a blue flame appeared on each, rin smiled weakly as if exhausted, he turned to see Ollivander with a strange glint in his eye. "I believe that will be all Mr. Okumura, a very... interesting display to say the least, I wish you luck in the tournament. Have a good day." With this Rin left the room without a word to harry and nearly ran down to the great hall, he needed to eat and clear his head.

"Hey Rin, how was did your examination go?" It was Yukio, sitting at the table with the rest of the True Cross students oddly together at a table for a change, Rin just shook his head and began shoveling pieces of bread into his mouth. "That bad huh? I'm not surprised you screwed up, idiot." Suguro said smugly nodding his head, expecting a fight but he got just got ignored by Rin, who just kept eating. Shiemi looked at Rin worriedly and just told him it would be alright, he still didn't say anything and just moved from the bread to the pieces of chicken on the table. At this point everyone even Kamiki, were slightly perturbed, eventually Rin stopped and like a zombie walked to Gryffindor tower and just went to bed.

-the next day-

Rin woke up to Harry saying it was time to head down to the first trial, they both walked to the champions tent solemnly and silently. Rin just sat nervously as Ludo Bagman explained what was to happen, each champion will pull an effigy of a dragon from the bag, each is marked with a number these will decide who will go when and the type of dragon they will fight, the mission was to try and recover a golden egg from a nest guarded by the dragon. After the explanation was done each one of the champions pulled from the bag until it ended up with Rin. "Please put your hand in the bag Mr. Okumura." Rin did as he was told and pulled an effigy of black dragon with the number 5 etched upon it, he thanked every deity imaginable that he was going last until, Bagman said " tough luck sport, you got the Hebridean Black, they're real mean."

Each champion entered at the fire of a cannon, each coming back slightly worse for the ware, Harry took the longest, and entered with the sound of a roaring crowd behind him. "Good Luck, Rin" was all he said before he layed down in one of the provided beds. Rin dreaded the sound of the cannon, each breath felt like his last until the boom came and he walked out of the tent cautiously into what appeared to be a large slightly wooded out cropping, he kept going until he heard breathing, loud breathing and he headed towards it nervously and finally past some of the trees he saw a dragon, at least 25 feet long and black as night with an arrow like pointed tail, laying down perfectly asleep with the golden egg in a small nest 10 feet away from it. 'Ok, I have had enough of this, I have to do this, I have to be strong, I just need to sneak past this stupid reptile.' He took a small step and without realizing it snapped a twig underfoot, although not loud enough for him to hear, it was plenty loud enough to wake a sleeping dragon.

At this moment Rin didn't know what to do he was now face to face with a giant fire breathing monster, whom he had woken from a nap, the dragon was suffice it to say not very happy with this fleshy little creature who had woken it and was happy enough to roast it alive and have a fine lunch. The dragon roared and let a huge pillar a flame forth from its mouth onto Rin who was absorbed by the flames much to the shock of the crowd, there were screams and cries a plent especially from the true cross gang, Yukio looked as if he was going to cry, until the flames where Rin had been standing had turned blue and the blue flames spread until they enveloped the dragon and then all the flames stopped and a slightly singed Rin was left standing next to a shocked dragon and even more shocked crowd. Rin was close to losing control but he focused until he had enough sense to grab the egg and book before the dragon could react, unfortunately for Rin the dragon came to its senses and let out another massive belt of flames and Rin knew the only way to save himself was to use his powers, so he unsheathed his sword and his mind was gone. Rin was absorbed by the flames again until all of the fire was absorbed by his body leaving only him looking almost feral; his teeth had grown and sharpened to fangs, his ears had grown to points and his tail was completely visible.

Not a word from the crowd was uttered, only a few didn't share the typical look of shock and fear. Yukio and the others all wore concerned or fearful looks rather than shock and they awaited the inevitable chaos that would ensue.

As quickly as Rin had changed did he strike back at the dragon with the sword he sliced a huge burning gash along it's shoulder spilling the beast's acidic blood all over the rocks, the beast then fell from blood loss and as Rin was about to strike the final blow he shook his head and sheathed his sword and his demonic power and appearance receded and he slowly walked to the tent with the other champions.