Oh dear, what is going on? Why are there dragons attacking?
and is this the end of our Draco-Ron romance?
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Chapter 12
"CALL OUT THE FIRE ONE. WE WISH TO KILL HIM" A voice rumbled and bellowed in the air around Hogwarts.
Draco and Ron could just about make out what looked to be Dumbledore and several other professors standing on the top-most tower of Hogwarts. They were facing in the direction of three humungous black dragons, each uglier and grizzler than the last. The three dragons were sitting in the midst of the forest, squashing a whole section of trees. Mythical animals and woodland creatures were fleeing in all directions in horror and despair.
"The fire one? What fire one?" Dumbledore asked, using an amplification spell to project his voice.
"THE FIRE DRAGON WE HAVE SENSED. WE MAKE CLAIM TO THE RIGHTS OF THIS LAND FROM THE YOUNG ONE. THIS IS OUR LAND NOW. WE WILL NOT HAVE OPPOSITIONS" The middle Dragons of the Three huge black dragons explained.
Suddenly one of the dragons spied out Ron and Draco. A huge talon shot out, and plucked Ron out of the shelter of the trees and dangled Ron in the air.
"WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? A LITTLE WATER DRAGON? HOW DISGRACEFUL. HOW CAN YOU TAKE ON THE HUMAN FORM AND DARE TO WALK THE PATH OF THE DRAGON? SHALL I EAT YOU RIGHT AWAY, OR SAVE YOU FOR LATER?" Rumbled the Dragon which had Ron in its grasp.
"Release my friend" Draco growled at the dragons.
Long necks turned away from the professors. Scales creaked and soon six sets of fire-red eyes were glaring at Draco's tiny figure.
The largest dragon scoffed at Draco "And what do you, little fire demon, expect to do about it?" the Dragon growled in return, a gave a mighty chuckled as the dragon who had Ron in its grasp gave Ron a little shake, which made Ron feel like he would vomit up his insides.
Ron wriggled and twisted in his captivity and realized that he should change his form again in order to protect himself better. However, he looked around for a water source to tap on but he couldn't find any within reach. Even the clouds were too far away.
"There's no water!" Ron cried out and wrestled within the grip.
"You didn't need water before when we were beside the lake, why do you need water now?" Draco said to Ron's mind, and then sent a picture of Ron's Dragon-form to remind him of what he could do.
Ron's eyes went wide. He had never thought of that before. He had always thought that he needed water outside of himself and around him, for his internal waters to be evoked. But if what Draco said was true….
While Ron began to evoke the waters within himself, Draco started to do the same to the fires within himself.
"I'll show you what I'll do if you don't release my friend" Draco grinned.
For a moment, the air rippled as if a sudden burst of blue fire had flared out of Draco's body. Then Draco's dragon self-shot out of Draco's form. However, instead of being shorter and stockier than the other dragons like he had been in the potions room, and down by the lake, he grew, and grew, and grew and grew, until he could barely fit in the small space that was the clearing beside Hogwarts, and had to back out into the forests. He was a far larger than all three of the dragons put together.
Ron, as the changed began to take hold, sizzled, his irritation at being held captive sparking inside within him. And just like how the electric currents move through water, he sent an electric pulse right into his captor's palm.
The dragon yelped and released Ron as the electric current sliced through skin and bone and tissue.
Ron then flew straight up, and as he flew, he grew to a size compatible to Draco's, if not slightly bigger.
He landed on the ground with a great shaking of the earth.
"YOU WERE SAYING?" He smirked, looking down on what looked to be such low-bred dragons now to him "I BET THEY WON'T EVEN LET YOU INTO THE EMPRESS STATE, SUCH WEAKLY – LOOKING COWARDS" Ron grinned.
"You come from the Empress state? You are of the royalty?" The middle dragon, who had thought himself so high and mighty, curled into himself and made a sort of grovelling motion. The other two followed suit, trying not to step on each other in the process.
"GO, AND DON'T RETURN OR ILL BITE YOUR HEADS OFF!" Draco bellowed and snarled at them.
The three dragons fled in terror, right out and straight into a completely different realm, leaving Hogwarts well alone and safe.
Draco and Ron looked at each other and grinned. They closed their eyes and the next minute, they were falling free fall from their great height in their human forms. However, the two were learning that just because they didn't have their wings out visibly, their wings were still there, and they carried the two down to the Hogwarts grounds as though they were still in their dragon forms.
"That was sufficient" Draco smirked and brushed the imaginary dust off his shoulder, then grinned and clapped Ron on the back, who punched Draco in a friendly manner.
"Totally. And YOU!, did you see the look on their faces when you told them you'd bite their heads off?" Ron grinned, entirely impressed.
"Yes. If only we could stay dragons all the time; there are a few other people I'd like to pose that threat to" Draco grinned.
"Not just that. Being friends with you is –" Ron began to say something, but Hermione, Harry, and half the school were suddenly upon them, asking questions, and cheering them on.
Ron and Draco found themselves being divided as the Slytherins pulled Draco to one side to get the full low down of this sudden Reptilian-advancement, while the Gryffindors wanted to know all about how Ron came to be the way he was and what happened to him and Draco over the last few days.
As Ron was being dragged away into the school, Ron could feel a distinct tension rising in Draco, although Draco was trying very hard to suppress it.
Draco's words in the forest suddenly came back to him, about having to return back to "real life", and knew immediately that it was distressing to him.
Just as Neville was about to describe how awesome the whole standoff had been from a human's perspective, Ron broke free from his group and stalked over to Draco's, grabbed Draco's arm and pulled him out from the centre of the crowd.
"Draco is still unstable so he has to remain with me at all times. So" Ron said and regarded both groups, projecting his voice so that everyone heard him " Wherever I go, Draco comes with me. Which house is willing to put up with this?"
The students backed up, the sudden realisation that an enemy house member was going to be enforced upon them was not at all pleasant.
"Don't worry, we have another solution for the both of you" a familiar voice suddenly spoke up from behind the two boys " though that is quite a brave thing to suggest, considering the odds".
The boys turned around to find none other than Dumbledore standing on the steps, regarding the scene before him.
And so the boys start to take full ownership of their new powers, and their new lives. What does that mean for the rest of us? And will there ever be another kiss?
Till next time~
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