Belated Happy New year!
Chapter 6..
"Do you know what the motto of our school is Natsu?" Dumbledore asked humorously as he and Natsu walked towards the great hall for the morning gathering and breakfast, as for the reply, he looked down at Blacky and tried to get a reply, but the little jolly guy didn't do much other then give a big broad toothless grin. Natsu sighed and shook his head no.
"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus, do you know what it means?" Dumbledore again questioned with the same twinkling effect in his eyes.
Natsu sighed again. "Look, if your gonna fire me, jus say so, k? No need for the riddles." Dumbledore laughed at this. "I for one will never do that, as you can stay at Hogwarts as long as you please. And for what I asked, it is Latin, and it means, Never tickle a sleeping dragon, now that can be quoted right."
Natsu smiled embarrassedly. "Gee thanks old man." The three paused in front of the door and waited for a second as the door magically, but slowly opened. "Uh..Professor D? Can't we just open this by ourselves then use magic?" Natsu questioned as they walked through the sitting students who quickly stood up in respect.
"Hmm maybe. What is that you are holding?" Dumbledore looked at the package Natsu was holding.
"Just a souvenir for Garry."
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"Hermione I am telling you, Harry might be telling the truth! Mr. Dragneel didn't use any wand or magic to lift those debris and melt it off! He had fire on his hands!" Ron supported his best friend's tale on how Natsu defeated the Basilisk, but didn't completely support, for the sake of his secret crush.
Harry simply shook his head as he saw his friends bicker. "Don't be silly Ron, nobody can get fire in their-" the door opened and all chatting were halted as everyone got up and greeted the Headmaster.
He walked by the three troublemakers, not before passing a small smile. Following the Headmaster while looking at either side excitingly was Blacky, which earned a frightful and amazed gasp from Hermione, who was less informed. "A Black dragon! It is very dangerous! Does it belong to Professor Dumbledore?"
"Actually, Hermione he-" Ron was cut off by the rambunctious dragon slayer. "Yo Garry! Hi Donald! Quiet an adventure wasn't it?" Hermione was baffled by the supposed teacher. All he had was trousers, a sleeved Hawaiian shirt and a white scarf, not to mention the absurd hair color.
"Uh it is Harry and Ronald, sir." Ron nervously corrected the superhuman wizard.
"Oh! My bad! Anyway little man, here you go." Natsu held the brown paper covered package. A moments pause later, Harry reluctantly accepted.
"What is it, sir?" Harry asked the teacher.
"Its a souvenir, open it-" before Natsu could finish and stay for Harry to open the package.
"Professor Dragneel! Remove your pet from the desk this instance!" Professor McGonagall demanded as Blacky was rolling on the teachers desk.
"Bye kids!" Natsu said before running up to the platform and plucking the dragon from the desk and sitting on his seat next to Severus Snape. "Yo Professor S!" Although slightly bothered by the dragon slayer's way of greeting, he grunted a small morning.
"Professor Dragneel, if you wouldn't mind, can I have a few drops of the Black dragon's saliva?" The question caught the eavesdroppers off guard.
"Black- oh you mean Blacky?"
"Yes, I suppose that is the beast's name."
"Sure!" Natsu nodded before he heard Dumbledore speak.
"A very warm Good morning from me. I believe some things needed to be relieved, as of the creature that Salazar Slytherin's heir released has been taken care of...permanently, but, it still does not give any one the right to roam around in the night. As for our dear professor Gildery Lockhart, he has met with an accident and won't be able to continue the class." This earned a silent cheer from the male population.
"And one more thing. I have came to realize that the students need more knowledge of magical animals in the wake of the events that transpired recently and, I have found the perfect teacher for Care of Magical Creatures, let us all welcome, Professor Rubeus Hagrid." A loud round of excited applause went around as the door opened to reveal Hagrid, who hastily walked in.
"Hagrid!" Harry and his friends jumped out of their seats and leapt to hugged the half giant, the gesture greatly returned by the latter in a big hug.
"Shiver me' timbers'. Ya lot' been gettin' skinni' are ya?" The merry giant greeted.
"Your back! We missed you Hagrid!" Harry, near the verge of tears spoke with a huge smile, his two companions nodding in agreement.
"Aye, I missed'ya too! Enough chit chatt' let us eat!" Hagrid started walking towards the raised platform where his colleagues waited. Dumbledore stepped back to his seat while Hagrid stood in front of the student body. "Thanks for havin' me lads!" With that he went to his reserved seat. He had a little problem to get through the narrow path to his chair.
"And Professor McGonagall would like to make a special announcement." The mentioned lady stood up and cleared her throat, silencing all the students.
"As of the tragic events that deviated our minds and made us all stressed, I would like to announce that the Annual exam for all classes has been hereby declared cancelled." A loud round of cheers came. Except for Hermione.
"Oh Yeah! No Exams! Whoo Hooo!" That stopped all cheering as everyone looked at Natsu critically, when the dragonslayer pumped his fist up and cheered like a boy. Except Dumbledore of course, and surprisingly Snape, who didn't smile like Dumbledore, instead smirked amusedly.
"Let the feast begin!" Dumbledore brought everyone back to the food.
"Now where to begin'?" Hagrid thought out loud as he looked over the various items in the table, but his eyes quickly fell on the chicken legs. "How about...huh?" Hagrid's eyes nearly popped out of his eye socket when he saw one of the most rarest and dangerous creature in the magic world gobbling up his chicken. "Hey we.." Hagrid swallowed his words as he looked around the table and found none looking at the legendary black dragon baby. 'It might have come astray! Oh no! If someone reports it to the ministry then..' Quickly making up his mind, Hagrid slowly crept his hands to grab the drake.
"I wouldn't do that Professor Hagrid." Snape's voice startled Hagrid and made him look at the potions master, who hasn't even looked away from his food.
"What do'ya mea-" Hagrid's enquiry was halted when Blacky abandoned Hagrid's chicken and went over in front of the potions master and sat down looking with pleading eyes with Snape, who didn't seem to have any effect.
Until, he sighed and picked his grilled fish and placed it in front of Blacky, who batted his wings a little and made a sound of joy before gobbling up the fish too. "Uh Professer' Snape, that your' dragon?"
"Why Mr. Hagrid? I thought you cared for magical animals?" The potions master mocked.
"Oh quit it Severus. And Hagrid, don't bother yourself with it. Because it's master made sure no one will capture it, more so it won't hurt anyone." Professor McGonagall piped in.
"Master? Tat's not possible. Dragons' can't be tame'd!"
"Who said anything about taming?" Snape remarked.
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"Is it true Harry we got seventy points from Professor Dragneel?" Ron asked, as Harry placed the box which Natsu gave on the bench in the quadrangle.
"Yep. I was sure Ginny was going to be expelled. Then he asked Fawkes..how much points should we give'em?..and I nearly fainted from relief." Harry answered Ron.
"I still refuse to believe that Professor Dragneel did all that. From what I just saw and what you told me of Lockhart, he just seemed to be similar to him. If he had ripped off every fangs of the Basilisk, why didn't he show those? What did he do with them-oohhh my god! A Basilisk fang!" Hermione gasped as she stared at the thing Harry uncovered. It was a hemispheric thick glass that was melted around a Basilisk fang.
"Wicked!" Ron exclaimed as he took it on his hands and checked it out, he could see that the fang was cleaned, but could still see some crystalized violet poison strands.
Harry also was surprised, but then he saw the note attached to it. Carefully taking out so that he and his friends could see. The note read.
Yo Garry!
Been a bit of adventure, right? Totally! Yeah. I know. The stuff is weird. I mean who gives a super poisonous fang to a kid, right? But don't worry! That stuff has been coated with rocks..which I breathed on and it turned into this! I was so shocked!
Yours Awesomely!
The Great Demon King Dragneel! Mwahahaha
P. S: Dumbledore was the one who asked me to do it like that.
P. S: Fawkes gave two drops of tear to cover it.
P. S: Say my good job to Donald
P. S: Come for my self-defense class. Its insanely awesome like me!
P. S : Ask your friends too.
This was one of the most interesting letters that they have read..yet. It seems the teacher had trouble remembering.
"I-its a B-basilisk fang!" Hermione accidentally shrieked and that was all it took for the students in the quadrangle to come like moths attracted to fire and crowd around Harry and his friends.
"The kid got most of the stuff in him..jus need a tad bit of a push.." Natsu said as he looked down from the corridor of the second floor.
"Stuff? Hardly. Potter is a magnet for trouble." Snape grumbled.
"Oh come on now Severus, cut him some slack." Dumbledore stated as he came to join the two. Snape grumbled but didn't raise his voice against the Headmaster's request.
"Say, Mr. Dragneel, how were you able to defeat a Basilisk without a wand or using magic..rather easily?" Snape observed the dragon slayer's face cringe and expected the boy to leave.
"Uh..stop calling me Mr. Dragneel..it feels weird..kinda like I am an old guy.." The potions master stared dumbfounded at the dragon slayer. "And how I killed the fat snake? Because I'm Natsu!" This caused the already speechless potions master to nearly topple over.
Dumbledore gave a small smile, but cleared his throat and called the two professors. "Natsu...Severus, I would like to have a word with you in private."
"Sure!" Natsu enthusiastically marched behind the headmaster while Snape followed grumpily and Blacky joyfully tagged along.
The three wizards slowly made their way the closed out girls toilet, confusing Snape but making Natsu rush to the front and lead the group in and Dumbledore closed the door behind him. "Headmaster? I do not expect to be ridiculed by the others for being inside the girls toilet."
Natsu grinned and started. "Don't worry Severus! This place has been closed off to everyone-"
"Oh more people come to visit little old Myrtle. Missed her very much?" The sarcastic voice of moaning Myrtle came, startling the dragon slayer and thereby making the latter throw a flaming fist, that surprisingly hit Myrtle and blew her away through the walls unconscious.
"Oh no! I hit somebody!" Natsu panicked as he looked around for the body. Albeit Myrtle being a ghost, Dumbledore still became worried, after all it was his own ineffectiveness that caused her to be like this even if he wasn't the headmaster at the time.
A sigh came out of Dumbledore when he saw Myrtle emerge from the ground in front of them. "Ow! Why did you hit me! It hurt! It..hurt? I can feel?" The shock made her freeze all her movements. "You can touch me!?" Myrtle squealed in delight, ignoring the fact that Natsu hit her and jumped into hug the dragon slayer, only to go through him. "Wh..at?" Her happiness died down and sadness filled it's place.
"Are..you okay?" The slightly shaken Natsu asked the depressed ghost.
"Myrtle..he-" Dumbledore began.
"How did you touch me before? Please! Just once more!" The ghost pleaded and Natsu tried to comfort the girl by placing his hands on her shoulder, only to be horrified by what happened.
"I-it went through!" He staggered back in shock.
"No! You were able to touch me before! Please! Once more! I have never been able to touch anyone." Her sadness brought the dragon slayer back with determination to touch the ghost, but all attempts failed.
"Natsu," Snape called, for the first time in a long while on a first name basis. The dragon slayer looked at him. "Your flames..the one you produced from your hand. That seems to be the reason.." And immediately the dragon slayer lit up his hand and touched Myrtle, only for her to scream and fall backwards in pain as her shoulder burned a few seconds.
Dumbledore sighed sadly and waited for Myrtle to get up. "Myrtle, it is better if you don't let Natsu touch with his fire..I know you want to be like everyone else.."
"I can pass through fire just fine!"
"Uh..Myrtle right..I'm not an ordinary wizard..my fire isn't normal..it is the fire of the king of the fire dragons..it will burn away anything.." Natsu softly spoke, and was surprised himself of his mature attitude. 'Ha! That's one up for me Gray you bastard...Gray..'
The disappointed Myrtle decided to leave. "Wait. Can you help us?" Natsu's question caught her attention for a brief moment.
"Huh? My help..you can find help in dogs..they are better than me.." She shrugged.
"No. This is something you can do. This toilet won't be disturbed by anymore students. But you must swear on keeping this secret in your life..afterlife, personal." A few seconds she used to think before allowing him to continue. "I'm going to take over the Chamber of Secrets..but I won't be able to guard..if someone comes in, other than me, Professor D and Severus, you must inform the matter to us pronto!" At first she was reluctant to the idea, but knowing she was pretty much useless, agreed.
With that, Natsu went and turned the lever to open the passage and waited a few seconds for it to open. He turned around to see the still unmoving wizards. "Well? You wanted to say something, right Professor D?"
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"Yeah, I know it needs a bit clean up. But this will have to do for now." Natsu said as he lead the tiny group into the halls, where he had managed to bring a few chairs immediately after the events. All took their own chair and sat down, while Blacky continued to roam around. "So?"
Dumbledore sighed tiredly. "Natsu..this world is very different..and what the magic world fears the most is a dark wizard named Lord Voldemort."
"You want me to take him?" Natsu asked seriously, flexing his muscles.
"In a way..the boy named Harry Potter.." Dumbledore began the tale of the whole ordeal happening in the present and Natsu, once again surprising himself, didn't fall asleep and listened to every word. "..and that is where you come."
"Well..see if I got everything correct. Voldy was a student here, later became evil, everybody is afraid of him but you know I can destroy him, but only attack him if he comes here and attack the baby..uh now a student, Harry Potter. Severus is like a super undercover agent who pretends to be a death eater and want me to assist him as well. Oh and whatever happened here, never happened. I didn't miss anything, right?" Snape flinched at the blunt way, but both senior wizard nodded in agreement.
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"Harry, who's son did Professor Dragneel say he was?" Hermione walked along their friend. The topic of their discussion was Natsu, considering how strange he was, almost comparable to a student.
Harry shrugged. "Some...Igneel or something..he said he was a fire dragon slayer..whatever that is.."
"Hmm that's strange..I will have to do more research on it.." Ron blew a raspberry at this, earning a glare from the girl.
Ignoring the glare, Ron turned to Harry. "Harry? What are you going to do in your vacation. My family and I are going to Egypt to visit Bill!." He spoke excitedly.
"And I'm going to France!" Hermione too spoke excitedly.
Harry shrugged. "And I'm going to my room at the Dursleys..."
"Oh.." The two friends looked sadly at Harry. Tomorrow was the day they were all going home and home was the last thing in the Potter boy's mind.
The three were currently walking towards Hagrid's cottage at the edge of the forbidden forest. They climbed down the stairs and walked slowly down the slope to the small cottage. "Hagrid! Its us!" Harry banged on the door and waited for a few seconds, they heard the half giant moving towards the door before swinging it open with a broad friendly smile through his hairy face.
"Well hi ther' Harry! Come on inn' ya' tree'" the three was about to get inside but the sudden quaking of the earth that caused dust and some small debris to fall down. Hagrid's dog Fang ran out of the cottage and into the woods, surprising the four as the dog had the Dark forest at the bottom of the to go list.
"What was that?" Ron as usual was the first to creep out.
Being the more scientific one in the group, Hermione looked around before concluding. "An earthquake perhaps?"
" 'mpossible! T'ese groun'ds are ma'gic fr'otified ta' resis't 'arthquakes!" Hagrid came out of the cottage and looked in the direction where Fang ran off to.
"Seems like Fang had an hunch on what it was..." Harry stepped to Hagrid's side and stared curiously into the woods.
Knowing the curious look that Harry had, Hagrid was sudden to conclude. "Nay! Ya' lot ain't goin' t'ere 'gain!" But the boy was determined.
"Come on Hagrid, what about Fang?" Harry asked, and soon another shaking came, but this time Hermione's doubts were cleared.
"Did you hear that?" The ginger asked.
"Hear what?" Ron questioned, as usual freaked out and crouched down.
"The sound! Its not an Earthquake!"
"W'at ya mean 'ermione?" Hagrid curiously asked the girl who was known for her scientific explanations.
"Its like something hit the ground! The big thud-"
THUD!
Woof-woof!
And now they all heard and knew what Hermione meant. It seemed like something big and heavy was falling down the ground, violating the school ground's anti earthquake spell, with much of a thought, Harry ran towards where he knew he heard Fang bark. "Harry! W'ait lad!" But the Potter boy had already managed to achieve some distance, followed by Hermione and a shaking Ron. Hagrid grumbled and went inside to take his crossbow before going towards where he heard Fang barking.
Harry, Hermione and Ron ran through the woods, careful as to not to trip on the wines, although the latter of the three was finding the task extremely hard. A few minutes of running and they could hear the shouts of Hagrid, but Harry kept going, he knew the large boarhound was a coward and for him to go into danger knowingly is an unlikely feat. "Come on guys! I think its over-"
"Harry watch out!" With a newfound speed Ron tackled his best friend out of the way and within five seconds a huge pine landed on the spot where Harry was standing.
"Oh my god! Are you okay!" Hermione came around from the other side to the groaning Harry and Ron who had a few scratches from the thorny undergrowth.
"W..what the..I..what happened?" Harry rubbed his head as he slowly got up, Hermione went to Ron and hoisted him up as he got his ankle swollen from the crash. "That treeee..bloody hell! My ankle!" Ron howled in pain and his friends quickly sat him down. Harry held Ron's back, supporting him, while Hermione undid Ron's shoe and carefully removed it before taking her small paper knife and carefully tore Ron's sock vertical so they can see the damage done and found the normal skin in an angry purple which was completely swelled up.
"Roland? Barry? What are you kids doing here?" They all collectively froze at the sound of their Draconian teacher who was perched up on the giant fallen tree's bark with a semi surprised and semi concerned face.
"Professor!" All three called out startled at the sudden appearance of the rambunctious teacher. The cautiously watched as he jumped down and slowly made his way to the trio but stopped when he heard the clicking of something from the side.
"Stop' ri'te t'ere!" Hermione gasped when she saw Hagrid pointing his crossbow at the professor, who by the way was simply confused at what Hagrid was holding.
"Uh..excuse me? Why are you three here? Didn't Professor D tell ya'll not to come in here? Ah ha! Now I can reduce points from your house! Uh..1..2..3..4 and the dog. So five in total.. Five points from Gryffindor! Oh yeah! I'm the boss!" As usual Natsu celebrated his achievement shocking the gathered and accidentally making Hagrid pull the trigger.
"NO!" The group screamed in horror as the arrow zipped past them to Natsu's right chest...and bounced off harmlessly and fell on to the ground softly and what terrified everyone more was that the dragon slayer didn't even notice he was attacked.
"Pro-professor?" Harry stuttered nervously and was both horrified and glad that the dancing goof stopped and looked at him seriously before walking towards him and crouching down at Ron's ankle, looking at the injury carefully.
Taking a deep breath Natsu yelled. "Blacky!" Everyone flinched at yell and heard the shuffling of leaves as the slightly grown dragon came over the pine and stopped next to Natsu followed by Fang who went beside Hagrid and hid behind his legs.
"Naatssuu!" The dragon surprised the group by it's squeaky voice and grinned proudly at the dragon slayer.
Natsu grinned back and patted him on the back. "Good job! Keep on practicing! But I need you to spit on Roland's ankle!" The dragon, once again surprising the others nodded before spitting on the young wizard's injured ankle.
"Argh!" Ron screamed in pain but soon stopped as he felt the piercing pain turn into a dull ache.
"Ron! A're ya ok'ay?" Hagrid crouched down to inspect his little friend's ankle and boy he was surprised or what when he saw a perfectly fine ankle? His look sure did explain the shock even if his words couldn't. "H'ow?"
"Huh? Oh the healing stuff? Well..Severus said it had healing properties..just a hunch though, its what he said." They stared dumbfounded at the answer.
"Y-you didn't know what it could have happened if Snape's hunch was wrong?" Natsu nodded to Ron's question not acknowledging the young wizard's anger. "S-so my leg could have burned off?" Again an enthusiastic nod. Ron didn't know what to say as he got up and stared menacingly at Natsu, but the latter's eyes quickly narrowed.
"That's Professor Snape Roland! Don't disrespect your elders. I will not be cool with that!" Natsu's voice gained a new maturity to it as he defended his colleague without revealing too much.
A few minutes later, the now big group of two teachers, two animals and three students moved through the Dark forest..with Natsu carrying one of the three hundred feet pine tree on his shoulder calmly while Blacky was perched atop the tree. It seemed Natsu was making some adjustments for his Chamber of Natsu & Blacky, as he renamed it, which of course was an information he omitted from the others. 'All in good times..' Natsu thought happily.
But then he stopped, frozen to the root. 'All in good times...I..thought that phrase..wait! I thought that!' "Woohoo! I said an awesome phrase in my head without help!"
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Sorry I didn't put much into this..
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