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CH79 - Getting To Know You

by GuardianOfLight 5 reviews

Harry Learns More About His Newest Friend

Category: Harry Potter - Rating: G - Genres: Crossover,Drama - Characters: Fleur,Harry,Hermione,Ron - Warnings: [!!] [?] - Published: 2007-12-09 - Updated: 2007-12-09 - 2707 words

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Chapter 79 - Getting To Know You

Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 17th September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Room Of Requirements
Time: Early Morning


"A dragon." Exclaimed Lavender

"No," corrected Hermione excitedly "It's a wyvern, they were native only to Britain before dragons spread this far

and wiped the out, they are supposed to be extinct."

"Evidently not." Added Tonks

"What's the difference between a dragon and a wyvern?" asked Dean.

"All dragons have two wings and four legs, wyverns have two wings and two legs, they are also more streamlined."

Replied Padma "Where did you get it?"

"From a wyvern, surprisingly." Adam replied in his usual dry manor.

"But they were supposed to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago." Colette commented.

"The eggs can remain un-hatched for thousands of years." Explained Adam "This one is over five hundred years old."

"How do they know when to hatch?" asked Ginny.

"They stay in their eggs for a minimum of a hundred years developing and after that; if they can not hear the

sounds of other wyverns they can remain un-hatched for between a thousand, two thousand or even three thousand

years."

"Last time I checked none of us sounded like flying lizards." Joked Buffy.

"It was put in magical stasis just after it began to hatch." Explained Adam.

"Why?"

"Wyverns are sociable animals, as well as being highly intelligent and slightly magical. They were friendly with

humans at one time; offering protection from their enemies in exchange for flocks of livestock bred specifically

for them to hunt and places to nest. Unfortunately they could not match the numbers of the dragons that came over

from the continent that eventually became the Hebridean Black's and Welsh Green species. Wyverns are fast and agile

but not as powerful as a dragon of the same size. This egg came from a colony that was under attack when the wyvern

was hatching, the humans that the wyverns had an alliance with took this and four other eggs to safely;

unfortunately the others were discovered by the human's enemies and destroyed."

All the time that they were talking the wyvern that had been trying to stand, it had just managed to support itself

on its hind legs and the claws in its wings, though it still had its eyes closed.

It ambled around the table for a bit before wandering in Harry's direction, if anyone had been watching they would

have noted that when it had hatched it was facing directly at Harry and through all its stumbling about it was

still facing the same way.

They watched closely as its eyes slowly crept open to reveal slit like sapphire eyes.

The wyvern stared into Harry's eyes for several seconds, as if studying him, before a beam of blue light shot from

the eyes of the wyvern and hit Harry's, making him jump back rubbing his eyes.

"Arry!" called Fleur as she drew her wand and aimed it at the creature.

"The Bond of Communication!" gasped Hermione "That wyvern just granted you the gift of dragon speech."

"What!" exclaimed Harry.

"I just gave you the ability to understand me." Came the reply, except it did not come from Hermione, it came from

the wyvern.

The voice was female but sounded in no way reptilian or artificial, it sounded just like the voice of any normal

woman, or to be more appropriate, any normal girl, if she had been human she would have sounded about twelve or

thirteen, old enough to understand reason but with a bit of attitude behind it if she did not get her way.

"Err....Hello." tried Harry. He thought he'd be used to this by now, he could speak snake and now understand

spiders, why was he surprised that he could understand this creature.

"Hello," she replied, her tone told him she was definitely making fun of him "What is your name?"

"Harry, Harry Potter." He replied "What's yours?"

"I....don't have one yet." She sighed, lowering her head as if embarrassed.

"Do you want one?"

"What would you suggest?" she asked hopefully, raising her head again.

"What about Sapphire?" he asked, observing the colour of her body and eyes.

EYES

Harry actually clicked his fingers as it dawned on him, looking down at his house ring he looked at the pair of

blue eyes staring back at him and immediately realised what they were supposed to be, they were this wyverns eyes.

"Sapphire," she tried, testing out how it fitted "Yes Sapphire, I like that."

"Err Harry," Hermione asked "What is it saying?"

The pair turned to the group who were all staring at him like he had grown another head, it made sense to him when

he realised the pair must have been speaking whatever language wyverns speak.

"I just gave her a name." he smiled "Everyone, meet Sapphire."

Several of the others moved to say hello or wave before stopping, not quite sure how to say hello to a wyvern.

The only three who actually finished their greetings were Fleur, Luna and Adam. Adam bowing and Fleur and Luna

curtsying, Sapphire lowered her head in response but as she was still new to standing her wings gave out and she

fell to the table, banging her head on its surface.

A couple of the boys snickered but stopped when they were sent death glares by the girls, Dean was unfortunate

enough to be next to Buffy who hit him in the arm, he was going to have bruises the next day.

Sapphire tried to regain her composure as best she could during the distraction.

"Why does she look so like a dragon if she isn't a dragon?" asked Neville.

"Same ancestry," Adam replied "There were originally four groups of dragons, during the Late Cretaceous Period, for

those of you who do not know ancient Earth history that's about sixty five million years ago. Those with four legs

and two wings, those with two legs and two wings, those with four legs and no wings and those with two wings and no

legs."

"How comes Muggle scientist haven't discovered any of these?" asked Hermione.

"Luck mainly, though it also helps that when a dragon's body starts to break down, the hydrogen that they use as

fuel and the platinum filled rocks which they eat and acts as a catalyst for their fire mix and cause the body to

either burn or explode, even the bones burn."

"So that's how they breath fire." Smiled Hermione "I always wondered."

"That's how the four legged with and without winged varieties breathe fire." He corrected "The two legged and no

legged varieties spit out two or three chemicals which ignite when they touch, but all the same, when the body

degrades the materials, whether liquids or gas and solid mix and burn the body from the inside out."

"What happened to all the different types of dragons?" asked Buffy.

"The four legged no wings varieties were known as Wyrm's and were huge, the biggest creature to ever walk on the

earth, one hundred tons plus, they preferred to live in large caves so any non burned remains are mostly

underground or have been eaten by more of their kind, they died out during the KT event...."

"The what?" asked Ron.

"The event that killed the dinosaurs." Replied Hermione "That's the scientific name for it."

As Adam turned to continue Harry heard Ron whisper to Ginny:

"What in Merlin's name are dinosaurs?"

Harry mentally cursed the lack of education at Hogwarts regarding Muggle subjects before Adam continued.

"A smaller sub species survived by becoming aquatic and then went on to become Chinese Dragons before they were

wiped out by the two winged four legged species. The two winged no legs varieties were known as the

Quetzalcoatl...."

"Wasn't that an Aztec god?"

"Very good Hermione," he replied, much to the pleasure of the beaming brunette "Quetzalcoatl survived until just

over a thousand years ago when they're numbers eventually ran out, they could only lay one egg every ten years and

they simply ran out of time. They survived just long enough for the early Americans to start regarding them as

gods. The last two land varieties; the ones that evolved into modern dragons survived KT by hibernating underground

for many years and the wyverns ability to stay un-hatched for millennium and a few adults that also survived in

hibernation guarding them allowed their species to survive, which it did until modern dragons wiped out the last

known living members of the species leaving only this egg and any others in hibernation somewhere or that remain

un-hatched."

"What's he saying?" asked Sapphire, her voice sounded slightly aggravated at being left out of the conversation.

"Oh, sorry, I forgot you can only understand me, this is Adam, and he gave me your egg."

Harry watched as Sapphire looked towards Adam, looking him up and down as if judging him.

"How did he get my egg?"

"He explained that your egg was rescued from a dragon attack by human allies of your kind and that your egg was put

into stasis until such time as it was safe for you to hatch."

"What happened to the rest of my kind?"

"They...." he tried nervously "They, didn't survive, the dragons wiped all known wyverns out."

Sapphire's eyes darkened and she lowered her head.

"I am alone then."

"You have me." He corrected "I will not leave you alone."

She looked up at him and went to nuzzle his hand, but jumped back when Octavia jumped out of the back of his hand

and hissed at her.

There were several shrieks and cries of alarm from around the room as the spider appeared.

"Stop!" he hissed causing Octavia to stop, though Sapphire continued to growl at the spider.

"I was only trying to protect you Master." She explained, pulling the back part of her body out of his hand and

turning to him.

"Fair enough, but please don't attack someone unless you know they mean me harm."

"Yes Master." She bowed before moving off of his hand and standing beside it, opposite Sapphire.

"Don't worry," he spoke to the wyvern, who was hunched over, her head hanging lower than her shoulders, snarling at

the spider "This is Octavia; she thought you meant me harm."

"Why was she under your skin?" she demanded.

"She is magical, a gift from the Patriarch of the Acromantulas, she allows me to understand spider speech."

"Very well." She replied cautiously straightening up slightly.

"What on earth is that thing!" cried Ron, who was pressing himself against the wall, seeing a spider come out of

his skin had obviously freaked him out greatly.

"She is a gift from Aragog." He explained "She allows me to understand spiders."

"She?"

"Her name is Octavia, don't worry, she wont bite you."

"Please excuse me if I don't take your word for it." Ron replied, his breathing rather laboured, some of the others

didn't look much better.

Harry nodded; he could understand why Ron would feel extremely uncomfortable with seeing a spider come out of his

skin, he was probably going to have nightmares about this later.

"Octavia, can you go back to my skin, my friend Ron is terrified of spiders."

"Yes Master." She bowed before walking back to his hand and pulling herself back inside.

"That's kinda creepy." Shivered Buffy "Please don't bring that thing near me, it gives me major wiggins."

Several of the younger members of the group gave her strange looks; she definitely said some weird stuff at times,

did all American's speak like that?

"Do I want to know what she said?" asked Sapphire.

"Nothing important," he replied "Just something a bit odd is all."

"Can you ask Adam what else he knows about my species?" she asked.

Turning to him he relayed the question.

"I can show her if should would like."

"Occlumency?"

He nodded his reply.

"He says he can show you if you will allow him into your mind."

Sapphire didn't answer for several seconds.

"Do you trust him?"

"Yes." Harry replied instantly.

"Ok then, he can show me."

"She says you can show her."

Adam moved forward and touched a finger to Sapphire's head.

As he did so, both their eyes closed and Sapphire shuddered slightly, presumably from the feeling of having many

memories flashing across her mind.

They stayed like that for almost a minute before Adam removed his hand, leaving Sapphire panting, supporting

herself heavily on her wing claws.

"They were huge," she breathed "I will be that big one day....and be able to breathe fire."

"How big will you get?" Harry asked.

"I....won't stop," she replied "I will grow by about my length every week for the next few months before slowing

down, but I will never stop growing."

"Wow." Harry smiled "Will you tell me more about your species?"

"Only if you tell me about yours." She smiled back.


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AUTHORS NOTE 2: As regards the this and the last chapter I will repeat what I said at the end of the chapter before encase anyone missed it. For those that started shouting at the screen, no I did not steal the egg idea or the wyverns name from Eragon for one very important reason. I came up with the idea and everything else you have read about the subject in this and the last chapter long LONG before I ever heard of Eragon or Saphira and although I have since read the books and watched the film the idea is much older than my knowledge of said stories, and I also assure you that although VERY similar the names of the two dragons are complete coincidences, mine is named after her colour and the colour was chosen because it would have looked better than green, red or white and I didn't want it to be a plain boring brown or black, though I have had to add an autocorrect option to Word to stop me writing the wrong name accidentally as my fingers work on automatic and I have written down the wrong name more than once.


AUTHORS NOTE 3: One last thing, if I refer to Sapphire as a dragon although she is a Wyvern that is because in this story I consider that Wyvern is to Dragon as Snake is to Reptile.
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