AN: Hello! This is my first fanfic story. I hope you like it. It is complete but I am posting it slowly. I am also working on some more stories. Thanks for visiting and let me know what you think.

Amy

Dragon Mate

Chapter 1

Lucius Malfoy came home after another day of being cooped up in the Ministry. He cocked his blonde head to listen and noticed the house was quiet. This being an unusual occurrence these past few years; he felt a little apprehensive. He called a house elf. "Minnie!" A tiny house elf dressed in a crisp uniform with the Malfoy crest appeared in front of him. "You is needing something Master? What can Minnie do for you, Sir?"

Lucius looked at the tiny thing and smiled kindly down at her. A few years ago anyone seeing this would have thought they where hallucinating. Lucius Malfoy smiling at a house elf? Lucius Malfoy smiling at all really would have been a surprise but many things had changed for Lucius over the last several years.

"Minnie do you know where the family is?" Lucius asked softly.

Minnie smiled widely up at him and said, "Yes Sir. The family is outside in the garden, Sir. The Mistress is playin with the children Sir."

"Ah! I see. Thank you Minnie. That will be all." Lucius dismissed her with a grin and walked briskly to the back of the manor.

Lucius emerged from the the manor into the garden. Hearing the laughter of children and the musical laugh of his wife. Smiling softly he stepped on the veranda and his family came into view. He sat on one of the comfortable chairs near the edge and watched the happy sight in front of him. There where four children. Two with blonde hair that matched his own locks and two with golden brown curls just like his wife's. Then he saw her. His beautiful young wife ran barefoot across the yard in pursuit of the children. She stopped suddenly and turned to look at him. When their eyes met his heart skipped a beat. Just like every time since the first time so many years ago. She gave him an angelic smile and then turned to pursue the children once again.

As Lucius watched her and their children play in the garden his mind reeled back to the time before her. His dark time as he tended to think of it. Sadly most of his life had been dark. He had been force fed "Pureblood" dogma since before he could walk and told that power was the only thing there was. Love was an illusion that the powerless used to make themselves feel better.

Seeing the Purebloods around him led him to understand that maybe the dogma his father spouted was nothing but bilge. So, when he got older he had done his own research and found that his Father was wrong. He did believe that love was an illusion though. Especially for him. He knew that his bride would be chosen for him without him even being consulted. So he sot power. The only thing allowed him. He was even forced to take the Dark Mark and follow that madman, Voldemort. He was really glad when then Dark Lord was vanquished by little Harry Potter. He was free. Though he had a good idea that he wasn't gone for good. So Lucius continued to seek power. Never truly happy but as content as his circumstances allowed.

Lucius's father had betrothed him to Narcissa Black. He found her to be pretty but she didn't really appeal to him in any special way. He would be able to do his duty and that was all that mattered. They married as was expected of them. He visited her bed as often has either of them could stand. Narcissa had a few miscarriages and then finally was able to carry a child to term. Draco was born and Lucius felt nothing. As he held his son for the first time he thought he would feel something. Pride if nothing else but there was nothing. The child looked like Narcissa. There was nothing of him in the boy. He went on as usual because nothing had changed. The boy continued to be a disappointment to him but he wasn't really surprised. He was Narcissa's son after all.

Then Draco had started school and complained constantly about Potter and his mudblood friend. Young Miss Granger seemed to be a constant thorn in Draco's side. This actually amused Lucius though he could never truly show it to anyone. Then there was the diary. He had no idea the diary would cause such problems as it did. He was only making another bid for power. He did remember laying eyes on Miss Granger for the first time in the bookstore when he planted the diary on the young Weasley girl. He remembered that her hair was kind of bushy but her eyes caught his attention. The spark of power and fire in her young old eyes almost threw him off track. The anger in her eyes when he mentioned her parents made something in side him stir that he never felt before. He pushed the feeling away to analyze later.

Then the that thrice damned TriWizard tournament. The Dark Lord came back. Just as Lucius always feared and he was a prisoner again. As he watched him try to kill Potter he felt as if he was drowning in darkness. He was suddenly hit by a stray spell and blacked out. When he came too; Potter was gone and the Dark Lord was raging. He was treated to many Curcios that night. When he finally made his way home he went to his study, locked the door, pored himself a drink and collapsed on the couch. His body hurt. His mind hurt. He knew there was something wrong but he didn't know what it was. The spell he had been hit with had done something to him. He passed out on one of the couches.

Sometime later that night he woke to pain. Intense pain like he had never known before. He writhed around on the floor. His body was changing. He didn't know what it was changing to but he knew he had to get out of there. He stumbled to the windows and threw himself out one. He landed on the ground and rolled away from the house. His body seemed to suddenly explode! Then the pain stopped and he looked down at himself and realized what he was. He was a Dragon! He threw his head back and roared stretching his wings and fore claws and letting out a large plume of flame into the air. He looked around trying to figure out how to change back. He closed his eyes and concentrated on his human form and felt himself shift and he was back to normal. Well, mostly normal. He had a double band of blue green scales around his wrists making it look like he was wearing bracelets. He felt his face and though it felt normal he figured he needed to look in a mirror so he apperated to his bedroom.

Lucius stripped as he stepped into his bathroom leaving his clothes on the floor for the house elves to pick up and closed the door. He checked himself in the mirror. Besides the bands on his wrists he had a line of scales down his back tracing his spine. Other then that he looked perfectly normal. That was when he noticed. No Dark Mark! He was FREE! In a state of wonder he bathed and got dressed to start his day.

When Lucius entered the dining room for breakfast he saw Narcissa there. He sniffed the air and found that her scent was not pleasurable. In fact, it almost turned his stomach. He decided to eat in his study. As he ate at his desk he pondered his situation. He was a dragon. He was going to have to research this and keep it quiet as well. Finishing his breakfast he retreated to the library.

Several hours later found him back at his desk trying to process everything he learned. He now knew why he had no feelings for Draco and Narcissa. Having magical dragon blood he would feel nothing for anyone who was not his true mate and he could not father a child with anyone who was not his mate so Draco wasn't his son after all. He actually felt relieved of that burden. So Narcissa had been unfaithful. He smiled. That meant he could dissolve their marriage in his favor. That did leave him the problem of finding his true mate so that he could have an heir but that would come in time. Which seems like he had plenty of that since his blood was activated he would have an especially long life span, even by wizarding standards. He was also free of the Dark Lord but the madman still presented him a problem. He did not want to live in a world that the Dark Lord created. A world of darkness and blood. He had decisions he had to make.

When Draco came home from school Lucius dragged the boy and Narcissa to St. Mungo's both wondering what was going on. Lucius demanded the healer run a paternity test and Narcissa paled. No matter how much she protested the test was ran and it was proven the Draco wasn't his son. He once again dragged them out of the room and forced them to the ministry where he had the marriage dissolved and Draco struck from the Malfoy line. He then took them to Gringotts and gave them a small stipend to live on. They wouldn't have to work in there lives if they didn't wish to and he made sure they both knew to stay far away from him.

As soon as he was done with Narcissa and Draco he went to Hogwarts. He needed to speak to the Headmaster.