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Chapter 2:

"Dragon! Wait!"

Charlie shouted uselessly at the clouds, feeling a strange sense of loss at the absence of the silver-scaled creature.

He jumped slightly, when a hesitant brush of mind-speak met him.

My name...is Phantom

What the heck just happened?

His wings beat mechanically to either side of him, long neck curved slightly to compensate for his upper body dipping down from the weight of his arms...err... forelegs. He felt the air slide around him

Danny knew that he wasn't the one who had flown away, but he remembered doing it, though it felt like he was watching through a television screen or something. He searched his mind for something that would have made his body react that way.

The landscape still flashed under him, unnaturally fast if what the red-haired man...Charlie had said was true.

Something else intrigued him, though, something Charlie had mentioned.

Other dragons.

He simply commented on the fact as if it were an everyday instance. He had mentioned a specific breed...something horn tail. Danny mentally shrugged, and turned his gaze to the swiftly-changing landscape below him.

Rolling countryside flew by, dotted by sparse trees and a few tamed animals, cows and the like. However, in the distance, he could see a rapidly-approaching city, something he figured to be the place where he had first landed.

Didn't really recognize it, but everything seemed different from an aerial perspective.

As scattered houses started to flash under him instead of hills, Danny banked downward, or as much as he felt he could without taking a nosedive into the ground. In his peripheral vision, he saw a few people come out of their houses and point at him, turning to their respective family members or neighbors as he flew overhead, slowing down and skimming over the ground, following a broad road down rows of houses. He lowered his legs, trying to create enough drag to slow down before landing.

Unfortunately, his plan only worked slightly, the drag pulling him toward the pavement, instead of merely slowing him down.

Sharp, jarring pain lanced up his legs as he sprinted with his wings outspread, trying to lessen his momentum as much as he could without panicking. His eyes widened as a car pulled out of their drive in front of him, unaware of the strange creature heading right for it.

Danny let out a cry of horror as he realized there was no way for him to properly maneuver with his wings spread. Instead of trying to draw them closer to him, the young hybrid in dragon-form simply leapt upward at the last moment, clearing the car with ease.

Gasps of awe went through the gathered people as he glided down toward the street, still a little shaken by the experience. Danny flared his wings far too early, his forgotten tail deciding to make itself known as the scythe-like extension caught on a storm drain, and plowed him face-first into the cement.

His breath was pushed out of him roughly, leaving him gasping for air, hands unconsciously flexing as if seeking for something to hold on to while his world was unstable. Something tingled on the edge of his mind, but he ignored it, in favor for inhaling gratefully.

Wincing as the pain in his tail was made known; Danny stumbled to his feet (paws) and twisted his neck to see if any damage had been caused to his tail. It was still throbbing painfully, but seemed fine enough.

When the excited murmurs of people jolted him from his musings, his head jerked up, looking around at the people warily. None of them seemed to be dressed in weird-smelling cloaks, or holding a stick...well, one dude was, but it was more of a cane than a stick.

Remembering how he had contacted Charlie, he reached out with a bit of thought, intent on speaking with one of these people.

One or two of them widened their eyes and stepped away, but none initiated contact. Few even realized he was reaching out.

It must have been an odd sight to behold. A lanky silver dragon standing in the middle of a street, people forming small crowds on either side of the street, hiding in the shadows of buildings. Said dragon was looking around curiously, wondering why none of them reacted to his mental plea for contact.

He heard shuffling footsteps behind him, and turned around, looking curiously at a young girl with dark brown hair falling about her face, dressed in a fuzzy blue robe and slippers, holding a plush leopard in her arms. She stopped when he looked at her, gaze slightly fearful, and doubtful.

What seemed to be her parents were pushing to the front of the crowd, obviously worried.

"Mister Dragon?"

He gazed back down at the little girl, who apparently had taken a few more steps toward him.

"Um...Mister Dragon, are you okay? You looked like you hurt when you fell."

He tilted his head slightly, reaching out with his mind in an attempt to send his thoughts like he did with Charlie.

And failed.

Apparently, she was simply curious. In response to her question, he nodded, hesitantly at first, but more self-assuredly as he swung his tail around to show her, careful to keep the blade away from her.

She smiled shyly, burying her face in her leopard before lifting it and speaking again.

"Mister Dragon, are your running from a prince?"

Danny blinked. A prince? No... He was just running from...something. Uhh... An irate red-head's mother, perhaps? But no Prince.

He shook his head negative, sitting down for a little more comfort. His wings slowly tucked themselves at his sides as she stepped forward a bit more. Her parents watched her with growing apprehension, held back by the crowd, who were captivated by the reptile.

"Mister Dragon!" She finally said, shifting her stuffed cat to one arm and pointing at him in a childlike imitation of a mother scolding her child.

"Your princess will get lonely without you guarding her! What if a prince or knight comes and rides away without you there to be there!"

He stared at her for a second before deciding to play along. The girl was just too cute, frowning at him and berating him for not acting like a proper fairy-tale dragon should. Danny pretended to sigh in defeat, slumping his wings and shoulders, lowering his head slightly and making the best puppy-dog eyes he could at the girl.

"That's not fair, Mister Dragon." She stated, looking at him if she were reminding him to share the ball in a game children played.

He sighed again, averting his eyes and laying down like an obedient puppy, and placing his head on the ground, looking up at her.

She nodded approvingly, stepping forward to pat his nose with one little hand, saying happily. "Good, mister dragon! Now go guard your princess!"

He lifted his head, looking at her sadly, as if ashamed by something.

"What's wrong?" She looked horrified by something, before looking around and whispering loudly up at him.

"Do you have a Princess, mister dragon?"

He shook his head, before placing it down on the ground to watch her reaction.

Her eyes filled up with tears, and for a second he thought the little girl was going to start crying thankfully, she wiped away her tears, standing up straighter and proclaiming loudly.

"Then I will be your princess, mister dragon!"

Danny bolted upright at that, mind whirling with the thought. NO! He could definitely not stick around and play dragons and castles with a little girl! He needed to find out what happened, and how he turned into a dragon!

But... he didn't want to crush her heart, either.

His blue eyes stared down at her. He slowly shook his head negative, before gesturing with his tail at his own height, before pointing out the strange winged-snake symbol on his chest and holding his tail at its height, as he stood up.

He let his tail hover at that height as he brought it over her head, a good foot of space over her brown locks.

She stared at his tail for a moment before moaning softly in disappointment, hanging her head.

"I thought I would make a good princess."

Her leopard dangled in her hands, little fingers wringing at the spotted fur.

Danny stepped toward her, leaning his head down and nuzzling her shoulder in comfort. He let her wrap her arms around his head, closing his eyes at the feeling, completely unaware of the video tape recording his every move with rapt attention.

As he pulled away, he heard a dozen or so faint 'pop's, like he did in the alley where he had met Charlie.

He turned his gaze toward the noise, seeing similar outfits and sticks pointed in his direction, while others ushered the crowd into a large group a bit away from him. The little girl had since Vanished, he realized with a pang of disappointment. She was really nice, too.

He yelped in surprise, cursing his inattention when he found thick ropes binding his wings to him, and his legs to his body. His tail lashed around in anger, knocking one robed man into a building with a sickening crack, but missed getting sliced in half by a quarter-inch.

Somehow, they managed to slip a muzzle over his face, though how they got it to stay on, he had no idea. His eyes flashed with anger, head snapping toward the crowd as he heard the little girl's exclamation.

"What are you doing to mister Dragon!?"

Danny sat a three bright red lights coming toward his face, just as he heard the reply.

As he sank into oblivion, limbs relaxing, the words echoed in his mind. Somehow, it didn't comfort him.

"Don't worry, child, we will just be taking him back home, where he belongs."

So this is where I begin to actually write instead of just editing a few things, hopefully it will be satisfying.

Danny awoke slowly, hesitantly, hoping his previous misadventure had been only a dream. He moved softly, stirring and waving his tail a bit. He froze. Tail. His tail. He slowly opened his eyes, and groaned in despair as he realized he was in a cage.

He slowly lifted his head scanning his surroundings. He was in what appeared to be an underground cave. It was damp and dark the atmosphere was thick with moisture and he had to take deep breaths to get the oxygen into his lungs comfortably.

He turned his head as he heard a loud snorting sound to his left. His eyes widened as he saw a huge dragon sitting in the cage next to him. Its eyes stared at him with a strangely calculating gleam. It leaned forward and Danny was assaulted with an odd identifying scent.

It was a She. She was large; at least five times Danny's size, with a thick snout and a crest of horns and fiery spikes on her head and running down her spine. Her eyes were a sharp gold. Her legs were thicker and a lot more powerful than Danny's, her wings webbed gold, like a bat's instead of on her back like Danny's. On the end of her tail there was a round spiked maze.

She gargled softly at him, opening her mouth to reveal rows of sharp teeth. Danny backed away slowly, eyes wide until he banged his back on the other side of the cage. A growl came from that side and he jumped and stared at the huge red dragon, coiled like a snake in his cage.

The dragon glared at him from his narrow head's perch on his back, his neck long and thin. He reminded Danny of one of those Chinese representations of dragons. Long with short back legs and powerful wings adding to his front legs.

He looked to the other sides of the cage watching two equally large dragonelles watching him wearily. One of them had a blue tint to her scales and her wings were also like a bat's taking part of her arms. Her snout was shorter than the golden dragonelle's and she had two small horns protruding from the top of her nose.

The other one was the smallest of them, still exuberantly larger than Danny but small compared to the others. She was the only one whose wings were like Danny's, on her back rather than part of her upper arms. Her scales were green and she had a two horns coming out of the back of her head.

Out of all of them, she seemed to be the least remarkable; she looked like a dinosaur with wings. Danny curled up in the middle of his cage, watching the other dragons warily, trying to keep his extremities out of their reach.

This wasn't very hard since the cage he was in was made for larger dragons. He was still prisoner though the bars of the cages were made to criss cross so that there weren't spaces to slip through. His eyes widened slightly as he remembered his ghost powers.

He looked around, straightening his neck, before closing his eyes. He searched for the cold power inside him and just as he was about to grasp it a section of the ceiling creaked and fell towards the floor with a bang allowing fresh air into the cavern and sunlight to stream through. He lowered his head, closing his eyes to appear asleep and watched through half lidded eyes as the other dragons began to growl and roar.

The red dragon's cage suddenly levitated of the ground and onto the entrance of the basement. Danny's head twitched as he heard a crowd cheering on the outside. The door to the dragon's cage opened and he froze, hissing. Then seeing no one he rushed out, but not before squawking as a chain latched onto his ankle.

Throughout the next hour Danny heard the dragon outside roar and hiss while a crowd cheered loudly. Then the growling and roaring started again and the blue dragoness was pushed out onto what must have been an arena.

And so it went, until only Danny's left in. Danny waited silently, afraid to transform. These people weren't like the people he was used to. He was at their mercy and they were obviously watching him from somewhere.

He lifted his head and stood up. Suddenly the cage began to levitate and Danny squawked softly as he fell over. The cage then floated down to the place where the ramp came down. The ramp began to lower itself with a loud creak and sunlight streamed through.

Danny squinted, lowering his head behind one of his wings as the door of his cage opened. He looked around cautiously, hearing the crowd outside cheering in excitement.

Well, here goes nothing. He sighed softly, before making his way forward cautiously.

He yelped and fell back into the cage as a chain snapped out and latched onto his ankle. He breathed hard, bordering on panic before taking a deep breath and walking out with his head lowered, ready to bolt back into the cage.

The cheering became louder and louder and suddenly Danny found himself in an arena with jagged rocks in it. The door behind him snapped shut and Danny flinched nervously. His eyes scanned the crowd who wooed and awed as they watched his white scales catch the light.

His eyes drifted around, noticing just how young some of the spectators were, some younger than himself. He could see the color arrangements like on a football field, people sat with their respective team's fans.

He saw how one a group of people held adults dressed in robes and pointed hats. Danny snorted softly at this, remembering a picture of a particularly famous wizard he had seen once with a wand with a star on its point and a blue robe with similar star designs.

At that point an old man, looking quite a bit like that wizard stood up and pointed a stick to his throat uttering a few words before speaking again, this time his voice amplified 10 time louder than earlier and Danny cringed as his sensitive ears caught every sound so that it seemed the old man was yelling into his ear.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TODAY WE HAVE THE HONOR OF PRESENTING A BRAND NEW BREED OF DRAGON!" The crowd seemed elated by this in cheered and Danny saw a few of the children lean in to stare at him.

"FOR THE FINAL CHALLENGE THE CHAMPIONS OF EACH SCHOOL MUST TRY TO OBTAIN THE CLUE DANGLING FROM THE NECKLACE ON THE DRAGON'S NECK! THE FIRST ONE TO OBTAIN IT WILL WIN THE OPPORTUNITY OF NAMING THE DRAGON'S BREED! LET THE GAME BEGIN!" With this the crowd cheered in elation and Danny could only stand there and gape.

Only now did he notice that odd weight around his neck and he looked down seeing a golden chain wrapped around his throat and resting on his shoulders with that small package attacked to it. Danny frowned and he lowered his head to it trying to dislodge it when he realized something.

He lifted his head only for his fears to be confirmed as a dark haired young man with a military haircut, somewhere around the age of seventeen launched at him from behind with a yell to stand a few feet away a stick pointed at him threateningly.

Danny tensed and then yelped as he jerked his head away from the stunner that had been launched at him from the left, aiming for his eyes. He turned his head to stare a handsome light brown haired young man also about seventeen years old staring at him in determination.

The two young men glared at each other before the first on pointed his stick at Danny again uttering unintelligent stream of gibberish and another stunner flashed. This time Danny ducked and in the blink of an eye slithered in between the two teenagers growling slightly his animal side taking over.

He swiped his tail at the first teenager sending him flying through the air and growled at the other one, baring sharp teeth as his nostrils flared and a strange warmth made its way to the back of his throat. He growled before opening his mouth wide and the teenager's eyes widened as a jet of fire rocketed out of Danny's mouth. He waved his head around waving his tail to protect his rear and spinning around so that nothing escaped his raging inferno. He finally stopped and roared angrily as he spotted a young blonde woman, he hissed and sped towards her faster than she could move and spun around his tail smashing into her side and she screamed as she was launched through the air to smash on the wall.

Danny's eyes had sharpened to barely slits, eyes flashing as he approached the winding blonde who was quickly realizing her predicament and staring at him in horror. The crowd gasped and moaned as they watched the young French woman about to be incinerated.

Before Danny could do something he would later regret ever even beginning a stunner hit the side of his head sending him sprawling to the ground.

"Oi, over here!" Danny turned his head and his eyes widened as he saw a young boy, around his own age with raven black hair and piercing green eyes behind rounded glasses sitting on a broom that hovered in mid-air above his head.

Danny's eyes narrowed as the boy launched another stunner with his stick and he dodged roaring at the boy in defiance before spreading his wings and launched into the air. He launched a jet of fire at the boy and flew at him as he did.

Harry dodged and sped towards the dragon's neck. He needed to end this so that no one else would be hurt. He had seen how Cedric and Krum had almost been burned to a crisp in the dragon's first assault and then Fleur almost being incinerated.

He took the risk and dove reaching up to grab the message holder at the end of the chain. Everything seemed to slow down as the dragon attempted to redirect its fire to burn Harry alive. Harry's fingers encircled the holder and the chain gave way just as the fire managed to singe the tips of his broom.

The crowd exploded into cheers as Harry flew off into the safety of the platforms near the judges' tables as the dragon roared and screeched in fury as it was dragged down by the chain. Swinging its scythe tail angrily as it was held down.

Danny glared and growled as he was held down by the chains. He struggled and thrashed as much as he could until he was too tired to move and the adrenaline burned out and he realized what he had almost done.

He breathed hard through his nose, trying to fathom this. He had almost killed four people, four kids, one of them his own age the other three only marginally older than that. He shuddered and shrunk into himself.

He could hear the boy he had almost burned to crisp speaking now. He distantly remembered the old man announcing that the person who managed to wrench the message holder from his neck would get to name his species. He listened intently as the boy gave the name.

"White Slasher."

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