Chap 5

September, 1 of 1990

King Cross station, London

In the stone platforms, a lot of people could be seen wandering around in rushed state and the middle of train sounds departing or arriving, a boy could be seen moving a cart with only one suitcase. On his shoulder was a beautiful 5 coloured cat with long tail falling on his back and black hat with a dragon design on his head. Two adults were walking behind him complaining to the kid as they were walking.

"By Merlin Beard! Young master, why should we have to go through here?" asked Alfred walking with an illusion spell cast on him to appear like a muggle.

"Yeah, why did you make us go to this place with smelly, rude and ugly muggles all around?!" Asked also, Alina.

"First, I said to you two that you didn't have to come with me. Second, this is the away for all of us first-year students to come to school and I don't want to miss this…after all…I don't have a lot of friends from my age…" said Drake in a happy tone and then with a sad one.

"Well master, that's the price to pay to get stronger…what you accomplished in your age no child has ever done it," said Alfred.

"You knew it, young master, the master told you what he had to sacrifice for his rise in power. You also have paid the price by being always reading or practising something. However, now it's time for you to make friends, "continued Alina.

"Yeah, I know…even so I'm fucking happy!"

Drake spoke a bit loud, which gain some stares from some muggles passing by them.

"Language! Young master, language!" said Alina with a frown on her face.

"I know, I know…"

As they were still talking, they arrived at a wall between platform 9 and 10, the three people started to speed up and walk through it into platform 9 and 3/4. A long red train with a black and red locomotive was waiting. You could see a lot of young people with their parents and their luggage walking in a hurry into the carriages of the train. On the side of the locomotive, you could read "Hogwarts express".

"Hehehehe! We are here!" said Drake as he started to look around him.

"Well...*sob*...*sob*....young master, this is...*sob*...*sob*...where we will part away…at least until December," commented Alina as she started to sulk.

"OH Ali, don't cry, I promise you that I will write to you every week or you could ask dad to stay like in the kitchen or something…" said Drake chuckling as he started to clean the tear from Alina's face.

"Well young master, I hope you do very good and be careful with your pranks. Master won't be so soft in school like he is in home" talked Alfred in a serious tone.

"Yeah, yeah…."

"Also, don't count with Ms. Minerva too, she won't help you out too or Hagrid…I think" completed Alina.

After a few more talks and goodbyes Drake started walking into the carriages and he turns around one final time to look at his caretakers, companions and friends during these eleven years. He waved his hand to them. Both elves replied while Alina was crying, she snapped her fingers and tissue appeared on her hand.

"Well, here he goes. I hope he has a nice year and that no one gets on his wrong side," commented Alfred.

"Yeah…after all he is breaking a lot of rules by bringing his pets with him and he is an unregistered Animagus," Replied Alina.

"Yeah…I talked with master about it, but he said that it was better this away. After all not anyone can transform into a dragon although it's a young form of it."

"Yeah…all of these secrets things because of his mysterious family and that creepy pendant," said Alina.

"Well, we should get going and warn master that he is on the train" affirmed Alfred receiving a nod from Alina.

As the house-elves disappeared from the platform the Hogwarts express starts the journey to Hogwarts.

After Drake said the goodbyes to the elves he walks with his suitcase into one of the carriages. As he was walking in the train carriages looking for a free cabin, the boys and girls stopped and looked at him. The boys looked at him in weird away and the girls started to blush, after all, you don't see a boy with green eyes and a black hat with some red drawings, walking with Zouwu on his shoulder. As Drake was starting to get the creeps about the stares, he managed to find a vacant cabin.

He enters and puts his suitcase on the floor, he taps several times in the suitcase until he hears the click. He opens a little and starts to talk to inside of the suitcase:

"So, I will let you out now but you need to promise me that you won't be in your full form but in your small form, are we clear?"

As he hears some low growls, he opens the suitcase and a small beautiful Dragon, a small Swooping devil and a Three-headed dog leave the suitcase. Jade walks to his shoulder and started to sleep, Greenie threw his hat away and snuggled on his head while Star went to his lap. If anyone saw him now, they would see a funny and scary view of Drake and his companions.

"Well, I think it's better to put some illusion magic on you three, " thinks Drake has he made them disappear. Probably no one will detect his magic since no one will use a reveal spell in the train or most of the first years cant detect his magic.

Drake also summons a book from his hat and a few pieces of fresh meat and gives to all of his animals, as he starts to read the book. All his pets are well tamed since after eating they stay with him and don't wander around.

After a while…

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock

"Yes…" said Drake in a stiff voice after he sees a girl knocking.

"All the other cabins are full, can I come in?" asked the girl.

"Oh…yes…of course," said Drake as he starts to move away from his suitcase.

"Thanks, by the away, my name is Cho Chang," said the girl sitting opposite to him.

"Oh, my name is Drake Du…just Drake."

"You know Drake, you have a beautiful cat and eyes too."

"Thanks, you are pretty too…I mean you…I mean your eyes are pretty too…" replied an embarrassed Drake.

"Well, Drake nice to meet you," replied Cho giggling.

"Me too."

There was an awkward silence until Z starts to stand up and look at the new girl. Cho was examining the boy when she started to observe the cat with more detail. As she saw the cat standing up and the long 5 coloured fluffy tail starts to move around. For brief moments a wild and fierce aura comes out from the cat scaring her. After the disappearing of the aura, Cho started to remember the stories about that her parents told about a certain beast which devoured children.

"Omg...that's not a cat its…its…its…a Zouwu beast…that's it's dangerous!" said Cho while she tried to leave the carriage but before she could do it, Drake grabbed her by the wrist.

"Sorry I can't let you do that…she won't hurt you and I have it since she was a little girl. She also is accustomed to muggles and wizards. So why don't you calm down first...I would hate to mess with your memory," said Drake without any emotion on it.

As he talked to Cho, she started to fill chills running all over and the temperature dropping, she looked at Drake a felt like she was looking at a monster.

"Well, why don't you sit down and drink this, you will fill better and then we shall talk again. Don't worry its a juice that I bought" said Drake after a few tense moments with the usual his usual look. When she froze with his stare, Drake summoned a flask with a pink juice.

After Cho started to drink the juice, she felt a lot better, like all the negative memories went away, while she was drinking Drake cast another illusion spell on Zouwu.

"That was a bad move from me…I though Z would sleep through the entire trip and also why did she release her aura?!…" though Drake while conjuring the magic without chanting.

After a few moments, Drake asked Cho if she was alright as she finished drinking the juice.

"Yes…I am…so where were we?" replied Cho

"Oh, you were asking if you wanted to pat my cat and I said yes before you had like a panic attack," answered Drake with a smile.

"Yeah…probably I'm nervous about being the first day of school," said Cho while she started to pat Z.

As Drake watched Cho playing with Z, he started to think about the potion that she gave to her and how he extracted the venom from Greenie to make it. His Uncle Newt gave him the potion recipe that he had invented long ago as a birthday gift on his 9th anniversary.

Without Cho noticing he gave a pat to the other animals including three pats to star, if she was paying attention to him, she would think that he was crazy for patting the air.

And after this incident the trip went without more mishaps, Drake even bought all the cart with the sweets when the lady with it was passing through.