the fire after the flood {newt scamander}

14.

"Are we nearly there?" Jacob asks as Kai walks quite a bit ahead of them.

"It's just up ahead." Kai says spotting a man standing at the edge of the cliffs.

"Kai Munro." The man speaks as she approaches.

"We wish to travel to Paris." Kai says handing  30 galleons to the Portkey Tout.

"He's the only way that Kai and I can leave the country without documentation. Now you don't suffer from motion sickness do you?" Newt asks Jacob as they walk up beside her.

"I don't do too well on boats." Jacob says worriedly.

"You'll be fine." Newt says.

"Stir your stumps. Leaves in one minute. 50 galleons." The Portkey Tout says as Kai's head snaps in his direction.

"No, we said 30." Newt says quickly grabbing Kai's arm.

"30 to go to France. 20 not to tell anyone I seen Newt Scamander and Kai Munro leaving the country illegally. Price of fame, love." The Portkey Tout says smirking at Kai. Luckily Newt's grip on Kai had tighten, otherwise Kai might've lost her temper with the Portkey Tout. Newt digs in his pockets and hands him the 20 galleons along with the other 30 Kai had given.

"Ten seconds." The Portkey Tout continued to count down from ten as Kai grabbed Newt's hand. Newt quickly grabbed Jacob's as the bucket began to rattle. As the Portkey Tout finishes the countdown, Kai puts her foot into the bucket pulling Newt and Jacob with her.

"Welcome to Paris." Kai says standing in front of Newt and Jacob. Jacob barely looked up before picking up the bucket incase he was sick.

"Follow me." Newt says pulling Kai along side him with Jacob trying to keep up. The three of them walked up a set of stairs towards a statue that Kai recognised from the postcard.

"Confundus." Newt says with his wand in hand, to the police officer standing in front of the statue. The statue pulled back a part of its dress, revealing a secret doorway. Newt enters first, followed by Kai pulling Jacob through by his collar.

Kai stares at the empty street ahead as an idea popped into her head. She quickly grabs Newt's case and runs into the middle of the street. She pulls out her wand before setting the case down.

"Appare Vestigium." She says before spinning around, blowing some form of gold dust over the street to reveal multiple sets of footprints.

"Accio Niffler." She points her wand at the case, pulling the Niffer out and onto the street. "Get looking bud." She says as the Niffler gets to work on finding Tina's footprint.

"You genius! You absolute beautiful genius!" Newt exclaims to Kai as she smiles.

"Get to work then." Kai says as Newt places his wand on a set of footprints, revealing a creature.

"That's a Kappa. It's a Japanese Water Demon." Newt says staring at it, but Kai's eyes are trained on something else.

"Tina." Kai says tapping Newt on the shoulder. Newt follows Kai's eyes to see the silhouette of Tina walking to the other side of the street.

"Tina!" Kai shouts as the silhouette disappears.

"What have you found?" Newt asks as the Niffler has his nose to the ground. Newt kneels down to sniff the ground and then licks the pavement.

"And now we're licking the dirt." Jacob says.

"Sometimes I worry about you Newt." Kai says staring at the man who now had his ear to the end of his wand.