Raven Book 1 (Fantastic beasts)

MCUSA

I wasn't asleep long. There was a knock on the case lid. Newt and Jacob came into the hut and stared up at it for a while. Newt climbed up the ladder first. I shifted so I was a girl before I went up. There were people everywhere but Jacob we behind me so I couldn't go back down.

I clung onto Newt's coat and he put an arm on my back.

It was a hall with people sat either side of us. Rows and rows of people. There were rows of chairs behind us to. There was a woman at the front of hall and her chair was gold and much bigger than everyone else's. Very few people sat either side of her. Tina stood behind us. Where were we?

Newt bent down and picket up the case. "Scamander?" and man called from the crowd. He didn't speak funny like everyone else here. He was from England. "Oh hello minister," Newt smiled a little at the man as he stood back up.

"Theseus Scamander? The war hero?" a man said but not in the same funny as the Americans did. There were people from all over the world here. "No, this is his little brother," the minister corrected. "And what are you doing in New York?"

"I came to buy an appaloosa puffskien sir," Newt answered. But the minister didn't believe him. "Right," he smiled. "What are you really doing here?" Newt hesitated and the woman and the front thought this wasn't a good use of time.

"Goldstien, who are these two?" she asked.

Tina stepped forwards. "This is Jacob Kowalski, Madam President, he's a no-maj who got bitten by one of Mr. Scamander's creatures." The crowd began to mutter. "No-maj? Obliviate him!"

Tina looked at me. She knew. She knew what I was. "And this is Newt's pet shapeshifter," The crowd erupted. Wands were drawn all pointed at me. I clung on to Newt as tight as I could. He gripped me tighter too. He was scared too.

The woman at the front of the room got everyone quiet. "We'll deal with the shapeshifter in a moment. For now, Newt, do you know which one of your creatures was responsible?" she said gesturing the ceiling. I hadn't looked up until now.

A man's body floated floated above us in a blue light. He had dark marks down the side of his face. I couldn't look.

There was a man in the crowd. He was staring at me. We need her, his voice said. It was the only thing I could hear. She's who we've been looking for. Dumbledore wouldn't stand a chance with them and the obscurial. Grindelwald will be a name people fear. I'd be untouchable.

She can hear you. She's reading you.

The voice stopped but the man didn't stop staring. What did he want with me? What did he want with Dumbledore?

"That was an obsurus," Newt said. The whole room fell silent. "You go to far Mr Scamander." The woman sounded angry. "There is no obscurial in America." Couldn't she see the body? What else would kill with marks like that? "Impound that case Graves." The man reach out an arm and the case shot out of Newts hand into his.

"Wait no, Give that back!" Newt took out his wand but as he did so it too shot out from his hand into Graves'.

"Arrest them!" the woman said.

We were all lifted into the air. I screamed and shifted. When we landed we were in chains. I couldn't get them off. I tried shifting and they still wouldn't budge. I shifted again and again. Biting and tugging but they wouldn't come lose.

"Dormio!"

I fought to stay awake. But The spell was stronger than me. My eyes shut and my body couldn't fight anymore.

Something was holding me. It was Newt. I could hear his heart beating and feel his clothes on my skin. He was talking to someone. A woman. I could only just hear her voice not the words she was saying.