Agents at Hogwarts

Chapter 3

"Hey guys," said Fitz as he walked into the Great Hall with Simmons, "is everyone here?"

"We're just waiting on Ward," said Skye, "he should be coming down soon."

"I'm here!" said Grant as he walked in, "sorry I'm late, what are we doing?"

"Hey Ward," said Trip, "we thought we would hang out in here and then try to sneak into the kitchens in an hour."

"Past curfew?" said Simmons.

"Sure! It'll be fun!" said Skye.

"I'm in," said Ward.

"Great!" said Skye, "I thought we could just hang out in here and maybe play a game or something while we waited."

"Sounds good," said FitzSimmons, "what game?"

"Truth or Dare!" said Trip.

"What?" said Skye as she turned to face her friend.

"Sure!" he said, "it'll help us all get to know each other."

"Fine," said Skye, "who wants to go first?"

"I will," said Trip, "Skye, truth or dare?"

"Me? Really? Fine, truth."

"When was your first kiss and who was it with?"

"4th year, but it wasn't at Hogwarts so you guys wouldn't know him. Simmons, truth or dare."

"Truth."

"Who do you have a crush on?"

"No one."

"Really? No one? I find that hard to believe."

"It's true."

She's a terrible liar, but I'll ask her about it later.

"Fine."

"My turn!"said Simmons, "Ward! Truth or Dare?"

"Dare."

Simmons grinned evilly, "perfect."

Ward suddenly looked nervous, "uh, is it too late to change my answer?"

"Yep! I want you to go onto the 7th floor and see what's so special about it."

Ward gulped, but he stood up anyways, "fine, lets do this."

"You're really gonna do it?" asked Skye.

"I never back down from a dare."

"Good to know," said Trip.

Ward cringed, "I shouldn't have told you that. Who wants to come with me?"

"I do!" said Trip, "I want to see what's up there."

"Alright, let's go."

They got up to leave so Skye sat back down with FitzSimmons.

"What do you think's up there?"

"I don't know, that's why I asked him to go see what's up there. But if I had to guess its probably something like a creature."

"Do you think they're in danger?" asked Fitz.

"No, besides they have enough common sense to know when to leave. Hopefully."

"While they're gone, do you wanna see if we can get into the kitchen early?" said Simmons.

"Sure why not."

They walked towards the kitchen and opened the secret door. They were greeted by twenty house elves.

"Wow. Everyone's home today."

"Skye!" they all shouted.

"Hey there guys! What's up?"

"The ceiling."

"No I meant like, what's going on?"

"Just cooking for the students."

"Well it's delicious, thank you."

"It's our pleasure," said a new voice.

"Winky!"

"Hello."

"Still drinking butterbeer I see."

"It's delicious," she said as she slurred her words, "nothin else like it."

Skye laughed, "maybe I should find you a new drink."

"No!" she said as she hugged the bottle.

"Why don't you go lie down? You're looking a little tipsy there, Winky."

"Ok," said Winky as she walked five steps and fell on her face.

Skye winced, "I really need to find her a new drink one of these days."

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"What do you think's up here?" said Trip as he followed Ward through the dark hallways.

"No idea, guess that's why we're here."

"There are two doors at the end of the hallway, they're the only doors in the floor. How about you take one and I'll take the other."

"Sounds good."

Ward turned towards the left door and opened it up. Inside lay a 20 foot long sleeping red dragon. It's skin was red, but it's scales were a mix of both burgundy and brown. It had smoke coming out of its huge nostrils and its horns were white. Its tail was a spike, looking like it was covered in metal. Just as Ward was about to close the door, it opened its eyes and looked at him, "crap!" Ward shut his door as fast as he could, making sure it didn't escape. As Ward opened his door, Trip opened the door on the right. It was just a room. He shut the door.

"What's in yours?" asked Ward.

"Just an empty room."

"Really?" Ward opened the door, inside was a dog.

"What is it with the animals today?"

"That dog wasn't there a minute ago. Hang on, I'm going to try it this time."

Trip turned the handle and opened the door again, this time it was filled with broomsticks.

"Woah."

"How did it change?"

"I think it changes to what you're thinking of."

"That's awesome. I figured out why we're not allowed up here, Trip."

"Why?"

"Dragon."

"Really? I want to see!"

"That's not advisable, it just woke up. No telling what it could do."

"Oh."

"Guess we should go tell them."

"Yeah. Let's go."

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"I found why we're not supposed to be up there," Ward explained to Skye and FitzSimmons.

"Why?"

"Dragon."

"SERIOUSLY?! THAT'S AMAZING!"

"Yeah, but I woke it up."

"That's not good."

"No, it's not."

"Ok, um, it's late, why don't we all just go back to bed and we can hang out again some other time when we probably won't get caught for waking up a dragon?" said Trip.

They all nodded their heads vigorously in agreement.