Hidden Talent

Chapter: 14

"So what have you got today?" Hikaru asked, not looking up from his breakfast as he stuffed his face.

"Huh?" Jack blinked, turning away from the package his mom had sent him "Oh, um, Defence Against the Dark Arts and Arithmancy this morning. I think..."

"Ugh, Arithmancy? Why'd you choose that?" Hikaru grimced "It's so boring! You should of elected to do Muggle Studies instead"

"I grew up as a Muggle, what could they teach me that I don't already know?" Jack scoffed, putting his package in his bag "Besides, Arithmancy is practically Calculus, not very hard for a genius like me" he smirked.

"...What's 'Calculus'?" Johnny asked in utter confusion, which Ling responded to with a comforting pat on the back.

"Don't worry, John. Most Muggles' don't know either" he shrugged "I'm terrible at basic maths, calculus might as well be rocket science to me"

"Rocket science isn't that hard" Jack stated confidently before turning back to Hikaru "So what you got?"

"Defence and Muggle Studies" Hikaru grinned cheekily.

"But you're a Half-Blood aren't you?"

"Yep! It'll be the easiest 'E' I ever got!" Hikaru chuckled as they rose and headed for their first class.

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"What do we know about this Moody guy?" Jack asked as they waited outside the classroom with the rest of the Ravenclaws' and the HufflePuffs'.

"He's an ex-Auror" Johnny shrugged "Highest Dark-Wizard arrests in history... And he taught the Gryffindors' and Slytherin's about the Unforgivable Curses during their first class"

"He's pretty awesome from what I hear, but completely mad as a hatter!" Hikaru grinned.

"I heard from Marcus that he turned Malfoy into a FERRET!" Ling adder in utter glee, throwing his arm over Jack's shoulders.

The Goth sniggered gleefully "Oh yeah, that was awesome! Draco make a great ferret!"

"'Draco?', you know that git?" Johnny frowned.

Jack shrugged casually "Yeah, my mom dragged me to the World Cup with his family. He can be a jerk, but he gets my dark sense of humor"

As the time for class began the group of excited students filed into the room and taking their seats, taking out their copies of 'The Dark Forces: A Guide of Self-Protection'.

"Put them away" Professor Moody grumbled as he limped into the room be fore turning to the class "From what I've gathered, you all are very behind on dealing with curses"

Grinning in anticipation, Jack leaned forwards in his seat, just from that sentence alone he could tell exactly what they were learning about today. The Unforgivables' were so Evil that he couldn't help but be fascinated by the, if only he knew about them before he retired from the Heylin.

"Well, right to it I guess. Curses come in many forms and strengths. According to the Ministry, I'm not meant to show you what illegal look like and am supposed to just teach you counter-curses. But the Headmaster has given me permission to since how are you supposed to defend yourselves against something if you don't know what it looks like?" Moody asked rhetorically "You need to be prepared! Constant Vigilance! That keeps you alive! So what are the most heavily punishable curses by Wizarding Law that you need to watch out for?"

Jack's hand immediately shot into the air, causing Moody to raise an eyebrow at his enthusiasm "Well aren't you an eager one? Well then, go ahead"

"Cruciatus~" Jack purred gleefully, causing his classmates to lean away from him nervously "An Unforgivable Curse that can cause immense suffering with a single word"

Moody gave Jack an intense stare "You think that's funny, lad? A curse that can turn a grown man insane?"

"No" Jack stated bluntly before smirking "I find it compelling. Just like Imperius and Avada Kedavra, three of the most powerful curses in history are illegal even though they are probably the most useful, especially if used by the Ministry" he shrugged.

Nodding silent agreement, Moody turned back to the rest of the class to begin his demonstration.

"Do you really mean that?" Johnny whispered nervously, eyeing the Goth carefully as the other two leaned in to hear his reply.

"Obviously" Jack scoffed "A Government that banns the use of their greatest weapons is begging to be conquered. Besides, they can be used for thing other than evil. Just get creative; the Killing curse is more humane than a Dementors' Kiss, the same with how they use them in prisons when they could use the Imperious curse to keep the prisoners in check"

"What about the Cruciatus curse then?" Hikaru asked skeptically.

"Interrogating Dark Wizards and Witches" Jack replied confidently "Why waste money and time on making Veritaserum, something that takes nearly an entire month to brew, when the mere threat of the Cruciatus curse will get you everything you want to know nine times out of ten?"

"He has a point" Ling admitted.

"I'm sure he does, Mr. Zhao" Moody interrupted them, causing the small group to jump in surprise and look up at the creepy Professor "A very interesting conversation you four are having, but maybe you would like to pay attention to the lesson? Oh, and also... CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!! "

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It was a cold and dark, early November night in the land of Nowhere and the Lord of the land, Chase Young, the guy with the coolest porch in history ever, was sitting in his throne. He sat in front of his 'Eye Spy Orb' solemnly.

After much persuasion from his cat-warriors, who where sick and tired of Chase moping around, had convinced him to search for a certain redheaded, boy genius. Normally, all Chase had to do was think of the person he wished too see and they'd show up it the Orb, but no matter what the Dragon-Lord did he could not locate his annoying fan little boy.

He had spy'd in on the Monks when they found the note and he had to say, it shocked him. The little ghost-boy, who wanted to take over the earth, who kept going after the Shen-Gong-Wu knowing he had no chance of winning a Showdown but didn't care, Just Gave Up!?

When he'd first heard about it he'd sulked for a week be for his cats started bothering him and ended up at his 'E.S Orb' to find the brat and the school but nothing happened.

It didn't work, which was impossible, well... From what he knew, it was. Chase had gone straight to Wuya, knowing she knew more about magic than him, but she had told him, after much convincing, that the only thing that had the ability too block a magical signal was an even stronger magic, but seeing as there was no magic stronger than Chase and no magic stronger than the 'E.S Orb', she had no clue what was wrong.

The Dragon didn't give up, now it had cached his interest, and kept trying unfortunately to no avail. Where ever Spicer was, it was not possible to find him with Heylin-magic.

Chase slumped back into his throne and gave a tired sigh "I give-in, I shall simply wait for my Spicer to return home. Then ask him where his school is." he stated to no one in particular, suddenly he realised what he had said, 'My Spicer? Since when has that annoying worm been mine?'Chase gave another tired sigh and put the thought to the back of his mind for the time-being before getting back to the subject of where his little albino fan boy was.

Thinking for a moment, Young closed his eyes and nodded before looking back to the 'E.S Orb'. Just because he couldn't find Spicer doesn't mean the Monks couldn't find anything.