missing you • newt scamander ls

c h a p t e r • 5

"Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice."

Newt, Celeste, and Jacob all stepped into the broken down and abandoned zoo, spotting a rhino-like creature.

"Is that an.." Celeste began.

"Erumpent, yes. She's in season. She need's to mate."

"Oh Merlin's beard tell me you're not going to do what I think you're going to do."

"I'd be lying." Newt turned his head and smiled at Celeste. It was quite endearing, really, and Celeste tried to hide the smile forming on her own face.

Turning back around, Newt poured a greenish-like liquid from a vial onto his wrists, making it appear as if he was putting on strange perfume.

"Erumpent musk. She's mad for it." Newt passed the closed vial to Jacob, eyes not leaving the erumpent even as Celeste let out a groan.

Newt rubbed his wrists together, and, carrying his rather small looking case, crouched and opened it not far from the erumpent. He pulled his sleeves up, putting his hands on his back.

He let out a strange cry, and Celeste put her hands on her face.

"I can't watch this." She muttered.

And, a bit of snorting and stepping later, she heard Newt's voice.

"Good girl, come on, into the case."

Then she was hit with a strange scent. Uncovering her face, she was just in time to see Jacob yelling and the erumpent chasing after the both of them, and, that's when she ran for her life. Taking Jacob's hand, she Apparated them a just below a tree, in which Jacob had decided to climb, hanging on to a branch with all fours.

"Merlin's beard." Celeste face-palmed.

"Newt!" Jacob yelled, as the erumpent lied on its back under Jacob and started shaking it's limbs at him for who-knows-why.

The erumpent stuck its horn into the trunk of a tree while Celeste just watched in amazement as it stood back and waited in anticipation.

"Celeste! Well, do something!" Jacob yelled out, clearly in fear for his life.

But the lava-like hot liquid the erumpent had converted into the tree trunk expanded, until it broke the trunk apart, sending Jacob crashing towards the ground.

Jacob and Celeste started running again, onto the cold ice, in which Celeste took this opportunity to Apparate them a few meters away, which... Really didn't do much good. Jacob slipped, and, hanging onto Celeste, made her lose her balance and they all tumbled to the icy floor.

The erumpent slid towards them, and, Newt, Apparating right in front of the direction the erumpent was sliding towards, opened his case and watched as the erumpent slid towards the case, and, the first half of the body incased in the.. Well, the case, and, Jacob, closing his eyes and moving as far away as the erumpent as possible, didn't see when the erumpent was pulled into the case. Newt quickly slammed the case, and they were all panting when Newt chose this moment to add:

"Good show, Mr. Kowalski, Cel."

"Call me Jacob." Jacob extended a hand to Newt, who, reluctantly, held out his, and Jacob took the hand and shook it. Newt pulled the both of the two up, and, they all headed under the bridge for a safe place to hide the case.

"Well, two down one to go," Newt said. "Can you hop?"

And they all entered Newt's mysterious briefcase. Turns out, not that mysterious. The inside was small and cozy, a little room with a lot of different trinkets hanging from the ceiling.