Out of The Shadows (Golden Trio Era) {1}

What Fluffy is Guarding

Mikayla is back in Hogwarts, and according to Harry she missed an adventure. She told the boys about her Christmas break and how two of the days were contaminated by Draco and his friends, thanked them for the gifts and apologised for not finding anything out about Flamel. Hermione gave all of them a lecture about priorities and following the rules which was more pointed towards the boys than Mikayla.

Term had started again and the foursome were losing hope on finding Flamel, but they kept searching books during their ten minute breaks. Mikayla decided to go to Harry's Quidditch Practices just to make sure no one tried to hurt him or cause his broom to hurt him. "Hello Mikayla, back again." George smiled wrapping his arm around Mikayla's shoulder in a friendly way. "Yup. I'm just here to make sure no one gets too hurt." She smiled up at him, "Hey Mikayla, we haven't had the chance to thank you for the Christmas gifts." Fred joined the conversation, George immediately took his hand off Mikayla. "No problem, plus your Chocolate Frogs gave me some of the best cards of the collection." She smiled, mostly at Fred. "Beaters up in the air." Wood's voice comes from behind Mikayla, she jumped slightly at the unannounced Wood. "O'Brien if you're going to watch you might want to get to the stands." Wood came into view, Mikayla nodded. "Let me fly her up Wood." Fred lands again, he holds out his hand for Mikayla, who takes it without question. She mounts the broom holding onto Fred's waist. Fred shoots up, he does a lap of the pitch with Mikayla holding onto him before landing in the teacher's stand. "That was so much fun!" Mikayla smiled getting off the broom, "after practice want to fly around with me for a while?" Fred asked looking intently into Mikayla's eyes, "Only if you let me steer for a few minutes." She bargains, "Deal." Fred smiled. "FRED! STOP FLIRTING AND START PRACTICE!" Wood yells from the goalpost, Fred and Mikayla both go red at his comment, Fred flys away whilst Mikayla sits and watches practice.

Nothing eventful happened during practice, everyone got out of their quidditch robes, because Wood put them through the ringer and they all sweaty. Mikayla waited outside the changing rooms for Fred. "Ready?" Harry asked Mikayla, she told him she'd help him with his charms work. "Here." Mikayla took out her charms notes and her essay, handing it to Harry. "I'm going to do a little flying with Fred. I'll follow you up to the common room." She planned Harry just raised his eyebrows in a mocking way, "Oh Stop you. Now don't copy that essay word for word." She mothered. She waved goodbye to Harry just as Fred walks out of the changing room. "Let's go." Fred smiled, he held out Harry's broom, "Harry, lent this to me so we could go faster." Fred told Mikayla who was confused about the broom swap. Fred and Mikayla mount the broom, Mikayla's arms wrapped around Fred's waist. They took off, Fred didn't stick to the Quidditch Pitch, he flew them around the castle, over the lake along the edge of the Forbidden Forest before landing back at the Quidditch pitch. "My go!" Mikayla smiles excitedly, Mikayla and Fred swapped positions, Fred's arms around Mikayla's waist and he snuggled his head in the crook of her neck. Butterflies attacked Mikayla's stomach and tingles swarmed her body as they took off. Mikayla brought them zooming through the courtyard, through the bridges and skimmed the lake. "THIS IS SO FUN!" Mikayla shouted to Fred as she spins around the North tower, she landed them safely after 10 minutes. "That was the best." Mikayla skipped backwards talking to Fred as they made their way to Gryffindor Tower. "You're a great flyer, ever consider quidditch?" Fred asked as they walked into the Entrance Hall, "Yeah, but I'll have to wait for a spot to open up." She answered truthfully, they started talking about quidditch and strategies that would be useful in matches. "Pig Snout." Fred called to the portrait of the Fat Lady, "that's the wrong password." She puffed, since neither Fred or Mikayla knew the password, all they could do is wait outside until someone else arrived. They sat across from each other, legs beside each other and shared a little small talk. They talked about all their favourite things and eventually Percy arrived "Wattlebird." The portrait swung open, Fred helped Mikayla off the ground, she dusted herself off before they walked into the common room, before they could even say goodbye, George and Lee were dragging Fred off and Neville hopped in looking terribly upset. Neville hopped as though his legs were glued together, Mikayla whipped out her wand, "Solvo Crura." His legs sprang apart, "thanks." He smiled graciously as Hermione helped him over to the arm chairs. Neville tells them what had happened to him. Mikayla was furious with Draco, how could he attack Neville unprovoked? Neville tells them how Draco has already told him that he isn't brave enough to be in Gryffindor. "Here." Mikayla and Harry gave him Chocolate Frogs. "You're worth 12 Malfoy's Neville." Mikayla comforts him by side hugging him. Neville gave Harry the cards from his frogs because he was a new collector before walking away. 

"I've found him!" Harry jumped up looking at the chocolate cards Neville gave him, "Nicolas Flamel I've found him. Ron, read this." Harry handed him the card, "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel." Mikayla and Hermione shared a look before Hermione ran off, "The book..." Mikayla whispered. Hermione returned with the gift Mikayla gave her for Christmas, Alchemy: Ancient Art & Science by Argo Pyrites. "I haven't gotten a chance to finish this but one second." Hermione spoke as she speedily flicks through the book, "Here! Nicolas Flamel is the only known maker of the Philosopher's stone." Hermione continues reading, informing them what the Philosopher's Stone is and what it does. "So that's what Fluffy is guarding! I bet he asked Dumbledore to take care of it because he knew someone was after it, that's why it was moved out of Gringotts!" Mikayla spoke everyone's thoughts as she figured the whole thing out based off the information provided.