Nerida said Okay sounds good. She grasped the leash a tiny bit tighter and started walking just like Angelina. She walked slowly not to fast because she didnt want to scare the poor thing... This was so amazing, she had never ever walked a dragon before! She had a big smile on her face!

Hmm...Stella was right. They had to pair up two of the younger ones either with each other or with one of the older one students. He eyed the young Gryffindor and grinned at her enthusiasm. She'd better be partnered up with someone...someone who lacked excitement...someone like...

AHA!

João! He slowly turned his attention toward him and grinned. "João, would it be okay if Oichi partnered up with you to hold the leash?" Because she was excited and ready to go as where the older Slytherin boy still seemed hesitant about it.

As he waited for an answer he turned to Stella. Since Lily seemed to know her Kennedy figured they'd feel comfortable partnering up, but it was up for debate if they thought otherwise. "Hey, Stella you wouldn't mind Lily joining you to handle the leash, would you?" he asked.

If everyone was fine with that then that left Kennedy and Addie each to a leash. "So, Addie here's a leash." Then he handed one to João and Stella. Was everything okay? Yes? No?

Kennedy wanted to walk the dragon already!


Kennedy's eyes sparked with excitement. HE was holding a leash to a dragon. Not just any dragon though, a dragon he had seen hatch. He held out his hand to it, but not in an intimidating way. It was more of a may-I-pet-you kind. He did that when he wanted to pet a dog. Let them sniff you first, letting them know you mean no harm.

"Hey, Roro."

Chelle was shaking. Although she couldn't tell how excited the others were, she knew she wasn't. AT ALL. And it was no point trying to hide her apprehension because she knew that she had the most transparent face in the universe, and it always gave away her true feelings. She reluctantly took the leash from Vickers and and clutched it as tightly as she could.

"Vickers... would you like to lead?" she asked the older Ravenclaw, thinking that it might be a good idea since he was older. And stronger. She looked at Sylvia for approval, who was trying to be friendly with the dragon.

Seriously? Does that work?

She decided to try her hand at being friendly with him. "Roro, you darling..." she said in a low voice, reaching her free hand out to pet him.

Still keeping an eye on Roro as she waited for Kennedy to respond to her suggestion as to how they should walk the dragon, Stella had kept the rest of her attention on the rest of their group. Especially João, as she still wasn 't sure he'd be alright to join them once they got everything figured out. She had to give him points as he'd finally spoken up, though. Something was giving him the determination to stay upright, and she looked around only to see Aspen just sort of hanging around while everyone else was grouping up. Mentally shrugging, as she really didn't care to get into the Slytherin's motivations beyond knowing that he wasn't about to faint on them, she just turned back to him with a reassuring smile. Roro was just a baby dragon, after all. They'd be fine.

It helped that Oichi and Addie seemed to be excited over the prospect of walking Roro, which, combined with Kennedy's unsaid confidence, convenced her even more that things would be fine. And she'd have a story to tell over the holidays, as well. She'd looked down at Lily with another smile as the smaller redhead had seemed to agree with her earlier suggestion that she pair up with herself, too. All they really needed was Oichi's exuberance, and it would keep the rest of their spirits up. As long as it hadn't seemed to influence Roro himself, of course. Are dragons like dogs, as in, they react to our own excitement almost exponentially?, she wondered. Roro was definitely not a dog, but if she could mentally pretend the dragon was, she'd get through this easier.



Roro certainly wasn't acting much different than a dog. A puppy, even, if said puppy was itching for exercise and could snap off your hand with one bite. She'd turned back to watch the dragon in time to catch the drool dripping down, and realized it was eyeing their lone Gryffindor. Oichi of the dragon exuberance, which only furthered her theory that the young dragon was influenced by the excitement. At least, she hoped that was just it, because she wasn't entirely certain how Professor Williamson would react to the dragon trying to eat one of his students for lunch.

The concern was pushed back as she'd heard her name again, and she turned to nod at Kennedy as he'd asked if she was fine partnering with Lily on a leash. That had been her idea anyway, even if she hadn't actually said it, so she was perfectly fine with it. Obviously Lily was as well, and she gave the redhead a smile as the prefect and their defacto group leader continued to establish leash instructions, and she took the leash that was handed to her confidently as Kennedy himself had approached the dragon carefully. They'd walk Roro around the barn, and nothing was going to happen to make it anything other than just a normal circumstance of caring for any of the magical creatures in the sanctuary. Well, maybe not the pygmy puffs, but any of the larger creatures.

So they will be walking a dragon... Problem was, that everyone was in a group but her. "Is there any group I can join?" asked she.

Did that... did that LICKED itself looking at him?

João didn't like it. No, he liked it alright when there were ten metres and a metal cage between them. Then it was okay. Then the world was a beautiful place. But now? When it LICKED its mouth that only meant it wanted to EAT him? Not at all. He would just hold on though and stay close to Kennedy. The boy seemed to know what he was doing. Maybe, if it wanted to eat him, he would protect him.

He would, right?!

...

And just like that, he was partnered with Oichi. He didn't mind it now at all, as long as he got to be next to Kennedy. And acting quickly, probably surprising the team as they eyed him to see if he was going to faint, he got the spot next to him, then turned to this Oichi girl. Yep. The whole school was watching them. He still wasn't too keen on doing this, but at least he would do his best.

Just like that Kenny, keep him occupied with your petting.

Daichi looked from Sierra to the dragon and back to Sierra again. Was she being serious or just joking? Harmless as a flobberworm.. "right.." The Slytherin muttered as he eyed the dragon. "I don't really trust that creature." He mumbled and turned to look at Mordred who had decided to join their group.

Poor Kurumi, being the only Gryffindor in the group now. As the Professor began to explain, Daichi's eyes NEVER left the dragon as it stopped eating. He still had his phoenix feather wand in his hand from when he had tried to wake up the Gryffindor Prefect and only nodded his head as Mordred asked if they were ready.

He was kinda ready... as long as that thing didn't breathe fire ..it was okay ..right? They Professor wouldn't send them to danger deliberatly ..right?

Taking a deep , shaky breath he listened to Kurumi as she ... told the dragon their names. "K-KURUMI!" he had raised his voice in panic. "Why'd you say our names?! What if he remembers mine and doesn't like me?!" breaaathe Daichi breeathe.

As the others went to grab the leashes, Daichi continued to eye the dragon. He shuffled a step forward before stopping. Shuffled forward again. And stopped. His wand hand was shaking and after a few long seconds he got to the left over leash. He grasped it tightly with his hands and looked at his partners for the lesson. "i'm r-r-ready" he asked and cursed himself in his head for saying those words. He was NOT ready. THIS was scary! Why couldn't they have a lesson about ducks!?

Mordred looked at Roro who flapped his wings, obviously excited about something. Is he really into socializing and stuff? Dragons were supposed to be anti-social creatures, right? But then again, he has to be thankful, he was slightly sure they won’t be eaten or anything. He took a step forward Roro and found it hard to do the next step. “Relax Mordaunt, you’re just going to walk a giant lizard…with wings.” The boy told himself and finally got one of the leashes at the back.



Kurumi then introduced each one of them. The boy simply looked at the Gryffindor prefect with awe and amusement. Now that leaves them to put a good impression on the dragon. He knew dragons were smart, and they get to remember countless memories and people. They get to live for thousands of years, so they must have huge memory.

“Ready or not.” He sighed. Why can’t they just ride and fly the dragon? That was way cooler. Mordred looked around to and looked for the other Slytherin and found him taking the last leash. Daichi was shaking all over. Mordred placed his hand on his shoulder and gave him a, it’s-going-to-be-okay look. They can’t have a fainting student in the presence of a dragon. Bad idea.

Jory watched as Nerida walked Roro around. The dragon seemed to be enjoying it. "He looks so peaceful,'' he thought. He couldn't wait to get a hold of the leash.

Roro was sniffing all around as he got his walk. Jory wondered if he was hungry. "Good job, Nerida,'' he called.

Minerva was walking with Roro when she thought she heard someone ask Soph if she was okay. "Is everyone alright, we don't need to switch up the leashes do we? We can I don't want anyone getting hurt." She didn't want to see any of her friends fall or get hurt.

"Nigel I think your right, let's try to stay away from the water. If he would decided to go for a swim we might all end up in there and I'm not sure I care to get wet right now. Do dragons even swim?" She questioned her own thought as she continued walking with Roro. "I can't believe how big he has gotten." He even looked bigger from the time she saw him at the sanctuary. She walked along watching Roro explore and move about. "Ella you are right, this is exciting. I could have never imagined I would ever be walking a dragon."

Awesome! So they can pet the dragon. He nodded his head happily and bent down to pat the youngling gently on its side, somewhere between its spine and the ribcage "Hey there Roro..." he cooed, making sure to keep his movements smooth and at the open, trying to avoid any action or sounds that it could make the dragon frightened or defensive.



As he stood up he watched Silvia regard Roro with similar gentle fashion. "Good... thats how you do it. Have you ever worked with animals before?" he asked curiously. He glanced at Chelle when she asked the question, and realized she wasnt quite as comfy with the whole set-up as they did "Sure, I dont mind." he nodded then gave the younger Claw a reassuring smile "Dont worry, being calm and friendly will give off the vibes that we mean it no harm and he can trust us."

Turning his attention back to the dragon he gripped the end of the leash tightly in his hand, but made sure the rest of the leash was pretty lax before clicking his tongue and said "Lets go Roro."

She nodded at Vickers. He seemed quite comfortable with Roro. Much more comfortable than she was. Oh, wait. Everyone else was more comfortable than her. But he gave good advice. "Thanks. I am pretty good with dogs, but I guess it's the same with all animals, eh?" she said to both, Vickers and Sylvia.

It must be the same logic. You gotta show them that you're fearless. Then they don't act suspicious around you and they adore you instead.

Taking a deep breath, she stroked Roro's back as gently and smoothly as she could. It almost felt like he was just a normal animal in the Muggle world. That made her feel a lot better. She felt a smile forming on her lips.

Okay, bro, let's do this.

She held the leash tightly and waited behind Vickers. Oh yes, he would be leading. But she planned to walk the dragon too, along with Sylvia. From behind Vickers.

Lily was.... well, she didn't quite know how she felt about walking a dragon. It was a dragon... that could probably eat a human... not that Professor Williamson would allow that. So Lily stood close to Stella, every now and again glancing over at the dragon to make sure Roro wasn't getting too close. When Prefect Kennedy asked if it would be fine for Stella to team up with Lily, Lily nodded with a grin. Yes... this would be fun if they could team up.

As her older Ravenclaw buddy took one of the leashes, Lily grabbed hold of the leash as well, preparing herself for the walk of a lifetime... Who knew when she would get to walk a dragon again? So now all they had to do was wait for the rest of the team to take a leash so that they could get Roro walking. Let's go... letsgoletsgoletsgo...

Truth be told, Sierra didn't exactly trust the dragon either. He was little and sort of cute now, but he wouldn't be either of those for long. One day, they'd have to RUN from Roro if they randomly across him. She'd tell Daichi that, but he was wimping out enough as it was already. Salazar would be ashamed...

"Dude," she said, looking over at him as he was beginning a panic attack, or so it seemed. "He can't really understand English." Hollingberry's just an idiot. "I think we're fine." She gestured toward the dragon. "Besides, he's wagging his tail like some faithful cruppie. I don't think he hates anybody." Not right now, at least.



Sierra's head turned sharply toward Mordred. "Don't tell me you're scared of the little dragon, too?" Sierra asked. What was UP with the males in Slytherin house?! MAN UPPPPP! "Look on the bright side. If he looks like he might start to eat one of us, we've got a whole Gryffindor to feed him." She gestured toward Kurumi with a smirk. Then lightening her expression a bit, she added, "Just kidding." Heh.

She tightened her grip on the leash, just in case Roro decided to run off. Was he going to walk now?!

Nerida smiled at little Roro, never had she walked a dragon, it was nice and little Roro had not done anything crazy or remotly crazy just yet and as long as he did not Nerida would be clam... Hearing Jory she said Thanks, when do you think would be a good time to switch? He would be the one switching with one of them so it was good to ask. There was a huge puddle to the left of their little walking party. Wonder where that puddle came from.

"Is everyone okay so far? Sophie? Feeling okay back there? Let me know if you want to swap me, anyone. From what I can see RoRo seems to be still headed for the water. Here's hoping that he's still just thirsty and doesn't get inquisitive about what's in the pool of water. But we do need to keep alert and start pulling him back if he decides to step into it, okay?" Alyssa told the others.

"I know I don't mind getting wet, but I don't think that I want to go swimming with a dragon in it." Alyssa shuddered just thinking about it.

Narumi basically stood in the background silent, personally she was freaked out of the dragon. Seeing how calm Nerida was being really got Narumi to come out of her shell and go for it. After all if Nerida could do it, Narumi could do it!! She walked over to Nerid and asked Mind, if I join you?

Angelina smiled and said, "It's nice to meet you too Jory." She shrugged and said, "Sure I don't mind."

Walking a dragon was scary wondered if anything out go wrong, but other wise amazing! Looking up at Roro Angelina smiled. She continued to walk with Nerida and asked, '"Have you ever done this before?"



Angelina was a bit worried if Roro would do something off the wall but so far nothing has gone wrong and all was good. Looking over at Jory while Nerida asked when a good time to switch would be, she spoke up and said, "You can switch any time you feel like it." Angelina could see the look in his eye that he wanted to any ways.

While the students got busy walking Roro, William made his way over to the empty, inflated baby 'pool' and started filling it up. He had buckets and buckets full of baby oil, enough to fill up the whole pool, and had nothing better to do than to simply dump it in.

This was all a part of dragon care, people. Not glamorous, not easy, but very messy and fun. Willy started whistling as he worked, making sure to keep one eye on the baby and one on the students walking him.

Roro could get... playful sometimes.

Roro didn't like being called a dog. He understood hoomans, he just usually chose to ignore them.

He wasn't about to ignore being called a DOG though.

Swishing his tail back and forth dangerously, Roro waited until all the kids in this group had a leash. And then he took off, pulling them along and showing off the power of his muscles. He may be small, but he sure was mighty. And he didn't take to being called a low DOG easily.



This group was a group Roro liked. They petted him, they talked to him, they were pretty people...

So once they all had a leash, Roro started walking nice and slow, almost as if he were a rich person promenading along the deck of an expensive yacht. The dwagon didn't know what a yacht was, but if he had one big enough for him, he would promenade on it alright.

As it was, he even nudged the boy with curly hair with his nose and gave his hand a lick. Good boy. He liked him. Maybe he would feed him the other boy, the one with the strange name, later? Roro liked snacks. Roro was a good dwagon who wiked snacks a wot.



Roro didn't understand half of this group. Some of them seemed to like him, but some of them seemed really scared of him. Why? He was just a baby!

Tucking his wings away where they wouldn't scaaaaare any more of the hoomans, Roro started walking nice and slow so that they would be able to follow. He even let out a tiny dragon TOOT! to show that dwagons were just like hoomans; sometimes, even dragon food got the best of them.



Roro patiently waited for the team in red to assemble and when he thought they were ready really they were missing one he started dwagon!skipping away.

To the hoomans, it probably looked like Roro was stomping and dragging them along at a ridiculous pace, but to Roro, this was FUN. Wasn't this FUN, going on a walk, hoomans? WAS THIS NOT FUN?



Roro didn't know what this group was talking about but he was done licking the tiny puddle now. The puddle only contained about a water-bottle sized amount of liquid anyway, and if he was going to get a REAL drink, then he needed more water than that.

So the dragon started off to go investigate something else, wandering to the edge of the barn and the last row of hay bales. He came up on one and bit it, then made a loud, "EORRRRRRKEEEEEE!" sound and started nudging it with his nose.

Hee. Hehee. Roro was gonna re-arrange the classwooom!



Now that his handlers seemed comfortable with his walk, Roro started to pick up the pace a bit. He swished his tail as he walked and started trying to make fire come out of his nose. Maybe if he walked really really really fast, he'd be able to build up some firepower and snort it out? Maybe?

Roro was gonna try it anyway. He popped open his wings and started to more or less dragon!jog.



Aww hoomans were petting him! Roro liked that. He slowed down, his eyes twinkling, and made a happy!baby sound like he a... dragon purr?

Then he sat down and started scratching at the harness on his back, wiggling his but and bum as he tried to reach a leg back to scratch it. "EAWWWWWK," Roro squawked, hoping one of the nice hoomans would scratch it!

Laura looked at Desiree and smiled. "We'll both look after you Zhenya." Laura said hugger her BFF, seriously if this dog dragon wanted to hurt anyone then it could take on Laura, she wasn't affraid of it, the dragon was small compared to dragons she had seen being beaten on films and so Laura was sure she could sort it out if it became nasty.

Laura picked up the lead, when suddenly Roro was pulling them. "Wooooooooo Boy, Woooooooooo I have some doggy treats in my bag if you behave." Laura smiled, she hadn't realised that was what had upset Roro. "See Zhenya this is just like walking a dog." Laura looked around whilst trying to hold on. "All you have to do is hold on and eventually he'll realise you aren't going to be moved." Laura smiled. "Come on Roro there's a good boy calm down." Laura was hoping to get the dragon to calm down.

Nigel was glad Roro finally started to walk around after he got his drink of the dirty puddle water. Nigel and the group did not want Roro splashing or stomping in the puddle and making water go everywhere. Nigel kept a firm hold on his leash in case Roro decided to run after something that catches his interesting, like another puddle for instance. "Where do you want to go now Roro?"

Once he asked the question Roro started moving. He and the group followed Roro to the edge of the barn and saw that he was headed to the last row of hay bales. Nigel wondered what Roro was planning to to with them and hoped he the group did not have to fix it.
He saw Roro bite one bale and yell loudly. Nigel slipped the leash around his arm and covered his ears. Once it was over he saw Roro nudging the bale. "Is something you want in the bale Roro?". Nigel hoped Roro did not just want to re-arrange the classroom because that would mean more work for his group putting the items back.

Alyssa was glad that RoRo was only thirsty and was actually drinking from a small puddle of water. She had actually thought that he was headed for the kiddie pool that she had seen earlier inside the barnyard, when she was sitting outside. So she was glad that RoRo was now moving on to some bales of hay which seemed to have caught it's eye because he was nudging around in it.

"What are you looking for RoRo? Are you having fun in there?" Ayssa kept an eye on the baby to make sure that the bales didn't fall on him.

Sophie was holding on to the leash firmly and nodded as everyone asked if she was alright. Oh, but most of them couldn't see her right now, since they were focused on Roro and the two older girls were in front of them. "Yeah, I'm fine." She said, still watching Roro try to dring the water. Hehe!

Oh, and there they went again! Sophie was careful enough this time not to trip or anything, so she walked slowly as the whole group moved along with Roro, eyeing the floor in front of her feet all the time and grabbing the leash.

Gosh, this walking a dragon thing was too complicated! Holding on to the same part of the leash with someone else made it hard to walk around.

??? What was the dragon doing now? Merlin, thinking that made Sophie blink a couple of times. She was actually walking a DRAGON! Terrifying... but cool, nonetheless! Sophie chuckled when Roro bit the hay bale. That was actually really cute! She couldn't help but smile at the little not-so-little creature. When Roro started nudging it with his nose, Sophie watched curiously. "Or maybe it's something behind it!" She said after Nigel asked Roro if there might be something the creature wanted in the hay bale.

What a weird lesson this was! In a interesting way, of course!

Clutching the leash like his life depended on it, Daichi's knuckles turned white. He kept thinking why on earth he was doing this as he looked at the dragon. Feeling a hand on his shoulder, the fourth year Snake turned to see Mordred giving him a look. A look he knew all to well cause he had seen it many times..and it always worked. It was a look that someone cared about an other, in this case a team mate. Daichi nodded his head with a faint smile and then turned to Sierra.



oh right...dragons didn't speak english.. wouldn't even understand it, they couldn't right?

"R-right.." Daichi answered but still looked a bit warily. He loosened the leash he was holding though and then let out a half giggle half snort. Faithful Cruppie, heh.

Daichi frowned a little as Sierra asked Mordred if he was scared of the dragon *too*. Was she saying what he thought she was saying? "H-hey! i-i'm not scared of the d-dragon!" hmm yeah the stutter didn't really help didn't it? But he was telling the truth. He wasn't scared of the dragon but what dragons could do. Breathe fire and the only reason why he was being so timid was because he was afraid the creature would set fire to the whole place...

Daichi shivered at his own thoughts when he heard the joke about feeding kurumi to the dragon. For the first time since the lesson, Daichi's eyes fixed directly at Sierra and he tried to give her a glare. Which obviously failed and he just looked funny, but at least he was trying. "That is not funny" he said clearly and without a stutter this time. He didn't say more though because she IS his Prefect and they were both on the Quidditch team.



Turning to look away from the Slytherin Prefect because he didn't want to get in to trouble with HER, his eyes found the Professor standing by the empty pool. He raised an eyebrow as he saw how the man was filling the pool with ...something.. from the buckets and he couldn't help but wonder what it was.

Wait...they weren't supposed to CLEAN the dragon?! O__O



A sudden movement caught his attention as he looked back at the dragon and he saw that he was tucking in his wings. The creature looked less frightening now... As he began to walk, Daichi held on to the leash followed Roro's direction, hoping the others would walk along as well. He didn't think that would be a problem though , seeing as this was a DRAGON.

Daichi flinched as the dragon suddenly showed it's tooth and the first thought in mind was that it was going to snap at them. He clutched the wand he was holding the whole time more tighter just in case. It looked cute though, the dragon. A small nervous smile tucked on his lips as he looked at the dragon. But he didn't want to take any chances, he NEEDED to be on his guard and didn't care if someone thought he was a coward at the moment.