Chapter 21 - Stay Five Feet Away From Me

In all honesty, Richard and Annie never expected to have such a weird year at Hogwarts. Sure their cousin places himself in weird and very questionable situations almost ninety percent of the time he runs off by himself. But their always prepared and ready in case he does something extremely stupid and irreversible when he confronts his problems.

However, they did not expect Louis would be able to get himself into even more ridiculous situations in Hogwarts itself. In fact, their pretty certain that Hogwarts has something against their heartfelt worries for their wandering trouble magnet cousin. It was practically rubbing it in their faces In salt that they couldn't do much in the most important and ludicrous things.

Sure they tried their best to keep Louis in line when these things occur. But because of the stupid forest and most - if not all - of the teachers, they couldn't even catch a break! And the fact that Louis just ups and leaves his classes to his clone makes it even harder to keep an eye on him. Even if they wish to all the shooting stars in the universe to make their own clones in their stead for classes, they cant.

Sure making a clone seems easy enough when Louis does it, But making it themselves is a whole other thing. Even if Louis gave them a detailed and simplified explanation on paper on how to make their own clone they cant get it. Their understanding of magic at its core isn't deep enough to help them since it's one of the key things needed in order to make their clone.

Sure they understand about the beginning of magic at their own level, but Louis is able to understand everything about magic itself. It's how his able to understand animals of all kinds, for according to him, magic flows through all.

He practically radiates magic to anything and everything without even knowing it, and him loving creatures of all kind makes them love and protect him even more. It doesn't even make their life easier, it makes it even harder. Sure they love it when he makes new friends, but their all creatures. They couldn't even explain how they felt when Draco became Louis' friend, though they couldn't show it sadly.

Having Draco join their small trio made things all the more easier for them. They didn't have to make sure what Louis was doing and how he was twenty four seven. They could find time to have a breather, while Draco made sure their cousin didn't do something stupid. It was like an angel was sent to them.

And it was at this moment, the exact moment when the unicorns were in danger in the freaking forbidden forest, where Louis is with them - kind of - that they really hope Draco is nearby. Because the face Louis has at the moment, didn't make them feel at ease in any way possible at all.

Draco was at his wits end. Harry freaking Potter was slow when running, how is it even possible for him , he's a seeker for the quidditch team for Merlin's sake. How. Does. He. Run. Slower. Than. Draco. Himself.

It's either because of his training with Annie that he's able to run faster now, or Hary Potter is very unfit. Maybe it was both reasons.

His patience was dissipating at an extremely fast rate, perhaps leaving the golden boy behind while he ran ahead was a better idea. Its not like the golden trio doesn't know he's with the Princeton trio, they'd just become curious as to why they were in the forbidden forest as well....on their own.....without supervision. ' Nah, it'll be fine. They can go invisible if they want to. '

Though the moment they arrived at the ' Crime scene ', Draco started thinking if his luck was just out to mock him to Merlin's grave. A lone unicorn was backed against a tree facing a cloaked figure approaching the magical beast at a slow pace, as if it was mocking the unicorn.

Luckily, or not, Harry Potter stopped in his tracks the moment his eyes landed on the figure. Eyes shut tight in pain, he puts his hands near the scar on his forehead as he crumpled into a ball on the ground. He passed out from the pain soon after.

Draco was thanking his lucky stars at the chance he received, though he did think that it was a tad bit mean of him too ' take advantage ' of the golden boys pain. ' He'll be fine...probably. ' Assuring himself mentally, Draco takes out his wand and points it at the figure three steps closer to the unicorn.

" It now or never, Stupify! " Draco casts out. He was just in time for the figure had its hand near the trapped unicorn. Hit by the spell, the cloaked figure is thrown off balance and falls to the ground. The unicorn was safe for the moment however, the injury on it's hind leg looks quite bad preventing it from running far.

" Draco! " The call of his name from a very familiar voice, made the boy turn to the direction it came from and was instantly relieved to see Louis. The young Princeton was stronger a lot more than him after all.

When Louis had run near enough to have a clearer understanding of the situation, his mood turned even more sour than it was previously. " Louie, Draco, what'd I miss? " Richard asks as he reached the two at last, " I found the unicorn alone and cornered by that cloaked figure, I managed to knock out the figure temporarily but I can't help the unicorn cause it's hind leg is injured. " He brings the two closer to the terrified unicorn shaking like a leaf to heal it.

" Um, Draco? " Richard says " What? " the Malfoy asks, " There is no cloaked figure anywhere. " Richard points out as he looks around the area once more. " What?! " Draco exclaims as he too turns around to look for any sign of the mysterious figure.

" Meister? You okay there? " Louis asks gently as he pulls out his wand from his hoodie. " Meister? Why are you here? Shouldn't you be with the others? " Draco even though surprised, still made sure to keep an eye on their surroundings while Louis got to work. Slowly but surely, Meister calmed down enough to observe his surroundings better.

Realising that he was asked a question, Meister used the his magic to pick up a random tree branch to write down his answers for the three. He couldn't talk after all.

' I was patrolling the area to make sure there were no stray or lost unicorns when the danger came. I did not expect to meet the danger head on, on my way back. I'm going to have a Loooooooooooong talk with the centaurs about their sense of timing the next time I see them. ' The young unicorn was practically cursing the centaurs through neighing.

" Okay, done. You should be all better now. Try and stand. " Louis encourages the still sour unicorn as he helps Meister back up. The first few steps were a bit shaky, but after those, Meister was back to trotting and galloping happily again. Nuzzling his head on Louis as thanks, Meister heads back to the rest of the hidden unicorns.

" You two are so dead. " Annie grumbles out as she proceeds to tackle the two down to the ground. " Hi Annie. " Draco greets her while she continues to ' Kill ' the other two, " Hi Draco. " she greets back choking Richard with her arms and Louis with her legs.

" Right. I hope that teaches you a lesson on not to leave me behind again. " satisfied with her work, she brushes off the dirt on herself with a smiling face. " Yup, got it. Never leave you behind again. " The two boys wheeze out as they catch their breath. " Oh right, I ran into professor Quirrel in a cloak running with a terrified look on his face. "

" Wait what!? " Draco says not believing his ears, " Not to worry though, I just acted like he was a stranger threatening me and beat him up real good. " Richard gave her a thumbs up with a grin " Nice one. "