170 Training pt.1

Next day, Draco woke up very early to prepare for classes. Unlike Hogwarts, Durmstrang had a system of starting early. The first class he had was something he had been waiting for a long time. Martial magic.

The class was a practical class, consisting of a couple of different training routines and followed by duels at the end of each month. Draco put on his uniform and looked over at Walter who was sleeping as if there was no tomorrow, wondering how he managed to be on classes on time before he was suspended.

Draco walked out of the room, to find some of the male students sitting around in the dormitory chatting with one another. Since yesterday, Draco had avoided people all the time but this time it felt like it was impossible to do so with some of the people already looking at him. Draco felt a huge headache heading his way, so to avoid that he decided to take the first step as he went forward to introduce himself. The moment he went forward all the people's attention shifted on him, so he didn't have to call everyone out.

"Hello! As some of you might already know, I am Draco Black, a transfer student from Hogwarts." Draco said doing a normal noble bow, "I will be here for 6 months, so I hope we can get along well. Especially my peers who are in the same year as me."

The wizards here in Durmstrang though seemed moody weren't really as stiff as Draco imagined them to be. As they cheerfully greeted him back and one by one began introducing themselves. Out of the corner of his eye, Draco noticed Krum followed by a group of people leaving the room without caring much about him.

"They are really a pain in the ass." A wizard who was beside him said, "They act as if they are different from us, even though we share the same roots but I guess that's the difference between half-bloods and us."

Draco looked at the boy carefully wondering who he was. The boy was almost as tall as Draco and was more on the muscular side. With bright green eyes under his spectacles, the boy in front of him looked exactly like a buffed up version of Potter. "I am sorry, I didn't get your name."

"I am Albert Sallow, its really nice to meet with the prince." The boy extended his hand, "We are in the same class, so let's be friends."

Draco shook his hand, looking at him with slight confusion. As if the other party noticed it, Albert smiled and said, "We have some family secrets that make us larger and appear older than normal wizards. I am really in the same year as you."

"I apologize for my rudeness," Draco said, "Is the Sallow family not from here?"

"Yes, we come from a place not to close from here."Albert said, "So it isn't surprising that you haven't heard of us. But I can assure you that my blood is pure as it gets."

"Don't worry about it." Draco said, "I don't really care much about purebloods or half-bloods."

"As expected of the Prince, these petty things don't bother you." Albert said with a huge laugh, "We should get going or else we might be late for our class."

Draco looked at the wizards around packing and leaving as well, so he nodded.

"So is Krum here like the leader of the half-bloods or something?"

"Not exactly." Albert said, "People do follow him but he isn't strong enough to completely control the people around him. They are more like his fan to be exact as fame is all he has."

Draco nodded.

"Forget about him." Albert said, "I really want to see what the Prince fight likes, I heard about you single-handedly killing a lot of the dark wizard and Aurors who were following Pius."

"Rumors are always exaggerated, you should know I had some help from the ministry, right?" Draco said, "Also feel free to call me Draco, the title really doesn't fit with me that well."

"Sure, But you shouldn't be too humble." Albert said, "I could sense your magic yesterday in the dining hall where you casually rendered three wizards useless in a matter of seconds. They aren't professionals, to say the least, but they are still in their fifth year."

"You could sense my magic?"

"Yeah, I am not completely human." Albert casually said, "But hey we are still the same, so it wasn't that hard to figure that out."

Draco frowned a little as he glared at Albert but the other party had no reaction to it whatsoever as if he really couldn't care less about it.

"Our family has a very special giant blood mixed in it." Albert said, "Though not as powerful as yours, it still gives us a lot of advantage. Like strength, more magic but is still really makes me wonder what your race is mixed with. In all honesty, I have never seen anyone like that before."

Draco after being pointed out finally noticed something different about Albert, the aura around him was really different from a normal wizard but that got him wondering about Silus. Though his aura was more violent it was still something similar to it in a sense.

Albert read Draco's silence as something else so he quickly apologized, "I am sorry, I didn't mean to intervene in your affairs. It's just people around me didn't really fit with me too well so I was just excited finding someone else like me."

"Who else knows about your condition?"

"No one else." Albert shook his head, "Announcing it doesn't really seem like a good idea."

"Let's keep it that way." Draco said, "Also pretend that this conversation never happened."

Albert felt a sense of urgency looking at Draco's smiling face, "I don't know what we were talking about at all."

Draco nodded, looking at him Draco felt he was quite gullible like Hagrid. If someone told him that Albert was a love child of Hagrid and Harry, Draco wouldn't really be surprised.

After the casual silence, Draco and Albert reached the ground where there were many students around.

"Every student joins the training together." Albert said seeing Draco's confusion, "It's all about strength in Durmstrang and not age, so people could really care less about having joint classes. That's why so many people admire you here. Young and Strong, you're like the walking dream of a lot of students in Durmstrang."

Draco thought Albert was exaggerating things but the attitude of the teacher in front of him made him slightly uncomfortable.

The teacher was probably the strongest looking wizard he had ever seen. His tall and big stature made him look like a heavy weight lifter in the muggle world. The man smiled at him with a nodding gesture.

Draco weirded out, didn't let it show in his face as he nodded back in greeting and followed Albert to where the second year were situated. Every student were standing in a long line, according to their year.

"Attention!" The teacher shouted as everyone looked at him.