Magic

"Your name shall be Astarot." Merlin announced proudly. And I was not dissatisfied with the name myself, quite the opposite actually it suited this new body well. "Now Merlin while having a dragon familiar is quite the accomplishment we don't allow such beings onto school grounds, but of course that would be different if it were per say a cat." A raven haired women spoke out Rowena Ravenclaw, to be specific. As she said this she flicked her hand in my direction and information flooded my brain.

Now while this would normally be the part where I suddenly had instant mastery over this ability, I in fact seemed to be able to do nearly nothing with it. That being due to the ever so kind fact that I had never used magic before. So with the ever so kind help of one Godrick Griffindoor (aka hit me every time I got it wrong) I rather quickly came to be able to open my mana paths which I learnt were vital for any animal to be able to use magic.

Now with my mana pathways opened, Merlin very nicely gave me a simplified versions of what Rowena had told/telepathically transmitted to me. Which was very useful because within the last 3 hours of the cart journey up to the school i was capable of at least turning myself from my 6 foot tall and 12 foot long appearance into a small Snow White kitten. Which I think is quite the contrast to my usual pitch black scales, but hay whos complaining. (Now before any idiot decides to argue with me about how quickly he learnt this, shut up I don't care and I had to have a way to get him into the school, also this is a fanfic not reality also this will be the only time he learns something quickly.)

After we confirmed I could do it reliably we were apparated(don't know how to spell this) the rest of the way. Quickly sneaking to join in with the rest of the first years, me sitting on Merlin's shoulder. Although we were getting looks from the other students Merlin simply ignored them and so did I. What did surprise me tho is that as soon as we entered the castle Merlin lost his excitable childish demeanour and took on a much less approachable and scary one. Which successfully staved away the other kids.

Quite confused by this I decided to asked Merlin through our telepathic 'whats with the mood change' to which he quickly replied 'other children my age are annoying and uneducated and those who would try to approach me despite this would most certainly only want to try to gain my favour to raise they're status, so after a few days like this I will know who I can make sensible connections with and who not to.' After that really long winded explanation i at least knew his slightly floored but reasonable explanation.

'Merlin while you make a good point, scaring everyone like this may remove any chance at future connections such as, you know, FRIENDS. Idiot' I told him while batting him with my paw multiple times. Which completely ruined the powerful Nobel and unapproachable aura he had. 'You need to have social connections to progress later in life dimwit.' Safe to say I got a glare for that one' yes I need connections but I need ones I can trust' he replied. 'Not that hard to figure out someone's personality after, you know talking to them.' I replied curtly.

'How old are you again?' he inquired. 'About 6 days.' I replied while looking away. 'And your the one lecturing me, hmmm.' He asked rather annoyed, 'well i'm not wrong either way am I?' Now it was his turn to look away. While he didn't reply he didn't let his aura out again, taking it as a win I jumped from my place on him shoulder to his head. Holding my head high in triumph as two boys approached Merlin.

The two boys closing in on Merlin's position were shorter then him but still taller than the rest. Inspecting them one had golden blond hair while the other had whiteish greyish hair neither of them had managed to tame their unruly hair, or they had just given up trying. Both had the standard Hogwarts uniform, not second hand but no special charms or modifications like I could sense on Merlin's. Clearly muggles in my opinion or really low ranked Nobels probably the former. As they approached I could see a black kitten the same size as me with a whole lot more mana than dang other cat I see in this hall, quite frankly it's amount rivalled that of my own. It soon spotted me as well and seemingly at the exact same time we jumped away from our contractor's and met in the middle.

"And who might you be?" I asked while quickly walking up to them.

"I could ask you the same." what I could now tell was a boy replied to me. Realising this will only turn into a back and forth I spoke "l am Astarot, a dragon." I could see him flinch in shock until he quickly recovered and replied "I am Falkor, also a dragon." Now it was my turn to be shocked at his revelation, but realising my mistake I too quickly collected myself and said "well I hope we will get along well." I may have said that in an adult manner but I let out my childish side and quickly started jumping around and over him, which ended up with us messing around and play fighting.

in our excitement we managed to ignore the contractors conversation.

Okay here I am to apologise for not uploading in a week or however long it was, I don't have an excuse really. Im just lazy and my friends kept dragging me places and it was my dad's birthday but even then I had like 3 days I did nothing with so sorry about the lack of updates also im going on holiday on like the 5th of August. I'm going to try to upload as many as I can before that, just bare in mind I will be away for 2-3 weeks can't remember exactly how long but I just informing you now so that you don't go ahead and think I am dropping this or I have died. On another note thank you to all of you who are giving this story power stones. I honestly have no idea what they do or if I'm supposed to use them in some way, so it would be nice if someone can clarify that for me. I'll try to upload another one of these within the next few hours just as a sorry for being lazy but you will definitely have another by tomorrow. Anyway hope you continue to enjoy reading this. Also I never clarified how old the mc was before he died he was 8 a very smart 8 year old but he is 8 cause I think it would be really boring if he was really serious all the time.