Harry Potter:Blood

"Here ickle fishy wishies" howled Bellatrix Lestrange as she stood on the roof and leaned over the end of the tank with a large sloshing water-filled cauldron in her arms.

"My wickle fwends want to play wiv you" Bellatrix hissed turning the large couldron filled to the brim with flailing piranhas out into the cool freshwater below.

"Ohh what fun, swim iddy bitty fishies, go find them dirty little Merrows" she shrieked with relish as the razor toothed creatures scattered in the water, sniffing out their latest quarry.

"Merlin it's the Piranhas again" chittered Draco, his tail thrashing from side to side as his heart hammered in his chest.

Glancing around frantically Draco ducked as a fist sized object launched itself towards his head; the small red bellied silver fish turned fast and came back at the pair, this time heading for Harry.

Draco leapt into action, batting the fish off course with his fist, then hauling the brunette along with him and pushing him down into a thick section of river grass.

"Stay here!" Draco yelled.

"But Malfoy...I"

"STAY!" the former Slytherin repeated and Harry found himself compelled to curl up where he was.

The creature had turned again, spotting the blonde Merrow as he emerged from the tall grass.

Soon several others had joined and one by one they amassed, ready to pick the bones of the Halfling in front of them, Draco dove for the cave just managing to grapple his knife from the hook on the wall before at least 20 Piranha swarmed in after him.

Thrusting his knife into the cloud of angry fish, Draco managed to spear 3 of them on the blade, before he was bitten badly on the shoulder, more sweeps of his dagger and he killed several more, spearing them through their heads, or grabbing them and crushing their skulls against the hard rock-like surface of the small dwelling.

Harry turned and looked through the glass at the Death Eaters who were cheering and taunting and taking bets at who would win, and there, stood at the back of the room was the blonde head of Lucius Malfoy, a slight smirk painted on his aristocratic face.

Draco propelled himself out into the open water, only ten or twelve fish were left.

He continued to fight viciously for what seemed like an hour, receiving many bites and cuts as he was set upon, but finally the blonde grabbed the last piranha and bit down hard with his fangs, gnawing at the little monster until it ceased to move, he then slumped to the ground, the water around him was a haze of red and green.

"Harry" the blonde Merrow murmured as he floated to the sand.

Harry who had been frozen to the spot during the whole episode, finally found the will to move and half floundered half dragged himself over to the prone Malfoy heir.

Draco was covered in luminous green marks; Harry pressed his finger against one of the markings and jumped when the blonde hissed in pain.

Harry stared at the stuff on his fingers; it glowed like the luminous tubes you could get at muggle fairgrounds.

He couldn't help but come to the conclusion that the substance was coming from the injured Merrow himself.

"Malfoy…is.. this your blood?"

Draco turned and looked at Harry gazing at his green covered hand.

"Yes, just give me a minute I need a moment to rest, I will be fine"

"But you're bleeding everywhere!" Harry exclaimed placing his hand over the biggest wound.

"Just wait" smiled Draco relaxing into the soft sand and letting out a long sigh.

"Malfoy?"

Harry gasped as Draco's wounds began to close on their own, magically healing before his very eyes.

Draco sat up quickly, mock dusting himself of and giving Harry a sly lopsided smirk.

"One good thing about being Merrow, we heal damn fast!"

"Come on I'll take you back to the cave."

Draco scooped Harry up and swam at top speed back to the safety of their little cave.

The Slytherin deposited the young Gryffindor on the shell bed and rested beside him.

"So your blood is green?" Harry asked quietly.

"So is yours I expect" replied Draco, grabbing up his knife again and quickly cutting Harry's hand.

"Ouch, what did you do that for you great fucking idiot?"

The smaller Merrow stared in shock as the luminous green substance gently leaked into the surrounding water; it was such a drastic change from his usual red.

"Malfoy?"

"Yes?"

"We really aren't Human anymore are we?"

Draco and Harry gazed at each other for a minute, before Harry stared at the cut as it healed on his hand.

"At least it wasn't a shark this time" laughed Draco cutting into Harry's stupor.

"I'll teach you to use your tail tomorrow if you'd like?" Smirked the blonde.

"That would be nice" said Harry Dazedly.

Oh and Harry? It's been nice having you here, these past months have been kind of lonely" Draco leaned over and gave Harry the barest hint of a kiss on the cheek before lying down to sleep.

The Gryffindor lay down next to him letting out a sigh of bubbles that gathered at the ceiling of the cave, his eyes grew heavy, and exhausted he fell into a long deep sleep.

"My Lord they aren't breeding yet" Nott said cowering as Voldemort stood next to the fire impotent with rage.

"Well of course not you cretin! How in Salazar's name do you expect them to with Bella throwing killer fish into the tank every few days, Merrows only breed when they feel they have a safe place to have offspring, Tell Bellatrix that if she does it again I will have her hands cut off and her cackling mouth sewn shut." Voldemort exclaimed in amusement.

"I have one more trick up my sleeve, Merrow breed upstream, which means the much colder water higher up in the mountains, which also contains a large amount of the mineral selenium, If I add a little of it to the tank and lower the temperature of the water enough, they should start displaying and getting ready to mate." Voldemort pulled his lipless mouth up into horrid grin.

"May I also suggest my lord that we improve their diet, I believe that Merrow need more protein than they are currently getting, may I suggest we add more fish and crustaceans to the tank. Nott said reiterating something he had heard a more intelligent death eater say.

"Excellent Nott, just when I think you are completely useless you come up with a slightly intelligent idea" The dark lord replied.

"Soon the little submissive will be carrying the key we need to win this damn war, plus I get to torture Harry Potter, the order loses their saviour, and what my dear Nott could be better than that.