The Unknown Black Heiress

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Charlie's POV:

Charlie Weasley normally woke up at the crack of dawn, he liked to do his first check on the dragon's before it get's too hot. He doesn't feed them at this time, but rather looks them all over to make sure none of them got injured over the night. Charlie usually deals with some of the more dangerous dragon's at this sanctuary, these being the Ukrainian Ironbelly, Peruvian Vipertooth and Hungarian Horntail. Nobody else in the sanctuary understands how they seem to only respond to Charlie, but he loves all of them. He has never been able to get close enough to touch one, but they tolerate him the most, and allow him to feed them and check on them from afar. Both the Ironbelly and Horntail were awake and starting to walk around their enclosures, still waking up.

Finally he went to check on the Vipertooth. He opened the gate quietly, and began to walk around. The Vipertooth was by itself in one of their larger enclosures, they had found that he liked his own space and often it would take Charlie at least thirty minutes to find him. This morning however, he was giving him a workout and he had walked around the entire enclosure, before remembering there was a cave that he sometimes liked to sleep in, especially on cold nights like the night before. Charlie began to walk towards the cave and when he got to the entrance, he slowly made his way in, making sure to keep his hands up, with his wand in it's holster on his arm. When he didn't hear anything he took another step, and that is when he heard the sound of heavy breathing. This befuddled him, normally he was up by now and this made him worried that he might be sick. Stepping further into the cave, he was shocked at what he saw, and had to rub his eyes before staring again.

There was the Vipertooth wrapped in a ball, how he normally sleeps, but he could make out a small head poking out of under the Ironbelly's wings, with one arm lifted holding on. His jaw dropped at the site. The girl had a delicate face. She had dark eyebrows with long thick eyelashes. She had aristocratic facial features that showed a defined jawline, alongside high prominent cheekbones, however dirt covered her face and arm that was showing. The arm had a long scar that started from the shoulder down to the wrist, clearly made with a knife, alongside a few other smaller scars. She had long black hair that sprawled out around the Ironbelly's wing and it looked messy and dirty and clearly hadn't been washed in days. He was bewildered. How did she get to the point where she was wrapped up by the dragon, let alone close enough to him. Before the Ironbelly could wake up, he walked out of the cave quietly and sent a patronus to his best friend Rome Watson asking him to come to the enclosure straight away.

Rome was currently attending to a Chinese Fireball when he received the patronus, and immediately he left, wondering what had happened for Charlie to ask for him to come to one of the most dangerous dragon's enclosures. He walked towards where Charlie told him to meet him and the sight worried him. Charlie was pacing backwards and forwards muttering something intelligible under his breath.

"Charlie," Rome called and Charlie turned to look at him immediately. "What's going on?"

"Keep your voice down, Rome, I don't want him to wake up."

"What do you mean wake up? Is he sick, hurt? What's going on?" Rome instantly became worried, they were all protective of the dragon's, hating them when they get upset and hurt.

"No dude, he seems completely fine, but there is something strange." Rome just looked at him waiting for him to continue. He had never seen Charlie so confused and worried.

"So, I walked around the enclosure trying to find him this morning, and couldn't so I went to his cave, knowing on a cold night like last night, he may be sleeping in there. So I walked in, there was no noise whatsoever, so I kept walking, and the Vipertooth was curled up in a ball."

"Okay, none of this is worrying, Charlie..."

"I don't...just listen...I am getting to it," Charlie said worriedly. "There is a girl wrapped up by the Vipertooth. As in, he is curled around her, with his wings protectively placed around her body. She is so skinny Rome, and dirty, clearly hasn't showered in day's, but that's besides the point, how did she get so close to him? How is she sleeping protected by him. I am so confused, and honestly I don't know what to do."

"You mean to tell me, that some random girl, that you have never seen before, has the Vipertooth wrapped around her?"

"Yeah man, let me show you."

Charlie and Rome both walked back into the cave, making sure to be quiet as to not disturb them, seeing as Charlie hasn't heard a single noise whilst waiting for Rome to arrive. The position of the Ironbelly and the girl had changed since Charlie had arrived, and instead of sitting half upright wrapped up, she appeared to have shifted to a more lying down position, where her hair covered majority of her face. Her arm was tucked underneath her head, and she was lying on the Vipertooth's leg, with the wing still tucked around her tight, like it was a blanket. The Ironbelly had puffs of smoke coming up of it's nostrils and it was making a purring noise, sounding like a large cat. After witnessing this, both Rome and Charlie exited the cave and Rome's face was just blank.

"Rome, I don't know what to do."

"We need to speak to the Director of the sanctuary," and Charlie just nodded calming down, before they both took off towards the main building.

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"Morning boys, you guys are early," the Director Andrei Enache chuckled.

"Andrei, we have a bit of a problem," Charlie said quickly, not having anytime for small talk. Straight away Andrei stood up, rarely hearing the serious tone in Charlie's voice.

"What's going on, Charlie?"

"There is," Charlie started. "I don't know exactly how to explain it."

"There is a random girl sleeping next to the Ironbelly," Rome spat out.

"Wait, what?" Andrei said confused.

"I went to check on the Vipertooth this morning, and he was still sleeping curled up, but there was a girl, where the Vipertooth had curled her up against him, and was using his wing almost like a blanket for her. One, I have never seen this girl before, and two, how the hell did she get close enough to the Vipertooth. He was purring when Rome joined us. Purring, Andrei, I don't know what to do," Charlie rambled.

Andrei paused for a moment before he spoke up. "Okay, I think you need to take me to him, so we can see what is going on, and then we can decide."

All three of them started walking to the enclosure, and entered before starting to walk to the cave, before they were shocked once again. They were about fifty metres away from the cave when they saw the girl exiting it. She was dressed in a black like catsuit, that clung to her body like a second skin. Her black hair cascaded down her back to her waist, messy with twigs and dirt all through it. She had a belt wrapped around her waist where they saw daggers and knives alongside something that they weren't sure of attached to it, and batons strapped against her back. She was holding a backpack in one hand.

Walking right beside her, was the Vipertooth. She had a hand stroking his side, smiling and they could see her mouth moving clearly talking to him. She said something, and they watched the Vipertooth nudge her back, causing her to laugh. They had never witnessed anything like this. The Vipertooth was clearly responding to her talking, as she kept chatting and the dragon was nodding and shaking his head. She dropped onto one knee and opened up her backpack and pulled out two apples. She stood in front of him, and threw him an apple which he caught in his mouth and before biting and swallowing the apple. She took a bite of her own before the Vipertooth nudged her, and she sighed before nodding, and grabbing another two apples from her bag. This time however, she held the apple in her mouth, as she held an apple in each hand, and fed him directly from her hands, as if he was a horse or unicorn.

After he ate those he nuzzled her neck, which caused her to let out a peal of laughter before pushing his head away giggling, and they could hear her squeal, "stop Ares, it tickles," which caused him to let out a huff on her neck and she let out another laugh.

The three men looked at each other and Rome just mouthed, what the fuck?

Charlie just turned to Andrei and spoke quietly, "got any idea what to do, boss?"

For once, Andrei was stumped. "I have no clue."

All of a sudden, something flew past them, and Charlie felt wind brush right across his ear. He turned and saw a dagger lodge in the tree directly behind him, as another flew past Rome and landed in the same tree, at the same height. They turned to look in the direction where the daggers came from and saw the girl standing protectively in front of the Vipertooth, holding another two daggers one in each hand. The Vipertooth had his head next to her shoulder, and they could clearly hear the grumble coming from deep in his chest.

"Nu te apropia de Ares," she said in Romanian.
(Don't come any closer to Ares). They looked at each other confused, this girl also spoke Romanian. "Data viitoare nu voi rata."
(Next time, I won't miss).

The Vipertooth nodded beside her before letting out a roar. They all stood dead still, as the Vipertooth took a step forward. The girl placed a hand on his head, stroking him softly, and he started to calm down.

"Înțelegi? Nu te apropia de Ares," and the Vipertooth let a huff of smoke out which they could tell was in agreement.
(Do you understand? Do not come closer to Ares).

"What do we do, Andrei?" Rome asked. Clearly the girl and the dragon were protective of each other, and one was holding daggers ready to throw, and the other had fire and poisonous fangs.

"Rome, I have no fucking clue. We can't just use our wands, we have no idea if she is magical or not, clearly she has something to have been able to find us, but I have no idea what he will do if we attack her, and clearly she will do something if we try and put him to sleep. For once, I have no clue. We need to get her out of the enclosure so we can speak to her."

Both girl and dragon were just standing. The Vipertooth was standing at his full height ready to attack and the girl's defensive stance didn't change. She wasn't moving a muscle.

Charlie put his hands up, and decided to take one for the three men, and started to take one step forward, and all of a sudden a stream of fire was heading towards them, and the Vipertooth let out a roar. They all dropped and rolled out of the line of fire, and when the fire stopped, what they witnessed was beautiful. The girl had moved from her stance, and was speaking quietly to the Vipertooth before they rested their foreheads against each other.

"Te-am avertizat să nu te apropii," she said just loud enough for them to hear. They all took a step backwards to be safe watching them both carefully. Charlie couldn't even get close, and he was the only one that the Vipertooth normally tolerated.
(We warned you not to get closer).

"Nu-i vom face rău," Charlie spoke loudly.
(We won't harm him).

"Numele lui este Ares," she retorted. Not liking that they weren't referring him by name. He wasn't a mindless beast.
(His name is Ares).

"Ares?"

"Numele lui."
(His name).

"Nu vom face rău, Ares. Niciunul dintre noi nu se va atinge de el. Vrem doar să vorbim cu tine."
(We won't harm, Ares. None of us will touch him. We just want to talk to you).

Straight away she flipped a dagger and put it into her belt, before pulling out a strange item and pointed it at him with one hand. "De ce vrei să știi? Cine te-a trimis?"
(Why do you want to know? Who sent you?)

At the defensive tone, Ares puffed back up, and moved to stand protectively halfway in front of her.

"Nu ne-a trimis nimeni," Charlie said calmly. "Lucrăm aici și avem grijă de dragoni. Nu te-am văzut până acum și ne întrebăm cum ai ajuns aici și cum te-ai găsit tu și... Ares."
(Nobody sent us).
(We work here and care for the dragons. We haven't seen you before, and are wondering how you got here, and how you and...Ares found each other).

"Dragoni?" Her head tilted in confusion and her nose scrunched her nose up, and it wasn't the time but Charlie couldn't help but think it was the most adorable thing he had ever seen.
(Dragons?)

"Asta este Ares," Charlie explained. All he could wonder was how she didn't know what the Vipertooth was, but was standing so close to her.
(That's what Ares is).

She whispered something to Ares and he huffed and nodded, he wondered what she asked. She slowly put the item she was holding away, but swapped it for another dagger. She started speaking low where they couldn't hear what she said, and she began to point that dagger at each of the men. They stood there with their eyes wide. First she pointed at Andrei and the Vipertooth shook his head. He shoot his head at Rome, but when she pointed at Charlie the Vipertooth let out another huff and nodded. She looked at him and he nodded once more.

She pointed the dagger at Charlie and said confidently, "Voi vorbi doar cu acela."
(I will only speak with that one).

The three men all looked at each other but before they could say anything the girl spoke again, "Voi vorbi doar cu acela. Bărbatul cu părul roșu. Altfel nu voi vorbi deloc."
(I will only speak with that one. The man with red hair. Otherwise I will not speak at all).

They were at a standstill. They could potentially take out the girl, but they were wary of the bond between the two, and what they knew about dragons, is bonds are sacred.

"Bine, doar noi doi," Charlie spoke for the three of them, and although Rome and Andrei looked worried, they nodded and started walking away.
(Okay, just the two of us).

With that, the girl took a seat and crossed her legs, and the Ironbelly followed her down, wrapping his body around her again, placing his head in her lap, and Charlie followed suit, sitting from where he was, not wanting to risk taking a step forward.

"Hai să vorbim," Charlie began.
(Let's talk).

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