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- Hunting
Dazai stared at the 2 piles of dead rats that were currently being presented to him inside his office.
He had gone to prepare for their gang meeting next week about a new prank that the twins were planning, but was immediately greeted by Featherbrain and Egg, shoving their dead rat piles in front of him and staring at him with whatever the bird and dragon version of ‘puppy dog eyes’ was.
“...What am I supposed to do with these?” He asked his pets.
Featherbrain hooted in response and shoved her pile closer as if wanting Dazai to inspect it. She looked rather proud of herself for gathering so many.
“Your pile does have a few more rats than Egg’s…” Dazai observed.
Featherbrain chirped happily and flew around in a circle while Egg huffed angrily.
Egg then tried to set Featherbrain on fire, but was unable to catch her.
Dazai quickly stopped the two and forced them to clean up the dead rats. Unfortunately, Angel wasn’t part of either pile.
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- Loud
Dazai flinched and pressed his hands against his ears to try to silence the sudden loud screech that came from the gang office. Said screech was then followed by an even louder roar.
“Featherbrain! Egg!” Dazai yelled at the two, “Stop being so loud! You’re giving me a headache!”
They both looked at him with guilty expressions.
Featherbrain flew up and sat on Dazai’s head, preening his hair and chirping apologetically, while Egg rubbed against his legs like a cat.
“What is wrong with you two? Were you having some sort of competition on who could be the loudest or something?!”
Featherbrain hooted and flapped her wings as if to say ‘yes, that's exactly what we were doing.’
Dazai sighed, “You two are so troublesome.”
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- Flying
“IS THAT A DRAGON?!”
“Oh my god, whose owl is that??!!”
“The dragon is going to eat it!!”
“Wait, is the owl chasing the dragon or is the dragon chasing the owl..?”
“Obviously, the dragon is trying to kill the owl, dumbass!”
A large group of students had gathered near the courtyard to watch.
“How did a dragon get here? Should we call a professor?!”
“Isn’t that the demon student’s pet??”
Ron walked up to the group, “Hey, what in Merlin's beard is going on here?!”
“There’s an owl being hunted by a dragon!” A Hufflepuff girl exclaimed, her name was Emily, if Ron remembered correctly. He had partnered with her in Herbology once.
Ron looked at where she was pointing and saw Featherbrain chasing Egg around the courtyard.
“Oh no! Bloody hell, how did they escape?!”
“Escape?? Escape where?!” Emily asked.
“Uh… Featherbrain, the owl, escaped the owlery.” Ron said, he couldn’t exactly just tell some random person about the gang’s office, “I forgot I was supposed to watch them today!!”
“Watch them?! The dragon too???”
Ron ignored her question and ran up towards Featherbrain and Egg. Featherbrain was mercilessly pecking at Egg as they both zipped around in the air. Honestly, Ron couldn’t tell if they were trying to race each other or just regular fighting. “Both of you! Stop right now!!”
They both ignored him as Egg attempted to blow fire at Featherbrain, but only sent sparks instead.
Ron gritted his teeth and jumped up to try to pull them out of the air.
When that was unsuccessful, he finally said, “I am calling Dazai.”
They both froze, before quickly flying to the ground and acting innocent, trying to say ‘no! Please don’t call our dad!’
Ron sighed and mentally made a note to tell Dazai about his misbehaving pets.
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- Bullying
Dazai was trying to read a book that he stole from the forbidden section in the library. It was all about magical torture methods and was honestly quite interesting. He couldn’t read it in the library without getting caught, so he decided to hide in the gang’s office instead.
Egg was asleep in a huge pile of pillows, Dazai had no idea when that got here, and was letting out puffs of smoke in her sleep. It was kind of cute, but Dazai wouldn’t admit that.
Featherbrain was perched on a chandelier that also didn’t exist until now. The room honestly changed too often to keep track of at this point.
Suddenly, Featherbrain came swooping down from her perch and landed right on top of Egg’s head. She started jumping up and down on Egg’s head and making irritating screeching noises like she always did when Dazai tried to read.
Egg woke up, but Featherbrain continued to jump and even tried to peck Egg, who started growling at the bird.
Dazai sighed. He walked up to them and picked Featherbrain off Egg. “Featherbrain, you stupid bird, stop bullying Egg. You need to be nice to your little sister.”
Feathebrain cooed in disappointment while Egg huffed and buried herself into the pillows again, her tail flicking in annoyance at Featherbrain.
Dazai shook his head in disappointment, but maybe he could train Featherbrain to bully Pansy instead of Egg…
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- Fire
Dazai was in the gang office with Ron, who was telling him about how Featherbrain and Egg made a spectacle in front of a bunch of other students by trying to actively kill each other in the courtyard.
Meanwhile, Egg and Feathebrain were already starting to fight again.
Egg was showing off how she could shoot small sparks out of her mouth. She wasn’t old enough to breathe fire properly yet, but it was a work in progress.
Featherbrain rolled her eyes, if owls can do that, and flew to the desk in the office. She nudged the drawer open and hopped inside before grabbing something in her beak and flying back outside to Egg.
“Hey, Featherbrain- What are you holding?!” Ron exclaimed in shock as he saw Featherbrain fly past them
“Featherbrain! You pesky owl!!” Dazai immediately ran after her, trying to confiscate whatever she took.
Feather brain landed in front of Egg and clicked her beak, trying to use the lighter she had stolen from the drawer. After a few tries, she managed to start the flame. She chirped in victory before Dazai snatched the Lighter from her.
“Bad bird!” Dazai scolded.
“Why was there a lighter in that desk anyway?” Ron asked, observing the blue lighter in Dazai’s hand.
“Oh, just in case I need to commit arson.”
“...What.”
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Dazai couldn’t sleep.
He always hated how there were so many people in the dorms, especially since they all hated him and had reason to attack while he was asleep, but for some reason, it was harder to ignore tonight.
It was already 1 am, but he decided he didn’t want to stay in the dorms anymore.
He slipped out of his bed and put on his robes and shoes before sneaking out through the entrance.
He walked away from the Slytherin dorms and started looking for the secret passage that led near the gang’s office. There was a 50% chance he would get lost (Usually that percentage was higher, but luckily, he remembered the secret passages the twins taught him, so now he was less likely to end up on the wrong staircase.)
He reached a potted plant and shifted it to the side slightly, and tapped on the floor underneath with his wand. The tiles began shifting, and it revealed a trap door.
He climbed down into it and began to go down the long tunnel. This tunnel would lead him to the floor where the gang office was on. Don’t ask how it works; everything about navigating Hogwarts made little to no sense to him.
Dazai exited the other end of the tunnel and exited through a landscape painting. He walked down the hallway, fiddling with the ends of his bandages, his hands itching for his knife.
Eventually, he made it to the office.
He entered and saw Egg and Featherbrain already asleep on the couch, which had a few soft cushions and fluffy blankets for them to use.
Dazai walked up to them and sat next to them on the couch, he was starting to feel sleepy again, but this time there was no potentially violent house mates who might attack him here.
Featherbrain was the first to wake up, she was nocturnal but was still asleep, Dazai thinks its because she’s just a lazy bird.
She chirped softly and flew onto Dazai’s head, loafing and closing her eyes again.
Egg shifted closer too, still asleep,she was probably sensing Dazai’s presence. She let out a sigh of contentment when Dazai draped the blanket over her and himself. He leaned against the cushions, Featherbrain still resting on his head, and closed his eyes before drifting off to sleep.