Chapter 6

Tina, Newt and Rayla walked down the street, Tina holding the case. Tina is lecturing them for not Obliviating the Muggle. She seemed to be close to tears. "I can't believe you didn't Obliviate that man! If there's an inquiry, I'm finished!"


Newt and Rayla look at each other confused. "Why would you be finished? We're the ones who didn't-" 


Tina cut Rayla off. "I'm not supposed to go near the Second Salemers!"


Newt suddenly spun around, shocked, looking at a small blue creature with odd wings on its head. Tina followed his gaze, confused.


"What was that?"


He looked back at her, "Er- moth, I think. Big moth."


Tina frowned, not believing him.


Rayla walked a bit ahead, to see a huge crowd in front of a ruined building. There were people shouting, rushing out of the building and a policeman trying to get a statement.


Rayla looked back a Newt and Tina, "Look at this..."


They move to the edge of the crowd, walking around it. Rayla listened as the cop talked to the crowd.


"Hey... Hey- quiet down- I'm trying to get a statement!"


A mom was talking hurriedly to the cop, "I'm telling it's a gas explosion again, I ain't taking the kids back up there until it's safe!"


The cop looked at her, "Sorry ma'am- there ain't no smell of gas."


A hobo, clearly very drunk steps up to the officer saying, "It warn't gas- hey officer, I seen it! It wuzza- gigantic- a huge hippopotto-"


Rayla saw Newt slip his wand from his sleeve and point it at the hobo. She looked at Tina, who missed that, because she was staring at the building. The hobo finished his sentence, "-gas. It was gas."


The crowd shouts in agreement. Tina seemed to have caught sight of something else.


Newt decided to take advantage of the distraction and grabbed Rayla's wrist. He led her into the ruined building. They enter the Muggle's room and stop, staring.


Everything, the furniture, a wall, was destroyed. There were huge footprints on the ground. Rayla knelt down next to one, examining it.


She looks up at Newt, "You have a Erumpent in that case? What else have you got in there?"


He didn't answer her, as he had heard groaning from the corner and he had knelt down to examine the Muggle lying there.


They suddenly hear Tina calling for them. Newt jumps back from the Muggle and to his case.


Rayla brought out her wand casts a Repairing Charm. The room is fixed just before Tina entered the room.


Newt is sitting on the bed, with is case on his lap, and he clicked the latches shut right as Tina entered.


She looked at Newt in horror as Rayla slipped her wand back in her pocket. She turned to face the Muggle lying unconscious in the corner and looked at the bite that was his neck.


Murtlap, of course there is a Murtlap in that case. Rayla didn't even hear the conversation going between Newt and Tina. The Muggle moaned and Tina whirled around.


She dropped the Muggle's case and rushed to the injured Muggle, shoving Rayla out of the way. Rayla landed on her butt, glaring at Tina. Newt helped her up and lead her to the door.


Just before they reached it, Tina screamed and they spun around. The Murtlap had ran out from under a cabinet and attacked Tina. It had tried to latch onto her arm. Newt grabbed it by the tail and wrestled it into his case.


"Mercy Lewis, what is that?!"


Rayla winced at Tina's shrill voice. If she's going to keep shouting like that, I'm going to go deaf. Newt glanced at Rayla before turning to Tina.


"Nothing to worry about. That is a Murtlap."


The Muggle, unnoticed by the trio, opened his eyes. Tina looked at Newt accusingly.


"What else have you got in there?"


The Muggle sat up and recognized Newt, "You!"


Newt looked sheepish and said, "Hello."


Tina rushed to the Muggle, "Easy, Mr...?"


"Kowalski... Jacob."


Tina shook Jacob's hand.


Newt raised his wand, ready to Obliviate him. Tina jumped in front of Jacob, her arms out protectively. "You can't Obliviate him! We need him as a witness."


Rayla scoffed, "Sorry, but didn't you just yell at us the whole length of New York for not doing it in the first place?"


Tina shot a glare at her, "He's hurt! He looks ill!"


Rayla and Newt glance at Jacob. "He'll be fine. Murtlap bites aren't serious." Newt said. Tina looked at him in disbelief as Rayla spoke up, "You sure? That is a more severe reaction than I've ever seen."


Newt looked at Jacob, "You're right, but if were really serious he'd have..."


Tina looked at him, "What? What would he have?"


"Well, the first symptom would be flames out of his anus-"


Rayla snickered, trying to cover it with a cough, while Jacob looked shocked and out of sorts, furrowing his brow, and Tina looked horrified.


"This is balled up!"


Rayla spoke up, "Eh, it'd last 48 hours, at most."


"I can keep him if you want me to-" Newt started to offer.


"Oh, keep him? We don't keep them! Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the wizarding community in America?"


Newt looked at Tina, "I do know a few things actually. I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with non-magic people. That you're not meant to befriend them-"


"That you can't marry them. Which is utterly ridiculous, if you ask me. Also, what happens to the families of muggle-borns?" Rayla interrupted.


Tina just looked at the both of them. "Who's going to marry him? You're all coming with me-"


Rayla glared at her, "Do you realize how rude that is?" Tina ignored her.


"I don't see why you need us to come with you-" Newt started. Tina tried to lift the partially conscious Jacob before looking at the two others.


"Help me!"


Newt and Rayla look at each other.


"Well..." Rayla hesitated. Newt looked at her and they both hurried forward and helped.


Jacob was really confused now. "I'm- I'm dreaming, right? Yeah... I'm tired. I never went to the bank. This is all just some big nightmare, right?"


Tina let out a small sigh mixed with a groan. "For the both of us, Mr. Kowalski."


The four of the Disapparated. The photo of Jacob's grandmother shook and fell to the ground, revealing the Niffler in a hole behind the picture.


A little boy is walking down the street with his dad, licking a big lollipop. They pass a fruit barrow, and an apple starts to float along, bobbing in the air.


It gets eaten by seemingly nothing, and the boy gazed at the apple in wonder. But when the lollipop is taken from him by the invisible creature, his smile fades.


He tries to reach back and grab it, but his father jerked lightly on his arm, tugging him along. The boy whines as the lollipop is left behind, half eaten by the invisible thing.


The eyes of a lady pictured on a newsstand advertisement suddenly open. The outline of the creature is visible for a second as the creature peels away from the poster.


The creature moves along the street, a dog barked at it and the creature scurried away, moving forward, knocking down a newspaper stand and causing a bike and some cars to swerve out of the way.


It headed toward a department store where a small blue tail is slithering into a window in the attic. The building suddenly shakes and some tiles fall as the creature expanded in size. 

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