*Author's note*

I had posted this on my tumblr page and people seemed to have liked it now I wanna know what you guys think to those of you who read this oneshot story.  Out of all of Newt's creatures my all time favorite would have to be Frank the Thunderbird cause when I first saw him when I saw Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, I was just in AWE of him and this fic had been BUZZING in my mind and just DYING to come out of me and so this was born. I hope you guys enjoy this b/c I REALLY enjoyed writing it. Be warned of poaching (WHICH I DO NOT SUPPORT STOP IT ONCE AND FOR ALL), trafficking (ALSO STOP IT IT'S NOT A JOKE), and Mother hen!Newt Scamander yeah I know not really a warning but let's make it one, above all else COMPLETE TEETH ROTTING FLUFF :)

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It all started on a simple trip to Egypt. I along with my lifelong friend and fellow Hogwarts student Newt Scamander were told by the Ministry to go there just to scope out any illegal actions or suspicious characters wanting to expose the wizarding community, but what we didn't expect was for the adventure of a lifetime to happen.

One late afternoon, Newt and I were just passing through the small market place taking in all the sights of Egypt. Marketers were selling anything they could get their hands on from foods from exotic lands to valuable treasure.

"Would the lady like a necklace? My dear boy buy a pretty necklace for a pretty lady". A jewelry salesman said to Newt and I as he held up a beautiful golden necklace with a beautiful ruby gem at the center.

"Should I?" asked Newt.

"It's up to you, you know me I've never been a big jewelry fanatic, but it is a beautiful necklace".

"Alright then, I'll take it". He then paid the man five gold pieces and the jeweler handed Newt the necklace. He then turned to me and said as he held out the beautiful necklace, "May I?"

"Of course good sir," I said as I turned around and Newt hooked the necklace around my neck. I turned back to face him and asked him, "How's it look?" Newt just stared at me and he muttered,

"Wonderful". I smiled bashfully and said.

"Well come on let's go, more people could be coming and we wouldn't want to block them". I then walked on as Newt followed behind me. As the day went on, there was nothing suspicious going on nor were there any strange creatures wanting to cause havoc, that is until we saw three gentlemen walk into an alleyway.

"(Y/n), did you see that just now?"

"Yes I did, let's go". We then followed behind the three men without being detected.

We followed them out of the city and far out into the desert and it was then did the three apparated.

"They're wizards!" I exclaimed.

"Come on we can't lose them". We then apparated as well and trailed behind them.

We soon found them at an isolated campsite, we stayed above a rocky hill slope that looked downward towards the campsite.

"I think we may have found our suspicious characters" I whispered.

"We might have, and did you catch the brands on those three men when we were following them back at the village?" Newt asked me.

"Yeah I did, why?"

"I know that brand, they're traffickers". My eyes widened and I looked down into the campsite.

"By Helga's ghost, I pray they haven't trafficked a child wizard like the last ones did".

"I don't think they're those types of traffickers, in fact they may be worse". It was then Newt and I were horrified to see more traffickers come out with a large cage containing something inside, a very beautiful creature.

"Merlin's Beard" muttered Newt.

"Isn't that a—"

"A Thunderbird".

"Oh the poor thing, kept like that in such a small cage". Newt then got up and began walking down the hill. "What the—Newt? Newt! Come back here! Newt they'll see you. Oh you bloody—" I whispered yelled at him but Newt wouldn't listen.

I love that man but I swear one of these days his recklessness is going to get himself hurt if not killed. Wait a second, did I just say love? No, no, no. No time for that (Y/n) you've gotta help your friend not get himself killed by those traffickers. I then got up from my spot and quietly and carefully walked towards Newt.

We stayed low and kept hidden from sight by hiding behind any nearby boulder that could be found. As we carefully got closer we then began to hear the men talk.

"This beast will sell us a pretty price". One man spoke with an Eastern European accent.

"Indeed, much better than that Erumpent horn we sold last month, eh Strasser?" said another man with an Australian accent.

"All I care about is that we don't get caught by any of the Ministries and we're payed full price for this creature" a Swahili man stated. We then heard the sounds of the Thunderbird trying to get out screeching and cawing out in pain. Suddenly a loud bang to the cage and the Swahili man exclaimed. "Shut up! Bloody thing keeps squawking like that it'll give us away. Let's just kill it and be done with it!"

"No! We need it alive, no one touches the Thunderbird until we sell it. We leave first light" the ring leader with the Eastern European accent stated. Newt and I looked at each other then we heard absolute silence as the men probably went back into their tents to rest up since it was starting to get dark.

"We've got to free this creature and get as far away from here as we can before sunrise" said Newt.

"But how? This is a Thunderbird Newt, it'll start raising the alarms as soon as we get close to it, and who knows how many more men there really are".

"That's why I'll take care of them while you get him free".

"No Newt I won't let you take on all those wizards by yourself".

"There's no time for debating (y/n), please darling the Thunderbird needs our help, and we haven't got much time". Newt looked at me with those big puppy dog eyes of his that shined with so much love and passion for wanting to free this beautiful creature. I sighed heavily and said.

"Just promise me you'll try to stay safe if worse comes to worse".

"I promise". He held out his pinkie and I smiled at him and wrapped my pinkie around his as we made our pact.

Newt then peeked over the rock first and slowly walked forward to look overhead towards the campsite then he turned towards me and gestured with his hands for me to come out. I cautiously followed behind him and we were soon right up to the Thunderbird's cage.

Upon closer inspection, this beautiful creature was in worse shape than we thought. He was all chained up to make sure he couldn't even flap his wings, his left leg was bleeding some the ankle chains he bore on him. We could also hear him breathing heavily but it sounded like someone breathing with smoke in their lungs. That raspy, wheezing sound that almost makes your heart break.

He suddenly opened his eyes and began squirming as he screeched out like I had feared. Newt shushed him gently as he whispered.

"Shhh, calm down, calm down. We're not going to hurt you".

"There's a good boy, it'll be okay" I assured him as well as I slowly reached my hand in the cage and touched its neck and stroked it as he began to calm down.

I had only read stories about Thunderbirds but never seen one this close before, and now seeing him even in this condition he was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I couldn't help myself but smile as a tear fell down my face as I softly giggled.

Newt then took out his wand but then suddenly that caused the Thunderbird to suddenly flip out and struggle even harder.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! We're here to help you! Easy, easy". Newt tried to assure the Great Albatross. "Alohamora" he said to the main cage. After a few clicks and turns the cage suddenly collapsed onto the ground leaving only the chains.

"You two!" Newt and I turned around and saw the poachers all standing with their wands at attention. Newt shielded me and then fired a spell at them.

"Stupefy!" His shot hit one of the men down to the ground but the Swahili man fired a spell at Newt knocking him down to the ground. I apparated out of sight and Newt proceeded to the plan.

He kept the poachers distracted while I tried my luck at these chains as I apparated back beside the Thunderbird.

"Easy boy, I'm gonna free you okay but you have to keep still for me". I then took out my wand but it was suddenly knocked down across the sand. I looked up to see an old man with a grizzly black and white beard, cold, heartless eyes staring back at me and he sent another spell towards me, this time it had lightning strikes involved.

I groaned in pain as I tried to go towards my wand but before I could reach it, the man stepped on my hand making me cry out in pain.

"You know you have such a pretty face, you could worth more than that useless beast". The man had the Eastern European accent we had heard and judging by how he carried himself he was probably the leader Strasser.

"Useless? Useless? Go to hell you sick bastard!" I sneered.

"What a shame, witches like you never make it past their prime when involved with such jobs". He then said a Crucio spell which made me scream out in agony.

"(Y/n)!" I heard Newt cry out but as I saw him run towards me, two of the poachers bounded Newt and forced him to his knees.

After a few more Crucio spells, I could barely even move as the leader grabbed me by the back of my neck and dragged me to the cliff's edge.

"No! No please don't do this. You can do this to her! Don't do this to her! Take me instead! I'm the leader of this rescue punish me!" Newt screamed out but the leader didn't listen to his pleas.

"Your friend is either very brave or very stupid to involve a woman like you into this. There could be compromise if you agree to come with us". I only looked at the man with cold eyes then with whatever strength I could, I spat in his face. He narrowed his eyes then without a second thought, he let go of me and pushed me off the cliff.

*3rd POV*

As (y/n)'s scream echoed through the desert, Newt cried out her name and then something happened that the poachers did not expect. They soon chains being broken and a proud screech pierced the air, the Thunderbird was free.

He flew down the gorge cawing out and soon he appeared underneath (y/n) and soon she fell onto his back and once he felt she was on him, he flew high towards the sky.

*1st POV*

I couldn't believe this. This was how I was going to die, oh Merlin's beard if only I had gotten to tell Newt how I felt about him before I....Wait isn't that.... Suddenly I felt feathers against my face and I gripped tightly and when my brain finally caught onto what was happening, I realized I was on top of—no scratch that, I was riding on top of the Thunderbird.

I was riding a Thunderbird!

We soon flew over the poachers and Newt as the Thunderbird proudly let out its cries. He then dove down and grabbed the man who had pushed me with his talons and judging by the sounds of his screams of agony, I can tell he wasn't holding him gently. The Thunderbird soon let the man go and he plummeted to his death.

The Thunderbird circled back around and by ones or twos by both talon and beak, he picked up every single poacher and trafficker and tossed them over the gorge until they were all gone.

He then circled back and went for Newt. He grabbed him by his talons and I heard Newt exclaim frightenedly as he was taken over the gorge and released but before I could even urge the Thunderbird on, he already read my mind and swooped underneath him and soon Newt was riding behind me on top of the Thunderbird's back.

Newt and I looked embraced each other as the Thunderbird let out a powerful screech and then he turned around and we flew away from the campsite.

The Thunderbird flew us higher and higher until we broke through the clouds. Newt and I just couldn't stop smiling as we were actually riding this magnificent creature. Newt leaned over to the side till he met with the Thunderbird's eye and as he blinked at Newt, he smiled and I couldn't help myself but say.

"Higher!" As if understanding my wish, the Thunderbird flew higher into the sky and did a flip which caused me to fly off his back but he then caught me with his talons.

"(Y/n)! Are you alright?" I heard the concern in Newt's voice and I told him.

"You gotta try this Newt!" I proclaimed. The Thunderbird continued to fly until we came out of a cloud break and when I looked down I could see the entire desert plus the Nile all at once. Usually I would be scared being up this high, but since I was flying with not only Newt but with a Thunderbird, I didn't give a damn.

We soon dove down towards the river and just as we reached it, I was soon on the water but the Thunderbird gave me enough elevation to actually ski on it. I let out a happy giggles and I saw Newt peek out from the side of the Thunderbird as he said.

"You enjoying this love?"

"Am I ever!?" As I was swayed side to side for a brief moment, suddenly we came up to a low tree with muggle birds all swarming around it. The Thunderbird released me as I skidded underneath the tree and as the birds swarmed around me, I suddenly began to lose control and I knew I would soon go under the water, that is if I didn't feel something push against my back.

"We got you love!" I felt the Thunderbird's beak right at the center of my back. I soon looked ahead and took notice of a waterfall edge coming up.

"Full speed ahead, I've always wanted to try this!" I then extended my arms out like wings and I felt the speed being picked up as I skied across the water.

Then on time as the birds flew over the waterfall, I struck out a flying poise and was soon back on top of the Thunderbird's back and Newt standing right behind me holding me balanced as the Thunderbird let out another proud call.

Soon our little flying fest had to end, as we came up on a mountain side just a mile before you reached our campsite, the Thunderbird landed letting out a couple of screeches before finally landing full on the ground. Newt first slid off his back then turned and helped me off.

"You alright?" he asked me.

"That was—wow". Suddenly a wing surrounded the both of us as the Thunderbird looked at us with his piercing golden eyes. He let out a soft purr as he eyed us first before turning his head completely upside down. Newt and I copied him as best we could, the Thunderbird blinked and tilted his head at us before turning around with his head still upside down, as Newt and I tried to do the same, I let out a yelp as I fell to the ground.

"Oh (y/n), you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine, guess I'm not Thunderbird material" I let out a bashful giggle. The Thunderbird kept eyeing us. Newt then walked up to this magnificent creature and said as he gently stroked his head.

"We are so glad you came through to rescue us just as we were only meant to rescue you. I will be forever grateful how you saved my friend. She means....well she means everything to me" he stated the end of his statement bashfully. Could he—feel the same way?

"He's right, if you hadn't gotten free of your chains I would've—well I obviously wouldn't even be here. Thank you for saving my life". I held out my hand and stroked underneath his beak. The Thunderbird softly cooed as it nuzzled both Newt and I gratefully.

"For saving us, we'll do you one even better. We'll get you back to where you belong, won't we (Y/n)?"

"Absolutely, you deserve to be back home where you belong big guy" I said as I continued to stroke the soft, shimmering feathers of this beautiful creature.

"I'll only be just a few ticks love, mind watching him for a moment?"

"Of course". Newt then apparated leaving me and the Thunderbird alone. I turned to him and said, "Don't you worry now, where we'll be putting you for the time being will be far better than that horrible cage, you'll be able to fly, you'll be fed three meals a day, and you'll be kept out of sight until we get you home. Because when Newt makes a promise, he never breaks it".

I then began to think back on my feelings for him. We've been friends since well since the day we met on the Hogwarts express. We did practically everything together, we were even bullied together but we always had each other, then the day came of his expulsion. I was devastated and heartbroken because that was also the day I was going to admit my feelings for him.

Yeah I know I've been in denial but I can't ignore it any longer, especially after what had just happened. As if sensing my distress, the Thunderbird softly cooed and nuzzled into my chest. I smiled and said.

"I'm sorry, it's just.....I almost lost the chance of telling the man I love how I really felt about him. Newt means everything to me, he's been my best friend since forever and I never wanted to ruin that friendship so I tried to suppress my feelings for him, but after almost losing my life today I....I want to tell him how I feel but I—"

"I'm back so sorry it took so long, I also took the liberty of finding this," Newt then held out my wand and I stared at it in awe.

"Newt you—you found my wand, thank you".

"It was no problem, so is he ready?" We looked to the Thunderbird who looked at us and I said.

"I think he is". Newt then set down his case and opened it up and said to him.

"In you hop". The Thunderbird took flight before diving down straight into the case then Newt held out his hand and said, "Lady's first". I curtsied and stated obnoxiously,

"Why thank you kind sir" making Newt and I laugh softly before I descended down the staircase with Newt following right behind me.

Once we entered the case, we had entered a whole new world of enchantment. Various habitats surrounded the entire place and creatures big and small could be either seen or heard from just one area. We turned just a short ways from the shed to the desert habitat with a tall rocky perch and saw how happy our Thunderbird was.

"I think he's going to be okay". I said as I watched him as the sun shined brighter than ever before in his habitat.

"Indeed (y/n), soon we'll put him back where he belongs, to the wilds of Arizona". I turned to Newt and saw through his eyes of how proud he was seeing this creature free from a cage, like a parent sending their child off to school. You know with the way Newt cares about his creatures, he'd make a pretty great dad one day. "(Y/n) I—"

"Newt I was...." We both said at the same time as he turned to me. We stopped and bashfully chuckled at each other.

"You first" said Newt.

"No, no you started talking first before I interrupted, go on".

"Okay, (y/n) I've.....When I saw you up against that cliff, and I saw that man push you off, I thought for sure I had lost you forever. I never want that to happen again, especially after not telling you how I have really felt about you. From—from the first time I saw you on the train on our way to Hogwarts for the first time I....I thought I was looking at an angel instead of a witch, and....well now I've probably ruined our friendship right about now but I've always loved—"

Oh this sweet, sweet man. I interrupted him with a kiss and after a second, Newt wrapped his arms around my waist as I wrapped mine around his neck bringing him closer. Soon the need for oxygen became necessary as we separated but kept each other at arm's length.

"Oh Newt, I've felt the same way about you for so long. At first I thought it just hormones or something but as time grew on I knew it was more than that. In fact on the day of your....well that day I was going to confess my feelings for you but I lost it. Then I met you again just two years ago and those feelings came back but stronger than ever before. And after today I just—I just can't believe I almost lost my life without having told you my true feelings, I could have never passed on had I....."

"Shhh, don't think about that anymore my darling. You're safe, you're alive, and you're here with me. I love you so much (y/n) (m/n) (l/n)".

"I love you more Newton Artemis Fido Scamander".

"Quite frankly my dear, that's not even possible". We both smiled and chuckled before he brought me in for another kiss. Suddenly it hit me.

"Wait that's it!"

"What's it my love?"

"His name. You've just given me an idea for our newest creature's name. Frank".

"Frank the Thunderbird? Yeah, yeah I like it, I love it in fact! What do you think Frank?" Frank who was now on the flat rock ledge in front of us tilted his head a few times chirping before letting out a powerful caw.

"I think he likes it".

"Yeah, don't you worry Frank, once you're all better we'll bring you back home, that's a promise". Newt told Frank as he stroked his head softly as he flapped his wings softly. "Come on love, we best head back upstairs and leave Egypt as soon as we can". As I turned to follow Newt, I suddenly felt something fall on top of my head.

I reached up and felt something soft and thin. I removed it from my hair to see it was a feather, a Thunderbird feather to be exact. I turned to Frank and saw him up on the tall rock perch looking down at me and I could swear he was smiling at me for how proud he was at seeing me and Newt finally admitting our feelings to each other.

"Thank you Frank, I'll treasure your gift forever". I then turned around and walked away and climbed up the stairs and exit the case. Newt held his hand out for mine and I took it as he helped me out of his case.

"So onto our next grand adventure?" Newt asked as he closed his case and held out his arm for me to take.

"To the ends of the Earth my darling" I stated as I wrapped my arm around his and the two of us apparated out of the desert.

We had went to Egypt on a quest to report any suspicious characters or to even rescue any magical creatures that would be in danger, never did Newt and I expect that we would end up needing the rescuing and from a Thunderbird no less, and thanks to Frank, Newt and I finally worked up the courage to admit our feelings and never would I take back that day ever again.