A.N.: Otay, peoples! First chapter of this story that I had running around in my head for a while. There will be a poll for other main characters, and to be truthful, I know who I want with whom, but it's nice to read your suggestions and comments. Now for the rules; I don't appreciate flamers and people who don't even give an explanation of why they hate my story so much. If I make a mistake, I'm perfectly fine with people pointing that out for me if I miss it. Constructive criticism I can totally understand, but just blunt dislike with no given or logical reason just ticks me off and gives me a pure reason to blast you in a update, and I don't think anybody wants to read that, so please keep that in mind before you end up doing something stupid.
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So this story is set in the Chamber of Secrets, one of my favorite books of the series, and it starts where Tome already stole Harry's wand, called out the basilisk, and Fawkes had begun to battle with the basilisk after dropping the Sorting Hat near Harry's feet. A lot of things will be changed in this, so don't be surprised when something totally unexpected happened, considering this is what I would've done if I were in Harry's situation.
Chapter 1
Harry stared at the basilisk fighting with Fawkes with wide eyes before running towards the tunnels, splashing his way through the sewer water. The basilisk hissed in pain before slithering away from Fawkes with a strike with its fangs, blood pouring from the sockets where its eyes used to be. Fawkes trilled strongly before flying away towards Harry.
"Oh no you don't", Tom sneered before shooting a killing curse towards Fawkes.
Fawkes dodged but quickly got hit with the tail from the king of serpents, hitting the stone walls of the chamber then hitting the ground, seemingly unconscious.
Tom smirked wickedly before turning towards the basilisk.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Go get him", he commanded, pointing in the same direction of Harry.
Harry ran, terrified, into another tunnel before stopping, listening for the serpentine creature. Hearing the telling slithering and hissing, he rushed in the opposite direction back towards the chamber and towards Ginny.
'How she even got to this point, I don't want to think about right now', he thought, rushing to her side to pick her up.
"It's over now, Potter."
Harry turned around clumsily to see the future Lord Voldemort standing directly behind him, pointing his own wand towards his face.
"I see now that what ever happened that night was a fluke; a misjudgment on my part. I will just quickly correct my error, and it'll be like it never happened", Tom hissed softly, smirking cruelly at Harry before raising his wand to cast his curse when Fawkes started attacking his face, cawing angrily. Harry didn't take a horse gift in the mouth, quickly pulling Ginny up and stumbling towards the exit, not even thinking that he forgot one crucial thing in his way towards help. The basilisk crashed into the chamber through the pool near the statue of its former master, hissing angrily for food and blood.
"Over there, you disgusting worm! Get the boy! Use your bloody nose", Tom shrieked harshly, shooting spell after spell at Fawkes who was flying circles over him.
*Harry turned to look behind him and tripped, dropping Ginny hard on her head. At his feet was the Sorting Hat, and in it was object that made him trip. He grabbed its handle and pulled, cursing silently at its weight before staring at the sword that was gleaming in his hand. Thinking fast, he stood shaking over Ginny's body as the basilisk towered over him, hissing menacingly at his direction. Soon the serpent stopped, and began thrusting its head towards Harry, bent on eating him and Ginny both for its master. Harry ran jumped and swung around, not only to get away alive and away from Ginny, but also trying to hit the basilisk.
'Its scales are too strong! The bloody sword won't cut through! How am I supposed to kill it,' he thought frantically while trying to get a good place to cut the snake while it continued to try to eat him. As it seems, it got harder for him when he fell and twisted his ankle. Tom laughed manically seeing this, looking more solid by the minute.
"Yes, potter! Die, like your mudblood mother and blood-traitor father!"
As this was said, the basilisk thrust its head down to eat Harry whole, when Harry thrust the sword up through the roof of its mouth, through the head, and into the brain. There was a moment of silence that surrounded the chamber before the basilisk started thrashing around, swinging its head back in for with obvious agony, before dropping to the ground, never to move again.
"N-no! That's impossible," Tom screeched, outrage and shock stressed across his handsome features.
Harry, panting with adrenaline rushing through his body, jolted when he noticed a large jagged fang sticking out of his arm. With a pained expression on his face, he pulled it out with one strong yank, and began limping towards the abandon diary that sat on the floor near Riddle's feet.
"It's too later, Potter. The transfer is almost complete, and I will be reborn to finish what I started. And at the same time, not only will poor little Ginerva die, but so will y-"
"You know what", Harry huffed, the diary in one hand, the bloodied fang in another.
"Bad guys like you talk too bloody much."
He then stabbed the diary with the fang, getting a pained scream from Tom as a hole formed in his almost solid body. Two more stabs later, Tom combusted into magick, fading into the air of the chamber. Harry lies on his back, staring at the roof of the chamber as his vision got blurry, even though he had on his glasses.
'Is this it,' he wonders, pain spreading from his arm to his body. He hears Ginny waking up, strangely content that she is alive even though he lays there dying. Then he hears Fawkes come beside, Ginny stumbling behind him.
"Hey Fawkes", he whispers, noticing tears gathering in the phoenix's eyes.
"Don't cry, its okay, you have to get Ginny out of here and to Dumbledore", Harry says softly, vaguely noticing that the tear drops into the wound from the fang bite. With each drop of the tears, the wound fades way and the pain in Harry's body fades with it. Harry begins to notice his surroundings, and sits up to have Ginny hugging him, sobbing while thanking him and apologizing at the same time.
"It's okay, we're okay now", he murmured, patting her back, slightly dazed by the whole situation. He shook himself out of it quickly before pulling himself together. Harry stood up of the floor, vaguely noticing how disgusting it was, and pulled up Ginny afterwards.
"Come on, we got to get Ron and Lockhart", he stated, pulling her out the chamber to where the others were.
"Ron?"
"H-Harry? You there? I heard a lot of things going on over there! Did you get Ginny?"
"Ron! I'm okay! Harry saved me", Ginny shouted back, jumping slightly as if her brother could she through the rock wall if she was high enough.
"We need a way to get out of here", Harry mumbled, looking around the wall for an exit. Suddenly Fawkes picked him up and trilled lightly, as if laughing at his confusion.
"Oh! Fawkes, can you get us to the other side of this wall", Harry asked, realization covering his face. Fawkes trilled once more before flashing before the both to the other side of the wall, where Ron hugged his sister as she started sobbing again. He looked towards Lockhart and noted that he was still unconscious, thus making their job getting out of the swear pipes easier. He looked at Fawkes and quietly wondered if he could transport them back to Myrtle's bathroom. As if reading his thoughts, Fawkes trilled towards Harry to get closer to the others, and flashed them not to Myrtle's bathroom, but to Dumbledore's office. There were several other people in the room at the moment that stopped talking as soon as they noticed the other children in the room. There was a pause until the Weasleys ran towards their children and began to hug and a scold them at the same time.
"Oh! My Merlin, don't ever do such a thing again! Do you know how terrified I was! I get enough from the twins as it is, I don't need you two following in their foot steps", Mrs. Weasley simpered, hugging them close to her to the point they look like they were couldn't breathe.
"M-mom! We're fine now, b-but we can't breathe", Ron cried, though it was slightly muffled by Molly's chest. Their other siblings laughed, but it was noticeable that they cared about the welfare of their youngest siblings, also.
"Alright now", Dumbledore smiled, blues eyes twinkling happily. "We must find out what happened here to-"
"Where were you?"
Everyone turned towards Harry, as he stared at the headmaster with a very disturbing expression on his face, as if abandon.
"And what do you mean by that, Potter", Snape sneered. "The Headmaster had many things to do than to listen to your pityf-"
"I wasn't asking you to answer, I was asking Professor Dumbledore", Harry snapped back, barely even glancing at him before turning back to the eldest wizard. "Where were you? I know we've been done there longer than 2-3 hours, more than enough time for you to come back to whatever Ministry meeting to come done in the chamber, which is open last time I checked, and helped us get out. Hell, even enough time to come and help me when I was fighting a bloody basilisk and trying not to die from its poisonous venom, or even when Lord bloody Voldemort," here everyone flinched, except Dumbledore, "had my bloody wand at my face, ready to kill me off", Harry practically yelled, glaring at not only the headmaster, but all the other teachers in the room too, which was everyone, even Lockhart, although he doesn't even understand what was going on.
"My boy, if we had known where the entrance to the chamber was, we would have came to help as soon as possible," Dumbledore replied calmly, eyes no longer smiling as he took in the angered and frustrated look on Harry's face.
"Well I don't think that bloody likely," Harry spat back, everyone in the room gasping at the rudeness shone in his actions.
"People kept telling me that this is the safest place on earth besides Gringotts, yet not only was it broken into the day I went there, but things keep happening to me ever since I stepped into this world, especially since I came to this school", Harry scowled, looking frustrated by the whole situation.
"B-but this is the safest place in the world," Arthur stuttered, seemingly not as stunned as the others in the room at that moment.
"Well obviously not! Everything that has been happening to me; any terrifying near-death experiences I had came from being in this school. Does any other wizarding school have this mess", Harry asked, looking around the room, and the settling his questioning and rebellious gaze on the headmaster, who hasn't spoken up yet in the conversation.
Everyone looked at each other, before Professor McGonagall finally answered in a way that answered every other question that was bouncing in his head.
"No."
Harry stared at his teachers, some who understood what he was about to do (Prof. Sinistra and Prof. Sprout), others looking at him like he was a stupid git (Snape), the rest in disbelief, at Ron and Ginny, who both looked back at Harry with shocked and confused expressions on their faces while their siblings, with the exception of Percy, looked resigned then at the headmaster, who looked as though he knew where this was going, and he wasn't going to like it.
"Then maybe its time I find another school", he said softly, and with how quiet the room was, everyone heard it quite clearly. Harry turned towards the headmaster and bowed his head, before walking out the room back towards the Gryffindor dormitories to pack his truck.
Everyone left in the office stared at the place Harry left, before turning to Dumbledore, a confused expression on all their faces.
"M-Mum?"
"Yes dear?"
"Did Harry just leave, and said that he is going to another school?"
"Yes dear."
"He can't," Ron burst, red in the ears and neck.
"Dumbledore, what are you going to do about this," the adults in the room practically screeched, Molly's voice the loudest of them all. The headmaster signed before looking at Fawkes, who seemed to be sleeping.
"Whatever I can to change his mind."
*LOL, its funny cause when I wrote this, I started giggling evilly, thinking 'Die Ginny! Die!" Never liked her, too much of a fan girl on an embarrassing level. Plus, it's kind of creepy when you start dating the girl who in a way, I similar to your mom in looks.
Anyway, first chapter is done, and if I see enough reviews, questions and the like, I may update the next one faster than normal. Hope to see you guys soon!
Lulu out~!