Here is chapter 4 uploaded 6/9/17.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
"Spells"
/"Gobblydook"/
[Creature speech]
:Parseltongue:
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Chapter 4
It is Saturday and Harry wakes up to a curtain of blonde hair surrounding his face as Daphne is using him as a pillow. He pokes her trying to get her to wake up.
"Stop it pillow." Daphne mumbles. He pokes her again a little harder. "I said stop it pillow." Daphne says a little louder. Harry sighs and starts to tickle her sides. She starts to squeal as he attacks her. "Harrison stop! That tickles!"
"I know." He says with a smile. He stops and kisses her. "Good morning Daph."
"Morning Harrison." She says with a smile.
"Ready?" Harry asks.
"Yes I am." Daphne says.
"Okay, let's go." He says. The two leave Harry's room and walk into the common room heading for the entrance to the common room.
"Where are you two going?" Tracey asks.
"For a walk." Harry says.
"Sure you are." Theo says as he and Blaise have smirks on their faces. Harry and Daphne leave the common room, then go to the first floor. They walk out the doors and heads towards Black Lake. Ten minutes later they walk towards the forbidden forest.
"Harrison, why are we going into the forest?" Daphne asks.
"Because where else am I going to teach you how to use a gun? The forest has animals that are perfect for targets and is a good cover to use to train you." Harry says.
The two walk a little ways in and stop in a small clearing. Harry conjures a table and he pulls a small box from his pocket and unshrinks it. Daphne sees that it is a trunk, but not like a school trunk. Harry opens it and pulls out three different types of guns. A rifle, shotgun, and a pistol.
"Okay Daph, I will teach you how to use these three guns." Harry says.
"Okay." She says.
"We will start with the pistol." He picks up the pistol. "This is a .380." He says. He puts a fully loaded clip in the pistol and pulls the slide back and puts the safety on. He then hands it to her and tells and shows her how to hold it.
"Okay. See that bird in the tree?" He asks.
"Yes."
"Okay. Aim at it." He says. He explains how to use the iron sights. She aims and lowers the safety and squeezes the trigger and missed the bird and she covered her ears at the sound.
"Why is it so loud?"
"That's how it always is."
"Then why were yours quieter?" She asks. He pulls out one of his .45's and points at the tube with holes.
"This is a silencer, which makes it quiet." He says. He unscrews the silencer and aims at a bird that happened to land on a tree branch. He pulls the trigger rapidly four times hitting the bird from the tree and while it fell to the ground. Daphne covered her ears since it was louder than the .380.
"Want to try again?" He asks conjuring some targets to shoot at.
"Yes." She says. She takes the .380 and aims and misses the first shot.
"Try firing with both eyes open. If you use one eye your depth perception is off. The only time you use one eye is with the rifle since it has a scope. Pistols and shotguns are the only gun that you use both eyes to shoot with." Harry says. Daphne nods her head and raises the pistol and aims at the target and fires with both eyes open and she hits the target.
"I hit it." She says with a smile.
"Good job, but not good enough." Harry says earning him a shocked look, so he elaborates. "You hit the edges of the target. Your objective is to hit the white center in the black circle." He says. Daphne turns back to the target and sees the white center in the black circle. She notes that it is smaller than her finger nail.
"You expect me to hit that small of a target?" She asks.
"Yes. It will take you some time but you will get it. Start practicing again." He says. She starts doing target practice with the pistol for an hour and had improved.
"Good job Daph. We will now move onto the shotgun." He says picking up the shotgun. "This is a Remington 20 gauge shotgun. It is a pump action. Shotguns are a little different from rifles but have a major difference in pistols. Whereas pistols and rifles fire single shot rounds, a shotgun fires a round that scatters. The shell has little pellets in it where when fired shoots them out a velocity that they separate from the casing and go in different directions. Observe." He says pumping a shell into the gun. He aims at a target and squeezes the trigger. Daphne stares at the target that has forty small holes riddling the target.
"Shotguns are used by police as they can do damage but not kill if need be. They are good for breaking a door lock or window." Harry says pulling the pump back ejecting the empty shell. He hands her the shotgun. "Your turn." She takes it and pumps it putting one in and shoots the new target.
"Good. Now time for a moving target." He takes it from her and shows her how to shoot the flying discs. She practices this for an hour and was able to shoot 20 discs.
"Now one of my favorite weapons. The rifle." He says as he picks up the long gun that has a big black tube on top. "This is a Remington .243. It is a bolt action rifle." He says demonstrating how you put the bullet in the chamber and reload the new bullet. "This tube on top of the gun is the scope. It lets you see things that are at a far distance. Look through the scope and tell me if you see the target." He hands her the rifle and she puts the stock to her shoulder like he showed her and looks through the scope and sees the target which is a lot smaller than the other targets.
"Yes I see it." She says.
"Okay give back and use the spotting scope next to it to watch the target as I demonstrate firing the .243." He says. She hands it to him and she picks up the scope and looks at the target. He shoulders the rifle, opens the bolt and pulls it back and a bullet rises and he then pushes the bolt forward pushing the bullet into the firing chamber. "Firing." He says. He squeezes the trigger firing the .243. Daphne sees that the target is hit center.
"You hit it dead center." She said amazed.
"Thanks. Your turn." They switch with him as her spotter. She fires and lets a pained yelp escape her mouth as she rubs her shoulder. "Sorry I should have told you that the recoil on a rifle can sometimes hurt if you do not have a strong hold on it to your shoulder." Daphne glares at him but shoulders the rifle with more strength and fires again, but hits the white outside. She practices for an hour with the rifle till she hits the black circle.
"Okay that should be enough for today. We'll come back next week to continue."
"Okay." Daphne says rubbing her sore shoulder. Harry walks behind her and rubs her shoulders. "Can you wait till we get to the common room to do that?"
"Fine."
Two months go by and Daphne got good at using a gun. She has come to love it more than her wand since it is faster than casting. She now uses a 9mm which is dark black. She has a notice-me-not charm on it so that it is not noticed as it sits on her right hip.
"You have done well Daph. You are good with close and long distance firing." Harry says as he puts his two .45's in his shoulder holsters.
"Well you taught me." She says holstering her glock.
"Well I am in the military, somewhat for America." Harry says.
"What do you do again?"
"Sorry I can't say or I would have to arrest you." Harry says with waggling eye brows.
Daphne snorts in amusement before kissing Harry.
The two are walking down a corridor on the second floor when they find the hall flooded with water.
"The hell?" Harry asks.
"Mr. Potter." The two turn to see Filch.
"Mr. Filch." Harry greets.
"Harrison…" Daphne says pulling on Harry's shirt sleeve.
"Yes love?"
"Look." Daphne says pointing. The two follow her finger and are shocked at the sight.
"Ms. Norris!" Filch screams.
"What the hell?" Harry says. He steps forward and draws his birch and swishes and cuts the rope holding the cat and he catches it. Filch runs over.
"She has been petrified, but how?" Harry says handing the cat to Filch.
"I don't know, but if this is from a student, this is the first time that one has done this." Daphne says.
"Could it be possible to be from something else?" Filch asks. Daphne steps forward and waves her wand over the cat.
"I don't know. I don't detect a spell or potion." Daphne says.
"Oh shit." Harry curses with wide eyes.
"What's wrong Harrison?" Daphne asks. Harry gulps.
"I think I know what did this." He says.
"What?" Filch asks. The two see Harry pale.
"A basilisk." He says and the two have wide eyes as they stare at Harry.
"Are you sure?" Daphne asks.
"Yes and I believe that it is still in the castle." Harry says horrifying the two as they start looking down the corridors for a basilisk.
"What do we do Mr. Potter?" Filch asks.
"Not tell Dumbledork. That manipulative old coot won't do shit. We have to be observant from here on out." Harry says.
"Okay." The two say.
Harry knocks on a door.
"Come in." A voice says. Harry and Daphne walk into Professor Snape's office.
"Harry, Daphne. What can I help you with?"
"Sir there is a problem." Harry says.
"What?"
"We found Filch's cat petrified on the second floor, but it was not from a spell or potion, since Daphne couldn't find anything." Harry says.
"Really? What could have done it?" Snape asks.
"That's why we are here. I believe that there is a basilisk loose in the castle." Harry says and Snape's eyes widen and he pales.
"A basilisk?"
"Yes sir." Harry says.
"I'll keep an eye out for anything." Snape says.
"Okay." The two say and return to the common room. The two walk into Harry's room.
"Lady Hogwarts do you hear me?" Harry calls after closing his door.
"Yes My Lord." Lady Hogwarts says appearing. "What can I do for you?" She asks.
"Fawkes!" Fawkes appears with Fergus.
"My Lord."
"We have a problem." Harry says.
"Yes?" Hogwarts asks.
"I believe that a basilisk is loose in the castle." Harry says and he sees Lady Hogwarts eyes widen.
"A basilisk is loose inside me?" Hogwarts asks shocked.
"I'll take it that you didn't know until just now." Daphne says.
"Yes. I believe that explains why some of the portraits have stopped reporting to me because they have become petrified." Hogwarts says.
"Great. A basilisk. We need to find it. And soon." Harry says.
One month later
Four students end up being petrified, all muggle born and one of them is Hermione. Harry and Daphne feel bad for Thomas as he is always in the hospital wing to see her. The following week , however, would seem to be the end of the world for Harry and he has no idea.
"Harry!" Harry turns around to see Thomas, Tracey, Theo, and Blaise running up.
"Hey gu…what's wrong?" He asks seeing the looks on their faces.
"It's Daphne!" Thomas says. Harry's eyes widen slightly and his heart skips a beat.
"What's wrong with Daphne?"
"She has been petrified." Theo says.
Silence.
That is all that Harry hears as the world seems to go quiet around him. He notices Thomas waving his hand in front of his face. He turns around and starts to run.
'No! Not Daphne too!' He thinks running with the four others behind him.
He bursts into the hospital wing flinging the doors open which slam into the walls startling everyone inside. He sees his parents, Daphne's parents, Professor Snape, and Dumbledore standing around a bed with Daphne on it. Harry runs for the bed.
"Daphne!" Harry yells but is stopped by his dad.
"Harry stop!" James says as Lily starts to cry.
"Dad let me go." Harry says trying to get to Daphne.
"Harry there isn't anything you can do." Elizabeth Greengrass says still crying as she is sitting in a chair with Nathan Greengrass resting a hand on his wife's shoulder. At hearing this Harry drops to his knees and cries. Lily walks over and embraces her oldest child. She looks up to see Thomas, Theo and Blaise look at their brother/friend in pain as Tracey has tears spilling down her cheeks for her two friends.
A few minutes later Harry stands.
"Where was she found?"
"On the second floor near the girl's bathroom." Tracey says with tears still running down her cheeks as Theo hugs her. Harry turns on his heel and storms out of the hospital wing.
Harry draws his pistols and ejects the clips and checks to make sure that he has enough bullets and puts the clips back in them. He pulls the slides back and reholsters them. He gets to the second floor girls bathroom, but freezes in his tracks and his blood runs cold as he stares with wide eyes at the wall. He turns around and runs back to the hospital wing.
"Everyone!" He yells running in.
"What?" James asks.
"Come quick!" Harry says running out with everyone following. They get to the bathroom and everyone stares in horror and are pale as they stare at the wall with writing in blood.
'The Chamber of Secrets has been reopened.'
"The Chamber of secrets is opened again?" Dumbledore asks clearly shocked.
"There's more." Harry says pointing to a different wall and they all look and pale even more.
'Her body lays cold and only her bones will remain.' Is written in blood.
"Someone was taken?" McGonagall and Lily ask horrified.
'Who though?" Nathan Greengrass asks.
"Professors!" All turn to see the Weasley's run up.
"What is it?" McGonagall asks.
"Ginny is missing." The twins say. The other snap their heads back to the walls.
"Great Merlin!" Lily yells horrified.
"What?" Percy asks.
"Your sister has been taken by the beast of the Chamber of Secrets." Professor Snape says and the Weasley's eyes widen with horror.
"What?!" They all shout.
"I'm afraid that it's true." Dumbledork says. The Weasley's and the adults leave and it is just Harry, Thomas, Tracey, Theo and Blaise.
"So…what now?" Blaise asks.
"I think that I might know where the entrance is." Harry says.
"Where?" Thomas asks.
"All those that have been petrified were found near here and there always was water. If it is a basilisk then it is using the plumbing." Harry says. The other four's eyes widen in horror at hearing that the beast is a basilisk. He walks into the bathroom and is followed by the others. They start looking around for some kind of entrance.
"Guys…" Harry says a few minutes later and is standing in front of the sinks. The others walk over.
"Yeah?" Theo asks.
"I believe that I found the entrance." Harry says.
"Really?" Thomas asks.
"Yes."
"Where?" Tracey asks.
"The sinks." Harry says.
"The sinks? How?" Blaise asks.
"What you guys are about to see and hear is to be kept a secret." Harry says.
"Okay." They say. Harry steps up the sinks.
:Open.: Harry hisses and the four others shiver from the hissing. The five watch shocked as the top of the sinks rises towards the ceiling and the sinks slide apart from each other, then one sinks into the floor and a grate slides over the sunk one. The five step closer and look down the giant hole.
"How did you do that?" Tracey asks.
"I'm a parselmouth." Harry says.
"Very good Mr. Potter." The five whirl around to see Lockhart with his wand drawn. "Thank you for finding this. This will be great for my next book. Professor Lockhart defeats the beast and saves five students, but was not able to save the Weasley girl in time." Lockhart says. He is then hit in the back of the head from Theo who used a broken part of a stall knocking him out.
"Wow, what a fraud." Theo says dropping the broken piece of wood.
"Yeah he is." Thomas says.
"So… what do we jump down the pipe?" Tracey asks.
:Sstairss.: Harry hisses and to their surprise stairs slide out of the side of the pipe. The five go down the stairs and step on the ground and hears crunching. They look down and see bones of animals of different sizes.
"Come on." Harry says. "Lumos." Harry says and the tip of his wand lights up as he draws one of his pistols, much to the confusion of the others.
"Harry what is that?" Blaise asks pointing to something ahead. Harry levels his gun at the dark object as they approach and have wide eyes and pale.
"It's a skin. This has to be at least fifty feet in length." Harry says.
"Fifty feet? How does a basilisk get that big?" Tracey asks pale.
"Dunno. I kind of don't want to know." Blaise says with Thomas and Theo nodding their heads in agreement.
"I don't want to go any farther." Tracey says trembling.
"I'll stay here with you." Theo says taking her hand.
"I'll stay as well." Blaise says. A rock falls making Harry turn around raising his gun. Theo and Blaise raise their wands, with Theo casting a reducto, but they were surprised to see that Harry was faster as he had fired three times as a squeal is heard. Harry's lumos lights up where he had fired and they see Theo's reducto was no where near the noise came from, but Harry had hit the source, which turned out to be a rat, that had three holes in it. The four turn to Harry with wide eyes in shock that what he used was faster than a spell.
"I'll continue with you Harry." Thomas says a minute later coming out of his stupor.
"Okay let's continue." The two brothers continue as they leave the three. They walk for five minutes until they come to a door.
"Want to try?" Harry asks.
:Open.: Thomas hisses and the door unlocks and swings open. The two brothers walk through the door.
"Hey Harry how are we able to speak Parseltongue?" Thomas asks.
"From mom I believe but I am not sure. We will have to ask her about it." Harry says. The two spot Ginny's body. The two run to her body, while keeping an eye out for the basilisk. They get to her body.
"Ah! Her body is cold as ice." Thomas says pulling his hand back as if it got burned.
"Yes she isn't she." A voice says. The two look up to see a student walk forward from the shadows and the two brothers have their wands ready, and in Harry's case his wand and pistol.
"Who are you?" Harry asks.
"Tom Riddle." Thomas says. Harry looks at his brother. "He was a student here fifty years ago." Thomas says as he looks back at Riddle.
"You have been possessing Ginny haven't you?" Thomas asks.
"Yes. She put all of her trust in me by writing in my diary." Riddle says.
"So what are you doing here then?" Harry asks.
"Why to meet you two." Riddle says surprising the two brothers.
"Us?" Thomas asks.
"Yes. The Potter brothers who defeated Lord Voldemort as mere babies." Riddle says and the brother's eyes widen.
"So you're a follower of Voldemort." Harry says.
"Ha! A follower. Voldemort is my past, present and future." He says. He grabs Thomas's wand and Harry points his at Riddle. Riddle turns and writes in the air with flames 'TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE' then waves the waves the wand and the words reform to 'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'.
"Voldemort!" Harry hisses in anger, now fingering the trigger. "You're still alive you bastard."
"Did you honestly think that I would use my filthy muggle father's name?" Voldemort asks. "Now you two will die." He turns and walks toward the statue and stretches his hand out.
:SSalazar SSlytherin the greatest of the Hogwartss four.: Voldemort hisses and the mouth opens and the two brother's eyes widen when they see the basilisk come out.
:What iss thiss? I ssensse my master.: The basilisk hisses shocking the three.
:What do you mean?: Riddle asks.
:I ssensse my master.: The great snake says.
"Why aren't you two dead or petrified?" Voldemort asks shocked at seeing the two brothers still alive and moving.
:Can you tell who your masster iss?: Harry hisses surprising Voldemort.
:Yess I can.: The basilisk says.
:Then go to your masster.: Harry hisses. The basilisk slithers up to harry and bows its head to Harry shocking the three.
:Hello masster.: The basilisk says.
"What! How!" Riddle screams.
:What iss your name?: Harry asks.
:My name iss Ssalina.:
:SSalina attack Voldemort.: Harry says.
:Yess masster.: Salina says. She turns towards Voldemort who takes a step back from the basilisk. Salina lunges at Riddle and he was not quick enough to dodge and got bit on the leg.
"Ahhh!" Riddle screams in pain. The brother's watch as Riddle starts to glow. "Ahhh!" Riddle screams as he explodes in a burst of light and a diary near Ginny has blood coming from it. They watch as Ginny's body takes on more color and she wakes up hyperventilating as she starts to calm down.
"Where am I?" She asks.
"You're in the Chamber of Secrets Miss Weasley." Harry says and she pales. She turns and sees the two brothers.
"Thomas! Tom was using me." She says.
"He's gone now. Never to come back." Thomas says. But Harry thinks otherwise as he thinks about what he saw and how it compared to last year. Salina watches as her eyes are closed.
"Thomas head back to the others and tell them to return to the bathroom. I'm going to talk to Salina." Harry says.
"Okay." Thomas says. He helps Ginny up to her feet and they leave the chamber.
:SSalina how can I unpetrify thosse that have been petrified?:
:They sshould be unpettrified in a week and masster I would like to be your familiar.: Salina says shocking Harry.
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