A/N Thanks to all who reviewed! Sorry for making you wait so long, I just forgot were I was going with this and had to read it over before I got some more ideas.
Summary: Harry finally snapped, after overhearing a dark little timbit of information from his 'Friends'. Dark!Harry. Harry/OC
Note: Anything with a star means that at the end of the chapter I will explain.
"Parceltongue"
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Training
Raven ducked and rolled, several spells shooting out of his wand. Bombarda, Reducto, Diffindo, that kind. He had been in a training room in Slytherin Castle for the past week, only stopping for meager amounts of sleep, and to eat and drink.
Raven had been practicing on Golems, animated pieces of clay. He had put them at several different strength levels, then charmed the room to keep making more even as he destroyed them.
The Golems were set to send spells that were essentially paint balls. What they did was, on impact, they exploded in bursts of color, and each color represents a different spell.
For example: Stupefy: Light red. Crucio: Dark red. Avada Kedavra: Dark Green. Reducto: Blue.
He had practiced with them like that for three days, until he deemed himself strong enough to upgrade to real spells. Now, just as he ducked a Crucio and rolled away from a Reducto, a Bombarda caught him on the shoulder, sending him spinning into a wall next to him.
The spells he had sent at the Golems took down three, leaving two to go. He fired several more spells out of his wand, before darting forward, and after dodging a Killing Curse he blasted the last two Golems to bit with two well placed Reducto.
Raven stretched and walked out of the training room, his thirst for blood finally catching up to him. He Portkey'd to Knockturn Alley, and went to the closest bar.
The bar was called The Dark Ruby, and it was one of the most dangerous bars in Britain. It was pretty much only used by pick-pockets and murderers, and suprisingly the owners didn't mind much.
Raven had decided that this bar would be easy blood, as on both sides were dark pathways that not many tread on. He simply stood outside the door of the bar, and waited. A minute later, and he grabbed a man, pulling him into the dark path. He drained the man, then dropped the carcass, and apperated away.
He appeared in front of Hogwarts school, and Raven had finally decided to try it. He walked quickly through Hogwarts Grounds, eventually reaching the doors that led into the Castle. After Dissilusioning himself, he gently opened the door and snuck through the castle, nearly getting caught twice by Flitwick. Flitwick had paused both times, looking around with a questioning look on his face, his eyes stopping at where Raven stood more then once.
Luckily, however, he made it into Mourning Myrtles bathroom, and commanded the path down to the chamber to open. He knew he had to hurry, as Myrtle started screaming about a murderer in the Castle. He slid down the chute, sprinting through the tunnels that was the Chamber Of Secrets. Eventually, he reached were the Baslisks Corpse lay, and he grinned broadly seeing that it had been perfectly preserved.
This was his ticket to take over Hogwarts. If he was able to bring to life this Basilisk, then he would be able to reign terror through the halls of Hogwarts, and hopefully get the school shut down. Then, once nobody but teachers and Aurors were there, his Ravagers and Dementors could easily take over the school. Another thing, was that he was hoping that they could make Basilisk Skin armour out of all the shed skin laying around the Chamber, and they could put Basilisk Venom on their weapons, which would make an painful death to anyone who some much as gets nicked with the Venom.
Celia had been teaching him hand-to-hand combat, and Sword Fighting. She had also been teaching several others, the others being Raven's 'Inner Circle'. His Inner Circle consisted of Jade, Artemis, Neville, Luna, Draco and Celia, and out of them the only one Raven couldn't defeat in hand-to-hand combat or with a sword was Celia. It was kind of obvious though, as he was a Vampire and that gave him a large boost in both strength and speed.
Celia had provided him with twin blades that were both emerald green in color, and actually had a Wand core in the blades. The wand cores were a melted down Basilisk fang, and Raven wasn't sure how the blades would react when they encounters Basilisk Venom. He did learn, though, that he was able to block spells with the swords, and the swords would simpy absorb the magic, and while it took him a few days Raven eventually he figured out that he could either absorb the magic into his own core, or release it in a burst of energy, pretty much like a Reducto. He had also learnt that, if there was enough magic in the blade, he was albe to send out multiple bursts of energy.
He had begun to start filling his blades with as much magic as possible after that, and at the end of every day he would empty all of what he had left in his body into the blades. He still hadn't filled them, even though they had enough magic in them to send five bursts of energy.
He walked through the Chamber, disgust etched on his face. He had looked at eight different piles of Basilisk skin, and the only useable skin he had found wasn't enough to make a boot. Still, he had picked it up. After all, a boot could be useful.
Raven swore as he tripped over a root, falling face first into a large cobweb. He pulled the cobweb off of him, and his eyes suddenly bulged out of their sockets. Behind the cobwebs was a small tunnel, and Raven could see a pile of Basilisk skin that looked like it would work for armour. He crawled slowly through the small tunnel, and after about two minutes of crawling it led into a large tunnel.
Raven ran over to the skin, and, testing it out, he cast a Reducto on the armour. Nothing. Not a scratch anywhere. He was still amazed by the sheer amount, though. He would never run low on money, as he could make armour for all of his Inner Circle, and still have more then enough to sell.
However, now the problem of getting the skin out of the Chamber was presented. Ideally, it would be shrunk and then he would simply sneak back out of Hogwarts over the cover of darkness, or he would simply Portkey. However, the wards that surrounded Hogwarts prevented Portkeys from working. Also, no magic except the most powerful can do anything to Basilisk skin, which was why it was so useful for Armour.
He sat there for hours, just thinking about what he could do. Nothing seemed to work. He was scowling the entire time, until he thought about maybe trying to break down the Appiration Wards, or at least put a dent in them. He tried to do what Luna did, emersing herself in the wards. It took him over an hour, but finally he was caught in the flow of the wards. He searched through the wards, looking for the Anti-Appiration ward. When he found it, he smiled grimly, before launching all the energy he had into putting a hole in the wards. The entire Castle shook with the energy he was pouring out of his body, before he finally but a small hole.
He had to strengthen himself with the magic in his blades before he was able to continue, and soon enough he was on his way out of the Chamber. He put one hand on the Basilisk skin, and then Appirated away from Hogwarts, feeling himself being sucked dry of magic by the efforts to move such a large thing like Baslisk skin.
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Neville and Draco had been relaxing in the lounge in Slytherin Castle, and I believe you can imagine their shock when Raven suddenly appears with a huge pile of snake skin, and Raven isn't moving.
The two of them rushed over to Raven, and Draco checked his pulse. "Okay, his pulse is normal, but it seems that he is much weaker then normal. He must have excausted his core quite badly for him to be unconcious." Draco said. just then, Raven's eyes shot open and he grabbed Draco's arm, making Draco and Neville scream.
Raven started to chuckle, before using Draco's arm as leverage to life himself up. He told them everything that happened, before they looked at him, laughed and called in the rest of the Inner Circle. They all looked incredulous at the end of the tale, but of course the skin proved Raven to not be lying.
Two days later, after Raven had recovered totally from being drained of magic, him and and all of his Inner Circle (Except the Dementors) Appirated through that small hole Raven had left in the Hogwarts wards, and they went over to the dead Basilisk. "Wow. You killed this?" Draco asked.
"Yeah." Raven said, letting a small grin form at the corners of his mouth.
"So, you believe we can raise this monster?" Celia said, raising an eyebrow.
"Of course. But first, let's explore a little." Raven said, dragging them all over to where he had first seen the Basilisk come through when he came down here in his second year. They went through the it, and found an amazing lab on the other side.
"This must have been Salazar's!" Raven said exitedly. He ran over to one side of the lab, and found a large dome made purely out of magic sitting on a counter. In the dome were three large eggs.
"Ra...Rav...Raven!" Neville pretty much screamed. "These are Basilisk eggs! And this is a preservation dome, meaning that these eggs might very well hatch if we take them out of it!" Neville continued, his eyes glazed over in shock. Raven took one look at him and punched him in the jaw.
Neville blinked a few times, before muttering; "Thanks."
Raven looked at it, and then asked Luna "Can you lower the Preservation field?"
"Um, yeah, I guess..." She said, nodding her head uncertainly. "But are you sure that's the best idea?" She asked, still cautious.
"Yeah, don't worry about it. I've read up on Basilisks, and within the first month of their life they have a protective shield over their eyes, sort of like a Crocodiles second eyelids, that stop them from killing everyone they see. It never entirely goes away, and a grown Basilisk can cover their eyes with it if they must. The one thing that might arise as a problem is that they have been here so long, in this field of magic, it could have warped them, strengthened them, or done any number of things to them." Raven said, showing that he wasn't entirely insane.
Luna, still uncertain, slowly brought down the field of magic. For a few moments, nothing happened, when suddenly a large crack was heard and a shard of egg from the center egg came flying off, hitting Draco in the face. "Ow!" He exclaimed indignately, getting shushed by everyone else in the room.
They watched as more bits of egg shell flew of, hitting various things in the room, until finally there was a large opening in the egg, out of which a small snake slithered out. They noted that the others didn't hatch at all. Both the females (Celia, Luna) giggled at how cute it was, before going to pull away Ravens hand as he started to put it up to the baby Basilisks mouth. He shook them off, and left his hand hanging in front of the small snake, at which time everyone in the room had frozen, not daring to move should it provoke the Basilisk.
Suddenly, everyone except Raven and the Basilisk flinched as the snake lunged and bit deep into Raven's hand, slowly emptying it's Venom sacks.
Raven simply stayed still and didn't move until he was sure the snakes sacks were empty, at which time he swiftly plucked the snake away from him and dropped it gently onto the table. He shook that hand that had been bitten, swearing under his breath. "Damn, that hurt.." He muttered, casting a few healing spells on his hand.
"You idiot!" Celia screamed, moving in front of him. "That snake could have killed you!" She continued, still just as loud.
"Don't worry, nothing happened. I found in a book that when born, Basilisks sacks are so full of Venom that they will die from it spilling over and destroying their internal organs if the sacks aren't emptied as soon as possible. Also, the Venom isn't strong enough to kill anyone until two months after they are born, and will only stun a medium sized pray, though it will kill a mouse, or any other creature of that size." Raven said, trying to calm her down.
"So!? You said it yourself: We don't now what happened to poor Lester here." Celia said angrily.
"Whoa there, back up a minute. We are NOT calling him Lester!" Raven cried.
"I'll tell everyone here what really happened to-" Celai started to threaten Raven, but he cut her off.
"You said you would never tell!" He screached, his eyes wide.
"I won't if you let Lester be his name!" She said.
"Fine..." He grumbled angrily, stomping off with Lester wrapped around his left shoulder.
Celia smirked at the others and skipped after Raven, before the two of them came through the opening that led to the Basilisk corpse. Instead of the dead Baslisk sight that should have greeted them, all they saw were three glowing red wands.
A/N: Hehehe... There we go! I finally finished! It would be longer, but I felt like leaving a cliff hanger. I was going to do it where the Basilisk bit Raven, but decided that the chapter wasn't long enough so I added in the rest. I will try and do as much as I can, and will hopefully have another chapter loaded by Saturday.
Reviews please! (No flames).
