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Chapter 9: The message on the wall

Harry knew something was very wrong with Lockhart.

Not only was he a terrible teacher, but his deceits were so obvious and at plain sight for everyone and yet no one questioned him. What was Dumbledore thinking when he hired the so called famous 'hero' – who was still to demonstrate how he had really beat the werewolf and got rid of the banshee – Harry could only wonder. On top of it he was adamant in becoming his tutor in what the man called the 'fame' business.

The headmaster must have been really preoccupied in other matters to have hired a man like him.

A few weeks into the first term, Colin Creevey had taken a few pictures of him – without his consent of course – and Lockhart had decided to meddle again and started announcing that it wasn't a good idea for him to give autographs, because he was too young to manage that kind of attention.

The nerve of the man, as if Harry relished on the fame… fame given by his deceased parents! By the end of the month he already loathed him in such manner that would make the relationship with Snape seem 'friendly'.

On short, he was an inch away from cursing him.

"It would be simple" Harry said once as they ran away from the defense class "I wouldn't even leave a mess"

"Harry Potter you are not going to curse our Defense teacher" Hermione berated him.

Unluckily for him, Ginny had been on earshot and had demanded him to tell her his reasons. Things got messy during the argument, as he had imagined it would go when he heard the sweet little voice of the youngest Weasley. Even the twins cringed when Ginny got angry and her temper was as Percy had put it – 'It's just like mum's…. if you don't stop it soon, it just won't stop - .Harry knew someone in the skies hated him a lot, and he was being tortured by pompous teachers and mad red head girls.

It frustrated him to no end but there was nothing he could do.

On other topic, training was going tremendously, which took his mind of from Ginny and Lockhart.

Since the material in second year was simple, they tried to spend most of their free time in their 'cave', not doing homework like most of the students did. In a certain way it was studying, so it didn't matter that much. Homework was rather simple and since they were holding back, they weren't too concerned.

During the following month Harry had started sparring with Hermione while using their heavy-weight spelled clothes. And of top of that, when they got used to the weight, both of them added a plate mail set that they had found on the armory. The sets were like pulled out from the stories of King Arthur and told them the first time they went out that they looked as small medieval knights.

Draco wasn't about to be bested in something without putting up a fight and so he started training with a double bladed axe and a set of armor of his own. The axe was magnificent, made of goblin steel. Its hilt was painted by magic in deep black as the night, and the blade's edges were incredibly sharp, and could cut through stone as if it were butter. The entire length of the axe was greater than his height, so the blades of the axe stood a good ten inches away from his head. From the moment he picked up, blue and silver sparks surrounded the axe from the ground to the top and red runes appeared on the hilt.

Rob read them out loud.

'Draar an khruur ghec okaalkec. A dech lhorthaan dec'

"Do you understand them?" Hermione said

"It is in Gobbledegook" Rob said "I really don't know what it means"

"What was that anyway?" Ron asked

"It felt… it felt like when I got my wand for the first time" Draco said.

"Is it a magic axe?" Hermione asked.

Draco answered her by levitating a large boulder by pointing his axe at it.

"It's even more powerful than my wand… but I feel tired now…"

"Maybe it 'pulls' more magic than your wand when you are using it" Hermione said "It could be useful for more powerful spells, and you could use them against the dark wizards who use staves too! You just need to get used to it"

Draco smirked as he inspected the axe. He looked like a child with a new toy, and in a sense he was.

At first the armors were too large to fit them, but were suddenly shrunk. A voice had reverberated throughout the hall when they picked them.

"These were battle armors of old, and will adapt to your bodies as they grow. Use them well, young ones"

Neither Rob nor Ron picked any armor, saying that they were too uncomfortable. However Harry frowned when he saw Draco's choice, a black armor as the hilt of his axe.

"Why the evil wizard look?" he asked him "Should we be worrying?"

"Not at all mate" he said smirking "I just like this color, and it matches the kind of magic I learned last year"

"What do you mean?" Hermione said crossing her arms.

"Don't put that faces" he said rolling his eyes "I thought you would know that dark doesn't equal evil right? It's how the wizard uses his magic what defines him."

"Too true" Rob said "Granddad says that all the time, or something along those lines. Although he really doesn't like dark magic or anything related to it."

Ron had ultimately chosen for a simple, medieval looking sword for practicing with Draco. However Rob's choice was the only one who had gotten another kind of weapon. The first time he took out his staff Draco had smirked since it was his turn to train with Rob. It was a plain and simple brown staff, made probably out of bronze. After watching what his axe could do, Draco probably had thought that he would cut the staff in half.

He couldn't have been more wrong.

Ron had stopped whatever he was doing and Hermione and Harry broke their exercises just to watch how the match would go. Harry just knew Robert wouldn't be beaten easily. Draco was still trying to get used to the axe's weight, and could barely swing it and Robert's staff did not look too heavy. However a well-aimed swing from Draco could end the match on the Slytherin's favor.

As the two of them bowed in salute between each other, Draco sent a single blow sideways. The axe flew directly towards Robert's side but the headmaster's son just smirked and struck the ground with his staff and held it with his two hands placing it in the path of the axe.

"Ondo: Quem Wandil"

Just before the axe hit, Robert staff glowed in a mix of yellow and blue light and the heavy weapon from the Slytherin was stopped in mid swing. Robert barely seemed to be making any effort. Draco was befuddled and he frowned as he raised his axe once again.

"Wondering what did I do?" said Rob smirking as he held the staff with one hand, behind his back.

"Some kind of elemental magic" Draco said still confused "But I thought you used lightning and air."

"And Water" Ron yelled from considerable distance away. He didn't want to be anywhere near that match, that axe did look very dangerous "Are you sure it is safe for you to be using that bloody thing? It's huge."

"Must be compensating for another thing" Harry said leaning his elbow on Ron's shoulder. Not a second later, Harry had to dodge a red looking curse, and saw Draco pointing his axe at him. He had been so caught on dodging that he didn't realize that his Slytherin friend has done the same kind of spell that the vampire had used just a few weeks before.

"Did you see that!" shrieked Hermione "A wide effect spell! Draco how did you do that?"

Draco seemed to contemplate his answer, inspecting his weapon.

"I just though tried to use the Stupefy hex" Draco said looking from his axe and then towards Robert "Let's see what this baby can do"

Just when he had raised his axe again and Robert had started muttering something under his breath, they were stopped by a beeping sound coming apparently out of nowhere.

"Time to go" said Hermione "Guess we have to postpone this"

"But…"

"But nothing Draco" she said glaring at him. Hermione could be really scary, in a really do-not-argue-with-me-or-else way. Draco just looked down and started muttering incoherently and walked with the rest towards the changing rooms.

"Have you found something about the Valari, Draco" Rob asked as they walked back in disillusionment charms to the castle. Even the beast of the forest had gotten accustomed to the five children walking on the early hours of the day.

At Robert's question, Draco's face darkened. Not that anyone could notice.

"There is something weird going on" Draco said "There are people coming in and out from the common room at unusual times. But when I try to follow they vanish. I think they are using some kind of secret passageway, but I can't be really sure."

"We'll figure something out" Harry interrupted, as they reached the entrance hall and Draco split up towards the Slytherin dorms.

"Have you two heard any more voices?" Hermione asked as they reached the fat lady portrait.

"Not really" Harry said a little bit troubled. As far as he knew, hearing voices was a bad sign even in the wizarding world. "Lion's Pride" he added when the fat lady asked the password.

"What are you doing so early outside?" asked a voice just as they stepped in.

"Oh good morning to you to Ginny" Harry said, rolling his eyes at the glares that the redhead was sending him. "You know, this is getting really old, why do you insist on shouting at us every time you see us?"

His three companions sighed at the upcoming argument.

"You just couldn't keep your mouth shut" Ron whispered shaking his head.

"Did you say something brother?" Ginny said, a twitch in her eyes announcing the tantrum that would follow.

"Nothing, nothing Ginny" he said quickly in his attempt of avoiding her rage.

"Good" she said as she turned back to Harry "I know you are up to something you four… why else would you be up so early in the morning. It is a fact that my brother does not wake up early, not even if the entire castle was burning."

"Merlin Ginny" a voice said from behind her, and a half-sleep Luna was walking weirdly, in zigzags towards them "Excuse her, she just woke up and she's got a Raging Nimblerbobbling in her ear today"

"I think she's got another thing in another…"

"Don't you dare end that comment Robert" said Hermione "But his right Ginny why are you acting this way"

"Cause I know you're lying" Ginny said accusingly.

Something about how she mouthed the last word startled him. It was said in a strangely eerie, yet familiar way. He couldn't place it, but he just knew something was going on with her.

"Come on Ginny" Harry said "I thought we had agreed that everything was good between all of us" he added pointing to everyone.

"We did no such thing" she shrieked.

"Yeah we didn't…"

"Shut up Ron you are not helping!" Rob interjected.

"But"

"But nothing!" Hermione added as well.

"I swear this is a plot against me" Ron said raising his arms upwards and walking to their dorm "I'll get your stuff; you deal with my evil sister and her trusted lackey the terrifying Luna Lovegood!"

"Why you!" Ginny yelled but her brother was already running away "Urgh! That lousy git!"

Harry snickered at her antics and noticed she looked pretty even when she was angry.

'Wait what? Where did that come from?' Harry thought and he shook his head to get rid of that trail of thoughts.

"What are you laughing at Potter?" she said glaring daggers at him.

"Nothing, never mind" he said as he grabbed his bag when Ron got back. Hermione, always thinking ahead, had already gotten hers before they went to the 'Cave'. Together the four of them bolted leaving behind a huffing Ginny and an annoyed Luna.

"Girls, I'll never understand them" Harry said as they walked to the great hall. Unfortunately what they found when they rounded the corner to get to a shortcut, was unlike anything they expected.

A black cloaked man was holding a vial, a potion glowing in an eerie neon green color, with a needle on its cork. The wizard's face was hidden from sight and his free hand grabbing a scared fourth year Ravenclaw girl by the neck. The girl was clearly gasping for breath and unsuccessfully trying to free herself.

Next to them, two other cloaked wizards were pointing their wands at her, and were oblivious to the four Gryffindors that had stumbled upon them.

This time, said children were ready, and they didn't hesitate to jump to help the older Ravenclaw.

'Treksimos' Harry muttered. The world froze around him, and the feeling of running a thousand miles per second dawned upon him. Next to him, he saw a red spell already flying in slow motion towards the attackers. He figured out Hermione had launched a Stupefy in hope to catch one of them.

In the blink of an eye, he was holding Xalasmos on his left hand, his wand in the other. That very moment a memory returned to him and he smirked as he ran at an impossible speed, catching on with Hermione's red spell, and impaled the sword on the rock ground just in the middle of the three cloaked wizards.

"Astraph!"

As the world sped up once again; he saw the red beam hit his target, specifically the one with the vial on his hand. Harry felt a jolt going down from his sword and an electric field surrounded him, hitting the three unsuspecting attackers. In that very moment a yellow hex struck the attacker on Harry's right and the only one left on his feet was because the ground below him had suddenly rose and trapped the wizard and immobilized him from his knees down.

Harry saw the vial flying after the stunned one had dropped it and the electric field had loosened his hand. Harry couldn't suppress a gasp as he saw he was going to be late for catching it before it broke down, but just in the right moment, the vial stopped in mid-air, flying to the outstretched hand of Hermione.

"And that's how it's done" said Ron smirking as his three friends ran towards the fallen attackers.

Hermione quickly leaned down to check upon the fallen Ravenclaw, now unconscious on the floor, while Rob put the vial inside his pocket and Harry kneeled on one leg to unmask the cloaked wizards. He was pretty sure that they were under Valari's orders, but they needed actual proof to take them to the authorities. Otherwise anyone would think that they were making everything up.

"Ha! They will think twice to do that again" Ron said as he rolled another one of the attackers "Now time to see your ugly face."

A crash sounded throughout the hall and black smoke covered everything. Harry felt as if he was choking and dropped to the ground. A loud thud was heard and a gush was heard, a sound he knew too well. But by the time he reacted, the smoke was cleared. Robert was helping Hermione get up while Ron looked around; however, the three black cloaked wizards had disappeared.

"A portkey, you reckon?" Ron said to no one in particular.

"Probably" Harry said as he looked around "We should leave, someone ought to have heard that. Do you have the vial?"

"They didn't take it" Hermione answered "We should check it on the cave"

"Should we take her to Pomfrey?" asked Rob as he leaned down towards the Ravenclaw girl and put an arm on his shoulder.

"Probably" Harry said "We should tell her that we found her like that, unconscious on the floor"

"Fine, lead the way" Rob said.

"I'll take the rear, in case they decide to come back" Ron said "Maybe one of us should disillusion just in case"

"Good idea, mate!" Harry commended "Hermione, it should be you. Everyone, wands drawn, we should be extra careful. I will take point, and we cover the girl. Rob disillusions her too."

"Sir, yes sir" Rob mocked "No really you sounded like a general giving orders there"

Harry had a twinge of blush in his cheeks after he said that.

"But it was perfect" Hermione beamed at him "None of us could've done it better"

"Get moving then" Harry said smiling from ear to ear.

The odd group walked as fast as Rob could, since he was carrying the girl. By the time they reached half of the way towards the infirmary, the headmaster's grandson realized they could actually levitate the girl and slapped himself on the forehead. After that, Hermione stayed invisible while Harry and Rob walked side by side, with Ron a few steps behind.

"What is the meaning of this?" Pomfrey bellowed "What is wrong with Miss Boot?"

"She was like that when we found her" Harry explained "We didn't know what to do with her so we brought her to you"

"The headmaster should know about this, I'll go fetch him" said Pomfrey as she made sure the Ravenclaw girl was not seriously injured.

"May we leave?" Hermione asked "We have Transfiguration shortly and I really don't want to get Professor McGonagall angry with me."

"Hermione, there is no way you could get McGonagall angry" Ron said rolling his eyes "She practically adores the ground you walk on. If you did better on her class she would probably put an altar for you."

Hermione blushed profusely and quietly said something that sounded like 'I'm not that good at…'

"Yes you are Hermione" Harry interrupted her.

"And if someone says otherwise they obviously haven't seen you change a cat into a rock and back again without breaking a sweat"

"Enough children" Madame Pomfrey demanded, since they had apparently forgotten about her "Go to your classes now."


Several weeks passed, and the quintet had tried everything to reveal what the Vextral contained – short of asking Snape – but they were quickly running out of excuses not to ask the potions master for his help. Draco, their best at potions, had already identified most of the ingredients, but there was just one key element that held all the ingredients together and without it, the potions would be unstable most likely to blow up.

By the third week, they had stopped their research altogether and focused on their training. They had several close calls regarding Ginny and Luna. The pair were adamant in finding out where they were going so early in the morning, but the four Gryffindors were extremely careful not to go out or in without the disillusionment charms.

Soon they found themselves on Halloween's eve, after another terrible potions class, on their way to the common room.

"Ginny's skepticism has reached a whole new level" said Harry absent-mindedly "I mean she can't even see me without getting angry". The last comment had a bit of sadness that didn't go unnoticed by the rest of them, but no one wanted to elaborate.

"She's persistent" Ron said "like my mother, and she has her temper as well"

They reached the great hall, which was decorated exceptionally - as always – for the occasion, Pumpkin heads glowing eerily, bats flying in circles and ghosts floating constantly, much more than usual.

As soon as the foursome entered, many eyes were fixed on them. It seemed that the news of the Ravenclaw girl had flown and rumors had gotten incredibly unreal. A third year hufflepuff had apparently overhead the conversation between Pomfrey and the 'Golden children' and the story had been altered in at least seven different versions.

They had already got used to the stares and the murmurs.

"I really understand why you don't like your fame Harry" Ron sad rolling his eyes at how obvious the whispers were.

"Gives you a whole new perspective on the whole boy-who-lived issue right?" Rob said shrugging "At least two of the versions blame us for Boot's attack"

"I thought it was four" Hermione added "But who's counting? By the way, don't drink from your goblet's, I saw Ginny talking to the twins earlier. They had their evil smiles on, and they are sitting too close to the only free spots."

"There were no spells on the doors or any of the hallways we have come true, so it is possibly the drinks" Harry said. He had gotten pretty good at 'feeling' magic. It was similar to what happened when he activated his eyes powers or the way that Rob's elemental field could detect anything on the surroundings. It had something to do with the fact that he had started to do wandless or sword magic, whereas wand spells were easy and methodical, the latter were more intuitive – not relying in movements like wands did - but ultimately still relied on the incantations.

"Could be some truth serum" Rob commented "She's so sure that we are lying"

Hermione quickly casted a modified confundus charm. Harry was always surprised how she could mix two spells into one to give them an added effect. Essentially the spell would prevent anyone to hearing their conversation while drawing attention away from the fact they couldn't be heard.

"Muffliatos exus confundo"

"You don't think they would really have Veritaserum, right?" Ron asked as he vanished the contents of his drink, only to having it instantly refilled.

"Perhaps another kind of serum, or a compulsion potion" Harry said.

"Compulsion wouldn't guarantee that we would tell them the truth" Rob interjected "If anything I think it will provoke us to lie even more"

"True, mate" Ron said grabbing large quantities of food "What? I'm a growing boy on a special diet."

Hermione just shrugged his shoulders.

"We do need the calories" Harry said "You said so, Hermione"

"I know" she said pouting "It's just unfair that boys get to eat much more than girls"

Harry could tell that Ginny was eyeing them from the other side of the table expectantly, but he merely shook his head, vanished his pumpkin juice before refilling it and took a bite of his food.

The red head girl suddenly stood up, and hurriedly left the great hall. Luna had watched her friend all the way, completely confused by her behavior. She turned and looked at them, as if searching for an answer, but the 'Golden children' were just as surprised as she was.

Half an hour later, they decided to call it a night and left the great hall, but the scene they found froze them on the spot. For their good luck, most of the students had decided to leave the great hall at that same moment.

Right on the middle of the entrance hall, the figure of Filch's cat stood unmoving, petrified on a puddle of water, and on the wall opposite of the great hall's door a message was written in a red liquid that couldn't be anything but blood.

'The Chamber of the Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir beware'

The hall was immediately bustling with curious students, and the prefects struggled to bring order. It was until the booming voice of Dumbledore was heard, that the chatter stopped and a way was made for the headmaster to reach the scene, followed closely by the professors. Dumbledore's eyes lost the twinkle for a brief moment as he examined the cat's body.

"Prefects" he said without looking away from Mrs. Norris "Take all the students to their common rooms; a member of the staff will be escorting you. I want NO ONE wandering, is that clear?"

The glance he sent towards his grandson and his friends was enough to make Rob look down to the floor uneasily. Harry however caught a glimpse of Valari and other Slytherins. Even they looked puzzled – curious - but puzzled. Varenkov had a frown on her face as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Draco risked a glance towards the 'Golden Children' and shook his head in disbelief. His stare was one of confusion and hurriedly mouthed the word 'tomorrow'.

Hogwarts just got another problem.


"Slytherin's heir?" Harry mused out loud "Come on you have got to be kidding."

"I most certainly am not" Draco said seriously "The Valaris held a meeting on the common room. For what I could get out of it was that none of them had petrified Filch's cat and they needed to know who the heir was as soon as possible"

"And there's a beast inside the chamber?" asked Hermione already looking in the magical beast part of the book of magic. "Do you have any idea what could it be?"

"Wouldn't it be some kind of snake?"

Harry and Rob instantly looked up from their books with questioning looks on their faces. Draco looked thoughtful as he rested his fist on his mouth.

"I guess you're right Ron" Draco responded "It makes very much sense"

"Well that would explain many things" Robert said looking at Harry.

"Yep, many things"

Ron, Hermione and Draco looked at them confused as what they were talking about, and silently demanded for an answer.

"Well, do you remember we told you Rob and I met earlier on our first year, before we started Hogwarts?" Harry asked, and they urged him to continue "It was in the zoo, on Dudley's birthday."

"And it was an out day in the orphanage… before it was…"

"Anyways" Harry interrupted, trying to distract Rob from those memories "We were both kind of outcasts and we started talking. Then Dudley and his friend went into the reptilian wing of the Zoo… and we followed"

"What are you trying to say" Draco said, eyes open in shock "Are you…"

"There was a boa constrictor" Harry continued his story "It… talked to us"

Hermione gasped and covered her mouth, as Ron cursed and ran a hand over his head nervously. Draco rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"Only to you two… are you sure you're not related?" Draco asked.

"I really don't know" said Harry really confused as he looked at Rob. They were very similar, and many things happened to the two of them.

Maybe… maybe it wasn't a coincidence.

"Why?" Rob asked "What's wrong with speaking to snakes"

"Parselmouths…. are really frowned upon, related to dark wizards mostly" Ron explained.

"Voldemort was one" Draco announced "As was Slytherin, do you get where I am going?"

"People are going to think we're the heir if they realize we can speak to snakes" Harry stated before sighing "So, we really need to keep that a secret."

"Oh my god" said Hermione as she looked up from the book with a terrified look on her face "look at this."

The brunette raised the book and showed them a moving picture. It was a humongous, frightening snake. In the image a small figure portrayed its size against a man, which was many times smaller than the snake. The monster had many teeth, unlike any normal snakes that merely have two large fangs. But the most unnerving aspect was its yellow, deadly looking eyes. Its black slits moved on the image, looking at their faces, sending shivers down their spines.

"A basilisk" Hermione stated "The king of all snakes. It can grow many feet and it's as big as a dragon. They can live centuries and its eyes kill on sight. The poison it's one of the deadliest in all the world and it's practically impossible to beat down. Its skin is thick and protects it from spells. This is Slytherin's monster, the one that Binns spoke about."

"But why wasn't Mrs. Norris killed?" asked Ron.

"The cat looked at the eyes in the reflection of water" Rob said "Remember? The bathroom was flooded; Myrtle was throwing a tantrum earlier. Mrs. Norris must have seen it on the floor."

"And how do we kill it?"

"Roosters" Harry said, reading the description "The cry of a rooster can kill it"

"What?" Ron exclaimed "The second most terrifying creature in the whole world can be killed with a rooster?"

"Hard to believe" Harry said "But that's what the book says… I think I saw some on Hagrid's hut"

"We still have to look for the Chamber" said Draco….

"Wait" Rob said "Remember the first time you heard it? It led us to the bathroom"

"Myrtle's bathroom to be precise" Hermione said, and just then she gasped.

"That's where it is!" they all said in unison.


It was a cold night of November; the hallways of the majestic castle remained silent. The only sounds were the occasional creaking of a door or the rumbling of one of the moving stairways. Moonlight entered the deserted path and a single figure walked hurriedly. His steps were cautious. A wand was held tightly on his right hand as he ran the other through his blonde hair.

"Bloody nighwatch" muttered the man "This is not what I signed for when Dumbledore interviewed me. I'm Gilderoy Lockhart for Merlin! I should be having my beauty sleep."

A rumbling sound echoed in the hallway followed by a faint shriek. The man jumped and aimed his wand forward, trembling slightly.

"Who's there?" he asked to no one apparently and he got an eerie silence as an answer.

The man passed the opened door that led to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom and continued on his way.

"That man is so… dumb" said a disembodied voice, as the door opened and closed once again"

"Very eloquent Hermione" another voice was heard "We're here, are you sure you heard it again?"

"I am" yet another voice said. In that moment five children appeared out of thin air, already inside the malfunctioning bathroom. "We need to start looking"

"Was someone…."

"Creevey was petrified. He is the fourth one since Halloween" Harry announced "Luckily he saw the basilisk through Nearly Headless Nick. We must stop it before someone dies. Even the Valari are laying low."

"Varenkov is asking the strangest questions too" Draco said "I think she actually knows what the monster is, but she is asking as if she wanted to help the heir."

"That girl is really, really creepy" Harry said out loud.

"On other topic… all the roosters were killed yesterday" Ron told them "The heir is taking precautions"

"So where could the entrance be?" Rob wondered out loud "I suppose Myrtle wouldn't know"

"Let's not ask her please" Hermione begged "There must some sign or marking of a kind."

"Look for anything with snakes" Draco told them "I do wonder why Slytherin would place the entrance to his private chamber on a girl's bathroom of all places?"

"Not the best time to think of that kind of stuff" Hermione said rolling her eyes as she searched everywhere "Maybe it is in a bathroom stall with a hidden passageway?"

"Or on one of the faucets" Harry said smirking when he noticed the Snake figurine "Now what?"

"A parseltongue password I suppose" Draco said taking out his wand "We better be ready, there's no telling if the heir is down there"

"Very well" Harry said but looked at his friends nervously "I have never spoken Parseltongue on purpose before, you know?"

"Me neither" Rob admitted "The only difference was that we were in front of the snake on the zoo"

"Then picture one on your head" Hermione said "Maybe that way…"

"Ok, let's try this"

"Wait" Ron said "Before we go in, I finally completed my project, it will help us in case we split up or something, and it's pretty useful"

Out of his cloak, Ron pulled five black little objects with an odd shape and small holes drilled on a square pattern, and gave each one to them.

"You put them on your ears" Ron said.

Hermione examined them and gave him a completely surprised look while the others looked confused.

"Are these" she said pointing to the small dark object "What I think they are?" Hermione said astonished "I mean, did you really?"

"I haven't named them" said Ron "But I guess you could call them communicators"

"How do they work?" Harry said placing his on his right ear. He didn't even notice it had disappeared the next second.

"Just tap it"

"I don't…" Harry had started, but he recoiled when a screech filled all their ears and they all covered their ears.

"LOWER THE VOLUME" Ron yelled with his face crunched in pain.

"WHAT?"

"LOWER THAT THING DOWN IT'S TOO LOUD" Hermione screamed.

"DON'T YELL AT ME" Draco demanded

"BLIMEY JUST TAP IT AND SAY 'LOW VOLUME' PLEASE" Ron managed to say,

"LOW VOLUME" They all said at the same time.

After heavily breathing for a few seconds the five teenagers stood up and got the dust of their cloaks.

"Try it now" Ron said clearly.

"Merlin's beard!" Draco said "I can hear you on my head! Wicked!"

"You outdid yourself mate!" Rob said clapping him on the back "These are really incredible"

"It was really thoughtful and smart of you Ron" Hermione said beaming at him.

It was only at the bushy haired girl's comment that Ron blushed profusely, but hid it quickly. Of course Rob, Harry and Draco saw it immediately, and smirked at him.

"I'm thinking of adding a translation spell, but I didn't have enough time before" Ron said scratching the back of his head.

"Maybe I can help you with that" Hermione said smiling "And one for speech too"

"I'd like that" said Ron, blushing even more.

"People focus!" Rob said rolling his eyes. The headmaster's grandson had his wand out and pointed to the lavatory "Would you do the honor Harry?"

"It will be my pleasure" He said, taking out his wand as well.

"Open"

A loud rumbling sound started, shaking the entire bathroom. The lavatory began moving backwards revealing an obscured entrance on the ground.

"Did any of you understand that?" Hermione asked "Cause I just got some hissing"

"Nope" Draco said

"Not me" Ron added.

"Really?" Rob asked "I guess you were right, we're both Parselmouths. He said 'Open'. Too easy of a password if you ask me"

"Not really" Hermione countered "Parselmouths are really rare, even in the Magic world. Even if someone guessed the password, it would be pretty hard to get the entrance open."

"There's no stairs" Rob said crossing his arms "Let me try something else"

'Stairway' he hissed, as he focused on a mental picture of a snake.

"I did get that" Harry said as a stone stair started moving in a circular way towards the bottom. "Be ready, turn on the communicators"

The entire tunnel was dark and humid, a few drops of water falling every now and then. It reminded Harry of a muggle horror movie that he had seen on the T.V. on one of the occasions the Dursley's didn't send him to the cupboard.

"We should disillusion" Rob whispered, and thanks to the communicators, the rest heard him clearly "Just in case."

"And remember to close your eyes if either me or Rob tell you" Harry said "Rob stay in the back."

"Sure" they all said.

"Got it"

Harry did not hesitate and summoned Xalasmos. The sword appeared in his hand in a fickle of electricity, flourishing as it disappeared. He distinctly head the ringing sound of Hermione's sword and the fain thud of Draco's Axe. For what seemed an eternity, they walked the steps towards the darkness. The walls were carved with strange signs, in old languages, various pictures adorned, as if telling legends of old.

He got distracted by one in particular, in which two men and two women were fighting all kinds of dark creatures. As they got to the bottom, the story continued, the men slaying dragons and monsters side by side as the two women created marvelous enchantments that dealt with all their enemies. Then, the pictures showed a castle that could only be Hogwarts and the four wizards helping various children intently listening to their lectures. Then one of them got separated and a shadow appeared, bringing darkness to the castle. It began whispering to the three other friends, and soon they were misled to believe that their friend had betrayed them. When the fourth friend came back, one of the friends confronted him, sword in hand. His friend tried to stop him, trying not to fight back. But the first man did not stop, and the two women did not interfere. So it was that the fourth man was casted out, not without leaving a secret behind, a newborn snake, symbol of his house, which would serve the castle and its students. The last image portrayed a snake coiled in front of the castle, facing the shadows, guarding its master's last home.

The five children suddenly felt really sad. If the story was true, Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts, was tricked and casted out.

"Could it mean that every conception about Slytherin is false?" Harry asked out loud "Could Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff have been deceived by a dark wizard?"

"Maybe…" Hermione said "Maybe it was the Lord Snakes."

"But Slytherin's symbols was a snake" Ron argued

"It doesn't mean anything" Draco replied "The Lord Snakes could've used it to corrupt the other founders. Slytherin's ideas could have been misunderstood and twisted with the years, everything starting with the shadow's treachery."

"Perhaps" Rob said "But sadly we'll never know"

"The only thing we can do is to try to amend the ties of the four houses" Harry said "But we need to stop the so called heir of Slytherin."

The stairs ended in a dark antechamber, with the walls made out of stone, and various pipes and leading many ways. The five teenagers found an empty carcass, an empty shredded skin that had once been the actual Basilisk.

"It's huge" Ron said "Bloody hell, how are we going to kill it."

"Maybe we don't need to" Robert said "Any way, we need to be careful."

On the end of the entrance hall, was a circular stone door, with many snakes carved into it.

"Open" Harry hissed once again.

The stone snakes came alive and began hissing as they moved around the door, which slid sideways and revealed the entrance to the Chamber of the Secrets.

A/N: Hey here's the new chapter! Please R&R! I haven't had much time because of work and this is the fastest I could finish it, I hope you like it! What do you think, am I moving the timeline too fast?