Shifting Warriors: Book I: Chamber of Secrets
Chapter 9: History Lessons and Pranks
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Animorphs wish I did but I don't so oh well.
The writing on the wall was the talk of the school the next day. Everyone including Kai was interested in knowing what the Chamber of Secrets was. Kai decided he would bring it up to his favorite Professor during her class.
Professor McGonagall was talking about how to transfigure a shape into a different shape. Through the year the students were taught how to transfigure things of similar shape to things of another similar shape. Their first spell they learned was how to transfigure a needle to a match and a match to a needle a spell that Kai had mastered in very little time, much to the excitement of Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall was also one of the only Professor's that Kai truly trusted.
It was during another lesson that Kai decided he was going to ask the Professor about the Chamber of Secrets. He walked into the class and sat down at his usual spot at the front of the class. Andy soon appeared next to him.
"How are you doing?" stated Andy as he sat down.
"I am doing well after being chased by that crazed cat of Filch's," replied Kai with a smile.
"Maybe we should do our exploring as something not nearly as cat edible," stated Andy as he waited for Professor McGonagall to appear.
"She is already here," stated Kai non-chalantly gesturing to the cat on the desk, "as for something less edible what about a spider?"
Andy did a double take at the cat on the desk; sure enough it had the same marking around its eyes that glasses would be. He smiled take a morphed to know a morphed he shook his head. He turned back to Kai, "Spiders huh? Well that would take care of the cat problem, it would take us a lot longer to look at the whole castle though as spiders."
"True but it should be less dangerous for us as spiders then as mice," stated Kai as he nodded to the desk again.
Andy looked and sure enough there Professor McGonagall ready to start class. Andy quieted for the meantime until they could talk again. They have been really good about keeping their unique abilities, and Andy's unique race under wraps. The lesson started right off, after a while and when the class was about to end Kai decided it would be a good time to bring it up. He raised his hand.
"What is it Kai?" asked Professor McGonagall she still didn't know why she couldn't say his last name or Fayth's last name either.
"I was wondering if you could tell us about the Chamber of Secrets?" asked Kai.
Professor McGonagall sighed she knew it would be asked, "I suppose it was going to come to this, put your stuff away and I will tell you about it."
All of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw's put away their stuff as quickly as possible to hear the story.
"As you know Hogwarts was founded by the four greatest witches and wizards of the time Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowana Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, now three of the four founders lived harmoniously together, one did not," stated Professor McGonagall.
There was no remark from anyone which made Professor McGonagall smile, if it were her Gryffindor's they would make some remark about guessing who.
"Salazar Slytherin wanted to be more selective in the acceptance of students," continued Professor McGonagall, "he believed that magic should be kept inside magical families, and anybody else was not worthy of learning magic."
"Muggle Born," stated one of the Ravenclaw students who Kai thought was muggle born.
"Right, well as it stood the other founders didn't agree and this left Salazar to leave the school, but not before he built a hidden chamber inside the school, there it is said he kept something that only the heir of Slytherin could control, something terrible so one day someone else could follow Salazar's dreams of nobody but the pure could be here," stated Professor McGonagall, "of course the school has been searched many times and no such chamber has been found."
"Professor," stated Kai thinking it through, "what does legend say is in the chamber?"
"A monster," stated Professor McGonagall.
A shiver ran through the entire class and soon the class was dismissed.
"So what do you think?" asked Andy.
"KAI!" shouted a very familiar female voice.
Kai turned to see his cousin running up to him, "Hey Fayth."
"Did you hear about the Chamber of Secrets?" she asked.
"Yeah Professor McGonagall just told us about it," stated Kai, "you?"
"Professor Binns after much begging and pleading," stated Fayth as she joined Kai and Andy walking. They all three had free time before lunch so there was no hurry to get anywhere.
"What do you think?" reiterated Andy to both of them.
"I think we need to be on our guard," stated Kai something didn't feel right. He could feel every sense in his body on edge; it was like an unholy kind of mist lingered over the school that only he could see.
"I think someone is trying to be funny," stated Fayth, "but I will keep my eyes and ears open."
"Alright, so will we," stated Andy, "I have to go and change, Kai are we still doing some training?"
"That's all you two do is train, you need to get girlfriends or something," stated Fayth shaking her head at us.
"I'm eleven?" stated Kai
"Yeah and I am an alien remember," added Andy.
"Well that is beside the point," stated Fayth waving it off.
"You could join us?" stated Kai.
"Na that's alright, I have to go meet Daphne some of the other first years want nails done and Daphne says she can do a really good job with it," stated Fayth smiling brightly. She waved good bye to the two boys and ran off towards the dungeon.
"Don't let her attitude and personality fool you Andy," stated Kai as he watched her go, "she is just as much the warrior princess as her mother is, lets go."
The two friends headed out on the grounds and found a secluded spot. Soon Andy had shed his human form and was running around in his Andalite body.
"Hey Andy," stated Kai, "do you think I could absorb some of your DNA?"
Andy stopped running and walked over to Kai, 'Yeah sure, you will love this form I know I do.'
Kai smiled as he put his hand on Andy's shoulder he closed his eyes and concentrated, Andy kind of went into a daze for a few seconds and soon returned to normal.
'Cool now I have a tail dueling partner,' stated Andy.
"Tail dueling?" asked Kai.
'Transform and I will teach you,' stated Andy.
"I'm not going to like this am I," stated Kai as he focused on his friends true form, he felt the changes and soon two exact copies of Andalite were standing in the clearing.
The free time the two had was filled with Kai getting use to the new body. Once he was comfortable enough to move around in it and sense in it, Andy taught him to tail duel. Andy wiped the floor with Kai over and over again, but Andy did say that for someone just learning Andy had a natural talent. After the training session the two friends returned to human form and headed for lunch.
Nothing major happened the next couple days which made Kai and Fayth antsy.
"I think we need to continue our prank war on the twins not to mention you have to pull your prank on that buffoon," stated Fayth one day as the two were walking around the grounds in the afternoon.
Andy had some homework he needed to finish up so Kai and Fayth decided to take a walk together since they haven't been able to hang out as often as they would like.
"You know what my good cousin I believe your right," stated Kai, "Lockheart isn't going to be hard so we will do that one first but the twin are professional pranksters, there last prank on us was pretty good."
George and Fred had found a potion that switched Fayth's and Kai's voice for a day. It was rather weird to here Fayth's voice coming out of Kai and vice versa.
"This is true we will have to think deep and hard about that one," stated Fayth.
"We might be able to hire Ginny for some help," stated Kai.
"I don't know Kai Ginny seems to be spending a lot of time by herself, I keep trying to talk to her but she just avoids me like the plague," stated Fayth.
"Hmm…" stated Kai another puzzle to add onto the puzzles of this year. Kai did a mental tally of his puzzles: Prank Lockheart easy, Prank the twins not so easy, Chamber of Secrets something didn't feel right about that legend but Kai hadn't figured anything out except what Professor McGonagall said, figure out why Ginny is so withdrawn, and why that old fool Dumbledore is glowing like a damn lighthouse.
This later puzzle bugged Kai even more than the other ones, well except for the puzzle about Ginny. Kai had done everything in his power to avoid Dumbledore following his father's advice about just avoiding the old man. Something about him was off; Kai was still fairly new to the magical world and couldn't place his finger on it. Lately however Dumbledore has had a much cheerier demeanor and a brighter more unnatural twinkle in his eye. It bugged Kai and Andy for that matter.
"So what are you going to do to Lockheart?" asked Fayth shaking Kai out of his reveries.
Kai just smirked, "Oh it will be epic I promise, I have been working on it since he gave me my second detention, the one where I brought up he was a fraud."
Fayth smiled, "Uncle Marco would be so proud."
"I actually got his help along with the twins help," stated Kai. Apparently the twins despised Lockheart just as much as Kai did.
"What can I help with?" asked Fayth not wanting to be left out.
Kai smiled, "I need some of your girlish charm of course."
"Well that I have plenty of, what's the plan?" asked Fayth.
Kai talked her through what he was going to do and how she would help.
"That is positively delightful," smirked Fayth, "when?"
"Well let's see supper is in less than an hour I have worked on a delay spell for nearly three months now so I think we will go right now," stated Kai.
"Great," stated Fayth.
The two cousins headed off towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
Gildroy was of course there he stayed there more than anywhere else because then he wouldn't be questioned more then he wanted to by other Professors. Gildroy was very happy with this gig, he got paid and did very little and nobody knew the better, it was a perfect scheme like all of his other schemes. He was reading an article in a magazine about himself of course when he heard a knock on the door.
"Professor Lockheart," stated Fayth mustering all the childhood female innocence she could muster, "I was wondering if you could help me."
Professor Lockheart liked this girl better than her horrible cousin, she actually held her tongue in class and he almost thought she fancied him like all the other girls in the school. He was very wrong of course, Fayth hated him but she already got into way to much trouble with most of the other Professors and it was easy to put on a innocent act in his classroom.
"Of course dear, need help on the outline autobiography of myself and my deeds," stated Gildroy.
"Yes sir," stated Fayth keeping her act up perfectly. She smirked inside when she saw that Gildroy had left his over robes on the chair when he stood up.
"Well let's see what you got so far," stated Gildroy walking over to the desk that Fayth usually sat at towards the back of the room to help her. He didn't notice when a mouse slipped in the door behind her.
The mouse was Kai of course he scampered over to where he and Andy sat for class he had hid part of his prank there so he could fetch it when the time comes. He scampered across the room and to his desk he hid behind the front of it with Gildroy helping Fayth and not paying attention to the front of the room. Kai turned back into his human form and pulled the gift from Marco out from its hiding spot, a bundle of fireworks. Then being as quiet as he could he moved to where Gildroy left his robe, he used a couple of simple charms here.
A sticking charm stuck the fireworks at different spots in the robe; a coloring charm changed them to match the robes so he wouldn't notice the difference between firework and robe; the next to charms weren't nearly as easy and he needed to go to the prank master twins for some assistance in learning them one animated the firworks so when they exploded the sparks would perform; the final charm was the hardest it was a delaying spell Kai could only manage about a half-hour delay which would put Gildroy right in the great hall during supper. Once the charms and fireworks were in place Kai transformed back into a mouse and scampered across the floor and out the door which was left open.
Fayth saw Kai scamper out and smiled, "Thank you Professor that helped a lot."
"Well of course dear, if you ever need anything else don't be afraid to ask me," stated Professor Lockheart smiling his big fake too white smile.
"Okay thank you," stated Fayth wanted to get out of there she really didn't like this guy.
Kai and Fayth met back together and continued their walk and then when supper rolled around they were the first ones there wanted the best seats in the house. Soon the Great Hall was packed with students and Professors. The food had just appeared when suddenly Kai's prank cam to fruit.
Gildroy was sitting in his chair when all of the sudden he heard a slight hissing sound, he passed it off as hunger. He was just about to take his first bite of his food when his robes exploded with colorful sparks. Sparks of all colors were surrounding him dancing around his head and body as the fireworks went off. All he saw was the fireworks going off all around him he didn't know the other part of the prank.
Kai was laughing so hard it hurt as he watched Gildroy Lockheart the biggest fraud and self absorbed person he had ever met light up like a roman candle. Different color sparks danced all around him, what Gildroy see but the rest of the Great Hall couldn't could was the sparks were forming the words.
"FRAUD! FAKE!"
Kai only had enough power right now to be able to words to form so he picked the two shortest and best words to describe the Professor. The whole Great Hall was roaring with laughter which made Kai smile this was perfect. He looked to the Gryffindor table and even Ginny was laughing so hard she was crying.
Ginny couldn't stop herself she laughed and laughed, it seemed like forever since she laughed not since her and Kai went to the pool. It rejuvenated her little making her fell happier than ever this year. Gildroy Lockheart was a roman candle with the sparks of the fireworks forming the words fake and fraud. She first thought it was George and Fred but then remembered there is only one person who uses fireworks in almost all of his pranks. She turned to see Kai slipping out of the Great Hall, the two caught eyes and he winked at her. How could one person make her so happy?
Again, what was causing him to lose control so much? The dark essence that had embedded itself in Ginny Weasley was once more pushed back and out losing control. This late in the transfusion he shouldn't be losing control? What was going on?
"ENOUGH!" roared Dumbledore as he disbanded the fireworks from around Gildroy. Of course he already knew that Gildroy was a fraud that is why he hired him, so he couldn't give Ginny any proper training against the dark arts so she would succumb, a necessary part in his overall scheme. What worried Dumbledore was that was some powerful magic coming off Gildroy and he didn't recognize the aura either, it was an unknown and those were bad for his plans.
Author's Notes
Okay so that might have been a little too much knowledge for Kai, the spells for the prank tell me what you think?
I enjoy seeing that people actually like my story and hope you keep reading and reviewing!
Morph Update:
Kai: Mouse, Clydesdale, Bull, Bernease Mountain Dog, Red-Tailed Hawk, Rooster, Flesh-Eating Slug, Andalite
Fayth: Clydesdale, Cow, German Shepard, Guinea Pig, Red-Tailed Hawk, Grizzly Bear, African Elephant
Andy: Andalite, Human, Flesh-Eating Slug, Mouse
Coming up Next: Quidditch and the twins Pranked!
