AN: Gotta get that focus in ya!

killroy225: Thank you very much for picking that up cause I had no idea it was like that until you pointed it out, as you tell I've corrected it so it should be all good now, and they will be included soon, it's just that Harry isn't in the right frame of mind for that to happen just yet and he will need something to help him learn.

Moonreaper666: I was kinda two minds on how to do that scene, either more violence in it or just what it is, but I guess it turned out good.

Chapter 9 – Now…it is personal

After his succumbing to his emotions and the attack on the older students, the insults and threats had begun to rise exponentially after the students had told anyone they could that Harry had attacked them because they prevented him from attacking another student.

Harry could not even talk someone out of listening to the rumors as no one was willing to listen to him; all they did was scream in terror and run away from him, screaming bloody murder.

"It's getting way too much out of hand Harry, you have to go to one of the teachers about all of this, for your own health at least" Neville cried as he sat and watched Harry bandage his arm after a fourth year had defended himself from Harry for looking at him evilly.

"No Nev, it's my fault for losing my temper like that and thus it is my fault that this is even happening" Harry sighed as he finished wrapping his arm in a bandage and got up from his seat in an unused classroom.

"Look Nev, you shouldn't worry about this, distance yourself me, let me handle this on my own, you've seen what the teachers are doing to help me with this: nothing at all, it's my trial and I will get past it" Harry firmly stated, the both of them looked out for other students as they walked into the library.

"So what are you going to do to defend yourself? Just leave it as it is and defend yourself when someone comes after you?" Neville said as they sat down at a back table with several thick tomes in front of them.

"What? Heavens no! I am going to train myself until I cannot walk anymore, and then repeat and repeat again until I find out what this supposed monster is" Harry said, referring to what Professor Flitwick had told them about the chamber.

"Alright first things first, the monster, what do we know?" Neville asked as he grabbed one of the dangerous creature's tomes.

"Well because it's Slytherin, it's going to be a snake and considering he helped make Hogwarts, it's going to be something powerful as well," Harry said as he scanned various pages of his history tome.

"Well there is the basilisk, but the last reported sighting of one alive was four to five centuries ago, so that rules that one out" Neville said as he passed over the great snake.

After a few minutes of searching, Harry came across something pertaining to Hogwarts about half a century ago.

"Hey Nev listen to this" Harry said while getting the attention of Neville.

'Fifty years ago in 1943, a student was murdered by when the Chamber of Secrets, the infamous chamber of Salazar Slytherin, had opened and as such, released a monster that murdered student Myrtle Warren.

After the murder of Warren, fellow student Rubeus Hagrid was found to be guilty of releasing said creature and such was expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

No one knows where the Chamber lies, only that should an heir of Slytherin ever return, legend says that the heir shall release Slytherins person monster and purge those who Slytherin considered not worthy to study magic.

Neville looked at Harry after listening to what he had said and sighed deeply.

"Well that was a cheery story huh?" but Harry wasn't listening, he was deep in thought as he thought back to what the book had said about the murdered student.

'Myrtle Warren, the name Myrtle sounds familiar but where do I know it from?'

After a few seconds of thinking, Harry's eyes lit up in recognition and quickly got Neville's attention.

"Remember what the book said about the murdered student? Her name was Myrtle Warren, and guess who is a resident ghost in the girl's second floor toilet?" Harry whispered as Neville caught onto what he was saying.

"You don't think that Moaning Myrtle is?" Neville whispered back as Harry nodded his head in agreement and got up quickly.

"Come on Nev, we're going to see a ghost about her death" and with that, Harry and Neville raced out of the library, not really caring about the librarians calls but focussed on racing to Moaning Myrtle and finding out what they want to know.

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Upon entering the second floor girl's toilet, Harry and Neville slowed down until they were walking at a snail's pace, trying not to scare away Myrtle.

"Miss Warren? Myrtle? Are you in here?" Harry called out and received a wailing of a cry in return.

After hearing the cry, one of the toilets exploded in a burst of water with a young female ghost flying quickly towards Harry but stopping just shy of his face.

"You said my name, my real name, what do you want?" Myrtle said in a whisper.

"I would like to know how you died, my friends might be in the same danger as you were, all those years ago" Harry spoke in a hushed tone as Neville walked back to the entrance to watch out for anyone.

"Oh it was horrible; there I was, sitting in one of the toilets because Olive Hornby had been teasing me again, I thought she might have come back into the toilets again to tease me some more so when I opened the lavatory door, I didn't see Olive Hornby but a great big pair of yellow eyes, over there" Myrtle pointed over towards the sinks.

Harry turned towards the sinks, walked over to them, and looked around for some indication of something.

After circling the sinks for a few times, Harry noticed a snake motif on one of the sinks so he walked over to it and felt it.

"Well well, a little snake to signal the entrance" Harry whispered Neville over.

"Feel right here Nev" Harry pointed to where the motif was but Neville could not feel or see anything.

"Maybe only parseltongues can see and feel it, it'd make sense because of the whole snake thing going on" Neville said as the duo walked back to where Myrtle was floating around.

"Alright this what we know so far; it's big because of the size of the eyes as Myrtle said, it has yellow eyes, it can kill with a direct look, it can petrify and it is very dangerous," Harry started to pace back and forth while thinking on the evidence.

Harry and Neville traded ideas back and forth before they came to an answer that they both dismissed at the start.

"What if we decided on something too soon, what if the monster that lies in the chamber is something we dismissed because it sounded too ludicrous to be fact," Harry said, starting to become a little nervous at the knowledge of the monster.

Neville saw Harry becoming nervous and so he became nervous as Harry said what they both had been thinking.

"What if the monster, the monster in the fabled Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk" Myrtle starting wailing and flew back into her toilet with a big splash of water.

Neville looked at Harry and whispered his thoughts aloud.

"If it is a basilisk, we should let the teachers handle this," Neville reasoned with Harry.

"I'm going to Neville, but if something happens to either you or Luna as Hermione is in the tender care of Madam Pomphrey so she is protected, then I'm going to find this beast and kill it" Harry said firmly, already thinking of upping his training to increase his chances of succeeding.

Neville looked at Harry with concern at how far he would go to defend his friends but felt happy that he would go that far as well.

After their discussion in the toilets, Harry and Neville parted ways, Neville going back to his common room while Harry was going to the library to take out several books to increase his offensive and defensive training regime he had planned for the next week.

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After spending the next week practicing and training until he dropped out of exhaustion, Harry's behavior had been noticed by his teachers and so had been taken aside by Professor McGonagall to find out why he had been acting the way he was.

"I'm not letting what happened to Hermione happen to my other friends Professor or myself, I'm doing all I can to protect those I care about" Harry said while looking into Professor McGonagall's eyes.

McGonagall sighed deeply and let Harry go but gave him a piece of advice she thought would calm his training down a bit.

"Harry, there are some things greater than training to protect the ones you care most about, enjoy life with them instead of trying to shield them"

Harry turned back towards the Professor with a glint in his eyes as he pondered her words.

"Professor, right now I'm not trying to shield my friends, I'm going to get vengeance for them" with that final word, Harry left the classroom, leaving Professor McGonagall with a dark feeling as if she knew Harry had planned.

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After dinner and a multitude of glares sent his way, Harry walked out of his common room with his invisibility cloak in hand to go back to the library to find some more reading material to help his training when he heard several voices talking in one of the off shoot corridors.

Harry crept up to the people, hugging the wall as close as he could so he could see them clearly without being seen.

"What are we going to do?" McGonagall's easily recognisable voice said.

"My suggestion is that we tell Mr Potter and Mr Longbottom, they deserve to know what has happened" Flitwick said.

"Tell Potter? Why? He's a second year he can barely do anything right, this would only give him more of an excuse to become even more distracted in class as he already has been" Snape drawled as Harry continued to get more confused as their conversation continued.

"Young Harry doesn't need this on his plate at the moment, as Severus said he is starting to become distracted in class and doesn't need any more of a distraction from his school work," Dumbledore said with a small smile that tried to convince the others that he was in the right.

"No, she is his friend Albus, he deserves to know and so I will be the one telling him when I return to my house after this, there will be no other discussion about it, you would do it if it were Severus with Lily" as Flitwick said his mother's name, Harry saw Snapes face pale and became a mighty glare pointing at the small Professor.

"Fine then Filius, but let whatever young Harry does be on your head, you're the one who tells him so the consequences shall be on you" with that final word Dumbledore and Snape turned and started to walk away.

After the duo had left the area, McGonagall turned towards her small friend with a look of concern on her face.

"Are you sure this is a good idea Filius? He told me how he wants vengeance on those who hurt Miss Granger, what do you think he'll do when he finds out about this?" Harry could hear worry in her voice which made him even more curious as to what she was talking about.

"It's the right thing to do plus he deserves to know she has been taken along with Miss Weasley, when I speak with him I will try to calm him down enough to let us teachers sort this situation out" Flitwick tried to calm his friends nerves down.

"And what if he doesn't?" McGonagall whispered.

"Then merlin help us if he goes along with his own plan. With his magic it will be very hard to stop him from his goal" Flitwick and McGonagall started to walk away, leaving Harry to see what the original point of their conversation was about.

When Harry turned the corner and looked at what the Professors were talking about, his thoughts stopped dead.

'Their skeletons shall lie in the chamber forever'

Harry's mind went into overdrive trying to think of anyone connected to the youngest weasley that the Professors would not want Harry to know about until later and when Harry figured it out, his face paled to death white and started to shake slightly.

"They've taken Luna, those cowards have taken Luna into the chamber and are threatening to kill her" Harry started to stalk off towards the entrance of the chamber when he was stopped by Professor Lockhart. (You didn't think I had forgotten about him had you?)

"Ah Harry my boy, where are you off to? Shouldn't you be in your common room, it isn't safe this time of night" Lockhart said while putting an arm around Harry's shoulders.

Harry thought about his answer quickly but got a sneaky idea that involved the dramatic professor.

"I'm off to have my vengeance on the monster from the Chamber of Secrets Professor Lockhart, perhaps you should join me? It would certainly be a very excellent addition for your next book" Harry stocked Lockhart's ego a bit to bring him over to Harry's idea.

"It certainly would my boy, plus it's my duty as a professor and as a member of the dark force defence league to assist and protect you from the forces of darkness, lead on Harry" Lockhart said while walking behind Harry as they started to walk to the entrance.

When the two arrived into the girls toilets, Myrtle interrupted their thoughts as she gave Harry a warning/invite.

"Harry, if you die down there, you are always welcome to share my toilet" Harry thanked her but said it was unnecessary, as he would be surviving this encounter.

*Open* Harry whispered in parseltongue and watched in fascination as parts of the sink rose up and parted to reveal a large dark hole in the floor.

"Saviours first Harry" Lockhart tried to smile but could not as he was almost shaking with nervousness.

"Authority first Professor, I insist" Harry pointed at him with his wand and forced the professor to down the hole first.

As Lockhart jumped down the hole, Harry listened until Lockhart stopped and was preparing to jump in after him but stopped after a hand grabbing his shoulder.

"Not without me you're not," the voice said.

Harry turned around to see Neville looking at him with a determined face and readiness to jump in after him.

"They took Luna Neville, this has become far more than just personal," Harry snarled.

"I know, Professor Sprout talked to me to find out where you were after Flitwick couldn't find you, I found out from her that Luna and Ginny had been taken into the chamber," Neville said as he took his hand off Harry's shoulder.

"Then into the jaws of death my friend, into the mouth of hell we go" and with that Harry jumped down the hole with Neville following close behind him.

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"He comes! The time is upon us! We have watched and waited until his time to re-join us and it has finally come!

Now that Harry has found out what happened to Luna, will he triumph against the basilisk? Or will he fall like Myrtle? Will Lockhart being there change the outcome to the situation? Will Neville be able to help Harry succeed? Will the increased training be able to stop the basilisk and save fair Luna? Find out next time on Temptation!

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