AN: Credit for a section of this chapter goes to Moonreaper666 for giving me the excellent idea of putting it in there, kudos to you.

Chapter 10 – Into the Chamber

When Harry and Neville landed on a pile of animal bones, they knew that had reached the end of the slope and into the area before the chamber itself.

"You first" Harry poked his wand into Lockharts back, forcing him to more forward over the bones.

"What do you think we'll find once find the actual chamber?" Neville asked Harry as the bones ended and the stone began.

"Well probably two things, one; we'll find nothing and just Luna and Ginny in the chamber frightened out of their wits, or either two; we'll find the basilisk and we'll have to kill it before it kills us" Harry grinned at Neville with a slightly insane grin, knowing that both of the boys' nerves were off the charts at the moment.

"That's comforting," Neville said as they came upon a snakeskin that stretched out for a good fifty feet before shortening into a tail section.

"This must be a shed skin from the snake but great merlin look at the size of it! It must be longer than forty feet, it has to be" Neville said with a horrified look on his face.

While Harry and Neville were examining the snakeskin, Lockhart surged forward and grabbed Neville's wand from his loosened hand and pointed it towards the boys.

"The adventure ends here boys," Lockhart said while looking at the two of them in the eyes.

"So sad that the girls couldn't be saved, all that was left were their mangled bodies, which unfortunately drove the two of you mad, so goodbye to your memories boys….Obli-!" Lockhart tried to shout but a sudden blast of magic slammed against his face, stopping him before he could finish the spell.

When Harry heard the first syllable of the spell being said, he quickly shoved Neville out of the way while simultaneously casting a Tongue-tying Curse, which incidentally is a curse that Lockhart taught them in one of their actually useful classes.

After Harry's curse hit Lockhart, he could not talk, only being able to mumble and moan unintelligently because of the curse.

"Well, what else do we do about him? He tried to wipe our memories away which I'm pretty sure is grounds for Azkaban but we need to get a teacher first" Neville said while looking back towards the pipe.

"It's simple Neville, we do this" Harry blasted Lockhart back with a bolt of raw magic that shot out of his willow wood wand and slammed into Lockhart and into the cave wall, knocking him out cold.

"Or we could do that Harry, what do we do now? Do we leave him here?" Neville pointed to the surrounding area.

"For now leave him, I'm not risking our lives more because of this deadweight" Harry moved towards what seemed to be a large, circular metal door with multiple snake motifs on it.

"You're up Harry," Neville said while looking at the snake-laden door.

Before Harry spoke the door open, he turned towards Neville with a grim look on his face.

"Look Neville, I know I was all bravado back there but please, go back up the pipe and get Professor Sprout to get Professor Flitwick, he's the professor I trust the most and he'll help if things get out of hand, trust me on this Neville" Harry asked, almost begging Neville to go back up the pipe.

"Harry come on! I said we would do this together and I meant it! Whichever mouth of hell you go into then I'm following!" Neville almost shouted, his voice echoing slightly down the cave.

"Nev, this is dangerous! I know how far your loyalty to me goes but please, not this time, I need you to be my back up if things go wrong, I'm begging Neville please go back" Harry grabbed Neville's shoulders and looked him dead in the eyes to convey his request as hard as he could.

After a few minutes of an internal struggle, Neville's shoulders slumped down and nodded his acceptance of Harry's request.

"Fine then Harry, I'll go back but if you die down there, I'm bringing you back and killing you again" Harry worried slightly about Neville's determination in his statement but shook it off as Neville's determination as his friend.

Harry watched as Neville started to walk back up to the pipe that lay at the entrance to the cave and turned back to the door with a resolute face.

*Open*

Harry watched as a snake around the edge of the door started to slither in a circular motion, the snakes that it passed shrinking inwards as if they were locks on the door.

The door started to open slowly, revealing the Chamber of Secrets that lay within and in it, Luna and Ginny.

Harry climbed down the ladder slowly, making sure to watch every crevice so nothing could get the jump on him and stop him from his quest.

As Harry started to walk passed more snake motifs, Harry looked to the far end of the chamber and saw a giant stone face looking back at him, with a slight indentation for the mouth area.

Just in front of the stone head lay Luna and Ginny which made Harry break out into a run, hoping his friend was safe and alright.

When Harry got within a couple of meters of the girls, he dropped to his knees and started to slide towards the because of the wet stone floor which made it slightly convenient for Harry as he didn't have to drop as he got to the girls.

"Luna, Luna please wake up, come on wake up!"

"She won't wake" a smooth male voice came from the far left out of the shadows.

"And why is that oh so smart one" came a sarcastic retort from Harry as he kept his attention on his unconscious friend.

"Well you see, after poor little Ginny Weasley started to write into my diary, telling me her pathetic life story about how her precious boy-who-lived didn't want to be her friend because her big brother says he's a dark wizard and wouldn't like her"

"How she wanted to be different from her brothers and make a name for herself by marrying you, it truly was pathetic how easy it was to convince her to release the basilisk and restart Salazar Slytherins noble work!" the male said while standing up to his full height.

"Can I at least know the name of the person I'm going to hurt for attacking my friends?" Harry said while turning towards him with his willow wand clutched tightly in his wand.

"Gladly Potter"

The male turned around and with a wand that came from nowhere, started to write in fire letters, floating in the air.

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

"Hang on I've seen that name before, in the trophy room you got an award for deeds for the school," Harry said while waiting for Tom's next trick.

With a wave of his hand, the letters began to move and change into new words.

'I AM LORD VOLDEMORT'

"You're him? You're the younger version of the dark lord I destroyed?" Harry watched as after he said this, Tom's face redden in rage.

"How is it, that a half-blood baby, not even old enough to say his first word was able to defeat the world's strongest wizard with the only remained is a scar?" Tom snarled in a rage.

"Maybe because I'm better than you? I certainly proved it when I defeated you when I got this scar and last year when I killed you" Harry's sarcastic mood was coming out because of his worry for his friend who was not waking up.

"Impossible! To defeat me twice! It was pure luck Potter, too bad your luck has just run out" Tom turned away from Harry and stared at the giant stone face with his arm outstretched.

*Speak to me Salazar Slytherin, great of the Hogwarts Four*

Harry watched as the mouth opened to reveal the basilisk that lay inside and watched as it slid out into the open, rising up to its full fifty feet length.

Before Tom could command the basilisk, a cry of a phoenix interrupted them as it flew down and dropped the sorting hat in Harry's hands.

"So this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender; a songbird and an old hat," Tom sneered.

"Oi! I'm not a fan of Dumbledore but don't insult the intelligence of this hat, it's sorted greater wizards than you Tommy boy!" Harry said with a small glare.

"So that's how you think is it? *Kill him!* Parseltongue won't save you now Potter, it will only obey me" Tom sidestepped a bit as the basilisk surged forward towards him.

Harry did all he could to try to dodge the attacks of the basilisk but he was getting tired quickly and couldn't keep it up for long if not for the phoenix who dive bombed the basilisk with its talons stretched out to attack.

Harry watched as the phoenix tore out the eyes of the basilisk and left it blind to seeing Harry but Harry quickly remembered the other sense of a snake.

"Your songbird may have blinded the basilisk, but it can still smell you Potter"

*Smell him!*

'Oh no' thought Harry as he quickly dodged into a side pipe with the basilisk hot on his tail.

Turn after turn, Harry turned to try to confuse the basilisk but it never fully worked as the water he was in still kept the scent of him in it which made it easy for the basilisk to find him and corner him before a grate.

'Come on think Potter think! You are supposed to be the smartest male in your year and yet you can't even outsmart a snake, what a way to go out eh? I should grab a stone with me to take out its organs-wait what? A stone!'

Harry picked up the closest stone he could and deftly threw it away from his location but enough to make a significant noise, which thankfully worked as the basilisk started to slither away from him.

'Okay, back to trying to save the girls'

Harry walked silently, carefully back into the main chamber, and saw that both of the girls were almost deathly pale.

He ran over to them to feel their body but only felt a shred of warmth from both of their bodies.

"It's almost time Potter, they're almost dead and with their deaths I shall rise again to wreak my vengeance on the wizarding world" Tom's smooth, almost snakelike voice rang out.

While Tom was doing his monologue, Harry was slowly but surely falling down into an envisioned world without his dear friend Luna, a world where it was much darker because of her absence.

'You know what you can do to save her Harry, all you need to do is accept me back and let me out'

'I promised myself I wouldn't'

'You also promised to keep your little friend safe while using only your wizarding powers, that didn't work out so well did it?'

'I trained SO HARD to beat him and yet I can't even make a dent in damaging him, I don't know what to do'

'Yes you do Harry, embrace the warp again, show this pathetic wizard who is the stronger sorcerer and you'll be able to save your friend Luna'

'What happens if I don't use the warp?'

'Death and destruction on a global scale but for you, torture of the most painful and foul making you wish for death but not being granted it and for Luna, Voldemort will bring her back as an undead and let her feast on your flesh'

'Say the words Harry, and let me help you save the one you care most about and destroy the one who threatens her'

Tom watched as Harry begun to shake slightly and started to laugh, thinking Harry was shaking because of fear from him.

However, Tom stopped laughing as Harry's head rose up with blue eyes with spiralling gold around the blue.

"Help me save my friend"

After Harry had uttered those words, the basilisk came bursting out of the watery area in a giant water spray that sprinkled down onto everything.

Harry looked over towards the sorting hat, saw a sword glinting into existence, and quickly raced over to it to pull it out before the basilisk got him.

Just as Harry pulled the sword out of the hat, Harry watched as the sword twisted and turned in a shift before settling on a daemonic style that vibrated with the warp as he held it at eye level in his hand.

"Deathscreamer, an appropriate name for what I am about to do"

The sword burst into a blaze of pink fire of Tzeentch, that warmed up Harry's face but for the basilisk, it felt as if a blazing sun were next to it.

Harry's blue-gold eyes fixed upon the basilisk and with a yell of defiance, thrusted the sword towards the basilisk and watched as a bolt of warp energy shot out of the sword and sped towards it.

Immediately after he shot the bolt of warp energy, Harry threw the sword at the basilisk with all his might at the body of the basilisk, watching as the pink fire rippled through the air and the screeching from what Harry subconsciously knew was a daemon struck the basilisk's body.

Tom watched as the basilisk writhed and screeched in pain as it burned up from the inside and with a wet splat, its midsection exploded in a burst of pink fire.

Tom stood in front of the dead basilisk with a stunned look on his face, after a few moments turned back to Harry with a mighty rage, and stalked towards him.

"Ah ah ah, stay right there Tom, you wouldn't want the same thing that happened to the basilisk happen to your diary now would we?" Harry sneered as he held up a black diary that belonged to Tom.

Tom shook with rage as he stared at Harry who held his precious diary and snarled a demand to Harry.

"Put that down now Potter! Or I'll suck your precious blood traitors dry of their life force!"

"You know just for that Tom, I think I'll do this"

Harry stretched his arm out towards the dead basilisk and waited until his Deathscreamer flew into his waiting grasp.

With a mighty stab, Harry plunged the blade into the middle of the diary and watched as black green ink started to pour out of it as if a tap had been unblocked.

"I'll kill you for this Potter!" Tom ran at him but exploded in a bright light before he could touch Harry.

After Tom's apparition had been destroyed, Harry noticed Luna and Ginny start to wake up and start to regain their colour.

"Luna are you alright?" Harry asked as he grabbed her into a hug.

"With you being there to save me Harry, I will always be alright" Harry blushed slightly at Lunas words but kept her in a firm hug until a cough brought them out of it.

"Is Tom gone?" Ginny Weasley timidly asked.

"Gone and dusted Miss Weasley, now I do believe it is time that we exit this chamber because of you know, the dead basilisk" Harry pointed towards the split in half basilisk and both Luna and Ginny paled as they stared at the size of it.

"Come on you two, we haven't got all day and I'm sure your parents will be worried about you Miss Weasley, as well as your father Luna" Luna grabbed Harry's hand as they began their journey back up into the caves leading to the unused girls toilets of Hogwarts.

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'He has returned to us! With my Champion back in my grasp, now we await yours to join him…. won't we Slaanesh?'

Now that Harry has returned to Tzeentchs grasp, will Tzeentch be the same teacher as he was in the past? Or will he be a harsher one to teach Harry a lesson? Also now that Harry saved both Luna and Ginny, will Harry's and Luna's friendship turn into something more? Will Harry befriend Ginny and prove what her brother says is wrong? Find out next time on Temptation!

AN2: HO-LY OMG! Who saw Slaanesh appearing in the story? Moreover, just who is Slaanesh's champion? Is it someone from another house? Is it someone who Harry doesn't even know? Again, find out next time on Temptation! Peace!

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