Gotta say, this chapter was the most difficult one to write! I hope the action is a good quality... Its the first time I can remember writing action, so please tell me what you think! ^^

And like always, Enjoy! ^^


When Death finally figured out how to open the entrance to the Chamber, it was under the pressure of someone she had claimed dying inside the Chamber of Secrets. She tried to find one of her friend to help, but the only person that she could find was Hermione.

"Hey Hermione!" Death called out to the bookworm.

Hermione looked at Death oddly before saying, "did you have something to say?"

" I need your help," Death stated. " I don't trust you at all," she explained, knowing that her next gambit would get Hermione's attention though, "but I need someone to watch my back in the Chamber of Secrets. Once we're done, you can have a look around though." Alluding to all the likely hidden knowledge would be the only way to get the knowledge seeking Hermione to help.

" Why would I want to help you? You abandoned me," was her cold response. Hermione tried to keep her cool with a cold mask, but she was starting to become unnerved looking into Death's glowing eyes.

" How many people can say they entered The Chamber of Secrets and survived? Who knows what Salazar Slytherin put down there?" Death said, honestly getting tired of trying to bargain with Hermione.

Hermione sighed before saying, " Fine. It's on you if I get hurt though."

Death immediately brighten up, while her eyes still glowed showing how enraged she really was. (The only time people saw Death's eyes glowing was when she was ticked off. The brighter they were the further away you should get, especially if you were the reason Death was angry. Most were relieved that Death has a long fuse normally.)

Hermione followed Death silently while she was walking at a brisk pace to the first floor. She didn't question Death when she walked right into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. She did wonder why Death walked around the sink like a wolf circling its prey though.

Finally, Death found the Key into the Chamber of Secrets. It was hard to spot, but she found a little snake carved into one of the faucets. She knew a lot of people could have noticed and touched the carving, so Death tried hissing in parseltongue, "open."

This triggered a mechanism that made the sinks open up with the one she hissed to sinking down into the ground. Once the sinks stopped moving, they looked down into the large pipe before Death pulled Hermione down the pipe with her.

Hermione screamed on her way sliding down; while Death was sliding down (with Death standing while she slid down) laughing the whole way down. Hermione crashed into a pile of bones at the bottom of the pipe. Death had a knife in the wall to slow herself down, so at the bottom she just stumbled a bit.

'Klutz,' Death though while she tried getting Hermione out of the pile of bones she got stuck in. Once Hermione was free Death asked, " Ready?"

Hermione glared menacingly, but didn't say anything.

Death grinned with more venom (even if Hermione couldn't see it) before saying, "If you have enough Pluck to glare at me then you have enough energy follow me." She then walked toward a door at the end of the hallway.

Hermione couldn't help but think that Death's silhouette looked like her namesake.

Once they reached the door Death ordered Hermione to stand back, and to be on guard. She then hissed to the door, "open."

Beyond the door was a long dark hallway lined with evenly spaced statues of snakes. Death walked forward with long strides. The metal on the bottoms of Death's Mary Jane's clicked menacingly on the stone. Death's ears were pinned back in anger, making them hard to see unless you were looking for them. Hermione could see a pale aura of red hovering around Death's form. She wanted to turn back, the natural fear of the unknown clawing at her.

Yet being near the whirlpool of Death's wrath held a sharp contrast to the Chamber of Secrets. Hermione could tell that death won't hurt her. If anything, Death gave off an aura of protectiveness that you would only find a hero in fairy-tales having. She could feel Death's desire to protect, and a tiny ounce of possessiveness clinging to the area around her.

Death looked back at the motionless bookworm and asked, "turning back?" The aura clinging to Death developed a cherry red layer around the pale red. Her luminous Amethyst eyes bored into Hermione's, both menacing and hiding how much Death really needed an ally.

Hermione couldn't help but remember a quote when she saw the odd possessive glint in Death's gaze, "the cold hands of Death never let go of the poor souls it has claimed. For it would be admitting defeat to its sisters Life and Fate." (She couldn't recall the title, but she knew it had something to do with a being called the "Shinigami.") {couldn't find any real sayings like that, so I made one up...}

Hermione didn't fall out of her trance until Death broke eye contact. Shaking her head a little, Hermione managed to run after Death. She carefully stayed within the eye of Death's storm of anger. A step away, and she would have been subjected to Death's "Aura of Doom" rather than her "Knight in Shining Armor" vibes.

At the end of the long hallway, they found themselves within a large cavernous room. The far wall was taken entirely up of a large head. The eyes alone were the size of a double doorway. Almost the entire room's floor was angled slightly down, and was filled with water. Along the other two walls were a series of tunnels of various sizes and placement.

But that didn't capture the two girls attention nearly as much as the sight of Luna and Ginny lying limply on the floor. In between the two girls on the floor was a small dark indigo book.

Kneeling beside them was a pale boy with a Slytherin Prefect badge on his robes. The boy had black hair and dark eyes made him look almost wraith like. His wispy transparent state only enforced this image.

Looking up, the Wraith boy notice the two girls looking at him. "I tried to help them," he said with a desperate tone, "but the red haired girl wouldn't stop attacking her," at this, the Wraith looked at Luna. He then held onto the wand within his hands tightly before continuing, "the only thing I could do was try stunning her," more visible shaking now, "b-but Ginny pushed the other girl in the way!"

Hermione acted before Death could stop her. Hermione ran over to the trio with worry controlling her every movement. Death slowly walked over to the small group, wand-hand loosely holding her wand behind her back. When she was close, both Hermione and the Wraith boy could feel a sense of impending doom wash over them.

"How did you know her name?" Death demanded, her voice cold and leaving no room for evasion. Both the Wraith and Hermione looked at Death with a dumbfounded expression.

"Why would you ask something like that!" Hermione yelled indignantly. The Wraith only looked at Death suspiciously.

"I've checked the history of Slytherin, and that one was around during the last time the beast was free," Death stated, "so if you don't wish to get hurt, I'd recommend running."

"Don't be so paranoid Death," Hermione said in a joking tone, but her eyes betrayed her fear, "this is one of Hogwarts ghosts! How could Hogwarts let a harmful spirit stay?"

Death took a couple steps forward before replying, "Because that's not a Hogwarts Ghost," she then dived for the ghost. Unlike what she expected, Death didn't fall through the Wraith, but on top of the Spirit.

"Get of me you bloody beast!" Mumbled the Wraith, finally breaking his mask.

Death complied, slowly getting off the spirit. In the process though, she took the wand the spirit held without its notice.

The spirit cast Stuptify on Hermione before Death could see the second wand the Wraith had. He attempted to do the same to Death, but no matter how many times he cast spells, the spell always missed. It got to the point where the Wraith got so tired of dealing with Death (who hopped around like a prancing deer), that he decided to pull out his trump card.

"Speak to me oh great Salazar Slytherin greatest of the four," the wraith hissed in Parseltongue, opening the mouth of the face embedded into the wall.

'So creative,' Death thought mockingly.

Upon hearing the scaled beast sliding out of the mouth, all of Death's instincts told her to run. So she bolted down a random tunnel. Hearing the snake follow her, she began trying to come up with some way to trap it, already knowing a confrontation with something that sounded so large would be fatal. Taking several turns with only a small decrease in speed after each turn. She more than made up for this decrease in speed with how fast she ran.

When Death finally got back to the main room, she ran into the mouth of the wall. Her vulpine eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness of the tunnel. After going in a couple yards, the walls seemed to have luminous stones embedded into the walls. After a couple meters the tunnel opened up to reveal an aquarium like room. It had stairs along every wall, and looked to be at least eight times the size of the previous room. Water cascaded down the walls, while there was a large Water Spout in the middle of the vast lake.

Making a quick decision, Death bolted up the stairs to her right. The stairs were old and seemed to be missing pieces every other step. The serpent attempted to follow Death, but found the stairs to be too small for it's massive size. She could hear the great beast slip into the water below before its' head quickly shot out of the water. Death just barely stopped in time to not fall through the gaping hole the beast left in the stairs just ahead of her.

'I have to get out of here!' Death thought panicked while she ran down the stairs. The snake tried taking out more portions of the stairs, but Death was too quick for the beast. Almost at the bottom the snake got lucky and came up through the stone steps right where Death was. As it began opening its great big mouth (while falling back into the water) Death hopped from one acid covered fang to its teeth to the other fang (burning away parts of her shoes) before landing on the ground (with a roll to avoid injuries). Her metal tail was nearly caught on one of the fangs, but managed to only scrape one of the fangs.

She then quickly got up and bolted through the tunnel out. The snake was in hot pursuit, but Death was gaining distance with every step. The great Beast of Slytherin tried to go as quickly as it could, but was becoming tired from both excessive chasing and smashing the stairs.

Once Death got out of the tunnel, she hopped and spun in the air landing on the Diary in the process. While in air, she cast a bombarda on the entrance to the serpent's lair. The beast of Slytherin could be heard loudly hissing for help and hissing furiously at "the annoying little beast" is just lost to.


I feel ashamed... I did the one thing O promised myself I would never do... Leave off on a cliffhanger... I just couldn't word the ending right yet! sure i can write the first chapter of year three and sort through TWENTY THREE pages of how Death meets the Arcobaleno, but I can't put the ending into words!

Anyways, for those that want to see what happens to the Idiot Ronald Weasley, that will (hopefully) be in the next chapter! ^^

Still debating how harsh that should be...