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Again I must apologize for the lack of updates. I have a lot of personal problems going on now. That's all I'm saying.

Draco finally regained speech about five minutes after the sink had finished making its extravagant doorway. You'd be surprised at what a sink could turn into. "Wow…."

I nodded, "Yeah that was my general expression afrer I first saw it…. Oh hey do me a favor?"

He looked at me warily, "It depends…"

Rolling my eyes I said, "I just wanted you to scrougify things up as we walk down, since I will be holding the light and looking for potential openings."

"Oh Yeah…That makes sense."

"Duh" I turned back to the archway and hissed, "stairs" I could feel Aries wiggling around my neck in excitement. The stairs grew down into the darkness until we couldn't see them anymore. Draco sent a few cleaning spells down at it and you vould tell and automatic difference. It was a dark mahogany, but now it shined as if it was newly made and polished. There was emeralds inlaid into the wood and it seemed like silver dust that made faint serpentine outlines was also faintly painted on. Magic made all of these decorations twist and move.

Draco whistled, "Salazar Slytherin sure had good taste in interior design."

I nodded, "And I thought it was pretty cool-looking WITH the dust caked on… but this, this is amazing!"

I took out my wand and said, "Lumos Maxima." Everything was illuminated for about twenty feet in front of us. I told Draco, "The light will follow us when we move."

He nodded and we started down the stairs. I sent a few drying spells at the steps since it was very damp and slippery.

We descended in silence since we were looking around in awe. The only sounds were our footsteps echoing down the seemingly endless stairwell and Draco casting scrougify. Because I wasn't really in a rush this time around, I could actually enjoy the journey. My neck was going to be cramping from craning around and trying to swallow all the beautiful, yet morbid and depressing, scenery. My eyes felt like they were going to pop out of their sockets; now that we were nearing the floor I started to see the walls looming out of the empty darkness. Moss was growing all over the stone walls and was resistant to the cleaning spells, so we left it for now. More elegant serpentine carvings covered the stone walls, the moss actually made them life-like.

I was surprised Aries had not said anything yet, he was being extremely still and quiet. I was somewhat concerned so I hissed, "Aries? Are you still alive up there?"

He rustled faintly on my neck and replied, "Shut up Cera."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm trying to imprint this moment in my mind forever, Hey do you mind if I slither on the floor? I want to go around and explore on my own."

I grinned at his response, "Of course Aries, Next time don't bother asking. Just jump off."

"That would hurt!" Aries replied in indignation.

I smirked, "Oh I know."

He was muttering angrily as I set him down. Draco and I were both chuckling amusedly as he slithered off quickly.

Draco stated, "Well if we are quite done with this…"

I nodded, "Ok, well the story starts when I was sorted and the sorting hat told me-"

"Wait. The Sorting Hat TOLD you?" Draco rudely scoffed.

I glared at him, "Yes Draco, now don't interrupt." He did the smart thing and kept his mouth shut. "Anyway the Sorting Hat told me that Salazar Slytherin hid the Founder's Library in here and-"

"The Founder's Library! That's supposed to be a myth!"

Again I glared at him, "Yeah and so is the Chamber of Secrets. Do you have any more comments?" He shook his head and I continued, "Well the Founder's Library is down here with some other rooms, but he didn't tell me anymore, because it would take too long and he was really only supposed to be sorting me."

Draco nodded, "That makes sense, we had all wondered why the hat took so long to sort you.

We both looked around at the circular room we came out in. I had already vanished the bones on the floor so it wasn't disgusting. I set the light in one place and starting throwing cleaning spells at the wall. There were no spider webs, I guess because a Basilisk used to live here, but there was definitely a lot of dust. Draco started burning the moss off of the walls carefully. We made pretty fast progress and continued quickly down the main walkway.

When we reached the huge room with Salazar's face protruding out of the wall I stopped and said, "This is it."

Draco stood still behind me and said, "This is what?"

I grinned, "This is where we start looking. The rest of the walkways are exits or places where the Basilisk would just slither around. That's probably where Aries is at."

Draco was nodding, "Ok, just one problem, there no other doors. Where do we start looking."

I ignored him and hissed loudly, "Founder's Library."

Part of the wall on my right slid outwards and then a door appeared in the same fashion that the room of requirement did. Mounted upon the wall was a life size portrait of a Lady in a blue dress. A bronze plaque underneath said, "Rowena Ravenclaw."

Draco and I stared in shock and awe, we were in the presence of a founder! Even if it were just a memory imprinted on canvas, It was bloody awesome!

She was slender and tall with brunette hair that fell in loose, brunette ringlets down to her shoulders. She had fair skin and green eyes. Her lips were a pale pink and her facial features were VERY similar to Luna's. She also was apparently getting annoyed with us staring.

"Well?" She snapped, her voice was soft but enrapturing, "Are you quite done with staring at me as though you were petrified ignoramuses?"

We regained our senses, "My apologies, Lady Ravenclaw. My boyfriend and I were not expecting to meet a Founder.."

She glanced at Draco, "Is "boyfriend" the term for courting partners nowadays?" At my nod she continued, "Well you might want to tell you boyfriend to stop gaping and keep his eyes on you."

Draco's face gained a pink tinge and he hastened to say immediately, "My apologies Lady Ravenclaw."

She nodded, satisfied. Then she said, "Well introduce yourself children, which of you is Salazar's heir?"

I stepped forward a bit, "I'm Ceraphina Peneroe, I am Slytherin's Heir."

Draco laughed a bit, "That sounded a bit ominous Cera." He then turned to Lady Ravenclaw, "I am Draco Malfoy. It is an honor to meet you Lady Ravenclaw."

She smiled and her icy exterior melted, "It is an honor to meet you as well. But she seemed to be looking at me more than him. Continuing she said, "Behind me is our library. But also there is a potions laboratory and store room, which should still be fully equipped and usable due to preservation charms. There is a dueling room for wands and sword fighting with a weapons storeroom. Also there is a full living quarters that we all used during the infamous muggle raid a few years after Hogwarts was established.

The potions are guarded by Salazar's Portrait. The weapons and dueling is guarded by Godric and the living quarter's are by Helga. Because it would be tiring to say each and every room all the time, you can just say, Founders Unite, and all doors will appear."

I didn't know how long we had been down here, and I knew we would get distracted talking to the other Founder's. Especially Salazar Slytherin. I turned to Draco and asked, "What time is it?"

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his watch. As he looked at it his eyes widened, "It's 5:48 a.m. It's been 3 hours! Snape is going to kill us!"

Ravenclaw said loftily, "Well it's your own fault for being out after curfew anyway."

I sighed, "Yeah yeah… Well we're sorry,, but we have to go, but we'll be back soon and we'll talk to the rest of the Founders."

She said a quick goodbye to us and her portrait disappeared, and the wall slid back into inexistence as we turned to go. I spoke to Aries in my head, "Meet me at the stairs."

What I got back was, "Already on my way."

I mentally glared at him, "I TOLD you to stoop eavesdropping."

No response. I sighed and turned to Draco, "Okay, I took care of Aries. He'll be there."

He nodded and we sprinted through all of the many tunnels that had brought us to the room. Draco teased me when I tripped, he shut up when I cast a mild stinging hex at him. When he got to the stairs I was breathing heavily. Aries was waiting for me and snickering, I ignored him and just picked him up and placed him around my neck.

Draco and I both groaned as we looked up the stairs, but we wearily jogged our way up at a steady pace. Luck was with us when we arrived at Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. We didn't have much dialogue as we crept along through the corridors, trying to mask our out-of-breath panting.

As we walked up to the portrait we grimaced instantaneity, we both knew what our friends would assume and we'd be bombarded with questions as we walked in the door, no matter how late it was.

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