Chapter 20 Headaches and Hellhounds.

With the exams finally over, the first years found themselves with nothing to do for two weeks but enjoy the sunshine. Sam and Hermione found themselves participating an in depth discussion of the various exams they had taken, while Castiel was propped up under a nearby tree sketching a picture of the two. Dean and Ron where playing exploding snap, the two of them becoming more and more animated as the game went on, Harry watching, amused at their antics while absentmindedly rubbing his scar. Illyria sat next to him, just starting at her book.

Illyria could feel the beginnings of a headache building just behind her eyes, but given that she had just endured two weeks of exams, she thought that it was stress. She was however, proven wrong about thirty seconds later.

The last thing she was aware of was Harry shouting "I wish I knew what this means!" before the vision exploded across her mind.

They were standing on a chessboard, the chess pieces at least twice the size of them, various pieces lying in ruins around the edge of the board. Looking at Dean, she spoke "You have to go with Harry Dean, don't make him do this on his own." Then turning and looking at Ron sitting on the horse "its ok Ron, I'll be alright." Then the chess piece was advancing on her sword raised.

"Ar-geh, ree-teh.*" Illyria uttered as she came back to reality

"Eh-teh-har, eh-teh-har*" Cas said as he held her hand.

"Cas?" Came Dean's enquiry

"I don't know" was the terse reply

"Amaushu-mgalanna xul ilu^" Illyria said as she sat up rubbing the bridge of her nose. "That was, not fun. Someone is going after the stone, tonight."

At this statement everybody started talking at once, Illyria winced at the sudden noise.

"One at a time please." She requested.

"Ok, explain" that was Dean.

"I, saw us, all of us, we were, standing on a chessboard, as if we were the game pieces, it felt like it was some kind of test. That's all I saw, but I just know that somebody is going after the stone tonight, and that we have to stop it." She explained.

"If somebody is going after the stone, then we should tell a teacher" Said Hermione.

"Do you really think I would be having prophetic visions of us on a chessboard if anybody was going to listen?" Illyria snapped, Hermione recoiling at her sharp tone.

"Sorry, it's just, my head hurts." Hermione nodded her acknowledgment.

"Ok, so unknown person is going to steal the magic stone tonight and Illyria is having visions of us being there, so as far as I can tell, it looks like we're playing chess tonight." Said Dean, grin on his face.

"You can't be serious, you're going to go gallivanting around to castle on a 'vision' and a hunch? If we get caught we are going to be in detention till the end of the year!" Hermione stated indignantly.

"It's not just that Hermione, my scar has been hurting all day, I think it's a warning. If we ignore this and something happens, well I don't think I could forgive myself if this turns out to be something important and I did nothing. So I'm going to go with them, if you want to come or not, well that's your choice." Said Harry passionately.

"Look, none of you have to come, but I'm going with Harry." Said Illyria

"Well I'm coming to, you lot are all useless at chess." Stated Ron.

"Hey man, we're there" Said Dean, with Cas and Sam nodding in agreement.

The group just watched as Hermione's resolve crumbled "We're all going to be expelled!"

They spent the rest of the afternoon pretending that everything was alright, going off to their various common rooms after dinner. The group met up outside the door to the third floor at exactly 11:30 that night.

"So no trouble getting here?" asked Sam.

"We almost ran into Peeves." Said Harry.

"I had to dodge a prefect" Said Illyria.

"I did not have any issues" Said Cas with his small not smirk.

"Awesome, so dog, right, let's do this." Said Dean, taking a deep breath and squaring his shoulders, he slowly opened the door and stepped into the room.

Once in the room a harp could be heard playing and the Cerberus appeared to be sleeping.

"The harp must have put it to sleep." Said Harry

"Yes but it's paw is on the trapdoor that we want to go through" Hermione pointed out.

"We're gonna have to move it." Said Sam "Harry, Ron, give me a hand, everyone else, be ready to run, we don't know when this thing is going to wake up."

"Sam we don't know what's down there" Said Hermione in a tone that could only be described as a whine.

"Well we're just going to have to take that chance then" Said Dean, his eyes never leaving the dog.

"Ok you guy's ready?" asked Sam as he Harry and Ron stood next to the Dogs paw "on three, one, two, three!"

Once the paw was moved Dean opened the hatch and motioned for the others to go down.

Illyria went first followed by Cas, Harry then Sam. Just as Hermione was moving to jump down the hole, the Harp stopped playing and, much to Dean's visible horror, the dog immediately woke up.

"GO" Dean yelled as he shoved Hermione and then Ron down the hole, following them down as fast as he could.

Dean landed with a soft thump on a mass of black vines that Sam and Hermione seemed to be attacking with light, which when pointed in his direction, disintegrated the plant he had landed on and Dean found himself dropped onto a stone floor, the others Falling around him.

"Devils snare" Sam explained.

"Huh?" Dean said with a confused look.

"Killer plant, doesn't like light." Sam said in the tone of voice that said 'I'm using small word so that you will understand me,' Dean hated that tone.

"Ah, right. So, moving on?" Said Dean.

"You know, I always thought that Fred and Gorge were the crazy ones, but now I realise it's actually you two. You just happen to hide it better." Stated Ron.

The others just laughed at this.

* Enochian written phonetically

no, mercy

Peace

^ Sumerian

Lord of Bread of Life [is an] evil god

I apologise for any mistakes made with the languages, as I do not speak them. reviews are love.