Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait, I know you've been waiting anxiously to read the new chapter. I was really really busy moving into my new apartment with my boyfriend, plus the new semester is starting up soon so I apologize for making you all wait.
This chapter is going to dive into Robin and Chekov a little, make the characters all have a little three dimension to them. I don't want EVERYTHING to be about Juliet and Tom because thats just boring, you need more people to make a story go you know?
Well anyway, thats all for now. I'll be sure to update a new chapter soon enough. Remember, some of the old chapters have been rewritten and updated since I'm sure everyone knows my writing skills back then were not exactly... "up to par" I'd like to say (I'm such an embarrassment to the writing community here).
Be sure to comment and enjoy, love you guys!
Chekov and Robin ran down the deserted hallways of the school in great haste, desperately keeping an eye out for anyone that may see them breaking the rules.
"Ohhhh this is SUCH a bad idea…" Robin whined out loud, already regretted his decision.
"Shhh! You're making too much noise." Chekov hissed, putting his pointer finger to his lips.
"If I die because of you I will haunt you forever plus an eternity after, you know that right?" He hissed back.
"Wouldn't have it any other way you big weeny." Said the Russian rolling his eyes, not caring.
The two continued to run more and more, ducking or hiding in empty classrooms as ghosts and teachers passed by unknowing of their presence. At one point they were almost caught by nearly headless Nick who happened to be patrolling down an empty garden. Robin being the quick thinker as he was quickly grabbed a rock and tossed it in the opposite direction they were going. Naturally the ghost followed the sound giving them enough time to escape in the opposite direction.
Finally they were deep enough in the castle for them to safely assume no one was close by. The two wizards walked together, feet echoing slightly with their wands out to be sure.
"Hey, Chekov…" Robin began, breaking the silence.
"Hm?" The Hufflepuff replied.
"Thinking about what happened to Juliet, it might not have been a student that killed Myrtle…"
"What makes you say that?" Chekov asked, brows raised.
"It makes no sense, there was no evidence of any person in the bathroom. Only great big yellow eyes by the sinks…"
Chekov shivered at the thought of that.
"And what I saw in the orb in divination…" Robin trailed off.
Chekov remained silent, thinking back on what he told him. The panic written on his face and the urgency in his voice.
"Chekov what I saw in that orb looked like some kind of animal."
"An animal?"
"Yes, a giant creature with great big yellow eyes and fangs longer than your arm."
"That could be anything, Robin…" Chekov tried to diffuse his friends worrying.
"No, Chekov. It could talk."
The Russian immediately stopped thinking.
"Talk? As in speaks like a human."
"Yes… no… it's somewhere in between. It spoke in some language I know nothing of. I never heard such a thing in all my life…"
"But why did it frighten you?" Chekov said now worrying.
"I-I saw it kill Juliet." He said, looking him dead in the eye, pouring in every emotion he had in his name to convince him how serious he was.
The Russian shivered again, waking from his trance.
"Yeah… I remember." He responded to Robin.
"One of us should have gone with Juliet, we should't have left her to find Tom on her own." Robin said gravely.
"Once she finds Tom she'll be in safe hands. He's one of the top wizards this year, way more advanced in magic than the two of us so she's fine." Chekov responded, hoping that would maybe keep him more calm.
"Besides, compared to you and me Juliet always knows where to find him. She's like a "Riddle Detector" or something." Chekov ranted.
"Please tell me that wasn't one of your awful puns." Robin groaned.
"I wish it was." Chekov admitted sheepishly.
Robin sighed, mind a complete mess. He remained silent for a long while, still piecing together evidence.
"A large creature with giant fangs and great large eye's that can speak in an unknown language…" The Ravenclaw repeated to himself slowly.
Suddenly, one of the walls made a noise, indicating the Room of Requirement was opening it's doors again.
"Finally!" said Chekov who was clearly relieved while walking toward it.
The tall Russian used his great strength and opened the doors to the Room of Requirement. When it was opened enough the two wizards then rushed inside and closed the doors in great haste. The door then disappeared, leaving them alone inside and safe.
"Thank Great Merlin we're alive!" Robin said kissing the ground.
"Hanz!" Chekov said aloud worried. "Are you alright?"
"What the… what are you two doing in here so late?" Said Hanz sitting up on his bed, clearly surprised by his late night visitors.
"Good, you're safe too." Chekov breathed another sigh of relief.
"Safe?" Hanz repeated. "What's going on? Has something happened?" He asked.
"This may not be the lightest news to take but someone may have sorta, kinda, maybe been murdered here at the school. We don't know by who though." Robin explained to the German pilot.
"Murdered?!" Hanz eyes widened at the information.
"Yes, so because you can't protect yourself here we came to guard you till Juliet arrives with Tom and then-" Chekov elaborated further.
"Wait." The German interrupted. "You mean to tell me you two just let a young woman wander around without proper protection while there is a killer on the loose? What kind of men are you?!" He yelled, outraged by the wizards conduct.
"I know, I know but unlike you Juliet can actually protect herself. she's more than well trained in defense and her magic is pretty powerful. Besides, you can't do magic.
"Much less walk." Chekov added, pointing to the Pilots legs.
"Without us around you might as well be a sitting duck." Robin concluded.
"I would rather die than let her throw herself in harms way." He said darkly. "Go to her now, I have a loaded gun on me. If the murderer comes near me I can take him down." He said eyeing the revolver by his bedside.
"Oh how scary. Now care to explain to me how a gun was used in the Magical world when no Witch or Wizard owns one, much less needs one to begin with?" Chekov replied sarcastically. "You'd give yourself away by doing that."
"Look" Robin tried to reason with Hanz. "I don't like this situation anymore than you do but the fact remains we have to be on guard because-" Robin stopped his sentence immediately, ears perking.
"Robin?" The Ravenclaw silenced the Russian by putting his hand on his mouth.
"Did you hear that…" Robin whispered.
The three remained silent, allowing themselves to hear anything.
Suddenly they heard a dragging sound echoing in the walls.
"That." Robin confirmed.
"What the hell…" Chekov pulled out his wand ready for anything. Hanz took grip of his gun.
"Sh! No sudden movement." Robin directed to the two males. They both listened to the Ravenclaw, allowing themselves to be as remotely quiet as possible.
It was an odd and surreal sound, it was there but also wasn't at the same time. A passing and going noise that could only be detected if you listened close enough. It traveled in a slow pace, as if it was taking great care of its tracks, like it was searching for something. Judging by the echoing it could easily be concluded it was a very large, yet how could something so large be unseen by the naked eye?
The Room of Requirement made a deep rumbling noise, indicating it moved its location somewhere else in the castle. The sound was then gone, all that was left was two stupefied wizards and a muggle frozen in place.
"What is gods name was that…" Hanz asked, completely on edge.
"I.. I don't know. Whatever was I think its what killed that girl in the bathroom. It's gotta be the killer…" Robin said looking to Chekov for confirmation.
"Robin, that thing we just heard might be what you saw in the orb." Chekov said to the Ravenclaw, now fully convinced what Robin was warning him about wasn't was crazy as he last thought of before.
"Orb?" Hanz looked at the two wizards curiously.
"Er… a crystal ball." Robin elaborated, trying to compare it to muggle literature.
"Ah… what did you see exactly in it?" The German asked Robin.
"A great large creature with giant yellow eyes with teeth longer than a humans arm." he replied.
"Interesting…" said Hanz.
"Oh, and it talks in some unknown language." The Ravenclaw added quickly, as if it was no big deal.
"Excuse me?"
"Yeah, we're just as stumped as you are." Chekov reassured.
"What a bizarre creature…" Hanz said aloud with wonder.
"You know, was it just me, or did that thing seem like it had no legs?" Chekov looked to Robin for confirmation, hoping he wasn't the only one who thought of this.
"No legs?" Robin repeated, looking at the Russian as if he had two heads. "And where did you come up with that idea?"
"Well, Usually when a creatures walks its steps echo making a 'pitter patter' sound." The Russian elaborated more.
"…. you lost me." said the confused Ravenclaw.
Chekov sighed.
"What I'm saying is-" Chekov walked to table that was by them both. "When you or any creature walks in a hallway your feet make this sound-" The tall Hufflepuff made stepping noises by tapping his hands on the table in rhythmic beat. "Right? Follow me so far?"
"Okay…" Robin said, trying to follow.
"Well whatever the hell we just heard, I think it has no legs. Because it made a dragging sound like this!" Chekov provided this by example by then dragging his foot on the ground, matching the noise to a certain degree.
"That's actually a pretty good deduction." Hanz said while nodding his head.
"He's right. thats a pretty good observation there, Chekov." Robin said, clearly impressed by his friend.
"If it has no legs how is it getting around here without being seen then?" Hanz asked.
"Beats me, that could be anything for all we know. There are hundreds of secret passageways in the castle."
"Yeah thats true, but how could a creature know of passageways?"
"Damn, good point." 'Tsked' the Russian.
Suddenly they all froze in place again upon hearing the dragging, echoing noise, this time louder and at a more alarming speed. The Room of Requirement made again a deep rumbling noise, once again indicating they were at another random part of the castle.
"Okay, whatever it is it's following us. We gotta get out of here." Hanz said, clearly petrified.
"We can't leave the Room, not without Juliet and Tom. They should be able to find us soon if we just stay put."
"In case you haven't realized our situation there is a giant creature, a killer for all we know following us. Now, if that doesn't tell you two to run than you're more qualified for the air force than I ever was." Hanz said, attempting to knock some sense into the two Wizards.
"She wouldn't know where else to find us if we left here." Robin stressed to the Pilot.
"In other words…" Hanz began asking.
"We're stuck." Chekov concluded.
"Yeah…."said Robin in agreement.
"Well shit!" said Hanz throwing his hands in the air, giving up.
"Okay, okay. Back on topic. Based on what we know its got great big yellow eyes, it had large teeth, can speak in another language and might have no legs." Said Robin relaying the information again out loud.
"Even if we do figure out what this thing is what good will it do? It's not like we'll know how to handle it." Hanz said to Robin.
"The more we know, the more prepared we can be, period." Robin stated.
"That's quite a Ravenclaw thing to say, Robin." Chekov said with a weary smile.
"Wait a minute-" Hanz interrupted. "Giant teeth, no legs, big yellow eyes…" He said drifting off.
"What?" They asked the German.
"Call me crazy, but besides the talking part the only creature I could think of that sounds like that is a snake…"
"A snake?" Robin repeated, dumbfounded.
"Of course!" Chekov said with a great big smile on his face, indicating a light-bulb went off. The Hufflepuff turned to Robin immediately.
"Robin, its eyes were shaped like a cats wasn't it? You know, when its eyes are dilated. The pupil wasn't round but rather like oval slits right?"
"Actually now that you think about it…"
"And it had no fur right?"
"Your right, it didn't."
"It's a snake!" Chekov and Hanz said together, more than glad they cracked the code.
"Though I have to admit, even if its a giant snake that still doesn't explain how its moving around the castle without being seen." Chekov said, worried.
"Must be the plumbing." Robin concluded.
"How do you know?" Hanz asked.
"They're really large here in the castle, it must be using it as some kind of highway system or something around the school. Thats why we can only hear it in the walls but not see it."
"Oh, well in that case…" Hanz looked down sarcastically feigning interest for a second. "THEN WHY THE HELL IS A GIANT RAMPAGING KILLER SERPENT IN THIS SCHOOL TO BEGIN WITH?!" He yelled at the top of his lungs at the wizards.
"What? Do you think we just casually thought 'Hey, lets see what will happen if we put a giant snake in school, what could go wrong' then you're crazy. We don't know what happened or why this is even happening. In fact theres been a lot of weird things happening today that I can't quite piece together…" Robin argued back.
"…Like what?" The German asked.
"Like how I saw the serpent in the orb but no one else did-" Said Robin.
"How it killed that Myrtle girl without leaving a mark on her body-" Chekov added.
"Why Juliet looked like she was beaten to a bloody pulp-" Robin continued.
"How she found the body at the scene of the crime when it was the opposite direction of the great hall-" The Ravenclaw went on.
"Especially when she agreed to meet us there after she took her bath-" The Hufflepuff continued.
"Juliet was hurt?" Hanz interrupted.
"Yeah, it was flat out abuse whatever happened to her. She was covered in deep cuts and bruises all over her face and body." Chekov said to the German.
"….." hans looked to his lap, eyes widened.
"… Hanz…. do you know what happened?" Robin asked him, suspicious of his reaction.
"No… but I have an idea who did." Hanz spat darkly.
DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNNNNNN! CLIFFHANGER! Well guys thats all for now, hope you all enjoyed this update! Be sure to review so I may know whats up and what you think. Your comments keep this story alive, remember that!