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Ran had been summoned by Esdeath to come to an out of order girls bathroom. Apparently she had a talk with Dumbledore and learned what purpose the diary might have served within the school. Last night she had been walking all around the school checking every girls bathroom for this ghost girl.
"Evening Commander," Ran said as he met with his superior outside of lavatory. "This is the one?"
"Yes I found the ghost sitting in a S bend crying to herself," Esdeath told him. "Apparently she goes by the name of Moaning Myrtle." Ran nodded.
Esdeath opened the door to the bathroom and went inside with Ran close behind. Nothing looked out of the ordinary, there was a circular formation of sinks in the middle of the room, with a lane of stalls off to the left with sobs coming from one of them. Ran closed the door behind him, and the crying stopped upon hearing the door close. Gliding out of the stall was the spirit of a young girl wearing a round set of glasses similar to what Harry had, a set of Ravenclaw robes, and had her hair done in twin tails. For some reason he thought back to his students in the muggle world and how they all died. This girl was probably only a few years older than some of them. It made him feel sick that this child had died, and in a school as well. "Who are you?" Myrtle asked in a slightly bitter tone.
"Good evening Myrtle," Ran addressed the ghost. "I am Professor Ran, and this is Professor Esdeath."
"What are teachers doing here?" Myrtle asked. "Have you come here to tell me to leave this bathroom? Because I won't."
"No that isn't why we are here," Ran told her trying to put the ghost at ease. "We just came here to ask you something."
"Ask me what?" Myrtle asked raising an eyebrow. She probably didn't get many visitors.
"I can understand if this is a sore topic for you but," Ran paused, "we came to ask you how you died."
"R-really?" Myrtle asked not expecting that to be the question she was asked.
"It's like I said I can see why you would be reluctant to tell us but-,"
"Oh it's not that," Myrtle cut in. "It's just that no one has ever asked me that before, and I've been a ghost for fifty years."
"We heard about that," Esdeath said. "Not asking you shows nothing but incompetence."
Myrtle nodded her head. "I can tell you what happened. I came in here crying because I was being teased about my glasses." A ghostly tear ran down her cheek. "I went into this stall and started crying, I was alone but then I heard the door opening, and someone came in and started speaking in some kind of made up language. I realized it was a boy speaking, so I opened the stall door to tell him to go away, and I died."
"Just like that?" Esdeath asked. Myrtle nodded once again.
"The last thing I remembered was seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes right over by that sink," Myrtle pointed to the one as she flew up to the S bend.
Esdeath walked to the sink and began to examine the porcelain structure up and down. "Ah ha," she said as she ran her hand under the faucet.
Ran came over to take a look at what Esdeath had found. On the faucet was a design of a serpent. It was much to intricate to be an act of vandalism, this was put here as a marker for something. "I do believe we found the entrance to this secret chamber," Esdeath said.
"I concur that as well Commander."
"Now the next step is to have you go to the library," Esdeath told him. "I want you to do some reading into magical creatures since there is rumored to be a monster living down there. When we enter I want to know what awaits us."
Ran nodded in understanding. "I will head there as soon as I can Commander. But if I may ask, how do we get in?"
"I've thought about that as well," Esdeath admitted, "Tom was able to speak to snakes from what Dumbledore told me and seeing as that there is a snake marker on this sink it's safe to assume this snake language is the key. And I can think of someone who can manipulate sound."
"Of course," Ran said now understanding how they would enter. As Ran went to head to the library he stopped himself to look up at the ghost girl sitting sadly in the S bend. "Myrtle," Ran called to her.
"Hm?"
"I don't know if it would be any consolation, but I once lost students at my old school," Ran told her. "I wasn't able to avenge their deaths, but I can promise that this creature will face the consequences of its actions for making you suffer the fate that you did."
Myrtle had tears in her eyes, but she was also smiling. "Thank you Professor," she said. "It's nice to know that someone cares."
In the library Ran immersed himself in the world of magical beasts. He had been looking through books for a good three hours now. So far his search has turned up nothing.
He searched for creatures that had yellow eyes, but it turned out that many did posses this physical trait. Dragons had yellow eyes, so did werewolves, and manticores, but he didn't feel like any of these were the creature that had killed Myrtle. Ran was almost ready to call it a night when he turned the page to find a page on the king of serpents, the basilisk. The basilisk is a mighty snake that can grow up to exceptional lengths, and could live for hundreds of years. The thing that caught his eye the most was the part about it having a killer gaze. Anyone who met the gaze of this serpent would suffer instant death. Ran knew right there that this was what killed Myrtle. He rented the book from the strict Madam Pince and went to present his discovery to his Commander. He had a feeling he and the Jaegers would be back in action soon enough.
Harry sat with fellow second years at the Hufflepuff table enjoying dinner. Most of the talk was about the upcoming quidditch match against Gryffindor. Harry knew very little about the sport, despite flying a broom to catch a key last year, but many members of the house were very excited for it especially Cedric who was the teams seeker. Despite not knowing much about the game Harry still promised he would go and support the team during the match.
As Harry filled his plate, he felt a tap on his shoulder. Turing around he saw Esdeath standing behind him. "I hope I'm not interrupting your dinner, but after you finish could you please come to this area." She handed him a slip of paper. Harry nodded and said he would.
"What was that Harry?" Neville asked.
"You're not in trouble are you?" Hannah asked. "Because I wouldn't want to be in trouble with her. My friend in Gryffindor said Malfoy got detention with her and ever since then he's been acting different in class. It's like he's afraid."
This was true. Harry saw the blonde boy often looking over his shoulder when he walked down halls and he had lost some of the attitude he had had the previous year. Harry didn't know what Esdeath had him do for detention, but he knew that whatever it was it served its purpose.
"No I'm not in trouble," Harry told her. "She just wanted me to stop by her office after dinner." The slip had actually said to meet at a girls bathroom of all places, but Harry figured they didn't need to know that.
"Just be careful," Hannah said. "She scares me more than Snape, and that's saying something!"
Here he was outside of the bathroom. There was an out of order sign hanging on the door, but this was where the slip said to go. Deciding to play it safe Harry knocked on the door to see if anyone would answer it. The door opened almost instantly to allow him inside to be greeted by the faces of all of the Jaegers. "How did you all get here?" Harry asked clearly not expecting to see them.
"General Esdeath called us in for a mission," Bols told him and Harry noticed that he had his Imperial Arms with him. So did everybody else.
"Yeah we had to travel by this stuff called floo powder," Wave said. "I don't recommend it."
"We're here to protect the school and give the monster that killed an innocent girl justice!" Seryu said.
"You want me to help fight it?" Harry asked.
"Oh no," Ran told him. "We don't plan on putting you in any danger, but the entrance to the beasts lair is in this bathroom, by the sink to be specific the only problem being it is only accessible when spoken to in snake dialect. We we're hoping your Imperial Arms would be able to open the entrance for us."
If that was the case Harry was more than obliged to help. Approaching the sink Harry activated his Imperial Arms. He tried to concentrate on the kind of sounds a snake would make. What came to mind were just a series of hisses. He sent the sounds of the hisses forth and hoped that one of them would work.
It did. The circular formation of sinks began to move apart as the sink he had been standing in front of moved down to reveal a dark tunnel that looked like it lead straight down into nothingness.
"Excellent Harry," Esdeath told him. "We'll take it from here."
Harry nodded. "Just be careful," he said.
"Coming from the kid who went through a trapdoor without knowing what was on the other side," Kurome teased him.
Harry just smiled as he prayed for their safe return.
Ran activated his wings and went down the tunnel. Wave knew what was waiting down there somewhere. Esdeath had informed them of what to expect, a giant snake that was not only poisonous, but could also kill you just by eye-contact. Now that was a scary thought.
But he supposed the more dangerous meant better to General Esdeath. He knew what his was, it was a way to test them. With no battles being fought in the Capital at the moment this was a perfect opportunity for Esdeath to make sure her troops were still fit on their feet.
After of waiting a few seconds Ran came flying back up. "This tunnel leads down to some sort of antechamber. I must tell you all that it really is quite filthy down there."
Wave activated Grant Chariot and followed Ran down the tunnel. As his feet made contact with the ground he heard faint cracking. Looking down he saw that he was standing atop a pile of skeletons that belonged to various little critters. The rest of the Jaegers and their Commander followed shortly after his landing. Deciding light was needed Bols allowed a small flame to form at the end of his flame thrower, creating a light to see in the darkened antechamber.
With Bols leading the way with his light the Jaegers talked though a circular tunnel and came to a stop when they saw a pile of snake skin laying on the floor. "Whatever shed this must have been at least sixty to eighty feet," Ran observed.
"Males you wonder how no one noticed it," Kurome said as she munched on a snack.
"Well it is located in a bathroom, the piping perhaps?" Bols suggested.
"You're probably not too far from the truth on that," Ran agreed.
The group continued walking until they reached what Wave thought looked like a bank vault door. It was round and hinged to the wall, but what made it unique was the snake like locks holding it in place. At first glance Wave thought they were real, but as he looked closer he saw that they were just extremely accurate stone carvings. "Looks like you're up," Kurome told him.
"Be prepared," Wave said as he rushed at the door and sent an armored fist crashing into it. The force was so grand it left a dent as well as knocked the door clean off its hinges. The good news was that there was no basilisk on the other side of the door, instead it led to what Wave assumed to be the main chamber. Carvings of snakes poking their heads out of the water lined the path to a carving of a man's face across from a shallow pool.
Cautiously the group made their way towards the carving of the face. All while scanning the room for any movement that might be the basilisk. The snake carvings lining the path didn't help as they all looked so life-like Wave thought any for them would spring at any moment.
As they stopped in front of the pool that lay right in front of the face Koro began to bark and point towards the carving. "Commander I think the beast is inside the monument," Seryu said.
Esdeath looked the monument over as if looking for a way that the beast would come out of. Her eyes settled on the mouth. Wave could see it too there was a faint outline surrounding the mouth. His best guess would be that the basilisk would come out of there.
"Alright I'm going to get the snake to come out," Esdeath said as she began to create a large sphere of ice above her head. "When it comes out as soon you see part of it Bols shoot a fireball at it. Aim for the eyes your fire might not blind it but it may stun it long enough for one of you to get the kill."
"I understand Commander," Bols replied as he too began to charge his weapon. Seeing this Esdeath hurled the massive ice sphere towards the statue and hit it right on the mouth. The force was so great the mouth cracked and began to open.
After a minute or so Wave heard it. The noise sounded almost like a whisper, but in some kind of strange language that consisted of hissing. Whatever it was it was getting closer to coming out. Risking a glance Wave saw what looked to be a mouthful of sharp fangs, and then a flaming mass went flying at it. Wave quickly averted his gaze. He heard a hiss of pain and assumed the fire had done the trick.
"Koro!" Seryu yelled. "Attack!" Wave saw the small dog begin to grow in size until it was nearly ten feet tall. Koro let out a roar as he went charging the beast. "Cover its eyes Koro! Don't let it look at us!"
Wave had to assume the organic type followed his masters orders, as he looked over to see that Koro had his hands covering the eyes to the largest snake Wave had ever seen in his life. The serpent opened its mouth to try and bite Koro, but the dog used his head to smash into snakes'. A couple of the basilisk's teeth fell out of its mouth from the sheer force. Some of those fangs were nearly as long as his forearm! Wave had to wonder would the venom even affect Koro? The only way to beat an organic type would be to kill the master or destroy the core. Would the venom do that?
Wave had to shake his head to get back to the moment. It wouldn't do well to get distracted now.
Bols had taken the opportunity to get closer to the snake and started to torch its skin. The basilisk thrashed around in pain as it was being burned and tried slithering its way towards the pool. Koro still did not let go of the serpent, even as the beast entered the water to escape the flames.
This would prove to be a fatal mistake as ice began to encase the pool and soon it was completely frozen over, with only the basilik's head and neck area exposed, along with a portion of the tail end. Esdeath could have just killed it there Wave knew that, but she was clearly giving one of them the opportunity. Ran decided to take advantage of it and flew above the basilisk's head and began to pelt the top of its head with his feather projectiles.
The basilisk began to thrash even more as the feathers only seemed to anger it and fill it with more of a desire to escape and kill them all. The thrashing became so great that Wave saw that the ice was beginning to crack. "Wave!" Kurome called from behind him. "Get me to the top of that monument." Wave nodded seeing what she had in mind. Kurome hopped on his back as he ran towards the monument and jumping so high that he landed on top of the figures head.
They were just in time too. The basilisk's struggling and thrashing proved to be worth it as the ice holding it cracked. Now that it was free the serpent wrapped its tail around Koro and pulled the giant dog off of it and threw him to the side, crashing into pillars as he attempted to grab a hold of something to slow himself.
With a look towards Kurome Wave knew it was now or never. He picked her up as she readied her sword, and with the enhanced strength Grand Chariot gave him Wave threw Kurome towards the basilisk's head from their position above.
The swordswoman went soaring at an incredible speed, that to anyone who did not know about her it looked like she was going to crash right into the serpent , but with her enhanced abilities she landed on the basilisk perfectly as she thrust her sword through the top of its skull and piercing its brain.
Wave heard the basilisk let out one last dying cry as its body came crashing down to the floor below finally dead. But Wave knew that the basilisk would now become a puppet for Kurome since she killed it with her sword. He couldn't help but think she that she was very happy that she got a new addition to her collection.
When everyone had confirmed that they were alright and uninjured the Jaegers made their way back the way they came and started up the tunnel leading to the exit. "So how do we get back up?" Wave asked.
Esdeath simply created a giant pillar of ice that lifted them right up and into the girls bathroom. "Mission accomplished."
