Chapter 35: The Tricks and Fog (Part 2)
Note: Hello lovelies, I hope everyone is doing good! I am sorry for taking so long I have gotten a job and it has taken a lot of my time up, I won't be at very long since my college semester is almost up, then I will start working on the second part of this series! We also had some email difficulties when trying to get this chapter done, so that took another week off so we are sorry. As you can see we only have one more chapter to go just to tie everything up so I will either post next week or the week after seeing on how long it takes to type up. Lets give a thanks to my Beta for going everything, and making sure most of the mistakes where taking care of. Enough of me I know why you are really here on to the chapter!
Severus made it to the first door to find the three-headed mutt awake and growling; he couldn't hold back the sneer that made its way to his face at the sight of the hound before him. He couldn't have this mutt stop him from getting to his son, he was in big trouble already for even thinking about putting his life in danger without telling him. However, if what Levi showed him was true, then he would be in even more trouble. Why did people feel the need to have so many useable pawns?
The three young Slytherins stood before the debris of the fallen chess pieces. Draco put up a fight, making sure that he, Harry, and Gemma would not be hurt in the battle that was taking place. Of course, this didn't save them from the flying marble when one of the chess pieces where destroyed, but at least that it was healable and non-life threatening.
"So far, we have had Hagrid with fluffy, Professor Sprout with the Devil Snare, Professor Flitwick must have set up the keys since he is a Head of House, that must have been Professor McGonagall's chess set back there. Then you would have Quirrell with the troll. So, there's left is our own Head of House. At least that is what I am thinking." Harry said, listing it off in his head thinking about what they have faced.
"Why do you think Headmaster put those other teachers down here, such as Hagrid and Quirrell, and not any other teacher? Why not just stick with the Head of Houses?" Harry pondered this thought aloud. Both Gemma and Draco froze in step, causing Harry to run into them. That was a good question; of course, the old coot would do something like that.
They moved off the white and black board, towards the passageway just beyond, following that down to yet another door. The three opened it to find seven different bottled potions before them and a piece of parchment between. Harry moved forward, in doing so black and purple flames sprung up around them closing them in. The students looked around the room, eyes widening in fear. Harry moved forward and picked up the parchment and began to read:
Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle-wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line
Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side
Second, different are those who stand at either end
But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
Third as you see clearly, all are different size
Neither dwarf nor giant hold death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and the second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.
"Great, it's a bloody riddle!" Gemma let out a sigh, "This is something I was never good at."
Both Draco and Harry looked at the words, slowly trying to come up with the message hidden in the cryptic words. Harry just smiled, after living with the man he now called Father, he knows how the man works.
"This one will move us forward." Harry said, holding up a smallest vile, and then picking up a rounder bottle. "This one will let you back through to the chest set."
"Harry, that is not enough for all of us to take to get through," Draco said, eyeing the smaller potion bottle.
"I know, I want you guys to stay here and I will complete the mission. Go back and tell the Dark Lord that we are almost done, and then go find my Father." Harry said, holding out the rounder bottle to them.
"No Harry, we cannot do that! We came down here together so we are going through together!" Gemma snapped, glaring at the younger boy.
"Yeah! There is no way you are going to do this alone!" Draco exclaimed, not wanting to let the younger boy out of his sights for a second. Harry just gave them a small smile, but knew he had to do this so that the Dark Lord would not get mad at them. Without giving his firends a chance to do anything, Harry uncorked the smaller vile and chugged it down. He shoved the other one at Draco, who did not expect it and fumbled around a bit before getting a good hold. By the time he did, Harry was almost at the black flames with Gemma on his tail. This would be the only time Harry was happy for Dudley and what he had done, he easily out ran the older girl making it through the flames. Gemma had to pull her hand way before she burnt herself.
"I'll be fine guys! I promise, just go back through and I will see you in no time!" With that Harry moved forward, his figure being obscured by those flames as he left behind two desperate and confused friends.
"STUPID SNAPE! IF YOU DO NOT GET BACK HERE I WILL SICK MOTHER ONE YOU!" Draco yelled at the figure, very angry at Harry for going on alone, biting his lip in fear of what would happen to the boy if he wasn't there to watch him.
Gemma just sighed, there was nothing for them to do anymore with Harry already long gone. "Come on Draco, drink the potion and we will go get Professor Snape maybe he can help with Harry." Gemma took a swig of the potion and ran back through the purple flames; Draco waited a second before following her lead.
* * * Let's see what Harry is up to* * *
Did Harry regret what he did to his friends, yes very much, he knew that they were going to be very angry with him in until he found a way to make it up to them; but this is what he had to do. He entered another large chamber like the ones before it, and there in the center stood Quirrell and that stupid mirror. What was Quirrell doing here? Harry thought to himself, He was supposed to be waiting until I returned with the stone. But there was something off with him, he wasn't acting like the man he had come to know. No, this was one he knew before meeting the Dark Lord, this man had a different glint in his eye, and the way he talked was just as different. It was as if he was a copy of the man.
* * * Let's go see what the others are up to* * *
Gemma and Draco made it back to the key section of the cHamber when they saw Professor Snape and his flowing robes jogging up to the chamber, with a very angry snake on his tail.
"Sir? What are you doing here?" Draco asked, his eyebrows furrowing together in concern.
Severus looked at the students before him, but not a sign of his son, "Where is Harry?" He demanded, hoping that he was not too late.
Gemma swallowed a lump that had formed in her throat. "He already made it passed your riddle sir." The girl yelped moving out of the man's way when he took off in a run in the direction they just came through, Levi hissing slithering after the man. Sparing a glance at Draco, Gemma turned around and ran after the Professor not liking this one bit.
* * * Back to Harry! * * * (Swear last transition)
Harry was frightened this was not the same professor that he knew; even the Dark Lord was not the same. There was something wrong here and Harry did not like it one bit. When he got the stone from the nasty mirror, which shattered once the stone was out, he hid it from the imposters, shying away from the man's inquiry and slowly inching his way back up the stairs. He did not make it far before the man lunged at him. Harry held his arms above his head, his only reaction after all the years with the Dursleys. He heard a sizzling sound come from the skin contact and his wrist blistered from the heat, while Quirrell's hand started to crumble. Without thinking Harry returned the man's lunge, placing his hands upon the man's face, even though his hands grew full of painful blisters, Harry just held the screaming man there and watched as he fell into a pile of ashes.
* * * Okay I lied * * *
Severus did not slow down until they got to the area with the flames, quickly drawing his wand in a slashing motion; he cut the flames down moving forward to where the stone was hidden. He was just in time to see a pile of ashes and a dark shadow go through his son. In slow motion his son began to fall onto the stony steps his head hitting the ground, hard. Why would the world not give his son a break? Severus quickly crossed the room to his son, kneeling before him taking the child's body into his arms and picking him up. Severus caught sight of how his arms and hands looked as well as the cuts the glass left on his face, arms, and legs. A gasp turned his attention from his injured son to his friends that had just showed up, who both where upset to see Harry is such a beaten state. Severus stood up with his son in his arms and stared the long track up to the rooms where he would heal the boy and then give him a stern talking to about going off and doing something like that.
A/N: I hoped you liked the chapter! :D I live off of comments Please please leave them! I haven't posted on here (but I have on AO3) about this so here it is. I am thinking of other stories that I can do for you guys, but I would like some help. :) I am looking for a co-author to help me out. It would the first piece I would ever write with another person, but I would really love to give it a chance! My email is up in my profile, or at least last time I checked it was o.o so if you are intrested send me an email or PM me on here if you are willing to work with me.
Here are some of my plot ideas:
1. Sick!Harry such as cancer or something like that
2. Creature fic. have Darry or Snarry with Harry as the sub maybe Mpreg
3. Severus adopts and raises Harry, as in he rescues Harry at an early age. Or that he is really Harry's father.
So again if you are intrested in helping me writes these email me, or if not then leave a number down in the comments in what you really want to read in the future. Hope to hear from you guys!