A/N: Here's part 6!!
Disclaimer: I own the plot, Quinn (Yea!!! I LUV this character! (Don't ask me why)), Bulgrean, and Madame Peirce. JKR owns everything else!
By now, almost the whole school was crowded around Albus, Nick, Corn, and the little girl. Professors tried to break through the crowd to find out what the commotion was all about. Albus was trying to keep poor Minerva from being squashed in the hubbub, Corn was madly trying to find a Professor, and Nick's face had gone stark white, his eyes a stone cold gray. After a few loud, tense, confusing moments, Professor Quinn, the transfiguration teacher, yelled with all of his might, "BE QUIET!!" The voices stopped, and Quinn stepped into the small opening where Minerva McGongall lay. Albus watched uncomfortably as Quinn's eyes widened and he kneeled down on a trembling knee.
Albus always liked Professor Quinn, with the small, friendly green eyes and his untidy mass of brown hair. He was short, but with amazing reflexes. But tonight, he only looked worried and unsure. He laid a hand on the child's forehead, and she groaned and turned he head. Relief flooded through Albus, and Nick's face became lifelike again. So Minerva wasn't dead, but only badly hurt. Nobody spoke. Quinn flicked his wand a bit and a small bed of ice appeared under the girl. Then he rose, and in a strange, raspy voice told the others, "Back to your common rooms, immediately." Albus and the others turned to go, but Quinn placed a steady hand on Nick and Albus's shoulders. "Did you find her?" He asked in an undertone. Albus nodded, and Quinn replied, "Stay here, then. I'm going to get Bulgrean. Make sure nobody touches the poor child." With that, he was off down the opposite corridor, and Albus and Nick were left in the hall.
"What do you think happened?" Nick managed to ask, more to himself than Albus. Albus figured perfectly well what had happened, but chose to keep quiet. He couldn't avoid the fact any longer that the Chamber of Secrets indeed was opened, and he needed to tell Bulgrean. In answer to Nick's question, he shrugged and looked down at the girl. Her hair was long and black, and her bright red race was scattered with little freckles.
Footsteps came closer and Quinn returned, followed by Bulgrean and the nurse, Madam Pierce. After a few quiet moments, Madame Pierce preformed a hovering charm, which raised Minerva off the ground, and she guided the body towards her Nurse's office. With this, Bulgrean mumbled something to Quinn, and spun around and followed Madame Pierce.
"So… what happened?" Quinn asked quietly, looking at Nick.
"Just we heard a scream, and there she was, bright red and with huge swellings…" Nick answered slowly. Quinn nodded and turned to Albus. "Do you know anything else about this?" Albus's throat tightened. He desperately wanted Nick to leave, for some reason; he didn't think Nick should know yet… Because he might be slytherin's…No! It's not true! He told himself. Quinn looked at him expectantly, so Albus found himself saying,
"Can we talk about this… in a classroom?" He hoped that nick would get the hint and not follow when Quinn nodded and led him into the History of Magic class. Albus slipped in, and rather rudely, closed the door before Nick could answer. Quinn sat down, and Albus began. "I was walking in the halls earlier, cause, you know, I wasn't in classes…" Quinn nodded sympathetically. "So anyway, I found that I was lost… and I found a dead-end corridor. I looked down and I saw some writing on the ground. It… It said: The chambers of secrets… have been opened. Beware." Quinn's face drained of color, and Albus continued, "So I ran away, for some reason…"
"Why didn't you tell anyone?" Quinn whispered, and Albus was going to answer, when he realized he had no real answer. "I don't know… it didn't seem right." Quinn nodded and dismissed him, and then his eyes went blank, deep in thought. Albus, also stunned, left and slowly walked to the Gryffindor common room.
The next morning, Quinn approached Albus at breakfast. Can you show me the corridor it was in? He muttered, and Albus consented to try. As he got up, Nick sent him an upset glance, clearly hurt by shutting him out to talk to Quinn last night. Albus gave him a This is Important glance in reply and was off, following Quinn out of the great hall.
"I figured we should do it now while the other students are eating breakfast," Quinn explained when they stepped out of the noisy room. Albus nodded and replied,
"I'm not sure where it was, but I know it was somewhere near the potions dungeon," The two walked for a long while, past Potions and deeper into the school. Many times Albus would double back, twisting and turning through the halls, always closely followed by Quinn.
Then Albus turned a final corner and there he found the message, in shining unicorn blood. Quinn's eyes flickered, and he knelt down to examine the message. As he did this, Albus noticed a crack in the wall that he hadn't seen before. He leaned towards it, and touched it. The crack had a slimy touch, like raw egg. As he leaned closer, Albus saw a single hair sticking out of the wall. He had seen the hair before, it was a unicorn hair. What could it all mean?
Just then, Quinn looked up and saw what Albus was gaping at. Quinn nimbly touched the unicorn hair, and Albus could see him tremble slightly. Albus knew that Quinn was more worried than he, on account of the fact that Quinn was a Unicorn Animagi, and whatever made the writing had slain a unicorn.
Just then, a small hiss came from behind them and Albus froze. Quinn slowly turned around. Quinn's yell echoed in the corridor as he sunk to the ground.
A/N: I made this part longer, since that was the main complaint of my reviewers. Oh, I really didn't mean to make this a cliffie, but I got a writers block. I'll try to post the next part (do you want a next part?) SOON! –StarFig (make me happy, pleez review)