Disclaimer- you know you probably don't even read this but anyways I don't own anything that is related to Harry Potter, wish I did but all I own is the plot.

Special thanks to Kattis Potter Black, Bookworm2000,Sara ane, A-man, and Rowena Gryffindor. Thanks so much for R/R and this chapter is for you guys.

a/n- This has not been read by my beta reader because she's on vacation. But I wanted to put this chapter anyways, so if it's not as good bare with until its re-posted. Thanks.

Harry Potter and the Quest for Survival

By: Amy

The days passed, for Harry, Sirius and Remus it had to do with following a snake named Jerome deeper into the woods in search for the portal. For Dumbledore it consisted of last minute checks for the new school year and for Ron, Hermione and the rest of the Weasley who were going to Hogwarts was to buy new school books and things, with last minute packing.

A week had pass and you could find Sirius, his godson and his best friend, sitting close to a fire talking. Well actually Sirius and Remus were talking; Harry was looking at the fire and thinking.

He was thinking about how school was about to begin in a couple of days and wondered what would Hermione and Ron say when he was missing, he was so lost in his that he didn't notice that Jerome was calling his name.

"Harry.... Harry!!" Jerome hissed

"What?" Startled out of his own world.

" I jussst wanted to tell you that we will reach the portal in 2 daysss." Jerome told the young wizard.

"Really? That's great. Thank you." Harry said and then he turned to Remus and Sirius who were reminiscing about some funny prank they pulled on Snape when they were in their 4th year.

"Hey guys sorry to interrupt you're little reminiscing, but Jerome told me that we will be at the portal in 2 days." He told them and Harry could see a few emotions on their face relief, anxious, and worried.

"What do you think is going to be there when we get there" Sirius asked the question that was on all their minds. Harry and Remus just shrugged, but Harry could see that both his godfather and Remus were worried for him. They both knew in the end Harry would have to face whatever was there at the end, and of course he knew this as well but hoped that whatever it was it wasn't going to be to hard.

To get his mind off what deadly thing would be waiting for him at the portal he changed the subject.

"So anyways what's this prank you two pulled on Snape?

Both Remus and Sirius face had the same trade mark marauder's grin at the mention of the prank.

" Well should I tell him the wonderful prank Moony or should you?" Sirius asked still with the grin on his face.

"Let's do it together."

"Cool, okay I'll start, well it was right before winter break and we wanted to end the term with a bang, you know, well who else perfect to be our target other than Snape the slimy git, right?" Sirius began while watching Harry. Remus took over from here.

" And we wanted to do it right not any old prank, we wanted to do something so big so cool, that people would still be talking about it when they came back to school. "

"We racked our brains for days, trying to come but with something and we did come up with pranks but not the right one for this occasion."

" Then one day during History of Magic, your dad had and idea, it was like someone clicked on a light in his head."

"So on the last day of the term, it was dinner, we were about half way through when all of sudden Snape was in the air and wearing neon red robes, his hair was bright green, he was singing at the top of his lungs " joy to the world".

"And after getting done with the singing he yelled for everyone to hear that he loved Prof. McGonagall and that when he turned 18, he was going marry her." Sirius finished trying to keep a straight face but was failing terribly, Remus wasn't even trying to hide his laughter and needless to say Harry was dying of laughter. It took a good 3 minutes for them to compose themselves.

"No wonder he hates you, you guys were terrible to him not that he doesn't deserve it." Harry said while another fit of laughter was threatened to come over him again. "So how many detentions did you get?"

"Three, but it was worth it." Sirius answered while Remus nodded his head in agreement.

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The next day...

It was about noon; Sirius, Harry, and Remus had been walking since dawn and were stopping to make lunch. Today Harry had been quiet; he had the feeling something bad was going to happen. Sirius had noticed this and decided to ask Harry was bothering him.

"I don't really know, I just have the feeling that something is going to happen." He answered while staring out into space.

" Like what?" Remus asked while making the lunch.

"I don't know but I don't think it something good, so keep your guard up, and your wands close." Harry said stilling looking into space. After Remus was finishing making lunch, they eat, and 20 minutes later they were packing. Harry was becoming more tense when he heard a grunt. That's when he knew what was going to attack.

A troll.

A huge, ugly, 12ft, pale-green, grunting troll.

"Keep close, don't take any food out, and have your wands ready. A troll will attack any time now." Harry told the others.

"Are you sure?" Remus and Sirius asked at the same time, because see unlike Harry they had never seen a troll or even had to defend against one.

"Yes, and I think this one is hungry. And when it comes were going to run, unless we have to fight we fight. But I have no idea how to defeat one. I was lucking with the one in my 1st year, but I don't think sticking my wand up its nose will defeat it."

"What?!"

"I'll tell you later Sirius, come on with have to move."

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They had been going fine for about 15 minutes when they started to smell something rancid. It was so foul-smelling, that they had to cover their noses, and were getting light-headed. Without warning a tree feel to the side and they were face to face with the troll.

"RUN!"

But to late, the troll had already knocked over another tree and had them trapped. They turned around, just in time to see the troll about to hit them with his club. Harry pushed Sirius out of the way in time, which caused Harry to get a

gash on his right arm. The troll was about to go for another blow when Harry got idea. He just prayed that it worked this time.

"Get around the tree and run, until your 8ft away." He yelled to the others.

Remus and Sirius did as they were told and ran, Harry was just behind them, when they far enough Harry turned around wand raised and said...

"Wingardium leviosa!"

(A/N- Who saw that coming?)

And just like in his 1st year the club in the troll's hand was lifted above his head and fell on his head with a heavy blow. And was knocked out.

"Yes! It worked!" He then turned to the grown-ups who were staring at him thunderstruck. " I'll explain later, right now let's get as far as possible from here."

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It was almost 10:30 pm when they finally stopped to make camp. Sirius finally noticed the gash on Harry's right arm.

"Harry I think you should clean that up. And thank you for saving me." Sirius actually felt guilty that Harry got hurt because of him. Harry noticed.

" It wasn't your fault that I got hurt and don't worry about it. It's only a scratch." After Harry finished cleaning the cut he tore one of his shirts and wrapped it around the cut like a bandage.

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They made dinner and while they eat Sirius asked what was on his and Remus's mind all day.

"So Harry care to tell us what was all that about."

"Well it was the day of the Halloween feast when Quirrell came running in....." And he told them of the adventure that Ron and he had on Halloween. When he was done with his story, Sirius and Remus just gawp at him. Sirius broke the silence.

" Wow. Uh you didn't get hurt." His godfather asked him.

" No, we were lucky that none of us got hurt. Hermione lost 5 points and we got 5 points for sheer dumb luck."

"Yeah that sounds like something Prof. McGonagall would say." Remus said with a grin.

They talked about other silly unimportant things like, pranks, and some of the adventures that the trio had been through the pass 4 years. They were about to turn in for the night when Jerome called Harry's name.

" Yes Jerome?" He asked the snake trying not to yawn.

"I want to tell you that maybe you should get up early tomorrow to make up for lost time from today." The snake said while staring into Harry eyes.

"Sure, will you wake me up, to make sure that we reach the portal by tomorrow night."

"Will do Harry, Good night."

" 'Night" and with that Harry fell into a dreamless sleep.

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A/n- It's not really a cliffhanger, I was debating if I should leave it at a cliffhanger but I decided not too, just to be nice. Well I hope you liked this chapter, it took a long time to actually write cause I couldn't come up with anything. Anyways next chapter should be as soon as I get started to write it, so maybe sometime next week. I'm almost at the end I have maybe like 3 or 4 chapters left. So please read and review, it doesn't take that long.

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