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THE RELUCTANT SLYTHERIN
Chapter 04: The Dragon's friend, the Basilisk's savior
It was Care of Magical Creatures and Hagrid the professor of the class was more then excited. Already they are doing their research on dragons and once again Malfoy was in his playing mood. Tory stood apart from everyone else and once again this class was with the Griffindors and Hagrid brought out a dragon this one was kept on a long leash. "Now can someone tell me what kind of dragon is this?" he asked and it was then that a girl from Griffindor raised her hand, "Yes Hermione," Hagrid asked, "That is a Norwegian Ridge back," she said, "Very good 10 points to Griffindor," Hagrid said, "Now can someone tell me what makes this dragon so aggressive," said Hagrid and again Hermione raised her hand, "The are dangerous for not only their fire breath but their spiked tails," Hermione said, "Very good another ten points to Griffindor." Malfoy decided to have some fun while Hagrid was teaching class. He Goyle and Crabbe grabbed Tory from around the waist and arms, "HEY LET ME GO!" Tory yelled and the class turned and Hagrid started yelling, "'ey there what are ye doing?" he demanded and the dragon reared up his chains holding it in place as the three Slytherins used a floating, and a binding charm on Tory as they floated her towards it.
The class screamed as they saw them throw her in front of the dragon. "Let her go Malfoy!" someone shouted and everyone looked at Harry Potter as he stood with his friends, "Shut your ass up Potter this is Slytherin business." Draco said as they pushed her towards the dragon and released the chains. Holding its mouth and everyone ran leaving the Griffindor trio and Hagrid. "Enjoy lunch dragon I have a nice juicy treat for you," Malfoy sneered and ran off with his friends.
Tory screamed as she struggled against the bonds in her mind as the dragon came down on her. She struggled in her mind and was barely able to move from the binding curse as the dragon came down on her jaws wide ready to kill when.
It stopped
The group that tried to save her stood in shock as it began to stare at the form in front of her. It was Kama as the owl fluffed its feathers and hooted angrily at the dragon. The dragon roared as the owl hooted again fearless, Kama you idiot this is not a Mo'o this is a European dragon it can kill you Tory thought to her owl but the pueo did not listen and began to screech at the dragon. Kama opened his wings and screeched again.
Harry was stunned at this, an owl willing to defend its master he thought and saw the strange owl open its wings wide and Hagrid tried to get to the dragon but it growled a warning to him and had its tail ready. No one moved nor uttered a spell. The dragon slowly lowered its head to the owl and sniffed taking in its scent. It then sniffed Tory as the girl tried to move more slowly curling and uncurling her fingers. The dragon gave a soft growl as it nudged Tory gently and the owl hopped onto its snout. "Mobulus!" someone shouted and Tory could find that she could move again and tried to get up only to freeze as the dragon stared at her in the eye. Its golden eye staring at her it began to hiss softly and purr. Slowly raising her hand Tory felt along the dragon's ridge and stroked it over its eyes and snout earning the dragon's growl. It growled deeply but not menacingly. Harry watched as the girl petted the dragon, "Try not to burn anyone else," she said and the dragon nodded before lifting its head up allowing Hagrid to harness him again. He watched as Tory slowly turned back to them still in shock at the events that happened, "Let's get you to the hospital wing," Hermione said and Tory nodded.
"Well now you should eat more, that is a guarantee," said Madam Pomphrey as she finished her examination on Tory, "I wish I could," she said and got up to leave, "Where are you going?" the nurse said, "Back to my rooms," and without further protest Tory left for the Slytherin common room.
When she was on the second floor she could not bare to go into the Slytherin common room so she made a beeline for the bathroom. Once she was in there she broke down and cried. Kama as if sensing his mistress's distress fluttered in from the open door and it was shut. "Who is there?" a ghostly voice said and an apparition of a girl appeared and Kama ruffled his feathers ready to attack. "Now, now why are you crying," she said and floated down. "Don't worry I can't hurt her," the girl said and stuck her hand through to show the owl. "Ghosts back home are solid when they want to be," Tory said between sobs and the ghosts looked at her. "You are sad like me and from the looks of it they pick on you too." She said, "I don't know why I mean yeah I am muggleborn but sniff I don't know why they don't pick on the other kids only me," Tory cried even more. The ghost only stared at her before looking at the owl, "My you are a strange owl," she said and Kama hooted at her, "Don't get upset I was just curious," the ghost said, "I am Myrtle by the way," the ghost said, "Tory," and with that she lifted her head up.
The ghost is a young girl who is over thirteen to fifteen years of age with large glasses and two pony tails on her head. "Don't worry your secret is safe with me, my, my I did not know you are a Slytherin?" she said and Tory looked down, "Go ahead and make fun of me. They say that Slytherins do not cry so should not cry and that they are the most conniving of the lot," she said, "Yes but very few are good, you are among them," she said leaning down, "I know a place you can have your privacy just watch out for snakes," she said and Tory looked up, "You do?" she said, "Yes but I have a question?" Myrtle asked, "Are you a parselmouth?" "A what?" "Can you talk to snakes?" she asked, "I don't know I… wait I did talk to a snake," she thought back to the pet shop where she met the small snake with the pretty scales. "Just remember you talking to the snake and it will open." Myrtle said remember years ago when another opened the chamber.
Tory walked towards the sinks and noticed that one was different. Kama nervously sat on her shoulder as she said the words in snake tongue, 'Open' and the sinks moved to reveal a large pit of sorts and a stair case. Slowly Tory dropped down the tube and fell down and landing on a slide and slid down to the bottom. When she landed she was met by stone which hurt her bottom. Rubbing her bottom she stood up and walked down the dark corridors of the chamber avoiding the skins of a rather large snake until she came to a door that had many snake heads coming out of it and she opened the door. When she did she was surprised as the vastness of the chamber.
The dark chamber itself was surrounded by statues of serpent's heads all with their mouths open and the smell of mold was everywhere. There was water all around some of it looked deep others just shallow pools. Tory and Kama went further into the chamber the smell of dead flesh was everywhere and its rotting smell filled the chamber with a nasty stench. As she walked further in Tory was seeing some of the light filter in and it was then that she took out her wand, (considering that she is not allowed to fight or use wandless magic) she walked further in to the chamber. When she came to the main opening or main room her senses were on fire as she could smell the bad stench from all around. When she turned her head Kama nearly screamed when he saw the body. There was a body of a giant snake in the room its corpse looked as if someone dissected it many times. Tory could see where the rigs were sticking out and the snakes head looked as if someone gauged its eyes out. "Man what is this place?" she said and Kama hooted the same question.
"Who goessss there?' a voice hissed and Tory jumped making Kama take flight and land on the statue of a head at the very back of the chamber. "Um hello?" Tory said, 'who are you and what are you here!' The voice demanded and Tory thought it was a ghost so she answered, "I am Tory Kahalewai an exchange student from the Hawaiian Academy of Magic," "an exxxxxhange student?" the voice said "Yeah," Tory said nervously the voice has a bit harsh with the dragging of the 's' sound. "Welllll Troy exxxxplain to me how you ended up in the chamber of sssecretssss?" The voice hissed and Tory explained about Myrtle and the fact that she could talk to snakes.
"Interesssting sssssso the ghossssst told you to commmmme herrrrrre?" The voice said, "Yes," Tory replied and the sounds of something could be heard, "For a long timmmme I havvvve been herrrrrre in this prisssson trapped for nearly a ttthhhhhhoussssannd yearssss," "My that is a long time," and Kama hooted in agreement, "Then sssssome time ago sssssommmme one opened the chamber and ssssset me ffffffrrrrrreeeee I killed that girl you met in the bathhhhrrrroom it wassss an asssident I did not mean to but my masssster told me to sssssso I had to obey," the voice sounded sad and Tory could feel its pain, "Then what happened?" she asked and Kana hooted, "I wasssss ssssset fffffrrrreeee of my torrrrrment when a bravvvve young human came in herrrre he could sssspeak parssssselllltounge alsssso but I had to obey my masssster and tried to kill him but a phoenixxxxx blinded me and he killllled me," the voice sounded relieved, "When I wassss sssset frrrreeee I could not move on you sssseeee I havvvve something worth protecting," with that the mouth of the statue of the man's head opened and Tory looked around, "enter," the voice said and Tory and Kama crawled into the hole.
To their surprise they found a nest on the other side in it contained an egg the others were by the smell of them rotten and broken on the ground. Tory and Kama took the single egg and sure enough it was cold. "I don't know if it isssss sssstill alive," the voice said and Tory then reached in with her magic making sure to leave all parts and to her surprise the egg was still alive but barely, "How long does it take to hatch?" she asked, "Normally not this long but because it is cold in here it did not have the warmth," the voice said and Tory frowned at the sound of the voice and she felt inside the egg again and felt the faint heartbeat slowly fading fast. "This is bad," Tory said to Kama and slowly she put her hand on the egg and felt the fading magic and used her own to link with the still unborn snake, "May the fires of your spirit be rekindled," she said and she could feel it begin to beat again. She could feel the snake in the egg slowly return to life as its magic is starting to reenergize itself. Slowly she could feel the heart of the snake start to beat again this time getting stronger until it was steady. She felt light headed and dizzy for she is not up to full strength. "Um the baby is doing well now I have restored its magic and stabilized it," Tory said and she could feel gratitude from the walls, "tthhhannnk yyyyooouuuu!" it said, "For your kindnessssss my little one isssss yourssssss I can finally leave this world knowing that ssssssomeone will care for my child. You can use your magic in here for it is warded sssssso the school doesss not know," the voice said, "Thanks," Tory replied, "You can usssse thisssss chamber at your leassssure." With that Tory felt a strong gust of wind and something floated up towards the ceiling and vanishing altogether.
After making sure that the hatchling was being kept warm Tory transformed into an owl and flew out of the chamber. Being tired and exhausted Tory managed to barely get into her dorm room when.
"Where have you been?" said a low and menacing voice. Tory turned and found Professor Snape sitting on one of the chairs to the Slytherin Common Room and she gulped, "Nowhere," Tory said and Snape smoothly stood up and approached her. "You know I don't tolerate misbehavior in my house," he said and Tory backed away. Snape stopped noticing her appearance for the first time. "I suggest Ms. Kahalewai that you get yourself cleaned up and off to bed now," he said his voice still carried a cold menacing tone to it and Tory dashed off to the bathroom to get cleaned up and off to bed.
TBC
