MORE INFO ALERT! (Bear with me once more)
Snape has a daughter, Serenity, who he thought was dead but really wasn't. She's Voldemort's granddaughter at the same time, her mother being Voldemort's daughter (Voldemort married Sarah, then fled, Sarah had Jessica who met Snape and married, was murdered by her own father, but not before she had Serenity). (Dang, there are a lot of Mary Sue's that I write.) Oh, please don't comment on the name "Serenity". If you ever read my Fic, Serenity Snape, you'll see the flames about the name, and just around everything else. Believe me, I got the point. I also didn't choose the name, it was my friend. -points at the Slytherin- Satan's child, she is. I swear it.
Serenity's now a Secret Student at Hogwarts along with her apprentice Uriko, Riles (Riley) of Gryffindor and her apprentice May, Vikki of Ravenclaw and her apprentice Crystal, and Bunny of Hufflepuff and her apprentice Amber. Their job is to watch over the four houses.
Serenity and Ron are presently going out. Not for long…. -evil cackle- BWAHAHA! I let my friends rule my Fics too much. At least, I let the Slytherin run me. THIS WILL BE CHANGED. -points- Her fault for half my Mary-Sue's. She was the reason for Serenity Snape, Serenity Snape, Serenity Snape, Snape's Warning, (but that wasn't really a Mary-Sue) Serenity Snape….
-is adding on as she reads through- The Secret Students found this "other way" to get into the Chamber of Secrets. The secret behind the Secret Students and others like them will be revealed before the end of the Fic.
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The next day Kelly and Hermione revealed the jinxes they had used on Ron. With this knowledge, Madam Pomfrey was able to heal Ron in an instant. Ron had been fuming for the last hour that he wouldn't have had to spend a month in the Hospital Wing if they had just told Madam Pomfrey to begin with. Kelly and Hermione, it seemed, had rather enjoyed Ron's absence and were quite amused with his ramblings.
"I wouldn't have had to! A week's worth of homework! How am I supposed to catch up? Sprout says this, McGonagall says that, Snape says, 'You've got two days, Weasley!' I mean, honestly, if they'd have just told her what they'd used…." Ron trailed on as they left the Potions classroom, Ron just having received what well could have been two months worth of homework that Harry couldn't ever remember doing in his life.
As they passed Moaning Myrtle's on their way back to the common room, they were rather surprised to hear voices, more than just Myrtle's constant howling.
"Riles, you've got to get over it!"
"How can I? You know what our relationship's like!"
"Yeah? Well the past should be forgotten as there are more important things at hand."
"Certainly, like ripping off her head and shoving it down Fluffy's throat!"
"Don't you dare talk like that! She's—"
"She's a—" (Here, Riles said such a bad word that Vikki hit her upside the head.) "—OW!"
"Don't talk like that, or I'll hit you harder."
"You do, you die."
"I'd love to see the day."
"You hit me again and it'll come sooner than you think."
"If you—"
"Hello?" Ron asked, opening the door into Moaning Myrtles.
"Ron!" Serenity exclaimed. She looked surprised to see him, though not too pleased. "Come on, I'd love to talk to you."
Ron followed Serenity into a corner of Moaning Myrtles bathroom where they started a whispered conversation.
"Hey, Hermione, Harry," Bunny said, smiling in welcome.
"Hello," Riles said, looking determinedly at Harry. Harry thought she was gritting her teeth.
"And who's this, Harry?" Crystal asked, nodding toward Kelly.
"Oh! This is Kelly, everyone. Kelly, this is Riley of Gryffindor, Vikki of Ravenclaw, Bunny of Hufflepuff, and Serenity of Slytherin, talking to Ron over there." Serenity waved absentmindedly as she listened to Ron. "Their apprentices are May of Gryffindor, Crystal of Ravenclaw, Amber of Hufflepuff, and Uriko of Slytherin," Harry said, pointing to each girl. "They watch over the different houses."
"Er… hello," Kelly said quietly.
"Hello," the Secret Students said simultaneously.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Riles added. She said it almost like she was forcing herself to. It came out rather cold.
"Hey, are you guys okay?" Harry asked, looking from Kelly to Riley.
"Yeah, we're fine," Vikki muttered.
"Er… can I ask a question?" Kelly asked suddenly.
"You already have, but go on," May said benignly.
"What are your last names?" Kelly asked.
"Over there, talking to Ron, that's Serenity Snape," Uriko said, nodding toward Serenity and Ron in the corner, still talking in whispers. They both looked a little grave.
"Serenity Snape?" Kelly asked.
"Professor Snape's daughter," Harry explained.
"I didn't know Snape had a daughter," Kelly said.
"Join the club," said Uriko.
"Anyway, I'm Vikki Valentine," Vikki said proudly.
"I'm Bunny Key," Bunny announced.
"I'm Riley Andrews," Riles said coldly. There was no mistaking the dislike in her voice and in her eyes.
"Riles! Chill," May said. No one could miss the dislike that was apparent in Riles. "I'm May Heisner, by the way."
Riles would have taken her advice and chilled, but the dislike seemed to be returned by Kelly. It was almost as though the two girls had met before and had a bad reputation for each other.
"I'm Crystal Lewis."
"I'm Amber Ottey."
"And I'm the best of all the Secret Students, Uriko Wolf!" Uriko announced. Serenity snorted in her corner, making Uriko think it was at her. She glared. "Hey, you're supposed to be on my side, remember?"
"And what's your last name?" Riles asked. She asked this even more coldly than she'd said anything that day.
Kelly and Riles just glared at each other for a few moments. The look of pure hatred that Harry and Snape shared was unmistakable.
"Damen," Kelly finally said. "My name is Kelly Damen."
There was an awkward silence after these words.
"Hey," May said finally. "We're holding a party tonight. And these aren't those crappy parties, either. I'm talking a party. Wanna come?"
Riles kicked May so hard that she almost screamed in pain. Riles gave no explanation, and May asked for none.
"Well, you're still invited," Vikki said, dodging Riley's attempted kick.
"I don't think we're wanted," Kelly said, renewing her known defiance.
"Of course you're wanted!" Amber exclaimed, glaring at Riles.
"Well, you could've fooled me," Kelly said, glaring at Riles herself.
"You want them, DON'T YOU, RILES?!?!" May said, elbowing Riles hard in the ribs.
Riles said nothing. Instead, she turned around and walked a few paces toward the sink that lead to the Chamber of Secrets. She stuck out her right hand and muttered a few words Harry couldn't hear. The Chamber opened and Riles said, without turning around, "I've got party duty. I'd better get started." She then jumped into the hole without another word.
"Don't mind her," Uriko said, looking back at Harry. "She's just…"
But apparently what Riles was, she couldn't explain. There was another awkward silence. Finally, Hermione said, "Well, I guess we'd better be going. We've got homework."
"See you around, then," Vikki said.
"Bye, Ron," Serenity said.
"Bye," Ron said, looking very sad.
"See ya," Harry said,
"Later," Kelly said, turning on her heel and leaving the bathroom.
"Don't mind her either," Hermione said, watching the door Kelly had just walked through.
"Well, you can still come to the party, tonight at ten. You're welcome to it, even if not by everyone…." Bunny said, looking at the entrance to the Chamber.
"We'll be there. Why's Riles got a problem with Kelly, anyway?" Harry asked, interested.
"Are you coming?" Kelly asked from outside the bathroom, annoyed at her delay to the common room.
"Let's go," Ron said, hurrying to the door. "I saw Kelly fuming at Diane, and she reminded me of my mum. Don't remind me of my mad mother at Hogwarts, where I'm supposed to be free of her."
"Okay. I just want to talk to them for a moment," Hermione said, watching Ron leave. She turned to Harry. "Harry? Can you leave for a moment? I promise I won't be long."
"Okay…" Harry said, slowly leaving. When he left, he immediately heard Hermione start in urgent whispers.
She was right. He didn't have to endure Kelly's huffing for long. Within a minute she was out, and they had started toward the common room. When Harry kept persisting about what Ron and Serenity had talking about in the corner, Ron finally said that he and Serenity had broken up. Kelly continued her bad mood for another hour, but then she let it go and became friendly again. When ten till ten came, she stiffened a little, but got up and followed the rest as they entered the Invisibility Cloak.
Harry wasn't aware how they managed it to Moaning Myrtle's alive and Filch-free. Filch had walked by them seven times, and twice Ron's feet were showing. He had grown very tall and had to crouch to fit without the cloak showing. Miraculously, though, Filch seemed entirely unaware of their existence in the not-so-empty corridor.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Kelly entered Moaning Myrtle's. The Chamber was already open.
"Shall we, then?" Kelly said, walking closer toward the entrance.
"Hey, er… well, you guys have never been down there. Um… well, unless they've cleaned house, it's really…." Harry trailed off.
"It's really full of skeletons and stuff because a basilisk once lived there. We're prepared, Harry," Kelly said, jumping down the hole.
Kelly screams of delight filled the echoing Chamber. Ron quickly shut the door so as not to alert anyone beyond the bathroom.
"Ooh, Harry!" someone hollered happily.
"Hi… Myrtle," Harry said awkwardly.
"You came to visit me! Just like you said you would!" Myrtle exclaimed joyfully.
"You said what, Harry?" Ron asked, turning to him, his eyes looking abnormally large.
"Harry said he'd try and come visit me when I…" Myrtle stopped suddenly, but was still grinning with joy.
"Actually, Myrtle," Harry said, trying to ignore Ron and Hermione's accusing stares, "we're here for a party."
"Not the Secret Students' party?" Myrtle asked.
"The very same," Hermione said, turning her glare away from Harry. "Have you been to one?"
"Ooh, have I!" Myrtle exclaimed. "They're excellent! Of course…" She frowned. "I have to dance with ghosts, and none of them are my age…."
"Dance?" Harry asked, despising the word itself. "I don't dance."
Myrtle giggled. "Then you'd better learn to really quick! You don't just not dance at a Secret Students' party!"
"HEY!" Kelly screamed. "ARE YOU COMING?"
"My mother…" Ron said, shivering as he realized it was Kelly. "I'm going." Ron jumped down the hole.
Hermione looked after him nervously, then at Myrtle, then Harry. "Me too." She jumped after him.
"Myrtle," Harry asked, "who all comes to a Secret Students' party?"
"Ooh, well, everyone who knows about them! The… the ghosts… the few students who know of their existence, sometimes a teacher will come, the Secret Student's boyfriends…." Myrtle trailed on.
"The Secret Student's have boyfriends?" Harry asked, suddenly not wanting to go to this party at all.
"Well, of course!" Myrtle exclaimed. "Even May! At first, she hated her boyfriend, but then he did something… oh, I'm not supposed to tell! Ooh!"
"HARRY!" Ron yelled. "C'MON! THE PARTY'S ABOUT TO START!"
"I gotta go, Myrtle," Harry said unnecessarily.
"See you there, Harry!" Myrtle exclaimed joyfully as she fell through the floor.
Harry, half-thinking of turning around and leaving, jumped down the hole.
The hole wound and wound for several moments, many different paths on either side of him. Finally, Harry slid down onto cement, scraping his knee in the process.
"Ow…" Harry said, pulling up his pant leg so he could see his bloody knee.
"I got it," Hermione said. She muttered something and Harry's knee was healed.
"Thanks," Harry said looking around. All the skeletons were gone. It was just a big, cement room with a tunnel leading away and toward the Chamber. From what he could see of the darkened tunnel, the skeletons in there were missing, too.
"C'mon," Ron whispered, hesitantly walking toward the tunnel, as though he was still afraid a basilisk might pop out and eat him.
Hermione and Kelly walked confidently up to the tunnel and vanished in the darkness. Ron looked back at Harry, who shrugged and followed Hermione and Kelly.
It was very dark, and the only way he knew Hermione and Kelly were in front of them was from a light erupting from one of their wands. He heard Ron, who was making a racket, apart from seeing the beam of light coming from his wand. Harry lit his wand and pointed it toward the blank walls and floor before him. The grayness didn't suit the lonely chamber. The rock wall Lockhart had created was gone, and a clear path toward the ruby-eyed snakes lay before them.
"Harry?" Hermione asked, looking at him anxiously from ahead.
"Hmm?" Harry asked, though he thought he knew what was coming.
"We can't get in unless you speak in Parseltongue," she said quietly.
Harry nodded and stepped forward. Before he could say a word, however, the circular entrance opened of it's own accord. A girl stepped out.
"We were wondering if you'd even come! Come on, the party's just started!" Crystal invited, opening the door wider, shoving party hats on their heads that read SSP, so they could see the chamber. Only it wasn't the chamber Harry knew.
It had been transformed into a madhouse. Multi-colored lights were swooning around from nowhere he could see. A group of guys were playing a full rock band, and the ghosts and Secret Students, apart from Crystal, were dancing to the song. A fire was roaring and a few marshmallows were making themselves brown, though one of them kept lighting itself on fire. A Jacuzzi was placed near the dance floor, where they were sure to end off the night. An entire gaming section like no other had appeared in a corner that would keep anyone, perhaps even Dudley, happy. The words "snack bar" had a whole new meaning, as tons of food was jammed, and overflowing, in a corner towards Dumbledore's statue.
Harry stopped. He looked again.
Albus Dumbledore had replaced the statue of Salazar Slytherin. Harry grinned. He should have expected something of the sort. He could imagine Serenity and Uriko didn't take too kindly to this; indeed, in the few short moments he watched them, they glared up at the statue.
"Come on!" Crystal invited, nodding toward the dance floor. She flew down and joined the others for what was left of the song.
What surprised Harry most happened about two minutes of their arrival.
A/N:
Wow… I'm so… out of it. I'm sorry, I didn't update for a few more days than is usual for me, but I've had a lot going on this week. And just today, I got my ordered copy of the fourth Fruits Basket DVD. I watched it.
For all Furuba fans out there, that was the biggest mistake of my life.
I had gotten so attached to Furuba, it'd be hard for most to understand, and then I watched the ending… and I felt so detached. So alone. I felt like pulling a Kisa, and I have so far, but it won't last, really. The Furuba fantasy was so… enjoyable. It started out so innocent, so sweet, that naïve little love tale…. But then it turned into a dark story with Kyo and his true form. And Tohru… to see her like that tore me up. It was so… uncharacteristic; I couldn't believe it. I think that's what really got me, that she could get so… like she was. And now I'm all detached from the Furuba thing now. I wish I wasn't, but I feel like I've been split in two, and I even when I see a picture that REMINDS me of Furuba now, I flinch and turn away. It's… heartbreaking. The only Furuba-relating item I can stand is the Yuki Rat Plushie I've been carrying around with me all day. It symbolizes what once was… how my Furuba fandom once kept my brain sane, so I wouldn't overload myself with homework and such. Now I'm torn apart.
But you didn't come here to listen to my sorrow on Furuba, did you? I thought not.
How do you like this chapter? There's the immediate tension between Kelly and Riles, how completely unobvious. –is reminded of Tohru and her dense self at unobviousness- -takes a deep breath and continues- Now they're headed to a party, and one that is reputed to be one of excellent taste. I, personally, have never been to a party of excellent taste as such is reputed of the Secret Students, so I made up something that would entertain me for quite a while, a party that I wouldn't soon forget. While the party is not elegant, it cultivates many different auroras of different styles to fit most people's style. If you think "the great party" is lame, I'm sorry. This is what happens when I spend hours on end writing my Fic, staying up until five in the morning to finish it. I'm just so intelligent like that.
Next chapter: New guests, meet the boyfriends, telepaths, and the rest of the party, really. Story time is fun, too. That's the first time I've smiled all day, or at least since Furuba Movie 4.
I henceforth declare that I will never cheat again, whether it be sneaking an answer to a test (I think I did that on a spelling test in fifth grade once) or buying the fourth DVD that has stuff the manga has yet to produce. NEVER shall I cheat again. On anything. … Unless the occasion calls for it.
Thanks for listening, really this time. I needed this time to kinda vent a bit. Now I'm going to go into another fantasy realm of mine, Teen Titans (STARFIRE AND ROBIN FOREVER!), and continue writing my Fic. I've decided that I'm going to write Teen Titans Fics too, and I've got so many R/S ideas, it's not funny. They may not be completely original, but I try.
Review! Make me happy! (Or give it your best shot)
Thankx again, really,
Riles