Chapter 25

"Hey wait!" Draco said. "shouldn't we mark the doors or something?" (Special thanks to Moony's Number One :D)

Ginny turned to him. "Guess we should...you mark this door" Ginny said, pointing at the door they just entered. So Draco got out a knife and marked an 'X' on the door.

"You have a knife with you?"

Draco smirked. "Can never be prepared enough..."

Then they turned to face the room and met a sight they hadn't expected...of course they had expected the unexpected, but the expected turned out to be STILL unexpected...you know?

It was an oval room and all the walls were made of glass. It's not the glass that's disturbing or even unexpected, but what's behind it. Fish of all sizes, colours were swimming there. There were fish with fangs the size of a normal goldfish, but there was also a GIANT octopus and when I say giant...I mean giant.

In the middle of the room there was a table. On it was some weird looking creature with tentacles. Its eyes were closed and it's skin was...covered with ugly looking scales. Ginny stepped forward to have a better look, but Draco laid an arm on her shoulder.

"This is most certainly not what we were looking for. It may be best not to mess with other things while we're here"

"Yeah you're right..."

They turned to face the door again, but saw that there was a normal door...no 'X' that Draco had carved was on it.

"What the..." Ginny started to say until they heard a sound. The sound was so unexplainable and could not be expressed in words if one tried. Though it send shivers down Ginny's spine.

They slowly turned around to meet the unexpected...again...in the same room.

The creature that had laid in the middle of the room had apparently 'woken' up. Its eyes shot from right to left to take up the whole room.

"Stand still..." Draco whispered. "It might not do anything if we don't make unexpected moves"

Unfortunately... (As expected) it did do something. One of its tentacles shot out towards Draco and wrapped it around his waist and his arms.

"Draco!" Ginny yelled and tried to get the...tentacle-thing off him, but the tentacle would not relent. Instead it brought out another one and struck her away.

Draco in the meantime could do nothing. He needed his hands for magic and for wandless magic.

Ginny had gotten up and a huge gash was now across her cheek.

"Let him go, you ugly little excuse for something...seefishy!" Ginny said...although the last word came out a bit sheepish. The vile creature however, did hear and its eyes show towards Ginny at an alarming speed.

It dropped Draco, which was a relief as he was turning a bit blue from lack of oxygen. The beast turned to Ginny now. It used its other tentacles to function as feet and it 'walked' (if you could call it that way) towards Ginny.

When it reached her, it spit at her. Some sort of black, sticky liquid came out and would have hit her if she hadn't dodged out of the way.

Ginny ran towards Draco and tried get him up from where he was lying on the ground. She looked at the creature as it made it's way towards them. She turned back to Draco and slapped him across the cheek.

"Draco! You lazy git, get up!"

Draco opened his eyes a bit and groaned in pain.

Another slap came from Ginny.

"Get up! We have no time for moans of pain"

Draco was wide awake now. In the meantime the creature has reached them and 'spit' at them again. Draco pushed Ginny aside, but the movement caused the black stuff to hit Draco's arm. The stuff bit threw his clothing and as soon as it made contact with his skin, Draco cried out.

Ginny had grabbed her wand and shot a curse. "Incendio!" and it hit the...thing. It moved away and his in a corner. Ginny grabbed Draco and pulled him towards the door with no mark. She kicked it (like in the movies) and the door came down.

"Why aren't we able to just open doors...first one burned down, second one kicked down..." Draco commented with a sarcastic note.

When they walked through they were in the circular room again and when Ginny looked back to the door she saw that the door with the mark Draco had carved was back.

Turning back to Draco, she muttered a healing spell on his arm.

"That will make sure no more damage is done, but once we get back to school you have to get Pomfrey to look at it"

"And tell her what exactly? That we snuck into the Ministry building to get a book, to get inside Voldie's head, so we can defeat him?"

"My...aren't we in a sarcastic mood today?"

Draco stretched out his hand to touch Ginny's injured cheek.

"I'm fine" Ginny said. "Let's just go to the second door, because we don't know how long Pansy's and Blaise's diversion is going to work"

"Okay"

They chose out another door and Draco carved another big 'X' in it.

"So..." Draco said. "What's behind door number two?" and then he turned the door-knob.


authors note: finished! sorry it took so long...I'm gonna begin the next chapter immediately...PLZ REVIEW:)...i like reviews...but guess y'all knew that already.. :D