Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter related belong to J.K. Rowling, and all things "Aliens" and "Predator" related belong to 20th Century Fox and such. However the plot belongs to me. Also my friend Katie and my friend Writer Chica were kind enough to beta read my story.

Harry Potter and the Alien Hive

Chapter 6: Infection

Sunday 9:30am

Harry was glad he had put a silencing spell on his bed so he did not have to deal with his friends hovering over him, asking him if he was all right. Not that he didn't appreciate their concern, but it did grow tiresome after awhile.

Harry walked briskly toward the Great Hall, with his Gryffindor friends walking and talking behind him. He wanted to ask Dumbledore what the New Discoveries officials had to say. What he really wanted to know is if the New Discoveries officials had returned at all, and prove that his dream was just a dream.

"Harry, what's your guess as to how that black creature got here?" Harry heard Dean Thomas call from behind him.

"Your guess is as good as mine Dean." Harry stopped and waited for his friends to catch up.

"Well what do you guess?" Dean pressed further.

Harry realized he had never considered where the monsters had come from. He was to busy dealing with fact that they were here at all.

"New species maybe?" Harry offered up.

"But how could a big creature like that exist without anyone knowing?" Hermione contradicted.

"I think another intelligent race of extra terrestrials brought it here." The Ravenclaw Luna Lovegood walked up to the Gryffindor group.

Everyone looked at her like she had sprouted two heads. Unperturbed Luna continued. "Look at it, its shell is distinctly like that of an insect-like exoskeleton. That type of covering is not built to handle the cold, maybe it could live for a certain amount of time, but to have to he cold as a habitat."

"Luna, there have been many species that have been only recently discovered, big animals too, and that does not mean they're from outer space or brought here by another race of Aliens." Hermione calmly spoke.

"All right. Answer me this then, if it did have a habitat somewhere else, how did it get to one of the coldest most isolated places on the face of this earth?" The dreaminess about Luna's expression had completely disappeared. She was perfectly serious.

Hermione opened her mouth, but hesitated for a second. The only thing she could come back with was another question. That was no way to fight an argument, but that was all she had at the moment.

"Even if there was intelligent life, why would they leave something like that here?"

"So you do believe!" Luna's eyes brightened.

"What?! That's not what I said!" Hermione's voice rose as Luna turned around and headed to the Great Hall looking smug.

"I still say that girl is completely mental." Ron crossed his arms over his chest.

"Which one?" Dean asked smirking.

"Both of them." Ron smirked back looking at a flustered Hermione and a smug Luna.

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Harry had to only step into the great hall in order to know something was wrong.

There were no Slytherins at the Slytherin table. In fact there were no Slytherin to be seen at all.

Harry looked toward the teachers' tables. All of the Professors were present except for the DADA teacher, who always seemed to be late for breakfast. Professors all looked in deep discussion.

"Where do you suppose all of the Slytherins are?" Hermione whispered, her voice a mixture of worry and suspicion.

"Probably all got called home by their Death Eater parents." Ron spat.

"Only about half the Slytherins are Death Eaters Ron, so why aren't the other half of them here!?" Harry hissed through clenched teeth, as he recalled last night's dream.

My children. And there will be more. Many more.

The Monster Queen's words repeated in his head.

"Harry?" He heard Hermione's concerned voice behind him.

Harry was about to reply when out of the corner of his eye he saw Snape get up from the teacher's table.

While the other Gryffindors sat down at their table harry stood frozen watching Snape, walk down the aisle to the door. The words from that terrible dream repeating themselves over and over again, like a broken record player, in his memory.

My children.

"It's already inside me."

And there will be more.

"It's too late. I'm infected.

Many more.

Then everything connected in Harry's head . The Slytherin dormitory was right over the Chamber of Secrets! The Slytherins are infected with monsters!

"Snape, wait!" Harry ran up to the potions Professor. Everyone in the great Hall turned to look at them.

"Professor Snape, Potter." Snape corrected coldly. "What is the matter with you?"

"You can't go to the Slytherin Dormitory! They're already infected!" Harry shouted urgently, also feeling a rush of anger.

"Keep your voice down!" Snape scolded, taking notice of the rush of whispers from the other students upon hearing the words, "Slytherins" and "they're infected."

"Infected with what?!" Snape snapped in a low voice.

"With.....With...." Harry stammered, not sure exactly how to put this. "With monsters."

By this time the other Professors had walked up to Harry and Snape. A few gasped upon hearing Harry's last statement, even Snape looked startled.

"Harry," Dumbledore's voice was gentle, but apprehensive. "Perhaps we should continue this conversation outside. Minerva will you and the other Professors make sure the children stay in here."

"Of course Albus, but---"

Suddenly the Great Hall doors burst open, and in staggered Melificent Killington of Slytherin house.

"MONSTERS!" She was screaming and sobbing at the same time. "MONSTERS!"

"What? What did you see?!" Snape grabbed Melificent by her shoulders.

"I....I...." Suddenly Melificent started gasping for air and clutching her chest with one hand and pushing Snape away with the other. "God, it hurts."

"Oh no, not again." Harry gasped, then yelled. "Get back! She's infected!"

Melificent screamed out her last breath as her lower chest ruptured in a grisly fountain of blood. But that was not what had everyone terrified. Everyone stared in horror at the living organism with needle teeth crawling out from the remains of Melificent's rib cage.

The tooth creature screeched then quickly slithered out the door of the Great Hall.

"No!" Harry shook himself out of his shocked state and pointed his wand.

"INCENDIO!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.

A jet of flame came out from the tip of his wand and hit the creature's back. However, it was too far away to be hit with the full brunt of the flame. It was still alive and it was getting away.

He chased it down the hallway, outside the Great Hall, but when he rounded a corner he was shocked to find someone standing with their foot on top of the now dead creature. The person was none other then the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher brought back by popular demand, Remus Lupin.

"Harry what has happened?" Remus looked incredibly worried.

"You remember the monsters I saw in the dreams I told you and Dumbledore about?" Harry said between breaths. "Well, they're real and they are awake."

There were shrill screams resounding, back at the Great Hall. Harry figured the other students must have finally over come their silent shock and realized just what happened.

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Sunday 10:00am

Professor Snape, Professor Lupin, and Harry Potter slowly approached the the Portrait that was the door to the Slytherin common room.

"There have been terrible things happening inside." the Portrait spoke in a frightened voice. "Screaming, that's all there was. Screaming."

"Swords Dance." Snape spoke. The portrait opened.

The Slytherin common room looked like it always did, the only difference was the fact there no students in it.

The three quickly made their way to the stairs of the boys dormitory. They stopped abruptly when they saw the body of a boy lying face down on the steps.

Snape slowly reached down and turned him over.

"Orlando Baragon." Snape said quietly. "He was infected."

"Good, God." Lupin whispered upon seeing Orlando's blown out ribcage.

They continued up the stair way and entered the first door they came to. The floor of the room was covered in some kind of slimy substance. Snape moved over to one of the beds and pulled back on the curtains. Harry had to look away from the sight to keep from vomiting. The student in the bed had been infected, blood stained the sheets a deep red, the spider-like creature was lying right next to the boy, its tail still partly wrapped around the students neck.

Snape dashed over to the next bed. They same sight greeted him.

"In their sleep! They got them in their sleep!" Snape hissed angrily.

"The question is where are the monsters now?" Lupin said slowly, shaking slightly.

There was a pause.

"We must leave." Snape said urgently, making his way to the door.

Harry and Lupin followed. They had just reached the stairs when they saw one of the black monsters there, waiting for them. It hissed angrily, towering over the body of Orlando Baragon.

"You hateful monster!" Snape snarled.

The creature hissed again in response and began crawling on all fours up to them, sizing them up, ready to pounce and strike.

"You murdered my children!" Snape shouted and pointed his wand at the monster. It screeched and jumped toward the potions professor.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Snape shouted as a powerful blast of green light came from the end of his wand. It hit the monster square in the chest, causing the creature to fall from mid air and plummet down the steep stairwell.

Screeching could be heard from the common room, the others were responding to their brother's death.

"Come on!" Snape grabbed Harry's arm and sped down the stairs, Lupin following closely behind.

When they reached the common room, the black creatures seemed to be coming out of the woodwork, they were everywhere. Fortunately, there was still an open path to the door and the three of them made a dash for it.

They practically dove out of the exit way and slammed the portrait shut. Snape quickly put a barrier spell on the Slytherin Dormitory to prevent the creatures from escaping. Sounds of bumping and screeching could be heard from behind the barrier.

"We must evacuate the other students at once, put up a barrier around this entire castle and ensure those monsters are destroyed!" Snape stormed off to the Great Hall.

"Easier said than done I would think." Lupin let an involuntary canine like snarl.

Harry just shivered.

Many more....

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Sunday 8:00pm

Draco landed hard on the fireplace floor in the Slytherin common room. He growled irritated and he moved away, rubbing one of his eyes that had gotten dust in it. When he finally got his vision cleared, he immediately wished that he hadn't.

The walls and floor of the Slytherin common room were covered with some kind of thick, black, slimy substance. And dotting the floor were giant oval shaped objects, almost like eggs?

Draco jumped when he heard the crash of Crabbe and Goyle coming out of the fireplace behind.

What's going on?" Goyle's voice wavered.

Draco shook his head as he took a few steps forward. There was a giant hole in the middle of the floor, that looked like some had melted the stone to form it. Draco took in a sharp breath when he saw the body of a creature lying next to the hole. It looked like a smaller version of the monster he had seen in the Daily Prophet!

There was another crash and Pansy Parkinson appeared

"Pansy! We all have to go back the monster has multiplied some how!" Draco made his way around the eggs.

Pansy nodded and took some floo powder from a pouch she had in her had. They had all been order to take pouches of floo powder with them, just in case. After a few words Pansy disappeared in a flash of green flame.

Draco was just taking a step into the fire place when one of the eggs opened behind him. The Slytherin Prince and his cronies pulled out their wands and pointed them at the open egg.

Suddenly something from the bowls of the egg leaped out. Its target seemed to be Draco's face.

"STUPIFY!" Draco shouted out the top of his lungs.

The thing continued its flight only to bounce harmlessly off Draco's chest and on to the floor.

The Slytherins stared at it in silent shock. Unaware of the big black shape crawling down the wall behind them.

"What is it?" Crabbe asked as he picked up the creature by its tail.

"Don't touch it!" Draco hissed.

On que the thing came back to life and tried to make a move for Crabbe's face. In response he grabbed the thing's body and crushed it between his hands. Crabbe screamed as the creature's blood quickly burned away the flesh of his hands.

"Acid for blood! Christ! They have acid for blood!" Draco yelled stepping back from the screaming Crabbe. "What the bloody hell are these things?!"

Crabbe?" Goyle took a disbelieving step toward his comrade, but both he and Draco froze when the heard an angry screech behind them. They turned around. There in front of them was a very much alive version of the creature the creature lying beside the hole melted into the floor of the Slytherin common room

The black creature hissed and leaped.

Draco and Goyle watched astonished as the creature easily cleared them and landed on top of Crabbe. Crabbe tried feebly to push it away, but by now he had no hands left to do it with. The creature opened its jaws wide, and revealed a second pair inner jaws behind them.

"Come on we have to get out of here while it's distracted," Draco grabbed Goyle's arm and pulled him toward the fireplace.

Too late.

Another creature dropped own in front of the fireplace, blocking their exit. The two boys backed up, not looking around to see where they were going, their eyes transfixed on only thing, the creature.

Draco raised his wand, shaking with fear, trying to think what spell he could do, that would work on this creature. All of Goyle's limbs, with the exception of his legs that were currently moving him backward, were frozen completely.

Then Draco remembered the spell he had used on the smaller creature before.

"STUP----"

Draco stopped when his right foot hit nothing, but empty space. He started to fall backwards into the hole in the floor he had failed to remember was there. He swung his arms around frantically trying to keep his balance, but to no avail. He flung out one of his arms and caught the edge of the hole, his last hope. However, he had dropped his wand.

He looked down, Goyle had fallen completely in and was surrounded by even more of the black creatures. Draco turned away, taking in Goyle's scream as it was cut off by the creatures' screeching and hissing.

Draco looked up, slowly comprehending that all hope was lost. There were two creatures looking down over the edge at him. One was distinctly the creature that had forced him to back up into this mess. The other one had a thick coat of red on its jaws, no doubt Crabbe's blood.

Draco closed his eyes and turned his head down, not wanting any of the blood or slime to drop into his face. He had nothing to do, but to wait for his fate.

The Prince of Slytherin did not have to wait long.

His eyes snapped open when one of the creatures from below grabbed a hold of his legs, then one with the clean jaws above wrapped its tail around the arm that was keeping Draco from falling, and jumped to one of the adjacent walls of the chamber below the hole. A whip of it's tail and Draco was forced to let go.

Before he knew it he was hanging upside down. He felt dizzy as all of his blood rushed to his head and the stench of death filled his nose. His vision cleared in enough time to see the round object placed in front of him. It opened, and to Draco's horror, he realized it was one of their eggs.

Sure enough a smaller creature similar to the one before began to crawl out. Only this was bigger, with spikes protruding out of its back. Draco tried to turn his head away, but one of the creatures held it firmly in place.

The thing leaped.

Draco screamed.

The Prince of Slytherin did not have Harry's fortune of the experience being only a dream. It was very real.

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Sorry about the wait, but here is a nice long chapter to make up for it! Poor Draco, I hope you'll forgive me for infecting our favorite Slytherin. I kind of decided to put Remus Lupin in at the last minute, because I have some interesting surprises planned.

Your probably wondering why Snape was able to to do the killing curse. Well, one using the killing curse is only bad if you use it on another human being and two Snape had enough hate for these creatures that killed all of the Slytherin students that were there, it gave him the power to use the Killing curse.

Please! Please review! I really want ----nay---- I need to know what you think of this chapter. Character portrayal, suspense degree, scariness, etc. Also so if there are any questions you have, feel free to ask!

Also, here is a picture I drew of Draco captured by the

Till Next Time!
-Vega Sailor