The night of November first, Oasis, a basilisk, slithered out of her well for the first time in a month. She had been in a deep stasis, and was consequently very hungry. Basilisks such as herself could petrify or kill at a glance, should they so choose. Some had chosen to kill who ever they saw, and that had given them a bad name amongst humans.
What the humans didn't know was that basilisks had two eyelids. One lid was normal, and was used in conjunction with the other for blinking and sleeping. The secondary eyelid was transparent, and allowed basilisks to look around without killing anyone they saw.
Another thing that gave them their bad name was their monstrous appearance. Oasis was a hundred foot long snake. She had black scales with the odd green one every so often. Her fangs were well taken care of, and gleamed brightly in the moonlight. She also had a bright red crest that she could expand to look similar to a lion's mane when scaring off others. It was perhaps the fact that she could swallow almost any creature with little to no trouble that was the most disturbing.
Basilisks on a whole were very misunderstood. At one point in time they had even had a council, and a set of laws. When a small group had broken away, and begun hunting humans, the humans had retaliated, and killed almost all of the basilisks alive. There were only a handful left, and they were all in hiding.
Oasis was in the mood for a deer on that particular evening, and had caught on to the scent of several soon after leaving her well. It did not take her long to catch six full grown females. On the way back to her den, the sound of a crying child distracted her. The giant snake was curious as to why parents would have left their child in the middle of the woods so late at night and went to investigate. As the sound of crying grew louder, the basilisk caught sight of a car seat dumped unceremoniously on the ground.
'Hello young one,' the snake hissed mostly to herself, believing that the child would be unable to reply. As soon as she began speaking the boy stopped crying, and stared up at her. The boy was unusual. He had an enormous amount of power, and Oasis was able to feel it pulsing around her. She noticed that his eyes were a very unusual green, and an old prophecy sprung into her mind. Her suspicions were confirmed when the boy answered her with a simple 'hello' in the parseltongue, the snake language.
Snakes had the ability to speak from birth, so it stood to reason that the child would as well. That didn't make it any less shocking. He was a small boy, and had jet black hair that was unusually thick for one so young. His emerald eyes stood out like beacons in the darkness. Oasis also noticed that he had a black mark on his forehead, which vaguely resembled a lightning bolt. She couldn't help but wonder where he got it as she had no knowledge of the wizarding world. Regardless of where he came from, it was doubtless that he was the child of the prophecy, and would therefore require much training before his return to the wizarding world.
Oasis had become friends with a man that lived in a secluded cottage in the woods. He had taught oasis to write with her tail, and the two had become good friends. She knew that the boy needed to be trained to fulfill the prophecy, and decided to train the boy on her own. She knew that the cottage man knew the current wand magic, along with physical methods of attack and defense, so she could get him to fill in the gaps. She would teach the boy how to survive in the wild, as long as many other skills he would need to survive.
There were also many rituals she would have to perform on him. Only a few humans knew that basilisks could perform a certain brand of magic on themselves and other creatures. These rituals were extremely draining for both the caster, and the one who was being cast upon, so they would need to be spaced out. She would need to ensure that the boy became immune to basilisk poison to begin with. He would also need to be able to look a basilisk in the eye without dying. Those two rituals would take the better part of a year. And after that, she would need to increase his agility and range of movement, a series of rituals that would take the better part of yet another year. There was one more ritual Oasis planned to perform, and that was one to infuse the boy with a bit of her own essence in order to give him more snake like qualities. The only time the ritual had been preformed successfully, had been on Salazar Slytherin by oasis's mother of sorts.
Overall it would be slow going, but the end results should be worth it, Oasis decided. She grabbed the handle of the car seat with her fangs, and slithered away towards her den. Presently she had no suitable food, so the child would have to make due with blood.