Chapter Eleven

As they walked down the corridors they met very few people. A group of hufflepuffs and Volken with someone else. A girl who had such a unique hair color. Her hair was a sandy blond bet yet at the same time looked silvery also. She had bright amber eyes that moved about with grace.

"So there were others this time" she said

"Yah three gryffindors and a slytherin"

As they continued Harry looked back to see if anyone was following them. Hw wouldn't know why anyone was following them or who would. They turned a corner and there was a door he place his hand on the door handle expecting it to burn him for some odd reason. It didn't though. He walked into the room and there was someone there already. The ravenclaw girl he bumped into early sat in a large armchair hidden behind a book reading. She looked from atop of the book and saw Harry and the others.

"Oh I'm sorry did you want the room?" she asked

"Oh no that's ok" Harry said

"You can stay if you want. All I am doing in studying" she said.

Harry looked at Ron and Hermione "my name is Harry" he said

"My name is Rina" she put down the book she was reading into a rather large pile of other books "I'm just doing some light studying for my N.E.W.T.S."

"Light" Ron said hysterically. "That is a mountain of books."

Hermione elbowed Ron in the gut so he would shut up. "My name is Hermione" she said smiling and then glared at Ron "and this is Ronald" Ron gave a evil glare to Hermione "honestly if you won't introduce yourself I will do it for you"

Rina smiled "its all really nice to meet you"

Harry wasn't paying attention to Hermione or Ron's arguing. His attention was elsewhere. He looked at a wall next to him. The numbers 26 22 64 66 and 3125 were graved into the wood.

"Hermione stop arguing and look at this"

"That's been there for ages. It never leaves" Rina said behind them.

"What do you think it is?" Ron asked

Hermione looked at the numbers and started to count on her fingers.

"If my guess is right it means bottom of the lake" she said after three minutes

"Well what is that suppose to mean" Ron said

"Our next clue will be at the bottom of the lake" Harry said walking out. Hermione and Ron following after him

"Well ok I will see you around then" Rina said

Harry was much farther then Hermione and Ron. He turned the corner and the girl that Volken was talking to earlier was leaned against the wall. Her long hair sitting upon her shoulders.

"So you heard about Rae's little secret did you," she said. She had a dark voice.

"What are you talking about" Harry said pretending he had no idea what she was talking about.

"Oh never mind" she said as though she got this respond from everyone

"Yoko!" Volken's voice was heard behind Harry

Yoko looked behind Harry and saw Volken. She walked off as though she was talking to nobody just then.

Hermione and Ron caught up with Harry

"Who was that" Ron asked

"Yoko" Harry said in a confused voice.

"Yoko?" Ron and Hermione said in unison.

"I have no clue who she is either" Harry said as they continued their way down the halls and corridors.

Harry walked out of the front doors and looked out onto the lake. The ground didn't look much different then they did before. Few new trees had appeared and some older one had grown taller. The large beech tree by the lake still stood there no different then before.

Harry ran over to the bank of the lake. It was nearly seven feet just at the shore. How he would get down there he didn't know. It would be much deeper farther out.

"How will you-" Hermione cut off as she looked at Harry.

Harry took off his shirt and his shoes. he sat down and got his sock off then stood up again and took off his pants.

"Hold these" Harry passed his clothes to Ron and took off his glasses and gave them to Hermione

"Your going in there. But there's mermaid and thing and the giant squid!" Ron said

But he got no answer because Harry had already dived into the water. Harry swam around the bottom for anything that might be another clue. He found a plank a wood and looked at it but I had nothing. He continued swimming and then something caught his interest. he found a rock that looked no different then any other rock. But there was something about it. He picked up the rock and swam to the surface

"I found something!" he said swimming back to shore.

He climbed the bank and stood up. He held the stone in his hand. It looked much different outside of the water. The silvery stone reflected the sunlight brightly. In the middle of the stone was a rune in gold.

"This is odd" Hermione said taking the stone from Harry

"What is it?" Ron asked

"It's some sort of rune. I don't know what it says though" Hermione ran her hand along the stone and flipped it on its other side to reveal nothing.

"What do you think it means?" Harry asked

"It could be anything. A word you have to say to get back to our own time. A gateway. Anything"

"Well if it is a gate how do you use it?" Ron said

"I don't even know what it is!" Hermione said "I'm keeping it in my pocket. It will be safe there."

Hermione put the rock in her pocket as Harry put his clothes on. They then all made their way back to the castle. Harry's shoe squeak with every step he made.

"we should find you some clean clothes Harry" Hermione said

Draco came out of the great hall and walked over to the three

"Where have you been and why are you drenched potter?" he said in a demanding voice.

"We have been trying to find a way out of here while you go bragging about in the hall"

"Well I would of came if you told me" Draco responded in a tell-me-next-time voice.

"Sure you would" Ron said with sarcasm.

"Well I will be around the school if you need my expertise anytime." He said as he walked off.

"Yah I'm sure we will" Ron sneered

A young girl with short dark brown hair and light blue eyes passed them. She wore a head girl badge next to the slytherin crest on her robes. After she walked seven paces she looked at Harry and the others

"Why are you wet" she said in a calm and dreamy like voice.

"Uh… I decided to take a swim."

"Don't usually people get changed after they go swimming?"

"Just heading off to the common room now." Hermione said pulling Harry away

"Very well, if any of you see a slytherin name Yoko tell her Aiko is looking for her" she turned around and before leaving she said " by the way I am Aiko"