The-Demon-Who-Lived

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Chapter 7: Chamber

-Monday, September 28th 192-

"Ugh why do we have yet another useless teacher this year?" Draco whined playing with his food.

"I heard the DADA position was cursed, perhaps Lockhart will get killed off like Quirrell." Blaise commented his eyes shinning with suppressed glee.

"Perhaps." Harry replied with a small smirk.

"So, who's the new guy at the head table?" Pansy asked pointing out a young dark haired man sitting beside Professor Sprout.

"Oh he's the new History of Magic teacher." Hermione answered looking up from her plate.

She had taken to joining them at their table for meals now since her house didn't like her associating with 'evil' snakes. At first the Slytherins had detested having a muggleborn at their table but a single glare from Harry shut them all up. Ginny would also join them from time to time but she was too shy around Harry to really speak, the others had welcomed her to the group after seeing how upset it made her brother.

Daphne raised a brow "How do you know that? What happened to Binns?"

"Gryffindor had History of Magic today, he was the teacher." Hermione replied.

"Ah, we don't have History of Magic for another two days." Draco muttered "Did Binns finally cross over?"

Hermione shrugged "No one knows but they think so. I overheard professor McGonagall and Flitwick talking, it seems a few ghosts have gone missing in the past few days."

"That's really weird, wonder what happened." Theo hummed.

"Who cares." Draco snorted "They're ghosts, not like anything can hurt them."

Harry took a sip of his juice in order to hide his grin.

-Wednesday, October 21th 1992-

"I'm still not sure about her guys, she seems far too shy to be of much use." Harry drawled out. The twins looked crestfallen for a second before replying.

"Just give her time-"

"Harry, she has a crush on you-"

"And you know how you affect-"

"The ladies, Ginny is brilliant-"

"And we've been grooming-"

"Her for years to take our-"

"Place once we graduate-"

"She can handle this." they finished giving him a pleading look.

Harry sighed as he thought it over. He had nothing against Ginny and she seemed nice enough but he didn't really need nice. The twins did vouch for her mischievousness and skill though so she had the potential, he would just need to get her out of her shell.

"Alright guys I'll give her time." He replied getting two grins from the twins "In the mean time I want you to train her in Occlumency, she will need to protect her mind from others and the mental shields will help her focus and resist my allure."

The twins nodded in understanding. They had yet to be informed of his heritage so he had explained his allure as a type of powerful magic he performed to further his goals.

"Be sure to visit Snape from time to time, I have informed him of your excellent brewing skills and unique ideas. He will help you further your skills as well as teach you some battle spells from time to time." Harry continued.

The twins were genius's when it came to potions, due to lack of funding they had been limited in ingredients to make their pranking materials. This had led to them finding new and innovative ways to create the potions they required. With his funds and Snape's guidance they would be able to reach their full potential.

"Alright Harrykins-"

"See you around mate-" they replied with a mock salute. He could hear them talking as they walked away.

"You know brother of mine, my feet really ache."

"Is that so twin of mine?"

"Oh yes, there really is no need for the two of use to walk these long halls is there?"

"No twin of mine, there isn't."

With a shared grin the two boys became one and wandered off down the hall. Harry shook his head in amusement before stepping into the shadows of the room and vanishing with an almost silent pop.

-Tuesday, October 27th 1992-

/Empressss I have a mission for you./ Harry hissed entering the chamber. He nodded in satisfaction when he saw that several serpents were already occupying the place. He even noticed two Occamy's flying above.

/Greetingssss Lord Pein, what are you're ordersssss/ The large basilisk asked uncoiling from her spot in the center of the chamber.

/Halloween approachesss my Empresss, I asssk that you roam the casssstle asss you once did./ Harry replied /You may petrify anyone you come acrossss but do not kill./

The snake seemed to look sullen at this /You wish me to harm the sssstudentsssss? I wassss created to protect the sssschool my Lord./

/Don't worry Essssper, no harm will come to them from your petrification. I have Luciussss -one of my serventssss- working to passs some lawsss for me. Dumbledore is an obsssstacle in our path, with hissss studentsssss being petrified he will be forced to focusssss on the sssschool insssstead./ Harry explained.

He had Lucius pushing a few bills to grant him more power in the government. So far a few had been stopped thanks to Dumbledore's interference, with a basilisk roaming the school and students being attacked Dumbledore would be forced to turn his attention elsewhere. If things went well they could probably even have him stripped of his positions. Unfortunately several students would need to die for that to happen and Harry wasn't too fond of that idea, even if they were just humans.

/Very well my Lord, I shall do asssss you command./ Esper replied.

Nodding to himself Harry strode out of the chamber as another plan began to form. This one would really annoy Dumbledore as well as further his organization, oh it would be brilliant.

-Thursday, October 29th 1992-

"Albus who is that?" Flitwick asked looking over the students.

Dumbledore looked up from his meal and turned to Flitwick, a cursory glace at the hall showed nothing amiss.

"Who is who?" Dumbledore asked.

"That fellow at the Ravenclaw table, the one talking to Miss Chang." Flitwick replied.

All eyes at the head table turned towards the Ravenclaw table in search of Cho Chang. Dumbledore spotted her easily amongst a group of females that were giggling, the source of said giggles appeared to be the fellow sitting across from them. A few eyes widened as they spotted the man, Dumbledore noted the orange spiral mask and black cloak with red clouds.

His first thought was 'How the hell?' before he leapt to his feet with his wand drawn.

"Stupefy!" Dumbledore shouted firing the stunner. All eyes in the great hall snapped up and followed the red light as it traveled across the hall and struck the masked man. Rather than tumbled over stunned the man leapt to his feet and comically shook his fist at the head table.

"That wasn't very nice, can't you see Tobi is busy with Miss Cho?" he asked in a high pitched almost childish tone.

At this time Minerva figuring out who the man was had risen with her wand as well, Severus smirked and shot a glance at Harry who winked at him. The other professors, taking their Headmaster and deputy Headmistress's examples, leapt to their feet as well and drew their wands.

"Tobi is a good boy, stop being mean to Tobi." The masked man pouted eliciting some giggles from the girls around him. Dumbledore growled under his breath and fired off another stunner, the other teachers followed his example.

Eyes widened as the masked man easily dodged around each of the spells as if he were playing around. Dodging the last spell he leapt from the table and landed on the ground in the good guy pose, although they couldn't see it everyone could picture the wide smile beneath the mask. His performance gained him a round of applause from the students who had yet to see anything dangerous about the man.

"What are you doing here? How did you get in here?" Dumbledore asked with his wand trained on the man.

The man sat down and took a thinking position for a few moments "Well..Tobi is a good boy so he asked the nice castle to let him in. The castle said no but when Tobi proved he was a good boy she said okay." he finished giving the headmaster a thumbs up. Dumbledore glared at the hall cutting off the snickers that had broke out at the Tobi's exclamation.

"What do you want here?" Minerva asked with a scowl. She could still remember what had happened at Alastor's house and if what Dung, Albus, Moody and Severus had said was correct then this man was a very powerful dark wizard. Although due to his behavior she was quickly ruling that out.

"Well Tobi was bored, so he asked leader if he could go and play. Leader said Tobi should go to Hogwarts and make some friends so Tobi came here." The masked man answered.

Dumbledore furrowed his brow before a look of understanding passed across his face. "I will not allow you to recruit my students to your vile organization." he snarled. Confused whispers broke out among the students at this comments while the professors that knew nothing of the Akatsuki shot him confused looks.

Tobi sighed "Leader said you would say something like that so he told Tobi what to reply." the masked man stated.

"Oh?" Dumbledore asked with a raised brow.

Tobi nodded repeatedly "Yes, Leader told Tobi to say," at this point he cleared his throat and in a deep menacing voice said "You don't have a choice old man."

Several people shuddered at the sudden change in attitude the man made. Dumbledore frowned and raised his wand higher. Wordlessly he launched a borderline dark cutting curse at the man and grinned when Tobi didn't move. Gasps resounded around the hall as the spell struck the mans neck and sent his head flying. Cho Chang shrieked and fainted when the head came to a stop on her plate, everyone else was staring at the headmaster wide eyed.

A gasp from a few drew everyone's attention back to the body which had started to shimmer, the watched as it shimmered and then faded away leaving nothing in its place.

"That wasn't very nice, what did Tobi ever do to you?" A voice asked from the head table. Everyone startled as they spotted Tobi whole and undamaged sitting cross legged on the high table twirling a wand. It took but a moment for them all to notice that the wand he held had been taken from Dumbledore's still out stretched hand.

"Attacking Tobi with his own wand, how mean." Tobi pouted "Tobi will be taking the wand back now."

A few eyes widened at this and Dumbledore could only gape as the man sitting just inches away from him disappeared in a vortex.

-Tuesday, November 3rd 1992-

"So who do you think the heir is?" Hermione asked fearfully sticking close to Harry. The events that had transpired in the hall several days ago were easily forgotten after the chamber was opened. Everyone was too afraid of being petrified to care about a man in a strange costume.

"Dunno." Draco drawled "No one in our house has bragged about it so we have no idea."

"What are the teachers doing about it? Three people have been petrified already." Ginny asked angrily. Since one of those three people was in fact her brother Ron she was extremely upset about the issue.

Ginny had finally broken out of her shell thanks to the meditation her brothers had started her on. She was now more out spoken and acted more confidant with the group. Although the fact Harry 'accidentally' mentioned how he liked strong, confident women may have had something to do with it.

"Well seeing as how Reggie and his two friends are the victims, I don't think anyone really cares." Harry joked in reply earning a few laughs from his friends.

Hermione frowned "You really shouldn't say things like that Harry, people are already starting to think you're the heir." she chided.

Harry came to an abrupt stop "Wait what? Why would anyone think I'm the heir?" He asked frowning.

"Why wouldn't they? You're a Slytherin, the boys are already jealous of you since all the girls like you and the three victims happen to be your enemies. It's not hard to come to that conclusion." Theo commented in an even tone.

Harry took a minute to think this over "Huh.." he shrugged and began walking again.

"That's all you can say? Just 'Huh'?" Hermione asked angrily "You cant let them bad mouth you like this Harry. Most of Gryffindor house already believes you're the heir."

Harry simply shrugged again "Let them believe what they want, as long as I have my friends I don't really care."

Draco gagged "How corny."

Harry shot him a smirk before pointing out the faces the girls were making "Yeah but it works."

Dumbledore paced around his office for the fifth time that day. his hands twitched every few seconds as he thought furiously about his missing wand. The elder wand had been taken, stolen by a powerful dark wizard and there was nothing he could do to get it back. He had the order and several of his contacts out looking for this Tobi fellow yet nothing had been found.

'Dammit, how could this happen..the great Albus Dumbledore disarmed by some upstart child.' He thought furiously 'Now the most powerful wand ever created is in his hand and I cant let anyone know about it unless others will go after it. Dammit!'

His pacing came to an abrupt end as something popped up in his mind.

'Wait, what did he mean 'his own wand'? Was he a previous owner of the wand? That cant be, all the previous owners were killed by those seeking the wand.'

Taking his seat Dumbledore crossed his fingers and thought. He couldn't let anyone know why the wand was so important, nor could he let some one like that Tobi keep it. Something needed to be done, and fast.

-Several Miles away-

"I got my wand back. I got my wand back. I got my wand back!" Tobi chanted as he danced around.

"Okay we get it, shut the hell up Ignotus!" Rowena screeched.

Ignotus pouted as he walked away. He now had both the wand and the cloak in his possession, only the stone was needed to complete the set..but did anyone else care? Nooo they just wanted their own damn items back. Rowena already got her stupid tiara from the castle but all she could do was bitch about her missing ring.

"Everyone's so mean to Tobi" Ignotus mumbled sulking in the corner.

Across the room Harry sighed to himself.

'I really am going crazy.'

-Thursday, December 17th 1992-

"What are you doing for winter break Harry?" Hermione asked setting down her quill.

Harry took a moment to think this out, what was he going to do for the break? He already had the ghosts for his ritual as well as the other items he would need. Snape and Lucius were already had their orders and he didn't need to recruit anyone yet. Hmm...maybe hunting down some rare items? Those Horcruxs still needed to be found...nah those could wait, maybe spend the holiday's with Sirius? His godfather was getting restless as time for his release approached.

"I think I'll be spending it with my family." Harry replied with a small smile.

Hermione look sad at this "Oh okay, I'll be going home too then, I was just checking if you were going to stay or not."

"I don't have much of a reason to remain in the castle this year, not with the monster roaming about so I'll be going home." Harry stated.

The others gave a small nod.

-Friday, December 25th 1992-

"So pup I've been meaning to ask, how do you get the Dementors to avoid this area?" Sirius asked through a mouthful of turkey. "They don't really have eyes so I would think your illusions wouldn't be enough."

Harry hummed "There's more to my illusions than just sight based techniques Sirius. Regardless, the Dementors just know to stay away from here. They're frightened."

Sirius raised a single brow "What could frighten Dementors?"

Harry smirked.

-Sunday, February 15th 1993-

"Damn mate, that's a lot of cards." Theo whistled.

Harry grinned at him as he opened yet another Valentines day card

"What can I say, I'm loved."

"So unfair, I only got three cards." Draco pouted.

Harry ignored him as he set the card aside "Thanks for the card Ginny, I appreciate it." he stated with a charming smile. The girl blushed red a squeaked before hurrying back to her house table. Harry chuckled as he watched her go.

"Remind me to give you your Valentines day present later Harrrry." Daphne purred into his ear tearing his attention away from Ginny. Harry gave her a smile and nodded.

Even though it was Valentines day, the hall was still gloomy as everyone sat in silence. So far eleven people had been petrified and nothing had been done to find the monster. More people believed Harry was the heir due to his being a parselmouth but no one could prove it since he always had an alibi. So far Dumbledore had been excellent in keeping the news from the public but Harry had arranged for that to change soon.

As if on cue the doors to the hall blew open with a loud bang. All eyes turned towards the doors as Lucius Malfoy and two other men strode in. Harry gave a subtle nod as he caught Lucius's eye.

"What's your dad doing here Draco?" Pansy asked.

"I don't know, he didn't tell me he was going to be here." Draco replied in an irritated tone as he watched his father stroll by.

Everyone perked up as the three men strode up to the head table and had a whispered conversation with Dumbledore. After a few moments the Headmaster stood and led the three men to the antechamber connected to the great hall. The students spent the next few minutes whispering as as they tried to figure out what was happening.

"You cant do this!" The voice of Albus Dumbledore roared from the ante chamber.

All noise in the great hall stopped as everyone tried to listen in.

"We are the board of governors, we can and we have. Good day Headmaster" the familiar voice of Lucius Malfoy drawled out before he and the two men stalked out of the room, walking through the silent hall Lucius shot Harry a conspiratorial smirk before walking out the doors and leaving.

A few minutes later an angry Albus Dumbledore stormed out of the room and returned to his seat, he sat there fuming before Minerva got up the nerve to speak.

"What's wrong Albus, whats going on?" Minerva asked.

Dumbledore glared around the hall before speaking, in the silence of the hall his voice carried far "It appears word of our Basilisk problem has gotten out Minerva, the Board has contacted an outside source to come and handle it." he stated. Excited whispers broke out around the hall as the news spread. The new noise was enough to drown out the head table as the conversation continued.

"Who have they hired Albus?" Snape asked trying to keep the amusement off his face.

"Apparently they were contacted by a new group that has expertise in this sort of thing." Dumbledore grumbled.

"Who is it Albus?" Minerva asked.

Dumbledore snarled as he spoke the name.

"The Akatsuki."

-Friday, February 19th 1993-

"You won't get away with this boy! I demand you set us free!" the large man boomed.

Harry didn't even spare the glowing red orb a glance as he continued his work.

/When will these pesstssss be gone? Their shouting gratesssss on my nervesssss./ Esper hissed in an annoyed tone.

/They will all be gone sssssssoon enough Empresssssss/ Harry replied.

Taking a step back he studied the seals written all over the ground in search of an error. Nodding in approval he turned to the three red orbs floating above him, within each orb floated a transparent figure.

The first orb held the ghost of Professor Binns. The ghost simply floated in his prison droning on and on about goblin history completely oblivious to his location.

The second was in fact Peeves the poltergeist. Like Binns many had noted his disappearance, though none had cared. Peeves was a blur as he bounced around his prison trying to find a way out.

The last orb held Salem Slytherin, one of Salazars ancestor who had inhabited the castle after his descendant founded it. He simply floated inside his prison demanding to be set free or sending Harry the occasional insult.

"I'm sorry this has taken so long my friends, I was forced to hunt down suitable materials for this endeavor as well as study the seals required. We can begin in just a few moments." He announced to them. A silencing charm drowned out Salem's outrage.

Turning on his heel Harry strode to a corner of the room where Salazar was guarding the struggling form of Gilderoy Lockhart. Grinning down at the gagged man Harry noted that he had wet himself at some point since he was captured.

"Please excuse my rudeness professor, you see I required a living sacrifice for my ritual and you just happened to annoy me the most." Harry explained with a grin.

Gilderoy had been trying to corner him in order to 'help him with his fame'. It had been hilarious at first but now it was just plain annoying. It wasn't until Valentines rolled around that Harry decided he hated the man.

The dwarfs were once proud creatures, they built the most glorious underground cities, crafted weapons and armor for the highest quality but thanks to the humans they lost much of their history and prestige and now Gilderoy Lockhart had the audacity to dress them up in silly costumes and have them deliver cards? The man would pay.

Grabbing Lockhart by the hair, Harry ignored his struggles as he drug hum towards the ritual circle. Making sure not to disturb his carefully drawn out seals and runes he set Lockhart in the center of the circle and a quick jab to the neck stopped the mans struggles as his body was paralyzed.

''Don't worry Gilderoy, the rest of the world will hear of your glorious death. Word will spread about how you fell to Slytherin's monster in an effort to defend the students." Harry whispered in his ear "Many will mourn your passing, isn't that what you wanted? Eternal fame and Glory?"

Chuckling to himself Harry stalked away from the man and walked over towards a large boiling cauldron. The cauldron was filled with an eggshell white mixture that threatened to bubble over at any moment.

'It's almost finished, just need one more ingredient.'

The air above the cauldron distorted as a dimensional rip formed. Harry watched as the sample taken from the Devils Flytrap fell into the potion and dissolved. The mixture remained the same before it seemed to implode on itself until there was only a small green mixture at the bottom of the cauldron. The mixture was quickly scooped into a vial and Harry excitedly made his way back to Lockhart.

"Say ahh.." Harry grinned as he pried the mans mouth open and poured the potion in. When the last of the mixture was gone he stepped out of the ritual circle and began pouring his magic into it. The runes and seals drawn on the ground began to glow with a green light as the ritual began.

Lockhart thrashed around as his mouth opened in a silent scream, even partially paralyzed the pain he was under was enough for his body to spasm about. He thrashed around for close to ten minutes before his body stilled and his eyes went glassy. With the mans death his soul was taken as sacrifice and the rest of the ritual progressed.

Lockhart's body turned pure white for several moments before reverting to a deep green. Several spots on his torso and arms split open and long vines lashed out mindlessly searching for a target before they dove back under his skin and the wounds healed immediately. His collar bone cracked and popped as it seemed to grow and change until it formed a miniature Venus Flytrap around Lockhart's head which disappeared into his body once more. With this last development the ritual circle stopped glowing and the magic surrounding the body dissipated.

Harry grinned as he studied the body within the circle, it was still very much dead but that would easily be fixed. Waving a hand he brought the orbs containing Binns and Peeves down to this height. He slowly closed his hand into a fist causing the orbs to shrink around the two ghosts, when the orbs were down to the size of his fist he made a throwing motion with his hand and both orbs were sent sailing into the body.

Nothing happened for a moment before the body began changing color once more. Half the body became pure white once while the other half became pitch black. The green that had once colored the body rose up leaving only the bodies hair and eyes green, the rest became black or white. The body remained still for a few moments before it twitched and took a large gulp of air as life flowed back into it. The now green eyes blinked several times before the body sat up and looked around the chamber.

It spotted Harry patiently standing a few meters away. Rising to its feet the body groggily stumbled over to him and collapsed on its knees still weak from the ritual.

"What are your orders master?" two voices asked at the same time.

Harry grinned down at his newest servant.

"Welcome back to the land of the living..Zetsu."

-Monday, March 1st 1993-

"..Can you see them?.."

"..They look so cool.."

"..Wonder whats with the cloaks though.."

"..My dad told me about them.."

"..Heard they're wicked strong.."

"..Did you hear what happened in Knockturn?.."

Dumbledore growled under his breath as the students whispers reached him. Several students had clustered behind him as they awaited the arrival of the Akatsuki. He, Filius, Minerva, Pomona and Snape were standing in the middle of the entrance hall as the two cloaked individuals slowly walked up the path to the castle. He had called in as many favors as he could but still the board had insisted on having these..people..in his castle so he could only hope they slew the basilisk and left the students alone.

As the two stepped into the entrance hall the students stopped whispering and Dumbledore took a step forward. He noticed one of the figures was male while the other was female but other than that he couldn't tell anything about them.

"Greetings and welcome to Hogwarts, it's a pleasure to have your assistance." Dumbledore muttered in a strained voice. He tried to see through the dark hoods they wore but all he could see was pure darkness.

One of the figures stepped forward, Dumbledore and the audience startled as a large purple snake slid down the figures sleeve and flicked its tongue out to taste the air, it stared at them all intently before dismissing them and coiling around the figure before disappearing once more into the robes.

"Thanksss Headmassster, we have been sssent here to deal with the creature." the man spoke in a high pitched hissing tone. Dumbledore and Snape shuddered at the familiar tone, the hissing voice was so similar to Voldemorts.

"May I know your names?" Albus asked fishing for some information. The two shared a look and nodded to each other before the man turned back to Albus

"You may call me Manda." He stated.

The female stepped up beside him "You may call me Tsunade." she added with a nod.

Dumbledore gave them a strained smile. These were obviously not their real names but it was a lead, now if he could question them about the other two members he could perhaps learn about his wand.

"Shall we retire to my office? I can bring you up to date there." He asked

"That is unnecessary, one of our agents has already informed us of all we need to know, unfortunately he fell to the creature before he could let us know where the entrance to the chamber was located." The woman replied.

Dumbledore raised an eyebrow. One of their agents? How did one of their agents know anything of the situation? How did they even enter the castle undetected?

"Oh?" He asked.

"Yesss, I believe you know him assss Gilderoy Lockhart. He disssappeared a few weeksss ago." Manda replied.

Whispers broke out once more among the students while Dumbledore fumed. Lockhart was a member of the Akatsuki? How was that even possible? From what he had snoticed during the school year the man had been an incopetent fraud, was it all an act? Who were these people that they could easily infiltrate his castle.

Keeping his face neutral he nodded back "Very well, one of our Professors will accompany you. I'm no longer as young as I once was, hunting basilisks is better left to the younger generation." he replied with a small smile "Perhaps..ah yes.. Severus you don't mind do you?"

Snape sniffed indignantly "No Headmaster, the opportunity to see the fabled chamber of Salazar Slytherin is far too grand an opportunity to pass up." Snape drawled out.

Dumbledore gave him a kind smile before nodding to the other heads of house "Very well, I will take over your potions class for the day. Come on children I'm sure you all have classes to attend." He added the last to the crowd causing the students to disperse. Giving a small smile to young Harry Potter Dumbledore ambled towards the dungeons for the first class.

Watching the Professors head off Harry stalked up to Snape, Salazar and Helga.

"Hello Severus, how are you today?" He asked in a cheery tone.

Snape gave a slight bow "I am well Lord Pein."

"That's good, that's good. As you've already heard these two go by Manda and Tsunade, they already know where the chamber is located but they have a secondary mission for today, you are to follow them and keep quiet of anything you see."

"Yes my lord." Snape replied respectfully.

"The creature within the chamber was released by me." Harry continued, he smirked at the wide eyed look on Snape's face "Don't worry she was ordered not to kill, we simply needed the old mans attention elsewhere as well as a reason to allow our members into the castle." Harry explained.

"Very well my lord, I should also inform you that Dumbledore has asked me to question these two and relay all that I learn to him." Snape replied after regaining his composure.

Harry looked to the two hooded figures them back to Snape "Ask your questions, they will answer as much as they can."

"Yes my lord, thank you." Snape replied with another bow.

Giving the man a nod Harry turned and headed down the hall, turning down an empty corridor he disappeared in a cloud of smoke relaying the conversation to the others.

Manda turned to Snape and beckoned him to follow before he and Tsunade stalked off towards the stairs.

"We have several areas to stop by, there are a few items we need to recover." Tsunade explained as they walked up the stairs.

Snape replied with a nod and followed them up to the seventh floor. He stood by and watched quizzically as Manda paced across an empty patch of wall three times, when a door suddenly appeared in the wall he only raised a brow in surprise and followed them into the room.

Entering the room of requirements Salazar walked towards the center of the room. They were inside an empty stone chamber with nothing but a large oak desk in the center of the room. The room had been created by Rowena as her sanctuary just like the chamber was his. Helga and Godric both had their own rooms as well, where their own personal items were stored. Luckily the room of requirement was linked to the entire castle and could bring any item within the castle into itself.

Ignoring Snape's curious glances he paid attention to the empty table.

'I require the wands of the founders.' He thought sending the thought to the room. In the blink of an eye four plain wands appeared on the table, taken from their resting places. Smirking to himself Salazar reached down and gripped his own wand, 12 inches Black Ash and Occamy venom. He shuddered in pleasure as the warmth spread through his body and the wand connected with his core. Beside him Helga did the same as she gripped her wand, 9 inches Oak and Hippogriff feather.

Reluctantly placing the wand into his holster he grabbed Godric's and Rowena's wands and slipped them into his robes before concentrating on the table once more.

'I require the founders weapons.' he thought once more.

With a thud the four items landed on the table. He heard Snape gasp as the man obviously recognized the four weapons.

The goblin wrought silver blade with egg sized rubies and the name Godric Gryffindor etched on the side. Godric's prized war blade, bonded to him and his line and able to channel magic like his wand. Godric carried the blade wherever he went and affectionately called it his Excaliber, eventually the four of them called it Excaliber after the blade of legend but history eventually forgot that name although the blade itself was remembered.

Beside Godric's blade was Salazar's own weapon, a double-edged straight sword with a large emerald in the hilt. He had purchased the sword during his travels in asia, the weapon was now called a Jian and had been in use for several years in china. Although Salazar hardly used it he was quite proficient with the blade, Rowena had even cast several enchantments on it to make it unbreakable and the sort. Salazar had carved various runes into the blade before dropping it in a vat of Espers venom and blood bonding it to him. One cut from the blade was enough to poison and kill even a mountain troll, the poison was still just as potent after all the years.

He picked the weapon up affectionately and stroked it, he had never been in love with weapons like Godric so he had never named the sword, but now that he held it after all these years he had the perfect name for it.

'Kusanagi.' He thought fondly, the sword seemed to hum in approval as he tucked it into his robes and sealed it away.

Across from him Helga was also studying her own weapon, a small blunt mace topped with a rune carved topaz. She was the most pacifist of the group, preferring to heal rather than harm so her weapon had been designed to incapacitate rather than kill. It had also been enchanted to channel her magic and surround the weapon with a stunner so a glancing blow would still knock enemies unconscious.

The last weapons on the table were two small daggers belonging to Rowena, each dagger held a small sapphire in the hilt and was carved with hundreds of different runes. Not much was known about Rowena's daggers since she was constantly adding enchantments to them over the years, he had seen her use them in several different blood rituals as well as in battle so they served various purposes.

Picking up Excaliber and Rowena's daggers he sealed them away in his robes while Helga sealed her own weapon away. Snape was now watching them curiously but he remained quiet as Salazar focused once more on the table.

'I require the founders prized items.' he thought sending the room an image of what items he needed. Unfortunately only three items dropped onto the table. He had called on eight items that should have been in the castle but he knew some weren't. On the table lay his ring, Rowena's ring and Helga's ring.

His locket was now one of his descendant's Horcruxs, Godric's ring was found in the Potter vault and his hat was now bonded to the Headmasters office so it couldn't be taken..yet. Rowena already had her Tiara and Helga's cup was also a Horcrux. They would need to retrieve their prized items some day but for now it could wait.

Slipping on his ring and placing Rowena's in his pocket he turned to Snape and spoke.

"We are finished here, let usss head to the chamber and meet with Pein." He stated to the man. Snape simply nodded and exited the room, he knew to keep quiet about what he saw them take and would remain silent.

Thinking back to the room and the items he had seen the two individuals take Severus followed behind them. He had easily recognized the three rings and Gryffindors sword. Following that train it would mean that each of those items had belonged to the founders. Why would Pott-Pein and his associates need the founders items? How did they even know of said items?

Snape was drawn out of his thoughts by a silent hiss from in front of him. Looking around he noticed that they were in a bathroom, a girls bathroom from the lack of urinals. Looking to the two he was following he watched as the large purple serpent slid out from the mans cloak and seemed to hiss at the sink. There was a moment of silence before the sink spun and sunk to reveal a tunnel leading into the ground, another hiss from the snake and stairs were revealed.

Following behind the two hooded individuals Snape descended into the chamber of secrets.

The first thing he noticed were the snakes, hundreds of serpents slithered and rested around the large chamber, he even spotted some Occamy flying above and over to the side lay what was easily the largest snake he had ever seen. It was coiled up so he couldn't tell how big it was but it could have easily been over 50 feet. Snape could only stare in wonder at the basilisk.

"Ah Severus, welcome to the chamber of secrets." Harry announced drawing the potion masters attention "Sadly all the books and notes once stored here were stolen by Voldemort when he graduated. For now it serves as a home to my serpent army."

Snape nodded dumbly as he surveyed the hundreds of snakes in the room, their talking seemed to have wakened the basilisk as it now sat up studying them. He heard it hiss something and watched as the boy in front of him hissed something back.

"Alright we can begin now, Severus you stand over there with Manda and Tsunade while I get started." Harry stated turning back to the man. Snape gave a small nod before following the two hooded figures to the side of the chamber, the other snakes cleared from to room heading off to parts unknown in order to make some space in the center of the chamber.

Snape watched as Pein pulled out two large vials filled with a red substance, most likely blood. As he watched the boy threw one of the vials to the ground shattering it, he smeared some of the blood onto his palm before his hand flew through several strange hand-signs and he shouted out.

"Chi Bunshin no Jutsu (Blood Clone Technique)"

Snape's eyes widened as the blood on the ground seemed to bubble and boil before a Basilisk the same size and shape as the one behind him lay in the center of the chamber. Pein whooped with joy while the behind him Basilisk hissed loudly. The one in the center of the chamber lay still and unmoving so it obviously wasn't alive, just some sort of copy but still if that was a real basilisk and more could be made like that..Snape drooled at the thought of the rare potions materials he could acquire.

As he watched Pein, once more threw a vial of blood on the ground, smeared some on his hand, went through hand-signs and shouted out again. Snape watched in fascination as yet another large basilisk grew into existence beside the first one. The two creatures were exactly the same in size and appearance, exact copies of each other.

"Oi Tsunade, come get this thing out of here, make sure to rough it up though." he heard Pein shout.

Following behind Manda and Tsunade Snape walked up to one of the dead serpents. The creature was large up close and uncoiled, how were they ever going to get it out of the chamber? It would take a whole team hours to scavenge it into parts and he was sure Pein didn't want others inside the chamber.

Summoning his sword Salazar gave it a spin before he stabbed it towards the dead basilisk. The enchantments on the blade made it so sharp that it cut through the thick scales like a hot knife through butter. Burying the sword hilt deep he twisted it to make a believable killing wound before pulling it out, the blood coating the weapon magically vanished before he proceeded to make several cuts along the creatures flank to make it battle scarred.

Helga on the other hand proceeded to bash the body several times with her mace leaving large dents in its hide before one to the skull cracked some bones. Pulling up the eyelids she grabbed hold of the large eyes and yanked them out one by one before sealing them away. When the two were finished the serpent looked like it had been in quite the battle. Snape was looking at it hungrily as well as sadly at the loss of such rare potions ingredients. Harry noticed and turned to the potions master.

"Since we slew the monster we are legally allowed to keep it, It will be stored away at our base and this summer you will be allowed to scavenge it for use in various potions. When that is finished I can most likely create another one for more materials." Harry stated.

Snape perked up and his eyes sparkled in excitement as he looked at the large corpse.

"You can just make more of these? How is that possible." He asked curiously.

Harry smirked at him "It's an ancient technique, all I need is a blood sample and a lot of energy and I can make a blood clone of anyone." He explained vaguely "As you can see though it just makes a corpse since the body has no soul so I cant use it to bring back the dead or anything like that."

Snape nodded in understanding, he wasn't sure how someone as young as Potter learned such powerful and ancient blood magic but it wasn't his place to question his leader. Voldemort punished those that questioned him so Snape had learned long ago when to keep his mouth shut even if Pein didn't seem the random torture type.

A loud hiss from the live basilisk drew him from his thoughts.

"Alright guys, stop cutting her up. Esper is feeling distressed at the image of her corpse." Harry shouted in amusement.

"Right, lets get going then, the reporters should be here by now." Tsunade announced turning to Snape and Manda.

Snape nodded and pulled his wand to help levitate the serpent but Manda held out a hand to stop him. He gave the man a confused look, it would take more than the two of them to levitate the large serpent up the tunnel they used. As he watched Tsunade walked to the front of the snake and grabbed hold of the head through Manda's killing wound. Snape felt a flare of powerful magic before the woman actually dragged..dragged! the 60 foot serpent behind her as she headed for the exit.

"Holy shit.." Snape whispered in amazement at seeing the small woman actually pull the snake behind her.

Harry grinned at the look on Snape's face. Recreating Tsunade's legendary strength technique had been extremely hard to do and he still wasn't as proficient at it as she was, luckily Helga already had the muscles of a giant within her improved body so she had more than enough base strength for this task. Once the technique was mastered she would be able to lift ten basilisks easily.

"It'll take her some time to get it up the tunnel so how about we answer Dumbledore's questions for you." He stated turning to Snape.

The crowd of students, Professors and reporters could only watch in amazement as the two cloaked individuals dragged a 60 floor serpent out of the castle and onto the grounds with a pale Severus Snape following behind. It took the reporters a few minutes to regain their composure before they started questioning the two cloaked figures.

"What are you're names?"

"How did you defeat the creature?"

"Who hired you?"

"Why do you wear the strange cloaks and do they mean anything?"

"What can you tell us about the rumors in Knockturn alley?"

The questions continued to flow before Lucius Malfoy stepped up and silenced the reporters with a fierce glance.

"How about you give them the opportunity to respond before you leeches continue on." He drawled out with a disdainful tone. The male figure gave him a thankful nod but it was the female who stepped forward to reply.

"My name is Tsunade and this is my partner Manda." She replied to the first question, the names were quickly scribbled down and the second question was asked once more.

"As you can see we battled the creature with various weapons. Since basilisks are resistant to magic we had to use physical weapons. I distracted it with my mace while Manda attacked with his blade, he was eventually able to get a killing strike with his sword and stabbed it in the brain." she explained.

"We were hired by Lord Malfoy and the board of governors due to the fact many students were being petrified. Our organization is able to handle various types of missions and one such as this was easy to accomplish."

"The cloaks are the sign of a member of the organization. We are known as the Akatsuki and we are basically hired wands, we are able to handle any mission no matter the difficulty. To contact us one only needs to send a request to our missions outpost, which will be opening in Diagon Alley in a few days time." she explained.

Thanks to Dumbledore being distracted and Lucius's political prowess their organization now had a legal permit to accept missions of any kind and the ministry had even provided a building in Digaon so they could set up an outpost. Of course the ministry got a large discount but it's not like they needed the money, the missions would be used to build up a reputation for the eventual takeover as well as a way to acquire information and perhaps blackmail material and more soldiers.

"As for the two individuals involved in the Knockturn alley incidents they were members of the organization. The first is named Tobi and the second is his partner Haku, that is all I can tell you at this time."

The reporters began to ask more questions but she held up a hand to silence them.

"We need to be going now, good day one and all." She stated in an even tone. Before anyone could say or do anything the two grabbed hold of the basilisk and disappeared in a vortex. Stumping everyone there since they were all well within the wards.

-Wednesday, March 3rd 1993-

"I'm sure you've all read the papers by now so you know what has happened." Dumbledore explained in a weary tone. The others of the order nodded "The Akatsuki has obviously taken a front as hired hands, I checked at the ministry and they are completely legal."

Moody growled "How did that pass? Who filed the papers?"

Dumbledore sighed "I was preoccupied with the petrification problem in the school, I missed one too many Wizengamot sessions and the bill was passed to make them legal. According to my sources Lucius Malfoy pushed for the issue and personally handed the leader, Pein, the permit."

"Malfoy? Why would he help them?" Minerva asked.

"I don't know, either Lucius is allied with them or the Akatsuki are allied with Voldemort. Have you spoken with Lucius Severus?" Dumbledore asked turning to Snape.

Snape nodded in reply "I did, according to him they simply offered him a large sum for his assistance. He doesn't know where their allegiances lie."

Dumbledore hummed "Were you able to question them Severus?"

Snape nodded.

"What did you learn? What happened in the chamber?" Remus asked.

Snape sneered at him before turning back to Dumbledore.

"As they said they simply attacked the creature with their weapons, I don't know how it was possible but they were able to bring it down after a few minutes and while the woman distracted it the man stabbed it in the head killing it." Snape replied getting thoughtful and fearful expressions from the rest. "It was after the battle, while they were weary, that I asked your questions."

Dumbledore signaled for him to continue.

"I'm not sure how trustworthy this information is though, they seemed to give it freely."

"Oh just spit it out already." Moody growled.

Snape glared at him before continuing "They refused to tell me anything about their organization or their leader but they gave information about the members we have already met." he began "First off is the masked one Tobi. As you have seen for yourself he's a bit childish and immature, the rest find him annoying but both agreed that he is extremely powerful."

"Did they mention his abilities?" Minerva asked with a frown as she remembered the young man from the feast months ago.

Snape shook his head "Not all of them, they only reinforced what we already knew. Apparently this Tobi is a powerful illusionist as well as a fire and wind elementalist. His mastery is so great that he can summon black flames with a single glance by using his wind nature to power the flames. He can also cast wide range illusions without his wand like the one we all saw in the hall Albus." Snape explained.

Everyone was silent as this information sunk in. A master illusionist and dual elemental and those were the only abilities they knew of so far, who knew what more the man could do. Snape continued in the silence.

"His partner, they work in groups of two, was the female Haku. She was the one that destroyed Moody's home as well as killed the men in Knockturn." Snape explained "I was able to learn more about her since we didn't know much. She has mastered banishing and summoning charms to such a degree that she can push and pull objects with only a thought, her stealth and speed are some of the highest in the group so it's no wonder she snuck up on us in Moody's"

Moody grunted at this but paid rapt attention, he would need to remember everything he could learn on this woman.

"They also let slip that she's also dual elemental." Snape added

A gasp resounded around the room. Other than Snape, Albus and Minerva no one knew about Harry's elemental natures so they were pretty shocked to hear about not one but two dual elementals in the same organization. One alone was pretty troublesome but two?

"What elements Severus?" Arthur asked in a quiet tone.

"Water and Wind, I also learned she could combine them to create ice." Snape finished explaining. The room sunk into silence once more as the news sunk in. They had two powerful adversaries already and the organization contained even more members.

Snape continued "I learned quite a bit of the two we met today, I watched them in battle and saw a few of their techniques. They used a variety of wandless techniques I have never seen before. Also the male, Manda, is a Parselmouth."

Molly groaned "Not another one."

"Yes another one. He used various serpents during the battle, wandlessly summoning them with a wave of his hand. He was extremely proficient with his sword and from what I heard he is quite fond of using poisons. With the Basilisk they took we can expect him to use Basilisk venom in battle he even hinted at finding a way to coat his blade in it."

Moody growled "What no elemental techniques?" He snapped sarcastically.

Snape smirked at him "Actually he used several water techniques, when questioned he revealed he was also a dual elemental but I was not informed of the second element. I would assume it was fire since he created a blanket of steam at one point to blind the creature but I'm not sure."

Albus continued to stroke his beard as this information was filed away, this organization was turning out to be a larger threat that he thought. Each member was already a master in obscure fields that most didn't even attempt, really who would even consider some of those? Poisons? Stealth? Illusions? Those branches of the arts were easily overlooked for other more magical groups, none had mastered them in ages.

And then there were the elemental natures. One was a fire and wind master able to combine the two to create stronger flames. His partner could use wind or water and even combine them to create ice. The last was able to use water and another secret element. How did such powerful wizards gain strength with no one noticing? They would have had to learn of it somewhere and he would have definitely heard about them through the grapevine. Yet there was nothing, it was like they just popped up out of no where.

"What of the last woman?" he asked Snape when the room fell silent.

"Ah yes the woman, Tsunade." Snape began "Since Manda is so fond of poisons they paired him with a healer. The woman is well versed is several healing spells, Potions and Herbology. She even used some healing techniques I've never heard of before as well as a potion I couldn't identify but it was able to heal basilisk venom."

This caused murmurs. A potion that could heal Basilisk venom? And one a potion master like Snape couldn't identify even with his expertise? Some of them had seen him sniff a potion and break it down into its base ingredients minutes later so this was really surprising.

"You're sure it wasn't Phoenix tears Severus?" Dumbledore asked.

Snape shook his head "Phoenix tears need to be poured on the wound, this one was drunk. From what I saw of it the closest I could compare it to was the elixir of life. But we all saw the stone get destroyed." Snape replied.

Dumbledore pondered this, similar to the elixir of life? Was that why they wanted the stone? To create the real elixir? Then why destroy it rather that steal it? And what was this magical elixir that could heal Basilisk venom?

"Only a healer?" Moody scoffed "At least we can take her out easily."

Snape smirked at him once more "I wouldn't bet on it, even as a healer she's not weak. She's very proficient with that mace she carries and her strength is monstrous. I don't know if its through the use of potions or other means but her physical strength surpasses even Hagrids. She was able to single-handedly drag that basilisk up from within the chamber. Her punches and swings left large craters in the ground and a single swipe would be enough to take any grown man down."

The others gaped at him, to think such a sweet sounding woman could turn them to mush with her fists alone. It was a scary thought.

"Oh she's also an earth elemental with a secondary element that I don't know." Snape added just to ruin their day.

Most of them at this point were looking crestfallen and considering their chances of emerging victorious from a fight with such powerful individuals.

Dumbledore sighed "Did you learn anything else about the organization Severus?" he asked.

Snape shook his head "They refused to speak about the leader and about any members we have yet to see. We'll have to learn more as they come." he finished.

"Very well, we'll end the meeting there today, keep an eye out for this organization and we'll have to find someone to keep an eye on their office in Diagon, Alastor you handle that perhaps ask a few of the younger members to alternate. Severus stay behind please."

After the others had filed out Dumbledore turned to Snape.

"Good job today Severus, I know you went to great risks to acquire this information especially entering the chamber and confronting the Basilisk." He began, Snape gave a curt nod "Did you find anything else within the chamber?"

Snape shook his head "There was a study but all the book were gone, the dark lord mush have pillaged the chamber the last time he was there."

Dumbledore hummed "I thought as much. Were you able to ask them about the return of my wand?" he asked in a slight pleading tone.

Snape shook his head once more "I asked them but they knew nothing of it, you'll have to question this 'Tobi' about it." he replied.

Dumbledore sighed "Very well, you may go Severus."

Nodding Snape left the room.

Dumbledore sat back and sighed once more, the enormity of their situation weighing him down. How could they deal with such powerful individuals? He him self was an elementalist but only for water, could he hold his own against any of these people? As he sat and thought Dumbledores thoughts flew to a young man with expert potential in the elemental field.

'Perhaps young Harry could do something about them?' Dumbledore thought as his lost cheer returned. The boy would need some training when he was older, but with Dumbledores knowledge and the orders backing perhaps they could take down the Akatsuki.

Harry was already showing great progress in the magical arts, he was a prodigy the likes of Tom Riddle himself but unlike Tom Harry had friends and loved ones around him, guiding him on the correct path.

'For now he needs time to grow and enjoy life but when the time comes I'll offer him extra training.' Dumbledore decided with a small smile on his face.

-In the chamber after Snape, Salazar and Helga have left-

Hearing the entrance close Harry turned back to the second Basilisk corpse.

/Issss it time Lord Pein?/ Esper asked as the other serpents entered the room.

/Yesss Empresss, It'sss time for the Emperor to risssse./ he hissed in reply. A few other serpents cheered as they crowded around to watch. Harry grinned and placed both palms on the corpse's head.

'Cant believe this will actually have some use.' He thought with a small smile.

"Oiroke no Jutsu!"

His magic spiked as he directed it through his body, out his hands and over the snake before him. He had to pour a tremendous amount of power into the technique in order to overpower the Basilisk's magic resistance. Seconds ticked by and he continued pouring his power into the technique while picturing what he wanted to happen. Slowly the corpse began to change, it increased in size until it was a few meters bigger than Esper, a red stripe formed on the head and ran down the back.

With a final push of power Harry completed the technique. Instead of a 60 foot female Basilisk corpse he now had a 65 foot male Basilisk corpse. Taking a moment to regain his breath he listened to all the cheers from the other snakes in the chamber, they had all noticed the change.

/Issss it finished? Will my mate awaken ssssooon?/ Esper asked excitedly.

/Almosssst Empressss, I require a moment to regain my breath and we can finish./ Harry replied between breaths. After a few minutes he straightened up and waved his hand. Out of the shadows the orb holding a protesting Salem Slytherin floated towards him, grinning at the outraged ghost Harry locked eyes with him and delved into the ghosts mind.

With a single thought he destroyed the ghosts memories, everything Salem ever knew was erased in a moment and replaced by a few select memories Harry had copied from Esper. He added a few of his own memories as well, his knowledge of serpents and the snake summons of old as well as a loyalty compulsion so the Emperor would still obey him. With that done he retreated from the ghosts mind.

Before the ghost could even notice it was in a human form rather than a serpentine one Harry threw it into the corpse beside him. Drawing his demon bone wand he began casting a variety of spells in order to tie the soul and the body together since the corpse was far to large for a ritual circle like he did with Zetsu. After a few minutes of casting he placed his wand back inside his robes and stepped back.

/I am finished Empressss, he requires ressst but he shall awaken in due time./ Harry announced.

The snakes rejoiced as their emperor moved, coiling around himself the serpent slept on.