Sword of the Lost King
Chapter 2
The Rescue
Harry woke up, his entire body throbbing, his head in particular. Using Occlumency techniques he started sorting through all the things he had learned. He realized that not only had Arthur given him his training, but also memories, of his parents, grandparents, his entire life, it was the best present Harry could receive. After he had done basic sorting, he felt somewhat better. But something felt off to him, sniffing, it smelled… sterile? Harry's eyes popped open, and he immediately regretted it. The bright lighting assaulted his eyes. Slowly opening his eyes it looked as though he was in a hospital wing.
"All students will return to their House dormitories at once. All teachers return to the staff room. Immediately, Please."
Groaning, Harry sat up, his body on fire. This was it; the girl must have been taken into the chamber. Standing up, Harry wished he had just come here, not mess with the information. His body felt like he had been trampled by a horde of angry hippogriffs.
Looking down at the ground, it looked farther away than normal, he must have grown, a couple of inches, or a foot. Pushing away the pain, he walked, looking through Uncle Arthur's memories, he guided himself through the school.
Reaching a haunted women's bathroom, he walked in, and finding the snake, he hissed, "Open."
The sink started moving and sunk out of sight, and Harry not wasting a moment, jumped into the exposed pipe. Harry whizzed out of the pipe, covered in grim, after a quick scourgify, he continued on, passing the skin of the snake he realized how massively large it must be now.
The tunnels turned, turned and turned again, finally Harry reached a solid wall, where entwined snakes were carved, their eyes set with emeralds. Harry approached, hissing; "Open," stepping inside not missing a beat.
Striding purposefully into the room, he saw serpentines statues and shadows in every corner. As he passed the last of the pillars, he saw the giant face on what he assumed was the back wall. It looked ancient and monkeyish to Harry, and thinking to himself, maybe Salazar's bloodline just had not evolved as much as others. That would make sense, considering Voldemort was a descendent.
At the foot of the statue, lying between the feet, was a black robed figure, with flaming red hair. Well there is the girl, that makes that easy. Walking over to her, he stashed his wand, and checked her pulse, he found it, but it was very weak.
"She won't wake." Said a soft voice.
Harry looked around, and upon spotting the figure, his eyes narrowed.
"Hello Tom." Harry said, "How is being dead?"
"So, you must be the famous Harry Potter." Tom Riddle said.
"Oh, it looks like you have brains after all." Harry mocked.
Tom's eyes narrowed, "You have no idea how powerful I am, I am the Heir of Salazar Slytherin, Greatest of the Hogwarts four."
"You know, you talk but all I hear is, I'm a pansy who TRIES to kill babies." Harry said in a bored tone.
Tom's face contorted in rage, and turning to the statue, he hissed, "Speak to me, Slytherin, Greatest of the Hogwarts four."
Closing his eyes and gritting his teeth Harry prepared himself for the inevitable. Harry took a deep breath and felt his surroundings. Feeling the giant serpent uncoiling, Harry drew his wand and conjured two arrows. He fired them one after another in rapid succession, both striking their targets, the eyes of the basilisk.
Hearing the hiss of the snake was enough to know that his arrows had struck true.
The snake's tail was thrashing, almost hitting Harry, so he did the most logical thing, he put a mild sticking charm on his shoes and jumped onto the snake.
Feeling Harry on it, the basilisk started thrashing even more. Harry trying to keep his balance was flung off, slamming into the wall.
Groaning, Harry pushed himself up. A determined look on his face, Harry transfigured the bottoms of his shoes to have spikes on them, and put a sticking charm on those. Then he leaped up the side of the snake, and started walking up the back of it, once again thrashing, but this time in pain. Harry just kept his steady pace up the giant slippery fiend. Reaching the head, Harry stashed his wand and conjured a sword in his left hand, one eerily reminiscent to Excalibur. Grabbing the hilt of his sword with both hands, turned it upside down, and plunged it as deep and hard as he could into the snake's skull.
Wrenching the sword up, Harry it pulled free, and faded it into oblivion. Harry jumped down, and casting a severing charm, he carefully took hold of one of the jagged fangs.
Something must be powering him, Harry thought, as Tom was starting to look more and more solid. Looking at the girl, he saw a diary in her hand. That must be it, Harry's eyes widened at the implications of this; he was taking the girl's life so he could be reborn.
Hobbling over to the limp body, with the fiery mane, Harry dropped to his knees. Reaching for the book, he heard Tom.
"What are you doing?" Fear evident in his voice.
"I am going to destroy you, once again." Harry said, sighing, picking up the diary and putting it on the floor. "It's a hard life, repeatedly killing you."
"NO!" Tom said, his eyes bulging.
"What are you going to do? You're a shadow of your former self, a pittance." Harry said. Raising the fang, he plunged it into the diary.
There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream. Ink spurted out of the diary, all over Harry's hand. Riddle writhed an twisted, but nothing could stop it, and in an instant, he was gone.
Once again Harry sighed, exhausted. A faint moan came from the girl; it looked as though she was stirring.
"Are you all right?" Harry asked gently. The girl looked at the diary and the basilisk, and her eyes grew wide.
Then looking up at him said, "You saved me," with awe in her voice.
"All in a day's work." Harry replied, giving her a grin.
I loved all the response I got. Thank you all for the feedback. This story will probably go until fourth year or so, I dont know yet. If you have any comments or questions just ask. I hope you guys like the new chapter. Up next will be Chapter 3 Names. -The Jedi Wizard