AN - First off I need to say sorry for how long it has taken me to update! it is unforgivable. I know i hate waiting for updates yet I made everybody else wait so I am sorry. I just have been super busy doing like 3 diplomas in the space of a year so it is really full on giving me barely any times or days off! Plus work and volunteer work takes up the remainder of my time. I am happy though that I did manage to get up a chapter of this story and my other favourite 'Awakening' and i hope to be updating again within a month or two. I am sorry it can't be more. I just don't have a lot of spare time.

There may be some spelling and grammatical errors due to not having a lot of time writing so please just let me know if there are and i will fix it

I found this chapter fairly uneventful and just full of Harry/Mina fluff but that is also good with me lol.

I hope you all enjoy it and PLEASE REVIEW to let me know thanks!

As Harry and Mina had no idea how long they would need to figure out the egg, they decided to do it at night.

The two snuck off underneath the invisibility cloak and used the Marauders map to make their way first to the room of requirement for swimsuits and changed into them before pulling their clothes back over them so they could walk to the prefects bathroom and not freeze.

It was awkward for the two moving under the cloak with the heavy egg and so close together. Finally the two reached the statue of Boris the Bewildered. Harry located the right door and Mina leant close to it and muttered the password 'pine-fresh'. The door creaked open and the two slipped inside and bolted the door behind them.

The two were in awe at the bathroom the prefects got. It was softly lit by a candle filled chandelier and everything was made of white marble. In the middle was what looked to be an empty rectangular swimming pool with about a hundred golden taps around the edges each with different jewels set into the handles. There was also a diving board and ong white lined curtains hung at the windows. Finally there was a golden framed picture of a mermaid who was fast asleep on a rock.

Harry quickly stripped down to his board shorts before jumping in the pool. He turned around to call Mina in when he saw her puling of her clothes. He knew that she had swimmers on underneath but it still made his mouth drop open to see her getting undressed.

He tried to look away but he couldn't until she was down to her bikini. It was a simple golden string halter bikini but it looked fantastic on her.

Mina looked up to see Harry staring at her and giggled lightly before diving gracefully into the bath that Harry had already filled with bubbles of various sizes and colours. The two mucked around for a while turning on and off taps trying to figure out what they did.

Mina for once was the sensible one. "Harry I think we should figure out the egg now."

Harry blushed and nodded as he hopped out of the bath. This time it was Mina's chance to stare as water trickled down his body. He was athletic without too many muscles as he was only 14 but she could tell that he was slowly gaining muscle definition and she was definitely attracted.

Luckily for Mina, Harry didn't notice and soon jumped back into the pool. Harry smiles at Mina before opening the egg. Both shuddered when the loud wail was again heard from the egg.

"Close it Harry!"

Harry immediately complied and closed the egg. "Was Cedric messing with me when he told me to take a bath Mina?"

Mina almost face-palmed when she remembered that she forgot to tell Harry about putting it under the water. "I am so sorry Harry, Cedric also said to put it underneath the water."

Harry nodded and placed it under the water before opening it. A gurgling song was heard from the egg and Mina and Harry looked at each other in confusion.

Mina thought about it for a second before turning to Harry. "Maybe if you open it under water and then put your head under the water you will be able to understand it."

Harry nodded and was about to do as he was told when someone spoke.

"She is a smart one, this one."

Mina shrieked when she heard the voice and sunk a little from the shock, swallowing some water in the process. Harry was slightly more masculine and only swallowed some water from the shock. He coughed to get rid of the water before grabbing Mina who was spluttering quite badly.

Harry made sure Mina was holding onto the side safetly before turning to her. "Are you okay?"

Mina coughed a little more before smiling at him softly. "Yeah I am fine thanks, I was just a little bit shocked to see a ghost in here."

"Mina this is Myrtle or Moaning Myrtle as she is more commonly known. Myrtle this is Mina Aino."

"Nice to meet you Mina." Myrtle said before turning her attention back to Harry. "You haven't been to see me for ages."

Harry blushed and mumbled. " Yeah...well... I'm not supposed to come to your bathroom am I? Its a girls one."

"You didn't used to care."

Mina who had been watching the conversation quietly giggled slightly at that comment. "You used to hang out in the girls bathroom Harry? That is slightly pervy."

Harry spluttered and was about to explain that the only reason he used to hang out there was to brew Polyjuice potion in secret but he decided that he should probably not admit to doing forbidden things so instead he just shrugged his shoulders. "I had a good reason for it, that doesn't matter now and Myrtle I got told off for going in there. I thought I'd better not go back in there."

Myrtle sighed and reluctantly agreed while Mina was getting slightly bored. "Well as informative as this has been I suggest we get back to the egg."

Both Harry and Myrtle nodded in agreement and Harry lowered the egg beneath the foamy surface of the water, after it was lowered both Harry and Mina submerged themselves fully underneath the water. Harry opened the egg and looked up to see Mina's beautiful face with her golden hair flowing softly around her. He thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, she reminded him of the old tales about mermaids that were extremely beautiful and had voices to match.

He was so distracted by her that he missed everything that happened with the egg, only noticing it closed again when Mina's face disappeared from his view and he was instead staring at her chest. His face went bright red as he returned to the surface to come face to face with Mina who was thinking deeply until she noticed his red face.

"Uh Harry are you okay? Your face is bright red! Did you try and hold your breath for too long or something?"

Harry managed to blush even more and smiled sheepishly. "Uh yeah that must be it."

Myrtle giggled softly as she watched the pair and decided to butt back into the conversation. "What did the egg say?"

Harry sighed slightly as he rubbed the back of his head with his free hand. " I didn't actually hear any of it. I was... I was uh getting used to the water."

Mina smiled at Harry and giggled softly. "I heard it but I can't remember it all. Maybe we should listen to it again?"

Harry nodded in agreement and the two dived back under the water as Harry opened the egg. This time they both heard it but Harry stupidly never heard the first couple of lines as he kept on looking at Mina and getting distracted by her beauty. He just couldn't believe how much like a mermaid she looked. Like in the fairy tales she had long shiny blonde hair, the perfect body shape, a beautiful voice and clear crystal blue eyes.

The thought was on his mind as the two came up for air for the fourth time. Mina splashed him as he popped back up and glared at him slightly. "Harry I don't know what is distracting you so much but you need to concentrate. This is to help you not me."

Harry nodded andthe two went back underneath the water for the final time. Harry finally figured out that he should close his eyes so he wouldn't get distracted by Mina. They both had their heads above water after the song was finished and Mina repeated the whole song since she heard it four times.

"Okay so here is the clue since you heard it only once.
Come seek us where our voices sound, we cannot sing above the ground. And while you're searching ponder this, we've taken something you'll sorely miss. An hour long you'll have to look, and to recover what we took. But past an hour – the prospects black, too late its's gone it won't come back."

Mina didn't know all the details about the second task but she was given the general gist of it from Setsuna. She decided that Harry should try and figure it out for himself and rested on the side of the pool as Harry stayed in the water mumbling phrases to himself but he only got as fair as guessing they were water creatures so she decided to put her plan into action.

Mina made sure she was sitting directly under the picture of the mermaid as she leaned back on her hands as she kicked her legs together like a mermaids fin. She also began to sing, a song from the Little Mermaid hoping that Harry would understand.

Harry heard her singing and splashing around and turned to her. He was again stuck at how much she resembled a mermaid. His gaze moved up to see the picture of the sleeping mermaid when the thoughts hit him. He turned to Myrtle and asked. "There aren't merpeople in the lake, are there?"

Mina smiled to herself as she slipped back into the water as Myrtle answered. "Ooh very good. It took Diggory much longer than that."

Harry smiled excitedly. "That's it isn't it? The second task is to go find the merpeople in the lake and..." Then he suddenly reaslisrd what he was saying and felt the excitement drain out of him. Mina noticed this and put a hand on his shoulder. He turned to her and sighed. "I'm not a very ood swimmer, I never had much practice. My cousin had lessons but my Aunt and Uncle hadn't bothered to give me any. How am I supposed to breathe that far underwater."

Myrtles eyes filled with tears as she muttered. "Tackless talking about breathing in front of me! I haven't... not for ages."

Mina smiled reassuringly at Harry as she smoothed things over with Myrtle. "Sorry, you know he didn't mean to offend you, can't you see he is just worried about the second task."

Myrtle sniffed and nodded, "Okay I accept your apology but only if you come and visit me in my bathroom sometime Harry, and you two Mina."

Both Mina and Harry afreed and Myrtle said goodbye and zoomed away.

Mina turned to Harry who wwas zoned out and clicked her fingers giving him the where were you look.

Harry looked at her and answered her unspoken question. "I was just thinking of the line we've taken something you'll surely miss. What are they going to take?"

Mina actually had no idea what they were going to take. Setsuna didn't look for things unless it was a direct threat to Harry and what the merpeople take doesn't threat Harry. This was to make the Triwizard tournament as fair as it could be without putting Harry in not even Setsuna knew what they were going to take.

Mina shrugged her shoulders. "No idea Harry but don't worry about the swimming thing too much, we can look for a spell or something that will help with the swimming and breathing underwater thing."

Harry nodded as the two got dressed before making their way back to the Gryffindor tower underneath the invisibility cloak. As they were walking Harry was watching the Marauders Map carefully so the two wouldn't get caught.

As they made their way back something caught Harry's eye on the map. Peeves was usually the only thing moving at that time of night but tonight there was a single dot that was in Snape's office. The strange thing was that it wasn't labelled as Snape but instead was labelled Bartemius Crouch. Harry ignored the dot and turned his focus to Mina who had forgotten about the tick step and got her ankle stuck. Harry was struggling to help Mina out. Finally after numerous tugs Mina's ankle was able to be pulled out. This caused both of them to stumble backwards and run into the walls making a couple of large sounds echo through the silent halls. The cloak slipped off them both and the egg rolled a few steps down.

Mina who was good in a crisis ran down and grabbed the egg before Harry could even blink. Just as she was about to get up Harry noticed that Snape was moving towards them. Cursing under his breath he jumped to where Mina was kneeling on the ground and covered her body with his and threw the cloak over both of them. Snape looked curiously around thinking that he saw something. He came dangerously close to discovering the pair when they heard the familiar footsteps of Professor Moody. The two had a brief argument about what could have caused the noises and Moody being in his office. Snape stormed if a huff as Moody turned to the two students.

Harry held his breath through the whole argument knowing that Moody could see through his invisibility cloak. Moody chuckled lightly.

"Close shave Potter, Aino."

Harry smiled weakly. "yeah it was, thanks."

Moody saw Harry holding the map and pointed to it. "What's that?"

Harry reluctantly handed the map over to the professor. "Map of Hogwarts."

Moody's eyes racked over the map and widened slightly. "That is some map."

Mina who had been silent decided to step in. "Thanks for not getting is in trouble Professor but we really should be going to bed."

"Right Aino, but can I just ask if you saw anything strange on the map, like names that didn't look like they belonged."

Harry nodded. "Yeah I saw Barty Crouch's name in Snape's office earlier."

Mina looked confused and turned to Harry. "Why was he in Snape's office?"

Harry shrugged his shoulders before turning back to Moody. "Do you think…Could this have anything to do with…? Maybe Mr Crouch thinks there is something going on."

Mina nodded, "there has been a lot of weird stuff going on. Like I read about the Quidditch World Cup which I know you know everything about and then there was the fact your name was put into the goblet. Harry I don't think it's a coincidence. In life there really are no such things as coincidences or they are extremely rare. The fact that everything occurring has happened with you nearby or involved you directly makes me sure it isn't a coincidence."

Moody nodded slightly at Mina. "You two are both very sharp. Both of you have a good way of thinking and are good at reading people. You should both consider becoming Aurors; I think you would both be naturals. Plus you two would make a great team. Now before you go, I need to ask one more thing. Can I borrow this map?"

Harry nodded glad that he wasn't in trouble. Moody thanked him before saying goodnight to the two students. The two walked back to Gryffindor Tower both lost in their own thoughts. Harry was thinking about what Moody had said about becoming an Auror. He thought that it would be an awesome job though he hoped Mina wouldn't want to be an Auror he didn't want her to be in that much danger. Whereas Mina was feeling blonde and wondering what the hell an Auror was.

The two parted ways at the point where the two paths lead to their different dorm rooms. They both quietly jumped into bed trying to wake anyone before falling into a deep sleep.