Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or Harry Potter, I am just a humble fan

Warning: Rated M

A few days after Valentine's Day, Cedric was sitting on one of the comfortable chairs in the Hufflepuff common room with Jeff, trying to work out what the clue inside the Golden Egg meant.

He had finally worked out how to open it during an extremely embarrassing bath in the prefect's bathroom with an overly flirty and pervy Moaning Myrtle trying to peek at his body.

He had also hinted heavily to Harry about this at the end of the Yule Ball, because the younger boy had helped with the dragons, even allowing him access to the same bathroom.

He frowned in thought as he looked at the piece of parchment in front if him, upon which he had jotted down the clue;

Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching ponder this;
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect's black,
Too late it's gone, it won't come back.

Jeff spoke first. "We cannot sing above the ground? So presumably they do sing quite a lot, but it's below ground..."

"Or under water, maybe?" Cedric added. His eyes lit up. "Mermaids! That explains the horrible screeching!"

"Yes!" Jeff exclaimed. "Wait, so that means you have an hour to complete a task... under water?" He looked puzzled and alarmed.

"I think so. Right, so now I just need to find out how to survive under water for an hour. I think I'll head to the library, are you coming?"

Jeff nodded and the Hufflepuff boys headed to the library for some research.

It took around three hours of perusing many dusty tomes, but they eventually found a book describing a Bubble-Head charm which would need some practice to perfect, but would probably do the job.

Nick was in the middle of a transfiguration class on board the Durmstrang ship when inspiration struck him. He could barely contain himself when waiting for the remaining minutes of the class to drag past until he went flying out of the room to find his best friend.

"Viktor!" He yelled when he found him in one of their common rooms, reserved for 5th years and above. He screeched to a halt next to his friend.

The Bulgarian looked up at his smiley and excitable friend. Once again he silently thanked whoever it was that was responsible for bringing Jeff into his friend's life. He had never known Nick this happy and energetic and... well, bouncy.

He smirked as he acknowledged Nick, "Yes?"

"I've got it! I was just in transfiguration and I realised that that's how you can survive under water for an hour. You need to transfigure yourself into something that can survive that long under water!"

Viktor nodded, thinking. "Yes! You are right! Okay, I don't really want to be a fish in case it makes me too small to complete the challenge. Or I could get eaten. Maybe something quite aggressive in case the task involves fighting off another water creature - a shark maybe?"

Nick nodded vigorously. "Yes! You need the spell to last for an hour too, so maybe we should practice in the lake. I'll time you if you promise not to eat me!" He laughed.

The second task of the Triwizard Tournament took place on Friday 24th February, 1995.

The four Champions lined up on the shore of the Black Lake as they learned that they would have an hour to retrieve what had been stolen from each of them.

As each Champion silently wondered what had been stolen, Cedric and Viktor locked eyes to nod with their respective best friends.

After Cedric broke his gaze with Jeff, he searched one more time for Cho in the crowd, but was again disappointed. Where could she be? She said she wouldn't miss it. I don't know where she could be.

A horrible thought struck him. No. Surely not? I haven't missed anything else today, except Cho, please tell me they wouldn't steal a person from me?

As Viktor shared a supportive look with Nick, he was fast coming to a similar conclusion when he still couldn't see any sign of Hermione.

The fact that he couldn't see Ron either gave him a small spike of jealousy before he dismissed it. She is not a dishonest person, I can trust her. But where is she?

Suddenly, Ludo Bagman's pompous voice rang out over the spectators and Champions alike. "Well, all our champions are ready for the second task, which will start on my whistle. They have precisely an hour to recover what has been taken from them."

The whistle rang out and Cedric and Viktor performed their charms, Viktor transforming just his top half into a shark and diving into the lake, while Cedric created a bubble of air around his head. Fleur did the same as Cedric and Harry ate some gillyweed, on Neville's advice.

Soon all four Champions had disappeared from sight and the spectators could only wait anxiously, watching the provided clock.

Fleur was the first to return as she had been attacked by grindylows and was forced to retire. She almost fainted in shock when she learnt what it was that she should have brought back.

Her little sister, Gabrielle.

She was apparently enchanted to sleep by the Merpeople and tied to a stone Merperson in their village deep within the lake, awaiting rescue which would now not arrive.

A strangled cry lurched from the Beaubatons girl as she stared at the surface of the lake, willing it to somehow give her sister back.

An hour had passed with no sign of the remaining three Champions.

Fleur was distraught, her friends trying in vain to comfort her as she waited on the shore, desperate for news of her little sister.

Precisely one minute later, a figure emerged from the water with a splash.

Cedric emerged with his girlfriend, Cho.

Nick turned to Jeff, saying, "I'm so glad I wasn't a Champion now, it would have been you under water for sure!" He leant up to softly kiss the blushing blond on the lips. They broke the kiss to gaze lovingly at each other before they returned their attention to the water as Viktor appeared next.

A sharks head rapidly changed back into Viktor Krum and Nick fist pumped the air with relief to see him return safely with Hermione.

"Yes!" Yelled Jeff, excitedly, squeezing Nick's hand tight.

Fleur was hysterical as she saw who had emerged next.

Harry, who would now remain forever dear to her heart, had risked his own position in the Tournament to rescue not only his own hostage, Ron, but her darling Gabrielle too.

Back on shore, after thanking Harry for his help once Fleur had let go of him, Viktor and Cedric had explained everything that had happened beneath the water to Jeff and Nick.

All four boys were extremely impressed by Harry for helping Viktor free Hermione, because the Durmstrang Champion had had trouble doing so with a shark's head, and bringing the remaining two hostages back after fighting the Merpeople for them.

All Champions learnt when they were back that their charges had never been in mortal danger, but they had not known that at the time. Indeed the clue inside each Golden Egg had been quite clear about how grave the situation would be if they did not rescue them, so each felt they had been right to worry.

Cedric, the first Champion back, had arrived one minute outside of the one hour time limit, followed by Viktor in second place. Harry was third, and, because she did not finish, Fleur was in last place.

However, Harry was subsequently awarded second place behind Cedric for "moral fibre" after Merchieftainess Murcus informed Dumbledore of his actions.

This meant that after the first two tasks, Harry and Cedric were tied for first place, with Viktor second, and Fleur third.

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