Hello there all you wonderful humans.

Alright, so a couple of things: in a review someone asked a question that I get ALL THE TIME on this story, and it's time to put it to rest: Alison will not be in this story. At all. She's not even mentioned. She's simply not a part of this AU.

Also, I've come up with a prize for you all if you get me up to the 2nd most reviewed story on here, and so far that story has about 800 reviews... if you get me past that by the end of this story, I will give you all a sneak peek into the story that I am currently planning, which is a story on what happens when Aria finds out that Ezra is A (gulp... here come the tears). And to answer Ava B's question, yes. That story will have LOTS of Sparia in it. LOTS. Do you hear me? LOTS. I mean, it's me, so of COURSE there will be lots. Gosh. I'm warning you though, that story is depressing. Like, REALLY depressing (somewhere in the distance, ShadowsOnTheMoon's ears are perking up. "Did someone say depressing? A story with a sad ending? WHERE?!")

With that, here is the next chapter for your reading pleasure. Enjoy :)


THWACK!

Spencer hit the ground with a little too much force as she slid down the chute. As soon as she gathered enough strength to orient herself, she picked herself off of the ground, swatting wood chips off of her robe as she did so. She didn't know why she was taking her sweet time when she really didn't have time. In the few seconds that it had taken her to clean herself up, Melissa probably could've done a world of damage.

Melissa. Her sister. The mere thought of her name made her want to throw up. She didn't even know all of the details yet. She didn't know what had led her to do such a thing.

But she was going to find out.

Spencer made her way over to the other entrance, but to her surprise, the small, circular door had come off of its hinges, hanging loosely as it dangled from side to side. Feeling her heart throbbing in her throat, Spencer stepped through, which was proven quite a hard task with the way her legs kept throbbing.

"Well, looks like you're as smart as they say."

Spencer whipped around, pulling her wand out in the process as she held it out in front of her. Melissa stood before her; in the same black hoodie and skinny jeans she had been wearing earlier.

A small part of Spencer was terrified, but another small part had to keep convincing the other small part that this was just her sister. And then there was a third small part that was surprisingly unimpressed with Melissa's attire; who tried to take down the world in sweats?

Putting her thoughts aside, Spencer took a deep breath and started forward, wand still extended before her with a shaking hand.

"Why?" she breathed, her voice failing her due to the tears welling up in the back of her throat. "W-why would you want to do this to me?"

Melissa rolled her eyes. "Did you really think this was all about you?"

"You sure were going out of your way to make it look like that!" Spencer snapped, the tears in her throat now reaching the ducts of her eyes.

"C'mon, Spence," Melissa simpered. "What exactly have I done to you to make you think that?"

"Where do I start?" Spencer croaked. What was Melissa even saying? "First, you scare the hell out of me and my friends by sending us these fangs. Then you send a snake loose around the school, nearly killing my best friend's younger brother and my other best friend's ex-girlfriend, and let's not forget how you took away my own boyfriend. All of our boyfriends… and girlfriends!"

Melissa leaned back against a pillar, thinking about this. "Yeah, I guess I did do all of that stuff," she said with a shrug.

Spencer let out a disbelieving scoff as angry tears started streaming down her face. "You've tortured us for months, you robbed Emily of her position on the Quidditch team, you framed me for treason, and then you almost killed Hanna and Aria, and… I just don't know what could've motivated you to do this to us!"

"I didn't have any motivation, Spencer!" Melissa snapped, her calm demeanor turning into that of a lioness instantly. "I only had one goal in mind through doing all of those things."

"Well, please enlighten me on this goal!" Spencer cried as she threw her arms up in the air, only to have them slap back down at her sides. "I'm so curious!"

As quickly as Melissa's demeanor changed did it change back; she was now back to her calm, almost condescending, self. "To strengthen you."

Spencer was feeling a lot of things at the time, but she hadn't been taken aback until this very moment. "What?"

Melissa just smiled, with a look on her face that said, Now I've got your attention. "Obviously you haven't done your research on our family tree, Spence, or you would know that one of us was destined for this position."

Spencer gulped loudly, instinctively backing up on the heels of her feet as Melissa hopped off of the pillar and started pacing. Pacing. "One Slytherin, out of all Slytherins, would get this chance. Only one of us. And you saw the book, didn't you? The one your little mudblood friend stole?"

"Don't talk about Aria like that!"

"Spencer. You saw the book, didn't you?"

Spencer just stood frozen in place, not knowing how to respond. She wanted so badly to lunge at Melissa, to take her down now, but she couldn't find it in her. She just let Melissa keep talking. "Of course you did. It was between the Malfoys and the Hastingses, and it could only be one."

"That's why you took down Scorpius," Spencer said softly, bringing up her previous revelation from earlier, and Melissa nodded.

"I wasn't about to let a measly seventeen-year-old get in the way of me rising to power."

"Melissa, I'm a measly seventeen-year-old, too!" Spencer cried. "Why didn't you just get rid of me the way you did him?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Melissa said smoothly as she took a step forward, a mere foot away from Spencer's face. "I need you, Spencer."

Spencer's heart stopped. This entire time, she had kept her wand extended toward Melissa, but she was so shocked that she finally lowered it to her side. "Need me?"

"Of course I do!" Melissa snapped. "You and I have never gotten along; ever since you were born we've competed over something, whether it was grades or social statuses or attention from Mom and Dad – "

"So what? Now we're competing over the attention of the wizarding world?"

"Aren't you listening?" Melissa said nastily, the ferocity coming back to her. "We're not competing, we're in this together!"

Spencer's heart finally started beating again, but at a completely sporadic, too-quick-for-comfort rhythm. Was Melissa saying what she thought she was saying?

As if she had just read her mind, Melissa smiled. "Yes, Spencer," she said softly, sinisterly. "All of those fangs were clues that would eventually lead you toward the Basilisk. Everything that I did was supposed to lead you here, was supposed to isolate you; from your friends, from your boyfriend, from everyone."

"Why did you even target my friends in the first place?" Spencer asked, her voice shaking almost as much as her legs. "Why not just me?"

"Once again… to strengthen you."

No.

"To sadden you at the sight of your friends getting hurt."

No.

"And to cause you to protect them, to remain loyal to them, in the same way you're going to remain loyal to me."

NO!

"I'll never be loyal to you!" Spencer screamed. "I won't! I'll never turn against my friends, and I'll never use dark magic in the way you want me to!"

"You're my sister, Spencer!" Melissa screamed back. "You don't have a choice! It's in your blood!"

Spencer covered her ears. "I won't! You can't make me!"

She started to run away, wanting to get as far away from Melissa as possible and forgetting her intentions to take her down, when she suddenly heard Melissa hiss something behind her.

"Alarte Ascendare!"

At once, Spencer felt herself jerk upward, being flung into the air by the mere power of Melissa's wand, before plummeting downward at least 20 feet at top speed, hitting the concrete with a painful thump.

Spencer groaned inwardly as she breathed heavily, heaving herself off of the ground as she stared a hole into Melissa, who just stared smugly. "Have you changed your mind yet?"

Without even thinking, Spencer threw her wand to the ground, let out a high pitched wail, and lunged full force at Melissa.


"Caleb, can't you drive this thing any faster?"

Caleb looked to his left, shooting a glare at Paige, who had requested this. "I'm sorry," he said sarcastically, "I guess I'm just a little worn out from having to maneuver two magical vehicles in one day!"

"A broom does not count as a magical vehicle!"

"Pretty sure anything that has the power to split your balls in half like that counts as a vehicle."

"First of all, gross," Emily said from the back seat, wrinkling her nose. "Second of all, both of you shut up! Caleb, just keep driving."

"We've been driving for, what, thirty minutes now?" Hanna whined. "Why can't we land?"

"Lucas and Noel said we have to get as far away as possible," Caleb said with a sigh. "I have to keep driving."

"Haven't we been driving long enough?" Ezra complained as he sat back in his seat, a still unconscious Aria in his lap. "I'm starting to get sick."

"Me, too," Toby agreed as he held a hand to his forehead, the world spinning before him.

Caleb rolled his eyes. "You babies, I'm not even going that fast."

"You're right, you're not even going fast at all!" Paige snapped. "Pick it up, Rivers!"

"No!" Ezra intervened. "Just go at the speed you're at right now, we're fine."

"Fine how?" Hanna shouted. "We're basically just driving in circles at this point! We don't even have a destination in mind! Please tell me how that's fine?"

"Okay," Paige breathed, holding her hands out to the side. "I think we're all just a little irritable for having been in this car for so long."

"That's why you're all irritable?" Toby squealed. "You're all sitting here bickering, meanwhile I'm trying to stop my heart from beating straight out of my chest. For all I know, the love of my life could be dying right now!"

"Weren't you the one who was just complaining about being car sick a couple seconds ago?" Caleb pointed out, turning around to narrow his eyes at Toby.

Emily rubbed Toby's arm. "We're all worried about Spencer, but this is her battle. We need to focus on our own safety."

"Our safety is gonna be at risk if you all don't shut up and let me concentrate on driving," Caleb snapped as he kept his eyes on the sky ahead of him.

Finally, Paige couldn't take it. "Alright, that's it, we're landing."

"What?" Caleb's eyes widened. "No we're not!"

"Yes we are! I'm getting out of this car. How do you land this thing?"

She reached for a button, but Caleb slapped her hand away. "Paige, stop."

"NO! I don't want to deal with this right now."

"Would you rather deal with dying?"

The two continued to fight as Hanna tried to break them apart in the front seat, while Toby, Emily, and Ezra were yelling at them to knock it off in the back seat. As this was all happening, no one seemed to notice the car slowly sink downward, tipping forward a little too far, until it was almost completely vertical.

As the car started barreling downward, everyone lurched forward. Caleb hit the steering wheel face first, and as he did he noticed a button near the dashboard start lighting up. He looked over to Paige. "You pressed a button!" he shouted over the hum of them free falling.

"No I didn't!" she screamed back. "You did!"

"Guys, look out!" Toby shouted over them. He instinctively wrapped his arms around Emily for protection, Ezra held Aria more closely, and Caleb, Paige, and Hanna huddled together in the front seat.

There was a splash, and all of a sudden everything went black.


Oh no! Looks like the Scooby gang and their significant others have crashed! Meanwhile, Spencer is in the Chamber, fighting her own sister to the death. Danger has hit everyone hard, and someone will have to go down eventually. Read on to find out! Also, REVIEW!

PS: Here's a little teaser to prepare you all... in two chapters, someone in this story will die. Not saying who, but someone, so prepare yourselves. Seriously. PREPARE YOURSELVES! Don't say I didn't warn you ;)