Chapter 53 - 54
Harry and Hermione cast a couple spells but they all bounced off the scales of the Basilisk.
Only Snape could leave a wound on its body, strands of black blood splashed to the ground. The basilisk swung its tail crushing the walls of the common room.
The huge fighting sounds woke up all of the Gryffindors, the students ran out of their bedroom, the expression on their faces turned to panic.
"Oh, my God!" Colin wiped his eyes, he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, he then had a bright idea, he turned around and ran to the bedroom and got his camera.
"What's going on, what's going on here?" asked Percy as he came out.
In the next second his eyes almost shot out of his head, he couldn't believe the sight in front of him, there was a gigantic snake in the common room running amok. Percy's reaction was fast, he subconsciously drew his wand.
A red light struck the basilisk but was bounced back.
The continuous attacks made the basilisk a bit crazy, it wanted to rip these people to shreds but before it could, Snape's magic hit it again, it jerked backward.
In the other corner of the Common Room, Evan, Harry, and Hermione were attacking Ron who was under the control of Tom Riddle, spells were cast from time to time.
Riddle seemed to be in a hurry but he was still calm.
Riddle tried to escape the curse that flew over to him but was unable to dodge. With a simple gesture of his hands caused the three spells that were flying at him to dissipate.
Evan narrowed his eyes.
After Evan cast Stupefy, he quickly recited a new more powerful spell, the magic quickly gathered, the spell felt very oppressive, the wand produced a pale blue light.
"That is hilarious, you want to use the dark magic that I taught you to attack me! But I will admit that I do despise you Mud blood! I'd love to keep playing with you if it wasn't for this wand," Said Tom as he glared at Evan.
He suddenly turned around and said a few words to the basilisk.
When the basilisk heard the call, it ignored its fight with Snape and rushed over to Evan. Its mouth is enormous, it is big enough to swallow them whole, the fangs were like silver swords, thin, light, and dripping venom.
It darted to them, Evan stopped his incantation, and Hermione stood behind him, pale.
The two hurriedly dodged, but it was too late, the basilisk was too fast.
Without thinking he hugged Hermione, turning his back towards the basilisk, he could fell the girl in his arms trembling.
In the next second, Harry rushed towards them, holding a wooden seat in his hands and fiercely threw it at the basilisk.
But it was of no use at all, the basilisk's speed didn't slow at all.
Just as they thought they were going to be swallowed by the basilisk, Snape appeared in front of them.
His face was gloomy, the light produced by his wand grew stronger.
Boom!!!!!!
Snape was hit to the wall, and then slipped to the floor, he was oozing blood from his head, he was knocked unconscious!
"That is finally solved so now…." Riddle looked contemptuously at the fainted Snape on the floor.
From the way the basilisk was moving now, Evan could tell the curse he put on it was wearing off.
Evan's heart tightened, if he could get the thing, he made a few days ago, then the problem of the basilisk will be solved.
Without the basilisk, Tom Riddle would be more likely to fail since from the earlier fight Evan realized Tom was manipulating the magic produced by the broken wand to cast powerful magic but the wand was at its limit.
Apparently, Tom had realized he didn't have much time left so he ordered the basilisk to kill Evan.
Just as Tom Riddle spoke with a hissing sound, a red-headed girl ran down from upstairs it was Ginny!
"Ron, what are you doing?"
She looked pale and had a fearful expression but her eyes were one of determination. She was still wearing her pink pyjamas, she gripped her wand and cast a red coloured spell at the snake.
Her spell interrupted the conversation between Riddle and the basilisk, the basilisk dodged and went for Ginny.
"Don't!" shouted Harry and Hermione in horror.
Evan hurriedly cast a spell but it was no use.
They tried to save her but Ginny was too close to the basilisk.
Just as everyone closed their eyes and didn't dare to watch, Ron suddenly rushed over and rescued Ginny.
Ron seemed to be back to normal, tears were falling from his eyes uncontrollably.
"Run, run, I'll stall him. It's my fault for trusting that guy, I shouldn't have..."
Ron's pale face then turned to one of pain, Tom seemed to be taking back control. Soon Tom was once again in control, he looked disgusted, he then threw Ginny who was in his arms.
"He unexpectedly took control but he is too weak, his body doesn't have that much life left. It is time to end this ridiculous farce, I will represent Salazar Slytherin, I will purify Hogwarts of all mud bloods and this body's friends will die!"
"Alas, you don't have a chance, Tom Riddle!"
Evan held up a music box, it was a magical tool that he finished a few days ago which records sounds.
As soon as he opened it there was a rooster's crow.
The gigantic body of the basilisk shook violently as it heard the sound.
It was afraid, it wanted to escape, it no longer listened to Tom's commands, it was trying to go back to the bathroom.
"No! You fucking, goddamn mud blood!" Screamed Tom loudly, he climbed up on the basilisk's body, "You will regret this, this boy's body will forever remain in the chamber!"
"You can't take Ron."
When the basilisk was trying to slip away from them, Harry grabbed Ron's body, Evan paused for a moment before he grabbed Harry.
In the next second, like a race car, they were pulled out of the common room and disappeared into the dark pipes of the bathroom.
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Evan and Harry tightly held on to Ron, it was like they were on a roller coaster.
Since the pipes were so narrow Evan had to stay close to the basilisk.
Every time they turned, he felt pain all over his body.
He never thought that Hogwarts had such complex plumbing.
They soon turned and went into a very old looking pipe, Evan calculated they were around Ravenclaw tower, the tallest place in the school.
The basilisk took them to a strange oval room, there were light blue draperies, books on one side of the room, and thick dust accumulated everywhere it is certain no has been here for ages.
Tom Riddle who was still controlling Ron was visibly astonished had no idea where this place was.
"Damn!" said Tom in a hissing voice.
He wanted the basilisk to stop but it was clearly frightened by the rooster's crow so it didn't listen to Tom's commands, it then quickly fled with its fastest speed.
The blue draperies soon vanished; Evan quickly grabbed an object with a long chain.
He held it tightly and before he could look down, the basilisk took them to another place. After a minute the basilisk rammed into the pipeline and leapt into the third-floor girls' bathroom.
Suddenly the sink let out a dazzling light, it began to quickly rotate.
The sink soon disappeared from sight, Evan soon saw a very thick pipe, the basilisk rushed in.
It seems to be a pipe specially prepared for it, and Evan also saw there were numerous pipes going in all directions but they weren't as thick as the pipe that the basilisk went down.
The pipe twisted and turned, for around seven or eight times, it was also had a very steep slope all the way down.
Evan knew they had gone down to the deep depths of the school, even deeper than the dungeon. Just as he was getting used to the sharp turns, they landed on the wet ground.
They had come out of the pipe, Harry and Evan then lost their grip and fell to the ground, they saw the basilisk and Tom disappear into the distance.
They were in a large dark stone tunnel.
"Where is this?" said Harry as he stood up while rubbing his butt.
"We were taken several miles underground."
Evan's voice echoed in the dark tunnel, "If I'm not mistaken, we are probably under the great lake."
He then narrowed his eyes while looking at dark slimy walls.
"Lumos" his wand then produced a faint light.
Using the faint light, Evan looked at the object he had grabbed, it looked like a pocket watch, but there was only a single hand without numbers.
"What is that?" asked Harry
"I don't know," answered Evan, I grabbed it from a room that the basilisk went through," Evan hesitated to touch the hand of the clock.
"We can figure out what it is latter, we need to hurry up and find Ron," said Harry eagerly.
"Yeah, yeah!" said Evan as he put the strange object into his pocket, they had to hurry since Tom was absorbing Ron's vitality, and the longer they took the worse Ron would be.
The two people ran through the damp tunnel, they then heard a loud sound.
It was dark around so they could only see a few feet in front of them.
A faint light shined from the two wands.
"Harry, Tom's wand is broken so it will take time to cast powerful magic," said Evan as they walked, "I'll catch the basilisk's attention and you'll find the diary."
"Diary?" Harry paused,
"The diary is the source of Tom's power, remember if you find it, try to destroy it, and Riddle doesn't know we know this so it's our only chance."
"Ok!" nodded Harry, he suddenly grabbed Evan's shoulder, "Look isn't that.."
Evan stretched out his wand, and with the faint glow he saw the outline of a coiled snake, it was lying on the ground motionless.
"This is the skin of the basilisk,"
In front of the two people lied a huge snakeskin, it was a light green, coiled around the tunnel, it was hollow, and around twenty feet long. It was obvious it was from when the basilisk had shed its skin.
They started walking again, they carefully turned another corner, what stood before them was a wall with two snakes coiled around each other and they each had emerald eyes.
"Harry, try speaking to them in Parseltongue," whispered Evan.
As Harry approached, he felt his throat dry.
He tried to imagine the two stone snakes as real snakes but he didn't need to, their eyes looked like they were alive.
"Open!" said Harry in a low dull hiss.
The two snakes parted, the stone wall split from the middle, and they slowly slid apart and disappeared.
Evan hurried in, in front of them was a dimly lit room. Many of the stone pillars were engraved with entangled snakes, towering to the ceiling, they dissolved into the darkness, and cast shadows over the whole room.
"It is the Chamber of Secrets!" whispered Evan.
The chamber was dead silent, the two people held their wands and slowly moved forward.
Each step was more careful than the last.
As they went past the last pair of pillars, they saw a statue as tall as the room itself, it clung to the dark wall, Evan looked up and saw the huge face, it was an old, monkey-like face.
At the foot of the statue was Ron lying there like a dead man.