The Chamber

I stood in the courtyard, and darkness fell quickly.

"come on, Fawkes, please", I whispered. I waited and hoped; I needed the basilisk fang. It was the only way I could help defeat Voldemort. There was a cry in the air, and I looked up.

--pov 3rd person--

Harry stood facing his enemy, the boy who would become Voldemort, the heir of Slytherin. Tom Marvolo Riddle. "dumbledore has been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of me!" Tom yelled.

"he's not as gone as you think", Harry retorted.

There was a bird song coming from down the chamber. Fawkes flew into the chamber, his song bringing courage to Harry. Dropping the sorting hat to Harry, he circled the room. 

"This is what Dumbledore sent his chosen hero, a songbird and dirty old hat", Tom laughed. "let's match the power of Harry Potter against the power of Salazar Slytherin." 

Tom opened the mouth of the statue, and Harry sprinted away as the basilisk came out.

"don't bother Potter. He only obeys me", Tom shouted.

Harry dodged the first attack, and then Fawkes attacked and ripped the eyes out of the basilisk. Harry saw this happen and stood up. "nooo!" screamed Tom. "you might be blind but you can still hear him".

Harry stepped back and splashed in a puddle. Gulping, he took off down a tunnel. The basilisk followed him.

Tom stood near Ginny as he watched the basilisk chase after the boy. he was surprised to see someone walk out of the shadows. A boy in the robes of Slytherin's house carried a guitar and had a look of anger on his face. 

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Harry was cornered by the basilisk when he heard music coming from down the tunnel: a guitar. The basilisk turned its head to the sound. Then Harry heard singing, Eddie's voice.

♫Ain't found a way to kill me yet

Eyes burn with stinging sweat♫

-POV Eddie a few minutes before-

I walked out of the tunnel Fawkes apperated me into. I was pissed off, a whole year's worth of frustration because of this prick.

"Who are you, boy? What are you doing here," Tom said to me.

"shut it, Tom." I snapped at him. "I've waited all year to do this, and I don't care that you don't like my music." 

"you must be Edward Carter. Ginny wrote about you." Tom grinned. "You're not worthy of my house."

"you are an idiot; I know so much more than you, TJ; you are fated to die, did you know that." I said, "it doesn't matter because I'm not here for you; I'm here for the snake." 

"What!" he yelled.

I ignored him, faced the way the snake went, and started to play music in the starlight. 'This one for you, Rodney, and all your brothers.'

•The Rooster by Alice in chains•

I skipped a bit of the intro and got right into the first verse.

♫Ain't found a way to kill me yet

Eyes burn with stinging sweat

Seems every path leads me to nowhere

Wife and kids household pet

Army green was no safe bet

The bullets scream to me from somewhere♫

My voice and the music echoed into the chamber and down the tunnels. There were scraping stones sounds coming from the tunnel. Tom Cluched at his ears. "What is that noise?" he yelled.

♫Here they come to snuff the rooster

Yeah, here come the rooster, yeah♫

The serpent revealed himself. I quickly cast my tuning spell to get the guitar ready. And hit that power cord hard.

♫You know he ain't gonna die!♫

The magical sound wave sprang from the guitar, smashing into the basilisk. It reeled back, hissing and thrashing about. Tom was also thrown backwards by the music. 

Harry appeared from another tunnel. I kept playing, "The hat Harry" I yelled. Playing another power cord to stun the basilisk again. I watched out of the corner of my eye as Harry grabbed the hat and put it on his head. I rolled my eyes. There was a thud, and Harry fell to his knees.

I was distracted by Harry and the basilisk shock of the stunning effect of my sonorous stupefy. It hissed and came at me. I dove out of the way. It slithered past me and crashed into the wall.

Getting up, I saw Harry had the sword. I nodded and played another power cord; however, this time, nothing happened. Looking down at the strings, I saw they weren't the right colour. Starlight was out of tune. The noise attached the basilisk towards me. "fuck", I dove again out of the way of the basilisk strike. 

I got back up and started to tune the guitar. I wasn't in the right head space to use the tuning spell again. "slow is smooth, smooth is fast", I muttered as I tuned.

Harry saw me tuning the guitar and banged the sword on the floor. "Over here, you scaly worm," the basilisk turned to him. It launched another strike at Harry, and I finally got back in tune. Another power cord and the snake threw its head to the side, smashing into the wall.

"Now, Harry!" I yelled. Harry drove the sword of Gryffindor into the empty eyesocket of the snake and into its brain. It screamed and hissed, flinging Harry and the sword away. Collapsing and dying on the ground. 

I rushed over to the snake; Harry rushed over to Ginny. "nooo god dam you, Brats," Tom yelled.

I ignored him, grabbed a fang of the basilisk, and heaved it out of its mouth. "Harry, the diary" I threw the fang towards him as I grabbed another for myself. 

Behind me, I heard another scream of "Noooo!" I assumed Harry stabbed the diary with the fang, destroying the Horcrux. Venom was dripping from the fang holes; I pulled out two jars and placed them under the holes, capturing the precious poison. 

There was a muttering behind me as Harry and Ginny talked. The flow of venom stopped, so I capped the jars and put them in my satchel. I warped a fang in a leather pouch designed to handle things like this and stored it that way, too. 

"what are you doing here, Eddie," asked Harry as he walked up behind me.

"Fawkes brought me," I said, turning around to face him.

"why?" Harry asked, confused.

"Because I asked him too," I said with a shrug. Fawkes landed on my shoulder and chirped at me before flying towards the entrance.

"come on, we better get out of here; after you, Harry, I took a shortcut" I smiled and joked.