Dead.

With a serious look on his face, Loki began to move towards the second-floor girls' lavatory but on his way he found Harry Potter and Ron Weasley talking to Lockhart.

Loki peered in out of curiosity and found the office had been stripped of all its decorations, the portraits of Lockhart were folded and stuffed into boxes while all the other decorations were stuffed into a suitcase along with clothes.

"Are you going somewhere?" Harry asked.

"Er, well, yes."

"What about my sister!?" Ron squealed.

"Well…umm…that would be most unfortunate.", Lockhart said while packing other things around the room.

"You mean you're running away!?" Harry said a little angrily. "After all that stuff in your books!?"

"My dear boy," Lockhart parented, "My books wouldn't have sold half as well if people didn't think I'd done all those things. No one wants to read about a witch with a hairy chin and terrible dressing sense banishing a Banshee, I mean come on…"

"So you've just been taking credit for what other people have done?" Harry asked with wide eyes.

Lockhart then banged the lid of his trunk shut and looked around the room, "Let's see, that's everything I think." and when his eyes finally rested on Harry and Ron he said, "Yes, just one more thing left."

Lockhart pulled out his wand and spoke with confidence, "Sorry boys, but I'll have to put a memory charm on you now. Can't have you blabbing my secrets all over the place. I'd never sell another book…"

Harry and Ron immediately panicked but before Lockhart could say otherwise, Harry whipped out his wand and shouted, "Expelliarmus!!"

A blinding red flash emitted from Harry's wand and flew into Lokchart's chest knocking him off his feet and over his trunks. Lockhart's wand flew to Ron which he captured and tossed outside the window.

"Shouldn't have let Professor Snape teach us that one.", Harry said with anger.

"What do you want me to do!? I don't even know where the Chamber of Secrets is!"

With the show done Loki was just about to move towards the girls' lavatory but as soon as he was about to take a step away he heard Harry say, "You're in luck. We think we know where the chamber is and what's inside it." Harry said and marched Lockhart out of the office forcing Loki to hide behind an armour statue.

'So they know where the chamber is and what's inside it?'

'Didn't Hermione say, they were, at least Ron was, adamant that I'd opened the Chamber a couple of months ago?' Loki wondered.

Following Harry, Ron and Lockhart Loki shifted through the shadows and tailed them while using his illusion skills to remain invisible.

Eventually, Loki grew a little surprised when the trio managed to move to the girls' lavatory and ended up speaking to the sink in Parsletongue.

'Well, I guess 'Adam' did something magical behind the scenes to inform them about this.'

Loki waited till all three slid down the pipes and then jumped into the fray himself obeying Tom's commands.

Loki slid down the pipe system once again and folded his legs to increase his speed, but as he bottomed out Loki heard a loud shout from the end of the tunnel.

"Confringo!"

The entire pipe system shook and as Loki landed out of the pipe, his knees smashed into the back of someone's head.

*CRACK*

He heard a loud crack and then before he could comprehend what was happening he shot deeper into the darkness as a waterfall of rocks fell behind him.

Loki, quick on his feet, rushed into the darkness when he heard Harry shout to get his voice across the wall of rocks.

"Ron!! Are you alright!?"

"Yes!! I'm ok!! This git's not though! I think he knocked his head on one of the rocks!!!" Ron shouted back.

Loki, cognisant of the conversation stayed hidden in the darkness as the Niffler in his robes similarly kept quiet.

Harry then used the Lumos spell to get a little light but it didn't light up more than a few feet around him.

Loki followed Harry in surprisingly the same way his compulsion from Tom was pointing him in but they encountered another door, this time more ornate with seven stone snakes with rubies embedded into their eyes.

*Hiss~SS~sss~s*

Harry made the hissing sound once again and the door opened with the snakes retreating into their stone burrows.

Loki followed Harry smoothly while maintaining plenty of distance behind him and stepped into what looked like a grand hall.

A tall face stood at the end of the hall looking like an ancient observer looking at everything underneath it with disdain.

'A statue? Of Salazar Slytherin?' Loki thought with some shock.

'Wouldn't this have been a risk for madness if 'His' picture got across to multiple of 'His' followers and was distorted?'

Harry rushed toward Ginny who was lying at the end of the hall right under the statue and tossed his stick aside.

"She won't wake." A soft voice that emerged from beside Harry spoke.

'So Tom's here…he's pretty relaxed…so the ritual is going to be completed soon?' Loki wondered.

The boy was tall, black-haired with sharp eyes and a face that made him look smart and studious, not someone you'd associate with dark arts at all.

"What do you mean she won't wake!?" Harry asked desperately. "She's not- she's not-?"

"She's still alive." Tom said, "But only just."

Meanwhile, Loki changed his appearance with the help of his illusions and stepped out into the light.

"Ah! You're finally here. I was wondering what was taking you so long. Gehrman Sparrow." Tom said looking at Loki. "Well, I need you to complete my work anyway. Come over here."

"Your work!?" Harry asked puzzled.

Tom looked at Harry with glee and spoke calmly. "Yes. All of this. The Chamber of Secrets. The Heir of Slytherin. All of them were orchestrated by me!"

"Wha- Who are you!? I'll stop you from doing anything to her or him!" Harry asked in shock.

"Haha~ Of course Gehrman Sparrow here was instrumental in slowing me down, more than Dumbledore ever managed to. But now that I've taken control of him, I doubt anyone can do much to stop me anymore."

"Taken control?"

"Haha~ Yes! I was just a memory, trapped in this damn book for fifty years. Ginny here poured her heart out to me, helping me grasp her weaknesses, helping me take over her body to open the Chamber of Secrets. I had to transfer my Beyonder Characteristics to control her though, and when I've transferred the remaining little bit; I'll have her forever."

"Beyonder Characteristics?" Harry asked about the new information he was just learning.

"Hmpf. Harry Potter, the boy who lived! The boy who drove away the dark lord!! Lofty names you have. But what a shame, you don't even know about the world of Beyonders yet. Gehrman, come to me."

Loki did as told and moved closer to Tom.

Tom then picked up Harry's wand and tapped his hand with it, transforming it into the hands of a clawed demon which he stabbed into Loki's chest and twisted around.

"NOOOOO!!!!" Harry shouted.

Loki didn't even show the slightest amount of pain and just stood there, blood dripping out of his mouth and dazed eyes.

"Here. I have it now." Tom said and pulled out a pure red crystal from Loki's body causing Loki to collapse and fall to the ground, looking very dead as blood pooled around him.

"This is a Beyonder Characteristic Harry, this is the source of all my power.", Tom explained and flung the Beyonder Characteristic at Ginny whose body began to absorb it greedily.

Harry's eyes were bloodshot, his head was spinning seeing the death of a student and his body was trembling seeing Ginny who was about to die, all while he would remain helpless since he couldn't do anything without a wand.

'Why did I drop my wand?' Harry wondered for the first time in a while.

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A/N : Extra chapter for crossing two hundred powerstones last week!! Let''s Go!!!!

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