Chapter 47: Basilisk

Once they had checked that everything was safe inside the room, Hermione moved forward, followed by Draco and then Severus.

As planned, they all took various potions and placed them around the room.

The three of them then transfigured various stones into wild roosters which they scattered around the room.

Once that was done, Draco took out his flying broom and Hermione took out her cloak of invisibility.

Finally, everyone took up their positions.

Hermione was right in front of the statue hidden in her cloak of invisibility.

Severus was standing to the right with his sword at his waist and his wand in hand, about 10 metres away from Hermione, and Draco to the left of her flying high enough in the room to be the first to catch the Basilisk's attention.

Severus noticed that Hermione was very tense but firm.

Draco was sweating..., several drops fell to the floor of the room from the sky where he was flying on his broom.

Hermione turned her head slightly to both sides, looking first at Draco and then at Severus...

She swallowed, took a deep breath, and nodded to both of them.

Hermione looked at the statue and screamed again with a terrible hiss but this time much longer.

When she finished shouting this hiss, the statue trembled and its mouth slowly opened.

Severus could now clearly feel, see and hear the basilisk hissing.

Hermione instantly covered herself completely with the Invisibility Cloak, and Draco raised himself even higher on his broom.

Severus closed his eyes and let his Force senses guide him from now on.

Severus felt and heard the basilisk come clearly out of the statue's mouth as it hissed angrily.

All of Severus' senses screamed, he knew that the basilisk had automatically gone into attack mode and was very dangerous.

It was only a few seconds before the Basilisk came out.

"Severus, now!" shouted Hermione.

Without wasting a second Severus cast with his wand: "LUMOS MAXIMA!"

A blinding white light shot out of Severus' wand, illuminating the entire room with a blinding white light.

Draco and Hermione were already prepared and closed their eyes.

After he did this, the unprepared Basilisk was blinded for a few moments and opened its mouth hissing in anger as it thrashed around with its huge tail.

"NOW!" shouted Hermione again from the invisible cloak, her voice resonating throughout the room.

Draco dared to open his eyes, and from his broom in the air, he saw that the first part of the plan had worked, he quickly flew his broom and threw the poisoned silver knives into the gaping mouth of the crazed basilisk.

Severus also took advantage of the basilisk's closed eyes, dazzled by the light of his wand, and moving quickly, Severus ran towards it.

Hermione had already prepared to attack the basilisk's right eye, so Severus pointed his wand at its left eye.

"Sectumsempra!" shouted Hermione and Severus in unison.

Both of the basilisk's eyes were deeply pierced by the black spell created by Severus.

The basilisk went even crazier from the pain.

Black blood could be seen splattering on the floor from the basilisk's mouth and eyes as it swung violently around the room shattering the walls around it in its rage.

Hermione and Severus stepped back.

Then the two of them, along with Draco who was still flying on his broom, used their wands and broke the vials of the different potions they had set up around the room.

Instantly, a thick smoke began to rise from these potions, which then turned into a huge transparent cloud of smoke that surrounded the entire room.

This cloud served to stun all of the Basilisk's senses, now that it could not see, it only remained for them to do this to completely blind it.

The Basilisk's huge flat head bobbed like a drunkard around the room, the intense pain in its body infuriated it more and more...

The basilisk screamed and charged continuously around it wanting to tear apart all these people who dared to attack it, but before it could continue its bout of madness... the basilisk heard the movement of several footsteps and knew where to strike.

Of course Hermione, Draco, and Severus had already planned everything and for that, there were the transfigured wild roosters.

They quickly ordered the wild roosters to start chanting and moving around the room.

This made the Basilisk feel threatened and annoyed, so its first prey was all the chanting roosters.

Draco took advantage of this to fly with his broom and attack the Basilisk's mouth every time it would open its mouth to attack a wild rooster.

Meanwhile, Severus, along with Hermione, made identical wand loops, and from the ends of their wands came a large black chain which they both threw towards the basilisk.

The two chains grew, coiled, and wrapped around the basilisk's neck.

These would do no harm to the Basilisk but would slow its movements.

The Basilisk made a horrible sound as it continued to attack the transfigurations that irritated its ears with their singing.

But little by little its mad attack became slower and slower due to the chains, the loss of blood, and the continuous attacks it suffered with poisoned silver knives.

When they noticed that the Basilisk no longer had as much strength as before, Hermione and Severus immediately pulled their wands away and both ends of the chains broke off at the end of the wand.

And then, in one smooth, swift movement, the two of them pointed both ends of the chains at one of the larger walls in the room causing the chain to tangle and pull the Basilisk tight...

The tired, bleeding, and poisoned basilisk was restrained and its head fell with a thud to the floor of the room.

Of course, because of the pressure and strength of the Basilisk, the wall also ended up collapsing and falling, but it was enough to make the basilisk also fall to the floor finally.

Severus took advantage and ran quickly towards the Basilisk's head and with the help of the Force he jumped towards the neck still entangled by the chains they conjured with Hermione, drawing his sword he prepared to finally kill it.

He felt the movement of the Basilisk at his feet, it seemed it would soon rise again to attack once more, but he didn't care.

Just as the Basilisk's head was about to rise again, Severus, who was already standing on its head, took advantage when it opened its mouth to scream angrily, and with all his force he plunged the sword into the Basilisk's mouth.

The basilisk that was raising its head to scream and continue attacking, felt the sword thrust into its mouth with great force, instantly let out a terrible hiss, and struggled violently.

Severus drew his sword and immediately a large amount of fresh blood spurted from the Basilisk's mouth.

He was swept away by the power of the Basilisk's beating but managed to use the Force to manoeuvre and stay on his feet until he leapt to the ground hard and slid a safe far out distance from the Basilisk's madness as it struck and destroyed everything around it.

The basilisk, clearly in great pain and in its final stages of life, hit everything it could and with a final roar, finally fell for the second time, hitting the ground...

For a moment there was no movement at all.

Severus and Hermione looked at the giant creature in front of them.

The black chains around its neck were still there, the floor was covered in blood, parts of walls, damp and complete destruction.

And the air was permeating with the smell of basilisk blood and the different potions that still covered the room like a cloud.

It was only when they heard Draco approaching them with his flying broom, over their heads, that they made one last move to check if the Basilisk was dead.

Hermione and Severus approached the Basilisk cautiously, already planning what to do in case of unexpected danger...

Severus was the first to reach the body, he crouched down and checked the Basilisk with the Force.

While Draco waited above them to support them in case something happened.

Severus took only a few seconds, when he finished checking the Basilisk's condition he turned and looked at Hermione and nodded to let them know that the giant snake was dead.

Hermione and Draco, seeing Severus' nod, let out a sigh of relief.

Hermione looked like she was about to collapse from exhaustion but, remembering her goal, she turned hurriedly and cut some of the basilisk's fangs with her silver knife.

Then she pulled out an iron box and stuffed everything inside.

After checking that everything was all right, Draco finally descended to the ground beside the two of them.

The instant he descended, his legs shook with tension, nervousness, and exhaustion, causing him to collapse on his back on the ground.

Draco decided to rest for a few moments and Hermione did the same once she put the iron box away.

On the other hand, Severus, who was not tired at all, scattered the cloud around the room with his wand and then took his time to plan how to cut off each part of the Basilisk for future use.

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Everything went according to plan, though not the original plan.

The original plan Hermione and Draco had was simpler...

Hermione would wear an invisible cloak to go unnoticed while summoning the creature...

Of course, at first, Severus thought this was ridiculous and wouldn't work since the Basilisk could smell, feel and see the body heat of other bodies, but he discovered that this cloak of invisibility that Hermione had was very unique...

This cloak could completely hide any trace of the person, it was as if they truly disappeared, even with the use of the Force to try to detect her it was impossible.

It was amazing that such a cloak existed, Severus was even curious to know where she got it from, but he didn't ask since it wasn't his place, though Hermione saw his intrigue and told him that it wasn't hers, that she had only "borrowed" it.

Severus knew instantly that the "borrowed" Hermione was referring to was that she took it without that person's permission and that she would return it later.

Anyway..., the plan was that while Hermione used the cloak of invisibility, Draco would fly on his broom to be the first thing the Basilisk would see.

While he briefly distracted the Basilisk, Hermione, who had not yet been detected, would use this time to try and point her wand at the Basilisk's eyes to blind it completely.

If the two of them could do this...

Once the Basilisk was blinded, the two would use various potions to confuse the Basilisk's senses to prevent it from detecting them.

They would also use the transfigured wild roosters to annoy and distract the Basilisk.

The transfigured wild roosters would only serve for that purpose because the effect of their call would not be the same as the morning call of a real wild rooster...

But Hermione's plan was to make these transfigured wild roosters mimic the morning call of real wild roosters so that the Basilisk would focus on attacking them after feeling threatened.

Then the two of them would use the silver knives covered in poison and stick them in the snake's mouth, of course, that was easier said than done as they would have to take advantage of every moment the snake's mouth was open to stick a knife in and that wasn't easy...

But with Draco flying and Hermione hidden, they had a chance and if not, they only planned to leave the creature weakened and retreat to return at another time to finally kill it.

Severus modified his plans "slightly", but the final result was optimal.

They would get part of the basilisk's fangs and venom, and Severus would get the rest...

A good deal.

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Well my dear readers...

This story finally passed the 100,000 word count.

And this will be the last week that I will upload a chapter every day except Saturday.

From next week on it will be up to you how many chapters I upload per week,

Depending on how many power stones this story gets by the end of this Saturday, will be the amount of chapters I will upload next week.

Every 300 power stones will be one chapter for the next week.

Greetings to everyone and I hope you enjoy today's chapter.