𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟑
Calypso hummed her breath as she waved goodbye to her brothers. It was fun while it lasted, having your family near you, but problems arise.
Are we on the move? Calypso asked, turning away from the doors of Hogwarts to the Ravenclaw dorms.
I have the vessel in place. Luna said, her eyes glancing towards oner of their knights. Should I send him out?
Yes, please. Harry?
I have most of the Knight and AB's here. I've yet to inform them.
Calypso hummed her reply, she made her way towards the Ravenclaw tower where, coincidentally, or supposedly, the vessel exits. Her eyes caught the black leather binding of the Diary she so desperately lost sleep too.
"Sisus." Calypso called out, walking towards her dear friend, it pained her that he was the vessel.
The blonde male looked tired, but he mustered his infamous smile. Calypso's heartbeats hammered in her ribcage; she wasn't used to confronting, she was only used to eliminating right away. But Odysseus wasn't an enemy, no he was a friend, a dear friend.
"Calypso," The blonde greeted, approaching the thirteen-year-old. "What brings you here? Is it Luna?"
"Oh no," Calypso shook her head. "Mind if we walk to the library?"
Odysseus frowned for a moment before agreeing. He offered a hand to Calypso who grasped it firmly. They fell into steps and a comfortable silence, until Calypso broke it when they stepped inside the library.
"I didn't see you during Yule," Calypso said, guiding them to a secluded spot. "We were supposed to open presents together."
"Oh uhm, I probably overslept. Sorry." Odysseus apologized.
Calypso spared him a side-glance before slipping to secluded corner of the library, people were rarely by the history section.
"Nobility, Sisus." Calypso said, leaning back on a bookshelf, facing Odysseus with crossed arms.
"By that you mean?" Odysseus asked, narrowing his eyes defensive.
Calypso pointed to the diary. "It gives you burden, doesn't it?"
Odysseus stayed quiet staring at Calypso, his green eyes calculating her as she was observing him.
"How do you always know?" Odysseus asked, stepping closer to Calypso.
Calypso blinked before replying, "I always do."
"And you think that's normal?"
"I never said I was."
Odysseus sighed, heavily. He passed the diary to Calypso on his outstretched hand. He looked pained to do so, but Calypso's encouraging eyes gave him strength.
"It was during Yule, last year." Odysseus began, looking Calypso straight to the face. "It was given to me by the stepbrother, he told me to keep it. I did so. At first, I didn't bat an eye towards it, but I needed a paper, then I wrote on it. It talked to me. Manipulated me."
"I knew it was me, but I lied to myself that it wasn't me. I'm sorry, I just didn't know who to tell, I was worried that if I tell you or Ray, you will hate me..." Odysseus sighed, fighting the tears back, the guilt.
Calypso took the diary that was outstretched in front of her. She gentle snatched Odysseus robes and pulled him into a hug. Odysseus bend down to reach Calypso, immediately fitting in her tiny frame.
"We can never hate you," Calypso whispered to his ears. "You're too precious to hate."
"I could've killed 'Mione and Draco," Odysseus sighed, tired. "I'm so sorry."
"At least you told the truth, yeah?" Calypso assured him, breaking the hug to look him on the face. "And that's brave of you because you were aware but afraid to tell."
Odysseus sighed heavily for the many times of that day, he stood his full height and placed a hand on top of Calypso's head.
"Thank you," he said, sincerely. "For saving me."
Calypso cracked a small smile. "Anything for a friend."
"What now?"
"We kill a serpent."
Calypso and Odysseus travelled to the seventh floor where all the knights and knight of AB waited. Harry spotted them and stood up making big strides towards his sister.
"Mission report." He demanded, kindly.
"Vessel detached; mission engage serpent." Calypso reported, passing the diary to Harry who took it.
"Thank you, Dike." Harry said before turning away and speed-walked towards the centre of the room.
Everyone's head turned to the tiny leader. The room's temperature dropped as worry and concern spread among the students, some assumed this was about their prime genius duo. Harry reached the centre and took a deep breath, he faces his people, his kingdom, his peers, and his friends. The-Boy-Who-Lived took a deep breath and open his mouth.
"I'm sorry for causing heavy tension." He began, looking among his friends. "We're kind of desperate, well not really, but we are, our friends are petrified and the beast behind is a basilisk."
Immediate reaction fires across the whole room, mutters, murmurs and whispered rattled the room from its sunken state.
"I would like to ask for your assistance, we are killing the beast." Harry announced, causing more reaction from the room. "But not with the help of teachers. Are you with me?"
"Yes," "We are."
Harry's eyes locked with Odysseus for a moment, he gave the blonde a determined look.
"Erix twins, I want you to ask for Professor Dumbledore and the head of houses." Harry began commanding. "Seventh years and Sixth years follow along to the first floor girl's laboratory. They rest will be back up, is that clear?"
"Yes, Sir!"
"Good, double time!"
Everyone was quick on their feet and began shouting over each other to prepare, the Erix twins grabbed their brother and began speeding out the door.
Harry faced his friends who gave him a five-star review with thumbs up and a-okay hand signs. He smiled at them before he began leading his people.
Calypso appeared on Harry left, looking as nonchalant as she always is. Lune pipped in next to Harry and skipped her way along.
Do we have to do this with style?
I think it is just coincidence.
That or we're hella dramatic.
The goddesses shared a look before looking straight ahead. Behind them Theodore and Blaise followed ensuite with Ron and Neville in two, the Knight spread across the whole hallways anxious but prepared. When they arrived by the entrance of the Lavatory, the Erix siblings had all Dumbledore and Snape in their grasp. Harry sent them a congratulatory smile.
"Harry? What is wrong?" Dumbledore asked, his eyes wary and guarded.
"You'll find out soon, Headmaster." Harry simply said, entering shamelessly inside the girl's bathroom.
Snape raised an eyebrow. These children are trusting and not to be question, if anything, he shouldn't be surprised.
"First year to fourth year stay by the entrance. Fifth years position to inside the bathroom." General Reagan began instructing, his hand motioning where everyone will be.
Everyone all folded into position, wands raised, eyes focused and head's high. Reagan smiled to himself satisfied before looking to Harry.
"If you would kindly follow me," Harry said, motioning his professors to go in. "Maybe we can get this done before dinner."
Dumbledore dubiously followed the group of students just as Harry stopped in front of the sink not before nodding at myrtle who waved back. Harry didn't spare one more second and began speaking parseltongue. Everyone watched in anticipation seeing the sink mauver to open sliding away one by one revealing a huge pipeline deeper than they expected it to be. Calypso looked down and whistled seeing how far it goes, just then Theo turned to Blaise.
"I hate to say this, but the hat wanted me to be Gryffindor and you only live once." And with that, Theo slid down the pipe.
Calypso blinked at the statement while Luna chuckled leaving Harry who snorted.
"Why am I not surprise?" Harry asked himself, before sliding down the piper.
"See you," Luna chirped, sliding down the pipe.
Calypso shared a look with Blaise and said, "Au Revoir, Lancelot."
Blaise and the other occupants of the room blinked owlishly when Dumbledore said, "You heard the boy, you only live once."
And with that he slid down he pipe a distant 'wee' can be heard. Blaise shrugged and joined in with his own version of 'wee'. When he landed on the pile of bones his eyes quickly searched to premises helping his headmaster to his knees.
"Goodness, I am getting old." Dumbledore said, heaving a breath.
Blaise sympathetically placed a hand on his headmaster's forearm.
"No worries, Professor, at least you're still kicking." Blaise said.
"Why, thank you, my boy." Dumbledore kindly smiled holding onto Blaise as they walked towards where Theo and Harry were beckoning them over.
Calypso stare down the circular vault doors with calculating gaze. Her thought went to her cousin, frozen in time. She sighed.
Harry arrived beside her, looking at the vault door with snakes facing outwards of its circumference. He waited for the knight to arrive behind him before opening the door, he looked over his shoulder to see Dumbledore blinking multiple times seeming to confirm what he was seeing is true. And it is.
Harry looked back to the door, size it up. Lune and Calypso took a step back.
"The Chamber of Secrets," Harry began his eyes scanning the jewelled eyed snakes with fiery hatred.
Everyone even the adults listen closely to Harry in anticipation, the latter continued, "Behind this door shelters a beast instinct hundred years ago. A Basilisk."
Cold air passed them as the heaviness of the situation stilled in them. Harry took his necktie and started tying it loosely over his neck, everyone knight followed his actions.
"Knights, I want you to trust your ears. We will be covering our eyes." Harry instructed them. "And trust our professors"
Harry turned back to the door and commanded it to open. Everyone watched as the doors hissed open, before making a final hiss it swung open for them. Harry took a step back. Calypso stepped forwards and looked around the place, she gracefully jumped off and landed on the wet cold floor.
Luna followed suite and looked up to see Salazar's head surrounded with water. It was cold and freezing. Harry appeared beside her, taping her shoulder before standing side by side with his fellow gods.
"Beautiful but dreary," Harry commented before turning to his knights. "Crossfire position."
The seventh and sixth years all line up in a semi-circle, wand pointed to the mouth of Salazar. Harry motioned them for the eyes, and they all pulled their necktie up to their eyes. Severus quickly stood behind the three on the front liners, wand drawn. From in front of them, Dumbledore called out Fawkes. Harry looked over to his fellow leaders before pulling up his necktie over her eyes, the goddesses follow soon, before raising their wands.
"Wands at the ready." Harry said his voice resonating around the empty chamber as he gripped his wand tighter. The scrapping of the ground indicated their confirmed combat positions.
: Open: Harry hissed lowly his ears perking up at the sound of stone scarping on each other.
Calypso's ears caught the sound of hissing. Her eyes under the blindfold, made contact with the basilisk, but she doesn't know that. Harry swallowed the dryness of his throat and reached out to grab someone's hand and held on to Luna's.
"Fire," Dumbledore commanded. A sea of white fire shot out of everyone's wand clashing with the basilisk. The sound of a desperate cry of help from the beast, another rain of fire fell from the sky completely abolishing the beast, it left the world with a loud screech.
But before it can crash on the floor of its home, a cry of a phoenix was heard making everyone drop fire and listen to the rattling thud of the Basilisk landing on the floor. Calypso slipped off her necktie and gawked at the mighty beast. She looked over to see Luna looking solemn but accepting the beast's fate. Harry took his necktie off just as his breath clogged his air way seeing the Fawkes dance over the Basilisk's dead corpse. It was, morbid but funny.
"Oh," Fred, who sneaked in, said. "That is a huge fella."
"Tell you Freddie, we should've ridden it." George jokingly said.
Angelina Johnson sent them a wry look as Alicia spinet held a concern gaze on the twins.
"Absolutely not," Katie Bell said, swatting both the twins away from the Basilisk.
If you turn your head, you can see Blaise and Theodore helping Dumbledore on his knees. Such a gentlemen.
Odysseus stood a feet away from the monster with a horrified expression, that thing could've killed his classmates and he wouldn't know that the blood was on his hands. Odysseus clenched his eyes close as he looked away when Harry placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"You should go, I'll handle the diary." Harry kindly said.
Odysseus numbly nodded he started making his way out but not before looking over to Calypso who was standing far away from him, scrutinizing the dead beast. Who could've known.
Harry and Luna slipped beside Calypso waiting for the knight to leave. Harry passed the diary to Calypso discreetly.
"Mr. Potter? Miss Lovegood? Ms. Black? Are you coming?" Dumbledore door asked, breaking the trio's silent conversation.
"We'll be there professor," Calypso assured the professor. "We have a few things to do."
Dumbledore looked hesitant but nodded his head, before walking away to the exit. Snape stood by the entrance of the door catching the trio's gaze, he gave them a court not before helping his mentor out of the chambers. Harry exhaled heavily and he run a hand through his hair. The tension built up was stressing the boy out.
From beside him, Calypso laid the diary on the middle of the floor and opening it to a blank page.
"Who could've known," Harry began with a breathy laugh. "Salazar is a very patient man."
Calypso scoffed. Luna gave him a nod of agreement.
"We do in fact, have patience." A voice said.
All three heads turned to the dark corner of the room, and out stepped a young version of Tom Marvolo Riddle.
Calypso immediately searched for Odysseus' heartbeat to hear it stable and beating, for now. Her eyes narrowed at the soul fragment.
"Fancy seeing you here, Tom." Harry tiredly greeted. "Can't you just stay dead?"
Tom didn't reply, he just glared at Harry.
Meanwhile, Luna was beside the Basilisk, gently and softly cutting out one of its teeth to use.
"Overconfident now are we, potter?" Tom sneered. "Killing a beast, such noble of you."
He took a step forward to Harry, but he was blocked when Calypso shadow teleported between them. Tom was taken aback to see warning gaze already killing him.
"Patience is key if you want to achieve forever, orphan." Calypso hissed.
"Why you-" Before Tom could say anything, he gasped as if he was choked.
The god-siblings turned to Luna who was stabbing the diary repeatedly with no mercy. Her blue eyes turned to Tom, ready to give him a final goodbye.
"You've cheated life, you can die now." Lune softly said with an underlying threat.
Tom shrieked as if he was in pain before he disappeared in thin air. Luna tossed way the basilisk fang and rose to her feet with the impaled diary in hand.
"Well today was a mission success." Harry hummed, taking the diary from Luna's hands.
"I'm hungry," Calypso complained as she fixed her bangs to go to the side.
"Let's get dinner then," Luna hummed, wiping away the ink on her hands.
While the primordial deities were busy killing someone's soul, up above Theodore, Blaise, and Dumbledore immerge from the dreary of the Chambers of Secrets, a foolhardy Lockhart appeared with his obnoxious smile.
"Ah! Professor Dumbledore! Is the beast killed yet? I could've helped. Slay it with ease." The man pompously said with a grin that Theo wanted to punch to hard that he'll forget why he's alive.
Blaise rolled his eyes. "As If that would help."
"Dropping your wand is much help with the basilisk." Theodore scoffed dusting away the invisible lint of his jumper.
"Maybe if he flash his smile he could kill the basilisk." Theo left his own comment glaring at the withering Lockhart in embarrassment.
Dumbledore only chuckled and guided them away from the fraud and he spoke as they walked to the Great Hall.
"I think we need a grand feast for the feat we just completed," He spoke jovially. "Although attack professor Lockhart wasn't needed but it was entertaining."
"Very," Snape hummed in agreement.
"To be frank, Professor, I don't know why you hired him." Blaise though out loud.
"The governor's thinks otherwise."
"We need new governor's then." Theo dryly said.
"Literally, they make horrible decisions, merlin, I won't last next year if something else happens." Blaise grumbled in a complaint.
Dumbledore sent a consoling look at the boy when a thought entered his attention.
"Regarding of your illegal club, I'll validate the club for it to be official. I must say, it is a beneficial club." Dumbledore hummed, before stopping in front of the Great Halls.
The pair of mischief looked at their professors with surprise and disbelief.
"Thank you, professor," Blaise said.
"We'll informed Harry and the knights." Theodore added.
"And I applaud your teamwork, Mr. Zabini and Mr. Nott and every knight in your vessel, all your skill shall bring you everywhere."