Chapter 1: The Golden Egg

Two days past that Harry had killed the giant Basilisk, destroyed the diary that held a memory by the name of Tom Riddle, A.K.A Voldemort from harming any more muggleborns. Ginny Weasley had been given a diary and when she wrote in it it would write back, she kept writing and therefore put more of herself into it and as a result Tom Riddle grew stronger.

From the first attack Harry and his friends had been trying to gather information on it because unfortunetly most of the school placed the blame on Harry after he was discovered as a parselmouth. The Defense against the Dark Arts teachers Professor Gilderoy Lockhart was a terrible teacher, just terrible. When Harry and his friends found out that Ginny Weasley had been taken and that Lockhart was the one to rescue her the group went to him to give all the information we had to help him.

Harry had been best friends with a group of people since first year, they were Katie Bell, Megan Jones, Oliver Rivers, Adam Pickering and the Weasley twins. Katie, the twins and Harry were on the Quidditch team.

When they arrved at Lockhart's office they saw that he was packing and later found out that he was a fraud, a fraud who was gifted with memory charms as he put it and stole other wizards accomplishments for his own. He tried to obliviate the students but Harry was to fast and disarmed him.

Fred and George were near hysterics, it was only when Harry decided to go to Lockhart was when the twins perked up and insisted on going. They made their way to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom which was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets and made Lockhart go down first. They decided since their encounter with the devils snare they were all for Lockhart going first.

They all made it down there and started to walk but were stopped when Lockhart faked being knocked out and stole Adam's wand but there was a problem see at the beginning of the year we were out after hours when we were almost caught by Filch because we were pranking. Adam tripped and his wand bent and eventually snapped leaving Adam with two pieces of a wand sticky taped together.

Lockhart's memory charm backfired and was sent back into the air into the cave wall which caused a cave in seperating Harry from his friends. Harry went on to find Ginny unconcious on the ground. Tom Riddle came out acting suspicious and then reveled himself as the heir of Slytherin. He released to Basilisk on Harry but his plan backfired a bit when Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix flew to Harry's rescue and made it blind.

Harry pulled a sword from the hat Fawkes was carrying when he arrived out and stabbed the Basilisk into the hilt of the king serpant's mouth. When he did though a fang was stuck in Harry's arm which made him dizzy and start to lose conciousness but then Fawkes again came to his rescue and healed him by crying on his wound.

Phoenixes have healing powers which Riddle had mistaken them for actual tears and din't notice the effects until to later. Harry then stabbed the diary with the basilisk fang which destroyed the memory and brought Ginny back.

Harry and Ginny made their way back to others and then to the headmaster's office. It was then revealed that Voldemort had transferred some of his powers to him which granted him the ability to talk to snakes. Harry received thanks from the Weasley's and the school stopped hating him after they found out what he did.

Now Harry was searching around looking for anything he remembered the hole the basilisk came out of so he got into position and spoke the same words Riddle did to open it. Speak to me Slytherin, Greatest of the Four. The hole opened up and Harry walked in to see three tunnels. One to the right that he lost sight of, one straight ahead which had a door about 10 meters away and then the one on the leg which lead to a closed wall but there was a small hole there which was easily discovered due to the sunlight coming from outside.

He walked to the centre and hissed it to open and when he walked in he was shocked to see a large room with books, a dueling area and what appeared to be a study or a rest area. On the right of him was the study area with a fireplace there with three couches surrounding it, in front of him was a dueling platform, to the left of him was another door but all around him were books on shelves and on tables. The room looked rather dirty and dusty so he figured he would have to clean it soon.

He was broken out of his thoughts when he heard a man's voice. Harry looked around to see a portrait hanging from a wall above the fireplace. The man had a beard, rather old somewhere around his seventies about and looked to have been wearing very old clothes. The portrait itself was a dark green clour.

"Hello young one, might I ask who you are?" The portrait asked.

"Harry Potter and who are you sir?"

"My name is Salazar Slytherin." He replied, Harry gasped and looked at him in shock.

"My, my calm down boy."

"Salazar Slytherin, one of the founder of Hogwarts." Harry said dumbstruck at seeing a founder.

"Yes my boy, now may I enquire as to why you are here?" he asked.

"I found this place."

"Tell me, what happend of that Riddle figure?" he asked.

"He's dead." Harry said, didn't care that his heir had died.

"Ah, good to hear it." He said cheerily.

Harry sat there even more dumbstruck, did he realize what Harry just said. He killed his heir, shouldn't he be angry. Salazar seing this on Harry's face answered the unasked question.

"While I believed in Hogwarts teaching only those of pure magical blood I never would have killed them especially not children. The fact that my heir would stoop so low disgusts me." He told me. Salazar then told Harryof the past and how muggles hunted down magical folk and because of this and it's effect Salazar had little like for muggles.

"Muggles are different now Salazar, they would be thrilled to find out that magic was real, well mostly anyway. There are still the few who depise it but very, very little." Harry said thinking of the Dursley's, Harry's relatives that took him in when he was a year old.

"I see, though there are some who do not like magic. Despise it you say?" He asked.

"Yes but I think they are jealous and know they can never ever have it so I think that is what is wrong with them"

"Ah yes, Jealousy can make people turn into whole different person."

They continued to talk until Harry's attention grew to the door to his left.

"Sir, what's behind this door?" Harry asked.

"Behind that door holds a near extinct mythical animal. A Golden Dragon." Harry was amazed at such a dragon.

"It was a family heirloom. It was passed down son to son. I had been studying it, trying to find another way to make it hatch." He said.

"Another way?" Harry asked.

"Well it is rumored that only those pure of heart could hatch it but there were also rumours that the eggs are destined for certain people. No one knows because these people who had hatched them were alawys known for their goodness but their skills outranked many." He explained to Harry.

"Do you mind if I try sir?" Harry asked

He chuckled but agreed none the less. Harry hissed the door open and in the open sitting on a golden small table was the egg.

"What do I do?" Harry yelled out to Salazar."

"Put both hands on the egg and hold them there." he replied.

Harry did as he said and immediately was engulfed in a gold orb. He felt calm but there was something wrong, he could feel it. It was like a battle was happening inside him. He tumbled over when blackness came to him.

A few moments later Harry awoke to hear someone shouting out his name, when his senses came back to him fully he recognized the voice of Salazar.

"I'm okay, I'm okay. I just fainted," but then the last couples of minutes came back to him.

"Salazar! I hatched it! I did it!" Harry said cheerfully.

He laughed and then described everything he knew about the Golden Dragons. The golden dragons had been nearly eliminated by a dark wizard called Emeric the Evil who apparently had an ancient weapon that gave him an advantage. There are apparently two others in the world hidden by the last dragon lords.

The dragon lords rode the Golden dragons but could control other dragons, they had natural enemies which were known as the Dark Dragons. You had to be purely evil and dark to hatch one but they were apparently extinct but Harry wasn't to sure, a lot of things that weren't supposed to happen happened so he wasn't dismissing the possibility.

But then Harry could feel a tugging at his head, he asked Salazar about it to which he replied to him in, ease it in and calm down. Harry did and was welcome with a voice.

"Hello Harry." The voice said.

"How do you know my name? Who are you?" Harry asked.

"My soul formed with yours, I have all your memories, you and I are basically the same person now but don't worry I won't be talking to you like the whenever. You will feel a tugging when you want to talk and I will answer and to answer your second question my name is Lareth. The King of the Golden Dragons." He thought to Harry.

"Wow, A king. What was it like? Did you have a kingdom or something? Why are you like this, why aren't you a dragon?" I thought.

"I was the leader, they looked to me for guidance. This isn't my first life, we are a lot like phoenix's but we have a choice if we wish to go onto the afterlife and yes it's hidden away, I'll take you sometime. The Golden Dragon's have two options become a soul dragon or a baby dragon when we hatch. I myself are perfectly content on my souls status but there are ways for me to be extracted if you ever feel the want." he thought to Harry.

"Would I still be a dragon lord, if I do?"

"Yes you would but this way you are more powerful, I can add knowledge to you just by sending it to you, of course knowing and doing are two different things so that won't be any easier."

"By the way I noticed a disturbance with you earlier, you were held by a darkness."

"Darkness?" I thought worriedly

"Yes, it seems the night Voldemort went to Godric's Hallow and his killing curse rebounded on him he unintentionally made you a horcrux."

"What's a horcrux?"

"It where you split off apart of your soul and hide it in an object so if your body were to be destroyed your soul would live on meaning you cannot die. The only way to kill the person who did this would be to kill the horcrux."

"So Voldemort made on in me. Do you think he made others?"

"Oh yes, in fact you recently crossed one."

"What?" then Harry remembered.

"Tom Riddle's diary."

"A Horcrux yes."

"We have to destroy the rest, if has more." I thought

"We will but save that for a later time. "He thought to Harry.

Harry didn't like it but agreed. Harry spend the rest of the day learning more things from both Lareth and Salazar's books. He found a bottomless pouch and placed a number of books in there then made his way out by going out of the tunnel into the tunnel with the crack in the wall and hissed it open.

He walked out to see he was in the forbidden forest. He found some centaurs and introduced himself as a Golden Dragon Rider. He proved himself and was taken to the outskirts of the forest and then walked into the castle.