A/N: AND THE PLOT THICKENS MWHAHAHA! We have more of Benjamin here although probably I will have flames after what I have down to Benjamin ;) And bits of family drama and the right pinch of salt to make this chapter. Lloyd may need a hug after this so ever review you do, 1 prayer for Lloyd ;0000! Please give him hugs and lots of candy :')

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Chapter 3

A month had passed and Halloween was drawing near. Everyone was excited for the celebration as many considered it to be one of the most grand celebrations in the wizarding world. The halls of Hogwarts decked out with Jack-o-Lanterns, tiny traditional looking ghosts hung by strings. Small bats pasted on the white and orange banners. The weather was getting chillier as leaves of orange and yellow fell onto the grass.

Lloyd was especially excited. Halloween was his favorite holiday. That's the one time of year that he could have any amount of candy and won't be scolded for having a sugar rush. Jay had began dressing up as several of the creatures that they had been taught during DADA, though they were not exactly like what the books said.

Nya and Kai started to make elaborate schemes to prank their friends which Lloyd had wriggled his way in and started offering ideas. Cole was excited for the food during the Halloween feast as he started to prepare himself to eat whatever he can by attempting to finish the whole Gryffindor table the past few days.

Zane, however, was not that excited for Halloween but looked forward to stuff his face with his favorite food that were only served during the feast. Although, Zane's little brother, Echo has been excited that Halloween was coming.

The only thing that bothered Lloyd was that Harumi was acting weird. She began declining whenever he gave her candy even though it's her favorite color and flavor. Harumi never declines those offers. She began to be more distant with him and went to sit alone instead of sitting with him during DADA.

However, being an eleven year old, he was too preoccupied with the fact of candy then go in and investigate why Harumi's been avoiding him.

"Hey, Rumi!"

Harumi sent a glance towards him before quickly avoiding his gaze and then disappeared into the walls. Lloyd's smile dropped. Kai got out of his glass and grabbed the boy by the wrist.

"C'mon, demon spawn, we gotta go and work on the pranks,"

Harumi has been acting weird as Lloyd had complained to Kai. Kai was sitting down working on his prank. He glanced at the clock as it was nearing to 10 pm. The first and second years curfew was slightly earlier than his. Lloyd had left his candy bag next to him, probably had forgotten to take it with him. Kai was especially excited to see how people would be reacting to his pranks! He was really excited to get some reactions especially out of the Slytherins. He, especially loathed one in particular, and pranking him is going to be so satisfying- Dudley Dursley- from Slytherin.

He was a really fat kid who was wearing the largest size of Hogwarts Robes and he hated Kai for some reason. Well, he hated everyone in general and liked to flex his pureblood supremacy to anyone who was a muggle born.

Well, as far as they knew, Nya and Kai were purebloods; their birth parents both were wizards who had a knack for fire and water spells. (according to Wu anyway).

Kai managed to pass out from exhaustion in the common room and woke up to Lloyd shaking him with excitement. Kai opened his eyes groggily, the normally shy boy looked so excited as he was literally bouncing.

"C'mon Kai! It's Halloween! We gotta wake up! All our weeks of planning will be fruitful today! I'm especially excited to see what you have done to the mean seventh years," Lloyd said thoughtfully as he stuck his tongue out at the last part. If Kai stared long enough, it was as if the boy had stars in his eyes.

Lloyd was surprisingly strong for an eleven year old as he pulled up Kai from the beanbag and grabbed his bag of candy that he had left next to Kai. Benjamin, Lloyd's cat, looked as equally excited as he started purring around Lloyd's leg.

"I don't care what you going to say but I'm smuggling Benjamin around school so I can sneak him to the feast and feed him everything there!"

Lloyd said that with such vigor and excitement, Kai could not help but say 'yes'. Lloyd cheered as he put Benjamin in his sling bag and he disappeared into the crowd of first years. Kai yawned a bit as he hurriedly got himself ready for lessons and made his way to the breakfast table.

Just then, he saw everyone crowded around a particular area. He could roughly make out Dudley and Nya ...NYA! Kai shoved through the crowd and saw Jay and Nya standing there. Nya looked particularly miffed.

"-Sticking up for the mudblood, eh? Are you even a true Slytherin?," Dudley insulted. Kai clenched his fists.

"Nya, you don't have to do this. Dursley, can you just go away… no one bothered you,"

"I don't want some filthy mudblood contaminating our table with their filthy germs,"

"YOU STOP INSULTING HIM, YOU FATASS-," Nya yelled, her eyes wide with fury and she brandished her fist. Kai came in about to punch Dudley.

Cole came, holding Kai back. Dudley grinned at Kai which only made him even angrier.

Lloyd glared at Dudley, not pleased with Dudley, "Jay isn't the mudblood, you are…"

There was a sudden hush falling the crowd.

There were whispers of Lloyd going jinx Dudley going around.

Dudley choked, "Y-you are sticking up for blood traitors and the mudbloods?"

"Yeah, so what?"

"B-but your dad-"

"-is under the influence of the venom,"

"Y-you blood traitor!"

Dudley went to punch Lloyd as Kai jumped in hoping to get the impact as Lloyd tried to punch Dudley himself.

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" There was a stern voice as they saw Professor Misako. The grey-haired woman looked sternly at the group.

"20 points of Gryffindor…20 points of Slytherin. Mr and Miss Smith, Mr Garmadon and Mr Dursley, detention today at 6 p.m, you will be released before the feast,"

Kai, Lloyd, Nya and Dudley were at detention with Professor Misako. Dudley and Nya were tasked to clean the Trophy Room while Lloyd and Kai were to clean Professor Misako's shelves.

"Oh my GOD! I don't wanna clean! This is worse than doing the dishes," Lloyd whined.

"Well either way, everything's Dudley's fault,"

"He's a big fat meanie," Lloyd mumbled.

Professor Misako walked into the room.

"Mr. Garmadon, I would like to talk to you,"

"FSM! She heard me,"

"Good Luck, Lloyd,"

"I don't want anymore detention… detention sucks,"

They walked into the corridor, a little further away from Misako's office. Professor Misako let out a huge breath as Lloyd felt his anxiety build. Lloyd fiddled with the hem of his robe as Misako cleared her throat.

"As you know my name is Professor Misako, but you don't know my last name,"

Lloyd frowned, confused at what his professor was playing at. Was she some evil person about to kidnap him? Nevertheless, Lloyd stood there like an obedient student he was as he waited for the inevitable.

"My full name is Misako Garmadon,"

Lloyd sucked in a breath, feeling his chest constrict. Is she his mother that had left him at Darkley's Boarding School all alone and never came to visit him. Lloyd wanted to say a lot more words. His senses were going crazy and he wanted to yell and scream at her.

"Oh." Lloyd finished lamely. However, that was not enough to show his whirlwind of emotions that he was in. Professor Misako sighed in relief.

"I'm so sorry for leaving you but I-I had no choice. I-I had t-to but now, I-I want to make it up to you,"

Lloyd kept quiet.

"So you accept my apology?" Misako asked softly.

"W-Why did you have no choice?"

"It's really complicated-but it will be revealed in due time. I-I'm not the person to say,"

"A-all these years, I-I've been roaming i-in the streets w-when you h-had a comfortable life in Hogwarts?"

"Lloyd, it's hard to explain-but I want to be your mother again-,"

"I need time,"

"-yes, of course,"

The walk back to Misako's office was relatively quiet as Lloyd was drowned in by his thoughts. Should he give her the chance? She left him to roam in the streets. He was all alone in the cold till Uncle Wu took him in. But why did not Uncle Wu tell him about his mom was in Hogwarts. Does she really love him? It feels as if she really doesn't… if she had wouldn't she have brought him along …

Lloyd kept his mouth shut as she dismissed Lloyd and Kai. Lloyd and Kai walked through the corridor as Kai tried to talk to him.

"You look a bit down? What happened with Professor Misako?"

"Nothing…"

"It seems like something bad happened? Did she hurt you?"

"No,"

"Then what, Lloyd? You know Nya will kill me when she sees you like this when left under my watch,"

"It's really nothing, Kai…"

"You know you can tell me anything right? You are like my little brother now,"

"You know Professor Misako?"

"Yeah-she's my m-mother,"

"T-That woman left you alone. I am going to-,"

"You don't have to. Plus, she wants a second chance so I guess I am going to give her the chance?"

"But, if you don't want to, you can just say so,"

"But I want to,"

"Oh well then,"

"We needa get Benjamin and the candy, I left them in my dorm,"

"Okay,"

There was a crowd beginning to gather near the Gryffindor Common Room. Lloyd and Kai exchanged looks as they pushed through the crowd to see what was going on. On the wall, there was a message written in crimson red that Kai recognized as blood, "THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED! THE ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE!"

"Benjamin!" Lloyd squeaked as he kneeled next to the cat. Benjamin was knocked out cold and the end of it paw were beginning to darken.

There were whispers of 'the cat is dead' or 'he deserves it'. Kai felt his heart melt as he knew how much Lloyd loved the cat. Tears were beginning to form at the corner of the eyes. Lloyd mustered a small squeak.

"Call Headmaster Wu!"

The caretaker, Dareth and Madam Mistaké were already gathering around. Everyone made way as Headmaster Wu came in. Kai watched, knowing all he can do is comfort Lloyd after this.

"Uncle Wu, do something! It's Benjamin! He doesn't deserve this,"

Wu crouched down as he took one of Benjamin's paws, there were two marks, purple substance starting to ooze from the wounds. The cat lay motionless on the ground as if nothing had just happened.

"The cat is alive-but it has been petrified,"

There are another round of murmurs as Lloyd let out a sigh of relief as he moved to the side, leaning next to Kai.

"C-can we help Benjamin?"

"There is one way to but if we don't administer it in time-the cat may turn a little bit naughty- it's lucky that the bite was not too long-if too much venom goes in, there's no cure even if we do, it would have turned evil,"

Lloyd let out a shuddery breath, " What is the cure?"

"A scale from the Serpentine Plant. You are lucky that we have those. This is used to create the anti-venom in the Serpentine Staff- I know some of them in Hogwarts but it may take a two weeks to harvest. If we don't administer by the end of next month, Benjamin may turn evil-"

A/N: Everything's going to get interesting from here now:) Some ideas from reviewers would be appreciated. One review = 1 prayer for Benjamin and Lloyd. The answer's right under their noses but they won't be figuring it out soon. They should be paying more attention in classes if you know what I mean *wink wonk*

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