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Devil's Ascension

Chapter 7

Harry and Lady quickly dashed around the corner towards the unused bathroom. Lady kicked the door while Harry dived in, rolled to a crouching position and drew his gun.

"Clear" he said to Lady. He slowly got up his hand still raised with the gun.

Lady slowly entered while still facing the door to cover their backs, in her hands is a HK UMP modified with scope and mounted light and laser. She is standing back to back with Harry, her eyes sweeping the room for any signs of movement. Both of them swiftly turned towards the stalls when they heard a giggle.

"Why hello there Harry, what's a guy like you doing in a place like this?" someone asked as a figure slowly emerged and walked through a wall. The now revealed ghost tried to saunter seductively towards them.

Harry raised an eyebrow and can't help but sweat drop at the absurdity of the scene.

'Did a ghost just hit on MY Harry' Lady thought incredulously and gave the ghost a glare.

"You're Moaning Myrtle I presume? The one haunting this bathroom and if I deduce correctly, the first victim of the basilisk 50 years ago." He said in a neutral tone.

Moaning Myrtle mistook this for concern and quickly leaned towards Harry and buried her face in his shoulder while faking a cry and told her sob story. Harry just ignored her and moved away towards the sinks and began inspecting it. The ghost never noticed and just continued ranting and raving about her life. Lady stifled a laugh and went over to the sinks herself.

"Alright how should we do this?" she asked.

"No other way in but through this way. But I will be using a different method to open this up. It's not wise for me to reveal my other skill as the walls have ears."

With that said, he pulled out a rectangular stick of moldable white clay and a transparent crystal the size of a pearl. A devilish grin adorned his face as he glanced at Lady with half-lidded eyes before he charged the crystal with his demon energy.

Lady's eyes widened in surprised and looked at him in alarm as he stuck the clay at the base of the wall of the sinks then embedded the crystal at the center.

"Fire in the hole" was the only thing he said as he quickly retreated out of the bathroom and down the corner a few meters away with Lady right behind him.

10 seconds later an explosion rocked the floor as dust and debris was blown out the doorway with pieces of obliterated door.

He was laughing while Lady slapped his arm once or twice.

"I can't believe you. You've been hanging out too much with Dante. You may act cool and collected like Vergil most of the time but your just like a big kid like Dante when it comes to that twisted sense of humor you got."

"Oh come on, you honestly can't tell me that the explosion wasn't cool and it was a great stress reliever. Besides I wanted to get back at the old coot a bit for withholding information like this to us." He reasoned out with a casual shrug.

They walked back in and went straight to the now gaping hole that is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. They ignored Moaning Myrtle who was living up to her name bawling and moaning as loudly as she can in front of her decimated stall.

Harry's demeanor once more became serious and focused as he gave a single nod at Lady before jumping in right before her. A red barrier with a demonic face flashing briefly went up after both of them have jumped in sealing the entrance.

Harry slid down then rolled as he reached the bottom then quickly leapt to the side then leaned against the wall to ensure nothing came behind him and raised his gun to cover Lady as she arrived, pointing it towards the only passageway linking the circular chamber towards the next room. Lady mimicked his actions and leapt to the other side so that their right and left are covered.

He signaled that he'll take point and walked towards the corridor but before he can take one step through the archway, a red barrier also appeared. He cart wheeled to the left to avoid a strike of a scythe as a lanky figure with purplish skin in white robes appeared. He regrouped with Lady and stood back to back with her as some of the bones that littered the floor assembled themselves then rusty steel braces covered the forms looking like incomplete iron maidens while 3 more scythe bearing demons in white forms appeared.

"Great, agnofinis and hell sloths and look they were kind enough to give us an even number of enemies to share." Harry commented as a deadly glint came to his eyes. He counted a total of eight agnofinis and four hell sloths.

"Then let's have a race on who finishes their share first. Last one to finish buys the other dinner at the Ritz." Lady issued the challenge as she took initiative and fired her UMP at a hell sloth at her right hand, her left hand raising a beretta and shooting at an agnofinis.

They broke off as a hell sloth teleported above them and brought down its scythe down between the two, slamming so hard it stuck for a bit at the floor.

Harry ran towards the wall, ran up it before flipping backwards as an agnofinis chased from behind. He shot it while in mid-air before holstering it and drawing his sword before coming down in a downward slash, almost shattering its steel brace. He spun on his foot and followed op with an upward diagonal slash, the force enough to also fling the demon to the side, crashing against another one.

He completed his spin facing the sloth struggling to dislodge its scythe, he reared back his arm then lunged forward spearing the sloth. An upward slash lifted the demon, he shot it a couple of times in the air, then did 3 quick slashes when it hit the ground finishing it with fast stabs to the chest as it exploded into dust.

Lady nimbly did acrobatic moves to avoid 2 shields thrown by an agnofinis, shooting at it before the shields went back like a yoyo. She bent backward as a sloth slashed at her horizontally, bringing a foot up to kick it at its chin as she completed a back flip, before catching her guns she threw up to the air and then shooting at the sloth point blank. She quickly turned 180 degrees to reface the agnofinis with the shield after the sloth has exploded to dust, holstering/slung the guns as she took out and enlarged Kalina Ann. She fired the bayonet and chain then reeled in the agnofinis, hit it at the chin with the bazooka's butt before slamming it down and peppering the demon with the multiple mini-missiles of Kalina Ann. She got nicked at the arm by another agnofinis wielding knives from behind. She swung Kalina Ann and faced the demon while taking a small jump back before firing the bazooka at its torso. The rocket speared the demon and dragged it towards another sloth before it exploded. She fired her UMP at the two to make sure they're done with and only stopped when tell tale signs of dust was seen from where the two demons collapsed. She ignored her wound as it is shallow as she scanned for her last 2 opponents.

Harry just finished the 2 agnofinis that crashed together earlier when he saw Lady got nicked at the arm. He shot at the 2 remaining agnofinis fighting Lady as a distraction to buy her time but it also proved a distraction to him as he stepped a bit close to an agnofinis he was fighting. The demon sucked him in its braces then spun around very fast like a top before flinging Harry out. Though a bit wounded, this only served to anger Harry as he summoned blue astral swords that spun around a circle pattern perpendicular to the floor, all blades pointed towards the agnofinis while he parried a scythe strike and slashed at a sloth. One by one the swords shot out to the agnofinis impaling it with deadly accuracy before disappearing. Each strike caused it to stagger but before it could recover from the last strike, Harry is upon it and finished it up with a barrage of strikes. He quickly disposed of the last agnofinis with a couple of sword slashes and gun fire. He turned around to look for Lady while sheathing his sword at his back. He was surprised to see Lady leaning against the wall fanning herself with a small metal battle fan, a smirk on her face.

"I win and you owe me dinner. Be sure to have formal wear ready." Lady said as she walked up to him patted him at the cheek twice before walking towards the passageway.

Harry could only shake his head and chuckle a bit as he followed her through.

The red barrier shattered after the demon like face shrieked a bit and they went through the passageway towards the vault like door with snakes jutting out towards the walls like rays of a sun.

Harry walked towards it and gave the command in parseltounge for it to open.

As they expected, they were greated by the perpetrator. The semi-transparent figure was sitting on a throne made of bones and a skull on top of the backrest at the other end of the chamber just in front of a pool and a large bust of the face of Salazar Slytherin. They calmly entered and stopped a few feet away from the figure, surveying the area and they found Ginny's crumpled form a bit to the side against the wall. She was unconscious and looked a bit pale.

'Her life force is being drained.' Harry deduced as he saw her very slowly losing color and the figure becoming less and less transparent.

Harry gave the figure a long and steely glare as the figure raised its head to look upon them.

"Welcome, Harry Potter." It said while a cruel smirked formed on his face.

AN: Hello everyone, it's been a very long while since I gave attention to any of my fics. Sorry if this chapter ended in a cliffie as I'm still formulating how the confrontation with voldemort and the basilisk will proceed. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and please give a review. Till next time.