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Chapter Twenty-three

Andromeda's POV

They are gone. I can't See my brothers or the Evans girl at all. The four of them suddenly disappeared with out warning. Even last year, when the boys were kidnapped, they still had futures. I could always See them. I don't understand what happened. I should have Seen something but now there's nothing to See.

I looked into Mum and Dad's futures but other than Seeing Mum crying it's vague. Their future is intertwined with the boys, so that might be the reason I can't See much of them either.

What am I going to tell them? Mum asked me to keep my 'Eye' on the boys while they are in school ever since they started school last fall. I should have been able to stop this. Mum is going to blame me if they are dead.

One thing I can See clearly is a grimy old sink. I know I've seen that sink in person before but I can't remember where. When I lived with the Blacks I know I never saw a bathroom that filthy. And I didn't go anywhere but school and Ted's house since I became a Potter.

I have to get to Hogwarts.

Remus' POV

It's taking them too long. Lily and the triplets should have been back ages ago. I hope they aren't doing anything stupid like trying to find the Basilisk themselves. That does seem like something James and Sirius would do but Adrian is sensible and Lily never breaks the rules unless she had to. I can't help but think that I should go to the staff room and find Professor Dumbledore and tell him that the others have left the Common Room.

There is only thing more horrible than being pushed down a pipe that lead to an underground chamber which happened to be the lair of a giant man-eating snake and that is to be pushed down a filthy pipe that lead to an underground chamber which happened to be the lair of a giant man-eating snake, that is until you actually meet said man-eating snake. This was why Lily was discreetly carrying a small mirror in her hand and clutching James' hand with the other. His knuckles were turning white but James was too scared to notice.

The boys stood protectively around Lily. Catalina chuckled at their actions knowing that she could easily kill all four of them without breaking a sweat. But that was the last thing on her mind. She motioned for them to follow her.

"I don't suppose you have learned much about South America in History of Magic." The four students shook their heads. "I might as well teach you something useful. Not that it really matters.

"Nearly one thousand years Parselmagic was fairly common in Brazil. Using snakes in rituals was an everyday occurrence. Those gifted were highly revered. Many were treated like royalty.

"The princess of one of the more powerful family met and fell in love with a European wizard… a pureblood worthy of her line. They had a child together and brought her and the child back to Europe with him. But he was a harsh man towards the princess and she fled, leaving the child. She was never seen in Europe again and was rumored to have returned to Brazil.

"The Man and the child lived in a Muggle village. The child was treated cruelly and not like the royalty the child deserved to be treated as. The child was treated worse than a common dog and left the village at fifteen when the father died. The child never returned to the village.

"It was many years later when the child, now an adult, made three friends, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Godric Gryffindor. The four friends created a school, Hogwarts. That person was Salazar Slytherin.

"All through history he has been treated as though he is a villain. It was the Muggles that made him the way he was. He didn't want Muggle trash in his school and now, like it was thirty years ago, he purge the school of those not worthy to know our ways. Muggle-borns are not meant to be our equals. The Parselmouth shall rule the world and he must be of European descent. The only one who fits that description is the line of Slytherin. He has the gift.

"The heir of Slytherin shall be our savior. He will restore the world to its former glory where the Pureblood were rulers and the Mudblood scum were our slaves. If that is to happen the line of Gryffindor must die and a willing sacrifice must bind his soul to the line of Slytherin."

They had entered a large chamber with the statue of Slytherin at the opposite end. In the middle of the room was Regulus Black; his hand was wrapped around a diary. He was getting paler by the minute and he was unconscious.

"Let him go! Sirius shouted. "He's just a kid."

"It's too late. I can't let him go. Soon his soul will be forever bound to the diary and the heir will be a willing leader." She turned to Regulus and gave him an adoring smile. It was disconcerting to see a teacher look at a boy that way.

"How can he be willing?" screamed Lily. "He doesn't even seem to be aware of what's happing to him." She was crying. Not because she knew Regulus but because he was giving up his soul to a monster and an eleven-year-old boy didn't deserve to lose his soul.

"He's willing because I told him to be willing. He knows exactly what I was asking of him. If I needed to persuade him…" Catalina trailed off.

"I have to kill the Potter boys now. Unfortunately, only the beast of Slytherin can have that honor. A simple Avada Kedavra is too impersonal. It didn't exist during Slytherin's time either. It's a shame really. It would be much quicker this way. But anyways," she turned her back to them and faced the statue of Slytherin, "speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four."

If it weren't for the fact that a giant man-eating snake was coming out of the statue's mouth the students would have been thinking about how conceited Slytherin was. However, there was a giant man-eating snake coming and their thoughts were not on Slytherin's ego.

Catalina turned her back to the students. "My father would be proud. He was English. My mother didn't know his first name but she knew he was a Black. The family doesn't even know about me. That will change."

All the students had their eyes closed. They heard a thud as the basilisk hit the ground. They accepted that they were going to die… except for Adrian.

Adrian knew that if they had wands they would have a better chance of surviving. He knew the disarming spell but he had only used it once and that was with a wand. Catalina had the wands in her front robe pocket. He had to try to save them.

"Expelliarmus!"

Catalina turned toward the shout. She looked into the mirror that was in Lily's trembling hand. The basilisk was behind her and she was Petrified. Adrian fainted from the spell. He put too much power into it. The others heard Adrian fall and just knew that Catalina wasn't 'there' anymore. The wands fell near Lily's feet and she picked them up.

"What are we going to do?" asked Lily. "We can't just stay here."

"Adrian and Regulus aren't in any condition to be moved. Adie probably has magical exhaustion but we don't know what will happen to Regulus if we take that diary away from him. We don't know what it is." James was worried about both of them even though he didn't really know the Black kid.

"We need to wait for Adrian to wake up. He can talk to the basilisk," suggested Sirius.

"It could be days before he wakes up." Lily was panicking. "There must be a way out of here. She sank to the floor. Her eyes were still closed. "We need help."

"We need to assess the situation," said James trying to calm the others.

"We are stuck in a dark chamber that's home to a snake that wants to eat us that we can't see incase we look in its eyes with one unconscious boy that we can't move because it might kill him and another unconscious boy that stupidly put himself in that condition in the first place by trying to expel our wands. How's that for assessing the situation?" She was nearly screaming and the two boys were afraid that she would attract the basilisk.

"Lily, you need to calm down. Panicking will only get you killed," yelled James.

"We know that this chamber is slightly bigger than the Great Hall and that we are more than half way across it," said Sirius. "Lily, you are the best at Charms, can you perform a summoning charm on the diary. The incantation is Accio; Mum uses it all the time."

"That's a Fourth Year spell. I can't do something that advanced."

"You have too. Just try. Adrian would." Sirius was pleading at this point. He needed Lily to perform that spell. He wasn't that with great Charms as his other classes.

Lily took a deep breath and shouted 'Accio'. They heard the diary coming towards them but it suddenly stopped with a thud. Then they heard tearing and a scream. The three of them sat there in shocked silence.

It was a few moments later when they heard a soft moan.

"Regulus! Don't move. Don't open your eyes." Sirius' voice was frantic.

"I couldn't do that even if I wanted to. I'm wearing a blindfold. Mistress never told me where she takes me. Mistress told me to never ask questions or she would punish me. Where is my Mistress? I need her. Mistress is the only one who cares about me. Mistress loves me."

"Reggie, your mistress just tried to kill you. She tried to kill al of us. She was Pet…" Sirius felt someone jab an elbow into his side.

"Do you hear that?" asked Lily.

It was phoenix song. They were saved. Then they were covered in blood.

James' POV

Fawkes saved us. He blinded the basilisk so we could escape. He did it on his own. Dumbledore had no idea where his familiar as for over an hour. The basilisk fled after being blinded. There was a lot of blood so we are hoping that it bleed to death.

Fawkes took Adrian to safety first. He still hasn't woken up. He will be fine after he takes a few potions when he wakes up.

Sirius' POV

Regulus has been sleeping on our dorm. The only Gryffindors who knows other than James is Remus and Peter. Lily might know.

Peter isn't happy about having a Slytherin sleeping in our dorm. But he won't say anything. Remus said that he wouldn't help with his homework and studying for exams if he did. I have heard a few mutterings of 'evil git' and 'Slytherin scum'. I sent a few stinging hexes his way and he stopped.

Lily's POV

Mum and dad are thinking of pulling me out of school. Professor Dumbledore and Mr. Potter spoke to them but I don't think they changed my parents' minds. I love Hogwarts… it's my second home. That and 'Tunia would never let me forget that I could never be a fully trained witch because my parents said no.

Remus' POV

Professor McGonagall and the other basilisk victims were cured a few days ago. Professor Slughorn made the potion. He made sure that the entire school knew that he made it.

Yesterday Professor McGonagall called me to her office to talk. She said that the Potters' weren't allowed to have custody of me. But as my head of House she can take me in for the summer. I'm going to live with my professor.

Adrian's POV

It's been a week since going into the Chamber of Secrets. I just woke up today. And I can't wait until I can get out of here. I'm so bored.

The good thing is that I'm excused from doing the exams. They might kill me. The other four don't have to do theirs either, neither do any of the basilisk victims.

A/N Remember I am not doing Third or Fourth Years.