Reign (Book 1)

Begining

"Minerva, who has been taken?" Madame Poppy asked hushly as the other professors dispersed

"Draco Malfoy i'm afraid" professor McGonagall replied gravaciously

"Draco" Harry ecoed even quieter to Ron from behind the wall were they were standing.

"Lets get back to the common room before we get caught" Ron whispered to the raven haired boy

"What? We should at least tell Lockhart about the Basalisk"

"Fine, lets go" Ron said unhappily running off followed by Harry.

Upon reaching the office Harry noticed the fraudulent man rushing around throwing things in his trunks.

"Going somewhere?" The twelve year old boy asked while Ron stood with his arms crossed.

"This was not in my job discription and besides, no one likes the little twerp anyway" the arrogant blond man replied hastily

"Well we tried Harry, i'm going back to the common room" and with that the red headed freckled boy walked out

"So im on my own?" Harry asked exasperated

"Sorry my boy" Lockhart agreed

Harry nodded simply and headed off to the thirdfloor bathroom.

"Oh, hello Harry" a sacrine sweet voice called

"Hello Myrtle" Harry replied

"What do you want?" She continued ignoring the greeting

"What do you remember about your death?" Harry asked

"Well I was crying here after a particularly hard day when I herd a strange noise which i recognized as a boy so I stormed out to tell him to GO AWAY but instead i just died" the distraught ghost replied

"But how?" Harry pressed on

"I dont know. All i remember was a pair of bright yellow eyes staring from that sink"

Having been given his target Harry quickly ran to the designated sink to find an engravement of a serpent on the fauset.

"Open" Harry hussed lowly causing a small shrik from Myrtle

"Oh and Harry. If you die down there your welcome to share my cubicle."

"Thanks Myrtle" Harry replied as he jumped down the pipe.

Waiting at the bottom of the pipe was a pile of bones which unerved Harry bit did not deter him from the task at hand. With a deep breath to stedy himself, Harry continued.
At the end of the dark tunnel Harry came to a great Metal door with a snake carved into it.

"OPEN" He comanded as the hinges fell off to allow passage into the most secret layer of Salazar Slytherin.

Upon seeing the motionless arrogant prat laying on the cold stone floor Harry ran up and began serchung for a puls.

"He is alive but only just" a husky voice spoke from the side

"Tom? Your the heir?" Harry guessed

"Harry Potter, so good to see you again, i'm sorry our catch up can't be as jubilant as i hand hoped, you really did make it sooner than I had hoped but no matter. Lets match up the power if Tom Riddle, heir of Slytherin against 'the great Harry Potter'"

With a flourish the older boy turned and faced the statue "as Heir of Slytherin I camand you to obey me" Riddle hissed loudly and at once the fifty foot Basalisk came rushing from the statues mouth.