A Nexus Devil

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"Wait up," Ron said before stuffing one last muffin in his mouth. "Don't leave me out of the fun. Come on, Hermione, let's go.

" Hermione just sighed before she closed her book and stuck it back in her bottomless bag where it joined dozens of others. She might as well follow them and make sure they don't cause too much trouble.

Luna took the lead down the hallway as the others just followed her along. As they were walking, Harry turned to Jake and asked, "So, what exactly is going on?

I know you're friends with Luna from Ravenclaw and all, but it was kind of strange, right? Her just saying 'let's go' and you not even questioning about any details or anything." Harry elaborated his confusion.

Jake just shrugged and rubbed the back of his head. "Ah well, I've found it's usually better not to just question Luna. And besides, the last time I went out on a day trip with her, I ended up with a phoenix as a familiar!" He said proudly.

*Chirp chirp!* Blaze chirped in happy agreement!

And it was because of said little Phoenix that Jake was even alive to tell this story in the first place. Otherwise, he would have been done in by that dragon.

'Well, Serafall probably would have saved him,' Jake thought in hindsight, 'but then she would have ended up exposing the supernatural world to the closed-off Wizarding community in the process and probably would have caused a giant panic.

' That would have been a lot to deal with, and all that hassle was prevented by Luna. Jake was still incredibly grateful to her!

The group of five, plus one bird, finally came to their destination on the second floor. "We're here," Luna said.

Hermione let out a sigh. "I really don't want to have to deal with Moaning Myrtle right now…. Why are we in the girls' bathroom?!" She said somewhat annoyed.

Ron had a look of panic on his face. "Oh no, we're not going where I think we are, are we? I don't want to go back there. That place sucked," he said, and Harry, who had also picked up on their location, started nodding as well.

He was only 14 right now, but he felt like he might be getting PTSD flashbacks from the giant snake!

"Huh, what's down there?" Jake asked.

"It's the Chamber of Secrets!" Ron exclaimed. "It's Salazar Slytherin's super evil lair where he kept his giant monster basilisk that terrorized the whole school in our second year and it almost killed Harry and Hermione!"

"Wait, really?" Jake asked. "It's not still down there, is it?"

"Oh, it's still down there," Luna said knowingly, "but you don't have to worry, Ronald Weasley. It's very much dead. Harry saw to that."

"Why are you freaking out so much over a dead snake?" Jake said as he teased Ron and Harry a bit.

"You'd be freaking out too if you had to face that snake when you were only 12, with nothing but a sword…" Harry muttered to himself.

Eventually, with half the members doing so reluctantly, they entered the bathroom. They were also lucky enough for moaning myrtle to not be present.

Once inside, Luna told Harry to open the entrance to the chamber with his Parseltongue. Harry had a resigned look on his face as he just hissed at the sink, and to Jake's shock, the floor nearby suddenly caved in, revealing a massive slide.

The bottom of the slide couldn't be seen because it was too dark.

Luna just happily shoved Blaze into Jake's arms. "See you all at the bottom!" And then she hopped right onto the slide and gave a happy cheer as she started heading downwards!

Jake, with Blaze in his arms, just followed along right after her. For a secret villain lair, he found that it had a pretty fun entrance...Eventually, he slid to the bottom of the slide, which let out over a pile of bones absolutely everywhere.

He could definitely see why this was called an evil chamber now. Harry, Ron, and Hermione slid down shortly after him.

"So, this is the chamber, huh?" Hermione asked curiously, and she looked around slightly disgusted. "It's a lot grosser than I expected one of the founders to leave it."

"Yeah, apparently, the Basilisk had been feeding on rats as its main food source for the past thousand years, and so the bones are just absolutely everywhere at this point," Harry commented.

"I wish the slimy bastard ate Scabbers when he had the chance," Ron added on.

"Had you let my darling Crookshanks eat your stupid rat, then the entire mess last year could have been avoided in the first place!" Hermione said smugly. Ron just turned his head to the side in shame.

He was never going to live that down. He even frequently let that little rat sleep in his bed, he shuddered to himself in absolute disgust...

Eventually, they came to the door blocking the true entrance to the chamber, which Luna asked Harry to open for all of them again. "Wait!?" Harry exclaimed, "Is the only reason I'm here to open doors for you two?"

Luna smiled kindly at Harry. "Of course not, you're an incredibly important part of this adventure!" Luna then caught Jake's eyes with her own slyly before she shook her head no at him. Yes, Harry was pretty much just there to open doors for them.

"Well, at least you're doing something, Harry," Ron said. "Hermione and I just feel like tag-alongs."

"You two are tag-alongs," Luna giggled, making Ron and Hermione sputter in indignation.

"I'm just here to make sure you all don't break any rules!" Hermione retorted.

Harry hissed at the door, which fully opened, revealing the Chamber of Secrets in all of its glory. Magical torches flared to life as the group entered.

"Holy crap, Harry, you killed that when you were 12!?" Jake exclaimed, looking at the huge skeleton of the Basilisk. It had to be at least 40 feet long! Harry just stood there and looked smug.

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