Chapter 50 - The Chess Chamber (1/2)

The three went down the long passageway that was quiet except for the water trickling and the almost inaudible rustling sound ahead.

”What is that?” Kristine asked. ”It's like there's a bunch of birds over there. Oh my goodness, are Harry, Ron, and Se-yeon caught up in a bird attack. My mother told me once that if birds really decided to attack us, it would hurt a lot,”

”Probably not,” Chris said. ”Even if bird attacks might be scary, who would put in birds to guard one of the most wanted items of all time. A wizard or witch that's passed their third year of Hogwarts can probably obliterate all of those birds in matter of seconds,”

”True...” Kristine said. ”Then what do you think it will be?”

”I don't know,” Chris said. ”Something with wings that's for sure considering they sound like birds. Maybe it's some genetic mutations with some huge scary creature like spiders with bird wings,”

Hermione and Kristine were both silent for a second and shuddered thinking about it.

The three soon reached the end of the passageway and into a lit chamber. However, more importantly, they saw Harry, Ron and Se-yeon on brooms chasing after the winged keys in the air.

”Winged keys?” Kristine questioned.

”GET IT NOW!” Harry shouted from above. Chris saw Ron dashing to the key, but failed. He almost fell off his broom, but balanced himself at the final second.

Luckily Harry was able to grab the key and the three all landed. The three without realizing that Chris, Hermione, and Kristine were there hurriedly ran to the door and rammed the key inside the lock and successfully turned the key.

”WE DID IT!” Ron shouted as he sat down on the floor to rest for a bit.

”Hurry let's drink our potion,” Chris said as he drank the remaining half of the Invisibility Potion. Hermione and Kristine did the same.

”Hey guys, good work there,” Chris said as he and the girls went up to them.

”Woah, we were wondering where you three were,” Ron said. ”We thought you guys forgot about coming here,”

”Of course not,” Chris said. ”You guys were just a bit ahead of us so we tried our best to catch up,”

”You guys were mean!” Kristine said. ”You didn't mention that big dog at the first floor,”

”Oh yes, that's umm... our bad. We kind of forgot,” Ron said while laughing sheepishly.

”How could you forget about such an important thing?” Kristine asked. ”If it wasn't for... Never mind, let's move,” Kristine said.

”Wait, what were you going to say?” Ron asked.

”Don't know,” Kristine said while she stuck her tongue out.

Ron scratched his head and turned to Chris.

”Is she always this confusing?” He asked.

”I guess sometimes she is,” Chris said. ”Well she's right that we have to move forward. Let's go,”

The rest of them went to the next chamber, a room that had a big chessboard in the middle.

”Oh this has got to be the biggest chess boards and pieces I've ever seen my entire life,” Ron said. He went to go touch the knight piece which suddenly turned its head around which startled him.

”Um... do we all have to play with you to go to the next room?” Ron asked. The knight piece shook his head and 3 pieces turned around.

”Alright guys, we have to replace 3 of the pieces instead of 6,” Ron said.

”Ron, Harry, and I'll go,” Chris said. ”Well at least for Hermione and Kristine, they suck at chess. How about Se-yeon?”

”She's alright, but still worse than Harry,” Ron said.