Chapter 27 - Chamber of secrets (1/2)

When he stepped inside the bathroom, she saw the new visitor while stopping her sobbing, ”oh, a visitor after a very long time”. Neal looked at her and replied, ”it's ok. Don't mind me. I won't disturb you”.

Myrtle looked at him and the snake curiously without replying to anything. Isle hissed to him while saying it was here somewhere. Then he put the magic suitcase down and walked around and thought, ”where might be the entrance hidden? Is it hidden like our common room behind a wall or something?”.

Then he suddenly got an idea and looked at Myrtle who's staring at him for a while in silence. He cleared his throat and asked, ”Ms. Mytle Warren. Can I ask you something?”.

She immediately flew over and stopped before him and said, ”sure, what do you want to talk to me about? You can ask anything or even can talk about anything. I'm a good listener”. Neal then asked, ”can you remember the exact moment of your death?”.

She flew while sobbing and sat at the previous place and replied, ”I don't know”. Neal asked, ”you don't know how you died?”. She replied while sobbing, ”I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away”.

Neal then asked, ”And where exactly did you see the eyes?”. She pointed the sink, ”somewhere there”. He went to it and while looking at one of the sinks, he saw a snake is carved on a copper tap. Neal smiled and put forward his hand which Isle coiled around it and took her place and then he saw the connected pipes to the bottom. He mumbled, ”this is it”. Then, he looked at Myrtle, ”do you want to see the thing responsible for your death, Myrtle?”. She suddenly became stiff upon hearing it and flew over to one of the toilets, ”No, I'm scared”.

Neal then said, ”after a while, I'm going to bring out the monster which killed you. You can see it while hiding if you want”. Forgetting about Myrtle, Neal concentrated on the sink and mumbled, ”well, here goes nothing”. He spoke in a parseltongue, ”Open now”.

Just then, the Upper part which contains mirrors raised and floated in the air while all the sinks move away from that spot revealing a huge Pipeline downwards. As he looks downwards which is pitch dark, he pulled out his Black Walnut wand and produced a light with Lumos spell.

Then he sat down at the edge and check it to see the bottom. As he can't see it, he asked, ”check if you can sense it again?”. Isle hissed, ”yes, she is there. I can sense her”. Neal then picked up his magic suitcase and said, ”good, then, off we go”.

He jumped into the dark Pipe and while falling and slowed down his speed with his Flying Shoes, ”Lightning 45” which was given by Edward as a Christmas gift. A while later, he safely landed on the ground.

He started to walk through the pathway where the dark tunnel is taking him with ”Lumos”. He complained to himself, ”since the chamber was built in the dungeons below the lake, couldn't he just put an additional entrance somewhere in Slytherin dormitory?”.

While he was walking, he saw lots of rat's skulls and other small animal bones. ”Poor beast. I guess she would have been very hungry all this time. I think it must be why it tried to escape through the entrance and was probably blocked as the entrance was closed and Isle must have sensed it then”.

Then he saw a gigantic snakeskin, of vivid, poisonous green, lying curled and empty across the tunnel floor. The creature that had shed it must have been twenty feet long at least. ”well, Buck was much bigger though”.