Chapter 27 - Chamber of secrets (2/2)

He further walked through the tunnel and at the end of the tunnel, he saw a Door with two entwined serpents carved. He spoke in a parseltongue, ”Open”. The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Neal stepped inside.

He was standing at the very end of a long, dimly lit chamber. It was filled with towering pillars with entwined serpents carved on them which supports the ceiling and cast their dark shadow all over the place. At the far end, he saw the Statue of Slytherin.

While walking on the floor he looked at the floor which was wet indicating it was flooded sometime before. As it was under the lake, he thought it was normal and continued to walk towards the end.

While seeing the Slytherin statue's mouth, he thought, ”I'm having a sudden feeling that...”. Then Isle hissed, ”She's in there”. He nodded and stood before the statue and spoke in parseltongue, ”Come out Basilisk, The True heir to the Salazar Slytherin is here”.

As soon as he spoke parseltongue and Slytherin's name, the statue which somehow recognized his heritage, slowly opened its mouth wider by every second.

A few seconds later, as the Slytherin statue was widely opened, from inside the Darkness, a Giant dark green Serpent slowly crawled from its mouth. Unlike other snakes where it doesn't have eyelids, Basilisk has eyelids.

As he saw it was about to open its eyes, he ordered it in a parseltongue, ”don't open your eyes. Close them until I tell you so”. It immediately stayed like that and hissed, ”I'm hungry, Master. I need to kill”. Neal replied in parseltongue, ”I'm taking you to a place where you don't have to worry about food and safety. Come with me, Basilisk”.

It hissed, ”yes, Master”. He went and stood near it, ”lower your head and carry me to the top. I have a promise to fulfill”. As he sits on top of its head, the Basilisk followed directions with its eyes closed and made way to the entrance.

As the head of the Basilisk made a way out of the Pipe, Myrtle who was sitting there suddenly flew and hid in her toilet. She slowly looks at the Giant Snake from distance and Neal sitting on top of it. Neal spoke out, ”Myrtle come out. No need to be afraid. Its eyes are closed”. Myrtle flew over and stopped before it and spoke angrily, ”so, this is the one that killed me”. As the Basilisk heard her voice, it snarled while showing it's huge teeth making her fly all over to the window at the top, ”Ok, I've seen it. Now, make it disappear. It's scary”.

Neal jumped on to the floor and then switched the buŧŧon from manual to Auto which is at the top of it's handle. Then he spoke in a parseltongue, ”I'm sending you off into a completely different place. After you appear there, you can open your eyes and roam, eat, sleep. Whatever you want”. Basilisk hissed, ”yes, master”. He opened the suitcase which suċkėd the Basilisk into a forest habitat which is different from the one Giant Anaconda, ”Buck” lives in.

As soon as it appeared in a completely open space with trees, it hissed in an excitement, ”freedom” then it smelled its prey somewhere. It was various normal animals like chickens, goats, sheep, pigs, eggs, etc... Neal bought them through Hagrid who was one of the two, who knew the secret of his magic suitcase, the other being Dumbledore.

Meanwhile, Harry was standing in front of Prof. Quirell in a shock as he expected Snape to be there instead.