143 Nest. (1/2)

”Are you really sure?” Hermione asked nervously for the fifth time.

”Yup!” Draco said, ”As long as you keep the suitcase open and be prepared in case of emergencies, I'll be fine.”

Hermione sighed and nodded, ”Good luck!”

Draco chanted a spell pointing at himself, as he created a bubble around his face. Draco looked back at Hermione one last time and with the Bridle, in his hand, he jumped inside the well. With the Bubble-Head Charm breathing underwater was extremely easy. Diving in he looked around to find nothing, he kept his senses up as he kept swimming when suddenly he felt something move deeper inside the well.

”Sigh! They really must be planning on killing me, huh!” Draco said snorting as he chanted, ”Lumos Maxima.”

Draco's wand grew very bright, as he started swimming deeper. The deeper he went the wider the well got and before he reached the end of the well, he was already deep inside a what looked like a water castle. There were pillars and broken statutes all over the place. His eyes fell on the darker area only to realize that the place kept going deeper.

”What is this place?” Draco muttered not expecting there to be such a thing inside the well. The place reminded him of the many secret rooms in Hogwarts. ”I wonder how many more are there?” Draco pondered when suddenly at the corner of his eyes, Draco saw something move behind one of the huge pillars but before he turned over, the thing had already disappeared. Draco carefully looked around those pillars one by one, his breathing getting a bit heavy.

Draco tried to calm down and feel the movement around him. Fighting underwater was very different from what he had expected, the limit in his movement caused him to slow down and his efficiency dropped down a lot as well. Draco felt something behind him as he quickly turned around to find a horse-shaped creature coming towards him at a full speed.

”Not so quick!” Draco snorted as he quickly used a stunning spell at the horse which it managed to dodge easily. Draco seeing the kelpie dodging wasn't nervous at all instead, he was smiling. Without any delay, Draco quickly used the placement charm shifting the bridle from his hand to the horse's mouth.

The horse tried to shook the bridle off of it but failed as it started transforming into something else, a Scottish loch. Draco smile soon faded away as the kelpie who had just transformed was too close to him. Draco tried to dodge but the kelpie got hold of him and with him holding on, the kelpie started diving in towards the deeper part uncontrollably trying to shake the bridle off of it.

Draco who barely managed to dodge grabbed on the Kelpie's hair as the kelpie kept diving deeper and deeper into what seemed like an endless pit. Getting a hold of things Draco looked around to finally find the reins attached to the bridle. Taking his chances Draco quickly grabbed on the reins and using it, he climbed on the back of the Kelpie and pulled back.

The kelpie who kept struggling as it kept diving felt something on it's back but before it could do anything it had to forcefully stop as Draco kept pulling its head back with the rein. It struggled again and again but Draco didn't let go. After not being able to do anything it let out a cry.

Draco felt the Kelpie giving up, as he relaxed until out of nowhere another Kelpie came towards him, pushing him off the back, Draco knowing the situation wasn't in his favor anymore quickly used an explosion spell, pointing at what seemed like a statue blowing it away. The statue broke off and started sinking and without thinking anything Draco held on to it, sinking deeper and deeper as the kelpies kept chasing him.

After what felt like an eternity, The statue landed on the floor crashing. Draco used a protection spell to get off but the impact still managed to get to him, as he was thrown a bit far away. Trying to swim a bit he used a spell again making the place brighter.

He swam around the place finding a couple of dead Kelpies around the floor, the bodies still looked a bit fresh so he figured the toxicity of the potion had caused them to die. The place was more like a small hall and wasn't as big and wide as Draco expected it to be. He looked around for a while only to realize that he was surrounded by four huge statues when he looked up.