"Massster… Basssil told me to tell you that you ssshould come asss sssoon asss posssible to the chamber" Copper said as she woke Harry up.
"Great, though it will have to wait 'till the end of the day" Harry said as he began to put his training clothes for his morning run, just as he was stepping out of the snoring contest that was his bedroom he found not only Millie waiting in her form fitting exercise clothes but Pansy as well in some loose white pants with a loose green shirt.
"I thought I'd join you for a run" Pansy said
"I don't mind, and you Millie?" Harry said
"No, I don't mind either" She replied.
"Then let's go" Harry said as he began to walk towards the castle entrance. After doing the necessary stretches the trio began their jog, mainly because Pansy wasn't used to run at their speed so they decided to slow down for her, after several minutes they reached the Black Lake shore, where a strange but sweet melody was heard.
The trio saw a hulking figure sat on a rock playing the flute while a dog watched him with rapt attention.
"That's a beautiful melody" Pansy said looking at the morning view of the lake and at the man playing the flute.
"Thanks' a lot mis'" Hagrid said turning to see the group. "'ello 'arry, nice to see ya" Hagrid said
"Good morning Hagrid, that indeed was a beautiful melody, and an excellent flute" Harry said
"Thanks, me friend Firenze gave it to me, I found him as I investigated somethin' in the forbidden forest" Hagrid said
"Not to be noisy but what were you doing in the forbidden forest?" Millie asked with shyness at the presence of the tall man.
"Just some creature that's creating chaos" Hagrid replied.
"I see, does this creature is a man or an animal?" Harry asked, he had read about the creatures in the Forbidden Forest and though dangerous they weren't chaos makers.
"I don't know 'arry" Hagrid said "All I know is that it kills unicorns" Hagrid shrugged then his eyes went comically large. "I shouldn't have said that!"
Harry, Pansy and Millie's eyes were shocked to hear that, unicorns were a pure creature that never harmed anyone so who or what dared to kill such a magnificent creature.
"Why is it killing unicorns, that's almost blasphemy!" Pansy said offended
"Yes it is mis, that's why I'm hunting it" Hagrid replied "Anyway, I… I have things to do, have a nice day" And with that the giant man left them at the shores of the lake
"That was weird" Millie said
"That's just Hagrid, he is a lousy liar but he has a good heart" Harry defended the half giant
"But what about the unicorns? Should we help him destroy this creature?" Pansy asked in a spur of bravery and confidence.
"Preferably no, we don't know how strong this creature can be, so let's hope Hagrid can hunt it down soon" Harry said "Of course I will help him hunt it down but I can't let you get hurt" Harry thought.
"Well let's begin our exercises" Millie said beginning to stretch her arms.
"Pansy, just follow what we do, alright?" Harry said to the girl
"Sure" Pansy replied.
"And remember, every ten push-ups, ten sit-ups or every ten repetitions we get our reward by kissing Harry" Millie said to Pansy
"Oh I like the sound of that" The other girl replied
"We should definitely tell Hermione to join tomorrow so that she doesn't feels excluded" Harry said
"Of course, we like her we don't want any animosity if we are going to share you" Pansy replied with a sly smile.
The trio continued their morning exercises with Harry having to give them their rewards as they had agreed on. Half an hour later the girls were tired with Harry having enough stamina to continue his exercises but decided to walk back with them to the common room.
During the breakfast feast Harry sat in the middle between Millie and Pansy with Hermione joining them sitting in front of him on the Slytherin table.
"So we just been here for a little more than two months and you already have three girlfriends? Damn Wayne you muggleborns don't waste time" Blaise joked as he sat next to Hermione
"It must be my charm" Harry said with a smirk
"Or your millions" Pansy jokingly replied
"Really? Just when I thought you liked me for being me" Harry said feigning a hurt voice
"Of course we like you for being you" Hermione said "But it doesn't hurt having a fortune at your name" She added with a smile that make everyone else laugh.
"And they don't know of the Potter fortune I already have" Harry thought.
They continued their breakfast with Daphne remaining quiet through most of it and not interacting with the other Slytherins except with Tracey and those conversations were very one sided on Tracey's part.
Then the morning mail arrived with the many owls flying past every table delivering letters and packages. As every morning Harry received his copies of the Daily Planet and the Gotham Gazette as well as a small package, he decided to open the package and saw that it was a deflated American football with a note that said.
"Harry, I've found this in one of the many boxes in the attic, thought you might like to play with your cousins.
With Love, your mom Selina"
Harry smiled reading the note, he decided to make use of her advice and play around with his friends and cousins, they might even like the muggle sport, if they accepted soccer why wouldn't they like American football?
"Hey Draco! Heads up!" Harry yelled making the Hufflepuff blonde to look up with a smile as he saw his cousin readying his arm to make a pass at him, the short black haired Slytherin boy threw the ovoid shaped ball towards the next table where Draco catch it without effort.
"What is that?" Cedric Diggory asked looking at the odd shaped ball.
"This is a football, from the American sport, we played it every time we visited Harry and his family, if you want to throw it you need to grab it from the middle and let your fingertips slip making the ball advance making a spin in the air" Draco explained to the other Hufflepuff purebloods who had never seen nor heard about that sport.
As Draco was explaining a beautiful owl flew towards the Slytherin table where it landed in front of Samuel Flint, the elder boy gulped down and read the letter to himself, Harry had seen the boy's reaction by the corner of his eye and saw how his expression was full of dread and tears were already streaming down his cheeks.
"No doubt his parents aren't proud of his actions yesterday" Harry thought to himself, then he saw how from the Gryffindor table came the youngest of the redhead Weasley.
"Hey man, heard that you were almost killed yesterday, you good?" Ron asked, even though they weren't the best of friends they had a rivalry and a love for chess competition so there was an unspoken respect between the two of them.
"Gossip travels quickly here. Where did you heard that?" Harry asked
"From Susan and Neville who heard it from Professor McGonagall as she wrote a letter to your family" Ron said
"Yes, Marcus ambushed us near the Black Lake and tried to kill me with an unforgivable spell" Harry confessed.
"Wicked, not the thing of almost getting killed but the fact that you survived a curse like that makes you almost being on the same level of awesomeness as Harry Potter" Ron said to which Harry nodded biting his lip to hold the laughter
"If only he knew" Harry said to himself "Well thanks man, if you want we can later play some chess" Harry said to the redhead boy
"Sure that will be wicked" Ron said walking away.
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After classes Harry detach himself from his three girlfriends and went to Salazar's chamber and after feeding his basilisk friend he asked.
"So what was the important thing you needed to tell me?" Harry said as he transfigured another Lego pig into a full fleshed one.
"There are ssseveral sssecret chambersss inssside Hogwartsss, my massster wasssn't the only one hiding sssecretsss" Basil said to the boy as he finished eating.
"Really?" Harry asked
"Yesss, Sssalazar created thisss chamber, Helga created a chamber near the kitchens, Rowena created a magical chamber in the ssseventh floor and Godric made a chamber near the lake, the entrance for all thessse chambersss are hidden" Basil explained.
"What can you tell me about those chambers?" Harry inquired.
"Helga wanted a place where her ssstudents could get food and practice, Rowena a place where her students could get whatever they needed and Godric a place where his students could train as long as they wanted" Basil explained.
"How can I access to any of those rooms?" Harry asked
"That I do not know with certainty, you could asssk a friend in thossse Housssesss" Basil said
"Perhaps, it wouldn't be a bad idea, thank you Basil" Harry said to the gigantic basilisk.
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When nighttime arrived Harry slipped out of the common room using darkness as his ally and his glide cape to hide in the shadows every time he saw Mr. Filch or one of the professors in the nearby proximity.
After thirty minutes of hide and seek in the corridors Harry managed to escape the castle and placed his cape over his shoulders.
"All of this of hiding in the shadows makes me think I was Batman in another life" Harry thought to himself as the dark and eerie forest lurked in front of him.
"It's show time!" He thought to himself imitating Beetlejuice's voice so he grabbed his night vision goggles from his utility belt and placed them on and he began walking through the forest.
"No wonder this place was forbidden it is full of spider webs, weird sounds and were those howls?" Harry said to himself as he continue his journey, then he heard a hiss and he turned around to see a snake nearby.
"Excellent, a native" Harry said to the snake
"You're a ssspeaker?" The snake asked him
"Yes, my name is Harry Wayne I'm from Slytherin" Harry introduced himself to the snake
"I am Kovac, why are you here ssspeaker?" Kovac asked
"I'm trying to hunt down the monster that is killing unicorns" Harry said to the snake "Do you know where it is?"
"I don't know where it isss, but I can point out where it huntsss, follow me" Kovac said as he slither away with Harry following him. After a few minutes and with Harry arriving at a glade he heard Kovac say
"Thisss isss asss far asss I go, good luck ssspeaker" Kovac said as he left
"Thank you Kovac, hope we can meet again" Harry said as he began walking all by himself on this glade, the many fallen trees compensated for a more disturbing and terrifying experience, he still tried to calm his nerves as he took one small chunk of his emergency chocolate when he heard the neigh of a horse and he went to investigate.
What he saw disturbed him, as he saw a cloaked figure slurping directly from a white unicorn's artery, like a vampire, the poor animal laid lifeless on the ground with this monster continue his task, Harry felt angry, he hated bullies and this monster wasn't a predator eating a small animal out of the need for food but only to kill it almost for sport and to suck its blood.
Then the cloaked figure saw Harry, it was so dark that even with his night vision goggles he couldn't see anything beyond the silvery color of the unicorn's blood that dripped from its lips.
Harry saw the cloaked figure move in an inhuman way, almost like floating, the eerie presence was coming towards him leaving behind the corpse of the unicorn it was feasting on, Harry felt terror, this thing it was different than anything he had seen before, it wasn't like the troll he defeated because Hermione and Pansy were in danger, it wasn't like the bullies either, no, this thing was something completely different, something so much eviler.
Harry stepped back falling on his back on some vines, he wanted to invoke icicles but only a small fresh breeze came from his hands, he wanted to make a thunderstorm but not even a spark came from his fingertips, he wanted to make a raging fire but his hands weren't warm enough, in other words the boy was scared and out of focus.
There was something so evil about this thing in front of him that he just couldn't perform any kind of magic, in less than a minute the creature would be in front of him and probably will kill him just like it did with the unicorn over there.
Then almost like a miracle he heard a galloping and the next thing he saw was that a dark haired centaur was kicking the cloaked creature back, the creature retreated almost like if it was flying away until it disappeared on the darkness of the forest.
"Harry Potter, you must leave, you're known to many creatures on this forest. The forest is not safe at this time, especially for you" The centaur said
"How do you know my real name?" Harry asked
"The centaur community have a strong connection with Divination, that's why I knew where to found you and what your real name was, my name is Firenze by the way" He said
"Interesting, what was that thing?" Harry asked
"A monstrous creature, it's a terrible crime to slay a unicorn, drinking the blood of a unicorn will keep you alive even if you're an inch from death, but at a terrible price, you have slayed something so pure that from the moment the blood touches your lips you will have a half-life. A cursed life" Firenze explained.
"Who could choose such a life?" Harry asked
"Can you think of no one?" Firenze asked
"Voldemort" Harry said without thinking, he heard the stories of the evil dark lord and how he had been defeated but how he was mostly dead.
"Do you know what is hidden in the school at this very moment, Mr. Potter?" Firenze asked
"I don't know, there's a lot of things hidden inside the castle" Harry said with a smug smile
"The philosopher stone Mr. Potter, that thing could help Voldemort regain his mortal body" Firenze said to the boy who began processing this new information.
Then a bark of a dog and the crunches of some vines interrupted their talk as Harry and Firenze saw Hagrid and Fang arrived with Hagrid carrying a crossbow with what it looked like to be a silver tip arrow.
"'ello Firenze, I see you've met our young Mr. Wayne" Hagrid said to the centaur. "You alright there 'arry?" Hagrid asked the boy
"Harry Potter" Firenze said to the green and blue eyed boy who stared at the centaur wide eyed who hoped that Hagrid had not heard what he called him, Firenze only winked at him "This is where I leave you, you're safe now, good luck" And with that the centaur walked away from him.
"Hagrid, what are you doing here?" Harry asked as the gentle giant walked towards him
"I patrol the area in case one of Professor Lupin's wolves decide to 'ave a midnight snack" Hagrid confessed as he showed his crossbow. Then his eyes went large "I shouldn't have said that"
"Wolves?" Harry asked "Is uncle Remus breeding wolves inside the school terrain?" Harry thought to himself
"Never mind that, what are ye doing here? It's way past your bedtime" Hagrid said to the boy.
"I wanted to help you killing that thing" Harry confessed.
"'arry, yer intentions were good but foolish, it could've killed ye" Hagrid said as he motioned the boy to follow him back to the castle.
"Still, I needed to help and protect the people I care about that right now are living inside the castle" Harry confessed.
"That sounded like a true Gryffindor Harry" Hagrid mussed himself.
"I know but I can't stay put and let Voldemort run around regaining strength" Harry said
"Don't say his name" Hagrid squirmed as he heard the name.
"I'm not afraid of him" "Yeah right, tell that to yourself Wayne" Harry said to Hagrid as he thought to himself "But really, Firenze told me that Voldemort is trying to stay alive by drinking unicorn's blood and he is attempting to steal the philosopher stone" Harry said to Hagrid.
"That's impossible, the philosopher stone is guarded by Fluffy, and no one passes Fluffy" Hagrid said then he added "I shouldn't have said that"
"What's Fluffy?" Harry asked
"Nothing of an importance, now go to yer bedroom before ye'll get into trouble" Hagrid said to which Harry looked at him in confusion
"I think I need to speak with Headmaster Dumbledore sooner than later" Harry said to himself as he decided how to help the school and its students.