Chapter 145 The Rebellious Basilisk
When Aidan woke up, the basilisk was whizzing past him. He looked at the tip of its big tail that flashed by before he realized what had happened and was immediately horrified.
"Is this damn thing going to go up?" Aidan was only thinking about Arrianne and had no time to worry about what had entangled him before. He left Ginny behind and immediately used the Haste Spell to follow the basilisk, but he still couldn't even catch up with the shadow of the basilisk.
"Ginny, hold on to me!" After a while, Harry, who was healed by the Phoenix's tears, grabbed Fawkes' feet and flew outside. He shouted and stretched out his hand to Ginny who had just woken up, "It's not safe here yet. We have to go up and stop the basilisk."
Harry's clothes were all tattered at this time, but his face was filled with extraordinary bravery and fighting spirit. Ginny looked at him blankly and subconsciously offered her hand.
Fawkes first took them to find Ron and Lockhart, and then followed the destructive trail left by the basilisk.
As soon as they flew out of the cave, they were surrounded by several investigators in pajamas.
"I'm glad you're okay, but it's best to stay here now. The basilisk has already jumped out and it's not safe outside." A female agent with chestnut curly hair put his arm around Harry's shoulder soothingly.
"But we can't just stay here, the Basilisk is outside, we can't--" Harry was a little incoherent, at this time Fawkes grabbed the sword of Gryffindor from his hand and flew away.
"Kid, Aidan has just used voice transmission magic to inform every corner of Hogwarts of this news," another male agent with a short beard came over, "and we have been urgently assigned here to resist the basilisk. Believe me, both the investigators and professors will try their best to protect the safety of the students."
"But none of you came to save my sister." Ron's face was dark and dirty. He looked at Ginny, whose face was unusually pale, and he almost shed tears.
The short-bearded man and the curly-haired man looked at each other and sighed silently. Then the curly-haired man said in a tone that was both helpless and deliberately lively, "Although we lacked autonomy before, we have been involved in a passive situation where we have no choice but to take action. So, please trust us."
In addition to investigators like the one with short beard and chestnut curly hair who were assigned to fixed locations, the investigators also urgently dispatched several wizards with good magic power to form a team with the professors to pursue the basilisk on the move.
Aidan was still the one closest to the basilisk. Although he could not keep up with the speed of the basilisk, he used the Patronus Charm to summon his eagle in time, so that he could follow the basilisk under its guidance.
As expected, the basilisk, with both eyes pecked out, kept bumping around and finally headed for the dungeon. This Slytherin monster was going to destroy Slytherin, which was founded by Salazar, first.
When Aidan got there, the basilisk was smashing the stone door of Slytherin with its incredibly large tail. The hard stone door was full of cracks from the snake's tail, and a lot of broken stones fell off and hit the ground.
The serious voice that Ellian was familiar with leaked out from these cracks unclearly. She shouted loudly, "All students who know the rock spell should cast a spell on our stone gate now! We must resist long enough!"
The Slytherins' voices, some louder, some smaller, some sharp, some low, all rang out at once, and densely packed "solid as a rock" sounds reached Aidan's ears. The stone door that was on the verge of breaking flashed with light, and the arc of the basilisk's tail that was bounced off when it hit it became larger.
"Flames! Thunder and lightning!" Aidan cast several powerful spells at the basilisk in one breath, and his patronus also kept attacking with its sharp claws, but all these only made the basilisk twist its body twice, and Aidan didn't even see any burnt marks on its body.
The basilisk, which had been hitting the stone door with its tail continuously, became impatient at this time. It tilted its head downward, twisted its overly long body and put its head in front of Slytherin's stone door, which was already supported by the Stone Spell. In front of Aidan's bloodshot eyes, it bit through the last layer of defense with its indestructible fangs.
"Do not!!!"
“Ah!!” “Ahhhhh!”
Aidan's refusal sounded together with the backlash screams of the Slytherin students who were broken by the spell. Aryan, who was standing in the front row of the students, was shocked and vomited blood. The voice of her boyfriend outside and the screams around her also made her dazed. Everything in front of her seemed to slow down.
At the unobstructed entrance in front of her, the basilisk's fangs had not yet been fully retracted, and the monster's head was lowering lower and lower. Soon its eyes that could kill her at any moment would be exposed, and soon she would die, and soon she would never see Aidan again...
Aryan, who didn't know that the basilisk had pecked out her eyes, thought negatively at first, and then her father's gentle and strangely authoritative voice rang in her heart. Her father always told her, "Even when you are most stretched, you can't be down and out, Aryan, because if people no longer respect you, then you really have nothing."
"I want everything, I want everything..." Aryan's eyes were wide open and she kept muttering, she wanted to live, she wanted Aidan, she wanted the future and power she had longed for.
Then a will to live suddenly ignited, she raised her wand again, and shouted out her unformed Patronus spell to the monster that was about to come in: "Expecto Patronus!"
A sharp silver eagle emerged from the white gas coming out of the tip of her wand and rushed straight to the door. Although this was not enough to kill the basilisk, the basilisk was knocked away from the entrance by the oncoming magic power. When it roared and was about to pounce again, the Royalia couple, Snape and McGonagall finally arrived.
"Air Strike! (x2)" "God's Strike!" "Burning Flames!"
Two of the four people used the Barrier Spell, and two used harmful spells. The basilisk only changed its movement trajectory slightly under the external force of the Barrier Spell, and there was still no injury on its body.
"Everyone, spell the barrier!" Alian, who was observing the outside through the entrance, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and loudly called the students in the lounge who had just breathed a sigh of relief, "We are not safe yet!"
"Air barrier!" The chaotic voices rang out again, but this time a different kind of unity was revealed in the chaos.
The professors and investigators outside who found it difficult to cause direct damage to the basilisk were still struggling. They could only dodge and use barrier spells to restrict the basilisk's movements. Fortunately, there were five of them including Aidan, and they could still hold on by making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, but this obviously could not solve the problem.
At this moment, Fawkes flew over with his flaming wings, and dropped the Sword of Gryffindor over the Basilisk. The sharp sword fell diagonally and pierced the eyes of the five people. Dark immediately tried to use the levitation spell to make the sword move, but failed.
"Is that a Hogwarts thing?" he shouted. "Quick, if you can make it move!"
Among the five people, only Magg's levitation spell was effective against the Sword of Gryffindor, so the remaining four began to cooperate with Magg. They used the barrier spell to restrict the basilisk's movements, and Magg found the right opportunity to float the sword into the air and stab it.
After being stabbed deeply several times, the basilisk finally gave up on the students on the other side of the wall. He roared and rushed back quickly. Although he was dizzy from several barrier spells, he successfully broke through the encirclement of several people and went up again.
"Hai-hi (stop)."
When passing by the hall, the basilisk heard an order. The blood of Slytherin wrapped in the girl's not-so-strong voice made it surrender, so it swam to the door of the hall and obediently lowered its snake head in front of Della.
Della stood there, the blood snake between her eyebrows was still there, making her face look even paler. She stretched out her hand towards the blind basilisk, originally wanting to cast a fierce fire spell, but a strange spell diagram suddenly appeared under their feet.
After a flash of white light, the originally huge basilisk turned into a small snake not much longer than the magic wand. It was blind, but its senses were still sharp. It swam a few times and then disappeared.
When Professor McGonagall and the others arrived with swords, the traces of the basilisk collision stopped abruptly. Only Della, who had fainted on the ground, and the string of silver footprints behind her that were covered with unicorn blood were still there.
Several investigators and Madam Pomfrey came here together under McGonagall's magical broadcast. While the investigators were investigating whether the ceremony in the hall was correctly terminated, they observed Della who was being treated by Madam Pomfrey out of the corner of their eyes.
After McGonagall and the others returned because they couldn't find the basilisk, a brown-haired investigator walked up to the group. He looked at the professor, then at Dark, and finally said, "The ritual has been broken. I think we have to take her away." The brown-haired man pointed at Della.
"Della hasn't woken up yet, why are you taking our students away?" Mag asked with a bad look on his face.
"It's like this, Professor," Dark said at this time, "In the three reports I have submitted so far, two of them define Della Riddle as a suspect. Procedurally speaking, we have the right to supervise her."
“And,” Dark looked at Aidan, “we may take more of your students away for investigation later.