C41 Chamber (2)

*I edited C26 & C27 and changed the area Kamar-Taj is in. I swear that I googled it before writing but I think it gave me the comic answer or something. Maybe I was just tired that night, IDK. It is now in Kathmandu Nepal as it should be. I've been putting off editing it out of laziness.*

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Ignoring the feeling of his wet socks, Tom stays alert with his back to the portal and surveys the surrounding waters. Soon the water stops thrashing and slowly becomes calm once again. Tom eyes the water warily as the calm waters are almost scarier than the earlier waves. As he's watching the water closely, the mouth of the statue hasn't closed. The sound of something scraping on stone could be heard, as orange glowing eyes shine through the open mouth.

Hearing the scraping in the statue's direction, Tom fought the urge to look in that direction. He knew the snake was coming from the mouth, so he waited for the perfect chance to press play on his remaining recorder. As the basilisk slithered out of the mouth, Tom could hear it transfer from the mouth to the floor. Immediately, he pressed the play button again. Nothing happens. No rooster cry, cluck, or anything. Tom presses the button again and still, nothing happens.

'F*ck, I must have messed up a rune or something on this one somewhere.' Tom cursed inwardly as he taps the button a few more times.

As Tom is freaking out over his device not functioning properly, the Basilisk has fully exited the statue. At first, it was hesitant because of the loud soul-piercing noises from earlier, but the chamber is perfectly quiet now.

Oh, how the crazed basilisk hated that sound, and it knew where it came from. It came from that little food that walked into her home uninvited. How dare a piece of food cause such a great snake such as her such unimaginable pain. With revenge on her mind from the earlier sound attack, the basilisk locked onto Tom, coiled itself, and prepared to pounce.

"F*ck this!" Tom exclaimed as he dashed to the portal.

The second Tom made a run for the portal, the snake shot forward like a rocket aimed straight at the tasty food before her. Tom crosses the threshold of the portal into the mirror dimension, but he didn't stop there. No, Tom kept running forward as fast as he could and peeked over his shoulder.

The Basilisk didn't see anything wrong with the portal and followed Tom in easily. When Tom took a peek over his shoulder, he was met with a close up look of the Basilisks open mouth ready to take a bite out of him. Before the snake could close its mouth, Tom swiftly closed the portal. As the portal closed, it cut the basilisk clean in half.

The front half that entered the mirror dimension started convulsing and shrieking in pain. It no longer chased Tom, nor did it even acknowledge his existence. The back part that was cut is leaking blood at an incredible rate. With every second that goes by, the Basilisk starts slowing down and losing the strength to hiss in pain. After about twenty minutes, the Basilisk is completely unmoving. Its eyes become dim and it's no longer breathing.

Even though Tom knows it's probably dead, he still doesn't dare to step near it, nor does he look into its eyes. He truly doesn't know whether its eyes could still kill with a glance or not. Basilisks are so rare that not a lot has been written about them. Tom has only read a few things here and there.

After a moment of making sure that the Basilisk is actually dead, Tom opens a portal back to the chamber and sees the decapitated bottom half of the Basilisk just sitting there, unmoving. Seeing that he's beat the basilisk, Tom takes a moment to inwardly celebrate. He took on a thousand-year-old basilisk and won. Though he had an easier time thanks to his portals, Tom has still slain a Basilisk none the less. Pride swells in his chest as he looks over the two halves on either side of the portal.

(A/N: Sorry to those that wanted the Basilisk to live.)

'It's too bad that the snake had already gone mad before I got here. I would have gone crazy as well if I was locked down here for who knows how long. The canon Basilisk must have either been saner or canon Tom did some sort of spell to gain its allegiance. Whatever, the parts can be recycled in the upcoming ritual I've been working on. I wonder if I could incorporate the eyes somehow?' Tom starts pondering over ways to enhance his ritual with basilisk parts.

As thoughts of cool eye powers race around in Tom's mind, he looks at the two giant halves of the snake.

'How the hell am I supposed to dismantle this thing and store everything away? It would take me at least a week, and that's with me working non-stop.' Tom thought and then decided to put all of the work on his trusty house-elves. "Mimsy!"

*pop*

"Yes, master Tommy?" Mimsy appears in the mirror dimension to answers Toms call.

The second the word Tommy leaves her lips, Mimsy looks horrified. She along with a few of Tom's other elves heard a Hogwarts elf call Tom, Tommy. They also wanted to join in so they called him that as well, but her master asked them nicely to never call him that. When she was called by her master just now, the excitement got to her and the name just came out without her thinking. When Tom heard her call him Tommy, his eyebrow twitched and he frowned slightly.

'I hate that Hogwarts elf. The second I have control over this castle, he's getting the clothes.' Tom thought as he cursed the moment he was called Tommy.

"S-Sorry, Master." Mimsy stuttered as her ears drooped in sadness.

"It's alright. I know you didn't mean to." Tom says as he pats her bald head.

She beams a blinding smile up at Tom as he gives her one final pat.

"Can you assign some of the other elves to dismantle and package all the parts of this basilisk? Both sides please." Tom says as he points to the portal to the chamber of secrets. "Also, make sure no one gets any of the poison on them and don't look into its eyes or you'll die."

The second Tom mentioned a Basilisk, Mimsy looks over and sees the severed front half just laying there. She suddenly shrieks in fright and hides behind her master's leg. Peeking out only every now and then to see the gruesome creature.

"It's already dead. You have nothing to worry about as long as you follow my directions." Tom says as he gestures to the unmoving snake.

"D-don't be gettin' venom on us and no staring at its eyes?" Mimsy stutters as she comes out from behind Tom's leg.

"Exactly, and store it all away in one of my properties." Tom says and Mimsy is still watching the Basilisk with caution.

After showing Mimsy that the snake is dead, she had no problem with getting it dismantled. She called a few elves to help her out and got straight to work. While they were working, Tom opened a portal to his dorm room and went straight to sleep. He has to teach almost every Slytherin student Occlumency tomorrow morning, after all.