The nudging didn't go unnoticed, though, he wasn't sure WHYYYY he was being nudged. Was it because they were on a fun inter-school-fieldtrip? Was that it? Or was it something he said? Did? HE DIDN'T KNOW. Nevertheless though, he appreciated Hady's company and nudged her right back, not too hard, but definitely a nudge. Two could play at that game.


But zommgggg! HEAD LADY DIDN'T SAY NO!!!... This was going to be epic. Even the little push from her just egged him right on, he was totes all over this, he knew how to talk to ghosts, please them, and things. Ghosts had ego's he'd discovered, they liked talking a lot... because when they were telling their stories they were centre of attention. Did Myrtle want to be centre of attention?

Learning his throat, he BEAMED at the friendly ghosty girl.

"Myrtle, because you know the school better than anyone else, could you show us the Chamber please? You could even tell us all about the adventures that have happened down there." His hand was slightly shaking by his side, not from nervousness, it was from PURE excitement. If someone bottled his armpit sweat right NOW, he was sure they'd get the excitement energy of a billion willywigs. He was BUZZING.

"And cause, you died right here didn't you?" Not where he was standing, but in this bathroom.

Gryffindor boy had actually read SOMETHING in History, but he much preferred guest speakers to books. So he was all ears right now. Spill the beans, Myrtle!

Thorbert had seen the group while they were heading towards the infamous bathroom, but alas! Something had distracted him on the way. The castle was prettyyyyyy and he just couldn't help himself! He didn't rush to the bathroom, though. Hurrying just wasn't in his character. Instead, he entered with a biiiig smile and bowed at the Headmistress.

"Helloooo everyone!" Including the lovely Myrtle. "I hope I didn't miss anything?" He stuck his hands in his pockets and wiggled a little. Clearly the pockets were enlarged. After a few seconds, he brought out a notebook and pencil, then griiiiiinned at them.

They had taken quite a bit longer in Tiara's office than she had expected, there not being much there to map out. If Miss Greyvson hadn't foolishly gotten herself a bit ill they would have been here already. But alas, nothing could be done about that now. Fortunately, they seemed to be arriving right after the head cartographer himself, so they could not have missed all that much. "Team Tanner reporting for duty!"

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The nudging didn't go unnoticed, though, he wasn't sure WHYYYY he was being nudged. Was it because they were on a fun inter-school-fieldtrip? Was that it? Or was it something he said? Did? HE DIDN'T KNOW. Nevertheless though, he appreciated Hady's company and nudged her right back, not too hard, but definitely a nudge. Two could play at that game.

The nudge to her side in return didn't go unnoticed by her either and earned Zeke a sweet grin. She really liked working side by side with him it was always fun. They learned a lot and had an awesome time as well. It was a win, win there.

Hady remained where she was watching as Zeke went to speak to Myrtle asking her to give them a tour. His excitement made the young girl laugh softly to herself. How could one not be excited about getting to check out the Chamber of Secrets?! Surely they were all ready to get going and check it out right? Right!

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Thorbert had seen the group while they were heading towards the infamous bathroom, but alas! Something had distracted him on the way. The castle was prettyyyyyy and he just couldn't help himself! He didn't rush to the bathroom, though. Hurrying just wasn't in his character. Instead, he entered with a biiiig smile and bowed at the Headmistress.

"Helloooo everyone!" Including the lovely Myrtle. "I hope I didn't miss anything?" He stuck his hands in his pockets and wiggled a little. Clearly the pockets were enlarged. After a few seconds, he brought out a notebook and pencil, then griiiiiinned at them.

Hearing a new voice Hady twisted around to see who it was, the person being Thorbert the Cartographer. "Hello." She greeted softly giving a small wave as well. So he'd finally be joining them. That was cool.

Could they go now? Please? Hady was ready and wanted to keep the tour moving along her excitement building though remaining unseen to those that didn't know her well enough to see it in her eyes.

Adi followed Tanner and the mostly Hufflepuff team to the girls' bathroom. Being there felt verrrrry weird to him. Yup. Anyway, he was there and like Tanner said, they were reporting for duty.

Soooo, what did they have to do?

Oh look! Moaning Myrtle! Adi had a feeling she liked having visitors... 'specially dudes.

Excitedly Lux followed Professor Tanner into the girls bathroom. There was only one reason she could think of to be here, and she couldn't believe that she would be exploring the place where Harry Potter had battled a Basilisk. Now that was some real Hogwarts history.

Since the evil snake was long dead, there was absolutely nothing to fear down there and exploring was a lot of fun. Beaming, she looked at everyone in the room. Too bad Bay couldn't experience this with her, but she would have to tell him about it later.

Oh, look. Moaning Myrtle.

Tobias entered the bathroom after Tanner, but hesitated just inside the door. Over five years of obeying the rule to not enter this room made it difficult and downright weird to do so now.

"We're definitely allowed to...?" the Hufflepuff began, but the end of his question trailed off as he looked between the professors and around at everyone already here. They were allowed. Of course they were. Stop doubting people, Tobias.

So, rather than finishing that thought, Toby stepped properly into the room and found a space where he wasn't surrounded by too many tall kids, and looked around the room. No real difference from the boys' bathroom, of course... except for the ghost.

Toby watched her a moment, curious, and then looked back at the professors, and then at the ghost again. He was sure he was supposed to know her name, but the sixth year was drawing a blank. It probably had something to do with the same reason he was totally blanking on why a girls' bathroom would be significant. The answer to both things stayed locked away in the back of his mind, held prisoner by his shocking memory.

Myrtle looked like she had the time of her life …or death? When her bathroom was full with …well, mostly boys… but what they expected when they had access to this room now? Heh. Turning to the Headmistress, he frowned a bit because she looked like she wasn’t that happy to have him in her group. Well, he didn’t even want to be here in the first place and had wanted to go with Tanner but Zander had dragged him along so she just had to deal with it. The frown was replaced however with a look of surprise and the Gryffindor looked excited for a moment “Really?!” THEY WERE GOING IN TO THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS! Thank you Zander for dragging him in here because CHAMBER OF SECRETS

Of course, because he was a cool dude, he changed his face expression to normal and nodded. But anyone could see the glint of excitement in his eyes which he couldn’t control. No matter how much of a rude or bad person he was, he was still a kid who liked exploring. And then that bald old man came in and Kevin’s mood went down again. He hated overly happy people like that. He just rolled his eyes at his biiiiig smile and then Tanner’s group arrived as well. MWEH his group had been here first, shoooo go find another chamber of secrets .

Kace was following the group and he realized they reached the girls bathroom? He furrowed his brows and wondered what they were doing here. I mean surely guys can't enter here but under certain circumstances he could. As he entered he noticed Moaning Myrtle the ghost that was rumored to be haunting this very bathroom. He didn't really see her now till now. He probably shouldn't talk to her since she was going on one of her tantrums. Bloody merlin this girl was sensitive.

He wondered if they were going to be entering the chamber of secrets because I mean this is where this fountain lead to if anyone read the History of Hogwarts. He waited till Tanner and Trubridge gave directions but in the mean time he began to examine this place.

Following Professor Tanner had turned out to be well…interesting. Hey look Moaning was hovering right next to Headmistress Truebridge. Sure Puck had been in this bathroom a few times enough to know that some of the sinks were weird and never worked, that Myrtle had her toilet…and that sometimes you could hear the wayward ghost sobbing over some boy that was an idiot decades before. Still she was going to be nice. Right? Nice.

People were there she had to be nice and well…honestly not like she would admit it though – she felt sorry for what happened to Myrtle. Really, she seemed like she was a nice person with unfortunately tragic luck.

Kevin didn’t look too excited to see their group did he? But still Puck shifted closer toward him and further from the guy with that smile. Taking a piece of paper she just wrote down a little note, and ripped it from her notebook as if she was simply annoyed with what she had written. Heck she even made a perturbed I spelt that wrong face. Carefully she simply picked up the note and placed it on Kevin’s notebook because hello, she was friendly. Does that guy creep you out at all? His ‘grin’ alone makes me thing oh look crazy psychokillerman is back. But maybe she had reasons her own reasons to be apprehensive of the practically hairless man.

Wait they were going to actually go into the Chamber of Secrets? She was practically bouncing on her feet and really wanting to clutch a friend’s shoulder and do that weird excited yelly thing she sometimes did. But hello Chamber of Secrets was worse extreme excitement.

While he waited for the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets to open up and the Headmistress leading them to the underground place, Kevin had been looking around the bathroom, still pretty dissapointed with it because it looked so ...normal...

He looked down at his notebook when he felt a weight and saw the letter. He frowned as he read it but then had to bite his lower lip to not laugh out loud. Looking up from the piece of paper, the Gryffindor looked at the Professor's in the room but they seemed too busy asking myrtle questions.

He opened his own notebook and scribbled in it. 'i was just thinking that! i don't trust him, he's too friendly, what if he locks us up down there?!' what? ever since his first year things had happened at hogwarts. Strange things. And this crazy psychokillerman as Puck at put it was just...he didn't know. And then he remembered something else and began to write under the text. 'also, i heard you got detention for standing up for me in charms... i want to say thanks because other than zander, no one has ever done that...so yeah...' he sighed long and hard after putting down his feelings and actually felt better. See dumb staff, he WAS trying to change. HMPF

Ripping off the piece of paper from his notebook in a fast motion , Kevin stepped to his side and closer to the female prefect and held her hand as he put the note in it. And yes he had a small blush on his face because he was HOLDING A GIRLS HAND. Stupid hormones.

Ooooooooooooh wasn't somebody happy to see her?

"I can give you a tour," the ghostie replied with a flip of one of her pigtails. "But I'm going to want something in return in the end." She smiled evilly and did a whirrrrrrly around the Headmistress.

Look at this! A SMILEY boy! Myrtle couldn't help lowering her specs a little bit to give him a good look. He was positively THRILLED to see her! She hadn't had anyone thrilled to see her in what felt like a CENTURY!

"I did die here," Myrtle began loudly. If one looked closely enough, one would see the former Ravenclaw's grey eyes aglow with a nearly life-like spark. More and more people were coming into her bathroom now, but that didn't deter the pigtailed ghost at all. If anything, she grew LOUDER. Myrtle simply LOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOveddddd telling this story to as many people as she could.

"I had been teased mercilessly ALL DAY by Olive Hornby, and ran into a stall here, THAT stall, in fact," she dramatically pointed to the one on the end, "to cry my heart out. In-between sobs, I heard the voice of a BOY from behind my door and kicked it open to stare straaaaaight into the eyessssss of the Dark Lord's basilisk. I died on the spot, and HOURS later, Olive had to come in and find me."

She beamed proudly. "To get into the Chamber, you have to speak Parseltongue to that tap, THERE." Myrtle floated over to the one with a small serpent etched into the side of it.

WAIT. Did the Headmistress just say that they were going into the CHAMBER OF WHATNOW?... Uh. So Zander Adair was no history buff, but he'd heard the rumors about that place. Or actually, uh, not-so-rumors evidently. Did the boy's bathroom have one of those chambers too? Because if not this was totally an outrage and Zander would demand one. Not really. But still. How come the girls got a chamber!? Also. The girl's bathroom wasn't nearly as exciting as he thought it'd be. Especially now that the other group was coming in too.

Before it had just been Kevin, Zeke, and him. Three boys. Probably the only three boys to enter this place since that Harry Potter bloke and that was AWESOME. Except, now more guys were coming and it wasn't nearly as exciting anymore. He'd just have to leave that part out when he told people that he went into the GIRL'S bathroom. Yeah. He'd leave it out.

BLINK. BLINK. BLINK..... It was this guy again?? The one who gave out the notebooks? Huh. Actually, come to think of it.. Zander had been expecting him a while ago. Why'd he just show up now, huh? Fishy. Totally fishy. Zander's got his eye on you, sir. MHM. The same Zander who single-handedly figured out the mystery of Hogwarts in his third year with Professor Romanos leading the Cold One army and everything. He was basically pro at this.

The Gryffindor gave him a skeptical look over before deciding to clue him in... 'Cause eh, seemed okay actually. The only fishy thing was his grand smile, but maybe he was excited to be inside of a GIRL'S bathroom too!? "You didn't miss very much, sir," he shook his head looking around. "Moaning Mrytle flew out from that stall, and then uh now we're going to find a chamber that's full of secrets or something.." Consider yourself caught up, sir!

One second he was standing there looking at Myrtle expectantly, and the next second there were MOAR people in the teeny weeny not so tiny but still small bathroom!!! ....

And zommmggggggggggggg.

Mr. Expert Man! Finally!

Zeke's eyes widened out of admiration. He was finally going to learn from a master???? EXCITEMENT OVERLOAD.

And Professor Tanner was here too! She was nice.


But alas! His attention was with Myrtle, cause she was helping them and all that jazz. Seriously, this was shaping up the be the coolest thing EVER. On a hunt, with a ghost, a cartographer, a Headmistress and peer peeps... and they were about to break into the Chamber of Secrets. Huzzah! "That's sooooooo cool," he said out loud, though he fully intended for it to remain a thought. Whoops?

He peered over at the cubicle, and then back to where taps were, and then at his page... adding in a detail or two. He did take a moment though to nudge Hady again, cause how cool was all of this?

Wicked.

"Headmistress?" he questioned, turning back to their leader lady. "Do you speak Parseltongue?" Cause as far as he knew... he couldn't. Could anyone else? Someone? Anyone? Though... really, how hard could it possibly be to speak snake? Hhhhmmm? What did it sound like? Like a hissing? Yeah?

"HissssssSSSSSSsssssssssSSSSSSSsssssss." No?

Only one soul was brave enough to try to open the tap to the Chamber of Secrets. Was he successful?

With a great aching, echoing, scraping sound, the sink Zeke spoke to began to move backward and up. Pipes slid into place and out of place and the wall beneath the stone sink opened up in a hole with a six-foot diameter.

This was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Why don't you sliiiiiide right on down and see what lurks beneath Hogwarts?

Meep.

Heather was silent after that little revelation. Not because she was angry, but because she was trying to gather up all her Gryffindor courage. Or whatever was left of it, anyway. But how were they going to get in though? From what she remembered, one needed to be able to speak Parsel-

-yeah, what Myrtle had just said. The last known Parselmouth had to have died by now though, right? So, it was a lost cause. Yay! And there was Professor Tanner and the cartographer guy. "We were just learning about the Chamber of Secrets. Though, there's no Parselto....." Heather's sentence was left unfinished however, when she heard hissing. Coming from a younger Gryffindor. Um, okay. "Did you just fake that or are you really a Parseltongue?" Please have been faked, pleasehave been faked, pleasehavebeen faked, pleasehavebeenfaked........

He was so funny, totally funny... cause his hissing thing, was just that, hissing.

...

But then THINGS HAPPENED. And his jaw dropped. LITERALLY, dropped... right to his chest.

"Uuuuuhhhhhhh......" say what now? NO. NOOOOO. Someone was playing tricks on him, right? RIGHT? This was... magic, and it had nothing to do with his boyishly-manly-handsome-tones. Right?

Head turning, he looked to his fellow Gryffie - one of the ones he didn't know so well. "I... don't know?" Like, he really didn't know. ZOMG WHAT WAS HAPPENING?! HOOOOOWWWWW HAD IT HAPPENED?! WHO OPENED THE TRAP DOOR? --- that wasn't really a trap door, but yeah, someone had to have been behind it, pulling strings or something. It couldn't have been him.

Zeke was dumbfounded. Just standing there.

As Kace was busy trying to contain all the commotion and Moaning Myrtle screaming, bloody merlin this girl could scream really loud. He heard and felt the ground rumbling. He turned around and stood there wide eyed. Did Zeke the little lion he was partners with open the chamber of secrets?

O____O.......

BLOODY MERLIN DID HE SPEAK PARSELTONGUE!? He stood there opened mouth and the girl next to him (Heather) took the questions right out of his mouth. Did he fake it though? Of course not how could he know he was just a little lion. He was probably just trying it out. Or maybe he had some salazar slytherin blood? Impossible. He shook the thoughts of his head.

He walked over to Zeke and patted him on the back. "Good job opening the chamber of secrets.." he gestured to the open sink. He was still stand there dumbfounded and he asked him, "Zeke you okay?" he asked concerned for his little buddy.

All the people, talking and noise didn't distract Hady from taking down some very detailed sketches. Those were important! Almost as important as getting to go into the Chamber! The only thing that did catch her attention was the nudge from Zeke. He always seemed to be able to catch her attention. Flashing him a quick grin first she then moved her focus to Myrtle.

Everyone's attention went to the sink and stuff which she made sure to sketch. Then there was talk of Parsel tongue making her look around. Did any of them know it? She spoke to her snake back home all the time and she thought he understood her but she wasn't sure. She could give it a try though she supposed.

Before she could however she heard a hissing sound and things began to move! The Chamber was opening! Oh my gosh! Who had done that? Looking around her eyes landed on Zeke once more and she smirked at him giving him a proud look. Cause seriously if he had opened it that was epic and he deserved some praise for it.

Professor Tanner hadn't been kidding when she told them the Headmistress' group were about to explore someplace real interesting and they would likely want to join in the fun. THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS?! That was certainly something interesting on the floor. More then just the girl's bathroom and Tanner's office and classroom. Sorry to both the woman in question and Moaning Myrtle. Well maybe not sorry to the ghost who as usual was making them well aware of the reasoning behind her nickname.

But alas, there was the issue of using Parseltongue to open the way. Myrtle had made that clear even though Benny had forgotten it. Bummer...was that the end of their journey? Was there a way around it? One that the leaders knew that Myrtle was neglecting? Before he could linger too long on that question in his thoughts, Zeke had stepped up and was making noises towards the proper faucet.

Was that...hissing?

And then there was a commotion and suddenly a large hole that opened into Merlin knew what that lead down to where their possible destination was. It had worked? Had Zeke used Parseltongue? No...wait...why would he ask Bunz if she knew it if he already did? Benny was currently switching his attention between his fellow lion, the opening and the two staffers leading the group.

What was going to happen now?

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Thorbert had seen the group while they were heading towards the infamous bathroom, but alas! Something had distracted him on the way. The castle was prettyyyyyy and he just couldn't help himself! He didn't rush to the bathroom, though. Hurrying just wasn't in his character. Instead, he entered with a biiiig smile and bowed at the Headmistress.

"Helloooo everyone!" Including the lovely Myrtle. "I hope I didn't miss anything?" He stuck his hands in his pockets and wiggled a little. Clearly the pockets were enlarged. After a few seconds, he brought out a notebook and pencil, then griiiiiinned at them.

"You haven't missed anything," Anastasia warmed up when the Cartographer Expert came in. He seemed to know what he was doing, always, which was quite encouraging even in the face of a ghost and Merlin knew what else in the Chamber of Secrets. "We're about to explore the chamber beneath the school," she leaned in to whisper to him.

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Ooooooooooooh wasn't somebody happy to see her?

"I can give you a tour," the ghostie replied with a flip of one of her pigtails. "But I'm going to want something in return in the end." She smiled evilly and did a whirrrrrrly around the Headmistress.

Ugh, that ghost was telling her story now. Annie tried hard not to roll her eyes at Myrtle's demand to get something in return. At least she was focusing her attention on the Gryffindor boy who reminded her so much of her son, only a wee bit older...

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"Headmistress?" he questioned, turning back to their leader lady. "Do you speak Parseltongue?" Cause as far as he knew... he couldn't. Could anyone else? Someone? Anyone? Though... really, how hard could it possibly be to speak snake? Hhhhmmm? What did it sound like? Like a hissing? Yeah?

"HissssssSSSSSSsssssssssSSSSSSSsssssss." No?

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Only one soul was brave enough to try to open the tap to the Chamber of Secrets. Was he successful?

With a great aching, echoing, scraping sound, the sink Zeke spoke to began to move backward and up. Pipes slid into place and out of place and the wall beneath the stone sink opened up in a hole with a six-foot diameter.

This was the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. Why don't you sliiiiiide right on down and see what lurks beneath Hogwarts?

"I don't speak it, no," the redhead started to pipe up in response to Zeke. But there was no need to, apparently, as the boy managed to open the Chamber all on his own! The redhead gasped and took a step forward to better see the opening to the Chamber.

Looks like it was time to go on a slide!

"Everyone, let's explore!" she called out wildly, clearly inspired by the excitement of seeing the opening to something she'd only ever read about in History books. "Who wants to go first? To the Chamber, everyone!" She took up a spot by the opening and started ushering the children in. Best one of them go down first.

Distracted by Moaning Myrtle, it was hard for Lux to pay attention to everything that was going on around her. Parseltongue was mentioned, however, and she had no idea how they would enter the chamber when it appeared that no one could speak the language.

... But apparently she was wrong because out of nowhere one of the sinks disappeared and there was an open pipe in front of them. This was so cool and she was not in the least bit afraid. Look at her getting in touch with her inner Gryffindor; it made Lux so happy.

Not needing to be told twice, Lux made her way to the pipe and down into the Chamber. WEEEEEEE!!

So it was sort of weird being in the same bathroom with boys, but Kate tried to overlook that fact seeing as they were on a tour and with adults. And a ghost. That was something Kate was still trying to get used to. She'd heard about the Hogwarts' ghosts all her life, but until now, she'd never actually seen them or interacted with them.

Then Zeke went and opened the Chamber of Secrets, and Kate forgot all about ghosts. There was some strange things that went on in that place once upon a time, and Kate wasn't all too keen to just dive on in and take a tour. Then the Headmistress encouraged them all inside, which made things a little more real. If Kate backed down now, she'd always be seen as the ickle firstie without a backbone. If she gave in, though, she might not even be alive to worry about the backbone.

Riiiiight. She'd just let somebody else go down there first, and if they could just call on up and verify that things were all good, she'd consider that tour. She made an attempt to back up but instead got ushered toward the opening by who she thought what the Headmistress.

Uhhh...she hadn't just gone down first, had she?

...

Having recovered from the surprise of it all, Benny took in what Headmistress Truebridge was saying. Time to go down. Down to the chamber. Even though it seemed as if the woman wasn't quick to rush down to it herself despite her urging of others, especially students, to go down before her. Lux was quick to do it, taking the plunge persay before being followed by a first year Ravenclaw whom he remembered introducing herself to him at one point. Kate was it.

With both of them down, the Gryffindor figured he might as well head down himself. Gryffindor bravery and curiousity and all that of course. So he moved towards the edge and looked down into the darkness before taking a deep breath and jumping down the long tunnel-like entrance.

Geronimo!

Kace didn't hear Zeke speak because he seemed to be too stunned. He heard the Headmistress say it was time to explore the chamber of secrets. He gulped and it was show time. He wondered what was down there? He hoped not anything too creepy. I mean Kace wasn't that fond of snakes either let's get that straight. He began to walk toward the sink and looked down at the entrance.

It looked like a big slide and it seemed like fun. He saw the ravenclaw (Kate) and the lion (Benny) go down right before he was. The ride didn't seem so bad. He took a deep breath and jumped down and slide down to see what awaited him.