Return to the Chamber of Secrets
A Harry Potter UNIVERSE/ Sasporilla Bucket Fan Fiction
by Darren Kelly
Chapter 13
Sasporilla Bucket and Karry Curtiss stood at the base of the ladder facing a corridor lined with skeletons dressed in tattered rotting robes and firmly holding wands in their bony hands. Sasporilla took a step forward and the skeletons turned to face her. The skeletons readied their wands in a dueling stance.
"Uh oh!." Karry cringed.
Spells began to fly back forth. Sassy and Karry deflected aa many as possible but they were greatly out numbered.
Time slowed as Sasporilla saw the unmistakable green glow of death spells form on the skeleton wand tips. Sasporilla grabbed Karry tightly and disapperated as green death filled the room. The girls reappeared behind the skeletons.
"BOMBARDA!" The girls cast in unison.
Skeletons exploded into clouds of bone as the ball of explosive force blasted its way down the hall. As the dust cleared panels in the wall slid open. New skeletons stepped through and picked up the wands that lay amongst the wands on tje floor.
"This isn't good." Sasporilla shouted as the creatures turned to face them.
"CONTORTO!" a loud voice cast. The skeletons twisted and rolled. Bones snapped as they bent into unnatural shapes.
"CRIATURA DESTRUCTI!"
The skeletons wailed as they turned to dust. The wall panels began to slide open.
"Apretado!" Karry cast jamming the sliding panels. Skeletal arms reached out but could not reach the wands.
As the dust cleared Karry and Sassy were relieved to see Kingsly Shacklebolt standing poised, wand still at the ready. Zac stood to one side, Lyra stood to the other with Nick Owlmore in behind.
Karry and Sassy rushed forward into the arms of their loved ones. Zac grabbed Karry and kissed her passionately. He hugged his wife so hard she thought she would surely snap in two. Sasporilla wept as her uncle Nick took her in his powerful arms and gently hugged his god daughter.
"I'm glad your ok." Nick said. "But I could kill you for coming down here. It's far to dangerous, even for a seventh year."
"I love you too uncle Nick." Sasporilla hugged tighter.
"Have you found Katelynn yet?" Lyra asked.
"No." Karry said. "She's still with Jasmine Lee."
"Evil cow." Lyra said. "She always claimed to have some sort of connection to Voldemort. Her parents are nomag muggles like mine."
"Well we know they can't have gone this way." Minister Shacklebolt said looking at the dead end wall.
"Things are not always as they seem in the chamber of secrets, minister." Blossom ssid. "Karry and Sasporilla have shown me that. REVELIO!"
The dead end stone wall faded away revealing a circular vault door with a fan of serpents adorning it.
"Most impressive Miss...?" Kingsly Shacklebolt asked.
"Kowalski, Blossom Kowalski, sir." Blossom smiled.
"There's a job for you in my office when you graduate." Kingsly smiled. "If you want it."
"Thank you sir." Blossom smiled politely.
"All right let's get this open." Sasporilla said. "Sassha san shigin."
Parcel tongue quickly caused the vault door mechanism to unlatch as a metal snake curled along the edge. The heavy door swung open revealing a wall of water. The room inside was massive and filled floor to ceiling with gold and jewels. A treasure trove of riches rarely seen.
"Wow!" Zac said. "That's a lot of gold, even by my standards."
Karry dipped her finger into the water and pulled it back out. She sniffed ir, then tasted the water on her finger, and spit it back out.
"No ill effects." Karry said. "Not poisoned but it is salt water."
"If we're going in we'll need to cast a bubble-head charm." Sasporilla said.
"Or," Zac said, "you could go in on your own, do your freaky become a water girl thing and scope it out."
"Good idea!" Karry said. "There's no telling how big that room is and even a bubble head charm only lasts about an hour."
"Water girl thing?" Blossom asked.
"Miss Bucket has many special abilities." Minister Shacklebolt said. "She has full command of the elements, control of elven magics and weaving as well as able to converse with animals and plants."
"You seem to know an awful lot about things I've never told you about?" Sasporilla said curiously.
"We keep files on all powerful witches and wizards miss Bucket." The minister of magic said. "In case someone turns to the dark arts we need to know all we can about them."
"Just protecting the public." Sasporilla smiled.
"Indeed." Kingsly smiled. "Glad you understand."
"Yes I understand how fascism works and the excuses they make to justify it." Sasporilla said. "We'll be talking about your file policy after this is over."
Sasporilla placed her hand on the wall of water. She reached out with her feelings until she connected with the water. Sasporillas body became as water in human form and she flowed into the room. Sassy swirled around the treasure up and over the piles on piles until she reached the ceiling.
She could see large schools of fish swimming amongst the chests and piles.
She moved along the seemingly endless ceiling moving faster and faster until she felt herself being pulled uncontrollably forward. Water swirled in a circular motion going up into the ceiling like an upside down whirlpool. She spun along and around the vortex until she was able to pull away and swim back to the doorway. She arrived at the vault door but as water she couldn't pass beyond. No matter how she pushed and willed herself through she couldn't breach the door way. Sasporilla reformed as human before their eyes. She placed her hands against the magical barrier and pushed with all her might, but could not push past the barrier. Air started to escape her lungs as she struggled. Spells hit the barrier in every effort to dispel it. Karry pushed her arm in and grabbed hold of Sasporilla. She held her hand out to Zac who pulled on his wife. Lyra ran up and grabbed hold of Sasporilla and pulled on her friend as Nick pulled on his partner. Sasporilla slipped through the water barrier and fell to the floor gasping for air. Karry and Lyra helped Sasporilla to her feet.
"You ok kid?" Lyra asked.
"Ya!" Sasporilla coughed. "That was bloody close."
"Well I was worried you might not fit through that door way that fat butt of yours."
"Fat butt?" Sasporilla said. "I thought you were carrying two floatation vests in your back pockets!"
"Good your ok." Lyra laughed.
"There's an all encompassing vortex pulling any one up and through about a mile in."
"A mile?" Kingsly asked.
"Yes, it's a huge room minister." Sasporilla said. "Problem is there are schools of fish. I didn't get a good look at them but I get the impression they're man eaters, attracted by any flesh that goes in the water."
"What makes you think that?" Karry asked as Sassy stepped away from the open door she revealed a large school of fish floating in her form behind her. Their huge sharp teeth gnashed and bit.
"I see your point." Karry said.
The fish swam away and disappeared behind distant piles of treasure. Sasporilla knew they were out of the site of human site, but were close enough to attack when the first body breached the barrier.
"Could the girls have found another way around?" Nick Owlmore asked.
"I very much doubt it." Sasporilla said. "I believe they followed this path and were sucked up by the vortex. Lee would have cast bubble head charms on Katelynn and Mary, and on herself of course. I just hope neither of the girls were attacked by those fish."
"Then we have no choice but to travel on." Minister Shacklebolt announced. "We'll travel two groups. Miss Bucket will lead the way for the first group with the Curtiss' and our guest Aurors and myself. Ms.Pince will lead the group of volunteers. Now I must say that as much as I appreciate all of the help our volunteers have provided, I will not blame anyone who wishes to turn around here and go back to the school."
Ms.Pince looked at the volunteers. No one moved. Wands out, every one of them were ready for the challenge, the adventure and the danger.
"That's it then." Sasporilla said. "Let's do this."
Sasporilla stepped through into the water casting the bubble head charm. She swam forward just a bit when the first school of carnivorous fish appeared.
"Stupify!" Sasporilla cast, most of the fish swimming directly into the blast slowed to a stop. A few swam around the stunned group and attacked Sasporilla. They bit into her limbs as she tried to get tjem off of her. Blood started to cloud the water around Sasporilla as she ripped the fish from her arm tearing out small chunks of flesh with them.
"Stop this." Sasporilla demanded of the fish.
"We hunger." The fish said. "We got very little of the last ones through. The other school got so much more."
"We are not your food." Sasporilla insisted. "We are people."
"People are food!" The fish laughed and attacked again.
Karry cast "IMMOBULOUS!" at on coming schools as Sasporilla individually stupified the creatures off of her.
Sasporilla swam to Karrys side and touched her head to her friends. "These fish aren't listening to reason."
"What are we going to do?" Karry asked. "There are too many of them."
"Swim to the ceiling and follow it straight in until you feel the pull of the whirlpool. I'll take care of the schools of fish."
"Be careful." Karry insisted as she pushed off and swam up to the ceiling the others following her lead. Sasporilla became as water and flowed around the group of swimmers. As fish attacked she struck at them as a living spinning ball of water. As others appeared she attacked them the same way. The fish were confused. They had never been attacked by the water before.
"This is your last warning." Sasporilla said returning to almost human form.
"Eat her!" The fish attacked. Every school swam towards her and swarmed biting into her still watery flesh. Then they realized their mistake. She was changing becoming as air. A bubble of air so large the water was pushed away and they fell to the floor gasping. None escaped as the air pressure held them firmly against the treasure room floor. Sasporilla watched as her friends were pulled into the whirlpool and vanished up. Sassy became as water again and pushed her way through to the vortex, leaving thousands of fish dead in her wake. She spun in the whirlpool and could feel and see through so much of the water around her. She was losing herself, becoming the water. She struggled to reform as flesh in the hard centrifugal currents that pulled at her. She clawed at the water and found air, tried to breath the air and found water. Her head struck something hard and all went black.
Sasporilla Bucket and Karry Curtiss stood at the base of the ladder facing a corridor lined with skeletons dressed in tattered rotting robes and firmly holding wands in their bony hands. Sasporilla took a step forward and the skeletons turned to face her. The skeletons readied their wands in a dueling stance.
"Uh oh!." Karry cringed.
Spells began to fly back forth. Sassy and Karry deflected aa many as possible but they were greatly out numbered.
Time slowed as Sasporilla saw the unmistakable green glow of death spells form on the skeleton wand tips. Sasporilla grabbed Karry tightly and disapperated as green death filled the room. The girls reappeared behind the skeletons.
"BOMBARDA!" The girls cast in unison.
Skeletons exploded into clouds of bone as the ball of explosive force blasted its way down the hall. As the dust cleared panels in the wall slid open. New skeletons stepped through and picked up the wands that lay amongst the wands on tje floor.
"This isn't good." Sasporilla shouted as the creatures turned to face them.
"CONTORTO!" a loud voice cast. The skeletons twisted and rolled. Bones snapped as they bent into unnatural shapes.
"CRIATURA DESTRUCTI!"
The skeletons wailed as they turned to dust. The wall panels began to slide open.
"Apretado!" Karry cast jamming the sliding panels. Skeletal arms reached out but could not reach the wands.
As the dust cleared Karry and Sassy were relieved to see Kingsly Shacklebolt standing poised, wand still at the ready. Zac stood to one side, Lyra stood to the other with Nick Owlmore in behind.
Karry and Sassy rushed forward into the arms of their loved ones. Zac grabbed Karry and kissed her passionately. He hugged his wife so hard she thought she would surely snap in two. Sasporilla wept as her uncle Nick took her in his powerful arms and gently hugged his god daughter.
"I'm glad your ok." Nick said. "But I could kill you for coming down here. It's far to dangerous, even for a seventh year."
"I love you too uncle Nick." Sasporilla hugged tighter.
"Have you found Katelynn yet?" Lyra asked.
"No." Karry said. "She's still with Jasmine Lee."
"Evil cow." Lyra said. "She always claimed to have some sort of connection to Voldemort. Her parents are nomag muggles like mine."
"Well we know they can't have gone this way." Minister Shacklebolt said looking at the dead end wall.
"Things are not always as they seem in the chamber of secrets, minister." Blossom ssid. "Karry and Sasporilla have shown me that. REVELIO!"
The dead end stone wall faded away revealing a circular vault door with a fan of serpents adorning it.
"Most impressive Miss...?" Kingsly Shacklebolt asked.
"Kowalski, Blossom Kowalski, sir." Blossom smiled.
"There's a job for you in my office when you graduate." Kingsly smiled. "If you want it."
"Thank you sir." Blossom smiled politely.
"All right let's get this open." Sasporilla said. "Sassha san shigin."
Parcel tongue quickly caused the vault door mechanism to unlatch as a metal snake curled along the edge. The heavy door swung open revealing a wall of water. The room inside was massive and filled floor to ceiling with gold and jewels. A treasure trove of riches rarely seen.
"Wow!" Zac said. "That's a lot of gold, even by my standards."
Karry dipped her finger into the water and pulled it back out. She sniffed ir, then tasted the water on her finger, and spit it back out.
"No ill effects." Karry said. "Not poisoned but it is salt water."
"If we're going in we'll need to cast a bubble-head charm." Sasporilla said.
"Or," Zac said, "you could go in on your own, do your freaky become a water girl thing and scope it out."
"Good idea!" Karry said. "There's no telling how big that room is and even a bubble head charm only lasts about an hour."
"Water girl thing?" Blossom asked.
"Miss Bucket has many special abilities." Minister Shacklebolt said. "She has full command of the elements, control of elven magics and weaving as well as able to converse with animals and plants."
"You seem to know an awful lot about things I've never told you about?" Sasporilla said curiously.
"We keep files on all powerful witches and wizards miss Bucket." The minister of magic said. "In case someone turns to the dark arts we need to know all we can about them."
"Just protecting the public." Sasporilla smiled.
"Indeed." Kingsly smiled. "Glad you understand."
"Yes I understand how fascism works and the excuses they make to justify it." Sasporilla said. "We'll be talking about your file policy after this is over."
Sasporilla placed her hand on the wall of water. She reached out with her feelings until she connected with the water. Sasporillas body became as water in human form and she flowed into the room. Sassy swirled around the treasure up and over the piles on piles until she reached the ceiling.
She could see large schools of fish swimming amongst the chests and piles.
She moved along the seemingly endless ceiling moving faster and faster until she felt herself being pulled uncontrollably forward. Water swirled in a circular motion going up into the ceiling like an upside down whirlpool. She spun along and around the vortex until she was able to pull away and swim back to the doorway. She arrived at the vault door but as water she couldn't pass beyond. No matter how she pushed and willed herself through she couldn't breach the door way. Sasporilla reformed as human before their eyes. She placed her hands against the magical barrier and pushed with all her might, but could not push past the barrier. Air started to escape her lungs as she struggled. Spells hit the barrier in every effort to dispel it. Karry pushed her arm in and grabbed hold of Sasporilla. She held her hand out to Zac who pulled on his wife. Lyra ran up and grabbed hold of Sasporilla and pulled on her friend as Nick pulled on his partner. Sasporilla slipped through the water barrier and fell to the floor gasping for air. Karry and Lyra helped Sasporilla to her feet.
"You ok kid?" Lyra asked.
"Ya!" Sasporilla coughed. "That was bloody close."
"Well I was worried you might not fit through that door way that fat butt of yours."
"Fat butt?" Sasporilla said. "I thought you were carrying two floatation vests in your back pockets!"
"Good your ok." Lyra laughed.
"There's an all encompassing vortex pulling any one up and through about a mile in."
"A mile?" Kingsly asked.
"Yes, it's a huge room minister." Sasporilla said. "Problem is there are schools of fish. I didn't get a good look at them but I get the impression they're man eaters, attracted by any flesh that goes in the water."
"What makes you think that?" Karry asked as Sassy stepped away from the open door she revealed a large school of fish floating in her form behind her. Their huge sharp teeth gnashed and bit.
"I see your point." Karry said.
The fish swam away and disappeared behind distant piles of treasure. Sasporilla knew they were out of the site of human site, but were close enough to attack when the first body breached the barrier.
"Could the girls have found another way around?" Nick Owlmore asked.
"I very much doubt it." Sasporilla said. "I believe they followed this path and were sucked up by the vortex. Lee would have cast bubble head charms on Katelynn and Mary, and on herself of course. I just hope neither of the girls were attacked by those fish."
"Then we have no choice but to travel on." Minister Shacklebolt announced. "We'll travel two groups. Miss Bucket will lead the way for the first group with the Curtiss' and our guest Aurors and myself. Ms.Pince will lead the group of volunteers. Now I must say that as much as I appreciate all of the help our volunteers have provided, I will not blame anyone who wishes to turn around here and go back to the school."
Ms.Pince looked at the volunteers. No one moved. Wands out, every one of them were ready for the challenge, the adventure and the danger.
"That's it then." Sasporilla said. "Let's do this."
Sasporilla stepped through into the water casting the bubble head charm. She swam forward just a bit when the first school of carnivorous fish appeared.
"Stupify!" Sasporilla cast, most of the fish swimming directly into the blast slowed to a stop. A few swam around the stunned group and attacked Sasporilla. They bit into her limbs as she tried to get tjem off of her. Blood started to cloud the water around Sasporilla as she ripped the fish from her arm tearing out small chunks of flesh with them.
"Stop this." Sasporilla demanded of the fish.
"We hunger." The fish said. "We got very little of the last ones through. The other school got so much more."
"We are not your food." Sasporilla insisted. "We are people."
"People are food!" The fish laughed and attacked again.
Karry cast "IMMOBULOUS!" at on coming schools as Sasporilla individually stupified the creatures off of her.
Sasporilla swam to Karrys side and touched her head to her friends. "These fish aren't listening to reason."
"What are we going to do?" Karry asked. "There are too many of them."
"Swim to the ceiling and follow it straight in until you feel the pull of the whirlpool. I'll take care of the schools of fish."
"Be careful." Karry insisted as she pushed off and swam up to the ceiling the others following her lead. Sasporilla became as water and flowed around the group of swimmers. As fish attacked she struck at them as a living spinning ball of water. As others appeared she attacked them the same way. The fish were confused. They had never been attacked by the water before.
"This is your last warning." Sasporilla said returning to almost human form.
"Eat her!" The fish attacked. Every school swam towards her and swarmed biting into her still watery flesh. Then they realized their mistake. She was changing becoming as air. A bubble of air so large the water was pushed away and they fell to the floor gasping. None escaped as the air pressure held them firmly against the treasure room floor. Sasporilla watched as her friends were pulled into the whirlpool and vanished up. Sassy became as water again and pushed her way through to the vortex, leaving thousands of fish dead in her wake. She spun in the whirlpool and could feel and see through so much of the water around her. She was losing herself, becoming the water. She struggled to reform as flesh in the hard centrifugal currents that pulled at her. She clawed at the water and found air, tried to breath the air and found water. Her head struck something hard and all went black.
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I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, donate to J.K.Rowlings charity LUMOS and help children who need it most.
I am in no way affiliated with Warner Bros. or with J.K.Rowling. My work is purely that of fan fiction & do not ask for, nor accept money, gifts or other compensation for my work. If you really feel you must do something, donate to J.K.Rowlings charity LUMOS and help children who need it most.