"Plan A failed," Harry said ducking back and paling.
"Plan B?" Daphne asked.
"Shoot it until it dies?" Harry said with a slight hesitation.
"Works for me!" Daphne jumped out and started tossing diffindos, reductos, and confrigos at the snake from her wand while letting loose with the Reductor from her off hand. Harry jumped out of the other side of the pillar also tossing spells and rune powered shots. He tried adding a few disarming and stunning shots into his volley. Bessy just hissed in what Harry dimly realized was laughter.
Their spells weren't even making a scratch on the hide of the beast.
The giant tail of the serpent came around aiming at Harry's head. He ducked and rolled. As he regained his feet he made the critical mistake of looking up. Harry met the basilisk's eyes and time seemed to stop. Riddle laughed in the distance. Harry almost laughed in return as he could still feel his muscles twitching in fear. He wasn't petrified!
But then, neither was the basilisk. It shook its head after a few seconds and opened its hissing mouth wide doing an extremely good impression of a pissed off lion's roar. Harry took the opportunity to run.
He got to Daphne's side and they ducked behind a pillar further back down the chamber. "Plan B isn't working so well," she grunted trying to catch her breath.
"I noticed," responded dryly. "Reflector Lenses work though. I think I stunned it for a few seconds."
"Yeah maybe for you. My left lens busted the first time it looked at me. It seems only one eye reflection doesn't affect it. And I'm half blind now." Harry flinched and quickly looked her face over. Breathing out a quick breath of relief Harry saw her eye wasn't actually injured, she just had it screwed shut since the left rune cluster hadn't held up under the strain of the magic.
"Um, okay I have a Plan C but I'm going to need a minute to get it ready. Can you distract it?" Harry asked holding the Blastor against the pillar and palming his etching tool.
"Maybe. What are you doing?"
"Setting a feedback loop into the Blastor. Basically a somewhat controlled explosive failure."
"You're making a magical bomb?"
"More like magical grenade. Also it might blow me up once I charge it." Harry grimaced. "There's a reason I've been staying away from volatile clusters you know."
Daphne stared at him with wide eyes. "You are either the bravest or stupidest boy I've ever met."
"Just distract the bloody snake please."
"Don't die, Harry." Daphne jumped out from behind the pillar as the basilisk closed in on them. She yelled at it and started tossed out more spells leading it towards the next pillar in line.
Harry finished his modifications uttered another short prayer to whoever was listening and then yelled out, ~Bessy! Your mother was a chicken and your father was a toad!~
The basilisk turned from Daphne to hiss menacingly at Harry. ~I should kill you simply for thinking that was a worthy insult hatchling.~ As soon as the snake opened its mouth, Harry charged the altered Blastor and tossed it at the snake. It ended up exploding a foot or so from the mouth. The stone shards pelted the monster and but didn't seem to do any noticeable damage.
"Bloody hell!" Harry ducked back behind the pillar swearing. "If anyone's listening up there, I could really use some help about now!" Not expecting any actual answer Harry nearly dropped his wand and Concussor as the air above the basilisk blazed into a burst of fire. A song Harry remembered Fawkes trilling resounded throughout the Chamber before turning into a screech. Harry twisted to look around the pillar in shock noticing Daphne doing the same around her own.
The beautiful avenging phoenix dived towards the group. It tossed a large hat clutched in its talons towards Harry before twisting and attempting to dive bomb the eyes of the basilisk. Bessy was faster though and managed to stare at Fawkes just before he impacted. The phoenix dissolved into a burst of feathers and Harry's stomach plummeted again. 'I'm sorry Fawkes…Thank you so much for trying buddy.'
"Harry! Look out!" Daphne screamed.
Harry glanced up and saw the basilisk striking towards him with its fangs bared. 'Since when does a snake have more than two teeth?' Harry idly found himself wondering as he dove out of the way. He tumbled down near the hat that Fawkes had brought.
"What are you waiting for, boy? Put me on!" the Hat yelled. Harry stared dumbfounded before realizing it was the Sorting Hat. Harry hurriedly grabbed the Hat and jammed it onto his head as he ran from the basilisk towards Daphne. The Hat had barely touched his hair before a weight settled onto the top of Harry's head.
Dashing behind the pillar, Harry pulled the Hat off and handed it to Daphne. A sword fell out of the top and clattered to the ground at Harry's feet. "That's the sword of Godric Gryffindor," Daphne said her mouth gaping.
"I would've preferred powerful staff or energy lance rune cluster myself. Or anything long range," Harry said picking the sword up.
"Beggars can't be choosers, Harry Potter!" the Hat said before falling silent.
"Okay new plan," Harry said glaring at the Hat.
"Your other plans have sucked."
"Yeah and this one sucks more."
"Not instilling a lot of confidence here." Daphne said.
"I'm going to stun it with the Reflector Lenses then I'm going to stab it with the sword."
"That's a horrible plan!"
"Do you have a better one?" Harry asked glaring at her.
Daphne ground her teeth. The basilisk was almost on them again. "Don't die, Harry. I'm just starting to like you."
"Likewise, Daphne." Harry took a deep breath and leaped out. This time instead of running away he ran towards the giant snake. Bessy opened her mouth baring her fangs at him and pulled back readying a strike. Harry came closer hoping his horrible brand of luck would hold long enough to finish this. Bessy struck forward. Harry finally managed to catch a glimpse of the basilisk's eyes and it froze in place as he jumped forward. The stun was just starting to wear off as Harry leaped into its mouth and thrust the sword up through the top plate of its jaw.
The sword pierced through like a hot knife through butter and Bessy made a horrible screeching sound. Harry was flung out of the snake's mouth as it thrashed. He flew through the air and landed on Daphne who just barely managed to cast a cushion charm on them both. Bessy screeched again and snapped her jaw shut. That was apparently the exact wrong move. The top of Gryffindor's sword pierced up through the snake's head and the basilisk flopped down to the chamber completely still.
"Merlin," Daphne whispered the awe evident in her voice and the trembling of her arms around his waist. "You killed a 60 foot basilisk with a bloody sword."
"We still have to kill Riddle," Harry whispered back as he glanced towards the figure at the front of the room. The spirit of young Voldemort was much more solid now and Tracey seemed far paler.
"He said she was pouring out herself out to him right? She's been writing in a diary since the year started."
"He was standing over a small book. Was that the diary?"
"Yeah." Daphne nodded letting her arms go and shifting Harry so that they could both get up. "Look exhausted and beaten."
"Not going to have to fake that," Harry muttered. "I'll grab the sword and we try stabbing the book?"
"Hell, it worked on the monster snake – why shouldn't we be able to kill a book with a sword?" Daphne paused and giggled. "That sounds so stupid."
Harry's eyes widened at the manic sounds coming from his friend. "Hold it together another minute Daph then you can break down. Help me open its mouth."
Together the two students managed to pry the mouth of the dead basilisk open enough for Harry to reach in and grasp the sword. "Careful, don't touch the fangs. Basilisk venom is some of the deadliest stuff there is," Daphne said.
"Really? I didn't know that. Thanks, Daph," Harry replied dryly.
"No need to be a jerk about it, Harry."
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