Ella approached the water cautiously, noting that it was very dark and anything could be hiding inside of it. She also wasn't sure how deep it was. It could be merely a puddle but it also could be quite deep, Ella definitely didn't want to fall into dark water like that. She decided it was best to lay down on her belly and reach her arm around in the water. She did just that, pulling up the sleeve of her robe and plunging it in the water. She let her wand light the surface of the pool, noting several dark shadows in the water. With her fingers, she search around and around, not feeling anything but hard stone under her fingers. She was just about to give up the search and move on when she felt something during a sweep of her hand. She gingerly moved her arm back in the direction it had just come and grasped something square. Her eyes lit up, hoping it was an item on the list. Thrusting the item out of the water, Ella stood and held her wand to it. "The diary!" She exclaimed, looking around sheepishly. She hadn't meant to yell. She was excited to have found another item and she quickly and quietly crossed the item off her list, knowing there wasn't much time left. Now where to search?

Nerida had tripped over the snakeskin, now she would go and investigate that old box behind the professor. She walked over there and opened it, she reached inside and pulled out the Sorting hat and reached inside out of curiosity, maybe she would get the sword of Gryffindor...Hehe she smirked as she pulled out a plastic sword of Gryffindor. She began walking over to the statues wondering what they looked liked...

Auggie leaned back and planted his feet in one of the crevices on top of Slytherin's head as he lowered Kurumi down towards the statue's face and eyes. There was definately something down there which they needed, he just wondered what it was.

Still smiling because the Prefect had complimented him on the good idea, the Gryffindor just realised it had been about a minute or two and she hadn't yelled back up to say that she had gotten whatever it was down there. He needed to see what was up and make sure nothing was wrong.

Moving up closer to the edge, the fourth year leaned slightly forward--and lost his footing.

He and the suspended Gryffindor Prefect were now FALLING!

For Glenn, Lewis and Messer =)
 

Sophie was still staring at the strange water. She frowned and got even closer to it. Was that...?

She crouched before it and touched the water with her wand. It hit something hard. Sophie's eyes widened and she reached out her left hand to grab whatever that was. A diary! She got up and shook it a little to let the water drip. "Guys, look what I found!" She said happily going back to where her Hufflepuff team was.

Nerida looked at the statues, lots of them snakes, she stopped and looked at one of the snake statues. She looked at the design and noticed it was crumbled. She noticed something inside the mounth of the statue, inside there was a little box. She smiled and pulled it out, inside was a fake snake fang. She whispered Yes!! She looked over at the huge statue of Slytherin and wondered would there be anything in that statue.

Kurumi's hands clasped around the item...or two as the case turned out to be. "I've got it!" she exclaimed triumphantly. Two pairs of Moaning Myrtle's glasses, one for each of them.

But then...something happened and Kurumi's body suddenly lunged forward, smacking against the face of Salazar Slytherin and loosing her balance completely. The knot August had made out of their robes also came undone - which may be for the best - and down she went until...

*SPLASH*

Thankfully, it wasn't too far of a fall and the pool was shallow enough that nothing bad would come from the fall...besides her robes being drenched that is. No matter, she could always use a Hot Air Charm at the end to dry off.

Treading water for a moment, Kurumi swam a little to the right to avoid a falling August.

Annabelle saw the list of where things were hidden and she give it to Nate so it would be easier to find the items.

Belle followed Nate's lead. She went over to the water where it was awfully dark. "At least we can check off finding the sorting hat and the sword!" she said happily. "Nate i found the diary!" she said as she pulled out the soaking wet diary. "It is kind of damp too. We can check it off!"

Nerida walked over to The Slytherin Statue and started climbing up reaching the mouth she put her hand and unexpectedly she found a box. She pulled out the box and opened it,inside was a toy petrified cat, she remembered the story of Flich's cat... She closed the box and put it back into the mouth and climbed up... Then she did something she cant even think about! She put her hand into the statue's nose. GROSS! No luck!

After finding two objects near the head statue of Slytherin Angelina thought she would look more. After look around for a while she spoted someithng up at the top of Slytherin's head. Getting up to the top which was pretty hard work she grabbed the object without looking at it and headed down to the ground. Once there she took the object and finally took a look at it, it was Lockharts wand.

Amelia pocketed the wand and then the list. It was time for her to climb down off of SLytherin's head now and see if she could find anything else in the other places of the Chamber. She had half of the items on the list, and three of them had been found on Slytherin. That was pretty darn good in her opinion.

She carefully backed off of the head and made her way down Slytherin's face. It wasn't easy, and she was worried that she might fall off. She was almost at the bottom when she did fall. Thankfully it wasn't a bad fall though.

Picking herself up off of the ground, she noticed that she was on top of something big and scaly. "Snakeskin!" Just by luck she had found something else. She stood to her felt and picked the skin up. "That's one more for the list."

Nerida continued up the statue when she got to eyes, she whispered I wonder how many people wanted to gouge out Salazar Slytherin's eyes... She put her hand inside the left eye, nothing, then inside the right eye...She found Moaning Murtle's glasses. She smiled and stuffed them into her pocket and put her hand on top of the statues head because if she went any further she would be sure to fall. She didnt feel anything determined to make sure she lifted herself up a bit and lost her footing on the mouth and quickly grabbed Lockhart's wand before she fell into the water...

"Ahhhhhhhhh!"

The fourth year Gryffindor boy fell from the summit of Slytherin's head, still holding onto what remained of his and Kurumi's Gryffindor robe rope, and landed with a big splash in the water below.

SPLASH!

Coming to the surface and gasping for air, he wiped his now drenched curls out of his face and looked at Kurumi with a shocked face that slowly turned into a grin. "Let's do that again!" he said excitedly smashing a fist into the water, causing another splash in his excitement.

His mind switched from the fun thought and went back to the reason they were in the Chamber. "Oh did you get whatever that item was?" Just as he was asking her, he waded over to the shallow water, where it was only about 3 inches deep and slipped on something or somethings causing him to fall backwards into the water again.

Resurfacing for a second time, this one Auggie wasn't as cheerful--until he saw the items that had made him fall. "Kurumi, here are Riddle's diaries!" he grabbed two and passed one to her, waiting to recieve the other item from her, the one from the eye.

Snakeskin in her pocket, Amelia now proceeded to dust herself off, making sure to get all the dust and dirt from the fall off of her. Thankfully it hadn't been a bad fall since she was close to the ground. She didn't seem to be hurt at all. That was a very good thing.

The next course of action would be to see of there was anything either in the water of the Chamber, or near the water. It also was probably that the Sword of Gryffindor was located inside the Sorting Hat going along with the whole experience Harry Potter had down here. So those two items could be found together, and the diary was something separate.

Walking over to where the water was, she began looking at her feet. If there was nothing around here, she was going to have to start looking in other snake heads. :/

When she reached one particular dark spot, she paused. She saw something. Bending down, she picked up.. "Tom Riddle's Diary!" She beamed. She only had two more items to collect now. Pocket growing even fuller, she crossed that item off the list:

Do it again? "Um...you can if you want," Kurumi replied with a nervous laugh, covering her face with her hands to try and avoid the splashing he was causing. She was soaking wet already, no need to get more so, right? "I think I am done falling off a giant head into a pool of water for the day."

Kurumi followed August to the edge of the pool and slowly climbed out when she heard another splash. She hadn't expected August to dive right back in so quickly. Kurumi supposed that he just really liked swimming or something? Kurumi had never been much of a swimmer, so perhaps that was why she was so eager to get out of the water...which she did and twisted her robes tightly to try and get as much water off as possible.

"Oh? Brilliant," she chirped, accepting the diary and trading it for a pair of glasses, adding those too to her bag of goodies. Kurumi checked her list, now soggy and with ink running all over the place, and attempted to make out the rest of what they needed, but that was proving to be rather impossible. "Um...August, did your list survive?" If not, they were going to have a hard time finding the rest of the things on the list.

Taking a small step to the side, Kurumi heard a soft crunch under her soggy shoe and looked down to see...what WAS that? Dust? Bending down to pick it up, Kurumi saw that it was slightly translucent and...had scales? "Oh! Snakeskin," she chirped. That had surely been on the list, right?


Pocketing the list and adding the snakeskin to her bag, Kurumi looked back at Soggy Auggie. "Looks like we've only got three more things to find. Where do you suppose we should look next?"

With wet robes tied in a knot around his waist, a toy sword against his back , the old diary in his hand and the sorting hat under his robe, Daichi continued to search the chamber of secrets for any of the items.

As the minutes passed he began to feel irrated that he hadn't found anything yet and now started to look at the other students to see where they were looking. He looked as some where checking Slytherin's head area and he frowned as he didn't remember looking there. He had always been looking in corners and dark places and such that he totally missed the obvious.

As he looked at the head, his dark brown eyes landed something on the ground and as he walked closer , he noticed that it was the snakeskin on the list. Picking it up, Daichi placed the snakeskin in his pocket. He began to regret leaving his bag upstairs in the bathroom but he couldn't get up to grab it now.

Now with four items crossed out, Daichi walked around Slytherin's statue to find some more. But when he found nothing he looked up to look at the face itself. It was huge! And kind of funny how the mouth was open hehe... wait a second.

The third year frowned as he came closer to the mouth of the head. He was sure he had seen something in it. It was luckily he had grown over the summer otherwise he had to jump to see what he thought he had seen. But now he only had to stand on his toes and he smirking as he saw the box inside of the mouth. He knew something was in there!

He took it out of the mouth and as his feet stood firmly on the ground he opened it up. His heart skipped a beat when he was shocked to find a dead cat in it. That couldn't be right? He checked his list to see if *dead cat* was on it and finding the words *petrified toy cat* at the bottom. So the *dead* cat wasn't a real cat? Phew, he had thought he had accidently found a long lost forgotten cat in the chamber.

He scratched out the two items he had found and held the toy cat in his other hand, fingers wrapped around the tail before continueing to search.

Even though he should probably start looking into the Snake's mouth, Lewis was just staring down at Sophie. Why was she clinging onto his arm like that? And what was he supposed to do about it? It would probably be considered rude to peel her off his arm. And it wasn't that bad. She was just a scared little first year after all.

So choosing to ignore the fact that he had a younger Badger literally hanging off his arm, Lewis turned to see what Messer was up to. Was he...peeking inside the snake's mouth? Completely unaware of the fact that the two girls had left their side, he then went to stand next to Messer, tilting his head upwards a little so he could look inside the statue's mouth too. Hang on...was that...

"Hey, that's a snake fang, isn't it?" Lewis muttered, glancing at Messer next to him, poking something inside the mouth with his wand. It certainly looked like it. After a short moment of hesitation, he reached out to take it out - it was FAKE after all right?! - and put it in his palm, holding his hand up a little so they could get a closer look.

Before they could identify it for sure, though, Sophie called out to them. Or he assumed she was calling out to them. He WAS part of 'guys' right? "What's that?" He asked softly when the two girls came back to where he and Messer were standing.

Reaching into the snake's mouth, Elise frowned. It had just been a trick of the light. Sighing, she moved onto the next statue and shined her wandlight in. Shrugging, she plunged her hand into the gap and smiled as her fingers caught hold of something. Tightening her grip around it, Elise drew her hand out to find something clasped in her hand.

Smiling at the glint of white, she put the fang into her bag and kept walking. Reaching a small pool of dark-ish water, she pulled up her robes and knotted them around her waist. Now, what could possibly be making the water over there a little darker?

As he looked back up at Slytherin's head, Daichi thought it was strange that a few students were climbing their way up on the head itself. Could there be an item at the top?

It was worth the try to look but with so many items in his arms he didn't think he could climb. Looking for a place to hide his found items he walked towards the corner of the room which was in the shadows. He placed them on the ground and tore a piece of paper from his note book.

On it, he wrote: Yep that should do it. He placed the paper under the sorting hat but it was still visible and left the place to climb the head of Slytherin. As for the toy sword? That was still on his back because it looked cool and yes he still wore his robes like a knotted girly style. WHATEVER!

Running a hand through his hair, Daichi took a breath and grabbed the stone head to push himself up. His legs where dangling in the air as he used the strenght in his arms to push himself and swinged his right leg up to land on the head. With one last push he managed to climb on the side of the head and proceeded to crawl his way up, careful as to not to slip.

As he climbed he felt his feet slipping a few times but since he had been on the Slytherin Quidditch Team in his first year he had had some training in balancing. Reaching the top , Daichi stood up and checked the back of the head. Only to find a wand laying on top of it~ He picked it up and placed it in his pocket.

Daichi went to the face and lowered himself to slide down. Maybe if he first slided to the eyes he would get off better. His feet touched the hollow right eye and he carefully landed with his body inside. Daichi was now sitting with his back turned to the eye and was looking at the other students. Where on earth did Professor Scabior hide these things?! He stretched his arms as far as he could in the small area and then leaned back while supporting his arms behind him when he suddenly felt something that wasn't rock. Turning around, he looked straight at glasses inside the eye he was sitting in and his mouth dropped in astonishment. There was an item here?!

If this was keeping up, he would find the items with the use of pure luck!
He took the glasses and quickly slided down to cross his item out on the list where his other items where hidden...hopefully.

"Ok good. Now we can check that off. I'm going to check on top of the slytherin statue's head. I thought I saw something up there." Nate then hurried over to the statue. He started to climb up the statue. Every step he took pieces of the statue would come off. When he got half-way up he almost fell off. He just had to keep on climbing no matter what. After a long time of climbing Nate finally made it to the top. He then reached for what he thought was a rock, but what was really the wand!

His other hand started to slip. He quickly pulled back his other hand. He tried to grab the statue with his hand the wand was in, but it slipped. He was hanging on for dear life. His other hand started to slip off of the statue. He tried to grip tighter, but it was to late his hand slipped off. He was falling and falling and falling. He then remembered the gripping charm. Next he quickly took out his wand, pointed it at his free hand, and said "Prehenso." Then he grabbd on to a ledge. Thankfully the spell worked. After that he slowly started to climb back down the statue. When he recahed the bottom he pointed his wand at his free hand and said "Finite." Then he ran over to his partner and said "I got Lockhart's wand."

Wading towards the darker waters, Elise's bare toes nudged something solid. Prodding it again, she bent down to pick it up. It was just. a. rock. She kept walking through the water until her feet bumped against something else. Picking that up, she smiled. An old diary. Perfect!

Cutting the items she'd found off her list, she put it back into her pocket hastily. Then, she slipped the book into her messenger bag. Now. If Elise was organizing the hunt in Slytherin's chamber, where would she put the items? Near Slytherin! Of course!

Making her way over to the statue, Elise looked up into the stony eyes of the figure. Stepping nearer, Elise felt something crunch beneath her feet. Shuddering, she lifted her foot to fins something scaly stuck to the sole. Great, there was snakeskin! And she was pretty sure it was on the list.

Alyssa continued to search looking around. She checked the list of the things her group had found.



She decided that since Kurumi and the other Gryffindor had gotten off the Slytherin statue that she would climb up there and hopefully they had missed something. So Alyssa gripped hold of the statue and pulling herself up one hand at a time, making sure that she had a good solid grip and that her foot wouldn't slip off, she pulled herself up. As she climbed she looked into the various crevices but couldn't find anything. So she kept climbing. When she reached the right eye of Slytherin she noticed something that had reflected off the light from her wand. She quickly stopped and stuck her upper body inside and pointed her wand to light up the darkness inside. Sure enough stuck right in the corner of Slytherin's right eye was Moaning Myrtle's glasses. Alyssa quickly grabbed it, happy that she had found another item.

She decided that since she was already on the statue, that she might as well continue searching. So she continued to climb up until she reached the top of Slytherin's head. She turned and looked all around her, and saw the other students running around looking for their treasure. Then she turned around and her eyes opened in surprise. There lying on top of Slytherin's head was a wand. Was it Lockhart's wand? Alyssa didn't care. She just grabbed it and quickly made her way down to the ground, making sure that she still was careful as she climbed down from the statue. 'Thank goodness for my rock climbing training' Alyssa smiled to herself.

She grabbed her list and checked off the other items.


She then quickly ran over to the Professor to ask him for more clues

Ella approached the snake statues warily, knowing she'd most likely have to reach inside the mouths to find anything of value. This was a little anerving, especially since there could be anything from spiders to actual snakes hiding inside. The fact that time was running out was the only thing that urged her on, giving her some kind of confidence to stick her hand in the nearest statue's mouth. "Okay, here goes nothing."

Ella plunged her hand inside the mouth and felt around. She didn't feel anything at first, standing on her tiptoes so she could search at the back of the mouth with her fingers. Then, she felt something. Reaching in as far back as she could, she pulled the item out to examine it. Holding her wand over it, Ella made out the snake fang in the light. "Yes!" she said, happily. She placed the fang in her pocket and pulled out her list, crossing the item off.