[HP] Looking for you #13

Chapter #13: The third test, part II.

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The metal stake was about to strike and crush the five visitors, however, Harry acted as fast as he could and managed to transfigure the stake into a pillow, but they barely saved themselves because the only thing that separated them from the stake was just a few inches, they fell on the floor and started to pant relieved that they managed to avoid the danger.

“Well, guess we figured out something…Don’t touch anything without making sure it's safe,” Charlie said on the ground.

“I agree…Let’s all get our wands ready, you never know when there will be other traps,” Hermione suggested and everyone but Harry (who already had his wand out) did as she told them.

As the others tried to look at the surroundings looking for anything potentially dangerous, Victoire moved towards the torches, she started to analyze them trying to find anything that could give them a clue about what they should do to open the door but she had no idea where to start.

“What do you think Vicky?” Asked Harry now close to her.

He managed to surprise her and she couldn’t help but gasp a little because he was dangerously close to her right now.

“W-well, there are so many possibilities regarding the order in which we should set them on fire, it could be by power, by gender, by age, by height…” Victoire felt a little lost right now.

Harry was trying to help, so, he wanted to cheer her by nodding with a smile, he tried not to make her feel pressured about this.

“You’re doing amazing Vicky, but don’t force yourself too much, I know this is your area of expertise, but you’re still learning, you need to know that we don’t expect you to do everything by yourself, so, if you need help, don’t hesitate to ask, okay?” Harry asked with a warm smile.

Victoire couldn’t help but blush, this is why she fell for him, he’s always so attentive and he doesn’t hesitate to show interest in things many people find boring, he’s always so helpful and above anything else, he’s so handsome that it makes her job a little difficult by being so close right now and yet, she doesn’t want to push him away.

“T-Thank you Harry I—” Victoire said with a blush but suddenly her wand fell on the floor.

The two of them kneeled to grab the wand and suddenly, their hands touched as they stared at the other's eyes with surprise because of what happened and the most interesting thing was that they didn’t want to part ways, until…

“Wait…What is that?” Asked Harry breaking their interesting interaction.

He pointed at the feet of the torches and soon, they found some markings, there were some drawings and Victoire’s eyes suddenly widened.

“Look at what we have here…There’s a drawing on each torch, we have a book, a dragon, the symbol of the deathly hallows, a bird spitting fire, and a black star…Hey guys come here and look at this!” Victoire told everyone and soon, they joined them.

Hermione, Charlie, and Lucero were surprised to see what the blonde was pointing them to see.

“I think I’ve figured out the puzzle, it seems like each person needs to lit a certain torch already selected by the dungeon master…Uncle Charlie take the dragon, Aunt Hermione the book, I’ll take the bird, Lucero you take the black star and lastly, Harry you take the one with the symbol of the deathly hallows!” Victoire said with a cheerful expression.

Everyone did as they were told, and less than a minute later, they were already on their respective torch.

“So, in which order do we do this?” Asked Charlie with a concerned expression, doing this randomly didn’t sound so good.

“Well, nothing is indicating the order we have to do this, so, let’s all do it at the same time, so, get your wands ready…One, two, and three!” Victoire screamed and soon, the five of them lighted their torches.

The moment they did it, the flames suddenly changed from red to blue and the whole room started to shake until they heard a happy jingle that surely reminded Harry of those dungeons from the Legend of Zelda and then, the door they wanted to pass through was opened but also, three chests suddenly appeared.

“Shall we leave those chests unopened?” Asked Hermione with a curious expression, she trusted her niece in whatever course of action she decided to take now.

“Okay, let me take a look…” Victoire suddenly put on a pair of special glasses with invisible crystals that many curse breakers use.

Those glasses were a gift from her dad when she graduated from Hogwarts, she looked over the chest to see if they were emitting dark energy but she was satisfied to find out that the chests were safe.

“Yeah, it’s safe, let’s see what's inside these chests,” Victoire was so lost in her world.

Harry opened the first chest with his strong hands and Victoire quickly took a key from the chest, it looked so rusty but she knew that they would have to use that key in the future. In the second chest, there were enough potions for everyone, and in the third chest, there was a map.

“Uh…This seems to be written in the same ancient language most of us don't understand…Lucero, would you handle the map?” Asked the blonde with a warm smile.

The Mexican witch nodded enthusiastically, she wanted to be of help.

“The temple design is so interesting, it seems like the rooms are randomly generated depending on what we think or fear,” Lucero said awed at the map.

“Well, I guess we should better keep going, please lead the way, Lucero,” Victoire said to the witch with the honey eyes who happily nodded.

“I think we need to be careful, the next room is marked with a skull,” Lucero was trying to figure out if it meant death or if there was indeed a skeleton inside that room.

“Yes, let’s have our wands ready in case we need them,” Charlie said with a serious expression, it seems like the older man learned his lesson when it comes to touching anything here.

The next room, was indeed full of skeletons and all of them were holding onto giant diamonds and precious gemstones, however, they learned a lesson in the last room, they learned to not touch anything and they learned that greedy people are not allowed to survive, so, they decided to ignore them.

Then, they found themselves against five doors, and just like usual, at the end of the room, Victoire inserted the key they found in the first room and this made five doors appear, each door was marked with one of the symbols of the first room indicating the door each one of them had to enter into.

This was a difficult test because each one of them had to fight against the four copies of the others, however, this time they were more ready due to what happened on the previous floor, the most difficult to beat was Harry, however, they knew about his weakness against non-verbal spells, it wasn’t much but it gave everyone a good opportunity to strike, or at least that’s what Harry said to them after they finished the test in the previous floor against their copies, each one of them won a key in this room.

Tired and hungry they reunited in the next room, and surprisingly, there was nothing wrong here, in fact, there was food, water, and treasures, however, Harry and the rest suspected that the treasures belonged to people who died on these lost lands, but that didn’t stop them from grabbing the treasures.

In the next test, they had to fight giant spiders and luckily, Charlie did most of the job, Victoire was relieved, her uncle Ron told her so many stories about giant spiders that she became scared of the arachnids too, and then, after defeating the spiders, they were teleported to a huge room, with a lot of sand, it seems like this was the last level because they soon realized that the exit door was covered by the skeleton of a giant dragon.

“Okay…Let’s try to not—” Harry said in a worried tone.

But just the slight movement of one of them was enough to wake the skeleton dragon and soon they realized they were in trouble.