Dark Fire

Chapter 20- The Sarcophagus

They pulled Ron up and now all five of the teens stood in a new chamber of the tomb of Osiris.

“What is this?” Hermione had noticed an inscription above the door to this new chamber. She turned in horror to face Draco and the others but it was too late with a loud creak Harry fell through the floor as Ginny screamed out.

“Harry! Quick help me!” Draco and Ron stepped forward to find Harry hanging precariously by one hand. Upon leaning their heads over the hole in the floor they saw that Harry would have suffered a fifty foot drop onto a spike floor had he not caught himself at the last second. Ron took one arm and Draco the other as they pulled Harry to safety.

“Nobody move!” Hermione shouted and every one froze, except Draco who was a little too close to the gaping hole in the chamber, that Harry had just fallen through.

“Baby, I said don’t move.” Hermione repeated.

“Sorry babe, I just don’t fancy ten foot spikes piercing my torso.” Draco gulped hard as he looked down again at Harry’s almost fate.

“I saw this when we first entered this chamber. Look .” Hermione pointed to the inscription above the door.

“Yeah well none of us read Egyptian Hermione, what’s it say?” They all looked to Hermione for answers.

As for any man who shall enter this tomb in his impurity I shall wring his neck as a bird’s.

“So that’s my best translation.” Hermione said looking very pleased with herself. "Of course I may be conjugating a verb or two wrong or misinterpreting a noun, in which case it could say.”

As for him who shall destroy this inscription he shall not reach his home he shall not embrace his children he shall not see success.

“Thanks Hermione, that’s very comforting. Are you sure it doesn’t say welcome to my home make yourself a drink and relax?” Ron said nervously biting his fingernails.

“No, Ron I am pretty sure it says the first translation I read.” Hermione said as Draco laughed and reminded Hermione Ron was making a joke.

“Oh that is very cute Ron. We really shouldn’t worry too much about the inscription; it’s just an idle threat. The Egyptians feared curses so they would frequently put them over doors and such but….” Hermione trailed off as she noticed the others looking at her with fear on their faces.

“What? “ Hermione said clueless.

“Curses? You are saying not to worry about them. Hermione the whole reason we are here is because of some ancient curse aren’t we?” Harry said as Ginny and Ron nodded, Draco stood silent smiling at his beautiful and smart wife buck teeth and all.

“Oh I see what you mean but really they used a lot of traps in these tombs to prevent intruders. You see the tombs were closed off once the body was laid to rest so there would be no reason for any one to open it unless they were here for sinister purposes. So they used a lot of traps when they built the place to keep bad people out. I read about it in a muggle library book on the train.” Hermione was beaming at her preparedness as Draco slid his arm around her waist and Hermione naturally scooted into his chest. Draco kissed his smiling wife on the cheek and Harry turned his head and sighed.

“What’s wrong Harry?” Hermione noticed his discomfort.

“Well Hermione it’s just us being young again and seeing Malfoy holding you. It’s really messing with my mind. When we were this age well Malfoy was our…” Harry stopped when Ginny nudged him.

“He was our enemy it’s ok go ahead and say it.” Draco said with a annoyed look on his face.

“I guess you will just have to deal with it Saint Potter.” Draco said with a familiar smirk on his face and it seemed to break the ice and everyone including Harry began laughing.

“Alright, well I suppose as a teacher I should do my thing and explain some of the traps to everyone before we proceed any farther into this chamber. Rolling boulders are one of the traps they used. Also, floor traps as Harry so graciously found for us. False well covers, which we already found and had to swim through and sand traps. There was one or two more but I can’t remember them right now. Blast!” Hermione said frustrated that she couldn’t recall all of them.

“You did great by remembering any of them, babe.” Draco kissed her on the cheek and then proceeded along the wall of the chamber. He had conjured a torch in his hand as he and Harry led the pack moving forward slowly.

“Stop, Potter!” Draco called out and Harry stopped dead in his tracks.

“Do not move a muscle.” Draco shone the light in front of Harry to find a very thin head wire that was placed at neck level. This would very thoroughly decapitate its victim and had been strategically placed there.

“I think I found one of the traps you forgot Hermione.” Draco said as he zapped the wire where it connected to the chamber wall with his wand and the wire fell away to the ground.

“Oh good job Draco!” Hermione was actually excited about this find while the others looked at her perversely. Hermione loved finding practical uses for her research; it was what she was put on this earth to do, in her mind anyway.

“Baby,” Draco called back to Hermione as he took the front of the pack again.

“Yes love?” Hermione called to him, their voices echoing in the chamber.

“Can you think of that other trap do ya think?” Draco sounded nervous and he stopped suddenly and Harry and Ginny banged into him and Ron into them and Hermione into Ron.

“Come on Malfoy, tell us when you are going to stop short like that.” Ron complained.

“Shhh do you hear that?” Draco put his finger to his lips to shush them.

Suddenly Draco yelled out loudly and the rest of the five screamed in fright.

“You scared the bejesus out of me Malfoy!” Ginny scolded him.

“Sorry, was checking something.” Draco responded, the nervousness in his voice gone now.

“What is it Malfoy?” Harry said.

“Our voices are echoing quite a bit more then they were a few minutes ago. Means we are entering the main chamber of the sub chamber we were in.” Hermione was impressed as were the others.

“How did you think of that?” Ron said.

“Must be my pureblood ears Weasel.” Draco said and then chuckled.

“Kidding people.” Draco said.

“Spent a lot of time in this tomb with no wand or light, used my voice to get my bearings.” Draco said finally.

“Look, what is that?” Ginny said pointing at something glimmering in the distance of the chamber.

It was a statue of a boy and it was made of pure gold. They walked briskly to the statue, still mindful of the possible traps and then they all stopped to admire it.

“It’s beautiful!” Ginny said. “That would look wonderful in our sitting room Harry.” Ginny said and Harry gave her a look as if to say ‘I hope you are kidding Ginny’.

“That must be worth a fortune.” Ron walked around the statue in awe-inspiring wonderment.

“I think it is the statue of Horus, Osiris and Isis’s son, and he looks to be about twelve, is my best guess.” Hermione piped in.

“I hate to be the only one to see this but do you notice anything wrong with the statue?” Harry said his eyes gazing down to the statue’s penis.

“Kind of large for a boy of twelve don’t you think?” Harry said, and all eyes gazed upon the massive penis on the statue of the son of Osiris and Isis.

“Not really, looks pretty normal to me Potter.” Draco said with a sense of pride on his face.

“Me too,” Ron said in agreement.

“Oh please no way! So you’re saying that you had a penis that size when you were twelve Malfoy? Ron shut up I know you didn’t I shared a room with you.” Harry said in disgust.

“Well yes, but it grew bigger after puberty Potter.” Draco said with a serious face.

“Hermione? “ Harry looked at Hermione for her to corroborate this and Hermione blushed.

“Oh never mind I don’t want to know.” Harry said as he grabbed the statues penis and it broke away easily as if it wasn’t part of the statue at all.

“Here’s the dead guys dick.” Harry said holding it out to Draco who had his hands in his pants pockets.

“Why are you handing it to me?I’m not the one who needs it Potter” Draco said without any intention of taking it from Harry and laughing whole heartily as he spoke.

“I’ll take it!” Ginny said a little too enthusiastically and Harry shot her a dirty look.

“Draco and Ron were cracking jokes about Ginny wanting the large penis behind Harry’s back as they walked.

“Right, Ron and Malfoy, I can hear you.” Harry said annoyed and the five teens laughed hard and loud.

“Hermione do you know where we are supposed to find the dead guy’s coffin?” Harry said still not over the joke.

“Sarcophagus, Harry” Hermione corrected him.

“Right, whatever.” Harry said.

Review!? I had a really fun time writing this chapter :P