The Chess Chamber

The three went down the long passageway that was quiet except for the water trickling and the almost inaudible rustling sound ahead.

"What is that?" Kristine asked. "It's like there's a bunch of birds over there. Oh my goodness, are Harry, Ron, and Se-yeon caught up in a bird attack. My mother told me once that if birds really decided to attack us, it would hurt a lot,"

"Probably not," Chris said. "Even if bird attacks might be scary, who would put in birds to guard one of the most wanted items of all time. A wizard or witch that's passed their third year of Hogwarts can probably obliterate all of those birds in matter of seconds,"

"True..." Kristine said. "Then what do you think it will be?"

"I don't know," Chris said. "Something with wings that's for sure considering they sound like birds. Maybe it's some genetic mutations with some huge scary creature like spiders with bird wings,"

Hermione and Kristine were both silent for a second and shuddered thinking about it.

The three soon reached the end of the passageway and into a lit chamber. However, more importantly, they saw Harry, Ron and Se-yeon on brooms chasing after the winged keys in the air.

"Winged keys?" Kristine questioned.

"GET IT NOW!" Harry shouted from above. Chris saw Ron dashing to the key, but failed. He almost fell off his broom, but balanced himself at the final second.

Luckily Harry was able to grab the key and the three all landed. The three without realizing that Chris, Hermione, and Kristine were there hurriedly ran to the door and rammed the key inside the lock and successfully turned the key.

"WE DID IT!" Ron shouted as he sat down on the floor to rest for a bit.

"Hurry let's drink our potion," Chris said as he drank the remaining half of the Invisibility Potion. Hermione and Kristine did the same.

"Hey guys, good work there," Chris said as he and the girls went up to them.

"Woah, we were wondering where you three were," Ron said. "We thought you guys forgot about coming here,"

"Of course not," Chris said. "You guys were just a bit ahead of us so we tried our best to catch up,"

"You guys were mean!" Kristine said. "You didn't mention that big dog at the first floor,"

"Oh yes, that's umm... our bad. We kind of forgot," Ron said while laughing sheepishly.

"How could you forget about such an important thing?" Kristine asked. "If it wasn't for... Never mind, let's move," Kristine said.

"Wait, what were you going to say?" Ron asked.

"Don't know," Kristine said while she stuck her tongue out.

Ron scratched his head and turned to Chris.

"Is she always this confusing?" He asked.

"I guess sometimes she is," Chris said. "Well she's right that we have to move forward. Let's go,"

The rest of them went to the next chamber, a room that had a big chessboard in the middle.

"Oh this has got to be the biggest chess boards and pieces I've ever seen my entire life," Ron said. He went to go touch the knight piece which suddenly turned its head around which startled him.

"Um... do we all have to play with you to go to the next room?" Ron asked. The knight piece shook his head and 3 pieces turned around.

"Alright guys, we have to replace 3 of the pieces instead of 6," Ron said.

"Ron, Harry, and I'll go," Chris said. "Well at least for Hermione and Kristine, they suck at chess. How about Se-yeon?"

"She's alright, but still worse than Harry," Ron said.

"To be fair, while I was at Korea, you two were playing chess so it's not really that fair," Se-yeon said.

"Yeah and Hermione might be bad at chess, but I'm not that bad at chess," Kristine said with a slightly angry tone

"Kristine you lost to me only around a week ago," Hermione said.

"Alright, it doesn't matter since I can beat both of you," Chris said proudly.

Hermione and Kristine both stuck their tongues out at Chris.

"We don't have time," Harry said. "Voldemort might have already reached the stone by now. Let's go,"

Harry, Ron, and Chris went to fill in the spot of a rook, knight, and bishop respectively.

"So how are you at chess Chris?" Ron asked.

"Like I said enough to beat Hermione and Kristine," Chris said with a smile. "However, I do know your passion for chess so I'll let you direct me for this game. I wouldn't want to accidentally injure one of you two. That would be pretty bad,"

"Alright then," Ron said. "But I might hurt you so if I do, don't hold a grudge against me,"

"I know," Chris said. "In a game of chess, sacrifice is necessary,"

Ron smiled and confidently looked at the white pieces, a look that Chris had rarely seen from Ron in the films.

'I suppose that the films did him wrong. Ron looks like he's quite the brave boy,' Chris thought.

The game started and from what Chris could see, it was going smoothly. With Ron in the lead, while the white pieces were able to take many black pieces

"Chris move 3 step diagonally and take that pawn!" Ron ordered.

Chris walked to where the white pawn was and it immediately shattered without him doing anything.

'Huh so that's what happened when I take their piece,' Chris thought. Luckily there were no other pieces that could take down Chris so he was safe. The game continued on and soon it was the fated moment. There were only a few pieces left with Ron only having one choice left.

"Well guys good luck to you all," Ron said.

"What do you mean Ron?" Harry asked.

"There's only one way to win and that's for me to be taken. Otherwise, I would have to make this game even longer than it's supposed to be and You-Know-Who will be taking that stone," Ron said.

"No Ron!" Se-yeon said from outside the chess board. "There has to be another way for us to win!"

"No," Ron said. "That means I'll probably have to sacrifice either Harry or Chris at one point and even then we might still lose. It's better for me to be the one who's sacrificed. We don't have time for any more playing. Knight E5,"

The stone horse that Ron was sitting on moved to E5.

"Ron no!" Se-yeon shouted. She tried to go inside the chess board, but Hermione stopped her.

"No, Ron made this choice. We have to respect it," Hermione said.

The Queen looked at Ron who gulped at the sight of the stone sword that has destroyed so many other pieces. She swung her sword at stone horse. When it broke, Ron fell out of the horse, stones the size of fists hitting his body. He fainted on impact.

"Ron!" Se-yeon shouted as she tried to step into the board.

"Don't!" Kristine said. "If you go in right now, the sacrifice Ron made will be meaningless. Let them win the game first,"

Chris saw the winning play and quickly went to winning space that Ron made.

"Checkmate," Chris said. The king piece dropped its sword indicating that the game ended.