Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin 72 Key

"You have the key, Sir?" The goblin asked staring at Draco and Theodore.

Draco took out the key and showed it to him. The goblin looked at the key for a while with his cunning eyes.

"We need some form of identification, sir." The goblin said, "After the last break-in we have increased our security."

Draco took off his hood and looked at the goblin with his red-eyes clearly annoyed by it. "Will this do." Draco showed his black family ring to the goblin who after inspecting for a while nodded,

"We apologize for the inconvenience, Mr. Black."

"Make it quick," Draco said putting his hood back on.

"Very well," he said, handing the ring back to Draco, "I will have someone take you down to the vaults. Griphook!"

Griphook was yet another goblin. Draco and Theodore both followed Griphook towards another door. Griphook held the door open for them. They were in a narrow stone passageway lit with flaming torches. It sloped steeply downward and there were little railway tracks on the floor. Griphook whistled and a small cart came hurtling up the tracks toward them. They climbed in -- and were off.

At first, they just hurtled through a maze of twisting passages. It went left, right, right, left, middle fork, right, left, in a confusing manner. The rattling cart was enchanted to know its own way, as Griphook was just sitting in the front not talking or moving at all.

Their hoods flung open as the cold air rushed past them, The cart kept moving as they kept passing an underground lake where huge stalactites and stalagmites grew from the ceiling and floor.

"Hey! Do you really think there is a dragon down there?" Theodore asked.

"Could be." Draco said, "With so much money that they have, keeping a few wouldn't be troublesome at all, the only problem would be keeping it under control."

The cart kept moving deeper and deeper, from what Draco knew the Vault was way deeper than the Potter family's vault but not too deep towards the Lestrange family's vault, which had one of the Horcrux in it and was actually protected by a dragon.

After some time they finally reached the Black family's vault which was inside an open space. Griphook just stayed outside the room not entering in with them.

Theodore was looking around the place with great interest. "I have never been this deep before." he said.

Draco too was observing the place carefully since he hadn't been here before. Draco opened the door with the key which automatically started spinning on its own after it was entered inside the keyhole.

The door opened up revealing a room full of gold and silver, shining brightly. From decorative armor to cups, everything was made out of silver and gold. There were a few skeletons and skins of different creature laying around. The further they went inside the interesting the stuff got, with a few black-magical items here and there, there was a hoard of books laying around as well. After looking around for a while, Draco stored some money, the books and some decorative items in his suitcase.

"You need to lend me the books," Theodore said as Draco closed the vault.

Draco rolled his eyes as they got back in the cart. After a minute of the uphill ride, both of them reached the top again. Griphook bowed to them and started walking away.

"Sigh! now that's done, we will head out to Budapest tomorrow." Draco said stretching as he put his hood back on.

Both of them were heading towards the counter when they suddenly heard familiar voices.

"I am his father, why am I not allowed in there?" Lucius said angrily.

"You don't have the key and the identification required to head in there." The goblin on the counter said with a firm tone. "Please note that you can't access the Black family's vault without the permission of the owner."

"Let it go, Lucius." Mr. Nott said, "Let's have some guards stay over here and capture the two of them if they get out of here."

"Sigh! Fine." Lucius said.

Draco and Theodore pulled on their robe tightly as they started walking out when suddenly one of Lucius men called out. "Excuse me, you dropped this."

Draco and Theodore stopped in their track, they looked back to find Lucius standing there with a book in his hand, looking at them.

"You piece of shit!" Draco mumbled looking at Theodore. Theodore shrugged his shoulders guiltily as they walked back towards them.

"Thank you!" Draco said in a deep voice taking the book from his hand.

Lucius nodded and headed out with the other wizards following him.

Draco and Theodore sighed in relief but suddenly Lucius stopped in his track. "Wait a minute, that case."

"Shit!" Draco said backing off a little.

"Draco?" Lucius called out but he didn't answer back. "I know it's you, fun's over. Let's head back home." He slowly took out his wand as the other wizards began to surround them. "Do you really think that I won't recognize my own car outside the pub."

Draco not saying anything quickly took out a potion from his pouch and threw it on the ground, causing huge clouds of green smoke to form.

"Don't breath it in." Lucius said quickly using a spell to form an air bubble in his face. Some were too late as they began to drop on the ground but quite a few managed to secure themselves with varieties of spells.

In the midst of all this, Draco who was hidden behind all the smoke hurriedly opened his suitcase, "Get in." he said pushing Theodore inside as he quickly jumped inside as well.

Soon the smoke cleared up and all that left were the surrounding wizards and goblins who had fainted and only a few of them hiding behind their desks. Lucius and his friends looked at the suitcase on the ground.

"It's over." Mr. Parkinson said walking towards the suitcase.

"Be careful, the kid's full of tricks." Mr. Nott said. Lucius nodded, he knew his son well enough to know that he wouldn't come back without a fight.

All of them slowly approached the suitcase with their wands in front of them.

"Is it safe?" A wizard following Lucius asked, getting close to the case. He slowly touched the case, trying to get it open when suddenly the suitcase started shaking and "Boom!" A unicorn came flying through the suitcase with someone on top of him, pushing the wizard away.

Everyone hurriedly stepped back as the unicorn raised its front leg in defense. Draco quickly used his wand to pull over the suitcase.

"Go, buddy!" Draco said patting Starlight's neck. Starlight quickly pushed over the wizards in front of him, rushing out of the main gate.

Lucius and his friends quickly shot some spells but none of them hit the target since starlight was way too fast for them. They chased them out but before they could reach the outside, the unicorn was nowhere to be seen, the only thing that remained were people with eye's wide opened signaling where the unicorn ran off to.

"Why does your son have a unicorn in his suitcase?" Mr. Nott asked panting a little.

"I don't know," Lucius said putting his wand back inside his robe, gritting his teeth.

"I am too old for this." Mr.Nott said disapparating out of there., "Let them go, I am not following them again."

Lucius and the wizards looked around, "Follow the path." Lucius said, "It's a unicorn, people will notice it regardless of what they do."

Draco started running around in different directions, frightening wizards, and witches here and there. Turning different paths he finally stopped. Draco quickly pushed Starlight into the suitcase and started running away. Lucius and the others who apparated here and there searching for him couldn't pinpoint the exact location. After running and hiding for a while, Draco managed to get out of the pub as he quickly hopped on a Muggle Bus.

Chapter end