The professors rush to the corridor

Melody and Aylin were hurrying towards the forbidden corridor. Melody had already got used to Aylin's mumblings, so the moment Prof. Chateaunoir started talking to herself again, she didn't say a word. The whole thing went on for a minute, then:

"If I were you I'd be more careful, Aylin" she sighed. "They KNOW something".

"What do you want me to do?? It's driving me crazy already. I can't leave it in my room!!"

"Sure you can't!! But try to find something ... Smoke coming out of your hat: for god's sake, even *I* would start wondering if i didn'tknow any better."

Chateaunoir simply smiled and nodded her head. The echo of their footsteps could be heard all through the corridor. They were both nervous... Now and then one of the pictures would try to get into conversation with them, but they wouldn't care.

The cat was again in front of the door, meowing desperately. Aylin's eyes widened. "It cannot be!" Melody looked at the door - it was not closed properly. "Who left it open?" she grumbled. "This cannot be happening!"

"And the cat is saying some students got inside!"

"What?" Prof Riddle boomed. Her eyes darkened and she suddenly seemed to grow in the darkness of the corridor. "And the password?" she cried at the poor animal. It meowed again. "Great!! Someone reset it! Who did it though?" The cat wouldn't know.

There was a small silence. Mel simply stared at Aylin and Aylin stared back at Mel. "We should find the students" Melody whispered. She pointed to Aylin's hat: "More smoke!" "Yeah, I know!!" the answer came. "Don't you think I feel it?"

"Spark, go call the Headmaster! Right now!! And I want Prof. Grinch in my office in 15 minutes! Aerusmaelioumytaikeaesculae... " the words poored out of her mouth. It was an order and it was repeated a couple of times. The weird language didn't scare Melody though. She knew the secret. She, Prof. Grinch, the Headmaster and Aylin were the only ones who knew it. Such secrets cannot be trust in other hands.

"Let's step inside!" Prof Riddle invited and she opened the door.

In front of the them, the corridor lay dark and quiet. There were no pictures on the walls here and the walls, once painted in red, had a smoky color now. Chateaunoir's Hat started to bounce on her head. "Should be around here, somewhere..." she whispered. "The students?" "No... " Aylin went on. "NOT the students... IT!" "You let
it walk around like this??" Melody cried in surprise. "Nooooo... But someone else did! And I'm gonna find out who"

There were no students around. "Maybe they got lost in one of the secondary corridors?" "Hopefully not!"

"I'll go inside. You should look for them here! I am sure no one could enter the ROOM. And IT should be around the THING. "

And Aylin stepped in front of one of the walls. "Silver werewolf" The wall opened and allowed her to step in.

Melody remained in the corridor wondering. Where could they be? The labyrinth of corridors was immense. It would matter on which side of the door you'd enter... The 1st one was leading to another corridor that would lead you to the great hall from behind a statue. The second one was the one she was founding herself in now. And the third one was again leading to this, but a few steps further, to a point from where you could come back here or enter the third corridor. She didn't know what to do...

Aylin, on the other side, knew what She had to do in there...