Chaptr 44.2- Doom Days

The dogs scrambled backwards, struggling to find purchase against the stone as I hit it with a quick ‘glisseo’, I danced out of the way of two of Fleur’s spell before deflecting Krum’s bone shattering curse at Cedric and countering the Bulgarian Bon Bon with an organ liquefying one of my own. There was a sneer on his face as he hit my spell with a textbook countrcurse, nullifying it before it could even get close to hitting him. Fleur did her best, lifting rocks from the ground and animating them into attacking me, but all I needed to do was overpower her magic once they were close enough to me and far enough away from her, before turning them into monkeys with snapping teeth that I banished three thirds of he ay at Krum.

Cedric finally managed to dispel the slippery charm on the ground and get his dogs moving, but all it took was me lashing out with my wand, breathing fire into existence that consumed all the dogs as one before funneling that fire into a thin concentrated blast that Fleur was forced to shield from. Cedric’s dueler’s hello— stunner, disarmer, and piercing hex joined my own array of spells that forced Krum into either deflecting or shielding. They further distracted him from the primates heading his way as he was forced to either shield or defend.

I hammered Cedric’s own shield with spell after spell, pinning him back until Fleur forced me to the floor to avoid a wide area banisher. Turning my attention to Krum, I managed to catch him about to blast through a monkey diving for his hand and sent a disarming charm at him at the same time. He had a choice to make then. Lose his wand if he followed through, or take the hit and sustain a serious injury to his non-wand hand. He made the same choice I would have in that situation, deflecting the spell while allowing the monkey to bite down on his left hand.

He screamed, a nasty, deep thing as he got a taste of the surprise I’d baked in with the monkeys. Those things had jaws strong enough to bit though just about anything. His scream was not destined to last long though as Fleur of all people hit him with a disarming charm and my bludgeoner sent him sailing off the platform a second later.

“Ahhhhhhhh” we heard his screams for a few seconds before they came to an abrupt end. All three of us froze at that, shocked. Was he dead? By silent agreement we walked over to the edge of the platform and looked down, only to see nothing but the same dark abyss we’d seen at the beginning.

“He’s fine right? He managed to catch himself or something?” Cedric asked.

“Not without his wand”, I said, nodding over to the hornbeam and dragon heartstring stick on the floor not far from us.

Fleur went white while Cedric swallowed.

“So truce, uhn?” He offered.

“You couldn’t beat me three on one and now want a truce when I have the advantage?” I asked.

“We’ll give you a headstart to the finish line in exchange” Fleur offered instantly beginning to negotiate. I wanted to ask for more, but everything I thought of either seemed unreasonable or just cruel so I nodded and bent my spongy knees before jumping to the next platform, and then the next, and then the final one.