Chapter 43.6- Doom Days

I had to turn to the side to allow Cedric’s spell to fly past my shoulder and hit nothing but air, continuing on into the distance. Cedric himself? He was no longer on his platform. It took me a second to find him hurtling through the air with both hands on his wand as he swung like he was attached to some rope from the ceiling, coming straight in our direction. I was about to send a finite in his direction and bring an end to whatever harebrained scheme the Hufflepuff had cooked up in his mind but had to turn the wand movement into that for a protego cat the last second as Krum sent a chunky black spell my way.

When it hit my shield, I felt feedback spread through my body. The shellshocker, I thought with gritted teeth as I forced my body to fight through the pain and deflect Krum’s next set of spells. I couldn’t do anything fancy like send them after either Cedric or Fleur when it was all I could do to keep ahead of them. Nonetheless, keep ahead go them I did and when the time came, when Krum took a second too long with is next spell, I returned fire, keen on smiting him like a vengeful god.

He dodged my blasting curse, but that was a leader to the two arcing slicers I sent for his feet. He crouched and formed a shield. A shield that I shattered in one single blow with the most powerful bludgeoner I’d ever sent. The feedback knocked him off his feet and sent him rolling backwards. I turned my attention to Fleur who was just then flying past us and making her way to the final platform. I rallied my wand like a whip and latched onto her leg with said whip.

Except that I hadn’t fully considered her momentum as she tore me from my feet a second later. It hit me then that there were three of us inv the air at the moment. I brought my wand back to more important things, silently dispelling the featherweight charm on myself allowed me to weigh her down enough that I was able to force my feet to the ground one platform ahead of the one I had been torn from. Once I hit the ground, I planted myself as solidly as I could, and pulled taught on the rope joining us. Fleur came to a halt, stopping, no matter how much she strained. She finally turned to cut the whip with her wand, but I pulled at it then— now that she was no longer contesting it with her momentum.

With pure strength, I dragged her back and sent her crashing into the platform. Cedric, screaming for joy for some fucked up reason came to a rolling halt on the platform a second later before he returned to his feet. Krum on the other side, pushed himself to his feet even as Fleur was doing the same.

Somehow, we were all on the same platform now, wands held tightly and curses on our lips.