Chapter 43.4- Doom Days

I turned around to see that it was Fleur that had sent the spell my way. She had somehow transfigured wings from her back and was flying straight for the central platform. She would easily outpace both Cedric and I if she made it without opposition . Of course, this was the triwizard tournament— there was no lack of opposition. Cedric sent a piercing hex her way that she was forced to turn around to deflect. I forced her to form a shield proper with my blasting curse as I prepped and jumped to the next platform.

The spell she sent my way was deflected right in Krum’s direction as I noticed he was only two platforms away from the goal. He managed to dodge by the skin of his teeth and then he turned to the rest of us. Just as expected, Krum didn’t back down from the fight that was brewing— even if it would probably have been wiser for him to keep going rather than wasting his time trading blows with the rest of us. He sent one curse my way, and another Fleur’s. I deflected his spell in Cedric’s direction, forcing the Hufflepuff to abandon the bridge he was forming and shield against the spell. Fleur just banked, dodging the spell and continuing forwards. I flicked my wand against my platform, using a slow powered blasting spell to send rocks loose from the platform like Cedric was doing to get the stones he used for his bridges. Another flick of my wand turned the stones into ravens with steel tipped beaks. They flew right for Fleur while I exchanged spells with Krum across the distance.

Even with all the space between us, spells still flew so quickly that there was no room for error. I stepped aside from a cutting curse and returned fire with a rupturing curse and piercing hex chained with a blasting curse right behind. Krum shielded all three with a bright gold mage shield he formed with a tight circular movement of his wand. No incantation as well. Someone had been practicing. Of course, I used the fact that he had shielded rather than deflected to jump to the next platform. His next spell came right at me just as I landed but I deflected this one right back at him with double the speed by catching the spell on my wand first and then matching and overcoming the intent behind the conjucvitis curse he sent my way.

I turned to the side and deflected the spell Cedric sent my way in Fleur’s direction. Busy dealing with the ravens I sent her way, it was all she could do to dodge out of the way of the piercing hex Cedric seemed to be favoring lately. Krum dodged his own spell and came with me with even more ferocity. Now, if only there was some actual skill behind the ferociousness then I might have had cause to worry, I thought to myself with a chuckle as I bobbed and weaved through his spells while deflecting some of them— either at Cedric, Fleur, or back to sender.